Chapter: 13
Yu Kanda stepped onto the train with a sigh. The mission hadn't been any harder than usual, but the samurai had to do the work of two since a certain silver haired exorcist was dragging his feet in finishing his previous mission. Damned beansprout being too sentimental, Kanda scowled as he viciously slid the door shut to his train compartment, making me do all of the dirty work. To make matters worse the possible lead on the innocence fragment ended up being a hoax, there was nothing in significance to bring back to justify the significant waste of his time. Kanda plopped himself down on the plush seats, this trip couldn't get any worse.
Boom!
Of course the moment that thought passed his mind something goes and blows up the train he was on. Heaving out another sigh Kanda closed his eyes and briefly entertained the idea of just staying where he was and letting the local police take care of it, after all that was their job. However when another explosion went off Kanda groaned to himself and hauled himself out of his cabin to see what was making his day from bad to worse.
Screams, sirens, and the crackling of embers filled the air and Kanda stood in the middle of the chaos with slanted trained eyes sweeping over the wreckage. A quick dash from his peripherals had him spinning to his left, another had him spinning back to his right. The shadowed figure darted to the trees, luring him deeper into the forest. The samurai rolled his shoulders before darting after it, he was perfectly fine fighting in private, it eliminated the collateral damage factor of most of his fights.
Deeper and deeper he went into the greenery chasing after the snapping of twigs and misplaced rustling of leaves until he burst into a clearing. Hmm, so the chase was over.
"You might as well come out now, I'm not going to wait around here until you feel like showing yourself." Kanda snarled. Another snap of a twig and rustle of branches had him turning around , only to freeze.
"Hello Yu."
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"I'm sorry to report this but a Noah destroyed Mei Ling's innocence, she had declined our offer to join us as a finder and promptly locked herself away." Allen reported with his head bowed in shame.
"Damn not another one." Komui rested his chin against steepled fingers. "Thanks for your report, go on and get some food and rest while you can. Allen bowed once and left, the moment he turned the corner he dropped into an ark gate.
"I see you're back early." Neah sounded from behind him.
"Oh course, I need to see how our newest recruit is settling in." Allen followed his uncle to the main area. Wisely and Krory were playing chest in front of the fire place, and by the look of the lack of white pieces Wisely was winning. Mei Ling was on the rug near them playing with building blocks. The psychic had eagerly agreed to join their rag tag group of misfits without Allen having to say anything. She "saw" it she explained, whatever that meant, Allen wasn't going to dissuade her from her decision. She was an invaluable asset with her future telling abilities, it would give them a great advantage that they needed over the other two sides.
"Hey where's Alma?" Neah asked, easily noticing the lack of a person in their small group.
Allen turned away and left the room with a destination in mind, "Out." He said simply as the solid wood doors closed behind him.
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"Alma." Kanda breathed out in shock, Mugen trembled slightly in his grasp.
"It's been so long Yu." Alma stepped further out from behind the tree and more into the open clearing.
"Don't come any closer!" Mugen pointed deadly at Alma's bare throat, the tremors from before have been conquered by steadiness. Alma blinked at the cold steel of both the blade and Kanda's eyes.
"Yu? It's me, Alma!" he tried to reason, hands in front of him in a display of peace, but the samurai would have none of it.
"I know who you claim to be and I'm not falling for it, you akuma!" Kanda spat out with clear malice as he pressed the blade of Mugen harder against his throat, threatening to break skim.
"A-Akuma!? Me, Yu you must be joking." Alma was forced to duck as the blade swung where his neck once was. "Yu we don't have time to fight! We need to talk."
"Stop calling me that." He hissed, already ready with his next attack that his 'friend' had to cartwheel out of the way to avoid.
"You're the one who gave me permission to, or do you forget that?" Alma broke off a sturdy branch of a nearby tree and parried the next attack, however the branch quickly burst into splinters from the sheer force behind the attack.
"You are not Alma, I killed Alma with my own two hands. He is dead." Three nearby trees were also followed the branch in being reduced to nothing but splinters.
"I am kind of hurt by that Yu, but I understand why you did it. I can't tell you how I was able to survive exactly but you should know better than to underestimate a second exorcist's abilities."
"I also know better than to underestimate the Millennium Earl's abilities." Kanda snarled. Damned beansprout, not being around when he's actually needed, the silverette's ability to see if a person was an akuma or not would actually be useful right about now, but he had to do it the old fashioned way. Assume everyone was an akuma until proven otherwise, and even then to still be on guard.
Grinding his teeth Kanda unleashed Hell's Insects, wanting this fight to be done and over with as soon as possible. Like a Band-Aid. The attack hit and Alma was knocked onto his back in a daze, Kanda moved quickly and stood strong over his fallen opponent with Mugen ready to deliver the finishing blow.
"If the only choice I have is to fight you or be killed, then just kill me. I don't want to fight you anymore Yu. I only came here to talk. Please, just give me five minutes, if by then you still don't trust me then I'll run myself through." Alma pled still on his back, his eyes ignored his imminent doom and instead locked onto Kanda's eyes instead.
Kanda briefly entertained the idea of running this creature wearing his dead friends' face through and be done with it, but a part of him just couldn't let him follow through. "Give me one good reason why I should even consider trusting you."
A gentle wind blew through the field, carrying stray leaves as it danced through. Alma took on a face of contemplation before lighting up excitedly, he muttered one word so softly that Kanda barely caught it. With wide eyes the samurai thrust Mugen down as hard as he could, sneering slightly as it sunk into the earth below. "You better have a damn good explanation for all of this!"
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As the two second exorcists slowly made their way out of the forest, a golden golem spread its wings and took flight. Unbeknownst to the two the golem had sat and recorded their entire encounter. Over the sea of trees and wild waves of oceans the golem flew until flying straight at a solid wall of stone. Not slowing down in the slightest the golem flew forward, passing through the camouflaged entrance of a gate. Now slightly slowing it continued its flight through the white washed town until finally coming to a rest atop a mop of silver hair.
"Did you have a good flight Tim?" the owner of the silver hair asked lightly, receiving a toothy grin in return. Chuckling he continued, "you'll have to tell me all about it later."
A/N: Just a little tid bit here, Alma isn't technically an Akuma in this. I may or may not reveal how he was able to come back but spoilers~! So what do you guys think is the one word Alma said that convinced Kanda? If any of you can get it right…I dunno, you'll win something XD, maybe a chapter dedication, or a request of what you'd like to see in this fic, hell I might even do a short collab for a chapter or two, I dunno, but you have to guess it right if you want to be eligible!
XHikariSoraX- yeap their little group is growing, I feel so proud XD. Allen will learn cloning in a future chapter…if I forget please remind me!
Darke13- Thank you! Get ready though, the climax is soon to come!
Kittyluv2000- sorry for such the long wait, classes have been keeping me successfully busy. But thank you!
Walker666- Thank you! I'm so happy you like this story and I'm sorry for the long wait. Life just doesn't want to give me free time =(
Amenokuma- more like troll!Neah XD and yes Allen is going to have to fight tooth and nail to get some peace and quiet after this is all over with.
TheLilMusician- Yay cookies~! Num num num, yea Allen is such a fun character to write.
Guest (1)- ch 8: Sheril is new to parenting an actual child (Road doesn't count) he's still trying to sort out what's normal from the unusual.
Guest (2)- ch 4: But coffee keep him running!
Love you guys, sorry for such the long wait and hope someone actually guesses the right word! If not then meh what ev's. I do not own D. Gray-Man! Review please~!