Weiss Kreuz Fan Fiction ❯ Flammentanzer ❯ Chapter 3 ( Chapter 3 )

Disclaimer: Hmm.. the usual.. that this characters does not belong to me…(if they were belong to me.. I would be the target of yaoi fangirls assassin^.^) Weiss and Schwarz and all characters that related to them belong to Project Weiss and the story is just fictional..

Pairing: when the time comes…

Again this is a very-very OOC and AU story… thanks to my beta readers for this fiction, thank you very much for your comments and grammar review^^

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Chapter 3 -

Concentrate On What Cannot Lies

CSI

Yohji bolted awake, panic and fear painted his pale face … his hands were suddenly cold and his palms were sweating…

They had found them…

His eyes shot frantically around him, his heartbeat quickened sending jolts of pain to his brain. He tried to think what he should do. There are so many people… no… no if they had surrounded the bus and he tried something... Innocents lives will be at stake … There is nowhere he and Ran could run… No escape… Not in this place he didn't even know where he was…His head was thudding again … Nastier than before… He had nearly lost his hope when suddenly he saw a sign…. Flickering lazily..

REST AREA

He let out a sigh of relief.

How long had they been on the bus? He looked at the watch…{they had been in the bus for 2 hours… where are we now and where are They??} He didn't know if the black suit men got the bus registration number or the bus's destination… may be they didn't… may be they did… but I'm not taking any chances... not again… He forgot that they were not normal, that was why Ken got caught…

He turned to look at Ran, who was still sleeping. He hoped that Ran had gotten enough rest, even though it probably was not enough. They couldn't stay on this bus... They had to go... The sleeping redhead was covered completely under Yohji's big coat. The only thing that Yohji saw was the fluff of his red hair. He smiled and removed the coat slowly.

"Ran, wake up…. we need to go "

"Hmm?" his eyelids fluttered, he brushed his eyes and look at Yohji. "Where are we?"

"I don't know Ran…I wish I knew… but we just have to go"

Ran stretched himself… "I'm hungry…"

Yohji put his hand in his back pocket of his jeans and fished out a few yens… he looked at the cash he had in his hand…they are getting dried….{just enough to buy some food and drink for tonight} he thought… he looked again at Ran who was now looking outside the window. "Can you walk?"

"Yeah…. But I'm starving." His stomach growled involuntarily and his face flushed.

"Okay, let see what they have in the rest area… we had to continue walking and then we have to hide."

"Would things ever back to normal, Yohji?"

Yohji sighed… "Everything will be alright… Ran. Everything will be all right… This I promise you" He hardly even looked at him, afraid that what he said might accidentally would hurt… God, it hurt him already… knowing the uncertainty of their lives, and here he is giving a promise that he did not know whether he could keep it.

A false hope…

{Yohji! never promise things that you never meant to keep.} He remembered Ken who had scolded him for breaking his date with Asuka for dinner. He had cancelled it, and now he couldn't remember exactly why he cancelled it.

Asuka… His mind was wondering at that girl that he used to date.

Her body was found mutilated one mile away from the college, the police found her naked body in a meditating position, her breast was cut off and wrapped in a sheer plastic. Both of her hands were nailed at the tree. Her hair had been shaved thoroughly and the killer had even scalped her skin. Exposing part of her skull bone, a gruesome sight to see, the police who saw the body had vomited. They found hundreds of punctured wounds and lacerations on her body and there at her thigh was carved boldly in capital words: SINNER….

The police had classified it as sexual psychopath killer.

Thinking about that again, Yohji was not sure whether Asuka was really a psychopath's victim or if they made it look like that. No witnesses, no fingerprints, nothing.

One after one, accidents happened to their friends. Ken's friend and his soccer mate, Kase was found crushed under a big tree while he was on his way for a soccer practice.

Sakura; Ran's only `girlfriend' was found drowned in the river. They said it was suicide. It took 3 hours for the police to fish her out.

Then, their parents…

The report said that Yohji's parents had blood alcohol Content of 0.3, with a gun shot wounds in their chest.. The police ruled it as robbery gone wrong. They were drunk, the robbers dashed in, they tried to fight in their drunken state and were shot. Case closed.

Ken parents killed in an elevator crash… killing all passengers in it. It was reported that the elevator cable was rusty and it broke. The temporary elevator maintenance people who worked on that day shift had disappeared.

Ran's parents… the car was found in the ravine, burned. Three bodies were found burnt beyond recognition. Apparently the break failed to function on the steep slope. They had hit a tree trying to stop the car and it skidded tumbling down into the ravine and explode.

All were ruled as accidents, now ain't that funny? Still no witnesses and no arrest had been made, it was unexplained.

All closest to them had been erased, it would be easy to erase them from the face of earth too,. nobody would care, nobody would know, they would be totally at their mercy.

Yohji shook his head from the thinking, no point hurting my head on this. It has been done, nothing can bring any of them back. Not even bloody tears. What matters now is his current situation and who he can talk to…

"Let's go then."

"How's your head?" Ran got up from his seat and took Yohji's hand.

"Never mind that. I want you to stay out of sight while I buy us some food. They might look for us here and you would be recognized too easily." Ran nodded and they both went down from the bus, eyes weary to their surroundings. It was dark, Yohji knew they were in the middle of a highway. "Stay behind the bus." Yohji started to move when he felt Ran's finger tightening over his. "Don't worry. I'll be back soon."

Yohji walked cautiously to one of the restaurants in the rest area. He saw a pretty young girl behind the counter looking clinically depressed, as if serving customers were her harsh penance. Taking with him a few buns and a large bottle of mineral water at the freezer next to it, he headed toward the cashier.

"That's 352* Yen" He fished out the money and put it at the counter..

"Excuse me…" he said to the girl. "Do you know where the nearest town is?"

The girl watched him curiously. "Not that far, why?"

He had to be careful in answering the question. "Oh, you see, it was like this. My friend called me to come and visit him and instead of taking train, I thought of driving. You know, enjoying countryside and silly me, I forgot to fill up gas and now I am stranded. My car is just over there." Yohji pointed his fingers in a random direction… "So, I had to find the nearest gas station"

"Oh, no problem. It is not that far away, about 2 miles from here. If you had to walk, behind this restaurant there is a deserted park. After the park, cross the road and there will be small town, but I advise you to go in the morning-the park is really dark"

{That would be good place for temporary hiding until morning} he thanked the girl and quickly leave the restaurant. He could feel that the girl's eyes were still on him probably wondering what a young man like him was doing out driving in the middle of nowhere visiting his friend during school term… what a lame lie.

Ran was squatting behind the bus and he heard footsteps approaching him, he jumped up when he saw Yohji.

"We will hide in the park. There is a town not far away, so we go there in the morning. We need cash, Ran." He handed over the bun to Ran and took his other hand and started to move towards the park. He knew it would be dangerous for them to be in a town but without cash, they couldn't do anything. People without money in Japan would disappear. He had an idea where to go now, after his head had stopped throbbing. But to go there they need money.

They were walking hand in hand in the dark and a few times Yohji had to catch Ran who stumbled on a fallen branch. Yohji led Ran far into the park and from people's sight. He spotted a shady tree with lots of fallen leaves underneath.

"We can rest here" Yohji sat down under the tree and took out the bun from the plastic bag and started eating. They sat there in silence, Ran leaned against him. "Are you sleepy?"

"Uhn... mm"

"Go ahead and sleep…"

"It's too cold"

Yohji took out the blanket he had taken from the bus and spread it out on the leaves. He lay down pulling Ran close to him, and extended his arm as a pillow… He pulled his big out coat and covered them both, Ran snuggled against him.

"Warm enough?"

"Uhuh"

Ran felt content with the warmth that Yohji's body had offered him and closed his eyes, feeling safe.

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Yohji woke up the next morning, watching Ran sleeping peacefully beside him. Curled himself and covered fully underneath the big jacket.

Yohji shook his head… Figures Ran would steal the jacket all to himself while he was sleeping.

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They walked through the park and as the girl at the counter described, they entered a town. It was not as big as town near modern cities and not as quiet as a ghost town neither.

`Ching'

Yohji entered one of the town computer shops; trying as best he could to be presentable as a potential customer pretending to buy something. He scouted around to see there was only one customer in the shop. And he was was listening intently to the explanation given by the salesman.

He walked straight to the cashier who was quite an elderly man, acting to be interested in purchasing some software. While he was talking with the man at the cashier on which software is recommended to what kind of application, the door bell gave another cling chime which means another customer had entered- the shop had only 2 sales staff, one may be 15 years old and one of who is busily trying to convince another customer into buying their PCs were most probably 24 years old, give or take. Their faces looked similar - a family business maybe.

The new customer who just entered was asking for a PC with the Windows application and he was ushered straight to the last PC at the corner of the shop by the young sales assistant.

The new customer sat down and started clicking the start button on one of the computers. He clicked it again and again and again. After clicking it for about 10 minutes, he had called for the staff declaring that the computer is not working.

"Your start button is broken"

The staff looked questioningly at the new customer "This is a new PC, sir - I assure you that there is nothing wrong with the start button"

"No! no! it's not working" the customer insisted and started clicking the button over and over again.

Yohji gazed at the customer with interest and turned his attention back to the cashier who was looking rather disturbed and most probably annoyed with the costumer that was complaining that something was wrong in his shop.

The customer that was on the PC still insisted that the start button was broken. The older assistant and his customer had come over to the man at the PC wanted to know what was wrong. When he noticed that the younger sales man sweat dropped.

While both of the salesman were distracted with the stubborn customer, Yohji turned to the cashier, rubbing his lower lips with his upper teeth, pushing the elder man's mind slightly, make believe that he had done with his purchased and waiting for a change.

"My change, please" He pushed harder and his head gave him a slight thud. The elder nodded and open the cash drawer, handed him the change.

Yohji thanked him and walked towards the door, glancing at the customer. When he was going to step out from the shop he heard the customer shout.

"Black Magic!! You all use black magic!!"

The customer quickly grabbed a sheet of paper, and drew an Apple logo on it. He held it up and shouted: "CURSED DEMONS OF THE DARK, BEGONE!!!!!"

and he was thrown out from the shop

Yohji waited 3 meters away from the shop, leaning against the pillar, smoking. When he saw the customer "Convincing"

"Thank you," the redhead customer grinned. "Now what?"

"I need a bath badly."

"Yeah-me too and a shirt." Ran smelled his shirt and grimaced at Yohji.

While both of them found something to wear and checked themselves in the room in the town, two men in a blue Subaru car were talking to the girl at the rest area counter. They showed 2 photographs; one of a tall blond hair man and another of a slightly shorter redhead, asking whether she had seen the two young man in the picture.

The girl examined the picture and shook his head at redhead picture-she look again at the picture of a young man with a blond hair, pondering for a moment, trying to remember something- and pointed her finger towards the town.

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AN:

*I don't know how much a bun and mineral water cost in Japan. In my country, a bun would cost 1.50 each and a big bottle of mineral water is 2.00, therefore I converted it to Yen based on the published rate by our national bank ^^ In Japan.. do they have rest area?? We do .. so basically for the sake of plot… I used it… don't thrash me ne….

Oh… I hope I don't go too far on the death description above… thank or blame Legato and Knives from Trigun (borrowed muse from Pandora^^) for that… after all they were watching CSI with me ^__^

And yeah! I am not letting the bad man caught Yohji and Ran easily, so I let them wondering around first. I have a showdown in mind for that scene *grin*