Gloves.

Black leather gloves were the first thing that Antonio noticed on one of the new students, he always wore them and never said why

The other also had a wristband which he seemed to never remove...

He was one of the 'popular kids' in school so miss Elizabeta had asked him to make sure nobody pressed Feliciano or Lovino on their parents and that they at least made one friend

He hadn't had to look far to find the two

At lunch they both sat alone in the classroom speaking in Italian and eating a lunch that the school hadn't prepared

It seems to be Italian food most of the time but sometimes it was food from all around the world

The Spaniard dared not intrude in their lunchtime of course

He knew that they knew that he was there but for some reason he couldn't bring himself to enter and sit down with them

It was the same fro Ludwig too

The tight freshman had become best friends with Feliciano but when he hooked onto his brother Ludwig seemed to lose all the careful attention Feliciano gave him and was completely shut out, so instead the German went to sit with Kiku at their usual table and for a while they jus pretended the twins didn't exist...

Or that's what Antonio thought anyway.

Their investigation started early on in the school year.

And everyone knew it was Gilbert who started it

He had made his friends come and sit with Kiku and Ludwig (which wasn't peculiar in itself) but then he had lowered his voice and promptly said

"Don't any of you find it strange?"

That had gotten everyone else quiet and interested

The loud-and annoying- Gilbert never talked in a suitable tone

"What?" Francis promptly questioned

"Those twins or brothers" Gilbert said "I mean I heard Lovino was meant to be in our year but was moved down so he could be with his brother"

"I know" Francis nodded "I saw a single note from Elizabeth's case file for Feliciano...frisky I think the word is in English" the parisan stated "they've got a lot of problems"

"You read their case file?" Ludwig said disapprovingly

"it was a single note from the case file!" Francis said firmly "I won't divulge on some of the very interesting things Feliciano is hiding but I will say that they both apparently went through a very traumatic event a few years ago"

"their father was murdered" Kiku broke in which earned him some looks "my brother and his dad both worked on the police force, my brother transferred there in a program or something and stayed for a few months" the Japanese kid stated

"And..." Gilbert pressed

"and their father was murdered, apparently he was hung up in a prayer room like a decoration of some sort, the prayer room wasn't strange considering the man was a strict catholic but what was strange was that the police found no traces of fingerprints or anything on the knives used to pin him to the wall and Feliciano and Lovino would only say 'I promised not to tell"

"That's freaky" Antonio shook

"Yea but not as 'freaky' as the person who was ripped apart in their area"

"Ripped apart?" Ludwig inquired

"Just pulled apart from the centre and left as a pile of flesh, the police couldn't even identify the body because all the teeth were missing and they couldn't tell any of the parts apart from each other because even their insides were ripped apart"

"Scary" Antonio shook

"But isn't it also interesting" Gilbert said excitedly

"No Gilbert" Francis said simply

"But, listen. Maybe they know something or are hiding something big" Gilbert stated "I mean how else could they have pulled something like that off"

"Gilbert!" Ludwig snapped

"What? It's obvious" Gilbert snorted, "I just want to do a simple investigation where the findings are kept a complete secret no matter how bad they are"

"...I say we do it" Antonio said after a few moments of thought "but the findings are kept secret"

There was a longer pause as the more sensible of the group thought it over

"Ok then...but let's not go crazy" Ludwig said simply.

Kiku simply nodded

"If anyone asks I was never a part of this" Francis stated.


...oOo...

Gilbert and Antonio both looked down at the Vargas twin's apartment

They had bugged the entire place (with the help of a certain Estonian and a ninja like Japanese boy) and were now just watching and waiting

Antonio kept looking through the binoculars

Ludwig and Francis were hearing everything that was going on from their room and recording it so it could be translated later.

Why are we watching them again?" Antonio asked impatiently

"So we know more about what they talk about and who they are as people," Gilbert stated

"Fratello?" Feliciano said softly as he and his brother set out the table for dinner

Their dorm room was different from others, having a better kitchen facility and two very separate bedrooms, one of which were soundproof.

"Yes?" Lovino said in English

It was strange because they had been speaking Italian up until then

"What do you think about Ludwig and Kiku?" it was an innocent question

"I don't really like the potato fucker, but the Japanese one's ok"

Antonio snickered but Gilbert glared

"Oh" Feliciano said in a disheartened tone

"Don't let that stop you making friends" Lovino said simply eating some more of his dinner

"But if fratello doesn't like them then there's really no point as to—"

"I don't really like anyone because I I can't understand people very well..." Lovino trailed off before standing and closing his eyes

"What?" Feliciano questioned with slight panic in his voice

"Nothing it's just...did you make friends with that Estonian boy?" Lovino suddenly asked

"No, he likes to...bug people" Feliciano said slowly before standing up "I'll fix it, I'll go make him get rid of them"

His tone was cold and abrasive

"No" Lovino said simply "he's not nimble enough and he likes to work for other people..." the Italian then took a deep breath "I'll deal with this"

"But..." Feliciano lowered his voice and whispered something into his brothers ear

"Don't worry I'll figure it out" Lovino said reassuringly before everything went black.

Like everything

It had caught Gilbert and Antonio off guard when the entire area lost all light

"Are you two ok?" gilberts voice came through his walkey talky

"we're ok" Antonio reported back "we'll wait for the lights to go back on then get out of here, ok?" he said

He could hardly see anything with the dense campus forestation blocking out the moonlight

"Got it" Francis stated.


...oOo...

It only took another 30 seconds for the lights to go back on, but when they did Feliciano and Lovino were gone from sight so there was not point in staying in the tree anyway.

Antonio and Gilbert walked into gilberts dorm room

"So what do we have?" they asked a certain British boy who they had asked for help and had actually been interested in the Vargas twin's case

"Nothing" Francis said in a grave voice "We had a program translating everything and even that was wiped"

"What do you mean wiped?" Gilbert questioned angrily

"He means gone, poof" Arthur said making hand gestures and slamming his hands down on the table angrily around his computer

The boy had a thing for hacking and spy fiction so he was the one who obviously hooked them up with the technical side of this entire thing, not Eduard von bock as many would believe

"I'm not computer genius but information doesn't just disappear" Gilbert pointed out

"Well it did" Arthur said kicking the sturdy chair leg "they must have sent a quick acting virus after setting this black out!"

"they couldn't have set the black out" Antonio interjected "i saw them in their room and was listening to the translation you were feeding me through the headphones, they only realised that they were being watched a few seconds before the black out and there's not way they touched their computer, it was in the next room and we could see it the entire time"

"Whatever you bloody tosser" Arthur said angrily "they wiped my computer clean and I know it was them because there's nobody else we're fucking watching!"

"Shhh!" Francis hissed "maybe there's another explanation..." he stated

"Maybe their supernatural" Kiku said In a quiet voice but that got everyone's attention

"Maybe..." Gilbert said slowly

"you're not seriously considering it" Ludwig laughed "that's not possible"

"a man ripped apart from his centre into nothing recognisable, their father mounted on a wall...the black out and computer wipe...they might be supernatural murderers or just really fucking lucky" Gilbert said

The last suggestion was said in a bitter and sarcastic tone

"Their onto us already" Arthur almost choked

"No their best suspect is...Eduard and they'll figure out he has nothing to do with this and then they'll know it's us" Arthurs said in a panicky tone

"Eduard doesn't talk about his clients and you got Alfred to get the bugs for you remember?" Francis stated, "Alfred's too stupid to probably even recall it so our identities are safe"

"We should stop" Ludwig said uneasily

"Like hell, it's not every day you get something like this dropped on your lap, I wanna find out everything I can bout those two" Gilbert protested

His brother gave him a hard glare

"But this is getting too dangerous Gilbert, try to understand" his brother said firmly

"I agree," Francis said, "what if this escalates into something big?"

"And this ends just like that?" Arthur questioned

"Just like that..." Gilbert said bitterly.


...oOo...

That was sorta a weird chapter to write...

It might get fluffy in a minute so...yea :D

i had my internet down for a while so i can't remember when i last updated this...

it might have been the first thing i did when i got my internet back a while ago but i'm not sure...

Also I forgot to ask for reviews in my previous chapter but it would be nice if I got some...just saying