DGM Changing World- Chapter 26

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Disclaimer:

I do not own Man, Katsura Hoshino does.

I only own my OC, Juuri Nightray.
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Arystar Krory and Eliade, his journey.....




"UGH! THIS DIGGING IS KILLING ME!" The dark-haired girl exorcist complains, stretching her numb limbs tiringly. Geez, who knew this kind of thing is a hell lot tiring than fighting akuma?

'Damn their curiosity! I can just say to them straight what is really inside these graves in the first place but no! I need to stuck here and do this digging with them to appear 'normal' in their eyes. Aren't I good person?' She continue to rant while starting to dig again. She could so just bash all of this with her scythe.

"Patience Juuri-chan, patience." Lavi says, digging beside the said hot tempred girl. His usual orange scarf was pulled up a little from his neck to cover his nose and mouth. His gloves are off too. "At least be thankful that we found these shovels around," He grins at her.

"Hmph! I can manage alone with my scythe!" Juuri huffs.

"Juuri, that is not a good way to respect the dead," Allen says across from her. His hair was tied up in a low ponytail that she gave him from her extra ones which she had gotten again from Lenalee. Well, this job don't give her even a penny, so how is she suppose to buy her own stuff?As if she has already a bag money when she had gotten here. Hell, Juuri don't even own anything other than her own clothes that she wore when she met Allen and Kanda.

"Ah. I kind of remember something," Allen says out of the blue.

"Don't stop digging man," Lavi says.

"What is it, Allen?" Juuri ask, hiding a chuckle deep inside her throat.

"The scent of those man-eating flowers, I kind of remember something." Allen says. The girl just listens carefully while humming a little tune. "Awhile ago, my master was growing some flowers that let out the same fragrance."

"Eh?"

"Really?" She smiles knowingly to herself.

"The ones my master was growing were small,but they were the same sort of flower."Allen continues.

"So those flowers are related to General Cross," Lavi says as a matter of factly.

"Hmm. That must be true," Juuri nods in mock agreement.

'Can I just say the name 'Rosanne'.' She thought while smirking inside her head. At least she remembered some little facts about this anime.

"It's here," Allen says, looking at the last coffin to check. Finally, her feet and hands are starting to get numb from exhaustion. Curse her poor stamina.

"So it's true an akuma," Lavi says taking a look at the akuma remains inside the coffin. The three of them had checked all of the coffins and now, the three I mean 'they' are now satisfied to know that those are really akuma meaning-

'No need to hide it since it is so obvious there. But the problem to convince him has yet to come,' Juuri thought grimly. Step one and two were finished but there is still step three.

"If he's been only attacking akuma," Allen says.

"Then this is not a vampire extermination." Lavi says. "That Krory guy,"

"Yes. If Krory isn't a vampire," Allen says but she cuts him off.

"The Count maybe an accommodator to innocence." Juuri says, smiling to herself. However, when she looked up to see Lavi's expression, she was shocked to find the Count is behind him.

"LAVI!" Juuri and Allen says at the same time. However the two of them were too late, Krory had already punched Lavi, making him crash to the wall, unconscious.

"Lavi! Shit!" She cursed. The dark haired girl is starting to hate herself for being an idiot.

Why can't she just remember everything before it happens?

'Shit! We are in great trouble.' Juuri thought as she gaze fully at Krory.

"Now, you've made me angry!" Krory says lunging at her and Allen at a fast pace. Luckily for her, she manage to get away in time but it resulted in Allen being in trouble.

"Damn! Allen! Watch out!" Juuri calls out at him as she see a charging Krory towards Allen. Luckily, she managed to get near them and backs up Allen.

"I SAID STOP IT!" Juuri says, kicking Krory in the jaw with great speed. She somersaults in the air and landed to Allen's left side.

"Please listen to what we have to say." Allen says, deactivating his innocence. However, Juuri didn't deactivate hers.

Who knows what will happen next?

"Hmm?"

"The bodies in that graveyard over there, they're all akuma," Allen explains."You were attacking akuma. Don't you know that?"

"Akuma?"

"Yes. Akuma. Now, " She says, looking at Krory seriously. "Are you really a vampire, Arystar Krory?"

"A vampire you say?"

He grins maniacally.

"Juuri!"

Juuri feels herself being thrown up in the air very fast.

'Sh-'

"You are cute but not as beautiful as my Eliade."

Then she hear no more.

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"OWUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

A loud cry escaped from Allen as the said boy continue to fall from the window. If he is really going to fall at this rate, who knows this night will be his last.

'What should I do? Someone-' As if on cue, someone got a hold of him from above, saving him in time.

'Who?'

"Lavi?" He asks, relief evident in his voice. Thank God he is alright.

"Yo! Allen, where are you going?" Lavi says playfully just like always.

"You saved me. Seems your okay too."

"Somehow I guess," Lavi says. "So where is Juuri-chan?" He asks grinning. Yeah. She was bitten by Krory and was thrown away in the direction of the castle.

'Juuri…' Allen thought worriedly. What if something bad happened to her?

"Oi! Allen! Answer me! Don't tell me Juuri is not with you!" Lavi asks, worriedly, dropping the "-chan" unknowingly. It seems like Lavi is starting to get worried about her too.

"Sorry Lavi, but we got separated. She was thrown away to the castle while you were unconscious." He explains, thinking of any place that she might bee. Allen kind of remember seeing her form crash into the wall, west of the castle grounds.

"WHAT?!" Lavi looks at him, wide eyed. The red-haired was really shocked.

"We don't have any time, we need to find her immediately!" Allen says to himself while Lavi manuevered his hammer to extend for the two to enter the castle through the window.

"Don't worry Allen! Knowing Juuri-chan, she'll manage." Lavi says, unsurely. "...I think?"

'Please be alright, Juuri.'

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"I think I can see the whole Milky Way..." Juuri says walking around or more like limping around. Her head feels like it collided with a 1 foot thick lead and its no understatement cause she DID crash into a WALL, a damn wall.

"Ugh. All I can think of is pain. Shit! I think I dislocated my shoulder, lucky." She says while cursing in five languages she knows.

Why does she need to get crashed into a wall, really?

'And what's with long stairways?' The dark-haired girl begrudgingly thought as she limps down the long stairway. Her plan is to get back to Allen and Lavi to get into action again.

"Krory, If he's not an exorcist, I've chopped him up already! I'm going to get my sweet revenge after all of this!" She growls maniacally at no one in particular. The girl knows that ranting won't change her situation but who can't blame her? In a place where she is all by herself, having a bruised up body, maybe a dislocated arm, no directions and probably lost, what else can she DO but CURSE and RANT?

When she feels like she had reached the bottom, Juuri silently thank the heavens since the throbbing pain in her head iss completely gone by now. However, the scene that greets her is not something you've dream of seeing here in the Man. In her position, she can see clearly the image of an unconscious Krory with Eliade beside him. But that did not surprise you.

It was the soul beside Eliade.

The trapped soul inside the akuma.

"Krory! Did you see that? That thing coming out from that woman?" Lavi says. Wait, Lavi?

"LAVI! ALLEN!" Juuri calls out to them from the stairs. She immediately limps her way to them.

'FINALLY!'

She cries out in happiness in her head. Thank the heavens for hearing all her rants.

"Juuri!" Allen says, approaching her. The said girl immediately gets a hold of his coat as her support.

"And here I thought I was lost! WAAAAAAAH!" She grumbles like kid making the younger teen sweat drops.

"JUURI-CHAN! I WAS SO WORRIED I-" Lavi says as he moves to embrace her but she cuts him off before he can do a thing.

'Back to the topic.'

"Krory! She is an akuma!"

"Your enemy and ours!" Allen adds.

"Is is true Eliade?" Krory asks, worried. Such a tragic love story to end. She can't help but feel, sad. There is such pain from looking at their eyes. Such fate.

'Fate is so cruel. '

"Do you know something?"

"I…I…" Eliade answers, then blood drips down from her. Sensing the akuma blood from Eliade, Krory looks up not to his beautiful Eliade,only to see an ugly, mostrous, demon.

An akuma.

"Now, I have to destroy you."

"Krory! LOOKOUT! GET AWAY FROM HER!" Juuri says but he doesn't bother to move an inch. However, Eiade successfuly throws Krory off to a nearby wall.

"Krory! Get up!"

"WAH!" Lavi suddenly shrieks beside her.

"What?" She asks. Is there something to shriek about?

"This ain't good. I was fighting Kuro-chan earlier, and now he was exhausted!" He says. Juuri does an anime fall.

"WHAT! You could've just beaten him up a little, you stupid Lavi!" She shrieks, looking up at him disbelievingly. Now, there is SOMETHING to shriek about.

"Who is Kuro-chan?" Allen asks,"

"W-We have to save him!" Lavi panics.

"That is KRORY!" She answers. Suddenly, the ground beneath them explodes. Only to reveal flowers...

THOSE FLOWERS!

"THEM AGAIN!" Juuri asks distastefully. Did they miss the three of them that much?

"Those flowers broke through the wall!" Allen says, evading a whole lot of flowers trying to eat him up just like she did.

"There were some of the crappy flowers leftover?" Lavi says, unable to move from the flowers.

"IKR!" Juuri shouts out to Allen.

Lavi stops and quirks an eyebrow to look at the exorcist girl.

"What the hell does that mean?"

" It means; I KNOW RIGHT, IDIOT!" She answers. Juuri forgot the fact that they don't have those terminologies here.

"How many are gonna come up?" Allen shouts.

"As if know, dammit!" She struggles but being bruised up doesn't help at all. Little by little the three of them are being overpowered.

"Dammit! What's all of you!"Lavi curses." I can't get to Kuro-chan!"

"AGRH! THIS IS HOPELESS!" Juuri says, being caught by the flowers with her hands and arms tied up. Lavi is not in good position too since he was tied up upside down while Allen's upper body was tied up too.

'Is there anyway to get away from these?' Juuri thought as she cracks her head for any useful answers.

...

...

...

'NO! THAT METHOD IS-is..GAH!' Juuri thought, shaking her head in disapproval. It is GROSS! TOO GROSS!

"Grow-" Lavi was cut off from activating his innocence when a flower, got a hold of his hammer.

'Uh-oh.'

"No way!" He says, suddenly the flower beside him, eat him, whole.

Holy shit!

"WTF! LAVI WAS EATEN!" She cannot help but curse outloud. And you are near a flower so-

'RAH!'

"NOOOOO!"

Juuri was sucked in as a whole too.

'No shit Sherlock!'

She is sure gonna say every single curse words that she knows right now.

"JUURI! LAVI!"

"AHH! I'll die! I get eaten! SAVE ME!" Lavi struggles to move inside but to no avail.

"NO! OH MY GOD! STOP!-" The exorcist girl curses inside while struggling with all her best. She cannot activate her innocence because her left hand is currently over her chest which means if she activates it, she'll kill herself. Damn luck. Fate really loves to see you like this.

"Calm down you two!" Juuri hears Allen says something but she can't hear him from Lavi's loud shrieking voice.

"ARE YOU SERIOUS! I CALM DOWN, I GET EATEN!" Lavi says.

"BY THE LOVE OF CHRIST, LAVI! SHUT UP! I CAN'T HEAR ALLEN!" She says angrily, hoping that someone might hear. She wasn't able to witness Lavi sweat drops inside the flower from fear.

'Oops, I don't need to hear Allen since I know what he'll say,' She thought, making herself sweat drop idiotically. She didn't notice that she was too caught up with this.

"When I was with my master, I took care of a flower like this!" Allen says. Good grief he'll say it. And worst they'll have to do it.

She WILL do it.

She have to.

"Seriously!"

"Just say it! I can't hold on any longer and I feel like my arm is a little dislocated right now!" She shouted out to them. Truth to be told, her arm is screaming bloody curses at her right now if it can only talk. And if her disclocated shoulder is alive, she might had been strangled to death.

How silly, right?

" CONVEY YOUR LOVE!SAY THAT YOU LOVE THE FLOWER!" She hears Allen says outside her LaLa Land.

"FINE!" Juuri and Lavi says.

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..

..

"WHAT!?" She shrieks. "DO I really need to?"

"There is no other way, Juuri! SAY IT!" She hears Allen says.

'Damn. I'll regret this, THIS- THIS MUSHY THING! AGRH! I'M ALLERGIC TO THIS! JUST THIS ONCE!' Juuri thought, contemplating on saving herself or her pride.

"I'll curse this day,"

"I…LOVE….YOU!" The three of them says at the same time.

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"I LOVE YOU!"

"I LOVE YOU!"

"I LOVE YOU!"

"I LOVE YOU!"

"I LOVE YOU!"

"I LOVE YOU!"

"I LOVE YOU DAMMIT!" Juuri shouted, suddenly a flower looms dangerously over her. She just gott out from the flower that tried to eat her thanks from saying 'I LOVE YOU's but saying a lot those makes her sick.

"JUURI!" Lavi warns her.

"I SAID I LOVE YOU, OKAY! I LOVE YOU!" She says at the flower which now moves away from her.

Suddenly, something falls down over Allen, a healthy flower awhile ago is now a wilted one right now.

'Could it be that the akuma is starting to fight against Krory? We need to get there soon!'

"Kuro-chan!"

"This is bad! Don't get hit!" Allen warns the two as he pushes Lavi out of the way.

"I got it." Juuri says, activating her innocence. "RUN AS FAST AS YOU CAN TO KRORY!" She says to Allen, who nods at her knowingly. " BACKLASH WAVE!" Slicing through the air with your Deathscythe, making a huge hurricane of Black winds to protect the three of them to Krory.

"Greath job!"

"Nice one, Juuri-chan!" Lavi gaves her a thumbs up.

"Of course!" She grins at him.

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"He's sucking...her blood." Allen says. The three just arrived to see a paper thick Krory, sucking Eliade's blood.

'This won't take too long and then,-' The dark-haired girl thought sadly to herself. Very sad to continue her thought. </i>'he'll realize what he did and will start to regret it, hate it and curse himself.'</i>

"Hey, I wanted to love you," She heard Eliade said, making her look at them. She wanted to look away but can't. Those same words, she had said it before. She said it before to her parents. And hearing the same thing makes a small pang in her closed heart.

'What's with all this drama? I never felt this kind of thing even if I'm watching it 's the difference? Is it because, I'm part of this now? That I'm not just a mere viewer?'

"Arystar, I wanted…." She started to fall down, she looks away completely. "…to love you."

Then, Eliade died.

The akuma was vanquished.

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"Krory-san?" Allen asks. The water bubbles came down at the four of them as rain eventhough they are inside a castle.

It is raining again.

The rain you hate so much.

The rain you love so much.

Juuri stays at her spot, looking at the disheveled Krory. He looks broken, pitiful, weak. Just like her in the past. But the difference is that he has someone with him who are Allen and Lavi who came that is why he manage to fight it over, but she didn't.

She didn't have anyone, that is why she ended her life.

She ended her dead life.

"I want to die." Krory says out of the blue which caught her off guard. She didn't notice it but she starts to walk towards him. " I killed the person I love. The person..with my own hands..'

'Idiot.'

'SLAP!'

She didn't know that slapped him.

"Ju-Juuri!"

"What did you do?" Allen and Lavi asks, shocked that the quiet, funny, playful yet smart girl that they know slapped Krory.

But she didn't care. She needs to settle this.

She wants to say something.

Words that she wants to hear from herself but cannot speak it out.

"U-um," Krory says but she cuts him off before he can utter another word.

"ARE YOU A COWARD!" She asks, angrily.

'How dare you say those words so easily!'

"IF YOU WANT TO DIE THEN DIE! I DON'T GIVE A DAMN! BE A MAN ABOUT IT AND SUCK IT UP!"

'They don't give a damn.'

"But!" Juuri looks him in the eye, she can see his tear stained eyes from crying earlier but apart from that, she can see her ownself reflected from his eyes. Her uncool expression."-Even if you are lost, you still have a path laid down to walk on! "

'I walk by myself through those never ending dark path.'

"You still have a goal to fulfill as an exorcists!"

'I was born to be a soulless doll. A slave to obey, nothing else nothing more.'

" You just acquire a few allies too! So tell me! What the hell do you want to ask for more because you are truly one lucky bastard at that!"

'I never have anything to begin with.'

" AND DON'T YOU DARE SAY TO ME YOU WANNA KILL YOURSELF BECAUSE THAT IS SO PATHETIC!"

'I killed myself.'

She didn't notice, but tears started falling down her pale cheeks.

However, Lavi noticed it.

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"I'm certain, that this person came to the castle." Krory says as he leads the three of them around the basement of some sort. However, she didn't listen much since her thoughts are still occupied by the your scene awhile ago.

'WHAT SHOULD I DO! What if someone noticed me crying there? Oh my God!NO! NO! NO! Definitely no! I'm such an idiot! An idiot!' Juuri thought, making weird faces that scares Allen sometimes. He is lucky at least that he is somewhat immune but Lavi and Krory isn't.

"Ju….uri-chan?"

"Wh-what's wrong…?"

"N-Nothing! HAHA!" She ties to laugh it off but no effect. "Haha…Okay! IT'S NOTHING REALLY!" She says to them with a huff. She really need to practice how to lie sometimes.

"T-Th-This pot! It's definitely Rosanne!" Allen says out loud making a great distraction from the tension centered towards you a moment ago, rather surprised. Well she knows that pot too. The one where Krory got his fangs. Nothing much really. Then Allen starts to talk about this 'Rosanne' and with of course mentioning his ever sweet time with his master.

Such a poor boy.

'I hope Cross didn't introduce that 'Y' to Allen.'

"I have a request. " Krory says as he looks at the three sincerely, she can't help but smile. Who knows that the one who savagely looks like he wanted to kill them is truly like this? " Could you wait for me outside? I need to prepare something."

"Yeah, take your time!" Juuri nods. happily.

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"Dawn will be coming soon! Man, that was one hell of a night!" Lavi says coolly, hands placed at the back of his head. Same old Lavi.

"Well, the first thing I do when we came back is to have a well-deserve sleep! Paradise! Aw! I miss my pillow!" Juuri says, hugging an imaginary pillow in her arms.

"Aw! You can have me as your pillow, Juuri-chan!" Lavi teases her. She just rolls her eyes at him.

"What a F-L-I-R-T!" She says in a singsong manner. "I think I'll pass!~"

"In the end, the clue that we have is that my master was here," Allen says seriously. He really needs to lighten up. But you can't blame him since that is his original mission. "I'm not even sure why we came."

Juuri can't help but pat Allen's back, rather hard.

"ACK!" Allen shrieks as he almost lost his balance. The dark-haired girl just grins at him.

"Don't need to be so down, ne? Atleast we have Krory!" She nudges him.

"Yeah! We have Kuro-chan as a friend! So it wasn't for nothing," Lavi replies, helping Juuri to reassure a depressed Allen.

"Yes, thank you."

"And besides," Lavi snickers in which she knows that the words coming from his mouth is not a good sign. " We heard a first class rant from Juuri-chan! Never thought it was so scary yet sexy!" Lavi looks at her. Juuri can't help but face palm at his overused antics of flirting.

She had known a ton lot of those already.

"You seem quite full of yourself."

The three of you jump in surprise to see Bookman stading behind.

'Where did he get here!'

"Bookman!"

"Jiji! When did you get here?" Lavi asks.

"Goodevening or goodmorning..?" She asks, sweat dropping.

"Such a worrier! Even if you hadn't showed up really, we have in under control!" Lavi says casually. The airhead he is. No doubt he gets into troubles every time.

'BAM!'

"That hurt you, PANDA!"

"Under control? You didn't need to blow a whole there!"

"We are practically dying there!"

The younger teens just watch on the sidelines, smiling at those two. Those two might not admit this but they really care for each other.

'BOOOOOOOOOM'

'Eh?'

"The castle…" Lavi mutters in shock, you just gaze at the fire.

"It is on fire."

"It can't be! Krory-san!" Allen says as he rushes off to the castle.

"Allen! Krory is just-" She cuts herself off before she can say truly what happened.

'Bad! Bookman and Lavi is here! I would look suspicious if I say anything weird!'

Luckily for her, they are looking out to see Krory coming out from his castle all good.

"What's with that look? You think I'm going to die there? I'll be alright. From now on, I am an exorcist." Krory asks. What is the explosion for? A joke?

'So he wants a joke, huh?'

"Try it and I'll drag your lazy ass here myself to kill you again." She says in an overly sweet voice that promise death making them gulp in fear except for Bookman.

"I'm just joking!" Juuri says, smiling. The other people seem to relax at this. "And, glad to be friends with you, Krory!"

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"Don't be so down, Kuro-chan. It couldn't be helped. No matter how much we explained,the villager won't believe us." Lavi says across Krory. The four are seating on a carriage that would take them to the nearby town for the train. Juuri Nightray is seating beside Krory and Allen was seated across her.

"But…" Krory says, sniffling from his crying.

"Stop crying Krory!" She sasy, reassuring him from the last encounter with the villagers. It seems that no matter how she snapped and glared at them, they won't listen to her. Worse, they even call her a witch again, for being so rude and scary this time.

'Those fools!' She thought, memory still fresh in her head. She was so tempted to punch the living daylights out of them but was stopped by Lavi and Allen.

"But you shouldn't stopped me from giving them some piece of my mind, you two…" She grumbles in her seat, crossing her arms in protest.

"Naturally, I would be irritated by it too. But, you shouldn't really do that, Juuri." Allen says to her, sighing tiringly.

"BUT ALLEN!" The girl looks at him, still wanting to go back there and show them who the boss is. " THEY ARE SO RUDE! RUDER THAN KANDA!" She keep on whining. He just sighs again.

"I can agree to that but it is really not that important," Allen says, conclusively which makes her stop your whining and calm down.

'If you say so, fine!' Juuri surrenders.

"It doesn't matter if you can't go home. A man only needs a hometown here." Lavi says, pointing his heart for emphasis. Juuri just gave him a priceless look.

"Lavi, that was so, SO corny," She face palm. What's with him and his words? She doesn't know but she is sure of one thing.

He is very weird.

'Who would fall for that?'

"LAVI!" Krory says, hugging Lavi gratefully.

"Knock it off, Kuro-chan!"

"Lavi!"

"What the hell is this! Stop it!"

Yeah. She forgot about Krory.

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"So this is a town?" Krory asks, making her giggle silently.

"You haven't been to one?"

'I'm always on the street making a living or either on an errand.'

"Yes, because I live in the castle for the rest of my life." Krory answers shyly. Juuri just pat his back rather hard which earns a shock expression and smile.

"Then , you better enjoy it now, Krory!" Juuri grins with her usual grin of encouragement. He suddenly got teary eyes which makes her aware for what will happen next...

'Uh-oh,'

"Ju-Juuri!" Krory spreads his arms and runs toward her. Luckily,she sidestep him which ended up from him on the floor.

"S-Sorry! I'm just..not that fond for someone hugging me? Sorry! " Then Juuri helps Krory off the floor and looks at Lavi. " Here! You can hug Lavi again!" The dark haired-girl smiles or more like grin evilly.

Payback is a bitch.

"WHY ME!?" Lavi asks but too late, he was hugged again by Krory. She just sweat drop.

"Man. He sure is different from when his innocence is activated." Juuri says to no one in particular.

"You can say that again." Allen answers beside her while Krory starts to look for shops.

"Bipolar people."

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"Mou..Krory, you." She says to no one, massaging her tired head from those little encounters. Who could have though that this fellow can attract so much trouble within a span of 3 minutes? Wish she could have forseen this. But even if she obviously did, can she be able to change a thing?

'Why does he need to be so naïve?' Juuri thought to herself while pulling your hair from frustration in the process.

"So this is a train? It makes me so excited. I'm going to have a look around." Krory says merrily, very amazed of this vehicle called a train. She just sighs. Another troublesome fellow but still a fellow.

"Please, try not to get lost." Juuri says, shaking her head in disapproval. All of them except the dumbfounded Krory face palm themselves.

'Maybe I should get a nap?'

"I'm not going to get lost so please not worry, Juuri." Krory says, taking off. It seems he didn't caught what she meant there.

"I'm more worried about our sanity, Krory." She say, face palming yourself too.

'Yeah. I 'really' need to have one.'

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She was walking through the halls when she spotted a familiar figure. She immediately perks up.

'There he is!'

"Kanda!" Juuri says, catching up to him, his back facing her. She gulps nervously and remember her prime perspective, to apologize.

'It can't be helped if his back is like this.' She thought, taking a deep breath to start her apology.

"Kanda, look. I'm really sorry that I offended you. It's not like I don't want to be with you because you are such an insensible jerk sometimes, no definitely at times, but scratch that, okay? I just want to help this case of Allen. So please understand. " Juuri looks up at Kanda but his back is still facing her.

'DON'T TELL ME HE IS IGNORING ME AGAIN! I'M SERIOUS HERE!'

"Grr..KANDA! Are you even lis-" But she was cut off by someone hugging her.. But which shocked her the most is WHO is hugging HER tightly.

It is Kanda.

Kanda.

KANDA!?/

' HOLY FRIGGIN' NUTS!' She thought wide eyed, still hugged by Kanda.

"Ka-Ka-Kanda, w-what's going o-on?" She asks, wide eyed. This must be a dream. Yup, D.E.F.I.N.I.T.E.L.Y. a dream where she needs to wake up.

Then he stopped hugging her and instead looks at her, cupping her face with his cold instantly feel the familiar blush creeping its way on her cheeks.

'. God.'

This is totally creeping her out. Juuri can even feel her heart pounding loudly inside her chest. The dark-haired girl is sure that she is going to die if it won't calm down any second from now.

"I don't want you with anyone else even with that moyashi. " Kanda says, bringing her face closer to his. Juuri can even swear that he felt his hot breathe brush against her lips. She unconsciously lick her lips in the process.

Wait. What?!

"What d-do you mean?" She asks. Is he going to do what she think he will do!

"Just be with me.." He says, his usual arrogant tone with mix of that sinful eyes of his. She was too shocked to even think since her attention is focused on his deep blue eyes and his lips. She unconsciously starts to close her eyes without her faces are only a centimeter apart...

When she feel someone bit her cheek.

'Wha-'

She opened her eyes to see a yellow golem biting her now poor bruised cheek.

"TIMCANPY? STOP THAT!" Juuri says, pulling the golem away from her. She looks at her surrounding to see that she is still in the cabin. It seems that she only fell asleep and was actually, dreaming?

'So that was a dream?' She thought, a little sad. And it was just becoming so-

'SLAP!'

"WHY IN THE HELL I SOUND LIKE I'M DISSAPOINTED! AND WHAT THE HECK WAS THAT DREAM! HOLY MACARONIS! WHAT IS THAT!" She cursed rather loudly, scaring the other passengers. She immediately sweat drop at her own stupidity. She was too caught up to notice the other people around her not until she felt the familiar curious gaze coming from the other passengers.

"So-Sorry!" Juuri says, running off in a flash to find her other comrades.

And also to clear the thoughts of that fanta- TERRIBLE dream she had.

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"A-Allen? What is going on here?" The dark-haired asks. She just arrived at the final compartment of the train to find Allen sitting infront of three guys who are only in their AHEM, undwearwears.

Did she also said that Krory is also in his underwear?

She looks away instead and nudge at the shock Lavi.

"Lavi, what's going on here?" Juuri asks silently, hoping to make herr presence unknown from the other occupants of the room. Lucky you, Allen and the three other thugs are too engrossed in playing poker.

"You won't believe it Juuri-chan but Allen is winning against those three in poker." Lavi says, looking at her, very surprised. She just raised an eyebrow then instantly got the memory, making her almost shiver in fear.

'B-Black Allen.' Juuri thought, getting aware of the atmosphere.

"All right! But before we do, please wash your underwear before you hand it to me, okay?" Allen says coolly, shuffling the cards expertly. The horrors of poker players.

Poker is such a game of wits and cheats.

"It's starting…" She mutters under her breath.

'Evil. He is evil!'

"What's happening? You're strangely good. Aren't you supposed to be an "unlucky boy"?" Lavi whispers to Allen, she just face palm.

"Please Allen, fill us in," She asks, even if she already knew far too well what is the reason.

'Whatever, this looks fun anyway. But the real threat is 'that' guy,' She thought, looking at the thug at the middle who is wearing big glasses at the corner of her eyes.

"It's because I'm cheating!" Allen whispers back rather happily which comes out very NOT that simple "happily". It even sounds like the familiar cheery voice you hear from Final Destianation Movie Series...

"Eh? Seriously? Your that kind of guy...?" Lavi asks dumbfounded.

"They were the ones who started this with Krory. " Allen says, doing a trick by covertly returning cards back to the deck after he pulls out some cards down. "I won't lose at cards. During my time with my master, I need to polish my skills."

"Dammit, I don't even know how to play poker," She says, clearly amaze at his skills at cheating. If he can only play yugioh, you bet he can pull out those legendary cards within a minute. He'll beat Yugi, no questions asked.

"Skills?" Lavi asks but was answer to see a dark Allen.

"How many games have I won? I won't show any mercy! It's three against one, so its fair. MWUAHAHAHAHA!"

"Allen…" She says, shaking her head sadly. She already miss the innocent Allen but she can't also say that evil Allen is not adorable. Damn hell its even funny. Too bad you are too scared from his change of character to even laugh this off.

"Call! Four of a kind." Allen says, smiling.

"Allen is so black…" Lavi says, sweatdropping.

"So so black.." She adds.

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"I got back my friends clothes, so its okay." Allen says, handing the clothes back to the three thugs a while ago. Allen managed to get back Krory's clothes by winning or more like cheating in poker.

"Boy, we're not so lowly to accept your pity," The guy in glasses says but his hand and the others have already a hold on his clothes from Allen.

'Men are so prideful to the point that they look like idiots.'

"Those hands?" Juuri asks, raising a delicate eyebrow at them.

"My, my, my" Glasses guy says.

"So, Miss, what's your name?" The bald one asks, she tilts her head questioningly.

"What?"

"Where do you live? Do you have a lover?" The other ugly guy asks.

"WHAT!?"

'Okay, what the hell is going on?'

"Umm…" Allen mutters nervously, seems like she is going to let out some steam any time from now.

" Do you mind to come with us and be my woman, Miss Beautiful?" The glasses guy asks.

"WHAT THE HECK?! SCREW OFF!" She cursed, rather loudly, completely not interested in their advances.

"She's mine already!" Lavi says beside her, trying to put his arm around her but Juuri manage to twist it off which earns some cries of pain from the flirty rabbit.

"I'M NO ONE'S PROPERTY, DAMMIT!" She says, glaring at the four flirts while Allen and Krory sweat drops.

"DON'T TELL ME YOU BELONG TO YU, ALREADY!" Lavi asks her, shaking the poor girl very hard.

"WHERE IN THE DEEPEST PIT OF SHIT DID YOU GET THAT IDEA!?" Juuri replies as she whacks his head hard.

"So we are rejected? Too bad then. Here!" The glasses guy says, throwing a deck of cards to Allen.

"Thanks!" Allen says, the train starts to move again.

"And Miss!" The glasses guy smiles at her with a different glint in his eyes. " See you again."

Juuri only frowns.

"I hope not."

'As an enemy.'

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