The portal Sofia created led back to Disaster's base in Photon Mines. It apparently nearly closed off on Shido's leg if he was a second slower.
"Hey! Watch it!" the boy with decently long straight sandy-blonde hair hollered. "Who knows what would have happened if I didn't make it out of there especially with the portals someone else creates!"
"Why don't you just pick up the pace?" the girl with pale blue hair asked, her icy blue eyes piercing into his slate ones.
"Or you could test it out and report to us what happens then," Yumiko suggested, earning a glare from the boy in a grey-green and white formal looking uniform.
"Okay, that's enough," a teen said as he played the giant organ in front of him.
The three went completely quiet as Yumiko stared boredly at the head of the Gaen Financial Group, Gaen Kyoya. The music stopped abruptly as the white and red haired boy dropped his arms back to his sides, turning around to reveal sharp slender looking orange eyes.
"Is there anything new for you to tell me for the day?" he asked the trio, playing around with the silver cross necklace around his black turleneck.
Shido and Yumiko were a little hesitant to say 'no' while Sofia had her usual expression.
"No, Master Kyoya, nothing new has come up on my half," she said bowing down and looking over at Shido. "Or his."
The boy flinched and quickly bowed with his arms straight by his legs.
"I'm sorry, I ended up losing the buddyfight match today! But I deemed no fighter to be capable of the dark core's use!" he exclaimed.
'No one really trust in what you see, Shido..' Yumiko thought as she crossed her arms together.
"And for your report, Yumi?" he asked, smiling innocently and folding his hands together.
"Nothing new and no progress, but the fact stll stands that the boy is stubborn. Especially when Yuna is around," she said as she gave a light shrug. "I wasn't able to catch sight of Gao either when I failed with Tasuku."
The boy with ears stood up from his seat and pulled up his white V-neck sweater to get a little more comfortable before he lowered his arms down to his sides. His hands were now touching his grey-brown slacks lightly.
"These reports aren't very satisfying, but I suppose they'll do. Sofia, Shido, you are dismiss. Please continue with your plans and work you have. Yumiko, I have a favor to ask of you.." Kyoya said, his voice dropping a little.
'Favor? Yeah right..' the girl thought as she smirked. "If you say so, Mister Master."
The other two bowed to the older teen and stalked off into different directions to leave the room individually as Yumiko's face expression dropped again.
"Now what?" she asked tiredly, crossing her arms again. "Just hurry up and do whatever you always do."
Kyoya raised an amused brow as he flicked her forehead.
"That's not how you speak to me and don't forget it," he said.
"Right, right... I'm not like Terumi, okay?" Yumiko muttered. "I can always go back on my words when I want, no longer help you with your plans. Besides, this place is only for me to kill time and not return home early."
The boy smirked as he grabbed her face and turned it directly at his, making sure they don't break eye contact.
"We could always have Sofia erase your useless memories," he stated, "as well as have you stay here with us for a living. You can't go against me, after all, I have the power to control. Everyone in this world are just mere puppets to me as of now. I have the ability to get rid of you when I want to."
"I can see that," she said stiffly, holding his arm incase he did anything else. "Now, want to let go? My head is starting to hurt with you forcing it up and holding me still."
Kyoya eventually stopped smiling, letting go of her face and trailed his hands over to her hair, grabbing one of her twin tails instead. The tug he gave on her hair hurt just as much as being grabbed a few seconds ago or possibly more. Keeping in a yelp and avoiding breaking eye contact, the girl began to mentally curse the boy off.
"Please do keep up the good work," he said, his words having no meaning to it. "I'll let you know I have something 'special' waiting for you if this continues. I'm sure you'll grow to like it."
"I surely would," she replied, holding in her sarcastic tone.
"I've noticed that you're beginning to ignore your job as a member of Disaster. Any who, you're dismissed as well," said Kyoya, suddenly flashing an innocent smile as he pulled off the hair tie in her hair. "You're mother must be worried about you right now. Go home and see to her well-being."
"You already know she doesn't actually care about what I do, so why should I?" the girl scoffed as she walked off with a missing hair tie.
The boy didn't really listen to what she said as he looked down at her pink pearled hair tie decorated with the two white ribbons at the end in the palm of his hand. By the time he looked back up to toss it at her, she had already left.
"Hm, guess she forgot about it or plainly didn't want it back," he commented, slipping it into his pocket and heading back to his organ.
"Jeez, that hurt.." Yumiko complained as she rubbed her jaw and head.
"He still has your hair tie," Selene pointed out.
"I don't care, I just don't want to see his face right now," replied the girl as she casually shrugged and untied her other braid. "Why can't he just pick on someone else?"
She then pulled her hair back behind her and allowed it to blend in with the two hanging locks she usually leaves hanging behind her when her hair was braided. It looked all wavy due to being braided for so long, but it didn't matter much.
"Did it not go so well this time around either?" Sofia suddenly asked, surprising the girl.
"Course not. Been failing to get what he wants. Sometimes I wish he did his own dirty work," Yumiko grumbled. "Please don't scare me like that."
"Don't speak about the Master that way," Sofia shot as she walked over to the girl, her white and silver tipped boots clicking on the floor. "Anyways, you are his favorite to have around in the group, so why complain?"
'More like his favorite to torture..'
"No one has been getting any luck lately either, but Rouga and possibly Davide may be successful this time around," the girl pointed out as she suddenly smirked. "Unless you are really admitting defeat to the likes of them. Have you given up yet?"
"Oh right, they're going after Kiri, huh? He's quite an easy target..." Yumiko said. "And no, I have not yet given up. I'm not that mentally weak."
"I have to agree with you on that," the girl in blue and white said. "But having an easy target or not, it shouldn't mean anything or affect us, especially in this group. I have a feeling that I should check on Rouga and that kid though incase he's pulling something funny from underneath us all. Just try not to be as useless as Shido."
"At least I know what I'm doing..." the girl said smirking. "Unlike Sir Idiot over there."
The hiding figure jumped when the girl raised her voice, both Yumiko and Sofia staring at him with a straight face. The boy poked his head out from behind the wall as he noticed Yumiko tapping her foot with her hands on her hips and Sofia playing with the white ruffles on the mid length sleeves of her teal blue short jacket stiffly.
"A-ahem...! And how did you know that I, the great Shido, was-"
"It was your puffy pants, you numb skull," Sofia interrupted as she turned around to face him, her periwinkle dress swaying with her.
He then looked down at himself and frowned, kicking his dark grey boots together.
"Ah- Right..." he said in defeat, drooping his shoulders decorated with red and gold.
The boy quietly sauntered over to the girls as he tried to get back into his character and cleared out his throat.
"I propose that we all should work together. I can be the leader of said group and you two will be my supporters!" Shido said confidently, holding his head up high.
"I refuse," the girls replied immediately.
"If you were our leader, the group would be a waste of time. No work would be done," Yumiko pointed out. "Besides, I don't even attend school at Aibo."
"You could always transfer if you ask, but with Shido here as leader, nothing will be accomplished for sure," Sofia agreed.
"H-hey, what's with you both soiling my name? I-I can be like Daddy too!" he exclaimed hesitantly.
"We're not talking about your Old Man, we're talking about you," the girls said. "You are hopeless without a partner-in-crime to help you with plans."
Shido's ego was now crushed completely as he finally stopped pestering the two about making him leader of a crummy group of three. Even if the two girls did agree to his so-called brilliant plan, his position of leader would have probably been stolen by Sofia.
"Look, I can come by and help you both anytime. After all, I do ditch school most times.." Yumiko told the two. "But never mind that, just contact me and I'll sneak into the student council office through a portal or something."
"That's an okay plan too..." Shido sulked.
"Better plan than have the Almighty Shido ruling us all.." she pointed out.
"I spent days thinking about it!"
Of course, that exclaim only earned him weird looks from both Sofia and Yumiko as silence took over.
"... Well then, you're officially useless to me.." Yumiko said. "No offense, Shido..."
"What a great leader we have," Sofia mused sarcastically as she began to clap softly. "You really didn't need to put much thought on your plan of creating a simple group of us three..."
"What do you mean by that? That's my greatest plan yet! I think," the boy said. "Besides everyone has the same target, just one is closer than the other."
"That's the smartest thing you ever said today!" Yumiko said in fake shock. "Everyone but me though. I still need to get around and leave school on random days."
"We'll go with Shido's little plan for once," Sofia jumped in as the boy's face changed into hope, "but no, you will not be the leader this time around either."
In response to her answer, the boy groaned in disappointment, but eventually agreed with the suggestion. Yumiko smirked in amusement as Shido pouted like a child and crossed his arms together.
"Pouting won't get you anywhere you know, Shido?" she stated in a commanding tone. "Look, leader or not, you're still that same idiot we have with us everyday."
"Says Master Kyoya's pet," the boy responded.
Yumiko's smirk faltered into a low dark glare once she heard the same nickname in a different wording again, lowering her head and intimidating Shido.
"I am no one's pet, you got that, Magoroku?" she growled, her buddy appearing incase she did anything reckless.
Shido backed away a little and nodded as he let out little whimpers in which indicated his fear towards the girl. Sofia on the other hand was just watching the two casually, sighing to herself.
"Okay, I got it! You're nobody's pet! Just don't attack me again!" he exclaimed, shielding his head and neck on the floor.
Yumiko sighed quietly as her expression quickly shifted back to the usual smile she always gave. Shido peered up at the two girls in front of him in fright and then stood back up once he caught himself laying on the floor with his butt stuck up into the air.
'Sometimes, I wonder why I even work with such scary people...' he thought, shivering a little.
"Now that that's handled carefully and out of the way," said Sofia," we can begin working together tomorrow. Our target: Mikado Gao. Yumiko can come anytime since she still has to deal with Ryuenji Tasuku and that annoying friend of his."
"Roger that," the other two replied.
"Yumiko, you really need to start using the portal more often," Shido suddenly told her.
"Not just yet, Shido. No one knows about me being a member just yet," she said. "It's best to stay alert than to get caught one day. Don't worry though, I'll use it when it's really needed. The best time is when everyone is in school and I'll guarantee to use it during that time."
The girl then began to walk off with her buddy again, knowing that Tasuku still must be at work at the moment. What she isn't sure of was if Yuna was with him still.
"Are you planning to continue with work right now?" Selene asked her buddy cautiously. "It might be a little strange since you never liked being in their headquarters."
"You have a good point right there..." Yumiko groaned as her skill was activated again. "How about we continue this when it's time for him to leave work then?"
The monster only smiled nervously as she nodded, but of course she had to ask another question Yumiko didn't think enough about.
"Do you know what time though?"
"... Err... No.." she replied as she skated off. "I would ask Yuna, but she'd just take it the wrong way as usual."
"Blame yourself for that, Yumi," Selene told her. "You flirt too much."
The girl groaned in response as went off to the park for the day, stopping and sitting down on a bench tiredly. Her buddy skill wasn't taken away just yet and left on if she needed to take off again.
"Work is as cruel as ever..." she mumbled as she tied up her hair into a ponytail. "Remind me WHY I even offered to help him in the first place?"
"To waste time and not see your mom?" a gruff voice asked, sounding completely confused.
The girl flinched and scooted over to the edge of her seat to see who it was behind her, her eyes wide in surprise.
"What is with you guys appearing out of nowhere like that?!" she exclaimed, frowning at the tan boy with long messy silver hair.
"And why are you just sitting here talking to your buddy? Aren't you supposed to be back with him right now?" he shot back.
"That's already done and passed, god... Do you need something?" she asked.
"No, nothing. Just saw you sitting here and wondered if you failed yet again. It sure looks like you haven't gotten any good info for our latest target."
"He is just really stubborn and will do whatever he can to protect people as well as those who he cares for," the girl said waving her hand dismissively. "That's the most I can get out of him so far. I'm sure you'd get as much," she grumbled. "Kyoya will probably do something about the police headquarters sooner or later though."
She then leaned back into the bench and rested her arms behind her, letting them dangle off the edge of her seat.
"He'll also chase any kind criminal down until he catches them successfully. I already told everyone that."
Rouga nodded and crossed his arms together as he closed his indigo colored eyes, his frown never leaving.
"That is true that those are his main characteristics, but maybe he has more hidden that you need to give a nudge at."
"I would ask you for your help, but me working with a criminal would just give it away," Yumiko muttered.
"Then don't ask me for my help," he stated casually.
"I wasn't going to, Wolf," said the girl as she rolled her eyes. "And how's your target doing?"
"None of your business," he suddenly snapped.
Yumiko rose a brow and stood up from the bench, turning around to see him more clearly. Suddenly snapping like that was something he was known to do whenever he spoke with her, but this time it happened a little too early with a topic he's never gotten mad at before.
"Forget I asked then, but I do feel like someone's going to get to him before you do. A person who wants the job done right," she shrugged. "Just a minor thought by the way."
"Thanks for the unneeded concern, but no one will actually take him away from me that easily," the boy answered, smirking to himself.
'Keep dreaming..' she thought. 'There could only be that one person who always does her job..'
"Now that we're speaking about each other's targets, I haven't seen Kiri around. Why is that?" Selene decided to ask.
"We can not answer you both that question," Armorknight Cerberus told the monster. "Sorry, but it's classified.
"Not really classified. I can track you both down quite easily..." Yumiko said awkwardly.
The boy in black only groaned and scratched the back of his head irritably, knowing that the girl usually is capable with tracking down any members of Disaster like Sofia. They both were like detectors of Disaster's entire group.
"Are you going to tell anyone if we did tell you?" Rouga then asked.
"Is it that important to keep away from a member? Or was Sofia's guess right?" the girl asked, raising a brow curiously.
"I knew it. Of course she'd be onto me after hearing that the boy suddenly went missing or was kidnapped by the criminal known as 'Wolf.' Davide is already ready for him to fall into his grasp once he moves- Wait, when is he moving again?"
"I already told you this twice and you didn't listen because you didn't want to. Within two days from now, he'll move to his new school where Davide is waiting for him."
"Right..." he growled, closing his eyes even though only his left eye was visible. "I'm currently training him right now."
"Even though no one said you needed to?" Yumiko urged.
"Yes. Even though Kyoya said nothing about training the targets. Sofia will probably do something about it once she finds out."
"Or so, she already has found out."
The boy blinked as he handed his spear in his right hand over to his left.
"What do you mean by that?"
"Why else has she been onto you? She's been watching everything we've been doing when she could," Yumiko stated dully, her smile slightly fading. "Well, it's getting late now. I should head back home before my mom forgets to eat again."
"Is she really as lazy as you claim her to be?" Rouga asked uncomfortably. "I don't think I'll actually be able to live with someone like that.. especially if that's an adult."
The girl shrugged in response as she quietly held up a hand to bid a silent farewell, turning around to leave.
"I guess you eventually get use to such things sooner or later. Not like it matters much."
Leaving the boy and his giant white three headed dog that bore gold and silver weapons, Yumiko began to grumble to herself again.
"Just what can I do to get out of the danger zone?" she asked. "But then again, I'm always in the danger zone when I'm around Kyoya himself."
"Cause he enjoys picking on you," Selene suddenly said.
"I can see that.." the girl said, making clutching motions with her hands irritably. "Can't get mad at him for so long though, I've grown quite used to his treatment already which is not a good thing..."
Sorry for not updating for so long! I've been quite busy. Anyways, I'll be spamming with what I've posted on Quotev and Wattpad. Enjoy~
~stormy003