Midnight Claws

Rating: T might go up to M

Warning: BL, Hints of Yaoi and Shonen-Ai

Summary: Since when did life become this complicated? Nicky was just hoping to get home, so how did he end up being the reluctant partner of a Monsoon Demon that has Vampiric Appetites, Nicky wonders how the hell this Vampire wannabe ended up staying in his place anyways! (Yaoi/Shonen-Ai)

Midnight Claws

Chapter Ten

“To be honest I think that information we got from that wacko bar tender is off” Mishiba stared at me while he carried Matt on his back, he’s still passed out from when Mishiba gave the poor guy a shock by kissing him.

“So?”

“So what I’m saying is should we really trust him?” I asked him, it seems kind of silly that we’d follow the guys information straight off the bat without knowing if it’s true or not. “What if he’s luring us to a trap or something? Shouldn’t we at least find away to make sure that the information is accurate?”

Mishiba shrugged his shoulders “We’ll find out when we get there”

Jeez, I wonder how Naoki and Sakamoto get use to this guy’s personality, he almost reminds me of a toaster for some reason which disturbs me to no end. I mean he has black hair, dark brown eyes, I’ll admit he has to be a hit with the ladies but who in the hell would want a guy like him?

I think a girl would have to get hit pretty hard in the head a few times before they actually do but he seems to have a relationship with Naoki and that Nightingale guy.

I’m not sure what happened between him and Clyfe in Paris but they do seem to want to kill each other what am I saying? He almost tried to kill me if I remember correctly?

“Worried about Monsoon?” Huh? “You, him, made a contract” he doesn’t really make enough sense but for some reason I understand him a bit?

“Yeah?”

“He’s suffering you know?” What? I looked at him, what did he mean that Clyfe is suffering?

“W-What? What are you talking about?” Mishiba continued to stare at me until he looked at Matt, readjusting him on his shoulders before moving on down the street. He’s gotten me concerned now; if Clyfe was suffering then I would’ve known he always seemed to be so happy and cheerful, hugging me all the time…

I stood there, thinking on those words that Mishiba told me, is Clyfe suffering?

If he was, was it my

Fault?

Something inside me wanted to call Clyfe on the phone and ask him if he was okay, so that’s what I did anyways, I brought out my red mobile phone and started dialing his mobile.

“What are you doing?”

Slowly closing my eyes, I took in a deep breath; it was getting a little bit cold out here.

“I’m calling Clyfe” That guy just looked at me strangely again before turning his gaze back to the unconscious Matthew on his back.

“What for?”

“To see if he’s okay”

“You worried about him?” I sighed; I think I made a pout before snapping back at him.

“No! I just…I just need to ask him something”

And that’s when the phone rang

“Naoki I don’t see why we have to get so many fireworks for?” Clyfe mumbled until he heard the ring tone of his mobile phone, Clyfe froze, handing the fireworks to Naoki as he answered it.

“Hello, Clyfe here”

“Clyfe” Clyfe’s face became frightful, that tone in Nicky’s voice sounded slightly worried about something, nervous even.

“Nicky? What is it is something wrong? Did that bastard Mishiba do something?!” There was a moments hesitation before Nicky took another deep breath and continued in what he was about to say

“No, Matthew was the one who handled that luckily, Clyfe, are you okay?”

“Yeah why shouldn’t I be?”

“It’s just that…Mishiba says…” Clyfe snarled, he wondered what the bastard did to make Nicky this worried. “That you’re suffering…so are you?”

“…” Clyfe narrowed his eyes, showing a sign of remorse, if Nicky knew what he was hiding then Nicky will only worry about him more, he knew that, he didn’t want to hurt Nicky, if he does then he’ll never forgive himself.

“Clyfe?” Clyfe didn’t want to think about it but that image of Nicky lying in his bed with his eyes glazed over was slowly making him horrified but he shock it away, he didn’t want Nicky to worry about him.

“Don’t listen to that bastard; he’s probably just messing with your head Nicky” Clyfe said with a giggle, Naoki narrowed her eyes at him, she knew what he was doing, the Butterfly thinks that he should just tell his partner but she wasn’t one to tell people how they should respond to their partners, she had a few problems of her own with Mishiba.

“Anyway, get back to investigating the case we’re working on, I’ll see you later”

Beep

“Should we get going Clyfe-kun?” Clyfe nodded, taking the fireworks out of Naoki’s hands and held them, he was still rather puzzled on what they were going to use the fireworks for but then again did anything on this assignment made absolute sense?

No not really…

But he had to ask sooner or later…

“Naoki I will ask again, why do we need this much fireworks?” Naoki giggled when she pulled out a lighter from her pocket.

“Oh we’re just going to do a bit of celebrating of our own”

“For some reason the way you said that just sent a chill up my spine, please tell me it’s my imagination”

“That’s it, I hate snakes” Sakamoto snarled, hiding under the remains of a burning car, she was not in a happy go lucky mood, not when everything around her was exploding, going into flames or things that Sakamoto didn’t think was even possible.

Hikaru was laughing, it cackled throughout the streets when she fired another fireball at Jonah who surprisingly was doing very well against Hikaru. Nightingale on the other hand, was busy chanting up spell and trying to see when was the right time to execute them but so far his efforts were in vein.

Sakamoto on the other hand can’t help because she got her arm badly injured during her last spell; therefore her left arm is now completely useless in casting anymore ice fire balls which meant now she had to go straight to plan B.

Sakamoto slowly peek her head over the wrecked car that remained as her shield, slowly lifted the arm that wasn’t badly injured; pointing it like is was a snipers rifle over at the viper’s direction. The Tenshi slowly closed her eyes and concentrated until a blue like stake appeared on her arm.

When Hikaru was in the right range, Sakamoto fired but the aim was off which was why it went for the Chinese restaurant behind Hikaru.

“Your aims off Tenshi!!” Hikaru squealed, firing more fireballs in Sakamoto’s direction, Sakamoto made a run jump out of the way before the car exploded and rolled to another one of the stalls that were abandoned by their owners since they didn’t want to die.

Sakamoto didn’t want to die either but she had to sort out this mess since it was her ass on the line.

“I hate this, I hate snakes, I hate the Great Spirit, I hate Seiryuu, I hate chocolate bunnies and for god sake ever since I got my window and door blasted open everything seemed to be going to hell oh and which remind me…” Sakamoto turned her head over to Nightingale who was hiding in a store now.

“I hate you Nightingale!!!” Nightingale just looked awfully hurt by that and decided to yell back at her.

“That’s not a very nice thing to say Sakamoto!?!?! It’s not my fault that you just happened to stumble upon someone from your past who you pissed off and is now looking to kill you!!” Sakamoto shot him another glare, raising her good arm towards the wizard, another ice stake appeared.

“Oh yeah? If we were here a couple of hours earlier then we wouldn’t be in this mess?! I knew you had something to do with my death!! I knew it you jackass!!”

“Um guys can we please stop trying to kill each other before China Town becomes nothing more than a crater in New York!?!” Jonah screamed.

“What do you propose we do Jonah!” Jonah jumped down next to Sakamoto, he gave her a smirk, Sakamoto doesn’t think that this is the right time to be smirking and she doesn’t have a clue on what the Indian was thinking.

“Well first off…we need to get rid of this…” Sakamoto jumped when she realized that Jonah’s hand was on her choker, tearing it off.

“Jonah!!”

“Is this it?”

Was this the place that the bar tender was talking about? It’s nothing more than a warehouse near the docks; I wonder what we’re doing here anyway?

Mishiba nodded and Matthew is still unconscious but I don’t think that’s going to last any longer though, Mishiba settled Matthew down near some crates, he knelt down and shock him, I thought I should’ve stopped him since it almost looked like that Matt’s head was about to fall like a doll being tossed by a child.

“Wake up, Wake up”

Matthew slowly opened his eyes; the poor guy still looked sleepy. Matt’s cat ears came out of his head, it was funny in a way.

“Uh, I had the weirdest dream” Oh boy…

Matthew rubbed one eyes with a clenched fist “I dreamed that I kissed Mishiba”

I sighed, wondering over and patted him on the back while Mishiba headed to the door to the warehouse.

“It wasn’t a dream Matt” Matthew looked horrified, it was so priceless! I should’ve taken a photograph, it is so worth it. I wonder if I can ask that bar tender to send me the photo so I can photo shop it and post it on Deviantart? Probably wouldn’t, I saw how attached to his camera he was before I left. He was holding it like a kid with a new favourite toy.

It was scary on different levels…

Bang!

We both froze, turning our heads over and seeing that Mishiba had just now knocked the door down and is now entering the warehouse.

“Is Mishiba breaking and entering?!”

I got up to my feet and ran off after Mr. Grumpy “Mishiba you can’t do that?!” When I got in, the whole place was empty, there wasn’t even anything here, nothing but this giant empty space that went on for miles.

“Empty?” I looked over to Matthew; he seemed to be at a loss too.

“Why would the bar tender give us information on an empty warehouse?”

“Maybe it’s because they closed up shop early!”

What the hell?!

Where is that voice coming from? I whipped my head around the place, I couldn’t see anyone for a couple of minutes until there were sounds of footsteps and then I saw a white light.

There was this guy that came along, he looked to be about Matthew’s age, his hair was white, there were also all these tattoos all over him, they were shaped like tigers and he was dressed like a basket ball player.

“Um who are you?” He took off his headphones, staring at us with those golden cat like eyes, they looked like Matthew’s.

“Names Byakko” He had a south western accent “And I should tell you” he gave us a smirk “You’re a little late in catchin the Ol Yamada’s, they left about twenty minutes ago when they realized that one of their own, were giving away information, if you leave ere and cut them off on the boat headin for England then yeah might be able to stop ‘em from disappearin and with any information that they ave, know what I’m sayin?”

I heard Mishiba chuff; when I looked at him he dipped his hands into his coat pockets. “If that’s so then why didn’t you stop them, you were sent by the Great Spirit weren’t you so why-” Byakko shock his finger at us.

“Dontcha understand my role, I’m only here to observe, not to take part besides, the old man will only get pissed if he realized I took part in Okami’s assignment, also to be honest, I’m not a fan of Ol Kyubi, we never got along…if yeah know what I mean?”

“Why do yeah have to be such a sour puss Kyubi?” Byakko snapped

“Shut up White Tiger Cub, you know nothing about being a proper god, if you weren’t able to take down Okami then you have no chance in hell in beating me” replied a boy that stared at Byakko with crimson red orbs.

Byakko stood there shaking until he threw a fist forward which was caught by Kyubi.

“Why do yeah have to be so cold, no wonder everyone’s afraid of yeah, before yeah know it yeah gonna die alone Kyubi!!”

“So be it, you think I care what everyone thinks, White-”

“Tiger Cub…”

“Nicky?” huh what? I shock my head, why was it buzzing like a siren was blown in my ear, it hurts. I put my hands on my ears, why is it, what’s going?

“Oi” Some one just put their hands on my shoulders and shock me, I snapped my eyes opened and stared into Mishiba’s face “Are you okay?” I slowly nodded, what was that?

“Hold up! Did he just say White Tiger Cub?” Mishiba turned his head over to Byakko again, replying in the usual lank tone.

“So what if he did? We have no time to discuss this”

And with that, we all left to find the Yamadas.

“Yes! Yes!!” Hikaru snarled, her face covered in delight as she gazed at a bright blue light down below.

Standing down there was a boy who wore Sakamoto’s clothes, his hair was slightly longer than hers and not only that but there were blue tinted wings coming out of his back and head.

“That’s the form I wanted to see!”

The boy slowly looked up, he looked very irritated, like he was about to kill someone.

“That’s the Tenshi Sakamoto that I wanted to see!!”

The boy sighed, looking down on the ground, cursing under his breath and then sent a glare up at Hikaru.

“God Damn it!”

The End

Youkai Of Hearts: And thus the drama continues and another character is entered into the plot, not only that but Sakamoto’s form has been revealed!!!

I’m guessing everyone knew because I left obvious signs…

To be honest I didn’t know when to reveal Sakamoto’s true form…

Did you guys think I was too early in revealing it?