Allen and his friends were a tad late to lunch so most seats were taken. They wanted to sit together and it seemed impossible until they noticed an almost free table at the end of the cafeteria. The only inhabitants were two girls. They were eating and talking and they both glanced over at the exorcist and while the black haired girl who somewhat resembled Lenalee before her innocence had changed kept looking, the mahogany one looked away nonchalantly. Allen faintly wondered why they sat alone while they began heading over to where the girls were sitting.

Lenalee and Lavi were both complaining and glowing with pride because they were both worshiped by the students. They commented that everyone seemed to think the exorcists were attractive.

"You two are the attractive ones," Allen hid a slight blush, "I'm the weird white haired kid with the cursed eye." The others frowned at his comment.

"Allen, that makes you special." Lavi smiled at the younger boy. "Oh, do either of you have any leads on the innocence?" Allen and Lenalee both sighed.

"I was in every single choir class since first period and nothing that resembles the recording came up." Lenalee sighed.

"I didn't think anyone would and my suspicions were confirmed, no one sings in normal classes and there was no strange behavior by anyone." Allen commented,

"Why is Komui making us attend school anyways?" Lavi asked.

"Nii-San thinks we should relate to kids our own age and take a break from fighting akuma while also searching for innocence." Lenalee said in a calm tone.

"Well, you know, I was wondering if it really is innocence..." Allen muttered

Lavi and Lenalee gave him blank looks. "That was the song in my head when I was playing on the ark. Those words, that voice. I'm wondering maybe if there isn't a 15th Noah or if 1 of the ones who we thought were dead, wasn't dead..."

Lavi and Lenalee gasped. "Are you sure Allen? That makes sense but still..... Another Noah?" A sharp gasp brought them back.

Then they finally noticed. The two girls at the other end of the table staring at them.

Arisa was first to recover, "Um, hi?" Okay, so not smooth at all but she was still a little shocked. What was this about 'ark' 'innocence' and 'noah'? She supposed they were supposed to be fighting for biblical reasons but still....

The exorcists kinda chuckled at her clumsy reply. "Sorry, we kinda forgot there were people here....." The red headed boy whom Hikomi seemed to like said.

"Eh, well, it's alright, we were just eating. Continue I suppose." Arisa turned back to her lunch leaning over and letting her thick ponytail curtain her blush.

Hikomi looked like a total idiot still staring. Arisa gave her a sharp kick under the table and she squeaked. The exorcist were still silent and the air was heavy. They ate in complete silence, both ends of the table silent until Arisa couldn't handle the weight of the silence anymore and started trying to talk to Hikomi.

"How'd you do on the run?" Hikomi stared at her like she was crazy then after a 'follow along or else' look got it.

"Um, 37 minutes I think? It's a little bit under my last time but not to bad." She sighed and asked the dreaded question, "How'd you do?"

Arisa snickered, Hikomi knew Arisa beat her. "43 minutes, 37 seconds." Hikomi gave her a playful scowl and they both started laughing. The exorcists probably thought they were crazy but Arisa didn't much care. It appeared Hikomi had forgotten they were there as well. Then Hikomi remembered something.

"Arisa, how are you gonna get out of band? Your flute still hasn't shown up?"

Nice one Hikomi, way to dampen the mood. Arisa thought.

"I'm not entirely sure, I suppose I'll just tell Ms. Carina and accept whatever happens." She glared at the ring on her right hand.

"It is kinda pretty." Hikomi admired the ring.

"I guess." Arisa muttered. 4th period Math had been impeccably boring and she had just been fiddling with the ring throughout class. Social studies was next period and the teacher had promised to take them outside.

Allen, Lenalee and Lavi had been slightly embarrassed to have spoken so freely in front of the two girls. The mahogany haired one, Arisa he was guessing, tried to lighten the mood by starting a conversation with her friend, Hikomi was it, and it had helped slightly but the three didn't start talking but all their interests were perked when they heard something about a missing flute being replaced by a ring.

Allen looked at his schedule, he had Social studies next. Lenalee had yet another choir class to attend and Lavi had Gym. Allen and Lavi had reverse schedules so since Allen had started with Language arts, Lavi would end on it.

The girls ate in silence now as well, the comments about the ring appearing to dampen their mood. The Bell finally rang and the girl he decided to refer to as Arisa and him once again headed to the same class. Ms. Tora's Social Studies class. They sat in the same seats from earlier for attendance and then were told to line up and head outside for studying.

They sat in a circle on the ground and took notes as Ms. Tora read from a text book. Allen had absolutely no reason for knowing any of this but he knew it was part of their mission. He noticed Arisa was sitting next to him and he looked over just in time to see a ring with a literally glowing green cross on it. It was once again hidden by her sleeve after he had time to blink. Innocence...? It looked strangely like the glowing green cross on his hand before Tyki destroyed it and he got crown clown.

After a studying a bit and distractedly thinking about the ring, his left eye activated causing shouts of alarm from most of the class as he scrambled to cover it with his gloved left hand. Akuma were nearby! The teacher nodded at him and told everyone to get inside. A second later, two level 2 akuma and two level 3's came out of the tree line that bordered the school.

Allen spouted a cape and giant clawed hand.

Arisa watched in amazement as Allen started fighting off the akuma. He was amazing! The whole class was gawking. Maybe that's what he meant by cursed eye...? He could sense akuma? Arisa remembered him mentioning a cursed eye during lunch....

The whole class was running towards the school building including Arisa when her foot got stuck in a small hole and she tripped, the rest of the class running on ahead. She doubted anyone would help her up.

She lifted herself of the ground only to fall again from an immense pain in her ankle. Oh for the Pete's sake! I fall 20 times a day and I sprain my ankle the only time my life is in danger?! Come on! She mentally shrieked.

Allen had taken down one of the two level 3 akuma but the other three lvl 2's and the other level 3 were dancing around avoiding everything. One of the level 2's spotted her and it started towards her. She tried pushing herself with her arms trying desperately to get to the door. She tried standing again but her ankle crumpled beneath her. Had she broken it? A sprain shouldn't have been that bad! She resumed dragging but the akuma easily caught up and had a large gun barrel pointed at her. She felt a slight twitch of her ring but didn't take the time to look at it until a huge pink wave came off her hand. The thing shrieked before it could shoot and exploded, she ducked towards the ground in a hurry to protect herself.

Arisa's brain was completely over-run with fear, panic, confusion, amazement and surprise to fully comprehend anything that had just happened.

Once they were in the classroom, she noticed no one was there. I suppose they went deeper in case Allen lost... It would have been embarrassing to have them watch me almost die anyways... She mentally reasoned.

Allen slipped out a small winged golden ball from his pocket and started talking into it. It resembled Arisa's doodle from earlier in language arts. He finished talking to it then turned to her.

"You should probably go to the nurse. Are you okay? Should I help you?" Worry tinged his tone.

"Um, yeah. I'm fine. I'll go to the nurse on my own." She nodded and limping her way to the nurses office.

A quarter of the way, she really wished she had let Allen help her but somehow, she made it.

The nurse smiled and shook her head. "What happened?"

"I tripped and sprained my ankle..." Arisa smiled sheepishly.

The nurse walked over and examined her now exposed ankle. Once she looked over it, her smiled turned into a huge frown. "Arisa, this is more than a sprain, you broke your ankle. Not to severely but enough to keep you off your feet for at least a week or two. Are you sure you tripped?"

"Well, I got it caught in a small hole...." So, it was broken.

The nurse clicked her tongue in annoyance proceeded to get a wrap out of the cabinet and began wrapping Arisa's ankle. It hurt when she started doing it to tightly but Arisa suppressed a whimper of pain.

"Well, you should still go to a hospital and get it properly set. I'll let you stay here again." The nurse turned around and began writing out an injury report. Like her mom would bother taking her to the hospital. She laid back against the wall behind the small cot. She wished she could have gone to band class and get this whole confession thing over, but she knew the nurse wouldn't let her leave with a broken foot. Maybe fate wanted her to wait a little longer?

She kinda wondered how she would get home, the bus didn't go to her neighborhood and it may only be two blocks but she wasn't sure if she could walk to her house. She remembered the notes to the tune she had written and started to softly play them against a pencil.

After the rest of 5th and 6th periods ended, Hikomi rushed into the nurses office looked panicked. "Arisa! What happened!? Are you okay?" Her Friend was slightly out of breath.

"I just broke my ankle, its not too bad. I just can't walk well." She said

"Oh yes, you're just fine." Sarcastic was truly the only way to describe Hikomi's tone, "I'll have my mom drive us to the hospital." It was implied that Hikomi didn't trust Arisa's mom to take her.

"Fine." It was nice to know she had someone to rely on. She smiled and then cringed as she set her foot down again.

That afternoon, the three exorcists gathered in their three bedroom suite, because Komui couldn't risk Lenalee sharing a room with anyone, and sat down. "What is it Allen?" Lavi asked.

"Well, remember those girls from lunch? I think one of them is an exorcist. The mahogany haired one. We were in Social studies when a small group of akuma attacked the class. I was trying to fend them off and she tripped while the rest of the class was hurrying inside. One of the akuma went after her and I thought it was going to kill her before I got there, I turned around for a second to finish off the level three I was fighting before it could kill me and when I turned around she was ducking and the level two was no where in sight. I think maybe an innocence reacted on it's own to save her."

"Well, that's weird..... Did she have anything that could be a weapon?" Lenalee asked.

"Not really but she did have this weird ring, it was silver and had a glowing green cross on it. She said something about it previously being a flute."

"Well, I suppose we at least found something." Lavi smiled.

Then Tim drifted out of Allen's pocket and nipped his ear as punishment for being kept in Allen's pocket all day. Allen's ear was actually bleeding and it hurt a lot. He flicked Tim 'lightly'.