I'm back from exams!
Diamond
Chapter 3
Hakuren District, Thursday, 08.00 a.m., Snowflake Train Station-Southeast.
Tenma walks out from the train, putting his baggage down at the cold semen floor. There are snow stains that is visible, making people think that the place has just caught in a snowstorm.
"Where should we go now, Tenma?" The teal that was with him asked. The brown haired guy looked at him. "Yuuichi-san said we should go to the headquarters first, but I don't remember the way." He sighed. "The last time I went to Hakuren's is probably 3 years ago... Or was it 4? Ah forget it..."
Masaki sweatdropped at his friend. He finally reached his cell phone and called someone. "Yuuichi-san, this is me, Masaki. Tenma seems to forgot the way to the headquarters, so...yeah.."
"I see. Well that's obvious actually. It's been like, 5 years since we visited the place. Or was it 4 years? I kind of forgot..." Yuuichi answered the younger guy. The one who called just sighed at his 'brother' figure. "Don't tell me you forgot too..."
The navy older guy can be heard laughed at the other side. "No, of course I remember! Who am I? Tenma?" He sighed. "Go south from the station until you entered the main town. Search for a cafe called 'Black Market'. Order some drinks there."
Masaki was confused. "Are you sure you're telling me the direction of the headquarters? Or are you telling me your favourite cafe here?"
"... Well the cafe was my favourite. But no, seriously, this is the direction to the headquarters. Just do it. You will asked a question there after ordering, but Tenma will understand. He just forgot the direction of the place."
The teal haired guy doesn't seem to understand, but he follows it. "Okay. Thanks, Yuuichi-san."
"Good luck there."
He closed his cell phone and tuck it back into his pants pocket. The brown haired looked at him. "So what did he said?"
"He said we should search for cafe called 'Black Market' in the town.."
Tenma smiled at the words. "I know that place."
Hakuren District, Thursday, 09.00 a.m., Snowfield Road-North.
The navy haired Marionette stared outside from the car window. His golden eyes looks dull, his pale skin shivered a bit from the cold of the vehicle's air conditioner. His thoughts went to the event two days ago. Closing his eyes, he regretted the meeting. He doesn't want his friend meet him in this kind of situation, in this kind of position.
"Minamisawa, how much longer until we arrived?" His blue sky haired friend talked to the guy who is driving the car.
"Just some more minute, Kurama. Be patient a bit. The snow's a little high today, so it's a little hard to drive." He stared at the snowy road. "How's our 'prisoner'?"
Tsurugi turned his stare to the said 'prisoner'. He knows the one who was ordered was him, not Kurama. He looked at the two 'prisoners'. The one has feminine looks, with pink hair tied into two low pigtails, while the other one has navy blue coloured hair with emerald eyes, who is actually good looking.
"They're fine." He answered his leader, returned to the window to be lost in thoughts again.
Both of them looked at the navy strangely, like they're looking at him while remembering something. The navy Marionette realized this and stared at them back, "What? Something wrong?"
The pinkette shook his head, "No, you just remember me of someone." The navy stared at him.
"May I know who is it?"
"He's like our leader," the guy with emerald eyes beside the pinkette said. "His name is Yuuichi."
Kyousuke stared at the two guys, widen-eyed. He calmed down a little, but still showing a little shock.
"Oh."
Hakuren District, Thursday, 09.21 a.m., Downtown Hakuren-South.
"What is exactly we are doing?"
Masaki rubbed his hands together due to the cold weather of Hakuren. Tenma scratched his head, confused. "The cafe's should be here..."
"What are you guys doing?"
Both of the boys turned their back to the source of voice. A man with brown hair and brown eyes was standing in front of them.
"Ah, we're looking for the 'Black Market Cafe', but I think we're kind of lost..." said Tenma to the man. The man smiled a bit. "I know where the place is. Come, I'll show you!"
Both of them followed the man until they were finally arrived on a building with black and neon green colours. There were a sign placed up there, written in bright blue fluorescent colour, the writing said 'Black Market Cafe'.
"Oh, yeah, this was the place! Ahahaha..." said Tenma while he scratched his head. His teal friend sweatdropped at his forgetful friend.
"Come on, let's go in!" the man said while he pushed the glass door. "Two customers coming up!"
'So this guy works here?' Masaki wondered. Both of him and Tenma entered the place. The cafe was dominated by neon blue and jet black colour. There was a white colored bar there, with blue stools. The tables was in black colour in modern styled, meanwhile the chairs was neon blue. "Here, take a seat." the man smiled at them while directing them to a two-person table.
Tenma smiled back, "Thank you." Then he sat on the chair. He always knows how to play it nice. Masaki finally sit at the chair too, following Tenma and he nodded to the man. The man smiled and walked to the bar.
A dark blue haired guy with goggles stared at them. He was leaning against the bar. "Are they...them?"
The bartender, which has purple hair and thick eyebrows came closer to the bluenette, leaning his hands on the table and stared at the two that just came too. "Yeah, I think so, try asking them some 'orders' ."
The bluenette reached for the menu book and a note. "Okay then."
Masaki looked around the cafe, his eyes wandered through the tables. The cafe's designer has done quite a great job, he thought. The colours blends nice and it doesn't look too flashy.
"Hello there!"
Both of him and Tenma looked tp the source of voice. A waiter with dark blue hair was standing beside where they sit. "Do you guys want to order something? Probably some snacks? Or a drink?"
The tealnette remembered something about ordering. He was supposed to order some drinks. When he opened his mouth to say, Tenma already smirked at the waiter and ordered first before him, "Two glasses of blue soda would be good."
'So this guy understands...' The blunette thought. 'He must have known the answer for the next question I'm gonna ask...'
"Would you like some ice? Or some snowflakes?"
Tenma smirked but his friend doesn't. "Snowflakes?" the tealnette asked. His brunette friend grinned at him at turned to the waiter. "Some snowflakes would be good."
The waiter smiled and scratched his head. "Whoa, it is you, Tenma! It's been a long time, isn'it? I barely realized you!"
"The brunette grinned. "Yeah, it's been a long time, Hamano-senpai."
Hamano looked his right and left, and then he whispered to Tenma. "We should go, this place is always a Marionette's stop. That would be terrible if you guys got caught."
Tenma nods and stood. "Tenma? Where are you going?" Masaki asked. The brunette turned to him. "To our destination."
The tealnette friend slightly confused, but he stood and follows the brunette.
They walked to the bar, meeting the bartender who smiled to Tenma. He grinned to Hamano. "See, I told you it was them!"
"Kishibe!" Tenma exclaimed. "It's nice to meet you again!"
Kishibe smiled again at him, "Yeah, nice to meet you too again, Tenma!" He looked at Masaki and smiled. "Who's this? A fellow member? I don't think I ever seen him."
The tealnette pouted a little. He feel a little bit left out. But Kishibe –that was what Tenma called him- was quite right. Both never met, heck this is his first time going to Hakuren.
He was a newbie to the organization, though.
Flashback
It was one of the coldest day in winter. A teal haired boy walked through the thick snow, making his way to the closest warm place there. A small café, was the only thing that is warm, bright, and nice.
He stood there in front of the café. He reached for the door, but he stopped. A simple answer for his action, the café owner wouldn't want him there. He's just a mere child, dirty and ragged from being homeless for a long time.
He sat in front of the café, not right in front of the door, but still close. Clutching his ripping beige sweater, he tried to warm himself. He hold his knees close to his chest, trying to avoid the cold weather.
A navy haired teen, wearing a black long sleeved shirt with jeans stared at the boy outside. He turned to the waiter, "Why aren't you letting him in?"
"Well, The boss doesn't want to." The waiter said while he placed a cup of tea. "I would have taken him in if I can."
The teen looked at him, and then turned his stare back at the boy. He could tell that the boy was cold. Shivering and trying to get warm. He looked back to the waiter,
"Can I have some hot chocolate to take away? Oh, and probably some chocolate chip cookies."
The teal boy keep shivering from the cold. He's quite in a desperate state. He wants to get warm, but he can't. He keep clutching his sweater, knowing that fate would have a chance to make him die out of the cold weather. Or faint probably. He kept his head down, breathing cold.
"Are you okay?"
The smell of hot chocolate fills the air, making him to look up to a navy haired teen, who's holding a paper of hot chocolate to him.
He looked at the teen, then at the hot chocolate, then at the teen again. The teen smiled sweetly to him and nodded. He paused a bit, then he slowly took the hot chocolate.
Taking a sip, the tealnette feel good. He hasn't has something to warm to drink for a while. He impatiently drinks the hot chocolate, leaving the teen chuckled at him. "Calm down, you're gonna get your tongue burn if you keep drinking like that." He rummaged his pocket and let out a bag of chocolate chips. "Here, have some."
The tealnette boy stared at him. Why does this guy is so kind to him? No one has been this kind, no, no one had even been talking to him for a while. Sometimes he felt like he forgotten how to talk, how to socialize.
The navy teen sat beside him, leaning againts the wall. "What's your name?" He said.
Still munching some chocolate chips and sipping some hot chocolate, he answered slowly.
"Kariya Masaki."
"Masaki-kun, eh? I'm Yuuichi. Tsurugi Yuuichi." The navy smiled. He called him in his first name. Masaki doesn't even mind though, it's been a long time since anyone has called him that. "Do you live around here?"
Masaki shook his head. "No."
"So where do you live then?"
"I do not live anywhere," he paused a bit. "I don't have a home."
Yuuichi narrowed his eyes at the words. "I see." He smiled a bit.
Silence. There were silence between them, the sound that could probably heard was the sound of Masaki munching some chocolate chips. Soon the skies were getting darker, and Yuuichi had started standing up, probably going home. Somehow Masaki feels a little bit lonely. He's going to be left alone again.
"Nee, Masaki-kun."
The tealnette shot up to the source of voice, seeing the navy teen smiled at him.
"Do you mind living with me?"
End of Flashback
'And that time was before Yuuichi-san got the accident.' Masaki wondered while he followed Tenma entered a door at the back of the bar, leading into some kind of modern styled tunnel. 'I miss seeing Yuuichi-san walk.'
"Well here we are!" Hamano's voice boomed at place. "Welcome to Hakuren District's Diamond Wings Intel Headquarters!"
Masaki shot up his head at the place he is now staring in awe. The place was quite huge, with computers and tech things all over the place. The place was dominated by neon blue, like the café.
"Tenma!" the brunette turned to the source of the voice. Masaki turned too, revealing a man with gray spiky hair. Tenma grinned at the man while answering his call. "Fubuki-san!"
The man whose name was Fubuki approached them and smiled at them. "Did Handa-kun showed you the way here?" he said. Tenma nodded. "Yeah."
Fubuki nodded back and he shouted to the other side of the place "Thanks, Handa-kun!" The brown haired man who was directing them here shot up and grinned at Fubuki. "No Problem!"
The tealnette wandered his eyes around the place. Somehow he felt a little foreign.
"Who is this, Tenma?" Fubuki asked the brunette about his friend. The asked one grinned again at him. "This is Kariya Masaki! He's one of the members back home." The man smiled at the explanation. "Nice to meet you, Kariya." Kariya just nodded and answered him a 'nice-to-meet-you-too'.
Tenma smiled then he turned to Fubuki. "So, where were their last appearance?"
The gray haired man stared at Tenma and then he walked away, but gesturing the two to follow. They walked into a room with a big screen, showing the map of Hakuren District.
"Here." Fubuki points a place at the map. Jack Frost Lake. "They were there to investigate some heavy-looking metals that looks like owned by Senguuji, but ended up caught."
Masaki stared at the screen. The place that Yukimura and Kirino has disappeared. He wondered of what kind of place is there. He wonders how Kirino can be caught. The only reason he volunteered to accompany Tenma to Hakuren is because he wants to find Kirino. The pinkette was the only guy besides Yuuichi who was quite close with him. Although he likes to do pranks on him, he cares for the older guy a lot.
He somehow thinks him as a brother.
"Fubuki-san!"
The sound breaks the silence of the three in the room, all of them turned to source. A tired looking Kishibe is standing at the door.
"A group of Marionette is approaching Hakuren Snowfield Grounds!"
Fubuki smiled, no, more like a smirk at the words he heard.
"Looks like we got our destination."
Hakuren District, Thursday, 09.00 a.m., Hakuren Snowfield Grounds-North.
The car stopped at the large landscape of snow. The purple haired driver got out of the car, followed by his blue sky haired and navy haired friend.
"Err, Minamisawa? Why are we here?" Tsurugi stared at the field of snow, wondering why are they stopping at a nowhere place like this.
"Just watch." The said guy answered him. He took out a cell phone. "We're at the front now. We have them."
Suddenly from the field opened a slope like thing towards down under the field. The barrack seems to be underground.
Tsurugi stared at the slope boringly. He should have known.
"Now, now, let's get going." Minamisawa headed back to the car, ready to drive it again.
"Stop right there!"
The three Marionette turned to the source of voice. Three hooded man was standing behind them. The symbol on their armband shines from the sunlight. The Marionette quickly realized, they've been found by the Diamond Wings.
Tsurugi let out his sword, ready to attack. But he shocked when he sees piercing grayish blue eyes is staring at him.
Tenma is glaring at him in hatred, letting Tsurugi being all, eye-widen. One last thought swifted in the navy Marionette's mind.
Not again.
To be Continued….
Lol guys this took me, like forever to write! Blame that my parents took me to vacations after exams! Sorry I didn't tell you guys! D:
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