Author's note: As much as I wish it were not so, D. Gray Man belongs only to Katsura Hoshino and not to me. This series is my absolute favorite so I hope you all enjoy my fanfiction of it.

Chapter 1

This mission had already gone to hell. For once, Komui had been right and a town really was under Akuma control but as usual, it wasn't that simple.

The town had been overrun but no one had been killed. The villagers had all been subdued and then transported. Kanda had quickly figured out that very few of the Akuma knew anything. They were just the workers. Still, it hadn't taken long for him to find the 'Queen'. It had cost him all of the finders that had been sent with him but Kanda could deal with that. They would have all been useless anyway.

The Queen was a big Akuma. She was three times taller than Kanda but every other proportion was normal. Kanda guessed that she was a level two; her form was humanoid but not the cherub-like appearance that level threes had. The Queen was also very strong.

Kanda had been fighting since sundown and yet the rays of sunlight were threatening the horizon already. Fractured ribs grated painfully within his torso and Mugen gave a metallic whine every time he swung it. The Queen was virtually unscathed although Kanda had come close more than once. It only took one misstep but Kanda had always known that that was all it took.

His boot caught on a piece of fallen tile from the building's roof and Kanda fell. He held on tight to Mugen as his chest slammed into the rubble on the ground. He heard his thud multiplied by ten as the Akuma slammed her hand against the walls in tandem with his fall. The building wasn't as resilient as Kanda.

The large tiles that had once decorate the roof of the town-hall came loose along with most of the cement walls. Kanda had no chance to move before one of the larger pieces of debris hit him. He suppressed a scream as his legs were painfully pinned underneath a tile.

Vision blurred, Kanda couldn't move as the Akuma drew closer, her body painfully close to the trapped exorcist. Opening her mouth she pressed it against the struggling man's. Immediately Kanda pulled away, face twisted in disgust.

"Fuck you!" he shouted.

Plunging the Katana into the Akuma's abdomen he twisted as far away from the creature as he could.

He pulled Mugen from the shrieking Queen and sliced through the material that dared to trap him. Broken legs trailing behind him and fractured ribs searing hot like he had cattle prods in his chest, Kanda crawled towards the door. But a heavy foot came down on his back and Kanda groaned as pain seared through his body.

A huge hand gripped his body, almost crushing it as it lifted him higher in the air. "That wasn't very nice." The Queen whispered in the young man's ear.

Then she dropped him and a whistling scream forced its way from Kanda's throat as broken legs took the brunt of his fall.

Collapsed on the floor, Kanda could only hope that no one was watching his humiliation. Then he was pulled into the Queen's lap and he opened his eyes to see the Akuma bending in for another 'kiss'.

Struggling uselessly, Kanda was helpless to resist the forced 'kiss'. His back arched as pain consumed his body. A scream could only just be heard from behind locked mouths as Kanda could withhold his pain no more. Feeling as if fire was consuming his body at the same time as sapping both strength and innocence, Kanda went limp,

Mugen dropping from limp fingers. Finally releasing her prey from the kiss, the Queen stepped back and surveyed her catch. Although now in bad condition, he was obviously a powerful exorcist and she liked his quick tongue.

The Queen picked up his innocence and looked at it with disgust. With a twisted smile she snapped the sword in half and threw down the pieces. Then she slung her limp prey over his shoulder and left, the broken sword and blood from the injured exorcist the only evidence that either of them had ever been there.