So here it is: The second chapter! Hope you'll enjoy.
I don't own D.G-M or any of it's characters. Both belongs to Hoshino Katsura.
Chapter II
– Revelations –
"Allen, I'm so glad you kept your promise!" it exclaimed cheerfully.
"Huh?" was Allen's confused response.
Lavi, Lenalee, Kanda and Link were watching in bafflement what was happening in front of them: The akuma – which Kanda had intended to kill and Allen had protected – was now literally clinging to the white-haired boy's side and seemed to know him pretty well. Lavi as well as Lenalee were both blinking in surprise, a puzzled expression plastered on their faces. Link tried desperately to hide his surprise, but failed completely. Even Kanda, who usually had his facial expressions under control, had a somewhat surprised look on his face – even if it wasn't really identifiable if you weren't looking for it.
"What's up with that confused look, Allen-chan?" the now cheerful akuma asked.
Both Lavi and Lenalee weren't able to properly compensate what was happening. "Allen-chan?" both asked in unison, the puzzled look never leaving their faces.
Kanda, unlike his companions, was soon after the first shock able to gain his composure again. "Oi, Moyashi, what's that akuma talking about? Why is it calling you by your first name? Heck, why does it even know you? If you met it before, then why didn't you destroy it? Oi, are you listening, Moyashi?"
Allen just continued staring confusedly down at the akuma clinging to his side.
After getting no response from the cursed boy the akuma started to talk again. "Don't you remember me? Oh right, I haven't greeted you properly yet." The akuma started to 'greet' Allen by cupping his face with both hands.
Finally the bookman apprentice pulled himself out of his daze and tried to warn the still unmoving Allen. "Hey Allen, do somethin'! It's attacking!" After seeing no reaction from Allen, Lavi pulled his hammer out, attempting to simply hit the akuma away. "Ouzushi, Kouzushi! Ban, Ba–"
Suddenly someone grabbed the read head's arms, stopping him from letting his weapon grow. It was Lenalee.
"Lavi stop! Look what she's doing!" She pointed at the akuma still cupping Allen's face.
"But–" What Lavi then witnessed let his mouth fall open: The akuma was kissing each of Allen's cheeks tenderly. Again, Lavi was speechless, what's a rare thing to happen.
"Lavi? What exactly did she do just now?" Lenalee asked the startled redhead.
"If I remember right then that was the french way how people around here greet acquaintances."
"Do you now remember me, Allen-chan? Or should I say 'Nii-chan'?"(A/N: =big brother; can indicate strong relationship between two people who are not related by blood.)
Everyone now watched the akuma, which had talked again, and expected to see Allen's reaction.
"I remember making a promise to someone, but… " he answered, before he fell deep in thought.
"How about you come with me once I'm an exorcist?"
"But where to, Nii-chan?"
"To the Black Order, Outoto." (A/N: =younger brother; can indicate strong relationship between two people who are not related by blood.)
"What's that, Nii-chan?"
"That's the place where I'm going to go, as soon as I'm officially an exorcist."
"But exorcists fight against akuma and destroy them, so the people there will hate me."
"Then I'll protect you and together we'll show them that there are nice akuma like you, Outoto."
"You promise, Nii-chan?"
"Of course. I will always protect you. And when we meet again someday, I'll take you to the Black Order with me."
"Wait… but that would mean you're…"
The akuma continued staring at Allen expectantly.
"R-Robin?"
"Yay, you remember me!" The akuma – now identified as Robin – started clapping and jumping joyfully.
"But that can't be!" Allen was completely dumb-struck.
Robin stared at him quizzically in response.
"You're supposed to be a boy, Robin! That's why I always called you 'Outoto'!"
"Well… I was a boy when we met. Now I'm a girl as you can see. Actually I've been a girl the whole time"
"Huh?"
"I'm a girl."
"So you're saying… you were a girl in a boy's body?"
"That's about it."
"But… But why didn't you tell me?"
"I assumed you would someday realise it yourself, but I wouldn't have thought you're that dense," she answered casually.
A blush crept onto the cursed boy's face, tinting Allen's cheeks a light pink. "But you always wore my clothes!"
"I had nothing other to wear. Would you have preferred me walking around cloth-less?"
"N-No of course not. But still: People always thought we were twins! Your hair was as short as mine and we looked identical. You even have a scar on your left eye, like me! Everyone thought you're my twin brother. No one knew you're actually a girl!"
The four spectators now noticed the scar that was placed on Robin's face. It ran from her left temple down through the skin of her left eye and ended at her jawline. Unlike Allen's though, it was of a light pink, barely noticeable from a certain distance and obviously not a curse scar due to a lacking pentacle.
"Master knew," she answered.
"You mean Master Cross? Well, that's likely since he's the one who modified you. And that you're actually a girl would explain why you always wore those bows in your hair."
"I'm surprised you never noticed I'm a girl by the way I dressed."
"W-Well I thought you were just… weird, but I never would have imagined you're a girl. I mean we even… we even–" Suddenly Allen's crimson blood shot out of his nose and he desperately tried to hide it by putting both his hands on his nose.
Now the other exorcists – and the secretary – were even more surprised if that was even possible. Despite none of them being able to verbalise his thoughts, they all shared the same thoughts: Just what is going on? and What the heck did Allen and this Robin do together that causes Allen's nose to bleed like a damaged oil pipe?
Part of their thought questions were answered by Robin.
"Oh, so you remembered how we once bathed together and how we always changed clothes together? Do you also remember how we always slept in the same bed, cuddling together?"
Allen was only able to nod, due to him still clutching his bleeding nose, attempting to stop the rapid flowing of blood.
Kanda then decided to interrupt their weird chattering. "What the hell's going on, Moyashi? Why are you friends with a fucking akuma?"
A fog seemed to be lifted from Lavi's and Lenalee's minds once they heard Kanda's unusual choice of words.
Could it get even weirder?
"We're childhood friends!" Robin answered cheerfully.
Yes, it could get even weirder.
Allen's friends and fuming rival (A/N: *cough* Kanda *cough*) were again speechlessly staring at Robin the akuma.
"Ch-Ch-Chi–"
"Childhood friends?" Kanda interrupted the redhead's stammering. "Are you freaking mad, Moyashi? We're supposed to kill akuma! Kill, destroy, eliminate them, not making friends with them! That's the reason we even exist! Do you've got too much freaking dango stuck up your fucking brain, or why are you blabbering garbage like that? Aren't you the one always fucking preaching about 'Releasing the souls of these pitiful creatures that shouldn't be in this world'? What. The. Fuck. Happened. To. That. Moyashi?"
Everyone was now looking at the seriously pissed, Japanese teen. He wasn't just pissed like usual, but really furious. Not just threatening to be about to kill the one giving an unsatisfying answer, but willing to actually kill that person by slicing it in pieces. So no one even dared talking.
Besides Robin of course, who was unfamiliar with Kanda's obvious anger-issues. "I don't consider myself an akuma, but rather an exorcist."
People watching could actually see something snap inside Kanda's mind before he unsheathed his sword and attempted to kill the akuma, in front of him, in blind fury.
"I don't understand it." Frustrated the redhead ruffled his hair.
"Me neither. Why was Robin saying she was a boy and now a girl? I don't get it. It's impossible to just change from a boy to a girl." Lenalee was confused and worried by the past events. "And I've known Kanda for a while now, but I have never ever seen him snap like that. He actually tried to kill Robin! And from what I know he never tried to seriously kill someone only out of anger." The green haired girl was concerned about Kanda's earlier outburst.
"Yeah I know what you mean, Lenalee. We were lucky that Allen was able stop him, or he probably would have chopped Robin into pieces." Lavi was stil shocked about his companions behaviour.
Said raven-head's attack had been stopped, shortly after having done only a single step, by Allen's Clown Belt. As promised he had thrown Kanda to the ground and had been able to keep him there until the japanese teen had cooled down a little. As soon as Allen had let go of him, Kanda had marched away, an angry aura still surrounding him. The last thing they heard of him was him saying something along the lines: "I'm going to my room in the motel, Komui booked." Since then he seemed to have locked himself away. The others had arrived at said motel and hadn't been able to talk to him yet.
"He might be embarrassed about his own outburst, don't you think?"
"I think so too, Lenalee. Yuu might be always tryin' to avoid somethin' like that to happen. That's maybe the reason he always threatens everyone who's gettin' on his nerves, so they'll back off before anythin' can happen."
"So you think Robin provoked him by saying that she sees herself… as an… exorcist?"
"Now that you mention it, she really did say somethin' like that, didn't she?"
"It must be a lie. It's impossible for an akuma to become an exorcist."
"She can't be a killed exorcist either. People outside the Order don't know if an exorcist gets killed. Related persons wouldn't get the chance to make an akuma out of the exorcist."
"But she looked so sure when she said it."
"Then I think there's only one way to find out the truth behind all this."
Lenalee nodded in agreement and together with Lavi she headed for Allen's room, both determined to find out the truth about Robin.
