The Hunter and The Hunted (chapter 1)

 Ikeda Takuya sighed. His latest kill had been an easy target...so easy that it really annoyed him, actually. His victim's family was somewhat more of a challenge as they put up a fight, but the victim herself...no. She had been too eager to follow him. He had filled her young mind with false promises of love and that he would take care of her if she ran away with him. It was easy for him to know this. He found her dreams on an online journal and befriended her under the guise of the one she fell in love with. His target came to him at the Rainbow Bridge at midnight and it was easy enough to impersonate her crush. He got her into the car and took her outside of the city where he killed her. After leaving her body near the highway, rain fell. Whatever evidence he might have left behind got washed away.

'I need something more challenging.'

Returning home, he decided to do some more internet surfing. Honestly, it was just mindless surfing until he came across a group of girls well-known to the entirety of Japan: the lovely Sailor Scouts. He wasn't sure why he stopped on them but his instincts told him to take a look at them. Everyone knew who they were and that they were personal guards of the goddess of Crystal Tokyo, Neo-Queen Serenity. He often fantasized slitting her throat but he was also a realist. Only fools would try to attempt such a stunt. Takuya had heard of such attempts and all of them had failed. It was also foolish to even target the Sailor Scouts themselves as they were skilled in the ways of magic and elemental attacks. 

'Ah, a man can dream.'

A knock at his door came.

"Come in."

A man clad in entirely black entered his office and begged pardon for the interruption. He did receive word of another one of their men being injured by a female. Takuya raised an eyebrow. This was the second report of such of incident but the messenger happened to witness the whole thing and, as such, was given a description of the female and her name. Dismissing the messenger, he turned to his computer and did a search of one Adachi Sakura. The results came as quite a surprise.

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'This is not the place to get lost.'

Sakura had impulsively decided to take a short cut through an alley way and was regretting it with each step she took. She had her power stick so she could transform into Sailor Night and it pulsed against her hip in warning. She was crossing through Shadow territory, a notorious criminal organization known to run various parts of town, and that was a very dangerous move on her part. She wasn't sure why she decided to go through the alley this time around. She always took the long way around to her apartment.

'Someone's here.'

The young woman had no qualms in defending herself. Heck, she had a bit of a reputation of taking on men who were more than twice her size and getting out unscathed. She tried not to get into fights but most times it was completely unavoidable. Sakura stood up straight and started to walk faster. She would have made it, too, if someone hadn't grabbed her arm. Her first instinct was to grab the owner of the offending hand and throw him over her shoulder. Adachi Sakura wasn't a screamer. She was a fighter.

Her attacker landed on the ground with a loud grunt. He wore gray, black and purple colors, indicative of a Shadow gangster. She jammed her small foot into his stomach to make sure he didn't get up right away. 

"Stay down, you bastard!"

Sakura hurried a way as fast as she could but not before she heard a low, admiring whistle. She spun around quickly and spotted piercing gray eyes shining within the darkness. She had a feeling she knew who the owner of those eyes were.

'My day just keeps getting better and better.' She thought sarcastically.
 

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