"So all I have to do is get that bishie ball that lady's carrying, make sure it contains a Squall, and bring it back here?" Damian stated, not once breaking from the motion of stirring his expresso.
"You got it." Kaos nodded as he took a sip of his coffee.
"Be back in a minute." The blond boy smiled at the bishonen as he stood up from the table and walked toward the lady with the bad blond dye job.
"Excuse me miss," Damian smiled as he looked at the woman, then pointed back toward the table where he had been sitting. "that Kaos over there was wondering if you had a blind person dye your hair."
"Why you little!" She snapped at the boy.
"Don't shoot the messanger lady." Damian casually reached over to the lady's belt and pulled the bishie ball off of it, making sure to raise his hands in surrender. "If you want to tell someone off, go talk to him. He's the biggest jerk this side of the county."
The woman stormed over to where Kaos was sitting, and began screaming at the black haired bishonen, giving Damian the time to confirm the identity of the bishonen in the ball, then make a break for the Land Rover.
In a few minutes, Kaos landed from his short flight from the cafe to the car and drove away from the city.
"Real cute move kid." He growled as he sped towards Aisha's house. "If people keep thinking we're just troublemaking fighters, restaurants will start banning bishies from entering without trainers."
"Relax." Damian smiled as he tossed the bishie ball in the air and caught it. "I got Aisha's guy back. No harm, no foul." He attached the ball to his belt. "Now I'd like my money, and I'll be out of here."
Kaos smiled as he stopped the car in front of Aisha's house. "One little thing kid, Aisha doesn't work like that."
****
"I'd like to see the boss." Blue snapped as she handed the receptionist at the TB headquarters her ID badge. "It's urgent."
The receptionist glared up at the blond. "Miss van Eike, your security codes are outdated. I'm afraid that you won't be able to see the boss."
"She appointed me!" Blue screamed as she slammed her fists on the desk. "She also let me rot in jail for all these years!"
"Let me check again." The receptionist sighed as she pressed an intercom button. "There is a Miss Jacobine van Eike who has almost twenty year old clearance codes for a recruiter. She's requesting to see you sir."
The speaker crackled. "Miss van Eike... I've heard of her... Send her in Tammy."
The receptionist shrugged as she stood up and led Blue to the doors leading to the boss's office. Smiling politely, the receptionist opened the door on the right, allowing Blue to walk inside the elegant office.
"Miss van Eike." The boss began after the door had been shut. "I'm very sorry that no one bailed you from prison. There was a change in command at the time you were arrested, and I would like to apologize for the oversight.
The leather chair wheeled around, and both Blue and the boss stared in disbelief at each other.
"Sir," Blue closed turned away from Brad's gaze, "I'm speechless."
"As am I." Brad Owen sighed as he unplugged the speaker system. "I did not know that you were involved in these sort of activities Blue. If the league ever found out-"
"If the league finds out about me, then they'll find out about you. I'll make sure of it." Blue smiled as she sat down in one of the smaller leather chairs on the opposite side of the desk. "Now tell me, where's my son?"
"I don't know." Brad sighed as he stared in to the cat-like eyes of the leader. "We don't have any need for the boy."
"Bull." Blue whispered. "I can sense that you know something more about him than you're telling me."
"Fine then." Brad smiled as he pushed a button underneath his desk. "I'll talk after we have some coffee."
Immediately after he finished, a couple of black-clad thugs entered the office and captured Blue without a fight. The blond was defeated. Brad would be able to take everything from her because of her involvement with the organized crime unit, and no one would be the wiser as to how he found out. Without her gym, her reputation, and her son, well, what else would she have to fight for?
****
"I've got someone I'd like you to meet." Aisha smiled as she led Damian down the halls of the office building. She opened the doors to a large office, and led him inside. "This is my boss. He has your reward."
Damian stood, nervously awaiting the man to speak. He wasn't too sure if he should have followed that Kaos, now that he thought of it.
"You did a wonderful job, my boy." The Sakaki, who was now sitting in the office where Blue and Brad had been only a few hours prior said. "I was wondering if you liked helping us retrieve that bishonen."
"I could get used to it." Damian smiled, barring his fangs at the bishonen.
The Sakaki nodded. "How would you like to take a job here as a scientist? You could study the latest evolutions of bishonen and bishoujo."
"That would be cool."
"Very well." The Sakaki smiled as he stood up from the chair to shake the boy's hand. "Aisha, please show him to the laboratory."
"Yes sir." The burgandy haired woman smiled as she led Damian out of the office. The fall of the first gym in the league was eminent. The rest would topple in the aftermath.
****
"Man, where IS D?" Kaylin whined as the three teens sat in the lobby of the AC gym. "He said he'd be here like an hour ago."
"Hai." Feia added as she twirled a strand of her blond hair. "I'm finally old enough to get in to one of these trainer nights, and he's going to ruin it for me."
Hotura sighed as she pulled her cell phone from her belt. "I'll call the bastard."
"He'd better have one hell of an excuse." Kaylin sighed as he put his feet up on the coffee table.
"Voulez vous coucher avec moi?"
"Real cute D." Hotura smiled as she heard Damian's voice through the cell phone. "Where in the hell are you?"
"Well, I'm with Kaos and Aisha right now."
Hotura sighed. "D, you didn't remember that we were all going out tonight?"
"Oh my God...." Damian sighed. "I'm so sorry. I totally forgot. Hey, why don't you have Kay or Feia pose as the trainer?"
"Because they check licenses out here."
"Je suis très désolé. Next time, I'll be there petite, I swear it."
"If there is a next time." Hotura growled as she hung up the phone. "Damian no baka...."
The other two nodded at the eldest's comment. She was correct.
"So what?" Kaylin sighed as he stretched. "I think we need to go over to HV and kick his scrawny little ass."
"Tousan will kill me if I leave for that gym if I don't tell him." Feia whispered as she hugged her knees.
"Fine then." Hotura smiled as she stood up. "You stay here Feia, and us Maxwell-Yuy's will go find him."
"Then we're gonna omae o korosu him?" Kaylin stuck his tongue out at his cousin.
"Exactly." Hotura smiled as she and Kaylin headed out the gym doors.
****
"I can't believe we're having another meeting so soon after the championship." Shade sighed as she leaned on the boardroom table. "I'm missing out on a lot of battles because of this."
"I hear that." Elspeth nodded as she rummaged through her purse. "Kei and Wu have the three kids and a bunch of Chibis to take care of. She's more than able, but I just don't want to see what happens if any of them disobey Wu. Especially Kaylin."
"Good evening leaders." Brad smiled as he walked in the boardroom. "Blue will not be joining us tonight."
"Hold on." Dallandra sighed as she glared at the league's president. "I'm sure we all were called here about the championship, and you mean to tell me that the one of us who is obsessed with the whole thing isn't coming here?"
"Exactly." Brad sat in his high backed leather chair. "Blue isn't feeling too well right now. I received a call from her junior informing me of this."
"Blue doesn't have a-" Kyoko stopped herself. She didn't need to be the one to get her friend in trouble for lying to the IBL.
"What doesn't Blue have?"
Kyoko looked around the room, hoping for someone to send her some sort of hint as to what to say. It was futile. "Blue doesn't have a bad immune system. I've never seen her sick."
Brad just glared at the Angel gym leader. "Anyway, we've ruled in favor of the boy for this year's competition, since we did not detect his heratige until after the event. He will not be allowed to compete in any more IBL competitions."
The president nodded to the group as he stood up and walked out of the room.
"Well, that was about the most pointless meeting we've ever had." Shade sighed as she stood up. "So which one of us has to tell Blue?"
The entire group turned to face Ele.
"No way!" The blond laughed nervously as she stood up. "I don't want to be there when she explodes!"
"Ele," Kyoko sighed as she pulled her hair from her eyes. "We know that you two are almost constantly doing something together when you're not in your gyms."
"That's because the kids are always getting in trouble together."
"You do it El."
****
"Dinnertime Doll!" Kaos smiled as he walked through the prison underneath the building where the TB doctors kept their 'patients'.
"Thanks." Blue snapped as she grabbed the tray from the bishonen. She devoured the cheese sandwich, one of her least favorite foods, then looked up at the bishonen. "What?"
The black haired bishonen sighed. "You don't recognize me, do you Blue?"
The gym leader squinted as she studied the bishonen. "I haven't a clue."
"Come here." He smiled, motioning for her to move closer to the bars. Blue obliged, and touched her hand to his, their fingers intertwining. She leaned closer to the bars- the psychic barrier on her cell had blocked her from just probing his mind to see who the bishonen was. Who had she lost that could possibly look like this? Kosaburo? Those were known to have demon evolutions. Sakaki could possibly do this too, but this bishonen's eyes were what confused her. Both of the possibilities had brown eyes. This one's were blue.
Maybe he was a Yamato that she owned as a chibi- Kojimato! That's who this had to be!
All thoughts of a Yamato or Yamato cross faded as she felt his face next to hers. No Yamato would ever do that. They were too arrogant; too proud for their own good. Perhaps that was why she liked them.
"Nick...." Blue whispered, trying to hold back her tears. "...what did they do to you?"
"They evolved me." He sighed as he kissed her forehead. "I'm so sorry I left. You would have never forced me to become this thing."
"What did they use to evolve you?" Blue couldn't handle seeing the demon-like creature sitting in front of her. "And who did this to you?"
"The doctors here. Aisha tried to stop them, but it wasn't any use. They're as bad as Genesis. I think they put a dark spore in me to make me become this."
"A dark spore?" Blue thought she was the only one with access to the technology to take the dark seeds created by Oekawa and implant them in certain bishonen. It had all started with that first Kaizer evolution.... "I'm sorry babe." She whispered as she turned away from her former love. "I know how to remove the spore. I'll help you Nick."
"Blue," Kaos smiled as he looked at the gym leader. "I'll get you out of here. I promise."
****
"What do you mean Damian's not here!" Hotura growled as she turned from Mateo.
"Petite, I told you," He sighed as he stood outside the gym smoking his cigarette, with an Umaki standing nearby doing the same. "Damian hasn't been home since the championship. Madame went out to find both of you, and as you can see, she's not here either."
"Tura, why didn't you just ask D where he was?" Kaylin sighed as he fumbled with the cross around his neck.
"Omae-"
"-o korosu. We all know what you're going to say Petite." Mateo sighed as he dropped the cigarette to the ground and stepped on it, crushing the embers under his foot. "Listen, if you called him and he answered, I'm sure Koushiro can trace the call."
Hotura just glared at the bishonen. "No one is touching my phone."
Kaylin winked at Mateo as he moved closer to his cousin.
Taking the cue, Mateo motioned for Hotura to follow him in to the gym. "Petite, why do you care so much about finding my son? It's not like he's ever going to get married, and besides, if he does, it will be to a human."
Hotura stopped, stunned speechess for a moment, while Kaylin reached in to her purse and pulled the phone out, then tossed it to the Umaki, who in turn walked inside and left the group.
"You're a racist!" Hotura gasped as she stared down the blond bishonen standing in front of her.
"Nope. I really wouldn't care, but if he happens to either marry of have children with a bishoujo, then there will be no chance at all that the gym will stay in the family. He's about as borderline human as the league allows."
Chewing her lip, Hotura sat down on the couch in the lobby. She never really thought about that. Perhaps it would be best to leave the little blond kid alone. He was the heir to a gym, and what right did she have in messing that up?
"Prodigious!" Koushiro ran out to the lobby, carrying his laptop and the cell phone. "I traced the call to the IBL headquarters!"
Hotura was again rendered speechless as Kaylin and Mateo just laughed at the chestnut haired girl's expression.
"Kaylin! You little Maxwell! I can't believe you stole from me!"
The boy just continued to laugh as he dodged Hotura's attacks. "I can't believe you fell for the whole thing!"
"Stop it!" Koushiro screamed, but to no avail. The Maxwell-Yuy's continued to run arond the lobby, destroying much of the furniture in the process.
"Umaki?" Mateo smiled as he nodded to the dark evolution of himself. The older looking bishonen raised his hand, and both teens stopped, mid-chase, caught in the psychic grip of the bishonen.
Mateo and Umaki walked up to both and just smiled.
"I think we've found something worse than chibi Daisuke's and Taichi's." Mateo turned from Umaki, then looked straight in to Hotura's eyes. "I want both of you to find Damian for me. It's not like him to not come home after competitions."
Hotura nodded. Psychic class attacks were her one weakness, and with this Umaki holding her in his mental grip, she wouldn't have any way to get out of this situtation. Kaylin was the same way.
"Fine. We'll go get the little bastard."
"You got it." Kaos nodded as he took a sip of his coffee.
"Be back in a minute." The blond boy smiled at the bishonen as he stood up from the table and walked toward the lady with the bad blond dye job.
"Excuse me miss," Damian smiled as he looked at the woman, then pointed back toward the table where he had been sitting. "that Kaos over there was wondering if you had a blind person dye your hair."
"Why you little!" She snapped at the boy.
"Don't shoot the messanger lady." Damian casually reached over to the lady's belt and pulled the bishie ball off of it, making sure to raise his hands in surrender. "If you want to tell someone off, go talk to him. He's the biggest jerk this side of the county."
The woman stormed over to where Kaos was sitting, and began screaming at the black haired bishonen, giving Damian the time to confirm the identity of the bishonen in the ball, then make a break for the Land Rover.
In a few minutes, Kaos landed from his short flight from the cafe to the car and drove away from the city.
"Real cute move kid." He growled as he sped towards Aisha's house. "If people keep thinking we're just troublemaking fighters, restaurants will start banning bishies from entering without trainers."
"Relax." Damian smiled as he tossed the bishie ball in the air and caught it. "I got Aisha's guy back. No harm, no foul." He attached the ball to his belt. "Now I'd like my money, and I'll be out of here."
Kaos smiled as he stopped the car in front of Aisha's house. "One little thing kid, Aisha doesn't work like that."
****
"I'd like to see the boss." Blue snapped as she handed the receptionist at the TB headquarters her ID badge. "It's urgent."
The receptionist glared up at the blond. "Miss van Eike, your security codes are outdated. I'm afraid that you won't be able to see the boss."
"She appointed me!" Blue screamed as she slammed her fists on the desk. "She also let me rot in jail for all these years!"
"Let me check again." The receptionist sighed as she pressed an intercom button. "There is a Miss Jacobine van Eike who has almost twenty year old clearance codes for a recruiter. She's requesting to see you sir."
The speaker crackled. "Miss van Eike... I've heard of her... Send her in Tammy."
The receptionist shrugged as she stood up and led Blue to the doors leading to the boss's office. Smiling politely, the receptionist opened the door on the right, allowing Blue to walk inside the elegant office.
"Miss van Eike." The boss began after the door had been shut. "I'm very sorry that no one bailed you from prison. There was a change in command at the time you were arrested, and I would like to apologize for the oversight.
The leather chair wheeled around, and both Blue and the boss stared in disbelief at each other.
"Sir," Blue closed turned away from Brad's gaze, "I'm speechless."
"As am I." Brad Owen sighed as he unplugged the speaker system. "I did not know that you were involved in these sort of activities Blue. If the league ever found out-"
"If the league finds out about me, then they'll find out about you. I'll make sure of it." Blue smiled as she sat down in one of the smaller leather chairs on the opposite side of the desk. "Now tell me, where's my son?"
"I don't know." Brad sighed as he stared in to the cat-like eyes of the leader. "We don't have any need for the boy."
"Bull." Blue whispered. "I can sense that you know something more about him than you're telling me."
"Fine then." Brad smiled as he pushed a button underneath his desk. "I'll talk after we have some coffee."
Immediately after he finished, a couple of black-clad thugs entered the office and captured Blue without a fight. The blond was defeated. Brad would be able to take everything from her because of her involvement with the organized crime unit, and no one would be the wiser as to how he found out. Without her gym, her reputation, and her son, well, what else would she have to fight for?
****
"I've got someone I'd like you to meet." Aisha smiled as she led Damian down the halls of the office building. She opened the doors to a large office, and led him inside. "This is my boss. He has your reward."
Damian stood, nervously awaiting the man to speak. He wasn't too sure if he should have followed that Kaos, now that he thought of it.
"You did a wonderful job, my boy." The Sakaki, who was now sitting in the office where Blue and Brad had been only a few hours prior said. "I was wondering if you liked helping us retrieve that bishonen."
"I could get used to it." Damian smiled, barring his fangs at the bishonen.
The Sakaki nodded. "How would you like to take a job here as a scientist? You could study the latest evolutions of bishonen and bishoujo."
"That would be cool."
"Very well." The Sakaki smiled as he stood up from the chair to shake the boy's hand. "Aisha, please show him to the laboratory."
"Yes sir." The burgandy haired woman smiled as she led Damian out of the office. The fall of the first gym in the league was eminent. The rest would topple in the aftermath.
****
"Man, where IS D?" Kaylin whined as the three teens sat in the lobby of the AC gym. "He said he'd be here like an hour ago."
"Hai." Feia added as she twirled a strand of her blond hair. "I'm finally old enough to get in to one of these trainer nights, and he's going to ruin it for me."
Hotura sighed as she pulled her cell phone from her belt. "I'll call the bastard."
"He'd better have one hell of an excuse." Kaylin sighed as he put his feet up on the coffee table.
"Voulez vous coucher avec moi?"
"Real cute D." Hotura smiled as she heard Damian's voice through the cell phone. "Where in the hell are you?"
"Well, I'm with Kaos and Aisha right now."
Hotura sighed. "D, you didn't remember that we were all going out tonight?"
"Oh my God...." Damian sighed. "I'm so sorry. I totally forgot. Hey, why don't you have Kay or Feia pose as the trainer?"
"Because they check licenses out here."
"Je suis très désolé. Next time, I'll be there petite, I swear it."
"If there is a next time." Hotura growled as she hung up the phone. "Damian no baka...."
The other two nodded at the eldest's comment. She was correct.
"So what?" Kaylin sighed as he stretched. "I think we need to go over to HV and kick his scrawny little ass."
"Tousan will kill me if I leave for that gym if I don't tell him." Feia whispered as she hugged her knees.
"Fine then." Hotura smiled as she stood up. "You stay here Feia, and us Maxwell-Yuy's will go find him."
"Then we're gonna omae o korosu him?" Kaylin stuck his tongue out at his cousin.
"Exactly." Hotura smiled as she and Kaylin headed out the gym doors.
****
"I can't believe we're having another meeting so soon after the championship." Shade sighed as she leaned on the boardroom table. "I'm missing out on a lot of battles because of this."
"I hear that." Elspeth nodded as she rummaged through her purse. "Kei and Wu have the three kids and a bunch of Chibis to take care of. She's more than able, but I just don't want to see what happens if any of them disobey Wu. Especially Kaylin."
"Good evening leaders." Brad smiled as he walked in the boardroom. "Blue will not be joining us tonight."
"Hold on." Dallandra sighed as she glared at the league's president. "I'm sure we all were called here about the championship, and you mean to tell me that the one of us who is obsessed with the whole thing isn't coming here?"
"Exactly." Brad sat in his high backed leather chair. "Blue isn't feeling too well right now. I received a call from her junior informing me of this."
"Blue doesn't have a-" Kyoko stopped herself. She didn't need to be the one to get her friend in trouble for lying to the IBL.
"What doesn't Blue have?"
Kyoko looked around the room, hoping for someone to send her some sort of hint as to what to say. It was futile. "Blue doesn't have a bad immune system. I've never seen her sick."
Brad just glared at the Angel gym leader. "Anyway, we've ruled in favor of the boy for this year's competition, since we did not detect his heratige until after the event. He will not be allowed to compete in any more IBL competitions."
The president nodded to the group as he stood up and walked out of the room.
"Well, that was about the most pointless meeting we've ever had." Shade sighed as she stood up. "So which one of us has to tell Blue?"
The entire group turned to face Ele.
"No way!" The blond laughed nervously as she stood up. "I don't want to be there when she explodes!"
"Ele," Kyoko sighed as she pulled her hair from her eyes. "We know that you two are almost constantly doing something together when you're not in your gyms."
"That's because the kids are always getting in trouble together."
"You do it El."
****
"Dinnertime Doll!" Kaos smiled as he walked through the prison underneath the building where the TB doctors kept their 'patients'.
"Thanks." Blue snapped as she grabbed the tray from the bishonen. She devoured the cheese sandwich, one of her least favorite foods, then looked up at the bishonen. "What?"
The black haired bishonen sighed. "You don't recognize me, do you Blue?"
The gym leader squinted as she studied the bishonen. "I haven't a clue."
"Come here." He smiled, motioning for her to move closer to the bars. Blue obliged, and touched her hand to his, their fingers intertwining. She leaned closer to the bars- the psychic barrier on her cell had blocked her from just probing his mind to see who the bishonen was. Who had she lost that could possibly look like this? Kosaburo? Those were known to have demon evolutions. Sakaki could possibly do this too, but this bishonen's eyes were what confused her. Both of the possibilities had brown eyes. This one's were blue.
Maybe he was a Yamato that she owned as a chibi- Kojimato! That's who this had to be!
All thoughts of a Yamato or Yamato cross faded as she felt his face next to hers. No Yamato would ever do that. They were too arrogant; too proud for their own good. Perhaps that was why she liked them.
"Nick...." Blue whispered, trying to hold back her tears. "...what did they do to you?"
"They evolved me." He sighed as he kissed her forehead. "I'm so sorry I left. You would have never forced me to become this thing."
"What did they use to evolve you?" Blue couldn't handle seeing the demon-like creature sitting in front of her. "And who did this to you?"
"The doctors here. Aisha tried to stop them, but it wasn't any use. They're as bad as Genesis. I think they put a dark spore in me to make me become this."
"A dark spore?" Blue thought she was the only one with access to the technology to take the dark seeds created by Oekawa and implant them in certain bishonen. It had all started with that first Kaizer evolution.... "I'm sorry babe." She whispered as she turned away from her former love. "I know how to remove the spore. I'll help you Nick."
"Blue," Kaos smiled as he looked at the gym leader. "I'll get you out of here. I promise."
****
"What do you mean Damian's not here!" Hotura growled as she turned from Mateo.
"Petite, I told you," He sighed as he stood outside the gym smoking his cigarette, with an Umaki standing nearby doing the same. "Damian hasn't been home since the championship. Madame went out to find both of you, and as you can see, she's not here either."
"Tura, why didn't you just ask D where he was?" Kaylin sighed as he fumbled with the cross around his neck.
"Omae-"
"-o korosu. We all know what you're going to say Petite." Mateo sighed as he dropped the cigarette to the ground and stepped on it, crushing the embers under his foot. "Listen, if you called him and he answered, I'm sure Koushiro can trace the call."
Hotura just glared at the bishonen. "No one is touching my phone."
Kaylin winked at Mateo as he moved closer to his cousin.
Taking the cue, Mateo motioned for Hotura to follow him in to the gym. "Petite, why do you care so much about finding my son? It's not like he's ever going to get married, and besides, if he does, it will be to a human."
Hotura stopped, stunned speechess for a moment, while Kaylin reached in to her purse and pulled the phone out, then tossed it to the Umaki, who in turn walked inside and left the group.
"You're a racist!" Hotura gasped as she stared down the blond bishonen standing in front of her.
"Nope. I really wouldn't care, but if he happens to either marry of have children with a bishoujo, then there will be no chance at all that the gym will stay in the family. He's about as borderline human as the league allows."
Chewing her lip, Hotura sat down on the couch in the lobby. She never really thought about that. Perhaps it would be best to leave the little blond kid alone. He was the heir to a gym, and what right did she have in messing that up?
"Prodigious!" Koushiro ran out to the lobby, carrying his laptop and the cell phone. "I traced the call to the IBL headquarters!"
Hotura was again rendered speechless as Kaylin and Mateo just laughed at the chestnut haired girl's expression.
"Kaylin! You little Maxwell! I can't believe you stole from me!"
The boy just continued to laugh as he dodged Hotura's attacks. "I can't believe you fell for the whole thing!"
"Stop it!" Koushiro screamed, but to no avail. The Maxwell-Yuy's continued to run arond the lobby, destroying much of the furniture in the process.
"Umaki?" Mateo smiled as he nodded to the dark evolution of himself. The older looking bishonen raised his hand, and both teens stopped, mid-chase, caught in the psychic grip of the bishonen.
Mateo and Umaki walked up to both and just smiled.
"I think we've found something worse than chibi Daisuke's and Taichi's." Mateo turned from Umaki, then looked straight in to Hotura's eyes. "I want both of you to find Damian for me. It's not like him to not come home after competitions."
Hotura nodded. Psychic class attacks were her one weakness, and with this Umaki holding her in his mental grip, she wouldn't have any way to get out of this situtation. Kaylin was the same way.
"Fine. We'll go get the little bastard."
