I do not own K but the other character's are mine

Her eye's are closed as she breaths in the fresh cold air, her long hair billowed around her face in the wind. She sits and she thinks 'Red King' and she see's the figure of a woman with long white hair flowing behind her. Red King, and she rememberer's the one who taught her that this power they wield was not one of destruction, but one to protect. This power is all that their beloved Red King had left behind. Gone is the mark that declares them the Red Clan, for how can they be a Clan without a King.

Three years have past for Hana since her beloved King has died. There is not a day goes by that Anna is not on the minds of those she has left behind. Some have adapted well to life without their King, while other's like Hana and those closest to Anna have been unable to let go of the pain.

Growing her hair out had been the first step for Hana. With her Homra mark gone, she felt naked, like their was apart of her soul missing. Since she had been a young girl visiting the bar for the first time, she had known deep in her soul that Homra was where she belonged.

Flashback

Age 6

"Please! Please grandpa!" Hana pleaded to Yata, she didn't get to see her Grandpa often so Hana jumped at the chance to spend time with him and knowing that he was going to Homra made her that much more eager. She was 6 and half years old and had grown up hearing stories about the King, her Grandpa served.

Yata sighed and looked down at his little angel. "Well, if your Mom agree's? I don't see why not." She was gone before he had finished his sentence. He smirked when he heard her shout of joy and knew the answer before she had returned to the hall, where he waited with an out held hand. "Well, lets get going."

For Hana, Homra was the fairytale she had wished to be apart of for as long as she could remember. Now, finally she was here and she decided upon sight of the building that she would never grow tried of seeing the Name Homra stand out tall and proud above the entrance.

Her Grandpa holding the door open for her made her realise that Yes, this was happening and she would finally stand in the place she had dreamed of for so long. Laugher could be heard inside and as she took her first steps inside she was greeted to the sight men and children.

Her first thought was where was the Man her Grandpa called King? and would he allow her to join Homra?

"Hey Yata, whose this?" The man behind the bar asked with a kind smile. Hana suddenly felt shy under gaze of all the occupants.

Yata's hand on her shoulder gave her strength. "I'm Hana." She told, her voice coming out louder then she had intended making her turn pink in embarrassment.

"Well Hana, I'm Goro and welcome to Homra." Goro said saluting her like a solider.

"Wow." Hana was in awe, she rushed forward to climb up onto a stool and there standing out proudly on Goro's hand was the mark she one day hoped to receive. "Is it real? like Grandpa's?" She asked in wonderment.

"I can assure you, that everyone here!" He motioned to the people around them. "Each carry's this mark with pride, for this is our pledge to our King." Goro explains with a wink.

Hana smiles, her eye's wide in wonder before she feels a tug at her hair and looks around to see a boy a year or to older then herself.

"I'm Ban, do you want to come play with the rest of us?" He looks over his shoulder to the children who stand just a few feet behind them.

"Sure!" She grins, climbing off the stool and joining the other's in their games.

Sometime during their time playing Hana asked Ban the question she's been dying to know. "Which one is he?"

The boy in turn arched a brow in confusion. "Who?"

Hana huffed. "The King of course. Which one is he?" She asked again.

Ban's boyish laugher rang out before a creak on the stairs had the bar turning silent at once. At once all the adults were on there feet and bowing in the direction of the staircase.

Hana felt the moment the person took their first step down the stairs, raw power, that could take your breath away yet at the same time, it wrapped you in a protective embrace. Hana glanced at the clock to see it read 11:10, just who was getting up so late.

"Here's the King now." Ban whispered to her and Hana glanced at him to see a wide smile taking over his face as the person carried on down the stairs.

Hana had turned and watched in awe as the person reached the bottom of the stairs. The first thing she noticed was white hair that flowed like a veil to the floor, the second was the amount of red the person was wearing.

"Good morning Anna." The bar chorused at the arrival of their King.

"King!?" Hana whispered, yet the woman had heard her and turned ruby coloured eye's in Hana direction.

"I've been waiting for the day you would come." Anna said walking forward, her hand glowing a bright red. For a single second of time Hana knew what true fear was, but it lasted only a moment as her eye's connected once more with that of ruby coloured eye's. Reaching out Hana grasped the burning hand being offered to her.

The flames licked at her skin, moving closer and closer towards her face before it stopped at her neck, then there was a flash of white. "It didn't hurt?" She questioned looking at her hand still held by Anna.

"This power is not one of destruction, but one to protect." Anna said releasing the small girls hand and stepping back as the others gathered around the confused girl.

"Congratulation Hana, Your a member of Homra." Her Grandpa shouted hoisting her into the air. She couldn't hear anything the others were staying and her eye's stayed locked on one person and one person only. "King." She whispered.

Flashback End

"I had dreamed of spending forever along side you 'King', never once did it cross my mind that you would leave me." Hana whispered. There would never be anyone as strong as her king or as kind hearted. She had loved them and in return, they loved her just as much.

Anna had called them all family, and for those who had never had such a thing, it gave them a place where they belonged. Even with their King no longer there, the clansmen of Homra still gathered together at the bar. Some were undecided on whether they would follow the new red king, but one thing they all knew was that no matter what happened they would stay a family.

Flashback

Age 13

"Grandpa! Grandpa! Wake up Grandpa!" Hana said pushing against his shoulder over and over but, he stayed motionless. "Grandpa wake up!" She was starting to cry, tears slowly leaving trails along her rosy cheeks. "WAKE UP!". She shouted shaking him as hard as she could. "Wh-wh-why won't you wake up." Hana choked the words out.

"Hana?" Anna said from the doorway.

Turning Hana laid eye's upon her King along side Goro, who both stood in the doorway. "King, you got to help. He won't wake up." Hana cried rushing to hold her Kings waist. Goro slid down the doorway and began to cry.

Anna moved Hana from her side and went to where Yata lay, then sat down beside him taking his hand.

"Don't cry Goro, the King is going to make him wake up." Hana said patting Goro on the head.

"He's not gonna wake up Hana." Goro said, looking up at the small girl who held so much hope in her eye's.

Hana wiped at her eye's while shaking her head. "He will, he will, just you wait. King will wake him up."

"Hana." Anna's voice was gentle but held a tremble to it. "He's not going to wake up."

"Your wrong, your wrong! Wake him up King, wake him up." Hana cried, rushing to Anna and shaking her.

"He's gone Hana, he's gone." Anna told pulling the small girl into her embrace. She held the girl tight in her embrace as Hana fought to get away.

"He's not gone, he's not! Wake up Grandpa, Don't leave me." Hana cried brokenly, her hands trying to reach out and touch him, trying to find some why to wake him.

Anna could only hold onto Hana as she cried out.

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Days after Yata had passed Anna found Hana at his apartment destroying his things. "Hana?" She questioned, although she already knew the answer.

"He's gone." Hana said, holding a photo of herself with Yata. "He's left me all alone, now I have no one."

"And me?" Anna asked, to which Hana paused to look at her King.

Hana placed the photo back down and reached out a hand towards her King. It was then that Anna had a vision of the future, Hana holding out her hand, standing at the bottom of the stair in the Homra bar saying 'Don't go'.

Hana's hand encased some of the folds of Anna's dress as she pressed herself into the warmth of her King. "Don't leave me." Hana pleaded.

Anna rubbed her hand along Hana's short hair, she's cut in off the day after receiving her mark. "I have something to give you."

It was then that Hana noticed that her King was holding something. "That's..." Hana couldn't breath as she took a few steps back.

Anna held it out. "He wanted you to have it." She told, holding it so that the Homra mark stood out proudly looking at Hana. She thought of how Yata had given it to her to pass on to Hana.

XXX

Anna was seating on the couch looking though her marble when Yata came to sit beside her. "Are you leaving us?" She asked turning to look at him though the marble.

Yata smiled and it eased some of the pain in Anna's heart. "We all got to go sometime Anna, beside's the guys are waiting for me." Yata smiled, that devilish look in his eye's had gone no where in his old age. "I left something for Hana, something I want you to give her when I'm gone." Yata said, his voice taking on a more gentle tone when speaking of his beloved granddaughter.

"Of course." Anna said, taking the marble away.

Yata took her hand in his own. Both hands were old with age, but still held strength in their touch. "You'll look after her for me?"

"Always." Anna promised.

XXX

Hana reached forward hesitating, as she brush her hand along the underside of the skate board, over the mark she wore proudly on her skin. "He left this to me?" She asked in wonderment.

"His most treasured item, had to be left to the person he treasured most in his life." Anna confirmed, passing the skateboard into Hana's arms. "Take good care of it."

Nodding, Hana gripped the board tightly to her chest. "I'll treasure in always." Hana promised.

"Good." Anna said before turning to leave. "Being Homra's vanguard is a big responsibility."

Hana gasped, as it sunk in what her King was saying. "I won't let you or Grandpa down." Hana vowed, falling down onto one knee in a bow of respect.

Anna's shoes clicked as she walked away. "I know you won't." Anna said, to herself knowing that Hana wouldn't hear her.

Flashback end

"Sometime's I dream I've somehow gone back in time, we're all together again, Like it once was." Hana spoke while rubbing her hand along the Homra mark of the skateboard. "I hope I've done you proud King, you and Grandpa."

Reaching into her pocket she pulled out the picture from her birthday, the last photo she had of her King. Goro, would smack her silly if he knew she'd taken it from the bar. She smiled looking at Anna carefully, her ruby coloured eye's that glowed with silent strength, her long white hair that touched the floor and she wished she could feel the warmth from her Kings hand once more.

She reached up to brush some of her own long hair out of the way, the bracelets rattling as she moved. She grinned, her King had passed on to her one of her greatest treasures, along with a clan that she would always belong too.

The sound of laugher close by caught her attention, people were beginning to enter the park as the sun began to rise higher in the sky. It was then she felt in the surge of power within her, standing she brushed her hair behind her shoulder. The red Homra mark now showed on her proudly on her neck once more.

"This is it King." She pocketed the photo and looked up to the sky. "Your my family King and I'll always love you, so watch over us." She raised her fist in the air, the bracelets rattling as she did. "This mark is one we wear with pride, for this is our pledge to our King, to you Anna."

"Yo Hana you coming or what?" Seijuro called coming into sight.

"Yeah, just a sec!" Hana shouted back reaching down to grab her board. "Keep watching out for us King." She whispered before jumping onto the board and shaking towards Seijuro and Ban. "Well, what are we waiting for?" She asked laughing as she skated off leaving Seijuro and Ban behind her.

"I'll always watch over you." Hana thought she heard her King whisper and for a second, it felt like she had felt Kings hand upon her shoulder. As Seijuro and Ban caught up to her she grinned at them, she still had a long hard road ahead of her, but knowing that she had her King watching over made those first few steps into her future much more easier.

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