"Yet who would have thought

The old man to have had

So much blood in him?"

Alexandria paced through the living room and into the dining room only to end up in the living room once more. In her hands was a folded stack of papers. Her knuckles were white as she gripped them. She couldn't believe that he had been so sloppy. He had attacked where all the Ministry Officials were, and not only that, but he had killed over eight of them. She turned around throwing the stack of papers as hard as she could. They hit a small vase that was sitting on the dining room table causing it to crash to the floor shattering into millions of pieces all over the place.

The door slammed open.

In came Takamaru, drenched from the rain that had been pouring itself from the heavens as the Angels cried out for the man that had just been forced to join them in eternity. He kicked the door shut. His hair was matted to his face from the rain, he appeared to be more gaunt than normal. There was something about him, something that just didn't seem right.

Alexandria walked over towards him and he turned the opposite way. She pulled her wand out and it set off a bang that resonated through the entire house. Takamaru landed atop the dining room table causing it to crash to the floor under his weight and the force of the fall. His head fell backwards as he let the pain course through his frail form. He could feel tiny glass shards burrowing deep into his skin.

"What were you thinking?" asked Alexandria, her wand at her side pointing at the ground, "You attacked with all the Ministry there--WITH THE HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT OF MAGICAL LAW ENFORCEMENT!" her voice was shrill as her screams filled the house. Takamaru swallowed and looked up at her, propping himself up with his elbows. He licked his lips.

"Have you even read the paper Taka?" she held her wand up and the stack of papers spread around the dining room floated back into a neat stack and landed on his lap. The front page had giant bold letters saying, "The Daily Prophet." He looked further down on the page where in letters--close to the size of the ones exclaiming the name of the paper--formed the sentence, "Marriage and Murder!" He sighed.

It seems that in Japan a lovely couple by the names of Angel O'Conner and Jade D'Amore were to be married. However; a tragedy has occurred. It appears that there was someone that did not want the couple to be married as he waited until the objections were to take place before he unleashed powerful magic that hasn't been seen since the days of You-Know-Who. The Ministry of Magic has yet to confirm the exact magic that was used to disrupt the place, but it is said by several witnesses that it was a silver haired man that conjured the magic. Not many were around to see the aftermath, but for those that did it was exclaimed to be horrible. The death count has reached nine so far, and two more people are currently missing. All we can truly say is that apparently the Dark Ages are coming back and everyone must be prepared to defend themselves. Beware this silver haired man who walks like the shadows he is known to be a murderer and shows no remorse. We talked to the bride and all we could get out of her was, "The man that did this is a monster. If the Ministry doesn't catch him I will and I will make sure that he pays for his crime!" Whether she will be allowed to do so is an entirely different story. Shortly after having said that the Head of the Department of Magical Law Enforcement, Tabitha Michelle, escorted her off of the premises. Until further notice we caution everyone to be on the look out.

Taka's eyes scanned the paper once more, taking in every little detail. They didn't know his name, nor did Jade give it. He knew exactly why she hadn't. She was going to attempt to take him out herself, something that he knew would never happen. She had never been able to out-do him in a duel, few people could. He looked up at Lexie who was standing there, her eyes bulging with anger. He started to stand up but was stopped by what seemed a wall of air.

"Listen to me Takamaru," Lexie's wand was pointed directly at him, "I do not give a damn about the friendship that has somewhat existed between us. If you ever put my job on the line like this again, I will put your ass in Azkaban myself," she swallowed, "Now get up. We have something else that we need to talk about. "

She walked over to the sofa that was in the living room. She sat down, crossing her legs. Her wand had already been stowed away in her robes. She absentmindedly brushed a piece of her hair out of her face looking up at Taka--he was just now getting into the living room blood stains covering parts of his robes.

"Tabitha knows it was you. She saw you the second you stood up to cast…what was it exactly that you did cast?" her eyes narrowed towards him as her brows got closer together. Takamaru smiled. She knew that he wasn't going to tell her, at least not yet. She rolled her eyes, "She knows its you, though. Which means that we are both in trouble. She knows that we have a habit of seeing each other, how, my guess is that she is having me tailed after some of the other…accidents…from the other known Death Eaters."

"This means that we are going to have to have fewer visits and the few that we do have will not be very long. Also, no more going out into public with your hair. I suggest that you change the colors. There are maybe four people in the world with natural silver hair," she swallowed, he was looking at her but at the same time he looked as though he was looking at something else, "One more thing; your cousin was at the Ministry the other day."

This got his attention. Tak's head snapped up almost immediately, "He is supposed to be dead. I was told he died!" he let out a groan of annoyance. Shortly after their seventh year in school Takamaru set out to remove everyone in his family. That started off with Voldemort, then his sisters, Acacia, Armanya, Samantha, Madison, and River. His cousin Morfin Guant had been killed a year before so he had nothing to worry about from him. But the one person that he couldn't' find himself was his other cousin…Kouji Miyazaki. Kouji was an interesting person. He was a master at the Charms and Transfiguration aspects of magic.

The man could do things that every other wizard, even Voldemort, would consider unnatural. Things that made Taka's skin crawl. Kouji was borderline schizophrenic. He had two personalities, something that most people would consider dangerous, something Taka considered powerful. One side of Kouji was that he enjoyed to heal people. But Kouji was all about balance, so his alter side did the opposite; hurt people. Kouji did things to people that Taka could never thought a Hufflepuff could do. Takamaru had once walked in on the boy removing the skin of a child that had been homeless. Ever since then Takamaru viewed the boy as nothing but a threat to Takamaru's caused. It showed Taka the evil that this person could commit, and so he feared that Kouji would turn into a Death Eater and follow into the steps of Voldemort.

"Dead or not, he was standing in front of the Minister of Magic talking away. Look, I don't need you going all crazed and killing off people again. At least let yesterdays effect wear off before you start going all crusade happy like you normally do," she sighed. It was disturbing news to her as well that Kouji was indeed alive, and worse that he was talking to the Minister about something. The current Minister of Magic was Deacon Crouch. His brother, Daniel Crouch, was the Deputy Minister. The Crouches were very good for the Wizarding community, and they ran the Ministry extremely well, so most thought. However, they were not on good terms with Takamaru simply due to the fact that Takamaru had killed Deacon Crouches fiancée, Samantha Riddle.

"This isn't good," mumbled Takamaru, not that he really had need to. He knew that Lexie was probably thinking the exact same thing. Takamaru pulled his wand from his pocket and pointed it at the small coffee table in the center of the room. A glass tray appeared along with two glass gauntlets and a bottle of the finest wine France had to offer. The bottle poured both glasses then set itself down on the tray. Takamaru picked up his glass--Lexie ignored hers.

"I am sorry Lexie, but I am going after Kouji. I will make sure that he is dead this time," even if that meant he died in the process, "All I need you to do is keep the Ministry off my back until I am done. If you can do that, we will be fine."

"No."

Alexandria stood up looking him dead in the eyes, "I am not going to sit here risking everything I have so that you can go off and kill your cousin. Its not going to happen. Here you are trying to kill the Death Eaters, but for what? Because they are evil couldn't possibly be the reason. I mean, for heavens sakes, to kill someone you have to be evil. Tabitha knows that its you! She knows that I am involved! I am staying out of it."

Takamaru's eyes narrowed as he slowly stood. Lexie's hand rested in her pocket on her wand just in case she had to use it. He smiled, "Get me inside the Ministry. Let me find out what's going on. I can take care of Tabitha if nee--"

"NO!" her voice cracked as she screamed.

"You do understand Takamaru! The Crouches have ordered every Auror to bring you in. You are wanted! If they see you its over! You are going to be killed on the spot or sent to Azkaban. I am risking my job just standing her talking to you, I am out." she turned, holding her wand steady in her pocket in case he tried anything. She shut the door behind her as she walked out, she paid no more attention the crashing of glass and furniture that was in the house as Taka let out his rage.

"Lex, Lex, Lex…"

Alexandria whipped around her wand coming out. By the time she could focus her wand was forced out of her hand by magic. She started to scream but her voice was cut off.

"If Takamaru is going to take away the love of my life, then I will kill everyone that means the slightest thing to him. Guess what, Lex darlin'," Jade emerged from the shadows, "You're going to be first."

Alexandria's eyes bulged as pain shot through her body. She felt her body lying on the ground and the world turned to nothing but solid black as she seeped out of consciousness.

"This is going to be fun."