~Yato~

"Yukine, toss me a spray can, I found a perfect place to put our information." I demanded, taking my katana off my back in order to squeeze under this bridge.

"Don't got any." he replied coldly. I turned around to face him.

"What do you mean, 'don't got any'? We just got some." I remarked.

"You've been going around today spraying every corner, and by doing that we ran out. So yeah, we don't have any left."

I sighed. "Seriously? You've got to be-" before I could go on, a ringing from my phone interrupted. "Oh wait, I think we got a job!" I squealed, then coughed a little as I tried to recollect myself. "Yato's delivery wizard here." Yukine rolled his eyes.

"Hello? Is this Yato and, uh, Yukina?" the woman on the phone asked. Yukine gave me a look expressing 'really?'.

"Absolutely, this is them. Are you in need of assistance today?"

"Yes, many of my belongings were stolen by a group of wizards. Could you please track them down and get my stuff back? I think they're heading out on the next train from what I've heard."

"Of course we can, but I'll need to know what train you're talking about. What's the nearest train station to you?" I asked as nicely as possible.

"The Vandel."

I smiled. "What a great coincidence, that's closest to us to. We'll get your items back no problem and call ya then, alright?"

"That sounds perfect, thank you!" she exclaimed.

"Your wish has been heard loud and clear, good bye now!" I chimed and then hung up. "So Yukine," I started. "Oh sorry she pronounced your name wrong." I laughed. "Anyway, we've got to get this woman's belongings back from some dark wizards who are probably at the Vendel Train Station right now, which is not too far from here. So let's get going!"

Yukine didn't seem as nearly enthusiastic as I felt, like usual. "Did you ask her how much money we're getting for this job?"

I sighed. "Yukine, when ya finally get a job, you don't blatantly just 'ask' for money, that looks bad." I stated. "I hope it's gonna be a lot though, he he he!" I smirked.

"Well it doesn't matter since you'll just spend all of our reward money on stupid things like that communicating lacrima thing of yours." he pointed out.

I gasped, "This is just a phoneby the way, and it's not useless, you know how many jobs we've gotten because of this?"

"I'm sure I could count on just one of my hands."

I turned away from him, feeling annoyed. He seriously acted so immature sometimes.

"Just c'mon, we've got to get to the station before the next train leaves."

The childish snow wizard grumbled, beginning to follow me. "Fine, let's get this over with."

~Hiyori~

Confirming for the one hundredth time, I read my mission paper again to make sure I was at the right location. "Okay, it says that the thieves should be at Vendel Train Station, and that's where I stand." I breathed in and out. "Relax Hiyori, you got this."

This was my first mission on my own, master finally let me go by myself and I couldn't stop getting paranoid over every little thing. I mentally ran a check list through my head to make sure everything was going to plan. I already bought my ticket, I just gotta go in, hop on the next train, find the thieves, and beat them up to get this lady's belongings back. A perfect, simple mission to start off with.

If only it was that easy.

Right when I walked into the station, I found it to be in complete chaos. I immediately picked up the pace and instinctively pulled out one of my keys, ready to engage in battle.

"Everything was fine!" a man randomly came up to me, grabbed my shoulders and started yelling. "There were no problems until a fight broke out between a bunch of wizards, including some guy wielding a sword!" he then let go and frantically ran away before I got a chance to respond.

Wait...a fight between some wizards? Seems like I found my thieves, and they were already starting trouble.

Not too far from where I was standing, I saw a glimmer of snow being propelled in the air. So there's a snow wizard eh? I smiled, now's a perfect time to use Volcano…

I ran towards the center of madness until I finally found two different fights occurring. One was with the snow mage I saw from afar just now against some other guy who seemed to use some sort of speed-type magic. As for the other fight, it was a very uneven match between a dark-haired guy with astonishing blue eyes using just a sword versus a very powerful, dark wizard. It seemed like the wizards using darker magic were my thieves.

"Wait." I whispered. I just realized something very important. So if these fights are breaking out right now, who am I supposed to fight? Those two were already battling the thieves. Did someone else get this mission? Something didn't add up.

I got closer to the uneven fight and saw how the weaker opponent with the sword was going to receive a final blow that could end him.

I have no idea what came over me, but it was as if my mind lost control and my body took over.

Because before I knew it, without even thinking of any other way to save this guy, I pushed him out of the way of that serious attack, and let myself get struck instead.

~Yato~

By the time Yukine and I got to the train station, our thieves were incredibly easy to target. There were only two of them after all, and what made them so easy to pick out was the fact that they were both harassing this random person for their wallet.

"You see that too, right Yukine?" I asked quietly.

"Yep, let's get em." After all, we had about a half hour to kill. Oh wait, we didn't even need to catch that train if we settled all of this before it left.

"Okay," I began. "Here's the plan. We defeat these guys, demand for everything they've stolen from our customer, so that way we don't have to follow them out and waste our money on train tickets. Sound good?"

Yukine smirked, "I don't know what else we'd do." The two of us then walked over to the two thieves.

"Ay!" I shouted, shoving one of them away. I breathed in and began talking calmly. "Get away from him, and please give us back what you've stolen. If you do this without hesitation, no one has to get hurt, and instead of turning you guys into the magic council, we can just forget this ever happened."

The two of them laughed, and the one I pushed began to speak. "Oh yeah? How are you two kids suppose to fight us?"

Yukine took that as a challenge rather quickly. "White Blizzard!" suddenly the portion of the area where we stood turned into a winter wonderland, and I had to quickly get civilians out of the way.

Of course, I didn't really have to force them to move. Almost everybody immediately fled the scene as the battle began. I pulled out my katana and whipped the cloth off of it, revealing it's long silver blade. I clenched the bandage-wrapped handle and began my attacks too.

The battles ended up being Yukine versus what seemed to be the weaker thief, then it was me dueling the harder thief. I didn't necessarily mind though. Despite Yukine always ragging on me and hating my actions, there was no way I could see that kid get hurt. I smiled. 'That kid'. It wasn't like we were much different, he's fourteen and I'm just three years above him.

I shook my head, I needed to focus on the battle at hand.

I grunted, this was harder than I thought it'd be. This guy was really strong, none of my attacks seemed to hurt him, no matter how fast I slashed him.

"Are you done yet kid? I'm gettin' tired of playin around. I've got a train to catch in a bit here." he kicked my side, almost causing me to fall over. "You don't think you can seriously win, do you?" I coughed a little. "I mean really. I'm a wizard who can burn you if I tried hard enough. And you can't even use magic. You just wield that sword around, thinking if you slash me enough I'll give in. Well guess what kid? You're gonna be done for this instant!" he yelled. I grunted since I absolutely hated when my enemies pulled the 'you can't use magic card'.

"You don't even know what I'm capable of with this katana without using magic!" I screeched, dodging his 'fearsome' attack from the left. "Ha, it's over now."

Although instead of miraculously giving in like I hoped he would, he only smirked.

Turns out that was a distraction and the real blow came straight towards me, looking like it was ready to kill me.

Before I could come up with some way to avoid getting hit, I felt my body getting shoved out of the way. I glanced back, finding it to be a girl whom I thought I saw earlier, but didn't think much of it since I figured any civilian who didn't run away right after we began battling would've fled by this point.

I fell to the ground, and by the time I looked back, she already got attacked. She too laid on the ground, either completely knocked out or dead.

I ran to her body, checking to make sure she was still breathing. I let out a sigh of relief. Okay, she was still alive. But she looked on the verge of death.

"Yukine! We have to abort now!" I yelled, frantically looking around, trying to find any sign of him. Not too far from me, he was battling another of the thieves. He quickly glanced in my direction.

"What?!" he yelled back while trying to pummel his opponent with his snow attacks. "Can't you see I'm busy here!"

"We have to go," I shouted back. "just come over here!"

"Yato! You can't be serious!"

His opponent spoke up, "Seems to me like you're in quite a predicament little boy, better hurry to your friend." he looked over at me smirking. "You guys have already lost anyway, your 'Yato' friend over there let our leader get away. You don't even need to be fighting me." Yukine's eyes grew wide.

"No, this can't be true." he whispered.

That's when it hit me, I did let him escape. I got so caught up in this girl's life that I didn't even remember that I was fighting someone.

"Dammit!" I angrily yelled to myself. I glanced back up to my friend. "He's right Yukine, look I'll explain everything. It's over now, we failed!"

Yukine gave me an incredibly disappointing look. He turned back to the guy he was fighting and sighed.

"Fine. I'll let you go. Apparently something very 'urgent' has come up." the guy laughed and Yukine snapped at him. "Just leave already, okay?!" he continued to chuckle as he departed. I felt so ashamed, not wanting to look Yukine in the eyes.

"I'm sorry." I mumbled. Yukine looked even more pissed off.

"Don't be sorry! Just explain to me what the hell is going on."

"Her." I pointed towards the girl lying on the ground. "I was... about to get seriously injured or worse when she suddenly sacrificed herself for me. I don't know how she's still alive, but we have to get her to help immediately."

He shrugged. "I guess." he stood up and began to study the map behind me. "Okay, we're right in the center of Magnolia. Hey...do you think she's a wizard?"

"Possibly, I mean she did know that attack was seriously gonna hurt me. Why do you want to know?" Before he could respond I already knew the answer. No… "Wait, you don't wanna take her to a guild do you?"

Yukine sighed. "I know you're not the biggest fan of them, but if she is a wizard, then maybe we could take her to medical treatment at her guild."

Hmm… "I suppose you're right." I said, then spoke louder. "But there's no way of knowing what guild she's in. Therefore-" Yukine then quickly grabbed the girl and began searching her body, causing my face to grow incredibly red.

"What-what do you think you're doing?!" I demanded.

"Looking for her guild mark dumbass! If either of us can recognize it, then we'll know where to take her."

The guild mark popped right out to me though.

"There…" I mumbled. "It's right there, on the side of her right shin, facing out."

Yukine's eyes moved to where I described.

"Wow…" he started. "This is the symbol of the Fairy Tail guild right? It's like the most popular guild, anybody would recognize it."

"I don't." I lied, he didn't seem too fazed though.

"Okay, anyone that has some common sense. My bad." he stated. I didn't bother trying to defend myself. "Well, I know that Fairy Tail isn't too far from here. It has a big building too, so I'm sure we'll find it fast." I remained silent. "Yato, what's with you?" he frowned. "You're the one who made us fail our job for this girl. And you're the one who demanded that we get her help in the first place."

I didn't look him in the eyes as I picked up the girl, letting her ride on my back.

"Yeah I know." I responded, and the three of us headed out, leaving the Vendel Train Station a complete cut up, snowed in mess.

Hey guys, I've been planning this for a while so here's the first chapter finally! I hope you enjoyed this chapter and want to continue reading :3

And also on that note thanks for reading this! Sorry about not updating my other stories that much but I'll try to stick with this one!

"You shouldn't judge people by how they look." -Yato from Noragami