A/N: Sorry it's taken so long to get this chapter up, but we've been having final exams and reviews and stuff...

"Gomen" Sorry

Chapter 2

Agent 313

"So then if they've had their eyes on us for son long, how come you didn't recognize me at first. Secondly, I've never heard of this DDC organization either."

"I personally haven't met your mother, besides the photos in her file, and I've never seen you before. Secondly, the DDC is a new agency for tracking down criminal demons. By the way, may I call you Kurama, or am I to call you Shuichi?"

"Call me Kurama." He said giving Valentine a chilling look, and still somewhat suspicious of this awkward situation, but he cheered up and asked her, "Well, Valentine do you know where Kuronue is now?"

"Not exactly… all I know is that he caught on to my trail about ten miles upstream." She replied.

Kurama and Valentine searched for nearly three months for Kuronue, but nothing ever turned up.

"Valentine, haven't you been able to contact the DDC yet?" Kurama asked impatiently.

"No, like I told you before, something is blocking my transmission."

"Attention" Agent 313, we have some information on the demon you have been tracking." The radio said suddenly coming to life.

"Who's 'Agent 313'?" Kurama asked.

"Shhh. That's me. Now will you please be quiet so I can hear what information headquarters has for me." Valentine answered in an annoyed tone. Valentine listened to the radio through a special sound proof earpiece, so that no one could hear her conversation with the DDC headquarters. Finally, after listening to the transmission for about fifteen minutes, Valentine ended the conversation.

"Well, did you get any information on Kuronue's location?"

"Absolutely, he is somewhere around that giant willow by the stream. The only problem is that they know I'm with you, Kurama, and they want me to kill you because it's too risky for us to be partners. Kurama after these months of searching and getting to know you, I could never do that, so after we exterminate Kuronue, you must run away from here. I'll tell the authorities at the DDC that you escaped my grasp. Okay?" Valentine said almost in tears for having to tell Kurama this.

"I could never leave this place, it was where my mother and I lived, but that's enough of that subject," he was growing angry, "Right now, we have to go meet Kuronue." Vengeance running through his mind, he stood up, grabbed Balentine's hand and took off running for the giant willow.

Valentine was able to keep up with Kurama's pace most of the way to the willow, but about two-thirds of the way…

"Kurama… slow down… I can't keep up anymore." She yelled as she stumbled and fell.

"Gomen, Valentine, I forget that you can't go as far as I can." Kurama said holding his hand out. As Valentine stood, she felt a sharp pain in her leg, let out a small yelp of pain and fell forward. Luckily, Kurama caught her, but when he looked down to see why she had fallen, he saw that her jeans were torn from her knee to her ankle, and blood was running down her leg and dripping onto the ground. He bandaged her wound with a piece of cloth that he happened to have. "Here, I'll carry you the rest of the way so that we won't further injure your leg."

"Are you sure?"

"Yeah, I can carry you." He said as he knelt down and picked her up.

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A/N: That's it for this chapter... Thanx to all of you who reviewed! It is much appreciated!