[Narrator: You kids.....you've come a long way. I love you guys so much.

*Haruka, aka. ANGEL, peeks from Kitsuo's behind and smiles. He just stands there perplexed.....

This is how it all ends. The start of a life, begins at the end of another.]

It was cloudy, with a warm breeze blowing every now and then.

A perfect weather for this.

Nakarugi Matsuki whipped his hair slick back as he let Amane dab some hype- err... powder on him.

" What are we doing here again?" He asked her with a derp face.

She stuck her tongue out as a sigh let itself out as usual, as it was during the years they spent together.

" Are you sure you're ready? You don't seem like it......maybe we can postpone it later on?" Amane asked with a concerned expression.

" Nah, I'm gonna YOLO it" She looked at him narrow eyed as she shrugged it off.

He's the best at YOLOing.

" Good enough. Who's ready for anything like this anyways? I'm just here wondering why you're not crapping your pants." They exchanged looks as Matsuki threw his hand up, nearly dropping the whole box on his mouth.

" Whoa whoa whoa! Keep the gentlemanoftheothergender act on, Amane! I'm gonna get told off otherwise for teaching you all this stuff.....damn it. Its supposed to be a secret between us!" He quickly contemplated a plethora of excuses when Chris comes to plummet him when he finds out.

Matsuki was the teacher for Amane to be a bad girl. Weekly two lessons. Ramen as the fee.

And lots of days went by where she would say that Matsuki is most likely to die from a blocked artery.

Amd he would respond with something that succeeded the weirdness of the last one.

Remembering this, they exchanged looks yet again as they both let out a laugh of pure happiness, that was held in long enough.

They were not ready for this....

He definitely wasn't ready for any of this yet.

*****

Chris was panicking with Suzuha freaking out on the other end.

" WHERE'S THE MAKEUP YOU DUMBO?!" One yelled.

"HOW SHOULD I KNOW?!" Yelled back the other.

"WHY ARE WE SHOUTING?!" Asked one.

"HOW THE HELL WOULD I KNOW?!" Responded the one behind the other one.

" Oh, there it is." He scoped his vision to the far end of the room where there was a makeup kit, kept by her mother.

Suzuha dragged Chris into the chair and sat down herself, trying not to fold her gown into wrinkles.

A set of confused looks were passed to her from Chris.

" Put it on!"

Chris didn't know how to makeup.

" I DUNNO MAKEUP!" And he spoke his mind, like a true idiot again Suzuha Toretsu.

" what....?" A silence similar to what the other set experienced occured.

One that didn't include laughter afterwards.

He was looking at her, freaking out more each and every single second.

" HOW DO YOU NOT KNOW HOW TO MAK-AH FORGET IT...." She inhaled a lungful of air as she yelled.

" MOOOOOMMMMMM!" She literally kicked Chris off the room after conversing a bunch of unintelligible words as she dragged her surprised mom inside.

*****

Ichine Amane came out with a triumphant look as she threw up a thumb to indicate it went down on her side pretty good.

Chris took out a thumbs down with a frowning face that indicated the opposite.

" oh.........." And came a look of realization.

*****

[ Trigger Warning ]

Chris went to the washroom with an excuse he wanted to cure his upset stomach which had diarrhea positive 1598.34% as he washed his face with water.

The water dripped down his face as it wiped away his exhaustion and it made the hair fall down when he looked at his reflexion.

And back looked someone who had a bit of a glint in their eyes returned.

Someone who learned to live again.

As the phone in his suit rang it's Skrillex ringtone.

" $+*%&£€ " It said something in Russian as Chris immediately reached for the phone as the other hand reached for the new prototype handgun in his holster he had concealed.

He released the safety mechanism on the new gun Vanessa Tallie gave him as he effortlessly looked at the message that came with it.

" Lost contact with @$@&_% and %£€&~. Presume dead. Proceed with utmost vigilance. Seriously, just make sure you're not followed.

-Darren Nemo "

Chris nearly pulled the trigger with the tug of emotions he was run through.

And when he looked up, the glint had gone.

He put the phone back in, as he kept his hand, still on the trigger of the gun.

He wiped the cold sweat that replaced the water that washed him as he wiped the sweat off his brows.

*Click*

The sound of the hammer being brought down on a pistol behind him made him act on instinct.

He ducked down as he did a 180° and swerved to the point where the trajectory of the bullet won't ever hit him as he hoped it was his family and not who he thought it was.

*BANG!*

The ability activated again yet another time to help him survive like usual, slowing down everything as he heard his heartbeat slow nearly to a stop as it thumped like a distant beat of a dilapidated gong.

He looked around and anxiously looked at the bullet that was making its way pretty quick to the left of his head.

He slowly made sure that the assailant didn't have time to let the trigger loose again as he analyzed the familiarity of the weapon.

He slid his feet down as it said past, slowly making its way to his shin to make a knocking blow or something powerful enough to let him stagger for a good moment or so.

Time started to fall in line again as he reached out to his new test handgun.

A " Silenced Deagle .94" caliber with a range so deadly, it can act like a shotgun at close range and still be able to snipe people as far as 125 meters.

He put his arm under his wrist to get a better shock resistant blast aftermath as he let the barrel loose.

" Suck on this, you imbecile." He said in German as the soundwave exploded in the air.

Vanessa forgot to assemble it when it was delivered and Chris forgot to check.......

Of course this happened.

The assaulting guy's head had a clear look of shock as he looked down to his chest, which carried a hole the size of a football; which had no blood coming out at all; just half of his "Wølfe" tattoo as he fell to the ground with a blunt thud.

The new vials had worked. The experiment was a success.

Wouldn't say as much for the first use of the gun.

Bullets that don't make a mess. A big blast radius, no blood. It all checks out to the air as it evaporates the erythrocytes function to flow. And makes it solid.

Solid blood.

*****

The door opened with a very confused and terrified Amane who saw Chris who was washing his hands.

" I slipped. Don't ask. Face first. Don't ask. Twice. Don't ask." He winked at his sister.

She slowly nodded, still wondering why there was smoke in the room if he slipped. She decided not to ask. His line of work was very classified and credential. Just didn't know what he worked for.

Or he just took a cigarette and is hiding the fact.

" Alright. Let's go."

*****

" Chris? What if I'm not ready? What if I mess I up?"

Chris shrugged. He didn't know anything like that. Heck, he never got past kissing. But holding hands. Boy thats lewd....

" Knowing you, definitely. You're gonna mess it up so bad, it'll end up with you breaking or her doing the same." The groom went silent.

" But that's the best part. You get to fix each other in a million more ways. Cheer up, Matsuki; she's perfect for you." He nudged his friend.

" Gee; thanks.........I guess.........." A smile played on both their faces as he said that.

Nakarugi Matsuki looked around to find Suzuha Toretsu being walked down the aisle.

She had a weird request that her mom should walk her instead of her father.

After all that had happened, it was no wonder this came to play.

She had her hands locked with her mother like a little child being walked to school for the first day.

Her sky blue dress was being dragged along, almost as if it's reluctant to be near to Matsuki.

Of course it did.

It was a bit far fetched but Matsuki had the same thought run in his head.

Just in Japanese.

OF COURSE THIS IS THE COURSE OF ACTIONS!

This marriage was weird in a way that the roles of who walks the bride down were reversed, the fishnet thingie the bride wears to like hide; vanished.

Someone whom the groom must have seen a lot of times. Made out in his case.......

Nothing makes sense in their lives......

" Close your mouth, Mr.Glamour. it's hanging enough to let someone stick a gun in." He whisper yelled in his ear while maintaining a straight face.

" Uh uh. Uh.....w-what?" He looked perplexed as was the case.

It was too much for him to take in. He wondered if he was worth all this joy he was feeling.

If he was worth all this happiness in his life after what he let happen. Almost twice.

Maybe he slipped through the strings of fate and landed in this world. Maybe he is fated to be stuck with the most beautiful girlfriend he has.

Well, the only one he has......

Didn't need two punches to the face to make that a point.....

*****

Chris took out the book from the vacant dias and began wearing a glass on his face which looked ridiculous and cleared his throat with a rather high pitched," AhEM!"

" We have a-" He pause as he realised this was needed to be in Japanese for the drama they all ask for.

" aHeM!" Another one. And wondered how he 'ahem'ed in Japanese.

" We have all gathered here. Not to hear my words, but for a gathering of friends and family, lovers and rivals. Many other combinations....." He spaced out before snapping back.

" Anyways, let's skip the boring dialogues since I know for a fact that they both forgot their vows." He slammed the book he had as both the bride and groom looked confused. Suzuha had a look of embarrassment since she didn't even realise this.

Nakarugi Mr.Glamour Matsuki just stuck his tongue out and made the same pose he did years ago.

Aka.The anime girl who gets caught and puts her index pointing to her cheeks.

Aka.Stupid as hell and totally cringy when it's him who's doing it.

Chris smiled.

" Do you, Mr.Glamour, take Suzuha Toretsu to be your lawfully wedded wives? Since he has this thing where she's gonna slap you one moment and cuddle you the next?"

The bride had a look that made sure that Chris was dead after this was over.

The groom had a look that yelled a very deliberate message, " Run, Bestie, RuUNNnN!"

Matsuki coughed and averted his eyeballs as he looked at his fiance-to-end as he smiled.

" I do."

" And, do you, Suzuha Toretsu, take Mr.Glamour to be your lawfully wedded husband for the span of your lives?"

" I do." She said without a slither of hesitation.

" Very well. Even if this is gonna make me throw up soon enough," He slowly took off his glasses while saying this to himself.

" With the power vested in me as the something something, I now pronounce you two, husband and wife. You may kiss the basta-........idiot." He realised it wasn't the place to curse.

Suzuha blushed as for the first time that anyone in that place saw, the bride pulled the chin of the groom into a gentle kiss.

Added with cringing sounds of Chris puking all the cringe he could possibly cringe all these cringing times when he cringed seeing them kiss.

*****

When the meet and greet was happening with the newly wedded couple, Chris laid his back on the wall of the restroom stall, looking at the corpse he made of another person.

He frisked the body of contraband as he found a GSh 18 - 9*19mm Parabellum in his hand that was turning pale.

Standard issue handguns for Russian Forces. The stock that was hijacked from the convoy sometime last year.

He took over the trigger, careful not to leave marks of his fingerprints on it for evidence for another case on the 'Wølfe'.

As if to agree to him, he found a tattoo mark on the assilant's left wrist.

A tattoo symbolising Canis Lupus. The grey wolf. An apex predator........

He snapped a picture of the body as he sent it to HQ. He won't be back there for a while, that was for sure.

A few minutes later, he received a encrypted number calling his other phone from Vanessa and Douchëbaghe (Pronounced Doo-sh-baag-è). HQ has a lot of people weird names. Don't ask how or why.....

" Guten tag." The familiar voice hit him.

(A/N: "Guten tag" means "Good day" in German.)

" Guten tag" He responded with the same greeting.

" We're sorry to say this, but....." The caller, Vanessa, hesitated a moment too long.

Chris understood. He cut the call, trying to cull the oncoming pain.

He made a promise.

He would smile more.

For them.

*****

" ----" The static of the beep hit Vanessa back at headquarters as she looked a bit more dead.

" He cut the transmission." She conveyed to Darren as she went on to scan the forensics she received.

*****

Nakarugi didn't have a good honeymoon to be honest.

It was literally him being drugged and basically sexually assaulted and
defiled by his own wife. He had no memory of anything.

He only had the surprise of being a father a few months later.

Poor guy.

Let's emphasize it.

POOR GUY.....

Let's leave it there; he's gonna cry if he's bullied more....

*****

" So, what he said was true?" Chris looked at a pregnant Suzuha, having a mischievous look, while she caressed her bulged tummy.

" ~Can't say for sure~" She looked away with a derpy face.

Chris sighed as he put his hands to his face, face palming. This isn't even the weirdest act he had seen in his work.

" So, is it a boy; or a girl?" Suzuha's face lit up as he asked it to her, not even bothering to comment on it.

" A girl." There was silence in the room as Suzuha said her next words.

" You're gonna be Haruka's guardian or godfather or whatever you may want to call it." She announced with a smile while tears fell unconsciously from Chris's eyes as he smiled.

" You decided on a name? Already?" He was choking on his words as he was smiling ever so widely as he looked at her.

" What about him? Is he gonna accept with this?" He was not being successful at stopping at letting tears fall out. The word of the girl he loved brought him to tears, even if the hundreds of missions and the places he has been to had kept him intact.

" Call her name, she's gonna be a feisty one." Suzuha blushed as she also was kind enough to reply to his smile.

She grabbed his wrist, him still frozen in happiness and she kept it on top of her overbloated stomach as Chris closed his eyes.

" H-haruka?"

*thump*

Both of their faces brightened up with shock as Suzuha yelled, " SHE KICKED!" her voice nearly cracking.

Chris was smiling ever so more, so much happiness that he was willing to give up everything he was just to keep the little vermin who wasn't even born, safe.

" ShE kICkEd!" Suzuha was having a frantic attack on her first kick as it felt wonderful to know how it actually amounted to; to give life to another soul.

"Thank you" Chris hugged her as Suzuha gave back in kind.

She kissed his cheeks as Chris got up herself being too exhausted to get going as she used to, to leave for an extermination.

" I'll be back."

" I know. Don't lose an organ or something. I would love to see you two together. I have a hunch you two would get along well."

" Say, bye Haruka" She poked her tummy.

" Bye, Haruka" Chris waved at his bestie's stomach.

*thump

" ShE kIcKEd AgAIn!"

He exited the mansion, waving the same maid with a warm smile.

She waved back and got back to work, thinking back to the days where she would see the mistress's husband sneak into the corridors and parkour up the walls late at night for meet-ups.

She had the smile of reminisce lit upon her as she continued to work.

*****

(A year later, shortly before the events of Silence)

Chris heard the sound of banging on his door but ignored taking the firearm out since the banging was a melody of somebody's knock he knew too well.

That and the fact that the door's hinges were being unlocked.

" Get to you later. Shipyard, got it." He let his finger hit the end button.

" We're home!" Matsuki yelled to which Haruka Toretsu copied him, singing with a chirpy voice," ~We're home! We're home!~" as she ran upto Chris who was looking at his files which game him a severe headache.

Chris looked over the edge of the files he needed to check for the number of jurisdictions and the laws he would need to break during his next extermination which will most likely get him off the force and probably end with him taking his final breath.

" Uncle Chris!" She dived into his arms as the headache was made apparently decimated.

" Heya, Angel! Come here!" He grabbed her tiny figure as he span her around in the air like a madman while narrowly missing all the files and the objects that were around.

She had her eyes tightly closed as she was open mouthed, enjoying every bit of this moment.

Like a puppy that learnt to poke it's head out the window of a moving vehicle.

She squealed with happiness as she grabbed on him when she and Chris both got dizzy and tugged his shirt and bit it, it getting slowly drooled over.

She was attached to Chris more than anyone else while Nakarugi Matsuki would always complain how his own daughter would not love her own parents as much. Much less him.

She nibbled on his shirt and pulled on his cheeks while he held him.

" Angel has a name! It's Haruka! I love it! Stop calling Haruka, Angel!" She pulled on his cheeks more while she climbed all over and hugged while being on his face.

The little kid literally hugged his face while he blew raspberries on her abdomen as she squealed again.

" Aaaaahhhh! Stop, uncle Chris! Haruka is ticklish!" She let out a battle roar as she bit his nose, banged him on the head a few times and kicked his mouth for good measure and again when his stubble rubbed against her and caused her to get itchy.

Chris shuddered out as he yelled," Argh! Uncle Chris is angry! I'm gonna eat you, get here Haruka!" He blew raspberries all over again as she protested again.

Matsuki was being pacified by his wife, Suzuha for not being as loved as he is.

" There, there.....here's a kiss for the poor child" She pulled him into a kiss as he cried his heart out.

" I'M NOT LOVED!" He grabbed onto her sleeves and started to vibrate, like a bad chemical mixture.

Moments later, Haruka was stomping Chris and wondered how she could protect her father from monsters when she's a superhero when she grows up.

She loved him a lot. And she loves the paintings that he would creature of things she didn't really know about.

*****

Hours later, Haruka ran around the house so much, she passed out due to overloaded happiness and love.

Chris swiveled his arms as he rocked her as she drooled all over him. He kissed her forehead and pressed it deep in.

She stirred in her sleep, since she clearly didn't like the stubble poking her.

" She's just like her, just without the shyness." He smiled yet another time around her.

" Well, why don't you FREAKING ADOPT HER?! SHELOVESYOUSOFLIPPINMUCHINEVERGETLOVE!" The father yelled at his friend.

Chris handed Haruka to Suzuha as he went over and gave Matsuki Nakarugi a hug by tackling him.

" Oh, eff U mate........ Dammit I feel loved...." He scoffed with happiness blooming within.

That's how fellas, you calm an angry Mastuki.

" Thank you. You know? Your actions are why we are here now."

The path he stopped, caused this. The end of a path, opened a new possible route.

*****

Chris knelt on the grass as he placed another bunch of flowers.

Many colours, many feelings, many hidden meanings.

" Did you just become their child? Damn you love....." He ranted as he looked at the gravestone.

He put his worn out hands over it and gave it a soft kiss.

He sniffed his nose, holding the tears.

He broke the promise he was meant to keep.

He wasn't going to break another.

" Anyways" He looked at Haruka who was planting a flower at Tomura's bed as she gave the stone a hug, Matsuki sniffing as well.

" Come here, Angel!" He called her over. Her nose perked up as she looked over with an angry glare and yelled, " IT'S HARUKA!!!!" as she stomped the ground with a raging face and gave Chris a punch on the shoulder.

" IT'S HARUKA!!" Anger radiated from her little face.

But after a moment, she became silent. Docile.

" Who's this, uncle Chris?"

" Haruka Matoka. Who's name you have......." He said softly, his voice stuck between happiness and agony.

And when he looked away from her to the little kid, his pupils dilated a bit more as he let his gaze fix on her.

She looked happy.

" I love you!" She leaned in and patted the gravestone, leaving a lollipop from her pockets on the ground for being nice to her.

" Haruka? I love Haruka too........." He ruffled her head as she giggled.

Chris rubbed off the lubricants from his eyes as he held her hand tight.

" I'll protect you this time. Till the end." Chris made a vow in the insidious silence, one which nearly never could keep.

But he WON'T one to fail this time.

-Start Of Another Path-

Till later........
-Mythic