"Tch, Let's get this over with already." He said suppressing the burning that tried to rise to his cheeks at the sultry sound the blond emitted. He refused to let himself be unsettled by this male. No, that was not in his plans.

'I shouldn't be getting ahead of myself in the middle of an interrogation with a kid who could possibly be some kind of spy. I'm supposed to be serious and on task!'

The raven inwardly berated himself for his own carelessness. He knew little to nothing about the outsider, and to predict how the male would react was close to impossible. Unpredictability was a property he greatly disliked. With so many variables and unaccounted factors made the range of outcomes too overwhelming to calculate. Not having control over situations was dangerous.

This male was unpredictable to him, meaning he had the potential to be dangerous.

His sudden urges to play with this new 'toy' had made him careless, thinking that he needn't worry since the male was bound and intimidated by the scenery of the interrogation room. Even if he wasn't rattled by this, the raven had locked the door before he entered as a last resort if things went awry. And if the male found a way to overpower him there was no way he could get through a three inch steel door. His extra precautions, though they were beneficial, didn't justify the fact that he had let himself go to his own desires.

Right now he really had to be focused. He couldn't risk things getting out of hand and making a mistake…

'But it's a little late for that now...' His inner self pointed out. He inwardly shook his head to rid himself of such thoughts. It was not the time to be getting even more carried away than he already had.

His earlier actions towards the boy struck him as unusual. He was not prone to letting his guard down so easily and getting carried away like that. But there was something... an air about the boy that made him appear so defenseless and small despite his physical exterior. Though just under the surface of that flimsy deceitful facade he was a totally different level from what he led others to believe, wasn't he? Like a wolf masquerading in sheep's skin.

Just like the most appealing of fruits could secret the most lethal poison inside.

Roppi narrowed his eyes. He wanted to test the males resolve and try to draw out the 'monster' with a little bit of teasing and prodding, to see how much it took before he cracked. 'How far would it take to break that mask to see the real rotten human underneath?' He wondered.

But that would be for another time, right now he needed information.

Tsuki's eyes darted from Roppi to the black case on the left side of the table. He had been silent from the time he had sat down, brows scrunched together by a scowl, deep in thought. His muteness was making him anxious.

'Why isn't he saying anything?'

Not knowing what the other was planning did not settle well with Tsukishima. Bringing his gaze back to Roppi who now crossed his arms over his chest.

Finally he had snapped out of whatever trance he was in.

"What was your name again?" Roppi asked for the second time that day with undisguised disinterest.

"Oh, Heiwajima Tsu-Tsukishima. Yo-your name is umm... Roppi-san, r-right?" He said looking deep into Roppi's aggravated carmine eyes.

"Thats Hachimenroppi to you."

"B-but that 'Linda' boy called you-"

"What that little rat calls me doesn't matter. This isn't about him, he's not important." Roppi sternly interrupted.

His sharp change in attitude caught him by surprise. He didn't know why his captor was suddenly so angry with him. Tsuki had just assumed 'Roppi-san' was what he'd rather be called, seeing as how the other blond chose to refer to him that way. And he hadn't meant to talk back it just... came out.

"O-okay… s-sorry." Tsuki stammered out his voice barely above a whisper. Feeling more embarrassed than he already had, an awkward silence drew soon after the words left his mouth. He shifted under the raven's heavy glare, not sure if he had managed to make him angrier or not.

"Are you cold?" Roppi broke the silence. He took note of Tsuki's eye movement and body language.

"Ex-excuse me?" Tsuki tilted his head to the side in confusion, not understanding the seemingly random question. It was cold, yes. But not to the extent of anything to worry over, just cold enough to make him shiver from time to time.

Feeling a slight draft hit his body, He looked down to see his revealed chest. Tsuki recalled the cold nimble fingers trailing down his spine. His cheeks instantly became a shade darker of pink, looking from Roppi's irritated stare to his suddenly interesting scarf laying in a heap on the table. Now he wasn't very cold.

"O-of course… y-yo-you just undressed me, why wouldn't I be cold?" Tsuki lied, too embarrassed to state otherwise.

Roppi's eyebrows knit further together noticing how males gaze flitted away for the slightest of seconds and his breathing faltered in hesitation. Anyone else might have not noticed or dismissed it as nothing, but the raven couldn't be fooled so easily. He could tell that the boy was lying. Even without looking in his eyes, somehow he could sense that he was hiding the truth. A vein in his neck twitched at the realization. The little brat had the nerve to lie right to his face!

"If the reason why you're here wasn't already obvious, I'll just say it out right 'we suspect you to be someone who could potentially pose as a threat to us'. I'm going to ask you some questions so there's no longer any inconsistencies or... misunderstandings. And if you cooperate and everything goes smoothly," Roppi sat back in his chair, resting his arms on the table nonchalantly. "we could work something out. You could possibly go home, back to your mundane little life, and forget any of this ever happened. But, only if you comply. Do you understand?"

"Y-Yeah, I think so..." Tsuki was curious as of what or who he meant by "us" and "we", but was too afraid to voice it.

"Although," The raven's eyes darkened a few shades. "If you refuse to cooperate, I will use other means to get the answers out of you."

The blond made no response to his added statement. There was a short pause as he mulled this over then gave a hesitant nod. Roppi accepted the nod as understanding and moved on to his next question.

"First off, what were you doing earlier today before you found yourself here?"

"...I-I was in *Kamezuka Koen… fe-feeding the birds. I like th-that park it's really peaceful, ya know? Before that I was w-with Erika-chan in Akiha-habara."

"And what exactly were you and this 'Erika-chan' doing?"

"W-well, she helped me buy a new phone. After that, we went to a cafe or two, th-then we went to the bookstore and she kept showing me these dou-doujinshi..." Tsuki said. A now ever-present blush stuck to his cheeks as he remembered the content of what Erika had shown him; novel upon novel full of pictures of different characters doing... obscene acts together. Shaking his head he tried to rid his mind of the lewd images. The raven raised his brow, but did not question the other across from him on his bizarre hobbies.

"And what is 'Erika-chan' to you? Your girlfriend?"

"N-no, not at all! W-we-we're just friends!" Tsuki exclaimed. The chain of his cuffs clinked at the attempt to flail his arms in front of himself and assure in a flustered manner that he was wrong.

"Why were you two going to Akihabara in the first place?"

"I needed to buy a new cell ph-phone… b-but I left that in… the park." The blond hung his head down at the realization that along with his new phone he had also left something else at the park: his messenger bag.

Roppi looked at Tsuki disdainfully. 'How could anyone be such a klutz? Is he really going with such a ridiculous tall-tale as this one?' He thought disappointed at the poorly captivated 'lie' -if it was even a lie to begin with. But then why would someone purposefully put themselves in such a demeaning position?

Clearing his throat he resumed his meaningless questions to loosen the boy's tongue, so to speak.

"Where do you live?"

The blond was a little startled by the slightly abrupt question. Tsuki fidgeted struggling with the decision to tell Roppi where he lived. He didn't know what his captor would do with his information and couldn't risk endangering his brothers' lives.

"I'm n-not supposed to te-tell strangers," Roppi smirked at the added statement but his eyes were not smiling with him.

"b-but somewhere in the Saitama prefecture… pr-pretty sure." Tsuki said deciding not to tell him exactly where he lived.

"M-may I ask wh-why?" The blond asked meekly hoping to not set Roppi off again.

"..." He said nothing, only a glare that warned for the boy not to press any further.

Tsukishima gulped and silently complied and awaited the next question that the raven would throw his way.


Roppi couldn't pinpoint exactly how much time had passed of debriefing the boy with meaningless questions, serving no real purpose to his interrogation. The information that he had gathered from Tsuki was of no importance or relevance, he talked of his job as a mail-boy, and of his tendency to constantly get lost. He thought that by ceaselessly firing meaningless question after question that the blond would eventually slip up. But thus far he only received nonsense in return. He was thoroughly fed up with trivial topics that arose from the exchange.

If the conversation was to be overheard by any other people, it would seem like two friends meeting after a long time. Both trying to reacquaint themselves by telling stupid stories and aspects from their everyday lives. Though that was quite different from the actual situation. At that point, Roppi finally decided to drop the talk and go straight for the information that he actually needed.

"I was told you were outside the warehouse when they found you. What exactly were you doing there?" Roppi said slyly leaning in and resting his chin into his palm, as if curious to the answer Tsuki would give. The captive straightened his posture, reconnecting his eye contact with Hachimenroppi's. Said man sat patiently awaiting his response. Tsuki's eye's lifted up to the ceiling as if searching for the memories.

Why would they go through the trouble of catching him if they weren't hiding or doing something illegal? Tsuki hesitated but he had to ask. Gathering all the courage he could muster he let out a shaky breath before speaking. "I co-could ask you the same question... wh-what are you doing that would make yo-you have to keep me here?"

Roppi's eyes closed to red slits at the unexpected change of subject. He wouldn't allow a pathetic human the upper hand on him. This was his interrogation after all, not the other way around.

"Getting cocky now are we? That's none of your concern. I'm the one who's asking the questions here, so answer me." This bantering to and fro was getting him nowhere; he was at exactly the same point in this interrogation he was an hour or so ago.

The half dressed blond didn't understand what the other wanted from him at all. First he was questioning him about his everyday life and hobbies, and now he wanted to know why he was here?

"I… g-got lost," Tsukishima's shoulders slumped, looking down and away as if ashamed of his own statement. "I was just trying to ask someone for dir-directions! I-I wasn't trying to spy…"

Roppi took note of the constant stuttering. 'Is he that afraid of being here or being caught?' He asked himself, temporarily dismissing the stammering as fear.

"What are you so afraid of? If you haven't done anything wrong, then you should have no qualms answering my questions."

"You said before you were in Kamezuka Koen. Do you know where you are right now?" Roppi continued.

"U-Umm.. somewhere ne-near the wa-water. I-I think."

"Well from Kamezuka Koen to where we currently are," He readjusted in his chair, crossing one leg over the other and gestured to their surroundings with one hand. "it's around 2.4 kilometers away. That's pretty far. How did you just happen to wander such a great distance from there? Please, explain to me exactly how that makes sense."

"I d-don't really know. I just kept walking, and walking… and walking. And t-then I ended up here."

Tsukishima shifted uncomfortably in the steel chair. Shoulders tensing at Roppi's disbelieving glare. How was he supposed to know? He wasn't aware he had gotten lost till after he was at the dead end of that alley.

The boy claimed that his trespassing was all an accident and that he hadn't meant to come across their building. He seemed so unassuming and quite harmless from what Roppi could tell. But the connection of his arrival and the impending date of their operation was suspicious to say the least. Not to mention his statements were a little too farfetched and irrational to be believed.

'This kid has to be fucking with me. Feigning ignorance and making some shitty excuse like some child! There is no goddamn way he would make it 2.4 kilometers to the harbor and then make it through that clusterfuck of shipping crates! And then conveniently happen to find his way in here on his own? There has to be someone helping him from the outside. He's blatantly lying right to my face and thinking he can get away with it!?'

Roppi's eyebrow twitched in anger; he wasn't in the mood to play someone else's games. Nor did he have the time or patience to deal with a pain in the ass like him.

Roppi picked his head up from out of his hand, and sat further in his chair. He was becoming more aggravated as this continued. For some reason he couldn't tell what Tsukishima was thinking. His eyes became slits, showing only carmine irises.

"Then why'd you run?" He said venomously. The raven's voice reverberated off the cement walls startling the blond.

"Be-because I wa-was scared! Wouldn't you be freaked out if some random people started hunting you down like they wanted to-to eat you!?" He said, his voice cracking. Tsuki leaned forward, cheeks puffed. Roppi frowned deeper at this, he couldn't read the blond. The raven had always been good at telling if people were lying. But this boy in front of him showed no signs of that.

'Then what if he isn't..? No, he has to be lying. There is no other way! Damn this kid is mendacious... but he can't completely evade me.'

"Wrong answer, try again. Why don't you try thinking up something that's a little more believable this time. I'll rephrase the question: why are you here and what do you want? Who put you up to this?" Roppi stated darkly.

"I'm tell-telling the truth! No one made me do anything, I ju-just got lost again." Tsuki shouted. His body lunging forward pleading the other male to believe him.

Roppi quietly chuckled which gradually led to a fit of uncontrollable giggles. He was laughing but he wasn't amused in the slightest. If anything he was getting seriously fucking pissed off. Roppi's eyes glowed dangerously as he ceased all laughter. A serious expression now plastered to his face.

"Thats a load of bullshit and we both know it. Now stop screwing with me. Tell me why you came here." Roppi said coldly, not batting an eyelash. His patience was growing very thin and he was becoming increasingly aggravated by each passing moment by the lying little shit across from him.

'Everyone lies...' Roppi knew this kid had to be hiding something, just like everyone else. Just like all those filthy humans.

'Humans are selfish and greedy, they continuously take until there is nothing left to feed their hunger. All they care about is themselves no matter what. No matter if they hurt others and throw them aside like trash in the process to save themselves. On the outside humans can lie and hide behind their many masks, pretending to care, pretending to love, pretending... always pretending! But on the inside they're all the same. They're all fucking disgusting on the inside! He's exactly the same as all the others!'

Putting his hands in the pockets of his red-fur trimmed jacket he tilted his head up to the ceiling trying to decipher the male in front of him, but finding nothing in the dull gray. Hand gripping the cold metal of his beloved switchblade, he scowled daggers at the ceiling. The overhead revealed none of the answers he needed. Just... blankness. Averting his hard gaze back to the offending blond, his tight grip on his knife loosened.

"Calm down… breathe," Roppi whispered to himself forgetting Tsukishima's existence momentarily. Inhaling deeply through his mouth and exhaling from his nose slowly he began his calming exercises trying not to lose his temper.

Tsuki stared at Roppi, awaiting the next question. The raven just stared back, as if searching for weakness in Tsukishima's eyes. Roppi's eyes slowly narrowed as he gazed at Tsuki in what looked like disbelief. His eyes drifted from Tsuki to the black case next to him, then back to Tsuki.

'Guess we're going to play this the hard way after all...'

"You're lying." The raven said in a hushed tone, staring bullets at the blond. Even after trying to calm himself, it deemed useless when he looked back at the blond who innocently stared back, as if nothing was wrong. Roppi was gonna snap any second now, he knew so.

"Wha- N-no I'm not, I swear!" Anxiety taking over as he watched Roppi's hands slowly maneuver their way out his pockets and towards the dreaded black case. The blonds breath caught in his chest, fear tunneling his vision. Hachimenroppi never broke eye contact with his pleading carnelian orbs, as he brought the case closer to himself.

"Now are you going to tell me the truth, or do I have to force it out of you?"

"I-I'm n-not-" Tsuki choked up for a second, unable to finish his sentence. "I'm not ly-lying to y-you! Why can't you under-understa-and that I d-don't know anything!"

'The little shit is obviously lying by the way he keeps stuttering every time he opens his bitch-ass mouth!' Roppi's anger finally boiling over. He was finished playing games; he needed this resolved now. He was done wasting his time.

"CUT THE SHIT!" Roppi stood up and slammed his hands on to the steel table with a booming slam. "Why are you acting like you don't know anything!? Don't play dumb with me!"

Tsuki looked up at Roppi, eyes wide in shock. 'Hachimenroppi-san seemed so calm and collected. Why is he suddenly so angry?' Roppi towered over him breathing rapidly in his anger. Tsuki's eyesight began to blur with the threat of tears emerging from the sudden yelling.

"STOP FUCKING CRYING! WHAT ARE YOU, A CHILD?!" Roppi screamed, a vein popping on his forehead as he shouted. 'Why the hell!? No one his age should be such a pathetic crybaby!' He clenched his fists, drawing blood from the palms of his hands. Roppi was too angry to even notice let alone care. He couldn't risk being caught… not yet.

He had to get to the bottom of Tsukishima's appearance or his whole operation would fail. And he would not let that happen, not after everything he'd done!

Tsuki kept holding his breath to keep from sobbing, only resulting in his face turning bright red from lack of oxygen. He didn't want to be yelled at anymore. All he wanted was to go home, to see his brothers.

'Tsugaru-nii… Delic-nii… Help me!' He cried internally.

"Who sent you? Who do you work for!?" the raven grabbed a fistful of the males collar, bringing him to eye level, trying to shake the answers out of him. Tsuki just went limp in Roppi's grip, shaking his head 'no' . Not trusting his voice to answer the irate man's questions.

Roppi looked down at Tsuki, incredulously. 'How dare he not answer me!' Roppi fumed. He was furious. First the blond was unreadable to him and now he wouldn't stop crying like a little bitch!

Roppi lifted his free hand over his head, not even aware of what he was doing; just wanting Tsuki to shut the hell up! Before he could stop himself icy hands met heated flesh with a thundering 'SMACK!'. Tsuki's glasses flew from his face and clattered to the floor at the collision to his cheek. His sobbing abruptly halted. He head remained frozen in the direction he had been slapped for a moment in pure shock. His reddened cheek burned with an electric sting.

Grasping reality once more, terror glowed in Tsuki's eyes and he began to hyperventilate. It hurt. He was in danger! He was going to hurt him more! His eyes wildly darted everywhere, anywhere else but Roppi.

'I have to Get away! Get away! Get away from him!' The boy struggled back into the chair out of his captor's grasp, unable to free himself from his metal bindings in his disoriented state. Roppi took a step toward the blond.

"GE-GE-GET AWAY FR-F-F-FROM ME!" His instincts getting the better of him, Tsuki tried to jerk away but tripped and crashed to the floor. The cold concrete stung his bare skin on impact. He whimpered and piteously scooted away from the man and came to sobbing.

Roppi took another short stride to Tsuki, but halted at the boy's high pitched yelp. He had never seen someone so scared in his life, and at just being smacked no less. His hands fell to his sides as the anger he was feeling at Tsuki vanished. He felt very unsatisfied of the outcome of this transgression, he didn't even get to use his 'tools'.

Roppi took a deep breath, holding it until his hand was on the doorknob. Things had not gone how he would have planned or expected… in the end he came up with nothing. Shit.

"Oi!" He stomped at the metal door. "Open the fucking door!" Roppi cursed at his subordinate he had told beforehand to stand guard.

'What the hell is that dumbass doing?'

After a short pause the door gave a hollow clicking sound and creaked opened to reveal the dark hallway. Roppi jerked the steel door wide open with a growl to stare daggers at the man on the other side, but hesitated at the threshold.

Giving one last glance at the hiccuping blond, his face contorted into something similar to utter disgust.

'Fucking pathetic…'


Tsuki didn't know what to do, didn't know what was going on, or what was going to happen to him. The raven had erupted in rage and taken it out on him. Spouting venomous words that hurt almost as much as when he struck him and left so abruptly that he was still in shock. He could only think of the worst case scenario in his panicking state. He had heard the door slam shut a while ago, but that only meant a prolonged wait for something worse. The metal cuffs binding his wrists behind him had begun to cut deeper into his flesh at some point. He didn't even feel it, fear numbing his lean frame.

Black spots floated around his line of sight paired with shallow and ragged breathing. He was lightheaded. His skull felt like it was packed full with cotton and the room had long since blurred. When he tried to move, his surroundings spun wildly and the blond was unable to find a focal point. Everything was moving too fast for him. He felt sick. Squeezing his eyes shut was the best he could do to keep the dizzying sensation at bay.

He couldn't stay here, he needed out. He wanted out of here!

Soon enough his tears dried up. He didn't know how long he had been sitting on the floor of the cold room. It felt like an eternity had passed dreading for the click of the door. Tsuki curled into a ball, his knees to his chest, shaking at the chill in the room.

'What if I...'

As if on cue the door clicked open. Tsuki kept his head towards the wall as he heard light footsteps approach him cautiously. Tsuki held his breath hoping that it was anyone else but Hachimenroppi. He really didn't think he could even look at the man without crying.

"-Heiwajima..." A familiar voice said softly, so as to not surprise him. He was a tad caught off guard that any of his captors had remember his name, but he made no response. It wasn't that he didn't want to, more that he physically couldn't. He couldn't find any strength to speak, as if his vocal cords were being strangled by some unseen force.

"Hey, you alright?" A warm hand gently rested itself on his shoulder and he couldn't help but twitch at the contact. Tsuki turned his head to meet the other blonds worry filled gaze.

Tsuki just gave a nod in response. Linda let out a long exhale in relief, before giving him a small smile. He stayed still as Linda outstretched his hand to help Tsuki up off the ground. The red-eyed boy just stared at his hand as if Linda was pointing a knife at him.

"I'm not going to hurt you." The boy in the yellow shirt said his smile growing as he reassured Tsuki. "I have orders to transfer you to a different room, is all."

Tsuki nodded and allowed the smaller male to help him up. Once Tsuki was stable on his feet again, Linda buttoned up his dress shirt and vest, draping the once discarded white scarf on his shoulders. Linda walked to the door before Tsuki interrupted him in his strides.

"Wai-wait… My-my glasses." He had trouble clearing his throat and his voice cracked when he spoke.

Linda looked at the older male then around the room for the said glasses. The younger male found them on the floor and picked them up. Wiping them off, he placed Tsuki's glasses on the bridge of his nose with a grin.

"You can't be 'Megane-kun' without your glasses~." Linda said in a sing-song voice trying to ease the tension.

They headed out the door and down a dark corridor. On the opposite side of the hallway they were going down Tsuki noticed a rusty-red door. It stood out in the neutral colored halls. The door was blood red, with a disconnected aura surrounding it; as if it didn't belong. The two blonds stopped in front of a gray door at the end of the eerie hallway.

Dread washed over Tsuki. The chattering of his cuffs echoed off the cold walls as he began to shake. Linda inserted a key, one out of many, into the lock of the door. He slowly opened it to reveal a small cell-like room, containing a cot bolted to the wall and a toilet. It was yet another windowless room, like the last.

Linda turned around to face Tsuki, his face no longer cheery or bubbly. He held out a different key and gestured with his hand for the older blond to spin around. Tsuki did as Linda motioned and turned his back to him. He felt the sharp relief of the cuffs coming undone on his wrists. He was so glad to have his hands back and the lack of restricted movement. But the smarting of the opened skin started to become known to Tsuki. He tried to rub away the pain as he entered into the cell-like room.

Linda looked up from the floor with an obviously fake smile, his eyes apologetic. As his honey colored eyes stared into blood-red orbs, he took a stiff intake of air. He was at a loss of words but he needed to say something.

"I'll see you later then, Tsukimoto-kuuun~." He said in an attempt to sound mocking, but something was audibly off about it.

"I-it's Tsukishi-" Before the blond could finish, the door slammed in his face, an echoing clink of metal keys jingling together as it was locked. The sound of retreating footsteps was the only thing Tsuki could hear besides his own breathing. Tsuki went and laid on the stone hard cot, exhaustion infecting his achy body. It was the only other thing he could do in the confined space.

This whole time he was alert and anxious. His muscles were stiff. He knew that he was not in danger at the moment. He could finally rest. The events of the day had drained him and he dared not move an achy muscle. It was so dark, he couldn't see anything even with the little light that was seeping out of a slit in the gray door.

'I just want to go home...'

Tsuki reflected on everything that had happened. Though the raven haired man was shorter than him, he was terrifying. He was a very dangerous person. 'I don't want to die. I don't want it to end here... not in a place like this' tears began to well up in the corners of Tsuki's eyes. With that thought he started to cry once more. Soon he drifted off into sleep, but he knew it wouldn't be for long.


Author's note 1: Fushiko here~ This chapter was a bit of a challenge for us procrastinators, but we got through it! Lots of things to think about -yes, yes. For those of you who don't know 'megane' means glasses. And Tsuki is quite the 'unappreciated glasses character' indeed! Also we totally forgot about it earlier but we do not own 'Durarara!' or any of it's characters and all that unfortunate jazz. *notes: 'Kamezuka koen' is a childrens park in Minato Ward Mita 4-16-20 in Tokyo Japan. 'Akihabara' is a district in the Chiyoda ward of Tokyo, known for its electronics and anime related stuff. And last but not least if you didn't know what it was- Doujinshi is the Japanese term for self-published works, usually magazines, manga or novels, and mostly contains naughty stuff. Damn that was long…. Anywho please review! It would be very much appreciated indeed.

Author's note 2: Hello~Hello~ This is Mahou-ShibaInu here, at your service! Hmmm... there's not much to say about this chapter, maybe cuz my mind has turned to mush? But anyway this chapter was pretty fun, maybe a little too fun on some parts *coughcough* Roppi's parts! and we both had a little laugh :3

But I hope you guys (the small amount of people reading this fic..) enjoy this new chapter and possibly review for our sad little lazy selves? Wooooo! I'm already pumped to work on the next chapter! See ya next time :x