When Love Wins From Hatred

Chapter Two

Allen: "Wait, why do I have to be injected with poison? That's really mean you know!"

Me: "Well, that's because..." *can't think of a good excuse and get's really frustrated* "I'm sorry okay! You know how hard you two are being brought together?! There's no other way than making you suffer."

Allen: 'But why me? Just had used Ba-Kanda instead. By the way, stop trying. You won't bring us together. I hate him and he hates me. Forever."

Me: *creepy grin* "We'll see about that Allen.. We'll just see about that."

Allen: "Eeeek, scary..."

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Allen took a few seconds to catch his breath before he remembered the words of the Akuma. He let his eyes travel over his right arm and noticed the little needle in it. "kuso..." He cursed. "I guess we really have to go to the order fast. They'll probably have something to cure this before it gets worse."

He scanned the area for a last time, but it really seemed to be Akuma-free now.

The muffled sound of Kanda rustling trough the bushes caught his attention. "Did you get it?"

But the even grumpier face than usual of the other exorcist already told him enough before he even spoke: "It got away. I defeated the Akuma, but as soon as it was free the innocence fled. I didn't even have the time to go after it, it was just too fast."

Allen sighed in desperation. Not only was he forced now to spend even more time with stupid Kanda, he was also worried about his arm. The akuma had been talking about poison, how long would it take to take effect? He had hoped to be home before dinner too, he could forget that for sure.

"Well, let's go search for it then." Allen said grumpily and made his way through the undergrowth to the place Kanda had appeared from. "It leaves a lot of footprints, we should be able to track it down."

"It didn't when it fled. It just got sucked in by a tree."

Allen froze. "It got what?"

"It probably reacts with the plants in the forest." Kanda said while he also started to walk in the direction he came from. "The wolf is probably just a coincidental form."

Allen gritted his teeth in frustration. Great, now they didn't only have to spend more time on chasing it, but they didn't even know anymore where to look either. How could they find something that fused with plants in a FOREST?!

They didn't speak for the next hour, which was a relief to Allen. At least Kanda couldn't make him mad when he didn't open his mouth. Although looking at him could already give him reason enough to want to kill him, it wasn't really hard then to restrain himself from doing that if he only looked.

However, the longer they walked, the more Allen began to get the feeling he was weakening. His legs felt heavy and his lungs began to hurt while breathing. To his frustration he noticed he was falling behind Kanda, who was already walking five meters in front of him.

He wouldn't tell Kanda what had happened, he knew for sure it would give him a good reason again to make hateful comments, but he didn't see another option than to say at least something, no matter how reluctant he was to. "Oi, Kanda, take it easy okay? It's not like those few minutes you win from walking so fast will make an actual difference."

Kanda turned around. "Tssk. Just hurry up, Moyashi, I'm not going to wait for you."

"I'm telling you that you're walking too fast!" Allen snapped back, not feeling well at all. He could feel the sweat running down his back, wetting his coat from the inside.