Okay you guys, bear with me! I don't know if I had already said this or not, but originally I was going to end it at the 10th chapter, and as you can tell, it's probably going to be a bit longer than that. Eh heheh? And I was planning to do and epilogue…so if you're like me, you're probably thinking, oh my gosh, just get this done already! If you're not like me then you're probably thinking, OMG OMG OMG I wanna know what happens!

WARNING: no its nothing like that. VERY VERY OOC KANDA! In my opinion. Just a warning.

DISCLAIMER: I don't own 'man.

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"You-you're old house?" I laughed nervously. "W-Why a-are w-we at y-you-you're old house?" I stuttered. He snickered as he stepped out of the car and crossed around to open the door on the passenger side. "What do you think I'm going to do to you?" He asked creepily as he helped me out of the car. "Rape you?" He kissed the nape of my neck, probably just to creep me out. I screamed. "G-gosh! D-don't do that!" I blushed a fiery red color. "Calm down, I wouldn't do that to you. Unless," His mouth turned up in somewhat of a smirk or a half smile. "You want me to?" I blushed even harder, if I could even do that, my face was practically on fire. "E-ew! No!" I put one arm around his shoulder and he put an arm around my waist. To help support me, mind you. Then somehow he pulled out a bouquet of very mangled roses. I don't know where he even got them. I'd never noticed them at all. "Here." He shoved them at me and looked away, almost as if he was embarrassed.

"They look dead!"

"Well what do you expect? I was going to give them to you earlier, but we ran into Lenalee…" His voice trailed off. "Well, be happy I even got you anything!"

I ran, more like hobbled, as fast as I could with my bad leg, and Kanda following close behind. "We need to get these flowers some water!" I cried. Kanda laughed as he watched me struggle with the door. "It's locked you idiot!" I puffed cheeks up and pouted, "Well then open it for me, Darling." He rolled his eyes and unlocked the door.

The foyer of the house was lavishly decorated, even Mother would have been proud. There were countless paintings on the walls, small paintings, large ones, wall paintings, there were so many of them! And all of them were so nicely done! I marveled at the paintings for a minute. Then Kanda cut in. "Don't you want to give those flowers some water?"

"Oh yeah!" I laughed sheepishly. "Where's the kitchen?"

The kitchen, just like the rest of the house was nice, the whole house seemed to have an oriental theme to it, even the lamps had paper coverings. The faucets were made to look like water pumps, they were so nicely crafted that the only thing that gave them away was the gold color.

"My Mother wanted to have 24 karat gold faucets, because that was what we had back in Japan." He told me after he gave me a vase to put the flowers in.

"Do you ever miss Japan?" I asked him, placing the vase on the marble countertop. He had never really talked about it. I stared at him for a minute, I noticed that his hair wasn't in its usual high ponytail, it was loose and low and swept over his shoulder. "Sometimes." And that's all he said about it. We stood there in an awkward silence for about five minutes. I didn't really know how to start a conversation, and it was getting embarrassing.

"So…" I started. "How about you give me a tour of your house?" I finished lamely.

He laughed again. "You really want to get it don't you?"

"Wha-Ew! NO! What is wrong with you!?" After another minute of me hitting him and screaming at him for being a gross pervert, he led me out of the kitchen and in to the, or what I thought was, the dining room. "This is the breakfast room, this is where we eat breakfast, obviously." He walked through another door, "this is the dining room. This is where we have the rest of our meals. Oh and by the way, we don't live here anymore. Tiedoll's been going places recently and so we just kinda let the house go. We haven't sold it yet though, Mother doesn't want to." He led me into another room this one was full of windows and plants. "This is our sun room. We recently got it extended." He pointed to a glass door further down. "Mother wanted an indoor pool and a hot tub, she's crazy. But it hasn't been used yet. But just to keep it looking good, we always have someone come and clean it twice a week." We exited the sun room and entered a room that was on a raised wooden platform, I found out it was there the hard way. "Watch your-" But it was too late because I already tripped on the raised ledge and fell flat on my face.

"Ow…This can not be good for me. Ow." Kanda kneeled down. "Didn't you want a tour of the house, Ma'am?" He smirked. "You're a jerk! You should have helped me up!" He grabbed my hand and pulled my up, then he kissed my forehead. "All better. Well, moving right along. This is my practice room, as you probably know, I'm quite fond of Kendo." The room had bamboo slats used for the walls. And there were a number of practice swords propped against the wall. We approached the stairs. "Um, can you, uh, help me? I don't think I can get up the s-AH!" He picked me up bridal style and walked my up the stairs. Then he carried me all the way into what I suspected to be his room, and plopped my down on the bed. "And this is where you'll be staying the night."

Then randomly I remembered Lenalee. "Why didn't Lenalee follow us here?" I blurted. It had been bugging me, but I didn't think to ask…

He looked at me funny. "Did you want her to?"

"Well no, but…"

"She doesn't know how to get here? Didn't you notice that the house is like in the middle of a fucking forest?"

I laughed, "Oh yeah. By the way, who's room is this?"

"Mine."

"Then where are you going to be sleeping?" I asked, nervous again. I didn't want him to sleep here, well I wouldn't really mind, and actually I would mind! What if something happened? But if I god scared during the night he would be here, but it would be so awkward sharing the same bed with a boy!

"Here. It's my room, where did you think I'd be staying?" He asked slyly. I blushed. "Don't worry, like I said before, I wouldn't do anything you don't want me to do, unless you do want me to do something." He teased.

"Gosh! That's so gross!" I huffed. "I'm going to go shower!" I announced. Kanda followed me into the bathroom. "What?" I asked loudly. "Don't you need help showering? With your injuries and all, I think I should help you." He didn't sound like he was teasing me this time, he sounded dead serious. I blushed. I was a girl! He was a boy! And if I took a bath, I'd have to take my clothes off! "Alice? Hello?" He waved his hand in my face.

"Eh? Oh, yeah, er, um…" I was totally embarrassed! My face was so red I could feel the burning. "Hurry up. You're not going to take a bath with your clothes on." He was so oblivious to everything! Couldn't he tell I was freaking out? But I needed a bath. It was only a bath and I was disabled, he's just helping me, it's just a bath. Just a bath, I calmed myself down a bit and replied as steady as I could. "Okay, hold on let me undress. I'll tell you to come in when I'm in the bath, okay?" He nodded.

I stepped into the room where the bath tub was, it was huge! It was like a big round swimming pool! It was even clear! I turned the water on and waited for it to get warm. I noticed an assortment of different shampoos and conditioners and bubble baths and soaps. "Kanda?"

"What? Are you done yet?"

"No. can I use that bubble bath?" I asked.

"Sure whatever, hurry up I don't have all day."

"Okay." I poured a bunch of the green liquid into the giant fishbowl, it started to bubble and I stopped the water. There was a nice mountain of minty green bubbles on top of the water. I undressed, staring at myself in the mirror. I was fifteen and still looked undeveloped. My skin was pale and white in the long mirror, I quickly stepped into the warm water. I took a deep breath and wondered why I needed help taking a bath anyways. "Come in."

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I realized that she wouldn't need help even if she was hurt, but whatever, its something to tell.

I'm updating a lot this week. :D

~byrdie