Last and proabably not least! Maybe this one won't be all fluff...oh, wait I have Kousuke to get pissed and do something stupid, okay, not all fluff! Enjoy!
CeTe: I decided to be nice and have everything work out for once. And I'm planning on Kousuke freaking out, so that'll be something to look foward to. Thanks for reviewing!
alpha2nd:I'm not sure exactly what I'm going to do with the Hunters yet, obviously...something, but not sure what. Any ideas? And Kanone will need to watch his back...I'm gonna have something that happened to Kousuke in the past that'll get him all good and pissed at Kanone...hehehehe.
"You know this won't be easy." Eyes warned Kanone. They were sitting in a coffeeshop waiting for Kousuke, Rio, and Ryoko. They were planning on telling the three everything.
Kanone nodded, glad that they were in public, "Just don't let Kousuke kill me." Kanone joked...sort of, he really wouldn't put it past the hotheaded teen.
Eyes just looked at him, unamused, "Never." He thought. Kanone put all joking aside and waited nervously for the others.
Finally he spotted a mass of red hair and saw Rio and Ryoko shortly after, "Eyes! Kanone!" Rio shouted and ran over to the two.
"Hello, Rio." Kanone said pleasantly and Eyes just nodded.
They greeted the other two and Kousuke got straight to business, "So, Rutherford, what did you call us down here for?"
"Kanone has something he wants to tell you all." Eyes replied, drawing the attention to said boy.
"Thank you, Eyes." Kanone said, but inside he was cursing the Balde Child, not that they needed to be anymore cursed than they already were. Kanone sighed and turned to the others, just knowing that they wouldn't be as accepting of this as Eyes (he's been very reasonable in all of my fics lately...strange), "I'm afraid that I have been decieving all of you a bit."
"What do you mean?" Rio asked, suspicious, but not wanting to believe that Kanone would lie to her.
"I...I'm a Hunter." Kanone said quickly and then looked up to see the suprised faces of Ryoko and Rio, and the pissed face of Kousuke.
The latter spoke up now, "What!" He stood up, knocking his chair over and turned to Eyes, "And how long have you known about this?"
"I only told him last night." Kanone replied, realizing that he wouldn't be able to explain everything, there's no way Kousuke would calm back down.
Kousuke glared at Kanone, "I wasn't talking to you, Hunter."
Fortunately Ryoko was there, punching Kousuke, "Keep it down, Kousuke, you're drawing too much attention."
"Who cares, Ryoko? Did you not hear him, he's a Hunter, why should I have to be nice?"
"I never said you had to be nice, just keep your voice down. Idiot." She said, sitting back down, Kousuke doing the same.
He glared at Kanone, "So why the hell are you telling us this? Do you honsetly have a death wish?'
Kanone shook his head, relieved that he would get the chance to exlplain, "Things have changed, I don't want to be in their ranks any longer, and I figured that I could use all the support I could get."
"What do you mean?" Ryoko asked, slightly on edge, but, like Rio, wanting to trust Kanone.
Kanone began explaining then, about the Hunter's plan, about how he wanted to get out, and how he had failed to see any other alternative. Rio spoke up after he was done explaining, "I understand that you want out, and I understand that you didn't have any other way than to tell us and hope we would help you, but why have you changed your mind?"
Kanone sighed and looked to Eyes who just nodded, "I've fallen in love... with Eyes."
Kousuke got pissed once again, "Rutherford, tell me this is a joke."
"It's not a joke, I assure you." Eyes replied.
Kousuke sighed and just stood up, "I'm gonna take a walk." Ryoko and Rio began to stand up but he just glared at them, "Alone." Ryoko had never seen him like this and sat back down, Rio following suit.
Kousuke walked down a nearly empty street and kicked a soda can, sighing and thinking back to when he was younger. He knew he knew Kanone from somewhere, but where? Then it all clicked.
Flashback
A very young Kousuke (like 6 or 7) ran up to his front door. He knew he was a Blade Child, but that hadn't stopped him from living as normal a life as everyone else. At least, unitl today, "I'm home, mom!" Kousuke yelled as he entered his home, looking around for his mother. Even though she knew of his curse, Sandy still loved her son and Kousuke felt the same way. His mother had always supported him no matter what and she always backed him up, no matter if he was wrong or not. She was the perfect mother and the two hardly ever had any arguements. Yes, Kousuke was completely content with his life. He had a wonderful mother and great friends, even a girlfriend (though that didn't last long after these next events). Kousuke walked through his kitchen and into his living room. He froze at the sight. His mother, on the ground, completely still. Blood was everywhere. As his sight traveled around her body he came to a pair of shoes. He looked up to see a boy about his age with brown hair and glowing golden eyes grinning at him, holding a knife covered in his mother's blood. The boy couldn't have been much older than him, one or two years at the most, yet he acted so much older, so much more mature, "What...who are you?" Kousuke managed to choke out between held back sobs.
The boy became serious, "My name is Kanone." He said, he had an accent, somewhere from America maybe, "I'm a Hunter. This is a warning to you Blade Children, just to show you how powerless you are to save anyone. Your fate has been predetermined, don't try to fight it." With that Kanone threw the knife right passed Kousuke's head, evidence of many years of training, and startled the Blade Child enough to escape. Kousuke ran over to his mother and checked for a pulse in the bloody mess, getting the red stuff all over his hands. Not finding what he was looking for, Kousuke called an ambulance. He was later informed that his mother was indeed dead and was asked several questions to which he just glared at the inquirers and was left alone. After that, Kousuke sunk into a state of depression in which he lost most of his friends (including his girlfriend). It didn't matter though, soon after he met Ryoko and started to become accustomed to living his life again, though he was never the same.
End Flashback
Kousuke shivered at the memory and swore that Kanone would pay. He looked at his hands and quickly shoved them into his pockets; he swore he could still see the blood.
Awww, poor Kousuke. Well, I said I wouldn't be mean to Eyes in this fic, so I had to torture someone and Kousuke seemed like the perfect candidate. Well, what'd you think? Review!