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Hi guys! It's me again! This is my second fic in D.Gray-man. Please Read & Review!

Pairing : Kanda x Allen, and if you want another pairing, just ask. I'll give you Tyki x Lavi if you want. Anyway, just ask.

Disclaimer : I've just remembered that I forgot to put a disclaimer on my first fic. Oh well, I don't own D.Gray-man. Hoshino Katsura owns it. Let's move on to the story!

Chapter 1-The Cease of Ordinariness, the Being of Fantasy

Every so often you cannot fathom the obsession that was preordained to be. But to believe in it is the best course of action. No matter what destiny gives you, it is meant to be, it is never a curse. It is a sanction. And a sanction has its own significance to exist inside one's heart.

Allen Walker walked down the stairs of the Black Order silently. His mission had been such a nuisance lately. Not that he would admit it, though. Allen Walker was one of the nicest people in this whole world where all kind of being seemed to exist. The akumas lately had grown stronger than ever. More work for him. More dreadful things to see. He hated to see innocent people die in front of his eyes. He hated to see the soul bound inside an akuma's body. It's so sad. Akuma was such a woeful being. He wanted to save them, but he hated to see them suffering like that. And as long as people still couldn't see that people doesn't come back to life after they died, akumas would still exist.

"Allen-kun!" came a girl's voice. Allen stared behind him. Lenalee ran downstairs until she paced up with him, smiling cheerfully. "How was the last mission?" she started a conversation, seeing the tiny hint of sadness in the white haired exorcist.

"Fine." Allen murmured.

"Hey, what's wrong with you, Allen-kun?" Lenalee questioned. Allen's head snapped up.

"W-what do you mean?" he stammered. The girl sure had a pretty good instinct. Or else, he was quite easy to read.

"You look rather depressed lately. Is something wrong?" Lenalee made a guess. Allen looked down. That girl sure had a good intuition.

"No, nothing's wrong. Don't worry about me, Lenalee." Allen smiled cheerfully. Lenalee gave a sigh and held his face with her hands, making him blush slightly at the sudden contact.

"If you're going to lie to me, you should at least do a better job." She smiled sadly. "Tell me what's wrong, Allen-kun." She pleaded. She didn't like this. She didn't like to see the white haired exorcist sad. After that, she released his face, letting Allen returned to his own thoughts. Allen sighed. That does it; he was really an easy read.

"…Lenalee, do you think this whole thing is a curse?" Allen admitted. Lenalee tilted her head in questioning look. Allen sighed and continued. "I mean, we're facing a great deal of problems here. And around the world, the Earl of Millennium is currently making more and more akumas. I think sooner or later this world would be filled by akumas, and-"

"Allen-kun, is that what an exorcist should be saying?!" Lenalee stopped him. Allen gasped a bit at her anger and looked down. "Allen-kun, I know it's not easy for us. All these problems have given born to some kind of irresolute feelings inside all of us. But we are exorcist! We are soldier for lives! People outside may give up as they please, but we can't. Because we bear the burden of all the people's sadness inside us. Allen-kun, I know these missions lately have been such a pain in the neck. I can understand your feelings. Why don't you take a rest and come back to report to Komui nii-san later?" Lenalee suggested. "He can wait. Your health is what important."

"…I think I'll do that. Thanks Lenalee. I really needed that." Allen gave her a charming smile. Lenalee smiled back and walked into head officer Komui's office. Allen sighed as he walked towards the sleeping chamber. What in the name of heavens possessed him to think that way? He understood that he was a soldier for live. An exorcist. This was the path he chose to take. He couldn't bother complaining about the hardships he had to take in order to become a good exorcist. He chose this path and he had to live it to the end.

"I think I've been on the edge lately." Allen scratched his white head softly. "Man, I'm really pathetic." He talked to himself.

"It sure nice of you to admit it, bean sprout." A cold deep voice came from behind. Allen knew who the voice belonged to and turned back to face the owner of the cold tone. Kanda Yuu stood silently behind him with his normal-if you can say that is normal-cold look. Allen sighed.

"Nobody asked your opinion, Kanda." Allen snapped. "And how many times must I tell you, my name is Allen Walker!" he added. Kanda ignored him and entered his room in silence. "Hey, don't ignore me!" Allen called. Kanda turned back to face the white haired exorcist.

"First you told me to shut up, and now you're asking me not to ignore you. Make up your mind, bean sprout!" Kanda retorted, forcing Allen to step back in astonishment. "That's why I told you, you are always bean sprout." He said and turned back to enter his own room.

"…what's with him?" Allen asked himself and then turned back to enter his own room. "What am I talking about? That's Kanda Yuu I'm talking about. He was always like that. I wonder why he hates me so much. What's wrong with me?" Allen sighed and threw himself to the bed. Timcanpy flew in into his room and landed on Allen's bed.

"Oh, hi Tim." Allen greeted. The yellow golem flew around Allen's head and landed on his silver hair. Allen proceeded to pet the golem softly when it fled and went outside again. "You have it easy, Tim. You don't have to fight akumas like us exorcists." Allen smiled sadly and fell asleep instantly. When he woke up, it was already morning. He yawned slightly when he realized he had been sleeping all night.

'Huh? Sunrise? It's morning already?' Allen thought as he walked outside wearily. He really needed that sleep although his head spun now. Allen shook his head and leaned to the railing sleepily. 'I wonder if I have a fever. My head won't stop spinning.' He whined to himself. That's when the railing broke suddenly and made Allen, who was leaning to it almost fell, if it wasn't for the raven haired exorcist who pulled his collar immediately.

"K-Kanda?" Allen stammered at the sight of the raven haired exorcist scowling as he held his collar tight and threw the silver haired exorcist to the wall, as if to save him from falling down. "T-thanks." He said, twitching from the pain in his head and his back which hit the wall when Kanda threw him.

"Stupid bean sprout." He merely said that and left. Allen shook his head again, in hope that the spinning in his head would stop. But that only made it worse.

'I think I really have a fever…or is it just fatigue?' he thought to himself and proceeded to walk to Komui's office, to report about his mission yesterday. Komui greeted him cheerfully while playing tic-tac-toe with himself in the office. His assistant, Reever Wenham whined at the head officer's childishness and proceeded to pile more and more work on the head officer's table.

"Good morning, Allen-kun! Lenalee told me about your delay on report. How are you feeling today?" he asked with a huge smile on his face. Allen bowed his head slightly and entered the room.

"I got the innocence. I'm sure Tim has already given it to you, right?" Allen asked, just to reassure himself. Komui nodded gaily. "As for the report…"

Allen continued to explain about everything to the head officer. Komui listened to him silently while doing some of his work, albeit a bit lazily, much to Reever's annoyance.

"Head officer, if you're going to do your work, at least do it seriously!" he scolded, which unfortunately fell to deaf ears. Komui ignored the man and kept listening to the young exorcist's report patiently.

"…and so I took the innocence and head back as fast as I can." Allen sighed as he ended the report. "The akumas were stronger than before. I doubted I could handle myself, even though it worked well in the end." He assured the older man. Komui smiled and nodded in agreement. It was true indeed, that the akumas had been getting stronger as time passed by.

"Allen-kun, I have another mission for you and the other three." Komui stated suddenly, surprising the young exorcist. "I know it's hard for you, have only returned from a mission and all, but…all the other exorcists are away on their own missions. The finder I dispatched to the town told me, to take care of this Innocence, we'll need at least four or five exorcists. And the only exorcists available now are you, my Lenalee, Lavi, and Kanda." Komui smiled thoughtfully and handed Allen the documents.

"No, it's alright." Allen said, taking the documents from the head officer. "By the way, where are we going?" he asked, flipping the documents' paper one by one.

"To the city of Yuan. The lost city in China. I was from China too, so I've heard a few stories about that city. The finder in that city is Toma, you know him already don't you? Lenalee will tell you the details on the way. That's all. The others have waited for you. Be careful, Allen-kun." He said, Allen nodded and gave him an assuring smile before he left the office. "Lavi! Lenalee! Kanda!" Allen hurried and caught up with his friends. They were ready to depart, but appeared to be waiting for the silver haired exorcist on the small boat.

"You're slow, moyashi-chan." Lavi teased the silver haired exorcist as he gasped to catch his breath.

"It's Allen." He corrected between his gasping for breath.

"Allen-kun, are you all right?" Lenalee asked worriedly. Allen chuckled and smiled to assure her that he was okay. Kanda snorted and began to row the boat silently.

"Lenalee, Komui-san said there's a story behind the lost city of Yuan. Do you know anything about that?" Allen began as they reached the train and sat on the first class room the order had reserved for them.

"Of course I do. I was born and raised in China after all." She nodded with a smile. "My mother used to tell me that story as a kid…" she continued.

"The lost city of Yuan used to be the biggest city in china. Long before Beijing was built, the city of Yuan destroyed, forsaken by its townspeople. In the destruction of Yuan, a single kid lived. He refused to leave the town of his birth. The city of Yuan soon was forgotten. The lone kid survived, without parents or food. He ate nothing but roots of dead trees and dirt. He drank salt water from the nearby sea. He soon became a monster. Everybody who enters that town ended up dead. The kid still live now, despite the remnants of city has become a new city of Beijing. This kid still lives and hunts for people who doesn't love their homeland to destroy them."

Lenalee ended her story with a smile, while Allen and Lavi stared at each other as if trying to digest the moral of the story. Kanda remained silent even though he was listening to the story also. Lenalee laughed merrily at the end of the story.

"Surprised? This is a child story used to be told to teach a child to love their own homeland." Lenalee called Allen and Lavi who were on a deep trance. The two stared at the girl curiously.

"And so, the story were true?" Allen questioned inquisitively. Lenalee shook her head in deny.

"I don't really know." She said. "But if Komui nii-san dispatch us there, then the story must be true. Maybe the kid was able to live only from dirt and roots because of the power of an Innocence. And our job, is to find that kid, and his innocence."

"But, if we take the Innocence, the kid would probably die, wouldn't he?" Allen asked in a bit of panic. Lenalee looked down sadly while Lavi shrugged.

"Che, that's why I said you're too soft." Kanda suddenly joined the conversation. "I thought I already told you, we exorcists aren't saviors, we are destroyers." He said and kept on gazing outside. Allen fell silent. He remembered the last time Kanda said that to him. His feelings hasn't changed one bit since the first time they met.

"And I have told you too, that even so, I want to be an exorcist who can save people." Allen continued. Kanda snorted but kept silent. Allen took that as an agreement, coming from the older boy. Kanda was never the type to say things that sounded nice to ears, but Allen understood him well.

As soon as the train stopped, they arrived in the city of Beijing.

The finder Toma walked alone in the small alleyway, leading to unknown place. It was scary indeed, but he was a finder. It's a finder's job to observe what's unable to be seen by normal people and to guide the exorcists.

Suddenly he was surprised by a merry child who poked his back from behind. Toma hurriedly turned back and sighed in relieved to see the child smiled cheerfully to him.

"Yes? What do you want?" Toma tried to ask the child kindly. The child's golden hair splayed and about to reach his waist. His blue eyes looked like the sea. The child wore some kind of cloak like those belonged to finders. The only difference to be found was in the color. The kid's cloak was deep brown like a ploughed soil. The child was about as high as the finder's waist. He wore a small elliptical pendant and a simple white headband. He smiled charmingly at the finder.

"Are you the finder Toma?" the kid suddenly asked, still with his charming smile and a nice English accent. Toma gasped. How did a mere child find out about his identity? It was all too confusing, but the finder nodded.

"Indeed I am. Who are you, kid? Why do you know about me?" the finder tried to sound as calm as possible. The kid grinned in response. Then the grin suddenly turned into a sneer.

"Toma, I claim that name mine." He chanted out some kind of spell. The finder felt himself shiver from the cold tone that came from the cute child's throat. "Toma, I take control of you."

"Wh-what are you talking about, ki-" before the finder could finish his sentence, he felt his body stiffened. He could no longer move. Not even a single whisper came out of his throat. The kid smiled in response.

"Now, finder Toma, you're mine." He said with a cold smile. "Lead the worn out exorcists from where they are to my place. This is an order." He then gestured the man to go. Toma couldn't control his own body as it began to move by itself, towards the gate to the city.

'What's with this?! I can't move!' Toma tried to yell, but no sound came out. Apparently, the kid had taken full control of his body. No matter how hard he tried to squirm free, the chain of spell around his body seemed to tighten even more. He walked, towards the gate of the city, finding the 4 exorcists stood there silently, waiting for him to appear and leaded them to the Innocence. The finder tried to warn the four, but his body again, wouldn't listen.

"Toma! We've been waiting for you!" Allen waved from afar. The finder felt his feet began to move slowly and calmly towards the four exorcists. Then voice, not from his mind came out.

"I'm sorry, I have been around this city." The finder felt his body bowing itself down. "I have found the Innocence. Please follow me." The finder felt his feet moved again out of his will, towards the same small lane he had been. To the strange child.

'No! Master Walker, Master Lavi, Master Kanda, Mistress Lenalee, don't follow this guy-don't follow me! This isn't me! That weird kid-that kid is controlling me!' Toma tried to speak, but again, damned failed. Toma cursed under his breath and tried to struggle, but again, failed. No matter how hard he tried, the spell bound him tightly and restricted his movement.

The kid leaded them into the small lane. Toma didn't stop his struggling which still ended up in failure. Allen, Lavi, Kanda, and Lenalee followed the man, unsuspicious by his weird attitude. The exorcists never bothered to make friends with the finders, thus they didn't know how they would act. However, Kanda was a bit wary at times, especially when he was with people he didn't know well. He stepped forward, leaving the others behind, and then stopped. The raven haired exorcist unsheathed mugen and held it horizontally about two feet away in front of the finder's throat, surprising the others.

"Kanda! Wh-what in the world are you-" Allen stammered, trying to stop Kanda from slicing the finder's neck. They stopped, however when they saw the finder kept walking without expression towards the blade. Kanda sheathed back the katana just before the finder killed himself by going through it. The others gasped at the sight and stood still. Kanda was the first one who began.

"Who the hell are you?" he questioned. The finder, the true Toma was half glad that the exorcists noticed his unnatural attitude and half freakin' out because he thought he would die by Kanda's katana when he noticed that he wasn't stopping when the swordsman held his blade before his throat.

The finder's body stopped all of a sudden, leaving the exorcists at their guard. The finder then laughed with Toma's voice and replied with not-so-exactly-his voice. The voice was light as a kid's voice, and its tone was cheery.

"Whoops, busted." Then the finder glared at them, with a pair of sea blue eyes and smiled (behind the bandage around his mouth). "I guess I can't underestimate an exorcist after all. Well, since you found me out, why don't you follow this guy then? I will lead you to my place."

"Why should we when we don't know who the fuck you are?!" Lavi enlarged his hammer.

"Don't hit. This guy might end up dead you know." The voice came again. "It's up to you whether you would follow my instruction or not. I have the thing you call Innocence here, in my possession. Come here and I'll give it to you." The voice gave an order. The exorcists looked to each other and then Allen was the first one to answer.

"All right, but if you will release Toma from your spell afterwards." He said. The voice chuckled childishly and then gave the answer cheerfully.

"Do not need to worry, my dear exorcists. I don't need human body. Just that if I came and lead you myself, you wouldn't believe me. And I wouldn't want to make a ruckus in the city." He laughed. "You'll see what I mean. Come. I will lead you to your destination."

They all nodded and then followed the so-called-kid into an abandoned building. The kid appeared about three feet away from them as he released the finder from his spell. Toma almost fell down when the kid released him from his clutch. The finder then sighed in relieved as he noticed he had his body back.

"Toma, are you okay?" Allen asked worriedly. Toma nodded.

"I am. Thank you for your concern, master Walker." He said. "I'm glad you all noticed."

"Well, to tell the truth, I didn't notice at all." Lavi laughed innocently. "Yuu-chan was the one who noticed."

"Yes, thank you, master Kanda." Toma bowed down. Kanda gave a grunt in reply. He was more concerned about the kid who controlled Toma. With the Noahs showing and all, everybody must be considered an enemy first. The kid came out from his hiding and smiled kindly at the five.

"Greetings, exorcists." He smiled. "Here's the Innocence as I promised." He said, handing a container with the small cube of Innocence inside.

"Ah, thank you, kid." Allen approached him and was about to take the Innocence when the kid stepped back. "W-what's wrong? Weren't you going to give it to us?"

"I am." He smiled again. "Only under one circumstance." The kid hid the Innocence inside his robe carefully.

"A condition? What is it?" Lenalee asked, trying to be gentle to the kid. The kid was cute, with golden hair and all. Oh, heck, nobody would be suspicious with a small innocent kid like this.

"Play with me." The kid blurted. The exorcists looked to each other and sighed.

"Listen kid, we're not here to play." Lavi said calmly as he stepped towards the small kid. "Bt if you insist, can you at least give the Innocence to us? We will play with you afterwards."

"No." he shook his head. "I will give it to you if you win against me." He gave them a charming smile.

"Win against you?" Kanda blurted. "You must be kidd-" but he was cut off by Allen who put a hand in front of the raven haired exorcist's chest in order to stop him.

"Fine then kid. What do you want to play?" he asked.

"You will play with me? Good then." The kid laughed cheerfully. "Then let's begin." He slapped his hands and suddenly the view around them distorted into some kind of empty field filled with green meadow and surrounded by a tall fence. Behind them shone the moonlight with the shape of a sickle. The view turned into some night scenery in an abandoned field. The exorcists looked around them with a great aware that this kid wasn't a normal kid after all.

"Let's begin the game." The kid smiled. "The Innocence is the bet." He said, lifting the container from his hand, surrounded by light. The container floated in the sky as if some great energy was lifting it.

"W-who the hell are you, kid?" Toma stammered. He knew from the start that this kid was weird, but he had no idea that he'd be this weird. Kanda unsheathed his sword and Lavi took out his hammer.

"What game are we going to play in a place like this? Baseball?" Allen asked confusedly. "Moreover, where is this?" he tried to remain calm despite the current condition they were in.

"I think you see it in a wrong point of view." He smirked as he took off the cloak covering his head gently. They gasped. A pair of ears popped out on top of his head as he gave them a wry smile. "To play with me means…fight me. With your Innocence."

Then suddenly a bright light shone from the kid, forcing them to cover their eyes at the blinding light. When they opened their eyes, however, what greeted them was no longer a pair of innocent eyes and short legs or arms. In front of them stood a man, about thirty years old with red hair and red eyes. The ears remained the same, only the color was red as his hair now and nine tails popped out of his butt. The man gave them the same wry smile and a cruel glare.

"Now, let us begin this game, shall we?" he said. His tone of voice was now deep, full of intelligence and also a bit cruel. Allen stepped back and activated his left eye, only to find that the kid wasn't an akuma.

"He isn't an akuma! But how…" Allen stammered and invoked his left arm. Lenalee activated her dark boots and the four prepared themselves to fight. Toma stepped back to a corner, leaving the five to fight.

"This is going to be interesting." The stranger smiled.

"For the hundredth time, who the hell are you?!" Lavi cried. The stranger gave him a cold laugh and smiled maliciously.

"A being from this world." He then turned his arms into a pair of blade. This was going to be a long, long battle.

At times you cannot see what's exactly before your eyes. Instead, you're capable of seeing what's faraway. What doesn't belong to you. But what you see in someone is what you reflect on them. And what you feel of them isn't constantly the truth. Each people hold their own reasons. A reason to do what they believe is right.

A/N :

How was it? Strange? I know. I add an OC into this story, but he isn't going to be the center of attention. He will be some kind of…unimportant character who came to the party often. Please review. Flames are welcomed, 'cause I need to improve a lot. Please don't take it wrong. This OC isn't any kind of Mary Sue type or anything. See you next chappie!

Oh, and please Review!!! I won't continue this fic if there's no enough review! X3