Chapter 10

A/N: Hey guys!!! Sorry for not being able to update for a while……. (Hmmmmm…. Make that a very long while! J ) I haven't had the time to write since I can't find any computer available for about a week! Can you believe that?! A week!!! I thought for awhile that I won't survive!!! Hehehe….. Anyways, I'm alive and kicking already. Hoping you like the next chap! Here goes…..

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Hisoka's POV

I have never been afraid like this in my whole life. Ever. Well, not if you counted the night of the red moon that is.

Oh you know, the night where I was under those Sakura trees and was able to witness that gruesome murder of a woman…… then afterwards the killer's attention is on me….. Then afterwards…. Well you get the picture.

My sweat tricked from my forehead down to my nose, but I didn't care. The menacing faces coming towards me in the most frightening manner is what I'm more afraid of.

"Hisoka, honey." Rei called as he slithered towards me, past those disgusting friends of his. I backed up promptly.

"Where goes your courage, hon? Just awhile ago you were kicking like mad." He commented as he draped his arms on my shoulders, letting them travel on my back down to my……. Ass.

"Get your hands off me." I hissed as I slapped his hands away.

"I thought we are lovers." Rei pouted as he egged his goddamn awful teammates to slur.

"We were."

"Hmmm…… I haven't heard that we've broken up?"

"Well, I'm telling you know." I said as I glared daggers at him, the best that I could muster. I'm surprised really that my voice is still steady and that I could hold this brave façade when the truth is that my heart is hammering madly and I could feel it in my nerves that any minute now, I might pass out. Might. If I allowed it to happen.

"Did you hear that folks? Hisoka's broken up with me!!" Rei announced as he turned his back on me and did a little melodrama, clutching his heart as if it was broken into tiny little pieces.

Then with a sudden change of attitude he stalked towards me, his leaf green eyes bulging with anger. We had a little glaring showdown before I felt Rei swoop down on me and kissed me long and hard, fiercely. I tried to fight back but it was worthless as he had my arms pinned to my sides in a vice like grip. So I did the only thing I could. I bit his tongue

"You…. You….. Little bitch! That is the biggest you could ever make!! I'll make you regret that!!" He said angrily and so fast, specks of spit came flying in my face. But that barely registered. His eyes….. There's something funny.

"Mogley!!" Rei yelled for his right henchman, who at once came tumbling towards him, looking as if he's afraid of him, afraid that if he's 1 second late Rei will beat the shit out of him.

"You called boss?" He asked Rei, a big goofy grin now plastered in his face. It's as if he's anticipating that he'll be given something extra nice. I averted my eyes away from this sick psycho Mogley to look at Rei's eyes again.

That's when I saw it; Rei's eyes were flashing black every now and then. His pupils get in and out of focus too. I wonder what's up with him? I thought to myself as I continued to ponder about that.

"You liked Hisoka right?" Rei asked, a cruel smile on his lips. Mogley scratched his head.

"Well…… Uh, yes? Duh." He replied looking genuinely confused. Rei's eyes became green once more, then for a second I thought he looked scared out of his wits but it came along very fast, I might as well imagined it.

His eyes were now again jet black and his face had worn his bad, cruel mask.

"You get to have him this night." He said simply. He said it so casually you would think he's giving Mogley some candy. That outraged me.

"What the fuck?!" I yelled as Mogley advanced in on me and I continued to back off until I felt the cool, solid wall. I was cornered. Damn.

"Hmmm….. How about you guys? You liked him as well don't you?" A bunch of catcalls.

"Hell yes!!" Rei glowered.

"No prob! After Mogley you get to have turns with him. Consider it my congratulatory gift for the superb game this morning."

"What the fuck do you think you are doing? I'm not your possession you can give away!!! You asshole!!!" I screamed at the top of my lungs as my heart doubled its beat. Fuck, I'm nervous as hell, and if there is one thing I've learned with the episode of the red moon, it's about how you detect lust. Yes, lust. And these morons had the look Muraki had then. Fuck them all.

"Whoohooo!!!" Rei looked at me with vengeance in his now jet black, mad eyes.

"Enjoy the night, love." He said as he blew me a kiss and turned to walk away.

"Rei wait!!! Don't do this to me!!" I threatened him as Mogley closed in the distance between us, and I could now feel his slimy hands hovering over my right cheek.

"Hey, dude. I want your full attention. You're mine now." He said as he caressed my face. I glared at him.

"Get your fucking, slimy hands off me." I hissed. He just jeered at me. Laughing at my puny attempts to be brave.

"Whoooo!!! I'm scared!! Will you call my mommy?" Mogley said as he brought his thumb to his mouth and began to suck on it. He was trying to look like a baby. Funny. Really funny, I would have laughed if it wasn't me cornered at the wall surrounded by a bunch of perverted guys.

Then without warning, Mogley punched me in the stomach, knocking the wind out of me. I had the feeling he doesn't want me to pass out, since that punch was only strong enough to calm me down. Without further ado, he wrapped his arms around my waist and drew me closer to him, kissing me savagely. I could feel my lips getting bruised.

"You liked that hon?" Mogley asked me, imitating Rei's voice and his name of endearment to me.

I'm beginning to despair, and I had the feeling that isn't all Mogley had in store for me.  Just think about the other guys…… Looking like an impatient Mogley leering on me. So I turned to Rei to give it one last shot.

"Rei please don't do this to me, I'll do anything you want. We could go to the house you were saying awhile ago. Please. I'm  so sorry." I said my voice now shaky and I absolutely sounded so despaired, which I really am.

Rei turned to look at me one last time. He had been smoking, but when I called him, he promptly dropped and stepped on it, to butt it out. Funny that. I hadn't noticed he was smoking. Actually, I didn't know that he smokes at all. Never seen him. He looked at me with those black eyes, completely insane. He was about to say something to cruel when his eyes flashed green.

Next thing I knew he was clutching his head and was down to the ground to his knees. It was as if he was in pain or something.

"Mo-mo-gl-ey…… St-----o—p…." He said haltingly, as he continued to writhe on the ground.

"What's happening to you man? Hey, you sick man?" Mogley said concerned but not concerned enough to release his hold on me.

"S---St—Stop……. I—t. Hi----s---o---" He continued to say, but he was obviously in so much pain, he can't get the right words out.

"What you saying man?" Mogley continued to ogle Rei, who suddenly stilled on the ground. Mogley was so preoccupied; his hands on my waist began to loosen. The still rational part of my mind was still working perfectly so, I took the time to take a deep breath, recollect my thoughts and aimed best as I could.

With a vicious cry, I brought my knee hard right into Mogley's groin. He howled in pain and fell to the ground. Forgetting Rei and his other teammates who were flocked around him I ran as fast as I could.

I turned to look at Rei one last time. Curiosity, you know? Curiosity on what's up with him. Because I sense that something is terribly wrong with Rei. As I turned to look at him, the wind was knocked out of me, again. For the second time tonight. I barely had the time to look at who did that. My eyes bulged.

 I can't be mistaken. It's Rei. The mad, black eyed Rei. But how the heck did he get here so fast? He was still writhing on the ground, a good fifteen feet away. How?!

"Now, honey. The fun's just started. Where do you think you are going?" I heard him say. But his voice seems far, far away…..

I blacked out as I thought of the phrase: Curiosity killed the cat.

Damn right they are. I thought groggily as I was finally enveloped in dreamy sleepiness.

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Tsuzuki's POV

Hmmm…… I really have a good feeling about tonight's party. My intuition's telling me that something big is going to happen. I just hope that this 'big something' will cause me to solve the case.

I really wanted to resolve things between Hisoka and me, so wrapping up this case will ultimately decide on how soon it's going to be. I sighed. I really miss him. I thought sadly as I remember our cases together. Every now and then, Hisoka will get pissed at me because I try to slack back. I really love his upturned nosed and his icy glare. He was always so cute.

But then there are times that he would let himself smile. I'd like to think that those smiles are for me. Every time I goofed up, you know, when I'm making a fool out of myself or something, and when I do things correctly, he'd smile his reserved smile then when noticed that he had smiled he'd frown and burry his head in a book.  Damn I miss those times.

I shook my head trying to clear all thoughts of Hisoka. I had to focus myself on this case or else I would never be able to finish it. And thinking about 'Soka-chan doesn't help me one bit. I thought wryly.

I ran a hand on my unruly brown hair, clearing all thoughts of Hisoka. Back to the case, I guess. Anyway, that Camila Glory was really a stroke of good luck. If it wasn't for her I wouldn't have known that there are other islands around this place, and that we have access to go to them.

Something's bothering me though. The private island that she was talking about…… It seems something's missing. Something's amiss. I don't know now, but I swear, I will find out what it is.

I wonder if Camila knows any way to get to that island. I thought to myself as I stopped dead in my tracks, thinking deeply.

Anyhow, I must first concentrate on the party. Find clues, possible suspects, possible cases and whatever that might hint me on what happened to the unfortunate boys. Even identification on those boys' names will be good enough for me. Then we can track them down and……..

My eye caught someone. I'm not checking him out though, I thought defensively as I registered his lean, athletic build, his longish black hair that half the time covers his leaf green eyes. Wait……. It's black. I thought confused.

Well anyway, he's a real beauty. Porcelain skin, finely sculpted face….. Oh he's carrying somebody, I said to myself. He was stooping as he walks and that man? Boy? He was carrying was causing him to stoop.

I wonder why he's carrying him? I thought as my feet magically carry me closer to them. I don't know why but I'm really, really interested to see who it is he's carrying.

As I approached them nearer, the man who is carrying another man seemed to have sensed me. He locked eyes with me, and he looks at me with an expression that clearly says; Back-off.

At first I didn't back-off. As I told you I'm really curious on whom it is carrying. I don't know why but my curious alert is on high and I really can't help it. I'm going to be in big trouble if I don't stop. I thought, but my feet are still carrying me towards them.

 

I was only a few feet away from them when a second guy, a tall but yet meaty build, short of being a sumo build really, came at the front. He leered at me and held his fists up. Then he said what was the guy was trying to tell me awhile later.

"Back-off dude. Private property. Can't have a look."

"You cant own another human being." I protested, under my breath. Meaty guy heard it nonetheless.

"Fucking none of your business dude. Back-off." With that he strode towards me and pushed me back. Not wanting to attract people, I just held my hands up in show of giving up. I wanted to lay low on the party. And a fight isn't going to help me lay low.

"Come Mogley, it's enough." Pretty boy said as he stormed as fast as he could carrying the guy with him, out of my view.

"Don't you dare follow us. This is what will happen to you if you do." Meaty guy, named Mogley produced an orange he snatched from a nearby picnicking family and squeezed it as hard as he could. Pulp and juice were running down his arms. Before stalking away he snarled at me one last time.

I get the picture meaty guy. I said sarcastically as my eyes wandered to follow pretty boy and his companion. What a waste. I didn't get to see him.

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"Tatsumi!! You're back!!" I squealed as I closed the door behind me. He is in our apartment looking like he had just come home.

"Uhuh." He said distractedly as he removed and hung them at the back of a chair.

"What happened Tatsumi? Didn't it go well?" I asked concerned. He looks at me with an expression I can't read. Then he sighs.

"It went well. And I'm pretty sure Watari believed everything I said." He removed his glasses, cleaned them then replaced it again.

"Are you sure?" I said skeptically. If it went well then why the heck did he look so damn depressed?!

"Yes, Tsuzuki-san. I'm sure. Not unless Watari is a good actor and fooled me to believe that he believed in me." I shook my head trying not to laugh.

"Trying to make me dizzy with your words Tatsumi?" I said grinning. I'm so glad he smiled too. He was looking like he had attended a morgue.

"I didn't talk to Hisoka though….." Tatsumi said haltingly.

"What? But you promised me……" I said starting to whine.

"Yes I did promise and I intend to keep it though." Tatsumi pushed his glasses up his nose.

"I really intended to talk with the both of them but Kurosaki-kun had been out. He was out doing their assignment."

"What?! Why didn't Watari accompany him? You will never know…… Muraki is always after him….. What if something happens to him?!!" I asked hysterically as I waved my arms about. After hearing that Hisoka's all alone doing their assignment…. My heart suddenly sped up and my stomach did flip-flops. Warning bells were ringing dangerously in my head.

"Don't worry Tsuzuki-san, Watari is always behind him and had researched thoroughly. Muraki is not involved with their case."

"You sure?"

"Yes, I am."

"Are you really, really sure?"

"Funny Tsuzuki-san. What about OUR case? You got any leads?" He asked me as he sat down.

"Well, I did all sorts of things…. But that doesn't lead me anywhere."

"Are you sure you've been doing something?" Tatsumi asked me.

"Of course! What do you think of me? A slack?" Tatsumi suppressed a grin.

"As a matter of fact yes."

"What?! Tatsumi!! I've been doing my job well." I paused and adopted my Tatsumi imitation.

"As a matter of fact, I have some appointment tonight. I think that might lead me to something."

"Really?"

"Uhuh. In fact I should be leaving……." I looked at me watch. It read 4:55.

"What the?! I'm going to be late!!!! Sorry Tatsumi….. See you later!!!" I called out as I made a mad dash outside. Camila told me specifically not to be late. Well duh…… Tatsumi got me preoccupied…..

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"Hey, so sorry I'm late!" I said waving to Camila as I stepped nearer to her. She was standing beside a line of people waiting to be seated at the boat.

"It's okay…. I just arrived here too." She said as she flipped her hair.

"So you think it's going to be wild today?" I asked her as I stepped beside her and looked around.

"Yeah! Hell yes!!!! I've heard that many cool people are going to be there…… I even heard that some celebrities….." She chattered happily as she linked her arms with mine. I turned to look at her, to start a conversation with her when something caught my eye.

The boy, pretty boy as I tagged him earlier was no longer carrying that other boy. He was walking in the boat talking to someone. I craned my neck to see who it was.

It's not meaty boy isn't it? I asked myself as I noticed that the companion is taller than pretty boy and he has…… Silver hair!

I dropped Camila's hold on me to run towards them. I ignored the nasty looks people were giving me. Hell!! Let them think I was cutting in line; I better get to him fast!

As I reached the boarding area, 2 meaty guys….. much meatier that pretty boy's friend stopped me.

"Tickets dude."

"I just need to get to something……."

"You can't get in without tickets."

"I know but I….."

"Look. No tickets. No entry."

Fuck……

I craned my neck again to see where they went they were out of my sight too.

Fuck…..

Now I need to go back to Camila.

Fuck…..

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