Road giggled "So you guys are Exorcists, correct?"

Kesenai nodded "Yeah. Lavi here is an Exorcist and a Bookman. I need to know something. Do you have any other relatives? I can't afford to have you die by the hands of a Noah Clansman." Kesenai seemed worried on the inside, but hid it with a frown.

"They're all dead… A man with gray skin, and pitch black crosses on his forehead killed them… I thought I had died on the inside that night… So I tried to survive on my own with other relatives, but he killed them off 7 years later…" Road answered, lying.

"That bastard…" Kesenai growled.

"Don't worry, we'll get you somewhere safe." Lavi smiled at Road.

Road complained "No! I want to stay with Kesenai!!"

Kesenai replied "No. I can't let you come with me. You'll be endangered just by sticking around with me." Road refused to change her mind, needing Kesenai to say 'yes' since her plans wouldn't move on any further if he kept refusing to take her there.

"No!" Kesenai replied, urging her to change her mind.

"Aw come on, just take her. She'll be loads of fun." Lavi argued while laughing lightly.

Kesenai sighed, not wanting to argue back now "Fine. 2 out of 3 were against my say, so Road comes with us. But Road…" Kesenai shook his head, removing the worry from his head "No. Never mind." Road giggled and danced happily, not because she could be with Kesenai, it was because she could stick around with Kesenai and move her plans a step forward. Road spread her arms open, wanting a hug. Kesenai twitched, "I'm guessing you want a hug."

Road smiled and nodded once, "Yuppers!" Kesenai sighed and opened his arms, walking to her and hugged her lightly.

He thought: "This feels weird… I've never hugged anyone before… It… Feels nice…" (Note: He has never hugged anyone, not even his own mother!). Road giggled and hugged him as well, holding him tight in his arms.

Lavi chuckled "Looks like she's really attached to you. I smell love and hear wedding bells!" he laughed.

Kesenai growled "What you're hearing is the piano that'll be playing at your funeral."

Lavi laughed "Wow, are you joking me?" he asked.

"Maybe… Maybe not. Why do you want to know?" Kesenai let go of Road.

Road giggled, still clinging to him "I guess you're just that much of an annoyance to him if he wants to kill you." she implied.

Lavi laughed "I guess so."

Kesenai replied "Alright then, time to head back to the Black Order, I guess."

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After what felt like a 4 day trip (3 hours in reality) back to the Black Order, Kesenai grumbled: "Damn this long ass trips… At least we finished that mission. But I wonder… Why did James appear and how come he has an Innocence… One other thing… That didn't seem like the James I once knew before… It was strange…"

"What's the matter?" Lavi and Road asked.

Kesenai answered "Oh no. Nothing really. Lavi, take Road somewhere--"

Road cut him off by tackle-hugging him down to the ground "No!" she cried.

Kesenai sighed "Are you going to make this a habit of yours?" he asked.

Road sniffled "I don't wanna be alone with him!"

Lavi sweat dropped "Why not?"

Road answered "Because I'm getting a strange vibe from you…"

Lavi laughed "But we can't walk in without being scanned. Then they'll do a lot of things to you as soon as you walk in." Lavi replied.

Road cried "Then I'll go with Kesenai somewhere else while you report!"

Kesenai sweat dropped "I think you're getting way too attached to me…"

Lavi laughed "Looks like she likes you!"

Kesenai sweat dropped again "Oh crap…"

Road complained "Oh and what's wrong with me liking you?!"

Kesenai sweat dropped again "Eh… Nothing's wrong with that, just don't expect the feeling to be mutual."

Road replied "Ah, whatever. Not like I really care whether or not you like me that way."

Kesenai looked at Lavi "Lavi, report to the headquarters, meanwhile I'll head back to France, I'll be staying at a hotel there since I don't want them to be doing all those scans on Road or them finding out about her." Kesenai told him.

Lavi saluted him "Alright then." Kesenai grunted and walked away, Road following him.

Road grabbed his hand, "Where're we going?" she asked.

"Ah, nowhere in specific. We're going back to France. There's something I need to figure out." Kesenai answered and thought: "Actually… I'm going back to France to find James and figure something out… I guess I'll also ask him about the Noah Clan if he knows anything."

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The Millennium Earl was having dinner with Tyki, Skinn, Jas, Devi, and Lulubell (Note: I know she rarely appears at these, I think.) The Millennium Earl chuckled "So where did Road run off to this time? She's late this time."

Tyki explained "Road is performing a plan that she forged by herself."

The Millennium Earl chuckled "Oh really now… And how come she never told me anything about this 'plan' of hers?" he asked.

Tyki explained "I don't know. I'm telling you so that you know where she is. She told me she'd be back by about tomorrow once she's killed off those Exorcist brats; Kesenai and Allen. They're meddling a bit too far into our affairs to be left to live."

The twins; Jas and Devi, pointing their golden guns at each other "Or maybe she has feelings for the person she has to murder! She's taking longer than usual. So that's the only reason."

Tyki sweat dropped "Impossible. Nothing good can come from love between an Exorcist and a Noah."

"Who said there had to be boundaries?" Jas and Devi laughed.

The Millennium Earl laughed "Don't count him out boys, I think he might've stolen her heart." Surprisingly, even the Earl had joined in on this joke.

Lulubell sat there, quietly eating, not even bothering to say a word.

Skinn yelled "Where's the sweets?! I need sweets!"

The Earl sighed "Fine. Bring in the sweets!" Sweets were brought in by a few Akuma, bringing in a whole variety of deserts. Cheese cakes, ice cream cakes, brownies, lollipops, and cookies were brought in for the Noahs to feast on. Skinn began to chomp on most of them as soon as he saw that the Akuma finished bringing in desert. Lulubell calmly began eating desert, still not even saying a word (Note: Reminds me of how I am when I'm at home with the crazy family)

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Kesenai and Road had arrived at France, trying to find a hotel that was in Kesenai's budget. Luckily, Road found a 4-Star rated hotel which was within his budget. Kesenai looked at Road and said "Thanks. I think I probably didn't see it when I was busy with the 3 or 5-Stars." Kesenai laughed.

With a bored face on now, Road replied with "Yeah, lets just head in… I'm kinda sleepy." Kesenai walked in with Road holding his hand.

At the front desk, the person said "I'm going to guess she's your wife? You two are too young to be married" he laughed.

Kesenai growled "I'm not married to her, nor do I plan on pre-mature marriage."

"Gee, so touchy." he handed Kesenai and Road the room key and instructed them to go to room "53A"

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Kesenai and Road arrived at the hotel room Just when Kesenai was going to swipe in, his hand bumped into Road's when she was going to swipe in as well. Road smiled "You go ahead."

Kesenai chuckled "No, you first."

Road giggled and placed Kesenai's free hand on the card she was holding, still holding the card "Then how about we do it at the same time, huh?" she asked.

Kesenai wasn't the type of person to do something cooperatively with another person, but Road was going to be the exception of that routine "Alright then." They both swiped in the card key to the hotel room. Kesenai detected a presence at the end of the hallway and whispered in Road's ear: "Go into the room right now. I'll join you in a bit."

"Okay then." Road walked in and closed the door.

"So you decided to follow me again, huh… James?" Kesenai looked at the end of the hallway to see James.

"Yup… You weather-phobic-claustrophobic-lactose intolerant idiot." James laughed.

"… You bastard…" Kesenai sweat dropped.

"So what did you come back to France for?" James asked.

"I came back because I need to know something…" Kesenai answered.

"Oh? And what's that?" James asked seriously (Note: It's rare for him to be serious.)

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Okay. Disclaimer: I don't own the character James. I asked An Evil Shadow for his permission to use his character to make the story seem linked to his. I still don't own D. Gray-Man yet, but one day I will For now, I'll be in a corner crying about it. This be the end… 'til the next chapter of course.