Lucy jumped back and nearly bumped into the back of one of the graveyard's many tombstones. Out of reflex, she instantly stood in a defensive stance, ready to launch her vectors at any moment, all the while wondering how this person, who she was close to considering somewhat of a friend, could possibly be a...what he was suggesting. More puzzling was that she'd always believed she was the only pure diclonius. Yet here another one stood before her; still, almost rigid.

"That wasn't the reaction I was hoping for," Tomo said with a shrug.

"You can't be a diclonius," Lucy said in disbelief.

"Oh, but I can," he answered arrogantly.

"What about your eyes? There not red," Lucy questioned him.

"Oh yeah." Tomo reached up and pulled out his colored contacts, blinking strongly once they were removed and thrown to the ground, revealing two red pupils. "Man, I can't tell you how irritating those things are," he casually remarked.

"Your hair isn't pink either," Lucy said, continuing to look for an excuse to dismiss this as nothing more then a cruel joke. Tomo gave a short grunt of a laugh.

"It's hair dye," he said as if the answer was so simple.

"But who've been here for months! It shouldn't last that long!" Tomo gave another, stronger grunted laugh.

"I came from a science lab Lucy, I'm pretty sure they can think of a way to make dye last longer then it should." Lucy searched deeply for something that would make all these dark revelations not true.

"How come I can't sense you then? All diclonius have the ability to sense the presence of others when we're close," Lucy said, certain she'd found the loop hole around him.

"Oh I almost forgot about that. I've been doing for so long now I don't notice I'm doing it anymore." Tomo closed his eyes, and a moment later, a wave of power and presence rushed through Lucy's mind. So severe was it that it made her fall to one knee. And in that moment, she knew everything he said to be true. He was a diclonius. And a powerful one at that. As she slowly became aware and used to this new feeling, composing herself, she recognized his presence and had felt it once before.

"You," she said sharply, "You're the one I felt in my dream that night! The one I felt when I came to the beach!"

"Bingo," Tomo replied, nodding his head.

"But why all the secrecy? Why would you go so far just to hide the fact that you're a diclonius?" she asked wildly. Tomo cocked his head to one side, crossing his arms across his chest.

"After the way you reacted to Number 7 and 35, I doubted you'd react any differently to me. So I had to hide my true identity until I was certain I could gain your trust and friendship," he responded. Tomo gave her a confident look, and a shock truth forced its way into Lucy.

"You lured me to the beach that night didn't you?! You set me up! You lured me there just to fight that guy and save me at the last minute! All to earn my trust?!"

"Well when you say it like that of course it sounds bad," Tomo retorted, throwing his hands in the air. Lucy felt a rage rising inside her that she'd not felt in many years. A anger and hate she hoped was long since dead. But she'd been betrayed. And worse, by someone close to her.

"Why are you doing all of this?" she shot. Tomo smiled mischievously, walking toward her with a small strut. She reeled herself back, ready for an attack and ready to attack. But he did nothing but walk toward her, and Lucy was too frozen by his power to doing anything. Close enough now to hear him breathing, Tomo took his hand and clasped it over Lucy's chin.

"Because I love you Lucy." He pulled her into a rough kiss, shoving his tongue down her throat. Lucy mind reeled with disgust. She extended a vector to strike him down, but he back flipped out of harms way before she even fully extended her vectors. "That wasn't very nice." Lucy began spitting madly, trying to get his taste out of her mouth.

"What was that for?"

"It's something I heard that humans do to people they love," he said calmly, licking his lips, savoring the taste. "Did you not enjoy it?"

"It was disgusting. Wait a minute, how can you hide your presence from me?" she asked, suddenly wondering how he had hidden his diclonius aura for months. Tomo put his hands on his hips and gave Lucy a rather pathetic look, like he pitied her for some unknown reason.

"All diclonius can do it," he said plainly.

"I can't," Lucy answered back.

"Of course you can. You just don't know it. Let me ask you something; when you where this Nyu person, were you not technically still a diclonius?" Lucy thought about this for a second. She'd never actually considered that before, but guessed he was right. "And yet why couldn't Number 7 or Number 35 sense you? It's because in that state, you were subconsciously using this innate ability that we all have. Of course only pure diclonius can do it and it's a very difficult ability to learn that requires a mastery of diclonius powers. Thankfully...I have both," he said with a evil grin that clearly was meant as a warning.

"How do you know all this? About Nyu and everything about me!"

"My sensory abilities are stronger then most diclonius or silpelits. It's so strong I can actually see into your mind. Oh I can't read your mind or anything," he added after the alert look on Lucy's face, "But I can see into your memories, especially memories tied to strong emotions. And I can feel what you feel. Like right now, your feeling both anger and fear toward me. Well good news for you, you don't have to be afraid of me. I'm not here to hurt you. As for anger, you'll just have to get over that on your own."

"Then why are you here?" Lucy said.

"LUCY!" Nana came running from the stone steps and over the rising steps to the graveyard, a fearful expression on her face. Lucy didn't need to guess what had made her so frantic.

"STOP," Lucy yelled at her, halting her before she was within Tomo's range. Tomo eyed Nana with a keen interest.

"What's going on," Nana asked bewildered, "After you left I suddenly got this really strong feeling! And what's Tomo doing here?"

"It's him Nana," Lucy said pointing at Tomo, "He's a diclonius. And he came here after me." Nana looked on in disbelief at what she was hearing.

"So good of you to join us Number 7," Tomo said in a welcoming tone, "This saves me the trouble of having to go back up to the house to fetch you." Tomo began pacing back and forth between Lucy and Nana, seemingly unafraid of the fact that he was boxed in.

"Now I can take the both of you back with me."

"Back where?" Lucy asked threateningly.

"Back of the lab of course."

"So your here to take me back to Kakuzawa and that hell hole right? Back to put me under the knife again?" Tomo looked affronted by this accusation as he continued to walk from side to side.

"You misunderstand me Lucy. I don't want you to come back with me to serve him again. No, I want you to come back with me...to kill him."

Kohta sat alone in his room, curled up into the smallest ball his body could form. The whole of the house was as quiet and unmoving as if he was the only inhabitant left on Earth. His pain felt so intense. It felt like all the most horrible memories he'd ever experienced were being relived and compressed inside him all at one moment. So desperately he wanted to cry, but his eyes remained dry. He tried so hard to force out some physical manifestation of his grief that he felt his face tighten. Maybe he was finally out of tears to cry. But it wasn't Yuka's death that caused him such strife. It was what he'd said to Lucy and that now, she was gone.

This didn't make any sense. She'd killed another one of his family out of some jealousy, and hadn't he reacted in a perfectly acceptable way? So why did he feel so guilty? He crawled out of his ball and walked to Lucy's room where he surveyed the room and possessions now without an owner. He picked up articles of clothing, still fresh with her scent. He examined the little stuff elephant he'd bought her at the zoo. Over on the windowsill, he spotted a familiar, small wooden box as its brown color shined in the light. He strode over to it, and opened it to find a small sea shell as pink as Lucy's hair still inside. The solemn tune began to play, as more memories flooded Kohta's mind. He remembered how Lucy was when he first found her. How so sad she looked. How so alone she must have felt.

Without a thought in his head and not fully understanding why, Kohta dropped the music box where he stood, and bolted out of the room. He nearly leapt down the entire flight of stairs, quickly put on a pair of slippers, and marched out of the gate, slamming the door shut as he went. He knew if he hurried, he could catch Lucy before she got too far.

"Kill him?" Lucy and Nana said together in astounding tones.

"Is there any echo or something?" Tomo mocked. He gave a cruel laugh, thinking that what he had said was witty and funny.

"You want me to come back with you just to kill a bunch of people," Lucy said in protest.

"You seem to have forgotten something Lucy. The humans don't deserve your mercy or your pity. The humans are nothing more then a failed experiment, one that God is trying to remedy. And to correct his mistake, he created us. A new race to take back the Earth and bring it back to its former beauty. To the way he meant it to be. But as always humans try to attain the forbidden fruit for their own. Kakuzawa has tried for many years to learn our secrets to use for his own devices. For this sin alone, he and all his lackeys must be punished."

"But why did you lie to us? Why did you live in Kaede House with us if all you wanted was to steal Lucy?" Nana chimed.

"When I first got here, I had to hide myself so as to keep the element of surprise. However, this does weaken my own sensing abilities. All I knew was that you were somewhere in the city, which the facility had already informed me, and thus amounted to nothing. But then I saw you one day with Kohta, and so I followed you home. Once you lead me there, I knew you had grown to close to the humans, so I had to pry you away from them. Only then could you clearly and willingly see my point of view. So then I met that stupid human. And using him, I was able to win everyone's trust and was able to destroy your pathetic little family. From the inside out." There was a long silence between the three of them as his treachery slowly sank into their bones.

"Did you kill Yuka?" Lucy asked coldly. Tomo snickered before answering.

"I admit that wasn't originally part of my plan. In all honesty, it could have destroyed my entire plan. However, I believe it worked out quite nicely to my advantage," he said with a smirk. In a fit of rage, Lucy launched herself at him, but he briskly moved aside, dodging her with the greatest and most casual ease. She now stood shoulder to shoulder with Nana, looking at Tomo with great disdain in her eyes.

"You son of a bitch," Lucy snarled at him.

"Lucy wake up," Tomo shot sternly, "You don't belong with the humans. You belong with me. Don't you get it, we were made for each other...literally. It's our destiny. We're the Adam and Eve of the next generation. As long as the humans live, they will suck up all the happiness for themselves and leave none for us. But you and I have a chance to secure a future for our children and brethren. Don't you want that?"

"I'm happy right where I am," Lucy declared.

"I don't believe you," Tomo said, "If you were happy, then why would you feel the need to hide from your so called 'family'?" Lucy opened her mouth to protest, but no words escape her lips. "You two will come with me, whether you want to or not," Tomo demanded.

"And what makes you think we'll go with you," Lucy said defiantly. Just at the moment she uttered those words, Kohta came rushing from the bottom of the steps leading up to the graves. Before Lucy could call to tell him to stay away, Tomo swiftly rushed past them, grabbing Kohta by the waist with one of his vectors and lifting him high into the air.

"This does," he said confidently. Nana and Lucy looked on helplessly while Kohta struggled against the invisible force.

"PUT HIM DOWN," Lucy demanded.

"No," Tomo replied. Lucy bent her knees ready to leap at him. "I wouldn't do that if I were you. I'm faster then you, and before you could even get one foot off the ground, he'd be dead." Lucy considered this a moment, then deciding it wasn't worth risking Kohta's life, obeyed him.

"What's happening?!" Kohta cried from above.

"I believe I'm using you as leverage. Either Lucy and Number 7 over there come with me, or I slice you in two," Tomo told him while eyeing Lucy and Nana. Kohta eyes were bugging out of his skull in confusion.

"Kohta, he's the one who killed Yuka. He's been trying to turn us against each other from the beginning," Nana explained to Kohta. Kohta looked down on Tomo in shock, then realizing what must be holding him up, he quickly turned to fury. He began fighting against the vectors with greater force, all of his efforts in vain.

"YOU BASTARD," Kohta shouted, "YOU BASTARD! IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!" It started as a small snicker, next a mild chortle, and finally a loud cackle. "WHAT'S SO DAMN FUNNY?!"

"Nothing," Tomo said whipping away a tear, "It's just so like a human to blame everyone accept himself."

"You killed her," Nana cried, "And you made Yuka and Lucy fight each other. You made me distrust her. You turned us all against each other."

"Sorry, but your only half right. True I killed Yuka, there's no getting around that. But what I didn't do is make any of you do anything. All I did was bring out the emotions that were already inside you." He looked to and from one person to the next. "Your hate, your jealousy, your mistrust, and your prejudice. All I did was show you the door; in the end, you were the ones to go through it."

"But you trick us into thinking that way!" Kohta protested, having giving up trying to break free of Tomo's grip.

"Yes, but the decision was still yours alone. Didn't it occur to you that maybe since I was the last one seen with Yuka that maybe I was the one who killed her. Yet you were so quick to blame Lucy with no proof. All you would have needed to do was look up in my closet, and there would be my blood stained clothes waiting to be used as evidence." Kohta suddenly looked very guilty. "You can keep them if you want. Call it a keepsake so as to remember your dearly departed Yuka." Kohta clenched his teeth in quiet anger.

"You humans are so inconsistent. You were given this planet and you polluted it, depriving it of all its resources. You discriminate against anything that isn't exactly like you. You even kill your own kind, then claiming it's in the name of God or some other noble cause as if to be saved by some loop hole." Tomo looked up at Kohta. "Let me ask you something, why, if you still believed Lucy killed your cousin, did you come after her?" The question hung in the air like a stubborn stench that refused to leave. After a silence that seemed unbreakable, Kohta spoke both weakly, yet strongly.

"I don't know," he answered, "No matter how many times I go over it in my head, I still can't explain why. By all rights, I shouldn't be able to forgive her for what she's done to my sister and father. But I do forgive her. I can't explain it, all I know is that I can't stand the idea of being separated from her."

"Kohta," Lucy said with tears.

"How romantic," Tomo mocked, "But meaningless. The real reason you want her near you is one of two reasons. Either A: you really love Nyu and are waiting for her to return. Or B: you keep her around you to make yourself feel better, having someone whose suffered much more then you."

"That's a lie," Kohta denied.

"Oh really?" Tomo didn't sound convinced. He gave a small spit of saliva that flew through the air until traveling to the ground. "I swear you humans make me sick to my stomach."

"And you make me sick to mine," Lucy spoke scornfully.

"Now, are you going to come with me or not," he said turning a suggestive eye to Lucy and Nana. Both looked torn between what they should do. "It's not a difficult choice, either you both come with me or he dies." Tomo gave a slight squeeze of his vectors, making Kohta squirm in pain.

"Wait," Lucy said. Tomo raised an eyebrow.

"Well?" Hanging her head, Lucy crawled over to Lucy and stood silently in front of him. A minute later, Nana followed. "Now that's good girls. That wasn't so hard." He released Kohta, letting him fall painfully to the concrete walkway. Tomo turned to walk to away, Lucy and Nana following close behind like dogs on a leash being pulled by their master.

"Lucy. Nana," Kohta called as he got up, "LUCY! NANA!" Neither of them looked back as their forms grew smaller and smaller, disappearing into the streets.