CØDE 02: The Next Evil
[One weeks later]
Inside of a hospital room, Emiko woke up next to her mom sleeping next to her. Once she sat up her parents immediately hugged her and started to cry. Emiko smiled brightly, as her mother hugged her.
"Oh, Emiko you finally came to." Her mother said, happily.
"Huh, mom where am I?" Emiko asked.
"You're in the hospital, after you went missing." Her mother answered. "An investigator told us he knew where you were."
Her dad walked in with a smile on his face, he walked towards her and gave her a big hug. Emiko could contain her happiness, a nurse walked in with a bouquet of flowers. Her mother turned around and noticed the flowers.
"Who're those from?" Her mother looked and asked.
"We don't know they were delivered anonymously. But there was this card attached to it." The nurse responded.
Her mother took the card and began to read it.
"Life is filled with tragedy. You may want to forget what happens and bury it, but don't give up. Live with that pain inside your heart and overcome it, and find true happiness because-"
Koji stood outside the hospital wearing a male Kibou High Uniform buttoned up. He looked in the sky, with a smile on his face.
"Because pain is just another part of Living." Koji finished, as he closed his eyes. "The thing that makes you human."
He then started walking away from the hospital, in the hospital room Emiko smiled and jumped out of her bed.
"I won't give up on living, I'll brave through life and overcome this pain." Emiko declared.
As Koji was walking through the street he ran into Heike who had setup a table in the middle of the walkway. Everyone looked at him with a confused expression and just past by him.
"My dear 06, you went to visit that girl didn't you?" Heike asked. "You're too much like Hitomi was when he was starting off as a Code: Breaker.
"I just sent her flower, nothing more." Koji answered, as he picked up a cup of tea. "She was the only one who chose to keep those memories of what they did to her. I erased mine and the other's existence from her memories. Humans really are resilient."
Koji took a sip of the tea and enjoyed its flavor. After he was done he placed the tea cup on the table and started walking towards Kibou High. Once he walked into the building he ran into Kanda, a secret agent for Eden.
"Hello Hashimoto-Kun!" Kanda called out with a smile.
"Hi, Kanda-San." Koji responded. "I see you're still looking as beautiful as ever."
As they were walking through the hallway, every time Kanda see's Koji's face it reminds her of Hitomi. It made her happy to at least have one remnant of him left.
"What's wrong Kanda-San?" Koji saw her expression and asked.
"Oh, nothing just reminiscing." Kanda responded with a smile. "You just remind me so much of someone I loved."
Once she walked past him, he looked at her with a saddened expression on his face.
[Classroom B-1]
Koji walked into the room along with Kanda who stood next to him.
"Class this a new transfer student, as of today he'll be a permanent member of this class." Kanda said, with a smile. "Would you please introduce yourself."
"Hello everyone, my name is Koji Hashimoto." Koji introduced himself. "It's a pleasure to meet all of you."
Everyone started whispering to each other, as they were looking at Koji.
"Wow, he seems nice."
"Nice, he's a total hottie."
"He looks pretty athletic."
Koji smiled after hearing everyone talk about him.
"This is what I'm protecting, these smiles. I'll make sure none of them finds out about what happens around them." Koji thought, with a smile.
Koji then sat down and started conversing with the students around him.
[Classroom C-1]
Masako was in front of the classroom wearing a female uniform, playing with her shirt nervously. She started to become embarrassed, as everyone looked at her.
"H-Hello m-my name is Masako Hayashi, it's a pleasure to meet you all." Masako said, with an incredibly blushed face.
Everyone smiled and started whispering about her.
"She's beautiful."
"She's gorgeous. Hey look she's embarrassed."
Masako's face was turning red, as she sat in the desk at the back of class.
"I'm good at being a Code: Breaker. But whenever I'm in front of a crowd of other normal people. I'm starting to get embarrassed again." Masako thought.
Someone then tapped on Masako's shoulder, she jumped and turned around, next to her was a forest greed haired girl with red eyes and a perfect body.
"Hey are you nervous?" The girl asked.
"No-no, I was homeschooled most of my life." Masako answered, nervously. "So I'm not used to being around other students."
"Just remain calm. You'll make friends from just by being you." The student responded. "By the way my name is Ayaka Akiyama."
Both of them smiled at each other and started getting acquainted. As the bell rang for the lunch period, Masako walked into classroom B-1. In her hands she was carrying two bento lunchbox. She scanned the room and found Koji waving at her.
"Hello, Masako-Chan. Wow you must be hungry today?" Koji joked.
"No, idiot I made it for you." Masako responded, with a blushed face. "Come to the roof, there's something I want to talk to you about."
"Okay." Koji responded with a smile.
The entire classroom was shocked as both of them agreed to eat lunch together on the room.
"Hey, look at that the two new students are hooking up!"
"That's not fair!"
"I can tell their children are going to be stars."
Masako blushed, she grabbed Koji's hand and walked quickly towards the roof. Koji held that same smile on his face.
"Uh, Masako-Chan I can walk on my own." Koji proclaimed.
Once they made it to the stairs, Masako let go of Koji she let him go and both of them walked through the door.
"I finally get to be alone with Koji-Kun." Masako thought with smile.
"Well if it isn't the lovebirds." A familiar voice announced.
Both Masako and Koji looked up and saw Sora sitting on top of the roof's railing wearing an unbuttoned uniform. Masako glared at him with great irritation.
"I was so close." Masako thought, with a sigh.
"So you got transferred here to?" Koji asked.
"Just my luck I got stuck with you, but I guess the girl here are way hotter." Sora answered.
On top of the structure over them, an obscured figure stood over them.
"Nee-Chan!"
The three of them turned around and saw Amaya on the sitting on the structure over them, she jumped down without hesitating. Masako placed the bento boxes on the ground and caught her.
"Why aren't you in school, Amaya-Chan?" Masako asked with a smile.
As Amaya placed her head in-between Masako's breast.
"It's a good school, but it's soo boring." Amaya stated in a muffled tone.
The uniform she was wearing was a Heisei high school uniform, Masako smiled reaching into her backpack and handed Amaya a Nyanmaru doll. Amaya quickly grabbed it and started playing with it. As she was playing, Masako pulled out extra lunches for everyone.
"You're as prepared as always." Koji stated, as he started eating lunch.
"I can't believe that kid is Code 03, just look at here playing with that stupid doll." Sora sighed and stated as he was eating.
"Sora, that kid is 10x as smart as you." Koji responded, with a smirk on his face.
Both of them glared at each other and sparks started to literally fly, until Masako got in-between both of them.
"Calm down you two just eat your lunch." Masako said, in an irritated tone.
"What, are you mad because you wanted to eat alone with Koji?" Sora asked.
Amaya gained a tick mark on her forehead and punched Sora in the stomach. Sora lied on the ground with his hands on his stomach. Something in Amaya's pocket started playing the Nyanmaru ringtone.
Amya then started reciting the ringtone, Sora sat up and grabbed her phone. The message was a special mission for Code 03.
A group of dealers of illegal drugs has been discovered in a nearby warehouse, they've also hired Power Users as guard. Code 03, deal with this with great discretion.
But they looked and saw Amaya's carefree expression, Sora closed her phone and jumped on the railing.
"Sora, that's Amaya-Chan's mission not yours." Koji stated, with a laidback expression.
"Tsk, just look at her she won't be doing anything while she's like that." Sora responded.
"Do you really want to be punished by Heike-San again?" Masako asked.
Both Koji and Sora shuttered at the thought of another punishment from Heike, as the bell rang for class to end. Sora jumped of the railing and started walking down the stairs. As soon as he left Amaya's stomach started rumbling.
"Come here, Amaya-Chan." Masako commanded with a slight sigh.
Once Amaya walked over to her, she started feeding Amaya her lunch like a child.
"He's right about her personality thought, but with her capabilities now it only make her more dangerous." Koji thought, with a smile.
He picked up his phone as it was buzzing in his pocket, once he read the message on it he immediately headed out. Once night fell Sora was walking towards the place the drug trade was going on.
He looked and saw the guards in front of the building, they turned their heads towards him pulling out their guns. Without warning they pulled the trigger, as the bullets sped towards Sora. All of the bullets were stopped by a thick wall of air, once the barrier vanished.
The guards looked and noticed that Sora was gone as well. As the guards were looking for him, he landed on top of the railing above them. Sora looked through the window and saw a large number of guards posted around the building.
The men were in the middle of the building, as he was looking. Sora heard water forming in the air. Sora immediately moved out of the way, a high pressure of water sliced the wall apart. Sora then turned his head and saw one power user standing behind him.
"So that's why Amaya was assigned to the mission." Sora looked at him and stated to himself.
Sora stood up and wind started surrounding him. "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, and a slicing gale of justice for evil." He glared at the power user and said. The power user rushed towards Sora, he held his hand out and fired off another high pressure water attack.
Sora countered his attack with a blast of wind. But the power user started walking towards him, Sora moved out hand out of the way and dodged the attack.
"Are you the new Code 03?" The power user laughed and asked. "I heard rumors that power user that is like me, but I guess they were just rumors."
From all around Sora, water started forming in the air. As it started growing larger and larger, the pressure started building. They were then condensed into a small ball and fired at him from all sides. As Sora was preparing to dodge, he heard a cheerful voice.
"Here I come 04!"
Amaya landed in front of him, and the water blasts were stopped in and scattered in the wind. The power user looked at her with a confused expression, almost like he had seen a ghost.
"Nyanmaru, Nyanmaru, Nyanmaru. He's a friend of everyone. The Gentle champion of the Kitties. As their lives…" Amaya held both her hands behind head and sung.
Amaya was interrupted by pillars of water, rising towards the sky. She looked forward and saw the power user laughing to himself.
"Ah, I see so you're that brat who was given the Code 03 designation." The Power User stated, with a slight scoff. "What did the lose Code 03 lose his nerve?"
The pillars of water around them froze instantly, both Sora and the power user were both completely stunned. The floor under them started to freeze instantly and the air started becoming colder. Amaya's cheerful expression become more enraged.
"No one bad talks Nii-San and lives to tell about it." Amaya declared coldly. "If you do it again, and I'll show you cold hell."
Sora shuttered at Amaya's change in attitude, this killer intent in the air was nearly suffocating. The power uses then started creating more and more pillars of water.
"I'm glad this place it far from the city. Hey Code 04, can you deal with the drug dealers for me?" Amaya asked. "This might take me awhile."
"Sure thing, by the way Code 03..." Sora answered.
Before he could finish, Amaya placed another sticker on his face.
"Every Code: Breaker has their own style of doing things." Amaya stated, as he smiled at him sincerely. "And like Nii-San, I do my missions at my own pace. So please never do that again, Code 04."
"I can see why they named you Code 03." Sora responded, with a smile. "Alright."
Koji ran inside the building, the power user then launched another blast of water. Amaya distorted the trajectory upwards, as the attack exploded rain fell to the ground.
"Who're you guys really?" Amaya asked. "I was informed by Code 01, that more and more thug has been hiring power users for protection. And every one of them seem to know about us Code: Breakers. But you seem to know more about me."
"Beat me and find out." The power user responded.
As soon as he said that, Amaya and the power user was surrounded by water. And both of them then began their attack, inside of the building Sora was finishing off the drug dealer. As he was walking around, he heard footsteps on the catwalk.
He looked up and saw a man with purple hair and blue eyes.
"You're ability cause such wonderful destruction." The man stated, with an arrogant smirk. "You both share the Special Power 'Void'. But it's still a far inferior compared to the original Re: Code 03 Kouji, "The God of Destruction."
Sora glared at him after he mentioned Kouji's name, Sora motioned his hand horizontally and fired off a large slicing gale. But the man jumped out of the way, he looked back and so that Koji's attack destroyed the wall that was behind him.
Without any issue the man landed behind him, Sora turned around and aimed his fist at the man. But his attack was blocked by a powerful and invisible barrier, he winced in pain and stepped back away from him out of fear.
The killing intent that man was emitting, that was more deadly than Amaya's. Almost like a beast was glaring at him, from out of nowhere the gravity in the room started increasing. Pushing Sora to his knees, wondering what was happening.
"Though, my abilities are far more advanced than Void's." The man stated, with a smile.
He man pointed his finger in the air and Sora was launched into the air and hit the roof hard.
"What the hell, this guy can he manipulate gravity?" Sora asked himself.
The man smirked at him and started lifting himself towards Sora while he was still pinned to the roof.
"My job is done here, I thought that idiot would be of some help." The man stated, with a slight sigh. "Before I go give the original Re: Codes this message. The Re: Codes have reformed, and I as Re: Code 02 Yuuta Murakami shall eliminate our predecessors."
With the flick of his hand Yuuta destroyed the roof to the building, Sora was free from his control. He landed on the ground while Yuuta disappeared into the air.
"That bastard." Sora said, as he banged his fist on the ground. "Wait Yukihina-San."
Sora later heard a large explosions coming from outside, he ran to a window and saw Amaya severely injuring the power user. While Amaya barely had any visible injury on her.
"You truly are a special one." He declared, with a hearty laugh. "Just like your mother said you'd be."
"My mom, how do you know my mom?" Amaya asked, in utter shock.
He lifted up the sleeve of his shirt, revealing a barcode on his forearm.
"Ever since the Rare Kinds destroyed Eden fifteen years ago, the barcodes and their other experiments escaped. But most of the barcodes who escaped eventually met their Code: End." The man answered. "Only us five survived, including your mother who was pregnant with you at the time."
Amaya reached at her right shoulder and started to become saddened. But at that moment the man's body then started reaching abnormal. His body was encased in water, as he was drowning underwater he thought to himself.
"Dammit, he's already reached Code: End." Sora declared.
"No, please tell me." Amaya demanded, with tears in her eyes. "Do you know where my mother is?"
"You truly are a special one, just like she said you'd be. I'm glad I was able to meet you before my Code: End happened. The only one of us who had parents." The power user thought. "You're the only one of us who had a parent, and a choice to live the way you saw fit."
The power user drowned immediately, falling to his knees. But before he fall on the ground, Amaya caught him. A tear fell from her face, she placed the power user on the ground. Amaya closed the man's eyes, with a saddened expression
She encased him in ice and shattering his body not leaving a single trace of him. Sora walked towards her, and noticed her saddened expression. Tears started falling from Amaya's face and landed on the ground. Sora swallowed his pride and started singing.
"Nyan-maru, Nyanmaru, Nyanmaru. He's a friend of everyone. The Gentle champion of the Kitties." Sora sung.
Amaya smiled at Sora's attempt to cheer her up, she wiped away her tears and started reciting the Nyanmaru song with him. As soon as everything was over, Sora contacted Yukihina.
"Yes, Yukihina-San he definitely mentioned the Re: Codes and eliminating the original ones." Sora said.
[The Re: Codes were disbanded the moment Seeker died.] Yukihina responded. [But these guys must have some kind of death wish if they're going after me, Kouji, Zed and Rui. Thanks for informing me...I guess.]
Yukihina hung up, Sora sighed and placed his phone in his pocket. On his back was a sleeping Amaya, snoring lightly. As he was walking towards Amaya's house, Sora pulled her keys off her and opened the door. Once he did he smelled something cooking.
"Hey Amaya-Chan is that you?" A familiar voice asked.
Sora's eyes widened, Masako came from the kitchen wearing an apron. She looked at Sora staring at her, and covered herself with her arms out of habit. But she ignored him once she saw Amaya sleeping on his back.
"M-Masako, you two are living together?" Sora asked, with a surprised expression.
"Yea, Amaya usually forgets to eat and do her homework." Masako answered. "So I asked Heike-San if we could live together."
Masako walked over and picked up Amaya from off of Sora's back, Amaya smiled in her sleep as Masako was carrying her. Masako carried Amaya to her room and placed her in bed, she patted Amaya on her head just before she closed the door.
Sora walked up in front of her, placing his fingers under Masako's chin.
"Wow, Masako-Chan I never thought you'd look good in an apron." He stated with a smile.
In that instant Masako punched Sora in the stomach, and he landed on the ground again.
"Pervert." Masako said, with a deadpanned look.
"Ugh. I thought you, would get embarrassed not punch me in the stomach." Sora groaned, as she stood up.
Masako crossed her arms out of irritation and glared at him.
"As I said before, I'm embarrassed around normal people not other power users." Masako responded. "Though…"
Masako imagined herself together with Koji alone, she smiled and blushed as she was lost in her own fantasy.
"Oh, you're only affected by Koji aren't..." Sora stated, with a smile.
Masako made an irritated expression and kneed Sora in his stomach again, knocking him completely unconscious. Masako placed her hand over her face, and sighed slightly.
"I wonder what Koji's doing right now." Masako thought, with a slight blush.
In an unknown facility, Koji was surrounded by a ten gun wielding guards. He looked around and glared at each of them with great hate.
"A brat like you can't possibly…"
Koji clenched his fist at the sight of the bloodspots under his feet, he looked up and surrounded himself in electricity.
"Where are the children who were here?" Koji asked.
"We don't know, we were just guarding the freaks." One of the guards answered. "We didn't do anything we swear."
One of the guard responded. At the moment ten powerful flashes of lightning, turned each of them into nothing but ash. But that attack didn't come from him, he turned around and saw someone standing in the doorway.
Leaning near a closed door behind him, a man obscured in the darkness, he smirked as he saw Koji's face.
"You really have grown into a powerful power user." The man stated. "Just like Hitomi."
Once the man mentioned Hitomi, Koji fired off a large blast of electricity. The man held his hand up and fired off a large blast of electricity canceling Koji's out.
"Who're you and how do you know me and Hitomi?!" Koji asked loudly.
The man then opened up the room behind him, the children were all tied up. Along the walls, the room was filled with bombs all of them were counting down to 00:00. The man started laughing loudly, as he walked passed Koji.
"There are bombs placed within a mile radius of this place." The man explained. "If you want to save them. You'd better do it now."
Koji then ran towards the kids, the bombs were counting down to zero.
"I can't carry them by myself." Koji stated, as he ran into the room. "Even if I could, we wouldn't escape the blast radius."
Koji gritted his teeth and held his hand up in the air, a large amount of electricity started surrounding Koji's hand. A large mass of electricity was formed in Koji's hand taking the shape of a large orb.
"I don't care if I go lost." Koji declared. "I'm not letting these kids die."
Koji generated a large and powerful electromagnetic pulse, the electromagnetic pulse that was generated deactivated every bomb in the area. Koji smiled and pulled out his phone, but his body started reacting strangely.
He placed his hand on his face, his eyes were getting heavier and his consciousness started to fade away. Until Koji leaned on a wall and fell to the ground, he looked up and saw the kids smiling at him.
They started laughing at him, causing Koji to be completely surprised. The kids then merged together and formed into a man with his entire face and body wrapped. The mysterious man from before walked into the room and smirked.
"I hoped the Heike would send you on this assignment." The man said, with a smile. "When it came to assignment with a few little brats who wouldn't be missed."
Koji clenched his teeth and tried standing up, but the man kicked Koji into the wall. On his hand was the same cross mark that was on Hitomi's neck.
"I wanted to see your face just once, you really do take after Hitomi. You even decided to be a Code: Breaker just like him." The man added. "But don't worry, I'll put an end to that."
In an instant both of them disappeared in a flash of electricity, Koji reached for his phone before completely falling asleep and dialed Kanda's number.
[Master, how'd the job go?] Kanda asked. [Master, are you alright?! Master!]
[Eden's New Base]
Outside a group of six people consisting of the man in the hoodie, the man wrapped in cloth and Yuuta Murakami. Each of them looked down at the newly built Eden.
"What're going to do next, Re: Code 01 Takashi Minamoto?" Yuuta asked, with a smirk on his face.
As the moonlight shined down, the man's appearance greatly resembled both Hitomi's and Koji's. He looked down at Eden and smirked.
"Now, let's judge Eden just as they judge Evil." Takashi declared. "At this moment we're declaring war on Eden, Their Founders, The Code: Names and the Code: Breakers."
Kanda ran into the facility armed with her gun. She ran into the room with the deactivated explosives and saw Koji lying on the ground lost. She picked him up and started taking him to her Car.