-1Find the one named DOUBT

"I'll definitely get you out of there, I promise, you have to wait for me," Yuuki Cross screamed, watching her father's face fade into the distant. Her tears blinding her vision; helplessly hugging herself in the middle of the road where by-passers watched on, she couldn't stop whispering, "he's innocent, he's innocent, you've got the wrong person, you've got the wrong person. Please let him go." She looked around the dispersing crowd, knowing reality was always cruel - there will be no one willing to help a murderer arrested and proven guilty.

Desperately, Yuuki grabbed hold of a nearby man, "help me, I'm begging you, my father is innocent…"

Disgusted by Yuuki, the man shoved her to the floor, "stay away." He walked off just like any others on the street.

"What should I do?" Yuuki sobbed. "Kaien…what should I do?"

There was a faint buzzing coming from Yuuki's jean pocket. Hastily, she picked up her mobile and stared at the screen which showed an unusual message:

You know where the gangsters hang out?

They're near this area.

Go to the bar named SNIPER. Ask for a man called DOUBT. He is the key to save your father.

Go!

Yuuki gazed at the sender's ID - anonymous. What was she to do? She was scared, her hands cold and her body shivering. Was she to trust a stranger's message? She looked longingly at the spot where she last saw her father's face before he was taken away from her. "Kaien… I'll go, I'll go for your sake."

Without hesitation and just full of the belief that she had to save her father, Yuuki headed towards the place stated in the text. In this world she had no one else but her father. If he's taken away then it was like death to her. She had nothing else to loose.

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From the corner of the building, he watched with relief seeing Yuuki had left for the place he'd sent her to. Standing beside him, his friend asked, "why help her?"

He put away his mobile, "I wanted to help her. Is that not a good enough answer?"

"You know this is against…"

"I know. But Yuuki is different. I can't lay a hand on her… at least not just yet."

"Fine. I won't ask further, is sending her there really-"

"You said you wouldn't ask anymore. I won't say anymore either."

"Kaname, I just hope you know what you're doing."

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The pale and almost deathly looking girl gave a nervous glance around the room before pulling Yuuki into a corner. She was a extreme drug addict, but was the only one that didn't seem too dangerous to ask information from. Her voice was shaky, "your asking for DOUBT? Why?"

Yuuki didn't wish to reveal too much of herself to a stranger. She quickly made up a story, "a friend of mine dared me to ask for this man. I cannot resist the dare, if I don't do it I'd have to put up sleeping with a nut-shell face."

The girl gave a slight giggle, buying Yuuki's story. "Is that guy really that bad for you to let him have a few goes at your privates?"

Yuuki pulled a disgusted face, "anyhow, tell me where to find DOUBT. You must know something, your reaction showed it all."

The girl lost her giddy temperament as soon as the word DOUBT was said. She had a dead serious tone to her voice, so serious it was like a alarm, sounding a warning, "everyone around here probably has heard of him. Not much know the full details but the odd bits like me. He's supposedly the outlaw's KING of RETALIATION. Extremely clever with a twisted mind that can convince anyone."

Yuuki clenched her hands, feeling a ray of hope has just befallen her. He could help, he could definitely help her father.

The girl continued, "but he's dangerous. No one goes to him because the price is way too high."

"I don't care, tell me where he is?"

The girl raised her voice slightly, "are you certain? The people whose asked for him has suffered so much. Either they come back missing a body part, are missing or even dead. People sometimes call me the DEVIL not King. Do you really want to find him?"

Yuuki nodded. She had already made up her mind when she decided to follow the instructions of the anonymous text message - she'd go all out and risk everything for her father.

The girl took a random piece of paper from her pocket, scribbled a address and shoved it towards Yuuki. Without saying another word, she faded into the crowd of dancers. Clutching the piece of paper, Yuuki also made her way to the place written down.

It was a breezy night and Yuuki felt the chill in her bones as she ran down the street. She stopped abruptly, hearing a loud scream coming from a turn within her street. Maybe it was curiosity or simply because the scream really sounded so desperate for someone to help, but Yuuki strayed from her path and began to head towards it. The piece of paper Yuuki held dropped to the ground. Her whole body began to shiver and her legs felt as though they were going to collapse under her own weight. Her eyes were wide and couldn't possibly be closed again. The scene in front was stuck before her eyes.

A young man with silvery hair was holding an axe in one hand and a chopped off hand in the other. Laying before him was another man, in pain as he tried to grasp the wound that spilled blood.

The man on the floor said with effort, "I won't forgive you for this… DOUBT… you monster…"

At the name DOUBT, Yuuki couldn't help herself but let out a gasp, catching the attention of both the men. The one on the floor cried out help me before drifting into unconsciousness. The one with the axe, who was called DOUBT turned to look at her.

Yuuki was so scared she fell to the floor, she didn't know how to move either, she was just rooted to the floor helplessly as he came closer to her.

"Please don't kill me," Yuuki begged in a whisper.

He knelt down near Yuuki, revealing for the first time his entire face to her and those eyes that either enchant you or curse you. A light violet right eye and a fiery crimson left eye. He held the axe up in the air, "you heard didn't you?"

Yuuki shook her head.

He held Yuuki's chin up with the tip of the axe's head, "you know my name."

Yuuki gulped, she knew she couldn't lie, "you- you are DOUBT."

He smiled, which strangely for a cruel beast didn't look threatening but pretty. "Say, what should I do with you then?"

Yuuki bit her lips. She closed her eyes for a few split seconds and all she saw was her fathers face. When she opened them, she moved her chin away and instead placed her neck near the blade of the axe. "You may kill me but you have to save my father first. That's my last wish"

DOUBT stared at Yuuki, slightly taken back by her reaction. "Your name?"

Yuuki answered, hoping this man really could help, "Yuuki Cross. My father is-"

"Kaien Cross," DOUBT said before Yuuki could finish. "I know him."

Yuuki gazed into the strangely mesmerising eyes of this dangerous man. Looking at him properly, he was attractive and his read-less expression was captivating. Did her father really know someone like this? Someone this beautifully dangerous?

His grip on the axe tightened and there was a very quick movement on his part, then blood trickled down Yuuki's neck…