Chapter 4

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Italic stands for thought / dreams/ event from the past

[Stands for voice from the past]

-Stands for telephone-

Underline stands for letter

"Quote stands for dialogue"

Bold stands for emphasis

Bold italic stands for a dangerous tone

Investigation

A man with a long brownish black hair reaching his waist standing outside a room, waiting for the owner of the room to come after he finished with his 'job'. He didn't have to wait long though, a few minutes later, footsteps can be heard. He looked aside to see a boy with a long reddish brown hair walking to him with an expressionless face and a pair of onyx eyes that was vacant of emotion.

"Thank you for your cooperation, Silva." Hao said tonelessly as the man stepped aside to let him in, Silva was his caretaker in the mansion since he was 8, he was closer to Silva than to other fellow worker, so he always asked the man to help him guarding his room when he went out doing his job.

Normally, he wouldn't care if anyone entering his room, nothing was inside his room. That was until the previous day. After he met with a young man named Yoh, that strangely look very similar with him and a bit similar with Silva, he started keeping something in his room. What he started keeping was old newspapers he stole from his Boss, he had to call the man with 'Master', but he called the man with 'Boss' instead in his head. The word 'Master' sounded like he was the man's slave or something, he hate it.

Hate . . . Hao's hand stopped from turning the handle to his room when the word registered in his head, hate is what called feeling and he was not used with something called feeling. He was a doll, a killing doll that was in control of his Boss, he never felt something other than emptiness in him. But after he bumped with Yoh the previous week, he was starting to feel like he want to know more about the man, because of their similar face. He found out from internet that the feeling was called curiosity, he was curious about Yoh and want to find out more about the man.

The reason why he keep old newspapers was because he accidentally saw an article about Yoh, so he decided to steal the old newspapers from the drawer in the Living Room, where all the old newspaper was to be kept until the maid throw them off on monthly basis. He always went to the Living Room when the Boss was out without him, it was quite often actually, and then he read the newspaper to see if there's an article about Yoh, if there's an article about Yoh, he would bring it to his room secretly to read later on.

Hao had read some of the news about Yoh, and he found that Yoh was an Asakura, a family that was specialized in becoming Bounty Hunters or something that has a relation in catching criminals. Not only that, Yoh was from a rich family and had a wide connection to the world of business, his friends were also well known people, most of them actually.

Hao looked at his hand as he felt something pressing his chest when he thought of the fact that Yoh was a Bounty Hunter himself, even though the young man didn't hunting criminal often, but the fact remain that he was a murderer while Yoh was a person who caught a criminal as his job.

The knowledge alone was enough to make the pressure in his chest tightened, he didn't want to have to be in bad term with Yoh, somehow he want to be in good term with Yoh. He didn't know why, maybe because the older guy was so kind and kind of spoiling him when they were together, he was never treated that way before, not even from Silva, so he kind of wanting to feel like that again if he somehow meet with Yoh again.

He didn't know what the feeling he felt when he was around Yoh called, but he certainly liked it, and the idea of not being able to feel the same feeling again made the pressure in his chest heavier and his chest felt so tight that he gripped the handle of his door tightly until his knuckles turned white.

"Hao?" Hao blinked his eyes before looking at Silva with the same expressionless face like always.

"Yes?" Hao asked tonelessly.

"Something make you sad?" Silva asked with a frown on his face.

Hao blinked again, "Sad?" he asked, he didn't understand what Silva meant by sad, "What is it?".

Silva sighed softly as he bent down a bit so he was in the same height as Hao, "Sad is a feeling when you feel like your chest tightened when you thinking or remember something that not happy, happy is the counter of sad." He smiled at Hao, "Do you happen to feel like that?".

Hao nodded, "Yes, but I don't understand why." He said softly with a bit of confusion in his tone, but he didn't look at Silva, he looked at his hand which still on the door's handle. He then opened the door and stepped to his room, he closed the door behind him before he flopped down to his bed.

Why? He thought with the same feeling in his chest, Sad . . . sadness . . . Why do I feel sad when I think about Yoh? Why? With his chest still heavy and tight, he closed his eyes and went to dreamless sleep.

Yoh growled as he stared at his laptop's screen, he had been searching for information about Marco in the black market but didn't find anything, it's like Marco was really cautious so that people from the back street didn't know about his dark secret.

Yoh glanced at the last week newspaper beside his laptop's keyboard, there's a news about someone murdered in the hotel near Tokyo Mall, the day he met with Liam. Many guessed that Marco was the one who did it, but he has an alibi during the time the man get killed, so the Police said that he's clear even though he has the motive. Marco definitely hired someone to kill Radim, he thought in anger and annoyance, or he made up his alibi and pay someone to play along with him.

It's not a secret that Marco had been in bad term with Radim, Radim was a well known journalist who was brave enough to expose the dark side of the world regarding of the risk. Radim had just reporting of Jeanne Angelus, a famous female Pianist, having an argument with Marco about who will become her fiance and Marco slapped Jeanne in rage, that kind of news will surely causing Marco to be in rage since his Good Nature Facade get cracked because people seeing him hitting his own daughter.

But now Yoh met with a block on his way, the black market didn't find any information about Marco, if he ask around then Marco would be suspicious of him, it's not an option then. Only one way left. Yoh thought as he pulled out his mobile phone that was for The Silent Hunter.

"Ren." A green haired woman called out as she walked through the hallway of a huge Chinese Mansion which stood tall in the whole Hong Kong, the tallest even. She reached a handle to a room and turned it, "Ren?" she asked as she opened the door for a bit and take a look.

"In here, Big Sister." A deep voice answered from a room before a young man with a one spiked purple hair and golden eyes stepped out from the room, he was wearing a pair of Chinese long pants and a towel draped around his shoulder.

The woman smiled at Ren, "The dinner is ready." She said warmly.

Ren nodded and went to his wardrobe when his mobile phone rang, he looked at the phone from behind his shoulder before pulling his pajama. He wore the pajama before reaching his phone to see that he received a text message from an unknown number, he raised an eyebrow before opening the message.

Ren, I need your help to get me information about Marco Angelus. I couldn't get his information from the Black Market, so I can only asked you to help me to hack his database and get me every information from there as fast as possible. Thank you.

TSH

Ren whistled when he finished reading the message, he saved the number under the name of TSH before answering the message.

Understood, I will send you the information as soon as I get them. You owe me though, so be prepared to have a spar with me the next time we meet again, TSH.

"Jun, can you get my dinner here? I need to do something, fast." Ren said as he looked at his Big Sister, he then walked to his laptop and start working.

"Who was that?" Jun asked with a confused expression, "And what do you need to do in a hurry like that?".

Ren looked up from his laptop and smirked at Jun, "TSH." He answered, he know who was the TSH, it's stand for The Silent Hunter after all, so he know right away that the message was from Asakura Yoh, his rival. "He need my help to hack Marco's database".

Jun raised an eyebrow at that, she also know who was TSH so she know what kind of information that her Little Brother need to get from Marco's database, the question is, why does The Silent Hunter need that? She shrugged, "Okay." She said before went to the Dinning Room.

Yoh walked through the back street with thoughtful expression, he had received the information from Ren, but what he had heard was not something that he had been expected from his Hacker friend.

Yoh focused his eyes on the street when he heard a gasp, a young man with an afro was standing not far from him wearing an all black clothes, the man stepped backwards when Yoh stepped forward to the man.

"Chocolove, I didn't come here to arrest you." Yoh said as he raised both hands to show that he didn't carrying any weapon.

The man that called Chocolove looked at Yoh uncertainly, "What a Bounty Hunter like you come to a well known Thief like me if not to arrest me?" he asked suspiciously.

Yoh's eyes dulled as he remembered what Ren had told him.

**Flashback**

Yoh reached his phone for The Silent Hunter before answering the call, "Wow, Ren, so fast." He said cheerfully.

"Don't be so cheerful, TSH." Ren's voice answered, causing Yoh to frown upon hearing the anxiety in his voice.

"Why?" Yoh asked in confusion.

"I couldn't get much information from Marco's database, what little information I can get you was that he had paid some scientists to make an experiment secretly. The experiment was to make a living weapon that was very deadly, I don't know if the weapon was human or animal, but they will surely be very dangerous." Ren explained in growling voice.

"Living weapon?" Yoh asked in disbelief, how come there's even a human who was so heartless to make that kind of experiment?

"Yes, the scientists made some medicine or something to make a body become stronger. Not only that the medicine was so risky, but there's also the fact that Marco tried them with so many human and animal to test the medicine, and so many had died in the process due to incompatibility with the medicine before one experiment succeed." Ren explained further, "Do you want me to get more information about it?".

"No, it's alright." Yoh said with a cold voice, "Just sent me all that data so I can put him to jail".

"Alright, I will send it via express mail." Ren answered, "Be careful, that living weapon surely had been brainwashed by Marco, you can get killed if you lower your guard, Silent Hunter".

"I know, I will be careful." Yoh answered before he ended the call.

**End of Flashback**

Yoh looked at Chocolove with a smirk, "I came here to ask for your assistance." He answered confidently.

To be continued . . .

Froim : That's it for the 4th chapter, please review ^ ^