The blindfolded ninjas leapt forth as their katana and needles deflected the shirukuens which were heading in her direction.
"Nice job! Haruka, Luna, but you are still a little slow" Reina said with her arms crossed while Azumi Haruka and Shirosaki Luna took their blindfolds off.
"Hai! Reina senpai I will work harder next time" Haruka stated with a bow. Reina nodded as the two other girls wiped their sweat off with a towel and drank some water.
An explosion was heard from the other training ground. "Oh My God! What was that?" Haruka exclaimed. "Come on let's go" Reina shouted as they dashed to the place where the explosion occurred
"Wha-?" Haruka questioned, looking around. The whole room was a mess. Burned papers everywhere, big puddles of water and everything was covered in a layer of black soot. In the middle of the room stood Gazelle with a fire extinguisher, Burn stood next to him with a small flame still in his hair. Wordless, Luna grabbed a fire blanket and extinguished the flame on his head. Reina, who by now had an obvious angry vein on her temple looked at Burn and Gazel angrily. "What the heck did you idiots do?"
Gazelle looked at Burn. "Idiot wanted to let me see how strong he was." Gazelle stated, rolling his eyes. Reina looked at Burn's hands. Yep, his burning swords were there. Reina glared at Burn. "Clean up this mess, NOW. Because you don't have much time till boss comes and KILLS you for being so careless. You could have killed us all!" With that, Reina stormed out, Haruka and Luna following her, throwing an apologetic look over their shoulders. Gazelle raised his brow, walked to the closet and threw a mop to Burn. 'Have fun." With that, Gazel walked out, leaving Burn alone in the battered room.
-At the assassin HQ-
The blurry figure of a young man gave an evil smirk before saying in a cold voice "Well, well, well little assassins. I believe you are surprised to see me instead of your boss. Correct?" he paused. The tension in the room was rising every second. No one dared to even breath for it would make a sound "...I have job for you assassins. I want any 10 of you to go to Hokkaido where some citizens are rebelling against ninjas and assassins. I want you to go and put an end to them."
All the assassins exchanged looks. "What's in it for us?" Yuki asked raising an eyebrow
"Yeah, you know we are assassins. We don't do anything for anyone until we have something to gain in return" Illiya said coldly
"I had a feeling you would say that, if you do as I say I will return you your boss"
The assassins looked around. Without the boss, they can shake it. Everything will get out of control, and they will be no match for the ninjas. But, hello, how will they know it's not a trap? 'It's a trap.' Elle thought. 'Definitely a trap. But we don't have a choice.' She glared at the man on the screen, and she SWORE that he smirked back, and walked to Angel. 'We have to do this...' She whispered.
'Are you sure? It could be a trap...' Angel replied, whispering.
'We have to take the chance. Or else we're done for..." Elle said. Angel nodded. At that moment, the screen turned black, the lights went back on and the door unlocked. Elle walked to a platform in the middle of the room and stood on it.
'OK, listen! We need to do this! Without our boss, we'll be an easy target for the ninjas! Our boss tells us what they're up to, without that information, it's like we're in a dark room, we can only feel around, but see nothing. The ninjas have the light, so we can only see their plan when they're advancing on us. Everyone can tell that that's not gonna end well for us.' Soft murmurs of agreement and nods started in the room. 'Silence!' Elle yelled.
The room felt silent. 'OK,' Elle continued, 'I need 8 volunteers! This could be a trap, so be prepared! Slowly, a few hands went in the air. Then more, then it where 8. 'OK.' Elle said. 'Angel and I are going to Hokkaido with the 8 volunteers. The rest of you, be alert for invasions. Don't go outside of the terrain, you'll be an easy target. I want 24/7 security of this building. Someone has to go on the lookout tower and make sure this building is not being invaded or attacked. Is that clear?' Elle demanded. 'Yes.' All the assassins said.
Elle nodded. 'Good. We'll be back as soon as possible.' Angel stepped on the platform too. 'Volunteers, make yourself known.' She said.
Eight assassins stepped forward They were Chinen Manami, Yoshida Daiki; a boy with dark brown short messy hair, dark blue eyes and fair skin, Rui Irouko, Ann Irouko, Namekaze Yuki; a girl with electric pink hair, light blue eyes, pale skin and had several piecing in her ear, Gouenji Shuuya, Kiyama Hiroto and Illiya Kaiser.
"Kazemaru! You're in charge of defence! Make sure that not a single inch of this place must be left vulnerable!" Angel ordered "Chou! you're second in charge! younger assassins who are less than 13 or are of yellow class are going to be on the inner defence so that the younger ones don't have to suffer much, have I made myself clear? Good."
The 10 teenage assassins grabbed their cloaks as a tornado of their respective elements began to surround them and they disappeared.
The rest of the assassins were left in a freezing silence until Korousake Chou stepped on the same platform and clapped her hands breaking the silence "Listen up! with the boss no longer here and nor are most of our best Gold class assassins we might be an easy target so we have to build up our defence! We need at least 3 on each of our look out towers, gates and entrances, underground pass everything! Secure every perimeter! Got that!"
The assassins nodded. "Hmph, I was told to be in charge and Korousake is the one who is giving the orders" Kazemaru mumbled. Nobody payed attention to him and left the room to fulfill their tasks.
Somewhere Unknown...
Elle left the 10 volunteers who are going to Hokkaido silently. She pulled the hood over her face and with her hands in her pockets she walked over the streets of Japan, eyes on the ground.
Time Skip
Elle looked around her, making sure that nobody was following her, and walked into an alley. She knocked on a wall three times, kicked it once, and held her hand against it for 5 seconds exact. Without a noise, the wall disappeared and Elle walked into the hole that now was there. The wall closed again, leaving Elle in the dark.
She just walked into the long hallway, making several twist and turns until she was in front of a large door. She knocked 5 times, waited three seconds and then walked in.
In the room stood a large desk and a chair, the long back of the chair facing Elle. Elle knelt down. "K-sama." She said. "Bakasu Alex contacted the assassins. He says he has their boss. He wants 10 of them to go to Hokkaido to stop some citizens who are rebelling against the ninjas and assassins. I'm almost 100% sure it is a trap. I'm going anyway."
The chair turned. Elle stared at the figure. 'Is that... a cat?' She stared at the figure incredulously. The figure stroked the cat, who purred in return. 'Ya know, in all those lame f**ing cartoons, the bad guy holds the cat normally gets his ass kicked by the hero.'
The figure chuckled.'Get your head out of the clouds and focus, Elle." The figure said.
'But that's boring...' Elle whined slightly. She then shook her head. 'Sorry.' She apologized.
'Focus. OK. Listen, I need to go back to them, or else they'll get suspicious."The figure nodded. 'Very well. Make sure you don't get killed." Elle nodded and stood up. She snapped her fingers and disappeared. 'Wait, why didn't I do that in the first place..." She briefly wondered. 'Oh well..."
Angel's P.O.V
I looked around the room. Everyone was ready for their mission. But, where was Elle? She disappeared after she told us our strategy. Almost immediately Elle appeared out of nowhere. 'Where were you?" I asked annoyed.
She just shrugged. "I left my phone in my room." It was a lie and we both knew it. Elle never went anywhere without her phone. EVER. I looked at her incredulously. 'It was recharging in my room." She said, clearly angry and annoyed that I didn't believe her.
She almost seemed... hurt. Elle always was kind of a loner. She preferred to be left alone, and with her attitude and cold personality, people mostly did. I knew that I was the closest thing to a friend that Elle had. Anyway, hurt was NOT an emotion she showed unless she cared about someone and trusted them. Feelings, she said, were only good to leave you vulnerable. Hide them, and you'll be alright. I sighed as Elle went to the other side to the room, pulling her hair in a high pigtail, with two locks at either side of her face, and tied a piece of cloth around her forehead ( so it's like this: :/s 754.p hotobuck /albu ms/xx188/Johnat hon_Gilbertson/Anime% 20Characters/?action=view¤t= &mediafilter=images) Elle looked around. 'OK, everyone ready to go?" She asked. Everyone nodded. Elle grabbed her gun out of her gun holder and checked if it was fully loaded. "OK." She said coldly. 'Let's go.'
XXX At the building where the rebellion is XXX
The 10 assassins were slinking silently towards the building. Nobody noticed them. Elle walked in the front. Suddenly, she stops abruptly, causing the others to almost collide with her. 'What?' Angel asksed, worried. Elle didn't reply, just pointed at the front door.
A ninja. They were all around the building, guarding it. 'Oh no..." Manami mumbled.
Angel looked at Elle. 'What now?' She asks. Elle looked around her. She smirked and picked up a stone. She undid the band around her head and tied it to the stone. She sweeps the stone around, aims at the head of the ninja who stood in front of the building and releases the band like a slingshot. The stone hits the ninja at a spot in the head, causing her to faint immediately. Elle smirks as she guided the assassins trough the entrance. They made it through a lot of hallways, eliminating a lot of ninjas, when suddenly the lights went off. They heard a yell of pain, and when the lights switched back one, one assassin was missing.
Elle: DUM DUM DUMM
Burn: Was that necessary?
Angel: Yes, yes it was. Now go away Tulip-baka before I sahve that stupid tulip off
Burn: *disappears*
Angel: I think we still haven't introduced all the characters yet, so GOMEN! We'll make sure that they do make an appearance in the next chapter especially the ninjas
Rebecca: Please review
