Chapter 1: The thief named Echizen Ryoma
"Echizen, you are fully aware that the fact someone is tailing you is 100 correct. I'm I right?"
"Yes Inui-sempai. Besides, how is life interesting without a game of cat and mouse? And to top it off, I'm not the mouse. She is."Echizen muttered into the microphone bit. He smirked. It was going to be fun misleading her. The last one gave up too quickly and the police are getting pretty repetitive and boring. There was no thrill trying to fool them anymore as the always fall for the same trick even it was in different variations. He was nearly bored to death and nearly resorted to provoking the police with fake threatening letters. Luckily Eiji, Momoshiro, Kaidoh and Fuji's weird antics kept him entertained for quite a while.
"Echizen, always be on your guard."
"Hai, Tezuka-buchou."
"Echizen, you are planning something aren't you."
"Fuji-sempai, don't you always do something like this?"
"Maa…I suppose no harm is done."
"Echizen, don't get too carried away! If you can't handle it try escaping or alert us!"
"I'm not that weak."
"Don't get too proud! Arrogance gets you nowhere-……Echizen? "
Echizen resisted the urge to roll his eyes and unplugged his earphones so he could concentrate on the present situation. They should know that he wasn't easily distracted from just talking alone from the past experience. He is rather capable of tuning out crappy information and he would have to do that soon if they don't stop.
He went into many clubs, cafés, and shops, talked to many bartenders, waiters and waitresses. Walking through many twist and turns along the way hoping to get her lost and so she would not be able to find her ship when she decided to give up. The plan was very simple. To confuse, tire her out and finally disappear altogether, leading her into a wild goose chase. No doubt she would try to talk to the bartenders, waiters or waitresses about what he might say to them yet all they would know was that he was just passing by and wanted to say hi.
The cheese was placed. The trap is set. Let the games begin.
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"I wonder where he's heading to at the dead of the night." Ryuzaki mumbled to herself. The air was chilly in Paris at the late hours of the night and she had oh-so forgotten about bring a jacket along. She shivered, wrapping her arms around her petite body trying to warm up herself. She found herself walking into many cafés and such so it wasn't as bad as it was thought to be for it was warm inside.
She stared at her target, not wanting to lose sight of him again. While doing so she noticed he stopped to chat with the bartenders or waiters every now and then. She was tempted to ask one of the people he talked to but it would immediately look suspicious. After all she can't just walk casually towards one of them saying, "Hey, what you and that guy from just now are talking about?" Not only that, she did not want to lose her target again. And from the way they twist and turn about, she knew she was sure to forget and lose track from where she had came from sooner or later.
She switched her PDA on and drew an 'X' on the electronic map, where her aircraft was parked at with the mouse pen and sent an e-mail imbedded with a online tracking device to her aircraft so she would know where was her ship even though if she somehow got lost, which was quite common when one forgot to take note of such things.
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Echizen weaved through the crowd avoiding as much eye contact as he was able to. He glanced back and saw the girl trailing him not too far behind. He smirked. It was evident that she did not know she was falling into his trap. There are still many stops to be made. Now if only he could think of a way to stop the other girls from the clubs to stop flirting with him when he entered the clubs as it was highly annoying. However it perfected the plan as he could use that as a cover-up or a ready-made excuse. It was going to be a rather long night.
"Hey, can you hear female voices?"
"O'chibi! I didn't know you were so attracted to the opposite sex nya!"
"So young, so young."
"You two do realize he isn't listening right?"
"…"
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"This is ridiculous."Ryuzaki muttered to herself. She had been into so many places and it looks as though he wasn't going to stop anytime soon. How many people is he in contact with? Who are the people is he in contact with? What business do these people have with him? Many thought swirled in her mind as she felt herself being slowly drifting away from her main objective. She placed her wonderings aside and focused on her intended target.
"Is he trying to distract me by flirting with girls? If so, I will not fall into that cheap trick." She mumbled and made a little mental note in her mind.
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Just one last stop Echizen thought. He went into the club, chatted with the bartender there and exited the place. "Time to return to the base." He muttered.
"Echizen-san, stop right there. What were you doing?"Ryuzaki could control her curiosity no longer and decided to ask.
"Since when do stalkers ask the person they are following these kind of questions?"
"Eh…erm…eto… Wait! Stop trying to change the topic and answer me!"
"What makes you think that I'm going to reply?" he smirked.
"Well, I intend to make you answer, Echizen-san."
She sent a flying kick aiming to his face but he skillfully blocked it with his arms. He then bend his knees and kicked her in shins sideways with his right leg while his left arm and leg supporting his full weight, trying to make her lose her balance, in which it did and she fell flat on to the ground. He got up with a somersault and looked at her with an almost bored-like expression. She grabbed the gun from her thighs and tried to aim at his limbs but unfortunately for her, he shot the gun away from her with his own. She glared up at him angrily.
"I told you that you are mada mada dane." he threw a smoke bomb on the ground, intending to disappear from her sight once again.
Like I'm going to let you do that again Ryuzaki thought. She took out a little bug from her side pocket and managed to throw it at him before he vanished from her sight. Now, the only thing to do was to track him down. She looked at her PDA which showed two blinking lights. One red light that seemed to be stationary and the other which was blue is moving rapidly away from the scene itself. She decided to wait for her ship to arrive at the place she was by sending it an auto command.
Her ship arrived minutes later and she swiftly climbed on board her ship and hopped on to her chair. She swung her chair around facing the computer screen and typed several commands quickly into the computer. She inserted her PDA into the machine slot and set the autopilot to follow wherever the blinking blue dot is moving to; much like a tracking device. She dialed Tomoka's phone number.
"Hello?"
"Sakuno? You got him? Come on, don't keep it in suspense and tell me quick!"
"No…not yet but I placed a bug on him."
"Whoa! You're proceeding that fast already?"
"Eh? No, not yet. I'm following him with my ship."
The blinking light eventually stopped at a secluded spot which no one would often bother to go.
"Hey, the light stopped!"
"Eh? Really?! Good luck then! Contact me when you got him!"
"Ok Tomo-chan, ja."
Sakuno smiled. I've found you…Echizen Ryoma.
Chapter 1 is out. Zzz...only 1 review so far. XD
Anyone want to suggest any pairings? I'm currently leaning on RyoSaku but I wanna try a new one. I don't know seriously but I doubt I will do a KiriSaku or TezSaku. Maybe a FujiSaku? I don't know about yaoi though. .
Review ne? Arigato. :3
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