Has fate brought us together?

A girl appeared beyond that darkness, the looks of it she wasn't that far away from her, she looked pretty with the yukata, brown short hair, with green eyes this innocent looking girl was staring back at her.

Sayuri awoke looking at the ceiling. She got up, but the sharp pain shot at her, she placed her hand on her left shoulder, her body was bandaged until her waist. The door opened,

'So you finally woke up,' the lady spoke with a cigarette in her mouth.

'How did I get here?,' Sayuri asked

'Well, someone found you bleeding along the road. You're lucky you're loss quite amount of blood,' she explained

'Thanks a lot, for your help,' Sayuri added putting on her coat

'Don't move too much, your wounds will open easily, your injuries were quite deep,'

'Thanks for informing me,'

'So you got a name?,'

'Sayuri. I don't have a last name,'

'I'm Annette Pierce,' she introduced herself, she stared at Sayuri.

'What is it?,' Sayuri asked back

'Nothing, it's like I saw you before,' Annette mentioned. 'Are you a sweeper?,'

'Sweeper?,' Sayuri asked back 'I guess not,'

'I spotted your gun, it's quite good, you can't find it from anywhere,'

'Thanks for that compliment,'

'Well if you need me, let me know I'll be downstairs,' Annette got up heading towards the door.

'I appreciate that, thanks,'

She shut her door, and Sayuri laid back against the pillows, thinking about last night. The whole academy had been attacked, leaving Sarah, and that figure who attacked her with unexplainable skills.

'I should get back there, but if I do, I'll get killed again,' she wondered 'Damn! What should I do?,' she slammed both her hands on the bed. 'Not to mention, the injuries I'm having now... no way I can get back there... leaving Sarah... what has happen to her?,'

Sayuri got off from the bed and grabbed her coat before heading towards the door. Down headed towards the stairs... the situation is like a pub. With people drinking their beers and puffing on their cigarette, noise all around the area. 'Am I in the right place?,' she wondered.

'So you finally decided to come down,' Annette answered at the counter of the bar

'Yea,' Sayuri spoked 'I would be probably bored in the room all by myself,'

'Hn, true enough. You want anything?,'

'A glass of milk will be good enough,'

Annette left and then returned with Sayuri's glass of milk. 'You like milk too?,'

'Don't know why I just like drinking it,'

'How ironic,'

Sayuri smiled back at her, taking a sip of her fresh milk, gulping it down and placed it back on the counter 'Don't mind asking,' she started off 'what is this place?,'

'This place?,' Annette repeated 'well... this is place is where the sweepers gathered,'

She turned back towards the people, thinking.

'I know what you're thinking,' she continued 'you're thinking that 'this people don't have lives rather than spending their time here instead','

Surprised Sayuri's eyes widen 'Y-Yea that's right,'

Annette chuckled a little 'Well, you're quite wrong,'

'So sweepers, what do they do anyway?,'

'We sweepers are specialize in catching criminals and and once we do we gain rewards. The higher the price money, the dangerous the criminals,'

'You don't call yourself assassins?,'

'Assassins?,' Annette responded 'Assassins kill, we don't we just catch those criminals and throw them in jail. Only the Chonos do such things,'

'Chonos?,' wondered Sayuri

'You're not one of them, right?,' Annette asked suspiciously

Sayuri slipped her milk again then answers 'The Chonos? No, I'm not,'

'Alright then,' responded Annette and left the counter, as Sayuri continued to finish her milk. Not long after, there was a loud gun-like sound explosion outside of the Cait-Sith Cafe, which somehow got the sweeper's attention

'Damnit! Not again!!,' someone from the outside yelled

'Have you ever consider to get a new car?,' added another voice

'Do you think I have the money, the rewards these days are so low,' answered back the same voice

'You should service the car more often, Sven,' said a feminine voice

'Service car also needs money,' he sighed 'Forget it you guys are so care-free and didn't want to care about it,'

'What noisy people,' Sayuri thought

'Geez Sven, you and your whining. C'mon, let's eat I'm starving!!,' the second party complained, stepping into cafe. Sayuri took a glimpse back....

A/N: AH-HA!!! A CLIFFHANGER!! FINALLY I MANAGE TO GET THE 3RD CHAPTER WORKING JUST FINE... NOW I'M GETTING PRETTY EXCITED TO COMPLETE THE NEXT CHAPTER. AS YOU KNOW I PUBLISHED THIS STORY IN QUIZILLA TOOK BUT I PUBLISHED THIS CHAPTER HERE FIRST SINCE QUIZILLA HAS THE WORST MAINTAINENCE EVER!! WHICH IS SO FRUSTATING ==''' NO WONDER EVERYONE HATE QUIZILLA, SO ANNOYING!!