|I am really glad that someone actually read this and liked it, thank you all so much for doing that! Please do continue to read this because it makes me happy knowing that you all like it! Anyway here is another chapter.

Disclaimer: I do not own D. Gray-man. (But I so want to take some the characters and just hug them and stuffffff)|

The Red head meets the family

-Lavi's Room-

He is so cute. Millennie never told me he would be such a cute little brother! Road is petting his short red hair, sitting on the bed. Lavi starts to toss and turn, though, his face expressing emotional pain.

-Lavi's dream.-

"No, please don't leave me, don't go," Lavi shouts at his parents, whom are at the door in their Exorcist uniform. He hates when they go.. He clings to them and shakes his head, crying..

"Don't worry, son, we'll be back," His mother says as she pets his hair, "We always come back, don't we?"

"We love you son, never forget that," The father assures they boy and picks him up to kiss his forehead before he puts him back down. "If we don't call you, don't try and find us, okay? We'll be back and I promise we will see you soon."

The scene flashes forward to Lavi standing in a dark but also barely lit room. He begins to walk foward, not knowing exactly where he was going. Something liquidy makes the child slip and fall to ground. He is now scared, very scared. What did he fall in? The redhead tries to get up but fails many times before he succeeds.

Lights turn on and he sees what it is that made him slip, blood. Lavi begins to shake as he looks at his hands, legs, and what he can of his back and sides. Blood is all over him... The mere sight of blood makes him want to vomit and he nearly does before his eyes drift to what is in front of him. Two dead bodies but he doesn't know who they are until he walks up to said bodies. His eyes widen at the sight and tears well up. The bodies looked like they had been torn up and he tries desperately to shake them to wake them but this doesn't work. He does not notice the men behind him.

They look at the boy closely. This child shouldn't be here, they think. Or was this really a child. The child seems like it, the intense crying can give it away but then again, who says it's not some akuma putting on an act? One of them touches the crying boy, which causes said boy to jump back in shock. It is obvious that the boy is terrified.

"A-Are y-you going to kill me," Lavi stutters and panics, terrified of these men, these strangers. Said men do not reply to Lavi but instead takes out their gun as if they are defending themselves and points them at him. For all they knew he really could be some sort of Akuma. A few of them do lower their guns but one of them does not. This one does not hesistate to shoot him.

Lavi falls down onto his back, immediately feeling the shot that hits him . He is sure that he is dead... His vision blurs, only barely seeing a new figure before he goes black. Right then he does wake up and he is covered in sweat in trembling. His eyes glance around the room he is now in. That was all some kind of terrible nightmare.

There is a female in front of him, her hair is blue and spiked and she has pale skin. He has no idea who she is but seems to calm down if only for a little bit.

"Hello there, little child," Road says with a smile and is slightly excited, "Millennie told me he brought you here so I had to come in and see you and I am so glad I did."

"W-Who are you and where am," Lavi asks with curiosity but always with a bit of worry. Though, there is something about this place that seems relaxing, well compared to where he had been before. Road smiles at him.

"I'm your new sister and this is your new home, the Earl brought you here, don't you remember," She answers softly and with much newfound adoration for the child. "You know, I've never really had a younger sibling before, did you have any siblings?"

"The Earl... You mean the man from the graveyard," He responds with another quetsion before smiles but only for a moment, "So that really happened? I wasn't dreaming it all up? Uh...no, it was always just me and my parents. I didn't consider the other orphans as siblings either."

Road can see the faint smile on Lavi's face and she reaches out to brush his cheeks. She is happy to see the redhead smiling, even if it was only for a fraction of time. Lavi does not pull back and lets her brush his cheek. Her hands feel warm and comforting. She nods and moves in closer so that she can properly hug him.

"Well, now you have siblings... Yes,I call him Millennie and so can you, since you will be with us from now on, we're family right," She hums and hold him close as any sibling would. "Mellennie saved you from that place and brought you to us, your new family. Don't worry, we take care of our own so you need not be scared of any of us, okay?"

Lavi easily relaxes into her warm embrace and rests his yeah on her shoulder. She can't help but smirk as he clings to her. Though he is still shaken up from his nightmare, even if it wasn't real. This was the same nightmare that he has had since his parents were murdered and are only getting worse. He wishes they would stop but he knows they won't. The redhead finds that he isn't scared of her, or the Earl for that matter.

"N-New family... He did say something about family..." Lavi says and can feel her brush the nape of his neck and hair, "He said he would take me away from those mean people but he didn't mention how big his family was, even that I would have a big sister, I-I'm not scared of you... I-I."

"You're scared because of your nightmare," Road interrupts and also rubs his back soothingly, "Don't worry, your big sister will take care of these terrible nightmares. Your new family will make you feel better, much better than you felt down there. Oh, and Millennie calls all of us his children, so consider him your new daddy, yeah?"

The newest addition closes his eyes and nods. Being more comfortable now, he falls asleep in her arms. This makes her sigh happily. She lays him down and curls up with him, continuously brushing his hair. She closes her own eyes and focuses on providing him with good dreams rather than the nightmares she feels would happen. Already she finds herself liking her new little brother.

-Lavi's dream-

Lavi is running around the streets in the arc, playing a game of hiding and seek with Road (he always did love to play hide n seek.). He quickly finds a nice spot to hide. There is no way that Road can find him now. Quiet snickering can be heard from his lips as he waits around.

"Oh, Lavi," Road teases, already knowing where he is, "Come out, come out wherever you are!"

She hears the faint snickering from nearby. Very nearby. The blue haired Noah turns the corner, going the other way so she can sneak up on him. There is another way to said hiding spot. But of course, Lavi doesn't know that. Road stealthy approaches the six year old and tags him.

"Got you!"

"Hey, where did you come from," Lavi asks and sticks his tongue out, "It doesn't matter, I am going to get you!"

-Later that day-

As the boy is waking up there is someone knocking on the door, though he is too drowsy to see who is there. Road, who has been lying with him, looks towards the door. She already knows who it is. The door opens and in comes the Earl, who is still in his 'white' form. He seems as peppy as his usual peppiness.

"Hello, my beloved children~" Earl beams, he is quite excited to see them, especially Lavi as he approaches them. He sees that Lavi is indeed awake and practically clinging to Road, whom waves at the Earl.

Lavi yawns and turns his head to face the Earl. He can't help but smile at the man who had taken him in. Both himself and Road are quite sleepy, though, and he doesn't move anymore than he already has. All he does and waves and hopes the man comes over and he does. His smile brightens up more.

"Millennie," Road says with much excitement and sits up, making sure to keep her hold on Lavi. "You're in luck, he just woke up and don't worry, I made sure he slept well. Didn't you sleep well, little brother?"

"I did, I had a very interesting dream with you in it," Lavi beams, not knowing the fact that Road was really there thanks to her powers, and sits up enough to fully turn and have a good look at the Earl. "You're the one who brought me here, the Earl? I thought it was only a dream but big sister told me it happened."

The Earl smiles and sits down on the bed. He doesn't know why he has grown to like the child so quickly but it appears the other felt the same. That will make things much easier for him when the time comes to finally defeat the exorcists, he will have another person on the Noah's side. This child is going to be important because he knows what the child will turn out to be.

"It pleases me to see that you've taken a liking to us so quickly, Road must be taking taking good care of you," Earl smirks and takes his hat off to the side before wrapping his arms around the two. "Yes, I am, I told you I would take you away from that place, did I not? I kept to my promises, after all. Now, you know Road already but you there are much more you need to meet but they are not available at the moment, they are out on a mission, so you will have to wait. For now, Road I would like you to show our new member of the family around the arc."

-Outside of the Ark-

In the beginning, everyone was looking everywhere for Lavi but they never could find him. By then Lavi was already taken by Earl but they didn't know that. So, they gave up on him. The brat would come back sooner or later and they will punish him when he does. The other orphans are what they need to worry about rather than finding some brat who ran away from them. Though, the children do not share their opinion. They worry about him.

It is now later in teh day and the orphans are put to hard work, rather what they would call hard labor. As they are doing that the door to the orphanage opens and in comes a redheaded stranger, wearing the same uniform Lavi's parents had worn. There is a determined yet bored look on his face when he enters the nearby office. He peeks in and looks around the room. When he sees someone inside, he approaches them slowly. The cigarette he has been smoking is now put out.

The person in said room, a woman, sees him and stops what she is doing. She walks up to the man and offers a hand to him but he doesn't take it. He instead sits down and sighs. She rolls her eyes and sits at her desk, mimmicking his reaction.

"Good evening sir, welcome to our orphange, how may I help you," She greets him with a smile as she is being observed head-to-toe. "Are you perhaps interested in adopting one of these beautiful children on such a fine day?"

"You can help me by not being so cheerful to hide that facade of yours, for starters," He deadpans and sighs in annoyance. "I heard that a week ago you obtained a small child, did you not?"

The woman glares at the man because of his rudeness before she shakes it off. She then freezes up at his question. Shit. She thinks. Just when that little brat runs away someone just has to show up for him...Ungrateful brat. What was she going to say to him?

"Are you talking about that red headed boy," She inquires, but she already knows exactly who she is talking about. "If that is the case then yes we did, however, he is unavailable at the moment. He is busy and must not be disturbed."

Does she really expect him to believe her? He was Marian Cross, a General in the Black Order, not some idiot who was born yesterday. Cross knows for a fact that this orphanage isn't a good place. He doesn't trust her and will get him regardless.

"Well I am afraid that he must be disturbed, I am here to take him and he no longer needs to be in your service," Cross demands, "Now, you will give me the boy or you will receive no money."

"Excuse me sir but you have no right to be demanding and since you have been so rude I will not give you the boy, please take your business elsewhere," She snaps and shakes her head at him, pointing towards the door. "We have nothing to discuss anymore."

Cross does not take her tone very lightly and stands up. He shoots a hateful glare in her direction and clenches his gun but doesn't move it. No, instead he just calms down and laughs.

"Oh I get it, you don't have the boy anymore, do you," Cross smirks and continues to laugh at her before he turns serious, "You had him but he ran away, didn't he? Fools, you have no idea how stupid that was."

The woman panics before speaking up, "We tried to find him but he was nowhere to be found, we don't know where he went," she pleads, "You have to believe me! Look, we will find him and then we can give him to you. Please don't turn us down."

"No, see, since you let him go I will go look for him on my own, I don't need your help," He replies flatly and shakes his head at her. "If the boy is out there I will find him and take him with me, have a such a wonderful day, ma'am."

He doesn't even give her a chance to reply as he just walks out. Now that she isn't looking, he doesn't have to hide his concern. The general had promised Lavi's parents that if they died, he would take him in. He can't very well do that if the fellow red head is roaming about alone. What if he is taken by the Noah's? The enemies of the Black Order. Cross goes out to search for him.

From a far distance, a couple of figures watch the exorcist but he doesn't notice them.

"What's got Cross all in a twist, oh yeah, he is looking for the boy whose parents were killed by our Akuma," chuckles one of them, whom lights up a cigarette and looks at the other figure.

"Of course he is, Tyki, and by the looks of it," the other smirks, "He will not get what he wants. I can read it in his mind. However, he is too stubborn to give up."

Tyki sighs before saying, "Say, Wisely, did the Earl tell you why we had watch him instead of just flat out killing him? This is rather boring."

Wisely raise an eyebrow and stands up, him previously being in a sitting possession as if he was mediating, and taps his chin. Even he isn't very sure, he knew as much as his uncle did, considering the Earl didn't let him know anything.

"I don't know, all I know is that he said 'Keep a close eye on our enemy, we can't allow him to get a hold of our prize," Wisely mutters, "Whatever that prize is. He had his mind blocked off so I couldn't read it very well. Oh hey, didn't he also send Jasdevi out to catch him a while back?"

Tyki doesn't even have to saying anything for Wisely to know. They both just laugh because they know that those too were never going to be able to catch Cross and yet they did easily. Though, it annoys Tyki that they couldn't just kill him right now. Why does the Earl keep him alive? Sometimes he doesn't understand the Earl at all.

"Calm yourself, Uncle," Wisely sighs and rest a hand on Tyki's shoulders, "When the war truly starts we will finally get what we want. Though, Jasdevi might want to kill Cross first so if you want to do it. you'll have to beat them to it."

"You're right, though I think I can leave it to them, I have more important enemies that I am interested in," Tyki replies bluntly and grins at him, "I missed that mouth of yours, you know...It took you forever to be reincarnated, anyway, let's get going, don't want to keep the Earl waiting any longer than he already has." A gate is summoned and they both enter it.

|Whelp, there you go! I told you all that this chapter would be a little long and did my best to make it really good for you guys (I enjoyed typing it all up too!) Tell me what you think about this chapter and I will get to typing another chapter that might be longer. xD

OH and for those who are wondering, I know Wisely doesn't get reincarnated until much later in the manga but I just had to put him in here. (Because who doesn't love him, really.) |