Why helloooo there! I'm back from vacation-it was awesome! Anyways, I'm still trying to control myself from not publishing my other story but I'm having a hard time doing so. lawls. So ya. Heres chapter 8-the adventure starts! Woootttt!!!

Oh, and thanks ai-samaXnero-chan for drawing Dior Snow on deviant art!!! She looked sexy! lol PLus all the people that reviewed and added this to favs/story alert!!! You are so cool!!! ;)

Chapter 8!!!

The exorcists stared at me.

"Um, what?" I wanted to know. It was the next day-a sunny morning that filtered in through the windows of the Black Order. We were all standing in the cafeteria, ready to set off for this mission, but as soon as I went down there to get some breakfast, everybody in the cafeteria turned their hands and gaped at me like I was a monster for some unknown reason.

And even Kanda, who probably wouldn't have cared if someone had died right there, was staring at me, his eyes wide in shock.

"Could you please, just say it already?" I hissed at the people impatiently. What was wrong with these mimes?!

Lavi suddenly burst out laughing and had rolled onto the floor while Lenalee looked like she was about to burst into tears.

"Di-Dior!" the Chinese girl cracked into a sudden sob. "Wha-what-WHAT DID YOU DO TO THAT DRESS?!"

Tears flowed out of her eyes and onto her pretty face as I glanced down at what I was wearing, which was that hideous purple cosplayish bowtie Victorian era dress that Lenalee had given me the morning before. Only it wasn't exactly the same dress-it was but it wasn't. I had never aced my home economics sewing class at school back in the 21st century, but I knew how to cut. And sew a bit. And so I had put those skills to work the night before on that poofy dress. Which was erm, not so poofy anymore after the extreme makeover-in fact, it didn't really look like a Victorian era dress anymore after yesterday, fortunately. It was now a chic, modern, short little dress with no more laces and no more bows (well I had left one) that was designed by me! Dior Snow! And hell yeah, I was damn proud of myself. I would have totally aced Home economics sewing class if this had been my project back then!

Only the exorcists didn't think so.

"Um, ano." Allen Walker, who had dropped his slice of pizza (didn't know they had pizza back then) glanced up and down at me. "I guess it's more…convenient?"

"Of course it is." I said to the boy. "I mean, it's not fair that you guys get to wear your exorcist uniforms while I am the only one that has to go trippin over stairs in a big hoopskirt."

I glanced at Lavi and Lenalee, who didn't really look like they agreed with me. Lenalee was crying her eyes out on the floor with huge sniffs and sobs and Lavi was beside her, patting her on the shoulder and trying to comfort her. I blinked as the redhead lifted his head and glared at me, as if he was saying: "Look at what you've done! You've made Lenalee cry you monster!"

"What a disrespectful girl." Some dude whispered behind me suddenly. I spun around immediately in anger.

"WHO SAID THAT?!" I shouted at the group of finders, who looked startled. "I DARE YOU TO SAY IT TO MY FACE!"

Nobody confessed themselves or admitted anything so I sighed and turned back to Lenalee and Lavi, who were knelt very close beside each other.

"Look, Lenalee." I said to the teary girl. God it was just a little trim here and a little cut she didn't have to get so emotional over it. It's not like what I had done to the dress was actually her hair or something. That would have been worse. "I only fixed one of the dresses. You gave me three. I'm sorry if I wasted your money or something but I can er, pay you back. You know, once I figure out how to transport money from my world and bring it here. Okay no, that would probably never happen. But you have to admit, the dress looks way better now."

I was trying to make her feel better, but apparently what I had just said was offensive or something, because she was crying even harder now.

"I-I LOOKED SO HARD TO FIND SOMETHING THAT YOU WOULD LIKE!" The Chinese girl sobbed as Lavi patted her on the shoulders, wide-eyed. He looked like he was seeing a completely different Lenalee. So apparently Lenalee didn't act like this…alot?

"Ho-how could you just waste my efforts?" Lenalee covered her face in her hands, shaking.

"Um, it's still the same dress?" I pointed out. Oops. I didn't know that she would react like this to the dress makeover. I guess I didn't know her that well.

After a long moment of more sobbing and crying, Lenalee suddenly got up from the floor and wiped the tears away. Like, suddenly. Her eyes were now red from crying. "Ye-yeah, it is." She sniffed then looked at me unhappily. "It's okay. It doesn't matter. I mean, you can decide what you want to wear, it was unfair of me acting like that."

Allen Walker looked concerned. "Linali? Are you alright?"

"What? Of course I am. Sorry…I guess I just sort of lost control back there…haha. Anyways," Lenalee blinked the tears away from her eyes. "We need to set off for Germany soon. Let's get everybody. Where are Bookman and Kanda?"

I turned around to Allen, who was standing right beside a creepy looking Kanda.

"I think he's in shock." Allen answered nervously. The British boy waved his gloved hands in front of the Japanese man's dull eyes, but it was like he was dead. "He's not moving."

I looked at Kanda, who was sitting at a table in the corner facing us with a pair of chopsticks clutched in his hand. He looked like a stone statue and his eyes were staring off into space, ignoring reality. He looked like he had just seen something so horrible it couldn't even be described.

Lenalee sighed lightly. "I guess we'll will just have to carry him." She didn't mention that it was my fault for Kanda's coma. I really didn't think that the whole thing would have affected the exorcists that much.

"I'll carry Yu!" Lavi bounced up happily, raising a hand.

Allen Walked got up from beside Kanda. "Sure Lavi, but just be aware that when he wakes up your head might be gone."

The redhead took a step back nervously. "Right." He said. "I forgot about his personality for a moment there."

"Well." Lenalee announced sadly. "Whatever. Let's get going now."

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After I took a piece of pizza from Allen's unfinished plate and swallowed it down as breakfast, (No, the pizza was unbitten otherwise that would have been disgusting) we left the cafeteria, leaving a room full of people staring after the five of us. Honestly, what was so bad about fixing up a hideous dress? They should have been thanking me for what I had done to save their eyes. Except Kanda. I think he was scarred for life for some reason.

We walked past the hallway in silence-I didn't bother to ask where we were going. All I knew was that we were going to be out of the Black Order soon, which put butterflies into my stomach. I had been to Victorian era museums back in the future, but I had never, of course, experienced something like actually going on the streets of the 19th century. I was beginning to turn nervous for some reason, and I kept trying to tell myself that there was nothing to be nervous about, but I couldn't stop thinking about all the monsters and stuff out there in this world. I was putting my life on the line.

A few minutes later we had arrived at a creepy dark passageway that seemed to have a river flowing in it. Bookman was leaning against the stone wall of the passageway, waiting impatiently.

"Hey, Gramps!" Lavi called out cheerfully with Kanda slung over one shoulder-he had decided to carry him in the end even though he knew that it was putting his dear life in danger.

"Here finally." The old man said, looking at all five of us. He frowned when he saw Lavi carrying Kanda and blinked when he saw a red-eyed Lenalee who was sniffing, but his gaze stopped when he saw me, and looked at me up and down. "What the-"he took a frightened step back, but then coughed. "Eh-hem. Oh whatever, I don't even want to know."

Lavi grinned. "Good choice, Panda!" but then after saying those words he got a smack on the head by the old man. "Ow!" the redhead cried, rubbing his head with his free hand that wasn't grabbing Kanda.

"What are we doing here in this creepy place?" I asked the exorcists, glancing around. Rats were literally crawling over the floors and the only light in the passage way was a single candle. The place also reeked of a sewer smell that was poisoning my nose.

Allen walked over to the water and hopped onto something. "Come on, Dior." He offered out his hand. "Get on the boat."

I blinked and took his hand. "Oh." I said stupidly, squinting. "It was so dark I didn't see a boat there."

After Allen pulled me onto the tiny wooden boat, Lenalee hopped in. Next was Lavi, who slung Kanda over his shoulders and threw the Japanese man onto it, creating a loud cracking sound. The boat shook over the water as Lavi jumped on swiftly after.

"Lavi, be careful with Kanda's body!" Lenalee scolded the redhead as she dragged the blue-haired exorcist beside her.

Lavi laughed. "That sounds wrong, Lenalee."

That earned him another smack on the head.

"Ow!"

Bookman was the last person to get in the boat, and after all six of us were in, Allen started rowing.

I shrugged uncomfortably in the tiny space I was given. It was a small boat, barley fitting us all in. I was squished in right between Lavi and Lenalee. Across from us sat Bookman with a bored expression on his face and beside him Kanda was laid down onto the wood with his eyes open, taking up most of the space. Damn that Japanese man. I yawned, suddenly feeling extremely tired. It was probably only six in the morning and we had already set off for Charlottenburg, Germany. I hardly got any sleep last night-I stayed up most of it trying to fix the dress and the other half I couldn't fall asleep due to nervousness and worry of the Nazis. Was Hitler even in this era? Whatever. I should have paid more attention in History class.

Beside me, Lenalee had her head rested in her palms. She also looked tired. To my right, Lavi was moving around too much. I wondered where he got all that energy from.

"Stop wiggling, Lavi." I gumbled in annoyance but I barley had the energy to kick him.

"Wups, sorry!" I heard the redhead say before I hung my head down.

The rocking of the boat was like a lullaby, forcing me to close my eyes. Nobody really talked or said anything -it was just silence.

And so before I knew it, I had fallen asleep.

"I can't believe you traveled into the D Grayman world." Jess said enviously. "I would love to meet all the characters."

"Well, we should switch places then." I said slowly. I was back in the twenty first century with my friend Jess for some reason and we were sitting in the school courtyard on a bright sunny day, but I was still wearing that dress. Funny, wasn't it?

"You don't even know how lucky you are." Jess sighed.

"Oh believe me, I think you've got it all wrong." I told her. "Besides, I could die like, at any moment."

Jess blinked at me strangely. "Die?" she echoed. "I don't think that it would be that easy for you to die. I mean, you DO have an Innocence."

I stared at her. "What?" I said in shock. "Since when did I have a cool power like that?"

Jess shook her head sadly. "You're so stupid. Can't you feel connected to the Innocence at all?"

I blinked at my friend. Words that she would probably never say were coming out of her mouth. "Uh, no?" I answered in confusion. "What are you talking about?"

Jess looked annoyed. "Fuck, Dior Snow."

I gaped at her. "What did you just say?" I demanded.

"I said fuck, Dior Snow. Get off of me."

I raised an eyebrow. "Um." I said, out of words. We were sitting on the same bench in the courtyard, but we were pretty far apart and I wasn't even in her space. "I'm not even touching you." I pointed out, but Jess groaned.

"God, yes you are! Now get off of me."

"What the hell? What's wrong with you?"

"What's wrong with you?! Why don't you get off of me and stop drooling on my shoulder?"

I blinked open my eyes in surprise. It was a bright sunny day and we were out of the dark passageway, but still on the boat. I found myself in a weird position-my head was rested on Lavi's shoulder and my legs were spread over on Lenalee's lap. I lifted my head up instantly and touched my mouth. It was wet-I had been drooling the whole time I was asleep.

"Oh my god!" I said to Lavi suddenly as he moved further away from me. "D-did I-"

The eye patch wearing guy didn't look too happy. In fact, he looked grossed out, even for Lavi. And Lavi didn't seem like the type that would be disgusted very often. "Dior Snow." He said through gritted teeth. "You drooled on my exorcist uniform."

I looked at his shoulder. The black fabric had a dark splotch on it- where my head was.

"Well, why didn't you wake me up then?" I demanded even though I had no right to.

"I-" Lavi looked for words even though he was clearly pissed. "You just-I couldn't just-you-"

I smirked as the redhead shook his head in frustration.

"Arghhhhh!!!" Lavi cried. "You're so sick, man! How am I supposed to wear this uniform now?"

Behind me, something moved. I glanced around to see Lenalee stretch into a yawn.

"What's going on?" the female exorcist blinked tiredly. It was obvious that she had just waked up. Probably because Lavi. "Are we there yet?"

"You!" Lavi pointed a finger at me accusingly, then turned to Lenalee. "She drooled on my shoulder!"

Lenalee looked at the redhead. "Huh?" she said, still half asleep. "Just clean it up Lavi. Stop being so loud."

"Time to get up!" Allen Walker announced suddenly, capturing all of our attention. He was still rowing the boat, and he didn't even look tired at all. "We're here in Reims!"

I glanced around tiredly. It was pretty embarrassing that I had drooled on Lavi's shoulder when I was asleep, but oh come on! Who didn't drool?

"You're sick." The redhead, who was beside me, hissed into my ear suddenly to my surprise. "I don't know how I'm going to deal with this."

I looked his direction. Lavi didn't look very happy, unlike his usual self. I guessed that this was his other side, the one that Miranda had told me about. "You know what you sound like?" I said to the redhead.

"What? Someone clearly disgusted by your saliva? I have my own, thanks very much."

"No. More like a diva girl that just found out her purse wasn't real Prada."

Lavi blinked at me with one green eye in confusion as I turned my head away from him and took in the surroundings, ignoring him for now even though I was still really, really, mortified. We were surrounded by trees and grass and all of that nature crap-there wasn't a single person in sight. It was obvious that we were still in a river of some sort-or a stream-I couldn't tell. It was all just trees and trees and trees and personally, I wouldn't have been able to tell from this view whether this was the 19th century or not.

"Hey, Allen?" I called to the white haired boy that was rowing the boat.

"Yes?" the British dude blinked at me. "Need something, Dior?"

"Yeah. Where are we exactly?"

Allen Walker rubbed the back of his head. "W'ere in Reims, a small town near the border of France." He told me. "We won't be able to get to Germany today-so we'll have to spend the night in a hotel or something."

I gasped. "They have hotels in your world?"

"Um, I guess?"

Well, that was certainly interesting and surprising.

Beside me, Lenalee laughed. She seemed to have gotten over the whole dress deal thing and was acting like her normal self again. "See?" she said cheerfully to me. "Our worlds aren't so different, now are they?"

I snorted. "Um, actually Lenalee, they ARE." I corrected the girl. "They are very, very different. Because you see, first of all, there are no such things called akumas in my world, which makes it much more normal than yours. Second of all, there aren't things called Noah trying destroy our world. Third of all, no ordinary old man in my world would wear eyeliner-"I glanced at Bookman, who looked kind of offended-"or leave their hair length up to their waist level and dye it dark blue. Nobody there would carry giant hammer around to smash people with, otherwise the police would be on their trails immediately and they would probably shoot them with a harmless gun. And lastly, nobody on earth has violet eyes, unless you're wearing contacts, which you're probably not."

I stared into her eyes, the ones that I had described. They reflected confusion, but they didn't look mad.

"I-I see." Was all Lenalee managed to say. She looked like she only understood half of my words, which wasn't surprising.

"Dior Snow annoys the hell outta me, which is weird." Lavi muttered beside me in a low voice to himself, but everybody could hear it anyways. "She's actually one of the few girls who I haven't thought was strike-worthy."

"Strike-worthy?" I echoed. "I'll strike your face with my fist if you don't shut up."

Lavi growled, but didn't bother saying more.

Suddenly, the boat came to a stop near the shore, startling everybody except Allen, who was in control of it. "That was quick!" Allen said as he dropped the wooden paddle and got out first himself. "We've arrived here earlier than I expected!"

"That's good." Bookman grumbled as he got up and stepped onto land.

Lavi hopped off next quickly, like he didn't want to sit beside me any longer and Allen offered me his hand, pulling me out of the boat.

"Kanda still hasn't awakened yet." Lenalee bit her lip worriedly as she stared down at the samurai, who was still lying in the boat with a shocked expression on his face. "Lavi, can you carry him please?"

"Anything for Yu!" the redhead nodded and grabbed Kanda by the shoulders.

Lenalee blinked. "Anything for me?"

"No, I meant anything for Yu."

"What?"

"Argh, whatever!" the redhead shook his head as he slung Kanda over his left shoulder, which was pretty disgusting, because a few minutes ago I had just drooled on that one. But oh well-it wasn't like I cared about Kanda's face in my drool on Lavi's uniform. (lol)

"So how many days is it going to take us to get there?" I asked Allen, who was checking a map he had pulled out of his pocket.

"Just one." He replied without a glance at me. "We'll be staying at a hotel tonight and tomorrow morning we will set off, and probably in the evening the next day we will arrive at the library if everything goes smoothly."

"Mkay." I said as the British boy began to walk away. Everybody else followed behind him as he walked through the trees.

"Apparently there is a hotel somewhere ahead." Allen said as he went along. "But we're going to have to walk for quite a long time to get there."

I groaned. Now this was starting to feel like a hiking trip. In Marc Jacobs mouse flats. And believe me- that was pretty painful.

It was hard keeping up with the exorcists-I guess they really were trained. Back home I was a pretty sporty girl at my school, but compared to everybody here, I was so slow and my stamina was just crap. We had walked for about more than two hours now, passing through the trees and wilderness, but there were no towns in sight. That was very disappointing. I had expected to see men in giant black hats and women in poofy skirts and carriages running on the streets, but all there was were mountains and trees and grass and a dirt road. My feet were killing me-sure Lenalee had got me three dresses, but she hadn't got me any shoes and that was the reason why I was having trouble keeping up with everyone. Stupid, stupid flats!

"Hurry up!"

Far ahead of us, Lavi, who was carrying Kanda (still in shock) across his shoulders, had already reached the top of the hill and was waving at us.

"I'm…so….hungry." Allen, who was a few steps in front of me, complained. "All I had was ten slices of pizza…."

I shuddered as Lenalee tried to encourage him. "It's okay, Allen!" the female exorcist said brightly. "It won't be long until we're there, so just hold on a bit more!"

Allen smiled weakly at his friend and forced himself to go on, taking small, slow, steps as he did so. I followed behind him, watching his footsteps and trying to keep up. Oh god. How much more did we have to walk until we reached that town? I glanced up at the sky, which was a crimson red. The sun was setting now and it was going to be night soon. We had spent the whole day in the boat and walking through forests.

I glanced up when I heard a sudden shout. Lavi had stopped at the top of the hill suddenly and was yelling loudly. He looked like he was being attacked by an invisible force.

"Oh my god!" the redhead cried as he ran around in circles. "Oh my god Yu, stop it!"

"K-Kanda?" Lenalee blinked, halting to a stop as she watched Lavi go crazy on the top of the hill.

"I'm going to fucking kill you today!"

Was another shout that I heard, coming from a very furious Kanda, obviously. Well, it seemed like that he had waked up and was attacking Lavi with inhuman speed, whirling around so fast that I couldn't see him. All that came into my eyes was a horrified Lavi covering his head and jumping around while trying to dodge something. Mugen, probably.

"Stop it, Kanda!" Allen yelled as he raced forward to break up the fight. Behind him Lenalee rushed after them quickly, leaving me in her dust.

"Wait up!" I called as I ran after the two exorcists. God they were speedy things.

Finally, I had reached the top of the hill in a sprint, where Kanda was killing Lavi.

"Stop it!" Lenalee cried as she tried to break them apart. I didn't know if she could see Kanda or not-he was so fast I couldn't.

"Tell me why you were fucking carrying me!"

I heard a snarl as Lavi yelped with a quick duck.

"Calm down,Yu!" the redhead cried as he hopped on one foot. "Its not like I was carrying you bridal style or anything!"

"What?!"

Before Kanda could take another swing at Lavi's head, he dropped his sword and burst out into a wheezing cough and fell onto the grass, clutching his chest.

"Yu?" Lavi blinked as the samurai kept coughing violently. "Uh, are you okay?"

Lenalee knelt down beside the swordsman anxiously and patted his back hardly, trying to stop the coughs. "What's going on?" she demanded. "Are you sick?"

Kanda just kept coughing though, clutching his chest even more tightly. "All-allergies." The exorcist managed to say as he zipped open his jacket for air. The Japanese man took a deep gulp of breath-he looked like he was going to die any minute.

I took a step towards them as Lenalee panicked. "Allergies?" she cried desperately. "How?!"

Kanda coughed some more as I began to feel bad for the guy. "Its getting worse!" I said as I went over and knelt down beside Lenalee and Kanda. What was going on? This guy looked so strong all the time-why was he acting like this?

"Ah-ahh!" Kanda rasped for breath as he fell onto the ground.

Suddenly, I felt something in my dress move.

A tiny head poked out of the huge pocket that I had sewn on for the dress and blinked at the sight.

"Meow."

Everybody spun around at the same time as they stared at the cat that leapt out of my pocket that went over to Kanda, who was coughing and choking at the same time.

"Meow." The cat meowed as Allen picked it up and looked at me. "Um, what is this?"

"GET IT AWAY FROM ME!!!" Kanda hollered as he rolled around in the grass, panting for breath.

"Oh my gosh!" Lenalee cried as she snatched the cat away from Allen's hands and ran away with it. "Kanda must be allergic to cats!"She shouted as she went as far away from the swordsman as possible, charging down the hill.

I gulped. Well, that was something new. I swallowed something down my throat as I watched Kanda start to settle down. His breath started to get steadier but he was still coughing violently. I mean, if I had known that this dude was allergic to cats, then I wouldn't have sewn a giant pocket into that purple dress and brought it along with me for the trip. So I had snuck it into the giant, specially designed pocket. But seriously! That cat had no food, I couldn't just leave it in my room!

I glanced over to Lavi and Allen nervously, who both had their arms crossed and was glaring at me. Oh they seemed pretty pissed alright. And even they were both really good-tempered guys, they had their limits as well.

"Um." I said innocently as I turned around and faced the two angry exorcists. "His name is Hobo?"

:D

KANDA IS ALLERGIC TO KITTENS!!! meow.