Here's chapter 10 (obviously)! It's not very exciting, and I think the next one will probably be the last one. This is really all I'd planned for this story, and my inspiration is running out. Sorry I can't think of anything else for it, but I'll try to write something really awesome after this! If my Muse comes back, anyway. XD At any rate, please read and review and I hope you enjoy it! D. Gray-Man is the property of Katsura Hoshino.

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After Kanda told Niya the story of how he had been taken to the Black Order and become an Exorcist, she pursed her lips thoughtfully. He could tell she was unhappy.

"I wish you had been able to tell me. But I understand." She said to him, looking apologetically at the others. "That sometimes seems to me to be a frivolous rule of your Order, but after this whole thing, I can see the necessity of it. If Exorcists make it known what they are, people they hold dear to them may be targeted." She smiled at Kanda. "This whole incident is proof of that, I think."

"Actually, we think you may be in possession of an Innocence." Lenalee contradicted her. "You may even be its Accommodator." Niya stared at her in shock.

"But…wouldn't it have been discovered by now? I mean, my mother was an Exorcist, and I remember she told me that I was tested to be an Accommodator when I was born. That was when the Order thought there may have been something genetic inherent in being an Accommodator."

"You may not have been compatible at that point in time, though." Lenalee said. "We've discovered a lot about Innocence in the past few years, and we know that it takes people time to develop a compatibility with an Innocence. Besides," she smiled, "an infant wouldn't do much good as an Exorcist."

Niya continued looking at her in confusion. Then she turned her gaze to Kanda. "Could it be true, Yu?"

He spread his hands uncertainly. "Anything's possible, I suppose."

"Hey, why do you let her call you Yu, but I can't call you Yu?" Lavi interjected suddenly. Kanda glared at him.

"Because Yu is what she calls me. When you say it, you defile the memories that go with it," he responded acidly. Lavi gaped at him, and Niya chuckled.

"Well, anyway, I think we've maybe talked enough for today." Allen said, heading off another provocative remark from the red-head. "I bet Niya's pretty hungry, and even if she's not, I know I am."

Lenalee and Lavi laughed, and Niya smiled at him. "I am rather hungry, now that you mention it," she said to him. "Thank you."

"I'll go get you something," Kanda said, quickly rising to his feet. He glared at his three comrades. "You three, however, can find your own."

Niya laughed fondly as he walked out the door. "Yu never changes, does he?"

"We certainly haven't noticed that he's changed since we first met him, anyway." Lenalee replied. "Until recently, at least. We always thought he was just a grump and antisocial."

"He has always been like that to a certain extent," Niya told her. "I'd imagine it got worse when he was initiated into the Order, but he's not much different then when I knew him."

Lenalee nodded, looking thoughtful. She thought she could understand why Kanda had been so grumpy upon coming to the Order. She had also hated it when she first went there, after all.

"Well, anyway, since I know at least one of you is hungry, why don't you three go get some food? Yu'll bring something for me, and then he and I'll probably just catch up and try to get to know each other again."

"Are you sure you don't want us to stay until he gets back?" Lenalee asked, concerned about leaving the young woman alone.

"I'll be fine," Niya said, smiling reassuringly. "It won't take Yu very long, and I have some things I need to think about anyway."

Lenalee nodded, and led the two boys from the room.

Niya watched them leave. She was still in shock from Yu's initial appearance, and the drugs the hospital had her on made her mind slow to grasp concepts. She looked at the familiar staff leaning against the wall. Could she really have an Innocence? It seemed hard to believe. But if she were, she could avenge her dead family and prevent the same thing happening to other families around the world…

She was still thinking about the possibilities when Kanda arrived with food for the two of them, and she broke off her thoughts to eat and chat with the man she had loved for years.

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Later that same day Lenalee took advantage of the peace and quiet to call her brother at Headquarters. She briefly sketched in the situation for him.

"A possible Accommodator, eh?" Komui mused, sipping his coffee. "And how sure are you that she has an Innocence?"

"Well, I don't think any of the others really hold much hope that she has it, because there haven't really been any unusual circumstances surrounding her. But I think that even if the Noahs knew she was going to marry Kanda, they wouldn't kill her just to hurt him more. Besides, it would probably only make him angrier and vow to destroy them all, not incapacitate him. They did enough homework to know he was engaged; why wouldn't they know his fighting personality as well?"

She could almost hear Komui nodding thoughtfully, and knew he was nursing his coffee and thinking carefully about her words. "It's definitely got possibilities," he said. "You said she uses a staff weapon? Could the Innocence be in that?"

Lenalee shrugged. "I really don't know, Nii-san. That'd be my guess, but I have no concrete evidence to back it up."

"Alright. Why don't you and the other three come home, and I'll send down some finders to see if they can find any traces of the Innocence while they wait for Niya to be discharged from the hospital."

"She can probably come to the Order now, Nii-san. She wasn't injured seriously."

"I'd rather not take any chances. Besides, I need you all at home to give me a full briefing. And I want Kanda away from her especially. He may pose an inconvenience to the investigation if he was as close to her as you say."

"Alright, Komui Nii-san. I'll tell them." Lenalee hung up the phone and went to inform Lavi, Allen, and Kanda of their plans.

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Kanda, unsurprisingly, was not happy about it.

"I'm not leaving her here! The finders won't know what they're doing, and what if more Akuma show up to finish her off and there are no Exorcists around because Komui called them all home?" He fumed. "No, I won't leave."

"Kanda—" Lenalee began, but he cut her off again.

"No, I've told you I'm not going, and I'm not going!"

Niya looked at the four arguing Exorcists thoughtfully.

"Yu, why don't you just go?" She suggested. "I'll be fine here, and I'll be ready to go probably about the time the Finders get here anyway. Don't worry about it."

Kanda glared at her, and then sighed. He had to give in to her requests. "Alright," he mumbled, still dissatisfied.

She smiled at him. "Thank you."

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The Finders arrived two days after that, and the four Exorcists departed for home. Kanda glared the whole way there, and Lavi was so cowed by him that he didn't try any of his usual mischief, not even drawing on Allen's face while he slept. When they finally reached the Black Order Headquarters, Kanda immediately went to his room and didn't come out for the rest of the day.

"Guess we gave to brief Komui without him," Lavi noted. Allen shrugged.

"Not much new about that," he mumbled around a mouthful of bread he had snagged on their way past the kitchens.

"Whatever. Let's just get it over with so we can go eat. I'm starved."

Allen's eyes brightened at that, and he picked up his pace a bit. "Let's do that, shall we?"