Tomboy007: Hello and welcome to chapter 3

Tomboy007: Hello and welcome to chapter 3. Today I've got good ol' Allen and Rhode here with me for pretty much no reason.

Allen: Woah, wait a sec; you told me you'd give me dango.

Rhode: And you said you'd get me together with Allen.

Tomboy007: -Grins - Sweat drop- Well, you see, THERE'S A FUCKING HUGE AKUMA BEHIND YOU!!

Allen: Where? Where? –Looks around-

Rhode: - Sweat drop-

Tomboy007: Yeah, so just like to say that I don't own D.Gray man coz if I did I'd put a lot of gore in it and Rhode would be with Allen.

Rhode: Yay! You're the best –hugs very hard-

Tomboy007: Get…Away…from me…. I'm chocking! –Loses breath-

Allen: Hey, there's no Akuma! I'm gonna kill you! –Runs after Tomboy007-

Tomboy007: I thought you don't kill girls, dammit!! – Runs-

Allen: you're a tomboy so you're an exception! –Fires-

Tomboy007: Ahh, I see. Well then, fair enough. On with the show people! –Runs faster-

Chapter 3

-The dream world-

It's been about three weeks since I'd met Rhode in Baker Street and ever since she'd visited me every night, climbing through my window when I was asleep or awake. We met quite often and I think the people in the order were beginning to notice the change in me. I wasn't around much. Actually, I was out and about pretty much all the time. Rhode bunked off school sometimes to see me, while other times we met in the evenings. I don't know why I saw her as much as I did, but I couldn't stop myself. Heck, it was like I was addicted to seeing the Noah girl. Like I couldn't live without her.

Well, at the moment I couldn't look at her as a friend. I was fighting her, Tikki and Lulubell along with my fellow exorcists Lenalee, Choji, Lavi, Miranda, Kanda and General Tiedoll. The Noah's were on the verge of defeating us, but we didn't give up.

Miranda, Lavi and Kanda fought against Lulubell while Me, Lenalee and Choji went up against Tikki. General Tiedoll on the other hand was left to deal with Rhode all on his own.

I didn't want to fight her. I couldn't. I don't know why, but I just couldn't bring myself to do so. Sometimes I didn't get why. My gaze kept on meeting Rhodes as we fought. I tried my best not to smile and she did the same. Rhode had taken down Tiedoll pretty easily. He was on the ground, not doing anything, but staring at the grass. Miranda tried to restore him, but it didn't work. Rhode had started helping out her brother Tikki and was attacking my little group. I concentrated on Tikki while the other two concentrated on Rhode.

Rhode's using her telekinetic powers again. One of the candles in the air soars towards me and pierces me in my right shoulder making me scream in pain. Tikki smiles and plunges his hand into my heart.

"Now you die boy!" he roars as he attempts to pull my heart out.

Rhode 'accidentally' slams into him and causes him to pull away from me. She says sorry and then smiles at me evilly – her candles at the ready. Then she fires them at me. I take off and run through the forest as fast as I can with Rhode close behind me. We're out of earshot from the others and I stop and so does Rhode. Actually she jumps at me and I fall to the floor with her. I let out a moan as the pain in my shoulder starts to take effect.

"Rhode, mind getting off me?" I ask her as her hand slides around my stomach.

"No, I wanna stay," she says smiling down at me "Why? Don't you like having a beautiful girl on top of you Allen?"

I sigh and lightly push her off me. Rhode pouts, but I ignore her and smile.

"Now I'm scared of being alone in a dream world with you," I grin "Come on then, where's the door?"

"I thought you said you were scared? Or are you really looking forward to being with me? All alone," Rhode asks me as she leans forward, her lips only a small space away from mine.

"Let's just get going."

With that a small black and red door appears in front of us. Rhode slowly opens it and I follow her with caution. Last time I was in this world I witnessed the destruction of and akuma and I was nearly killed. I shudder as the memories come flooding back. Rhode senses my uneasiness and turns around to ask me what's wrong.

"This place gives me the creeps," I say as I put my hands in my pockets "I hate it."

"Really?" Rhode asks, surprised "This is one of my favourite worlds. But if it's a change of scenery you want then okie dokie!"

Rhode looks up at the ceiling and closes her eyes. When she does, the world slowly begins to change and takes shape seconds after. It's beautiful now. He sky is blue. The grass is a shimmering light green with a beautiful small river running through it. There are candy trees everywhere with small lollipop posts and many others like the huge chocolate fountain.

I liked this new world. It was beautiful, not to mention sweet. Rhode smiled at me as she watched me wonder around.

"It's beautiful," I tell her, "It's gorgeous! It's – It's. I don't know. The most beautiful thing that I'd ever witnessed.

Rhode nods and runs towards one of the lollipop posts. She puts her hand inside and pulls out two of them then hands one to me. I gratefully accept and lick my way through it before Rhode. She smiles and runs off again, but then notices something and comes running back.

"What happened to your hand?" she asks and she takes my right hand in hers "You've injured it."

"I know," I say pulling my hand away from hers "It was a little accident. Nothing to worry about."

Rhode looked at me and frowned.

"Who said I'm worried?" she grinned as she put her hands to her hips.

"Oh, thanks a lot."

"Just kidding."

We walked through the small garden with Rhode skipping happily along side me. She'd just finished licking the lollipop and before I knew it she took off again and this time, completely out of sight. I sighed and began to scream out to her.

"Rhode! Rhode, come out!" I scream loudly "Look, I'm sorry if I upset you before and pushed you off, but it had to be done. I'll do anything to make it up to you. I promise!"

Rhode appeared immediately when she heard that, but she had that white nightgown on again - just like in my dream. I looked at her slightly surprised. Why the hell did she wear her nightgown? And now out of all times? I think Rhode noticed my uneasiness and she put her hands up defensively.

"Don't worry, I'm not gonna do anything to you," she giggled as a blush crept across my face "I just wanna show you something," I look at her slightly confused, but she fills me in "You know, when I came into your dream once? And I told you about astral projection." I thing back to that dream and my blush deepens because that was the time when Rhode kissed me. I hid my blush and gesture for Rhode to carry on "Well, we're going to travel into people's dreams. It's a treat from me. You like to see beautiful sceneries, right? So what're we waiting for? Let's go!"

Rhode reached forward and grabbed my hand with hers then closed her eyes. She told me to see myself flying. To imagine myself taking off into the skies and slowly turning into a bird. I did as she told me and then opened my eyes only to find that I was floating in mid air with Rhode still holding my hand.

"Woah," I let out gasp and lost concentration, almost falling, but Rhode grabbed me around my waist with her hands and kept me in the air with her, "Thanks," I smiled gratefully as I turned my head to try and get a look at Rhode who was behind me, still holding on.

"Careful," she warned me as her grip around my gut tightened "you'll fall if you lose concentration."

I nod and try to get some of my weight off Rhode; I mean she can't cling onto me through the whole journey now can she? So I try and help out my concentrating again, but instead fail miserably as a bird flies past us. I sigh and give up, but Rhode smiles at me and assures me that she can carry my weight, that I wasn't heavy.

"If you ask me, you need to put on more weight," she said as she dug her hands into my stomach to keep me from falling "And besides, this way the landing will be more fun."

I try and think of what kind of fun she was talking about, but ignore the thought, not wanting to know which since I sort of already guessed. The world slowly began to change as we went higher into the sky. I couldn't see the world we were in before. It disappeared beneath my feet and all that was left was the orange and blue sky. Another world comes to view and we stop flying. Rhode takes me down to the ground, but the landing ends up being pretty awkward. I fall to the ground and Rhode falls right on top of me.

"Told you the landing was gonna be fun," she smiled as she laid her head against my chest "Liked it?"

I smile lightly and push Rhode off me once again, but this time she doesn't complain or even pout instead she grabs my hand and shows me around the new world. It's even more beautiful than the one before. It's flower galore! Flowers everywhere. There's a small pond nearby and even a beach. Rhode runs towards the beach and I follow after her.

"Bet you can catch me," she screams as she runs faster "Allen's a slow poke!"

I smile and begin to run at full speed. Rhode runs into the water and it splashes against her hard. I follow after I'd thrown aside my exorcist coat. I grab Rhode around her waist from behind. She laughs and tries to break free from my grip as the water waves slash against us and make us wet. I laugh along with her – I don't know why, but I feel like it, so to hell with why. Rhode manages to wrestle free from my grip and the splashes water at me. I do the same to her. We both spend quite a lot of time playing around in the waters: splashing each other or wrestling each other.

I managed to grab Rhode around her waist once again, but this time I brought her to the shore and put her down on the sand. I feel down to the ground beside her and looked up at the sky as I lay down. My chest was heaving up and down rapidly – I was out of breath.

Rhode smiles and lays down next to me her hands wrapped around my neck while my hands slowly wrapped themselves around her waist. I couldn't help, but smile at the girl next to me. She was different to the other Noah's and I meant that in a good way. She made me smile – and a lot at that.

"Do you always have this much fun?" I asked her as I turned to my side to face her.

"No, not really," she replies as she buries her head in the nape of my neck "No one ever really comes into this world with me. Tikki's too busy being a bookworm and Skinn's to busy being a sweet tooth. Jasdebi are just plain annoying and Lulu bell's boring."

I can't help, but laugh as she says that. Rhode laughs as well. It's a great day, no fights, no wars, not nothing. It's just a peaceful day with Rhode. In her beautiful dream world. I smile at her when she pulls her head away from my chest. And before I know it, both of our lips are locked and I find myself kissing her.

"Rhode, you in there?" came a voice "It's me Tikki and Lulubell. Let us in already! It's urgent."

We pull away from each other and Rhode starts to panic, trying to find a way to hid me. Then she comes up with an idea and disguises me as a tree. She laid her hand on my shoulder and concentrated hard on roots that blossom and grown into trees. After that she let Tikki and Lulubell in through a door that appeared before her.

"What took you so long?" asked Tikki with suspicion in his voice "We must've been calling you for ages."

"Didn't hear you," said Rhode simply "I was too busy running around."

"And how come you're wet?" Asked Lulubell.

"Hey, a part of having fun means you have to run through water. Besides it's warm in this dream world," noted Rhode "So, what's so urgent?"

Lulubell slowly stepped up towards Rhode.

"Where's Allen Walker? Did you kill him?" she questioned "Where is he?"

Rhode narrowed her eyes, but said that I escaped the dream world by finding the key, "I'm telling you, there's nothing that can put that guy down."

Tikki and Lulubell share a look and then stare at Rhode.

"You should have finished him off. That kid is gonna turn into the fourteenth soon. If the Earl finds a way to control him, then great! But if he doesn't then he's gonna turn on us."

Rhode looks slightly uneasy now. I'm guessing she doesn't like what they're talking about. She smiles evilly and then says, "Don't worry, I'm sure the earl will find a way to get him on our side. And speaking of the Earl, he asked that both of you go and see him – about twenty minutes ago."

Tikki slaps his head and drags Lulubell out of the door with him as he says thanks to Rhode. Rhode sighs in relief and releases me from the tree. She holds onto me tightly and then hugs me without saying anything. I hug back, trying to confort her. I guess it's hard on her having to sneak see an exorcist every day or so. Maybe her families beginning to doubt her or something.

She slowly pulls away from me and guides me to one of the doors that lead outside into the real world. Rhode told me to be careful and quickly pecked my lips before letting go of my hand. I wave and take of running out of the forest.

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I arrive at the order quite late that night. Apparently the rest of the gang arrived about four hours earlier than me. Lavi gave a pat on the back as I returned while Lenalee jumped at me and hugged me tightly, not letting go. I think I could see Komui hovering behind her with a driller in his hand, threatening to kill me.

"Thank goodness y-you're back, Allen-kun," she sobbed into my shoulder "w-we though t-that you w-were dead."

I smile at Lenalee and hug her back, not wanting her to worry. I felt kinda guilty now. I just bunked off a mission to see Rhode just because I didn't want to fight her and that's made Lenalee worry her eyes out about me. Dammit. Sometimes I hated doing this, but I couldn't stop myself from seeing Rhode. I loved her.

Lenalee pulled away from me and smiled, her eyes puffy.

"Welcome back, Allen-kun." She says and I smile.

Everything's fine again. I feel better and everyone cheers.

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Tomboy007: Meh, I'm tired and I did this quickly. Please don't kill me! I hate this chapter too, but the next chapters where the Jasdebi twins and Tikki discover Allen and Rhode – well, sort of.

Allen: What she's trying to say is that she's: stupid, lazy, dumb, not really bothered, in trouble with her GCSE results, going killing carvings, bored out of her mind and just plain lazy.

Rhode: Not to mention that she never studies and if she fails she'll die coz her parents will kill her.

Tomboy007: Hey, wait a sec: that's not fair! Why're you tellin' them!

Allen: Coz you're annoying us. Anyway, please review coz this stupid little writer has put Rhode and me through a lot.

Rhode: Yeah, dammit! Review ppl! Review!