By Mihoko (Miho)
Full Summary: All around Tokyo, Japan strange things are happening. A known serial killer is discovered with a star throwing dagger logged in his throat, a suspected rapist and a wanted thief and murderer are located pinned to the trees and such with stars. Who is the mysterious figure who hides in the shadows hunting these fugitives and why? What connection does the justice fighter have to Kaoru's past? And who is the strange new relative that appears at the dojo? Kenshin and Kaoru and the rest of the gang must uncover these secrets before it is too late to save others lives as well as their own…
Prologue: Murders of Nightfall…
***Ten years prior***
It was night as the warriors of the revolution slashed past the guards at the post. The Hitokiri Battosai barely even noticed the people he slashed down as he cut a path of the enemies away from his master. Glaring harshly at the man before him he nodded. That's when a gleaming something caught his eye. He gave out a huff and caught the hand of a tiny boy racing toward his master. With a twist of his wrist the child's arm was broken. "There must be no witnesses…" The master stated in a slurred tone. With a swift movement of the sword, the tiny boy was no more. Seeing all of this was a small duo, a mother and her tiny child, far above in the shafts of the attic. The threesome held tightly to each other, praying and slowly feeling the intensity of the war. The child, no older than 5 held tightly to the mother. Eyes watching the scene in misery as the other boy, the one protecting the two was slain. As he fell, so did the smaller child, fainting into the warm comforting arms of a mother. A mother who would later die protecting that child, a soft older woman whose tears of pain flashed violently and whose eyes glowed with a passionate emerald…
***Now (Kenshin's present time basically 2 months after Enishi) ***
In the middle of the night, not a single light was on, with the exception of the stars. The only sounds that could be heard, were those of the night's creatures and of strong hard feet. A pair of torn and almost destroyed feel ran up the stairs of a Buddhist temple. They belonged to an almost destroyed looking man whose face and body was covered with scars and scratches. His sweat pulsed off of his face and neck like a wild caress. Under his low breath, his words were stuttered by the steam of the hot summer night. "No…Please I beg you…" He turned seeing a figure shrouded in darkness climb the steps of the hollow and quiet temple. "Mercy…" He fell upon his solid rear end, hitting against the dirt nervously. The figure lifted up a simple dagger, which gleamed against the stars sheltering aura and bounced moonbeams against it. "Where was the mercy in those poor girls souls? Where was it?" A cool voice asked. The man's eyes widened as he screamed at the top of his lung. Somewhere in the distance, a still awake hawk flew into the midnight sky….
TBC….
Next time on Sinner's Fate:
Darkness has swept over Tokyo in the form of a terrible shadow hunter. The manslayers join forces to hunt the hunter, but what happens when one of their own, Seta Soujiro becomes a target? Find out in the next chapter of Sinner's Fate: Bodies Discovered by Dawn…