Chapter Two: Lost and Found

"Kanda!" yelled Allen as the two ran through the many rocky pathways, over the howling of the icy cold wind of the mountains. "We should split up for a few minutes; we can cover more ground this way!"

Kanda turned his head slightly to gaze at Allen and just nodded, and quickly the two of them split up.

"The paths are icy right now moyashi! Don't be a fool and fall down…" Grumbled Kanda as they headed off in different directions.

They had arrived just barely 4 hours ago in Tibet, and after much discussion with the Finders that were staying at the bottom of the mountain, the woman who Kanda and Allen had come to retrieve, had not returned successfully with her team. This could only mean that the female Exorcist had somehow either gotten lost, which was highly unlikely, or she had been waylaid by an Akuma attack, which was the only suitable conclusion for Kanda.

'Where are you…? You can't have gotten that lost…between the Monastery and that temple….' Thought Kanda to his self, as he surveyed the path he had taken, this blizzard was nasty, as the winds dug their icy fingers into Kanda, he couldn't see very well with all this snow blowing around.

Suddenly something caught his eye as he ran down the path once again. Three Level one Akuma were circling a particular area up ahead. Quickly Kanda unsheathed Mugen, trying to put on a burst of speed as he ran towards the Akuma.

"Mugen, Battou (A/N: I think this means Quick Draw in Japanese, don't quote me on this though)…" called out Kanda, quickly touching the back of the blade with his index and middle finger. The sword immediately turned silver.

Quickly Kanda leapt into the air and shouted out a command to his sword.

"Mugen: Kaichu-Ichigen (Hell's Insects: First Illusion)!"

Kanda quickly then swung his sword and launched a swarm of insects directly at the level ones. Destroying them all in one fell swoop. The samurai quickly landed on the ground and continued to make a mad dash towards where he had fell the Akuma. He was close that much was certain now, those Akuma were no doubt attempting to search for the missing Exorcist.

Kanda muttered under his breath quietly as he ran, "You better still be alive...damn it...I won't have Komui yell at me for not getting to you in time..."

Without another word, Kanda began to search the surrounding area for the lost Exorcist.


Camui had somehow managed to crawl when she woke a few minutes ago, into an area where she had also managed to make a small niche in the side of one of the smaller mountains, she was all huddled up at this point attempting to fight off sleep, knowing if she fell asleep she would die from Frostbite and hypothermia.

Her breathing was laboured due to the fight with the Level 3 Akuma, and she felt that her ribs were also to blame, she might have broken a couple.

"I..." She said while her teeth chattered, the cold icy air attempting to bite at her thin frame. "I have...to get out of here, and get down the path to the others..."

Her body shivered and shook slightly as she got up slowly, one hand holding her right side while the other held Keibatsu, slowly she got out of the small niche she had made for herself and immeditely surveyed the area; by the looks of things, she was in the clear to start walking, even though it was snowing heavily at this point.

She began to take a few steps towards the way she was supposed to go. It took her what felt like an hour to finally get about halfway down until she couldn't move anymore due to her legs having become numb from the cold. She tripped on a rock and fell to her knees, wincing in pain as she did so.

'I'm going to die...I know it...I'm sorry...everyone...I'm sorry Naomi...' She thought to herself as she crumpled up into a ball of shivering massed flesh, her eyes began to droop slowly as she tried to fight off slumber. Suddenly she caught something out of the corner of her eye, a shadow perhaps, her hand lifted slightly as she attempted to reach out to the person, before unconsciousness took her.


Kanda had been the one that Camui had reached out to with that hand, as he ran over towards the unconscious woman. Kneeling down he checked for a pulse with his finger. Grumbling under his breath, he quickly pulled out his Golem and attempted to get in contact with Allen.

"Moyashi...come in..." He growled softly, "I found our target, get over this way, I'm about 10 klicks from the Temple. Hurry up!" he added.

Slowly he attempted to lift her into his arms, bridal style, and began heading back down the path, carefully. He heard the woman in his arms groan in pain, murmuring in cohrent things in her sleep.

His golem made a slight beeping sound as Kanda walked down the path with the girl in his arms.

"Moyashi, I thought I told you..." Kanda said as he turned his head slightly to speak into his golem.

"Kanda...I'm kind of in a jam here, just bring the target to the Monestary, I'll meet you there as soon as I can..." said a slightly out of breath Allen Walker.

Kanda raised an eyebrow at Allen's words briefly, shaking his head, he muttered as he continued to attempt to get to the Monestary.

"Baka Moyashi...he better not get killed because of his stupidty."

The snow continued to pound down on those less fortunate to have to travel through this dangerous mountain pass, the icy winds whipped all around, kicking up snow, at times choking those who dare defy the mountain's wrath.


Author's End Notes: Gomen nasai! I know this is a very short chapter, and I've been so distracted with attempting to catch up with DGM's anime, that I didn't have the muse to write fanfiction for the past few weeks.

Next chapter will be better though, I promise. So please read and review, even though this was a short chapter.

Arigatou...and thats all for now my fellow D. Gray-Man fans, until next time! Ja Ne!