Girls and Gunpowder

Chapter 1:

"Girls! Can you pay attention!..please!..". The chairman said getting frustrated by their stubbornness.

The small office area where 4 girls and an older man stood was silent. The man, Chairman, could see that the girls wouldn't listen now no matter what he said.

He sighed deciding to forget trying to discuss it further.

"Kanade, Satomi may we have a word in private? Everyone else go as you were." he commanded.

Two of the girls walked after him silently as he walked down a hall from the office that led to his personal office. Once inside he sat behind his desk and gestured for them to take a seat in front of him.

The two girls sat in their chairs with the dead stares everyone at the agency was used to seeing.

"It has been 10 years since you have arrived here. You were trained and easily exceeded your masters...still I just want you to be aware that I control all actions and plans that go on here. I DO NOT want you taking things into your own hands! Do you understand?!" he yelled.

Satomi sat with her chair turned backwards and her arms on the back of her chair tossing her head to the ceiling with a witty grin.

"Sooo...who are the ones with the invincible, unfathomable abilities again? I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want to get on our bad side..." she drawled coolly.

Her gaze lower to meet his and he was taken aback by the blank cold stare in her grey-green eyes. The chairman straightened his back with fierce eyes.

"Are you threatening me?" he asked slowly.

Kanade cheerfully jumped to her feet, white curls bouncing around her small frame before grabbing Satomi's arm.

"Onee-chan! We need to go!"

Satomi snapped out of her hypnotic state instantly. The girls looked at each other before moving towards the exit. Kanade turned back as she stood at the door with a shadow covering her blue-grey eyes, her voice reaching back into the room soft, yet deadly.

"My dear Mr. Chairman! I think you shouldn't go home for a while...something might be waiting for you at 3 A.M next to your bed, and it wouldn't be nice...".

The chairman cringed straightening his tie as fear flashed across his face before he could hide it.

"Bye! Have a nice evening! Sweet dreams..." she said cheerfully, adding the last part with a scary dark voice that made Satomi grin at the Chairman equally evil.

Kanade skipped down the hall back to normal and bumped right into a tall figure. A tall muscular blond boy with a stern look on his face reached out his hand to help her up. He then crossed his arms giving her a disapproving look.

"Kanade. You do realize that every time you say or do mental brain exercises on the Chairman...he yells at me more because he get nightmares." he told her sourly as they reach the main office.

Kanade picked up her guitar from against the wall before following them out as they started down another hall.

"I'm sorry Elly, he just makes me mad and you of all people know how hard that is.." she said with a bright smile.

He rolled his eyes and began to go ahead of them to  the practice hall. Kanade looked out of the window her smile fading a little as sunshine fell on her.

'My name is Chiba Kanade. That other beautiful girl was my older sister Chiba Satomi. We have been here at the institute since I was five. The chairman told me that he saved us so now I had to train for the government to pay back that debt. Our parents died in a fire with the rest of our village in the country. Everyone said Satomi and I were the cause, but everything's a blur. Since then we've trained our skills carrying out missions to keep the world safe. We use our band called 'Girls and Gunpowder' as a diversion from events which later would be covered on the news. It's funny because the music is all us, never had a single lesson our whole lives. We aren't the only ones here though, there are actually four of us. Shini and Aggie came four years after we did. That lovely fellow from before was our manager Elliot. He handles our music and is our part time teacher. Yep, our teacher. Gosh! We're only kids you know! I am 15, Satomi 17, Shini 17 and Aggie 16. We may be sweet looking face to face, but we are girls like no others. Sadly we are stuck behind these stupid walls' she thought looking out at the high surrounding wall of the institute.