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Chapter 2

"No, I'm sorry, Sir," the waitress gave Kanda a frightful smile, "n-no one's ever died here- that I know of." He gave her one of his trademark glares and she took that a sign to be scarce. Kanda sighed and sat himself down on one of the stools at the bar he had been leaning on.

This was the ninth inn he had been to and nothing close to what he was looking for. The closest thing he had come to was a case of food poisoning about five or six months ago. According to his source, that was this place and after six interviews- by interview we're talking about the Kanda version, he gives a question, hand on his sword and death glare on face- he was essentially back where he started. Kanda sighed to himself again, contemplating his options.

"It's not good for business ya know." Kanda's eyes shot up to the figure who stated this, a tall, lithe, tawny brown haired teen about his age sitting across from him. The teen gave a bright smile, his sky blue eyes mimicking it with a vibrant twinkle. He was dressed in an average fashion- black slacks, a white dress shirt, a thick maroon blazer left unbuttoned. Working boots adorned his feet, grey wool gloves with the fingers cut off of them- all these qualities portrayed a hard laborer of some kind. Lastly, a matching maroon train engineer hat was happily on his head.

"What do you mean?" Kanda questioned, automatically fixing the man with a chilling glare, he didn't seem to notice it though.

"Just what I said." the teen replied in a rather cutesy tone. "If someone died in your inn, would you really want that getting out?" he asked, brushing a few strands of his hair out of his face. "No, cuz it'd be bad for business, right?" the teen met Kanda's gaze head on with innocent interest. This boy seemed immune to Kanda's power to drive people away.

"What do you know?" Kanda questioned harshly. The boy gave a rather contented smile, making Kanda break out his glare in another attempt to make the boy fear him- no suck luck.

"Just what I hear." the teen smiled which brought out an annoyed expression on Kanda's face. He took another swig out of the bottle in his hands before continuing to smile at the aggravated- slowly getting more agitated by the minute- exorcist.

"And what exactly would that be?" Kanda tried to pry once more, gripping the edge of the bar in order to not grab his sword and shred this idiot to pieces. The boy smiled cheerily once again.

"Who wants to know?" the teen didn't seem taunting (his words, if not for how he had chosen to display them, would have been a taunt in themselves), on the contrary he seemed to innocently try and help. Kanda wasn't sure if it was one or the other, but he was determined to find what this boy knew- it was the first lead he had gotten for some time now.

"What if I do?" If the boy could answer his question with a question he was surely entitled to do the same.

"Who're you?" the boy's face changed from cheery to curious. Kanda's changed from angered to pissed off.

"I'm an exorcist." Kanda stated, repeating the mantra of 'he's not an akuma, he's not an akuma, he's not an akuma' over and over in his head. The boy, not knowing his life was being threatened, gave a hearty laugh.

"Not what, who?" the boy clarified, taking another swig from the bottle in his clutches. Kanda stood up abruptly from his chair, making the stool screech across the floor.

"Do not take me for a fool! Stop toying and answer the damn question!" he harshly spat at the beyond confused boy across from him. At this, the waitress came scurrying over in a rush.

"Fighting isn't permitted inside." she said firmly, looking in every direction but Kanda's. "If you choose to continue, I'll be forced to ask you to leave." She still wouldn't look at Kanda, which made him grin- he loved when people feared him, it made things so much easier. Just before he was about to say something to her he saw the tawny haired teen stand up from his chair.

"That won't be necessary, Miss Olivia," he offered with a convincing smile, "I was just leaving." The waitress turned to give him a silent apology which he shook off. "It was nice as always, Miss Olivia." he said walking out the door, leaving Kanda staring in his absence.

"Che." was all he said before following the brown haired teen's footsteps out the door. He exited the inn just in time to see the boy saunter into an ally across the street. Not missing a beat, Kanda followed him catching up to the boy's slow pace quickly.

"I wasn't done with you." Kanda told the stunned boy as he turned around to face him.

"What is it that you-"

"Get down!" Kanda jumped the teen just in time to save him from a purple beam that was intended for the boy's head. Kanda didn't hesitate to pull out his sword and slice the akuma that was responsible for it in half. A few more purple beams were fired at him from the darkness of the alley which made him curse as he dodged them all.

"What the heck?" the teen grumbled to himself, sitting up and placing a hand over his head. Kanda looked back and groaned. Level one akuma were easy to destroy, but it became tricky when you had to keep someone who had no idea what was going on safe and out of the loop.

"Run you idiot!" he exclaimed, cutting through another akuma that made its appearance known. The teen stared at him, blue eyes a bit confused.

"But…what about-"

"I said go, idiot!" he yelled, taking out his anger on the next akuma.

"O-okay." the boy said, scrambling to his feet and running in the opposite direction.

Kanda cursed to himself, he had to make this fast, he hadn't told the boy where to meet him so he could ask him about the Finder. He did just that- taking out the remainder of the akuma as if they were nothing more than air.

He ran out of the alley, glancing in every which direction for the boy. He was met with nothing. Kanda figured that he couldn't have gone far, so he went in search of him. No matter where he looked, he couldn't find him anywhere nearby. Finally breaking down, he asked anyone that was close to the alley if they had seen anyone come running out in a hurry. All of them denied seeing such a person emerge from the ally.

Kanda sighed to himself and looked up toward the sky. It was about time to meet up with the group again. He glared at the ground before walking off in the direction he knew they would be waiting. He'd have to track down this guy later.