Disclaimer: I don't own D Gray Man.

G.N: This is the second story about the girl bookman having an alias of Hana. She is the apprentice of the bookman we all know. I'm not sure that the bookman clan accepts females to become bookman but males and females are equal.

(Note 1: This event happened 15 years in the future where the four time-travelers existed. This happened before they crossed time. It will not affect the plot and time flow of Souls Crossing Time. This story is only a supporting story for the girl bookman. Please do not be confused.)

First Alias

Hana

(Note: Please read first. Notes will guide you. Thanks)

"Tasukete kudasai!"

The voice echoed throughout the deserted land. A girl whose foot is chained was in distress. Trauma was building up because of what her young green eyes had seen. It was disgusting. It was way beyond her darkest nightmare.

The moon glowed and shone down on her young small body. She can still hear their screams. She can still see how they were murdered. The loud gunshots penetrated her ears. It was like the tune of a death march which was about to end. No one will save her now. Not even God. She cried longer than she imagined.

It will soon be over.

She closed her eyes. The last image sees was that strange mechanical ball aiming on her. She is about to die.

"Innocence Level 2 Hatsudou!"

She heard someone shouting in the darkness. She felt a little hope.

"Fire Stamp! Fire Snake!"

She could feel the heat nearby and hear the sudden explosions in the air. She couldn't open her eyes. She was scared. Maybe she already died, that what she thought at that moment. She was wrong.

She felt a strong object beating the metallic chain that ceased her to move for years. Then she felt that someone was holding her and moving her away from where she used to be.

She felt that she was still alive because of the warmth she felt. The girl tried to peek on the one who saved her. Red hair and an eye patch, that's what see saw. Then, she was out cold.

(Note: The girl here was only dreaming. :) The time here is the night before they time-travel)

(Gray Note SCT: FTFTB )

"Hana! Oi! Hana!" The voice called out her name. She didn't know where she was in the middle of the night.

"My my, you're sleep walking again!" The voice said and then grabbed her hand.

"A-Angie-san! Where am I?" Hana asked in bewilderment.

"You went out of your room again! Luckily, I saw you after I went to the bathroom."

She sighed. It was dream again. No. A memory in dream form. She had seen it a couple of times.

"I'm sorry. I was just having a bad dream." Hana said to the crimson-eyed girl. "I guess I should go out for some fresh air."

"Are you sure you're okay?"

The short haired blonde was worried about her friend. Hana was having nightmares lately.

"I'll be fine." She smiled at her. "Go get some sleep."

Angie nodded and left the girl by herself. It was the usual thing she does for it was the only way to help her.

Angie knew about the past of Hana. Hana told her about it once. Hana never had a name or should I say she discarded it because of what happened to her. She was a prisoner when she was three years old. Her father sold her to a Chinese merchant who buys children and forced them to work in mines. The most horrible thing was her price which was only 3 pieces of gold and a loaf of bread. It was a pity.

On night, the mine was attacked by akumas causing the deaths of her co-child laborers. The white moon was the witness. Lucky for her that she was saved by a red haired bookman. That was Hana told her.

On the balcony, the brown-haired girl sat and reminisced her past. She sighed while looking at the stars and the lonely white moon.

(Gray Note SCT: FTFTB )

(Note: Flashback: Hana reminisced the day she woke up after she was saved by the red haired-man with the eyepatch.)

"Oi! Lavi-senpai! She's awake!" A voice of a woman surrounded the room.

"How many times do I have to call me Bookman, Agatha! I already earned that title." The man with the eyepatch replied in an irritated tone.

"That's General Agatha to you!"

The girl simply listened to their argument. She didn't know what happened back there. All she knows is that she was saved.

"Your Name. Tell me your name little girl." Lavi asked her while sitting on the bed. She was spooked by the sudden question she heard that's why she tried to hide using the blanket.

"You scared her, Lavi-senpai." Agatha said.

Grrr- Grrrwl- Grrrwwwlll-

The two exorcists laughed at the sound coming out from the blanket.

Lavi grinned at her while getting an apple from the table. She peeked from the blanket to see.

"Here you go! Don't be..."

The apple on Lavi's hands was gone in a flash. She ate it with speed. Maybe she was really that hungry. She reached out her hand again.

"Onegai? Onegai?"

"Chotto matte kudasai." Lavi sighed knowing that she was asking for more. Well he didn't hesitate to give her more food.

"Oi Lavi. She's Japanese right?" Agatha said waiting for confirmation.

"I guess so." Lavi replied giving the basket of fruits to the brown haired girl. She ate what her hands touch first.

"She really reminds me of Allen-senpai." Agatha added.

"Yeah, the appetite factor."

She burped all of the sudden causing the two exorcists to laugh once again. She bowed her head and blushed knowing that something embarrassing.

"Gomenasai. Ah. I'm sorry! I didn't mean to."

"You can speak English?" Agatha asked.

"Hai. Yes. I learned it while in the mines. They spoke of the language and I suddenly learned it." The girl explained.

Lavi's eye sparkled.

"Ah. Ano. Thanks for saving me back there when we were attacked by those creatures." The girl said holding the blanket.

"Those were akumas. Foot soldiers of our enemy, the Millenium Earl." Agatha explained to the brown haired girl.

"Akumas? Demons?"

"Yeah. That's correct." Lavi commented.

There was a long silence. An awkward silence.

"Say Lavi-senpai. You wanted to have an apprentice right?"

"Uh-huh. Why?"

Agatha's lips pointed at the brown haired girl. She was telling Lavi to make the girl his apprentice.

"Hmm. That's a good idea. But I better explain it first to her."

Lavi, the red haired bookman, sat on her bed once again. Then, he started to talk non-stop.

"You don't have a family to return to now, right?"

"Yes."

"You also don't have a place to stay right?"

"Yes."

"Do you want to be my apprentice? You'll be a bookman like me!" Lavi grinned at her. Her eyes were frightened.

"Oi. Lavi-senpai! Don't scare her like that." Agatha said pulling the scarf of the bookman.

"What is a bookman?" She suddenly uttered.

Lavi gave an intelligent answer.

"The Bookman is a spectator of the world's history. He/she records the secret history of the world and passes it on to future generations." Lavi paused a bit. "The Bookman's role was to travel to every place in existence, lingering in no one location, but wandering, to emblazon history on his/her vision and record what he/she had seen."

Agatha and the girl wore a strange look.

"What?" Lavi asked.

"No-nothing." They both said.

"So, do you want to be my apprentice?" Lavi asked.

"Not yet. I want to think about it for now." The girl replied.

"I see. Better come with us then while you decide. Besides, you have nowhere to go." Lavi said scratching his head. "We're on our way home."

"Eh?"

(Note: Hana is still reminiscing her past here.)

On the next day, the girl found herself in the corridors of a place the red haired man called the Black Order. She was scared as she followed her savior.

"Uhm." Lavi said while walking. "You should at least tell me your name."

She didn't respond. She looked at him with her scared teary eyes. Lavi tried to stop her before she even cry. He was really making a lot of girls cry.

"Okay. Okay. Don't cry." Lavi said. "I won't be asking anymore."

She sniffed and held her tears and resumed walking. There were a lot of people gossiping. She didn't know how to respond on that kind of situation. She felt like she was in a different world. Everybody in the Order seems to look at her with discriminating eyes. She didn't like it. She wanted to escape the place. It's quite understandable for she had been in a dark scary place for a long time and not use to mingle with a lot of people. She was simply scared of it.

While walking in a fast step to follow the one who save her, she noticed a black haired boy who has silver eyes standing in the snowy garden. He had a strange look in his face. Then, he turned to her from a distance. His angry look scared her causing her to run away. Lavi noticed this but she was already far away. She was crying. She is a sensitive person.

The boy notices this and headed towards her direction. He followed her to see where she went.

Running as fast as she can, she tried to find a safe place to hide. She felt a lot more comfortable in the darkness than in the light. She headed towards an open room on her way up the building. The room was dark. She likes it. In this place, no one will disturb her. No one would even care to look at this place. She cried as she sat in the darkest part of the room where the light couldn't reach her. Well, she was only a distance away from the light coming from the door. She then thought of her darkest days in the mine.

A greenish orb flew towards the room flying pass the boy who was following the girl that came with Lavi. The orb stopped at the door way and sneaks in the small opening. It was going brightly. It seems like it has found its accommodator.

Lavi stood stiff as well as the boy the moment they saw the green fragment snucking in to that abandoned room. They were puzzle why an innocence entered a room like that. Before they tried to look for the answers for themselves, someone shouted from below.

"Oi! Lavi-senpai! Alex-kun! Did you see where the innocence went? I hope it finds my first apprentice!" Agatha shouted while on the ground floor of the building. She was waving at them at the moment. Alex moved back to avoid getting seen by her.

"Yeah! It's over here! We'll check it out!" Lavi shouted back from the 4th floor. "Let's go now, Alex!"

The boy nodded and then entered the dark room. As they enter, something had attacked Lavi. It was a shadow in a whip form. That attack sent him flying outside. Alex managed to hide behind the box that was near the door and avoided the attacks coming from the dark storage room. He gathered his thoughts and courage before dealing with the attacker.

"Uhm. Are you alright? I'm not going to hurt you!" He said peeking to see where she was. He kinda felt that the attacker was the girl he saw earlier.

"Don't come near me!" The girl replied. He was right.

"I'm sorry if I did something wrong back there. I just woke up that's why I had that look on my face." He explained as he revealed himself from the box in a slow manner not to startle her unlike what his uncle Lavi did.

Then, he walked towards the girl who was hugging a book while crying. He could barely see her because of the darkness. He slowly moves to avoid surprising her. She was really frightened. The innocence came to her distress. When he was near her, he sat in front of her. The light coming from the door shone down on the boy while the darkness wrapped the girl. Well, it looks like a start.

"I'm sorry about earlier." He said and then smiled at her. "Here, by the way, what's your name?"

Alex handed a white flower to ask forgiveness. He smiled while the flower plunged deep in the darkness surrounding the girl.

"That's a flower that only blooms during the winter season. It's kinda mysterious why it only blooms during that time but I guess that's the way it is." He said while holding the white flower with his left hand.

"So, what's your name?" He asked again. To his surprise, she took the flower and looked at it. She then whispered while looking at the white thing from the light.

"Hana?" She whispered.

"Wow. What a nice name. I'm Alex. Alex Walker. Let's be friends!" He introduced himself and gave a tender smile.

"No. No. That's not my name!" She panicked.

"Oh. I get it. That's your alias right? I saw you with Uncle Lavi. You're his apprentice? Cool! I always wanted to become a bookman!"

Grrrr... Grrrwl... Grrrwlll...

Alex was surprised. He laughed due to this causing her to feel shy. Then, she felt a pat on her shoulders. She looked at his face. He was smiling at her. A warm tender smile.

"Let's get out of this room, Hana-san!" He said while taking her hand. The book almost fell but she prevented it using her other hand. "Let's see Jerry-san and see what he cooked today!"

Literally, she was dragged outside. She was trembling but she liked the warmth she felt on her hands. So young and innocent, she blushed at the moment. They ran together outside with hands chained together. She loved it.

(Note: It's like in Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles, episode 1 when Shaorun dragged Sakura.)

Alex dragged his new friend, Hana, causing her to lift from the ground. Running down the stairs with an extreme speed, the two children just passed the red haired bookman and the white coat general. They were ignored.

"Did I just see Alex dragging that girl?" Lavi asked the general beside him.

"Yeah. I think so." Agatha replied. "It seems like their heading to the cafeteria."

The two of them sighed. They knew it.

Alex and Hana went to Jerry for some food. Hana was shy but a pat on her back encouraged the child. Lavi and Agatha spied on the two from the door of the cafeteria.

"Aw. So cute." Lavi's eye sparkled. A sudden heel landed on his foot.

"Don't think like that! Their too young!" Agatha said.

Alex and Hana sat in one table. They were chatting while eating. The two spies just eyed at them at the moment.

"So, you like soba? My uncle Kanda really likes soba." Alex said while eating his meal. She just nodded and couldn't look at him directly.

"Say Hana-san, why did you go to that dark place? Aren't you scared?"

"I'm comfortable in the darkness. I'm used to it." She replied in an anxious way. He was surprise that she answered him.

"Maybe I'll try the darkness too."

"Wha-what?" She was surprised of what he answered. She was a bit tense while eating her soba.

"I said maybe I'll try the darkness. So you wouldn't be lonely there." He smiled while gazing upward.

"Why would you do that?" She immediately asked the boy beside her.

"Because that's what friends are for." He blushed while saying that. There was a moment of silence before he spoke again. "You're my first friend other than my family."

She blushed upon hearing that. Her heart melts easily. She knew this would be a good start of friendship. For her, other than the darkness and her co-miners, he is also her very first friend.

"You know, I want to be an exorcist just like my father. Uncle Lavi is a bookman, my father's best friend." Alex uttered while sighing. "Even though their jobs are different, they didn't let that ruin their friendship. I hope the same thing happens to us now that innocence chose you, the book on your side."

His smile was assuring. It was not fake. He's an expressive person. That's what she thought.

The two spies had enough on eyeing the two children. They walked towards them.

"I'd like to shake the hands of my very first apprentice!" Agatha said coming from behind.

Hana didn't know what to do so she clinged to her new friend, Alex. She was startled by the white general.

"Oi. You scared her!" Lavi grinned being able to return what she said to him.

Hana looked at her friend asking for help. Alex just smiled at her with his silver eyes. Somehow, she knew what to say after that.

"I'm sorry, Agatha-san." She started. "I won't be your apprentice."

Agatha was shocked and cried on the rejection. But she wasn't angry at her or anything.

"Because I will be a bookman." She paused and look at the bookman behind her. "Lavi-san's apprentice."

"I'll work you hard. I'm strict when it comes to training and learning the ways on becoming a bookman." Lavi smiled at his new apprentice. "So, who are you?"

"Hana, a bookman."

"And what is a bookman?"

"The Bookman is a spectator of the world's history. He/she records the secret history of the world and passes it on to future generations." Hana gasped for air. "The Bookman's role was to travel to every place in existence, lingering in no one location, but wandering, to emblazon history on his/her vision and record what he/she had seen."

Lavi hugged his new apprentice. Alex smiled on what he had seen. She was getting comfortable at least.

"Agatha-sama, please take me as your apprentice." Alex bowed down to the general.

"I'll ask Komui about it. If he agrees then it's okay with me. Right now, I have other matters to attend to!" Agatha replied with the evil grin on her face. Alex was glad about her answer.

"Oi. Usagi! You cost me an innocence!" Agatha said revealing her innocence. Lavi sensed the urge to escape. He ran as fast as he could. "Come back here you Usagi!"

The two spies were gone leaving the two children laughing. It was a start at least.

(Note: End of flashback)

(Gray Note SCT: FTFTB )

Hana was still staring out on the vast nightsky until a familiar figure returned from a distant trip. He carried a luggage including his cross sword from a mission in France. He wore a sad face.

"Alex-kun!" Hana shouted in the middle of the night. This had caught his attention and thrown away the frown on his face.

"Sleep walking again, Hana-san?" He shouted back.

"No! I just couldn't sleep! I'll be there just a minute."

She always felt comfortable with him but she didn't realize that she would end up falling in love with him. She didn't want to ruin their friendship. Their friendship should stay in the light while her love for him should stay in the darkness. That's how she felt about it.

G.N: there. Hana's story is done. Lavi is not a general. He inherited the title of being a bookman. He just needed an apprentice.

The lines explaining what is a bookman came from the novel DGRAYMAN REVERSE which I do not own.

i hope you like it.

i'm not sure if flower in japanese is Hana. I just got the idea from the anime "Fruits Basket." the girl with the waves. Alex gave her the alias Hana. Hana was supposed to be the first apprentice of Agatha but she chose Lavi. I don't know her reason but i guess it's just find. The whole idea of shadow controlling book, innocence, is based on my understanding how a bookman should act. Just like a shadow, silently behind the scenes.

I was also listening to black paper moon by tommy heavenly6 when I wrote this. That song rocks!

Please review. I'd love to hear your comments.

story for the wrong tenses of verbs and typos if there are any. Next stop. Angie Evans.