Thank you for all of your guys' reviews, sorry for the delay. I would have gotten this done sooner but the weather got in the way by serving me a dish of cold which gave me a cold for a bit. Not to mention while I was typing this my computer exited me out of it and I didn't get a chance to save it so I had to start this chapter over again. Sighs. The work of a writer has many blocks. But if you come to one make sure you bring something like a muse or two to help you climb it.

Dana: Hey is she talking about us?

Leki: Yes now hush, Trinity Blood is back on.

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The 7th. Task

(Part Three)

"Yes sir?" Hisoka asked as he came into the Chief's Office. Chief Konoe pointed to a chair as to signal for Hisoka to sit down. Hisoka did so without a single word. "I had just been to see The Count, to find out what we should do." Chief Konoe said. "Hearing about two of ours being taken was a huge surprise." Chief Konoe added. He walked over to the window and looked out it silently for what felt like forever.

"What is it that he wants to be done?" Hisoka asked. He didn't want to feel like he was rushing his boss. However, he wanted to know so that he can leave and ignore whatever it is that should be done so he can go out and search for his amethyst eyed partner. It is only right as Tsuzuki had actually done the same for him once before.

Chief Konoe sighed. "There is no trail to follow to find out where Muraki had gone with them." Chief Konoe said. "After all from what we gather it seems as if he had covered his tracks or he hopes he did." He added as he turned and headed for his desk. "After all this time he still doesn't know us very well." Chief Konoe said. Hisoka was puzzled as to how calm the boss was being. However, there was no hint of his puzzlement showing on his face. For Hisoka, it is easy to hide such things since he is an empath.

Chief Konoe sat down at his desk, placing his hands together and resting them comfortably on the smooth surface of his desk he looked right at Hisoka. Chief Konoe had a frown on his face. "I know you are worried about him." He said. This time Hisoka could not hide anything. His surprise showed greatly as his eyes got real wide. He didn't know that the Chief could tell that. Seeing the surprise on the young Shinigami's face Chief Konoe continued. "It is funny how two people can grow so closely together." He said as he remembered how many times the two argued about this or that and the whole time were growing closer together.

Hisoka found himself blushing for some reason. "Umm sir?" Hisoka said as he wanted to get onto the subject at hand.

"While no of us could find Tsuzuki or Saya, at least not in time to stop Muraki that is." Chief Konoe said. "The Count as well, as well as myself believes that you can do it." HE added. Hisoka had gotten such a surprise that he was glad that he was instructed to sit down. Otherwise he would have fallen down. Opening his mouth to try and speak Chief Konoe caught him off guard again. "To help you with this I am having Jacob be your temporary partner." Konoe said.

"What! … Jacob? … Sir why?" Hisoka said as he was now on the edge of his seat with his fingers touching Chief' Konoe's desk. "He isn't one of us. So why?" Hisoka asked.

"Because we believe that the reason that Saya was taken was to lure Jacob there." Chief Konoe said. Hearing this Hisoka relaxed a bit more. "He wouldn't have taken her for any other reason but that." Chief Konoe said. "The Count believes that either you or Jacob knows where Muraki went to. It must be someplace familiar and whether you like it or not. You need him and he needs you right now." Konoe added. Hisoka wanted to protest so much. However, he knew that it would do no good and that The Count has his reasons. So he stood up and bowed. He then left the office and had to resist the urge to slam the door shut behind him.

Hisoka walked silently and pretty much quickly past the many desks. Many of the Shinigami stopped what they were doing and watched without a single word as Hisoka made his way to the last desk where Jacob was sitting at. Jacob had taken it upon his self to place his feet on the desk, lean back in the chair, and fall asleep with his hands resting on his chest. Hisoka stood ext to the sleeping beast. His hands in a tight fist and the emotions showing in his eyes read how much he hated this 'Why does it have to be him? He isn't even a Death God He is just a boy with a beast complex.' Hisoka thought to himself.

Suddenly, without warning or a word. Hisoka took hold of Jacob's feet and with one hand, quick speed, and hard force Jacob was flipping through the air and slammed into the wall that was ten feet away from where he had been at. His back was what hit the wall first and his head hit the ground as he landed upside down with his feet dangling above him. Then he fell to one side. "Ow! Man." Jacob said as he got to his knees and rubbed his head. "What's your problem?!" He yelled.

Without a word from the one that done it Hisoka grabbed hold of Jacob's ear and started pulling him out the door like Jacob was a small child that didn't not want to listen to his daddy. "Let's go." Hisoka said when they got into the hallway. Hisoka let go of Jacob's ear. "This way." Hisoka said as he started heading for the exit.

"Wait!" Jacob yelled as he reached for Hisoka's hand. Suddenly he found himself against the wall as Hisoka knocked him against the wall. Jacob's head hit the wall. He gritted his teeth. "WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM?" Jacob said as he started to get off the floor. However, Hisoka slammed both his hand on the wall. With one hand on each side of his head Jacob could only get to a kneeling position. Jacob looked into Hisoka's emerald green glare. His eyes showed the fiery that was reaching its boiling point. This new anger made Jacob's heart feel like stopping.

"Let's get this straight!" Hisoka said. "We may be partners for however long. But you follow what I say got it?" Hisoka said. "No excuses and no back talk. In fact I don't want to hear anything from you!" Hisoka yelled out. It was weird. First he sounded angry but then as he spoke on tears started to fill his eyes. Then Hisoka yelled out. "TSUUUUZZZZUUUUUKKKKIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!" Hisoka then found himself on his knees crying.

'He's …. crying?' Jacob thought to himself as he didn't know if he should even move yet. When Hisoka placed his hands on the cold hard floor and continued to cry uncontrollably Jacob let out a breath he didn't even know he was holding. He watched the boy cry on. 'It is strange … He does so many missions. Not to mention all the terrible jobs that I bet a Shinigami has to do he cries now?' Jacob thought to himself. He then placed a hand on Hisoka's shoulder. "Hey now." Jacob said. "Why don't we go someplace and talk?" Jacob suggested. Hisoka looked at him curiously. "Come on my treat." Jacob added as he pulled the teen to his feet.

"Baka …" Hisoka said. "We can't we have a mission to do." Hisoka said as he wiped away the last of his tears.

"okay, then where shall we start?" Jacob asked. Hisoka shrugged as he didn't know. "Well, then come on I know." Jacob said. He took hold of Hisoka's hand and started walking.

"Where are we going?" Hisoka asked after about ten minutes of wandering around the Ministry as Jacob was still leading the way and pulling Hisoka a long.

"Well, once we find the exit then we will go to that café again." Jacob said as he found himself going in a circle. "Hey didn't we just down this way? He asked.

Hisoka sighed. "Baka…" Hisoka said.

"HEY! I take offense to that." Jacob said. "If you are going to call me something that isn't my name then call me love machine or something. Anything but Baka." Jacob said.

"Well, then Love Machine you remember the direction I started to walk down when we left the office room?" Hisoka asked. Jacob gave a nod. "Well, if we would have kept going straight in that direction I was going we would have been at the Café ten minutes ago." Hisoka said.

"Uh!" Jacob said as he started to feel really embarrassed. He could feel his face turning red as a cherry.

Hisoka sighed. "Come on." He said as he began walking. Jacob followed and soon they reached the exit.

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The two had reached the Café. "Now what?" Hisoka asked as he had a feeling that this was not a good idea and that nothing could be gained from it.

"Wait here." Jacob said as he rolled up his sleeves. "I'm going in." Jacob added.

"Wait …" Hisoka started to say but Jacob had already went in

Five minutes later …

"Hey stop Owowowow!" Jacob said. There was a lot of noise coming from the inside and Hisoka who was leaning against the building of the Café waited and listened as the noise got closer. He had his arms crossed and his right foot crossed in front of his left foot. Hisoka just closed his eyes right as Jacob was flying three feet in the air and landed six feet from the door face first onto the hard sidewalk.

"I warned you did I not?" The middle aged man said. "Now if you come back again ever then I will be forced to kick the crap out of you!" With that said the man and the two chefs went back inside the Café.

"Any clues?" Hisoka asked in a very calm voice that had a hint of I knew this was going to happen in it. Jacob got up and his face was all beaten up. Having two black eyes, bloodied nose, and bruised cheeks that had imprints of what could only have been a ring on someone's finger making contact with his face. Jacob's clothes look a little worse for wear as well.

"He isn't talking." Jacob said in a slightly strange small voice that sounded like he was punched in the stomach and then the throat. "But I will make him talk this time." Jacob said and he went in for what is now round two. More noises could be heard and again Jacob went flying. This second time around he had a puffy right cheek and a cut on his forehead. He stumbled to his feet and looked like he was a drunken man. It would probably have been believable to had it not been for his face,

"Well?" Hisoka asked as he raised an eyebrow at his temp partner.

"I think I … have him … on the verge … of talking." Jacob said as his voice not only sounded like the wind was knocked out of him but also sounded like a bad case of a sore throat. Jacob tried two more times and this time when Jacob went in which is now the forth time Hisoka saw a poster on a tree and it had a photo of two Samurai Swords. There was a competition coming up in a month. However, that is what not turned on the light in Hisoka's head. When Jacob was thrown out more hurt then before he hit the tree face first then slid to the ground.

Jacob's face was so battered and bruised that he was starting to swell up and was looking like a badly rottener apple. "Ummm excuse me?" Hisoka asked the three guys. "May I have some cold press packs? My two sisters and brothers have a heat headache coming on." Hisoka said. The men nodded and went inside. They came back out and smiled as they saw Jacob still on the ground.

"Here you go." One of the Chef's said as they handed Hisoka four cold press packs and then went back inside.

Hisoka walked up to Jacob who looked as if his nose might be broken. "Come on. I think I know where we can get some info from." Hisoka said as he helped Jacob get to his feet.