
Aftermath
It's study break, which means another chapter from one of my works. So, enjoy!
Btw, one of my favorite author in fanfiction.net seems to have her work translated to another language to a website that makes someone pay money if they want to read it, without her/his permission.
If any of this situation occurs to you, you may sue the website. And tell me how it went. Because I like interesting things
It's been months since the now dubbed, 'Citauri Incident' by him, of which Byakuran has been titled as the 'Dark Angel' for the stunt he pulled with the black hole at the said incident.
He looked awesome. Or so that's what Byakuran thought when he rewatched the whole event caught by phones that belonged to people who has zero self preservation skill.
"Byakuran! It's time for school."
He was opting whether to ignore that reminder or just suffer the six and a half hours interacting with idiotic teachers and insufferable children he has to call classmates.
A second call from his sister however, had him resigning to his fate for the next unsavoury hours of the day.
He'll vent it on the organisation named SHIELD later.
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"Three months! It's been three months and you still have not found this individual called Byakuran!" Fury screamed at a few unfortunate agents at work.
"...sir, there's a possiblity that he might have teleportation or invisibility abilities. We have checked all CCTVs in the city that did not get destroyed as well as the satellite imagery but we could not find where he went after that incident."
Fury cast a questioning glance at the skittish man bedside him, of which the man noticed and meekly mumbled, "He didn't have any those in that dream."
Tony, who was in the room at that time, chirped happily, "Maybe you all are thinking in the wrong direction."
With a tone like that, Fury knows that the egoistic billionaire has found something. So he raised an eyebrow, signaling for Stark to continue.
Stark pouted before finally relenting and showing what he had found.
"Jarvis, open the file 'Little Marshmallow Angel' for me please." Tony asked while plopping himself on a spinning chair.
Clint, who have just entered the room, has his lips curved up in amusement as he plopped down beside Tony.
As Clint raised his head to look at the holographic images, he saw a face that looked like an anime character. Beside that face was the character's short information.
Name: Riku
Anime: No game no life
Additional information: Game addict
Clint, "???"
Everyone else, "???"
"Stark, what is this?" Fury asked slowly.
Acting innocent, Tony replied, "It's an anime character. What else could it be?"
Fury was not amused but Clint was, which led to a snort of laughter escaping from him. Tony just knew how to push Fury's buttons yet have enough of an advantage to not allow the director to kick him out of the room... Well, not until he said his piece.
"This," Tony started while gesturing at the clothing of the anime character, "is what our unknown was wearing."
The people in the room made a peculiar face, but did not interrupt- they wanted to see where this is going.
With glee, Tony started speaking slowly just to make the scene more dramatic, "On the day of the appearance of our unsub-"
"Please don't play detective with me Stark and go straight to the point."
"-an interesting event was on..."
"Stark!"
"Fine, fine. Long story short, there was an anime convention in Manhattan few blocks away from the main battlefield. Are you happy now?"
"Yes, very."
"So, what you're saying is that the unknown enhanced is someone who either participated or planning to participate in that very anime convention..." Clint summarised.
"Yup."
Looking at the billionaire's smiling face which seems downright mischievous, Fury probed, "You're hiding something aren't you."
With the confidence and arrogance of a shameless person Tony answered, "Of course!"
Fury was debating whether to ignore that statement or to throw a file to that irritating face. He was opting for the latter but thought otherwise of it as other than releasing his anger, it does not have any other uses other than giving the genius an excuse to retreat to his abode.
Then again, even without a file to his face, the tin man would not disclose anything he does not want to disclose.
Feeling a looming disaster in that stare of Fury's, Tony promptly decided to make a hasty retreat.
"Well that's all folks. I have a date for the next few months with my workshop, so I bid thee adieu." He gave a mock bow before gliding to the door in moments.
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A few hours before Tony's visit to SHIELD
The bell rang, signaling that it was time for recess. Byakuran begrudgingly let his nagging classmate that he reluctantly call friend, to drag him to the canteen. As in, literally drag him to the canteen.
He suspects that his dense friend is a mutant.
There is just no way that a 5 years old, without any prior training, can drag another 5 year old. Even if they can, it would take quite an effort, unlike the relaxed, smiling face of his kidnapper. He even put five bricks in his bag just to make things difficult, although his efforts were in vain.
Byakuran pouted. Next time he would just hide in the high tech tunnels that he made in the school; it would be a waste to not use them, even though he had just casually created it because he was bored.
And because the thought of suddenly disappearing and appearing like a certain sadistic tutor seems like a tempting idea
As he was being dragged to the lady serving food, something caught his ear.
"Did you hear, Tony Stark is going to visit the school for a talk!"
"Oh yeah, the science exhibition, right?"
"Yup! Let's go there since the classes after recess are cancelled!" The girl named Jennifer or Jenny as she likes to be called pulled her friend Catherine or Cathy to the exhibition hall, which honestly it's just the school hall.
As to why Byakuran knows their names, well, their his classmates. In addition, he grouped with them in art class, so it was not a surprise that he is acquaintance with them. Not to mention they are noisy. They are literally the noisiest in class... Well Jennifer is, Catherine usually just listens.
"Oh my God! I totally forgotten about it!"
Oh, great. Now he has to get dragged there too - because one thing you should know about Knox is his obsession with Iron Man.
Screw using his secret tunnels next time, he was going into them the minute finds a chance to get out of the brute's hold without arousing suspicions.
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One should know that Tony's a genius. It's just impossible to not know, considering that he literally flaunts it everywhere that either he or money can reach.
So when a white haired male who got dragged, in a literal sense, into the exhibition hall, albeit in disinterest with a hint of scheming, it just sends his curious mind into over drive. Children of the age of 5 should not look like that.
As Tony glanced at the albino's right hand he noticed something familiar. Too familiar...
He watched as the kid opens the bag of marshmallow, grab a handful of the spongy cluster of sugar that should not be a 5 years old kid's lunch and proceeded to stuff them in his mouth as if the marshmallow owes him a million dollars.
He links it to a certain albino on that 'fateful' day...
The similarities are uncanny which makes Tony feel proud of his luck. It's not everyday that an enhance he is finding drops to his lap so easily. Furthermore, one that has been avoiding even his radar.
He has to thank Pepper later.
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Byakuran is not happy. He had used all kinds of excuses to get away from that meathead but was all in vain. He wondered if it was fine to just kick the boy hard enough for him let go of Byakuran for a split second so Byakuran could bolt away, but that would be hard to do without arousing suspicions.
After all, every one knows that Knox is one of the strongest person in school, but what they do not know is that Byakuran could just fling that so called one is the strongest away without breaking a sweat. Although, that thought was tempting, it would definitely break his persona that he had patiently cultivated, and that is a big no no for him.
And that brings him back to square one, how to get out without arousing suspicion. How troublesome...
Ara, he seem to have caught his foster family's habit of disliking troublesome matters. Byakuran wonders if he would be infected by their enthusiasm too due time. That's quite an interesting topic to mull about, considering his bleak situation.
A sharp fanboy squeel awoken him from his musing.
"Oh my God! Tony Stark is looking at me! And he's walking towards this direction! He's waving! He's waving! Byakuran look!"
As Knox turn towards where Byakuran should have been, he found that it was void of any human presence. This caused him to stare blankly for a few seconds, unable to comprehend the fact that his best friend had ditched him.
"Byakuran, that's an odd name."
A voice commented in a joking tone.
Snapping out of his dazed state Knox stuttered his words out, "Th-that, well... I, umm. He-hello Mr. Stark-"
"Tony," the billionaire interject.
"Ah, I'm so sorry Mr. Stark- I mean Mr. Tony. I mean-"
"So, tell me about this Byakuran." Tony interjected again to ensure that the conversation does not drag on any longer than it should have.
"Oh. We-well, Byakuran is his nickname that his parents gave him. His real name is Ian. And can I get your autograph Mr. Stark-" Knox ranted.
Tony stopped him before he started his rant again, gave the stuttering mess an autograph and proceeded to flee the scene as the meathead was admiring the autograph.
He has an unknown to track down after all~
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