This is a D Gray Man Fanfiction only.
I couldn't help but to look at a young woman near me who was still looking very upset, I had to find out why did she go from the friendly, and peppy young woman to the way she was. "Excuse but mind me asking you a question? What's eating you? I mean you look rather upset."
Komui looked at me and began to laugh, "Oh I think my sister Lenalee is upset that you ended up kissing Hevlaska the way you did. I honestly don't know why she is this upset, though." I didn't know either, it was never my intent on kissing her on her lips like that, a kiss on her forehead sure, but a kiss on her lips I would never do that unless I got to know the woman I would kiss.
As Tiki used to say kissing unknown women on the lips is like taking an extra round at a game of Russian Roulette, it never ends pretty. I will be sure to tell my brother that he was so right about that the next time I see him and he is not trying to kill me for what the others actually think I did to them.
"I honestly was only trying to kiss her forehead, she was holding me so gently that I felt I had to thank her for being so considerate, and a kiss on her forehead was the only way I had to thank her. Above all else, I was raised to be kind and considerate to women, a gentleman in all things."
Lenalee stopped looking at me for a second and Komui could only laugh, "Or you could be saying that to hide that you are a pervert, sort of like a wolf disguising himself as a sheep. I have to warn you, my sister, absolutely hates perverts."
Well, I did end up being the bartender and sometimes the bouncer of several high-end bars and strip joints due to the debt Cross forced me to pay. This is the first time anyone outside my own family ever called me a pervert. The only family member that did call me is the self-appointed father figure to my little sister Road.
"Aside from the fact that Lenalee will avoid me like I carry an incurable plague, where exactly am I sleeping, and when is dinner?" Komui laughed and told me that my room was the room a few doors from his office and Lenalee would show it to me after dinner.
We walked into the dinner and I saw a man who had pink hair and had his hair in a pair of pigtails. I walked over to the place that seems where you ordered the food and I knew that because he kept putting the food trays and saying when an order was ready.
"Excuse me, sir, I am Allen Walker new to the Order, and if it would be too much trouble I like something to eat for dinner."
I swear I saw the guy giggling and blush like a teenage girl, "Well look at the manners on this one, well Allen Walker be most welcome, you can ask me for anything you want, I can cook anything you want to eat."
Well that is not something I was expecting, I looked at the menu and began to do the numbers, "I want five orders of the Miso Udon Noddles, five steamed Vegetable Casseroles, Six Steak Specials, and for Desert I want a whole minced meat pie and twelve servings of Metatarsi Dango, no better make that thirty."
The man looked at me with a surprised look on his face, "Are you sure you will be able to eat all that?"
"Oh, that is nothing but a light dinner. I could it double that amount, but I see how busy you are and I don't want to be inconsiderate. I have a parasite type weapon after all. This thing makes me burn up a lot of calories so it always ends up making me feel hungry."
Just as when the man was supposed to go cook I heard someone start a commotion at one of the tables. I decided to see what the hell was going on. "Exorcist does all the fighting, and getting the innocence you people find, that is all Finder's are good for after all. You failed to become compatible with a piece of innocence and thus you had to accept the lowly position of being a Finder, Finders are a dime a dozen, if you don't like the risk then get the hell out!"
I looked at one of the men that was dressed like the man Kanda was arguing with. "So what cause this to happen?" The man looked at me and smiled, "You see we were holding a moment of silence to honor the Finders that recently lost their lives searching for pieces of Innocence. The Exorcist, you probably know him as Kanda, just sat down and started eating."
I looked at the man and then at Kanda, "Don't bother trying to get that guy to care about anything other than what is best for him, I know his type. Just think of him as a spoiled rotten brat, with an ego the size that could eclipse the sun, hold your moment of silence and go on with your life, he is not going to care either way."
"I know the type, the macho guys who go around thinking that we should kiss the ground they walk on simply because we are breathing the same air than they are. He is a bully, the best way to deal with a bully is either ignore him or pretend he is not even there."
He looked at me and smiled, "You seem to care about what other people in the order feel regardless of where they serve the order. That speaks well of you, thank you for your advice I haven't been a Finder for long myself."
I saw the man who the Finder I met called Jerry called for me to get my food. I got my mountain of food and took it to my table, every person nearby looked at my food and then at me thinking there was no way I could eat that much food, it was easy to read their feelings from the way their faces looked.
"Don't worry just make sure never to take a situation for granted, practice constant vigilance and take care of those around you. I find that often teams that are made on the battlefield tend to be better when everyone knows they got each other's backs."
I began eating and sure enough, the expected response came, "How can you know about such things, you don't look any older than my kid brother?" I took a drink from y mug and looked at him. "Didn't I tell you never take a situation for granted? I look young but trust me I been around a few times, I have seen my fair share of battles, disasters, and hard situations."
One of the men asked me for one such a situation, I finished eating and took a sip of my mug, I have to admit this tea is really got to have during a meal, "Well I worked once in a circus, now circuses have all kinds of animals that the people in charge of them take care of them. The situation I will share with you is about the day Bessie gave birth to her kids."
I looked for my wallet in my front pocket and sure enough, there is was, I opened it and in one of the picture there was Bessie and her kid. "So let me get this straight you helped one of those women during the birth of her child." I could not help but to laugh my head off at such remarks, it was a really hard thing to calm down not wanting to get splashed by the hot tea.
I pointed at the middle of the picture, "Bessie is the name of this circus trained elephant. She became pregnant due to the practice of the circus to promote births to protect the species. That is the publicly known reason, the real reason is that one day that baby elephant would take over the role of his mother once she passes away."
"We had to dig a ditch big enough to submerge her in. we dug for three days straight just to get the place ready for the birth, and then we worked together for twenty-four hours during the labor until the baby was finally born. By the end of that task we were covered in mud from head to toe, but don't worry last time I saw Babar was doing just fine."
"In the circus, it's not everyone for themselves, it's everyone pitches in with each other and we helped each other no questions asked. Trust me, people, when you work with others and you know those around you care about your well being, even a tough demanding job becomes less of a burden. With helping hands a hard task becomes much more pleasant and easier."
That is when Kanda flat out sat right next to me as I was enjoying my after dinner tea, "You can say that because you never fought an Akuma, you don't know the dangers we Exorcist's face and all this care for each other garbage and mutual comrades to me it sounds like the talk of a naive greenhorn who doesn't know how bad things are in the places Exorcist are sent."
I finished my tea and looked at one of the members dressed in the uniform of a lab worker, he had particularly thick glasses. "I am always in the mood for a friendly wager, so have about it we settle thing by putting our money where our mouth is? Hey, lab assistant do you have the access to the latest field reports? Maybe you can settle our bet. Tell us how many Akuma has Yu here defeated and then tell him how many I have defeated, let's see who really is the greenhorn between us?"
The guy introduced himself as Johnny, but he asked what the loser have to pay up the winner in this bet, since Exorcist don't make much in the way of money, damn those vows of poverty, vows of poverty my foot, I could finance a small city by the amount of money Cross wasted in a single month.
"The loser has to wear a yellow bandanna that says greenhorn in bright green letters. Come on Johnny don't keep us waiting how many Akuma has Yu dealt with?" Johnny said that he had a confirmed eighteen for the number of Akuma he has dealt with, I waited for him to count my count and he apparently didn't believe it.
"What the hell, there is no way a person this young has defeated this many Akuma. It says he has defeated over fifty of them, all the way to a few level two Akumas." That was when I remember the few Akuma that had reached an awakened form or evolved to the next level. Those fights were some of my most troublesome and caused me severe headaches.
"Those level two Akumas are a pain to deal with, they develop a personality and even special skills. One of them could turn rhymes into mental mazes, they would really do a number on you if you didn't know how to figure out the way out of the maze by figuring out the rhyme. The other loved to turn poisons into a baked good, a single cheesecake took out an entire party, it is one thing when the people eat the cake, it is much different when the cake eats the people eating it."
"I dealt with Akuma since the day Master Cross discovered me, haven't stopped since. I just dealt with a level one in a city a few miles away from here."
Kanda looked to at me with a look of utter disbelief, that is when he said something that was clearly an insult to myself and other people, "It is quite clear the research wing wants to gain the favor or something from General Cross, and the way they are doing this is giving his student credit for things other Exorcist have done."
He pointed at me as he got up, "There is no way a greenhorn like this has dealt with that many Akumas and there is no way he faced a single level two, even if they exist which I don't believe they do when I haven't even seen one. So I call those records false if not outright bullshit!"
That was the final straw, I was not in the mood to take any more crap from him. I got up and just as I walked near him to give him a much-needed attitude adjustment I heard a voice. "Kanda, Walker the Chief is calling you to his office it's about a mission."
I turned and looked at the place the voice came from all I saw was a full grown man hiding behind Lenalee. He began to walk to the office and I decided to follow him, his beating will come after the mission.
As I walked in there was only one word I could use to describe the inside of Komui's office, and that was a pigsty. Papers, files, and books laying all over the place. I will be damned the supposed Chief of our branch was taking a nap. I was not in the mood for such horseplay. I grabbed the thickest book I could find and without saying a word I walked towards the sleeping body of our Chief.
I didn't take into consideration this would be considered insubordination, quite frankly I needed to beat someone, and since my chance to beat some manners into Kanda was ruined by the man taking a nap in the middle of his workday, I decided to give me the beating Kanda would be receiving in the mess hall.
I lifted my hand and without any mercy or consideration, I slammed the book as hard as I could on his empty coconut that most would consider his head. "Alright, Alright I am up, stop the beating, or are you trying to kill me Lenalee!"
I placed the book on the desk and looked at him, "First off you don't take naps during your shift, second Lenalee is not the one that woke you up, and Lastly if I manage to kill you we might get a Chief for this branch of the order that doesn't slack off and we might have a better chance of saving humanity."
I went to the sofa, the only sofa in the place and I was not happy that I would have to sit next to the foul-mouthed, ill-mannered Kanda of all people. "Well since you are so focused on duty, I have to tell you that I called you both since you both are going on an Innocence Retrieval Mission." That instant we both looked at each other and I knew we both felt the sheer hatred of the idea of us having to work together.
"Oh, what is the matter? Trouble in Paradise?" Lenalee was quite to remind her brother that we didn't exactly meet under the best of circumstances. Some of the other staff complained that it was Komui's fault for having such a bad habit in failing to properly file anything.
He smiled and looked at both of us, "Oh, come on, we need to work together and get along to better protect humanity, I know think of this next mission as a way to bury the hatchet and patch things ups between each other, I am sure after this mission you two shall be such good friends you will never believe that you at one point hated each other."
A ghost looking creature with a capable said that there was a better chance for Lenalee to be able to get engaged to someone without her brother causing a scene that ruins her chances to ever getting married, than the two of us suddenly becoming friends.
I looked at Kanda, "As long as you give me the hatchet and don't ask where I decided to bury it, and what I did with the corpse I don't have a problem." Kanda looked at me and said that he was also thinking along those lines too.
"See you two haven't even started and you both agree with each other about something. I tell you, I have a feeling you two will be the best of friends when you two get back. Now I need to tell you about the place you are going. We believe that there is an Innocence piece at the city of Mater. The city has been in ruins for years but some believe the place is haunted by a ghost of a person who signs to the people that get lost in the city."
He touched a key on his keyboard and a holographic image appeared, it looked to me like something out of a fairytale. "As you might not know Allen, Innocence has often appeared in places where mysterious or miraculous things have happened or are rumored to happen. So investigating old fairy tales such as this is a good chance for us to gain a piece of Innocence. Never mind that the Earl will be more than likely try to gain that same piece as well."
We both got up at the same time and we both took a copy of the map detailing the area where we were headed, "Then we don't have much time to sit here listening to fairy tales, we need to hurry and get that Innocence before the Earl gets it and uses it to increase his power. I will return, I am not so sure about the lying greenhorn, but I shall succeed."
I looked at him and walked near the door, "You took the words right from my own mouth, but don't worry Kanda I will save you if you get down on your knees, with tears in your eyes as you beg me to save your life."
