Anna ran from the place as quickly as she could. She wanted to get away from that man, which was so familiar that her heart bumped to lungs. Suddenly Anna stopped. She heard her earphone ring. She clicked it on.

"Yeah"

"Miss Anna, Lyserg and Caleb's teams are fitting in the upper sewers. The resistance is heavy"

"Send them reinforcements and send me a map to find them"

"Already done, miss. Joe and twenty Death Dealers are moving in the sewer already" Anna smiled weakly. That's what she liked about this guy: cooperative and thinking forward"

"Good. I'm out" Anna switched off the earphone and took a mini-computer from a small bag, behind her back. She opened it and looked at the map, that showed up in the screen immediately. The spot, where the rest of the team was, wasn't too far away, but far enough for a quick reach. Anna noticed something on the floor – a bar – shaped silhouette shone on it. The woman looked up and saw a bar-like hatch above. She put the computer back to the bag, took out the hatch and lifted herself to it.

Lyserg and Caleb's fought with a great courage, but werewolves were stronger. No kidding when it's fifteen against six. One of the werewolf cornered Lyserg and aimed to his throat, but the creature suddenly was kicked away with great force. The body flew through the space and hit the stone wall with head. It quickly turned to human and died instantly. Lyserg looked in front of him and smiled.

"Nice of you to join in" he said to the blonde woman, who was dragging out katana "what took you so long?"

"Long story. Let's go, reinforcements are nearly here" and so they fought, the fight wasn't equal, but since Anna came in the party, everything's changed: already she killed five werewolves and wasn't about to stop. She just wanted to thrust her sword in one wolf's back, but something hit her hard. Only her perfect sense of balance saved her from hitting the wall. Anna looked to the thing that hit her.

"Yoh Asakura" she hissed. The werewolf was similar to Hao's wolf form, but this one had only one difference – his eyes was violet and clever as well. The wolf stood in front of her, his eyes showing that he's recognized her. Another one joined him. This was nearly a family reunion. Anna began circling the two, her eyes changing into dangerous cat-like form. This kind of change meant that she was angry and ready to kill everybody in her way. Although she was flaming outside, inside she was as calm as ice. As she circled the brothers, she twisted her swords in hands, making them shine in a moonlight. Everybody surrounded them, waiting for a fight. Yoh's patience reached end and he jumped towards Anna, so did Hao, but Anna disappeared in eyes and appeared behind them. She slashed the swords through each back and kicked them, making the fly across the room. Anna landed safely and smirked to the:

"Is this all you can do?" Hao growled to her, but Anna only showed her fangs, with the silent hiss. Hao charged again, but Anna only jumped up, flipped over and by doing that, she slashed through his skin again. Suddenly, Anna felt that something grabbed her hair. She turned around, with the pain of course, but she managed to hit the arm that grabbed her. Anna once again landed safely. She noticed that reinforcements arrived. They started a fight once again, putting an end to the other one. Hao looked at Anna with furry. Anna only smirked to him.

"This isn't over yet" she shouted and retreated, since her warriors were already done with the fighting.

"What about those two?" one man asked to Anna. The woman only looked to two werewolves disappearing in a sewer hatch.

"Leave them. They will come by themselves and we'll be waiting for them" she turned around and walked out of the sewer to the fresh night air.

Five kilometers from city, where hills started, two men, looking like exact clones of each other, walked through the woods. Their destination was a big old cave at the bottom of the mountains.

"I can't believe we couldn't defeat her. That was so embarrassing" the man with short chocolate-brown hair said. Yoh's face was as if the world has come to an end.

"Yeah, it sure was. But, hey, at least we found an enemy actually worth fighting" the other man with same, but long hair commented. Hao was too busy thinking to be in a bad mood.

"What are you so happy about?"

"Well…I kinda liked that blonde vampire. She's not like the rest" Yoh chuckled.

"So? Don't tell me you have your eye on her. Remember what happened when you had a romance with that cute white-haired vampire. What was her name again?"

"Jeanne. Yeah, yeah I remember, father got so furious that I had to hide my face for a weak from him not breaking it. He always thinks about vampires as lower forms of nature, but I always disagree"

"And you always get into a love affair. Yeah, that's the rebel heart. Oh well, if you try to hit on her, then at least come back with whole head. Hao eyed him.

"Thanks, little bro, you always are very helpful" like that they reached the cave. It was an ordinary cave from first sight, but as you go deeper, you find a breath taking halls, full of stalactites. Under them was a shining ground, clearly made by men. Usually, these kind of halls were full of computers, weapons, 3D hologram tables, widescreen TV's and other technological stuff. Yoh and Hao walked in and rushed to the medical hall, which was right up to the right hall from the main. Others were living quarters and head offices. Both brothers had cuts on their backs, Hao even had three and Yoh additionally had a huge wound on arm. The doctor, a beauty with pink hair patched them up. She wasn't only a doctor, but a good friend of both guys. Tamao, was her name and she was a witch, who knew everything about herbs and healing.

"So, who made you both look so beautiful" Yoh slightly blushed.

"Don't ask, Tammy, that's a top secret" Tamao smiled to him.

"I can always tell when you're lying, because you never knew how to do it properly" Hao chuckled "It was that Anna Kyouyama, wasn't it? She knows how to hurt into places where you cannot protect" Hao popped his eyes to her.

"You know about her?"

"Who doesn't? All city's absolutely puzzling boiling from amount of rumor about her. She's the strongest, even stronger that Vincent. Or at least they say so" Hao smiled.

"That makes things even more interesting. Ok, I'll be going now. Father wanted to see me" he stopped before going to the door "oh and thanks Tammy" he kissed her cheek and ran fast. Tamao blushed.

Anna opened the door of a kitchen. It was only lit up by a halogen light from a bar. Anna sighed in relief that no one was here. She opened the fridge that was full of blood packs. Vampires owned at least five companies which stocked blood, so they never had trouble with eating, or drinking, whatever you call it. Most of vampires stopped hunting people, since the beginning of XX century. Only the one's that lived a street life or had old attitude still hunts humans. Anyway, Anna filed a large glass and drank it in one sip. Instantly, she felt how strength's coming back to her body, how scratches are disappearing, how cut hair are growing back to their normal length. That was the good side of immortality: you can stay beautiful always. Anna filed herself another cup and sat by the bar. She then took a cigarette from drawer next to her and drew on it. Normally she doesn't smoke, only when it comes to the times, when she had to think about hard questions, that's bothering her. This was the one and it's name was Hao Asakura. Anna tried to replay the conversation with him, but all she saw has his face and muscular body and a feeling of that she saw him before never left her since that meeting. Anna didn't notice how door opened silently. A tall man, dressed up in the same overall as Anna walked in. He was handsome, with brown slanting cattish eyes, black hair, which ended up in blonde. He had a strong muscular body, his muscles were visible even through thick leather. The man approached Anna.

"The last time I saw you smoke was when we had to plan a strategy of lurking attack of a huge pack of werewolves. What's this time?" Anna looked at him and smiled with a tired smile.

"You know what, Jake? You know me better than anyone else and I'm starting to dislike that. But as for you, I think I can share a bits of my mind" Anna said it with a friendly voice. Tracking back five centuries ago, Anna dated Jake. She dated many guys then, she was more party-person then. But even then she didn't smile a lot. Since she became the leader of Death Dealers four centuries ago, she stopped dating and stopped smiling sincerely. Now all she gave out was a smirks or sarcastic smiled. An exception was Jake; he made her smile warmer. Jake sat in front of her and put his hands on a bar, folded his fingers.

"I'm listening"

"Tell me, what you know about Hao Asakura and his family" Jake blew out a long sigh, showing the ends of his white fangs.

"All I know is that Asakuras are the oldest family in werewolf clan. They made marriages with human women or all type of witches, which gave births for new, pure blooded werewolves. The Asakuras are strong and proud of their families name and Yoh and Hao Asakuras are known as the strongest of all time werewolves"

"Who was their mother?"

"She was a human, but very…different from all others. She was very beautiful and clever, plus she could heal people by herb medicine. I saw her once. But the rumor says that she gave birth only to one boy as a werewolf. Other was bitten and turned to it, when he was born, but no one knows if this is true" Anna nodded.

"Ok, the family's history is impressive, but I never saw Yoh and Hao fighting together until this night. Why?"

"Hao was fighting in other fronts for many centuries. The twins were departed for a long time"

"That makes sense. Anyway, they aren't so tough. I've made a lot of damage to them" Jake laughed.

"Well, nobody ever told that they are stronger than you. Is that what was bothering you?" Anna smirked to him.

"No, but I said I'll only share a bits of my mind, not all of it" Jake shook his head, smiling.

"Ok. I'm much to frighten to argue with you, Anna. Anyway, you're going tomorrow?" Anna looked at him with confusion.

"Going where?"

"The party? Annual gathering of cavern's leaders? Any ringing of a bell?" Anna leaned back in her chair, covering her face in hands.

"Jeez, I completely forgot. Should I go there? I don't really want to" Anna always hated such things of long dresses, mini umbrellas in a cocktail glass and pointless talking about nothing.

"You have to, you know that. They're going to count you as disrespectful leader, not that they pay much respect to us" Jake scoffed to it. He wasn't this kind of party person.

"Yeah. Fine. I'll go" Anna looked sad, not only about party, but because tiredness was coming all over her body. All she wanted was to get to the bed.

"I have a proposal. Let's go together. It won't be so hard when you're with me" Jake smiled mischievously. Anna smirked back.

"Jake O'Conner, are you asking me out?"

"No. I wouldn't dare. Just you know…as old times when we made fun of other 'aristocratic' dumps" Anna laughed sincerely. Only Jake made her laugh like this, these days.

"Ok. I'll see you tomorrow" Anna stood up, putting her already bunt out cigarette in ashtray.

"I'll pick you up, ok?"

"Fine. Bye" Anna walked out of the kitchen, then out of the mansion, to the garage and drove home on her motorbike. As she reached her house, which was an ordinary Japanese style, sun was beginning to rise from east. Anna looked through the window, to the last stars on a sky. A thought about Hao Asakura crept into her head. She shook the thoughts away. No need for him, no need…I don't remember you…