Beyond the Pale

[riyusama]

Chapter: 01

Author: Riyusama

Synopsis:  He was tasked to observe the Masahito clan with his unit; their mission was simple. Get the information they could and when caught on a thin thread capture the pack's alpha. The assignment wasn't anything out of the ordinary; rather it was too easy for Jin. Yet, he found himself at a predicament that will have him at the Masahito pack's clutches.

Disclaimer: I own nothing but, the story. The characters and people here belong solely to themselves and I gain no profit in this. And technically, if I did own the people here, I wouldn’t be wasting my time making fanfiction of them.

 

                                     He strolled into the usual hall of his workplace; face stone cold and steps calculated and menacing. Some heard rumours of the blond being a big shot heir to one of the leading hunter clans yet, most knew him by his codename. Jin, category Alpha, section SC – subunit REW. He was a man of great importance, an alpha whom held a great title at the Association of Supernatural Agency and Security Facility or ASASF.

The hunter was ordered to report to headquarters in exactly 0200 hours.

Jin entered the Director’s office, his unit already at the area. He scanned the room at first, taking in the fact that Rui was sitting by the side couch fiddling with his phone whilst Reita and Mitsuru were tinkering with a weapon at the other corner of the room. All eyes fell upon Jin the moment he had opened the double doors; he walked coolly to the front desk as the others followed in his suite.

“What’s the news Hyde-san?” Jin asked.

The brunet director had his elbows rested on his desk, chin placed on top of his intertwined fingers as caramel hues stared at the men in front of him “The Masahito pack.” he stated simply before one finger tapped at the screen on his desk and a hologram of their assignment appeared.

“There have been leads of ongoing werewolf massacres circling around this pack. In my opinion it’s premature to assume they’re the ones responsible yet, we can’t let this kind of havoc run about longer.” Hyde continued off as he pressed another button on his screen and numerous files of members of the pack, pictures of their wolf forms—other pictures of the massacred clans and reports spawned on the hologram “I need your unit to investigate the pack. If you find yourselves on a thin thread, your last option is to capture the leader for further interrogations by all means necessary.” he ended off, glaring at his men with much emphasis on his words.

“I don’t think the files downloaded on my phone were updated of the recent ones here.” Mitsuru interjected after their director had finished his words. The brunet had his phone out and was moving his eyes from the hologram in front of them to his phone, checking in all of the newer tweaks that were gathered from the pack.

“There seemed to be something wrong with the information center recently,” Rui sufficed this time, one hand brushing along his nape as he gave more focus on his phone with his other hand “System shut downs had been made the other night. I heard some unknown crypt files got in, staff is still trying to fix the bug though.”

They could all hear Hyde audibly sigh in irritation, the brunet’s hands rubbing along his face before they settled down to press at his temples “Ko-ki will help with the information that was gathered, just give him your phones. A hard copy folder will be given as well just in case.”

“So our main objective for now is to lay low and observe.” Jin questioned yet, it sounded more of a statement of reviewing their assignment “Would infiltrating the pack and joining be against mission protocol?”

“I don’t think any of us are wolf material to actually infiltrate Jin.” Reita countered the idea.

The blond turned his attention to the mare, one brow arching up before he set his gaze on Mitsuru “Mitsuru can probably use his kitsune form. It’d be no problem at all to press on illusions.”

Their kitsune hummed in reply, still reading a few files at the hologram Hyde had presented “Tricking them to thinking I’m a wolf would be easy.” Mitsuru answered “But, we don’t know if they have a member that’s dealt with illusions before. Much less, since our files have been corrupted recently we can’t be too sure.” he continued off before looking back at Reita and Jin “I’ll try out that plan if you guys want though.”

“I think it’s a little too risky.” Rui offered an opinion.

“I don’t care what your unit does to get information. Do whatever it takes to comprehend this problem; I can’t have the mortality rate of werewolfs increasing. This will cause chaos on the underworld.” Hyde cut them all off before they started throwing any more ideas at him “Find out what you can and report it to me by 23300 hours the next day on how you started.” he lifted a hand before waving at his men in a shooing manner “You are dismissed.”

The four men bowed at their director before quietly leaving the vicinity.

As they left with Jin leading in front' they walked the halls to the information center of HQ, before Jin started “Rui I need a scan of the entire area once the location is given, I need good spots for base.” He started off, giving orders to the others “Mitsuru I want a thorough study on every member, see if there’s someone who’s had a past with illusions.”

“I can’t believe we’re going on observation mode.” Reita whined out as he took a kit kat out of his pocket jeans once they had entered the information center.

“I was actually thinking of having you infiltrate at night; your shadow abilities would be really useful for this.” Jin said as he took out his phone and all four went to Ko-ki’s desk “But, you might feed off and give them nightmares. That’s just a disaster waiting to happen.” he continued with a smirk as Reita scowled at Jin “Yo, Ko-ki you have our assignment there?”

As Jin called out a red head poked out from under the desk as turned to look at the four hunters waiting at him. Ko-ki gave a cheeky smile, sitting back up on his chair and typing away on his computer “Just leave your phones here; I’ll have the hard copies printed out in a jiffy.”

 They left their phones for the files to be downloaded, moving to one side of the place to discuss their new mission in private.

“So what’s our set-up?” Rui asked, back resting against a wall behind him.

“Once the files are studied we’ll see if we can do the infiltration plan. Reita, when the location's given I want you to scan the pack’s area. Tell me what kind of fears they’re going through at the moment.” Jin ordered whilst one hand shuffled to his pants pocket to grab a pack of cigarettes.

“It’ll probably take me all night or two days to fully study their members.” Mitsuru hummed out “We should give a week’s study on them before giving that plan a go—isn’t smoking here not allowed?” the brunet finished off with a question, brows arching up at Jin.

“Yeah, if you’re going to smoke at least share.” Reita added with a smirk, as he took his palm out to get one from the blond.

Jin shrugged, easily handing one smoke to Reita “I like not to keep in tabs with the rules at times,” he said smugly.

Mitsuru’s nose crinkled at the scent of their smokes “I really can’t deal with your alpha smokes. Why do you guys even like this brand? It makes alpha scents louder.” he complained whilst waving one hand in front of him to misdirect the smoke.

“Your smokes stink.” Rui agreed as he pinched his nose; the beta was never amused with Reita and Jin’s choice of cigarettes.

“Just smell the fresh air!” Reita countered with a laugh as he blew his smoke to Rui’s face.

Mitsuru groaned as Jin and Reita laughed at the beta “I’m going to check on the files.” He said before walking off from his unit. Jin’s attention averted and he quickly got rid of his cigarettes, smothering the burning tip on another small cigar case he uses to trash his smokes. He followed the kitsune to the front desk again, seeing Ko-ki typing up whatever computer codes the hacker was told to do.

“How’s the files?” Mitsuru asked as he leaned down to rest his elbows on the desk.

“Phones finished downloading; hard copies are out in a minute.” Ko-ki replied, eyes not straying away from his computer screen.

Mitsuru nodded at his words, taking his own phone to his hands as he checked the new information placed in it. He put his phone on hologram mode, letting Jin see the files as well. The kitsune clicked on the locations their informants found the Masahito pack; it seemed that the pack was rather oblivious to the fact that they’re now becoming prey as it was reported that the pack had never left their original base as of yet.

“That’s weird,” Mitsuru commented as he read the hectares and area description of the pack’s home.

“They’re in the Koushi province, located in the Zwuawei streets.” Jin read out loud.

Rui and Reita had come to his back, reading the files on Mitsuru’s phone hologram “That’s probably a three day drive.” Reita offered, not bothering to get rid of his smoke “Should we take the plane?” he asked whilst looking over to Jin.

“Hyde said we should report to him our progress by tomorrow 23300, so I’m guessing he’ll be pissed off if we decided to road trip this.” Rui explained off as he took his phone from the desk “I’ll have our plane checked, we’ll probably arrive at Koushi by daybreak tomorrow or earlier.” he continued off before his eyes went back to his team “That is if no problem comes with the staff on a hasty plane reservation.”

“Get me that plane. I want everyone to be geared up and ready by 3 hours.” Jin said to Rui as he took the file folder Ko-ki had placed on the desk “Rui, you keep this safe. Mitsuru give me a bullet background on the pack’s leader. We’ll have plenty of time to study the pack on our trip.” He said before walking away “3 hours guys,” Jin stated off finally with his back to his unit and three fingers up to remind them of their meeting later.

He started walking back to the halls and to the HQ’s safe room. The safe room was where employees could store items of theirs when in a hurry. It could be where you could store your usual necessities since some couldn’t make it back home after work when given another assignment or it could be a weapons locker room for you. Whichever a person would choose, Jin decided that his locker would be a good combination for both.

The blond entered one of the many safe room’s of their HQ, one of the staff bowing his head in greeting and Jin doing the same. He walked up to his room, the door gilded by a gold placate on top with his name Jin carved on it. The hunter took out his key and opened the room; lights automatically illuminated the said room. Jin took a bag from from the nearby desk and started stuffing down necessities. A few clothes and underwear were placed, though he mostly gave space for weapons. 4 guns, 6 butterfly knives, 2 detonators, a GPS tracker for just in case they would get lost.

“I need a map of Koushi.” Jin mumbled out as he walked to one side of his room to the drawers. He opened one on top, and showed a myriad of maps. The blond had always found it easier to work by paper than, holograms since that’s where he was first trained. Traditional hunters were his family; never leaving the old ways as they still progressed on to learn new hunting strategies. It was how their clan had survived for years.

“Koushi… Koushi…” the blond mumbled out as he had in his hands maps of the neighboring provinces of the said place instead. Jin grumbled in annoyance, his patience wearing thin on finding the map. He had just finished hunting down a rogue of Sirens on the other end of the country, got sidetracked going home since he read in reports of ghouls terrorizing the streets of Fleur in Joponggi, the city he was stuck in after his Siren assignment.

And now, as soon as Jin got home to Tokyo he was told to report back to HQ since Hyde was going to give him another assignment. If anyone were to ask, Jin would automatically answer that he’s fine but, the blond was drop dead tired—weary to the bone as he may add.

His phone started to ring all of a sudden, making Jin groan out in frustration as he took the device out of his pockets and answered “What is it?”

“You sound like shit,” Mao’s voice could be heard.

“What do you want Tsukushi?” Jin answered unamused.

“No more calling me Onee-chan? I feel hurt Kunihiko-chan.” His sister chuckled from the other line.

Jin winced at the name; it had been a long time since he was called by his real name “Can you please just tell me what you want. I have another assignment to go to in three hours and have no time to waste.” He exasperated.

“Another assignment?” His sister suddenly said in worry “Did you just get back a few hours ago?”

“Yes I did.” he answered dryly whilst taking out bathroom materials such as shampoo, scent hiders and soap hiders then, stuffing them down to his bag “But, Hyde gave me a new one as soon as I got back.”

“Well don’t go; I’ll just cover that one for you then.” Tsukushi ordered in her alpha tone, though it had almost little to no affect at all through the phone.

“I don’t need you to baby me.” Jin said harshly over the phone, eyes narrowing as he felt offended by his sister’s offer “Now, what did you initially call for. Mao-onee-san.” he said in a gravely serious voice, using his sister’s real name to get his point across.

He could hear the other sigh, she’s probably shaking her head in dismay—Jin could picture it in his head “I wanted you to check up on Jun to see if he’s fine. I’m currently in Shilla City finishing a job and I couldn’t contact him earlier since his phone's dead.” she admitted.

“Jun? You mean Tsukasa?” Jin said with an arched brow, stuffing a few more bombs and a couple of ropes inside his bag. He should probably take two bags with him to this trip.

“Yes Jin, Tsukasa.”

A grin formed on the blond’s lips, his tone suddenly going to a teasing one “Why do you wanna know what’s up with that omega?”

Tsukushi’s voice growled “Just do it. His omega scent will be good for you anyways.”

Jin laughed “Fine fine, I’ll message you later. Bye,”

“Thanks bro, good luck on the assignment. Take care.” with that, Jin hung up on the call.

The hunter sighed, shoving his phone back to his pant pockets as one hand went to ruffle his blond hair. He really didn’t want to be sidetracked; he only had less than 3 hours till they flied off to Koushi. But, knowing his sister, Jin knew that he should probably take up on her advice… Besides, it was easier to poke up answers from the omega rather than, his own sister.

His bag was done, clothes, necessities, weapons and torture devices were all neat and ready to go in his one bag. He had contemplated earlier if he should bring another bag, smaller than this one yet, Jin decided to screw it. The mission was a piece of cake anyways; they could be done with it in a matter of days.

Jin hooked his bag to his shoulders, checking his wrist watch for the time “3:30 a.m., I still have about 2 hours.” he murmured and went out of the room. He locked his place back, keeping the keys in his pocket before moving up to the 6^th floor where the hospital section of HQ was found.

He took the elevator,since he was not really up for physically exerting himself by taking the stairs. Jin took out his phone again and started dialing Rui’s number. The phone rang twice before the owner answered.

“Hello Jin?” Rui said.

“Rui, status report on the plane.”

“Just as you wanted, we’re leaving at 5:30 a.m.”

“Good, a checklist of points where we can stay close to the pack?” Jin inquired again as the elevator stopped a few times at a couple of levels for people to get in.

“My phone scanned the area and it spotted at least 3 places that are abandoned. We can probably use those to our leverage, if not we can just kick in at a nearby hotel. I still have to recheck the maps manually though, since it’s still better to check by yourself rather than with tech.” Rui answered simply.

The elevator ringed on the sixth floor and Jin nodded his head to Rui’s words, slipping out of the lift and entering the HQ’s clinic. “Alright, I’ll leave you to your packing; see you later Ru.” the blond hunter said before he hung up on his teammate. Jin then, went to the front desk, seeing as Koichi was handling some papers.

“Yo, Koichi.” Jin greeted “You see Tsukasa around?”

The pink haired man turned his gaze up to the hunter for a split second before going back to his files “I think I saw him at his usual station earlier. We hadn’t had that many patients in today so you might catch him relaxing.” he answered nonchalantly.

The hunter nodded, thanking the desk informant before moving into the clinic further. The clinic was large and expanse, one would mistake it for a hospital if it were to be on the first floor. The clinic is ranged from the 6^th to the 10^th floor so it would be wise to always ask the desk informants when looking for someone. Luckily for Jin though, Tsukasa’s station was on the 6^th and he rarely worked in other levels since, he specialized in surgeries. He moved from one place to another, searching for Tsukasa from the doctor rooms and patient rooms alike; he had gotten yelled and scolded by countless patients, screaming at him for privacy. Jin would only bow his head in apology or wave a hand of dismay if the other person was outstandingly rude to him.

He checked one of the many doctor’s station, finding Tsukasa in his own booth, head resting on top of his arms as the raven slept as soundly as he could in his position. Jin crossed his arms, clearing his throat at first to wake up the other. When he got no response Jin scanned the other’s table and found an open box full of cotton balls in it. Jin took one cotton ball and proceeded to lightly tickle the raven by the ear.

Tsukasa flinched, groaning in irritation before his body slightly shivered and his head shot up in haste. Wide eyes stared at his surroundings before he averted his gaze and saw a wide grin plastered upon Jin’s lips.

“Jin!” Tsukasa said as he sat up straight and rubbed his weary eyes “What are you doing here? Are you alright?”

“Just came up to check on ya,” Jin replied back as he sat down on Tsukasa’s desk. The raven looked at him with a puzzled look “Tsukushi wanted me to come over. I think it was something over not answering your phone?” Jin continued.

Immediately, the raven’s eyes widened and he checked his phone. Tsukasa had tried to open the device yet, it looked as though it had run out of battery. “Oh shit! I forgot to charge it!” He cursed before shuffling through one of his drawers and pulling out a charger.

Jin watched with amusement as the omega hastily charged his phone then; continuing to press incessantly for it open. As soon as the screen brightened a myriad of messages and missed calls showed on Tsukasa’s notifications; the hunter gave a low whistle at the amount of missed calls. It seems as though his sister is always such a worry wart for nothing… that or she just hates being ignored.

“You better call her back, she’s probably worried sick.” Jin commented.

Tsukasa nodded and immediately pressed call to the name “Mao”.  Jin’s brows arched when he had seen the name on Tsukasa’s phone; if he recalls it properly the name used to be Tsukushi, his sister’s codename. He also hadn’t forgotten the fact that when Tsukushi had called him she had used the name Jun instead of Tsukasa. Jin was seriously starting to connect the dots here but, he’d really rather they were the ones to tell him the news… Even though, the blond already figured them out.

“Hello Mao?”  Tsukasa’s expressions immediately beamed “Yes yes, I’m fine. I’m sorry for making you worry. We had a surgery scheduled earlier today and I got really exhausted to the point where I fell asleep on my desk… No, I just forgot to charge my phone… Yeah, Jin came by to tell me.” Tsukasa blabbered on glancing at Jin from time to time with a big silly smile etched onto his lips.

“Alright, I’ll wait for you to get back. See you, take care.” Tsukasa ended the call and looked back to Jin happily “So, what do you need?”

The blond’s features scrunched up at first, pointing his index finger at the other “First wipe that goofy look off your face.” He started though; Jin couldn’t help but smile himself. The blond could see Tsukasa blush a deep hue of red, looking down in embarrassment; the action only made Jin laugh.

“I’m going on an assignment in less than, 2 hours. Hunting a wolf pack and was wondering if you could give me tips on how to properly sedate an alpha leader.” Jin inquired.

Tsukasa’s brow arched up “Sedate? You’re not going to…” He couldn’t finish his sentence.

“Classified information Tsukasa.” the blond retorted easily “You know how rough I can get, I’m thinking of going as gently as I can with this one. I don’t want to capture a leader then, bring him to Hyde with a missing limb or two; any suggestions for a clean sleeper?”

“That’s weird, you’re usually a hitman.” Tsukasa mumbled out and Jin nodded in agreement. Nonetheless, the raven stood up from his seat and motioned for Jin to follow him. The hunter followed , walking with the omega to where they kept vials; since the clinic and chemistry staff of ASASF are heavily associated with one another it was no wonder that Hyde decided for the clinic to have their own chemical research that weren’t exactly used for healing.

 They entered a chilly room filled with people in lab coats; Tsukasa went to one of the vial storages and read a few notes here and there. Jin watched every glass piece that Tsukasa held in his hands, noting in on the names.

“Lunesta might be of good use to you,” Tsukasa started as he showed a blue vial to Jin “It’s a liquidized sleeper. This one has about 3 mg in it, so they’ll be knocked out for 8 hours.”

“Nice, but anything stronger?”

The raven pouted at Jin’s answer “Dude, they’ll be knocked out for 8 hours. Why would you want anything stronger?”

“I hate having to deal with noisy prisoners.” Jin said with a shrug of his shoulder “What’s the side effects?”

“I can give you a 5 mg dose of Halcion? Though, this is probably near poisonous already.” Tsukasa said as he took out another blue colored vial but, lighter in shade “We mixed in a few chemicals in this one. Some even have Lunesta in it too just for that extra kick. We can’t use it on werewolfs since their bodies aren’t observed yet on how they’ll regenerate to this drug. But, it works on vampires.” Tsukasa said and gave the two vials to Jin. “Side Effects are the same, drowsiness, clumsiness, nausea, fatigue, memory loss and some have physical reactions if they’re allergic to the drug.”

“So…” Jin squinted his eyes, reading the name on the glass “Halcesta?” he said in doubt, looking over to Tsukasa who nodded his head.

“Yup, that’s what we decided to call it for now. It’s strong but, near lethal.” he shrugged.

“I’ll take my chances then.” Jin replied with a smile “5 vials of Lunesta, 3 of Halcion and this one,” Jin says, waving the small glass of Halcesta in front of Tsukasa “is what I’m taking, just for emergencies.” the blond added on.

“You are so demanding.” Tsukasa answered with a roll of his eyes “Do you need them in bullet form?”

“That’d save me the trouble; I would’ve ordered Mitsuru to customize one for me if you hadn’t offered.”

“Gun type?”

“Desert Eagle, but half of them should be for Glocks. Oh, and make sure you give me one bullet for Halcesta as well.”

“Fine, give me 5 minutes.” with that, Tsukasa took a couple more vials that Jin had requested and went to another room that specialized in making bullets out of the vials.

As he waited, the blond placed the Lunesta back in its place. Jin stared at the Halcesta in his hands, watching it shimmer under the harsh light of the lab. He was no expert in chemicals and drugs but, Jin’s pretty sure if this was near lethal to werewolves then, Jin would surely die if this was injected into his body. The mere thought of it made the hunter shiver; Mitsuru and Reita would survive from this knock out. Though, he and Rui would surely be put to their graves, being the only humans in their unit.

He was tempted to take out his cigarettes and smoke in the lab yet, that was a disaster waiting to happen. He didn’t know for sure if any of these chemicals were flammable… Another question he should ask to Tsukasa once the raven would get back to him with his bullets in hand.

Jin sighed, waiting for a couple more minutes before the omega doctor came out of the weaponizing room with a sealed box in his hands “Here’s your bullets.”

“Thanks Tsukasa,” Jin said as he took the bullets, shoving them inside his bag “By the way, are any of these flammable?” Jin queried.

“Halcesta is the most flammable since, as I’ve said it’s a mixture of other chemicals. I suggest not smoking close to it when it’s not sealed up tight.” Tsukasa scolded as he crossed his arms against his chest.

The hunter waved a hand of dismay “Alright, you got me. I’ll keep the smoking on a low-key.” Jin answered with a small huff.

His friend smiled, jumping a little on his toes “Well then, if that’s all you need I better get going then.”

“Sure, thanks for the help Tsukasa.” Jin said with a short salute on his fingers.

“Take care alright?” the raven said worriedly as the blond hunter went to walk away and probably board back to his mission. Jin now had less than, an hour before departure and so far, everything was ready.

The hunter turned his head around to give a smug smirk at the omega “You betcha, take care yourself. Don’t stress out on work too much.” Jin offered.

“You’re the one who’s stressing out on work too much!” Tsukasa retorted “You and Tsukushi are such workaholics.” he mumbled out lowly, probably to the level of a whisper wherein Jin wouldn’t have heard him at all.

The only reply Tsukasa got from Jin was a wave of his hand and the blond was out of the lab room. Jin checked his wristwatch once again; the time said 4:40 a.m.  so the hunter had less than an hour. He sighed wearily, preparing himself on a not-so comfortable sleep on the plane. The blond decided to screw it and wait by the planes already. He took the elevator once again; the planes that the HQ kept were in a different building, just a couple walks from the main one. It was a storage room for aircraft as it was designed especially for them.

From the 6^th floor to the ground floor, Jin strolled out of HQ and walked up to the nearby building. The building had a large garage like set-up that surrounded it, a communication center at the core of the place where most would stay at work. As the blond walked to the large area, he noticed a silver haired technician walking around the place. Jin whistled for the other’s attention, catching the demon’s attention full-on.

The silveret grinned at Jin’s presence, walking over to the blond hunter “Jin, aren’t you leaving in a little under an hour? Too early man.” he continued, stretching a hand out to the hunter as they clasped hands.

“Have nothing better to do than, wait for now.” Jin answered “You prepped up our ride yet?”

“Definitely.” He countered “But, you might want to lay low on your hasty orders next time, center is so not pleased with your demands.”

The blond can only sneer in reply, a small chortle leaving his lips “Ryoga, it’s like you don’t even work here. Since when did anyone get in trouble for hasty reservations?”

Ryoga flicked the hunter’s forehead “I’ve worked here before you were even born. I’m just telling you to keep cool on your demands.” the demon said in a scolding manner “I had to get Tomo here all the way from Russia! You better make it up to him; the dude’s had a hectic schedule recently.”

Jin grumbled, rubbing at his forehead where it now had a certain itch to where the demon hit him “Yeah yeah whatever, don’t be so demanding. And Tomo’s not the only guy who’s had his plate full you know? I haven’t slept in almost 3 days!” technically, 3 days would have been an understatement in their field of work. But, Jin was human and humans can only go up to 2 weeks maximum without sleep. Other supernatural beings varied in their sleeping.

Ryoga rolled his eyes, about to say something witty back to the hunter when another person caught his eye “Oi, Rui’s here.” he motioned, index finger pointing to the other silver haired person.

Jin turned to see Rui with two bags, one at his hand and the other hooked on his shoulders. Jin waved to the other, gaze meticulously wandering over to his friend’s bags “Ru, why so many stuff? You look like we're camping for a month!” he commented.

Rui wiped the evident sweat on his forehead, hand leaving his bag on the ground as the beta huffed tiredly “They’re just ‘in-case’ materials. You never know when we’ll need them.” he answered with a smile on his lips.

“Well, let’s leave these ‘just in-case’ materials at the plane then.” Jin said as he arched his brow at the bags Rui brought “Lead the way Ryoga.”

The silver haired demon nodded, walking to one of their stations where a jet was set inside “I’ll go get Tomo, he’s resting at the center. Since you two are here, Mitsuru and Reita will probably follow quite soon.” Ryoga said and left in a hurry.

Rui and Jin made their way inside the plane; Rui heaved a big sigh of relief as he finally sat himself down on one of the chairs. His bags were tucked at the storage compartment as well as Jin’s; the blond hunter had went over to the bar stool of the plane, looking over the liquors they had to offer “Whiskey, Ru?” Jin inquired.

The silveret cracked open one eye, looking at his blond teammate before mumbling something unintelligible to Jin. “Sure…” he said finally.

Jin nodded, taking out two glasses and pouring a large amount of whiskey in them, the glasses standing full and nearly over-flowing. “Here you go,” Jin said as he handed the glass to his beta teammate. Rui took the drink graciously, the amount taking him in by surprise as some of the liquor spilled down on his pants.

“Are you trying to get me drunk?” Rui asked indignantly.

“Nope, just trying to find the right drinks to knock me out the whole flight.” Jin said with a smirk and gulped down the whole shot in one go. He poured another shot on his glass, whiskey bottle still in his hand as he showed it to the other “Want to join?”

Rui grumbled, finishing his own glass as he stretched out his hand for another shot “I’ll just have a few; I still have to recheck the map for possible bases.”

“This is why you’re my favourite teammate! You’re so hard-working man.” Jin said with a huge grin plastered on his lips, unaware of how Rui had cowered a little by his words, the slight flushed shade on his cheeks mistaken for the effects of alcohol.

“Well, you’ve been working your ass off so much. I should really cut you the slack before your health starts to deplete and you get sick.” Rui teased.

The silver haired hunter received a not-so light punch from his comment “Fuck you man, I’m in perfect condition no matter what!” Jin argued, taking his third shot and pouring his fourth and immediately gulping it down too. The beta could only laugh at the other’s reaction, eyes falling on the amber liquid in his glass as Rui watched the little waves it made as he swirled the alcohol inside.

“I think it’s a bad idea that you marched into this mission instantly though, everyone knows you’ve been working overtime for months Jin.” Rui admitted.

This seemed to catch the blond’s attention; Jin looked over to his friend. He knows for a fact that when Rui gets quiet there’s something bothering him, he’s noticed that ever since they started working together from the past years. Yet, Jin could only shrug off the other’s statement, pouring himself another glass for the 5th time. “After this I’ll take a break maybe.” he lied.

“Yeah well—“

“Yoohoo, anybody home?” Rui’s words were interrupted and both heads turned when they heard Mitsuru’s voice come into the plane. The brunet had walked inside, shoving his bag in the storage compartment, “We all set guys?” he asked as he turned then, walked over to the bar stool.

“Yup, seems like Reita’s late as usual.” Jin replied as he waved the bottle of whiskey in his hands to Mitsuru “You want one?”

The kitsune averted his gaze to Jin before shaking his head and unfolding his laptop on the bar stool “Nah, have to read the files you told me to study.”

Another sound of footsteps came from the entrance and Jin turned his attention to see Reita coming in with a smaller bag than, what everyone bought “Yo,” was the mare’s only greeting before he lazily shoved his bag in the storage compartment then, sat himself down on one of the chairs of the plane.

“Seems like the whole gang’s here, Tomo should be taking us off soon.” Jin said as he drank another shot “And now, I’m going to sleep.” he continued off as the blond started to get comfortable in his seat “Wake me up when we’re there guys.”

He only received a few hums, mainly from both Mitsuru and Rui. Jin closed his eyes and tried to tune out any and all distractions, and he hadn’t realized at all how tired he was actually. There seemed to be a certain ache in every single part of his body yet, they slowly started to numb down. The alcohol was doing its job in keeping him light-headed and happy… It didn’t occur to Jin on how fast he had fallen asleep.

The next time the blond opened his eyes, it was due to the sound of Tomo’s voice by the speaker and Rui’s hand lightly nudging at his shoulder for him to wake up “Jin, we’re almost landing.” the silveret told softly.

Jin tried to shake off the drowsiness from his eyes, hand moving up to rub at them in an attempt to wake up “How long was I out?” Jin asked, trying to stifle down a yawn yet, failed to do so.

“You were asleep the whole trip,” Mitsuru answered him from one of the seats in front of them. He was at the bar stool earlier yet now, he was seated at one of the plane chairs with his laptop on his lap and glasses adorning his features “So a little around 10 hours,” he continued, glancing for a second at the trio before looking back down to his laptop.

“Dead to the world Jin,” Reita chuckled, a mischievous look plastered all over his face.

The hunter looked over to the other in question, he knew that look on Reita. That look was the one that told him that the other did something shitty and was proud and smug about it “Uh huh, and what were all of you doing while I was sleeping?” he asked, more particularly aimed at the other blond.

“Oh nothing much,” Reita said with a smile.

“You should probably get cleaned up.” Mitsuru sufficed, yet the smirk on his lips that was so obviously trying to hide a chortle from coming out made Jin’s blood boil in irritation.

In a haste, Jin stood up from his seat and went to the plane’s bathroom. There was still some time before they landed into some isolated suburban area of Koushi, so he can still prep himself up if his teammates did anything stupid. As soon as the blond had closed the door and the light scattered around the room, sapphire blue eyes stared straight at the mirror in front of him before…

“REITA!!” Jin shouted.

He could hear the audible laughter of his three teammates from the outside; Jin walked further to the sink and scanned his face. There was a prominent dick drawing with cum spurring out on it on his cheek, a poop drawing with flies on the other side and a horrible drawing of Gachapin on his forehead, with the words “GachaJin” next to it. There was also a half finished drawing of a black eye on him, probably because the trio would think he’d wake up if they tried to finish it.

Jin grumbled in irritation, grabbing the small bar of soap from the little first aid kit cabinet. He tore open a bar of soap and proceeded to wash his face with it, rubbing his hands on his face with frustration.

“GachaJin, we’ll be landing soon!” Reita’s muffled laughter shouted at him from the bathroom.

“Shut up you assholes!” The blond retorted back and another round of laughter came from the cabin. Jin could evidently see his skin turning to a bright colour of red, not because of embarrassment but, because of how hard he was scrubbing at his face. They probably had somewhere around 10 minutes to get their stuff ready and head out but, the blond was having trouble removing the Gachapin drawing on his forehead.

“You idiots are going to fuckin’ pay!” Jin shouted again.

He came out five minutes later with his face reddened and a death stare directed to Reita mostly, though Rui and Mitsuru weren’t spared from it. “Shitheads.” he grumbled shaking his head before moving back to his seat where Rui had so kindly helped with taking out his bag, even though the silveret already carried two of his own bags with him.

“Here you go,” Rui said as he handed the bag to Jin.

‘We’re now landing on Koushi, Rubidium axis. Quadrant 36.433.82 ’
Tomo’s voice said over the speakers ‘Please check if any bags are left or else they’re all mine fuckers.’

”Do you think he ever gives back items that were left here?” Rui asked as he looked over to the speakers where Tomo once spoke.

“Tengu’s are naturally mischievous, so it’s really up to your will power if you can make them.” Jin answered with a shrug “He’s probably just joking though, left my underwear here once and he gave it back to me.” Jin smirked.

“Ew, gross dude!” Rui exasperated and sat back to his chair.

Jin laughed, Mitsuru chortling along in the corner as their plane landed. The four of them then, left the plane, saying their goodbyes and thanks to Tomo, whom in return told them not to call him up again if they ever needed an on the spot pilot to take them.

Rubidium axis was a deserted area of the Koushi province. It was one of the lists Rui had checked where they can make as base. Though, it’s location wasn’t ideally close to the pack they were to observe it was still a rather good spot for a landing anyways; killing two birds with one stone, they could land easily without disturbing the residence at the same time check out the place and see if it was fitting for the job or not.

“Well this is dump.” Jin stated right after scanning the area, Mitsuru was packing their baggage into the van that they brought in the plane and Rui was checking the area the same as Jin “Rui, rain check.”

“It’s 6:24 p.m. , we’re out of daylight. There’s an old abandoned warehouse here that I found through the web, we can check it out now and see if it’s base material.” Rui answered easily.

The hunter nodded at the other’s words, looking up at the sky “Reita, go to the pack’s place and scan their fears. Just get into a mile radius, if you can find out what their recent nightmares have been that’d be great but, lay low. Don’t go into their den, we don’t know what we’re dealing with yet.”

“A mile radius huh?” Reita echoed back Jin’s words; he had no qualms with the blond’s orders. But, the mare really would’ve preferred it if he could infiltrate the place instead and know by hand what they were dealing with, instead of being on the lookout like a creeper of the dark. He cracked his knuckles, making sounds with his neck as well as he stretched for a tad “Give me an hour or two for a status report, their location is far from here.”

“Approved, we’ll be waiting here to check up on the warehouse.” Jin answered and in a blink of an eye, the mare was gone from their sight; traveling in the dark by the shadows of night.

“Mitsuru, Rui.” Jin ordered and caught both men’s attention “Hustle up; we need to check on that warehouse. We only have 5 hours before sending in a report to HQ.”