I do not own D Gray Man. Katsura Hoshino owns it. If you do not understand this simple fact by how now (God knows how many times you've read the different variations) there is no hope for you.

"She is different….she took something from the field." Kanda huffed. "…flowers"

"What"

"She has flowers from the field in a vase in her house."

"Okay…and that means what?"

"well maybe they're connected."

"So should we go check to see if anyone else brought something back from the fields?"

"Che."

/

Chapter thirteen

"I think that we should just sit down and wait for Lenalee and Yu-chan to get back."

Lavi watched as Allen paced around the field.

"Its not like we can leave anytime soon and they should be back soon." he added.

"Shushles….Lavi I'm trying to think." Allen waved him away.

Seeing that Allen wasn't paying any attention to him , Lavi went to go and grow mushrooms in a corner of the field.

While Allen was busy pondering; Lavi took it upon himself to study and memorise his surroundings, as any good bookman would. Soon though he noticed what looked like a small speck of gold hovering over them.

"Allen." he called, making Allen turn

"What?" the white-haired boy asked as he came closer.

"Is that Timcampy?" Lavi asked pointing out the speck of gold.

Covering his eyes from the glare of the sun, Allen looked up to where he was pointing.

"Timcampy…" he called. "Where have you been you silly Golem?"

The small golden ball came meandering down to them slowly. Soon he was at their eye level and was rubbing himself against his master's head.

"Do you think Kanda or Lenalee still have their golems on them?" Allen asked Lavi, not remembering if he had seen them or not.

"Kanda had his tucked into his jacket the last time we saw them. Try contacting them."

Allen nodded and got Timcampy to locate and contact the closest golem.

"Lenalee….Kanda." he called.

"Hello?" answered back a crackly voice.

"Its Allen and Lavi. Have you found something yet?"

Lenalee's voice came through. "The women had flowers from the field with her. We investigated the other families and they couldn't remember anyone else bringing some back."

"Anything else?" Lavi questioned

"No, Kanda and I should be back in half an hour."

The sound crackled once again as their contact ended. Lavi turned to see Allen with a contemplative look on his face.

"What?" he asked.

"That reminds me of the dream I just had." Allen admitted looking Lavi in the eye.

"There was an old women in it, and she was terribly angry and sad until I gave her a bunch of flowers."

"So what should we do then? Look for a specific flower, or dig them up and look through the soil?"

Allen looked thoughtful. "Lets just have another look and around and decide what to do from there." he answered.

/

Half an hour past, and Lenalee and Kanda joined them. There were no break throughs in that time, and slowly the group became disheartened.

As Night began to fall they were startled as it was darker then they felt it should be. The darkness became oppressive, soon they could not see for the thick blackness surrounding them.

"Everyone stop where you are." The voice of Kanda came floating out of nowhere to reach everyone's ears.

"Keep your eyes out. This is exactly how it happened before. Try to spot something like innocence or that old women." Lavi instructed.

Nobody dared moved for fear of being swallowed up by the dark atmosphere. Carefully they examined their surroundings. The tell-tale, green glow of innocence could not be seen in any of the areas.

It was a good minute before any progress was made. Allen had knelt on one knee and was carefully examining the ground with his hands when he heard it.

"Do it now." came a voice out of the fog. Allen recognised this voice as the old women who had spoken to his in his dream. This then, must be the old women that the townspeople had informed them about.

"Who's there?" he addressed the disembodied voice.

"Don't make my mistake." came another whisper from the darkness.

"What mistake?" Allen responded.

"Embrace the love." She whispered

Although the white-haired boy did not understand what she meant by this, he appreciated the importance she seemed to place in her words.

"I promise, that if the opportunity comes I will." he swore honestly.

"Thankyou." the voice breathed with what sounded to Allen like relief.

Much to everyone's relief the darkness seemed to recede slowly. Soon they were able to make out the shapes of their companions. Lavi immediately rushed over towards the smaller boy and held him in a tight embrace.

"Are you alright?" he asked nuzzling his nose into the white-hair affectionately. "What happened? Why did it clear off so suddenly?" he questioned.

Allen just chuckled at his friend, glad that his friend cared about his well-being. Looking over the shoulder that was just below his eyes level, he caught a glimpse of something rather surprising to him. Lenalee and Kanda were whispering to each other quietly across the field. That was not the shocking factor however, looking down slightly he focused his eye on their hands, which where at that moment tightly clasped.

"Somebody has certainly embraced the love." he thought to himself.

He nudged Lavi causing the boy to part from their embrace. He then discreetly raised a finger and pointed in the direction of the curious pair.

"You have to be bloody kidding me?" Lavi blurted out immediately upon sighting the intimate gesture.

Allen just face-palmed, so much for being discrete and giving the pair a moment of privacy.

"What the fuck did you just say?" Kanda barked in their direction.

"Nothing." Lavi responded quickly looking away, whistling.

Soon enough the pair found themselves in their tent packing away the rest of their stuff, ready to leave as soon as the newly discovered couple had snuggled themselves out. They were both having a great time doing this in the mean time. Lavi seemed to be on a role, cracking jokes, and being especially clumsy.

"We never did actually find out what had happened?" Lavi noted as they settled down, relaxing before they had to leave.

"That's alright." Allen smiled gently. "I just think that the old lady resolved some of her issues."

Lavi snorted. "That would have taken a lot from what we heard, she was an ugly old miser, that nobody liked."

Sighing Allen lay down, crossing his arms behind his head before turning his head to face his friend. "There was probably a reason for that." he noted, suspecting that from what the women said she was just bitter that she had indeed been alone, and never had anybody to love.

"Hey Lavi…." Allen started observing as his companion also reclined. "Have you ever had a girlfriend?"

Lavi choked on his spit hearing that question. These were dangerous waters now.

"Why would you ask that Moyashi?" he asked.

"I just wanted to know." was the response he got.

"Well, in that case." Lavi faked a laugh for his crushes benefit. "Nope…."

"Would you ever want one?" Allen asked curiously.

"…not a girlfriend." Lavi said avoiding eye contact.

"Why not?"

"I wouldn't want to do anything with them. Not like what boyfriend and girlfriend are supposed to do?"

"What are they supposed to do?"

Lavi sat up at that. "You are not seriously asking that are you?"

The boy just nodded with a slightly confused look on his face. Lavi had to restrain himself from jumping the innocent boy at that point.

"Well…. They… you know." Lavi started awkwardly.

"I though we had established that I don't know." Allen just muttered under his breath. "Just tell me what they do, and how they do it." he demanded indignantly.

Lavi just had to laugh at the ridiculous situation. It was going to be much harder to get the boy than he had first though apparently.

"What are you laughing about?" Allen huffed, pouting.

"I just love you sometimes Allen." Lavi snorted before getting up and walking out.

The younger boy just puffed out his cheeks and shot a few glances to the space Lavi had just exited out of. Then he sighed and rolled over to face the other side of the tent away from the door.

"Not in the way I want you to." he mumbled closing his eyes.

/

Rei; "Only two more chapters to go."

Lavi; "its taking you long enough."

Allen; "I know right….what do you expect us to do while we're waiting for you to finish the next chapters?"

Rei; "Make out?"

Allen; "You're sooooo stupid."

Lavi; "Now Allen, just wait there is some merit to her suggestion."

Allen; "You're just saying that cause she's making you say it."

Rei; "But I do have a point."