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A/N: Big thanks for the reviews: of fan and fic, Maiden of Sin, Monotufu and tityuio. At least I now know that there are three people indeed reading this story and even enjoying it. I considered shelving it (Every time I update this fanfic I get many reviews at my Xmen-fanfics, asking if I wouldn't want to continue those. Yes, I will definitively. But at the moment DtB tempts me a little more. It depends if there's a demand for this DtB story or not, though.)

Anyway, I hope you all had a nice Halloween. I was sick with a cold and didn't decorate (Halloween decoration is really hard to get here in Germany – we don't really celebrate it here, only some horror movies are aired) and only ONE kid in a scream-costume came for sweets – but I didn't see any more kids on the streets either – it may have been too cold. Last year it were five or six kids 'trick and treating'…

Chapter 10

Two days had passed since the meeting and Misaki had been a little skeptic about Mao's idea to hide a note at the bottom of the bank at the beach they had met Hei. But the Contractor had apparently found it and stood now with his Doll and child before her. "I want to discuss a few details about your alias' background, Hei. And I need a passport photograph of you and your Doll for your new IDs." Misaki hadn't finished the last sentence when the Black Reaper held two small pictures up. "Well, this should do it…"

"We should go over to the noodle-store." Hei suggested, but his wife did not move.

Yin walked up to the Contractor and kissed him quickly onto his lips – surprising the man a little – and Mao and Misaki a lot. "I'll go with Bai into the park. You don't need me for discussing this stuff anyway."

Hei nodded smiling and kissed his wife good-bye. "Be careful."

"Always." Yin muttered and her lips turned into a faint smile. "Bye, Kirihara-san, and thank you."

The older woman glanced amazed at the Doll. "Umm, you're welcome."

"Come with us, Mao." Yin grasped the cat by the neck and placed him onto the stroller's backrest. The Contractor was about to leap back down onto the sidewalk when she added "I have a can with tuna.". Maybe he could live with the threat of his tail being tortured… and being ordered around by a Doll…

When she started pushing the stroller down the street, Mao was about to direct the blind girl, like he had done years before, but then he noticed the bottle of water next to the sleeping Bai and a second Yin suddenly appeared next to the real one out of the blue. "What the?!" The cat stared at the exact copy of his friend perplexed. "Is this your Observer Spirit?" He whispered without taking his eyes off the two women.

"Yes." Answered the Specter and Mao would have bleached if it would have been possible while the real Yin continued. "It upgraded."

"What? When?" It felt really creepy to have a conversation with a Doll AND her Observation Spirit - even for a Contractor that had seen quite much in his life.

The silver-haired Doll's expression was stoic as it was supposed to be. "The something you call Izanami used my powers. Evolved my powers. Showed me what I was capable of. But when it was gone I learned to control them as well." Yin waited for the traffic-light to turn green and continued her way to the small park near the police station.

Mao scrutinized the two. For every Contractor and Doll they would look like twin-sisters wearing the same outfit and for every normal human it was just one young woman walking the streets with her child and a cat. After a while he shook his head. "You know, Yin, you and Hei fit perfectly together."

The Doll thought about to let that comment drop, but decided against it. "I love Hei." This made Mao look up from his comfortable position curled up to her stomach. "When we return to Tokyo… maybe he can relax a little. I know the fighting will continue, but maybe he don't have to worry so much about Bai and me anymore." Her Specter locked gazes with the cat. "He deserves a normal life."

They entered the small park and Yin stopped the stroller when a small earthquake moved the ground beneath her feet. It was only seconds and afterwards it was like nothing had happened except that Bai had woken up. Immediately Yin picked the baby up and sat her into the sandbox with some moulds, her human-looking Specter playing with the child.

Mao waited for Yin to open the promised food. "Those earthquakes are quite bothersome. We can be lucky that our cities are build for this kind of stuff. There are several towns in Europe that are rubble now." He hungrily dug into his meal while Yin sank down onto the park bank next to him.

"Those earthquakes all over the Earth are caused by the open gate?"

"Yes. Since the Hell's Gate opened two years ago, Gate-Particles build in the gate's center and pour into the planet's inner core, destabilizing the entire planet before some leak into the new Gate in China." Mao explained as he finished his fish and licked his mouth and nose. "Unfortunately all research is under American management and we couldn't get much information about their results." He licked his paws. "But I hope Hei can help us with this."

Unbeknown to the Doll and the body-possessing Contractor three guys were watching them from a near parking lot. "See, Toshi, as I told you the blind girl is with her baby here in the park."

Toshi smirked. "All alone. This will be easy. When she notices that her child is gone, the kid will be already sold and we have enough powder for robbing the bank." He had witnessed the child's powers a few days ago."We should make our move before her man shows up."

"We should still take some, the police is just around the corner." The third man, a tall and tattooed baldie, fished a small plastic bag with black dust from his pants' pocket and inhaled the half as they walked up to the lone woman. "Kenji, you have the chloroform?"

"Yep." He handed a wet tissue the other man. "I'll distract the chick." Kenji snorted also some of the dust, his eyes on Yin. "Umm, hello, do you know where the next bus-station is?"

Meanwhile his two buddies were also on the drug and stared confused at the woman's twin sitting in the sand with the baby. "Where does she come from, Toshi?!"

"Dunno, but she doesn't seem to be blind." He didn't like the way the woman glared at them.

Without answering the question, Yin stood up – as did her Observer Spirit – and approached her daughter. "What do you want?" She said in her even tone while Mao took a position between the last guy and his buddies.

Toshi looked from one woman to the other. "Change of plan." He dashed forward in lightening speed – his Contractor power - and grabbed the baby, while his two friends closed in on the two women. When he was about to sprint away, his legs wouldn't move and one of the silver-haired women stared at him intensely – creeping him out.

"What's wrong with you, Toshi? Get away already!" Baldie screamed and watched the blind girl simply take her baby out of his clutches.

"I – can't – move! What – are – you?" His eyes were widened in terror.

"Shit! She's a Contractor!" Kenji concentrated onto the sand and slowly the grains beneath the women rose to a twister.

Yin tried to get away while she used her specter's power to get the Contractor's abilities under her control. Meanwhile Mao had jumped onto Kenji's face and dug his claws into his eyes, but the man grasped him and threw him away against a tree trunk, screaming in pain and holding his wounded face. "Yin, run!" The cat hoped that she didn't need a pre-programmed escape-route any longer, like Dolls usually do.

Baldie stared at the scene and shot his 'air-bullets' at the woman without the baby, only to see that his bullets went literally through her body – the woman's gaze also centering on him now. A strange feeling enveloped him as he lifted his hand and pointed his fingers onto his friend, ready to fire. "Shit!" Kenji went down, his body torn by his friend's bullets.

While the one woman was occupied with his friends Toshi was slowly able to move again and dashed forward. His balled fist connected hard with the blind woman's head.

Yin felt an impact out of nowhere. Her legs gave way, her head suddenly hurting and cloudy, yet she was able to break her fall and cushion her child with her body.

While Yin went down, her Specter lost its focus on the bald man, who was now lifting his hand at mother and child, firing a salvo. Mao had just gotten back to his feet as he saw with horror the bullets fly towards his old friend. With a rather irrational decision he jumped in front of them, the bullets tearing into the cat, the animal's eyes glowing red.

Fear for her child grasped her heart as Yin tried to push herself up, the wailing Bai clutched tightly to her chest. Her head hurt, something wet was flowing down her temple, and her minimal, usually blurred vision was only a chaos of bright colors dancing in front of her eyes. The Specter had returned to its small blueish form due to her lack of concentration, but she could make out the lifeless form of a black cat lying in a pool of blood in front of her real body.

The bald man was startled about the animal sacrificing its life and staggered back to his fallen buddy. "Kenji, c'mon." He inspected his friend closer. "Shit! He's dead!"

It had been only seconds since his friend had shot at the girl and the cat had interfered, so Toshi used this moment to rip the crying baby from her mother's arms.

"Bai!" Yin cried and grasped the man's leg, gathering her last strength to reactivate her Observer Spirit when the foot of the man forcefully collided with her forehead. The last she saw was a squirrel looking her way before following the kidnappers and her baby girl. Then, everything was black.

They sat in the small noodle store at the far end of the room, the stacked up empty bowls blocking the sight of the cook to them, while Hei finished his thirteenth plate. Misaki shook her head, a smile on her lips about the incredible amount this man could wolf down. "Mao had told me about your averseness to cell phones, but still here's my number." She slid a card with nothing more than a long number on it towards the Black Reaper, who looked up to take the paper. "We'll leave Osaka tomorr-" She suddenly noticed the expression of the Contractor changed to one of horror as he stared at something behind her. "Hei?"

Hei's eyes widened in terror as he saw a glimpse of the already vanishing Observer Spirit. "Yin!" The bowl clattered on the tabletop as he jumped to his feet and left the store in a desperate run.

A/N: So what do you think? Comments and criticism are welcomed. Reviews make me write faster…