Hi people! It's Hao here with the TENTH CHAPTER OF CAPTAIN AND ASSASSIN! For me, this is a great accomplishment I've never in my life with all the writing I've ever done have I ever reached the tenth chapter so I'm actually really happy about it. I do have to say thanks to those who have who have reviewed, followed and Favorited and those who read it all together it gave me the will to write as far as I've gotten to. Now before I get anymore sappy on your people who probably dislike it (Your not the only one, it's very unlike me to be sappy) let's finish up what needs to be done.

Disclaimer: Even in the tenth chapter do I still do this...yes...I don't own Tales of Vesperia.

Warnings: Sodia..(say with great distaste), swearing (90% sure there is)

Now with all that out of the way...enjoy Chapter 10..

Chapter 10

(Flynn's PoV)

It's only been a few days since the Captain had set out for Dahngrest, things have been slow lately. No attacks and we haven't heard a word from him either, pretty much reverting to where the days are normal...Sorta.. Though I had realized that Yuri has been spending more time close by than usual, if he's not then Repede is, and that has been making me wonder if something is up. But anyway, it was made official that Sodia would be made my Lieutenant (Much to Yuri's dismay) the day after Captain Schwann had left.

Yuri wasn't exactly happy about it...and it seems like Sodia isn't fond of him as well...

I do notice them glaring at each other, especially at moments when I turn around cause the air seems to tense up a bit. I can't understand why they don't get along, I asked Sodia why and she said that Yuri was a deserter to the Knights and it was that reason of why she didn't like him.

And when I asked Yuri he would just say it was nothing, or something similar to what he had said almost less than a week ago, that night in my room. And at least twice do I resist the urge to make fun of Yuri and ask him if he was jealous, that would be a sight, Yuri Lowell of all people...jealous...Even if we had grown up together, I've never seen him jealous of anybody before.

Anyway, back to the present, right now I'm currently working on all the paper work that piled up the last day, how I missed so much in a day I'll never understand but as Captain I do have to get it done. Hm...maybe when I'm done I'll go see Yuri at the bakery...I wouldn't be surprised if Raven was there torturing him or making fun of him for baking.

I finally put my pen down after I just finished signing the last piece of paper that needed to be signed, hearing the window open and a breeze coming in I turn around to see who it was. "Hey Repede." I say to the dog that hopped in through the window (I still need to ask Yuri how Repede does that). He only yawns, I chuckle and stands up, "Come on, I was about to go see Yuri, he should be done soon." I walk out the door, knowing that Repede was following me as usual. It was always strange to have Repede following me, cause when he did Yuri was usually around and he was following him. It also drew some of the other Knights attention, especially though's who knew Repede was with Yuri.

"Captain!" I stop walking and turned around to see Sodia walking up to me, and Repede who usually just ignores someone he doesn't like or walks away from growls slightly.

Oh great, don't tell me he doesn't like her to.' Did Repede take that part after Yuri to or something? "Hello Sodia, do you need something?"

"Not... exactly, I was just wondering if all of your paperwork was done." She said, sparring a glance at Repede.

"Yes, don't worry Sodia, I finished all of my work, I am not like Captain Fedrock when he was still around he would put off his paperwork till the last minute. I was just about to head out for some fresh air." I smile at her, glad she was taking her job seriously as always.

Though she looked slightly taken aback, was it because I spoke of Niren so easily, honestly I'm still having a hard time dealing with it. I think Yuri and Repede are the only ones that know that, even if it's still tough on me I can't let that get in the way of duty.

"Oh no Captain, it's not that, I know you'll always get your work done. I just thought that since the dog was here that he was here as well and was distracting you from your work." I hear Repede growl at the 'dog' comment.

"Well theirs no need to worry about that Sodia, anyway I should be going, I'm heading to meet someone right now. Shouldn't you be getting back to your duty as well."

"Yes Captain." She says, I dismiss her and she leaves. I sigh and turn around and walk in the opposite direction of her, Repede following along.

(Yuri's PoV)

I just exited the shop about ten minutes ago getting off of work expecting me to see Repede waiting for me out there. Probably went to go see Flynn, he's been doing that whenever I wasn't around Flynn for long periods of time ever since the Commandant asked me to keep an eye on him. I know Flynn noticed to but he never asked so I never gave him an explanation why, why I couldn't answer even if he did cause I wouldn't have one. I wonder if Repede did it for a sake of my mind, if that's true then that's really nice of him.

I wonder how Schwann's been doing, no word and I don't know if that's a good thing or not considering who we're dealing with, though I suppose since we haven't heard from anybody about him being found dead yet that actually might be a good thing and he's doing fine. Though I wish I could tell him to keep Raven on a leash or something, that idiots been coming over once a day saying ridiculous thing about Flynn and I (Anybody guess what those things are? Hm?).

I figure that I'll probably see Repede later and decided to get going, but as I was about to walk towards the Lower Quarter I notice familiar blonde hair heading in my direction with Repede at his side. "Hey Flynn."

"Hello Yuri, hope you weren't waiting to long." Now don't tell me he knew I was gonna wait for Repede and decided to come with him. "We would have been here sooner but Sodia wanted to make sure I had all my work done before I left."

I did my best not to let me smile falter at the mention of her, she grated on my nerves even when were not in the same room, I still can't believe Flynn couldn't find someone who was better suited to be a Lieutenant, and I still can't believe Flynn hadn't noticed her looks at him. If she took her job seriously she wouldn't go gaga over Flynn every time she saw him.

I freeze mentally for a moment, oh god...was...Raven right? Just yesterday he had mentioned Flynn and Sodia in the same sentence and saw my reaction about it. He made fun of me claiming that I, Yuri Lowell, was jealous of her getting to be around Flynn all the time. Me? Jealous? Of Sodia? I had threatened Raven to either leave or I would tell his brother about how he's been fooling around instead doing whatever work he needed to do...that shut him up real nice.

But still...is it possible that...as shocking as it may sound...that he could be right?

"-ri? Yuri?" I snapped out of my thoughts when I realized that I had spaced out on Flynn, now he was looking (scowling?) at me annoyed that I probably didn't listen to something important he had to say.

"Sorry Flynn, what did you just say?"

Now he most definitely looked like he was scowling, "The last thing I said was that the reason why it took us so long was cause we ran into Sodia. I didn't say anything after that, you didn't comment. Are you still upset about Sodia?" Crap...so he saw through my look, I should have known he would.

"No, I'm just thinking about something. Anyway, let's get going before Raven decides to show up and annoy us." He looked skeptical for a moment, then nodded and we both left, Repede sighing(?) in the background as he starts to follow after us.

On the way to my place we started talking about our day, I was hoping to know that there would have been at least a small word from the Captain about everything going on so far but I guess we'll have to be a patient for just a little bit longer. We finally enter my place and I fall into the seat near the window and lean back, I never realized how tired I was till just then, I guess all those late night patrols weren't helping my health since I can't just sleep in whenever I wanted to, only on my day offs is that okay.

For the next half hour Flynn and I kept talking about stuff, but feeling as tired as I am now I knew that if this kept up I was gonna fall asleep in the middle of a conversation with Flynn and who knew how he would react. I didn't even realize I close my eyes until he chuckled and said "If you were that tired then you should have said so, have a nice nap Yuri." I held back a smile as I fell asleep.

Okay...who's bright idea was it to continuously poke me? Can't they see I'm trying to sleep here? I slowly open my eyes only to be blinded by the light that was on, geez how long was I asleep? Still keeping my eyes shut I whacked the persons hand away and mumbled "Leave me alone." Only to hear a familiar chuckle.

"Sorry to wake you Yuri, but Raven's here to see you." That voice...it was Flynn's, yup it's definitely his. Slowly once again trying to open my eyes the first thing I actually see him smiling, most likely aware on how upset I am from being woken up in the middle of my nap. Didn't help that he looked...wow...where were my thoughts just heading?

Shaking my head awake I sit up and finally notice that Raven was indeed here...oh great...the one person I did not want to see was indeed here. "What do you want Raven? I was trying to sleep."

"Yes well from what it looked like is that you were sleeping in a uncomfortable position on a chair-" He stopped and looked at Flynn, who was looking away from me this time, and gave him a smirk before turning back to me... Was I missing something important or something? "Anyway, I'm here because I got something for you." He took out a black box from his jacket and handed it to me, I slowly took it and examined it.

"What this?" I ask him looking around the box, Flynn to looking at it with curiousness as well.

"It's from the Niren." The room went silent, we both looked up at him with shock. "I went searching through his old stuff in his old quarters since I figured we can start cleaning it out now, found that on his desk. Addressed to you, after sometime on figuring out what to do I figured it would be best to just give it to you. Though I don't know why, I don't think it was your birthday anytime soon or anything."

I looked back down at the box in my hand, nothing had come time mind. I opened the box in my hand and froze, I recognized this...a thick gold what looked like to be a bracelet and ruby gems around it...oh god...it was his Bodhi Blastia.. I looked up to see that Flynn and Raven were surprised by this as well. I looked back down at the bracelet and examined it, once, twice and a third time and I was sure that it was the Captains Bodhi Blastia. It was old and didn't work any more. Hardly anyone used these unless it was in a crisis or something. Like a civilian to have a weapon a Blastia was like that to any soldier or Knight, heck even Captains had one locked away somewhere for extreme emergencies.

"That's his Bodhi Blastia alright," Raven said confused as he looked at it. "But it's strange, didn't he always where that as a good luck charm?" That's right, I remember a couple of years ago I asked him about it and he said it saved his life one day, so he kept it on him all the time. Why would he give it to me? "Now that I think about it, the day he was killed, before the attack I had asked him about getting a drink during the weekend and I realized that something was missing, but I didn't put much attention into it since it didn't seem to important."

"Now that I think on it I can't recall ever seeing him wearing it either, though that could be just the fact that I was used to seeing him wearing it by now." Flynn says frowning I look down back at the old Blastia in my hand, and in the bottom of the box I see a folded piece of paper. Setting down the gold bracelet in my hand a side I take out the folded paper.

"A letter?" I ask under my breath, catching there attention from there thoughts, I unfold the piece of paper to see that he wrote a letter. I hesitate for a second, it may be for me but it's a little hard to read Niren's last words, a hand his place on my shoulder and I don't have to look up to know it's Flynn, and I don't have to be a mind reader to know he wants me to read it. So without anymore hesitation I read the last words of Captain Niren Fedrock.

Yeah...I went there with a cliffy, sorry but I couldn't resist leaving having it end there, it just seemed like the perfect time to stop.

(For those who don't like long winded speeches you can skip to the last paragraph)

Anyway, there was something someone had said about this story not getting anymore reviews (You know who you are), it's nice getting reviews so I know what people like to think about it. There are people on the site (and yes I've read some of these peoples stories who do so) who make good stories and stop because they don't get reviews or something like that. I don't do that, it's against what I believe to focus on just one thing I want to happen, I do put the readers first, which is why I do my best to reply to anyone who questions about something, but I won't dwell on lack of reviews and just stop or lose faith in the story I put together every two weeks because I know there are people who like it, but they don't review.

Now, since that is now over, I can finally say I hope to see you guys in the next chapter, my next goal is to Chapter 15, and until then...read on! (Bye!)