Home is Where the Heart is

Baby's First Murder [Semi-Canon]

"We'll be back in a few days, don't worry about us too much. It's just a simple retrieval mission and there's only sightings of level ones and twos near the area." Holding onto her daddy's hand as she stood between him and her uncle Allen, she bounced a little on her feet in excitement at being taken on a mission with them. Though she was a little put off by how she wasn't being given a uniform.

"Yes I know that, but please be careful anyway. The only reason why I'm sending Isobel with you both is for her to learn, keep that in mind. I won't be the only one going after you both if something happens to her, you're lucky that Kanda is in the middle of a mission." Hearing her daddy sigh, she couldn't help but send a look to her uncle Komui.

"Maybe remember that I'm her parent too. We'll be fine." Feeling as she was turned to face her dad, she grinned as her bangs were pushed aside and she felt a kiss being pressed to her forehead. "Let's go little 'Bel." She could hear as her uncle said goodbye to the three of them, running to catch up with both adults.

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"Alright, now what are you supposed to do while your dad and I fight the akuma?" Fixing her pigtails as she walked next to her uncle, she glanced up to him for a moment as she tied the hair together.

"Stay back and watch, only follow if you get too far away from me. Hide so I can't be seen by them since I'm not supposed to fight." Hopping a little as she walked, she could see her dad talking with one of the finders that had come with them. She was about to run over to him when she heard a scream, being pulled back behind her uncle. She had only ever seen her uncle's innocence activated when he had shown all of them it while they were in the training room a few months before she synchronized with her weapon. He kept saying it looked different when he was younger, but she thought it looked really cool.

"That was right Isobel, now it's time to act on it. Stay back and watch us. Lavi, there's about twenty that I can count at the moment!" Moving from behind her uncle and under a cart that had been left in place while some of the civilians had run from the area. She couldn't understand why everyone hadn't run, then again she also didn't know who was the enemy amongst the crowd. She was a bit startled as the machines had started to surround her dad and uncle, but watching and hearing each fall excited her. Getting up from under the cart, she moved to stand in the crowd, keeping towards the edge so she could be able to move out of the way easily. She liked watching them fight together, and part of her wanted to join them, but she didn't want to get into trouble and get her daddy and uncle in trouble so she tried to stay put. She's been shown pictures of level ones and twos before, but seeing them in person was something completely different.

And then she saw one that she couldn't recognize.

And then there were two of it.

Watching in silent shock and awe as the rest of the level ones and twos in combat were taken out with a combination of cross grave and a fire stamp (two things she had only had described to her before now), she barely heard the finder they were with from where he stood in the alley to her side.

"Nobody had reported any level threes before now, they must've just evolved within the last few days." So that's what a level three looked like. She would've continued to watch from where she was if she hadn't noticed the man that had been standing beside her. For a moment she thought he was just acting strangely because of the fight they could all see.