Hello guys this is my fourth chapter! Well, I have updated before a week, so all of you should be glad and ready to find out I supposed???

Anyway, back to the story(:

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"Rutherford..."

His vision was hazy.

"Rutherford..."

His head throbbed painfully.

"Rutherford...Rutherford..."

That voice continued to call out in his head, gentle yet desperate.

"Rutherford..."

Somehow, his heart hurt. Badly and painfully.

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A tear silently fell down his face.

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"Allen! Allen!" Allen's eyes snapped open as the tears in his eyes spilled down, streaming down his face. He stared blankly for a moment before his head hurt and everything just came back to him in one shot, making him dizzy. The white-haired teen winced as he clutched his head, gritting his teeth. He then realised that the salty tears were still on his cheeks and he wiped them off with his hand, feeling the chilling cold liquid stinging his hand a little. He looked at the hand that was stained with his tears, wondering why had happened just now.

What had he done? Why was he crying...and for whom he was crying?

"Allen-kun." Allen turned and look at Lenalee who was staring at him with a grim look, showing how worrying she was. Somehow he felt guilty for bringing unwanted worries and anxiousness for his friends who should have other things to do in the Black Order. In this headquarters and at this point of time, there was no such thing as rest and everyday to them was a busy day.

"I'm alright Lenalee, so don't worry." He smiled at the other as the tips of his nails were scratching the sides of the bed, showing his uneasiness when facing this girl. Lenalee was his first friend and the closet friend in the Black Order, and due to that 'accident', Allen did not know how to sort out the right feelings and face her. The white-haired teen shifted his head a little to the left, glancing out of the window, looking at the dim sky which was darkening, night approaching. His long white fringe covered part of his greyish eyes as the boy sighed and closed his eyes, feeling tired.

"I'm afraid that Walker needs to have his rest now, Lavi, Lenalee. Perhaps you can visit him tomorrow?" Lavi and Lenalee nodded their heads as they exited the room, letting the other rest. As the door closed quietly, the red-haired teen was leaning against the wall and the olive-haired girl walked slowly to the bench beside the infirmary and sank down, her head looking down as the two long ponytails drooped down. Lavi peered at the side view of Lenalee, noticing how exhausted she was. He wondered whether she had gotten enough rest or not.

"Lenalee, Allen will be alright, so don't worry." The girl did not reply, nor moved from her current position. Lavi did not probe anymore as the surrounding was quiet, only with the faint sounds of the footsteps of the people passing by here, not knowing what had happened.

Kanda felt the place where the curse was, very sure that he felt a short sizzle that almost stunned him. He took off the towel that was wrapping around his body as he peered at the tattoo which looked like the shape of a lotus flower. As he touched he could feel the vibration of his beating heart in rhythm. The samurai sighed as he took a white long-sleeved shirt and wore it, sliding his arms into the smooth material and starting to button them up. As the last button slid into the small hole, there was a knock on the door. Grumpy and not happy that someone was interrupting his space here, the raven teen strode up to the door and opened it.

"Hello Kanda!" Kanda was a little startled and surprised when he saw his comrade, Marie Ma, at the door.

"Marie?" The plump man nodded his head and hugged the swordsman so tightly that Kanda coughed. He then gave a slap on his back, signifying the deep friendship between them, and it threw the samurai back a little as Kanda stumbled from the hard slap by Marie. Kanda snorted as he turned back to get his Mugen, droplets of water from his damp hair splattered on the floor after the bathing. He then emerged out and the both of them proceeded to the cafeteria for dinner.

"What makes you here, Marie? Shouldn't you be with that old geezer?" The other sighed as Kanda's way of addressing that general still did not change one bit.

"Mind you, Kanda, that is your general. You shouldn't address him as old man." The samurai snorted, ignoring everything that his comrade had stated. Marie shook his head and gave a sigh as they were approaching the infirmary, which was, well, very close to the canteen. As the two young men walked past the infirmary, the door opened and the thick stench of medicine and other stuffs filled the air, making Kanda sick. He hated those stuffs. He hated medicines, bandages, injections and those nurses who kept threatening him that if he did not stay here and recuperate, they would take his beloved Mugen away. Kanda grunted and rolled his eyes, wondering what he was thinking. A nurse walked out of the infirmary as she pushed a trolley full of stuffs needed in the hospital. Kanda glanced at them and gave a disgusted face.

He did not need all this.

He would not fall sick. Never.

Even if he was badly injured, he could heal in a days' time, so why the heck did he need to be warded?!?

"Kanda?" Kanda turned to Marie and che'ed again, continuing his way. As the door was gradually closing, they did not notice a certain white-haired exorcist sitting on the infirmary bed, looking outside the dark-blue sky.

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Lenalee peered at her uniform hanging on the cabinet, her glossy violet eyes with no life in them. She did not know whether it was due to exhaustion or something that had been bothering her about Allen, but now, she did not feel like to do anything. Soft growlings could be heard from her stomach. She sighed as she closed her eyes. She had not eaten a single thing for the whole afternoon, but she just ignored it as she opened her eyes and stared at the things on her table.

"Allen-kun..." She clutched her chest as she heaved deeply, wondering why she was in such misery over Allen. That boy only fainted, but her heart nearly stopped when she received the news that Allen was in the infirmary after he had passed out. The olive-haired girl winced as she could feel the tightening of her stomach muscles inside, screaming for food, but she really did not have the mood to even think of food.

"Lenalee. Lenalee!" The girl slowly stood up and walked unsteadily to the door. She took all her strength to open the door before she fell, into the arms of the bookman junior who happened to come here to ask how she was doing now.

"Lenalee! Lenalee, are you alright? Lenalee!" Lavi shook the girl who was not responding. The older teen then put his hand on her forehead and was shocked that she was running a very high fever. As he was about to send her to the infirmary, he felt a light tug on his sleeve as Lenalee was looking at him, her eyelids blinking weakly.

"I...don't want to go there." She spoke, her voice feeble and weak. Lavi was about to protest when the girl just shook her head, having no energy to talk anymore. He then sighed as he carried her up to the bed, putting her gently before putting the covers over her body. Her eyes were closed as she was breathing heavily, her cheeks puffed up, red. Lavi stroked her fringe slowly as his hand brushed on her sweaty hot forehead, looking worriedly at her. He stood up and decided that it was better to go and get some food and medicines for her to eat.

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"Komui supervisor, I'm afraid that we have to postpone the mission that Allen is going to take from the Vatican's orders." Komui raised his eyebrow as he looked up at Reever from his seat, browsing the documents in his hands as usual. The Chinese man then wondered whether this was good news or a bad one.

"Why?" Reever coughed and cleared his throat before speaking, this time in a softer tone.

"Allen is currently in the infirmary after he has fainted for no reason. Though it is just mere exhaustion that might have caught him, but the Head Nurse wants him to stay for a few days before she confirms that he is well and ready to leave." Komui's eyes widened as he was shocked by this, but he closed his eyes and took off his spectacles, inhaling the air deeply. He was just glad that the boy was fine. He put back the spectacles onto his face as he looked up at the ceiling and smiled.

Well, maybe this was a good thing after all.

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Meanwhile Lenalee was coughing hoarsely as she hardly ate the porridge that Lavi had bought from the cafeteria. The older teen damped the towel into the cold water and carefully sponged her warm face, wiping away the beads of sweat produced. The girl let out soft moans as she frowned, bearing with the aching pain all over her body. Lavi couldn't help but felt a wrench on his heart, seeing the girl in this state.

"First it is Allen and now it's you..." Lavi sighed again as he put the damp towel on the table and took her temperature once again. The thermometer beeped after 10minutes as Lavi took a look at it. He gave a grim look as the temperature had not gone down for the last one hour. He turned to look at Lenalee who seemed to be feeling the pain even though she was in her slumbers. He put his hand onto that warm face and caressed it gently. He thought that she was just too silly over the frustrations on Allen. From Allen's reactions when he faced Lenalee Lavi was very sure that he did not have that feeling for her, but why did he kiss her in the first place if he did not like her at all?

"Lavi. Lavi." Lavi sighed as he knew that voice was from Bookman.

"What, jiji? I'm kind of busy right now." Seriously, this was not the time to joke around as Lavi just simply replied without rebuking back at this teacher, for the first time.

"What's wrong over there Lavi?" Somehow, the old man could sense that something had happened. Lavi just laughed softly and replied.

"Nothing jiji. Sorry, but I need to rest. Kind of unwell so..."

"Okay. Rest well." Lavi blinked as Bookman had ended the conversation. That panda gramps would surely scold the hell out of him when he just slacked for a mere 5minutes, but today it was different. He smiled. Maybe that old man was not as scary as he thought after all.

There were less pantings and gaspings as Lenalee's face colour was getting brighter and redder. He smiled again, relieved that the girl was recovering. Her fever had seemed to have decreased a little as Lavi touched her forehead, feeling the hotness gradually evaporating into the air. Lavi wondered whether to tell Allen about this, but that boy probably would be shocked that this girl had fallen sick and blamed himself for not clarifying that incident with her.

"Lavi?" There was a faint whisper as Lenalee was awake. Lavi helped to put the pillow into a sit-up position and aided the girl to lean against the soft, fluffy material, sitting up. Lenalee mumbled a thanks as she moved her feeble hands which weighed almost a ton. There was a beep from the black golem as there was someone on the line, contacting the exorcists.

"Lavi, did you see Lenalee around?" It was Komui's voice. Lenalee's eyes widened as she shook her head strongly. The last person that she wanted him to know about her sudden illness was her brother. She knew his character very well and that Chinese man would just throw away that workload that he had and run to her, taking care of her till she had recovered. The girl hung her head, looking down as she gripped onto the covers, feeling that she was a burden to everyone; to nii-san as well as her friends. Lavi knew what she was thinking and walked up to her, holding her cold hands. Lenalee was astonished as she looked up at the other

"Lenalee, don't think so much. Just rest for now." Lenalee nodded her head as she pointed to a book on the table. Lavi got that meaning and went to take it for her. The girl coughed as she heaved, taking the book from the redhead's hands. As she could not strain her voice from the sore throat, she just nodded her head again to thank the bookmn junior once again. Lavi smiled as he received the thanks from her.

"Lavi, did I heard you say Lenalee's name?" Lavi gasped, realising that Komui was still on the line. Lenalee shook her head, signalling to Lavi not to tell the supervisor about her illness. The older teen laughed nervously. Seriously he had less experience on making lies(unlike Allen who was a total expert in this)and somehow this made him nervous, which resulted in his stuttering when he replied back.

"E-Er...well, well! S-Sorry Komui, but I have not seen your cute little sister around." Lenalee giggled at his joke which meant to be sarcastic. Lavi grinned and gave a thumbs' up sign. He was relieved that Lenalee had cheered up a little, and somehow, it made him feel good inside.

"Is it...well then thanks a lot, Lavi-kun." There were several buzz as he hung up. Lavi helped Lenalee to lie down on the bed once again as he tugged her into the thick covers. The girl held the covers with her hands as she peered at her friend who was going for the door. She gave a depressing look, wondering whether Lavi was going to leave her alone here. Somehow she felt lonely in this quiet room, with no one to talk to. Whenever she was sick she got used to Komui accompanying her for the whole day, but surely she would not call her brother over to accompany her when the Black Order had tons of work for that scientist supervisor to do? She bit her lip, hesitant on whether to ask Lavi to stay. Like Allen, she did not like the idea of being a burden to her friends. Last time due to her Innocence that caused her legs to become immobile, her comrades had to suffer in Edo instead, having to defeat the obstacles that were in their way.

She did not want to be a burden to others again.

Lavi seemed to have the ability to read other people's thoughts as he smiled and gently patted the girl's head, to Lenalee's astonishment.

"Don't worry. I will be back." Lenalee looked at him for a moment before she smiled, nodding her head. As the door closed she was alone in her room once again, but that words echoed in her head always and Lenalee closed her eyes, believing that the redhead would definitely come back.

Allen could not sleep. No matter how he tossed and turned around he just could not sleep. In the end he gave up and sat up, observing the small and tiny stars that had appeared at night. His eyes travelled around, trying to count how many there were, but he gave up as he had lost count. There was simply too many out there, and he did not have the mood to count anyway. He sighed as he stretched out his hand, wanting to feel what it was like to touch those little shining ones in the wide sky.

"Beautiful..." Somehow, this word was very familiar. The white teen racked his brain as he realised that he had used this word to describe the scenery when the rain had stopped and a lovely view of the rainbow appeared. It was just simply gorgeous. Allen's eyes widened as he remembered that Kanda was beside him, sharing the same space that he was occupying. A slight flush appeared on his cheeks and the boy shook his head. He frowned, wondering what was happening to him lately.

"You like him." Allen was startled as the Noah started talking to him.

"You like him." The blush that was forgotten was starting to come back. Allen flushed with anger as he retorted back.

"Shut your nonsense. I don't like him."

"Eh? How do you know which 'him' I was referring to?" The blush grew deeper as he knew that the Noah was mocking at him. He could not take it any more and shouted back.

"Just shut up and disappear!" He looked up and saw many people looking at him. The white teen then realised that he had talked loudly and gave an apologetic look, mumbling an apology.

"What do you want now?" Allen talked to him through his mind. He could hear the other's chuckles as he replied back.

"Don't get angry and break yet. I still have not finished making use of you." Allen raised his eyebrow at this answer. He knew all along that the Noah was making use of him. Would he be so stupid to aid the exorcists to victory, ending this long bloodshed that could last for decades and decades, but Allen could not help but wonder what the Noah was looking for. The Fourteenth was rather a special Ancient Family member from the rest. He had betrayed the Earl once, and he would not be that stupid to return to that fat man's side, but he would also not assist the exorcists and the Black Order in defeating the Earl. Just what was he planning?

I want to find someone." Allen's eyes wondered with surprise, shocked that he could hear his thoughts. The Noah laughed again, seemed to be very amused by the boy's stupidity as Allen flushed with redness again.

"I didn't expect you to be able to hear my thoughts."

"Now you can." The white teen just snorted, not wanting to reply to this stupid conversation that was seemed to be going nowhere.

"But...who are you finding?" There was silence as Allen did not hear a reply from the Noah. He wondered whether he did not catch the words that he had just stated.

"Yes I have heard what you have said, but I'm not going to tell you who he is." Allen frowned as he folded his arms.

"And why not? Since I am the Host, I have every right to know every action taken by that intruder who had taken this body as his own!" The indirect statement was shot back to the Noah as he chuckled again.

"Just give up boy. You will not win me. I can take this body by my own easily, but it is not the right time yet. Not yet." Allen snorted as he lay down onto the bed once more, closing his eyes. The bed in his room was still the best after all. He sighed, wondering whether he had homesickness at such moments. If this was known by Lavi and Kanda, no doubt they would burst out into laughter, mocking at him. The last thing that he wanted to see was the smirk on that samurai's face, the Kanda Yuu who teased his weakness and laughed as his uselessness. Thinking of this the grip on the white covers tightened. The white teen vowed himself that he would show to that arrogant and conceited guy that he, Allen Walker, was not as weak as what he had imagined him to be.

Allen sighed again. Now it was not the time to think of this. He had already landed in the infirmary, fainting for no reason. The nurse said that it might due to exhaustion that caused this, but he was not too sure. Somehow he thought that it was other elements that caused him to faint. Like...

"It is the awakening of me that is causing your body to react this way. It will happen quite often as the memories gradually pour in, but slowly, you will get used to it."

"Shut up. It is all because of you that is why I am in this pathetic state." At this Allen thought of Kanda again. The white teen shook his head vigorously, chasing that smirking face off his head. Why must Kanda infiltrate his mind now and then?!?

"Rutherford..." Allen's eyes widened as the voice calling out in his mind surfaced once again. He then remembered the voice that he dreamt when he was unconscious. At that time there was only pitch darkness, with no one around. He looked all over the place, but he found nothing. Not even a human. Not even a tree or plant in the vicinity. His eyelids were terribly heavy as his vision was very blurry. At that dimension that person was calling out to someone, his voice gentle yet desperate. Somehow he felt himself being sucked into the anguish as he could feel his heart wrenching every time that voice called out, but something really bugged him greatly.

Who was Rutherford?

"I know what you are thinking now."

"Shut up and don't bother me." Allen grunted at the Noah within him, ruffling up his white hair in exhaustion. The next sentence that the Fourteenth said completely stumped the white-haired teen as he stopped whatever he was doing.

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"I am Rutherford."

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*tired* I'm really tired, and this is the first chapter with the most number of words

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