Bleeding Heart

Written By: Thread Sage

Kazuki: Hello. I have been chosen to do the disclaimer for this chapter.

Ban: You chose that yarn ball over me!

ThreadSage After the way you did the disclaimer before? Why wouldn't I choose someone else?

Ban: Grumbles

Kazuki: ThreadSage does not own Get Backers, but does own the new characters and ideas.

ThreadSage: I repeat! I do not own Get Backers, but I do own the new characters and ideas!

Chapter six

Secret Admirer, or Assassin?

The week went by without anything going wrong. Of course, there was the homework, school projects, and the occasional annoying Ban Midou, but that was about it. Kogou had gotten out of the hospital a day after he was put in, and went back to school the next day. Thanks to Himiko, all the events from the past twelve hours were erased from everyone in the school via heating system, just in case.

Kogou decided to walk to school today, since he wanted to go pratice for the Archery tryouts. Since he was hospitalized, the other two teams said he could try out during his study halls that day.

IT was eight o' clock when he got to school. The air was a chilling fury and his coat wasn't helping much. He popped up the collar as he walked down the quarter mile stretch to the door.

He walked in, thankful for the nice heating, he smiled. Life wasn't that bad actually.

He strutted off to his locker, number 51, twisting the lock, he placed in his code.

Out fell a small letter. Kogou blinked and looked down. The letterhead fallen so the name was face up, and it was directed towards him. He took the books and clothes out of his bag that he needed and then picked up the letter.

The writing was in blue ink. It was very curly, as if a girl had written it, but at the same time, it had the gruffness of a man's writing.

"I wonder who this is from." He said as he opened the letter.

It was a poem, but it didn't rhyme. It was more like….like a riddle in one of those old movies. It read.

I see you in the daytime, in which you work so hard

I see you in the night time, in which you sleep so still

I adore even more, in the morning when you practice

I wish for you to be mine

And no one else's.

Kogou blinked and read it once more. From one side of view, it was like a love letter, but from another side, it was like some type of threat. He looked inside the envelope, and there was something wrapped in parchment.

He placed the letter in his locker and unwrapped it.

It was a necklace. One that was made of sliver. He awed at it. It was a beautiful piece of work, but who gave it to him?

He took the necklace and tied it around his neck. A strange sensation filled his body as the necklace touched his skin. Kogou just brushed it off as a felling of cold metal. He walked into the bathroom, looked at the necklace on him, and then changed his clothes.

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"Where did you get that?" Ginji asked him as they walked out of math class.

"You mean the necklace?" He said, as they both walked together. Kogou has Honors History next with the seniors, and Ginji had study hall next. They were both next to one another.

"Who gave it to you? Let me guess, it was Ban right?" Ginji said with a nudge.

Kogou blushed.

"No." he said, pushing Ginji aside.

"I got it from an admirer in my locker." He said.

"Hmmm." Ginji nodded tapping his chin.

"Wonder who it is." He said as they reached the history room.

"Well, see ya." Ginji said with a wave. Kogou waved back and walked in.

He looked around. Only a few people were there so far.

"Where is everyone?" Kogou asked the eleventh grader Hio Takashi.

"They are still in their classes. It seems they use odd ones are slightly early." She said.

Kogou nodded and walked to his table.

He blinked in shock.

On there, was a letter, just like before. The same writing written in the same way.

"Who put this letter on my desk?" Kogou asked kindly.

Everyone in the room shrugged.

"When I got here, it was already their. And I was the first one here." The tenth grader from America Kent Brushten said.

'The person must go to this school. Or they must know what classes I have.' Kogou thought as he sat down, put his books on the table, and read the letter. This letter was unlike the other one in one way. There wasn't any underlining message. It was written in stone what it meant It said.

Someone else interferes with out love

You do love me don't you?

No I guess you don't

But no matter….If I can't have you, no one can.

But do you love this person?

It doesn't matter…you care fro them…

More then you care for me

And the one you love, with perish

And feel the pain I feel.

Kogou began to shake. Who could write such a thing? And who was the letter talking about? Just like in the letter before, there was something in this one. But what was it? It was smaller and more compact.

Kogou reached in. What ever it was, was wet and slightly soggy. Disgusted, he pulled the thing out.

Kogou looked at it and his eyes went wide in horror. It was a picture. A small one. But the face of the person was burned out and the picture was so soaked in what ever the liquid was, that he couldn't see the body.

Kogou, out of a strange instinct, pulled his hand up to his nose and sniffed. A felling nausea came over his body. The smell was of blood.

"Hey Kogou." A familiar female voice said. But Kogou, with the letter and picture in hand and his other hand covering his mouth, went running out of the room, into the Men's room.

"Kogou." Ban said, raising his hand in a wave, but he didn't even see him. Ban did see though, the expression of far and pain.

'What happened to him?' Ban asked as he began to walk towards him.

"I wouldn't do that If I." A voice said from behind him. Ban turned around causally.

"And you are?" Ban said.

"A messenger." The man said. He was covered in a veil that was pure black and fell over his eyes.

"A messenger for who? A AEC?" He asked.

"No. the MPC." The man said.

"Tell your friend, to watch his back." The man said. His apparitions then disappear.

"The MPC?" Ban said, but the image was gone.

'Who are they?' He asked himself. Ban then shrugged his shoulders and walked into the bathroom. But as soon a she reached the door, Kogou walked out, his face brighten then ever.

"You ok?" Ban asked.

"Why do you mean?" Kogou said smiling. Had Ban seen him?

"Don't be stupid." Ban said.

"I saw you running into the bathroom." Ban said sternly.

"Nothing I wrong Ban. Now lets go to class." Kogou said as he walked back into the class room.

"Fishyness to the max." Ban said to himself as he walked behind him.
The shadowy figure reappeared.

"Whoa re we fighting for?" The man said to himself.

"Are we helping this kid? Or causing him even more pain?" He asked once more. He then shook his head and disappeared.

Chapter six: Done

Ok I know that Ban would not say Fishyness to the max, but I wanted someone 2 say it and it seemed to be the right moment! LOL! Ok so that was chapter six, and it was short and all, but that's okay because short is not bad! This story's rating is between eh 15yr old and 16 yr old range now because it is going get pretty graphic in my opinion. So if you are under that age, read at your own will!

Preivew for chapter seven:

Three more letters come for Kogou. Ban is still in the dark, until something dreadful happens.