Disclaimer: I don't own D.Gray-man or its characters!

A/N: Wow guys, I think this is the most reviews I've gotten for one chapter. Super special awesome thanks to nellchan0013, Celedeen Takarona, Sashum-Mushroom, and KaraxLavi13 for your awesome reviews! Thanks you guys!

Mizuki narrowed her eyes. "What are you doing here?" Malice dripped from every word that left her mouth.

"Oh, so you do remember!" he clapped his hands together. Before her was a young man, not much older than herself. He had an angelic face with smooth features and fair skin. His chestnut hair fell in loose curls and came to a stop just below his ears. He wore a very simple, white long-sleeved shirt paired with blue pants and black boots. His large black eyes regarded Mizuki excitedly, like a little kid who had just found his long lost favorite toy.

"How could I forget that stupid face? And what's with that expression? You look dumber than usual." She tightened her grip on her weapon and swung it towards his head. He jumped out of the way quickly and dropped back down so he was once again eye level with her.

"Now now, Rai-hime. That wasn't very nice."

"My apologies. It's been a while, Toki." She gave him a mock bow. "Now die!" she growled and lunged, stabbing at his chest. He took a step back and leaned backward, just out of reach. He smiled and placed a finger gently on her blade, directing it away from his chest.

He threw her a skeptical look and scoffed, "You didn't even let me answer your original question. Anyway, what are you trying to do? You could barely even scratch me last time and this time, I'm much stronger. What makes you think you can destroy me now?"

"Last time I wasn't even given a chance to! And I would have gotten rid of you if it he hadn't interfered. Speaking of which, wasn't that your plan from the beginning? To have him save me like that?"

"Ah, so you finally caught on," he sneered. "A little too late though. Anyway, the reason I'm here is because he wants to have a little chat with you. Hope that's okay." Without warning, he grabbed her weapon and wrenched it out of her grasp. Tossing it to the side, he quickly lunged at her, throwing a hard punch straight into her stomach. She flew backwards and landed several yards away with a grunt.

Mizuki coughed and welcomed back the air that was knocked out of her lungs. She clutched her side and sat up slowly, watching carefully as her attacker slowly approached. "Damn!" she wheezed. That was just from one hit? He certainly is a lot stronger than when we last met. He must be close to a level three by now. He knelt down and grabbed her by the front of her coat, thrusting her against the window of the cabin on the boat. She closed her eyes tightly as the shattered pieces of glass rained down on her head.

"Not so tough without your Innocence, are you?"

She didn't answer and instead tilted her head to the side, shaking the glass out of her hair with a bored expression.

He lifted his arm and ran his fingers through his chestnut hair. "Can't you just make this easy? It'll just be a little visit. He promised it'd be short," the aggravation was starting to come out in his voice. His eyes turned upward towards the sky and he rubbed his chin. "Actually, he's probably jealous that I get to see your pretty little face before he does. And it certainly has been a while," his face was plastered with a smug smile.

"Like hell I'd go anywhere with you! And his promises mean nothing to me." He continued to stare at her blankly. Despite the situation, she sighed and brought up her hand to rub her temple in irritation. "Jeez, it's like annoying me is your hobby or something. No wonder you're his favorite."

He cocked his head to the side and looked into her chocolate-brown eyes. "You've changed…a lot Rai-hime. There's something…else in your eyes. I don't know what it is…." he leaned into her neck and inhaled deeply, raising goosebumps on her skin. "But damn, at least your blood still smells as good as ever. It's taking everything I have to not eat you right now," he breathed into her neck.

Lavi had just destroyed an Akuma when he heard the sound of glass shattering. He quickly turned his head towards the direction from which he heard it and saw the two. "Mizuki!" he ran towards her and stopped short when he nearly tripped over something. He picked it up and ran as fast as he could towards her. At that moment, the man flew sideways revealing Mizuki with her hand balled up into a fist, breathing heavily.

"Mizuki!" Lavi shouted, tossing her her weapon. She looked up and caught it, breathing a sigh of relief. "Who's that?" Lavi said with distaste as the boy struggled to get up.

"Asshole B." She wiped the sweat from her forehead with the back of her sleeve.

"What?" he asked confused.

"His name's Toki. He's a level two Akuma that I've fought with before." She turned back to Toki and pointed an angry finger at him. "I'm not going anywhere with you so you can just tell your master to…to…go squeeze a lemon into his eye!"

Lavi took a moment to sweatdrop. "I don't think that was even remotely intimidating," he said out of the corner of his mouth.

"Shut up," she muttered. "Make that two lemons!" she threw out two fingers.

Two more Akuma came down from the sky and landed next to Toki, who'd recovered. "Ooh, hey! Two exorcists right here!"

Toki rubbed his cheek tenderly and threw out his arm to stop the Akuma from attacking. "The girl is mine. You two can have the boy."

"Boy?!" Lavi shouted indignantly. "I'm practically the same age as you! Well…if you were human. And who says you can have Mizuki? She's not something you can own!" he took a step forward. "Who are you anyway? What do you –?"

"Lavi, I've got this under control," Mizuki interrupted, putting a hand on his (amazingly toned) chest. She turned her attention to the three Akuma. "I'm not something you can own! What am I, a piece of meat?" She pointed a finger at them. "Who do you think you are?"

It was as if Toki had just noticed Lavi's presence. Which he didn't seem too happy about. "Who are you?" he glared at the red-head with cold, black-as-night eyes.

"Leave him out of this!" Mizuki shouted.

He pondered this for a moment, then turned back to her. "You're right. I mustn't get distracted from my original goal. I will bring you to my master, whether you like it or not," he sneered and began to transform. His skin split open as if he were simply wearing a Halloween costume, revealing his true Akuma from. He took the shape of a large black butterfly; the blades on the edges of his wings gleaming. Each of his six legs (gross!) had sharp pincers. The two Akuma next to him charged at Lavi, forcing him away from Mizuki. In turn, Mizuki lunged at Toki, cutting off his attack.

"I don't know why you always seem so mad at me, Rai-hime," Toki commented while they were dodging each other's attacks. His voice was distorted; less human-sounding. "I mean, it's not like I was the one who killed him."

"You two were in it together! I don't care if you didn't kill him directly," she went for a diagonal slice across his chest (err..thorax?) and just missed. "Anyway, did you forget I'm an exorcist? You're my enemy regardless!"

He charged again, beating his wings to accelerate himself towards her. Mizuki barely got her weapon up in time to block.

"Besides, you're annoying as hell. That alone is reason enough to kill you," she added as she threw him off.

"Heads up!" Lavi came charging in, brandishing his weapon, aiming for Toki. Mizuki side-stepped out of the way to avoid getting hit and Toki flew backwards to do the same.

"That was fast! And watch where you're aiming!" Mizuki snapped.

"There were only two. Besides, I'm here to protect you, as always," he smiled cheerfully and tousled her hair.

I kind of wish that weren't the case, Mizuki thought glumly. "You should be protecting Lenalee!" She knocked his hand away and pointed in the direction of their comrades.

"Lenalee has Bookman and Krory. If I left, you'd be fighting alone. Remember what Anita-san said earlier? 'No single exorcist can stand against so many' You'd be in that category."

"I hate it when you're right," she groaned, turning her attention back to Toki.

While the two had been talking, Toki was looking back and forth between the two exorcists. "Oh! I get it now!" he exclaimed, silencing the two. "This is why you changed, isn't it, Rai-hime?"

"What is?"

He ignored her and turned his attention to Lavi. "You should feel special. It took my master waaaaaaay longer than this to get this close to her." He chuckled to himself. "The master is going to be very interested in this."

"I think I'm just as confused as you are," Lavi muttered out of the side of his mouth.

"Keep your stupid thoughts to yourself, Toki!" she said. "Or better yet, go be an idiot somewhere else!"

"You're just trying to get me riled up now, aren't you?" he sighed. "Well, I'm sick of playing." He extended his wings and flew straight at Lavi, his blades headed for Lavi's neck.

"Get down!" Mizuki cried. She threw herself into Lavi, dropping her bō in the process, and landed on top of him. "Wow, you really need a faster reaction time." She looked down at him. His eyes were wide with surprise. "Hey…" she bent down towards his face and looked at something on his cheek. Her breath tickled the tiny hairs on his chin. He resisted the urge to cup her face in his hand and bring it even closer. "You've got a cut here. You're bleeding." She lifted her thumb to her mouth and licked it. She brought it to his face and gently wiped the blood away. He winced and she grabbed his face with her other hand, holding him still. "Don't move…okay, done."

"You all right?" she scrutinized his face, checking for any other signs of injury.

"Y-yeah," he stammered.

"Good," she sighed with relief. "Because if you were –" she was cut off by being yanked forcefully away from Lavi. "Hey!" she tried to twist around, but was stopped short by Toki's pincers grabbing her, pinning her arms to her sides. Toki grabbed her tightly from behind, 

preventing her from movement of any kind. He began to fly away from the ship, towards the nearby village. "I'll kill you, you stupid bug!" she screamed.

Lavi quickly got up and ran to the side of the ship, his face livid. "Let…her…GO!" he began to climb up to jump after the Akuma.

"Psh. You'd like that, wouldn't you?" Toki beat his wings quickly, creating a forceful wind strong enough to push Lavi backwards onto his back. "Save your breath, lover-boy. We won't keep her for long."

"Lavi!" she shouted to him as he tried to get back up. "Take care of Anita-san and Lenalee!"

"But, your Inno –" he looked torn between his desire to help Mizuki and his need to stay on the ship.

"Take care of that for me, too.

"I'll make this easier for the both of you," Toki lifted one of his fore-pincers and aimed it at Mizuki's neck. "If you try to come after us, I'll kill her."

He then flew off with Mizuki shouting "Be careful!", leaving Lavi feeling utterly alone. The red head looked down and spotted Mizuki's weapon. He picked it up and let it balance on his open palm. It's heavy, he thought with surprise. I'll keep this safe, Mizuki. But I'm coming to get you as soon as I can. Wait for me.

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

In the air, Mizuki had her eyes closed tightly so she wouldn't have to see how high up she was. She was talking to herself, preparing for the meeting ahead, and distracting herself as well. "Damn it. Without my Innocence, I'll have to rely on hand-to-hand combat…which will be quite difficult against him. Then again, if I can somehow get away, I can warn the others to avoid this area. He'd probably catch me though. I'm already pretty tired from fighting Akuma all day."

"Would you be quiet? I'm trying to concentrate," came Toki's voice from above. "That boy of yours isn't very smart, is he?" he said with some amusement. "He should have realized that if I was taking you to my master, I wouldn't have killed you."

She remembered Lavi's pained look right before she left and felt a gentle tug at her heart. He's definitely going to lecture me about this the next time we meet. "Well, I'm just glad that he's kind of an idiot," she mumbled softly.

She felt Toki begin to descend and crinkled her nose when she felt leaves brushing against her face. She opened her eyes and forced herself to look down. Okay. Not so bad. They were flying just under the treetops.

"So what are you going to do when you meet him again?" Toki asked curiously.

"Tear him limb from limb," Mizuki said through clenched teeth.

He laughed loudly at this. "I don't think you could in this condition, to be honest. I'd be more afraid he'd do the same to me."

"You know, Toki…if you weren't an annoying evil demon-bug bent on world destruction, I'd probably like you."

He laughed again. "Is that so? Well, I like you a lot, even if you aren't on our side. You probably won't like me for this, though."

"For what?"

He suddenly released her and flung her further into the wood. She fell through the trees as the branches scratched at her skin. She landed on her back, the air knocked out of her lungs. Her head smacked the ground as a result of the impact, and she was rendered unconscious.

More A/N: So yeah, hope you liked it. Btw, now that school's about to start, updates are probably going to be less frequent. Yep, so I'd like to apologize in advance. But I'll do my best!! Thanks again for reading guys!