R E C Chapter 2: Sand Scraper, a kuroshitsuji fanfic

Happy new year, and actually an update… Hopefully this year I will actually be updating this shit. My schedule has tightened up a little bit since I entered colleague and I also have a girlfriend that needs more care than newborns, so… Some understanding please. I won't say I am not lazy, cause I am. But I have been through a terrifying art block, and it's just getting over. This chapter is even 2 pages shorter than the other, I will try better next time. Please review…

Pairings: Haven't decided if there will be pairing. But most likely there will be light shonen-ai Ciel x Alois.

Genre: Supernatural/ Friendship/Adventure/Horror

General Warning: English is not my mother language, sorry for the poor vocabulary and mistakes.

Warnings for later chapters: Violence, Gore, Mention of Sexual themes, Physiological.

Pairings: Haven't decided if there will be pairing. But most likely there will be light shonen-ai Ciel x Alois.

Genre: Supernatural/ Suspence/ Friendship/Adventure

General Warning: English is not my mother language, sorry for the poor vocabulary and mistakes.

Warnings for later chapters: Violence, Gore, Mention of Sexual themes, Physiological.

Repeating:

General Information: This story is practically a sequel to the anime (both series); it also is slight Death Note crossover. Most likely the characters won't appear. But if they do, they will for a bit only to help the plot. Mostly it's the place that everything will happen that's taken from the DN, but I don't want to spoil my own story, so I'll say more lately.

But so I won't forget, I want to inform those who read this that because I don't like using OCs in my fanfics, you'll see characters from different manga and anime in the roles (each will be credited to its respectful owner on the bottom of the page).

Disclaimer in the end of the page.

R E C

Chapter Title- Chapter 2: Sand scraper

Ciel's POV

I ran my fingers from my forehead back, brushing my hair out of my face, raising an eyebrow.

"Murdered…" I stated.

What a nice way to start your day…

"What do you mean he was murdered?"

Alois left an annoyed sigh rolling his eyes and moved away from the window shrugging "Zero pulse, no heartbeat, no breathing. The ultimate shutdown. The joy of Bella Swan. You know. Dead" he crossed his arms watching me pouting.

I stared at him still holding my hair back and glanced toward the door from where I could still make out the noise from the hall and other floor.

"How? When?"

He shrugged again "I don't know. He was found by a couple of students when they unlocked the chemistry class".

My eyes narrowed and turned to him "The chemistry class" I spat with a mixture of irony and annoyance.

"Yes I know what you're thinking" he said with a sarcastic smile "What a coincidence"

I shook my head and got out of the bed, toward the bathroom and washed my face. I couldn't deal with this half awoken. I returned to the bedroom wiping my face and glared at my roommate, while he leaned against the ledge and returned the glare like he expected to get scolded.

I opened my mouth but he cut me off.

"I have nothing to do with it" he said.

I rolled my eyes "Are you for real? He is the second person that dies after giving you a bad time. Is it a coincidence?" I growled narrowing my eyes.

"I don't know! But I have nothing to do with these murders" he huffed and turned away.

"Did they call you for questions?" he shook his head.

That sounded normal, since only the two of us, Kio and Seimei were the only ones knowing about the incident in the chemistry classroom, but still they could have connected it with the previous case and question him this time too. Actually now that I thought of it again, it sounded fishy.

I almost jumped as I was shaken off my thoughts with a movement around my feet, but it was only Shira who was expressing her affection once more, purring while nuzzling to my legs. I sighed once more and cached the bridge of my nose.

"Look, if you don't want to believe me do so alright? But remember, innocent until proved otherwise! You are the one who said it. So until you present to me some proof that I did it, I won't have it" he stood and walked to his bed, putting on his shoes.

I wasn't planning to apologize for something that had reasoning, so I ignored him, placed the cat aside with my foot and started dressing annoyed.

We didn't talk, the only sound in the room was the two of us dressing up and making our beds, as well as the cat mewing for attention, until Alois picked her up and she decided to shut up.

After a while there was a knock on the door. I glanced at my roommate who was laid with Shira lying on his stomach while he read a magazine and completely ignored me and the knock. I rolled my eyes at his childish behavior and walked to open. There stood a boy with black hair, similar style with Alois' only a bit shorter and empty dark eyes, wearing a black shirt, arm-warmers and a pair of gothic pants twice his size, with a pair of neon green belts hanging from his sides, the only ornament other than his pendant that wasn't black.

"Good morning, Megumi" I said. Even if he was in this school long before both me and Alois, I didn't know much of him. Apart of him being Momiji's roommate and playing with my own in the same tennis team, I only knew that he was thirteen and worked part-time somewhere. He was quiet person. From the times we had talked he seemed like an ok person, a bit creepy maybe but just that.

He nodded in response "Headmaster wishes to see you" he said. I heard a displeased sound from behind as the sentence had attracted Alois' attention and he sat up slowly.

"Both of us?" I asked and the other nodded. I turned to face the blond who was already on his feet, and walked to stand beside me with his hands in his pockets obviously annoyed. Megumi turned and started leading the way.

"We can go on our own you know" I stated as we followed him.

"I was asked to bring you over, so I must walk you to his office"

Unfortunately Alois didn't make any sour comment, but I was busy worrying for the reason we were called. I suspected it had to do with the murder; headmaster must have been suspicious of Alois…

We crossed the corridors and walked the central staircase to the ground floor. We continued walking to the other side of the building with Megumi leading the way and his pendant jingling from its long thin silver chain while he walked.

We stopped in the middle of the back corridor in front of a double wooden door. Our lead knocked the door forcefully but there was not answer. Alois rolled his eyes and sighed, sifting his weight on his other leg and I crossed my arms impatiently. Megumi knocked again.

"Come in" came a male voice from the inside.

We all walked inside. It was a spacious well lit room, with bright colors decorating the walls and a fancy carpet in the center of the room in front of a big office. Two couches with red leather were set at each side of the carpet facing each other, also in front of the office desk. Behind it was an enormous book case, filled with books which didn't seem like they had been touched for a long while, accompanied with a couple of hourglasses and little statues. My ears were getting bothered already by the Newton's cradle that always ticked beside the vase with the ink and the pens. On it also rested a lot of paperwork and a couple of colorful books and atop of them a bowl with strawberries.

"Thank you Megumi, you may go" said the man sitting on the large black office chair. Megumi nodded and walked off closing the door on his way out.

I eyed the man, who was watching us with a smile. I had talked to him a few times. His name was Rue Ryuzaki, or at least this was the name with which we knew him. We students call him master, headmaster, or Ryuzaki. Not even the teachers called him Rue. I suppose for some reason he doesn't attract informalities. Even if when you saw him he was far from the image you get when you hear the word 'Headmaster'. A man on his late twenties, with black messy hair a little longer than his shoulders, tied on the back of his neck, with a pair of dark circles around his black eyes, signalizing the lack of sleep. He wore a thin white shirt, with smile collar and a pair of baggy army jeans over his boots and on top of all a long dark purple coat with ripped ends.

I had heard tons of rumors about him coming and going inside Whammy's House, but in the end they were so many that I could never be sure which of them were truths.

He grinned lightly resting his chin on his joined hands "Welcome" he said "Please have a seat". I glanced at Alois but he was staring out of the window looking bored, with his hands in his pockets still. I moved and took a seat close to the desk, and the blond sat by my side.

"How are you?" he asked cheerfully.

"I am sure you didn't ask us here to check our condition, headmaster"

He chuckled and sat back, making the chair slightly lean backward "So straightforward, Ciel. Always been, it's pretty sad we will never have some bonding time if all we talk about is work"

I shuddered and tried to hide a face that showed off how much I wasn't interested in any bonding time with him. But I could tell from his smirk he was just toying with me. The one on my side who still never turned to face Ryuzaki stiffened lightly at his words as well, but his expression remained bored.

"Whatever" said the raven haired and took the bowl with the strawberries in his hand, and started making some movements with his hands which I guessed were to have him pick which one he will eat "I do believe you are already informed of what happened yesterday night"

I nodded slowly trying hard to not glance at Alois once more, since for me and I believe in everyone's eyes pretty much he was the number one suspect.

Ryuzaki picked a fat strawberry between his forefinger and thumb and leaned his head back, feeding it to himself in two bites. My eyebrow twitched.

What manners…

"As you know this was the second murder that took place in our house" he gulped another smaller strawberry and looked at us "The police didn't allow me to get too much mixed on the insides of this murder, even if he let the last one to my hands, knowing my position and talent"

Not full of yourself at all…

"But they don't trust me much from now on, almost as much as I don't trust them. What I want to say is that there is no way in any universe they can solve something I can't, but to do that I need some things, and those useless idiots cleaned or took away all the evidence and in general whatever could lead to the murderer"

I blinked curiously since this didn't seem to go the way I had expected. He seemed more like he was going to give us a work, or something of that sort, than wanting to see if Alois was really innocent or not. There was no way that he didn't know of the suspicions on him.

"So… What do you want from us?" I asked really wondering.

"I want you to go check on the body, and anything that the police or whoever examined it has reported. Find the hospital file and whatever additional you might catch your eye, report it" he sat up, leaning toward his desk, taking a weird ankle with his neck, looking under some books, and picked a note "Here" he passed it to me and gave it a look. There was an address written on it "You won't have difficulty finding it, it's just beside the St. Bartholomew's Hospital"

I nodded and watched where the note was thinking other things. Practically Ryuzaki had never handed to student a case which concerned the house, or anything relatively close to us, as far as I knew. But not only had he given us one case concerning the house, one of the people he chose was the No. one suspect…

I wonder what's in his head…

I glanced at him, while he watched me smiling in a way that was supposed to be gentle, but obviously was far from it, while he leaned on his hand, and twirled a pen between his fingers of the other hand. He seemed like he expected something, or was just observing me. I turned to Alois, but his expression hadn't changed in the slightest, neither did his position.

"Do you have any questions" said Rue breaking the silence through the monotone sound of the tick toe from the Newton's Cradle.

I straightened up and placed the note in the pocket of my uniform "So, all we do is gather information and bring it to you, right?"

"Yup" he replied short, still with the smile plastered on his face "It shouldn't be difficult. I have given you far more difficult missions, and you went through with them like an expert, I doubt this will even trouble you"

"No. Not difficult at all"

More like doing your chores I would say…

I stood up and the blond did the same.

"Taki's burial will take place tomorrow. So please get over with it today"

I nodded "We will leave as soon as possible"

"I'm glad to hear that" he made a motion with his hand in a waving way "Take care"

We both walked out and in the corridor, I looked at my roommate expecting him to comment on the meeting but he just looked at me curiously and shrugged. It pretty much annoyed me how careless he looked for someone in his condition, and I was suspecting that the reason we were the ones doing this was some sort of trap to check out if Alois was behind the two deaths at the very end.

After that we had breakfast pretty fast and left the House took a short walk and stopped at the bus stop. We could have gone on foot too, but it would have taken us about an hour to do that, so we simply waited and as soon as the bus was there we got on.

The weather was a bit cold, even if it was April. I watched out of the window at the streets filled with cars and people during noon. It was a pretty calming sight, and made me relax, I even felt like leaning against the glass and taking a nap, after all Alois had hardly spoken any word, so I could do that.

I was drifting off when I felt a small additional weight on my shoulder. I blinked returning to awake state and turned to check, coming to face a head covered with blonde hair leaned on me. I half glared at him, still annoyed but then he intertwined his fingers with mine and looked up at me frowned looking tired.

"I didn't do it… I swear…" he said lowly.

My stomach twisted a bit from his choice to bring this up again all of a sudden.

"I told you before I am not the one you must convince…" I replied and attempted to take my hand away from his but he only held it tighter, and I glared at him half heartedly.

"If you don't believe though, who am I supposed to expect to believe me? You are the closest person to me…" he said looking at me frowning even more.

I averted my eyes from his and turned to the glass again. As far as I could remember I didn't create bonds with people, and I wasn't sure if I had done with him either. I didn't like the idea of it either, if I could have chosen I would be working alone. We were placed together when I had come to Whammy's, even if I had to choose a partner it wouldn't have been Alois… But I guess I had got used to him. I was coping with him… Nothing more…

I heard him sigh lowly and let loose of my hand, and I pulled it away slowly. There was a moment where nothing was spoken, but I could feel his eyes on me, while he still rested his head on my shoulder, then I felt a weak tug on my shirt, let out a sigh of my own and looked at him coldly.

"What?" I spat but kind of regretted it as he twitched at my harshness and sat back on his own seat, wrapping arms around himself.

"Nothing, forget it" he said and swigged his legs, watching them, hitting the front sit, which luckily was empty.

I growled "It annoys me when you start something and not finish it"

Hs shrugged and looked at me arrogantly "Next time don't glare at me when I want to say something" he huffed and turned his face the other way. Oh how I wanted to strangle him at that moment.

"You get on my nerves"

"Is there something that doesn't?" he said all smartass like.

"Your silence"

"So contradictive. You just talked to me. Would you have liked it better if I had ignored you?"

Can I kill him? Please?

I growled and he stuck his tongue out at me smirking.

"That's our stop, come on" he jumped up and dragged me along. When we stepped on the sidewalk, he was all cheerful and it was like we hadn't fought. We walked beside the stone fence of the hospital around the corner, while I took a look at the address.

"It must be around this corner" I said and pointed the direction.

"Good, let's finish this and go eat. I am starving" he said and stretched, placing his hands behind his head, walking with me.

"You just had breakfast" I said, although I had to admit I was pretty hungry myself…

We turned on the left on the crossroad and came to a pretty empty street, a big part of which was occupied from the hospital grounds. In the middle of the street, with half of it attacked to the hospital, was a pretty small building, which obviously existed for way too long. Personally I wondered if it was safe to step in there, but that was where Ryuzaki asked us to go, so we had not much of a choice. We passed there and stopped in front of the door, taking a look at the front side of the place, which I figured was a morgue, and it looked weirdly even for that. It looked like it hadn't been renewed since Victorian Era.

The door was made by old wood, with two glass windows with curved ends, and a vitro above the door. Beside it rested two stone graves, most likely advertising the… products, which made it look creepy as hell, along with the coffin on the other side, and the skull on the big sign, with the word 'Undertaker' scribbled on it.

Alois whistled "That sure is eccentric…'

I groaned "Whatever" I stepped forward and pushed the door open, stepping inside with my roommate. The inside was almost as spooky, and even more decorated like a movie from Old England. There were coffins all over the place, and various jars with liquids and other stuff, as well as a big variety of antiques, either mirrors and furniture or different objects. Generally it was also pretty messy, with spiders at every corner, and a thick line of dust on the bookcase. It made me wonder if the person who owned the place was capable of doing a job like caring the corpses correctly. Probably not.

We both stiffened as a creepy laughter filled the room, and tried to identify its source, looking around.

"He he he… It has been such a long time, hasn't it be my lord?"

I jumped lightly and Alois screamed as something touched our shoulders, he rushed away, startled, as I turned to face the person, which from what it seemed had climbed out of one of the coffins which rested against the wall.

It was a tall man, with very long grey hair, with bangs that didn't let me see his eyes. He was wearing a baggy black cloak with sleeves longer than his hands and under it a couple of other layers of black clothes, and a gray cloth around his shoulder, tying to the opposite side of his waist, as well as a couple of jewels around his waist and neck. On his head rested an old hat which made me think instantly that he reminded me Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland. I rested my eyes on his hand which still rested on my shoulder, raising an eyebrow at his long black nails which showed out of the ends of his sleeve.

No matter what way you see it, he is weird…

I cleaned my throat and stepped away from him taking his hand off my shoulder tactfully "Greetings, sir".

"Mmm?" he pouted, joining his sleeves in front of him "'Sir'? Where is my 'Undertaker!' young Earl?" he smiled again.

I raised my eyebrow "I think you are mistaking me for someone else"

Hi grinned wider and walked across the room letting a low creepy laughter "Aha… That must be the case…"

Alois walked and stood beside me, watching the man with an expression that still screamed 'what the fuck'.

The man sat on the desk, I only then noticed excised in the room, and rested his high heeled leather boots on it, one over the other, holding a jar with a cross scribbled on it, and started taking some bone shaped cookies out of it and started devouring them (If he didn't I would have been sure it was dog cookies, but I still wasn't certain even now…).

"So, how can I help you?" he asked with the same creepy chuckle following his words.

I walked forward and paused thinking that headmaster hadn't given me any paper that would allow us to see the body. I mentally cussed on him, but though I would give it a try anyway.

"We are here to inspect Taki Aizawa's body…"

"Aha, of course you can"

I blinked surprised at how fast he agreed, and then raised my eyebrow, figuring that he would ask for something in return.

"In a case of course"

"Hn. What is it you want?"

"He he he… But a good laughter of course, my lord"

My eyebrow twitched again. What was with the weird nicknames?

"A good laughter, sir?"

He laughed loud "Oh god, please stop it. I can't stand it. It's Undertaker, calling me 'sir' sounds too weird from you, my lord"

"Will you quit the 'my lord' talk! What's with you! And as it seems I already gave you the laugh you asked for"

"Aaaa, that doesn't count, he he… It was unintentional"

My eyebrow twitched and I growled "So… You need to hear a joke that will make you laugh? That's all it takes to let us see the body?"

How immature…

"He he he… All it takes, young Earl…"

Again with the names…

It wasn't as easy as I had imagined. He wouldn't really laugh with anything and Alois wouldn't move himself from the library and help me. I growled loud, with my hair all over the place an hour later, while Undertaker laid his head on the desk bored.

"What a disappointment…" he mumbled "You are worst than ever…"

I rolled my eyes and fixed my tie, fighting the urge to punch him. He didn't seem to figure he was mistaken, as well as wouldn't freaking laugh. I really wished headmaster would have just handed us something to let us pass, instead of this humiliation.

"Alois, stop entertaining yourself and give me a hand"

"Oh? What about?" he asked calmly and placed the book he was looking through back to its shelf and dusted his hands.

"Are you an idiot? Why have I been struggling so long!"

"I don't know, I wasn't listening"

Can I kill him? I seem to need this a lot.

He flinched at my glare and rushed close "Ok ok, don't give me this look. What is it?"

"He wants a joke that would make him laugh to let us see Taki's body"

"Yes, and if you keep taking so long, he will rot" Undertaker said pouting.

Alois blinked a couple of times and face-palmed himself "Ah, nice" he walked around the desk and over to the man who sat up as the teen approached him. The blond leaned close to his ear covering his mouth from my view and whispered something to him. The next thing I knew after a long pause, was that the whole morgue was shaken with a loud laughter.

Alois smirked and walks back to my side, with his hands joined behind his back, and a satisfied smirk.

"What did you tell him?" I asked eyeing him suspiciously.

"Your innocent ear's aren't ready for me to answer to this"

Undertaker stood up still laughing "Follow me" he said and leaded the way to the back room.

This room seemed much more like what someone would expect to see nowadays when they heard 'the morgue of a hospital'. It even had the smell of it. I passed down the marble floor with Alois, following Undertaker. Finally he stopped in front of one of the beds and lifted the sheet that covered Taki's corpse. I heard a thumb beside me but knowing already what it was I ignored it and leaned closer to the corpse.

"Oh…" said the man staring at my passed out roommate.

"What was the cause of death?" I asked, lowering so I could take a look at the back of Taki's neck the way he was laid.

"Aah… You can't tell…?"

I growled lowly and shot a glare toward him as a return to his mocking tone. Carefully I reached and turned the boy's head sideways, finding the back of the skull swollen. I could easily guess that the bone underneath must have been broken "He was hit with something, wasn't he?" I asked.

The man chuckled lowly "Indeed he was…"

I rolled my eyes and took a closer look. I brushed his short hair up, noticing some light bruises which must have been caused from fingers.

"I will take a wild guess and say that the hit on the head wasn't the cause of death".

Undertaker gave another slow creepy laughter "No… It could have been though…"

I nodded and returned Taki's head to his previous position. Whoever had attacked him chose to just finish him off by twisting his neck already. For all I knew Alois had weak hands and to achieve death it needed a fast and hard twist which I don't think Alois was capable of achieving…

"Anyways…" I stepped back and Undertaker covered the corpse again "Could I wash my hands somewhere?"

"Sure. Will we leave this here?" he said and pointed at Alois with his long black nailed finger.

"Yeah, he'll wake up soon don't worry. It happens every time"

Undertaker stared (I think at least, with this bangs I couldn't be sure) at me for a while and then grinned "Alright… Follow me" he said and lead the way.

I raised my eyebrow and glanced at my roommate lying on the floor for a moment before hurrying after the tall man "Um, something else. He must have had stuff with him right?"

"Yeah, he did. But I can't hand them to you without a paper from the police giving the ok" he shrugged and stopped in front of a pair of sinks.

I sighed low "Sounds normal" I replied pouting while washing my hands. Undertaker stayed watching me with a smile, with his hands joined in front of him under his long sleeves. I won't lie, he was giving me the creeps once more. I glanced around for somewhere to wipe my hands and he passed me a clean white towel still smiling as if he was seeing something extremely amusing on me.

How annoying…

As if he was reading my thoughts and wished to annoy me further he laughed lowly.

"What is it?" I almost yelled glaring at him "What's so funny?"

"Now now" he said motioning with his hand for me to calm down "Don't get mad so easily young Earl, seriously" he smirked "What's the matter? Did you lose something?"

"You are just trying to piss me off, right? You enjoy it"

"In fact I do. But I am not really trying" he snickered and shrugged calmly "You have a bad temper".

I pouted and shoved my hands in my pockets looking away. Usually I wasn't losing my temper so easily.

I guess it's just you that get to me. People that laugh all the time get to my nerves. I get paranoid that they are mocking me…

We stayed quiet for a moment and then a screamed caused us to look up. Naturally anyone else would be startled but I wasn't because once again I knew what it meant, and I suppose the undertaker just didn't care. The next moment Alois rushed in the room and stormed close to me grabbing me by the collar.

"BASTARD! You did it again! How many times will you let me wake up in a room filled with corpses!" he yelled and shook me.

I raised my eyebrows and shrugged "Until you learn not to pass out every time a dead body appears. Don't hope I will just carry you"

"You're an asshole you know that?" he growled bringing his face closer to mine.

"Yep, you have told me before. Every time you wake up from your emotional breakdown" I smirked "It's kind of a… Routine anymore"

He narrowed his eyes more, obviously pissed off.

"Could you let go of my shirt now? You are sort of ruining it"

He pulled back forcefully making me step back. I balanced on my feet easily and fixed my collar. Undertaker once again laughed lowly watching us amused.

"So, young sirs. Is there anything else I could do for you?" he asked with a wide grin.

"No" I replied, and attempted to straighten my tie, failing miserably "We will get going now. Thanks for your help"

Undertaker bowed lightly with his unfading grin "At your service my lord".

Alois giggled while I mentally rolled my eyes and we all stepped to the front room and the man walked us to the door.

"Take care" he said with a smile that for some reason felt more like a smirk.

"Thank you…" I replied and glanced up toward the door leading to the morgue after hearing some noise. Undertaker followed my gaze always smiling.

"Ah, my assistant must have come. Good, we need to prepare young Taki for his last performance".

I twitched at the way he was referring to the funeral and nodded while Alois tugged tactfully on my shirt impatiently, obviously wanting to get away from there. Not that I blame him for that…

"O… Kay… Alright. Good luck with that. We're going. Come on, headache" I spoke turning around and patting Alois on his shoulder. He nodded to the man and rushed after me. Undertaker saw us off with a cheerful 'bye bye' and walked back inside.

Very soon Alois and I were back to the bus stop waiting for the bus to bring us back to Whammy's House.

"So?" I turned to him, with my hands in my pockets.

"I checked every number dialed or received to his cell phone the last hours, as well as messages. Nothing suspicious or out of the ordinary. There was also no calls or messages around the time of his death. His clothes were untouched. Nothing unusual there either. Among other things, even his shoes were clean, but I suppose it's only natural. There was no blood in the crime scene either and according to the police's report he died from twisted neck without any further injuries. His watch and a packet of cigarettes were the only objects on him" he shrugged and turned his eyes to me pouting bored.

I grimaced and sighed, thinking over what he said. It worried me a lot that it was him who had looked up all these. If he was really guilty, then I had given him the perfect chance to get rid of something that would give him out. Not to mention that if the 'not further injuries' was a false information to check out his reaction, I didn't witness it. Sounded to me like something Ryuzaki would do, but he hadn't got involved with the papers…

There's no way the police didn't notice the hit on his head…

"Don't look at me like that. I did all the hard work, while all you did was checking the body and distract Mad Hatter" he complained at my weird stare "You washed your hands I hope"

"You heard me asking him where to wash them. Of course I did"

"Good. It should cover headmaster. We didn't get the police's report, but I checked everything and you even checked the body. I could say this is a well done work" he stretched, making his belly show under his sweater.

"Anything mentionable about the crime scene?" I asked, sitting on the bench, cross-legged, resting my chin on my hand.

He raised his shoulders once more and took a seat by my side, shifting closely "Nothing much. Almost everything was intact, except of the teacher's desk and chair… No fingerprints either. All clean and like the last time the door was locked. The window was open" he slipped lower to his seat and rested his head on my shoulder "Don't get stressed. We were just asked to bring information, not to solve the case. Relax"

"I guess…" I mumbled and looked the other way.

"Say, while I was playing dead, you mentioned that Taki's head was hurt, didn't you?" he looked at me curiously.

I suppose he is smart after all…

"Yeah, I said that. He must had been hit with something sharp" I looked at him sideway. The wound on Taki's head was caused by something heavy but not sharp. If it was sharp, with such force it should have passed through his skull, but he didn't bite it.

"Shouldn't this have been mentioned to the report? Why would they hide it? You don't think they just didn't notice it right?"

I stared at him for a long moment and then chuckled and smirked, turning back to the road. He raised his eyebrow.

"What?"

"Nothing" I replied and swigged my legs.

I just remembered some of the reasons I am working with you…

"You placed everything back in place, right?"

"What am I? Some kind of amateur?"

"Get some sleep. I will wake you up when the bus is here"

His aqua eyeballs stayed stuck on me for a while longer and then he smirked as well.

"Alright" he replied and curled on the bench, leaning on me "Wake me when it's here"

"Sweet dreams…"

General POV

Undertaker watched the boys walk away from the window, grinning widely. Someone else would sure have fallen for their act, but he knew better, he let it pass though, and they left with the information they were looking for.

He laughed slowly and made his way to the morgue with his heavy boots hitting the ground, threatening a couple of mice back to their holes. He crossed the room and looked at Megumi who had uncovered Taki's body and had moved him and started washing him. He turned his black eyes to the older man.

"Did we have a customer?" he asked lowly.

"No. They were a couple of your schoolmates, they came for work" Undertaker replied and helped the younger one.

"Makes sense" he said, washing Taki's hair.

"I guess you won't ask if I helped them out"

"I don't really care… You seem really excited though. More than usual at least" he added shrugging and wiped off the body.

"I am" Undertaker snickered as he helped Megumi to place Taki back to his bed and they started dressing him "It's good to meet people you haven't seen for so long. It's not usual for me you know"

"I wouldn't know, master" the boy replied and buttoned up Taki's suit.

"Oh well. All you need to do is keep up the good work" Undertaker said and ruffled the boy's hair before swaying away "Shinra informed me there was a major fight, with at least seven deaths. We will have a lot of work. Don't overdo it with the makeup, alright?"

Megumi nodded slowly and dragged the stretcher with Taki after his boss, letting a little sound at his force to move it.

"Here we are" Undertaker exclaimed happily, motioning at an open coffin. Megumi stopped in front of it and with the man's help they placed the body in it "You know what to do now". Megumi nodded once more and returned the stretcher to the other room.

"I'm off. Take care of everyone in here, ok child? He he…" he spoke happily and carried one of the other full coffins outside, for its burial while the boy stayed back, taking care of Taki and the other bodies.

"So, it happened again…"

The little redhead sighed troubled, stretching to place a book in its right place on a long sleeve inside the wide library, as he was climbed on a high staircase.

"As it seems" the man standing under him replied lowly with his arms crossed in front of his chest, keeping his eyes on the boy. He was leaning against the bookshelf with a blank expression, with his black hair framing his face, with a couple of stands, flying randomly in the back thanks to the way it was cut. He was wearing a long black coat, open over a simple white smile long sleeved shirt and casual brown- grey pants, as well as a pair of black gloves, regardless the weather.

"A second murder… That can't be good" the younger mumbled frowned, placing the last of the books he was holding to the shelf and stepped down the stairs, fixing his beige beret- casqued hat. This one was wearing a checker scarf over a button shirt and a pair of baggy pants, with cross pattern and multiplies pockets. He placed his also gloved hands in the higher ones and paused in front of the tall man, watching his feet thoughtfully.

After a couple of minutes the boy let out a heavy sigh and shrugged "I guess there is no helping it… I should go to Whammy's House too. You are coming with me, aren't you?" he smiled soft, looking up at the raven haired that stayed watching him blankly.

Once more the boy sighed, this time at the elder's indifference, and made his way down the central hall to the gate of the library, informing his boss that he was off and with the man, following him closely. They had a lot of things to cover…

~TBC~

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