Yuuki slowing opens her green eyes and sits up. Rubbing her head and noticing, it's the outside of Asian Branch, but a lot different.

Turning her head, to see the same brown haired girl curl up beside black haired male with a black trench coat covering her body.

"Alice~" He whispers, to only make the girl groan. "Let me sleep." She grunts, and turns to the other side, but kept a firm grip on his hand.

"I will after I tell you my proposal." He said, making the brown haired girl sit up and ignoring her hair that was a mess. The side of her head, Alice's brown hair was spiking up.

"I am listening. What is it?" She asks him softly and turning around to face him.

The black haired male lifts her hand and stares at her blue eyes. "Come with me. Alice."

Her eyes widen in surprise, "W-what? W-what do you m-mean?" She stutters.

"Come with me. Leave the order behind. I know. You have mixed feelings, but you did state the Order wasn't your home. Since you found out one of their darkest secrets. You could probably be killed by knowing the information you just found out." He says, making Alice look at him, nervously.

"Let me think about it." She mutters nervously.

"I am not going to force you. Okay. I am just worried." He whispers, looking down at the grass before Alice jumps on him unexpectedly and falling to the grass.

The black haired male stares at the brown haired girl in shock as her long strands of brown hair were around his face.

"I am a big girl. You don't need to worry about me. I made a promise to you, didn't I? I will always come back to you." She softly said, putting her hand on top of his cheek as he leans into her hand, and put his hand on her wrist.

"Yeah, but it doesn't stop me from worrying." He replies.

In reality, Yuuki waking up from the memory. She blinks a couple times adjusting to the light of the room. Sitting up, and was feeling cold. She looks down to see a white button up shirt to be confused until it hit her mind.

'Its Allen's!'

"EEEEHHHHHHHH!" She shrieks in surprise and embarrassment. She notices there is a uniform on the end of her bed.

Crawling out of the covers, and stands up. Looking down to see she was wearing her pajama shorts. 'I hope no boys dress me up from my ripped clothes.'

Yuuki touches the material of the uniform that was placed on the bed. Memorizing this was the same uniform she passed by in harbor walk.

"This must be some type of joke." She says before a knock was heard from behind her.

Turning her head to see Allen with Wong, who was holding a tray what it seems to have tea in it.

"Can someone explain to me? Why there is unifor-" She was interrupted when Allen pulled her into a hug unexpectedly. Her green eyes widen in surprise, meanwhile, Wong left the tray on the table, before leaving.

Giving them some alone time. Yuuki finally wrapped her arms around his neck, while stepping on his shoes and tiptoeing to reach his height.

"Why?" Allen whispers and tightens his hug. "Would you risk your life for mines?" He was trembling. She was quiet, trying to find the right words to say, before speaking.

"Aren't I supposed to protect the ones I love dearly?" She said, pulling back a little, and give him a smile.

A blush came up into his cheeks, making him cover his face with his hand. Yuuki laughs at his reaction. "Cute." She says in her English accent. Making Allen to blush uncontrollably.

She smiles, before hugging him once again. "I am glad, you are okay. Allen." She mutters.

"Have I mention that you are getting shorter," Allen says, in a joking manner.

"I am just one inch shorter than you. You are just too tall." Yuuki laughs as she playfully hits his chest.

Bak walks in their little moment, seeing how they weren't worried about anything.

"Walker, Yuuki." He calls them out, snapping them out of their bubble. Separating from each other.

Yuuki remembers the question, which she wanted to ask. "Is this kind of joke? I am not from any branches. So why the uniform?" She lifts the uniform from the bed in question.

"Well, your luggage was destroyed, almost everything of yours was in shreds right now," Bak replied, gaining Yuuki deadpanned.

'Stupid Akuma.' She thought to herself.

"Thankfully Wong found uniform, you can use. Since your clothes were destroyed. Along with that when we were treating your injuries. We notice one of your red bracelets had a crack in it, I remove them, so give it to you when you are awake." Bak explains while holding out her red bracelets.

Yuuki reaches for her red bracelets, glance down at the crack, before tracing over the crack.

"It's funny, how they last over 5 years, not having a single crack? Until now." Yuuki says, before looking up.

"I will wear the uniform. Now excuse me. I need to take a shower and eat," She excuses herself before leaving the room, but heard Bak said to Allen.

"You were really worried about her. Do you l-"

"Shut up Bak-sama."

Making Yuuki smiled before walking down the hall.

~~❀~~

Yuuki is having her hair tied up into a ponytail. Her bangs framing her face, as the exorcist uniform was holding her curves. She cut off a bit of the sleeve since it was long on her. Despite the uniform was made for a male body structure, then females, but she is good. Since her chest isn't fully developed and close to gone, despite that she is turning 17 soon.

Leaning back on the wall of For, waiting to meet Allen at the same time say goodbye to For.

"Take care of Walker. Yuuki."

"I know." She smiles, before For talks once again. "But, Yuuki....You must be extremely careful, not losing control again, alright."

Yuuki raises an eyebrow, pushes herself off the wall, and standing in front of the wall.

"What are you talking ab-" She was interrupted when she hears footsteps behind her.

Turning her head to see to Allen. A light blush seems to appear his cheeks, before faking a cough. "How is it going, For?"

"I am doing okay." For answers Allen's question, before he replies with, "Is that so, I'm happy."

"So you are going to return. I guess we were out of time.

You are a strange exorcist."

Yuuki smiles and shakes her head. "That's harsh, why would you call me strange?"

The red haired girl chuckles with For, "Baka...because of Walker, you love Humans and Akuma that's why." Making Allen laugh, as Yuuki tagged along with him.

"I am going to sleep, I am tired. You two better come see me again, or else." For says, making the two teenager smile, before Allen lifted his hand making thumbs up to her wall.

"We are going to be heading out."

~~❀~~

Yuuki walks beside Allen when approaching Bak Chan.

"Have you finished saying your goodbyes?" Bak asked.

"Hai. I am ready to go." Allen replies as Yuuki was looking at the ark with her head tilted to the side.

She stares at the purple butterfly flying above the ark. Clearly remembering how Allen reacted when seeing that same butterfly. She could feel the nervous from Allen back then.

"Every beautiful thing in the world has their own dark secrets." The young Yuuki looks up when she heard her father, Cross Marian murmurs under his breath.

She looked at him strangely, making Cross sighs in defeat. "It's a saying that your mother would always say."

"Oh." Yuuki looks down sadly and stopping kicking her legs up and down.

Yuuki had never got the chance of meeting her mother since her mother died from sickness before she turns 1. She only had some photographs that she would ask from her father. She always had the desire to see or even talk to her mother in person just once, but she knows that will never happen.

Cross Marian deadpanned seeing her cheerful self, all of sudden becoming quiet. That's so unusual for her. He is still not used to taking care of a child, without the old woman who lives in a church in a small town. She was the one who usually helps and give some advice on taking care of Yuuki since she was 1 year old. Despite that Cross had been with Yuuki over many years.

Cross looks over his bag, before going to open and starting looking for something. Yuuki being a curious child looks over his shoulder. Cross looks over quickly, making Yuuki jump in surprise. "Here, Kid. Stop acting weird." Holding a brown bag in front of her.

She grabs the bag and putting it on her lap. Opening it to see two red bracelets and a black box, causing her green eyes widened. Cross looks out of the window. "They used to be your mother's, but she wanted to hand them over to you."

Her hands were tracing over the designs inside the bracelet, and seeing the cursive writing. "Gurdan."

"It says Guardian in cursive, at least you tried to read it yourself." Cross corrects her, making her raise an eyebrow confused.

She wanted to ask more information, but just shrugged.

Yuuki traces over the crack on the red bracelet, before following Allen, until they heard Rohfa shouting. "Wait! Walker-san, Yuuki-san!"

Allen and Yuuki turn around to see bending over catching their breath.

"Rohfa? Why are you so out of breath?" Allen question, before Rohfa holds a deck of cards along with a necklace. "Here, Walker-san your trump cards and Yuuki-san your necklace you were looking for."

"The spade card was missing, so we collected ink and made a new one." Rohfa said, as Allen grabs his deck of cards, and saying, "Thank you."

"We knew that you, Yuuki-san were pretty upset when you couldn't find your necklace. We decide to look for it and found it in the science lab. We don't know why it was there in the first place, but we clean it all up for you." Yuuki smiles and took the necklace from her palm, before pulling her into a hug.

"Thank you so much." She pulls away and steps over to the boys, before standing on her tiptoes and brings both of them into a quick hug and peck on their cheeks. Pulling away and grins, "Thank you."

She walks over to Allen's side again. "Take Care!" Rohfa said in spirit, as Rikie says, "See you soon, Walker! Yuuki!"

Allen and Yuuki started walking up the stairs and stands in front of the ark. Unconsciously, Yuuki grabs Allen's hand, as Allen grip her hand gently in return.

Stepping a foot in and was about to go in completely, until Bak shouted. "Walker! Yuuki! Make Sure To Come Back Safely!"

When they entered the portal, it was complete darkness. As soon, Yuuki opens her eyes, realizing they are in sort of town. "Eh?" Allen and Yuuki said.

"Nothing, it's just different from what I expected," Allen said, making her look at him funny, but realizes he has those radio transmitters.

Yuuki looks around, as Allen talks to the radio transmitter. They started to walk in the town, without Yuuki acknowledges that she is holding his hand.

Published: 10/03/16