Author Notes: Now we're getting to the core of this mission! Har har har!! D

Oh, and I found the music sheet for the piano piece that Allen plays in Episode 92. D

Training time is fun! :D Trust me; it's so fun it bores me sometimes. XD

Disclaimer: I don't own D.Gray-Man or anything related to it.


This time however, Kanda didn't reply. After the general had finished explaining, Kanda's mind blocked out everything, cleared out everything and relaxed a little as his tired mind fell deep into sleep. He was indeed tired today for some odd reason – usually a small fight in an alleyway wouldn't tire him out so much. So why…?

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"Good afternoon, Yuu." Tiedoll smiled kindly at his student who had just woken up from his deep sleep. "It's past midday in case you were wondering. I just didn't have the heart to wake you up." Tiedoll wandered from one corner of the room to the other, searching for something.

A small grumble came from Kanda's stomach and he drowsily scrambled out of bed and made it before putting on some proper clothes. Looking at the neat bed across from his own, Kanda noticed how everything was in the same place as last night. "Didn't you sleep last night?"

Tiedoll chuckled and shook his head, "I had some things to do. I had to prepare a little surprise for you after all. We've got things to do today – you'll be busy!"

"Things to do?" Kanda buttoned up the last button on the Chinese shirt Lenalee had lent him yesterday after they came back to the Lee household.

Already pushing him through the door, Tiedoll grabbed Mugen and replied with a slightly exhausted smile, "I'll explain on the way."

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Tiedoll let out an impatient sigh. Even after explaining to his pupil several times, Kanda didn't seem to understand what all this meant. Tiedoll had tried to make it as brief and easy to understand as possible, but it seemed that his pupil just didn't seem like himself today. "I'll explain one last time. You know how when you activate Mugen, the main technique you use is Kaichu: Ichigen?" The grey haired man tried as hard as he can to speak above the loud noises of the streets.

Kanda nodded. He had felt that his anti-Akuma weapon held a lot more than just one technique, but the Innocence wouldn't tell him anything about those other things held within his weapon. "In other words, what I'm trying to say is that there are more than – at the very least – two techniques that an anti-Akuma weapon holds. However, sometimes other techniques can only be used in the presence of another. Parasitic-type exorcists' anti-Akuma weapons can sometimes shift their appearance in order for the accommodator to be able to use certain techniques." Tiedoll searched through his dictionary-of-simple-words for easily understandable words to try and express what he was trying to say.

"Just get to the point, general." Kanda raised an eyebrow suspiciously at the grey haired man as the thick crowds of people thinned out, making it easier to hear above the noises. They were slowly moving out towards the more deserted areas of Beijing which is near the edge of the city.

"The point is, I think you're old enough to learn some new techniques and raise your level of synchronization with your Innocence." Tiedoll smiled confidently at the fourteen year old, "But let me tell you, this is going to be hard work and may endanger your life…"

'The lotus flower and the tattoo eh?' Kanda thought to himself as he looked down at his feet as they continued to journey towards a wide empty space fit for their training. "That's fine. Life is bound to come to an end in some way or another." The young exorcist looked up into his master's eyes with renewed determination and confidence.

"Very well." The general nodded his head and handed his student his weapon. The black katana named Mugen which was once an outcast of the sword collection in the Black Order's Weapon Storage. "Activate Mugen and we'll start straight away."

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"Oh, welcome back; Mr. Tiedoll and Kanda." Lenalee gave them a warm smile before noticing all the dirt on their clothes. "You're all dirty." She blinked at the pair, "Take a bath before we eat dinner?" As master and student hurried away towards their rooms to grab a set of fresh clothes, Lenalee shouted at their backs, "I washed your clothes and put them on your beds!"

Seconds later, Lenalee looked up when the sound of shuffling feet were heard outside the lounge room. Leaning back from her chair, she peered outside and saw the Japanese boy and the French man in their dirty clothes, walking out of the house's sturdy gates wordlessly. "Going to the public baths I guess?" The Chinese girl returned to her previous sitting position and continued to sip at her warm cup of jasmine tea.

On the other hand, the pair that had silently left the Lee household to go to the public baths were already comfortably enjoying themselves inside the warm baths; they had deliberately come out to the public baths because they had thought it would be better to discuss about their 'work' while being out of the Lees' ear shots. Comfortably settling down into the warm body of water and placing the neatly folded towel which was drenched with ice cold water onto his head, the French man let out a sigh, "It's so good to take a warm bath like this after a day full of long work…"

'As if you were the one working the hardest…' Kanda complained inside his head as he also seated himself across from his master, dipping his entire body save for his head into the water. "Found out anything else about the Nian case?" He quietly mumbled to the other man as his cheeks turned a light shade of pink from the warmth from the water.

"No, but I have a feeling that this case will be hard to handle. If we don't get you trained up soon." Tiedoll took off his glasses and left them beside him, away from the water since they were fogged up with steam. "So I had been thinking about how to speed up your training…"

"Well? Did you come up with a way?" Kanda asked lazily as he closed his eyes and let his whole body and mind relax for the first time that day. The French man shook his hair lazily. "Che…"

The training that he had to go through was very harsh. It involved placing himself in a life or death situation and yet be able to make clear decisions. In other words, it could be easily summed up as a training method to force your inner talents out under a suitable amount of pressure. Of course, this meant that there has to be something that is causing this pressure which is, in other words; Tiedoll. Being the fabulously nice and caring teacher he is, Tiedoll had already held back while going up against his beloved student. Despite knowing that his master was holding back, Kanda still found it difficult to reach his teacher in a ten metre radius. This only proves how big the gap between the two is.