Disclaimer: I don't own D. Gray Man or any of it's characters. Okay...so I've tried kidnapping Jasdebi, but they kicked me in the face and ran!

Infected

"Finally," Lavi said in a tone of annoyance. "You should faint soon, then I can take you to the Kagetori."

With a scowl and clenched fists, Debitto started forwards, but ended up being held down by Jasdero and Road. The spiky haired girl shot him a warning look, "What do you think you're doing?!"

"We have to do something!"

Lavi watched the three bystanders steadily before his gaze wandered back to Jaiden, his uncovered eye suddenly widened in surprise, and his face twisted into a look of disgust. He began to ease his grip on the girl's neck. "She's not even at level two yet," Lavi seethed silently to himself. "What has that idiot Tyki been doing all this time! I knew we shouldn't have trusted the Kurogami...."

Having heard Lavi's sudden angry outburst, three pairs of eyes stayed fixed on the red head, who eyed the weakened Jaiden as she was reluctantly released and dropped to the floor. "I can't take you with me now, Jaiden, but I'll be back soon."

In a swirl of darkness—Lavi vanished. Road was the first one at Jaiden's side, where she slowly began to regain consciousness. As she did so, she wondered just how these guys manged to always grab her one way or another, it was really starting to piss her off! Slowly, and a bit shakily, she picked herself from off the floor, watching as her scythe burst into a black smoke.

"Jaiden?" Road asked quietly.

There was no answer from said girl as she peered down at her hand with a somewhat scared expression etched into her features. It wasn't long before she had the twins looking over her shoulders out of curiosity, their eyes widened in fascination at the pattern presented to them.

"What is that? It looks cool! He!" Jasdero exclaimed, pointing at Jaiden's hand. Debitto raised a brow questioningly, "Have you always had that tattoo?"

"Tattoo?" Came Road's voice, the tone clearly showing that she was interested in the matter. She grabbed at Jaiden's hand forcefully, much to Jaiden's dislike, and examined the tattoo that was placed on the back of her hand. Nothing fancy, just a simple cross, but a strange cross at that. It look strangely similar to the crosses that lined that man's, Tyki's, forehead. "This looks just like—"

At that moment Jaiden quickly yanked her hand away from the spiky haired girl's grasp. "Stop touching me," She muttered with annoyance, only causing Road to give her a worried look. "Did he do that to you?"

Knowing very well who Road was talking about, Jaiden only scoffed. "People can't just give you tattoos out of fuckin' nowhere, stupid." She stated warily while stuffing her hands into her pockets, she merely shook her head before rounding the corner of her house and closing her front door shut on her way in. That left the three to stand there confused as to what had happened.

"She's never had that tattoo before," Debitto drawled randomly after noticing Jaiden had left, he himself pocketing his hands into his jacket. "I've seen her write with that same hand, that black cross was never there before." Other than Road being partially creeped out by how observant Debitto was over Jaiden's writing hand, he was right, there was something suspicious about that tattoo.

"Maybe it has something to do with what that pirate guy said earlier," Jasdero suggested thoughtfully, catching both teen's attention. "What do you mean, Dero?" The blonde scratched the back of head in a sort of thinking manner, trying his best to remember what Lavi had said. "Something...about...Jaiden not being at level two? I think..." He trailed off from his statement, searching his thoughts.

"...I think that tattoo could have something to do with it." Jasdero finished.

Road's foot nudged Debitto, making his head jerk back up. They were in Chemistry, and he had been dosing off.

Debitto's eyes narrowed. "What?" He hissed, watching as Road's gaze wandered to the girl sitting next to him. Glancing beside him, Debitto noticed Jaiden fidgeting uncomfortably in her seat and occasionally scratching at the back of her hand. The routine continued like that for several minutes before Debitto opted to see what was wrong in the most polite way possible. "What the hell are you doing?"

Jaiden nearly jumped a foot at the sudden question, seeing as it was just Debitto she quickly turned her frightened expression into a scowl. "Nothing that concerns you." The dark haired boy growled in reply, "Whatever, I won't bother caring anymore."

"Good," She grumbled, pausing to once again scratch the inked cross on the back of her hand. Jaiden winced as she felt a sudden throbbing and the reaction to scratch at the tattoo even more. She could hear someone gasp suddenly next to her but ignored it. It was then that she felt a forceful grip on her wrist, "Jaiden! What are you doing!?"

Jaiden blinked several times, coming back to reality only to see the strange sight in front of her. The blood dripping down her hand nearly made her scream, but the shock kept her gaping in horror at the black pattern moving across her hand.

As Jaiden watched black tendrils of the tattoo's ink travel up her arm, she really did scream.