Shiki: Man its getting really hard to update all of our stories in a month….
Rima: But its fun! It means theres never a time or day where we aren't thinking of what to put next!
Shiki: So here it is! Chapter nine!
Anna woke and saw Kanda sleeping peacefully next to her; she smirked and VERY carefully decided to do something. She crawled out of the bed and let Kanda's hair out of its ribbon, she started braiding the samurais black hair, she finished quickly and tied it with one of her silver ribbons she had on her wrist. She snickered and moved to the window and watched the sun in the sky.
"Wonder what time it is…." She murmured. Anna stayed like that for several hours; she looked back over at Kanda and smiled grimly. "He must have been exhausted from that mission….its all my fault….He would be better off without me, as would everyone else….Lisa wouldn't have gotten hurt and Allen wouldn't have had to dredge up old and painful memories…." She looked at the setting sun and stood up; another sigh escaped her lips as she walked to the door. Anna looked at Kanda again before opening the door and leaving the room; she shut the door behind her and started walking down the hallways aimlessly.
"Oi Exorcist….where are ya going?" Kali's voice said in Anna's head.
"Go away, I'm thinking Kali…." Anna thought, Kali's presence in her head vanished. Anna was shaken from her thoughts when she saw water and a boat in her vision. She made a snap decision and climbed onto the boat and left the Order, a lone silver and black ribbon lay on the ground.
When Kanda woke, the sun was setting and his precious Anna was gone. At first he thought she was hiding from him, seeing as his hair was braided and had one of her ribbons at the end he had guessed she had been the one to do it. After he had unbraided his hair and retied Anna's ribbon to hold his hair up, he left his room to find his girl. He searched for hours and when the moon was high in the sky, he began to panic. He ran into Lisa, Lavi, and Allen almost instantly.
"Hey Yu we were just coming to get you, where's Anna?" Lavi asked.
"Kanda….Where is Anna!" Lisa asked after the samurai hadn't answered Lavi's question.
"That's just it I don't know where she is! I woke up and she was gone!" Kanda said panicked.
"YOU LOST HER!" Lisa and Allen screamed at him.
"NO I DIDN'T! SHE WAS GONE WHEN I WOKE UP!" Kanda yelled back at them. Miranda and Krory came walking up; Miranda had something clutched in her hands.
"Everyone…." Miranda said. Lenalee came walking up to the group of six.
"Hey what's wrong?"" Lenalee asked.
"ANNA'S GONE!" Lisa said. Kanda looked at Miranda and something caught his eye.
"Miranda give me that!" Kanda snatched the black and silver ribbon from the German women.
"That's Anna's favorite ribbon!" Lisa said looking at it.
"Where did you find it!" Kanda demanded to know.
"It was on the ground next to where the boats come in!" Miranda said.
"WHAT!" Kanda and Allen yelled.
"Does that mean she's left us….?" Lisa muttered.
"Anna Walker has indeed left the Black Order." Komui said walking up to the group. "Rouvelier just called and said he had her in custody, apparently she went willingly."
"WHAT!" Kanda, Lisa, and Allen said.
"How did Rouvelier find her!" Allen begged to know.
"Apparently they have been tailing her since a Noah by the name of Road Kamelot appeared in their office and told them that she is the Fifteenth Noah." Komui stated easily. "Well there's nothing we can do about the matter now! She's not even in London anymore, they left awhile ago to go to their top security Headquarters in Russia."
"Nii-San can we get her back!" Lenalee asked.
"Lenalee I'm sorry, I tried everything to stop them, but it's a direct order from the Vatican…." Komui lied.
"Don't lie to my face Komui!" Kanda hissed out, Mugen was unsheathed and now pointed at Komui's throat. "You haven't tried you're hardest and we all know it! When Moyashi was about to be put on trial you never stopped and here you are stopping without giving it a chance! I'm going to get her!"
"Kanda I'm sorry but you have a mission with Allen in South America that starts tomorrow. Lavi you and Lisa have a mission in Africa that needs to be done. Come to my office later for the details!" Komui said walking back to his office.
"What the fuck! Komui isn't even going to try and help her!" Lisa said.
"And he's keeping us busy by sending us on missions far away from Russia so we can't go and rescue her! Something doesn't seem right…." Lavi muttered.
"Of course it doesn't seem right!" Kanda said pissed.
"Well….there's nothing we can do about it if they've gone to Russia and we are being sent on missions…." Allen said. "I'm going to talk with Komui about our mission Kanda…."
"What the hell Moyashi! You sound like you've given up!" Kanda said grabbing the teens shoulder.
"Because if we did go after her it could be considered treason and we'd get sentenced to death! And that would not help her!" Allen yelled at Kanda, everyone was silent.
"You're right….let's got talk with Komui then…." Kanda whispered. He followed Allen to Komui's office.
"This isn't right! We should be trying to help Anna!" Lisa said,
"Lis, there is nothing we can do right now….come on we also have a mission that we need to go and discuss with Komui…." Lavi said hugging the girl tightly before also going to Komui's office, Lisa's hand next to him.
Months passed, and Kanda, Allen, Lisa, and Lavi were kept busy the entire time, they did mission after mission after mission for months and all in the southern hemisphere. Lavi and Allen gave up hope on ever getting the chance to find Anna first, and Lisa although reluctantly, gave up a few months after them. It wasn't until three torturous years later, that Kanda finally gave up and lost all hope of ever seeing his precious Anna. So Kanda just continued to do his missions one by one, no longer caring about anything. He would do the mission quickly and perfectly and then come back and rest for a few days and then head out on another one. Rarely did he ever interact with anyone, not that anyone wanted to talk to a living corpse.
When the fourth year passed, they were celebrating Lisa's eighteenth birthday party, Lavi had decided to 'pop' the question, seeing as he and Lisa had been having a very good relationship the past four years. Allen was hanging out with Lenalee and thinking of asking her to marry him as well. The only person who wasn't anywhere to be seen was Kanda. Kanda hadn't been able to stand watching Lavi propose to the love of his life, Anna's birthday which had only been a few days before was not something he had celebrated. Had she been there, he might have asked her to marry him as well, but by her having been gone four years had ruined any chances for him. It wasn't until another month later that Allen DID propose to Lenalee, having of course asked for Komui's permission of course. The Noah's, Akuma, Earl, the Vatican, and even the Fourteenth Noah hadn't been causing any problems, some that were overly optimistic thought that the Earl had died, but Komui told them that that was not the case. Komui told them that the Vatican had a new organization that was dealing with the war now, so the Order was put on hold and were a back up plan, so many Exorcists were aloud to visit family and friends now. The scientist's actually got to go home for a month or so to visit their family. The only people who permanently stayed on the Order's grounds were Allen, Lenalee, Komui, Lavi, Bookman, Lisa, and Kanda. So it was on this day of December in the Order, the night before Christmas that things changed.
"Nii-San I've brought you your coffee!" Lenalee said walking into her brother's office. She stopped and dropped the tray upon an all too familiar face.
"Hello Miss. Lee….Oh excuse me its Ms. Walker now isn't it?" Rouvelier said drinking some tea.
"Rouvelier…." Lenalee said bending down to clean up the mess she had made.
"Now back to our discussion Komui….will you allow it?" Rouvelier asked.
"Yes I guess, you would have made it happen anyway…." Komui said looking at his clean (YES ACTUALLY CLEAN!) desk which only had two papers on it.
"In that case I will need my papers back, I will be back here tomorrow to start our plan." Rouvelier stood up and took the papers from Komui's desk, he left afterwards.
"Nii-San what was that all about!" Lenalee asked.
"You'll find out tomorrow when I tell everyone that's here in the morning, now if you will excuse me. I have preparations to make!" Komui said.
"Okay…." Lenalee said, she left the room and wandered back to the kitchen where her husband was currently eating his dinner with Lavi and his wife and Kanda was also there being as antisocial as ever. "Nii-San really has matured in these past four years!" Lenalee said sitting next to Allen.
"Yeah your right! His office is clean and he's actually serious about his work now!" Lavi said smiling.
"Rouvelier was just here…." Lenalee said, all movement stopped and everyone glanced at Kanda. The samurai had taken to yelling at anyone that mentioned that man.
"Stop giving me those looks! I don't give a shit about that bastard!" Kanda hissed out.
"Why was he here?" Lisa asked breaking the silence.
"He was talking to Nii-San about some kind of plan….it was something that involves Noah's and Exorcists….that's all I could see from the paper when he passed me." Lenalee said calmly.
"That doesn't sound like something good…." Allen muttered.
"No it doesn't, but nevertheless….Nii-San is going to be calling those of us here to his office in the morning to discuss whatever the plan is." Lenalee said. "So we'll find out what's going on then."
"Good, I hate being left in the dark!" Lavi said,
"So that means you didn't know anything about this either?" Lisa said.
"Yeah, but I'm sure Panda knows something!" Lavi smirked.
"Stupid apprentice, you should have more respect for your elders!" Bookman said walking up to the group. "And I know nothing of what's going on. So we will all be learning about it in the morning!"
"Well….I'm going to bed….Lavi you coming with me?" Lisa said standing up. Lavi nodded and walked with his wife to their room. Allen and Lenalee soon followed and went to their own room. Kanda got up after several minutes of silence and went to leave the dinning hall.
"Kanda, you should stop living in the past. Anna will not be coming back here….and there is no way to save her if she isn't already dead. It would be better for you to move on in your life." Bookman said.
"Shut up geezer!" Kanda said before stalking off to his room. Once in the locked room, her let his hair down and set the black and silver ribbon down on the window sill before crawling into bed.
The next morning; Allen, Lenalee, Lisa, Lavi, Bookman, and even Kanda walked into the dinning hall at the same time, they all ate breakfast in silence and looked at each other before nodding and going to Komui's office.
"Nii-San we are coming in!" Lenalee said opening the door. Komui was sitting at his desk, the room was empty.
"Ahh Lenalee, come in you guys…." Komui gestured for them to sit. Lisa, Lenalee, and Bookman all sat down on the couch while Allen stood behind Lenalee, Lavi behind Lisa and Kanda stood off to the side.
"What's this all about Komui?" Allen asked.
"Well, I have something to share with you….The Vatican has been researching Noahs and Exorcists and finally came up with the perfect warrior a few years ago….and they want to add that warrior to the ranks of the Black Order. It seems they need us to finish this war for them." Komui started. The door opened and Rouvelier walked in.
"Komui I assume you are telling them?" He asked calmly.
"I just finished giving them a brief explanation." Komui said.
"Good, after many years of research, we have found the perfect fighter to kill the Earl!" Rouvelier said.
"Impossible, Allen Walker is destined to destroy the Earl!" Lenalee said.
"Wrong Ms. Walker, he was destined to defeat the Earl, but we have created someone stronger and just better then Mr. Walker here…." Rouvelier said with a smirk. "Come in now!" He barked at the shut door. The door opened and a slim figure walked gracefully into the room. The figure had short brown hair with black streaks, one eye was gold and the other was blue green. The figure stopped behind Rouvelier and stared at the ground.
"Rouvelier this is….?" Komui asked. Kanda looked at the figure and his eyes went wide with disbelief.
"I shouldn't need to tell you who this is!" Rouvelier smirked.
"Anna….!" Kanda asked softly. The girl looked at everyone calmly, and finally stopped at Kanda. Recognition suddenly appeared in everyone else's eyes, this was indeed their old friend and comrade Anna.
Shiki: Here you guys go!
Rima: Did you like it?
Shiki: You honestly didn't think that I would just kill Anna off did you?
Rima: We couldn't just let Kanda suffer as everyone else got the love of their lives, so we decided to not kill her!
Shiki: Believe me I wanted to! But then I thought about Kanda….all alone….so that was chapter nine! Hoped you enjoy it and we'll work on getting the next chapter out soon!