I do not own D'Gray Man or any of the anime references in this fanfiction.
Beta Reader- StormyMonday
Summary: OC insert. Bonnie didn't know how she fell into the world of an anime she hasn't watched in years. Honestly, she wasn't even a big fan of the series to begin with.
Chapter 7
"A mission with Kanda?!" I groaned in annoyance, lying on the couch in Komui's office, feeling gloomy. I was doing my best to avoid any interaction with the moody swordsman.
After my heart-to-heart with Allen, I had found myself trying not to let myself be caught up in my anxiety and stress over this world.
I wanted to help save Suman Dark, so I was going to try. I was also going to try to help prevent the infiltration of the Order... once I remember how it was infiltrated in the first place.
One step at a time... Though I wondered how I was going to change anything if my missions were with the side characters rather than the main protagonist where all the relevant plot threads occur.
"Crybaby woman," mumbled Kanda, and I found myself shaking with rage at Kanda, who had walked in while I was a blubbering mess.
"I can't honestly trust this guy to have my back! Komui seriously…! Can't I go with Allen or Lenalee?" I begged.
"Allen and my Lenalee left this morning." he said sadly, and I gave him an annoyed look.
"I can go alone. I don't need a useless woman getting in my way," Kanda snapped.
Man I hated that guy.
"Well, at least Eugene should come with us," I relented.
"The Finder?" Komui asked.
I nodded in conformation. Eugene was awesome. The awesomeness of Eugene will counteract all bad vibes from Kanda.
"Tsk."
I watch Kanda leave the room in a huff once we got our mission objective.
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The train ride was silent. I spent my time doing my own thing, not bothering Kanda or Eugene as I focused on thinking of a room layout. I wanted to change the position of my bed and also put in a long mirror. Maybe get a clothing rack too. I almost planned on a finishing wall. Maybe I could paint sunflowers on them.
Mount Fuji was our destination. According to reports, people would walk up the mountain and never be seen again. There was talk of some curse.
Eugene sat outside of our car while Kanda and I listened in silence. "The story of the devil-man, Sui Kogame, had been a folklore among children. He fought many battles before he retired to a small Village. His wife was beautiful and the envy of many, so much so that the village women had poisoned the couple's drinking water, causing Kogame's wife to die. He had become consumed with anger, and allegedly murdered the entire village of fifty-three people. The story was completely absurd, of course, so the villagers just brushed it off as nonsense."
"That's really awful," I commented. Some women can be bitches. I mean, look at every Disney stepmother. There was never an evil stepfather that I can recall.
"I'm sure their intentions were not to kill her," contemplated Eugene. "During that time, many of the town's women were vain about their looks. Perhaps they wanted to scare her or just make her sick."
"Doesn't excuse what happened. She died. I don't really understand how people can do such things to hurt others-" I cut myself off. I used to say things just to get back at my mother when she hurt me. Perhaps I was being hypocritical.
"It doesn't, but neither did it excuse Kogame's actions. He condemned a whole village for the actions of one woman," pointed out Eugene.
"One woman?" I echoed."There's more?"
"Kogame had an admirer. She was jealous. She had coerced the other woman to take action on the swordsman's wife... Hanami – she was the only survivor," reported Eugene.
"So this story – what does it have to do with Innocence?" I asked.
"It's the ghost of Mount Fuji- Kogame. Still searching for Hanami- the locals say that he is the source of the disappearances," he explained.
Great. More ghosts.
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I glared at Mount Fuji with annoyance. Why the hell am I always faced mountains?. I looked at the muddy terrain and remote little village situated at the base. Well no shopping for me.
Kanda went ahead of me not giving me a glance to catch up. He made his way to a pathway leading up the mountain, then activated a golem to speak with Eugene.
Mountains, ghosts and Kanda... This is going to be treat of a mission. Damn you Komui!
It was hot and sticky and sweaty as I followed Kanda up the pathway of the mountain. We didn't speak as I dodged branches and tall plants.
"Ack!" I cried, falling flat on my face after tripping over a branch. I looked up to see Kanda, his hand on his sword staring intently before glaring at me.
"Umm, sorry," I mumbled, cringing at the scrape on my knee as I stood up.
"Let's get this straight useless crybaby woman, if you get in my way or hold me back I will leave you for dead," he stated darkly, an ominous fire surrounding him.
"I said I'm sorry I-" I started, but whatever I was going to say was cut off by the sound of a gunshot.
Kanda moved gracefully, unsheathing his sword while I just hastily rolled and got behind a tree. I watch him slice an Akuma in half just in time. He knocked over a small Buddha statue while he did so.
I stared blankly at the swordsman, his hair moving with the direction of the wind like some shampoo model.
"Even if you are on the verge of death, I will leave you if you get in my way during this mission," stated Kanda again coldly, walking ahead and not looking back to even check on my wellbeing.
Oh Carol, you really know how to pick 'em. He's a real keeper!
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We had been walking for a couple hours in silence. That it took me a fullme full hour to muster the courage to tell the less appealing and more feminine version of Roronoa Zoro we may have been lost was cowardly. "Kanda... um," I tried to get the swordsman's attention, because I could have sworn that we'd passed that log before.
"I think we're... lost," I continued.
He stopped suddenly, and turned like in some horror film.
He glared at me like I had just told him that soba was being banned from the Order.
"Look!" I said, feeling a mixture of frustration and apprehension on how to deal with him. "You don't like me and I don't think much of you either," I mustered the courage to admit, while his eyes sharpened on me. "-but the thing is, we are a team! Our mission is to find this Innocence and return it to the Order. I'm not saying we need to braid each other's hair or anything... All I want from you is cooperation. I want to work with you so I can get back to the Order quicker and deal with styling my bedroom. So please, let's work together and get this over with."
"Tsk," he scoffed. His gaze left mine to stare at a tree branch.
"Mugen." I hear him mumble.
"Hey don't attack me!" I cried, but my voice was cut when Kanda slashed an akuma in half.
It exploded right next to me making me fall on my left arm. The sound of its explosion made my ears ring and I found my body shaking.
That was fucking close! I didn't even see it.
Kanda looked at me briefly and huffed before walking forward. "You're useless," he mumbled, and I felt myself agreeing.
That was the second time I almost died.
I didn't say anything... or more like I had nothing to really say. Kanda was right. I was in the way. He saved my ass twice and all I had contributed to this mission was giving him jump-scares because I'm such a city girl.
We continued walking in silence. I started to pay more attention to the area and looked out for more akuma... "Kanda, we took that turn before. We're walking in circles."
"We haven't," he insisted, not stopping.
"We have! We passed that log!" I pointed out.
He stopped again. "Mugen!"
There was an explosion and I fell on my side again. This time I braced myself before I fell.. That was like the third time.
"Even if you are on the verge of death, I will leave you if you get in my way," states Kanda coldly, walking ahead of me not looking back to-
Wait...
Is he repeating himself?
"Kanda!" I yelled, but he walked ahead.
"Stop you asshole! Stop!" I screamed.
He stopped, his glare as deadly as before.
"You said that to me before! You said that to me three times before! I think you killed the same Akuma before, too!" I said to him.
He eyed me, studying me critically.
"How long do you estimate we have been walking?" I asked.
"An hour," he answered, as if he was having a hard time thinking.
"We're been on this mountain for like half the day... The sun has moved," I said, pointing it out to him.
He looked, but it was almost as if he was not really seeing it.
"Maybe...it's the Innocence," I said. "My mission with Lenalee... When I got in contact with the Innocence...itt started showing me images... maybe you touched it and it's been misdirecting us... or you. I have been following your lead for hours, though I'm not sure how it's getting the same akuma to attack us. I mean, why does it keep coming back?" I asked.
"Akuma are made from the antithesis of the Innocence. The evil substance known as Dark Matter," I blinked.
Whatever he was saying was really going over my head, but I nodded as if I understanding, because this was the first casual non-passive aggressive interaction I had ever had with him.
"It could be..." he trailed off, his eyes darting to the floor as he picked up a broken Buddha statue.
I looked around as if the area around us transformed and now we were standing in an abandoned ruin.
Both of us look around waiting...
Huh… Nothing...
A black golem flew toward me.
"Miss Sanders," came Eugene's voice.
I was too exhausted to reprimand him for using my last name.
"I sent many golems up the mountain. I was going to send word to headquarters that You and Mister Kanda are missing," he explained, sounding worried.
I shared a look with Kanda as he pocketed the Innocence.
"Mission accomplished, I guess," I shrugged.
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The ride back to the Order was silent. Kanda and I still weren't friends and probably never would be.
Our mission was simple. I didn't really do much, and my efforts of trying to have a conversation with the samurai was met only with the silent treatment or a deadly glare.
"I'm a little disappointed!" I exclaimed out loud to no one particular.
Eugene stood behind the door of our train compartment while Kanda glared out at the sky, giving me no indication that he was listening.
"Miss Sanders?" questioned a concerned Eugene.
"I told you call me Bonnie," I said with a frustrated groan, and I looked back at the door where the man stood.
Why weren't Finders allowed in here, anyway?
"It's just that story with Sui Kogame... I wondered if we would discover something else there," I said.
"The information was worthless," Kanda's voice snapped back, almost startling me.
"It happens, sometimes some things are unrelated. The information provided from Finders is to make sure Exorcists don't go in blind. I didn't predict the story would be unrelated to the disappearances. I apologize," he begins.
"No, it's not that," I interrupted. "I just hoped it was related. I wanted to know how Sui Kogame's story really ended or if there was more to it," I explained.
"You like stories," stated Eugene. "You always get enraptured by everyone's story."
"Everyone has a story, and things can be learned from those stories," I said, my gaze falling on Kanda, who seemed impassive and broody.
"In one story, there are these words from an old, perverted seme with a sexy ass… He said, 'those who don't follow the rules are trash, but those who abandon their comrades are worse than trash,' " I said, looking at Kanda with a smile.
He finally looks up at me, his eye twitching.
"Thanks for not being worse than trash on the mountain and saving me from the akuma," I smiled at him.
He said nothing and I didn't know if he was just some tsundere, or just seriously didn't give a damn, but I wasn't going to discount the times he saved me while we were there.
Chapter End
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