Mega sorry. I know it's been like forever but I had a tough time at home and I wasn't able to type.

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10. The Insanity Inside Us

Written by LexieDragomire

Lavi's heartbeat reached the point of almost stopping when he saw Road standing on that balcony in front of them. He got used to her showing around in his dreams but her face… It never seemed so cold and dark. The Noah she truly was.

"What's the matter?" he managed to ask.

"You need to leave. Allen's gone mad and his coming here to rip your little heart from the chest," she informed them like they were talking about weather.

Lenalee's eyes went wide and now it was her heart that must skip a bet. It took her a little while to open her mouth. "W-why?"

"It's complicated… plus all you really need to know is that Allen is not his charming self anymore and the new 'Allen' wants to kill you."

Lenalee blinked still confused from the suddenness of the situation. Just a while ago she was worried if he will understand why she left and now she was scared that he could kill her. How could this happen?

"Road, I don't get it, what are you talking about?" asked Lavi who saw how out of herself Lenalee was from the news but who was to blame, everyone would reacted that way.

Road made an annoyed grimace. "What is here not to understand?" she snapped. "Allen is possessed and out of his mind and he wants to come and kill Lenalee. Are you still not getting it, carrot?"

Lavi stared at her a bit touched as she turned around. "Well… that's all what I wanted so…"

"Wait!" Lavi wanted to say but Lenalee was faster and more determinate. "So pardon me but since I'm the person that your brother who was I like a week ago talking to in my room wants to kill me all of the sudden. I think I should know a bit more!"

Road turned around. "Are you always this annoying?"

Lavi frowned and Lenalee stepped closer. "When someone is trying to kill me? Yes, yes I am, so start talking Road…"

"As I already said Allen is… possessed and the thing in him wants or rather said needs your death. So go get your Finders and get the hell out of here…anywhere and the sooner the better," she said and went to the room.

Lavi and Lenalee looked at each other and ran after her but she was already gone.

Tyki's head hurt. Hell and how much it hurt!

He opened his eyes meeting a white wall. 'Oh! How I hate hospitals,' was the first thought that crossed his mind. He turned away from the wall to see that on the other side was an ordinary looking room for some nun but more important was a chair and a orange-haired woman sitting on it.

She looked at him and opened her mouth in surprise but before she had time to say something he sat up and took her arm. By a reflex she closed her eyes and when she opened them she was laying under him.

If he hadn't had his hand on her mouth she would for sure scream since his skin color change into gray.

Time went on and they both a bit calmed down. Well Tyki continued being surprised but calm unlike Hanna Hamilton whose heart was running a marathon being in the position she right now was.

Tyki blinked and took a deep breath as the pain of his wounds hit him.

"Hello Hanna, lovely to see you again…," he took another breath which didn't escape her careful eyes. "I will put my hand away and let you go but you won't scream, okay?"

She nodded and he immediately let her go and moved so she could literally jump back to her chair.

She let out a breath of relief and gave him a nervous look. "Please, don't do that again."

"I won't… I'm sorry if I scared you," he said and lied back to bed.

She shook her head and gave him a sweet smile. "You didn't. Eh, can you change your skin color back to normal?"

He blinked and a bit ashamed looked away doing so. "I'm sorry."

She also looked away still smiling. "It's okay; I don't mind just that Sister Marry Margaret might get shocked."

He looked at her. "What happened? How did I get her and what are you doing here?"

Hanna's smile faded and a shadow of sorrow appeared on her face. "Six… six days ago my parents…they been killed by some monsters."

Lenalee and the others quickly packed and took the soonest train back to the Black Order.

They remained in silence until one of the Finders couldn't take it anymore and quietly asked.

"I'm sorry Miss Lenalee but did we have to leave so soon without finishing the mission?"

Lavi looked at quiet and spaced out Lenalee who was looking through the window somewhere she could find peace. She didn't look like she gives a damn about what was going on around here and Lavi didn't blame her. It wasn't funny when the person you like maybe love is planning to kill you.

He was about say something since the Finder still stood confusedly about Lenalee's behavior in front of them when Bookman broke in.

"Gentlemen, I know this isn't an ordinary situation but there had appeared a few new circumstances that can't be left unseen anymore."

The Finder slowly nodded and went back to his sit not asking about it again.

Lavi looked at Bookman and thankfully nodded.

Bookman sighed a bit and gave Lavi a small half lipped smiled. Bookman didn't smile often. Lavi could count the times he seen him smiling on his both hands so when Bookman did smile he really meant it.

A few hours ago

Lavi came in a rush into his and Bookman's room closing the door.

"I…I need to talk with you," started the young man carefully but determinate.

"What is it, Lavi?" asked the old man sitting on a small chair reading some book.

Lavi swallowed wondering if the old man will kill him after he will tell him the true but he already decided to do it anyway.

"Short version. I had or…still have I'm not sure right now a secret relationship with a member of the Noah's family not with Lenalee as you apparently thought so…and Lenalee has one with another member. Unfortunately, her member got possessed and is planning to kill her while mine turned her back on us. Since Lenalee is in live danger I say we go back to the Headquarters and protect her with all we got or find a way to stop the Noah," said Lavi talking as fast as he could hoping Bookman wouldn't pay attention to what he had said.

Bookman stared at him for a moment which appeared to Lavi like forever before he spoke. "Was the Noah Road Camelot?"

Lavi opened his mouth in shock but then he closed it and gave him a seriously cold look of a Bookman. "What do you know?"he asked.

Bookman shook his head. "Remember when you were young, what was the first thing I taught you?"

"The history of Bookmen."

"Good, named each Bookmen."

"Bookmen haven't got names."

"Name their apprentice names."

"Why?"

"Just do it."

"Simeon, Uriel , Lavi…"

"You know that there aren't many records left from the first seven Bookmen. Some of the Bookmen thought that it was because of the war that must have stared in those day so that it was impossible to keep something like that safe while the others believe that there were records which must have been destroyed by someone who didn't want the future generations to find them," he stood up and gone to his back. He took out one of his book and tore the cover apart.

Lavi was about to ask him what he was going when Bookman showed him an old looking piece of compound paper.

"This is one of the oldest historical reports we have. It was written by Lavi more than two centuries ago. It's a hereditary given from one Bookman to another. I thought that I would give it to you the first day of your new Bookman life but I find this day a better one."

He reached his hand with the paper toward him and Lavi silently took it, opened it and looked at the words. He knew the language, Bookman taught him years ago.

He opened his mouth and read the first line with a small bump in his throat. "To my love Road Camelot."

Present

The letter was a long confession of love of the third Bookman mixed with a sorrow that he felt about the fact that he had to leave Road to get a hold of his Bookman duties. He didn't really care what was there although the few things about rising from death or Noahs being 'the protectors' were quite interesting. For him the most important was the fact that Road had a relationship with a Bookman called Lavi before him. It was selfish and a bit childish to worry about something like this now when their problems are far more beyond simple love problems but still. He had this terrible feeling sort of a kick in the stomach that he was tricked by Road Camelot and that he's just some compensate for her true death loved.

He doubled his fists. It already happened to him only and it sucked the same...

Lenalee suddenly fling at Lavi and covered him with herself as the window glass shattered and little pieces of the glass covered their bodies.

Tyki shocked by the news blinked a few times before carefully reached his hand toward her and was glad when she looking gratefully accepted it.

"What happened?"

She sighed. "Well, after the party we came home my parents weren't very happy when they found out that their young single daughter was in a kitchen alone with a womanizer. We argued for hours and suddenly… the door bell rang and our house maid Amanda went to open. We heard a scream and before we had time to react something kicked the door and… killed them fast. I think I screamed and it turned its attention to me and took me by the neck," she was saying tremblingly.

Tyki squeezed her hand thinking about how he would kill the thing that caused her fear and killed her love one's.

She licked her lower lip. "I thought it's going to kill me because I messed into your life…"

"What?"

"I will suffer for a while….," she cut herself.

"What did it do?" he asked angrily.

She shook her head. "I don't want to…anyway that's went the exorcist appeared and killed it...I was taking care of the things in house the next day when you suddenly appeared all hurt and covered in blood. You just appeared like a ghost… the exorcist said that you're a Noah but that you ran off. My step-sister is a nun so I decided to bring you here. We couldn't stay in our house the exorcist warned me that you father might send someone looking for you."

"So you knew about Akumas, Noahs and exorcists and everything the whole time?" asked Tyki.

"The exorcist is my uncle from the time me and my brothers were young he used to tell us stories about Akumas and exorcist but he's a drunker. We thought it's just some fairytale."

"I see," he looked at their hands. "I know it's a stupid question but how do you feel?"

"Terrible… I'm confused and mad… Every morning I wake up and it takes me a while to realize that my mother won't open the door and yell at me to get out of bed or that I won't argue about political matters with my father during the breakfast. It just sucks," she wipe out a tear that escape her eye.

He nodded. "You never know what you have until you lose it."

"True."

"Do you know how did I appear as you say in your house?"

She shook her head. "No but uncle said you must have used the Arc which means that some 14th took control of some Walker."

Tyki's eyes widened in horror. "How does your uncle knows about this stuff?"

"Why? Is it a secret?"

"Yeah, top one, so?"

"I don't know all I know is that he told me that if I really believe you and want to keep you alive I should tell you not to worry that he will take care of Allen."

He looked at his hands and doubled her fists. "I… I'm sorry. It's…all of it is my fault!" and he meant it. She looked away.

"Where have you been, Road?" asked her Sheril as she came through the main entrance into their mansion.

"Out!" she snapped coldly and continued walking.

He frowned and slowly walked down the stairs to face her. "Don't you want to be a bit more concrete?"

"No thanks," she said playing innocent and passed him taking steps by one calmly as always but wanting nothing more than to get away from him. He might be her 'adoptive father' in their little game as ordinary aristocracy family but that's it. In reality he was on the bottom of her family Noah list.

"Don't try my temper, Road. You already have a big problem."

She turned around and gave him a scary look of a monster from the top stair. "Do I?"

It was more than sure that if he would say one wrong word they would jump each other into hair like animals.

"Now-now children let's act like good siblings and maybe you will get some extra candy as desert," said the Earl who quietly without them to notice appeared. It wasn't a surprised to them. It was typical for him to come without anyone to notice. It was his specialty.

Road showed Sheril her tongue and smiled at the Earl. "He's the one who started it."

"I just wanted to know where she had been," said Sheril who looked back on Road, "and she refused to tell me."

The Earl shook his head. "Road, your brother was just concerned about you. Will you tell him and me where have you been?"

Road face changed to serious. She wondered if she should tell them. If it's a trap but then again they got Allen and Tyki and her as well what wasn't a trap these days?

"I was with Lavi…"

"You little…"

"That's enough, Sheril!" the Earl cut him off.

Sheril took a deep breath and looked away. "You always were like this. Her and the 14th. Over and over again, you even saved her little Bookman just so she would stay with us when the Menachem killed him because that jerk didn't want to tell him our little secret and she's doing it again. Only this time it's a different one," he turned to her again. "Isn't it? The first one was all about his work," he took a step closer to Road. "If you weren't one of us and he wasn't collecting the history he would even notice you but this one. Yeah, this one is quite a funny one…," his face twisted form hurt and he put his hands on his stomach.

Road watched him with a cold expression.

"Road," addressed her Earl.

She didn't even move she just continued to stare at Sheril as he was in pain.

"Road, please."

A line of blood escaped Sheril's mouth.

"Come on Road," said another voice from the end of the hall which brought everyone back to reality. Road stopped with the pressure on Sheril and looked at the person.

He smiled.

"14th," addressed him Earl with a pleased smile.

"How do you feel?" he asked and hurried to him.

"Good," said the 14th.

Rod silently watched them. The person was in the body of Allen Walker. He had Allen Walker's smell and Allen Walker's voice. But he wasn't Allen Walker. Allen Walker acted coldhearted and disinterest because that was the only way to exist in a family like theirs but under the perfect mask that fooled everyone except her and Tyki he wasn't like that at all.

Allen Walker was a good person. He lived with Noahs, he had one inside of him but he wasn't a one. Allen Walker was a human.

He was kind and generous, probably the most graceful person she knew. He could kill people but he didn't. He could take away innocence and destroyed it but he didn't. He could be like a Noah but he wasn't. Not because he was a coward as the others Noahs thought or he was too weak. He just was a good person to the bone and he would always stay that way.

People like Lenalee or Lavi could say he's bad but it took Allen a moment and they knew he was good. They know he wouldn't do them anything bad. They know who he really was. That was the way Allen affected people when they saw him or were with them.

But this wasn't Allen. Road stood in front of the person who was cruel, sadistic and bad. He killed. He enjoyed it. He was a real Noah. He was her Noah brother 14th who was planning to kill the one person Allen has loved.

Road frowned cause the only question that ran over and over her head was. 'Should I stop him or help him?'

Lavi's eyes carefully opened to see that scene in front of him.

Lenalee who was turned to him with her back thirty meters in front of him, had just strongly kicked an Akuma and destroyed it.

He blinked. 'That's a nice change. Usually people died in my ordinary dreams about fights.'

Lenalee a bit satisfied turned around. She looked at Lavi and shook her head. "Typical. You wake up to come to action when it's all done."

Lavi's eyes winded as he understood that this wasn't a dream.

He stood up and looked around. They were outside near the train that stood on the tracks. The train looked okay except for the damaged windows.

Lavi scratched his head. "Were we attacked?"

Lenalee nodded. "Yeah, but just a few Akumas nothing serious." Nothing serious like a Noah for that matter.

She looked to the left. "Guys," she waved on the Bookman and two Finders who came from the woods. "Everyone okay?"

"Yes, we're fine, Miss Lenalee."

"That's good. We should go… but not to the Order."

"Lenalee?" addressed her Lavi confused.

"If Allen, is really going after me I'm sure as hell not letting him into my Order."

"But what are you planning to do?" asked Lavi.

Lenalee gave him one of her special smiles. The smile that told everybody that if she really wanted she could be trouble.

'Allen' looked at Road. "How about a word sister?" he asked her when he ended the conversation with the Earl.

Road silently nodded and followed him away from the others to the living room.

"Why won't we talk?" he asked and smilingly turned to face her.

'Nope, definitely not Allen,' had crossed Road's mind as she saw his eyes.

She crossed her arms looking more than annoyed. "Make it quick. You may remember that I easily get bored to tears."

He smirked. "So Lavi must have been really amusing."

She turned around. "Conversation over before it even started. Nice one 14th."

"Why not Allen?" she stopped and pressed her lips into an upset looking line.

"Simple because you're not Allen Walker."

"Well," he walked to her facing her back, "maybe not the old Allen."

He leaned to the level of her ear. "But… a new one," he whispered seductively and threw her a dark smirk as she turned around to look at him.

Road frowned which caused Allen to laughed. "Finally you look like a demon you really are."

"Listen, 14th what do you want? I'm pretty positive that you have a little arrangement to accomplish with the apple of Allen's eye. Or am I wrong?"

"You're right little sister but the thing is I want to know a bit more about this little…apple."

Road raised her brows still angry. "What haven't you learn enough from peeking in the corner of Allen's eyes? Face it 14th, you're nothing but a voyeur."

He laughed and gave her another looking checking her from the bottom to top. "Ah, Road I really missed the attitude of yours."

She watched him pissed off thinking about why is he so annoying before she smiled in the knowledge of what she understood.

"You know 14ththere is no way in hell that you will ever replace Allen," she said pleased when she saw how his eyes froze as cold ice.

Her smile grew. "That's what you hope for. Don't you Noah."

"We're both Noahs."

She shook her head. "But I still know how to control my emotions."

He leaned to her. "Yeah, I heard about that when you were with your Bookman…"

"Say whatever will please you, the hell I care because your nothing but a silly curse with memories of your hosts without that you're nothing. No you're less than noth…," he cut her off as he took her by the neck with a dark look in the Noah form.

Her eyes winded in shock. She knew she was pushing it a bit more than she should but she didn't expect him to get aggressive that fast. But just then she noticed something. Allen almost always worn his gloves but the 14th didn't.

"I'm the best of you suckers. Emotions? You think that's a jackpot? You, Tyki, Skin. You're pathetic with your care over the ones you called family, friends and lovers. We're Noahs, demons. We ourselves are the only family we need. The only we have."

Road took his hands in a strong grip a lot more stronger than any real fourteen year old would and pulling it away from her neck she let herself free and thrust him away frowning and considering if she shouldn't attack him. If it was anyone else there was no doubt she would but this was Allen or at least his body with Allen somewhere still inside. She felt him when the 14th touched her skin. He was still inside locked and helpless but he was there for sure. She wasn't paying much attention to what he was saying until…

'Allen' smiled and took a step backwards. "You should know better than anyone of us how people are cruel and unworthy of anything other than disgust. Weren't people the one's that almost killed Lavi so the Earl had to save him?"

He chuckled. "Funny, come to think of it, maybe you would even sell your little soul back then to the previous Earl to get him back if he hadn't died."

Road stopped frowning and thinking about the real Allen for a moment. "What do you mean previous Earl?"

The 14th's smile fainted as he realized she hadn't known. "You don't know. That's strange…"

"What previous Earl?" asked Road pressing.

"Well, dummy the one that was before this one of course…"

"I think that that's too much information for now," interrupted him the Earl as he entered the room with a bit worried look.

"I'm sure Road will remembered it sooner or later but right now we have a more important things to do," he turned to 'Allen'. "I believe it's time to pay Lenalee Lee a visit, 14th?"

Road looked at him and almost shivered see the dark and malicious expression on his face.

"Yes, I was thinking the same thing."

Estelle Bennett had just plaited her little purple butterflies into her hair when she suddenly felt a really worried butterfly coming back from the check up of the town.

She blinked before she understood and sighed.

"Prepare lunch and vine," she said to her little friends. "Looks like we have company," she chuckled.

"Long time no see."

"So don't mind me asking. What are you doing here Kanda?" asked Bookman the hostile most of the time samurai who met up with them on a train station on their way to Germany.

Lavi sitting opposite to Lenalee on a small bench waiting for their train watched her worried face. He couldn't even imagine what she was going true but so was he Allen wanted to kill her and Road was cold toward him. What could possibly happen?

He chuckled. Bookman once told him that the only person who had the least chance in living a family apple-pie life are exorcists.

Well, Allen Walker was planning to kill Lenalee so that fits.

"I left the Order a little after you. Someone asked me to keep an eye on Lenalee," he answered formal and emotionless as usual.

Bookman nodded. "Chief Komui," he mumbled loud enough for everyone to hear him.

Kanda didn't confirm it. But since he was Kanda they didn't need one. Usually he his silence was an unnecessary agree but this time it was a necessary lie so that Lenalee wasn't worried more than she already was.

He peeked at her with the corner of his eyes. What would she do if she would find out that the person who sent him was doctor Marty? Or worst what would she do if she would find out that her brother was in the infirmary now as they speak?

No he won't tell her at least not until they will solve the Noah problem. Then they will work on Komui.

Doctor Katie Marty silently took walked from the elevator into the infirmary floor.

"Doctor Marty," called her the head nurse. Although they weren't very close as friends Katie admired the woman more than any other doctor she ever met for her knowledge and kindness.

She gave her a sad smile. "How is he?"

The nurse sighed. "Not well, we had to give him the sedatives again because he was being aggressive and tried to bite me while I was feeding him. I think it even got worst."

Katie nodded and walked to the last room on the hall.

She opened the door.

"Well well well, isn't it our pretty little doctor?" asked a creepy voice of the Chief of the Black Order Komui Lee.

Dressed up in hospital clothes he was lying in an ordinary looking bed but unlike other patients he was tied into his.

"Hello doctor, how are you? How is Mary doing? Did she enjoy today's class?" he asked sweetly. It wasn't Komui's usual sweetly talk it was a different one, a scarier one that brought shiver through her back.

She almost fearfully swallowed but managed to hold herself back.

She walked to him to showing him that she's not afraid and sat down on a chair next to him.

"Listen you dog, I don't care if those Vatican specialists say that Komui have gone mad by himself. I know that you're not Komui Lee, understand? We all know that! We don't know if you're some demon or a Noah or just some weardo who looks like him but I know that you're not him! And believe me when I say that I'll find him no matter what and then we will nice a slow tear your skin into rags."

Komui smirked. "Well doctor, you got quite courage to say something like that to a…demon but I like the tearing thing. Maybe you and I could work up something together."

"Die," she replayed calmly.

He laughed. "Oh doctor, I just don't know what you are talking about. It's me Komui, I just," he shook his head, "always felt stuck. I had to be nice and good and I don't know what to the people I didn't like just so I would come here and protect Lenalee. And what did that stupid girl do? She killed Rouvelier. What a stupidity, ha? And you know what? This is the real me, I been always like this."

He grinned and gave her a predatory look from the top to the bottom which scared her more than his crazy madman talk.

"And what I did to you?"

She pressed her lips into a line.

"I wanted to do it from the time I met you. What's sexier than a girl with so long leg and who can stitch you up?" he asked sweetly.

"Get over it, doctor. I know you hope that I'm someone else. That he's somewhere locked up. How many times have you searched the Order? I know the answer to every question you gave me. Answers that only I could know, remember? Like the little calming ritual I advised you the night we met. Face it Katie, it's just me, Komui Lee," he said with his calm expression that and with an ordinary pitch that he look like Komui more than ever.

She took a deep breath. She would have believed it days ago. She would have believed it the moment he had attacked. He would tell her he's Komui Lee and she would have bought it. But only if her husband wasn't dead.

"You know," she started looking at her hands resting on her knees. "I once saw insanity. I saw how it came and grew days after a day. It was a long and painfully road until the suicide dead. And that's it. It took a long time. Komui Lee couldn't have gotten insane in such a short time," her voice dropped a bit because what she was about the say was crazy and fearful itself. "Even if you are in Komui's body," he's eyes widened a bit which gave her a courage to continued.

"Even if you are in his body and know every detail of his life, you're not him. You're a parasite. I don't know what are you up to but I promise that I will do everything I can to get Komui Lee, the real one, back!"

He frowned and tried reaching her but the leather strap on his hands stopped him. "Watch it, little doctor," he said between his teeth. Boy, was he pissed.

"No," she stood up and walked away. "You watched it."

'Thank you Katie. Thank you for believing in me,' thought Komui with a small hope that he will be saved from his prison.

Two days later…

"Well aren't you pretty?" asked 'Allen' holding Lenalee's neck. "Allen really knew how to pick a girl."

She looked behind him with the corner of her eyes and almost cried in relief that she notice the portal. This was her change. It might not work but still she had to do it.

She took her deep breath just as much as 'Allen's' hand on her neck allowed her and activated her boots with her mind. Before the Noah had time to know what is going on Lenalee took his shoulders and they both together flow through the entrance of the portal where they crashed into one of the building.

DDDDDDDDDD

…a little girl walked to a terrified boy who was hugging his knees sitting on the dirty and cold ground…

…the girl was tired and hurt but she still managed to get to the boy. She looked at him and put her all initiative to create a warm smile on her face…

DDDDDDDDD

Luckily, it was a small crash and Lenalee was left without a scratch.

Knelling in front of Allen who was sitting with his back pressed into the wall they crashed into she took put her hands on his cheeks and for the first time in many years prayed.

'God please…'

DDDDDDDDDDDDDD

…"Please," said the little girl and reached out a hand. "Will you help me save my world?" she asked…

DDDDDDDDD

"Allen?!" she called his name holding his cheeks hoping that he will finally wake up. "Please?"

He suddenly opened his mouth and coughed. "Lena…"

She wanted to cry from joy. "Allen, you're back."

"Au!" he put her hands away from his face. "Did you kick me? My head feels like I hit a train…Oh my God!" he tried to stood up but sat back down when since his head felt still so dizzy.

"Are you hurt? The 14th he's out of control and…"

"Shush, that's okay. I'm fine you didn't hurt me… you didn't hurt anyone," she said slowly releasing each word out of her mouth. She knew that was the only real thing that was important to him right now.

He sighed a few times and nodded. "That's good."

Allen closed his eyes. "Lenalee… I almost killed you."

"But you didn't," she said desperately and took her arms around his neck.

"But you could have…," and with he started crying in sorrow and relief in once.

DDDDDDDDD

Lavi and Kanda confusedly looked at each other. Well Lavi looked confusedly Kanda just frowned as usual.

"So what do we do?" asked Lavi.

"Well, stay here and watched the damn portal, what do you think?" snapped Kanda and ran toward the blue entrance.

Lavi frowned.

"What do you think? Why do you even ask when you don't wait for the answer?" he asked out loud and followed him into the fairy's wonderland.

"It's okay," mumbled Lenalee into Allen's ear softly feeling the gratefulness of being with him alive. She never was so happy in her life she was sitting on a cold ground with a boy holding her so tight she almost couldn't breathe and with tears of happiness one by one falling down her face.

"No…," started Allen as he had calmed down a bit. "Lenalee I-think… I think I killed Road…," he said and painfully bite his lower lip.

Lenalee's eyes widened but she didn't let him go; knowing it would touch him as a betrayal. "What? What do you mean?"

Flashback

He had seen it by his eyes he saw everything and yet couldn't do a single thing about it. He felt terribly powerless to stop the monster that took control of his body to hurt his beloved sister.

He gave Road a cold look. "If that's what you choose then let it be, Road."

He admired her for not backing down. Instead she brought her chin up looking determinate than ever.

"It is what I want to do and yes…"

"Fine by me," he whispered and thrust his hand into her stomach in the blink of the eyes.

She didn't scream although no one would blame her if she would have. The pain was impossible but she managed to hold every cry inside letting out a simple sorrowed sighed.

She looked up to meet his delighted eyes. "A-allen," she started softly which confused him.

"It's n-not your f-fau-lt, little brother," she whispered while there was blood coming out of her mouth.

He chuckled. "Oh, now I get it, you're talking to Allen. Oh Road, sorry but Allen a bit unconscious."

She looked at him pressed her lips into a smirk that froze him. It was her special smirk. The smirk she worn when she managed to caught someone in one of her jokes.

"Roa-," his voice was cut when he suddenly felt a something crawling underneath his skin. He looked his hand that was still in Road's stomach. His eyes widened as two plates when he saw the scary lines that slowly moved through his hand into the rest of the body.

"R-road, what the hell?"

"Surprise 14th I'm taking you with me," she laughed.

End of flashback

Kanda and Lavi quietly watched Allen and Lenalee as they were still on the ground in an embrace.

Kanda turned around to give them some privacy. "You knew about this?"

Lavi also turned around and looked at him. "A while."

"And you didn't tell me because."

"Jeez Kanda, sorry I totally forgot about your best-friends-in-the-world-thing and the fact that we tell each other everything."

"Well usually, you tell me a whole bunch of crap so I got surprised..."

"Jesus cries! Kanda Yuu surprised? I'm shocked," said Lavi with shocked grimace on his face.

"Stop it Baka-Usagi!"

"Fine!"

"Well well well," said a child's voice behind Lavi's back.

Lavi swallowed hard. "Please, let it not be a ghost of a little girl."

"She's green," said Kanda disinterest but with a frown.

Lavi turned around to find Estelle the one of the strongest exorcist in the world walking to them.

Lenalee let Allen go and they both looked at Estelle. The little girl crossed her arms and raised her brows. "Didn't I tell you to that I if I even see an exorcist or a Noah near my portal I will kill him?"

Lavi and Kanda looked at Lenalee and Allen wondering (at least Lavi) what's going on and if the girl will fulfill her warning.

Lenalee blinked and gave Allen glance before turning back to Estelle. "We know but we're desperate."

Estelle watched them for a moment before she let her arms fell back to her body. "Well looks like your visit is going to be useful after all, right Cross?" she asked and turned around which was for the first time the others noticed the figure standing behind her.

"Well," started a tall red haired man with a mask on one side of his face. "Hey there sucker, looks like the Order has a few new runaways." He laughed.

"Just like the old times, right Essie?" he asked the little girl who just rolled her eyes.

He looked back at the young teens with, "Vacation sure is over, guys."

To be continue of course…