Title: FoxHunters
Part: 2/13 (I think¡­)
Author: Sushi a.k.a Yume ^^V
Genre: Yaoi!! (of coz¡­)
Pairing: well, I guess it's another RuHana¡­
Rating: PG, nothing can be G with yaoi¡­ -_-;;
Archive: ML
Mailo: yume_chan14@hotmail.com
Warning: English is not my first language, so there's gonna be lotsa grammar mistakes,
Desclaimer: I do not own any of the SD things, they all belong to Inoue Takehiko.


Chapter 2 --------

At the headquarters of the FoxHunters:

Anzai is sitting on his fox fur rug, drinking a cup of aromatic tea idly. With Akagi standing next to him like a bodyguard, glaring at everyone viciously to forewarn them not misbehave. On the other side of the room, there are 12 apprentices.

Mitsui and Kogure are cuddling each other openly without a trace of disguise. Ryota is starring at Ayako with hearts pumping in his care-for-nothing eyes, while Ayako is sharpening her daggers with some special potion. Sakuragi is yawning continuously and trying to complain at the earliness of the bell, while Youhei is trying hard to imply his stupid friend that a certain strong-built man who looks a lot like a gorilla had locked his ruthless eyes on the not-yet-wounded red head. And there's also Yasuda, Ishii, Sasaoki, Kuwata, Shiozaki and Kakuta, whose hopes are completely shattered by the stupidity of their seniors and leader.

"Ermm¡­" After a long pause, Anzai finally realised the 12 extra heads in his room, and started speaking. "Ho ho ho~ Good morning, all my faithful apprentices." As soon as Anzai finished his sentence, everyone sat down with a sigh of relief. No one is allow to sit down before the Chief speaks, that's one of the major rules for the Hunters.

"I'm sure you're all aware of the reason why I gathered you all in this place." After another cup of warm tea, Anzai motioned Yasuda to fill his cup up and finally got into the real thing. "Next month, the Winter Hunting Championship will be hosted."

After the word "Championship" left Anzai's lips, everyone's mind stirred with excitement and memory of the last year's Championship.

"Last year, the WolfHunters won the championship, we were second as we beat the LionHunters just by a little. The TigerHunters is a Division with high potential, but they lost to us on the first round thus they're fourth. The game was so close¡­ we were so close to beating the WolfHunters until the silver fox of the legend appeared. " Anzai's commentary bought everyone back to what happened a year ago.

The intention of the Winter Championship is to test all Hunters and to see which Division is the best;. The winner will experience all the respects they could get and the apprentices of that Division can get a high Level in the Governor's Division, which helps the Chief to maintain the entire tribe. Every Division has their own sacred animal, on the day of the Championship; two Divisions will be put into an area with different levels of obstacles. And their job is to capture but not kill all the sacred animals of their Division in that area. Of course, everything is well calculated so both Divisions will get an equal amount of animals in the gaming area.

But every time, when nearly all the animals are captured in the gaming area, Animal of the Legend will appear. The Animal of the Legend is the strongest in every animal race, they hold dominion over their same species, and they're the cleverest and hardest to hunt down. So as soon as the game is about to finish, the Animal of the Legend will appear to add difficulty into the game. No human had ever captured any Legendary Animals before, so if any Division captured their animal, the game will end instantly and that Division will win. But if both Divisions couldn't hunt down their Legendary Animal within the limited time, the Division who hunted more animals will win.

But of course, nothing can be exactly fair. Before the Winter Championship, between Divisions a cold war will start. One will try to find something to get their opponent disqualified so they can win with ease.

"Yes¡­ " Akagi's deep voice forced everyone back to reality. "It is the truth that the WolfHunters won last year, but Mitsui, Kogure and Youhei wasn't in it as Mitsui was in the care-center, Kogure was with him and Youhei didn't know how to hold a bow properly. But now they're all an important member of the Division and we will not accept another defeat this time. Am I right?" Akagi asked in a threatening voice.

"YES!" Everyone shouted in unison.

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After the meeting -

"YOUHEI! I'm so hungry!" Hanamichi cried out in frustration. "See? It's asking for FOOD!" He pointed at his muscular abdomen, who's mumbling with dissatisfy of shortage on food.

Youhei sweatdropped. Listen to his best friend's stupid whining is the most interesting entertainment he could get in the boring training life of the Hunters, but it is quite annoying sometimes. "Ok, what ya wanna eat?"

Sakuragi moved his hand under his chin thoughtfully, then soon his eyes beamed. "We will go and find some doe! I tried one of those before, they're delicious!"

For one second, Youhei just pretended he didn't hear anything until a powerful headbutt landed on his forehead. Then he tried to not notice that as well, but his friend's threatening glare weakened him. Sakuragi can always be a vicious person, especially when he's hungry.

"Then we have to go pass the LionHunters!" Youhei complaint with a deep sigh. The thought of certain male human being with a gravity-defying hair really made him feeling nausea, and the thought of letting him see HIS Hanamichi made him feel even more revolting. But it's never smart to argue with a hungry Hanamichi, so he decided to give up. He grabbed his bow and arrows and walked out of the tent silently, he doesn't really like to use them, but combat fighting isn't really for a Hunter. "We better go now, Hanamichi, I don't want that pervert to see you¡­"

"OK¡­" Hanamichi's face suddenly turned as red as his hair, and that sight made Youhei felt like banging his head on the wall.

------------------ After half an hour of walking, in the LionHunters district

"Hey, Hana. Is that you?" Sendoh Akira, the most charming guy in The Hunters appeared in front of Hanamichi and Youhei.

"NOT YOU AGAIN!" At that very moment, Youhei nearly pulled out of his bow and shoot an arrow through that idiot smiley's head. He was trying to hide Hanamichi away from the star Level 2 LionHunter, but apparently, he failed.

"Common, Youhei, don't be so tight on Hana-chan." Sendoh teased with a broad smile, you can almost see the imaginary sunlight shining behind him. "I was just trying to say hi to my golden-eyed sweetie~"

Youhei nearly fainted as that nickname was mentioned.

"A-K-I-R-A!" A slightly shorter boy than Sendoh fumed out of the trees. "I just left you for ONE minute and now you're here flirting with Sakuragi from the FoxHunters!!"

"Ermm¡­ sorry Kosh, I was just saying hi to my friend¡­" Sendoh's expression changed completely as his boyfriend's voice assaulted their previous conversation. "Ok, bye Hana and Mito, have a nice time hunting!" Then he pushed Koshino away from the pair of very confused FoxHunters.

Just as Sakuragi and Youhei are wondering about the strange actions done by the LionHunters, a silver light went past them in a lightning speed. "That's the Silver Fox of the Legend!" shouted Youhei in an exciting plus nervous voice.

Hanamichi, who was abnormally quiet after the appearance of Sendoh. But after the sight of the Silver Fox, Sendoh was thrown miles away from his mind. "Yeah, I saw that too!" The silver fox stopped moving, so Hanamichi and Youhei could see the whole fox as it was too fast for them to see when it's moving. The fox is as white as snow, with silver strands coming out of its body. Its eyes are diamond blue, so mysterious and pretty.

"We will use the double T technique!" yelled out Hanamichi, Anzai put all the techniques into letters, so others won't be able to steal them, and it's hard to foresee their moves. "The Fox is too fast for us, I wish Miyagi is here, but I doubt even him can reach the fox's speed¡­"

The fox, Youhei and Sakuragi zoomed into a deeper part of the forest as the search went on. When they arrived at a certain intersection, they split up. Youhei is chasing the fox to the 'secret' place and Sakuragi is waiting at the 'secret' place, the double T technique will form a trap that their prey will fall in automatically. When the Silver Fox reached the trap without getting suspicious, both Hunters pulled out their bows and arrows and released them at the exactly same second from both front and behind.

Youhei's arrow went left a little bit deliberately, but Hanamichi's arrow aimed perfectly into the Silver Fox's heart, but unfortunately, the fox dodged the arrow. But Anzai's plan never has a flaw within it, at the place where the fox dodged to, a trap is there, waiting for its prey to fall in¡­

With a painful wince, the fox is captured. Its foot is stuck inside a precisely designed trap, can't move, can't attack, can't escape. All traps in the Hunters are painted with poison, after a few hours, the Silver Fox of the Legend will be dead for sure! Hanamichi and Youhei are so happy, peel off the skin of the Silver Fox of the Legend. Glory, money and girls, they will have it all!

"Kill it, Hanamichi!" Youhei shouted, his voice is quavering as it is overloaded with excitement.

But before Hanamichi could approach the badly wounded fox and give its heart a last shot, his eyes are suddenly blinded by a powerful silver light. Both Hunters winced as the light hit their naked eyes with its full impact, they quickly used their hands to protect their eyes from the strong light. After a few seconds, the light is gone. They reopened their eyes, and realised something that surprised them both. The fox is gone, too.

At where the fox was previously, a young man laid there. His raven hair scattered messily but beautifully over his blue, diamond eyes, looking at Hanamichi with a cold, emotionless expression.