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'thoughts'

"speaking"

Discovery: Part 2

"I want you to forget everything you saw today and not ask Allen about it," Cross said suddenly, scaring the three that were hiding in the bushes.

"Who are you?" Lavi asked as he slowly move to guard Lenalee, Kanda doing the same thing on the other side

"My name is Neah and this is Cross. I am his uncle and Cross is Allen's legal guardian ." Neah introduced

"I'm Lenalee Lee, this is Kanda Yuu, and this is Lavi, nice to meet you." She moved out from behind the boys. (Girls can take care of themselves thank you very much.)

"So care to tell us what is going on?" Lavi asked, still suspicious but not as much because these men were the ones taking care of Allen.

Neah tried to explain, "We only want Allen to have a shot at having a normal school life." "If he finds out, he will want to quit school because he has enough people fearing him in his life. So all we ask is that you give him a normal school life and not tell anyone about it. Just so that he has some happy memories." Cross added on, being completely out of character. (According to Neah)

"And if you tell anyone about Allen being the leader to your classmates we will silence you. Don't think we won't and your principal already knows so don't think telling him will change anything." Neah said as he glared at the paling figures before him.

"Allen has been known to act weirdly at times so if anything were to happen to him call one of these numbers. It's our private number so if something happens at school call us because he is still on the run from some people and we don't want to risk losing him because he ran off." Cross handed Lenalee a sheet of paper with two phone numbers on it.

"If you can't get in contact with either of us for some reason ask Tamaki or Kyoya for help. They would know what's going on. Don't ask any teachers because we don't want to get them fired, one of them still has a family to take care of and can't afford to lose a job." Cross went on.

"You understand right or else we will have to take drastic measures right now." Cross threatened as he slowly advanced while moving his hand towards his gun, Judgement, which was hidden under his jacket.

"Yes, sir," Lenalee squeaked

"Che." Kanda looked away when Cross glared at him.

"Sure but can I ask you something?" Lavi asked, his curiosity coming back.

"Sure," Neah said as Cross took a step back and looked at Lavi.

"How is Allen related to Campbell Music Industries and how is he a mafia leader at 12?" Lavi asked.

"He's my nephew, Neah Walker, Pleasure to meet you." Neah smiled and shook Lavi's hand.

"Him being a mafia leader is half my fault and half Mana's fault. He gained quite a lot of respect, followers, sources and a mean reputation when he was paying back my debts at age 5. As well as getting all the connections from Mana for being Mana's adopted son. Mana was an important person because only he and a couple others were brave enough to go against the Noahs when they went out attacking civilians. He won Mana's connections and his new followers over through fear after Mana died. He was scared everyone with the crazy strength of his left arm, a large amount of intellect through photographic memory and the fact that he has injured so many people at a really young age from self-defense against other attackers." Cross said then stopped, hoping Neah would continue. Which he did.

"Allen grew up fighting on the streets since birth because his parent abandoned him for his deformities. The Allen you see at school is the Allen created by Mana, who adopted Allen at age 2, (If you are fighting in the streets to survive by birth the world is ruthless.) but my brother, Mana, died when Allen was 3 so he regained his rude attitude during the 3 years he spent on the streets and living with Cross while he paid back his debts. When Allen turned 6, he finished paying back the debts and stopped being Cross' apprentice and made enough money for the Black Order Mafia to be reformed and stood as the leader ever since." Neah said, glad that it was over because he really didn't like talking about Allen's past but since Komui said these three can be trusted, he decided to risk it.

Lenalee was crying by the end of the story. "He went through so much and he is still so young."

"That's why we sent him to school. He is already acting like an adult and we want him to keep his childhood how a little bit longer. We want him to be at least normal for a little while." Neah said getting near tears at thinking that his nephew won't be needing him anymore. (Not that Allen needed help but he asked to keep Neah happy.)

"We would like to keep in touch so we can talk if we ever need to and don't tell Allen you know. Just act like yourselves. If you ever need anything, ask us, in exchange for keeping an eye on Allen." Cross said but started to regret it when Kanda said,

"You better not back out of that."

"Of course, just stay away from the house uninvited because people here will think you are enemies," Neha warned as he started to walk away.

"Sure, we'll make sure to call first next time," Lavi answered.

"Bye and remember to act normal," Neah and Cross warned.

"Wait, how did you know we were here and how did you stand behind me without any of us noticing?" Kanda asked, not happy to know someone out did him.

"Because a) you are not as observant as you think and b) I used this trick to hide me and Allen from debt collectors when he was still my apprentice," Cross said feeling proud that he got to insult the samurai while listing.

"Che." "We promise to give Allen a great school year," Lenalee promised, not hearing Kanda's growl of protest.

"Thanks." Neah smiled before he and Cross started walking back to the house.

"It looks like this will be a fun school year," Lavi said, not at all worried.

"Yeah, it's not like we won't have a whole mafia group after us if we mess up," Kanda said, sarcasm dripping from his words.

"We'll be fine, just stop picking fights and nothing will go wrong." Lenalee said as they started walking home.

Lavi might be right, Kanda is right, Lenalee is far from the truth. But the only was to find out is to let the story progress.

TBC

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