The Fox, the Pig, and the Lamb

Men, women, children, they all looked the same at that moment, as they laundered in their still mixing blood as it pooled around each of the thirty-seven victims, the vibrant light beams shining down on the corpses from the stain glass window only made the scene appear more biblical than it should have, but how could it not seem so? They were in a church after all.

Shinohara closed his eyes solemnly as he looked on the horrified expression of a decapitated little girl whose life had ended far too early and in an immeasurably ghastly way.

"Neee~ Shinohara-san, this one sure made a mess of things huh?" His subordinate said in a curious way, Shinohara sighed mournfully as he nodded before walking away from the younger investigator.

"Come over here, Juuzou, there's something you should see since you're working this case too."

Soon the superior and his underling were standing before a small TV in the minister's office, watching as the ghoul responsible acted out the horrible deed resulting in the senseless slaughter of innocent lives. The video was nearly an hour long, five minutes in it was already obvious what measure of suffering those people had gone through.

"She recorded it herself." Shinohara spoke up, neither he nor Juuzou looking away from the screen, "we've dubbed her, Yoko."

"Is it because her mask looks like a fox?" Juuzou questioned and Shinohara nodded as they watched the creature on screen clad in a black leather bodysuit which had a tight leather hood pulled over her head to conceal her hair, the only part of her body not covered by black leather was her face where the fox mask rested.

"Every time she goes on one of these killing sprees she always records it and leaves us the DVD in a place we're likely to notice. For instance, she lodged this one into the Ministers forehead." Shinohara scratched the back of his neck. "She never shows her face, never leaves any physical evidence behind, no hairs, skin follicles, none of the victims ever get the chance to fight back so there's no use in assuming they got her DNA on them." Juuzou gave him a questioning look, "like her blood." The white haired male nodded in understanding. "Strangest thing is; she never eats any of her victims."

"Hmmm, do we have any leads?" Juuzou questioned curiously and Shinohara sighed.

"Well how 'bout it Doves?" Both Juuzou and Shinohara looked back to the small screen, "think you can apprehend me? I started this game with you a while ago, and you've yet to come close to winning." She chuckled darkly, "guess that shows just how useful you are." She then raised her mask just high enough for only her mouth to be exposed, she smiled darkly into the camera as she spoke. "Time for another hint." Juuzou looked questioningly to his partner.

"She always leaves us clues as to where she'd gonna strike next, however these 'hints' of hers are always too vague to get anything from, and they're never very reliable." Shinohara explained quickly.

"Next I'll be visiting a place important to you, one that is considered dangerous by many, a place where only the brave go." She gave a crooked smirk. "That's all for now."

"An important place… Dangerous to many… Where only the brave go… Could she be talking about Cochlea?" Shinohara questioned quietly, "if only we could find out who she is…"

"Do we have no leads at all?" Juuzou questioned with growing interest in the Yoko.

"Well, we do have a few suspects but it's not like they're easy to track down." He said as he turned from the TV, Juuzou following as they left the church all together. "We're going back headquarters to look of the files we've got on the suspects. Maybe we can find something useful."

"I was beginning to think you weren't going to come." A calm voice said as she entered into the dark space.

"Tsk, that's stupid of you, Uta. Of course I was coming I gave you my mask to fix after all." She said with a growl, the tattooed ghoul laughed at that.

"Your attitude is as bad as ever, Wrath." He stood from his seat, handing her the mask she'd come for, "or should I call you Yoko instead?"

"If I've got such a bad attitude then you should keep better company." She stated as he came closer to her and ran his fingers through her short locks, while gazing at a fox shaped pendant in her hair.

"But your bad attitude is what makes you so attractive," he purred as inspected her closely, she wore the leather suit she wore when going on a spree.

"Hit on me all ya want, it's not gonna happen." She said as she turned away from him. "I'm gonna go cause some turmoil."

"You know you can still join us." He said, and she stopped as she began to remove the pendant from her hair, "causing chaos and turmoil is what the Clowns do best. Its why we get the las laugh." She tucked the pendant inside her suit as she slipped her hair into the leather hood attached.

"That's a stupid motto, and I'm not interested in joining you little club." She said while placing the mask on her face and turning to him.

"But with you we could wreak total havoc on everyone!" He said with a smirk as he looked on her, she looked like a monster then even in Uta's eyes, but that's what he like best about her.

"I don't work well in groups. Crowds gimme that itch to slaughter." She turned away, "see ya." She was gone.

Nothing! Nothing, nothing, nothing, N.O.T.H-ING! There was absolutely nothing in the files Juuzou had looked over and it was incredibly frustrating! He sighed as he laid his head down on his desk, sometime his job was just too boring. The building shook suddenly causing Juuzou to jolt upright as he felt his chair roll a bit underneath him, the lights began to flicker, and Juuzou began to wonder if it was an earthquake, then he realized it couldn't have been since the shaking ended so quickly.

Everything was quiet for a moment then screaming erupted in the distance, Juuzou jumped to his feet, grabbing his Jason as he did so, and took off in the direction of panic. He took the stares as he descended the electricity went out completely causing his to pause in the pitch black stairwell, but he was quick to hurry on.

He found himself in the destroyed lobby, looking on the debris around him, fallen ceiling beams, broken windows, ripped up pieces of concrete flooring. It was impressive that such damage could be done in about a minute, then his eyes traveled to the floor which had turned into a lake of blood and mangled corpses, even more impressive that so many investigators could be killed in that small time frame.

He darted forward, ready to find the ghoul responsible for the massacre before him, it had to be the Yoko, it just had to be. He smiled at the thought of destroying such a challenge, in the middle of his sprint something swung down before him causing him to come to a sudden stop before distancing himself.

The Yoko hung upside down from a ceiling beam which had fallen and gotten stuck between a pillar and a broken window, she cocked her head to one side as she looked on him, her red eyes smiling at him through her mask.

"Why hello there, Little Girl." Juuzou straightened a bit at that, "I didn't know they let kids like you join the CCG so early, you must be one tough chick huh?" Just then something in Juuzou's head snapped and he found himself grinning. "I didn't feel like going through every floor of this place just to kill you guys off, so I figured if I waited her then more would come, I'm a little disappointed that only you've should up Investigator-chan."

"… Ne," Juuzou spoke in a lower tone than he usually did, "… Rei-chan, this ghoul's pretty strong isn't she?" He paused before answering his own question in a raspier tone,"yeah." "I bet she'd make a nice quinque." "Yeah, time to score some good boy points!" He charged her, swinging his Jason in an attempt to cut off her head, to his surprise she merely caught his scythes blade with one hand before shoving it away, hard enough for Juuzou to stumble, she then swung down from the beam she'd been hanging from and flung herself into the middle of the carnage she'd created. "I need to make Mama proud." Yoko cackled at that.

"So you're an out of the closet psycho!" She exclaimed, "glad to find one of my own kind among the humans!" He charged her and she shook her head as she slowly released her ukaku, "Silly Little Girl, you're gonna die that way."

"Juuzou! STOP!" Shinohara shouted suddenly causing Juuzou to hesitate in his run ultimately resulting in his sliding in the blood of his colleagues, he struggled to stay on his feet for a moment, but once his balance was regained he looked over his shoulder to see Shinohara on the other side of the room. "Don't attack her alone! Retreat!" He'd never hear Shinohara sound so desperate before.

"Little Miss Investigator." The Yoko's voice was closer then, Juuzou whipped his head in her direction only to find that she was just an arm's length away from him, her fiery wings erupted with shards, a few nicking and cutting him as he dodged and took cover behind so rubble. "Hm? You running away from me? That's fine I'll just come find you, and your little friends too." She had just prepared to dash at them when a beeping echoed through the lobby, it was the timer on the watch the Lamb had set for her, Yoko silenced it quickly. "Well that sucks, my times up already. I gotta get going now, sorry I don't have enough time to think up a riddle for those of you who aren't dying, but you'll be seeing me again real soon!" She crouched low for a moment then she sprung forward, her ukaku causing a small aftershock as she disappeared from the remaining investigators sight.

The timer had gone off which meant it was time to return home. It was such a drag to have a time limit on her, but it was something the Lamb, who didn't approve of her needless violence, had requested she do so that way she wouldn't spend too much time of her sprees and get them all in trouble.

Wrath, the fox, was a sin which wanted nothing more than to cause turmoil and despair in humanity. Wanted nothing more than to watch as they crumble under the weight of her strength.

Twenty-seven lives were stolen that day, only eight survived the Yoko's attacks, one being Juuzou, and four were in critical which only seemed to worsen as time passed. Shinohara sighed as he sat next to his subordinate in a separate CCG office, they were going to be questioned about what they saw.

Shinohara looked to his unusually quiet partner with a frown, that ghoul had triggered him, he'd heard her call him: "Silly Little Girl," and that was exactly what caused Juuzou to lock up, being misgendered like that was traumatic for Juuzou, made him think of the time he'd spent with Big Madam when he was forced to live as a girl.

"Well, thanks to you we were finally able to get a good look at her kagune." Shinohara said, Juuzou was unresponsive, "before this, we never knew what it looked like. On the DVD's she'd left us she'd never used her kagune, so it was really a great help." Still no response, "you did really well you know." Still nothing and Shinohara sighed, as he could only hope that his partner would return to himself soon.

Tsukiyama Shuu sat on his couch, eyes locked on the TV's screen, a smirk on his lips as he rested his chin in his hand. So Yoko had struck again, he'd always considered her to be such an entertaining girl, that's why he kept her around so often. Just then the entrance to his grand living area opened, a servant stepped in and bowed as his guest approached him.

"Ah~ good evening!" He greeted as she approached gracefully, "you're late, I'd begun to think you'd stood me up." The woman scoffed in an amused, but still elegant, way.

"Why, I wouldn't miss dinner with you for the world." She said softly, and Shuu stood as he inspected her. Long elegant navy evening gown shaped to her overly thin body, a shawl draped delicately around her arms, hair pulled back into a bun leaving a few thin strips of hair down to frame her face, her body accessorized with diamonds which twinkled in the lowlight. "Have you been watching the news?" She questioned suddenly.

"Why, of course My Dear, that Yoko is quite the force to be reckoned with isn't she?" He said as she took a seat next to him to view the TV as well.

"Oh yes, she's quite powerful. But lacks any elegance I couldn't possibly stand to fight in such a way." Tsukiyama let out a low chuckle as he looked on her with a devious smirk.

"Ah, that reminds me. I've got something for you." He said with a smile, and her painted lips curled into a smile.

"Another one?" She questioned as he revealed a diamond barrette, in the shape of a pig, he'd given her two others, which he gently placed in her hair.

"They suit every part of you." He stated happily, and she nodded. "Now then," he stood from his seat offering his arm to her, she looped her hand gracefully around his arm as she stood as well, "let's eat. I look forward to dinning with you again, Gluttony." The two strolled off into the dining hall, where a meal fit for only the finest connoisseurs awaited them.

"Afterwards, are we to watch a performance?" She questioned as they approached the table.

"My, my, you do love to watch the scrappers fight don't you? Yes, yes, of course we'll watch a grand show tonight!" He exclaimed while making a large gesture with his arms.

"I can't wait."

"Uugh," Shinohara groaned as he threw some papers down onto his desk, Juuzou looked curiously to his superior. "As if 20th ward headquarters being attacked only day's ago wasn't bad enough! Now we have to deal with the Gourmet's!"

"What's happened?" Juuzou questioned with a tilt of his head, the home office was still under repair, the ceiling had been damaged greatly and there was talk of the building actually collapsing because of it, so Juuzou, Shinohara, and the rest of the 20th ward CCG branch had been relocated to another smaller piece of property within the same ward.

"Ah, well," Shinohara hesitated slight for fear of triggering the boy, "a series of abductions have occurred," he began, "by a Gourmet called Gluttony… That's not unusual for Gourmets, however, this one in particular, well according to the people whom had been kidnapped by her, they said that she released them."

"Whaaat?!" Juuzou was genuinely surprised! He'd never heard of such a thing before.

"Each of the victims stayed in her custody for varied amounts of time, some nearly a decade, some a year, a month, a day, some were lucky enough to only have been there a few hours!" He looked back to the files he'd just thrown onto his desk. "Each give accounts that are similar to your own, but, these people didn't see much of their captor at all. Most of these victims can count the number of scrapper fights the participated in on one hand. What's more they said when she freed them she apologized to them for the way they'd been mistreated." Juuzou kneaded his brows together, then shook his head, that was totally bizarre.

"What's she look like?" He questioned, Shinohara looked to him, "I always knew exactly what Mama looked like, so they should know too right?" Shinohara shook his head.

"They said she always wore a mask around them, a cartoon pig mask that covered her eyes and nose, victims also said had they not been in such a scary situation they would've considered it cute."

"This Gourmet sure is a weirdo!" Juuzou said with a giggle.

"Rip him to pieces!"

"Tear out his insides!"

"Drain his blood!"

Gruesome demands rang out, in tones of malevolent joy, in the large arena, even Tsukiyama cheered at the two combatants he observed below him. He looked back to Gluttony, who stayed silent as she watched the battle through opera glasses, a small smile on her lips.

During scrapper performances she was always the only one to keep her composure, while everyone else began to whoop and holler like uncivilized hooligans, she very much disliked such behavior coming from people of the same class as she, couldn't they at least try to gain so dignity?

"What do you think of it, My Dear?" Tsukiyama questioned as he took his seat next to her, "are you enjoying yourself?"

"What a silly question to ask." She stated as she continued to look through her opera glasses, "of course I'm enjoying myself, there's performance going on, and I'm with you as well." Tsukiyama chuckled at that.

"Then why don't you stay the night with me?" He questioned, Gluttony's smile never faltered and her eyes never looked away from the scrappers below.

"Because, I don't want to." She stated, and Tsukiyama brushed his hand lightly up her exposed arm, in an attempt to make chills run up her spine, as he lowered his mouth closer to her ear.

"But you enjoy being with me, I know you do otherwise you wouldn't keep coming back. Won't you agree to be mine already?"

"No, I won't say it again." She said in the same delicate tone she always used.

"But why, Sweet?" Tsukiyama questioned in a dejected tone, "you know how I feel about you? Why won't you be with me?"

"Because I don't feel the same. I enjoy you, that's undoubtedly true, and I do harbor some sort of affection for you, but I don't love you." Tsukiyama sighed sadly at that, it was always the same every single time. But that didn't mean he would simply give up.

The scrapper fight ended, and so did Gluttony's enjoyment, what a shame it was to have such a wondrous performance end. Oh well.

Gluttony, the Pig, was a sin which wanted nothing more than to devour everything around her, every meal, every human, every soul. She wanted to devour their will to live, and their will to hope. Gluttony wanted nothing more than to devour humanity along with all of its hopes and dreams.

A tip had come in that day, information on a certain coffee shop, Shinohara considered it worth looking into. He and Juuzou entered the shop, with greetings from the staff.

Juuzou had been looking all around the shop as they entered and continued to do so even when they sat down, until his eyes stopped on a waitress, whom sat behind the counter reading a large book, Juuzou wasn't sure why but something about her seemed familiar to him. One of the girls' coworkers gave her a rough shove to her shoulder and gesture for her to get to work, she closed her book and stood with a bow.

"Hello, and welcome to Anteiku." She greeted the two investigators with a sheepish smile, "what would you like?" She questioned, Juuzou became completely focused on her as his partner placed his order. Short platinum hair, which shimmered like snow, pulled up into a curly ponytail, rounded glasses shielding cherry orbs, a shiny pendant in her hair in the shape of a lamb.

"Juuzou!" Shinohara gave him a light tap, causing him to look away from the waitress, "she asked what you wanted to order."

"Ah! I want these sandwiches!" He exclaimed as he pointed to the picture on the menu, and the girl nodded sheepishly.

"Is there anything else?" She questioned as she looked back to him, she jumped as she saw he was staring at her again then averted her gaze, however, her eyes kept darting back to the young investigator.

"Yes, actually there is one more thing." Shinohara spoke up, "I'd like to speak with the Manager, if it's not too much trouble." The girl blinked a few times before smiling nervously.

"No trouble at all, I'll get him now." She turned but when she did she ended up running into one of her co-workers, causing him to drop an entire tray of food onto the floor, the auburn haired male growled down at her.

"Orino!" He scolded, "watch where you're going! You're worse than Rouma!" Juuzou and Shinohara watched as she hid her face behind the pad of paper she'd written their orders on.

"Sorry Nishiki, I-I didn't mean to…" She trailed off and he pointed behind him.

"Just go get the broom and clean this up!" She jumped.

"R-right!" She hurried off, she handed their order to another of her colleagues, and stumbled toward the broom closet.

Juuzou snickered, that girl was a total klutz wasn't she? But still there was something not quite right about her.

It had been a long day… Too long, Nishiki was always scolding her for something, be it reading or tripping over her own feet, it wasn't her fault she was so clumsy. She sighed as she placed her uniform in her work locker, and changed into her baggy grey sweater, which sported a lamb graphic on it, slipped on her pants and high-tops before leaving the restaurant for the night. As she strolled on she looked up to the sky, watching as snow flurried down on her, she really so enjoyed the winter time, everything was always very peaceful then.

"Hello!" A voice pipped she turned quickly to find a customer from earlier bounce next to her, she moved away from him quickly, it wasn't just any customer it was the one who'd been staring at her throughout the day... Did he plan to attack her?

"H-hello." She greeted back, unsure of what to do or say.

"Funny running into you in the middle of the street like this!" He exclaimed with a wide grin.

"Huh? Why's it funny?"

"Ne, would you mind answering some questions for me?" He stepped closer and she shied away from him. "You see, I'm an investigator! And I've got some questions regarding a guy that used to work at Anteiku." She immediately knew he was talking about, and agreed to answer whatever questions he had. "We know he was in an accident, and had to have some ghoul organs transplanted, but I was wondering if you know where he is now?"

"I don't, I actually never got the chance to meet him, I was only hired after he left." She answered honestly, as they strolled on in the cold.

"Ah~ I see, thanks for your help then. I was gonna ask you earlier but what with you falling all over yourself and looking like a fool I didn't think you'd need the extra hassle!" Her eyebrow twitched at his comment.

"Well, how considerate of you." She said as she stopped, they had continued walking and Orino didn't realize that she'd been walking the path she usually took home! Her house was only a block away then, how could she have been so careless! "Um…"

"Hm?" He cocked his head to one side, "whats the matter, Orino-chan?" She jumped as he spoke her name.

"Wh-when did you learn my name?!" She questioned in concern.

"That fellow worker of yours kept shouting it! How could I not remember?" He giggled, and Orino softened a bit, the man before her was an investigator which made him beyond dangerous, not to mention he was acting like a stalker at the moment, but he was also extremely cute and innocent looking; Orino was too naïve to look past his appearance to be too concerned about him.

"W-well… Do you have any more questions for me?" He thought on it for a moment before shaking his head in the negative, "well, in that case, I should be getting home." She said as she passed by him.

"Oh, by the way! My names Juuzou Suzuya!" He exclaimed from behind, she looked over her shoulder.

"It was nice meeting you, Suzuya-kun." She called and he waved to her before turning in the opposite direction. She was a ghoul, no question about it, he'd discovered what was so familiar about her: her smile was reminiscent of a certain ghoul he'd recently encounter, however as he strolled away from her he couldn't help but notice there was something else strange about her.

"What a charming boy he was!" Gluttony exclaimed in delight. Orino locked her front door behind her.

"Hey! Hey! That was that girl I fought when I attacked the CCG!" Wrath shouted, Orino flopped onto her bed."She thinks she can step to me, I'd crush her! Though I'll admit I'd love to face that crazy side of her again!"

"Suzuya-kun is a boy." Orino corrected, Wrath scoffed.

"There's no way! It looks too girlie to be a boy!"

"Wait, did he say his name is Juuzou Suzuya?"Gluttony questioned, "If I recall correctly Big Madam was in a fuss a few years back about losing a pet of hers, a boy named Rei Suzuya I believe. She's told me many a time that I would've loved to see him scrap as Juuzou."

"Gluttony, please don't get Big Madam looking for him, what you gourmet's do to people is horrifying." Orino said tiredly as she retrieved two pendants from her pocket.

"Blah, blah, you're sucha Goodie-Two Shoes!"Wrath exclaimed, Orino placed the fox pendant on the right side of her hair. "You're not a Lamb at all! You're a Buzzard! A scavenger!"

"And what you do to people is no better, Wrath!" She scolded.

"My, my, listen to her she acts as though she's not guilty of killing as well!"Gluttony laughed, Orino placed the pig pendant on the left side of her hair.

"You two are the killers! I'm not a killer! I'm not!" Orino cried as she reapplied the lamb pendant between both the fox and the pig. "Humans are what keep us alive, we should be grateful to them and not kill them so frivolously. Actually we shouldn't kill at all, it's wrong."

"What we do you do, we kill, that means you kill." Wrath stated, and Orino could hear the smirk in her tone. She sat up on her bed then looking around her bedroom which only held her and her things inside.

"That's not true!" Orino shouted.

"Ladies, Ladies,"Gluttony cooed, "let's calm ourselves, there's no need to start a dispute like this, it never does anything but upset us all and gets up nowhere. Not to mention it ruins my appetite."

"You're right," both Wrath and Orino agreed.

The three had learned to coexist by talking out their decisions and making certain deals and agreements, for example the timer that Wrath must wear when going on a spree, they decided on what was best for all of them and what would keep Orino from getting them all caught, she was the klutz of the three after all.

Gourmet, Killer, Scavanger, she was only one, but all three at the same time. Orino sat quietly as she listened to the two sins chattering away in her head, eventually she shushed them due to their voices overlapping and giving her a headache.

Why was she born into a life that from the very moment of conception meant that she would become a murderer? Why couldn't she have been human? Then she would've at least had the choice to kill, but she guessed it didn't matter either way, even if she had been born human Gluttony and Wrath would still be there… They were her sins to bear.

Orino Morie, a ghoul, who wanted nothing more than to lead a simple quiet life, nothing more than to be human, knew that no matter how badly she wanted these things they would never happen, that life just wasn't in the cards for her. So she would have to settle for pretending to be human, at least then she could trick herself into thinking she wasn't a monster.