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Disclaimer: I, unfortunately, do not own D. Gray-Man. Otherwise, this would have happened a lot earlier in the manga.

Plot: Chapter la FIFTEEN!!!!

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Allen frowned up at Kanda, but said nothing, instead nodding his consent to being cold. As if proving his statement, he shivered a little and curled in closer. Why did they keep this building so cold? Allen turned and lifted up the little lid to the metal box, watching as his clothes spun around and the water drained from them. Allen looked on in alarm. Where was all the water going?

"Kanda? Where's the water going?" Allen said, touching the quickly receding water.

"Down the drain." Kanda answered, looking down at the clothes in the washing machine hismelf. There wasn't anything exciting about it from his standpoint...just clothing swirling in dirty water. And dirty water emptying out of said machine...nothing special. Though, it would have been something special if the washer had gone onto it's spin cycle without Kanda closing the lid.

Kanda could just imagine the water splattering everywhere and making a dirty, partially soapy mess...Kanda dind't want to clean up property that wasn't his. "It needs to stay closed while it wtings the water out."

Allen stared and nodded, slowly closing the lid, but following it down, to enlongate his looking time. Once the lid was finally closed, Allen turned and smiled brightly, amazed that a little square box could do such an amazing thing. Then Allen turned to the other metal box. What had Kanda called this one? The...the...the something. Allen couldn't remember. He opened it's lid and poked his head inside, wondering what went on in here. He saw lots of holes...so maybe this one let in water too.

"Kanda? Will I drown in this one too?" Allen called, his head still in the box.

"No, You'll sufficate. But only of I close you up inside of it." Kanda laughed, not serious in the least bit...though he was hard to take as anything but serious. "That's the dryer, It dries the clothes that the washer...washes. So that you don't have to wear et clothes." He esxplained, once again peeking into the dryer, but finding nothing intruiging in the holes and the lint trap that he doubted Allen had seen just yet. It couldn't be healthy to be so curious.

Allen poked his head out and pouted at Kanda a bit. He wouldn't really close him up in it, would he? When Kanda laughed Allen knew he wouldn't, so he just stuck his head back in the dryer and explored a little more. What was this? Allen pulled out a long rectangular object filled with a purpleish fluff. Allen pulled it all out and stuck it on his face, amazed at how soft it was. Allen stuck it on his head, the put some on Kanda's shoulder (the highest he can reach), and smiled.

"It's soft!"

Allen tried to cover a smile but failed, looking at Kanda's flushed appearance. Though he didn't play with the "lint", he sneezed, and, with rubbing his nose, left the tip of it a nice cherry red. It was...kind of cute. Allen walked up to Kanda and dusted the lint off his shoulder, then buried himself in Kanda's chest to hide his laughs. Agian, he failed, but it was a valient effort. Drawing back his head and looking at Kanda's red nose, Allen laughed agian and touched it lightly.

"Kanda...your nose is red." Allen said between giggles. He touched it and agian began laughing, leaning forward to rest his head on Kanda's chest. He still was giggling when a man entered the laundry room and closed the door. Normally, Allen wouldn't have thought twice about it, but seeing as he closed the door and Allen's scar started pulsing with pain as soon as the man walked in, a few warning signs went off. Allen looked up, and the man smiled, revealing jagged, chipped, yellow teeth, yellow eyes, and tusks.

Outwardly, it was Steve's right hand man, Joe.

Fantastic.

Allen grabbed Kanda's hand and moved him out of the way in time for Joe to run forward and body plow himself into the dryer, where they were standing. Allen didn't think, but he pushed Kanda out of the way and growled low, rushing towards Joe. Not only was he trying to kill Allen's happy (as he had gotten to refferring to Kanda like that when he wasn't listening), he had a piece of the sholengofe. Allen could see it glinting in his hand.

Joe wasn't as tough as Steve was, and was dodged fairly easy. Though Allen knew that if he let one of his punches land, it would knock the air out of him for awhile. Ducking under a sloppily thrown fist, Allen rushed up and kicked out, landing one on his stomach. Enough to let him loosen his grip on the sholengofe. Allen reached out and pryed his fist away, grabbing the crystal piece and running to the opposite side of the room.

Now that he had it, he had to keep it.

Alen watched as Joe got up and growled low in his throat, the sound of a lion before it pounces.

Kanda sniffled, stupid allergies he wasn't sure if he had. Though the annoyance seemed to trickle away when Allen decided to stay where he was on his chest. Damn the effect he had on him. It almost distracted him completely from seeing who came in. It didn't matter at first, this laundry room was for anyone that stayed at the apartment; it was when the door decided to close that he figured this guy was bad news. Then he got a good look at his face...it was Joe. Of course it was that one, karma absolutely hated Kanda Yuu...though he was slowly starting to figure that out himself. He was pushed away from Joe's first attack, and before the raven knew it, Allen was fighting. He was doing a damn good job too. It hadn't taken the bean sprout long to recover the glittering piece of crystal that the lackey had somehow aquired. This meant that it was his turn, didn't it?

Kanda wasn't complaining, in seconds Mugen was out and Kanda was charging. He wasn't one to let someone else attack first...especially not a mutant...Joe. Meugen was a strange sword, all black, but cold and smooth like some sort of metal. Kanda had recieved it from his teacher after beating him in a fight; it was...the longest fight of Kanda Yuu's life, you would think he'd remember where it was, or what his teacher had told him his weapon was made of, but it had blurred up long ago. So he was stuck with a somwhat whimsical looking sword with a curved tip and he didn't know what it was made of. He did know it sliced through skin and bone like butter...don't ask.

Personal expierience.

He met with Joe's arm, cutting the skin, but not the bone. Figured, he wasn't human...it cut through human skin and bone like butter...what a load of crap. Kanda twisted around, hitting the guy's side with more sstrength than before, and he felt sort of bad, all this guy had to fight with were his fists...and he was sloppy too. Well, that was before he was kicked aside like a side of lima beans. Then he was too pissed to feel at all guilty.

Allen tensed to run when Joe growled, but instead was suprised as Kanda pulled out his sword and began hacking at Joe with it. Where did he get this sword from? Blood came out of Joe's arm as Kanda's sword cut through it, and Kanda twisted around to hit him harder when Joe litterally picked him up and kicked him to the side. He turned his bloodshot eyes on Allen and charged, and Allen ducked. The plaster where the albino's head once was broke and scattered on his head like snow. Personally, Allen knew that if he lunged up and uppercutted this guy one good time, that would end the game. However, Allen also knew that would leave him open with the crystal. So instead of doing either of those things, Allen scurried out from under him and kicked Joe into the wall, running back over to Kanda.

He was breathing rather hard, but otherwise, he seemed to be okay. He took a quick survey of Kanda's injuries (minimal, at best) and nodded when he was satisfied. A rib twinged and Allen frowned, knowing that he was going to suffer for this later. "Kanda, the only way to stop him is to hit the nerve under his chin. The one right here." Allen showed him where on his own body. "If you don't, we might not get out of here. Lushin may be sloppy, but he learns new tricks fast. And he plays dirty." As if accenting his statement, Joe/Lushin turned around and pulled a knife out of his shoe.

"Under his," Kanda didn't have time to complain, being pushed out of the way yet again; a knife whizzing by the spot he and Allen were in only seconds before. Well, Joe had better aim with knives than his fists. Huh, didn't that make things interesting? Hopefully he didn't have any more hiding places for knives. Kanda glared at said monster, swiping at his sword out of habit before charging back into battle. This time? Joe wasn't having him land the first move so easily. He backed up, avoiding a hit from Kanda's sword with a slight grin. The guy wasn't as big as Steve was, but he managed to loom over Kanda Yuu. With that said, he lunged... for Kanda's arm that is. Joe then pried Mugen away from the raven, tsking at the deed. If this thing could cut his arm, then he could slice Kanda clean in half, right?

Oh great, what a barbarian. When Allen said he played dirty, he was serious wasn't he? Even so, Kanda wasn't leting his weapon be used against him. Kanda instead of yanking his arm away, spun into the hold, swinging his arm upward toward Joe's throat. This stupid pocket of nerves better be his weak spot, or Kanda was weaponless and in the grasp of, well, of Joe. Not moments later, a brief sputtering was heard, before a loud clatter, and Kanda knew for a few seconds he had the upper hand. This time, he did yank himself away from Joe's grasp, sweeping up his sword and thrusting it upwards. Though Joe wasn't caught by surprise. This wasn't the first time he had fought with someone who kenw his weak point; though Solen was right, this body was terribly week. He grabbed the sword before it could reach his neck, and with bleeding hands, he pushed Kanda backward enough to give himself more room to fight. This kid's weapon shoudln't have been able to break his skin by more than a few scratches; so why was he bleeding so much? Huffing at the opening that he had finally had being thrown away, Kanda shook some of the blood off of his sword, glad that it was Joe's blood and not his own. He had gotten Mugen out of his grasp, that was a plus, right? When Joe got another magical daggar, Kanda wasn't so sure. He didn't have to even register the look on Joe's face to know that he planned to finish things this time around. Kanda was in one of the deepest pits of trouble that he had been in the past 24 hours, but didn't think twice on charging at Joe, even when he charged at him

Kanda swung Mugen, but Joe thrusted his dagger forward just a bit faster, forcing Kanda to sidestep the attack to avoid being hit. It left the raven forced to cut his attack short and re-direct it, slamming Mugen into Joe's shoulder. It did quite a bit of damage to the skin as he slid the sword down his opponent's arm, but never did he hear a crack from breaking bone. It was like this guy's insides were made of the same thing his sword was...

"Damnit, why won't you die!" Kanda waved his sword, swinging again whilst ignoring the now pouring blood. Joe didn't answer, throwing his dagger instead. It was well aimed, whizzing toward Kanda's chest. Luckily Kanda blocked it, Mugen stoping the weapon in it's tracks. Their clash formed a quick, white light before the dagger fell to the ground, and Kanda was charging again. He didn't seem to notice it. Joe seemed to, but didn't react upon it, readying himself for Kanda's next barrage of attacks. He was getting easier and easier to avoid, all of his hits were brash and harder than the one before. Kanda swung his sword pwards this time, lucky that his sword was double edged. The attack landed in Joe's stomach, and was over with a quick upward sweep. Joe gagged, holding his stomach with one hand and landing a swift puch to the raven's head with the other.

Kanda wasn't expecting that counter, seeing spots at the sudden pummel to his head. He staggared backawrd, being kicked into yet another wall. It didn't seem like Joe was giving up, having the same amount of strength that he did before he had his stomach slashed. With that, he tackled the raven, shouldering him in the chest. Kanda coughed, loosing any air that he had stored in his lungs. Really, should anyone be this big or this heavy? Joe pressed harder, waiting for the crack of Kanda's breastbone pressing into his chest's vital organs. Kanda winced, coughing harder, unable to push the other off. A couple more moments passed, Joe's grin widening as Kanda seemed to be slipping from consciousness. Finally a crack was heard. Kanda had dug the tip of his sword into the back of Joe's neck. And was currently working on lodging it as far into said neck as he could. Joe gasoed, pressing backward to get away from the sword, but only helped in lodging the sword forward a little bit more. He knew he was finished when Mugen slowly started to glow from the tip to a few inches upward.

Joe couldn't move. And though it took a lot of work, thankfully, Kanda could. The raven growled, pulling Mugen out of the now paralyzed lackey and thrusted upwards toward his throat. This time? The attack didn't miss. The sword plunged through the bonesless flesh, cutting straight through Joe's mouth. The skin only made a disgusting noise similiar to a splat in protest.

Eh. That's right, we killed Joe. Actually, Kitty killed Joe, but whatever. Joe/Lushin is dead.

JOE, THE DEMON, IS DEAD!

If you know where that's from, I'll give you a cookie. And maybe a little something extra.

Okay, so here's where I take the time to apologize for flipping out on Kanda-is-all-I-want. Because, even though I was upset about it, I should have PM'd her seprately instead of calling her out at the end of the fic like that. That was not right, and I'm sorry. Still, what I said still stands. I'm not going to change just because it doesn't please people. That's not who I am as a person, or as a writer.

Okay, all seriousness aside, um...Joe is dead. But that is not the end of it. No it is not. Solen is still alive, and he has nine more flunkies to burn through before he comes to fight them himself. Ooh. Who's going next? Allen, Kanda, or one of the various bad guys. Where are they going? Are they going to be tried for murder?

Let me answer that one right now. No.

And why? Well, that will be explained later.

Until the next installment my pretties!

Kiyoko-kun

Kitty-chan (Neko-Kyoutan)