“Christmas. It is definitely a time for people to share joy and happiness with their beloved friends and families with their blessings.”
“Ah….! Christmas is finally here!” said Mikoto
cheerfully.
“Yes. Christmas is here,” said Sayu, who was trying to
choose a gift, “so are you going to spend the Christmas Eve alone with Yu?
Huh?”
“Hahaha. Don’t tease me, Sayu,” said the blushing Mikoto.
“God! If you don’t make a move how will he knows that you
like him? He will run to other girls by the time you’ve made up your mind,
Mikoto!” again Sayu teased.
“R-Really? Hahaha,” Mikoto tried her best to laugh from
Sayu’s cold joke. Then Mikoto seriously thought, “maybe my relationship with Yu
aren’t that close just like Sayu had said.”
Ryou Takehito proudly presents:
Night Assassins Christmas Special
Falling Snow
PART ONE – BAD ENCOUNTER
“No! Please don’t kill me! I promise I will
be good this time! Trust me!” yelled a man at a dark, cold street corner,
begging for mercy.
The young teenage boy just stared at him but
before the man could say thank you the teenage boy thrust his sword through his
chest.
“NO!!!!!” That was only the man’s last word.
“If you knew it from the beginning, then why
would you have done it?” said the boy in a pitiful way.
“That’s right, Yu!” said a rough voice
behind. “Never ever let your enemies get in your way.”
“Don’t listen to Ken, Yu,” said a young man
beside Ken. “He might be right but sometimes it will only make us a bloody
killer.”
“Whatever you say, Yosuke. Let’s call it
quits for tonight. Ahhh! It’s a relief that we won’t be having anyone on our
blacklist for this month otherwise it will just spoil the season we’re
celebrating!” said Ken.
“Yea, otherwise I won’t have time to spend
with her,” I said..
“You mean your little girlfriend?” Ken rubbed
his fist against my head.
“Stop it, Ken! You’re hurting me! Ow!”
When we were leaving the scene, a shadow
lurking in the street corner gave an evil grin behind our backs which barely
made us noticed it.
I am Seihou Yu, a 17-year old boy who studies
in a high school just like any other ordinary kid will do but the only
difference is I’m a trained assassin. It started back a year ago when I first
met Emiko, my secretary, when she first offered me to join the secret police
headquarter called ‘Shakunetsu’. There I was trained to be one and I was able
to avenge my sister’s death from their help. I joined a special unit called
‘Night Assassins’ where they use melee weapons instead of guns because we have
special body capabilities. Night Assassins consist of four members: Me, a sword
specialist; Keniichi or Ken for short, claw expert; Yosuke, a twin blade master
and our leader Koyasu, who is a samurai sword professional. Together, we work
as a team and every time we had a case, we had to murder our victims in just
one night. You could be wondering where could have Koyasu gone to, right? Well,
he’s having a vacation in Hokkaido
enjoying himself. Sometimes a leader needs a rest, right?
Back at the headquarters, Emiko praised us,
“Well done you all! Looks like you all can finally relax! Now go out and enjoy
Christmas!” But before we could leave the room, Emiko added, “don’t forget. If
there’s a case appear we might have to summon you all back.”
We all nodded and left the place but Emiko
was rather worried as she was holding an article and it was titled ‘Teufel’.
“Should I warn them or not…?” she ask
herself.
Koyasu was soaking himself in a hot spring
until he got up and was about to leave. Just then, a man entered the hot spring
and told Koyasu he had left his stuff at the hot spring. As Koyasu turn around
and looking at the spring, the man suddenly took out a razor blade and stabs
Koyasu, making Koyasu fell to the spring, floating with blood spilled all over
the spring.
The man just laughed and left the hot spring.
“Just two more days till Christmas! I really
hope I can spend the night with Mikoto,” I thought. I was walking to school
passing through the busy streets. Everyone was really enjoying themselves in
this snowy season. Just as I was passing through a candy shop, the shop
suddenly exploded and soon the shop was covered in flames. I was blown away by
the explosion and get up to find lots of people had been injured if not dead.
Feeling curious, I walked towards the burning shop and try to see what happen
but instead I heard a little boy crying for help. A woman was screaming for
help, asking people to save her five-year old only son. I just stood there,
watching the little kid choking in the flames but then I remembered that I had
to save him – I used to work as a help and rescue unit. I rushed into the shop,
covering myself with my arms. Soon I was by the kid’s side and I carried him
with both of my arms and when I did a flame of wood tumble down from the floor,
blocking the escape path. Just then I saw strange red markings on the wall,
written ‘NA’. It’s weird to see this kind of markings on the wall but now it’s
not the time to think about that! I must escape and save this kid. What should
I do? I guess I had no choice. I have to gamble my luck! I’ll just make my
breakthrough by bashing through these flames! Here goes nothing! I stood
standby, swallowing my courage and then I rushed through the flames with all my
might by closing my eyes! Soon, I was tumbling out of the store safely, with
the child in the arms. The mother of the child came towards him and hugged him
with tears, feeling glad that he’s safe. I just sat there on the floor,
sweeping the dust off myself watching them finally able to get together again.
Man, this is the most craziest morning I had in my life!
“Sorry Sensei! Just now there’s an explosion
on my way to school and I was involved,” I explained to my class teacher.
“This is absurd! You may go to your seat.
We’re already midway during the class. Kids these days. Sheesh. Don’t know what
they’re thinking always,” mumbled my class teacher.
Soon it was recess. I didn’t do anything
special except sitting in my seat thinking what caused the explosion. And what
is with the word ‘NA’? This is weird. Surely the special investigation group is
doing their job right now. Hmm….
“Hey Mikoto! This is your chance! Go ask
him!” encouraged Sayu by her side while staring at me.
Mikoto boosted up her courage and walked to
me and shyly she asked, “hey Yu. Ano… I was wondering if you wanna come to
Jenna’s Christmas Party tomorrow night?”
“Sure. Why not? I got nothing else to do,” I
smiled at her.
“That’s great! Ja, I’ll see you there
tomorrow night!” she was smiling very happily.
“Is Seihou Yu here?” asked three agents by
the classroom door.
“I am,” I answered while standing up.
“Please come with us. We got important things
to discuss with you.”
I looked at Mikoto for a while, and then I
followed them. The class was surprised to see me taken away by some agents,
even Mikoto.
When I was about to get into the car, I asked
them, “so is there an important mission for me?”
One of the agents looked at me and said,
“Mission for you? Looks like you got it wrong, kid.” As soon as he finished his
sentence, he pushed me into the car and drove me away.
I was forced into Shakunetsu’s jail with my
hands handcuffed. I tried to fight back by yelling “What is this all about?”
but it was futile.
“Welcome to our paradise,” said a rough voice
behind me.
“Ken? Why are you doing here? And Yosuke
too?” I was shocked to find that Ken and Yosuke were jailed too.
“Yea. I was doing my big time enjoying my
breakfast until I was locked in here thanks to them,” complained Ken.
“So why are we locked in here,” I asked.
“It seems that they thought the explosion
occurred in the town was done by us. They deciphered a code written ‘NA’ in the
exploded shop as ‘Night Assassins’ and they thought we did it,” Emiko
explained, behind the bars.
“Emiko!” the three of us felt relief to see
Emiko here.
“Isn’t it obvious?” I yelled. “Anyone knows
that the code written ‘NA’ was just only trying to set us up! So this is what
‘NA’ stands for! No wonder it was so weird.”
“You were at the scene?” asked Ken.
“Yes. I was trying to rescue a kid who was
trapped inside the burning shop and I found the code ‘NA’ inside the shop.”
“So how long are we going to stay in here,
Emiko?” asked Yosuke.
“Not long once they’ve learn that you three
have been set up,” said Emiko.
“Is Koyasu going to be back too?” I was
curious since Koyasu’s part of the team too.
“Yes,” she answered.
A few while later we were finally released
and we were sent to our mission room. Koyasu too entered the room and the three
of us were surprised to find him back.
“Koyasu! You’re back!” I greeted him. “What
happened to your chest?”
“I was attacked by someone in Hokkaido,” he
explained. Koyasu’s chest was bandaged but it seemed that he’s fine. “it was
only a slight injury but the culprit thought he killed me.”
“Who the bastard was trying to kill us!?”
yelled Ken, feeling furious.
“Everyone settled down!” commanded Emiko. “As
you guys knew already, you all have been set up by the people who had written
the code ‘NA’. They are ‘Teufel’.”
“Teufel?” I interrupted.
“Yes. Teufel. They are a group of assassins
from Germany whom they accept cases from clients who wants their enemies dead.
So they’re not the type of assassins as you guys are. We don’t have their
photos and we’re not sure where they are now. But there’s a high possibility
that they’re hanging out at Coco Paradise Nightclub. Your mission is obviously
to kill them off and I’m afraid you four might have to bring along your weapons
at all times since they’re targeting you. I wish you all luck. Night Assassins,
dismissed!”
“Looks like we can get our revenge,” smiled
Ken.
“I dunno. They sound dangerous,” I said.
“What? Are you afraid?” teased Ken.
“No I’m not! Hmm… it’s so weird. I thought
our covers are hidden but how did they find out about us, Emiko?” I asked.
“I’m not so sure. We don’t have enough
details.”
“So what do we do now, leader?” asked Yosuke.
“We should investigate Coco Paradise
Nightclub first,” suggested Koyasu.
“Man, sure lots of people tonight. This is
very annoying,” complained Ken. Indeed Ken was right. The nightclub was
crowded, making us very difficult to make sure whether Teufel was hanging
around here or not. The nightclub was dark and everyone was enjoying themselves
to a drink and if not, a dance.
“Let’s separate and search,” ordered Koyasu.
We all nodded and went our own ways.
Ken was searching around the bar until he saw
a lady of 28s with a green long hair and dressed in a red dress smiling at him.
“Care for a drink?” the lady smiled.
“Well, I… uh…”
“I’m a bit lonely now. Will you please
accompany my boredom?” the lady bowed a little, showing a little of the top of
her breast.
“Sure. Why not?” Ken answered.
Koyasu was wandering around and soon he found
a man who had this weird grin on his face that he’s very familiar with - the
guy who had stabbed him back at the hot spring. Because the man was talking
with another two people, Koyasu thought that the two people that he’s talking
to might be his companion and Koyasu quickly called me and Yosuke to follow
him. As we approached them, they seemed to notice us and we went back door.
Feeling that they might try to escape from us, we rushed to the back door but
as we tried to come out something was shot at me since I was the one in front
but fortunately I avoided the shot. A man wearing a brown swallowtail and a
cowboy hat was aiming his shotgun at us.
“Darn. I’ve missed it!” said the man
desperately and beside him was his other three companions.
“You guys are Teufel, right?” Koyasu asked.
“That’s right,” said the man who stabbed
Koyasu earlier. “We are Teufel. I’m Jade and this lady here is Diamond. The guy
with the shotgun is Halcon and the last guy over there is Topaz. Have you been
enjoying yourself? Hehehe.”
“You’re the guy who stabbed me back at the
hot spring!” shouted Koyasu.
“Ara? You’re not dead yet? Darn. Looks like
you got lucky,” said Jade. “Diamond, you go first. After I’ve finished them off
we’ll be there, k?”
“Alright, Jade. Oh. I forgot to mention to
you that your friend was lying at the back alley struggling. Hahaha.” And
Diamond just walked off.
“Why you!” I tried to rush to Diamond to get
my hands on her but I was blocked by Teufel.
“Why don’t you get us first?” as soon as Jade
finishes his sentence we were separate in our own battle.
Yosuke tried to quickly finish his opponent
by stabbing Topaz with his twin blade but unfortunately Topaz’s twin blade was
much longer than his. In fact, Topaz was using a kodachi.
It was hopeless for Yosuke to attack because
Topaz’s defense was so prefect that he blocked all of Yosuke’s attacks.
I was rushing towards Halcon and each shot
that Halcon tried to shoot at me I just avoided it by only moving to another
side so it was an easy avoid. Then I quickly rushed to Halcon and tried to
slash him but without knowing it Halcon blocked my sword and taking the chance
or at the same time he reloaded the bullet, pushed me aside and shot me at the
chest but it didn’t get me – I managed to avoid it by blocking the bullet with
my sword.
Koyasu’s battle with jade was a much
difficult one. Koyasu was using his sword and Jade was using two razor blades.
His speed surpassed Koyasu so it’s difficult for him to reach him. Some parts
of his clothes were torn because of him.
During halfway of the battle, Koyasu asked
him, “how do you find out about our identities?”
“Hehehe. You want to know?” Jade grinned
evilly. “Your security system is so poor that Topaz easily hacked into the
system.”
“Why are you attacking us? Are we on your
list?”
“No. We come to Japan because we’re only
interested on killing you guys. You guys are the unbeatable assassins in Japan so
we wanted to challenge you. Hahaha.”
“Darn you!”
Koyasu finally managed to fling Jade aside
but Jade just grinned and said, “I wished I could have finished you off tonight
but looks like our time is up. See ya next time. Bye Bye!” And the three of
them left.
“Man, they’re crazy,” I commented.
“We forgot about Ken!” Yosuke reminded us.
The three of us rushed to the back of the
alley and found Ken lying on the floor.
“Ken! Ken! You okay?”
END OF PART ONE
