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Summary: Ruckus in the museum.
A/N: I've fulfill my promise! Well, even if it's almost the end of the month, it's still May, isn't it? I've been working hard to update if my mom found out that I'm writing this in the middle of exam, especially Biology, she will kill me for sure! XD
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Midnight came, the moon rising up high, casting a stream of white light across the shady tress. It was dead quiet, save for the occasional chirping of the crickets. Ten silhouettes stood in front of a building. Machi, Phinx, Koltopi, Nobunaga, Franklin, Shizuku, Bonorenof, Feitan, Shalnark and Kuroro were ready for the mission.
"We're complete." Stated Machi.
"No, we're not." Said Kuroro while turning his head from side to side, insearching of someone missing. "Kurapika is not here."
Saying the sentence was like igniting a flame to a fuse. Shocked silence fell over the Spiders, their brains stunned, trying to process what Kuroro had just casually said. It dredged up Nobunaga's anger, hot-white flames of rage bursting out. "He's joining the mission? You must be kidding! There's no way he'll be one of us!" said the angered samurai.
"Nobunaga, shut it. We have already discuss this matter earlier, you have no right to disobey my orders and decisions." said Kuroro in a calm manner. "I'll go for him, everyone else may proceed accordingly to the plan. We'll meet again there."
"Hai Danchou."
When all of the members had already made their way to the museum, Kuroro turn his body back and walk towards the path to his room, where the blonde is currently staying. "Now then, what is he doing?"
After arriving right in front of the door, he placed few gentle knocks towards the wood and entered the room. There he could see a lying figure on top of the mattress, sleeping peacefully. Kuroro walked towards the sleeping figure and got on top of him. "What are you doing? I recalled telling you to get ready for mission, didn't I?" he whispered softly to Kurapika's left ear.
When the blonde moved his right arm a little, Kuroro withdrew back. He got back on his feet and crossed his arms, observing Kurapika as he slowly started to awaken.
"...K...Kuroro..?"
"Hm.. I never expected you to take a nap. Now get up! We got a mission to accomplish. The others have proceed according to plan, we're late behind schedule, we need to catch up."
"Plan? You never inform me anything about it." said Kurapika, trying to get up.
"You have no need to. All you have to do is follow me and my orders."
'Since all I need is your identity card to enter the museum safely. But as you're late, the others need to forcefully barg in the building. I wonder how has it gone?'
"I've hacked the security system, let's now continue as planned." said Shalnark, let me print the map of this museum, it's quite large." As the map was successfully printed, all of a sudden, the security alarm rang on its' own.
"Damn!" Phinx cursed, slamming his fist onto the wall. Beads of sweat dropped from his forehead as he glanced around anxiously to search for the source of the piercing, wailing sound. He gritted his teeth and rushed around, trying hard to locate the noise, his cells felt on edge, strained, as if he was ready to fight anyone that came in his way. "What the-!?"
"What's the meaning of this, Shal?" asked Machi as she hit the table hard.
"I'm so sure that I've hacked the entire security system... or..." He widen his eyes in horror that, "this is not the real system, it's a fake!" Shalnark turned around, crumping the printed paper and left it fall to the floor.
"We've been fooled!" Shalnark growled, gritting his teeth. It was a truly rare thing to see an enraged Shalnark: everybody was startled for a moment. "What are you waiting for- get out of here!" he started shoving everyone.
When they head for the exit door, the door was locked on his own and smoke came out from everywhere. "Nobody should figure out that we're here, unless someone told them so."
"That chain-guy must be the one...!" said Nobunaga angrily.
"No, the chain-guy was with Danchou the whole time, it's impossible for him to report. Ckk... This is stupid, examining from this tricks, our enemies are not a nen user." said Feitan, annoyed.
"Maybe they're just desperate to hold us here, huh!" said Phinx with a smirk. "This old tricked wont work at us!" he clenched his fist and shot a strike at the steel door, the door blasted at once when it received the powerful blow. "Let me search for the one behind this stupid tricks, I'll break the bones!"
"Do as you like once we've achieved the gem. Danchou told us that it's better not to create ruckus." stated Machi, she always followed every single order from Kuroro.
"But I'm at my limits, I'll kill everyone that's in the way." said Feitan as his eyes narrowed.
"Take this knife with you, since you don't have any weapon." Kurapika look at the knife that was handed to him by Kuroro. "This mission may be or may be not dangerous."
"What exactly is the mission?"
"We'll go in the museum to steal something."
"Steal?! Okay, wait, so what do you want me to do with this knife?"
"Kill anyone that's in the way, or perhaps protect yourself."
"Wh-..."
"You're taking far too long." Kuroro reached for Kurapika's arm, lifting him up to his shoulder. Not a protest was heard coming out from the kuruta, and it was still a bit of a shock to Kuroro; how he could easily tame the rebel. They stepped out and headed over to catch up with the rest. Kuroro placed Kurapika down when they reached the main doors.
"I can walk on my own."
"We've arrive. Weird, there's no guard?"
'This make things much more easier'
"Let's go in."
It was a mayhem inside. Once they stepped in the door, they were greeted with a scene of ulter chaos. Tables were over-turned, pillars crumbled, beams of red lights flashed everywhere, momentarily blinding them, the wailing drill of an alarm bouncing around the room and glasses shaltering everywhere, spilling out to the ground as loud gunshots were triggered and shouts and barks filled the air. Figures of people fighting brimmed the room. A punch here, a kick there.
A gunshot fired. More curses and yells. The alarm somehow grew louder, red flashes of light danced on the wall. Another pillar groaned, and dropped to the ground, shaltering a case filled with gold jewelleries. The sound of the fall was toe-curling, creating a massive splintering crack on the floor.
'I remembered telling them not to create ruckus, oh well, maybe they're just excited.'
The raven-haired man then looked around and turn to face the blonde, it looks like Kurapika was concerned with what happened in the place. He turned back and smirked. "You should get use to these kinds of situation."
"Eh?"
Kuroro grabbed Kurapika's arm and begin to sped off. His arm gripped tight, the blonde had no other choice but to pick up pace and run along too. After all, that seemed to be what Kuroro was implying him to do anyway. "I can walk on my own." again he repeated.
Hearing those words, Kuroro tighten its grip for a second and releases Kurapika's hand. "Be sure not to get separated from me."
In a flash, there's an explosion that separated both of them at once. "Danchou!"
'What a sudden attack.'
"What happen?"
"We don't really understand, but... it seems that our moves are predicted."
"What do you mean?"
"Several well-trained guards are prepared to greet us here."
'No one should know that we're planning to steal the gem...'
"We're waiting for your orders, Danchou."
"Shalnark, try to locate this museum's map, you can also insert your antennae to one of the guard's neck and control them to direct the other guards away from us. Franklin, Machi, Bonorenof, Phinx, Nobunaga, Koltopi and Feitan, I gave you the permission to execute anyone in the way. Shizuku will clean their dead bodies."
"Understood."
'Ouch...'
The explosion separated them. The impact was so huge it knocked Kurapika down to the floor. The back of his head met the tiles, hard. He winced as he rubbed his head. Smoke blurred his vision, getting to his eyes. It dotted his whole vision. Kurapika coughed to clear his throat, blinking. He felt confused and flimsy, the fall dazing him. A shadowy figure emerged out from the smoke, heading over to the half-clear-headed, coughing blonde.
'Kuroro?'
When the figure gets closer, it's not as what he thought. The figure shows a man in his late thirties, wearing a black suit and holding a gun.
"Eh? What we have here? You're one of them? Can't believe that they get a small and weak boy with them."
The man raised his gun and point it towards Kurapika. "I'm sorry boy, but you need to be elimi...na-ted..."
"You're the one who shall I eliminate. Everything alright, Kurapika?" said Kuroro with one of his hand stabbing the guard from the behind. When he pull his hand out, there's a red liquid coming out from the body.
The colour of blood.
The colour that he hate.
Wait.
Why does he hate that?
'I've seen this before.'
'The scene of blood, the smell of blood, dead bodies lying everywhere. This kinds of situation... I've seen this before... But i forgot.'
"You alright?" asked the leader of a fearful troupe.
Looking down, his breath hitched. A man was lying on the floor, twisted at an off angle, his mouth open and his eyes lifeless. But that wasn't what made the kuruta queasy. The man was slumped on the ground, a pool of blood dripping around him. One of his hands was grabbing the side of his blood-drenched cloth, his expression surprised. The red was so crystallizingly clear that it made Kurapika want to turn away at the repulsive sight of it. Dead, Gone. The man was dead.
'What do you feel? Afraid?'
'I rather had worst. It seems that this scene is not new to to me...'
'Ow? but of course.'
'I've seen this somewhere before.'
'You don't only see it, you experienced it.'
'Experienced?' At at a sudden, several flashed of Kurapika's memory ran towards him at once, but it's unclear. All he could hear were screams and cries, but he couldn't see anything... It's pitched black.
'Let me show you your killed families.'
'Killed families?' surprising, painful images of Kurapika's parents and clansmen being massacred jolted into his memory. It was a blur, but it was definitely there... and it was definitely real. But ...who? Who would do such a heartless thing? Kurapika had no clue, no answers to his questions.
'You don't want the same thing to happen, do you...?'
'You don't want to lose precious people again, isn't it...?'
Those words was echoed inside Kurapika's head. The blonde widen his eyes in horror and grieved in pain.
'Kill or be killed.'
'In that case, you need to be a killer.'
"Kill. That's the basic requirement for being one of us." Kurapika remained silent, he tried to kneel and get up, but fail. Kuroro gave him a smirk and lend him a hand to stand up. Since Kuroro was facing backward, he couldn't see that there's another guard, not far from them, holding a gun and was ready to shoot his back. Kurapika, hurrily struggled from Kuroro's grip, he immediately knelt back down, took the gun of the previous guard and shoot him. The guard fell, blood splattered out of his body, he remained there, not moving. Few seconds ticked by and he died.
The sudden movement exceeded Kuroro's expectations. He found himself shocked. Never had he ever thought that his plan would work out this effectively and just as fast either. It was a perfect timing, considering they were outnumbered and needed a ruthless person to help them clean the state all out together, to speed up the whole process.
His real purpose of taking Kurapika along was to show him these tragic scenes and corrupt his mind more.
"K-Ki..ll..." this word was heard from Kurapika's mouth. They was wrong when they thought the unmoving guard have died, the guard was actually pretending to be dead for him to have a chance to call the other fellows by pushing a button that was hidden inside his pocket.
Not long after that, multiple guards was right before their eyes, blocking their way. Kurapika took the knife Kuroro gave him and placed it in his left hand, together with the gun that he hold in his right hand. He didn't waste a second. He stabbed two, mercilessly pushing in deep, killing them instantly. The two figures crumpled to the floor. Three guards lunged for him. Kurapika held up a limp guard's body as a shield, protecting himself from bullets and knives. His other hand plunged into his pocket, pulling out his gun as he retraced his steps backwards. All of a sudden, he shot three spot-on bullets, cleanly finishing the three frozen guards.
They lie on the floor, wasted, lifeless.
A breath brushed his ear and the kuruta instinctively whirled around. The last standing guard was ferociously raising his fist, about to strike him. Kurapika slipped effortlessly through the guard's weak punch, moving as fast as lightning, aiming at the guard's stomach. He jabbed his elbow into the chest area, hitting the ribs before gouging in the knife. The guard let out a strangled yell before dropping to the ground on top of another motionless body.
And it looks like...He enjoyed it.
The entrance of the museum have become a cemetary.
Footstpes rang out. The members rushed up to the leader's place after hearing stund of gunshots and yells. "Everything alright, Danchou?'
"Yes, I am." He grinned as he turned his head to face the fellow spiders.
"You did this alone, Danchou?" asked Machi, she got an amazed look on her face.
"No, not me. But I'm fine since I have a killing machine with me."
A/N: Ahahahaha... I got a bad feeling posting this chapter, I'm sorry for the twist, maybe some of you, or perhaps most of you disagree with this change, but this is one important conflict included in my storyline. It's complicated XP Gomen... So, what do you think of this chapter? I'm writing this while memorizing Geography for tomorrow's exam.
Please look forward/ wait for the next chapter! :)