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Chapter 2: Di Più Pecora Muovere in là Macellare
More Lambs Flock to the Slaughter.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here.
-Dante Alighieri
Meanwhile, in the main room, Road was sitting in an embarrassed and awkward Allen's lap. Kanda was in a recliner, angry with the world and all of its inhabitants. Lavi was watching Allen and Road, amused. Dakuto had joined them while Tyki was arguing with Mujaki, and was now sprawled on the floor eating chips she'd found in the kitchen.
Lavi looked up when Tyki walked in. "Any sign of Bookman?" he asked again. At Tyki's annoyed silence, he began to shake his head. "No, okay…" The redhead paused. "Then what took you so long?"
Dakuto snickered. "He found Mujaki."
"Shut up." Tyki told Dakuto. "You two had better behave yourselves. And Road, get off the poor boy."
"No! I love him! He's mine!" Road insisted, throwing her arms around Allen's neck.
"Now where have we seen this before…" Lavi quipped.
Tyki sighed, giving in to Road. "Fine. But leave him alone when he wants you to."
"N-no, she's fine, don't worry…" Allen murmured, his face red.
"Yay!" Road looked back at Tyki. "Hey, if Mujaki's here, then where…?" She trailed off as the smell of cigarette smoke drifted around the room. Someone appeared with the smell in the doorway. "Oh. Hey."
Lavi looked up to see a young Noah. She had small triangles - painted with the same thick black liner that was around her golden eyes – extending from her lower eyelids onto her upper cheeks. Her bottom lip was painted black. She wore her dark-blue, almost black hair in a unique style. The rest of her outfit was a very punk-influenced black and gray ensemble, down to gloves, a spiked collar, knee-high boots and a cigarette in her mouth. On her shirt was half of a pale pink broken heart, the other half being on Dakuto's black-and-pink mini-dress.
"STRIKE!" Lavi said, gawking at the girl.
"What's this dude's problem?" 'the girl' asked, shrinking back somewhat.
Allen sighed. "Lavi does that when he sees a girl he likes." he explained, Road still in his lap.
For some reason, this sent Dakuto, Road, and Tyki howling with laughter. The dark haired Noah girl's normally gray cheeks flushed with a dark pink tint.
"Back off, I'm a guy."
Lavi froze. "G-guy…?" All color drained from his face… Scratch that, his entire body went as white as a sheet, and he
collapsed.
"You deserved that, Mujaki." Tyki laughed, wiping a tear from the corner of his eye. He eyed the cigarette. "How many of those do you have?"
Mujaki blinked. "Uh… Hey, are we staying here tonight?" he abruptly changed the subject.
Suddenly, there was a very loud bang, sounding quite like a door being kicked.
"OW! WHAT'S THE BIG IDEA?!"
"STUPID DOOR! HII!" Another, (slightly) quieter bang was heard.
"Quit that, you'll hurt yourself…" The first voice said again. They then proceeded to bang on the door. "OPEN UP! WE KNOW YOU'RE IN THERE! YOU'RE GONNA PAY!"
"OPEN UP OR WE'LL BLOW DOWN THE DOOR!"
"Jasdero-chama!" Dakuto cried, jumping up with an excited glint in her eyes.
Mujaki's face lit up as well. "Debitto-dono!"
The twin cousins* raced to the door and opened it, tackling the twins standing outside.
"What the-" Debitto managed before being knocked to the ground by Mujaki.
"Jasdero-chama! They're having a party inside!" Dakuto said. "Tyki-san says its not a party, but I think it is."
Mujaki jumped up and helped Debitto to his feet. "Are you two staying?" he asked excitedly.
"Who else is here, hii?" Jasdero asked Dakuto.
"Tyki-san, Road, Road's exorcist, a mean exorcist…. Oh! And a red haired exorcist who thought Mujaki was a girl!" Dakuto cackled at the memory.
"Shut up." Mujaki hissed, his face reddening.
"Red hair? Exorcist?" Debitto said, putting two and two together. As we all know, to the twins, everything equals five.
"It's CROSS!" Jasdero shouted. Yup. 5.
"Cross is here!" Debitto and Jasdero immediately ran through the door and into the room whwere everyone else was, aiming their golden revolvers around the room.
Silence echoed in the room as all eyes turned to the twins.
Allen's face lost its color, and he sighed as his eyes went vacant. "Master…. debt…. massive debts….."
"They never said anything about debt this time!" Road protested, hugging Allen's neck.
"Shut it, hii!"
"Keep your mouth shut or we'll blow your head off!" snarled Debitto.
Road blinked.
"Now where is he? Don't make us search the whole house!"
"Uh, who's Cross?" Mujaki whispered to Dakuto, who shrugged.
"He's not here." Lavi said bluntly.
"YES HE IS!" the twins shouted in unison.
Tyki rolled his eyes. "Search all you want. He's not here."
"Then who's the red haired exorcist Dakuto told us about?" Debitto challenged.
"Yeah, hii hii! Who?" Jasdero backed up his twin.
That was about when they saw Lavi. And yes, he had spoken to them already.
"Eh…" Lavi half smiled, with an exasperated look in his eye. "Slight misunderstanding…"
"Um, hello? Is this where Allen is?" a girl's voice asked from the still open door.
"Lenalee?" Allen called from the couch.
"Oh! You are here! Good!" Lenalee smiled. "Niisan told me you were here. I thought I should warn you to be extra careful with your innocence…." The girl's large eyes glanced over the many Noah in the room distrustingly.
Allen looked confused. "Okay…. Komuis already said that several times."
Road, meanwhile, tightened her grip on Allen just in case this exorcist girl got any ideas.
"He created a new model of Komu-rin**." Allen and Lavi paled, and Kanda's eye twitched. Lenalee explained, "He wants to test
it on you, since your innocence gets damaged a lot."
Tyki snorted. After all, he had nearly destroyed Allen – along with the boy's innocence – at one point.
Lenaleee looked over the six Noah warily. "Why are so many of you here?" She wasn't truly expecting a response.
"Different reasons. I wanted a puppy!" Dakuto chimed, grinning. She shot a brief accusing look at Tyki.
"Cross, hii!" Jasdero answered loudly.
"Yeah. We came for Cross! Just wait till I get my hands on him…!" Debitto said angrily.
"I was supposed to meet… a friend." Tyki responded somewhat evasively.
"I came with Tyki because his friend wanted to meet me~." Road smiled.
Mujaki smiled too. "I came because I was bored, and wanted to see Dakuto's puppy."
"Why are you exorcists here?" Tyki turned the question around.
Kanda's answer came with a glare. "I was told that you thieves," he shot the word at Allen. "Had hidden Mugen here."
"Bookman was supposed to be here."
"Komui said that someone had sent in a plea for help."
Lenalee blinked. "Um, not to intrude, but can I come in?" In all of the questioning, they had left the girl standing outside in the
dark.
"Sure!" Lavi responded a little too enthusiastically.
She closed the door behind her, just as the last of the sun disappeared over the horizon.
It closed with an ominous thud.
*TWIN COUSINS: Dakuto and Mujaki, biologically, are cousins. However, they were born on the same day at almost the same time. Dakuto was born a few minutes before Mujaki.
**KOMU-RIN: The Japanese, and my favorite, translation of the robot Komlin.
