On an island prison off the coast of Karakura town, an alert siren began to ring suddenly. Sitting on top of the roof of his house, a young man with bright orange hair heard the siren.

"What the heck? Man, I hope there's not gonna be any trouble tonight," the man cursed as he stood up and looked out to the island, "I wonder what's going on in that place. Come to think of it, I don't even know what that place is."

….

On the island, far inside the installation, a door that was supposed to have been locked at all times stood wide open. Inside, two guards looked at a large, steel cage in the middle of the room. The cage was being blown outwards as though it were being torn apart by invisible hands. In the center of the cage a woman stood calmly, a large panel behind her was littered with the remains of broken restraints as the cage broke. Her body was covered by a thin, white jumpsuit and her face was hidden from view by a metal mask, but long pink hair hung out from underneath it. The men both drew pistols and opened fire on the woman, but an invisible force blocked the bullets as the cage was ripped apart. Outside in the hallway, three more security guards listened to the terrified screams of the men inside. They backed away as the woman alone emerged from the room, her jumpsuit stained with blood. One of the men was too close and was suddenly cut through as though an invisible sword had just passed through him. He fell dead instantly.

"What the heck," one of the soldiers stammered.

"Keep your cool. We're safe as long as we stay more then two meters away from her," the soldiers commander ordered.

"Yeah but… weren't we supposed to keep objects away from her too?" the man asked as a pen from the dead man's pocket suddenly began to float into the air. The two men yelled as the pen suddenly flew at them like a rocket.

….

Elsewhere in the installation, a woman with long brown hair wearing a secretary uniform walked down a hallway carrying a cup of coffee on a tray. She was obviously trying desperately to keep from accidentally spilling the coffee. Her efforts turned out to be in vain as a tall, muscular man with spiky black hair wearing a red headband and a white t-shirt under a long white coat. The Japanese kanji for 'bad' was printed on the back of it.

"Sanosuke! You brute, I'd tried so hard to make that coffee just the way Mr. Kurama liked it too," the woman whined as she began picking up the pieces of the now broken cup, "oh, that was his favorite cup too."

"Put it on my tab, Sae, I've got more important things to worry about right now, and you should be getting to an evacuation chopper yourself!" the man, Sanosuke, shouted back.

"Evacuation chopper? Why, has something happened?" Sae asked.

"Just get out of here and let me worry about that!" Sano shouted as he kept running.

"What a jerk," Sae sighed, "now I'll have to make another cup of coffee for Mr. Kurama, and what am I gonna do about his cup? Oh, his wife gave him this."

….

Near the installation's exit, a strike team of over 20 men had already assembled preparing to take down the woman who was attempting to escape the base. Standing just behind the men was one of the directors of the installation, a man with unruly black hair dressed in a business suit and wearing glasses, Doctor Kurama.

"Hey, Kurama, I guess she hasn't gotten this far yet," Sanosuke shouted as he ran out to the hallway from a side entrance, "is it who I think it is?"

"She's the only one I know who would try something like this while Mr. Himura is on the island," Kurama replied, "there's no doubt about it. It's Lucy."

"Darn it," Sano cursed, "where is he?" Just then, the sound of screaming and gunshots from behind the door reached their ears. It continued for only a short while before it fell completely silent again.

"Looks like I'm going to be earning my pay today," Sano declared as he cracked his knuckles. A fearful quiet fell over the strike team as the door suddenly began to open. The woman stood in the open doorway, the bodies of three men lying beside her. Her jumpsuit and mask were covered with blood and a single cold, merciless eye could be seen glaring at the team.

"It's her alright," Sano sighed, "Lucy…"

"Shoot her," Kurama ordered as the men shouldered their rifles. Lucy just continued to glare at them and Sano braced himself for the worst. No one could have guessed what would happen next as a side door near Lucy suddenly fell open, dropping Sae onto her back right at Lucy's feet, a tray of cookies and coffee flying out of her hands and drenching Lucy in hot coffee. "Sae?" Kurama stuttered, "hold your fire."

"Oh, Mr. Kurama, I'm sorry, first I broke your favorite cup and now this," Sae said apologetically as she began picking up the scattered cookies.

"Sae, get out of there, right now!" Sano shouted.

"Huh, what's wrong Sanosuke?" Sae asked, obviously unaware of the violent girl who glared down at her.

"Lucy! Don't do it!" Sano pleaded as Sae looked back at the frightening woman behind her, her eyes widened with fright as the girl stared down at her.

"Hiten-Mitsurugi style!" a voice suddenly shouted from behind Lucy, causing her emotionless eye to widen with surprise, "Ryusosen!" the voice shouted as Lucy leapt to the side away from Sae as a man with dark red hair tied in a long pony tail landed beside the secretary. The man was a strange looking man, dressed in a purple kimono and baggy white pants. He held a sword out in his right hand, which was extended as though he had just swung the sword. Rising to his feet, he turned his head and faced Lucy, his dark blue eyes glowing with anger. An x-shaped scar was carved into his left cheek.

"Kenshin," Sae sighed in relief.

"You've certainly done your part Ms. Sae. I believe spilling coffee on her is the best shot anyone has gotten in on Lucy in quite some time, that I most certainly do. However, I believe you should stand back now and leave the rest to me," Kenshin declared as he turned to face Lucy, "It's been a long time, Kaede, that it has. Although, unless I'm wrong, you go by Lucy these days. You're the only Diclonius at this facility I have not been allowed to at least talk to once since the dasy you were brought here. I'd been hoping to be able to speak to you again, but I had never imagined it would turn out like this."

"Kenshin… Himura," Lucy hissed angrily at the man.

"I see you've at least remembered my name. I'm glad to hear that, that I am. However, that does not change fact that I cannot allow this slaughter to continue. If we fight here I'm afraid that more innocent lives will be lost, so I'd rather we go outside, that I would. However, if you simply can't walk away without taking lives now, then I will acknowledge that the Kaede I know is dead and gone, in which case I will not hesitate to strike you down with my Reverse-blade sword, that I will not." The two figures stared at each other for what seemed to the onlookers like hours before Lucy turned and began to walk away.

"You never change," Lucy declared coldly, "I'll end your life outside then, it makes no difference to me." She began to walk towards the guards who all prepared for a fight. "Move aside, I don't have any interest in you," she declared as she kept walking.

"Do as she says, if you attempt to attack her then I cannot guarantee your safety," Kenshin ordered as he followed Lucy, "Sano, keep everyone inside until this fight is decided."

"You got it, Kenshin, I'll leave this one to you," Sano replied as Lucy and then Kenshin walked past him, approaching the exit. As Lucy approached the door, a metal blast door suddenly slid closed behind her, trapping her inside.

"Well done, Kenshin. Even she can't break through those doors," Kurama declared.

"Something isn't right here, Kurama," Kenshin replied, "it seems to convenient that Lucy's bonds happened to malfunction when we happened to be short-handed. If I hadn't been here, your facility would have suffered far more casualties, that it would have."

"I'm not sure what could have happened, but we'll look into it," Kurama replied.

"You do that, but while you do, open that door and allow Lucy and myself outside. I promised her the opportunity to try to kill me, that I did, and I don't break my promises," Kenshin replied.

"What? But Kenshin, we…" Kurama protested.

"Sir, something's wrong," a soldier suddenly reported, "we just got word that the door outside has been opened!"

"What! How!" Kurama shouted.

"Now it would seem I'm our last chance of getting Lucy back under control, that it does. I need to hurry before she escapes the island, or many innocent people will suffer," Kenshin declared.

"Grr, open the blast door and send for a sharpshooter!" Kurama ordered another troop.

"Yes sir," the troop replied as he went to carry out the order.

….

A short while later, Lucy was approaching a cliff on the edge of the island. She intended to jump into the ocean and swim for the nearby Karakura town. It was ironic that after so long, she'd be returning there.

"I believe you said you desired to end my life, that you did. You weren't planning on leaving before you followed through with that, were you?"

"So, you've come out after all. I was beginning to think you were afraid," Lucy declared.

"I have no reason to be afraid of you, Lucy, that I don't," Kenshin replied.

"I suppose you intend to finish this in one shot and use Amakakeru Ryū No Hirameki," Lucy declared, "I only wish that I could kill you in the same place I met you years ago."

"I'm afraid I don't know what you're talking about, that I don't. The grounds of this place are indeed the first place I set eyes upon the heartless killer named Lucy. I do not view you as the kind and misunderstood Kaede I knew when she was a child, that I do not," Kenshin declared.

"Is that so? Honestly, I don't care," Lucy declared, "I'll kill you either way." She began to turn her head so she could face Kenshin just as a gunshot was heard from a tower near the installation. Kenshin watched with dismay as Lucy's metal mask shattered as the bullet passed through it, knocking the girl off of the cliff. Kenshin could only see the girls beautiful face for a few seconds before she fell off of the cliff, but that second was enough for him to spot the two horn-like protrusions that marked her… as a Diclonius.

….

Back at his own home in Karakura town, Ichigo Kurosaki woke up in a cold sweat. "What was… that spiritual pressure I sensed just now?" he gasped as he looked out his bedroom window.

Bleach and Rurouni Kenshin

Revenge of the Diclonius

Ending Theme: ½ (Rurouni Kenshin)