Workin a bar...The Jack's comin in!

A man behind a bar sighed heavily. He was five feet nine inches tall, looked like a teenager with silver hair and cyan eyes. He was wearing slacks, dress shoes, a maroon vest and a black bow tie. He also had a ring with a turquois stone on his index finger. A reiatsu suppressor to help him control his mass amount of power. He held the rest of it down on his own. Also behind the bar was his vibro-knife and his pistol...in case things needs to get settled down very quickly. He's had this bad feeling all day, from the time he got up this morning to even now. It was unlikely his hyper intuition was just being paranoid, it's never been wrong before.

The bar was moderately busy, but with all the card games and socializing, there weren't many drinks being ordered. Yuri Romanov, going by the name of Jack because he's a jack of all trades, was bored. But liked the easy work. Even if he was on edge.

The door opened to show a small group of people, mostly men with a few sluts walking straight towards the bar. Seemed his hyper intuition was right. He knew why they were there as his boss already warned him. The man grabbed his pistol and the payment and handed them the payment. That was when the girls started to make a fuss about him because of how cute he was. "Back off please. You already have a man."

The men chuckled as the man that had the sluts grinned. "Good boy. You know your place." Then he made the wrong move by ruffling his hair harshly. The man lost all of his fingers except the thumb as Yuri brought out his vibro-knife. He then pointed his pistol at another man reaching to draw. "Don't even think about it. You got your payment. I'll even give you an address for you to send the hospital bill. Just don't touch me again." Putting the knife down, he wrote down a drop point for missions and where to find it for them to send him the hospital bill...and to stop by the next day for the payment, asking specifically for the receipt.

After they left and cleaning up the mess, things returned to quiet. But he still had that slight feeling of unease. He just hoped for once his hyper intuition was wrong. He soon found out with the next patron that walked in through the door.

A man wearing a hooded cloak and asortment of black leather and metal armor walked towards the entrance to the bar he'd been sent to. There were a group of men and women leaving at the same time as he was entering, and one of them bumped him. kain kept walking, he'd been ordered not to so much as kill a fly and the best way to not kill someone was to keep walking. However the man who'd bumped him believed it was kain's fault and grabbed his shoulder before he managed to open the door to the bar.

Kain's response was to grab the man's arm and snap his wrist before pulling the man towards him and slamming him through the door. Kain walked in after, and stepped over the unconsious man. He moved towards the bar ignoring the commotion. If the man's freinds decided to get revenge Kain would deal with them without killing a single one, but otherwise he'd forgotten they'd existed.

Kain stepped up to the bar and met the barman's eyes from under the hood. " Double wiskey straight." He said sitting down on a stool. He put a few coins down on the counter and waited for his drink.

The commotion at the door peeked a few people's interest, even 'Jack's'. The man that came in afterwards set the tension level sky high. And Yuri's hyper intuition was screaming at him about this hooded figure...this spook. The guy ordered, laying down some notes and even a few one dollar coins. Yuri took the money and served him his double whiskey straight up. He also gave the man his change. Yuri kept his gun and his knife close by. His boss showed up and wanted to talk to him briefly in the back room.

The silver hair told him what happened, causing the fat man to laugh. He then asked about the spook. Yuri just shrugged and told his boss how his hyper intuition was acting. The boss nodded and told him to try to keep the fight outside if he could. Yuri sweatdropped and went back to work. He delivered a few drinks...but so far that was it. Until a small group playing cards started to walk towards the spook. "Easy guys...if you're gonna confront him, please do it outside...I don't want to draw my gun on anyone else today..." He lifted his Colt 45 pistol for emphasis. The men told him not to worry, they weren't planning on doing anything...just talk. Yuri got closer to the spook, vibro-knife in his other hand, and got ready to stop any trouble.

He did not need this...

Kain kept his eyes to his drink, occasionally looking to the barman. He was carefully examining him to make sure this man was the one Kain's master sent him to find. For a while the barman vanished into the back, then came back out. All that time, Kain could feel someone watching him. He ignored it and drank his wiskey.

Soon enough though, he heard the shuffle of feet and the barman warned off the men who appoached, waving a fancy gun around. The ring leader came right up close, and stared at kain while the other men surrounded him. Kain ignored them and looked at the barman. One man asked him if he thought he was tough, but Kain paid no mind and asked the barman something. "Are you Yuri Romanov?"

"Hey i asked you a question, spook. Do you think your a tough guy. Whats the matter, afraid?" Again, Kain ignored him. "Another double wiskey, straight." Kain said, despite his glass still being half full. He put down some more money. Kain picked up his current glass and held it in his hands for a couple of seconds, and the glass and liquid within froze solid. Then he turned and slammed it into the ring leaders face and stood up. He waited to see the others reactions, including yuri's.

Yuri noticed the man mostly staring at his drink. It was clear he was here for some reason. But when he spoke, Yuri kept up a facade with a puzzled look, followed by confusion as the spook ordered again as the ring leader confronted him. Either this guy had skills...or had more balls than brains...turned out a little of both as he froze the liquid and smashed it into the ring leader's face and stood. This earned a gun being pointed straight at the guy's head, a good six feet away. The guys held up their hands. "I said take it outside or-" One guy jumped the bar in an attempt to hold him...only to see nothing and a knife being pressed to his throat...gun still pointed at the spook's head. "That's it...all of you...out. Now." One by one, the men that confronted the spook left. Yuri let the one go as he also left.

"You too. Sorry, but I'm not him. What you can do if you have a job for him is to go to(insert random place and instructions for a dropoff point) with the mission details and how much you'll pay him. If he accepts it, he'll let you know either the next day or a couple days afterward, depending on his schedule. If he doesn't...he'll be very vocal about it. Of course, if it's not enough money for the job, he'll also let you know." Hopefully, this spook will listen...again...hopefully...

The bartender pulled his gun as the ringleader went down, and Kain stood stark still, staring at the bartender he though was Yuri. He wasn't afraid of guns, he hated them though, refusing to use them since the day he left the organisation. The other men froze, all but one idiot who jumped over the bar and nearly got his neck slit as the bartender pulled a knife.

One by one, the men left the bar but Kain didn't move. So the bartender gave him a little speech about how to contact Yuri Romanov. Kain considered what this man had to say with cold contemplation. He didn't believe him, though. He had a feeling this man was lying, though if he wasn't Yuri, he might end up dead. "I dont believe you." Kain said finally.

"I was given accurate information that Yuri Romanov would be here. Either your him, or he's in the back. I'm willing to tear this place a part to find him. You could save yourself and your boss allot of trouble if you give him up now." Kain's voice was cold and emotionless as he spoke. "I was told to find Yuri and offer him a chance to make a difference, in person. I wont give up until thats been done. And shooting at me wont change a thing."

Yuri wanted to laugh at the man. In fact he chuckled. "Now why would I lie? He or she does show up here once in a while...it tends to have a different appearance every time, being a master of disguise and not wanting it to be easy to be found. But today he never showed up, just told us where any prospective job offers should go to. I could relay that information to him too...for a small fee. But he's not here. If you have a specific meeting place for your superiors to meet him...I can relay that too. Or we can just shoot it out here and make a ruckus for the police and the damnable Coalition. I'll leave the choice up to you."

His boss came out with a shotgun and agreed with 'Jack', even calling him by that name. "But please, step outside to fight, you two, if you do decide to go at it. Then the winner can come in and either continue working or check every nook and cranny of this place." 'Jack' gave him a nasty glare. Fighting was the last thing he wanted to do...but on the other hand, fighting outside would allow him to escape too. How this guy found him was beyond him...surely he hasn't gotten that predictable...even if he has gotten somewhat famous. He stayed off of the Coalition's radar...or even if he was wanted by them, they haven't even approached him. Shame he couldn't sense worth crap, otherwise he'd try to tell what race this man was.

Again the man denied being yuri, and also claimed he wasn't here. He gave Kain a few options but in the end Kain shook his head. "Unacceptable. I wont compromise. I'm not worried about the Coalition or the Police. So I guess I'll have to beat it out of you." As he said that two long knives of black ice formed in his hands. These blades were as strong as Zanpakuto steel.

The man's boss appeared in the door way with a shotgun. Kain glared in his direction but the man told them both to take it outside, so there would be no need to deal with him first. Kain moved to one side to allow the bartender to pass without worry. Unless he attacked Kain would follow him out without causing a fuss. "I'll give you one chance to reconsider." He said coldly as he walked out into the street. The ground beneath his feet started to ice over as he walked.

Yuri was baffled. The New York Police department is among the best in the world thanks to Dino Tomoshibi. And being the location of the Coalition's HQ, the most members and the most significant members often spend time here. And yet this guy wasn't worried about them? Really? Did he have a death wish? Yuri just sighed at his uncompromising guest. He jumped the bar and walked on out. "Don't count on me returning...either way..." The boss tried to protest...but got a bullet taking a small chunk out of his ear.

He got outside and pointed his gun at the man again. It was a quiet street with not a whole lot of traffic. Something like this was uncommon...so at least there will be a delayed response for the police to arrive. Yuri gave a small grin as a magic circle appeared behind the spook, shooting out a white sword of pure holy energy. If it missed, it would head straight towards Yuri, who would kick it back at the man...along with two gunshots aiming for the knee caps. A blur to his right and he slashed with his vibro-knife and shot again at the man, aiming for the gut instead.

Kain smiled under his hood. Fighting was part of his life. He was going to enjoy this, atleast. The first attack caught him slightly off guard, tearing past his shoulder and cutting it slightly as he dodged it. The Man kicked it back but can stamped his foot and a barrier of ice formed, blocking both the bullets and the sword. The man blurred to his right and slashed but kain blurred away, dodging the gunshot too.

He slapped his ice blades together and his power shot up for a moment as he activated his second level of powers. Holding one hand up like he was throwing a spear, 20 long spears of ice formed and fired at Jack. Kain waited for them to stop, or Jack to move before he blurred forward to close the distance, stopping infront of him to attack with a furious flurry of slashes using both long knives with vicious skill.

Akiko had listened to the speal happen between the wanna be gang of thugs and the cold hardened bartender who opposed them but had kept to herself because she didn't feel a need to get involved for low class punks and their cheap toys. She even just sat back and drank from a large, probably enchanted, mug of booze while another man who seemed equally skilled started ordering drinks only to smash one against another thugs head while the other made a fool of another guy and kept on telling them to leave..even the bar boss came out to tell them to take it outside..

"Kids these days.." Akiko said in her corner of the bar as she tossed another sack of gold coins at the bar boss without moving from her seat this worked only because she had previously been here and had already made a deal to pay with the only form of money she ever carried..which were these solid gold coins, "Oi.. I'm probably going to ruin yer bar..just go pretend it's not about to happen and I'll triple the sack when I'm done.. Should really invest in reinforcements for the building so it dun git any more damaged than need be aye?" Unfortunately she had the distinct impression she was going to be broke after this.. Though the sacks were small they were more than enough to cover loads of booze.

She got up and stepped right by the door to the bar just in time to see the two young men already going at it as if they were having a death match over a life long grudge.. Both of these men were bigger than her as she was only 5'5'' and didn't weight much more than the average woman..one more so than the other..but she didn't look like she cared.. She looked rather drunk but what came next would put the fact she was drunk into a whole new perspective for the two if they had enough brains to figure out what was going on..

"Oi... Settle down ye brats.. Or I'll have to spank ye.." with the words came a massive spiritual density and the visualization of her literally doing just as she promised within their minds, though it would sound and look more like her breaking their ass bones with her hand than spanking..and making it seem far more dangerous than it sounded..not to mention it was so heavy and think that unless either of these two had unrealistically high spiritual pressure of their own..they would most likely find it very difficult to move to continue fighting eachother as unlike ordinary spiritual pressure..this was Akiko's Cloak of the Ruler an ability that made her spiritual pressure fair more devastating than it was on it's own..She likes to call it her aura of pure badassery..something she is very proud of..

"Come in here and have a drink.. if ye gonna be fighting like men then ye best be doing it like men instead of children.. Get drunk and make up..or I'll force the drink down yer gullots and whoop yer hides anyways.." She said while exerting the same dangerous tone and life threatening visualizations via spiritual pressure.. She didn't wait for them either. If they were not back in the bar in a very short amount of time she was going to come back outside..and literally hand them their own asses on a platter which was also forced in their minds as a visualization by her cloak of the ruler. She went back inside..bought a round of booze for the people still within the bar..and went right into rallying the people into a huge drinking contest..

"Be ye pussies or lions!" she roared in a drunken glee as she stood on a table and downed the large mug in one shot, "Drink up me hearties the parties on me!" ..there went the sack she had tossed him previously.. She had five left and three were going to cover the brawl Akiko had already intended to start that should be enough though..there were only around 22 or so people not counting the boys..and one sack could pay for 3 drinks for each of em, "If ye got something to lose then ye shouldn't be here! DRINK UP OR GO HOME!!" She said as she refilled her mug and continued her game of epic drinking..her aura allowing her to manipulate the people around her into joining the drinking contest because they already wished to drink but didn't want to spend alot of money.

Now she just waited for the two clowns..as everything she had done had taken up most of the time she was willing to wait for them to stop being retarded..

Freaking ice users...he did get him with his little sneak attack with Seiken. Guy was fast too, dodging his knife slash and his gun, and fired ice spears. He charged right in low and fast, even blurred twice to avoid getting stabbed. The spook closed the distance as well, doing a flurry of blows. Yuri quickly changed his knife to a reverse grip and started backing up and weaving between the blows and parrying them with his knife and gun. He pointed his thumb up. Ten magic circles appeared and rained down ten more of those swords of pure holy energy. Hopefully getting distance between them. He spent the rest of his six bullets. Not wanting to waste time reloading, he put the gun in its holster behind his back. He grabbed the energy sword and swung, firing a wave that would cut should it connect.

That was when the patron chick with gold came into play. Yuri stopped cold and paled at both her power and the imagery that came to mind. Not wanting to lose his ass or anything of the like...he sheathed his vibro-knife...and reloaded his gun with one of his extra clips before holstering it again and going inside. "As if we weren't fighting like men..." Despite the huge power, he still moved mostly normally...he did seem a little bit slower...but only because of his own impressive spiritual pressure allowed him to.

When he walked in...she had started a drinking contest. And good god. What she said next made him respond. "I have something to lose...can I go home?" Seriously...he was tired already. If she said no...he would stay but not touch a drop until the police arrive. But seriously...those sirens should be getting closer...and they weren't...what was taking them so long? Hell, if the spook came in and not do anything but sit next to him, he would go ahead and humor him. "Alright...yes, I'm Yuri...but I'm not going anywhere unless you tell me who you are, who are your reliable sources, who your superiors are and what organization you're from. At least humor me with that information."

The police sirens stopped...now Yuri was severely worried...

Kain was enjoying this fight. The man was strong, equal to Kain. They matched blow for blow, and Kain blurred back out of the way of the energy blades. More bullets were fired, which he blocked with a shield of ice. The man grabbed an energy sword from know where, a swung his weapon, launching a wave of energy. Kain dived to the side and it cut through the ice and missed him by inches. Rolling to his feet he charged towards the man, blades poised to strike, and froze solid in the street about a foot from his opponant when the woman walked out of the bar and yelled at them.

Kain wasn't afraid, he'd never felt fear and didn't understand how to be afraid. What stopped him was shear confusion, because he wanted to listen to this woman and obedience wasn't one of his most prominant traits, unless the person giving the order was his master. He straigtened up and lowered his weapons and looked between the woman and jack and back to the woman. She went back inside and he disolved his ice blades, to scratch at his head. Yuri walked off, which just increased Kain's confusion and urge to obay.

Shrugging he walked after Yuri and into the bar. The atmosphere was quite.. Jolly. Kain wanted to leave. He almost did but remembered his mission. still he was allot more relaxed about it than before. He walked up and sat at the bar next to Jack. "I'm confused..." he said more to himself before he asked for another double wiskey, which he downed to try relax himself. Then he had another, which he sipped at this time.

Finally, Jack admitted to being Yuri Romanov. "Kain.." He said holding out a hand to shake, if yuri wished to do so, before telling Yuri about how he'd found out about him. Then he moved on to the reason he was there in the first place. "My master is putting together a group of... vigilantes.. I guess you could call them.. Reason.. He feels he can make a difference where other organisations cant. I've been gathering intel.. I found out about you from an old client... I informed Parius and he sent me to find you.... Your good.. Finding you was hard... If I was here to Kill you, you'd have made it difficult."

Kain was.. Pleased he still had his hood up because it hid the slight amount of respect he felt for this man, and Kain didn't want him thinking they were freinds now. He knocked back his wiskey and ordered another, he was starting to feel tipsy now.

Akiko glowered at the boy as he smarted off about leaving, "ye deem to be a man then chicken out at the first friendly challenge I throw yer way? By the nine hells you shall drink til you drop this night or I'll be damned by the beer gods themselves!" She said as she slammed a fresh big mug down on the table infront of him with the "Good" stuff..burn his throat and most likely make him cough but it'll be smooth and delicious..it's also good for cleaning motors..

"YE!" she said as she noticed the other guy chug a drink then sip the next like a panzy, slamming a mug down for him as well, "Drink til ye nay able to lift yer mug panzy." She chugged another mug herself, all of the "mugs" being at least three times the size of regular drinks, before speaking again, "any boon thinkin he be man that cannae out drink meh is denied the right to be deemed as he wishes!"

Even though she was drunk out of her ass.. It actually seemed to make her more accurate.. One of the other patrons passed out after managing to fully chug his second mug and she caught him and gently placed him on the floor off by another table that was empty before coming back to the one that the drinking contest was happening on. "Me thinks he had a wee much to drink nay?" She thundered with drunken delight as she rose her booze and got a cheer from the other patrons, maybe even Kain and Yuri?, though if they didn't cheer she'd glare at them again as if ordering them to drink or die.

Several minutes later most of the remaining patrons gave up trying to outdrink her and simmered to a normal drinking pace..which was not surprising considering the size of the "Mugs" she had been passing around. Though the bar boss seemed slightly annoyed at having to replace so much booze at once he didn't seem to voice an opinion due to the sack of gold he was...fondling..

"Bah.. Be there no man tha can match drinks wit meh!" She said as she and one of the remaining patrons started a staring contest while they chugged from a mug. Finally after winning this contest she herself finally seemed to reach her limit and she quieted down just a bit while sitting in a totally relaxed position with her feet propped on the table. "Oi.. thinkin Ah had a bit much this time.." She said with a large burp that would score a 9 on the awesome burp scale, "See there laddies.. tis be much better than ye childish banter outside.."

Though she had not looked like she had paid attention at all the entire time..she had indeed heard every word the two had said to eachother and if they weren't drunk yet she wasn't letting them leave til she fixed that, "So.. Ah was right to stop ye childish actions from earlier..Had the two of ye's stubbornness continued one of ye would be dead nay?" She sat up correctly and put her elbow on the table so she could prop her head up on her hand, "Tha word ye used.. it means hero nay? One outside law who fights for it nonetheless? Where be yer boss laddie.. Ah think ah'd like a word wit em.."

She stopped for a moment...almost like time had been frozen for her for just a couple of seconds..before a gurgle sound came from her stomach and she burped again, though not spewing anything out not even spit, it definitely smelled of hardcore booze..

..yet for some reason what happened next would probably shock the two boys.

"I've been looking for a job.. Once I finish paying the owner of this bar I'll be broke..something that even now is a bad way to be. But first you are going to entertain me just a whee bit more.."

She was standing up now..that same aura of badassery seemed to make the patron's a bit more alert and she was grinning ear to ear as she cupped her hands over her mouth all the other patron's already knew what was about to get said because all of them were already grinning as well, "BAR FIGHT~!" She said as she instantly spartan kicked the table infront of her across the room even though she didn't hit anyone with it after grabbing her mug of ale and drinking from it as she rushed a patron who was about to tackle her just to bulldoze him aside like a toy.

Smashing bottles and loud cheering yelling erupted all over the place as everyone jumped into the bar fight knowing the damage was not coming out of their pockets. A few of the guys even went after Kain and Yuri..though a mental projection occured in their heads that showed them unspeakable ways of being harmed should they actually seriously injure a patron..

...because Akiko was not a fool..she knew damn well the two of them could kill every patron here except her without even breaking a sweat..

Yuri got yelled at...and got a mug shoved in his face. He still didn't touch it. Hell, he could smell how strong it was. But he still talked to the spook now identified as Kain. How appropriate of a name. "Apparently not hard enough. I never let a client know what my next job is...just that if he/she recommends someone to me, to use my mission dropoff points. I obvously need to change something..." Then the chick with gold came in again...obviously drunk. And responded to the first thing she said. "Not dead...my intention was to escape. I have a wonderful ability that would have been perfect, and another to change my appearance to make it even better. Both of us would still be alive. I just be on the run again...wouldn't be the first time either." And then she continued with her other comment.

"I don't do face to face meetings with potential clients. He has to 1. Prove to me that he can even lead this group of vigilantes, and 2. Show me he really can do what the Coalition can't seem to do, what the vizards seem unwilling to do, and what the shinigami sucks at doing. I don't care if he has a plan that would involve me, but he would have to pay my fee. Only if those two conditions are met would I ever follow anyone."

Then she mentioned about a job and going broke and entertaining her a "whee bit more." Again his hyper intuition was screaming that he wasn't going to like it...and it was correct. Yuri got up as he saw someone go after him. He picked up his chair and slammed it into him. A second one looked at him and licked his lips...as if thinking he would be an easy target. Yuri ran at him, jumped at him, and flipped him and landing on his feet witht he guy on the ground. He then ducked behind the bar. where the owner was still fondling his gold like it was a pair of breasts...or a nice ass. But he also still had his shotgun with him.

"Kain...you found out I was working here...I don't mind meeting your boss, but find out where my apartment is...till the next time we meet." He yelled over the commotion. Then turned to the owner and told him to shoot him. "What?" "You heard me. Shoot me. Then shoot me again in the head." The owner was confused...but did so anyway. He shot "Yuri" in the chest. Only for it to deform showing a ghoul with claws and a bow tie and vest coming at him wanting to tear his head off. The owner shot it again, making his head go poof. Green stuff splattered all over the place in that particular area.

Yuri on the other hand was already five blocks away...now sporting black hair, tanned, and brown eyes with a little bit of a stubble for facial hair. And found out why the police haven't arrived. Because they were talking to a man (Parry, but Yuri doesn't know that) about that man going to the place, calming it down, and then send a report to the chief. Whatever. Only thing Yuri wanted to do was get to his apartment and sleep.

The strange woman came over and slammed a mug in front of Kain as he was sipping his drink, and called him a panzy. This would be his third wiskey, so he stood up off the stool and trew his glass at the wall, glaring at the woman from under his hood. His eyes looked angry as he looked at her, but then he snatched up the heavy mug and chugged back the drink. He drank about half of it before slamming it back down with a slight wobble.

Kain was used to drinking only to blend in. He'd never gotten drunk before and the sensation was quite new to him. He swayed, listening to Yuri and the woman talk. "Iye I wasn't going to Kill him. It would mess up the plan and i'd fail my mission and i dont like failing like not failing. What is this its very strong." he picked up the mug and downed the rest of it. "I dont see why not. Pretty sure my bossmanaroony can use all the help."

Kain looked around for another drink when the woman shouted bar fight. He turned around to find a man running at him with a mug swinging wildly. Kain sidestepped, leaving the floor beneath him iced over. The man slipped and slammed into the bar, sloshing his drink. Kain plucked it from his hand and patted him on the back with a smile. The man smiled back, revealing he now lacked a front tooth before sliding off the bar.. Kain forgot who's drink he was holding and took a swig when the next guy ran at him and punched him in the face. Yuri vanished, moments after telling Kain to come find him again.

Kain laughed and tapped him back in the gut which must have been harder than he'd wanted because the man bent over. Kain tossed the mug up into the air and grabbed his shirt with both hands and lifted him up onto the bar, slidding him along it and off the end. He snatched the mug as it came back down, pulled the toothless man who was lying on the floor up and stuck it back in his hand, pushing him off into the crowd. Then he jumped up onto the bar.

"Come on! Who's got the balls ta try knock me off here!" he said slurrin his words quite a bit. He was drunker than an irish skunk swimming in beer. In the end no one got to challenge him because he fell backwards off the bar into a heap, chortling to himself like a mad man.

About an hour later the bar fight calmed down and Akiko patted the bar boss's back as she dropped the three promised sacks of gold coins infront of him. She was a bit disgusted at his greed but couldn't help but agree that it was indeed good to have money. A situation she now found herself not being a part of as she was now broke. That other brat ran off during the bar fight instead of sticking around..vexing..

"Oi Kain." She said as she had caught them saying their name's earlier she walked over to him and slung him over one of her shoulders since he was in a drunken stupor, "Snap out of it you have to find that one guy so we can meet your boss right? I'll be damned if I just spent the last of me money for no reason. start THINKING."

She walked over to the bar boss while having Kain over her shoulder, "Where did the lil youngin go. He ran off while we were having our bit of fun and I got a feelin you be knowing where he is.. ..May want to consider how unwise it is to not answer me simple question by the way in case you wanna try playin hardball.."

After a half hour of walking...he reached the 20 story apartment complex that he was currently residing in. His apartment was only on the second floor. Getting inside it, he undid his disguise magic and sighed heavily. "What a f*cking day..." His apartment was...actually fairly large with a spacious living room/kitchen right there at the entrance with three other doors. One lead to the bedroom, one lead to the laundry room, and one lead to the bathroom. Everything was high quality. Being a Jack of all trades, and a damn good one at that, meant he could charge exuberant prices for certain jobs. And his reputation only allowed him to get away with it. Now...he was just waiting for his rent to be out so that he could move out. Afterall, it would be a waste of money to not take full advantage of this...even if he didn't have a whole lot of stuff to move since the place was fully furnished. The apartment room itself was right in front...making it easy for him to moniter who's coming in through the front should he feel like being creepy when eating. The only things in front of the window was a table for two.

Yuri dressed himself in a white tank top and grey sweatpants before pooring himself some fine wine and looking at his financials again on the coffee table. Things looked good...he would have enough to draw on for at least half a year when he leaves for Kansas City. He turned on the TV and started watching some anime. Black Lagoon was on. His gun and his knife was back in his bedroom. Not long before the episode's ending...his hyper intuition was acting up...so once again...he was on edge. He was about to take another sip of his wine when the unthinkable happened...

Kain was pretty out of it. He struggled aimlessly to stand and found his legs to drunk to obay. He passed out for for a while, and when he came around, he was slung over the woman's shoulder. He was pretty happy with himself and started singing to himself as she went about her buisiness. He ended up passing out again after a while though.

When he woke back up he was still over Akiko's shoulder, and was feeling a little livelier. He was going to tell her to put him down when something else happened, he wasn't quite sure what but he was suddenly flying through the air. His reflexes kicked in and he curled up as he crashed through a window. He landed on a table and rolled forward, springing onto his feet.

He spotted Yuri sitting on a sofa and spun, pointing at him. "YOU!" He shouted. "I have returned. How did I get here?" then Kain fell back flat on his back, unconcious before he touched the ground which started to slowly ice over.

A second after Kain had his little moment of conscious stupidity Akiko landed on the window edge with a thump and gripped the edge of the wall to avoid falling off when gravity started trying to work on his large sword which had been mysteriously absent up til this point.. ..Only to quickly realize Kain was passed out again which caused her to sigh. Maybe getting the boy drunk wasn't such a smart idea after all.. .... .... .... what the hell was she saying? It was hilarious. She stepped down on the floor and put a hand on her hip before speaking.

"Well other than him bein a drunken fool.." she started with another sigh, "We found ye.. I apparently be working for him now.. so I helped him get here.." She pulled a flash off her waist and emptied the hot water onto the passed out man's face.. why not cold you ask? Because after noticing he had ice powers earlier she didn't think keeping cold water would wake him up once they got here.. So she filled it with hot water.

..poor bastard.

She looked up at Yuri after that and kicked Kain a couple of feet with a "love tap" if he wasn't conscious again yet without looking at him, "So....apparently ye be needing to come work with us and meet the boss man yeh? Wanna just help get this here fool back to normal so he can get ahold of said boss? I'm pretty sure my continual mistreatment is only gonna keep him conscious for so much longer if he stays this flippin drunk."

She then decided to make herself at home...after fixing the window and the table with a flash of light she spun a chair around and sat in it with her feet propped on the table and the chair precariously tipped back on two legs, "Back in my day a lightweight like him would be the laughing stock of true men in a tavern.. Time sure changes....a lot.." She almost sounded a bit sad at the last statement about time. Her time....it seemed so far away..yet seemed almost like yesterday.. She still hadn't even met her descendants.. She wasn't sure she wanted to at this point..having been mostly disappointed so far in the quality of humankind.. In her day most of the people now who complained about not having simple small meaningless objects would have been ridiculed and treated as worthless beggars because everyone worth something in her day worked their butts off for a living..even if it meant slaying monsters and risking constant death to put food on the table.

She changed her tune and expression quick enough though.. the disposable container she had emptied got tossed into a visible trash can and she pulled a much fancier flask that contained some fine rum. She began to drink from it though she didn't get totally smashed hopefully by this point Kain was up and about and no one was trying to kill eachother.. so she'd say something, "Don't forget.. I'm broke because I covered the bar fight incident and the booze.. one of ye is going to end up helping me get my moneys worth out of tonight even if I have to tan yer hides for it.."

Granted she had predetermined the bar fight incident and had caused it..

....but that wasn't gonna stop her from getting her moneys worth of entertainment for becoming poor over it.

A portal opened on a street in New York. A man casually walked out of it, and looked around. He closed the portal, and Parius Chitose sighed. Let's hope he didn't start a ruckus. He thought, before walking down the street. "I honestly hope that this Yuri guy said yes. Kain would've started something if he said no..." Parius then came up at the bar he was supposed to find Kain at. Walking in, he found the place wrecked. That son of a bitch.

Parius walked up to the only guy working the bar. "I'm looking for a creepy guy, in a hood." Parius listened as the bartender told his story of everything that had happened. "Well. Great." Parius turned around, and went out of the bar. He stood right outside the door, trying very hard not to flip out. Even if others had started a bar fight, Kain's only objective was to ask Yuri if he wanted to join the Vanguard. Not force him into doing it, through a fight. Parius released his Spiritual Pressure, hoping to bait Kain out, so he could properly beat the crap out of him.

Yuri watched with a blank face as Kain fell over...apparently passed out due to the alcohol he had consumed. And that is why he avoided heavy drinks. Then the chick came in...with a huge ass sword on her back. As she tried to wake the poor bastard up...he finished his glass of wine. The wine bottle was on the lamp stand next to him. He threw the wine glass at Kain. He then looked at the wine bottle. It was only a fourth full...so he chugged it before walking up to the chick and smiled angelically. Then tried to swiftly hit her upside the head with the wine bottle. If that failed...he would just glare at her and either ask her to let go so he can hit Kain or just went over to him and hit him with it. "One or both of you owes me a new freak'in window...I am NOT paying for that out of my deposit."

If Kain didn't wake up...he would search the man, even the pockets, for a cell phone or something to call this Parius. If successful in finding it, he would search the number and call it. Leaving behind a come to whatever apartment at whatever address, the apartment number, and told him enter using the door and not the broken window.

"It seems you two won't even let me go to sleep...so let's just get this over with...I hope he's not very far..." He continued to watch anime. Now a show called Ghost in the Shell was airing. Though his scowl never left his face.

The hot water to the face woke Kain up instantly, though he didn't get up. He was starting to sober up, his naturally cold body recovering faster from the alcohol. Akiko called him a light weight so he took the opertunity to defend himself as he lay on the floor. "Call me what you like, I've never been drunk before. The assassin org that raised me wasn't big on letting their opratives get trashed off their faces like that." Kain started to stand up, nonchalantly slapping the wine glass Yuri threw at him aside.

"I should thank you. Being drunk is quite entertaining." He said to akiko. His legs were still wobbly and he probably wasn't as sober as he felt when he was on the ground so he sat down on a chair. "I suppose I should call my Master and put and end to Yuri's nightmare." He said. If yuri did come at him with the wine bottle he would create an ice dagger and slice the bottle at the neck so that the top would drop to the floor.

He pulled out his disposable cellphone and dialed Parius' number from memory. "As far as i remember I can't fly, so i can only guess I was thrown." He said, looking at Akiko While the phone was ringing. When parius finally answered kain said, "Its kain. No. It was nessasary. No one died. I didn't force him, he hasn't given an answer yet. And the bar fight wasn't me either. Ok well I found him anyway, and someone else you might like to meet." Then he gave parius the address and told him to use the front door if possible.

(Crap..post..dun..care....die...parry..lazy bum. yeah..)

Yeah no the bottle attempt towards Akiko ended horribly as she had the sucker in a full nelson moments after he had tried it, but she did let go when he asked though she didn't let him hit Kain in the head with it. This put brings us right back to the fact she was sitting at the table with her feet propped up and had already complained about time and such.

"Such brattish youngins.. Ye'd think ye'd have a whee bit more manners considering things.. You ran off when this one be askin for yer aid. So anything that happened after that that could be considered rude is justified as we merely did the easiest method of gettin to ye again."

That last bit was mainly an attempt to keep Yuri from wasting his breath trying to turn her statement back on her..something she didn't have the patience for at the moment considering she was still slightly drunk despite her early attempt at purging her system, which she wasn't helping much by taking yet another chug of her fancy flask.

"Oh goody.. the boss man is comin for us..that makes it so much easier..I don't have to go anywhere for a while now.."

Parius felt his phone vibrate, and took it out. It was Kain. Well. Looks like I don't have to go looking for you. He thought, answering it. After talking with Kain, Parius hung up the phone. He then dropped it, and smashed it with his foot. I hate these things. He walked away, placing his hands on the back of his head, quite relaxed now. So, Yuri won't give an answer to us. I think Kain tried to hard to get him to join, honestly. Parius looked up at the sky while he walked, an old reflex he used to do, when he was in the Gotei. The sky looks very peaceful tonight, despite everything happening on this world. He then came back to Earth, as he realized he couldn't tell where he was going.

Parius finally managed to get to the place, 15 minutes later. Walking past the night clerk, who was passed out at his desk anyway, Parius made for the second floor. Releasing some of his Spiritual Energy, so they would know he was coming, Parius arrived at the door. Knocking twice, he then entered. "Well, well. You all made quite a ruckus at that bar, I heard." Parius said, crossing his arms. He then looked directly at Kain. "You. I know your going to say you didn't kill anyone. But trying to fight someone we are trying to recruit, doesn't exactly scream, Hey, I want to be your ally. Also, thanks for being loud about that. We are supposed to be a secret, until we are needed. I can't have the Coalition, or the Gotei looking into this right now. At the strength we are, if they decided we were a threat, they could easily wipe us out." He then looked at the other two in the room. "Sorry about all the trouble so far. Though, I wish I could have seen this bar fight. People are already talking about it, like it's a legend." Parius then waited for everyone to tell him who they were, before he would speak his name.