Disclaimer: If I own Ragnarok Online, assassins will be 1000 times stronger!

Me: Sorry for the later than usual update! I'll probably update slower now for reasons…

Hyakurai: Summer break doesn't make it much easier to update.

Me: In fact, it actually makes me a lot harder to update! I have…Homework…and homework…piano…drawing…and etc so don't expect instant update anytime soon!

Hyakurai: Which makes me wonder if that's a good thing or a bad thing on the way this story is going...

Their Angelic Smile

Chapter four: A shopping gone wrong, pt2

"Oh my god!"

Hyakurai twitched his eyes in annoyance and turned around with a scowl on his face.

The voice came from a crowd of people, surrounding a moderate sized shop. It was too crowded to recognize what shop it was but the assassin cross was smart enough to know that it's a shop that really attracts ladies.

'And a lot of them too.' Hyakurai noted.

From the crowd, he noticed a familiar figure waving at him to come there. An earthy colored cape and an all-too-familiar dark red hair, his assassin senses will be all too dull if he didn't notice that.

"Hey Hyaku! Come over here!" Standing on tip of her toes near middle of the crowd, the ice wizard waved excitedly for him to come.

The assassin cross just '…'ed and stared blankly at a shop of different elemental katars and pretended not to heard her.

The shopkeeper of the Katar shop is a dark-brown hair merchant what seemed to be in his thirties with an unusual curly mustache that attracts a lot of attention. (Mostly assassins since they're the only one who are viewing the Katars.)

"Come here now, Hyaku!"

Ignoring the angry wizard shouting the nickname she gave him, he stared carefully at a Katar, running his finger on its edge.

"HYAKURAI!"

The Katar gleamed darkly as his finger ran smoothly over its edge as the curly mustache merchant watched him carefully.

'Let's test her patient shall we?' The assassin cross smirked evilly, making the watching merchant flinch.

"HYAKU!" The voice was louder now.

The silver hair teenager checked the price labeled on the cursed Katar. 'Hmm…500,000…Not bad…' He had seen other people sale this kind of Katar before, and it was on an insanely high prize of 1,000,000 zeny each.

Hyakurai held the Katar carefully, wondering whether to buy it or not.

'Ok, so I bought 2,000,000 zenies to the sale,' he doesn't need to calculate to know that he has enough for the Katar.

'Sure, why not?' After all, he can probably scare the living soul out of Ryan by pointing this Katar at him.

The assassin cross's smirk was cutted short by the shopkeeper's deep voice, "Err…Mister Assassin, could you stop grinning evilly at the Katar please?"

Hyakurai looked up with little hint of surprise in his eyes.

The merchant sweated when the silver hair teenager's killing-intent-filled eyes met the mustache man's.

Hyakurai sighed and looked down, "Will do." The merchant sighed with relief of not being torn apart.

'Tch, think he'd expect some murderous glare from his costumer, after all' he added, 'all the costumers are assassins.'

No one is perfectly sane, that's what he believed in. Everyone always have SOME evil in them, so it's perfectly normal to find someone laughing evilly on the street; or at least that's what he thought.

"How much does this Katar cost?" Hyakurai swiftly placed the Katar near the neck of the merchant, who leapt back, trembling like mad.

Although, the assassin knew the price of the item, it's always fun to see people tremble in fear in front of him.

The other assassins took no notice of the event as they continue examining.

"1-1,000,000 for y-you s-sir." The merchant sputtered the word out, glaring at the glittering Katar near the mustache man's throat.

Hyakurai narrowed his eyes. Of course, he didn't meant to scare him, but his usual assassin habit took over.

The assassin cross's Katar directly touched the merchant's throat as the man protested and made a what seemed to be a gulp cutted in half.

His left hand dug inside his pocket in search for 1,000,000 zenies.

'500,000 zenies' He thought, the other five hundred thousand zenies were harder to find as he held the Katar at the merchant's throat.

He haven't meant to frighten the merchant farther but then again, it's always fun to frighten people.

"Y-you know w-what?" That was all the mustache man managed to say because of the sharp edged Katar at his throat.

"Speak." The assassin cross said coldly, though, some hint of humor in his dark eyes.

"Y-you can just have the Katar free…" The merchant is sweating more hard now, and he is trembling uncontrollably.

Hyakurai narrowed his eyes, finally releasing the Katar from the merchant's throat.

The shopkeeper sighed in relief as the silver hair assassin cross strolled away with the Katar.

Then to the merchant's surprise, Hyakurai turned around and tossed 1,000,000 zenies on the stall.

"There is no need for discount." He shrugged. In fact, he hate discount.

The merchant glanced surprisingly at the bag of zeny and then he added, while turning around. "Keep it, it's yours."

Hyakurai walked away, hoping no ice wizards will yell in his ear after he left.


"HYAKURAI!" I practically screamed in anger.

Here I was, waiting in line to buy a poring doll-ehh…I mean an important item and there he was, examining a Katar.

God! I really need him right now…

I sighed, running out of the line towards Hyaku. This is going nowhere if I just keep in the line.

"HYAKU!" I shouted again, I was closer now, and as soon as I got closer enough to see the movement of the assassin cross, I paused.

What...the…? Hyaku is strangling a curly mustached shopkeeper with a banana?

Oh Nevermind, it's a Katar. 'Hehe… me and my bad eyesight…' I chuckled in my mind humorlessly.

My mouth was about five inch right now, and I felt like my chin was about to touch the floor.

I mean, I'm sure Satsui would've done that any day…But I didn't know that Hyaku was that kind of assassin too.

Then, a nearby shopper paused to shook me out of the paralyzed mode I was in a while ago. "Don't mind the assassins, these things always happens."

I looked around, few people stared at the scene for only a few seconds, and just shook their head and left.

Then, Hyakurai finally let go of the shopkeeper and left with a new Katar, while chucking a bag of zeny at the shopkeeper.

'Wow…I never knew he was that rich.'

Gathering my strength, I shouted as loud as I could, (in Hyaku's ears may I add)

"HHYYAAKKUURRAAII!"


His ear hurts.

The first thing he heard is the certain-some-ice-wizard screaming in his ears, attracting everyone's attention, which end up with the silver-hair teenager stabbing Kasahi on her arm.

"Ouch! Why did you stab…?" That's what the wizard first said, until she realizes that everyone is staring at them, her voice died down.

Fortunately for Hyakurai, most of the people were staring at Kasahi instead.

"I feel unsafe…" The ice wizard edged closer to the assassin cross.

Then, a few people in front of the crowd left, and soon, the rest went back to what they're doing too.

Kasahi breathed a sigh of relief and tried to drag Hyakurai to the monster doll store.

But then, of course, he snapped. "Touch me again women, and your other arm will be dislocated from your body."

That quieted the hotheaded wizard down. It was bad enough to be in the center of attention already, he didn't want to deal with a fan girl hugging a poring doll.

There was a moment of silent between them. But it wasn't long enough for the assassin to enjoy it.

"Can I borrow ten thousand zeny from you?" The ice wizard asked, trying to look cute, which ended up quite a failure in Hyakurai's point of view.

"Why," He shrugged, "Don't you have your own?"

"No…I forgot to bring zenies."

Hyakurai stared, 'how stupid can someone be?' he glanced insultingly at the red hair wizard.

"It's not my fault, I was about to bring it but Ellan cutted me off from throwing thousands of plastic bags at me-?"

The assassin cross threw 100,000 zenies at the shocked wizard.

"Sure, blame it all on your friend…" Hyakurai left the shocked Kasahi alone.

"Can…I spend it…?" The ice wizard gaped.

But at that time…Hyakurai was long gone.

"Yes!" Kasahi cheered and headed for the long line of the monster doll shop.

When the wizard got close enough to the shop, her eyes widened.

The most horrible thing happened…and it was…

"NO, ALL THE PORING DOLLS ARE GONE!" The red hair teenager sobbed quietly, though, not completely in tears.


'Great, now I'm lost,' Kasahi thought bitterly to herself.

It all happened when she accidentally dropped five thousand zenies on the ground and a nearby poring looted it and fled as soon as the angry ice wizard attempted to smack him to pieces.

And so, the mad wizard just had to chase the poring all over Payon and now, she's lost.

Kasahi shuddered, clinging onto her coat. 'Hopefully, someone would find me soon…' She clinched her teeth tight, and huddled against a wood stump.

Then…as if her wish came true, someone DID find her, but not particularly to the wizard's liking.

"Hiya Kasahi!" Bongu, the Bongun jumped out of nowhere and hugged Kasahi tightly.

Startled, Kasahi fell backwards, her foot slipped and her back slammed into the harsh tree stump behind her.

"Oww…" Kasahi murmured in annoyance as she rubbed her painfully hurting back.

Bongu made an 'Oops' jester but then poked Kasahi, much to her annoyance.

"What…are you…doing here?" The wizard narrowed her amber eyes as she pushed herself up from the damp ground.

"What happened is…" With a grin on his face, Bongu explained.

Start of flashback

"CLEAR! Oh Clear! Open your door please!" Ellan knocked the door to Clear's office impatiently.

"One sec!" A voice came from inside the room.

But that only made Ellan knocked even harder, until she couldn't stand it anymore.

Grabbing the nearest item (a chair), she banged the door open.

The sniper looked up in surprise as his door crumbled down. Beside him, Satsui were organizing a file of documents.

"Clear! This is urgent!" Ellan pleaded ignoring the dangerous looking assassin cross, "Kasahi and Hyakurai are not back yet!"

"Oh no!" Clear leapt to his feet while Satsui sweatdropped.

"What do we do? Call the GMs?" Ellan walked back and forth worried.

Clear quickly went to the phone and was about to press the digit numbers until Satsui finally pointed out, "It's only been ten minutes."

Ellan looked startled, "What! It's been ten minutes already? Oh my god! You think they'd be in the lost and found place?"

"It's worth checking!" Clear then, quickened his pace towards the door.

"I doubt that anyone one would put two people in the lost and found box." The assassin cross stated emotionlessly.

"Then what do we do?" Clear and Ellan said in harmony.

Then, as if magically, Bongu came out of thin air, waving his hand above his head while grinning. "I got an idea!"

End of flashback

"…" Kasahi paused.

"I'm so happy that I get to be sent here!" Bongu poked Kasahi.

"I miss you soo much!" Bongu poked again.

"Don't you miss me too?" Bongu poked.

"I know you do cause I do!" Bongu kept on poking.

"Don't you want to poke me too?" Bongu said cheerfully while poking the annoyed Kasahi rapidly.

Now Kasahi couldn't take it anymore, she swung out her arc wand and whacked the nearest tree stump hard. "SHUT UP!"

The tree stump made an "eek" sound as it was cracked into two pieces. Bongu stared in horror, as if thinking himself as the stump. Kasahi just growled angrily.

There was an awkward silent after that.

But then, silent never last long.

Bongu stared hesitantly but then finally asked, while poking the wizard again. "Well? Do you still want to poke me?"


From the small slumber path, Kasahi and Bongu managed to find their way out of the wood.

But much to Kasahi's surprise, the half-price sale disappeared, replacing with only a plain field with one single house with a black roof.

'Must've went the wrong way.' Kasahi whispered in her mind.

As they got closer, she could see red brick wall shining in the sunshine, whoever lived here, must be really, really rich.

The house was huge, more like a mansion. It has at least ten windows on every wall and all the windows were decorated with different color of silk.

The ice wizard knocked the door. Hopefully, the owner of this house was kind enough to show her way back to the sale.

'I wonder where's Hyakurai at right now." She thought as she knocked the door harder.

Suddenly the door flung open, she stared in surprise.

The fresh forest air was replaced with an alcohol scent. A black hair man came out. From the judge of his clothing, he is a Stalker. He had a dagger tied to his belt and a beer bottle on his right hand. "Oh hello there, young lady." The drunken Stalker reached his hand forward to have a good grip on Kasahi.

The ice wizard slapped the stalker's hand rudely when it got too close. Looks like her luck ran out after all.

"How are you, beautiful maiden? Care to come in?" The black hair man opened the door fully, inviting Kasahi to come in.

"I'm fine thank you!" Bongu said proudly, ignoring the strange glare from the ice wizard.

The stalker reacts as if the Bongun wasn't there at all and reached his and once more for Kasahi. This time, it was whacked back by a metal arc shaped wand. "Get away from me, you pervert!"

Kasahi tried to cast Jupitel thunder, but the stalker dragged her towards the mansion, which interrupted the cast.

"Come on! It'll be fun!" He said with a drunken accent.

"Go away!" The ice wizard struggled from his grip, but it was too strong. The stalker tightened his grip, using his full force, Kasahi's struggle weakened. She ignored the pain on her arm as she wiggled again and again.

Out from the corner of her eyes, Kasahi saw that Bongu was grinning happily, unaware that the man was drunk, or what he will do to her once the Stalker drag her in.

It was no use asking Bongu for help; after all, a Bongun's strength plus hers won't match the strong stalker's strength.

'...No…!" He almost got her in, until a voice boomed from behind her and the stalker froze.

"Leave her alone." A Katar stabbed the Stalker painfully on his arm. The stalker yelped, losing his grip and the ice wizard was able to escape.

In relief, Kasahi turned towards her savior. Hyakurai, his silver hair shining, held his Katar at the Stalker's throat dangerously, murmuring a few phrases that she couldn't catch and finally released the Stalker, who sprints off in fear.

After a while watching him ran off, Hyakurai inspected Kasahi's right arm. "You're bleeding." He stated.

Kasahi glanced as her arm in surprise. She have been so devastated into getting away from the drunken stalker that she didn't realized that her arm is injured.

Unsure of what to do, Kasahi said nothing.

But to Kasahi's surprise, Hyakurai's ripped a part of his right sleeves off, and pressed it carefully on Kasahi's cut.

"It's not a fatal wound, it'll recover soon enough," The assassin said emotionlessly.

The black fabric quickly turned into a shade of very dark red as Hyakurai tied it on her right arm.

Kasahi said nothing, apparently shocked by Hyakurai's act. She had seen his all sarcastic side, and the blood thirsty part of him, but she never knew, that the assassin cross could be gentle sometimes.

There was a moment of silence between the two. None of them said anything, until the silence was broken again, but not by the wizard.

"…" Hyakurai opened his mouth to speak, but it took a long time for the words to come out.

"Sorry for stabbing you,"

Hyakurai turned towards his small and hooked out a water bottle. He held the water bottle by his thumb and middle finger and handed it to the still shocked wizard.

"…" She took the water and opened it's led.

"It's ok," Kasahi paused for a second, and began to drink.

Sitting on the grassy field, Kasahi slowly slurped the water into her mouth. Even though the wizard wanted to get as far away from the mansion as possible. But for some reason, a part of her was glued on the ground for an unknown reason.

It was quiet, too quiet. But for once, she really enjoyed it.

"Hyakurai…" She finally said.

Hearing his name been called out, Hyakurai flickered his beady black eyes towards the voice. "Yeah?"

Kasahi paused, enjoying the scenery of the bountiful grass field, and the forest faraway.

"Thank you." She murmured.

Hyakurai paused for a second, and finally said, "…Your welcome"

If Kasahi had turned around, she would've seen the faint blush on the assassin cross's cheek.

But she never did.


Me: And no one knows where Bongu went

Hyakurai: …

Me: You ok? (Pokes Hyakurai)

Hyakurai: …

Me: …?

Hyakurai: (faints)

Me: What did I do?

Reply to reviews:

Vorin: Hmm, I want that Bongun!! xD Would be great to have somebody who thinks about my household materials XD

Anyway, Story's great ;D Nice humor and cute characters! Woudl that bongun, by any chance, be an actual pet? XD I mean, THAT particular bongun. Not those normal ones:)

Bongu:D Yay! Would you like to buy me? I have lots of cookies!

Me: Thanks for reviewing! More reviews make me want to update the story faster!

Zugaikotsu: I wish my guild were this wierd! My guild don't come on...

But this is hilarious! Keep it up Try your best to update!

WOOT ASSASINS X

Me: I'm glad you liked it!

Steel Heart: It's just perfect that Hyaku's pet in a BonGun X) and so cute too.

Hyakurai: (wakes up) Looks like your popular, Bongu.

Bongu: Maybe it's because I have lots of cookies:D

Me: I want cookies! (snatches the bag of cookies from Bongu)

Bongu: Aww :o

Hyakurai: How about this…every time someone reviews, Bongu gets one cookie.

(Everyone starts pressing review button like mad)

Me: Nooo! My cookies are disappearing! (Cries)

Hyakurai: Remember, every time someone reviews, Bongu gets a cookie!

Bongu: Yay cookies!