New Hope
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Part 7
Duo sat on the couch staring at the ceiling. He couldn't stop thinking about Muraki's words.
"A God demoted to a mere Guardian…"
"You're already dead…"
"You desire my beautiful doll…"Duo really couldn't deny that. He knew he was dead. But Hisoka… Was a walking wet dream! He had to admit his attraction to the younger looking shinigami. He wasn't blind. He, Duo may be attractive, but Hisoka was beautiful, his angelic face, those cold green eyes, the soft looking skin, and the slender body. No words could describe the shinigami. It has only been a few months since him and Hisoka had been partners. He'd taken every chance he could: hugging, teasing, flirting, etc… So far Hisoka had been resistant to his charms. Plus the little brat Karin had been taking him away. At the things to do…
It had just occurred to Duo that Hisoka probably heard what was going on in his little head. He checked his shields to know they aren't good…
"Itai!" Duo said rubbing the back of his head. Hisoka threw something at him.
"Baka ecchi." Hisoka muttered before pulling the blankets over his head. He was furiously blushing underneath as he got wind of Duo's thoughts. Surely Duo didn't think he was that attractive? Hisoka was about to think beautiful but he hated that word. It was the first compliments from his killer, no less. Duo was so much like Tsuzuki. He'd gotten the same reaction from Tsuzuki. Tsuzuki had done the same thing of flirting with him but Muraki kept interfering with their lives that it really wasn't so extreme until he finally disappeared. Hisoka didn't think much of Duo's obvious flirting. Hisoka hated the attention. But he didn't mind those sincere feelings he felt.
This was so getting to his head. He just needed to sleep. Sleep would do him good…
-X-
Duo watched as Hisoka slept. Tatsumi had to be a cheapskate so they had to share a bed, which was big enough for three. Since the Winners owned most of L4, the room was still extravagant even if it was cheap. Hisoka looked pretty tempting when he was asleep. His hand brushed a stray strand from Hisoka's face. His fingers caressed his temple and cheek. He was surprised as Hisoka leaned into his touch. Score! He had a chance.
He recoiled his hand, as Hisoka seemed to stir awake. He sighed in relief as Hisoka fell still. That was close. Duo lied down with his arms folded behind his head. He had to get some sleep for tomorrow. They were going to sneak into one of Quat's main companies.
This case was too personal. Why would Tatsumi give it to them? Surely the warning wasn't going to be enough. The other four former gundam pilots would probably be there. Tatsumi told him that they would be observing the unexplained murders. He might be seen. They weren't gundam pilots for nothing. Tatsumi should've been aware of this. He'll think of this tomorrow. No use making plans in the middle of the night.
-X-
Finding the building had been easy. But when Duo looked at security, it was hard to get in. He stood looking up at the building with his disguise. He had a black hat to keep his braid in; he wore casual black jeans along with a black shirt. He wasn't that recognizable. He looked to Hisoka who was also glancing at the building until those eyes looked at him.
"Ready to go?" Hisoka asked him.
"Anytime!" Duo said enthusiastically.
With that they both seemed to vanish as if they were never there. Being dead had its perks. Luckily, the camera missed them.
As they went in invisibly, Duo led the way since he memorized the floor plans of every floor and basement. Hisoka followed suit. Hisoka noticed Duo had a penchant for sneaking around as if he were visible. He did notice that Duo pulled him to hide in case of cameras spying on them. Hisoka didn't bother telling Duo the fact that they were not being seen. He could sense Duo's thrill of this mission. It seemed to be filling him too.
They slinked through the halls and passed many rooms that weren't interesting. They made it to the basement where Duo pointed out where the main computer was. Hisoka watched as Duo attached something to the cameras in the room and pressed a button. Soon Duo turned visible motioning for Hisoka to do the same.
"We are now invisible!" Duo told him before walking over to the computer.
Hisoka wasn't big on computers like Watari was. He watched as Duo effortlessly breaks down firewalls and infiltrates the computer's memory. Hisoka did wonder what they needed this computer for. When he asked, Duo responded that they needed to find out what evidence they had on the case of those murders. They could use that to start with. Everything was hush, hush in Meifu so they couldn't get anything. They had to get it themselves. Hisoka took the explanation. It was plausible, as he did notice that they had nothing on the case and no place to start except Winner Corps.
-X-
He walked the halls among L4's Preventer building. He brushed a stray black hair from his face that his small ponytail seemed to miss. He entered the room filled with security cams. He went in to see if everything was going fine. Surely he thought that the culprit would be destroying evidence by now. But they too had hardly gotten anything but an unidentified fingerprint. It was too vague for them to identify the murderer.
He took one last glance at the screens showing all places of the building. He was about to note there was nothing suspicious until one screen caught his eye. He looked closely and realized that the time has stopped moving. Someone was very smart.
"Get a few down there. We have an intruder." With that he exited and took a shortcut to the basement room. He had to catch this culprit and ask why and HOW were they able to sneak into this Preventer building without being seen.
-X-
Hisoka was bored. He'd just been watching the screen go by without any such luck. It seemed that the Preventers weren't able to get much of anything either. This murderer was good, leaving no trace of them-selves. It's as if they're waiting for the opportune moment to reveal them-selves. There was only one person he knew that could commit a crime without so much as leaving evidence unless he wanted to.
"Muraki…" he whispered thoughtfully. He could tell Muraki had been in L4 for some time. It was always a possibility. With Muraki around someone always dies by the doctor's hand.
"What'd you say Hisoka?" Duo asked him. He caught a whisper but he didn't know what he said. Hisoka shook his head.
"It's nothing…" Hisoka looked around carefully, sensing someone coming. "Someone's coming." He told Duo.
With that Duo quickly got rid of anything that would incriminate him and pulled Hisoka with him in the shadows. The door opened and revealed someone Duo knew too well…
"Wufei…" he whispered in disbelief. This mission was already screwed up. He wondered how were they going to get out of there. He panicked. He didn't have his gun either. Hisoka told him not to bring it. So much for listening…
'Duo…calm yourself!' Hisoka told him in his mind. Duo jumped but remembered that Hisoka had developed telepathy a couple centuries ago. 'Listen, we could just sneak out of here the same way we came in. We can't confront him.' Hisoka told him. Duo knew he was right. But all the pilots have a keen sense of anything that remotely moves. Duo nodded and they both turned invisible. They waited for Wufei to pass and began to take silent steps.
A second later, the barrel of Wufei's gun was trained on them.
"Show yourself. I know you're there." He said looking directly at them. How the hell… Duo thought. There's no way Wufei was this good at spotting him. Duo pulled his hat down to cover his eyes and turned visible. It seemed to surprise the Chinese man but he regained his composure. "Who are you?" he asked. He just laughed.
"You wouldn't believe me if I told ya." Duo spoke before kicking the gun out of Wufei's hand and punching his face. He grasped Hisoka's hand and ran as he left the Chinese man to recover from the shock. Wufei quickly recovered and took out another gun to run after them.
"Hold it!" he called out to them. He took another route that would connect and make it faster to reach them. He reached the main hallway and ran right in front of them. They stopped and stepped back. They were about to run in a different direction but more Preventer agents arrived. Duo took out the gun he stole from Wufei and prepared to fire. "Put your gun down. You are surrounded." Wufei said. Duo sighed. He then turned to Hisoka.
"You trust me?" he asked. Hisoka nodded although a bit hesitantly. He wasn't sure what Duo had in mind. He then saw the Duo quickly took care of the Preventer agents surrounding them but one. It seemed Duo had trouble with the last one. They watched as Duo finally took care of the last one. He took another gun and trained it on Wufei who had his gun trained on Hisoka.
"Drop it," Wufei told him again. Duo didn't listen.
"Let us pass. I don't want to hurt you." Duo said walking forward. He moved to the side as a bullet whizzed by him. But in turn, killed his disguise making his hat fall to the floor.
Wufei stared in shock as violet eyes revealed themselves and a brown braid cascaded down from the hat. Only one person had this particular trait.
"Maxwell…" he said in disbelief. Duo turned to him before taking advantage of his shock. He and Hisoka took their cue to leave. They turned invisible and ran out of the building leaving Wufei with a lot of questions.
Wufei was snapped out of his shock as his name was called from down the hall the bullet came from. He turned to see his friend with messy brown hair and Prussian blue eyes coming towards him.
"Chang, you look like you've seen a ghost," he told him. Wufei looked at him.
"I think I have Heero, I think I have."
-X-
Duo breathes a sigh of relief as they made it back to their hotel room. Hisoka was next to him breathing harshly. They really were screwed. How could he forget that there'd be someone else coming? He didn't know who it was that shot at them but it sure as hell didn't do well for them. He was sure Wufei got a good look at him because he had uttered his name.
"Hisoka, you okay?" Duo asked concerned. Hisoka just nodded. He couldn't speak at the moment from that entire run. "Well, that was close. I think that we're screwed though. I think he saw me."
"We'll deal with it. We've got to check one more place tomorrow. Were you able to get anything?" Hisoka asked.
"No, they had about as much as we have. With the guy's luck, it seems he created the perfect murder, first one in history."
"Second," Hisoka muttered. He was a perfect murder. Although the bureau suspected it there was not much, or no, evidence to support that claim. This is Muraki's doing. It has to be.
Unlike Hisoka, Duo didn't take Muraki into consideration. Duo was thinking who could be this crafty. Surely it was someone with connections to Winner Corps. He bit his lip thinking but coming up blank. He needed names but he didn't have any. Looks like he's pulling an all-nighter.
"No you're not. There's no need for names. It'll be pointless. The murders stopped as soon as we came. The person will confront us soon enough." Hisoka said standing and walking over to get some clothes to change in. He was going to take a nice bath then go to bed.
Duo stared at Hisoka as he remembered the telepathy. Argh he cursed that power. He wondered when his would show up.
"You wouldn't be cursing it if you place your shields up better." Hisoka said to him before entering the bathroom.
Damn telepathy.
TBC---------------
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