DarkenedHrt101: yes it is sad but it can still be continued…😉

phillynz: we will see…now! Lol

NikkiBC: ah yes a Jensen, jared or all the forms of mamo stalk would be great but alas we live in the real world where incredibly hot guys like that are either taken, dicks, or gay…the very few left have sadly been hurt by the mean girls in the world and get scared of the good ones…so sad. Sorry bad reflection of moods but it is coming to the climax here!

Taino Delsan13: that's why I had the neighbor nearby to watch. Sometimes noisy neighbors pay off. 😊 oh yes!

4reviews, that's nice, now for the grand finalie…all those who are in favor of a sequel let me know I do believe I have 3 votes so far so let me know going forward. This one is a tad longer but it is one hell of a chapter so please read and review and let me what you all think!

Obsessed and dangerous ch.13

Diamond POV

I had had enough of everything. For the past few days I worked tediously hard to make sure I could find a large enough time frame to capture my ex and make her mine again. Trying to keep track of where and when she left out with Mamoru. Thankfully she was a bit of a routine girl the problem was her routine became his routine to so it became that much harder to configure a time when he'd leave her for more than fifteen to twenty minutes.

My contact was trying to get ahold of me and it was so agitating that I just needed a reprieve. I needed her. I knew there was only one way to make myself feel more in control. I had to act now and take her and being that I had finally come up on my own window of opportunity I knew when I could seize that chance. I looked out the window seeing as how it had been a couple of days since he'd been staying over there. It gnawed on me extensively that he got more of her than I ever did.

So when I watched them for days through the window, getting to know their routine so I could make my move and waited for an opportunity to get her alone I finally saw it. Grabbing what I'd need from my belongings I prepared to take her. She wouldn't get away from me like the others did. Though I'm not sure you could call comatose getting away from me. Who knew the human skull was so fragile. As I left out I left my door unlocked as I wanted to get back in with ease after I grabbed her.

It wouldn't do me any good to take her then have to fumble for keys to insert and have anyone see me. Though I knew she would be missed by family and friends I just didn't care anymore. I knew it wasn't the most logical way to think about it but I was beyond the point of caring right now. I had to shake that worry off and keep moving forward. I could always have her subtly go missing and make sure it was long enough of a duration where there would be no leads found afterwards. At least none that could lead to me.

The trail would go cold and her family would eventually give up. After the first 48-72 hours police know that the chances of the missing being found alive drop under 50% easily. And after 96 hours its desperate family pleas that the majority know the missing is more than likely deceased and I was counting on those statistics in securing her to me. Her family would give up eventually and no one would know where she was and have no clue just how close she really was to them all this time.

I knew it was a bit of a stretch but I had to make her mine again. As I got closer to her place I made sure Mamoru was out and in his own place. Probably to get more overnight clothes. When I took her if he came in I'd make sure to take care of him before he could get within range to save her. He wasn't getting her this time. I got to her door and found that it was left unlocked probably so he could have easy entry to get back in.

Their mistake. I smiled and slowly opened the door to hear her rummaging around in her room. I then closed the door and locked it to buy me some time to secure her. I tip toed quietly as she began singing to a song she had on. I got the distinct impression that she thought I was Mamoru which would make getting closer to her that much easier than before. I patted the space in my pockets to make sure I had my blade within reach if needed.

Usagi POV

Mamoru had gone back over to his place to grab some more clothes. One can only wear boxes for so many days in a row without becoming funky after a while. I had to admit though that it felt great having him over here as often as he was. I could see things becoming even more serious with him going forward. So when I heard the door open back up again and close while being locked I figured it was him.

Those were the same patterns that he always used to secure us safely whenever he went back and forth. Plus he only needed to grab a few things though I had to admit I thought he'd be a little bit longer having needed to see about work stuff over there. I didn't care nor mind as he wasn't far away, plus I knew I could handle myself. Turning the music on in my room I started to hear the song 'devil within' by digital daggers pop on.

It was a low toned song for the most part and I couldn't help but begin to sing along a little bit, "I will keep quiet you won't even know I'm here, you won't suspect a thing, you won't see me in the mirror…" I began to sing, folding up some laundry as I faced the bed laying the clothes I had just gotten cleaned a few days ago out so I could put them away in the drawers. Not that it was to much as most of it had been damaged when Diamond had broken in and ruined a lot of what I had in my drawers and closet.

I just made sure to buy new ones little by little over the next few months to regain what I had lost and do what I could to avoid breaking the bank to badly. Luckily my parents did still like to buy me things so I'd be more forthcoming on accepting those 'gifts' from them. So I continued singing as I did feel comfortable around Mamoru to the point where I felt like I could sing lower toned songs like this and not be afraid for him to hear me.

"But I've crept into your heart you can't make me disappear till I make you…" I began to really get into the song as it began to come to a head. I felt Mamoru come up behind me, not having said a word yet. Probably listening to me sing along to the song. I smiled at that as I continued on. "I've made myself at home in the cob webs and the lights…I'm learning all your tricks I can hurt you from inside…" before I could finish though a bone chilling chuckle came from behind me that was definitely NOT Mamoru's.

My heart rate sped up at the sound of his voice as I tried incredibly hard to NOT let panic seep into my form. "How fitting for you to sing THAT song while I'm here." Terror froze over me for a few seconds as it registered to me that Diamond was in here and right behind me. He'd snuck in AGAIN and this time I had a feeling things were definitely going to get physical. There were no second chances here. No more.

I honestly couldn't stand the thought of even being in the same room as him and here he was in my bedroom of all places. I felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand up as I tried to avoid shivering in reaction to his presence. "Diamond…" I began, trying to make myself seem like I was too afraid to act when all I wanted to do was go in for the attack. Doing mental notes of where my knives all were.

If he saw me as nonthreatening I could gain the upper hand on him quickly. "What are you doing here after I explicitly told you to leave us alone or else I'd call the cops again." I asked, ready to act as I pushed the threat of cops towards him once more. Hopefully he'd get scared and run off, "I want you back Usagi, you belong to me, we belong together. I can make it better than what it was I just need that chance, trust me I love you." he was definitely loco if he thought I was coming back to him.

He sounded desperate I would give him that but something sinister lured beyond the surface of his words. Like he wasn't willing to accept any form of rejection. "Are you a complete idiot or do you just have a death wish?" I asked him. "We can make it like before only better and without that lame ass dick Mamoru to get in the way." He snapped irritated at me making me all the more determined to get him out.

"NO! Now get out before I do call the cops and have you arrested!" I was going to either way but I had to put the threat out there to see if he'd leave on his own before I moved. So I rejected his words as I verbally resisted him. He remained rooted to his spot so I knew he wasn't going to do as told, "Didn't do you much good the first time, what good will it do now?" he countered my words. I hated him for that. Somehow, he knew that I had called the cops on him and it didn't matter to him.

Instinct taking over my muscles reacted to hit him as a natural reaction to attack my intruder came to me, but Diamond caught my arms before I could fully react as if having anticipated the move before I could fully complete it. "Wrong choice Usagi cause now I'm going to have to break you. Show you who's the fucking boss in this relationship." He grit into my neck as he held me tightly against his form.

"I'm not going to let that ass have you…so if I can't…well as cliched as it sounds no one will have you. And I'll make sure Mamoru's body will be in pieces before he's found in Sumida river." This was something I hadn't counted on. He sounded beyond dangerous now and there was no way I was getting out of this with relative ease. He grabbed my arms and crossed them over my chest as he held me close to him. Being back in his arms and like this made my stomach curl far more so than it had before.

Not to mention it felt like a hold that one would use to subdue an inmate or something. A nonlethal one. It confused me. Did Diamond have some sort of training that I was underestimating here? He held my wrists in a tight bruising grip that made me clench my own fists on to keep the blood circulating even as I fought to control my natural instincts to break before I had an opportunity.

The music kept playing preventing Mamoru from hearing the voice of Diamond in here with me through the walls. I cursed putting it on now. I had just wanted to listen to something while taking care of the laundry and knew he'd be back over. It didn't help that it was loud enough to cover the sounds either. "Now, now my sweet Usagi…no need for that. Just do as I say and things will go along swimmingly." He gently ordered.

The tone he used to get me to do as he wanted reminded me of that of a tiger waiting for his meal to protest so he could go in for the kill. It was a deadly calm that I'd never heard any one use before yet that was the exact way my mind found it to sound. I was standing at the middle of the bed, several feet away from one of my knives. I only had one opportunity to break away before his hold would tighten.

Using one of the moves Makoto had taught me years ago I just barely broke it as I went for the knife under my pillow to find Diamond damn near jumping on me, stopping me before I could reach it. "Did you think I was going to make this easy?" he demanded, grabbing at the knife I had under there and tossing it much to far away for me to grab. He wrapped his arms around my neck in a partial choke hold as he used his other hand to pull my arm out and force me down to the bed. Bending me over to where my butt got shoved into his crotch.

His hand released my neck only to keep pressure at the back of my neck with his hand, "You move and I'll snap it." It honestly felt like he could at the angle I was at. My neck was in pain from the pressure he was exerting. He made one false and stupid move though. One that would hopefully cost him. As I waited for my chance to come I saw him reach back for a blade. I could barely see it but it glimmered in a nearby mirror I had.

It was just enough to catch my eye as I figured out where it was I gently felt for my own blade, hidden between the mattress and box spring, something he wouldn't see coming. I never thought I'd have to use this one considering what position I'd have to be in to use it but nonetheless I had placed it for such an occasion. I carefully pulled it out without using too much force to avoid him spotting the movement.

I gently opened it even as I felt him beginning to caress my body from behind, "So smooth…" he commented. I felt myself growing sicker as the need to puke was getting stronger but I needed him focused there so that he would lax and not see my own motions coming. His hold on my neck became just a bit more relaxed if you could call it that, as he couldn't help his own hormonal needs as he maneuvered to touch me more freely.

He was becoming fixated on touching me from the position he was in, enjoying the motions as he slowly ground himself into me from behind. I could feel him begin to grow in his jeans as I forced my focus on my own intentions and to NOT get let myself react to the cringe worthy sensations going through me, "I can give it to you so much better than he can." I rolled my eyes at that remark.

"I know I have…and you LYING about it while in bed with him…it had to be to make him feel better right?" he demanded of me. Rubbing himself into my ass as he slowly became harder behind me. I was sickened by this but also glad that he was chattering away. He didn't hear the small slow click of the blade as I pulled it open and flipped it around in my hand. I couldn't help my own words now realizing that somehow he'd SEEN Mamoru and I intimate together to know such details.

"And how the hell would you know that?" I demanded, using the talk to move my arm ever so slightly to get into position so that when I hit him I wouldn't accidentally slice myself since I was aiming backwards. It's not like I had special training to the extent needed for this, I was going off of blind hope that I hit him and not myself. His voice was then right at my right ear, "Through the magic of sight and a peep hole." It was right then and there I realized he had been spying on me even more extensively than I realized.

My stomach dropped like a dead weight and I knew I felt that bitter taste in the back of my throat that signified the bile that had crept up my throat from his words. His forcefulness just made me want to retch in response as I replied, "Well I hope you got a good show…" I angled the knife, "Cause you'll never see me like that EVER again." I jammed it into him, unaware of exactly where it was as I was still limited in my viewing.

He backed off enough for me to turn just enough to dig it in deeper, trying as hard as I could to cause more damage and rip through flesh to gain the upper hand on him so I could escape. I wasn't even sure where I hit only that I pierced through his skin and into muscles hard enough to hear him give a cry of shock. That'll teach him to try and touch me when I said no. Though now I was feeling the adrenaline from what just happened and used it to my advantage.

I angled my body once more to kick him back just enough to see that I stabbed him in the upper thigh as he pulled the three inch blade out. All three inches including a bit of the handle were dripping with his blood, "Fucking cunt." He sneered, clearing beyond pissed off with my actions as he looked at me deranged. He obviously hadn't expected me to retaliate as I did. I kicked him again back away from me as I went for another knife.

He barely went down just back a few feet and even though I was a little worried he was shaking off the wound I also knew he was probably running off of adrenaline to keep him from going down at first. That's when I heard Mamoru pounding on the door. Relief flooded through me, "Mamoru!" I cried out, letting him hear the need for help within my voice. However I couldn't get to the door as Diamond had pulled the knife out with a grunt of pain and was gripping it in his hand now.

"Usako!" he shouted back, trying to break inside himself now. "Get help Diamond's in here!" I shouted as Diamond lunged forward and knocked me over. I hit the bed and bounced back hitting him in the process. He went to grab at me again as I punched him in the face. He reeled back but only a little bit before he grabbed my leg and pulled it out from under me. I kicked him with my other leg before he could try to get on top of me.

He hit the door as I got back up onto my feet. I looked for another weapon to use against him only to have him pull me into a choke hold. His arm wrapped around my throat effectively cutting off my air supply, "If only you weren't so damned stubborn this could have gone easier." He muttered, tightening his grip forcing me to try to hit him elsewhere to release me. Any where else at this point would have worked but it felt like no matter where I tried to hurt him it was useless against him.

I was starting to feel my vision waning as I couldn't get any hits I connected to jar him enough to loosen his hold around my neck. He had definitely done this before and I could feel the veins in my head ready to explode with numbness. I fought furiously to avoid panicking cause that would never help out in the end. Panic would only diminish my strength and add fuel to his fire and I couldn't have that.

I reached up and went after his eyes, anything to get him to loosen his hold on me. Too give me breath at least. I dug my thumb into an eye socket and heard his cry of pain at it and barely felt the hold slacken. It was just for a few brief seconds. Anyone else not with Makoto's training would have merely gasped for air and then lost it in the next several seconds but thanks to her I took my air and held it as I jumped up and curled my legs beneath me as I went back down forcing him to be flipped over my shoulders effectively breaking the hold.

I crawled away from him as my vision still wavered though my throat was grateful for the oxygen. I grabbed his knife on the floor and angled it in a defensive maneuver as I continued to hear the door being kicked at. Mamoru shouting something at me that I couldn't barely focus on as I swiped at Diamond. I missed as he backed far enough away, "I'm going to so thoroughly enjoy breaking you now."

His manacle expression was enough to tell me just what he had planned and not the first time I felt sick to my stomach. I had to hold myself together though or else I would retch from all of this and give him an opportunity that I couldn't afford to give him. So forcing my stomach to stay down and not rebel I instead jabbed him verbally, "I'm going to enjoy jamming this blade into you…with your own blade no less."

He lost his smirk, "Soon you'll be seeing things my way." He came after me again only for us both to hear the door being busted open. Mamoru standing there looking fierce and ready to pound Diamond's face in. I never was more grateful to see him than I was at that moment. Not that I didn't think I couldn't have handled Diamond but it didn't hurt to have the man you love there to help and protect you.

Once he saw my deranged ex standing the way he was over me it was as if he's eye went red with blood lust. He wanted Diamond's head on a platter, bloody and it was easy to read off his face. Diamond for his part I could see was trying to act like it didn't matter, or more like he had been waiting for this and was eager to beat on my boyfriend as Mamoru looked ready to beat down on him.

It really did look like a show down was going to happen as I quickly got a safe distance away from the asshole having used my man's presence as a few second time gap to gain distance from him. Diamond saw this but didn't let up his focus from Mamoru. He wanted to see every move coming and for the first time in my life I was in the middle of a big fight between two men looking to spill the others blood.

Not to mention the blood lust I saw in Mamoru's eyes spoke volumes to what he was going to do to Diamond. "You are so going to lose." I told the asshole as he turned his eyes momentarily back to me. He sneered before turning them back to Mamoru. A vicious looking sneer crossing his face in pure hatred of him, "Ah yes the knight and shinning ar - " Diamond couldn't even finish his sentence.

Mamoru had ran and barreled into him. Knocking the knife from his hand in the process and began to beat the living hell out of him. The amount of rage in my boyfriend's movements and the advanced fighting skills he was demonstrating made me wonder just where the hell he learned all of what he was doing. It didn't look like the basic training Makoto had taught me in self-defense.

It looked more skilled than what I possessed and even what Makoto herself possessed and she was the next toughest to us girls. I couldn't help but watch in stunned fascination as Mamoru literally beat the living shit out of Diamond, both countering each other with precise movements that made you watch in fascination. You'd think you were watching a perfectly matched out choreographed movie fight scene.

I raised a brow for but a moment before shaking it off. If it weren't for the fact that this was real life and not on a big screen tv I would have been tempted to pull out a bowl of popcorn with some soda to watch the fight and turn up the volume. However, this was a particular situation that was real and, in my apartment no less. My heart was pounding loudly in my chest as if burning off some of the adrenaline that was coursing through me as well.

I made sure I was up and out of immediate danger, but I also wanted to help out to. I wasn't some damsel in distress here. So, when Mamoru got the knife kicked away at one point I went to pick it up on instinct only to have him yell out, "Kick it away!" I resisted the urge to still grab it but realized if only Diamond's prints were on it, it was more proof against him. Instead I did as asked and kicked it away. That wasn't the only knife in the room though.

I just couldn't go looking for the other as they were still fighting like two wild animals. So I grabbed for my phone and called the cops myself and found that Mamoru had made a call out already. I thanked my lucky stars that he already had. The brutality of Mamoru's fists of fury had me ALMOST, ALMOST feeling a tiny tinge of sympathy for the asshole but after everything he had done and was going to do I really didn't. I just watched as Diamond got his ass royally handed to him.

However I did feel for Mamoru if he got sent to jail for beating a man to death even if it was in self-defense I had no doubt someone would turn the tables around on him so after multiple attempts at stabbing the other to which I tried to intervene on. I wound up getting slashed in the arm by Diamond causing me to cry out in stunned shock before Mamoru physically pulled him from going after me in his rage.

It did however grant him Diamond's back briefly before he threw him towards the other side of the wall effectively putting himself between Diamond and me. "You're not touching her ever again you fucking psycho." Mamoru snarled at him. His overly protective and possessive nature for me coming in loud and clear, but I didn't fear it no rather I felt safe and secured by it. The cut on my arm wasn't deep but it was a tad painful.

"She was MINE!" Diamond raged coming back at Mamoru as he pushed me to the side and out of harm's way. Mamoru caught the attack with premeditated ease and nearly spat back at him, "She was NEVER yours…just waiting for ME to come along." This enraged Diamond further causing him to screw up his own focus as Mamoru gained the upper hand and used his anger against him.

Knocking him back down he beat on Diamond till I saw nothing more than blood on the floor. I knew there was a part of me that said I should let him do it, but another part of me didn't want Mamoru to have to end his life. I pulled up on him when he was literally beating Diamond to the point of near death. At least it looked that way. "Mamoru stop! He's down!" he finally stopped beating on him leaving Diamond bloodied up on the ground.

Frankly I didn't see how Diamond could get back up let alone throw a punch. His face was badly swollen and beaten in. He looked like he could barely see out of his one eye and his arm was dangling now from his side on the ground from the crack Mamoru pushed it through earlier, "It's okay he's down and the cops are on the way." I confirmed, "Yeah…" he huffed, having expended a lot of energy to beat Diamond as he did.

He was bloodied all over himself but I had a strange feeling it was mostly Diamond's blood than anything else. He'd gotten a bit hit and bruised and slashed at himself but not nearly as much as Diamond had been. He looked trashed. He came in here looking for a fight and we gave him one hell of a fight. He pulled me close to him and checked me from cuts, "It's okay I'm fine, a little banged up but nothing I can't handle." I assured him.

Mamoru POV

Once I heard Usagi's slight panicked voice through the door I knew something was wrong. My thoughts turned to panic especially when I couldn't open the door with ease. I pounded on it and only heard a scuffle ensue on the inside. I knew somehow he'd gotten in there and was getting physical with her. Something I wouldn't stand for. I got on the phone as I heard her call out to call the cops and sent out a distress to them to come here immediately. I knew we had all we needed against him so I kicked at the door in repeatedly till it finally busted open.

The chain lock on the inside had been secured in place making it more difficult than before. The stubborn piece of metal that was meant to keep intruders out was keeping me out and giving the intruder more time. Clever bastard had locked all the locks on me…I thought to myself. I finally broke it open to reveal Usagi in a defensive position and Diamond in a threatening motion coming at her.

I didn't even blink. My only thought was to pummel him till he looked like ground beef. How dare he hurt her in any way shape or form! She was just to damned good for him and he was nothing more than trash. She gave him chance after chance and this is how he repays her. He never deserved her. I may not either after this but at least I made sure to keep her safe and protected from him.

My only thoughts going forward were to destroy him. Or in this case mangle him to the point where he couldn't ever hurt anyone ever again. I barreled at him running across the living room in seconds as he tried to counter me. Thing was I was better trained than he was. I slammed my fist into his face hard enough to rock him back and break his nose. I saw the wound on his leg, a gift from my Usako I knew.

She fought back and didn't back down. Good girl. I'd have to praise her later for not giving in and for fighting back. I came back and got slammed with his fist into my face which I give it to him, he had a nasty right hook but I had an upper cut that wouldn't quit. I nailed him in the jaw again only for him to shove me back enough to punch me in the face. I knew Usagi would question my skill level after this but I had no choice.

I saw him go for the knife again and slammed my fist into his wrist knocking it out as I grabbed his arm and twisted it behind his body. He grunted from the force of it as I used my strength to dislocate his arm. I only managed to crack it before he grabbed for the knife again and sliced me at the leg with it. I barely backed away from the move in time so I instead kicked him into the wall as I began to slam my fist into his face repeatedly.

Not letting up not giving in I kept going till I felt a smaller knife, one only police usually carried on them, slash into my arm as I slammed a fist on another impact against his face. My arm instantly retracted as he gained the slight upper hand so I moved quicker than him. Dodging his slash attempts as he became more manacle with them. His anger getting the better of him as he lost some of his focus giving me back the upper hand.

It never was a good idea to lose your focus and only be angry. You had to channel your anger so you could use it to fight and not let it control your fight. Cleared Diamond forgot about this as I kicked at the hand and this time sent to knife towards Usagi, "Kick it away!" I ordered her, wanting only his prints to be on the knife for further evidence against him. She did as ordered as I continued to beat down on his face.

She must have understood why to as the psycho kept coming at me. His rage may have allotted for him to make mistakes but it also adrenalized him to allowing him to keep coming back for more. So when Diamond came at me with another knife I hadn't seen before Usagi quickly tried to intervene on my behalf and while commendable it was that she wanted to have my back my need to protect her over-rode common sense.

I was livid when he made contact against her skin when he lashed out as an automatic defense, her shocked cry of pain only served to heighten my senses of protectiveness when it came to her so I used what felt like a dose of extra adrenaline myself to threw him into an opposing wall opposite of her as I put myself between them. It gave me the advantage I knew so I would thank her later for that.

"She was MINE!" he raged against me. I could see the need to kill me so clearly etched into his face it wasn't even funny. "She was NEVER yours…just waiting for ME to come along." I knew Usagi couldn't see it but I couldn't help but let a little smirk hit my face and enter my eyes. I wanted him to lose focus and give me back the edge and his emotions were going to get him killed in this.

I countered Diamond trying to attack me again and pushed Usagi a safe distance away as he landed on his ass. I began a steady stream of raging punches for everything he'd done not only to Usagi but to the other women out there that he'd hurt. I barely heard Usagi say something to me till it registered that she'd shouted, "Mamoru stop! He's down!" I didn't want to though. I didn't want to stop making his face into ground beef.

I was slamming my fists into him so repeatedly my fist was becoming sore with use. I didn't care though, I would pound him into mince-meat if that's what it took. He finally went down as I got on top of him and slammed my fist into his face till Usagi had to pull me from him. Blood dripped from my fist as the bruising finally signaled me that it was over. The blood had even splattered up at my face in all of my hits.

Once I realized I became to focused on Diamond I abandoned his form to check Usagi out, as she confirmed that the police were called, "Yeah…" I agreed. "It's okay I'm fine, a little banged up but nothing I can't handle." She assured me when I checked her over. It was only then that I heard the sirens in the distance. "So you going to tell me how you fought so well?" she asked as we walked out slowly.

Usagi POV

We heard the sirens come up on us as we walked out of my apartment. He hadn't answered me yet as the police came up. Two of them same ones that I filed the report with. They came out of their cop cars looking a little worried at they should be. these were the same two dismissive ones from before. maybe not they won't be. "Are you two okay?" they asked. They didn't seem this worried before when it was just me.

"We're fine but Diamond is in there and is in need of restraints. He attacked Usagi here and fought against myself." Mamoru stated, instantly taking over talking since I was still peeved with these cops from before. "And you sir are?" the one cop asked as he prepared to write the information down and his partner saw the other cops starting to come up. I was feeling the effects of the evening take hold.

That's when I saw three more cops come up to the scene. It was truly beginning to look like a crime scene now. The one that came out of the next nearest car greeted Mamoru, "Ah detective Chiba." My eyes widened in shock as Mamoru nodded his head at him. "Chief inspector Lee." He greeted back. I was so shocked I couldn't even formulate words right now. I thought he was in construction?! "So you have the proof on Diamond that we need?" he asked.

Proof? He knew?! "Hai, sir. Usagi here fought him off well before I intervened and made him temporarily immobile. He's in her bedroom where the fight took place." I was still silent as the two cops I had dealt with earlier looked at each other with rising gulp faces, like they had made a mistake in over-looking things. I hoped they got their neck wrung out good for this obvious oversight issue. "You two go in there and talk to the land lord to get access to Diamond's place." They rushed off glad to not get yelled at, for the moment anyways.

I however was still piecing this all together. "Okay hold on here." My head was getting dizzy now, "You're a cop?" I demanded of Mamoru. I was trying not to shriek at him, but my voice was definitely a bit higher in pitch. He looked resigned, "Hai, I was assigned to see if he was in fact living here before gaining evidence of his illegal activities. We couldn't make a move beforehand since all we had was circumstantial at best." I was shocked by this and felt even a bit betrayed by him.

How could he have kept all of this from me?! "You lied to me?" I was pissed and hurt. Did he use me as bait or something? Was I just a pawn to these cops and Mamoru was the lure to get me to open up to him? Before my emotions could get out of control I realized I didn't have all the facts just yet and without them all I really couldn't make an informed decision, so I kept my self-doubts and inquires to myself as I listened to what they had to say.

"Not completely no. Everything I told you was the truth I just haven't been in construction for the last several years. I quit and turned to being a cop when the first victim was found dead three years ago. Worked my way up so I could get assigned to this job. I just didn't know how this was how it was all going to go down." He admitted. "Okay let's set aside the fact that you still technically lied to me and let's put aside the reason for it for now tell me…" I turned to his superior now.

Trying to keep my cool intact but also wanting to know as much as I could find out. I felt like at this point I'd earned it. "Who the hell is Diamond and why the hell was he so obsessed with me? And victims? Plural?" I demanded and pointed out from what Mamoru had said. He looked ready to protest when Mamoru seemed to give him the assurance to tell me everything. They both knew after everything I'd been through, I deserved it.

"This is part of an ongoing investigation that has been open for nearly four years." He began looking at Diamond as the other two officers were escorting him out. Or rather carrying him out of my place. He was pretty beaten down and even seemed to be drooling a bit. You couldn't even tell it was him at this point in his face but we all knew it was. You could hear him groaning just a bit as if he was struggling to stay awake.

An ambulance came up for him as his injuries were heavy enough to require it. Mamoru really laid it on him heavily, "Tanaka, Diamond, he was and I do emphasis on was, an officer over at the precinct in the higher portion of Tokyo." Now I was truly stunned. "How the hell did a cop get away with this for so long and the public was unaware?" I demanded, "We were trying to keep it quiet." The superior mentioned.

I was stunned, "Excuse me?" I was upset now. Diamond had been operating like this for so long because the department wanted to keep a lid on his activities?! "We felt that with the public's response letting it out there that one of our own, even if he wasn't from within our precinct, had turned this way was just too bad of press for the rest of the departments to handle." I was astonished. "So, you kept this from the public allowing him to continue what he was doing to avoid bad press?" I nearly snapped.

The superior put his hands up as a way to try and calm me down, "No, we had no idea he was still continuing forward. Truthfully, we didn't even know who it was that was doing the crimes till Diamond went missing. He had been doing everything under the radar for nearly four years and it was only in the last three that his crimes became visible to us." He answered making me wonder how many victims there really had been before he started to get sloppy.

"We thought after the last girl landed in a coma and he disappeared that he fled the country. So we reached out to other neighboring countries to see if he took residence there but those leads went into dead ends." He began to explain. I crossed my arms over my chest to keep from acting out on hitting him for the sheer ridiculousness of this. They'd made false assumptions and it seemed to have cost them more time and almost more.

"We thought he was honestly gone till we began to get unconfirmed reports that a man matching his description was seen around here, with another girl…you." That's when it came to light, "We were unsure however if it was actually him as the witnesses didn't ever see him unless he came out to be with you." He was hiding in his apartment all that time. That's why he never talked about work cause he didn't do anything and his former job would have had me asking to many questions he couldn't answer without giving himself away.

I now had a mind buzz full of questions for the cops here. So then how did he afford to live here without an income? I'd ask that one later I had a more pressing question not to ask, "So I was the bait in your little investigation?" anger in my voice. Daring them to deny it and if they did come up with a logical excuse or reason I still should have been told. I really was getting upset now at this whole scenario considering everything that had happened.

"Not initially no. We even sent Chiba in to see how you were doing. Make sure you weren't in any physical danger and to see if it was in fact Diamond." I was becoming more and more stunned by the minute. "So your telling me that Diamond evaded the ENTIRE police force of Tokyo and around here?" I definitely snapped at him on that one. He sighed but did seem agitated, "He had help on the inside that we were unaware of at first." I lessened my anger on that note.

"He had a partner?" I presumed, "Hai, we only found out about him as he went for the stash of yen that Diamond had initially obtained a large portion of in police lock up. We hadn't realized that Diamond had managed to take a large stack of yen from there as his cohort was the manager of lock up and falsified records to cover the trail. We only discovered it during a random audit from the department." This was ridiculous. The internal audits were the apparent break through to this case.

"His cohort messed up by trying to go after the rest of the yen himself and was caught via his code to be entered in. He though he deleted the evidence, deleting security footage but his digital finger print was on everything. Our analysts found it and it was his downfall." Wow no wonder why then. "Why didn't he try to go for the yen sooner?" I asked, "We think he was working the system over." I motioned to explain more.

"The more yen that got put into the lock up the more there was to pilfer from over the years. The auditors are still going through everything even now. The only reason why it wasn't found during an earlier audit was because he was sleeping with one of them until she broke it off. Seemed he had gambling issues. So he was no longer getting a chance to skirt the system." He said as I was astonished by all of this.

I had to admit it was kind of hard to be upset at them when they had no idea one of their own, someone they were supposed to be able to trust was working against them from the inside and they had no idea till the audit came around and his ex-girlfriend did it and didn't let him pass as she usually let him. I'm surprised she even still has her own job right now but that's not my problem right now.

Plus, who knew for how this was going on to. I was starting to really feel for the many victims before me. Who knew how many there really were and to know that Diamond had had help covering it up all this time and that's why he went undetected for so long. I deflated a little in my anger against them but not against Mamoru. He still owed me for this one. He wasn't off the hook no matter how much information I got.

"Plus, he made a mistake when he was interviewed on why some of his paperwork didn't add up. I think that caused him to try to fly the coop and when he did he got caught. He made a deal with us to testify against Diamond, so he could get a reduced sentence." He explained. I was in disbelief as I heard one of the cops call out, "Chief you need to see this." From Diamond's place, other residents were being asked to stay in their homes as more cops came to the scene to ensure that happened. Curious we all went over to see inside.

Things in the living room looked scarce but the little bits of debris told me they might have been destroyed though why I wasn't sure. That's when one of the cops halted me from going into the bedroom, "Hold on miss I wouldn't advise going in there." I wasn't about to be stopped now so I pushed past him and walked inside to see the shrine. My mouth dropped open to find my missing panties and lingerie inside.

The amount of pictures of me had me backing up as I looked around and heard a grunt of anger being emitted from Mamoru beside and behind me. That's when I saw the chains on the bed and gasped realizing what Diamond had had in store for me. "Break you …" I muttered lowly the very words that Diamond had promised to do to me if he'd gotten me. I felt sick to my stomach as the feelings behind it rose back up again.

"He was diagnosed with a 'severe obsessive personality disorder' that is untreatable." The chief said to explain all of this. "Why the hell wasn't he locked away then?" I demanded. Knowing full well that if you become diagnosed it gets sent to the proper authorities especially if you're an officer of the law. How the hell did Diamond bypass that and get enough freedom to get away and live undetected for as long as he did?

It had to be routine to ensure they were locked up if it was something that could become a danger to the public. Nothing worse than having a nut case cop going psycho on the populace. "Because the only two people at the time that knew were him and the therapist and once the therapist suggested which routes to take and told him he was going to request admittance to a psychological facility he killed him." I looked at the chief then, not having conceived that thought just yet.

"So he's murdered people." I responded, "Hai, his cohort blabbed a lot when we obtained him and the therapist's body was located in the Sumida river right where they dumped the body." I gasped realizing Diamond promised to do the same thing to Mamoru. Out of instinct I grasped onto him making sure that he was right there with me. I may have been upset by the deceit, but I still loved him. "How many other girls were there?" I asked, voicing out against my better judgement to know more.

"Over the last three years that we've been able to positively confirm were because of him, seven dead and four in coma's…and one awake." I looked to him as he looked straight at me indicating clearly I was the only one that survived without getting the same fate the others had. "We're looking to get from him if there were more beforehand so that any other missing persons cases can be closed and give the families closure."

It sounded morbid but at least if they did get that information from him the families had something…at least it would get rid of the question marks and erase that false sense of hope. Alow them to move on and accept what's happened. "It really took us longer than we hoped as the deceased ones we couldn't ever find the connection to them. He didn't have a specific type, so they went as separate cases and weren't linked until recently. Nothing that could have helped us figure out it was him sooner." I couldn't believe it.

"Usually when you have a serial killer or even a serial rapist out there they have an MO, or at least something to connect the victims to him but being a cop he knew how to evade us and keep going forward with what he wanted to do while we worked with the little bit of evidence that we had." I glanced at the chief as he looked at the shrine once more. It was unbelievable, but his main defense was to essentially give this dirtbag credit for evading them since he was a cop for several years.

It was sad but the truth. Diamond knew how to manipulate the system because he knew it so damned well. And he did it till he began to get as he said 'sloppy' which got worse and worse over the years. "He picked his victims by how he became obsessed with them to begin with. Sometimes it was a random meeting and other times it was blind dates online." I was a random meeting…I realized.

"Diamond knew how to use his position to evade us and did so for years. We had no suspicion on him since he was never directly linked to the cases. He never had any relation to them through the department and because he gave so little information to his victims it was even harder to locate who he was or what he was doing." I knew he was only telling me this extra stuff because Mamoru told him I could handle it.

Truthfully I'm glad I did know even if my stomach turns into knots because of it. "Now that we have sufficient evidence we can lock him away for decades to come." He stated, "He should be locked away for life." I noted, "The man clearly has a mental problem that is as you stated untreatable. He can't be allowed to be in society again. even if he tries to bargain with names of other victims he can't be let go." I told him.

Believe me I understood the need for closure but not if it meant Diamond or someone like him went free again and was out to torment or do this to some other girl. Someone that let her guard down around him and let him in. "We'll do what we can to keep him behind bars at a facility that understands his mental condition for as long as the justice system will allow, but rest assured he won't be a problem for you any longer." He remarked.

Just then I heard a muffled, "It wasn't my fault." Being said several times as we walked out of the apartment to find the landlord being escorted out in hand cuffs, "What's going on?" I asked wondering if he'd been partied to it as well. "Turns out he had a security camera in the office and we caught Diamond on it several times making copies of your keys." That's how! "On each time Diamond entered your land lord was passed out asleep." I looked over at him to see him turning his head away.

Clearly feeling mortified and angered for allowing this to get to this point, "I think a night in the drunk tank will be sufficient along with a hefty fine." He was escorted out, "For neglect of the safety, security and privacy of your tenants." The cop clipped out as he was taken to a cop car. It was another cop that came out from behind me that said, "I've got another unit over at the key refurbishment establishment to." I recognized the place based on the logo he was referring to on the key, "I went there to get my locks changed." I noted, the cop looked at me.

"Yeah he paid the manager there off to make copies of your keys to. He's being detained for abusing the privacy of his customers as well." I couldn't believe how far this was all going, "So you guys thought you saw him here and that's all it took to get someone over here?" I asked referring to Mamoru's presence. "Well not completely, we started to look at Diamond a bit sideways which was why he disappeared to because of his tampering with evidence in an ongoing case." There's more?!

"He was becoming obsessed with the primary female suspect and tampered with evidence that was involved leading to the case being thrown out. The female suspect was later found barely alive and now resides in a coma." I sighed unable to process it all right now but still taking the information in for later thinking. We all walked away from his place as I couldn't stand to be there any longer.

We watched as Diamond was placed in cuffs inside an ambulance due to his excessive injuries as the paramedics did give him some morphine I was guessing. "They should just let him feel it all." I noted with distaste. "Well he'll be feeling it and then some where he's going. Inmates of nearly any kind don't take kindly to cops who are imprisoned. They see them as just being like the rest outside…you see a cop in jail or in any institution that detains you and its like a near death sentence." I nodded my head at the chief's words.

The chief left us to go fill out reports as I could see Diamond looking at us as he was being monitored by the paramedic and the two cops in there with him. Nobody giving him an inch to move. Not that he could. He was bound and detained making me feel that much better about his new future. Now however I had Mamoru to face. "Was any of it real? Or was I really just part of your cover?" I asked bluntly. I needed to know if he ever felt for me how I feel for him or if it was just his job.

He looked at me, "To be honest…at first yeah it was a little bit…you became part of my cover to get to him…but I fucked that up beyond measure." I snorted as he gave a dry chuckle, "You mean by lying to me about it?" snapped. "No…I fucked it up by falling completely and utterly in love with you." I looked over at him only this time I saw the truth of it in his eyes. He did love me, and I did love him to.

Didn't make me any less upset with him but it did assure me that what we shared was real to him which did make me feel better about my own feelings towards him. "I omitted details about myself yes, but I never lied to you." He rationalized. In truth he technically did and didn't lie by lying by omission. It depended how you looked at it but he did lie but not telling me facts yet everything he did tell me was the truth.

"If anything, I wanted to tell you everything I wish I could have so many times before, I think it would have been easier if you did know but I knew it would jeopardize everything we needed to lock him away. My superiors forbad it and no matter how many times I suggested that you know they denied me. I didn't want to get pulled from you, so I didn't say anything." I risked a glance, "Did they forbad you and me being together?" I asked considering how it could risk losing a case because of relations having been had.

"I never told them. Though they got suspicious when I asked repeatedly to tell you, but I made sure they thought it was out of need for the case. I convinced myself that we were just friends but then we started to date and then we made love and I couldn't lie to myself anymore about it. I just never told them how close we were. So I worked hard to gather the necessary evidence. I just really didn't think he'd try to come after you again so daringly so." He admitted.

"But he did and it lead to all of this." He noted regarding everything that was going on right now, "Why did you join them?" I asked. He looked me dead in the eyes, "The victim that got me to quit construction and become an officer was my little sister." I was in shock now. My heart broke for him as the tears threatened to come forth on him. No matter how upset I was even I couldn't disregard the feeling of wanting to comfort him knowing why now.

"Her name was Hannah…she was this vibrant girl and ready for college when she met him. We didn't know much about him but her description to me of him one time was a dead ringer for Diamond. I should have known things were going sideways when she kept trying to convince herself during a conversation we had, that he was just being protective of her." he blamed himself in some sense.

"I was in construction when she went missing and when I got back, I saw how it devastated our family. Our parents were shaken up by it and pleaded with the public for help in finding her. When her body turned up in the Sumita river over a month later she was nearly unrecognizable. They wouldn't tell us all of what happened to avoid upsetting our family further as our fathers health was declining from the stress of it, only that she was a victim of sexual abuse and murder." I was heartbroken for him as I saw a few tears fall.

He wiped them away quickly. "When the case went on unsolved for several months and I watched what it did to our parents I had to catch the man that did this to her…that did this to our family." he looked at the ambulance, "I had to make him pay for it. For what he did to her and all the others that I found out about. So I became a cop and worked my way up to this position. When I got assigned this case I took it in a millisecond. I just didn't count on falling for you and now…" he looked at me.

"We did it…you helped me get justice for all of them…cause they didn't deserve it. None of them did. Least of all my sister. She was a gentle soul that had a big heart." He looked back at me as my anger faded at his reasoning of why he got into this to begin with, "Gomen…" I said, cold comfort now I knew but still I needed to said something to express how badly I felt for him and his family.

"Now I can tell our parents that I caught him…that WE caught him and he's going to be in jail for a long time to come." I nodded my answering acceptance of that as I looked around and found that some of the cops were beginning to leave. The neighbors were still trying to figure out what was going on but accepting that it wouldn't be tonight. Things were quieting down now and I felt drained now.

Though I did have a slight problem now, and that was to get my door fixed. Mamoru had broken into it earlier to help me out. "Usa…I know you probably don't want to have anything more to do with me considering but…if you give me that chance, if you'd have me I promise you I'd love to spend every moment of our lives going forward proving that to you." I looked into his eyes and knew I was lost.

I did love him and while I was going to be upset for a little while at him at the same time if it were me in his shoes it would have been a very difficult call to make. "Your going to be working for a while to come but in time I can forgive you for this." I commented as his eyes light up, "Besides I'd love to be there to help you tell your parents that he's locked away now. Give them that closure that you now have."

He smiled and pulled me in closer than before. "Absolutely. I think they'd love to meet you." I brushed the tears from his eyes as the closure hit him as well allowing that bit of darkness that I saw during his expressing of her to lift away. He'd put his sister's killer to justice. It may not have brought her back but at least it got rid of the question mark. He asked, "Would it be too much if I kissed you?" I giggled and pulled his head down for a kiss as I heard the ambulance doors close up.

I barely saw over Mamoru's shoulder Diamond as he frowned at the sight before the medication knocked him completely out. While I knew there was still a long journey ahead of us I also knew that as long as I had Mamoru beside me it would be an easier process to make, "By the way I'm so totally sleeping over tonight…" he smiled and held me close, "Oh yeah?" he smirked, "Well you did break down my door so yeah." He chuckled.

"Right, I'll have that fixed for you by tomorrow morning. We'll just shut it for the appearance of being locked for now. I was in construction remember?" I gave him a look like 'you really want to remind me of that now?' he chuckled nervously before kissing me again and saying, "Let's just forget that for now and get you situated." He noted as we both went inside his place closing and locking the door.

"Yeah I just need to update the girls on what happened. It's going to be a long night coming but at least things can finally be at peace." He agreed as I sent out a massively long ass text letting them know what had happened today. I knew I was bound to get a lot of responses but that's what friends were for. Gotta love them and the amazing man I had to have my back as we sat down on his sofa.

The end…