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Ch7
Kanda jerked on his steps as he ran through the empty streets, to hear a faint scream coming from the forest which was where he was heading to at that moment. To his horror, that scream sounded like it belonged to Yuuki.
"Yuuki!" His heart skipped a beat, and he ran as fast as his legs could carry him. He was worried, worried about her. She was the only thing that was in his head as he ran. "Yuuki!" He ran into the forest, and his heart skipped another beat to see Yuuki in Akmua's hands, which was slowly suffocating her by squeezing her tight slowly and painfully.
Yuuki gritted her teeth, trying to escape. Her eyes were closed shut, the pain was horrible! All of her mind was focused on trying to escape; she did not see Kanda had come. "Ka…kanda…san…" She gasped, as the akuma's hand gripped tighter. "Please…come…save me." Her brain and body was slowly coming out of focus. In her mind, she saw Kanda's face, and the words. The words.
"I love you…"
Kanda growled his anger out as he activated his mugen, and he attacked the akuma viciously. "Let her go!" He yelled, and with a rapid movement, he cut off its hand which had her trapped, dropping onto the floor, letting her go.
Coughing and gasping for air, Yuuki goggled at Kanda who stood in front of her, his back facing her standing between her and the akuma protectively. "Ka…nda-san?" She panted, holding onto her ribs which were throbbing painfully. Oh, they hurt horribly! Tears were stinging her eyes, both from the pain by akuma, but from his words from earlier too. She had just that she would die, with his words haunting her.
Kanda took another glance at Yuuki, who looked badly wounded. "You will pay!" He yelled his anger at the akuma who took a step back from his dangerous aura, and with another swift movement to his sword, he finished off the akuma. He was very angry. At the akuma, but to himself as well. If he had no said those painful words, he would have not sent Yuuki here to get attacked. It was his fault!
Yuuki's eyes were still goggling at him. When did he come? Coughing once more, and regaining most of her breath, she tried to get up. "Thank you, Kanda-san." She whispered, avoiding his gaze. She wanted to get out of there, away from him! She did not want to talk to him. Not after those words!
Seeing that she was having trouble standing up, he walked next to her and crouched in front of her, his back to her. "Here." He said, yelling anger calls to himself, painfully noticing her pain as if it were his own that were wounded.
Yuuki blushed at the thought of Kanda giving her a piggy-back ride. "Kanda-san, it's all right, I can walk myself." She tried to walk on, but tripping on a rock, she bumped into Kanda, who sighed irritably. Yuuki blushed even redder if possible when she bumped into him. 'Oh no! I don't want him to be angrier with me more than he is already!' She thought frantically, but she didn't have to bother with that.
"Hurry up." He grumbled. He didn't want to be so cold to her…but, the words just came out. "Just get on. It's my fault that you came out here…" A pause followed. "Sorry." Yuuki's eyes were huge now, gaping at him. "Sorry for saying that I…er, well never mind that, I didn't mean any of it." He blushed, he thanked the gods that it was dark, it hid his blush.
Yuuki's lips curved into a smile as she hopped onto his back. So he did have a heart, which might be facing her. That thought brought a blush to her face as she was carried back to the hotel very gently. She sighed comfortably as she rested her head on his shoulder, resting her body. She felt very relaxed, and she knew that she would be safe as long as he was there to help her and guide her. Because he was the man she loved, someone who gave and will give her comfort.
"Yuuki-neechan!" Takuya yelled in horror as Kanda walked in, hurt Yuuki on his back. "What happened?" He rushed at her instantly when Kanda dropped her on the bed softly. Sasaki came a split second later, a medicine box in his hands. "Yuuki-neechan!" Takuya kept whining. He wanted answers now! Oh if it was Kanda, he was in for it! Sasaki and Takuya were going to murder him!
Yuuki giggled sheepishly. "Ah, an accident and an appointment with an akuma does it." She said, accepting the ointment, she started to jab herself with the stinging medicine. "Ow." She grumbled as she tried to lift her arm which was painfully jabbing at her from all sides. Worse, every time she tried to move her arms or any of her upper body, her ribs would protest, and a jolt of pain was sent to her.
"You aren't doing it right." Kanda growled, and taking the ointment from her, he started to tend her wounds carefully and gently. Sasaki sighed, Takuya grinned at Kanda and Yuuki. So they were truly meant for each other. Motioning Sasaki to follow, the two left the couple.
Silence followed their exit, Yuuki blushing madly at Kanda's touch, Kanda frowning at the wounds on her. It was his fault! Those words drummed in his head. Sensing that, Yuuki smiled. "It's not your fault." She said softly. "It was mine since…well, I wasn't paying attention and I should have not butted into your room anyway." She shrugged, but regretted it as it gave her another shock of wave. "Ow…" She muttered, wincing. "Stupid ribs." She growled.
Kanda said nothing as he finished dabbing ointment onto her wounds, and he looked into her eyes, to see it looking back at him. "Sorry." He mumbled again as he took a seat next to her on the bed. "It's not your fault." He sighed as he placed the ointment on a table that was next to the bed. "I'll bandage your arm now." He said, taking a roll of bandage.
Yuuki raised an eyebrow. What was this? Kanda actually acknowledging it was his fault? "Look Kanda-san, either we say we were both at fault, we will both keep saying it is our fault, it'll last forever." She winced as he lifted her arm to wrap the bandage. Even though he was doing it was gently as he could, it still hurt! Stupid akuma. "You should have left a bit of the akuma for me to slaughter." She pouted.
Kanda winced inwardly to see her wince. "Sorry, I was too angry at it as well…" Silence followed that again, but this time Kanda broke it. "Yuuki, the things I said earlier, I didn't mean them…they are actually opposite of what I said." Blush was creeping up his face again. Yuuki turned to him, looking at him thoughtfully. Seeing that she was not going to guess or anything, Kanda continued. He wanted to get this straight, before any other rivals came. "What I mean is…" He paused, blushing madly now. He was so bad at these kinds of things! Why me? He desperately thought.
'To think, Kanda…showing emotions, to me!' Yuuki thought, smiling brightly inwardly. "Kanda-san," she pulled him towards her into a hug. To her surprise, her pain on her ribs was not felt at that time. "I understand what you mean." She smiled at his as she released him. "May I add that I feel the same?" She smiled, turning slightly red at her own comment.
Kanda gaped at her from her reaction and the words. Without waiting for another word, he did something his body told him to do, something he had always wanted to do. He pulled her into a hug, and their lips met each others'.
Even though he is stubborn, dense, cold hearted at times and other things, I think I understand him the most. Well, at least I try to. Because I love him. And he loves me back! Even if he does show irritation, anger or annoyance to me, I know they are really not meant to be…well, of course excluding some exceptions. But I will not let him go because of that.
Please stay with me forever; you were my hero, now you are my only and forever, my love. Someone I will love forever, someone who I will cry on. if I needed someone who I can laugh with, someone I could trust.
I ask, please, accept me.
EPILOGUE
5 to 6 years passed by since that day, Sasaki had accepted their love, and he gladly took a step away. He wished for their happiness, and after a month or so after his entrance to the group, he was withdrawn to do individual and other exorcist work.
Yuuki, Kanda and Takuya were always the same however. They were now called "The Family Unit" by most of the people working with them. It worked like this: Kanda and Yuuki as parents, Takuya as their son. Kanda's first reaction when Rabi pointed that out was to kill him, but seeing Yuuki laughing to it, he let it go. But the trouble was, Rabi told everyone and after that day, everyone called them that. Even on files, it says "Family Unit Missions" in the filing cabinet!
They worked very well together, the 3 of them. They were sent to missions always together, and they had even now formed perfect tactics. Kanda as offensive, Yuuki as distraction, Takuya as back attacker. While Yuuki distracted the enemy with her speed and her flying ability, Kanda and Takuya would attack, Kanda from the front, Takuya form the back. Sometimes they would even have both Yuuki and Kanda distracting the akuma to fall into a spot where Takuya had an open shot from where ever he hid, where he would shoot and finish the akuma, or at least falter it so Yuuki and Kanda would finish it. They worked so well as a team, they were barely set on different missions separately.
Speaking of them, they were on their way back from a mission, and they were…lost. Very lost, and they were having some…troubles.
"Look, Yuu, its right!" Yuuki pointed to the right side of a forked road. She was now calling Kanda Yuu with his permission of course. He had agreed on it 3 years ago, that she could call him that, and only her. Rabi even stopped calling him that, respecting them. Well, after Kanda threatened him of course. There was not much of a difference to her from back then, but she had now longer hair that tumbled to her waist, but tying it to a ponytail, she matched Kanda in a way.
"No, it's left!" Kanda retorted, pointing to the opposite direction. Stubborn as always. He of course did not change at all. The only thing different were his eyes. It seemed a lot softer now, well, soft around Yuuki anyway. The others? Nope, no soft eyes for them!
Takuya sighed behind them, his hands behind his head. "Stop bickering, sheesh." He was the most changed, since he was after all a boy before, and now, he was almost an adult. He had also grown out his hair, matching Kanda, which of course irritated Kanda even more. Even the people working as finders and researchers were growing out their hair! Takuya now supported a scar that cut through the bridge of his nose, which gave him a strong look, and that brought flocks of girls to him to his pleasure. However, his attitudes were still the same. Mature at times, but childish most of the times.
"RIGHT!"
"LEFT!"
"Do lover's quarrel somewhere else, will ya? It hurts other people's ears, and all that smoochy-smoochy thing, yuck, get a room! Once I think you were doing smoochy-smoochy thing, next thing I know, you guys are yelling at each other." Takuya complained at them. Smirking at their blushing reaction, he dashed away before they could get their hands on them. "There's a person over there! Maybe he'd tell us the right way!"
Kanda and Yuuki both gaped at his back as he jogged away. "He used to be so innocent." Yuuki said miserably. "What did we do wrong? Did we do something that made him that way?"
"That's what you think. He'd been like that since forever." Kanda muttered under his breath, which brought giggles from the woman next to him. "What? I'm just stating the obvious." He shrugged at her. "You just never saw that side of him since he played 'good boy' around you all the time."
"Yes, maybe so, Yuu." She then saw Takuya bounding back towards them. "So who was right? Right or left?" She grinned at him. "It was right, right? You go right from here, right?"
Takuya grinned at them innocently. "Neither." The two frowned at him, Takuya answered with, "We were totally going the wrong way, we were supposed to head East instead of West from the village!" He sounded so cheerful.
"You do realize we'd been walking quite far since we left that village!" Yuuki whined, slapping her face with her hand disapprovingly. "Who said we had to leave towards where we exited?"
"Uh…not me!" Takuya said, looking at scenery around him, whistling innocently.
"TAKUYA!" They both yelled, their innocence activated.
"SORRY! AHH! DON'T POINT THAT THING AT ME, YOU JERKS! HEY! HEY! GET THAT THING AWAY FROM ME! AHHHHAAA!"
Akanishi-san: It's OVER:) I'm glad it is, but I'm sad those bashing reviewers never returned. Ah well, at least I have all you guys who were actually supportive! Thanks you all, and hope to see you all again! (yeah, I'm working on another KandaxOc...debating if I do want to put it here though) but anyway, hope you all liked this and cya around, yeah?
