Chapter 10

Elieria and Alexis came later that night.

They knew now, why we were doing this and they wanted to help. Though I have never liked Alexis, even I could put aside a grudge for the help they were offering.

Elieria and Alexis have always depended on each other for kills. They fight together and that's how they always have. They were best friends even though they were so different.

Even a blind man could respect them as they connected to each other. They understood quickly what we had planed out. They were in in a matter of seconds. The Saint had to be stopped and this was our last stand.

Adven, Troy, and Samarine would be with us or they would be dead. As much as it hurt all of us to say it, they had to be taken down or have them with us first. They couldn't get in the way.

Yuriko called last night. That old hag was dead, finally. But I told her to stay there as long as she could. It was for her own safety. She agreed even though she said she'd be worried about me. Yuriko was the closes thing to a mother I had had all my life. Now I had to let her go. That kinda hurt, in a stupid way.

I hung up that phone with no intention to talk to Yuriko again.

I couldn't asleep again and staying in the house just wasn't going to do it for me tonight. So I got dressed in the old outfit that we used to have to wear for kills and decided to walk around the city all night.

As I walk along the water side I stop though. It was a sad day when you would see a single Shinobi standing by the water he was cursed to pollute.

Nails had already come to terms with her infatuation. And even though I could smell it from him, I doubted he had. I walk down the path toward him and he turns to look at me as I get closer. He looks at the get-up and smirks. "Don't tell me, circus?" I glare at him and laugh a little.

"Come on," I say, "Even you should know by no that we're Saints. What more would you expect?" He shrugs and throws another rock into the water. I skips twice and falls under.

"So what's the occasion?" I smirk sadly.

"A funeral. It's not for a while but… well I think you understand." He nods and I couldn't help but think that he was going to be surprised to find out that I wasn't joking and that the funeral was the Saint. He drops the last two rock and looks out at the ocean. "If it weren't for Nails, I would think you're pretty weird." He smirks.

"What do you mean?"

"Just, demons like you. They're all so lied back." He nods.

"Most. Not all, definitely not all." He looks back at me again and smirks. "You're not exactly what I expected from a Saint."

"You're… actually you are what I expected for a Shinobi, but Jin personifies it better." He nods.

"You're not the first person to say that. He does give us a childish appearance."

"Maybe it's just all of their type, Gwen does too." He nods. He walks back to the shore a little and sits down on a rock that was sticking out of the ground. I sit down on the dry sand the tight emerald dress, well tight on my sides. He looks at me and then back at the ocean.

"What make you tick," he mumbles and I look at him.

"People who try to figure me out, without a clue as to why they do it." He looks at me and smirks again. "You?" He shakes his head.

"Things I can't have."

"Hope you aren't talking about me?" He shakes his head.

"No offense."

"None taken." I look at the water and suddenly I have to pee. I laugh a little at the thought and shake my head. "So what were you talking about?" He shakes his head.

"Doesn't matter, can't have it. Now use to think about it."

"It… or her?" He looks at me skeptically.

"You been in my head?" I shake my head slowly. He nods, "Then how'd you know?" I put my index finger to my nose.

"You reek." He laughs a little. "But if it's any consolation, I don't know who you reek for." He shakes his head.

"Actually you probably do." I smile.

"So it is true what they say? That we are muses to our own likeness." He smirks.

"Sure as hell feels like it." I smile. He looks at me a little cross.

"Hurt her and l will kill you." I stand up. "But then again, you have to find a way to hurt her after that sun comes up." He looks at me more confused now. "We're leaving." He looks at the ground. "It has nothing to do with any of you so don't even bother to blame each other." He nods.

"Are you coming back?" I shakes my head.

"After we're done, the Saints probably won't exist. Not for Nails at least. It's their choice." I start back toward the city with a smile on my face. this was the way I wanted it. This was the way the Saints had to have it as we fell back to the darkness from which we came to walk back out free, or not at all.

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We're gone by the time the sun rises.

We never looked back and though a few of us felt it, we would never see these streets the same again.

This was our time to shine.

We walk back through that same portal that we had so many times now. All of our black hair, though shaped different and different built they were all the same. We were made that way.

Nails' bright blue eyes follow me in the darkness, Gwen's cat's eyes yellow following her. Elieria's black eyes and Alexis' white eyes behind them. Ami comes last watching our backs, her lime green eyes yelling out a warning. I walk in the front, My own Emerald green eyes yelling their own language to stop every thing that was alive in front of me in it's cold, dead track.