Even Monsters Have Hearts
Chapter I
The town of Lizerin had just recently received rain. The sky was now covered with the grey clouds, giving it a sickening color.
He walked there silently down the side walk. Red eyes glued to the ground, not looking up, as he shifted his backpack onto his shoulder. He was soaked from head to toe, but he didn't seem to care really. His brown hair was now sticking to the side of his face, due to the rain, his school uniform doing the same to his body.
It had been atleast a year after the incident with Xion. He had moved on, living on his own, in a small little apartment, No longer under Yugo's wing. He wasn't even sure where Yugo was now. After the whole sign thing, he left without telling anyone what he planned on doing.
To think, him! A CIA agent at only the age of 16. He supposed that's why he left without telling anyone anything. He was afraid as to what Yugo would say. How Yugo would react if he were to find out what he had to do to actually get into the CIA.
Every time he thought about it, a chill would run up his spin. What the hell was he thinking at the time?
He knew what he had to do to get into the CIA. It was to kill someone, just anyone, it didn't matter who it was. He just needed to take a life. But he didn't take just one life. He took a café full of lives. He guessed he did it to have a worthy title in the CIA, to be respected, like Kevin Baxster.
Kevin was a well known CIA agent, in the Company. There was not one person who did not know his name. Rumor had said, that Kevin had gone to a man's house, supposedly to retain some money that the man owned them, but once receiving it, he ended up shooting the man in the head, along with killing his wife, daughter, and son.
Maybe that was why he killed all those people in the café. To get the same respect he did. But now that he actually thought about it, he realized how stupid it was. He wasn't Kenji; he was Bakuryu, once more. Nothing could ever change that now.
But there were also some good things that came out of being in the CIA. He had been working for the CIA for about a year and a half now, the pay was great, and being in the CIA, they taught you how to use every different kind of gun, how to defend/fight with just a knife, and even regular house hold items. But he already knew how to defend himself, due he knew ninjitsu. He also had a high immunity to some poisons. Thanks to the CIA Scientists.
He had spent months in the labs, as the Scientist impaled the needles of small portions of poison into his body, strong enough to kill a human, but not strong enough to kill a Zoanthrope. Only weaken them. So thanks to his training, he really didn't have to worry about getting killed by being poisoned. But even after learning all the stuff he learned in the CIA, nothing could ever change the fact for what he had done.
Kenji suddenly looked up, noticing he had finally reached the apartment building which he lived in. With a deep sigh, he slowly made his way up the stairs, reaching into his back pocket, and withdrawing the key for the front door.
His apartment was on the 2nd floor, but was apartment 1C. He never understood that. He soon went over to the long rolls of mail boxes that were lined up along the eastern wall, before checking his mail box.
Inside was a blue envelope. An assignment more likely, he'd have to report to his assistant, who lived just a few blocks away. His assistant went by the name as Joseph Deiglasius. A real wiz in computers.
He really didn't know Joseph that well. Joseph had just recently gotten admitted into the CIA, and was assigned with him. They had been doing these assignments for over a few weeks, but still Kenji didn't know him all to well. Maybe it was due to the point that he, himself, wasn't very social.
Kenji then finally shut his mailbox, before going towards the stairs, and to his apartment room only going in there to drop off his school book bag, before locking the door behind him, and started off towards Joseph's House.
The sky seemed to have lightened up by than, allowing some rays of sunshine to pass through the sickening colored clouds.
It only took him about 5 minutes to get to Joseph's house, it was atleast a story high, with a well taken care of lawn. A decent little house for a person who lived by themselves.
Kenji went up the three steps in front of the door before knocking on it a few times, the sound of a T.V. blasting could be heard clearly from the other side, but for some reason, Kenji could still hear Joseph's voice reply from the otherside.
"Come on in, it's open." came Joseph's voice, allowing Kenji to stroll in not to long after.
The living room was filled with computers, atleast 10 to 20 computers, all up and running. Some downloading information, while some searched for information.
Joseph stood infront of the tree a few feet away, his hands grasping onto a box of Chinese food, as he watched the daily news.
Joseph was a Hispanic, around 25 years old. He had short brown hair, and dark brown eyes, which scanned the T.V. screen, as he listened to the news report, talk about a bank robbery which took place earlier that day around noon.
But Joseph soon took his attention off the television to look over to Kenji, who stood silently at the door way.
"Yeah boss?" asked Joseph, and he clicked the T.V. off with the remote control, before tossing it onto the couch.
Kenji watched him silently, before he trailed over, shutting the door behind him. The blue envelope was clasped in his hand, before he was handed over to Joseph. Watching him silently, as his assistant placed the box of Chinese take out down, before deciding to open the envelope, and read what was inside, only to look up at him as he lowered to blue envelope, offering the data back over to the Mole Zoanthrope.
"You read this yet boss?"
"No, I haven't. What's the objective?" asked the Mole Beast, as he took the papers back from his assistant, his red eyes scanning over the data themselves, revealing an assassination mission.
"It looks as if they want us to take out some chica down the west side of town, boss."
"Well I can see that, JD… but where can we actually find her? It doesn't say where she lives or anything." said the younger boy, as he searched the papers for an address.
"That's why I'm your assistant, boss." said Joseph, as he turned and started typing onto a computer, searching for the female, under the name Linda Ashford.
Kenji meanwhile studied the woman's picture. It was a woman around 21, blonde hair, and blue eyes, titled extremely dangerous, and specialized in making bombs.
A few minutes later, Joseph came over to Kenji, carrying a few papers of information.
"It says she lives down at Lexington Street, Apartment Building 3456; apartment 23. She works in the beauty shop a few blocks away from her apartment titled "The New Look"
Kenji gave a simple nod, before he watched Joseph pick up a suit case, and a lab top, before starting out, grabbing the keys off the wall, just as he went through the front door.
Kenji soon followed, going over to a blue jaguar on the side of the road, before sitting in the passenger seat. He never understood why Joseph left the doors to his car unlocked. This wasn't the best place to leave your car doors unlocked. No where was the best place, especially if you owned a nice car like this one.
A moment after he sat, Joseph got in, and started to car up, before driving down the road on their way to their destination.
They both drove in silence.
Kenji stared out the window, staring out at the buildings and trees that passed as they drove. Thoughts were running through his head at increditable speed, but he was suddenly broken away from his thoughts, as Joseph spoke up.
"So… Boss, how do you plan on doing this?"
"How else, we go to her apartment, and kill her." Kenji said simply.
"Yeah but, we can't just go in there holding guns and especially with not disguises or anything. Other people will see us and I doubt she'll let some strangers into her home. And I don't feel so sure about killing another human being." replied Joseph.
Kenji's eyes took their attention away from the window next to him, to focus on Joseph, frowning at the last thing he said.
"Don't feel so sure about killing another human being? But didn't you have to kill someone in order to get into the CIA?" he asked, his eyes seemed to change, trying to figure out how exactly Joseph was able to get in.
"Yeah…but I didn't kill a human. I killed a Bear Zoanthrope." Replied the male Hispanic lowly; before he drew in a deep sigh, as if trying to think of something to change the subject too.
"So… Boss…"
"Just call me Kenji."
"Ok… Kenji. You were the one who shot all them people at the café a year back or so corrected?" he asked.
Kenji's expression seemed to drop to a small frown, his red eyes focusing themselves on the blue envelope on his lap.
"Yeah." He said in a low, almost ashamed voice.
" Hm… do you remember seeing a red head in the café? Near the woman's bathroom?"
Kenji's expression changed once again, but this time the frown grew wider, now he felt even worse than before.
"No. I can't say I recall a red head… I wasn't really paying attention who I killed. Plus it was a year ago. Why? You know her? Was she… someone special?"
"Nah, not really. She was my homie's chica. Thanks. I always hated that bitch."
"Why did you hate her? If you don't mind answering that is."
"… She let me fuck her. Plus she was suckin' up my bro's money and shit. Just usin' him to get the shit she wanted. Made me sick. It hurt me to see him go down like that. Especially by that bitch."
"But wouldn't you of hurt him even more if he had found out that you slept with her?"
"Trust me. I did it to help him. Not hurt him. I did it to try and break them up. Even if he did lose trust in me."
Kenji fell silent once again, before giving a sigh, his eyes once again going towards the window, before Joseph spoke once again.
"So um, Boss, you got a lady friend?"
"Lady friend?" asked the mole beast, his eyebrows raising in slight confusion.
"Yeah, you know, a lady friend? Someone who you can go out with and have fun."
"….No." said Kenji before crossing his arms over his chest, and looked back out the window.
"Ya serious?" asked Joseph, with a hint of shock in his voice. "How old are you 16?"
"Why are you asking me these questions?" asked Kenji, but he continued to look out the window.
"Just starting a conversation, boss. So what kind of girls do you like?"
"What?" asked Kenji, looking over to Joseph, with an eye brown raised.
"White girls, black girls, Chinese, Hispanic, fat, chubby, skinny? You know!" said Joseph.
"I… I don't really know. I'm not looking for a girlfriend."
"Shame, good looking guy too."
Kenji just gave a deep sigh, shaking his head slightly.
"Why are you looking for one? Everyone needs some company once in awhile."
"They wouldn't understand me." Said Kenji.
"What do you mean?" asked Joseph as he looked over to Kenji.
"Women, they'd look at me as some freak."
"There's female Zoanthropes, Boss."
"They still wouldn't understand me." muttered the 16 year old Zoanthrope.
Joseph gave a shrug of his shoulders, turning to look out the up ahead, before suddenly slamming his foot on the brakes, cursing out loud.
Kenji snapped his head to look, as he jerked forward slightly, before noticing a girl on the hood of Joseph's car. Her face was pressed against the wind shield eyes wide, and filled with shock and anger.
"HEY! YOU ALMOST KILL ME!" her high pitched voice screamed.
Kenji couldn't help but blink, the girl looked familiar to him, but he couldn't quite figure out where he saw her face before. She was a Zoanthrope. He could smell the scent.
The girl had long brown hair which was pulled back and braided. Two blue eyes glared angrily at both of them, before they looked to Joseph as he spoke.
"GET OFF MY CAR YOU NUTTY BITCH!" he shouted beeping the horn.
The girl gave a growl, "Sure thing." She said before she started to sit up, but only laid back down, the wind shield wipers had gotten tangled up in her blouse.
"Erm… maybe not." She muttered, before sitting up again, the wind shield wipers being pulled up as she sat up.
"HEY! HEY! DON'T BREAK MY SHIT!" shouted Joseph as he watched her.
Kenji gave a sigh before he unbuckled his seat belt, and got out the car, and looked to the girl.
"Hey, can you just wait a second, so I can take the wind shield wipers off you shirt, so you don't break them in the process?" he asked her calmly.
The girl looked to him, before she smirked, and sat up completely, the wind shield wipers snapping off immediately.
"Nope!" was all she said, before she back flipped off the car, causing Kenji to frown deeply, as he began to hear Joseph curse.
"Can I atleast get those back?" asked Kenji, as he held out his hand, eyeing the windshield wipers on her shirt.
But she said nothing, as she stared at him for a few moments, as if she found him some what familiar, before dropping the wind shield wipers onto the ground, and ran off towards a group of kids near by.
Kenji gave a deep sigh, before he bent down and picked up the wind shield wipers, and got back into the car, handing the wipers over to Joseph, who immediately tossed them into the back, before driving again.
"You know her?" asked the assistant.
"She seems familiar."
"She a Zoanthrope?"
"Yeah." Was all Kenji said, and the conversation stopped.
The rest of the ride was filled with nothing but silence, till they finally pulled up to the apartment building, located on Lexington Street, where they would then kill the woman they needed to kill.
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Prologue for Second Chapter
Kenji and Joseph are able to get into the apartment building without being noticed by anyone, but they find something in the apartment they did not expect to find at all, which changes everything Kenji had planned.