Yo, Kurokumo here. This is my first desperate attempt of writing a Man Fanfiction, so, uh, yeah… -sweat drop- Alrighty then, without further ado, let us start off forthwith with Chapter 1 of 'Niveous Sky'! (I'll be surprised if this breaks ten chapters… Oi vey…)

Disclaimer: Man is the property of Katsura Hoshino. This series is a parody and nothing more, so please support the official release. Got it? Damn well better.

1. Freak-Show

"The hell, Moyashi?!" Kanda yelled, anger evident to a blind man. "You just let that one get away! Our job is to kill the Akuma, not to let them go!"

Allen grimaced, telling Kanda that he knew he screwed up, and chased after the fleeing Akuma that was heading towards the main part of town. This was not good. If it managed to get there without being stopped, then it was over. It would all be over, and so many lives would be lost. That could not happen. It just couldn't. He chased it down as Kanda looked over his shoulder to Lavi, who was trying to help the injured Bookman.

"You can take 'im, Yuu-chan," he said, half-pissed off and half-upset. "I'm sorry that I have to let you two take care of it. It's just… Gramps…"

"Che." That was Kanda's sole response as he started to run down the road, then yelled over his shoulder, "If you dare to ever fucking call me 'Yuu-chan' ever again, I'll kill you."

"Love you, too!" Lavi yelled back. Kanda could hear the smile in that one as he upped his speed by three notches. There was no way in hell that Moyashi would be able to beat the Akuma there in time. It wasn't a matter of whether or not there would be casualties anymore, because there certainly would be. It was a matter of how many they could save now. The edges of town grew more and more dense with old buildings, the fleeting snow dancing devilishly as he ran passed the old monument, the signifier that he was less than three hundred yards away from the main town. Already he could hear the screams of innocent people. He grinded his teeth together as people stopped walking, which made it near impossible to get by, so he just started to shove people out of the way.

250 feet.

150 feet.

50 feet.

His running came to a screeching halt right at the sight of the first body. The person was nothing but a mere child, a little girl by the looks of the age of eight, her eyes paralyzed and unmoving as a symbol that she was dead. Her blood was mixed with the dirt and flooded out into the road, her once-blue dress now no longer of that colour, her golden locks of hair now a complete mess. It was sickening as he could see the spinal cord, so twisted and bent out of shape, protruding out of where it should have been and going right through the flesh.

Shit.

He unsheathed Mugen, eyes shifting about as he looked for it. There was nothing there, except several other bodies and ruined buildings that were not ruined before. The wind picked up then, sending a flurry of snow at his face, but he ignored it. Everything was too quiet except for the howling of the wind. There was a lack of screams because there was no one left to scream. Everyone ran away or was dead. Damn, Moyashi really fucked it up this time. How could have that idiot let it get away when it was right in front of him?! It was so uncharacteristic of him, even if he did hate him.

Speaking of Moyashi… Where the hell was he? Even that idiot should have been here by now, give or take a few seconds. His frown deepened, then did another quick scan of the area. He was no where to be found. And neither was the Akuma. Now what? He grabbed onto one of the street light's poles and climbed up with ease. If people were around, they would be staring at him in awe. He jumped from the pole onto one of the still-standing buildings' roof and looked around off into the distance. Still no where. He turned around at the wrong second to see Allen flying in his direction.

"Moyashi--?!" Kanda wanted to yell more, but was cut off as he was hit directly and driven into the roof and into the room below. There was gaping hole where the two had fallen, and Allen appeared to be knocked out. Well, at least he knew now where the idiot was… "Moyashi, you idiot, the fuck were you thinking?"

There was no response to that question. Allen was slipping in and out of consciousness, his Innocence deactivated, his right side bleeding out. A piece of the ceiling gave way and fell onto his head, causing him to be completely knocked out. Kanda groaned. This was worse than the last mission, if that was at all possible. How come he always was the one to come to the rescue when Allen was in trouble? This was pissing him off. He shoved the badly-beaten Exorcist off of him and stood up, brushing the dust off of his clothes, then groaned, his hand reaching up and holding the back of his head unsteadily. If he got a concussion, it would be all of his fault.

Quickly, he jumped up and climbed through the hole of the roof, heaving himself upwards then stood up straight. From the direction, he guessed that it was heading towards… His eyes widened as he saw the Fire Salamander trying to take something out. Oh, hell, Lavi was in worse condition than either of them! He was about to go back for them until he remembered Moyashi, sighed, went back through the hole, picked him up, then jumped back up and headed towards the stupid-redhead.

Lavi blinked as he noticed that he was coming. He waved at them, smiling. "Yuu-chan, Moyashi-chan! Glad for you to join me!" He blocked the Akuma's attack with his hammer, its unusually long arms trying to split him in two.

"Don't call me…" Kanda started, but had to stop talking and block an attack from something that wasn't an Akuma. He growled heavily, shoving the being off of him, then had a semi-startled look on his face when he saw who it was. It was the same guy from the Ark back then. But didn't they kill him? Obviously not. He put Allen down to one side, then glared at the man menacingly. Lavi got shot across the field and into a tree that was 50 yards away.

They were fighting a losing battle, it was obvious for that much. He sucked in a harsh breath. And it was just his luck to be fighting one of the more tough Noah. Damn it. He exhaled slowly. He might as well start slowly and build up. If he used too many strong attacks, it would just cause him to be more exhausted. And he needed to stall until Allen came to. Bleeding or not, he knew the idiot would come in and save the day at the expense of his own life.

"Mugen," he said, raising the sword over his head, then yelled, "Ichigen!"

The spirit-bugs came out (that's what Lavi called them, which resulted in a punch in the face) and were launched at Tyki, who just sighed and let them pass right through him. Oh, right. This guy's ability was that he could touch anything or could not touch anything he wanted. Kanda frowned. And he asked God whether or not his day could get any worse.

It did when Tyki decided to not go after Kanda and go after the not-moving Allen.

'He's after Moyashi?!' Kanda's mind yelled, and, without warning, his body moved faster than his mind, throwing himself in front of Tyki's path. The Noah, who didn't expect it, didn't have time to change his path or make it so that he wouldn't touch Kanda and ran him through with his hand. There was a millisecond pause as he pulled out from Kanda's shoulder and took some of the flesh and broke the bone while he was at it.

"Brat," Tyki said, then moved to one side and grabbed Allen by the collar. He woke up with a jolt, shocked and confused what he was seeing, then mouth became agape when he recognized who it was. Kanda was rendered useless when Tyki smirked, his hand going right through the boy's chest, and was about to pull his heart out when another familiar and evil voice said, "Tyki, that's enough."

Tyki faltered, then dropped the boy to one side, turning to see Road. She gave him that bored look that meant 'it's time to go, under the Earl's orders'. He didn't like that look at all. "I was about to complete my mission--"

"Tyki."

He sighed, then walked passed Kanda whose hand was clamped over his shoulder. Oh, yeah, like he was going to let them just leave. He wasn't as stupid as Moyashi. His grip on Mugen's hilt tightened as he said, "Twin Blade Illusions." A second sword formed, but wasn't complete in shape. It was because of the injury. Fuck. It would have to do. He charged at Tyki, who seemed to sigh and made Kanda miss, then grabbed him by the wrist and threw him in the same direction that the Akuma--who was now missing--threw Lavi. He collided into the ground just before he hit him, though, and groaned. That hurt.

"Don't be stupid and attack head-on, boy," Tyki said, faint grin on his face, "and feel lucky that the Earl has managed to spare you, indirectly or not."

That was the thing, though. Kanda didn't want to be spared by the likes of the anyone, let alone the Earl. It was even worse that it was the enemy. He was about to get up when his shoulder let out a heavy throb of pain, and his back collided with the ground again, hand covering it and hoping it would just heal already. It was like Komui said, it was taking longer to heal. Fuck. The two left, leaving the exorcists battered and broken. The only one conscious was him. He forced himself to stand up, then checked Lavi first. Moyashi could fucking wait and just die, for all he cared. He snapped his fingers in front of his face, waited, and did it again. Lavi was completely out of it. He sighed, then walked over to Bookman, who looked as if he should have been dead, but wasn't. He was still breathing. Finally, he walked over to Allen and paused, looking down at him.

It was worse than he thought.

The grass beneath him was completely wet with blood. Allen's blood. He was losing too much of it. He grimaced. If he let Moyashi die, he'd never hear the end of it from Lenalee or Lavi or… Hell, anyone. Everybody loved Allen, except for him. He sighed, then unbuttoned the uniform to reveal the giant gaping hole where the Akuma apparently stabbed him with one of those ugly-looking fingers. His eyes partially widened when he saw a star form. What…? The stars were forming all over his body. Kanda panicked, then shook Allen. He knew Allen could repel the Akuma's blood curse, just so long as he woke up, which didn't seem to be happening any time soon.

"Moyashi."

No response. Kanda felt a bead of sweat form on his brow, then sighed heavily, and yelled, "Wake the fuck up, Moyashi, or else I'll kill you!" Which he knew he didn't need to do if Allen didn't wake up soon. There was still no response. Now this was a problem. The curse reach his face. This was it. If he didn't wake him up, Allen would die. One part said, 'good riddance', but he knew how much trouble he'd get in. Oh, hell. "Che. I said wake up, Allen!"

Allen's eyes snapped open at the sound of his name coming from Kanda's mouth, his Innocence immediately activating. The curse disappeared immediately as his eyes widened, not believing what he had just heard. "Did you just call me… Allen?"

"No, Old Man, you're hallucinating," Kanda smoothly lied. "I'd rather die than call someone whose cursed by his name. Che." He got up, then stared down at him. "Are you going to get up or not? Idiot."

Allen did, then his eyes widened, clamping his hand over his side. "Ow! What… How am I still moving with this hole in my side…?" He spoke too soon as Kanda groaned, catching him before he fell. This was the most annoying mission there was so far. He called Allen by his name. Even if he was threatened to do it, he'd never call Allen by his name. But he did, just a few seconds ago, to save his life. That was it. That's all it was to it. But even so, it bothered him more than anything at the moment.

Lavi frowned, eyebrows furrowing close together, before he came to and saw Kanda standing in front of him with Allen draped over one shoulder. "Yuu-chan came to rescue me!"

"Che. Like hell."

"Oh, come on, Yuu-chan," he pouted, then stood up, picking up the hammer that was off to one side. "Did you kill the Akuma? You probably destroyed it with one shot, didn't you?"

"The Akuma…?" Kanda repeated in confusion, then his eyes widened. "Oh… No. Oh, no. Oh, fuck!" He let the Akuma get away while fighting Tyki! Lavi paused, trying to comprehend the information that was processing in his brain, then came to a stunning realization.

"You… didn't kill it?" Lavi managed to say, then his eyes widened. "Yuu-chan! It probably headed back into town! Oh, God, what are we gonna do?! We can't just sit here, but, oh, you're shoulder… and… Oh… Damn, what are we gonna do?"

"Stop asking stupid questions," Kanda ordered, then handing Allen to him. "You watch over this idiot. I'm going to go take care of the Akuma and--"

"We can't do that, Yuu-chan! You can't!" Lavi practically yelled. "If you try to kill that thing with your shoulder the way it is now, you'll die!"

"Che. So?"

"Yuu-chan!"

He sighed. Lavi head a point, as much as he didn't want to admit it. If he died while trying to kill the Akuma, then the other three, who were in far much worse condition than he was, would die too because of his judgement. He put Mugen away, much to his irritation, and sighed. "All right, fine. But the people down at that town are all going to be dead because of you. I just hope you realize that much."

"Yuu-chan, what people? They all fled, remember?" he pointed out.

"Che. Whatever. Where the hell is a phone? I need to call Komui."

Two moons… There should have not been two moons there, but there was anyways. One in the reflection of the water, the other, in the reflection of the sky. And snow… There was snow floating down. For whatever reason, he felt as if he had been there before. In fact, he knew had been there before, the time where he 'died' and shortly there after, Crown Clown came into being. So why was he having this 'dream' again? He didn't want to see it again. No. Lenalee was crying, no, he did not want to see it. But he looked up anyways, and there, across the water, was a familiar face, but it was not hers. His eyes widened to who it was, unknowing of what he was seeing. This couldn't be in his dream.

No way.

Not him.

It was him, though, there was no denying it. Why was he seeing him this time? He hated his guts, and yet, by the looks of it, he was… crying. This was not possible. Allen forced his hand to move forward, and he expected to be stopped again, like last time, but this time, he fell right off the ruins that he stood upon--

--and sat up with a startled jolt, which nearly resulted in the punching of Komui's face if his clipboard had not been there. The Head-Scientist looked at him, shocked.

"I see you're all right, then," he said, taking a calm sip from his coffee. "We estimated you'd be out for another two, three days, but you always manage to surprise us, Allen."

Allen looked around, confused. What happened? He was fighting those Akuma, and then… nothing. He was pretty sure Kanda and Lavi were there, too, and Bookman. And they should have had it easy. They were your standard level two Akuma, and, though difficult to beat, they should have won that one easily. So what caused him to nearly die? He didn't know. "Komui… Where are the others?"

He took another sip of coffee before answering. "They came back with major injuries sustained as well. Apparently one of the Earl's 'friends' showed up. His name was apparently Tyki Mikk. I know you know him. But according to Kanda, he came from behind from no where and tried to rip out your heart. Said something that it was probably about getting revenge for the last time he tried to kill you but didn't."

Tyki? Allen shook his head. No, Tyki was supposed to be dead. Right? Well, apparently not. How was that possible…? He'd figure that out later, but right now, he needed to visit everyone and make sure they really were okay. He got out from under the bed covers and stepped onto the cold floor when the wooziness hit him hard and collapsed onto the floor. Komui shook his head.

"Did I not just say that you were supposed to be knocked-out for at least another two days? You're still recovering, Allen, you can't walk that much. Get back in bed."

A long, drawn out sigh was the scientist's response as he stood back up, trying to get his footing in order, then walked out of the room, ignoring Komui's yelling. He wasn't the kind to just lay around and do nothing. He hated that. So, as long as he was awake, he was going to keep moving. Even so, his head was spinning too much, he didn't think he could take another step. But he did, nearly twisting his ankle and breaking it while reaching the wall for support. Knowing Komui, to prevent them from killing each other, he'd put Kanda over to the opposite wing. As with Lavi…

He grimaced. He didn't want to see Kanda right now, he was still confused. Then what was his excuse? What if Lavi was over in the wing he was just in? Surely he couldn't say that he wanted to visit Kanda, of all people. He pressed onward towards the opposite wing, basically sliding across the wall as he walked. And finally, finally, he reached it. And there, with an annoyed look on his face was the Japanese exorcist, looking not as banged up as Allen expected to see. His gaze was directed to the ceiling until he heard Allen and just moved his eyes to side-glance. His frown grew seeing the British boy.

"Che. How come it's always you who has to visit me second? Go away."

Allen felt a nerve twitch. "I didn't come here to visit you! I came to see Lavi!"

At this, Kanda looked slightly puzzled. It sort of amused Allen to see an expression like that on his face. "Lavi? The Baka Usagi, you mean? He's not in this wing, he was in yours. How did you not see him? Che."

Uh-oh. Allen found himself on the spot, not knowing how to respond to that. How did he not see Lavi? He had red hair that stood out in the crowd! A frown creased his face, the glared at Kanda. "Well, fine then. Maybe I did come to visit you. What's the problem with that? If you don't want me here, then I'll leave."

"Che." That was Allen's response, which translated to 'You better fucking leave or I'll kill you, then bring you back and kill you again'. Allen glared at him again, anger evident, then attempted to storm out when he felt a sudden shock of dizziness hit him across the head once more. He kept his composure, trying to make it look like nothing was wrong. There was no chance in hell that Allen would pass out in front of Kanda. No freakin' way. He paused, then walked in a zig-zag pattern out of the room and passed out in the hallway, anyways. Kanda rose an eyebrow, then frowned. "He always manages to ruin my mood, no matter what he does…"

He sighed, then waved his hand over to one of the nurses and pointed at Allen. The nurse immediately rushed over to him as he sighed, angry. That idiot decided to visit him when he wasn't even completely healed yet. He wanted to smother Allen under a pillow. That would teach him to be not so goddamn caring. After the nurse left with Allen draped over her shoulders, he started taking his own bandages off. As long as she was distracted, he could leave. He was already healed, anyways, but they always managed to make him stay there three times longer than it was necessary. They were idiots, after all. He got up and bent down to put his shoes on, grabbing the hair tie that was on the table and tied his hair back a little differently than normal, but he'd deal with it later as he walked out, perfectly healed, his shoulder better than he thought it would be.

He walked into his room to see another petal of the lotus flower come off and float down to the bottom of the hour glass. He paused, then sighed, closing the door behind him and laid down still on the bed.

Calling him by his name was asinine. Even if it was to save his life.

Why was he still bothered by it?

Fuck.

He put his hair back the way it should have been and paused when he heard the knock at his door. Judging by how the person knocked, he already knew who it was. "Che. What, Baka Usagi?"

"Yuu-chan, the nurse wanted to know why you left so early…" Lavi said, coming in, the frowned. "But that's because you healed already. Oh, hey, is there a reason why Allen passed out while he tried to visit you? He completely ignored me when I tried to wave at him… He was so mean…" he pouted playfully.

"He didn't want to catch the rabbit-disease."

"Ouch! That was harsh, Yuu-chan."

"Stop calling me that." He placed Mugen to one side and frowned. "So did you talk to Komui yet about the mission we failed--" he hated that word, 'failed', but he said it bitterly anyways, "--four days ago?"

"Well…" Lavi looked down at his feet and kicked the wooden floor uneasily. "Because of our failure… Komui wasn't too happy, but he was glad that we were okay… We go back there once Allen is back to normal in health, which could take another two days. Apparently the manifestation of Akuma there was because of a newly-found Innocence."

"Hn." Kanda stared at the wall blankly, then let out a weak sigh. "And does this Innocence have an accommodator or is it still out and about without anyone? Everyone's dead in that town now--"

"It's not located in that town, Yuu-chan," he said, rubbing the back of his head. "We were in the wrong town, actually. It's about fifteen miles south from where we were. So in short, we literally lured it from where it was to a completely innocent town. Which means those people died for nothing, basically."

Kanda's upper lip twitched uncontrollably. "Are you kidding me?"

"I told you we were in the wrong town, Yuu-chan, but you didn't listen to me," he complained. "Komui said you haven't screwed up this bad since ever! He was wondering what was wrong with you."

"Che." Yeah, what the hell got into him? He screwed up big time this time around. It probably was just an honest mistake, but Kanda Yuu never made mistakes. He was practically flawless in his performance of being an exorcist. This never happen and never should have happened. "It's Moyashi's fault."

Lavi blinked, then broke into an uncontrollable laughing fit that nearly resulted in his death as Kanda pulled out Mugen without hesitation. It took him almost five minutes to get a grip of himself as Kanda seethed dangerously, hand twitching with his hand on Mugen's hilt. If he killed him now, though, with such a bad report, he probably would be heavily punished for it. But the desire was still there. Later, he told himself. Lavi wiped the forming tears from his eye and grinned at him. "You sound like a little kid, Yuu-chan, blaming it on Allen! That sounded so funny from your mouth! When did you become the age of five-years-old, huh? Oh, that was great! If I only I had a way to record that and give it to everyone in the Order--"

Fuck it. Kanda launched himself at the apprentice Bookman when his head was whacked with the familiar-looking clipboard. Lenalee stood there, annoyance evident. "Could you please kill him later? He just recovered! Leave him be!"

Kanda covered the forming bruise on his forehead with his hand, glaring dangerously. Lenalee turned and smiled at Lavi, then began saying words that wasn't reaching his ears. What, was everyone coming to his room just to piss him off? It was seriously starting to annoy him. Not that he was already annoyed, but hey.

"Oh, right," Lenalee paused, then turned back to Kanda. "My brother wants to see you. He's in his lab, as always. Me and Lavi--" she nudged him a little "--are gonna go see how Allen is doing. Do you want to come later?"

"Che. No," came out the standard answer. It would be a cold day in Hell if he ever visited Moyashi. A very, very, very, cold day. He didn't think he could emphasize it anymore than he just did, so he walked out of his room and headed towards the dining hall. He was hungry. And it was about freaking time that he got some soba noodles…

Komui would have to wait.

Wow, first chapter, done! (That was kind of lame, wasn't it. Ah well.) So! Did you like it? Hate it? Love it? Destroy it? Hit me with a review, por favor! It would be very nice of you to do so! See you in two, yatta! --K.S.