Hello again

the fourth chapter I am uploading

And they finally arrive at the Order. One of the reasons why I wanted to do it this way round, because I wanted to see the Order people's reactions to Shion and Nezumi (especially Lavi).

Disclaimer: I don't own neither No.6 nor DGM obviously

Now on to the story:


Third person POV

Linali and River are the only ones standing in the hall where the gate of the ark is (except of the guards of the gate of course). The girl is asking the scientist some details about the mission she is going to go on. She also wonders why Allen and Kanda who should have arrived about an hour ago are not here yet.

But then she hears noises, footsteps from the direction of the ark and thinks, 'There they are! Late as always. I bet they bickered and lost trace of the time because of that.'

But as she looks at the gate she stops. She can't believe what she is seeing.

"Oh dear lord… I think I'm seeing double!" she says stunned.

"What?" a very tired River looks up from his papers and turns as she points at the ark gate. His jaw drops.

"I really believe I need more sleep!" he mumbles taking in the sight.

"No, you don't. I am seeing it too!" Linali answers dumbstruck.

They both look with widened eyes at the two white haired boys with marks on their left cheeks followed by two scowling ravens with long hair in a high ponytail (okay, difference in hair length but that doesn't matter).

When Allen and the others approach the shocked pair he smiles sheepishly with Shion next to him gazing around with wide interested eyes. Kanda follows him a bit unwillingly having a similar angry face to Nezumi who doesn't trust this strange place at all.

As they arrive and Allen greets them with his usual politeness: "Good to see you again, Linali, River."

Linali is the first to talk: "Yeah… Eh… What… You…?" (well, tries to talk; stutter would be a better word but she is so caught by the sight of two times Allen and Kanda and especially next to each other and not fighting, by the way)

It's River who manages a complete sentence:

"Allen, who… who are they?"

The boy scratches his head again.

"Well… You see… Their names are Shion and Nezumi. We met them on the mission. They say they are from the future and they were attacked by an akuma who mistook Shion for me. So we thought it would be safer for them here. And maybe you can find a way to get them back to wherever they come from."

"Ah, yes… Okay. We should first go to chief Komui. He could know something." he says but thinks as well 'And he will be delighted! That's something he could have done!'

As they head for the office Linali recovers her voice and asks Allen:

"Where did you find these two? What did you and Kanda do?"

"Eh! We did nothing! We met them in Rimes on a coincidence." Allen replies irritated (though a bit red on the cheeks) while Kanda merely scoffs.

"But-But they look really like you two!"

"Yeah I know. You can imagine our surprise when we first saw them. We even mistook us for one of the other."

"And they are really from the future?"

"They say they're from the 21th century." Allen answers rubbing his temples. Shion had already been questioning non-stop before and now Linali is as well. He really has enough of questions for today. He is hungry and wants a rest. Lucky for him he gets help from an unexpected side.

"Che. Could you probably shut up for a moment? This second moyashi has already been asking questions since we met him. I can't take any more of that so shut up!" Kanda growls from behind.

Allen glances at Kanda for a moment but doesn't say anything. Linali pouts but keeps quiet for the rest of the walk.

When they arrive and enter the chief's office he surprisingly is awake (rare occasion he must have just come from one of his weird experiments). He can't see them as they go through the door because of the stacks of paper on his desk in front of him. Shion and Nezumi are shocked by the amount of chaos that this office houses. Papers are lying all over the floor and floating around. Huge stacks of them on the desk, all work that needs to be done. Allen and River just sigh in unison and Kanda rolls his eyes.

As Komui comes around the table his usual mug in the hand and sees them he freezes and shouts:

"Oh, no! Allen! Kanda! Please don't tell me you fell into the cloning device in my lab!"

The reactions are immediate:

"What?"

"You have a cloning device?"

"You are behind this, brother?"

"What have you built this time, chief?"

"Can you show me that?"

"What weird things do you have here?"

(A/N: Guess who said what)

In the end it's Allen who resolves it by explaining the story. Komui listens relieved that it's not his fault (if it was, Kanda would probably have killed him). He believes them about being from the future but he hasn't a solution either.

"Shion, if you would allow I would like to run some tests on you because of your white hair and the same goes for Nezumi. Maybe with the results of that I can find a possibility to get you back to your time. So if you could please follow me to the medical wing. As for you two Allen and Kanda you are requested to bring your report to the science division. When you are done with that please come to the medical wing as well to pick these two gentleman up and show them around the Order."

"What?! I am not gonna fucking babysit these two idiots?" Kanda shouts loud.

"Oh yes, you are! You brought them here so they are your duty." Kanda opens his mouth again but Komui stops him, "This is an order, Kanda!"

Kanda quiets but doesn't stop cursing under his breath. Allen whines:

"But I'm hungry! I want something to eat and not play guard (another reason is that he can't guard someone through a place where he even still gets lost himself)!"

"You can take them to the cafeteria after the infirmary. I am pretty sure they are hungry too." Komui smiles.

"Wait a moment!" It's Nezumi who interrupts, "What do you mean by tests?"

"That's right brother. Don't use some of your strange machines on them!"

"No, don't worry. I am only going to get some blood samples from these two."

Everyone in the office sighs in relieve. After that Komui leads a worried Nezumi and a happy Shion out of the office followed by River who mutters to him: "About that thing with the cloning device, we will talk later again, understood?" Komui gulps but nods. Linali laughs and says her goodbyes because she has to leave for a mission. She is really disappointed that she can't see this situation develop but she has her duties. So there are only Allen and Kanda left in the office. Allen is still looking at the ground unhappy that the eating is delayed.

"Oi, move it beansprout! We have to get this over with!" Kanda scoffs at Allen.

"It's Allen and I'm hungry!" the boy answers, still staring down.

Kanda rolls his eyes and shoves Allen roughly out of the office in the direction of the science division growling. Inevitably on the way there they start bickering like always. So when they arrive they are ready to kill each other like every time. At least that didn't change!


Somewhere else in the building Nezumi is the first to be finished and is forced to wait outside of the room where Komui and Shion are still inside. He scowls, he is angry. One, the situation is out of his control. He still doesn't believe that this is actually the 19th century. And all this weird fantasy stuff that would fit better in some kind of book like this ark thing doesn't help to increase his trust. Also this building and the organisation is kind of scary. But second and more important: Shion is now alone in this room with this crazy scientist figure. He really is worried for Shion. Even though he would never admit it he really cares for the boy. He likes him and doesn't want to see him suffer.

Nezumi is so lost in his thoughts about Shion that he doesn't notice the red-headed figure which passes the corridor, stops and then fast approaches him.

Lavi is bored. He had come back from a mission the day before and today the old man had made him work the whole day. He has already eaten his diner and is now looking for a distraction. Bah, when neither Allen nor Kanda are around and there is no one to tease, live can be really boring. Talking of Yuu… As he walks past a corridor near the infirmary he spots a tall man with dark hair in a ponytail. 'Yay, Yuu is back!' he thinks.

Taking a better look he notices the for Kanda far too short hair. Maybe the Japanese cut it or it got chopped or burnt on the mission. Doesn't matter! Let's great him like Lavi always does!

So he runs along the corridor. 'Kanda' doesn't seem to notice him. Luck on his side!

He throws his arm around the taller man's shoulders screaming: "Yuu-chan! You're back!"

Nezumi spins around in shock at the shout finding himself in the embrace of a young man with messy red hair and an eyepatch.

"Who do you think you are?" he shouts back trying to pull out his knife.

"Aw, Yuu-chan! You know perfectly who I am. By the way did you cut your hair?" Lavi laughs but wonders a bit why there was no death threat yet.

At this moment three things happen at the same time:

The door next to Nezumi opens and Shion steps out freezing at the scene before him.

A loud angry voice sounds from the left scowling, "Don't use that name, baka usagi!"

Nezumi finally manages to get his knife out of the pocket pointing it at the red-head.

Let's solve this scene one by one, shall we.

When Komui finally allows him to leave, Shion hurries to get back to Nezumi. Probably he is already worried what was taking the boy so long. The white-head smiles at the thought of the raven. He knows what he feels for the taller male but he also knows Nezumi doesn't, so he would never say it out loud.

He pushes the door open but stops dead in his tracks. Nezumi is standing there being hugged by a red-head he has never seen before. This guy is hugging Nezumi?! For Shion he is far too close to the raven! He feels a pang of jealousy, but also the boiling rage in his stomach. It's the same feeling like when Rikiga insulted his friend. He wants to punish this red-head.

But before he is able to move an angry shout comes from the left.

"Don't use that name, baka Usagi!"

Shion and the others see two more figures approach them. As they come closer they recognize an angry Kanda and a somehow depressed Allen just stopping mumbling 'Food!'.

Lavi looks away from his current victim to the two figures. Confused he looks down again, noticing the differences to Kanda himself. The grey eyes, other facial features and different hair colour. But before his brain processes this and backs away he feels a knife at his throat and hears a dangerous voice.

"Get your arms away immediately or you are dead!"

Nezumi is scary when he is really pissed of (as bad as Kanda).

Lavi moves back, immediately frightened. Stuttering he asks for help.

"Yuu? Moyashi-chan? Help! Please?!"

"Sure not!" is the answer he receives said in unison from the two exorcists.

Nezumi is angry. He had noticed the hurt look in Shion's eyes when he saw the red-head hugging him.

Meanwhile Shion himself has calmed down as he sees Nezumi pushing the other boy away. Now he has to stop the other from killing the troublemaker. He doesn't really want to help that idiot but killing someone of the Order who lets them stay for free would not be good. His rational mind has returned. And because neither Allen (out of hunger) nor Kanda (out of annoyance) make even the slightest move to help their friend (is he?) it remains on Shion to prevent the murder. He walks over to Nezumi, puts a hand on his shoulder and smiles at him.

"Nezumi! Calm down."

"Did you see what he did?"

"Obviously I did! But it seems he mistook you for someone. Kanda, I think."

Lavi nods fiercely but before he can open his mouth to say something he notices the glare the small boy sends him under his smile. 'Uh! Scary! Just like Allen. Smiling angel on the outside but with a demon inside. But what did I do to anger him that much? Wait, can it be that…' His analysing bookman-mind kicks in and he smirks but tries to hide it.

Meanwhile Nezumi continues:

"But you looked so hurt and…"

"Nezumi! Just shut it now, okay?" Shion hisses while trying to hide the blush that started to creep up his cheeks.

Nezumi growls and sends Lavi a last glare making the red-head shiver with fear. Shion sighs and pulls Nezumi towards Allen and Kanda. Lavi follows in appropriate distance.

The two other had just been standing there watching the scene with a mixture of amusement and annoyance (majorly Kanda). Now as the conversation is at an end Allen chuckles as he introduces the new arrival.

"Nezumi, Shion, this is Lavi, the successor of bookman. He is an exorcist like us and the troublemaker known all over HQ. He also has some kind of death wish since he just doesn't stop teasing Kanda. And I'm sorry for the trouble he caused you."

"Hey, no fair moyashi-chan!" Lavi cries from a distance.

But he is immediately silenced by the glare directed at him, sent by both ravens and Shion. Allen just starts to laugh ignoring for once his nickname all thoughts about food forgotten at least for the moment. This situation is simply too funny.

But that only lasts for one moment as his stomach growls loudly to make itself known. Allen blushes, Kanda rolls his eyes, Lavi chuckles and Nezumi and Shion look surprised.

"I-I'm sorry. Let's go to the cafeteria." He says shyly.


Thanks for reading.

I know this chapter is a bit shorter than the last ones, but I had to make a cut somewhere where it made sense.

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Thank you a lot to everyone who followed or favourited this story as well.

And special thanks to DeeRoseWalker for answering my question. The new chapter is great.

I hope I see you all at my next chapter (I look forward to that one).