Chapter 12

Komui raised his head from his desk, where he had annoyingly fallen asleep again. Had he imagined the knocking on his office door or? 'Come in?' he called out cautiously, thinking he might finally be going completely mad. It turned out he was not going mad, ask the door opened to reveal Allen and Miranda, who walked in. Miranda looked worried as always and Komui guessed that maybe she and Kanda had made up. Lenalee had imparted information on her little scheme to her brother earlier, because she was worried she may have caused more harm than good.

'Sit down you two, how can I help you?' the young Chinese man asked of the two of them.

'Komui-san, do you know where Kanda has gone? Miranda was supposed to meet him and he didn't show up.' Allen spoke for Miranda, who sat blushing, staring intently at her hands.

Komui smiled gently. He knew how Kanda had reacted to Lenalee's scheme so could guess why Miranda was so worried. 'You don't need to worry Miranda, he hasn't run away. He was sent away to London on a mission, one that he was unable to turn down. Since his Innocence sync rate increased he has become one of our strongest and so Leverrier insisted he be sent on this mission to test his ability.' Miranda visibly became more relaxed at this, and smiled gently. 'Thank you Komui-san, I'm so sorry to be a bother.' she said softly, averting her eyes from Komui's gaze. She still felt embarrassed about the reasoning behind her and Allen asking this of Komui.

'Well, if that's all that you needed to know from me, I would be obliged if you would allow me to continue this work, Reever is being a really meanie, making me do all this work!' the supposedly in charge Komui pouted, all of a sudden looking less capable by the minute, conveniently forgetting that Reever was simply making him do what was supposed to be Komui's work in the first place. Miranda and Allen nodded, and walked out, closing the door behind them. Miranda excused herself and went back to her room, smiling to herself. Well, she would have to make sure Kanda got a nice surprise on his return..


'Ahh, we meet again, Mr. Kitchen Knife…' Tyki smirked, treading thin air just to look cool. Kanda looked up at the dark skinned man with a look that would strike fear into any mortal. This was not going very well. 2 level threes and a Noah. Not to mention the village they were standing in. Inwardly grimacing he tried to ignore the screams of the villagers who fled after seeing these two monsters, who were hell bent on killing every one of them. If he ignored the village, then he and the innocence might have a chance of getting out of this shit..

Miranda smiled happily. She was pleased with her choice of outfit for Kanda's arrival back home. She just hoped he would like it too. She giggled nervously before carefully the items of clothing back up and placing them into one of the drawers of her dresser.


Kanda growled lowly in pain, resting most of his weight on Mugen. His right leg was probably broken. He'd lost a fair amount of blood, but he was alive. The damned Noah had disappeared after Kanda had sliced through the two level threes, and turned his attention towards Tyki. With another growl he pocketed the newly retrieved innocence and slowly turned to find the infirmary. With any luck his wounds would heal before he got there or passed out, and all he would need would be a nice, hot bath.

When he arrived at the infirmary, he was less healed than he would have liked. He was still favouring left leg to stand on, and the cuts hadn't fully knitted. Thankfully he was no longer bleeding. Groaning lowly he staggered into the infirmary where the nurse immediately rose to attend to his injuries.

The tattoo had grown slightly more. He glanced at it with more worry in his mind that what showed on his face. He knew that the third petal had just fallen from the lotus, but he would be fine. For now. His leg had healed overnight after a good nights sleep and some food, even if he could not get the soba that he so wanted. After a 20 minute bath, he was ready to start back to the Order, and left after giving a word of thanks to the pretty red haired nurse who attended to him last night. She looked like a mix of Lenalee and Miranda. He smiled fondly, which caused the nurse to blush slightly. The smile wasn't directed at her but it definitely made the girl's day a lot brighter. With a bright smile she rose and waved him off, patting her swelling stomach lightly.

Kanda walked briskly to the nearest train station, which was Paddington. After navigating the many platforms, he finally found the right one for the train back towards the Order. For once he was opting the civilian way of boarding a train, instead of his favoured method, jumping onto the speeding train from a nearby bridge. He smirked inwardly, he must be getting tamer in his old age..

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Ahh :3 did you notice who the nurse was? ;D If you've been reading my OC story (shameless plug) you'd probably guess! :3 I'm such a genius -beams proudly at herself- Sorry to keep you waiting on this chapter, but as I'm currently writing this author's notes my house has no internet. Which is a bit of a bummer. So by the time I get this chappie up I'll have it back, but this explains the reason why I didn't update when I planned! -starts to write chapter 13 for something to do - -._-.