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– A Brother's Promise –

Chapter I
– Attack –

"What do you think you're doing, brat?" demanded a pissed raven-haired teen to know. Actually Allen had been simply playing with Timcanpy out of boredom, until Kanda had mistaken his loud statement of "Get out of my pants, you little pervert!".

"What I'm doing is none of your concern, Ba-Kan-da!"

"What did you just call me, Moyashi?"

"It's Allen, you soba-addicted!"

"At least I'm not a food-freak like you, that shoves everything into my mouth, that's just slightly similar to food!"

Allen just shot him a death glare, that was immediately returned by the Japanese teen. After several seconds of staring daggers at each other, they both lit up into an angry anime-fire-aura. Lavi and Lenalee, who where watching their bickering – again – just sweat-dropped and continued on walking, ignoring their comrades. Link was ordered to watch anyway, but didn't show any concern or any kind of reaction.

The four teen-exorcists – and the secretary – had been given a mission in a small town near Bordeaux in France, called Caumont. Komui had explained to them, that there have been strange phenomena occurring in the usually peaceful town. Those phenomena appeared to be citizens of the town wandering around at night, killing people randomly and at sunrise the killers then always suddenly vanished. The citizens, who were seen killing people, seemed to have never left their houses and also claimed to haven't done anything. Every night a different person appeared and killed about three people, for about six days already. Apparently the six persons who have been suspected were already imprisoned, but the killings were still continuing. After every night of brutal killings the only thing out of place was always a pile of glass shards in front of the suspect's houses. And due to a large number of akuma appearing in nearby villages and towns, in addition several exorcists being killed in past events and everyone still being injured, the mission wasn't allowed to be carried out with less than three exorcists.

The unusually tensed Komui just had interrupted Kanda's attempted complains with his really final statement. "I won't allow anyone to be even more injured until we have recovered properly. We haven't even moved to the new headquarters yet, which means we need every single person until we at least sorted everything out here. That's it, no complains." With that Komui had literally thrown them out of his office – with the help of a certain robot. Lenalee, of course, had been spared from her brother's antics.

But still: Everyone was tensed and acting unusual after the Headquarters being destroyed and Allen suspected a traitor, so it wasn't that unusual after all. Because of all these past events the five were relieved to have just a normal mission with, hopefully, no interruptions by the Noah for a while. Allen luckily, still being observed by Link though, was allowed to go on missions, because he was required as a strong exorcist.

Even after reaching their destination, an observation-point, Allen and Kanda were still on their bickering, Link was watching and Lenalee and Lavi were doing what they were supposed to do: observing and investigating. The redhead was searching the area for unusual things with binoculars, while the chinese girl was writing down everything Lavi reported her.

After about three minutes Allen's and Kanda's fight was ended with a "Che, whatever" by the very proud swordsman.

Lenalee was about to comment their useless fight but was interrupted quite harsh by a shouting bookman apprentice.

"STRIKE!"

"Lavi, what happen–" Her question was quickly answered by seeing the one green eye literally popping out of the bookman apprentice's face. Lavi had dropped the binoculars and now even started drooling. She directed her gaze into the direction Lavi was looking and what she then spotted seemed to be a restaurant. And what apparently had caught Lavi's full attention was the backside of one of the waitresses: a young girl with snow white hair. "But Lavi that girl seems barely older than thirteen or fourteen! And don't you actually prefer older women? So she's actually–"

"Wohoo, she's turnin' around, she's about to turn around! Now I can see her lovely fa–" The redhead suddenly went silent and kept staring.

"L-Lavi? What's wrong?" asked the only girl on the team concerned.

"A-Allen?"

The cursed boy was faced with a shocked-looking Lavi. "What's wrong?"

"Allen, do you have a sister?"

"I don't know of any, why do you ask?"

"You' sure? Not even a similar lookin' cousin or sometin'?"

"Well, my real parents abandoned me, so I actually wouldn't know about a sister or cousin. Why do you ask?"

"Um… I think I found your possible sister." He pointed into the direction him and Lenalee were looking.

Allen too now looked at the restaurant and spotted the waitress.

"Don't you agree Allen? She looks exactly like you. Well, only she's obviously a girl, has a ponytail, no deformed anti-akuma-weapon arm and is wearing a waitress uniform." He started drooling, again. Typical. "That uniform she's wear–"

"She's an akuma!" Allen suddenly exclaimed.

"What the– Oh, your eye, of course!" Lavi replied.

Before anyone could state another response Kanda had already stormed off, his hand on Mugen's hilt, leaving the others behind. But because he was in a city with many people, he was only able to swiftly move through the thick crowds to approach the akuma, so he wouldn't draw any attention to himself. The akuma was still too far away to simply attack and the possibility of other persons getting involved was too high.

Lavi gave Allen a rather confused look. "What're you waitin' for? We decided that you were supposed to deal with the akuma together with Kanda. Go after him, Allen, or he'll get all the fun to himself! We don't get such cute akuma everyday, you know. Oi, Allen, are you listenin'?"

Allen was to deep in thought to hear Lavi. That soul. It's not a normal soul trapped in an akuma. There isn't this sorrowful aura around it and I don't get this uneasy feeling I usually get. Don't tell me that soul is…

"I have to stop him." Allen finally stormed after Kanda in order to stop him from possibly making a big mistake, though it would definitely be hard to persuade him to not just slice the akuma in half.

"Lavi, I think we should go after them. I have a feeling something's about to happen," Lenalee stated.

The redhead nodded in agreement.

Now Allen was rushing after Kanda and him following were Lavi, Lenalee and Link.

Allen was able to quickly catch up with Kanda. "Kanda. Kanda! Listen to me!"

"What now, Moyashi?"

Allen ignored the urge to snap back at Kanda. "I think it's a bad idea to destroy that akuma."

"I have no time for this. I have to destroy that akuma before it notices us and gets a chance to either attack or get away." Kanda attempted to just continue his way, but was held back by Allen, holding his wrist in his black and clawed hand in a strong grip.

"What's wrong with destroying the akuma, Mo-ya-shi?" He successfully pulled his hand out of the tight grip.

Allen's right eyebrow started to twitch from annoyance but he ignored it. "Look: I know you won't care about what I'll tell you and I'm prepared to act based on your reaction. So expect to be thrown to the floor by my Clown Belt if you even dare trying to harm that akuma," he answered coldly.

"Are you seriously threatening me, brat?" Kanda was actually surprised by the obvious threat from the normally overly polite british boy. As an answer he just got a determined look from said boy. "So what's so different about this akuma? Are you telling me it's an akuma suddenly turned good?"

"I just know that this akuma isn't attempting to destroy or kill. It has a peaceful aura around it and I don't get this uneasy feeling like with all other akuma. But most important is–"

"So you're telling me to not destroy the akuma cause you have a feeling it might be good?"

The younger boy simply nodded, still with this determined look on his face. "As I was about to say: The most important thing about this aku–"

"You're such an annoying brat, Moyashi! Now you're not only willing to sacrifice yourself to save some strangers, but now you're telling me to not destroy an akuma because you have a mere feeling it might be good?"

Lavi, Lenalee and Link then arrived and joined them.

"Usagi! (A/N: = bunny; Lavi's nickname) Tell this brat what our duty as exorcists it, he won't listen to me and I don't have time for this! I'll go slice that akuma," Kanda yelled at the red-head.

"Wait a minute, Yuu. I really think you should listen to–"

"Don't call me by my christian name, Bakka Usagi!"

Lavi simply ignored the outburst "From what I heard your probably arguing about that akuma. But, Yuu, it's possible that akuma really isn't bad."

Kanda started to get really pissed. "What are you talking about? It's an akuma, a weapon created by the Millenium Earl. There's no way it has no bad intentions!"

"There is. Listen, Yuu: On our way to Edo we encountered a modified akuma. It was modified by General Cross, the only known human able to do that. It was supposed to give us a message and then it guided us through Edo. During our fight with the Earl, the Noah and the akuma, Chomesuke sacri–"

"You gave it a name? You seriously gave the akuma a name?" The raven-head really started to freak out, but of course didn't show it.

Lavi ignored him and continued. "Chomesuke sacrificed herself to help us bring down that gigantic akuma. She was at her limit and was about to snap. She would have attacked us soon enough and she wanted to be destroyed helping us, not trying to kill us. So it's possible for akuma to have no murderous intentions after they have been modified by Cross."

"Che, I don't care if that akuma is modified or not. Our mission is all I care about right now. I'm an exorcist and my duty is to destroy akuma, not to spare some modified weapons. And what if that akuma is the cause of the phenomena we're supposed to investigate here?"

Finally Allen spoke up again. "Don't be so pig-headed, you jerk! I can see it for myself! Besides that akuma is not only modified the soul inside it has–" The next thing Allen noticed was a sword at his neck and he gave the wielder his angriest look. Kanda was the only person – besides Cross, the Earl and the Noah, of course – that could make him seriously angry. This stupid pig-headed guy. Why is he so stubborn? Allen's then let his head drop a little, causing his eyes to be shadowed by his bangs. With his clawed hand he grabbed the sword and pulled it away from his throat, almost drawing blood if Kanda hadn't released the pressure on his katana. "The soul has merged with the akuma."

Slowly Kanda lowered his sword until Allen let it go. "What?"

"The soul isn't trapped in the akuma. It has merged with the akuma body. They have become one being."

"Look at your eye you idiot. It's reacting!" Annoyed Kanda turned around.

Hammer Boy chose that moment to talk again. "Um, Yuu, actually it's not possible to look at your own eye without a mirror so–"

"Shut up or I'm going to cut out your eye and then you'll be able to look at it," was Kanda's angered response.

"I'm afraid that's not possible either. You know? Only one intact eye." Lavi pointed at his eyepatch.

The Japanese just growled even more angered. "I don't care!" Before anyone could do something he had stormed of, activating his sword.

Immediately Allen ran after him, hoping to make it in time.

After a few seconds the akuma noticed the angry exorcist running at itself with his sheathed sword. The tablet it held fell to the ground with a loud crash. The akuma backed away and searched for a way to escape, but found none. It already saw the exorcist raising his sword for a fatal attack and prepared itself to be hit. With closed shut eyes it waited for the attack.

But it never came.

Carefully opening it's eyes again it noticed something like a white cloth surrounding it.

"Why are you protecting the akuma, Moyashi?"

Allen had activated Crown Clown to prevent the attack from hitting the akuma. He was able to block Kanda with his clawed metal arm and to protect the akuma with his cape. But still: Kanda was pretty strong and he had a hard time against him.

"Answer me, brat! Why the hell are you protecting it?" Still angry Kanda pulled his sword away, but didn't deactivate it. "If you don't let me destroy that akuma, I'll have to kill you first!"

"Believe me, Kanda! This akuma is not bad!" Allen retorted.

"And what if you're wrong?"

"When have I ever been wrong about something like this? You're the one who almost killed Toma because you thought he was an akuma, not me!"

Finally Kanda deactivated Mugen and sheathed it. "But I won't save you if it attacks you."

Finally the rest of the team arrived.

"Usagi, your late, though Lenalee and the nosy guy shouldn't be that slow," Kanda greeted them.

A flabbergasted expression made it's way to Link's features. "Nosy guy?" But he was being completely ignored.

"Well, this crowd is pretty thick so we had a hard time findin' you guys again. I even had to use Tessai to look for you." The red-head then turned his attention to Allen who was still protecting the akuma, but with a deactivated Crown Clown. "Um, Allen? You' sure it won't attack?"

Allen's posture relaxed a little again. "Well yeah, I–"

"Allen?" It was the voice of a female. But not Lenalee's, instead it came from behind Allen.

A little shocked Lavi pointed at the akuma behind the white-haired teen. "A-Allen, how does the akuma know your name? O-Oi Allen? Are you spacing out again?"

After hearing the voice from behind himself Allen had gotten a shocked expression. He then slowly turned his head to look at the white-haired akuma. Suddenly it grabbed his black, clawed left arm and pushed itself at his side. It then even leaned its head against his shoulder. Allen then noticed that the akuma-girl really looked like a female version of himself.

"Allen, I'm so glad you kept your promise!" it exclaimed cheerfully.