A/N : Told you I would update! :)) hahaha. Despite me having a quiz tomorrow and all I still managed to finish chapter 5 :D
Well.. actually I felt like finishing it, before the idea escaped me again ;w;

So... first. I want to apologize for not updating in over a year ;-;. Really. I am so very very very very very (times infinity) very sorry :( To make it up to those still following this story, I promise (yes I intend to keep it) to upload Chapter 6 sometime around this week or next week. If it becomes any later than that then please nag me in the reviews till I finish writing the next chapter ;w;

Anywayyy, hope you enjoy :D

Disclaimer : DGM. Not mine. Okay. ;w;

Chapter 5 : Emotions Reflected by Ruby Red

A girl with blonde hair slowly started to walk towards them. Her eyes were closed disabling them from seeing her eye color. Just as the Rein had described, she had a cross symbol along her neck.

She ceased her singing as soon as she was a few feet away from the two exorcists. "Finally. I have been waiting for someone like you to show up." The girl softly said as she slowly opened her eyes revealing them to be of a ruby red color, much different from what Kanda has been told.

"Who are you? Are you the one causing the extreme change in the weather patterns?" Rein hastily asked keeping herself in a defensive position. She facial feature were cold and harsh and her eyes kept on glaring as if to tell the person it was directed to that she wasn't afraid.

"Please relax. I'm not here to harm you. I need your help…"

Amber meets ruby.

… Not exactly what the maroon-haired exorcist expected to see. She expected was a pair of dangerous bloody red eyes. The ones where only one look would send shivers down your spine, in a bad way. But that wasn't what she saw. What was staring at her were soft pleading rubies. The expression held in them triggered something inside her. A memory that she had locked away itched to resurface.

No. Now's not the time.

Rein's face soon softens sensing the honesty through those bright rubies. She eased of her defensive position and gave out a resigned sigh. "What is it you need from us?"

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Kanda now found himself sitting on a makeshift sofa made out of leaves and logs inside a rather warm cabin with two girls one of which was sitting next to him and the other opposite to them.

A few seconds of silence passed before someone finally broke it off.

"I want you to… take this curse away from me." It was the blonde that spoke.

He quietly observed her as she fiddled with the hem of her ragged and rather thin clothes. He noted how untamed the blonde's hair was, how pale she looked in contrast to the other people he has seen, how she small her frame looked, and how it looked like she was badly beaten up.

While Kanda himself wasn't surprised by what the blonde had requested them to do, his companion had an entirely different reaction.

She was surprised to say the least. Rein's mouth was open, it seemed that she was ready to say something but what the other girl had said stopped him.

Probably was going to persuade her to come with us, he thought as he moved his eyes back towards their other companion.

The blonde was now biting her lower lip while keeping her eyes on her fingers. A nervous wreck, that's what she was right now.

Silence.

It was eerie, not that he minded, but it was obvious to him that the petite girl in front of them didn't like it one bit, so he spoke the first logical thing that came to mind.

"Why?"

Rubies shot up and stared at the boy who spoke obviously started at what he just asked. She opened her mouth to speak but closed it soon after. As she did, she looked down to the ground. Her fingers had now stopped fiddling the hem of her clothes and were now sat properly on her lap. She took a deep breath and fixated her ruby red eyes now filled with emotions back onto Kanda.

He saw it. Sadness, grief, anger, frustration, and most of all… Loneliness, an emotion he often saw when he stared at a mirror and looked at his own eyes. But he knew that he saw it somewhere else and a pair of purple eyes suddenly came to mind. Lenalee.

His thoughts were broken off before he could delve deeper into them when the blonde finally spoke.

"I want to be normal, to have friends, to live in the town with the others once more. I don't want to kill someone again…"

The last part of her sentence was strained and he could tell that she was having a hard time trying to continue. Kanda wanted to stop her from speaking and was about to do so before he was stopped by a certain maroon.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

In all honesty Rein was surprised when the blonde had first voiced out her request. It was something else that she didn't expect. She thought that she would ask that they leave her alone. In fact she was already ready to protest the moment the blonde said those words. But they never came.

She reeled back from her near protest before she could utter a word. Not knowing what to do, she merely watched at the blonde's acts of nervousness. The silence that followed the blonde's words were deafening. Rein liked the silence but she couldn't take this one anymore so she opened her mouth to speak but was beaten to it as she heard someone else break the ice.

Rein closed her mouth and from the corner of her eyes she peered at a certain blue-haired boy sitting beside her. It was his voice. She was sure of it. It was just that she had not expected him to speak.

Three times in a row she expected something and three times in a row what happened was very much not to her expectations. She was starting to doubt her judgments now, but she pushed the thought away for a while. It was no use having a debate with one's self given the current situation. So instead she listened closely to what the blonde was about to say.

She watched as she looked at Kanda with sadness in her ruby red eyes. Wait. That wasn't sadness she saw, it was something else. Loneliness.

When she began to speak, Rein listened intently. She was curious as to see why she saw loneliness in those beautiful ruby reds.

Then the blonde paused. She was on the verge of tears, Rein knew this, but what she said only made her more curious.

A few seconds after the blonde paused in what she was saying, Rein felt something shift beside her. It was Kanda. She looked at him and saw sympathy in what she first saw as cold black eyes. It was as if the girl in front of them reminded him of something, or perhaps someone. Rein felt the same though. The sight in front of them, a girl near tears recalling her experiences, it somehow reminded her of... her.

Kanda's mouth was about to open and Reid knew what he was about to say.

I can't let him stop her.

Rein clutched Kanda's hand beside her, tightly. Noticing that she had caught his attention, she gave him a look, silently telling him to stop what he was about to do, what he was about to say.

And he complied. He gave her a look and nodded in understanding before turning back to the blonde who was now gripping at the hem of her clothes in frustration. Rein bit her lip at the sight and let go of the hand she was gripping. It seemed to her that the blonde was slowly losing herself to a sea of thoughts. If they wanted to hear anything more out of her then they would have to make her remember about their presence.

Knowing this, Rein spoke for the first time since they got in the cabin, "Please continue."

Those two words were all that was needed to drag the blonde back from her little unpleasant walk down memory lane.

Ruby met amber and amber met ruby yet again.

At first, she had a faraway look in her eyes. They looked glazed, but that soon wore off when they met amber. In a matter of seconds her eyes showed determination. Rein liked that and couldn't help but feel a smile form inside of her.

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"My name is Victoire, half-French. I used to have an older half-sister named Lilia." A pair of rubies started to soften as memories rushed into the speaker's head. Happy memories it seemed, after all, she was smiling.

All of a sudden her smile disappeared and was slowly replaced by a frown. Again she began clutching at her clothes venting out her frustration. "Then one day I killed her."

A pause.

Kanda didn't like where the story was going but he had expected that it would be like that. The pain of killing someone dear to you, whether it was by accident or intentional was bound to bring pain.

Pain. Kill. Friend.

The words lingered in his head as if trying to tell him something… Must be my imagination, he told himself as he shrugged it off and focused on the girl, who they know knew to be Victoire, continued her story.

"Lilia always told me to sing, sing a happy tune because it suited my voice the most."

A smile.

"But the others always hated me for it."

A scowl.

"Ever since I was born there had always been a cross mark on my neck."

She eased one of her hands off from her clothes and moved it so that it hovered just below the cross on her neck.

"My mother died upon my birth. I couldn't ask her if the cross was a birthmark that ran in the family. So it bothered me, I didn't know what it was and until now I still don't but I believe that it has something to do with this curse I have."

Victoire placed the hand back down to rest on her lap and almost immediately it started to clutch at the hem of her clothing all over again.

"Every time I sang the weather would change depending on what tune I sang in. I mostly sang happy tunes, because my sister recommended them, and brought nothing but beautiful weather."

Her hands tightened the grip on her clothing.

"Then one day, the cat I often visited died. He died because he was bullied by bullies and thrown around. When I found out I became sad and angry… and had accidentally manifested this into a tune."

A pause.

"That was when she died"

A tear finally fell from one of her eyes. It was only a matter of time before she broke and Kanda had known this. Right now she was slowly cracking but refused to give in which somehow made his respect for her grow… only by a bit.

"My sad and angry tune caused a riot in the weather and before I knew it I had caused a snow storm to hit the town. I was sitting in my room that time oblivious to what was happening outside till the roof of our house was blown, but that still didn't stop my signing. What made me stop was Lilia. When I heard her panicked voice the extreme weather calmed down and…"

Another tear fell, this time from the other eye.

"… and our roof that was lifted and crushed by the wind came down."

Her tears came like waterfalls as they cascaded down her face. Ruby red eyes shut tight as the tears kept on coming. Her story wasn't over. Just a few more words, she could handle it.

"It fell on her. A steel rod impaled her and I saw red. Knowing what happened to Lilia I ran. I ran out here. I passed by many injured people, all caused by me. I don't want that to happen again."

She sniffled and began to wipe the tears off her face.

Ruby eyes darted towards the direction where Kanda and Rein sat. Determination was all her eyes showed them.

"Please" she began. Needy.

"Please help me get rid of this curse" she finished in a tone that was even needier. It was like if one were to refuse her request, she would die.

Right now Victoire looked very fragile to Kanda's eyes. He wanted to move and comfort her, but he really wasn't the type to comfort anyone, except maybe for a certain blue-green-haired girl.

The corner of his eye saw a blur of maroon move and before he knew it Rein had already swept Victoire up in an embrace.

"It's not a curse, it's just in its raw form. We'll teach you how to use your gift properly. Come with us." She whispered into Victoire's ear before letting her go and holding out a hand to her.

It was obvious that Victoire was reluctant at the offer before her. She was skeptical after all, who wouldn't be when a person you just met had practically told you that what you thought was a curse was actually a blessing.

Then he heard something. It wasn't them. It came from the outside. Kanda knew what was coming even if he didn't see it.

"I sense something. Something bad." He then looked at Rein who seemed oblivious to her surroundings. Rein just stood there, in front of Victoire, still extending out her hand to her. But Victoire heard him. She heard him say that there was something bad and worry and fear immediately struck her.

Seeing the blonde's reaction, Kanda knew that she had encountered their enemies once or maybe even more than once. It then occurred to him. How she looked like she was beaten up, it was probably from running away from these… monsters.

He looked at Rein who looked like she hadn't moved an inch.

"We should get her somewhere safe."

She ignored what he said. She looked like she was too lost in her thoughts.

"We need to get her to safety! There isn't much time!"

And he was right. The moment he uttered the words something bad happened.