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Another story! It's a little bit more dark though so be warned. I'm not good with these types of genre either but I wanted to try it out and see where it goes.

Warning: a bit of OOCness with some characters.

"Tsukiyomi!"

The said young man with dark blue hair and midnight blue eyes turned around and was face to face with his chief.

"Have you made any progress to the case yet?" The chief sighed as he combed through his hair in frustration.

The man shook his head

"Four victims in three months. I want you to solve this murder case since you're the best in our force, you understand me?!"

The younger man nodded, "Yes, chief."

The chief walked away after that and left his younger subordinate to his own device.

When the younger man saw his superior officer was nowhere to be seen, he left out a big sigh as he looked over the file with futile.

Four murders by the same killer: bloody, violent and downright gruesome. Profile says that the killer goes after wealthy men in Japan around the ages of 18 – 25. Another thing is that the killer doesn't hold on to its victims for more that three days before he kills him off.

"Dang, Ikuto. They're giving you that case?" The blue hair man looked up to see his brunette best friend, Souma Kukai.

Ikuto leaned back in his chair, "They want it solved asap. It wouldn't be such a rushed case if this was a regular citizen but all these victims were high profile individuals so the higher ups are barking at the chief's ass to get it done."

Kukai nodded in understanding, "Well, you are the best in the force." And he as well, leaned in to see that case.

The blue-haired man was already sure what he was going to see, as he have seen it many times. The victims were all beheaded like execution style. Besides the blunt force trauma to the head, there is not a single mark on the body to suggest any sexual assault or torture before his death. None of the victims have any mark on their body.

Why?

That is the question that needs to be answered in order to understand the killer and find him.

"Man, the kill is just brutal. You don't see so many people chopping up heads these days. The killer has got to have some skills with the swords because these cuts were pretty clean."

"I thought about that too but with no evidence, we don't even know what type of sword was used to kill them so there's not much to go on. I went through all the museums and artifact stores to see if any of them sold any swords four months ago but that's a dead end."

Kukai picked up another picture of the crime scene as he said, "Well, I can help you with the case if you want. Even if you are the best in the force, it's good to have another set of eyes, don't you think?" he grinned.

Smiling he answered, "sure, but you have to ask the chief."

Before his could say anything further, his phone rang and the name that popped up made him smiled as he answered it.

"Hey-"

Onii-chan! Do you know what time it is? I'm starving! Where are you?!" The man flinched at the tone of the voice on the other end of the phone and looked at the clock on the wall.

8:00 pm.

Shit!

"Sorry Utau, I'll be right there!" he said as he grabbed his jacket and seeing that he will have the time to clean his desk, turned to his friend and said, "Sorry I have a dinner date with my sister, can you just put my files neatly for me. I don't plan to do any work tonight." And with that he dashed out the car.

Kukai shook his head in amusement as he saw his friend leaving.

He ran to his car and drove as fast as he could –within speed limit, of course- to the location of where he was going to meet up and with whom.

Parking his car, he walked across the street and immediately broke into a grin when he saw blonde hair.

"Utau!" he called out and the said girl turned to the sound of the voice and ran to the blue haired man.

"Onii-chan!" she called and ran to hug the man. Ikuto opened his arms to welcome the girl.

"Hey blondie, haven't seen you in a while." He greeted as they let go of their embrace. Ikuto held the door out for his sister as she went inside. The waitress led them to the table and leave them be to look through the menu.

"How's work? I've been hearing the news about this killer who goes after wealthy kids."

Ikuto shook his head and answered her, "It's work related things so I can't talk about it in details but most of what they saw on television was what we have as evidence so far. No new clues have come up yet."

Their waitress came back and asked whether or not if they were ready to order. After given their order and waiting for the food they continued to talk about Utau's university life.

It was Utau's second year at Seiyo University studying music. Her dream is to become a pop idol and to go see the world hoping to inspire people with her songs and voice.

Ikuto is about six years older than her and studied criminal justice during his college years. After solving many difficult cases in a short amount of time, he was promoted to be in the FBI and has been part of the team for about a year.

Utau is his little sister and the only immediate family he had left when their parents were killed in a car accident.

"It's pretty fun. I made a lot of friends in my music classes and especially one in general. Her name is Amu."

"Amu? No last name?"

Utau thought about it for a moment and shook her head, "I never asked, mainly because she just sat next to me and asked me if she could be my partner for a duet."

Ikuto raised an eyebrow, "You sure she's just not buttering you up to help her get a good grade?"

The blonde chuckled, "She can hold her own vocal and she's a second year, so that means the professor actually approve of her."

Seiyo University has very harsh and strict grading criteria in their fine arts program. As their professors say, the entertainment business and the art industry is a tough world. As a result, first year students in the university go through hell in their first year to try to get into their second year. If they do not have the grade to make it, they are automatically kicked out of the program. And to get the grade, the professor has to see if they are fit to get it.

With Utau's vocal abilities and daily practice since she was five, she goes through the criteria with ease and because of that, other students try to mooch off her by pretending to be her friend to get a good grade for themselves.

"Well, if you say she's a real friend, then bring her along next time so we can get dinner together."

Utau's face brightened up, "Okay!"

The coldness of the room set his senses on high and the only thing he can hear is the water dripping from a pipe somewhere in the room.

The only source of light in the room was a light bulb that is right on top of the seated individual as his red-blooded eyes looked around the room, hoping to find a way to escape.

He body trembled, as he could find no source to make his escape and suddenly the door to the room opened and the figure walked in.

"Please! Spare me! I-I'll give you money and anything else, so please!"

The figure hovered over the scared individual tied up in a complicated knot over a chair. His face was dripping with blood from a blunt trauma dealt in his head.

"Spare you?" the figure sneered, as it sheathed a sword and leveled it at the man's neck purposely making a small cut to the point it bled.

"Please! I already told you everything you need to know! Please!" But the figure didn't hear his plea though it did stopped moving his sword as the man cried, "Why are you doing this to me?!"

The figure stopped moving for a while and the terrified man thought he was safe until it brought the sword up, "Because you brought this on to yourself," and swung it down.

Whoo! It's been a good long time since I've updated. Hopefully, I'll have the time to write as much as I can. This is my first time writing a crime romance story so if I misinterpret anything, I do apologize in advance.

Hope you guys liked this chapter and look forward to the next one!

DaTenshi Yuki