The Dog And The Cat
By: Sissy
Chapter 16: And the story continues…
"…" Hisoka and Tatsumi stared at each other. Hisoka had no idea what to say.
"Please forget about Tsuzuki-san, or you may find yourself at the hands of Kazutaka again."
"What do you mean by that?" Hisoka managed to ask.
"I've been informed for some time about yours and Kazutaka's actions. I couldn't understand why it took so long for your case to fall in our hands." Tatsumi began explaining.
"So? What's your point?" Hisoka was starting to get defensive.
"I knew that you might use Tsuzuki-san to get the information you wanted, so I talked to our boss and he made it so we had this case." Tatsumi's shadows were coming out, "Unfortunately, you still stayed with Tsuzuki-san and Hakushaku-sama knew about you from the start."
"Again, what's your point?" Hisoka took out an energy sword.
"My point, Kurosaki-san, is that it would be best for you to forget this incident." Tatsumi glared at Hisoka and the shadows overtook him so quickly, Hisoka didn't even have a chance to scream.
… …
"W…why…?" Jack was trying to keep his balance and to not fall down.
"Anyone who tries to interfere with Muraki-sama's plans must disappear." Maila answered.
"Muraki? That's the guy who had us prisoners! You were with one of his followers and you didn't even notice?!" the boy who resembled Hisoka yelled.
"I'd figure it was a tad bit too easy to find these two…" Watari sighed as Jack fell to the floor.
"What'd ya mean by that?!" Jack asked as Watari stood up and put on some gloves.
"I mean to say that Tatsumi was right. I was right as well. Your information was given too easily." Watari began casting a spell.
"What are you plannin' on doing?!" Jack asked as a force that came from nowhere, threw Maila out the window.
"That was not me." Watari quickly said, his spell stopping.
"I'm sorry that I was trying to be helpful." they all turned their head towards the door to see Oriya, a complete mess, "I had no idea Muraki would put that kind of spell on the rock."
"Spell?" Jack and the boy asked, confused.
"'To get back what was taken', right?" Watari asked and Oriya nodded, "Or in this case, 'To steal back what I stole in the first place'." Watari joked.
"It's not funny!" Jack yelled and followed Maila out the window, his injury slightly recovered.
"Aren't you going to help him?" the boy asked.
"Hmm? Oh, heavens no! I'm supposed to help you first, Hijiri-san!" Watari smiled and they all stared at him.
"How did you…?" Hijiri and Oriya were confused.
"Tatsumi and I knew about you two from the start, because our real case was to trap Muraki." Watari began explaining his part, "But in order for us to do that, we needed to play the part that we had no idea what we were doing."
"I don't get it." Oriya said, "If you wanted to trap Muraki, why go through all this trouble?"
"Actually… Things got out of hands. We didn't expect for Muraki to be deeply infatuated by Hisoka and for Tsuzuki and Hisoka to start liking each other." Watari gave a small chuckle.
"Hisoka's in love someone?" Hijiri asked.
"It's only a crush I think, but anyway! That won't really matter anymore." Watari gave himself an empty smile.
"Why not?" Hijiri asked.
"Because as soon as we have Muraki in our hands, we'll make you all forget this incident." Watari gave Hijiri, as well, an empty smile, "'Course that won't mean everything that's been done to you will disappear, but…" Watari murmured.
"Why?" Hijiri asked and Watari turned around to look at him.
"What do you mean 'why?'? We have to. It's the only way for you guys to live on without being tormented by what they did to you." Watari said, a bit confused.
"Who says we'll be tormented?" Hijiri asked, his eyes piercing through Watari.
"That's right. We're both as strong as Hisoka." the girl said, waking up.
"When did you wake up Tsubaki?" Hijiri asked her as if it were a normal thing to say.
"Oh, just a few moments ago." Tsubaki smiled at Hijiri.
"ahem Getting back to the subject at hand." Watari called their attention to him, "Are you sure you'll be okay with not having your memories erased?" he asked them and they nodded.
"Of course we'll be okay. Like Tsubaki said, we're both as strong as Hisoka, maybe even more when it comes to our emotions." Hijiri smiled.
"That's good to hear. Although…" Watari glanced away.
"Although what?" Hijiri glared at Watari.
"I think Tatsumi's going to be in the process of erasing Hisoka's memories." Watari scratched his chin.
"Maybe it's for the better…" Tsubaki said, "After all, he has suffered more than us in this whole event."
"Tsubaki's right. If anyone deserves to forget all of this, it's Hisoka." Hijiri told Watari.
"Maybe your right. But Tsuzuki won't like this." Watari muttered and sighed.
"Anyway, shouldn't we get out of this place?" Hijiri asked.
"Oh! You're right!" Watari said and picked up Tsubaki from the floor, "You can walk, right?" he asked Hijiri who nodded and stood up.
As they began to leave Oriya sat on the floor.
"Isn't he coming with us?" Hijiri asked Watari.
"I don't know." Watari told him then looked at Oriya, "Aren't you coming with us?"
"I'll stay here thank you. I'm sure Muraki isn't going to go without a fight." Oriya told them and went to sleep.
"Okay. Whatever floats your boat. Just don't die, 'kay?!" Watari yelled as they left.
… …
"You're not bad at this." Tsuzuki said, smirking.
"You too. I think I may start falling for you." Muraki gave him an evil smile that made Tsuzuki retreat.
"You totally creep me out. And I'm going to avenge Hisoka!" Tsuzuki prepared himself once more and charged at Muraki again.
Muraki dodged and attacked. Tsuzuki managed to dodge and continued to attack.
Tatsumi watched their fight silently, while he prepared his attack.
"I'm sorry Tsuzuki-san." Tatsumi lowly apologized to the wind as his shadows separated the two fighters and engulfed them.
"What?!" both were taken by surprise.
… …
"Maila!" Jack had managed to dodge the blow, but that didn't stop Maila.
Jack had now started a fight with Maila. Or Maila just started throwing some energy arrows at Jack, who tried to stop her.
"Maila, please listen to me!" Jack yelled.
"Shut up you lowly demon! You will not stop Muraki-sama's plans!" Maila yelled.
Jack snapped at threw himself on Maila, making her fall to the floor.
"First of all, I'm not just some 'lowly demon', I'm a fucking vampire. Second, I'm not repeating myself for the third time, so you listen up real good Maila. You are mine. Not Muraki's. MINE. You hear me?" Jack glared at the girl who just stared at him.
"Mind getting off me now?" Maila asked, glaring at him.
"Huh?" Jack was confused as he could get when his cell phone rang. (since when he has that, even I don't know --;;;) He sat up and answered it, "Hello?"
[Ah! Jack? It's Watari . Maila's spell thingy should be over by now. It was only temporary, anyway. I'll see you later!] and he hung up.
Jack stared at the cell phone then gave a weak smile to Maila, "Oops?"
Maila sighed as she also sat up, "You almost gave me a scare. I didn't know what I was doing or what you were planning on doing as well."
"You also caught me off guard. I didn't think you were going to be back so soon." Jack got up and helped Maila up as well.
"Still, I'm surprised Muraki would go this far for Hisoka. He was never like this when we met him." Maila rested herself onto Jack, who hugged her.
"I won't let him take you again. I swear my life on it." Jack tightened his grip on Maila, but not as hard to hurt her.
… …
"This is… inside Tatsumi's shadows…" Tsuzuki looked around in the endless abyss, "Tatsumi! What's going on?!" he yelled but received no reply.
"Tsuzuki-san…" Tsuzuki turned around to see Muraki coming right at him with his sword.
"Whoa!" Tsuzuki managed to dodge his attack.
Tsuzuki and Muraki started fighting again, continuing with the attack-dodge-but-still-hit routine, until…
"STOP!!!"
Both males turned to look at Tatsumi, who stood motionless next to an, also, motionless sitting Hisoka.
"Hisoka!" Tsuzuki yelled, "Tatsumi, what's going on?!"
"That's what I'd like to know as well. What's the point in keeping us here?" Muraki asked.
"My point, Kazutaka-san, is that I don't intent on letting you go until you are safe within a containment field." Tatsumi began explaining, fixing his glasses.
"What about me?!" Tsuzuki asked, a bit angry.
"You, I must talk to." Tatsumi told him, showing a bit of sadness in his eyes.
"Getting back to me." Muraki drew their attention, "Do not think even for a second that I am that easy to capture. So why not save yourself the trouble and just hand me Hisoka." Muraki smiled evilly.
"I'm afraid I can't do that." Tatsumi told him.
"And why is that?" Muraki twitched.
"You see, intentionally, we wanted to make use of Kurosaki-san's vengeance on you so we could trap you. Unfortunately, your own feelings and Tsuzuki-san's as well, got in the way and all this happened." Tatsumi told them, although a bit to himself.
"Tatsumi? What do you mean by that?" Tsuzuki asked, a bit shocked.
"I will explain later Tsuzuki-san, we-" Tatsumi was cut off by Muraki who had his own plan and the darkness started to fade.
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TBC…
Sissy: By now, you guys must be bored of me.
Kody: You can't blame them. First, you're late on updates. Second, you got grounded a whole week. Third, even with the grounding off you were lazy, switch daily the com with your sis and the net didn't want to work.
Aoi: Those sure are a lot of things.
Amy: Can't forget the fact we went to see Spider-Man 2 today.
Ryu: It was good.
[they're all trying to suppress their joy]
Sissy: Anyway, I'm trying people! So please, please, please forgive me!
Aoi: YnM does not belong to Sissy.
Sissy: I'll try to update my other YnM fics as well. sniff I'm a horrible person.
Boys: Whatever.
Amy: And the replies!