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How many intruders she has defeated? How many of them have lost their mind? She has already lost count of them... It was painful sight, when she caught a glimpse of their appearance under the black cloak... How long have they all been suffering during her absents? The girl was lost in thought as she continues to struck down her opponents, her attacks are not fatal, but strong enough to leave them unconscious, after all, she need them alive.

Hazuki gritted her teeth when another minion of hers being knock out conscious, furiously gestured the two of her strongest among the minions, the short blade wielder and the trident wielder transformed into two hideous serpents, dashed toward the girl and wrapped their rotten bodies tightly around girl, in attempt to crush her bones...

"How do you like that?" Hazuki laughed maniacally at the sight, the two serpents was already snapping their jaws at the girl, waiting their mistress's order to sink their poisonous fangs into the girl's soft neck, "Ah, such bliss to see you fall on your knees before me," Hazuki grinned maliciously, did a finger snap to her snakes to continue their attacks...

Nothing happens to the girl, instead, the two snakes let out loud painful shrieks, hastily unwrap themselves from the girl and slumped on the floor limply. The rotten skin of the snakes are further damaged and burned upon having a direct contact with the girl, they continued hissing weakly at her, but made no attempt to attack again, they are desperately trying to stay away from the girl as much as possible as though she was a deadly plague.

"Curse you, Sakaki!" Hazuki hollered in fury as another attack failed on her. Blinded by pure rage, she started to wield her dagger and storm recklessly. The girl moved to aside to evade the first piercing strike, stabbed both of her Katanas on the ground and landed a heavy blow under Hazuki's chin using her right palm. Hazuki stumbled a few steps forward at the throbbing pain around her jaw, the girl used this chance to knock the dagger away from Hazuki's grasp and grabbed her wrists, and much to the latter's horror as she was starting to feel the intense burning sensations spread around her wrists.

"Let go! Let go of me!" Hazuki started to kick and scream vigorously, desperately trying to extract her hands from the girl's firm grips. The scorching sensations was unbearable, she could feel her skin starting to burn away, glowing white symbols rapidly swirls with elegant from her wrists to her entire arms, and shortly starting to expand through her whole body, "NO!" She screamed from the bottom of her lungs, her struggles grew frantic as the symbols spread further, "Letgoletgoletgoletgo! Let go of me!" cried Hazuki whilst the girl tighten her grips, having no intention to let go of the other anytime soon, she chanted swiftly to speed up and strengthen the spread of the glowing symbols.

But an explosion and massive black smoke comes from the nearest steel-made wall interrupted her progress, and she was forced to let go of Hazuki's hands in order to evade the sudden appearance of an Uchigatana that almost have her hands dismembered. In the matter of a second, the training ground is overwhelmed by thick smoke screen.

As Hazuki was finally freed from the girl's horrifying clutches, the white glowing symbols that almost covered her whole body abruptly dissolved into the thin air. She dropped herself on the floor rubbing her burned wrists, trembling furiously both in anger and fright while shooting a hateful glare towards the girl. However, her attention was captured by the man, who appeared standing beside her, with an unconscious girl sling over his shoulder. Color drained from her face as she saw the severe burn on the unconscious girl's right arm, she weakly called, "Koizumi…" but she felt even more dread at the sudden appearance of the man who was supposed to be waiting at the lair with their leader.

"Y-Yagami… " Hazuki swallowed thickly under the stressful presence of the man. The man called Yagami does not look pleased as he scanned the out cold bodies that scattered all over the room, making her even nervous, "Why a-are you here?"

"There are two traitors in our mist, causing riots in the lair shortly after your group dispatch." replied the man with vex, "We will retreat for now, all of you are no match for her as she is now 'awaken'." Hazuki bite her lower lip in thwart at his spiteful remarks, yet couldn't muster enough courage to retort the dangerous man. Felt insulted, she forced herself up with her wobbling legs and commanded for the rest of the intruders who remains consciousness to retreat.

The man turned on his heels to follow suit behind the retreating figures…

"Wait!" A voice shouted, soon followed by a familiar silhouette the man knew rushed towards him, and successfully stopped him from leaving by grabbing the hem of his clothes. As the smokescreen starting to lift off, he saw a pair of amethyst eyes widen at the sight of him, obviously not expected to see him here after his attempt to kill her three years ago.

"Rinc."

The girl was shocked. She knew these attacks was merely the beginning of what is bigger about to come; She knew she would have to face him sooner or later ever since she regained her memories, she thought that she was ready, but no, upon looking at his current state, she was lost…

Like Hazuki, this man she once knew has fallen. His neck length hair are jet black, no longer gleaming in silver like it was in her memory; crimson red have replaced the abysmal emerald eyes he once have, and his personality have changed to the worst...

As the girl was momentary dazed, the man took this opportunity to knock her hand away. He heard a snap, but he didn't bother to check what it was and took off without saying a single word.

The smoke screen was finally lifted, silence engulfed her, she didn't pursuit as her feet was stiff as stone, standing in the middle of the damaged training ground, surrounded by unconscious fallen, she just stared blankly at the direction where the intruders fled.

She clenched her fists, but immediately loosens her grips as she felt something prickly held in her hand. The girl unclenched her hand and looked at the object on her hand; she felt her heart skipped a beat after she took a good look at the item...

It was a delicately handcrafted wooden comb that Rinc used to comb her hair with... He has kept this with him all this time...

She was plunged into the depth of confusion. That man has every chance to kill or take her away when she was in daze, why didn't he do it? Why did he tear his gaze away from her eyes?

This man does not fear to traumatize her, and yet that man feared to look her in the eyes...

Why?

"Hatsuyuki." an awfully familiar voice called out for her, startled and snap her back from her to reality from her trance.

"Hatsuyuki." he called. The startled girl turned to meet his sapphire eyes with her wide amethysts.

He couldn't believe it. Never in his wildest dream would he have thought their next encounter will be this chaotic. Sure, he always thought she might one day pop out of nowhere and gone traveling again like she did six years ago, but never like this...

"So you are the one who imposed as Aurora all this time," said Soma to the girl who looked at him with eyes widen in surprise, "Why didn't you tell me?" Six years he have waited, and half of his mind he had thought that the girl was long dead from the risky travel she did with her brothers outside the desert full of Aragami. This thought pained him, and he didn't have a slightest clue that this bizarre girl came back eight months ago, imposed as someone else, fought and suffered in a selfish family's state.

This time, Hatsuyuki avoided his intense gaze and stared down to the steel-made floor.

"Was it because you are hiding from them?" Soma's eyes scanned the unconscious bodies in the training ground and back to the girl, "You are going to tell me what the hell is going on whether you like it or not."

"I'll try," She replied, not as 'Aurora's' voice, but her own.

"I'm not giving you an option. After all these, we deserve an explanation," Soma growled. He felt complicated. Eight months she had imposed herself as Aurora, joined Fenrir, became the First Unit's leader, they have fought through battles of live and death, they became close friends, and she opens the door of exit for him to slowly walk out from his self-isolation, he taught that he knew her... But now, he was distraught inside out to found that he never really know the girl at all, "Or is that, you are the one who led them here." once his words was out of his mouth, Soma almost wanted to bite off his tongue, and wanted nothing more than the girl will just reply him a 'no'.

"Maybe, "she said without denying.

"So you are one of them?" Soma pressed further.

"I was," she replied softly, "But at the same time, I'm not."

Soma frowned at the answers he has received, because those answers are unacceptable.

Soon, he could hear the footsteps and shouting approaching the training ground. The other God Eaters coming, but the girl made no move to hide or escape; he asked one last question before the arrival of the backups.

All those strange abilities, terms, names... Soma know one thing for sure, they are not humans.

"What are you people?"

This time, Hatsuyuki finally turned her gaze away from the floor and looked Soma in the eyes. As she gave her replies, Soma could sense nothing but melancholy in her voice.

"I... Or should I say we, are the kind that is despised and loathed by humans."

Once she was finished, she was surrounded by the God Eaters, whose she have been proudly calls her comrades for the past eight months raised their God Arcs at her.

"Drop your weapons and surrender right this instant!" Tsubaki's stern voice echoed in the training ground. The girl could tell, one small movement or a single struggle from her, she will be gun down or cut down by the God Eaters, though they would need more than that to kill her...

And here she had once thought, they would at least question her without pointing weapons at her.

It's sad.

"You imposed as 'Haruno Aurora' and infiltrated into the Den for the past eight months, and have accessed information that is restricted only for the high rank God Eaters with your raven stalwarts." Stated Tsubaki without showing slightest hint of hesitation and troubled as she sentenced her brother's savior to her fate, "As of this moment onwards, you will be stripped from your position as Assault Lieutenant and will be put under custody for further monitoring."

Hatsuyuki stared at Tsubaki's cold glance, and thought struck her. She closed her eyes, scoffed and muttered under her own breathes ironically, "I see this is how it is. So this was your plan, Yagami." It's not like she could hurt them either, so she sheathed her Katanas and drop them on the floor without a retort.

"Take her to the special cell," Tsubaki ordered and chose those who are not from the First Unit to do so. Still, even those who are not from the First Unit hesitated, "B-but Tsubaki, aren't the special cell is for the Aragami infected-?"

"Are you questioning my order?" Tsubaki interjected firmly and caused the person asked flinched, "Whoever she was, and she is definitely not human, so what makes her different than Aragami infected God Eaters? Stop wasting time and take her away," fearing to further anger Tsubaki, they shackled Hatsuyuki's hands with thick steel handcuffs and proceed to lead her to the special cell.

Speaks up for their 'leader'; or do as Tsubaki says? The members of the First Unit were torn between on what to do. Soma was no different. But he sensed something was off. Strangely not Hatsuyuki, it was something else... Something still lingering restlessly around his surrounding yet he couldn't quite put it into words.

"This training ground will be used as a ward for these fallen beings, everyone move out and search for her raven stalwart!" Tsubaki continue to instruct as the others lead Hatsuyuki to the exit of the training ground. Hatsuyuki's expression was neutral, no anger, no sadness, but Soma was able to saw the anxiety in her amethyst eyes. When she walked pass Soma, she whispered in a very soft voice only Soma's keen ears could hear. Her whisper was as quick as wind, however, Soma did not miss a single words, his eyes widen in disconcert and could only watch as the girl was led away by his fellow God Eaters.

"Soma!" Tsubaki's firm voice snapped him back to earth, he side glanced the woman with a frown whilst she continued without being suspicious of the expression that he was showing, "From this minute onwards, you'll appoint as the new First Unit Leader and take charge of the Unit from here on."

"Why me? Lindow should be the one to be appointed to this position, he was the former leader after all," Soma's frowned even more at the unreasonable decision.

"After all these chaotic incident, who knows what else are still lurking around outside the Den," Tsubaki stressed, "Just a precautious for the worst, no more further questions, do you copy?" her stern voice leaving no space for arguments, Soma merely grunted as respond as the instructor strolled her way out of the training ground.

Why did Tsubaki sound to convinced that the others are probably dead? This doesn't feel right at all. And then, the words that Hatsuyuki whispered before she was being led away repeated in his mind...

"Don't let your guard down, trust no one but Paylor and Kanon."

The Den was in mess, but overall the damages that had been caused weren't as bad as the Entrance, training ground and the executive section. An hour after Hatsuyuki was led to the special ward, the entire 1st Unit in the Den plead Tsubaki to hear their ex-leader out regardless she was imposter or not, but Tsubaki just sternly told them off and ordered them to proceed on the patrolling around the area and search for Hatsuyuki's missing black wolf.

Hours have passed; no intruders no black wolf is sighted except for those remained unconscious on the training ground. Soma have done his part on the patrol and relieved his other fellow unit members from their posts so that the other unit could take over their place on the patrol.

He was tired from all the unpleasant surprise, surely a good sleep for a night will be blissful for the following day. But as much as he wanted to sleep, the thought of Hatsuyuki bothered him endlessly. She was currently under intense surveillance, no visitors are allowed to see or talk to her, which was irritating him to no end. He has so many questions to ask her about. Things may not be the way they seem to be, he knew from the bottom of his heart that Hatsuyuki may have some similarity in abilities with the intruders, but she was not entirely one of them.

Whilst pacing towards his room, Soma was greeted by an annoying sight of the room next to his being search through by other units. One of the God Eaters noticed Soma and stopped his search to greet him, "Soma, done patrol around the Den?"

Soma recognized the three people who are doing the search in Hatsuyuki's room; they are the new rookies who joined Fenrir merely a month ago. Surely they won't be bothered by the news of 'Aurora' being one of the intruders.

"Yea, and I was told to take over the search in her room," Soma lied, he knew there must be something hidden in her room that she don't want to be seen by the others, something tells him he must take over the search.

"Take over the search? But we're just here merely five minutes ago," the rookie seems troubled, "And we have not received words about other people will take over."

"It was a last minute call, so I'm here."

"Oh, I see!" The rookie doesn't seem to be suspicious of him and grinned, Soma relaxed a little in relief but the rookie's next words almost made Soma want to punch the day light out of him, "Why not we conduct the search together, the more the merrier!"

The more the merrier your ass!

Soma tried his hardest to hold back his growl. Guess he will have go along with it without looking suspicious.

Hatsuyuki's room was by far one of the tidiest among the people he knows after Sakuya. It wasn't filled with in thrown garbage like Kota's; or with clothes and dress scattered across the room like Alisa's; or even have her room being trashed and smashed up like his own... There was almost nothing in her room that could be called hers, most of the stuff was belonged to Lindow and they are well kept as she occasionally did some monthly cleaning.

"Geez, that imposter should really need to go shopping once in a while. She only has five sets of uniforms in her closets and they are all the same!" the female rookie has been muttering and complaining about Hatsuyuki's choice of wear while she was running through the closet.

"Does she even live here at all?! There's almost nothing that seems to belong to her in this room!" Another male rookie exclaimed whilst examining through Lindow's old pile of junks.

"She have only been logged in the terminal twice a month to check her supplies, emails and status, she never accessed anything other than those... None her personal files are saved in her terminal either," the only serious rookie mumbled.

'Ignore them,' Soma told himself, obviously irritated the rookies in the room, tried his best not to kick them out, 'Just ignore them and focus on your own search,' he gritted his teeth and looked around the bed area.

'There must be something around here,' Soma thought inwardly, kneeled to take a look under the bed. Nothing under the bed either.

He sighed dejectedly. And here he thought he might able to find something. Hatsuyuki often seems to fidget whenever someone comes near the bed, he knows she might have hid something here, but he never voice it out because he thought it might better he leave her some privacy. Before he stand up, he noticed a piece of dark blue fabric stuck out under the thick mattress, he reached out his hands attempted to pull it out, but he ended up shoving it back deeper into the mattress as he heard one of the rookie walked to him.

"Found anything?" The rookie asked.

"None," Soma lied again without breaking a sweat, all he needs to do right now is to get these three rookies out of the room.

"I see," the rookie scratched the back of his head in discouraged, "Guess we have searched through everything then, lets head out." he turned around to orders the other two rookie to move out from the room, and Soma took this opportunity to swiftly pull the object out of the mattress, much to his relief that the object was small enough to be hidden underneath his jacket. Then he stands up and leaves his expression blank as usual just in time the rookie turned to face him again, "Shall we move out then?"

Soma merely grunted in respond.

It was a small fabric package.

Soma took off his jacket and sat on his own bed, inspecting the object he has found from Hatsuyuki's room. He starts to untie the knots of the fabric in order to take a look what Hatsuyuki have been hiding secretively from the others in this bundle. Once the knot was undone, he pulled out the first thing he saw within, and gasped at the familiar piece of clothes...

It was the jacket he left behind for Hatsuyuki six years ago. Although the color seems a bit worn out, he could tell that she have been keeping it with care all this time. He felt the corners of his lips twitched upwards upon remembrance of the incident six years ago, but soon turned into a frowned at the size of his old jacket, "Never thought I had such small stature when I was thirteen..."

Putting aside the small jacket, he pulled out the second and remaining item lying within the fabric. It was a thick journal... On second look, it's more like a pile of different quality written papers are stacked neatly into a hard cover accordingly to date, as though she just writes on any plain paper she could get her hands on.

He made sure that his door was locked, in case someone just barge in without permission and notice this journal. He flipped open the cover, and started to read the first entry...

A/N:
DUN DUN DUN DUN~! Here comes another cliffhanger!

What did Hatsuyuki write in her journal? What will Soma find out?

I'm will be waiting for the lovely reviews~

P.S.

I'm glad that 'The Daily Dose of Fun with God Eaters' has received unexpectedly good feedbacks.

: Don't worry; I'll still be continuing the one-shots along with this Fanfic. And thanks for the suggestions, I have thought of writing about Lindow's and Sakuya's wedding, and currently in writing progress :)

rydia3791: Haha! Glad that you love number 18! Personally my favorite one is number 22 in that fic, since it's not every day that Soma would get his God Arc case suddenly being accidently throw out by a hyper teenage :D

jhellou: Yup, Kota will always be Kota. Stay tune for the next one-shot! :)

PurplishBlue Heiress: You are most welcome! I'm delighted to know that I have made your day, I had fun writing it too! :D