Nacht Arc 1
IN MEIFU (JuOhCho, Shokan Division)
"Here's the new assignment Tsuzuki-san, Hisoka-kun!" Chief Konoe replied giving Tsuzuki a folder.
The purple-eyed Shinigami took the folder and opened it. He nearly choked on the bread he is eating. What's inside the folder aroused the curiosity of Kurosaki Hisoka. He took it from the elder Shinigami and looked at it, he also choked.
"Wha... This girl..." Hisoka sputtered looking bewildered. Tatsumi pushed his glasses up to his eyes and said, "Hasegawa Ayumi, you're new assignment!"
"But Tatsumi-san! This girl is a candidate for being a Shinigami? She became a candidate even she's still alive and above all, her name is isn't in the Kiseki yet!" Tsuzuki protested.
Hisoka nod his head in agreement, "I agree Tatsumi-san! We have to get the girl's life even there is no reason for her to die yet?"
"There is a reason! She's a candidate to be a Shinigami!" Tatsumi replied looking stern.
Tsuzuki raised an eyebrow and replied, "We know but..."
"Orders from Enma Daioh! He wanted that girl to be a Shinigami!" Chief Konoe exclaimed shocking Tsuzuki and Hisoka.
"Orders from above" Hisoka and Tsuzuki thought.
MUCH LATER... ON EARTH... KYUSHU
"I don't believe this! What is with this Hasegawa Ayumi anyway? She's still alive and yet a candidate to be a Shinigami? Preposterous!" Hisoka exclaimed looking annoyed.
Tsuzuki Asato just shrugged his shoulders and said, "Assignment is an Assignment Hisoka, better get the job done!" he scanned the area and asked, "Spotted her?"
Hisoka shook his head and said, "No! I couldn't even sense her!"
Both Shinigamis were hiding in a tree; Tsuzuki was standing on the branch while Hisoka is sitting on it.
"It's been two hours already! I'm hungry!" Tsuzuki complained.
"You've just finished a whole box of donuts baka!" Hisoka exclaimed veins popping. "This guy is really impossible" he thought as Tsuzuki turned into inu (dog) mode and started to wail.
"Aww... common Hisoka! Just one bite of apple pie! Common!" cried the inu mode Tsuzuki, wagging his tail at Hisoka.
Hisoka sighed looking annoyed. "Oh all right! Stop whining will ya?" he exclaimed irritably. Tsuzuki pounced on him crying, "ARIGATO HI-SO-KA!" hearts
The two Shinigami went down the tree and was about to head the nearest pastry shop, when a girl with long jet-black hair, emotionless gray eyes dressed in a school fuku walked by. Hisoka stared at the girl and exclaimed, "It's her!"
Tsuzuki ran towards girl crying, 'Yo wait! Hasegawa Ayumi, matte!"
The girl turned around and saw Tsuzuki running towards her. The girl's eyes lit up and jumped away from him. Tsuzuki halted in surprise. Ayumi Hasegawa was now standing on a wall staring at him like a killer.
"Anta...who are you?" Ayumi asked.
"Such fast reflexes" Tsuzuki thought. He smiled cheerfully at the girl and said, "Hello there Ayumi-chan! We just like to talk to you!"
Ayumi didn't change her facial expression and asked, "Are you from Pentagon?"
"Pentagon? Why ask that?" Tsuzuki wondered. He shook his head and answered, "Oh no! We..."
"We just wanted to speak with you for a moment. We're not enemies Hasegawa-san." Hisoka replied cutting off Tsuzuki.
"Eh..." Tsuzuki replied staring at Hisoka in SD form.
Ayumi jumped down the wall with flourish not even disheveling neither her hair nor her school clothes and said, "All right! Follow me then!"
Tsuzuki and Hisoka looked at each other and decided to follow the mysterious girl (hey aren't those two mysterious too? sweatdrop)
HASEGAWA RESIDENCE
"Whoah! What a huge house!" Tsuzuki thought in awe. He was seating in the sofa and was scanning the Hasegawa household. It was huge, the living room is filled with crystal figurines, even the chandelier is made of crystals.
"Nee Ayumi-chan, where are your parents?" Tsuzuki asked looking at Ayumi who was seating in front of him. Ayumi answered, "I don't have any parents. I live alone."
Hisoka exclaimed in surprise, "Alone! But you're barely 16!"
"I live with the maids and a butler... but they are stay out, so I live alone" Ayumi explained monotonously. She then stood up staring at Hisoka and Tsuzuki.
"Those emotionless eyes... how such a girl like her who is barely 16 got those eyes? Eyes like a heartless killer..." Tsuzuki wondered staring at Ayumi's gray eyes.
"Tell me, what is your purpose? What do you want to speak of me?" Ayumi asked.
Hisoka took out a fuda and said, "We're not humans Hasegawa-san, we're Shinigamis. We came from JuOhCho and we were send by Enma Daioh to take your life away."
Ayumi closed her eyes and said, "I see..."
"Gomen ne Ayumi-chan, I know it's hard to believe, well it's really hard for out part too, you see your name is not in the Kiseki but you have to die for a special purpose." Tsuzuki exclaimed approaching Ayumi.
He touched Ayumi's shoulder and said, "You're a candidate Ayumi-chan. You are a candidate to be one of us, to be a Shinigami. We don't really know why, but it's an order from above and we need to take you know."
Ayumi opened her eyes and said, "Get out!"
Tsuzuki sweat dropped and said, "Wha..." then suddenly Ayumi pushed him away as bullets came whizzing by them.
Hisoka cried, "TSUZUKI!"
Tsuzuki fell on his back and said, "Daijoubu Hisoka! It's Ayumi I'm worried about!" He scrambled back to his feet and saw Ayumi dodging the bullets like an acrobat. His jaw dropped in surprise.
As Ayumi landed on her feet, both of her hands reached at the back of her skirt and revealed 2 magnum guns. She focused them on Tsuzuki and Hisoka and said, "Duck!"
Tsuzuki and Hisoka did. Ayumi fired, 2 guys dressed in black dropped dead. She then aimed the gun on her left hand at her back and without looking she fired. Another guy in black dropped dead.
Bullets started to rain again. Tsuzuki took out a fuda and chanted, "Animus, animus, animus irritus inferi! Animus inferi! CONTEGO!" a huge barrier shield appeared and protected him and Hisoka.
He turned to Ayumi who was firing her gun, the gun on her right was shooting in front, the other hand is at her back shooting still, without looking.
"This girl! What amazing skills! How can she shoot on both sides at once?" Tsuzuki wondered. Hisoka gripped his chest and thought. "What is this... her emotions... it can't be!"
Ayumi dropped her guns, she was out of bullets and the men in black were still numerous. Ayumi then grabbed something on her desks, they were silver daggers, she scanned the area and said, "What a waste..."
With full force and flourish she threw the daggers, hitting her enemies either in the head or in the chest. She then felt someone was at her back, she jumped and did a round the house kick at that someone and jabbing the last dagger on her hand.
The remaining alive was stricken with fear as Ayumi stared at them. They scrambled to run away but Ayumi whispered, "No one is allowed to live."
With that Ayumi rushed at them, using a silver garrote, she killed them all. Tsuzuki took of the barriers and approached Ayumi saying, "Daijoubu Ayumi-chan?"
Ayumi stared at him, Tsuzuki halted in shock, Ayumi's eyes are still emotionless not a hint of guilt of to what she has done. They were fearless, cold and stoic.
BACK IN MEIFU (JuOhCho, Shokan Division)
"Why the hell did you bought her here alive! It's the spirit we want not the whole body itself!" Chief Konoe demanded angrily.
Tsuzuki held up both hands and explained, "C-chief Konoe... we did it because... because, Ayumi wanted to ask of something to you!"
"Plus we wanted to know who really she is." Hisoka replied eyeing Chief Konoe and Tatsumi.
"Yeah, I've heard the show she gave you guys! Pretty interesting. Imagine, a girl who is barely 16 kills like a professional assassin." Yutaka Watari exclaimed eyeing Ayumi from head to toe. "Without regrets or fear." he continued looking very serious.
Tatsumi sighed and said, "Ayumi Hasegawa, is an Assassin for the Japanese Government."
"NANI!" Tsuzuki, Hisoka and Watari cried in unison. "But, she's too young!" Tsuzuki exclaimed looking shocked.
Tatsumi explained, "You see, at that time... the Japanese Government has a project they call EVE. They wanted a perfect fighting, killing machine that could assassinate anyone even in the tightest spot. Ayumi Hasegawa was chosen by the government, that's why when she was born she was taken away, and trained her to be Project EVE."
Watari scanned a file and said, "Interesting, they also altered her genes. According here, her genes were altered in order for her to have psychic abilities."
"She's psychic?" Hisoka asked in surprise. "Yes, a psychic, an empath like you boy!" Watari replied winking at him.
"No wonder, she can shoot both side without looking, she can feel them because she's an empath" Tsuzuki replied. Ayumi Hasegawa remained quiet. She didn't budge a finger and just stared like she was staring at nowhere.
"But... It is impossible for an empath to have no emotions!" Hisoka replied surprising everyone except for Ayumi.
Tsuzuki raised an eyebrow and asked, "Nee Hisoka what are you talking about?"
"Simple Tsuzuki, way back there, I tried to sense her thoughts and her feelings... there isn't. No emotions! Not a single emotion!" Hisoka exclaimed.
Watari stared at the file he's holding and said, "According here, they also trained her not to feel any emotions..." he then stared at Ayumi and exclaimed, "How heartless! They took out emotions out of this girl! Meaning, she doesn't know how to love, to feel pain or sadness! I bet she doesn't even know what's the meaning of happiness is!"
"No wonder her eyes are emotionless..." Tsuzuki thought, "But still she's human... that's the point! She can't be a Shinigami if she's not human right?"
"Atashi... ie... I am not human" Ayumi replied. Chief Konoe laughed and said, "Of course you are! Even if you're an assassin without emotions you're still human!"
Ayumi stared at the chief and said, "No... I am a biological weapon of the Japanese Government. I am not human. I am weapon."
"NANDATE? I don't believe this! Did the people of the Project EVE implanted this on her brain?" Tsuzuki's mind screamed. "How heartless!"
"I am not a human, ie no Ningen!" Ayumi replied monotonously.
"Poor girl, how awful it is, such a pitiful young girl. She doesn't have any emotions, she kills people at that tender young age and the most awful thing... she thinks she's not human... she thinks she's a weapon! How a girl like her could exist in the living world?" Tsuzuki wondered.
"Allow me to me dismissed Kacho" Tsuzuki exclaimed. Chief Konoe nods his head and dismissed him.
"No wonder Enma Daioh-sama wanted her so badly to be a Shinigami. A girl with the perfect fighting skills and a girl with no such emotion... she is really like a weapon, a perfect image of a Shinigami, because even if she's still alive, she's already an agent of death... she is death herself... Ayumi Hasegawa" Tsuzuki thought as he watched the sakura petals fall from the sakura trees.
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