Retrievers, Transporters and Ducks! Oh My!
By: Alicorn
Rating: G
Betas: Riyuji and Rabid Lola
Ginji woke up to a sharp pain in his ear. Now, most people would be upset by this, but our Thunder Emperor was not most people. He tended to sleep in on normal days, and it was a regular occurrence for Ban to tug him out of the car by his ear and send him flying. So a twinge in his ear was no problem.
The strange thing was the fact that, when he tried to get into a sitting position, he couldn't move his hands, and there was a ... clinking sound?
"Waah! What happened! Why am I chained to a wall!"
There was a snort from beside him.
"I dunno, maybe because we were captured by the yakuza?"
"Oh. How did that happen?" Ginji struggled, finally managing to sit up so that he could see the person he was talking to.
"Ah! It's you!"
The girl from the truck glared at him.
"Yes. What about it?"
"You're the girl from the truck! I thought you were a boy, but then you turned and had the biggest, hugest eyes, and then you got mad and stuck something in my ear!"
The girl quirked an eyebrow, then pouted sulkily
"And if the needle had stayed, I wouldn't have to put up with you. You'd be nicely unconscious, and I could nurse my bruises in silence."
"Needle?"
Ginji looked over, and indeed, there was a sliver of something bright and pointy and shiny.
"Cool! You're like Juubei then!"
The girl blinked, and cocked her head to the side.
"Juu-jube? What?"
Ginji laughed then, and shock he head.
"Not Juu-jube, Juu-BEI! Kakei Juubei! He uses needles as well, although his are a lot thicker than yours..."
The girl looked interested now, and leaned forward.
"There's another person who uses needles to fight? That's cool, I thought that I was the only one!" She grinned. "Maybe you're more interesting than I thought! Tell me more!
"By the way, you can call me Shinigami. My onii-san doesn't want people knowing my real name," she finished apologetically, "Sorry."
"It's no problem! You can call me Ginji."
"Alright Ginji-tan! ... Now tell me a story? Pweeeeease?"
Mr. No-Brake was bored.
No, make that, extremely bored.
He had been bored when hewatched the sleeping body of Midou Ban lying on the floor if the cell, but now that the jyagan-master had awoken, the constant barrage of insults was even less intellectually stimulating.
"Well, I guess you transporters failed this time... oh well, it's not like I ever really trusted that Dr. Jackal of all people would be able to choose sane clients. The man's practically half insane to begin with."
The running commentary was really quite annoying.
"He should be put in a loony bin."
Maybe talking would make him shut up for a few minutes?
"With nice white padded walls, and a straight jacket-"
"You know Midou-san, it was Lady Poison who told us about this employer in the first place."
"... oh."
"And that's basically it... it's sorta embarrassing now that I think about it."
The girl was laughing hysterically, and Ginji mentally patted himself on the back.
Laughter must be the prettiest sound in the world.
"You actually mistook that string-guy for a girl? That's just hilarious. Not that that hasn't happened to me before. People keep mistaking me for a boy when I first meet them."
"Hmm... well, I don't know about other people, but I made that mistake too..."
Realising he had made a mistake when she levelled a Look-of-Doom on him, Ginji back-pedalled swiftly.
"It's not that you look like a boy now, I mean, it's very easy to tell you're a girl from here, it's just that in the dark, it's hard to see your boobs, not that I only look at that to tell that they're girls, but you have a fighter's stance, so I assumed you were a boy, not that only boys can fight or anything-"
He stopped when he realised that she was laughing again.
"Wah-haha-you're the-haha-cutest thing that-heh- I've ever seen-haha" She was panting and clutching at her sides, her giggling accompanied by the soft clinking of her manacle chains. With a wry smile, she added, "You know, if I had met you under other circumstances- ONII-CHAN!"
Ginji's head snapped towards the door, where a bedraggled lump of black cloth had just been thrown. Shinigami dashed as far as her chains would allow, then cradled it, revealing the human form hidden within.
"Onii-chan! Onii-chan, what did they do to you? ONII-CHAN!"
Meanwhile, having recognised the hat on top of the cloth, Ginji started stuttering, and popped into tare-form.
"A-Akabane-san!"
Who's so powerful that they could beat you up to that extent? You weren't in that condition even after Ban-chan fought you at Mugenjyou that time...!
Midou Ban pondered, seeming to struggle over the fact that Himiko may have done something stupid, then his eyes widened..
"Where's Himiko? Was she with you?"
Mr. No-Brake grunted, then mumbled, "No, Lady Poison decided to skip today's job because of previous engagements."
"Good. I wouldn't want-" Ban coughed. "I mean, it wouldn't be good for her to be cought up in something so unprofessional."
"Hn."
He's got it bad... Better pretend to go to sleep before he starts going on about Lady Poison like she does about him.
Mentally rolling his eyes, Mr. No-Brake Nodded his head onto his chest, in prepareation for a nap.
Akabane coughed, spraying blood onto the floor, and tried to sit up.
"It's nothing Ama-Shinigami. I've been through worse, you know that."
"I know- But... how did this happen to you?"
"Quite simply, our employer. His name's not Watanbe, he's not even Japanese. He's a half-breed Japanese-Vietnamese-American bastard who had a grudge against me from a long time ago."
"H-he must be a very good fighter to be able to p-put you in this condition A-Akabane-san."
"Well he was holding Shinigami-chan hostage, so I couldn't-"
Akabane's head turned, and Ginji saw that the face underneath the hat had a split lip and a shiner that was rapidly turning purple before his eyes.
"Ah, Ginji-kun! So they did follow my directions not to put you with Shinigami-chan."
"Ah?"
Akabane chuckled, then rasped, "I had deduced that I would probably be put with a member of my team if anything happened to me as bullies always want to 'rub it in' , and that member would be Shinigami-chan, since she's assumed to be the weaker member. In case both of us were incapacitated, I figured there would be higher chances of escape if one of you GetBackers were in the cell with us so, I asked for you to be kept away from Shinigami-chan, as our captors would go against my wishes. I chose you over Midou-kun, because you're easier to work." He gasped then, and started coughing hard.
Throughout the speech, Ginji was confused, and not the least bit scared about how Akabane's mumbo-jumbo seemed to sound like one of Ban's plans.
Does this mean that Ban-chan is like Akabane-san? EEP!
"Alright onii-chan, you're very smart," said Shinigami, patting his head, "Now stay still, shut up, and let me fix you."
Fidgeting a little, she moved Akabane's head into her lap, and closed her eyes. There was a heart beat, and then Ginji felt a flow of something-that-was-like-electricity-but-was-not flow between the two transporters. Ginji saw Akabane's face and gasped.
The cuts vanished, the split lip shrunk and sealed before his eyes, and the sunrise around Akabane's eye had faded until it was almost unnoticeable.
I've never seen that sort of thing happen outside of Mugenjyou!
"Geez onii-chan, they really busted you up." Shinigami groaned, and stretched her arms, cracking joints. "Learn how to fall better." She giggled softly, and then ruffled Akabane's hair playfully.
Akabane smiled comfortingly (aka: he smiled in a way that was creepily like the way he smiled during a good fight) and sat up.
"In the future, I will do my best to comply imouto-chan (1)."
Ginji gasped as a revelation hit him.
This girl is AKABANE KUROUDO'S little sister! DR. JACKAL has a little sister! WAAAH!"
Tare-Ginji had never wibbbled(2) so hard in his life.
"Oy."
"What, Midou-san?"
"Every time Ginji and I try to stop you from driving, you always go right through our road blocks."
"I'm Mr. No-Brake, what do you expect?"
"Why'd ya stop for the ducklings?"
If sweat-drops were real, Mr. No-Brake's would have drowned the population of Tokyo.
(1) imouto-chan: little sister
(2) wibble- a word I use to describe that pitiful shaking that people do when they're either really sorry, or really scared... I suppose it is most accurately described as the motion people make when they're imitating a bowl of Jello that Ginji's having fun with XD
AN: Originally, I had planned a lot more content in this chapter, but then I decided that it got to a nice ending point, so I would end it there and split the content up, otherwise, the chapter was gonna take way too long to write Don't worry though, there's really only a little content that I chopped off, and you'll see it in two weeks )
And yes, Akabane uses exclamation points when Ginji is concerned X3 … he gets very enthusiastic XD
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Rabid Lola : Evil Phillipino people mocking me with their school system. And you've got your answer about Ban and Ginji (Did you know that my sister thought it was pronounced Jinji for the longest time?)
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