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Chapter Seven
Kai whipped his head around, his eyes widening and his breath catching in his throat as Dmitri dropped to the ground, dead, blood pooling slowly around his paling body.
"D..Dmitri…""Now! Answer the question! Who are you working for?" the man hissed, his gun once again trained at Stefan's head, who shook under the deadly weight of the gun.
Kai ignored the irate man for the moment, his heart pounding in his chest as he crawled towards Dmitri's lifeless body, his vision swaying in front of him from the amount of blood he had already lost.
"Dmitri…" Kai reached out and placed his hand on Dmitri's pale, yet still warm cheek.
He watched as Andros and Fillip collapsed, their legs giving out on them, as they gazed at Dmitri's lifeless body in horror.
"Dmitri…" Kai wiped a bloodied hand across his face, the crimson smearing his porcelain features, "I'm so sorry, my friend…I'm…"
"Shut up and move away from him!" the man spat at Kai, silver eye blazing menacingly, but Kai made no sign of movement, his eyes glazing over.
"Kai?" Andros mumbled, grabbing the attention of the dual-haired man, however unfocused, "This is not your fault…you couldn't hav-"
With a gasp, Andros stopped in mid-sentence, placing a shaking hand on his chest. As he pulled it back, blood coated his hand, all from the single gunshot wound to his heart. His dimming eyes turned to Kai in desperation, a soft "I'm sorry…" leaving his lips in his last gasp.
Kai swallowed thickly, nausea engulfing him, but he didn't know whether it was down to the blood loss or the fact that he had just witnessed two of his friends killed in cold blood.
"Now…are you going to answer my question now? Or do you want another death on your hands, Kai Hiwatari?"
Kai's eyes widened and he tore his gaze away from Andros' corpse and Fillip's worrying silence and lack of movement. "How do you know my name?"
The man chuckled, "Oh, I know a lot about you, Kai. About how you joined the police force in hopes of catching your father's killers, in hopes of catching us. We know that after your mother died, you moved in with your late friend Dmitri. We also know that you were there at the time of your father's assassination, a poor little ten-year-old boy, just come home from training. As I said, we know a lot about you."
Kai growled and fought to control his temper, "If you know so much about me, then you know who I work for."
The man smirked, a mere curl of thin lips, "Of course we know who you work for. You're under the command of Superintendent Stanley Dickinson…our next target. It was just so much fun watching you squirm, as your friends died in front of you…just like your dear old father."
Kai felt the hairs prickling on the back of his neck at the words that left this strange man's words. An image of his father flashed through his mind, followed by Dmitri and Andros, and Kai saw red. Without a second's hesitation, Kai launched himself up, regardless of his injuries and steadily deteriorating health, and towards the man.
"Kai!" Fillip screamed, snapping out of his shock, and scrambling towards his leader, his dedication shining through. He reached the younger man swiftly, grabbing him around the torso and pulling him to the ground before a burst of gunfire and the whiz of bullets flew over their heads. Kai hit the ground with a gasp, his shoulder flaring in pain. "Kai…sir…"
Kai gazed through hazy eyes at Fillip's lean form over his own and could only feel his eyes widen at the blood that trickled down the other man's forehead in thick rivulets, dripping off and landing on his own face in dark splotches. "Fillip…no…" Kai shook his head, his voice shaking.
"Get through this…sir…please…I…" with a shuddering breath, Fillip collapsed atop Kai, crushing the smaller man slightly with his sudden dead weight.
"Dmitri, Andros, Fillip…" Kai whispered brokenly, "I've broken my promise to them…"
The man chuckled darkly in the background, applauding his rifle men with taunting claps, before stalking slowly towards Kai and wrenching Fillip's lifeless, bleeding body off of him. Then bending down, he roughly grabbed Kai by the collar and lifted him up effortlessly, throwing him against the wall and pinning him there with one arm. He watched in sadistic pleasure as the young man struggled for breath weakly, his dark uniform smeared in blood, his own dripping off the end of his sleeve to form puddles of crimson in the ground.
"Tell me, Hiwatari…what would you do if I offered you an explanation of your father's death. Gave you an explanation as to who ordered his demise. Would you take it?" the man whispered, his face dangerously close.
Kai stopped struggling, his eyes focused on Stefan and Vladislav, still cowering silently beyond all the carnage, bound and gagged but aware; so painfully aware of what was going on.
"I won't do anything unless it means the safety of my men," Kai whispered, softly, "What's left of them."
The man chuckled and released his hold on Kai, allowing the dual-haired man to slump to the ground pitifully. "I'll tell you what. I will release Stefan and Vladislav over there if you can hit just three targets with your gun. But you must hit all three…hit two, and only one of them survives. But if you mess about and turn on my hospitality, they're dead, you miss, and they're dead. Is that clear?"
Kai glared up at the man through blood-soaked bangs, "Who are you? Why are you doing this to me?"
The man crouched down till he was at eye level with Kai, "My name is Konstantine, and I want to put your words to the test. You once claimed a long time ago that you would be able to take us down. I want to see that happen."
Kai merely glowered but stood up, slowly, none the less, leaning heavily on the wall for support. Konstantine grinned, standing up himself and taking a few paces back before picking up Kai's gun and tossing it at him. The slate-haired man caught it easily with his left-hand, his breathing heavy. Konstantine motioned for him to follow as he walked towards his men stationed around them, parting easily at one simple wave of his hand. Kai walked as swiftly as he could, disguising his pain behind a grim frown. He stopped and knelt down next to Stefan and Vladislav, and touched each other foreheads gently. They acknowledge him with a small nod of their heads as his voice filled their ears.
"I shouldn't have brought any of you along, but I will try my best to get you out of this situation…I'm sorry."
"Hiwatari! I'm waiting…" Konstantine mimed checking his watch and tapping his feet impatiently.
Kai nodded and stood up, walking over towards where Konstantine stood, facing another building covered up by a large black sheet. Kai stopped at the man's side and focused his deteriorating vision on the sheet, wondering what lay behind it, wondering what type of targets he would be forced to shoot.
"Ready, Kai?"
Kai bit his lip and nodded, cocking his gun in his left hand and holding it steady. Konstantine waved his hand towards two men standing either side of the sheet and with an affirmative nod, they pulled down the black sheet.
Kai retched, turning his head to the side as bile rose up and out of his throat, his gun dropping to the floor beside him as he grasped his abdomen tightly. He shook his head viciously, "No! You can't! You can't make me do this!"
Konstantine chuckled humourlessly, "You have to chose Kai, all three of them there are alive. You either kill them…or let the other two be killed…what's your decision?"
For hanging strapped to the wall, their eyes blindfolded and blood dripping off various wounds on their bodies, were Nikolai, Kirill and Roman…
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