AN- Sorry for the wait, life likes to kick me in the teeth when I least expect it. But heres a new chapter! Hope you like it...

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Chapter 4

Nami rested peacefully for yet another day in a row; Lavi sat beside the bed and watched her with his mind racing. The small child hadn't even twitched since she passed out during the battle with Winters. After the battle they had taken both of them to the hospital where the nurses worked on both, Winters was able to leave after a few days, having minor injuries, it seemed though Nami was fighting seriously she wasn't aiming to kill, which it looked as if Winters was. That gave him a rather long lecture from Komui. Winters was also slightly messed up mentally for almost a whole day. No one really said much else about the fight really.

Nami had been in much worse shape, having to have a blood transfusion as she had lost way too much from the cut in her side, shoulder as well as the blood flowing from her forehead. She also had rather bad burns on both her arms, which were wrapped right now, they figured it was due to her Innocence reacting to her sudden Noah side… something no one really spoke of either… nothing really was spoken about as everyone was thinking the same thing, the child may have snapped but the General had gotten what he deserved. Komui as well as Lavi, Klaud and Kanda had made sure the finders that had witnessed the fight kept their silence about the child.

She was now just resting as they waited for her to waken; they weren't sure how long she would remain knocked out. Lavi's mind was racing as he watched her rest; thinking the things he didn't want to focus on…

"… anything my mother taught me…"

That one simple line the child had spoken repeated over in his mind. The candles in the General's back, the events that took place just before the child blacked out didn't leave any questions but still… The fact and idea creeped him out greatly, but what got him even more was the way the child was acting as she was nailed to the wall. The look in her eyes as well as her laugh, it really did seem like a possibility that this child has more than one side, that she had a Noah side that was very dangerous, and not something to mess with.

Because of that fear of what the Noah side of her could do, they decided to play it safe, and the childs arms and legs were lightly strapped to the bed, though most didn't believe she would come to any different than the child they knew. Lavi and Bookman had spoken about the burns along the child's arms and believed the innocence the child harbored kept the Noah side of her at bay, and reacted badly to it.

Bringing him out of his thoughts was the footsteps into the room and the soft voices.

"You can't just ignore everything, if you do this will just happen again and who knows what will happen to someone who makes her snap," a female voice argued.

"I understand but we have to keep her here, it's too dangerous for her to go out there," Lavi heard Komui saying back.

The small group stopped when they spotted Lavi sitting there. Klaud had been the one speaking which didn't surprise the older red head; she had been one person who was at Komui's throat the most about letting Nami out after the whole fight.

"I'm agreeing with Klaud, we need to let her go on missions," Lavi spoke, breaking the small silence, behind Komui was Lenalee who was looking torn on the subject.

"How many times do I have to say it's not safe," Komui sighed.

"It's not safe to lock her up either," Klaud snapped, "She'll snap again, she will. The Finders aren't going to stop talking about her and she's not stupid. Someone will say something to make her snap again and what happens if we can't stop her?"

"And what happens if the Noah's find out about her?" Komui asked.

"It's the same danger if they were against one of us, and she already faced one without them knowing," Klaud argued back, Lavi understood now why Lenalee seemed quiet.

"But the danger is still there that they will learn of her identity."

"And what? Just because they figured it out she's just going to say okay and go with them without a backwards glance? It's not the Noah's finding out that your worried about it's you don't trust her," Klaud hissed, Lavi looked up at that.

"I trust her, I just don't want her to be taken back and have to fight against her," Komui sighed.

"She cant stay here locked up, we have few exorcists as it is," Klaud seemed to give up slightly.

"She doesn't even understand why she's still locked up, she doesn't get all the glares or the talking from the finders," Lavi muttered.

"We talked about this, we cant tell her about the attacks. The Finders have no proof it's due to her, just…"

"Just a huge amount of finders have been targeted and killed since Nami has been brought here, they put it together, the messages they never understood but we did," Lavi spoke.

"What good would it do to tell her about the Noahs' looking for her? That they have killed hundreds of Finders and broody killed three exorcists, new ones we found at that?" Komui asked.

"She'd finally understand why everyone seems to dislike her in some way," Lavi said, knowing the small child would also blame herself for so many deaths, and to know of how the three exorcists died… It was three exorcists found by a group of finders, a small band of brothers with fragments of their own without ever knowing why they had these talents. The Order was excited to find them but before they sent a General or anyone to bring them back to the Order they were found dead. One had a hole in a good amount of organs, the other had been broody stabbed, and the last was found in the most painful and strangest positions, strange enough it didn't look like anyone forced his body into them…

"The point is, we cant let her out of here, its way to dangerous for her right now," Komui never really seemed to stop repeating the same thing over and over when this subject was brought up.

"So you plan to keep her locked her, like a prisoner, but for how long?" Lenalee voiced, the look in her eyes said something else entirely, "You're going to be doing the same thing to her as they did to me," she finished and Komui's eye grew wide.

"That's not what's happening," he tried to argue.

"How is it any different? You are taking away her freedom," Lenalee spoke.

"She has her Innocence, she's been training her ass off, she has been begging to do something, and you keep telling her no, making all her work for nothing. What's the good of having an exorcists if we never use them to start with, what good is one that is going to snap from being locked away and possibly hurting one of us. You worry she might leave and join the Noah's as she is part of them, but honestly the only reason she would have to leave this place is for her freedom. I wouldn't blame her at this point," Klaud went off.

Than something clicked in Lavi's head as he looked down at the small child.

"If you keep her locked up than there really isn't a reason for her to stay at all Komui," he started slowly hoping this little idea didn't blow up in his face. "She's not just an exorcist anymore, and if she is to be kept locked up there is no good of staying at all…" he trailed off.

The look on Komui's face told him he didn't need to point out where he was going with that. The elder male sighed.

"Fine… I'll see what I can do but she won't be going anywhere alone," he said before leaving.

"I didn't plan to leave her alone on a mission at all," Lavi muttered as the other male left.

---…---

When Nami started to wake up, the first thing she knew was she was in a great deal of pain, the next thing was that her body felt stiff and that she couldn't move her hands. She had heard small talking but when she went to move her hand it stopped all together. She slowly opened her eyes, blinking at the bright light.

"Nami?" she heard her voice being called.

She blinked enough that the light didn't burn as badly and looked up at her father.

"Dad?" her voice was hoarse and her throat hurt as she talked. Before anyone said anything else she saw a glass of water being pushed up by her mouth, she easily opened her lips and drank it slowly, wishing she could use her hands but didn't know why she couldn't move them. When she finished she saw Klaud standing to the other side of her bed, behind her was Allen.

"How do you feel?" Lavi asked.

"Sore, my body hurts in places I didn't know I had, and I'm confused," she answered, "why can't I move?"

Lavi seemed to realize something and moved, she watched as he unstrapped restraints against her arms and legs. She flexed them, wincing at the pain in her arms, it was light and dull but unexpected.

"After what happened, we weren't sure how you would wake up," Lavi explained almost dumbly before Nami understood.

"For future reference, those won't hold me back," was all she muttered before she went to sit up.

"You should say lying down," Klaud said softly.

Sighing Nami didn't move up, "What exactly happened?" she asked.

"What do you remember?" Lavi asked, slightly thrown off by the question.

"I remember fighting, he, uh, made a rather unnecessary comment and I just lost it," Nami explained lamely.

"Well," Lavi started to explain everything to make sure she'd remember everything that took place. But part of him silently wondered why she didn't remember most of it, was it due to injury or cause of a dark nature?

---…---

She watched the scenery fly by, she was on her way back to the castle, finally free from the castle she completed her first mission, with ease she might add. Of course she wasn't alone; Lavi, Bookman, Klaud and Kanda sat around her all had helped her out during this mission. Sad they sent so many… and two Generals as well.

They realized this mission that Nami had a strange ability that helped greatly with the mission, as the others basically just stood aside to protect her from any akuma attacks. Nami was able to feel the power of innocence; she could tell where it was and could track it down as long as she was close enough to it. She also could pick up on the dark matter inside the Akuma's as well; it was different to her than the innocence and could tell the difference; she realized now that the same feeling she got from the Akuma she had felt while fighting Tyki previously only it was much stronger around the Noah. This unique little talent didn't surprise any of them, but Klaud voiced what everyone felt. "If we had this power earlier think how easy all the missions would have been…"

Nami was just happy to be of help, and to get out of the castle, even though she was heading back she knew she wouldn't be trapped again…

AN- so there it is, read, review, I should be back in less than a month with a new chapter