RW Fanfic: Mob Fic (Nine Seals) Part Nine

Part Nine

Rowen sat there, mulling over what just happened. Whatthavai done? I just sold my soul... or at least a significant portion of my anatomy![1]

"Well, what are we waiting for?" Cye asked standing and walking out the door. Rowen mumbled directions and Cye walked ahead jauntily, attracting somewhat dubvious stares.

Kento walked behind Cye, but kept looking back at Rowen who seemed to be lost in his own world.

Rowen, who trailed behind, was indeed lost in his own thoughts, which gravitated between two extremes. Why did I say that? Why?!... ooh, banana split... No! Can't think about... whip cream and cherries... and Ah! They might end up getting arrested... handcuffs... Ooh! and so forth.

Cye arrived at the door, waiting for Rowen and Kento. Rowen broke from his funk long enough to open the door.

They walked in and Rowen opened the main conference room doors. He let Cye and Kento walk in, then shut the doors behind him. Quatre, who was pouring over a file, looked up, then stood.

"Greetings. I take it you have agreed to join us," Quatre said, offering his hand to Cye. Cye took it, and a small tingle passed through both of them.[2] Quatre blinked, then shook Kento's hand.

"Pleasure," Kento said, moving on to shake the other pilots' hands. When he shook the hand of the one with black hair pulled back into a pony tail, he felt a strange tingle. From the look on his face, he'd say the other person had the same feeling.

"My name is Quatre Winner, these are Trowa Barton, Duo Maxwell, Wufei Chang and Heero Yuy," Quatre said, introducing everyone. Wufei... Kento thought.

"I am Cye Torrent and this is Kento," Cye said, with a polite bow. Quatre smiled slightly.

"I hope you have been briefed on the situation, because we leave immediately for Tokyo," Quatre said, packing the files away. Cye nodded and together the new allies left. Rowen still trailed behind. Concerned, Duo matched pace with him.

"Rowen my man, somethin' wrong?" Duo asked, placing a hand on his arm. Rowen ignored the slight tingle.

"Ah said somethin' stoopid," Rowen explained. Duo cocked his head. Rowen elaborated.

Ah Lord! Poor guy... Duo said, and slung his arm over Rowen's shoulders. "Don't worry buddy, we won't let him molest you."

"Thanks." But what if I want him to molest me?

"Gooooood morning Tokyo![3]" Duo proclaimed the morning after their arrival in Tokyo. Two pillows, a tennis ball and a balled up sock were aimed in his general direction. They all missed. "What, you didn't care?" Two more pillows answered him. They also missed.

"It's an injustice to be so perky in the morning," Wufei mumbled as Duo made himself a little nest out of the pillows and began bouncing the tennis ball up and down.

All eight had stayed in one giant hotel room, which had lead to a very noisy sleep over. And, seeing that it was a sleep over, very little sleep would be involved.

Rowen had spent the whole evening avoiding Cye, and for his part, Cye had completely ignored Rowen except for one very brief "pass the pizza". It's pizza, how sexual could it be?[4]

"Aww, you just have to live life to it's fullest! Answer the door when opportunity knocks. Seize the day! Li--"

"How about, cease that and seize the Duo," Heero growled, pulling him out of Duo's nest and onto his lap. Duo pretended to think about that.

"I'll think about it."

"Well," Quatre said, after becoming fully conscious. "After breakfast, let's head out. There was a chorus of "Breakfast!!!" and they settled down to ordering breakfast.

On the other side of Tokyo...

"Miaka!"

"Tamahome!"

"Miaka!"

"Would you turn that crap off I'm trying to sleep!"

Oops, wrong other side...

On the other, other side of town...

Talpa, Anubis, Kale and Sekmet staged a raid on the factory. They obtained Talpa's completed legs with great ease.

Then they blew up the factory.

Back in the hotel...

"Umm... maple syrup..." Cye was saying, licking the maple syrup off his lips with great gusto as Rowen tried hard not to stare.

Ah'm insane.... lock-me-up-inna-rubber-room, ah-love-ta-hug-m'self-jacket insane![5] And he has a cute tongue too...

BOOM!

Everyone scrambled to grab their various weapons as Kento cried "What the hell was that?!"

Running to the window, Rowen could see a pillar of smoke and flame in the distance. The sound of sirens filled the air. "Some'un blew up a buildin'!" Rowen called over his shoulder. Cye ran to the window, placing a hand on Rowen's shoulder so he could look on tip-toe.

"Bloody 'ell! 'oo would do somethin' like thaht?" Cye asked.

"Talpa," Quatre said grimly. "Let's go."