Pinkshuchan: LALIHO!!!! Pinkshuchan here! It's really a shock that Kitazawa still lives. It's even shocked me and I'm the one writing the story. Why would I do such a thing? You'll find out this chapter. Enjoy!

Chapter 11

The Truth Behind Kitazawa

"Monsieur Kitazawa?!" Yuki had finally regained his voice "But how?! You were supposed to be dead!"

Kitazawa stood there with an evil smirk on his face. He knew that everyone assumed him dead. "Everyone thought I was dead when I fell off the cliff." he said "What they didn't know was that I managed to grab one of the ledges before I fell into the cold ocean and drown. I survived. And it's a good thing too. If I died, who would be the one to change this world for the better?"

"What the hell do you mean by that?!" yelled K "How is killing nobles gonna change the world for the better?"

"You are an idiot, Captain. In this world, there are two different types of statuses; nobles and commoners. They can't live together in peace, can't you see that?! Nobles do whatever they want to commoners and they don't give a damn if the commoner gets hurt. Commoners go through hell while nobles spend all day sitting on their asses doing nothing! They are nothing but lazy bastards and don't deserve to live..."

"But they do!" said K "Kitazawa, it is because of nobles that commoners have homes, jobs, food, everything. They don't just sit and do nothing, they govern the towns and kingdoms that they live in. Nobles and commoners together are like bees. We have all these worker bees that do all the work and the queen bees that provide new workers to help. If you destroy the queen bees, you get no more bees. That's what it is with nobles and commoners. There are no nobles without commoners and no commoners without nobles."

"But there can be...!"

"No, there can't. But I don't think this whole reason behind the nobles is because of what you said. I think it's because of something else. Maybe, a noblewoman?"

"That bitch played with my heart! She was so beautiful! I loved her more than anything, but she wouldn't wait for me! By the time I came back, she was married to that bastard of a noble! She didn't care for me! If she did, she wouldn't have married and have stupid little brats! Two years after she had done that, I was tired of crying for her and knew to get my revenge on her. That's when I hired the assassins and went to do what I wanted to do since she betrayed me; to destroy everything she loved and herself!"

"Wait!" said Yuki, interupting Kitazawa "The story's being mixed up by another!"

"What do you mean?" asked Kitazawa. Honestly, I have no idea what's going on either.

"This story is supposed to be The Three Musketeers. Somehow, the story is leading more into The Count of Monte Cristo. The books are written by the same author, but they are two different stories. How can you confuse the two?"

Typical Yuki to be a smartass. "Would you guys please continue onto the story?" I yell at them "I don't care if this story has some stuff that's similar to The Count of Monte Cristo or any other story, no one wants to hear you yammer about that stuff when they just want to hear a story! Now continue, or I'll kick your ass!"

They were silent for a bit. "Well, anyways let's continue before she gets even more ticked." said Kitazawa "Now where were we?" He pulls out his script. "Ok, now I remember!" He continues with the story.

"I went to the house where she currently lived and was ready to kill her. We killed anyone who came in our way, which was pretty much everyone. We killed the butler, the maids and the chefs. As we continued on, we saw her husband. He was sitting in his study acting almighty like a noble thinks he is. It disgusted me, so I just killed him. We moved onward and found her with her baby daughter. We barged in and took the girl. The bitch screamed that I let her baby go. Do you know what I did? I put the baby into her crib and stabbed my sword into her heart. Then, it was her turn. She kept saying 'Why? Why?' I didn't listen to her pleas and just killed her. Bye bye Tsubaki!"

At the moment of hearing her name, Shuichi sprung up and tried to claw at Kitazawa. Kitazawa just laughed. Yuki tried to pull Shuichi away and calm him down. It resulted of Shuichi bawling his eyes out.

"Couldn't bear with hearing it, could you Shindo brat?" asked Kitazawa.

Yuki glared at Kitazawa. "Damn you! What happened to the Kitazawa who would protect nobles, not destroy them? What happened to the Kitazawa that many admired?"

"Gone." said Kitazawa "By the way, before I was interrupted, I burned down the house when we all got out. I was satisfied with Tsubaki losing everything she ever loved, but not everything she loved was destroyed. It turned out that her most loved treasure was still alive."

"Her most loved treasure?" Yuki asked.

"Her brat of a son! Apparently he wasn't in the house when we were killing them. He escaped. But now I have him."

"What do you mean?"

"In the past, Tsubaki would disguise herself an a man so no one would realize she was the beautiful Lady Tsubaki. Instead she looked like a male version of herself. And she gave herself a male name. That same name was used for her son. The name... Shuichi!"

Everyone looked at Shuichi who was glaring at Kitazawa. "You are a bastard." Shuichi said coldly "If you really knew how my mother felt, you wouldn't of killed her. You don't understand her at all."

Kitazawa looked down to the floor. "You're right. I don't understand her. If I did, I wouldn't be suffering like this. But it's all gonna change. When I get rid of all the nobles, everyone will live peacefully. Now, I should be going. If I remember correctly, there's an opera at the castle that the king and queen are excited to see and I can assure you that they won't enjoy this last performance they'll ever see."

"How are you going to do that?" asked Fujisaki "The musketeers are supposed to protect the king and queen from the outside and there's no way you can get in as Monsieur K."

"You're right! But why do you think I was inviting Eiri into the musketeers all this time?"

Everything made sense to everyone. "You were gonna have him locked up here and pretend to be him, weren't you?" asked Hiro.

"Precisely!" And with that said, he grabbed another mask, turned around, and put it on. When he was done, he turned to face them. With the mask on, he looked exactly like Yuki.

"Wait! One question." continued Hiro "How come you have a mask like that? They shouldn't exist. This is supossed to take place in the 1800's."

Kitazawa opened his mouth but then paused. "I don't really know. Because it makes sense in this story? Ask the person making this up. I'm heading to the castle to start the assassination. Hope you enjoy eternity in there!" And so he left. Taki told two of the assassins to stand watch and make sure our heroes didn't escape before following Kitazawa. Yuki stayed in the same spot with Shuichi crying in his arms. Hiro looked over at Shuichi in a distance; sad to see his friend suffer. Fujisaki started thinking of a way out. K just sat there quietly.

"I'm sorry." Shuichi said after crying a lot.

"What are you sorry for?" asked Hiro "You didn't do anything wrong."

"But, I feel so helpless. I didn't know that my mother was the lover of the leader of the assassins. If I did, maybe I could've prevented everything."

"You know you wouldn't be able to stop your mother from being with your father." said Fujisaki.

"But I could've helped them get back together." Shuichi ended up sobbing again.

"Would you shut up?" yelled K "You know, Kitazawa's right. You are a lot like your mother."

"How so?" asked Hiro.

"I knew Shuichi's mother from way back. I could also recognize her even as she pretended to be male but I kept quiet about it and played along. Shuichi and Tsubaki are exactly alike, even about things to cry about. If someone gets hurt, she starts crying. If she broke something, she starts crying. If someone broke something she liked..."

"Let me guess." said Yuki "She'd start crying."

"No. She would scold them. And then... she'd start crying."

They knew that was Shuichi all right. He's done all of those things. But it wasn't the time to compare Shuichi with his mother. They needed to get out of there, save Tohma and Mika, and stop Kitazawa. But how could they with two assassins guarding the cell?

Then, something pink appeared in front of the assassins. The assassins, fearing that it was going to help our heroes, started attacking it, but they ended up having swords go through their hearts; killing them. Our heroes became curious as to who killed the assassins until they heard a familiar voice.

"Hang on! I'll get you out, nanoda!"

It was Ryuichi. He grabbed the keys from one of the assassins and opened the cells.

"Long time no see, Ryuichi." said K "I haven't seen you since six years ago."

"After Yuki died, I couldn't show my face." said Ryuichi "But it seems that he was alive all this time. I never would've guessed that he was the leader of the assassins, nanoda. We have to stop him before he assassinates the king and queen."

"How do we do that?" asked Hiro.

"I have a plan." continued Ryuichi "Shuichi, Hiro, Fujisaki, you three come with me, nanoda! Eiri, Captain, you both need to get to him and prove him an imposter."

"What exactly is the plan?" asked Fujisaki.

"I'll explain on the way, but it's something I need help from everyone. Especially you Shuichi, nanoda! Now let's get going!"

Everyone nodded and were about to head their own ways.

"Wait! Eiri!"

Yuki turned to see Ryuichi pulling something out of a bag. "To prove that you are one of us, nanoda!" he said. In his hands was a musketeer outfit like Shuichi, Hiro, and Fujisaki but in different colors. It was gold with a black cape. After putting it on, Yuki and K rushed to Kyasseru Castle while the others went back through the passageway. They hoped that they would make it in time before Kitazawa succeeded in his plan.

Pinkshuchan: We are almost near the climax of our story! Just a couple more chapters and we're done! Read and Review, everyone!