Hey guys, here's the next chapter xD sorry for the mistakes its kinda late and I really wanted to get this chapter done so please excuse if it seems a bit rushed. Oh I may have made a few people OOC and a bit meaner but its all for the plot... but this is when it gets interesting so enjoy!
Zazie yawned the next morning as he stretched out a bit from last night's activities. He glanced down and saw his kitten curled up into his chest, as his arms were wrapped around him and snoring softly.
The darker haired boy couldn't help but run his hand gently through the long locks of Lag's natural hair since sometime during the night the wig ended up on the floor.
"Kitten…its morning…" Zazie said gently.
"Mng…" Lag mumbled curling up more into Zazie's chest, "too comfy…"
"Well it is our day off and the festival isn't until later…" Zazie said kissing Lag's cheek.
The younger boy turned and blearily looked up at him, giving his boyfriend a tired smile.
"So what should we do until then?" Lag asked yawning but blinked when Zazie rolled over until he was on top of the smaller silver haired boy.
"Hmmm well I have SOME ideas~" Zazie said grinning mischievously as he leaned down and licked Lag's neck all the way to the boy's cheek.
"Zazie! But we just did that last night!" Lag replied his face burning.
"So? Its our day off, we don't have any deliveries to do until tomorrow and its our anniversary so I believe its plausible for us to have round two~" Zazie stated firmly as his hands started to roam the younger boy's body.
"Za-ahhh!" Lag moaned when he felt Zazie suck on a sensitive part on his neck.
"I don't hear anymore complaints so I take it you're all for the fun~" the cat boy stated and continued with his ministrations with little fight from the younger boy.
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"I'm getting a bad feeling with those two here sir…" Aria sighed biting her lip as she carried some books away to the shelf in the headmaster's office.
"You worry too much Aria-san." Largo replied signing some papers.
"I have a right to be worried, Akatsuki never sent people back here before, why start now?" the blonde woman said.
"Because we never had so many bees disappearing on us." Largo stated filing away the paper before grabbing another.
"That is true, I wish we at least had an idea what was happening." She sighed.
"We have all our bees trying to find out as much as they can as they go on deliveries and relax Aria-san! It's the White Day Festival!" Largo said grinning, "we can always take a nice break and walk around for a while."
"I really doubt Garrad and Hazel would like that." Aria said dryly.
"Hmm good point, Garrad was one to be serious." Largo added chuckling, "so do you have a date for the festival Aria-san?"
The headmaster laughed as Aria's face went red as she nearly dropped the books in her hands.
"I…I have better things to do then go to that festival!" she stuttered out.
"But don't you think it's nice to take a break once in a while?" Largo asked leaning his head against his hand watching Aria just stare at him in complete and utter shock.
"W-well when you put it that way I guess it wouldn't be so bad but we're working! We have a lot of paper work to go through and sort out the deliveries!" Aria added.
"Mmhmm but even a walk around shouldn't take that long." Largo replied.
"Sir…are you asking me out to the festival?" Aria asked pushing up her glasses.
"Maybe, it'll just be between co-workers." Largo replied with that silly smile of his.
Aria went quiet as she thought about it for once.
It wouldn't be terrible to just take a nice break and walk around a bit…and the festival was usually interesting with all the activities she usually missed out on for not being with someone or being too busy with work from the Hive.
"Well Aria-kun?"
"….I guess it wouldn't hurt…but just a quick walk Headmaster!"
"Right right." Largo said laughing as Aria's cheeks flushed pink, but before she could say anything the door burst open and the inspectors from Akatsuki came walking in and glanced around.
"Is there something I can help you with?" Largo asked turning his attention to his guests, "and did you manage to get through all the reports?"
"We go through most of them since they pretty much said the same thing half the time." Garrad stated looking around the room, "what is the ridiculous decorations that is going on in town?"
"Why its White Day of course." Largo replied grinning back at Garrad who looked disgusted at such a holiday.
"You mean the equivalent of that ridiculous Saint Valentine's day? What a useless holiday." Garrad muttered.
"It may seem useless but it helps ease the town's mind about what's been going on." Aria retorted.
"Whatever, we came to tell you about the reports." Garrad said as he observed the two, "it has come to our attention that we need to be more aggressive when dealing with these marauders."
"We're doing the best we can and we're already exhausting our letter bees more then usual, any more and some of them will need to be hospitalized." Aria said frowning at Garrad.
"Be it as it may, which bees are available for a delivery?" Garrad asked, "I would like these letter bees to try and capture a marauder so we can find out what is really going on."
"You can't just expect us to give you command of the bee hive!" Aria exclaimed.
"Actually we can just take control of the bee hive." Garrard smirked as he held out a piece of paper and slammed it on Largo's desk, "this document states that until we find out more about the marauders and Reverse that Largo is temporarily relieved of his duties."
"WHAT!" Aria shouted as she grabbed the paper and read it herself and was horrified when she read what was on the paper and saw that it said exactly that, "s-sir…"
Largo took the paper and read it himself and sighed.
"Orders are orders." He said as he stood up.
"I'm glad you saw it our way, now please inform me on which letter bees are currently not on assignment." Garrad said folding his arms smugly.
"That would be letter bee Zazie and Lag." Aria grounded out, "but they had requested this day off though."
"Too bad, duty comes before pleasure and it is their duty to delivery letters rather then spend time on some ridiculous holiday." Garrad stated, "go and fetch them Aria-san so I can inform them where they will be going."
"Yes sir…" she grounded out and stomped out of the office muttering obscenities under her breath.
"Such an unprofessional assistant and you let her work with you?" Garrad said.
"She's a very good assistant." Largo said narrowing his eyes as he defended Aria, "Aria-kun helps me run the place and updates me on everything that is going around."
"Well she'll be reassigned to a different department since I have my own assistant here." Garrad said indicating to Hazel.
"I really must argue with you there sir, Aria-kun is one of the best here it would pointless to assign her to an area less of her abilities." Largo stated.
"I'll see about that but right now I'm in-charge of the bee hive now so please grab your things and leave." Garrad stated.
Largo just shook his head and gathered some books, materials and papers before leaving the office shutting the door behind. Once the two heard the footsteps disappearing down the hallway Garrad went to the desk and looked around for something.
"So where's this package you want to send out all of a sudden?" Hazel asked looking at his partner as he sat down at the desk and started to write something on it.
"Just some thing…it'll get to them one way or another I just have to make sure 'they' open it." Garrad replied as he finished up the letter and put it in an envelope making sure it was sealed with the proper stamps and a smirk on his face.
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"This is stupid! We specifically requested the day off! New headmaster or nor!" Zazie seethed as he stomped down the road hissing angrily.
"Did Largo-san really get kicked out Aria-neesan?" Lag asked nervously as he played with his uniform scarf.
"Unfortunately, yes now I don't know what's going to happen with those two in charge." Aria replied rubbing her head.
"I hope Largo-san is alright." Lag sighed, "so he wants us to do a delivery now?"
"Yes, since you two are the only letter bees here at the moment since most are already out of town." Aria replied as they soon arrived at the bee hive.
"Come on Lag lets get this over and done with. The sooner we get this done the sooner we can get back hopefully in time for the festival." Zazie said as he walked inside with his dingo following after him.
"Wa-wait for me Zazie!" Lag shouted as he ran after the cat boy with niche and steak chasing after them as well.
"Wait you two you need to be careful with these two!" Aria said trying to catch up to the two as her heels clicked on the ground, "there's just something….weird about them suddenly appearing without any fore warning."
The two letter bee's stopped and looked at each other.
"Don't you think you're being a tad paranoid?" Zazie asked at the bottom of the stairs.
"No I'm not it's a gut feeling." Aria stated folding her arms as the three of them along with the two's dingos walked up the steps.
"I believe Aria-neesan Zazie I think we should be careful…" Lag said quietly.
"Tch fine come on lets grab the letter and get going already we're losing daylight." Zazie grumbled as he pushed opened the doors and walked inside with the others.
"Are all your letter bees this rude? Usually it would be polite to at least knock when you're entering the headmaster's office.' Garrad stated looking at the two bees in front of him.
"I'm sorry sir Zazie usually isn't like this." Aria apologized as she sent the cat boy a look.
"I'll excuse him this time but for now I have a delivery that needs to be done." He said as he stepped out from behind the desk and handed Zazie the letter.
The dark haired letter bee glanced at the letter and frowned when he saw the address before his eyes widened.
"You want us to go to the town of Cerulean Dewdrops to deliver this! That'll take all day!" Zazie exclaimed.
"I don't see how this is a problem it is your job is it not?" Garrad said and just as it looked like Zazie was going to argue some more Aria put her hand on his shoulder and shook her hread.
"Fine…come on lag lets go." Zazie scowled as he turned on his heel and left the office.
Lag quickly followed after them once he bowed to the two before he chased after Zazie.
"Now as for you Aria-san we have an idea where we can place you." Garrad said and the blonde woman couldn't help but feel she wasn't going to like her new assignment very much.
'Llyod I hope whatever you decide to do I hope its to figure out what's going on here…' Aria thought to herself as she resigned herself to her fate.
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"Can't believe we have to do this stupid deliver on today of all days…" Zazie scowled as he stomped through the deserted land just itching to blow up some gaichuu to take out some of his frustration he was feeling.
"Come on Zazie, I'm sure we can get this done if we hurry." Lag said trying to cheer up the cat boy.
"Even if we did hurry Lag, there's no way we can get to and from dewdrops before the day ends." Zaize replied, "it's a long walk because its so far out almost to the ocean."
"Y-you know just because we may miss White Day doesn't mean we exactly have to miss our anniversary…. " Lag said shyly, "we can always celebrate it when we get back to your place and we exchange gifts."
Zazie blinked and turned around to look at the white haired letter bee before he pulled the younger boy close and kissed his lips for a few seconds. When he pulled away he was smiling softly at Lag.
"You're right, we don't need an official holiday to celebrate the day we got together." Zazie said, "thanks for making me feel better kitten.
Lag smiled at the praise and hugged Zazie back as the two were so into each other they left their dingos to be on high alert for their surroundings.
The group walked in a comfortable silence in the next few hours and took a break every now and then to recharge their energy to get all the way to the town. After a bit more time the town finally came into view, all they had to do was cross a ravine with a single bridge across it.
"You'd think they would invest in getting a better bridge…" Zazie muttered poking the bridge and saw that it was stable enough.
But just before he or Lag could move up to the bridge a flash of silver caught Zazie's attention and he pulled Lag back just as someone landed just where he had been standing.
"Who are you!" Zazie shouted brining out his shindanju and quickly loaded it point it at the figure.
"Is that a girl?" Lag said as he and Niche also got prepared to fight but right in front of them there was a girl wearing a lavender dress with wrappings on her feet as she held a small dagger.
"You two are letter bees…we are here to relieve you of your letters." She said.
"We? Lady you need your eyes check, there's only one of you." Zazie sneered as he raised his shindanju and shot it at the woman but amazingly she dodged all the bullets and dashed forward knocking Zazie back.
"Zazie!" Lag shouted about to help him but was knocked aside himself rather close to the edge of the ravine.
Lag groaned as he looked up and saw a taller man in a black cloak and wrap around his head with a narrow shindanju pointed at him. But what had Lag froze was that the face of the person in front of him was someone he remembered very clearly and could feel tears forming in the corners of his eye.
"G-Gauche!"
"What!" Zazie shouted and would've gotten hit by the strange girl if his dingo hadn't interfered. Niche was trying to get to Lag but there was another person, a larger, bulkier person with wolf like features stopping her from getting to Lag.
"The letter, hand it over. I am relieving you of it." The man, said.
"G-Gauche! Don't you remember its me Lag!" Lag said standing up and gripping the front of his cloak tightly, "you're the one who inspired me to become a letter be!"
"My name is not Gauche it is Noir and I have no recalling of ever meeting you little letter bee…now hand over the letter or I will take it by force." Noir said.
Lag felt his heart break when he hear his idol say that and tears started to fall.
"N-No…Gauche please remember its me, Lag! The boy on the hill that you delivered to Campbell?" Lag said trying to get through to him but he was just met with the butt of the shindanju against his head making him cry out and fall to the ground groaning.
Noir leaned down, ignoring the fighting behind him and took the bag and rummaged through it until he came across the letter he was looking for.
"Let's go now, we're done here." Noir said.
"Like hell you are!" Zazie spat out as he loaded his shindanju and shot at the group.
The two easily dodged once more and ganged up on Zazie and beat him around until he was coughing up blood and could barely get up.
Just as Noir was about to walk away he felt someone grab his leg and turned to see Lag clinging to him almost desperately.
"P-please Gauche…" Lag said as he slowly got up still holding onto Noir and the hope that the older silver haired person would remember something.
"I do not know but you're being rather annoying…" Noir said and pressed the barrel of the gun against his chest, "he usually said to bring letter bee's back to him but I think he'll make an exception to this one."
And before Lag could say anything else a black light exploded as he was shot with the shindanju in Noir's hand, sending him flying backwards into the ravine as he floated in and out of consciousness.
"Ga…auc..he…." he mumbled as he fell, tears falling out of his eyes as he soon disappeared into the rushing water.
"LAG!" Niche screamed slamming her hair against the two blocking her as she ran and jumped over Gauche right into the ravine after the letter bee.
"Was that really necessary?" the wolf man asked as he and the others walked away, leaving a bleeding Zazie to his fate.
"I felt it was necessary, lets just go already Jeel, Roda." Gauche replied as they walked away.
"L-Lag…" Zazie groaned as Wasiolka came over and helped him up, all the while hoping Niche would come popping back up from the ravine. The two waited for the maka girl to bring back the other letter bee but there weren't any signs of them returning and Zazie felt something inside of him die as he gripped Wasiolka's fur tightly.
"No…no! Dammit! Damn you Reverse I'll get you back! Goddammit! LAG!" Zazie shouted in a broken voice..