A Dog Among Cats

By: Atsureki

Disclaimers : If they were mine Weiss would be very diffrent. *evil grin*

Warnings : Shonen-ai (for now), OCC, angst, blood and stuff, mean badguy…

Notes : Stuff written in Italic are thoughts. Stuff within //yadayada// is the telepath talking in someone's head

Chapter 4. Caught

Yoji was in hell. He had, for some unknown reason, tried to rape Omi. Sweet innocent trusting Omi who never showed any of them anything but kindness. His actions had put out the flame that burned so brightly in that boy's eyes. Yoji lit a cigarette and watched how his hands shook. He couldn't live with himself anymore, didn't want to. Never before had he forced himself on anyone so why now? What had happened to him? The lanky blonde shuddered and closed his eyes. //Yoji listen to me,// a voice whispered in his head. //I want you to listen to what I'm saying, do you hear me?// For a moment the blonde looked around his room but he was all alone.
"Who are you?" he asked out loud. //It doesn't matter who I am Yoji but I want you to listen to me.// I'll listen, he agreed and closed his eyes again. //Good boy. Now what happened between you and Omi wasn't real. It was just a dream Yoji, just a dream. If you go and see him in the morning everything will be back to normal,// the voice explained softly. But I… he objected and really wished he could believe the voice. //Yoji trust me on this, okay? I want you to go to bed right now and in the morning things will be like the used to.// For a moment he hesitated but the voice was demanding. Slowly he put out his cigarette and laid down on the bed. //Sleep Yoji, sleep,// the voice mumbled and he did as it told him to.

Ran stared out the window into the darkness. The night looked as empty as he felt. He felt empty and naked without Ken's love. With a sigh he turned away from the window and looked at his bed. For a moment he could almost see Ken lying there smiling at him. If he just could sleep next to the brunette again, if he just hadn't gone to that motel, if… If was a stupid word. Ran was surprised that he wasn't angry with Ken, well he was angry with his former lover but not in the way he thought he would be. Most of all he was hurt, broken and sad. But why wasn't he furious? The redhead sighed deeply and sat down on the bed. Because something about the whole mess didn't add up in his head. There was a part of his mind that refused to stop telling him that Ken never would have done something like that to him. Ran knew that that part of his mind was right but he had seen it, he still saw it every time he closed his eyes. Another part of him blamed himself. If he just had been a little more open, if he hadn't been so scared of showing the world that Ken was his lover, if he just would have told the brunette that he… If really was an extremly stupid fucking word. What diffrence did it make anyway? Nothing he said or thought was going to change what had happened. Ran sighed and left his room. He didn't even realize where he was going until he had opened the door to Ken's room. The former soccer-player was asleep curled up in a little ball. He looked lonely, sad and… lost.
"Ken," the redhead whispered and looked at his former lover with longing. If he stayed so close to Ken without being able to touch him, love him, he'd go insane. With a deep sigh Ran closed the door and headed back to his own room. Slowly he got a suitcase from the wardrobe and started filling it with his clothes. When he was done he took one last look at his room and left. It felt like he was leaving half his body behind as he walked down the familier stairs and out the door. Ran's heart was still in that house and it would stay there, probably forever. He had given his heart to Ken and now he found he couldn't take it back again. One single tear ran down his cheek when he started his car and drove off, straining himself against the urge to look back.

Malice opened her azure eyes and rubbed her temples. She was done with Omi and Yoji for the moment and really hoped that she had sorted out that mess. It had taken her almost an hour to change their memories. Three of Weiss' members where asleep, with a little help from her, but the forth one had left the house. She really wished she could have stopped Ran but she couldn't, didn't dare to. Takagi wanted the redhead on his own and she was in no position to refuse him at the moment.
"Ah there you are baby." Malice put a smile on her lips and turned around.
"Well hello there," she purred and squinted her blue eyes at Takagi.
"So how are our kittens doing?" A wicked grin spread across her face.
"Ran has left the house, he's heading south all alone," she answered and allowed the man to run his hands over her body. Inside, however, she was screaming in disgust.
"Good job my dear," Takagi mused and nipped at her ear. Oh god please give me the chance to kill him soon, she begged as she pretended to love the attention. It was becoming harder and harder for her to deal with his closeness since Ken had drawn her attention to her insanity and questioned it.
"Don't I always get the job done?" she smirked at him and gently rubbed her hands over his groin.
"That you do, that you do," Takagi murmured as he pressed against her hand. "I'd love to stay here and play but I need to take care of the redhead. It's time he paid the price for crossing me." Malice just nodded slightly and watched Takagi leave her room.
"I hope you rot in hell you bastard!" she hissed after him.

Ran left his car and walked into a dark park. He needed to think. The park was empty and dark just like he was. A hard short ghost of a laugh escaped from his lips. The dry hollow sound seemed to disturb the peacefull place. Aya ran his hand over his face and sighed deeply. Where was he suppose to go now? The only place he knew as home was the house he had left an hour ago but he couldn't go back there. Dark clouds moved in across the sky and suddenly the rain was pouring down but Ran didn't notice. The water that ran down his cheeks was cold and it didn't take long before he was drenched. Without the things he had taken for granted he was nothing. A part of him hoped that Ken would come looking for him but he knew that wasn't going to happen. Ken had no idea that he had left nor where he had gone. Besides, did he really want his former lover to find him? Ran wasn't sure he only knew that life seemed pretty damn useless without Ken. That annoyed him. He had always been so strong, he had never needed anyone. So why couldn't he see himself living a life without Ken?
"Well fancy meeting you here Abyssinian," a deep voice chuckled behind him. Confused Ran turned around and stared at Takagi. "It's rather foolish of you to walk around unarmed," the man added. Ran mentally kicked himself for leaving his katana in the car. "You still don't talk much, huh?"
"There are people who are worth talking to and then there's you," the redhead snorted and shot ice cold glares at the other man.
"It's been what… two years since the first time we met?" Takagi pondered and ignored the comment.
"What? I didn't even know you existed three month ago," Ran objected and felt how confusion rose inside of him.
"Yes you did. You were on a mission and we met briefly. I'm sure you remember it if you think a little. You were supposed to shut down a hunting game and save some people."
"Hunting game?"
"Yes. A young man namned Akira arranged games were people hunted humans, remember?" Ran thought for a moment before he nodded. When he thought about it there was something familier about Takagi's face.
"Aa I remember that," he agreed. Takagi gave him a look filled with hate.
"Akira was my son and you slaughtered him right before my eyes." The redhead bit his lip. Damn! Why didn't anyone recognize him before? Ran cursed to himself. "I've waited for a long time to get my hands on you Abyssinian and now that I have I'll make you pay! By the way, how is your little sweetheart Ken doing?" Takagi mused as he came closer.
"Ken?"
"Yes Ken. It's a shame that some people cheat on their lovers, isn't it?" the other man smirked and aimed a gun at him. Confusion rushed through Ran. How the hell did Takagi know about that?
"How…"
"Yes, how indeed. You see Ken didn't cheat on you at all. He thought he was sleeping with you," Takagi laughed and almost purred with glee. "Malice is very good at her job don't you think?" His mind worked slow now. Malice? Ran twisted and bent the information he had recieved almost in panic.
"Who's she?" he asked.
"Malice is a very gifted telepath. She's been playing tricks on all of you for some time," Takagi grinned and circled the redhead. Full name Borzoi M Alice, Ran thought as he remembered the information Omi had given him. M Alice, Malice.
"Borzoi," Aya groaned.
"You're a clever one Ran. Oh well it doesn't matter anymore you see I have no intention of allowing you to walk away from me alive."
"We'll see about that," Ran spat out and backed up. Takagi laughed and shook his head.
"I was hoping you would put up a fight. You won't win this though Abyssinian, I won't let you. We all have to pay for our actions sooner or later and in your case the time is now," the other man grinned. Think dammit! Aya ordered himself.
"Not really a fair fight since you have a gun and I am, as you pointed out, unarmed," the redhead snorted.
"The gun is just here to make sure you don't turn chicken on me and run off."
"I'm not going anywhere Takagi! If you want a fight you got yourself one." Takagi ran a hand through his black hair and smiled almost warmly.
"Good, good. With that settled let's go." Ran frowned. He had no idea of knowing how Takagi fought but he did know that he himself wasn't exactly great at hand to hand combat. The black haired man charged at him but instead of stopping infront of the redhead he darted behind him and gave him a hard kick in the back. With a hiss Ran stumbled forward just barely keeping himself on his feet. Quickly he swirled around and shot out his fist, it hit Takagi's face but not with enough force. The larger man smiled and made a sweaping movement with his arm. A very large and hard fist connected to his head. Damn, damn, Ran muttered as his head started throbbing with pain. Takagi was just as fast as Borzoi, a whole lot stronger and seemed to know exactly what the redhead was about to do before he knew himself. Another kick, this time aimed at his groin. When it hit dark spots appeared infront of violet eyes. Seconds later his whole body was receiving hard punches. It didn't take long before Ran sunk down on the ground but Takagi wasn't done yet. When his fist couldn't hit he started kicking instead. The redhead's ribs screamed with objection against the hard foot that smashed into them and then that foot hit his head and everything went black.

Ken unwillingly opened his eyes. It was morning and the pale rays from the sun were bugging him. Annoyed that he had forgotten to pull the blinds down the night before he got up and grumbled while he pulled on some clothes.
"Ran are you…" he started saying before he froze. His bed was empty and it wasn't because his lover had gotten up early. His eyes lost their annoyance and were filled with sadness instead. Reality was a bitch! With a deep sigh he left his room and headed down to the kitchen.
"Yojiiiiiiii!" Ken stopped at Omi's screech. The petit blonde was being chased around the table by one lanky playboy. The brunette smiled slightly. So Borzoi had kept her word and handled one of the messes she had created.
"I am so gonna get you Omi! No one wakes up the Kudou this early and lives to regret it," Yoji growled as he assulted the youngest team-mate by tickling him.
"Help!"
"You two really are silly," Ken muttered and rolled his eyes. Omi and Yoji were back to normal which was a good thing but… "Where's Ran?" Yoji stopped pestering Omi and looked up.
"Haven't seen him but he's supposed to be opening the shop with Omi in… ten minutes," the playboy answered.
"He's not in his room, I checked," Omi nodded and put the table between himself and Yoji, just incase.
"Oh," was the only thing Ken could get out. He left the kitchen and went back upstairs. Ran's door was open which meant that the redhead wasn't there. Slowly Ken walked inside and looked around. It only took him a few moments to realize that Ran was gone along with most of his things. With a silent whimper the brunette sat down on the bed where he had spent so many nights.
"Did you find…" Omi cut off his sentence when he saw Ken's face. "Ken-kun are you okay?
"Ran's gone, he left," came the quiet answer.
"What do you mean, he's gone?" the short blonde wondered with confusion.
"Are you stupid?! He's gone as in he's never coming back again!" Ken yelled and glared at Omi with tearfilled eyes. "He said that he couldn't even stand looking at me anymore." The slender blonde had taken a few steps back due to the harsh words but the despair in the brunette's voice made him come closer.
"Ken-kun, I'm sure it's not because…"
"Yes it is Omi. I… I cheated on Ran," Ken admitted with shame. "I slept with Borzoi." It hurt so much to say that, to admitt to it. Ken rubbed his face with a trembling hand.
"With Borzoi?" Omi asked completely baffled.
"She's a telepath and she's working for Takagi. I wasn't interested in her but she messed with my head so I thought she was Ran and I just… Why am I even telling you this?" Ken sighed with defeat. "It just sounds like some lame excuse."
"Did you explain it to Ran?" The brunette stared at his team-mate.
"How could I? If you where him would you have believed me? Besides he doesn't want to talk to me, he can't even stand hearing my voice anymore and I don't blame him," Ken answered slowly.
"Yes I would have believed you Ken." Omi's answer made the brunette snap his head up. "You're an honest person. You don't lie, you can't stand hurting others and you never break a promise. Doing something like that isn't in your nature Ken. Besides, I've seen the way you look at Ran. It's obvious how much you love him."
"I…" It was a real shock that the small blonde had known about the two of them.
"Just give him some time, he'll come back," Omi nodded with confident. "I always knew what it was that made Ran open up," he added with a smile. "It was you Kenken."

Yoji frowned deeply and stared at the brunette.
"Wait a minute now Ken! First you tell us that Borzoi is working for the target and then you say that we have to help her? Are you insane!?" the lanky blonde growled.
"Yoji, Takagi has her son of course she'd do whatever he tells her to," Omi objected and turned his back to the computer. "I'm not saying that she's innocent or anything but if we want to take out Takagi we probably will have to work with her," he added quickly after seeing the glare he got from the oldest assassin.
"She'll try to help us," Ken nodded slowly. He wasn't comfortable in the role of the leader but Ran was gone and Yoji and Omi didn't know anything about the deal he had made with Borzoi nor the information she had provided him with.
"And just how do we know she's telling the truth? I mean this could very well be another set-up right? Ken she tricked you into sleeping with her just to mess with Ran's head so why not this too?" The brunette shuddered and lowered his eyes to the floor. Omi gave the taller blonde a hard glare and sat down beside Ken. "Well I'm sorry if that hurts but that is what you told us she did," Yoji muttered in defence.
"Shut up Yoji!" The lanky blonde gave Omi a shocked look. Those kinds of hard words didn't usually come from his innocent mouth.
"No it's okay, really it is and he's right," Ken sighed and got up. "I can't promise that she's completely on our side and I won't force either one of you to join me. But I have to try. If I can get her son away from Takagi she's going to… help Ran and at the moment that's all I care about."
"Hm okay. Well I'm going with you because frankly I want to see this with my own eyes," Yoji muttered. "And… our mission is still active which means that we need to get rid of Takagi."

~TBC~

I want to kill Takagi! *growls* Damn man! Oh and what's up with Malice? Is she a badguy or not? Hmm? Stay tuned for the next chapter, Stalking predator, which should be done pretty quickly I think./Atsureki