The violin moon

Wow…thanks so much for all your support. I couldn't have done this without you [though I could've just posted this chapter anyway… Sorry the first chapter was so sucky… You see…my mountain of homework had a huge avalanche so I couldn't make it how it was supposed to be and couldn't run a last minute spell check because I was rushing something school oriented down at the same time I posted this… someone said this fic kinda reminded them of 'The Black-haired Moon.' I kinda got the instrument part from them and the idea that someone gets kidnapped, that's all. I had been thinking of writing this Yullen for a while and the original first chapter was much more suckier. Then I read the black-haired moon and I got those two ideas from it. Sorry it's so late…the library was closed and I had to wait till Wednesday to post this.

Oh yeah…. When you see this,

No... Cathelien does in fact own D.Gray-Man… gets stung with laser gun for saying that Aw! Katsura-sempai owns it, I just own the fic. Well here's the next chap…enjoy.

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After spending the night in the inn, Kanda still didn't have a good plan. He had till the red moon to get that moyashi back. He sat silently on his bed and thought.

'Damn…why'd you have to get yourself into this mess?'

He thought of ways to get Allen back. One was to kill all that got in his way but he might end up killing that baka in the process. This was already a bad start to the mission. He walked through the village, going from store to store, asking about the house. But to no avail, no one seemed to want to tell him about it. Or were they too afraid to say anything.

The village was not small as Kanda knew, it was huge. By the time he went through a quarter of the town, it was drawing close to sunset. He just had enough time for one more store. Unfortunately, it was a grocery. Kanda walked his way through the aisles, trying to find the owner. When he found the owner, he asked him the same question he'd been asking everyone else whole day,

"Do you know anything about the house in the forest?"

The man flinched a little at Kanda's impatient tone. He fumbled with his thumbs and ran a hand through his short brown hair.

"N-no….But there's this old man who lives on the other side of the forest who does."

Kanda let go of the man and ran to the forest. He didn't look for the man's house because it would have to wait till tomorrow. What he needed to do now was to go and talk to the bean-sprout. He arrived just in time and Allen appeared. He went over to Allen and said,

"Hey, bean-sprout…what are you under?"

"It's a curse…Go, run!" Allen replied.

"Shut up moyashi. What kind of curse?"

But it was too late. Taking a place beside Allen was the woman in the pink kimono. She smiled and stroked Allen's white hair.

"Haru?" she asked

"I'm not Haru," Kanda replied.

"Really…You look like Haru to me. Have you come back?"

Allen was lifeless like a doll. He was just standing there, saying nothing, doing nothing. He looked like he was under some sort of trance. Kanda looked at Her, then at Allen and back at the woman.

"I'm not Haru…Baka, wake up!"

He stared at the bean-sprout as the woman brandished a kanta. The markings were ornate and the blade was etched with carvings that probably dated back to before the great flood. In other words, the knife was beautiful. She ran forward and jabbed it at Kanda but he easily dodged the blade. But her reflexes were faster than his so he was unprepared when she swung it from left to right. It left a gash in the exorcist's coat. He stumbled a bit.

He didn't normally fight women, in fact he respected them. But tonight, he'd make an exception for this one.

"Mugen Battou," he said as he took the katana from it's sheath. He charged in and both weapons clashed several times before he had the chance. He took that chance and cut her left arm. Her blood was bright red so that meant that she was human. She dropped the kanta and vanished, leaving Allen there.

"Kanda, run…" and then Allen disappeared.

He heard the violin's sound resonate through the forest. It was loud and clear. Then he heard her speak in a voice almost like a whisper. Kanda picked up the kanta and strapped it on the other side of where Mugen was.

"Fine then Haru

If you hate me so

Then I hate you

Die.

By the red moon"

He didn't know exactly what this girl in pink meant by what she said. But she kept calling him Haru and said that he was going to die by the red moon. He had till then to get that baka back. He slowly walked back to the inn. He went up to his room, took off the coat, then the shirt and examined the gash. The gash was huge and covered almost the width of his chest. He applied pressure to it and released it almost immediately.

"Kuso," he said, "Damn kanta, damn woman, damn moyashi. Worthless, stupid, good for nothing baka moyashi. But at least I have the kanta."

That was probably the only good thing that happened tonight. Getting the kanta. He opened his suitcase and took out some bandages. He wound them around his chest tightly and secured them with a safety pin. Then put on an extra shirt from his briefcase and crawled into bed. It was another restless night. And the worse thing was that his wounds weren't healing as fast as they used to. He closed his eyes and forced sleep to take over.

Normally his dreams were blank. But tonight they were filled with the lotus. Petals started to fall faster and the lotus had a dark pink colour to it. The last petal fell and Kanda woke up as soon as it hit the bottom of the hourglass. This didn't look like four am. But when he checked the clock it did read 4 am. Apparently at this time in the morning signalled sunrise for this part of the world. It marked Souya down as one of his most hated towns.

He got out of bed and put on his exorcist's coat before heading out the door. It took him half a day to get to the old man's house so by the time he got there, it was mid-afternoon. He knocked on the door and stood there waiting.

"What do you want," the man asked when he opened the door.

He looked to be about fifty-six years old and had almost no hair.

"Someone told me that you know about that old house in the forest," Kanda replied.

"I don't know nothing," he said as he slammed the door in the exorcist's face.

Kanda didn't have time for this. He kicked the door open and drew Mugen. He cornered the man and held Mugen to his throat.

"You used a double negative which means that you know something and you hurriedly closed the door which also means that you're hiding something. Now you will tell me about the house or I will cut you up so many times that even God himself won't be able to recognise you."

The man was definitely frightened and gulped. He spoke quickly and in a cracked voice.

"The house was home to a wealthy man and his wife. The man's name was Haru and his wife was called Ewen. She was one of those foreign beauties, you know from a different country. Well a huge pandemic, plague spread through the entire town, claiming the lives of many. Haru for fear of dying left his wife and his son there and promised to come back. He didn't want to get the sickness and his family already had it. Her son died the next day and she waited for him but Haru never returned. She waited twelve years for him, sick with the disease until one day she died. From then on people have disappeared in that forest for over thirty years."

Kanda put Mugen away and walked to the door. E stood there for a little while and then left the house. By the time the sun set, he was at the house. Allen was already there and went over to Kanda.

"Kanda," he said to the dark-haired exorcist, "You shouldn't be here…"

"Shut up bean-sprout."

"I mean it, you really shouldn't have come."

"Shut up and listen baka," he almost shouted, "What is the curse?"

"She's going to bind my soul to the violin…by the red moon."

The red moon. Kanda had been hearing about it for the past two days. He was struggling to guess during which night in the red moon it would happen. The red moon was a series of nights in which the moon appeared to be red. About four nights to be exact.

"Which night in the red moon?" he asked.

Moyashi was silent. It was either that he didn't know or that his soon-to-be mistress was around.

"I don't know…you shouldn't be here."

"Shut it moyashi, how do you break the curse?" he asked.

"You'll never be able to," Allen replied.

The moon shone brightly. Its sphere perfect and gleaming silver. It illuminated the entire forest. Allen stiffened up as soon as the light hit him.

"Run…" and he was completely silent.

"I see you came back Haru," Ewen smiled, "killing you will be so much easier."

This time she appeared in a light pink kimono. Her hair was the same so she didn't look any different. Kanda became very annoyed around this woman easily.

"I told you I'm not this Haru and you're supposed to be dead," he drew Mugen.

"You lie, I'm not dead. I'm alive! I have a heart beat," Ewen brandished a pair of daggers and ran towards her victim.

"Che, you have to keep coming?" he asked as he blocked her attack.

He pushed off his attacker using Mugen and made another, bigger slice in her skin. This time it was in the shoulder. She winced from the pain and gave Kanda another cut to the arm. No problem for him, it would just heal faster than normal. He noticed that every time she got injured, her hold on the sprout was cut momentarily. And in that moment Allen seemed to move away from her. But since her injury was bigger, the hold was cut for just a little longer. She jabbed the daggers at him. Kanda easily dodged them and inflicted more wounds onto the woman. She probably had enough because she disappeared.

"Kanda, I…" and Allen disappeared.

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I know it's so short but I like it. I left it like this because I forgot what Allen was going to tell him. Silly me. Please review. I'm writing chapter three as you read this because I know you all like my story from some of your reviews. Yullen, Yullen, Yullen forever! Oh and I don't know where to get Yullen banners or t-shirts so I just imagine them. Silly me…