Schuldich

Beyond the mind games, Schuldich seemed pretty cold. He sat on the couch listening to Marilyn Manson whose loud voice seemed to penetrate the room around him; he didn't mind that he was bothering everyone in the house.

He saw Crawford sitting in the kitchen reading the newspaper intent on ignoring him as usual. Ever since Schwarz broke from Eszet the four of them were struggling to get by.

Crawford was always the strong one, the one who didn't lose his cool, unlike the rest of Schwarz who were just out of control sometimes.

That was kind of a feat that no one expected when Crawford was chosen to lead, sadly though Schwarz was a failure to Eszet.

**

Putting in another CD, he heard Crawford looking down the hall and was thinking about Nagi. That was when the German heard the scream coming from the boy's bedroom. He tried to sooth the boy's dreams and made the memories less harsh.

Ever since they brought Nagi out of the basement of his parents' home, the boy had everything wrong with him. At first people thought he was autistic, but it was proven to be false when Schuldich was capable to get the boy to speak. He was antisocial; it wasn't really his fault in the slightest about being unable to communicate and having rocks thrown at him by children. No one knew what to say when the boy would run into the penthouse and try and stop him from crying.

Nagi was of course a sweet kid when it came to being a genius with computers. At such an early age, Schuldich allowed the boy to play video games. Prodigy that was what the team decided his codename would be after he had beaten Final Fantasy VIII.

It was clear that the boy was more than what he seemed. Even though he was sheltered Schuldich knew that Schwarz couldn't keep Nagi hidden forever.

When the boy had been seen with Tot, Schuldich felt a hint of concern; he knew that Nagi would never do anything to jeopardize the team.

**

Farfarello was on the other hand able to put anyone in danger, it was kind of scary when Crawford and Schuldich returned home one night and found Nagi huddled in a corner shaking. The boy was no older than fourteen and Farfarello went wild and nearly had the boy in a bloody mess.

What was very scary about the incident in Schuldich's mind was the fact that Farfarello not only physically abused the boy, but also raped him. He kept the fact from Crawford who would have killed the insane me for laying a finger on Nagi.

That had been a year ago, but it was still fresh in the German's mind. He remembered how hard it was to control the insane Irishman. Crawford viewed it as the German being able to have prefect control of him, but it was far from the truth.

Farfarello would loose control in seconds, it was a constant war between the two of them. Schuldich decided it was time to think about something else other than his teammates, he looked over at a stack of photos in a corner of the room and smiled.

He flipped from one picture to another thinking fleetingly about the Weiss. They were perfect in every way and it sickened him.

**

Ran "Aya" Fujimiya had taken everything for granted, he didn't take Sakura seriously, he hurt her and yet she couldn't stop thinking and worrying about him. Schuldich thought it was kind of sweet and sickening. He had wanted someone to worry about him like that, yet he could never have a girl live long enough.

He never really thought much on about Aya-chan, Ran's younger sister, he had only seen her a couple times and she had a quiet mind. He liked that, though he wished he had spent more time with her, in truth he sat listening to the thoughts of the girl while she slept.

He saw everything about Ran being played out. From being a loving older brother, to the countless birthday memories, seeing the love her brother put into every single gift he got her. He saw a side of the cold leader of Weiss that no one had ever seen.

The memories were small, but there was something there in it that he wished his team could have seen. He saw the reason for Ran's pain, he saw the accident through the girl's eyes and realized that it had to end.

Ran had every reason to be angry at Takatori. Schuldich had to admit though Ran got really carried away.

**

Looking at the clock on the wall he walked out into the hall and sighed making his way into his room. If anyone knew anything it was time to go to bed. He lay on his back looking at the ceiling and sighed.

Usually had hated the loneliness, which was why he would bring girls to his room, get them doped up. He didn't really think it was necessary, but it was kind of his personal experiment on seeing how much a girl could handle LSD and then loose her mind in the process.

He never intended for some of the girls to commit suicide afterward. He only got a glimmer of what they thought about on the high. To him it was just a big experiment.

Crawford also thought he was just raping the girls, he wouldn't touch them, he just gave them the high, then made them forget.

**

Schuldich sighed and looked over at the picture of Yohji he had pinned up on the wall. He only used this picture as a motivation to torture the guy; he made the man think about Neu, he made him believe that she was going to kill him.

The sick little game went on for about six months, he would watch Yohji going out with a girl and then just make the man sick enough in the head to think that he was being attacked. It was simply just a rather strange game.

In truth Schuldich was jealous of Yohji, he was jealous of the fact the man had everything going for him. But he was also jealous about how little the man didn't know what he was going to miss by wanting to die.

Why should I kill him? Its better to torture him, he would often think and smile.

**

He heard the door to Nagi's room shut; Crawford went to check on him. The nightmares were getting worse, but in truth. Mamoru Takatori's (Omi Tsukiyono) were far worse. The kid was possibly the most screwed up of all the Weiss members.

The kid's own father abandoned him, and in truth Crawford was beating himself up for it. Mamoru was after all Crawford's responsibility to protect, he had the confidence of Reiji's wife to watch of the small boy. There was a since of failure and when Crawford told the poor woman, she told him she didn't blame him, she was blaming Reiji for it.

The suicide was what saved the poor woman.

Omi though was sweet and gentle; it was kind of a pitiful sight seeing Omi holding Ouka, his half sister. To die right there in the boy's arms was rather strange.

It still seemed like that memory would never die, Crawford had nearly killed Schuldich and Farfarello for it. "I told you to let those two be," the words were bit off and the American was adjusting his glasses. "You do realize that we will have to answer to the father."

It was a regrettable situation. Schuldich had the cuts to prove it.

**

1.2.3.4.it was time to go to bed in a few minutes, it was close to one in the morning. He was counting some of the dots on the ceiling; he had been on LSD for an hour and still on a high.

He heard the still silence in the halls; Crawford must have gone to bed after checking on Nagi.

His mind started to wander again; this time he was looking at a mental picture of Ken Hidaka, the soccer fiend of Weiss. It was strange combination of assassins in Weiss. Hidaka was unstable, not to mention a hotheaded kid.

Ken refused to grow up, he was the kid next door, and the one the parents always said would go far. He was surprised how different Ken was around people. The guy was pretty quiet and clumsy. To tell the truth it was kind of humorous when watching a guy trying to avoid six or seven kids trying to set him up on dates.

Ken wasn't at all, as he seemed, he had a wild almost crazy side to him that frightened the German. He remembered having the guy run at him, he was lucky to know get a small scratch.

He saw the boy and Farfarello fighting it wasn't a fair match in truth, Ken could be lithe and quick, but he misjudged the force at which Farfarello was going.

When the battle was over it was still a war, Schwarz knew nothing about whether it would end or not.

**

2 in the morning? Schuldich looked at the clock in the den, he sighed and walked into the hall and back to his room. He hummed a tune to himself as he thought again about what his team was dreaming about.