A REWRITE. Plot changed

Rinne means Reincarnation

AU

Shiznat and other hime and otome characters

Thanks to impersonal for beta reading this!

Awakening

Above an abandoned old building stood a woman wearing a one piece suit fitted black leather clothing that completely camouflages herself along darkness of the night. There, she waited patiently for her assigned target to arrive. With the use of a night vision binoculars, she took a look at the designated room of her target. In front of the old building is a high rise apartment building and 21st floor from the ground and corner window from the right is where Fujino Shizuru lives.

"Time of arrival?" Natsuki spoke through her earpiece.

She sat back on the floor and leaned her back at the concrete wall behind her. After a couple of seconds a woman replied. "She left the hospital 17:00 hours ago." Mai continued typing through her computer, scanning back and forth every detailed information of Shizuru's every day routine

"Old routine as always: stopping in an orphanage giving free treatments, shopping for dinner and then home. Estimated time, 19:00 hours."

"Half an hour left." she muttered after looking over her wrist watch. She then reached from her leg strap where her UD52 is placed in its pocket. A UD52 is a 2 inch in diameter round shape 3 dimensional display computer and is used for storing information. It is the most advance in this line of technology and was made by Mai herself. She clicked it open and began studying the whole graphical parameter of the place. She placed it back in her pocket and spoke once again.

"Mai."

"Hai?"

"Who wants her dead?" the cobalt beauty asked out of curiosity. Mai hesitated at first but soon gave in.

"Kanzaki Clan." the woman in the other line stated simply.

"Next in line?"

"I doubt it." Mai responded quickly. "I traced her background and found not even a single person in her blood line connected to the Kanzaki Clan, but.."

"But?"

"Seven generations before her, particularly first daughter, are all killed by the same clan."

"Feud over territorial ruling?"

"Not even close. Fujino family was never engaged in such act. They live a normal life in the Guandoh province, south east from Atheo."

"Then what?"

"Remains a mystery till now," a long pause transpired between the two who both are in deep thoughts regarding the killings done to the Fujino blood line. Natsuki sigh and again voiced her thoughts out.

"It's surprising enough to know that the Kanzaki clan wants a helpless doctor dead but what's more surprising is that why they hired us by doing this," Natsuki voiced her motion up. Mai chuckled earning another suspicious grumble for the cobalt beauty.

"They have done this more times than my hand could count means they have enough people to do their own dirty work. Why hire us?"

"Your works are always untraceable. He wants this to be perfect, he told me himself. One slip and it'll all be over for Kanzaki clan," Mai informed her partner.

Natsuki started laughing softly. "Over for Kanzaki Clan?" she uttered laughs in between. "The clan who ruled Ciryu, Terzia and half of Atheo will all be over because of one helpless doctor?" sarcasm was all over Natsuki's voice.

"I had the same analysis, but this is our job. Five million serus for the woman's head," Mai enlightened her once again.

Natsuki nodded in agreement on the other line but sigh sympathetically towards the woman in target. 'A woman with a good heart but with such cruel fate.' she thought.

"She's here."

Repositioning herself back to where she was before, Natsuki held her sniper gun, eye peeking through the scope. "Elevator to be exact."

"Have you crashed into the electrical system?" Natsuki asked, her finger around the trigger already. Keyboard typing was heard, clearly indicating Mai's doing her work in such haste. After not receiving an answer from Mai, Natsuki asked once again

"Mai, the system?" again there was no response. The cobalt beauty peeked once again back at her scope and saw the knob turning. "MAI!"

"System complete shutdown in 5 seconds and counting," said by Mai as soon as she was done. "5-4-3-2" the door opened and when the said target was about to enter, a complete black out engulfed the whole city as soon as Mai's finger tip met with the enter button of her keyboard.

"1"

"Let me do my job from here," Natsuki said arrogantly in which Mai giggled softly in return.

Natsuki peeked back through her scope and waited for Shiziru to be in sight. 'Found you.'

She had a clear view of the woman's back in her scope. 'Come on, turn around my dear Shizuru. Turn around for Natsuki.'

And as if Natsuki's mind was connected to Shizuru, the target turned around from her position. Now a clear view of Shizuru was seen from Natsuki's scope. The cobalt beauty's teal eyes suddenly bolted in surprise as her mouth opened wide as soon as the image in front of her unfolds.

'It's her!'

She remained still and in complete shock as the amber beauty's kindness towards her was slowly coming into her system. "Natsuki, what's taking you so long?!" Mai shouted through her earpiece. Natsuki ignored her partner and kept her attention to her target.

"We only got 30 seconds remaining till lights are put back on!" Mai informed her.

Natsuki snapped out from her reverie and again endless shouts from Mai was heard from the other line

"20 seconds remaining! Natsuki!"

Through the scope, Natsuki could see the woman who saved her life, helplessly looking her way in the darkness. With another deep sigh, Natsuki removed her finger from the trigger and locked her gun.

"Mai."

"10 seconds!" informed by Mai once again, now more frantic than before.

"Mission cancelled." Natsuki simply said through her earpiece. And before Mai could even complain, Natsuki spoke once again, "We're even now, Shizuru. Life for a life," And from that statement, Mai knew why Natsuki did such an abrupt thing. Natsuki stood up from her position. Electricity was put back in the city once again, as lights brightened the whole Atheo up.

"We have some intruders. Five men around Shizuru's room," and paused, as she continued scanning through her computer. Mai gasped as soon as she found something threatening "and ten more from where you are."

"That son of a-..." Natsuki cursed under her breath. "Floor?"

"3 floors left," calmly, Mai informed her partner.

Natsuki then analyzed everything around her, in search for any escape spots she could run off to but she found none. She run to the edge of the building and looked down. She looked up again, now her eyes scanning the building in front of her. A smile formed in the corner of her lips as soon as a mezzanine from the apartment building caught her eyes.

"Mai, calculate the escape routes of the other building," Natsuki commanded. Mai started calculating the other building from her computer and the safe routes around it. She paused as soon as she had realized something.

"What are you planning to do?!" Mai asked with a trace of fear in her voice. Natsuki only chuckled in return. Slowly, Kuga started walking back to where she stood.

'So this is how Kanzaki clan wants to play the game.'

Natsuki began running, eyes focused ahead of her. "Natsuki, you're not jumping to the other building!!" and before Mai could even scold Natsuki once again, she had already jumped from the edged of the abandoned building towards the mezzanine of the apartment building.

Natsuki made it but her body recklessly rolled towards the glass sliding door, shattering it in the process. Slowly she stood up from her position, a blood dripping from few cuts in her cheeks and hands, and some bruises on her forehead, and rips on her clothes. She brushed the pieces of glasses attached to her but stopped when she heard a woman screaming. She looked up and saw a terrified blond woman trembling in a corner. The woman shouted once again but this time Natsuki made her way out of the room down to where Shizuru's room is located. 'But they forget one major rule..'

"Shiziru's in their captive. They're still in the room."

"Incoming men?"

"10 on their way."

"Send the route. I'll get my target," Natsuki continued running as fast as she could. She slowed down as she finally had reached the floor.

Carefully but swiftly she made her way through Shizuru's room dodging every bullet shot towards her. Sending upper cuts, knee kicks and leg chokes to each man blocking her way. She stopped in front of Shizuru's room and leaned her body by the door frame. She watched as Shizuru struggled her way out of the man's grasps as the man continually fights back.

"If a woman struggles it only means she's not interested." Natsuki uttered.

Both stopped, Shizuru looked behind the man while the man turned around to look at the intruder. Natsuki smiled and drew her gun out.

"Isn't that common sense?"

Too distracted, Shizuru seized the chance and bit the man's hand, releasing his grip from her in the process. She ran to the side away from him, and as soon as the coast was clear, Natsuki brutally killed the man, shooting two bullets across his face.

'Never mess with Kuga Natsuki.'

She placed her gun back from the holster and stared at Shizuru from the other end of the room. Natsuki walked slowly towards her while she backed away with every step the cobalt beauty takes. Shizuru was put to halt as she hit the wall behind her.

Natsuki's POV

"You're the one from earlier. What do you want from me?" she said calmly, not even a trace of fear in her voice but her body was slightly trembling.

I smiled and stopped from my position, two feet away from her, "Retribution," I lend out my hand towards her and held my smile.

"I'm here to save you. A life for a life," I said in a nice way to reassure her of her safety with me.

Slowly she raised her hand up and firmly held my hand. My focus was soon distracted when Shizuru's eyes widened. I looked through the reflection in her eyes and saw one particular man aiming his gun at me. I grabbed Shizuru's body and rolled swiftly and hastily to the other corner of the room while drawing out my gun at the same time. His black shady eyes met with my teal ones. He smiles, sadistic vicious kind of smile that I've never seen before. Blood thirsty inhumane and it made me back a few steps away from him.

Shizuru gripped my arm a little harder, shaking me off from my daze. I stood on the ground firmly and held my gun aiming straightly at him. Men came running from behind him and surrounded the whole room. They had their guns pointed directly at us but neither seemed to pull their trigger. I looked around and calculated the number of men around. '25... If I were alone, escaping wouldn't be such a trouble, but having a helpless woman by side everything would be different.' I averted my gaze from the men down to the whole room and could only see the window as our possible escape route.

"The window wouldn't be of any help," a man's hoarse voice began, startling me from where I was. I looked at the owner and saw him smiling as usual as he continued, "the window won't do, Kuga-san."

I laughed and still held my gun aiming directly at him. "I thought so too. I guess I just have to kill you all then."

He chuckled, mocking my statement, "you could always take the easy way out."

"What do you want, Reito Kanzaki?"

"I'm impress you know my name," he murmured appraisingly. He placed his gun back on his holster and waved his men to do the same. "What I want is nothing to do with you. My business is with Fujino Shizuru-san."

"What do you want from her?"

"I want her life," he told me honestly, his voice without even a trace of neither sympathy nor any emotion. I had my arm protecting Shizuru even more and he continued "Do you know the Legend of Iphas, Kuga-san?"

I scoffed, keeping my aim straight. "The woman born under the red full moon-"

"The woman who is said to bring destruction to the world," he added.

"And what does it have to do with her?"

"The same blood runs along her veins."

I laughed, disbelieving every absurd word he just uttered, "and you just think I would give her as easily as that."

"No. That's why I have her with me," he snapped his fingers together and one man came in with a girl tied up in the hands.

My mouth almost hit the floor as soon as her face met my eyes. "MAI!"

I gripped my gun harder and felt the urge in my fingers of pulling the trigger. "Release her!" I demanded. He laughs mockingly and pulled Mai by the arm.

"You see, this thing works two ways. I give you your life and Mai in exchange of my dear Shizuru."

"You want Shizuru?" I grabbed the woman in mention by the arm and dragged her all the way up front. "Release Mai first."

"Why don't we meet halfway, Kuga-san?" he suggested. "Mai gets to you the same time Shizuru does to me."

I hesitated at first but as soon as I saw the pained expression on her face I released my hold from Shizuru. "I'm sorry," I whispered into her hears as soon as I let go.

She looked over her shoulder and smiled, in a way as if she had forgiven me.

And as agreed upon, Reito released Mai from her grip. Mai started taking her steps towards me and Shizuru did likewise towards Reito. My partner was only a couple of feet away from me when Reito suddenly drew his gun out.

"We, Kanzaki, were never true to our words."

"NO!!" he pulled the trigger. I ran towards her and grabbed her by the arm, and enveloped her body with my own. The next thing I felt was a heavy weight struck against my shoulder. I dropped onto my knees bringing Mai along with me.

The next thing I heard was Mai's sudden gasps as soon her hand made contact with my shoulder. I tried to look up but suddenly a hard kick was delivered across my stomach, rolling me off from my partner's body. I cowered in pain and soon only to have my shoulder being stepped on.

"You caused us quite a lot of trouble, Kuga san," he began, stepping onto my shoulder a lot harder. I groaned louder and desperately gasped for some air. "You know, Mr. Ishi? He's my father's distant relative. The diskette you stole from him belongs to us. It's everything we needed to get into the government's secret system. You delayed our mission by a day, owing us a lot more than 5 million serus and got one of my finest men killed." He crushed my shoulder to the maximum with his foot.

"Natsuki!" I heard Mai shouting. "Please release her!!" She pleaded. I look to my side and saw Mai forced by a man into a corner and Shizuru's faced masked with fear and horror as Reito continually tortures me.

"You know where this is going, don't you?" he continued, gaining my attention back to him. "A life for a life, as they say."

"So you had me hired to make it easier for you to kill me," I uttered between heavy panting.

"It's killing two birds with one stone."

"You're a dead man, Reito." I threatened to which he dismissed with a mocking sound of laughter. I felt his foot crushing my shoulder harder and I could only yelp in pain.

"Dead?" He utters questioningly. I felt the tip of his gun at the back of my head and he continued. "When did you start becoming delusional?"

I bit my lower lip and closed my eyes, anticipating the sound of a gunshot and a bullet to come. The next thing I heard surprised me as everything seemed to gasp in bewilderment. The tip of his gun slowly back a few inches from my head and his foot's weight becoming less and less on my shoulder.

"What the-..." Reito's voice was the first to penetrate my ears. I opened my eyes and complete darkness had welcomed me.

A ray of light from my side caught my attention. I followed the trail and saw Shiziru's body glowing and ascending from the room. She was changing. Her body transforming into some sort of celestial being.

A man's voice laughed maniacally. "This is what I've been waiting for!"

He removed his foot from my shoulder and started taking his steps towards Shizuru. He aimed his gun directly at the divine being. I gathered all my strength and quickly made towards Reito. I jumped over him from behind and we came falling off from the floor. I punched him across his face and was reciprocated by a strong kick from the knee. Reito placed his hand on my shoulder and crushed it until I released my hand from him. He pushed me off from him and I came rolling to the wall. He stood up and I did likewise. He plunged himself towards me and my back hit the wall hard. He crushed my shoulder with his hands and I tried to get a hold of his hair. He dug in his finger deeper in the hole and I cried out in pain. I struggled and my knee came hitting him in the groin. He cowered in pain and I gave him another strong kick across his stomach. I grabbed my gun from my holster and swung swiftly to his direction. He pulled his gun exactly the same time I did and aimed it directly at me.

We were brought back from reality as soon as his men came crying out loud from pain and torture and pleading for help. We both turned to the direction of the cries and saw the heads of his men one by one get blown into pieces. My eyes soon travelled to the cause of it and saw Shizuru's eyes opened; her caring red eyes were now masked with the birth of annihilation.

Before any of us could react, the whole room was engulfed by a blazing red light and all I had seen next was a pool of blood.

In the farther side if the city of Atheo, lies a secret hiding place where a certain short black haired woman is staying alongside her computers and weapons. In here and in front of her computer is where she had been for almost half of her life; watching, analyzing and observing every movement Althea's reincarnation makes. And from the reflection of her monitor, a smile could be seen forming in the corner of her lips as soon as an enormous amount of light had been detected. She stood up from her chair and started grabbing one by one her weapons of choice. She then placed two guns in her holster strapped around her legs, and ammos around her waist. She breathed deeply and finally she was ready to set forth on her mission.

"It has started."

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