"Where's the kid?!"

"I left him right here," Lenalee said aloud for the second time as all four of the teens looked around the bright yellow roof-top. Her worried eyes scanned the buildings around them.

"Maybe he got down somehow?" Lavi supplied, clearly not as worried as his fellow exorcists as he looked down and into the bright and huge eyes of the Nyanperowna building sign. "And just what the heck is a Nyamperowna?"

"We finished off those akuma within ten mnutes." Allen supplied, his voice not as conident as the young bookman. "Could he really have found a way down that quickly- I would think he would be in shock for a moment after seeing his first akuma." At least, that was what he believed normally happened. A fainting spell or shock- one of the two.

"He didn't look in shock to me when he was holding that gun so steady." A soft breeze carried Lavi's words easily, though the reaction toward them had the rest of the teens noddng their heads in slight agreemment.

"He had the instincts of an exorcist, almost," Lenalee added, looking slightly puzzled as she remembered the other male's instant reaction to the threat.

"They just looked like children to me, at least they did at first." Lavi seemed to be suddenly thinking much more seriously as he, too, remembered The young male's reflexes and almost impossible alertness of the situation. "But how could that kid know that they weren't normal children? He didn't look like an exorcist. And he sure didn't have eyes like Allen's."

A disgruntled growl cut through the thick air between the three exorcist then as Kanda finally spoke.

"We can ask all these questions later if we see him again, but right now, let's focus on why we came here in the first place."

"But, Yuu, that leads us back exactly where we were; the only one who seemed to even know what the heck we were even looking for was that kid. He also seemed to know a bit more than he was telling us. What was that island place he was talking about?"

"Rainbow Island?" Allen supplied and Lavi's head bobbed excitedly.

"Yes! That's it!"

"Then let's get moving, then."

"But, Kanda," Allen interjected even as Kanda sheathed Mugen and headed for the edge of the building, not waiting for the rest to catch up. "The boy also said that the island was dangerous and that no one travels that far."

"I'll convince them." Three words, yet they carried the promise of chaos if unchecked. The oldest teen didn't even look back as he jumped from the roof, leaving the others to follow without a single word to them. Allen sighed in exasperation.

"Kanda!"

Lavi chuckled behind them, "Good old, Yuu, always so eager." But his own eyes followed Lanelee's as she gave one more worried glance over the rooftop before following the others.

Just where had the kid dissapeared off to?