Chapter 9: Gentleman-

(Quick Disclaimer: Suggestive Situation with a dick joke and references, you've been warned. Also more dark tones reminiscent of Jin-Roh)

Asuna looked at a very smug Teizen walking into her ward.

"Like the new medals?" The Sergeant asked pointing to them on the shiny new medallions adorning his Sergeants uniform on his chest, "This one's for first-hand combat. This one's for bravery."

"Bravery? You mean you killed people." The chestnut haired girl asked looking at him sit down next to her.

"It's my sworn duty to my country."

Asuna furrowed her eyebrows, "Your duty is to a madman! Yashiro is cracking down on the whole country like Stalin! Or or-"

The dark brown haired soldier cut her off instantly, "Chancellor Kinzai is the ruler of this country. I don't care who orders me around, I'll follow whatever they tell me to do."

"So you're a wolf then! A lap dog trained to rip people apart!" The girl said looking at the medals the dictator gave him.

"Careful." Teizen said quickly, "Tokyo will soon be a place of war. The rebels already declared it, I'm fighting for my country. When the fighting breaks out, who'll protect you? Because I won't."

She looked at his face.

Teizen changed since last they spoke, he emoted even less when speaking, he was still handsome and exhausted but this time with all his humanity sucked out.

"What happened to you Teizen-sama?"

Teizen looked at the girl sitting in her hospital bed, "I'm here to ask you about Kazuto. Your lover. When you were in-game with him in SAO. Did he show you any signs that he'd kill for you? Die for you?"

Asuna looked at her lap, "You're asking if he's in the rebellion? Aren't you?"

The soldier stood up straight, "It's highly likely. It's a little convenient that the water way the rebels tried to break through led to this district."

"I'm telling you this because I love Kazuto with every cell in my body. He wouldn't just kill for me. He'd do anything for me."

Teizen looked at her, "Thank you."

"Are you going to kill him?"

The soldier shrugged, "We'll see. If he's committed treason and taken up arms against Chancellor Yashiro, then yes."

Asuna felt her fist tighten, "I hope you never find him. I don't want him to kill you, because I think you're just confused."

"Bullshit." The soldier said standing up, "I have what I came for."

As he walked out Asuna spoke out, "You're still human Teizen-sama, Yashiro can't order you to become a robot."

Teizen ignored this and closed the door behind him.

He saw the doctor outside her ward and the Sergeant pressed him to the wall.

Teizen shoved his finger into the graying man's chest, "Listen. That girl is not to leave her ward until I say so. She's a suspect for the rebellion if I find out her husband's a rebel, you hear?"

"Err... Hospital policy declares I..."

"Piss on your policies!" The soldier barked pushing the man against the wall, "Yuuki Asuna doesn't leave this hospital until I am one hundred percent convinced she has no connection to the rebellion."

"A-and if I let her out early?"

"Then I'll throw dice to see how many bullets I'll bury in your skull." He said plainly before walking off.

Kazuto felt the snow pour down on his head as he sat in the alleyway between the stone church and the abandoned library.

He sighed.

I was so close to breaking through that stupid sewer junction. So close to getting to you Asuna...

Every time I close my eyes I think of you. I wish those stupid soldiers could just let me see you.

I miss you...

So...

Much...

He cried a little, a tear forming at his eye and falling down his face.

"Hey." Rika said opening the door to the alleyway and walking into it.

"Oh, hey Rika-san." Kazuto said quickly before wiping away his tear quickly.

Rika stood close to him, letting her back rest against the wall, noticing the bags under his eyes, "You look tired."

"Haven't been sleeping lately. Can't stop thinking about-"

"The battle?" The dark brown haired girl asked, "Yeah me either. Seeing all of our friends get killed like that brings back SAO nightmares."

"Life acted cruelly toward us yesterday. We lost so many good people who just wanted freedom for our country."

"We all should stick together." Rika said looking at Kazuto, "I never thanked you for leading the charge to break out. We were pinned, almost wiped out. Dozens of people owe you their lives."

"I'd do anything for them. They're the same people I fought with in SAO, and the same people I'd die for."

"Dozens of people. Including me." The teen said looking into his eyes.

She grabbed his chin, smiling.

Rika stood in front of him, pressing up to him.

"R-Rika-san!" Kazuto said a little surprised.

"This war is going to be rough. A lot of stress one needs to..."

"Unwind."

Rika was pressing her chest up to his, along with her camo pants up to his trousers, making Kazuto panic.

"R-Rika-san? What're you doing?"

"I-I want you Kazuto-kun." She said before kissing him deeply, shoving her tongue down his throat.

Kazuto's eyes widened, before closing them slightly.

They shot open again, "No! This is wrong, I'm married to Asuna." He said quickly, pushing the girl away a little.

Rika rolled her eyes, "C'mon. Didn't you hear about all the people being rounded up in Ginza?"

The girl looked down, and smiled confidently, "Are you hiding an extra pistol Kazuto?"

The dark brown haired girl looked up at him, seeing him shocked, "Besides."

"The dead don't need lovers." She said before kissing him under his chin.

Kazuto grew angry, pushing her away the second she said that, "Asuna-san is not dead! Go away Rika!"

The girl understood her mistake, that could've been assault had Kazuto not resisted her half halfheartedly.

She looked down, "I-I'm so sorry. I don't know what came over me. T-this whole rebellion is crazy, I-"

"It's fine. Just go away." Kazuto said quickly.

Rika turned away frowning, leaving him there alone.

...

Kazuto slid down the wall in the alley, resting his head on his knees before crying into the puddles of cold and muddy water below him.

He clutched at his chest, feeling his heart snap.

I don't want to make love to you Asuna.

I don't want to kiss you.

Or touch you.

I just want to see you.

See your face and tell you I love you.

I've never wanted anything more in my entire life.

He kept weeping, feeling sadness wash over him completely like a tsunami.

Someone else was in high spirits.

He remembered what Daisuke told him, "All police have allowed military units involved in quelling activities on the New Years attacks to engage in any behavior necessary to celebrate."

The Wolf Brigade geared up, putting on their Wolf Armor but leaving their helmets off, putting on hats and sunglasses.

Teizen put on green grilled sunglasses and smiled, looking at the men stand below him, "Soldiers!"

"HUT!"

"You have one objective today: you party hard or you have to clean everyone's armor."

"YES SIR!"

Two soldiers picked up large heavy boom boxes and carried them on their shoulders.

They blasted a twelve year old Korean song, Gentleman.

The Wolf Brigade walked down the street in high spirits making a ruckus with the loud music.

They came across three little boys bullying a smaller boy, pushing him into the sandpit laughing.

They turned around to hear the loud music and the forty three soldiers with champagne and beer in their hands.

"Sup." Teizen said picking up the largest bully by his suspenders, the little boy scared out of his mind.

They hung the little kids around the park, one on top of a tether ball pole, another had his sneakers tied to the top of a jungle gym.

The last one ran off screaming.

The little boy being bullied looked in awe as the soldiers passed him an ice cream and walked off.

They activated the melee modes on their armor, electricity running through the Wolf suits, allowing them to have incredible amounts of strength.

Two soldiers took out long iron poles for close quarters fighting and beat up a toll meter, laughing drunkenly.

One grabbed a mini van and threw it into the air, before launching a hand rocket at it.

As it exploded, Teizen laughed, "Whooaaahohoho!"

He walked onto the large green pitch where a football game was taking place, "HEY!"

"Can I join?"

Teizen kicked the ball, his strength matched with the hyper powered Wolf Suits sent the ball sailing towards the metal goalpost, sending the entire goalpost backwards flying.

The players looked up as the ball they were playing with went flying high into the sky.

Teizen shrugged and walked off laughing.

...

Teizen pointed to all the sweets he wanted to buy.

He looked at the bill, his eyes widening.

Teizen's hand raised into the air and he snapped loudly, the whole Wolf Brigade unit entering smiling and crossing their arms.

The shop owner gulped and quickly passed him the sweets he wanted, nodding quickly.

The soldiers ate them while drinking beer, spinning their tank in the street, while soldiers danced on top of it.

Teizen was having a blast, raising his pistol into the air and firing it before dancing in a circle with his men.

The men danced in circles laughing loudly in the street as the populace looked in fear of the monsters dancing like drunken madmen.

The wolves kept laughing, consuming more and more alcohol as the night progressed.

Teizen remembered waking up in an alleyway, rubbing his eyes.

"Ugh... How late did I stay up last night?" The teen asked, rubbing his head.

He staggered back home to the roadblock junction, seeing the three brigades there in pretty bad shape from the night before.

"Good morning Sergeant." Daisuke said pouring himself some coffee, "I see the men enjoyed themselves."

"Yeah. I'm giving them the day off today, half are hungover. The other half are exhausted."

"Uh...I got some bad news sir." The man said tapping on his tablet.

"Yeah?" Teizen said stepping out of his Wolf Suit and stretching.

"Yashiro just issued new orders. The girl you're keeping prisoner. She's too give all the information she knows on the rebellion, and then she's to be executed."

"Executed?"

"Yes. and you're to pass the sentence Sergeant."

"M-me?" Teizen asked.

"Yes. Whichever method you choose. You have a deadline to pass, January 5th."

"I have five days to interrogate her?"

"Yes, Chancellor Kinzai said you must use any method you can to get her to talk. That's an order."

"Well, I'm going to start now."

Teizen sheathed his knife and loaded his officer's pistol before going inside the tent where Asada was tied up.

...

The blue haired girl looked up from her chains, "T-Teizen-sama?"

"Do I know you?"

"Yes!" Asada said, "You went to our school dance! You danced with Sugu-chan, she's a friend of mine!"

"Really? Is she in the rebellion too?"

"I-I. I don't know."

The soldier bared his teeth, smiling, "I'm going to find out one way or another about what you know about the rebellion. So. Who's leading you?"

"We don't have a leader." Asada said quickly.

"Bullshit, you didn't convince me." Teizen said just after that, "Where is your headquarters? Where's the rebel base dammit?"

Asada looked away, "Please. Stop."

Teizen grabbed her chin, "Listen. You're to be executed by the fifth. You have five days to live. If you don't give me what I want before then."

"I'll cut it out of you." The Sergeant said coldly before drawing his knife out of its holster.

She gasped as Teizen walked behind her.

"Such pretty hair. A bubble gum hue of blue."

He leaned in and growled in her ear, "Be a shame if some one cut it."

Teizen grabbed the two blue pony tails, and yanked her head back, before passing the knife clean through her hair.

He tossed two large pieces of hair aside and Asada cried, "P-please Teizen. We can spend my last days alive speaking together. As friends."

The soldier saw the tears in her eyes, and he shook his head, feeling nothing, "No. I can stop this, all of it."

He knelt before her, looking directly into her eyes, "It can all be over. You tell me the names of the people in the rebellion, where they're hiding. And I won't hurt you. And I'll promise to make your execution painless. Heck, I'll even let you choose the method."

Asada looked at him, "I-I-I'm begging you. If there is still something human inside you. If there is something inside you that doesn't just follow orders blindly, let me free. Please."

Teizen picked up the girl from the chair, the sheer strength of his right arm pulsing through his muscles, grabbing Asada and pushing her against the wooden beam that held up the tent.

"TELL ME! NOW!" He yelled, his white teeth, almost looking like fangs flashing.

"G-go to hell." Asada squeaked, her feet writhing in the air.

"Where do you think I come from?" He said roughly, tightening his grip on her throat.

Teizen looked into her black eyes, cold empty hazel meeting distant black for the second time in their lives.

"Look into my eyes." Teizen said, "I want to see you die."

Asada writhed in the air, putting her hand on Teizen's grip, but it was too strong.

Teizen felt nothing, gripping her throat tighter.

He let her go, Asada fell to the ground gasping for air.

"T-Teizen." She gasped, "I don't care about my life, but you do."

"I do?" The soldier asked.

"It all adds up now." The now blue short-haired girl said, "You're the Sergeant of the most Elite unit in the whole nation. The Wolf Brigade. You could've ended me in the sewers, but you didn't. Why?"

"Because I hesitated like an idiot."

"But why? You killed dozens of people that day. What difference did I make?"

Teizen sighed, "When I was in that battle, my Wolf Armor was in combat mode all right? I couldn't see the people I gunned down, only their body heat. I never killed someone face to face. It's the only thing I haven't done that I was supposed to."

"W-what?"

"I was ordered to kill every rebel I could. But you're still alive."

Teizen knelt and looked into her eyes, "But not for long. I'm willing to die for my cause. Are you?"

Asada nodded slowly, "Yes. 'Cause it's the right one. You're on the wrong side."

"No. I'm on the side that's going to win. Yashiro owns this country, and if I have to kill every damned rebel on the whole planet to show you all that. I will do so without a second thought."

"How're you gonna get over that face to face business eh?" Asada asked, seeing Teizen stand up.

"By executing you. I'll make sure I'm looking right into your eyes when I do so."

"No!" Asada yelled, "The kindness you showed Sugu! That has to show for something right?"

"I'm afraid not." Teizen whistled by making a ring with his fingers and blowing loudly.

A ravenous and large German shepherd skipped into the tent, sitting at Teizen's side obediently.

"Meet Jack." The soldier said, "He'll be your watch dog."

Teizen knelt again, only to have the beast lick his face like a cute puppy, "He's a loyal dog. However, he hasn't had the good taste of meat for days. He has to comply with the stupid vegetable and fruit only diet too like everyone in the unit."

Asada began to sweat catching on to what the teen was insinuating, as the dark brown haired boy went on, "He'll eat you though. Like a nice juicy steak. Along with his buddies if you don't comply with my needs to find the rebels."

The blue haired girl cried as Teizen kept speaking soullessly, "Or. You could tell me where the rebels are, who's leading them."

"Jack will be watching you day and night, until I replace him with another dog. But don't worry, like the rest of the unit, he's a hyper obedient killer. He won't hurt you without my say so."

"I'll never tell you anything." Asada said.

"Good. Jack and his cousins need a good feasting session. Everyone likes the taste of fear in their mouths." Teizen said clearly, Jack growling loudly.

"Have fun sleeping." Teizen said walking out of the tent as Asada sobbed, the dog watching her robotically.

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To Be Continued...