I know this has taken me ages, but I really couldn't think of anything, but slowly and surely this chapter fell into place, and wrote itself (as usual)

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Beauty and The Samurai

Tyki sat in a dark office that was filled with random objects, books on history and science the useful books where placed neatly on shelves around the room, there where different metals and types of guns in the room, they were either hung on the wall with a little silver plate nailed to the wall under the objet with information on the object, when and where it was made, name, everything; it was the Earls collection. In centre of the room was a dark wood desk with a big real leather chair deep blue chair, this is where the Earl sat comfortably. His gloved covered hands neatly folded on the desk as he leaned forward slightly, his grin looked like it was to split his face.

"Tyki-pon, coming to me so late at night again, what is it you need?" The Earl asked as he locked Tyki's liquid gold with his own bright gold eyes they looked like shinny new gold plates, but they were cold and cruel eyes, one always felt fear running though them when they looked into the Earls eyes.

"It's Allen, he's still going on about this beast, and now he's left his and Lenalee's house unguarded, something is going on and I don't like it. I want something done about him." Tyki explained, he knew something was going on, there had to and Tyki has a good explanation.

"What do you think is going on Tyki?" The Earl asked as his grin that seemed to be glued to his face still stayed in the same place, like it never moved, but his eyes burned with a wicked fire of want, a want to do something, cause an uproar in this town.

So Tyki sat with the Earl in the dark cold office for hours into the night explaining what he thought was going on and what his plans were to do about what he thought of the situation between Allen seeing things and Lenalee's disappearance.

The next morning Lenalee was up early as usual and chose to wear a light blue floor length short sleeved bell dress. The dress was simple, decorated with small embodied patterns on the bottom of the dress that then had a long strip of dark blue silk running at the very bottom of the dress and above the patterns. The top half had the same dark blue silk ribbon, only thicker tied around her middle with some lace at the top surrounding the V cut neckline.

Lenalee decided that she wanted to have some of her hair in a small bun on the top of her head and the rest of it flowing out at the bottom. She had her mother necklace on, it was a 9K yellow gold heart locket at the front of the locket it had a small diamond in the middle, around the edges of the heart locket it had engraved patterns, they were like half swirls and half circles. The chain was also 9K yellow gold it had small links and was simple.

She decided to wear it because it just felt right to wear it, she felt better with it on.

She walked into the dining room to see Lavi, Fou and Miranda helping the other staff set the table with the food for breakfast. When Lenalee walked through the door they all stopped and looked up and once they saw Lenalee they smiled brightly at her and said their good mornings to her and after they were finished putting the food onto the table them and the other servants hopped onto the metal carts and went back into the kitchen.

Lenalee looked around the room, this room was painted a dark red with black curtains, the room was pretty large but empty, apart from the dining room table which was made out of dark wood, and the chairs were the same wood there was no table runner or no table cloth just the wooden table with the food on, pretty plain and really pretty in Lenalee's eyes, it was a lovely dark wood that had a polished shine and looked really smooth.

After a couple of minutes something happened. Kanda walked in though the door on the opposite side of the room. Lenalee looked up at him, he had been coming down for meals more and more often and she even saw him in the small sitting room one of the other nights, so she knew he was coming down more, and she didn't feel like she needed to worry about his wellbeing. So when seeing him this morning Lenalee smiled at him.

Kanda had a plain white long sleeved shirt and plain black trousers, he didn't have his bandages on his arm, it had been a few weeks since the incident in the forest with the Akuma, and Kanda's arm had healed practically overnight, Lenalee was so surprised that the wound had healed so quickly, and when she tried to ask him about it he wouldn't answer about the subject. Still, it was his to tell, not for her to go snooping around to find the answers; he'll tell her when he's ready, right?

"Good morning Kanda" she greeted him cheerfully and all she got in return was a small nod of the head in her direction to showed that he heard her and that was his way of answering, oh well better than nothing.

After that Lavi and the others came back into the room the carts where now full of jugs of juice and pots of all different types of tea. They then started to place them around the table along with extra glasses, cups and cutlery just in case Kanda or Lenalee needed them.

After that Kanda and Lenalee started to fill their plates with the food they wanted, Lenalee had something Allen made sometimes in the morning, he called it a full English breakfast, she left a couple of things out because they weren't set out on the table, but what she was able to have that was part of the course Allen made was: scrambled egg, a sausage, bacon, some mushrooms, baked beans, toast and even some hash browns. Lenalee would have to ask about how they were able to get all this food from different places.

Lenalee's meal tasted better than what Allen would sometimes cook, a lot of his cooking somehow ended up burnt so it had to go into the bin, but by some miracle some of Allen's cooking would survive and would be edible, but that only happened very rarely.

"So Kanda how did you and the rest of the servants get all this food from different places?" Lenalee decided to ask as she and Kanda were just as they were finishing up.

"Everyone here comes from a different country; they wanted a piece of their home here" Kanda said as he got up to leave the room, but what Kanda said was only half the truth, he missed out another small fact.

Lavi hopped out of the kitchen, overhearing the conversation and wanted to know why Kanda won't be trusting in her and tell her things, he does want to break this curse, right?

"Yu, why didn't you tell her you and Tiedoll travelled the world when you were human, Tiedoll still has those amazing pictures he drew of each destination, why keep that hidden?" Lavi asked.

Unfortunately Kanda didn't give him an answer, he didn't even snap at him for calling him by his first name, which was strange, was Kanda ok? Had something happened that they didn't know about?

"Well, only time will tell then. I hope Yu-chan will open up to Lenalee more" Lavi sighed while thinking that to himself and went back into the kitchen to help the staff.

After Kanda left Lenalee left too, she was a little worried about Kanda; something just seemed off about something she didn't even know. So with not much to do Lenalee wondered though the castle looking for something, she walked outside into a big garden. Instead of the garden being green, beautiful and full of life the garden was dead, long dead flowers littered the overgrown weed path, but she saw that though all this overgrowth and dead plants there was a made path that someone had obviously had walked down a lot of times, so letting curiosity take over she slowly walked down the path.

After a few minutes she came to a small square building, it was in a cream colour, this was kept clean and looked out of place, everything but this Japanese styled building was overgrown with weeds and dead plants, not this building, it was kept clean and untouched by the garden around it.

The building looked strong and not affected by weather, the tiles on the top where a dark forest green it looked nice and calm, Lenalee slowly walked up to it, and walked in though the archway as there was no door for the entrance.

Inside was very plain with Japanese characters written on the wall, she didn't understand them, and she took another step forward and the stone slab moved, like it was just placed gently over it to cover something

Again Lenalee's curiosity got the best of her yet again and she kneeled down to move the stone slab, it took her a couple of minutes because it was heavy, but when she finally was able to move it she saw something she would never of expected. Stairs that went down into the ground, the stairway had no light so she could not see the end to know when it stopped.

"I wonder what's down there" she whispered to herself, she debated with herself on going down or not, in the end she decided that she would go down to see what was there, so she slowly started to walk down, she had her hands on the walls so she could feel where she was going as she slowly descended the stairs.

As she got closer and closer to the bottom of the stairs she saw a small light and as she got closer that light got bigger, she soon came to the bottom of the stairway and what was there amazed her it was a huge round circular room, the ceiling went all the way up to the ground above her, this was shown by the massive dome shaped glass, it had a design of a lake with pink lotus floating of the bright blue lake, there was almost two floors, and by almost above the ground there was a balcony that stretched all around the room, so you could see what was happening in the centre on the ground floor from above.

The centre was a circular sand filled pit and around it was stone so you could get to the other side, there was half walls that surrounded the sand pit, but left two openings at opposite ends, the walls came up to Lenalee's middle.

Lenalee decided to take a small walk around the room and along one half of the rooms walls were a range of different swords, made out of different metals, were different sizes and also had different hilts, all the swords were different, none was the same.

Lenalee picked up one of them and examined it, surprisingly the sword was light, and the hilt was black material to help with grip with two silver bands raping round the material, at the bottom of the hilt it had a silver dragon head, and at the top it had medium length, thin silver spikes that curved inward slightly. The sword itself was very plain, with only a small quarter that went from the end of the hilt and a little way up the sword was a thin pattern engraved into the sword that Lenalee couldn't even make out.

"It was brought in a market, it was said to belong to one of the English kings many years ago" A voice said from the doorway. Lenalee jumped slightly and turned around, still keeping a tight grip on the sword. It was Kanda in the doorway, he was shocked that Lenalee had found his meditation place and his training area.

"Oh Kanda" Lenalee said and smiled slightly. What are you doing here?" She asked, she felt stupid for asking that, this room was obviously his, so he would be down here.

"Che, this room is my training area" Kanda answered simply. "Now what are you doing here?" Kanda asked her in a bored tone.

"Um...well I was wondering around, and I stumbled upon this place, and just, well...found it" Lenalee explained, quite lamely she thought, but oh well, it was what happened, and it was the best way she could explain about it.

They stood in silence and Kanda was just about to turn around, and walk out, when Lenalee called out to him.

"Kanda" she called softly, but her voice echoed in the underground chamber. Kanda stopped and looked over at her to show he was listening, Lenalee took a quick glance at the sword she was holding and took a breath, then looked back up at Kanda, can you teach me how to use a sword?"

Well that struck Kanda as odd; he didn't expect her to ask that, when he didn't say anything Lenalee spoke up again.

"I just want to be able to protect myself more, ever since that incident in the woods a few weeks ago, I've wanted to grow stronger, and I want to not just protect myself, but those around me. Please Kanda, would you teach me?" She explained her want to protect those she loved and cared about.

Kanda said nothing but instead walked over to the wall and grabbed a hardwood practice sword and took the one Lenalee was holding and put it back into its rightful place. Then he led her into the middle of the sand pit

So Kanda agreed and for the next few hours they were in the training room, and Kanda was taking her step by step though the basics of using the sword and how to hold a sword.

Well, there you have it!

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Mad Hatter girl 122 signing off! *takes hat of head and bows*