Lavi…

My 49th name…

My 49th person…

My 49th life…

But…what ever happened to my 48 others…

"Lavi…Lavi….LAVI!!!"

"Oy! Baka Usagi! Pay attention!"

Lavi broke out of the trance that he was in as he looked towards his comrades. Lenalee stood next to Allen with a look of concern plastered on her face. Allen's expression too seemed to mimic hers. Kanda's however, showed the strong face of mock irritation.

"What are you some kind of idiot. Lenalee is talking to you."

"oh sorry, Yu. I was just thinking about something is all…"

"DO NOT CALL ME THAT!"

Lavi laughed as he jumped out of range of kanda's swords.

"Oh yu! You're so fun, hahaha!"

"Lavi…" lenalee seemed to whisper from her mouth. Lavi halted his antics and looked towards her small frame. She looked genuinely worried…

"I'm fine, Lenalee! Just thought of something that's been bugging me. No big deal…"

"In other words his brain was overloaded…" Kanda added with a sneer

Lavi scoffed at the comment before turning towards Lenalee with his optimistic smile.

"It's nothing, now what were we doing? Oh yeah, the innocence…"

Allen, Lenalee, Kanda, and Lavi had been sent to Italy in search of another source of innocence. Komui felt that it was necessary for all four of them to go. Supposedly the story is that this city's men were disappearing and their families couldn't find them anywhere. There had been no signs of struggling in the victims' homes and there is no trace of where they could have gone. Komui was convinced that three of their strongest male exorcists should go, as bait and to defeat any akuma if found. However, komui did not expect Lenalee to volunteer to go with them. Her excuse? In case the boys couldn't handle it. After a fit of crying and yelling about the boys taking advantage of her, Komui finally let her go.

"alright, " started lenalee "where should we start our search?"

"before we start, can we get something to eat, I'm starving"

"allen, you're always hungry." lavi joked as allen's stomach seemed to growl in agreement

"we don't have time for food, moyashi. We have to find the innocence before any other people go missing."

"but bakanda! The report says the men go missing during the night and its only 11 in the morning. Can't we just go to a diner or something! This street is full of them."

"I agree with allen," nodded lenalee "we won't be able to fight any akuma if we have no energy. I think we can take a little time to eat, come on."

Lenalee grabbed kanda by his sleeve and dragged him towards the nearest diner. Lavi and Allen looked on in shock. Lenalee was the only person who could physically force kanda to do something without getting their body parts ripped off. They both followed their comrades into the diner, a reasonably safe distance away from kanda…

Of all the diners lenalee could have picked…this was the WORST!!! It was a gentleman's diner and men could be seen everywhere flirting with the waitresses and talking with the "entertainment". Lavi seemed to be enjoying himself quite a bit.

"Lenalee, didn't know you wanted to go here…" lavi smirked with a soft blush on his face. "look at all the pretty girls…"

Lavi was enjoying the room until a man decided to approach their darling lenalee. He started asking her how much a night with her would cost but was quickly interrupted by three teenage boys blocking his way. Each acting as her brotherly figure and keeping creepy perverts away from her.

The trio took a seat at the counter, lavi calmed down a bit after dealing with a few guys trying to hit on lenalee. It did not stop him however of observing the pretty young girls that worked in the diner. They were all very pretty but only one completely stood out, and it seemed all the guys were in love with her. She was a cute little brunette with short spiky hair that ran down her neck. She had piercing blue eyes that seemed to entrap your soul.

Lavi seemed to be mesmerized by her beauty until her eyes met his. They stared at each other for what he thought was years but he quickly turned towards his comrades, face deep red from his blush.

As he returned to his friends, he saw that Allen was stuffing his face full of food while lenalee and kanda were eating theirs nice and quietly. The waitress brought his food to him and gave him a curious look that made lavi stare at his food until she walked away…she looked familiar…

During their meal, girls kept approaching lavi, kanda, and allen and "sweet talking" them. Lenalee just laughed at their embarrassment as they avoided giving out their names and any *cough* experience they've had with any girls.

Then she came over. Lavi saw her get up from her chair in the corner of his eye but he dare not look in her direction. Lavi continued to eat, his eyes staring down into his plate. Then he felt her. She was leaning close to his back and he could feel her warm breathe on the back of his neck, making him shutter. Lavi quickly glanced at his friends; none of them were seeing what was happening. Allen was still eating and kanda was dealing with an obviously persistent woman, lenalee next to him crying from laughter. The next thing he knew, he felt her lips near his ear. She had wrapped her arms gracefully around his neck and her lips so close to his ear that he could feel her eyelashes graze his hair.

"never seen you here before." The woman spoke so smoothly that it sent obvious shivers down lavi's spine. This seemed her to be more forward with him. She leaned into his back, careful to graze her chest on his back causing him to shiver more. "My name is Minerva. Please to meet you…"

Lavi didn't know what to do! He just sat stone still and allowed her to do as she wanted with him…whatever that was (w).

"wanna know a fun fact about me?" she breathed heavily into his ear purposefully, lavi was sure of it. "my favorite kind of men, are red heads…" she threaded her fingers through lavi's fiery hair. He gasped from her motion and the sheer pleasure he was getting out of this. He closed his eyes as he enjoyed the feeling of her hands moving through his hair.

One hand remained in his hair while the other one began to continue south. He felt it graze across his neck and under his exorcist's jacket. WAIT! That's right, he's here for a reason, INNOCENCE…not to get lucky with some hooker in a diner (TT_TT).

"E-Excuse me. I'm s-sorry, but I'm only here for food. I-I'm not that kind of customer…" lavi was able to mutter in a red faced stammer.

"oh, I know exactly who you are…" her hand continued to move down his chest, caressing his muscles as she went

"p-please, stop. I'm sure there are other customers who-AH!"

Lavi was shocked when he felt her lips kiss the tip of his ear, silencing him mid sentence. Lavi never knew that his ears were so sensitive but she was able to cause him an extraordinary amount of pleasure just by caressing his ear. His eyes seemed to close by themselves as pleasure flowed through him. He felt her hand reach into his inner pocket in his jacket and place something there, but he couldn't focus on that now! A moan escaped him as she started nipping his ear affectionately…but it all came to an abrupt stop.

Minerva removed herself from him and he was left panting, breathless, and extremely red faced.

"Hmm, you're very cute when you're embarrassed. Maybe you should come back when you ARE a customer." She gave him a very alluring smile "I could have plenty of fun with you."

She gave him a quick wink before she moved on to another group of men. Lavi was too distracted by Minerva to notice that Allen has stopped eating his enormous piles of food and was now looking at Lavi. He had seen what had just happened to his best friend and a deep red blush covered his face. What was this feeling he had deep in the pit of his stomach? Was it…jealousy? No…of course not…never…could it?...no…

Allen was able to turn his head before lavi looked over at him. He didn't want to let lavi see his blushed face, but lavi quickly ordered another water from the waitress and tried to calm his nerves.

Kanda and Lenalee were finally able to finish eating and ignore persistent "workers" when they turned their attention back towards allen and lavi. At first sight, allen was stuffing his face with food with even more vigor than before, slightly red in the face. Lavi was extremely red and it looked like he was trying to drown himself with the glass of water he was chugging.

"Uh…so guys ready to head out? I think we should search in the west first and head east from there. " lenalee chirped.

"..eh….ummm…s-sounds g-good…" lavi mumbled under his breathe

"mmmhmyeah…ben we can seberate laber and swearch norf and souft…" allen stated, mouth full of food.

"uhh…okay sure…good idea allen. Kanda you ready to go?"

Kanda finished drinking his soda before standing and quietly heading to the door by himself.

"well? Are you coming or what?" kanda turned his head to look at the rest before continuing out the door.

"Yeah, yeah Yu, we're coming." Lavi rose from his seat and headed towards the door with the others, hands casually placed behind is head.

"Hey lavi!" allen called "when we separate from the others to search north and south do…umm…do you want to come with m-"

"DEKE!?!"

Lavi and allen turned away to face the counter that they had just left and he saw the waitress that had served him looking at him with a extremely ecstatic and red face.

"Deke? Is…is that you?" she took a step closer to lavi.

Kanda and Lenalee had reentered the diner to see what the commotion was and everyone in the diner was quiet and looking towards lavi and this woman.

Allen had looked between lavi and this woman and he started to get mad. Who was she!?

Lavi turned completely around to look at the woman and she brought he hands to her mouth, starting to cry. She ran up to lavi and threw her arms around his neck, embracing him tightly. Lavi could only sputter words as she continued to hug him, his hands on the small of her back to support her so she wouldn't fall.

The woman finally pulled away from the hug and looked lavi in the eye. She took her hand and caressed his cheek before moving closer to him.

"I knew I recognized the face of my true love…" the woman closed the distance between her and lavi and she kissed him. (0o0)

Lavi was completely embarrassed; he didn't know what to do. Allen, next to him, was in complete shock and he felt his anger move to the pit of his stomach. Kanda and Lenalee…had no idea what was going on.

Lavi figured it was no use fighting anymore so he closed his eyes and embraced the woman tighter, kissing her back.

This just made allen madder…WHAT WAS GOING ON!!!!