Rukia Kurosaki

Kick, for the sake of violence~

Again the man shrugged innocently. "I don't have the authority to let one of our guests wander around unsupervised." Erru glared at him as he continued talking, worried for those who had been gathered to find Aeyra and suspicious of the man who was calling her a 'guest.' "But if I escort you upstairs to the boss' suite, I suppose you could ask him about this girl you think you saw," he added, taking a ring of keys from his pocket with an unnecessary flourish. Erru glanced at the door, trying to judge whether she could kick it out before he could stop her. Finally, and with an annoyed sigh, she replied, "Fine... " While he unlocked and opened the door, Erru went over in her mind a number of ways to subdue the man if she needed to escape. "Let's go, Miss Erru," he said, motioning to the open door. She froze without responding. There was no way... "How do you know my name?" she demanded, taking a step back. The man smiled charismatically. "We know the backgrounds of all our guests." "How much do you know?" she asked, reaching in her pocket for her knife and taking another step back. The man sighed, replying, "We have been informed that you are a seventeen year old FBI trainee, we know about your last case, and we were told about the deaths of your family members during that case." Erru stared at the floor, cheeks flushed and throat burning. "I don't know how you got your intel on me," she said, her voice cracking, "But I'm not a subject for study. Stay out of my past..." The man nodded. "Fine, fine, but let's head upstairs." With a frown, a markedly upset Erru followed the annoying man as he led the way to a staircase. "Safer than the elevator at the moment," he explained, gesturing at the destruction all around. Erru ignored him, trying not to see the bodies of innocents laid out as they had died, not given respect or their right to be alive. As she followed up the steps, she stared at the ground, also ignoring his speech about the marble used to build them.

Erru walked to the door, testing the knob. "Why is it locked?" she asked, glaring at the man across the room. He simply smiled and raised his shoulders in an innocent shrug. "The boss informed us that you were part of our operation, and to keep you here until you heal up enough to take you upstairs to the meeting room." Erru shook her head, stepping back. "I don't know who you people are, but I've got nothing to do with your work. I'm not going anywhere with you guys." The man laughed. "I don't think you understand. You have no choice. The boss wants you delivered unharmed, like that girl, Misaki." Frowning, Erru snapped, "Where's Sakila?" "There is no one by that name here," the man replied, shaking his head. Erru grabbed his collar, glaring at him. "The girl who was with me... What have you done with her?!" "Ah, you mean Aquilas. She's escorting a guest at the moment." Erru frowned, shaking her head. "I've never met someone named Aquilas..." Something was going on, and she wasn't going to wait around. "I'm leaving. You can either unlock the door, or I'll break it down," she said.

Erru was not going to hang around and wait for answers from these guys. Except, she was really worried about Sakila. The girl hadn't responded to her inquiries, and she wasn't perfectly fine in terms of injuries; they'd both fallen two levels and been running around being shot at... She stood, folding the sheets back on the bed she'd just vacated. Something made her sit right back on the edge of the furnishing... She'd felt something when she moved, something that wasn't there before. She gripped the edge of her blood and dirt stained shirt, lifting it above her abdomen. "Stiches?" she asked aloud. If these people had helped her, then... were they allies? Had they helped Sakila, too? Why were they in this strange hotel? She sighed, her mind full of question after question. After all of that, she was going to wait for answers. "Who are you?" Erru inquired. "What's going on?"

Erru opened her eyes slowly, groaning. "That hurt more than I expected..." She jolted up as she noticed that she was now inside a room, tearing off the oxygen mask she was sure wasn't there before. "Sakila?" Her voice cracking and her body throbbing, she looked around. She noticed a man she hadn't met before, and a person in scrubs, but the other girl was nowhere to be seen. "What's going on? Where is she?! And who are you?" Her body shook with anxiety, and she glanced from the man to the nurse rapidly. "Where's Sakila...?"

"Seventeenth floor... there should be..." Erru glanced at the doorway to the suite as the grenade blew the door off its hinges and more enemies arrived. Unarmed she could do nothing but protect the girl she thought was Sakila. "Sorry..." She moved Aquilas in front of her as she dashed through the opening. With no warning, she wrapped her arms around Aquilas protectively and ducked her head, jumping out the panoramic window. The girls fell only two floors before hitting another room's balcony. She moved so that she landed on her back with the other girl protected from the impact. Dazed, Erru shifted so that she and Aquilas were hidden by the ledges above. Breathing hard and sorely bruised, she laid on the balcony, glancing at the girl beside her. She hadn't said anything since Erru had asked her name. Erru didn't even know if the girl was conscious. She meant to ask if she was alright, but her eyes felt heavy, and she let them close, not moving otherwise. She knew that they'd be hidden as long as she didn't move.

Clue~ <3

I Eat Cannibals- Toto Coelo~ xD

*High Fives*

Before she got a response, Erru noticed Sasha heading down the hall. "Sh**!" She was awake now. With a quick apology, she tackled Aquilas, shielding the girl. "Hold your fire, bastard!" she yelled, kicking the leg of a table. As the structure toppled, she let it fall before her, its surface standing between Sasha and herself. "This girl is innocent. Stand down!" Erru gripped the limb she'd broken from the furniture, ducking out from behind the table and chucking it toward Sasha. She moved back without waiting to see where it hit him. "Are you alright?" she asked Aquilas.

Erru blinked her eyes open slowly, feeling numb and hollow. Her bullet wounds felt heavy and throbbed as she moved, but there was no sharp pain or lingering nausea. Her mind felt as blurry as her sight, which cleared over a matter of seconds. As her eyes focused, she saw a familiar face. It was the face of a girl she was supposed to meet at the airport; the unaccounted for girl she'd been worried about. "Sa- sakila?" she mumbled hoarsely. "Sakila... is that... you?" Erru closed her eyes and dropped her head with a relieved sigh and a half-smile. "You have no idea how worried I was... a few things have gotten out of hand, but I've got a lead on Aeyra."