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Allen growled as he carried a large box of books, papers and stationary. It had been like this all week because it was his punishment for giving out classified information to his supposed comrades.

It was absolutely ridiculous but he couldn't complain about the work. It was more to do with the person who was dishing out the punishment randomly and that was none other than Marian Cross.

Just the other morning, Tim had woken him up to do 100 laps around the oval. The worse part was that it was still 3 in the morning and for Allen, he wasn't particularly a morning person. It had been dark and there weren't any lights on so Allen had lost count at how many times he hit or tripped over the benches that lay near the tracks.

This was beyond torture!

But right now he was carrying the box to the music room because Cross had been too lazy to go retrieve the darn thing in the first place.

As soon as Allen reached the door, he balanced the box with one hand and opened the door with the other and entered the room.

'Took you long enough idiot, now put that stuff away on the shelves,' Cross was in the room, leaning against the windowsill but didn't seem to be gazing at anything in particular. Allen wasn't even sure if he was looking at anything at all but Allen just growled and walked towards the shelves.

'Yeah, yeah…' Allen deliberately dropped the box at his feet sending stuff sprawling across the floor.

'Oi, watch it!'

'Then carry your own stuff!' Allen retorted back before kneeling down and picking through the paper and books that spilt from the box.

Cross just frowned and glanced away knowing that he wasn't going to hear anything else from Allen.

Allen in turn, did his best to ignore the bastard standing by the window and continued to sort through the paper, which he realized were music, scores and loose notes on theology.

He spotted a file under the piano in the room and reached for it and pulled it towards him. As he did this, something slipped from the paper covers and landed at his feet. It had been a photograph of two people.

One of them looked like a much younger Cross and a young woman with dark hair clutching his arm in a playful manner. Both were facing the camera, though Cross looked like he was about to murder whoever was holding the camera.

But before Allen could get a closer look of the woman, the photo was snatched from his hand.

'Back to work, brat,' Cross was standing over him as the man tucked the photo into the inside pocket of his coat.

'Was she a girlfriend of yours?' Allen couldn't help but ask curiously but Cross eyed him dangerously.

'Don't go looking into people's business, now clean this mess because Komui will be seeing you in his office,' Allen grizzled as Cross walked out of the room and slammed the door behind him.

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Allen finished up quickly and went to Komui's office where he saw Kanda sitting on the couch with a rather irritated expression. Komui was as usual behind his desk and eyed Allen carefully as the boy entered the room.

'I'm glad Cross passed the message onto you and I'd hope you learned from this,' Allen rolled his eyes and just stood behind the couch not wanting to sit beside the jerk.

'What do you want now?' Allen muttered as he stared back at Komui. The man simply shook his head and ignored the question.

'I think you've had enough punishment enough so I'll send you on a night patrol around the local town,' the Supervisor spoke while Allen held back a harsh retort, which included the airhead seated in front of him. It might serve as an excuse to lengthen his punishment that Allen didn't want happening.

Besides that, it might be fun to some extent.

'Of course the chances of running into an akuma is basically impossible but still, be careful,' Komui chirped happily but Allen just looked at Kanda. He still couldn't believe he had to spend the whole entire time with the longhaired she-man!

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They walked out the gate in silence; Allen got the feeling that the longhaired boy hated the situation as much as he did. But even so, it would mean force cooperation with the guy could be risky.

'This is where we split up,' Allen paused and glanced back at Kanda before he sniggered.

'Defying Komui already, Bakanda,' Allen saw the boy's eye twitch before a deadly glare was sent his way.

'If I have to spend one more minute in you presence, I'll go insane!' Kanda snapped before storming off in the opposite direction. Allen puffed with annoyance; he was going to say the exact same thing to him!

But as long as he didn't see the jerk until the time they were expected back, it'll be a blessing. Allen turned on his foot and walked off through the simple layout of streets. He could vaguely remember it as the one that Reever and Toma had led him down when he first arrived here.

Though at this time, the sun was beginning to set and according to Komui it was about the time that akuma would show. Even so, Allen still didn't see a point in this patrolling other then an utter waste of his time.

Honestly, he could think of other things much better to do… if Amber had been there…

Allen glanced away from a group of teenagers his age having fun. It wasn't because he was jealous but more to the point that they were staring at him. Stupid bloody uniform having to stand out more than he personally wanted to.

He continued to ignore them and moved on to the next junction ahead.

'Come on girls, we need to hurry back to the motel,' Allen paused mid step and swiveled around to see another group of teenagers. But unlike the last lot, they were all girls around his age and wearing a foreign uniform. A middle-aged woman led the group wearing a well-pressed suit and hair caught up in a rather tight bun.

Allen rolled his eyes only because he hadn't a clue why another school was in the area. Wasn't it just Our Sacred Heart Academy? Besides that, there still wasn't anything that was immediately dangerous in the area so he decided to head back the way he came.

Then he froze when he noticed on of the girls looking straight at him. Her dark eyes danced in the fading light while a mischievous grin threatened to split her face. Allen frowned at her and walked on seemingly confused by stopping suddenly for something as trivial as that.

But still it left his wary… for what? Allen couldn't tell yet but he didn't like dwelling on it and entered a different street.

The patrol was quiet as people progressively headed inside and called it quits for the day. But Allen was still wondering around, starting to regret not bringing a coat along as he felt the nipping cold chill the air.

A sneeze violently jerked his body to a halt and wiped his nose on his sleeve before shuddering. Yep, this was definitely not his favorite part as he continued to make his way back to the school gate until he realized something.

Where was the gate?

Allen groaned aloud as he ruffled his dark hair not even caring if he lost the tie. Simply great, first he was cold and now he couldn't meet Kanda to end their patrol! He couldn't help but question if Fate had it for him and he said Fate not God for good reason.

'Lost are we?' Allen stopped and glared at whoever suggested such a thing only to find the same girl from the foreign school.

'Shouldn't you be with your teacher and mind your own business,' he retorted in a low voice. The girl just chuckled and wistfully skipped across the concrete towards him.

'They're boring but when I heard we were coming to the town were the Exorcist School was, I couldn't help myself,' she was giggling madly now and Allen wasn't so sure about this. But what worried him more was the fact that she knew about the school.

From what he heard, no one except those within the school knew it was for exorcists.

Allen's eyes narrowed further.

'Who are you?' maybe he should have said 'what' because he couldn't sense anything from her so she couldn't possibly be an akuma. The girl paused and cocked her head to the side.

'I'm a lost schoolgirl,'

'Yeah right, unlike me you don't seem lost and weren't you with your group a few hours ago,' Allen was hoping to catch the girl off guard but it would seem that he was having a bad day because she looked almost gleeful.

'Heh~ you're quite the observant one but I wonder… how observant?' Allen went rigid, what did she mean by that?

Suddenly he got that familiar bad feeling and he flipped back avoid an attack, forming a crater in the ground.

'Akuma…' Allen frowned at the crater because he saw nothing but his instincts were persuading him otherwise. The girl just watched on with slight amusement while he was trying to figure out what had just happened.

Allen felt the wind whistle past him and he knew the danger was now behind him. He focused for his activation and grabbed whatever was there but he felt his claws just barely scraping across something!

'Huh?' Allen whipped his head around but felt a solid presence meet his side and flung him across the road. Once he had finished tumbling, Allen was struggling to find some sort of tactic to beat this invisible nuisance!

'I'm surprised to actually find an exorcist who can transform part of their body like that,' Allen glanced at the girl still calmly standing there watching the whole darn thing! But it was almost chilling about what she had said.

In his distraction, Allen felt yet another painful blow land on the side of his head and he was then sent into a nearby garden. He gritted his teeth trying to focus beyond the throbbing pain and blood slithering down his face. Allen had just about enough of this thing.

Feeling the approach of his opponent Allen pushed off the ground and meet the thing half way. The streetlight glinted against his gigantic claw before Allen pushed the bastard away.

He heard the thing stumble about as it was flung back. Allen smirked when he heard it dash off to the side possibly hoping for an opening behind or beside him. Turning on his foot his swiped the air and slashed the thing into pieces.

Allen took a deep breath and exhaled as the thing finally appeared in a seeable form front of him.

'So you are a level two akuma…'

'You surprise me exorcist,' Allen whipped around and still found the girl staring inquisitively at him. She was walking over calmly, not something a normal human would do if they had seen something being destroyed in front of them. Allen seemed to doubt this girl's humanity.

'Even an experienced exorcist would have trouble with that type of akuma,' Allen couldn't tell if he should feel pleased or offended… was she calling him an amateur?

'Who are you?' Allen demanded once again as the girl paused and seemed to look at the dark sky briefly.

'Road Kamelot~ now can I have your name?' Allen wasn't so sure if he should but even so what would the difference be.

'Allen,'

'Heheh~ nice to meet you, I better go now but it was nice playing!' Okay now Allen was confused again, what did she mean by that? She wasn't even fighting!

'Oi Moyashi, what the fuck is going on?' Allen felt himself boil when he saw the familiar longhaired bastard coming towards him.

'Akuma,' Allen answered halfheartedly as the boy surveyed the damage and growled.

'Idiot, Komui's going to be pissed when he finds out!' Allen glared at Kanda.

'How about trying to defeat an invisible opponent and tell me how I was to kill it without causing damage!' Allen flared as he sensed a vivid pulse course through his left arm. Kanda just seemed more pissed than originally thought, the guy's hand firmly on the sword at his waist.

'Mind saying that again!'

'Stop it the both of you,' Allen saw Lenalee fall from he sky and kicked Kanda straight in the head. He winced at the thought that if he wasn't injured he might have gotten hit as well.

'You're both half an hour late and I don't want to hear any excuses now follow me!' Lenalee demanded. Allen was surprised that the kind girl that he saw on his first day was just as controlling as her brother.

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Another chapter done and I've introduced one of our favorite Noahs, Road! Hope you enjoyed the chapter and please leave a REVIEW! XD