Natsuki walked into the basement of MI6 HQ, waving at Yukino as she stopped doing what she was doing.
"Let me guess, you need your travel bag?" Yukino asked.
"Yeah, and my PP9 if possible," Natsuki said.
"Well… I was actually building a better gun for you but I guess now it's time for a test run. Go to the shooting range, and I'll get your new gun ready."
"Okay," Natsuki said, heading to the shooting range in the large basement as she saw the blue with black stripe Ducati still in it's place.
"When do I get to drive that?" Natsuki asked.
"When your probation is over and you need a sweet ride, but it's actually filed as stolen right now, so Shizuru said don't worry about it. The keys are in your new jacket, ready to be driven," Yukino said.
"You do know Shizuru is going to kill the both of us, right?" Natsuki asked.
"She'll kill me, but not you. She still loves you," Yukino said, stopping at the shooting range, opening a case on the counter to show a new version of the PP9. "Your PP9 with it's built in silencer, twelve bullet clips still, but more fire power, fire rate has been upgraded along with range, upgraded sight, and a better grip. Careful, it fires a punch," Yukino said, rubbing her shoulder.
"Did you fire this?" Natsuki said, taking the pistol and loading it up.
"Yeah, I'm lucky that it didn't break my arm," Yukino said.
"Don't hurt yourself with my weapons," Natsuki said, pulling the top. "After all… I need someone to help me break the rules around here." Natsuki pointed it down the sight and fired, her arm being pulled back a bit. "Ow! Wow! This does fire a punch," Natsuki said, firing again and again, getting a better handle on it by every shot.
"I don't want to say I told you so but… I told you so," Yukino said, giving her the case with the extra clips. "Do be careful in the Bahamas," Yukino said.
"I will, I will. Can I take my Ducati to the airport?" Natsuki asked.
"Here," Yukino said, handing her the spare key and smiling. "I'll come by later and pick it up with Haruka. She's visiting London once again," Yukino said.
"Please tell me your going to put it onto a trailer or something."
"Of course, I don't even like to drive cars. I let Haruka do that, or I take the cab," Yukino said.
"Alright. I'll see you this weekend," Natsuki said, waving as she walked off, heading to the airport.
"Oh! Don't forget about this," Yukino said, handing her a pair of black shades. "X-Ray visions built in, and you can use your smart phone to get information on people while your glasses takes pictures of their faces, no flash, no sound. All silence."
"Thanks, Yukino," Natsuki said, taking the shades.
Bahamas; Airport
The dark blue haired women with green gleaming eyes walked off the airplane, putting her black shades that Yukino gave her. She walked out of the airport and saw that the ocean was nearby, walking over to the docks first before heading to the hotel. She walked into a gift shop with some nice cloths, seeing a shirt she really liked. She put it on to see if it fitted and it did. She then paid for it with money and button it on, walking to the hotel to look like a tourist. That's when her cell phone rang and she decided to answer it.
"Hello?" Natsuki asked.
"007, isn't it, Natsuki Kuga? You've killed my bomb maker," the deep static voice said. "I'm very mad that you had to kill my last bomb maker. But at last, the world is better off with one less bomb maker. I just have to hire some more in case you kill them all."
Natsuki looked around, almost to the hotel, wondering where this person was.
"Who is this?" Natsuki asked.
"Juliet Nao Zhang, Shizuru's old friend. And yours as well from a few years from now. I almost died twice because of you, but what your looking for is a little girl, right? Alyssa and Miyu?" the voice asked.
"Yeah, how did you know?" she asked.
"Because I want them dead. They're planning a plot against me, to bomb the biggest airplane that I held finance. Eliminate Alyssa, and Miyu will fall to you," the voice said. "And be careful." The person hanged up and Juliet looked through her scope, watching Natsuki. "Until we meet in Casino Royale, 007," Juliet said, putting her scope down. She put her hand onto her left cheek, feeling the scars coming back now. "Until then," she said, walking off the roof top as she planned her vengeance against her enemy and try to save herself from what was about to become her fate.
Natsuki tried to act casually best as she can to the hotel, stopping at the end of the parking lot as she dialed a phone number, waiting for an answer.
MI6 Headquarters, London
Yukino heard her cell phone ring and she picked it up, plugging it into her computer to use it as her hands free. "Hello?" she said, working on a rocket launcher.
"Yukino, I need you to trace a call. Someone name Juliet Nao Zhang just called me," Natsuki said. "Isn't she a terrorist or something? Criminal records? Something?"
Yukino stopped what she was doing and went to her computer. "Let me check." Yukino typed the name in and found something about her. A terrorist banker that finances stuff, and an agent who went rouge before Natsuki joined up with Shizuru at MI6. "I have to call you back, Natsuki," Yukino said as she hanged up. She picked her work phone up and dialed the number to Shizuru's office.
Shizuru picked her phone up and turned her TV off. "Hello?"
"Shizuru, Natsuki is in the Bahamas and just received a call from someone you use to know," Yukino said.
"Send me the file to my computer."
"Already did."
"Thanks," Shizuru said, turning her computer on to check the file. Her jaw dropped a bit, not knowing she was still alive. Juliet Nao Zhang, her old and best friend of all time. A couple of years older than her but still… She remember the betrayal like it was yesterday. "Yukino, get Natsuki back here at once. We have to know what she's up to," she said.
"I'm on it," Yukino said, hanging up.
Hotel, Bahamas
Natsuki walked into the hotel and went to the front desk with a warm smile. "Hi, I'm hoping to find a room here but I didn't make any reservations. This was just a spur of the moment trip I decided to take," Natsuki said.
The receptionist looked up and smiled at her, checking her computer to find a free room available. "We do have a room available for you ma'am, but our frees is a bit pricey for the room. Six hundred dollars per night," the women said.
"Do you take checks?" Natsuki asked.
"We do, along with credit cards."
"I rather pay with this then," Natsuki said, handing her a debit card. "My friend said she would pay for my room here for a few days. I'll be leaving within five days, at least," Natsuki said.
"Please to have you here, ma'am," the women said as she handed her a keycard. "Enjoy."
"I will," Natsuki said, getting the keycard and her debit card back. She smiled and waved, walking off to the beach.
She looked at her silver Omega Seamaster Professional Co-Axial, blue underneath the lens in the background and around it with silver covering the rest of the watch. She walked towards the beach and headed down to ask around about Alyssa Searrs. She walked over to a smoothie bar, looking at the guy in the eyes.
"Do you know where Alyssa Searrs lives?" Natsuki asked, taking her shades off.
The man nodded his head. "She lives up the beach, that way," he pointed, "with someone name Miyu Greer. I wouldn't go there though, they're a private family."
"Thanks, and don't worry, I got business with them. I just got lost," Natsuki said, putting her shades back on as she headed up the beach line to look for a house or a cabin of some sort. When she saw a small time cabin, she took her PP9 out of her back pants and pulled the top of it, gripping onto it with both hands. She heard the sea side ocean water hitting the beach, the Gulls talk away. She slowly walked up to the cabin and put her hand on the door, hearing two voices. She stepped away and kicked the door open, shooting at Miyu as fast as she could, moving her gun to Alyssa with a couple of shots to the shoulder where she picked up her own gun but dropped it. Natsuki walked over to her and picked the gun up, throwing it out of her reach.
"Alyssa Searrs, huh? Your suppose to be dead," Natsuki said.
Alyssa giggled with a grin on her face. "Death is the only thing that keeps some of us alive," she said.
Natsuki shot Miyu in the head, hoping it gave her time to get Alyssa back to London. She grabbed Alyssa by the back of her shirt and had her gun at her head, making her walk back to the airport. That's when a few shots were heard, loud gun shots of a sniper riffle hitting Alyssa in the same wounded shoulder, hitting Natsuki above her lungs. Natsuki fell to the ground and Alyssa giggled once more, picking up the PP9 as she pointed it at Natsuki.
"Natsuki, Natsuki. Juliet Nao Zhang called you, right? She should of, because your going to meet her one day. Oh, and don't give her that wicked scar she tries to hide every day now. Just give her a quick death when the time comes," Alyssa said, walking away.
Natsuki took her cell phone out and called Yukino, telling her she was wounded and needed medical attention at once. By the time Yukino could get someone over to her, Miyu rebooted herself and grabbed a tank of gasoline, pouring it on the floor. That's when she light a match and threw it inside the house, watching it burst into flames. She walked over to Natsuki and pulled her back to the hotel. Natsuki was still conscious, but she could see the blue sky and remember the past, the past that might always haunt her.
Three Years Ago
Natsuki was still in college in Japan, and her old time friend, Nao Yuuki, was with her. They had good times before Nao was approached by men in black suites, asking her to join an organization. She wanted to decline but remembering what Natsuki did to her eye, she decided to accept it. She couldn't believe that an organization called Quantum wanted her. She asked who sent them and a Mr. Reito Kanzaki, AKA Mr. White to everyone in Quantum. They handed her a gun and asked to eliminate Natsuki. Nao accepted the gun and job. She couldn't help but grin, walking back to her apartment where she shared it with Natsuki that night. Laid in her bed and waited for Natsuki, but she was talking with Mai before she decided to head back. When Natsuki walked into the apartment, she heard a door close.
"Hello?" Natsuki asked, looking around as she put her bag down. "Nao?"
"Hello, Natsuki," Nao said, turning the lights on.
"Oh, God. You scared me. What are you doing?" she asked with a soft smile.
"Nothing, Natsuki. Just something you deserve."
"And what's that?"
"This," Nao said, pointing the gun at her and pulling the trigger, shooting her a few times.
She walked over to Natsuki and grinned in her face. Natsuki slowly put her bloody hand up to reach to Nao, gasping for air, trying to ask why.
"What's that?" Nao asked, kneeling down to laugh in her face. "Your probably wondering why I shot you. It's for what you did to me during the HiME festival. You took my eye, I take your life," Nao said.
She got up and walked to the window, looking out. Mai decided to tell Natsuki she was accepted into an agency to get her license to kill but when she heard gunshots, she took her gun out and ran towards the door, kicking it open. She pointed her gun up and shot Nao a few times, rushing to the phone to call 9-1-1. Natsuki smiled a bit, coughing blood up as she passed out. When Shizuru heard about this incident, she decided to draft Natsuki into MI6 and told M, head of the agency, to give Natsuki a try when she recovered from her injuries. M didn't want another lose cannon agent like Bond, but she decided to step down and give it to Fujino one day.
Present Day - London
Natsuki slowly opened her eyes, seeing lights as she looked around to see where she was. She groaned a bit and got up from her bed, holding her head with her right hand. After the pain started to slow down, she took all of the needles out of her body and slowly touched the ground, taking her time to walk. She slowly walked to the door and opened it up to see Shizuru in front.
"Hello, Natsuki. Feeling better?" she asked.
Natsuki grinned a bit. "Yeah, just peachy. What do you want?" she asked.
"The women who shot her, do you want to hear her name?"
"Yeah, sure."
"The women was Juliet… A private banker to the worlds terrorist, which explains why she could set up a high state poker game at Casino Royale in Montenegro," Shizuru said.
"Oh, goodies," Natsuki said, gaining her strength back. She decided to walk down the hallway, Shizuru following her. "So tell me… What do you want me to do?"
"Beat her of course," Shizuru said.
Natsuki stopped and turned to face Shizuru. "What if she loses?" Natsuki asked, walking again.
"If she loses this game, she will have no where to run. You're the best player in service," Shizuru said as she walked with Natsuki.
"I haven't played that game since… Juliet Nao Zhang?" Natsuki asked, stopping once more.
"Yes, she was an old friend of mine. An old friend of Nao's family, taking her name when she left. They were like sisters when they were growing up. From what I can tell, she took her appearance now."
"Great, another bitch to kill," Natsuki said, walking towards the door. "Where's Yukino?" Natsuki asked.
"Delivering your Ducati at Casino Royale. When the doctors are done looking at you, then you'll be able to leave at once. Your wounds have already healed, and the bullet is out. Your lucky to still be alive by the bullet sized that shot you down," Shizuru said.
"Death doesn't want me yet, either that… I live only twice." Natsuki walked out of the double doors and saw the doctor, snarling at once. "Him?" she asked.
"Yes, him. He's the best," Shizuru said.
"Good to see you too, 007," Kaiji said.
"God, go ahead and give me what ever you need," Natsuki said.
Kaiji chuckled. "Already did. Gave you something that heals your wounds up fast, but in the near future, be careful. I'm not always going to be around to save your ass," he said.
"Thanks, Kaiji. When do I leave for Casino Royale?" Natsuki asked, turning back to Shizuru.
"Tomorrow night, you'll be taking a train and meeting your new contact on board. She'll present herself to you, so don't go snooping around unless your being attacked. You can get yourself tomorrow in the afternoon before you leave," Shizuru said.
"What about Alyssa Searrs and Miyu Greer?" Natsuki asked.
"They're still both alive, but they're the ones who controlling the strings with Juliet… Or someone is. They were going to attack an airplane in Florida but moved their target to the train you'll be taking. Protect it at all cost, and if you see them at Casino Royale, then make sure you bring Alyssa in alive. Yukino and Mai will be there to help you with Miyu, even with Alyssa if you need it."
"Thanks, Shiz. To bad you can't go."
"I am going. I'll be there on day three, to keep an eye on you," Shizuru said with a warm smile.
Natsuki smiled a bit. "I'm glad. I miss having your company," Natsuki said, walking off to change her cloths.