I recently found a book I've been looking for, for almost two years. Therefore, I decided to spread the joy and write this earlier then I had planned. Hope you enjoy!

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She knew she could die at anytime. It was not a guess, it was not a depressive thought, and it most certainly was not an exaggeration. It was a cold fact, anytime that man could come back and finish the job. She would be powerless to stop it and she would die. Her only options were to escape, or to wait for death. At the moment, she thought her better option was to at least try to escape. She did not want to die a whimpering damsel in distress, no matter how appealing it was to curl up and pass out from the intense pain radiating though her body.

She had been right to fear Konran all along, he had beat her without mercy and broken several bones. There were dark black bruises covered her skin, fading almost seamlessly into jagged cuts and horrible gashes. Her wrist was unusable, as was her entire left arm, a cut so deep it hit bone snaked its way from her thigh to her darkly colored ankle. She had ripped the sheets and bound her wounds, stopping the bleeding that may very well have ended her life.

She grasped her keys in her palm and walked to the bolted door. Slipping the pin from her pocket, she began her work on the door.

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Hei could not ever really remember being scared. Sure, when his sister disappeared he felt the jolting emotion, but other then that. When Mao told him Kana was gone and he still had no leads on Honoo Konran, he felt it. He was terrified for her life, he had finally accepted his feelings, and now she was gone without a trace. Pulling out a chair and turning on a computer that looked more like a NASA control center, he begun his search.

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The door made no noise as it opened, and she ran down the hallway without interruption. The first door she came to was opened, a weapons barrack, as it seemed. She found there a lightweight gun she had not known even existed. She carried the gun close to her chest, the safety was off. After the incident with the contractors, she had felt useless; she learned how to defend herself. Nothing major, a self-defense course here, a basic weapons class there, at least if it came to it again she would not be useless, she would be strong.

In fact, she carried that knife with her when she went out, Hei's knife, and truly, if she was honest with herself, she knew she loved him. She would be just a hindrance in his life though; a weak collage girl taking on what he did daily? Hardly. A sound to her left made her flinch and run faster, like a rabbit in flight from the fox that would surly catch it. The nearby shadows shifted and she pushed her body to dash quickly up the steps of stone stairs. The lights flickered and she saw a door that stood out at the end of the hallway.

She darted towards it, ready to open it and meet any challenge on the other side. The shadows shifted and pooled behind her, she glanced back at them but did not slow. To her back, the darkness leaped and erupted, shaping into a figure. Honoo Konran appeared. He reached her just as she wrenched open the door to the outside; she had made it only three feet into safety. Startled and scared of being beaten or killed she applied pressure to the trigger.

The bullet raced through the barrel, leaped though the air, and Konran's head exploded. Brain matter, blood and bit of skull flew, parts of it covering Kana. She was horrified, her eyes wide, tears welling up and threatening to spill over. She took off; only as she ran did she realize she had been stabbed. Her abdomen bleed but she had no time to stop and bind it. The forest was oddly familiar and it clicked as she skirted around trees.

This was the park, and it was so very close to her home. She did not wish to go home. This park was also close to that address, his address. He had called him an Unpure, she was not sure on what that was, but the venom that the word was laced with told her he would be in danger.

Her vision blurred as she raced along. Since when had the park been this huge?

Am I going to die? Maybe death would be a relief.

She tripped several times, each time reminding her self she had to see Hei, she had to warn him.

I can rest when this is done, die if I want too.

She didn't see the attack coming; white, blazing, fiery, pain shot through her back. Standing above her shocked, dieing form, Konran laughed. He was completely unhurt; there wasn't a single scratch on his person.

"Stupid bitch, I am a Pureblood, I am a demon, and I am one with the shadows. I am darkness itself; you had not a chance of escaping, of even surviving."

He turned and left, even through her pain she found one thing funny.

He thought I was running to live, no, I know I'm going to die. I'm running for him, Hei. I will not give in here.

Sure, Hei was safe at the moment, but not for long, she had to reach him. She shot up as fast as her body would allow her, her body in shock, numb to the pain. She stumbled forward, reaching for strength she didn't know she possessed. Her tears made it hard to see but that address in front of her was unmistakable. She barely made it there, collapsing and folding in on herself at the door, a loud thump echoed on the wooden surface.

The door opened, pulling inside, a pained yell resounded, and then there were hands on her. Trapping her gently, into the arms of the one she wanted to see most. She told him to run, she told him of the danger, her final task complete she faded into the waiting dark of her mind.

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Hei has never cried, but seeing Kana as she was, having nothing to do but wait for an outcome after bandaging her up. Hei, The Black Reaper, the emotionless killer, cried for the first time in his life. Just a few tears, but it was a sign. He was not immune to human emotions, as much as he would like to be. He was once human, and still mortal. He always would be as well.

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Well, things have come full circle. Will Kana live? Will Hei get revenge? Will Konran get the crap kicked out of him for (Maybe) killing Kana by his master? ( He was told not too.) Find out next chapter whenever the Hell I decide to make it.