By KatiKat
It should have been an easy
mission. Find and kill - the type of mission Heero was best at. And so it
didn’t take him long to locate Doc G, the traitor of the Dragon Clan, and to
eliminate him and his guardians. One shot per person - a clean kill. Not
necessary to make his victims suffer. Mission accomplished. But then...
Then he turned around in the
narrow street running between the old residences where the police hid their
important witness, like the one Doc G had become, and saw him...
A young boy with long, long
auburn hair in a simple braid, fair skin and violet eyes which were following
his every move was standing on the balcony of the house. It was just opposite
to the one where Heero had made his kill. That meant only one thing - he had
been seen. It didn’t matter that a white mask was covering his face. He could
still be identified. He raised his weapon and pointed it at the boy.
It was strange. The boy didn’t
move. It was as if he couldn’t see the gun. Or couldn’t care less. He just
stood there leaning against the balustrade, his arms hugging his black clad
torso. He was almost unearthly beautiful in the light of the setting sun. The
sight sent butterflies flapping their wings madly inside his stomach.
Heero’s hand wavered. Damn it.
This had never happened before. Never. Should he really... The sound of the
nearing police cars brought him out of his musing. He steeled himself and
pulled the trigger moving the barrel just a millimetre to the right in the last
possible moment. Damn it! Why did he do it?
A pfft! sounded very loud in the
silent street. The boy on the balcony flinched a little bit as the bullet
ripped through his sleeves and grazed his arm. But he didn’t cry out, didn’t
scream for someone to call the police. He just... smiled?
Heero was shocked. What the
hell...?
Then he heard the sound of the
screeching tires. The sound of the wailing sirens and running feet caught his
attention and he turned to the direction from where it came for just a second.
But when he looked back... the boy was gone leaving only the silently closing
door of the balcony behind.
Damn! Damn IT! Heero cursed
mentally and hiding his gun in the shoulder holster, he started to run in the
opposite direction to the one from where the police was coming. He jumped over
one of the stone fences around and stopping for only a moment on the top of it,
he turned back to the house where he had seen the boy just a couple of seconds
ago.
I’ll come back. He promised himself.
And then I will solve this... inconvenience.
Tbc