Chapter Twenty-Seven:

~Lenalee~

Komui still seemed the same, trying to get her to talk her feelings because 'she wasn't the only one suffering'… She hated it, it once didn't bother her that her brother could worry about her so but now it was clearly annoying because of how old she was.

'Excuse me, Miss Lenalee, but we have arrived,' a voice broke into her thoughts as she glanced up at the finder standing over her. Lenalee blinked and slowly stood up as they both hurried off the train and watched it slowly depart. She had forgotten about the mission her brother had sent her on.

'To clear your head,' her brother had said to her but she really couldn't help but think that this might be some routine check than an actual mission. Lenalee grizzled as the finder led the way into the small country town where Komui had said that there has been the strange appearance of a large bird like creature that circle over the town before disappearing.

Well that was all she could recall from her brief conversation with her brother, like usual he wasn't going to give all the details and that leaved her to find out through the document and the finder assigned to her.

'So when does this bird show up?' Lenalee asked as she pulled the document free from her pocket and looked over it once again. The finder walked next to her before glancing down at his watch.

'It should be soon, it always shows up around noon, one time it was in the late afternoon,' the finder seemed to be repeating what the papers in front of her were saying as Lenalee sighed and pushed some hair behind her ear.

'Well, let's get this over with,' Lenalee said as she stopped and gaze up at the clear blue sky, it was lovely with the warm sun rays beaming on her face before a dark shadow quickly disrupted her small distraction and squinted against the glare.

She could make out a dark shape that indeed looked like a bird as Lenalee quickly dropped her suitcase and activated her innocence, Dark Boots to allow her to give chase.

Lenalee took to the skies in hot pursuit of the flying bird, making out its feathery crown and large wingspan. This was a very large bird as it expertly zipped quickly away from her optical view and she darted behind not wanting to lose sight of the target.

Suddenly something fell from it, Lenalee was surprised as whatever it was missed her by a breath but Lenalee frowned… was that words?

'Nice to meet you,' that's what she thought she had heard as Lenalee dropped down like a stone but the bird seemed to have come back down from its high altitude and knocked her off balance.

Lenalee wheeled back in surprise and sped after them, she was deemed the fastest exorcist in the Order as she flew at the speed of sound and managed to knock the bird towards the ground, causing it to slam into one of the buildings.

She landed lightly on the ground and went rigid. Lenalee couldn't believe what she was seeing it was the same bird that had wrecked the training room eight years ago. The bird swayed on its talon feet and screeched defiantly in her face as Lenalee prepared herself for an attack.

'That… scared me a bit…' a voice echoed above her head as Lenalee's head snapped up and caught sight of a boy, about fourteen slowly floating down to the ground with the aid of a pink umbrella… an umbrella that looked strangely familiar.

'You're a Noah,'

'Good guess, I'm the…'

'Raye-dono, remember what you're here for, lero~' the umbrella seemed to fret as the boy gracefully landed on the ground.

'Fine! Lenalee, I'm going to give you some information so listen carefully, just north of here someone is being chased by a flock of akuma… being a good exorcist, won't you try and save them?' Lenalee froze as she remembered the silver eyes of the boy that they had held captive, he had grown from the last time she had saw him but it was his information that confused her.

'And why would I listened to you?'

'And why would I have been causing such a dilemma here just for one of you exorcists to show up,' the boy retorted dryly before mounting on the bird and took off disappearing as they rose into the light of the sun and Lenalee was forced to look away.

'Miss Lenalee?'

'Wait here,' Lenalee said sharply as she took off towards the north, she didn't know if it was a trap or not but she wasn't going to risk losing an innocent life because she didn't trust him.

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~Kanda~

'Kanda!' Kanda annoyingly flinched as he glared at the person to disrupt his meditating, seeing Reever standing with the door wide open and his face seemingly plastered with relief.

'What do you want?' Kanda growled as Reever slightly flinched but was determined to say what he had come there to say.

'Come… to Komui's office… now,' Reever was panting hard but Kanda heard every word clearly and did as the scientist said wondering what the bastard wanted now, hoping it wouldn't be a stupid experiment or worse something to get out of work.

As he reached the door of the office he heard crying, and instantly recognized that it belonged to Lenalee as he rushed into the room expecting that something bad happened but it was the exact opposite.

A kid was standing before him, ragged long strands of green hair hung in his eyes of deep midnight blue. Lenalee was crying but with a relieved smile plastered on her face as she wrapped her arms around the boy nuzzling into his hair.

Kanda felt his mouth drop as he stagger in shock towards the boy.

'Hi… dad,' the boy said uneasily, he seemed just as baffled as everyone else in the room.

'Misaki… how…?'

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Author's Note:

Things may be explained in the next chapter, remember, I'm setting the scene here…

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