Chapter 2: Of Pocky and Assasins

It was an ok apartment he admitted. Clean in any case, though the sudden view of natural light, however little (It was dusk it seemed), threw him off a bit. Inuhen walked in first, pointing to her right before taking a seat on the couch almost directly beside the window. "Your bed is over there, along with a more detailed file about what you have to do here..." The woman yawned, before laying back on the couch into a position that rendered it impossible to see Gin's slightly questioning stare. "Just don't bug me, I was up all night and day up till now, and I wanna sleep..."

With that she left a just slightly confused Gin to his own actions and fell asleep. Amazingly fast infact.. Shruging it off, Gin walked over to the room that Inuhen had pointed out, placing his bags by the bed and taking in the suroundings. It was simple, like all in-building bedrooms. He hadn't stayed in one for years though.. Not since his days as 'trainee', long before he'd ever gotten his codename. The bed sat by the back wall, a side table next to it. There was also a dresser opposite the bed, and a desk a little ways from the dresser. And everything was white and pale blue.

What was wrong with these people... Walking over to the bed, Gin picked up the file that neatly lay across it, taking a seat in the chair at the desk. It would be easy to read at least- It seemed that the building was very precise in how they did things, that much was clear from the way he had been driven there. Opening the file, which bore a single label reading 'conditions', he read the first few pages in an attempt to find out just what was required. Interest quickly turned to annoyance however, as the first page really wasn't much.. At all..

To Whom it May Concern;

It seems you've become the first transfer to our wonderful Section F of the Black Organization! Congratulations!! Don't think things will be the same though! It's not as though you were just transfered from Section A to B! We who run the buildings here have created a set of simple rules based on behavioral things that we have reasearched about you. Hopefully they won't be to hard! This is just something to let you know about before the actual briefing of your new position as scientist here. Good Luck!~

Please wear the white lab coat. We know you like black. But it's required to keep in uniform. You can wear whatever you want underneath it anyways, you could wear as much black as you wanted! But it has to be worn under a WHITE lab coat. Please realize that we will only pay for damages to suits when accidents in the lab occur- We could really care less if you ruined your favoirite turtle neck! (It's blue isn't it?)

Don't wear your hat when at work, or indoors. There's really no point, and it clashes with the lab coat anyways.

You can wear your black boots though!

No smoking! Who knows what could happen if one of those fell while in the lab! It's best to stop it altogether really, so that you don't need it while at work though. Your team members (All scientists work in teams of four!) will make sure you don't have any cigarettes with you.

Please try to come to one of the social nights here. They're in room B104. It would be nice if you spoke to people outside the apartment at least once after all!

Don't try to repaint your room. We heard you don't like white yes. But that doesn't matter. If you try to paint anything, you have been warned... Punishment is severe, and depending on the offense, you could end up as one of our temporary test subjects! (We wouldn't want that after all.)

No fire arms please! There's nothing for you to shoot here anyways, and if you really want to you can participate in paintball night on Tuesdays! Otherwise don't, or we'll have to have people serch you.

Please tie your hair back! It wouldn't do to get it caught in macheinery or chemicals!!

That's it! Not much, it shouldn't be hard right? Your roommate, Shochu, will be pleased to aid you with any other questions you have! (But we're quite sure that you'll have none. After all, with the maps included in this file, you'll be ready to start work within a day!)

Gin blinked at the page he read. It came.. Complete with diagrams. And how in the hell did they know his favorite colour and sweater colour? And human test subjects from the scientists.. How could that be temporary, wouldn't some likely end up dead? Blinking with suprise, he flipped the page, happy to see some actual legible material. Skimming through, he soon finished the file with only a small bit of information logged. So much for information..

As of now, he knew this: He had been chosen because of the lack of trustworthy scientists, and the fact that not only were his loyalties more than proven, but he happened to have genetic sciences as his second skill. Something he knew before even being driven her. The second thing was that he would not be briefed on a project he was working on, as they only worked on certain things for a few days at a time, unless it was a large scale project. Wondering what they did that only took a few days, he ignored this, as the file stated that they would be given files on it the day they started anyways, so why bother? Another thing was that the day was relatively short. Work was from 8 – 5, and no more no less. Very strange comparred to.. Her.. work. Spontainous bouts of work at erratic hours, and she still had shown no sign of breaking. And he hadn't even been the one setting the hours.

He placed the file on the desk, frowning. He wouldn't be able to continue his hunt for her now would he. It figured. The one person he truely wanted to kill just to forget about would be burned into his mind for years. Hell, if he killed the bitch he'd likely still remember her face. She had a habit of being that stubborn..

A mumbled voice from outside the room snapped him from his thoughts, Gin ignoring it as he looked at the clock that sat on the side table. 10 PM... It was already 10? He frowned, grabbing his bags and opening them. If he was going to have to wake up at 7, he'd mind as well unpack everything and sleep right after that. Silently putting clothes in the drawers of the dresser, hanging up a few articles in the closet, he blinked as he grabbed the next thing in his bag.

Shampoo. Odd, how could he have forgotten one of the more important things to do before sleep.. He must have really been out of it. Ignoring Inuhen's odd mumblings ('Pancakes on wendsday...' she muttered before silencing herself once more.), he walked out of the room in search of the bathroom. Shower first. Then sleep. His hair wasn't going to clean itself after all.

The morning came far to quickly for Gin in his opinion. The alarm clock had appearantly been preset for 6 AM.. Really, he knew he had lots of hair, but cleaning hair didn't take THAT long in a shower. He wouldn't be able to get anymore sleep now though..

Numbly getting out of bed and grabbing a change of clothes, he walked over to the shower he'd found the night before. Like everything else, the bathroom was simple. He'd put his shampoo in the box near the shower the night before, along with anything else he'd need in here. Placing his clothes on the counter, he locked the door before getting ready for the shower itself. It didn't take him that long- 30 minutes was the longest if he tried to take a long time. Had anyone known just how long it took they probably would have asked if he actually got everything clean.. Which he did of course, just faster than most.

The warm water was soon cut off as he finished. Stepping out and drying off, Gin quickly got his clothes on and started brushing his hair. Many had once asked why he never cut it- In all honesty he just didn't see why he needed too. Yes, hair could be used as evidence against him... But really, the only way to avoid shedding a single hair would be to shave oneself bald and he wasn't about to do that. Besides, he was used to the weight by now.. Cutting it would take a long time to get used too. The mirror infront of him was a cupboard it seemed- Putting his shampoo and conditioner in there, he noted a small box that hadn't been there before. Taking it out, he grunted with slight suprise and read the note ontop of it.

'Yo, 'Gin'. Two things. First, what the fuck is your name. It would help to know. Two, here's some elastics. You'll thank me in the end. - Ookami'

Well. The first was straight to the point wasn't it? Ignoring the question, he pulled out one of the elastics (It was red), and tied his hair back. It was a bit more difficult than most would think.. But if someone thought about it, trying to pull that much hair through a small elastic multiple times without being able to see what you were doing would get challenging. In the end, it was very loosly held back, some strands of hair still lazilly hanging above his eyes. The only part of his hair that he trimed- Otherwise he couldn't see. That made sniping difficult really.

"Oi! Gin! Get out already, I want a shower too!!" That would be Inuhen.. Grabbing the rest of his things, he opened the door to just barely avoid a fist that should have come in contact with the door.. Instead, it hit the air directly to the left of his head. "Oh. You're done." Glaring at the woman as she slid past, he walked back to his room to grab what he needed. Lab coat.. And that was it really. God, it was strange not grabbing a few guns and knives to strap on the inside of his coat or something..

Walking back out of the room, he found his way to the kitchen, looking around to see what sort of food there was. From what he could tell there was definitly a large variety.. Not that he really minded, as he could really careless what he ate so long as it wasn't poisoned and tasted alright. Grabbing a pack of instant oatmeal and a bowl, he got his breakfast ready and sat down on one of the stools, waiting for Inuhen to get out and have her own breakfast. He didn't exactly know where he was supposed to start work.. If she knew, it'd be nice to know now so he could get to it.

"Fuck, you're still there? Damn. Hoping you could go find the place on your own or something.." Looking up from the oatmeal at Inuhen (Who barely had the labcoat on really, as it hung from her shoulders.), Gin blinked with annoyance before swallowing the last bits of his breakfast. This woman.. Swore far to much..

"It's rather difficult when I arrived only yesterday." Best try to be somewhat polite he decided- There were likely audio taps in here, if not visuals in certain areas as well. They were paranoid enough to give his 'escort' a biodegradeable bomb.. Buttoning his lab coat up, he watched as Inuhen walked past to the fridge, grabbed a yogurt container, a spoon, and then left towards the door. Eating breakfast on the go? From what he could tell everything was in one building wasn't it?

Inuhen's strange yellowy eyes narrowed as she held the door open. "Come on, we're late.. The building's a hell of a lot bigger than it looks, weren't you wondering why we woke up so early?"

Refraining from answering (If looks could kill.. He'd have to turn away so that he wasn't 'fired') the rude woman, he walked out into the hall and began following her. At the same moment an oddly framilliar voice came from behind, accompanied by a rather quiet one.

"Ah! Gin-San, you're on our team as well?" There was Shindou.. He looked oddly happy, bearing a grin that in no way suited his actual form. The woman beside him in the meantime simply smiled, laughing nervously as she gripped a pile of papers under her shoulder.

"Ahaha.. Shindou, we are late enough as is.."

Shindou turned to the woman, blinking before grining once more. "Oh.. Right!" Coughing, he gestured with his hand towards Gin before speaking again. "Tenshi, you have heard of Gin correct? He will be on our 4-man team for the next while. Gin, Tenshi is my roommate. I hope we all get along alright!" Gin's first thoughts on Shindou after meeting him again.. Too optomistic than could be healthy. With that in mind, the four headed off for whatever assignment they had for the day, the three chatting it up while he busied himself with memorizing the many halls and rooms they passed. It would do no good after all, if he ended up lost at some point in his time here. Embarressing as it was.. It could very well happen.

The walk itself was taking a while. The building must have been created to be some sort of miniturized city from the feel of the distance. It was certainly bigger than any building he'd been in before. So focused he was on getting a grasp on just what the building was, he found himself crashing into something barely above waist level.

"What the hell!"

"FUCK!" Gin looked down at the source of an extremely loud voice, staring in shock as a boy that was likely no more than 11 stood up and brushed dust of his black pants. The boy seemed to have long hair covering half his face before falling back.. A long candy stick between his teeth... And to top it all off, he had green eyes. While Tenshi and Shindou helped the boy up ('Dammit! I can handle myself!'), he really couldn't help but stare at the kid as though he was from some seperate planet.

"Ah.. Gin? Gin?"

He blinked as Shindou waved a hand in his face, eyes returning to a light glare before he responded. "What?" Shindou in turn merely smiled nervously before motioning towards the boy he'd run into. Said boy was currently munching away on pocky and gathering up the file papers he'd dropped.

"This is Saki-san, one of our assasins. Specifically, he snipes. I thought you should know who you ran into is all.." A laugh, before the kid himself spoke up, a rather odd and childlike look on his face as he grinned. It really didn't suit him somehow.. "And Saki-san, this is Gin alright?"

An awkward silence settled as the boy looked up at his older double before speaking. "... Call me Sake ok?" He paused before muttering something about idiot bosses having no sense of humor when it came to codenames, before walking off in the direction that Gin and the others had come from. As he walked however, one could clearly hear 'definitly a transfer' from the boy, Gin merely narrowing his eyes before turning back to the others. Silence settled, and after Tenshi finally muttered something about getting on their way, they headed off again. In the end, it was Inuhen who broke the silence.

"So. How'd it feel meeting your miniture doppleganer? Pretty creepy eh?"

"....." He decided not to say anything again, ignoring the light frown from the woman beside him before changing the subject to something else that he'd noted. "That boy. He can't be older than 11 and he's already under codename?" Codenames were an honor in the organization. What had that child done to earn one? And to throw out comments against it so easilly.. What kind of place would allow that?!

It was Tenshi who responded to this while Inuhen unlocked the door before them and led them inside. "Actually.. Jino-Kun is one of a scarce few special cases. His familly requested he took the exam early, and since he passed, he had the right to a code name.. I don't belive the exam is taken outside of this section though, so it's not suprising that you've never seen someone this young with a codename.."

With those words in mind, Gin nodded. True, there was no exam for this sort of thing- Agents earned the codename by work and 'good behavior'. At least good for the higher ups anyways. But if it was laid out by the head of the organization itself, then he was sure that the boy would have earned the name somehow.. Unbeliveable as it was.. Shindou's voice broke him out of thought again, the man handing him a small file before speaking.

"By the way Gin.. Why are you so formal?"

For one of the few times in history, Gin looked suprised. That question was definitly not expected. Formal? He was biting his tongue to keep from attempting to slash out their throats with a scapel. Figuratively of course. He would never consider killing off a loyal member without orders.. Such thoughts warranted death. Still holding back a rather harsh few comments (Such as questioning the fact that they all called each other by name..), he instead decided to calmly read through the file and respond without a single glance up. "Formal? What gave you that idea Amaretto?" It couldn't be how he addressed them, as that was protocol last time he checked.. And he definitly wasn't anything more than tactful by keeping his mouth shut.

The group moved towards one of the tables, Inuhen setting up whatever they were to work on while Shindou continued the conversation, Tenshi also joining in. "It's true," she said quietly as she folded her files back up, "You haven't addressed any of us by name, and you have been acting as though you are constantly being watched by the boss himself.."

Shindou nodded in agreement to this. "It's not as though the boss isn't human you know- He's not going to shoot you for having casual conversation any more than he would shoot Saki-San for speaking ill of his codename- It's only natural after all! Look at how similar it sounds to his surname!! I certainly wouldn't let that by!" He laughed, Tenshi chuckling as well while Gin merely stared. These people.. No, this entire building. It was definitly not in anyway similar to the other sections of the organization. That in mind, he and the others slowly got moving on the day's work, stopping only for a short lunch break before continuing on. Aside from the fact that they kept attempting to make small talk with him, the day went rather well. If he could just find a room to practice sniping and fireing techniques in now, then he might even be a bit happy.

That feeling could only last so long..

"So, Gin-San... You decide what special group night you're going to? Because I'd love to see you at a kareoke if you decide on that one..." Inuhen seemed to be cackling as she said that.. Gin's life had just gotten a few thousand times more difficult.

Someone up above definitly wanted him to suffer.