Hey everyone! My best friend - Kiko12 - and I decided to do a joint fanfiction! Her character's name is Miciah Hinamori, and mine's called Riya Kanade. I'll be switching between her chapters and my chapters every time I post, so it'll be alternating perspectives as well. Hope you like it, enjoy~!


Sadness and pain. That's all Riya Kanade felt as she lay there, bleeding on the ground of her modest, now destroyed home. Her brother, her little Koro-chan, had turned both their parents into akuma, becoming a flame spirit in the process. And yet, he had spared her. Who knows, maybe some small flicker of the soul remained in the spirit's body, desperately trying to fight the presence of the flame spirit that had possessed him. These were Riya's thoughts as everything faded into blackness.

"Hey, wake up, come on now," a kind and warm voice penetrated my consciousness, and I was jolted into painful reality. A tall, dark haired man with a battered white hat and glasses knelt over me, pressing something painfully onto the gaping wound in my stomach. I cried out in pain, and blackness once again took me.

"Miss?" I opened my eyes once more, only to find myself lying in what seemed to be a hospital bed, surrounded by people. I quickly sat up. Among them was the dark haired glasses man, and he smiled gently at me, moving closer to the bed. "I'm Komui. All these people are exorcists, you know what they are, right?" My mind was fogged, but I nodded my head in understanding. "Good, can you tell us your name?" My mouth opened, and everyone stared at me expectantly. "Riya Kanade," I croaked out, my speech becoming smoother after the first words. W-where am I?" This time it was a young white haired boy who answered. "You're in the headquarters of the exorcists. I'm Allen Walker, nice to meet you," and he stuck out his hand, smiling. "Nice to meet you too," I shook his hand, and everyone made their introductions after Allen. The red haired one with the eyepatch was Lavi, and the girl in pigtails was Lenalee, Komui's sister. I smiled wearily at them. "Nice to meet you all." Allen's face darkened, and he suddenly looked really sad. "If only Kanda were here to meet you as well..."
"Kanda? Who's Kanda?"

It had been three years since that incident. I was now seventeen, and compatible with innocence. I still hadn't met this mysterious Kanda. Almost every day, I would hear people discussing his mission, wondering if they should send a search team out for him, or laughing at something he would have done, only to remember that he had been missing for three whole years.
I had turned seventeen two days ago. Allen, Lavi and Lenalee had all gone off on a mission a day ago, leaving me behind at HQ. Again. I sighed. Komui was extremely overprotective of me, even more than he was of Lenalee, so I hadn't once been out in the field. While I trained every day, most of the time the other three were out on missions, so I didn't have anyone to train with in the first couple months. Then, Hevlaska had offered to help me refine my innocence, and I reached an astounding 90% compatibility, which I had increased to 93% over the last two years. Every day consisted of training with Hevlaska, breakfast, more training, lunch, studying lore with Lavi when he was around or more training with Hevlaska, dinner, and then bed.
It was dinner time now, so I headed over to the mess hall, and took a seat. Alone. Again. I sighed. Every time Allen, Lavi and Lenalee went off on one of their missions, I was left to eat alone. Everyone else was afraid of my innocence, all because of that one bomb incident that got out of hand.
I ate my dinner in silence, and then headed to my rooms to retire for the night. I lay in bed, thinking for a few hours, before I finally fell asleep.

I woke up later than usual, and realized that I had missed my morning session with Hevlaska. "Oh well," I muttered to one myself as I got dressed, and headed to the mess hall for breakfast. As usual, it was a lonely affair. Even the finders were cautious around me, although some of them managed to send a quick "Good morning," in my direction. I walked up to the counter. "I'll have blueberry pancakes with syrup please," and I was passed my food.
I finished my breakfast and headed over to Hevlaska. "Sorry I'm late," I called as I entered the room, "I overslept."
"It is alright, little exorcist," Hevlaska spoke slowly, "Today we will focus on your meditation. Meditation is the key to better synchronizing with your innocence." I nodded, sat down, and prepared for one hell of a boring lesson.
Three hours later, my stomach grumbling, I still hadn't managed to meditate. "Remember, little exorcist, you must concentrate on everything, and you must concentrate on nothi-" I had enough. "I know!" I shouted. "I know, but it won't work... I'm just not good at meditating!" I lowered my voice at the end, "sorry," I whispered to Hevlaska.
"It is alright. You are tired, and hungry. Go and eat a balanced meal." I nodded gratefully, and headed back to the mess hall once more.

When I arrived, I was struck by how empty it was. "There wasn't a single person in the halls, either," I noticed. I decided to go and find Komui and figure out what was going on. I found Komui in his office, sleeping under a pile of books. I sweat-dropped. "Komui, Lenalee is getting married to Lavi," I whispered in his ear, causing him to wake up instantly, screeching about how he'd make Lavi bald with his new device.
"Komui, where is everyone?" I interrupted his tirade, "Ah, yes. It seems that Kanda has finally arrived. Everyone is out praying for him now. He was in pretty bad shape when they found him, apparently he found his way back home while he was unconscious." I gasped. Kanda was back?! I could finally meet the legendary man himself? I dashed out of Komui's office, ignoring his cries of "Riya! Wait!".
I reached the infirmary, and burst through the doors only to be instantly retained by two guard robots. "The medical staff are currently performing an incredibly delicate procedure, please do not bother them," and they set me down outside the doors, slamming them in my face. After several more attempts at this, I gave up and went back to my rooms to practice meditating again. I sighed. "If I don't get really good at meditating, Hevlaska's going to kill me..."