Shooting his tonfas at the mutant-looking scorpion, Tenko ran his skirt pocket to search some grenades. He didn't really expect to use them, so he just brought some, not many. Founding the small weapon, he turned his gaze at his navy blue haired friend and his team, "Tsurugi! Kurama! Minamisawa! Get down!"

The three of them followed what Tenko has told them and the crossdressing boy throwed the green ball-looking grenade to the scorpion.

BOOM!

A loud explosion sound was heard and they soon to be surrounded by black smokes. Narrowing his eye, Tsurugi tried to search Tenko, "Tenko, are you there?"

No answer.

Tsurugi tried to move from his place, but he was surprised with a tackle from his brunette friend, "Don't stand up, Tsurugi! That thing is still alive and he's above us now!"

Confused about the thing being above them, Tsurugi turned his golden-ish yellow eyes towards the sky and had those orbs widen. Tenko was right, the thing is right above them.

But seriously, the scorpion was not that important right now. What does concerned the navy blue haired Marionette now is the situation he is, no, they are in.

Tenko was hugging him tightly on him and Tsurugi is right below him.

Oh how red is Tsurugi's face right now. He knows that he need to get out of this kind of embarrassing position before he died out of his own exploding feelings or before the others found out.

Suddenly Tenko started to release him and stood up a little. He let out his tonfa, and right at his tail, he shoots it.

No, the scorpion didn't die in place. In fact, the shot raged him.

"Oops," the owner of the grayish-blue eyes frowned. Sighing in desperation, Tsurugi shot up and took Tenko's hand, running out of the smoke.

But they're running was no match for the scorpion, that the mutant was much bigger and much faster. The two Marionettes started to panic, their weapons was almost out of ammo and Tenko found out that he only had one grenade.

But suddenly a loud slash was heard, and the scorpion dropped down dead, green blood pouring out from its wound.

Having an awe sight, Tsurugi shocked in his state of still holding Tenko's hand. He looked to the person that was in front of him, holding a big black saw.

"Long time no see, guys,"

His goldenish yellow eyes widen in shock. It can't be. He thought the person in front of him already died.

"Akane-san!" Tenko released his hand and ran to the brown braided hair girl, tackling her to a bear hug, "I thought you were dead! We all thought you were dead!"

"Ahaha, nice to meet you again too, Tenma," her lavender eyes turned to Tsurugi, "Hello, Tsurugi."

"…Hi…," still in shock, Tsurugi stared to the girl that was his partner long time ago.

"Okay, okay, get off me now Tenma," she said while gently pushing the brunette from hugging, "Right now we have to get to the facility, quickly,"

Tenko shook his head. Tsurugi stared again at her, "We? You're counting me in? But I'm—,"

"I always know that you're Yuuichi-san's brother and you were never intended to be a Marionette, Tsurugi," she smiled at him, "I always know you're a good guy,"

The Marionette was a little startled, but he returned the brown braided girl's smile.

"Thanks,"


Diamond

Chapter 7


God Eden District, Thursday, 17.30 p.m., The Kidou Facility-?

The three of them was finally in the facility, but only to found that the place had bathed in glaring red light, and the sound of warning filled in the place.

"The facility had gone chaos since Experiment no. 2 has escaped," Akane drifted her gaze around her, "We need to find him fast now,"

Tenko nodded and gestured Tsurugi to follow him, "Where are we going, Tenma?"

"To his chamber," Tenma said while running, "He must have not gone far. His body was too fragile and weak to run,"


Tenma walked around the facility with a indigo haired woman in front of him, leading the way. She turned to him and said, "Nee, Tenma-kun, do you want to try seeing one of our experiments?"

"What kind of experiments?" the brunette haired boy titled his head, resulting a smile from the woman, "You'll see,"

They walked up into a chamber, with two incubators was stood highly. Inside of each of the incubator was a boy. One had black hair, one has platinum with silverfish color hair that tied in a ponytail. Both had their eyes closed.

"What is this?" Tenma walked closer to one of the incubators, Haruna smiled, "A human experiment. Do you know about the Shadow Virus, Tenma-kun?"

The brunette nodded. 'That's the virus that got Taiyou sick,' he thought.

"We are currently experimenting to find the cure of the virus and to prolong human life, since the death rate in the country had increased drastically this year," the indigo haired woman walked to one of the incubators in front of Tenma and pushed a red button on its panel, "They are living you know, try talking to them!"

The indigo haired woman then tells how does the experiment works, resulting a nod from Tenma. She also told Tenma that the experiment its self is a project to develop inner mental powers, that every human actually have powers such as telekinesis and telepathy but they never actually used it so the power eventually become dull and unused.

After that, Haruna leaves Tenma alone in the chamber. The brunette was a little confused about what should he do now, so then he talked to one of them, the one with platinum hair. He pushed the red button that Haruna just told him to push if he wants to talk to them, "Uhh, Hello there…,"

Suddenly the platinum haired boy moved his head, like if he was tilting in confusion.

"Who are you?"

"Ah, umm, I'm Matsukaze Tenma," the brunette didn't realize that the boy with respond that lively.

"Ten..ma?" he suddenly smiled, "Nice to meet you, Tenma,"

Returning his smile, Tenma beamed another question, "How about you? Who are you?"

The boy was silent for a while, "….Hakuryuu,"

Tenma grinned and they both started to talk, like where Tenma is from, why is Hakuryuu became the experiment, his personal information, and lots of other things.

"Tenma, do you know where is Shuu?" Hakuryuu suddenly asked. Tenma silenced for a while then turned to the incubator beside him, "Oh, do you mean the boy with black hair?"

Hakuryuu nodded. Tenma smiled again at him, "He's right beside you. Are you his friend?"

Smiling, the platinum haired boy nodded his head, "Yes, he is my friend since I was young,"


"This must be his chamber," Tenko said, caressing the broken door that looks like something inside from the room has just exploded, "Yuuka-san said he broke out of power outburst. Senguuji must haven't know about the project that he left him undeveloped so he can't contain all of the powers,"

The three of them entered the chamber, only to found out there's only one incubator in the chamber, and a broken one. Green chemical liquid was oozing out from the shattered glass, but the document on the table beside the panel was untouched. Tenko walked closer to the table and took the document, "This is Hakuryuu's incubator. Where is Shuu's….,"

"They had brought him to other place," Akane steped closer to the brunette, "I saw them going to Gassan Kunimitsu District,"

"Shit, we're too late," Tsurugi cursed, "We have to find Hakuryuu soon,"

Tenko and Akane nodded and the three of them went out from the chamber.


Hakuryuu can't run much more.

His legs are very tired, his head felt light, he felt that he can't move again.

But he had to find Shuu. He can't just left the facility without his friend.

But he needed to escape the facility, mostly when he overheard the conversation of Senguuji and Ishido yesterday. Both of them didn't know that they had left the button turned on, so he can hear what are they talking about.

He shivered at their words. They said they will make him and Shuu a human weapon to win against the rebellions. No, he didn't volunteer to be one of the experiments for that.

He remembered why he agreed to be one of the experiments there. It was all because of Senguuji had exploded his and Shuu's village, leaving them homeless and hurt. He remembered how Shuu was in a thin line of life and death. He remembered how he cried for help but no one came.

And then Kidou showed up out of nowhere, offering a help for his black haired friend, but they have to promise to participate in the Zero Experiment Project.

And he agreed, for he had nothing to choose anymore.

The platinum haired boy dropped on his knee to the floor, his hand supporting him from collapsing at the cold metal floor. No, he can't faint here, he had to find Shuu, before it's too late.

"Hakuryuu!"

He heard a familiar voice. It wasn't Shuu's but it made him relieved a bit.

"Ten…ma?" his eyes couldn't corporate with him again. He knows he's going to black out sooner or later.

Thankfully the brunette had reached him just in time, holding his back to support him, "Hakuryuu! It's me, Tenma! Are you alright?"

"Tenma…. Shuu…. Is… where….,"

Then finally Hakuryuu collapsed in Tenko's hands and he was incredibly light. Tsurugi came closer to him and took the platinum haired boy in his hand, "I'll carry him. Let's find the exit now,"

Tenko nodded and the three of them ran from the place.


Raimon District, Thursday ,21.00 p.m., The Diamond Wings Main Headquarters-?

"Is he really human?"

Masaki stared at the confused platinum haired boy as he tilted his head at the place. Hikaru poked his cheek, "He's really cold…,"

"He looks strange," Shinsuke added, "Can he talk?"

"Of course, he is human," Aoi said, while smiling to the platinum haired boy and then turned to Tenma, "Right, Tenma?"

The brunette nodded, "Yeah, he's fully human," he then turned back to the documents he was holding, Hakuryuu's document.

The base was really a ruckus when they finally arrived from God Eden district. Well, mostly because Tsurugi came along and with Masaki shouting at him, 'YOU'RE THAT MARIONETTE THAN KIDNAPPED KIRINO-SENPAI ASDFGHJKL I WILL KILL YOU' and everyone asking him why did he used a girl's Marionette uniform and who is Hakuryuu. They are quite happy too, seeing Akane is not dead and she is perfectly fine. The brown haired girl is now in the control room with Yuuichi and Kirino, discussing about things.

"Oi, oi, don't pester him too much, he just got here," Tsurugi said casually while he sat in front of Tenma, sipping the tea that was given by Aoi before. Masaki scoffed at the navy haired Marionette, "Who are you telling me things to do?"

"I'm telling you to do a good thing! Why do you hate me so much?" golden-ish yellow eyes started to death glared the owner of the brown eyes. The teal haired boy looked at him with a 'you-think?' expression, "Well duh! You're the one who kidnapped Kirino-senpai and Yukimura-san!"

"There they go again," Taiyou rolled his eyes at the fighting guys, "Tenma, stop them before they try to kill each other,"

"Don't worry Taiyou, they won't with me around," Tenma smiled at the orange haired boy and then turned to the guys, suddenly black aura came out from him and the atmosphere gets cold, "Right, guys?"

Shocked at the sudden death glare by Tenma, Tsurugi and Masaki quickly ended their fight and nodded, "Y-Yeah!"

"Good!" the brunette returned to normal, smiled and turned his gaze back to the document, and reading it all over again,

"Name: Hakuryuu

Age of first entered experiment state : 7 years

Age this year : 14 years

Health state/Mental state : Excellent/Good

Footnotes : Has enormous amount of energy. Telekinesis outburst still occurs. Telepathy works perfectly. Need more control on emotion. Mind reading is not tested."

Other papers were about his statistics and more notes. Tenma sighed. As the document says, Hakuryuu's telekinesis powers are unstable, he might need Masaki to train him so he can control it.

His gaze turned to the platinum haired boy, who was now staring innocently at Taiyou. The orange haired boy realized this and he smiled, waving his hand at him. Hakuryuu nodded and then he looked at Tenma.

Suddenly a voice entered Tenma's mind.

"Tenma, does he has a virus?"

Confused of what the voice is saying, Tenma turned to Hakuryuu, only to see the boy has his eyes on Taiyou again. The brunette finally understand what the voice means and who said it. Thinking how to answer the voice, he just thought in his mind,

"Yes he is."

The notes was right, Hakuryuu's telepathy works fine and looks like his mind reading is fine too, even it has never been tested.

"Why does he look normal?"

"He had been through some rehabilitation and some medicines. He may look normal from the outside but inside he still has the virus,"

"….. I feel bad,"

Tenma raised his eyebrows at Hakuryuu, "Why?"

"I… don't know. I mean my experiment was meant to make a medicine for the virus right? I feel bad for breaking out from the facility. I should have stayed to continue the experiment process,"

But the brunette shook his head, "No. You can't go back,"

Hakuryuu looked at him in confusion, "Why?"

"The facility has taken over by Senguuji. The facility isn't going to develop you as a medicine experiment anymore. If you stay there they might develop you as a human weapon,"

Hakuryuu was silent. He looked down. Tenma saw him and gets off from his seat, going over to him.

But suddenly the control room was opened and Yuuichi, Kirino and Akane came out., "Minna, please gather around a bit,"

All of them start to sit at the dining table, which fortunately the chairs were enough for everyone.

"So, you heard about the Senguuji Festival next week right? The festival that was held for celebrating Senguuji Yamato's birthday?" Yuuichi said in a serious tone. Everyone nodded, making him proceed to continue his talk, "Gouenji-san had said his plans to me. We will start the Revolution War at the festival,"

Almost everyone gasped, except Tsurugi and Hakuryuu because both of them didn't know what is a Revolution War. Tenma quickly told them, "Revolution War is our plan to held a war between us, the Diamond Wings organization and the Senguuji Government."

"Are you serious, Yuuichi-san?" Taiyou said in concend, "There's gonna be a lot of people going there! And I heard the festival will be held at the Inazuma Capitals. The Capital has a lot more people than any district! If we commence a fight there, there will be chaos,"

"I know. But this is our only chance. The Marionettes and the government only loosen their control at the festival. If we held it at other time, it will be much harder," Yuuichi stared intently at Taiyou, making the orange haired boy silent.

"Our first step will be getting every help we can get," Akane said, "We will also going to get help from the Princess,"

"The princess? You mean Gassan Kunimitsu's princess? !" Aoi responded, "She is known by her amazing archery and her stubbornness!"

"Yes. She will be the most powerful ally we will get," Kirino added. Everyone was now in their thoughts. They know, things will get serious from now on.

"And now we will get to the real plan," Yuuichi puts up a short pile of paper at the table, "We will first split into teams,"

"Tenma, Kirino, and Hakuryuu, you will go to the Gassan Kunimitsu district, retrieve Shuu, go to Shndou, and negotiate with the princess,"

"Shuu?" Hakuryuu finally talked, "Shuu is…. There?"

"Yes," Yuuichi beamed a smile at the platinum haired boy "I'm sorry I didn't told you before, but without us knowing, Senguuji has transferred Shuu to the Gassan Kunimitu Herbs Facility. Shindou has just told me and we don't really know why he is in a herbs facility. The most important you have to retrieve your friend,"

Hakuryuu nodded, then Tenma said, "Masaki, can you give me a favor after this?"

Masaki tilted his head, "What kind of favor?"

Tenma smiled and looked at Hakuryuu, who was confused of what kind of favor Tenma wants, "Training someone,"

The teal haired boy silenced a bit, then he smiled and nodded, "No problem!"

"Next, Taiyou and Hikaru, be ready to go to Arakumo District and prepare an enormous amount of weapons. Ah, and Hikaru, you still remember my special request right? Finish it before the festival okay?"

The purple haired boy nodded willfully, "On it!"

"Aoi, Shinsuke, Masaki, prepare to go to Hakuren District, release all the Child Soldiers and tell Fubuki-san to prepare. I and Akane will manage things back here."

The three nodded, and then the navy haired teen turned to his brother, "And lastly, Kyousuke, commence to the Head what you are all this time."

"What do you mean, Nii-san?" Tsurugi confused at his brother's statement, but the older Tsurugi just smiled.

"I have a special plan for you,"


"Hime-sama, there's a letter for you,"

A guard was knocking at a room door, resulting the door was opened and revealing a girl with long, bright red hair, "What kind of letter?"

"A letter from the Diamond Wings Organization,"

Her eyes widen at the organization's name and quickly took it from the guard's hand, opening it and reading it.

"Ah, this will be interesting," she said, smiling beautifully, "Nishiki, please tell the front guards that I will be having guest tomorrow night,"

"Yes, Seto Hime-sama,"

The red haired girl smiled, "So the chaos will commence soon….,"

To be Continued...


Errh. Sorry for the long update, this is probably the longest chapter of the story. Sorry if it's a little confusing…. ._.

Ah, by the way, I had posted up some sketches about the costume designs for this story!