My Fair Lady

Miranda x Kanda

By Rhamana

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In which Miranda thinks a lot

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It was an unusual mission, Miranda thought as she walked along the dusty road, suitcase in her left hand. Not unusual in subject matter, she was on the trail of an Innocence fragment, much as always, but in the matter of companions. The familiar shock of silver hair, the one green eye and the slender Chinese girl were nowhere in sight, which discomforted her slightly, she felt stronger and less likely to mess up when Allen, Lavi and Lenalee were around. Walking along next to her, with surprisingly graceful strides was... Kanda. She didn't like Kanda very much, he was a terrifying prospect of an exorcist, forever glowering at her if she tried to snatch a sideways glance at her companion, and of course, as it was Kanda, talking was very much out of the question.

She sighed gently, imagining her presence to be of little more concern to him than that of the Finders scouting ahead in their destination village.

It made her want to weep, that she was so unimportant as a fellow exorcist, and tremble, that she felt immense excitement just from being close to this VERY good looking Japanese man. The German men she knew were never as attractive as Yuu Kanda, tall and slender like a willow. Dare she say it,

he was BEAUTIFUL. She didn't dare voice her opinion to anyone though, if it reached back to Kanda, well, she'd seen how he reacted to Lavi's teasing, and fretted that she mattered so little that he would not think twice about attacking her in the same fashion.

Looking up ahead of her, she exclaimed softly as stretched out in front of them were miles and miles of beautiful flowers.

'Che' was Kanda's only response to this. She smirked inwardly wishing she had a Kanda-translator, so she could realise what each tone of that one syllable meant.

Her pace quickened as she breathed in the scent of the beautiful flowers, her face filling with a lovely rosy tint. Her complexion was quite dull, she thought woefully, all pale and pallid, she found herself wishing she had more colour in her face like Lenalee, and resolved to ask her for some tips on good ways to get some colour in her cheeks..

Kanda shot Miranda a sideways glance. He didn't think much of her but at least she was quiet. More than could be said for that damned Moyashi and baka Usagi. He smirked as he thought of Moyashi, he hadn't called him that for a long while. Though to be fair, that was probably because he hadn't seen him for a good two or three months, their missions always seemed to start when the other's had just ended, so they just missed each other at HQ every time. Not that he cared. He preferred the peace and being able to meditate and train more efficiently. Now if only he could get rid of the baka usagi in the same way…

Miranda noticed him smirk slightly from the corner of her eye, and felt a note of surprise at this most unusual gesture from Kanda. For him to smile was, well, unheard of. At least, she'd never seen him smile, but she was also surprised, it took years off her younger companion. She wondered how lovely he would look with a full blown smile on his face..

BANG.

Kanda, who had overtaken Miranda, without entirely meaning to, turned around. Miranda had, of course, tripped on a stray tree root that had up grown into the path they were walking. Her case had flew open and the few bits of papers and clothes had fluttered out, to lay on the path, the papers catching on the flowers' stems as the gentle breeze caught them.

'Che' he said again, turning fully round and bending over to help pick her up.

'I'm so terribly sorry Kanda-Kun!' she wailed in her overanxious tone. She'd messed up again, and what was worse, she'd done it because she'd been daydreaming about him. Actually, scratch that. What was worst was her undergarments were currently in his long slender hand as he helped repack her suitcase. Any blush that had crept onto her cheeks had now all but taken over her entire face as she grabbed wildly at the clothing in his hands. He looked surprised, as he hadn't registered what these things were, but figured it out for himself.

To cover up the fact he was blushing, he busied himself catching the papers that were now threatening to be permanently blown away if they weren't attended to soon. As he gathered the last page and turned back towards Miranda and her suitcase, he saw she was still kneeling on the floor, bent over her case fitting her clothes in, and looking for something else..

'Nein, wo es ist?!' She exclaimed in her native tongue. Kanda blinked in surprise, not knowing German himself. 'What did you say?' He asked her, trying not to sound annoyed. Miranda looked up, tears forming in her eyes. 'The key to my grandfather clock.. I bring it to every mission for good luck and its fell from my case!' she sobbed gently, before crawling in the dust trying to find her precious key.

Kanda sighed, and much to the shock of Miranda, he knelt down to help her find the key. After a few minutes of searching, he spotted it laying in the middle of a bed of vermillion red flowers, ones he had seen before but did not know, nor care to know, the name of.

'Oh thank you so much, Kanda-kun!' Miranda beamed gratefully, smiling up at the tall young man. Kanda studied her face carefully. She looked a lot more radiant when she smiled instead of going around with that constantly worried expression on her face, small wisps of her thick black hair escaping from the loose bun she'd tied it up in for travelling.

Shaking himself from his reverie he concealed his apparent interest in her and coughed, saying that should continue to walk or it would be midnight before they got there.

Miranda quickly scrambled to her feet, agreeing quickly while grabbing at her case, almost tripping over her booted feet. Kanda caught her deftly, and she lay in his arms, suitcase up to her chest, looking quite embarrassed and frightened.

'We'd probably get there faster if I carried you at this rate, but I expect you would protest at this' Kanda smirked, secretly amused at how little he was annoyed with all this. Several more loud apologies were wailed and he set her down on her feet.

In just half an hour they reached their destination Inn, only 20 minutes later than planned, the Finder, Toma seemed not to mind as he was aware of Miranda-sama's episodes of clumsiness.

As it was nearing 8 o clock Kanda resigned to the fact it was getting too dark to search tonight, so sighing heavily he checked them into their separate rooms next to each other and stomped off to his room, after announcing to Miranda he was going to take a shower to relieve himself of the dust he appeared to have gathered, before striding off before Miranda could even apologise again. He was getting used to her episodes so decided it was better to walk off quickly rather than have her wailing after him in the corridor at this time of the evening.

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Mmm, I'm enjoying writing this x) let me know what you think and I'll post the second chapter soonish!

Rhamana x