Warning, this is a Laven chapter. Laven was the winner of the poll, so this is a Laven story now. If you don't like it, you don't have to read it.

Allen's hand slips, Lavi manages to grab his hand before he falls to his death. He quickly pulled him up and hugged him tight. One hand on the back of his head, while the other was between his shoulder blades.

"You scared me so much, Allen. I don't know what I'd do if I didn't grab your hand." Lavi said in a quiet voice. He sounded like he was about to cry.

"Lavi, I thought Bookman couldn't make friends with one side or the other." Allen said, confused.

"That's just what Road said. I'd rather be with you guys than be a Bookman. Allen, I have a secret." Lavi said.

"A secret?" Allen asked. Lavi stopped hugging Allen and looked at him. "What kind of secret?" Allen's answer was soon answered when Lavi leaned closer and planted his lips against his own. Lavi replaced where his hands were to get Allen closer to him. Lavi pulled away after a few moments, it lasted about ten to fifteen seconds. Allen was starting to blush.

"That's my secret. In the time I've known you, I've come to really like you, Allen." Lavi said, voice still quiet. Allen was blushing more. "Sorry if I freaked you out."

"N-no-o." Allen stuttered.

"Good. I'm sorry if I just forced myself on you like that." Lavi said.

"I-It's ok, Lavi. Honestly. I, um, I kind of... liked it." Allen stuttered again and was looking down to the ground. His eyes would not meet Lavi's.

"You did?" Lavi asked, surprised.

"Y-Yea. I'm just kind of speechless right now. It just all came suddenly."

"Oh, ok." Lavi grabbed Allen's chin and made him look at him. "I'm glad. Allen, will you be mine?" Allen's eyes went wide.

"Y-You want me to be your lover?"

"Yea." Lavi smiled.

"Um, ok."

"Great." Lavi pressed his lips against Allen's once again. Lavi placed his arms around Allen's waist while Allen wrapped his arms around Lavi's neck. They were pulling eachother closer. They stopped kissing eachother and looked eachother in the eyes. (For Lavi, it's eye.) "Let's make sure we stay together as long as we can, ok?"

"Right." The two stood up and went back the way Allen had come to get out of the cave, holding hands. They came to the first spate paths. It branched into three.

"Um, do you remember which way it is?" Lavi asking the wrong person.

"Not a clue." Allen said.

"Oh crap. We're probably going to die in here. Nobody's going to find us because they probably don't know about this cave." Lavi said, verge of panic.

"Stay calm Lavi, let's just go one way. We'll find our way out. Let's go through center. That may be the path I came."

"We'll try it." They walked down the center path.

"Allen…!?" There was a voice in the cave. It sounded distant and echoed. It didn't sound like anyone from their group. "Allen… Come back…"

"W-What's going on here?"

"I don't know."

"Let's get out of here." They started to run. They found another path and went down that way.

"Allen…" The voice said.

"Run faster!" As they were running, they heard the voice calling Allen over and over to come back. As they ran, it was getting closer and closer.

"Allen… come back…" Something rapped around Allen's waist and pulled him back. He fell back, causing Lavi to immediately turn around.

"Allen, what happened?"

"Something's got me." Allen was shivering because whatever had him was beyond cold.

"I don't see anything." Whatever it was, it wouldn't let him go. It only got tighter, almost as if to squeeze the life out of him.

"La-vi… can't breathe." Lavi didn't seem to know what to do. It got tighter, making breathing just as difficult. "P-Please." Allen's vision started going fuzzy.

"Allen, stay awake, ok." Lavi looked harder and saw little indents that looked to belong to arms around his stomach.

"Stay with me… Allen…" The voice said.

"Let go of him!" Lavi punched beside Allen's head and the tight feeling on his stomach released. Lavi quickly grabbed Allen's hand and the two started running out of there once again.

"Allen… Come back…" They had no idea where they were going and ended up right at the stalagmite cove.

"Not this place again." Lavi said.

"It's like a maze." Allen pointed out.

"Here, this way." Lavi led Allen down the path he came from the glow worm cove.

"Al~len… please… co~me back to~ me~" The voice said.

"Over here. We have to crawl, you go ahead of me." Lavi said.

"Ok." Allen crouched down and crawled through the passage, Lavi behind him. Once through, Allen was grabbed by his arm and lifted up. "Lavi!" The thing that had him wrapped its arms around his chest. Lavi crawled out and ran to Allen. He saw the indents and grabbed onto an arm. He pulled it away and twisted it harshly. There was a very loud scream and Allen was released. Lavi grabbed Allen's hand and led him the way he remembers. They made it to the mouth of the cave and ran from there, they made it to the fresh air. They both collapsed on the ground out of exhaustion. "Never going back in there."

"Agreed." Lavi said. They were both panting.

"What was that?" Allen asked.

"I don't know."

"There you two are." The voice of Kanda was heard. They both looked up at Kanda and Road coming toward them.

"We were looking everywhere for you." Road said.

"Well sorry, we got lost." Allen said.

"How do you get lost by a waterfall?" Road asked.

"Very carefully." Lavi said with a smile.

"Well, anyway. You guys are practically caught. Game's over. It was much fun. Thanks for such a wonderful time. See you guys later. Bye Allen." Lavi looked at her, scowling a bit. "What's that look for, Bookman? Oh well, goodbye." Road's door appeared. She walked through it and made it disappeared.

"Well, that was a waste of time. What the hell were you two doing?" Kanda asked.

"Getting lost." Lavi said.

"Whatever, I'm going back to the station. Someone has to get this in-" Kanda was searching all his pockets.

"What's up Kanda?" Allen asked.

"The innocence is missing." Kanda said.

"Maybe we can find it, retrace your steps." Allen suggested. Standing up, Allen helped Lavi up as well.

"I would have to bend down for it to slip out, and I never did. I have a feeling Road took it. This is all your fault short stack." Kanda said.

"How is it my fault?" Allen asked.

"If you hadn't gotten mixed up with Road, this wouldn't have happened." Kanda went to punch him, but Lavi stopped him, mid-impact.

"You will not resort to violence. Especially against Allen. Now, let's take his suggestion and retrace your steps." Lavi said.

"I'm not taking orders from you, Rabbit." Kanda said.

"Then I guess there's no chance we'll ever find that innocence." Lavi pointed out. Kanda paused for a minute. "Then it's settled. Let's go. Lead the way. We don't know where you've been."

"Whatever. I swear I'm dealing with kids." Kanda said.

"Hey, you're a kid too. Being 18 ½ is still a kid." Lavi said.

"Shut up." Kanda said back.

"You only say that because I'm right, Yuu."

"Don't call me that."

"Alright Anaconda, settle down."

"Don't call me that either!"

"Both of you, stop it. The longer it takes for us to find the Innocence, the longer we'll be stuck here. It's getting late and we may not get another train until tomorrow. I don't know about you guys, but I don't want to spend the night at that inn again. The beds are uncomfortable." Allen said.

"Alright, let's go. Come on Yuu." Yuu scowled at him. "Come on now." Kanda did his usual 'che' and walked off. The two followed him. They searched for the rest of the day, Allen, accidently getting stuck in a tree while searching and Lavi having to get him down. They never found it.

"Well that was a waste of time. I'm telling you, that Road took it. Thanks to Short Stack over there." Kanda said.

"My name is Allen!" Allen yelled.

"Whatever." Kanda walked off toward the station. Lavi and Allen started to follow. Once they were out of the forest, Allen looked back.

"Something wrong, Allen?" Lavi asked.

"No, just wondering." Allen said.

"'Bout what? That weird creature?" Lavi asked yet another question.

"Yea. My eye didn't activate so it wasn't an Akuma."

"Maybe it was a ghost."

"It could have been." Lavi moved closer to him.

"Don't worry about it. Let's go." Lavi kissed his cheek. Allen followed him to the station.

"The train runs to here every five hours on a good day." Allen said.

"Where's Gramps?" Lavi asked.

"He might have gotten on the train without us." Allen said.

"That old panda!" Michael walked off and came back with a note.

"I found this where Bookman was sitting. It's addressed to you, Lavi." Michael said.

"Hmm." Lavi took the note and read it a loud. "Dear Lavi, I have gotten on the train by the time you get this note. The time appeared to be around 1900. I will see you guys back at the order. –Bookman. That old fart. He did leave without us."

"Seems like he just left too. About an hour ago. That means we have four more hours until the train comes back."

"That's just great, I'm going to be stuck with you guys for another four hours?" Kanda asked.

"Seems like it. Just relax. Hopefully today was a good day for the trains." Allen said.

"This is just great. Perfect!" Kanda said.

"You'll just have to deal with it Yuu." Lavi said, smiling.

"Call me that again and I'll cut you open, Rabbit." Kanda threatened, a hand going to the hilt of his sword, Mugen.

"Whatever you say." Lavi sat down on a bench, Allen sat next to him. Lavi put an arm around Allen so his hand was resting on his shoulder. "Hey, Yuu, why don't you sit down or something? It may be a while until the train arrives." Lavi said.

"Why, so you can have another arm rest?"

"I'm only sowing concern for my teammates."

"Shut up."

"Whatever, be like that." Lavi pulled Allen closer to him. He rested his head on Lavi's shoulder. Allen eventually fell asleep. Kanda turned back around. Two hours pass. Kanda heard rustling and turned around. It was the finder, Michael. He was looking for something. Lavi and Allen were practically in the same position as before, but Allen had fallen asleep on Lavi's shoulder (Technically chest) and had his legs pulled up onto the bench, while Lavi had his head resting on Allen's and was also asleep. "Gees, you'd think they were a couple. What are you doing?"

"Trying to find a pen. I want to get back at Lavi for drawing on my face, but I can't find one." Michael said.

"I didn't know finders got revenge." Kanda said.

"It depends on the finder." Kanda found it a bit interesting that this finder wanted to write on Lavi's face.

"I have a pen." Kanda offered.

"Can I use it?"

"Whatever." Kanda found the pen and threw it to him. Michael uncapped it and drew a bunny nose and drew whiskers to go along with it.

"Looks perfect." Another two hours passed and there was a distant sound of a train and there was also smoke as well.

"The train is on its way. I estimate about ten minutes."

"Should I wake up the other two?"

"That's up to you. I couldn't care less." Michael went over to the two sleeping exorcists.

"Hey, Train's coming you two." Lavi woke up first.

"Huh?" Lavi said tiredly.

"Train's coming in about ten minutes." Michael said.

"Oh ok. Hey, Allen, wake up." He nudged Allen's head. Allen woke up.

"What's going on?" Allen said, just as tired as Lavi.

"The train is on its way. Time to wake up, ok?" Lavi said.

"Mmhm." Allen nodded and sat up. Allen started to laugh when he got a good look at Lavi.

"What?" Lavi asked.

"Someone drew on your face." Allen explained.

"Huh?"

"Here, let me get it off the best I can." Allen licked his thumb and started to clean off Lavi's face of the whiskers and bunny nose. He got most of it off. "There."

"Thanks."

"No problem." They stood up and walked over to Kanda.

"Are you to dating or something?" Kanda asked.

"Does this answer your question?" Lavi asked and turned to Allen. He grabbed the back of his head and kissed him on the lips. They stopped after a few seconds.

"Don't ever do that in front of me again." The train came to a stop. They boarded the train and were on their way back to headquarters. Allen immediately went to the dining cart and ate as much as he could. Lavi was with him. Kanda was meditating since they didn't have any soba or tempura. So he sat and meditated. Lavi and Allen walked in after they were done eating. Lavi motioned for Allen to be quiet. Allen nodded and followed Lavi silently. They both braded his bangs and gave him two twin braided ponytails. He didn't notice yet. The two quickly got out of the compartment and high fived.

"Haha. That was awesome. I can't believe he didn't catch us." Allen said.

"I thought he was going to catch us. Where did you learn to braid hair?" Lavi asked.

"Where did you?" Allen asked.

"I learned by braiding my sisters before I became my grandpa's apprentice. What about you?" Lavi said.

"I was watching how you did it and copied you." Allen said.

"I see. This was great. We'll probably be dead when he finds out it was us, but it was worth it."

"Yea it was. Uh oh… Lavi…" Lavi slowly turned his head. Kanda was standing right behind them, looking like he was going to skin someone alive.

~Three hours later~

The group returned to the order. Lenalee and Dolly came to welcome them. They looked curiously at Allen and Lavi. They're hands were tied behind their backs and they had cloths over their mouths.

"Why are you guys tied up?" Lenalee asked.

"The two decided to braid Kanda's hair." Michael explained.

"Do you two have a death wish?" Lenalee asked. They said nothing, only shrugged. "You two are unbelievable." Lenalee untied Lavi while Dolly untied Allen. "Welcome home you two."

"It's great to be home."

Alright, I'm sorry to those who didn't want a Laven story, but the poll had Laven as a more popular vote. If you didn't want Laven and you didn't vote, then you should have voted. Anyway, I hope you guys enjoyed the story. By the way, the weird thing chasing them was a ghost that wanted Allen for some reason. It wasn't really necessary. I just came up with it. It may appear in future chapters. I don't know. We'll see. I don't think I'm done with this story yet. I'll make more chapters soon hopefully.

See ya,

HB 713 :D