A/N: Suddenly, a random update appears! It's been what, two or three years? If you are interested in why exactly I am updating all of a sudden, head on over to my LJ for Nabari no Ou. The URL is nyanja14(dot)livejournal(dot)com . In fact, you should head over there anyway, because if you read my fanfic on there you get to see the ~~pretty images~~ I have accompanying it.
All of these are un-beta-ed and most were written late at night. So please let me know if you spot errors!
020: IN SIGHT (3/3)
Yoite waited for the older woman to go to bed. He had no idea if she was a ninja or not, but there was no need for her to be involved. She tidied up the restaurant, flicked the lights, and headed up the stairs. She hadn't even locked the door. Probably not a ninja then, Yoite decided. If she was aware of the world of Nabari, would she have left the Shinrabanshou so unprotected?
Not that a locked door would've done much to stop Yoite.
The two ninja that had protected the bearer at his school were much more cautious. They were upstairs with him now, he was pretty sure. The last time Yoite had looked through the bearer's eye he was just doing his homework, but Yoite had seen them go into the restaurant and he hadn't seen them leave.
Just two wouldn't be much of a problem.
Yoite slipped into the restaurant and padded up the stairs quietly. The Shinrabanshou's contorting presence was softer than it had been at the Fuuma's village, but Yoite could still sense it around the bearer easily as he ascended. Next, the girl's. A bit wild, but unremarkable in comparison to the bearer's. Finally, Yoite felt the aura of that odd, pale boy. He'd noticed the strange stillness of his kiat the village, but he hadn't had time to focus upon it then.
He stopped now at the top of the stairs. The boy's kidid flow, but sluggishly and almost resistant. Yoite had never felt anything like it before and he didn't know what to make of it.
Yoite did know that he could disrupt and manipulate the boy's kiand that was all that really mattered.
He was pressed up against the door of the bedroom, the girl's panicked voice clearly audible. Yoite needed a line of sight before he could fire. He touched the door knob, body tense and ready, but then he paused.
Was that... a fourth presence in the room?
It was so muted and dull that Yoite didn't think it could be human. But he'd never come into contact with an animal's aura that made an impression like this against his own leaking ki.
Yoite hesitated. He really hated going into a fight with an unknown variable like this. It was risky, and Yoite didn't have much life left to be taking lots of risks. However, that man with the formidable unsealing technique might be back before Yoite could get another shot at stealing the Shinrabanshou bearer away.
And the longer he stood out here, the more likely it would be that one of the ninja inside would feel him.
Yoite readied himself, then opened the door. He shot at the girl and the boy before they could even turn around and they slumped the floor listlessly. He searched for the fourth presence but only saw a white cat sitting beside the bearer at the desk. The cat hissed at him, ears flat against its head, but Yoite ignored it.
There was no one else. The Shinrabanshou bearer was his.
Yoite closed the remaining distance between himself and his prize. The boy started and looked up from his homework. His eyes met Yoite's, wide and scared for all his passive playacting.
Finally, Yoite's goal was in sight.
"Good evening."