THIRD PERSON
Soul blew the puff of smoke in the air. He was sitting on the edge of his bed, thinking about what happened yesterday.
*FlashBack*
Soul examined the rundown apartment building as he popped a couple of painkillers. His shoulder was killing him.
"So is this were that guy shot me lives?" Soul questioned, still looking at the building. Black*Star furrowed his eyebrows.
"I thought Maka said his name was James." Kid smacked Black*Star in the back of his head.
"This guy is a professional hitman! Why would he use his real name?!" Kid turned his attention to Soul, "So what's the plan boss?"
"What floor does he live on?"
"Third"
"What about the building?"
"Seven floors, about 4 or 5 apartments on each floor, the building is fairly old so the walls are paper thin, it only has stairs, a front entrance, an emergency exit, and a fire escape." Kid explained. Soul just nodded
"Soo... what's the plan?" Black*Star asked. Soul scowled and hit him in the back of the head.
"Ouch!"
"Dumbass! You see me thinking! Go wait on 2 floor fire escape. He might come by there." Black*Star weakly nodded and started walking.
Kid sighed while shaking his head. "Sometimes I think we're too hard on Black*Star."
"Nah Black*Star needs you to yell and use harsh words or he won't understand." Soul started walking towards the building, "Come on."
Kid caught up with Soul as they walked through the entrance. "I'm assuming you have a plan."
"Of course just follow my lead." They walked up to the third floor as quietly as possible. Since the building was old, the floors creaked a lot.
Right when they got halfway down the hall, one of the opened behind them. Both Soul and Kid turned around with their guard up.
It was a little girl; couldn't be more than five. She looked shocked by Kid's gun pointing in her direction. Soul noticed this and signaled for him to ease up. Kid lowered his gun and nodded. Soul walked over to the girl and crouched down to her level.
He flashed her a smile. "Hey little one what are you doing up so late?"
"Mommy's taking her medicine and she heard noise in the hallway and told me to go check." Soul inwardly frowned. The kid's mom was probably getting high off drugs right now. He still smiled at the little girl, who gave him a warm smile back.
Soul dug in his pocket and got a piece of candy from his pocket. He carefully put it her hands. "Here's a piece of candy kid. Enjoy. Now you need to go back inside while I take care of that noise for you so go back inside." Soul ruffled her hair and the kid nodded. The second she went inside, Soul sighed.
"Okay now we have to get this done quickly. I would hate to have to kill someone for getting involved." Kid nodded before leading Soul to a door.
"Is this it?" Kid nodded.
"Okay now break down the door" Kid gasped.
"Wait! We can't just bust into there? Everyone in the building is gonna hear!"
"So? Obviously these people are gonna hear anyway!" soul yelled/whispered. Kid sighed.
"Well you're the boss." Kid than kicked down the door. The two rushed in, seeing their target on the couch. The guy immediately noticed them and made a run for it.
Kid almost ran after him but Soul stopped him. "wait he's going out the window."
A few minutes later, They see Black*Star climbing through the window with the guy in hand. Black*Star carries him to the middle of the room and drops him. Kid and Black*Star surround him, seeming to make him hesitate to escape.
"hey James" Soul greeted.
"My name's not James" He retorted.
"I figured that but then again I don't care about your name." Soul explained, looking around his house, "Now I'm gonna ask you nicely. who sent you to shoot up the meeting?" James snorted.
"Why don't you go fuck yourself" Right when James said that, Kid shot him in the knee. James let out painful cry.
Soul winced. "Aw wrong answer but I'll let you try again. Nice TV by the way."
"You bastard!" James yelled at Soul, who payed no mind. Kid shot him in the other knee. James writhed in pain on the ground. Soul on the other hand, nonchalantly inspected a snow globe before putting it down. Soul walked over to the bleeding man. He crouched down to James's level.
"Now I'm gonna be gracious enough to give you a third chance. If you answer wrong I'll leave with my friend Black*star here and let him do what ever he wants. Warning he has lost more a few marbles over the years. Or you could tell me who sent you and I might call an ambulance." James just coughed and wheezed a little before being silent all together. Soul just stood up.
"Looks like he's made his decision. let's go Kid" Soul turned to Black*Star, "Here's a knife. Try not to torture him too long or it'll just be weird." Black*Star nodded as Soul and Kid headed for the door.
"Wait! Please wait!" James yelled as best he could. This made Soul and Kid stop.
Soul looked at the man. "Tell me."
James coughed. "There were these guys who worked in sex trafficking. They randomly contacted me to shoot up your meeting thing. They gave me a stack of pictures so that's who I aimed at." Soul furrowed his eyebrows, walking closer to James.
"Who were these guys?" Soul asked.
"Don't know. I know they gave fake names. all I know is that the do most of their business in the west part of death city and they usually abduct their 'products'." Soul suddenly kick James in the head, knocking him unconscious.
Black*Star couldn't believe Soul just did that. "What the hell man?! He's was telling us info." Soul just kicked the wall.
"The guys that hired him. they were the ones who abducted Maka."
*End Flashback*
Soul blew out another cloud of smoke into air before sighing again. He had feeling this wasn't gonna end good.
"I didn't know you smoked." Soul turned his head, looking at the doorway.
Soul smashed the lit end of the cigarette into the ash tray. "Not all the time Princess. Just when I'm stressed."
Soul extended his hand out to Maka. She walked over and took his hand. He led Maka so she was right in between his legs.
Soul put his hands on Maka's hips. "So what brings you around? Princess never graces me with her presence without a reason." Soul asked as he looked up at her.
Maka found herself snaking her arms around Soul's neck and playing with his hair. She avoided Soul's gaze, trying to find a good way to start. "Well um..."
Maka bit her lip. She had been contemplating whether or not to tell Soul what her dad said.
But then again...
Her eyes lingered to the bandage under Soul's tank.
What if I tell Soul this and he gets hurt again
Soul could clearly see the hesitation and worry plastered on her face. Maka didn't know how obvious she was with her emotions.
"Hey come here" Soul pulled Maka in closer and kissed her. Maka didn't hesitate to kiss him back. It wasn't like their usual kisses. This kiss was slow but still hungry. Soul slowly pulled away while Maka wasn't quite ready to let go.
Maka looked Soul in the eyes, suppressing the urge to whine. She licked her lips. "What was the kiss for?"
"I don't know." Soul chuckled, "You looked like you needed to relax."
This made Maka pout. It sounded like he was teasing her. "Well you tasted like smoke." Maka retorted.
"And I bet you loved every second of it." Soul smirked before kissing Maka again.
Maka didn't hesitate to kiss back. She had pretty much given up on the idea of resisting. Soul was too tempting. Too alluring. Maka just couldn't hold herself back anymore.
Soul leaned back on the bed and Maka was now on top of him; not that Maka minded.
Soul's hands wandered away from Maka's hips and up her shirt. Maka couldn't lie. She liked the feeling of Soul's hands on her bare skin. It even made her shiver a bit. But even though Maka liked it, she had to stop him.
She pulled away from Soul and rolled to the other side of the bed. Now Maka was leaning against the headboard while leaving a very confused Soul at the foot of the bed.
"Maka-" Soul started, breaking the silence.
Maka, finally gathering enough courage, interrupted him. "Look Soul do you want to uh I mean w-with me"
"If you mean 'do I wanna have sex with you' then the answer is yes." This made Maka turn bright red. She grabbed a pillow next to her and covered her face.
"You know we don't have to talk about this. You seem way too embarrassed anyways." soul said. Maka shook her head, still too embarrassed to look up.
Soul sighed and crawled next to Maka. "What did you expect me to say Princess? I'm a teenage boy." After a few seconds of silence, Maka stopped burying her in the pillow and looked at him. All Maka could hope for was her face not being the color of a tomato.
"I'm not having sex with you." Maka said that as clearly as possible. Soul just shrugged and grabbed Maka's hand. He rubbed the back of her hand slightly with his thumb, not looking up from their hands.
"Okay so you won't have sex with me. I can live with that. If all I wanted was sex, I wouldn't be with you Princess." Maka, more than satisfied with this answer, cuddled up next to Soul. This was one of those times were she let Soul hold her.
"I'll wait until you're ready." he whispered to her. Maka gave a peck on the lips.
"Thanks for understanding" Soul chuckled.
"Fine just don't make me wait too long. I'm still a horny teenage boy." Maka laughed.
"We'll see." Just as they were enjoying themselves, Soul cellphone rang. He groaned, upset that the phone call just ruined everything. He still picked up his phone.
"Hello" Soul answered not too happily.
"From your tone, I probably called at the wrong time." Black*Star guessed.
"You think" Soul said back, "Anyway what is it?"
"oh I just wanted to tell you Kid sent some of our guys to that sex trafficking headquarters you told us to get info on. It's in the warehouse district. Our guys will handle most of the work before we go in. So I just letting you ahead of time so get ready." Black*Star told Soul.
"Fine I'll get ready. Bye." Soul hung up before cuddling back up with Maka.
"Who was that?" Maka asked.
"Black*Star called about business that needs attending to and told me to be ready." Maka pursed her lips. She should have guessed Soul would say it like that.
"I've made a decision not to ask about this so called business but you should go. It's probably important."
"Nah. They can handle it." Soul insisted. Maka sat up.
"I'm telling you go. I promised Tsubaki I'd come over today anyway." Maka got up off the bed.
"come on Princess! I'm telling you they can handle it so come back!"
"Bye Soul." Maka said as she stood in the doorway, "Oh and stop smoking. It's bad for you."
Soul watched her leave before groaning.
"Tell me again why we're knocking on their door?" His ice blue eyes burrowed into his happy-go-lucky friend. The friend however was unfazed by his indifferent stare.
"Because Roku if we're gonna beat them all up, thrash their headquarters, and harass their leader the least we can do is knock." He replied back to Roku, "Right Kazuki?"
"...sure Tanaki..." Kazuki replied back. Tanaki pouted, running his hand through his shaggy brown hair.
"That really wasn't convincing enough." Tanaki protested, "Oh I think that's them."
"Wait let me leave my skateboard out here. Last fight, I lost a wheel and it was broken half." By time Roku put his skateboard down, someone answered the door. Of course the person didn't open the door. It was more like a slot just for your eyes.
The man's hostile eyes looked them over them. "Who the hell are you?" Tanaki grinned at the man.
"Our names aren't important. We just came for leader so he can answer some questions." You could tell by the man's eyes, he was probably deeply scowling at how casually Tanaki had said that.
"Get the fuck out our territory freak!" The minute the man closed the slot, Tanaki kicked down the door. The door fell right on the man and was probably squishing him. The door was a thick metal one.
Tanaki just walked on the door, literally smashing the man to death. Tanaki was totally unfazed by the man's earpeircing scream. As the man went limp, he just grinned and sniffed the air.
"Don't you just love the smell of fresh blood in the air?" Tanaki happy-go-lucky expression turned cold and bloodthirsty one. Tanaki then continued farther into the warehouse.
Roku simply sighed as he walked in, careful to step over the fresh blood coming from under the door. "Ugh that side of Tanaki is coming out again." Kazuki wasn't far behind Roku. Roku looked up at the taller man as he stuffed his hands in his pockets.
"I'm gonna go watch his back. You know how Tanaki gets when he starts killing people. He forgets everything around him." Roku told Kazuki, "You just watch my back big guy." Kazuki nodded before they both headed in different directions.
Tanaki, on the other hand, was totally ignorant to the fact that Roku and Kazuki weren't with him. Probably because he was too busy breaking some guy's arm. The more the guy screamed the harder Tanaki pulled.
Tanaki was enjoying the guy screaming in pain too much to notice other henchman charging at him with a pipe. Tanaki noticed too late to react. But he didn't have to since a knife came flying and stabbed the man in the neck.
He fell with a 'thump' and Tanaki sighed in relief. "phew that was a close on! Good thing you were here Roku or I'd be a goner!" Roku walked up to Tanaki with a shake of his head.
"Even after close calls like this you still don't pay attention to your surroundings. If you did, I wouldn't have to bail you out." Tanaki just laughed this comment off which made Roku frown.
"Haha really? Anyway how'd you find me so fast? There's like a million doors in here."
Roku looked dumbfounded.
What kind of question was that Tanaki
"Anyone could you with that huge trail of blood and bodies you left." Tanaki grinned.
"Aw I thought I was less messy this time."While they were talking, the man with the broken arm was crawling away, "Ah I almost forget about this guy under me. Excuse me." With this, Tanaki broke his neck.
Suddenly, The two heard a gunshot and someone drop to the floor. Out of nowhere, Kazuki dropped down from a window. Roku was startled from Kazuki's sudden appearance.
"God I'll never get used to that." Roku noticed Kazuki with a sniper riffles, "Who did you shoot?"
Kazuki just pointed in the far corner where there were lots of big crates."Him..." Tanaki walked over to the crates. It didn't take long for him to notice the man hiding behind them. Tanaki dragged him over to Roku and Kazuki. Roku dug into his hoodie pocket and pulled out a picture.
He held the picture up next to the man's face. "mission accomplished. We got the leader."
"Are you the one who called the hit on our boss?" Tanaki asked the man but didn't give the man time to respond. Tanaki just climbed on top of him and started bashing his face into the floor.
Roku and Kazuki didn't try to stop Tanaki; just watched him. As they watched blood leak from the man's face, Roku ears perked up at a sound closing in. It was his skateboard.
He turned to find Kid riding in on his skateboard. Kid stopped and hopped off Roku's skateboard. "Sorry we're late. Soul was taking forever." Kid pointed behind him at Soul and Black*Star. Roku shrugged as he picked up his Skateboard.
"Nah we have the situation under control." Roku said, mentioning over at Tanaki bashing the man's face in. Black*Star playfully elbowed Kazuki.
"Hey big guy long time no see." Kazuki didn't say anything and just gave him a blank stare, "Not gonna say anything this time either? Okay." Soul walked over to Tanaki.
"Get off of him. How am I supposed to interrogate him if he's dead." Tanaki immediately stopped and got up. Soul helped the man up and leaned him up against a wall.
The man seemed barely conscious."Thank you..."
"Don't thank me. I didn't want to help you. I want answers" Soul answered truthfully,"So are you going to tell me why you hired that hitman to shoot up the meeting."
"I...didn't want to...but my boss...that woman..."
Black*Star rolled his eyes. "Do you really expect us to believe your boss is a woman?" The man let out a humorless laugh.
"I know...how it sounds but...it's the truth" Soul looked him in the eye. He could tell the man didn't have much let in him.
"What's her name?" The man used his last breath.
"Arachne"
Hihi Everyone! I know long time no see! I was gonna update on christmas but my computer decided to ruin my life and delete this chapter! I had to write it all over! Sorry it took so long but I wanted it to be as close as possible to the chappy that got deleted! I hope you guys a had a good holiday and a good new years so far! Tell me about your new years while your at it! Mine is okay so far! My new years resolution was to do better in school but I have a midterm project due in three days and i haven't even started! Anyway, onto review reply time! P.s it's gonna be long!
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And that it all! lastly congrats to Kaoru97, Brisken, and yuuki24688! their OCs were chosen! I loved so many OCs i couldn't just choose one! So look out for your OCs! they might come up in the next few chappies! well see ya next time!TEEHEE!R&R!