BULLET #03:
GENERAL CLEANING
[Narita Airport] [09/23/2015]
Kurona's POV
"A pleasure to meet you, Lady Senri. I am Hayden, from the Galantra Family. I will be in your care until the ceremony has been completed."
Mr. Hayden was man who seems to be in his forties and gives of a feel of wisdom, it was evident that he had worked for the Galantra for a long time. I wonder how I don't seem to remember seeing him before.
"The pleasure is ours, Mr. Hayden," I politely shook his hand.
"Ah, there they are," Mr. Hayden said seemingly distracted.
Workers came with many huge wooden boxes and many suits case. One of them gave Mr. Hayden a red, medium-sized suitcase. "Boss, told me to give this to you."
I looked at it. On the right bottom, the Galantra Family seal was embedded with 'A. Riccardi' above it.
I didn't open it, maybe because I'm not ready or maybe because inside this... is mother's valuable treasure.
"Thank you for bringing them here and I assure you everything is going to go smoothly."
He looked behind me, directly at Kitayama-san. "You are?"
"Kitayama Tobio, I am here by the orders if the Prime Minister," Kitayama-san said with surprising formality.
"The Prime Minister?" Mr. Hayden asked both shocked and confused.
"Yes, he wishes to speak with you. That is why I am here to escort you to him."
[Tokugawa Gakuen, Kyoto] [09/23/2015] (Entrance Gate)
The ride back to school was uneventful and the moment we arrived, Jii-san was already waiting in front.
"Good morning, I am Prime Minister Kitayama. It's a pleasure to meet you," Jii-san shook Mr. Hayden's hand.
"No, the pleasures all mine. I'm Hayden... Kitayama?" He looked at Jii-san and Kitayama-san. "Yes, he's my grandson"
"Ah, right."
They both proceeded to Jii-san office and we followed them.
We were near the principal's office when Jii-san stopped and faced us. "You two should go back to your classes, its already lunch break and I'm sure Kira will be waiting."
I agreed, knowing he's right. Kira will kill me for being gone.
And Kitayama-san followed me.
"Hey, Senri-san! Where you going?" He asked, still following me.
"I have some stuff on the roof, I just need to get it. You can go back first, Kitayama-san," I said.
~ 3 Minute Later ~
Once we reached the forensics lab, I quickly collected my things. In the end I wasn't able to do investigate the dagger.
When I turned I saw that he was still here. "You didn't have to wait for me."
"We're in a free country... and just call me Tobio, calling me 'Kitayama-san' must be hard."
We finally arrived our classroom, that was empty except for Kira and Ichigo, who was waiting for me. Uh-oh
"Kuro-nee!" Both Kira and Ichigo perked up when they saw me.
"Where have you been? Maki-sensei said you left to study in the forensics lab but never came back," Kira said, semi-hugging and semi-interrogating me.
"Yeah and how about you Tobio? Why were you together? Weren't you called by the principal?" Ichigo asked, joining the interrogation.
I hate it when they do this.
"AND what are you both wearing?" The two simultaneously asked this time.
Tobio and I looked at each other for help. "I was on my way back when the principal called me and when I can Tobio was already there-"
"-It seems like Jii-san just wanted us to give an important visitor a quick tour and Jii-san told us to dress formally." Tobio finished.
Fortunately, they both bought it though Kira is still suspicious but she didn't pressed any further.
The four of us walked to the plaza- famished, especially Ichigo.
[Tokugawa Gakuen, Kyoto] [09/23/2015]
Class has ended and both Tobio and I decided to check on Mr. Hayden And Jii-san.
Mr. Hayden was still there and it seems like they just finished talking. Wow, what could they talked about that almost took half day?
"Kurona, Tobio, good timing. I was just telling Mr. Hayden he'll be temporarily living with us because the Prigionia estate hasn't been used in a long time and I doubt that its not filled with dust and cobwebs," Jii-san said.
We were a bit shocked but the both of us agreed so did Mr. Hayden "Mr. Juro will bring you there." And with that Mr. Hayden left with Mr. Juro.
"Now, like I said earlier the Prigionia estate is in no condition for anyone to live in , so... how about doing a general cleaning?" Jii-san said with a smile.
Cleaning? That huge estate? No way. "Demo!(But!) You know how big that place is." I'm not exaggerating, that place is HUGE.
"Tsk tsk tsk, no complaining beside you have to clean that for the ceremony, so why not now? Don't worry Tobio will help you-"
"What!?" Tobio complained.
"-I will send some people, too," He looked at me seriously before continuing. "Kurona... I already delivered the weapons there."
In the end, we couldn't do anything.
[Tokugawa Gakuen, Kyoto] [09/23/2015] (Parking Lot)
Since Mr. Juro is with Mr. Hayden, we don't have ride but Tobio walked towards the parking lot and towards a silver Subaru.
"What are you doing?" I asked with suspicion when he pulled out a key.
"Um... I'm opening my car so that we could go inside," He answered to me like I'm an idiot.
I glared at him but I could feel my face get hot.
Well, sorry if I thought wrong. Besides he isn't even supposed to have license. He's only 17!
"Come on."
~ 20 Minutes Later ~
I regret letting Tobio drive, who would have thought that he was the type who likes driving fast- by fast, I mean very very fast. This is the first time I feared for my own life.
"Slow down, will you!"
I screamed when he sudden stop, almost making me hit the dashboard if I hadn't remember to put on the seatbelt.
"Why'd you suddenly stop?" I glared at Tobio, who was laughing. "Its a stop sign and for once I saw the CALM Kurona get flustered, its hilarious!" He cachinnate.
I crossed my arms. "Ha. Ha. Ha, very funny. I thought I was gonna die," I 'fake' laughed while I hit his arm- hard and he groaned in pain.
I lightly chuckled but stopped when I heard my name.
"Kurona! Kurona! Kurona!"
I opened the window to see both Kabuto and Raijin both looking at me.
My eyes widened. "Of all times," I whispered-yelled before facing Tobio, who was confused.
"They are one of the suitable members so, I don't want you to say anything that may raise any suspicion, alright. Park on side," I quickly said.
It took him a minute to process what I just said but parked right beside of the side walk where Raijin and Kabuto.
I went out of the car while Tobio stayed inside. "Hello, Raijin, Akito. I didn't see you there," I smiled at them.
"We almost didn't, too," Akito said with a grin.
"We weren't interrupting something, right?" He's smiled turned into a frown. When Raijin saw Tobio a smirk crept on his face.
"This is bad! Akito, we were interrupting something. She was in the middle of a date! Sorry, we're really really sorry!"
I almost chocked out of my own saliva when he said that. Me and Tobio? NO. Not happening.
Kabuto seems to agree with Raijin and the both of them kept apologizing.
"Date? Me and Kurona? Seriously! Hahaha!" Tobio laughed joining us and the two finally stopped apologizing.
"We're really sorry, seeing as your busy with your boyfriend, we'll go now. Bye!" They were about to leave but I held both their collars in a death grip. "We are NOT in a date and we are certainly NOT a couple, understood? If so then come with us."
I dragged the two of them to the car and Tobio followed not a bit least bothered.
~ 4 Minutes Later ~
"So... What are we doing here? If I may ask," Raijin asked from the back.
Tobio looked at me confused making me smile sheepishly.
Sorry! It was an act of impulse.
"Um... Err... That's right! You two will help us in cleaning."
That's great, the more the merrier. (A/N: She's just grabbing more people in cleaning up -_-')
Akito and Raijin looked confused. "Tobio and I were assigned in cleaning an estate, its huge so we need as many help as we can."
When I finished speaking Akito had a dread expression, I can see that he's not a fan of cleaning.
[Prigionia Estate, Kyoto] [09/23/2015] (Gate)
"You've got-" "-to be-" "-kidding me!!"
Okay, now that's freaky. Three boys, who just met each other, finishing each others sentences as if they'd know each other their whole life.
Creepy.
The Prigionia Family estate stretches quite far- that if you don't have a map your bound to get lost, it consist of three building; the warehouse, the greenhouse and the main house, the main house is a traditional Japanese house.
I walked to the house and the three followed me while looking around.
When we arrived at the front yard there were 20 maids with cleaning tools, 8 gardeners and 10 workers.
"Okay, let's begin. Raijin and Akito, along with 10 maids will clean the left wing. The gardeners will be divided into two, taking each directions. Each worker will work with one team. Tobio and I will clean the right wing, with the remaining maids and workers," I instructed while tying my hair in a messy bun.
They all nodded (except for Akito) before going to their assigned tasks.
I faced my team. "Let's go."
~ 6 Minutes Later ~
I clenched my fist as we walk through the familiar corridor.
It looks exactly as before although it was clearly older. My memories of the past kept appearing- the good and the bad, especially that NIGHT. I was clenching my fist so tight it turned white.
And at last we reached the right wing.
"Alright, the maids will clean while the workers repair what needs to be repaired, if you've finished your tasks assist the others. Tobio and I will handle the interior. Oh, let me remind you that if I found out your snooping in our things, I'll make sure your sorry that you ever lived, understood?" I threatened, leaking out a bit of my killing intent making everyone of them tremble except for Tobio.
"Y-yes, my lady."
When I dismissed them they all scrambled leaving just the two of us.
A hand grabbed my shoulder. "You know that wasn't necessary," Tobio said with an amused look.
I shrugged off his hand, walking out of the room while he sweat dropped but followed.
We arrived at our destination, every part of the room was filled with dust or cobwebs except for the closet in the middle.
"Who's room is this?" Tobio asked looking around before stopping in front of a picture frame. "Wait, is this your room?" He picked the picture, scanning it.
"Yes."
I opened the middle sliding closet revealing it filled with computers, laptops and etc.
"Its pretty normal..." He trailed off when he saw my closet. "Never mind"
I sat on my old chair and turned everything on, the computer came to life showing different parts of the whole estate.
It showed the maids and workers cleaning (and not snooping), the gardeners were clearing out the dried leaves while Raijin was trying to teach Kabuto how to sweep the floor but with no success.
"Woah... They let you handle the surveillance at such a young age?" Tobio asked checking out the computers.
"No, I hacked into the main system," I checked the cameras outside. No abnormalities so far.
"Seriously, how did your parents react when they found out?"
I looked at him before searching my computers data. "They can't react, if they didn't found out."
I was opening my past data when a security notice appeared.
"What is this... A pass code? But I didn't installed any before."
I pulled out my netbook and started to install the program I created especially for a situation like these. It successfully hacked in only for another to appear.
I groaned in frustration but successfully hacked in again. "The hell?!"
I almost threw the computer out of frustration when another appeared making Tobio jump.
"Hey, you alright?" He said peering at the computer.
I started again but it failed this time. Don't tell me...
"Virus." The program I created is as useless as trash now.
Who ever installed this pass must be a talented, being able to created a virus capable of destroying all my data- which are all protected with high level security system, too bad I'm the kind of person who creates duplicates in my hard drive for situations like this.
So destroying all my data won't help but I was lucky that it got destroyed- not stolen.
I felt my hand get hotter and when I looked at my netbook it was smoking.
"Shit." Tobio quickly grabbed my netbook and opened the sliding door before throwing it with great force, it flew all the way to the sky and then it exploded.
"That was my favorite," I sighed.
Tobio had a disbelief expression on his face.
"You almost got hurt by your netbook because it was about to explode and all you can say is that it was your favorite!" He shouted.
I just shrugged.
"It really was and I already knew you would take care of it."
I started to copy my old data in a new secured folder in my hard drive. And deleted the original, seeing that a security system was installed by an unknown person.
"I give up," Tobio said before sitting in one of my old been bag.
After a few minutes of silence I shut down everything and stood up ready to leave. "Let's move on."
~ 4 Minutes Later ~
"Hey, hey, hey. Why did we leave? Aren't we suppose to clean, so why did we leave your room with out cleaning it? Hey, hey, he- ugh." With that he earned a painful blow in the stomach.
"Shut up. I said we'll handle the interior that'd why we're gonna check all the surveillance, storages, etc." I said finally silencing him but it was sweet while it lasted.
"So who do you think made that virus?" Why can't he stay silence for a moment. I prefer the 'him' before.
"I have a hypothesis but I need evidence."
Easily assuming that it was them would make it easier but we have to think of every possibility.
We walked inside to a room just a few rooms away from mine.
I opened the sliding door revealing a metal door encoded with a retina and voice pass.
I then spoke, "Amalia Senri."
The small screen flashed green then blue. Next, I aligned my right eye near it then it flashed green again. "Welcome back, Lady Amalia."
A screeching sound was heard and the door opened.
I entered and so did Tobio but I stopped after three steps.
Tobio continued making me quickly pull him back- that made him fall on his butt.
"What was that for?!" He complained. Ungrateful man.
"If you plan on being minced then go ahead."
I pulled out a powder and spread it around the room. "This room is secured with several locks, the first is a pass, then lasers- unlike the common laser that triggers alarms- this cuts."
Tobio looked at me before grinning. "This is a piece of cake."
He charged doing several moves (gymnastics and acrobatics) and finally he reached the end.
"See?!" He had a triumph look but I just stared at him like he's an idiot.
"If you get too cocky you'll end up as skinned rabbit, you almost did," I said, whispering the last part.
I walking to my right and pressed my hand in a portion of the walk, then lasers disappeared.
Tobio was shocked.
"See?" I imitated him making him glare at me.
He grumbled but didn't say anything.
"Come on," I opened the sliding door revealing an empty room. "We came here for an empty room!?"
I ignore him (I seem to do that a lot) and went inside.
I punched a portion of the wall and the room stated to shake, the walls turned revealing a mass of weapons; swords, guns, daggers, you name it.
[Prigionia Estate, Kyoto] [09/23/15] (Weapon Room)
3rd Person
"Woah! What kind of wea- ahh!" Tobio yelped when a dagger just flew on his feet. Across the room was Kurona holding a set of daggers.
"Daggers."
He composed himself and stared at her with disbelief.
"What are yo-" Daggers suddenly rained on Tobio and fortunately he was able to dodge all of them.
"Hey! Stop i-" An arrow almost stabbed him in the arm. Kurona held a bow.
"Bow and arrows."
She grabbed a handgun from the weapons beside her and without warning started firing at him.
"Guns."
Tobio hastily grabbed the daggers near him that Kurona threw and used it to deflect the bullet.
Deflect, "Will-"
Deflect, "You-"
Deflect,"Stop-"
Deflect, "It?!"
Every time a dagger deflects its fourth bullet it breaks making his daggers continue to lessen.
"Its been years since these weapons are used we need to test them," Kurona said stopping her attacks, to which Tobio was grateful.
After a few seconds of silence he suddenly stomped his feet.
"You could have just told me! You didn't have to try killing me!" Tobio glared at Kurona.
She shrugged it off. "Correction. I wasn't trying to kill you, I was trying NOT to kill."
He could only stare at her. It seems like he's growing accustomed to her attitude.
"Okay, let's start," Tobio grinned before pulling the blades on the wall and skillfully threw it at Kurona, she dodge it and grabbed two swords. She charged at him while Tobio also grabbed a sword- clashing it with hers. They both stood their ground.
"You're better at using a sword than a staff, I suggest you to change your weapon."
Tobio grinned at her appraisal. "Thank you and I'll take note of that."
Being a guy and taller gives Tobio great advantage but it seems like Kurona doesn't like to back down, he twisted his sword around her right sword making it fly and skid away from them- leaving Kurona with only one sword.
She did a flip near the wall and grabbed another sword. Tobio quickly charged while she was grabbing her sword but she anticipated that and spinned- she was holding her new sword in the opposite way.
His breath hitched when her blade touched his throat but he just smirked.
"What are you smirking for? Huh."
Kurona got her answer when she felt a cold metal on her chest. She looked down- shocked and saw a pistol gun aimed at her.
"That's why."
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BANG!
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Tobio Kitayama on the side ----->>
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