Chapter 1: Allen's Sister

It had been 3 months since I saw him again. My kind of brother. Well… my adoptive mother and his adoptive father were just friends, nothing more nothing less, but the two of us were raised like siblings so that's how we would introduce each other.

I had been wandering around aimlessly when I saw him again. Well... the two of us bumped into each other. It took both of us a second or two to realize who was standing in front of us but when we did, we both rushed together and gave each other bone crushing hugs. We hadn't seen each other in ages. So much suffering had happened to the both of us which led to our separation.

When I was on my…"journey" my thoughts always went back to them and I was left wondering what happened to him and his adoptive father hoping that the both of them were okay and wondering how they took the news of the "accident". I could tell that the same thoughts had gone through his mind as often as it had gone through mine. He had told me that he was just about to get something to eat and asked if I cared to join him. I wasn't hungry but I did want to spend some time with him to see how he was and what he had been doing so I agreed.

We picked a restaurant that was close to where we were at so we could start talking. Once we were seated I actually looked at him and noticed some very significant changes in him that I had failed to notice, though I didn't understand how I could have since they were hard to miss.

The first was that he no longer seemed to be as feisty as before. No, now he was polite with a charming smile on his face but for some reason it seemed a little off. Another thing that caught my attention was that his brown hair had turned white which took me by surprise since he wasn't old enough to have that kind of hair. The next was that on his left eye, there was this jagged red scar with a star just above his eye. And finally I noticed what he was wearing. It was a black coat with a silver cross on it and gloves to cover his hands. Now I was really curious as to what had happened to him but I wouldn't ask. Not yet any way.

Instead, both of us ordered something. He ordered this mountain of food which made me laugh when I noticed the waiter's reaction. It was good to see that something's hadn't changed. I decided to get some dessert which was apple pie, chocolate cake and a vanilla milkshake with caramel and peanuts on it. He looked concerned on how little I was eating considering I could match him plate for plate. To ease his worries I simply told him that I had eaten earlier and with that his smile was back on his face.

While we were both eating I found out that a little after my "accident" he had one of his own. Mana, his adoptive father, had died in a carriage accident leaving him all by himself. That scar on his left eye, he told me that it was a curse. That Mana had given it to him when he had turned him into an akuma. He survived that attack because his left arm, transforming into a giant silver arm, began moving on its own and destroyed the akuma that was Mana.

He was then found and took in by General Cross as his apprentice and told me the many horrors he had to face as his apprentice in order to become and exorcist which he had officially been for a while now. None of this was shocking to me like it would be for most people because I already knew. I knew about the Millennium Earl, akuma, exorcist the whole works. I couldn't let him know that I already knew because that would lead to questions that I really didn't want to answer. So I forged shock and went through the whole process of him trying to convince me that everything he said was true.

After a while he asked me one thing that I didn't want to answer but knew I had to. And that was why I was wearing bandages around my neck. He could see that I didn't need them since I was talking just fine. I sighed as I reluctantly removed the bandages to reveal a small ghastly patch of red skin in the middle of my throat with a sort of cross on it. I heard him gasp and knew why.

It matched the one he had on his left arm. Like him that was something that I seemed to be born with. He had never seen it before because I always wore something to cover it up. Feeling a bit uncomfortable I rewrapped my neck with the bandages. After a while he spoke telling me that I am an exorcist and that I should come to the black order to train and fight akuma. I didn't want to. Well…not yet anyway. There was still some unfinished business that I had to take care of. And I told him this.

I told him that after I took care of some things then I would go and join him. He didn't like this but said nothing about it since he knew he couldn't change my mind about it and that if he made me come before I finished whatever it was that I was doing I would hate him which he really didn't want since I was the last family member he had.

Instead he told me how to reach him and said that he would keep quiet about me until I contacted him and told him that I was almost there. Knowing that what I was about to do was risky since this meant that I could possibly be found by some people I didn't want to meet, I gave him a way to contact me just in case he needed to.

I could hear a clock chime the hour and looked over at him and noticed that he had gotten up. He looked at me with sad eyes and told me that he had to go and meet up with his companions to continue with a mission that he was on. I got up as well getting ready to leave. Once both of us were outside we gave each other a hug. Neither of us wanting to let go for fear of losing the other all over again. But we did. Both of us going our separate ways praying that the other would be safe and that we could be reunited some time soon.

And here I was sweating and exhausted from having to climb this ridiculously large mountain to get to the black order. I knew it had a secret entrance somewhere but I figured since I shouldn't know about it I wouldn't try to find it. It would just make people suspicious and I didn't want to deal with that. Once I was standing in front of this weird looking wall with a face on it I heard this cheery voice come out of nowhere.

"Hi, you must be the girl that Allen mentioned. The new exorcist right?"

Figuring that he was talking to me through some sort of intercom I answered.

"Yes that's right"

"Alright I need you to stand right there and just go through a quick scan to check and make sure your human then we'll let you in"

That weird looking door started moving and talking and looking at me with glowing yellow eyes which made it even creepier but I stood my ground guessing and hoping that this was the scan that the voice had mentioned earlier. Once the door said and confirmed that I was human it opened up to reveal two people waiting for me.

One was Allen with this huge grin on his face happy that I had finally come and the other was someone else that I knew from a long time ago and whose sudden appearance shocked me down to my core.

His most distinctive features were his red hair that looked amazing even when it was messy and his eye patch that covered his right eye showing only his green one that gave me butterflies and sent shivers down my spine. He too had this huge smile on his face. His smile seemed to be a little more mischievous.

"Hi my name is Lavi!"

Huh so that's the name he goes by now as I thought to myself.

"Hi I'm Lana. How much did Allen tell you guys about me?"

"Not much. Just that his little sister had contacted him and told him that she had become an exorcist. We were all shocked to even find out the beansprout had a sister and wondered why he never mentioned her before."

"The name'as ALLEN!"

"Anyway," he said completely ignoring Allen and looking me up and down, "you're kind of cute!"

I blushed at this. I hadn't expected that he would say something like that. Allen then promptly hit him in the head and said, "Don't hit on my sister while I'm standing right here!"

"Oh…so I can hit on her when you're not around?" Lavi said with his mischievous smile and winked at me causing my blush to become a deeper shade of red. Allen glared daggers at him and was about to say something else when we heard.

"You all can continue this little comedy inside. Hurry up before we close the door on you three."

And with that the three of us headed inside. I finally got over the shock of what Lavi had said and guessed that that was just how his new alias acted to every one of the opposite sex. I then smiled at Allen and continued to talk with him while I kind of ignored Lavi and kept my face and voice neutral when I actually decided to acknowledge him.

I couldn't have him figuring out who I was. I was already resigned to my fate and I couldn't allow him to change that. I fell in love with him all those years ago but I talked myself out of it since I knew how this story would end if I went down this path. I was still pretty shook up on the fact that he was here but then I thought that this would be nice. At least this way I got to spend a little more time with him before I faded to nothing.