Thanerah sat next to Hidan as they were on their way back to Jontha. Sitting across her was Dr Raze's daughter whose name is Fiona. Her husband's a Jashinist as well but wasn't aware of her disappearance until now because he was informed that she was having a long dinner with her father. When he heard the news he was furious and demanded to kill the bastards who touched her, but Hidan informed her husband that they've escaped. The husband was still angry that someone touched his pregnant wife but was relieved to hear that she was safe.

Fiona stopped crying about an hour ago and stared at her father's pale face as he was lying on a floating metal bed between the two. She sniffed and used the tissue that she held in her hand since she got on board. Thanerah looked at her pitifully then said to her softly.

"I'm terribly sorry, Fiona."

Fiona looked at her with her puffy red eyes as she sniffed. She said to her while her voice was strained from crying too much. "It wasn't your fault." She turned to glare at Hidan. "It was his."

Hidan flinched and he glared at her. "What did you say?" he asked as he growled. Thanerah felt his body went entirely tense so she quickly wrapped her arms around his arm to try to calm him down and to prevent him from harming the poor woman.

Fiona's glare hardened as she explained with a firm voice this time. "If you weren't so reckless when you appeared...You could have shot him when you had the chance! Why didn't you kill him when you had the chance?" As she shouted, big new tears streamed down from her eyes to her chin. Then she let out a small scream of agony and buried her face in her hands as her shoulders shake.

Thanerah quickly removed herself from her husband to sit beside the grief daughter and wrapped her arms around her to comfort her. She cooed her to stay calm since it would risk the baby's health. She told the weeping mother to take in deep breathes to calm herself, Fiona obeyed and took slow and deep breathes as commanded.

Hidan growled deeply and crossed his arms while looking away angrily. He wasn't angry at Fiona, he was angry at himself. He also asked himself of why he didn't shot the Natoku when he had the chance? He glanced at the pale dead Dr Raze and his gaze softened. *...I'm sorry, doc.*

The ship landed on the harbour in Jontha and when the hatch was opened, the Phantoms brought Dr Raze's dead body out first. Thanerah walked out of the ship with an arm around Fiona's shoulders as she was looking at the ground sadly until someone from the distance called out her name. "Fiona!"

Fiona lifted her head to see her husband running up towards her after pushing his helmet and his gun to one of his closest companions. Fiona put a lot of effort to have a smile on her face as she was relieved to see her beloved husband. Her husband carefully hugged her and plant many kisses on her face. Thanerah pulled away before he reached her and smiled at the sweet couple, but she wasn't entirely happy.

Her smile disappeared when she glanced at Dr Raze and her spirit immediately dropped rock bottom. She noticed her own husband walking out of the ship lastly but he didn't look happy at all. He looked really sad. She softened her eyes and walked towards him.

He didn't seem to be aware of her standing in front of him until she wrapped her arms around his neck and rested them on his broad shoulders. Hidan turned his head to look down at his wife with an unreadable expression and he asked her with a flat tone. "Are you going to scold me too?"

Thanerah didn't say a word but pity was clear in her eyes. She leaned forward and captured his lips with his. He blinked a few times in confusion but kissed her back as he closed his eyes. She softly pulled away from the kiss and looked into his beautiful purple eyes.

"Are you all right, love?" she asked him softly.

He sighed heavily as he rested his hands on her waist. "No." He honestly replied. "Fiona's right. I should have f**king shot that f**king bastard when I had the chance. I don't know why I bothered to try to spare his f**king life."

"Hey, it's not your fault. None of us knew that he was going to shoot him without negotiating."

"But I should have seen it coming. I should have known that he would kill him, whether he f**king negotiated or not. It's entirely my f**king fault..." He diverted his eyes away from Thanerah as he felt ashamed. He could remember every detail of that moment when that Natoku shot the poor innocent doctor. He didn't deserve to die like that.

Thanerah's jaw tightened and she said to him as she rubbed his chest. "Hidan, don't blame on yourself. Blame on the Natoku. It's their fault that made Dr Raze's fate into this. They threatened to kill his daughter in order to gain what we have."

"You mean had, Tha. Remember? That f**ker got away with the Spirits."

Thanerah sighed heavily; yes she was upset about that as well. She cupped his face in her hands and lifted his face up so she could see his eyes. "What's done is done. We can't control the past but we can control the future. If you want to redeem yourself, then let's get back of what was stolen from us. I'm certain that Dr Raze will be deeply disappointed from going through the trouble of finding and merging the Spirits and it's in the wrong hands."

Hidan sighed softly in defeat. "I guess you're right..." He glanced ahead to see his father waiting for them at the exit of the harbour. Hidan returned his gaze to his wife. "Come on, we have to get ready for the funeral."

In the middle of the city the funeral was being formed of Dr Raze. He was still lying on the floating metal bed but he was surrounded by beautiful white flowers that were given by the people. Everyone was wearing black – of course – with sorrow eyes. The only ones who were crying was Fiona – as expected – but she was being comforted by her husband with his arms wrapped around her shoulders while she cried in his chest.

Thanerah looked at the dead doctor who was like a grandfather to her for nearly a year. She could remember the first day they met; about how he was so fascinated by the spirits and Thunder. Hidan had his arm around her shoulder as a comfort but he couldn't rid the guilt in the pit of his stomach.

After Odan's speech of Dr Raze's death, Dr Raze was carried to a wooden stall to burn his body, so it would be easier for his soul to go to the Afterlife to be at Lord Jashin's side. Everyone watched in sorrow as his body was being burned and they all stayed until there were ashes left as the smoke escaped through the tiny holes of the cave ceiling.

The next day, Odan gave Dr Raze's research documents to Thanerah because he thought that they would be at use for her beside Fiona since she now own whatever her father left behind. Thanerah sighed softly as she looked at the big box of Dr Raze's research while sitting on the couch as the box was resting on the coffee table.

Hidan was in the praying room; probably praying for Dr Raze's forgiveness from the Afterlife. Thanerah breathed in deeply then looked through the research documents to see if there's anything useful in there. She looked through them thoroughly but she knew all of them already since Dr Raze loved to talk so much. She sighed softly in defeat as she slapped the documents on the coffee table as other documents were spread around.

She rubbed her brow to try to calm her throbbing head then she noticed a small envelope with her name scribbled with Dr Raze's neat hand writing. She arched a brow in curiosity then grabbed the envelope from the box.

She opened the envelope and pulled out a folded letter. She recognized the writing to be from Dr Raze because she had read many of his research documents before.

Dear Thanerah,

I may be dead now. Yes, I knew the Natoku will kill me at the meeting. I wrote to this to you because I want to inform you that I'm NOT the traitor as you may all think. The traitor is still there if I'm not mistaken but you must know that I'm not the one. I have the proof that I'm not lying to you. Go into my mail.

Username:

Password: Fiona008927

These is my username and password. Please, Thanerah. You must believe me. You're the only person I can trust this with. I don't want to bring anyone into this but you're the only one I can depend on.

With all my regards, Richard Raze.

PS. Take care of that buffoon husband of yours and take care of my beloved daughter Fiona.

Thanerah stared at the letter in shock until she heard the door to the prayer room being opened. She looked up to see her husband coming out while holding a bloody closed black stake in his hand while his bare masculine chest was covered in his own dried blood. He glanced at her and saw her looking shock. So he quickly asked her in concern.

"Babe, what the f**k happened?"

Thanerah slightly gulped and stood up from the couch to walk to him. She held the letter for him to read since she didn't want the white paper to be stained by his blood. He read the letter and his eyes widened in surprise. He turned to look at Thanerah and said. "He f**king knew that he was going to die..." He suddenly had a look of remembering something then looked back at the letter. "And he called me a f**king buffoon!"

"Hidan!" scolded Thanerah with an anime vein popping on her forehead.

"Right, this is not the f**king time!" he said as he slapped himself mentally. Then he said. "B-But I don't have a f**king lap top!"

"Then let's go to the lab." Suggested Thanerah and he didn't hesitate to rush to the bedroom to change to quickly clean the blood off and put a black tank top on.

Thanerah and Hidan entered the laboratory that was deserted but she quickly rushed to the nearest computer. She opened the computer and quickly went to the mail account only for the scientists. She put the letter on the desk and typed in the username and password in the login page.

She successfully entered and she quickly clicked on the first message that has nothing in the subject text and it was anonymous of who sent it. She opened a message that said.

Bring the Spirits to the abandon castle in South East territory. Tell anyone about this and we'll kill your daughter.

There was also a picture of his daughter who was weeping while her hair was being held tightly by someone.

You have 24 hours, don't be late

And that was the end of the threatening letter.

Thanerah arched a brow and mumbled under her breath. "How is this going to prove that he isn't the traitor as we thought...?"

Hidan tapped his finger as he re-read the message then glanced at the date. "Wait, look at the f**king date."

She looked at the date and her mind clicked. "This message was sent on Monday 5th November..."

"Wait," he grabbed the nearby phone from the desk. He quickly numbered his father's phone and waited impatiently as he grumbled. "Come on, you f**king old man. Pick up the damn f**king phone already-!" he was cut off when Odan finally answered.

"What?"

"Old man, when did you start notice the glitch?"

"What?"

"The three f**king suspects! The codes going through the network! Ring any f**king bells! When did you realize the f**king glitch!"

"Um..." Hidan could tell that he was trying his best to remember. "I think it was on October 1st...why?"

Hidan didn't bother to explain to his father yet, but he said to him through the phone. "That's all I need to f**king know, thanks old man!"

"Bu-!" he was cut off when Hidan hung up the phone.

Hidan said to his wife. "They noticed the glitch on the 1st of October."

"Then we still have a traitor under our mists..."

"Apparently so."