Author's note
As you can probably guess, the original ark is going to begin soon. Allen, Lenalee, Ravi, Kanda and Akira are on this mission. This chapter was just a filler.

CHAPTER 3

At 5:30 am, a lone figure could be seen making her way down the staircase to the meditation room. Unlike Allen, Akira had a very good sense of direction and hardly ever got lost. She crept into the room and begin to meditate thinking about the days ahead.

A couple hours later at 7:00 am Lenalee decided to check on the newcomer and opened the door to an empty room. A small note was left on the table, I am meditating now, I think i can find my way there. Knowing who was also going to meditate at this time she sprinted from the room.
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Meanwhile, Kanda was heading down to the meditation room as well. As he opened the door, he froze. The newcomer was in there sitting quietly. He hovered at the door for a while, debating whether to leave, when her voice pierced through the silence

"Well are you going to come in or not?" Akira said calmly, her eyes still closed. Kanda just stared at the black haired girl that sat on the floor. He shook his head in disbelief and sat down right next to her.

"I see that you meditate," Kanda said quietly.

"Shhh," Akira replied swiftly and continued to meditate as if he wasn't there. But now Akira was a bit more restless. The two meditated for a while longer, but Akira felt odd that the presence of someone was next to her while doing so. Kanda couldn't help fidgeting either. He didn't like it. Not one bit. He had sometimes meditated with Lenalee, but for some reason, he couldn't swallow the fact that he was meditating beside Akira.

"I think I'll leave," Kanda started, making his way to the door.

"No," Akira suddenly said, "Stay. I know it's awkward, but there's not exactly another meditation room, is there? We can both just...deal with it." Kanda nodded his head slowly and sat down again. He closed his eyes and, that was it.

Lenalee flew down the hallways to check on the two exorcists. She just hoped that the room wasn't broken yet. She knew that at least one of these two wasn't exactly the most welcoming person. She reached the room and peered in silently. And there, sitting right beside each other, were Akira and Kanda. At peace.

"Hey Akira," Allen called across the cafeteria when she arrived after meditating. "Let's introduce you to Jerry, he can make anything. His food is really good."

" Hello, nice to meet you Akira, as Allen said, I can make just about anything." Jerry said cheerfully. "What do you want to eat?"

" Oh okay, then can I have udon noodles?" she asked.

"Sure thing and What about you Allen?" Jerry responded

"Can I have..."

A couple minutes later Allen was heading to a table with his large pile of food with Akira following behind him.

"Your eating habits haven't changed have they," she said while sighing.

"Sorry, but I have a parasitic type which takes more out of me," he responded to her.

"Suuure, you do realize that my innocence is a parasitic type as well. You just need something to blame for your overly large appetite," Akira shot back.

Lenalee waved to them as they approached the table. "Nii-san says that there are no missions today so we're going to show you around for the day," she said cheerily.

"Hey, since we are not doing anything special today, how about some sparring Akira?" Allen asked.

"Sure, just like old times," Akira responded grinning.
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Soon after that, Lenalee, Allen, Akira and Ravi who was dragging Kanda headed down to the training rooms once again.

As they reached the room Akira asked " So what are all your innocences like?"

"How about you spar with us to show you what they are like?" Ravi suggested.

"Sounds like fun" Akira replied.
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Allen was up first.

"I hope your innocence has developed," Akira said smirking. "Start whenever you want," she said as she turned around to walk to the other side of the room. Allen nodded to himself and made his first move, activating his innocence with speed and charged towards her. Akira easily caught him by the arm and flipped him sending him to the floor with a loud thud.

"She didn't even need to use her innocence," Ravi said in a scared voice.

"You have gotten faster moyashi," Akira said cheerfully helping him back up.

"Thanks," Allen said sarcastically wincing as he stood up. "Anybody else want to spar with Akira?"

" I will," Ravi piped up. "Your second form is really interesting," he said to Akira.

Glaring at him, Akira said, "You seemed to be unconscious for most of that portion. By the way, is it possible for an equipment type innocence to be destroyed?"

"Why don't you try?" Ravi shot back smirking at the lack of knowledge she had with equipment type innocences.

Ravi started to activate his innocence, his hammer slowly growing and growing in size. Akira transformed into her second form as well. Quickly, Ravi swung his large hammer towards Akira only to have it stopped by a giant claw that was trying to crush it. Akira was gripped on to the hammer and gave it small squeeze. But it was enough to form a crack along one side of it.

" WHAT! How did you do that? My innocence!" Ravi wailed.

" Its okay, Ravi. Komui can fix it," Allen reassured him.

"Sorry," Akira apologized though in her head she was slightly pleased.

Ravi turned away in dismay to go bother Komui. Lenalee stepped up to Akira next.

"Its my turn now," she chirped happily

Lenalee equipped into her Dark boots and sent multiple kicks immediately in Akira's direction. Akira weaved back and forth dodging each of the kicks. As they moved around the training room they got faster and faster. Finally, Akira placed her hand on Lenalee's boot and flipped over Lenalee. Akira landed with a calm grace and slowly placed her palm on Lenalee's neck, right before Lenalee turned around.

"Akira wins," Allen said calmly. "If that was a sword or knife Lenalee would probably be dead."

By this time Kanda was impressed by the newcomer. She had singlehandedly beat Allen, Ravi and Lenalee without breaking a sweat. She did not even look tired.

"Che," he said as he stood up and walked towards them.

"Eh? You too, Bakanda? Don't go easy on him Akira," Allen said evilly as Kanda approached them. He took one look at Akira and decided that he really wouldn't. It was time to see how strong she really was.

"Mugen activate, First form activate," both of them said simultaneously.

Lenalee was confused. The aura around Akira seemed completely different, like she was fiercer and more determined after her innocence activated and when she was serious.

They rushed towards each other swords barred. All that could be seen was a flash of blades. When the two came apart, it could be seen that both of them had minor cuts. Kanda seemed to be panting slightly. Before he could catch his breath completely, Akira rushed towards him again. As she was about to reach him, he unexpectedly stepped forward to block causing their feet to be tangled and to lose their balance. Yelping, Akira fell on top of him with her sword in between them. Kanda's sword lay beside them where he dropped it after they fell. Akira got up briskly and brushed herself off. She turned to face Allen, her face still, but if you looked deeply enough, you could catch a bit of red.

By now it was noon, so the group headed down, back to the cafeteria for lunch. As they were walking down the stairs, they met up with Ravi with another man.

"Hey, Akira. This is Crow-chan. He is another exorcist," Ravi said cheerfully. His hammer was back in one piece again.

"Nice to meet you. My real name is Arystar Krory III but most people call me Krory," he said, greeting her politely.

"Nice to meet you as well. My name is Akira," she responded calmly. She took a good look at Krory. It was almost as if he was a vampire. She liked it.

"Akira!" a voice called from down the hallway. The group turned around to see Johnny running towards them; he was panting.

"K-komui says that they want you down at the Lab," he huffed.

"They probably want the measurements for your uniform," Allen said. "You better go soon."

"Komui also wants the rest of you to come as well," Johnny added.

When the group arrived there was a lot of chaos.

"GUESS WHAT? We have a new Robot ready," Komui shouted gleefully. "Anybody want a closer look?"

As most of the group heard this they quickly backed away. Sadly, Akira whom did not know of the previous occurrences stood there staring at the massive robot standing in front of her.

"You should see my new Komurin," Komui said happily to Akira,"It will take your measurements for you."

Komurin picked up Akira after this statement and began examining her. A researcher watched in dismay to see another robot of Komui's. He had been told to bring Komui his coffee and held it out to him. Komui, who was distracted by the success of Komurin, reached for the coffee, but knocked it over right where the circuits were on Komurin.

uh-oh this cannot be good...

It quickly tightened its grip on Akira causing her to gasp for air and spit out blood. Before anybody else could react she pulled out her sword and slashed at one of its arms. To block the shot Komurin dropped her on the ground.

"DON'T HURT KOMURIN!" Komui wailed as Akira activated her first innocence. Everybody else behind her doing the same. In a flash, Komurin shot needles toward the exorcists. All of them except for Akira who had managed to stop the needle heading toward her, were out cold.

"MUST MEASURE FOR UNIFORMS!" it called out in a robotic voice, grabbing at random scientists.

"Somebody stop that thing!" Reever yelled as he was backed into a corner by the monstrous robot.

Its arms shot towards Reever, but just in time a flash flew by him. Suddenly, the arms of Komurin had vanished, sliced off. The blur stopped and there was Akira, looking very, very annoyed.

"Can you not control your own robots?" she snapped at them.

Komurin quickly turned around to look at her and charged. As it reached her, she jumped and brought her sword down on the robot slicing it in half.

"NOOO!" Komui wailed as Akira walked up to him. She quickly smacked him in the head glaring at him wiping the blood from her mouth.

By this time Allen had recovered and stood up shakily. "So what did you want Komui" he said in a tired tone.

"I will tell you soon. Bring Ravi and Kanda with you," he said while picking up Lenalee.

Two of the researchers picked up Ravi but nobody seemed to want to pick Kanda up in fear that he wake up while they were doing so. Sighing, Akira walked up to him and hoisted him over her shoulder like a sack and followed Allen to Komui's cluttered desk. Sometime on the way there Kanda awoke to find himself balanced on someone else's shoulder.

"So you're awake now," a calm, cool female voice greeted him.

Straightening up, he realized that he was being carried by Akira. Slightly embarrassed, he quickly nodded his head and walked up ahead of Akira, his ponytail flapping behind him. Being carried by Akira? Not Kanda's choice of transportation.

As they reached the desk Komui picked up folder and tossed it to the five of them.

"Akira, here is your first mission."