"Actually I don't go to Kaidan High! I just attend in place of my shitty brother, who likes to stay at home and play dating sims like the hikkikomori he is," Naoto dishonestly explained to Kazuto. He turned exaggeratedly on his heel, preparing to depart and go have a chat with his partner, when he registered Eiji talking about him to the rookies. He didn't actually hear it completely, but it didn't take a genius to know that when you see someone lean in to whisper in another's ear after you were just talked about, that person was likely talking about you. Or not, but it was more likely that the former was the case, given his circumstances. Though he'd deal with it later. Their boss was talking, so Naoto directed his attention to their illustrious Director.

Upon the indication that he and his partner would be participating on tonight's hunt, Naoto grinned excitedly, facial expression matching up almost perfectly, before reverting back to that cheerful, innocent-looking half-mask of his. "Yay!" he declared happily, dead-eyed expression making that reaction seem downright frightening.

Fortunately, Moeka ended up ruffling his hair, which incited a surprisingly convincing puppy-dog/shota look and baby-voiced declaration, "but Moe-nee... You know I don't like it when you do that to my hair...!" It was a lie, of course. He didn't actually give a damn about it. Once she stopped, Naoto fake-sniffled and rubbed at his eyes before straightening out. He looked back to Akihara and Kazuto.

"Oh, I forgot to mention, Eiji is a lying bastard, so don't trust him. He loves to constantly talk crap about people behind their back," the actual lying bastard said bluntly, without any hesitation or remorse, "Trust me, I wouldn't want to fall into his trap, and I wouldn't want any of you to fall into it either~!" He closed his eyes, tilted his head to the side, and smiled widely. Surprisingly, his creepy factor all but disappeared once the eyes closed. Fancy that.

It was surprising for Kaz to see Moeka - who moments ago seemed fairly disinterested in what was going on around her - welcoming Akihara, one of the new recruits, with such a gesture. Furthermore, Moeka's interaction with Naoto was also notable. It only made Kaz more curious about his own partner. Admittedly, during his pre-agent training, Kaz never wondered what it would be like to be part of a team. In fact, he thought most agents worked alone but, the fact of the matter is, most agents have partners they can rely on. Whether it's Naoto and Moeka or Takashi and Chisa, partnerships within the Order in Black are a vital strength to the Order's continued existence.

After Moeka had let Akihara go, Naoto had turned to the two of them and remarked about Eiji being the untrustworthy one which he then followed up with a rather unnerving smile - head-tilt included. Kaz wouldn't say it out loud but Naoto didn't exactly gave off the right vibe just now (or before). Eiji gave a slight chuckle in response to what Naoto had said. "I wonder myself if I really am as Naoto described." the bespectacled agent said as if confirming what Eiji had just blatantly lied about.

"Alright, it's time we go take care of the problem in Saiga. Let's hurry it up." Takashi said before taking one last sip of his alcohol.

"Congratulations, Kaz, Akihara, you're officially agents of the Order in Black. Welcome to the team." Eiji said. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I have a supernatural being to hunt down." he added before walking passed the group. Passing near Kaz, Eiji placed a hand on his shoulder. "Take care, rookie." he said before finally leaving the lobby.

"Good luck to you and your partner, Kaz." Chisa said before leading the rest of the agents out, leaving only Kaz and Akane in the lobby.

-Meanwhile-
Naoto, Moeka, Akihara, Takashi, and Chisa arrived at their destination: the Saiga District. The suburban area, although belonging to the city, looked to have been more influence by towns in the country side rather than by Kaidan itself. There was an elegant simplicity to the area - an tranquil charm sort to speak. The moon seemed particularly beautiful above this area of the city. Contrasting that, however, was the eerie silence of the district. It seemed abandoned almost. "This place looks a ghost town." Takashi remarked with a fresh cigarette in his mouth.

"The civilians have probably been put to sleep and locked inside their homes by the scouting party. There are definitely signs of supernatural activity however." Chisa stated. What normally to average people may be overlooked are actually the best indicators to agents about whether supernatural beings reside in an area or not. Furthermore, an agent's eyes can see things that normal people's eyes can't see such as the spiritual trail of the supernatural beings. As expected, supernatural beings are beginning to show themselves and there were a lot of them.

"You've gotta be joking. That's gotta be at least twenty to thirty Shades in this area." Takashi estimated. A Shade is the most basic corruption of a human soul and spirit. They are able to change their basic shape in order to adapt to a variety of situations. Unlike Diabolas - the more advanced corruption - Shades tend to form groups when they hunt for victims. However, a group is rarely consisting of five or fewer Shades. This number of Shades in this area is simply astounding.

Moeka responded to Naoto's gestures with her fist, right on Naoto's head. She didn't hit him hard, but just to tell him to shut up after he started spouting about how Eiji was the untrustworthy one. "Naochii... This is a perfect example of the phrase 'The pot called the kettle black.'" After saying that, she took Naoto from his arm and drags him around. "And I told you to hurry. If we don't get this over with before the next episode for the anime I'm watching is out, then I'll kill you." She approached Chisa. "Please, lead the way." She said, all the while without letting go of Naoto. 'Such a cute shota boy and he's gotta be the most treacherous and lying human being in the whole Order. Sigh...'

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A while after, Moeka and the rest of the group arrived to the location. There were lots of Shades and Takashi seemed to be a little worried about the situation at hand. Moeka, however, was as bored as always. "So what? Let's just finish them off and head back..." She takes out her gun and shoots at one Shade directly on what would be the head. "They are just Shades, after all." Counting the number of Shades in the area she made a rough calculus of how much they would take to take them all out. "Hmmm.... We can finish this in roughly an hour, if we're quick on our feet." She says and aims her gun at one of the Shades, finger on the trigger to shoot as soon as everyone else starts moving.

Akihara looked at the Shades and started to think that it should be good if he stood back. He never were good with this, and he knew he would do something wrong. He did one stepped back, then he saw the Shade being shot. With that, he knew that the others would come at them. Oh no... that coul possibly have called attention of the others...!!, he thought. He removed his gun and stood there, shaking a little. Surely he didn't wanted to fail; wanted to make Ryuji the most proud of him ever. Hope was something missing in his heart, filled with agony of his dark childhood. Nevertheless, he held his gun, pointing at the Shades. Big Brother... please... lend me a bit of your strength.., he prayed, as he waited for the first movement of the Shades so he could shoot them.

"M-Moe-chan! Let go of me!"

Naoto squirmed uncomfortably in the iron grip of Moeka Shirokami as he was slowly but surely dragged away.towards the battlefield, half-insincere, half-sincere protests quickly fading once the futility of it finally dawned on the taller partner. And so, Naoto and company headed off to the Saiga District to complete their mission before Moeka went crazy and started up the friendly fire.
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Naoto rubbed his sore arm, only half-listening to the situation at hand. Seemed there was a mass of thirty Shades to deal with. "Can't be that bad, I mean at least it isn't thirty one!" he laughed, unholstering his Mauser C96 with a nice little gun twirl around his trigger finger. How he managed to do so to a semi-automatic pistol without managing a misfire was... actually quite impressive, truth be told. "Anyway," Naoto continued, quickly lining up a nice shot before not pulling the trigger and dropping his aim, "An hour's too long. Surely we can't be that slow, even if we're giving the new guy a hand's on lesson." Naoto giggled a bit, "In fact, if you would just give me 10 minutes.." He put his gun to his head as casually as someone would put a spoonful of food into their mouth, or earphones on their head. Which could only mean one thing...!

Naoto dropped his aim. "...Is what I would say. Buuuuut I'm not here to spoil your fun," he said cheerfully after glancing at the shaking form of Akihara post-Moeka firing volley, "C'mon now, take your shot. They aren't even human." As if to emphasize his point, Naoto also put his finger to the trigger and aimed at the Shades in sight, not yet firing. "Feel free to take your time!" Naoto encouraged(?), "it's not as if lives depend on it! No rush!"

"Naochii~ Stop picking on Akihara." Moeka says, with her usual disinterested gaze and somewhat cheery tone of voice. Moeka was trying to reduce the numbers of Shades by her side, but she suddenly gets out of her way to put herself in front of Naoto, aiming at his head, the barrel of the gun at just centimeters from his forehead. "How many times do I have to say it? It is the same for every mission, Naochii." She gets the barrel out of Naoto's head and aims at a Shade creeping up behind. Someone may have shat their pants, but Moeka had already done the same stunt to Naoto a number of times before. If he was used to it now, then it was just a waste of time to try and tease him every time she had the opportunity to pull it of. "Naochii... We are supposed to use that only in emergencies, don't go wasting it in Shades."

Moeka then turns around to see how her other teammates are faring. "Say guys... You think you can hurry? If we do this in half the time then I can watch another episode of anime before the episode that comes out this week."

Akihara breathed hard... and shot the Shade. Soon, the others near it began to move. It's just like Naoto said. Even if that was an encouragement... or he was teasing me, I can't mess this up. There are innocent people involved in this. I can't bring fear now., he thought. One Shade rushed towards Akihara, but he shot it before it could reach him. "I'll try to be fast...", he said, upon hearing Moeka. Hold the trigger and aim at the Shades: that's what he was doing. It would be called as a rookie's desperate moment, but all Shades in aim were being defeated. A Shade appeared behind him, but Akihara did something incredible for someone like him. As the Shade tried to attack him, he suddenly did a backflip over the Shade and shot it at its head. I... did that?! H-How did I... I never were good with this, and this is my first time, so..., he thought, trying to find an answer.

Over the rooftops, not too far away from there, Ryuji was watching them. He saw how brave his young brother was being, for the first time in his life. Aki... do your best..., he thought. After that, he felt a stumble. It was his partner, Saiko Kaijuraki, that was shooting a Diabola. "If you plan to leave all the fun to me, then so be it, Ry.", Saiko said. "I told you to not call me like that. Anyway, I better let my uneasiness about my brother aside for now.", he said. It was only one Diabola, and it was not much strong. Nothing that Ryuji couldn't take. Saiko, a sadistic man, smiled. "Lil' Aki, huh? Man, that boy is going high, just like you did.", Saiko said. Although he liked to play with Ryuji a lot, Saiko always liked Akihara, like if he was a little brother. "Yeah, but now, let's shoot this thing down.", Ryuji said, shooting again at the Diabola.

Naoto frowned, but opted not for pulling the trigger, which was helpful since Akihara had just positioned himself behind the Shade in question and decided to pump some bullets into the thing. Naoto whistled, "That was nice~" He then wrestled his arm from Moeka's grip, this time actually succeeding, before aiming his pistol in a different direction and firing straight at a Shade. He waltzed exaggeratedly over to the edge of the street corner and turned on his heel, looking to his allies, "Well now~! Sorry to say but I need to go take a piss! Be right back~"

That was a lie, of course.

BGM: -BREAK-

Naoto fired some shots at a few nearby Shades in order to incite their wrath.

He darted through the nearby streets, having evidently decided that he'd be faster going off on his own, which was rather likely since they were just a bunch of Shades and not a horde of Diabola or anything sufficiently dangerous like that. Hopefully the rest would take the hint, splitting up to take down foes would be faster and thus a more efficient use of time. Though of course Akihara would need a partner to help out just in case, but that was a given.

Naoto emptied a magazine into the three Shades from earlier, strafing all the while. A maddened-looking grin spread across Naoto's face as he fought, maneuvering through his little patch of street as he fired at the Shades.

Ten Hours before she meets her Partner

Saya flew across a three story drop in a long jump which terminated with her rolling in the pea gravel of the rooftop as if it were as soft as a gymnastics mat. She hadn't even stopped before she was on her feet and still in motion an a short distance away she used an air conditioner like a vaulting horse rotating her body 180 degrees before landing. Squating slightly to coil the muscles in her thighs, calves and abdominals she did a back flip off the roof top landing on another building's roof five feet below. Saya an experienced Traceuse was in her own paradise as she moved swiftly through the Obstacle course she'd laid out for herself.

She finished her light workout landing on the balcony of her small apartment, well small by the standards in which she'd been raised. As she pushed open the sliding glass door an entered her apartment she was handed a towel by her Bodyguard an Driver Suzuki Genya

"You know Miss Kanzaki you could join a gym, I'd be happy to suggest a few" says the man who'd watched her grow to be a woman

"Gyms are so boring and unsanitary, all those sweaty people" she says with a giggle as she drys the sweat off her face an neck then tosses Genya the now damp towel.

He eyes the towel critically saying "Yes unsanitary"

Saya smiles an walks to her personal bath where Miya her maid waits with a grin.

"Miss I trust you're done with your daily exercise and ready for a bath" says Miya in a cheerful an teasing tone.

"I cut it short because I have a club meeting tonight but it was still adequate" answers Saya as she pauses and allows Miya to undress her.

Sitting on a bath stool she picks up a pad in a diver's cover and checks any messages as Miya lathers her with soap.. Used to such treatment she reads the mail from her father detailing his expectations of her in the coming week. She then opens the mail from her mother and groans a little when she sees that while at a New York fashion show her mom has bought her eleven new designer outfits which will need fitting next week.

"Miya pins and needles" she says and hears her maid giggle

"How many this time Miss?" asks Miya as she fills the rinse bucket

"Eleven, what's that make this year?" says Saya as she braces herself for the Ice cold rinse water

"Fourty-three formal an casual" says Miya as she douses her mistress an friend with water so cold it makes her wince.

"Well at least she's slowing down, last year at this time it was sixty-five" Saya says before the second bucket of cold water hits her

"Actually Miss it was sixty-seven" corrects Miya as she steps aside allowing her Mistress to stand and enter the steaming water of her tub.

As Saya lays her head back she feels Miya begin the laborious work of combing, treating an braiding her hair. While her maid works on her hair Saya thinks about her fateful meeting that night

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"The Fateful Meeting or Saya meets Kaz"

Saya arrived at the parking deck of the corporate office of the Kaidan Central Bank which served as a cover for the headquarters to the Order in Black's Kaidan Branch. She parked her sun burst yellow Orochi Kabuto sports car then swung the door up and exited leaving her civilian life behind with it.

She was dressed as all Agents in a severe Black suit that lent her an air of danger and mystery. Her foot falls were as silent as falling snow as she made her way to the elevators. Once inside the steel box she took a last look of inspection of her appearance in the reflective surface of the door. Saya was by no means a vain girl but both her mother a model and her father a powerful industrialist had drilled her since she could recall about the importance of making a good first impression.

When the elevator stopped Saya exited taking graceful strides but unhurried. She was here to meet her new Partner and Director: Akane Izanami whom she'd be working under.

Entering the Lobby Saya used here eye for seeing those in power which was useful and often used at her parents parties. Her task was made easier by knowing the one she sought was a woman. She quickly spotted the woman that made everyone else in the room a little or a lot nervous.

Walking over to the woman Saya stops and smiles softly as she bows asking
"I trust you are Director Izanami"i

She then wits to discover if she's mistaken or correct in her assumption

While Director Izanami chats up an earful with the lobby's bartender, Kaz waited patiently on one of the nearby couches. After playing with his phone a bit, Kaz began twiddling his thumbs while contemplating his future here at the organization. He soon got lost in his thoughts; so much so that even the Director's boisterous conversation was drowned out in the rookie agent's mind. "I trust you are Director Izanami?" Strangely enough, this particular voice drew Kaz back to the real world. It was a gentle, elegant voice - one that could lift spirits and soothe souls. He looked up to see a young woman politely bowing to Director Izanami. She was dressed in a black suit similar to those worn by agents. Of course, it was customized to her liking.

Her cherry pink hair drapes over her back and shoulders, producing a mystifying sense of grace. Director Izanami takes a brief moment to scan over her; the result of which produced a friendly smile on the Director's face. "You're absolutely correct." Akane responded to the young woman's previous question. "And you must be Saya Kanzaki, daughter of the Kanzaki Heavy Industries' President. But, more importantly, my new transfer agent." the Director added. She made it her business to know the backgrounds of all the agents under her authority. Akane then turned her head to face Kaz in the distant. "Kaz, come on over!" she called. As directed, Kaz got up onto his feet and walked over to the two female agents. "Kaz, I like for you to meet Saya Kanzaki: your partner." Akane introduced.

"(S-She's my partner?)" Kaz thought to himself; he was a bit intimidated by Saya's beauty and the powerful aura she seems to exude. "I-I'm Kazuto Tokuro, but you can call me Kaz! It's nice to meet you, Saya!" he nervously blurted his "formal" introduction before bowing respectfully.

-Meanwhile-
Chisa fired her pistol with expert precision; the single bullet that left her gun ripped its way through three Shades that were charging at her. Returning to a resting position - where her pistol is next to her head facing upward - Chisa scanned the immediate vicinity to find any stragglers that might've been wounded by not eliminated. As usual, Chisa found herself cleaning up after her partner's mess. Contrasting her own delicate, precise procedure, her partner - Takashi - fights with a relatively unabashed, unapologetic and messy flair; sometimes leaving supernatural beings wounded but alive. Leaping across rooftops overhead was none other than Takashi, himself, chasing after a few Shades with ambiguously-shaped wings that took to the skies.

Takashi, admittedly, has terrible aim. That, along with his recklessness, would make him seem like an equally-terrible agent at first glance. However, he makes up for that with his mastery of his Soul Weapon and his capacity to stay in the temporary death state for an extensive period of time. Taking aim at the flying Shades, Takashi fired relentlessly. Most of his shots were clear misses but he was fortunate enough to tear some holes through their wings and affected their flight control. "Bullseye!" he proudly cheered with a lit cigarette in his mouth. Suddenly, a few bullets from an alleyway below - in between two buildings - came flying through the heads of each one of those Shades Takashi was chasing after.

"Bullseye." Chisa's voice said through Takashi's wireless earpiece.

"Showoff." Takashi responded with a cocky smirk.

Down below, the Shades who are now fully aware of the agent's presence in their territory started showing signs of aggression. Opening their huge, extended mouths, they let out in unison a haunting wail that reverberated throughout the district. Hearing that, Takashi's smirk became a full-blown grin. "Hear that, Chisa? They're getting all riled up." Takashi stated with a hint of glee.

"It sounds like you are too." Chisa replied through his earpiece. Suddenly, some of the Shades within the district began to merge with one another, creating massive Shades protruding with tendrils. Using their tendrils, they smash the ground wildly in an attempt to crush the agents below. These are a unique variant of Shades known simply as "Gargants". Along with their whipping tendrils, they can also fire off balls of black-colored energy from virtually any part of their massive bodies. While they're still weaker than Diabolas, Gargants are much more difficult to eliminate. The key is to completely destroy their oversized heads; a single shot just won't cut it in this situation.

Akihara continued to shoot the Shades, until he saw the Gargant standing there. It was bigger and more powerful than Shades, obviously. That led Akihara to tremble a little. However, he took once again a firing position and aimed at the Shades that were coming near them. I will deal with the Shades and leave that one to them. I wouldn't be able to defeat it..., he thought, with a worried face. Soon, the rest of the Shades started to run at them, but Akihara continued to shoot. One by one, they were falling. However, it seemed to never end. The moon continued to shine as bullets kept being shot at Shades.

"OK, we're, done here~!!", Saiko commemorated. Ryuji, then, looked down at the roof once again, to see how his brother was doing. Saiko soon came near him, putting his arm into Ryuji's right shoulder. "Oh, there's Aki! He's doin' good, for a rookie.", he said. Ryuji admitted: many rookies that came to the Order had quite difficulties on their first time. Akihara was handling them a little more than the expected. "The number of Shades there are big. Let's go and aid them.", Ryuji said. "Whaaaaaaaaat?! Hey, we shot a big beast here! Why do we have to take care of the small fries down there?!", Saiko said. Not listening to him complaints, Ryuji started to jum between roofs until he reached there. "Geez...", Saiko complained, as he foloowed.

Saya Meets her new partner Kaz

Saya smiles as the Director says "And you must be Saya Kanzaki, daughter of the Kanzaki Heavy Industries' President. But, more importantly, my new transfer agent."
Then turned to summon a young man who'd been sitting on one of the couches.
"Kaz, come on over" she says summoning the young agent informally
"Kaz, I like for you to meet Saya Kanzaki: your partner." Says the Director introducing the two of them

Saya looks the spikey haired red head with opaline eyes over and guesses his age between 17 to 19 years old making him close to her age. He's not very tall an has a medium to light build. When he gets close she can sense a nervous energy to him and his slight blush tells her even more.

"I-I'm Kazuto Tokuro, but you can call me Kaz! It's nice to meet you, Saya!" He says as he bows to her.

Saya knows that she is the cause of his stuttering and actually feels a little bad that she affects him in such a way. As he completes his bow to her after addressing her so informally Saya takes the initiative by reaching out and taking his right hand between both of her own and smiling as welcoming as possible as she says
"Kaz how wonderful it is to meet you, I do hope that we shall become good partners and close friends"

She's so close that the light scent of her bath oils drifts in the air between them and her hands so soft and warm holds his own firmly. Saya tries to stand in a least imposing an feminine manner before him as she allows a vain thought to slightly blush her cheeks. Her eyes sparkle with delight as she looks into his eyes trying to see how she affects him now.

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BGM: See last post

BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG

Several shots rang out in succession All of them hit their desired target: the Gargant that had decided to gather itself near the mouth of an alleyway. However, not all of them managed to end up hitting the head, unfortunately. From the alley skipped out Naoto, facial expression dissonant in its cheerfulness. "Ohayou gozaimasuuu~" Naoto called out cheerfully, eyes wide as he casually fired a few shots behind him and deftly jumped over the tendril going for the sweep.

BGM Stop.

Naoto's appearance on this portion of the battlefield was surprising, but no means was it unpleasant... Well, unpleasant in terms relating to combat support - Naoto was usually a socially unpleasant presence. The way he was just dashing between tendril smashes was a testament to his experience. Every now and then, he'd fire a shot or a dozen to shut the creature up momentarily.

"So~ How's everybody doing? I heard that you were all so inept as to need me help beating this thi-"

The sound of something large dropping behind him could be heard. Naoto turned his head to look at the creature he had inadvertently felled with his collection of fired shots. "...Well look at that!" He declared, pleasantly surprised. He poked it with his foot and fired another shot just to make sure before turning back to the rest, "...As I was saying..."

Moeka continued to fire shots at the Shades with her uninterested look. Funny thing, Moeka hasn't moved a single inch from where she started shooting, if it wasn't for some of the pranks that she tried to pull on Naoto, her immobility record would be perfect. Her eyes dart from left to right, searching for the perfect target for her next bullet.

*BANG*

She shoots again and gets 2 Shades at the same time, trespassing their sticky black bodies. "This is way too easy. Things aren't usually this calm." More than talking out of real life experience, Moeka talks about how it is so uncommon to have such a calm showdown against the forces of evil. This usually means that more hordes of enemies, bigger and badder than the ones before, will appear. Her prediction is right on the money, as she sees Gargants get into the scene. "Good thing I left the recorder programmed, 'cause it seems I won't make it for my anime. Oh, welp~" Moeka has a faint smile on her face, but like, real faint, undetectable for the common human eye. At least things were getting more interesting as time passed.

She shoots thrice with her gun and empties the current mag. She gets one of the Gargants in the head, but her three shots aren't enough to kill it. With one of its tendrils, it tries to grab a hold of Moeka, but she is able to give a little side step and avoid the massive, but slow, tendril. Now seems like the right time to move, though, with the Gargant mad it wouldn't be a good idea to stay still in one place. "Dammit, this things should have unlimited bullets." As the gamer she is she knows it is much more convenient to be carrying around extra mags already filled with more bullets, but, contrary to militars, she isn't government funded, in fact, she isn't funded at all. She has to recharge the old way, putting the bullets in the mag one by one. "This phone could have been extra mags for my pistol, but noooo, I just had to buy it. I somehow feel remorseful for buying it." She lets out a sigh and gets her hand in her pocket, to retrieve the bullets in it. She starts filling up her mag again all the while avoiding the sticky tendrils and thinking. 'I've seen enough hentai to know where this is going, and that ain't for me.'

Now, with her mag filled up and ready for action, she starts running towards the Gargant and it tries to hit her with one of its tendrils again. She crouches and continues running, avoiding the tendril again. In a gallant way, she kicks the Gargant's head after jumping and her boot sticks to it. "Perfect." Like that, she unloads her whole mah on the Gargant and with the last shots, the Gargant starts to fall, with her still sticked to it. After it falls, back first, Moeka gets her foot out of its head and walks away, feeling victorious. She sees that Naoto also finished one and raises her voice to catch his attention. "Naochii~! I think now counts as an emergency, 'cause if we don't hurry I'll miss my anime!" She points her gun at her head and waits to see if Naoto agrees with her.

Akihara kept shooting, and he finally saw that the number of Shades had decreased. He was not of much, but a smile appeared on Akihara's face. He soon felt proud of himself for the first time, peace would return a bit thanks to him and the courage born in his heart. I... I can do this. Just a little more!, he thought and kept shooting. However, he didn't noticed a Shade behing him and was grabbed by it. "Ah!", he moaned quietly. He quickly left and shot the Shade, but it was enough time for the others to get near him. My gun is out of bullets, and I don't have time to recharge it...!, he became desperated. But then... BANGBANGBANG! Three of them were shot. "Huh? Who did that? Moeka-san and the others are taking care of that big one, so... who shot them?", he mumbled to himself. Looking around, he didn't saw no one. But then, he heard a voice not too away from there.
BGM: Ridiculous Game
"There you go, Ry. I saved your brother, so you owe me one~.", Saito said, mischievously smiling. Akihara looked up and saw his brother and his partner in the roof. "Brother...!", he said, quietly. Ryuji and Saito jumped from the roof, landing near Akihara. "You're doing a good job. I knew you could handle this. Now, let me give you a hand here.", Ryuji said. However, as soon as he recharged his gun with bullets, Akihara stood in the front of his brother. "No... please, leave this to me. I want to end this.", he replied. Saito quickly leaned in Ryuji's shoulder. "Didn't I told you~? There's no need for us to take care of these simple, small fries that are the Shades. Lil' Aki can do this on himself.", Saito commented. Ryuji looked at his young brother, and quickly reminisced his first time at the Order. "... OK, I understood. Good luck, Aki. I'll see you back at the Headquarters then.", Ryuij said. Akihara simply nodded and returned to his shooting. Ryuji took an exit, being followed by Saito.

"Hmm~?"

Naoto craned his head over to Moeka's direction upon hearing the sound of a Gargant collapsing that wasn't his work, nor the work of the two partners standing before the highschooler. The image of Moeka triumphantly striding off of a fallen foe was exactly what he needed to confirm his suspicions. After all, that new guy couldn't do jack anyway with his lack of experience and feminine timidity if he knew anyone in this group of his, it was his very annoying much beloved partner.

"Ohayou~!" Naoto greeted before giving the elder partner a faux-salute in greeting. He had a mischievous looking smile on his face, but that was usually par for course when it came to the bluenet in question. Though, given that a command was just issued, that expression likely wasn't just for show as it usually was. Pivoting on his heel to face Meoka directly, Naoto put his arms up in a shrug position. "Gee Moe-nee, I dunno... This situation doesn't really seem like an emergency~" Naoto declared confidently, body rigid in the attention position, "Thus! As a proud member of the Order in Black, I cannot, with good conscience, allow myself to submit to your commands!"

"Oh, and I'm out of ammo," Naoto added as an afterthought once he finished checking his gun's ammo magazine - which, incidentally, was actually empty... Though, this wasn't counting the spare bullets he had on his person.