DISCLAIMER:

HELLSING AND IT'S CHARACTERS ARE THE PROPERTY OF KOHTA HIRANO

LIKEWISE 3x3 EYES BELONGS TO SOMEONE OTHER THAN ME

'NUFF SAID

Chapter One

Integra fairbooks Wingates Hellsing repressed another sigh as she finally finished the day's paperwork. Sometimes it seemed that, given the countless trivialties which demanded her personal attention, she had to fill out papers to give herself permission to fill out papers. Today, though, she was finished with the thrice damned beurocratic torture before the sun set. Integra rewarded herself with one of her expensive cigars.

Integra was shamelessly enjoying her moment of liesure when Walter came through her office door carrying a file folder.

-Damn,- she thought, -I knew it wouldn't last.-

"Sir Integra," the monicled butler said diffidently, "the Intelligence Division has unearthed a rather interesting police report."

"Interesting in what way?" asked the leader of the Hellsing Organization as she accepted the file from her minion.

"It would seem," explained Walter as Integra browsed the contents of the folder, "that we are about to become embroiled in another territorial dispute."

Integra had stopped at a crime scene photograph depicting a pile of ash on a concrete floor shaped as a human in a fallen position. In the upper left of the photo a line seeme to have been carved into the cement with a knife. Righteous anger flowed through her as she made the obvious connection.

"So the Catholics still believe they may do as they please even on Protestant soil," Integra snarled through clenched teeth.

"While that is probably true, Sir Integra, we cannot lay this incident at their door with certainty at this time."

"What do you mean?" she demanded.

Walter adjusted his monicle as he clarified his words. "We have confirmed Paladin

Anderson's presence in Budapest at the time of the incident. Also, it seems that the police have detained a Japanese national as the primary suspect."

Still scowling, Integra turned back to the beginning of the file and began reading.