Important Author's Note: First of all I want to inform you guys that I am undergoing a hectic life right now. I am taking 2 majors in 2 colleges plus I am working part time as company writer. I cannot update regularly, I'm sorry really... I hope I have more spare time but I don't. I am surprised with abundant reviews telling me to update, it's really nice seriously, knowing that someone following and liking my stories. However, those are the problems... I am full of flaws, in this case... time is my flaw. A big flaw. This is an update for you, my lovely reader... I love you. Yes, in that way... ahahahahahahaha ^^
Rei frantically went over all the frequencies to contact Haruka again, but it was useless. The line went dead. The only one who'd respond was only Mamoru. Rei cursed between her breath, she needed to do something. She had asked Mamoru to check on Michiru in his way back, meanwhile waiting for Mamoru's confirmation Rei had decided to go to Tanaka's house.
"Is there anyone in the house with her?" Rei wondered. The last update Haruka had given to her was something related with war. That only meant there were other parties inside the house and Haruka was forced to fight them. The raven haired agent hastily grabbed her red cap to hide her face. She needed it to pass the security footage that had been reactivated around the area. It would be inconvenience but she was stranger in neighborhood, no one would bother to greet her or anything.
"Damn!" Rei was dead on her track. She had successfully jumped over the wooden fences. She took a backyard where there was a small pool on the corner. The most unexpected was...
Rei recalled some methods to take over the situation. It was no use, the thing was staring on her like she was a dead meat. Rei shivered beneath her jacket. This would not be easy. She had to go over the thing to reach the kitchen door that located few feet away.
It barked... loudly. Rei jumped in surprise, her index finger was on her lips, gesturing the thing to shut up... of course it would not understand.
Rei hated a bulldog.
Why don't the Tanakas keeping something cuter instead? Perhaps chihuahuas? No, they are as scary as the bulldogs...
Actually she hated dogs in general, even the most harmless ones.
However her grave situation forced Rei to take a step back. Damn you Haruka, if only you answer the damn call...
Either running back or forward, both ways were suicidal.
I am suicidal indeed. With that, Rei charged forward.
Mamoru glanced around, examining the situation. This was going to be the third rest rooms. Rei hadn't go into the details before she hung up the communication. Only God knows how many toilets inside this freaking huge mall...
Mamoru looked up to the sign. He hated this. How big was his pride to walk into ladies lavatories? He had to stay strong, after all this was a very important mission.
God, please let me be in piece after this.
Mamoru opened the door. It was the third time and he still felt like he was opening a forbidden door to narnia.
He closed his eyes... well, peeking a little. He had to check for Michiru, right?
He waited for screams and a woman yelled on him calling him a pervert... at least flying stilettos on his head. Because that was he had gotten in last rest room. The damn flying stiletto, not to mention a very sharp heel landed on his forehead. It was a miracle that his head still attached without a hole on it.
However, none came.
Mamoru opened his eyes, he was greeted with the mess inside. Broken glass, damage sinks, a little flood on the floor... the place seemed it had been crushed by crazy men with baseball bat or such.
"Michiru?" Mamoru called. He approached the farthest stall on the corner. He pushed the door open. It was empty. Mamoru sighed. The place was so far is the most suspicious and it was very likely the restroom where Michiru had had the last contact.
That was a very close call…
The shoot still echoed all over the room. The smoke which was evident coming out from the hot barrel in the assassin's hand slowly filled the empty space between both women in the room.
"I wished you show me a little flinch, blondie…" K smiled, she lowered her hand which handling the handgun.
"I thought I was dead seconds ago, but I see you aren't the type who kill people for free… I'm not in your list." Haruka shrugged. The blonde gave a nervous glance toward a small hole on the wall behind her. The bullet had passed through, missing her head completely. Haruka had decided to take a bet. She wasn't type for gamble, but she'd take a risk in this case. Her guess turned out to be right.
K noticed the glances, she proudly smirked. "I will charge my hire an extra fee for a dead blondie agent. It won't be cheap."
"Touche." Haruka commented. She held firm her posture, standing between the assassin and the exit. "What do you want here?"
K didn't give respond for Haruka's question, instead the woman made her way to the locked drawer. It was a simple wooden drawer. At least that was how it appeared to be.
"If you are so bright, you should've known by now." K reached out a set of picklocks set from her purse.
"You know I will not let you get away from here, right?"
"But you did blondie, remember the cruise? You are too cute to throw a punch." K winked full of tease. It only took her few seconds to open the lock. Haruka peeked curiously inside it.
Documents. The blonde agent wasn't certain if those are what she'd been searching for. One thing for clear was the documents are very important enough for someone hiring an assassin to fetch them.
Haruka reached out to grab them but the woman was faster. K caught Haruka's hand mid air while smiling. "Do not dare, blondie… these are mine."
Haruka chuckled, unamused. "Stop calling me that."
After that, Haruka jerked her hand away. She did second attempt with her other hand, however again this time K had slapped away faster. "I repeat in case you don't understand blondie… these are mine."
Haruka took a deep breath. This was gonna be a hell of fight.
"I repeat in case you can't hear it. Stop. Calling. Me. That…" Haruka retorted.
K smiled, they both exchanged stares for a moment. Each was waiting for other to make the first movement.
K launched hers first. She lunged over Haruka, pushed both of them away from the documents in matter. Next second, Haruka found herself struggling and rolling on the floor with the woman's assassin. She dodged the rain of punches and slaps. No, she had dodged them mostly.
Tired of being attacked, Haruka turned the table this time. She had managed to get the assassin pinned on the floor. It was the same situation like their previous encounter yesterday.
"Still unable to punch a lady?" K taunted the pissed off agent.
"You don't even want to know." Haruka answered between gritted teeth. Her tongue tasted metal, her lips bleed a little from the assassin's loose punches. "You are under arrest." Haruka continued. Her words again are being ignored, the assassin stared unimpressed to the space above Haruka's head.
"You can't arrest me, blondie."
"Say who? Your mother?"
"I am being serious here. The case is so much deeper than you want to know." K said.
"Yea, tell me more about that." Haruka huffed. The blonde agent wished she had brought along the handcuffs with her. But still, in this kind of compromise position, she could not let go one of her hand on the assassin. She needed an extra hand at least to arrest her.
While thinking all of that, Haruka heard footsteps outside the room. They were hasty and move rather loud inside the house.
Damn… Rei said the Tanaka's won't be home in hour…
"Just let me go, blondie. I'll help you take care whoever outside the room."
"No chance."
The door handle moved and it opened. Haruka watched as the door frame is pushed open and revealing the person behind it.
It was Rei. Haruka didn't have habit to pay attention to details on a person, but Rei's appearance looked like she had been through hell and back.
The raven haired agent's expression was full of surprise the moment she had caught a look on Haruka. As quick as that, the expression turned from shock into annoyed and disgusted.
"Really, Haruka? REALLY?!" Rei yelled while pointing at Haruka's direction. Now her expression mixed up with what was categorized as anger and betrayed.
"I went to check on your condition because the damn line suddenly dead. Here I felt very worried because perhaps I would've walked out here with your dead body! You didn't pick up your communication BECAUSE OF…THIS?!" Rei shouted while blushing.
"You making out with someone isn't my business… but really, you couldn't have picked the more right time than now…"
Haruka stared confusedly on Rei's direction. The blonde agent didn't get a single thing from what Rei's saying. She remembered that she could've used some extra hands now.
"Zip it Rei. Do you bring your handcuff with you?"
Rei was speechless for a precious second before answering. "Yes, I do but- oh no, I prefer my cuffs clean… not that it's dirty literally but…" Rei was babbling, she was panic.
"REI! I need your handcuff right now." Haruka repeated her words.
"Okay." Finally Rei answered in short. She reached out her backpack and gave Haruka the cuffs. "Who is this woman anyway?"
"I thought you are keep tab on the international wanted list…"
"That's Mamoru's job not mine." Rei watched Haruka securing the cuffs on the mysterious woman's wrists.
K was amused during the whole ordeals thing.
"She's Lady K."
For countless time in a day, Rei went into shock. "I heard her a lot from Michiru but I never had time to see her…"
"Good, you can now. Watch over her a sec, I'll grab some things in the drawer." Haruka revived from her position, leaving K only guarded by Rei's watchful eyes.
"I can't believe it." Haruka muttered. She went through some files in the document. "These are the craps an assassin like you are after?" Haruka asked to K. The reply was only a grin.
"They won't be useful in your hand… you aren't that smart anyway." K shrugged. There was a cling sound dropped on the floor, Haruka looked up. The assassin had been able to free from the handcuff. Rei took out her gun and aimed.
"Killing 2 agents is above my pay grade… I bet I'll see you soon?"
Immediately a huge amount of white smoke filled the room. Rei spotted the small device in assassin's hand but too late to react faster. She'd take the shoot if she got better aim.
"… leave it, she's gone. So does the document." Haruka told Rei.
"What will we do next?" Rei asked, taking back her handcuff on the floor. The problem had grown bigger and was almost out of hand.
"We locate Michiru… she's in big trouble." Haruka clenched her fist. Only few seconds she looked into the files, everything somehow had clicked together.
"What do you mean?"
Haruka bolted out from the room, there was nothing that could've been done in that place anymore. "I think that she is with the director right now."
Haruka didn't like the idea about Michiru getting trapped somewhere with the bastard who had done serious crimes. The blonde agent knew that Michiru was capable agent, hell… she even better than herself. However, her gut disliked all of this.
"She's better be safe."
The aqua haired agent assessed the situation she was in. Michiru grunted, she wasn't in best position right now. She looked up, her wrists were tied up with a rope above her head. The feet experienced the same thing with a duct tape. Those things were her source of the discomfort. Michiru sighed, it would've been gone different way if she had not followed Tanaka Kaoru.
"… I hate it." Both, Kaoru and her were having conversation inside the ladies room. Kaoru was applying her makeup. The woman glanced at Michiru through the huge mirror at there.
"I hate being stalked." Kaoru continued. She put back her makeup tools back inside her purse.
Michiru gulped down, she'd been found out. She was sure she didn't make any careless move before.
"Kaoru-san, I - "
" - Those guys think I am a rich woman also damsel in distress…" Kaoru said again.
Michiru knew this woman wasn't talking about her. She asked carefully, "Are you in trouble?"
Kaoru huffed, the young housewife gave Michiru a hearty chuckle, "It's okay, everything's under control. They are just a bunch of idiot my husband has assigned for my protection…"
Bodyguard. Michiru thought. Hongo Tanaka was somehow under the circumstance where he'd under threats.
Suddenly, Kaoru made a quick turn on her heels. Michiru saw it too, the reflection on the mirror. A huge bulky guy entered the restroom. Either he just blind ignoring the sign on the door or he'd come with motives.
"Gimme a break! I just going to a restroom, leave me alone will you?!" Kaoru shouted, yelling toward the man with black suit. Michiru bet that the man was the bodyguard.
However the man didn't show any gesture to stop his step. Michiru prepared for the worst, Kaoru's yelling only getting louder, talking about how she and her husband would fire the idiot man in front of her.
Michiru leaped for action and hell broke loose.
The next thing she knew, she woke up in this dark room, got tied up like a kidnapped victim. Wait, she was a kidnapped victim.
Michiru rolled her eyes, she would never hoped for anyone's help… she would escape from here and searching for any clues about the offensive bodyguard.
The aqua haired agent noticed she was still had her shoes with her. She lifted her tied up feet on the air. It was hard to lift it until her feet was close with her head. She reached desperately and managed to pull off the heel. It turned out become a multifunction tiny knife.
"I love heels…" Michiru smiled in victory. She used the knife to cut off the rope. After she gained liberation back on her hands, she freed herself from the duct tape. Operation Houdini was a success.
"I wish I had a light with me…" Michiru examined the dark room, the only source of light was come from little duct ventilation few feet above her. It produced a dimmed light in the room.
Michiru took a deep breath, she would find a way to escape. But first, she needed to find out what was actually going on here.
Michiru looked at her finger where the fake wedding ring circling around it. The device had broken the time she threw a punch to the guy's nose, but it still worked for a tracker device. Haruka would find her location soon.
Haruka…
The sudden desire to see a certain blonde agent flooded her mid. She wondered if Haruka was doing okay. Of course she's okay, she isn't one who tied up and kidnapped by freaks. Michiru put a mental note.
She must've been gone crazy to feel the weird feeling. It was just a simple wedding ring to make all of past memories back haunting her. This wasn't the right time for it.
"I miss her…" Michiru whispered in sigh.
Next chapter is full blast action. Review so I'll know whether you like it. I won't promise for fast update though.
