Me~ Ok, I finally started chapter 2. Remember that this is still 2 years ago, before Allen came. Kanda is16, Sele is 14, Lavi is 16, and Lenalee is 16. Remember! Past, 2 years ago!! Now, let's begin, shall we?
I do not own D. Gray man.
Chapter: 2~ If Roses were Blue
'2 years ago'
"Are you asking to die!?"
"Kanda, relax!"
"Kanda!" Sele still kept hold on him, keeping him away from attacking Komui.
"It's just a mission. Seriously, Kanda, no one will know about this." Komui tried desperately to calm Kanda, yet it blazed his anger even more.
"You want to freakin dress up as a fucking girl! Who do you think I am?"
"This is not a question to your gender Kanda. This is for the mission. I just want you 2 to be sisters. It's not hard." Komui backed away from the blade above his head.
"Kanda!" Sele couldn't take this any longer. Unlike Lenalee, she had a much more efficient way to stop Kanda at desperate times. Desperate times use only though.
She got in front of the fuming being and kissed him on the cheek. He stopped all actions and froze, statue still. Blush covered his face but, of course, what does she know about blushing? She never does.
Komui gave her a thumbs up. She thumbs up back. She pushed Kanda back to the sofa so they could hear the rest of their mission briefs.
"Ok, so now you are more relaxed," he said, trying not to exaggerate the 'relaxed' part, "I want you guys to be sisters here for this mission. This is not a big feat Kanda."
Except it was a big feat for Kanda to endure the rumors afterwards. Especially when Lenalee mistaken him for a girl when they first came here. Sele laughed her ass off so badly when Lenalee called him a girl, she taunted him about that for about 2 weeks.
"You two are going to go to Saragon, a city in France. We have sent Finders there due to the recent increase in mysterious murders. Finders have gone there and have replied that the city has claims of being haunted and possessed yet another majority of the people says there's nothing there. Few days later, they were found dead in front of the city. Their bodies were cut by some type of metallic string of some sort. We suspect there's something in that city that doesn't want to be found out. I'd like you guys to go there and check things out," Komui explained.
Sele nodded intently, very serious at the status of this case, on the other hand, Kanda is still unknown about why he has to be a girl.
"And what does that have to do with me dressing as a girl?"
"Well, the only ones targeted so far are men so it's safer for you guys to be women so you have more freedom in looking for clues to this and not worry about a freak serial killer running around." Though, he sounded like he just read that off some paper that he is uncertain with.
Kanda gave him a doubting look. Komui ignored that. "Anyway, you guys are leaving at 8' so hurry and pack everything."
"How's Kanda supposed to dress as a girl?" Sele asked. She just brought the inevitable upon herself.
"We'll leave that to you and Lenalee," he gave him a maniac smile. Now what are they gonna do?
They exited the extremely disorganized office and walked down the halls to their rooms.
He was still fuming over the fact of being a woman. Of all things, sisters with her. They looked nothing alike. Her hair was blond and his was dark blue, same with their eyes. You can almost see them as night and day.
His anger meter rose even higher when he saw him. The stinkin smiling rabbit raced at her and jumped onto her.
"Hey, what's up?" Lavi said, one arm slung around her neck and shoulder. He glared at him. Sele shrugged.
"We just got a mission."
"Eh, good luck Kanda, Sele-chan. Anyway, did you know our rooms are right next to each other, Sele-chan? "
Kanda irked at that. His life just plummeted with him on that. What's wrong with Komui?!
"Really? Then we're neighbors too, huh?" Kanda became even more pissed at their casual conversation.
"Yep," the damn rabbit said happily. He finally noticed the angry samurai next to her. "What's wrong Kanda? You seem pissed."
"That's because he has to be a wo-"Kanda instinctively slapped his hand over her mouth before she could continue. Lavi stared questionably at his behavior.
"None of your business, Baka Usagi," Kanda threatened coldly. He wrapped one arm around her neck and dragged her away with him.
Lenalee met them before he reached his room. She smiled. "Shall we get started?"
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"I am not wearing lipstick!"
"Why, I think this color looks good on you."
"Come one, Kanda. Listen to Lenalee, she's our make-up queen."
"How the hell does she not have to do this?!' Kanda rudely pointed to Sele who was sitting on her bed, reading, while he's suffering this.
"Because Sele-chan looks better with bland colors. I'll apply hers later." Sele winced when she heard that.
"Want me to do your hair, Kanda-chan?" she taunted with a stone face. He glared at her.
"Che, I don't want you anywhere near me."
"If you wish, Nee-san." Another vein plopped on his head. This is gonna be hell.
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An hour later of screaming and thrashing, evaluation for Sele and Lenalee's make over came.
"Not bad, you actually look like a girl right now," Komui commented but at a safety distance so Kanda doesn't bound off his chair and attack him.
Lenalee had curled the ends of Kanda's hair and added some light make-up to his face (because he made such a fuss it was hard to apply anymore than lip gloss and mascara).
"Oh, yes and Kanda, you have a special uniform to work in today!" Komui said, happily swirling over to his desk and pulling out a uniform from under a stack of papers.
Sele started laughing hysterically behind him, literally falling off her chair. Kanda glared at the uniform dress disgustedly. Lenalee made a couple of coughs to hide her laughter.
"Fuck you, I am not wearing dress!! Wear that yourself, are you kidding me!!?!" Kanda got up, taking Mugen out of its container, ready to kill. A hand grasped his shoulder and pulled him back onto his seat.
A figure jumped up above him and landed on his lap. She turned and sat and faced Kanda. "Now, Nee-san, this is for the mission," she lectured, pointing one figure at him. "Plus who would recognize you in a dress. Everyone knows that, Kanda Yuu would kill anyone that mentions the idea of him wearing dress, likely for him to wear one in the first place. Come on, you won't have to face that after this, ne?" Sele tried to convince Kanda, explaining things in course of life terms.
"Che, I am not wearing that!"
"Then we'll have to use force." Sele started unbuttoning his coat.
Crimson blush filled his face. "Let go of me, you idiot!" He grabbed at her arm, frantically trying to pull her off him. Except he forgot Sele was pretty strong herself.
Seeing that this was a chance of a lifetime, Komui and Lenalee jumped to help. He felt his coat get pulled off him in seconds.
"Do we take off his pants too?" Sele asked, still sitting in a rather awkward position on Kanda's lap. Does she have any pride?
"Nah, I think he can wear that under the skirt," Komui deducted. He really wanted to kill those 2 right now but Lenalee had done the smart thing of taking Mugen from his possession while Sele still had him captured.
Komui placed the black uniform in Sele's hands. He patted her head. "All up to you," Komui grinned.
Uh oh, here goes ACT 2 of the battle.
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Kanda climbed onto the boat tiredly in his new styles. He slumped down onto the seat of the rowboat; his entire body ached over the battle for dominance earlier.
Sele waved good bye to Komui and jumped in as well, earning her place next to Kanda.
"Next destination is France, my dear Nee-sama," she smiled, happy over her win against Kanda.
Kanda was so annoyed he wasn't even surprised when she smiled. For the girl whose known to mask no emotions, laughing, smiling, crying, and etc..... are rare.
He glared at her. She smiled in return. When she's exploding in happiness, it's hard to beat her with a glare.
He smacked on the back of the head and sighed.
"Do you have any pride in you? You just tried to strip a guy."
"What's 'pride'?"
Great.
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"Ow," Sele said, rubbing the back of her head. With the cost of her strength, she was not very fast or flexible at all.
They sat in some first class room in the train heading for Saragon. Kanda stared out the window at the passing towns and houses. The sun had set, leaving the sky in a dark shade of lavender, not yet completely dark in the summer night.
"Kanda, remember not to put your hands too close to your eyes, you'll rub the mascara off," Sele warned him, seeing he was somewhat in Dreamland right now.
"I know, shut up, don't remind me!!" he shouted at her. He needn't be reminded of the hell he went through because of these.
He felt a warm hand touch the corner of his right eye. He flinched back on contact. She stood in front of him with her thumb pointed at him. A dark smudge smeared on the surface.
"See, look what I told you," she lectured him, "Lenalee will be mad if you don't come back in perfect condition."
"Yeah, whatever," Kanda replied. His face was pink, remembering the tug-a-war they had earlier with his clothes.
The awkward situation bursted when their finder called. "We'll be arriving at our station soon."
"Thank you." Even with her blank expressive-less face, she was polite and well trained in etiquette. Thank General Tiedoll for that.
As they hustled off the train, Kanda took notice of the strangers staring at them. There was one person at every corner at least, sneaking away into the shadows as he noticed. This town was weird alright.
"Kanda, did you see that?" Sele whispered to him, both of them trying to escape the crowd at the station.
He nodded. They were being watched. He could almost feel the eyes boring down on him.
They finally exited the bustling station and walked out into the streets. Sele turned around surprised.
"Where's Finder-san?' she asked, peering back into the crowd in the busy station. It was hard to recognize who was who in that bunch of humans.
They continued to wait for their finder in front of the train station, hoping he would find his way out to them.
A finger tapped Kanda on the shoulder. Both of them turned. A pair of men, in their 20s or so looked at them woozily.
"Hey, you two going somewhere? Wanna come play with us?" one of the men asked. A vein popped on Kanda's head. He almost forgot why they went through so much to get all this on him. He heard Sele giggle next to him.
"Get the hell away from me," he glared. They flinched and backed away. Apparently his death glare still works even in this clown costume.
"Sheesh, we were just asking!" they snapped back before jogging away in fear. Kanda made an 'hmph'. Wow, his day was so going his way.
The small held back laughter continued next to him. He glared down at her.
"You were just 'hit on', weren't you?" Sele managed to say in between small burst of giggles. "General Tiedoll told me about that."
That fired his present anger even more. "Shut up!" he hissed. Suddenly, a scream emitted from the station. The two of them buoyed through the crowd, heading for the circle of gathering people.
As they entered the area, Sele gasped.
There in the middle of the circle was their finder. His legs and arms were covered in cuts and bruises. His mouth was gaping open as if he seen his worse nightmare. Kanda and Sele bent down to examine their finder. There was one cut on his throat that had led to the final blow to his death.
"Looks like someone's one step ahead." Kanda observed for any substantial evidence of an akuma.
"How this happen?" Sele asked to the air. As she put her hand on the dead finder's hand, a sharp object cut into her finger.
She pulled her finger back. A blatant cut lay on her index finger. She put it to her mouth, stopping as much blood from exiting the wound as much as possible. Kanda didn't seem to notice since he was concentrated on the finder.
Her eyes reverted back to his hand again; the light off a silver string crossed her eyes. More bright this time, she took her gloves out of her pocket, and placed them on before touching the metal cord.
Police calls sounded behind them and she placed the cord in her pocket and grabbed Kanda's hand. "Come one, we have to go." Both of entered the crowd again, using it as a cover to shield their getaway.
"This is the god-knows-what persons! Oh, I'm scared. Why is this happening to us?"
"The police keep saying that there's a serial killer on the loose. There's no way it'd take them this long to catch him. This city must be cursed!"
"I'm moving to my brother's house in Paris tomorrow, I can't stay here any longer! I don't want to hide all day for a serial killer!"
"Kanda, could it be an akuma?" Sele asked quietly, grabbing onto his coat sleeve to keep up to his fast pace.
"I don' know yet. But it's not a Level One. It's probably a Level Two hiding somewhere in the city, waiting to strike."
"I'm hungry." Kanda glared at her. She remained stone faced, staring back. He sighed. This was hopeless. At least he grabbed the Biz Card from the finder before they left.
"Hurry up, we're gonna find an inn." He pulled her along, half dragging because she had to stop around in front of every food shop they passed.
After walking for sometime, they finally crossed a decent looking hotel.
"Two rooms, please," he ordered at the front desk in the inn. A rather large and motherly woman turned and faced them.
"I'm sorry but we only have 3 rooms open and 2 are reserved for a family coming in. Do you think one would do," she glanced at Sele and Kanda, "since you're both girls?"
Oh yeah, he was a girl now. "It's fine," he replied, trying to sound polite.
"Grand! Now, may I ask your names and how long you're staying here at Gerald's Inn?" she smiled at them happily.
"Susana and Elli Howard, nice to meet you. We'd like to stay for 2 day 3 nights please," Sele spoke up. Kanda gave her an annoyed look.
"'Susana and Elli.....'?" he whispered to her silently. She held up a small sheet of paper in her hands. Kanda took it and read it.
Mission Vital~
Do not burn! You guys are going as Susana and Elli Howard. As sisters, and Kanda, don't you dare take your disguise off when you get there! Keep watch of any sign of Innocence.
Remember Kanda; don't take your make-up and etc...Off!
Komui~
He crumpled the damn note with anger and chucked it at the nearest trash can. Damn you Komui!
"Susana nee-chan, come on, we got our room," Sele said, using her fake acting voice of a 'sweet little sister'.
Sele dragged him with her up the stairs and to their room. This is gonna be one heck of a night.
Sele thanked the lady before entering the room. She jumped and flopped on top of the bed, sighing.
"Kanda, you can have bed if you want."
"I'm not gonna fight with a girl, you can take it."
"Eh, but you're older Nee-sama."
"Don't start sporting that crap with me."
Arms flung around his neck. "We used to sleep together before," she said, resting her head on his shoulder.
"That's when you used to follow me around like some lost puppy and sneak into my room at night. I am not going back there," he replied flatly. Those days before were worse than hell. Reminding him just annoyed him more.
She laughed lightly at his comment. Kanda looked at her from the corner of his eye. He actually liked her laugh when it's a laugh of pure joy, not laughing at him for some god forsaken reason. It was clear, like small bells in the wind.
"You not going to shower are you?" she asked as he got up and headed for the bathroom.
"And?" he replied, irritated.
"Komui said you can't wash the make-up off." She stared back at him with her regular monotone expression.
"I don't care what he says."
"So, we walk out tomorrow and the nice lady sees a man and a girl walk out of the room. What wicked thoughts do you think will cross her head?"
He stopped. "Che." That damn brat is just too manipulative isn't she? I thought she didn't know these things? Looks like Tiedoll went more than just telling her about relationships. Augh, he was extremely stiff from riding in a train all night, too. He was totally gonna kill Komui when they get back.
He turned back around and found she's already asleep. On the bed. Looks like he'll inhabit the floor.
That is, his aching body was yearning for the bed. So, how will he choose?
"Damnmit!" he cussed silently. Since he's gone this far to be a girl, why not go farther. He unbuttoned and took the girl uniform off him. He wished he could use Mugen and chop it into pieces right now.
He gently slipped into the bed. He'll think of an excuse in the morning. His sleepy eyes immediately shut as he hit the bed.
End Note~ Good move Kanda! So, what will morning bring? We will know next chapter! And we see that Sele and Kanda had amazingly fun times in the past. Or so Sele interprets. Anyway, see you next time! I'll try to update as fast as possible! Bye!
P.S. ~ The story is told in third person POV, just so you know but it kinda leans towards Kanda's POV more than Sele's.