(2,386 Words. Hoorah) Well here is the first chapter of my new story, Decieving love. Now I'm going to hope for a miracule and hope that this story can actually get somewhat popular. And maybe get a review, for I've got 8 others and all together only have 3 reviews, which made my friend laugh at me.

The concept for this story came into my head, and I thought it was brilliant, so I expanded on it and began writing it the day of it's creation, that was two days ago, and now I"m putting it up and I've already got a bunch of scenes planned. awesome how fast that happened.

But anyway, won't update for a little bit, because I do have two assignments to do, which I'll start doing right after this. But who cares about that,

Reviews will be extremely appreciated and I hope you enjoy my baby (anyone else laughing in their heads everytime the I say hope?)

Disclaimer: Damn don't you wish we owned ffxiii? But unfounately square enix does (let's steal it!)

Deceiving Love

Chapter 1: Happy little murderer

Lightning crept around the darkened alleyways, keeping an eye out for any movement whatsoever. She held her gunblade at the ready, if the need to use it came to rise. This mission was not a simple one, for even she was having trouble.

She'd been told, that a murder had occured near new bodhum and more had happened not so long afterwards, both in the same fashion. The victims had their throats slashed open, repeatively. Whoever had killed them was even less sane then other murderers, For the culprit had cut words into the arms of the corpses. The last one had read "I will creep up to love in it's sleep and pull out it's beating heart." So yes, each victim had a messed up saying about love on their arms, no matter how you looked at it that was messed up. At the moment, she was on the trail of this twisted killer. So far she was in knowledge that they had killed at least nine people, for that's how many had been killed in the same way, but it could be more, you couldn't say that was all, it was only how many people had been killed in that one way. Her squad had broken into the place where the murderer was about to take another victims life, but the person was saved at the last minute, for the attacker took their exit by diving out the closest window.

And so that was how Lightning got into this current situation, chasing an unknown person through the shadows of a heavily populated area, though from sheer luck they were trapped in a place where most likely they were the only ones around. Lightning didn't have much to go off, but she had gotten a good enough view of them to know who she must be after, so if she spotted them, it would make things much more easier. It was a woman who in appearances could be younger then her, which had taken her by surprise for that was something uncommon, if she ever went after people younger then her, never would it be for such a serious offence. The girl had Aqua green hair, at a short length about the same as her own, purely straight with streaks of darker greens and blues. She'd been wearing a black cloak around her, which must have been torn by now, Light had already found pieces of black material on the ground. But that's what you get for jumping out a shut window. You'd think the material would help the soldier find her, but that wasn't the story.

The main problem with this woman, she was choosing to do whatever was the thing Lightning had thought she would be least likely to do, and she hadn't done it once, she was doing it repeatively. Lightning was good in a chase, but she'd never encountered a person like this, every sighting only lasted for a second, and then she was gone. This woman wasn't being repeative in actions, she made no screw ups, everything was pulled off pefectly, so much so that even Lightning couldn't do a thing. For someone so young to be able to beat her in so many ways in such a short time, she could be nothing less than a genius at this, to be able to beat someone so good at what they do.

This chase had been going on for a damn long time, she could feel its taking a toll on her. Not like she wasn't fit, but after some time she wouldn't be able to take much more of this, just had to hope that she would have caught her target by then. Luckily no civilians were near here, that could cause problems. But Lightning forced the thoughts of her annoyances out of her head, for now she had much more serious things to think about. she had to catch the girl, she was extremely dangerous, she couldn't be allowed to stay a free person. So the woman raced along alleyway to alleyway in the back streets of this dark place. From each corner she thought she had seen her, but that was just her mind playing tricks on her. The sightings had stopped, but she forced herself not to panic, she couldn't let herself in a time like this.

Light almost forgot to breathe when she caught sight of the woman. She became as quiet as she could, to creep up to her without gaining her attention, sticking even closer to the shadows. But it seems that even that was a failure. This strange woman wasn't moving from where she was, stuck gazing into the stary night, Lightning thought it so stupid, believeing that finally she made a mistake. But the soildier was wrong, She had been waiting for her.

"It's a nice night, isn't it soldier girl?" She questioned almost innocently in a chillingly familiar voice.

For a second Lightning became unfocused, her mind going straight to figure out where she had heard the voice before. The killer used this as her chance. She turned around, giving a twisted smile to the strawberry blonde woman, before throwing a knife at her. Light rolled to the side, dodging successfully. But at the end of the roll a hard kick that was aimed at her head hit her directly, it had been timed perfectly. The older woman felt disorientated, another kick was aimed at the back of her head, again perfect. Her sight went black, with the sound of insane laughter ringing in her ears.

"Hey, do you want to come with me?"

A blury memory came into her head, of a time she couldn't remember.

A young girl sat on a swing gazing up at the older woman, another girl sat playing with toys not so far away.

"No." The child's answered, without much of a thought.

"No? Why not?" The older woman was startled by the notion of the kid saying such to her.

"Just no." The little girl didn't say anymore than that.

"But you always want to come with me, why not now?" The older one went on questioning, but a reply wasn't giving for a harsh voice cut into the conversation,

"Just take the other one why don't you!" They complained gruffly.

A tall woman nearby yelled at the other, growling like an angry dog, The smaller woman turned back in annoyance,

"What? But she's not the strong one!"

"Didn't you say they were smart as all hell?" They growled.

"Fine, come on lets go then." The small woman held out her hand to the other child, who took it happily leaving her toys for the other to pick up.

In the blur of a memory, it could be seen a litlle girl walking off with two older woman, whoever they were was lost to the past.

Lightning woke up with a start, lifting herself up, before feeling tremendous pain from her head and for some reason her leg, and almost fell back down. She put her hand to her head and felt the spot where she had been hit, damn was she feeling the pain at the moment. She looked down to see why her leg was in pain as well. She saw a drop of blood, and was stuck figuring out how that had happened.

"I wouldn't move if I was you" Someone informed her.

She moved her sights to see who they were and was nothing less than shocked to find her target sitting on a crate not so far away. She had her legs crossed and was resting her head on her palms. She appeared so calm for someone in a situation such as this, but the reasons for her doing so was quickly reveiled.

"I used a type of poison soldier, it's not deadly in small doses, but will still restrict movement. I would say you wouldn't be able to move your left leg, after all that's where the needle went in." She gave a smile at the venomous glare the other woman returned to her.

"If you want to stay nice and healthy, keep as still as possible until someone can find you. That would be the best option. Sorry if you'd rather go after me, but not to mention what I've already said, you do have a head injury." She paused looking to the side with a stupid expression, "Guess I hit harder than intended, probably gonna make one hell of a bruise." She shrugged.

Lightning did nothing else but keep up the scowl, slowly she could feel the numbness leaving, but the pace at which it did was almost infuriating. At this point she was still unable to feel her leg, so she would have to wait for the feeling to return before she could even make an attempt at standing back up. And all the while would have to keep up the illusion that she was still immobilised. Damn was this girl predicting what would be most annoying to her.

"Now I bet I know what you're thinking," Light heard her half sane laugh. "Something along the lines of damn this girl is annoying!" She did the laugh again. "Well I guess that's because I do my research."

"What?"

"If someone that could eventually be after me, gets annoyed easily; why not find out good ways to piss them off?" She gave another shrug.

The young woman got up off the crate. Her expression at polar opposites to the other. She knelt down close, not fearing the close proximity, even if the woman was slowly regaining her mobility. From this closeness Light could make out her face far more easily, if only this place wasn't covered in shadows. She had what appeared to be a lip piecing, on the lower left side of her mouth, What stupidity for someone with a life like hers to have a permanent mark on her like that. Truly now she could see that this girl was younger than her, at this closeness it was impossible to miss.

"Lightning isn' it?" She whispered in a finally not happy voice. "You're fun to mess with, didn't think you would." She spoke with the most perculiar tone.

"Sorry for this, I can understand you'd really like to catch me. But if it makes you feel any better, I can say that I will never hurt the people you care about." She said it completely sincerely.

She got up to move away but the other yelled at her in a most harsh tone,

"How do you know who they are!"

The younger one turned back at her from already having been walking away,

"Like I said, I do my research. Piece of advice, always Keep in mind who could be listening, cause you never know." She skipped away happily after answering in the most annoying sing song voice.

Lightning tried to get up and go after her, but she found her leg was still unable to move, and the pain in her head wasn't the slightest bit better, But she persisted in trying. But for sure murderer had been right in telling her to restrict her movements, for soon she found herself blacking out once again.

Lightning woke up hours later in the Guardians Corps infirmary. Her head had been bandaged, for she'd been hit rather hard. As well as the bandage her body had been drained of the poison as best could be done, any that remained would get out of the body naturally and shouldn't cause any negative effects until it does so. She had been told to stay for longer, but she ignored the nurses pleas and left not long after she'd regained consiousness. Despite the insanely early hour of the morning.

She of course went straight home. Her head felt like it was spinning by the time she got back, so she put a hand against a wall to steady herself. Her leg felt plainly weird, not all the feeling had returned to it.

"Damn," She muttered under her breath.

Never had someone managed to get to her so fast, and perfectly screw her over to add to that. Feeling like shit right now wasn't helping things. How did she manage to pull all that off perfectly? If she hadn't stopped the running Lightning wouldn't have caught up to her. And the last part, what kind of person stays around and waits for the person after them to wake up. It's just insane, even if the other couldn't move, it's still plain insane. What does it take for someone of that age to become so twisted? But Lightning forced herself to get it out if her head, for now she didn't need to be stuck confusing herself over this. She needed rest right now, and she could guess that she certainly would be forced to take time off, a head injury isn't something to be taken lightly.

Before she went to her room she peaked into Serah's room to see if she was fine. She was sleeping on top of her covers with her clothes still on. Probably meaning she'd gotten home late, not as late as the other, but still late. With that she went to her room and crashed on the bed, she felt exhausted from all what had happened today. She more than needed this.

But one thought crept into her mind before sleep over took her, the criminal, why did she seem so familiar?

Wasn't that fun?, I like the murderer, to be honest she looks adorable, strange thing to say about someone that finds it fun to slit peoples throats, but anyway.

If anyone want's to mention something from either games, don't say a thing about xiii-2, my sister is not very far in it, and I haven't touched it. So I don't want accidental spoilers

I highly reccomend you to review, I'm sort of depressed at the moment, and considering how much I love writing and this story, a review will help my sanity heaps. It doesn't matter whether you hate it or love it, just please, I would love you if you do.

Thank you for reading.

~Serah Villiers Valentine