Authors Notes: This is the revamp of Weib Kreuz: Angel Chronicles ; being as my writing skills have somewhat blossomed since 2002. I pulled my weib kreuz discs out of the dust and decided to see about pulling my skills out to do something more for everyone. Hope you guys enjoy.

Copyright Notes: Copyright of the Weiss Characters belongs to Koyasu Takehito . Yumi Tsukikage is the only one I claim right to.

Weib Kreuz: The Angel Chronicles

Chapter One: Night Sky of Russian Blue

Hanae Kitae let out a tired, exasperated sigh as she fell with a thud on her comfy armchair. Things were too stressful with Kritiker in turmoil; now that Shuichi Takatori, the former Chief of Police was murdered by the now dead Reiji Takatori. Her whole reason for existence just... gone.

She felt her body tense up tight, the feeling of someone in the room with her made her reflexes jump with the old familiar readiness. She pulled the gun out of her coat, and aimed it at the dark corner of the room, "WHO'S THERE?" she yelled out into the void, trying to focus on who... or whom might have followed her into her room.

Emerging from the shadows was a figure of a young woman, looking no older then the age of nineteen or twenty. The neck length blonde hair matted with what appeared to be blood . The girl stopped, her eyes focusing on the person ahead of her. The pain in her body was great, but she didn't wish to scare her; she could feel her fear. "Manx...right...?"

Manx gasped realizing who this possibly was. "...Russian...blue..." as she heard the woman speak, realizing in awe as she ran forward to the young girl and caught her before she fell from lack of being able to stand. "Yumi...it's you? But how; the reports came back as…"

Yumi coughed furiously, but shook her head, "They used it as a diversion..." she felt her lips burn with the next words, her breath uneasy, "They used me for experiments; Reiji gave me up and they gave me over to Esset because… of my gifts."

Manx was taken by shock at her report, not able to comprehend that she was there. Kritiker had sent Yumi as an undercover agent into Reiji's operation early on; since she was not known as family to the Takatoris at the time. But However, The reports had come in saying that Yumi Tsukikage had been killed on an infiltration mission well before Schwartz were brought into the picture, "...I'm just glad you're safe… but unfortunately something has happened.."

Yumi bit her lip and felt a stray tear slip down her cheek, "I know… my father is gone." She looked up as Manx stared at her in pure unadulterated shock, "I was there with him in his mind in his last moments.."

"How hilarious!"

She looked around, wondering where the hell she was; feeling as if she was experiencing a dream. She knew her physical form was still strung up; beaten from Crawford's last "love tap session." She looked and noticed that she astral projected into the room with her "uncle" Reiji and her father Shuichi.

"Let me tell you the real reason why I didn't pay for Mamoru's ransom; Mamoru isn't really my child! He was a bastard child... Your child! So you see Shuichi... you raised your own son to be a murderer! In the end... you're just like me..."

The shock of the news made her stop. Mamoru was Shuichi's? Then that meant… she had a little brother. Omi Tsukiyono that he saved so many years ago was a part of her family…?

But before she had a chance to react, it seemed as if time slowed down to a crawl as she watched her uncle Reiji pull out a gun from below, and shoot her father square in the chest. Unable to scream from the shock, the pure anger resonated through her as she glared towards the door as her uncle attempted to make his escape.

Yumi without so much as a word ran towards the fallen form of her father, falling to her knees as she reached her hand down to touch the backside of his head as the tears slipped down her cheeks. oO{Father.. I am so sorry}

Shuichi, fighting to keep his consciousness, his blood flowing out of the gun wound in his stomach, he tried to focus on the voice he heard in his head. As his eyes widened, his voice whispered in pain before they began to tear up in regret. "Yumi... dear precious angel... you're alive. Forgive me, if...if I would have known..."

Yumi shook her head, gently caressing her father's hair, oO{You didn't know Uncle Reiji took me and handed me over to Esset after he learned the truth about me… They turned me over to his bodyguards. Those men from Schwartz…} she shook her head to get her mind on the topic at hand. oO{But you need to hold on Father.. the others are here, they're coming this way.. they can save you..}

Shuichi felt the tears slip down his face, allowing the image of his daughter fill his mind as he closed them; standing with her in an open field "My dear Yumi...you have grown so radiant... so much like your mother..." he reached a hand out to gently cup his daughters face within it, " A beautiful Russian Blue... like the kitten we bought for you..." he gritted his teeth, suffering through the pain, then gazed at her, "...Yumi...watch after...watch after Mamoru...no... Omi...watch after Omi..."

Yumi nodded, her eyes welling up with tears, "I will father, I promise. You hear me? I promise you... I will continue to live out your legacy... I will carry it out...I swear..." she continued to feel the tars silently fall from her eyes. The First tears she ever shed in almost a year. "Father… please hold on. The others will be able to save you…"

Shuichi gently took Yumi's face in his hands, "No... I won't make it Yumi, and you know that. You have to go, you have to survive...live on... protect Bombay...dear angel..." He began to feel himself begin to tear up himself, "You, a member of Kritiker; my beautiful Russian Blue... go and protect those dear to you... and hunt the darkness of tomorrow." he tried to push her away, "Now go..."

Yumi, feeling her mind start to revert back to a scared little girl just looked at him with fear, "Poppa.." she whispered in surprise, then shook her head as if clearing her mind, "I Can't leave you here!"

Shuichi looked at the young woman his niece grew up to become, "I will always be watching over you.. you know that.."

Before she was able to do anything to properly say her goodbyes to her father, she felt her astral form be snatched back through time as she opened her eyes, finding herself back in her physical form; the tears of pain silently streaming down her face.

With a scream of torment and pain, it was enough to bring the main guard into the room to "silence" her. "That's going to be enough out of you, you stupid…"

He stopped when he felt his body freeze in place, each and every muscle tense and taught as if they were going to be ripped apart. Within the confines of his own mind, he could hear the cold and vengeful voice of the prisoner speak oO{Now, either you untie me now.. or I swear to you that you will not only feel, but will see every muscle tear and unwind from your body}

Allowing a little bit of mobility for the guard, she felt and heard the shackles start to be undone as she then with cat-like precision reached around, grabbed his neck, and snapped it quickly; putting the guard out of his misery.

Removing his weapon, she shackled the corpse in her place, and made a run for it; not caring how she got out, but knowing she had to make it back to headquarters to report in.

She finished looking at her hands; hands that were still deeply soiled with the mental image of Persia's blood inside her hands, "I didn't know where else to turn... I had heard from the police roaming the streets that you had taken off somewhere else, and were in hiding... so I came here to try and find you..." and stopped, as she looked up at Manx. Manx had crouched next to her, and was gently wiping the side of her face, trying to help clean her up. "Manx..."

Manx shook her head gently as she continued to patch the young Kritiker agent up, "You've been through a great deal Yumi, you need your rest..." she helped her up and led her to the spare bedroom at Manx's apartment, "For now, you'll stay here with me…"

Yumi kept talking as they started to head to the bedroom; Manx assisting Yumi as they walked. "Where are the other members of Weiss? Abyssinian… Siberian… Balinese…" she paused for a moment, trying her hardest to keep her voice as even as possible as she whispered the next name, "Bombay..?"

As they entered the bedroom, she sat the young girl down on the bed as she helped her strip her out of the bloodied clothes she was in. "They all have disbanded for now, but I will give you directions to find Omi and the others if you would like." She then gently reached her hand up to touch the side of the young womans cheek, "It must have really been hard for you Yumi…" she then stopped and looked at her as she brushed a few strands of hair from her soiled face. "I'll have to go get some water so we can clean these wounds…"

She stopped suddenly to hear a voice speak up softly from the bed, "Hanae...?" She turned around, to see Yumi sitting there staring at her, "..You know Father was always thankful every day for your loyalty.. I hope you do realize that. His decision to face Uncle Reiji.. was not your doing."

Manx smiled, unshed tears in her own eyes, as she whispered quietly, "I know Yumi.. I know. Just rest, okay...?" she quietly shut the door, and leaned against it, tears falling down her eyes. She looked up into the sky, and thought to the heavens oO{Sir.. I will keep her safe.. I promise you that.}