Kamen Rider Kiva: Useless Things part 20 (Nago/Wataru, Rated 13+)

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Here's the next part of "Useless Things", part 20. Spoilers for Episode 28. Nago/Wataru.



Bishop watched as Taiga walked towards him. In some ways his adoptive son ever since Maya had gone rogue, Taiga was his eyes and ears, his most reliable operative. The boy should have been King, Bishop would have preferred that to breaking in Wataru, but inheritances were funny things, and Wataru had gotten the position. They had to made do with what they had.

Taiga sat down across from him. "That doctor is going to be an annoyance. Dr. Takamoto, I mean. She attempted to break into Wataru's house this morning, and something drove her out in a hurry. I dropped by her clinic and had a talk with her."

"Does she suspect?" Bishop asked. The woman had to suspect. She could become a liability extremely quickly.

"I think she does," Taiga said. He rested his chin on his folded hands. "Given your seeming interest in him. But the more important thing is that she attempted to grab him - and would have succeeded, except he apparently has a boyfriend - who has the armor that humans created to fight us. The best she could do, she said, was to wound Wataru, and she claims she did *that* because it would keep him down and resting while his body changed. She asks for your consideration in making her the royal doctor and said that his apparently isn't Fangire."

Bishop absently noted the outrage in Taiga's tone. Taiga considered himself Wataru's protector - and he was an excellent choice for Wataru's bodyguard, thanks to the armor that Bishop had developed for him. "I know he has a doctor - you both share the same doctor."

"Who is a Fangire," Taiga said. "As it should be." Bishop had to agree; leaving even a halfbreed like Wataru in the care of a human doctor was unconscionable. "I don't see Dr. Takada not telling him that he's going through the change, even if he doesn't tell him why."

Bishop nodded. "And where is Wataru, and how are we progressing in wiring his house?" Bishop knew it was going to be needed to control the young king.

"The human that chased her off took off with him," Taiga said. "We can start wiring up his house while he's gone, but...."

"Do it," Bishop said. "In the meantime, keep an eye on him. Find out who this human is. Eliminate the human."

Taiga nodded. "And telling Wataru about his nature and his bloodline?"

"I will be stopping by, as a concerned and appropriately apologetic person," Bishop said. "In due time. I also want you to 'accidentally' meet up with him." He spotted Wataru's young, ignorant human friend. She would make a good meal someday, but in the meantime, she should make a good source of information. "Befriend him. Bring me in as somebody you trust. I'm sure that he would be grateful for help in his time of need."

Taiga nodded as the young human approached their table. "Hi," she said.

Bishop smiled. "Hello there, young woman. How is your friend? Please, sit down."

She smiled back and sat. "Well, he was tired, but he called me last night and said he was feeling better. I'm a little worried, though." She looked at Taiga hesitantly, as if unsure whether to air her grievances with him present.

"May I present Nobori Taiga, a member of my flock," Bishop said. "I'm afraid I don't remember your name, miss-"

"Nomura Shizuka," she said, looking at him and then Taiga. "My friend - Wataru - had a friend named Taiga."

Taiga smiled at her. "If his surname is Kurenai, then we might know the same person."

Her eyes widened. "It sounds like we do!" She took a deep breath. "I'm sorry to trouble you both."

"It's all right," Bishop said. "Tell me and Taiga what's worrying you. I like your young man, Wataru, and it sounds like Taiga's old friend could use some help."

"Well...." the young woman said hesitantly, "A few days ago, this guy - who Wataru's been hanging about with - turned up and said he was Wataru's boyfriend. He has this list of rules that Wataru has to obey, or else. He's a bounty hunter, and he's absolutely scary."

"What's the man's name?" Taiga prompted. "I saved Wataru from bullies before; I can do it again."

"I don't really know his first name," she said. "Wataru always calls him Nago-san." Bishop filed the information away, as he knew Taiga was doing. It was easier to find and eliminate the man that way.

"You've told your Wataru that he's being abused?" Bishop asked.

She nodded rapidly. "Yes, but he seems to be always on the man's side. I'm scared for him. I mean, Wataru's too young for anyone, but at least Mio-san is a girl and she's a lot like Wataru."

"I'll go and see Wataru," Taiga volunteered. "See if I can get this bully to stay away from him. In the meantime, I think you should get him to see this Mio-san - does he like her?"

"Very much," she admitted. "Here, I have a picture." She dug out her phone and pressed buttons. "See?"

The picture, Bishop was surprised to see, was of the current Queen. He smiled at the coincidence, that the Queen had found her King without prompting. "She looks like a very nice girl," he said. "I think Taiga's advice is good on this matter."

The girl nodded reluctantly, and Bishop had to wonder if she carried a torch for Wataru herself.

"It'll be great to catch up with Wataru," Taiga said. "I recently moved back to the area, and I... he hasn't moved, has he? Still in that white house with the stairway entrance?"

She nodded. "Yes, it's the same house."

"I'll definitely watch out for him," Taiga said. He smiled at her. "Thank you for watching over him while I was gone - Wataru's such a pushover, I worried about him too."

"You're welcome," she said. "Let's talk some other time. I apologize for leaving, but...."

"We understand," Taiga said. "See you sometime!"

She skipped off. Once she was out of earshot, Taiga asked, "Okay, when can we eliminate her?"

"As soon as she's of no use to us," Bishop replied, watching the human girl. "Our main problem is this Nago."

Taiga nodded. "Something's going on, more than this girl suspects," he said. "I think humans that know are trying to align against us, or at least use Wataru to their benefit. We have to save him."

"I agree." Taiga was naive when it came to Wataru, but Bishop could live with that. "I need you to become his closest friend and confidant, make him understand what it means to be Fangire. In fact, once he starts feeling the worst effects of his change, I want you to explain things to him so he understands what's going on." Bishop had planned on explaining, but Taiga could do the grunt work just as well while he swept in and offered to help Wataru with his duties as King. The sooner Wataru relied on himself and Taiga to the exclusion of everybody else, the better it would be for him and the Fangire.

And with himself and Taiga there as Wataru's support, getting him to do his duty should be even easier than bringing Mio to do hers. Bishop smiled. This might even be easy....