A/N: Hello, I do hope you like this chapter and story and will continue reading. I wrote this chapter and to chapter number 6 for the Anniversary of my Uncle's death.

Disclaimer: I do not own No. 6 or its characters only the Shion or Saffron Tribe. In this I only own the Poems mentioned that are a part of Shion's past

Chapter Four: Warchild

Shion's POV

I was walking through the Town at my own pace since I don't really need to find the man who had fallen for Karan. I heard a whistle before I turned to where it came from just to try and leave as soon as I saw who it was. I was pulled into the Alley before I could get out of reach however.

I was pushed against a wall before I felt hands on my hair twirling it making me uncomfortable. If they're not Nezumi I have no interest.

I tried moving out of the way before my foot hit something, it sounded like a boot and since it moved I have a feeling it's a dead body. I didn't bother moving at that but she must've noticed why I stopped. "They already called for a Pick-Up Team so you don't need to worry about it" she told me running a finger down my chest before I grabbed it.

She winced before I pushed her hand away. "Not interested" I said before she looped her hands around my neck making me sigh in annoyance.

When I saw her face coming closer I turned my head feeling her lips on my ear which she didn't like apparently. "Unless you stop right now you won't see another day" I said before I heard Rat say to let go of me because I'm with him. She said that it makes sense before she scuffed "this man is so weird I'm not surprised he's with a male" she said blatantly before I sighed.

"None of your business exactly who I'm into but I got to go" I said looking at the body finally. "Andestama mind" (1) I said before I left the alley.

I heard the woman say she was charging for the kiss making me scowl internally. Honestly I was jealous when I heard her say that, she at least got one from him. I heard Rat walk out of the Alley before I asked him who the Pick-Up Team is.

He never answered saying that I ask too many questions and that out here there's no one here to save me making me look him in the eye. "I'm not that much of an idiot Rat, I was fine" I told him before two men approached us asking Rat if he really thinks that counts as payment.

I sighed when I saw Rat kick them down when they were about to touch him. If he didn't do somethign about it I definitely would've. He told me to run so I did running faster than him despite him running first before I slowed down when I realized that.

"Are you okay Rat?" I asked him as I saw him taking deep breaths of air because of the exercise. Because of my worry that it was something else coupled with the running I checked his pulse.

His heart beat was at shorter intervals than it should be with how fit, young, and fast as he is as well as the distance and his normal heartrate. "Did they touch you at all?" I asked him before he asked why I'm worried about him when I was the one being touched. "Wasn't interested, barely knew she was there, those guys on the other hand and when you were around I noticed them completely" I told him.

Rat looked away taking his wrist away from my hand before he said we were here. We walked up the stairs of the old building before I heard a woman's voice.

She called the man inside a name but it was muffled by the door she was behind before it opened. I heard her say the Wedding was off before I looked at Rat's face seeing that this wasn't new or that he's seen this happen a lot, I covered my mouth to stifle a laugh as she walked down stairs. We walked into the room before Rat asked if the man rubbing his head was Rikiga, a former LatchBill Reporter.

He asked what we wanted before he stood up eyes widening, he asked if Rat was Eva. I saw Rat tense his shoulders but made it look more like he was raising them.

He asked if he knows him before Rikiga said that he's a fan making me frown slightly. He said he saw Rat's Play the other day and I wish I could've seen it, I miss his acting. I chuckled at Rat's facial expression before he asked what I was laughing at.

"Your expression matches your shoulders, as stern as your shoulders are tense" I answered him before he pushed me behind him so I would stop talking and I did. He asked if Rikiga knows a woman named Karan before he looked at Rat, me, and back again.

He was surprised asking if we know Karan before I nodded stepping from behind Rat. "She was my Caretaker when I was taken to No. 6 under a certain program" I told him before he nodded grabbing my face and looking me in the eyes. "I remember you, you were a good kid despite always being asked away on assignments" he told me making me nod.

He brought down stairs that lead to the next floor up before he asked what we would like to drink. "If you have any Ginger Tea for me and Coffee for Rat I would say those" I said and he nodded before we walked upstairs.

I gave the slip to Rikiga before be said that it was Karan's handwriting calling her an Angel for remembering him. I heard Rat ask if they were close in a disbelieving tone. "How did you meet Karan anyway Rikiga? I know she mentioned that you asked her out and she turned you down but how?" I asked him before he got up getting a picture.

He placed it in front of Rat and I on the table before I sat back, Rat was the only one who looked at it. She has a larger copy of this one in Karan's Bakery.

He said it was Karan and him when they were younger, she was a student when she came to him asking about No. 6. "What did the Article entail?" I asked him before he said that it was about the Warchild Program making me scowl slightly. "Sorry Shion didn't mean to bring up bad memories" he said making me sigh before he said that he knew something was fishy about No. 6 so he searched for information.

"The Warchild Program was the only open violence subject in No. 6 but it never says anything about the kids in it" Rikiga said before I leaned back in the chair again. I heard Rat say that Rikiga's just like No. 6 before the man cursed him saying that no one else was a bigger fan of Eva than him.

I heard Rat ask why it was past tense before Rikiga said it had to do with the fact he's an arrogant something. Rat said that he doesn't need to get so riled up with how he's living selling girls to No. 6 Officials. I wasn't listening to the rest before I heard Rikiga ask if Rat wanted to team up.

When I heard Rikiga say that people would be lining up for Eva I know my mark showed. "Eh! Put that away Shion I didn't mean it it just slipped out" I heard Rikiga say and I know my mark showed just from that.

"Don't let them slip out then" I said coldly worrying Rat before Rikiga said that I'm just like I was before. "And how is that?" I asked him hearing him chuckle before he answered. "The column, more like the Program, teaches gifted children about Warchildren.

The children who have witnessed Tragedy or War right in front of them by the Number they were brought to. Three categories one of which is the most feared despite them not liking to kill but that's what makes them feared" he said before I threw a Knife hitting the wall right above his head.

"That's enough already, no one needs to hear that of all things you had to say" I said my eyes shaded before Rat touched my shoulder. I looked up at him before he said that he's glad I'm crying for my sake and not someone else's making me shake my head at him. "No one said I was crying for myself Rat, the people in the Warchild Program who were killed because it was too much are the ones I'm crying for" I said before he put his arm over my shoulder.

He walked forwards with his arm still around my shoulder. I heard Rikiga say something about looking after me like Karan most likely wants but I shook my head at that.

"She wanted me out of No. 6, if you know her so well and read that note you must know why she wanted me out" I said when Rat had stopped a few meters from the Couch Rikiga is on when I stopped. I saw that something caught Rat's attention before he picked a picture up off the ground. I followed suit looking at it and recognizing the person Rat was talking about.

This is a picture of the Founders of No. 6. All of them except for Karan, the man Rat is talking about, and Rikiga I hate most.

Time Skip: Night Time

I was stirring the Soup before Autumn was on my right shoulder squeaking. "When Nezumi returns I'll serve the Soup okay little one?" I asked him before I heard the door open. It wasn't raining so other than going somewhere wet I don't know why he would have a Cloak on.

"Speak the name and they'll appear" I said before he took the Cloak off without saying anything. "Where were you? Did something happen?" I asked him as Autumn leaped off my shoulder.

Rat told me to leave him alone making me sigh before I spoke again. "I can't exactly do that till I know you've eaten something" I said before he said that he's fine. "Stubborn as usual, ever since I met you again four years ago I've been wanting to know more about you" I said before he looked over his shoulder at me.

"Getting to know the place someone lives is the best way to get to know how a person lives and how they must feel doing so" I said before I saw him sit up. "Though just like last time I don't think you'll answer any questions I'll ask" I said before he had enough of me talking.

He grabbed my wrist and I didn't resist before I felt the cloth of his shirt under my palm. He asked me what I feel before I smiled sadly at him.

"You really shouldn't ask someone who can tell someone's feelings by their heartbeat" I said before he took my hand off his chest. "In other words I felt your heartbeat, which I'm guessing you mean that as long as I know you're alive that's all I need to know" I said before he nodded.

I looked down when he said that we're strangers before I walked over to the Couch telling him there's food in the pot if he's hungry. He asked me why I became quiet before I spoke. "We're not strangers we've been friends for years you just don't remember me at all" I said before I closed my eyes.

"I'll follow you anywhere, listen to you without hesitation, I'm still here in this Town not trying to find a way back in for a cure" I said before he said that we'll be enemies if that happens. I heard a scurrying before Rat opened the door, he said we have a job once he put his Switchblade away.

Time Skip: Morning

I was cleaning a Dog smiling at how much he likes the attention. I heard Dog Keeper tell me that I'm taking too long on one dog making me sigh. "You rent them out to your customers, if the Dogs are dirty they're bound to get sick and die" I said before she said they're only customers and they're dirty anyway.

"They're still human Dog Keeper" I said before she said that what I said is a laugh before doing so. She asked me if they were the same as us making me frown.

"Same as you yes" I said before she asked if I was the same as her making me shake my head. "In my opinion everyone is better than me" I said before she asked if the people in No. 6 were the same as the ones here and I nodded again.

"Everyone has a monster inside of them, doesn't matter who you are where you're from or what you do" I said before I looked at the Dog I was washing. "Everyone has the capacity to kill, to disown, to destroy" I said before she asked me if there was anything positive about how I think. "No there isn't, I lost my home because of No. 6, watched it burn to the ground with my family and friends as I just stood there in the middle" I said before I continued washing the Dog again.

"Do you know anything about Rat?" I asked her before she said that he sings for her sometimes making me smile. "What's the occasion that he sings?" I asked before she said that it's when her Dogs are on their deathbed.

He'll sing till they calm down and stop breathing, I smiled at this. She said that he did the same when her mother died, the Dog that raised her had died. "I'm glad that the last voice they heard was the most beautiful" I said before I heard Rat speak.

He said that her mother was a dirty mutt and I know from the look she was giving him that no one insults her dogs. I saw her get angry before Rat told her not to get so irritated.

He asked Dog Keeper if she was telling me her life story before she spoke. "It's only fair, after all he apparently thinks himself even more worthless than dirt, he also told me his" she said before Rat looked at me. She asked him if he came here because he was concerned for me calling me clueless before he said he didn't.

He came to see if I was being useful to the Hotel which made me look down. "Winter! Why did you come little one?" I asked in surprise when I picked him up getting the others attention.

I heard Rat ask me about the name "he looks like snow besides figured that one was the most likely for you to like since after Winter the Holy Day arrives" I said confusing Dog Keeper. I heard the other two before I looked to my right shoulder and then my left. "Autumn! Nezumi!" I said getting Rat to show a dumbfounded expression before I explained why as well.

"Autumn was the first name I could think of when I saw him while Nezumi has a very long story" I said before I continued. "I had a fiancé when I was younger, I was supposed to marry him when we turned twenty but a month after that our Forest was burned down" I said before I continued.

"Our Tribes weren't exactly friendly until they found the heirs, Nezumi and I, playing about. They decided that if they wanted their kids to be happy they would stop the War. The documents were signed and the reason I named him that is because he reminds me of Nezumi" I said before he told me I'm giving him a headache.

I sighed before I sat down on the ground, he always had headaches before so I was used to this. I heard him say something about talking when I finish work making me nod slightly tossing the crystal in the air before I caught it again.

Dog Keeper asked me if Rat and I were always like this making me nod before she asked if the one I was talking about was him. "Nezumi doesn't remember a thing about me so yes he's Rat" I said before I saw her smirk which I knew meant something bad for Rat.

Time Skip: Night Time

I was beside the platform to Rat's right when I heard him ask who was there, I had heard Dog Keeper not that long ago so I know he means her. I heard her say that it took a long time for him to notice before she appeared from behind the column. I listened to the conversation before I heard Rat move when she mentioned him being jealous.

I heard growling before I whistled getting the Dogs' attention and happy barks as I stepped out from where I was hiding. I saw that Rat and Dog Keeper were both shocked before I walked in front of Rat. "No one is touching Rat with any ill intentions, no animals, no humans, no empty shells, and no plants either" I said before Dog Keeper asked me why when he forgot about me.

"I don't even know why I'm still upset about it when it's better that he doesn't remember" I said before she asked about what was in the note Karan wrote. She mentioned about getting me to eat again making me sigh.

"Plenty of food at home, if you ask in No. 6 it's anywhere, but honestly I was tired of eating" I said feeling Rat tense behind me. He's most likely remembering what I said when he told me that I was skin and bones. "The Warchild Program isn't a kind Program nor is it one anyone would wish to switch places with" I said continuing again.

"What she meant about getting me to eat is that she knows I would do anything to get out of No. 6, even suicide" I said shocking them. "I'm not allowed outside of No. 6 unless I'm killed or on supervised orders" I said repeating what I told Rat.

"No. 6 was suffocating for a person born in the Mao Forest, I hated it with everything I had, pretended like I wasn't there all the time I was" I said but stopped there. "The only reason I even stuck with it till I saw Rat again was the idea that Nezumi was still alive" I said before I said we were leaving now. I had Dinner done and I know it's getting cold by now.

"Fighting to protect someone makes you stronger by the way, you're here to protect your mother, you're no different than Rat" I said before I grabbed his wrist pulling him to his Home. I stopped immediately at the top however when I heard the Moon Drop.

"Of all things why you" I said in an irritated tone scowling at the City. "I'm going to find a cure for the Parasite Wasps but I'm not going anywhere if you're not there to" I said before he asked my reason. "I may hate what No. 6 stands for but not everyone in that place is to blame for the destruction" I said before I continued.

"Karan is a Founder of No. 6 and she never knew a thing of what was happening despite it being something she never wanted" I said before I told him my reason for staying. "When I realized that you didn't remember me the thought of suicide that day resurfaced but the thought of you still being alive was the one thing that kept me going" I said looking at him.

"I should forget it entirely and find someplace else to be but if I do that I can't find a reason to continue living, if I'm even doing that at all" I finished before he told me that we have to hurry Home. "You wanted to go Home right? What was the reason?" he asked me as I caught up to him. "I made Soup before you were on the platform, I knew it was getting cold" I said before he said that we should definitely hurry Home if that's the case.

A/N: Hello, I finished writing this at 9:29 P.M. on November 30, 2016.

1) I'm hoping I got it right since I'm using a different language dictionary but it's supposed to mean 'forgive' and 'me' in Estonian.

I do hope you like this chapter and will continue reading.