((Disclaimer: Camp Campus Detectives, Twenty Mensuo Ni Onegi, and
Duklyon(who I think will appear soon) are owned by CLAMP. I own NOTHING!!
Not really I own my lamp, my books, my...
Amaya: YOU OWN MEE!!!!! ~points to self~
Writer: Oh, ja. I own Amaya too and any newly introduced cousins, but
unfortunately I don't own Akira(sigh), Suoh(sigh), or Nokoru.
Nokoru: Wait, why don't I get a sigh?
Writer: Sorry, I honestly don't go for blondes.
Nokoru: Then why am I Amaya's love interest?
Writer: ~shrug~ She likes blondes? Also Akira and Suoh have long lasting
relationships.
Nokoru: ~feels miffed~))
Amaya looked up from the pot she was using to prepare food for dinner, while her aunts had said that Akira usually cooked she felt that she had to contribute something for them. So she was making a rather elaborate Italian dinner, which meant she had to start it almost immediately upon getting in. "Konnichiwa Akira-chan!" Amaya greeted him as he walked into the kitchen. Akira looked around at all the various materials for dinner and sniffed the air. "Pasta tonight?" He asked, setting down his backpack and leaning on the wall by one of the windows. Amaya nodded happily, stirring her sauce. "I think I can honestly say that I am a fairly decent cook, plus I felt a little bad about having you do all the cooking. Oh! That reminds me! I was wondering if we could determine a schedule for chores?" Amaya turned, her ponytail flipping off of the shoulder on which it had been resting. Giving Akira a brief smile she turned to where she began chopping up vegetables. "Amaya, you don't have to do this." In fact it was making Akira feel awfully conflicted, his cousin was being so nice and he was going to have her spied on. Or, more correctly, he and his friends were going to spy on her. It resulted in the strengthening of his conviction to tell her of Nokoru and Suoh's plans. After all they hadn't sworn him to silence had they? "I know that, but it makes me feel better. After all you are letting me stay in your house. Also cleanings good for the soul! Helps you get things off your mind!" Amaya gave her cousin a shrewd glance and set the knife down, wiping her hands on her apron. "You look like you could use a little cleaning right now Akira." Akira nodded slightly, and wondered if Suoh had set up anything to watch/listen in on them yet. Amaya stepped away from her cutting board and allowed Akira to step in and do a little chopping of his own. "Nokoru's going to have Suoh set up some surveillance on you." Akira winced at Amaya's hiss and turned to look at her. She was wearing a slightly angry, slightly confused, but mostly sad expression. He understood perfectly all three emotions, and felt bad that he had made her felt them. Of course it would have been worse if she had found out and hadn't been told. Then Amaya's anger and sadness cleared up replaced by more confusion. "Wait...why are they placing security on me?" Akira dumped the vegetables into a pan and began taking various things out of the cupboards, keeping his back to the window. There might be visual surveillance but he doubted Suoh had gotten audio surveillance up and running yet. "Takamura-san told us that you have experienced kidnapping attempts in the past year, and Nokoru-san was worried. I think he wants to protect you." Amaya nodded, beginning to prepare a separate dish. "Just like Nokoru-domo! He wants to protect everyone!" Amaya said happily, and Akira smiled, though he wondered if she knew that he used almost that exact phrase when pretending to be 'innocent'.
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Suoh looked at the various screens that were set up in the van. All of the cameras were trained on the Iyjuin mansion from various angles. Every once in a while one of the guard would seem to glance in their direction but Suoh could not be sure. It was probably only his imagination. Suoh leaned back and looked at the screens his mind curiously blank all he wanted was to go home and grab some sleep but if he was going to set up surveillance on Kobayashi-san then he was going to watch her the first night. He'd conscript some of his older cousins to do it the rest of the time. As Suoh considered this he mumbled, "Maybe the female cousins..." He'd caught one of his older male cousins with an Amaya Kobayashi poster and he knew that another one had all of her CD's while yet another had a website that was dedicated entirely to her. 'My cousins are kinda creepy.' Suoh thought, staring at the monitors again. Of course he was spending the night staring at visual displays of one of his best friend's homes trying to monitor said friend's cousin.
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As night fell the lights in the Iyjuin home turned off one by one until only Akira and Amaya's were left on and then even those were off. As the dark of the night set in a shadow moved towards the main house, at its passing the guards turned but did not sense anything but a stray wind. Suoh focused on one of the video screens after another but was unable to spot anything unusual. He just had a vague, foreboding feeling. The shadow slipped through Amaya's window and into her room noiseless until it let out a small snicker. A very quiet one though. The shadow approached the bed where the red headed singer slept, slept so soundly that it was nearly impossible to tell if she was alive. "I've got you now Amaya-chan. And my chance to prove I'm the better assassin." "No." Amaya said as she slammed something into the strange mans temple, twisting it and releasing as she watched the lifeless body slump to the floor. "I am." Amaya sighed and slipped into a tight black outfit. Pulling on a pair of gloves she grabbed the body and slipped out the window.
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Akira hurried around the kitchen, rushing to make breakfast for his mothers and Amaya and also to make a small something for the guards. They claimed that they could cook for themselves but since they were family and were staying in the guesthouse and were guarding his cousin he felt kinda obliged to make them something. "Akira-san!" His mothers cried out from the dining room, "We're hungry!" Akira finished up making breakfast and rushed it out to them; gazing at the empty spot in front of him he shared a concerned look with his mothers. "Where's Amaya-chan?" He asked and then listened to several thumps that were coming down the stairs. Suddenly the thumps stopped and Amaya appeared before them looking slightly out of breath and more or less in one piece. "Sorry about that, it took me forever to get ready this morning." Amaya sat down, and they all began to eat.
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Nokoru sighed, resting his head in his hands. It had been days since they had started the surveillance of the Iyjuin residence. Nothing unusual, unless you counted discovering that Akira had a tendency to sing in his sleep, that's right the boy didn't talk in his sleep but sang snippets of random songs. Quite nicely too, apparently music was a gift in the family. Of course another anomaly that Suoh had spotted and dutifully informed Nokoru of was that occasionally the bugs in the walls or the cameras watching the house would still or be put on a loop. His cousins were rooting around for the reason but he figured it was a technical glitch. Nokoru wasn't so sure. "Kaicuu, those papers won't get done by you staring off into space." Suoh spoke up, looking up from the paper he had been drafting. His gold eyes were a little worried, he was worried about Nokoru obsessing over Amaya's safety and the surveillance. It was all taken care of and nothing seemed to be amiss. Suoh had even given Nokoru a report on the guards, their background, how they were related to Amaya, their rotation, everything he could think of that would be meaningful. Yet Nokoru continued to look for things that were not there, if this obsession continued Suoh was going to call off the surveillance and try to talk his Kaichuu out of it. "Oh! Suoh! I have a great idea!" Nokoru said happily, practically bouncing up in his chair. "How about I do my paperwork..." Suoh narrowed his eyes, he knew there was a catch coming up, "...while you go watch Amaya-chan!" Suoh face faulted and wondered if maybe he should call Akira back early from the treasurers meeting he had gone to. "Kaichuu..." Nokoru flipped open his fan and laughed behind it. "C'mon Suoh! I swear I'll do every piece of paperwork here and you can berate me for having you follow her later!" Suoh rubbed the bridge of his nose, realizing it was going to be one of those days... Akira opened the door to the Student Government office, bubbling as usual. He had a paper under one arm, which he casually dropped on his desk. "Kaichuu the kindergarteners were wondering if you could possibly join them in a..." Suoh tuned him out as he and Nokoru talked about how to more efficiently spend money while spending rather extravagantly. The paper had caught his eye, moving towards it Suoh unfolded the paper and read the heading he had such little time to read the paper in the morning. "Akira, where did you pick this up?" Suoh asked, his voice strange, Akira looked over at him his perkiness dimming slightly. "One of the other treasures thought I might find one of the recipes interesting..." But it wasn't the recipe section that had caught Suoh's eye it was the front page. The paper's main story was about a rash of dead bodies that had turned up around the city, all killed in the same spectacular way by a stab through the left temple and into the brain. Sitting down in the closest available chair, Akira's, he paled as he read further into the article. 'That's the same way my cousin died...' He thought to himself, looking at the earliest recorded killings he thought back. That would be around the time Amaya arrived to stay... "Kaichuu I think that I will, take that walk." Suoh stood and caught Nokoru's eye visibly avoiding Akira's. Dropping the paper back on the treasurers desk he left the office. "What was that about?" Akira asked, looking back and forth from the door to Nokoru who shrugged wondering the same thing.
((Well? What'd y'all think? This part took me FOREVER!!! But I got it done! Yeah! Suoh: Still no fight scene? Nokoru: ~looks mournfully at me~ Please no fight scene? Amaya: Zzzzz ~is asleep on couch, has been overworked lately. I've been using her a lot for diff. scenes of this story~ Akira: Hey! You vanished Utako! Writer: Don't worry, she comes back and then the trouble starts.... Amaya: ~wakes up~ Trouble? Ooooh s***! Nokoru: Language!
Amaya looked up from the pot she was using to prepare food for dinner, while her aunts had said that Akira usually cooked she felt that she had to contribute something for them. So she was making a rather elaborate Italian dinner, which meant she had to start it almost immediately upon getting in. "Konnichiwa Akira-chan!" Amaya greeted him as he walked into the kitchen. Akira looked around at all the various materials for dinner and sniffed the air. "Pasta tonight?" He asked, setting down his backpack and leaning on the wall by one of the windows. Amaya nodded happily, stirring her sauce. "I think I can honestly say that I am a fairly decent cook, plus I felt a little bad about having you do all the cooking. Oh! That reminds me! I was wondering if we could determine a schedule for chores?" Amaya turned, her ponytail flipping off of the shoulder on which it had been resting. Giving Akira a brief smile she turned to where she began chopping up vegetables. "Amaya, you don't have to do this." In fact it was making Akira feel awfully conflicted, his cousin was being so nice and he was going to have her spied on. Or, more correctly, he and his friends were going to spy on her. It resulted in the strengthening of his conviction to tell her of Nokoru and Suoh's plans. After all they hadn't sworn him to silence had they? "I know that, but it makes me feel better. After all you are letting me stay in your house. Also cleanings good for the soul! Helps you get things off your mind!" Amaya gave her cousin a shrewd glance and set the knife down, wiping her hands on her apron. "You look like you could use a little cleaning right now Akira." Akira nodded slightly, and wondered if Suoh had set up anything to watch/listen in on them yet. Amaya stepped away from her cutting board and allowed Akira to step in and do a little chopping of his own. "Nokoru's going to have Suoh set up some surveillance on you." Akira winced at Amaya's hiss and turned to look at her. She was wearing a slightly angry, slightly confused, but mostly sad expression. He understood perfectly all three emotions, and felt bad that he had made her felt them. Of course it would have been worse if she had found out and hadn't been told. Then Amaya's anger and sadness cleared up replaced by more confusion. "Wait...why are they placing security on me?" Akira dumped the vegetables into a pan and began taking various things out of the cupboards, keeping his back to the window. There might be visual surveillance but he doubted Suoh had gotten audio surveillance up and running yet. "Takamura-san told us that you have experienced kidnapping attempts in the past year, and Nokoru-san was worried. I think he wants to protect you." Amaya nodded, beginning to prepare a separate dish. "Just like Nokoru-domo! He wants to protect everyone!" Amaya said happily, and Akira smiled, though he wondered if she knew that he used almost that exact phrase when pretending to be 'innocent'.
******
Suoh looked at the various screens that were set up in the van. All of the cameras were trained on the Iyjuin mansion from various angles. Every once in a while one of the guard would seem to glance in their direction but Suoh could not be sure. It was probably only his imagination. Suoh leaned back and looked at the screens his mind curiously blank all he wanted was to go home and grab some sleep but if he was going to set up surveillance on Kobayashi-san then he was going to watch her the first night. He'd conscript some of his older cousins to do it the rest of the time. As Suoh considered this he mumbled, "Maybe the female cousins..." He'd caught one of his older male cousins with an Amaya Kobayashi poster and he knew that another one had all of her CD's while yet another had a website that was dedicated entirely to her. 'My cousins are kinda creepy.' Suoh thought, staring at the monitors again. Of course he was spending the night staring at visual displays of one of his best friend's homes trying to monitor said friend's cousin.
******
As night fell the lights in the Iyjuin home turned off one by one until only Akira and Amaya's were left on and then even those were off. As the dark of the night set in a shadow moved towards the main house, at its passing the guards turned but did not sense anything but a stray wind. Suoh focused on one of the video screens after another but was unable to spot anything unusual. He just had a vague, foreboding feeling. The shadow slipped through Amaya's window and into her room noiseless until it let out a small snicker. A very quiet one though. The shadow approached the bed where the red headed singer slept, slept so soundly that it was nearly impossible to tell if she was alive. "I've got you now Amaya-chan. And my chance to prove I'm the better assassin." "No." Amaya said as she slammed something into the strange mans temple, twisting it and releasing as she watched the lifeless body slump to the floor. "I am." Amaya sighed and slipped into a tight black outfit. Pulling on a pair of gloves she grabbed the body and slipped out the window.
******
Akira hurried around the kitchen, rushing to make breakfast for his mothers and Amaya and also to make a small something for the guards. They claimed that they could cook for themselves but since they were family and were staying in the guesthouse and were guarding his cousin he felt kinda obliged to make them something. "Akira-san!" His mothers cried out from the dining room, "We're hungry!" Akira finished up making breakfast and rushed it out to them; gazing at the empty spot in front of him he shared a concerned look with his mothers. "Where's Amaya-chan?" He asked and then listened to several thumps that were coming down the stairs. Suddenly the thumps stopped and Amaya appeared before them looking slightly out of breath and more or less in one piece. "Sorry about that, it took me forever to get ready this morning." Amaya sat down, and they all began to eat.
******
Nokoru sighed, resting his head in his hands. It had been days since they had started the surveillance of the Iyjuin residence. Nothing unusual, unless you counted discovering that Akira had a tendency to sing in his sleep, that's right the boy didn't talk in his sleep but sang snippets of random songs. Quite nicely too, apparently music was a gift in the family. Of course another anomaly that Suoh had spotted and dutifully informed Nokoru of was that occasionally the bugs in the walls or the cameras watching the house would still or be put on a loop. His cousins were rooting around for the reason but he figured it was a technical glitch. Nokoru wasn't so sure. "Kaicuu, those papers won't get done by you staring off into space." Suoh spoke up, looking up from the paper he had been drafting. His gold eyes were a little worried, he was worried about Nokoru obsessing over Amaya's safety and the surveillance. It was all taken care of and nothing seemed to be amiss. Suoh had even given Nokoru a report on the guards, their background, how they were related to Amaya, their rotation, everything he could think of that would be meaningful. Yet Nokoru continued to look for things that were not there, if this obsession continued Suoh was going to call off the surveillance and try to talk his Kaichuu out of it. "Oh! Suoh! I have a great idea!" Nokoru said happily, practically bouncing up in his chair. "How about I do my paperwork..." Suoh narrowed his eyes, he knew there was a catch coming up, "...while you go watch Amaya-chan!" Suoh face faulted and wondered if maybe he should call Akira back early from the treasurers meeting he had gone to. "Kaichuu..." Nokoru flipped open his fan and laughed behind it. "C'mon Suoh! I swear I'll do every piece of paperwork here and you can berate me for having you follow her later!" Suoh rubbed the bridge of his nose, realizing it was going to be one of those days... Akira opened the door to the Student Government office, bubbling as usual. He had a paper under one arm, which he casually dropped on his desk. "Kaichuu the kindergarteners were wondering if you could possibly join them in a..." Suoh tuned him out as he and Nokoru talked about how to more efficiently spend money while spending rather extravagantly. The paper had caught his eye, moving towards it Suoh unfolded the paper and read the heading he had such little time to read the paper in the morning. "Akira, where did you pick this up?" Suoh asked, his voice strange, Akira looked over at him his perkiness dimming slightly. "One of the other treasures thought I might find one of the recipes interesting..." But it wasn't the recipe section that had caught Suoh's eye it was the front page. The paper's main story was about a rash of dead bodies that had turned up around the city, all killed in the same spectacular way by a stab through the left temple and into the brain. Sitting down in the closest available chair, Akira's, he paled as he read further into the article. 'That's the same way my cousin died...' He thought to himself, looking at the earliest recorded killings he thought back. That would be around the time Amaya arrived to stay... "Kaichuu I think that I will, take that walk." Suoh stood and caught Nokoru's eye visibly avoiding Akira's. Dropping the paper back on the treasurers desk he left the office. "What was that about?" Akira asked, looking back and forth from the door to Nokoru who shrugged wondering the same thing.
((Well? What'd y'all think? This part took me FOREVER!!! But I got it done! Yeah! Suoh: Still no fight scene? Nokoru: ~looks mournfully at me~ Please no fight scene? Amaya: Zzzzz ~is asleep on couch, has been overworked lately. I've been using her a lot for diff. scenes of this story~ Akira: Hey! You vanished Utako! Writer: Don't worry, she comes back and then the trouble starts.... Amaya: ~wakes up~ Trouble? Ooooh s***! Nokoru: Language!