Ren: Sorry I took so long! (Bows)

Lacutta: It was half my fault.

Ren: (Death glares at Lacutta.)

Lacutta: Okay, it was totally my fault.

Disclaimer: I wish I owned D. Gray man.

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Chapter 3

Kanda opened the file of Ashari's folder. He stared at the pages, face blank, eyes wide.

He flipped through the pages. He closed the folder and laid it on the desk in his room and sighed.

"You stupid woman…"

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Ashari sighed as she stood in the library. 'So, so stupid Shari!' She spun around and looked around. "Who said that?!" She yelled.

A man walked out from the shadows of the bookcases. His long red hair hung from both sides of his face. A pair of goggles hung around his neck. He smiled wickedly at the trembling girl. "Now, now Shari, Let's not loose our heads." He said, a deep chuckle rising from his throat. Ashari backed up against a bookcase. "You're…you're not real! Go away!" She yelled.

He chuckled again, and walked to her. "But I am Little Shari. I'm as real as the blood in your veins." Ashari lashed out a hand, claws like daggers penetrating from the tips of her fingers, slashing the man's face. For a moment, the bloody wounds remained on his face before closing and healing. He wiped a finger on his cheek, finding blood on his finger tips. "Go away!" Ashari screamed. "You're dead! You are, you can't fool me, I saw you die!"

The man smiled and pinned her to the wall. "Yes I am dead Ashari, and it's your entire fault. That's why I'm taking you with me back to the land of the dead." Ashari screamed at the top of her lungs. "No Daddy, I'll be a good girl, I'll help protect people from those monsters! I'll try and kill the Earl, I promise, I don't want to die!" The man grinned. "Too late Ashari, now come with Daddy." "NO!!!" Ashari screamed.

Suddenly she felt two arms embrace her from behind. The man disappeared and the lights in the library became brighter. Ashari let out a gasp as the person behind her released her. "Linali, Allen, Miranda?" she called spinning around. She gasped again and embraced her savior.

"Che, get off me!" Kanda growled. Ashari shot away from him. "I'm sorry…" she whimpered. Kanda let out an angry breath. He looked her up and down. Ashari was wearing baggy knee length shorts and a hooded shirt. "What the hell are you wearing?" Kanda asked.

Ashari folded her arms and smiled. "Am I not allowed to wear normal cloths?" Kanda wrinkled his nose. "That's normal?" He sneered. "Then I don't want to know what ab-normal is." Ashari lowered her head.

Kanda sighed. "Listen, I don't like you or anything, but I don't want to ask about what went on back there. I know you're a bit shaken up, but…" Kanda trailed off and sighed again. Ashari cocked her head, and stared at him with her big blue eyes. "But what, Kanda?" She took a step towards him. "Kanda?" She asked again, but louder.

Kanda looked up at her and tried to smile, but it just came out as a crocked frown. Ashari took a few steps back and smiled nervously. Kanda opened his mouth and asked "Do you want to go somewhere?"

Ashari looked dumbstruck. "Well?!" He yelled impatiently, making Ashari jump five feet in the air.

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"Well?!" the four people shouted at Ashari. Ashari shrank into Miranda's arms. She had told Linali, Allen, Lavi and Komui everything that had happened between her and the raven haired exorcist. Miranda held her in her arms as she told them everything.

Komui shot up, and yelled "Kanda tried to smile, the apocalypse is upon us!" Linali hit her brother over the head as she stood up. "What Komui is trying to say is that this is the first time Kanda's actually asked a girl out. I mean, sure he's eighteen, but I think that this might be a case of late puberty."

Ashari's eyes watered up, "you mean he may not like me?" she asked. Linali felt sweat drip down her scalp as she saw the newbie exorcist shrink even more, if possible into Miranda's arms.

Miranda gasped as a red-black wolf ran out from Miranda's arms and out the room. Miranda let out a small shout as she saw Ashari's cloths where the girl was sitting. "Was that, was that her, her ability?" She asked.

Linali nodded. "Oh, me and my big mouth, I should have known she would be sensitive to something like that." Lavi frowned. "Then imagine what Kanda would do to her!" All five people sighed. "Poor Ashari…" Allen sighed.

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Ashari, in her wolf form, looked out at the rocky terrain around the building. "Okay, Ashari, time to run off the steam." She said to herself. She ran across the training grounds towards the direction of the ocean. She jumped over rocks and sped over the ground. She let her paws fly over the ground and ran across the water that washed up on the sand.

Finally after what seemed like an hour, she slowed and turned. She whined 'Maybe I went a little too far.' She thought. The building was visible, from about eighty miles away. She sighed and sat down. She heard a noise that made her jump.

"Water, this close to the ocean, I can understand, but it's coming from the forest." She said to herself as she crept though the brush. She walked through the forest for what seemed like minutes until she came across a stream.

"This must lead back. Okay, show me the way water." Ashari said. The black wolf followed the water for a while, before hearing what sounded like a waterfall. Ashari stuck her head out of the brush and silently gasped.

There, cross legged under the waterfall, was Kanda. His eyes were closed and his hair was loose and pressed against his bare back. Ashari jolted back and ran back to the training grounds. She flopped on her side, panting and trying to sort out her mind. She sat up and sighed, looking at her messy and dirty fur.

She stood up and walked towards the doors. 'Better go get some cloths on.' She thought. Suddenly, someone stepped in her way. She whimpered as she looked up at the pair of boots, followed by black pants, leading to a black tank top, leading to wet black hair, connected to Kanda.

Ashari stuck her tail in between her legs and slowly bowed her head. Kanda raised his chin and Ashari sped around his legs and ran through the halls to her door. She tried to get her paws to grip the door knob, but they kept slipping. She whined as she saw Kanda walking down the hall towards her.

Ashari did what she had to do. She looked around, seeing no one but her and the approaching swordsman, and transformed back into a girl and rushed into her room, locking the door and locking herself in the bathroom.

Ashari turned on the shower and crouched in the corner, the hot water heating and cleansing her skin. She heard a muffled banging on her door, but closed her eyes and blocked it out.

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Kanda felt a slight blush creep onto his face. 'Did she honestly do that?' he thought. 'Why is she so freaking paranoid?' he banged on her door again. Then he sighed as he held what she had dropped in her haste to get around him. Her black leather collar hung in from his fingers. The silver letters shone in the light. "Ashari…" Kanda read them aloud.

Kanda slipped it under the door, and then walked back to his own room. Then he saw Miranda and Linali walking to him. Linali reached out to him and caught his arm. "Where is she?!" She shouted. "Safe in her room," Kanda muttered. Linali ran in the direction of Ashari's room.

Miranda looked at Kanda, and then said "is she okay?" Kanda gave Miranda a look between frustration and confusion. "I think I scared her." "Think?" Miranda asked. "Okay, did." He growled. Miranda chuckled. "Do you want me to talk to her?" Kanda smirked. "Just tell her two o'clock, I'll be waiting in town" He said and walked into his room.

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Ren: Highly randomly on purpose!

Lacutta: What?

Ren: Exactly, but who ever has finished reading this, Can I have some suggestions about Kanda and Ashari's meeting, or in other words-

Lacutta: Date?

Ren: send in anything you want. Love ya!