Every man (and woman) for themselves!, Return from Asia

[Sexethang82]

Will ran through the fortress that was the England Branch of the Black Order. The alarm was screaming due to the fact that he was just dropped off by a Noah. The thought was strange, even for him, to believe that as one who swore to protect the world from the Earl of the Millinium and his forces of evil was getting rides across the planet from his immortal enemy.

But rather than dwell on technicalities, Will ran to his office. He reached the huge, double wooden doors and pushed them aside. "System de-activate!" He shouted out of breath.

"Welcome back, Sir Kensington!" The system replied in its mechanical voice.

"Whatever!" Will was flustered.

He gathered himself and walked over to his chair and sat down. Nothing looked out of place, but more importantly... the castle was STILL STANDING! Will let out a sigh of relief at the thought. He picked up the phone reciever and dialed a number. The phone rang twice before a soft, timid voice answered the line.

"Um... yes... Hello???" the little voice said.

"Miss Thomas." Will said in a cool manner. "Please come to my office immediately."

"Oh... um.... Y-" she stuttered. "Y-yes sir.... right... right... a-a-a-away!"


A few minutes passed and a danty girl with copper hair and blue eyes appeared at the door. She was hugging what appeared to be a stuffed animal tiger. She peeked from behind the doll and blushed at the site of Will.

"W-w-w-welcome back, S-sir!" she said in a low voice.

"Please come in and sit down," Will said with a smile and offered her the seat in front of his desk. She walked in slowly, keeping her eyes to the ground.

"Don't worry Heather," Will reasured her. "You're not in trouble. I just wanted to know how everything went over the night... that's all."

"Oh..?" she managed to say.

"I'll even make this easy on you," he began. "Just answer 'yes' or 'no' to my questions. Hell... just shake or nod your head if you can't say something!"

He laughed. He knew Heather was very shy, so to spare her the embarrasement of speaking, he'd make this as painless as possible for her. She simply nodded her head.

"Okay," he started. "Did any akuma attack the castle?"
She shook her head no.
"Did some exorcists' return from their missions yet?"
She nodded.
"Were they successful?"
She hesitated.
"What happened?"

"One of the Innocence was...." Heather said quietly. "D-D-Destroyed..."

"Oh..." Will looked upset. "I will discuss this with the appropriate team later today. But they came back safe, right?"

She nodded yes.

"Okay..." he thought. "Did anything majorly bad happen to anything while I was gone that isn't Akuma related?"

She shook her head no.

"You didn't set anything on fire again did you?" he smiled slightly at the thought of Masaaki burnt the last time.

Heather immediately turned bright red at Will's accusation. She hated that she was so clumsy. Things were going fine in her lab that day when she was designing a new containment unit prototype to contain akuma, that included the use of fire to destroy the trapped akuma... That's when Masaaki and Kakashi had walked into the lab to talk to Clive. Heather was hopelessly clumsy as far as her normal life went, but it was further exauserbated by the fact she froze up around beautiful people... especially those of the opposite sex. It took her almost 3 months not to spill anything or drop something at the sight of Clive, who she worked with almost on a daily basis. She just naturally learned to avoid his eye contact at all times. But that day, she had three times the trouble... and 2 of the men were TWINS!!! Hot, HOT TWINS!!! Masaaki had walked over to her to say hi and she accidentally pushed the button to trap him in the containment unit and accidently set his hair on fire! She was sooo embarrassed and in such shock that she fainted. It was the worst day of her life!!! Nobody... especially Clive let her forget it.

She was completely scarlet. But she managed to shake her head no...

"There, there Heather," Will felt bad about asking her that now. "I didn't mean to make fun. But since nothing is out of the ordinary, I guess you did a very good job! You can go now."

"Thank You!" She squeaked as she ran out of the office.

Will chuckled. "Funny girl!" He looked at his clock and saw that it was about 11:30 in Asia. His exorcists should be flying back about now.


((Okay..... that was really too long!!!! I'll post again soon when i regain feeling in my hands! ))

[Kan-Chan]

"Ah! HEre's fine," Sumire had told Repunzal.
"I don't want to cause the alarm to go off." She told Repunzal as she hugged her.
"I'm sorry...I really am, but...think about it like this, everywhere we go, I'm here, Ryu's here. So, of course, if you want to tag along, I'll be more than happy to let you." She smiled at Punz.
"Thanks Sumi." Punz hugged her back then let go.
"Take care, Punz...Haru's back too..." She whispered the ending.
Punz nodded her head yes as a confirmation and then left.
"Well, I guess we can walk from here~!" Sumire grabbed Kakashi's arm and ran and ran and climbed and ran to the ORder.
"UWaa! IT looks....so alike..." She stated.
"Like the old Asia HQ....Cool!" She shouted as she entered.
"Name?" The systems voice called....
"Ah....shoot, I don't have a permit." She said as she hoped Will would see them on the screen.

(LOL! xDD Also, thank you for the comment on the summary~! xD)

[ban-sun]

"Kakashi Shirouri." Kakashi replied to the computer.
"Confirmed." the machine answered and turned to Sumire, "Name?"
"Can I talk to William?" he asked.

"Meh." Masaaki stretched as he lied lazily on his seat in the jet.
"I'm bored..." he looked Rachael.

[Sexethang82]

"William Kensington speaking..." The voice came through the monitor.



"Well it's gonna be several hours until we get back," Clive said to Masaaki. "So maybe you should do something more productive than bother Rachael."

"Now Clive," Rachael said. "It's such a long flight... why don't we have board games or cards in this plane? I'm getting antsy!!!"

"How you doing Ayame?" Seth asked. Overhearing Rachael's complaint he dug through his backpack.

"YES!"

"Huh?" Rachael turned around to look at Seth. "What is it?"

"Cards!!!" He held up his deck. "Anyone up for a little 'Fishing'?"

[Kan-Chan]

"AH...Will...I didn't bring a Permit...can you get me in?" Sumire asked Will as she heard his voice...
"Sorry for the trouble..." Sumire talked casually forgetting to tell Will why she here in the first place. But hey...whose to pry in relationships! xD



"Uhn, I'm fine...did you know...this plane doesn't fly very high..." Ayame had commented though they were about 463 miles high up. (RANDOM number, VERY random, I don't think the number is even realistic....xD)

[ban-sun]

"Oh please." Masaaki grunted sarcastically, "I don't wanna fight on a plane..."
He, however, perked right up at the mention of cards, "Me!"
"Anything would be better than seeing Clive's angry face." he added.

[Sexethang82]

((Um... that's insane i think???? LMAO..... it's more like 30000 feet!))


"Oh," Will was surprised. "Sumire is visiting!!! Let me prepare a badge for you... it should pop out the other side."



"If we went any higher," Rachael laughed. "We'd be in space!!"

[Kan-Chan]

(LOL~! That's what I thought, but I was like, I LIKE this number and inserted it! xD)

"Hmm...really?" Ayame said nonchantly.
"Ryu-Nii, Sumire, Kira, Mama, and Papa's home was much higher then this." She commented as she looked out the window. Apparently, the little girl HAS visited the Noah's mansion, the sky one at that.


"Ah! Thanks." Sumire said as she waited for the badge to come.

[Sexethang82]

"Wow!! That's high up!!" Rachael said. She clearly didn't put two and two together on that one.

Clive heard Masaaki's remark but decided it was probably better not to continue this arguement. Being with all these hormonal guys was irritating him and he was taking out his anger unnecessarily at Rachael. "Just make sure to keep the noise down everyone," he said without looking back. "I'm going to take try and take a nap until we get back!"

"Okay Clive! We'll do our best!" Rachael said.

"Oh..." Seth tried to say with a note of fake disappointment in his voice. "You're not joining us? That's a shame!! Come sit over here Rache!"



"Here you go!" Will said and a badge printed out to Sumire.

[ban-sun]

(lol)

"That's impossible!" Masaaki cut in, "I don't think humans can survive at such high pressure. Unless they're Noahs."
He shrugged and continued to deal the cards, "Yeah, come and sit between us, Rachael~!"
I wonder why Clive isn't saying anything back? Masaaki thought.

[Kan-Chan]

"Well, who says that they are human? And also, they get protection." Ayame told Masaki as she wandered to Clive.
"Clive-Nii...will you play with me?" Ayame dared to ask the man who was already in the pits of h*ll. But heck, she was a little kid, she didn't CARE much for who was happy or not. She just smiled brightly and asked what she liked.

"Thanks," Sumire said as she took the badge.
"Permit, Sumire." She told the system.
"Recognized from the Asia Branch Transfer System, Sumire and Kakashi, welcome back to the England Branch."
"Thanks, Aly!" Sumire smiled at the system. Apparently, the last time she was here, she named it.
"Not a problem, Sumire-San." The system mechanical voice rang as the doors pulled open.
"Will!" Sumire had shouted as she entered.
"We're here before the others?" She then asked as she looked around, not seeing the other group.

[Sexethang82]

"Got any 3's?" Rache asked Seth.

"GO FISH!" he stuck out his tongue. Rache took a card.

"Masaaki," Seth instantly turned into smooth talk mode. "You wouldn't happen to have any 10's, would you?" He flashed a bright smile. (okay it was technically cheating for him to try and use his means of persuasion... but it was just Go Fish!)



Clive sat in his chair listening in on the game, listening for the slightest hint of trouble that should happen between those three. He should trust Rachael more, he thought. She loved him unconditionally... more than he deserved. He actually tried to fall asleep this time and successfully passed out.


"Ah... yes..." Will said as he greeted Sumire. "They took the jet back... they should be here in 3 hours though. Would you like a tour of your old home?"

[Kan-Chan]

"Oooo, intriguing, sure." Sumire had told Will as she kept her arms clung onto Kakashi's.
"WAnna come with me and Will? Or are you going to your room for some rest?" She asked him smiling. She didn't mind which he chose, since she knew he was quite tired.

[ban-sun]

"Hmm?" Masaaki questioned with a big, bright smile (which was really awkward at that moment), "I don't think so, bro."
He had intentionally wanted to put down his 10, but since Seth aske, he played the 5 instead.

"Yay," Kakashi stretched comfortably, "It's good to be back."
"Well, I can't leave alone, can I?" he smiled at her, "Let's go together."

[Sexethang82]

"Now Masaaki," Seth said cooly. "Don't try to cheat me... I KNOW you have a 10 in your hand in fact, I know ALL THE CARDS in your hand.... give it up before i sick my sister on you!"

Rachael giggled. "She can't be that bad... honestly... you make her sound like a dog!"

"Oh, she's as sweet as can be..." Seth said. "Just dangerously klumsy... I'll introduce you when we get back."

Clive stirred when Ayama poked him. "Huh....? you want to take a nap too?" He pulled Ayame up into his lap and dosed off again.