Chapter 5

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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

Clash!

"Hey, you." Silva stopped in his track to his room when he heard Marco's voice, he turned to the man and bowed lightly, he never like to bow to the man, "Where is Hao?".

Another order to kill someone, Silva sighed in his head, "He is in his room, Sir." He replied with a fake politeness, he really hate his current mission, forcing him to bow low to his enemy like that.

"Go and get him." Was the short order from Marco before the man walking away to his office.

Yup, another killing. Silva thought with a grimace, a night time was the most suitable time to kill someone, it's a basic knowledge as an FBI. He sighed before changing his course and heading to Hao's room, he didn't want to, since if he get the boy then it's mean the boy will have to kill someone again. That's disturbed him so much, because not only the boy was still 13, but he also reminded him of Yoh, his nephew.

But an order is an order, if he didn't get the boy then he will be punished by Marco. He shuddered when he thought of the possibility of him being punished, by punished it's mean tortured, since the Mayor of Maine really like to torture someone so much behind the people's back. Silva sighed again when he arrived in front of Hao's room, before he even had the chance to knock the door though, the door already opened.

"Something wrong, Silva?" Hao asked as he opened the door more for him to walk out of his room, he was wearing a simple white t-shirt and red trousers with a converse shoes on.

Silva raised an eyebrow, "You planned to go somewhere?" he asked in surprise to see the boy had been ready to go.

Hao looked at Silva with the same expressionless face, "Yes, I planned to go buy a new dagger, the last one broken because the man I killed last time shot it with his gun." He said like it was no big deal, just like any other times, but Silva caught a bit of bitterness this time.

Silva sighed again, how many times he had sighed that day? "Here." He said as he handed the boy his own dagger, "Marco called you, he is in his office".

Hao nodded as he accepted the dagger and slipped it in his belt, "Thank you." He said tonelessly to Silva before walking to the direction where Marco's office is.

Silva shook his head, he pitying the boy so much. So young but already killed so many people, he thought sadly as he watched Hao's retreating back silently, he shook his head again before walking to his own room's direction.

When he walked through an empty hallway though, a hand grabbed him from behind and another covered his mouth to muffled his voice. "Sshhh." Was his attacker's whisper.

Hao was walking to Marco's office, it was a normal routine for him to got to Marco's office in the middle of the night, but he somehow felt like something will be different that day. Not different in a good way, but in an awful way.

"You called me, Master?" He asked after he knocked the door and Marco asked who it was.

"Yes." Marco answered shortly before the door opened and Marco stepped out of the room, "There's a mouse entering my Mansion." He said with disgust in his face before he throw a cloak to Hao, "We will kill him".

"We, Master?" Hao asked in a bit of surprise and confusion as he wear his 'working' cloak, it's rare that he had to kill together will Marco, "Is he strong?".

Marco nodded as he walked to his Garden's direction, "I received a challenge latter from a Bounty Hunter under the initial of TSH, he daring me to go to the Garden unless I'm to scared to face him." He looked at Hao with an evil smirk, "I will let him know that his action was foolish, you will fight him and kill him." he looked ahead again, "TSH will become only name soon".

"Master, if you don't mind me asking, who is this TSH?" Hao asked tonelessly again, even though he somehow get a bad feeling about it, and true enough, Marco's answer make his blood turn cold.

"The Silent Hunter . . . Asakura Yoh."

"Sshhh." Yoh shushed before he turned Silva around so his Uncle can see him, he chuckled silently when Silva's eyes widened as big as a saucer and his jaw dropped to the floor. "Hello there, Uncle." He said in whisper.

Yoh's face was hidden behind a fox mask, but the fact that he was wearing a black leather boots, a black leather pants, a white short sleeves shirt and a black overcoat itself already revealing who he was.

Silva snapped out of his shock and hissed, "You moron! What if someone see you? You could get killed!".

Yoh merely smiled, "I came here only to warn you to get out as soon as you can, I challenge Marco to face me in the garden." He whispered beside Silva's ear before walking passed the man and heading to the window.

"Yoh! You moron!" Yoh heard Silva's hushed yell before he jumped out of the window that was right above the garden.

Yoh checked his weapon as he wait for Marco to come, a pair of dart guns and a pair of daggers, they were his most reliable weapons. He can move fast with daggers, not that there's still people who use a Katana in the modern times aside from old Yakuza family, and he was in Maine at the moment so the chance to meet a Yakuza is zero. Yoh was known as The Silent Hunter, so he use dart guns instead of normal guns, normal guns will make a loud noise except if he use a silencer, dart guns didn't make a single sound whether he use silencer or not.

"Am I making you wait for long, Asakura Yoh?" Marco's voice make his head shot up to the man's direction.

Impossible, Yoh thought as he looked at Marco in shock, he know that he wear a fox mask to hide his face and to let people know that he was The Silent Hunter, so how in the world Marco know his real identity?

"Surprised that I know your real identity?" Marco asked with a sneer, "Don't be, since my intelligent network is very reliable, I know right away after I did some research earlier".

Yoh straightened his posture before turned to fully facing the man, "I heard that you create a Living Weapon through an experiment that killed many people in the process." He said calmly, "Is it an animal? Or a human?".

Marco smirked at him, "You want to meet my Secret Weapon?" he asked confidently, "Then you can meet him, with your life as the cost".

Yoh's eyes narrowed before a cloaked figure come out from behind Marco's back and running to him with a speed that was not normal, no matter how long someone trained themselves, it's impossible to move that fast.

Not wanting to risked it, Yoh pulled out his two daggers and held them in each hand before also running to the cloaked figure, when they get close with each other, Yoh swung his dagger at the same time as the cloaked figure, causing their daggers to clash.

So strong! Yoh gasped when his hand trembled in effort to held the cloaked figure in place, he gritted his teeth and swung his other dagger and effectively making the cloaked figure jumped backward to avoided the attack. But Yoh didn't stop, he run to the figure and swung his leg at the figure just as the figure landed. The attack was unavoidable, but Yoh had to jumped backward right away since the figure managed to prevent his fall by placing both hands on the ground and attacked Yoh right away by swinging his legs like a rap dancer.

Yoh landed and went to his battle stance right away, but then he gasped as soon as the figure get to his stance. Not that their stance was strange or anything, but because the figure's hood removed by his earlier action, revealing a boy with a long reddish dark brown hair. "Hao?" Yoh asked in disbelief and shock, the boy looked up and Yoh can see his eyes was filled with pain and sadness.

Hao gritted his teeth, he never hate Marco so much before, but he definitely hate the man for making him fighting with Yoh, and possibly killing the young man that was so kind to him when he was . . . lost.

Yes, he was lost, really lost when he met Yoh that day, not because he was separated from Marco, no, he was lost in his heart. The day before he met Yoh, he killed a young girl that was innocent, the girl didn't do anything wrong against Marco, it's the girl's parents that was against Marco. He felt like he was lost that day, he know he was a killing doll that only need to listen to Marco, but the girl didn't do anything wrong, so why he need to kill the girl? He was not understanding what was spinning in his head that day, so he purposefully asking to go to the toilet, that way, he can get more time before he killed his next victim. That's when he met Yoh, and for the first time in his whole life, Hao felt like he didn't have to care about the world.

Safe . . . Hao thought as the word registered to his mind, That's right, I felt safe around Yoh, that I can be . . . happy, yes, happy. Hao felt something wet flowing from his eyes, he didn't understand what happened to him, but he know that he didn't want to kill Yoh. The only person that he can felt safe to be around with, the one person that can make him happy just by being near him, he didn't want to kill him, never.

Yoh stared at Hao in sadness, the boy was crying, that's mean the boy didn't want to attack him at all. He glared at Marco, "Monster." He spat out loud, but only earning a laugh as an answer.

"You were the one who want to know my Secret Weapon." Marco said mockingly before crossing his arms, "And you can see now, my Secret Weapon, Hao." He smirked, "Enough with the talking, kill him, Hao".

Hao gripped his dagger tighter, "I'm sorry." He whispered to Yoh, he didn't know what is there to apologize for, he didn't understand many things after all, but he felt the need to say that one word before he lunged and aiming to stab his dagger into Yoh's heart for instant death, he didn't want for Yoh to be in pain in he had to kill the man.

Yoh's eyes focused back to Hao, with the boy's speed and power, he know he couldn't win, and he didn't want to attack the boy. So he can only do one thing, he slipped his daggers back in his belt and quickly maneuvered the boy's hand away from his heart's direction, he felt a bit of pain when the dagger grazed his left chest, but he ignored it in favor to kicked Hao away from him.

Yoh jumped back as soon as he kicked Hao, he pulled something from his overcoat and throw it to the space between him and Hao, causing an explosion that shaken the land of the mansion and the houses nearby, he never expected for the explosion of smoke bomb to be that big.

To be continued . . .

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