Chapter 11. The next few chapters are mainly going to be Kiryu doing nothing but reminisce about his past, so there wont be as much action in the next few or so chapters. Just a heads up. I don't own Fairy Tail.

The next day outside of Oak town, Kiryu, Mira, and Elfman had set up a grave for May. It was on a small cliff overlooking the town. The magic council had showed up an hour after the battle to arrest the members of Black Serpent and to send the kids back home.

Dark clouds had gathered overhead. Mira sat in front of the grave, Elfman stood next to her, and Kiryu stood back near the tree line with Volk, Mays necklace wrapped around his hand. After saying goodbye, Mira stood up and walked to Kiryu. She puts a hand on his shoulder. "Are you okay?"

Kiryu says nothing.

"Kiryu?"

He remains silent.

Rain begins to pour. They quickly head over to a cart they had rented. Elfman jumped in the back with Mira and Volk. Since there was no driver, Kiryu jumped onto the front seat. The two siblings watched the grave disappear behind them as they began to ride all the way to Magnolia. Mira looks at Kiryu concerned. He didn't have his cloak or his leather jacket on.

He's going to catch a cold.

Elfman gets her attention.

"You know…….. I have a feeling…… He hasn't talked to anybody about what happened before. Maybe…….. Hes acting like this because he has both Mays and Lisannas deaths haunting him in a way."

(Begin Code Geass OST The Ruins as They Were)

Miras eyes widen. She looks at her feet then at Kiryu. He had his head down. She then looms at Elfman.

"We'll take some time off. Afterwards I'll talk to him."

Kiryu continued to hold the reins. Even though it was raining, he wasn't crying. But on the inside, he was burdened with sadness.

One week later. Magnolia. Fairy Tail guildhall.

Mira and Kiryu hadn't been by the guildhall since they came back. Elfman returned to report what happened to Master Makarov. Everyone noticed this. Especially the guys since a lot of the guys had hit on Mira in the past. At one of the tables in the middle of the hall, Team Natsu had discussed why the two had not returned yet.

"Do you guys know what happened?" Asked Lucy.

"No idea." Responded Gray.

"Something bad had probably happened during their mission. If so we should give them their space." Says Erza.

Wendy looks down worried. "Maybe there is a way to help them."

Carla, Wendy's cat, jumped up onto the table. "Did you not hear her!? They need their space!" She says with a sassy like tone.

"Yeah, but if there is something we can help them with, then maybe we should do something."

Lucy thinks back to the time when her, Natsu and Happy stopped Max, Droy, and Jet from beating Kiryu.

Maybe, it's more than that.

She looks over to Natsu.

"Natsu, can you tell me about why the others have a problem with Kiryu?"

Natsu just looks at the ground. "I don't know the details. I know what happened though."

Lucy grabs him by the arm, and she takes him to a secluded corner in the guildhall, Happy and Wendy follow.

"What are you-?"

She let's go of him. "I want to know what happened for people to hate him so much."

Wendy jumps in. "Hes my friend, and I feel like we need to help him. And this might be the only way."

Natsu looks away for a moment. Happy flies in front of him. "I think we should tell them. Its gonna hurt, but it will also help you get over it too."

Natsu sighs.

"He killed Lisanna."

There is a deafening silence. Shock on the females faces.

"But how? Why?" Lucy struggles to say.

"That can't be true!" Says Wendy, not wanting to believe that her first friend from Fairy Tail was a murderer.

"I was told a short amount of the story. But if you want the full story, you should probably ask Elfman or Mira since they were there."

The two girls nod. As Natsu and Happy turn to leave, Lucy grabs Natsu by the back of his shirt.

"Oh no! You're coming with us."

Natsu sighs again, this time more out of sadness.

The four of them walk over to the bar where Elfman was taking a swig of his drink, and Volk sitting behind him with a steak in his mouth. He turns to see them.

"Oh, hey guys." He says.

"Wow. Why is Volk here?" Asks Wendy.

"Kiryu usually let's him do whatever he wants since wolves dont like being in confinement. Did you guys need something?"

"Yeah, but can we go somewhere where we can talk?" Asks Lucy.

The five of them and Volk go into the infirmary.

"So what is it you want to talk about?"

Lucy nods to Wendy. "Listen, Natsu told us what happened with Lisanna. And we want to know if we can help Kiryu with that."

Elfman clenches his fist and looks at the ground.

"It's okay if you don't want to tell us. But can you at least tell us what happened on your mission with Kiryu and Mira?"

Elfman continued looking at the floor for a moment. "Alright."

He tells them everything. Their mission objective, finding May, discovering Black Serpents plans, the battle, May's death, everything to the smallest detail.

"Kiryu and Mira had gotten closer to her than I did. So it hurt like hell when she died."

He sits on one of the beds. "I wasn't manly enough to help Mira get through this."

Natsu walks toward him and puts a hand on his shoulder.

"Don't worry man. We can take it from here!" He says with a smile.

Elfman returns the smile. "Thanks you guys."

They all step out and Elfman leaves Volk with them. Lucy and Wendy think for a moment until Natsu interrupts them.

"Are you guys done with me yet?" Natsu complains.

"NO YOU'RE NOT!" Lucy shouts.

"I think we should ask Mira about this. I feel Kiryu wouldn't want to talk about it." Wendy says.

Lucy nods. "Alright. Let's go."

The four of them leave the guildhall, dragging Natsu behind them.

Kiryu sat up against the wall of his room at an inn, a half burnt out cigarette in his mouth and a pile of cigarette butts in an ashtray next to him. Across the room opposite of him was a mirror, Dragunov looking back at him with his blood red eye.

"You know, this is great! Know you're just like me."

Kiryu looks at him, his blue eye looked like he died a minute ago.

"Oh don't be a pansy! You knew what you were doing and you did it!"

Kiryu looks back at the floor. Dragunov scoffs.

"Whatever. Be depressed for all I care."

Dragunov disappears, leaving Kiryu by himself.

Lucy, Wendy, Natsu, Happy, and Volk arrive at Miras house. Wendy knocks, and after a minute, Mirajane answers, her eyes red from crying.

"Are you okay Mira?" Lucy says worried.

Mira shakes her head. "Yeah I'm fine. Here come on in. I'll make some tea."

They all walk in except for Natsu.

"What's wrong Natsu?" Asks Happy.

"I'm going to stay out here. You guys go ahead."

They close the door, leaving the fire dragon slayer outside.

They go into the living room and sit on the sofa while Mira puts some tea on the table. Volk goes and sits next to Miras chair. Wendy gets a cup while Mira sits down. Lucy takes a sip and then looks at the white haired beauty, who was looking down at the floor.

"Mira…. Elfman told us what happened."

Mira looks up, eyes wide.

"Just know that we're here for you okay?" Says Lucy.

Mira looks at her with a little smile. "Thank you."

Wendy puts her cup down. "But there's another reason we are here. Natsu told us what Kiryu did. We want to help him out too. But the only way is if we know what happened."

Mira looks out the window. The clouds got dark and a heavy rain fell. She looks at the floor again.

"It will be two years ago tomorrow. That's when it happened."

Two years ago. X782.

Kiryu had just finished a job of helping deliver a few packages to a family that lived out in the boonies. He looks up at the sky. The sun had set a minute ago and the stars glowed with a beautiful blue light.

Wow. That's a great view.

His mind wanders till he remembers what Lisanna asked him to do.

Oh crap. I promised Lisanna I would be back earlier.

He looks towards the direction of Magnolia and smiles.

Oh well, I'll see her when she comes back from that mission with Elfman and Mirajane.

He walks for another hour until he breathed in an odd smell.

Smoke?

He looks all around him until he sees a glow coming from the other side of a hill.

Fire. I should go see if everything is okay.

Kiryu sprinted off the road and over the hill. Soon he was on a cliff overlooking a small village.

Looks like everyone left.

All of a sudden he hears a distant crash followed by a loud roar. About half a mile away a beast was going on a rampage. In front of it was a scared Mirajane.

Crap! That doesn't look good.

Kiryu runs through the trees. As he got closer, he sees Lisanna step between her sister and the monster. She puts her arms out and says something. The monster prepares to strike her.

"NO!"

End of chapter 11. Sorry if this one is shorter, but the next one is going to be longer. Review!