Week End
by: apocalipticoblivion
Warnings: I haven't wrote anything good in a while, here's to hoping this turns out well!
Sliding his hand under the nearly freezing cold water, Ran watched the blood pool into the bottom of the sink. The water took the edge off of the pain, so he leaned back against the wall, watching it drain out of the sink.
He didn't have anything else to lose, Aya-chan has woken up from the hospital, she knew that he was a murderer, he had taken his name back for himself, and yet he felt the need to constantly toy with death.
Ran held a black towel to the cut and hissed as the not-so-soft texture of the towel mingled with the layers of flesh inside his arm. He had recieved the cut from Ken, who he had been training with that day. The brunette hadn't even noticed it when the had stopped their practice session. But, he didn't mind; Ken was always a little bit absent minded when he came to fighting.
As the bleeding slowed down, he wrapped his arm in bandages and rolled down his sleeves and left his bathroom. There were four bathrooms in their building and each of them had their own, so he didn't have to worry about them accidently coming in and seeing him in pain.
A knock sounded on his door, "Oniisan?" came Aya-chan's sweet sing-song voice, "Are you in?"
He opened the door and smiled at his sister, "Yes, Aya-chan."
"Come on! I'm taking you all out to eat tonight, it's been a year since I woke up! We should celebrate!" She nearly sang as she pulled him out of his room and down the hall towards the staircase. "Everyone's coming too, Oniisan! We have to hurry!"
Ran hesitated, "I-I'm coming, Aya-chan."
So, Ran let his younger sister drag him towards the others, who were all waiting by the door. "Okay!" Aya chanted, "Let's go, or we won't make our reservations!"
She settled to tugging on his hand instead of his upper arm, which were lined with bruises and scratches. She got in the passenger's seat of Ran's porsche as he took the driver's side; Yohji, Omi and Ken got in the back. "Ran-kun, Manx-san and the other's said that they'd meet us at the restaurant."
Ran nodded and pulled out of the parking lot of the Koneko, and turned out into the street.
It barely took any time at all for Ran to get to the restaurant, for he and Aya-chan had dined there nearly every day their parents were away for business. He pulled into the parking lot and walked with the others into the waiting area of the building.
"May I help you?" the lovely hostess asked Aya-chan.
"We have a reservation, it's under 'Fujimiya'."
"Ah, yes! The rest of your party has already been seated." she announced and led the group of five to their seats. Manx, Birman and Botan were already seated.
"Ran! It's so lovely to see you again," Botan announced to the fiery redhead.
Birman nodded to the boys while Manx smiled to them all and talked with Aya-chan until their hostess came back to take their orders.
"So, Ran." Manx said to Ran, who was sitting next to her. "You have another mission coming up."
This piqued Ran's interest and he looked at her. "What's the status?"
"Schwarz has survived the tower's crash just as you all did." She said softly, miming drinking from her cup. "They have reformed just as Weiß has. We cannot send out another team to be slaughtered by them."
"Details, Manx-san." He said with a fake smile.
"The last team we sent out was ripped to shreds, probably Berserker's handy work. But, out of each group one was always sent back alive." Manx paled as she thought back to that particular day. "They had carved into his chest, ' We want to talk with Weiß' and on his lover's body 'By this Week End', so we have to send you all in. We can't afford to lose another of our teams to them." She looked pleadingly at Ran. "Please, Ran. Just go talk with them. We need our men alive."
Ran nodded, "Send us all of the information you have on the men who's been killed and those who've survived."
"Why?" She asked, paling a bit more. "It is Schwarz, right?"
Ran shook his head. "Schwarz would not be doing this. This is someone different."
"What do you mean it's someone else, Ran?" She hissed. "It can't be anyone else." She took anothe sip out of her drink and looked back to Ran.
"Schwarz wouldn't bother going through these games. They would rather just walk into the Koneko and close the shop themselves, and leaving people alive isn't Berserker's handy work, Manx." He growled. Nearly a forth of the scars on his body were from the Irishman, he knew Berserker's "handy work", and he wouldn't let anyone live unless Oracle had told him to stop, and even then it wouldn't always be a guaratee that he would stop.
"What do you mean?"
He stopped talking and smiled politely to the waitress who had came back with their food saying, "Here are your orders. Sorry it took so long, we've just never had this many people in one group before."
"It's perfectly alright, ma'am." Botan said with a big smile, he had been chatting away with Yohji and Birman, while Omi and Ken spoke amonst themselves.
Once she had left, Ran looked back at Manx with a harsh glare. "Berserker would not have left anyone alive."
"But..."
"No buts, Oracle cares nothing for your men. He could have let them survive, but Berserker would not." Ran growled, "And none of the others would have cared to torture them, Mastermind would torture them but not with knives, only his mind. I thought you knew that."
"I figured it was them since they specifically asked for your team..." Manx sighed.
"Give me the information and I'll take the mission." Ran took a sip from his straw and began eating. "Let's not discuss this any more, okay? Manx-san?"
"Okay." she agreed and began eating her own food.
Ran had dropped Aya-chan off at her apartment before he continued his way home with the others to the Koneko. He motioned for the others to follow him into the basement, where there mission conferences were normally held.
He turned around in the spot that Manx usually stood in, "Weiß, impersonators of Schwarz see our attention. They have been killing many of Persia's teams, each time all are killed except one, who is near death. But has a message written across its chest. That message is for us to speak with them by the week end. The killings will not stop until we find out what these dark beasts are up to."
"Ran-kun?" Omi began, "When did you hear of this?"
"Manx told me during dinner."
Ran moved to the stairs. "Weiß we will all be taking part in this mission. We may need to come into contact with the real Schwarz. Be prepared."
END Week End1
A.O. : review! i wanna know if i should continue this, or just give up!