AN: THEME NUMBER 2 :D CHOICES :D
Part One: Opposites Attract
"Neah, I swear on the seventh layer of hell, if you don't stop scaring off you're potential spouses I personally will murder you!" An angry Adam screamed into my face. I just scrunched up my nose in disgust.
"First of all it's Allen. Just because I have part of his soul does not make me him, I'm a girl for crying out loud. Secondly, your breath reeks. And last but definitely not least, I will not marry anyone who is so easily scared away by a plain demoness." He turned red with anger.
He threw a hand over his mouth and continued speaking in a muffled voice. "You bare the soul of Neah Walker, therefore you will be addressed as so. You are no simple demoness, you are the most powerful demoness in all of the world. Any being would be crazy to not fear you."
"Well then when I marry it will be to a crazy man." I flipped my white hair over my shoulder making it reach my mid-back. Adam just heaved out an irritated sigh before storming out of the room.
"Incompetent man." I mumbled before hopping on my bed and pulling out a box from beneath the pillow. I carefully opened up the human trinket. Upon revealing the inside of the box I gently ran her finger across the chipped ballerina in blue. My delicate fingers found their way to the wind and wound it up and proceeded to listen to the song my Uncle Mana used to sing to me.
He was the only one in this family that truly cared for me. The half human always came over to take me to the human world and go on different adventures. When I found out of his death I must've cried for at least a year. If it weren't for his human friend Cross I probably would've died of starvation.
*flashback*
I wondered aimlessly around, the whole world around me in a blur of rain and mortal bodies. All of the humans looked at me as if I belonged in a freak show. Maybe I did. I made my way to the first place of shelter I could find. Sitting under the tree I curled up and closed my eyes for another restless sleep.
When nightmares of what had just happened a day ago plagued me I got up and ran as fast as I could to where the preacher man said the body would be buried. Since Mana had no human family they felt no need to hold a service for him and just buried him immediately after the scene was investigated.
I reached the grave and lay my body across it sobbing for my only friend to come back. Soon my tears subsided, my throat raw from crying. I sat in front of his grave for Earl knows how long. I saw a few different moons and suns and felt as if my stomach would devour itself.
"Hey, kid. You're not supposed to sleep on graves. It's kinda creepy." I didn't respond. Now that Mana wasn't here nothing mattered anymore.
"Wait a second, kid. Are you a Noah?" At this my eyes shot towards him. A fierce glare crossed my five year old face, well as fierce as I could get at that age anyways.
"No! My family is Mana! Not those stupid Noah!" I spat out at him childishly hugging the grave once more. The tall red-haired man looked down at me shocked.
"Come on, kid. Let's get you some food. You look like you've been here a while." He held his hand out, "Don't worry, I was a friend of Mana Walker's. And Neah as well."
"I'm not hungry." I sounded like a brat, trying to be somewhat like Devit whenever Adam tried to put he and Jasdero in separate rooms. As if on cue my stomach let out a loud growl. I blushed and he chuckled.
"Sure you aren't. What's your name kid?"
"Allen..." I looked over to the grave and made my decision then and there, "Allen Walker."
"What? I thought you were a little girl!" Cross said eyeing me shocked.
"I am!" I shout embarrassedly. "Mana named me after his pet that we loved. Don't make fun of the name he gave me!" I snapped.
"Whatever kid. Let's go before I decide not to feed you." My stomach growled again as I shot up and grabbed the mans hand. My knees buckled out from under me. I guess the day of malnourishment were catching to me. He then lifted me onto his shoulders like Mana used to do and walked away towards the best meal I'd ever had in my life.
*back to present*
Smiling at the memory I gathered my belongings and stuffed them into a few bags. I was going on a long trip to my true home. The human world.
"And where do you think you're going?" I froze at the voice.
"No where Lulubell. Just to visit a friend. i'll be back tonight or tomorrow." I smiled a fake smile at her hoping she'd buy it.
"With all of your bags packed?" She raised an eyebrow before looking at her nails. I cursed myself for not realizing how obvious I was being about "running away" again.
"Alright, alright. I'm going to the human world for a while until Adam calms down and realizes that I will not marry someone weaker than me." I said putting my hands on my hips.
"So..." She started counting on her fingers," Never." She said emotionless.
"No..." We both stared at each other for a long time before she smirked.
"Alright, Musician child, the day Adam cursed you and placed that Noah inside you. You are one of us now whether you like it or not." She grinned evilly as she walked out of the room. A glare was sent directly at her.
"Stupid Adam, stupid Lulubell, stupid Musician, stupid everyone." I grumbled opening up the ark and climbing through the doors. I shut the door and made my way to my favorite place in the world.
"Really? I will find someone stronger than me?" I cried out happily. The seer nodded and smiled.
"Most likely, yes, he will turn your life upside down though. If you like the way you are now and are faithful to who rules you do not try and find him. But if you do want him you must simply wait." She said. Faithful to who rules me? The Earl? Oh yeah, I'm definitely going to seek whoever this guy is out.
"Thank you Miss!" I say placing a large sum of money of her table and walking out.
"Excuse me, ma'am!" I heard the seer's voice. I turned back towards her. Out of the large stack of cash she handed me a single bronze euro cent. "I believe you're gonna need this." She said winking at me. Confused I took the €0.01 from her and put it in my pocket. "And remember. In the end, the choice will be yours." Now I was really bewildered.
Walking down the street merrily towards the hotel I accidentally bump into a stand of fruit knocking an apple onto the ground.
"I'm sorry!" a squeak emitted from my lips when I looked up to see a huge man with pink hair looking down on me.
"That's alright Honey! Since you kindly apologized I forgive you." He said pinching my cheek. I smiled and gave thanks.
A man with blue-ish black hair walked up to the stand. He was gorgeous, and I'm a pretty picky person when it comes to guys. Plus he gave off this air that said good and protective. "Hey Jerry, the usual. Be quick about it." He snapped. Well, I thought he was good.
Jerry mumbled about him being 'un cute' and brought out a basket with uncooked noodles in it.
"Shit, it's only €0.01 short." The man said angrily searching his pockets and the ground for change. "Jerry, that alright?"
"Wait! I have what you need!" I say suddenly remembering the bronze coin in my pocket. He glared at me as I reached into my pocket only to find that there was a hole in it. I suddenly became very sheepish. "I-i thought I had what you needed."
"I wouldn't accept anything from a cursed woman like you anyways!" He growled as he found a bronze coin inside his bag. I sent a chilling glare his way. He flinched.
"Well then I'm glad I lost it! I wouldn't want to give anything to an asshole like you! Stupid prick." I seethe his way. His face is shocked for a moment before his glare puts up a fight to mine. I couldn't help but feel turned on by this. Ew.
"Women shouldn't speak in such a foul manner, or are you just one of those guys who walks around dressed as a woman. You're surely flat chested enough, Moyashi." I swear if we weren't in the middle of town I would've hit him right then and there. He called me a freaking BEAN-SPROUT and flat chested! Wait a second... who cares if we're in the middle of town, I'll only be here a while before going to the next town. Grinning madly I pulled my arm back and landed a hit right on his jaw. His head snapped to the side. A chorus of gasps could be heard around.
"I am only fifteen years old. I'm not supposed to be fully developed, you little shit bag!" I never cursed like this because it wasn't polite, but this guy just got under my skin. I turned on my heels and walked away leaving a injured, grumpy man on the ground holding his face.
"I'm sorry for the inconvenience ma'am. Don't hold it against the whole town! Kanda's just extremely rude, to everyone." I smiled at the chinese girl with pig-tails as I situated my bag on my shoulder.
"It's alright, I've met my fair share of men like him. I was honestly leaving soon anyways." The girl called Lenalee seemed saddened by this.
"Alright, well come again! I'll tell my brother, the inn keeper, that you've decided to leave." I turned towards the door after she walked off. When I opened it someone collided with me.
"What the hell, Moyashi. What are you doing here?" He asked glaring. I couldn't help but notice the bruise on his face was gone. I know I punched him hard enough to nearly break his jaw. Why is it already healing?
"I just so happened to be leaving. Good day." I say eyeing him suspiciously. Just as I said that he pushed me towards a china cabinet. I bumped into it and tons of beautiful cups and plates shattered on the ground.
"Look at what you've done to Mr. Lee's china. I guess you'll have to stay and pay off your debt." He smiled at me but his eyes were menacing. I began to sweat under his stare.
"B-but I- That was you! You pushed me!" I say trying to defend myself. After all, I kinda gave all of my money away to the fortune teller, so I couldn't just pay for it. I sputtered for a moment more before the asian siblings came into the foyer to see what the racket was.
"My precious collection!" The chinese man named Komuii yelled as he dived for the piles of shattered china.
"Oh my goodness! Allen are you okay?" I looked at her confusedly before looking down at myself. The were a few shards of glass embedded into my uncovered right arm. I kept the left one hidden because of a birth defect causing my entire arm to be black. That's what I assumed anyways.
"Oh yeah I'm fine!" I say smiling pulling the shards out and helping Komuii gather the broken pieces up. "Kanda here attacked me and pushed me into the china cabinet." Yeah that's right Kanda, you can't tango with the strongest demoness ever. I smirked at him.
"Lee, I know how much you value that china, why would I push her into it. It's not like I want to lose my living quarters here." He glared at me.
The man just looked between the two of us as we kept trying to reason how it was the other's fault.
"Both of you." He said darkly. All was silent as his maniacally laugh slowly bubbled out. "Both of you will pay for this! YOU! Be Lenalee's bodyguard for a month and you," He glared at me with a glare that could rival Devit's, but nobody else's in my family, so it didn't really bother me. "You will stay here and work your debt to me off!" Well shit. IF I stayed here any longer this Kanda guy might find out my having the most ridiculous crush ever.
"Yes sir. How long?"
"Until I feel as though I can overcome the sadness of losing my most precious china!" He whined and ran into the next room.
During the whole conversation Lenalee had been bandaging my arm.
"You're all fixed up. I'll get your bags and bring them to your room since you'll be staying a while." She grinned almost as if she had planned this. I looked between her and Kanda. She winked at him and whispered something I didn't understand.
"Anything to pay off my debt to you." He said looking as if he'd seen a ghost. He stalked to the staircase.
"Oi, Moyashi. Does your arm hurt?" Was that concern coming from the egoistical asshole?
"It doesn't hurt." I studied his face, noticing his handsome features. Why are all the good looking ones assholes?
He looked at me curiously before stalking up the stairs. I also decided to go to my room. I opened up the door thinking it was mine, 2A. There Kanda stood shirtless with white wings sprouting from his back. They were the most beautiful things I'd ever seen. When I saw him I realized felt warm inside again, unlike when I looked at the Noah family who sent chills down my spine.
"Fuck! Moyashi get out, wait no, don't get out, get in!" He yelled. With a flushed expression I tried to escape but his arms pulled me back with surprising strength no man could have. I looked into his cobalt eyes, shocked.
"What are you?" I asked. I then took the time to notice the events that had occurred between me being at the door and now. He had pinned me to the wall, wrists above my head. I blushed. "You can let go." I say sheepishly.
"No, you'll run and tell everyone. I will only tell you what I am if you promise to keep it secret." I nodded my head.
"I promise." He sighed and let me go and walked over to his bed.
"I'm an angel." I bust out laughing.
"Nice try, angels aren't assholes."
"They are to the likes of you." He glared.
"What do you mean the likes of me?" I say returning the glare.
"You're a demon. If you were an angel I would know, and your punch was too strong to be that of a human girl's." My eyes widened.
"Just because I'm a demon doesn't give you permission to be an ass bag to me!" I said putting my hands on my hips. He stood and I took a step back causing me to trip, Did I ever mention how much of a klutz I am? Just before I could hit the ground strong arms were around me. I opened my eyes I didn't realize I closed and saw his cobalt pools mere centimeters from mine. I had the urge to kiss him but knew I'd be dropped if I did. Either way I can't have a crush on him. He's an ass bag. I'd have to be mad as a hatter to admit my feeling for him. This conclusion is what led to my extremely surprised reaction to feeling rough lips against mine.
Kanda was kissing me.. Me-the cursed demon girl.. that he just met today, and hated?
After noticing that I wasn't responding I slowly began to kiss him back. This was new to me. He pulled back and opened his eyes and finally grasped onto what he just did. He then suddenly dropped me and back up.
"Forget about that." I was actually a little hurt by his words.
"And if I don't want to?" I said feeling irritated. "Girls don't usually forget their first kiss, do they?" The shock was evident on his face. A light pink tint turned to a full on blush. Jerry called him un cute but at this very moment I'd never seen anything more adorable. Suddenly a thought struck me.
"Kanda!"
'What, Baka Moyashi?" he mumbled averting his gaze.
"Arm wrestle me real quick." I can't believe I was testing this. Confused, he obliged. Sitting at the table in the corner we joined hands, not unaware of the slight jolt of happiness I felt at being in contact with him.
"One. Two. Three. Go!" I said. I halfway expected my hand to push his down without any effort, but before I even knew what happened my arm was pressed against the table.
"Dear God that was the longest arm wrestling match I've ever had." Kanda said.
"What? It was only a few seconds." His expression showed amusement.
"Try a few minutes." Wow time flies when you're having fun I guess.
"Hey Kanda, will you marry me?" He was taken aback. I blushed at what I said. I was just so excited to have finally met him! The coin didn't help me in the way I thought I would. " I mean- that's not-"
"It's impossible. Demons and Angels cannot marry." I love how his reasoning wasn't 'I hate you' or 'I wish you would go away'.
"Well I'm not exactly a demon." I say inching my face closer to his. I don't know what's too fast or too slow, but I've been waiting ten years for him to come along. I'd assume that was slow.
"What do you mean?"
"Don't you know only humans can be cursed? I've only been cursed to hold on of the Noah inside of me. Though now that I think about it I'm pretty sure it's impossible to reverse it." Now I was a bit crestfallen. Of course the first person I'd ever consider marrying was and angel. What would Adam say?
"All curses can be reversed stupid. You forget I have God on my side." Woah, Kanda was attempting to help me. First a random out of nowhere romance and now this. What is the author of this story thinking? Probably something along the lines of 'I'm so tired =_= but I must get this out quickly because it's already over 3,000 words and still has a way to go. Maybe I'll just make a part 2'. Yeah that's probably it.
"What? I have a soul bound to me. If you were to try and remove it wouldn't I, you know, kick the bucket?" He looked thoughtful.
"I think that choice is one only you can make, have the will power to break free or die because you don't really want it." He said to me. Is this really the same guy who pushed me into the china cabinet?
"I do!" I say quickly and blush, "I really want to be away from that "family." He looked at me with a smirk.
"Well what are we waiting for?" I smiled as well.
"Christmas time." I say jokingly.
Now I knew my life would change, just like the fortune teller said. I just didn't realize it'd happen so soon. Crazy author.
END OF PART ONE