Author's Note: Heys, it's our exam period now, so we are all working hard typing furiously away, and studying madly, haha minus the studying madly part. I can't believe how slack I've gotten, that's beside the point, so on with the story, haha.

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Eriol's POV

Why was it my shift again? I thought I had done it, last week, why was I doing it again; it must be that lying two-faced Yamazaki's fault again, he must have done this on purpose. Somehow switching the schedules, he will be so dead the next time I see him.

It was once again eriol's turn to patrol the camp, making sure no trouble was being caused anywhere in the camp.

We stared at him, for a while, before he grinned affably at us, and continued walking towards us. Wherever he passed by, there were mutterings of 'good day commander', and lowered heads. As he made his way towards us, the gazes of the other group, fell to the floor, as did mine. I could see his well polished boots stop in front of me.

Not daring to look up, if not I would have still seen the smile still on his face, though his cerulean blue eyes, were flashing dangerously.

He put a hand on my shoulder and said 'hey boy, you're in the wrong queue, this is for the untrained. The queue for the trained soldiers, is over there, let me bring you there.'

'ummn, but sir, I am untrained.' I replied, as respectfully as I could.

'Nonsense, you have obviously been trained, come on, take your things and come this way.' He said.

Before I could protest, he turned around to walk away, motioning for me to follow him. I could only grab my things, and follow behind him.

After we had gotten quite far away from the registration area, I had to constantly jog a bit to keep up, with his long strides.

'I'm so dead now, why in the name of kamisama, did I suddenly decide to pick a fight, now they'll probably send me home, if not worse, run me through a stake, and use me and dispose my body in some unnamed place. I shuddered involuntarily, as I remembered the grisly tales I had heard from Touya, regarding people who had gotten on the wrong side of the generals. Or, maybe, if they discovered I was a girl, and decided to kill me, I would never hear the last of it from Touya. Oh, wait scratch that, Touya wasn't even talking to me now, right my life is just peachy.'

Stopping at a relatively deserted area, he ushered me into a tent. 'Oh my god, are they gonna kill me here, and then quietly dispose of my body without anyone knowing.' It was relatively dark inside, and it took me a while to get used to the dim interior, but when my eyes adjusted, I saw it was furnished quite sparsely, he gestured for me to sit down, as he took a seat opposite me.

I sat down reluctantly, wondering if they had inserted poison needles into the cushion. 'Excuse me, but I thought we were going to the registration booth, for the trained soldiers, why did you bring me here?' by now I was utterly convinced I was going to be executed, and was looking frantically for all possible exits in the tent. Well, there was only one, but a girl could hope, couldn't she.

A servant served us tea, without him prompting, and I stared nervously at the cup, wondering for the hundredth time, if it had been poisoned, or drugged, and was shifting nervously around in my kneeling position.

'You must be wondering why I brought you here, soldier.' He stated, that same pleasant smile still playing on his face, but it was beginning to freak me out now, especially since his eyes were unreadable, and so…blue.

'Yeah right, I know, you want to kill me.' I thought silently

But out loud, I pretended to be puzzled, feigning an innocent face, saying 'yes, commander.'

'I suppose ignorance is only natural, but that little performance you put on just now convinced me you had the potential to be one of them.' He said, pausing slightly, as if looking at my reaction.

'Them…? Oh I know you mean those people who did something wrong, and are currently corpses now, right got it.' I thought sarcastically to myself.

Outwardly, I still maintained the puzzled face, but my fear was starting to show.

As if guessing my thoughts, he replied, chuckling slightly 'no, I did not bring you here to kill you, boy you can have my word on that. Besides, we are not as terrifying as the soldiers make us out to be.'

Looking at him, I could only think how screwed his sense of humor was.

'You must be wondering by now who them is, they are, well, how should I phrase it, let's see, they are extraordinary soldiers, whose performance have been so unexpected, that we gathered a group of them, and trained them to become elite assassins, to service the king, and help eliminate all possible threats to the country, and I would like to welcome you into their ranks.' He said, his piercing gaze, still on me.

Looking at him, skeptically, I was beginning to wonder if, he had lost his mind, if not being in this weird place was definitely affecting my sense of hearing. I stood up to bow, and leave but was stopped by a dagger at my throat, wielded by the maid who had served us tea earlier, her voice was clear and calm

'please sit down, soldier, lord Eriol wishes for you to stay.'

I sat down unnerved, with the knowledge that my life could be taken any minute, in this tent, as I heard him say in a soothing tone

'don't get so worked up now, midori.'

Turning to me, 'I hope midori didn't scare you. Well, since you decided not to leave, and hear me through, yes as I was saying, you have the potential, to become one of the assassins, you will go through a series of activities, that will challenge you both physically, and mentally, and a number of situations, for us to judge, whether you are suitable or not, though it is up to you, whether you want to accept this offer or not.

Pausing to take a sip of the tea, he continued pleasantly 'however if you do not, you of course will not be able to step out... unscathed.' He concluded, with a smile, as if we were exchanging small talk, his smile, though still agreeable, seriously freaked me out now.

'But…but you promised my safe return.' I stuttered, shocked.

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ok, I have finally reached the end of chapter 4. and am currently delirious.

AN: So much happened that I wasn't able to update regularly, even though I was determined to update as soon as possible, I succumbed to the lures of internet, and heavenly food like ice cream and sushi, and ramen, and chocolates and all things yummy. So instead of typing away industrially as I should, I was sitting around doing one of the things as mentioned above. Sad. I know, but that's the way life is. We are all wewak. The mind is willing, but the body is weak, or something like that. Anyways…

Finally

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