WARNING!

DON'T PROCEED WHEN YOU HAVEN'T READ THE "FACE OFF" YET OR YOU'LL GET LOST. THIS STORY IS IT'S SEQUEL.

Timcanpy: Hiya! I decided to do the sequel as soon as possible at least one chapter to give you some excitement before my head and eyes will got worsen. Yes, I have some problem with my head and eyes. My head aches and my eyes were turning gold. I'm going to be a NOAH! Haha…just kidding! But seriously, it is really bad for my health to stay in front of computer for a long period and having less sleep. It gives me a freaking damn headaches during daytime like hell! And my sense of sight just…well, not good. It becomes much blurry as time pass so I have to wear my glasses with anti-radiation whom my ophthalmologist suggested since I'm an I.T. student and prone to computers. Papa joked about it, he said I will be blind sooner or later if I won't take the advice of my ophthalmologist. TTATT. Sorry papa, but your daughter is stubborn enough to love making and reading stories in such a dark place [well, I do reading in dark places except when writing or typing a story.] I love staying in dark, okay? I don't know why. I just love it~! Okay…so much for the introduction…let's go now to the story~ ENJOY~~!

Chapter 1: Fading

Previously…

"SUP!"

Reever came rushing slamming the door open revealing the sleeping Komui. "KOMUI! WAKE UP!" he repeated countless times rocking the body before he shouted on his ear… "LENALEE IS PREGNANT!"

"BRING ME THAT OCTOPUS!" he screamed in such a terrifying voice as he stand up his arms slammed the table making it shake and the towers of papers collapse.

"CALM DOWN! WE HAVE A PROBLEM!"

Reever pulled him out of the room and run. They stopped at where the ark's gate was settled.

Stunned.

Jaws dropped.

Shocked.

Scientist, finders, and exorcists came watching in horror.

"What on hell is happening?" is all what Komui had said when they saw the current state of the gate. It was dull in color. Then it sent off shock wave below enough to shaken the whole area. Bak Chang called and report the same thing to Komui. The priests from different churches where the gates were also settled open called reporting the same thing. What was happening, they don't know.

They watched as the gate slowly cracked and shattered into small pieces dispersing into dust and mixed up with air.

"Allen." They all muttered to themselves hoping that nothing bad had happen to their friend. Lenalee began to cry and Komui pull him into a comforting hug.

Time skipped…about a month or so…?

"Niis-san! I'm fine!"

"Noooo~! My Lenalee's hurt~! Don't worry, Nii-san is here to ease the pain~!"

WAPAK!

And there, he received a galloping pain from the Matron's clipboard.

"GET OUT! YOU'RE SPOILING EVERYTHING IN HERE! MY PATIENTS NEEDS SOME REST!" the Matron shoved Komui forcely out of the infirmary.

"I'll be back soon~! Lenalee-"

The Matron closed the door cutting Komui's sentence. She sighed as she turned back to her patient.

It has been a month or so since that incident that shocked everyone. The old ark's gate suddenly became dull in color sending a shock wave creating a quake and shuttered into small pieces until nothing left. It really bothered them about the well being of Allen Walker whom they soon found out from Bookman and Lavi that he was currently fighting the Earl that time. They told them how they met and how Allen threw Lavi through the old ark's gate and Komui explained to them how Allen ended up on their side. Though they put it all together, something still bugging them. Lavi said that Allen doesn't remember how he ended up to their pace nor the fight they had with the apocryphos before Tyki took him.

Ever since that incident, Komui sent a couple of exorcist to search for Allen but were all proven as fruitless and they're losing their hope. That hope supposed to be long gone if not because of that prophecy. The Destroyer of Time.

Well, now let's go to the current state. [Lavi and Chaoji were now free from the parasites that the Noah gave them.] Lenalee and Kanda were sent on a mission 3 days prior in the hopes of finding a piece of innocence when they faced 3 level 2s and a level 3.

Flashback.

"Come on Kanda-kun, the finder's waiting." Lenalee was standing by the exit gesturing to Kanda to walk faster. Kanda only replied his infamous 'tch'. Soon enough they reached the finder who stood by the waiting shed.

"Hello." Lenalee greeted.

"Miss Lenalee!"

"Please call me by my first name, will you?"

"Right, Lenalee…" the finder trailed off still not accustomed to that change. The finder lead them to an inn nearby and leave them to rest.

"I'll just come back here first thing in the morning to fetch you."

"Yes, thank you. You may now leave."

"Yes, Miss Lena- I mean… Lenalee. I'm going to take my leave."

Time skipped…

The finder lead them to the clearing of forest where there have been reports that there were some akuma spotted in the area. They believed that they were also looking for innocence. "I thought the Earl had stop sending akuma?" "Tch."

"Maybe since Mr. Walker-" he was cut off by the spine shivering glare of Kanda then he noticed Lenalee frowned to hear his name again. "Oh. Am sorry-"

"It's okay. I know he is somewhere else hiding safely." She assured with her smile. "you can leave us now, thank you for leading us until here."

"My pleasure, Lenalee."

And with that they were now all by themselves. Kanda began walking on himself and Lenalee followed him afraid of losing another piece of her world. They begun their mini adventure until they reached a cave by noon. They can feel the strangeness of the cave coming from the inside. Without any hesitations, Kanda just followed his instincts and trailed off Lenalee behind him was following.

They reached a dead end.

"Tch. Looks like I'm wrong, huh." He snorted when they found nothing but a dead end.

Just as Kanda turned, what he saw made his ever constipated look just got more constipated than it used to be. Lenalee soon turned to her back and saw 3 level 2s and a level three. They get on their fighting stance when a couple of level 2 came forward and sent off dark matter to shoot them. Lenalee flew up while Kanda rolled on his right. The remaining level 2 came appearing on his back to attack but was a bit of slow. Kanda had already slashed him in half and destroyed using under world insect.

Lenalee came in face of the level 3. She back flipped producing a whirl pool to attack the enemy. It worked by sending the level three strong enough to find its way out of the long tunnel of cave. She landed gracefully back the ground. She ducked, aware of the attack of two level 2s when Kanda came on her side using the same technique but to no avail for the other one used a shield made of dark matter and the other one was missing. Without noticing, he appeared behind Lenalee and shoot multiple dark matter onto her sending her flying across and hit her back leaving a crater as she fell limply on the ground. She lost her consciousness for she had hit her head pretty hard.

Kanda lunged forward and slaughter the akuma. Now there's only one left. The level 3.

He went on Lenalee's side and cradle her in a bridal style to carry her out. Just as they made it out, he saw the level 3 now flying away. He wondered why but paid no attention. He thought that the akuma had found out that there was no innocence in the area and begun searching on other places. He didn't care where it was heading. All he have to do now is to go back to meet the finder, then to the inn to cure his comrade and to HQ.

End of flashback.

"Hey, grandpa."

"What is it?"

"Will we find him again?" Lavi was in the archive with the Bookman reading books that was assigned for him to finish in due date when he halted and asked. "I mean…it has been a month and even don't have any idea on how to find him. Even the bills that he left here."

Bookman sighed after he put back to shelf the book he had just finished. "I don't know either. I doubt he's missing but rather was hiding. If he is really missing and want to find his way back then he would be probably be here sooner but it's not happening. Though it was also the same as when he went missing for three months before Kanda and Johnny found him but this time is quite different. I hope the boy will be fine." He then went back to sit across his apprentice.

It feels like he was a fading picture of the history…I don't know what makes me think of this stuff but this is how I feel about him. Is he loosing against the 14th? It really bothers me so much ever since I found out that he didn't remember anything before he woke up with the Noah…

"Lavi. You're spacing out. Continue reading." The old panda commanded him in a crack voice because of aging with eyes looking at him in a cold way which reminded him of the duty of bookmen. Just watch to record making no bonds with others for they were only a piece of history that will eventually complete the book. He sighed and then continued.

Timcanpy: Alright! I really found myself being suck to this chapter as I type it that I forgot my slight headache I got when I woke up. To tell you, it's already 22:58 here. Hehe. I hope you enjoy the chapter. I think I will be resting for a week because I don't want to end waking up in a dead white room smells of medicines and an IV attach on my frail body. Yeah, I hate hospitals and I hate the food they serve though I like free fruits everyday~! What I only miss in the hospital was the canteen where I used to sneak out with my Nii-san to buy pretzels and that forbidden soda. Haha. It reminded me of the guard that scolds us because me, Nii-san and my cousins were running down the stairs, if I were right, we sneak out of my room. Haha. Well, that was back when I was little. uyasuminasai min'na. head is aching pretty well. Yeah, it hurts more than awhile ago before I finish the chapter. Ja ne!