Title: Beneath Your Nose
Chapter: 9
Pairing: Too many to name, just keep up and you will see.
Bands: The Gazette, Alice Nine, Vistlip, Miyavi, Gackt, Hyde, and more. The list will just go on, and there are OC's (please don't hit me)
Rating: PG-13 (Entire fic is NC-17)
Warnings: Eventual smut, but for now, high amounts of cursing
Author: allidesu911
Chapter Summary: Minds are blown, Aoi is angry at the world, and something is up with Chiyu. Probably the most awkward board meeting to be held at 3 a.m.
Genre: Supernatural
“So, you really are telling us that Gackt has been using us as pawns this entire time to help Mana?” Ruki said, not daring to let the authority slip from his voice. He may not be in his realm of control, but he refused to look like a subordinate.
Aoi shook his head and mumbled to himself, “I knew it.”
“I think the evidence is substantial,” Hana tried not to snap as she waved at the table top that they were all gathered around. Papers littered the wooden surface: snapshots, typed out conversations, and hand signed documents from the man himself all sat in front of them. Joining the remnants of what had to be a medium sized tree worth of paper was a computer, the now still image of Gackt in conversation with a small blonde scruffy man and the chief of police glowed at them. Tape recorders piled in front of Aoi as he insisted on repeating them at least twice to make absolutely positive that they were the proper voices.
Reita picked up a gloss covered photo and glowered at the image of Gackt and Mana embraced him. “So what do we do now?” he asked secretly resisting the urge to burn the photo.
Airi stretched her arms high in the air in her seat to the left of Ruki’s head of the table. It had shocked her subordinates that she had given the seat up in the first place. Hana had taken her place at the opposite end, and began her lecture some hours ago. Airi now spoke while staring at her feet that were crossed and propped on the table directly next to Kai who was lounging in his chair. “The small man in the video, the blonde, his name is Hyde,” no one but Reita could sense Chiyu’s body tense before he inhaled and forced it to relax. “He is somewhat oblivious to what Gackt is actually doing here. Camui is using Hyde’s elevated social status, and blind friendship, to help market the drug to other well off vampires, in hopes of having backers of the actual reproduction of limpid, before his results are conclusive. Hyde is the oldest known vampire and is in connection with more of our kind than you can imagine.” The group nodded in agreement, the latter information was well known fact.
“Please tell me one more time why he is doing all of this. I can’t process this for some reason,” Aoi requested from his slumped position against the oak table.
“Basics are that Mana was contacted by Gackt to begin the testing of limpid. Mana has the resources: labs, well educated employees, so on and so forth. He then had the benefit of Gackt’s government trained protectors. He is untraceable, although we are on the verge of cracking that.”
“Gackt is using the illusion of this being a street drug to test how long it takes for the drug to take over a vampire’s body. Your personal killing off of random drug runners did push back production a little, but they have logs that keep track of what druggie buys how much on which day. It is basically a laboratory log and used by the drug runners,” she said pushing a leather bound book towards the center of the table. “This is one of the logs we were able to get a hold of. And he is more than willing to slow production time a little if he has you as a cover to unsuspecting eyes. He initially hired you to make it look like he was trying to get rid of the drug problem. Helps solidify his promotion to ambassador.”
Uruha spoke next. “Gackt is doing this for his political career. When he becomes the international ambassador he will reveal the results from this whole little case study of his. From what Hyde tells us, Gackt’s dream is to be the head of military. He will use his new position and the results to put his foot in that door.”
“Wait,” Ruki now sat in full attention, “How does Hyde know this, and how do we know Hyde?”
Hana sighed, “Airi is an acquaintance of Hyde’s.”
Aoi sat up in a flash, “How well of an acquaintance?” he asked with slanted eyes. You could faintly hear Hana hiss beneath her breath.
Airi’s eyes shot towards him with disdain. “None of your business.” Aoi glared back at her.
“Then how do we know our position isn’t compromised with Gackt,” the small little Shinpei piped from Ruki’s right.
Airi turned and attempted to glare at Shinpei, but the honesty in his eyes deterred her. She sighed, “Hyde won’t speak of my relationship with him to anyone other than the people we both know. That was a past life, it has nothing to do with now.”
“How can you be sure of that?” Aoi snapped and Airi whipped her head towards him again. Hana was now propped on her elbow against the table, eyebrows being massaged by her thumb and forefinger in agitation.
Airi could have killed with the stare she was sending towards Aoi. “Listen, tracker boy. If I say it is fine then there is nothing to worry about. Worry about covering your own pretty tail properly and you wouldn’t even be in this position right now, now would you?”
Aoi opened his mouth in a huff to spit something back, but slammed his mouth shut when Chiyu raised his voice. “I think!” he said loudly then dropped his voice to continue, knowing he gained the proper attention, “that we should trust in our new comrades. They could have just killed us after all.”
The room sat silent. Chiyu stared from beneath furrowed brows at Aoi, and Aoi silently sending death threats with his eyes. The decision came from Ruki, “I think Chiyu is right, let’s move on.”
Hana sighed, “Thank god. So we were talking about what?” Everyone seemed to shrug or simply ignore the question.
“Well, what does Gackt plan to do with this cock eyed research?” Reita asked seeking some form of move forward and not one back to hostility.
Hana nodded. “I am sure you have realized that helios is being mixed into limpid supplies.” The foreign men nodded. “It is actually not helios being mixed with limpid. It is limpid being mixed with helios,” this received confused stares. “Think about it,” she stated simply as if that would make the logic click. She rolled her eyes when it didn’t. “Helios is what we take to assimilate into the world of humans, right? Inject the helios with limpid and you will have a slow drawn out way to mass produce the drug to vampires.”
Aoi shook his head in confusion, “But that will just set mayhem loose. All limpid does is revert you to a primitive state, kills your brain technically, but your body takes over and goes on a killing spree.”
Airi stared at her boots again while speaking, “Yes, but then Gackt will have the doses under control. He will now how long it takes to be in full effect and he will be able to track who he implements it to. Pharmacies change the colors of pills all the time. No one will be any wiser about having lethal drugs put in their system.”
“What do you think they plan on doing with the ones they give the limpid to?” Aoi pressed.
Hana set her pen down a little too loudly, “That we can’t say for sure, but we suppose it has something to do with his interest in the military.”
Kai finished as he looked at his friends, “They will harvest us, and use us as killing machines.”
“Glorified war hounds,” Uruha sighed.
The room was still as the words sunk in. Reita was lost in the whirlwind in his mind. Chiyu was trying to separate what he now knew was the truth from what he had been fed before tonight. Aoi and Shinpei just seemed blank, and Ruki was his ever stoic presence as he twiddled his thumbs in his seat. He was the first to speak. “So our obvious in to Gackt and information is Hyde?”
Hana nodded, “Yes, as long as he doesn’t feel threatened, he should tell Airi what we need to know. With a gratuitous amount of coercing most likely. He is rather protective of Gackt.”
Aoi slammed a fist down on the table, “Seriously, how the hell do you know this guy? Because all I am hearing is the two of you are long time bed buddies. And that does not qualify him to keep his mouth shut.”
Airi let out a long angry exhale and snapped her neck to look at Aoi. “If you must know, you fucking imbecile, he is my creator.”
Aoi readied to send back a wave of insults and paused, “Wait, isn’t half the lure about Hyde?”
“What?” Reita was confused now.
“That he has lived so long without having a blood child. That is what everyone says at least.” Aoi replied
She glowered at him as if he were an idiot, “Exactly, I don’t exist to the masses, therefore how is he going to tell anyone about me?”
“Gackt doesn’t even know?” Chiyu asked looking her dead in the eye.
She looked back sternly, “No, he never knew.” Chiyu nodded.
Ruki inhaled loudly and clapped cheerfully with a grin, “So now that we know the necessities, where do we start?”
Airi, Hana, Kai, and Uruha looked at the small sunglassed man as if he were an alien.A brawl had almost erupted and he was smiling and changing the subject as if nothing had happened.
Hana shook her head and stuttered, “W..We..Well, before we can get anything important done, you need to know how the Kabuki Boyz work.”