Kalina: Matte yo! I hope that those who like my story are pleased with the result. My computer finally let me enter the Internet, which I am graceful for. Now on to the disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh as well as Black Cat. Kaiser's, Kira's, Chaise's, and Orion's copyright owners are Phoenix and Takara (Phoenix Takaramono) while Aqua, Topaz, Toben, Crimson, and Diamond belong to Zypher (Rose Mistress). Please sit back and enjoy yet another chapter of the Black Cats!
Summary: Yami Heartnet and Aqua Shiras, also known as the "Black Cats," were once infamous demonic assassins for a secret organization called Chronos. They abandoned their cold-blooded existence and decided to live as easygoing sweepers, but are their pasts as far away as they think? Xover with Black Cat.
(---------) New setting or time
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New setting and/ or time
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"Talking"
/Telepathic link speech/
'Thoughts'
Warnings: Yaoi! So that means boy/ boy relationship. Also includes death, blood and gore, and mature language.
Pairings: Y/Y, R/B, S/J, and M/M. Will also include OCs.
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Black Cats
Chapter 4
Lost
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Pegasus narrowed his eyes. "Just who are you two?" he questioned.
"Sweepers" Aqua responded. /Whoops...I hadn't planned on doing anything more than reconnaissance. /
/Same with me. You know...I've just noticed that this Pegasus fellow looks like a hippie. / Yami snickered through their mind link.
"I see...two hyenas after the price on my head, hmm? I'm impressed that you made it this far." Pegasus stroked his chin.
Croquet leaned over and whispered, "Shall I take care of them, Pegasus-sama?"
"No, hold on. Chaise...why don't you play tag with that men, too? Show them how unwise it would be for sweepers to come after me."
Chaise slowly walked toward the sweepers. His transformed hand grew sharper with each step that he took.
"Hold on! Your game of tag is lethal, no thanks!" Yami took a step back and leaped up onto the wall, with Aqua following behind him.
"T-they can jump that high?" One of Pegasus' minions exclaimed.
"Whoa! Look at them!" another one of the minions gasped.
"Pegasus! There's nothing we'd like better than to nab you right here, right now. But, if we scuffle and one of these bystanders dies...our bounty gets cut in half. Stupid rule if you ask me...but I'm a sweeper, and I don't make the rules." Yami smirked.
"Taa ta for now," Aqua waved in mock-sorrow.
"I see ...you're no ordinary hyenas, but if you think I would let you walk away from this...you're surely mistaken." Pegasus glanced back behind him. "Kill them!" he ordered.
"H-hai!" his minions responded back. They drew their guns and pointed them towards Yami and Aqua.
"Oh, not a chance." Yami hurled two mini-hand grenades with two black cats entwined together, and shot them in midair with his trusty Hades. A loud explosion was heard, with large amount of gust whipping at their clothes. The underlings screeched from the pain, all except Pegasus and Chaise, who had dodged out of the way.
"What did he do?"
"I think he threw a hand grenade!"
The ex-erasers roared with laughter. "Ciao for now, Pegasus! We'll be back!"
The gusting smoke cleared away, with no trace of the sweepers ever remaining.
Pegasus coughed. "Where'd they go?"
"I-I think they got away, Sir! Wait...they're outside the grounds!" one of his followers answered for him.
"Those foolish hyenas," Pegasus growled. 'Was that a tattoo of the number thirteen on their chest?' "Find them! Chaise, come with me." He was replied back with an eerie silence. "Chaise? Chaise!"
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Chaise landed outside of the wall. His amber eyes scanned the area around him before deciding where he would go next. "There" he spun to his left and ran ahead.
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"Yosh! I'm heading back to the hotel. Yami and Aqua should be back by now." Kaiser informed Yugi.
"Okay. I'll get in touch with you later. Tell them not to act on their own anymore, will you?" Yugi asked skeptically.
"I'll tell them, but it won't do any good."
"Hey...you don't think...I mean...they wouldn't have started anything, right?" Yugi glanced at Kaiser hopefully.
"I doubt it...then again, they do love trouble." Kaiser got up and walked away.
"What's that supposed to mean?" 'They're more problematic than I expected. The Black Cats and their magnificent pistols.' Yugi brushed a stray lock away from his face. "One thing is certain...they'll be hard to handle. Still, I'll have the last laugh!"
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Kaiser walked down the streets, pondering in his thoughts. "I told him I doubted it, but I wouldn't put it past Aqua to start something. Whatever Aqua does, Yami does it too. I better find them."
Suddenly, an earsplitting ring pierced through his pocket. He took out his scarlet cell phone and pressed the answer button.
"Kaiser buddy! How's it going?" Aqua's voice chirped through the air where Kaiser was currently standing in.
"Aqua! I was getting worried. Where are you right now?" Kaiser let out a sigh of relieve.
"Pegasus' place."
There was a long silence before Kaiser responded back. "What in Ra's name are you still doing there?" he yelled furiously.
"Err, we said hello, but then we had to run...or pretend to run." Aqua chuckled. "I'm still inside the mansion."
There was some arguing heard over the phone before Yami took control over the mobile phone. "It's just not our style to scout the place, right?"
"That's not the problem! We'd never agreed to anything more than that. And why'd you have to say hello? I was a fool to trust you." Kaiser groaned.
Yami sweatdropped. "Aw c' mon, don't be mad."
"Listen Yami, come back right now! Yugi filled me in...that place is more dangerous than we thought!"
"Oh? We're just going to hang out here until I can get to Pegasus-"
"Listen to me! That 'research' Yugi's after...it's nanotechnology for military purposes." Kaiser interrupted.
"Nano who?"
"Nanotechnology. Micro-robots engineered to be smaller than one billionth of a meter. When used correctly, those nano-machines can manipulate DNA structure to cure serious illnesses. Molecules can be rearranged to create new matter...the possibilities are endless." Kaiser explained slowly as if he was speaking to a child. "Pegasus invested enormous capital in the creation of nano-machine soldiers. Human clones with nanotechnology built into their bodies. He has developed a living military with the ability to transform at will."
"That explains it. He's cute, even for a weapon." Yami murmured.
"Nani?" Kaiser asked.
/That's gruesome...grooming a killer like it's a natural thing to do. / Aqua sent to Yami.
/Too bad, Pegasus. Now you've crossed paths with the Black Cats, and you know what that means: bad luck. /
"Come on back, Yami, before this gets any worse!" Kaiser spoke.
"Err, too...late?" Yami grimaced.
"Nani?" Kaiser squeaked.
"Kaiser, I got to go. I'm...we're in a bit of a jam. Call you later." Yami hung up before Kaiser could let out a string of curses.
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"Err, can you hurry it up? I can't hold it! What are you doing in there?" one of Pegasus' guards knocked deafeningly at the bathroom door.
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Kaiser stared at his cell phone in silence. "Those bakas. Fine...who cares?"
"Hey man! Watch where yer goin'! Not so fast...say yer sorry!" A voice behind Kaiser commanded.
Kaiser glanced behind him, only to see a muscular male bullying an amber-eyed human.
"Do you want to play tag with me?" Chaise's hand twitched part-way into a sword. Fortunately, the atrocious man didn't notice.
The man cracked his knuckles. "Tag? What are you...stupid or somethin'? I should call your folks and make them pay me-"
Kaiser grabbed his shoulder. "Compensation? Good idea...I only have this bullet with me but you're welcome to have it as payback. Do you want it or not?" He glared callously at the man before him.
The man started to sweat. "Err, n-no th-thank you," he ran away screaming like a little girl.
"Sheesh...who treats a person like that?" Kaiser huffed. "You okay?" he asked the younger man.
"I-I'm the demon," he replied back.
"Nani? Playing tag are we?"
Chaise nodded vigorously. "Hai...but I lost them."
"That's a problem...you lost your friends?"
"Iie...I didn't know them."
Kaiser raised an eyebrow. "Err, how's that? Never mind. Where do you live?"
Chaise gazed monotonously at Kaiser. He spun his head around, looking for anything recognizable to him. He found nothing. "I don't know. Where am I?"
"Err, hey...you're not lost, are you?" Kaiser asked him nervously.
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"They went that way!" a sunglass wearing bodyguard cried.
"Stop!" another one shouted.
"You won't get away with this!"
"Persistent buggers, aren't we?" Aqua glanced behind his shoulder.
The three people after Yami and Aqua skidded to a stop. "Where'd they go? You go that way!" They spilt up.
"Man, oh man...hiding in the bathroom wasn't the smartest move." Yami wiggled inside the vase that he was hiding in.
Aqua grunted and squirmed around to get some space. "Oh well, too late now." /So, what's our next move/
/Kaiser wants us back at the hotel, but that's not going to be easy. / Yami informed him.
Two of the pursuers came back. "Those little rascals...they've been here the whole time. Do they think that we're fools? When I find them..."
Aqua smirked. /Yosh! I have an idea/
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Chaise looked around the unknown park. Finally, his eye settled on the crowd gathering around a water fountain.
Kaiser approached him. "What is it? Something interesting over there?" he asked curiously. "Here" he held out a double-scooped ice cream to Chaise. "We'll eat these and then figure out what to do next."
Chaise accepted it in silence.
'Great...a dangerous man like myself, reduced to sharing ice cream with a human. What am I supposed to do? I can't just leave him here.' Kaiser groaned in his mind.
"This...you can eat this stuff?" he glanced out of the corner of his eye at Kaiser.
"Nani? You've never had ice cream before? You're a weird guy."
Chaise cautiously licked the delicacyand was suddenly bombardedwith the taste of vanilla with a hint of cinnamon and spice.
Kaiser stared at him. "Well, what do you think?"
"It's cold..." he began.
"Yeah, that's ice cream for you."
"But...it's good."
Kaiser let out a small smile. "So, what were you looking at over there?"
"People...I've never seen so many people before. I mostly stay inside my house. I didn't know there were so many people."
"This? This is nothing. Most towns have even more." Kaiser grinned.
"Really?" Chaise looked intrigued.
"Hai. Go to a big city sometime."
"How many are there?"
"People? Let's see...in a big city, a plaza like this one would be totally packed. In the Potato Tossing Fest in Vista City, there are so many people there, you can't even move. You should go sometimes...but watch out for flying spuds."
Chaise clapped his hands together in joy.
Kaiser smiled at Chaise's adorable antics. He swallowed his ice cream whole, until only the cone remained. Kaiser crumbled it into pieces and threw it into the air. Numerous amounts of white doves appeared out of the trees and peaked at the crumbs.
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One of Pegasus' henchmen scanned the data that a device was transmitting to him. "I'm picking up a signal from Chaise's bracelet. We're getting close boss."
"He's a long way from home. Stop the car and find him." Pegasus barked.
"Hai."
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"Now we've finished our ice cream...we better get started." Kaiser exclaimed.
"What are we going to do?"
"How about we walk around for a little while, and if you don't recognize anything, then we'll go to the police. We can't wonder around all day." Kaiser combed his fingers through his raven-black locks.
"Police?"
"Hai. Not my favorite idea either, but-"
Chaise's eyes hardened. "My uncle said that the police are our enemies."
"Your uncle, huh?"
A car screeched to a halt. A man dressed in a funeral-attire got out of the car and opened the car door for a silver-haired man. "We're very close, Pegasus-sama."
'Pegasus? What's he doing here? What happened to Yami and Aqua? Wait...he's wide open! This is it!' Kaiser thrust his arm into his trench coat and pulled out a revolver. He aimed it at Pegasus' head. "Hold it, Pegasus! Sweeper...taking you in!"
Chaise's eyes flashed.
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"Got him! The intruders are in the west wing!"
"It was a lucky break. Those guys were as quiet as a cat!"
"Where were they?" another one asked.
"They were something else, all right...they were inside a vase!"
"Nani?"
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Yami and Aqua were tied together on a chair, dozing. They snored softly, almost content with their dreams.
"They're asleep! What were they doing inside a vase?" a bald man with the sunburned head muttered.
Croquet clamped his hands behind his back. "Good work. Now I can face Pegasus-sama." He glanced towards the sleeping sweepers. "Did you drug them with something?"
"Iie. I think they just fell asleep." A man with gigantic lips replied.
Pegasus' right-hand man turned around and sweatdropped. "Who found them?"
Two violet-haired twins raised their hands. "We did Sir! Where is Pegasus-sama now? We'd like to report to him personally."
"He's not here," Croquet faced them and narrowed his eyes in suspicion. Something was different about them. "Security cameras picked Chaise up...leaving the grounds. Pegasus-sama took a crew with him and went to find him. I'll file a report with Pegasus-sama later...He'll be pleased, I'm sure. You may all return to your stations."
A numerous amount of bodyguards responded back with "Hai."
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"So, Croquet-dono...what'll we do to these guys?" a man with a jagged scar on his forehead asked his boss in the time being.
Croquet tapped his chin in thought. "Lock him up until the boss returns." He decided.
Yami's eyelids fluttered, and slowly began to open his crimson eyes.
"Hey! One of them is awake!" The scarred man announced.
Yami yawned, and then his head flopped back, continuing his slumber.
A huge vein mark appeared on the man's face. "Snap out of it!" he grabbed Yami's tri-colored hair, and pulled his head off. Or rather, a mask of the sweeper. The scarred man did the same with Aqua, only to find the same message of: "Try again" written across their foreheads.
'A disguise?' Croquet's eyes widened to the size of dinner plates. "Then those men just now!"
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"Those guys were out cold! That knock-out spray of Kaiser's really works, didn't it Yami?" Aqua tossed the suit and tore the mask off of his face and body, while Yami had done the same.
Yami chuckled. "If Pegasus's not here, there's no point in hanging around."
They dashed across the courtyard, and heaved themselves up the wall.
/At times like these, it's wise to make a quick escape, unless you really want to irritate Kaiser. / Yami sent to his partner.
Aqua agreed, but something was wrong. /I don't like this wind... /
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Blood dripped from Kaiser's stomach. He stifled a pained cry, and huffed at every step that he took. 'That was stupid of me.'
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Flashback
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"Sheesh...who treats a person like that?" Kaiser huffed. "You okay?" he asked the younger man.
"I-I'm the demon," he replied back.
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End flashback
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'Stupid' he repeated in his mind. 'I've never messed up this bad...not even in my detective days.'
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Flashback
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Chaise glanced back sorrowfully at Kaiser. His blood trickled down his cheeks as if it was painting a sign of grief. Chaise's blade was caked with Kaiser's blood.
Pegasus smirked, and viciously kicked Kaiser in his ribs.
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End Flashback
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"That man...he put a hole right through me...I'm going to give him a piece of my-" Kaiser wobbled forward and fell unconscious, landing on the cement sidewalk, now coated with his blood.
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Rana Hotel
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"Whoa! Iie! That's a terrible idea. We're not going back to Pegasus' tonight!" Yugi protested. "You can't seriously think-"
"Yes I can!" Aqua growled. "We don't need a fancy plan. We'll shoot our way in and grab that guy!"
"Well, before we grab him...I might punch him really hard." Yami scowled.
Yugi jogged up to them. "Listen to me! I know you're upset about your other partner, but c'mon! He's hurt, not dead. We have time to think this through and-" Yami's hand slammed against the wall behind Yugi, trapping him within Yami's embrace. He looked up questionably at his captor.
"Our partner," Yami began. "Our partner is bleeding. Do you think I can just stand here and discuss this rationally? Well, we can't!"
"Pegasus' weapon got Kaiser...you got that, right? Nanomachine particles were found at the base of the wound. If we bust in there without a plan...we'll end up like Kaiser." Yugi objected.
"Chaise won't pose a threat if we grab Pegasus first. Without him, he's not dangerous." Aqua said.
Yugi squirmed his way through. "And how would you know that?"
"Instinct" Aqua chirped. Yugi gave him the shut-eye.
Aqua smirked. "Kaiser was caught of-guard because he's a young human. If he's known what he was like we do...he'd still be standing." He explained. Aqua opened the door and gasped in astonishment. "Kaiser! You're awake!"
"Hai...I'm a little woozy from the blood loss, but I guess I'm alive." Kaiser grimaced as he got up.
'No way! In less than two hours...he's awake? Sure, he missed his vital organs, but that almost killed him anyway.' Yugi thought.
Yami stepped into the clear. "You better thank Yugi. If he hadn't found you, you'd be in Heaven or Hell by now."
"Great" Kaiser groaned. "So I owe you now, don't I? Well, Arigatou."
"Yeah, well, I just happened to be walking by, that's all. What was I supposed to do? Leave one of my allies to bleed?" Yugi huffed.
"Anyway," Aqua dropped a crumbled-paper bag on the table near him.
"What's that?" Kaiser asked.
"We brought some ammo. Yami and I want to hit his place tonight."
Yami leaned against a wooden chair. "You stay here and rest...We can handle the hippie all by ourselves."
"I'm going with you!" Kaiser exclaimed.
"You're what?"
'Pegasus will have that man back home by now. I have to see him one more time.' Kaiser squeezed his eyes shut. "I have to...there's something I need to tell him."
"Are you nuts? You're still bleeding-" Yugi had a hand covering his mouth. He slapped Yami right on the face, thus making Yami pull his hand away.
"Chaise, you mean?" Aqua nodded in understanding. "You want to tell me what happened?"
Kaiser opened his eyes and stared down at the floor.
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Flashback
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Pegasus smirked as Chaise grabbed Kaiser's waist, and shoved a blade right through his abdomen. Chaise's eyes began to water with tears. He didn't want to hurt anyone else, but he had to. It was his order.
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End Flash back
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"I don't feel like talking right now. Gomen." Kaiser whispered.
"Okay, but I don't feel like taking you with us, either. I'm not going to let you risk your life twice in a day." Aqua exclaimed.
Kaiser glared at him. "Aqua," he warned in a threatening tone. "I-I have to go with you."
"Why? Because you're too stubborn to stay home and heal?" Yami scoffed. "Fine...we'll let this decide." He pulled out his legendary Hades.
'His gun?' Yugi and Kaiser thought.
Yami pulled out the bullet one by one, until he was satisfied with what he had left over. He tossed it to Kaiser.
He glanced down in amusement and puzzlement.
"Hey! No fair looking at the barrel!" Yami scolded. "I took out all but one bullet. Six chambers...one bullet." He slammed his right hand down on the table. "Now, use it to shoot my hand."
"Nani?" Kaiser frowned.
"I want to see how committed you are. If my luck is bad, I'll lose my hand, but if you don't have the resolve to do it, then I can't take you with us. A wounded man with weak resolve won't survive a battle." Yami explained.
"True enough" the wounded man agreed.
Yugi frowned in confusion. 'What's he saying? Has he lost his mind? What's the point of this thing?'
Kaiser got up and sauntered over to the table. "You sure about this?" He pressed the gun against Yami's hand. 'Knowing him, it's probably not loaded at all.' "You ready?" He was answered by a grinning silence. He pulled the trigger, and smoke erupted out of the end of the pistol. Yugi and Kaiser looked over to Yami in horror and concern.
"Kaiser?" Yami waved the smoke away with his left hand. "No hesitation at all. That's what I call a partner, no offence Aqua!" he called out to the glowering dragon. "But man, the odds were six to one. Some luck you've got there. Surprised? Oh, like I'll put my real hand in danger. That was all noise and sparkle. I messed up the bullet beforehand. If you'd fire a real bullet, I wouldn't be laughing!"
The three remaining people seethed, with smoke coming out of their ears.
"You son of a-" Aqua got cut off.
Yugi slapped him again. "You jerk!"
"You baka!" Kaiser punched the lights out of him.
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Kaiser tugged his ivory hat lower down his head.
"C'mon! Don't be mad!" Yami pouted.
Aqua and Kaiser just ignored him and continued walking down the path. "So, what's next?" Kaiser asked.
"We're going...to Pegasus and Chaise's place!" Aqua announced.
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Kalina: This is longer than usual isn't it? –looks back between the chapters- Yup. It sure is. Well, I just hoped that you liked this chapter. I combined three short chapters into one, and it turned out longer than I had expected. Anyway, I'm done with the first manga! Remember, I basing this on the graphic novels of Black Cat, but so far, I only have four volumes of them. Maybe I should wait for November to start so I could purchase the fifth one, but the days left over are still too long! –sighs-
Train Heartnet- Yami Heartnet and Aqua Shiras
Sven Vollfied- Kaiser Hyoku
Torneo Rudman- Pegasus J. Crawford
Eve- Chaise Yanabi
Mr. Flint- Croquet
Rinslet Walker- Yugi Motou
See you in the next chapter!