I meant to post this a lot sooner than this, but life gets busy! But to make up for it I'm going to post another chapter tonight or tomorrow.

I'm going to answer reviews at the start of each chapter, I've read other works with this and it seems like a good idea.

Dark Magpie: Thank you for being the first review! This story isn't going to be overly happy, but Its not going to be super dark. What I plan on doing is making a good mix for the most part at the start, but things will change once I get the story running. I will tell you now there will be some very dark themes later on, some will have a little warning. As for Cross I'm not going to say much, but he won't be around anytime soon. Allen isn't going to do much with the book at the moment, but its very important even if its role is minor now.

Kirayamapi: Thanks! I promise to see this story to the end.

chris1501: Don't worry about Cross, like I said he won't be around anytime soon.

I'm telling you at the start Allen is going to be a little OOC for a while, but its one of the reasons I made him a year younger than how old he is in canon wise.


The appearance of the mysterious kid sparked wild rumors around the school, more so when no teacher was willing to say a word on the matter. Some people even said this wasn't the first time they had seen the kid around the academy, but the strange part about it was the kid had no record in the system. He didn't even have any ID on him either, just a large amount of cash and a deck of warn cards.

That didn't stand well with Lavi, he knew everything about everything. So when something came up he didn't waist a second, burying himself into research. Since no student could get a word out of the teachers, he was a bit of a stand still. But unlike most of the students here, they didn't have family working in the academy. So getting the truth about the boy was a lot more easy.

"I'm sorry, but even I don't know who he is." Komui sighed watching the mysterious kid sleep, looking back to Lavi. "But I would like to know he got in,"

Lavi groaned and leaned against the wall. "We thought that you were going to be helpful," he looked to Bookman. "What about you?"

"I know just about as much as Komi brat," Bookman snapped and frowned. "I will tell you this, I've never seen scar like that."

Lavi was quickly becoming frustrated, not a single teacher could tell him who this kid was. Not even his grandfather who was the one who taught him everything he knew.

Just then Lenalee and angry Kanda walked in. "We can't find Mr. Marian, and Ms. Lotto said he never signed out either."

Kanda sat down and glared at the boy, it was because of him he was stuck at school longer than he wanted to be. "Just call the authorities, make them take care of him."

Lenalee opened her mouth to scold the boy when the nurse's office doors opened. "Marie?"

Marie was Kanda's older adoptive brother, he was also the music teacher here at the academy. Most would find it surprising a blind man was a music teacher of all things, but he hadn't always been blind. And even if he was blind, it didn't mean he couldn't play any less.

"There would be no need for that," He walked in and looked to the boy. "His name is Allen Walker, Cross's foster son."

"C-Cross's foster son!? Since when would a man like him have a son of any type?!" Komi was in shock, looking back at Allen. "And Cross never had anything about this in his files!"

"It surprised me too when Allen told me, but some of the stories he's told only proved this claim."

"Wait, you've talked to him?" Lavi looked at him in shock, cursing at himself for not even thinking of asking Marie about this.

"Yes, I caught him once in the music room playing the piano last year. His talent was something I had never seen before, so I allowed him to come back anytime when I don't have a class."

"You've know about him and never thought to tell anyone?" Bookman frowned.

"The boy never caused any problems, so it never came to mind." Marie shook his head. "But this is likely Cross's handy work, though I don't know why he would do it."

Everyone in the room had thought the same thing, they would have been surprised if he hadn't done this.

"Well sitting around here will solve nothing, we need to look around to find out where the hell Cross went." Bookman crossed his arms.

Komui nodded and looked to the three teens. "I want you three to check the teacher's lounge, a spare key to Cross's locker should be in my office."

Lavi and Lenalee set out, Kanda wondering off likely to yell at Tiedoll about heading home.


It was around 7pm before Allen woke up, his head was pounding and his body felt medicated. He sat up and looked around, quickly feeling nervous seeing at he was in the nurse's office. That only meant someone had found him, but to his luck no one was currently in the room.

Moving quickly as he could without making himself sick, he grabbed his wallet and slipped on his shoes. Feeling for his deck of cards he grit his teeth seeing as they weren't there, so he started to look around the room to no lucky. That was his lucky deck that had been with him on every gambling spree, this deck had always been there with him.

Tim heard his master get up and move around, causing for him to get up as well. Flying over he spit out the deck, before landing on Allen's head.

"Thanks Tim," Allen smiled and pocketed the cards, he walked to the door and moved close. There was silence from the halls, seeing it was clear he opened the door stepping out of the office. "Lets get out of here," he ran down the hall to the exit, only to stop remembering the book.

Allen cursed and contemplated weather or not he should go back and retrieve it. His curiosity got the best of him. Turning around he sprinted down the hall making his way to the first floor to Cross's office, he placed a hand on the door only to stop hearing voices.

"-stop looking already, you've gone through all of Cross's things and you've called him 36 time already Komui. I don't think he wants to be found..."

"I know...but this isn't the time for him to be missing, not in-"

"What the hell are you doing?"

Allen quickly turned to see a boy looking to be at least 17, he had long dark black hair with gray eyes. He was dressed in the academy uniform with a little pendent telling you he was a Junior, his face telling you he was pissed.

"I-I um," Allen didn't have much time to answer as more people were coming, his heart pounding quickly against his chest.

"Answer me Moyashi," Kanda growled.

"M-Moyashi?"

The door opened and Komui stepped out along with Bookman, Lavi and Lenalee showing up as well.

The panic started to settle in, making it hard to breath. Allen started to tug on his glove, trying to calm himself down.

"You shouldn't be up and about, there's a chance you could have a concussion." Bookman moved forward, but stopped seeing the look of terror in his young eyes.

"Allen,"

Turning quickly Allen saw Marie approaching, quickly moving past everyone and going to the only familiar face. "Marie," He smiled feeling a bit calmer.

Marie smiled and placed a hand on Allen's head feeling him come near, ruffling his hair before pulling him closer. "It's good to see you up and awake, if you head over to the music room I'll take you home once I've finished up here okay?"

Allen nodded and quickly ran off, much to Komui's protesting.

"Marie, we can't just-"

Bookman held his hand up. "They boy has had enough for one day, we can question him tomorrow."

Komui frowned, but said nothing.

"I'll bring him by after school tomorrow, have a goodnight." Marie bowed slightly before walking off.

Something inside Kanda made him feel strange as he watched the boy finally turning a corner and disappearing. His frown grew, he had just met this kid and he was already getting a strange feeling about him. He then knew this boy was someone he wasn't going to get along with.