Yayayaya,I'm really getting into this. Thanks for the reviews,momoirotan and everyone else. xD It really helps me get these chapters out sooner. No! Really! It does! XD

Anyway -- Disclaimer: -- seriously. Hoshino owns just about everything in this story. Maybe even my soul. ;O

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"Hiiiiiii!?" An earsplitting voice rang through the room causing my once sleeping concious to be awoken again. The blanket's that once covered my warm legs were being dragged off me.

In pure frustration,I let out a grunt and shifted closer to the warm object that was conviently beside me. The object also shifted next to me, so that it's arm-like attachments were wrapped snuggly around me. That was awfully weird. Object's weren't supposed to move...after all,they're objects...right?

"Hii! Hii! Hii!" The earsplitting voice rang out once more before a heavy pressure could be felt on my side.

"Affhhh!" My eye's shot open as my body was sent flying to the cold floor boards. With a loud thud,there I was laying face down on the floor.

" 'Dero,what'd you do?" Another tired-sounding voice was heard echoing through the room.

" Dero get's cold too,hiii!" Frustration was evident in the voice that spoke this time.

Unwillingly,I pushed myself up from the deathly cold floor to send death glares in the direction of my warmth-stealing fiend. What I saw wasn't really my visual of what my fiend might look like. There was Jasdero sitting on the bed next to Debito, looking down innocently at me.

" Gah,Dero! You should've just woken me up if you were cold." I quickly rearranged my position on the floor so I was sitting indian style. Once more,using my half pouty,half frustrated facial expression.

"Dero get's first dibs,hiii! Debi is Dero's,hii!" Jasdero hissed at me from the bed. It felt like I was having an argument with a cat.

A sweatdrop quickly formed on my forehead, realizing what Jasdero and I were arguing about. Jasdero was mad that I stole his rightful place beside Debito. Che,not like I had much of a choice where to sleep once Debito got a hold of me.

"So...you're mad at me for taking your place...beside that?" I extended a thin-pale finger in Debito's direction. My face held nothing more than pure irriatation.

"Hiiii!" Jasdero hissed at me once more. I felt like I've been hit with the stupid stick.

"You can have it. I don't want it." I quickly dismissed Jasdero's accusation and pushed myself up off the ground.

"Hey!" Debito quickly shot up from the bed and chased after me as I walked towards the door to the main hallway in the Inn." I'm not an object,you idiot! I'm a person! Where do you think you're going this time in the morning !? Nothing's open, you fruit!"

I quickly stopped, getting an irritated grunt out of Debito. Whom walked right into my back. "What time is it?"

"It's three a.m." Debito stated like he was some sort of elite professor in charge of something crucial.

"Three a.m.?!" I let out a huge groan and trotted back into the room where I once was in a deep state of unconciousness. " Dero,why couldn't you wait till atleast eight o'clock to throw a fit?"

Jasdero did nothing more than give me a slick glare and look away from me. What'd I do wrong? Was he seriously still angry about the whole sleep position thing?

"Hey,Dero. I'm sorry." I slowly walked towards Jasdero,extending my arm forward. My fingers graised across Jasdero's arm in a friendly manner. "I didn't mean to take your place. Next time,I wo-"

"Don't touch Dero,hiii!" Jasdero whipped his arm away from me. Clearly still frustrated.

To say the least, I was surprised. Did Jasdero hate me now? I hope not. He was such a good person.It hurt to know someone so gentle and pure like Jasdero could hate me so easily. Slowly,I brought my hands up to my chest and sat down on the bed next to the one that Jasdero inhabited. I felt guilty...horribly guilty. I've always hated people being mad at me. I always made it up to them somehow...but Jasdero was being so stubborn. I just didn't know how to get him to forgive me.

"Jasdero...what can I do...to make it up to you?" I actually managed to get my words out,but they were only slightly above a whisper.

"Don't go near Debi,hiii!" Jasdero hissed once more at me,actually looking at me this time.

"Okay..."Could I really keep that promise? "I think I'm...going to go for a walk or something."

I briskly rose from the bed and made haste for the door. As I waltzed out the door, my shoulder smacked roughly against Debito's entering one. I couldn't stop to apologize. The only thing I needed to do was get as far away from this Inn as possible.

I'm sure a few locals were worried when a young teenage girl with jet-black hair, high black Exorcist boots and a crimson and black dress waltzed past their house. But shoot me If I could care less. I was heading for the fountain in the middle of this small village. The fountain was definetly a peaceful place to just think.

It took about another twenty minutes to get to the fountain but it was worth it. The base and edges of the fountain were made of grey marble. While the water in the middle sprouted in three different directions, making a pleasent swishing noise. I gracefully made my way up to it's edge and sat down, pulling my knee's up to my chest.

It really was awfully chilly outside and I was so determined before, I didn't even notice. How thick-headed could someone be? There was no way I was returning back to Jasdero and Debito healthy. Ugh, Jasdero and Debito! What was I do to about them? I probably couldn't even go back to them now that the agreement I had with Jasdero. That was my desicion. I won't go back.

"Excuse me,Miss. You look like you're freezing." An unfamiliar voice rang in my ears as a warm cloth was drapped over my shoulders.

I turned my head around quickly to see whom the voice and jacket came from. The man wore a black and gold hat that had long vibrant red hair sprouting from beneath it. I couldn't see his whole face,since half of it was covered by a white mask,but he was a general. I was sure. He was wearing a black and gold Exorcist General cloak.

"Oh... thank you." I smiled nervously at the man. Why did this man look so familiar to me?

"It's no issue. Anything for a beautiful woman in need of help." The man grinned cheesily at me. "My name's Cross Marian. What might your's be?"

Cross! Ofcourse! " My name's Ikari." I grinned back at Cross. This is definetly what I needed.

"It's cold out here,Ikari. How about we go inside and I get you something warm to drink?" Cross' smirk didn't go unnoticed. This man was digging his own grave. He was giving me advantages. I could get him alone. There's no way he'd get out alive.

"Ah,why not. Sure." I smiled at Cross as I accepted his offer.

Cross lead me inside another Inn that was located in the village. He also snatched a warm kettle off a maid's cart as he passed by. This man was suave and sort of a skeezebag. He used the most typical lines. As he opened his door to his room, I immediatly noticed it's size.

It was very large and magnificent. Everything was so clean it sparkled proudly. I admired the beauty of the room before Cross interupted.

"Do you take cream and sugar in your coffee?" Cross was absent-mindedly making coffee. I was fully aware his mind was else where.

"Ah,yes." I answered Cross genuinly. Before taking a seat at the table where Cross was making the coffee.

"So.." Cross sat in the seat opposite of mine and leaned in towards me while his one hand was wrapped snuggly around his cup of coffee." You aren't from around the area are you?"

"Mh,no. I'm traveling." I looked down into my cup of coffee, watching my reflection weave in and out of the riples. "You're not from around here either,are you?"

"Ahah,no. I'm also...like a traveler. Except I'm looking for more than just sights." Cross attempted to innocently smile at me. Which failed in my books.

"Sounds thrilling." I grinned at Cross as he let out a simple little laugh.Soon...

"I'm actually surprised, that I'd find a girl with such beauty like yours wandering around at three thirty in the morning." Cross' hand stretched across the table and graised against my cheek.

I couldn't compose myself any longer. My pale skin tone quickly faded back to grey and the imprints of cross' marked my forehead once more. The skin on my bones became freezing to the touch thanks to my abilities. I could hear Cross lightly gasp as he brought his hand back quickly.

Cross threw off his glove and held his hand tightly. It had turned a dark purple. Close to that of frost-bite...where the limb would have to be amputated. That was my ability. Since I was the Noah of emotion,I could freeze things with a simple touch.

I quickly grabbed the leg of the table,encassing it in ice in less than a second and flinged it towards Cross. The table shattered into thousands of tiny peices as it hit against the wall,but not Cross. I gasped as a sharp pain flickered in my back, sending me down onto my hands and knees. My head flung back in the direction where the pain was inflicted. There Cross stood with a giant gold smoking gun in hand. He shot me!

"It's a real shame Noah's can't be modified like Akuma. You really are a waste. So beautiful,but such a wrong,wrong meaning." Cross shook his head slightly as he pointed his gun once more in my direction.

I quickly rose to my feet and stood infront of Cross. As soon as the trigger clicked against the metal, I moved my position with agility. Only to have the bullets move right after me. The five bullets drilled deep into my side causing me to shout out in sheer pain. One bullet was lodged in my shoulder,another in my hip,another in my forearm,another in my upper chest and the last one in my collar bone.

All too quickly,I collapsed to the floor. I was so inexperienced with combat. Surely I was dying,there was no other way to describe this pain. It felt as though all the blood in my vein's were hardening with every raspy breath I took. I couldn't take the pain anymore. My eyelids were battling with my will.

I knew all to well that if I closed my eye's now,I would die. But I was leaving on such a horrible note. Jasdero and Debito were so angry with me. I couldn't die now, I needed to live on to apologize to them. The tears that poured from my eye's never made it to the ground,they froze to my face due to my skin's horrible temperature.

Everything was fading and blurring together. I couldn't understand what was going on anymore. All I know that there was a loud shattering noise,more voices and the last thing my heavy eyes caught was a messy blur of gold and black.

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