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Chapter 2 - The Lurking Darkness

Lavi blinked. He couldn't believe his eyes.

"…Well? How do I look?" Lenalee stood in front of Allen and Lavi, twirling around in her black dress she had bought for the prom. She knew she wasn't here to shop, but she had never been to such an occasion before. She somehow felt excited. Especially when one of the coolest guys in her Literature class asked her to the prom.

Allen felt a sweat drop coming up, "Eh, it's okay, I guess."

The white-haired exorcist bit his lip. Lenalee should have known better than to ask them for advice. What kind of fashion sense do you expect from two boring exorcists who wore the exact same set of clothing every day?

"Fine. I know you guys aren't interested." Komui's sister sighed as she collapsed down onto the sofa chair. The school's library wasn't half-bad. With newly installed air conditioners and ample books with comfortable chairs, what's there not to like?

"Anything on the Innocence?" Lenalee looked at Lavi.

"Nope. Looks like its hiding itself pretty well." Lavi took a sip of his cup of steaming coffee, answering the girl's question. Allen just simply shook his head, indicating a 'no'.

"Baka Usagi,"

The red-haired teenager nearly dropped his cup and jump out of his seat. He just stopped breathing. That voice was so, in fact very, familiar. And that wasn't good.

"What's up with you and quiet footsteps?!" Allen shouted at Kanda before Lavi could say anything. He swore this was the umpteenth time he had chided the exorcist about his footsteps. The self-proclaimed bookman found it so amusing, he couldn't help but to laugh at the funniness of it all. It was always fun to watch Allen and Kanda react to each other when they were in the same room. It was like two magnets repelling each other.

Kanda smirked, "You are just not concentrating. Stop trying to blame me. My footsteps have nothing to do with your lack of hearing."

"What?!" Allen cursed inwardly. He was going to say more, but that fellow always had something to spit back.

"Shh. This is the library," Lenalee patted Allen on his right shoulder as she warned the two. Walker glared at the blue-haired boy, who was, as usual, without any emotion whatsoever.

Kanda was just about to go when he remembered the purpose of his visit.

"Usagi,"

"Y-yes, Yuu-chan?" It was rather out of the ordinary for Yuu-chan to talk to Lavi personally. Poor self-proclaimed bookman stuttered, still recovering from his recent shock.

"I saw Bookman just now. He thinks there is an Innocence here. But, it is much stronger than the rest we have ever encountered."

Lavi raised an eyebrow, "Hmm. Interesting. Shall have a talk with him later. Thanks, Yuu-chan."

Kanda, with his stoic mask, then walked away without a sound (which made Walker mentally groan), leaving the other three to themselves.

Strange. What kind of Innocence is that? Lavi thought.

He didn't like the looks of this.

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Komui sat at his desk, bored by the immense amount of paper work plied on his table. It was such a headache, working for the Order. But, for Lenalee's sake…

"Komui, here's another set…" Reever Wenham placed a set of papers in front of the overprotective brother. The latter sighed. When was this ever going to end?

"Need any coffee?" Reever asked, feeling a tad sorry for his supervisor.

"Yes, please, thanks. By the way, how's Lenalee?" Komui looked at the Australian.

"She's fine. Don't worry too much about her. She's a big girl."

"Sigh, time does fly. I still remember her as a small kid. It was her first week at the Order. She was so afraid…" The older brother sadly smiled, the old memories suddenly all coming back to him. Reever could only nod his head in agreement.

"Eh, you may not like to hear this…"

"What?"

"Eh…"

"What?" Komui asked again. Sometimes Reever had the habit of stammering when he was about to tell his supervisor something he did not like to hear.

"…The Innocence Lenalee and the others are looking for," Reever gulped. Here comes the cries of help. "Is dangerous. It's so big even Tyki Mikk is aiming for it."

The supervisor felt his eyebrow twitch.

"And you still authorized my little sister to go there?!" Komui screamed. Reever swore his eardrums were going to burst.

"I thought we just established that Lenalee was a big girl?"

Alright. That was lame.

"Plus, we didn't know it was that big until Bookman told us what he saw." The Australian crossed his fingers behind his back, wishing fervently that it would help Komui to calm down, even a little.

"REEVER! I SWEAR IF ANYTHING HAPPENS TO LENALEE, YOU WILL BE THE FIRST TO DIE!"

Then Komui noticed something.

"…Bookman is there? What did he see?" Komui pushed his glasses up with his middle finger, suddenly calming down and seemingly interested. Reever heaved a sigh of relief.

"There's no time to explain," The blonde said quickly, "if we drag this any longer, their lives will be in danger."

The supervisor stared into blank space for a while.

"Warn them. Get them out of there as soon as possible."

Reever nodded once and hurried out of the room, shouting orders to his colleagues.

Just then, Komui thought he saw a shadow, but it disappeared as soon as he discovered it. The brother just shrugged it off. It was just a shadow.

But little did he know, something was lurking in the dark.

And it wasn't pleasant.

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