"Lavi, you liar!" Yumiko shouted at him. A few tears left her eyes resembled dew drops forming under the morning glory ((or, well, you get it right?)), "Y-you can't talk about friends dying like that!"
"I'm not kidding," Lavi said gravely while dodging a level one akuma's attack with a swift reversal move, "It's the truth."

Just then, the sky above them split. Shards of shadows emerged and shot the ground far away, causing an explosion of dust and gravel spinning throughout the air around them.

"Allen's back!" An anonymous voice yelled out, followed by more and more exclamations of the same subject.

Yumiko looked back at Lavi and mocked casually, "Liar liar hair on fire!"
"Pants on fire Yumiko."
"That's not my point. My point is that your hair is an unusual color Lavi kun."

"And that you're a LIAR!-"

"Honto! WHEREVER I GO! ICH. NI. SAN. BAKAA! BAKAAAA! BAKAAAAAA!" Kanda's loud scolding created a strong hurricane that blew through the idiots' hair like a blow dryer on max. For five seconds, they stood there like inanimate objects until Lavi gave him the infamous moronic grin and pointed his index finger up.
"Ah! Yuu! Yukkuri shabette kuremasuka? Can ya speak slowly please?" He said and tipped his head over to the side like a child, "Arigatouuu!~~"
"Hai! Hai! Kaite kudasai! If it's not too much trouble, could you write it down if we don't understand the second time please!" Yumiko chimed in, "I know you write like a pre-schooler, but look on the bright side— At least you could get enough practice from this to move up one grade level! Isn't that great?"

Smoke steamed out of Kanda's ears like a whistling stainless steel teapot in grandma's flowery kitchen.
"KAJI! KAJIII!" Lavi yelled and pointed at the heating samurai, "FIREE! FIREEEEE! Tasukete, YUMIKO CHAAAN! SAVE ME!"

"Kyukyusha!" She said in a muffled voice since Lavi's red hair was in her face, "AMBULANCE! I THINK I GOT BLINDED! ITAI! IT BURNSSSSS!"

One moment of idiodicy later...

"Leenalee chan!" Yumiko sobbed, "It was a moment of WEAKNESS! Domo arigato gozaimashite! Thank you so much for everything you've done! Uwahh!"
"Hai! Hai! Kanda... Kowai! Abunai!" Lavi cried out dramatically, "So scary! So dangerous!"
"I-... Ii desu. Lavi kun. Yumiko chan," Leenalee sweatdropped uncertainly, not quite sure what to say/do, "It's alright."
"*Doragon!" The red haired exorcist gasped and panicked when Kanda appeared in front of them.
*Dragon

"Sashimi yaro!" Yumiko pounced up to yell at Kanda. Leenalee just scooted away, just in case a bloody scene arose, "You cold, raw fish without rice!"
"What'd you say, AHO?" Kanda roared and grabbed her by the collar, her legs dangling above the ground, "Dumbass!"
"Iiye! No!" A blur of red rushed to Yumiko's aid and grabbed her from Kanda's evil clutches of stiff cockiness.
"Anta no gosenzo sama ni kao o awase rare masuka!" said the samurai, drawing his sword, "Get ready to meet your extremely ashamed ancestors! Lavi! Yumiko!"
"KYAAAAAAA!" They yelled, embracing each other for their last final moment of life, "KICHIGAIIII! Psycho!"
"BAKA YARO! BAKA YARO!" He yelled and blindly charged at them, swinging his katana in random directions. Obviously, he wasn't caring what he hit and knocked out.

"A..-Anta no ha-ha wa tori desu!"Yumiko yelled, "YOUR MOMMA'S A CHICKEN!"
"YUMIKO! Anata no yô na doro desu - Mijikakute. Chairoi desu!" Kanda took a moment to glare at the soon-to-be lifeless organism, "You are like mud - short and brown."
Lavi gasped, glancing behind him and at his partner in crime, "Ohhh, buuuurn."
She was flustered. What come back could she throw at him now?

"Hana wa totemo kyôryô naaaaa! Kono busu onna!"
Your nose is very narrow-minded! You ugly woman!

"Hya! Hya! G'job, Yumiko chaaan!"
"I try my best, Lavi sen~sei!"

"BAKA YAROOOOO!" Kanda's voice grew shrilly within each passing minute as he screamed, but then was pulled back by an invisible force.
"Ah! Ji-Ji!" Lavi exclaimed when Bookman appeared behind the samurai with his usual expression, but was then bonked on the head with a stick along with the other two meddling exorcists.
"Stupid-Lavi! Moron-Kanda! Imbecile-Yumiko!" He scolded them in fury, jumping up and down stressfully like a madman in the process, "You are exorcist! Akuma are around us!"
Lavi and Yumiko rubbed their injured heads with grunting, 'ouch'-s. She and Kanda's faces immediately were flushed red in the manner since they were being lectured by another's master.

"Hey, what's that!"
"This is bad! Really bad!"
"The Akuma are all gathering together!"

Yumiko looked downwards at the shaky ground, unsure whether to move about when the earth was trembling and seemingly unstable. Till then, a large shadow mercilessly ingurgitated her own. A shivery and uncomfortable chill traveled in her arms, to her chest, and lastly to her legs, making her freeze from the unwanted sensation of fear and distraught.

"This is nothing. All of the machines just fused together and turned absurdly huge!" snorted Bookman in a careless tone. He sure had a way to make things sound unmistakably easy peasy.

"YUMIKO! BE CAREFUL!" Miranda's familiar wail of desperation reached her ears, "BEHIND YOU!"

The younger girl spun around, and was met face-to-face with exploding rocks erupting from the rough soil as the akuma moved around, targeting Bookman and Lavi.
"AHO!" Kanda's sneered at her as he jumped from roof to roof, still engaged in battle. And yet, he was kind enough to spare 5 seconds to save her by pushing Yumiko to the side and creating a bleeding scratch on her right cheek as she reached contact with the dirt.
"Watashi wa baka da..." She said weakly when swirls replaced her eyes, "I'm such an idiot"
"Un, anata wa baka na saru da!" Kanda snorted, "Yeah, you're a stupid monkey alright!"

Fortunately for everyone, she was too busy hitting her opposite ear to unclog the sediments in the other.
"What?" She said bluntly, looking around, smirking like an idiot.
"The samurai's right. She is a half-wit," An Akuma snickered and charged towards her, "Such an easy prey-"

"Gomen ne, perhaps I still have some dirt in my right ear. Fuzakerun jya neyo, akuma-san. Don't be a fool."
Her card, the Ace of Spades sharply cut the foe in half. She watched with slight amusement as it wilted down, begging.
"May you not be a fool, like I am," She said quietly without a smile, and kissed the top left corner of her ever changing weapon. A tear slid down her cheek as she recalled all the horrible memories of the first akuma she had ever encountered.

'Hiroshi, would you ever forgive me?' Yumiko thought, 'It would take more than a thousand apologies for you to ever do so…'

"Oi, hurry up," Kanda smacked her on the head, knocking the thoughts out of her head.
"A-Ah, yeah, I probably should," She lowered her eyes, dragging herself away from him like a scolded child.

Kanda frowned. Even when she listened to him, he was still very much unsatisfied. Why, though? This was what he wanted. A Yumiko who shut up and did what she was told.

"Hey shortie,"

She paused in her tracks and turned her head around slowly, like the way a real Victorian woman should.

"… Get over it," Kanda mumbled, barely audible. He scratched his head awkwardly, averting his eyes to the side and away from her eyes. Not exactly the best way to cheer someone up, but they had a special friendship nobody else could relate to.

Suddenly, he felt repetitive jabs on his chest. He looked down, finding her small index finger sinking into his stomach and her smiling face looking up to his curious eyes.

"Yuu, you're getting kind of flabby," Yumiko told him so nonchalantly, like an innocent eight year old poking his mother's tummy.

That turned them back to their usual selves.

"Get away from me, dumbass," Kanda tried his best to conceal the smile he had held back from her for years.