Cyborg 009 Fan Fiction ❯ Bullet in the Dark ❯ Lighter Heart ( Chapter 5 )

Disclaimer: No, I don't own the Cyborgs. I just like messing with their minds.

Bullet in the Dark

Chapter 5: Lighter Heart

Author's Note:

There's really not much to say, but oh well. Yes, now you know whom the man in the dark was: Scarl. His last name, Kugaikotsu, is the Japanese word for skull. Kind of cool, huh? Hope you enjoy this chapter!

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The two stood in almost companionable silence, none of them talking.

Françoise quickly finished the Danish and was sipping her coffee. She wanted to start a conversation, but she could find of anything to say.

Finally, she gave up, and said simply, "Why didn't you kill me? For real?"

He glanced at her lazily, like a cat on the prowl. He shrugged, not saying anything.

She sighed, feeling a tad exasperated. "Please… Tell me…"

He rolled his eyes at her. "Are you always so annoying?" he asked.

"Annoying?" she squawked. "Annoying? I was the one who you wanted to murder in cold blood!"

"And you're the one who wanted me to do it," he said simply. He could feel her anger rising, which amused him to almost no end.

"And you didn't!"

"You know, you look cute when you're mad," he said.

Françoise stepped back, blush rising to her cheeks like a flaming sunset. "Y-you, you -- jerk!" She turned and stomped back into the condo.

This time, he truly did laugh. He wasn't stupid; he knew how to flatter a girl so she would shut up.

Suddenly, he stopped.

He had laughed.

Laughed like he was happy, and not because he wanted to piss someone off.

Well, he did. Just a tat bit, that is.

So what was it? That strange, strange emotion that he felt when Françoise was around him?

It wasn't an emotion that he was used to, if you counted bloodlust as an emotion.

What was happening to him?

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His face was contorted in total fury, his eyes burning into the three men in front of him.

"What do you mean, you have no idea where she is? I know you have her!" he hissed.

"We don't know where she is," Shiva said. He was, unlike the man, extremely calm.

His brother followed his comment. "And if we did, why would be tell you?"

"Unless you pay us," the last man said, finishing up.

Scarl glared at the group. "Expect to hear from me," he growled before sweeping his cape and walking away.

"Of course we will," the three brothers said, long after he left. "Of course we will."

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009 walked out of the condo, dressed in black, cape sweeping behind him, leaving for 'work'.

The girl, he knew, was in his bedroom.

He didn't care about what she did, as long as she didn't kill herself.

He knew she would try to escape.

Why was he still keeping her?

Like a caged bird, would she still sing?

What did he care?

His dark eyes were intent on the ground as he walked to the tall building so familiar to him.

In almost no time, he arrived.

He felt himself go almost instantly emotionless --could he do that?-- like a wooden statue.

He walked into the elevator, pressing the key to the 18th floor.

A dark lobby was what he saw, a man in the dark waiting for him.

"009," he said, acknowledging him. Like his own, it was emotionless.

"Sir."

Not to waste any time, the man said bluntly, "You didn't kill Arnoul's daughter last night."

He remained passive, like the stone his heart had become, hardening over the years like a fossil.

"Our sources say you have her right now."

Nothing.

"Why?"

Like a stone… like a stone.

The words ran through his head like a mantra, forever repeating, etching it into his brain.

Before he could even think about answering, the man continued.

"Are you too lonely, is that it? Or maybe you want some more female companionship. What is it, 009?"

"None of those." The words flew out like arrows, sharp and precise.

"Then why?"

Silence surrounded the air around them like snakes, squeezing him until he wouldn't breathe, and he wanted to gasp for air and beg for mercy, and-

"You can keep her."

The warmth of relief wrapped encircled him.

But what was he so tense about anyway?

He already knew they would say so, so why…?

"You can keep her as long as she isn't found."

"Thank you, Sir."

"Now that that is over, about your mission today…"

He was once more quiescent and alert.

"A young boy, heir to the Fujiwara fortune. He was just found by his father, who was childless until now. Before, the fortune would have gone to us. Now, however, he might be named the new heir. He must be killed. No more mistakes, understand 009?"

"Yes Sir."

"His file will be sent."

A phrase he has heard so often. A death warrant, by all means.

"You may go."

"Yes Sir."

He left, heart feeling perhaps a bit lighter than before.

But what would the girl say when she found out?

What would she do…?

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Françoise walked to the balcony.

Her kidnapper, the man she still had no name for, had left earlier.

Where was he?

Why was she so worried, anyway?

He was the man that was about to kill her without a second glance, so why was she feeling things she shouldn't for him?

She was too tenderhearted, her father had told her when she was younger, and cried when she found a dead bird.

But what did her heart have to do with anything?

She should be running, screaming, yelling, asking the gods for an answer.

No. Why. Who. Yes. Please.

A breeze froze her back.

The door slammed shut.

He was home.

Her kidnapper, her angel…

A savoir.

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Finally done! This was a really hard chapter to write, because I didn't know how to write it, not to mention it wasn't dark. I was too bubbly. BAD! Please give some support!

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