shouldn't have waited that long to dispose of the last one. Or ones.

Word gets out. And it doesn't take much time for the prey to turn the tables on the hunter.

ambushed the minute she set foot inside the hideout of her last pair of targets, the twin assassins. Word leaked out about her abilities-

and they were expecting her already, of course.

unable to get even near the two of them as a hail of gunshots rained down on her quite literally.

found herself bleeding from several places from the bullet hits as she frantically scrambled away, the shadows of the alleys of downtown-

-Namimori helping her hide from them several times, but the blood trail she left behind only kept leading them to her and her hiding places.

scrambled down the bank of the river, treading water to stop the trail of blood from going any further, then doubled back to cloak herself-

-in the shadows of the bridge. She hoped that her would-be killers would think that she let herself be drifted away by the current...

actually willed herself to stop breathing for a minute or so as the two assassins and their men scoured the riverbank for traces of her.

After for what seemed to be an eternity, they all scrambled to head downstream to continue their hunt.

collapsed to the ground, feeling the blood seep in her already-wet jeans and slowly soak her half-wet sweatshirt. Coughing up blood, -

fumbled for her mobile phone (which was miraculously still working) and blindly pressed the call button two times,

bringing up Yamamoto's number, the last person she called.

just about to sleep when he received Chrome's call. "Hello?"

strained to remember and hear who she dialed. "...Ta- keshi-kun...?" she groaned, and coughed, getting blood on the phone.

that something's terribly wrong, the moment he hears Chrome's response.

...Where are you? I'm coming for you immediately.

"river... bank. sorry... care ful... guns... " she rasps.

Don't worry about me.

Lay low first, okay? I'll be with you in a bit.

"... umn.", closes her phone and sinks back into the shadows, concentrating on her breathing...