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Story Update 20~~
Author: today is a wonderfully special occasion!! biggrin
Lavi: It's an anniversary!
Lenalee: It's a milestone!
Allen: It's amazing!
Kanda: It's a freaking Christmas miracle.
Author: Ahaha.... Today is the 20th story installment! that's like... TWO 10's!
Allen: oooh, author-chan's been practicing her math!
lavi: so author-chan, anything special happening to celebrate?
Author: hmm... i dunno. Maybe we should have a special word from our cast? *pulls out microphone* Let's see... how about our main star, Allen Walker first!
Allen: oh, i'm honored! Kinda wish I was alive to enjoy this update... but... haha... zombies can't be choosers...
Author: So Allen... What's your favorite part of this story so far?
Allen: hmm... Definitely the parts where i'm eating.
Author: And there you have it folks, Allen walker is a glutton.
Allen: HEY-
Author: Moving on, Lavi!
Lavi: It's an honor author-sweaty! I'm so excited!
Author: Me too!!
Author&Lavi: *jump up and down with squeals*
Author: But down to business! Lavi, do you have any predictions for the future? anything you think will happen?
Lavi: I foresee... *crazy hand gestures* Lots of foreign people... and... Me sweeping you off your feet! *eyebrow wiggle*
Kanda: Gag me with a spoon...
Author: Kanda, i know you're eager to be interviewed, but wait your turn. *swats with a newspaper*
Lavi: yeah Yuu-chan, totally wait your turn!
Kanda: Shut it you-
Author: And now to kanda! *smacks with microphone*
Kanda: *curses under his breath*
Author: So Kandy-pants-
Kanda: WTF kandy pants!?
Author: how do you feel about your involvement in this story?
Kanda: I wish it wouldnt' happen. *growls*
Author: and there you have it everyone! OH, some words from our other characters?
Miranda: I... um... i'm HONORED! *runs screaming*
Krowley: I wish i could be more popular... de aru...
Komoui: I LOVE MY LENALEE-CHAAAAAAAAAN
Reevers: Thanks for reading! *salutes*
Johnny: My one and only appearence! i've got to make it coun-
author: and now it's time to get on with the show! Disclaimer?
Lavi: If she hasn't owned it for the last 19 updates... what makes you think she owns it now!?
Author: Places! Let's gooo~
Pieces of the heart part two
Stories of the soul
Lavi awoke to the hushed stillness of his room.
Rolling over in bed, trying to shove his face as far into his pillow as breathing allowed, he tried to mold his mind back into thinking order. Without his consent, his memory gently rolled over the events of the days prior, as well as several other smaller facts that seemed completely random. He ignored it.
Ever since he could remember, he had experienced this morning ritual, as his photographic mind re-cataloged any information that may have been misplaced during sleep.
Shoving the annoyance to the back corner of his mind, where it continued to repeat what kanda had been eating five months ago on that certain tuesday (soba noodles, and his favorite green tea. The spices on the noodles had been spread out like a star...) he opened a bleary green eye to his room.
The bookman's quarters were rather separated from the rest of the exorcists. In fact, he had been completely surprised, and slightly delighted, when he discovered that the room he was only accessible through a certain bookshelf in the order's library, waaaaay in the back. It was almost like a secret fort, and would have been completely super special awesome...
'if it weren't for the fact that I share it with that panda-jiji'
He looked at the beams of light, shining through the stained glass window on one side, as it illuminated volumes and volumes of tomes and novels covering his desk. And floor. And any available space where anything could be placed. Dust danced through the light-beams, like streams of ballerina's, pirouetting before dashing out of the stage light.
The room was so quiet without the gentle breathing of Bookman, or the occasional flip of a page. It almost felt like a library, which was rather appropriate seeing as more books resided in the room than several smaller librarys he had been to.
As he curled into the residual warmth of his blankets, he lifted up a little, but stopped when he noticed a spot on his pillow where he had just shoved his head.
A large black smear.
He narrowed his eye, before shifting onto his back, being careful to miss the spot. He reached up, swiping a hand across his face. He could feel something sticky, and when he pulled his hand back, black was smeared across his fingers as well. 'ink?' his mind supplied.
He rolled out of bed, carefully avoiding several books with the practiced ease of a librarian, before waddling into the adjoining bathroom. Their room may have been smaller than most, with the panda sleeping on a bunk above him, but he would take it if it meant that he got his own bathroom.
He flipped on the light, not noticing the black smear his hand left behind. He turned to his mirror, staring intently at the black smear that came from a line below his eye, crossing the bridge of his nose and then dissipating over his cheek.
He turned on the faucet, being careful to keep the water warm and rinsed his hands, before wiping them across his face. The black substance dripped down, falling into the porcelain sink and dying it black.
Wiping his face with a towel, he looked up again. Most of the black was gone, but a little remained right by his eye-patch. Curiously, he reached up and lifted the patch from his face, determined to clean behind it.
Immediately, a line of black slid down his face. It was as if the eye-patch had been acting as a barrier for the dark liquid. He quickly moved his hands up, trying to stem the flow and keep the substance from ruining his clothing. He wiped away at it, but it kept coming in thicker and thicker lines. Finally, submitting to the mess, he pulled the eye-patch away completely and swiped at his face. He glanced up in the mirror and stared in horror.
Where his eye used to be was a massive black hole.
***
Kanda woke with a jerk. But the only sudden part about it was the switch from consciousness to unconsciousness. He blinked blearily around the room, willing his mind to work. His will was in vain.
"Kanda-kun?" Komoui leaned over the boy, staring intently at his unfocused eyes. He had come back to the medical ward to give Kanda the medication he had insisted the boy take. After a LOT of grouching and uncharacteristic stalling on Kanda's part, the boy had conceded and taken the medication. Now he was constantly falling asleep, only to jerk awake moments later. Komoui was concerned that the medication was having the adverse effect than what he had wanted. Kanda was supposed to sleep peacefully, not fitfully.
"Did something happen Kanda-kun?" Komoui asked, a bit more slowly than normal, accounting for the samurai's sudden lack of cognitive skills. The boy moaned and grumbled, shifting in the bed.
"Kanda?" Komoui tried again.
"Baka-Usagi..." Kanda grumbled back, his head jerking with a twitch. Komoui's brow furrowed. He wanted to see Lavi..?
"Oi, Komoui-san!"
Komoui blinked at the familiar voice, and looked up to see said Bookman Jr. Lavi waltzed in, waving cheerfully. He came up to Kanda's bed and looked down at the mumbling samurai. His eyes narrowed, and Komoui watched in suspicion.
"mmm..." Lavi reached forward and poked Kanda in the cheek. "Did Yuu-chan finally lose it?" He pouted.
Komoui sighed. He should have expected Lavi to be up to his normal tricks.
Kanda's mumblings suddenly took on a more murderous air.
"Awww..." lavi cooed. "He's dreamin' about lil' ol' me!"
"A ha ha..." komoui turned away, wondering if Lavi was just oblivious or that insane.
"So what's up Komoui?" Lavi asked, turning to the supervisor. "I kinda fell out of the loop a while ago. Who knew that missing a day would put me so far behind!"
"Ah..." Komoui sighed. "Status report right? Well... Kanda's on medicated vacation..."
"Explains the spit bubbles." Lavi laughed as he watched the barely conscious samurai blabbering on the bed.
"Ah... and Luna and Alteara arrived."
Lavi looked a little more serious at this, and gave a curt nod. "Saw them in the foyer... with Allen..."
Komoui nodded as well.
"I'm under inspection as well... This may be my last week here!" Komoui laughed nervously. Lavi frowned.
"Now what would make you say that? Do your chances look that bad?" he asked.
Komoui nodded. "A lot of the problems that happened could have been avoided."
"mmm..." Lavi sighed. "Well, if those girls are worth their positions, they'll see how important you are to us."
"Excuse me..."
The two turned to the blond who had just arrived. Alteara stood at the end of Kanda's bed, nervously fiddling with the hem of her shirt.
"Ahh... " she started. "I... I was on my way to the cafeteria... "
"Get lost?" Lavi laughed. "It happens a lot around here."
"I'm not lost!" the girl insisted. "Just... slightly... misguided?"
Komoui smiled. "How about we go together then? I was about to head to lunch after checking up on kanda-kun here." He motioned to the boy on the bed who seemed to have calmed down.
"Is he alright?" The blond asked, blue eyes locked on the sleeping boy.
"He's just taking a little mental break." Lavi laughed. "Tomorrow he'll be back to his ol' orny self."
The blond broke into a smile, and komoui swore the lights in the room turned up two watts. "That's good to hear."
"Well then" komoui extended his arm to the girl, who took it greatfully. The two started up a small conversation as they left the room. Lavi smiled and looked down to Kanda on the bed.
"She's a nice one eh, yuu-chan?" he laughed. "Though I kinda prefer the red-headed one. I like my girls with bit of snob in em' eh?" he laughed.
Kanda, on the other hand, remained silent. Lavi laughed at himself. He was talking to no-one again.
After a few moments of peaceful silence, kanda's face scrunched up, and his eyes began to open. He made a small noise of protest at the bright lights.
"Ya'll right Yuu-chan?" lavi asked, leaning over his friend. Apparently he made a bad choice, because Kanda immediately snapped to attention. He simultaneously turned toward Lavi and leaned as far away from his as possible. With a quickly hissed "s**t!" kanda was flailing through the air, and then landing on the floor with a painfully dull thud.
Lavi blinked for a moment, staring at where kanda USED to be sitting, and listening to the boys angry growling and mumbled cursing coming from below the edge of the bed. He then burst into laughter.
"OH MY GOD YUU-CHAN!" he cried, holding his chest and beating the bed with a fist, much to the chagrin of several of the nurses. "That's the... the best... ever!" he wheezed, practically crying.
"Shut it you Idiot." kanda snapped, tiredly dragging himself up off the floor. To his surprise, it was rather easy to stand. Had he recovered that quickly? He was staring at his hands with surprise when lavi saw fit to gasp out "Yuu-chan! You're standing!! Are you all healed?"
Kanda shrugged, giving no response as he sat back down on the bed. Lavi thought he was going to be trying to fall back asleep, but to his surprise the boy leaned down and grabbed one of his combat boots, starting the long process of strapping it to his feet.
"Yuu-chan" lavi asked, still breathing hard from his laughing fit. "Where ya' goin?"
"Out of here." kanda growled. "I don't need to be coddled like a child. I'm not sick."
"Now kanda." Lavi sighed, wiping his face clear, "You're still kinda weak at the knee's aren't ya? And what about the medication komoui gave you? Are you sure you should be up and about?"
"Shut up." Kanda snapped, putting the finishing touches on his shoes and reaching out to grab a coat that someone had supplied for him from the hanger by his bed. "I'm not going to sit in here like an invalid, medication or not."
He began to walk out with a slight stagger. Lavi stifled a few last giggles behind his hands, before standing up and brushing invisible dust from his pants with a sigh. He might as well follow his friend to make sure he didn't accidentally hurt himself. Or someone else. Definitely someone else.
And hey, maybe he'd get a few kicks and giggles along the way.
***
Alteara followed Komoui down the hall, chatting happily with the science head. They passed a few finders along the way, all of whom shot strange looks at the pair.
"It seems the information about my inspection has gotten out..." komoui laughed, catching the girls attention. She gave him a curious look.
"Everyone here really seems to love you." She said, looking at another pair of passing finders who were watching them from the corners of their eyes.
"I think they're just curious" he laughed, waving away the stares. "Though they may be more interested in your little friend here..." He lifted his hands to his head and ran his fingers over the feathery wings of the black golem that was solidly attached to his beret.
"Oh!" Alteara gasped. "Get down from there Yoru!" she reached up, trying to scoop the golem from it's perch. It bared it's teeth and hissed menacingly.
"Now, don't you go getting picky on me. I said get down!" Alteara scolded, shaking a finger at the golem. It flapped it's wings with a huff, before taking off into the air, looping around the blonde's head.
"I'm sorry Komoui-san." the girl sighed. "Sometimes Yoru gets a little... out of hand..."
"So this is your golem?" Komoui smiled, watching the little black ball swirl in a few more loops.
"Yup." Alteara smiled back. "She travels with me wherever I go!"
"Amazing" Komoui stared, lifting his hands up to act as a sort of landing pad, waiting patiently. The golem swirled around a bit more, before it fluttered to a stop on his hands. It padded around a tiny bit as the science head examined it. When he leaned too close, it bared it's teeth with another menacing hiss.
"She likes her personal space." Alteara laughed nervously.
"Such a design." Komoui looked the golem over. "It's extremely similar to our timcanpy. Who made it for you?"
"Ah..." the blond scratched the back of her neck, looking the walls over. "Um.. a friend in the science department... a LONG time ago... aha..."
"I see..." komoui pulled away from the golem, his investigations finished. He lifted his hand and the tiny black ball took back into the air. The two turned, and continued their walk toward the cafeteria.
Behind them, the black golem glided in the air, it's red eye shining in the light.
***
"Hey Yuu-chan, There's totally a wall there." Lavi laughed, watching as his samurai friend stumbled into yet another wall. Kanda seethed as he once again, acquainted his face with the cool damp stone of the order.
"I swear by all things unholy, usagi, if you say that AGAIN, I'm going to take your other eye and shove it so far down your throat you'll be watching the floor while you walk!"
Lavi laughed, (and internally shivered at the thought) before following his friends slow and stumbling pace.
"Well, in that case, I'd just have to switch eyes with my eye-patch." he pointed out. "Then I would be just fine!"
Kanda stopped. Lavi expected some other threat, or maybe actual violence this time, (Goodness knows what a half sedated kanda could do with a freshly sharpened katana), but was surprised when the boy just turned to him and stared.
After a few moments of silence, lavi stepped back. A silent kanda is a deadly kanda after all...
"Um... yuu-chan?" lavi tried, watching his friends every move. He was panting a bit, probably exhausted from fighting the drug in his system, as well as determinedly walking where-ever he was going. But instead of a scowl, Kanda was simply staring at him. The blankness of his face made lavi much more nervous than the prospect of a katana to his throat.
"Take it off."
"Heh?" Lavi blinked, jerking back to the situation at hand. Kanda was pointedly staring at his face, his own expression determined, and a bit hesitant. Lavi noted that the samurai was probably torn between an intense curiosity about something, and the golden rule of respecting another person's privacy. He had never asked about the eye-patch before, and when lavi had inquired, Kanda had simply stated that it was one of his 'rules'. So to ask now...
"Why?"
"Just do it." Kanda said again, careful to keep his voice steady.
"If I do." lavi answered back. "Will you tell me what brought this on?"
Kanda licked his lips, and nodded.
Satisfied, lavi reached up and pulled his uniform green bandana from his head. The tie was hidden behind the back half of the cloth, and just moving it around was much harder than simply taking it off and putting it back on later. Slipping it up his arm, he pulled at the black drawstrings. A tug later, and his eyepatch slid down his face. A closed eye was revealed.
"Better?" Lavi asked, holding his hands out as if to display himself. Kanda stared for a moment.
"Open your eye."
"Really Kanda, as curious as a kitty today are we?"
"JUST DO IT!" Kanda snapped, loosing his patience.
And lavi opened his eye.
...
"See yuu-chan?" The red-head grinned. "Nothing scary back here. There's no big boogy monster hidden in uncle lavi's face."
"Shut up." kanda growled. He stared at the eye that was so carefully hidden most of the time. It was just a shade of green darker than the left eye, and a little less glossy. Other than that, it was perfectly normal.
"Now." Lavi said, as he re-tied his eyepatch in place and worked on re-securing his bandana. "Are you going to tell me what brought about this sudden breech in my privacy?"
Kanda almost seemed to flinch at that. Lavi sighed. He hadn't meant to make his friend uncomfortable, but he was dying to know what in the world could have made kanda so curious.
"A dream."
"What?" Lavi snapped back to attention. His mind seemed to be wandering a lot today. He needed to cut that out.
"I had a dream... about you." Kanda mumbled, turning to continue walking down the hall.
Lavi blinked, before he gasped, little hearts and flowers flying into place around his head. "OH YUU-CHAN! I LOVE YOU T-URPGH"
His sentence was quickly cut short via kanda's fist.
"Not... that... kind of dream." the samurai growled, his anger melting the little flowers that so commonly followed lavi around. "Pervert." he spat out as an after thought. He turned and continued down the hall. Lavi picked himself up, taking a moment to re-set his nose in it's natural position, before skipping behind the samurai.
"So what kind of dream was it, then?"
Kanda grumbled as he stumbled into the wall again, but this time, instead of catching himself, he slid to the floor.
"Yuu-chan!" Lavi cried, rushing to the males side. He tried to pick the other up, only to have his hands batted away.
"Don't touch me!" Kanda growled, "I don't need your help."
Lavi watched helplessly as Kanda shakily stood. He panted heavily, bracing himself on the cool stone. His whole body felt like lead that was magnetized to the ground. Curse Komoui and his 'vacations'.
Lavi sighed, running a hand through his red hair. "Yuu-chan, where are you even trying to go?"
Kanda paused for a moment. Where was he trying to go...
"Where ever I want, baka usagi."
Lavi hid his giggles behind a shrug. "Alright, alright." he blinked as his stomach growled in hunger. "Well." he laughed, "Why don't we head for a bite to eat?"
"Glutton." Kanda smirked. And right on time, his stomach growled as well.
"Looks like great minds think alike!" Lavi grinned, elbowing his friend, which only served to shove him farther into the stone wall. With another sigh, he grabbed Kanda's limp arm and threw it over his shoulder. "We're never gonna get there if you can't walk straight though."
He hoisted the taller boy upright, and started helping him down the hallway.
"Let go of me." Kanda growled weakly. "I don't need your help. Put me down."
"Right right." Lavi nodded, pulling his friend around a corner. "You're such a manly-man Yuu-chan."
"I'll slice you open." Kanda murmured.
"Give it up." lavi laughed. "You're becoming less and less convincing. I'm going to start pitying you!"
"Just walk you idiot."
"Right, right."
***
"Here we are!" Komoui called, waving his arms in broad arcs. Several of the inhabitants of the cafeteria gave him strange looks, but the majority shrugged it off, chalking it up to his frequent strange behavior.
"Waaaao." Alteara stared up into the high vaulted ceiling with unsuppressed awe. "It's soooo pretty!"
"Why thank you." Komoui grinned, his eyes glinting with pride as he rubbed his chin. "I built this room myself."
"Really!?"
The loud chorus of 'LIAR' along with a few small 'he's totally lying' and 'more like destroyed' 's in the background was surprisingly not enough to destroy komoui's confidence entirely. The blond simply laughed.
"Well, more like designed." komoui murmured, hanging his head. "Anyway!" he recovered surprisingly quickly.... " lets find a seat, and I'll introduce you to Jerry-san!"
"Jerry-san?" Alteara quirked her head as she followed the supervisor through the crowded picnic tables.
"Ah, He's the head chef here!" Komoui smiled, looking behind himself to her. "He can make anything you'd like. All you have to do is ask."
"WOW!" the blond grinned. "So can he make... um... really good steaks!?"
"Of course Hoooooney~ All you have to do is stop by my lil' ol' window and ask for it!~~ "
Alteara turned to the voice, only to spot a purple haired man (?) swinging around a ladle with ease and leaning out of a small window in the wall.
"Ah, you must be Jerry-san!" The young girl grinned. At the affirmative nod she received, she bowed lightly. "It's nice to meet you!"
"Why don't you come over and tell Aunty Jerry what you'd like to eat hmmm?~"
'ahhh... aunty...?' the blond laughed nervously to herself. She walked over to the window, leaning in to speak with the flamboyant man. At that moment, the doors to the cafeteria opened once more, and kanda and lavi walked, or more like limped, into the room.
"Geeze, yuu-chan, for only eating soba, you sure weigh a lot."
"That's just all of your stupidity weighing you down." Kanda mono toned.
Lavi stopped, and looked at him, face twitching. "Was that... did you just make a joke?"
"Find us a place to sit you idiot." kanda growled.
"Ahh, you're so abusive to your koibito..." Lavi sighed. Kanda's eyes widened, gave a mighty twitch, and then all hell broke loose.
A loud crash distracted Alteara from her conversation with Jerry.
"Eh?" she blinked, turning around to see two boys fighting rather violently.
"KOIBITO MY FOOT USAGI!" Kanda raged, as he grabbed everything and anything he could get his hands on, (which mostly consisted of the silverware, food, and anything else the finders hadn't picked up/nailed down) and whipped them at the scared bookman jr, who was running back and forth in front of the wall, trying to avoid deadly projectiles.
"IT WAS JUST A JOKE YUU-CHAN!" Lavi cried, barely missing a knife that impaled itself in the wall behind him. "HEY! DON'T THROW THINGS THAT COULD COST ME MY GOOD EYE!!!" He squeaked as a fork impaled the wall on the other side of his head.
"IM GOING TO USE YOUR SKIN AS A CARPET!" Kanda yelled back, causing several finders to turn a nice shade of green.
"They're so lively hmm?" Jerry laughed, leaning out next to Alteara, who turned with a concerned face.
"They're not going to... hurt each other.. are they?"
Jerry leaned to avoid a misfired bread roll without missing a beat. "They might scuffle a little, but those two are like childhood friends. Even though you can't really tell, both of them are having quite a bit of fun."
"Oh, good." the blond sighed with relief.
The two watched as a well placed throw from kanda left the bookman jr covered with spaghetti. Lavi paused for a moment, before looking with with ferocity.
"Alright Yuu-chan, this means war!"
He grabbed the potato soup of the finder next to him, and lobbed it at kanda. Of course Kanda, being a samurinja, dodged completely. However, Alteara, who happened to be in line behind him, did not. The girl squeaked as the bowl collided with her front, spreading potato soup all over her. Kanda chucked darkly while lavi panicked in the background.
"Oh man, miss, I'm soo sorry!" He rushed up, leaving kanda to catch his breath on a bench. "You alright?" He fret over her clothing as the girl reached down and ran her finger over some of the thick white soup on her front. She popped the finger in her mouth with a curious look, before smiling brightly.
"Oh man..." she grinned, "I LOVE potato soup!"
Lavi fell to the floor.
"How about I make you some then sweety?" Jerry laughed, "With a small side of steak?"
"It's perfect!" She grinned. And as a second thought. "Um... could I have some napkins or a rag or something too...?"
"Coming right uuuup~" Jerry called, disappearing back into the window.
Around this time, lavi managed to pull himself back into standing position and actually look at the girl he assaulted with soupy goodness.
"Woah." he stopped, eye going wide. "You're Alteara!"
"Oh, have we met?" The blond asked, looking the boy over.
"Ah... not actually... I've just heard about you from Allen-chan... and I did see you a few times. But we've never been formally introduced."
As the two talked softly, kanda watched from his place on a bench. He was still rather tired from the tranquilizer, and all of that throwing had left him exhausted.
"Kanda-sama..."
He glanced to the right at the finder who had addressed him. He was a taller guy with dusty blond hair. Kanda remembered going on a mission with him a while ago. The guys name was... david? davies?
Kanda grunted in acknowledgment when he realized that the finder was waiting for him to respond.
"Who is the new girl?"
Sharp saphire eyes focused on the blond girl over by lavi. She was the one from his dream.
"Her name is Alteara."
The group turned to see Komoui standing at the end of the table, his eyes hidden by the shine in his glasses.
"She's here to save Allen-kun."
The table fell into hushed murmurs of awe and confusion.
"But komoui-sama..." a smaller finder piped up, "Didn't Allen-san..."
A nod was all he needed. The supervisor pushed up his glasses, as dark eyes trained on the girl. "I have my hopes though. She is legitimate, as well as her partner. They've performed miracles before."
"What about you?"
Komoui looked down to kanda, who was staring back intently. "What are you loosing from this?"
Loosing? several of the finders whispered amongst themselves.
"Nothing." komoui insisted, but kanda kept staring.
"Even I know about equivalent exchange Komoui." The dark haired boy growled. "Tell us now, before we find out later."
"You're surprisingly insightful today Kanda-kun." Komoui laughed.
"Maybe it's because I died." Kanda muttered, wiping the smile from Komoui's face. "But I seem to be thinking things through a little more lately."
Komoui sighed and gave in. "I'm being tested. My worth is being measured. If i'm insufficient... i'll be replaced."
"You'll be killed." Kanda growled. Tension flew through the table.
"... Most likely, yes." Komoui nodded. "But I won't leave without a fight."
"You've got that right." Kanda growled, standing from the table. The finders around him watched as he approached the blond and Lavi. The conversation had already spread through the cafeteria, and all of the finders were watching closely.
"Um, did it just get quiet in here?" Lavi peeked around from his conversation. Alteara was already watching Kanda's approach. Mugen was drawn, glittering in the dim lighting, and came to rest centimeters from the blond's throat.
"Kanda!?" Lavi cried, half in warning and half in confusion. Kanda glared.
"You think I'll let you pass judgment on whoever you please, like you're some kind of god?!" He snarled.
Icy blue eyes stared back at him defiantly.
"And who, exactly, said anything like that." She snapped back. Kanda's eyes narrowed.
"I appreciate your help." He growled. "Normally, I would never imagine raising my blade against someone I owe. But I owe Komoui a whole lot more than you, and I won't let you kill him by-"
"Kanda!" He blinked at the sudden added weight to his blade, as Komoui clamped his hand around the edge closest to the blond. He growled at the blood that slowly trickled down the science head's arm.
"Let GO Komoui"
"Then put your sword down. Alteara has done nothing to warrant your anger."
"Says the man just sentenced to death!" Kanda snarled, but still moved to withdraw his blade, trying not to move too much to further injure the cheif. Komoui released his hand, curling it into a fist to stem the bleeding.
"If I am removed from my position," komoui responded, loudly enough to attract the attention of those watching. "It is because I have not done my job well enough as supervisor, and because I have not done enough to keep everyone as safe and happy as possible. It will only be my own fault. So if any of you feel the need to be angry, and to blame someone for my own faults," He looked pointedly at Kanda. "Then take it up with me, and me alone."
"That's enough." A strong voice resonated from the rafters. The group looked up just in time to see a red-headed girl sitting amongst the dark wooden beams, before she jumped from her perch and landed silently on the floor between komoui and the finders.
"Luna..." komoui stared. Kanda growled and Lavi simply blinked.
"I have heard enough. Originally I thought I would need several days to make my decision on your fate, but from the displays I've seen today, I believe I can thoroughly make my decision. Alteara."
The blond nodded and walked over to her friends side.
"We will discuss your behavior, and the behavior of your subordinates. We will meet in your office in exactly 1 hour. Be there." And with that, the pair dissipated in a small gust of wind.
Murmurs immediately broke out across the tables, ranging from panicked to approving. Kanda growled and Lavi stared at the shaking shoulders of the supervisor. Komoui fell to his knees.
"Well..." he sighed. "I guess this is it for me..."
Author: : well... it may be a little late for this, but this update is over! *sweat*
Kanda: oh, you think?
Lavi: haha... yeah... at this point, most of this is just formalities. Onto the next entry! *charges*
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