Turning Point:
"John and Margaret Carrington were found brutally murdered. Their bodies were sat at the dinner table in the kitchen and their decapitated heads were displayed on dinner plates. Another two messages were also present, again written in blood. This time they were found on the dinner plates and read: OWN BLOOD…" blared the news reporter on the main television inside the Golden Dragon Headquarters.
"Wow someone around here is demented." Said Takahashi, a fellow ninja who seemingly appoints himself as Yutaka's rival within the Golden Dragon clan.
"What is with that creepy girl Yutaka brought back here with him? Has Yutaka started a freak show or something?" He asked sarcastically with a chuckle. No one else laughed.
"What the fuck is wrong with you?" Yutaka asked angrily.
"Didn't I make myself clear, Keiji? That girl is a freak and needs to be left alone. She smells like trouble." Takahashi replied seriously this time.
"No, dipshit she was all alone with nobody to look after her and she needs help. I'm willing to give her that help and that reminds me. You have a sick mind, Takahashi. Making assumptions about somebody you've never even seen before, especially given that Lucy is just a child." Yutaka explained with rage in his eyes.
"Well keep her away from me and I will kill you and her if she fucks with me." Takahashi responded with a harsh threat.
While they argued, Lucy sat at Yutaka's desk drawing with written descriptions. She looked up momentarily at the rivals arguing and heard she was the subject of their argument.
She rose slowly from the desk in Yutaka's office and crept behind a plant pot in the foyer near to where the bitter argument was taking place.
When she heard Takahashi insulting her she looked right at Takahashi and telekinetically picked him up off the floor. From there she threw him hard against the nearby wall, knocking the wind out of him as Takahashi slumped weakly against the wall.
"Lucy?" Yutaka said like a question as he was puzzled. Lucy came out from behind the plant pot and walked angrily over to the weakened Takahashi. She knelt down in front of him with her hair hung over her face. Then she flicked open her Glaive and held it to Takahashi's throat, lightly choking him to get him to listen.
"Do you wanna die?" She whispered threateningly at Takahashi. He froze in sudden fear.
Lucy walked back towards Yutaka staring at Takahashi all the while. The foyer broke into applauds, presumably for Lucy's act.
"Little bitch!" Takahashi exclaimed. Lucy stuck her middle finger up at him as she and Yutaka headed back to Yutaka's office.
"Don't let him get to you." Yutaka said trying to discourage her from Takahashi's comments building a rage inside her head. Lucy sat there on Yutaka's desk looking at Yutaka as she nodded her head in understanding for what Yutaka said.
Lucy went back to drawing with more written descriptions. Yutaka looked over her shoulder to see what she was doing. Lucy hid them from him and Yutaka instantly got the message that she didn't want him to see it.
"Do you want something to eat?" Yutaka asked her. Lucy nodded. Yutaka went back to the foyer and asked the chef to cook something up for Lucy.
Lucy meanwhile had hidden her drawing in one of the draws of Yutaka's desk so Yutaka wouldn't be able to see it.
Soon enough her food was ready and after Yutaka called her she sat at the table in the foyer to eat. Yutaka sat across from her.
After Lucy moved her hair away from her face she took her first bite out of her pizza.
"Is it OK?" Yutaka asked. Lucy nodded her head.
"It must be your first proper meal for a while, huh?" Yutaka asked as if he knew the answer already. Lucy nodded her head again.
After a little while she had finished it off and went back to Yutaka's office again. Yutaka looked at her as she sat at his desk again from his position in the foyer.
He looked around the foyer momentarily realizing how quiet everything had become among the fellow ninjas.
Suddenly Yutaka heard Lucy coughing heavily and saw she had collapsed onto her hands and knees. He rushed to her side as she began to vomit onto the floor. Yutaka immediately noticed that there was blood in Lucy's vomit.
"Solvent." Yutaka determined muttering to himself.
He put his arm around Lucy giving her support while she staggered to the bathroom with him.
"Not so nice now is it, you little bitch!" Takahashi yelled in Lucy's direction gleefully. This made something in Lucy's head click with rage as she continued throwing up in the toilet.
"There is something so fucking wrong with this place today!" Yutaka shouted to himself as he pounded the bathroom wall repeatedly with his fist.
Lucy stood up, angry and in rage with Takahashi. She flicked open her Glaive again and stormed out of the bathroom with vomit still dripping from her mouth.
She walked fast and in an angry motion towards Takahashi who was still grinning to himself. She picked him up again with her telekinesis and threw Takahashi into the wall much harder than the first time. He was almost knocked out from the blow. Lucy strode towards his slumped body quickly, not giving him a chance for a breather while looking like a maniac.
She proceeded to slash open his right arm, severing a fair amount of arterial tissue with her Glaive. Lucy looked deep into Takahashi's eyes with anger and pure malice as her Glaive remained in the wound on his arm as blood squirted from it from time to time.
Yutaka went up to the chef for the Headquarters, Hajime.
"What are you playing at?" He asked demandingly.
"He paid me money. He was demanding I do it." Hajime replied in a panic.
"You have breached the boundaries of honour and for that and the fact that you harmed a young child you must pay." Yutaka explained forcefully.
"No you don't understand. I need the money for my family." Hajime replied as he cowered in a corner of the kitchen.
"Silence!" Yutaka ordered as he unsheathed his Dragon Sword. Hajime pleaded repeatedly but it did no good as Yutaka's sword sliced through his neck in one clean swipe.
Hajime's head bounced along the floor as blood erupted from the stump on the body.
"Maybe you should have thought of the consequences before you took action." Yutaka said firmly.
Yutaka went over to Lucy who sat on top of the foyer table feeling a little groggy. An unconscious Takahashi was slumped against a wall not far from them with a long, deep slit embedded on his blood covered right arm as blood was dripping into a pool of crimson on the otherwise clean blue carpet.
"Are you OK?" Yutaka asked Lucy before she nodded quickly.
"Where is Hajime?" Itachi asked Yutaka. He looked angry.
"Dead!" Yutaka replied bluntly.
"What?" Itachi asked angrily as he went into the kitchen and saw Hajime's headless body sat in a large pool of deep crimson.
"What the hell did you do?" Itachi asked demandingly.
"I cut his head off. He put solvent in Lucy's pizza and it mad her ill. Takahashi paid him." Yutaka explained.
"You have crossed the line between honour and vengeance, Yutaka." Itachi said in anger.
"Father, he committed a sin." Yutaka said trying to explain his reasoning.
"No, you did and for that you are no longer part of this clan. Get out of here!" Itachi ordered.
"Fine. However you are wrong and from this point on I do not consider you my father. Lucy's let's go." Yutaka said in disgust as he picked up his bag, kicked Takahashi's unconscious body and headed to the exit. Lucy, now with her own bag slung on her shoulder, stared coldly at Itachi before she to headed for the Headquarters' exit.
"Bastards!" Itachi exclaimed as he looked at Takahashi.