So I Thought
D Gray Man
What?! Stolen?!
Resting on the beach because she had stayed behind she thought about the events of last night. Raina had told Ghost she'd catch up, that she was going to the hospital to make sure she wasn't hurt. She wasn't, thanks to Devit and Jasdero. She was worried and had to have time to worry so she could act normal before she returned to the Order. A few days wouldn't hurt. She didn't know what to tell them when no expense report showed up but she'd think of something. She always had.
She didn't hear them approach. Maybe it was because of the sand, maybe it was because she already knew that they would be coming if she stayed in the area. She felt them sit beside her though. One on one side, one on the other; she didn't look at them, just kept staring out to see. Some where a seagull cried out.
"Are you alright Jasdero?" She reached her hands out and took both of their hands tightly in hers.
She felt one of them squeeze her hand, reassuringly. "Dero heals fast"
"I'm glad you're alright"
They were silent again and the sea started to creep closer to where the three sat. Raina had her legs spread out in front of her, feet bare and the water started to tickle her toes. High tide was coming and most of the beach would be underwater soon.
"Are you alright Raina?" It was Devit who asked. His voice was tight with concern he was trying not to show. Raina looked at him for the first time. He wasn't griping her hand back. His hand was limp in hers. His hand was warm though and she didn't mind. She knew he was never as open as his brother.
"I'm fine" she replied, looking out to the sea again. The water washed over her toes again. "Have you guys eaten yet today?"
"Nope" Answered Jasdero. Then they fell silent again. The seagull cried out again. She looked over at Jasdero. Across his bare stomach she could the white bandages covering the stitches he was sure to still have. She felt sad that he had been hurt so badly. She let go of his hand and moved his vest to the side a little. His hand caught hers and moved it away. "It doesn't hurt anymore"
She stood then throwing her hands into the air. "I can't stand this!" she cried. "Being all sad and serious and I hate it! I don't like being like this! We're still just kids!"
"We're in a war, Rain. We're not kids anymore" Devit pointed out, standing up. Jasdero was quick to stand up too.
"Aw, whatever!" She pushed his shoulder, maybe harder than she thought because he lost his balance and fell back into the water. For a moment the three of them were silent and then Jasdero and Raina began to laugh.
"Devi should see the look on his face!" snickered Jasdero.
"I've never seen you look so surprised!" Raina gasped between her own laughter. Devit growled and then almost threw Jasdero into the water. He squealed and simply splashed his brother as he landed. Raina threw off her over coat, leaving a shirt that was black and sleeveless before leaping into the water as well. She made sure to splash both the boys when she jumped in. Jasdero laughed and was quick to throw his vest on shore. Devit grunted and tried to climb out of the water.
"Don't go Devit!" She cried, tackling him. She clung to him, lacing her arms around his left arm. "We're just playing around!"
"Yeah! Stay and have fun Devi!" Jasdero then tackled him, and therefore Raina, into the water. Raina was laughing, Devit was trying to get his soaked coat off. He finally did and then pushed his brother off him.
"You want me to stay? Fine!" He threw off his white shirt too then and splashed both Jasdero and Raina. Raina, being smart, quickly ducked behind Jasdero.
"No! Don't splash me!" she giggled. She remembered back when they were kids and they had a splashing war before. It had been so fun and now, here it was again. They seemed to be reliving a lot of old memories. Before though they hadn't taken off their shirts. It surprised her to see how strong they had gotten over the years. They both had thin, lean muscle and it made her wonder what all they had been through to make them strong.
They were already having a splashing war, Devit verses Raina and Jasdero of course. Raina threw a grin at Jasdero before diving into the waters. The waters that they were in weren't very deep, but deep enough for her to push herself to the bottom and silently slink. She jumped out of the water by Devit, and he jumped back surprised. Then she went on to tackle him into the water once again.
"Say you give!" She grinned down at him. He was leaning up out of the water enough so that he wouldn't be drinking it.
"Never!" he snorted, stubborn. Then a slow smile came over his face. "Jasdero now!"
"What?" She turned but Jasdero grabbed her arms.
"Sorry Raina!"
Devit was up in a minute and he had his hands on her shoulders. In a quick movement they were suddenly holding her above the water by her arms and legs. She started to struggle, trying to get their grip off her but they were too strong.
"Let me go!" she squeaked.
"Only if you say you give!" Devit had a smug look on his face.
"Never!"
"Alright, Jasdero let's dunk her" He had teasing lacing his voice though.
"No! Anything but that! I give! I give!" She was laughing though.
"That's better" Devit smiled and then he and Jasdero lowered her back down, carefully. She stood and started to walk towards shore. All three of them were soaked. At least she had a dry coat waiting for her. She looked towards where her stuff should have been then stopped. Her stuff wasn't there. She looked the twin's things as well, well their coats and Devit's shirt, but that wasn't there either.
The twins were walking behind her and when she stopped they peeked around her. She was too shocked to say anything at first but then she quickly became bemused by the twins' reaction.
"Our stuff!" Devit shouted. "Where the hell is it?"
"Dero's jacket! Where is Dero's jacket? Hii!"
They both splashed onto shore and started looking around. Raina walked up the shore and inspected the sand. There were footprints everywhere. Not all of them were the twins' and Raina's. She looked back up at the twins, Devit was cursing now and Jasdero was sitting in the sand still looking around. Raina moved over to them and they both looked at her.
"At least you two still have your boots" she commented. She looked down at her bare, sand covered feet. They looked at her for a moment then Devit was growling, stomping around in the sand.
"What I get my hands on the bastard that took our stuff! I'm going to rip that jackass apart!" Raina tuned him out and looked at Jasdero who was still looking a little lost on the whole situation.
"Well you two can't walk around town shirtless" she pointed it out.
Devit stopped stomping. "Why not?" asked Jasdero. Raina cleared her throat and was about to speak when Devit jumped in.
"It'll bother her Jasdero!" he grinned at her.
"I liked you better when you were still stomping around and cursing your fool lungs off" She looked away from him though which just made him raise an eyebrow.
"I think it bothers you" When she looked back at him, he struck a pose. Jasdero was quick to copy his brother's example.
"I think you're a bad example for your brother" She quickly stalked around her two closest friends and then up towards town. They followed behind her snickering. She turned to face them. "We have a theif to find you know. You two could take this a little more seriously"
"Lighten up Raina. Me and Jasdero can find our thief easily!" Devit rolled his eyes down, looking completely at ease.
"And that's why you were just cursing up a storm back there?" she asked him, stalking back towards him. "Oh by the way, where are your guns? Let me guess...in your coats?" That struck a cord with them.
"Fuck!" growled Devit
"Damnit!" Jasdero echoed. They both looked angry now. She smiled happy that they'd stop tormenting her. She didn't have a problem that they were shirtless. Hell, she was barefoot. She started back up towards the town, the twins silently scheming behind her. She knew they were plotting but she left it go for the moment. They couldn't – wouldn't – hurt anyone with her around, she was sure. They walked back up into town and looked around. Already a lot of people were staring at them like they were crazy because she was barefoot with a strapless top on and they were both shirtless.
She looked at them again and noticed that they didn't look like Noahs anymore....They looked like their regular selves. She blinked at them in surprise. She realized though that she shouldn't get too excited. It was most likely just a trick so that the humans weren't alarmed by their appearances. Yet...seeing the familiar green eyes made a part of her feel better. She wanted to hug them tightly and never let them go. That familiar part of them that seemed to have disappeared all those years ago. She missed it.
She missed them.
It made her think how their friendship could never be what it once was. It made her sad and she frowned.
"Rain?" she heard the concern in Devit's voice and she smiled at him, the quickly started walking again.
Devit watched as Raina started to walk off. She looked so calm and sure of herself. He knew something was wrong. She didn't ever act that calm. Not ever. At least...
In his memories she was still a child. His brow furrowed when he thought about this. She wasn't a child anymore. Apart from the apparent physical changes, she had gone through mental changes as well. She had learned to be someone he didn't know anymore which bothered him.
Why should it bother you a voice inside of him hissed she's just a human, she's worthless to us – to you. You're better off without her anyway.
He shook his head. Jasdero noticed because the younger Noah looked up at his big brother. His eyes were worried. So he had noticed the changes in Raina as well. It made Devit bite his lip. No, she wasn't a child anymore and Devit could not treat her as such.
They followed after her, all of them silent. No one knew what to say. It was an awkward, long silence. Then they heard someone shouting a few streets down. They only had to glance at each other and they took off running towards the sound.
"Get back here you thief!" shouted a man, trying to stand above the small crowd of people. Two kids slipped through the people.
One was a boy and the other a girl. From what Devit could see they were both in their late teens, maybe eighteen or nineteen. The girl had long sandy blonde hair and lightly tanned skin. The boy shared her skin coloring but had dark brown hair. The guy was wearing Devit's coat and shirt and carrying Jasdero's. The girl was wearing Raina's coat and boots. They dashed into an alley and it wasn't a moment before Devit and Jasdero were after them. Raina yelled for them to wait up, of course they didn't. With her behind they could beat the humans into a pulp and get back to her before she knew what happened.
They kept up with the two easily, even as they ducked and ran through the back streets. They saw a fence up ahead of them. The two started to climb it. Jasdevi had other ideas.
"Blue Bomb!"
The ice covered the whole fence and the kids jumped back. They turned to see Devit and Jasdero in their full Noah forms. They grinned at the two teens, pointing their guns at them.
"I believe you have something of ours" said Devit, with a wicked smile. He always enjoyed the look of pure and utter fear on the humans' faces. They did look scared, not exactly utterly terrified though. The guy quickly started glaring though, the fear draining from his face.
"Yours? I don't think so. Everything we have here is ours."
"I think you better rethink that statement"
"Let's just kill them! Hiiii!" Jasdero said excitement in his eyes. Jasdevi lifted their guns, the boy only looked angrier, and then they put their fingers on the trigger.
"Stop!" The command was filled with pants, but it was strict. Both Devit and Jasdero turned to look back. How had Raina caught up with them so quickly? The two older teens looked as well.
"Hey baby!" muttered he guy, looking very interested. He added in a whistle. Devit snapped his teeth together with a snap. Jasdero gave him a look like he lost his mind.
"Stop! No fighting!" She moved in between the two groups. With a roll of his eyes, Devit lower his gun and Jasdero followed his example as always. Raina fixed her skirt quickly and then turned to the boy and girl. Devit noticed his eyes looking at Raina and it made him angry.
"Keep your eyes in your head asshole" He struck out before he could stop himself. Raina looked back at him, questioningly, Jasdero hissed at the guy, he obviously wanted to protect Raina as well, and the guy glared at them with venom in his eyes. Devit held up his gun, challenging the human. The girl next to him looked alarmed.
"Okay, stop! Stop! We can work something out can't we? We can cope! Can we just cope?" Devit wanted to shoot her head off, but Raina gave him and Jasdero a look telling them to knock it the hell off.
"We can cope. Just give us back our stuff" Raina said, turning back to the boy and girl. By the time she had the girl had a large piece of wood in her hands. Devit didn't even see her grab it. Without remorse she quickly hit Raina over the head. Raina half spun around and then fell, blood running from her head.
"Raina!" Devit knew that the humans were dead now. There was no way he was going to let them live after that.
Before they could even act the guy had picked up Raina and they were retreating through a hole in the wall of a building. Devit ground his teeth together, trying to control his anger. He darted into the hole after the two, Jasdero right by his side. He could sense Jasdero's anger as well. They were both furious. Raina had just been trying to make things peaceful and instead they had harmed her.
They wouldn't live to see another day.
If they could find them…
They were startled to discover that the teens had disappeared. They were silent, listening for their footsteps. They couldn't hear them. Where the hell had they gone?
Raina's head was pounding. She groaned as she stirred from what felt like a too long sleep. She, at first, thought she was on a warm bed but quickly realized that was not the case as she felt the arms tighten around her waist. Her face flooded with heat and she tried to bring her hand up so she could slap the guy but she found her hands were bound together.
"Damnit Zachary, would you get off that girl? It's disgusting that you're all over her"
"Don't be bitter because you don't have a boyfriend Elaina." The boy purred pushing his cheek against her neck. "And good morning darling, you sleep well? Sorry we had to put you out in such a savage way"
"Let me go!" snarled Raina, struggling to get out of this guy, Zachary's arms.
"Don't struggle. We don't want to have to hurt you again" When she looked at his face, it was remorseful. The girl's was too. They both were clearly not okay with what they had done.
"Why did you guys steal our stuff? Why did you attack me?"
"Those two boys might have more money, we need it" They looked towards a darker part of the room. For the first time, Raina took in the surroundings. They were underground, she could tell by the walls that were reinforced with stones. It was dark with only candles lighting the area. It was messy, filled with old junk. There were two old mattresses, one the guy, Zachary was sitting on, holding her, and the other was empty. The girl, Elaina was standing over by what looked to be a book shelf.
"Why?" she asked.
"Because-" Started the girl but she was interrupted by a loud, wet coughing sound. She looked towards the dark part of the room again. She realized that there was a cloth across a hole in the room, creating another room. That's where the coughing was coming from. Elaina hurried to the back room.
"Our younger brother is sick" he muttered to her. "Elaina is younger than be by a year, Mark is younger by three. Ever since our parents died, he's been so sickly and frail…"
"Is that why you steal?"
Zachary swallowed hard. "Yeah"
"I'm sorry"
It was silent for a moment and then Elaina came back out, carrying a teen. He looked about fifteen years old. She didn't seem to be having too much trouble with the boy which was just tribute to how sickly he must have been. She laid him on the empty bed. His breathing was labored.
Raina felt her heart go out to them. "In the pocket of my coat is a piece of paper that says 'Money Report'" she told Elaina, motioning with her head at the coat the girl still wore. Elaina quickly pulled the pad of paper out of the jacket. "Write some money you want on there. I can go to the local bank and tell them I need to pay someone upfront and they won't accept a Money Order"
"You'd do that?" she whispered. "For us?"
"I understand the need to protect your family."
"You're a sweet girl! I really think I could fall in love with you!" Zachary quickly squeezed Raina against him and her face flooded with heat.
"I have conditions though!" she cried, trying to push herself away from Zachary.
"You're not in condition to make demands" pointed out Zachary.
"Oh, but I think I am!" with that she summoned her Innocence, which tore the rope right off her wrists. She jumped away from Zachary.
"When you wake up you'll have some money to take your brother to the doctors. Have a pleasant nap!" With that she quickly hit them both over the head, leaving them on the bed by the sick boy. Deactivating her Innocence, she took her coat back, her shoes back and grabbed Devit and Jasdero's stuff. Just as she was getting ready to leave the twins burst into the room.
"Raina!" they both shouted at once. She could see the relief in both of their eyes. They both hugged her and she stood there stunned that even Devit was showing affection so openly. He had changed so much since they were children. She felt their arms squeezing her tightly, to a human. She wrapped her arms around them too.
"Devit! Jasdero!" she squeezed them as tight as she was able. "Are you two alright?"
"Are we alright?" Devit asked, pulling away, easily breaking her hold. "What the hell do you mean? You were the one who was taken!"
"Rai! Rai!" Jasdero cried, demanding her attention. "Is your head alright?"
"Oh hell! Yeah, you got hit pretty hard." Then Devit's hands were on her head, tilting her to the side a little so he could look at the cut she had gotten. "You don't even have any blood in your hair and the wound looks like it's about half-way healed."
Raina just stood there, feeling her face burn a little. She didn't know why, but she figured it was just how Zachary had acted. Then they heard movement.
"Ladies don't usually attack people" Raina turned, looking at Zachary. She thought she had knocked him out well enough but she guessed she had messed up. Devit wrapped one arm around Raina's shoulders and pulled her closer. She was stunned by the action that seemed so possessive.
"You are one dead man" growled Devit. "Not only did you still our stuff, you hurt our Raina" Devit's arm shifted to around her waist and he pulled her against him. Raina didn't like that he was doing that. It felt like he was being a testosterone fueled man. She was about to push against him, telling him no when she heard a gun click. She looked at Zachary, who was pointing a small silver gun.
"Yours? I doubt she'd like a pair of freaks like you" Raina narrowed her eyes, angry at Zachary. How dare he call her best friends freaks! She gritted her teeth. "What? Oh! Did that hurt a little? Just give her to me and get the hell out. Freaks like you don't deserve to be around such a woman!"
She felt Devit go stiff. He was clearly angry, but she was even more so. She felt tears leak out of her eyes and drip down her cheeks. She pushed Devit away and stomped up to Zachary. He smiled a little, smugly, at Devit and Jasdero. He put one hand on her shoulder, not seeming to notice her tears.
"You ass!" she cried, punching him with all her might in the face. "Don't you ever call my best friends freaks again! I'll…I'll…I'll kick the crap out of you! I'll make you wish that you'd never been born!" Her voice climbed in octaves as she yelled at him. He just looked at her stunned. His eyes quickly turned to angry slits though.
"You'd choose a couple of freaks over me? Fine." He got up and pushed her backwards. She stumbled a little. "You're just as much of a freak as they are. I'm surprised I didn't see it before. He pushed her again, hard enough that she felt backward. She felt arms catch her. She looked to see Devit and Jasdero glaring at Zachary.
"Call us Freaks, fine" started Jasdero
"But leave Raina out of it you fucking bastard" Devit growled. They both pointed their guns at him. "We really want to kill you right now"
"But not in front of Raina" Jasdero looked like he might pull the trigger anyway. "Just keep this in mind, hii!"
"We're super protective of our Raina!" Then finished at once.
"Devit…Jasdero…"Raina felt tears filling her eyes again, but they weren't tears of anger. The twins helped her stand up right again and then they each grabbed one of her hands.
"Let's go Rai"
"You shouldn't be around a bastard like him" They both tugged her out of the broken down underground room, not before she could stick her tongue out at Zachary. She walked calmly alongside her two friends, hand in hand with them, feeling more at ease than she had in a very long time. They led her out of the tunnels and back to the aboveground world. She smiled as the sunlight touched her face. They hesitated though and then finally let go of her hand. She turned to look at them.
"Thanks for coming to save me guys" she said.
"You didn't really need much saving did you?" Amusement lined Devit's features.
"Well that guy was a creep" She rolled her eyes. He was. She didn't like how close he had held her. When Devit had done it on the other hand…
"We have to go now Raina" She looked at them in shock.
"Where?"
"Another Noah has awoken, the Earl with want to throw a party to welcome them." Devit said, not meeting her eyes. He kicked at a loose stone in the gravel.
"Alright" she murmured. They both looked at her. "Alright, I said! You can go, but don't do anything stupid and if anything goes wrong, just come and find me for goodness's sakes!"
"You sound like a mother" grumbled Devit, slumping a little.
"I sometimes feel like one when I'm watching out for the two of you!" she pointed out smiling at them.
"We know you care about us a lot Rai!" chirped Jasdero, wrapping his arms around her neck and pressing his cheek against her's. "We care about Rai a lot too!"
Devit didn't like seeing Jasdero so close to Raina. Call him overly jealous but he grabbed his brother and started to drag him away. "We'll see you later Rain"
"You promise?" That made him stop. He turned back to look at her. She looked so innocent and so vulnerable. He swallowed hard and tried to control the heat the suddenly flooded his face.
"Yeah, we promise. Don't worry. We'll come back sooner or later Rain" he told her. She bit her lip and he looked away. How did she get herself to look like that? Even when they were kids she had never looked so lost.
"Okay, hopefully sooner rather than later okay?" She waved to them, biting her lip again. Devit quickly dragged Jasdero out of there before he wanted to stay for a while longer. That was completely out of the question.
Raina watched them disappear and she sighed, feeling dejected and a little more than depressed. She loved her best friends more than anything but she could see it in their eyes. They wanted to kill her as much as she wanted to fight them. It got harder every time she saw them. She knew she was going to snap soon or her Innocence was at the very least. She swallowed hard and fixed a few strands of her hair before strutting out of the alley like it was where she meant to be coming from.
Then she ran straight smack into someone. This person set her sprawling on the ground. She quickly made sure that she didn't flash anyone with her skirt. She was surprised when the person she had knocked down quickly pulled her up.
"Raina?" the voice was breathless and full of shock. She looked up at the person.
"Alex?" she asked in surprise. She never thought she'd see her older brother again.
"You have to come home with me right away Raina! Something's wrong with Fae!"
"Fae?"
"Yes, your twin sister! The one you forgot about when you left on your damnable trip!" His voice was angry, full of bitter and resentment for her leaving. She tugged herself from his arms and took a few steps back, angry.
"May I remind you, brother dearest, that I saved your damnable life from our mother's Akuma. The Akuma that your dumb ass created!" Her words were angry and hissed. Her brother growled and then grabbed her arm and started dragging her. "Where are you taking me? Let me go! Let me go!" She tried to tug her arm out of his but could not. "You bastard! Let me go!"
"See you have become impure! Look what this world has done to you!" her brother said, eyes angry. "It took me forever to find you and you are coming with me!"
"Fuck you" Her brother turned back to look at her, just as she knew he would. She let her fist meet his face and he let go of her, stumbling back. He looked shocked for one moment until a gun shot rang out. Raina froze where she was as the first pentacle appeared on her brother's s neck. "Brother!" she cried.
"Raina! Find...Fae" then his body shattered. So maybe she never got along with him and he was bossy and a general ass but she loved him. She spotted the Akuma that had shot him and she launched herself at him, activating her claws. She ripped into the Akuma, ripping it apart right on the streets. Everyone seemed shocked but she didn't care.
She knew she had to go back to the Order. Then she had to find Fae.
Ah, from now on, Devit is going to start realizing just HOW much he likes Raina. I hope you liked this chapter though. There will be Tyki and Fae in the next chapter, quite a bit of them in fact. I hope to make this a 20 chapter story by the way. So we're about half way there (about because I don't know how many chapters I do want to make it). Thanks to Random Person, Passerby, animeforever96 and Darkmoon-chan for reviewing. Keep review if you want to see more guys! I love to read your reviews, they make me so happy. And sorry this chapter was short, next one will be longer!
