Title: Junshou 純情

Rated: G

Summary: Kagome uncovers a secret and is thrown into the Black Order. When she is found compatible with Innocence, it's just the start of many troubles. What happens as she starts her first day in the Black Order?

Pairings: Kanda X Kagome, maybe others..

Setting: -man Canon universe, AU plot

Disclaimer: Inuyasha and -man belong to Rumiko Takahashi and Katsura Hoshino respectively.

A/N Finally! An update! I know that it has been very long, but please have patience with me... Also, I've changed the spelling of the character's names. They'll be the official ones now.

Junshou

A Mission

Kagome walked out of her room, dressed in her casual clothes. She sighed as she walked to the Dining Hall. 'I forgot all about dinner last night, thanks to that annoying guy! Now I'm so hungry...' Her stomach gave a grumble in agreement.

As she walked down the steps, she spotted Allen wandering around with a lost look on his face. He looked defeated, and was just walking around without any purpose. Kagome crept over to his side, and tapped his left shoulder.

"Ahhh!" The surprised boy jumped, and whirled around to face her. He calmed down when he realized it was her. "Kagome-chan, you scared me!"

"Allen-kun, you look lost. Are you trying to get to the Dining Hall?" She had recalled Lavi saying that Allen got lost all the time, even though he had been here for a year.

The boy rubbed his head sheepishly. "How did you know? I think I took a wrong turn somewhere..."

Kagome giggled, and pointed down the hallway. "The Dining Hall is just there, I'm going there too."

They walked through the doors together, and met with a not-so-welcome sight.

"You!"

"Kanda, you're back already?"

Kanda Yuu turned and glared at the two of them, he was in his usual bad mood.

"Isn't it obvious? I'm standing here, aren't I, Moyashi?" He ignored Kagome, much to her fury. He carried his tray over to an unoccupied table and sat.

Allen pouted, and called out after him, "My name is Allen, not Moyashi!", before ignoring him too in favor of listing out his breakfast order to Jerry. Kagome went along, in case she gave in to the urge to shoot at Kanda with her bow. She waited patiently for Allen to collect his large meal and even helped him carry some of it over to a table before ordering her own. She picked up her tray- this time it was rice with curry- and sat down across from Allen.

She said her thanks for the meal cheerfully, and tucked in, eating more gracefully than the way Allen scarfed down his food. When they were both finished, they cleared away their plates and stood up. Kanda had already finished his and left the hall.

Allen suddenly thought of something.

"Eh? Kagome-chan, you know Kanda?" He had not noticed her outburst earlier, he was too surprised at seeing the moody swordsman back from his mission.

"His name is Kanda? I met him last night. That bastard..." Kagome mumbled the last part under her breath, not wanting to corrupt her little brother with swear words. She was already feeling sisterly towards him, although she herself had not noticed it yet.

"Oh, I should have introduced you two then... His name is Kanda Yuu, he's an exorcist too. He's always cold to us though, so don't worry too much about it. Also, he's from Japan, just like you." Allen brightened up at that thought, for some reason. "Maybe you could befriend him, then he would open up and be more friendly with us!"

"Umm, well, maybe..." Kagome was hesitant to break his naive dream. In her heart, she knew that it was impossible for that guy to warm up to other people. Unknowingly, she took Kanda's character to be the same as Sesshoumaru, which did not give her a good impression of him.

Luckily, Timcanpy chose to appear at that moment, cutting the awkward tension. The golden golem flapped its wings and flew around Kagome. It was curious about the new person.

"Oh, what's this?" Kagome was only a little surprised, she had learned to take new things in stride. Otherwise, she would be overwhelmed by anything she saw in the Black Order. Also, she was starting to have a sinking feeling that she was now in a different dimension, not just a different time.

Allen smiled and held out a hand for Timcanpy to land on.

"This is Timcanpy, a golem."

The golden ball waved a wing in greeting. Its mouth was open in what passed as a smile, showing off its sharp teeth.

Kagome smiled in return and patted its head. It flew up and landed on her head, claiming it as its place. The light weight on the top of her head did not bother her, so she let Tim stay. She took care not to turn around too much so that it would not drop off.

"I'm Kagome, nice to meet you, Timcanpy."

Small claws prickling on her scalp answered her, and she giggled at the ticklish sensation. She played with Timcanpy as she chatted with Allen, and they kept on walking, forgetting themselves.

Finally, when there was a lull in their conversation, Kagome looked around her and noticed that the walls were unfamiliar to her. Allen noticed the same, and they turned to each other.

"We're lost, aren't we..."

"Yeah..."

They wandered around even more, and tried to find a familiar place. After about an hour of staring at similar gray stone walls and walking in circles, the two gave up and plopped down against a wall.

Suddenly, the door beside them swung open and Kagome jumped and squealed. A red head popped out from the side of the door, and green eyes widened in surprise. Lavi walked out of his room and stared down at the two, his gaze full of curiosity.

"Ehh? What are you two doing here? Don't tell me you got lost and dragged Kagome-chan with you, Moyashi."

Allen complained, although his eyes were filled with relief at being found.

"Hey, why is everything my fault?"

"Because, you always get lost, thanks to your bad sense of direction. And, Kagome is too new to know the place, so she must have blindly followed you. Am I right?"

This time, Allen pouted in reply. Kagome laughed and ruffled his hair, she could reach the top of his head because she was slightly taller than he was. Lavi offered to take them back to their floor, since they had somehow wandered to his, which was the 18th. While going back, they were surprised to discover that Allen and Kagome lived right next door to each other. Allen went into his room to rest, while Lavi took Kagome out for training.

After six hours of training, they stopped for lunch, and met Lenalee. Kagome was dragged away by her to meet Miranda and Krory, who greeted her warmly. At first, Kagome was a bit wary of Miranda, who kept apologizing for every small thing that happened, and Krory, who looked too much like a vampire, but became friends with them as they chatted. She found out that she shared an interest in plants with Arystar, and could discuss the warping of time with Miranda.

Over the next few days, Kagome fell into a routine of activities. Each morning, after breakfast with Allen, she would train with Lavi or Krory, then go over to Lenalee's room after lunch to chat with her and Miranda. Then, the time after dinner was spent either helping Komui in the Science Department, or training by herself. On occasion, their group would meet and have a gathering at night, usually in someone's room, since most of the exorcists had not been sent out for a week.

The more experienced exorcists, Lavi and Lenalee, were wary of the sudden lull in missions. If there had been no akuma activity for some time, it could be because the Earl and the Noah were planning something. When Kanda was finally sent out on a solo mission, they were somewhat relieved, but they worried about Kanda's safety.

Time passed quickly, and soon it was time for Kagome to be sent out on her first mission. She was already quite strong from all the training, and someone in command had decided that she was ready for a mission. She and Allen were called to the briefing room, where Komui explained the details and told them how to get to Tivelli. They were to leave tonight, since it was best to get there as early as possible. Kagome listened attentively, she could not help feeling excited. Finally, all her training would pay off, and she would get to help in the war against the Millennium Earl.

In her room, she packed quickly, seeing as she did not have much stuff anyway. After packing the few clothes she had inside, as well as other necessities she would need on the trip, she took her box from the bedside table where it had always sat, and placed it gently between her clothes, so that it would not break. Then, she closed her suitcase and carried it outside.

Allen was not outside yet, as she had expected. Since he had been in the Order longer than she had, she thought that he would have more to pack. Setting down her suitcase outside her door, she walked over to Allen's room and knocked on the door. Faintly, she could hear sounds of grunting and creaking coming from inside. She pushed the door experimentally, only to find that it was open. She stepped in tentatively, looking for Allen as she entered. She found him trying to push down on his suitcase lid, except that it would not budge.

"Hey, Allen-kun..."

"Waaaah!"

The teen lost his hold on the suitcase, and was flung back onto his bed by a mix of clothes and food. Kagome blinked in surprise at all the containers that he had managed to stuff in, in addition to his clothes. She slowly moved around the mess on the floor, and reached the bed to give Allen a hand up.

"Oh, hello Kagome-chan! I'm almost done packing..." He suddenly noticed the things strewn around the floor. "...or maybe not."

"Allen-kun, how did you even manage to pack all this inside that tiny suitcase in the first place? At least, before it exploded." Kagome said with a bemused look.

He shrugged sheepishly, and started picking up his things again. Kagome helped him, and with some good space management, got everything to fit inside the suitcase.

"Why would you need seven packs of dango, five bowls of noodles and another ten containers of food when we're only going out for a few days?" The miko asked out of pure curiosity.

"Because I get hungry easily." The answer came with a smile.

Kagome raised a brow and smiled back, feeling half-amused for some reason. She left the heavy suitcase to him, and walked out to grab her own.

Kagome and Allen shared a group hug with Lenalee and Lavi as they were sent off.

"Take care of yourself, Lenalee. Don't let those big brutes bully you. We'll see you two soon!"

The younger girl giggled at the long-standing joke between them about there being more males than females at the Order, and that the females were the ones who bullied the males. As Kagome and Lenalee shared last minute gossip, Lavi was telling Allen to look after Kagome on her first mission.

He nodded, a serious look on his face, and agreed.

They left on a gondola, which ran on the river under the Black Order. Their Finder, who was introduced to her as Toma, was the one who had accompanied Allen to his first mission as well. She was surprised at the coincidence, and listened to Allen chatting away with Toma as they floated in the water. They spent a few hours on the gondola, Allen switching places with Toma when the Finder finally got tired. Kagome had wanted to help, but the both of them wanted to be gentlemen, and insisted that they were strong enough to handle rowing. Thus, she missed out on her first chance to steer a gondola.

After that, they took the train to Tivelli. Kagome stared out the window most of the time, since it was her first time out of the Order and being somewhere other than Japan. She watched the scenery go by, the green fields, blue sky and rising sun, since they had left at midnight and it was dawn now. It was a quick ride, and before long, they had arrived at their destination. The two exorcists looked skeptically at the sight of the happy and cheerful village that greeted them, but Toma assured them that it was the right place. So, they stopped over at the only hotel in Tivelli and checked in before starting their investigation.

Kagome walked around with Allen, learning how to ask questions about unusual events discreetly. She had learned after her first try that people gave you weird looks if you asked about strange occurrences straightaway. She took some time to chat about mundane things, warming up to the person before innocently asking about strange events happening.

In the middle of chatting up another potential source of information, she stared with some jealousy at the cute white-haired exorcist, who could ask anything directly and get answers without distrustful looks. Then, she berated herself for begrudging the boy his friendly and open attitude. She smiled, continued chatting, and finally found some information that could actually help in the investigation.

She called Allen over with a wave of her hand. The cheerful boy said goodbye to the person he had been chatting with, and came over.

"Hai, Kagome-chan?"

Hanging around with her, Allen, Lenalee and Lavi had picked up quite a few Japanese phrases, something that annoyed Kanda to no end when one of them tried to speak to him in Japanese. When Kanda had left for his mission, there had still been no progress made between them, meaning that they would either ignore, or glare at each other if they were in the same room. Shaking her head of her thoughts, Kagome relayed the information that she had gotten.

"So, outcasts of the village have been disappearing?" Allen looked thoughtful, while Kagome was a bit apprehensive at the subject of outcasts. It reminded her of the way hanyou were treated in Sengoku Jidai.

"Well, it could be Akuma or Innocence. We'll just have to find out then."

"The person said that they usually disappear during the night, since they're still seen in the day."

"A night patrol then. Let's return to the hotel and rest. Toma will wake us up when it's time to move out." Allen turned around and led the way back to the hotel.

Meanwhile, Kagome was thinking about how Allen seemed so used to missions, the experience he had shown while they were here. She felt sad when she thought about how much fighting he must have seen, how much all of them had seen, while in this war. They were still young, despite their maturity, and they would deserve to have a childhood. Alas, being weapons for the Order took that away from them. Kagome was not blind, she had observed the hierarchy of the Order and the oft-repeated phrase 'weapons' used to describe exorcists. She knew that their superiors thought of them as human sacrifices, that they were only weapons, never seeing them as human beings, much less children. It seemed that only Komui and the Science Department were making a subtle effort to protect the Exorcists.

Working in the Science Department for some time, she had listened in on some conversations, enough to find out what she knew. When she donned the white coat she borrowed from Reever, others forgot that she was actually an Exorcist, and chatted openly in front of her. Of course, she did help, she had a sharp mind and was good at compiling information together. Understanding the motives of her superiors made her even more determined to end the war here, so that her friends could finally live free of the Black Order.

With that mindset, she eagerly awaited the setting of the sun, so that they could go out to hunt the cause of the mysterious events.

Japanese Words

Hai- Yes

(Not going to repeat words mentioned before)

A/N Alright, new chapter, a mission... You would kill me if I left you hanging here for another few months, right? I'll try and update soon.

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-Misheru Tenshi