Can I be your fortune?

Chapter 3

The air was really fresh there. The two exorcists were sitting on the top of the last carriage under the clear sky. In the beginning Miranda didn't want to climb up, but Lavi promised that he would catch her if she slipped. In the end they were safe after all.

"Will we travel by train all the way there?" Miranda asked after a long silence.

"Nope. We go just till Southampton by train than we will use a ship. We will travel across the La Manche, the Gibraltar pass and the Mediterranean. We will arrive in Luxor. I don't know how will we go to Cairo from there though." He explained loudly trying to over shout the noise of the train. Miranda looked back at him with wide eyes.

"Than we will travel by ship a lot." Lavi nodded enthusiastically.

"Exactly! Is it a problem?"

"Err…You know after the incident in Edo I don't really keen on ship travel. A lot of people died that time." Miranda replied with lowered gaze. Lavi was shocked to see that. Is she blaming herself? He didn't notice that his expression changed just like his mood.

"Tell me one good reason why you should blame yourself! those people sacrificed their life to help the exorcists. If you continue to do this you'll make that for nothing." Lavi said it with gloomy voice. Miranda continued to stare into the green orbs with wide eyes, and then slowly her expression changed too. An aura of bitterness and calmness surrounded her.

"I think you are right." She replied and Lavi smiled.

"I'm always right; after all I'll be a Bookman soon. And now you don't have to worry. I developed a lot since that event, Allen is lot stronger than ever too. Moreover Leah is here too, she is said to have a strong innocent, but I haven't seen it yet. Oh, and don't forget Kanda either, you just have to know about him that demons start to scream and run when they even see him. Though I think it's the same with humans too." the last past of his speech made the young woman next to him laugh.

"And we shouldn't forget Panda!" Miranda added and as a reply Lavi started laughing too and it was hard not to join. Why should we struggle, right? The sound of their laughter overcame the noise of the train…

Why me? Why always me? The killer gaze of the grey-blue eyes made the other passengers submissive, when he went pass them. Ebony black hair followed the mutely raging exorcist like waves. The man was storming towards the beginning of the train without care of anybody. The cold blue-grey eyes glanced behind his back at the blond hair cascade. (Because that was what could be seen from the girl, 'Cause of the draught of the open window which blew her half tied hair into her face)

"If a look could kill, I would be dead, right?" the girl asked with a smirk.

"You should have sent the idiot Moyashi to speak with the controller and not me!" the girl blew out her breath annoyed.

"I don't know id you have noticed, but I'm here too!" she noted.

"Che" Leah rolled her eyes.

"I have been away for two years, but against every hope I had you haven't changed! Moreover, when I finally came back Komui had to tell me that you had yourself beaten up by few Akumas and you were lying half dead." Kanda didn't even turn around while he replied.

"So what? It's not that I would die."

"I hit you once, don't want me to repeat that!" the girls threatening held not just frustration, but anger and worry too.

"Che" Kanda's reply was.

"You should work on your vocabulary, Yuu!"

"Don't start it, you too!"

"Than finish it!" the long haired man thanked God that they finally found the controller for who they searched.

"Hey!" Kanda called out for him, before Leah could have continued her speech. The older man glanced at them and finished quickly what he was doing then bowed in front of them.

"Madam, Sir, can I help you with something?" he asked with dutiful voice.

"We should have reach Southampton by now. Little while ago we spent three hours in the middle of a forest and the train didn't even move. We would like to know what happened and when will we reach the city." Leah had to admit that the formal speaking went better for Kanda than the casual chatting. The controller played with his gloves and that alerted the two exorcists.

"There was a tree on the tracks and that's why we had to wait." The answer came. Kanda's eyes narrowed. It was like blinds covering the blueness of his eyes and just a little part of it could be seen.

"Why didn't you call for us? With our help we could continue the travel faster." Leah noted. The controller just stared blankly and started to flutter. Kanda stretched out one of his arms in front of Leah and forced the girl step back. She stared at him with a confused expression.

"Kanda…" But her speech was cut off quickly. Kanda's eyes became lighter; his lips formed a half smile, his right hand moved to Mugen's grip.

"Our job came for us." The controller flinched again, then his head snapped backwards in a inhuman way. Leah raised her hand to cover her mouth, when she heard the sickening sound of ripping the skin.

"Shit" she whispered. The body of the man cracked again, and then something terrible appeared. A demon. Kanda ran forward without hesitation. She heard the sound of metal on metal then a loud bang. Leah didn't wait for the blowing up of the sliced demon, rather she spun around. They were in the first cottage, but she couldn't hear any scream. That meant at least twenty other demons. And she was right. Her saddened blue eyes gazed at the approaching dead.

"Let's give you a requiem, shall we?" She whispered, then she opened her mouth and activated her innocent.

When Kanda heard the familiar chant, he turned around too, and let the familiar calmness fill his soul. He missed that familiar voice during the last two years, but maybe he wouldn't admit that to anyone.

"They little girl with who you'll meet has any innocent too. Just she has a parasite type. Please, when you meet be nice with her. She is a very sensitive little girl." Thalia explained to the nine year old little boy in front of him.

"Parasite type?" The little boy repeated with a thoughtful expression. "Why is that she can have her innocent? Why did Tiedol take away mine?"

"We and the Order decided that it would be better for you of you have a chance for a normal childhood." The woman replied with the world's most beautiful and gentle smile. "She can keep her innocent because she can't live without it. It's in her chord, and if it was taken away she couldn't speak or worse things can happen."

"But I need my innocent too! In addition it never occurred to anyone that Alma or I need a normal childhood. Why would it change now?" The little boy cried out. For his huge surprise the woman kneeled down in front of him and embraced him tightly. His shock increased when a single tear drop touched his shoulder.

""It will change, because Sal and I will give you that chance. I won't let the Order get to you or to Leah until your reach the age sixteen. I don't care what it cost. And I'll never forgive them what they did to you." After that she stood up brushed away her tears, smiled as an apology and took his hand. And Kanda let her, because he believed. Five minutes later they introduced the little blond girl to him who could sing so beautifully like nobody on earth. An hour later they were playing on the ground of the next room and he tried to be nice. Because he believed to Thalia and it never came to his mind that she could break her promise. But she did a year and a half later, when she let that demon kill her in front of Kanda's eyes. All of his hopes shattered that night for the world. Only one good thing remained in his life, this song. A requiem…

At the end of the song nothing remained but ash, which was the Akuma's body not long ago. Leah cleared her throat than sighed softly.

"Like you changed that much" Kanda noted quetly. The girl laughed sadly.

"Than we are okay, right?" Kanda didn't reply. HE didn't need to. The door of the cottage flew open and Allen fell in with Lavi following.

"There are demons everywhere in the train. We destroyed at least thirty of them!" The grey haired boy panted.

"It was the same here too." Leah replied and pointed around with her arm.

"But how did they get on the train? Why didn't Allen's eye react? I was on the top of the train with Mira and we didn't see anything.

"Mira?" Leah asked with a frown. Lavi grinned.

"Miranda!"

"Three hours ago when we didn't move you were up there too?" Kanda asked a frown nearly the same as Leah's. Lavi nodded.

"And?"

"You right, that there were people getting on the train…"

"In the middle of the forest?" Allen cut it in. Lavi shrugged.

"They were workers, but just five. They moved the tree of the tracks. What?" He mumbled at the staring narrowed gazese directed at him.

"LAVI!" The three of them with the same threatening tone. What a group of people!

"Hey! It wasn't what was in my mind. It never occurred to me that they could be demons. I don't know if you noted that I don't have an eye like Allen does!" He explained rapidly. Leah and Allen leaned forward with a thoughtful expression.

"And can you tell me with what you were busy?" Allen asked with an evil smirk.

"Alone with Mira on the top of the train watching the sunset" Leah added in the same way. Lavi tried to find a good reply, but the thing that he wanted hit them on the face for saying Miranda's name didn't really help. However, he found a good escape.

"And you, Leah, alone with Kanda? I didn't even wanna know what Allen was doing with the Panda…"

The slowly comforted passengers who were really human and not demons settled down again, but they saw a very shocking happening. A red haired boy ran pass them who was chased by a younger, but grey haired boy who had huge claws on his left arm, he was followed a long haired boy who had a sword in his hand and killer eyes and in the end a very angry looking blond girl whose face was as red as the blood.

"Those youths nowadays…" An old woman noted. A man in his forties replied smiling.

"Maybe that's how they show their emotions."