Weiss Kreuz Fan Fiction ❯ To destroy the one you love ❯ Foolish Games ( Chapter 10 )

To Destroy the One You Love

Chapter 10: Foolish Games

Pairing: Yohji/Aya; Schuldig/Yohji (one sided)

Rated: Pg13-ish (For swearing and sexual references. R+ rated for later chapters)

Warnings: Strongly implied yaoi and a swear word or two >_>;

Legal stuff: Well... I think it's obvious but I'll state it anyway. I don’t own them! Please don't sue me? I'm poor... seriously...>_>;;

Author notes: Hey everyone! I'm sorry that the time between posting of chapters has gotten lengthier. I guess things have just gotten really busy for me lately and I've found it hard to find time to write and post this story. It's really no good >.< but I’m working on improving the situation. Anyway…

On the plus side, I got to go to a convention this last weekend and guess who I cosplayed as? I'll give you a hint... his name starts with a "Y" and ends in an "ohji". But what's better than that is the OTHER Weiss Kreuz cosplayer I ran into while there. Can you guess who they were playing? AYA! BUWAHAH! Needless to say, fan-service pictures were necessary... wanna see them? X3

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Frustration was simply too mild of a word for the feeling Schuldig had been suffering over the last few days. Time was running out and this little kitten wasn't bending the way he wanted him to. The captive idiot was refusing anything the German handed him and THAT did not bode well for either party. Curse those Kritiker brats and their stubborn ways. Everything would be so much easier if Yohji would just give in or if he could just... if he would just...

"Check mate."

...give in to his desperation and fuck with Balinese's mind already.

"You're kidding." Schuldig blinked at the black and white board in front of him. Check mate again? What the hell? He wasn't the best at chess but he was certainly better than THIS. He never lost three games in a row, not even to Brad! Then again, he never played three games in a row with Brad.

"You're not paying attention." Yohji leaned back against the headboard of his temporary bed, smiling faintly while exhaling a breath of cigarette smoke. "Your mind is..." The man drew a circle with one finger in the space above his head, "Elsewhere."

"No shit huh?" Schuldig laughed, a grin slowly forming on his lips. You really didn't have to be a mind reader to know that sort of thing but it always caught him off guard when someone called it accurately on him. He knew he was distracted but he must have been really distracted if Balinese could wipe the chess board with his ass three times in a row and then go on to tell him exactly how distracted he really was.

"What has you so captivated that you can't concentrate on a stupid game?" It was odd, having a normal conversation with your enemy like this. Like you were old pals and not strangers on opposing sides of morality.

"First of all, this game took me six months to figure out so don't start calling it stupid. And second, If I told you what I was thinking, I'd have to kill you."

Yohji's face fell a little, "Oh." Well, there went the idea "normal conversation".

"Mien Gott, I'm kidding. I swear you Weiss kitties don't know how to take a joke." The redhead berated his companion with a smile, leaning back away from the game board and observing the younger man in his presence. "So serious all the time."

Another drag was pulled from the burning cigarette before a hand drifted lazily through honey colored hair. He was allowed to take a shower that morning and damn did it feel good. Since the accident, he had been feeling rather disgusting and by some of Schuldig's reaction to his person, he probably smelt as bad as he felt.

"Not really, I think you just have that sort of effect on people. I never know whether to take you seriously or not."

Schuldig shrugged at that, "How can you say you're not serious all the time when you're still being pensive after I tease you about it?"

A grin formed on white assassin's face and Schuldig half held his breath. There was a bandage over a small cut on the Yohji’s forehead and a bruise still high on his cheekbone from the accident but yet... he was stunning. If anything, he looked sexier when he was a little roughed up. The thought alone caused the German to shift uncomfortably in his spot so as not to show the start of an arousal forming. Damn, he couldn't even express how much he wanted to take handfuls of that silky hair and-

"Hello?"

Schuldig blinked, "What?"

"You didn't hear a word I said, did you?"

He was talking? The redhead frowned and quickly scanned Yohji's mind, picking up on the last few words still rustling around inside the other's head. Far be it for him to admit he hadn’t actually heard a fucking word.

"I heard you, I just didn't have anything to say." Schuldig lied easily, more easily than he could tell the truth.

"I don't believe you but whatever." Another long drag and for a minute, the darker assassin honestly considered how much he would kill to BE that infernal cigarette. Schuldig paused and mentally swore at himself. He needed to get out and spend some quality time elsewhere if he was honestly getting jealous over inanimate objects.

"What would you say if I asked you to join Schwartz?"

Yohji coughed on his cancer stick and set it aside, placing it on an ashtray to be forgotten. Good. Fucking cigarette was getting too much attention anyway.

"I'd ask what's the catch?"

"No catch."

"There's ALWAYS a catch." Ah, he had a point.

"You'd never be able to leave Schwartz. No changing your mind after you agree and... you'd probably have to face your own team in battle." He knew it wasn't going to go over well. The minute Balinese's face went slightly sour was enough to say it all. He wasn't going to betray his team.

"I'd have to decline."

This was REALLY not looking good for anyone.

"What if I asked you to just stay here then? Not join the team, just.. stay." Balinese hesitated and Schuldig smiled. Hesitation meant he was seriously considering the offer. Good, now time to reel the fish in and go home. "I could give you whatever you wanted. I could even take away all that pain you have stored up in that little angsty head of yours. All those bad memories and guilty feelings... I could wash them away and you could start over. A brand new man with no guilt or remorse, only the sweet memories to greet you when you sleep."

The German didn't even have to touch the other's mind to know Yohji was battling with himself over the idea of it. Who wouldn't? If someone could offer to take away all the years of pain and heartache then hand you a new slate to work with... well, the temptation would probably be too much for anyone else to bare. Especially a killer who had a lot of pain and heartache to evanesce.

"I could change how you remember the course of your life. Asuka could just be the girl you let move away and marry someone else over seas instead of the women who died by your hand." Kodou flinched but Schuldig pressed on, "Kritker and your years with Weiss... they can all be forgotten. All you have to do is promise stay here and you can be a free man."

No traces of surprise could be found on the blonde’s face at the mention of Asuka and Kritker simply because Yohji had already gathered that Schuldig had done him one over. Scanned his mind for useful information and such, not that the blond blamed him. He’d do the same if the positions were switched. However, what WAS on the white assassin’s face was the look of hard concentration.

Yohji was going to say yes. Schuldig could feel it, taste the victory on his tongue and was it ever sweet.

But something was wrong. The golden creature before him was taking far too long to consider what should have been an easier "yes". There was something stopping him... something clogging up the agreement process. What in the hell...?

"While it would be a gift beyond comparison," Softened jade eyes flickered towards the door, "I couldn't give up my memories that easily. "

"What?"

The hint of a smile brushed against Yohji’s lips again, a more subtle but honest smile, "Even if some of my memories are terrible and keep me awake at night... they make me appreciate the lighter ones. Without those nightmares, I could never be as grateful as I am to see how far I have come. Taking away my pain would be like letting me forget how sweet real joy is and that... I don't want that." The lighter pair of eyes drifted over to meet up with the blank darker ones. "I'm a bit of a selfish man you know. I don't want to give up the things I hold dear to me... even if they just cause me pain in the end."

He was talking about more than his memories... he was talking about Abyssinian and it infuriated Mastermind. Why did Kodou have to be so smart some days and so... dumb on others? Why did he have to convince himself that he loved that bastard of a swordsman when he could have so much better? Why...?

Teeth ground together and an unfriendly expression bled its way onto the black assassin’s face. In no other point in his life had he felt such genuine hate for a person he barely knew. A hate far stronger than any other emotion he had ever experienced before.

Ran was unworthy. Ran was the enemy. Ran had to be destroyed but not before Yohji had to be taught a lesson.

Slowly the furious hunter leaned in closer to his prey and gave the little kitten a deceiving smile.

"You're a real fool, Kodou. I just want you to know that..."

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TBC

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