A/N: Wow! 5 reviews! I feel so loved!! Thanks to Captain lesiem, ln1, Simply_Kim, Ranma, and Nashi! I'm not sure who's going to be paired up with whom yet, but my muses should make it obvious in the next couple chapters! ^^ And as for the relations, I'm hoping some hints of it will be in this chapter. The muses are writing this, not me!

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" . . . And then you yell at him for something he obviously didn't want you to know about!" Brad rubbed hid hand over his face. He had seen the redheaded leader of Weiss run into the house crying just moments before it actually happened. By the time he realized what he had seen, Aya was already upstairs and in the process of slamming his door closed.

Two hours, six apologetic assassins, and a killer migraine later, Brad was finishing his lecture on privacy and hurting a teammate. Schuldich suspected that he was only this upset because he had a crush on the violet- eyed assassin, but even he was smart enough to know that mentioning that would be a bad idea.

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Up in his room, Aya could hear Brad's yelling, and the others' apologies. It helped to know that someone was sticking up for him, but he was angrier at himself than at Schuldich and Yohji. He hadn't meant to tell anyone about what his father used to say to him. It wasn't that what he said was so heartbreaking; it was the fact that everything he had said was true.

The man who had raised Aya was not his real father; he had made sure to let the redhead know that from the time he was able to understand words. No, Aya knew the real story. The story behind his mother's sugarcoated words, and behind his "father's" cruel narration. He had heard the man telling his younger sister why she should hate her big brother.

Aya's mother had been married to Kouga Fujimiya** for only a year when she got pregnant. At first, he had been delighted, but then he found out about his wife's 'friend'. They had been secretly seeing each other for a few months before the man had gotten her pregnant. He was an older man with two children of his own: a four-year-old girl, and a two-year-old boy. The man was the one Aya had gotten his red hair from. His mother could only remember that the man's last name was Kitada, and that the girl's name was Hanae. Kouga had seen no reason in finding out more.

To hide his wife's unfaithfulness, he had claimed the baby as his own, at least on the birth certificate. Aya never got to meet his real father, or his older siblings. By the time he was old enough to look for himself, tragedy had struck the Fujimiya family. Aya had only been eighteen for a week when the house exploded, killing his entire family.

Aya shook his head to clear it of his thoughts. When they kept circling in his head, he decided that it would be a good idea to go back downstairs, and at least let the younger assassins know he wasn't mad at them.

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"Um . . . Aya?" The redhead looked toward the voice that had called him. Schuldich was standing in the hallway, his own hair pulled up in a ponytail. Seeing that he had gotten the smaller man's attention, Schuldich continued. "Aya, I just . . . Look, I'm sorry. I should have let you . . . I don't know, not say anything. I mean, I should have left you alone and not pushed you into answering if you didn't want to."

Aya couldn't help but notice the other's discomfort. It was a well-known fact - already - that Schuldich was not one for apologies. "What did Brad threaten you with?" Aya asked, smiling slightly at the look on Schuldich's face.

"How did you- I mean, am I forgiven?" Aya nodded, leaving the German free to ask his earlier question. "How did you know he threatened me? And he told me he'd have Farf tie me to the bottom of the van for the ride home. He doesn't joke about stuff like that!" he added, seeing Aya trying to hide a smile.

"I could hear you from my room. Sound travels in here."

"Oh."

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Later that evening, the others had all apologized to Aya about earlier that day, although why anyone but Yohji and Schuldich did was a mystery to both him and Brad. Their explanation was that they had heard the playboys talking about getting him mad, but hadn't done anything to stop it.

Nagi cooked that night, and to hide the flavor, everyone had had mass amounts of alcohol with the meal. It wasn't that Nagi was a bad cook; it was just that, with a computer so close, he hadn't payed attention to the food until the kitchen was thick with black smoke. They would have eaten out, but none of the restaurants close enough were any good, either.

Unfortunately, Aya wasn't a big drinker, and the alcohol he consumed with the meal was enough to loosen him up. He had told the others about how Takatori was responsible for his family's death, and how Aya was not his real name. The others (especially the original Weiss members) immediately jumped at the chance to learn more about the violet-eyed redhead.

"Aya isn't your real name?" Omi asked, hoping that would be enough to open him up.

"Nope. Aya's my little sister."

"You have a sister? Where is she?"

"Dead." The lack of emotion in Aya's voice alerted the others to the fact that he had resigned himself to it.

"What happened?" Ken asked, noticing for the first time the looks on Schuldich and Farfarello's faces.

"When the house blew up, I got her to go outside. The roof fell on my legs, and while I was trapped, a car came out of nowhere and hit her. She was crossing the street at that time. I guess that it just hit her wrong, but she didn't move, and when I finally got free and got to her, the paramedics had arrived. We were taken to the hospital, and a week later she died.

"That's horrible," Nagi whispered, having not been a part of Schwarz at the time of the accident.

"So what IS your real name?" Yohji asked, seeing his teammates need for a subject change, and being overly curious about the answer.

"Ran." At that point, he decided that that had been enough conversation for one day and left the table. As Yohji watched him leave, he remembered something he had noticed earlier that day.

"Schuldich?"

"Yeah?"

"You and Ran look a lot alike when you're angry. It's kinda creepy; like you're related or something."

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A/N: What do you think? Was it good? I tried to put in Ran's situation without focusing the chapter on him, but it's so hard! Ran is my favorite Weiss member! (Farfie's my favorite Schwarz) Did it meet you expectations? I chose Kouga for Ran's father's name because I don't really like how he's turning out in this story, and I dislike the wolf demon from InuYasha. It just worked out that way. Also, I don't have my Japanese translater with me so I can't chose Japanese names like I usually do.