Moko-chan's notes: D. gray man is owned by the great Hoshino Sensei. This chapter… is kinda unnecessary, I feel. But since Kanda's past is like a total mystery to us, I just thought it was interesting. It also gives us a better idea of what happened in the previous chapters. Enjoy!

A few days before Chapter 1-All dialogue is in Japanese and Kanda would be referred to as Yuu for this chapter.

"Aneue! Chichioya and hahaoya and telling you to go to the hall!" Yuu shouted at the paper door of his sister's room. "I'm coming in if you don't respond!" He waited for about a minute outside the door, not getting a reply.

"Aneue!" he called in a half-whining voice. Still no response. Yuu knew that his sister was in her room. She always hid in her room when she was escaping something, in this case, match-making. She was 16 years old after all, old enough for marriage, his parents have said.

"I'm coming in…" Yuu repeated. He slid the door open slowly to give his older sister a warning in case she was changing her clothes. Even if she was changing, he thought, at least respond. Or someone would think she's dead or something. When he opened the door completely, he spotted a roll of bandages on the floor. He looked at his sister and saw that she has bound bandages around her forehead in an amateurish method.

"Are you hurt?" Yuu asked worriedly. "I'll get hahaoya." But before the younger boy could leave the room, his sister pulled him back inside and slid the door shut.

"I'm fine." His sister, Aiko, said gently. After seeing her younger brother's anxious face, she squatted down in front of him so that his dark blue eyes would meet her dark purple ones. "Yuu, I'm really really all right, so don't worry about me, okay?"

"Then what's with the bandages?"

"I bumped my head." Aiko said, dismissing the matter. Yuu looked at her in disbelief. "Okay, so I cut it a little."

"It won't leave a scar right?"

"What? Are you worried that my face would be disfigured?" Aiko laughed at the triviality of the question. "If my face is scarred, then I wouldn't need to get married."

"Why don't you want to get married? Chichioya and hahaoya want you to. They said you'll be happier that way."

"I won't be happy." Yuu's sister said stubbornly. "They just want to be related to some powerful noble. Anyway, forget about me, shouldn't you be more worried about yourself?"

"Huh? Why?" Yuu asked.

"You've been sleepwalking. All the way to the edge of the town." Aiko stood up as her legs started to ache from the squatting position. "And you been holding Chichioya's sword the whole time. But I don't expect you remember since you were sleeping the whole way."

"But at least I didn't hurt myself. Unlike some other baka(idiot) " Yuu protested.

"If this goes on, hahaoya's going to get a Shinto Priest to bless the both of us." His sister laughed. She had a nice laugh, that's one of the factors that brought many suitors to the Kanda residence. Then she started pushing her younger brother out of the room. "Anyway, tell Chichioya and Hahaoya to get my "Suitor" out of the house or I'm not coming out of my room." After Yuu was out of the room, she closed the door behind him.

Chichioya and Hahaoya should have known how stubborn she is. Yuu thought as he walked towards the hall.

Meanwhile, in Aiko's room, Aiko pulled the bandages away from her throbbing forehead in front of the mirror. I can't let the rest of them see this. She thought as blood flowed slowly from cross-shaped cuts on her forehead. Tears flowed down her face as the wounds stung and as she tried to suppress the urge to kill her beloved younger brother.

In the end, aneue still refused to leave her room. Aiko had somehow locked her door, preventing the rest of the household from going in even after all suitors have been chased away. She had let Yuu in the day before yesterday but yesterday, she refused to see him at all. At least she's eating. He thought optimistically.

"Yuu! Are you listening to me?" His mother snapped over dinner.

"Hai!" Yuu looked at his mother. She had been feeling stressed over the past few days.

"I'm going to get Shinto saishi to bless the both of you tomorrow. Your aneue has been acting weird, I think she's possessed." Yuu's father made a sound of disapproval. He did not believe in such things. "And Yuu, you have been sleepwalking continuously for the past few nights, I think something's wrong with you too." His mother said in an exasperated manner as she used her chopsticks to give her husband her piece of fish.

"Maybe Aiko's just being rebellious." The father said. "She'll come out of her room soon."

"How about Yuu? He took your katana even after you locked the room." The mother pointed out.

Yuu ate his food quietly as his parents were debating whether their children were possessed or not. I wonder why I keep taking chichioya's katana with me. Every time he slept walk, he would hear this little voice telling him to go out and look for something and then he would wake up to find his parents scolding him for going out in the middle of the night.

Huh?

There were explosions coming from outside their house. Yuu's father ran to the door and opened it. Objects were floating outside their house. Yuu looked out from behind his father. The objects were large metal orbs with pale white masks stuck onto them. The masks look like they're screaming. He found himself thinking.

His father slammed the door shut. "Take your things, we're being attacked!" He shouted. The servants scattered around to grab their meager belongings. Yuu ran off to his room to get his own belongings. As he passed the room containing his father's belongings, he suddenly stopped. Chichioya's katana, he thought.

He tugged the door. It was locked. Then a glow emitted from something inside the room and the door slid open. The lock must have broken. He took the katana and left the room. Then something else exploded nearby. He could see one of the objects floating over the wall outside his house. He abandoned the idea of getting his belongings and went to his sister's room instead.

"Aneue! Open the door! We're being attacked." Yuu shouted. Then he spotted the food that his mother has left outside his sister's room. It was untouched. Shimata! Did she faint? He was about to slide the door open when Aiko slid the door open first. He looked up at his sister's face, the bandage was gone revealing her unmarked forehead but something was wrong. Her purple eyes did not reflect the liveliness that they once had. They looked dead.

"They're here already?" Aiko said softly as she gazed at the metallic monsters. "They look beautiful." Beautiful? Those things are wrecking our home! Yuu stared at his sister. Then Aiko walked off, towards the entrance of their home.

"Aneue!" Yuu ran after his sister.

At the entrance, Yuu saw his parents. "Hurry up!" His mother screamed. Yuu was about to run to them when he felt his sister's hand on his shoulder. Beams of light fell from the sky, striking his parents and the house's servants. Yuu shouted for his parents and tried to go to them but Aiko held him back.

"Mi-te. (Look)" Aiko whispered.

Dark pentacles formed on the bodies of the fallen residents of the Kanda household. As the bodies completely turned black, they crumbled into pieces. Yuu fell to his knees and stared at the clothes that remained on the ground and as the dust of the dead flew away.

"No…Hahaoya, Chichioya." He felt hot tears run down his cheeks and his vision started to blur.

"They're dead." Aiko said in a harsh voice, different from her usual gentle one. "But don't worry, you'll join them soon."

The metallic orbs surrounded Yuu, their guns projected in his direction. The katana in his hand started to glow and he remembered no more.

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Yuu's next memory was that of his sister standing next to him. He was lying on the ground. Chichioya's sword feels so light, it was always heavy before. He thought.

"Unlucky." Aiko said suddenly. "You could actually use that rusty old thing."

Then she crouched down next to her younger brother. She reached one slender hand towards the katana and took something from it. Yuu heard a faint sound of something snapping off.

"I guess it would be more painful if you stayed alive." She bent down so that Yuu could see her face. Crosses started to appear on her foreheadand her skin turned gray. Yuu wanted to look away from his sister's now horrifying face but he could not move.

"Let's play a game, if you find me, I'll let you fight me. If you kill me, you win and I'll give this back to you. If you don't, I'll kill you." She said smiling, holding a small glowing fragment between her thumb and index finger.

Why? Why are you doing this? Yuu wanted to ask her so many questions but the darkness swallowed him first.

When Yuu came to, there were two older boys in the same room as he was.

(English) "Hey, you woke up!" The boy with markings under his eyes said.

Yuu didn't know what he was feeling; he just didn't want to be with these strange people.

He ran out, back to where his home used to stand.

Aiko stepped through the crack, entering a large strange house. She walked to one room where there were 14 chairs around a polygonal table. Now this feels like home.

"Welcome!" said the Millennium Earl in a very cheerful voice. He turned to the other Noahs. "Let us welcome another child to our wonderful family! Now, how should we address you?"

"Kanda Aiko, Noah of Pride."

Pika:……

Moko-chan: Now why are you quiet again?!

Pika: I'm shocked. (Moko-chan hits Pika across the head to bring her out of the shock.)

Moko-chan: Anyways, FYI, the name Kanda Aiko belongs to a real person. I was in a Japanese hotel (in Hokkaido) when I turned on the television. It was the news and the name of the news presenter was Kanda Aiko. (I apologize wherever you are for using your name)

Pika: Speaking of hotels, you were drooling in the one in Jigoku Dani, weren't you?

Moko-chan: Because they were advertising the D.gray-man DVDs and there was this wonderful picture.

Pika: Of?

Moko-chan: Of Allen, Lena Lee, Kanda and Lavi wearing Santa Claus suits over their exorcist coats (drools) and now I can't find this picture anywhere. They were giving the postcard out with their DVDs…

Pika: Obsession… I hope you readers enjoyed this chapter as much as how Moko enjoyed typing it. Please review!

Moko-Chan: And a Happy Christmas and Merry New year to all! (My friend taught me this line.)

Extra: I altered the last portion a bit. It's not possible for Aiko to be the youngest child because Skin only became a Noah 3 years before D.Gray-man :p. Stupid mistake, should have read the Manga more carefully.