Title: Memory
Author: Nijino Aya
Email: kakashuno @ yahoo.com
[without spaces]
Pairings: So far, Ken X Aya. More to come.
Rating: PG – 13
Warnings: Series up to death
of Schreient, Aya's real name
Prologue
It
had been six weeks since Ken had seen him. His hair, his eyes, his skin. Ken
missed it all. He longed to be with him once more. The cause, it was still
blurry. What happened? He thought.
Ken
walked down the street, looking though his rain-soaked bangs at the sign ahead
of him. This is where our new lives began. At this place.
It was a
nightclub, one of the many places that housed a target Weiß once had. Only that
mission had been different. The club was designed to look like a warehouse.
During a mission to eliminate a weapons smuggling ring, the ceiling beam had
fallen. Ah, yes, that beam. It had fallen right after they terminated the
target. Probably rigged.
Part of
the ceiling had fallen, separating the four assassins by a wall of ceiling
chunks and debris. Youji and Omi were both on one side; the side by the
door, and Ken and Aya were covered, trapped in a pocket, which was only large
enough for two to lie on the floor.
Ken
couldn't hear any voices on the other side, and Aya had probably been hit in
the head, because he had passed out. Ken was scared, and moved closer to Aya,
lightly laying his head on his slowly breathing chest. He almost screamed when
he felt warm arms wrap around his shoulders.
Ken looked up at Aya, who
was still coming into consciousness. Probably a natural reaction. He
couldn't have possibly been holding me out of anything more than that.
Ken
attempted to move his head off the redhead's chest, but froze when he realized
that Aya was fully conscious, and holding him down.
"It's ok,
Ken," Aya whispered, and pulled Ken closer, a bit frightened himself.
That
was the day our relationship started...Ken thought, his thoughts coming
back to the present. But what he didn't understand was what happened six weeks
ago, when, during a normal mission, something happened, something unclear.
Ken's memory was blurred, and he couldn't remember all of that evening.
It felt
like a mind rape, like Schuldig's favorite past time. Only Ken knew that it
wasn't his doing, because it didn't leave the "Schu was here" signature
that the German so loved to do. It was something more powerful, something
inhuman.
And Ken
was to find out what that "something" was, and to find Aya.
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I didn't remember much
about the night Aya disappeared. It was only a few days after the downfall of
that female group, Schreient. Everything was normal, everyone was doing fine,
especially Omi, who seemed to be at his happiest, and Ouka-san used to think he
had a girlfriend.
But
I did remember one thing about that night in particular. I could feel it, a
strange presence at the house where they were supposed to collect data from a
computer that a drug dealer had. It was some useless info on a new drug that
was being produced.
Omi was to do the data
stealing, while the other three of us were to stand watch and finish off anyone
who saw us. As expected, Schwarz showed up, and while the kid was off trying to
get the data for SZ, we were left with the other three.
We were about to beat them
(yeah, what a shock, huh...) when we heard a piercing scream from inside the
house, and then another one following it. It was Omi, and the Schwarz kid Nagi
who screamed. Immediately, Schwarz and Weiß stopped the fight, and all six of
us ran in the house. I was a bit surprised to see that they cared about their
teammate. I always thought of them as being heartless.
When we
got to the source of the screams, we were not ready for what we saw. Omi and
Nagi were screaming, on their knees, holding their heads in pain. Blood was
slowly trickling out of their ears. The minute I put one foot in the door, a
wave of nausea hit me, and I jerked back out of the room.
Schuldig
knew that it was some kind of psychic attack, or some kind of supernatural
force attacking their minds. He put his hands to his head, and looked like he
was in deep concentration. He ran into the room, and attempted to pull Nagi out
of the room. I found out later that he tried to create a wall to block our
whatever was in the room. But, he failed, and soon sank to his knees, struggling
under the attack.
I didn't
know what to do. I turned to Aya when I felt his hand squeeze mine, a distant
look in his eyes. "No... Aya... don't..."
He said
something to me. I don't remember what it was. It makes me angry to think that
I don't even remember what his last words were. Suddenly, he ran in, grabbed
Omi, Nagi, and Schuldig, and literally tossed them out of the room. Schulderich
barely made it to the door, because Aya was weakening, and had to be pulled out
the doorway by Crawford.
Aya had
fallen to his knees, trying to fight the attack. Then I saw it. Hands, I think
about the six of them. They grabbed him, dragging him into the shadows of the
room. I tried to run in and save him, but Youji held me back. "You won't
do him any help if you get caught up in that too!!"
"I
don't care! I have to save him!"
I felt
something warm and sticky on the sides of my face, and realized it was blood,
coming out of my ears. I felt Youji collapse beside me, and that is it.
I don't remember
anything else. I know I didn't pass out there, because when I woke up early the
next morning, I was in my bedroom, in our house above the flower shop. Somehow
we had all gotten home, and without Aya. No one remembers how either. We
haven't seen Schwarz since then, but I have that sinking feeling that they are
still alive.
Aya,
where are you?
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End prologue.
