Thank you for the nice and lovely comments on my last chapter. They made me go on with writing this story.

Here is chapter 6. The plot happens after the congregation and after some other event, which you will be able to read about in chapter 7. I tangled the plot on purpose to make the story a bit more interesting.

Hooray for the Yuu - Miranda pairing.

Aha, and Kanda still doesn't belong to me

R&R please!

Part VI – Two worlds collided

The still weak Miranda Lotto sits on the park bench admiring the falling golden and reddish leaves of the conker-tree. Dressed in her most beautiful long dark-green dress, that perfectly matches the color of her hair and eyes, she looks like a Autumn Fairy. At least that's what he thinks about her. She didn't notice him coming yet. She breathes in the cool air of the late September afternoon and moves slightly to make herself more comfortable. Her left arm still hurts a lot, but she can move it again and her fingers don't feel numb any more.

- Miranda?

- Oh, Yuu. I didn't see you coming.

- I know… - he laughs and sits next to her, on the edge of the bench, like if he was ready to get up any time. – How are you doing today?

- I'm fine, thank you.

- Maybe you should go back home now? I don't want you to catch a cold.

- Don't worry about me. I'm OK, Yuu, really… thanks to you.

- You… you don't need to thank me, Miranda. It was Fou who looked after you.

- But you were there. All the time. I remember. Did you think I didn't know? I saw your face every time I regained consciousness. I heard your voice when I was losing it. And besides… Zhu told me what you did for me.

- He shouldn't have. The old man… - Kanda rises up angrily and kicks the nearest conker lying on the ground.

- Why? Why shouldn't he tell me, Yuu?

- Because… - suddenly he turns around and faces her. She feels an urge to look away but it's too late, she's already trapped in these dark blue eyes.

- Because I love you, Miranda, but I cannot be with you. And it hurts.

- Yuu? – she exclaims and stands up only to sit down immediately and shakes her head in disbelief.

- I didn't want to tell you. I thought it will be better. Easier. At least for you. If you didn't get attached to me. So that I could leave without breaking your heart at least. I don't care about mine. It's…

- It's what?

- I don't have a heart. They kept repeating it all my life, so I finally believed in it. Then in Denfeng I felt something. I felt that I love those orphans who live there and I fought the Akumas to save them. But you know… love is a dangerous feeling. It can break you. And I'm not meant to be broken.

- Why do you want to leave, Kanda? Why won't you just stay here with me?

- Because we belong to different worlds. My world is the one of mortal human beings, random people who will get old and die. And only if they'll try hard enough they can do something good with their live before it fades away. My destiny is to go back to Dengfeng and teach Shun how to fight a non-existing sword. To clean Qiu's always runny nose. To meditate, pray and get up before sunrise.

Your destiny is to stay here, belong to the Order and save souls.

- And if I decided to leave with you?

Kanda looks at her, then cups his hand and reaches to touch her cheek. She shivers underneath that gentle touch.

- Tell me Miranda, do you hate this place?

- No. It's the first place where I actually felt needed. Useful. The first place where I felt safe and I could call a real home.

- You see? It's your place. My home is in Dengfeng. It's where I feel needed and loved. Not here. I hate it in here. The Order's walls stink with my own blood and fear.

- I understand. – she nods and gets up from the bench. - Will you walk me back home, please?

- I will.

They walk together to the HQ in silence. Each of them lost in his own thoughts. Kanda will leave tomorrow.

She knows he has stayed longer than he should have. He has helped Fou to nurse the wounded Miranda, he has argued with Komui who wanted to leave her to death as she was losing her compatibility. Zhu told Miranda about it. He also told her that it was Kanda who made the Order release Hevlaska from prison, so that she could help Miranda to keep her Innocence. And now he is going to leave her.

He knows that he could possibly stay, get some regular job, live somewhere in the town and meet her occasionally every now and then. But his heart makes him long for the new home in China. And this feeling is stronger than anything else would ever be. So he is going to let her live her own life and leave.