Chapter 10
"What do you want to talk with me about Sakura?" he didn't use her name as they were alone, he thought that it is not necessary to use it while they alone.
"I think you know what I want to discuss." she answered him with the same serious face.
"Let me guess, about Andou?" he suggested.
"Yes." she said and took a sit onto the desk where Masami was sitting.
"Well what do you want to tell me about it?" he asked her.
"Please, don't meddle into this, you will do nothing to help her, the only thing you can do is make things much worse."
Oleg frowned, but decided to ask her again, "What do you mean?"
"I'm sorry. But I can tell you this." she responded.
"Can or don't want?" he asked her again.
"Can't. Listen, I really want to tell you about her, but I must tell you not to interfere into everything what relate to her."
"Is this the order of your sister, or from above?" Oleg asked his colleague.
"From my sister." she merely responded, "I just tell you that we had already tried to help her, but our efforts made things much worse. That's why I ask you not to disturb her."
"What do you mean you tried to help her?" the Russian teacher didn't understand what Sakura meant.
"I can't tell you more. And I hope you will me smart enough to follow this advice." she wanted to stop for a while, but suddenly stopped, and turned to Oleg Semenovich and asked him, "By the way, I wanted to ask you something." the man nodded, "What binds you with that man?"
"That man?"
"Well the one from that organization, you named Archon." she explained.
This time Oleg became frown he squeezed his fist, and said trying to control himself.
"It not a theme, I'd like to talk." he said with some irritated notes in his voice.
"Then how about this." she said, "I'll tell you something about Masami, and you in exchange will tell me about what happened with you that man, and the woman that helped us during our last mission."
"I've said you it's not the theme I want to talk." he repeated it again.
"Why?" she asked him, "I think it's quite fair isn't it? If you want to interfere in someone's life then be ready to see how someone else will interfere in yours." she stated.
"It's absolutely different things!" he shouted hitting his table with his hand also getting up from his chair.
"What?" Sakura was amused with such reaction.
"First of all, I want to find out what happened with her and find a way to help her somehow!" he was continuing to shout, "Secondly, what happened between me and this bastard is none of your business it will stay just between me and Maria!"
"I… I…" Sakura didn't know what to say.
"Is this your sister gave you such idea?!" Oleg started to think that both sisters are involved in it.
"No. I…" she couldn't finish her sentence as she was abruptly interrupted by Russian teacher.
"Then it's your games, isn't it?"
"Listen!" she shouted too, "If this theme is painful for, then forgive me that I've reminded you about it! I didn't want to make you angry, I just wanted…"
"Have you just wanted to know about my past with such way?! Use your own student as an excuse?" Oleg was surprised, this made him angry, he really couldn't believe that person like Sakura could do this.
"I never do such a thing!" she protested.
"Then what do you want to do?!" Oleg asked her.
Sakura shut her mouth; it was seemed that she wanted to say something, and then she mumbled to him, "I'm sorry." and quickly left the class.
Oleg hit the table with his hand again and sat onto the chair. 'What the hell was that?!' Oleg thought, 'Did she wanted to find out something, or it was her sister who told her to do so?' Oleg tried to think something about their talk, but he couldn't think clearly, as the image of the man he was hated with pure angry appeared in his head, he was sitting for a little more time, but then he decided to go to his place as he didn't want to encounter with Sakura again.
The lesson has ended, and the big break started, some students preferred to eat their lunch, some of them decided to walk around the academy, the third part decided to go to their clubs. Pavel decided to have his lunch, he wanted to sit with Ren, but he noticed that she went somewhere quickly; he glanced over the class and noticed that only Masami was here from those whom Pavel knew and talked. He got up from his chair and came to her sit.
"Don't mind if I sit with you?" he asked her, she took out the lunch box out of her bag and put it onto her desk, she answered him nothing, but only shrugged with her shoulders, he quickly took his chair and brought it to the desk and then said, "We have a proverb in Russia, all food becomes better when you eat it in a good company." she answered him nothing, she opened her lunch box and started to eat her lunch a little by little.
"Hey, is Pavel trying to become her friend?" Pavel heard someone's voice; however it was still barely audible.
"It's just a waste of breath." another student said, "She will never except him as her friend…" the student watched ant Pavel and Masami, but saw Pavel's angry eyes and they immediately closed their mouths.
"They are right." the girl who was sitting in front of him said he, she heard their talk too.
"What?" Pavel asked her, "But why?"
"I'm sorry, but I don't want to talk about this." she said and put another bit of rice in her mouth.
"No problems." Pavel said with a smile on his face, "Everyone has themes he or she doesn't want to talk. But still it's bad for your stomach and mind when you eat alone." he pointed at her with his fork. "If you were in Russia you always would be lectured by our lady cook." she raised her eyes to him and saw his brown eyes, and at the same time Pavel saw her red eyes, which were like a pair of rubies. "I heard you that you like music. Do you like to sing or to play on some instruments?" he decided to change a theme of their talk.
"Who told you this?" she asked him looking into his eyes.
"Well, if I remember it right it was Maki or Aki." he lied to her, he didn't want to do this but still he couldn't say her that he heard it from the Russian teacher.
"I see." she merely responded, "You are friends with them quite well."
"Kinda." he smiled with her. "So, singing or playing?" he asked her.
"Playing." she answered.
"What instrument you're playing?" he asked another question.
"Piano."
"Piano is a beautiful instrument." Pavel said her, "It has a lot of tones, you can play everything you want using it." he looked at her he noticed that she won't tell a thing and decided to continue, "Well, but I prefer to sing." he said and did another bite of his food, "In Russia I was singing in quartet, we always sang on holidays and other special events."
"I'm sorry, but I'm not fond of singing." she referred him.
"I see." he answered to her, 'Man how should I find a think to talk with her, when she doesn't want to come on a contact.' he thought, 'Then how about this?' "By the way, can I hear how you play the piano?" she was keeping calm for two or so minutes and Pavel, started to think that she won't answer him, but suddenly he was wondered with her answer.
"If you want you can listen to it." she said somehow sadly.
"Really?" Pavel abruptly got up from his chair.
"But I don't think that you will like it." she said watching straight in his eyes.
"Why, should I don't like it?" the boy asked her, but he didn't receive an answer, as the girl stood up and was about to go somewhere else.
"You will see." she suddenly heard and then left the classroom.
'Man.' the boy thought this girl is really strange, he got up from his chair and suddenly remembered, 'Dammit! I didn't asked her when I can hear her music playing.' he wanted to follow her, but was suddenly stopped by Igawa Asagi, who appeared in the door way.
"Tarasov can you go to my office?" she asked him, she was wearing her ordinary white shirt with a black skirt, on her neck she had the same black bow tie he saw last time.
"Of course, Igawa sensei." he referred, he was worried, why the principle decided to call him, especially personally.
They both walked by the corridors of the Academy, Pavel tried to think of why the teacher called him, was it because of Masami or it just something else. He wanted to ask her why she needed him; however he decided to wait until they won't come to the principal's office. After a brief period of time they finally reached her office. She quickly opened the door, and they entered it, he saw Ren who was sitting on the sofa near with the wall, and another teacher, who was their musician teacher Hirata Chikeko, she was siting onto the chair near with principal's table. Asagi gave a sign to Pavel that he can sit onto the sofa, next to Ren. When she sat onto her chair she started.
"Thank you all for coming. I have a mission for the three of you." she stopped for a second and then continued, "However you can abandon the mission, thus I think it can be connected with "The Third Law", and I'll find another team."
"I agree!" Pavel exclaimed suddenly.
"Me too. Igawa-sensei." Ren agreed too, Asagi looked at Chikeko.
"Well, if they agree, then I can abandon it." she smiled looking at the students.
"I see." she said, "Now about the details. Recently we received strange information about some demons that were killed."
"Killed demons?" Chikeko surprised.
"Yes and the most problem is that they were killed no by us. I've sent two hunters to investigate it, but they haven't returned, and they still can't be found. First of all I thought that it could be your allies." she looked at Pavel; the boy quickly got up from the sofa and protested understanding what the woman with emerald eyes was meaning.
"Maria Sergeievna would never do such things to other hunters!"
"Tarasov, don't worry, I don't suspect them, I remembered that they helped you during your previous mission. And they really could defeat all of you at once."
"By the way how the demons were killed?" Chikeko asked her colleague.
"They had a lot of cut wounds. That's why I think that this person is a good fencer. And some of bodies were burned."
"So he has flame abilities too." the musician teacher suggested, Is there anything else we should know about it?"
"I'm sorry, but it's everything what I know." Asagi referred, by her voice it seemed that she wanted to tell more. "If you think that you're not ready for this mission you still can abandon it, I will understand it." however she heard no answer from none of the three. Very well then now I can tell you where the killings happened." she turned on her black board with the map of Tokyo, and started to show them the locations of the accidents, three persons who were assigned for this mission listened her very attentively. When she finished her speech, she said suddenly, "Also, if the one who is killing demons will be friendly to you, try to communicate with him and bring here."
"You know, Mystic, you're quite an interesting person." the man with glasses and the doctor's robe said, "First you tell me to concentrate on my project, and then you send me on a mission to the woman, who wants to kill me."
"Don't worry Etienne. This won't be for long." the man in the hood and cloak ensure Etienne.
"And you came when I was going to begin the testing." Etienne complained, "It wasn't easy for me to start it you know."
"I know and I, no we, appreciate for what you're doing to our organization only because of you we could receive popularity."
"Well you know how to please me." Etienne chuckled, "But still could you send Archon there? He is a good fighter too."
"No, they have already have Wojciechowski, and at the same time, I want to take him with me for this mission."
"So another seal has exposed itself, hasn't it?" Etienne asked Mystic.
"I don't know, but I hope so." the man answered with a big hope in his voice, "This time three of us will go for this mission."
"And who is the third person you're going to take on your mission?"
"I hoped to take your servant." Mystic said chuckling, "I hoped to take you servant with us, but I thought that you will be against such idea, that's why I decided to take Tardis with us."
"And his dear companion?" Etienne asked.
"No this time I don't want to take Tiradex with us." Mystic said, "I think we can encounter many veteran hunters in Tokyo."
"And he will attract too much attraction." Mystic nodded, "Smart move, by the way when I should go to Sapporo?"
"Tonight."
"What the hell?!" Etienne exclaimed, "I haven't prepared myself yet!"
"I know that you prepare quickly, so it won't be a problem for you." Mystic turned to the door and wanted to leave the French scientist, but he heard Etienne voice.
"You know, that sometimes I really hate you."
"Yes, I've already heard it many times. However, have you heard something about killed demons in Tokyo?"
"What? What do you mean?" Mystic was surprised with such information and turned to the French.
"So you've heard nothing after all." Etienne smiled, "I thought you know everything about everything." he chuckled and continued his thought, "Well, Archon told me that two or three demonic groupings were cut off."
"Was it done by Taimanins?" Mystic asked his comrade.
"I don't know, but if you want to know my opinion, I don't think so." the man in the robe gave his point of view. "Archon had investigated one place before hunters arrived, the bodies were disfigured too much. Some of them were burnt and some of them chilled."
"Interesting, I'd like to see the one who could do this." Mystic said with pity, "Only if Walter was here, I would send him to investigate it."
"By the way, did he contact with you?"
"No, he always leaves suddenly and appears suddenly, I even can't tell you what e is doing with his partner."
"I wanted to ask you, is it really good idea to have them in our organization?" Etienne asked Mystic remembering the person in armor.
"I'm not in charger to answer such kind of a question." Mystic responded.
"But still I want to hear your personal point of view or you just a loyal puppet of this organization?" Etienne tried to provoke his comrade, but heard only smirking.
"Well if you want to hear just my point of view, then I think I can tell you it." he agreed to answer him, "I still don't trust them too much, but they helped us a lot when we were just a bunch of mercenaries. When our organization started to appear, we could easily be destroyed, by other opponents, especially by American government, as our boss started to take the control over Brasilia. They also could take the control over our organization and rule just by themselves, but they didn't do this. I still can't understand their intentions and interests, but I think we can trust them, of course, at the same time being attentive to their actions."
"I see." Etienne responded, "If you trust them then I'll try to trust them too." he stopped for a while and then continued, "Then I'll go and prepare myself for departure." and left the room.
"Well, and I'll prepare myself for the mission." Mystic said to himself and left the room too.
"Finally, the night has come and we're on a mission again!" the childish voice exclaimed happily, "Hey Hush! Are you glad that today we're working together?" the boy turned his head to his comrade, who was covered into metal armor, but heard nothing, "How do you think, will we be able to find something today?" he heard nothing in respond again. "By the way, what do you think about the weather isn't it good?" the boy asked again, but there was no any reaction again, than the boy grinned, and said snapping with his fingers, "Who doesn't say even a single word is a gay." then he person get closer to him, and give a hit with his hand, by kids head, the boy quickly grabbed his head exclaiming, "You have no sense of humor Hush, you know you must be more open as me!" the boy was arguing with the taciturn person for a bit, but then said, "Well let's discuss our plan then." and the boy noticed how his comrade nodded. "Well since you're a distanced fighter, I think it would be better if you use your drone and will cover my back at the same time." the person in black armor continued to watch at him not looking away, "Well I think it's good idea, if something happens you will cover my back with your sniper gun, and at the same time you can call Avalanche." The boy was looking at his comrade, and noticed that he nodded on agreement, "Nice, then I'm going?" and the boy jumped away from the roof they were standing, he successfully maneuvered between different ledges and landed onto the firm ground, the boy appeared in dark alley. "Well, now I must find a person or persons and in order to spy after them." the boy said and started to move quickly by the streets of Sapporo.
He was trying to find someone for five or ten minutes, and with some luck he found a couple. In the center of the city, and started to follow them insensibly, 'Finally.' he thought with a relief, he raised his head and saw like some kind of a bird in the air, however because of lights he could see that its flight wasn't the same as the bird's one. It was flying more rectilinearly, 'He likes to do everything quickly.' the boy continued to look at the object for several seconds, and then continued his spying over the couple.
It was about an hour, since he started to follow the couple, the boy started to feel himself more dead-alive. 'I can't believe it!' he started to complain in his head, 'They're walking for an hour and there are no any actions, did these people really decided to stop their people hunting?' the boy looked at the couple out of the corner, he saw that they turned and headed to the park, which was covered with iron fence. 'Yes, good choice!' the boy crowed, 'It'll be much easier for me to shepherd after you there.' the boy get out of the corner and quickly jumped onto the fence and form the fence he jumped onto the nearest tree. 'There are they.' the boy looked at them, he noticed that they sat onto the bench and started to talk about something, 'Man, I'm really envious of him.' the thought, as he noticed that the male get closer to the female to kiss her in her cheek, 'He has a date while we're working.' he sighed, and looked at the sky through the branches of the tree, he noticed the same bird that was flying quickly over the park, 'So he is here too, good.' the boy said with a relief that his comrade is watching after him. Suddenly he heard a strange noise he looked at the tree which was in front of him, and saw how it was the branches started to move, the boy noticed it, and said silently, "Hush I think I have some guest in the park, be ready." he had no respond, but the boy knew, that his answer isn't important, because Hush will do what is asked. He narrowed his eyes and saw that the branches were really shaking. He put his hands onto his belt, and took his claws, which were separated on it. He jumped off from the tree and at the same time he saw how another person jumped off from the other tree and quickly appeared in front of him he clashed his claws, with the appeared boy and said with merry voice, "Now the real fun begins!"
"Wow, we're going to work with Yatsu Kuro personally!" Maki exclaimed with a voice full of joy watching at the bald man.
"Ito, I please not so loudly." the woman in white uniform and with massive axe on her back, Murasaki, lectured the energetic girl.
"Sorry, sensei." she apologized for being too loud.
"I hope, we will cooperate perfectly." the man in black glasses said turning to the young hunters, "By the way Murasaki, are you sure that they are the best ones?"
"Don't worry brother, Igawa-san ordered them for this mission personally, that's why I think that they will do everything brilliantly." Murasaki stood up for her students. "At the same time they, have already faced "The Third Law" and aware of their power."
"I see." the man nodded to his sister and said again, "Firstly, I'll tell you about the members we faced, however I think you must know about them if you meet them. The first one is was a middle-aged man, whose name is Wojciechowski Przemislav he uses mental abilities…" but he couldn't finish as he was interrupted by his sister.
"Brother, please let me tell them about him I'd already fought him." Kuro nodded, and Murasaki continued, "Beware when you fight him, if he touches you he can make you feel tiredness or other things and you won't be able to fight him, he uses a cane sword like two swords, he is lack in stamina, but at the same time he compensate it with his ability, that's why, as I understood he always work with someone else."
"Yes then the other person as I understood was about your ages, and he had flame abilities. The third one was Mystic; he used wind abilities in our fight." Rinko decided to take a word this time.
"Sensei." Rinko turned to Murasaki, "As I remember, Tereshkov-sensei told us that Mystic is a powerful opponent, will we be able to defeat him?"
"Well, I don't know, but if we meet him alone, I think we will defeat him somehow." Kuro responded, instead of his sister, "And the last person we saw was Miyata Ioshito."
"What?!" Murasaki exclaimed, as she heard this name, "You didn't tell me that you met him!" Murasaki turned to her brother and get closer to him.
"I decided to tell you when the team will be formed." he answered to her.
"But I thought that he is dead!" Murasaki still couldn't believe to what she just heard.
"I thought the same, and was surprised when I met him."
"If he is here, then it must be that Naomi must be here too." Murasaki continued to think over the situation.
"There's just a chance." Kuro said, and turned to the students, "I want to tell you about Miyata, his weapon is halberd and his element is lightning. He is a very skillful fighter, so if you meet him somehow, just run as fast as you can, because you haven't got enough skill to defeat him."
"Roger!" all students responded as one, Kuro smiled slightly, because the young hunters understood the danger of meeting that person, "Now I think it's the time to tell you the plan of our actions." he turned his head to Murasaki, letting her know that it would be better to her to tell the plan, she nodded and started to tell the plan.
"We will break in three teams, Maki will Rinko will go with me." she decided to use their name, because it was much easier to call names during missions, "Maki will go with Aki, and my brother will be on medium distance in order to help to both teams when it will be needed." three students nodded and continued to listen to her, "Maki and Aki will patrol in central park, it's the best place for dates, Rinko and me will take patrolling over the city, however I think we won't be on a far range from you." she stopped for a while and saw that Maki wanted to say something, "Do you want to ask something Maki?"
"Um, sensei, how did you know that the park is a perfect place for dating?" Maki asked and quickly received a cuff on the nape from Aki who was standing next to her; Kuro even did chuckled at her question.
"Please be more serious sometimes." Aki lectured her.
"Man, you are so boring sometimes Aki-kun." Maki muttered, rubbing the back of her head.
Murasaki preferred to make an expression that she heard nothing and continued with the same strict voice, "If everyone understood what they must do I think we must start our mission. Remember no to do stupid things if you see that the enemy is strong that retreat and regroup with other team." Students nodded, and all hunters directed to different sides, they were I charge.
"What's was on your mind when you decided to ask Yatsu-sensei such a question?" Aki asked his friend, while they were heading to the central park.
"I just wanted to know how she knew this nothing more." she answered him, and then added, "Maybe I wanted to call Aki-kun on a date, during our break."
"What?!" Aki was surprised with her answer, he couldn't believe in what heard, "A date?!"
"Just kidding." Maki said with a strange and mysterious smile, she said shaking with her hands.
"Please, Maki stop kidding me." he muttered and overran her.
"What a dummy." she whispered in order to no not be heard, 'If you were honest with your feelings.' she thought and started to gain on her classmate and friend.
After twenty minutes they saw a fence and lots of trees behind it, they finally reached the park.
"So here it is." Aki said her looking at the park from the top of the building which was on the opposite side to the park, "Well, what the plan?" he turned his head to Maki; likewise, he wanted to hear her ideas first.
"You're the brain I'm just a physical power." she said with a smile coming closer to him, "I think we should sit in ambush in the park and wait when any strange activity appears." the boy suggested, looking at Maki.
"If you think that it's a good idea then let's do it so." she agreed with his plan and they jumped off from the building they landed onto the fence and jumped over it.
They quickly hid behind the near tree, and started to investigate the territory, they saw nothing and they quickly went to the tree which was growing near with the central gates. They jumped onto it and a big part of the park was visible for them. The tree had massive brunches which made perfect cover for hunters. It was the night and the entrance of the park was perfectly lit. They were looking onto the gates and saw nobody after some period of time Maki said to Aki. "How do you think, will we be able to find someone today?"
"I don't know, but I hope that everything will be peacefully and quietly." Aki referred to Maki.
"Look." Maki whispered to Aki, pointing at the couple which entered the park, Now we must be careful."
"Yes." Aki agreed.
They started to look after the couple which was going slowly, they were walking by the central road of the park and it was good for Aki and Maki that their tree allowed them to see it clearly. They stopped for a while and the boy kissed the girl and they started to talk about something, Aki wanted to continue to look at their date, but suddenly he heard a strange noise he turned his head to the opposite tree, and said to his friend, "Maki, prepare yourself." he put his hand onto the hilt of his sword. He noticed that she looked at him with puzzled face and Aki nodded at the tree that seemed strange to him then she nodded, and after several seconds Aki jumped away from the tree facing a boy who was sitting on the other tree. They clashed they weapons Aki's katana and the boy's claws, and when the faced each other the boy said with merrily.
"Now the real fun begins!"