Morana had smelled both of them before they even knocked on the door. And she hated the fact that they did, but she understood it was inevitable. "Scott, open the door."

"Alright honey, but I don't remember being your butler." Though that may have sounded as if he was offended and annoyed, he was still smiling nastily. Morana rolled her eyes, only to look at two very familiar human forms the next second.

"Sorry for the intrusion." Kaiba said as he marched in, not seeming sorry at all. His eyes never left Morana's. "We need to talk." Were they a bit red around? Was he crying? Morana inwardly smirked at the mere thought.

"About what?" She teased him. "About Mokuba leaving? Come on Kaiba now, seriously. With that attitude of yours, what did you expect? It was meant to happen, sooner or later, I honestly wonder what took him so long. How do you feel now, that there's no one left to care for your sorry excuse of a person?" She was enjoying this so much! He should learn to feel the pain when someone you love abandons you. It was about time, it served him right!

He curled his fists and closed his eyes shut for a moment, to regain his composure. He couldn't afford to lose it. Not now. "I didn't come here to exchange insults with you, Asha." He looked at her, sternly.

"My name is Morana." She coldly corrected him. "And if that's true, maybe Mokuba should leave more often."

"Mokuba will come back only if this circus is over." He would say what he had to say, and then she could hurt him all she wanted. "I'll cooperate. Whatever needs to be done, I'll do it. Be it the bait, or whatever else you want, I don't care. I'll do whatever possible to stop Rin!"

Scott and Jou waited patiently at the corner till then. Jou was unusually silent. Rather vague. He didn't seem to notice his surroundings. Scott seemed rather indifferent, but when he heard Kaiba's last words, it was like he woke up. He grinned sardonically and approached Kaiba with large steps. Morana noticed that. "No!" She extended her arm and stopped him. Scott made a face like someone had just deprived him from a nice meal. "Go get that." She pointed at a room behind, while glancing at Jou. Scott sighed, a let's-do-that-too-you'd-better-appreciate-it sigh, and disappeared.

Morana turned to Kaiba. "There's nothing you can do besides proving us some silver bullets… Though we already have reliable weapons. I'd suggest you follow Mokuba."

"If I do that, she'll come after us and kill us! I need to stop her before she lays a hand on my brother!" Was she just not getting the situation at hand?

"If she wanted, she would have. I'm pretty confident that she smelled him when he left, just like Scott and I did. If she wanted to kill him that bad, she'd have gone and killed him." Morana said simply.

Nevertheless, Kaiba could feel the earth disappearing under his feet. "And if she already has… and we just don't know it yet?"

"We would have smelled the blood. And Scott would have con-"

"Why…" Jou interrupted her suddenly. She turned to face him. He was looking at the ground, but when he noticed that she was looking at him, he returned the stare. His eyes had no more tears to shed. "Why didn't you help Shizuka? What did she ever do to you?" The image of Blue ripping his sister's heart off would haunt him for the rest of his life. Everything else seemed so worthless.

"I couldn't catch up." Morana stated coldly.

Jou shook his head. "You lie." The words were calm, but so pained… "You lie… why? Why?" The 'why's continued until Jounouchi's knees hit the ground. He wouldn't cry, but he'd bury his face in his hands, continuing repeating why, his whole body shaking.

"Jounouchi, come on…" Kaiba tried to calm him down, and placed a hand over his shoulder, kneeling beside him. Morana's head could explode from jealousy and anger. Really, when did she become so little? Why was it so annoying when he'd be kind to anybody else? But of course now he could understand what Jounouchi was going through… He was this close to lose his own little sibling after all. And he had no one to care for him. Morana knew very well how it was to be all alone.

Scott had returned. "I know it doesn't make things right," He talked to Jounouchi, "but at least this may have you feel a little better." He dropped Perky Blue's decapitated head in front of Jounouchi's feet. The blond just stared at it from shock.

"It's true, I wasn't in a real hurry to save your sister." Morana started to explain. "But I had just discovered Isis's fresh corpse. Rin has assistants; I know three of them, including this one." She stepped on Blue's head, holding it in place. "I had to check out the area. I'm sorry to say this, but I wasn't valuing your sister's life more than mine. Whoever killed Isis was different than Blue." Jou couldn't take his eyes off Blue's tortured, dead ones. Everything on that soaked in blood head was forming a silent scream. He didn't feel happy about it. He just wanted all that horror, that nightmare to end. Morana continued: "Fortunately, I caught her after she was leaving your house. Rin gave me a present," She smirked, remembering the cake. "But I had already given her an even better one."

"And may I say that she tasted delicious!" Scott licked his lips and let out a deranged laugh. Kaiba and Jou looked at him somewhat scared.

Morana thought it was about time to tell them about Scott. "Scott is a Life Trader." She didn't need their questioning looks to continue. "He's a magical creature, like me and Rin, but he's feeding off dead souls. The more violent the death those souls had, the more nurturing and tasty they are for him, as he feeds mostly off their strength of emotions. And of course, it's even better if it's a magical creature's soul. They sustain him, and he trades the souls that were in him for too long for the ones he currently consumes, because he has already sucked the pain and anger from the older ones. Understood?"

"So…" Jou tried to grasp it. "My sister…"

"Will remain inside Scott until her pain fades away." Morana nodded. "So will Anzu, and Honda, and Isis, and Otogi."

"Otogi too…" Jounouchi was so numb… Everybody was falling apart like the flies do in winter. It was just a matter of time until they died too, wasn't it? Morana didn't care. She wasn't there to protect them in particular. Her eyes were set only to Rin. There wasn't anything he and Kaiba had to do there anymore.

Sickly Green presented Blue's headless corpse in front of a disbelieving Rin. Perky Blue's heart was also ripped off, and in it' place there was a letter: Thanks for feeding my boyfriend dear. Sickly Green was wise enough not to utter a word. Poison Pink didn't care about Blue, but she was so scared about Rin's reaction, that she could be used as a driller. She was trembling that much.

Rin was just staring at the body without moving an inch, without even blinking. She couldn't grasp the nerve of Morana, the anger was too much to handle. No one was touching her subordinates! No fucking person in the world had the right to do that! You mean… while she was lecturing Atem… Morana was killing Perky Blue? While she was sending cakes, Morana was ripping Blue's heart off…

"YOU WILL PAY FOR THIS YOU FUCKING BITCH!" Rin lost it for a moment, and grabbed a nearby chair, throwing it with all of her strength onto the wall. It broke into tiny pieces with a loud crash. Green and Pink couldn't dare to move a muscle. Rin inhaled and exhaled deeply, in an attempt to calm herself down. After about five minutes, it seemed to work. Her tensed frame seemed to relax a little. Poison Pink was about to say something, when Rin's cold fantastic dialogue cut her off: "Okay Mora. If that's what you want, let's play harder." It was a mistake. She shouldn't have thought of Morana as diffident Ayaka.

Fine Mora. Let's rock. She thought, and then she turned swiftly away and disappeared.

Kaiba and Jounouchi were walking back from Morana's house. Jounouchi had calmed down a little, now that he knew his sister had been avenged and the pain was being sucked out of her soul. On the contrary, Kaiba was even more depressed. The night had never seemed so intimidating before.

"What shall we do now?" Jounouchi asked him at some point.

Kaiba sighed. He'd thought about it for some time now. "You should go to Mai." Yes, he should go there. He still had someone who cared about him here. "She must be really scared with everything that's happening. You should go and keep her company."

"Like I would be able to protect her." Jou mocked reality.

"Would it be better to leave her all alone?"

"No. You're right." Jou didn't want to admit it, but he thought he needed Mai more than she needed him. They walked together for some more, until they had to follow different roads. "Goodnight." He greeted Kaiba, and turned right at the corner.

"Goodbye." He heard the other saying. Instinctively, he turned to see Kaiba's back disappearing at the shadows. Something caught up in his neck. He knew then that those would be the last words he'd hear from the other. He whipped the upcoming tears and went on his way.

Kaiba knew that his house were different the moment he stepped in. He'd thought about it a lot. He couldn't let himself die. If that happened, Mokuba would die too. But would he, really? He just wrote so. Seto was sure that Rebecca wouldn't allow him to do such a thing. And who could live all alone? Especially when that entire massacre was unfolding, it was so easy to lose any will to live further. He could just sit and wait for Rin to come…

"Hi Kaiba." He heard a familiar, cold voice behind him. "It's been a long time since we had a teit a teit session. Did you miss me?" The long, black hair was waving on the air.

…But that's not who Kaiba Seto is.

"Not at all Natsu." He turned, pulled a gun out of his coat and shot her numerous times. It seemed like Rin was avoiding each silver bullet easily, yet one of them scratched her right cheek. There were many shots heard until Rin got where Kaiba was and shoved him down. Falling, he hit his head on the nearby coffee table. He yelled out in pain and got dizzy, and that gave her the opportunity to tie his arms behind his back and straddle him. She turned him to lie on his back, so they could stare right into each other's eyes. Hers were so crazy, so deep red, matching the blood falling from her cheek.

"What I'll give you," She was breathing heavily from excitement, "Is the fact that you put up a decent fight… for a human." After some minutes, she started breathing normally again. He would still refuse to say anything. "Make yourself comfortable Kaiba; we're going to have all night. You know why?" She licked her lips, and he just continued to glare. "Because no one will come for you. Mokuba won't come. Atem won't come. Ayaka won't come. Jounouchi won't come. Each and every one of them has more precious persons to take care of. No one gives a damn about you."

"Are you done yet? I'm honestly bored." Kaiba scoffed at her, and smirked. What was there to lose anymore? It wasn't like anyone would come to his rescue, as she had so kindly put it. Rin smirked back.

"Don't worry. I have many interesting things in mind." She pulled a dagger that was hanging on the belt of her waist. "Ah, I never liked your tongue you know." She placed the dagger on his lips. "Let's put it to a good use. Lick it!" She commanded him.

"Fuck you." He just retorted. Though he was sure she'd use the opportunity to shove the dagger in his mouth, much to his surprise, she removed it. And she was smiling.

"Honey, that can be arranged." She played the dagger in her hands. "Wouldn't it be wonderful to fuck the guy Morana used to have a crush on? She did something that irritated me greatly today, after all." And she ran her free hand onto his thighs, and then she cupped his crotch.

That was a hit under the safe zone. Kaiba started thrashing. "NO! Stop it!" He screamed, his eyes tightly closed. No, anything but that! Rin was enjoying this so much. Now that she had managed to scare him, it was easy.

"Come on Kaiba, I'm not that ugly." She chuckled. Of course she wasn't ugly. She was drop dead gorgeous. He'd hate it and love it. "Like your eyes…" She brought the dagger up under his right eye. "Do you mind? I want to take them home." He gritted his teeth and glared again. It was so…

She didn't do anything like that. Instead, she brought the dagger decisively up to his neck.

"I would love to play with you more, but unfortunately, I'm out of time." The dawn was dangerously close. Kaiba refused to believe that she'd just kill him without torturing him even a little. What the fuck was going on in her twisted mind? She looked down at him again, and pressed the dagger. "What are your final words, Kaiba?"

"Go to hell!" He spat, and then she swiftly cut him. She rose up, as the blood was staining the carpet, and looked out of the window, where the sun would soon emerge in the sky.

"Been there, done that." She whispered, and then she disappeared.

Early the next day, Morana and Scott visited the hospital. They had been notified by the group that little Yuugi had gone missing. Atem was ready to fall apart from the pressure. He somehow managed to persuade Malik, Bakura and their Yami's to go with him and help searching. Jou had preferred to go to the hospital, and Mai had remained home.

As soon as they arrived, they met the doctor. "How's… Kaiba Seto?" Morana was finding it difficult to ask. She didn't want it to seem like she cared.

"The damage was so precise, I was amazed. He went through surgery and he'll be alright, but…"

There was always a 'but'. Morana waited impatiently. Jou was already in there, beside him! She had to go and ask Kaiba about Rin!

"…We had to remove his vocal chords."

She turned to the doctor so abruptly, that Scott thought her head was going to fly off. "What?"

"I'm sorry." The doctor tried to explain. "He lost his voice. He'll never again be able to speak." Before Morana could digest the information, the doctor searched through his pockets. "Oh, and I was told by someone – it's so strange, I don't remember who – to give you this note." He passed her the paper, and she grabbed it hastily.

Who could not recognize Rin's writing style?

That was just the beginning.

I'll come to play some more!