Pairings: BernardoXGian, IvanXGian, LuchinoXGian, GiulioXGian, AobaXClear, AobaXVirusXTrip, AobaXRen, AobaXKoujaku, AobaXNoiz, AobaXBakshi, VirusXTripXGian, AobaXGian

Warning: Contains minor hints of rape, violence, extreme swearing and heavy scenes of smut.

Disclaimer: I do not own Dramatical Murder or Lucky Dog 1. All rights go to the respectful owners

Chapter 3 - The Second Card

The door shut behind the men that had entered. A largely built man stood in front of them with a pink cockatoo perched on his left shoulder. He had brown flowing hair with auburn red toward the tips of it. Mink had made it to Daivan. "Hey, who's this guy?!" Gian was truly surprised at the sudden appearance of a burly man inside the room.

Aoba grew embarrassed feeling half at ease and half disappointed that Mink had been the first to find him. A small smile appeared on his face as Mink walked over to him. "The kid wanted the gas mask guy and I to go ahead first." Upon hearing those nicknames, Aoba immediately knew who he was talking about. Noiz and Clear.

Aoba lifted his legs over the side of the bed and got up slowly. Gian was now ushering the men in the suits out of the room. "Sorry, sorry. Just come out when you're done talking!" The blonde explained and he pushed the last guy out including himself out of the room.

The door slammed shut behind Mink. He watched the younger man trying to walk. "Shouldn't you be in bed?" Aoba looked up at Mink in surprise. The man was not exactly known for his concerning questions and was usually really hard to get along with.

"What...?" Aoba's eyes focused in on Mink's. The man gave out a huffed sigh and looked annoyed while walking toward him, putting one arm under Aoba's and another arm to hold Aoba's hand in place on his shoulder.

He walked him out of the room, guiding Aoba to a sofa in the lobby room. Sitting happily on the sofa in front of them was Clear. He wasn't wearing his gas mask this time and his face was in plain sight for all to see. "Clear!" Aoba felt a wave of relief wash over him as he was reunited with the man that had helped him overcome quite a lot during the tower fiasco.

"Master...!" Clear stood up from the couch and took over for Mink. Gian noticed their reunion and quickly stepped into Bernardo's office for a quick chat.

Closing the door behind him, Gian smiled playfully at Bernardo who was too busy working with his phones to fully notice him. "Just two more to go, huh?" Bernardo stopped what he was doing and looked up. His eyes had already gotten bags underneath them and his hair looked as though it was starting to frizzle.

"Gian...a problem came up. We got word from our guys back at the island. They're on their way back." Bernardo stood up from his desk and walked over to the chairs.

Gian took a seat next to him, leaning back against the frame of his chair. "Is that the problem? Job was a bust?" He began to play around with the necklace that hung around his neck. A necklace that he had gotten from his mother before she was killed.

Bernardo shook his head and removed his glasses. It was a rare thing to see the man take off his glasses. "No. They got the men that Aoba had asked for but...the men looking for Aoba also have gotten wind of him being here so now they're on the move it seems."

Gian frowned. "The days of our lives seem to get less boring by the minute. Even Ivan wasn't this annoying." Bernardo put his glasses back on and took out a pack of cigarettes from his jacket. Gian watched him with a silent gaze as the man put a cigarette to his mouth.

"Any back story on our new 'friends'?" Gian did not think they were bad people and if it were possible he would think of having them join their organization but mainly because he was interested in Aoba.

Bernardo blew out a bit of the smoke. "I've only been able to gather information on the man, Clear. Apparently he is actually a robot or android as Aoba called him. A scientist working for this man, Toue, saw Clear as he was about to be scrapped but he took him in and sort of raised him as a son."

"But he died few years later and then he met Aoba. But what happened with Aoba's dog, we're not sure yet as the final person hasn't made contact with us or our men." Gian looked at him quizzically. "Final person?" Bernardo nodded and continued.

"There are five people in total who we were supposed to contact but only four we were able to get through to. The last one is still unknown. His name is Ren and from what I was told by our guys at the island, he was shipped to the island from an unknown hospital."

"So this guy is...?" Gian was still confused as to what Bernardo was talking about. "Trust me I had trouble hearing about this properly myself. But from what we gathered so far, Ren used to be Aoba's pet dog, an 'allmate' as he called them. A type of robotic animal or from what I've researched can come in any form these days. But because of an incident involving this place called Platinum Jail, a young man's body was found at the scene and was still breathing but barely."

Bernardo took a pause and brushed his long locks away from his eyes. "It is believed the two men who are after Aoba are the same ones who transferred Ren to the hospital on the island."

Gian suddenly stood up from the chair. "But then...where is this guy and how is he going to get here?" The answer to the question was anyone's guess. They were pressed for time and it was not a bad choice for the men he sent to the island, to leave when they had found the other two men.

But how to find a man who didn't carry a cellphone or at least some kind of device was troubling as it would have helped them using one of the men that were coming to Daivan from the boat. "In any case. Luchino and Ivan are currently out patrolling the areas in their respectful places for the moment and Giulio's...still waiting for your word on what you'll have him do for the day."

Giulio Di Bondone was a quiet man who rarely spoke unless he was spoken to and rarely associated himself with anyone other than the members of the CR-5. He was their primary icon for fear and was mostly specialized in assassinations and had been nicknamed 'Mad Dog'. The man was only capable of anything and everything only because he took his orders from either Bernardo or Gian.

"Huh? You mean he still hasn't left to do his usual rounds?!" Bernardo nodded and stood up as well.

He and Gian then walked out of the office room and out into the lobby, meeting the two men that had arrived earlier. "Gian, I'll let you take care of Giulio. Aoba, here. Some coffee." Aoba looked up at Bernardo and took the cup of coffee that was being held in his hands. Gian then quickly sprinted out into the main hallway and rushed to greet Giulio outside.

"Thank you. Um..." He hesitated. Aoba was afraid of asking but felt the need to do so anyways. "Ren...is there any-" Bernardo stopped him from saying any more by the simple motion of shaking his head 'no'.

Mink and Clear were sitting opposite of each other, Clear being with Aoba on one couch while Mink sat on the other side of them. The pink cockatoo that was perched on Mink's shoulder had fallen asleep. "At the very least, I've received news that Noiz and Koujaku should be here in two days time."

Aoba smiled as Clear chowed away on some of the sweets that had been placed in front of them. "Noiz..." Aoba's body shivered a bit as he said the name aloud. Mink said nothing as he sat in silence. He was not much of a talker during conversations with others.

The door to the hall opened again and standing in the doorway was Gian Carlo. The spiky blonde was smiling even more than earlier. "Hm? Something good happen again, Honey?" Aoba had to take a second look around to see who it was that Bernardo had directed the nickname to. There weren't any women in the room.

"Yes, darling! Giulio is off to play with the trash and Luchino and Ivan both are going to escort our two friendly nemesis. They should get here in a day or so." The happy blonde sat himself down next to Mink helping himself to some of the sweets and a croissant on the table.

Bernardo chuckled and put out the cigarette that he had lit up earlier. "I hope you enjoy our home of crime. Not every day we get new recruits to our family. Well, time for round two at the phones. Gian, I trust you'll take care of our special guests once they arrive?" The man in question looked up from eating and swallowed his half eaten food.

"Of course. Luchino is looking forward to them." The special guests were the men who were after Aoba and Gian and Bernardo had set it up so that they could escort them back to their hotel.

Laughing quietly, Bernardo left the room and went back into his telephone booth of a room. "Master, you should eat something you don't look too good." Clear pointed out and picked up one of the bread biscuits from a basket next to the croissants.

Aoba hesitated before taking the bread slice. "Clear, can I ask you something?" The other man stopped stuffing his face and turned his body to face Aoba. "What is it, master?" A bit of silence hung in the air.

Clear touched Aoba's cheek gently, causing Aoba to quickly panic. "Master..." The others in the room looked on with curiosity as the white haired man was now cupping Aoba's cheeks with both hands.

"C-Clear! Your body...is it...?" Clear blinked in response but then he smiled. "It's fine. Grandma fixed me as well as mister rabbit. They both worked on me so now I'm 100 percent better." Aoba had known that Clear's body was robotic and yet he felt and acted like a human and had sacrificed himself for Aoba when they had met up with Clear's twin 'brothers' the alphas.

There had been a total of three but Clear was able to live as a human and seemed to enjoy it. Clear had overridden the system in his body and was able to break himself free from the block that was stopping him from attacking his own kind and was able to help Aoba in stopping Toue. But because of that, the skin color on his face looked a tad bit patchy where his right eye was.

"Sorry, Clear. Before I knew it, I was waking up in the back of a car and then..." Aoba stopped knowing full well that the story was not exactly one you could easily tell people. During his captivity he had been forced to partake in Trip and Virus's 'playtime' as they called it.

His body and face were just objects to him like kids would see a toy they really wanted. Aoba looked over to Mink who was now eating some of the bread from the table. Seeing him made him feel slightly safer for some reason and seeing his allmate also brought back memories of his own allmate. He wondered if Ren was still back at the hospital or had been able to get home to his grandmother.

Clear smiled and put his hands on Aoba's cheeks and planted a small kiss on his lips. It took a few seconds for Gian and Mink to notice the sudden silence between the two and soon Mink was choking on his bread while Gian simply stared in shock with a slight blush streaming across his face.

The man sat back and watched Aoba for a bit before saying, "Master, what matters now is that you're safe. You came back, master!" Clear then hugged Aoba tightly, wrapping his arms around him both gently and reassuringly. He had certainly missed Aoba. Aoba had no choice but to smile back and pat the man on the back, petting the back of Clears' head.

SLAP! This was the third time in just five minutes and Koujaku was slowly getting irritated with the pests jumping around him. Noiz had let his cubes run loose for a while so that he could concentrate on hacking Trip and Virus's computers from any one of their many hideouts. The idea was to see who all they had contacts with and to flush them out without them noticing.

It was a long shot but a good idea since the twins would be seen to by the people who had found Aoba. Noiz was busy typing away at his computer keyboards and was not paying any interest to what was happening to Koujaku. The man stomped his foot on the floor but it was not enough to drive the cubes away from him. 'Why are they jumping up and down around me and only me?' He looked around and as he thought, the cubes had not been pestering any of the other passengers, it was just him.

"Told them to play. You're the only one here who has an allmate and they were programmed to seek out allmates and other devices like them. They were mainly for researching and collecting info but they got this personality on their own after a few years." Noiz quickly spoke out as he continued typing away like a madman.

Koujaku stood up from the dining table abruptly and turned to Noiz. "Can't you call them off then? They're behaving like a bunch of..." He stopped and then looked at the cubes closely. They all had the same resemblance of that of a rabbit.

Were they pretending to be rabbits then? In the case of their continuous hopping it was the most sounding reasoning that made sense to him. But it was still annoying him. "Like rabbits? Yeah, I know. Aoba said that too. Maybe now I know where he gets his attitude from." Koujaku lost his patience and grabbed the man by the back of his neck.

Noiz winced at the sudden pain. "Listen you moron, I'm only working with you 'cause you happen to be the only hacker capable of finding those guy's hideouts! If you're just going to talk smack I suggest you do it after we finish finding Virus and Trip's mafia rats!" Noiz was still adjusting to the pain done to his neck and rubbed the back with his hand.

"It's no wonder a woman hasn't married you by now. Let alone Aoba receiving your feelings." Noiz broke the last string that kept Koujaku from hitting him. Koujaku balled his hand into a fist and slugged it against the man's cheek.

He then looked to the floor and stormed off never once looking up or back at Noiz. "Don't ever talk about Aoba like that in front of me." Koujaku then disappeared behind the door that led to the outside.

Noiz felt his cheek and could feel the swelling already rising. He smiled and readjusted his suit before sitting back down at his computer. Some of the men sitting around had witnessed the scene and seemed to be shocked and a bit cautious. 'What's the bastard so worked up for?' "He should already know by now we all have a thing for him..." Noiz put a hand to his chin as he thought the last sentence out loud in silence.

It had already been just 4 hours and Koujaku was getting agitated with Noiz and his unthinkable words. He wondered what Aoba could have possibly seen in the man aside from being a good hacker but anyone with enough skills as a hacker like him, anyone would have been able to do it. But in the end it was him that helped them find Aoba's grandmother that one time. Thinking on it, Koujaku sighed and looked at the water below as he leaned over the boat's railing.

'Not just Noiz but even Mink must have stayed with Aoba for just one reason...like me...no...like he's the only one for them.' Koujaku looked back at his reflection in the water with the sun shining over the sea's surface.

He was not an angry person all the time but just for the day and for the past three years he had been annoyed by Noiz's presence and the added mafia looking goons didn't help his composure much either. Should he have gone to find him all alone then? No. It wouldn't have mattered if he went searching for Aoba by himself since it looked like the men knew where and who to look for so the men would probably be helping him anyway.

Beni, his small red bird, pecked him on the top of his head with his beak. "If you have time to be worrying about what some meaningless cubes are doing, you've got time to practice more with your sword!"

Koujaku had forgotten that he even had it with him on his back. He was already plenty enough skilled with handling it but he liked to practice whenever the chance appeared for it. Koujaku smiled and pulled his sword off his back. "Yeah. I Can't let Noiz show me up on this mission." He held the sword and pulled it from the holster that was slung around his chest and shoulder.

The bird made himself scarce and perched himself on a nearby crate as he watched his master swing the sword in an elegant manner. A calm and soothing wind sifted through his hair as he swung down and then back up quickly, raising the sword at an angle.

This went on for a good hour before Noiz finally got out of the cabin of the ship and joined Koujaku. He looked to be in a call with someone. 'His brother, maybe?' Koujaku thought to himself as he swung his sword again. He inhaled deeply and focused more on his practice.

Noiz hung up from the call and looked out over the ocean. Koujaku also took a break from his practice and packed the sword away back into its rightful place. Beni had fallen asleep in just that hour and was snoozing away peacefully with his head tucked under his wing. "What will you do when we meet him face-to-face?" Noiz asked him.

He looked over at Koujaku and leaned against the rail with the back of his arms, resting his elbows. "No idea. I can't even hug him because of his hair issue. You know about it too, right?" Koujaku asked. He had been referring to Aoba's hair nerves and how it affected his entire body should someone touch his hair.

Aoba had claimed it felt like a thousand needles were being placed into his body all at once. Noiz nodded. "It's not going to stop me from doing it though." Koujaku looked up in annoyance to Noiz's retort.

"Don't you have any idea how it feels for Aoba? He had to survive people tugging on his hair just because it grew long like a girl's! That kind of pain, he had to endure it all this time even when I wasn't around. Constantly fighting it on top of the headaches. So don't do it just to piss me off 'cause you're hurting him as well!"

Koujaku then stormed off back into the cabin after picking up his bird. Noiz sighed and looked over his shoulder in the direction the boat was heading, looking at the sunset. Its red and pinkish haze was engraved into his brain as he thought about the past and about Aoba. This was his personality and so far, Aoba had taught him some things but he still felt he did not need to change for the other people who gave him problems.

Even if it was an old friend of Aoba's, Noiz would not hesitate to bring the man down a peg if it came to Aoba's interests. Noiz touched the back of his head with one hand, rustling the few strands of hair that were starting to grow longer. "You really are an idiot..." He quietly told himself and he too retreated back inside the cabin for the remainder of the evening.

A/n: Certainly looks like a lot is happening with this tale. Trying to leave as many non-cliffhangers as possible. Hope you are ready for more!