Weiss Kreuz Fan Fiction ❯ a few drinks in Aya ❯ Chapter 29

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29


Aya hadn’t really thought over the details too much. He wasn’t planning a place to sleep or food. He was planning for his enemy to come and get him before any of those things became an issue.

Of course Knight following him was beginning to piss him off, too. If Knight knew where he was then so did everyone that he was trying to protect. Why couldn’t that bastard leave it alone?

Aya slammed his hand on the steering wheel with frustration. How was he going to lose Knight? The man was swerving in and out of traffic as fast as he was. Asshole!

Aya pulled over onto the side of the road. The only way to lose Knight was to get out of the car and lose him on foot. He grabbed his sword and picked a street with few parking spaces and slammed into one of them.

He locked his car door and took off in a sprint down the street. If Knight wanted to follow him he was going to have to find a parking spot first. That would give Aya a bit of time to disappear.

Aya picked a shopping mall to run into. There were exits everywhere. Knight would have to guess which one he was going to go out.

Aya wasn’t going to leave, though. He was going to hide out in one of the stores until he was sure Knight was gone. Knight would never suspect that, knowing how much Aya hated crowded places.

“Damn, boy, you’re hot,” a man said as Aya passed him inside a clothing store. He was glad he had the sword hidden in his coat. He sure as hell didn’t want anyone to kick him out.

“Go away,” Aya said, barely looking at the man.

“Now now, don’t be that way. I’m just being friendly.”

“I don’t need any friends!” Aya hissed, turning to look at the man. He froze. It was that boy. They’d found him already?

“Dangerous things come in pretty packages, now don’t they?” the boy teased, grinning wickedly at him.

Aya glared at him, calculating how much time he had to kill the boy and make a break for it before anyone even noticed the kid was dead.

“Now there’s the look I never expected. Is that the look you had on your face when you killed my brother? I’ll bet it is. Every time I imagined his death I imagined you smiling-well, more of a shadow with a grin. But this is the look, isn’t it? I’ll have to burn it into my memory.”

“You won’t have time for that,” Aya growled, stalking toward the boy, who grinned as he backed up. The boy had his eyes only on Aya, not on his surroundings. That was going to work in his favour. He backed the boy up toward the unguarded fitting rooms.

Before the boy could even yelp Aya shoved him into the room, whipped out his sword and slashed the boy’s throat.

“Sorry about your brother,” Aya said as the boy choked on his own blood. “If I had known I would’ve tried to spare him.” he meant it, too. He hadn’t been there to kill the boy’s little brother, he’d been there to kill a rich murderer who had gotten away without so much as a slap on the wrist because he’d paid off the judge.

Aya wiped his sword clean on the boy’s shirt and hid it back under his clothes. Aya looked in the mirror, cleaning the small spatter of blood off his jacket and face.

Aya left the store and slid back into the crowd. He could see Knight checking the stores. Apparently the man knew him better than he realized.

Knight turned and their eyes met. Shit! Aya kept walking. He knew that if Knight was here then Yohji was on his way. He couldn’t handle that!

Aya quickened his pace. It wasn’t like he could by some clothes and change, because not only was Knight following close behind, but he wouldn’t have anywhere to hide his sword.

“What are you trying to accomplish? What can you gain other than death? Or is that what you’re looking for?” Knight asked, grabbing his wrist.

“I’m trying to protect them! I can do this on my own! I already took one down!” Aya hissed quietly at him.

“They’re your team! So move as a team! Stop thinking about your relationships with them and treat this like a mission!” Knight looked like he was ready to fight right there and then.

“I don’t want them targeted because I did something wrong. I have to take responsibility for my own actions! Isn’t that how you do things? Or have all those lectures been hypocrisy?” Knight paused. Aya knew he had him with that remark.

“Okay, fine. But you’re not going it alone. I’ll take responsibility for leading your team away, but only if you allow me to accompany you. I’ll tell them I lost you.” Aya raised an eyebrow at that. Knight felt it was his duty to fight by Aya’s side, so he would treat this like a mission and treat Weiss like innocent bystanders. He would do that for me? That struck Aya as odd. Aya shoved a teenage girl out of his way. Why the hell do people do a dead stop in the middle of an aisle when they’re shopping?

“Why do you care?” Aya asked suspiciously. Knight was hiding something from him and he wanted to know what the hell it was! Now!

“You are so naïve, Aya. Did you never guess how I felt about you? I know nothing will never come of it. You’ve found someone already and I’m happy for you. But just because I can’t have you doesn’t mean I’ll let you die.” Knight said it with as much conviction as he said anything they ever argued about.

Aya didn’t know what to say to that. Of course he’d guessed. Even though all they did was argue and bitch at each other over every single moral dilemma- Knight didn’t like the way Aya did things. Knight had an honour code, something Aya didn’t give a damn about. Aya could admit that he loved aggravating the man, but other than that there was never anything between them other than teammates. Knight had tried to kiss him once and Aya had punched him. He’d liked the other members, but it was nothing like his love for Weiss. He’d thought Knight wanted a plaything. Apparently he’d been as wrong about Knight as he had about Yohji in the beginning.

“I know, imagine my surprise when I saw you in his arms. I suppose I was a bit jealous, but to see a warm look on your face, that was a priceless moment for me.”

“You talk too much,” Aya reached over and gave him a light shove.

“Get them off my trail and you can do whatever the hell you want. I’ll meet you outside.”

“I don’t believe you. You’ll run the second you get the chance,” Knight snorted.

Aya glared at him and walked out the doors.

He watched Knight out of the corner of his eye as the man called Pawn and told him that he’d lost Aya’s trail.

He exhaled a sigh of relief. Yohji would be safe.