A child knelt next to a dying man with an expressionless face and she buried her hand inside the open wound of his stomach. Eyes lifeless and she heard the man groan in pain. "Why are you doing this?" the man groaned

"Mummy would get mad if I didn't"

"People can help you get away from her, have a proper life" me man pleaded

"Miki, Darling" the expressionless girl flinched and a voice filtered from the other room "have you done the job Mummy asked you to do" the child looked down at the man.

"Just scream, people are waiting outside for me to come out, people who can help you, if you scream they'll come rushing" Miki looked at the man in the eyes.

"Mummy is the only one who cares"

"I cared, didn't I? when you were crying on the street, I helped you didn't I?" the man in pain watched as the girl gently pull her hands out of the wound looked at her hands as horror spread along her face. "Scream for me, Miki, and people will come and help you"

A scream suddenly tore from her throat, and the front door burst open. Miki could hear a curse muttered before the back door to the house was slammed closed as Miki's mother escaped.

A pair of paramedics rushed over to them and tended to the man before rushing him off to the hospital. A policeman that had been waiting outside came over to her with a blanket and wrapped it around the child. Miki looked up with fear filled eyes "You're ok now" the policeman soothed "We're here to help you, you'll be well looked after"

"That mister will be ok?"

"He'll be just fine, your scream saved him" a police woman soothed as she walked up to her.

A few weeks later the police man brought her to the hospital room of the once dying man. Miki jumped up so sit on his bed has she had done the past few days.

"How are you today, Miki?" the man greeted

"I'm ok. Are you better?" The girl asked timidly.

"I'm fine. Miki, how would you feel about being adopted into my family? My wife thought it be a fitting way to thank you" the man asked.

"But Keiichi-san- "

"No buts, yes or no?" Keiichi asked.

"It would… be nice"

"Then its settled" Keiichi grinned "how about a new name for a new life, for a better life"

"But I already have a name, I am Hiou Miki" Miki asked curiously

"Well, if you have a new name, you no longer have to be tied to that woman and it can be your rebirth so to speak" Keiichi explained. The small girl thought about his words. They made sense. She turned to the man and smiled, nodding vigorously.

Scarred

Hiroki woke to the sound of the door closing. She stood from the couch where she had been sitting and greeted Nowaki "I'm home, Hiro-san"

"Welcome home, Nowaki" Nowaki lent down to press a loving kiss on her lips. Still shaken from her day dream she willingly let him drawing comfort from it without the doctor even realising it as she wrapped her arms around his neck.

"How is the little one?" Nowaki grinned placing his hand on her stomach.

"They're fine" Hiroki forced a small smile.

"Hiro-san? What's wrong?" Nowaki asked.

"It's nothing, I had a bit of a nightmare before" Hiroki brushed it off as if it was nothing but she could feel the tears starting to spill. Nowaki said nothing but hugged her tightly.

Scarred

Hiroki walked into the hospital the next day and was greeted by Nowaki and her doctor Mitsuo Tachibana. "Hiroki-chan" the older man greeted "Ready to see your baby?"

Before she could answer Hiroki and Nowaki noticed a police car pull up at the entrance and an officer helped a child out of the back, his arms covered in blood. Nowaki went to help until he saw the look on his wife's face.

Hiroki felt her heart speed up as she started to back away. "Hiroki" the doctor snapped at the panicked woman only to be ignored. "Kamijou!" the doctor yelled again

"Hiro-san what's wrong?" Nowaki tried to sooth and he grabbed a hold of her and pulling her in close only for her to struggle as if to get away.

"Kusama-kun hand her to me" confused Nowaki did as he was told "Hiroki-chan" Tachibana called pulling the panicked woman's face back to rest on his shoulder while his hand covered her eyes. "You are not Miki anymore" and that seem to do the trick as the woman ceased to move.

"Hiro-san" Nowaki started

"I'm fine" the woman groused

"It's a panic attack, Kusama-kun, post trauma if you will" the doctor explained. "Nowaki-kun do you wish to come with us or help the child" Nowaki saw the child had already been seen to by Tsumori so he followed them to the examination room.

Once they entered the TV was on and breaking news scrolled across the bottom of the screen

"Another body had been found earlier today along with a young boy with his arms covered in blood. This sadistic serial killer has the same style as the uncaught murderer from 20 years ago" Hiroki immediately went over to the TV and watched. "the boy left behind seemed to be someone the killer had forced to travel around with them, just like the earlier killer who forced a young girl to travel with them. But like then the boy didn't want to say anything about the killer. Police are looking for permission to question the two to find out if it is not only the same kill but who-"

"You should not be watching that" Tachibana advised. Hiroki grumbled something under her breath "Do you want to have another panic attack and risk your baby?" and with that Hiroki shut up.

"What was with that panic attack?" Hiroki looked away, seemingly ashamed. It tore at Nowaki's heart so he reached out and held her hand.

"Hiroki?" the doctor asked. Hiroki just nodded numbly. "Hiroki chan has a very disturbing past and I am not surprised she hasn't told you, who would want to share a past like hers" the doctor said sadly. "there was a man 20 years ago who was admitted to hospital with his stomach cut open and his innards had been disturbed as if someone had placed their hands in the wound and had grabbed hold" both Hiroki and Nowaki winced "Following behind was a girl too frightened to go near any woman go near her and didn't want to leave that man's side. The girl was the daughter of a serial killer and didn't know until she had met that man that what she had helped her mother to do was wrong.

"from the story I was told, the man had convinced her that she could get away from her mother and have a much more forgiving life then what she had. He had told her that police were waiting outside for the slightest thing to go wrong. She could be-"

"Saved if she'd scream" Hiroki cut off Nowaki turned to his guilty looking wife.

"And she did, and that is what saved him, however, the child's mother had gotten away" the doctor added. "That girl, formally known as Hiou Miki, was taken to live with a single police man due to her – understandable – fear of woman. The girl wouldn't do anything other than visit the man every day and was eventually adopted by the man and renamed"

"Why are you telling me this?" Nowaki asked with a sinking feeling in his stomach. Hiroki pulled her hand out of Nowaki's

"The man who almost died, his Name was Kamijou Keiichi" Hiroki whispered. "The child was renamed… Kamijou Hiroki"