Time to Burn
Keeper: Sorry this took so long again. I got promoted last month! YAY! I had to shoot the M-16 again. Holy crap those things are so freaking loud and to top it off I got popped in the nose by the charging handle (glares at offending gun) Then my shop went up to Denver for training it was great except for the rabbit incident. (shudders) I'm traumatized now.
Bane: How the hell did you manage to get hit with the charging handle?
Shade: Yeah, and what was the rabbit incident?
Keeper: That's not important. In this chapter Ken gives in to his tiger instincts but does not turn into it he hasn't since before he was almost burned alive. This chapter is a little gory. Au, yaoi, bad language, and grammar mistakes cause I don't have a beta. So if you don't like it there is the back button and make sure it hits you on the ass on the way out.
Shade: Don't you need to do the disclaimer?
Keeper: No I refuse to do it.
Bane: I'll do it. Keeper does not own the boys, she only owns the characters that you don't recognize, so if you sued her you would be wasting your time because she can't even buy a twentyfive cent pencil.
Keeper: Why do you people have to be so mean about it when you do the disclaimer?
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It had been a month since Ken had ran into Schuldig and Farfarello and told them that he was a shapeshifter. During the month he had become even more agitated than usual. He was spending more time in the bathroom, snapping at the others even more, and he was unable to sleep at night. His beast was becoming restless.
Ken was in the kitchen trying to find something to eat, he wanted a grilled cheese but that would mean he would have to get near the stove while it was on and he was not about to get near it. So he decided on a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Ken had all the stuff ready to make his sandwich when Omi came.
"Ken-kun we have a mission."
"Thanks Omi-kun." Ken replied sighing, he didn't want peanut butter and jelly anyways.
They headed down the mission room where Aya, Yohji, and Manx were already waiting for them. Manx briefed them on their mission, their target was a drug lord called Mahon that mostly sold to teenagers. Aya told them that they would go out in an hour. Once they had the information they trooped back upstairs. Aya and Yohji went to their room, Omi went to the living room to watch TV, and Ken well he was still hungry and he really wanted grilled cheese, so he decided to ask Omi if he would make it for him.
"Omi-kun, are you busy right now?"
"No. Do you need something?" The little blond asked turning to look at him.
"Well, I was wondering if you would make a grilled cheese for me." The brunette said grinning sheepishly.
"Sure."
"Thank you, you're the greatest!"
They made their way to the kitchen. While he was grabbing everything needed he asked Omi if he wanted one as well and he said that he did. So he buttered enough bread for each of them to have two grilled cheese. Ken sat at the table watching the younger assassin cook and cursing himself that he had to get someone else to cook for him.
"I really appreciate this." Ken said as Omi put a plate in front of him.
"It's not a problem. I know you don't like being near anything hot." Omi replied sitting across from Ken with his plate.
"Yeah." Ken suddenly found his gilled cheese very interesting he had a feeling that Omi was going to ask why. And sure enough Omi asked him.
"Ken-kun why don't you like being hot?" Omi inquired over his grilled cheese.
He sighed and looked at the little blond and finally said "I don't want talk about it, but what I will tell you is that I had a bad experience with fire a while back."
"It must have been horrible if it makes you act they way you do."
"You couldn't even begin imagine how horrible it was." Ken answered looking down at his plate.
They finished their grilled cheese in silence, once they finished they headed up to their rooms to get ready for the mission.
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"Bombay and Balinese you'll disable the security system."
"Hai." Both blonds replied.
"Siberian and I will take care of the guards and then the target."
"I'll take care of the guards you get the target."
Abyssinian looked at Siberian ready to argue that there were too many guards for him to handle alone but Siberian didn't give him the chance to say anything.
"It'll go quicker if we do it this way. Trust me I can handle them they won't be a problem and there's not that many of them."
Abyssinian studied him for a moment before finally nodding his head, he then turned to Bombay and Balinese and gave them the order to get started on the security system and the two took off. The older assassin kept an eye out to make sure no one snuck up on them while they waited for the system to be disabled.
"I don't think you should take on the guards by yourself." The redhead said suddenly causing the other to look at him.
"There are five guards, eight max. They won't be a problem I am more than capable of handling them myself."
Aya was about to ask Ken why he wanted to take the guards on by himself when Yohji's voice came through the ear piece they were wearing.
"Security is down."
"Copy that Balinese, we're going in."
"Be careful." Omi said but was met with silence as Ken and Aya made their way in.
"I'll distract them so you can get by."
Siberian ran off effectively distracting the guards as eight of them chased him. Abyssinian looked around to make sure it was safe when he saw that all of the guards were chasing the brunette, he proceeded to the target's office.
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Ken grinned at the idiots chasing him they had no idea what they had got themselves into. His beast was begging to be let out to hunt, it had been so long since he had tasted warm flesh and blood. Three years to be exact. Ken turned a corner and ducked into a room and shut the door locking it so the men would think that he had not been able to get in there and pass it buy and when they did, he would have his fun picking them off one at a time.
Ken heard the guards come around the corner and listened to them as one of them swore and gave orders for them to split up. Two would check the rooms along the hall, three would go down the left corridor while the last three went down the right.
One of the guards tried the door for the room Ken was hiding in, finding it locked moved on. The shapeshifter waited a minute then cracked the door open. He looked out to see one of the guards going into a room and the other jiggling the handle on another locked door. Ken silently slipped out of the room and made his way to the man. The guard he was stalking stopped to check another door only to find this one locked as well. Ken took this moment to attack, he grabbed the man's arms from behind and sank his teeth into the back of his neck and ripped his spinal cord out almost ripping the head completely off, the man didn't even have a chance to scream.
"He's not in here either." The second guard said coming out. Not hearing a reply he turned to where his partner should have been and was greeted with the sight of his partner's head nearly ripped off and being held in the arms of a young brunette with blood on his face. The guard shook himself out of his shock and began to draw his gun, the young brunette dropped the body and rushed the man. Ken slammed the guard into the wall and knocking his gun out of his hand at the same time, he bared his fangs to the man. The tiger went straight for his throat. The guard's neck ended up similar to his partners except that it was the front and it was completely ripped out that you could see the spinal cord through his neck.
When the guard struggled for that brief second, when Ken felt his life slipping away, and the blood hot in his mouth, it had excited Ken. It had been three years since he had allowed himself to taste blood. And now that he had tasted it after so long he craved more. Ken let the body fall to the floor and turned to go stalk his next unsuspecting prey.
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Aya cautiously made his way down the hallway to the targets office. He occasionally ran into a single guard along the way. He quickly disposed of them and continued on his way. But there was something in the back of his mind telling him something was wrong.
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"W. . .what do you want?" A man named Mahon asked the two figures standing in the shadows of his office.
"Why Mahon-sama, we want your life." One of the figures said walking forward smiling.
"My life?"
"Yes, Toshiya-sama does not like it when people try to step in on his territory."
"I'll pay five times what he is paying for you to kill him instead." Mahon said standing up from his desk.
The figure that had not moved from the shadows started to laugh. "Stupid man, I don't think you have enough money for that."
"We are not so easily bought off by our targets."
A light mist began to cover the floor of the office and the shadows seemed to come alive and dance along the walls. Mahon's eyes widened in shock when he realized who he was talking to. "It can't be. You're them. You're. . ."
"A little slow on the uptake aren't you? Took you long enough to figure out who we are." The figure in the shadows said mockingly.
"You don't mind if I do the honors, do you?"
"Of course not have all the fun you want with him." The man standing in the shadows told his companion.
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Ken had killed the three guards down the left corridor and now he was heading to the right corridor. He crept silently down the hall as he noticed the three guards going into separate rooms. The tiger slunk in to the closest room with a guard and shut the door silently and locked it. He stalked the unsuspecting man and before he could attack, the guard turned around suddenly.
"You." The guard said pulling out his gun.
Ken grinned at the man and ducked behind some crates that were in the room. He heard the man curse and run towards where he saw Ken disappear. The fool didn't call the others for backup, that mistake would cost him his life.
Ken had jumped on top of the crates so that he was well above the other man. Ken flattened himself against the crate just in case the guard looked up, but he knew that he would not look up because it never occurred to humans that something could attack them from above. Because it never occurred to them they never thought about it, so they were blind to the danger.
Ken watched as the man came around the corner look around and curse when he didn't see Ken anywhere. The guard started to look cautiously around the crates; he slowly made his way over to the set of crates that Ken was perched on top of. He pulled himself into a crouch as the guard came to stand directly underneath him. He looked around for a second and began walk again, when he had taken only three steps Ken jumped right on to his back. The force of the impact had knocked the breath out of the guard and also causing him to drop his gun.
Ken straddled the man pinning his arms to his side and regarded him for a brief second and then he sunk his teeth into the man's shoulder. The guard wanted to scream as he felt teeth sink into his flesh but was unable to because he had the breath knocked out of him. He struggled to get the youth off but found that he was stronger than he was.
When the guard finally regained his breath he sucked in a lung full of the precious air. He was getting ready to yell for help when the youth clamped his gloved hand over his mouth. Ken ripped a piece of flesh out, the guards screams muffled by his hand.
"There is a saying that goes if you miss the Tiger, he won't miss you." (1)The brunette said chuckling.
The guard panicked he couldn't get the boy off and he couldn't shout for help so he did the only thing he could think of. He bit the hand covering his mouth. Ken growled at the man that had the audacity to bite him but kept his hand firmly over his mouth.
"You are going to regret biting me." He growled out.
/What the hell is this guy? No one growls like that, he sounds like some kind of animal./
Ken used his free hand and ripped the man's shirt up the middle using his claws to reveal the man's back. He ran his fingers lightly down his back causing the man underneath him to shudder slightly.
"Such smooth and delicate skin."
/Oh gods is he going to rape me? This guy is psychotic/ The guard thought as he started to panic.
Ken could smell his fear radiating off of his body and it was intoxicating. He leaned forward held his nose just behind the guard's ear and breathed in the sent of fear. Ken laughed lightly as the guard began to panic even more when he had leaned forward. He had a pretty good guess as to why he was panicking.
"You think I'm going to rape you, don't you?" Ken whispered into his ear like he would to a lover.
The man beneath him nodded his head. Ken laughed and patted his head like he would a dog.
"Don't worry I'm not going to rape you." He said now petting the man. He smiled when the man under him relaxed somewhat and said. "But when I'm done with you, you are going to wish that I rapped you."
And with that Ken began ripping chunks out of the guards back and ate them much like a tiger would eat its prey. His screams of pain muffled by Ken's hand still clamped tightly over his mouth. Ken lost himself in the sent of fear and the warm taste of blood and flesh. He continued to rip pieces of his flesh out until he realized that the guard had passed out. Ken looked down at the man's back. His spine was starting to show in some places and he could make out a couple of ribs. He decided to put the man out of his misery seeing as he was no longer any 'fun'. He lifted the man's head up and sharply pulled it towards him. He had pulled so hard on the guards' neck that his face was now pointed towards him and lying on his back.
Ken stood up and began to make his way to the door and his next victim.
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"W. . .why are you doing this?" Mahon asked as he backed as far away from the assassin as he could holding his right arm that had nearly been ripped off and now was only hanging on by a piece of skin and his other hand holding it in place. His left leg had been broken when the assassin had used his hands to smash it.
"I told you, Toshiya-sama does not like people trying to step in on his territory."
"Then why don't you just kill me and get it over with?"
"Now where would the fun in that be?" The assassin asked grinning maliciously.
Mahon could only stare in shock at the man standing in front of him. These two were very well known. He had heard stories about how they killed, they love to torture the target for as long as they remained conscious and then they killed them but on rare occasions they waited for the person to wake up so they could torture them some more.
The assassin slowly made his way to Mahon, who pushed himself into the wall like he was hoping it would swallow him to get him away from the assassin.
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Aya was almost to the targets office when he heard a scream come from that direction. He wondered who was screaming and why. He quickened his pace some thinking that the target might make a run for it when he heard the scream. In the back of his mind he vaguely wondered if it was the target.
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Ken had killed the second guard in much the same way as the first one and now he was stalking the last one. He decided that he would take his time and have his fun with this one since there was one left to help him.
When Ken had first attacked him he had bit both of his arms breaking them. He then let the guard go just so he could chase him and when he caught him the second time he had bitten the guards leg and ripped a piece of flesh out so that leg was useless now.
Ken was following not ten feet away from the limping man. The sent of fear and blood was practically begging him to attack and he did. He went for the guard's good leg and did the same thing to that leg as he did the other. The man could only stare helplessly at Ken as he stood over him.
The brunette kneeled next to the guard and grinned.
"There's something I want you do for me."
"What's that?" The man asked nervously.
"Scream for me." He said as he ripped one of the guard's arms completely off.
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"I hate to ruin your fun but. . ." The assassin standing in the shadows tried to tell his companion but was cut off.
"Someone is coming, yes I know." He said looking up from the shoulder that he was tearing apart and eating. "I guess I have to cut this short, such a shame." Having said that he took one last bite out of Mahon's shoulder.
The assassin stood up after taking one last bite and walked over to his companion licking the blood off much like a cat would.
"I was hoping to have a little fun with this one." He said sighing.
His companion laughed. "I'll let you have the next one since your fun was cut short."
"How kind of you." He said giving his partner a half hearted glare.
"Only for you. Now let's go see who interrupted your fun." He replied smiling at his partner as the shadows seemed to dance around him as if they to, were eager to see who it was that interrupted the fun.
The other assassin nodded and went to stand beside his partner. As soon as he was standing next to him the shadows enveloped them.
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Aya had finally made it to the office. As he slowly made his way to the door of the office he could tell something was wrong. He could sense that someone was dead. Was it the target? If it was who had killed him?
Aya stood to the side of the door incase someone was still in there and slowly opened the door. When he cautiously looked inside he first noticed that no one was in there and then he noticed the blood on the floor leading to one side of the room. His gaze followed the blood until it came to a stop at a body. He walked in slowly glancing around to make sure no one would jump out of nowhere at him. He made his way to the body only to be greeted by something he would not even see in his nightmares. The body had both arms and legs practically ripped from the sockets and it looked as if an animal had been eating the shoulder and stomach and the throat was ripped out. When he finally got to the face of the person he realized that it was the target he was after. But who or what had killed him? When Aya was leaving the room he called Siberian.
"Siberian, pull out and meet up with Bombay and Balinese."
After a minute when Siberian didn't reply he began to worry and was about to try again when Siberian's voice came on the set acknowledging that he heard and was on his way out. As he was walking down the hallway he never realized that the shadows were watching him.
"So he has a partner. Shall we follow him to find out who it is?"
"Of course."
The two assassins hidden in the shadows followed Abyssinian out to where he was to meet up with the rest of his team.
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Ken was a little disappointed that he had to leave, he was enjoying himself. He looked down at the guard. He had pulled out both of his arms and had chewed on one of them just to see the look on his face and he was not disappointed. When the guard had seen him eating one of his arms he had started screaming for help and screaming at Ken that he was a sick bastard. When he had gotten done with chewing on the arm he had started at the legs and had more or less 'eaten' his way up the body. The guard surprisingly had not passed out from shock or blood loss by the time Ken had gotten to the guy's shoulders. This was when Aya had called him and told him to meet up with the others.
The guard's body was no longer recognizable as a human body it was just a bloody mess with a face. Ken sighed he really hated to leave this unfinished but had had to go, the others were waiting for him. As he looked down at the man he could see the fear in his eyes as he wondered what Ken was going to do next. He wanted to ask but his throat was sore from all the yelling so his voice no longer worked and he was also afraid of what the answer would be.
"I'm afraid I have to end this now." Ken said as he plunged one of his hands into the guard's chest and pulled out his heart.
The guard's eyes widened in shock when he saw what Ken was holding in his hand. It was his heart still beating but it was beginning to slowly stop. Ken laughed at him.
"I always wanted to try that to see if it was possible to remove someone's heart and show it to them before they died. Apparently it is possible."
The last thing the guard saw before he died was the person sitting on top of him start to eat his heart.
Ken got up and left still eating the heart and made his way out to join the others. He vaguely realized that he would have to explain how he became covered in blood.
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Aya had made it back to the others before Ken and when he didn't see him there he got a little worried that something might have happened to him.
"Siberian isn't here yet?"
The two blonds shook their head no. Omi noticed that their leader was worried about something so he decided to ask.
"What's wrong Abyssinian?"
"I want to wait to talk about it until Siberian gets here."
"Where is he anyways, I heard you tell him to get out." Yohji said.
Aya just growled at Yohji. He was worried that Ken might have run into whatever it was that killed the target.
"Where the hell are you Siberian?" Aya said over the comlink.
"I'm right here."
Three heads turned to the sound of Ken's voice behind them and looked at him in shock. He must have gotten seriously injured because he was soaked in blood.
"Siberian what happened, are you hurt?" Bombay asked practically running to him.
Ken laughed and looked sheepish. "Heh. . .uh no I'm fine."
"Then why are you covered in blood?"
"Uh well you see. . .I uh slit someone's throat and then I had to dive for cover when someone shot at me and I landed in the blood." Ken replied hoping that they would buy his excuse.
Yohji and Omi seemed to buy his excuse but Aya was looking at him attentively like he was waiting for Ken to tell him the real reason why he was covered in blood.
"Whatever the reason why Siberian is covered in blood, we don't have time for that."
"What do you mean Abyssinian?" Ken asked him tilting his head to the side slightly.
"The target was already dead by the time I got there."
"What do you mean he was already dead?" All three practically yelled at him.
"We'll discus it when we get home." Having said that he turned to leave, the others following behind him.
No one realized that they were being watched by two pairs of eyes.
"So there are four of them."
"If my memory serves me right, I believe they are that group called Wiess."
"Ah, so they are Wiess."
"Yes. The brunette. . ." The assassin trailed off.
"What about him?"
"He's a shapeshifter, but there is something that is not right with him." He replied looking a little confused.
"What do you mean?"
"I am not sure but I will find out."
The two assassins disappeared into the shadows.
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Everyone was gathered in the kitchen back at the Koneko waiting for Aya to explain.
"So what's this about the target being dead?" Yohji asked crossing his arms on the table.
"When I got to the office someone else had already got to him. You could barely tell it used to be human."
"What do you mean by that?" Yohji demanded from his spot at the table.
"The arms and legs were ripped out of the sockets only hanging on by a piece of skin and it looked like some animal had been eating it."
"What could do something like that?" Omi asked looking a little sick.
"I don't know."
/Only a shapeshifter could do something like that. I hope that we won't have to face who ever it was, the guys wouldn't stand a chance against a shapeshifter./
"Well there is nothing we can do tonight so we should just go to bed and get some sleep." Yohji said getting up.
"I agree with Yohji-kun we can try to figure this out tomorrow." Omi said getting up also.
Everyone headed to their rooms to get some sleep except for Ken who went to get a change of clothes so he could take a shower first.
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"So I take it that fool Mahon is dead?" A man asked a large shadow on his office wall.
"Why the hell wouldn't he be?" One of the assassins spat out angrily.
"Be nice." The other assassin scolded his companion. "Of course he is Toshiya-sama."
"You guys work fast, I only asked you to kill him five hours ago." The man called Toshiya said laughing. "But how do I know that he is dead?"
"Well we are the best at what we do. After all it is in our nature to kill. And as to your question if he is dead or not just listen for the news of a mutilated man"
"Here is the rest of your payment. I put a bonus in there because you got the job done so fast." He said as he put a suitcase on the floor and then backed up a little ways from it.
He watched in wonder as a shadow snaked its way across the floor to the suitcase. When the shadow got to it, it enveloped the suitcase and it was gone.
"Thank you for your time we will be going now."
"If you don't mind, I might have some more jobs for you."
"Not at all. Goodnight Toshiya-sama."
Toshiya watched as the large shadow on his wall seemed to melt into the floor and disappear.
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1. I found this on a web site that I can't remember when I was researching tigers to see how large they can get.
Keeper: Well Ken-sama sure was a little OOC, but hey he's a tiger a heart and it has been a while since he went hunting. Because he doesn't change it slowly started to make him I guess you could say unbalanced. He denies his tiger side and that's not healthy for him. It will be explained a little better later.
Shade: The readers are going to be made because of this.
Keeper: I know but to make up for it Schuldig-sama appears in the next chapter! And it is projected that in chapter 9 we FINALLY find out who the girl is. And my plan is to update the last Friday of every month. I know this is not the last Friday but it's been so long since I updated.
Shade: That's good maybe they won't kill you right away then. Thank the reviewers now.
M4r1-ch4n: Yes he does. Hehe so his secret was a kick in the kickers for you? I haven't seen any stories that have him as a shapeshifter. So I said 'Hey this is a good idea and I haven't seen anyone else do something like this.' Though the idea spawned from another fic that I'm working on. Traveling? Well I guess I can forgive you. I hope you had fun.
Anendee: I do have a planned couple, it's going to start as Schu/Ken then go to Ran/Ken. But I'll squeeze some Schu/Farf/Ken action for you! I happy that you think I can do no wrong that means a lot!
HeeroDuo4eva: Ah so that's how it is pronounced thanks! So I'm assuming you know German? I wish I did since I'm part German myself, but I don't. (hangs head in shame) The reason why he doesn't transform is projected for chapter 9.
KyraEnsui: Yes it does take time and I vaguely know where I want this to go. Some of the stuff that I had wanted to happen didn't because it didn't fit in there so it changed. (hits head on desk) But I'm happy with it and I'm glad you liked this enough to review after so long! I hope I can keep your interest.
HeatherR: Let's just say Schuldig-sama is going to have someone yelling at him to help Ken-sama. And Farfie is well… Farfie who knows what goes on in his head. The reason Why Ken-sama doesn't tell anyone is cause he doesn't want to receive any pity.
Kimpatsu no Hoseki: They try to help him well mostly Schuldig-sama. I'm not sure when but they will have a little fight.
Keeper: I would give out plushies but someone stole them. I think it was Kou just to make me mad. Awww man I just realized Mist isn't here to ask the readers to review.
Shade: I'll do it for him. Please leave a review so Keeper can know what she is doing wrong and fix it.
