Less than Innocent, More than Like 21/?
Title: Less Than Innocent, More than Like
Pairing: LaviYuu
Rated: PG for the moment...Just because Lavi's a bad boy >:]
Warnings: Well, it's yaoi...but you already knew that, surely. No spoilers, because this is all speculation about their past. Just don't take this like it's really their past, and you're good.
Disclaimer: Saya owns the play, but not the actors. They belong to Hoshino.
Summary: Lavi hasn't even been in the Order for two weeks, and he's already bored with it! Lucky for him a very interesting new exoricst comes in around the same time. Will Kanda be simple entertainment? Or will unfortunate circumstances force Kanda to stay close to Lavi?
HAPPY CHRISTMASHANUKKAHQUANZAHWINTERSOLSTICE NEW YEARS! Saya loves you guys <3. Nit-picking is love. Saya's gona go sleep now...why the hell is she always so tired? It's not even late...
21. Alone
Kanda was worried, oh, was he worried. It wasn’t about Lavi, for once. No, he’d decided that since those dreams wouldn’t go away, he’d just have to tell Lavi straight out that he knew the other was going into his room, that it was pointless to lie about it, and that he was going to force Komui to have a few locks installed on his door. He wasn’t worried about the mission either, it was going rather well. There were about two weeks left before they were scheduled to return home, the Akuma population had nearly been wiped out, and they’d found the innocence the day before.
So, why was Kanda worried? Simple: there was no way for him to drag this mission out long enough to escape his birthday. It wasn’t his fault, he couldn’t help but want to do his mission well! He could’ve slacked off, he could’ve done a number of things to slow their progress, but Kanda simply wasn’t that kind of person, in his mind, nothing, not even his own well-being ranked above his duty. Besides, Lenalee was determined to get him home for his birthday.
"Lenalee, we need to get the innocence back to headquarters as soon as we can." Kanda said, after he and Lenalee finished off some Akuma that had attacked them on their way back to their hotel. Naturally, the two never left the innocence alone, and because they had it, the akuma were after them.
Lenalee nodded in agreement. "It makes a great lure for the Akuma, but we can’t risk losing it to them either. We can’t give it to a finder to bring back, so one of us will have to go."
"You go back, I’ll stay here and finish this job up."
Lenalee gave him a skeptical glance, she was sure he was trying to weasel his way out of going back to headquarters for his birthday.
"Why don’t you go back?"
"Because now that we’ve found the innocence, this has become purely an extermination mission. Those are the kind I usually do, I have more experience with these missions than you do. Besides, since I know you’ll find some way to get me back to headquarters in time for that god-forsaken day... you might as well go back there, and make sure those two idiots Lavi and Komui don’t do anything ridiculous."
"Are you sure you aren’t trying to get out of it?"
"I’m sure. Really, I just don’t want to deal with Komui, do you have any idea what he would do to me if I left you here alone? Well, after his imagination ran wild with all sorts of horrible scenarios, he’d kill me. He’d then send some kind of robot army down here to "Save" you."
Lenalee took a minute to think that over. That was definitely a possibility... Besides, as long as Kanda wasn’t going to run away, and it didn’t seem like he was lying, it would all be fine. She’d be sure to tell Paul to bring him back to the Order too, just in case.
"Fine, I’ll go back, with the innocence, but you’ve got to promise to come back."
"Where else would I go?"
"Hm, good point... promise anyway."
Kanda sighed, this was so pointless. "I promise to return to the Tower." And he would go back, because there was good soba there, but he would take his time. As soon as his mission was done, he would choose the most pathetically slow mode of transportation he could find, and return to the Order that way. He could probably take a trip that only lasts a few days on a train, and make it last a week and a half, at least. So technically he wasn’t lying at all, which is why Lenalee believed him, because Kanda’s not the greatest liar, and Lenalee would’ve picked up on it if he was.
The two walked on in a calm silence, until a piercing scream ripped through the air. Not even a second later, Lenalee had her Dark Boots activated, and Kanda had unsheathed Mugen and was running his fingers over the tip, activating it, also. They both ran toward where the sound had originated from.
There were kids, three or four of them alive, and one was now dust. They huddled in the corner of a wide alley where they’d been playing. Three akuma surrounded them. The exorcists didn’t hesitate to destroy two of them, but the third one seemed to have leveled up, they knew it would take more than one move to destroy it, so it was better for them to get rid of what they could while they still had the element of surprise on their side. The explosions frightened the kids more, but that was to be expected.
The third Akuma turned to face them, it seemed to be a level two, that looked like an over-sized mosquito. It’s nose was it’s weapon, it was a long gun barrel with a bayonet at the end. The thing took a moment to size them up, and started laughing maniacally when it realized what they were.
"Exorcists! The one’s who’ve killed all the others!" The akuma turned to point its weapon menacingly at one of the children’s faces. "Give me the innocence, or I’ll kill these kids!" Of course, it intended to kill them anyway, but it would wait until it had the innocence to do that.
The akuma was horribly transparent to both Lenalee and Kanda. They weren’t dumb enough to act on an akuma’s orders.
"Lenalee, you’ve got the innocence, run." Kanda commanded. She nodded and left, using her Dark Boots to reach impossible speeds. This particular akuma was more concerned with getting the innocence than killing the children, it probably figured it would be able to kill them later. It was so eager to get the innocence that it didn’t even realize that Kanda was obviously bluffing, he had the innocence, not Lenalee. Really, what idiot in their right mind would basically tell their enemy who they should chase after? Lenalee and he were always on the same page when it came to fighting, why, he couldn’t say, they’d probably just been working together long enough or something. She’d run, and the akuma would chase her, though it could never catch her, of course. Kanda would make sure the kids got indoors, and then go to back her up.
"You," he started, giving the kids a look that clearly said if they valued their lives they should listen, "get inside the nearest building, now. And stay there." The kids shot out of the alley like bullets, and Kanda made sure that they all went indoors before heading off in the direction Lenalee had run. Then again, with her speed, she could’ve easily run circles around the village by now.
Luckily for him, it wasn’t all that hard to find her, she was flying, fighting the akuma up in the air. It probably hadn’t expected that, it had probably thought that it could use its aerial positioning to its advantage. Oh, how wrong it had been.
She didn’t seem to need his help at all, she was kicking ass up there, literally. Still, he’d stick around, just in case. The akuma seemed ticked, it couldn’t hit her at all, she was simply moving too fast. They seemed to flutter around each other, and as gentle as the encounter might look to someone who had no idea what was going on, Kanda knew that every time Lenalee hit her mark, it caused massive damage.
The thing, which seemed fed up with fighting her and losing, unexpectedly dropped down from the air. It was heading for Kanda, a grounded target that didn’t have any advantage over it. Or so it thought, but Kanda was quick to pull out his blade, and call forth his netherworld insects. They couldn’t kill the akuma, but they could stop it from hurting him. Lenalee swooped down on the akuma, nearly crushing its backside. It took off down the street, obviously at its limit, a few more hits would finish it off. Lenalee and Kanda were quick to pursue it.
Kanda cursed profusely in his mind when he saw that the thing was swooping down onto one of the kids from earlier, what was that little girl doing outside? He’d told them to stay indoors! There was no time to ask though, he had to defend her before something tragic happened. He ran in front of the girl, blocking the akuma’s bayonet with Mugen’s blade. It seemed it would all be for not though, he could see the akuma’s gun powering up, its glow becoming brighter. Any minute now it would shoot, and at this close range, it would probably have enough power to blast right through him and the girl.
And that’s exactly what happened. Kanda wanted to scream at the pain that shot through him as he felt the bullet twist through his side; Because of the way he was parrying the bayonet, the akuma couldn’t get a straight shot at his stomach or chest, so the bullet hit his side, just barely missing anything vital. Not that it would matter, he could feel the poison spreading through him, it was like his skin was slowly burning, burning away until it was nothing but ashes.
But even as such an intense pain ripped through him, he could only think of the girl that had been behind him. Had she been hurt? Or had that bullet missed her? He was using what he was sure was the last of his strength to hold the demon off, just in case that girl was still alive.
A streak of black came down from the air, and Lenalee plunged right through the Akuma. It exploded around the two, and Kanda was forced backward by the force of it. He felt himself skid across the ground, there was no one behind him. Once the dust from the explosion settled, he could see the ashes that were once the girl, oddly undisturbed by the explosion.
"My God...Kanda!" Lenalee ran to his side, she looked positively horrified. He couldn’t see it himself, but he could guess that he was slowly being covered by black stars.
"The girl...is she all right?" Lenalee shook her head, looking close to tears over losing a comrade, and letting an innocent child get killed. Kanda thought she was too nice to be out on the battlefields like this, it didn’t seem right to have someone so kind out fighting and killing things. One day Kanda’s opinions would change, but at the moment, Kanda wasn’t aware that he had a future at all.
"I’m sorry! If I had been able to kill it before it got away this wouldn’t have happened!" Her sadness just made Kanda feel guilty about getting hit, because he hadn’t been able to stop that thing from shooting him, she felt bad, and was crying. Kanda Yuu may be a bastard, but he does not make girls cry.
Lenalee’s face made a sudden change from anguished to surprised, and she blinked a few times, to make sure that she was really seeing what she thought she was seeing, and that it wasn’t just her tears blurring her vision.
"K-Kanda... the stars...they’re going away... they’re going away!" at this realization, Lenalee looked positively overjoyed. Kanda had no idea what she was talking about. He’d never actually been shot on a mission before, which might’ve been a little strange, considering the kinds of missions he usually went on.
Now that she’d said something about it though, Kanda knew she was telling the truth. He was still in pain, oh, boy was he still in pain, but it was a different pain. He couldn’t feel himself burning from the inside out anymore, now he felt a familiar pain, the pain of hastened healing.
hm... So my curse can stop the akuma blood virus from killing me? That would’ve been nice to know earlier.
Kanda tried to sit up, but stopped when he felt pain run through him. The wound he’d gotten had been deep, and it would take at least a day to heal.
"There’s no point...in staying out here. Let’s head back." Lenalee nodded, staying out in the open like this, with a wounded exorcist, was like begging for an akuma to come and pick them off. She sat him up, and slipped his arm around her shoulder. Kanda grunted in pain, but was otherwise silent. It was rather humiliating to have a girl help him walk, but he decided it was about time he stopped thinking about the two genders so childishly. Girls were strong, and they could fight damn well, there was nothing wrong with getting help from one.
000
"Kanda, are you sure you don’t want to go back? You were just shot yesterday!" Lenalee was about to board a train which would take her back home, but she was still unsure of wether she should leave the other here alone.
"I’m fine, aren’t I? Besides, there isn’t much more to do here, I’m just cleaning up what little mess is left. Just get the innocence to headquarters. The train is going to leave soon, so get to your compartment already."
"Maybe I should stay though... you might need backup!"
"Of course you shouldn’t, getting the innocence back to headquarters is the top priority!"
Lenalee huffed, but she couldn’t argue, bringing the innocence back was the most important thing at the moment.
"Fine, but you’d better make it back safely!" She said, giving him a stern look. Kanda nodded, bored with being the object of her worry. He didn’t need anyone to worry about him dammit!
Lenalee sighed one last time before boarding the train, Kanda was such a hopeless case, he held far too little concern for his own well-being.
Kanda waited around the station until the train left, before heading back to the hotel that he still had to live in for another few weeks. He’d like to believe that things would be easier now that he was working alone again, but really, when it came to fighting, it was always nice to know someone had your back. Finders could capture akuma with talismans, but that was about all they could do, and it wasn’t much help. The akuma population wasn’t so large that it would be a problem to work by himself though, so he was fine with it.
still... dealing with the locals is even more annoying...tch.
Something in the air changed, and Kanda’s hand came to Mugen’s hilt. Akuma were slowly shedding their skins; He wondered when they’d infiltrated the crowd.
On second thought, the akuma really are the most annoying....
000
Lenalee, and Lavi were both waiting impatiently, it was the day before Kanda’s birthday, and he wasn’t back yet.
"Oh, I knew I shouldn’t have left him alone! I bet he’s half-way across the world by now!" Lenalee huffed, pacing around her brother’s office. She’d come back to find that Komui and Lavi had gone from planning a simple get-together to nearly turning Kanda’s birthday into a theatrical production. She’d put a stop to it immediately, of course, because she didn’t want Kanda to hate the Order’s birthday parties forever. Komui and Lavi were sad though, they couldn’t have any more fun with planning!
"Don’t worry about it Lenalee, it’s not his birthday yet, and if he comes late, we’ll just celebrate late! He loses either way." Lavi said happily, munching on some chips as he lazily sat on the couch that occupied the center of Komui’s office. Bookman would have his head for slacking off, but it was just part of his "Character" to think it was funny to provoke the old man.
"Gee, that’s so kind of you." Lenalee rolled her eyes, poor Kanda...with friends like these, it was no wonder he didn’t want any friends to begin with.
Suddenly, Komui burst through the office doors, not in his I’m-so-happy-I’ve-created-a-new-monster kind of way, but in a frantic way.
"Kanda’s back." He breathed out, Lenalee and Lavi both gave him curious looks. He made that seem like a bad thing.
"Is something wrong, Ge ge?" Lenalee asked, worry creeping into her voice. Oh, she knew she shouldn’t have left Kanda alone!
Komui nodded. "You should see for yourself, they’re bringing him to the hospital wing." Lavi and Lenalee both bolted for the door, Lenalee ever worried, and Lavi doing his best to act the part when really, he was more or less curious. He remembered Kanda’s insane healing ability, how broken bones had mended themselves withing days and gashes healed within hours. How could Kanda possibly be in such bad condition now?
Once they reached the hospital wing of the tower, they had to fight to get into the room. The medics had only just transferred him from the stretcher to the hospital bed, and they were all fussing over him, cleaning wounds and getting bandages ready for him.
Oh lord, he was a bloody mess. Lavi decided that he must’ve gotten attacked just recently, because some of his wounds simply seemed too new to be more than half a day old. Kanda’s pale skin was littered with cuts and deep wounds, and what looked like bullet wounds. Lavi could even see fading stars on the boy!
What the...? Did he get hit? Why are they fading?
"Hey...Lenalee, do you see those stars? There’s only a few of them but..."
"That idiot! He got hit again!" Lavi gave her a surprised look, again? "Oh...he seems to have some sort of immunity to the virus...just before I left he got shot... but he was fine by the time we got back to the hotel."
Lavi raised his visible eyebrow, so Kanda healed quickly and he was immune to the akuma blood virus? Interesting, how very, very interesting.
Pairing: LaviYuu
Rated: PG for the moment...Just because Lavi's a bad boy >:]
Warnings: Well, it's yaoi...but you already knew that, surely. No spoilers, because this is all speculation about their past. Just don't take this like it's really their past, and you're good.
Disclaimer: Saya owns the play, but not the actors. They belong to Hoshino.
Summary: Lavi hasn't even been in the Order for two weeks, and he's already bored with it! Lucky for him a very interesting new exoricst comes in around the same time. Will Kanda be simple entertainment? Or will unfortunate circumstances force Kanda to stay close to Lavi?
HAPPY CHRISTMASHANUKKAHQUANZAHWINTERSOLSTICE NEW YEARS! Saya loves you guys <3. Nit-picking is love. Saya's gona go sleep now...why the hell is she always so tired? It's not even late...
21. Alone
Kanda was worried, oh, was he worried. It wasn’t about Lavi, for once. No, he’d decided that since those dreams wouldn’t go away, he’d just have to tell Lavi straight out that he knew the other was going into his room, that it was pointless to lie about it, and that he was going to force Komui to have a few locks installed on his door. He wasn’t worried about the mission either, it was going rather well. There were about two weeks left before they were scheduled to return home, the Akuma population had nearly been wiped out, and they’d found the innocence the day before.
So, why was Kanda worried? Simple: there was no way for him to drag this mission out long enough to escape his birthday. It wasn’t his fault, he couldn’t help but want to do his mission well! He could’ve slacked off, he could’ve done a number of things to slow their progress, but Kanda simply wasn’t that kind of person, in his mind, nothing, not even his own well-being ranked above his duty. Besides, Lenalee was determined to get him home for his birthday.
"Lenalee, we need to get the innocence back to headquarters as soon as we can." Kanda said, after he and Lenalee finished off some Akuma that had attacked them on their way back to their hotel. Naturally, the two never left the innocence alone, and because they had it, the akuma were after them.
Lenalee nodded in agreement. "It makes a great lure for the Akuma, but we can’t risk losing it to them either. We can’t give it to a finder to bring back, so one of us will have to go."
"You go back, I’ll stay here and finish this job up."
Lenalee gave him a skeptical glance, she was sure he was trying to weasel his way out of going back to headquarters for his birthday.
"Why don’t you go back?"
"Because now that we’ve found the innocence, this has become purely an extermination mission. Those are the kind I usually do, I have more experience with these missions than you do. Besides, since I know you’ll find some way to get me back to headquarters in time for that god-forsaken day... you might as well go back there, and make sure those two idiots Lavi and Komui don’t do anything ridiculous."
"Are you sure you aren’t trying to get out of it?"
"I’m sure. Really, I just don’t want to deal with Komui, do you have any idea what he would do to me if I left you here alone? Well, after his imagination ran wild with all sorts of horrible scenarios, he’d kill me. He’d then send some kind of robot army down here to "Save" you."
Lenalee took a minute to think that over. That was definitely a possibility... Besides, as long as Kanda wasn’t going to run away, and it didn’t seem like he was lying, it would all be fine. She’d be sure to tell Paul to bring him back to the Order too, just in case.
"Fine, I’ll go back, with the innocence, but you’ve got to promise to come back."
"Where else would I go?"
"Hm, good point... promise anyway."
Kanda sighed, this was so pointless. "I promise to return to the Tower." And he would go back, because there was good soba there, but he would take his time. As soon as his mission was done, he would choose the most pathetically slow mode of transportation he could find, and return to the Order that way. He could probably take a trip that only lasts a few days on a train, and make it last a week and a half, at least. So technically he wasn’t lying at all, which is why Lenalee believed him, because Kanda’s not the greatest liar, and Lenalee would’ve picked up on it if he was.
The two walked on in a calm silence, until a piercing scream ripped through the air. Not even a second later, Lenalee had her Dark Boots activated, and Kanda had unsheathed Mugen and was running his fingers over the tip, activating it, also. They both ran toward where the sound had originated from.
There were kids, three or four of them alive, and one was now dust. They huddled in the corner of a wide alley where they’d been playing. Three akuma surrounded them. The exorcists didn’t hesitate to destroy two of them, but the third one seemed to have leveled up, they knew it would take more than one move to destroy it, so it was better for them to get rid of what they could while they still had the element of surprise on their side. The explosions frightened the kids more, but that was to be expected.
The third Akuma turned to face them, it seemed to be a level two, that looked like an over-sized mosquito. It’s nose was it’s weapon, it was a long gun barrel with a bayonet at the end. The thing took a moment to size them up, and started laughing maniacally when it realized what they were.
"Exorcists! The one’s who’ve killed all the others!" The akuma turned to point its weapon menacingly at one of the children’s faces. "Give me the innocence, or I’ll kill these kids!" Of course, it intended to kill them anyway, but it would wait until it had the innocence to do that.
The akuma was horribly transparent to both Lenalee and Kanda. They weren’t dumb enough to act on an akuma’s orders.
"Lenalee, you’ve got the innocence, run." Kanda commanded. She nodded and left, using her Dark Boots to reach impossible speeds. This particular akuma was more concerned with getting the innocence than killing the children, it probably figured it would be able to kill them later. It was so eager to get the innocence that it didn’t even realize that Kanda was obviously bluffing, he had the innocence, not Lenalee. Really, what idiot in their right mind would basically tell their enemy who they should chase after? Lenalee and he were always on the same page when it came to fighting, why, he couldn’t say, they’d probably just been working together long enough or something. She’d run, and the akuma would chase her, though it could never catch her, of course. Kanda would make sure the kids got indoors, and then go to back her up.
"You," he started, giving the kids a look that clearly said if they valued their lives they should listen, "get inside the nearest building, now. And stay there." The kids shot out of the alley like bullets, and Kanda made sure that they all went indoors before heading off in the direction Lenalee had run. Then again, with her speed, she could’ve easily run circles around the village by now.
Luckily for him, it wasn’t all that hard to find her, she was flying, fighting the akuma up in the air. It probably hadn’t expected that, it had probably thought that it could use its aerial positioning to its advantage. Oh, how wrong it had been.
She didn’t seem to need his help at all, she was kicking ass up there, literally. Still, he’d stick around, just in case. The akuma seemed ticked, it couldn’t hit her at all, she was simply moving too fast. They seemed to flutter around each other, and as gentle as the encounter might look to someone who had no idea what was going on, Kanda knew that every time Lenalee hit her mark, it caused massive damage.
The thing, which seemed fed up with fighting her and losing, unexpectedly dropped down from the air. It was heading for Kanda, a grounded target that didn’t have any advantage over it. Or so it thought, but Kanda was quick to pull out his blade, and call forth his netherworld insects. They couldn’t kill the akuma, but they could stop it from hurting him. Lenalee swooped down on the akuma, nearly crushing its backside. It took off down the street, obviously at its limit, a few more hits would finish it off. Lenalee and Kanda were quick to pursue it.
Kanda cursed profusely in his mind when he saw that the thing was swooping down onto one of the kids from earlier, what was that little girl doing outside? He’d told them to stay indoors! There was no time to ask though, he had to defend her before something tragic happened. He ran in front of the girl, blocking the akuma’s bayonet with Mugen’s blade. It seemed it would all be for not though, he could see the akuma’s gun powering up, its glow becoming brighter. Any minute now it would shoot, and at this close range, it would probably have enough power to blast right through him and the girl.
And that’s exactly what happened. Kanda wanted to scream at the pain that shot through him as he felt the bullet twist through his side; Because of the way he was parrying the bayonet, the akuma couldn’t get a straight shot at his stomach or chest, so the bullet hit his side, just barely missing anything vital. Not that it would matter, he could feel the poison spreading through him, it was like his skin was slowly burning, burning away until it was nothing but ashes.
But even as such an intense pain ripped through him, he could only think of the girl that had been behind him. Had she been hurt? Or had that bullet missed her? He was using what he was sure was the last of his strength to hold the demon off, just in case that girl was still alive.
A streak of black came down from the air, and Lenalee plunged right through the Akuma. It exploded around the two, and Kanda was forced backward by the force of it. He felt himself skid across the ground, there was no one behind him. Once the dust from the explosion settled, he could see the ashes that were once the girl, oddly undisturbed by the explosion.
"My God...Kanda!" Lenalee ran to his side, she looked positively horrified. He couldn’t see it himself, but he could guess that he was slowly being covered by black stars.
"The girl...is she all right?" Lenalee shook her head, looking close to tears over losing a comrade, and letting an innocent child get killed. Kanda thought she was too nice to be out on the battlefields like this, it didn’t seem right to have someone so kind out fighting and killing things. One day Kanda’s opinions would change, but at the moment, Kanda wasn’t aware that he had a future at all.
"I’m sorry! If I had been able to kill it before it got away this wouldn’t have happened!" Her sadness just made Kanda feel guilty about getting hit, because he hadn’t been able to stop that thing from shooting him, she felt bad, and was crying. Kanda Yuu may be a bastard, but he does not make girls cry.
Lenalee’s face made a sudden change from anguished to surprised, and she blinked a few times, to make sure that she was really seeing what she thought she was seeing, and that it wasn’t just her tears blurring her vision.
"K-Kanda... the stars...they’re going away... they’re going away!" at this realization, Lenalee looked positively overjoyed. Kanda had no idea what she was talking about. He’d never actually been shot on a mission before, which might’ve been a little strange, considering the kinds of missions he usually went on.
Now that she’d said something about it though, Kanda knew she was telling the truth. He was still in pain, oh, boy was he still in pain, but it was a different pain. He couldn’t feel himself burning from the inside out anymore, now he felt a familiar pain, the pain of hastened healing.
hm... So my curse can stop the akuma blood virus from killing me? That would’ve been nice to know earlier.
Kanda tried to sit up, but stopped when he felt pain run through him. The wound he’d gotten had been deep, and it would take at least a day to heal.
"There’s no point...in staying out here. Let’s head back." Lenalee nodded, staying out in the open like this, with a wounded exorcist, was like begging for an akuma to come and pick them off. She sat him up, and slipped his arm around her shoulder. Kanda grunted in pain, but was otherwise silent. It was rather humiliating to have a girl help him walk, but he decided it was about time he stopped thinking about the two genders so childishly. Girls were strong, and they could fight damn well, there was nothing wrong with getting help from one.
000
"Kanda, are you sure you don’t want to go back? You were just shot yesterday!" Lenalee was about to board a train which would take her back home, but she was still unsure of wether she should leave the other here alone.
"I’m fine, aren’t I? Besides, there isn’t much more to do here, I’m just cleaning up what little mess is left. Just get the innocence to headquarters. The train is going to leave soon, so get to your compartment already."
"Maybe I should stay though... you might need backup!"
"Of course you shouldn’t, getting the innocence back to headquarters is the top priority!"
Lenalee huffed, but she couldn’t argue, bringing the innocence back was the most important thing at the moment.
"Fine, but you’d better make it back safely!" She said, giving him a stern look. Kanda nodded, bored with being the object of her worry. He didn’t need anyone to worry about him dammit!
Lenalee sighed one last time before boarding the train, Kanda was such a hopeless case, he held far too little concern for his own well-being.
Kanda waited around the station until the train left, before heading back to the hotel that he still had to live in for another few weeks. He’d like to believe that things would be easier now that he was working alone again, but really, when it came to fighting, it was always nice to know someone had your back. Finders could capture akuma with talismans, but that was about all they could do, and it wasn’t much help. The akuma population wasn’t so large that it would be a problem to work by himself though, so he was fine with it.
still... dealing with the locals is even more annoying...tch.
Something in the air changed, and Kanda’s hand came to Mugen’s hilt. Akuma were slowly shedding their skins; He wondered when they’d infiltrated the crowd.
On second thought, the akuma really are the most annoying....
000
Lenalee, and Lavi were both waiting impatiently, it was the day before Kanda’s birthday, and he wasn’t back yet.
"Oh, I knew I shouldn’t have left him alone! I bet he’s half-way across the world by now!" Lenalee huffed, pacing around her brother’s office. She’d come back to find that Komui and Lavi had gone from planning a simple get-together to nearly turning Kanda’s birthday into a theatrical production. She’d put a stop to it immediately, of course, because she didn’t want Kanda to hate the Order’s birthday parties forever. Komui and Lavi were sad though, they couldn’t have any more fun with planning!
"Don’t worry about it Lenalee, it’s not his birthday yet, and if he comes late, we’ll just celebrate late! He loses either way." Lavi said happily, munching on some chips as he lazily sat on the couch that occupied the center of Komui’s office. Bookman would have his head for slacking off, but it was just part of his "Character" to think it was funny to provoke the old man.
"Gee, that’s so kind of you." Lenalee rolled her eyes, poor Kanda...with friends like these, it was no wonder he didn’t want any friends to begin with.
Suddenly, Komui burst through the office doors, not in his I’m-so-happy-I’ve-created-a-new-monster kind of way, but in a frantic way.
"Kanda’s back." He breathed out, Lenalee and Lavi both gave him curious looks. He made that seem like a bad thing.
"Is something wrong, Ge ge?" Lenalee asked, worry creeping into her voice. Oh, she knew she shouldn’t have left Kanda alone!
Komui nodded. "You should see for yourself, they’re bringing him to the hospital wing." Lavi and Lenalee both bolted for the door, Lenalee ever worried, and Lavi doing his best to act the part when really, he was more or less curious. He remembered Kanda’s insane healing ability, how broken bones had mended themselves withing days and gashes healed within hours. How could Kanda possibly be in such bad condition now?
Once they reached the hospital wing of the tower, they had to fight to get into the room. The medics had only just transferred him from the stretcher to the hospital bed, and they were all fussing over him, cleaning wounds and getting bandages ready for him.
Oh lord, he was a bloody mess. Lavi decided that he must’ve gotten attacked just recently, because some of his wounds simply seemed too new to be more than half a day old. Kanda’s pale skin was littered with cuts and deep wounds, and what looked like bullet wounds. Lavi could even see fading stars on the boy!
What the...? Did he get hit? Why are they fading?
"Hey...Lenalee, do you see those stars? There’s only a few of them but..."
"That idiot! He got hit again!" Lavi gave her a surprised look, again? "Oh...he seems to have some sort of immunity to the virus...just before I left he got shot... but he was fine by the time we got back to the hotel."
Lavi raised his visible eyebrow, so Kanda healed quickly and he was immune to the akuma blood virus? Interesting, how very, very interesting.