"What did you just say...?" Kaito said to them, clenching his fist in fear. This news was the worst that could have come out of the wood works. "How did this happen!? I thought they were safely guarded!" Kaito lost his cool in an instant. Raiku just stood there. Nothing to say and just rubbing his head.
Stiyl closed his eyes taking a drag of his cigarette. "Listen. We thought the same thing. Index Librorum Prohibitorum was in charge of keep the context of the Grimoire locked inside her head, sealed by a spell. But, due to the tampering of Imagine Breaker a while ago. The seal was, 'damaged'." Stiyl tossed his finished cigarette beside his shoe, crushing the spark out.
Kaito looked over at the duo and responded, "Then how were they stolen? How did someone so suspicious get a hold of such an important individual." Kanzaki shook her head and pointed towards Touma.
"The Church left her in his care. He has taken down many strong Magician and Esper in the past. His combat abilities and situation analysis have given him quite the reputation. But it seems that an organization outside the bountiful watch of the Church and HSS." Kanzaki finished.
Raiku joined the group after composing himself and finishing the phone call to the Civil Repair Team. "And do we have an Intel on who these individuals would be?" His question blunt and ready.
Stiyl stepped forward, sparking another smoke and took in a deep inhale, "Du'iel." His words were cold and full of sorrow. The very name left such a horrible taste in Stiyl's mouth. Kaito and Raiku glanced at one another and nodded slowly. "This is quite the issue. The beast we recently finished spoke of Imagine Breaker. Do you know anything about this?" Kaito spoke, his arms hugged across his chest.
"We don't have anything. We're searching to whatever reaches of the Magical Community we can. We came here to speak to Touma here. To see if he'd heard the name Du'iel before. Then we ran into you all." Stiyl said, holding up a document with the Seal of the Church on it.
Raiku tucked his hands into his pocket, walking over to his skateboard and hopping on it, proceeding to roll back to them. "We were sent here to watch over the Imagine Breaker. Or 'Touma' As you would call him. He's an important catalyst to the Society." Raiku said, as he rolled around the ground.
"Why is Touma so important to you all? He's just a high-school idiot with shit luck." Stiyl commented, as he started getting irritated with the rolling of the skateboard wheels.
Kaito held out his arm and made a golden apple appear in his hand, and looked down at it. "Have you ever heard of the story of King Midas? His very touch could make riches. Desires. Dreams come true. When Science and Magic cross paths, a story is born." Kaito closed his palm, making the apple disappear in a dark void.
"My code name 'IMGN-C01' meaning, Imagine Creator. My birth, as said in the reports, was a defect. This arm I was born with, was an attempt to attack back on the Magical Community. Before the treaty of the two associations. We all know of the chaos that came from the collision of the two communities."
Kaito made his way over to Touma and held his arm up, "We are two halves of the same coin. One was meant to take and One was meant to give. I was a counter measure in the rumors of this 'Imagine Breaker'." Closing his fist, he lightly nudged Touma trying to get him to awaken.
"So the legends of this ability drag on this far? His power is that deep in lore?" Kanzaki asked as she roughly pressed the base of her katana sheath in response to him pushing Touma with his foot.
Kaito backed off and nodded, "Imagine Creator is a tool, used to take in matter and recreate it into something. Something able to be physically touched. Later on, it grew even more powerful. Due to this 'defect', it gained another ability. It became the perfect counter-action to the Imagine Breaker. But, when the treaty was completed. I was put to no use. Nothing more than a Field Operative."
"Nice back story and all. But, I'm surprised this is the first this has been brought up." Stiyl said in a sarcastically annoyed tone. "You in the Science Community have such hostile ways of approaching matters. It's almost aggravating." Stiyl's eyes turned over to see several trucks pulling up and slowly surrounding the area. "What is this now?"
"The Civil Repair Team has arrived. We'll just get in their way if we stick around any longer. We'll take Imagine Breaker back to his home. We'll add in a few cute words in the report for you all." Raiku said as he stopped his skateboard next to Touma. Kanzaki and Stiyl looked at them with much suspicion, "If we find any harm to him or Index..."
"You won't. Now that we understand the relevance of him. We'll surely make sure he's fine." Kaito took a respectful bow to them both, raising up and meeting eye to eye with Stiyl. Both men having almost a gun fight stare in their eyes.
Raiku just went ahead and scooped up Touma, tucking him over his shoulder and rolling off. Kanzaki slipped Kaito a sheet of paper, marking the address of the apartment and several instructions needed to carry out the mission properly. The group parted ways quickly as the repair team began to taken in the dead body for testing and fix the damaged property.
The next morning, Touma woke up to the sun shining brightly in his eyes. He held onto his head, and looked around. "What the … I'm alive? They didn't kill me..." "We aren't savages you know." Touma jumped quickly as the voice of Kaito startled him. He backed up quickly and saw the two of them in his apartment. "Touma!" Suddenly, he was attacked by a large covering of white.
"You had me worried Touma! Strange people came in with Touma passed out and I thought they were going to hurt you! How dare you make me this scared!" She looked up at him with a reddened face, soft tears in her eyes and her cheeks puffed out. Touma only silently stared between the two men and Index, his beloved companion.
"We brought you home. Imagine Breaker" "Touma!" Index replied to Kaito with a sharp point of her finger, it barely pushing past the sleeves on her Walking Church. She was glaring up at him, which made him bow in retort. "I apologize madam. Touma. We safely secured you home. After associating with some friends of yours. We are sorry for the rude interaction but it was part of our assignment."
Touma stood up, his eyes still hostile towards them. "Your job is to come around and assault high school students. And with my luck, it had to be me." He sighed and turned away, a dark cloud could almost be seen over Touma's head.
Raiku stepped over and placed a hand over his shoulder, "Well, we're students as well! And Besides, you're all shaped up and healthy now! No hard feelings?" He said in a joking manner, offering a fist bump and smiled. Touma only glared at him, pushing him off his shoulder.
"Either way. I want you two out of this place as soon as possible. I've got to go to school." Kaito and Raiku looked at one another and nodded as Touma grabbed his bag and walked out the door. Index sat there with her hands folded together and pouting as he rushed out the door in such a hurry.
Making it down the street, Touma sighed and grumbled to himself about the situation, being knocked out and dragged home wasn't to his liking. Along his walk he'd stopped, feeling some strange presence around him, along with some several shoe clicks that stopped when did.
Touma slowly turned around with a most annoyed expression to see the both of them behind him and dressed up in the same uniform as Touma with bright smiles. "What the hell is the matter with you two!?" Touma said in an angered tone towards the two.
"What ever do you mean, Touma?" Kaito replied politely. Raiku followed with a wide grin, "Were just going to school! Are we bad for being good students?" They both tried to play off their actions so suddenly that it only angered him even more. "Whatever! Just keep yourselves away from me. I want nothing to do with the likes of yo-" He was quickly interrupted with a by a punch to the head. "What the hell was that for?" He said holding the spot that got struck only to see it was Makoto.
"Stop yelling like an idiot all the time. You'll attract strange people. Speaking of strange..." She said turning to see the duo standing behind Touma and waving at her. "What exactly are the new guys doing with you?" She asked him in a suspicious tone.
Touma took a long sigh and turned to her, "I've just received a horrible burden. Something to be expected from my luck." He just shuffled past her with his head held down, and was continued to be followed by them. Mikoto glared and walked with him as well. "That's not answering my question!" Mikoto said, starting to get infuriated at Touma's behavior.
He continued to walk in silence, until she finally turned back to them. "One of you feel like explaining this?" She said in such a stern tone that both stopped in their tracks.
Kaito walk forward and bowed to Mikoto, "If you must know, we decided to walk to school with Touma. He'd offered to show us around and even befriend us, as new students." Raiku gave a sharp thumbs up and nodded to her. She only glared at them, walking past them and Touma. Kaito and Raiku looked at one another, taking a large sigh of relief.
The whole group of students walked along the path to the full school yard. Raiku placed his skateboard down and started to glide around them. Letting out a loud whistle, he observed all the people. "Man. You really wouldn't have guessed this many people would be here until you really took a look." Touma's head was still down, letting out a soft sigh.
"Well, I suppose we should 'mingle'? We still have a good amount of time before the classes begin." Kaito spoke rising his arm in a cheerful manner in which Raiku followed right after. "That's the spirit!"
Mikoto shook her head and walked away from the group, "I'm soooo glad I don't have to deal with you strange idiots..." As she walked past a group of guys one of them reached around and slapped her behind. This set her off instantly, making her clench her fists. "Speaking of idiots... Who the hell do you think you ar-!?" She was stopped instantly.
In sight of her was Raiku with his fist sent dead into the male's cheek who touched her. His fist simply sparked his crimson colored energy. "Don't you have a mother? Show women some respect!" The other boys who helped him up glared up at Raiku. "You'll pay for that asshole... Just you watch."
As the boy crept off with a most pissed off expression, Raiku turned to Mikoto and raised a hand, "No need to thank me or anything, it was my ples-" He was soon interrupted by a swift strike to his cheek. "Idiot! I could have more than flattened those perverted wastes of space! Stay out of my business next time or I'll send you to the electric chair!" She walked off grumbling to herself.
Raiku rubbed his cheek and rolled his eyes. "Excuuuuse me Princess." Touma slid over to Kaito, who was standing there with an amazed expression on his face and softly whispered. "Hey... Whats with your friend? Why'd he spring into action like that?" Kaito whispered back. "Raiku was always one to highly respect women. Especially considering he was raised by his mother. I could ask you the same thing." Kaito replied folding his arms and grinning.
Touma turned away and curled into a ball on the ground, "Oh trust me... I know his pain... She almost turned me into burnt Touma Toast... She's always been that type of gal." Fake tears seemed to be streaming down Touma's face at the memory.
Kaito nodded as he pulled out a small notepad and scribbling in his observations. "Japanese High School Girls show violent tendencies? Is this what the books would call... "Tsundere"? This is all very interesting!" He flipped the pad down and looked at Touma. "You know if you say that in front of her face, she'll rip you to shreds man..." With that statement, the bell seemed to have rang.
Touma rose from the ground and led the way with the rest of group. Upon entering the classroom, Ms. Komoe greeted everyone happily. "Take your seats! Class will begin shortly!" Kaito walked up and bowed to her. "Thank you for service today Ms. Tsukuyomi. I look forward to your excellent teachings." She blinked in confusion, which was followed by her blushing and waving her hand, "Oh no! Flattery won't get you the grade you want! Haha. Well maybe a little." She said in a joking manner.
Walking behind him, Touma quickly tugged him by the collar and pulled him to the back of the classroom, "Man if you're gunna kiss up to the teacher, at least do it normally... That stuff is just over the top." Kaito looked back at him and allowed himself to be pulled. "This is all such an eventful morning... So much research to be done."
As the class progressed on, Ms. Komoe announced her lessons happily. Raiku simply groaned and stroked his cheek, really feeling that sting she left in his cheek. "She really got you good huh pal?" Kaito whispered to him upon examining his actions. Raiku replied with a nod. "Hurts like hell... Did I really deserve thaaaaat?" Raiku planted his head to the desk.
Kaito gave his friend a pat on the back and turned away. "You'll be fine. Let the fact that you played the gentlemen ease your pain." Raiku nodded against the desk. Soon after that, a couple of spit balls flew at Kaito and Raiku. Kaito felt one stick to his cheek and caught the other. Raiku was simply pecked away with them. "Who in the hell..."
The culprits of this were none other than the boys from earlier. "So they have this class as well... Irony is truly a curse." Kaito tossed it away and took off his glove, tucking it into his pocket. Raiku growled and dusted them out of his hair. The guys continued to shoot them and releasing small snickers. "I think someone wants to stay after class..." Ms. Komoe said as she puffed out her cheeks and turned away from the boys. Kaito and Raiku both stared at them with the happiest grins, bumping fists.
The boys only glared back at them with darts in their eyes at them. They all returned back to watching Ms. Komoe. She continued on with the rest of the class until the bell rang. Touma, Kaito, and Raiku all took their leave. The boys mixed into the crowd and escaped with the rest of the bunch.
After the class the rest of them left for lunch. Our group having the earliest period after a 4 hour class in Ms. Tomoe's they all were starved. "Ooooooh man! Something smells awesome!" Raiku said as he walked into the Cafeteria. The place looked brand new, considering it was a new addition and remodeling of the lunch room, everything was fresh. The boys grabbed their trays and stood in the line. The kind women granted them all with smiles as they served their foods. Raiku was the happiest to receive it all the food.
Right behind them were that same group of individuals. Each one of them bumped into Raiku and Kaito making some of their food splash on their shirts. At this point they were asking for war. Kaito watched them grab their food and walk off, bumping several people along the way then seeing Touma. "Forgive me Imagine Breaker..." Kaito reached his arm out and whispered, "Lets have a little fun..." His hand rose from his side, and focused around Touma's feet. Out of a black mass soon created another tray on the floor.
Touma stepped forward, his foot getting caught on the tray and his food flying out of his hands and sailed across the air and onto the boys. They tried to stop and cover themselves from the platter of cooked goodies and only made it worse on themselves. They'd tripped over the tumbled Touma and fell to the floor and onto their own trays.
Silence grew around the room, until Kaito and Raiku burst into laughter which then fueled the flames and caused the rest of them to crack up in laughter. Touma laid against the ground with the most miserable expression on his face. The boys rose from the floor, observing all of the food covering them. "You two... you ain't gunna get away with this shit." Kaito and Raiku wiped their eyes, trying to clear their tears of joy and ignoring their statements.
Their actions only angered them more, the largest one of them took a swing at Raiku. The fist was quickly stopped by "HALT!" Kaito, Raiku, and the boy turned to see Ms. Komoe walking in with her hands on her hips angrily. "Disrupting class, ditching punishment and harassing students? You three never learn! To the room." She pointed her finger towards the door waiting for them to march.
Kaito's eyes widened in surprise. Even though she was so small and innocent looking, she was respected to this extent even by thugs. The boys one by one left the lunchroom with humiliation and potatoes covering them. There was nothing but an aura of hate around them.
Later on in the day, Raiku and Kaito were running along a long track in the back of the school. "I wonder what a school full of intellectuals bothers with athletics..." Raiku said with soft sigh under his breath. Kaito shook his head, leaving his eyes closed. "Don't be foolish. You know that everyone needs to stay in shape, in both mind and body.
Raiku stuck his tongue out at his friend and groaned softly, "We've been at it for about three hours... Let's hit the showers." Both of them stopped to catch their breath and slowly began their walk towards the showers.
Mixed in the crowd of men, Raiku and Kaito were being followed and it was more than obvious who their pursuers were. The boys stripped themselves once they made their way to the boy's locker room and made it to the showers. Close behind, the boys plotted and snickered as Kaito and Raiku entered the showers.
The two goons that followed the main one took their clothes from the lockers and ran off with them. Soon after that, they made their way back with towels for them and snickered. "They'll know what's coming to them now..." said one of the goons. "No, hell no. They'll pay with bruises and blood..." The one that spoke of this stripped himself and took lead with a towel on.
"Hey Kaito, you ever wonder why guys shower like this all together? I mean, don't you think that would be a bit weird?" "Of course it is but what can we do? If I were in charge, we would all have individual showering! This is so unnatural that it's almost sickening. I won't make a fuss though." Kaito replied which made Raiku snicker. "I'll give you something to bitch about prissy boy!"
The two of them turned around and sighed softly, knowing this voice. "Are you really going to bother us again?" Kaito replied, the steam covering their exposed lower halves. The boys laughed and walked up to the duo. "You've been getting lucky all day new boy! People like you are never good news. We'll show you for making fools of us!" They rushed them, throwing their fists. Kaito's eyes scanned their every moments and didn't move a moment. Raiku glared at them, his temper catching the best of him, Kaito's observational skills could see every bit of lightning that sparked off the hairs on his arms and fingertips.
Kaito sent his elbow into his friend's stomach hard enough to knock him back into the wall and hit his head on the edge of the bar, knocking him out. Kaito ducked the swings from the boys and used the water on the floor to drop on his knees and power slide between them. 'Forgive me my friend... But if you blew your temper here... Who knows what would have happened with all this water and the other students...'
"Trying to do our job for us, eh? Aren't you sweet?" They mocked Kaito's actions. He turned towards them and glared at him with hatred in his eyes. "You've tested my patience for the last time..." Kaito took a stance and which made them at him questionably. With a swift rush, Kaito send his elbow into one of them, and almost knocked his chest in. "Too slow...!" He grabbed the other by the neck and sent his head into his nose, breaking it and causing blood to run down his face.
Two of the goons down and broken, Kaito glared at the last one. "W-what the fuck are you!? Damn freak thinking he can take out my boys!" The last one rushed at Kaito, this was his easy undoing. "Sloppy form..." Kaito tightened his fist and covered it quickly in a metal glove, "Let this be a reminder! You are a nothing but a pest!" His fist delivered a sudden glow to his stomach and instantly winded him, slumping him over his arm.
Kaito's head covered in the blood of the other boy remained in a stilled state, only looking at the other side of the shower, other boys came to see what the commotion was. Kaito snapped out of his trance of battle and tucked his arm behind his back quickly. "Oh dear... Looks like a terrible accident.. Hehe." "D-dude are you okay? They didn't do ya too bad did they." One of the students remarked to the blood on his head.
Kaito bowed to the boys, "I greatly apologize. They didn't do too much harm! I feel perfectly fine! You can all go about your days." He let out a laugh, holding the side of his head and smiling.
The boys only stared at him questionably and turned around going about their day. Gossip was already filling the air about how he'd knocked out one of the biggest bullies in their school. Most of them spoke of marking him as a hero for this action. Kaito turned away from them and cleaned the blood off his face. Kaito looked at the passed out bodies of the boys and shook his head, "You need to be taught some valuable lessons..."
Some time later Raiku woke up and rubbed his head, "Hey there sleepy head." Kaito said sipping on an energy drink. "What the... what the fuck happened man?" Raiku flinched as he touched the lump on the back of his head, "Sweet. Sweet payback. And You're welcome for the towel." Crushing the can, Kaito pointed his finger at the shower.
Raiku was confused but hurried over to the showers and instantly burst into laughter. All he could see was the boys stripped of their towels and their hands and legs handcuffed together. This was Kaito's idea of a light punishment for them. "Man you really don't take these things lightly buddy." "You know me." "And that's why were friends!" Kaito grinned at the statement, reaching out and fist bumping him. "Well there is bad news."
Letting out a heavy sigh, he turned to his friend. "Do tell... Make my day." Kaito sighed as well tossing the can into the trash. "One of the goons woke up early. Made them tell me where our clothes are." Kaito slipped his arms behind his back and begun to lead the way.
A short travel later they found themselves several feel away from the girl's locker room. "You can't be serious." "Alas I am my friend..." "You can't be serious..." The boys placed their hands on their heads and begun to think of a solution to this issue.
After several moments, Kaito snapped. "Raiku... I'll need a favor from you." Raiku turned his head and raised his eyebrow, "Go on?" "What I'm about to do... Never speak of this to anyone." Kaito reached his arm out and concentrated heavily, "Imagine Creator... Give me this wish..." Creating a mass of black, his hand clenched roughly and the veins popped against his skin.
Kaito created the item that he needed and held onto a small box that he'd shaped and walked into a janitor's closet. "What the living hell do you have planned?" Raiku said and sat next to the door, patiently waiting for his companion.
There was a sudden snap at the lock of the door as it slowly pushed open, "Remember... Tell no one!" Kaito stepped out of the bathroom, his towel was now wrapped around his chest and waist, his hair was draped and tied over his shoulder, and wearing several different types of make-up which made his facial complexion look more feminine.
Raiku stood there in amazement at the sudden transformation, his eye twitching slightly. "Don't you stare at me... I'm only doing this for our clothes!" Kaito sighed walking away from him Raiku and taking a deep breath at the door. "This is too much a man should have to bare..."
Kaito entered the locker room and could instantly see past a cascade of steam, girl after girl who were dressing or undressing themselves. His face lite up a bright red as he tried to walk as femininely as he could. He searched each of the lockers for the specific one that he was looking for.
"Can I help you!?" A girl walked up behind him, she was pink haired and had large bubbly blue eyes and seemed to have one of the cheeriest smiles. Her greeting which made him jump quickly, "Oh? Oh! No no! I can show myself around." Kaito bowed and went back to searching the lockers. "But you seem lost!" She stood closer and poked herself against him, this made Kaito twitch and blush. "Of course not! You can go about your day hehehe."
Kaito finally found the locker after a sharp turn around a corner and created a lock pick quickly and made easy work of the lock. "Yes! Got the goods..." He took hold of their clothes and tried creeping out of the bathroom quickly. "Oh! Did you find what you were looking fo-?" "Gah!" Kaito tripped over and almost lost his towel, "Look I have to go... It was nice meeting you." Kaito turned away and tried walking, he stumbled quickly and tripped and fell over a girls bag. The clothes flew out of his hands and across the floor, along with his towel.
"Heeey. Aren't those male uniforms?" Kaito rose from the floor a bit rubbing his head. "Mercy this is difficult..." He looked around at the girls who were staring at him in silence. "Oh dear..." The room filled with screams and shrieks. Kaito's voice could be hear in large yelps and screams of panic, "Dear god! Raiku!" He ran out of the bathroom with their clothing in his hand.
Raiku quickly dashed behind him and caught him, they were both room being tailed by a large crowd of the female students, "What in the living hell happened in their!?" "Abort mission! Abort mission! Abort mission!"
The girls were throwing hair brushes and bars of soap at them as they made their dash out the gym and through some of the halls. On the way they passed Touma who was walking around with his head held down and sighing, "What's wrong with today? Why today?" Raising his head all he could see was himself bring rushed by woman then trampled. "A-ah.. W-why..?"
Kaito and Raiku cut into a nearby classroom and shut the door behind them quickly to catch their breath. "Think we lost them?" Raiku asked his friend, sharply turning his head "If we didn't, the window is our only hope..." The two boys collapsed to the floor, their panic soon turning into laughter. "Our first day of real school... Look at us now man. More days to come..." "I suppose you are correct. Hopefully days I won't have to dress so... " "pretty?" Raiku replied in a joking manner which made Kaito kick him in the side.
After they rested out the remainder of the school day in the classroom. They made their way out and met Touma on the way out the building, "Dare I ask what that was?" Touma's face was miserable as his clothing and skin were covered in footprints. "You really don't want to know?" Kaito replied with the same look of disappointment on his face and Raiku's. The three shared a sigh and begun their shameful walk home.
"So... I'm assuming you guys are going to be crashing at my place from now on?" Raiku and Kaito both put on the cutest faces they could to try and convince Touma to let them stay. This drove him even crazier to let two people are are out to spy on him, live with him. "I swear... Your damned organization doesn't fund the field soldiers... Fine. But one of you is going to have to get handle the cooking..."
Raiku and Kaito shared around fist bump and walked on both sides of Touma putting an arm around him, "Think about it this way man! You've got two more friends in your life! More the merrier!" Touma teared up slightly at the thought and let out a scream while the others only shared laughter. So ended the first day of school for the agents.
I'm very sorry for the wait everyone! This chapter was a long time coming, I know. I've been struggling with my studies in College and trying to find a job. Combine that with writers block and what do you get!? Haha Well, the next chapter won't be that far off! I promise! Please leave a review and share it around to your friends! Things have calmed down for me, so my time should be a lot more free! I hope you all enjoy.
