I was re-watching the new D gray man, and I just bawled like a baby when Kanda and Alma escaped and their last moments together!

And then I was reading the latest chapters for the manga AND IMJUSTSOFUCKINGFUCKEDUPRIGHTNOWONWHATSHAPPENING!

THIS WAS SUPPOSE TO BE A FUCKING CRACK! HOW DID I END UP LIKE THIS?! WHY AM I SO FUCKING DEPRESSING?!

D .Gray-man

...Deja vu? She thought muddled, remembering a scenario like this when she was a geth. Her eye's blearily opened, seeing the figure of someone leaning over her. She was in some type of liquid. What world am I in now, I wonder. She mused, the last thing she remembered was Nea and her enjoying the sun with Mana by their side. She had heard something, so she looked towards her brother's and-

…

…

…

She paused, the memory seeming to become static after that.

She blinked slowly, she couldn't remember. She's never had that happen, unless the body she now resides in has a damaged brain, or she had a trauma that needed to be forgotten to keep her sane. And the only thing that could traumatize her now, was when-

…

….when someone she loved had killed her...

But...But who-? She thought, heart clenching at the knowledge that someone she loved had killed her. It must have been someone in the family, they were the only people she let near her. But she couldn't seem to recall their faces! Why couldn't she remember what Mana looked like? What Nea looked like? Or anyone else for that matter?!

"Hey, are you ok?"

She jerked out of her frantic thoughts, blinking at the voice and forgetting that someone was there. She looked up, seeing a young boy staring at her through the liquid. She could make out short hair, Asian features, and a scar running across his nose. He tilted his head In concern, lips pursing, before his hand reached into the water and held it out to her.

"Need help? Here, Take my hand and I'll get you out!" he said, grinning.

She blinked, tilting her head in question as she pointed at him. What was this boy doing here anyway?

He looked confused, seeming to wonder what she was pointing for. He glanced behind him and yelped at the other boy standing there. "Yuu!"

The other boy- Yuu- had shoulder lengthen hair, Asian features, and a small frown on his face as he looked down towards her. He huffed, "I think they want to know your name, Idiot."

The first boy blinked, before chuckling sheepishly as he turned back towards her. "I'm Alma! This is Yuu." he introduced, "They said your name was Juri." he explained as held his hand further into the pool.

She- Juri- mentally hummed, before taking Alma's hand and being pulled up into the cold air. She shivered, curling up as footsteps hurried into the room. She looked at herself, noting that she was in a child's body, looking to be about ten and female. At least I do not have to go through breast feeding again. She mentally sighed. Glanced through her long hair as the footsteps came closer, she saw what seemed to be doctors coming towards her, one wrapping a blanket around her childish frame and placing her onto a moving bed.

As they fussed and talked, she noted that the room she was currently in was gigantic. There were dozens of pools like the one she came out of, all glowing eerily in the dim light, along with markings on the walls. Her eye's then landed on the two boy's just outside the crowd of doctors.

Yuu was trying to act disinterested in her appearance, but would glance towards her every once in a while, feet shuffling in restlessness. Alma, on the other hand, was jumping with joy, trying to find a way through the crowed to get to her. Now that she was out of the liquid, she could see that they both had blue eye's, with Yuu's being darker then Alma's, along with black hair. Yuu's had a tint of blue, while Alma's tinted purple.

She, herself, seemed to have light skin like them, and from what she saw of her hair it was just as dark, but with a red tint to it. She was willing to bet that she had a different shade of blue eye's, as well as being Asian this time around. Although, I must be of mixed blood to have a red tint. She mused.

They also wore some revealing clothing for children...

I pray that I don't have to wear that. She thought as she was wheeled away. The though that she was in a world where children were born like this momentarily strayed to the front, before she looked at a peculiar wall that had a different design on it, and made her dash that theory before it could come to life.

Unnoticed by everyone else, her eye's had widened seeing the rose cross, a whisper of hate at the back of her mind. The black order. She thought with a frown. so...she was reborn back into this world. But, the question was, if this was her world, or was this a world that she had never influenced?

This would be a problem.

Ah...So those are scientist's. Not doctors. Juri now dressed (in those revealing clothing sadly) mused, swinging her legs as Renee, a scientist, cut her hair similar to Alma's. Her hair was unruly, something that seemed to have followed from her last body, making the short strands go every which way. The front of her bangs she cut herself, making them part from the left and unevenly cover the right half of her face. She didn't get to do more as Renee had quickly taken the scissors from her, before she- and quoted- 'did more damage to her appearance'.

Yuu had commented on how stupid it was since the only people she would see were the Scientist's and the two of them. He received a glare for his troubles.

"There." Renee sighed, giving up on taming her hair.

"Yay~! Now can we show her around?!" Alma said impatiently, slightly hopping. He received another sigh, before the elder woman nodded her head. Alma cheered, grabbed both Juri's and Yuu's hand and started to drag them along.

"OI! LET ME GO!" Yuu snarled.

"...Where are we going?" Juri questioned. She had long ago realized that- short of maiming the person- people like Alma would not let go, and it was futile to even attempt. It's just like Road and her dress's, just have to go with the flow. She mused, a flicker of amusement in her eye's at Yuu's attempt at freedom via biting Alma's arm.

Alma, unaware or just not caring of his fellow Apostle's, just continued to drag them along as he started to excitedly talk about every room they past. "And that's the supply closet, the mops and things to clean with are in that one along with some first aid's because one time Yuu and I had apparently been too rough when fighting at one point and it got out of hand- which totally wouldn't have happened if Yuu had apologized-"

"Well maybe if you weren't such a crybaby it wouldn't have happened!" Yuu snapped.

" -and some of the others got caught up in it, so when we were finally finished there were so many people with bruises and stuff-"

"They shouldn't have gotten in the way then." Yuu growled, still trying to bite of Alma's arm.

"-and the medical ward was a bit too far away-"

"Pansy's."

"-that they decided to just put some first aid box's into all the supply closets around the base." Alma continued, eyebrow twitching in irritation at Yuu's comments. "This is the file room. It's where they keep all the records of us-"

"We can't go in there, so I'm not sure why you're showing her this."

Alma just gave a strained smile. He sighed, taking deep breaths, before continuing and pointed at another door. "The bathroom's, this ones the boy's and that's the girl's-"

"Obviously."

Alma stopped momentarily, rounding on Yuu and glared. "WOULD YOU STOP NITPICKING ME?!"

"WELL THEN FIND SOMETHING INTERESTING TO SHOW HER THEN, IDIOT! AND WHY DID YOU DRAG ME ALONG?!" Yuu retorted.

"WE'RE BONDING!" Alma yelled back.

"I NEVER AGREED TO IT!"

"I DIDN'T HEAR ANY OBJECTION!"

"DID YOU NOT SEE ME TRYING TO BITE YOUR ARM OFF?!"

As the two bickered, Juri's eye's drifted to grand doors farther down the hall. Icy blue eye's narrowed, the memory of hate and disgust intensifying as she grew closer. Arriving in front of it, she could feel a type of purity behind the door's. Innocence. Her mind whispered.

It was strange, the faint memory of the substance was there, but her body didn't seem to be reacting to it as strongly as it should have. Assuming this was still her world she was reborn into, then this body she was in should have the genes of Noah dormant in it for her soul to pick it. Because it was the only chance to reunite with family, to be family still. Thus her body should be tensing slightly, at least.

Openly snarling at the most.

Unless, she speculated while running her hand down the door. Her arm's didn't prickle from innocence's aura that could be felt through the door, heart rate was normal, she didn't feel her eye's changing color and there was no sign of the stigma. I didn't pick this body. She would not put it past a god to interfere with where she went again. "Alma, Yuu," She called, hearing them pause in their bickering. "What is this room for?" she questioned.

A strangled choke was her answer, before the two hurried over to her and dragged her away from the door and down the hall.

Blinking, Juri glanced at them and narrowed her eye's at the fear that they tried to hide. Their glances back towards the door made her mentally snarl.

"We'll get to that later~!" Alma said hurriedly, hands slightly shaking as he pushed her along.

"You'll find out soon enough." Yuu whispered ominously.

Juri stared in sick fascination. She was aware of Yuu trying to valiantly ignore what was happening in front of him, his face twisted into a scowl as he seemed close to hurling. It had been a few day's since she had awoken from that hole in the ground. In that time she had noticed that the two boy's don't get along and only tolerated each other at the moment because she was new (And Edgar had begged them to behave around her. He really didn't want her to be corrupted by them).

Alma was all smiles and energy. Talking as much as he could about anything he learned, and was fairly happy when Juri actually listened to him, unlike Yuu who ignored him. He liked to hug and hold hand's, hearts on his sleeves as he bounced around all day.

Yuu, in contrast, was stoic and calm. He said few words and liked to meditate where he could, seeming to block out anything he deemed unimpressive. He seemed to appreciate how quiet she was, and while she smiled like Alma, her's were smaller gentle one's compared to the blinding one's of Alma's. It was hard to tell what he felt most of the time, but his eye's and actions were expressive enough once you knew what to look for.

"Hm? Whats wrong Riri?" Alma asked, pausing in eating as he tilted his head in question and bringing Juri out of her thoughts.

She continued to stare at him, then towards his food/medicine flooded by mayonnaise. ….I thought Hijikata was one of a kind. She distantly thought, vividly remembering the Shinsengumi officer drowning everything he ate in mayonnaise, having the audacity to accuse something was wrong with you if you didn't like it. "I think I threw up a little in my mouth." she stated blankly.

"Don't look at it." Yuu hissed from besides her, hands clenching on his spoon. He shivered in disgust when he briefly glanced at the abomination Alma was consuming. "Just ignore it. Why do you think I don't eat with him." he grumbled.

"Hey!" Alma yelled in offense. "Don't you disrespect the amazingness of Mayonnaise!" he huffed, pointing his own utensils at the two, thus resulting in a bit of mayo launching at them.

The two slid away from the substance like it was a disease.

"GET THAT DISGUSTING CRAP AWAY FROM ME!" Yuu snarled, protecting his food with his arm.

"I've lost my appetite." Juri sighed, mournfully down at her chicken cutlet and medicine. It's another Hijikata.

"MAYONNAISE IS DELICIOUS!" Alma retorted, shoving his bowl towards Yuu's face. "PRAISE THE MAYO YUU! PRAISE IT!"

Yuu viciously smacked the bowl to the floor.

Alma looked scandalized.

Juri snorted in amusement.

Next she new, the two boy's were in an all out brawl with the scientist's trying- and failing- to get them apart.

Juri was content to watch, until Yuu threw a scientist at Alma- who dodged- and hit her instead. As she laid on the floor, with Scientist's and kitchen staff fretting over her, Juri let out a bellowing laugh. She might just like it here with these two after all.

Well, now I definitely know this body doesn't have the genes in them. She mused, struggling to get off the floor and snarling towards the innocence's in front of her. It's going to be a long time before this body get's use to my memories. And the fact that it was going to be even more painful a process once she 'awakens' sucked even more. Since there were no gene's, she had to slowly plant them inside from her soul, so she could actually use her power's and be considered part of the family.

[Try again! Up! Get up Juri, Alma, Yuu!]

She sneered, grudgingly getting up as the crows were watching her. Fucking innocence's. She could hear how long it took Yuu and Alma to regenorate as they were rejected time and time again, and she hated how she couldn't do anything. You'd think I would be a good candidate because of my own holy powers. Juri quickly wrapped her hands around the innocence's for the hundredth time, snarling as she tried to stop from screaming. It burned! It felt like everything was RippiNgtearinGbreaking-

She screamed as she was rejected again, being flung back a few feet and twisted her body like a snake in pain. Clawing at her chest. Arms, neck, face, anywhere to make it fucking stop!

And then there was movement, her arms being restrained, leg's pinned as her blood boiled and muscles tore and repaired.

She blacked out after what felt like eternity, the only thought that crossed her mind was how much she despised The Order. She dreamed of Yuu, Alma, and herself laughing as they played in a field of golden wheat in freedom, of blurred faces with golden eyes and warm voices calling to them as they joined.

When he opened her eye's next, it was to the ceiling in their shared 'room'. Blinking slowly and carefully, she laid there and thought of how she was going to kill these fucking scientist's.

"Riri?"

Juri painfully turned her head to the left, and saw both Alma and Yuu sitting on their cot's. She noted how they were both bandaged, just as how she assumed she was as well, and smiled tiredly. "Hi." She whispered, throat scratchy from the screaming from earlier.

Alma was the first to scramble out of his cot, and make his way towards her in concern. Yuu had just turned around as his was next to her's.

"Are you ok?" Alma questioned as he held her hand tightly.

"...'ired..." she mumbled, "Hurt's..."

"You were out for some time." Yuu commented, curling up as he resting his chin on his knees. "...You took to the innocence's worse then us for some reason, but you also had the highest chance of synchronizing with it as well." he said, frowning at the implication that was there.

Juri sighed, "So they're going to make me go in even more." she stated, because the black order was ruthless. She had no doubt that they will make her go back in even sooner then the boy's, because she had a higher chance at bonding with it. It's probably my reiki's doing. She mused.

Alma squeezed her hand tighter, lips pursed as he looked down. "They can't send you back in so soon! You...you almost didn't regenerate!"

"Like they fucking care." Yuu scoffed.

"BUT JURI WILL DIE!" Alma yelled, shocking the two. Tears gathered in his eye's as his lip's trembled. "I-...I don't want Riri to die..."

It was silent as the two boy's wondered if they would go back to being just the two of them.

Juri pursed her lips, brows setting in determination. "I won't die." She whispered, gaining looks of doubt and hope from her companions. She squeezed Alma's hand and smiled at them. "I can't die. Not if it means leaving you both here to suffer alone. Not if it means I could gain power to protect you." Not if it means I can see Mana and Nea again. She mentally added. Because she wanted to see her other halves, the parts of her soul that had split into three beings from her original soul.

Maybe that was why she was still here? Because she was incomplete. It had happened with Harry, who became was the light portion of her soul, and a number of her other twin's.

And yet, she thought as she looked at the determined faces of Yuu and Alma, I seem to be getting attached to these two. It would be difficult if they did become exorcist and she adjusted this body enough to re-awaken into her Noah form. If she wasn't careful, then she would grow to love them, and if they betrayed her when the time came then she didn't know what to do.

She'd probably lose her sanity if she lost both of them.

Juri huffed and puffed, straining her legs as she and Alma ran with Yuu on his back. It had been week's since that day after testing, week's of Yuu and Alma fighting each other until the day they laughed in their own blood. Week's of pain from trying to bond with the innocence, of scowling and snarling at the scientist's, of slowly getting her memory back piece by piece.

Of slowly falling in love with both of them.

"Alma, shush!" Juri huffed, looking behind herself to check if there was any pursuers. "We don't have long until they find out we took Yuu and sen those stupid crows!"

"Sorry! It's just that...I can't stand the thought of leaving everyone behind! But...but I can't stand the idea of Yuu being disposed of!" Alma huffed, voice cracking as he sniffed. Tears ran down his cheek's as they ran. Juri felt her eye's burn as well, she couldn't believe what the order was doing. "I've only got you guy...We've only just..." He hiccuped, "Just became friend's!"

"It'll be alright!" Juri said, noticing that Yuu was starting to wake up, but his eye's were glazed. "Yuu! Yuu it's going to be ok! We'll escape, and we'll go somewhere the order can't find us!" she assured, helping Alma carry Yuu down the ladder they came across. "Come on Alma, there's no need to cry. Right?"

"Sorry." Alma sniffed, starting to run. He smiled at seeing the edge of where they needed to jump to get into the river. Just a little more, he thought desperately, a little more and we can be free!

"ALMA!" Yuri yelled.

And the he felt her shove him. Squawking he turned around and saw that Yuri was pinned to the floor by the need's crows used. "JURI!"

"Run!" She yelled, "Quick before they-"

Alma went down as a second wave of needles impaled him, making him scream and drop Yuu.

"Crows!" Juri snarled.

"Please return, Apostle's." The leader of the three crows intoned.

Alma, growled in frustration, before quickly kicking Yuu off of the edge and into the river.

"ALMA, JURI!" Yuu yelled as he fell.

"If you're lucky, you'll be able to get out." Alma huffed, wincing in pain as the leg he used had one of the needle's going through his calf muscle.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN, 'IF I'M LUCKY'?!"

Alma and Juri smiled, "RUN!"

When Yuu was out of sight, Alma and Juri fell unconscious.

When she next awoke, it was to Alma tearing her out of restraints, "Alma..."

"Come on Juri, we need to get the innocence so we can save Yuu." He whispered hurriedly.

Juri sluggishly looked behind him, to see some of the scientist's were knocked out, and then to Alma's bloodied arms and leg's. She could distantly feel pain run up her arms and leg's, as Alma had to ripped them apart and away from whatever was keeping her there.

"Sorry, sorry, sorry!" Alma apologized, wincing, before throwing her arm around his shoulder and quickly leaving the room.

"We...can't just go through the door. We'll be caught again." Juri pointed out.

Alma paused at that. "Ah...Right." he sighed, before noticing an air went above them. "That could work." and after some cursing, bruising, and tripping they made it inside. "You okay?"

Juri nodded, crawling after Alma as she didn't know the way to where the testing room was. "Lets hurry."

"...It's gone..." Juri stated, blankly looking down the hole where the innocence should have been.

"Why is the innocence's gone?!" Alma hissed in frustration.

"WHERE ARE YOU, ALMA?! JURI?!"

"Tch. You should hit them harder next time." Juri grumbled.

"How did they get here so fast?" Alma hissed.

"Lets climb down, it's the only way forward." Juri sighed, wrapping her arms and legs and started to slide down the main tube. Above Alma started to make his way down as well, slipping because of the blood. "AUGH!" Juri yelped, not at all fond of having Alma's ass on her cheek. "DAMMIT ALMA, MOVE IT!"

"Sorry...I...I slipped..." Alma said sheepishly. They heard footstep's, looking up revealed Edgar.

"WHAT ARE YOU TWO DOING DOWN THERE?!" He yelled in shock. "Get back here, Alma, Juri! I know that Yuu is precious to you both, but-"

"NO!" Alma snarled, "HOW CAN YOU GUY'S UNDERSTAND?!"

Edgar looked hurt at what was yelled, making Alma calm down slightly with a bit of guilt.

"...You aren't the one loosing a friend." Juri whispered, but the scientist heard her and his face crumpled.

"Juri-"

"You're not the one who has to worry about being disposed of!" She yelled, tears falling. She then scoffed, "And to think, I was just starting to like you guy's."

"...We're...going to save Yuu." Alma started slowly, glancing down at Juri and nodded. "We can fight, as long as we have innocence..." The two let go, falling down the long tunnel.

Later found them in a room where there was quite a few innocence.

"There's so many." Juri commented.

"It looks like we're in the innocence shrine." Alma mused as they climbed down from the cylinders. He looked down and saw one of them starting to react the closer he got. "Innocence!"

Suddenly the two were covered in talismans, "Shit." Juri sighed before they were both set alight.

Juri could only hear ringing in her ear's, her body hurting with every movement she made. She could vaguely hear someone talking, but ignored it. There was yelling, a noise of something breaking, before silence. She couldn't see anything as her eye's hadn't regenerated yet, but she knew Alma was still there.

"...Alma?" She questioned aloud. When she received no answer, she started to feel around and find him. After a few pats of the floor, she felt his leg, she quickly pulled herself up besides him, patiently waiting for her eye's to come back. "Alma? Whats wrong? Did you get the innocence?"

"..."

"...?"

"...Yeah..." Alma said quietly, "I got it."

"That's great!" She stated happily, they were so close to being able to rescue Yuu. And her sight was coming back. And though she loathed the innocence, it was the only chance she had at the moment to save her friend, she could keep Alma and Yuu safe from the Vatican with this. She was sure of it. "Can you help me get to one of them?" Don't worry Yuu, we're almost there!

"...Sorry." Alma whispered.

The blurry image of Alma started to form as Juri turned her head to him in confusion. "'Sorry'?" She questioned, "What are you-"

Sudden pain bloomed in her chest.

"...Eh?" her now clear vision started to darken, wide eye's staring into tear filled one's. She didn't understand why Alma was crying as he smiled, why he had just impaled her with that thing connected to his body. "A-...Al...ma...?"

She didn't understand.

Alma softly patted her cheek, "It was all a lie..."

She didn't understand!

"But don't worry! Now we can be free!"

ShE dIDn't UndErsTAnd!

She whimpered, feeling the burn of innocence going against the meager Noah gene's she had just implanted into the body.

"We won't have to fight again." his voice cracked, his eye's gaining a glint of insanity. "Never again." He whispered.

Why...?

Juri was thrown away from Alma, slamming into the wall and falling to the floor.

Whywhywhywhywhywhy-

"Don't worry, I'll get the scientist's first!"

WHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHYWHY-

"And then I'll bring Yuu here and we can all go together!" he said, heading towards the door.

"A-Al-" he struck her in the throat this time, making her choke on her blood.

Alma grinned at her, "It'll be alright! Just sit tight, ok? I'll be back soon!" and with that, he had left.

She didn't know how long it took for her to regenerate, but she knew time had past. Juri blankly stared ahead of herself, not seeming to be able to cope with the fact that Alma had just...killed her. Why had he done that? They were friends! Alma...Yuu... at the thought of the other boy, who she was trying to save Juri snapped out of it. No, don't break apart. Not yet. shakily standing up she leaned against the wall. Yuu...Yuu till need's me... Juri made her way to the door. Something's wrong with Alma, she thought. I..I need to warn Yuu... she paused when she saw something. Turning her head to see what caught her attention, her eye's widened.

..Oh...

Because the innocence was connected to a body. She was confused at first, because why were they being forced to synchronize with innocence that had already chosen their wielders? Narrowing her eye's, she determinedly made her way to the records room. She needed to know what was going on in the fucked up organization. It took her some time, enough to fully heal, but she found what she was looking for.

She didn't like it.

Oh. She thought darkly. Fucking humans. She tossed the file away from herself, getting up and quickly making her way to the hall. She didn't hear anything for a while, and it was only until she was near the cold room that she heard yelling. Juri ran towards the noise, because it sounded like Yuu.

"YUU!" She yelled, bursting into the room. Only to pause at the bloody mess of bodies she recognized as the scientist's. Hmp, served them right trying to play god. She mentally sneered.

"JURI!" Two voices called. She looked up and saw Alma and Yuu facing off against each other. Her heart ached at seeing that.

"JURI! JURI YOU NEED TO-" Yuu started, only to get impaled by Alma. And then Alma had aimed for her again, but she dodged and made her way towards Yuu.

"Yuu!"

"I said to run dumbass!"

"I'm not going to leave you, Yuu!" Juri retorted, grabbing him and rolling to the side to avoid the attack.

"STOP DODGING! WE CAN BE FREE IF WE ALL DIE!" Alma yelled, "WHY CAN'T YOU UNDERSTAND THAT?!"

"BECAUSE WE WANT TO LIVE!" They yelled.

Because I want to see Nea and Mana again! Juri's mind whispered. Because she needed to know why they killed her. Because it had to be out of love, right? Just as Alma was doing right now, he wanted them to be free by killing them.

"ALMA STOP!" Juri begged, before pushing Yuu out of the way of another strike. Instead screaming as it tore through her side. She fell down as a shadow covered her. She looked up and saw Alma ready to behead her, and time moved slower.

A flash of warm twin golden eye's, soft voices, and gentle hug's came to mind. Of a sea of wheat in the setting sun as three children played together. Of a lullaby being sung as she gently ran her finger's through short messy hair.

"Nell, Mana's going to get better, right?"

A heartbeat.

"Neh, neh, will you dance with me Nea?"

Lub-dub

"You're going to have to do better then that to get me, Nell."

Lub-dub

"Mana's been acting strange latley. Do you think he's ok?"

Lub-dub

"Oh, are you feeling better?"

Lub-dub

"What's wrong? Mana?"

Lub-

"I'm sorry...Nell...Nea..."

Dub

"NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELL!"

A flash of light made all three close their eye's, and then Juri felt something in her hand's. Opening them, she saw the innocence had taken the rough shape of a giant hoop blade, and it had intercepted Alma's strike. She felt bitter about taking it, because it was innocence that brought Yuu and Alma here, that brought them back from their well deserved rest in the afterlife.

She knew better then anyone how that felt.

Yet, she had no choice as Alma rage. So she picked up the weapon and and joined Yuu in fighting off their friend. In cutting him down until he couldn't regenerate, until he stopped screaming and moving.

Until her heart broke and she let out a heart wrenching howl.

But she still had Yuu, who had helped stand her up and dragged another man she never notice out of the accursed place. Walking until they reached outside, and stared into the blue Sky that they wanted to see with Alma.

"...I'm sorry..." Yuu whispered, letting the tears he was holding back fall. His grip tightened around Juri, the only one he had left. "I'm so sorry Alma!"

She let him get it out, just as he did for her. She took a deep breath and let it out slowly, It's alright. She told herself, Yuu is still here...I still have him...

"...Now what do we do...?" Juri asked hoarsely after her friend had calmed down somewhat, looking around at the scattered ruins. "...We don't even know where we are..." she glanced at her companion, slipping her hand in his and tightening it. When Yuu looked towards her, she smiled at him, "At least...we still have each other...right?"

Yuu sniffed, nodding his head and squeezing back. "Right." he wiped away his tears, "We'll always have each other." he tucked his crude sword through a hold in his tights, before lifting the blind man onto his back and started to walk without letting go of Juri's bloodied hand.

"...Yuu?"

"Yeah?"

"...Please don't leave me."

"..."

"..."

"I won't."

"Promise?"

"Promise. Who else would protect you?"

"...'Protect me'?"

"Yeah, as long as we protect each other, then we can stay together...right?"

"Right."

Juri leaned against him, smiling tiredly.

"Together forever?"

Yuu's mouth quirked, resolved to see that woman from his memories, along with protecting his best friend.

"Forever."