October 16, 2004
Furuba Round Robin Chapter 11: "Who ya Gonna Call?!"
By Kanzaki
How the hell did I get myself into this situation? Yuki found himself asking for the second day in a row. What am I doing here? I thought I'd vowed never to set foot in this building ever again…How was I so easily suckered into this?
Yuki's cell phone beeped, interrupting his train of thoughts. PICTURE RECEIVED, the display said. Ehh? Did he find something? Yuki pressed a few buttons to retrieve the picture of…a dog? What the hell? What's so suspicious about a damn…
"MO-GE!! MO-GE!! MO-GE!! MO-GE!! MO-GE!!"
"Ahh!" Yuki fell back, startled by the noise. "Dammit…" It was the Mogeta 'Communicator watch' that Agent Black had provided him with. "What is it?" Yuki hissed into the device.
"Agent Pink! Did you get the evidence?" The voice came through.
"It's a dog…what does that have to do with the mission?" Yuki asked skeptically.
"Isn't it cool looking? I've never seen a dog like that, have you?"
"Mana--"
"USE OUR CODE NAMES!" The voice screeched. "You never know who's listening!"
"Then keep it down!" Yuki snapped back. "We're going to get caught! And don't send me stupid things like that…"
"But it's cuuute…"
"And you're deranged."
"Ah, it hurts, Agent Pink, it hurts."
"Look, I'm tired of playing lookout. Did you get in yet?"
"One minute…"
Yuki waited impatiently, nervously peering around the corner.
"Got it!" The voice came. "Meet me at the end of the corridor. ASAP."
Yuki made his way down the darkened hallway.
THE PREVIOUS NIGHT…
What did I think of my first day of work? Yuki repeated the words in his head. How can she even ask me that?
"Er…It was certainly…" Yuki grasped for the proper word, but he couldn't come up with any adjectives strong enough to describe the absolute horridness of that day. "…it was…interesting…to say the least." he muttered.
It was a nightmare! He thought. It was absolutely traumatizing. I'm going to have terrifying flashbacks to this day for a long time... like I don't have enough bad memories as it is! There's no way I can go back there! But I can't admit defeat so easily. Not when Honda-san is sitting here with such impossibly high hopes. How can I let her down?
"Yes!" Tohru said brightly. It was very interesting, wasn't it?" She's smiling. She's actually smiling. How can she smile like that after that whole ordeal? Honda-san is so much stronger than I'll ever be…
"Anou…I hope you didn't get too discouraged today, Yuki-kun. It was quite a tiresome day with everything that happened, but I hope you'll come to enjoy your experience. I would be so happy for you if you enjoyed your job."
"…Yes." Yuki said hesitantly. "I'm sure you're right. Today was a bit hectic…" It was hell, it was HELL!! Yuki screamed on the inside. "…but without Shigure's antics, I'm sure it will go a lot better for me next time." I can't believe I'm saying this. Wasn't I ready to throw in the red flag? Yuki's thoughts turned back to Shigure's betting pool. Damn Shigure…he really can't live without meddling in others' lives, can he?
"Oh, yes!" Tohru exclaimed. "I'm so happy to hear that, Yuki-kun! That's a fantastic outlook!"
Yuki smiled despite the troubles of earlier that day still haunting his mind. It was always amazing to him how Tohru could have such a calming effect on him. She really was an amazing person.
Yuki let out a big yawn. "Ah, I should turn in for the night…it was a very draining day."
"Oh, yes!" Tohru exclaimed. "You wouldn't want to be too exhausted for school tomorrow! Yuki still has student council duties!"
"Right. I'll need to recoup my energy to deal with that bunch." he said with a chuckle.
Tohru giggled. "Yes, the student council members are very lively, aren't they?"
"To put it lightly." Yuki sighed. "Goodnight Honda-san. Don't stay up too late."
"Oh, don't worry about me, Yuki-kun! I'll be off to bed soon! Goodnight!"
"Goooodniiiight, Yuuki!" He heard Shigure's sing-song voice from across the house. The complacent mood that Honda-san has placed him in was quickly turned fowl again as he recalled what the dog had put him through for his own sadistic amusement.
I'll kill him…Yuki thought, grinning as not to alarm Tohru, but teeth gritting despite his efforts.
MORNING
"Anou…Yuki-kun…?"
…
No response. Tohru tried again. "Err…Yuki-kun?" ...Nothing.
Standing beside Tohru, Kyou tilted his head. "I think he's awake…" Kyou muttered, observing his cousin. Yuki was sitting up in his bed, eyes open, staring blankly ahead, his hair slightly mussed from sleeping.
"I heard his alarm go off," Tohru stated, "but Yuki didn't come out. So I went to make sure he was awake and…he's been like this for several moments, I'm afraid."
"Don't worry about it," Kyou said, playfully knocking Tohru on the head with his fist.
"He gets like this every once in a while."
"R-really?" Tohru asked, eyes wide. "What should I do?"
"Usually he'll snap out of it if you do or say something really offensive."
"S-something…offensive?" Tohru echoed.
"And since he's such a tight-ass, it's not too hard to find a way to push his buttons. Watch this."
Tohru looked on nervously.
"Oi, girly boy!" Kyou yelled. "I'm talking to you! Come on, you damn hermaphrodite, get up!"
"Ahh…Ky-Kyou-kun…" Tohru sweatdropped.
"Come on you damn rat! Get your scrawny pale girly ass out of bed! Not like I give a damn anyway, but you're making Tohru worry!"
… No response.
"Anou…perhaps Yuki's first day of work was too tiresome," Tohru said, fear evident in her voice. "Perhaps it will be too difficult for Yuki-kun to do along with his student council duties. Yuki-kun could be overworked and fizzle out! Perhaps he has already fizzled out!" Tohru said, voice increasing an octave as her fear grew larger. "I-I wouldn't want Yuki to…to…fizzle…"
"Yeah well it wouldn't have been such a big deal if that damn retarded dog Shigure hadn't thrown everything into turmoil…"
"Shi…gu…re…" a voice muttered.
"Ehhh?" Tohru turned towards Yuki, slightly frightened.
"Shi…gu…re…"
Kyou and Tohru stared at Yuki. Without warning, his eyes went wide.
"I'LL KILL HIM!!" Yuki yelled, leaping out of bed.
"Ahh!" Tohru yelled as the sweat dropped down her head. "A-ah-ah-a-aaa…" she stammered.
Kyou just watched, slightly amused as Yuki bolted out his bedroom door in his pajamas.
"Ahhhh….aaaa…."Tohru tried to form words, to no avail.
THUMP
THUD
KEEERASH!!
Tohru glanced at Kyou. The two exchanged a look.
"A…ah…" Tohru stated blankly. "Ah!" She yelled, and bolted out of the room, Kyou following her lead.
Yuki laid in a heap at the bottom of the stairs, not moving.
"A…a…gyaaaaaaaaaah!" Tohru screeched, running to the bottom of the stairs.
Yuki sat up, rubbing his head.
"Honda…san?" Yuki asked. "How…did I get here?"
THUMP
Kyou fell over.
"Yuki-kun…are you okay?" Tohru asked. "Gah! Ky-Kyou-kun…?"
Kyou slowly rose from the floor, looking exasperated. "This is too much…you guys are just insane…you and Shigure both. Screw this, I'm going back to bed."
"Er…" Tohru watched as Kyou walked down the hall, slamming his door behind him.
"What time is it?" Yuki asked, slightly groggy.
"Er…7:30…Anou, Yuki-kun, will you really be okay?"
For the first time since the events of yesterday, Tohru saw a genuinely contented smile upon Yuki's face. Yuki was always beautiful, but it was moments like these which made Tohru consciously aware of that fact again.
"Don't worry, Honda-san. I'm fine now. Yesterday was a very trying day and I suppose that did somewhat take a toll on me, but I'm fine now. Going to a student council meeting will probably be a good thing. I appreciate your concern, but really, I'm alright."
Tohru was put at ease by Yuki's reassuring words.
"Oh, before I head out, do you have that shirt that Hatsuharu gave me yesterday?" Yuki reddened, recalling his case of pantslessness. Maybe I should have taken Haru's pants when he offered them to me. No, he'd have been pantsless then. Either way, someone would've ended up without pants. But Haru probably could have pulled it off better than I did…
"Oh, yes." Tohru interrupted Yuki's decidedly bizarre train of thought. "It's in the laundry room."
"Oh good. I need to return that to him, so I'll be heading out a bit early."
Haru opened the door to greet his visitor. It was another hot summer day, and Haru had on a black tank top and baggy shorts. Yuki was wearing his white short-sleeved school uniform top with the standard navy blue pants and tie.
"Ah…Yuki." Haru perked up, immediately clinging to him.
"Hello Haru." Yuki greeted him.
"What brings you here?" Haru asked. "Ah, do you want to watch the Mogeta anime summer special with me?"
"Mo…ge…ta?" Yuki recalled the horrific anime he had been a witness to before. "Er…no, that's alright. I have student council duties. I just wanted to return this." Yuki held the blue silk shirt out to Haru.
"Oh. But it looks good on you. Keep it."
"No, I couldn't." Yuki politely declined.
"No really. Put it on." Haru said, proceeding to undo Yuki's tie.
"Eh? Haru!" Yuki said, flustered. "Don't do that! I'm no good at tying ties…"
"It's okay, I'll fix it for you afterwards. Here." Yuki reluctantly let Haru remove his tie.
"Put this on." Haru started to unbutton Yuki's uniform top.
"I can do that myself." Yuki said curtly.
"Here." Haru handed him the blue shirt.
Yuki complied and put it on over his sleeveless white undershirt.
"Yeah." Haru observed, nodding. "See?" Haru put his hands on Yuki's shoulders and turned him towards a mirror. "Oh, very nice." Haru said.
"I…guess." Yuki said.
Haru nodded in confirmation. "Keep it. Oh…but you know what else would look good on you?" Yuki watched as Haru ruffled through a pile of clothes. "Here. Yeah. This one. Put it on."
Yuki looked at the red garment in Haru's hands. "Red?" Yuki asked. "I don't know, Haru…"
"No, really." Haru pulled the blue shirt off of Yuki's shoulders. "Put it on."
"Er…Okay…" Yuki did as Haru asked.
"Yeah. Good. See what I mean? You look nice in that. You should borrow it."
Yuki was not one to be taken by his own appearance, but he had to admit it did look pretty good on him.
"Oh here, wear this with it." Haru was draping a long chain with a gothic-looking pendant over Yuki's neck. "You should accessorize more, Yuki."
"Er…I don't know. I don't typically wear jewelry…I don't think it suits me…"
"Are you kidding?" Haru asked, "You could make anything look good. You'd make an ideal fashion model."
Yuki reddened at the ridiculous notion of himself strutting down a runway, girls screaming and swooning and tossing undergarments…wait, that looked like a pair of men's…
"Haru, that's absurd!" Yuki said. He glanced up at the mirror. He had been spacing out and hadn't realized that Haru had continued adorning him, as if he would a Christmas tree, with various pieces of jewelry and other accessories. He noticed that at this moment, Haru was fastening a pink barrette to his hair…
"HARU!" Yuki yelled, pushing the ox's hands away from his lustrous hair
"Ah, did I go too far?" Haru asked nonchalantly, then began ruffling through a drawer. "Ah, Yuki, peace!" Haru appeared beside Yuki with a camera, holding it at arm's length in front of them, and snapped a picture. "Okay, once more. Pea—"
"HARU!!" Yuki was angry now. "That's enough!" He started removing the shirt and accessories that Haru had piled on him. "Why do you always do stuff like this? I didn't stop by here to be made a fool of! I have stuff to do, so I'll be going now!"
"…Sorry." Haru said, actually sounding upset.
Yuki sighed. "No, it's okay." He pulled his uniform top down over his head. "Er…I can't…my tie…"
"I'll get it." Haru draped the tie around Yuki's collar and started to tie it. "What I mean is, I'm sorry for what happened yesterday. I didn't mean to cause you so much trouble. I should have just told Shigure 'no', let alone bringing Hiro into it. I'll feel responsible if he grows up to be a delinquent now."
"No Haru, don't worry about it." Yuki said reassuringly. "It's okay. Shigure's the one who really deserves my wrath…but I'll let it go. Looking back, it wasn't that bad. Um…I was wondering though…that trick with the computer, you know, the typing thing…how did you and Hiro manage that?"
"Eh? What's that?" Haru asked.
"You know, the keyboard typing by itself. Stuff like, 'you will pay, baka neko, kuso nezumi...'"
"Huh." Haru said nonchalantly, pulling the knot in Yuki's tie tightly into place.
"Mystery…"
"What do you mean, 'mystery'?" Yuki asked, a feeling of dread washing over him as Haru confirmed,
"We didn't do anything like that."
"Haru, are you kidding me?!"
Haru's deadpan face looked dead serious.
Yuki felt like his head was spinning. His thoughts went back to the previous night. Wait…then that means…what about that apparition that Kyou and I saw? Yuki's memory of that moment was vague. It had gotten so hot in "the dungeon" that he had felt light-headed and disoriented…and then he and Kyou had transformed. Honestly, Yuki could not remember what happened between that time and when the others showed up. He had actually forgotten about that until now…
Wha…what is this? What exactly is going on here?
Making his way across the school campus to the student council room shortly after leaving Haru's, Yuki was in such a daze that he didn't even notice the presence of another person until he almost collided with her, which would have been bad, considering it was likely this action would cause him to transform. Usually Yuki at least had his guard up somewhat to prevent such things. Besides that, this particular person did have a way of not making her presence known until she was right next to you, as Yuki had been startled by her a few times before.
"Ah, Hanajima-san," Yuki greeted her, coming out of his daze. "I didn't expect to see you here." "Yes well, I received failing grades in a number of my classes and as a result was asked to attend a few summer sessions. I didn't have anything else to do, and I really couldn't bear to hear my mother cry again, so I came without incident." Hana explained in her usual gothic demeanor.
"…" Yuki didn't know how to respond.
Luckily, Hana didn't give him the opportunity. "Your waves seem more troubled than usual…" Hana observed.
Yuki hesitated. Should I…? He wondered.
"Er, Hanajima-san…what do you know about…ghosts?"
"Oh yes, ghosts." Hana looked almost wistful. "Usually vengeful spirits bound to this earth for the sole purpose of carrying out revenge posthumously because they died with a large grudge that did not decay along with their human remains buried in the cold ground."
"…" Yuki was reminded of just how scintillating conversation with Hanajima could be.
"You've met my brother Megumi?" Hana inquired. "He is quite skilled in exorcisms. I have done a few in the past, but last time I attempted such a thing, something went wrong. So horribly wrong…"
"…" Yuki felt a cold sweat trickle down his back.
"I haven't attempted another one since the incident. However, if you feel you require such services, I could attempt it…but I could not guarantee the safety of your life."
"Ah!" Yuki exclaimed. "No, no, that's fine! I wouldn't want to trouble you and I'm sure Hiroga-san is a friendly ghost!" He blurted out. "Er…good luck with your classes!"
Hana turned and watched Yuki's rapidly retreating form making distance across the campus.
"Hiroga-san?" She said to herself.
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"Okay!" Manabe said. "So there's earth, wind, fire, water, and…"
Four heads turned towards the door as Yuki entered the student council room.
"HEART!" Manabe yelled, pointing at Yuki. "Yun-Yun's heart!!"
"Eh?" Yuki asked, nervous at the sudden attention.
"Yeah, it's great!" Manabe said excitedly. "What do you think?"
"It's RIDICULOUS!" Naoto screeched.
"Kimi thinks it would be fun!" Kimi exclaimed.
"…" Machi sat silently, idly doodling on her red notebook.
"EH?" Yuki asked, flustered.
"Yuki!" Nao pleaded. "Thank god you're here! Tell them! TELL THEM!"
"What?"
"It's a stupid idea! Once again, the white board is being defiled with words of stupidity!" Nao looked like he was going to cry.
"…What is? What's this about 'heart'?"
"Captain Planet!" Manabe hollered. "It's our theme for Earth Day! Remember that old American cartoon, and they all had these magical rings, they'd put them together all, 'Earth, Wind, Fire, Water, HEART!' and they'd summon Captain Planet all, 'THE POWER IS YOURS!!' and the planet would be safe for another day!"
"NO! IT'S LUDICROUS!" Nao yelled.
"But Kimi thinks Captain Planet is very influential!" Kimi said, clapping.
"Yeah!" Manabe cheered her on with his backup clapping.
"Ooooohh," Kimi started singing, of all things. "Captain Planet, he's a heerooo…Kimi doesn't know the words, but he's still her heerooo..."
"NO! Nononononononono NO!" Nao went running out of the room, shaking his head violently in denial.
"Nao-chan!" Kimi went chasing after him. "We need you to be Eaaarrrth!"
SLAM
Manabe's clapping subsided and the goofy grin on his face dissipated.
"Ahem." Manabe cleared his throat and took on a more serious demeanor. "Yun-Yun, what's up? Your aura seems more troubled than usual."
"Wha--? How did you…?"
"It's written all over your face." Manabe said with a smirk. "Right, Machi?"
Machi barely raised her head as she continued doodling. "Yes. The president seems even more out-of-it than usual."
"Even more…?" Yuki repeated, flustered.
"So, what's bothering you, Yun-Yun? You can tell me."
"…" Yuki hesitated. "Manabe, do you…no…never mind. It's ridiculous."
"Oh, come ON! You can't do that! You can't just start and then not tell me! Come on, what is it? Something secret? Something embarrassing? Something smutty?"
"Wha…?"
"Did you finally get a girlfriend and you don't know what to do with her? You need tips from Love Master Shou?"
"L-love master…Shou?"
"My sweet Yun-Yun! I thought this day would never come! You finally notice how adorable Honda-san is? Couldn't resist her anymore?"
"THAT'S NOT IT!!!" Yuki's buttons had been pushed.
Yuki's words of protest went unheard as Manabe continued. " What a shame…I was all ready to hand my sister over to you!"
Machi's stoic face turned several shades of red as Yuki's did the same.
"Th-THAT'S NOT IT!!" Yuki insisted.
"And I'd thought it through so thoroughly too…" Manabe looked like he was going to cry. "My sweet little sister…"
THUD
Yuki looked on, stunned as Manabe's body slumped to the floor, Machi standing over him, a chair in her hands…
"Er…"
Right…So after Manabe had been knocked unconscious, he had remained out for a while. It was after the student council meeting was through and he came to that the plan had began to be set into action.
"Ghosts, huh?" Manabe asked after Yuki had explained the whole situation to him. "So it sounds like this Saori woman is keeping something from you. You think it involves that Hiroga-san guy?"
"He is the only person I've heard of who's supposedly died there." Yuki said.
"How much do you know about him?" Manabe inquired. "We need to find out more. That place must keep files on employees. We'll have to investigate."
"Investigate?" Yuki asked.
"We'll need a few gadgets. Bring your cell. I'll be your lifeline. Take a picture of anything suspicious. I'll do the same while I investigate."
"You finally got a camera on your phone?" Yuki asked.
"No, no…I kind of…borrowed it from a guy at work…but no worries, I've got it okayed and all that…But I'll have to give you this new number."
"Manabe, I don't plan on going back there…"
"What? Come on, you've gotta! Never say die!"
"Who said…die?" Sometimes Manabe just didn't make sense…
"You can't give up until we've uncovered the mystery! And we're just the ones to do it! THE KAIBARA HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT DEFENSE FORCE GHOSTBUSTERS! WHERE EVIL LURKS, WE WILL TAKE IT DOWN! THE ULTIMATE SUPER-SEXY CRIME FIGHTING DUO! AGENT PINK AND AGENT BLACK!!"
"Ehhh? Agent Pink and..." Yuki asked, bewildered.
"Yeah," Manabe said excitedly. "I'm black, 'cause that's my color, and you're pink, because even though you protest, you're still wearing a pink barrette in your hair..."
"WHAT?" Yuki asked, mortified. He reached up and felt that there was indeed still a pink barrette there. He immediately pulled it out in a rage. "HATSUHARU!! HE DIDN'T TELL ME! God, how many people saw me like this? Hanajima-san...and...who knows how many others!"
"Huh?" Manabe asked. "Hatsuharu? Your cousin? Heh, he has good taste."
"SHUT UP!" Yuki's sense of humor had left the building.
"Aw come on, it's not that bad! It'll give your fanclub something to swoon over! Heheh!" Manabe started cracking up.
Yuki was wondering just what he was getting into by telling Manabe about this…I have a bad feeling…Can it possibly get any worse?
"Okay, so we're gonna have to get in the file room. You said employee files were kept separate from the basement, right? The room's on the first floor…" Manabe was laying down the plan later that day, outside the school. "Probably locked. Shouldn't be a problem. I can pick it."
"You can pick locks?"
"Uh-huh." Manabe nodded. "One of your groupies—I mean, fan club girls, Rika, showed me how in exchange for some information on you."
"Information?"
"So, it's gonna go down like this, we…"
"Manabe, information?!"
"Don't worry about it." Manabe said with a smirk. "Oh, and take this. Our special communicator watches. I've got one too."
"What is this?" Yuki looked at the gaudy plastic watch that Manabe handed him. The face of the watch bore an image of Mogeta.
"It's the super high-tech Mogeta communicator watch." Manabe explained matter-of-factly.
"And what do we need this for? We have cell phones."
"Tsk…Yun-Yun, all secret agents need cool gadgets like this."
And just how is this "cool?" Yuki wondered. "Does this thing even work?"
"Oh hell yeah." Manabe said enthusiastically.
"Where did you get such a thing?"
"It was one of those cereal box prizes. You know, I collected enough UPC's from my Mogeta breakfast cereal, mailed them in with a check for 400 yen shipping and handling, and in 6-8 weeks I got my watch. The other one I took—I mean borrowed from this dude at work."
"…They have such high-tech toys as cereal box prizes?"
"Yeah Yun-Yun. You didn't know? Get with the times."
That evening the plan was to be carried out. However, there had been a weird incident that would remain on Yuki's mind for the rest of the evening. Yuki had met up with Manabe, both dressed in inconspicuous black, not far from the building. The two had exchanged a few words about the process of events that would be going down there that evening and had almost reached their destination when Manabe noticed something suspicious.
"Pink." Manabe said quietly.
"Huh?" Yuki questioned his eccentric cohort.
"That's you. Agent Pink. I'm Black."
"Oh…right. What is it?"
"I noticed something suspicious."
"Suspicious?" Yuki echoed. "What is?"
"That bush over there."
"…Bush…?"
Manabe discreetly motioned towards a small shrubbery on the other side of the street. "I think it's…following us."
"What??" Yuki found it hard to keep his voice down. "That's ridiculous!"
"I know, who would disguise themselves as a shrub?" Manabe asked incredulously.
"No, I mean, there's no way!" Yuki hissed.
"Don't believe me?" Manabe immediately pivoted on his feet and started to go in the opposite direction.
"Where are you going?" Yuki chased after him.
"Don't act suspicious. Don't let on that you know about it. Just keep an eye out. I guarantee it'll follow us."
Manabe was right.
They had gone back a block in the opposite direction and the same shrub was now situated across the street from them once again.
"See?" Manabe said to Yuki.
"No…" Yuki didn't want to believe something so ludicrous was possible…but after the events of the previous night, he found a lot of things much easier to believe. Still... "No. No, it can't be. I'll prove it!" Yuki picked up a rock and hurled it at the bush with expert aim.
"OW!" a distinct sound, coming from…
The bush.
"Holy shit…" Yuki and Manabe turned back and ran.
PRESENTLY…
Yeah, that was pretty weird…Yuki found his thoughts drifting back to the scary shrub as he walked down the corridor to the file room to meet up with Manabe. The door opened with no problem, since Manabe had unlocked it. Manabe was inside, flashlight in hand.
"Ah, Agent Pink. You've made it. I think I found the files on this Hiroga guy. And I don't think you're gonna like what you see."
"What is it?" Yuki took the folder that Manabe had in his hand and rifled through it.
"What…is this?" Yuki asked fearfully. "This…this is…" Yuki dropped the folder on the floor, papers scattering everywhere. "What IS this?! What's going on here?! This is insane!!"
Auntie Saori had seen them enter the building. She knew what was going on. She had been up for 48 hours straight. Her hair was disheveled, her makeup smudged. Her mind was in even worse condition. This mission would be carried out. She could not sleep until it was. She would fulfill her boss's wishes.
Staring down the hall of the first floor, Saori lifted her hand radio to her mouth. "Sohma Yuki is in the building. This is unexpected. He does not have to report in for work again until tomorrow. What's more, he has a guest with him."
"…A guest?" The voice asked after a moment's hesitation. "Another Sohma?"
"No, a classmate. The target has been under observation today and I have learned that this is Kakeru Manabe, a fellow student council member at the target's school."
"…I did not expect this." The voice on the radio admitted. "I have a plan in place to intercept other Sohmas, should they try to interfere, but I did not realize he had other acquaintances outside of the Sohmas and Honda Tohru.Very well. As long as he is with the target, he is also a target."
"I know it's premature, sir…but shall I…Commence Phase II of the plan?" Saori asked.
"This does call for drastic measures. I suggest you do that."
Kyou was sitting on the floor, contentedly watching TV when Haru came in without warning, uninvited.
"Eh? What the hell are you doing here?" Kyou asked lazily.
"Come on, Kyou." Haru grabbed Kyou by the arm and started pulling on him. "Let's go."
"What?! What the hell are you talking about, let go of me you retarded ox!"
"That's not nice Kyou. Come on, let's go."
"GO WHERE?!" The hot-headed redhead demanded.
"You'll need to wear something inconspicuous…yet stylish. Here, take this." Haru handed Kyou a few articles of black clothing and dark sunglasses.
Those are stylish, Kyou thought, observing the outfit. "AUUGH!" He screamed, snapping out of that scary state of mind. "What the hell are you talking about you dumb bastard?"
"Yuki needs our help. Let's go."
"Eh??"
END CHAPTER 11 (finally…TT;)
So, a challenge, eh? Who's up for a challenge…hmm…how about…try to implement a chase scene. Does that challenge suck? I can come up with something better if I try…
Well, let me know. But most importantly, have fun!
3 -kanzaki-
p.s.-- if anyone's curious, I worked out who would represent what element from Captain Planet. Yeah, I'm weird...lol
Manabe- Fire
Kimi- Wind
Naoto- Earth
Machi- Water
Yuki- Heart