STAY BY MY SIDE

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Disclaimer : Yeah...right.

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Genre (s) : Suspense and Romance

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Warning : Just like before

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A/N : Sorry for the late update. I have this...what do you call it? Writer block? Yeah, that. I know what I want to write, but when I tried to change it into English, I just can't do it. Maybe because I have another fanfic to write or another story that popped up inside my head (I got this interesting dream and I don't want to let it stop just like that!). AND I REALLY WANT TO WRITE TONARI NO SEKI-KUN'S FANFIC, DAMN IT!

Today thanks goes to Alatum Laminis! (Again :D ). Sorry for the bad tenses. I still remember that day clearly when I got 45 for my English test. Ahahaha \(-_-")/. Oh well, please enjoy this chapter.

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"An intruder!"

"Don't let him go further!"

"Catch him!"

"KILL HIM!"

The quiet, peaceful hallway turned into utter chaos when a deafening sound of the bell rang inside the building. Everyone scattered—not just the guards, but also the one who was woken up from his deep slumber—to the center of the commotion. It was a man, with a nicely built body and his spiky light brown hair, wearing a pair of black gloves adorned with iron thorns. People with black suit surrounded him, like cats cornering their prey. But the man didn't feel like the cornered one as he showed the grunts his devilish smile , "C'mon, ya mongrels. 's this the true power of a Behemoth's 34 pillars? Heh! I'm disappointed with ya."

He tried (and succeeded) to provocated them with his taunts. Just a simple, plain provocation, and they rushed at him with murderous intent. The latter just widened his grin and brought his knuckles to his face, as he also rushed forward and tried to enjoy this little fight for as long as he could.

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"What the hell are those puny guards doing? How could an intruder just barge into our headquarters like that?!"

"It's okay, Hec-chan. We can handle this, right?" The girl tried to calm the messy haired man down as their legs brought them further to the lowest floor, rushing towards the basement. While her tone full of teasing, her face was the opposite. How could they stay calm when their HQ—their supposedly secure, trap-filledHQ—was going haywire just because of one man? Well, he probably wasn't just an ordinary man if he could sneak this far into the building without anyone noticing.

While they busied themselves trying to guess the identity of the bastard who disturbed their peaceful night, a small boy with light blue hair suddenly appeared in front of them, with tattered clothes and a trail of blood could be seen on his pale face, "This is bad, Hecadoth-san...Agiel-san..." He talked very slowly, didn't seem to mind to recover his panting before talking.

"Oh, Naga-chan. Fancy meeting you here!" That was just a courtesy, as she placed her hands on his small shoulders, trying to ease his anxiety in this perilous situation. With a serious look still plastered all over her face, she asked, "Can you tell us what this 'bad' situation is, ne?"

Still huffing and puffing, he scowled and his face contorted—look like Hec-chan, the girl though—and he parted his dry lips, spoke the words that stucked in his throat, "The prisoner..."

He didn't have to finish his talk, as his comradeseyes widened in realization and rushed past him to the big door that loomed in front of them. The man kicked the door down with a bang!, hard enough to crack the wall behind the door. They looked around the vast, dark room, hoping to find the white haired man that still tied to the wooden chair like he always was when they came to interrogated him.

But they found nothing.

"Shit!" The man cursed under his breath and he turned right away before he can felt a small tug in the hem of his shirt, "What?" He shouted to the person who dared to stop him, and he realized that the girl was staring at him with a strange grin in her puffed cheeks.

"You don't have to run after him, Hec-chan." And she continued before the man could cut her words off, still with that weird-looking smile, "I have a plan."

In the dark, thick forest, many animals scattered around everywhere, tried to avoid the man's vigorous step. His long brown hair swayed to the right and left as he run across the forest, holding a small boy with this face full of bruises in his back.

"Thanks, Natsume. I owed you one." Said the boy, as he have to balanced his body if he didn't want to fall. A gust of wind strocked his face and he shivered a bit from the coldness of the spring. The white haired man tried to stay awake and he peered behind his savior's head with one eyes covered by his bangs, "But...Tojo was still inside the building." He just couldn't leave his friend in an enemy's nest like that.

The man let out a small chuckle, "You don't have to worry, Furu-chan. You don't mean that you were underestimated his strength, right?" He can heard a small 'of course not!' murmur from the frailed boy. He ducked from the tree branch and turned to the right after he stop for a while, "I already told him to retreat if the situation turned worst."

Yeah. Even if he's an idiot like him, he know how to back off when the time was right, "How about Kunieda? Himekawa and Kanzaki?"

"I can't find Kunieda anywhere after our last fight. As for Himekawa and Kanzaki..."

He turned silent right away. A rustling of leaves and the sound of the man's footstep on falling leaves or a broken branch enveloped those two person with the white haired man stared in disbelieved. He didn't have to know the rest as he can guess what happened to the other, "I see..."

"I'm sorry. I can't protect them." He bit his lower lip, tried to muffle his quivered voice.

The boy shake his head lightly, "It's okay, Natsume. They already know the consequence when they agreed to betrayed the Behemoth's 34 pillars division. I believe that they were satisfied enough." He closed his eyes and clasped his hands, prayed in silent for his two ex-friends lost. He have to swallowed his urge to cry right now if he want to survived in this cruel world. A strong man didn't shed his tear for the lost of his friends in front of everyone, or they will thought that you were a weak person. That was what he said before this disaster happen.

"So...about Oga-chan." The man stroke another conversation, of course he want to change the sensitive topic before the boy heart turned more fragile. A small smile played in those sun-kissed face when he told him the information that he was really hard to get, "I finally found him."

"What the—Hilda! This is not a food!"

And a small bickering could be heard in that simple house belong to a young mother and her baby—with addition of a brunette man stayed along with them for a while.

"What do you mean by that?"

"What do I mean is what do I said!" He shouted, in a confusing sentence that Hilda's brow had to join together. Oga pointed his index finger to the...something in front of him, showed her his disgusted look, "What is this? Do you want to kill me?!"

On top of the dining table, there's laid so many choices of breakfast—or should he said, a supposed-breakfast? It looks teribble, no matter how you saw it. She said that she cooked a sunny-side eggs with vegetables, but what he saw is a lump of black charcoal (suddenly he remember an anime that he just watch yesterday in Hilda's television. The sister have this 'magic hand' as she can turned her cooking into charcoal, even when she made a sushi. What was the anime's title again? Kintama? A golden ball?!). The croquette have this disgusting smell that made his nose twitch. And what the hell?! It let out a purple steam and some of them popped up like bubbles. He believe it wasn't just his imagination because the baby also gave him an 'eeuww' expression on his face and turned to continue drinking his milk, pretending that he didn't saw anything.

Hilda's beautiful face scowled and she have her hand wraped around under her bossom, "How rude! Alaindelon can't come today 'cause he have another job to do, so I made this food for you. You should be gratefull!"

"Yeah! Like hell I would! If you can't cook anything, don't do it! Ask your husband to teach you or something like tha...ah." He stopped midway as he just realized something. Then Oga cursed himself inwardly when the young blonde mother's face turned solemn and the glint of sadness replaced the arrogant look in those green orbs. He scratched his nape, stood up from his chair and walked up to the kitchen. He can sensed Hilda's stare from his back, but he just ignored it as he grab a knive and a spatula, also some of the ingredient in the refrigerator before he occupy himself with whatever it is. After a while, Oga was back with plates in each of his hands.

"Here." He put aside her cooking and brought her another one. It was just a simple rolled-egg, fried rice and salad, but the fragrant smell made her drool succesfully. Did he make this? She took a bite from it, stop for a bit to savouring the delicious taste inside her mouth. A nice smile that look suited with her beautiful face appear on her white cheeks and Oga stared at her intently before he fetch his own chopstick and started eating.

After a couple of minutes they were eating in silent, the brunette choose to broke the awkward situation first, "You know...I can cook for you and your baby. Just think that this is my way to thanked your hospitality toward a stranger like me." He said the last part in a whispered tone, so Hilda have to leaned forward if she wanted to heard it clearly.

She cuckle a bit and said, as he brought another bite of rolled-egg inside her mouth, "Well...I look forward to it."

And then, they resumed their breakfast without saying anything anymore.

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***TBC***

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(A/N) :

Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you. About Himekawa and Kanzaki... yeah, they are dead. I just put their names in this chapter 'cause I feel bad for them. You will find that there will be so many death character in the continuation of this story. I hope you will bear with it :v

Correct me just like always, ne?

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Akabane Kazama