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Chapter fifteen: Hayate Kagero

Third person

Ayume's eyes slowly opened. As she felt a strong numbing pain in her shoulder. She tried to look at it, but found it impossible, by the wrap around her neck. As she woke up more, she realized that her neck, wait, shoulders, arms, wrists, thighs and legs were bound by tree bark. Tree bark of all things, she was confused and surprise by the things that bound her.

"Oh! You woke up! Goodie." A voice said. Her eyes focused more on the image leaning against the tree.

"Do you have any idea why the Earl wants you so bad?" He said again. Now she could see. His brown hair was a little lighter than the tree he was leaning on, and he had bright green eyes. Her eyes darted away when she saw the seven crosses across his forehead, she should have just stopped at the gray skin.

"You're a Noah." She said in a low voice.

"That doesn't answer my question." He said, looking at her strangely. She was surprise a bit when he heard her. "But I guess you won't know right? And even if you did, you won't tell a Noah like me." He rubbed the back of his head when he said this. She looked at him, very confused.

"Why are you being so nice to me?" Ayume asked him. She was, of coarse an exorcist, and he was a Noah.

"Why am I being nice to you? I guess it's because I like being nice, and I don't like fighting." He answered.

"Then why are you in this war?" Ayume asked, she never really understood Noah.

"I am a Noah. It's kind of my destiny, isn't it?"

"Why not fight your destiny? You could always try."

"I can sense your feelings, you don't like fighting either. So why are you fighting? Why aren't you trying?" Ayume smiled in amusement at this. Yes, he could sense emotions, but what about the ones deeper inside? Could he sense the pain that was there, and the confusion? But Ayume knew the answer to that one, he could only sense the surface emotions, and her hatred of fighting was always on the surface.

"Lets just say, I'm already fighting that." She finally said, leaving him majorly confused.

"How old are you? You don't seem to look that old?" She asked him.

"Only sixteen, But I've been a Noah for about six, so in reality I would be twenty-two." He answered.

Reality, oh yes reality, how she hated it. Ayume found it much better to pretend, she was a little like Road this way. They both hated reality, and found it better to pretend, much better. But, Ayume learned that no matter how much you pretend, no matter how far away you think it is, reality was never far behind. And reality wasn't all it was cracked up to be, in reality, reality sucked.

"Why bother with such a stupid thing like reality? You're sixteen, and stuck there, that's the reality of it." She said.

"You're a strange one, that's for sure." He said rubbing the back of his head.

"What's so strange about me?" Ayume asked.

"For a little while there, I thought you sounded like Road-chan." He said, looking right into her gaze. Your very stupid. Very, very stupid. Lets try not to get caught, eh Ayume? She thought.

"What's your name?" He asked her finally.

"Ayume."

"Well, Ayume. My name is Hayate Kagero." He said, a smile on his face. She have it hard to believe, that he a Noah, was having a pleasant conversation with an Exorcist, she didn't find it hard that she was though. Damn kid. She thought. He really shouldn't have been dragged into this stupid war. She thought a more for a second thinking if she should have been dragged in too, and Allen. She didn't think Allen desired it, but she certainly did.

"I still can't get one more thing." Ayume said as she looked at him.

"What?" Hayate said, a bit confused.

"If you're suppose to bring me to the Earl, than why am I still here?" Ayume asked, not trusting him.

"Because getting you was not my only order, another order of mine was to kill the exorcist, Allen Walker." He said, Ayume's eyes widen. "You're the bait, and I think he's too nice to abandon you."

"DAMN BASTERED!!" Ayume screamed at him, All of the anger in the world in her voice. As if he was qued, Allen blasted though the thick trees, Innocence Invoke.

Ayume gave a small gasp, and all out once, remember every little thing about Hayate, his weakness, his power, and his Noah birth. But most importantly, she knew how hard he was to beat.

"RUN AWAY!!" She screamed on top of her lungs. Allen didn't listen, he fired away at Hayate. Hayate, smiled in amusement as a thick branch, appeared out of nowhere in from the ground. The branch caught all of Allen's bullets and shock off as if it was nothing. Allen looked a little surprise, but shook it off, he turned his innocence from the gun form into the sword form. He hit against the branch, that moved to hit him, but the branch was unaffected as a second branch came up and hit him in the hard in the side.

"Allen!" Ayume yelled as she tried to move, but there was no such luck. Allen slowly got up, whipping the small blood that was on his chin.

"You can't win here." Hayate said, as two more branches came up, one behind him and one in front of him. They moved like snakes, slowly slithering up higher in the sky.

"The forest is my territory, my power doubles when I'm in one. You can try to fight it the villagers did, but you'll still end up as dead as them." Hayate said in a proud high voice.

"You killed the villagers?" Allen yelled.

"Of coarse, I slowly killed them off one by one to get you suspicious, then I killed them all one day, their bodies were plenty for my dead trees." Hayate continue. He smiled then, a dark evil smile. "But I never fed them the body of an Exorcist, I wonder how they'll like it." At that second, another tree appeared behind Allen in a second, a sharp branch piercing his stomach. The tree then quickly disappeared back into the ground as Allen fell to the ground, one hand helping him support, his other around his stomach.

"ALLEN!!" Ayume screamed, she tried to move again, nothing. She glared at the branched binding them. She clutched her hands tightly, as she began gathering her strength.

"DAMN IT!!" She yelled as she pushed her body forward, nothing happened again. She felt her anger rise, rise to a point it seemed she was going to burst, or at the very least lose control. Yes, she was very close to the edge to lose control, she knew what was going to happen, very, very soon. I might be forced to use those powers. She thought. Allen tried to get up, but fell to the ground.

"Why...am I..." Allen said, he was trying to say something, but it was apparent that he was losing strength.

"Feeling numb? That tends to happen when poison is in your body." Hayate said, that smile growing on his face.

"Poison?" Allen said weakly.

"Yes, I love to add poison to my trees when I fight exorcist, it's spreading though your body as we speak." Hayate said. "Are you feeling tired yet?" Hayate's voice was in the most teasing way possible. Allen's eyesight, slowly got blurry as the rest of his body went numb. Damn it! Allen thought before he blacked out.

Ayume bit the bottom of her lip as he past out, her fear was coming true...again. NO! She screamed in her mind. I will not lose some one else again! She thought.

"Poor boy, didn't really know what he was up against." Hayate said as he walked closer to Allen, a tree branch behind him.

"GET AWAY FROM HIM!!" Ayume screamed at Hayate. Hayate ignored her, stopping right in front of Allen's head. The tree branch, went past him and over Allen's heart.

"Oh well, Hoped you liked your life." Hayate said. Ayume gave off a quick gasp, she knew what was happening, and quickly she did something that surprised even her.

"See ya." Hayate said as the branch lifted up in the air and then sliced though everything as it rushed to Allen's body.

"CURSED FLOWERS!!" Ayume yelled, complete wiping out her lungs in the process. The branch, started turning into flower petals when it was less than an inch away from Allen's body. Hayate watched in a very surprised way when his branch, no all of his trees were fading away to the dark red and light green petals (even the ones that secured Ayume's body). She quickly got up and ran to Allen, picking him up a bit, holding him tightly in her arms.

"How the hell..." Hayate said looking at Ayume as if she was some sort of alien. Oh yes, she forgot about him. Quickly her views changed on what was more important right now.

"Flowers of the dead!" Ayume said as she threw her right arm forward, about ten hundred petals appeared out of no where, hitting Hayate much harder than anyone has ever done before. He coughed up a lot of blood once he hit the tree.

Hayate landed, whipping the blood away from his mouth. Ayume held Allen, listening to his heart beat. It was still there, it wasn't as strong as it should have been but it was still strong. There's still time, then. Ayume thought as she put the cursed exorcist on her lap. She looked at his face as she bit down hard on her right finger, drawing blood. He looks like he's suffering. She thought as she started to draw on her left hand. When she was done, she looked at the blood drawn circle, at the many complications it had. Please still work! She thought as she slowly put her left hand over Allen's deep wound. A strong light emitted from the blood, a bright green light. Slowly, a strange deep purplish red liquid slowly came out of Allen's wound as soon as it was out, it quickly went up to Ayume's hand. She quickly closed her hand, squeezing it hard before she opened her hand letting a strange white powder fade away. She smiled sweetly, normally she hated these powers, she would trade them for anything, as well as her past. But right now, she was actually glad to have them. Her eyes were soft and filled with joy, she lifted Allen's head up and kissed him gently on his curse. Tears started to flow down as she kiss him, slowly she pulled away.

"Forgive me for what I have to do Allen." She said as she gently put him down. She stood up the petals started to surround her, she placed her hand over Allen as the petals surrounded him in a shield.

"Now," She said as she turned to Hayate, who was probably wondering what species she was, "we need to end this now, don't we?" She glared at him, with dark threatening blue-green eyes.

"What the hell are you anyway? That technique is only used by the eldest of Noah." Hayate said as he slowly got up to his feet.

"A mistake." Ayume answer, more of the dark green and black petals started to form around her.

"A mistake huh? Whose? You, for leaving, or the Earl's for letting you be gone for so long?" Hayate said.

"I don't know what you're talking about." Ayume said, her eyes were starting to turn into silts.

"Of coarse you don't." Hayate said. "But I know when I'm gonna die, so I'll leave now." He turned but was stop by a thick wall of flower petals that launched out at him, threatening to steal his life with on touch.

"You're not leaving, it may hurt me but this a very good way to stop you from leaving." Ayume said as she lifted up the finger she bit on, still bleeding. "One touch from them and you'll die in a matter of seconds."

"I see, the only way to leave is to fight you." Hayate said as Ayume place her finger in her mouth. The trees started to appear behind him. "SO BE IT!" He yelled as the trees launched toward her at a faster speed she could avoid. She looked at the trees as they came even closer to her, when they came close enough, they faded into flowers.

"I know you're a long range, there fore you can kill anybody as far as you wants. I, too, am a long range, the difference for us is that I've been doing it a lot longer." Ayume said, quickly then the black petals appeared next to him, pushing him at an alarmingly fast way at the tree behind him. Blood trickled down his mouth as he tried to push them off, but he gave up soon. Ayume looked at him, confusingly.

"You give up? Why so soon?" She said as she started to walk to him, removing her perfectly fine finger from her mouth.

"I know when my end is near, cause even if I did know you only two years before you left, I know how deadly you are. The perfect weapon of war, it's hard to imagine you not fighting." Hayate said.

"What the hell are you talking about? You are obviously confusing me with someone else." She said. She was standing right in front of him, in perfect range of her weapon.

"Of coarse i am..." he said, quickly he grabbed the end of her shirt and pulled her closer to him. Her ear right next to his mouth. Hayate whispered something in her ear, something that widened Ayume's eyes. Immediately, when he was done, she plunged her hand though his chest, then ripped his body apart, reducing it to sand, a bit of his blood was on Ayume's forehead and cheek and completely around her hand.

"I'm sorry," She said as she watched the sand blow away from her sight, "I kill any body who has found out my secret."

It might be that i revealed her secret. Oh well, and if you still don't know it, you'll find out real soon. ;D

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