Having finally come face to face with one of his greatest hurdles thus far, Kaito was more than prepared. His claws gauntlet gently scraped across the large door in slow anticipation as a million thoughts ran through his head.

"I finally have my chance to take this bastard down. Every life I've taken and the life of my closest friend comes down to this. Strange to say, I have someone to call a friend at the end of the day…Wait for me, Edward." Kaito stopped the track of his fingers to the center of the door and dug his gauntlet into it, tearing a perfect hole in the metal door for him to slip through.

Kaito's training from many previous engagements of the same scenarios, breaking, and entering, prepared him for potential discovery. Making a couple very small but sharp kunai out of the white sludge leaking from his gauntlet and peaking in. Expert reaction skills granted him enough time to disarm two cameras around the entrance but moved quickly incase they were watched too carefully.

The crash of the machinery and the tacking of his feet against the tiled floor while He lurked through the shadows of the large building had attracted attention. Two guards rushed around a corner with flashlights blaring, "Who goes there!?" The first guard called out.

"Come on out and we won't need to call the- What the hell!?" The second one noticed the large rip in the door and was about to reach for the walkie talkie to radio in the break-in but felt a large thud hit his head and his body tossed into his partner.

The first guard groaned and stumbled over trying to regain his composure of the situation only to see Kaito walking over flaring his fingers slowly into a fist with his gauntlet over it and punching his lights out cold.

"Such pests… But at least you'll be useful for something." He reached down slipping the gauntlet over the second guard's neck, into his spine and sunk the gauntlet in draining the calcium and marrow from him while he searched the other, grabbing a set of handcuffs, the flashlight, and keycards from the both of them.

Kaito followed through the shadows once again, cutting corner after corner until He'd reached the door that the keycards led to. "The security room. I can get a full survey of the building." Approaching the door and slotting in the key, the door clicked open and revealed a large dark room full of monitors. There were no other guards in the room but several consoles for communication and the main computer.

Using the other key to unlock access to the computer, Kaito punched in the keys and changed around the cameras several times trying to look for a very specific room. After flicking for around five minutes or so, the interchange of the screens stopped, "That can't be all the angles they have of this place. I need the office…"

Kaito persisted in trying to flip the channels but they were truly stuck this time. "Hmm? Did it break?" He hammered the key several more times until a voice rang from a speaker near one of the screens.

"If you keep that up you'll break the damn thing! Kids nowadays know nothing of value!" Kaito's switch flipped instant, his body was in full reflex and darted his eyes around while facing the speaker. "Now now. No need to be so… jumpy. Haha. I can see you've been busy already. These guards can be so useless sometimes... "

"Come out already. You know why I'm here…" Kaito responded accordingly as he hid in a darkened corner beside the door with his ear pressed to the wall.

"Why of course I do. But this talk is much better-done face to face. Don't you think so? Haha." All of the screens turned to a single picture with a large caged up tank of water that seemed to have steam rising from it, the edge of the screen had a room number on it.

Kaito soon turned his head to a loud beeping sign over one of the consoles and the voice speaking to him rather childishly, "Better hurry… I'm sure you're on borrowed time." Kaito kicked the door open to see multiple guards already armed to fight him.

"Stop right there and we won't have to shoot," one of them remarked before a glare pierced through the faintly lit hallways and discouraged them.

"But I do." With three quick flicks on his finger, three bolts of blue energy pierced their skulls, causing their bodies to lifelessly and effortlessly drop to the ground, as Kaito dashed past them with his goal in mind while his eyes scanned the walls for direction.

"Closer and closer Kaito. You're almost here. Hurry, hurry. The clock is ticking." An intercom echoed through the seemingly endless halls that rang in his mind like a thousand bells. Another turn of a corner and through the double doors, He finally arrived at the large tank emitting the steam. Very cautiously, Kaito tiptoed into the room with his eyes darting back and forth. Finally reaching the centermost light illuminating the room, many more turned on as soon a set of footsteps were heard on the second level of the room. The sound of shoes flicking at metal could be heard as the man that had taunted Kaito all this time was here as bold as ever.

"Funny this plan goes off the way it did. Really. I wasn't going to spring this off for some time you know. But I knew someone was poking and picking at my experiments and I just couldn't let that be. Now could I? I was always rather selfish with my experiments… my test subjects. I never liked to give them too much room to run. They always tried but never got far. Like Lieutenant Dan they flailed and screamed for death but I wouldn't give them the satisfaction until I knew they had reached their potential!" The figure finally came to the light to reveal it was a somewhat hunched over older man covered in scars with a large shimmering set of glasses and his brown hair slicked back over his ears, receding to the back. He had black rain boots with solid black slacks tucked into them and a very long pearly white lab coat to tie everything together.

"Suddenly we're brave enough to step out of the lab and confront your problems? I saw what you call 'potential'. Those who were marked, 'failures' or 'trial and error'. I used to agree with those twisted ideals. But I've no more need for them. I have no more need for this organization either… Starting with you. I'll purge your sins in blood." Kaito spoke in brandished bravado as the knife in his hand was coated by more of his white sludge and protruded into a spear while he uncovered his mouth.

"You truly believe that I've challenged you, of all people, without a plan Kaito? But please! Come to me, my boy! I'll take you to the boss myself." He fixed his glasses and stood in plain sight of Kaito who was viciously grinding his teeth in anger.

"You'll give me the cure to that damn drug. DOCTOR MASUDA!" Kaito ran up one of the pillars leading to the next floor and popped to the edge of the water tankard then launched himself towards the Doctor until a large jet of water shot up and engulfed Kaito in so much pressure that it launched him to the ceiling.

After the jet subsided, the Doctor laughed profusely and took a slow stride away from the tank while watching Kaito drift from being crushed into the ceiling and falling. Using what time he could, he caught one of the guard rails on the second floor and swung himself back on panting. "Surprised are we? You thought it was that easy! Still immature! Age trumps your malice!"

"W-what the hell was that? It came so fast… And it came from there?" Kaito mumbled as he collected himself, his eyes darted from Masuda to the large Water Tank and saw that the water had me twirling and tossing in a very odd pattern.

"Where else my boy? You're in my hell now. You knew exactly where to come to find me. You know I ran the lay lines of the drug trade from the Water Processing Plant and didn't think I'd have something to cover my own ass!" The Doctor's laughter finally subsided and his hand that seemed to rest at his side slowly crept its way over his mouth and revealed a black and cobalt rebreather that changed his tone drastically.

"You… That can't be." The doctor didn't bother with his question and simply walked back around the edge of the platform with a smug glare. "Get back here!" Kaito avoided the tank this time and hopped on the railing, running across it, charging with his spear. As Kaito went in for the swipe, his arm was halted by a large impact and a splash. His eyes quickly averting to see that the water had formed a sphere very quickly and slowed down his swing.

"Stay frosty kid!" The Doctor delivered a swift kick to Kaito's chin making him fall off the railing and let go of the handle of his spear. "Oh goodness! You've gone and left your toy." The Doctor pulled the sphere from the protruding mass and examined it. "You know Kaito. I was afraid at first. After sooooo many failures. I wasn't too sure whether or not I could successfully acquire that power. I wasn't sure if I was ready to do to try but you cannot be GREAT in this world without throwing yourself to the wolves. And I did!"

As he turned away from the railing he felt a set of boots collide against the center of his face and send him over the rail and into the tank of water. Kaito brushed the wet hair from his face, panting. "You know that monologuing is going to be your downfall. Gave me enough time to swing around the edge. So that's your secret. Your big project. All those dead bodies so you could work up your own pathetic confidence to get a Stand…"

Approaching the railing, the laughter once again echoed in the room and made Kaito reach for the spear that laid against the railing until it seemed to crumble the second it was picked up.

"You are correct! I was a coward, a fool even! A man who is as intelligent as I shouldn't have worried about such a trivial matter! It was the strong ones that lived. Those that strived for something to live! If there's something a scientist always has is a strong will for possibility and the bottomless animosity to try it all!"

As Masuda's speech suddenly ended an even larger geyser of water burst forth from the tank and there he was once again standing a lot of the water as if he was on the very air itself. His hands that were pressed to his back slowly rose forward and grasped into fists soon after. Kaito's eyes darted around preparing for an attack. The rushing of water was his target as he felt some vibrations travel the metal of the platform.

Kaito flipped backward as to waves of crashing water traveled through the grates in the platforming and collided with one another but he was able to stick his landing between a series of pipers but the water cluster hid the doctor.

"As agile as ever I'd say. But this old dog still has plenty of tricks." The pipes next to Kaito began to rumble and burst into a large rush of water, stumbling him. He caught his footing once again and flicked his open wrist with his gauntlet over it and make a spine shaped whip and hooked onto a higher pipe swinging to it as another rush of water came toward him.

Kaito landed on a higher platform, his boots being wet made it increasingly difficult to keep his landing with a heavy groan. "Is this ability just water control? It can't be that simple…He's so accurate."

The water began climbing up the pipes once again as the rattling got louder and louder, Kaito flipped onto an opposing pipe to get a better angle and wrapped his whip around upper piper and flung himself around the imminent torrent of rushing liquid.

Just barely getting his arm caught by the water, it seemed to rip part of his sleeve off but effortlessly made the evasion and swung himself even harder past the attack, out of the doctor's vision and used the momentum to launch himself back to the Doctor's water platform.

"Run, run as much as you can! No keeping this doctor away- What the-!?" As his mocking IMMEDIATELY turned full circle on himself, Kaito was rushing him full tilt from his swing with his gauntlet clenched tightly into a fist.

"Predators don't run from their prey!" Finally making enough distance and out speeding the immediate reaction of the doctor, Kaito's fist collided with the Doctor's rebreather and sent him flying off his platform while Kaito stuck his landing on the edge of the tank and watched as the Doctor tumbled into the darkness.

"Have you had enough!? Cut the shit and give me the stabilizer to this damn drug!" Kaito hopped off the edge of the tank to approach Masuda only for his arm to be wrapped in a bubble of water, "W-what the hell!? I'm sure I smashed that thing with Five Finger Death Punch..! He shouldn't have recovered that fast…!"

Once again the sinister laughter emerged from the shadows, Kaito's glare was locked on it indefinitely for his conclusion of the situation.

"I'm not one of the Boss' top men for nothing Kaito! Youngsters like you are too fast and loose. You don't think too far ahead. You've killed so much you're so sure of your strength. But you haven't gotten a real taste of reality!" Emerging from the shadow was the doctor with some cracks in his rebreather but it had changed, now it was a full-on helmet with a sort of scuba diver design to it but had a small crown on the head and frills around the cheeks.

"Did his Stand expand…? Does that mean- GAAAAAHHH!" Kaito dropped his spear in sheer pain as he felt a stream of water from behind him pierce his arm and cause the skin on the surface of his arm to rustle and shift until he ripped his arm away and his arm poured blood.

"Feeling the symptoms of your own ignorance!? I'm teaching you a lesson here Kaito! The same lesson we were forced to teach your father!" The Doctor walked closer as Kaito was watching his wound but his gaze slowly crept back to the Doctor at the comment.

"Don't you speak of him… Don't you dare mock him like you knew the sort of man he was when he was alive. I'll kill you. I'll make sure your corpse rot in this building when I tear it to the ground." A malicious hiss poured from Kaito's throat as he was advanced on and his attention leaving the very existence of his wound.

"And what if I do? You'll try and finish me? Your father was too soft for our line of work and that made him so much easier to tear down. You'll fall just the same." The Doctor commented as he brushed some off the dust from his lab coat.

"DIE YOU FILTH!" Kaito raised his gauntlet once again and rushed the Doctor with a powerful straight punch but it was blocked by a swift moment from the Doctor but to Kaito's surprise, his arm was coated in deep cobalt colored armor.

"Fool me twice, right?" Masuda cocked his arm back and sent a strong punch back to Kaito's face making him stumble backward and groan in pain. Kaito's vision corrected itself as he saw Masuda approaching him after stopping one of his punches to see that his entire body was being engulfed a black and cobalt diver suit with patches of armor. "Do you see it now? The marvels of scientific prosperity! My Stand Muddy Waters!"

Kaito managed to finally grasp why his blows weren't connecting to effectiveness and got into another position of attack while inching his foot over to kick his spear to his hand.

"Not so fast!" The water beneath the spear wrapped around it and snapped it in half. Right after, Masuda placed his hand against the tank of water and caused it to rumble. Kaito wasn't a fool and used what time he had to escape with a jump up to try and whip onto the second floor again but his leg was caught by a stream of water and Kaito was spun around the water several times until he was launched through a pipe that filled the room with steam.

"Enjoy your ride Kaito? That one was on the house. Or should I say on your back?" He slapped his knee in laughter to get it out of his system. Masuda slowly approached the steam while he'd decided to mock Kaito, "Alright. Last chance to die with dignity. Unlike someone else we know- Huh kid? What…?"

Masuda took a step back and felt a rush of blood fall down his shoulder as he turned to see it, somewhat twitching in rage and surprise. Kaito panted heavily behind the cloud of steam with a bright glow from the tip of his gauntlet's finger. "I'm not done yet. You're being naive. Underestimating a cornered beast will result in your hand getting bitten."

"Grrrr! It seems like you've still got some fight in you. I expecting nothing less from a man with your reputation. But you still need to worry about the true power behind my Stand!" Masuda rose his arms up with a groan as several large globs of water rushed across the air to pursue Kaito once again.

Using his entire being to brush off the stagger and run into the large section of pipers once again, the water globs were bigger and slower than the previous attacks but hit like a truck with each impact against the large pipes. Kaito ducked and rolled to the best of his ability. Holding his ribs with his damaged arm and watching the angle the Doctor was composing from.

Taking the change that one of the globs seemed to have disappeared into the steam, Kaito hit the ground on his side and held his gauntlet out like he was pointing a finger gun and shot Masuda once again, this time grazing his leg.

Masuda stumbled over and commanded several more globs to rush Kaito as he began to parkour his way through the bars and pipes using the steam as his cloak in the night. "Run little rat! Run and run and run!"

Kaito didn't say a word in retort. This was his natural state, in the hunt and wearing his target down little by little with whatever resource he could muster. Each dip and dive was calculated in Kaito's mind and his attacks were precise. The beams tapped Masuda in the edges of his body to weaken his foundation for the kill.

Masuda's body was leaking blood and soon twitching more in anger as he couldn't calculate Kaito's guerilla tactics. "ENOUGH OF THIS GAME! I SAY WE TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL!"

A large dome of water formed around Masuda and his once again started to lift off the ground but the shifting patterns of the water seemed much more unpredictable and the larger masses of water had stopped chasing Kaito.

Noticing this change in attack pattern, He'd naturally had to test the waters on this change and plan accordingly. Pointing his finger once again and charging his beam to fire at the Doctor. The laser curved around it to hit him in the spine but once it hit the dome of water it seemed to fizzle into the torrent.

"Ah! You've given my children a good taste of you Kaito. Analyzing further data gathered past the flesh sample. Complete. Breaking down the compounds of the energy and tracing source. Complete. Setting new specimens to attack. Engage!" From the water dome, three jets of water burst from the sides as Kaito dodge two of them barely but the first hit his wrist making a hole in it.

'What is this Stand!? What were those words he was mumbling? I don't understand any of this.' So far two spits in that arm suffered attacks but this didn't phase Kaito. He was used to damage. Standing up once again, Kaito felt the edge of his lip bleeding as his mask was knocked off, "You've got a solid defense but I can put out a lot more power."

Kaito took a kneel and clenched his fist, pressing onto his damaged muscles and launching himself toward the dome that the Doctor had concealed himself in as his entire fist was now shining a bright blue. "Way of the Fist!" As soon as he sent his arm forward Kaito's eyes perked in utter shock as the blast didn't go off.

Instead of a loud explosion erupting against the dome, Kaito's wrist had bulged open and spout blood, breaking his focus and break apart the energy then suddenly get smacked to the ground by another lash of water until he tumbled onto his knees and hold the arm in pain. Kaito watched as something seemed to rumble underneath his skin again as more cuts sprout across his arm.

"Now you are about to discover the true identity of Muddy Waters. Did you know that around 10s of thousands of Microorganisms can live in pond water? That's with the intrusion of nature of course. But we don't want to nitpick at variables. Just the thought is somewhat shivering to most. But not to us men of science. It's an opportunity to study up on life. But now, I get to create life. With my very own plans for them. Your arm for instance. You were injected three times with highly experimental microorganisms that are attacking your arm." Masuda had removed his rebreather and spoke in such a direct yet sickeningly twisted tone almost as if it gave him some physical thrill!

Kaito shuttered at the jerking and throbbing of his arm. His mind was very slowly putting the pieces together through the pain as his neck creaked over, "S-so you're telling me… You can inject them into me so easily…? Is that what you did… to Edward…?"

"Now you've got your wheels turning old boy! I can use the data that I've collected in my head and have them feed off that knowledge and multiple! Those drugs I set this trap with were filled with my microorganisms that are attacking away at the inside of your friend's body as we speak. Soon you'll join him! That particular strand within your arm is feeding off the source of that blast and soon will hunger for more and consume your body!"

Kaito took the words in with a panting hesitation and took a moment to collect himself. "So you think you've back me into a corner… Huh? You even turn your back to a predator…" His head lifting with several strands of hair coating his rage-filled eyes. "Do. Not. Underestimate. THE ITSUKI NAME!"

Masuda was prepared to make an exit and let Kaito drift into an excruciatingly painful death. There was an abrupt silence after Kaito's speech and right after that, a very muffled, angry scream could be heard coming his opponent. Turning around enough to examine the noise, Masuda's eyes lit up in disbelief. "You're a madman…"

Kaito was standing there with his scarf balled into his mouth to bite into, his left arm shaking like a child caught in a blizzard while holding a very specifically made serrated hook utterly soaked in blood along with his hand. All while on the other side of his body was a bloody, pouring stump where his arm used to be while the other was devoured on the ground.

"I walked into the world of crime, prepared to die. I took many lives, prepared to die. I become a tool for the boss, prepared to die." His gauntlet had formed a very bright glow on his left arm, spreading out his fingers and placing them against his chest in specific places. "I befriended Edward, prepared to die for him. I betrayed the organization, prepared to die for justice."

Masuda seemed to break into a nervous cold sweat, barely able to speak as he watched the glowing fingers of Five Finger Death Punch sink into Kaito's chest, "W-what the… What are you planning to do boy…?"

Kaito's head was still covered in the thin strands of his hair as his body was slouched over and shivering heavily. The bleeding in his stump stopped for a moment, only for a few large spurts to come out and large sums of his usual white sludge fell to the ground, coated in the glowing aura.

"I made my friends, prepared to die to make our dream a reality! AND I'LL DO ANYTHING TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN!" His body seemed to be engulfed in the bright blue glow for some time until it traveled to Kaito's face. The extremely large sum of white sludge on the ground slowly separated into three large clusters and levitate. Soon after they all seemed to be forming differing shapes. Kaito took off his scarf and slammed his foot on one of the long ends while he bit into the other and wrapped his stump the best he could to slow the bleeding. One the knot was done, Kaito's hair brushed away to reveal that his left iris was pouring that aura, almost as if a ghastly flame in the night.

The three clumps finally formed into three separate masses with the same ghastly trail coming from the back of them. They were all very large, around the size of jet skis, Oni Masks that were in the shapes of different wolves with the same glowing eye as Kaito. Kaito spun a spear in hand as he climbed atop of one of the masks and pointed the spear at Masuda with his piercing aura filled eye, "This is my last and final trump card. D.B.D - Death Before Dishonor… Hell awaits you, Masuda. And I Judge and Executioner..."