This story is for yukinothekoneko's July contest.
Here are the rules for the contest:
1. Any and all fandoms are accepted.
2. You must commit to the month of July.
3. Each chapter must be at least 100-1,000 words.
4. One of the genres must be Comedy, Gender Bender, or Boy x Boy.
5. Talk about the challenge in the first chapter.
Enjoy.
A/N: I own nothing.
Also, Why I used that song, I don't know. I was listening to it at the moment...
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"Shot through the heart!
And you're to blame!
Darlin', you give love,
A bad name..."
The music sounded throughout the bathroom through the surround sound speakers. It was slightly muffled by the sound of water running through the shower head and the water hitting either the floor, or bare flesh.
I was sitting on the ground of the shower, letting the scalding hot water rain down on me. I couldn't accept what Link told me, showed me.
The first day of school, and something happens. Typical.
But this? No... this was beyond a normal Akuma attack or two, this was... I didn't even know what it was.
When Link told me all the other Walkers had been killed, I didn't believe him.
When he threw the eleven pictures onto the table, I ran to the bathroom and vomited. I had seen some pretty brutal things, but when it was my family... and they were killed like... like THAT... It just became... unbearable.
All of them were killed the same way; Heads lopped off, stomaches cut open so they could be hung by their intestines, then their heads stuffed into their empty stomache. The worst one had been my second aunt Kayla. She wasn't of Walker descent, but was married to Ichiro, my second uncle. Kayla and Ichiro had been expecting twins for about eight months, but in those pictures... the fetuses had been strung up by their umbilical cords.
It was sick. I hadn't been strong enough to look at those pictures for more than three seconds, so here I was, sitting in the shower, just numb to the world around me.
"Raven, you're not trying to drown yourself, are you?" Link asked as he cracked the door slightly so I could hear him.
"It's impolite to walk in on a lady when she's showering." I muttered.
"I thought you wanted to be refered to as a sir?..." He trailed off, a hint of teasing in his voice.
"In public, you are to address me as a sir and treat me as such, but in private, you are to address me as a lady and also treat me as such." I stated as I stared at a crack on the bathroom wall.
After a moment of silence, Link spoke up and said, "Raven... Are you going to be okay?"
"Okay?" I snorted, "OKAY? I was born alone in the fucking world and my only remaining family's just been murdered! Fucking murdered!" I snapped out of my sad, depressed state and went into a violent furious one. "I fucking swear!" I turned the water to the shower off, but when I turned the handle, I broke it off. I yelled in frustration and threw it at the door. I quickly dried off while muttering the entire colorful alphabet, then dressed in blue jeans and a black t-shirt, not forgetting my undergarments of course.
"You tell the Black Order that I'm not going to school until I find the bloody murderer and kill 'im wit' me own hands!" I yelled in english while slipping into my british accent. I had been born in Britain and grew up there, so it was normal that I had one.
I stormed out of the bathroom and Link grabbed my shoulders when I tried walking past him and said, "Raven! Don't be rash now!"
"Why shouldn't I be?" I screamed at him.
"Because!" He yelled at me, something he rarely did, then he spun me around so I was facing him, "We think you're the next target!"
"Isn't that obviouss? That's why if I'm reckless, it'll give me a higher chance to kill the bastard that killed my family!" I yelled at him.
"What family?" He yelled at me. Everything fell silent and he tried to calmly say, "You're family was murdered the night of your birth. The only people you had left are no longer a part of this world. You can't save them."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Time skip
I trudged to school the next day, my head hung down so my hair hid my eyes. Thankfully, I hadn't been annoyed by Jayjay yet today. Plus .0001 percent happiness to my negative million percent happiness scale.
I walked straight into the school and people seemed to sense my dark aura and avoided me. I went straight into class and sat down in a seat in the back.
I pretty much zoned out for the entire day. Only during the next to last period of the day did something happen.
"Raven, you have a phone call in the office." The teacher said, snapping me out of my daze for a moment.
"Hai." I muttered as I stood up with my bag and walked out of the classroom. I took my time getting to the office, and when I arrived, they secretary saw me and said, "Ah, Raven, you have a Mister... Howard Link I believe it was? Anyway, he's waiting on the phone to speak with you."
I just nodded and took the phone from her.
"Hai?" I said into it.
"Raven? We just found out something during our investigation on the deaths of your relatives." Link said through the phone.
My eyes widened and I said, "What'd you find?"
"Well, when we were looking through your relatives' personal belongings, we found that each of them had been sent an envelope containing a playing card." He answered. I just furrowed my eyebrows in confusion.
"That's it?" I asked, slightly disappointed.
"Well, the playing cards were... different. One side had the joker on it and the other had the ace of spades. That, and there was a poem stanza written on each one." Link said. I immediatly dug through my bag and pulled out a pen and piece of paper and asked, "Can you tell me what the poem said?"
"Raven, it was a poem stanza on each card. That means there were eleven stanzas. We still don't know what order they go in, but I can tell them to you." He said.
"Just tell me already!" I nearly yelled into the phone.
"Calm down. Like I said, they're out of order, and three of the stanzas are in some kind of code." Link said.
"Then just tell me what the eight you can read say." I said, trying to control my temper.
"Alright, but listen closely," Link said, I readied my pen over the paper and waited for him to speak. "Before I start, remember, these aren't in order." I was about to yell at him he already said that, but he started speaking.
"Rejoice!
The anniversary is almost here!
Father and Daughter reunited at last.
Was I truly a tainted angel?
Or perhaps a pure devil?
Such impossible things!
I return to you
My child.
All distractions
Eliminated.
The one of both
Pure and unpure descent.
The first one,
To rewalk the path.
But an Exorcist, can go to hell.
But what of this 'hero'?
This title that humors?
I laugh at it!
Such a ridiculous meaning.
I will perform the ceremony,
The one of changing sides.
I send this message to you,
After years of being trapped."
When Link stopped, I looked at what I had wrote (In english as to hide what I wrote).
"What the heck's it supposed to mean?" I asked him.
"Your guess is as good as mine." Link said through the phone.
The secretary made a gesture that I should hurry and I said, "I gotta go Link. You know, wasting time on the phone and all that crud."
"Wait, before you hang up I have a question for you." Link said, "Do you want to attend your relatives funerals?"
"Goodbye Link." I said, then quickly hung up the phone.
I sighed, then stood there a moment before I put the paper into my bag along with my pen. I looked at the clock and figured I might as well go to the last period of the day. Right when I got to my next class, the bell rang and students started filing into the hall. As soon as the classroom was empty, I went in and took a seat next to the window. It wasn't long before two identical red heads entered the room, but I was too depressed to kill them.
I stared out the window and ignored the twins efforts to annoy me. During class, I got out my notebook and the piece of paper with the strange poem verses written on it. The entire class period I spent revising the verses. What order did they go in? And what were the three coded verses? Before I knew it, the bell rang. I sighed, then stood up and started to put my things in my bag when someone suddenly snatched the paper out of my hands.
I gasped slightly and turned my head to look at who took it. The Hitachiin twins were looking at it muttering, "What does it say?"
"Give it back!" I exclaimed as I tried grabbing it back from them.
They put it behind their backs and said, "Then tell us what it says."
"None of your damn buissness, that's what it says!" I said angrily. Haruhi then appeared from behind the twins and was holding my paper.
"Here Raven." Haruhi said as he handed me my paper.
"Thanks." I said as I took it and quickly put it in my bag.
"Aww, you ruin all our fun Haruhi." Hikaru whined.
"Since when is teasing someone fun?" Haruhi scolded them.
"Since forever. We tease boss all the time." Kaoru said with a shrug.
I rolled my eyes, then proceded to walk past them, but someone put their hand on my shoulder to stop me. I turned my head and glared at the owner of said hand, which happened to be Hikaru.
"And where are you going?" Hikaru asked with a smirk.
"Home." I answered bitterly. "Why are you bugging me?" I hissed at him.
"Well, seeing as how you're not trying kill or castrate us, we can only guess you've forgiven us." Kaoru said with a grin.
I glared at them and said, "I haven't forgiven you, more urgent buissness has come up."
"Aww, quit bein' so serious all the-" Hikaru started, but I cut him off by pinching his hand.
"You should start being serious!" I yelled at him. I calmed myself down, then hissed, "If you had actually been paying attention yesterday, you would've saw that the balcony breaking and Haruhi falling was no accident."
Hikaru, Kaoru, and Haruhi looked at me surprised. "What do you mean it wasn't an accident?"
"Imbeciles!" I muttered under my breath as I turned to leave the room. But then, a repeat of yesterday happened.
Hikaru and Kaoru grabbed me and took me to the 3rd music room and threw me into a chair before I could get out a word of protest.
"What the hell?" I yelled right before the twins blinded me with a bright light.
"What do you mean it wasn't an accident?" Kaoru asked me from beside the light. He sounded like he was trying to imitate one of those detectives from an old crimee movie.
"Would you get that fucking light out of my eyes?" I said as I held up my hand in front of my face to try and block the light.
"Answer the question." Hikaru said in an even tone.
"What are you guys doing?" A different voice said. The light suddenly shut off, and as my eyes adjusted, I saw a man standing on the cord of the lamp, probably the cause of it being unplugged.
He had short black hair and glasses and was holding a black book.
"He's saying that someone tried killing Haruhi yesterday when the balcony broke." Both Hikaru and Kaoru answered.
This caught the dark haired man's attention.
"And what makes you say that?" he asked.
"I WAS the one that caught Haruhi you know. I saw what happened, it was no accident." I stated.
"Then would you care to elaborate for us?" the four-eyed stranger asked.
"An Akuma tried to kill him." I stated.
Hikaru, Kaoru, and the other occupant of the room stared at me, then Hikaru and Kaoru burst out laughing and four-eyes chuckled while turning away.
"You really shouldn't make things up." Haruhi's voice sounded from beside me.
I put my elbow on the arm of the chair and rested my chin on my palm. "I'm not lying, an Akuma really did try to kill you." I stated.
"Well I didn't see any 'demons'." Haruhi said.
"She was sitting right next to you. Demon's don't have to look like demons, they disguise themselves as humans so it's easier for them to get close-" I stopped mid-sentence when I saw something outside the window. It was far away, and it blended in with the darkening sky, but I could recognize that rust colored glow that only I could see anywhere.
There was an Akuma outside.
"GET DOWN!" I shouted. I pushed Haruhi down and in a second a barrage of bullets came bursting through the windows. In a matter of moments, the attack ceased.
I wasted no time in getting up and surveying the damage.
The music room was in ruins and there was broken glass and bullet holes every where.
Haruhi seemed surprised and shocked while the other three just looked shocked. Thankfully though, they had followed my advice and gotten down.
"Is everyone okay? Did anyone get hit by a bullet?" I yelled/asked.
Everyone numbly shook their heads side to side and I took this as a sign they were alright. I ran over to the window and looked out it, but the orangeish brown glow of an Akuma's soul was gone. I slammed my fist on the window frame and said, "Damnit! It got away!"
"What the hell just happened?" Kaoru asked, dazed.
"An Akuma just tried killing all of you." I stated as I glanced around the room. There was a huge bollet hole, probably a foot in diameter in the wall behind where Haruhi had been standing. I walked over to the wall, the glass crunching under my feet. I reached in the hole, and was barely able to reach the bullet. I grabbed it, then pulled it out.
It was pretty heavy for an Akuma bullet, and surprisingly enough, none of the blood poison had leaked out. I looked around for Jayjay, but he was nowhere to be seen.
"You know, Akuma or not, someone's going to have to pay for this damage." The man with the black book said as he stood up and pushed his glasses up.
I stared at him with a look that said, 'You almost got killed and you only care about money?'.
"Well?" He asked impatiently.
Hikaru and Kaoru stood up and said, "If you can't pay for it, you could always join the host club to get rid of your debts." They smirked and I had a blank look on my face. I then reached into my bag and pulled out my cellphone. I flipped it open and dialed the number for The Black Order and put the phone to my ear.
"Hello? Yeah, it's White Dragon. Anyway, there was an Akuma attack at the school. I lost sight of it, but there's extensive damage to music room three and its balcony. Four witnesses, I think one of them was purposely targeted since the same Akuma made an attempt on his life yesterday too." I said, then paused to listen to what the finder I was speaking to had to say.
"Well, we can have a clean up crew there in an hour and depending on how bad the room is-"
"It's swiss cheese." I interrupted him while kicking a piece of glass.
"Than we'll have it fixed up in about ten hours, granted we're not interrupted. Now, about this boy?..."
"Yeah, he was the only one the Akuma shot a poisoned bullet at. Think he could be...?" I asked.
"Well, you know protocal. First, get the witnesses to swear to secrecy, then bring him to HQ so we can have Hevlaska check him."
I blinked in mild surprise, then said in english, "You idiot, I've never been to HQ before. I don't even know where the hell it is..."
I heard the finder sigh, then say, "Then I'll go with the clean up crew and pick you and the boy up. What's his name?"
"Haruhi." I answered.
This got the others' attention and Hikaru said, "What about Haruhi?"
I ignored him and the finder on the phone said, "Alright, stay where you are and I'll pick you two up in an hour."
"Hai." was all I said before snapping the phone closed. I put it in my bag and Hikaru and Kaoru came up to me and said, "What about Haruhi?"
"Before I say anything, I have to have all of you swear to secrecy. None of you can speak of this incident, or share any of the information I'm about to tell you with anyone." I said while looking at all of them.
"We swear." Hikaru and Kaoru said while putting their right hands up.
"I guess I swear." Haruhi said while putting his right hand up.
All eyes were on the black haired boy and he said, "What would happen if I didn't swear secrecy?"
"Then I'd have to take you to HQ and they'd either give you the choice of becoming a finder, or having your memory erased." I replied.
"Neither of those sound pleasant, so, I guess I'll swear to secrecy." he said.
"You know, the entire time I've been here, I haven't quite caught your name." I stated.
"Kyouya. Kyouya Otori. And, I could ask the same of you Mister...?" Kyouya said.
"Ravenel Walker, but just call me Raven." I said.
"Now, I said Haruhi's name earlier because this is the second time an Akuma's come after his life." I stated.
"Why would a demon be after Haruhi?" Kaoru asked.
"I was getting to that. Now, I'm from The Black Order. It's a secretive order that deals with the extermination of Akumas. But, not everyone can kill an Akuma. Only those chosen by god himself can, those people are called Exorcists. If my guess is right, the Akuma is after Haruhi because he has the potential to be an Exorcist." I stated.
"Haruhi..."
"An Exorcist?..." Kaoru finishe Hikaru's question.
"And what about these 'finders'? And just who's in this organization? And where do you fit in in all of this?" Kyouya asked me.
"Finders are basicially scouts that search for Akuma, then once they find one, they report it to the closest Exorcist. And there's a variety of people in the organization. There's Supporters, Scientists, Doctors, Finders, Exorcists, and the Five Generals. I happen to be one of the Exorcists." I replied.
"It sounds like it's well organized... Must've been set up a while ago, am I right?" Kyouya asked. I could tell he was trying to get information out of me. I didn't mind, he was sworn to secrecy. If he broke the swear, I was authorized to kill him. I should probably tell him that, shouldn't I?
"Mister Otori, just to let you know, now that you are sworn to secrecy you are allowed to ask anything you want and I am obliged to give you an honest answer. But if you break the swear, I am authorized to kill you. And you are correct, The Black Order has been up and running for almost 210 years now." I stated.
"You aren't authorized to kill anyone. It's against the law." Kyouya stated with a smug smile.
"Mister Otori, The Black Order has more influence over the entire world than your family does on a single person. We are authorized to do almost anything." I stated.
At this statement, Kyouya's smile was replaced by a frown and he narrowed his eyes at me. "I'm sorry to say, but that's impossible." Kyouya stated.
I smiled and said, "It's impossible for Akuma to exist, yet they do. It's impossible," I held up the giant bullet I had pulled from the wall, "For a bullet this large to be fired by a normal gun, and it's impossible for the human race to continue on without The Black Order. Now, I'd rethink my perspective of what is and isn't impossible if I were you, Mister Otori." I then put the bullet on the ground and wrote on a sticky note, 'Poisoness: You touch, you die.' Then stuck it on the bullet.
Kyouya glared at me, but I ignored it and turned to Haruhi and the Hitachiin twins.
"Haruhi Fujioka, since you are being targeted by the Akuma and no reason can be seen for it other than you're a possible accomodator, you will come with me to The Black Order HQ. If it is learned that you are not an accomodator, you will be kept at HQ until all Akuma in the area are destroyed to ensure your safety." I stated in a bored voice even though I was ecstatic at the moment. This was the first time I had found a possible accomodator.
"Wait, what if I don't want to be an exorcist?" Haruhi asked as the Hitachiin twins glared daggers at me.
"It's not really your decision." I stated boredly.
"It's my life, I can choose how I want to live it." Haruhi said stubbornly.
"It's the life god gave you and now he's asking you to use it to make sure other people can live." I said, then looked him straight in the eye. "I'm going to leave to go hunt down that Akuma that just attacked us. I want all of you to stay here. There's a group of Finders coming to clean up this mess," I paused a moment thinking over something, then continued, "For free, and one of them is going to take us to HQ."
With that said, I turned and jumped out one of the windows to start the hunt.
~~~~~~Sorry, but I am not writing the hunting part because you mustn't know how her Innocence works for now~~~~~~~~~~~
After I had hunted down that pesky level two Akuma, (which soomehow leveled up to a level three between yesterday's event and the encounter today), I had quickly finished it off with minimum damage to the surrounding area. Namely, the garden. That old oak tree wasn't that important, was it?
Anyway, when I returned, the four people had turned into seven and I had to have Tamaki, Mori, and Honey swear to secrecy too. All of them seemed to hate me for saying Haruhi was most likely going to become an Exorcist.
After I told them that, the Finders finally arrived and I found Kugaya, a head Finder, and he ordered a limo and off to the airport we went. All nine of us. (Me, Kugaya, Mori, Honey, Tamaki, Kyouya, Hikaru, Kaoru, and Haruhi)
Kugaya was answering all their questions and I yawned.
"You are allowed to sleep Miss Walker. It's a ten hour plane ride to HQ." Kugaya stated.
I glared at him as the Hitachiin twins said simultaneously, "Miss Walker?..."
I glared at them, then said, "Yes, I'm a Miss, does it really matter or are you like all the other sexist jerks I've met?"
"I see..." Kyouya said as he jotted something down in his black book.
"You're a girl? Why would a girl disguise herself as a boy on purpose?" Tamaki asked, bewildered.
All the other hosts seemed to be looking at him like, 'You're kidding, right?'
"Raven-chan's a girl? But, you don't act like a girl, even when you're near cute things!" Honey stated. Mori just nodded his head in agreement.
I glared at them, then said, "I'm only obliged to tell you information about The Black Order since you're now a part of this whole thing. I, AM NOT, however, obliged to tell you about myself. With that, I bid you adieu." I stood up and walked towards the back section of the plane where there were rooms for passengers who wanted a bed to sleep in. It is a rich plane, what did you expect?
I entered the farthest room in the back and laid down on the cushy bed. I 'hmph'-ed as I thought back to the days events. I lightly touched the scar I had on my cheek. It was a simple line, a simple scratch, but it had been my first encounter with an Akuma, an Akuma that had happened to be a level four. I closed my eyes and thought back to that time. Why, I didn't know.
I remembered how the Akuma had toyed with me; teasing me because my Innocence couldn't activate because of the curses surrounding them. The damned thing had punched me, over and over. My jaw had been broken... both my eyes, black... bruises forming everywhere... It had been a painful experience, and a terrifying one.
But the Akuma had only been toying... When he got serious, I had gotten serious too. There was no chance of someone saving me, no chance of surviving if I didn't do something... I dodged an attack the Akuma made, his clawed hand cutting deep into my right cheek.
I don't know why, but when that Akuma cut me, the Innocence in my eyes started working. I saw its soul, bound and tied to the killing crazed machine. I had been so shocked by the sight of the pitiful soul, I had forgotten how to move.
The soul had been horrid looking... Skinny beyond anorexic, Many random cuts that were oozing out black blood, and the head wrapped in bandages, but one of the eyes uncovered and just staring at you. It had almost seemed like it was crumbling, like it'd disappear any minute.
I had only been brought back to my senses when it yelled, "DIE!" at me. I had quickly tried to sidestep, but its arm went stright through the left side of my abdomen. The one scar no one would ever see. But it was when it had attacked me that last time, that the rest of my Innocence activated. (Again, won't go into detail because tis a secret for now even though you pretty much already know what it is)
I had destroyed the Akuma. I had destroyed my first Akuma... And only at the age of seven. I knew it would happen eventually. I had been taught this by The Black Order, yet, I didn't believe it.
I hadn't even realized I was bleeding out. On the brink of unconciousness, a general had found me. He had been impressed that I had destroyed a level four at age seven, but I had felt ashamed for almost dying and having to have him carry me back to The Black Order's infirmary in the British branch.
I had only learned his name after he had left.
General Michio.
I hadn't really learned anything else other than his name. I promised mysekf that if I ever met him again, I'd thank him for saving my life, but that was all. He had only saved me because my Innocence had been powerful, that was obviouss enough. I still despised The Black Order with all my guts, but then again, what else did I have other than The Black Order now that all my other relatives were dead?
"Had their Innocence been destroyed?" I suddenly asked myself, realizing if it had been, that was fourteen less Innocence shards The Black Order had for its defenses. So many had been lost before... if theirs had been destroyed, that meant there were only 79 shards left, counting my own.
I grunted, then pushed myself up and got off the bed. I opened the door and went back to the others. Everyone looked at me mildly surprised for suddenly reappearing and I ignored them and said, "Hey Kugaya,"
"Yes Miss Walker?" He answered.
"You've heard about that, right?" I asked him.
"What's 'that'?" Tamaki asked.
"Yes, I've heard and you have-" He started.
"Don't." I cut him off from saying, 'You have my deepest sympathies.' Bullshit. "Do you know if 'it' was destroyed?"
"What was destroyed?" Tamaki asked. All of them were becoming interested.
I glared at them and said, "This is a personal matter that has little to do with The Black Order so, as I said before, I am-"
"Not obliged to tell us anything. Understood." Kyouya interrupted me. I glared at him, then turned my attention back to Kugaya.
"Well?" I asked impatiently.
"No, 'it' wasn't destroyed. That's the strange thing. Well, besides, you know..." He trailed off.
"No need to remind me. Thanks for the info. And, you will consider my rights to privacy when I leave, right?" I asked, wanting to make sure he didn't tell them about 'that'. I didn't need peoples' false sympathies.
"Of course, Miss Walker." He answered.
"Good." I replied before swiftly turning and returning to my room.
I, again, collapsed onto the bed and closed my eyes.
"Why's everyone leaving?" I asked myself.
'Why?' indeed... a ghostly voice sounded throughout the room. Something paralyzed my body and I couldn't move, but there was no one there. I began to panic and heard a soft melody being played on a piano, but it sounded far away.
The melody seemed to lull me asleep and I couldn't stop myself from surrendering to sweet unconcioussness.