Cold Ice Burning in the Heart

Chapter 3: Always Searching

House

It was interesting to have Kit around. She was always fighting with Tala and Kai, which, meant they were always too busy to bother the rest of us. I focused on the TV screen.

"Akari don't think you're going to beat me!" Max said as he pressed multiple buttons on his controller. We were both playing a video game. Loser had to make lunch for everyone.

"I don't think I'm going to win. I know I'm going to win!" I said back to him pressing more buttons then he did. The game was at it's finally stage. Then it ended, and everyone waited for the scores to show, so that we could determine a winner.

"Ha, you both tied!" Ray said from his spot on the couch. He was lazily flipping through a magazine. Masika repositioned herself on the other couch and faced us, with a smirk.

"Now go make us food. I'm hungry." She said looking out the window. I stood up and so did Max. We walked into the kitchen ready to make sandwiches. Max looked at me as I got the stuff out.

"Why do we always end up making lunch for them? Were the youngest, shouldn't they be making food for us?" I surged my shoulders at him as I began cutting bread.

"They probably should, but we are younger, so they have more power. In other words it means we do what they say." I really didn't mind making food for them all. I loved to cook. I was good at it since a young age.

"Anyways, at least now we don't have to do any of the other chores. Too bad it's raining we could of watched Talina yell at Kai, as he mowed the lawn." I added looking out the window.

"And who says I won't?" a voice came from the door way. I looked up at Talina; she had a smirk across her face. Max looked up at her for a second and then continued with getting the stuff out.

"You're going to make him mow the lawn in the rain?" he asked putting the stuff on the counter. She sat down at the table and stretched her arms out. I looked at her while shaking my head.

"What? The lawn needs to be mowed. I can't help it if it's raining out. So he'd better mow it. Besides its only 45 degrees out, and I'm making Tala trim the bushes." She said leaning against the wall. Max looked at her again.

"Only?" he asked also shaking his head. She looked at me and then stood up. She walked over to the counter. I quickly grabbed a wooden spoon.

Smack

"Owwww! That hurt! Why did you hit my hand? You evil person." Talina complained. I looked at her still holding the wooden spoon in my hand. A big grin spread across my face as I got back to work.

"Because it's not done, OR time to eat. So go do something instead of trying to get food. Oh and by the way, have you seen Kit today?" I asked cutting some salad. She stopped and looked like she was trying to remember something.

"Hmmm. I think I saw her leave when you two were playing your video game. I don't know where she went though." Talina replied leaving the kitchen. I signed, and started to make the food again.

"Wonder where she went in the rain. It's early on a Sunday, and not a lot of shops are opened yet. And not to mention those wounds she showed us looked pretty bad." Max said while putting food in the microwave.

"Hey you two less talking and more cooking." Tala yelled from the other room. I grunted and mumbled some words under my breath. "I heard that!" he yelled again. 'Damn him and his hearing. Oh well got to finish cooking anyways.'

After we ate everyone started there chorus, which meant everyone looked out the kitchen window. Talina was wearing a rain coat and had an umbrella in her hands. You could hear her yelling from inside.

"Kai you push like a girl! Put some back muscle into it. And Tala you call that trimming?" everyone sweat dropped. Masika looked over at me and whispered.

"Do you think she wants to die or something?" I grinned at her comment and looked back out the window. Both Kai and Tala looked ready to explode. It was raining harder and only getting colder. "Wonder how he's even mowing the lawn in the rain."

"That's it! You're dead! Get back here!" Kai and Tala were now chasing Talina through the yard, Tala still holding the hedge clippers. Anyone who was passing by would think that the three were crazy, two boys chasing a girl with a weapon in the freezing rain.

I walked up the stairs bored of watching them run. I stopped right before completely passing Kit's room. The door was opened, so I just walked in. there were papers scattered across the desk, under her bloody looking sweater. I started to reach for one of the folders.

"What are you doing Ray?" I jumped a good five feet from where I was standing to turn around and see Kit standing there soaked from head to toe, only wearing a t-shirt, and pants. 'She must have been freezing in the rain.'

"Umm… nothing… just… I was just wondering where you had gone off to. I thought I heard you up here so I came to check." I said hoping she would buy my lie. It was partly true.

"Ok, well, now you know I'm here, so can you leave so I can get changed?" she asked moving towards the bed. I quickly left closing the door behind me. I went downstairs. Nilus was sitting at the table.

Everyone else had come into the room as well. Everyone was tired or just extremely bored. Kit came downstairs after a while. Nilus cleared his throat to get everyone's attention.

"Well I got a package. Looks like there's a reward going around. It's a VERY good price. Its 100,000 dollars who ever can bring them some girl. And its 500,000 if you bring her alive." He said tossing the envelope to the center of the table.

"Name, Kierra Kitsune. Age 17. Has green eyes, golden silver hair. About 5'7. They even put in her records, and background information. They obviously want this girl." Kai said passing the folder to Akari.

"I've seen that girl before. She was on the news, her and some other guy burned to death in a fire at some abandoned building." She said looking up, and putting the folder down. "Though that was on a couple of days ago, this folder is dated yesterday. Do you think the fire was a cover?"

"Probably. I think we should take the job. I'm pretty sure every other gang is going to want it to." Tala said standing at the end of the table. 'Hmm, she looks familiar… where have I seen her?'

"She's still alive I saw her. Hmm… it was… damn what was the date… the day we met Kit, me, Ray, and Max saw her in the hospital. She crashed there systems, and ran away from there." Masika said giving the folder back to Nilus.

"Wow this is all so amusingly funny." Tala said staring at the picture again. "I ran into her to, in the back alleys the day me and Kai were waiting for the three of you to get home. She has a short temper, very rude."

'I do not have a short temper!' I thought grinding my teeth. 'So I had seen some of them that day.' I looked at everyone around the table. I let out a sigh. 'Guess I'll have to go. Unless I want them to find out, they might turn me in for the money, time to leave again.'

"What's wrong? You seemed to have gotten mad and then sad throughout are entire conversation. And you look a little pale." Talina said looking me in the eyes.

"Sorry about that. I'm not feeling so well, I think I might have gotten sick." I said putting my hand behind my head. 'PLEASE let them buy that.'

"You probably did get sick, you only had pants and a t-shirt on and it was freezing outside." Ray said getting some medicine out. Tala smirked from where he was standing. Everyone looked at him.

"Nice excuse. Your only saying that as a cover, aren't you? I know the truth." He said staring straight at me. My entire body froze, as everyone looked at him and me. 'Damn it, does he really know? I'm so fucking dead.' I thought bitterly.

'At least I got rid of the messenger. I wish I had made it a long and painful demise. ' I thought waiting to hear him tell everyone the truth.

Flash back

I walked through the alley ways looking for any sign that there was a gang corner. I turned a corner and saw a symbol on the wall. It was a gang symbol, from the eastern order.

I stood in the rain looking around the street for any other symbols. I found quite a few which meant I was close to what I was looking for.

"Found it. I knew it had to be around here." All gangs can always go to a gang corner, there neutral. They sell weapons and information. Not to mention they give out jobs as well.

I walked down the alley some more and stopped at some stairs. I had found one of the less used entrances. I walked down them to come to a street filled with people. Everyone was selling stuff and buying.

"Do you know where the information or jobs are handed out? I've never been to this corner before." I asked one of the shop keeps. He seemed to be selling knifes. I bought a couple and headed in the direction he had told me.

I stopped and looked at all the different assignments. In the corner of my eye I saw a symbol all too familiar. 'HIS symbol, which means he's still looking for me. This is just great.'

I followed the blue haired girl. She made a couple of turns and then entered an abounded alley. She pulled out a cell phone and called someone. I waited, ready to listen to the conversation.

/"I've handed out the assignment, all top gangs, or assassin groups have been given this information as well."/ She spoke in Chinese on the phone. 'Guess she doesn't want anyone hearing this conversation.'

The second she hung up I came out from where I was hiding. She turned around and jumped back in shock, but quickly recovered. She looked at me for a second.

"Who are you, and what do you want?" she asked coldly. Her voice sounded so annoying, and her outfit annoyed me as well. She glared at me waiting for an answer. I smirked at her and leaned against a nearby wall.

"How insulting, you don't know who I am?" I asked looking at her with my light blue eyes. The small amount of light reflected off of them and let the silver specks shine brightly. She smirked.

"You're not so bright coming forward like this. Do you want to die, or be brought in? At least you were smart enough to change your appearance. Oh well I'll just kill you now and bring you in." she said while slowly walking towards me.

"You know you shouldn't be so cocky, unless you want to die? Do you have the guts to kill?" I asked mockingly to her. She laughed and tossed two blades. They landed on either side of my head.

"My names Ming-Ming and I always do what I say I'm going to do, so you'd better not struggle it will only make it hurt more." She said walking to me once again. I smirked when she was three feet away from me.

In an instant I was right behind her. I held both knifes she had thrown in my hands tightly. I held them up to her throat. Then I quickly knock her to a wall and kept the knifes even with her throat.

"Now you tell me where your leader is and what his plans are or I'll give you a long and painful death. Start talking." I growled waiting for her to reply. She laughed and looked at me coldly.

"I'm not telling you a damn thing. So you might as well kill me now. HURRY UP ALREADY!" she yelled, and with one swift movement of my wrist I plunged her knife into her heart and stomach. She slid to the floor slowly. I looked at her and then walked away.

End Flash back

'Stupid girl, why did she have to already give them it? Damn it all. I'm going to have the fight them if they attack me' I thought holding on tightly to the blade that was in my pocket.