(A/N: WARNING!: OCs used. Mine: Takeru Ayama. My friend's: Kyoushu Yoi.

2nd WARNING!: Robert Frost poems and excerpts used throughout story! Do your research!

Credit to Minx for the awesome idea and my crazy obsession with Kakuzu!

ENJOY!)

And the more loitering are turned

To view once more the sacrifice

Of those who for some good discerned

Will gladly give up paridise

~Excerpt From "The Trial By Existance" By Robert Frost

Chapter 1

1/7/10

The world, it's cold, isn't it? It's a murderous, evil place, right? People die. Sometimes slow, bloody, painful deaths. Sometimes peaceful deaths,surrounded by family and friends. But what about the people who die almost without knowing it? What about the quick, painless deaths? Is that the best way to go? Or the worst? Does it show utmost hatred? Or utmost love?

To me, the world is a beautiful place. Evil, yes, but beautiful. It is cold, but only in wet, dark places. Only smoke filled bars, offices, my own home. In places with money. Places with people who have green irises and red whites. People who kill on a whim, for money. A bounty. Greedy men. They killed him! He killed him!

"Kyoushu! Please be ready in 15 minutes!" She heard her nanny call. Kyoushu had been requested to a dinner for her father's business partner. She didn't bother to reply as she pulled on her blue-grey kimono. She tied a black obi around her waist and a white string around it. Then she pinned a white rose on the knot. Kyoushu smoothed down her hair and stepped into a pair of black sandals. She finally applied a minimal amount of make-up on her lips, eyes, and cheeks and headed through her sliding door.

Her father was sitting on the corner of the table beside his partner, Ginkira Usagi, talking to another Kyoushu enter the room, it fell silent. She came to sit down beside a long, white haired man.

"Usagi-san, this is my daughter, Kyoushu." He intoduced her. Usagi looked at her for a long while before speaking.

"This is your great hit woman?" He asked incredulously. His eyes bugged and his mouth curved into a humorous smile.

"Yes." Her father answered harshly. "She has great skill in her small frame. She is extremely fast, strong and very cunning."

"Yoi-san, I apologize, but she is no more than a mere teen. She cannot be as witty as you say." He laughed. He felt a sharp point on his back and jumped. Usagi turned his head around and his eyes bugged once more. Standing before him was Kyoushu Yoi. She held a sharp kunai to his back, right behind his heart. It ripped his yukata.

"If you wish to insult me, do not do it as if I am not here." She blazed into his eyes. "My father does not say anything he does not mean. He does not over or under estimate."

She put the kunai back into her obi and walked slowly back to her seat. All the while letting everyone get a good look at her.

The man sitting beside her scooted to the edge of his seat but smiled at her. She did not smile back.

Suddenly her father burst out in praise, something he never did at home. Only in public. "Wonderful! Thank you, Kyoushu!"

She stayed silent. In fact, the rest of the dinner she was silent.

Kyoushu Yoi was oblivious to a certain man's fate in the room. Three days until this man's life ended. Ended at the hands of a bounty hunter.

(A/N: Very short, I apologize. This was kind of a Prologue so I didn't make it long.

I hope you like it! Kyoushu traslates to "assassin" and Yoi to "evening; night". That's Minx's OC. Mine will be introduced next. Yay! Tell me if you like Kyoushu, her dad, Usagi even! I like Usagi! Lol. I don't know why.

Review please!)