"Say Hino" Mariko asked, string a cup of tea with one hand while the the tosses a coin up the air. "Do you believe in coincidences?" she ask, eye sharp as glass, directly staring straight at Hino, with intense focus. "I don't think so?" he answers.

"Wrong" the coin lands on top of her palm. "That wouldn't explain why I found you exhausted on the same street, during the same weather and while I need to get groceries" she adds before taking a sip. "How's the tea anyway" she asked, now tired of her rambling and focused on Hino.

"It taste better then water" Hino answers with a smile, noticing the sad look she's clearly hiding. "Crap did I upset her or something" he wonders in his head, somehow the look of discontent deeply troubles him. "I barely know her" Hino admits but somehow he feels responsible for her feelings. What he did wrong was all he wanted to know. "I could fix it!!"

"Huh?" Mariko respond. "Why say that?"

Mouth covered, in a fit of embarrassment. Hino curses himself for blurting such private thoughts out without reluctance. "Sorry I have to leave", Hino recline the chair. Thanking for the tea and her hospitality once more, trying to get out of this awkward predicament.

"Wait" Mariko reaches out, her fingers wrapped around the cloth of his shirt, tugging at it. "I am visiting your home two times" she said, "To balance it out" her eyes serious with a cheerful demeanor. "Am I enchanted?" -"I can't say no"-"Ahhhhhhh", these thoughts piled up in his mind. "Ok" he agrees.

Carrying himself towards the front door with Mariko following behind her, hooking one of her fingers on his. "Huh?" he questions, her soft touched wrapping serenely around his own. "What for?" Hino tries to speak up-losing strength in his word from her embrace.

Hands jittering from this surge building up inside of him. "Your hearts beating" she whispered, green eyes peering right at him. "Is it a coincidence mine was too?" she asked, face blushed, her green eyes seem to sparkle within his prospective.

"What is this?" he questioned himself. "What am I doing?"

"Someone help me" Hino begged silent, hoping for anyone to get him out of here. "Help Help" he kept calling out internally, trying to not incur her attention and potential wrath.

"You seem very red. I should let you go now" the atmosphere switches along with her words. "Oh right" Hino nervously left out the door-still nervously pressing against his chest. This anguish shiver in his heart would sure to leave him crumbled like snow. "I want to cry" he admits to himself as he wave her goodbye.

......

"Hey Andi" Connor asked his superior a question. "What if things go south?"

"Depends on what you see as going south" Andi answered, taking in the parks scenery as he spoke. "Ducks sure are lucky" he admits, looking at some old folk coming over with pieces of bread, even the school kids nearby are coming over to feed them.

"Isn't it weird that the four prisoners escaped?" Connor asked.

Jumpy from the sudden question, he clears his throat before lighting a cig. "How did he know that?" Andi wonders. "What about it?" he asked.

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"Well to me after we got new recruits for this bodyguard mission. The news of the four breaking out was announce" Connor in a serious tone answered, "You knew the reasons behind those murders don't you?" he adds.

Puffing a smoke, unfazed by his question, eyes solely on those ducks. "I only got the news yesterday" Andi admits. "News is fresh for me too" dusting the ash dusted on his pants. "As for things going south. If that ever happens, I have no choice but to go with the semi-human group. Division C" Andi answered.

"The one from Base 11?" Connor thinks, before taking a bite of his sandwich.

"That's only for bad news" Andi reassures him. Feeling relaxed, Connor smiles, feeling calm hearing his words. "What's Division C like anyway?" he ask.

"Their just experimental" Andi answers, "Plus I am not the head of Base 12, just an important guy there". Looking over towards Connor with tired eyes, "If you like to know. Well to be honest currently there's five members, all inhuman in their own ways".

"You really like to be dramatic don't you?" Connor wonders, his thoughts moving on to worry for those two.

.......

Lock within the many rooms of a dilapidated apartment complex. Water begin to seep from below a man's door, vapor perforate behind from the door-slowly condensing to more water.

ten ten ten ten...... A man kept on repeating the word, bowing and tugging himself together before rolling around the floor. "Quit being weird!!" Ocean yells out, his voice bubbling from the water flowing invitingly into the man's home. His form crawling itself out from the pool of water in the middle of the room.

"Ten. I got a job for you" Ocean spoke his watery form slowly contorting into a simple man in a suit. "You should adjust your glasses" Ten points out to Ocean, watching him quietly arrange his glasses right before stepping on all four, avoiding the growing puddle of water.

"What you want!" Ten questions, crouching against the wall with a mug held against Ocean. "A job?" Ocean confusingly answered, "Do you want to die?".

"What job?" Ten agitated, dropping the mug on the floor. Biting his lip, appearing behind Ocean with fork. "Stop!! I have job, you might like the prize I have" Ocean stops him, materializing a watery spike closed towards Ten's head. "I'll kneel" Ten eventually calms down.

"Good. Now where's your chair at?" he asked.

"Oh, the kitchen over there, its the only one there" Ten answers. "No family huh?" Ocean asked adjusting his glasses once more with water running off his being.

"I kept forgetting your made of water and not sweaty" Ten points out, ruffling through a pile of his clothes, producing a can of soda. "A human form always has its quirks, example is my wet skin." Ocean spoke, receiving a can of soda, opened with the help of Ten and the fork on hand.

"So you monster's naturally look weird in people shape huh?" his body jerks with the pungent taste of every sip. "This taste bad" Ten thought to himself, lost in his own head-constantly looking at the hand's of the clock ticking as it swung by. "What's the job anyway? You usually visit to beat the crap out of me." Ten wonders, pulling the fork out towards Ocean.

"First have some respect and call me Boss man" Ocean sighs, a drop of water hanging from the ceiling right above them took a leap-breaking the fork apart like grains of sand. "Second. I need you to kill some evil man." tears began to build in Ocean's eyes, "He killed my son" he weakly mourns, leaving Ten lost for words.

"And track down and return my daughter" he adds. "And my prize is I get to kill you?" Ten questions.

"No" Ocean's eye glowed red. Rings of blacks seem to circle over one another on his irises. "I'll give you the power to do so" the tone in his voice changed, sly and arrogant.

"Isn't she your daughter though? and what about this evil guy?" Ten ask. "A good father always loves his children, to bad Dacry was killed by that slug of a creature." Ocean slyly answers. "My daughter is a rebellious teen, even if I hold no love. Family is family".

"You sound possessive" Ten points out before all criticism was cut short by laughter. "You wouldn't understand. What do you know about family?" Ocean ask.

"You killed them" Ten quietly admits, eyes oddly strain from the lack of sleep. "Who's this dude I' am supposed to kill anyway?".

"I'll send pictures later but if you need the name call him Hino".