Author's Note: Annnnnnd, welcome back to what should have come after the first chapter in the first place! Hahaha! Fic is finally coming full circle! Hopefully I tied most of the loose ends well enough.
Disclaimer & Warnings: Everything was listed first two chapters and chapter 7.
Pairing: RanOmi, Yoken.
Fic Note: This technically should be the end, but I'll add a sort of bonus chapter to wrap this fic up!
Kämpfen mit Rache
"Can everyone hear me?" Ran whispered through his comm link.
"Got you," Omi replied.
"Same," Yoji replied, his connection a bit crackly.
They all waited a moment to hear Ken's familiar voice crack in, and then they all seemed to remember simutaneously that Ken wasn't with them at the moment, and that these men they were targeting in their current mission were the very reason why Ken wasn't here. Ran cleared his throat, "All right...everyone know what they're doing?"
"Yeah, I'll be with Yoji to clear the way..." Omi started.
"Right. And I'll have a talk with our main target before eliminating him," Ran finished.
They all fell silent for a while. Yoji broke the silence this time. "Okay, already. I'm ready. What about you guys?"
"Ready!"
"Hn..."
They took off from their hiding place, and they breached the first line of defense. Passing through a broken hole in the electric fence, the three Weiss took off towards the dark building. Omi tripped and fell, causing some of the surrounding guards to spot them and start shooting their guns. Omi and Yoji distracted the guards while Ran started slicing at the doorway, trying to get it to open. Ran grunted as he thought to himself how much easier this task would have been if Ken was here to just simply punch through the door with his bugnuks, and smiled to himself in amusement as he pictured Ken cursing at himself after his hand got stuck in the doorway. He would blame it all on Ran later. He could almost hear Ken's voice now.
"Ran! This is all your fault, you know that? My blades have another dent in them from that door you made me open!"
Ran smiled as he managed to get the door open. Omi had somehow figured out about their conversation and said Ken could still be able to call him Ran, and he would continue to call him Aya. Ken still tried to call him Aya, however, just to be kind to Omi. Things had gotten far better between them, though. Though Ran's sister was disappointed that Ken wouldn't be stopping by as often anymore, Ken was true to his word from the day they had their closure conversation and visited Aya every once in a while.
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"Didn't I make you happy, Ken?"
Ken had laughed softly. "Yes, you did make me happy too, Aya..."
"Do you love him?"
"Well...I can't say for sure yet...I mean, he's not even sure of his own position..."
"But if he does love you back, do you think you would be able to...?"
"Yes."
"Didn't we love, Ken?"
Ken half-smiled. "We did, Ran," he let the name slip, "I still love you, and I always will. There will always be a part of me that will be yours."
Ran was exasperated now. "Then why didn't we work?" a question that he had been pondering a long while.
He half expected the small smile and chuckle Ken gave him. It probably seemed pretty stupid, how much the tables had turned. Ran-who was normally so keen and perceptive was not understanding this one concept of love. "We didn't work, Ran, because your heart was ready to be somewhere else."
"But then why do I-"
"Feel different ever since we became over? Listen Ran..." Ken winced slightly at letting the name slip again, he had to work on that habit, "Aya. Omi...he's like my baby brother. I've been watching you two lately, and your relationship seems to be falling apart a little because of your uncertainty...Aya...listen to me. Your heart chose Omi. It's your mind that's not sure of it all. I overreacted to our break-up, even when I promised you that I could handle it, and I'm sorry. But don't let your mind second-guess your heart. You love Omi, and that's what you've got to keep on believing. Don't worry about me anymore. I'm not your responsibility anymore beyond Weiss. Omi should be your number one concern now."
Ran had nothing to say to that, then. Ken smiled. "Hey, Aya."
Ran almost didn't respond to the name. He was still not used to Ken calling him by his codename outside of battle. He realized he would probably have to get used to that. "Hn...?"
"Promise me, that you will try to patch things up with Omi before it's too late?"
Ran took a while, but he finally came around. "Aa..."
Ken smiled. "That's good. Take good care of Omi."
Ran watched in silence as Ken finally put his helmet on, revved his engine, and took off at lightening speed towards his house. For some reason, it didn't hurt that much this time, seeing Ken go. As Ken said, Ran would always have a part of Ken with him forever, and Ken would always have a part of him forever. They could still love each other, but they had different priorities now. Ken had his life, and Ran had Omi.
He had returned to the shop, and seen Omi in tears trying to water some roses. Smiling to himself, he went over to Omi, hugged the chibi and helped him water the flowers. He realized that the chibi probably misunderstood why he had gone outside after Ken. He had been seeking closure-which he recieved, but that was probably not what it looked like to another person. He hugged Omi behind, wiping and kissing the younger boy's tears away.
"Forgive me Omi...forgive me..."
Omi had hugged Ran tightly then. He saw a flash of Ken's smile for a moment, but did his best to push that memory out of his mind. He had someone else he had to take care of now. "I love you...Omi..." Ran finally managed to say.
He saw all the memories of himself and Ken flash before him, and then felt them all get tucked away in the back of his mind as he dug out some great memories of himself and Omi. "I love you too...Aya," he faintly heard the chibi's voice break through his thoughts.
They stayed like that a while before going back to shop work. Their relationship only got better after that.
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He ran around the building looking for the upper floor, where the kingpin was said to have created a personal room for himself, the other two Weiss close behind him. He sliced through the guards that were trying to shoot at him, with quite poor aim since compared to the guards outside, these people were junkies who had no clue how to use a gun. He felt Ken tug at the back of his mind.
"Ran! They said don't kill unless it was necessary!" Ken had said once to Ran on an assignment similar to this one.
"Ken, understand one thing. We aren't here to save lives. We're here to eliminate them."
"But all of them? There are some innocent lives here!"
"We spare the ones that don't get in our way. If they cross our paths, they have given up their innocence to the devil."
As luck would have it, the three Weiss ran across the boys who had shot Ken. Yoji rammed the toughest looking one into a wall. "Where is the guy behind this shit?" Yoji growled.
The boy only smirked and spit in Yoji's face. "I don't have anything to tell."
Yoji was pissed off. "Hey! I found out where he is!" Omi shouted at Ran and Yoji, "This boy told me. Top floor, as high up as we can go."
"You idiot!" the tough looking teen shouted at the shorter junkie, his face now showing an expression of fear as Yoji spit in his face and grinned at him.
"Should have told us sooner, we might have spared you. I hope you suffer the rest of your eternity, in Hell."
The tough boy pushed Yoji away with all his might, and the six boys total regrouped together and tried to take the three Weiss members on. Ran sliced through several of them with ease, Omi paralyzing the others with his paralysis darts while Yoji took care of the remaining three, including the boy who had refused to speak.
They left the bleeding corpses behind them. It hardly made up for Ken's condition, but it put them all a little more at ease that they were able to avenge a little bit for Ken.
The three Weiss slowed as they waited outside the final door of the building. After they had all caught their breath, Ran kicked open the door to the room. Their eyes all attempted to adjust because of the sudden illumination the room provided. Once their eyes adjusted, they saw a pretty panicked looking man who looked about forty holding up a gun with a shaky hand. He had a good build, but his personality appeared the type to only bully those far weaker than him, in order to look strong. "H-how did you get here so quickly? W-what d-do you all w-want?"
The three Weiss members moved in closer to the man, looking lethal. "You want money?" the man asked, "I can give you money...!"
Omi chuckled darkly, in his assassin mode. Unlike Ken, he knew exactly what he was doing when he was in this mode. And he was ready to kill. "Money won't replace what your men hurt."
The man laughed weakly, cocking his gun. "Erm...damaged goods? I have plenty here. You can take as much as you want! I don't normally give out free handouts but-AH!"
Yoji had wrapped one of his wires tightly around the man's wrist, causing him to drop the gun in shock. The man looked at the floor panicked. Yoji released the man's wrist and quickly wrapped another one around the man's neck as he tried to bend down and grab the gun. "I'm afraid you can't negotiate with us. This is revenge for something your men have done."
"Then why punish me!" the man wailed, "You should just punish those boys. Who are they? I can call them for you."
Yoji smirked. "What a shame, we already took care of them on our way here," he said as he pulled the man into standing position.
"Besides..." Ran continued, "You're part of our mission too. We are Weiss. Hunters of Justice. And today, is your day of judgement. For all the sins you have done."
Omi grabbed one side of Yoji's wire as Yoji moved to the other side, holding the other end, causing the man to be pinned in his place, helplessly scratching at the painful weapon tied around his neck. Ran positioned his blade. "Hell awaits," was all he said before driving his blade into the screaming man's stomach.
Omi and Yoji pulled tightly at the wire at the same time Ran had sliced the man, in order to make sure the man wouldn't survive. Yoji cut off the piece of wire from his watch looking compartment, and Ran pulled out his blade, shaking the fresh blood onto the ground. The rushed out of the room and got ready to head on out. That was when Yoji spotted the boy that should have been shot instead of Ken. "Wait...that boy was standing at the shop that day...what is he doing here? Wait a minute...! Could he be the one who-?"
"Yoji-kun! Wait!" Omi shouted after the blond, but it was too late. Yoji's mind was already made up.
Omi sighed as he watched Ran and Yoji chase after the boy who had escaped Ken's fate.
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Meanwhile, doctors were frantically working to save Ken. His condition had started spiraling downward during an hourly assessment, and they were rushing him into the emergency room to try and keep Ken alive.
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The boy looked at him in fear as he found himself pinned in the corner. Yoji glared at him. "Why...are you here...?"
The boy shuddered under Yoji's gaze. "I-I came to ask for forgiveness..."
Yoji rolled his eyes. "From the boss? What kind of idiot are you? Do you honestly think they'll forgive whatever mistake it was you made?"
The boy shivered. "I...I don't know...but I had to try..."
Yoji snorted. "And tell me, why you had to try?"
"M-my brother...I need the money for my brother...he's got cancer..."
Yoji had been half-ready to kill the boy, when he simply just pulled the boy closer to him by the shirt. For a second he saw Ken's pale face, and caused Yoji to want to kill this boy so badly, but then he remembered Ken's smile.
"Yoji!" Ken was laughing, "Yoji! Hey! Come on! I want to go see your place!"
Yoji slowly started to put the boy down. "Hey! I hope you know you're going to help me clean this up. It was partly your fault too!"
He pushed the boy down to the ground. The boy looked at him, completely terrified. "I love you, Yotan...!"
He sighed and kicked at the ground out of frustration. "Get out of here."
The young teen looked at him in disbelief. "W-what...?"
Yoji glared at him. "I said, get out of here. Don't make me change my mind."
The boy looked so relieved. "T-thank you so much, sir."
Yoji's eyes softened. "Avoid this line of work, kid. Get a good job, or we'll be running into each other again, real soon. And next time, I won't be as nice."
"Yes, sir," the teen said and got up slowly.
He turned to Yoji. "Seigi."
"Eh?"
"Ishida Seigi...that's my brother's name," the boy whispered.
"Why are you telling me this?"
The boy smiled nervously. "I...I don't know. I just think he'd like to meet you, is all."
Yoji chuckled, amused. "Just...just get out of here, boy. I don't want to see your ass here again."
The teen nodded eagerly and ran out. Yoji sighed. "You win, Ken...I let that boy go. He'd better amount to something good, damnit."
He then turned and saw Ran and Omi look at him in awe. Yoji raised an eyebrow. "What?"
Omi smiled. "Yoji Kudou gone soft and showing mercy where it is due?" Omi chuckled, amused and completely relieved that Yoji hadn't killed the boy.
"I think I've died and gone to Heaven," Omi laughed and pretended to stab himself with an air knife.
Yoji laughed. "Whatever. Let's go check up on Ken."
The three Weiss headed for Yoji's car and zipped off for the hospital. They were in the parking lot in fifteen minutes flat, cutting a long drive amazingly short due to Yoji's insane speeding skills.
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Meanwhile, inside of Kibou Hospital, Ken was breathing again. They had lost him for almost two minutes now. They were now frantically trying everything they could to revive him and keep him alive. The doctor patted Ken on the shoulder absently, as if that would bring the boy back to life instantly.
"Come on, boy...there's too many people out there waiting for you...find your way, and come back to us," the doctor murmured.
TO BE CONTINUED...
Saiki.Kensuke.Yuuta: Phew! Three updates in one day, that was exhausting! I hope that it is all satisfactory so far! I'm going to take a break before uploading the last chapter. So you can review this one up to here until then.
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I'm going to try to end this fic with something as realistically as possible. It won't be perfect, but I hope the ending will satisfy. This chapter should have been the true ending, but I wanted to put a small twist on things. Hah! See you all soon!