Serpents coil -

You realise you have invited me to injure Kanda. And to it, I say.. of course.
I agree. Bishounen + blood Love. : )

and thank you to

Evide

who has begun beta-ing this story superbly.

Kanda's vision swam before him as he cracked his eyes open slowly. He closed them again as a wave of nausea swept over him, worsened by the spots dancing in front of him.) As soon as he dared himself to open his eyes again, he took an observational glance around.

The area was mostly dark, a flickering glow illuminating sharp rocks that jutted out around him.
From what he could see, he was in a small space, with no inclination as to where he may be other than the fact the area was some underground cavern.

His gaze returned to him and he grumbled to himself as he caught sight of his ankles tightly bound to the chair on which he sat.

"How on earth did I get into this position?"

Annoyed with himself more than anything, Kanda tried shifting out of the painful position he'd been placed into by his captor, but the notion of moving any further was out of the question when he felt his shoulder grind against its' socket, probably dislocated.

He sighed in contempt.

Already on edge with himself for being held captive, Kanda couldn't help but go against his moral attitude, and found himself hoping he would be found soon. It was very unlike him to want the satisfaction of being freed by someone else. The fact that it would be by that darned Moyashi and Lavi, only added to his displeasure. But his silent thoughts were cut short as he heard a deep, nasal laugh penetrate the air.

"Mou. Exorcisto." Kanda looked up in disdain at the title he was given, a level 2 akuma hovering in front of him, it's pixie-like shoes inches from the floor. "What a pretty captive you are. Eheheh. I'll have fun breaking you." With that spoken, a devilish grin cracked across the Akuma's face.

Kanda smiled wryly as the akuma advanced quickly, striking him sharply across the face, it's hard armor cutting deep into the samurai's cheek and drawing blood. The demon cackled again, swiping it's armor-clad fists back and forth across Kanda's face in rapid succession, hardly leaving time for Kanda's head to recoil from each blow.

Through swollen eyes, Kanda looked up to meet the displeasurable grimace of the Akuma's face.

"You aren't very fun to play with, Mr.Exorcist. You could at least participate..," It halted it's leering and took Kanda's hand into it's own mangled one, and one by one, twisted each finger until it began grinning with each satisfactory snap of the frail bones, quickly accompanied by a vocal representation of the pain. "...With your screams!" The Akuma howled in pleasure at the exorcist's obvious pain.

"That's it! That's it! Your screams are so wonderful!" The Akuma screeched with a wide grin as it continued to work on damaging the exorcist. Kanda felt hate stirring inside him.Having to be subjected to the Akuma's brutality without any means of defending himself was degrading and enraging. He was only able to sit there, taking each strike in silent contempt.

But finally, as all mortals would under such a predicament, he detached himself from his surroundings, no longer completely feeling the blows or hearing the taunts. And finally, he completely lost contact with the conscious world, his beating still taking place.

Meanwhile

The two exorcists above ground became increasingly annoyed at the dead end they were left with.

"Goddammit!" Lavi growled in annoyance, kicking a rock down the dingy street.

Allen was in no better of a mood. He merely chose not to vocalize his frusteration, instead quietly berated himself for not having noticed the akuma before it got Kanda.

"It's all my fault that Kanda isn't here. If only I had SEEN it sooner! I...I could've warned him...I could've..."


"Hey Allen, you alright?"

Allen looked up at Lavi's question. "Guh...W-what do you mean ?" Allen choked out, trying to shy away from Lavi's probing gaze.

He watched Lavi's expression through the only eye that showed on the other exorcist's face, softened just a little bit.

"Well, youre crying Allen-kun." Lavi explained dumbly.

Allen scoffed and was about to deny the statement, had he not brought his hand up to his face. He was crying.

Embarrassed, he used the palms of his hands and smudged his tears into his warm cheeks. "Well...It's just...I should've been able to...warn him quicker..." His earlier attempt at hiding the evidence of his tears proved further more worthless as his eyes flooded with unshed ones. "I should've been able too - "

"Allen! Geez. It's not your fault, none of us were expecting it." Lavi reasoned quietly with the small exorcist, giving a gentle squeeze to the smaller boy's shoulder.

Nodding more to himself, Allen wiped away the moisture from his eyes. "Yes. We will find Kanda." He nodded once more to himself, giving a small smile to Lavi who had stepped back at feeling the awakened resolution within Allen.

"Lavi." Allen spoke, looking towards the farther off village and mountains, "We will find Kanda."

Thank you for reading and reviews would be much appreciated.
As the more I get, the more I will write before I leave for Japan. :O
I need motivation.
and I will be getting around to re-writing the old chapters :