Disclaimer: Weiß Kreuz doesn't belong to me. Simple as that.
Wahl Eins
Aya sighed as the daily after school crowd gathered around the shop, making quite a racket as they begged for his attention.
"Aya-kun . . . do you like my hair?" asked a blond girl.
"Aya-san, which of these flowers looks better in my hair?"
Aya sighed, "If you're not buying anything please leave," he said for the umpteenth, but just like the other times he said it the girls ignored him.
On the other side of the shop Yoji was entertaining some of the girls by telling them some story or another; the girls were looking wide-eyed and giggling like crazy.
Aya glared at Yoji "Aren't you supposed top be working?"
"But I am." Yoji said giving an innocent look that deceived no one.
"How?"
"By keeping them out of your hair of course." He turned back to the girls and continued where he left off. This had the effect of making some of the crowd that was centered on Aya to move over to Yoji, and making the red head glare at him some more.
"Umm.... excuse me," a blue haired girl said to Aya.
"What?"
"Do you have any Freesia in stock?"
Aya pointed to a brunette on the other side of the shop. "Talk to Ken. I have my hands full."
"Thank you." she said and walked over to Ken.
Ken had managed to avoid most of the crowd do to the fact that he was covered in dirt and was rather sweaty from carrying around heavy plants. "Man that's heavy" he groaned as he picked up a large pot and moved it in to the sunlight.
"Excuse me, Ken-san?" the blue haired girl asked.
"Yes what can I help you with?" Ken said as he put the plant down.
"Do you have any Freesia?" she asked
"I think we might, I'll go check." He went to check and returned a few minutes later with a bouquet of yellow and white flowers. "Here you are," he said as he handed them to her, "That'll be 15,000 ¥."
The girl took out her wallet and paid him. "Arigato nasai," she said.
"Would you like a card to go with that?" Ken asked, "Only 200 ¥."
"Sure," the girl smiled
"What do want it to say?" Ken asked as he took out a card from the drawer and taking out a pin.
"To Aniki, congratulations on winning that programming contest, love from your imouto-chan, Ouka."
Ken wrote it down and put the card in the bouquet. "Here you go."
Ouka gave him the rest of the money she owed, thanked him and left.
"Who was the chickie?" Yoji asked as Aya shoed away the girls as he closed up.
"Just someone buying flowers for her older brother, apparently he won some computer program contest."
"Ah the love between to siblings is a beautiful thing indeed," Yoji said matter-of-factly.
"An even more beautiful thing is when you work for a change." Aya said
Yoji gave a fake gasp, "What was that, Aya has found his long lost sense of humor?!" he placed the back of his hand to his forehead. "The world must be ending!"
"That's nice Yoji," came a sweet voice from behind Aya.
"Ah, Manx how are you?" Yoji said as he walked over to the red head and placed his arm around her shoulder, "How about you, me, a fancy restaurant, and some rose scented candles at a table for two?"
Manx brushed Yoji off and turned to the other two. "I have a mission for you," she said.
Down stairs on the wide screen TV Persia's face appeared, "Hello Weiß, I have a new mission for you."
Pictures of young people, mostly those in their late teens, early twenties, were shown dead, "There is an under ground hunting club that hunts humans. Many innocent people had been victimized. Your targets are these four; Takatori Hirofumi, the former minister; Nakazawa Yasuichi, Kondo Hiroshi, and Yoritsune Kenta." Persia's face appeared on the screen again, "We have received word that they will be at the Impendent party conviction next week, and that the leaders would like you the florists from Koneko no Suma to help set up decorations. Hunters of the night I leave to you to hunt the tomorrows of these dark beasts!" the tape ended.
"So who's in?" Manx asked
"I'm in," Aya said almost immediately.
"I'll do it too," Ken said
"I might as well go, I might be able to pick up some ladies." Yoji said, making Ken groan.
"All right then-"
"Hey wait a minute," Ken interrupted, "How do know that they're going to ask us to come do decorations?"
Manx smiled "One of our agents is close to the IP's leader and suggested it to him. Therefore you were selected, and you aren't bad florists either, you have a very good reputation."
"I see . . ." he said thoughtfully
Manx continued where she left off before answering Ken's question. "You'll be contacted tomorrow about the job, if not then the next day. Understand?"
The three nodded.
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At the Independent Party headquarters things weren't going to well . . .
"What do you mean they escaped?!" Takatori Reiji all but screamed at his son Masafumi, who just stood there with a smirk on his face. Behind him were four beautiful ladies.
"Just what I said father, they escaped. Don't worry about it though. I was going to let some lose in the city in a couple weeks any way, now we're ahead of schedule." he said, smiling lazily.
"But what if this comes back to haunt us you twit?" Takatori yelled at Masafumi. He leaned forward and grabbed his son's tie. "If it comes back to implicate me then I'll, I'll have to rethink how to handle you." He let go. "You're dismissed."
Masafumi bowed and left, taking the four young ladies with him.
Reiji fumed silently to himself when he got a call from his secretary. "Yes?"
"Four men to see you sir, they say they're from Eszett."
"Send them in."
A few moments later four men walked in. One looked like a well to do businessman, one a rock star, another dressed as a punk, and the last man wasn't really a man but a boy dressed in a Jr. high school uniform.
"So, you are Schwarz?" Takatori asked, "Not exactly what I expected, but I'm sure you'll more then meet my expectations."
The businessman smiled at him, "Thank you, Takatori-san."
"So what did you expect?" the rock star asked, "Four big, tough, muscular men dressed in black?"
"Schuldig," the businessman warned, "Watch your mouth."
"My apologies," Schuldig said to Takatori, "But you'll find us much more useful than what you thought we would be." he flashed a wicked grin. "There you're thinking 'how so?'"
Takatori smiled evenly at the German, "Don't tell me you're a mind reader. I don't believe in that physic bull shit."
"But your youngest son does." Schuldig said in his defense.
"What? How do you know that?" Takatori asked, taken a back by what the German said.
"You thought it when you said you don't believe in physic stuff," the red head said, a lazy smile playing across his lips.
Takatori stared at the German, and then smiled, "Well that will come in handy now won't it?"
"Glad to see you changed your mind."
"So Crawford," he turned to the businessman " You are Crawford right?"
"Yes sir, I am."
"What else can your little group here do?"
"All in good time sir, but first we need to address the problems at hand." he turned to the boy, "Nagi could you close the shades?"
The boy nodded, "Ok," closed his eyes for a split second then opened them, immediately the shades were closed and the room darkened.
"Thank you." Crawford turned back to Takatori, "Now to business." He pulled up a chair and sat down in front of the desk. The others did the same. "It has come to my attention that your children are in danger; the older two are in more danger then the younger two. So what do you want done about it."
"What do you mean in danger?" Takatori asked.
"I have seen that Hirofumi and Masafumi have been targeted by a group of assassins, for what reasons I don't know."
"What do you want us to do?" Schuldig asked
Takatori thought for a bit, "You said they were all in danger, what about the other two?"
Crawford shook his head, "I'm afraid I don't know."
"Well," Takatori began, "Hirofumi has a group he calls Schreient to protect him."
"Why does he call them 'screaming'?" Schuldig asked.
Takatori shrugged, "And Hirofumi has a couple bodyguards with him, I'll talk to him and assign some more guards to protect him."
"Ah," Schuldig smiled, "You want us to protect your precious twins?"
"Schuldig," Crawford warned, but his warning went unnoticed.
"Yes I can tell you care deeply for those two, Ouka-chan is daddy's little girl, and your son Mamoru is the prefect clone of you dearly departed wife." he reached for a picture on Takatori's desk. It was a picture of two eleven year olds playing in a flowery garden, lilies, roses and violets were in the background, one of the children was a blue haired girl, pointing a water gun at a blond boy who was doing the same to her, both were obviously having the time of their lives.
Schuldig placed it back on the desk and grabbed another one, this one of the two on picnic; both were older this time around fifteen or sixteen. "I must say, your children are very beautiful. Your daughter gives of the princess-like grace and your son . . ." He passed it to the punk with white hair and one amber eye, " He looks like he has the innocence of an angel. Don't you think Farfarello?"
"Yes, just like one of God's precious Cherubs," the one-eyed man licked his lips, " just waiting to fall into temptation, I would like to play with him." as he said the word 'play' there was a manic glint in his eye.
"You will do no such thing!" Crawford snapped at him. Then turned to Schuldig, "You aren't allowed to go near him either," the American hissed at the German, and was ignored.
"Oi, Nagi what do you think?" The German asked as Farfarello passed it to him.
"I don't swing that way," the Japanese boy said in a monotone. "The girl is rather pretty, but I already have my eye on some one." He passed it to Crawford.
"And you Bradley?" Schuldig asked.
"They're both underage and I don't go in for that kinda thing." He answered, placing the picture back on the desk.
Takatori, who seemed to be in shock from listing to the men in front of him talking about his youngest son in such a manner, he was glad that Crawford and Nagi seemed to have no interest in his son, but the other two.Best to make sure they stay away from Mamoru, and Ouka while they he was at it.
"Mr. Takatori?" Crawford's voice brought him back to reality.
" Oh right," he paused, Thinking, "All right, Crawford, I want you and Nagi to keep an eye on Mamoru and Ouka, but try not alarm them, and keep those two," he gestured toward Schuldig and Farfarello, " Away from them, have them do something useful."
Schuldig grinned and Farfarello looked psychotically happy.
"Of course. I had planed on keeping them away from your children, to be frank, they scare me too."
"At least I don't have a stick my ass" Schuldig said in a loud whisper, causing Nagi to smirk, Crawford to glare and Farfarello to . . . well his face was still plastered with that psychotic grin.
"Very well, now if you will excuse me I have to get ready for a press conference, you're dismissed."
Schwarz bowed and left the room, leaving Takatori to his thoughts. So that was Schwarz hah, Eszett did say they were sending their best men. He leaned back in his chair thinking that in that short interview a great deal of beliefs that he had were now shattered by the horrifying truth. And, he wondered, if his children were actually safe. After all two of them have all but flat out said they wanted to take Mamoru's innocence.
As he thought that he realized that there was probably a lot more to Schwarz then they were letting on. And he wondered what in the nine circles of hell he got himself into.
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How was that for a first chapter? The beginning was kinda bland, but there wasn't much I could think off. (Looks up at the part with Schwarz) That really came from my mind? I'm a little scared now; if that's an indication on how the story will go we're in for a wild ride.
Next Chapter will be much, much better (I hope) oh well. Please R&R
Preview of the next chapter:
Ken VO: as we set up for the IP convention some interesting things happen.
Yoji: Hey! We just got invited because of our good work! All right ladies watch out! The man of your dreams is coming!
Manx: Make sure you keep focused on your mission, if you slip up Weiß just might end up in the gutter.
Yoji: Don't worry Manx, everything will be fine. Hey who's that kid Aya's flirting with?
Ken: Don't know, but it doesn't matter, please look forward to the next chapter.
Aya: All Takatoris will feel the pain that I feel.
Wahl Eins
Aya sighed as the daily after school crowd gathered around the shop, making quite a racket as they begged for his attention.
"Aya-kun . . . do you like my hair?" asked a blond girl.
"Aya-san, which of these flowers looks better in my hair?"
Aya sighed, "If you're not buying anything please leave," he said for the umpteenth, but just like the other times he said it the girls ignored him.
On the other side of the shop Yoji was entertaining some of the girls by telling them some story or another; the girls were looking wide-eyed and giggling like crazy.
Aya glared at Yoji "Aren't you supposed top be working?"
"But I am." Yoji said giving an innocent look that deceived no one.
"How?"
"By keeping them out of your hair of course." He turned back to the girls and continued where he left off. This had the effect of making some of the crowd that was centered on Aya to move over to Yoji, and making the red head glare at him some more.
"Umm.... excuse me," a blue haired girl said to Aya.
"What?"
"Do you have any Freesia in stock?"
Aya pointed to a brunette on the other side of the shop. "Talk to Ken. I have my hands full."
"Thank you." she said and walked over to Ken.
Ken had managed to avoid most of the crowd do to the fact that he was covered in dirt and was rather sweaty from carrying around heavy plants. "Man that's heavy" he groaned as he picked up a large pot and moved it in to the sunlight.
"Excuse me, Ken-san?" the blue haired girl asked.
"Yes what can I help you with?" Ken said as he put the plant down.
"Do you have any Freesia?" she asked
"I think we might, I'll go check." He went to check and returned a few minutes later with a bouquet of yellow and white flowers. "Here you are," he said as he handed them to her, "That'll be 15,000 ¥."
The girl took out her wallet and paid him. "Arigato nasai," she said.
"Would you like a card to go with that?" Ken asked, "Only 200 ¥."
"Sure," the girl smiled
"What do want it to say?" Ken asked as he took out a card from the drawer and taking out a pin.
"To Aniki, congratulations on winning that programming contest, love from your imouto-chan, Ouka."
Ken wrote it down and put the card in the bouquet. "Here you go."
Ouka gave him the rest of the money she owed, thanked him and left.
"Who was the chickie?" Yoji asked as Aya shoed away the girls as he closed up.
"Just someone buying flowers for her older brother, apparently he won some computer program contest."
"Ah the love between to siblings is a beautiful thing indeed," Yoji said matter-of-factly.
"An even more beautiful thing is when you work for a change." Aya said
Yoji gave a fake gasp, "What was that, Aya has found his long lost sense of humor?!" he placed the back of his hand to his forehead. "The world must be ending!"
"That's nice Yoji," came a sweet voice from behind Aya.
"Ah, Manx how are you?" Yoji said as he walked over to the red head and placed his arm around her shoulder, "How about you, me, a fancy restaurant, and some rose scented candles at a table for two?"
Manx brushed Yoji off and turned to the other two. "I have a mission for you," she said.
Down stairs on the wide screen TV Persia's face appeared, "Hello Weiß, I have a new mission for you."
Pictures of young people, mostly those in their late teens, early twenties, were shown dead, "There is an under ground hunting club that hunts humans. Many innocent people had been victimized. Your targets are these four; Takatori Hirofumi, the former minister; Nakazawa Yasuichi, Kondo Hiroshi, and Yoritsune Kenta." Persia's face appeared on the screen again, "We have received word that they will be at the Impendent party conviction next week, and that the leaders would like you the florists from Koneko no Suma to help set up decorations. Hunters of the night I leave to you to hunt the tomorrows of these dark beasts!" the tape ended.
"So who's in?" Manx asked
"I'm in," Aya said almost immediately.
"I'll do it too," Ken said
"I might as well go, I might be able to pick up some ladies." Yoji said, making Ken groan.
"All right then-"
"Hey wait a minute," Ken interrupted, "How do know that they're going to ask us to come do decorations?"
Manx smiled "One of our agents is close to the IP's leader and suggested it to him. Therefore you were selected, and you aren't bad florists either, you have a very good reputation."
"I see . . ." he said thoughtfully
Manx continued where she left off before answering Ken's question. "You'll be contacted tomorrow about the job, if not then the next day. Understand?"
The three nodded.
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At the Independent Party headquarters things weren't going to well . . .
"What do you mean they escaped?!" Takatori Reiji all but screamed at his son Masafumi, who just stood there with a smirk on his face. Behind him were four beautiful ladies.
"Just what I said father, they escaped. Don't worry about it though. I was going to let some lose in the city in a couple weeks any way, now we're ahead of schedule." he said, smiling lazily.
"But what if this comes back to haunt us you twit?" Takatori yelled at Masafumi. He leaned forward and grabbed his son's tie. "If it comes back to implicate me then I'll, I'll have to rethink how to handle you." He let go. "You're dismissed."
Masafumi bowed and left, taking the four young ladies with him.
Reiji fumed silently to himself when he got a call from his secretary. "Yes?"
"Four men to see you sir, they say they're from Eszett."
"Send them in."
A few moments later four men walked in. One looked like a well to do businessman, one a rock star, another dressed as a punk, and the last man wasn't really a man but a boy dressed in a Jr. high school uniform.
"So, you are Schwarz?" Takatori asked, "Not exactly what I expected, but I'm sure you'll more then meet my expectations."
The businessman smiled at him, "Thank you, Takatori-san."
"So what did you expect?" the rock star asked, "Four big, tough, muscular men dressed in black?"
"Schuldig," the businessman warned, "Watch your mouth."
"My apologies," Schuldig said to Takatori, "But you'll find us much more useful than what you thought we would be." he flashed a wicked grin. "There you're thinking 'how so?'"
Takatori smiled evenly at the German, "Don't tell me you're a mind reader. I don't believe in that physic bull shit."
"But your youngest son does." Schuldig said in his defense.
"What? How do you know that?" Takatori asked, taken a back by what the German said.
"You thought it when you said you don't believe in physic stuff," the red head said, a lazy smile playing across his lips.
Takatori stared at the German, and then smiled, "Well that will come in handy now won't it?"
"Glad to see you changed your mind."
"So Crawford," he turned to the businessman " You are Crawford right?"
"Yes sir, I am."
"What else can your little group here do?"
"All in good time sir, but first we need to address the problems at hand." he turned to the boy, "Nagi could you close the shades?"
The boy nodded, "Ok," closed his eyes for a split second then opened them, immediately the shades were closed and the room darkened.
"Thank you." Crawford turned back to Takatori, "Now to business." He pulled up a chair and sat down in front of the desk. The others did the same. "It has come to my attention that your children are in danger; the older two are in more danger then the younger two. So what do you want done about it."
"What do you mean in danger?" Takatori asked.
"I have seen that Hirofumi and Masafumi have been targeted by a group of assassins, for what reasons I don't know."
"What do you want us to do?" Schuldig asked
Takatori thought for a bit, "You said they were all in danger, what about the other two?"
Crawford shook his head, "I'm afraid I don't know."
"Well," Takatori began, "Hirofumi has a group he calls Schreient to protect him."
"Why does he call them 'screaming'?" Schuldig asked.
Takatori shrugged, "And Hirofumi has a couple bodyguards with him, I'll talk to him and assign some more guards to protect him."
"Ah," Schuldig smiled, "You want us to protect your precious twins?"
"Schuldig," Crawford warned, but his warning went unnoticed.
"Yes I can tell you care deeply for those two, Ouka-chan is daddy's little girl, and your son Mamoru is the prefect clone of you dearly departed wife." he reached for a picture on Takatori's desk. It was a picture of two eleven year olds playing in a flowery garden, lilies, roses and violets were in the background, one of the children was a blue haired girl, pointing a water gun at a blond boy who was doing the same to her, both were obviously having the time of their lives.
Schuldig placed it back on the desk and grabbed another one, this one of the two on picnic; both were older this time around fifteen or sixteen. "I must say, your children are very beautiful. Your daughter gives of the princess-like grace and your son . . ." He passed it to the punk with white hair and one amber eye, " He looks like he has the innocence of an angel. Don't you think Farfarello?"
"Yes, just like one of God's precious Cherubs," the one-eyed man licked his lips, " just waiting to fall into temptation, I would like to play with him." as he said the word 'play' there was a manic glint in his eye.
"You will do no such thing!" Crawford snapped at him. Then turned to Schuldig, "You aren't allowed to go near him either," the American hissed at the German, and was ignored.
"Oi, Nagi what do you think?" The German asked as Farfarello passed it to him.
"I don't swing that way," the Japanese boy said in a monotone. "The girl is rather pretty, but I already have my eye on some one." He passed it to Crawford.
"And you Bradley?" Schuldig asked.
"They're both underage and I don't go in for that kinda thing." He answered, placing the picture back on the desk.
Takatori, who seemed to be in shock from listing to the men in front of him talking about his youngest son in such a manner, he was glad that Crawford and Nagi seemed to have no interest in his son, but the other two.Best to make sure they stay away from Mamoru, and Ouka while they he was at it.
"Mr. Takatori?" Crawford's voice brought him back to reality.
" Oh right," he paused, Thinking, "All right, Crawford, I want you and Nagi to keep an eye on Mamoru and Ouka, but try not alarm them, and keep those two," he gestured toward Schuldig and Farfarello, " Away from them, have them do something useful."
Schuldig grinned and Farfarello looked psychotically happy.
"Of course. I had planed on keeping them away from your children, to be frank, they scare me too."
"At least I don't have a stick my ass" Schuldig said in a loud whisper, causing Nagi to smirk, Crawford to glare and Farfarello to . . . well his face was still plastered with that psychotic grin.
"Very well, now if you will excuse me I have to get ready for a press conference, you're dismissed."
Schwarz bowed and left the room, leaving Takatori to his thoughts. So that was Schwarz hah, Eszett did say they were sending their best men. He leaned back in his chair thinking that in that short interview a great deal of beliefs that he had were now shattered by the horrifying truth. And, he wondered, if his children were actually safe. After all two of them have all but flat out said they wanted to take Mamoru's innocence.
As he thought that he realized that there was probably a lot more to Schwarz then they were letting on. And he wondered what in the nine circles of hell he got himself into.
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How was that for a first chapter? The beginning was kinda bland, but there wasn't much I could think off. (Looks up at the part with Schwarz) That really came from my mind? I'm a little scared now; if that's an indication on how the story will go we're in for a wild ride.
Next Chapter will be much, much better (I hope) oh well. Please R&R
Preview of the next chapter:
Ken VO: as we set up for the IP convention some interesting things happen.
Yoji: Hey! We just got invited because of our good work! All right ladies watch out! The man of your dreams is coming!
Manx: Make sure you keep focused on your mission, if you slip up Weiß just might end up in the gutter.
Yoji: Don't worry Manx, everything will be fine. Hey who's that kid Aya's flirting with?
Ken: Don't know, but it doesn't matter, please look forward to the next chapter.
Aya: All Takatoris will feel the pain that I feel.