Title: Metrepole
Rating: PG-13. (I'm too lazy to use the new ratings) Rating MAY change depending on the topics
Disclaimer: I don't own Weiß, but if you find any characters which doesn't belong in the anime, I suppose they're mine...So please, don't complain, don't sue, don't create a racket...
Pairings: Unknown yet. When decided, I will put up.
Summary: (This is centred on Ran, okay?) Ran lost his mermory and is trying hard to find it while seeking revenge against Takatori. His secret terms with Schwarz is left unknown to his new assassin members. As he struggle to stay sane for some reason, he encounters situations he had never dared imagine.
Warning: Shounen-ai to the further chapters (that's a guarantee), maybe some OCC-ness somewhere
Note to readers: Read and review PLEASE... (puppy dog eyes) I know I would have errors here and there, so please ignore them! Most of the words are translated into German, just to tell you, so please don't come up and tell me they're German, because they are! Okay, please go on to the story. The more reviews I get, the faster I do to be exact. Thanks for coming anyway!
Sound the bugle now
Play it just for me
As the seasons change
Remember how I used to be
Now I can't go on
I can't even start
I've got nothing left
Just an empty heart
I'm a soldier
Wounded, so I must give up the fight
There's nothing more for me
Lead me away
Leave me lying
Sound the bugle now
Tell them I don't care
There's not a road I know
That leads to anywhere
Without light, feeling I will stumble in the dark
Lay right down, decide not to go on
Somewhere in the distance
There's a voice that calls: remember who you are
If you lose yourself, your courage soon will follow
So be strong tonight
Remember who you are
You're a soldier now
Fighting in a battle
To be free once more
That's worth fighting for
Trust takes years to build but seconds to shatter
Chapter 15: I remember you. Do you remember me?
According to Manx, Persia's decision was to step down Blaue Locher for at least two weeks to take care of Tiefer much to the group's dismay. During this period the branches in Miami would be restored and a new property would be set up for Blaue Locher. Until then they stay residential with Weiss and assist whenever needed. And because they were going to stay that long, the three Weiss members decided that each member of Blaue could share rooms with one Weiss.
So, according to Omi and Mist who discussed it (privately), he would stay in Ran's room, Kou being in Yoji's, Kazuma in Ken and Kenta's in Omi's.
Everyone agreed except for two people: Yoji and Kou.
"That's definitely out. I'm not sharing my precious room!" Yoji growled and pointed to Kou. "Especially with him!"
Kou snarled back the blonde.
"I'd rather sleep on the couch."
"How about the woman? I wouldn't mind her", the blonde snickered.
A large smack on Yoji's arm told him that it wasn't going to happen.
"No buts, you two! I'm sure you two would get along just fine anyway! Besides, get to know each other a little", Omi said with his arms crossed.
"No thank you, not one from Ander."
"Was that an insult?" Kou hissed. "Well, so sorry human I'm not born in this sluggish world. In fact I didn't even want to come over if it wasn't for some sick ba--"
Mist quickly wrapped both his palms across the demon's mouth.
"Kou, just get along, okay?" Mist said under his breath. A soft grumble which resembled a growl escaped from Kou. "Alright, so it's decided?"
"Are you sure you want to sleep in Aya's room? I mean, he's not going to like it", Ken warned.
Mist let out a laugh. "Ran. You don't know the real him, do you? Don't worry. I'll be fine. So, where is his room?"
Ken glanced towards his other two teammates who returned the same expression.
"If you say so", Omi sighed and led the four up the stairs. I wonder where Aya-kun went?
--
Ran stuffed his hands into the pockets of his denim jeans. It was nearing the end of autumn beginning of winter, although oddly he doesn't get affected. The rest don't really get freaked of the cold but true enough he was prone to it during winter. He'd better hurry home and hide under the covers or something. He simply refused to sit by the fireplace with the other three either bickering with each other or making noise.
He removed one hand from the warmth of his pants and brushed away the two ear-tails flying around his face. The darn wind was getting stronger. He might as well run to sweat and fell warmer. Then again, running would be very cold.
He shivered as the wind brushed past his skin, especially the face. Abruptly, he didn't want to but had no choice and sneezed. Okay, the impact of the sneeze caused his nose to hurt. He rubbed his already red nose and frowned.
He finally hit home and went off to the back door through the alley way behind. From below he could hear two chirping noises from the balcony above and suspected it was the two new birds Omi had. Pigeons…
Hesitantly, he didn't open the door yet. His hand was about to touch the doorknob when he breathed in and sneezed again. During the process he forgot the tent-cover like was right above his head and he hit against it.
The redhead writhed and grumbled about his bad luck and went into the house, rubbing his painful head. Just then he noticed two shadows slipping across the ground to either side of him. The black figures rose to the air and became solid, forming two birds.
"You two…"
"Hei, Mo, don't move around the house so much!" A familiar yet unfamiliar voice called out. Kenta rushed into the kitchen to find Ran standing there with his two shadows hovering near the redhead.
"Hey Ran! How are you? It's been some time!" Kenta said happily, presenting his hand for a shake.
Kenta? Ran thought. He felt he knew yet couldn't totally believe this person. He felt like doing so, but in the end didn't take the hand, just stood there staring at the maroon hair guy opposite him.
"Don't tell me you've forgotten me already? Kenta? We've just met less than two years ago!"
Ran kept silent. The memories of years back were missing.
"I don't remember you, so leave me alone", Ran said coldly and brushed past the teen. Kenta watched in slight shock as the redhead left the kitchen. Hei followed the swordsman and Mo remained behind with Kenta, on his shoulder.
"You really forgot who we are, Ran?"
The redhead proceeded up the stairs and padded off into his own room.
"Hey Ran", a voice called out from inside. Ran looked up to see a fellow sitting on his bed, looking at the photos which were placed by the bedside.
"Mist?" He asked.
"Who else? How have you been lately? Your new team seems rather interesting", the other smiled as he placed the photo where they should belong. Mist got up from the bed and walked over to Ran who was looking down at the ground. "Just what happened to Crashers?"
Ran swallowed. "I don't…remember."
"You don't remember?"
Ran shook his head.
"I can't remember anything before. The only thing I do remember is joining Kritiker after my sister was in an accident. I can't remember myself doing anything with Crashers", he hissed.
Mist refrained himself from frowning at the redhead. He walked up and pushed Ran's face up and met eye to eye.
"What happened to Crashers?" Mist asked sternly.
Ran grit his teeth and refused to say anything. This got Mist on his nerves a little.
"Kritiker didn't know what happen and neither Naru nor Yuushi wish to speak up. Only if you can tell us who destroyed Crashers will we be able to hunt the murderer down."
"I know that!" Ran grunted and pushed the hand away. God, he was afraid of looking at Mist straight in the eyes. It…scared him. "I just can't get anything now."
The smaller man conceded defeat and sighed. "Try to. I don't even know why those two refused to speak out the murderer's name."
--
"You can sleep on the floor", Yoji pointed to the ground below.
"Like Hell I will", Kou snapped back.
"I can't believe I have to share with you", the blonde hissed, raking a hand through his wavy hair.
"I don't know why I'm stuck with you", the demon countered.
The two started giving each other their best glare for a minute and the both of them turned their heads away from each other with a 'humph'.
"If you're so good, go share with Ken then! I bet you won't even be able to sleep with all of Ken's snoring. Heck, I assure you even I can hear him from here!"
"YOJI!" Came from the neighboring room.
"KEN!" Yoji shouted back. A few uneven stomping noises confirmed the brunette from the other room was bringing storms over.
Ken came through the bathroom and came into Yoji's room with Kazuma behind.
"What the hell do you mean I snore? I do NOT snore!" Ken shouted, emphasizing the 'not' part.
"Yes you do", Yoji bickered. "You sound worst than a pig!"
Kazuma coughed to prevent himself from laughing and Kou looked pretty pissed.
"Good luck to you sleeping with him", Kazuma snickered at Kou.
The demon snorted back. "You'd better pray you can sleep with those snores."
"You'd better hope I don't come over and stab you", Kazuma threaten.
"You'd better start praying harder my Hell Hounds don't go over and eat you clean to the bones."
"Amateur."
"Childish."
"Jerk!"
"Asshole."
"Odd one out!"
"Human."
"What's wrong being human you freak of nature!" Kazuma roared.
Yoji and Ken stared at the two Blaue members who were quarrelling even worse than them.
"Are you trying to affiliate yourself death?" Kou asked in a low voice. "'Cause if you are, I'd be glad to send you to--"
"Guys!" Kenta's voice broke in as he barged into the room. "Have you seen Hei? I can't find him anywhere", he said in a worried tone. "And he doesn't come back when I call him."
His two teammates shook their head.
"Odd. Mo doesn't want to help me find. He's too busy playing with Omi's pigeons…" Kazuma gave an odd-looking face between worry and slight anger.
"Help you find him, so don't give that face, Ken", Kazuma sweat-dropped. Ken gave a big question mark look at Kazuma. "Not Ken-two, you idiot. I mean Kenta."
"Hey! Well so sorry for having known someone with almost the same name as me!" Ken yelled and ran off to his own room, closing the bathroom's door behind him.
"Ne, Kou can you help?" Kenta asked as he turned to leave.
"Whatever. In a minute or something", the demon sniffed. Kazuma clasped his hands behind his head as he walked out, asking Kenta about when he last saw the bird.
"You and that Kaz guy don't really seem to get along", Yoji said.
"No thanks for noticing. We're both at each other's throats but we always get stopped by either Mist or Ken", he snorted. "So where the hell am I supposed to sleep?"
"Hm… want a mattress?" Yoji suggested.
--
Omi was probably the only one who thoroughly enjoyed Blaue to be around apart from the part where he got attacked. Those two Schattenvögel were only fighting in defense of Kenta, he reasoned to himself. His pigeons did save him too. Although the Schattenvögel weren't made of blood and bones, they still had the ability to attack as if real. He received a few bruises from the attack of the two birds.
He noticed Olivia and Pecker were entertaining one of Kenta's Schattenvögel by walking about, looking interesting. The black bird which resembled a large crow stalked about as well.
Kenta was outside looking for his other bird. He wanted to help, but the older man suggested it would be better if he stayed to watch Mo in case he gets mischievous and start playing rough with his pigeons.
Omi sat on the cushy chair in front of his computer tale, bending over with one hand supporting his chin, the other dangling over his knee. He watched and giggled when Pecker and the black bird collided into each other by accident. The black bird seemed solid enough, both of them were knocked back and the two birds scuttled back on their feet.
He wondered where Kenta was supposed to sleep. There were only three sleeping bags every one was with the older Weiss members. His was to be used when he go to his friend's barbeque tonight. Darn, he was so looking forward to it. Now it was either let Kazuma sleep on his bed or let him sleep on the floor…
Wait. There was still the woman downstairs. He can't possibly let her sleep on the couch. She can rest there, but she would need a proper bed to feel good when she wakes up. He had gotta ask Kenta about this matter. Maybe Yoji would give up his bed for the woman?
Nah. What were the chances? Unless she could even do sex with him…
Omi blushed. How can he be thinking of such things! He grabbed both sides of his head as he felt he was getting warmer.
He gave a small yelp and jumped a little off his chair when he heard a knock and the sound of the door opening.
"Hey Omi, what are we going to do with Tiefer?" Kenta asked as he peeked in. He looked at Omi and the blonde gulped. "Why's your face all red? Are you sick?"
"No! I'm perfectly fine!" Omi stammered, waving his arms frantically. "I'll be going over to my friend's today, so it's either you or Tiefer who's going to take my bed…"
"Oh, then that's no problem. Tiefer can take your bed. I'll just sleep on the couch", Kenta smiled.
"Wait!" Omi called out before Kenta left. "Then again, maybe I won't be going anymore. The sleeping bag should be big enough to last us for one night. We were actually planning to buy mattresses tomorrow but you came a little too early."
"Are you sure? I don't have a problem sleeping on the couch."
"I'm positive", Omi said in an assuring tone.
Chapter 16: The past which caused chaos
The night passed oddly fast. Most of the people were staying late up at night. Mist and Ran had just managed to squeeze on the bed together and spent the night trying to grab the covers because of the cold. Ken and Kazuma stayed up nearly up to three just chatting. Even Kazuma and Omi joined in the conversation while Yoji and Kou were spending half the time quarrelling with each other about nonsensical stuff.
In the morning Ran woke up. He blinked at the light which peeked through the curtains. He glanced over at clock on the dresser and stared.
Who the hell turned off his alarm?
The redhead sniffed when the person beside grumbled.
"Why are you up so early?" Mist yawned, stretching his arms above him.
"You switched my alarm off, didn't you?"
"Noisy ticking irritated me. I removed the batteries", he purred and grabbed the pillow. Right. Mist's super-sensitive hearing…
Eyes widening, he snatched his watch off the dresser and stared in dread. It read ten. He was late for his shift! Wait, Yoji and Ken are not working and he remembered Omi said about leaving the shop unopened for the next few days.
Ran gave a sigh of relief and propped back down on the bed.
"You really have no recollection of what happened, right? Why didn't you do look for Yuushi? Or Naru, for that matter?"
"Persia refused my presence to be with them."
Mist pushed himself up on his elbows.
"They're your teammates! Can't you even visit them?"
Ran shook his head in response.
"Okay… Well, anyway. We can get back at the person sooner or later. Those who do the deed of the devil would have it return double the price."
Both assassins' attention turned to under the covers. Ran raised himself off the bed and Mist kept back his legs away from where the small portion of the covers were moving. In one swift move Mist flipped away the covers and Hei was there flapping his black wings.
"When did you get in? Isn't Ken looking for you?" Mist asked the shadow bird.
Hei flew to Ran and landed on top of the redhead.
"Shoo", Ran growled.
Hei didn't budge, just sitting there. Mist held back a laugh.
"He hasn't seen you for a long time. I'm sure he's happy to see you again", Mist chuckled.
"I'm not", Ran grumbled. "Go back to Kenta" he ordered.
Hei flew off and dived towards the ground and slipped under the door easily, going out.
"They last time I saw you, you weren't this mean."
"Then how was I?"
"I don't know. Nicer, a lot nicer."
"I'm not getting any closer to my teammates."
"Teammates? Not friends?"
"I don't deserve to have them. Not when I left my previous ones for the dead", Ran growled. He got off the bed and before Mist could say anything, he was out of the room.
Alone in the room, Mist sighed.
"No one deserves to be alone, Ran."
Outside his room, he stood there quietly as he heard the last line from the one inside. Leaning against the wall beside the door, he jumped when a loud shout echoed through the house. It came from Yoji's room, and Ran didn't even have to guess what the problem would be.
"Jesus! What the hell happened to your eyes!" Yoji screamed, hugging his pillow close to him. Kou growled and got up to stand. "I could've sworn they were blue yesterday!"
"I'm not human", Kou reminded. I don't have any definite eye color asshole."
Yoji stared horror-stricken at the now blood red eyes of the demon. One minute he was sleeping peacefully when a animal-like growl came from Kou. He got up and looked over his bed to see Kou throwing his arm over his eyes. When he removed the arm, Yoji stared straight into red eyes which practically freaked him out.
He was so surprised he was even about to cast a spell over the demon.
"Then what was that freaking scary noise you were making? While sleeping?"
"When the colors change my eyes get a stinging feeling."
"Gee, that's so direct", Yoji snarled back, composing himself. He threw the pillow back on his bed and grabbed a cigarette. Picking up the lighter, he lit the cigarette as Kou stretched, his back making loud cracking noises.
The two of them then heard a knock on the door before Ran came into the room. He looked at the two and it was obvious he was waiting for an explanation.
"That asshole there had to shed his eyes", Yoji said first.
Kou glared at him with his pupils in thin slits.
"He doesn't shed his eyes. The color just changes", Ran shot back at the blonde.
"Oh, so now you're on his side?"
It was Ran's turn to give him a glare. Yoji threw him one as well and Ran turned around, exiting the room and slamming the door, causing the two inside to flinch.
"Pissing Ran isn't a good thing", Kou sniffed.
"What the hell do you know about him?" Yoji snarled back.
"More than you do. Way more than anyone in Weiss would ever know."
"So you're now trying to be Mr. Boast and go around telling every fucking member of Weiss to leave him alone? Well, I don't care a single thing about him at all. I've put up long enough to be even in the same household."
"Oi", Kou hissed.
"Shut up! I'm not done talking! That's guy's PMS-ing day night. He's always staring at someone as if it could kill them!"
The noise of a doorknob unwinding caught Yoji's attention and the blonde looked over to the door. Oh hell. Ran was about to call for Kou to come out when he overheard what his teammate had said.
The redhead had nothing to say. He just walked off, leaving the door half-open.
Yoji cursed under his breath for letting everything slip out of his mouth.
"Good going, brainless shit", Kou commented, proceeding towards the door. "You'd better take those words of yours back where they came from."
"What I said wasn't a lie", Yoji fought.
The demon frowned.
"Ran doesn't deserve to be with people like you."
The door was closed and Yoji uttered. In fury, he clenched his fist tight, shattering the tobacco stick into pieces.
---
So, Yoji thought he could be in charge of him eh? Ran thought furiously. He grabbed his coat and immediately left the house, not caring about Kou when he called for him to stop.
Immediately, once out, he crossed the road and walked off to the direction of the hospital via Oleanders.
/Schuldich/ Ran called out. He waited.
/Ja/ The telepath's reply echoed in his head.
/Are you at home/
/Nein. Nagi is though. The rest of us are at Takatori's office./
Suddenly, the redhead sneezed.
/Oi, you okay/
/Yeah/ Ran covered his nose with one hands as he made his way in the city easily.
/Hm… Your thoughts are a bit jumbled. I think you'd better see a doc/
/I'm fine. I just sneezed, that's all/
/Don't underestimate a common cold/
/…/
/Go over to our place. I'll contact Nagi for you and maybe next time I'll get revenge for you on the blondy/
/Thanks/
Ran gave a relieved sigh. Schwarz's place could turn out to be his second home after all.
He glanced at his watch. It was closing eleven. Maybe he could visit his sister once more before going to Schwarz's place.
Twenty minutes of walking, he finally reached the hospital. He stepped in and the usual nurses greeted him as he walked past. He rode the lift up to the floor of Aya's room and exited when he bumped into Makoto.
"Whoah", the doctor exclaimed as he struggled to catch his falling glasses. "Fancy meeting you here."
The redhead kept quiet, considering whether to walk away. As if he knew, Makoto stopped him before the other left.
"Since you're free now, would you go like to meet the person?"
Now, instead of wondering whether to walk off or stay, he debated whether to follow. Maybe he should wait for later. If he were to go now, he'd probably burst out in anger anytime soon no thanks to Yoji.
"I don't think I can deal with that right now", Makoto said.
Ran turned to him in question. "What-?"
Even before he could finish, a hard fist came in collision with his stomach. For what seemed to be seconds felt like hours as the pain drove in and caused him to black-out.
---
The sound of a female groaning voice caught Omi and Kenta's attention. They both got up from the ground and went to either sides of the bed.
"Tiefer, how are you feeling?" Kenta asked, leaning over.
"Where-" She asked huskily, clear that her throat was dry.
"We're at Weiss's place", he replied.
"Weiss-", she processed. "Ran! Where's Ran?" She asked in a panic. Her hands grabbed onto Kenta's arms before the pain running through her head took over, sending her back to the bed.
"He just went out. What's important about him?" Omi asked, helping her as she wanted to sit up. He passed her a few painkillers which she drank down together with water.
"I need to talk to him. It's regarding Crashers."
Omi froze.
"What about Crashers?" The older guy asked calmly.
"I'm sorry. I can only tell him…"
"Does Persia know?" Omi asked all of a sudden. Tiefer stared at him in shock. The blonde looked back at her in puzzlement. Why had he asked such a question?
Tiefer bit her bottom lip.
"You're sharp, Bombay. He does and I can only speak to you about it if you do not spread it."
The two nodded in agreement and Tiefer took a deep breath.
"I've managed to dig out some information from somewhere. A year ago Crashers were sent to ruin an occasion set up by Takatori. Knowing about Ran's past with Takatori, they disallowed Ran to follow."
"Aya-kun… has something to do with Takatori?"
Tiefer gave a surprised look.
"None of you know about his sister's accident?"
Omi shook his head and the woman gave a disappointed look.
"Aya-kun has never said anything to us about his personal affairs. Not once."
"Anyway, continue Tiefer."
"Halfway through wrecking the party, Ran jumped in out of no where and made his advance to Takatori. Crashers stopped him as they weren't supposed to assassinate being in their group. After that, Ran went-"
"You sure have a lot to say for a woman", a voice interrupted.
The two assassins turned to the balcony to see a six foot person standing outside. He had long silver hair and dark blue eyes. He wore a jacket almost like Ken's mission one which was only halfway down the upper-half of his body, not ever bothering about wearing a shirt inside. Both sleeves were rolled up to the elbows and on the right lower arm revealed a marking of some sort. A pair of jeans started below the hip and a brown cloth-belt-like circled the hem of his jeans.
"Would you like me to close that mouth of yours?"
"Who are you?" Kenta growled.
"Slash, remember it carefully."
"Don't tell me…", Omi gasped. "You're the one who cast slash and burn!"
The silver-haired man cackled. "So you aren't just an average kiddo, eh?"
Suddenly several shadows the shape of birds slid out from Kenta's shadows and swiftly darted towards Slash. The other took no heed to them, just lashing his arm, causing all the shadow birds to disappear.
"Hei! Mo!" Kenta shouted. Two larger birds criss-crossed in front of Slash, catching him by surprise. Slash flinched a step back from the room before managing to make the shadows vanish. When he was done, he was unaware Kenta made his advance and delivered a blow to the other's neck with such force that could break several bones. Slash caught the hand just in time before it came into contact with his neck.
This caught the redhead off-guard and failed to defend himself when Slash sent his knee up his abdomen. The impact caused his to slam straight at the opposite wall of the room.
"Frieren!" Omi shouted. Taking this chance, he went over to Kenta and bent beside him, helping him up. Slash froze for a moment before he jerked his head, releasing himself from the spell.
"It's sad too see how such a talented Takatori like you fail to defeat someone weak like me", Slash shook his head. He took noticed of the confused look of the lad's face and laughed.
"Yes you, kid. A Takatori. Believe it or not."
"I'm not Takatori! I'm Tsukiyono!"
"Words that come out from a weakling's mouth. No wonder your father abandoned you."
Those words shot through his head like bullets through a shield. Slash grinned down at the two on the ground and took a few steps forward to the bed. Tiefer stood there frozen, unable to move a single muscle.
Just then Kou and Mist came in after hearing the unusually loud thud.
Upon seeing the stranger in the room, grasping Tiefer's neck, Kou stretched his hand out, palm facing the attacker. From the middle of his flesh a creature a meter long emerged from his flesh. The head and back of its neck had a metallic covering, sort of like armor. Its wings were also metallic with the same shape as the Hölle drängt ears, a large, curved chip-off. The tail was also metal. The whole body was literally red flesh, not a single piece of skin in sight. Its eyes opened bright red and its beak opened to reveal a set of several rows of teeth and to make a high-pitched craw.
Slash seemed to know this was a dangerous opponent not only because of its size. He immediately let go of the woman and retreated back a few steps. The Hölle Falke charged towards Slash who fortunately decided to back off instead of fighting it. The room had started to get unnaturally foggy and he would be no match against these two. He slipped out the window just in time before the Hölle Falke managed to get a grasp on any part of him, missing its sharp claws by a mere centimeter.
Kou went out to the balcony to find the guy missing, not leaving a single trace of scent behind. It was no surprise. The Hölle Falke soared above, screeching at the lost of its prey. Kou gave a snap of his fingers before the bird dissolved into red dust. The demon turned over to find Mist shaking Omi out of shock while helping Kenta remain conscious.
"Kou, help bring Kenta to Ran's room", Mist called out. Kou snorted and scooped the now unconscious figure and bringing him out. Mist managed to get Omi back into reality who was in a state of confusion.
"What happened? Where's Kenta-san?"
"Kou has him taken care of. Don't worry. A spell or two would have him walking back in no time", Mist said, assuring, as he helped the blonde back onto his feet. "Who was that person?"
"He calls himself Slash and he was the one who cast streich und stirbt on Aya-kun before."
"Slash… Rather makes sense. The marking on his arm here", Mist pointed to the lower arm of his right, "reads Kan(1)."
"You know how to read?"
"That language had vanished from this place decades ago, but I got to learn about it."
"Mist has a liking for languages. Regarding these things, there's nothing he doesn't know", Tiefer added. Omi managed a smile before going into an unusual silence, obviously keeping something in.
"What's wrong?" Mist asked.
"Slash knew I was a Takatori. I don't want to believe it, but he actually knew my past. It's… scary."
"Takatori… The one who caused Ran's sister to go into a coma. I'd suggest you keep this from him or else things are going to get rather ugly."
Chapter 17: To know a Secret
Makoto smirked to himself as he stepped into Takatori's office. Across his shoulder was the knocked-out redhead, still unawake. He came into the large room where Takatori Reiji, Masafumi and Hirofumi were with three members of Schwarz and all four of Schrient.
The first reaction of Masafumi and Hirofumi were to stand up to greet the doctor for the first time while Schwarz and Schrient remained unmoving, just staring at the one who had just entered.
"I've brought the Fujimiya I was talking about."
Immediately Schuldich tensed. Fujimiya? No fucking way it could be…
Makoto dropped the person onto the carpeted ground as the body landed with a soft thud. Schuldich almost burst out in anger if it wasn't Crawford who shot him a glare, forcing him to stay put.
Reiji got up from his seat and walked over to the sleeping figure.
"Fujimiya…" he questioned, then his eyes widened. "Ran Fujimiya? The one and only son of my best helper?"
"Yes, so glad to see you remember, Mr. Takatori. Indeed, this is your right-hand man's son. Isn't he worth taking for?"
Schuldich's hand in his pocket clenched tightly. He was so fucking going to kill this guy soon.
/Brad, just who the hell is this guy/
Masahiro Matsuo. I heard he's one of Takatori's gold digger/
/Sure. He just struck gold/
/Calm down/
"Would you like him up now?"
"Do so."
Makoto smiled and rubbed his two forefingers together, oddly forming water. He did it over Ran's face and the redhead began to stir.
Ran flinched at the bright light above. This didn't look like a hospital at all. Slowly, his eyes adjusted to the surroundings as he groaned to wipe away the water falling onto his face. Was it raining indoors?
"Good morning, Ran", Makoto greeted down. Ran took a while to realise where he was and got up.
"Fujimiya! Glad to see you once again, Violet", Reiji laughed, walking over.
Ran hissed as he saw his worst enemy approaching him and wanted to shout for him to stop when no sound came out. He was momentarily stunned as the lost of his voice and reached up to his neck to check his vocals. He tried making a noise yet not a single vibration came through.
"What's the matter, Violet? Have you forgotten me?"
Schuldich! He screamed through his thought. The telepath gave no reaction, just standing there, looking at him. Schuldich? He tried again. Still, no response came from the telepath.
On the other hand, hidden underneath, Schuldich gave a shocked report to Crawford.
/Brad! I can't hear anything from Ran! And he isn't speaking/
/You should have no problem communicating with him. What's wrong/
/I can't hear or receive a single thought from him. Judging by his looks he's trying to call out to me/
/Are you sure something's wrong/
Schuldich gave a silent hiss as a negative response.
Wee! I FINALLY managed to post up. Phew. Oh yeah, I apologise for sooo many mistakes in the chapters. -.-lll I'm getting blur. The next chapter can only be posted up earliest in three weeks or so. Turst me and wait for me okay? -PUPPY DOGGY EYES- Thanks for ALL your support people!
For the FYIs:
(1)Kan. Oh yeah, I made chinese a long, long ago language. Well it is! If the world's gonna turn into something like Metrepole, I'm sure there's only going to be one native language. -sob- The word 'Kan' means slash. That's how you get Slash. :) And I don't mean the yaoi term okay? -glare-
Translations:
Hölle Falke : Hell Hawk
There are some repeats. Inform me if I missed out anything. I'm so sleepy I could hardly keep me eyes open...
Reviews:
rebelyell: Thanks for reviewing! You'd better keep up your good work too!
mistskeeper: Okay... Kou is getting a little too overacting... I have no idea why but it seems to me Kou is like the -strongest- (at the moment. bwah ha ha) in the story. -.-lll Jeez. Better be thankful KOU-JEN-ROU!
rubymoon: I like Yoji's weakness though. :) It's cute.
Eisam: Well, looks like now you get to know hwhat Ran's reaction to Takatori was... And that keeps you thinking about who Slash and Masahiro would be. :) Work your brains out. That's the only part of your body that doesn't excercise. :P I'm sorry about the spelling and grammer mistakes. My fingers are getting weaker be the days. I'm just an old hag in her tens... Wait. That's not old, is it?
darkdranzer: eh... above? -points above- :)
katten: There you go! Next chappie:)