A/N: Thanks to Lady Kickass for your review.. I was starting to think no one was reading this anymore. *sob*
Pairings: Schuldig/Youji, Schuldig/Aya, Aya/Youji
// … // = Telepathy
Chapter nine
Youji stretched lazily as he sunk down onto Omi's bed with a yawn. "Ah, this really isn't fair. How can they give us another mission so soon?"
Omi shrugged as he glanced over at the elder blonde. "Who knows, Youji-kun." He had been eyeing his friend's bruised cheek all day but hadn't worked out how he had gotten it. Opening his mouth to finally ask, Omi blinked as they heard a yell from the level above.
"Balinese, Bombay get up here!!"
"Ken-kun?" Omi blinked and stood up, grabbing his crossbow as he headed for the door.
Youji stood immediately at the yell and followed after Omi, noting the little winces of pain the chibi was making as he moved. The pair came upstairs to the sounds of a fight coming from Aya's room. Masaka.. don't tell me Ken and Aya are fighting again. Youji pushed open the door, eyes widening at the scene inside the room and vaguely thankful in the back of his mind that his sunglasses hid his surprised look.
Schuldig grinned from where he was being circled by Aya and Ken. "Ah the rest of the kittens. All the more fun for me." He snickered and dodged to the side as Ken leaped at him again.
Growling as Schuldig dodged, Ken followed through with another punch to the telepath's stomach. Only that didn't go as he planned as he found himself caught and pulled backwards into the German's arms. "Let me go!" He struggled against the arms that held him, only to freeze, eyes widened as he felt a warm, moist tongue trail up his cheek.
"Hm, four little kitties for me to play with.. I could defiantly have some fun with this." Schuldig snickered.
Aya's violet eyes narrowed even colder at the scene. What are you doing, Schuldig? He tightened his grip on his katana slightly as he watched.
// Just having some fun, Ran.. don't worry, he's not my taste. // He shoved the younger man at Youji and Omi and disappeared out the door with ease in the confusion.
Aya growled and sheathed his katana as he stood there watching his three teammates picking themselves off the floor, waiting for Ken to explain his interruption.
"Ah," Ken grinned nervously under that glare. "Mission da yo."
Aya nodded and placed his katana back on the shelf carefully, waiting for the others to leave before following them silently. You really have terrible timing, Hidaka. He growled mentally and nearly smiled as he heard a mental laugh in response to that thought. Leave me alone now, Schu. I'll see you again soon enough.
// As you wish, looks like I'll be going on that mission after all. See you soon, Abyssinian. //
Youji avoided eye contact with the crimson haired man as he followed Omi down into the basement and sunk onto the couch, partly grateful that Aya decided to take the single seat there rather than the couch.. but also partly hurt that the younger man kept his distance.
The mission itself seemed a fairly simple one. Matsuda Ryoma a respected businessman who had recently started providing the 'child' part of a notorious child porn ring. Young boys and girls had been disappearing from the streets in record numbers for almost a month now, some kids as young as seven, and Kritiker had finally deemed it necessary to put a stop to this. Aya knew nothing was ever simple where Schwarz was concerned.. and he had a feeling they'd be there from the conversation Schuldig had had with Nagi earlier.
"So we kill the guy and run for it, as usual." Ken spoke up from where he sat beside Youji as the video message finished. "Easy in, easy out."
"Not so easy in, Ken-kun." Omi spoke up from where he was typing away on the computer. "Matsuda's office building is rigged with a very advanced security system." He chewed on his lip nervously as he glanced over the schematics that had been sent on disk with the tape.
"You're sitting this one out chibi." Youji pushed his sunglasses back up into his hair and continued before Omi could protest. "I've seen the way you're walking, you're still in pain. You can do your job just as well from a remote location."
Omi sighed and nodded. "Ok, Youji-kun. Demo, who's going to make the hit."
Three sets of eyes turned to their leader and violet eyes opened slowly. "Schwarz will probably be there." Aya said in reply.
Youji flinched at memory of his last encounter with the Schwarz telepath. Looking down at the floor he rubbed the back of his head with a sigh. "Hai, we should prepare for them, even if we don't know if they'll be there or not."
Standing up, Aya nodded. "Let's get ready then." He said quietly before turning and heading upstairs. Ken stood from the couch and followed after the redhead, leaving the two blonde members alone.
"Youji-kun?"
Youji blinked from his thoughts as he glanced over at Omi who was still at the computer. "Hm, what is it?"
Omi got up and walked over to the couch, sitting beside Youji and lifted a hand, lightly touching the elder man's face, sighing as Youji flinched under the touch. "I thought so.. how did that happen?"
Youji smiled crookedly. "It's nothing, chibi. Just wasn't looking where I was going." He shook his head when Omi looked like he was going to ask further. "We should get ready, Omi. Grab your laptop, you can patch into the security system from Seven."
Omi nodded and they both headed upstairs to grab their necessary mission gear.
* * * *
"Are we going in?"
"Not yet." Crawford shook his head.
Nagi frowned and looked up at the building. "Weiß will probably be here soon, why are we waiting?" Nagi scowled lightly as he was only answered by silence.
"Gee, I feel honoured that you waited for me." A chuckled followed that remark as Schuldig stepped up to his three teammates.
"I knew you'd come." Crawford growled. "That is the only reason."
"Yeah, whatever." Schuldig ignored the American's glare and patted Nagi's head. "Let's go inside, chibi."
Ducking away from the hand, Nagi shot a glare at Schuldig before following him inside and heading for Matsuda's office ahead of the other two. Getting them through the security was easy for the pair, Nagi redirected the security cameras when needed and Schuldig made sure the security guards didn't notice them.
Technically they could've gotten inside without Schuldig's help, but Crawford knew something was going to happen tonight, something involving the German telepath. He wished his vision was clearer, it wasn't often that he didn't understand his visions.. but on that rare occasion when he couldn't 'see' exactly what would happen, something big did.. something Brad had often wished he hadn't have seen.
~ tbc
