This is the first drabble that isn't centered on romance and YoHaNa. I hope that's okay with you guys! There's going to be a part two of this, and that will be centered on YoHaNa. Yay.
Enjoy! :)
Dysfunctional Family
"I can't believe him," Yoh grouched as he fixed the golden badge on his chest. He eyed an amused Anna through the mirror and glared. Bitterness and anger swirled in his system like venom. He felt cheated. "I should be a part of this operation."
Anna sighed and moved to stand beside him. "You know why you can't, Yoh."
"I'm the best officer in this division," he argued, hands clenched at his sides. He didn't really mind the fact that he was excluded. After all, there were certain missions that he - even with his skill - would have trouble with. No; what angered Yoh was the fact that he-
"And the criminal that we're after is your brother."
-He obviously wasn't trusted.
A pang of betrayal shot through him. Even Anna, his childhood bestfriend, didn't think he could go through with this. He had already gone undercover and sent a few of his best friends - pretend best friends, Yoh corrected himself - in jail. And they still didn't trust him?
Anna lightly smacked his arm. "Don't take it too harshly. You know how paranoid Ren is. He's just a bit... unsure if you can pull the trigger when the time comes."
Yoh snorted.
"Tell me honestly, can you kill him?"
"The guy's a psychopathic pyromaniac, Anna," Yoh stated, as if she needed to be reminded. There was one way Hao's crimes can be distinguished from others. He always burned them to the ground; corpses and establishments alike.
"Can. You. Kill. Him?" she repeated, enunciating every word.
Yoh frowned and opened his mouth to say yes when he remembered a five year old Hao's pouting face as Yoh braided his hair, and then the image changed to a slightly older Hao as he stood protectively over his younger brother and he glared at the bullies. It shifted again and then Hao was barging into Yoh's room and locking the door behind him while Anna, screaming bloody murder, kicked and punched the door. Then Hao's desperate face flashed in his mind's eye as he told Yoh to run away when they were cornered by a group of thugs armed with knives.
Truth be told, Yoh couldn't imagine a life without Hao - one way or another - creating trouble. Yoh was't even sure if he wanted to be able to imagine one. His throat went dry. Anna smiled softly and walked out the door. "That's what I thought."
