See I told you the next one would be out soon!
Please praise me!
Many thanks to those who reviewed on chapter 2:
Panda-Hiroko; WezL; Kuroi Yuki 13; dgm-mega fan; marufu-chan; BlueStar; kakita101; starbrigate; The Puppeteer Master; haker11.
(Questions have been answered at the end of the chapter! ;D)
Any ways, I must apologise that I have still been unable to obtain ownership of -Man ... *sob*
3. Not for me to say.
A short time later, Lavi had awoken, and the three exorcists, rather shaken from the events, though Kanda would never admit it, headed back to the Head Quarters of the Black Order, aka Home. All three of them now sat in the office, opposite Komui's desk, although he was currently occupying his sister's personal space, sobbing into her lap.
"Lenaleeeeeeee! I missed you soooooo much! Don't leave me agaiiiiiiin!"
"B-brother! I was only gone a week! Geez, what am I going to do with you?" Although the young exorcist appeared to be exasperated by the sister complex of a brother, inside she had missed him very much, and could not bring herself to push him away.
At this moment, an old man, almost bald, excluding a few strands which clustered and curled at the top of his head, entered the room. He ignored the empty seat, choosing to stand, leaning against a wall. To those who did not know him, he would appear to we old, probably starting to go deaf and blind, and could do with some sleep, if the dark smudges under his eyes were anything to go by. So overall, harmless and rather disinterested in what was going on around him.
"Aaah! Panda-gee-san is here, we can start!" Lavi exclaimed, interrupting the siblings' reunion.
*Thump* A kick to the head sent the red head flying. He landed in one of the many disorganised piles of paper work littered around the room. The old man was not as out of it as he seemed.
"Oh, Bookman, you're here, great let's begin! The sooner we start, the sooner we finish, and the sooner I can spend much needed quality time with my beautiful sister, Lenaleeeeeeee!" This comment was with met with silence from all present, broken only by a soft groan as Lavi lowered himself back into his seat. His but hurt, where he had found Komui's ling lost paper weight, on impact.
"Right, now, start from the beginning, then. You retrieved the innocence, but encountered three level four akuma, and two Noahs. So you defeated them?" Komui said, getting straight to the point, and having one of his occasional serious moments.
"Erm, well … we didn't defeat them, brother, the boy did!"
Komui looked questioningly at the three exorcists, whilst Bookman stood a little straighter, the hunger for knowledge becoming evident in his eyes.
"A boy, you say?" Lavi and Lenalee nodded earnestly, whilst Kanda's only response was the usual "Che."
"And can you describe this 'boy'?"
Kanda now decided to partake in the conversation.
"Che, not like you could forget those looks."
"Yer! He had white hair! And I'm not talking grey, or pale blond, I'm saying the kid was white all over! White hair, white skin and, white innocence!"
"He had innocence?" Komui started.
"Yes, brother! He looked like a clown! And the way he jumped around looked just like he belonged to a circus or something! But the strangest thing was the sword! It looked like…" Lenalee trailed off.
"It looked like what? Describe it to me." Bookman spoke for the first time. He had now walked over to the group, and stood directly in front of them, clearly interested, and, if they were not mistaken, agitated by the description so far revealed.
"It looked like the Millennium Earls! Except it was all backwards, the colours were the wrong way round!" Lavi piped up.
"Anything else?" Bookman looked pale behind the emotionless mask he usually wore.
"Well, he knew mine and Yuu-chan's names! I know I haven't met him before, too!"
"You told him my name, baka-Usagi! And DON'T CALL ME THAT!" Lavi received a slap to the back of the from the impatient Bookman.
"Well?"
"Che, scar." Was Kanda's only insight on the matter.
"Oh, yer! Gramps, he had this scar down the left side of his face, with this star at the top. The eye was creep-tastic too! It was glowing red!"
"Bookman do you know this boy?" Asked Komui, everyone's attention reverted to the old man.
"It's not for me to say. I cannot interfere with the course of history, only record it." The as an after-thought he added: "I knew this war had been getting one-sided recently, but to think things were so bad that they awoke HIM!" With that said he turned and strode out the room.
After a few seconds of shocked silence, Lavi sprang to life and followed Bookman out the door. From the hushed office the others heard the confrontation that followed.
"Gramps, that boy knew me! Who was he?"
"Stupid apprentice! Of course he knew you, as you should have know him! Go do your research!"
Please review, and give me the will to carry on...
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Questions and Answers
Q. Starbrigate asked about what happened to Allen at the end of chapter 2.
A. I can't really tell you yet as Allen will confess to his 'condition' at a later point in the fanfic. Sorry!
And to haker11: I'm sorry as I obviously didn't make this clear enough. Allen knows Lavi's name due to circumstances that are sort of revealed in this chapter if you caught on that there is a connection between Allen and the Bookman clan. Also Allen heard Lavi call Kanda by his name so that's how he knows that, however no one said or told him Lenalee's name at any point during that chapter.
