Author note!
BTW THANK YOU TO MY FANTASTIC EDITOR (She's not on this site but shes still awesome) thanks Nancy!
Also, Thank you to "Jess" and "Halley Vanairia" (a guest review) and to marandansweatttaylor and BloodyRose1312 for favoritinG, as well as to rini24 for following! Anyways, I hope this story isn't too confusing or weird. Also, now the cover of this story has a drawing of Kira on it, yay! So if I'm a complete and utter fail at description, you can look at that so see what she's supposed to look like...so yeah. Please review or something, IDK :P
also, HINT for Halley Vanairia...no he's not, though it might be slightly more realistic if he was, and as much as I considered that idea, that would just flat out cruel. Though her father is an equally amusing concept to grasp when her friends find out...hehe! XD
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-BeingWhoIWishIWas
Allen and I head to a little restaurant that he said he and Lenalee were going to meet at. We find her quickly sit down with her.
"Ah! Allen!" She greets him before acknowledging me, "Hello, what's your name?"
I shrug, "Everyone calls me Kira, but whatever you want is fine. I don't really care."
Lenalee smiles cheerfully, but she's got an eyebrow raised at Allen as if to ask "What on earth is she doing here?"
Allen rubs the back of his head and replies to the unspoken question, "She's an...individual...stray...I dunno, but she's got a parasite anti-akuma weapon and I think she's trained."
Why does it sound like I'm a puppy when they discuss me? Jeez!
"I am trained in exorcism, and I'm not one to be discussed about while I'm sitting right her and not be in the conversation. I can help you, or I can work by myself. It's up to you two, I don't particularly care." I interrupt their conversation.
They both blush a little, but recover quickly and apologize, I accept with an ever-complcated-and-meaningful shrug.
"So did you two find any information?" Lenalee asks Allen and me.
Allen hands her a crude sketch, only slightly resembling Mouse-lady. Lenalee has to ask what it is, and then promptly scolds Allen for letting her get away without talking to her. Allen's pretty embarrassed he let her get away, but I don't stop Lenalee's rant. I struggle with my memory to find which street I saw Mouse-lady at this morning.
"At least we know what she looks like!" Allen says.
"I guess." Lenalee says, a bit skeptically.
I roll my eyes at no one in particular, Allen's drawing looks more like an akuma than a human being.
"Is it really that bad?" he says, a little hurt.
"Yes." I say bluntly. Lenalee just looks down.
A server puts the food down on the table and Allen dives in, eating heaps and heaps of food. Lenalee's shocked, and I just shrug.
"It's because he's a parasite type." I explain. Lenalee nods, and I expect she's heard that reason before. Then she looks at me funny and says, "Wait, if you're a parasite type too, aren't you hungry? Allen over here is forever starving."
I shrug, "I at earlier today." Not mentioning the bit about being used to not eating much.
"So how's your investigating going?" Allen asks Lenalee.
"Turn's out my brother was right, when I tried to walk through the edge of the town, it just spat me right back in!" She says.
"Just as we feared." Allen says.
I zone out for most of the conversation, slightly mesmerized by the Gollum Allen called Timcanpy. Timcanpy's tail smacks my head when Lenalee asks me a question.
"Sorry, what?" I ask, feeling a bit foolish.
"You know about Innocence, right?" She says, concerned.
"Yes, of course. I'm trained according to the Order's guidelines."
"Wait, what? Then why aren't-" She's interrupted by a lady in a red shawl peering over Lenalee's chair at us.
"Did you say, Innocence?"
Allen points and flails around and a few things break as Mouse-lady escapes the restaurant, a little scared of Allen. I sigh, and shake my head; I don't want to get involved in this sort of stuff until Lenalee and Allen actually decide whether I'm going to help them out on this mission.
Mouse-lady almost escapes, but Allen grabs the end of her dress and tells her that we're exorcists and that we're here to help her.
She apologizes and comes inside and sits down next to me, across from Allen.
"Hold up, before we get any further, am I going to help you or not?" I say, finally getting impatient.
Allen and Lenalee both look at me funny.
"Oh, I guess I just kind of assumed that you would. That's what usually happens when we run into other exorcists who aren't on an urgent mission." Allen scratches the back of his head.
I cross my arms, "I'm not a part of the Order so I wasn't sure if you two would be annoyed by that or not." Truth be told, I would stay on this case whether they accepted it; I am stuck here anyways. Plus Mouse-lady's the only person that seems to know anything about this. The Akuma think so at least...or the one controlling them. My mouth forms a straight line. Why did I assume it's not necessarily the Earl that's the main player for this little mini game? If he's called some of his friends into action, we'd be up tour necks in trouble.
"So? We're not that discriminatory." Lenalee says, a bit offended. I just shrug and say "OK"
Some guy at the counter is ordering red wine, and Allen's distracted by what he's saying. I raise an eyebrow at him and he snaps to attention, which I find amusing. The three of us turn to Mouse-lady.
"I'm Miranda Lotto." After that she goes on about how happy she is o find us, something about suicide and then dodging a snake. I nod at that last one, remembering seeing that, but Allen and Lenalee eye her warily.
"So, snakes aside, you can tell what's going on? That the town's repeating the day but no one else knows it." I ask her, she nods. Lenalee looks at me like I took the sentences out of her mouth or something.
"I have, but everyone else in town has no idea it's happening! Please! You have to help me! I can't stand this insanity anymore" Miranda says passionately, on the verge of tears. She grabs Allen and continues, looking like a child who's afraid of the dark, begging for their mom to leave a candle in their room, "Please! You saved me from that monster back there! You saved me once you can save me again, can't you?!"
I stifle a smirk as Allen says, desperately trying to calm down the frightened woman, "Miranda, you have to calm down! We'll help-"
I get bored, interrupt Allen by prying Miranda off of him and looking her straight in the eyes and saying, "Look, you have to be calm, now. Panicking never helped a soul and we need to figure out why you can see that the day is repeating, from there we can find out why it's repeating in the first place and try to stop it, understand?"
She looks at me with wide eyes and nods, a little calmer.
"Something must have happened on the original October twenty-eighth that caused the repetition." Lenalee brainstorms.
"How many times do I have to tell you, It's always October twenty-eighth here?" Miranda cries.
Allen's eye turns red and zooms in past my shoulders. Something at the bar has set that cursed eye off; I remember Dad explaining that it can spot the souls of akuma. That must be terrible, useful as heck, but terrible.
"See those three men at the bar? They're the only ones besides us that have noticed that you're different.
I turn around and the three men are mid-transformation into akuma. When they finally complete, I stand and slowly take off my gloves, my eyes trained on the ugly monsters. Allen and Lenalee are also on their feet and Allen's arm transforms into a huge white claw as he explains that Miranda must be in contact with the Innocence and that's why she's not affected.
Miranda screams, and Lenalee activates her Innocence. Ah, that dark boots. Between Allen, Lenalee and I we should be able to take them. My arms morph; my right a blade (my favorite) and my left splits into five, long, sharp points at the bottom, a copy of the akuma's weapon that gave me the three scars over my left eye. I grin at the two other exorcists, and they look at me like I'm a bit crazy. I'm not sure they understand why I look forward to fighting. I doubt I'll ever explain it to them. Dad was like that too, but I hear nowadays he's all boring and serious. I think me getting my scars gave him a scare, but they just made me angry. Innocnet souls being forced to murder people, and the only way to free them, and put a dent in the Earl's plans is to fight akuma? If that's why I've got two gray arms for, I might as well.
Besides, smiling at akuma sets them on edge. So, I might as well.