Chapter 10
THE MAN WHO NEVER MISSES
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Disclaimer: I own nothing, NOTHING!
Authors Notes: I know, I know, it's been a long time since I updated this story. I apologize for that. I've been busy with my other projects and I kinda forgot about it. But now I'm back and I'm here to pick up where I, or should I say, Shinji and company left off.
Last time on Devil of Eva: Shinji and company had just defeated the spider-like 9th Angel, Bullseye had just killed The Owl, his assistant, and was given a new assignment.
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Rei drew her dagger and slowly, silently crept up on Shinji as he sat at his desk. He was going over his braille-printed reports that Misato had sent him about the last battle as Rei continued to creep up on him.
She was about two meters from Shinji ready to strike, when the blind man picked up and crumpled a piece of paper and tossed it back, striking Rei in the forehead.
She sighed in defeat.
"Not bad, Rei-chan. When you're able to sneak up on me without being detected, then you will be ready to solo." he said with a smirk.
"Yes, Shinji-kun." she said as she replaced the dagger in its sheath.
"Good. Now get to bed, we've got classes in the morning and testing in the afternoon."
"We are not going to do a patrol tonight?" she asked innocently.
Shinji paused. He touched the bandages on his gut. A reminder of the 9th Angel battle where Asuka had shot him in his gut, left leg and left shoulder. Three days and he wasn't fully healed, mostly due to his high synch rate with Unit 01.
Not that that had ever stopped him before.
He sighed deeply. The curse of the double life.
"Of course."
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(The bowels of NERV...)
"How is the project coming?" Gendo asked as he entered the office.
"IT needs further testing." Ritsuko said with a hiss as she continued working with the chemicals in the Bunsen beakers.
"We have a volunteer standing by." the commander said.
Ritsuko scoffed at that. A 'volunteer' indeed. It was just another one of Gendo's lackies. Probably from his questionable Section 2 security detail who were only loyal for the money.
"The serum isn't ready, commander." Ritsuko said again.
"NERV has suffered a security breach that nearly resulted in a Third Impact."
Exaggerating a bit, aren't you? She thought as the blue liquid started turning a nice bright green tint.
"We need to strengthen our position. Tighten our security." Gendo said.
Then hire better guards. She mentally groaned.
"Will the formula work?" he asked.
Ritsuko gave him a slight scowl, as if she had just been insulted. "I don't have to remind you that the original Performance Enhancer research, which was started back in '99 and discontinued right after Second Impact, hasn't even been looked at since. And I also don't have to remind you that I've only had 24-hours to synthesis a working formula, and even that won't guarantee the implied 800 enhancement of a human being."
"But the formula has been successfully recreated?"
"Yes."
"Excellent. How soon until it can be administered?"
"Theoretically the serum is ready now, but..."
"Then I will summon the candidate."
"BUT... I recommend at least another week to make sure the serum is safe. If we were to use it now, without the necessary testing and trials, it could, conceivably, create a hulking brute of incredible strength and severely diminished intelligence."
"Sounds like the perfect soldier."
Ritsuko looked at Gendo in shock. I can't believe I'm sleeping with this man. "Commander, such a being could not be controlled, by anyone. It would be a mistake."
"Very well, doctor. You have a week." he said as he walked out of the office.
Ritsuko stared at the man as he left, her eyes practically burning a hole in the back of his head. He didn't fool her. That was too easy. She knew he was up to something.
But what?
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Daredevil and Blue Oni leaped through the air and came down hard on the roof. Ignoring the pain in his sides, the scarlet swashbuckler lead the indigo avenger across the skyline of the city.
It had been a fairly easy night in the two hours they had been out.
Two muggers, three car thieves, a foiled rapist, and a trio of bank robbers trying to make a late night withdrawal.
He could hear Rei behind him, breathing steadily as she kept pace with him. He smiled at that, as he realized she was definitely getting better.
Now, if we could just find a gang of ninja's to fight. That would be a real test for her. He thought as he leaped across another building divide as the young woman followed him.
However, the real test, would be coming up soon.
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"RRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" the subhuman brute screamed as he backhanded the Section 2 agents and tore through the hallways of NERV.
"All sections on alert! Stop target at all costs!" the agent shouted into the radio.
(This is Section 2! Target is continuing unabated down hallway 12! Bullets not AAAAAHHHHH)
"Respond! Respond! Damn it." the guard groaned as his radio hand fell to his side.
"Status report?" Gendo asked as he stood up, body weary from the sudden 'being-thrown-against-the-wall' move.
"Target is proceeding down hallway 12, sir." the agent said, gingerly stepping over the broken glass and twisted metal that was once Dr Akagi's lab.
"Hallway 12? There isn't anything down that way except... Oh god!"
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Shinji and Rei continued over the rooftops, suddenly pausing as Shinji's hyper-sensitive hearing picked up something that Rei didn't distinguish right away.
It was a roar. A roar that was neither human nor animal, Shinji noticed.
"What was that?" Blue Oni asked as she looked around the roof, trying to determine the source of the sound.
"Trouble." Daredevil said as he took off in the appropriate direction as Blue Oni followed.
The pair covered the distance in only a minute and paused as they came to the rooftop where they 'saw' the giant monster tearing up the streets and building fronts.
"What is it Oni?" he asked, his radar-sense being able only to make out a large, vague image.
"A deformed humanoid. It is difficult to accurately gauge it's size, but it appears to be quite massive and incredibly strong." she analyzed for him.
Daredevil creased his brow. "Strength or not, innocent people are in danger. Let's move." he said as he leaped over the side with the blue girl right after him.
Down on the street, the hulking brute continued to toss cars left and right.
The pair flew down to the street which was all but deserted, including the three of them. Daredevil had used his billy club while Blue Oni used her own modified grappling hook to descend.
Had Daredevil and Blue Oni not been so occupied by the hulking brute in front of them, they would have noticed that he had broken out of the emergency exit shaft that connected to the Geofront.
"What is the plan?" she asked.
"Stop him." he replied.
"That is not a plan." she stated.
"Didn't say it was." he said before taking off.
The hulking brute was nearly 9 feet tall with huge rippling muscles and an attitude to match. He was dressed in a tattered white shirt and ripped jacket, his pants actually holding up despite the enhanced physique he possessed. He picked up a parked car with one hand and tossed it down the street where it exploded after colliding with another parked car. He roared once more until his attention was caught by an object striking him hard in the back of the head.
He turned around to see a man in a red costume, twirling a red metal stick in his hands, standing in the middle of the street as a smaller figure in a blue costume moved up behind him.
He huffed at the man in red.
"Who are you?" Daredevil asked.
"HAI-DE!" he croaked out in a gruff, harsh tone that Daredevil could barely make out.
"Mr... Hyde? Guess that's appropriate."
Hyde wasted no words and lunged at the man. Daredevil didn't have to have his eyesight to avoid the brute's attack. With blazing speed, the man without fear spring boarded off his feet, leaping over the hulking brute, sprung off his hands back onto his feet. Blue Oni quickly cartwheeled out of the brutes path as he continued to run, turning around and charging back at the man in red.
Daredevil extended his billy club to staff-length and tossed it at the brute. The spinning staff found it's way between Hyde's legs, tripping the brute and resulting in him being dropped hard onto his face and stomach.
It didn't last but two seconds as Hyde got back up and attacked once again. Daredevil hopped back on his feet to avoid the sledgehammer blows of his opponent. He jumped into the air, leap-frogging over the brute massive muscles, and snatched up his staff. He switched his staff to nunchucks and swung at Hyde as he attacked once more, nailing him repeatedly in the face and arms.
"ARGH!" Hyde shouted, clearly getting annoyed at the stings the man was inflicting on him. He was so distracted by the crimson crusader that he failed to notice the sapphire swashbuckler charge him from behind, essentially climb up his back and wrap her slim legs around his thick throat. She then proceeded to strike at his head with both fists. He howled at the annoyance atop him and whip-lashed his own neck to violently toss her off. Her body went limp as she tumbled to the asphalt street.
"ONI!" Daredevil shouted as he ran up to Hyde and lashed out again with his nunchucks, striking the massive brute with his weapon, again annoying and slightly injuring him. He paused, intertwined his fingers together to make a single fist, brought them up over his head and dropped the large meaty extremities down into the asphalt street.
The deafening impact caught him off-guard as the sudden backhand sent Daredevil flying into a wall. Hyde made his move and loomed over the stunned man in red. He raised his fist over his head, right to strike down at the vermilion vigilante, when a steel wire suddenly wrapped around Hyde's neck.
"NO!" Blue Oni shouted as she jumped on the brute's back, the steel wire she had found amid the wreckage Hyde caused, wrapped tightly around his throat.
Hyde thrashed around trying to throw the lithe young woman off his back yet again. His muscles were so massive he couldn't reach up to pull her off of him. Rei was in a virtual safe zone.
However, Hyde still had one trick up his ripped sleeves.
He reared up and started running backwards until he slammed hard into the steel fencing across the street, with Blue Oni bearing the brunt of the collision.
"AHH!" she shrieked, but held on tight, the fence molding to their shape.
Hyde slammed her up against it again, and again, moving along the fencing and then slamming her hard into the stone wall of the alleyway. Because of his strength, he actually made an impression, with Blue Oni in the center of it.
The impact was enough to cause her to let go and slump down onto the ground just before the alley entrance. Hyde turned to the defeated and dazed young woman and was about to finish her off, when a pair of red boots slammed into his head, knocking him back slightly.
Hyde growled as he turned to face the man in red once more.
"Over here, Hyde! Fight me!" Daredevil shouted as he tossed himself into the air and roundhoused the brute.
The kick had little effect on him, but it did serve to get the brute to chase the vigilante. Daredevil back-flipped away as the overly muscled brute charged him again.
At least Rei's safe now. Shinji thought as Hyde kicked at the asphalt street, sending chucks of flying highway directly at the blind man. Daredevil twisted through the air, avoiding each piece of flying asphalt as the hulking brute slammed into him with an uncanny burst of speed. The impact knocked the wind out of his lungs as Hyde plowed into the shop entrances on the other side of the street, pushing Daredevil through it.
Blue Oni groaned as she woke up in time to see Daredevil fly through the shop wall and tumble into the street.
"No." she said as she grabbed a shard of steel that had accompanied Daredevil as he flew through the wall of the store.
Hyde stepped out of the shop and moved towards the groaning figure on the ground. He growled again, failing to notice the azure avenger emerge from behind him and jump onto his back, shoving the shard into the base of his neck.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" the brute shouted in intense pain as his violet spasm tossed Blue Oni off him.
The young woman leaped off the brute, flipped backwards and landed on the ground, moving as fast as she could to avoid Hyde's attacking. However, as she leaped back he was caught by a backhand strike to the side of her torso that sent her flying into another stone wall, right arm first.
"OOHHFF!" she cried out as she crumbled to the ground.
Hyde moved towards her and raised his foot, planning to push this troublesome girl into the hard pavement.
"HYDE! Right Here!" Daredevil shouted as he tossed the billy club at Hyde, striking at his ear.
Most people know that a persons equilibrium is located in their earlobe. By striking at it in such a way, causing the equilibrium to shift, which toppled the giant brute onto his back.
Daredevil's insides were on fire. His costume was torn and he was bleeding rather heavily.
He dug into his street with his toes and launched himself towards the pair. Leaping over the slowly recovering brute, he scooped up Blue Oni and put some distance between him and Hyde. Once he had accomplished that, he set her down gently and charged back to the brute as he stood up.
"HEY! We're Not Finished!" Daredevil shouted as he punched Hyde in the face.
Hyde lashed out with his massive arm as Daredevil quickly ducked, delivering a second punch before the massive brute swung back and knocked the vigilante back, sending him flying against the wall where Rei sat.
"This is... not... working..." Oni gasped as Daredevil struggled to sit up.
"Maybe not. Let's try another tactic." he groaned, spitting blood out as he charged Hyde again. "Over Here You Monster!" he shouted as he picked up his billy club from the street and tossed it at Hyde, nailing him in the forehead. "Come And Get Me!"
Hyde roared loudly, the reverberating echo illuminating the area in Daredevil's mind. He turned to one of the structures and ran to it. Hyde gave chase.
Daredevil leaped through the broke-open window, feeling Hyde right behind him. He knew that the building had been evacuated. He could detect the almost overwhelming smell of pesticides coming from the upper level of the building. They were fumigating, so the whole place had been cleared out.
"HYDE! Over Here!" Daredevil shouted as the brute lunged at the man without fear.
Daredevil dodged several punches as he hopped backwards, each of Hyde's blows striking at the stone and steel walls. However, his earlier battle with the brute had made him a little slower and he was suddenly caught and pulled into a bone-crushing bear hug as Hyde lifted him off the floor. He could feel his insides contracting, his bones rubbing against his organs. He couldn't break free of the brutes grip, so he had to make him let go.
"RRRRAAAAAAHHHHHH!" the crimson crusader shouted as he found the strength to pull his arms free and slam his hands into the side of Hyde's head at once.
"AAAAHHHH!" Hyde shrieked as he let go of Daredevil, hugging his ears in pain.
Daredevil coughed up more blood, his lungs on fire as he fought to stand. He was battered, bruised and tired as hell. His side-wounds had long since opened up, and new wounds were pouring blood as well.
He now regretted not staying home.
Daredevil's hearing suddenly picked up the sounds of creaking and grating, coming from the building itself. As the sounds got louder, Daredevil made one final burst of strength, pushing off his legs as he leaped out the window. He got out just as the final pillar broke, causing the entire seven-story apartment building to come crashing down around the brute still on the bottom floor. He grabbed his ears to hold back the noise of the collapsing building. I mere minutes, the noise had ceased and the building was down.
"If that doesn't stop him..." Daredevil said after several seconds, before the rubble started to shift.
"ARGH!" Hyde screamed as he broke free of the debris, his body still half-imbedded in the rocks.
"Damn it." he cursed under his breath as he readied himself for another round of battle.
It was a battle that never came as suddenly, the brute fell forward and collapsed onto his chest.
Daredevil listened closely as the sounds of Hyde's heartbeat ceased.
"... right." he sighed in relief.
Daredevil slowly moved back to where Blue Oni was sitting.
"Oni, how are you?" he gasped.
"I am... unharmed." she replied.
Daredevil knelt down, his own body winching in pain as he ran his hands over her body, tapping her lightly in certain places.
"You've got two broken ribs, sprained right ankle, fractured right arm, and dislocated left shoulder." he examined, having experience in those forms of injuries.
"Considering our opponent, that is unharmed." she replied.
"Smart alec." he said as he firmly gripped her shoulder blade.
She gave a muffled grunt as her shoulder was reset, then quieted down as he scooped her up in his arms and headed off into the shadows.
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(NERV headquarters, medical autopsy, one hour later...)
"Performance Enhancer Candidate: Jaken L. Haide, pronounced dead at 23:06 hours. Cause of death: inordinate amount of exertion of his physical body due to utilizing the untested strength enhancing serum before it was ready for production. His organs couldn't take the strain." Ritsuko said into the medical recorder. "Not to mention having a building fall on him."
"Jaken L. Haide. Jekyll and Hyde." Gendo mused, limping behind her. "It's almost poetic."
She wanted to tell him, 'I told you so'. Tell him, 'I was right, you should have listened to me and not your overinflated ego' Oh, how she wanted to.
But she was smarter than that.
"How soon can the project be reinstated?" Gendo asked.
"Never." she answered, covering the head of the deceased brute.
"Pardon?"
"Mr Hyde here, tore through the entire lab, destroying virtually everything, including the notes and data files on the Performance Enhancer. And I didn't make any back-ups."
"Why not?"
"Because I didn't think anyone would use the untested serum, inside my own lab, right after I was given a week to properly test the serum, so I just left the notes by my computer. Which is now imbedded in the wall." she motioned to her new wall decoration.
Gendo grunted, said nothing, and just limped out of the office.
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(Shinji, this is Ritsuko. Sorry, but... your synch tests have been pushed back by about a week or so. The Commander's got me working on something else. I know you're very disappointed, but it can't be helped.) The phone message player stated after Shinji had pressed it.
Actually, what she didn't tell Shinji was that Hyde's little rampage had damaged several corridors and part of the testing center, so they needed to get everything repaired before the majority of NERV found out about the monster they had created.
(You'll be contacted later when the tests are to resume)
"Well, at least there's some good news." Shinji chuckled as he helped Rei to the bathroom to bandage her up.
Shinji helped Rei out of her costume and she out of his. Rei had no compunction about her naked form, and Shinji was blind to boot. They stepped into the shower and let the water beat down upon them both.
Sweat and grim were washed off, mixing with the blood from their wounds. Shinji leaned against the tiled walls of the shower, his entire body sore and hurting, his legs barely being able to hold him up. Rei looked at her partner/teacher/friend/fellow pilot and realized he had taken far more damage and punishment than she had. She had fought, but he had defeated Hyde, protected her at the same time, and had even carried her back to his apartment.
Without his sight, and he had done it yet again, causing himself great pain in the process.
For the first time in her life, she felt her heart truly begin to break as she stared at the injured man before her. A sight that sent a warm rush through her body she never expected to feel.
Her body was as sore as his, but to a lesser degree. She fell to him, closing the distance between their lips and bodies, meshing herself against his naked body.
Shinji's body woke up from it's brief nap as he felt the shapely young woman rub up against him. He felt too weak to move as she assaulted him. However pleasant it felt, Shinji mustered the strength to grip Rei's shoulders and lightly push her away.
"Rei-chan?" he asked.
"Please, Shinji-kun. Allow me this." she said as she kissed him lightly on the lips.
"Rei-chan... you're injured. We shouldn't be doing this." he said, fighting fatigue all the while.
"My lips are not broken." she said as she leaned in and gently kissed him on the cheek and mouth while the water streamed down their naked bodies.
"Rei..."
"I am sorry, Shinji-kun." she said as she pulled herself to him in a tight hug, body pressed up against his own, her head nestling into the crook of his neck.
Shinji and Rei's hearing was sharper than most, enabling them to hear each other even over the running water of the shower itself.
"Sorry? For what?" he asked.
"I am a failure." she said, sadness in her voice he noticed.
"What are you..." he started to say, unconsciously embracing her to comfort her.
"You were correct. I am not ready. In my eagerness to prove myself to you, I have injured myself and you as well. You saved my life and defeated Mr Hyde."
"But you're alive to learn from your mistakes."
"I require more training."
"Experience isn't useless."
"And I lack both."
Shinji pulled Rei in closer. "Don't give up on yourself, Rei-chan." he whispered. "I won't."
Rei pulled her head up and tenderly brushed his lips with her own.
Shinji lifted his hands up and gently ran his hands over her face, trailing down her neck, shoulders, arms, torso, and stopped on her hips as the water continued to rain down on them.
"Shinji-kun?"
"You are beautiful, Rei-chan."
She smiled as she pulled herself closer and kissed his lips. This time... Shinji returned the kiss.
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Shinji helped Rei to the bed and gently set her down onto it. They had kissed and hugged in the shower, but could do no more than that, as they were too injured and drained of any energy. Were they not so wounded, they would have made love that instance.
Something else they could 'thank' Hyde for.
"You need to rest, Rei-chan." Shinji said as he set the girl down onto the bed.
She was wrapped in bandages, from her upper stomach, her right arm, and even her ankle.
"You're going to be out of action for awhile, so you need to take it easy."
"Can you... stay with me, Shinji-kun?" she asked, gripping his wrist with her left hand.
"Rei, I don't think that's..."
"Please. I just wish to sleep next to you. I find your presence... comforting."
He sighed. "Alright, Rei-chan."
He got into the bed as she gently curled up next to him, careful not to press down on her injuries. She snuggled up as close as she could , wrapped her uninjured arm across his chest.
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It was four days later...
Ritsuko and Kaji were at a wedding for a friend. Ritsuko had been with them, but left on her own, needing to get back to NERV for yet another project.
This left Kaji and Misato alone
After throwing up in an alleyway, Misato opted to be carried back to her apartment by Kaji.
"I can't believe that with all you drink, you'd know when to reach your limit. Throwing up in an alleyway. Really." Kaji stated.
"You need to shave." the woman slurred.
As the pair continued to walk, a bald-headed man in a long leather coat was riding towards them.
Bullseye had been told to eliminate Kaji at his earliest convenience. To an assassin, that could mean any length of time. In the last four days, Bullseye had been having a little fun, driving around the city scouting for people to kill, keeping tabs on his target and what, and even who, he was doing. He had heard a rumor that there was a devil in this city and had been trying to find out if this was true. Thus far it had proven to be only a rumor.
He had just leaned that his target was walking back from a wedding reception, and decided to make his move.
Gunning the engine, Bullseye roared through the city streets towards his destination.
There he is. Bullseye thought as he jumped up on his stolen bike and tapped his belt. The shuriken popped out of his belt into his hand. A sharp flick of his wrist and the throwing star soared through the air, through the glass of the delivery truck that was just passing by, and into the drivers neck.
The truck swerved off to the side and slammed into the building just behind Misato and Kaji.
"Misato, look out!" Kaji screamed as grabbed the woman and dove to the side, narrowly avoiding the huge truck.
Misato, still a bit drunk, groaned as she landed but couldn't get up. However, Kaji did. He was a little dazed, but he could at least stand up.
Bullseye plopped down onto the seat and pulled up about a half-block from where Kaji was and grinned at him.
"This is too easy." he grinned as he pulled out another shuriken.
Just then, an athletic figure in red leather appeared out of nowhere and landed between them both.
He's real. Kaji gasped as he noticed the scarlet swashbuckler.
Bullseye had the same thought, and grinned. Then threw a shuriken directly at the red-garbed figure.
Daredevil's sense easily detected the whistling object, his ninja-honed senses allowing him to easily evade the projectile, which flew past him and imbedded itself in the taillight of the delivery truck behind him
"I missed." Bullseye gasped, stunned. "I Never Miss!" he growled.
He turned the bike towards Daredevil and gunned the accelerator handle. Daredevil charged down the street towards Bullseye. Right before they collided, Daredevil leaped into the air and threw a 'Sonic Kick' right into Bullseye's jaw, knocking him off the bike and into the street. Daredevil flipped around and landed with the skill and grace of a gymnast nailing their landing after a routine as the bike went skidding along the ground and came to a stop in the middle of the street.
Daredevil went for his billy club in his holster, but found it gone.
"Drop something?" Bullseye growled, holding up the club that had fallen out during the 'kick'.
Daredevil's attention was caught by the assassin's voice as he turned his head to him.
Bullseye jumped to his feet, twirled the billy club in his hand and threw the weapon directly at Kaji. Daredevil's senses got a bead on his weapon, realizing that it was headed right for Kaji. He leaped at the weapon's trajectory in an attempt to grab it. However, that was the moment the bike chose to explode. The sound of the blast fragmented his 'vision' causing him to miss his thrown club, his own injuries from his fight with Hyde causing his movements to slow.
Hell, he was lucky he pulled off that little motorcycle kick when he did. His wounds had opened up once again.
However, his inability to act caused his own weapon to slam hard into Kaji's chest.
"That's why they call me...Bullseye!" the assassin said as he fled into the night.
Daredevil froze as the realization of his failure hit him. Misato was not so frozen as she saw the red billy club sticking out of Kaji's chest, and the red-garbed vigilante not fifteen meters away.
She was so entranced by what had just happened, she didn't notice other object fall out of the sky and land next to Kaji's body.
Bullseye grinned from above the scene, atop the building he had scrambled up onto, and just watched as the woman who was with his target pull a gun out of her purse and fire it off at the devil man.
Misato fired at the crimson crusader, the echoing bullets snapping Daredevil out of his daze as instinct took over and he dodged to the side, disappearing into the night.
Misato kept firing until she was out of bullets.
Bullseye grinned as he watched the scene, realizing that he would get his chance at the devil soon enough.
Shinji ran off into the night. Trying to reason with Misato wasn't possible now, and convincing her that he didn't do it was out. As he raced back to his apartment, one thought was on his mind. The smell he had detected coming from Kaji's body. A flowers scent.
A red rose.
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Shinji managed to get back to his apartment where Rei was waiting.
He went right to where his spare costumes and weapons were stored, grabbing them and thrashing them around, ultimately making a mess that was slowly scaring Rei.
"Shinji-kun, what is wrong?" she asked, noticing his aggravated expression.
"I... I failed, Rei. I failed." he groaned as he fell to his knees in weariness.
Rei moved towards him and embraced him fully, comforting him as best she could.
"Rei... hand me my phone." he whispered to her after several minutes.
"Here. Use mine." she said, pulling her cellphone out of her pocket and handing it to him.
"Dial this number." he said, giving her the number as she punched it in, placing the phone next to his ear and mouth as she continued to hold her.
(Yes.) The female voice on the other side said.
"Misao? It's Shinji. I found him. He's in Tokyo-3. Please hurry."
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"DON'T TOUCH ME!" scream the child shaking off the offender hand with a quick hit
"Relax boy... or girl... I can't be certain your voice is a little confusing."
"Girl? what's with you? are you..."
"...Blind? of course I am." Shock, irony, fate, what? just a game, a funny joke that the only person to take notice of this child is another blind person. "And I can tell that you are too, right?"
"Ha! A very good observant, aren't we?" the sarcasms can't be more obvious. "Well, I can say that yes... like I can say from your smell that you haven't taken a bath in a very long time, and from your foul breath I can bet that you haven't eaten anything..."
"NO SHIT SHERLOCK! What are you doing here wasting your skills when you can be up there solving crimes?" If the child could see, he could not missed the ironic smile in the face of the man
"I just want to help you." the man said.
"Pfffrr Sorry Jerk, but I don't sell my body or anything like that to get by."
The child misses the hard frown in the face of the man, for obvious reasons.
"I don't want anything like that."
"So, what do you want from me?" the boy asked.
"NOTHING!" he said firmly. "Just help you."
"WHY?"
"Cause, when I was in your position, someone helped me too."
The child is very surprised... these words were with so much sincerity, with so much conviction... maybe, just maybe... No, it can't be, in this cruel world nobody gives something without wanting something in return, and this man can't be the exception... but in this moment, the boy doesn't have anything to loose and if the guy tried to lay a finger on him... well, the one in pain will be he, not the child...
"Okay." Again the child misses something in the face of the man... a brilliant and really sincere smile.
"Thanks for let me help you... and, what's your name child?"
"They call me "Shinji", and yours?"
"My name is Murdock. Matt Murdock."
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Authors Notes:
Here it is after about three months in limbo. Hope everyone enjoyed the double villain showcase I gave you.
If the Bullseye scene was a little... lite, I apologize. I'll get to the fight between Daredevil and Bullseye later. The battle between Daredevil, Blue Oni and Hyde does take up a majority of this chapter.
Also for that battle, I planned to have Rei, Misao, Misato and Asuka get into the mix. And Ritsuko will have prominent scene in that chapter.
I'm probably going to throw in another Daredevil comic villain later, so be on the lookout for that.
And I hope everyone liked the omake that rbfd2k5gmail. com sent me a while back.
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