A/N: Okay, I'm forewarning you now. SHORT CHAPTERS AHEAD! I'll try to remember to update quicker, but I'm in my "reclusive Internet geek" stage of life (again) so I'll be spending a lot more time on fanfiction and the like. Oh, and thanks, my reviewers for your wonderful reviews of wonderfulness. n.n Hearts and flowers all around! XD Please make a lonesome author happy with more reviews. :D
2. Sanyo's Escape and an Unpleasant Surprise
Sanyo was a professional bandit and assassin of the group of demon thieves called the "Black Thunder". A week prior to today, he had left the demon realm to kill their greatest enemy – The Best Thief in Makai.
However, before he had gone to do his dirty deed, he had gotten arrested and put into a dinky human prison in Massachusetts called Dobinz. Once he had gotten through to the human world, Ningenkai, he had viciously slaughtered an innocent young man who called him "ugly". Apparently, that was against the law in the U.S., so as a consequence, he got sent to prison…
Within the evening of his incarceration, he had escaped. Easily. It was no big deal for a demon as powerful as he was. It was just a simple matter of blasting the wall of his cell apart and killing all of the outdoor guards…
As he ran behind the bushes in upper-class Tokyo (it had taken him all of minutes to reach Japan from the United States), he was thinking of the task at hand. Kill our enemy… kill the best thief in Makai… He jumped behind a bush in a small little neighborhood and looked across the street. There it was – his target. The big, white mansion with two floors and a basement, a flower bed in the front yard, and an even bigger garden in the back. A nicely-mowed lawn, clean sidewalk, large trees, shingled roof, two-car garage… That's the one, all right… It's time to put my plan in action…
Kurama sat down in the nurse's lounge, writing up a report for the other nurses coming in for the next shift. His pen flowed across the paper, making neat letters and symbols. He checked his watch. I have to hurry up… he thought. Keiko's going to be mad if I come home late again.. He capped his pen and put it in the mahogany pencilbox in front of him. He left the report on the table and removed his thin, silver-framed reading glasses, sticking them in his coat pocket. He grabbed his bag and said good-bye to the other nurses in the room.
He set his bag into his new, silver Audi and got into the driver's seat. Turning the key in the ignition, he started up the vehicle and set off for home.
Kurama parked his car in the garage and walked up the steps leading to the entryway. He unlocked the door and swung it open, ready to apologize to his wife for being late.
Keiko was already waiting for him. But she was not waiting willingly… Her neck was tied with a thick rope, and the rope was tied around one of the blades on the ceiling fan. Her face was deathly pale, and her eyes were blank, staring into nothing. A trickle of blood ran from the corner of her mouth to her chin, and there were cuts and scratches on her face, as well as a stab wound in her chest, where blood was coagulating sickeningly. Her casual home outfit was stained with blood and torn in a few places. There was large, bloody gash on both of her arms, which hung limply at her sides. Her legs, for the most part, had been unharmed, but blood from between her fingertips leaked through and ran down their pale, bare skin. There was a dark puddle of blood beneath her feet, staining the pristine beige carpet. Keiko was dead.
Kurama dropped his bag and gasped. Keiko… He couldn't speak. He felt paralyzed, and the only thing he could do was stare at the bloody, lifeless corpse of his deceased lover, Keiko. He began to feel lightheaded and nauseous, and the last thing he remembered was falling to the floor in a dead faint.
A/N: Dun dun dun, zomgwad. Keiko's dead. Review, please; sorry 'bout the shortness!
NEXT TIME – "RANSOM"!
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