Mizu: It's finally done! This took forever to type up! I had the basic idea for it but whenever I sat down to type it up, all ideas flew away from my fingers. Grrr… Anyways, I don't own -Man. It's simple as that.

Chapter 10- Wishing on Candles

"Where is he?" Link snapped as he stomped into the cafeteria.

"Where's who?" Lavi and Komui questioned, staring that the flustered crow.

"Don't "Where's who?" me! I only left my post outside Walker's door for less than an hour to eat and go to the bathroom and when I came back, the damn brat was gone!" Link shouted, spotting Lenalee, "You! You were the last in his room!"

"S-So?" Lenalee gasped, "He woke up and wanted to come and get something to eat. It's not my fault that you weren't there!"

"You were to report this to me!" Link exclaimed.

"Well, excuse me for forgetting that minor detail in my joy of his awakening!" Lenalee retorted.

"You little-" Link started to curse.

"What are you doing, Link?" Allen snapped from the opposite doorway, "How dare you shout at Lenalee!"

"Allen!" Lenalee beamed, "You finally made it back."

"Yeah, I got lost a couple of times to my room," Allen apologized, walking up to the Chinese girl, "I was really lucky though! I found a clean shirt!"

"Really? That's good," Lenalee smiled.

"Walker, you are to report to Leverrier immediately," Link sighed, trying to level out his anger.

"Why? I haven't done anything wrong, have I?" Allen scoffed.

"He has ordered that you are to set up gateways so that when you-" Link started to clarify.

"Nanananana!" Komui shouted, "No more talk of work! It's a wonderful day!"

"Ah! That's right!" Reever agreed, "It's Allen's birthday after all!"

"I bet Jerry's done with your cake and everything!" Lavi exclaimed, grabbing onto Allen's right arm, "Let's go see, shall we, Moyashi-chan?"

"Lavi! Stop calling me that!" Allen whined.

Lenalee ran ahead of the two boys and rushed into the kitchen, "Is Allen's cake almost done?"

"Just one more layer and it shall be perfect for our birthday boy," Jerry beamed.

Lenalee looked towards the corner of the room and nearly fell backwards. The cake was huge! She tried counting the layers but proved to many to keep track of.

"J-Jerry, how many layers are on there?" Lenalee questioned.

"Hm…with this one that I'm working on, seventy-five," Jerry said happily.

"S-S-Seventy-five?" Lenalee gaped.

She knew that Allen ate a lot but even he wouldn't be able to eat that much cake without getting sick. Plus the fact that he just ate, what, two hours ago? There was no way that that boy was going to be able to eat all of his cake.

"How's he gonna eat it all?" Lenalee questioned.

"We're all gonna help him, of course," Jerry smiled, "After all, birthday cakes should be shared."

"R-Right," Lenalee stuttered, starting to get a stomach ache just thinking about all the cake.

"Hey, is his cake finished?" Lavi shouted happily.

"Ah! Finally, it's done!" Jerry exclaimed as he placed the last layer on the very top, "Now, someone go get Komurin whatever to drag it out there."

"Wh-Why don't we just let Allen come in there?" Reever asked, trying to avoid as many disasters as possible with the insane robots.

Reever slowly pushed open the doors to the kitchen. Making sure that Allen and his closest friends were the only ones to come in, Reever locked Link out after slamming the door shut in his face. Ignoring the squawking Crow, everyone walked up to the giant cake.

"W-Wow…" Allen muttered, "I don't think that even I can eat all of this."

"See?" Lenalee whispered to Jerry.

"Do you like it, cutie pie?" Jerry asked, walking up to his favorite person, "Is there anything else you want?"

"um…well…" Allen mumbled.

"Hm?" Lavi and Jerry asked, leaning in closer to the white haired boy.

"Candles," Allen said, looking away from everyone.

"Candles?" the group repeated.

"You want candles?" Ryan asked, not believing his ears.

"Y-Yeah. M-Mana always said that it's never a birthday until your cake has some candles on it," Allen blushed.

"Well, if Allen wants candles," Krory announced dramatically, "then candles he shall have!"

"Now, who would have candles that we could use?" Marie thought aloud.

"Get the fuck back, you stupid Crow!" Kanda snapped as he walked into the room, also slamming the door on Link.

"Kanda? I thought you went to bed already," Komui stated.

"I came down to make sure that baka Moyashi here managed to find his way back to his party," Kanda sighed, holding out a bag of candles, "And to give my contribution for the party."

"Really?" Allen gasped, racing up to Kanda and snatching the bag away from him, "This is so awesome!"

"Awwww!" Lenalee cooed, "You just made his day, Kanda."

"Yeah, who'd have ever thought that you'd be so nice to Moyashi-chan," Lavi stated, leaning on Kanda's head.

"Of course I'm being nice to him!" Kanda shouted, "Even I'm not cruel enough to ruin his birthday!"

"Awww! Yuu cares for Allen! Yuu cares for Allen!" Lavi chanted.

Allen laughed as Kanda threatened to behead Lavi. Finally, a sense of normalcy had returned to the exorcists of the Black Order. Jerry smiled as he placed sixteen candles on the second to last layer and lit them.

"Alright, cutie-pie! Come over here and blow out this candles!" Jerry announced.

"G-Go on Allen!' Miranda encouraged.

Allen just smiled at all of his friend as he made his way to his cake. Just when he was about to blow out the candles, something erupted from the very top layer. The something started to fly around so fast that Allen couldn't help but get dizzy. Then the object finally came to rest on top of Allen's head. After refocusing his vision, the teen reached up to grab whatever it was. His eyes widened as a huge smile appeared on his face.

"Timcampy!" Allen shouted happily.

"Here we go again," Lavi chuckled.

"Hm?" Ryan questioned, turning to looked up at the red head as his sister did the same.

"Whenever Allen and Tim are separated, the kid goes into a crying attack, proclaiming how much he missed the yellow golem," Lavi explained, "There he goes. Look."

The two kids looked back at Allen, and sure enough, the white haired boy was cuddling the golem to his face, crying uncontrollably. The two sweat dropped. Was this really the same guy that he just literally been on his death bed because he risked his life for the two of them?

"Hm? What do you have, Tim?" Allen questioned, pulling the golem away from his face.

The yellow golem opened its mouth to reveal both its razor sharp teeth but a neatly wrapped present. Allen slowly took it from his golem and stared at it. After a few moments he turned back to his friends.

"Well, go on Allen!" Lenalee laughed, "Open it!"

The teenager slowly unwrapped the gift to find a book with a black leather cover. Confused, he started turning at to multiple angles. There wasn't any title on it so it probably wasn't a story book. It didn't have any way to seal it so it wasn't a journal.

"What is it?" Allen finally asked, "And don't tell me it's a book."

"It's not," Komui stated, "It's a wish log."

"Wish log?" Allen repeated.

"All exorcists have one," Marie stated, "We get one on our first birthday in the Order."

"What's it for?" Allen questioned, opening the book.

"Every time you have a wish that you want to come true, write it in there and then give the book to Komui. Then everyone pitches in to granting those wishes," Lavi explained, walking up the white haired teen.

"Sorta like a bucket wish," Allen whispered.

"No," Lavi sighed, taking the book and hitting Allen in the head with it gently, "We're always running around the world fighting. This book is a way to say thanks to us and make our lives a little more pleasurable."

"The finders get vacations to go home and visit family so long as they promise not to tell them about anything to do with the Order. The scientist get raises and are free to leave whenever they want," Komui stated, "So to make everything fair, Central issued these books."

"I know that most exorcists have used it at least once or twice," Lenalee thought out loud.

Allen stared at the book in Lavi's hands, "So whatever wish I write in that will come true?"

"Yep." everyone nodded.

"Do I have to right them all on my birthday?" Allen asked, taking the book back.

"Nope," the group beamed.

"So, say nine months from now, I can write anything down, and someone will make sure that wish comes true?" Allen said, hiding a slightly feral smirk.

"Correct again, our young friend!" Tiedoll announced.

"Hm…interesting," Allen whispered, "Alright! Now for cake!"

"Yay!"

"So, write anything interesting in the book, yet?" Lavi asked as he plopped down on the couch next to Allen.

"Maybe," Allen said, enjoying the last bite of his cake.

Lenalee was right. Even Allen couldn't finish his entire cake. But there was enough for everyone in the main headquarters to have some so it wasn't like it was a waste. After everyone had had their fill of holiday sweets, they all headed off to their respected areas. For Allen and Lavi, that meant the lounge next to the library. Well, it did for Allen. Lavi was just skipping out on his work.

"Can I read them?" Lavi questioned.

"No," Allen stated, stretching a bit, "Man, today was fun."

Lavi smiled and placed Allen into a head lock, "I'm glad. You really had us all really worried. We all thought that you might not make it."

"I-I'm sorry," Allen apologized, "I didn't mean to cause you guys any trouble."

"I never said that, now did I?" Lavi sighed, "I just meant we were really scared that you wouldn't make it to your birthday, Allen."

"L-Lavi?" Allen stuttered, "H-How bad did I look when you found me?"

"Honestly?" Lavi questioned, sighing when Allen nodded, "To be honest, I thought that you had actually died. I couldn't believe that there was any way that you'd have survived all of your injuries."

Lavi suddenly started to ruffled and mess with Allen's snow white locks, laughing as the younger boy struggled against it, "but you're alive and that's all that matters. You're like our little miracle, you know?"

Allen laughed and slowly stood up. He stretched for second before holding out his wish log, "I'm going to bed. Can you make sure this gets to Komui?"

"Sure can do, buddy," Lavi assured, "You go rest. You must be exhausted after today."

"Yeah," Allen yawned, waving as he walked out of the lounge, "Night."

Lavi smirked as the young exorcist left the room. He quickly opened Allen's wish log to see what his younger friend wanted most.

Wishes:

1. Either all Master's debts paid off or me pardoned from having to pay them off.

2. Vacation at the beach with all my friends.

3. BaKanda to call me my real name.

4. Random Poker Nights with all the exorcists and Komui, Reever, Johnny, and Bak.

5. Link to stop following me around for a day.

6. Eating contest between parasitic type exorcists

7. No random setting up gateway missions without either Lavi or Lenalee there.

8. New clothes

9. Go to the Circus!

10. Rematch with Fou

11. Find out where my real parents are.

12. Visit said parents and ask why they abandoned me

13. Find a way to get my auburn hair back (if only for a day or two)

14. Put on a circus like show for my friends at the Order

15. To visit Mana's grave for a day…

16. …?

"Visit Mana's grave?" Lavi said, "Wonder why he wants to do that? Maybe a tribute or something?"

Lavi stared at the sixteenth line. Why'd he put that? It looked like he originally wrote something down but then erased it?

"Oh well," Lavi sighed, getting up, "Best not to dwell on it. I'd better get this book to Komui so we can get started."

…visit Mana's grave… Why did those words seem so…cold?

"There," Allen said, finishing hanging his new lighting piece from his ceiling, "I think the room seems a little brighter now."

The lighting piece was several candle holders held up and together by clothes' hangers that Allen had bent. In total, there were sixteen candle holders and sixteen candles. The same candles that were from his cake. He slowly lit all sixteen before crawling into bed. Looking up at it before he pasted out, Allen couldn't help but smile to himself.

"I think that I'll leave them lit till they burn out by themselves," Allen yawned, smiling, "Just like me."

Mizu: Done, done~! The chapter is finally over and done~!

Allen: Why am I smiling at the end? Shouldn't I be a little distraught?

Mizu: No, cause you are plotting things~!

Lavi: Are…are you hyper?

Mizu: Yep Yep~!

Lavi: …Who gave her Dr. Pepper again?

Mizu: No one~! Me found new thing for hyperness~!

Allen and Lavi: What is it?

Mizu: Mizu not telling~! She like hyper self! She can be like Komui like this!

Allen and Lavi: Noooo! *chase Mizu around the room*

Lenalee: Eh…Well, Mizu loves all reviews and any suggestions that you guys have. By the way, An Innocent Heart will be uploaded on either Thursdays or Sundays whenver it is uploaded. Mizu gets kinda busy with other things. Um…Ciao for now.