"This is what happens when an unstoppable

force meets an immovable object"

Takamaru stood staring in the mirror. His eyes were darker than they had ever been, he cared for no one anymore. Everything he had ever tried to build in his life had come crashing down. She had been right when she said that he chased everyone he cared about away, and he was going to get them back whether it was in the way they wanted, or not. He splashed water on his face and two lines appeared. They were in a downwards arc starting at the edges of his mouth. They were barely visible as he had healed mostly, but they made it seem as if he was forever frowning. He licked his teeth as he traced the lines made by his father. The one that cut across his eye started to appear as well. He ran his fingers across his torso where he could feel the parts of the scars sticking above the normal skin from where he was constantly stabbed by his own father.

He smiled, turning away from the mirror. Walking through the hallway he came into the kitchen where two Auror's stood guarding the only way out of the house. They looked at his newly visible features. His head tilted and he smacked his lips together. His hand came forth towards the counter before either of them could react. It snatched one of the knives off the counter and he twisted around, the blade was facing the length of his arm, and the blade smashed directly into the right eye of the auror closest to him. The second auror pulled his wand free, but Taka was faster. He pulled the wand from the mans hand and backed away, the man looking defenseless. He jammed it into the table and looked back up at the man.

"On the count of three I am going to make this disappear. A little magic trick," his fingers popped up and he repeated the numbers until the third came up. With a speed unlike any other he grabbed the mans head and forced it down on the wand. The wand burrowed deeply in his skull, and as he fell back it was no longer in the table. Taka laughed, "See, gone!"

Within the next five minutes Takamaru had poured himself some brandy and was sitting at the table sipping it whilst reading the paper. The two auror's bodies were lying on the ground near him. He would occasionally read a passage out to them, and laugh hysterically. He heard the door open and he looked up. In walked Kouji, who was accompanied by two more Aurors. Taka smiled wickedly as Kouji glanced down at the men on the ground. His face contorted in disgust and he looked back at his cousin.

"You see Kouji, the Death Eater's want someone they should fear. The world needs someone like me. Men like me. Some men, such as myself, aren't looking for anything logical. We can't be bought, bullied, reasoned or negotiated with. We just want to watch the world burn," as he spoke his own wand came out and a blast of light shot forth. Kouji, just as quick, had his wand up to counter as he thrust himself to the side. Sparks flew all over the kitchen burning into the wood, catching the papers on fire, the curtains, the bodies.

Taka flicked his wand and more light surged forth connecting with the light that was meant to counter it from Kouji's wand. Kouji looked more annoyed than anything, however; unlike Takamaru, Kouji was straining to hold the bond. Taka laughed hysterically, his left hand reaching into his robe pocket. With the quickness of a cheetah snagging its prey, he tossed a small blade. The blade caught Kouji directly in the Adam's apple. The two aurors were just standing there. They had been ordered before entering the house not to attack the man. How Kouji had known what was going to happen they could never guess. The stood staring as the man that had been pulling all the strings crumpled to the ground holding the handle of the small blade that was forced into his Adam's apple.

"Taka...maru..." he coughed blood all over the place as he attempted to say his cousins name. Takamaru leaned down, his lips were spread into a grin, his eyes replaced by coals. He grasped the knife and pulled it out of Kouji's throat. Kouji let out a noise, it was indistinguishable. Takamaru pushed Kouji's chin up so that Kouji was staring into his eyes.

"You see, I use a knife because wands are too quick. Otherwise, you can't savor all the emotions. You know who people are in their last moments," Takamaru put the tip of the blade next to Kouji's right cheek and he smiled, "Goodbye cousin."

With that he shoved the knife through and avoided the blood that was forced out of the other cheek as the knife penetrated it as well. Blood poured all over the place from the hole in Kouji's throat, and his breath stopped coming. His eyes were glued open in agony...pain. To Takamaru, it was rapture.

Takamaru stood up, he looked over at the two men who, to him, appeared to be horrified. He smiled and lifted his wand off the ground. The men clutched their own in their pockets, but as they had been ordered they remained in their pockets. He carefully stepped over the corpses and up to the men, they stepped aside and Takamaru smiled walking through. He turned around at the last second and said, "Ta!" as the words came from his mouth, green light erected from this wand. The men were thrown through the kitchen walls and into the dining room where one landed on the table, the other crashed into the piano, the strings snapping inside and cutting through his skin and bones like guitar strings through cheese.

((The Graveyard))

"Lex, Lex, Lex..." Jade walked around the chair that was placed in the center of the graveyard. Lexie was strapped the the chair, her eyes were blueish purple, she had cuts all over her face and tears all over her clothes. A muggle might say she was attacked by an animal. Jade tapped her wand in her hand absentmindedly as she continued to examine the wonderful piece of work before her. The Death Eater's, or at least what was left of them, had formed a circle around the two. They stood staring, no apparent pleasure could be noted.

"You see Alexandria. When you escaped from me a week ago, I was rather saddened that you had gone. I couldn't see why my wonderful little play mate would leave me all alone. Didn't you like how we played together?" she laughed and struck Lexie one more time with the back of her hand. She felt something knocked loose in Lexie's face, her jaw perhaps, as her hand made contact. She licked her lips.

"You're...no...better...than...him..." stammered Lexie, her jaw not going up and down like she wanted, instead if sort of just hung there. She could no longer feel the pain, she no longer wanted to exist. She looked up at Jade with cold, dark, eyes. Jade's face contorted in anger as she knocked Lexie's face aside with another swing of her fist.

"All you have to do is tell us where he is. He wasn't at his place, and you are the only person he would dare talk to!" she spit in Lexie's face before driving her knee directly into Lexie's stomach. Lexie attempted to double over, but having been strapped to a chair, made it hard. She swallowed, as painful as it was, and looked back up at Jade, "I toad yew, I doan know were h'is."

Jade twisted bringing her right leg up in a roundabout kick. She was wearing hills that were four inches tall. The tip of the heel cut straight through Lexie's cheek, splitting it into two pieces. Alexandria screamed at the top of her lungs. She leaned down and got into Lexie's face, her eyes level with Alexandria's. She muttered, "I know where Jax is. Believe it or not, the boy is alive. I have him, and if I do not find Takamaru, I will make sure that Jax is alive and awake as his skin is removed slice by slice." Alexandria spit in Jades face as jade finished the sentence. It wasn't just saliva, but blood as well. Jade stood up, wiping off her face in disgust.

"Still some fight in ya. I like that." Jade exclaimed poisonously.

"Then you'll love me!" The words came in the form of Takamaru's voice as he swept out of the shadows. Jade turned and lifted her leg to kick him, but he simply caught it in one of her hands. With a downward punch, his fist collided with her thigh, she let out a scream as she dropped to the ground. The Death Eater's had their wands out in an instant. Takamaru looked at them carefully.

"Jade, Jade, Jade," he said in the same tone of voice that she had just used with Alexandria. He laughed softly to himself, "Tell me, where is your boy tonight?" He saw the panic enter her eyes. She swallowed as his lips started to move again, "Because I am pretty sure that Daniel isn't watching him anymore," he pulled a small sack out from under his robes. He tossed it to the ground in front of her. She didn't have to open it, she knew what it was by the sound it made and the appearance it gave. Daniel was no longer alive, the bastard before her had killed him.

"What the hell did you do with him!?" She screamed, standing up. Her leg was just now becoming useful again. Her wand lay on the ground, Lexie sat staring at them like they were a whole bunch of insignificant dumb asses. Takamaru laughed, he turned looking each of the Death Eaters in the eyes.

"You all have families...most of whom were left at home all by themselves. Kids, wives, grandchildren.?" he smirked as some of them flinched, "How about you Martin? Roze safe?" he stepped aside as a blast of red sparks flew forth. The sparks hit one of the Death Eaters behind Taka, he heard the man Double over. At that exact moment Taka's wand came up and a blast fired knocking three of the Death Eaters back. He laughed as the others started apparating out to check on their families.

"They aren't there!" he laughed at the top of his lungs.

Takamaru looked back at Jade and smiled venomously. He twirled a knife in his hand, having stowed away his wand. The knife had his name in Japanese down the length of the blade. He moved towards the woman, and as he came in range she dropped into a squat, spinning, her leg came out and removed Taka's own feet from under him. She pulled the knife from his hand as he lay in shock from the fall, and put the blade at his throat. A small thin line of red formed from where it had already started cutting through his skin.

"Where did you put my son you bastard!?" she screamed, he could tell that she was ready to kill until she found the boy. Which was good, he liked enemies that were willing to do whatever it took. He laughed, each second passing caused the laugh to get louder. She pushed herself up, knowing that he didn't fear losing his life. She looked at the blade, and with nearly the same speed he possessed, she threw the knife to her side. It bore deeply into the center of Lexie's head. Alexandria looked almost as shocked as Taka was. Within seconds her body went limp in the chair.

Taka's wand came out and white light fired from it. Jade was lifted from the ground and thrown into the tombstone of Voldemort. The force from the impact shattered the tombstone as well as a rib or two. She flinched in pain as he walked over to Lexie, his hands tracing the knife in her head. He grabbed the handle and pulled it out in one quick yank. Blood poured down her face, and he watched it.

Turning back to Jade he let a small grin escape his mask of anger. He smacked his lips together, walking towards her with the blood colored blade, he pushed his long hair out of his eyes and behind his ears. There was something about the scent of human flesh that turn him on, he wasn't sure what it was.

"Jade," he shot out with his hand and grabbed her shirt, forcing her against his body, "Little bitty Jade," he used the tip of the knife and slowly cut through the skin on her cheek, "Voldemort caught you, thats why you left. You knew that he was going to kill you!" he pushed her back as he walked forward into the light. The scars on his face were visible.

She gasped loudly.

"You want to know how I got these scars?" He pushed the blade into her mouth while holding her chin, she was paralyzed with fear, "You see, daddy liked to drink. And when he drank, he liked to beat up my mommy," he licked her bleeding cheek, "Well, one day mommy picked up a knife to defend herself, daddy didn't like that. So he found me, and he told my mother 'You are always frowning, let me give you something to frown about' and he put it just like this," he held the blade at the corner of her mouth, "and pulled."

She screamed as the knife cut through the skin in a downwards fashion forming half of a frown on her face. She pulled and writhed against him, but he was stronger than her. He put the knife back in her mouth, "And then he did it again to the other side!" he cut through her left cheek as well, then tossed her to the ground. He threw the knife on top of her. She lay screaming and crying as her cheeks were carved with the blade laying on her belly now.

"You never should have left me," he twisted and nothing but a cloud of blood was where he had just stood.

(The next morning)

"I cannot find Roze, that bastard must have done something to her!" Mikal Martin yelled as he flung his fist down on the table of the bar he was currently occupying. Three more Death Eaters sat with him, they all looked away. They too were unable to find their families.

"They could be anywhere, hell, they could even be dead!" shouted one of the others, "Knowing Taka, he is probably just going to screw around with us like little ants in an ant farm," he downed what was left of his drink.

"I'll kill that fucking bastard!" Mikal shouted throwing his glass across the bar. The bar tended started to object but Mikal's glance reminded him that if he didn't keep quiet, he would be baking in his oven out back. Mikal looked back at the others, "We are going to find him, we are going to make him pay!"

(Same morning, back at Taka's)

Takamaru sat remembering the night before, he stopped pouring the bottle of Fire Whiskey in the cup and just drank from the bottle directly instead. As much as he hated Jade for having left him, as much as he wanted her to feel the pain that he had felt, he couldn't help but to feel bad about taking her child. He shook his head, the crying once again filled the house. Takamaru walked up the stairs and into the vacant room that had once belonged to Alexandria whenever she stayed over. In it, on the bed, lay a baby crying for the warmth and security of its mother.

Takamaru looked at it in disgust. He remembered the day after Jade had walked out...he remembered it very well.

"It's not true...It's not true!" Taka said, each breath was strained beyond normal, "This is your fault! You made her go away! You hated her! SAY IT! Say you hated her!" he collapsed and could feel Lexie holding on to him. For some reason he blamed her for it, but he didn't even know why.

Lexie sat there, her head was pressed against his as she let tears flow freely. She knew that he had done some bad things, but people deserved to find at least some happiness, at least the people that, in a form or fashion, had always taken care of her."

The child continued to scream. Takamaru, pulled his wand free and pointed it at the child. He licked his lips, and flicked it. The child vanished, porting itself through time. He laughed as he apparated out of the room imagining the look on the Minister of Magic's face as a child lay there on his desk when he walked in that morning for work.