Chapter II

They must of sat there for a few minutes, going over what they planned on doing, also keeping an eye out, incase the woman; Linda decided to make her way out for alittle exercise.

Kenji sat there, his arms crossed over his chest, holding the blank expression he always wore on his face, when he was either annoyed, or bored. He gave a deep sigh, when Joseph once again asked the question he had asked either, about what they planned on doing.

"You asked me that question already, JD." said Kenji, as he turned to look at the Hispanic male next to him.

"Yeah, I know. You never gave me an answer really. Cause after I mentioned we can't just go in there and kill her. You didn't respond."

Kenji went silent, and thought over another plan in his head, his red eyes closing so he could try and focus easier, but not to soon after that, he opened his eyes, and looked over to Joseph.

"Well, since you have a problem about killing other human beings. There no other choice, than for me to just go up there and check it out. Just watch my back alright, till I call for a need of assistance or something other than that." He said simply.

"You need a weapon, Kenji?" asked the Hispanic male, just in time as Kenji was about to shut the door.

Kenji had stopped the door to the car half away closed before he opened it back up and got back in.

"You got one?"

Joseph gave a nod, and reached into his back seat, pulling up the back seat, revealing grenades.

A two barrel shot gun, a snipers rifle, and some hand guns.

Kenji studied each gun, before noticing a .49 equipped with a silencer, and quickly grabbed it, checking to see if it was loaded. He than looked over to Joseph, and nodded with consideration, before opening his school uniform jacket, and stuck the gun into the inside pocket, then buttoning it back up, and went back outside, going into the apartment building Joseph slowly following behind him, carrying a sub-machine gun also equipped with a silencer, but carried it in between some news papers.

Kenji said nothing as strolled towards the targets apartment room. His head hung lowly, thinking over the previous missions he had down, as if they were movies. Trying to figure out why all of a sudden, he cares about killing others. Why now if not than?

But he suddenly was cut out from his thinking as Joseph spoke up.

"I'll wait here, Kenji. Becareful." Said Joseph, as he leaned against the wall acting as if reading the news paper, the submachine gun, now hung under his Hawaiian shirt.

Kenji gave a nod, before slowly turning and continued towards the apartment, closing his eyes taking in a deep breath, calming his mind, and body, before he slowly reached up and knocked on the door. But no one replied, instead the door slowly creaked open. He gave a glance over to Joseph, to see him still eyeing the news paper, before looking back to the open door.

He frowned at this, and peeked inside, slowly stepping in without making so much as a noise. But nothing else made a noise in the apartment either, except for something screeching about around in a cage, just a few feet away from the front door, a black sheet covering the cage, allowing Kenji not being able to see what was inside.

But that didn't matter to him at the time. Where the hell was this woman? Could she have left, and may have been coming back? No that was stupid. Who'd be stupid enough to leave their door to their apartment open?

That's when he reached back and shut the door behind him slowly, to make sure no one would see him evading the woman's home. He gave a silent sigh, before deciding to sneak around, just incase the woman was still home. Maybe she just made the mistake to just close the front door of her apartment. That was when it occurred to him. He could hear the shower running in the bathroom.

This was it. He slowly undid his school uniform jacket, and withdrew the .49 from it, and knelt down next to the large sofa, a few feet away from the bathroom, so incase she decided to come out, for one, she wouldn't see him, due to he was out of view, because the sofa was sideways, and he would just shoot her there without hesitation… atleast he hoped so.

He slowly pulled back the hammer to the .49, trying to keep it as quiet as possible, as one of the bullets from the clip was brought to the hammer, and checked to see it the silencer was screwed on correctly, before finally standing, and slowly went over to the bathroom.

The door was half away shut, and the room was filled with hot steam, he could even feel the steam just by standing next to the door. What the hell was she doing boiling herself in there?

He slowly knelt day just peeking around the corner to look into the bathroom. His eyes immediately harden, as he noticed no one was in there. The shower curtain was pulled back, allowing water to spray everywhere.

"Curses." He muttered under his breath, before quickly standing, and snuck over to check all the other rooms. But only got the same answer.

She wasn't home. But where the hell was she?

That was when he noticed something. Her computer was still up, and running. He slowly strolled over, giving a sigh of disbelief as to what was happening, before he bent down slightly, to look at to what may have been the last thing she check to actually, maybe it would give him some kind of clue as to where she could have been now?

It was in her e-mail address, emails refereeing to the normal stuff, but nothing seemed to actually stick out, but that's when he decided to check the trash, just incase.

There was about 2 emails thrown away, one titled "Coco" and the other was "Money"

Kenji just decided to open both, reading the first one. That was when he frowned, as his read eyes scanned over the email quickly:

Dear Linda,

A CIA Agent and his partner are coming to visit you around 2:00 your time. Get out of there before that happens. There not exactly there to find out information like in the movies. It says that this CIA agent is a Zoanthrope, so watch out.

There's a train I set up for you down at the Central Train Station to take you across town. I also saved you some money in the locker 34 becareful, kid.

Kenji gave a growl, and stood up. Dammit! So she knew we were coming the whole time! But who the hell could of figured that out!?

Just as he was about to turn to make his way out quickly, the sound of something click, reached his ears, and suddenly the front door slammed closed, causing Kenji to flinch as the computer screen faded turning red, a timer appearing on the screen.

"A trap!" hissed Kenji. But how? He thought before running towards the door, and tried opening it. But nothing happen. The door knob turned, but it wouldn't budge at all.

Kenji than took a few steps back quickly before slamming his shoulder into it. The door shook and cracked. But still nothing. The door just refused to come down.

With a quick glance to the computer, revealing he only had 2 minutes, he again slammed his body into the door, with all his strength.

This time pieces of the door fell to the ground, showing atleast 6 bars atleast 3 inches thick around, in the way.

Joseph rushed over, and looked to Kenji.

"What the hell is this shit!?" he asked in an angered voice.

"It's a trap. Joseph. Get the hell out of this apartment building. There's a bomb in here. Get out now. She knew we were coming."

Joseph was silent, before he spoke.

'How the hell are you going to get out though?!"

"Just go!" yelled Kenji at his assistant, who gave a nod and ran out the apartment building.

Kenji than spun around, his eyes darting everywhere looking for a way out, before seeing the window. And without hesitation, and ran for it. But it was to late.

The timer hit it dead line, and the computer exploded, forcing Kenji through the window, and into the parking lot.

The apartment was blown to shit, and he now suffered from 2nd degree burns on his back. He cursed, as he slowly sat up, wincing from the pain from his back, looking up as Joseph came running over.

"Boss! You ok!?" he asked, but than thought it was stupid for him to ask that question, before he poured a bottle of liquid onto Kenji's back, the liquid sparkled, before it seeped into the burns, the liquid causing the burn skin to peels, and flake off, revealing new healthy skin right under it.

Kenji sat up, his eyes no longer showing any sign of pain, as he looked to Joseph.

"What the hell did you just use on me?" he asked, but stood as Joseph helped him.

"I'll explain later, boss. Right now, we better get outta here before the cops get here." He said.

Kenji nodded in agreement, before following Joseph to his car, driving off.

Once again, the two drove in silent, before Joseph broke the silence once again with a question.

"What happened boss?" he asked.

"It was a trap. She knew we were coming. Someone had emailed her earlier that day. She went to the trainstation." Stated Kenji, before sighing.

"Sorry boss. I had no idea, that there was a bomb in the apartment."

"There was no way for you to know." said Kenji, drawing in a deep sigh, looking over to Joseph.

"Do you have an extra shirt I can borrow?" he asked, before noticing the train station up ahead, his eyes going hard.

"Yeah, but it kinda large…?" he asked glancing over to Kenji.

"So?" said Kenji, before Joseph shrugged. "Alright whatever. There's a bag in the back. Check in it." He said, and Kenji gave him a nod that he understood, before checking.

A brown book bag sat in the back, just behind his seat, before he quickly reached over and grabbed it, checking inside, searching for a shirt, a large blue shirt.

"Are these even clean?" asked Kenji, glancing over to Joseph.

"…Um, I think so. I don't know. Those may be the clothes that out grew me. I was gonna go bring them to charity some time this week." He said, before looking as Kenji gave a shrug, took the shirt out, and closed the bag, before putting on the shirt.

"So, Kenji. Got a plan for how to do this?" asked Joseph, glancing to the 16 year old boy once more, who crossed his arms.

"We need to go inside and look I know that much."

"And if she's there?"

"We kill her."

"But…" he suddenly shut up, remembering who he was talking to, and pulled into a parking space.

"Right, boss." Said the Male Hispanic, before turning off the car.

Kenji closed his eyes, and began to rub his temples.

"Tell me, Joseph. What should we do? What is wrong with my plan?" he asked the older male, before giving him a glance.

Joseph had just pulled the keys out of the ignition, and looked to Kenji.

"I think we should go in there and look for her."

"But like you said, what if she is there?" asked Kenji to him.

Joseph suddenly thought about it.

"There will be most likely security around, and people. We can't go in there with guns, and than not find her."

"That's why we hid the guns." Said Kenji, before eyeing the clock.

"Listen. We're wasting time. Let's just get In there and check first. If she's there, than we'll kill her. Even if we have to take some innocent lives. You got a tranquilizer gun?" Kenji asked, as he opened the door to the car door.

Joseph did the same, before answering.

"No…why?"

"You could of used that to take out the security guards, incase she was in there, since you have something against killing others." Was all Kenji said, before he got out of the car, and went towards the train station, the .45 had been put under his shirt in a holster that was strapped to his belt.

Joseph was carrying a suit case; sun glasses covering his eyes, as he stepped into the trainstation.

Lucky for them, hardly anyone was there at the trainstation. A few police officers, and the clerk that sat behind the counter but other than that, no one.

Kenji looked around, before making his way over to the lockers, trying to remember the locker # the woman, Linda was suppose to visit, but when he went over, he noticed one of the lockers were broken open, the hinges snapped off.

The locker was # 34. He cursed to himself, before looking around for Joseph. That only meant the woman had already come and left. They had missed her! She had gotten away. But that still didn't mean he failed the mission. He would still try.

With one more look around, he spotted Joseph over near the Information counter talking to the clerk. As the Mole Zoanthrope trailed over, about to tell Joseph he found nothing, he noticed exactly who the clerk was.

Kenji's eyes went wide when he noticed the clerk was no other than Alice, the Rabbit Zoanthrope.

Joseph was showing her his CIA badge, and seemed to be pissed at the moment.

"Ok,…Alice. Your not lying to me are you?"

"Of course not, sir. I'd never lie." Said Alice, A sweet kind smile on her face.

Joseph sighed, before noticing Kenji.

"Oh, Alice this is Agent Okiwa. He is also in search for Miss. Ashford. Now if we both find out your lying-"

"JD…" said Kenji lowly, which cause Joseph to look at him.

"Yeah?"

"I'll handle it from here okay?" he asked Joseph, causing the Hispanic male to give a nod, before glancing to Alice, who still smiled, and waved.

"Have a nice day, Agent D Deiglasius. We hope you come to visit us again. Transit's Local Trainstation! We know our trains!" said Alice, with her cheerful smile.

Joseph just gave a smile, before walking off.

Kenji watched him go, before looking to Alice, and walked over slowly, giving a sigh.

"Hey Alice." He said lowly, watching as Alice continued to smile.

"Welcome to Transit's local Trainstation. How may I help you?"

Kenji was silent at first, watching Alice carefully, before giving a sigh, and closed his eyes.

"Well you can help me by asking a few questions of mine. I'm sure you answered all the Questions my partner had asked you already, I just wanted to know…" he paused before looking to Alice again, the smile was still there.

"Forget it. Alice, how are you? How's Yugo? I'm so sorry I just left without telling anyone anything. You guys must be angry with me. I hope I didn't hurt anyone by my actions." He said, his eyes held sadness, and looked to Alice, to try and see if she held a look, or to see if by what she said next would be positive, but instead it was something Kenji didn't expect at all.

"I don't understand who your talking about. Who is this Yugo?"

"What? Alice, come on. Don't act like that." He said, staring Alice in the eyes, but they still held the same look, which cause Kenji to frown.

"Alice come on, please. Just tell me how everything is?" he said, but Alice replied with a similar answer.

"I'm afraid I don't know what you're talking about, sir." She said.

Kenji gave a sigh do deep depression, before standing up straight. "Fine…. I guess it was nice talking to you than, Alice." He said, his voice low, so low it was like a whisper, and he turned around and began to stroll off, only to hear Alice's voice.

"Goodbye, sir. Have a Great Day!" she said.

Kenji gave her a glance, before going out of the trainstation, his head hung low, as he got back into Joseph's car.

"No luck eh?" asked Joseph as he started the car, pulling out of the parking lot.

"You looked like you knew her. You two… you know?" asked Joseph, a sly smile creeping across his face.

"No, she's a friend of mine. I haven't seen her in over a year. I was asking how she was, and how Yugo… how everyone was doing. I left without letting anyone know. She wouldn't answer me, like she never even knew me." He said, his voice sounding as if hurt, but it soon vanished, as he sat up, and sighed.

"Forget it. Did you get anything?"

"Yeah. Alice told me she left that day. Around 10:33 am. She took a train across town to the Yard length Trainstation." Said Joseph.

Kenji blinked, and sighed, giving a nod.

"Pull over." He said.

"What?" asked Joseph?

"Pull over, so I can drive. You get on your lab top, and get some more information about Linda, like if she has a nick name. If she changed it recently, what too. Her credit card account numbers. If she used them to buy anything."

Joseph nodded, and suddenly pulled over, before grabbing his lab top, and got out, switching places with Kenji, who than sat in the drivers seat, and drove off.

"I also need you to do me a favor." Said Kenji, and he started the car.

"Yeah boss?"

"Check on a man by the name of Yugo Kadawashi."

"got it." Said Joseph, as he began to type things down on his lab top.

Kenji gave a deep sigh as he drove on, the thoughts of how Alice acted, playing in his head. Why would she act like that? Why wouldn't she just tell him how everyone was doing? Maybe this is what he got for just leaving and not telling anyone. Maybe it was just his punishment not to know how everyone else was now, he left without telling anyone, which only meant, they probably thought he didn't care for them.

Prologue for 3rd Chapter

Kenji and Joseph are able to get some information which helps them locate the woman Linda. But something happens, which throws Kenji over the edge, which causes Kenji to no longer know what to do anymore.