Can't Touch You (A Fairytail Fanfic) (LaxusxOC)

Chapter 1: Poor Choices pt 5

Guess what! By the time that I post this, I should be nineteen years old! Yep! June 26th is my birthday! Happy birthday to me!

Laxus has met with a 'Kononoke' Shiro, but according to his employee, Bixlow, she might not be who she claims. Will Laxus choose her despite his doubts? And just who is she, anyway? Let's find out on this latest update!

"That's enough playing around, Mr. Haiyokama, we need to get to work."

"Yes, sir."

Yes, Kononoke Shiro was a perfect choice. She was clearly clever and observant, and her old school cited her as a hard worker. She did seem twitchy though. Perhaps it was caused by being bullied when she was younger, as she said. I shudder to remember that I used to be a bully myself. Maybe I even bullied her ...? How long had this girl, clearly of Japanese descent, been in America? She had the faintest of Japanese accents, mixed with an accent of unknown location.

It wouldn't do to wonder. Besides, her skittishness and poor circumstances were another reason to include her. That was the mission of the dragon slayers.

"Mr. Justine!" I call, "We're ending the workday and notify Ms. Kononoke to inform her of her new job."

"Right!" Fried marches off to do my bidding as I finish up my own work before heading out the door.

"Saike Shiro?" Cobra asks, wearing his snake-like mask as usual. "No, I don't know what happened."

"I hear she killed her own friend." Secrets answers, "But I don't think that's what happened. If you want, Clemency and I can look further into it."

I nod. Secrets and Clemency were both good at learning about, well, secrets. "In the meantime, Cobra, Salamander, I have a new employee. She's jumpy for some reason."

"Mob ties?" White Dragon asks.

"Maybe. I want Cobra and Salamander to keep an eye on her. Ryos, Black Steel, maybe you can find whatever gang she's connected to and take them out."

"Stormbringer, are you okay?" Hellsweets asks worriedly. "Why are you so concerned over Saike Shiro, and this employee?"

"One of my other employees, the weird one with the puppets, apparently knew Shiro and went to her orphanage. With that orphanage shut down, who knows what happened to her. I owe it to my employee to make sure she's okay. Oh, and Cobra, Salamander, Ryos, Black Steel, the new employee's called Kononoke Shiro."

Siren pushes forward a note. The same given name?

"It's not unheard of." Black Steel shrugs.

Siren pushes forward another note. Can Hellsweets and White Dragon focus on the death of Saike Shiro's friend? The killer should be found, whether it's Saike Shiro or not.

"What, you're not going to do anything?"

Siren shakes her head, and moves her mouth, trying to force words that won't come. She finally gives up and hangs her head. She moves her hand and hits her thigh in a rhythm, spelling something out in morse code.

"What did she say?" Salamander asks.

"She said she's got a surgery coming up. She also says that afterward, she's seeing speech therapists and ..." Black Steel pauses, "That she has to see the other kind of therapist soon too."

Siren taps something out.

"Stop apologizing." Black Steel snaps.