To Learn the Truth

Chapter 1

Chaos had erupted when Lavi came in, carrying an unresponsive Allen, a panicked expression on his face. After a brief moment of silence, Leever began ordering people around, sending some to get a stretcher, one to grab the head nurse, and another to inform Kamui the two had returned, though Allen seemed to be in bad shape. All the while, he had to calm the onlookers, most of whom had befriended the lovable white haired boy. The one who seemed the most in panic was Johnny, the person closest to Allen besides his fellow exorcists who were not present at the current moment. Leever was not looking forward to when Miranda and Krory caught wind of what happened. Both would most certainly come running, causing a bigger mess than what was already going on.

It took four minutes, but the stretcher finally arrived and relieved Lavi from the weight known as Allen, and Leever was able to look closer at Allen's wounds. They didn't seem much worse than normal, the only exception being what looked like a stab wound in his side.

"What happened?" He asked himself, though Lavi heard and answered.

"I'm not certain, but it seems like one of the level three akuma we were facing had the power to enter a person's memories and 'play' with them. It tried to with me, but I've already survived the Noah, Road, so it wasn't too much of a problem and I was able to continue fighting the other two. However, Allen seemed to have been taken in by him while his body fought automatically, so I didn't notice there was a problem. When we finally defeated the group and only the one was left, it laughed and Allen started screaming. I killed it and Allen passed out. He hasn't woken up since." He was slightly panicked while giving the report, and seemed to hope Leever knew the answer to all of his problems. All Leever could do was cast a glance before searching the crowd for the head nurse.

Spotting her greying hair in the crowed, he ordered everyone to make a path for her. After a glance, she commanded them to bring him to one of the back rooms, the one used only for those who would have to stay for a while. Two finders carried the unconscious man on the stretcher, followed closely behind by Lavi and Johnny.

Rumors spread after the spectacle. Allen was dead, he was killed by some level 5 akuma and everyone was hiding it. Lavi was actually the one who attacked Allen, sending him into a coma. They were caught by the Earl and tortured before Lavi was able to get them to escape.

No one knew what was true and what was false. Nothing had been announced, even to the exorcist and science division who knew the boy the best. Lavi was not allowed to tell anyone what happened, and those who had heard didn't tell others through orders of Kamui.

It seemed everyone forgot he came back without injury, only withdrawn into his mind.

When, after two weeks had passed and tensions were high, Kanda returned from a mission, just as frustrated as he normally was, and everyone was ready to fight. Kanda was being his normal self, ignoring everyone and letting out an irritated aura and pushing everyone out of his way. The people who would normally let this go growled at him, and one even tried to attack before backing away at the sight of Mugen. After this encounter, Kanda went in search of Lavi and Lenalee, deciding to force information about whoever he saw first.

As luck would have it, he found Reever and decided that man was good enough, even if he wasn't allowed to cut him.

"Hey," He said, calling across the room. "What's going on here?" Reever looked up, surprised to see Kanda questioning him.

"Nothing. Why?" He asked, genuinely confused. He took a brief glance around the room. It was in unnatural order, with only the normal papers covering the desk and floor, and a couple of experiments exploding in the north corner. There wasn't even someone growing bunny ears, or abnormally long hair. And absolutely no one had turned into an inanimate object in the past week. They really were having an abnormally calm week. That was the only thing Leever could think of, but he knew Kanda wouldn't care about that.