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Kanda watches Amber quietly pack her things from where he stood as he rests his back on the wall behind him, going over everything that happened earlier that morning.

Amber had just entered her father's office. She looked much better and she was smiling gently at her father when she came into the room. When she saw Kanda, she gave him a small little wave and opened her mouth to say something but didn't. Kanda was confused and followed her stricken gaze to the new rune on his hand. In mere seconds, Amber was right in front of him. She studied his rune, pulling his wrist to her eye-level. After a minute, she let go of his hand and turned to her father. Kanda watched as Amber screamed at her father about placing a rune on him. Cross waited until she finished to tell her Kanda was her new bodyguard but before he could further explain, Amber objected loudly and furiously to this in turn. The teenage samurai watched on, trying to keep a passive face as the two Marians argued. Kanda had rubbed his temples irritably throughout and eventually Amber relented due to her father's adamantly strong desire to protect her so that she won't end up like her own mother.

Kanda shakes his head, returning to the present. "Let's go." Kanda blinks once before finally realising that Amber was leaving the room with her packed bag. He silently follows not wanting to lose sight of the little redhead.

Hours Later

"Amber! My little goddaughter!" Amber smiles politely & hugs Sammo Han warmly and Kanda just watches, not bothering at all to greet the elderly gentleman upon arrival to the Asian HQ.

He watches Amber & her godfather talk as he follows them inside, not caring at all to listen to what they were talking about. He was too busy studying Amber.

She looked pretty as always. A black cashmere sweater, red and black checkered shorts and dark brown heeled boots which helped her stand to his shoulder level. She wore her hair in a high ponytail with some sort of white X hair band. She carried a faint scent of strawberries to her skin which made it hard to not want to be near her so watching her wasn't difficult.

It's only been a couple of hours since the announcement and so far the only problem Kanda had with the entire situation is that Amber didn't make eye contact with him in any way. She was obviously bothered by the entire situation but made no move to mention it to him. He wondered why but he had caught her sneaking looks at his rune and it made him want to ask her about it. At this point, Kanda raises his wrist to his eye level to take a look at the rune. It was a golden winged cross and it was beautiful even Kanda had to admit but he knew there was more to the story than what Cross told him.

Flashback

"This rune allows you a physical connection with Amber. If she cut her knee, you get hit twice as bad. However, it doesn't work vice versa. If you get hit in any way, Amber receives no backlash. The rune, if you use it properly, you can use to track Amber as well. If she somehow slips away from you, you can track her by the amount of pain you feel. If she is 20 yards from you, you will feel your rune itching but when she is a hundred yards, you will scream with pain."

Cross squeezes Kanda's shoulder firmly, looking at the teenager dead in the eye, "Ensure nothing happens to my daughter under your watch."

Flashback Ends

Kanda shook his head, it would have been nice to know all of that before Cross placed a magical rune on him but then again, Kanda should have asked, to begin with.

Suddenly, a strong feeling within made him look up and in a blink of an eye; something white, shiny and glittery flew towards Amber. He rushed forward only to be just in time to catch her. He held her in his arms as she struggled against him. She held onto him tightly as she hyperventilated.

"What in the hell happened? "

"I don't know but I saw something white and sparkling flew into her chest in a flash! She was just next to me and I didn't know what it was or what to make of it so-"

"What into her chest?!" Kanda interrupts, clearly irate by the older man's ramblings.

Sammo Han nods and Kanda picks up the redhead, carrying her bridal style., "We're going to your infirmary now!"

"Amu-chan! "

Kanda turns and sees the entire clique of the former Guardians and Ikuto. They were all panting as if they had been running.

"What do you brats know about this?"

The pre-teens hesitated while Ikuto looked horrified at the state Amber was in, she looked like she was struggling to breathe.

"Answer me! "

"Mr Kanda please! They are only children! "

Before the samurai could yell back at Mr Han, he feels someone yanking him by the collar & he was forced to look into the eyes of his charge.

"Put...me into a...sick bay alone...I'll be fine...by tomorrow...I promise…"

Kanda wanted to argue but seeing the little redhead's skin gleaming with sweat, Kanda knew he had no choice.

Kanda blinked his eyes rapidly after being forced out of the sickbay and into the observation room. He turned and saw that the sickbay had no lights on whatsoever so it was completely dark. He turned to see Bak Chan rush in suddenly, looking frantic.

"What happened? "

"I don't know. She jumped out of my arms the moment we got in, she pushed me out the door and here I am."

"And you just let her?! "

Kanda looks down to see a strange being glaring at him and realised she was the Fo girl Allen talked about that trained with him while he stayed at the Asian HQ.

She was short and had reddish-pink hair poking out from under her purple hat to frame her face, with matching purple clothes that resemble a tube top and bikini. On her forehead and down her sides are geometric teal markings, and her arms, instead of ending in human-like hands, appear to be large, mitten-like appendages.

"Bak-sama! "

Bak and Kanda turned to see Sammo and Amber's former clique out of breath and panting at the doorway. Kanda wasted no time and pulled Ikuto towards himself by the collar.

"You know something, you better tell me what is! What happened to her?

Ikuto gritted his teeth and pulled away obviously annoyed.

"Even if I did try to explain it to you, you wouldn't believe me."

"Guys! I manage to pull an ultra dark surveillance from inside the room. " Fo announced suddenly from the large supercomputer she was sitting in front of. Everyone walked onward to see the video; Amber pushing Kanda out and locking the door, her stripping off her sweater and her boots & socks, her putting some mouth guard on before laying down on a bed and restraining herself to it.

"What the fuck is she doing? " Kanda asks, confused.

"She's pre maturing."

"What? Sammo repeated, aghast. "That cannot be! She's not even 13 yet! "

"We all know very well that Amber is a very gifted and powerful girl with magic. It is unsurprising that her magic matures at an earlier age than anybody else." Fo answers, a matter of factly. She spoke in a calm manner but the concern for her friend was evident in her voice.

Bak shook his head, what Fo said was true but she was still too young, "But Fo-"

"No, I'll call her father," Sammo announces.

Kanda and Bak turned sharply at the elderly man, "Is that really necessary? "

"Cross is her father, he should know what happening to his daughter and she is in pain. Wouldn't you agree? Even if isn't her magical maturity transformation, his daughter is still in a worse for wear condition. "

Kanda deadpans, "But why am I not affected by her pain? "

Ikuto rolls his eyes, "Cuz you have no heart?"

Kanda scowled but before he could say anything, Mr Han pulls his wrist towards his eye level, looking at his rune specifically.

"Well this makes sense and to answer your question, Mr Kanda, the pain Amber is receiving is not physical, it's a magical transformation, a manifestation of her powers hence why you are not affected physically but you seem restless so I'm guessing her behaviour is affecting you somewhat."

Kanda nods dumbly while everyone just looks at him in confusion.

"Can somebody please explain? " Rima asks in exasperation.

"We will" Sammo replies and letting go of Kanda's wrist. "If you tell us what you know about what happened to my godchild."

Immediately the clique hesitated until they felt shivers went up their spine and immediately turned to Kanda but he was passive. It was then they realised the killer intent came from the usually collected godfather.

"Okay, we'll tell you don't blame us if you don't believe what we tell you."

Kanda rolled his eyes at what Ikuto said, "Whatever"

Inside the Room

Christa watched on as her mistress struggled against the restraints, sweat adorning her entire body as she tried to take the pain that was coursing through her veins within her blood.

Oh Mistress, you are about to mature in power far beyond you can dream of...it will be over soon.

Christa cringed seeing her master in pain but she had no choice.

This was something Amber had to do on her own.

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