Kanda was walking back from training. It was approximately 5:30 a.m. and very few members of the order were awake yet. As he passed the office, Komui saw him.
"Oh hello Kanda. Perfect timing, I have a favor to ask of-"
"No."
"Too bad, you're doing it anyway." Komui countered.
"Che. Fine, what is it?" Kanda grumbled.
"We have a new exorcist arriving today. I want you to wait at the entrance to make sure she arrives."
"Won't she be arriving with one of the generals?" Kanda questioned.
"No, she found out she was an exorcist on her own, as well as found her innocence herself. She hasn't really trained herself but she knows how to use her innocence really well so she'll need minimal training. One of our finders found her and told her about the order and she decided to come here."
"Fine. I'll go wait at the entrance." Kanda huffed, turning and heading for the door to the order. As he walked up to the door, he heard the statue out front talking to someone.
'Right on time. Great. Now I can go get soba. I'm starting to get hungry and I want to be done eating before the baka Usagi and the Moyashi get there.' He walked through the doors outside. When he got there, there was a girl around the age of 18, the same as him. She had short cut, wavy dark red hair that went just past her ear on one side, gradually getting shorter towards the back, while the other side had a buzz cut. She was approximately as tall as Kanda. Her eyes were greenish- bluish- gray. She had a white t-shirt- well, used to be white, it was covered in blood on the stomach area- and black pants. The thing that caught Kanda's attention first, however, were the cuts. Her arms were covered in them. The thing was, only half of them were new and profusely bleeding. The other half were just scars. She looked oddly familiar.
"What happened to you?" Kanda asked, shocked, forgetting his cold demeanor for a second.
"…Noah members… Attacked me… " She started in a slightly British accent, before collapsing.
As she collapsed Lavi rounded the corner. Seeing Kanda doing nothing, he ran over.
"What happened!?" He asked, panicked.
"She came here and collapsed."
"Well don't just stand there, help me carry her!"
"Che. Do you even know how heavy she is? Don't ask for help until you're sure you need it."
"Fine." Lavi muttered, picking her up and running to the infirmary. She was surprisingly light. He ran into the infirmary. The head nurse saw him and looked at him questioningly until she saw the panicked look on his face and the girl in his arms at which point she ran over.
"What happened to her?" She asked while taking her from him, carrying her over to one of the beds.
"I don't know! I just walked up to the front gate and saw her unconscious with Yu-chan and when I asked him what happened he said 'she came here and collapsed' so I carried her here." Lavi responded, slightly panicked.
"Alright, thank you. You can leave now."
"Will she be ok?"
"I'll contact you once I've gotten enough information to determine that."
"Ok, thank you." Lavi sighed, leaving. He didn't know why but there was something about the girl that made him want to protect her. As he left, Allen walked passed.
"Oh hi Lavi! What're you doing at the infirmary?" Allen inquired, tilting his head to the side curiously.
"Hi Moyashi-chan! I was just dropping someone off there. She's a new exorcist. She arrived this morning with really bad wounds. What're you doing here?" Lavi responded.
"IT'S ALLEN, NOT MOYASHI! I just tripped and bloodied up my hand. Nothing much. Do you know what her name is? The new exorcist I mean?" Allen asked curiously.
"No. Yu-chan probably would though. He's the one who was sent to take her to Komui." Lavi replied. Just then the head nurse came back out.
"Hello Lavi. I finished looking at her. She has sustained a severe amount of blood loss, so we've given her blood supplements, and she got a concussion from collapsing on the concrete but other than that she should be fine. You can talk to her if you want, she's already waking up."
"Thank you." Lavi muttered as he walked past the nurse. The girl's stomach and arms were covered in bandages. When he walked in, she looked over in the direction of the footsteps.
"Hello! My name's Lavi, I heard you're the new exorcist. What's your name?"
"I'm Maru." She said, smiling.
"Nice to meet you."
"You too. Hey d'you know what happened after I collapsed?"
"Well when you collapsed Yu-chan didn't do anything and I had just rounded the corner so I picked you up and ran here to the infirmary." Lavi explained.
"Who's Yu?" Maru questioned. The name sounded strangely familiar to her but she couldn't figure out why.
"The guy that was sent to meet you at the entrance. Everybody else calls him Kanda, but I call him Yu-chan just to piss him off. It's really fun!" Lavi said happily.
"Oh, ok. Anyway, I was wondering, about my injuries, approximately how long should it take for them to fully heal so I can get out of here?" Maru questioned, appearing unfazed by Lavi's hyperactive personality.
"I don't know. The nurse should though. Hey what's the form you're innocence takes?"
"A scythe is its main activated form, but there's also various blades it turns into and its non-activated form is a silver thick-banded ring. It hangs on a chain around my neck." Maru said. Just then Lenalee came in.
"Hello. You must be the new exorcist. I'm Lenalee. Onii-san just wanted to make sure you got here safel-" She started, but gasped when she saw all the bloody bandages.
"Oh my god what happened!? Kanda rarely gets mad enough to do something this violent to another exorcist!"
"It's ok, it wasn't Kanda. On my way here I ran into three of the Noah, that's all." Maru laughed. "Oh by the way, who's you're brother?"
"Oh! Right, sorry. Komui's my brother. I forgot you didn't know we're related. You did just get here after all. Sorry." Lenalee said embarrassedly. "Wait, what!? You ran into three of the Noah!? And you don't think it's a miracle you're alive!?" She half-yelled, confused.
"Well, yeah. I do consider myself lucky that I'm alive, but I am getting better, so I don't think it's that big of a deal anymore." Maru said calmly. "Why does my head feel like its splitting open?" She added, holding her head in her right hand.
"When you collapsed, Kanda didn't catch you so you fell on the concrete and got a concussion." Lavi supplied, sounding slightly resentful. Maru and Lenalee looked at him, surprised. They knew it was really weird for Lavi to use Kanda's last name rather than call him Yu-chan, Lenalee from past experience and Maru because he'd told her how he usually calls Kanda Yu-chan.
"Erm… Lavi are you feeling alright? You sounded uncharacteristically… pissed." Lenalee remarked.
"Huh? Oh, no I'm fine thanks!" Lavi said, immediately returning to his happy, hyper attitude. Maru raised one eyebrow.
"Well that was weird… Anyway I'm gonna go now so… Talk to you guys later! Nice to meet you both!" Maru said, standing up abruptly and walking out, tearing the bandages off her arms as she left. Lenalee and Lavi stared. The deep cuts that had been open and profusely bleeding less than ten seconds previously were already nothing more than scars.