CHAPTER FOUR

*Len POV

I wrenched open the double doors to the church and ran inside as quickly as possible.

"Is everything alri-!" I stopped midsentence and froze on the spot, my eyes widening with shock.

"Help!" A small, shrill voice screamed from the floor.

Rin.

MY Rin.

She had the first two buttons of her nightgown undone, and tears streamed down her face. Behind her on his knees was a middle aged man, holding a knife against my precious sister's throat. Why was she here?

"Rin!" I gasped and took a step forward.

"STOP!" the man yelled with a voice swollen with insanity.

I cringed, but didn't move. We all waited for a few seconds, unspoken threats flashing between our eyes. The man tightened his grip around Rin's waist and she glanced down before squinting up at my figure, blocked out by the light flooding in through the doorway.

"Who?" Rin whispered quietly, confusion in her eyes. "Why?"

"Rin..."

"How do you know-" Rin was cut off with a squeak.

"SHUT-UP!" The man pressed the blade harder and she cried out with pain.

"Don't touch her, filth!" I screamed at his disgusting face.

The man blinked in surprise and sightly released the pressure from Rin's neck. At the same moment that he opened his mouth, Gotoku burst in through the doorway and yelled at me in anger.

"Hey! What's going on here?"

The man on the floor looked up with shock and broke his concentration for just a second, but that was all that I needed.

In that one second, had both of the sleek black guns from my belt pressed against the bastard's neck and side.

Just one second.

"Don't you dare move." I hissed into his ear.

He stuttered for a few seconds, looking back and forth from where I had just been standing to the guns against his body.

"H-how? What?" He gasped, dropping the knife to the floor with a loud clang.

"That's a good boy, now let go of the girl and STAND. UP." I ordered.

The man slowly let go of my sister, who fell to the floor sobbing. I shoved the gun against his skull harder until he shakily extended his legs and stood up.

"Vey, veeery good." I continued to whisper, malice sneaking it's way into my voice. "So why don't you tell me who you-"

I stopped midsentence and gasped with realization. Suddenly fury burned through me and I jammed the guns in harder.

"You bastard!" I yelled and Gotoku snapped his head up from Rin to me with surprise. "You were going to rape Rin just now, weren't you, 'Traceless Killer'?"

He chuckled loudly and turned to look at me, his eyes wide with sadism.

"So? What are you going to do about it?"

I smirked and the smile was instantly wiped off the serial killer's face.

"You seem so happy, Mr. Murderer, but that's good news to me." I released the gun from his side, but kept the one to his head where it was. "You see, I was just on my way of going to find you, dear friend."

My finger pressed lightly on the trigger and Rin looked up at us in fear just before I pulled the trigger.

"To kill you."

*Rin POV

The loud gunshot rang across the church and my eyes widened. Thick red blood splattered over my savior's face and clothes, and drenched the man who was going to rape me.

Red. Blood. Everywhere. Blood.

I screamed and clutched my hands to my head, but couldn't look away as the man's body crumpled to the floor. His eyes were still open. Still open...

"No! Oh my god you KILLED HIM!" I screamed.

The short figure behind the carcass flinched and dropped his arms to his side limply.

"Rin..." he whispered and stepped over the body towards me.

"No! NO! Don't come near me, MURDERER!"

He stopped in the middle on crouching down next to me and I finally saw his eyes.

Pure blue, and filled with pain.

He straightened back up into the shadows and I could no loner make out any of his pysical features. It was better that way. I felt a hand on my shoulder and yelped, whipping around to face a man in a black suit and sunglasses.

"Who- who are you?" I whimpered, curling up into a ball.

"..." the man turned his head away from my and then lifted it to look at the killer behind me.

Killer.

"What should we do?"

"... She obviously doesn't want me to come near her..." the murderer's voice cracked. "So..."

The man in the sunglasses nodded and I tilted my head to the side.

"What are you going to do..." I trailed off at a sharp pain in my side. "What?"

I squirmed, but a warm feeling washed over me. And some how, I felt relaxed, tired... I tried to keep my eyes open, but unwillingly drifted off to sleep as my mind went black.