MUST PROTECT

Am I glad people find this adorable. Let's keep it that way! Oh but please know that some magic is completely fan made. Also minor spoiler if you don't read or are not caught up yet with the manga.

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Chapter 2 Phantoms and ghosts

"First let's get you some extra clothes" Asta decided, "and I guess a toothbrush". The duo walked down a busy street, holding hands. "Is that okay?" the young child asked concerned. "Don't we need a lot of money to do that?". The silver haired teen smiled back, "Don't worry. Yesterday I finished a mission and received a lot of reward money".

"I see" the small Yuno smiled, "You're amazing Asta". The black bull member could swear he saw sparkles in the boy's eyes. "Hehe this is nothing for a magic knight" he tried to sound confident as possible. Although in his mind he was, uhm, less strong; "Fight against it. Fight against the cuteness".

After a while of shopping they were almost done. Going to one more shop they noticed a familiar person. "Ah the nii-san from before" the small wizard pointed at Finral. Who was with a bunch of ladies trying to get a date. "Say Asta is that weird person you friend?" the black haired boy asked the teen. "Yes, that's Finral-senpai" the teen answered. "He can be a little weird, but he is a good person" he semi-praised his senior.

"Though sometimes he can be a bit of pain to deal with" he commented, as soon as he saw his friend falling to his knees after he got turned down by the ladies. "Finral-senpai are you okay" Asta asked, putting down the shopping bags to squat next to the spatial-magic user. "No I am not okay Asta-kun. My heart hurts" he cried, tears streaming down his face.

Yuno shyly walked forward, while he held his grimoire with one arm he let go of Asta's hand to pet the older male's hair. "P-pain, pain fly away" he said. Finral looked up with a slight blush, "Cute" he thought. By the way Asta's thoughts were something like this; "Lucky Finra-senpai, I'm jealous, I also want Yuno to do that with me. No wait a sec. I shouldn't be thinking like that".

"Say Finral-senpai why are you still flirting with those girls?" The silver haired teen asked. "Didn't you tell me you were in love wit-" "ASTA-KUN, DON'T SAY ANOTHER WORD" the brunet quickly covered his kohai's mouth. "I told you that in secrecy, don't go saying that out loud in public. Also not in front of Yuno-kun!" he sternly told the teen. "What's flirting?" the small child asked innocently.

"S-something you don't need to know yet" Asta ruffled his rival's hair. "By the way, what did our captain say about the whole Yuno turning into a child situation?". "Oh yeah that" Finral stood up, "He said that Yuno-kun is completely your responsibility, but for safety he can stay at the base. He also said that for his safety there should at least be one other black bull member with you. "HARSH" the silvered haired teen yelled, "but at least he cares somewhat".

"So where you guys done shopping" the older male asked? "Almost, we got most of the stuff we need. I wanted to buy a few books for Yuno to read. Also I wanted to visit a shop that makes grimoire holders. It's not very practical if he has to keep carrying his in his arms". "Even though it looks super cute" Asta thought to himself.

"That's indeed troublesome" Finral replied. "Luckily I know a good place where we can get both at the same time". "Really?" the anti-magic user asked. "Yeah just follow me" the senpai said, leading the way. So the trio went together. However none of them noticed a masked man following them.

"Uwhaaa" Yuno looked his eyes out. The young could not belief his eyes. The store that Finral brought them though was basically a library. Tons of shelf's with all kinds of books where put randomly in the store, it even had a second floor with even more books. There where books everywhere they looked. "Asta there are so many books here" he excitedly tugged at teen's clothes. "Yeah amazing right?" he smiled back.

"The grimoire carrier maker and shop owner is in the back" the spatial magic user explained. "He can make the perfect one for Yuno-kun in less than half an hour, but he has to feel the grimoire first". "That can be a problem" Asta scratched the back of his head, "I don't think Yuno wants to give anyone his grimoire".

"Asta can I look around?" the raven black haired boy asked. It was this sentence that gave Asta an idea. "Sure you can but you have to do two things first" he started to explain. "First you must give me the book your holding, I need to borrow it for a while". This made Yuno's smile disappear almost instantly. He held the book closer to his chest, and looked down.

"The magic emperor was right he really doesn't want to give it away" Finral though to himself. "Don't worry I'll give it back, you can trust me" Asta reassured his tiny rival. "If you give it to me you can pick out any three books you like and I'll give you something nice as an extra". This seemed to somewhat relax the boy and he held out his grimoire. "Only because it's you Asta".

"Thank you" he accepted the book with great care. "Now the second thing is that you listen to Finral-senpai and make sure to stay at places where he can see you". "O-okay" Yuno said, slightly nervous. "Be good now okay?" the anti magic user ruffled his hair once again. "Then I'll ask if the shop owner for a carrier". "Got it, I'll keep an eye on Yuno-kun" Finral reassured the anti-magic user.

A few minutes later

The spatial-magic user and the little wizard had gone up to the second floor to look for books that Yuno could read. "Even though I said that I have no clue what I should do!" the brunet internally freaked out. "I mean sure I am an older brother, but I have never developed skills to look after a small child".

Taking a big breathe he looked in the direction Yuno was. The black haired boy was excitedly looking up and down the bookcase. "But, he sure is cute as a kid". He then noticed that the boy was standing on his toes, presumably trying to reach a book. "Oh well I should at least try" making up his mind, he walked over to Yuno. Squatting down next to him he offered his help. "Which book do you want to get?"

A little startled by the older male, Yuno fidget a bit with his sleeve before giving an answer. "I-I w-want the one t-that says 'Little Red Riding Hood'" he pointed at the book on the top shelf, which was so high that you would need a ladder to reach it. "Okay, then let's do this", Finral opened a small portal to put his hand through, and grab the book. "Here" he handed the book over to the small child.

"Thank you. What kind of magic did you just use?" the black haired boy asked, having become really curios. "My magic his spatial magic. To put it simply I can control space to a certain extend" the magic knight explained. "So cool, you're magic is so cool Fin nii-san". The spatial-magic user could have sworn his heart skipped a beat once he heard that. "You want to go through it?".

"Looks like you guys get along just fine" Asta said, holding up the bags. When the owner was done with the carrier it was put into a bag and the silvered haired teen went to fetch the duo, only to be greeted by them when he walked to the staircase. When he was there he saw his little rival sitting on top of his senior shoulders. Who was holding the books they picked out. "Asta!" Yuno happily called out to him.

"Have you been good Yuno?" the anti-magic user asked the boy. "Yeah" the boy nodded. "He behaved just fine" Finral said, "We also paid for the books, so we can go back to the base". "Oh let me pay you ba-" Asta wanted to say but was interrupted when a big purple arm appeared out of nowhere. It started to attack the trio by trying to punch them. Noticing it's ki, Asta quickly pulled out his demon-slayer sword, deflecting the attack. It caused the arm to be pushed back, knocking over a shelf and landing under it.

"Yuno, Finral-senpai are you okay?" he asked the others. "We're fine" Finral answered, holding a scared Yuno in his arms. "Any idea what that thing is" the younger knight asked, preparing for another attack. The arm rose up from the rubble, but instead of pushing the rubble of him it passed right through it.

"I'm not sure what it is, but at the very least is it some kind of magic" the brunet studied the arm. "But we can't fight here. Let's lure it through my portal", Finral opened a portal.

Quickly going through it the trio made it to the open space in front of the base. "Great idea the others can now help us!" Asta complimented his senior. "Not exactly" the spatial-magic user carefully explained, hiding Yuno behind a bush. "Everyone is out on missions. And I don't know if Yami-san is here either". "ARE YOU SERIOUS!" the teen yelled out.

Suddenly not the arm passed out of the portal, but instead a man came walking through it. He was dressed in a purple cloak which covered most of his body and wore a mask that covered the upper part of face. The man sighed, "Let's make this easy for all of us" he proposed. "Just hand me over the kid and you don't have to lose spectacular".

"AS IF I AM GOING TO HAND YUNO OVER TO A CREEP LIKE YOU" Asta screamed, running towards the enemy grabbing his swords. "If that's what you want" the man opened his grimoire. "Ghost-magic; Phantom army". Out of the book a dozen cloaked creatures rose up and plunged themselves towards the Black Bull member. Asta tried to slash the floating creeps, but they evaded his attacks. Instead they grabbed the silver haired teen with their skeleton like hands, lifted him into the air and binding him.

"Asta-kun" Finral yelled out his name, wanting to cast a spell to free his comrade. "Not so fast" the enemy said, "Ghost-magic; Giant's hand". The arm from before appeared and grabbed Finral, immobilizing him. "Now then my target" the man walked for the bush that Yuno was hiding in. "Yuno-kun run" the spatial-magic user warned the child, but soon saw that the kid was too frightened to listen. He had closed his eyes and started sobbing.

The anti-magic user noticed it too and knew he had to snap the boy out if it. "YUNO LISTEN UP" he screamed, trying to get the boy's attention. Yuno opened his eyes to look at Asta. "I know it's really scary right now but I need you to be brave. You need to run towards that building and find a guy named Henry. He's a bit slow but he can help us". "I-I *sniff* can't. There's *hic* no way I can do *sniff* that" the boy responded.

"Yes you can, I believe in you" the teen encouraged him. "I haven't give up and neither has Finral. Besides the two of us are rivals right". After hearing those words the boy's eyes widened. He whipped his tears and started running towards the base. "It's no use" the masked man said, commanding some of the phantoms to go after the raven haired boy.

Just when the phantoms were almost close enough to catch Yuno, one of the brunet's portal appeared in which the small wizard quickly jumped into. The enemy turned his attention to his captives and saw that the spatial-magic user was able to free one of his arms to cast that spell. "You shouldn't have meddled" the man angrily said. He ordered to giant hand, that held the brunet, to squeeze harder. The black bull magic knight yelled out in pain. "FINRAL-SENPAI" Asta screamed in concern.

"Now then searching for a kid in that weird building is a pain so time for you guys to do the work" the enemy ordered his ghosts. "Dark magic; Dark cloaked Black blade" a voice suddenly said. A few slash attacks came flying by, killing the floating creeps and freeing the brunet. Turning around the masked man saw the captain of the Black Bulls; Yami Sukehiro. In one hand held his sword cloaked in black magic, while with his other arm he lifted the small boy to his chest.

"You've got some serious guts to mess with my squad and frighten a small child. I hope you're prepared for the consequences" he threatened. "Shit" the man realizing he could not beat a captain and started to run towards the forest. "Oi Asta hurry up and stop the guy before he gets away" the captain ordered. "But Captain Yami I'm still being bonded by these things" the teen protested.

"Huh?" the older male responded. "Both this kid and Finral were surpassing their limits. So you have no other excuse than doing the same" he said, helping Finral up. "I-I understand" Asta quickly said. Thinking quickly the anti-magic user used his teeth to hold up Demon-Dweller sword. Using all the strength he could muster he threw the sword at the man running by.

The sword pierced the man's leg, cancelling out his magic and immobilizing him. "Good work" Yami said, taking a smoke from his cigarette.

Ah finally done with a new chapter. I really should work on a schedule. Man I can really see that I haven't written in a long time.

Did anyone else feel kind of weird when the realized that the ship of Asta and Yuno is that one between brothers. No one? Just me? Okay.

Well I hoped you enjoyed this chapter. Please review.