BP: I know, writer's block, so this may be short, but please bear with me. Do read my new story, Pretty Little Lovers, while you're at it, and do review!
The talent auction has started.
And Allison Anderson doesn't think she's flattering herself to say that it's going GREAT.
People are spending money! Her classmate, Terra Harrison, and her three hours of computer lessons went for thirty0five dollars. The guy with the stump grinder? Fifty-eight dollars. Some girl who claims she can teach anyone to make a perfect strawberry and rhubarb pie? Twenty-two dollars. Meanwhile, during the bid, Randal grumbled, "I don't see why we have to protect Miss Allison in this auction. I mean, this is school. She won't be attacked."
"She is attending New Day Academy, one of the most prestigious schools in America. Also, her father's afraid that someone will harm her because of his family's influence and her above average genius intellectual. She wants to buy a talent in this auction, and so that's why we are here. Besides, she is the one who is running this auction, so that's why she has to be here." Andrea replied vaguely. She turned in disgust towards the five men next to her. "I don't know why you have to attend, I mean, you did say all you need is information on Ryoma."
"That's true, but we just wanted to see what a talent auction is like, we've never been to one before." said Fuji. Andrea turned back to the audience, in time to hear the auctioneer announce the next person to be auctioned off, and that was Madison Greengrass. "And here we have eleventh-grader Madison Greengrass," the auctioneer began in his patter. "Madison's offering up three hours of scrapbooking tips for any beginner scrapbookers out there. Any of you interested in scrapbooking, but need a little push to get started? Well, Miss Madison Greengrass is your girl then. She will come to your house, bringing with her her own scissors, glue and journal pens, as well as layout ideas and plenty of refill pages to get you going on your album. Let's start the bidding for this very special service at ten dollars."
Ryoma yawned. There isn't anything dangerous that will happen, unless….
Out of the corner of his eye, he saw someone about to shoot Allison. "Look out, Allison!" he cried, pushing her down, and the shot missed. He got up, and went after the assassin, opening his phone, and contacting Andrea at the same time. Meanwhile, Andrea's phone rang, and she opened it. "Hello?" she said.
"Andrea, run to the main entrance of the school immediately! Someone tried to kill Allison and I am going after him! I need you to surround him!"
"Of course, Ryoma." She closed her phone, and realized her mistake as the five lovers glared at her. "You have his number?" Yukimura narrowed his eyes at her. Andrea gulped. She placed her phone in her pocket, and secretly deleted her call log and even changed Ryoma's name in her contact. "No, I don't I swear!"
"Give me his number, now!" Fuji demanded angrily. Andrea shook her head.
"I can't." she replied. "I promised Kalluto not to give it to you." When Atobe grabbed her phone hand, she took out her gun and activated her Nen. "I'm sorry." She shot the five lovers, and they fell to the ground, unconscious. She dragged their bodies to a safe place, and ran out to join Ryoma. Meanwhile, the other bodyguards are battling the other invaders, who are starting a shooting massacre. People were screaming and running away. "I can't believe this." Randal commented, slicing off one of the invader's head. "I didn't expect someone being able to get in the school and attack."
"All members of the community are invited for this auction, to bid for their talents." Luca, another bodyguard, replied. "Where are Andrea and Ryoma?"
"Oh, they went off after the person that tried to kill Miss Allison."
"I hope they are alright…" Randal muttered.
Ryoma's thoughts raced as he ran after the assassin. The only thing that he could think about is that he signed up for this. Also, if he wasn't mistaken, Andrea was stationed near his former lovers and she said his real name accidentally. He doesn't know what Andrea was even thinking saying his name in front of his lovers. Anyways, he hoped that Andrea managed to talk her way out….or fight her way out, as that is what she preferred.
But what if she wasn't able to talk her way out? What if his former lovers got information out of her What if…A knife flew past him, barely grazing his face. What was that? Ryoma stopped gripping his conjured bow and arrows tightly and looked around. The assassin was surrounded by Andrea. He glanced at the figure to make sure our hostage didn't escape. He was still there but that wasn't it. Oh no, it can't be…he is using Gift Steig! Luckily, the knife did not even make a scratch on his face.
He immediately shot the poisoned weapon out of his hands and did something only a Head Bodyguard like Kalluto and he would even THINK about doing while in battle. He put his fingers in his mouth and gave a loud whistle to signal to Andrea to go on the offensive. Just in time too as Andrea shot the person who was running away and he was forced to go off course, slowing him down. Ryoma used "Rainbow: Seven Spectrum Array." and shot the place in front of his target. The said area caught on fire, and the culprit was forced to face two of the strongest bodyguards. "He's using poison. Be careful." Ryoma murmured to Andrea. She nodded, and equipped her gun. The man started by throwing knives at them, and Ryoma deflected it with his bow. He shot orange arrows, which were the fastest at him, while Andrea mainly aimed for the legs when she shot the gun, all of which the culprit dodged. Andrea cartwheeled and dodged one of his punches, while Ryoma tried to get an aim for his heart. He charged all his Nen power into his green arrow, while Andrea distracted him by shooting, and when the green arrow glowed red, he released it, and it lodged straight into his heart, and the arrow ripped his heart out and pinned it against the tree trunk, he screamed, and died in agony. Ryoma removed the arrow, which let the heart slide down in a bloody trail, and cleaned it with some moss.
"Kalluto! Andrea Are you alright?"
They turned to see the rest of the bodyguards, the Anderson family and his clients running towards them. "Yeah, we're fine." Ryoma replied. "He was the one that tried to kill Miss Allison."
"He seems young." Luca commented. He saw the badge on the culprit's chest. "Hey, he belongs to the Death Troupe! The one that…." He trailed off as he saw the look on Ryoma's face.
"That what?" said Tezuka.
"The one that killed Ryoma." Ryoma spat with venom. The five of them turned to him. "I tried to save his life, but no, he said since his lovers didn't want him, he doesn't want to live anymore." Of course, this is all a lie, because he'd do anything, anything for them to suffer, be it emotionally or physically. He hates them for what they did to him, and now he wants revenge. "And I'll thank you to leave me alone!" he spat, before turning to Andrea. "Let's go."
Later, in the Anderson Mansion, Ryoma was sitting at the rooftop, when the door opened. He saw it was his former lovers. "What do you want?" he said angrily, but faltered a bit when he saw their puffy eyes. Obviously, they had been crying.
"We just wanted…to say sorry, we…" he trailed off when he saw the cold glare he had sent to him, but he saw something else. It was only there for an instance. But it was definitely there.
A flicker of pity.
"It's too late to say anything already, you five. Ryoma's dead. We all have to move on from there…" he stared at them. "But then again, you shouldn't have let him slip away."
"I know we shouldn't, Echizen." Sanada said solemnly. "But, I was hoping you could forgive us, for…"
"Maybe in time, I could forgive you for what you did to my twin, but right now, it's not the best time." He turned to Tezuka. "You know, he talked about you all a lot, especially you, Tezuka. You were his captain, and were the person who understood him the most. You were the best friends he ever had, eventually lovers. Things change, the person you knew to be your lover will only be a memory. In time, you will go back to Japan after you finish your business with Mr. Anderson, and I'll be a memory too. It's best if you just let him go." With that, he disappeared into the darkness, leaving them baffled.
"You're lying to yourself again, Ryoma." said a voice in the darkness. Ryoma turned to see Andrea's silhouette. "I know you still love them. I can tell by hearing your heartbeat."
"Andrea….Kalluto has done so much for me; I am going to put avenging him first. If I have to kill my compassion in order to take revenge for Kalluto, I will, even if it means keeping them away from me…"
He threw a knife, and it hit an insect flying mid-air, slicing it exactly in half. "And nobody's going to stop me…."
BP: Bad, because I have writer's block and I only got 10 minutes, please review though! They make me happy!