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Under-appreciation: Who Owns Who

Yea, as I noted, last chapter, Yujima and Kenji were stalking the man in the nice white suit, who now had Uriko over his shoulder, as he walked through back alleyways, nobody hearing her, too busy in their everyday lives, and routines. The city is a huge cruel place, that never offers help, as it's easy to see here. At least her two friend were tailing this man, in an attempt to get her, though Yujima didn't know how tailing him would do anything. He just preferred jumping on the man and beating his ass. He decided to stick to the plan though, seeing as he didn't want to get into a slobber-knocker with Mr. Supa-I-Whoopa-Yo-Ass-Ninja... The man stopped off at a pawn shop, and had a conversation that neither of the two bothered to go listen to... then with all the stalking, they finally arrived at a rather lavish mansion-like house... yea, Yujima's mouth hung wide open, amazed at a structure quite like this.

"Damn... look at this place..." As they sat around the corner, Yujima caressed the walls, with a look of wonder...

"Shut up and... ouch! You're guitar neck is poking me in the ass. Get that thing back." Kenji moved up a little to escape it.

From here, the boys climbed this huge place, neither one of them being afraid of heights, and came in through an open window. The room they went into was bright and festive, with a huge, lavish bed, skillfully crafted mirrors, beautiful carpeting, a huge screen TV, and Xbox 360, and PS3 (Yup, ain't even out yet, too.) and so much more... it makes you wanna say "I'm gonna be friends with this guy just to go into his room." Now, I could give you the long version of what Yujima persuaded Kenji to help him do to this room, but I really don't wanna make myself angry, or sad, or anything else. So i'll just say this. That room is never going to be the same again.

"Hah hah! Glad you stowed some of his suits in your bag, Kenji. We can make some money now." Yujima and Kenji walked through the halls with a nonchalant air, as Yujima was munching on some Samoan girl scout cookies he found in there.

"Shhh you boob. We might get caught if you keep talking." Lucky there was a voice of reason for the two, huh?

The man in the white suit and barker hat however, walked into a huge dark room, and it smelled and looked pretty gross. You'd think it's the dungeon, but he said, and I quote:

"Ahhh, I do so love this living room more than the formal one... don't you, Bahn?"

Now who was Bahn you ask? Across the room, sitting in a rusty old chair, was this boy, with really long blonde hair, which went down to the bend of his knees, dressed in a golden school uniform (Ohhh, so not standard issue!) to match his hair. He looked very feminine, as his bright green eyes slowly trailed up to the man, and then the girl on his shoulder...

"Vic, who is that on your shoulder?" Bahn's voice was airy and frail yet dark and depressing, like a feather of a raven would be viewed.

The man hung up his hat and ran a hand through his purplish-blue hair, grumbling "Don't call me Vic. My name's Jexter, you know that, Bahn..."

He sighed deeply as he spoke "Sorry...Jexter, who is that young woman across your shoulder?"

Jexter threw Uriko on the floor, with great force, as to knock her out, then he looked at Bahn, and gave a light smile "My sweet, 'tis your birthday present. In a manner of speaking. Happy 17th."

You see, Vic Jexter loved this boy. It wasn't too far out, but it wasn't to close either. He wasn't ashamed to hold the boy... to kiss him... to sing to him. No fear of what would come of this relationship. He knew the boundaries, the risks, everything. Bahn was sweet, supporting, understanding, and also kind of out of place in the underworld... though he had no funds for him or his family. That's how he met him. Bahn tried to do what he just wasn't cut out for... and Jexter saved him before he was taken down. That is why this boy lives in this mansion with him.

Bahn rose out of his chair, making his way across the room to Jexter "What do you mean? You couldn't have taken her just for me, could you? Tell me more..."

Once he made it to him, Jexter took Bahn into his arms, and began to speak slowly "Well, you see... i'm going to make the biggest score of my life, off this one girl. The government wants her. Many private bidders want her, but their bids, though in the millions, are far too low. The gov't is putting up an unreal amount of cash for her. Before they get her... she will be yours for whatever you wish, Bahn. Even if that is nothing."

"But..."

"But nothing, Bahn. Take her, before I decide to chain her up in here. Be her lifeline." He said this with a little force, to cement the command, I guess.

Bahn nodded, his long, beautiful (Yes, that's the word.) hair flying with it, as he carefully picked Uriko up, and ran off to his room with her. Jexter just gave a soft smile as he watched him... now, what happened was Bahn laid Uriko down on his bed, and laid down too, quite tired, and deciding to take a nap. Yet, before he dosed off, he couldn't help but lean over and look into into Uriko's face... how lovely she did look... and actually pretty peaceful, too... he put his hand to her head, and slid it down her ponytail braid, playing with the end, with a soft smile on his face...

"Wow... sleep well... i'll keep you safe..." He nodded coolly, then laid back, ready to take his nap.

By now, Jexter was in the middle of more business, as he sat across from a client right now... he was there for the purpose of helping harbor the 'package'. Pretty much, this little alliance is all about money, respect, and dominance.

"I'm tellin' ya Shenlong, the government is going to shove out so much, there will be no problem getting a pay-off that will keep all of us ridin' high. So, want a beer?" Jexter was lounging in the formal living room now, talking across the coffee table to his client.

"Sure, sounds good. So, what do you exactly want me to do, Vic?" He ran his fingers swiftly across the table...

"Jexter, please... I only allow one person to call me that, and that's when i'm not so worked up. What I want you to do is protect that girl from being taken from us." He snapped his fingers as he said this, a butler coming with two bottles on a tray.

"You want one, or two? I really don't need mine..." Jexter threw Shenlong a curious look.

Shenlong gave a casual glance at the bottles, then whistled "No, i'd prefer to have a drink with ya."

The two took their beers in hand, raised 'em, and tapped 'em together, both of them having their congratulatory drink. You know, if I was gonna get paid that much, i'd have a beer too. Anyway...

Back to Yujima and Kenji. Oh yea, they were in trouble. What do you mean? Well, they ran into their first obstacle. Not just any obstacle, though. Now, it was a zoanthrope. This one was quite different. They found it in a dark and bloody walled room. It was unique in quite a bit of ways. The most obvious was that Yujima and Kenji couldn't tell what this thing was. It was basically a big black beast. This thing also walked like its' ankles were super-fucked. It seemed to be in its' transformed state forever, too. That's enough details on their foe, let's get to the fight.

It started out with Yujima climbing up a wall on the side, and Kenji coming in for a flying kick. The beast simply swatted Kenji away, but Yujima jumped on its' back, which made it start fumbling for its' back, as the thing painfully stomped around. This gave Kenji the opportunity to teleport directly in front of the creature, and deliver a new technique, which he struck the creature in the chest, forehead, shoulders and stomach with five hand seals, as he mumbled a mantra. Once he was done, he jumped back, quickly.

"Quick, Yujima, off of it!" Kenji was sure hoping it would work the way it should...

Yujima jumped off of it with a distance boost thanks to a powerful downward punch into the creatures' head. Then, it crumpled to the floor as red electricity crackled on it, around it, and through it... it was roaring out harshly in pain, and no doubt Kenji knew their presence was given away... but Kenji started to try to use the second part of the attack. He started moving his arms and fingers like he was pulling strings and the electricity did turn into strings, and he started to slowly make the creature beat itself down. Right cross, uppercut, elbow to the gut... then there was a problem. The creature started to move on its' own, and Kenji started to crumple to the ground. Yujima looked from the beast to Kenji, then back again.

"Heh... it beat me... I used too much energy... you gotta beat this thing..." Kenji gave a weak smile and a nod, then passed out.

"Ah damn. Fine, take a nap on me! Here I go!" He yelled out, as he ran up to the beast.

He ducked a powerful right swipe from the beast, then jumped into the air, and flipped, smashing his heel on it's head. It stumbled a bit, but caught his ankle in the process, and swung him around into the wall to the right. It still didn't let go, either. 'Cause it threw him across the room into the far wall. Yujima got up, with a groan, and charged again, then ran along the wall, until he could stop, in mid-run, and be right beside the atrocity, on the wall. He then shot off of it, powerfully tackling the beast, while bursting into his zoanthrope form. Once both of them hit the ground, he started pimpslapping him, except with a tightly balled up fist. Blood began to pour from his fist, and the beast's head. It got it's wind back, as it tried to stab him in his gut, but Yujima rolled to the side, grabbed his claw, and climbed on it, then he stood on it, and stomped on the broad side, to pretty much break its' paw or whatever you could call it. It screamed out in pain as it jumped to it's feet, making Yujima fall on his ass.

The beast came down with a hammer fist, which hurt the top of his head, and spine since he was sitting up. Though his vision was blurred, and blood dripped from his lips, due to the powerful bite his tongue received from the blow, he managed to do a leg scissors, which tripped the creature and knocked it on it's back. Yujima then jump kicked up, then jumped as high as he could, kinda slowly barrel rolling too, so that when he touched the ceiling, he was crouching on it, directly above the monster. This was going to hurt, but oh well. He launched off at such a fast speed, he was pretty much a bullet, and he curled up a little so his head didn't smash into the ground, as he shoulder tackled the hell out of the monstrosity. It knocked the wind out of it, and Yujima's shoulder was killing him now, but he rolled off of it, and stood, then spun around with his arm out, and reached low, grabbing the abomination by what felt like a horn, and ripped it off the ground to it's feet. Yujima decided to finish this thing, with a punch he could never pull off just right, though it was overly powerful to use to finish it. He flipped back to gain some distance and began to dash in, as the poor doomed thing turned slowly. Then, about a half second before he was to it, it seemed as though Yujima were flying when his feet left the ground, as he jumped at it, fist cocked back way far. Yujima's fist slammed into the creatures' face, and this was the part he couldn't get... landing after it. He tried to slam his legs into the ground, so he could grind to a stop, but about a half second after the punch connects, he's totally horizontal in the air, so he pretty much crumpled up and landed on his should and flipped over, his back and legs slamming on the ground.

"Ow. Damn. Ugh." He felt like he was going to puke...blood from the creature from the impact of his fist and the creatures face was all over his clothes...

Yea, when he stood up, he did puke, and his legs were weak... he made his way over to Kenji, wobbly and weak, and started to shake him, trying to wake him. Then he looked to the left, on the wall next to him. It was a light switch! He flicked it, and saw that Kenji looked VERY pale. He shook Kenji harder, until he actually did wake up, looking at Yujima as though he were just some crazy figment to come and take him away into the realm of dreams.

"Yujima... you did it? Wow, you look like shit." He gave that same weak smile from before.

"Yea, and you look like a goth. Get up, will ya, we gotta g-" Yujima paused in mid sentence as he looked in the middle of the room.

Laying in the middle of the floor was a small woman, with long black hair, that covered some of her face. Yujima and Kenji cautiously approached her, and Kenji took a knee down beside her, and touched to fingers to her neck...

"She's dead." Kenji stated flatly.

Yujima looked at her, close, closer than he would usually look at someone... she was so beautiful, and quite a petite young woman. Yujima gently ran his hand along her cheek, feeling like he committed the biggest sin in the world, even though he had to do it so he himself and Kenji would not die. He continued to run his fingers along her cheek, noticing that she had grown cold already... what a crime. Then he started to feel warmth, oddly enough. Intense warmth... and her eyes opened back up! They were a lovely ice blue...

"Huh? Wha- I'm normal?" She seemed to be puzzled, herself.

"Wow... you were dead... thank god you're alive... how are you alive?" Yujima felt a lot better now...

"I'll explain..." Her voice was one of those beautiful tones that could make you float...

Back to Bahn's room. Uriko woke up after about an hour, her eyes slowly opening, and quickly closing because of the blinding light through the window... then she turned over, and opened 'em, and saw somebody. She sat up and hovered over the figure, running her hands through the lovely blonde hair the person had...

She whispered to herself as she examined this figure "Wow... what a beautiful girl..."

Yea, she had only looked at Bahn's face... he woke up and looked up at her... "I'm a guy..."

"Oh." she stumbled a little, almost falling on him...

End of Ch. 2

I love this chapter. 'Nuf said. Peace, 'til next one.