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A/N: Thanks to those who has reviewed and sorry to let you wait.
For those who redo the chapter, I often check my stories to so I've corrected a few things in my last chapter, but it's nothing big that would affect the story line.
Also, I know the first chapter was too original, but it was my idea to make sure it's not OOC. I'll try my best to cut some details and put more action into it, and spared me for some words since I'm poor at vocabulary.
Chapter 2: Picnic Reservation
The picnic day had finally arrived after all the gasping and shouting from yesterday meeting which Komui had brought up about the picnic and he had decided to have it in a forest in Asia. So now we have Allen, Lenalee, Kanda, Lavi, Komui, Krory, Miranda, Choaji, Reever and Johnny (Hope I didn't miss anyone) on their way through the Ark.
"Are we there yet?"
"Come on, Lavi! We just got here like 5 minutes ago so stop your whining." Lenalee frowned at Lavi who was walking behind her.
"Yeah, we're using the Ark after all. We'll be there in a blink." Allen added.
"Are you sure it's just a blink? Shouldn't we be there by now or-"After a few second of pause, Lavi continued "…Are we lost?"
"Of cause we're not. The door to the Asian Branch should be around here somewhere…"Allen looked around left and right.
Everybody sweat dropped at Allen who was leading the way. "We're lost." Everybody mumbled.
Later that day, everyone stopped to catch their breathe after walking around for more than half and hour in the Ark with heavy bag packs and food baskets, except for Lenalee who everyone refused to let her carry any because of her legs and Komui who refused to carry any instead.
"Way to go, bean sprout. You made us lost in this stupid thing. I knew I shouldn't come." Kanda growled at Allen. (Of cause Kanda is here too, since he couldn't overlook Lenalee's crying face which Lavi secretly asked her to make.)
"You sound like it's my fault. And it's ALLEN."
"Seriously…it IS your fault."
'Are you rebelling against me too, Rarzel?' Allen asked me in his mind.
"Of cause not, I would always be on your side."
'Then be quiet! I'm having a quarrel with Kanda right now.' Allen spoke to me in the inside while mocking Kanda at the outside.
'-sigh- Good thing he can't hear my mind or who knows what he would do. Hmm ... Now that I think about it. Was there a chapter like this in the manga or was it in the anime?'
"Square leader Reever, why is it I'm still sad even though I got a day off?"
"-sigh- I'm probably feel the same way as you are. You think the Supervisor would let us come this easy."
-Flashback-
"Hmm…I guess I need to bring some assistants with me." Komui talked to himself while his hand was rubbing his chin.
Reever suddenly showed up and placed the documents on Komui's desk.
Komui grinned "Square leader Reever, you'll be coming with me to the picnic."
"Wha-what! Do you really mean it?"
Komui glasses sparkled and he nodded. "Oh, and pick one more member please." He then turned to look at some maps to find a good spot for picnicking.
"Even if you told me to choose one, I don't really know who." scrubbing his head while looking around at the scientists.
"Square leader Reever, what should I do with these documents from 10 years ago?" Johnny popped out of nowhere and held the files to Reever.
"Good timing, Johnny. You'll come to the picnic with me, right?"
"Sure I love to, but I thought the sup-."
"Supervisor, can Johnny do it?" Reever called for Komui.
"Yep, he's fine." Komui showed a lovely smile and held his thumb up.
'Why do I feel something is chilling my spine after seeing that smile?' Reever sweet dropped and said internally.
"Square Leader Reever, maybe on second thought I-"
"No, say no more, Johnny .You'll be coming too" Reever knew what Johnny was going to say.
-Return from Flashback-
"-sigh- Maybe I should stay behind with Todd and the other."Johnny stated sadly.
"Allen! I can be your guide so you can stop fighting now."
'No, I don't need your help.' He did answer me, but continued to argue with Kanda.
"If you said so."
In the middle of the argument, a familiar face came out from nowhere and approached to the scene.
"Bak-san!" Everybody called out except a few people (who you guys can already guess.)
"Bak-chan!" Komui is the only one who called him that.
"DON'T CALL ME CHAN!! -clear throat- Ahem! Anyway I was about to go to your place since you're late from the arrangement time.
"Oh about that, we have some problem finding our way." Komui stated normally while everybody looked at Allen.
"I-I see." Bak sweat dropped at Allen. "Oh, Lenalee-san! I brought you a gift." Bak handed Lenalee a box of chocolates.
"Tha-thank you, Bak-san." Lenalee accepted the gift with a smile which almost made Bak let his hives out, but Komui gave a stare just in time which made him nervous instead.
Wong appeared from nowhere behind Bak and cheered him up in secret. "Do your best, Bak-sama."
With the stared from Komui, Bak handed another one to Allen. "Here Walker, I made one for you too."
"Thank you, Bak-san! I never know you can make sweets." Allen thanked him as he began to dig in without hesitation.
'Good thing I prepared two boxes. With this, no one will suspect anything. Walker, you're my savior.' Bak thought evilly in his mind while Komui continued to observe him, but let it go.
"What about our chocolates?" Lavi asked while a few others nodded in agreement.
"So Walker, how were them?" Bak ignored Lavi's question.
"They're really good. You're really good at making these, Bak-san." Allen replied as he licked the remaining chocolate on his fingers.
"Glad you like it." Bak smiled lovely but in his mind 'Of cause it's delicious, you idiot. I've been up all night making those just for Lenalee-san.'
"Lenalee, will you eat those?" Allen pointed the chocolate box in Lenalee's hand.
"No, you can have them. I'm kinda allergic to them at the moment." Lenalee handed Allen the chocolate as she remembered the chocolate statue of herself which her brother gave her on Valentine's Day and because of it, she had to stay in bed for two days due to the fever.
"Ok, then. Itadakimus." With a blink of an eye, Allen devoured them all.
Bak's eyes poked out and jaw was on the ground while Wong cried sadly at the back. "Poor Bak-sama."
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At the Asian Branch,
"Walker-san, welcome." Roufa popped out in front of the Ark with Shifu and Rikei behind her. (I had to look through in the manga again for these three names.)
"Th-thank you." Allen chuckled nervously due to a sudden surprised.
"We're so excited when we heard you're coming to visit us."
"Move it people. They're not here for you guys, they're having a picnic in Rathanakiri (A province in Cambodia)" Bak barged through the way and started to order people around.
"Can we come too?" Roufa asked friendly, hoping to be with Allen.
"Yeah yeah, whatever. Just make yourself useful." Bak said and told them to pack the equipment for the picnic.
"Roger that!" and the trio left to do their jobs.
"Baka Bak!" Everyone turned around to see Fou walking to them.
"STRIKE!!" Lavi shouted with his eyes full of hearts.
"Lavi, she's the guardian I was talking about." Allen pointed out.
"What! She's the old hag?!"
"WHO ARE YOU CALLING THE OLD HAG!!" A kick flew to Lavi which sent him flying and crashed with Bak who was observing the people around. Allen sweat dropped while the other went "Woah! A double hit."
Both Lavi and Bak raged up." WHAT DID YOU DO THAT FOR?!"
"Hmph!" is all she answered.
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In a forest somewhere in Rathanakiri,
"Somehow I feel nostalgic about this place."
"Does that mean you've been here before?" Allen said aloud since he was sitting alone in front of a lake.
"I don't… know. I just have this feeling…and it's been nearly two centuries from where I came from. There's no way this place would be the same."
"You got a point there. So how was it like in the future?"
"Well, there's no akuma, no Noah, no the Earl, no innocence, no exorcists. Just a normal life, I guess."
"Does that mean there are no wars?"
"Hmm…there are, but rarely since they're just among countries, not exorcists against akuma."
"I see. Must be nice. Don't have to worry about the akuma or the Earl."
"Yeah, kind of, but I don't regret coming here. I've experienced new thing like a death situation and met a lot of interesting people even though I can't talk with them. Not everyday, you got to be in your favorite manga when you are died so it's a very valuable experience for me."
"Rarzel…" his face was a bit down. I guess I shouldn't talk about stuffs like that with him.
There were a few minutes of silent atmosphere, but I broke the silent.
"Come on, cheer up. It's nothing you have to concern about. You should think of how to capture Lenalee's heart instead. I'll always lend you a hand."
"St-stop saying such an embarrassing thing likes that." His face was now pure crimson and I giggled at his expression through the reflection in the lake even though the shadow was still there, but we used to him already.
Suddenly, we heard foot steps from behind us. When we turned around we saw Roufa approaching us with both of her hands behind her back.
"Walker-san, who are you talking with?"
"N-no one, I was just talking to myself." Allen chuckled nervously trying to hide the fact he was possessed by a ghost.
"Is that so?" Roufa sat down next to Allen, but not too close.
"So…did everyone finish packing yet?" Allen asked as he looked at the view in front of him.
"Oh yes…we just finished it a moment ago and I was wondering where have you gone since I didn't see you there." Roufa had her eyes concealed with her bang and a blush could be seen on her face.
"Then…did you need anything from me?" Allen confused about her look when he turned his gaze at her.
"Yes…no…I mean no. I just want to give you this." Roufa quickly handed Allen a pretty wrapped box.
"Wow! Thank you. I wonder what's in there." When he opened the box, we saw a pie, an apple pie to be corrected due to its smell. "Er…what's it for? It's not my birthday."
"It's just a normal gift. So…will you try it?"
"It'd be my pleasure." He let a small smile and bit a small piece of the pie to know its taste. "This is pretty good." And he swallowed it all.
"Thank goodness you like it. I guess I should be going back now. See you later." A smile and a blush were on her face and she waved goodbye to Allen.
"See you later!" Allen waved back and she's gone.
"Hmph! Traitor!"
"What? What's traitor?" Allen confused, didn't know what's going on.
"Hmph! Nothing!"
From behind a tree nearby which was out of Allen's sight (mine too), there was a figure hidden and gripped a small package with a bow tightly in their both hands, but he or she left soon after.
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Allen went back to the picnic place to see everything was ready and everybody was preparing the food, but as he was about to reach the place, there was something moving in the nearby bushes. Allen frightened a bit but decided to check it out in case of an attack from the enemy since he can't detect Noah. As his trembled hand about to reach the bushes, Timcanpy popped out and flew right to his face.
"Ti-Tim! How did you get here? I've been searching for you all morning." Allen took Tim off his face.
However, the bushes were still moving and something was much bigger this time. Allen braced himself with Tim hovered in the air. Suddenly, another thing hit Allen's face, but this time it was a punch.
Everyone turned to see the commotion, but they saw Allen flew pass them. When they turned back to see the other person, they all perked up. "General Cross!"
"How dare you guy have a party without me!" Cross said with a cigarette's smoke blowing out from his mouth.
But that was not all, every bushes around them started to flicker. Lenalee went to help Allen up since his falling spot was near her. She gripped his hand trembly, scared of something bad might happen since she had lost her innocence power.
"It's ok. I'll protect you." Allen gripped her hand back and whispered with a smile which let Lenalee felt relieve and stopped trembling.
Everybody else braced themselves except Cross. As the bushes flickered harder, a monkey jumped out which cause everyone to look at it in awe. "A monkey!" but Komui suddenly realized something. "That's not just a monkey. That's General Klaud's monkey."
General Klaud came out from her monkey direction and not just her, General Tiedoll and Marie came out from another direction, while Bookman and General Socalo from various ways.
Everyone sweat dropped and stared with their jaw opened (except a few people). Komui was the first to speak. "S-so what's brought you all here?"
"Hmm…this place has a lot of nice views for my master piece." Tiedoll said as he gazed around the place and Marie was putting down the drawing tool. "I just tagged along with Master since he said he want to draw here."
"I was just taking Lao Ji Min for a walk." Klaud said while petting her monkey.
"I came to train. Never thought I would meet you scum head here." Socalo stated annoyingly as he sat down on a near by rock.
"Then what about Panda ji-ji?" Lavi pointed out.
A kick flew to Lavi and sprawled him on the ground. "Shut up! I'm here on my own business." Bookman said as he balanced himself after kicking Lavi and turned to look at Komui. "I just found an old book about a hidden ancient temple somewhere around here." He gave his reason to Komui.
"I see." Komui sighed and now turned to face Cross. "But General Cross, I thought you were under surveillance. So how can you get out?"
"Heh! You think that bear-face Leverrier can lock me up in that cave. Don't worry, I'll make sure to go back after this." He let out a smirk and glanced to Allen. "Speaking of this, stupid pupil, where is that kid from Central go? What was his name? Lu..Lak?."
"-sigh- It's Link. And this morning, when I talk to him…"
-Flashback-
"Link, would you like to-"
"Not now!"
Link ran off to a toilet nearby with his hands rubbed his stomach painfully.
Allen sweat dropped from where he was standing when he looked at Link. (Not much of a flashback, I guess.)
-Return from Flashback-
'Maybe because he ate that banana cake last night.' Allen said internally in his mind with his hand was on his chin and continued saying aloud "Since I don't know how long he will take, I left him from there."
Everybody sweat dropped yet again and Komui cleared the atmosphere. "Ahem! Anyway, let start our picnic. Hope we bring enough food and drinks for the generals too."
"It's ok. We can always get more from my place." Bak said as he picked up a bottle of wine from the container. "Now, let's cheer!"
"Cheer!" Everybody picked up their glasses of wine, and of cause the minor drank juice or tea, even Kanda and Lavi.
The picnic started like a wild party with Kanda chasing around Lavi, Miranda tripped and sprawled the food on those who sat near her, Fou laughed happily at those who Miranda messed up, Allen happily shoveled all the food while Lenalee watched him in amusing with Tim on her head, the Generals sat around chatting with Komui and Bak, and I was happily smiling at everyone through Allen though no one can see me.
"That was one great fun we haven't had for a while. So what should we play? It's still noon." Lavi said while his hands were behind his head.
"Then how about we do a little test of courage?" Komui grinned with his glasses sparkled.
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Next time, we'll be fighting against the test of courage, but Lenalee had gone missing in the middle of the event. What will Allen and the other do?
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A/N: Ok that's it for now. Oh, I almost forgot. I have a few questions for my fellow readers. I do need some opinions. Please answer them…
1. Was the story too long?
2. Who would you want to put in pairs in the test of courage? (Can be yaoi if you like.)
3. Do you want Link and Leverrier to show up or participate in the event?
Story's note: For the ghost's name, I decided to name her 'Rarzel' not the 'Russel' guy in the science department. She's the main character in 'Hatenkou Yugi' who also shared the same seiyuu as Allen. (For those who don't know, Allen's seiyuu is a female.). I think it might be a good anime for those who are D.Grayman yaoi fans since the male character has the same seiyuu as Kanda and I'm not sure about the other guy, but I think its Bak's seiyuu.
I don't force my readers, it's up to you whether to review or not, but I always send my regard for those who did review…