-Tren: Oh my, lookie here! I'm back!
-Tynann: Why do you always start with some lame 80's era welcome?
-Tren: Hm… I really don't know… (looks off confused)
-Tynann: Right… (pokes Tren)
-Tren: Huh! Oh yeah, "A.N" section. Blargh. To all of you who were nice enough to review, you'll be responded to at the end of this chapter.
-Tynann: To those of you who added Trenity170 and this story to you alerts and favorites, we thank you wholly and fully.
-Tren: And if you did none of this… you have issues! But who am I to talk?
-Tynann: Yes… who are you to talk about issues?
-Tren: (GLARE) Fine… (through gritted teeth and fake smile) I hope you enjoy this story while I have a little chat when Tynann here!
-Tynann: Uh… oh… (runs off)
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Finally Keichi came to a halting stop, bending over his knees while waiting for his breath to finally catch up to him. This was where he was supposed to meet Lin… now then, where was she?
"Good to see you finally made it," came the cold voice that he was expecting. Wiping a small bit of sweat of out his eyes he looked at the dark clad figure that landing noiselessly in front of him from the tree.
"Heh, for once I wasn't late!" Keichi laughed, pulling the Nano out of his bag and casting a quick glance over the gently glowing screen.
"You're five minutes late," Lin replied curtly, staring at him with that one red eye.
"Nope! This says I'm only a minute late!" was Keichi reply as he held the mp3 player out like a prize.
"Then it's slow."
"Hm…" he looked down at it then made a slight face and laughed embarrassedly as pressed the middle button and sighed. "Oops, my bad. It was actually on Stopwatch mode!"
Now, I'll be honest. Lin was beginning to have doubts about this young thief as he pocketed the small iPod and grinned down at her goofily.
"Well, shall we be going? I mean, there's no time like the present so let's get shakin' bacon!" Keichi cried out, rubbing his hands together and blowing on the cold tips of his fingers.
"Hn, fine. If you can keep up with me," was Lin's reply as she darted off, deceptively fast for her diminutive size.
In all truth, Keichi was more than happy to try his hardest to keep up with her, drawing quick gasps of breath as he could have sworn a rib was going to burst from his side any moment now, what with the way it was aching. After what seemed to be an eternity of silence, Keichi finally spoke up.
"So… what exactly happened to you in Makai?" he asked calmly, pushing his now short hair behind one ear.
"What?" She asked coldly, trying to not sound interested.
"Hm, trying to act like you don't remember? Can't blame ya, but…" he trailed off purposely, letting the uncomfortable tension between them that urged the small shadow on.
"if you would like to stay alive by the end of the night, I recommend that you keep your mouth shut," she responded and unless Keichi was mistaken, cold anger was threaded through each word.
You see, Keichi isn't as dumb as most people think he is. After pulling a few strings, he managed to find some information about the shadowy person named Lin. What he found wasn't really comforting. Lin was an Assassin, a certified member of a Makai guild of Assassins, though was kicked out. Reasons were unspecified though it happened just after there was a report of an extremely large mass murder of the guild's members. Interesting, hm?
"Fine, fine, I'll drop it, but isn't it a pretty creepy coincidence?" he asked, watching as the building was coming into the view.
"What did I just say?" Lin asked coldly over her shoulder at him.
"Fine, fine, you're welcome to kill me if you want. Betcha' there'll be quite a few happy people," Keichi replied, and Lin was surprised to hear there was no anger or bitterness in his voice. Just the sound of someone who was speaking the truth that he had known since childhood.
"Hn. There's no fun in killing someone who wants to die," Lin muttered off.
Dusting his hands off and reaching into his bag Keichi pulled out the little Nano and grinned at her. They were now standing in front of what seemed to a normal outlet box attached to the outside of the breathtakingly beautiful house.
"Now, to get the door to open for us, we're gonna need this!" Keichi exclaimed happily, holding the mp3 out there for her to look at.
"What are you doing to do with that?" Lin asked scathingly, wondering what he was going to do. Blast music at the security system?
In this moment, Lin began to think that… this probably wasn't the best choice. Forget beginning to have doubts, now they were visiting for dinner.
"How dare you think that low of me!" Keichi cried out in shock, mocking her with every word. Grinning at her almost crazily he unwrapped the ear bud's cord from around the sleek gadget and showed the caps of the small buds to her. With one swift movement he pulled at them until the simply tugged off.
Now she understood. They were nothing more than rather authentic look fake caps to cover two port cords. (Tren: For plugging into items.)
"You see, I decided that if I was ever going to break into security systems, it would be too much of a hassle for me to lug around my laptop with spare batteries and such. Yeah, too much pointless irritation if you ask me," Keichi ranted, looking over at Appoline.
"Right," she replied, acting like she actually understood what he was saying.
"So instead I managed to use the lab at my company to work on upgrading this harmless little mp3 player so that it becomes," he pushed the plugs into the bottom of the small stainless steel security box that was hidden behind the dull green casing that hid it. There was slight beeping noise and sudden, racing down the screen were hundreds of little symbol that looked like they belonged on the matrix. "It becomes capable of hacking!" Keichi replied with a flourish.
"Clever," she muttered, feeling slightly better that she was working with Keichi. This was shattered in a shower of neon stars when she watched as the teen reached into his satchel bag and pulled out two things.
In one hand was a thin pair of black rimmed glasses which he opened with a flick and perched on the tip of his nose. This made sense, considering the fact that most of small symbols running down the Nano's screen were far too small to read normally… but it was what was in his other hand that scared her. It was a rather familiar red box. (Tren: Can you guess what it is?) Pushing the cardboard top off he reached in and promptly pulled out three slender sticks of Pocky and stuck one in his mouth, the other two jammed between his fingers.
Yeah, Lin no longer had any linger doubts. In fact, they were stuck there, staying for ages. This could probably be one of the worst decisions since the creation of that crappy Batman and Robin movie, complete with plastic nipples… (Tynann: I forgot all about that! GROSS! Tren: Yeah… one of the worst mistakes…) Why didn't she try to find someone else? Someone sane… and preferably… professional?
"What in God's earth are you doing?" Lin asked, trying to keep calm.
"Hm?" Keichi asked, pushing the Pocky deeper into his mouth with one finger. "Snacking, it's gonna take a few minutes to hack in, and then it'll all be down hill from there."
Lin watched distastefully as he offered the red box to her.
"No thank you," she replied with clipped words.
"Too bad, hm… just a second," he muttered as he chomped one of the other chocolate covered sticks and grinned.
True to his word, in three minutes there was a minute beep as it informed them that they were now connected with the security systems.
Now, for the normal hacker it would take around five hours to get in. The reason why Keichi was so frickin' fast? He was the CEO of his mother's old family company, Katakana Corporations. (Tren: Yes, Katakana, like the alphabet) Katakana Corp. created many electronics, from computers, game systems, and more recently top of the line, unbeatable security systems. Those security systems came from Keichi, who decided that who better to create safety gizmos than a thief? Right? Though he never had a clue that he'd be breaking into his own… But of course, Keichi was one of the best hackers around, mainly because of the necessity of hacking in his daily job.
"And, voila, we're in," he replied, chomping down on the last stick of Pocky and tossing the box back into his bag.
"Great, can we go in now?" Lin asked impatiently, tapping one foot against the floor.
"Yup, next we need to get into the main security box, and that's it! Piece o' cake… or pie… or whatever. Whatever flips your lid," Keichi replied, unplugging the mp3 player walking over the main door, opening it cautiously.
Since there were no sirens or silent alarms, they were safe. And YES! Due to the fact that Keichi actually does have good hearing (Tren: When he wants to! Selective hearing…he's like me!) he can immediately tell when a silent alarm goes off. Pushing the door father open he waited for Lin to go in before following.
This was the part that always bugged Keichi. No matter how many times his sensei back at the Thieves Guild would chastise him, his fear of silence always made life hard when breaking into deadly quiet houses. His fingers trembling slightly, he rushed over to the small, shiny black steel box, pressing gently on the dimly glowing blue pad, watching as the small under casing slip open, revealing the ports. Plugging the totally pimped out mp3 (Tynann: Sorry for Tren's sudden outburst of freaky Slang… She's been watching to much of Pimp My Ride) into the security box and began to hack.
"The room we need to get to is on the other side of this door, there are motion sensors, laser trip beams, and…" Lin was cut off.
"Yeah, lots of bad stuff to trip. I can get all of it off, except the fact that if we remove the glass… we're screwed. The pressure sensors are in no way attached to technology, it's completely caveman. So this means, we need to get to the item without removing the glass, I can do it pretty quickly… can you though?" he asked, looking up at Lin from where he was crouched on his knees.
"Hn. I have my ways, just continue," she replied coldly.
"Alrigh-y…" there was an awkward silence that was broken with another beep.
"We're in." Keichi informed almost breathlessly.
It took the two only seconds to leave the Nano plugged and primed and for the two to race into the room, darting among various expensive items to reach their goals…
Completely unaware to the two thieves inside, the Spirit Detectives, Midori and Samui, were outside.
Sitting cross-legged in the grass was Midori as she used the wireless port in her laptop to access the security systems. Guess what kind of computer Midori uses? Katakana Corp.'s two year old model. Of course, she's upgraded it and was ready to hack into the security. And guess what she found?
-Tren: Have fun! Got this chapter done and am now feverently trying to finish Alternate Universe Vol. 1 now…. But yeah! BTW, Tynann will not be helping me this AN section… RIGHT? (glares)
Tynann: Ugh… right… (Tynann now being taken away by ambulance)
Tren: But yeah! (smiles) I just got my Halloween costume done! (my friends are going as Hiei, Naruto, random demon, and then I'm that chick from Street Fighters! I found the dress, and those freaky puffy pants and finally figured out how to get my Bao Buns to stay on! Next, reader reviews!
-Kittyluv: Hello! Don't worry, it's not stupid at all. But if I'm your twin, who's the evil one? But I really do feel for you! And bloody passion is a great way to despise the marching season! Those Cymbals hurt! Not to mention drummers are so frickin' evil for hittin' em' so hard! (And I'm ready to cry cuz' I just found out my school is going into the playoffs for KING-CO Champs! Which means long roadtrips AND having to play cymbals! (sobs) and yes, Oboist is a word! Though I'm happy with my new English Horn solo! It's okay though, I cry often because of my cymbals! My oboe Enzo and my English Horn Kurama are so much better! Good luck with your cymbals to! And YAY! We're in the same boat!
Nekoofdeath: Thank you! I love it when people ask me questions about the characters that way I can answer and help you all out. Yes, Midori is partly Mazoku, but pretty darn small on it because… well… her father didn't have all that much, ya know?
Sugar high water uma: Thank you for thinking it's good and fascinating. If you were possessed… please don't puke pea soup! And please don't have my head! But yeah, death threat reviews are pretty awesome! And don't worry, I'm random! Just ask Sabs.
Speaking of Sabs….
AbhorsenSabriel87: Blah blah blah. Yeah, I know you'll never stop buggin' me about grammer! As you can see, the next one is up. BTW, to all of you reading this, READ THIS CHICK'S STORIES! THEY ARE AWESOME!
ShadeSpirit: than you for commending me. Yeah, I hate YYHkids fics. But decided that since I'd read sooo many bad ones, I might as well try to make a better one! Right? Heh, but it has helped!
Tren: So that's it, until next chapter, Hasta la bye bye!
