Okay people, I know it's been positively ages since I've updated. But things happen... Anyway...

Chapter dedicated to: kenpachi-sama

Chapter 9 – throwing caution into the wind

"Hikaru... Kaoru... What are you doing?" The twins spun round fingers on their lips in a symbol to be quiet. Haruhi raised an eyebrow. The twins being quiet? The only explanation for that was that they were trying to hear something, in other words eavesdropping. Hikaru motioned for her to join them.

They were watching someone through the door which led to one of the smaller reading rooms and was open only slightly. There were only three occupants in the room, they were talking quietly. Two were sitting on the double sofa whilst the other was sitting in an armchair sideways with his legs dangling over one of the arms.

Haruhi looked at the twins. "Why are you spying on them?"

Kaoru looked her. "Listen" he whispered urgently. Haruhi gave him a sceptical look but dropped to her knees to peer through the crack better. The three fell silent straining to hear.

"What you doing?" The three jumped at a voice behind them. They turned to see the blue eyes of Tamaki curiously staring down at them. The twins beckoned him over all the while shushing him.

"What's going on?" Tamaki whispered. He didn't get an answer; instead Hikaru pointed to the room in front of them and went back to peering through the door. Tamaki looked at the three. Haruhi was on her knees, one of the twins above her and the other above him, all looking through the crack. Tamaki shrugged and peered into the room...

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"... you sure that it's related to Innocence?" Allen asked.

"Well what else would be. As far as I'm aware ghosts don't exist. The only things that are souls brought back from the dead are Akuma and we'd know if it was that because of Allen's eye" Lavi mused. Lavi was sitting rather comfortably in an arm chair with his arms folded and his legs draped over one side of the chair. Allen and Kanda, however, were sitting on one of the two-seater sofas. Kanda had his legs crossed and his arms draped over the back of the sofa, and conveniently enough behind Allen's head. The said white haired teen was sitting with his knees drawn to his chest leaning back into the sofa and ever so slightly into Kanda, who didn't seem to mind at all.

"Okay" said Kanda "So the ghost is somehow being held here by innocence but where is it?" he asked in a somewhat bored tone.

"Well she stays close to the third music room so it has to be somewhere near there right?" Allen noted.

"But we've searched the entire room. It's not in there!" Lavi whined.

"Well sometimes it's not what it seems for all we know the Innocence may have been there for years".

Lavi thought for a moment "Maybe she is the innocence..."

Kanda regarded him "I feel sorry for the exorcist who's compatible with her." At this Allen giggled quietly but then fell quiet.

"Well we have to find it before Tyki does" He said quietly. At the mention of Tyki Lavi stiffened slightly which didn't go unnoticed by Kanda who raised an eyebrow.

"He's not all bad" Lavi said fidgeting.

"Have you lost your mind?" Kanda asked with a slightly raised voice. "He's a Noah! A Killer"

Lavi dropped his gaze. An awkward silence enveloped the three as they lost themselves in there own thoughts. Allen fidgeted in his seat before resting his head slowly on to Kanda's shoulder. The Japanese teen raised an eyebrow at Allen but shrugged mentally and dropped one of his arms so that it was over Allen's shoulders holding Allen to him. Allen smiled a little wider at Kanda's actions and sighed contently.

Lavi watched the two but he had no desire to tease them for the moment. His thoughts went straight to Tyki. And the night of the Christmas Ball. It had only been few days since then and New Year was fast approaching. Just thinking about the Noah made his stomach flutter and cause his heartbeat to increase rapidly. "He's a Noah! A killer!" Of course Kanda was right but every time he was alone with Tyki he forgot that fact. It was so simple to forget that when in actual fact it should be the first thing on his mind. Lavi mentally sighed. He already knew that he was slipping as a bookman what with growing attached to the order, but now he was falling head over heels for someone? And not just anyone, a Noah!

But therein laid a problem. Lavi still didn't know if Tyki was genuine or whether he was just toying with him. And of course whenever Lavi thought of that panic would rise in him, proving just how attached he was getting to Tyki. What would his friends think of him if they knew what was going on?

Allen felt uncomfortable. It wasn't his position. Physically he was content leaning on Kanda, whose arm was around his shoulders. No he felt uncomfortable under Lavi's gaze. The red head seemed to be looking right through him and Kanda. Kanda noticed it too, though only because Lavi hadn't said a word about him and Allen and the fact he now had his arm draped over his shoulder. Slowly Kanda shifted so that he was leaning his cheek on top of Allen's head all the while watching Lavi. Ignoring Allen's confused look and his adorable blush, Kanda watched Lavi. He hadn't reacted at all. He was still simply just staring at them. Kanda smirked. Instead of just snapping Lavi out of his trance he decided to do something a little more amusing, regardless of the teasing that would come later on.

He turned his body, uncrossed his legs and brought the hand that wasn't around Allen's shoulders, round to cup Allen's face. "Kanda?" Allen whispered confused.

"Shhh..." Kanda whispered back and pressed his lips to Allen's. Almost instantly Allen stiffened by quickly relaxed and pressed back against Kanda, his eyes sliding shut. Kanda brought his arm down to circle Allen's waist, effectively forgetting why he was doing this in this in the first place. He pried open Allen's mouth with his tongue and slipped it into Allen's mouth. The white haired teen was blushing furiously and was unable to hold back a moan when Kanda's tongue slid over his own.

This seemed snap Lavi out of his trance. He suddenly was aware of what was going on in front of him. His eyes widened at the couple kissing on the sofa, before erupting into laughter. Allen's eyes shot open and the two separated. "BaKanda..." Allen muttered, his face bright red.

"You two can't keep your hands off each other can you?" Lavi said still laughing. Kanda folded his arms and sighed.

"Oi Baka Usagi!" Lavi pouted. "What the hell is going on? You've been spacing out a lot recently. One minute your normal idiotic self, the next you're all quiet and depressed. Are you going through some sort of split personality issue or something?" Kanda glared at Lavi, daring him to doge the question as knew he probably would. By now, Allen had calmed down and listened out for Lavi answer. Allen had been worried about how Lavi had been acting too, though perhaps he wouldn't have worded the question as Kanda had done.

"What?" Lavi said laughing, trying to wave the question off with his hand. "You're imagining things" He said putting his hand behind his head. "I'm just worried about finding the Innocence" He said with a nervous smile. Kanda's frown deepened.

"Quite fucking around Usagi!" Kanda all but yelled causing both Allen and Lavi jump. "I never trusted you, right from when we first met and I never hid it! You think I don't know the rules of being a bookman? No attachments, aliases... You're meant to record history without getting emotionally involved. That would mean everyone in the Order is nothing more than a mere acquaintance to you".

Lavi was quiet with shock. He looked from a hurt Allen to a somewhat furious Kanda. He was lost for words but tried anyway. "...I know what I mean to do but..."

Kanda sighed. "We know" he said somewhat irritated but quietly. "Well, I least I do, I'm not sure about the Moyashi". Allen pouted but said nothing. "There are times when you try to act like we mean nothing to you, especially when Bookman's around, but you're too much of a sentimental git to pull it off properly."

Lavi was stunned again and looked at Kanda with wide eyes, partly oblivious that he had been insulted. "So..." Kanda continued. "Tell us what the fuck is wrong or I just might loose any and all trust in you" he said getting quieter towards the end of the sentence. Allen's looked at Kanda slightly shocked at ho out of character his boyfriend was being but quickly shook it off.

"Lavi we're you're friends, we want to help you..." Allen said quietly. Lavi looked at each of them in turn before sighing and dropping his head.

"Guys... It's a personal matter... Just give me time to figure it out for myself, and then I tell you..."

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Tamaki drew back from the door in shock. Everything that he and Kyoya had suspected had been true. He stood up properly and stared at the door as if he was staring directly at the occupants within. All at once, Tamaki realized that the school and its students could be in serious danger and the thought made him feel slightly sick. He tapped the twins and Haruhi on the shoulder and motioned that they should leave. Hikaru started to protest but seeing the look in Tamaki's eyes decided not to argue. They left the twins somewhat reluctantly, trailing after an unusually quiet Tamaki.

It was Haruhi that spoke up first. "Sempai..? What's going on?" he asked quietly as they walked.

Tamaki just shook his head. "Not here, wait until we get to the third music room" he said looking straight ahead of him. Haruhi fell back to walk by the twins. She had never seen Tamaki look so serious before. Even when he was supposedly "Serious" there was the usual over acting and dramatics... but not now. Now he looked completely serious for once and a little scared. The twins looked at each other and then at Tamaki, also worried about their lord's strange behaviour but decided to lighten the mood.

"Hey d'you reckon Allen and Kanda are dating now?" Kaoru asked with a sly grin. Haruhi shrugged.

"Who would have thought it though?" She said with a small smile. "They're always fighting..."

"It was only a matter if time" Tamaki said shock them all. He seemed to have come out of his silent panic and had joined in the conversation. "It was obvious that they liked each other, especially Kanda. Did you never notice Kanda watching Allen whilst he had a client? He was jealous" he said with a smugly.

Haruhi shrugged. "I suppose so..." she said thinking back on it. "I guess I didn't take that much notice" she quietly but couldn't help but smile.

"Moyashi-chan was so cute when he blushed" Hikaru chimed. "Moyashi-chan" had somehow become Allen's nickname amongst the host club, much to the bearer's displeasure.

Both Tamaki and Kaoru nodded in agreement while Haruhi just smiled. "Well they both seem comfortable enough with each other" she said contently. "But I wonder what Lavi's hiding from them...?" she said slowly. She wanted to ask what a Bookman was but thought it was better to wait before asking that question, until they were in the third music room.

Hikaru thought for a moment. "I think it's something to do with Tyki. You remember at the Ball, Tyki was flirting with Lavi, who seemed to be flirting back?" there were collective nods "Well from what we just heard, Tyki and those three are enemies, and if you recall Lavi said "He's not all bad" and then Kanda got annoyed with him" He said with a small smile. Tamaki nodded.

"So Lavi gets along with Tyki even though he's not meant to" he said slowly as they came to the third music room. He opened the doors and found Kyoya, Mori and Hunny already there. He ignored the rest and went straight over to Kyoya and started whispering with him. The host club watched as Kyoya face showed rare emotion in the form of fear before he straighten out his features. This went on for a few minutes before Haruhi started to get annoyed.

"What the hell is going on?" she said after a while. "I know something's wrong and if your pale faces are anything to go by, it's serious."

"Yeah!" Hikaru and Kaoru said in unison. "Don't we have a right to know what's going on?"

"In our own school?"

"In our own club?" they said one after the other.

Mori, Hunny and Haruhi nodded in agreement causing Tamaki to sigh and Kyoya to push his glasses up the bridge of his nose. Tamaki came round and stood in front of the host club members leaning on a table. He looked around that the worried faces that greeted him and sighed before speaking. "We, Kyoya and myself, believe that the school and its students maybe be in grave danger. We believe that Allen Lavi and Kanda are Vatican employed, military fighters know as exorcists." He watched how the faces around the room changed as confusion set in.

Kyoya then took over. "It would seem there is a war going on all over the world that is hidden from our eyes and the eyes of all people across the globe. The fight is against with someone called the Millennium Earl who can create weapons called Akuma and is set on wiping out the human race" he looked around, everyone seemed to understand so far so he continued. "To combat the Millennium Earl, The Black Order was created. The Black Order is made up of, we believe, of Exorcists; who battle the Akuma and the earl. Finders; who help the exorcists anyway they can, with finding accommodation and such. And scientists; who make weapons and study Akuma. We thought for a while that Allen, Lavi and Kanda could be Exorcists after I did some research on the Black Order. I found very little because most of it was Military protected but I gathered more as I went along. From what you heard from Allen, Kanda and Lavi's conversation they are, in fact, Exorcists..."

The room was quietly. Each member of the host club deep in thinking. Haruhi for her part was sceptical. She didn't believe in demons, or Akuma, so she reckoned that they were just humans, despite Kyoya saying they were weapons.

Hikaru and Kaoru were having a silent conversation with their eyes, not sure what they believed.

Mori looked at Hunny and voiced a thought that was going through his head. "Why are they employed by the Vatican?" he asked, his deep voice bouncing around the room.

"I don't know" Kyoya said hesitantly. He didn't like not knowing things, it unnerved him. "My guess is that it has something to do with the weapons, Akuma and Innocence."

"What's Innocence?" Haruhi asked.

"We don't know that either" Tamaki said looking around the room. "All we know is that it is a substance that the exorcists make into weapons and it is the only thing that can destroy an Akuma" he said quietly, but loud enough that they could all hear. "We reckon they came here to find a piece of Innocence that is hidden somewhere here".

"So what's this got to do with Ty-chan or the ghost?" Hunny asked.

At the mention of Tyki both Tamaki and Kyoya stiffened and paled. "Tyki..." Tamaki said slowly. "We had an idea of what he had to do with the situation but hoped we were wrong, but listening to Allen and the rest talk, it seems we were right." He paused before continuing. "Tyki is something called a Noah. Now we don't know exactly what a Noah is, all we know is that they work hand in hand with the Millennium Earl and control the Akuma along with him. They're known to be killers with little to no remorse."

He watched the faces turn to that of worry and fear. "B-but Ty-chan doesn't act like a killer" Hunny said quietly.

Mori nodded in agreement. "If I had to suspect anyone it would be Kanda" Mori said looking at Tamaki.

Kyoya sighed. "Don't judge a book by its cover" Kyoya said quietly. "It's funny how well that applies to this situation."

The room went quiet again. Hikaru wrapped his arms around Kaoru's waist from behind and rested his head on his twins shoulder. "Okay then..." Hikaru said slowly.

"But what about the ghost?" Kaoru finished. Kyoya shook his head slowly.

"We don't understand that, nor do we have any clue what that has to do with anything going on with Allen, Kanda and Lavi." He said quietly.

"We heard them speaking of it having something to do with Innocence, but if that's meant to be a weapon, I don't see how that works..." Haruhi said after a moment to think.

Kyoya and Tamaki fell silent for a moment exchanging a glace before Tamaki spoke up. "Well... If you all agree we're going to wait until after the hosting session and then question them then" he said looking around. "You never know, we could have this whole thing wrong..."

"Well we need to know for sure, so I agree" Mori said decisively.

Haruhi was a bit reluctant but nodded all the same. "As do I" she said quietly.

"So do we" the twins said together. Kaoru interlocked his fingers with Hikaru's not liking the situation at all. His twin just squeezed his hands gently as a comforting gesture.

"Me too" Hunny said to round everything off. They all jumped, though perhaps less noticeably with Mori, when the school bell sounded for lunch.

"Okay then" Tamaki said composing himself. "It's all set then. Until the end of the hosting session please act like everything is the same" he said quietly. "And for now, let's go to lunch" he said with a sigh. Again there were collective nods and they filed out of the room slowly. The twins first with the fingers of one of their hands laced together. Then Hunny quickly followed by Mori and Haruhi. This left Tamaki and Kyoya. The two looked at each other grimly for a moment before Tamaki gave the other a small smile. Kyoya returned the smile, a rare thing to see on his face and Tamaki's grew a little wider. Kyoya closed his laptop with another sigh and Tamaki and Kyoya headed off to lunch together.

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Lavi sighed as he entered the third music room. Thank God there was no-one else in there... He had somehow got Allen and Kanda to back off about what was bothering him. He couldn't exactly tell them that he had fallen in love with Tyki now could he? He flopped down on one of the sofas quietly, made himself comfortable on his back, and closed his eyes. After a lot of persuasion, he had managed to get Allen and Kanda to drop whatever was bugging him. But what could he tell them? He couldn't exactly admit to them that he was in love with Tyki now could he? Allen maybe alright with it, but Kanda might just kill him.

He sighed again and thought over how he should break it to them, after all he couldn't keep it a secret forever... After a bit, Lavi had half fallen asleep on the all too comfortable sofa and didn't hear the door open. He felt the sofa dip a bit as someone sat next to him and Lavi opened his eyes slowly. His eyes were greeted with the image of a soft smiling Tyki.

"What are you doing here?" he asked the Noah quietly. Tyki didn't reply, just ran a hand through Lavi's hair. Lavi leaned into touch with a happy sigh.

"Do you not want me here?" Tyki asked with a small smirk knowing the other's answer. Lavi smiled and looked at Tyki softly, taking in his appearance and sat up slowly. Contently he looped his arms around Tyki's neck.

"Of course I do..." he said quietly.

"Where have you been all morning? I couldn't find you anywhere" Tyki said pulling Lavi into his lap and putting his arms around his waist. Lavi moved so he was straddling Tyki and sighed softly.

"I was with Allen and Kanda..."

"Obviously" Tyki interrupted with a sad sigh

Lavi sighed in frustration but continued. "They're getting a little suspicious... I don't know what to tell them..."

Tyki stayed silent. After a moment he leant forward and kissed Lavi's neck softly. Lavi on his part, squirmed a little. "Tell them the truth" the Noah murmured against Lavi's skin, causing the red-head to shudder slightly.

"But..."

"Shhh..." Tyki put his fingers to Lavi's lips. "they're your friends, they'll accept it, if not... I'm always going to disappear after this whole thing is over, so calm down..." Lavi all of a sudden went rigid.

"You're going to do what? Wha... I don't want you to disappear. What do you mean?"

Tyki looked at Lavi sadly. "Well, when you go back to the order, I can't very much come with you, can I?" he said softly. Lavi went quiet.

"No..." he murmured. His eyes sought Tyki's with a small amount of desperation in them. "I don't want you disappear" he said quietly. Tyki smirked. "I love you" he said quietly.

Tyki was, for the most part, stunned. "You what..." Lavi blushed hard and looked to the side.

"I love you" he murmured, Tyki smirk came back.

"I didn't quiet catch that" he teased. Lavi's blush darkened but he pouted and gave Tyki's arm a light slap.

"You heard me the fist time" he said with a pout.

"I know, but I want to hear you say it again" Tyki told the redhead.

"Well you're going to have to wait" Lavi smirked. He leant forward and kissed Tyki softly. The Noah, however, had other ideas. He slipped his hand under Lavi's top and kissed Lavi back forcefully, pushing his tongue into the other's mouth. Lavi smirked behind the kiss and tilted his head to the side to deepen the kiss. Tyki eagerly sucked on Lavi's tongue and moved a hand up to play with one of Lavi's nipples. Lavi moaned rather loudly, his body arching into the touch and lost his fingers in Tyki's hair. He Noah was briefly distracted by a noise but brushed it off as nothing. He sucked Lavi's bottom lip into his mouth. Lavi giggled slightly and kissed Tyki again.

"What the fuck..." Lavi broke away from Tyki. Both of their gazes went to the door and Lavi felt his stomach drop. In the doorway stood the entire host club, headed off by a rather pissed and shocked Kanda.

"Shit..." Get yourself out of this one Lavi...

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Okay that's it for now, Sorry it took me so long to write this there have been a load of complications with my internet...

Okay big problem... on the summary it says Tamaki/Haruhi but since I started writing this I've turned into a Tamaki/Kyoya fan so me and my sis have been fighting over the coupling in this story

So here's the question:

A) Tamaki/Kyoya or B)Tamaki/Haruhi

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