Kesenai looked around, "This place is way too quiet…." He was extremely suspicious of the fact that not even one Akuma had appeared to check up on all the noise from before when he was fighting Skinn.

"Yeah… This is really too quiet… I don't like it…." Road agreed with him.

"Damnit! My hands are still burning like they're on fire from that fight…" Kesenai cursed under his breath.

"What's the matter?" Road looked at him, worried now since she knew what Skinn's power was, every time a person hits him physically, their hands begin to burn with his energy still flowing through the body of the opponent.

"No, it's nothing." Kesenai fakely smiled, hiding the pain. He continued to walk, knowing that the pain he was suffering was nothing compared to the sin that he must make up for… Wondering what else was waiting for him at the end…

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Lavi was in France (Author's note: Yes, Kesenai left poor Lavi behind… Gee what a nice friend! -Sarcasm.-), walking around, looking for Kesenai. Allen had arrived to France. Lenalee wanted to go ahead to Beijing and go assist Kesenai since he was alone. Allen agreed with her because if the Earl was truly based there, then Kesenai would have no chances at all facing up to the Noah since they were so Godly powerful. Allen walked around through France calling out "Lavi! Are you here?! If so, answer me or something!" … No response. Lavi was at a diner, eating whatever he could identify as edible. The only things he found edible (To him anyway) were croissants (Again?! Don't people get sick of eating that more than one day in a row?). Allen passed directly past the diner without even looking at it, still calling out for Lavi. Lavi heard his name being called and looked around, looking for the voice that was calling his name.

Lavi thought: "Wait, that's Allen's voice!" Quickly, Lavi left the amount of cash that he owed for the food, a good tip for the waiter, and a note saying: "Keep the change!" Lavi walked around, looking for Allen now. (Wow how uncanny, the finder is trying to be found while the finder is looking for the other guy)

"Lavi?" Allen looked around.

"Allen?" Lavi spotted him.

"Lavi?!" He kept calling out.

"Allen?!" Lavi ran at him, accidentally tackling Allen.

"Ouch!" Allen said.

"Sorry." Lavi sweat dropped.

"Lavi, we need you to come with Lenalee and I. We're on a mission to rescue a Noah named James." Allen spoke seriously.

"Wait, James? So I was right! James is a Noah! Which would mean…" Lavi gasped "Kesenai might be in danger!" Lavi said seriously (Yet again, is usually rare, so that's something completely serious when it's coming from the mouth of a joker.)

Allen chuckled "No worry, Kesenai's not in any danger. That Noah rescued him when Road attacked him."

"Wait, Road tried to attack him?" Lavi seemed really confused.

"I'll explain on the way to Beijing, come on Lavi." Allen replied. Both Allen and Lavi began to make their way to Beijing, China. Little did they know that within the nest of the devil, Kesenai was already dancing with the devil and may soon very well burn with the devil's cursed dance.

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Lenalee had infiltrated the Earl's hideout (No duh, she can fly so of course she wouldn't need to jump in there like a monkey the way Kesenai did using a tree) She looked around, noting that the hallways were too quiet. Something definitely was strange, if someone broke in, wouldn't it be wise to leave something to guard the halls from whatever would break in? And leave back up in case that a second person infiltrates the base? So strange here was definitely the case now. She wondered if Kesenai was alright, and if Allen had found Lavi yet. She had arrived in the room where Kesenai and Skinn had fought. She looked around, wondering what caused the complete total destruction. She stopped, feeling the presence of something that was way ahead of her. She kept on guard, walking forward carefully, preparing to attack at the moment she sees the entity that she could feel ahead of her. She kept following the entity ahead. Once she felt that the entity was ahead of her, enough of a distance for her to kick, she activated her Innocence and drop hammer kicked the taller figure with the hell of her Dark Boot. The figure yelled "Ow! Lenalee! What the hell was that for?!" it spoke.

"Oh! Sorry Kesenai! I thought you were an enemy!" Lenalee panicked.

"Ow… That hurt like hell!!" Kesenai said, getting up while rubbing his head.

"Don't do that to my Kesenai again, or I'll be forced to attack you myself." Road glared at Lenalee.

She twitched "What's Road doing here?" she asked.

"Oh, Road's helping me out now." he answered.

"Why in the hell would a Noah assist an Exorcist?" she seemed suspicious.

"I'm doing this out of the love I hold for Kesenai." Road answered for her.

"Gee, first it's Allen, now it's Kesenai. Who's next? Lavi?" Lenalee asked.

"No! And anyway the red head doesn't look like my type." Road argued, giggling.

"Can we just move on with this mission, guys?" Kesenai sighed.

"Okay, but I still won't trust Road. I get the feeling she'll sell us out at the end." Lenalee glared at Road.

Road rolled her eyes, not really caring "Whatever." Kesenai, Road and Lenalee began to continue progressing through the hall, finding a 3-way split.

Kesenai closed his eyes and took out a toothpick "Now we'll see which direction to go…" Kesenai seemed to concentrate while holding the toothpick.

"Wow you can tell where to go with a toothpick?!" Lenalee and Road exclaimed.

"Not really, I was meaning to do…" Kesenai threw the toothpick into the air, watching it as it hit the ground, pointing northeast "…that." Kesenai made his face try to look like what a cool guy would look.

"That… Is screwed up." Lenalee sweat dropped.

"Wow, that was really lame." Road sweat dropped as well. The both of them took out boards with the number "0" written on them.

Kesenai sweat dropped and sat away from them in a nearby corner "Such cruel people you women are." "At any rate." he stood back up and walked in the direction of where the toothpick pointed "Let's try our luck through here then." he pointed. Lenalee and Road nodded, following him. Yet again it was a large room. Kesenai growled, his right eye starting to burn as his eye turned to it's cursed form. "There's Akuma here... I can sense about... 5 of them... 4 Level 2's and a Level 3... Everyone get on guard." The room flickered to darkness.

"Oh no, you'll be fighting for your lives now." One Akuma voice echoed through the room.

"Oh really? Then bring it on, we'll kick all your asses, regardless of the darkness." Kesenai smirked.

"Speak for yourself, I have nothing to do with this fight." Road said, backing away back to the hallway, awaiting for the lights to flicker back on.

"Lenalee, you can back off if you want, this will be a battle in the dark and I don't want to accidentally kill you." he held the hilt of his sword.

"No. I won't back off and be a burden, I'll fight alongside you." Lenalee said, activating her Dark Boots.

"Alright then, but I already warned you so don't blame me if you get cut or anything." he warned her again, this time fully pulling out his sword, taking stance, ready to fight.

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Finally, after what was a 4 hour trip on Lavi's hammer to Beijing, China (Note: These guys could've just taken the damn airplane there, but no, they decided to make things more difficult for themselves.) "Alright then! We can now assist Kesenai, and Lenalee in battle!" Lavi exclaimed.

Allen sweat dropped "Did I tell you that I don't know the directions to the base." he chuckled nervously.

Lavi replied with "Then let's try to find it, we can't sit around while the both of them get all the fun."

"Yeah, true. Lets ask around if anyone saw them walking by." Allen replied. So close, yet so far from the battlefields of hell…

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Note: CLIFFHANGER!! XD

Disclaimer: Gah, I think I'm dead meat, I tried owning D.Gray-Man and all the fans all of a sudden got pissed at me and tried killing me. Screw it, I won't own D.Gray-Man… For now 'til those fans suffer the same fate as me -Laughs, knowing he's lying.-