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This is a D.Gray-man Ouran High School Host Club crossover.

It had been about a half hour since Lavi had woken up from his strange dream. He was still reading, or at least he was trying to. He kept thinking back to the dream that had been plaguing him recently, trying to figure out what it meant and above all else he was trying to figure out who the people in the dream were. They all felt familiar although he couldn't remember ever meeting them, which was strange for him because he had an excellent memory, he didn't even recall meeting the exorcist that had taken one of the twins away. The more he thought about the dream or more particularly the boy named Kaoru, the more the sense of longing and loss crept up on him. This frustrated him to no end because he didn't even know why he was feeling like this!

Lavi almost jumped when he heard the old panda begin to wake up and he quickly blinked back the tears that had started to form in his eye. If the old man caught him on what seemed to be the verge of crying he would ask questions and Lavi didn't feel like sharing this dream with anyone at the moment, he really didn't see the need to either. Once Bookman was properly awake he stood up and left the train compartment saying something about needing to stretch his legs.

Lavi put his book down when he heard the door close. He closed his eye and thought back to the mission that he and the panda had been given by Komui.

Flash back

"It is believed that there is innocence located in an area of Japan. We know that Japan is where the Millennium Earl is based and is riddled with akuma but for one reason or another he has not yet spread out to this area," Komui addressed the two exorcists in front of him, a confused frown on his face. Lavi still wondered how an idiot such as Komui could even be serious for one second let alone for a whole conversation.

Reever came and handed Lavi and Bookman the mission briefs that would give them more information on the mission they were about to depart on. When this was done Komui continued speaking, "I want the two of you to head there straight away and recover the innocence and to destroy any akuma that have been sent to retrieve it."

After a few more minutes, in which Lavi and Bookman were told where the finder they were to meet would be, the two stood up. Lavi turned and started to walk towards the door but stopped when he noticed the panda wasn't following him. He looked back and saw Bookman standing at Komui's desk. Bookman saw him, waved him away and indicated for him to wait outside the science department for him. Lavi did as he was told, sort of. He left Komui's office but instead of leaving the science department as well he stood outside the door to listen to what the panda wanted to say to Komui while he wasn't around.

"Do you think it's a good idea to send him there, what if he meets the other one?" Lavi heard Bookman's voice, slightly muffled by the door, and frowned. He was confused by what the panda was saying.

Komui sighed and replied, his voice also muffled by the door, "I have no choice but to send you and him on this mission, Lenalee is to young to go on a mission that's so far away and Kanda and the other exorcists are all currently on missions elsewhere. You two are the only exorcists that I can send…"

Bookman mumbled something that Lavi couldn't hear and Komui sighed again and replied, "I understand your concern, Bookman, but I have complete faith that you will be able to stop that from happening. I have had finders watching the boy to make sure that he comes to no harm, like his other asked of me, so I have a fairly good idea of where he does and doesn't go. Here I'll write down the places he goes the most so you can avoid them."

Lavi then heard nothing as Komui wrote whatever it was he said he would write for Bookman. A moment later he heard Bookman's voice again, "Thank you, Komui. I will do all I can to prevent them from meeting."

"I know you'll be able to pull it off. Good luck with the mission, I hope everything will go smoothly and that you both return unharmed," Komui replied.

Once Komui finished speaking Lavi darted towards the door that lead out of the science department. He reached the door and stood outside, thankfully his breathing wasn't that heavy so Bookman wouldn't notice that he had been outside the door to Komui's office, listening to the conversation. While he waited for Bookman to arrive, Lavi thought about what he and Komui had been talking about. It was obvious that they were talking about him but who else were they talking about? Who was it that they didn't want him to meet? What did they mean by 'his other'? So many questions chased each other around his mind even when Bookman arrived at the door and they began to walk away from the science department.

End flash back

Lavi opened his eye and sighed. Now that he had thought about the conversation that he had over heard, the questions he had came rushing back to the fore front of his mind and try as he might, he couldn't answer a single one. He thought about seeing if the panda had left the paper that Komui had written the places, that this person that they didn't want him to meet would normally go to, on but he scraped that idea almost as soon as it developed because the panda wouldn't leave it lying around where his apprentice could find it.

Lavi was still trying to think of ways to find out who this person was when Bookman came back. Bookman noticed that his apprentice seemed to have something on his mind by the way he was staring at the seat in front of him with a glazed look in his eye. Bookman sat down and looked over at Lavi again, "Lavi, what's wrong with you? What are you thinking about that has you staring into space?"

Lavi started at the sound of Bookman's voice and jerked his head up to look at the old man, "Huh? What? Oh, it's nothing. Really, it's nothing panda."

As soon as he said that Bookman hit him on the side of his head sending him into the compartment wall, "Hey! What was that for!" Lavi held his head, tears of pain in his eye.

"I've told repeatedly not to call me that you idiot!"

Lavi rubbed his head then sat back, once again thinking about the questions that had formed in his mind and spoke distractedly, "Yeah, yeah. Whatever…"

Bookman sighed at the way Lavi was acting but decided not to start asking questions, yet. He would find out what was going through his apprentices mind sooner or later.

From that point on their ride on the train was silent. When the train finally halted at its next stop the two exorcists got off and started to walk to the docks where they would then get on a boat that would take them to the dockyard in the area of Japan they needed to be to recover the innocence and where the person that Bookman and Komui didn't want Lavi to meet was.

While they were waiting for the boat to arrive Bookman left to make a call to headquarters, Lavi thought it was just the standard report to say where they were and about how long it would take them to reach Japan etc. But little did he know it was also to report how he had been acting and what Bookman's suspicions on what was causing this behaviour was.

Soon after Bookman had returned from reporting to Komui the boat that would take them to their destination arrived. As they boarded the vessel Lavi started to think of ways to get the paper that Komui had given to Bookman away from the old man but everything he came up with he always figured out that it would, undoubtedly, end in failure.

In the end he just gave up on thinking of a way to get the paper and instead hoped for something that would just lead him to the person no-one seemed to want him to meet. He knew it was stupid to think something like that would happen but he was desperate and was thinking of and hoping for anything at the moment that would answer his questions and get rid of his confusion.