Sing Your Silence

Chapter 1

"Are you sure this is the guy, Road? He looks a little old to be a general."

"Please, Tyki. Age has nothing to do with ability. You of all people should know that," Road replied with a haughty air.

"Alright, alright," I conceded victory to her, and put up my hand in a placating manner.

It was easy enough to get the carriage the old guy was inside surrounded by akuma, and even simpler to engage the general in combat.

My hands twitched with the effort of restraining myself from attacking the man for his Innocence. (Be still, my perverted mind.)

"Go, get out of here," he ordered the Finders accompanying him gruffly. For the first time, I took note of the girl among them.

A funny feeling grew in the back of my mind. Something similar to a tickling sensation.

Was Joido…

Purring?

I almost laughed at the absurdity of the situation. Even though I managed to stop that urge, a smirk still crept its way onto my face.

Abruptly, the fight ended; Yeegar was caught in Road's unending dream. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw red hair. My gaze turned to find that of the girl from before, who was watching the situation with a pained expression.

I couldn't look away from her. I had the oddest feeling that I had seen her before, but I couldn't imagine where. Perhaps on another mission? Yes, that had to be it.

I found the expression on her face somehow hurt, and without thinking I told Road, "Alright, that's enough."

She gave me a surprised look, but backed off. To stop her suspicions, I quickly used my Tease to finish up the job, and she rifled through his coat, grabbing the Innocence hidden there.

"Desiree, backup will be here soon! We called-"

Desiree. That was her name.

Road's head whipped around, and she also took notice of the Finders.

As she started towards the girl, I felt my mind yelling at me to protect her.

Why on earth…?

"Get out of here, I'll deal with them!" The men around her didn't have to hear it twice, before they scattered. Saved by a scrap of a girl, eh? They should be ashamed.

"You think you're brave, girl?" I couldn't help but taunt her. She intrigued me, and I wanted to know why.

An uncomfortable smile appeared on her face. "Not at all, I just would rather my," she hesitated, "friends escape if they can."

"Ah. You know, I have friends also." I wasn't getting the reaction I wanted from her. There was fear, certainly, but some sort of knowledge in her eyes. "I understand."

"Can't you just leave them?" she begged. "If you want to spread the terror of the Noah, wouldn't it be easier to let them live and share the tales of it themselves? It would be like destroying the Order from the inside out. And knowing that you can easily kill a general, but left finders alive…" The girl slapped her hands over her mouth.

Knowledge, huh? Perhaps that was an understatement.

Once more, a laugh built up in my throat. "That's not how normal people plead for their friends' lives. C'mon, Road, let's not kill them; she did make very good points."

"Aww," she said in a disappointed tone. Besides her outward appearance, her eyes showed she was in deep thought. "But, tell me, how do you know about the Noah?"

She froze, obviously unwilling to tell. "We're not leaving until you answer our question."

A very dry look was sent my way. "Will you leave if I do tell you?"

I snorted. This girl was very amusing. "No," I replied flippantly.

"Then I suppose we are at an impasse." She crossed her arms and sat down against a tree trunk, completely uncaring that either Road or I could easily destroy her.

To hide the satanic smile appearing on my face as my attention was drawn back to Yeegar, I quickly knelt and grabbed the last of his Innocence and threw it to Road. With a statement stemmed from my own emotions, I held him against a large tree and tied him in place with his chain.

You know us Noah; we must always be theatrical. If we're not, assume we're dead.

I turned around to see the girl, Desiree, glaring at me, with no fear in her eyes. Just something akin to annoyance.

How interesting.

From the bag she carried, she pulled a book and began reading, completely ignoring me. I raised an eyebrow, surprised. Very few people could actually read, even fewer who were as hobo-esque as her.

I also sat down near where Road was pouting, since Desiree was ignoring her, and pulled my own book out from inside a hidden pocket. Never knew when such things could come in handy.

I think she literally growled at me when rain made its way through the tree cover and I absent-mindedly allowed the rain to pass through myself and the book.

Then Road became ridiculously bored (and you to not want to see her bored, trust me), and flung a doll at Desiree. Poor kid.

She jumped slightly, and snatched the doll out of the air, moments before it smacked her in the face. She turned it over in her hands and her face formed a confused scowl. She held it up with two fingers and asked, "Is this a voodoo doll?"

"Yes," Road replied bluntly. "Now play."

She was honored with a look of death. "Oh, hi, my name is Desiree, and I just want to read my book," she said in something of a Lero impression, as she fooled with the doll. Lero twitched from next to Road, obviously insulted by her impudence.

Wait. Something about that seemed awfully familiar. "Hey did you just…" I started. She looked up with a confused face, to which I returned one of my own. There was no way she could possibly know about that. "Never mind," I mumbled, turning away.

Despite the demonic looks of Road and Lero, and my own (don't say laziness, don't say laziness) effortless intimidation, the girl just wasn't going to budge.

Footsteps were heard from the path behind the trees, and Road and I shared a glance.

I was hoping she would have spoken already, I tried to communicate silently with Road.

We have to bring her back, then. If there's a leak, it needs to be tracked and sealed, she attempted to converse back. I got the basic gist of what she was saying from her expression, but of course, I didn't understand what she was saying at the time. She told me afterwards.

I gave the girl a doubtful look. She didn't look particularly dangerous, but Joido was most certainly pleased, which probably meant she had some kind of darkness within her.

I am convinced he's a sadist.

"If you don't want your friends to get hurt," I told her, "you'll come with us now."

She looked very conflicted for a moment before glancing towards the footsteps and back to my outstretched hand, only furthering my thoughts of her lack of evil.

When she grabbed my hand and pulled herself up, it felt like my whole arm had suddenly burst into flame. (Please tell me I wasn't the only one feeling that.) Surprised, I quickly pulled her through Road's door which had appeared behind us, and dropped her hand.

With it gone, the sensation also disappeared, leaving a strange sense of loss in its wake.

Give me your hand back, woman!


Very clever title, I know.

NAW's Ramble Corner

NAW: So, I'm pretty sure anyone reading this is going "wtf". Well, there is actually a reason. This reason would be because I've been pondering this idea for a while, and oliviadoty. doty commented that it would be a good idea to write a chapter or so from Tyki's perspective...

Neah: You obviously don't realize what stuff like that does to NAW. She will freak out, and write everything.

NAW: ... Umm... haha... yeah. That's true. I was going to do it in a chapter, but then I just couldn't stop writing because TYKI IS SO MUCH FUN TO WRITE. In the original story, outside of my own mind, he seems very OOC... So I wanted to fix that. Because this is actually what's going on in his mind, and he doesn't suddenly become a romantic. Yep. Well, I mean, he does. But...

Neah: ...

Allen: ...

NAW: YOU GET THE IDEA! TTATT

Allen: Well, please read and review, and all that nice stuff~ NAW doesn't own D. Gray-Man.

Katsura Hoshino: That's right. I own D. Gray-Man

NAW: Katsura Hoshino-sama, what are you doing in my story? .o.

Katsura Hoshino: ... I'm vacationing.