A/N: This is the first time that I managed to update my chapters properly without being late! Hehe... So happy! XD

WARNING: BoyXBoy story. It's yaoi, so Don't Like, Don't Read! Also, it's OzXGil (just cause I love seme!Oz) and if you don't like it, don't read it!

SOUL

He sometimes wondered how one could give one's soul to another short from using supernatural means of binding one's will to another. He had merely assumed that such an act was simply impossible. Knowing that it was futile and a waste of time, he simply didn't bother to contemplate on the thought. After all, he needed to train in order to bring back his bocchan from the Abyss.

When he first joined Pandora, he didn't think too long about the consequences. All he thought about was bringing his bocchan back as soon as possible. He didn't care about the fact that he was much too young to join the organisation, that his heart was too pure and naive to carry out the things that would be required of him. All he cared about was the fact that by joining in, he would be able to have a greater chance of bringing back his young master.

The members who cared about him were initially reluctant to give him any outside assignments, giving him the inside jobs, simple tasks that didn't require the use of chain. They silently fought for him by arguing with their power-hungry and manipulative superiors who were keen on using their most powerful addition since the Mad Hatter.

They somehow managed to delay the need for his help in outside assignment for nearly a year until the one night when everything was in a mess and no one else was able to go to carry out the assignment since they were all out on other missions. He had gone out then, with another member as his partner, and he had told no one, not even Sharon and Break, what he had seen that night. His partner had kept silent about it too. Naturally, everyone stopped asking.

It was six months before the time when Oz came back from the Abyss. He was on an assignment to destroy another chain that appeared suddenly near the capital. Break was on an assignment someplace else and he was left to handle it himself.

He went to the place where they previously sighted the chain and found a little girl, no more than 6 years old, standing there with the dreaded clock on her chest. His blood turned cold. With a sense of forced detachment, he defeated the chain. Before he could escape and avoid watching the little girl getting swallowed into the neverending darkness, he heard frantic footsteps coming closer. He quickly turned his face away to avoid exposing his identity and paused when he heard the scream.

"SANAAAA! IIE!"

The heart-wrenching scream froze him. He closed his eyes. The picture of the disappearing girl burnt behind his retina. There was nothing he could do.

"Help! Someone help my daughter!" But her cries and screams fell into deaf ears. He was one step away from holding his palms against his ears to block out the pained voice.

He moved, unable to stay anymore longer and he heard the voice again.

"You there! Who are you? Help! Please!"

He kept moving, he couldn't stay there and risk his identity being discovered. He couldn't let her see his face. He remained silent, not wanting to give anything away.

"Wait! Don't go! Answer me! Were you involved with this?" Her sobs and shouts were not one that he was used to. Usually his assignments didn't involve the family of the contractors. It was fight and escape scenarios. Now, though, he found himself hesitating.

His rational sense won out, knowing that in every practicality, there was no way for him to save the little girl. She was a lost cause. If he tried to save her now, the only thing it would do was dragging him into the abyss as well.

Her next words froze his blood.

"Monster! You have no heart! My baby girl is trapped! Sana!"

Before he knew it, he saw her silhouette running towards the black hole sucking in the little girl, jumping in to hold her daughter.

"You will suffer! You who have no kindness! You wouldn't be able to be happy! You have no soul!"

Her last words rang and hit something within him. On his walk back, thousands of thoughts ran through his mind. She was right. He killed these people. He had been a killing machine all this time, killing his sense of humanity; killing his inner self that hated violence of any sort. He had changed for the worse.

He smiled bitterly. This was fine. He seemed to have turned himself into a monster, but he didn't mind. As long as it brought him closer to finding his master.

He would sacrifice his soul, go against everything he believed in, kill his humanity; as long as it ensured his master's safety and happiness.

Tell me, tell me, tell me what you think! X3