It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
-Arthur Schopenhauer-


"This is 7-2-3, mission cleared." A woman spoke softly through the mini device beneath her gloves. The mission was more troublesome than she had expected. The situation forced her to kill the target faraway from the purpose destination. Now she had a cleaning task to do.

"You are careless, 7-2-3. Next time please do it as what we told you. The target was supposed to die on the party." The voice replied with high authority tone. The woman chuckled as she disconnected the line. "well, that's because I was interrupted by a very interesting person."

2 hours ago - city hall

A big charity party was held to commemorate the late major's achievement. At the night, several important people from director, member of councils, general of ministry of defence were invited to attend the party. It was the moment for powerful people to gather and talk about economic, politic, or things related their own position. It wasn't just a party. Everyone knows that. If there were bunch of rich people with important position gathered, something bound to happen.

Charity party is only a façade, the real event is... She eyed a nearby butler who was trying to get everyone's attention. The butler casually gestured to two other butlers to come up on the stage bringing a medium-sized wooden box.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we have this beautiful ancient sculpture head of dragon from south-east Asia. We will start with a thousand."

An auction. To be precise, it was an illegal auction.

"Two!" A mustache man wearing nice tailored suit rose his hand. She knew him as a bank director, and with that cue, the auction began.

She watched, not amused at all. She didn't come to join the auction, she was here to assasinate someone.

She smirked upon her own obvious thought, her eyes never left her target as she took a glass of champagne from the tray.

"Lady, if you bored with this crap why don't we go out somewhere from here?" A whispered voice took her off guard. She almost dropped her glass but somehow in one second she had regained her composure. She slowly turned her face toward her sudden interruptor.

"Ara..." With a blink she did an inspection to the person. She smiled politely since she knew the person was only one of flirty rich men in this building. Although this one was quite good looking. "Then... whom I will go out with, sir?" She replied with her seducing tone. She wanted to get rid the person from her soon.

"I apologize, it was my mistake. Tenoh. Haruka Tenoh."

She continued to smile, now she had a name she could kill the person in front of her anytime. First thing first though, she needed to erase her initial target. "Well, Tenoh-san... Although this event is boring, I am very certain will not go out with a stranger."

"I understood, it would be nice if we have some time to talk so we can be an acquaintance instead of stranger." The person threw a charming smile on her. She had accustomed to many men. From a real gentleman to a genuine douchebag, however this guy's smile was sending an odd vibe. The reaction was a first time for her, that's why she thought this was interesting.

"Nice to meet you, then. Farewell..." She turned her face away and was about to walk off before a hand stopped her way. "Wait. At least to be fair, tell me your name."

He is persistence, I guess because he is a blonde... She sighed, she threw a glare on a hand which kept holding hers.

"Call me Michiru, then."


Due to that interruption, she had lost her target. Luckily she found his car around here and killed him without any further waiting. She also had had to use her gun. She hated guns as equipment to kill because it only made her works messy. She preferred to strangle than shoot the target. Therefore, her dress wouldn't got ruined by her victim's blood.

"What a waste." She said while looking at her now ruined white dress. She loved the dress although the attire was a borrowed things she must return after the mission.

She dragged the body not further away from the scene. She didn't have enormous energy to lift that fat old man so the nearest dump in a narrow alley seemed fine. It would be looked as mugged victim if she took away his valuable properties. Wallet, a key car, cell phone, and a gold lighter were things she assessed as valuable things. Something caught her attention, inside the old man's pocket there was a picture. She took it with her too.

After done changing her bloody dress to casual shirt and blended in with the people on subway station, she checked the picture with a better light. She surprised because she knew the person.

"Haruka Tenoh." She smiled recalling her encounter with the blonde. However in that picture, the blonde's face was marked with a huge red cross.

Well, it seems there won't be only one person end up dying tonight.


Haruka Tenoh yawned widely. It was already past midnight. "How's the auction?" A guy with black tux greeted, the blonde only sighed lazily. "You know it's too boring and killing me. I found something interesting though." Haruka replied as they both walked toward the car. The guy knew if his friend was talking about a woman. "What's her name then?"

Haruka smiled like a crazy man, "Michiru."

He frowned, "Just that? I mean, no last name? That's weird… usually women even would go bend over backward with your enchanting smile."

"Shut it, Mamoru. This one is different." Haruka shoved him. The guy called Mamoru reached his pocket to reach his car key. "Since you have failed to get her complete name, I'll drive." Haruka pouted but gave up.

"Perhaps if you meet her again, you should also tell her that you're a woman." Mamoru suggested, he knew many had been deceived by the blonde's appearance although most of them despite the truth were still going crazy on his charming blonde friend. Haruka was an absolute winner in a popularity contest.

"That's if I meet her again." Haruka murmured. Mamoru pressed the unlock button on the car key. "Eh? Why this doesn't work?"

Haruka grabbed the key from Mamoru and tried it herself. "Are you kidding? How can't it work?"

"Well, in time like this we should just hail a cab instead." Mamoru made some calls before headed to exit gate. Haruka followed behind him while cursing about bad luck.


Few yards from parking lot, a woman was also cursing. "Damn it, the key doesn't work! I thought everything has been double checked at the auction…"

"You haven't changed at all… always enjoy killing people." The woman startled by the voice. She knew its owner. She turned around, facing her rival.

"Long time no see, Michiru…"

The aqua haired assassin looked at her rival with unreadable expression, "Whom you work for right now, Minako?" At the moment Michiru withheld her gun, she didn't want to make unnecessary shoot.

"You would be surprise…"

Michiru smiled calmly as it was her speciality, "Then I guess you won't be surprised if I was the one who interfere with this mission of yours, right?" Michiru threw something toward the blonde assassin direction. Minako caught it with quick grasp, she looked what the thing Michiru had given.

A key car. The car was supposed to explode when the car door opened.

"What?" Minako glared at the key. She finally knew what was going on. "You!"

"The one Tenoh Haruka has is fake. I replaced it since I am a kind of person who have too much time to spare. Plus, I have a chance with an alluring venus tonight… what a luck." Michiru was approaching Minako as she talked. Her steps were light as if she was dancing under the moonlight.

"I can't have 2 important people died at once… it would be too much attention for… right?"

Minako was angry, no she was mad and furious. The woman before her, not only she had meddled her mission but also taunting her like nothing.

"You want to die, little mermaid?" MInako huffed.

Then both at the same time drew their gun. Minako aimed for Michiru's heart as the aqua haired assassin went for the blonde's head.

"It will be fun if one of us dies…"

"Unfortunately we must postpone it until the other time." Michiru pulled the trigger, instead a bullet, a thick black smoke surrounded them in matter of per second.

"Farewell, Aphrodite…"

Minako was defeated in matter of speed, she only got to see her rival disappeared behind the night. The blonde assassin actually was wondering why Michiru code name little mermaid was interfering her mission because she was a very individual person even as a killer.

Minako took out her target picture. Tenoh Haruka, it seemed the person was more than a target for a certain assassin.

Minako smiled evilly.


A/N: I publish this because this plot keeps spinning inside my head. Yup, michiru is the killer! Not just that! A sexy awesome hire killer. This Michiru's character is new to me, but she won't lose her identical teasing smile with Haruka. I choose Minako as her rival because they both beautiful senshi (in my opinion). Haruka's character hasn't yet really cleared but rest assured... she is the usual flirt == yup, that's our wind senshi. Now I really want to hear your opinion about this. (_ _) Peaprince