Title: A Gay Metropolis

By rockofmarduk

Summary: Tensions have been running high since a mysterious killer began killing gay Marduks and political businessmen whenever one of them ventured into one of the seedy gay clubs deep in zone 1. Duke Red and other powerful figures have plenty to worry about since there all in relationships they want kept from the public. Rock, angry that some of his own men were killed, goes undercover to try and flush out the killer and meets up with detective Shunsaku Ban and his nephew Kenichi working on the same case. As each person deals with his own love problems, hearts are broken, secrets are revealed, and promises are smashed, all leading up to the identity of the Marduk killer.

Couples to come: Rock+Kenichi/ Duke Red+Skunk/ Ban+Pero/ Ban+Duke Red/ Skunk+Lamp/ Boon+Lyon/ Nortalin+Ham Egg/ Atlas+Lamp/ more to come soon.

Chapter 6: A Night of Surprises

Rock sat on the couch of the hotel room that Kenichi and his uncle were staying at. After changing into some more suitable clothes Rock was waiting for Shunsaku to return from his room with police reports from Japan. If the killer here were the same from Japan then he would need to look at those reports if he were ever going to solve this case.

"Hey Rock," Kenichi said happily as he entered the room from the kitchen, holding to cups of hot chocolate in his hands. "I thought you looked a little cold so I thought this would warm you up a bit." He said as he handed Rock his cup.

"Thanks Kenichi." Rock said as he sipped his drink. He would have preferred coffee but he didn't want to hurt Kenichi's feelings by telling him that.

Rock watched Kenichi as he took a seat on the other couch in front of him. As Kenichi sipped his drink Rock found himself watching, studying, and even daydreaming a little about Kenichi.

"I wonder what it would be like to be held in his arms?" Rock thought to himself as he continued watching his quarry like a hungry tiger. " And to be kissed by those lips... huh? What the hell am I thinking? Where are these thoughts coming from?" Rock could feel himself starting to blush.

Kenichi noticed this and asked. "Rock are you ok? You're blushing."

Rock gasped, completely forgetting that Kenichi was even in the room. Before Rock could think-up a good explanation, Ban returned from his room, with the folders.

"Sorry it took me so long. Couldn't find my briefcase." He explained as he walked over to the two boys.

"Saved by the bell." Rock thought as he looked up at Ban. To Ban he smiled and said. "No it's alright. We were just siting here talking. Right Kenichi."

"Right." Kenichi agreed completely forgetting about Rock's blushing incident. Ban smiled at the two boys' and sat down next to Kenichi and passed over the files to Rock. Rock took them and began flipping through the pages.

"The first murder was about a year ago," Ban started as Rock continued to look. "The first victim was a male prostitute, much like the ones being killed around here. The next ten where high members of society, from politicians to court judges. Then he went back to killing prostitutes again. After killing five more he disappeared. That was about a month ago."

"A month ago. That was around the same time that these killings started." Rock stated as he looked at the photo's of all the dead men the killer killed. "Strangled, all of them." He sighed as he looked up at Shunsaku. "Did you have any suspects?" He asked hopefully. "We did have a few suspects yes, but none that we could pin anything to." Shunsaku sighed. Although we did find a couple of the suspects dead ringers for the killer, but like before we had no evidence against them. BUT!" He said making his voice loader then before. "A few of your suspects moved around the same time that the killings stopped and guess where they went? They came here, straight to Metropolis."

"Hmm, interesting. If you know where they live I'd like to work with you in finding the killer. We could start by meeting your suspects in the morning if that's alright with you?"

"Yes of coarse it's alright. We could use all the help we can get." Ban grinned. "If you like why don't you spend the night here with me and Kenichi?"

"Yea you can share my room if that's ok with you Rock?" Kenichi said happily.

"It's fine with me." Rock said smiling quite happily at the prospect of being with Kenichi alone. As he finished his hot chocolate he started following Kenichi towards his room. Before entering Rock turned back to Shunsaku.

"Detective, in your report it said that some of the victims were businessmen. Are you sure this is your guy, cause we haven't had any body's like that?"

Shunsaku sighed as he lends into his chair. "If it's the same guy were talking about then you should be getting one soon."

Rock just slowly nodded his head and entered Kenichi's room closing the door behind him.

**

Later that night...

A metro police officer walked down the street like he always did, humming as he went. It was his usual route that he always took when heading back to his department. Nothing of interest ever happen to him on his watch and he didn't think that tonight could be any different.

Boy was he wrong.

As he turned the corner, he heard a strange noise come out of an ally that sounded like a dull thud, followed by the sound of an engine starting up and a car taking off. Out of curiosity and years of police training he turned into the ally and aimed his flashlight along the ground. That's when he noticed the blood and the body flowing from it.

A few seconds later he came flying out of the ally running towards the nearest videophone.

**

Back at the Metropolitan newspaper...

"Where did you get this letter?" The boss of the newspaper shouted at the young man who had received the letter.

"I don't know sir, it was just there. But it wasn't here when I got in this morning." The man replied shrugging his shoulders.

"Well it didn't just appear out of thin air, now did it?" His boss sighed as he looked over the letter again. "Now the question is, do we show this to the police or do we put it in tomorrow's paper?"

Before anyone could reply another reporter burst into the room.

"THEY JUSTFOUND ANOTHER BODY!" He shouted at the top of his lungs. "AND THIS TIME IT WAS TOP ZONE. AND HE WAS ONE OF THE RICH BOYS!"

The young reporter looked over at his boss for his decision. His boss handed him back the letter.

"Well, what are you waiting for? Take this to the printers and get it ready for tomorrow's paper."

**

To be continued....

Next time on metropolis: Uh, oh. What exactly is in that letter that they plan to print? And why was that man killed? What is his connection to the gay community? Kenichi, Rock, Pero, and Ban are about to find out. And by the way, what was Kenichi's and Rock's first night together like?