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Chapter 2 Tooru and Claude.

Tala sat at the kitchen table reading aloud. He had been questioning Kai for close to four hours. "And what is your favourite food?"

"I don't have one. It changes daily."

"Your least favourite food?"

"Sea food. Especially fish."

Kai's tone was bored. He was tired of the questions and so was contenting himself with banging about in the cupboards looking for food. "Tala do you realise that we have no food?"

"So?" asked Tala annoyed. He wanted to go to sleep. He hadn't slept in nearly seventy-two hours, he wouldn't do so however until he knew that Kai had completely memorised his new identity.

"So I haven't eaten in over forty-eight hours. We should go food shopping. It would look strange anyway, imagine if the mark came round and we had no food in our cupboards. Even if we said we ate out everyday it would look weird. It's one of those subconscious warning signs."

God how Kai's know-it-all attitude annoyed Tala. "Fine we'll go shopping." Tala smirked, "After you have memorised everything about yourself Tooru."

Kai smirked and walked towards the kitchen door. "I memorised it all on the plane." He smiled nastily "Photographic memory."

"What!" shouted Tala, his last nerve had been worked into a stump. "Why the hell didn't you say something sooner I've just wasted four hours prepping you!"

"Oh I thought you were doing that so you would remember. You are supposed to be my best friend Claude."

"I wonder how much I would have to pay Bryan to wipe that smirk off that little bastards face" wondered Tala out loud as he followed Kai out of the door.

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The walk to the supermarket was quiet. They were both mentally mapping out the area, well that and Tala was sulking.

It sucked. For an indefinite amount of time he would have Kai as his only source of company. He was playing a foreigner, a foreigner with a limited grasp of Japanese. It was insulting as in reality he could speak the language perfectly. He was only really going to be speaking French as 'Claude', it was not a language that he was especially fond of. He would be spending most of his time at home waiting for Kai and making reports…why couldn't they have got anyone else for this special assignment?

When they had reached the supermarket Kai had disappeared with a trolley. Tala got the feeling that this would happen allot. He shrugged and set off to look for the younger boy. He couldn't really complain about the feud. He had started it after all.

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Tala walked down the corridors two steps behind Boris to be respectful. He felt honoured, truly honoured to have been chosen for what almost constituted as Government Service.

He had worked hard for the opportunity. He had graduated top out of a class of seventy and passed the 'final test' with flying colours (He hadn't even given that enemy traitor time to scream).

"You should be proud of yourself agent Ivanov. You have been specially chosen to be part of project Raven, it is a very elite department."

"Yes Sir," agreed Tala he had read about the project. It took a very dedicated and intelligent agent to become a Raven. Most could not handle a mission that went on twenty-four hours a day seven days a week. Some went mad.

"You will of course be given special training. I have high hopes for you agent and…agent Hiwitari what do you want?"

Tala looked up and frowned. This child was an agent? Maybe he was still in training. Tala had heard stories of these places adopting children and raising them as soldiers or assassins.

"I have just been debriefed and was told that you wanted to see me." said Kai casually.

Tala was struck immediately by the lack of respect the shorter boy was showing to his superior.

"Oh yes Kai now I remember, go wait in my office…I am just showing this new agent around." Boris turned to Tala, "Agent Ivanov meet agent Hiwitari. He is currently our top Raven."

Tala frowned harder his forehead creasing. This boy was his competition. "He is very young sir."

"Yes well, he has just graduated from being a dirty little secret. He was raised into the position. "

A dirty little secret Tala thought disgusted. So this agent was used to bait paedophilic pollutions and diplomats into black mail situations. Whore.

Tala had taken an instant dislike to the boy that day and had made that very known the next time they had been alone.

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"Whore" spat Tala the moment he saw Kai leave Boris's office. "IS that how you get all the special missions."

Kai ignored him and carried on walking, his head held high.

Tala became further enraged at the Kai's attitude. "Answer me."

Kai turned and looked at Tala. He looked more bored than insulted. "Why are you calling me a whore when you have just joined the ranks?"

Tala started to see red. Over the past few months he'd seen Kai four times. The way the boy swaned around as if he owned the place really annoyed him. He would not be insulted by some glorified child prostitute!

"you're fucking Boris for all the top missions aren't you?" he accused.

Kai just looked at him, as if he was something he'd just found on the bottom of his shoe.

"Whore."

"A Raven is a whore Tala. They pay you and me and all of them to have sex with these men for information. You can glorify it all you want but it's true." Kai informed him monotone, he sounded like he'd had this conversation a thousand times before.

Tala hated him. He hated the very sight of him. He hated that this child was tainting everything that he'd worked for. He hated the cool and detached way that Kai handled all of his missions….and he didn't understand why.

From that day forward he and Kai had been enemies. After a while Kai even began to bitch back.

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Tala found Kai in the vegetable isle talking to a man in what looked like his mid-twenties. He hung back and watched fully intending on bringing this up in a report later. Agent Hiwitari snuck off and flirted with the natives…

He watched as Kai tried to refuse the guy. Facing away from him and making what looked like short non-committal answers. The guy did not give up and in the end he'd managed to push his phone number into Kai's hand and extract a promise to call.

"Claude!" Kai called when the other man was safely in the distance.

Tala did not look up.

"Bloody amateur," Kai muttered under his breath, "Claude!"

It took Tala a moment to realise he was being called.

"Who was that?" he asked snidely walking over.

"That was Hiro Grainger. The target just asked me out…it was sick he thought he was smooth."

Tala cringed. He'd had guys who thought they were slick before. It always made the operation feel ten times dirtier than it had to.

"Sorry that must suck." Tala nearly choked when he heard the sympathetic words coming out of his mouth.

"Don't pity me." Kai bit out walking back to the trolley and placing some carrots inside.

"I never would." muttered Tala scowling. He couldn't believe Kai had just got a fluke date with the mark.

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