Neah barely made it to the water by the time the sun had risen. He jumped into the water, not caring about the noise it made (they ARE in hiding). As he swam through the water, he also got a bath from it, and a much needed one at that.
He slowly came out of the water and before he even got out, he was grabbed by the collar. He was hurled out of the water and thrown against the wall. He was surrounded by several people. Pushing his hair back (imagine it in a sexy way), he looked up and saw Kanda ready to wack him and Johnny in the corner holding onto the protesting Road. As usual, Cross was standing nearby, corking open a new bottle of wine from who-knows-where. Bookman was sitting on top of a rock and Lavi pointed a gun at Neah, just in case things went wrong.
Neah's eyes lit up as soon as he saw Cross. "Cross! How've you been-," he didn't even finish when Kanda punched him in the stomach.
"Where is the moyashi?" Kanda hissed. "You know he really doesn't like to be called that," Neah said. Kanda poked him in the stomach with his weapon. Neah sighed, "he's fine. We just swapped places for a little while is all."
"And why would he have any reason to do that?" Kanda interrogated. Neah was getting pissed off now but before he could say anything Cross came and pushed Kanda out of the way. Kanda was about to protest but went silent as soon as he saw Cross' glare, the thing that would scare a mountain lion.
"You ok?" Cross asked in his nicest, yet most awkward tone. As his hand was held out, Neah gladly accepted it. "So the shrimp finally learned some manners" Neah remarked. That was most likely the biggest mistake he had ever made. Lightning quick, Cross pulled out both of his guns and started to fire but was attacked by Lavi's death hug. Road took this as a chance to escape and ran to hug Neah. "Uncle, hurry and change back with Allen!" She yelled desperately. "Ok, ok" he said, giving up the little freedom he had. His head dropped back and his body slumped to the floor, making Cross stop his attack.
Cross smashed his head against Lavi, causing him to let go, slowly twirling, dizzy, into the wall.
Allen came to, his head snapping back up to see Road cuddling him. She looked up from where her head was on his shoulder into his eyes. "Allen!" She yelled, knocking him to the ground, still hugging him. Lavi put away his gun but Cross shot at Allen, purposely shooting an inch away from his ear. "That was for Neah," he said, seeing Allen's question coming. Allen, nodded, sweating.
"Road," Allen put on his gentleman smile, "could you please get off me?" "But I wanna keep holding you," she wined. Allen looked at her with puppy eyes and she gave him one final squeeze before letting go.
"Where were you?" Bookman asked. "Yeah, we were up almost an hour ago and you were gone," Lavi added. "Oh sorry, I went to talk with Neah," Allen said in a surprisingly calm voice. Everyone stared at him and he smiled, a bit nervous.
"Are you really the moyashi?" Kanda threatened, tapping his weapon on his hand. "It's Allen!" He said angrily. "And I was talking with Neah to confirm something!"
"Well, get on with it!" Cross yelled. "Ok, ok," Allen said, first walking up to a hidden hole in the rocks. He sat there peering outside, looking for any danger, as he began his tale.
Dont panic today's update isn't done yet. I am just putting the finish touches on the next chapter. It will be uploaded by (earliest) tonight or (latest) tomorrow after I am done with school. The next chapter I am thinking about very carefully so I am constantly editing what I am writing. Spolier: The next chapter we go into Allen's memories!