This is a D Gray Man Fanfiction only.

Kanda was trying to destroy the Akuma, but he was pretty much doing as well as I expected. At first, he was doing great, he even managed to cut the Akuma a few times, but that is when the Akuma changed shape again, but this time into Kanda. Now with the ability of his new form, he basically kept on countering Kanda's attacks.

If anything this was annoying for me to watch. "Hey, beansprout take the girl and the old man out of the city while I keep this monster busy. You wouldn't be any help anyways, just like I told Komui, you are nothing but a distraction and that is the only thing you are good for."

Leave to Kanda that the first thing he says when he is pretty much cornered to be something that made me angry enough to think about killing the Akuma and him as a means to release some of my frustration and anger.

I focused on my enemy and my arm began to contract and shift, I could feel it changing into something I never expected seen before, and as the pain of my arm changing came to an end I looked at my arm and it changed into a long-range sort of a cannon.

I decided that not to let the opportunity go to waste and concentrated on the Akuma, still hoping Kanda would be dumb enough to get caught in the blast, distraction is I, these lousy punks sure don't know how to respect their elders.

I focused on my emotions and I pumped them through my weapon, as soon as I did I felt like I could see the trigger as it appeared in my mind. I pulled the imaginary trigger and sure enough energy blasts came out of my arm in rapid succession.

It caught the Akuma by surprise and blasted an arm and half of his chest. "DAMN YOU, EXORCIST, FIRST YOU TORTURE ME AND THEN YOU MUTILATE ME LIKE THIS! I AM ONLY DOING MY JOB!"

I looked at it and he kept evading my shots as Kanda looked at me with a look of shock, "Don't just stand there looking, use those damnable nightmare creatures of yours and finish that thing off!"

He looked at me and he saw the Akuma run away from where we were standing. "I don't need to be told what to do by you beansprout. Look the Akuma is running away, it is a perfect chance for us to find the Innocence, that is why we came to these ruins in the first place."

Great, of all foolish things to say this has to be the single worst. I didn't wait for him to even react, I aimed my weapon at the Akuma and fired to blast off his legs right from under him. I willed my weapon to become the claw and it did, as I walked over to the Akuma he was crying.

"Oh come on, you exorcist are supposed to be the good guys. Good guys always forgive others and give people a second chance. Why don't you show me the mercy you show humans."

As I placed my claw on his head I smiled, "That is exactly what I am doing, showing you mercy." Without a moment to think what I told him I used my fingers and sliced the Akuma in half, the soul chains that were keeping the soul trapped inside the Akuma broke, and the man's soul was finally free.

He looked at me and before he disappeared he said thank you. I turned around to the glare of Kanda, "Beansprout mind telling me why did you finish that thing off? We are here to find the Innocence and killing that Akuma was a secondary optional objective."

I looked at Kanda and began shaking my head, "Well I will give you a couple of good reasons, first off the Akuma if left alone could have regenerated and tried to attack us again, secondly to eliminate any possible way for the Earl to know what we are looking for, last but certainly not least now that the Akuma is no more, we have all the time we need to find the Innocence in relatively safe surroundings."

I began to look at the people around me and in the young woman's eyes I saw fear, and so was in the ways of the friendly scout that came with me and Kanda. "You think of me monstrous, don't you? Killed that thing without a second thought. You would be wrong, I saved that poor soul." I went to look at the young man and the masked man.

As soon as I stepped closer I smiled as I got closer I had a feeling as my hand began to give me a small shaking feeling, almost like my hand was trembling, but not enough so that others would notice. I began to feel what was causing it, and it was strongest near the young woman that was supposedly taking care of the puppet this city built long ago.

That is when I realized why my hand was trembling, I could tell Kanda that the heart of this woman was, in fact, the Innocence. I could tell him this beautiful young woman was, in fact, the puppet the city built, and that the old man was a young man drawn to the city by her singing. I, however, was not as cruel as that, the man had little time left.

I got close enough to her to be able to whisper to her, "You wish to be with this man you love, don't you? Don't worry, I will keep your secret till this man breaths his last breath, that will be good enough for you?"

She began nodding her head, and her mouth moved to say thank you, but she was not heard. "So Kanda let's go and find this precious treasure, shall we? I don't know about you, but I am getting quite hungry."

As we walked I could see the masked man having a hard time breathing, and we finally reached what used to be the church of this city, I helped her place him on one of the still intact benches where the people a long time ago used to pray and she did pray or at least that it looked like to me, the finder, and Kanda.

"Your friend does not have long in this world, why don't you sing that song you know he loves so much? You don't need to worry we will give you enough time for you to be with him at his last moment."

She opened her eyes and a tear began to flow down her face, "You mean to tell me you figured it out, you know who I really was and didn't tell your friend? Why would you do that for me, Exorcist? I am only alive in no small part thanks to what you came here seeking, so why allow me to have this wish?"

Kanda looked at me angrily and the finder was laughing. "You mean to tell me she had the Innocence all along and you didn't tell me about it!" I looked at him with his sword drawn and ready to attack me.

"Kanda let's face it, you would have killed her even before you heard her request. I know what this person wants, she wants to spend the last moments of their lives together, they love each other after all. I know your type Kanda, you wouldn't know romance if your life depended on it. So let's let her spend her moments with her beloved and then she will give us the Innocence. There is no Akuma anywhere near here and therefore there is no rush."

He looked at them and sheathed his sword, "You are wrong you know, I do know a little something about loving someone. As your teammate, however, I wish you would give me the benefit of at least sharing important information like this in the future."

She began singing this really sweet and tender hymn and I had to agree it was rather soothing, I looked at Kanda, "I will when you actually call me by my name and not that ugly nickname you gave me."

That is when Kanda did something I never expected of him, he laughed, and I mean really began laughing. "Guess I should be nicer to the Finders then so they tell me what is going on, I don't learn the names of anyone in the Order till they have survived for one year at the very least. There are many people who simply will not make it for an entire year."

The song finally ended and sure enough, we saw that the innocence was ready for us to pick up. She exposed the compartment in her body where the Innocence had been plugged in into her body. I know Innocence is known to cause what people saw as miracles, but once we removed it, the young woman turned into a deactivated machine.

All the qualities that made her look human simply disappeared the second she did not have the Innocence piece inside her body. I saw that she was still holding the hand of the old man, I guess in the end she didn't want to be separated from him. I guess that is the miracle the Innocence caused, for a machine to live and find love.

As we walked back to the train station, I noticed something that was not there before, a piano. I also saw that the train schedule showed that it would take several hours for our train to arrive. "What kind of a fool places a piano like that in a train station, and the thing is not capable of playing any music without a pianist."

I looked at Kanda and could not help but to shake my head, "Kanda what piece would you ask for if there was a person on that piano?" He kept looking at it and said something cheerful like Moonlight Sonata." Cheerful? I had to wonder if during this mission that Akuma actually caused Kanda a brain injury.

Moonlight Sonata is one of the most depressing and it was usually played at a funeral, he called that cheerful? I guess since the idiot made the request I had no alternative but to sit down and do something I don't get to do that much, at least in a while.

I began to touch the piano keys and saw that it was tuned, much to my surprise. Kanda was calling me a fool until I began to play the music piece that he mentioned, I kept focused on my music and my surroundings, just in case, the previously asleep or bored people waiting for the train moved to be closer to the music.

I actually felt quite happier as I finished playing the song and I got a standing ovation from the people that had listened to me play. I had no better to do so I decided to ask if anyone else had a song they wanted to hear.

For the next three hours I played music on the piano, and me without a camera, the look of shock on Kanda's face was priceless. I finished playing as the train arrived, I knew the reason for the piano, as a black cat sat on the top of it. I could not attempt to go near the cat, but I began to glare at it, and the cat just glared right back at me.

I knew this was my crazy sister, I should have known better than think that my family would simply leave me be, as they thought that I was dead, the chances of me meeting any of them were slim to none. I went with Kanda and Johnny to the train.

"Tell me beansprout how long have you been able to play the piano?" I was not in a good mood when Kanda asked me that, I told him all of my life, I kept looking outside the compartment window as the train began to move away from the station, the cat was still glaring at me until the train was so far away that we could not see the train station anymore.

As we reached the place where we took the boats back to the Order I couldn't be happier to get this depressing mission over with. Kanda from the looks of it was actually looking forward to putting as much distance between us as I was.

We walked into Komui's office and we handed him the Innocence, we did our best to be brief in reporting what happened but I got the feeling that the Finder that was with us actually already reported what had happened and this to me at least seemed to be a mere formality.

I went to my room, and I really was feeling tired but someone was waiting for me in front of the door to my room. It was Lenalee for some reason she was not looking that happy, not happy at all. She did something that I never expect her to do, she walked up to me with her hands on her hips, I almost felt like when a wife was going to scream at her husband truth be told.

"Yu told me that you shamelessly flirted with a woman on your mission, now Allen tells me the truth?" Why do I feel like this is going to end up in an argument no matter what I say? I swear I could almost feel Mana laughing at me for some odd reason.

"Lenalee why it is a pleasure to see you, and no I didn't flirt with any woman, I was kind to the holder of the Innocence we just deliver to your brother. She was a mechanical doll, that the people of a ruined city made. Now, why so angry Lenalee?"

She began to blush and they looked really embarrassed for some reason, and throughout the entire thing, she was unable to speak a complete word apparently. "I am going to beat that stupid brother's skull in. He actually told me you found a lovely little girlfriend and then he made her out to be this blonde beauty."

I had to be honest with her, "Actually she was already involved with someone else for a long time, I know you might have the worst possible opinion of me considering who my Master is, but unlike him, I am no home wrecker. She did have a rather nice wig, and that wig was blonde."

Again she looked embarrassed for some reason, don't tell me she actually has a crush on that stupid human pig that most people call Marian Cross. During my few years in training with him, I lost count on how many times I had to give emotional support to husbands that found out their wives slept with my Master.

I, of course, had to tell them, that since I was pretty much left to pay his debts, let's just say all his debts were not always the financial kind. Husbands demanding that I tell them where he is, and wives that wanted to find him to sleep with him a second, third, fourth, I don't know how many times or how many kids he's got spread in the land he travels across.

It was not all bad, the fights with the cheated husbands actually taught me a great deal about hand to hand combat, the wives that cheated on their husband by consequence taught me the importance of fidelity in a relationship.

You would think after all the years that I lived I would learn about that, well with so much time, I forgot somethings and relearn them later in my life. There are three things I will never forget, how to help a woman give birth, how to change a diaper without throwing up, and how to bottle feed a baby. These are things I will never forget because I never asked to learn them in the first place.

"Lenalee I had a tough day, I really want a shower and sleep. So unless you want to tell me something else that will make me hate your brother more than I already do, could we hold this delightful discussion till I managed to get at least five hours of sleep."

She looked at me and asked me why didn't I sleep on the train? Did she even actually travel with Kanda on a train or was it that I was the first to travel with the emo? "Yu Kanda is a very dedicated and focused Exorcist, he is so focused on the mission that Emo seems to be a perfect description for him, but the man snores like a grizzly bear with a head cold. I had better sleep near a lumber mill. So No, I didn't get any sleep."

She looked at me and began to do something I secretly was afraid she would do, acting cutesy and sad, yes she even used the dreaded technique called the puppy eyes. "You know Allen, it's just that I am worried that you had not had your meal, and I thought that you might want to have your meal, and I could listen to your story of what happened on that mission."

I know I am tired, I know that I could say no, that this could wait, but with the way she was looking at me and the way she was sending me contradictory messages with her speech and body language, I knew of one undeniable truth, I just hope I can have some black coffee with that meal, cause this was going to take awhile to explain.

"As long as you eat something yourself, I shall accept and go with you to the mess hall." For some strange reason, she actually looked really happy that I said that and even took hold of my arm and we ended up walking arm in arm towards the mess hall. I sure hope Komui is not looking at us, he would go absolutely nuts if he saw the way we were walking.

After a long walk, I didn't know the mess hall was that far from the entrance. We both walked into the mess hall and I, of course, ordered myself a light dinner, twelve burgers, three pizzas, two pounds of spaghetti, with fifty turkey meatballs, and four cheesecakes, not to mention about half a little of lemonade, they actually ran out of coffee beans.

"The mission was not that difficult Lenalee honest, it was your basic go get a piece of Innocence, kill an Akuma and bring it back, honest it was really not that major of a deal. Dealing with Kanda was more of a pain than having to fight that Akuma truth be told. He seems to forget that we are supposed to be doing to protect humanity, he forgets that the Finders are part of that humanity we were actually supposed to protect."

She took a bite of her salad and nodded her head as she heard me say that, "Yu had a tragic life Allen, he actually care so much, that the pain of actually losing someone he got to know torments him a great deal, so to prevent that he limits those he gets to know. What good would he be if he spent weeks crying in sheer depression after hearing that his friends died?"

I actually never thought about it like that, as for having a tough life, let's face it, compared to the things my family endured for centuries, I could think of a few things that could even compare, but I was not going to tell Lenalee that. I simply was not that cruel.

"Well, there was something you might want to hear." She immediately put down her glass and looked at me with a smile, "We actually fought a rather odd Akuma in that place, it was a level two Akuma, it has the power to mimic the physical appearance of others and even copy their abilities. Like I said dealing with an upgraded Akuma is never pleasant or easy you should really be careful."

She looked at me and began laughing in sort of a cute way, "If I am with you on a mission, I know that I have nothing to fear, I know you would either protect me or even save me."