Lenalee, Allen, Lavi, Yu (as he had practically ordered me to call him) were sitting on the recently cleared couch (thanks to Yu shoving all the paper off) waiting impatiently for our mission briefings from Komui, who was calmly sipping his coffee as we slowly died from curiosity.

After he had finished his cofee, Komui looked at the five of us and began. "Now, I have called you here today because all five of you have been assigned to the same mission."

We gave him our full attention then, all thoughts of drowning out his voice or whispering to each other being erased from our minds. The folders given out always had the purpose and location of the mission, but lacked anything else with the exception of a few details pertaining to the events surrounding the innocence, and with all five of us going, we knew whatever the mission was it had great importance.

"The location of your mission this time is Scotland, more specifically a fairly prestigious boarding school where an increase in akuma activity has been reported. You will all go under the guise of exchange students and will find your backgrounds in the last pages of your mission folders. Now, the school term starts on September first, but in order to familiarize yourself with the people and their…way of life, you will be leaving before the start of the term."

Familiarize ourselves with the people? An undercover mission itself was rare, but for their lifestyle to be so different than ours that we had to adjust to it peaked my curiosity.

"As for your living arrangements, during the school term we have arranged for all of you to stay together. As for before the term you will be staying with a group of people who concern themselves with the welfare and protection of the school and its students, known as the Order of the Phoenix. They will also be aware of your status as exorcists."

I felt Yu tense, and I put my hand on his knee, squeezing it gently. Yu turned to look at me, and I smiled for him as his hand came to rest on mine. I then turned my attention to the other exorcists in the room: Lavi and Allen were whispering to each other lowly, while Lenalee had reached out to grasp Allen's hand, as she stared at the floor. Her nervousness was understandable, exorcists weren't very welcome in some places when the people knew what we did. They tend to think of us as murderers unless they see the akuma for themselves (which was rare as it was extremely dangerous for both parties).

"It was the school's headmaster and leader of their Order who contacted us about the akuma. It seems he has encountered them before and was given a way to communicate with us under the jurisdiction of the previous Head Supervisor. Now, questions?" Komui attitude then did a 180, as he looked at us with a smile plastered on his face much like the one he wore after he just made a new Sir Komrin, and it was making me nervous. I did not have any good experiences with his wacky robots.

Yu was the first to react "Going to school to protect a bunch of stupid brats? No. I have better things to do with my time." He stood up and began to leave when Komui stopped Yu full in his tracks "You'll be leaving Arcane alone with not only Lavi and Allen, but hundreds of other boys? The majority of them are teenagers you know." Pivoting on his heel Yu made his way back to the couch and sat down, leaning back into the couch with a heated glare, not saying another word. I smiled, leaning against his shoulder while I laughed silently at his reaction.

"I have a question Nii-san." Lenalee said to her brother with a hand in the air (the other still in Allen's grasp; I silently applauded his bravery), as my group of friends were used to my boyfriends' antics whenever it concerned myself.

"Of course my darling Lenalee, ask away!" Komui exclaimed with joy as his sister was paying attention to him and only him. While the scene made Lavi and Allen chuckle, I found my self smiling sadly as I couldn't help but be reminded of my own brother.

"Are you really letting me go? The longest I've been away was when I went looking for General Cross and Reever said you nearly drove him crazy." Ah yes, Komui's rampage had left no one unscathed, though what surprised me is that he had the guts to trash Yu's room as well as the others.

So how would the crazed scientist cope with 10 months of not seeing Lenalee? I shuddered at what The Order would go through without the Chinese exorcist around to keep her brother in check...and then relaxed when I remembered I would not be have to deal with it.

"Well you see I'm allowed to come visit you guys anytime I want! Curtsey of the headmaster of the school so there's no problem in me seeing you Lenalee! Have no fear, you Big Brother is only a doorway away! I'll keep those nasty octopus away from you!" And there he went, over the desk and through a stack of papers...to meet with Lenalee's shoe.

Deciding that intervention was necessary to prevent having to witness Komui's bawling, I interrupted him with the question that had been nagging at me since the beginning of the discussion. "What makes these people so different that we have to live with them to get used to how they live?"

Komui straightened up at that and seemed to regain a bit of dignity. "Well, Arcane, these people are wizards." At Komui's statement the room went completely silent, wearing a look of shock I turned to my friends to see that they all (with the exception of Yu) had the same expression of surprise that I did.

"Komui I speak to you as a friend when I ask: are you all right?" Lavi asked with a worry laced in his voice. Allen looked as if he wanted to say something, no doubt he probably saw something during his time with Cross, poor kid. Between what he had told me, and what others had told me, it was probably a good thing that I had been in a coma at the time (missed the level four's attack too, stupid Noah.)

Sighing as if expecting that answer Komui reached into his desk and pulled a bag with a logo reading 'Honeydukes' in really bubbling and flashy writing. Fishing out a pentagon shaped box he tossed it to me. Catching it more out of reflex than thought I looked at it as the words 'chocolate frog' caught my attention, the others were looking at me with worry and eying the box with curiosity; I turned to Yu, he took it from me gently and began looking it over with a frown.

Relieved of the strange box, I gave my attention back to Komui silently asking what it was and why he had thrown it to me. He sighed understanding my look and explained "It's not a real frog, its chocolate shaped to look like a frog; it has a charm on it...and I didn't put anything in the box this time. It's wizard candy. Try it."

At the mention of chocolate I perked up and turned to Yu with the most pitiful look I could give, while looking at the box in his hands. Sighing he handed it to me, and shot Komui a look that said he would hurt him if he was lying..

The second I opened the lid a frog jumped out of the container, nearly scaring me out of my skin; I yelped loudly and jumped back in shock halfway onto Yu's lap. He encircled his arms around my frozen body out of reflex and pulled me away from the container and into his chest, the other were frozen in the same state of shock as I was, and Komui called to our frozen bodies "Catch it! Catch it!"

Being the first to regain control of his body Allen lunged for the chocolate, grabbing it in mid air, and in one swift movement bit the frogs head off. I felt sick to my stomach as I watched Allen chew and swallow the frogs head. I noticed too, that Lenalee's face was tinged with green, a hand clapped over her mouth as she stared at Allen, while Lavi was trying and failing to hold in his shock as his eye was as wide as one of Allen's dinner plates; his mouth wide open at what Allen had just done. Yu was the only one who kept his composure, though I could tell he too was fairly disgusted when his arms tightened around me.

"They taste better than I remember, hey Arcane, if you don't want the card can I have it? I only have two but I'm trying to get a good collection of them... Are you alright? You seem kind of green. You too, Lenalee, are you guys okay?" Allen looked to us with evident concern ,which melted into a thoughtful expression as he tried to figure out what was wrong… and unconsciously took another bite out of the frog.

"Allen, for gods sake; stop eating the frog!" Lavi cried as he covered his only usable eye with his hand as he looked away from what the clueless exorcist was doing. I saw realization dawn upon Allen as he looked at our sick faces then to the half eaten frog in his hand and started to laugh. Komui chuckled along with Allen, and Reever couldn't suppress the smile that adorned his face as he saw our confused expressions (except for Yu who was pissed at Allen for laughing at him).

When Allen had finished laughing he started to explain himself "It is wizard candy, you know. When I was with Master he took me to a pub called The Leaky Cauldron - it was for witches and wizards- and left me a tab there that took me about a week to pay off. The man who ran the place was really nice and gave me some wizard candy during breaks. This is called a chocolate frog, it's only chocolate molded to look like a frog with a charm placed on it to make it act like a frog. If you open the box you'll notice there is a card inside of a famous witch or wizard. I currently have Godric Gryffindor and Merlin."

"So magic is real and we're going to a magic school for 10 months as body guards for the school?" Lenalee asked as she got over the shock and sickness of Allen eating a moving frog that was actually chocolate.

"That would be the gist of it yes. As I stated before you will go as exchange students from a prestigious academy that specialize in a different kind of magic than that practiced at the school you will be attending. The wizards of the order will help you to get acquainted with the terms of speech used by the wizards and a few of the well known sports. You are also allowed free use of your innocence during this mission, as it will be explained as part of your magical abilities. The rest of the details will be in your folder.

"Remember that the students and teachers outside of the Order of the Phoenix are not to be told of your duties as an exorcist, or your that you are in fact an exorcist. You are also to restrain from using physical force during your stay at the school." Komui added as an afterthought looking at Yu and then me as he said it.

I blushed and turned away from his gaze. I don't care what they say, the idiot got what he deserved. I asked him several times to leave me alone and he refused to listen. I'm not a violent person by nature, and I'm slow to anger; its not my fault I have a bad temper when someone succeeds in making me angry. …Ok so maybe putting him in the infirmary for three weeks was going a little over board but I could have done worse.

"When do we leave?" Allen asked as he reclaimed his seat and continued eating the chocolate frog, and I turned away sharply as its leg twitched. As much as I love chocolate, it will take a bit of time to get used to the idea eating a moving chocolate frog.

" July 24th at 8pm, you have a week to prepare," Komui answered. Looking towards us he continued "Until then," Komui shrugged "do whatever you like."

As we were about to go, Komui called out to Allen making us all pause. "Regarding your supervision, Allen, Link won't be coming with you."

Allen frowned, "And why is that?" It seems he's suspicious, and I don't blame him. Central rarely does anything for the good of the exorcists, but Komui only smiled. "Due to recent evidence being brought into light, Rouvelier has been striped of his title and confined to central. Due to your performance both before and during your supervision you have been released from your previous restrictions."

A wide smile crawled across my face as I turned to give Allen a brief hug before he was bombarded by everyone else (including the science department).

Outside of Komui's office doors we laughed before parting ways.

"Well I'm going to go and start preparing, these folders are pretty thick after all," Lavi said, waving said folder around, Lenalee and Allen were a few steps ahead, already scanning theirs. "Bye you two. Now Yuu-chan, don't do anything perverted to Blackie-chan while we're gone." And with that final farewell Lavi had hooked his arm with Lenalee and Allen (nearly making them drop their folders) and disappearing down the hall giving us some alone time...and to escape from Yu, whose hand had moved to Mugen at Lavi's use of his first name.

I grabbed Yu's hand as I began walking down the hall in the direction of his room, merely enjoying his company, as I knew that pointless chatter annoyed him. We were only a few steps away when he muttered something under his breath so quietly I almost didn't hear him, "Magic. What next? One of us can actually use it?"

July 24th the Black Order

"Alright is everyone ready?" Komui asked as we had assembled into his office. It had been a hectic week. Our cover stories were minutely detailed, and so took time to memorize.

Yu was pissed the whole time that he had to baby sit a bunch of brats who fixed everything by a waving a stick around. It didn't help that Lavi had taken to carrying around a stick and pointing it at people, trying to turn someone into a frog. It had gotten worse when he had pointed it at me, saying a phrase in a foreign language that Allen translated to "Clothes, disappear!" Yu had heard Allen's translation, and it took Jerry's threatening to cut off his soba to keep rabbit from being added to the dinner menu.

We would often gather together to quiz each on our cover stories, with Allen telling us about his time in the wizard pub before we scattered. There was a particular incident when Lavi couldn't stop laughing when Allen explained how wizards and witches referred to using their magic by the phrase 'waving their wands,' Allen never understood what was so funny which made Lavi laugh harder.

Lenalee grew to be very excited about it, as her only schooling was the tutoring the science department gave us every so often. She had me tell her about what my classes were like before I came to the Order, even though I repeatedly pointed out that a school for magic would be extremely different than the public school Vernon and Petunia sent me to. Though she did have a right to be so excitied I guess, school was something normal people did. Even if the school was going to be far from our idea of normal, going to school itself made us feel slightly more like regular teens.

The highlight of the week was when Allen and I broke into Komui's office, and jacked all of his Honeydukes candy. We stayed in his office as we ate some of it, knowing we would be caught with a couple huge bags of candy. I even helped Allen hunt a chocolate frog that had gotten away and into the stacks of paper, though I had to turn away when he began eating it. I also avoided Bertie Bott's every flavour beans (after an unfortunate first try with a toe nail flavoured one), the rest I really liked, going as far as to fight with Allen over the Pepper Imps and Fizzing Whizzbees.

When we ate enough to safely sneak away with the rest, the two of us traveled to the lounge to finish the remaining candy. Just as I began to levitate a few feet of the ground (wizard candy is so cool), Yu walked in with Lavi and Lenalee trailing behind him. Their faces where priceless (though I felt bad when Yu started to worry), especially when Allen ate a Pepper Imp and started to breathe fire. I don't know about Allen, but I can't wait to get my hands on some more.

I was pulled out of my memories by Lavi screaming "Yeah Komui lets go, let's go, let's go!" While jumping on the balls of his feet. Sometimes I wonder if he's really eighteen.

"Alright, well this is a port key and if I remember correctly all you have to do is hold on to your luggage with one hand and touch this," Komui took a book out from behind his desk, handing it to Allen. "With the other, and you'll be transported to the place you'll be staying at exactly 8:05 PM, which is...about 20 seconds away. I was told that even one finger will do," Grabbing onto the book, it started to pulse a faint blue color, the last thing I heard was "Good luck!" From the science department (those eavesdroppers!), when there was a pulling feeling behind my navel and we started to spin extremely fast, and the colors began to blur together.

Before any of us could react to what we were experiencing our feet hit something solid as the spinning stopped and we all fell to the floor in a heap…with me at the bottom kissing the floor. I was about to scream at someone to get off of me when a noise from somewhere above us stopped my actions,

"Are you lot all right?"

Wolf: Yay another chapter!

Kanda: Yippe (sarcastically)

Wolf: Have fun as a Panda?

Kanda: Don't. Mention. That.

Wolf: Well...I guess that answers my question then. Hope you guys liked the chapter, I'm going to leave you with a short paragraph from an article I read on body language (which was randomly on the msn homepage), so don't forget to review!

He holds you close to his chest:

~While this dude may present himself as a tough guy, he's a really big softie. "By bring you close to his heart, he's symbolically showing you that he's attached," explains communication expert Audrey Nelson, PhD, author of You Don't Say. "Holding you against a masculine part of his body - his chest - is also his way of letting you know he can protect you."

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