Time Flies When You Are Having Fun...(D.Gray-man x Reader)

Chapter 8 - Explanation

Author's Note: This chapter is concise, and is very dense in the plotline. I spaced it out between POV's since it is only them talking in this chapter! Hope you enjoy~

I sat down in the room filled to the brim with technology and sat on a chair not so far away from a computer. Alright then, fill me in on what you are. 

To put it bluntly, I'm one of the Noah, the Noah of Time. 

A Noah? Then why did you want to leave so badly? And you can control time? Is that why-

Chronea cuts me off. Let me finish. I start to fiddle with my skirt with blush tinting my cheeks. I'm not some added Noah that was not supposed to be like Nea. I was considered to be the 2nd Noah but due to my disappearance thousands and thousands of years ago, they believed that I would never reincarnate. It seems that some Noah has even forgotten about me like Tyki. Thousands of years ago during the first war between an ancient civilization and the Noah I did not fight alongside the Noah, I was an observer, similar to the Bookmen. I was a Noah that did not despise humans or humanity but I still cared for the Noah. 

Just like me? 

Yes. I was also split. I assume because of my abilities that I don't resent humans, I find them quite beautiful in a sense. Because of my more powerful abilities to see different futures and pasts, I lost the Noah memories that drive the others wishes to end humanity. 

So that's why you like humans? 

 Yes, for the most part. I do not know why our precense calm the others, that was a completely new occurrence for me as well but it is a strong possibility. I take my skirt and bunch it into my hands as a strained look crossed my face.  I'll continue, even though I didn't want humanity to end, I still didn't want to see my fellow Noah dead either. I believe the Noah are as human as the rest of this world. So I stayed an observer for the war. It was difficult to watch since I loved people on both sides, but I couldn't interfere. I interject again. 

Why not?  You could have tried to persuade the Noah to not end humanity. They seem more human than you give them credit for. And who did you love on the other side?

With you, they do seem more human, even back then they seemed more human than in the novel you read but I did not have enough confidence back then to think that I'd be able to persuade them. And as for the other side, I fell in love with a human. Back to the topic at hand. 

Hold up! You can't just gloss over that! What happened?!

There is no point, he is long gone now. I loved him and he loved me, then I died, that's the end of the story. Moving on. Regardless of whether I wanted to fight or not, the innocence users still wanted me gone as I was a threat. During one of the major fights, an innocence user snuck up behind me while I was observing and poured liquified Innocence down my throat. 

Good lord... Tears begin to pour down my face as I silently sit waiting for her to continue.

My automatic reaction was to flee so I teleported to your timeline which felt the safest, but the effects of the Innocence were too much and I died. Because I died in your timeline, I was also reincarnated into it. This wouldn't have been a problem except for the fact that, unlike other Noah, since I cherish humanity, I cannot take over my host; my power and will align with the host's will for me to do anything. On top of that, since the Noah did not exist in your timeline, the Noah cells were not within your timeline either and could not be activated by me. Were not? Yes, In total, I could not reincarnate and I was beginning to lose hope until you. You had the Noah gene within you due to what I believe was a mutation and I was able to reincarnate after so long. This is how I was able to jump from your timeline to my own. You wished to be far away from everything, I merely twisted that to be able to go back to my timeline. I needed to be home with my family in my timeline and I sacrificed yours to get it. I apologize for dragging you into this ____. I began to sob and couldn't stop. I fell to my knees and cupped my face in my hands and bawled. 

I'm so sorry, you were stuck in my timeline for so long and all you wanted was to just to see your family. Why didn't you tell me before in the Ark? They would have been happy to have you back. 

I don't know if that would be true. Because of my love for humanity, they might hate me and never want me back. I never told them back then how I felt, how could I do it now?

I doubt that they would hate you, especially with this ability to calm them, their human side might agree with us. 

Yet I saw the things they were doing now with all the Akuma and the killing of exorcists in the books you read and it makes me sick. They seem to have even more bloodlust from what I saw than before. But, I still love them, they are my family... 

I can understand the feeling. I wanted to be friends with Tyki, Road, and all of them but I knew what they did when I wasn't around. I know how horrible they can be but I couldn't shake the feeling that deep down they are human and that I care for them.

We are more similar than I had initially thought, maybe this was why our wills are able to sync. 

What do you want to do now? We could go back to the Ark and tell them your back? We could also help the exorcists but I'd preferably not with the shenanigans Central is pulling, or we could stay here and observe from afar. 

It's up to you dear, I've taken so much from you, I'd like instead for you decide. I do want to mention that because of this thousand or so years hibernation if you could call it that, my powers are dulled, it took a lot of energy to go back into the past for this timeline. Right now I am only able to bounce around in this timeline and my area within the timelines, I can't go to others at the moment. Essentially, I can't take you back home yet.

That's fine, I don't want to go back just yet anyway, I want to bring back what was lost. I stand up and wipe the remaining tears off my face. Let's go back to Noah's and tell them your back. If they don't accept us, then we only have two options anyway. 

Sounds like a plan, I hope one of them remembers me.

I'm sure the Millenium Earl will. 

Yes, it's been a long time since I sat down to chat with Adam. I can't wait...