Hime: *yawns* Hey there, I know it's been a while and I'm sorry. School has been awful, thank you for support thus far! Hope you enjoy the chapter and beyond! :)

"Hey Lavi"

The one-eyed redhead turned to see his team leader approaching him, smiling warmly.

"Hey yourself, what's up Hime?"

Amber giggled before politely asking if she could sit next to him. Lavi laughed, telling her a place beside him would always be open. He moved a seat down to give him his seat and Amber sat down after waving to Kukai and Tadase in acknowledgement.

"Not that I don't enjoy your company but what's up?"

"Have you done up your mission report?"

Lavi nods and pulls out his blue report folder from his bag, "Here, you want to proof-read it?"

Amber nods and thanks him before taking it from him, the Bookman Junior grins in response and leans back in his seat to watch her.

Amber was a beautiful child, inside and out not to mention gifted, sweet, intelligent, humorous and witty. She was literally the total package. The only thing that was difficult about the witch was her overprotective father and her age.

But then again, the fact that she was still a child did make holding himself back from courting her a lot easier.

God, he didn't even want to think how gorgeous the girl would become once she became 18.

But Lavi knew he shouldn't. The only time he could ever court her was his dreams. As a Bookman, he is not supposed to have a romantic relationship of any kind. At the time, Lavi didn't care about falling in love one day, he just wanted to survive yet here he was, with feelings for General Cross's daughter.

Love sure is complicated.

"I'm done."

Lavi blinked and moved his hand to take the folder but froze when he feels Amber's lips against his ear.

"It's good that you didn't mention that Allen was stabbed by Crown Clown make sure you continue not to mention it."

"W-why?"

"I'll tell you when we get back to HQ."

Amber kisses his cheek and moved out of the seat before Lavi could react.

"I'm going to the back. I'll see you guys later."

"But Amu-!"

The female redhead shakes her head and walks off much to Rima's dismay. Once the curtains closed behind her friend, Rims scowls and Nagi sighs, seeing this.

"Rima-chan, please don't make such a face."

"Shut up!"

Ikuto sighs deeply, frustrated. He contemplated on following the former Humpty Lock bearer until he notices his feline chara moving out of his seat and floating upwards. Curious, his eyes follow Yoru to see him advancing towards Christa looking her usual haughty self.

"Hey Christa-nya"

"What do you want?"

Your flushed, feeling embarrassed under her scrutinizing gaze, "Erm.."

Not giving him a chance to speak, the witch chara snorts, unimpressed.

"Do not get into trouble with me looking over you idiots you hear me?"

Rhythm who had been listening just like the other charas and chara bearers, flew to where Christa was, frowning, "Idiots?"

"And who put you in charge of looking after us huh?" challenges Daichi as he floats toward the group, joining in the conversation.

"Amber. She doesn't trust anyone else to look out for you all. She doesn't need drama on this trip."

Rima, hearing all this, had enough, "Why the hell is she treating us like strangers?! We're her friends damn it!"

Lavi and Kanda, hearing this turns to Rims and the doll-like pre-teen realizes her outburst was out loud so naturally, she blushes hard in embarrassment.

"Is something wrong Rima-chan?" Lavi asks kindly.

Kanda snorted, "Don't bother. She's just being insufferable."

Rima scowls but before she calls him rude, the swordsman casts her a firm gaze, "Do not cause trouble. Nobody wants trouble on this trip."

This time, she stands.

"Then don't bring us here! It is you people that are taking us away from our homes! It's-"

"-all Kit. She arranges for all these resources; transport, guards and everything else to ensure your damn safety. Don't say she doesn't care because she really does it's just not in the way you want her to."

Everyone stares at Kanda as they digested this new information. Lavi recovers first and politely asks Rima to take her seat. She listens this time, looking at Kanda curiously.

"How well do you two know Amu?"

"We're comrades" Kanda answers, turning back to continue with his mission report.

"There seems to be more than that though. You guys seem close."

"Lavi especially" Ikuto points out, remembering his observations of the two and the fact that Amu had called him 'hot' the night before which was still irking him a little.

Tadase frowns, hearing Ikuto, "I think Kanda-san is closer to Amu-chan though, she chose to sit next to him didn't she?"

With that, everyone turned in Kanda's direction but the ponytailed exorcist wasn't reacting to them, instead he was focused on his report.

Brats...

Amber panted hard as she tied her hair up into a messy bun above her head.

Thank God I came to the workout room to release that pent up frustration I had.

The next song on her playlist began to play and the redhead began taking off her top revealing a white caged bra she had on underneath, thinking to herself.

Although, I hope I can get at least 30 minutes in of this before something happens...

Amber flexes her arms, stretching her body once more before she continues her stress-relief workout.

Lavi sweatdropped seeing all the chara bearers look at Kanda, obviously waiting for his response but the blue-eyes exorcist was not interested. He takes a deep breath and clears his throat before speaking loudly to get the attention off of Kanda.

"Does it matter who Amber is close to?"

Ikuto frowns at the question, "How long have you even known Amu?"

"A year."

"Well we knew her for two."

Kanda snorts, clearly unimpressed, "You knew her as Hinamori Amu not who she really is."

Ikuto clenched his hand into a fist and turns in Kanda's direction to glare holes at the back of the samurai's head but obviously the long-haired 18 year old could care less.

"How much of Hinamori was true?" Kukai asks quietly, his curiosity getting the better of the jock.

Lavi turns to the younger boy with a grin on his handsome face, "Describe how Amu is to you and I'll tell you."

Kukai nods, smiling gratefully.

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