Battle of Loyalty

Chapter 7

Fragile, naïve pathetic exorcist

The next day Kayo woke up with a piercing headache. She struggled to get out of bed. She got dressed and headed to the dining hall. Maybe some food would ease her headache. When she walked through the huge double doors Kayo noticed Kanda and Allen in the center of the room. Both of their faces showed repulsion and detestation. "You don't anything about being an exorcist, bean sprout."

"My name is Allen, and I know more about being an exorcist than you'll ever know." Kanda's face turned from disgust to anger in a matter of seconds.

"Why you…" Kanda pulled out a long razor-sharp burnished sword. Before it could hit him Kayo ran in front of Allen. Kanda's sword was only centimeters away from slicing her neck. Allen was surprised at Kayo.

"Please, can't we just talk about this?" Said Kayo with what she tried to make look like an intimidating face.

"Kayo?" Said Allen surprised. Allen warned Kayo about Kanda, but to her he looked pretty nice. Up until now that is.

"Cute, bean sprout's got his little girlfriend to defend him." Kayo and Allen blushed.

"She's not my girlfriend!" Said Allen defensively. Kanda put away his sword.

"Of course not." Kanda replied sarcastically. Then he walked out of the dining hall. Allen looked like he was about to blow up.

"Allen? I'm sorry. I shouldn't have gotten involved." He shook his head.

"I'm not angry at you. Thank you is what I should say, though it wasn't necessary. I try not to waste too much of my breath on that jerk. Don't worry about him, okay?" kayo nodded her head. While Kayo and Allen were eating Lenali walked in.

"Good morning Allen, Kayo." She said with a kind smile.

"Good morning." They both replied together.

"Allen, Komui wants me and you to report for a mission." Allen stood up.

"Okay, sure." He gave Kayo a small smile. "Wish us luck" Kayo nodded her head. Then they both left the dining hall. Just when Kayo was finishing her breakfast Lavi came in and waved to her from across the room. Then he came and sat next to her.

"Hey Kayo. What's up?"

"Nothing much."

"God, its weird seeing Allen with Lenali." Kayo was told Allen and Lenali were great friends.

"Why, I thought they liked each other."

"Yeah they do." Lavi gave Kayo a flirtatious look. "But ever since you came you and Allen have been inseparable." Kayo blushed.

"That's not true. I mean half the time I was here we were training. Plus I haven't been here for that long." Lavi chuckled.

"You've been here for about a month. Not to mention you're in denial. You know you spend every waking moment with him." Kayo slowly spaced out. She thought about her days at the order and how she really did spend almost all the time with Allen.

"I guess we're just good friends. He makes me smile, that's all." Said Kayo still half way in her day dream. Lavi stood up.

"Oh, I get it." He gave her a wink then walked off. What was that supposed to mean. Kayo was never around a lot of people. She didn't understand why she got certain feelings or why people did the things they did. She always felt like a kid still learning the basics of life. And here she was in the Black Order. Kayo was an exorcist and she barely knew anything about herself. But maybe that's why she always hung out with Allen. He seemed like her, almost. She felt a strong connection to him. She didn't know whether it was "romantic" or not she just knew he made her feel better and with everything that's going on in Kayo's life she really needed someone like him to lean on. The day flew by pretty fast without him and before she knew it Kayo found herself in her bed. The sun was down and Kayo was exhausted. Her headache had barley gone away through the day and she was looking forward to sleeping. Though the piercing pain that shot from her arm every few minutes didn't help the headache.

Allen was brought down to his knees. His lip was bloody and he gasped of pain. Kayo stared into his eyes from afar. She could see no feel, the pain and anguish he was going through. Every shock of pain and every drop of blood made her tears fall faster and her screaming louder. Allen was dying and it was all her fault. "Oh, poor exorcist so fragile, so naïve, so pathetic. You knew you wouldn't make it and you still came." Said the earl in the cruelest most spiteful way. Kayo still screamed and cried. But no one could hear her. She was locked away in a dungeon of terror. She had become nothing but a poor and unfortunate soul that lives inside a member of the Noah Clan. The scar on her arm had completely consumed her and now she was a Noah. But the Noah she had become was only a shell. A shell, but a powerful, lethal, and cruel shell. Kayo was struck down in the corner of its mind suffering. Now the only light that existed in her life was dying slowly before her eyes, and her shell stood their smirking at the sight of a fading exorcist. The Kayo everybody knew was eternally bolted away in misery. And the only person who could save her had just taken his last breath, and he turned cold with a final tear streaming down his face.

Kayo woke up with a jolt. She was sweating and shaking. Yes, she had just had another night horror, and it was about Allen. Kayo sat up in her bed and turned on her light. Her worrying was going to kill her in the long run. Without another second of thought Kayo got dressed and headed for her door. She was going to go after Allen, even if it meant sneaking out of the Black order.

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