training continue

It was shallow, as expected of slums.

Kaede is seen to be crouching in an alley following a guy.

"Enemy advances to the left, follow the enemy Kaede" a static voice was quietly whispered in Kaede's ears, he followed as he began to reach for his ears to press on to something before replying

"The enemy started to talk to the client, it seemed it was another fake call" Kaede reports.

"Kill them."

"What?" Kaede asked, in disbelief

"All seeing isn't a joke, kill them. it's not gonna damage our reputation anyway, we are known to be brutal and unforgiving."

"...fine" Kaede releases the smoke he's been surpresing, letting it blown by the wind to the 'enemy' and client.

Their faces morph as they realize, they messed up.

They started to scramble away, both pulling their guns out.

but it was too late anyway, the mist started to shape form. It merges into a man with a soft smile on his face.

The man approaches both of them slowly, and the client and the 'enemy' quickly drop their gun in fear and yearning.

They started to stumble to hug the man but were met by a shot in their head instead.

Kaede shot them.

He let out a breath as he stood up

"Mission complete" he whispered into the ear peace

"See? told ya we have to be careful," the other line says loudly with an annoying tone

"yeah yeah 'all-knowing Daisuke" Kaede taunts, yet behind his tone he really is grateful for Daisuke's carefulness

That gets him thinking, 'How is that instrument freak doing?'

"Thinking of ito?" Daisuke voiced his thoughts, annoyed, Kaede just tsk and didn't answer

"If you're wondering where has he been for the last few days, he is on a burst mission"

"he already on a mission?" Kaede asked in surprise

"Yes, oh how my discipline grows up so quickly!" Daisuke answers with a fake crying tone.

"You mean MY discipline? you suddenly make me his mentor dipshit!" he barks

"Oh, how you wound me! I was too busy to be his mentor!"

"too busy my ass! your probably at my bar hitting on women again! can u understand that they don't wanna deal with your bullshits?"

"Pah! It's they're lost to not wanna join me on bleach drinking party anyway!"

"Tsk" Kaede walks to the corpse, picking up their heads with a grunt. He cuts an eye on the back of their neck.

He also cut their leg, shoved it into their mouth, and left the scene.

***

"You did another great job, Ito," the boss says. I nodded and exited the office.

'Hah....why is it so hard to earn a kid's trust....' I think, carefully navigating trying not to get lost

"Oh! ito-chan!" I heard someone call me, I turn around and it was Daisuke

"Oh... Suzuki-san..." I say, surprise. It's been a long time since I saw him.

'It's too been a long time since I trained...'

I feel a hand roughly slap my shoulder "Well well well aren't you a fast learner? Already doing missions! Welp, even if you already do missions is not a good thing to skip training I~to~chan ~" I shiver.

"s-sorry Suzuki-san..." I mumble while rubbing my scar

"Welp! Sorry isn't going to make all your lost training disappear! You're coming with me!" Daisuke dragged me to the training field

"Oi! Kaede-chan!" I almost laugh at how Kaede froze on the spot hearing Daisuke call him.

"kaede-chan~ don't ignore me~! Your dear student is here~!" Daisuke wiggles his way to Kaede and shakes his shoulder.

"Urgh...." Kaede groaned, yet his gaze was on me.

I wave at him with a small smile

he smiles back, 'WAIT HE SMILES BACK?!' I think dumbfounded

'h-h-he can smile?!'

"Welp Kaede, ito-chan, I'm gonna leave you guys to have a little fun reunion! Buh bai!" Daisuke left humming an odd tune. That sadly stuck in my head

"U-uh... It's been a while... Ikeda....sir...senior...san...haha..haha...." I laugh awkwardly, rubbing the tip of my back hair.

"Don't call me by my last name"

'jeez....I was being polite...and, I forgot I still need to train' I complain in my head

"gyah!" Kaede flicks my forehead.

"Ouch!" I wince, rubbing my forehead "What's that for you zombie!" I suddenly shouted.

My body tense and everyone from Division 1 froze too.

I can feel Kaede's menacing gaze "Wait wait wait! It was a joke! Haha!" I sway my hands in front of my face and body.

"Whatever you skipper!" eh?

"truant!"

"Cut training!"

"Absent yourself!"

"Ditcher!"

"shirk!" the words hit me harshly, 'Is this what skippers feel?'

"Don't you get it? you–" he pokes my bruised forehead "will–" poke "train–" poke "with–" poke "me—" poke "until–" poke "you–" poke "know–" poke "how–" poke "to–" poke "use–" poke "urge–" poke "on–" poke "command!"

"OOOOOW!!!" I dug my head down

"I don't care if you already received your first mission, that doesn't give you the reason to ditch!" he scolded

"But I don't have time! I need to go to school at 5 am and come back at 6 or 8 pm!" I try to reason with him

"There are still 2 hours for training, You literally look like the definition of a tired college boy who has student loan debt and only gets 3 hours of sleep, How can you not handle 2 hours of training?" I can feel my heart screaming from the harsh words

'The way he said that with no tone nor expression makes it more painful...'

"Now let's go," Kaede says before dragging me to the training ground

'Nostalgic!'

***

"ooii! lady aoi you promise me to buy me ice cream you liar ass bitch!" kaito say looking at division 5 windows.

division 5 office was fancy, the floor covered with cream-colored tiles with soft brown lines of details.

The ceiling was gold and red, and a gold chandelier was swinging with diamond decoration

Kaito and Aoi were sitting on a fancy chair, Lady Aoi was drinking tea while Kaito was playing

"it's rude to call a lady a liar ass bitch, where do you learn those words?" asked Lady Aoi, putting her cup down.

"Myself, im 16. stop treating me like a child bitch!" kaito say sticking his tongue out

"sigh...I guess the beating you took from Daisuke is for nothing..." Kaito flinch.

"You–" he started

"Did you know Ito–Kun already gotten his first mission?" Lady Aoi cut him professionally.

"...tsk...I already know... It's like it's a big deal! I received my mission when I was 11! And what? I only got head pats and a useless compliment!" Kaito argued

"Well it took you 2 years, Ito–Kun only takes 1 or 2 days," she says sipping her tea

"... I've never seen him around lately, it's been 1 week. Does he do his training?" Kaito asks with a blank face

'Trying to change the topic I see..how cute' Lady Aoi thinks before answering "Well, I heard Daisuke was bothering Kaede about missing ito–kun... and he answered saying 'WELL HE KEEPS SKIPPING TRAINING! WHY CAN'T HE UNDERSTAND THAT HE TRAINED WITH ME UNTIL HE CAN USE URGE ON COMMAND! THAT TIRED-LOOKING ASS BASTARD INSTRUMENT MUSIC FREAK! SKIPPING TRAINING LIKE SKIPPING CLASS!'"

"I still can't get used to how you can mimic others voices so well..." he mumbles

"How cute!" Lady Aoi chuckled

"Don't you think Iked– I mean Kaeda acts differently with Daisuke?"

"Hm?" she let out a questioning hum

"Like, he's more....loosen up, when he is with Daisuke. Do you know how his voice doesn't have a tone in it and is always flat? Well, when he is with Daisuke his personality changes reaaal quickly! he is more angrier with Daisuke! Do you think Kaede hates Daisuke?" Kaito blable out

"I don't think so...because a little bird told me that Kaede really really loves Daisuke" Lady Aoi wink

"....a... aren't.... aren't Kaede like.. 42 or something? Isn't he a little too old for romance? And with Daisuke? Is his preference really low?"

Lady Aoi chuckled "Not like that, I meant it as he admires Daisuke"

"Why?" he asked

"Hm....that's for another story to tell~" she teases

***

"Hey, you alive?" The shadow overcast the person's face, the only thing that was visible to him was the scar on the person's cheek

"Hm? You are!" the person chuckles and crouch down poking his face

"Wow can't believe you can have a burst at this moment, aint it?" he only grumbles in response, annoyed by the person's action

"My name is Daisuke Suzuki, I work for all-knowing. It's a small group. but you know what they do? They help people like you whose experience burst!" Daisuke then laugh

"Ngh....stop poking you dipshit..." the person grumble once more

"Gasp! You just say a bad word in front of a minor! Oh, my poor 16-year-old ears! They too early to be tainted by such foul words!" Daisuke dramatically say

"Yeah yeah whatever kid is 21, and I can do anything I want"

"That includes suicide?" Daisuke asks tilting his head. He stares at the person's eyes.

"That includes that. now shoo"

"No can do Kaede Ikeda–Chan!" Daisuke says sticking his tongue out.