Disclaimer: Yeah, we all know Weiss isn't mine.oh but Marc is *EG* and so
is Takashi and Kai *grins*
" Anything in these " is talking ' Anything in these ' is thoughts Remember that Isabella is Aya, she just had her name changed and yeah I know not everything may be 100% correct but that's why I write A/U story's.so I don't have to be 100% correct! *evil grin*
Thanks to all my reviewers who have said they like this so far I really appreciate it.
Alos thanks to OmiTsukiyono17 who kept saying I had to work on this fic! *grins* If she hadn't kept pushing me who knows when this chapter would have got done *L*
Ok this it.on with the show..
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Aya looked down at the woman before him, she was stubborn..to stubborn for her own good. But then again look at the family she came from, they had all been stubborn. Isabella had simply learned from the best, him. "I don't like the idea." He finally said, seeing she wasn't about to back down.
"Why not? It will give you four some time to go over things." She whispered back to the man beside her. Refusing to leave the room, Aya had almost dragged her out but Marc had been watching. So the two had chose to talk in hushed voices of Isabella's newest, and stupidest idea. "Manx is missing, you need to find her."
He nodded in agreement. "I also have to keep you safe."
"You also need to spar so you can test your wounds" She shot back. "You can't do that with Marc here."
"We can go somewhere."
The dark haired woman smirked. "Without Marc and I, wouldn't that be suspicious?" Aya looked down at his sister seeing the look she had on her face. It was the look of triumph, the look that said she had a point and he knew it. "Ha!"
"Ha, what!" He growled. "I haven't said a word yet!"
"Yeah, but I know when I have won.and brother I have won." Isabella frowned, shooting her brother a look. Aya simply retorted by crossing his arms across his chest, shooting her that same look. They stood there like that for a while, neither wanting to break away first, neither wanting to accept defeat at the face if their sibling.
Yohji just shook his head. "Fuck, one of you give in so we know what's going on? You both are acting like spoiled brats!"
"Look who's talking." Ken mumbled, receiving his own glare from the oldest Weiss.
"Shut up Hidaka!"
"Bite me Kudoh!"
"Idiot." Yohji growled
He growled back. "Bastard."
"Whore!" Ken arched a brow as he looked at Yohji's out fit, then busted up laughing. "Shut up." He grumbled. 'Knew I should have picked a different insult..' Sighing, he pulled out his pack of cigarettes. "Ok, you can stop laughing now!" The shorter assassin's laughing turning into a giggle fit, finally calming down into a big grin. "I don't know why you found that so funny." Yohji snapped, blowing smoke towards him.
Frowning, he stood. "Cuz that would have been better directed at you!" He answered.
"Whatever, I hear you two.don't try to tell me you don't go at it like rabbits." This made Ken blush. "Ha! I knew it, you two are sex maniacs!"
"This really isn't a proper conversation guy!" Omi said, looking over at Marc. "Sorry, they get out of hand sometimes.its like living with two children."
Both men looked up at the blond. "HEY!"
"See what I mean." He whispered, Marc grinned. "You should see them when they have to work together in the shop."
"Reminds me of Isabella." He answered. "She gets all huffy then sees something she wants or something cute and turns into a little kid." He turned, looking over at Aya and Isabella. "Do you know what they are talking about?"
Omi shot Yohji a look, seeing the man shake his head. "I wouldn't know." He said a moment later, Marc looked back at him. "I'm sure its some sibling thing."
Sighing, Aya finally looked away seeing the four men looking towards them. Focusing on a pair of dark brown eyes, Ken nodded. "Fine." He whispered, turning back to meet the midnight blue of his sister. "You and Marc can go out alone, but I want you to be careful. Take my cell with you and call me every once in a while so I know you are safe. Do you understand me?"
"Yes!" He could tell she was happy.
"You know it would kill me if anything ever happened to you."
Wrapping her arms around his waist, she nodded. "I know brother."
*
"So?"
Isabella looked up at the man beside her, smiling. "So what?" She asked, taking his hand in hers as they walked.
"What was going on between you and your brother?"
"Oh." He squeezed her hand, making her look up at him. "He didn't want me wandering around Tokyo alone, something he saw on the news made him nervous."
Marc didn't respond. For a few blocks the two just walked in silence, Isabella had begun to worry when suddenly he stopped. "Does he hate me?"
Isabella turned, meeting black eyes. "Who? Aya?" He nodded. "Why do you say that?"
"I just get a feeling.."
Stepping up to him, she rested one of her hands against his cheek. "My brother does not hate you Marc. Aya would have told you if he didn't like you. In fact you would not still be in that house if he did not like you." Marc just nodded. "I mean it, Aya isn't one to let someone near him he feels he can't trust."
"So he likes me?"
"I assure you, Aya likes you." She responded, kissing him. "Now stop worrying."
Taking her hand back in his, they started walking. "So where are we going?"
"I wanna go see Tokyo Tower, then we can go do some shopping." He sighed. "Oh come on you know you love to shop with me."
"Yeah, I know." She giggled. "Hey, can I ask you one more question?"
"Sure!"
He flushed slightly, looking down at the small woman beside him. "How did you brother end up with a girls name?" He saw the shocked look in her face, her free hand going up to cover her mouth. "I shouldn't have asked?"
"Ah, well its his name. Who knows why he has a.girls name." She said, then giggled. "Your so lucky you asked me and not Aya, you would not have been on his good list."
Smiling, he pulled Isabella closer to him. "I'll remember that."
Takashi rolled up the window as the two began walking again. "Aya Fujimiya.I want you to get her and bring her to me. I'm sure her dear brother would give anything for her safe return."
"What about the woman we have now?" Kai asked, looking back at his boss.
"I'm not sure yet." He answered. "Right now your only concern is getting that little dark haired angel. Do you understand me Kai." He nodded. "Good, I'm going back to my office. I have a note to send to some friends, bring her to me when you are done."
"Yes sir." Kai stepped out of the car, walking to the one parked behind it. Three men looked up as he got in. "We grab the girl."
*
Omi growled as the redhead looked over his shoulder. "Your making me nervous, go away!"
"Sorry."
"So how did the training session go?" He asked, looking back at the two who had just come in. "Is everything healing?"
Ken grinned. "Aya did really good, looks like the wounds didn't effect him to much, though his wrist got sore after a while from using his katana."
The blond didn't like the sound of that, looking back up at Aya. "Is everything ok?"
"Yeah, I'll be fine. I just need to practice more, get my strength back up." He answered, Omi was still frowning. "I mean it Omi, I'll be fine."
"Ok, we won't say anything about your wrists.for now." He said, looking down at the pale pink scars that encircled both wrists. Each one was about a inch thick, Omi frowned every time he though about how their leader had received those. "Omi?"
"Hmm?"
Aya smiled slightly. "I asked if you had found anything?" He repeated, pulling on a long sleeved shirt over the short sleeved one he was wearing.
Looking back at his computer screen typing in something, then shook his head. "Well I'm into Kritiker's files, they still don't know where Manx is. It seems there as worried about this as we are." Punching a command into the computer he frowned. "I don't know what to say Aya, she's just gone."
The Weiss leader nodded, looking over at the other two members. "So now what do we do, go look for her?" Ken asked, standing to walk over to him. Aya shook his head, thinking for a moment. "You have an idea?"
"Takashi took her, we can safely say that." Omi nodded, agreeing with their leader. "Manx had the disk, but either she doesn't have it anymore or she will tell him she doesn't know where it is. He's either going to go after someone else or come right for us."
"So we wait." Yohji concluded, meeting Aya violet glaze. "I'm right..right?"
He nodded. "We wait." Ken was about to disagree when his lover took his hand. "Ken, we don't know where she is or where Takashi is holding her. If we try to go after him he could kill her.."
"If we don't he may kill her." He pointed out.
"No." He answered. "She's their insurance, if he wants us he will use her. Its only been a day, he obviously knows where we are. That is the only way he could have known about Manx, the only way he could have gotten her. He must had grabbed her from right under us."
"So we wait." Yohji said once again. "It's the only choice we have left. Sorry to say boys but we have found ourselves in a position in which were damned if we do and damned if we don't."
Omi sighed, walking up to Aya and Ken. "I'm sorry to say I agree with Yohji. If we go after them Manx is dead and if we don't who knows what will happen." Yohji and I both went to where they had held you Aya, but there was nothing.obviously they have deserted that location. As of right now we have nothing to even pin point where they are keeping her so anything we do would be a wild goose chase."
"Fine." Aya looked down at his lover, seeing him sigh. "I agree." He paused, looking up to meet Aya's eyes. "I hate to be the one to point this out." He whispered. "But would it be safe to say if Takashi knew about Manx it was because he had been watching us."
Aya nodded. "Yeah, Omi just said that."
"Then wouldn't he know about Isabella?"
"Shit!"
Ken frowned. "She out, alone with Marc right now Aya."
"Shit, shit!" Growling, he released Ken's hand running up the stairs into the kitchen. The three Weiss followed behind him, seeing him holding the phone in his hand. "Damn it! Ken, what's my number?"
"Number?"
"My cell phone! My fucking number, what is it!" Ken suddenly realized what he meant, walking over he took the phone from Aya dialing it in.
Shaking his head, Yohji looked at his leader. "You don't know your cell number?"
"It's not like I call myself you moron!" He yelled, taking back the phone from Ken.
"I know mine."
That caused Aya to smirk as the phone rang. "You should, you give it out to enough people."
"Touché."
After a moment the redhead slammed down the phone. "She's not answering, I told her to keep it on!" Sighing, he sat down at the table looking up at Ken. "So what do we do?"
Ken just shrugged, Omi walking up beside him. "We do the same thing we were going to do." The blond responded. "We wait, we see what happens."
"Omi they have Isabella!"
He nodded, realizing he would now have to be the voice of reason. Omi knew how much his sister meant to him, he knew Aya would to anything to get his sister back. "Yes, and they have Manx. We need to wait, remember? We don't know where they are, when it comes down to it we are going to waiting when they play their hand."
"Then we kill them." He whispered, all three nodded at that. The door to the kitchen opened as the four men turned to look at the man standing there. "Where is Isabella!" Aya snapped, looking at the black haired man standing there.
"I was hoping you would tell me!" He answered back. "We went to Tokyo Tower, afterwards she was taking me to the shopping district and we got separated. I couldn't find her so I figured I would come back here and hopefully she would too." Marc could see the four boys were worried. "I'm sorry Aya."
Shaking his head he looked back up at his sisters boyfriend. "Its not your fault, it's mine." Standing he looked at Ken. "I have to go look for her." He saw the look Omi gave him. "If I don't Marc is going to wonder why." He whispered, seeing that Omi hadn't thought of that.
"Fine, lets all go look for her, we will meet back here in an hour." They nodded in agreement.
*
"Let go of me now!" She yelled, trying once again to pull away from the man holding her. "If you don't let me go I swear I will scream!" Seeing this man was ignoring her she kicked him in the knee. "Are you listening to me you.."
Grabbing her by the hair, Kai met her eyes. "Shut up or I will make you shut up." The young girl nodded, her eyes wide. "Thank you." The elevator opened, the two walking down the hallway to the double doors at the opposite side. Opening one, he pushed Isabella inside walking in behind her.
"Hello." She looked up at the man sitting behind the desk. "Please have a seat." Crossing her arms, she looked away from him. "I would rather not hurt you..Aya." Isabella looked at him, the confusion was obvious. "Yes, I know your real name. I also know that your brother is one of those assassins that killed my men. So if you would please sit you may live thought this ordeal."
Isabella thought this over for a moment, then slowly walked over to the chair and sat down. "What do you want?"
"I want back what your brother took from me." He answered. "Actually it was the other three on his team that took it, he was to busy being tortured."
"You! You did that to my brother!" She yelled, her hands slamming down on his desk. "You are the one who hurt my brother!"
Shaking his head, Kai grabbed the girls shoulder pushing her back down into the chair. "Not me, my men. Your brother's friends killed my men."
"Good!"
"Not in my eyes girl." He growled. "I want the disk back."
Isabella shook her head. "I don't know anything about their missions or this disk your talking about. I'm here visiting my brother and that is it!" Suddenly her dark eyes narrowed. "You're the one who kidnapped Manx aren't you!"
"The redhead woman?" He nodded. "She's here, don't worry your going to be with her very soon. First I want you to tell me something." She arched a brow. "Do you want to die?"
Isabella's eyes once again widened. "No!"
Takashi nodded. "Then you will listen to what I say. If you do this you may survive, if you don't I will send you back piece by piece to your dear brother! Do we understand one another."
"Yes." She whispered.
"You will go with my man and he will take you downstairs. You are now my decoy, you are what I will use to get your brother to come to me. Kai, please.."
The man nodded, pulling Isabella up from the seat. 'Oh Ran,, what have I done.' She thought as the man led her down some stairs. 'This is my fault, I never should have come home! I never should have talked you into letting me go out alone.I should have just listened to you.'
"We will be back for you later." The man said, pushing her into a room.
Isabella stumbled, falling down on the floor. "Ouch, bastard.." Pushing herself up she began to look around, her eyes widening. "Manx?" Crawling over, she pulled the redhead into her arms. "Manx, please wake up?" She begged. "Please." Green eyes opened, meeting her own. "Manx?"
"Isabella." She breathed, her face twisting in pain. "Your brother.."
Reaching up, she brushed back the dark red hair. "Hush now, are you hurt badly." Manx nodded, her eyes sliding back closed. 'Ok, I can handle this, I won't panic! I am my brothers sibling I can do this.' Laying the woman back down she stood, grabbing the container of water that they must have put in the room when first bringing Manx there. She walked back over, kneeling down beside the woman. "Manx?"
"I'm still here." She whispered.
That made Isabella smile. "Ok, I'm going to clean some of these cuts on your face, are there any bad ones anywhere else?"
"No, they were just..beating me." She responded, her eye opening. "They wanted the disk.I don't know where it is but."
"I know." Pulling of the shirt she had over her tank top, Isabella tore off one of the sleeves soaking it in the water. Manx smiled, feeling the damp cloth on her face. "Aya will find us, don't worry about anything. I'm here."
*
"Well that was a waste of time." Yohji growled as the five walked into the living room.
No one found that remark amusing, especially Aya and Marc. "So now we call the police?" He asked.
"No!" All four Weiss said, then looked at each other.
"Well that wasn't to obvious." A light flipped on as the five men saw the dark haired woman sitting in the chair. "I see we are having problems."
Aya growled. "What are you doing here Birman."
"I am here because your sister has been kidnapped." She answered, ignoring the redheads rudeness. She was more interesting in the dark haired man that wasn't part of their group. "Who is he?"
Marc frowned at that comment. "My name is Marc, you know where Isabella is?"
"No." She answered, it was obviously not that answer they had wanted to hear.
"Then explain why you are here." The leader of Weiss snapped, the other three nodded in agreement.
Birman wasn't stupid, she knew that Weiss didn't like her. When Aya had joined it had only gotten worse so she had stopped coming to see this particular group. Manx was the only one who could control the four assassins and Birman was glad to leave it to the redhead woman. Unfortunately Manx was missing and Persia had told her she would have to go see them, needless to say she had not been happy about the assignment. "Believe me, I would not be here if I didn't have to be. We are bound to protect your sister for you so I am here to do my job, give out information. Persia needed to get something to you and seeing that Manx is still missing I was chosen to bring it to you. Lucky me!" The sarcasm was plain in the woman's voice.
Marc was confused, and none of these people were making it any better. "I have a question?" They all turned to look at him, suddenly he felt like a target on a shooting range. "Ok, ah what is going on? You are sitting here talking about information and being bound to protect people, I am not understanding any of this!"
"He's not involved Aya."
The redhead turned to look at the woman. "Fuck you Birman."
"Just stop!" They all looked back to Isabella's boyfriend. "I'm not stupid! Ever since I can into this house I have felt like something was off. The looks you give each other, the way you stumble over words. Its like your trying to hide something from me and right now I am literally sick of being left in the dark!" He saw Isabella's brother frown. "I love your sister Aya, I love her more than anything and if you do not tell me what is going on right now.." He stopped, not really knowing what to threaten. "I need to know what is going on? Please!"
The three Weiss looked at their leader, he was still looking at Marc. "You." He paused, crossing his arms over his chest. "Marc what we do.its difficult to understand."
"He's not going to understand!" She growled, taking up a stance much like the redheads.
That was enough for Aya, he turned meeting the woman's glare. "You're the last fucking person I need advice from Birman! He may not understand, but damn it he has a right to know!" Ken looked at the man seeing relief in the dark eyes, then turned back to look at his lover. "If I am making a mistake it is mine to make. Just give us the information you came here to give us and you can leave. We will handle this on our own."
"Aya, for once be sensible! You tell him and your risking exposing everyone, you think a common person like him will accept what you do!" He didn't respond. "I am ordering that you keep you mouth shut!" She then yelled, Yohji, Omi and Ken were shocked.
The last thing Aya needed was someone ordering him to do anything at this point. "You are not in control of us!" He growled, she visually flinched. "Manx is our contact not you, I don't know why Persia sent you here."
"Manx is missing, your sister was taken! Do you remember any of this?" Birman snapped. "I hope you do because we received a letter from Takashi, you do remember that much don't you? Remember the target you were supposed to kill!" She could tell she was pushing her luck but right now she didn't care. "Maybe your loosing your touch Aya, getting a bit old for this? Oh, sorry maybe it's a bit soft hearted!" She felt Aya's hand close around her throat as she looked down at him shocked.
"Whoa, ok hold it!" Yohji yelled as the three men ran up to the two, Marc stepped back watching them. "Aya, let go of the woman's throat.." He could tell the man wasn't going to listen to him. "Hey Ken, calm him down!"
Resting one hand on top of Aya's he leaned forward, whispering in the redheads ear. "Calm down lover, none of this is helping Isabella." After a moment his grip loosed, Birman pulling away from him.
Stepping back she looked at the men, Ken had wrapped his arms around Aya's waist still whispering into the redheads ear. "He's fucking crazy!" She yelled, stepping back as Yohji walked up, grabbing the folder out of her hands.
"Get out!" He snapped.
"I will not, that man is crazy and you follow him! Why?"
Green eyes flashed as he grabbed her arm. "Get out!" He growled, dragging her towards the door. "You provoked him you bitch, now get out!" Opening the door he shoved her into the hall, slamming it closed once again. "Damn she gets on my nerves. Hey Ken, is Aya ok?"
"He's fine.aren't you baby?" Aya just nodded. "She's gone now, just ignore what she said." He then said, running his hand though the deep red hair. "I love you." Aya's head fell onto his lovers shoulder, Ken continuing to whisper things to him.
"Sorry." Marc looked down at the blond. "I guess you think we are all crazy now."
He shook his head. "No, just really confused."
"Maybe I should explain." Omi replied. "You see, we work for the law, only above the common law. The simplest way, but not best way to say it is that we are assassins. We get rid of the people that the law can't touch." Marc sank down into the chair behind him. "I know it sounds bad, but we aren't, unfortunately in our profession we tend you get enemies."
"You think one of your enemies has Isabella."
Omi nodded. "Actually we know he does."
"That is why you didn't want the police involved?"
Omi just had to smile at that, thinking of his Uncle. "Believe me the police already know."
Marc just nodded. "But why is your boss..this group bound to help Isabella?"
"I don't really know the answer to that.." The blond said, looking over at Aya. "He's the only one who can answer that."
Marc saw Aya turn, looking at him. "Aya?"
The man just shook his head. "Ran."
"Excuse me?"
"My name..it's Ran, Isabella is Aya. I took her identity.." He sighed shaking his head. "..a long time ago.to long ago. She is protected by our employer because I." He paused. "I signed myself over to my employer indefinitely, I supposed I will never leave now." Ken looked over at his lover, knowing how hard it was for Aya to admit out loud that he had given his life away for his sisters. "That is why they have to protect her."
He could only frown. "They protect her because they have you?" Aya nodded.
"I.she knows about us but I don't want her involved in my life. I thought it would be better this way, but no matter what happens she just keeps getting dragged back down." He met Marcs eyes. "Don't judge her because of me, Aya is the innocent in all of this. I'm the tainted one, unfortunately it seems she's the one who always pays for my sins."
"Ok, this is all very touching and heart wrenching, but you might wanna look at this Aya." His eyes shifted from Marc's to Yohji's, taking the letter.
Weiss-
You really need to pay better attention to the things that are important to you. Seeing that I now have two things that you need, I want back what you took from me. If you do not come with the disk and information I will kill these two beautiful women the same way you killed my men. I've enclosed a map that will show you where to meet. Please be on time, I truly hate to be inconvenienced like this.
Takashi
Ken growled, looking up at his lover. "You know it's a trap." The redhead nodded. "But they have Isabella, we need to go and get her back."
"Manx as well." The blond said, looking at the map Yohji had handed him. "This is downtown, in the warehouse district. We need to be there tonight, one am. That doesn't give us long to think of a plan, or scout out the area. You're the leader Aya, what do you want to do?"
Aya looked up at Marc, seeing the man still didn't know what to think of all of this. Frowning, he breathed out. "What time is it now?"
The oldest Weiss looked at his watch. "Just after four."
"Yohji, can you go downtown." He nodded. "Find that building, look at the surrounding area. I need to know every possible place we need to watch for."
"Got it." He walked away, going up stairs.
"Hey.." Turning, he looked back at his leader. "Be careful, they might be doing the same."
Smiling, he nodded. "You know me!"
"That's what I'm afraid of." Aya whispered, looking at Omi. "See what you can find, street maps, layouts. Maybe something before Yohji goes to help him out." The blond nodded, running for the door that would lead to the mission room. "Ken, get the gear together, I want to be prepared for this. Also get a com from Omi for Yohji and yourself. I want you to stay in contact with him while he's looking into this incase of trouble." Ken nodded, squeezing his lovers arm before walking away.
"So everything Omi said is true, your assassins?"
"Yes Marc, we are called Weiss."
He saw the man seemed to accept that answer. "How did this happen?" Aya arched a brow. "How did you because an assassin?"
"It's a long story, perhaps once I get my sister back I can totally explain it to you." He said, seeing his sisters boyfriend nodding. "My family was betrayed, Aya.well Isabella was put into a coma. A lot of things just happened and I ended up in this business. But that's just my story, Yohji, Ken and Omi are in this for other reasons." He sat down on the couch looking over at Marc. "Supposedly what we do is in the name of justice, but sometimes we don't think we are any better than the people we hunt."
"So why do you do it?" He asked, feeling a little better. 'They are still human, and they are worried about Isabella.she's still his sister.'
The redhead shrugged. "What else are we good for." He asked, sitting back in the chair. "This is the only life we know now."
"But you were a person before you were an assassin." He said, leaning forward. "You said your name is Ran, Isabella's name is actually Aya?" The man across from him nodded. "So why can't you just be Ran again?"
He smiled slightly. "Manx once said the same thing, that I was Ran and I had to be Ran again." He whispered. But I have been Aya, Weiss leader for so long I don't know if I could go back to being Ran again." Marc nodded, seeing the man stand. "Anyway, now I can't go back. I have given my life over to Kritiker, there no escaping what I am and no chance of ever getting out."
"There are always choices." Marc said, the redhead nodded. "There is always a way of starting over. You just have to find it!"
"That may be true, but all four of us would have to find it." He responded. "If I went back to being Ran, got out of this whole business then so would the rest of Weiss. I would never leave any of them behind." Marc could see how much the man cared about this group. "Anyway, we have to many enemies left in this world. The only thing that matters to me is that my sister is happy, if she is happy I am happy. You seem to make her happy Marc, for that...I don't know how to thank you." Before he could respond he saw the redhead look up as Yohji came back down, disappearing into the mission room. Marc was perplexed at the out fit the man had been wearing and Aya seems to notice that. "Yeah, he's the more outgoing of us." He whispered.
"Obviously." He whispered back, looking at Aya once again. "So your not even going to try to leave?"
"No I don't think I will. I'll always be Aya, Abyssinian, the leader of Weiss. My team is my family, and the real Aya, she doesn't exist. She's as dead as Ran is, Isabella lives her life now." Aya couldn't help but smile at Marc. "It's better this way, believe me."
A door opened as Yohji appeared again, walked up to the two men. "Ok, got the com from Ken." He handed another to Aya. "You keep in touch too, your good at spur of the moment plans incase I get in over my head."
"Fine." He took the com, putting in his ear. "Siberian?"
"Yes Abyssinian, has Balinese gone?"
The playboy smiled. "Leaving now." He turned, walking out of the room.
"I'll be on com as well, what had Bombay found?" Marc stood, looking at Aya, he could tell the man wanted to say something. "Ok, tell him to print those maps out. He paused. "No, not until Balinese gets back. I just want to find a way that doesn't feel like a trap. If it comes down to it we will split, Balinese and I, you and Bombay..no Siberian we are not arguing about this. Bombay and Balinese are long range attacks, you are I are close..fine. Look I'll be down in a minute." Pulling the com up he looked at Marc.
"I want to help."
Aya was shocked for a moment, then breathing out he rubbed the side of his head. "Marc, your not.."
"I'm going to help." He then said, crossing his arms. "They have Isabella, I'm coming with you."
Aya looked up meeting his eyes, then sighed. "Maybe." Marc was about to speak when he held up his hand. "That is the only answer your getting out of me so deal with it. Last thing I need is for Isabella to throw a fit because I let you play assassin." Marc grudgingly accepted.
*
It was a few hours later, Omi looked up from the information his was compiling to the dark haired man sitting on the couch. "Are you ok Marc?"
"Fine, just want Isabella back." He said, then looked up at the blond. "How can you four be so calm about this?"
He looked back at his information, seeing it would take a few more minutes for it to print out. "We aren't." He said, standing up to walk over to the man. "Believe me, all of us are as nervous and stressed out as you are. We have been doing this a long time now, we know how to push our emotions to the side and focus on the mission and not on the victims."
"Is that all she is to you!" He snapped. "A victim!"
"Marc.." He sighed. "Right now that is all Manx and Isabella can be. If we try to focus on it any more than that it would drive us crazy to know they had her. If that happened we could slip, we have to remember this is just another mission and hope we all come out alive." He saw the man calming down. "You know about a month before you came here Aya almost died because of this man. All of us have at one point almost died, every time we go out we don't know if we will come back. This is hard on us, assassins should never get as close as we are. It makes us stupid and emotional, we had to learn to push that away."
"But how can you do that?" He whispered.
"We may be paired off but we are still a team and we care of one another as much as we care for our lovers." Omi answered. "We realize that if one of us dies it was only so the others could get out. Aya has some quote he always says when we start acting like idiot.I can't remember what it is."
"Weiss will always be a team, but sometimes people must be sacrificed for the greater good." Yohji said, looking down at his lover. "One day it may be one of us, but when that day comes we have to be strong for the ones remaining." Putting the cigarette back in his mouth he breathed in. "How many times has he said that to us, you yet to have it memorized?" Omi just smiled. "Aya is a sentimental twit, and speaking of twits, look who I found at the door."
Omi smiled as his friend walked in. "Nagi!"
"I can't believe you told Aya about me." The newcomer grumbled. "You know he was glaring at me when he opened the door?"
"Sorry, but I need you to help us."
Nagi smiled, setting down his case on the table. "You know I will always help you Omi, what has happened?"
"Takashi kidnapped Isabella." The younger dark haired boy shook his head, unzipping the case and pulled out his laptop. "I was hoping you could help us find a way into this place other than the most direct."
Nagi nodded. "What you were hoping is that I had been there before when I was with Schwarz." Omi blushed. "Don't worry about it, I accept what I was. You know that I'm trying to better myself. Now if you can get Abyssinian, the high and mighty one to understand that."
"I do understand." Nagi looked up at the redhead as he walked down the stairs, Ken was right behind him. Marc looked up seeing the out fits they were wearing. Ken had on blue jeans with a dark shirt, a orange shirt was tied around his waist with a dark leather jacket on. He was carrying to gloves that looked like that had metal bars in the palm. Aya was wearing all black, pants were tucking into knee high boots with a tight, sleeveless turtleneck on. "I didn't know you were alive, personally I thought we had killed all of you."
"Close enough, all but me." The young man said. "I'm not looking for trouble, I'm here for Omi because he asked. I don't expect anything for you Aya."
The redhead nodded. "That is fine, but if you help me find my sister you will have my respect." Nagi looked up at that, smiling. "Thank you for coming over, I wasn't happy Omi had never told us about you.but thank you."
"Your welcome." Sitting down, he looked up at them. "So what do we need to find out and how long do I have?"
*
Ken sighed, leaning back into the couch. "I'm boooored!" He whined, seeing Marc shoot him a look. "Sorry I hate just sitting around before a mission, ask Omi." They saw the blond smile at Ken, nodding then look back at what Nagi was pulling up. "Don't worry, they won't hurt her."
"You keep telling me that and I'm still worried." He said. "You are use to this, I'm not."
"That's true."
Ken started to mess with one of the gloves in his lap. "What are those?" He finally asked, the assassin smiled pulling one of them on.
"These are my babies!" He said, pride evident in his voice as he grabbed the second one to pull on. Pressing on the bars, Marc jumped slightly when the blades flew out of the gloves. "Nice huh? Its called a Bugnuk. I originally only used one, I started using the second one about a year ago."
"That is what you use to kill people?"
Ken shrugged, releasing the bars, the blades sliding smoothly into them. "Yeah, better than Yohji and his piano wire." He yelped as the oldest Weiss smacked him upside the head.
"Its called a Garotte Kenken." The tanned assassin growled, Yohji knew he hated being called that. "Face it, my weapon is much nice than your little knives!"
"They are not knives!" He snapped.
Omi sighed, rolling his eyes. "Will you both stop!" The two assassins grinned. "Yohji be a good boy and go get Aya. Ken, just sit there.."
"Why can't I got get Aya!"
Omi turned, looking at Ken pouting. "Cuz I don't want you two getting side tracked!"
"Yeah, Ken and Aya might give into their inner lust bunnies." Ken growled, choosing to say silent.
Nagi just shook his head. "Are they always this immature before a mission?" Omi nodded. "It's a wonder you ever defeated Schwartz."
"I sometimes say that myself." The blond mumbled, seeing his friend smile. Yohji walked back down about five minutes later. "Sweetie, where is Aya?"
"He's being a bitch, maybe Ken should have gone to get him." Omi sighed. "What? All I did was knock on.ok fine I walked into his room without knocking so he bitched at me. Fucking guy acts like he's on PMS when we have a fucking mission."
"That's why he's the leader Yohji."
He shrugged, sitting down in a chair. "He doesn't have to bitch..no wonder Kens the dominate one in the relationship."
"Yohji!" Omi and Ken snapped.
"What?"
Omi looked up as the redhead walked down. "Hey Aya." He was now wearing his leather jacket, katana in hand. "We figured out where Takashi's office was.."
"Why didn't you tell me this?"
"Because Nagi called up pretending to be a customer." He said. "The receptionist said he had taken the rest of the day off and would be back tomorrow." Aya nodded. "So Nagi looked at the plans and together we figured out the best way to go about this."
"How long do we have till one?"
" One hour, twenty three minutes." Nagi answered, pulling a map up on his screen. "The way Omi and I figure it is they are setting a the trap. Most likely it will be more of his men, I don't think Takashi is smart enough for anything more creative. But that's where I'm being cautious, Farfarello.well in one of his more sane moments told me never to underestimate the enemy, even if you think you know them. So since we don't know exactly where this trap is going to be or what it is, I think you should split into two groups."
Aya nodded, Ken was now standing beside him looking at the map as well. Marc was beside Ken, Omi looked up at the three men. "How do you want to do that?"
"You and Ken, Yohji and I." He said, Ken made a noise but didn't disagree.
"Fine, You and Yohji should go above ground. Takashi is going to be expecting to see you. Ken and I can go though the underground sewers that run below this building."
"Sewers.man I call first shower." Omi smiled at Ken who winked.
"Fine, Nagi your coming with us."
The boy looked up in shock. "What?"
"I want you on com, you are going to keep track of us." He turned, looking at Omi. "Give him our tracer file to load up. I want everyone wearing one and each of you take an extra one. When you find Isabella or Manx I want one on them, I want to know where everyone is."
"What about me?" Aya looked at Marc, he was frowning. "I told you I'm coming, now how can I help?"
"Marc.."
"Aya, I'm coming." He said defiantly. "Now tell me how I can help."
Nagi could see that Aya didn't really want him coming but could also tell this man wasn't going to give up. "I could always use someone in the van helping me." He suggested, the redhead sighed then nodded in approval.
"Fine."
Yay! Ok that's another chapter up and out of the way. I have a feeling this is only going to be a chapter or two more. Almost done!!! See I told you Nagi would be back..he's gonna help them out. Isn't he just a sweetie pie. *grins* Ok well I'll start working on the next chapter!
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Aya looked down at the woman before him, she was stubborn..to stubborn for her own good. But then again look at the family she came from, they had all been stubborn. Isabella had simply learned from the best, him. "I don't like the idea." He finally said, seeing she wasn't about to back down.
"Why not? It will give you four some time to go over things." She whispered back to the man beside her. Refusing to leave the room, Aya had almost dragged her out but Marc had been watching. So the two had chose to talk in hushed voices of Isabella's newest, and stupidest idea. "Manx is missing, you need to find her."
He nodded in agreement. "I also have to keep you safe."
"You also need to spar so you can test your wounds" She shot back. "You can't do that with Marc here."
"We can go somewhere."
The dark haired woman smirked. "Without Marc and I, wouldn't that be suspicious?" Aya looked down at his sister seeing the look she had on her face. It was the look of triumph, the look that said she had a point and he knew it. "Ha!"
"Ha, what!" He growled. "I haven't said a word yet!"
"Yeah, but I know when I have won.and brother I have won." Isabella frowned, shooting her brother a look. Aya simply retorted by crossing his arms across his chest, shooting her that same look. They stood there like that for a while, neither wanting to break away first, neither wanting to accept defeat at the face if their sibling.
Yohji just shook his head. "Fuck, one of you give in so we know what's going on? You both are acting like spoiled brats!"
"Look who's talking." Ken mumbled, receiving his own glare from the oldest Weiss.
"Shut up Hidaka!"
"Bite me Kudoh!"
"Idiot." Yohji growled
He growled back. "Bastard."
"Whore!" Ken arched a brow as he looked at Yohji's out fit, then busted up laughing. "Shut up." He grumbled. 'Knew I should have picked a different insult..' Sighing, he pulled out his pack of cigarettes. "Ok, you can stop laughing now!" The shorter assassin's laughing turning into a giggle fit, finally calming down into a big grin. "I don't know why you found that so funny." Yohji snapped, blowing smoke towards him.
Frowning, he stood. "Cuz that would have been better directed at you!" He answered.
"Whatever, I hear you two.don't try to tell me you don't go at it like rabbits." This made Ken blush. "Ha! I knew it, you two are sex maniacs!"
"This really isn't a proper conversation guy!" Omi said, looking over at Marc. "Sorry, they get out of hand sometimes.its like living with two children."
Both men looked up at the blond. "HEY!"
"See what I mean." He whispered, Marc grinned. "You should see them when they have to work together in the shop."
"Reminds me of Isabella." He answered. "She gets all huffy then sees something she wants or something cute and turns into a little kid." He turned, looking over at Aya and Isabella. "Do you know what they are talking about?"
Omi shot Yohji a look, seeing the man shake his head. "I wouldn't know." He said a moment later, Marc looked back at him. "I'm sure its some sibling thing."
Sighing, Aya finally looked away seeing the four men looking towards them. Focusing on a pair of dark brown eyes, Ken nodded. "Fine." He whispered, turning back to meet the midnight blue of his sister. "You and Marc can go out alone, but I want you to be careful. Take my cell with you and call me every once in a while so I know you are safe. Do you understand me?"
"Yes!" He could tell she was happy.
"You know it would kill me if anything ever happened to you."
Wrapping her arms around his waist, she nodded. "I know brother."
*
"So?"
Isabella looked up at the man beside her, smiling. "So what?" She asked, taking his hand in hers as they walked.
"What was going on between you and your brother?"
"Oh." He squeezed her hand, making her look up at him. "He didn't want me wandering around Tokyo alone, something he saw on the news made him nervous."
Marc didn't respond. For a few blocks the two just walked in silence, Isabella had begun to worry when suddenly he stopped. "Does he hate me?"
Isabella turned, meeting black eyes. "Who? Aya?" He nodded. "Why do you say that?"
"I just get a feeling.."
Stepping up to him, she rested one of her hands against his cheek. "My brother does not hate you Marc. Aya would have told you if he didn't like you. In fact you would not still be in that house if he did not like you." Marc just nodded. "I mean it, Aya isn't one to let someone near him he feels he can't trust."
"So he likes me?"
"I assure you, Aya likes you." She responded, kissing him. "Now stop worrying."
Taking her hand back in his, they started walking. "So where are we going?"
"I wanna go see Tokyo Tower, then we can go do some shopping." He sighed. "Oh come on you know you love to shop with me."
"Yeah, I know." She giggled. "Hey, can I ask you one more question?"
"Sure!"
He flushed slightly, looking down at the small woman beside him. "How did you brother end up with a girls name?" He saw the shocked look in her face, her free hand going up to cover her mouth. "I shouldn't have asked?"
"Ah, well its his name. Who knows why he has a.girls name." She said, then giggled. "Your so lucky you asked me and not Aya, you would not have been on his good list."
Smiling, he pulled Isabella closer to him. "I'll remember that."
Takashi rolled up the window as the two began walking again. "Aya Fujimiya.I want you to get her and bring her to me. I'm sure her dear brother would give anything for her safe return."
"What about the woman we have now?" Kai asked, looking back at his boss.
"I'm not sure yet." He answered. "Right now your only concern is getting that little dark haired angel. Do you understand me Kai." He nodded. "Good, I'm going back to my office. I have a note to send to some friends, bring her to me when you are done."
"Yes sir." Kai stepped out of the car, walking to the one parked behind it. Three men looked up as he got in. "We grab the girl."
*
Omi growled as the redhead looked over his shoulder. "Your making me nervous, go away!"
"Sorry."
"So how did the training session go?" He asked, looking back at the two who had just come in. "Is everything healing?"
Ken grinned. "Aya did really good, looks like the wounds didn't effect him to much, though his wrist got sore after a while from using his katana."
The blond didn't like the sound of that, looking back up at Aya. "Is everything ok?"
"Yeah, I'll be fine. I just need to practice more, get my strength back up." He answered, Omi was still frowning. "I mean it Omi, I'll be fine."
"Ok, we won't say anything about your wrists.for now." He said, looking down at the pale pink scars that encircled both wrists. Each one was about a inch thick, Omi frowned every time he though about how their leader had received those. "Omi?"
"Hmm?"
Aya smiled slightly. "I asked if you had found anything?" He repeated, pulling on a long sleeved shirt over the short sleeved one he was wearing.
Looking back at his computer screen typing in something, then shook his head. "Well I'm into Kritiker's files, they still don't know where Manx is. It seems there as worried about this as we are." Punching a command into the computer he frowned. "I don't know what to say Aya, she's just gone."
The Weiss leader nodded, looking over at the other two members. "So now what do we do, go look for her?" Ken asked, standing to walk over to him. Aya shook his head, thinking for a moment. "You have an idea?"
"Takashi took her, we can safely say that." Omi nodded, agreeing with their leader. "Manx had the disk, but either she doesn't have it anymore or she will tell him she doesn't know where it is. He's either going to go after someone else or come right for us."
"So we wait." Yohji concluded, meeting Aya violet glaze. "I'm right..right?"
He nodded. "We wait." Ken was about to disagree when his lover took his hand. "Ken, we don't know where she is or where Takashi is holding her. If we try to go after him he could kill her.."
"If we don't he may kill her." He pointed out.
"No." He answered. "She's their insurance, if he wants us he will use her. Its only been a day, he obviously knows where we are. That is the only way he could have known about Manx, the only way he could have gotten her. He must had grabbed her from right under us."
"So we wait." Yohji said once again. "It's the only choice we have left. Sorry to say boys but we have found ourselves in a position in which were damned if we do and damned if we don't."
Omi sighed, walking up to Aya and Ken. "I'm sorry to say I agree with Yohji. If we go after them Manx is dead and if we don't who knows what will happen." Yohji and I both went to where they had held you Aya, but there was nothing.obviously they have deserted that location. As of right now we have nothing to even pin point where they are keeping her so anything we do would be a wild goose chase."
"Fine." Aya looked down at his lover, seeing him sigh. "I agree." He paused, looking up to meet Aya's eyes. "I hate to be the one to point this out." He whispered. "But would it be safe to say if Takashi knew about Manx it was because he had been watching us."
Aya nodded. "Yeah, Omi just said that."
"Then wouldn't he know about Isabella?"
"Shit!"
Ken frowned. "She out, alone with Marc right now Aya."
"Shit, shit!" Growling, he released Ken's hand running up the stairs into the kitchen. The three Weiss followed behind him, seeing him holding the phone in his hand. "Damn it! Ken, what's my number?"
"Number?"
"My cell phone! My fucking number, what is it!" Ken suddenly realized what he meant, walking over he took the phone from Aya dialing it in.
Shaking his head, Yohji looked at his leader. "You don't know your cell number?"
"It's not like I call myself you moron!" He yelled, taking back the phone from Ken.
"I know mine."
That caused Aya to smirk as the phone rang. "You should, you give it out to enough people."
"Touché."
After a moment the redhead slammed down the phone. "She's not answering, I told her to keep it on!" Sighing, he sat down at the table looking up at Ken. "So what do we do?"
Ken just shrugged, Omi walking up beside him. "We do the same thing we were going to do." The blond responded. "We wait, we see what happens."
"Omi they have Isabella!"
He nodded, realizing he would now have to be the voice of reason. Omi knew how much his sister meant to him, he knew Aya would to anything to get his sister back. "Yes, and they have Manx. We need to wait, remember? We don't know where they are, when it comes down to it we are going to waiting when they play their hand."
"Then we kill them." He whispered, all three nodded at that. The door to the kitchen opened as the four men turned to look at the man standing there. "Where is Isabella!" Aya snapped, looking at the black haired man standing there.
"I was hoping you would tell me!" He answered back. "We went to Tokyo Tower, afterwards she was taking me to the shopping district and we got separated. I couldn't find her so I figured I would come back here and hopefully she would too." Marc could see the four boys were worried. "I'm sorry Aya."
Shaking his head he looked back up at his sisters boyfriend. "Its not your fault, it's mine." Standing he looked at Ken. "I have to go look for her." He saw the look Omi gave him. "If I don't Marc is going to wonder why." He whispered, seeing that Omi hadn't thought of that.
"Fine, lets all go look for her, we will meet back here in an hour." They nodded in agreement.
*
"Let go of me now!" She yelled, trying once again to pull away from the man holding her. "If you don't let me go I swear I will scream!" Seeing this man was ignoring her she kicked him in the knee. "Are you listening to me you.."
Grabbing her by the hair, Kai met her eyes. "Shut up or I will make you shut up." The young girl nodded, her eyes wide. "Thank you." The elevator opened, the two walking down the hallway to the double doors at the opposite side. Opening one, he pushed Isabella inside walking in behind her.
"Hello." She looked up at the man sitting behind the desk. "Please have a seat." Crossing her arms, she looked away from him. "I would rather not hurt you..Aya." Isabella looked at him, the confusion was obvious. "Yes, I know your real name. I also know that your brother is one of those assassins that killed my men. So if you would please sit you may live thought this ordeal."
Isabella thought this over for a moment, then slowly walked over to the chair and sat down. "What do you want?"
"I want back what your brother took from me." He answered. "Actually it was the other three on his team that took it, he was to busy being tortured."
"You! You did that to my brother!" She yelled, her hands slamming down on his desk. "You are the one who hurt my brother!"
Shaking his head, Kai grabbed the girls shoulder pushing her back down into the chair. "Not me, my men. Your brother's friends killed my men."
"Good!"
"Not in my eyes girl." He growled. "I want the disk back."
Isabella shook her head. "I don't know anything about their missions or this disk your talking about. I'm here visiting my brother and that is it!" Suddenly her dark eyes narrowed. "You're the one who kidnapped Manx aren't you!"
"The redhead woman?" He nodded. "She's here, don't worry your going to be with her very soon. First I want you to tell me something." She arched a brow. "Do you want to die?"
Isabella's eyes once again widened. "No!"
Takashi nodded. "Then you will listen to what I say. If you do this you may survive, if you don't I will send you back piece by piece to your dear brother! Do we understand one another."
"Yes." She whispered.
"You will go with my man and he will take you downstairs. You are now my decoy, you are what I will use to get your brother to come to me. Kai, please.."
The man nodded, pulling Isabella up from the seat. 'Oh Ran,, what have I done.' She thought as the man led her down some stairs. 'This is my fault, I never should have come home! I never should have talked you into letting me go out alone.I should have just listened to you.'
"We will be back for you later." The man said, pushing her into a room.
Isabella stumbled, falling down on the floor. "Ouch, bastard.." Pushing herself up she began to look around, her eyes widening. "Manx?" Crawling over, she pulled the redhead into her arms. "Manx, please wake up?" She begged. "Please." Green eyes opened, meeting her own. "Manx?"
"Isabella." She breathed, her face twisting in pain. "Your brother.."
Reaching up, she brushed back the dark red hair. "Hush now, are you hurt badly." Manx nodded, her eyes sliding back closed. 'Ok, I can handle this, I won't panic! I am my brothers sibling I can do this.' Laying the woman back down she stood, grabbing the container of water that they must have put in the room when first bringing Manx there. She walked back over, kneeling down beside the woman. "Manx?"
"I'm still here." She whispered.
That made Isabella smile. "Ok, I'm going to clean some of these cuts on your face, are there any bad ones anywhere else?"
"No, they were just..beating me." She responded, her eye opening. "They wanted the disk.I don't know where it is but."
"I know." Pulling of the shirt she had over her tank top, Isabella tore off one of the sleeves soaking it in the water. Manx smiled, feeling the damp cloth on her face. "Aya will find us, don't worry about anything. I'm here."
*
"Well that was a waste of time." Yohji growled as the five walked into the living room.
No one found that remark amusing, especially Aya and Marc. "So now we call the police?" He asked.
"No!" All four Weiss said, then looked at each other.
"Well that wasn't to obvious." A light flipped on as the five men saw the dark haired woman sitting in the chair. "I see we are having problems."
Aya growled. "What are you doing here Birman."
"I am here because your sister has been kidnapped." She answered, ignoring the redheads rudeness. She was more interesting in the dark haired man that wasn't part of their group. "Who is he?"
Marc frowned at that comment. "My name is Marc, you know where Isabella is?"
"No." She answered, it was obviously not that answer they had wanted to hear.
"Then explain why you are here." The leader of Weiss snapped, the other three nodded in agreement.
Birman wasn't stupid, she knew that Weiss didn't like her. When Aya had joined it had only gotten worse so she had stopped coming to see this particular group. Manx was the only one who could control the four assassins and Birman was glad to leave it to the redhead woman. Unfortunately Manx was missing and Persia had told her she would have to go see them, needless to say she had not been happy about the assignment. "Believe me, I would not be here if I didn't have to be. We are bound to protect your sister for you so I am here to do my job, give out information. Persia needed to get something to you and seeing that Manx is still missing I was chosen to bring it to you. Lucky me!" The sarcasm was plain in the woman's voice.
Marc was confused, and none of these people were making it any better. "I have a question?" They all turned to look at him, suddenly he felt like a target on a shooting range. "Ok, ah what is going on? You are sitting here talking about information and being bound to protect people, I am not understanding any of this!"
"He's not involved Aya."
The redhead turned to look at the woman. "Fuck you Birman."
"Just stop!" They all looked back to Isabella's boyfriend. "I'm not stupid! Ever since I can into this house I have felt like something was off. The looks you give each other, the way you stumble over words. Its like your trying to hide something from me and right now I am literally sick of being left in the dark!" He saw Isabella's brother frown. "I love your sister Aya, I love her more than anything and if you do not tell me what is going on right now.." He stopped, not really knowing what to threaten. "I need to know what is going on? Please!"
The three Weiss looked at their leader, he was still looking at Marc. "You." He paused, crossing his arms over his chest. "Marc what we do.its difficult to understand."
"He's not going to understand!" She growled, taking up a stance much like the redheads.
That was enough for Aya, he turned meeting the woman's glare. "You're the last fucking person I need advice from Birman! He may not understand, but damn it he has a right to know!" Ken looked at the man seeing relief in the dark eyes, then turned back to look at his lover. "If I am making a mistake it is mine to make. Just give us the information you came here to give us and you can leave. We will handle this on our own."
"Aya, for once be sensible! You tell him and your risking exposing everyone, you think a common person like him will accept what you do!" He didn't respond. "I am ordering that you keep you mouth shut!" She then yelled, Yohji, Omi and Ken were shocked.
The last thing Aya needed was someone ordering him to do anything at this point. "You are not in control of us!" He growled, she visually flinched. "Manx is our contact not you, I don't know why Persia sent you here."
"Manx is missing, your sister was taken! Do you remember any of this?" Birman snapped. "I hope you do because we received a letter from Takashi, you do remember that much don't you? Remember the target you were supposed to kill!" She could tell she was pushing her luck but right now she didn't care. "Maybe your loosing your touch Aya, getting a bit old for this? Oh, sorry maybe it's a bit soft hearted!" She felt Aya's hand close around her throat as she looked down at him shocked.
"Whoa, ok hold it!" Yohji yelled as the three men ran up to the two, Marc stepped back watching them. "Aya, let go of the woman's throat.." He could tell the man wasn't going to listen to him. "Hey Ken, calm him down!"
Resting one hand on top of Aya's he leaned forward, whispering in the redheads ear. "Calm down lover, none of this is helping Isabella." After a moment his grip loosed, Birman pulling away from him.
Stepping back she looked at the men, Ken had wrapped his arms around Aya's waist still whispering into the redheads ear. "He's fucking crazy!" She yelled, stepping back as Yohji walked up, grabbing the folder out of her hands.
"Get out!" He snapped.
"I will not, that man is crazy and you follow him! Why?"
Green eyes flashed as he grabbed her arm. "Get out!" He growled, dragging her towards the door. "You provoked him you bitch, now get out!" Opening the door he shoved her into the hall, slamming it closed once again. "Damn she gets on my nerves. Hey Ken, is Aya ok?"
"He's fine.aren't you baby?" Aya just nodded. "She's gone now, just ignore what she said." He then said, running his hand though the deep red hair. "I love you." Aya's head fell onto his lovers shoulder, Ken continuing to whisper things to him.
"Sorry." Marc looked down at the blond. "I guess you think we are all crazy now."
He shook his head. "No, just really confused."
"Maybe I should explain." Omi replied. "You see, we work for the law, only above the common law. The simplest way, but not best way to say it is that we are assassins. We get rid of the people that the law can't touch." Marc sank down into the chair behind him. "I know it sounds bad, but we aren't, unfortunately in our profession we tend you get enemies."
"You think one of your enemies has Isabella."
Omi nodded. "Actually we know he does."
"That is why you didn't want the police involved?"
Omi just had to smile at that, thinking of his Uncle. "Believe me the police already know."
Marc just nodded. "But why is your boss..this group bound to help Isabella?"
"I don't really know the answer to that.." The blond said, looking over at Aya. "He's the only one who can answer that."
Marc saw Aya turn, looking at him. "Aya?"
The man just shook his head. "Ran."
"Excuse me?"
"My name..it's Ran, Isabella is Aya. I took her identity.." He sighed shaking his head. "..a long time ago.to long ago. She is protected by our employer because I." He paused. "I signed myself over to my employer indefinitely, I supposed I will never leave now." Ken looked over at his lover, knowing how hard it was for Aya to admit out loud that he had given his life away for his sisters. "That is why they have to protect her."
He could only frown. "They protect her because they have you?" Aya nodded.
"I.she knows about us but I don't want her involved in my life. I thought it would be better this way, but no matter what happens she just keeps getting dragged back down." He met Marcs eyes. "Don't judge her because of me, Aya is the innocent in all of this. I'm the tainted one, unfortunately it seems she's the one who always pays for my sins."
"Ok, this is all very touching and heart wrenching, but you might wanna look at this Aya." His eyes shifted from Marc's to Yohji's, taking the letter.
Weiss-
You really need to pay better attention to the things that are important to you. Seeing that I now have two things that you need, I want back what you took from me. If you do not come with the disk and information I will kill these two beautiful women the same way you killed my men. I've enclosed a map that will show you where to meet. Please be on time, I truly hate to be inconvenienced like this.
Takashi
Ken growled, looking up at his lover. "You know it's a trap." The redhead nodded. "But they have Isabella, we need to go and get her back."
"Manx as well." The blond said, looking at the map Yohji had handed him. "This is downtown, in the warehouse district. We need to be there tonight, one am. That doesn't give us long to think of a plan, or scout out the area. You're the leader Aya, what do you want to do?"
Aya looked up at Marc, seeing the man still didn't know what to think of all of this. Frowning, he breathed out. "What time is it now?"
The oldest Weiss looked at his watch. "Just after four."
"Yohji, can you go downtown." He nodded. "Find that building, look at the surrounding area. I need to know every possible place we need to watch for."
"Got it." He walked away, going up stairs.
"Hey.." Turning, he looked back at his leader. "Be careful, they might be doing the same."
Smiling, he nodded. "You know me!"
"That's what I'm afraid of." Aya whispered, looking at Omi. "See what you can find, street maps, layouts. Maybe something before Yohji goes to help him out." The blond nodded, running for the door that would lead to the mission room. "Ken, get the gear together, I want to be prepared for this. Also get a com from Omi for Yohji and yourself. I want you to stay in contact with him while he's looking into this incase of trouble." Ken nodded, squeezing his lovers arm before walking away.
"So everything Omi said is true, your assassins?"
"Yes Marc, we are called Weiss."
He saw the man seemed to accept that answer. "How did this happen?" Aya arched a brow. "How did you because an assassin?"
"It's a long story, perhaps once I get my sister back I can totally explain it to you." He said, seeing his sisters boyfriend nodding. "My family was betrayed, Aya.well Isabella was put into a coma. A lot of things just happened and I ended up in this business. But that's just my story, Yohji, Ken and Omi are in this for other reasons." He sat down on the couch looking over at Marc. "Supposedly what we do is in the name of justice, but sometimes we don't think we are any better than the people we hunt."
"So why do you do it?" He asked, feeling a little better. 'They are still human, and they are worried about Isabella.she's still his sister.'
The redhead shrugged. "What else are we good for." He asked, sitting back in the chair. "This is the only life we know now."
"But you were a person before you were an assassin." He said, leaning forward. "You said your name is Ran, Isabella's name is actually Aya?" The man across from him nodded. "So why can't you just be Ran again?"
He smiled slightly. "Manx once said the same thing, that I was Ran and I had to be Ran again." He whispered. But I have been Aya, Weiss leader for so long I don't know if I could go back to being Ran again." Marc nodded, seeing the man stand. "Anyway, now I can't go back. I have given my life over to Kritiker, there no escaping what I am and no chance of ever getting out."
"There are always choices." Marc said, the redhead nodded. "There is always a way of starting over. You just have to find it!"
"That may be true, but all four of us would have to find it." He responded. "If I went back to being Ran, got out of this whole business then so would the rest of Weiss. I would never leave any of them behind." Marc could see how much the man cared about this group. "Anyway, we have to many enemies left in this world. The only thing that matters to me is that my sister is happy, if she is happy I am happy. You seem to make her happy Marc, for that...I don't know how to thank you." Before he could respond he saw the redhead look up as Yohji came back down, disappearing into the mission room. Marc was perplexed at the out fit the man had been wearing and Aya seems to notice that. "Yeah, he's the more outgoing of us." He whispered.
"Obviously." He whispered back, looking at Aya once again. "So your not even going to try to leave?"
"No I don't think I will. I'll always be Aya, Abyssinian, the leader of Weiss. My team is my family, and the real Aya, she doesn't exist. She's as dead as Ran is, Isabella lives her life now." Aya couldn't help but smile at Marc. "It's better this way, believe me."
A door opened as Yohji appeared again, walked up to the two men. "Ok, got the com from Ken." He handed another to Aya. "You keep in touch too, your good at spur of the moment plans incase I get in over my head."
"Fine." He took the com, putting in his ear. "Siberian?"
"Yes Abyssinian, has Balinese gone?"
The playboy smiled. "Leaving now." He turned, walking out of the room.
"I'll be on com as well, what had Bombay found?" Marc stood, looking at Aya, he could tell the man wanted to say something. "Ok, tell him to print those maps out. He paused. "No, not until Balinese gets back. I just want to find a way that doesn't feel like a trap. If it comes down to it we will split, Balinese and I, you and Bombay..no Siberian we are not arguing about this. Bombay and Balinese are long range attacks, you are I are close..fine. Look I'll be down in a minute." Pulling the com up he looked at Marc.
"I want to help."
Aya was shocked for a moment, then breathing out he rubbed the side of his head. "Marc, your not.."
"I'm going to help." He then said, crossing his arms. "They have Isabella, I'm coming with you."
Aya looked up meeting his eyes, then sighed. "Maybe." Marc was about to speak when he held up his hand. "That is the only answer your getting out of me so deal with it. Last thing I need is for Isabella to throw a fit because I let you play assassin." Marc grudgingly accepted.
*
It was a few hours later, Omi looked up from the information his was compiling to the dark haired man sitting on the couch. "Are you ok Marc?"
"Fine, just want Isabella back." He said, then looked up at the blond. "How can you four be so calm about this?"
He looked back at his information, seeing it would take a few more minutes for it to print out. "We aren't." He said, standing up to walk over to the man. "Believe me, all of us are as nervous and stressed out as you are. We have been doing this a long time now, we know how to push our emotions to the side and focus on the mission and not on the victims."
"Is that all she is to you!" He snapped. "A victim!"
"Marc.." He sighed. "Right now that is all Manx and Isabella can be. If we try to focus on it any more than that it would drive us crazy to know they had her. If that happened we could slip, we have to remember this is just another mission and hope we all come out alive." He saw the man calming down. "You know about a month before you came here Aya almost died because of this man. All of us have at one point almost died, every time we go out we don't know if we will come back. This is hard on us, assassins should never get as close as we are. It makes us stupid and emotional, we had to learn to push that away."
"But how can you do that?" He whispered.
"We may be paired off but we are still a team and we care of one another as much as we care for our lovers." Omi answered. "We realize that if one of us dies it was only so the others could get out. Aya has some quote he always says when we start acting like idiot.I can't remember what it is."
"Weiss will always be a team, but sometimes people must be sacrificed for the greater good." Yohji said, looking down at his lover. "One day it may be one of us, but when that day comes we have to be strong for the ones remaining." Putting the cigarette back in his mouth he breathed in. "How many times has he said that to us, you yet to have it memorized?" Omi just smiled. "Aya is a sentimental twit, and speaking of twits, look who I found at the door."
Omi smiled as his friend walked in. "Nagi!"
"I can't believe you told Aya about me." The newcomer grumbled. "You know he was glaring at me when he opened the door?"
"Sorry, but I need you to help us."
Nagi smiled, setting down his case on the table. "You know I will always help you Omi, what has happened?"
"Takashi kidnapped Isabella." The younger dark haired boy shook his head, unzipping the case and pulled out his laptop. "I was hoping you could help us find a way into this place other than the most direct."
Nagi nodded. "What you were hoping is that I had been there before when I was with Schwarz." Omi blushed. "Don't worry about it, I accept what I was. You know that I'm trying to better myself. Now if you can get Abyssinian, the high and mighty one to understand that."
"I do understand." Nagi looked up at the redhead as he walked down the stairs, Ken was right behind him. Marc looked up seeing the out fits they were wearing. Ken had on blue jeans with a dark shirt, a orange shirt was tied around his waist with a dark leather jacket on. He was carrying to gloves that looked like that had metal bars in the palm. Aya was wearing all black, pants were tucking into knee high boots with a tight, sleeveless turtleneck on. "I didn't know you were alive, personally I thought we had killed all of you."
"Close enough, all but me." The young man said. "I'm not looking for trouble, I'm here for Omi because he asked. I don't expect anything for you Aya."
The redhead nodded. "That is fine, but if you help me find my sister you will have my respect." Nagi looked up at that, smiling. "Thank you for coming over, I wasn't happy Omi had never told us about you.but thank you."
"Your welcome." Sitting down, he looked up at them. "So what do we need to find out and how long do I have?"
*
Ken sighed, leaning back into the couch. "I'm boooored!" He whined, seeing Marc shoot him a look. "Sorry I hate just sitting around before a mission, ask Omi." They saw the blond smile at Ken, nodding then look back at what Nagi was pulling up. "Don't worry, they won't hurt her."
"You keep telling me that and I'm still worried." He said. "You are use to this, I'm not."
"That's true."
Ken started to mess with one of the gloves in his lap. "What are those?" He finally asked, the assassin smiled pulling one of them on.
"These are my babies!" He said, pride evident in his voice as he grabbed the second one to pull on. Pressing on the bars, Marc jumped slightly when the blades flew out of the gloves. "Nice huh? Its called a Bugnuk. I originally only used one, I started using the second one about a year ago."
"That is what you use to kill people?"
Ken shrugged, releasing the bars, the blades sliding smoothly into them. "Yeah, better than Yohji and his piano wire." He yelped as the oldest Weiss smacked him upside the head.
"Its called a Garotte Kenken." The tanned assassin growled, Yohji knew he hated being called that. "Face it, my weapon is much nice than your little knives!"
"They are not knives!" He snapped.
Omi sighed, rolling his eyes. "Will you both stop!" The two assassins grinned. "Yohji be a good boy and go get Aya. Ken, just sit there.."
"Why can't I got get Aya!"
Omi turned, looking at Ken pouting. "Cuz I don't want you two getting side tracked!"
"Yeah, Ken and Aya might give into their inner lust bunnies." Ken growled, choosing to say silent.
Nagi just shook his head. "Are they always this immature before a mission?" Omi nodded. "It's a wonder you ever defeated Schwartz."
"I sometimes say that myself." The blond mumbled, seeing his friend smile. Yohji walked back down about five minutes later. "Sweetie, where is Aya?"
"He's being a bitch, maybe Ken should have gone to get him." Omi sighed. "What? All I did was knock on.ok fine I walked into his room without knocking so he bitched at me. Fucking guy acts like he's on PMS when we have a fucking mission."
"That's why he's the leader Yohji."
He shrugged, sitting down in a chair. "He doesn't have to bitch..no wonder Kens the dominate one in the relationship."
"Yohji!" Omi and Ken snapped.
"What?"
Omi looked up as the redhead walked down. "Hey Aya." He was now wearing his leather jacket, katana in hand. "We figured out where Takashi's office was.."
"Why didn't you tell me this?"
"Because Nagi called up pretending to be a customer." He said. "The receptionist said he had taken the rest of the day off and would be back tomorrow." Aya nodded. "So Nagi looked at the plans and together we figured out the best way to go about this."
"How long do we have till one?"
" One hour, twenty three minutes." Nagi answered, pulling a map up on his screen. "The way Omi and I figure it is they are setting a the trap. Most likely it will be more of his men, I don't think Takashi is smart enough for anything more creative. But that's where I'm being cautious, Farfarello.well in one of his more sane moments told me never to underestimate the enemy, even if you think you know them. So since we don't know exactly where this trap is going to be or what it is, I think you should split into two groups."
Aya nodded, Ken was now standing beside him looking at the map as well. Marc was beside Ken, Omi looked up at the three men. "How do you want to do that?"
"You and Ken, Yohji and I." He said, Ken made a noise but didn't disagree.
"Fine, You and Yohji should go above ground. Takashi is going to be expecting to see you. Ken and I can go though the underground sewers that run below this building."
"Sewers.man I call first shower." Omi smiled at Ken who winked.
"Fine, Nagi your coming with us."
The boy looked up in shock. "What?"
"I want you on com, you are going to keep track of us." He turned, looking at Omi. "Give him our tracer file to load up. I want everyone wearing one and each of you take an extra one. When you find Isabella or Manx I want one on them, I want to know where everyone is."
"What about me?" Aya looked at Marc, he was frowning. "I told you I'm coming, now how can I help?"
"Marc.."
"Aya, I'm coming." He said defiantly. "Now tell me how I can help."
Nagi could see that Aya didn't really want him coming but could also tell this man wasn't going to give up. "I could always use someone in the van helping me." He suggested, the redhead sighed then nodded in approval.
"Fine."
Yay! Ok that's another chapter up and out of the way. I have a feeling this is only going to be a chapter or two more. Almost done!!! See I told you Nagi would be back..he's gonna help them out. Isn't he just a sweetie pie. *grins* Ok well I'll start working on the next chapter!
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