Summary: Sort of AU. Allen and Lenalee may contain the great heart innocence, the war between the Noah and the exorcists is raging, and the 14th inside of Allen is slowly awakening. AllenxLenalee
Note: Some characters may be ooc, but nothing incredibly drastic. However, Komui won't have such a crazy sister complex, that part just kinda bugged me.
Disclaimer: I own nothing from D Gray Man
"Good morning, Lenalee!" Komui greeted as Lenalee delivered their morning coffee.
"Oh, hi, brother," she greeted tiredly. "Have you seen Allen around lately?"
"I believe he's departing for a mission today. He's headed to some city that people have been claiming to be haunted. We think that there may be akuma lurking within it," her brother explained. "Was there something you needed from him?"
"Not really. I've just been bored and I thought he might be free. Kanda is out on his own mission, and Lavi is busy under Bookman, so..." Lenalee yawned.
"Well..." Komui hesitated, "it is a pretty simple mission. If you're really as bored as you let on, I suppose, you could tag along with Allen."
As Allen was just about ready to climb into the boat and take off, he heard a voice.
"Allen-kun! Wait up!" Lenalee shouted as she ran up to him. Panting, she said, "Komui...huff...said that...huff...I could come along," she explained, smiling as she took a deep breath.
Allen just gave a light chuckle and helped her in.
Despite the fact that Lenalee was wearing her black Victorian dress over her uniform, she looked as if she was rather cold. Her now shoulder length hair was being used as a veil to shield her face from the cold air, as Allen gazed over at her.
"Are you alright?" he asked concerned.
"Just a bit cold, but I'm fine," she gave a reassuring smile.
Allen wasn't buying it. Carefully, he took off his exorcist jacket and placed it over her shoulders.
She gave him an unsure look, but he calmly replied, "It's fine! I wasn't cold anyway, so you'll have more use with this jacket than I will," and gave her a warm grin that made her face flush slightly.
"Thank you, Allen-kun."
"No problem!"
It took about half an hour to get to this ghost city, and once they arrived, the two headed for their inn. Checking in, they headed upstairs and entered their room. A room that only had one bed.
"Oh, um...well...this mission was originally to be just me, so..." Allen began sheepishly. "It's fine! I'll sleep on the floor! I had much worse traveling with Cross."
"No! Allen-kun, this was originally your room! I can sleep on the floor, so don't worry!" she smiled and laid her bags over by the window.
"Lenalee, what kind of man would I be if I let you sleep on the floor?" he replied jokingly. "I can definitely take the floor!"
"I'm not letting you sleep on the floor, Allen-kun! I guess you'll just have to stay a boy for a little while longer!" she joked and crossed her arms over her chest.
"Well if you won't sleep on the bed I guess we'll both just end up on the floor because there's no way that I'll sleep on a cushioned bed while you slept on a hard, cold floor!" he replied stubbornly.
"I guess so!" she said with a look of triumph, despite the fact that no one had really won anything.
Allen sighed, "Now that we have that figured out, we should probably head into town to see what all of this ghost talk is about. My eye hasn't seen anything suspicious yet, but, we should still check things over."
"Yeah. Brother said that there were no actual reported deaths, just eerie happenings, so we should probably try and figure out what's going on."
"Excuse me, sir," Lenalee walked up to a nice looking man reading a newspaper, she and Allen had decided to split up and meet back at the inn in one hour, "have you heard about the recent files of supernatural activity?" They had decided that they would ask around and try and find out what the commoners' gossip might be.
"Supernatural activity? No, I'm sorry miss, but I don't believe there's been any strange happenings here.
It was only one person, Lenalee didn't think much of it. Not at first, anyway. But every person she had asked said the same thing. No one knew, or maybe they just weren't sharing, but the former seemed more likely than the latter. It looked as if everyone was genuinely unaware of any strange activity. Perhaps Allen was having better luck.
"Are you sure you haven't heard any gossip of strange sightings here?" Allen asked the bartender curiously.
"Nope, not a thing, son."
Hmm...this was the seventh person he'd talked to, and no one seemed to know anything, and Allen was getting rather frustrated. Hopefully, Lenalee was doing better than he was.
Allen sighed. "So, you couldn't find anything either?"
They'd finally met back up in their inn room, and were discussing the strange lack of information they'd gathered.
"No. It's odd, but no one seems to have any awareness of their being 'ghostly' happenings, or even any claims on such a thing. Do you know who filed the report in the first place?" Lenalee asked curiously.
"Komui told me that he had received a legit looking claim filed for this exact town. It is strange, but there had to have been something tied to it that would've led the Black Order to have any suspicions in the place," Allen explained while his brow furrowed. "We could probably try to get in contact with someone from the Order tomorrow, but for now, well, we might as well get some rest."
Lenalee gave a tired nod and agreed.
"Are you sure that you wouldn't rather have the bed? I really don't mind, and you look pretty beat."
"I'm fine," Lenalee stated as she rose from the chair she had been resting in. Suddenly, she felt weak. "Well, perhaps I should..." she started as her mind went blank and she fell forward.
Luckily, Allen was quick and swift enough to catch her. "Lenalee?" he asked concerned.
She was in a fairly deep sleep. He assumed that she had just collapsed from exhaustion and smiled sweetly at her. Everything was fine, until....'You will have to kill someone you love when you become the 14th.'
Suddenly, Allen felt heavy and his eyes widened. "That's right," he mumbled sadly, "I know....I know it will be you."
Chapter one is up, and, hopefully, you enjoyed it. I'll try to update soon so please read and reviews are much appreciated!
Note: Lenalee's hair is shoulder length in this fic, similar to how it is in the last episode of the anime. Plus, they have their new red and black uniforms. More characters will show up later in the story and there might be some original characters, but I'm not sure yet.