This story is for yukinothekoneko's July contest.

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1. Any and all fandoms are accepted.

2. You must commit to the month of July.

3. Each chapter must be at least 100-1,000 words.

4. One of the genres must be Comedy, Gender Bender, or Boy x Boy.

5. Talk about the challenge in the first chapter.

The chosen Genre for the story is... (Drumroll please) GENDER BENDER!

Please enjoy. ^^

Disclaimer: D. Gray Man and Ouran High School Host Club do not belong to me.

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Begin

I was sitting in a white room on a white piano bench playing a - you guessed it - white piano.

I looked alright on the outside. Sure, there was some dirt on my clothes and a bruise here and there, but on the inside, I might as well been dead. I had five cracked ribs and two broken ones. Unluckily, one of the broken ribs had pierced my right lung and it was filling with blood.

I could feel the pain, especially when I coughed up more blood that was spilling out of my mouth and dripping off my chin onto my lap. I looked like a vampire. I scoffed at the thought. Oddly enough, even though I was in so much pain, I didn't really feel dead.

My fingers glided over the keys, never once stopping, even when I coughed, and played the calming tune from before. They only stopped when I sensed another presence in the room.

"Great great grandfather is too long of a title, so I'm just gonna call you grandpa." I stated, not even turning to glance back at him.

"I don't mind. It makes me feel less like I'm over a hundred years old." He replied. There was silence for a while. Not awkward silence, but comfortable silence.

"Grandpa?" I asked, catching his attention.

"Yes?" He replied.

"Do you know what the key is?" I asked.

There was a pause and I knew then that he did know what it was.

"And where did you here this term?" He asked a bit coldly.

"From hell's horsemen." I answered as I turned to him. I then gestured to my dying body and said, "Who else do you think did this to me?"

He looked at me slightly confused, then asked, "Who are you talking about?"

It was my turn to look confused. "You know, hell's horsemen." He still looked confused and my eyes widened in realization. "You never knew about the horsemen?" I shouted as I jumped off the bench.

I stared at him incredulously as he shook his head side to side.

"Bu-I-it-you-they-er-it-bu-the... Gah!" I stuttered out. I slapped my hand over my eyes and grumbled incoherantly to myself.

"Raven, are you alright?" Allen asked, concerned.

I removed my hands from my eyes and stared at him for a moment. I sighed, then asked, "Let me get this straight; You know nothing about hell's horsemen?" He shook his head side to side. I groaned in annoyance before a coughing fit started. As soon as it subsided, I continued, "And you know what the key is?" He nodded.

"Then tell me what the key is so I can keep the horsemen from getting it!" I shouted.

"I can't! If someone finds the key, the Earl could escape and I can't defeat him! He uses... freak magic!" Allen denied.

"'Freak magic'?" I asked him as I crossed my arms.

"I can't defy him... directly." Allen stated.

"Lovely. The hero can't do anything." I growled.

"Didn't you read the card I gave you?" Allen asked.

"Sorry, I speak english, japanese, spanish, french, and german, NOT gibberish!" I hissed at him, distinctly remembering the unreadable symbols.

"It's code, not gibberish." Allen muttered. "How good are you at the piano?" He suddenly asked.

"At best? I can play twinkle twinkle little star. Well, except when I'm in this dream place, whatever it is." I answered.

Allen groaned and pinched the bridge of his nose. "Do you at least know which notes are As or Bs?"

"Yeah." I replied.

"Great. Now you just need to find Timcanpy-"

"That golden ball of teeth, pain, and endless hunger?" I asked, interrupting him.

"You found him?" He sounded surprised.

"Yeah! He was in pieces, and when I put him back together, he ran off, then bit me!" I hissed, recalling the memory.

"Yeah... that's Timcanpy..." Allen said as he sweat dropped. "Anyway, Timcanpy has a music score stored in him, but it's in code. If you get my music book and find the same song, you should be able to decipher the code."

I cocked an eyebrow. "Let me guess," I said as I walked over to the piano, "This is the song?" I started playing the song from earlier.

"That obvious?" Allen asked a bit dejectedly.

"For me, yes. Why? Because I've been constantly hearing that song which would probably make some people think I'm crazy." I answered as I stopped playing."Although, once I'm out of this dream, I'll have no idea how to play it." I continued a bit sadly.

"Do you know someone who can play piano?" Allen asked.

"N-" I started, then remembered Haruhi saying Tamaki could play piano. "Wait! I do know someone who can!"

"Alright. Get them to find the right song, then match it up with the version Timcanpy has." Allen stated.

"Aren't the songs titled?" I asked.

"They should be, but they aren't. I'm... kind of terrible of thinking up names." Allen answered as he sweat dropped.

"The great hero, Allen Walker, can't even name a song?" I asked a bit dramaticly.

"Nobody's perfect..." Allen trailed off.

"Then how do you explain Organization XIII?(1)" I asked, trying to make a joke.

"Who?" Allen asked, confused.

I chuckled and said, "It was just a joke."

"Oh." Allen still looked confused.

There was another pause of silence, then I broke it by saying, "I have a question."

"Alright."

"Why is there a Walker family curse?" I asked.

Allen paused, then said, "There isn't."

"What?" I asked him, confused and a bit dazed.

"Central agency doesn't like Exorcists getting too powerful, and they never trusted the Walker line..." He dropped off the sentence and I realized what he was trying to say.

"The Walker curse was just a way to cover up what they were doing?" I asked him incredulously with a some anger lacing my voice.

"They attempted to kill my master for being too powerful and knowing too much; It doesn't surprise me much that they've been killing the Walkers." Allen said sadly with a hint of anger.

"I'm gonna kill those bastards." I seethed.

"You can't!" Allen exclaimed.

"Why not?" I yelled at him.

"You'll become a fallen one! Weren't you almost one earlier?" He answered stiffly as he crossed his arms.

I glared at him moment, then said, "Then I'm at least letting them know I know so they'll back off."

"You're not gonna let this drop until you yell at them one way or another, are you?" Allen dead panned.

"Do you even need to ask?" I answered.

He sighed, then asked, "Shouldn't you wake up now?"

"Eh?" I said dumbly.

"I can only talk to you when you're unconscious and I have no doubt you've been out for a while now." Allen stated.

"Lovely." I stated sarcasticly as I rolled my eyes. "So, care to elaborate on how I wake up?"

Allen cocked an eyebrow, then looked to my right at the wall where a door was.

I looked at it, then him before muttering, "Smartass." And heading to the door.

I reached for the handle, but then paused and my hand hovered over the handle. I could feel Allen's confused gaze on me. "I'll see you again, in the real world I mean, right?"

There was a moment of silence, then Allen said, "Most likely."

"When I do see you again... I'm gonna have a lot of questions for you. But, until then... Bye." I said as I opened the door and stepped through.

"Yeah... Bye..." I barely heard him say.

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I lazily opened my eyes and found myself staring at a white ceiling.

"You're awake!" Someone exclaimed from beside me. I turned my head and saw it was one of the Hitachiin twins.

"Thank you captain obvious." I whispered, finding it hard to say anything louder than that.

"Raven." A familiar voice said from somewhere out of my line of sight. I pushed myself up into a sitting position and saw Link, Hikaru, Haruhi, and Tamaki in the room. The voice, of course, came from Link.

I slightly cringed at the pain my chest as I scooted myself up against the headboard.

"Seeing your current state, you're going to have to-" Link started.

"Listen bastard," I seethed out, earning some startled looks, "Forget the fucking report forms, I am demanding an audience with central, tomorrow, at noon."

Link looked surprised. "What brought this on? You'd normally try to keep your distance from central."

I grunted, then said, "Yeah, well I know something now that I didn't before, and it's important."

Link cocked an eyebrow. "I also request Lupus, Racquel, and General Michio's presence." I added.

"And why might you be requesting an audience?" Link asked.

"You'll know soon enough." I replied crypticly.

He stared at me a moment, then turned to leave. As soon as he was gone, the four Ouran hosts looked at me.

"What was that about?" Tamaki asked.

"If you want to know, you'll have to miss school tomorrow. I don't mind you tagging along because it might be a good lesson for you in how cold the order actually is." I answered, wincing every now and again from the pain in my chest. "Where am I anyway?" I asked.

"Our house." The twins stated.

"Why?" I asked after a pause of silence.

"We won't tell you unless you tell us who you were fighting." Hikaru ordered.

I glared at him, then said, "No."

No one looked surprised by my answer. "Then I guess we can't tell you anything." Hikaru said with a shrug.

"Fine. But, I have one question you have to answer or I'll kill you." I stated calmly. "Who dressed my wounds? If you refuse to give an answer, I'll assume it was you, meaning I'd have to kill you."

Hikaru and Kaoru paled, then said, "The maids treated your wounds! We'd never undress a lady!" An idea seemed to hit them and they were either side of me with smug grins. "Of course, not without her permission."

"Perverts." I muttered as I swung my legs over the side of the bed to get out of it, only to have someone hold me in bed.

"Hey! You shouldn't be walking yet! Your lung is punctured and your ribs are cracked!" Kaoru fretted.

I pushed his hands off my shoulders and stood up despite everyone's protests. As soon as I stood up, I looked at what I was wearing and my eyebrow twitched.

"Why am I in a night gown?" I seethed.

"Umm..." Hikaru trailed off.

"Get me some normal clothes now, or I'll kill you." I threatened them.

Hikaru and Kaoru crossed their arms and defiantly said, "No."

I cocked an eyebrow, then said, "Congrats, you're toughining up. That's a good way to survive in this war." Everyone looked surprised that I hadn't actually killed them. "But, I still need normal clothes."

"No. You need to rest." Hikaru plain out refused.

"I need to get Lupus to get some documents for me from Bookman headquarters." I stated, then paused a moment as a thought occured to me. "Where is Lupus anyway?"

Everyone was quite and exchanged nervous glances, instantly making me worried. "Where is he?" I asked nervously.

"He's at Kyouya's family hospital. He was in critical condition." Haruhi answered quietly. "He lost a lot of blood..."

I instantly felt all the energy drain from my body; It felt like I was in another Innocence barrier. No, I wasn't in one, this was another emotion; a strong one at that.

I was feeling guilt. It was a terrible emotion. I didn't know why, but I felt guilty for him being injured. The other teens in the room must've seen how I was feeling because Kaoru said, "It wasn't your fault."

"Yeah, that cloaked... person hurt him." Hikaru added.

"We also found out his condition's stabalizing. He got blood transfusions just in time." Tamaki declared.

But still, I felt terrible. Lupus almost died, and here I was, asking for him to go with me to an audience with central. No, I wasn't asking. When someone requested an audience with central, anyone they requested the presence of had to be there. Other people could watch, but only if they had the requester's permission.

I was forcing him to go to an audience right after he healed from a near death experience.

I sat back down on the bed and put my head in my hand. Why was everything so hectic now? It hadn't even been the first two weeks of school yet and all this crazy shit was happening. Lovely. Just, bloody, fucking, disgustingly, lovely.

"Raven?" Haruhi whispered my name worriedly.

I lifted my head up and stared at the wall. "I'm fine; Things are just crazy lately."

"Crazy how? It's hard to tell the difference after everything we've been through." Tamaki inquired.

"You probably only know the half of it." I muttered darkly.

A heavy silence hung in the air for a while.

"What are you not telling us?" Kaoru suddenly yelled at me.

I didn't flinch, didn't move; I had been expecting an outburst. "I can't tell you." I whispered. "But, I suggest all of you become stronger to defend yourselves. I know this war is going to get more hectic soon... I just don't want to see anyone else get hurt." I continued quietly.

Yes, yes, you can't tell them. Oh wait, you can tell them, you just don't want to tell them! Oh, what a predicament this is. I don't think this day can get anymore interesting. Oooh, I just jinxed it, didn't I? The Noah of Art's annoying voice rang throgh my head.

My eye twitched and I thought bitterly to it, 'Shut the hell up.'

"Raven!" Hikaru shouted as he waved his hand in front of my face.

"What?" I asked, suddenly confused.

"You were spacing out." Haruhi stated.

"Sorry." I muttered. "What were you saying?" I asked.

Hikaru huffed, then crossed his arms before saying, "Is there a faster way for us to activate our Innocence?"

I blinked and stared at him surprised. "What?" I asked, not sure I heard him correctly.

"All of us want to know how to activate our Innocence. When Hikaru and I saw you fighting, then when we saw all your injuries, everyone decided they wanted to become stronger because... We're pretty sure that if it hadn't been you - if it had been someone else - they would've been dead." Kaoru stated, then everyone stared at me, determined.

"We don't want to see anyone else hurt either..." Tamaki said as he protectively put his hands on Haruhi's shoulders.

I stared at them in surprise.

"And you said it yourself, this war's going to be a lot more crazy, so we might as well start getting stronger now." Hikaru stated.

"I bet it'd be easier if you told us how your Innocence first activated." Kaoru stated.

My eyes widened from shock and surprise. That was a bad memory, I didn't know if I even wanted to tell them. But... They were going to be in situations like that later, so it shouldn't hurt...

"The way my Innocence first activated," I started, looking down at the ground and avoiding their eyes, "Was the first time I saw an Akuma... It was a level four, and it attacked me when I was alone in the woods. Right after it gave me a fatal wound, my Innocence activated and I destroyed it, but I nearly died." I paused, to see if anyone had anything to say. They didn't, so I continued, "At the one moment when it did activate, I was thinking, 'I don't want anyone else to feel this pain; I don't want this creature to live for inflicting such pain so mercilessly.' Little did I know, that was the will of the two shards of the two shards of Innocence that allowed me to transform into a dragon. At that moment, I had discovered the will of my Innocence without even realizing it, granting me the ability to be allowed to use my Innocence."

A silence hung in the room for a moment.

"So," Haruhi started, "We have to discover the will of our Innocence to use it?"

"Pretty much." I answered. "But there's no way I'm letting an Akuma near any of you until you learn to use it." I could tell she was purposely trying not to talk about the attack, so I was just going to play along.

There was silence for a moment, then Kaori said, "Thanks."

"For what?" I asked him, truly confused.

"Everything." Hikaru said for his brother.

"If it wasn't for you coming along, we'd never know about Akuma and we might've ended up dead because of it." Kaoru continued.

"And now we can protect those we care about. Well, almost." Hikaru said with a nervous grin as he glanced back at Haruhi.

"You're not mad that nothing's ever going to be normal for you again?" I asked him a but quietly.

"Nope." The twins answered.

I stared at them in disbelief, then glanced at Tamaki and Haruhi to see them nodding their heads in agreement. I looked down and said, "Thanks..."

"For what?" The twins asked.

"For everything..." I said with a small smile.

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Hi.

Lupus is not dead, so a lynch is unnesecary.

And sadly enough, my cell phone was dead so I couldn't take any pictures. But it was funny.

'Til next time.