Welcome to the thirteenth chapter of Troublesome Brats!
I meant to get to this sooner, but this chapter proved to be quite difficult for me. Curse you, Writer's Block! For assaulting me so suddenly! I honestly don't think this turned out too well, so just listen to music to make the experience better, I guess.
Anyway, reviews!
xDearestHeart2375x: Well thanks, and the main reason as to why I've updated like a madman was because of you. Your reviews really helped. A lot. And I mean a whole lot! And yeah, I think in the wiki somewhere I've read that Saya is, like Noel, terrible when it comes to cooking. As for the roles of our favorite green-haired characters, I honestly didn't notice that! Though can't say for certain that Hazama is going to be the villain in this. Maybe just a little bit, in terms of being annoying and such.
SolarxBlack: It is? Well no more!
SifTheGreat: Glad you enjoyed them! And yeah, even I could relate. Poor Terumi. Also, I myself quite enjoyed writing that moment between Ragna and Terumi. Those two really need to get along more!
Neramo: Why thank you! And I agree, Litchi should be the doctor, but as for Azrael, I already have a role for him. Sorta. Though I do think that the local gym owner role is more suited for someone like Bang. Your thoughts?
EpicLinkSam: You're right. For now, I'll just leave him behind the curtains. For reasons.
Now that reviews are out of the way, it's time to read!
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She wondered why Adam wanted this child dead. It was an interesting thing to think about actually. The photo they gave her to work with only showed nothing but an innocent-looking child, and believe it or not, she almost found herself rejecting the whole deal. Good thing she didn't, because the amount of cash he offered if she was able to get it done was too hard for her to resist. And hey, if he wanted her to just do her job without question in exchange for tons of cash, then she was all up for it.
But now she understood everything.
This child was not what he appeared to be, and she blamed herself for not noticing it sooner. If Adam Taurus, leader of the White Fang, of all people wanted this child to be dealt with, then there must mean that there's something to it.
So when she pulled the trigger of her sidearm, her psychotic grin faltered ever so slightly when her target reacted quickly by throwing the girl who was on him off to the side while he himself attempted to evade the shot. He wasn't fast enough, of course. His left arm took the blow, and despite the damage she did, she didn't want that.
What she actually wanted was for the bullet to go through his head, all so she could quickly wrap things up and go back to Taurus in order to claim her reward. She simply didn't expect him to move so quickly.
Neo was impressed by his quick reflexes. Truly she did. It's a wonder why the White Fang had trouble when dealing with him. To be honest, she was curious regarding his combat capabilities, but unfortunately she had no time to fool around with her prey.
Taurus had specifically told her to end things quickly, and so with that little reminder stuck in her head, Neo aimed her sidearm at the child who was clutching at his injured arm, and thanks to the sight of him bleeding, her psychotic grin was back to its former glory.
Let's settle this, she thought.
Neo pulled the trigger.
And that's when things went wrong.
So horribly wrong.
A silver knife came flying from out of the doorway and knocked her sidearm away from her grasp, and Neo then found herself stunned as she stared shockingly at her hand. Just where did it come from?
She turned her head to the doorway, but before she could register anything new with her mismatched eyes, she was forcefully knocked to the ground by a dark green creature of sorts with menacing eyes, before feeling a couple of hands around her throat. Neo shot her attacker's face with the sharpest glare she could muster in an attempt to scare them off so that she could kill them along with her target, but that ended up being a mistake. A huge mistake.
Her face paled instantly.
I-Isn't this…Yuuki Terumi!? The untouchable asshole!? Neo screamed internally, shocked beyond measure. And not long after the shocking reveal, she finally managed to see the full picture. The actual reason why Taurus offered me so much money…was all simply because my target was the actual younger brother of Yuuki Terumi!? T-That bull bastard didn't even say anything about this! All he said-
"I'm going to squeeze the life out of you."
When Neo felt the hands around her throat beginning to tighten themselves, that's when she officially panicked.
"Terrified? Then deal with it." His voice was so cold, that it sent shivers and maybe even the winter season itself down her spine.
Now Neo rarely ever found herself scared by anything, and usually it was the other way around when it came to dealing with her victims and other unfortunate individuals, but just by having one quick glance at her attacker's face alone was enough to make her nearly wet herself, though she successfully resisted the urge as hard as it was.
His face didn't reveal too much in terms of hostility and desire to kill, but the main cause of her concern and fear was the fact that his serpentine eyes were filled with so much hatred and killing intention that she found herself panicking all the more. In fact, she could tell that he was planning on giving her a slow and painful death, if the look in his eyes was anything to go by.
And with her weapon way out of reach, there was nothing she could do.
But good thing she carried spares.
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This bitch.
The nerve.
She dared mess with his brother, and let alone shoot a bullet through his arm with that sickening grin from before?
His blood was boiling. He hadn't felt like this in ages, and just by remembering the last time it happened in the past, it made his desire to kill this little runt all the more harder to suppress.
"Scream for me."
As soon as those words left his lips, Terumi began strangling the little runt, and he won't stop until she had her neck broken. That said, he'll be sure to take this nice and slow to make the experience all the more enjoyable. Being killed by him was a once in a lifetime opportunity, after all, so she better savor the feeling while she still has the chance to.
Just as he began assuming that she was utterly defenseless, he didn't expect her to suddenly pull out another sidearm from her back. She then shoved the silencer the gun had attached right against his gut.
Terumi widened his eyes in shock. "Wha-"
She quickly squeezed the trigger. Three to five shots.
A pause.
Terumi allowed a large sickening grin to completely take over his face as blood began dripping down his chin, and just by looking at the runt's expression he could tell she realised that all she did was piss him off rather than getting him off of her.
"That ain't gonna work, you bitch." Just as she seemed as if she was about to squeeze the trigger of her sidearm once more, Terumi quickly grabbed her wrist and squeezed it so hard that she just had to let go due to pain and nothing else. But to his annoyance her other hand came pulling out a combat knife from her back, and she wasted no time in sticking it into his side in order for her to regain back her freedom.
But Terumi could tell that she was terrified, and utterly desperate at this point.
The knife pained him, of course, but he ignored it. He simply pulled the knife out before sticking it into the ground, just centimeters away from the midget's head.
"Tch. Nice trick, but rest assured that it ain't working." Terumi immediately went back to strangling her, and it appeared that she had nothing left to defend herself with judging by the look in her eyes. "Hehe. How does it feel, to think that you were able to get away with killing my brother? And don't worry, 'cause once I'm done with you…" His sickening grin grew. "…I'll be sure to kill the asshole who hired you by hitting them with your corpse repeatedly. Then maybe I'll feed your corpse to the Grimm after I'm done."
Terumi heard voices coming from behind him, and he didn't need to think too hard to figure out that it was just Summer along with the others. If anything, she was probably just looking after his brother and her own daughter.
Though right now none of that mattered to him.
The bitch under him began to claw at his hands as a desperate attempt to free herself, so in return Terumi added in more pressure to her throat as the grin on his face grew more twisted and sickening.
With how things were looking, Terumi honestly couldn't tell whether his sanity was still intact or not at this point, but honestly speaking it was safe to assume that it wasn't.
"What's wrong? Hey, what's wrong? Can't you take it? Are you a dumbass? Hey, answer me." He brought the little bitch up by the throat and slammed her back down as he spoke, or rather taunted her with a series of pointless questions. He proceeded to slam her onto the ground again a few more times, and yet he still wasn't satisfied. That terrified expression she was giving him just wasn't enough. "Weren't you going to kill my brother? Hey, talk to me. Why are you being so quiet? Gehehehe…" His eyes widened, and his twisted grin soon followed, but it faltered a bit when he noticed that her eyes were beginning to roll up to the back of her head. He scowled. "Hey. Hey hey hey, don't sleep on me now. Keep those eyes open. I still have tons of things in store for you, so let's keep playing until one of us ends up dead…"
She twitched.
Was she foaming, and crying? Oh you gotta be kidding…
Talk about shitty tolerance.
Like a young woman who had gotten herself possessed by some demon of sorts, the runt started clawing his hands much harder as her legs began kicking in all directions, no doubt due to the lack of oxygen entering her lungs. She twitched every now and then while she struggled, and every time she did it appeared that it was a sign of her strength fading away. Bit by bit, it seemed.
Fuck it…
Figuring that torturing her was no longer fun, Terumi just shot the midget one last glare and muttered, "Say hi to my friend for me…" Just as he was about to snap her neck and toss her corpse over to the middle of the road in hopes of getting a vehicle to splatter her guts in all directions, Summer suddenly came in from behind and knocked him off of her. "Gah!"
"Terumi! Just what in the world are you doing to her!?" she screamed.
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Summer had seen a lot of things during her time working as a Huntress, and not all of them were pretty.
She'd seen how things like war and death could easily change someone. She'd seen what the dark creatures of Grimm were able to accomplish when they weren't being properly handled. She'd seen and fought against dangerous criminals before in the past, and during those times Death had been itching to take her soul away, and to say that she was still well and breathing now was nothing short of a miracle.
But that look he was shooting in her direction…
That, was something else entirely. It's almost as if he wasn't himself anymore.
"T-Terumi?" she called out, her voice filled to the brim with concern as she stared at him. "Y-You've done enough, so let's hand her over to the authorities! And get you to a hospital after!"
"Summer."
Summer flinched at the tone in his voice.
"Get the fuck out of my way."
She watched as the man stumbled his way over to her, and as terrifying as the sight was, Summer chose to stand her ground and held her arms out to her sides as a way of her telling him to stop. "Terumi, I forbid you from harming this girl! She's had enough! You can tell just by looking at her face!" she yelled.
"Summer, are you out of your damn mind!? That bitch tried to kill my brother, and your own daughter was almost killed in the process! How can you even say that!?"
Summer winced. What he was saying was true, and indeed she herself was not happy with what had just transpired, but she wouldn't go so far as to kill the short assassin behind her.
Her job as a Huntress was to protect the innocent and apprehend criminals, and killing was definitely not on the list.
"L-Look, I know you're mad, but-" Summer gasped when Terumi suddenly lunged forward without warning, though she knew that it wasn't herself whom he was aiming for. So taking advantage of that, Summer wrapped her arms around him and attempted to hold him in place, but to her surprise she was barely succeeding. With all the injuries he sustained, it was amazing just how far he could push himself. "T-Terumi! Stop!" she ordered.
"Let me at her, Summer! Let go!" he snarled, before a confused noise came flying from his lips. "Huh? Hey! Where do you think you're going!?"
Summer, confused, moved her eyes over to the assassin who she had been trying to protect all this time, and was later quite surprised to see that she was slowly crawling away to safety. At this point, Summer honestly couldn't decide whether to just let her escape in order to prevent her from dying in the hands of her employee, or to knock her unconscious so that she could hand her over to the authorities later on, which would mean that she would have to let go of Terumi in order to do so.
And that was a huge risk that she wasn't willing to take.
Terumi, enraged, started to put in more effort into his struggle. "Fuck! Summer, just let me go so I can fucking kill her!" he roared.
Summer winced. "T-That's not going to happen!" Though she couldn't exactly deny the fact that her arms were starting to hurt from all his struggling. As much as she hated to admit it, he was probably going to break free from her hold at some point…
Terumi snarled in response to her words. "I swear, if you don't-"
"Hey."
Summer gasped when a slightly familiar-looking man came appearing right behind her raging employee. She was then startled when he suddenly reached out and pulled Terumi away from her, much to his surprise. Just when she was about to question what he was planning on doing, the man proceeded to roughly turn Terumi around so that they were now face to face with one another.
Terumi then gasped. "What!? Rag-"
Terumi was unable to finish his sentence when the familiar-looking man calmly sent a fist flying into his gut which knocked all the air from his lungs, thus rendering him unconscious as a result. He fell to the ground soon after that.
"Just shut up and sleep, you damn idiot," the man muttered. "Your boss is worried about you…"
Summer, feeling somewhat intimidated, backed away and narrowed her eyes, but to her surprise the man just simply brushed past her shoulder and made his way over to the root of all their problems, running a hand through his white hair as he did so.
And that's when it clicked.
She remembered now!
"Y-You're Terumi's neighbour, aren't you!?" she called out. "Ragna, was it? Why did you do that to him?"
"So that it'll make things easier for you," the man, whose name she recalled being Ragna, answered in a nonchalant manner. "You're his boss, aren't you? I can tell. Do me a favor and bring him to a hospital, along with his younger brother over there. They're gonna need it." She saw him grabbing the short girl by the collar before lifting her up, and for some unexplained reason the psycho's face went paler than it was moments prior upon seeing him. "Anyway, I'll be taking this runt with me, so I'll leave all the mundane bullshit to you," he said.
Summer watched as the man, Ragna, started dragging the short girl away by the back of her collar. She wanted to call out to him so that he could explain himself further, but Summer immediately threw that thought out the window upon realising the horrible state Terumi was in, along with his little brother.
So, as panicked as she was at the moment, Summer quickly made her way over to the unconscious Terumi and lifted him up with extra care.
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For the love of Hades…
When Ragna wanted to pay his jackass of a neighbour a surprise visit at his workplace just to torment him, he did not expect things to go this way.
And he wasn't happy. No.
He was pissed off beyond measure.
How fortunate it was that he decided to not bring Saya along, lest she would've seen the sight of what other children her age shouldn't be seeing.
Ragna should consider himself lucky that she didn't get the chance to see Kval in such a state. That poor kid. Because if she did…
Then controlling her was beyond him, and it would have been a real pain to deal with.
That said, the small runt began to struggle in his grip, much to his annoyance. So in order for him to calm her down, Ragna roughly held her up to his face and shot her a menacing glare, which soon made her freeze in place. And from what he could see now that he got a good look at her, her face was losing way too much color.
Not that he cared, anyway.
"Look here, kid. Judging by your expression, I know that you know who I am," Ragna growled. "Now, I ain't gonna kill you, but I won't keep that promise unless you'd be kind enough to show me the way to your employer's hideout. You were hired by someone, weren't you?"
The midget nodded her head so fast that Ragna assumed that she might break herself.
Fortunately, no such thing happened.
"Good."
Because if she had refused to answer, then he might have done it himself to get the info he needed.
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A new character!
Neo - 23
That aside, scary Ragna is scary, along with insane Terumi...
The "Just shut up and sleep, you damn idiot" quote was a reference to Ragna saying something identical to Jin back in, I think it was CS, or maybe even CT. It was so fitting that I couldn't help but to add it in! Also, since this story has battle scenes from time to time, I'm having trouble with picking the right weapon for Summer. A scythe? A blade? Creating anything she wants with the help of her Silver-Eyed powers? Thoughts, please. Thanks in advance.
This is CPL, signing out.
