A/N: Soo, here's the first story for this account ^^! Hikari here, honored to have beaten sis on posting something!! Anyway, sorry for the extremely short chapters, but I'm like that ^^U I'm too impatient and hyper to actually sit down and write a long decent chappie u.u" But I'll try to improve!!!!! So, I'll stop boring you and go on with the fic! R&R please!!

Disclaimer: I not owns. `nuff said. ....... envies hoshino-sama........

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The door is shut and locked. Even if it's in me to open it, I can't.
What to do when you're alone in this never-ending darkness? It gets lonely...
Even though I'm already used to those kinds of feelings.
But what bothers me the most is the world outside goes on as usual.
And I still can do nothing to escape from here… I wonder if this will ever end…

Pretend

It was a normal day at the black order. Everyone had just finished moving their stuff through the arc. Most of them were still getting used to the new Headquarters, and recovering from the attack of the level 4. It seemed it would be the first day they would all spend at ease in a long time. Seemed. Suddenly, the atmosphere got a lot heavier, and they all knew something bad was about to happen. Something really bad. And it came.

"BAKA USAGI(1)!!!!!!!" Everyone knew they had to get out of certain Japanese's rage if they wanted to keep their heads on their shoulders.
"Eeeeek!!" Lavi screamed, dashing through the corridors, bumping into some people as he did so.
"COME BACK HERE SO I CAN KILL YOU!!!!!!"
"Who'd stop if you say that?!"

Kanda's and Lavi's screams could be heard throughout the whole order, and even Komui, buried in a bunch of papers that no one knew what were for, wondered what the soon-to-be-dead Lavi had done this time.

"Oh, come on, just because I took a picture of you with your hair down!!"
"KILL!!!!!!"
"Eeep!!"

Oh, that explained it. While Komui mused over how bookman would find another apprentice that was as good as Lavi, and manage to teach them before he died (no harm feelings intended), the mentioned usagi(2) barely avoided Mugen cutting through his throat, though it did cut the tip of his hair. That's when he decided it had become too dangerous for his own liking.

"Look! Allen's selling the photos!!"
"MOYASHI(3)!!!!!!"

Aaaah, old bad tempered, gullible Yuu. The fact that he was so easy to fool had saved Lavi's life quite a few times. The moment you mentioned Allen, he was all over the poor kid trying to kill him. Slow. And painful. Though the same could be said about Allen. He calculated the possibilities of Allen and Yuu killing each other were actually a lot higher than an Akuma or a Noah doing it. Oh well, as long as Lenalee was around to stop them-
*Whack!!*
Speak of the Devil and he shall appear… Not that Lenalee was a Devil or something… oh whatever. That was his cue to go faaaar away from them before Yuu stopped trying to kill Allen and remembered he was chasing him in the first place.

And so, the calmness returned to the order. For the time being. With Kanda, Allen and Lavi in the same building, peace wouldn't last for more than two seconds. Not to mention Komui and his seemingly growing sister complex. Luckily though, the latter was still buried under paperwork while pretending he was doing it. As usual.

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After a few hours it was dinner time, and everything was normal. Allen and Kanda were fighting over nonsense (Lavi noticed they were fighting over the soy sauce. Again. Who needed soy sauce when they were eating pasta or soba(4) anyway??), and Lenalee was trying to calm them down while the read head and Krory were chatting absentmindedly, though the fighting stopped when Lenalee whacked Kanda on the back of his head with her food tray. She had a clear favoritism towards Allen, the soon-to-be bookman noted.
Ugh, he had to stop doing that. He felt bad for always analyzing his friends like they were subjects on some kind of experiment.
Old habit dies hard, he guessed.
Then again, they were supposed to be like everyone before them. And there came again the old headache.
Lavi made a note to kill the little voice in his head.

"Lavi-dono(5), Kanda-dono! The chief requests for your presence at his office!" informed them a random finder.
The two exorcists got up from their table, and while Kanda was mumbling something about interrupting his food, Lavi said goodbye quickly and went after him before he started yelling at him for making him wait.

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"Sorry for interrupting your dinner, but a mission came in, and the sooner you get started, the better" said Komui, while taking a sip from his cup of coffee.
"It's okay" replied Lavi, skillfully ignoring Kanda's complaint on why it was so urgent and how come he had to go with the baka usagi.
"You see, there is a town where we think there might be innocence, and we can't take the risk of the Noah finding it and destroying it. Here, these folders have the details."
Lavi flipped through the pages, not paying much attention to what was written. Something about weird incidents taking place in that town and Akumas seen approaching it. Kanda didn't bother to open it and just asked when they were leaving.
"You will be departing tonight. In two hours, to be specific. That way, you'll get there by tomorrow. Be careful and good luck."
"Che. As if I'd get beaten by some low level Akuma." And with that, Kanda left. Lavi thanked Komui and walked out of said person's office, heading towards his and panda no jiji's(6) room.
That was going to be a long night.

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1 Baka Usagi - stupid rabbit

2 Usagi - rabbit

3 Moyashi - bean sprout

4 Soba - Japanese food. Kanda is always seen eating it

5 -Dono - used for people you're really respectful to

6 Panda no jiji - old panda

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I'll try to update at least one a week, but the laziness monster that hides under the bed is hard to beat -_-" though reviews are really helpful to scare it away ^^
Reviewers get cookies!!!!!So, that was it! To be honest, I haven't got a clue where this is going ^^U I'm probably going to make stuff up along the way, so requests, suggestions, critics, anything are welcome ^^

Ja ne~ ^-^