"That's it!" Kesenai thought, his eyes widening. "This'll be risky… But it looks like I may have to use this… Though it isn't too strong, it might actually hold back this attack, long enough for me to make a run for it." he thought, a dark yellow glow coming from his arm. Out of nowhere, a dark yellow Barrier appeared, stopping the ball of Dark Matter. Quickly, Kesenai made a run for it. After he made a run for it, the ball of Dark Matter had exploded, taking the barrier with it. Kesenai thought: "Now I can't bring that back up for a good 10 minutes... Damnit... That'll mean that I could get killed by stronger attacks now..." Then, he began to charge Nina, holding his sword in his right hand, ready to kill her with his Innocence energy wrapping around his sword in a threatening manner.

Nina giggled "Yay, you're coming back to me."

"Back to you… TO KILL YOU!" he yelled stabbing her on the chest with his sword. She gasped and coughed blood.

"Mmm… I feel good…" she said seductively.

"Grr, what the hell?!" he said, jumping backward, pulling his sword back out of her.

She sighed "I think I'm in love…"

Kesenai twitched "Great… A fan girl…" He shook it off and used the green circle again, disappearing and then reappearing back from where he started.

She tilted her head to the side "What did you just do? You only appeared and disappeared…"

"Just like your friend…" he twitched his sword slightly. Next thing she knew, blood flew out from her stomach, back, throat, and forehead. "… And yet… Another Noah bites the dust…" he said, turning his back to his opponent, beginning to walk away.

"Oh! So good!" she moaned in a seducing tone.

Kesenai twitched "What the hell is she? A masochist?" he thought. Kesenai then felt claws, slicing past his left arm, back, and right leg's thigh. "Son of a bitch…" he thought, falling to his right leg's knee. "So that's her power… The ability to copy what she sees… I think she can modify it to her levels of original strength because this seems to hurt deeply…" he thought, panting.

"Sorry my dear, I needed you to stop moving so much." Nina said, walking over to him. "Now then, I'm gonna have my way with you…" she said seductively.

"Screw you… I'm going to kill you… Right here… Right now…" he said, struggling with trying to stand upright.

"How are you going to do that? You know you love me." she licked her lips, continuing walking to him. The glowing on his right arm began to fade heavily, the circles going away as well until the point that it seemed to have glowed very faintly.

"With this…" his sword's blade began to glow fully white, bits of energy leaking from it.

"What a beautiful glow. The perfect lighting for me to watch you as you die." she laughed.

His right arm's light green circle began to glow (Faintly of course) "Get ready…"

"For what?"

"For this!" he disappeared and reappeared in front of her. He made the movement to stab her. She smirked and Dark Matter gathered onto her version of the Crown Clown's claws, moving in to stabbing him with them. His sword stabbed through her heart, meanwhile her Crown Claw's index and middle fingers stabbing through where his intestines were, and her thumb, pinky, and ring fingers stabbing through where his lungs should've been. Kesenai coughed up major amounts of blood, falling back, the claws now moving away from his falling body. The bright, white light that was on Kesenai's sword faded away completely. The black flames on his left arm died away, meaning he was on the brink of death.

"This is goodbye…" she said, coughing blood. "It appears to be the same for me…" she looked at the Akuma Factory, walking over to it. When she arrived to it, she tapped it, the Akuma Factory being absorbed into another Noah's Ark, her falling into the Ark with the Akuma Factory. Kesenai's dying body was left there, left to just die…

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Kanda, and Allen witnessed as James slammed both spheres of heavily concentrated Dark Matter into Mike. Both spheres completely expanded, wrapping him in Dark Matter. Then, the Dark Matter hemisphere that was around Mike began to disappear as if it were being absorbed. "I guess you idiots never figured out my powers…" his voice echoed from the darkness of the Dark Matter hemisphere. "My powers are the ability to manipulate Dark Matter to my own will, as well as absorb it. Any attack that does not involve Innocence will be weakened the more it hits me. Also, my body will heal from any wound left on me, except for the ones that are caused by Innocence." he explained.

"Why the hell are you telling us this?" Kanda asked.

"I don't know and I don't care!!" James yelled, trying to pierce Mike's skin using his Dark Scythe. Sadly, not one hit made a scratch, nor a small cut. It seemed like the scythe was dull. "DAMN YOU!!" he yelled, blasting more spheres of Dark Matter at him. Mike looked to see that the Akuma Factory was being taken away.

"Looks like she did her job… Now I can make my leave." he thought, running towards the Akuma Factory. He jumped into the Noah's Ark, disappearing into it with the last bit of the Akuma Factory.

"Get back here coward!! OUR FIGHT IS NOT OVER!!" James yelled, jumping towards the Noah's Ark. But instead of jumping into the Ark, he hit the solid floor because it disappeared at the last second. "Lucky bastard saved himself…" he growled, getting up.

"Disappear…" 'Emotionless' said from inside James' mind.

"Screw you!" 'Burn' said from the inside as well.

"No. The fight is over, there's no reason for you to be out now." 'Emotionless' replied.

"Grr, fine! Have it your way, bitch." 'Burn' said, relinquishing control over James' body back to 'Emotionless'.

"Wait, where did Kesenai go to?" James looked around and jumped back from where he was standing, to where he originally stood. He looked around to see Kesenai's bleeding, dying body. Quickly, he ran to him. "Damnit! Who the hell let him fight on his own?!" he looked at the group of Exorcists.

"He chose to fight on his own free will…" Allen said, looking a bit hurt.

"He was a brave soldier, that idiot." Kanda replied. Lavi went over to Kesenai, checking for any vital pulses to see if he was alive. He felt faint heartbeats.

"Guys! He's still alive! He's barely here, but he's still a part of this world." Lavi announced.

"What are you idiots waiting for then?! Take him to the infirmary!" James yelled. Quickly, Allen, Lavi, and Crowley picked him up and ran off with him, taking him to the infirmary room. James' shadow split from him, turning into a circle yet again.

"What ate you doing?" Kanda asked suspiciously.

"I'm leaving…" he replied.

"Wow, and he calls you his 'best friend'?" Kanda responded.

"We are childhood best friends… We can't go back to how we were in the past… Tell him I said this… The next time he sees me… He must see me as an enemy… Not an ally anymore… I won't join the Earl, I have issues with him as well…" he answered, looking at the shadow.

"What? Why?" Lenalee walked up to him, asking him.

"I won't be an ally to the Exorcists either, I have my own self-righteous goals to accomplish… It's like I say… I won't side with the light… Nor will I side with the dark… I'll be that third shade in between light and darkness that will fight both sides when necessary… I've been too soft to Kesenai… It's about time he fully stands on his own and he best see me as the enemy as well, otherwise I'll rip his life away from your eyes…" James said coldly, being engulfed by his shadow, taking him to who knows where.

"I get the feeling he will be one of our toughest opponents…" Kanda said, beginning to walk away.

"Who was that? How does he know Kesenai?" Archie asked.

"It's a long story… I'll explain on the way to the infirmary room." Lenalee said, walking with Archie towards the infirmary room.

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Road was the first to have heard the news about Kesenai being in the infirmary, so she (Out of love of course) used her teleportation powers to be the first there, holding his hand, hoping he wasn't going to die. "You promised… You promised!" Road said, crying on Kesenai's left thigh.

"Don't worry… He's not dead… He's just unconscious…" Lenalee responded, holding Allen in her arms, crying.

"Then why are you crying too?" she asked, looking at Lenalee.

"I'm crying because we didn't do anything to have stopped this…" she answered, wiping her tears away.

"It's not much, he has slashes on a lot of his body parts, but he's lucky that more than half his body's organs were never there originally, otherwise he would've seriously been dead. He has wounds that run on his back, arm, and right thigh. He also has 5th degree burns on his left arm. Must've been one vicious flame if it burned that badly. Aside from that, he should be alright. He'll be back up in about a few days." the nurse reported to everyone. Lavi, Allen, Lenalee, Crowley, and Road smiled and sighed in relief, now knowing they could just relax and await his return to the battlefield.

"This is one of the many results of war… One soldier will eventually be the martyr for his people… But it seems that there's two people who could turn out to be the martyr… Allen Walker… and Kesenai Tsumi… I wonder which one will be the one to take the fate of martyr… Not only that, the Heart hasn't been found yet. Kesenai's Innocence is extremely powerful, so he could be a likely candidate... But then again, there's also the fact that Lenalee's Innocence and Allen's Innocence protected the both of them out of pure, free will... This is strange... Looks like we'll know about who the Heart belongs to at the end of this war..." Lavi thought logically, deep in wonder. Lavi snapped out of it, and just returned his mind to the current situation. Lavi, Allen, Lenalee, and Crowley bowed at Kesenai's body and walked away, leaving himself and Road alone. She looked up at Kesenai's face, holding his hands in hers tightly, not wanting to let go.

She thought: "I'm glad… At least no one I truly care for has died…" she wiped away her tears. "I'm sleepy… I stayed up for too long… I think I'll sleep next to his bed… That way I don't leave his side…" she thought, sitting on the chair next to his bed, placing her head on his left leg. Slowly, she drifted to sleep, whispering "Good night… Kesenai… My love…" closing her eyes.

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(Note: This is in Kesenai's mind, his dream.)

"Mom! Dad!" a young boy tackled an adult woman and man. The woman was named Katharina, while the man was named Adam. Katharina was a German woman who had fallen deeply in love with Adam when they were 23. Adam was an American who loved Katharina with every bit of his heart, soul, and existence. At the age of 26, they got married and raised a child with pitch black hair, and pitch black eye pupils. They were traits that did not seem to belong to neither the mother nor the father. One night… Everything seemed to have changed… After that night… Everything the child knew and loved, was destroyed. Everyone he knew, turned their backs on him.

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Disclaimer: I do not own D.Gray-Man in anyway possible. This is the 31st (and counting) time that I have repeated this.

Author's Note: Well, that brought an end to the Invasion. Hope you found that satisfying.