(A/N: Yeah, I got nothing to say.)

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Chapter 16: Revenge and Desire

Director Kakuzawa sat tied to a chain with a gag in his mouth and his hands cuffed behind his back. Who would have thought that things would end up like this? This wasn't supposed to happen. He was supposed to be the person who created the ultimate life form. He was supposed to be remembered as the bringer of the greatest race. But it looked like it had just been a dream. He should have known that he wouldn't be able to play God.

It was all that bitch Arakawa's fault. He should have killed her right away. But no, he'd found her amusing and interesting to keep around. It would have been fine if she hadn't started snooping around in restricted files. But he had been careless, thinking her unable to cause any trouble.

It wasn't just her though. It was Lucy and his damned son. His imbecile brat had let Lucy go, setting off a series of events that led to this. Now here he was, waiting for the police to take him to prison for the rest of his life, if he didn't receive the death penalty, which was a very likely scenario.

But he wasn't going down without a fight. The fools that had shut him away in this room had all run off to take care of things; basically meaning trying to find ways to prove that they were mislead by the belief that they were saving humanity to excuse them of their crimes. They thought him to be an old man, unable to fend for himself. Well, he may be old, but he wasn't completely helpless. He still hand a little trick up his sleeve.

His face scrunched up as he concentrated. He hadn't done this in years, having no need to do so. From out of his back grew four invisible hands. Unlike his son, he did have vectors. However, they only extend to the wrists. And invisible hands growing out of his back were completely useless when they were this short. Or so he had thought. Shifting his actual arms, he moved the handcuffs towards his pathetic excuse of vectors. They sliced right through the chain.

With a grin, he untied the rope around his legs and stood up. He was free, though it wouldn't do him much good. His dream was dead. He'd never be able to create the ultimate race now. Hell, he'd never be able to go out anymore once he was declared a criminal.

But he had other things on his mind. He was a Diclonius, and there were many similarities between Diclonius and humans. One of those similarities was the desire for revenge. And it was revenge that was on his mind.

Lucy was the main cause for his downfall. She destroyed his dream, and he'd be damned if he'd let her get away with it. He was going to see that bitch dead if it was the last thing he did.

He wasn't a fool though. He knew that he was no match for her. He'd be slaughtered. Fortunately for him, he still had some people that were loyal to him. People who had friends that had been killed by Lucy during her escapes. They would help him take Lucy out.

But finding her would be the hard part. He couldn't sense other Diclonius, and he knew that none of the others would find her for him. But luckily, there was someone who knew where she was. Kenshin. That brat was going to tell him where she was whether he wanted to or not. It wouldn't be easy getting information out of him though. Ordinarily he would use torture to find out what he wanted, but Kenshin was, for lack of a better word, immune to pain.

Fortunately though, he wasn't immune to drugs. And he had plenty of them here. He wondered how many doses of truth serum it would take to get the boy to spill the beans.

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Lucy felt disgusted. Shortly after she awoke from her Nyu personality, she had confined herself to her room. She couldn't bring herself to tell Mayu what cruel fate had become of her mother and stepfather, nor did she intend to.

A wave of nausea overcame her as she recalled what had happened the previous night. It wasn't the fact that she had killed that upset her; she couldn't even bring herself to feel guilty for the deaths of those miserable excuse for parents. No, what was bothering her was everything that had led up to their deaths.

Lucy had killed before, she knew what it was like to have blood on her hands. But she had never tortured anyone before, if she could even call what Kaede had done to Mayu's stepfather humane enough to be classified as torture. Killing was one thing, but sadistic torture was something completely different. It was a new and very unpleasant feeling. Kaede had a truly sick and twisted mind.

'The minds of the insane normally come up with things that never occur to the sane.'

Lucy covered her ears. If only that actually could block out her hated other personality's voice. If there ever was one person that she would consciously kill, it would be Kaede.

'But you can't kill me without taking your own life.'

Lucy glared at her reflection in the mirror as if she were actually looking at her darker half. 'It may come to that.'

'Don't fret. I'm not going to harm your beloved Kohta. I am part of you, therefore I love him as well.'

'You don't know what love is.'

'But I do, dear sister. I know your every desire.'

'Then you would know that I don't want to kill anymore.'

Kaede chuckled. 'No, you just don't want to want to kill. In your mind you don't want to kill, but by your instinct, the desire to kill is there, and I shall act upon it.'

"No!" Lucy cried. One of her vectors shot out and went to her neck. "If the killing won't stop then I shall take my own life."

The same vector she had to her throat suddenly slapped her as Kaede took control of it. 'You can't fool me, Lucy. Unless it comes to Kohta's wellbeing, you are a coward; otherwise you would have taken your own life long ago. That's why you asked Kohta to do it if you couldn't stop killing, because you were too afraid to do it yourself. You've been afraid your whole life, Lucy, and don't try to hide it from me, because you literally can't.'

Lucy began trembling slightly and dropped to her knees. It was true, she was a coward. She had been afraid her whole life. But what could one feel other than fear when they lived through what she had.

'You're fear is one of the things that helped create me. You fear to act upon your desires, whether they be killing or simple letting Kohta know of your true feelings. I have no such fear, and if you will not act upon your desires, then I will.'

A familiar and very unwelcome feeling came over Lucy. Kaede was taking over again. She couldn't allow that to happen, especially not after what happened last time. Who knew what she would do. But she couldn't hold her back. She didn't have a choice in the matter.

'What are you going to do?'

Kaede snickered. What you don't have the courage for.'

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Kohta lay in bed, unable to get some sleep. Lucy had once again shut herself away. He had only caught a glimpse of her once throughout the entire day, and he had seen something in her eyes that made him shiver. It was disgust and hatred for herself. He'd seen it before, but never to that extent. Something bad had happened, something that really upset and terrified her. And that really worried him. He hated to admit it, but Lucy had a seriously fucked up life, and was carrying a lot of guilt on her shoulders. So what could have happened that was so bad that it brought her into this state after everything she had seen and done?

Whatever it was, she clearly wasn't ready to talk about it. But he'd be there for her when she was. Maybe tomorrow she would tell him what happened. If he ever got to sleep and made it to tomorrow.

With a grunt he buried his face in his pillow. Some time later he finally began to doze off, but he was immediately woken up again when he heard his door open.

Groaning again, he looked up and received shock. Lucy was standing right over him, staring at him. Was she ready to tell him what was bothering her? She could have picked a better time.

"Lucy? Is everything all right?"

She smiled at him in an unusual way. Then she suddenly kissed him. Kohta's was surprised. He hadn't expected this, as pleasant as it was. But there was something both different and familiar to the kiss. It was different from Lucy's kiss, but familiar to…

He aggressively pushed her away. "You're not Lucy." He growled, wiping his mouth. "And you're not Nyu either."

Kaede chuckled. "You know how to look beyond the flesh. It's not something most people can do."

"What are you doing here?"

Kaede slowly got to her feet. "I've told you before, that I am all of Lucy's desires. The good and the bad kind, the conscious and the instinctual, the wanted and the unwanted." She smiled. "The desires she won't act upon, I will. And that is what I'm doing here; fulfilling her desires."

Kohta watched in confusion as she reached down and grabbed the bottom of her nightgown. Slowly she lifted it up over her head and tossed it aside, leaving her in her panties.

"What are you doing?" Kohta asked with wide eyes.

He received more snickers from the Diclonius in reply. "Is it not obvious?" she asked, letting her panties fall to the ground and stepping out of them, leaving her completely nude. "Lucy has wanted you for a mate since she was a child. But she was always too afraid to take what she wanted." Her grin widened. "I'm not."

Kohta suddenly felt himself pushed and held down on the bed. He knew right away that Kaede had him pinned down with her vectors.

"Stop it!" he cried. "Let me up."

Kaede ignored him as she crawled on top of him. "You can't fool me, Kohta. I know you want it."

Kohta was helpless to stop her as she tore off his pajamas, leaving him just as exposed as she was.

"Get the hell off me, bitch!"

"Don't fight." She told him. "You desire me too. You always have, whether I've been Kaede, Lucy, or Nyu. You've always found me attractive. And you confessed your love as well. There's no reason to hold back."

She moved forward to kiss him again, but Kohta surprised her by rolling over and she fell to the ground.

"You make me sick!" he told her, pulling the blanket around himself. "I don't want you. You disgust me. You're body may be attractive, but I care nothing for you and want nothing from you. It's the person in the body that I love, and you're not her. I'd rather die than be intimate with you."

Kaede remained silent. She merely looked down at the ground, her hair hiding the smile on her face. "I figured as much."

She slowly looked up and locked eyes with Kohta. But they weren't Kaede's eyes anymore. He knew who it was immediately.

"Lucy."

"Kohta!" she gasped, and turned away, her arms covering her chest. "I'm sorry. She did this. I couldn't stop her. I feel so ashamed."

She sounded like she was about to cry. Kohta hesitated a moment before he shrugged off the blanket, pulling it completely off the bed, and wrapping it around her. "There's nothing to apologize for. Kaede is the one responsible."

"But she acts upon my desires." Lucy told him. "She sensed what I wanted and acted upon. She said that she would do what I was too afraid to do."

She curled into a ball, pulling the blanket tighter around herself. Why was she feeling this way? She'd been around Kohta when she was naked before. Perhaps not when she'd been Lucy, but he had still seen her. So why was she feeling so shy and embarrassed? She'd spent years at the lab with only a helmet on, her body exposed for all to see.

Suddenly she felt Kohta's arms wrap around her. A blush stained her cheeks and her heart began pounding as Kohta hugged her.

"Are you afraid of me?" he asked quietly. He waited, but received no answer and tightened his hold on her. "You don't have to be afraid of me Lucy. I told you before that I love you." He hesitated a moment. "Do you think I didn't desire you too?"

Lucy looked over her shoulder, suddenly conscious of that fact that Kohta was just as naked as she was. "Kohta…"

A slight blush covered Kohta's cheeks and he diverted his eyes from her. "I actually have to fight my own desires for you… It's… perfectly normal."

Lucy felt tears creep up in her eyes. "Oh, Kohta." She whispered and reached for him. "Kiss me. Kohta, please kiss me."

Kohta hesitated, but then slowly brought his face closer to hers until their lips pressed together. Lucy pushed the blanket off her shoulders and let it fall to the floor, wrapping her arms around him. Finally, she was together like this with Kohta.

In the back of her mind, Kaede gave smiled in satisfaction and went to sleep.

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Almost as if Fate itself decreed it, Yuka woke from her sleep. She rubbed her eyes and looked at the clock. It was past four in the morning.

Licking her lips, she realized that she was thirsty and went to get a drink. She went into the kitchen and retrieved a glass, filling it with water. After drinking half of it, she went back to her room, taking the still half-full glass with her.

A strange noise caught her attention and she glanced over her shoulder. The sound was coming from Kohta's room. Curious, she went to see what it was. The door was open a crack and she peaked inside.

All sleepiness vanished instantly and her eyes widened in horror by what she saw. There were two people in Kohta's bed, moving in sync with each other. They had been the source of noise she had heard.

Her hand went limp and the glass fell. The couple in the room were so immersed with each other that they didn't even hear it shatter when it hit the floor. Nor did they hear Yuka make a heartbroken whimper and run back to her room.

(A/N: In case you were wondering, yes, Kohta and Lucy were having sex. And Yuka saw them. Is this a good thing, or a bad thing? You'll have to wait for the next chapter to find out. But what is a bad thing is that Kakuzawa has escaped, and he's got revenge on his mind. His plans may be ruined, but he's still a threat. Things are going to get real exciting now.)