Kanda Yu

Venice is a rather calm city, though not my favorite … far from it. Music echoes in the air, and geraniums bloom on windowsills. Strange masks that would interest Krory hung everywhere. Elaborate alabaster fountains sprayed water in intricate form. This is a place that Shishou would love.

Scratch that. He would be obsessed over it.

Therefore, somewhere I would leave with awful memories of the old man spending hours painting a fountain. That would be very bad indeed. Extremely awful indeed. I flinched in pain.

Some people say history repeats itself. They're right, I regret to say.

It did the moment Yoru took out a sketch book and a stick of charcoal. I happened to spend the next 3 hours sitting next to her, listening to the rest of the exorcists chat and staring at the geraniums on the windowsill.

Lavi

We set up our camp in a meadow. It looked spiffy, if you ask me. It was located in the suburbs of the city, and it took a lot of time on the canals to get here, and sitting next to a fountain three hours straight staring at pigeons certainly wasn't a boost on Yu-chan's mood; although he seemed oddly interested in the geraniums, somehow.

Strangely, there was a light humming noise behind my back. I turned in irritation, and was just in time to find a crowd of AKUMA herding in.

Stupid AKUMA, I thought in agitation, why barge in so early? I was hoping to get to know some beautiful Italian girls. I activated Otsuchi-Kotsuchi. It felt nice and sturdy in my hand. I turned around to see how everyone else was faring.

Igetsu Yoru

My hand instinctively snapped to the waist pouch strapped to the belt of my uniform. My swallowtail coat flared in the wind as I withdrew five of my spades. Senpai already drew his katana, and his face seemed to spell: "You want of piece of me?"

I turned my gaze towards the AKUMA, feeling my body lit up with blood lust. I let my cards melt into little urchins above my palms. Saeko activated her Innocence in an inaudible way, then disappeared without so much of a wisp.

No more time to worry about others. I deflected a bullet form a level 1 with a few of the urchins. Senpai sliced it in half, and Lavi's Hiban licked it clean away. I gave them both the 'I-can-handle-this" look, but Lavi just grinned and Senpai turned away silently.

It seemed that Lenalee and Allen were doing well, using a combination of their attacks. I decided that the others were skilled enough to handle the higher level AKUMA, and focused on my own attacks and defenses, closing all distractions away, and set my mind on the urge to destroy.

"Icarus!" I yelled, the urchins melting into birds that flew up to the moon, taking down a few of the AKUMA. They exploded in the moonlight, and razor sharp feathers rained down, slicing the AKUMA up. Yup, I nodded, pleased at the tasteful display of silver and red.

Then, a rather visually displeasing level 2 descended from the sky. Onii-chan activated his Innocence, and his dark gray wings unfurled upon his shoulders, his ring turned into a full-size scythe in his hand, but a tough level 3 battered him away.

"My, my, what a troublesome little girl you are!" The level 2 crooned sickeningly in its mechanical voice. I promptly activated the Innocence into level two: "Innocence! Second Release! Silver Snake!" A rapier stretched out into my hand, glinting evilly in the moonshine. Before the AKUMA could even move a finger, I lunged at him with Silver Snake and she was now a nice bit of crimson ribbon. Senpai looked rather impressed at me.

However, at the nick of time, a level 3 fired at me, and I tried to dodge it, but it slit open the cloth on my shoulder and nicked my skin. The fast acting poison festered quickly as I tried to reach for the pocket on the waistcoat …

Gosh do I hate these little interferences.

Kanda Yu

As soon as I spotted the starry pattern blossomed onto Yoru's shoulder, without thinking, I ran towards her. Maybe it was the promise to Shishou. I don't know. I also realized that normal humans and equipment-type exorcists were easily affected by the virus and could die in the matter of seconds.

And then again (and annoyingly), I pressed my lips onto the wound and begun sucking out the tainted blood. Don't worry; it's not affective against me.

As you may have noticed, AKUMA poison doesn't exactly taste like grape juice.

Color began to return to Yoru's face, and I glanced at the small puddle at Yoru's side. I was lucky that I was fast enough, and only a part of her blood was infected. Sucking out blood is not an enjoyable and enlightening thing to do. If you don't have Innocence like Krory's I suggest that you don't try this at home, kids.

When I regained consciousness of my surroundings, Lenalee and Allen were looking at me, appalled, staring at the blood dripping from my chin. I spit the last of the blood out of my mouth. Lavi was muttering something in his spazz language that sounded something like this: "OMG Yu-chan you noms Yoru-chan?" I spit more blood into the puddle and grumbled: "Can't you see that I'm saving a life here?"

Lavi leaned over in interest. His eye looked curiously at the dark puddle of blood: "Well, does it taste good?" I looked at his spitefully and practically yelled: "Like hell it does!" Seenig the stars again, I continued to bend down and suck the virus out in irritation.

The Lenalee came along, looking pale. She screamed shrilly, perhaps misunderstanding the scene and supposing that I was devouring Yoru. The Sprout came over. He fainted at the scene, also thinking that I was eating Yoru. Idiots. I did a face-palm.

With an exasperated sigh, I bent my head to continue the poison-removing.

To be continued