Since I had been asked (and kindly threatened) to write another Tyki/Allen I decided to do it! I hope it is different from the other one! THat's why I don't really repeat pairings, because I always think I'm placing them on a similar setting.
Anyway, I hope you'll like it!
PS: Conversations in italics is a conversation between Allen and Nea in their minds.
PS2: elina thefangirl, just like you thought, I do not have balls.
"Hey, do you think he's alive?"
"Why do you care? You heard the other Exorcists, he is going to turn against us."
"So we leave him there?"
"Call the HQ. I don't want to get in trouble because of him."
"Right. Yes, hello. We have a situation here. He's under a ton of rocks and we can't take him out. He's probably dead, sir. Yes, sir."
"So, what did they say?"
"Said not to worry and to leave him there. One less problem for us."
He could feel it. He was about to pass out. The pain in his crush feet was unbearable; his head was pounding like mad, he could barely breath and all he could taste was his own blood.
But they were going to rescue him, right? They were his friends, his family. They were all he had in this world. He saw a flurry golden body pose next to him.
"Tim…can…" He started to cough so violently that his eyes were filled with tears. "Help… Please help… me." He mumbled before he finally did pass out.
No one heard his pleas.
No one cared for him.
As always, but at least, this time, he would meet Mana. Finally. He would see his Mana again.
When he woke up he realised something: for being dead, he was feeling an awful amount of pain. Using all his strength, he opened his eyes and what he saw didn't resemble what he had thought Heaven would look like: it was a dark room with a purplish glow all around it. He was lying on what his tired brain imagined was a bed. A really comfortable one. Nothing to do with the ones in the Infirmary in the Order.
The Order! He had to go back. They would probably be worried about him. He didn't know how much time had gone by, but he needed to tell them that he was okay…
Wait a second. Nea said.
What do you want now? Can't you leave me alone?
They are not looking for you.
Of course they are! They are my friends!
They were your friends. They left you alone when you needed them the most. You said it yourself, this is not the Order and they were the only ones who knew where you were.
If Allen could have blinked and frowned, he would have, because Nea as annoying as he was, was right. This was not the Order and definitely not a normal house. No one besides the other members of the European branch knew where he was, so how did he arrive into that room after being buried alive under almost a ton of rocks?
He felt the pillow dip a bit and he then saw Timcanpy's yellow tail in front of his eyes and then touch his forehead before disappearing again. His weak hearing caught the soft flutter of his big wings and then how they stop for a moment before he picked the sound of fast footsteps going his way.
Well, if Tim had told whomever his host was tat he was awake, he was in good hands and he was not going to get hurt. More.
His eyes shut close on their own accord, but he was still awake when a cool, soft hand posed on his forehead and pressed slightly.
He let out a pained moan at the action, but at the same time, the coolness of the skin was so refreshing. Then, the coolness disappeared for a few minutes before something wet and cold was on his forehead. His lips let out a sigh of relief at that.
It felt so good.
He felt the bed dip next to him and the same hand as before removed the bangs that got caught up under the wet towel and then soft lips kissed his scarred cheek.
"Sleep. You need it." The voice was familiar, but it didn't bring out good memories. But now, the voice, which he remembered being cold and hurtful was soft and sweet. Besides, Timcanpy wouldn't have let the stranger go near him if he sensed that he would be in danger.
Slowly he got better but he never got to see his host. The only time he had even heard him was that night in which He talked to him.
I wonder who could that be…
Just think harder, Allen. He and Nea, being his only companion, started to get along quite well, to the point Allen could probably said he cared for him deeply. You know him form before.
Really? I remember his voice sounded familiar, but I can't place it. Do you know who he is?
Of course.
Tell me, Nea! Please!
No. You need to find it out by yourself. Nea smiled and patted Allen's conscience, to call it somehow, on the head. Here, let me take over. You must be starting to hurt badly.
Thank you, Nea.
That was another thing they had started to do: when Nea sensed that Allen was going to start hurting or was hurting, he would take over the body so he would be he one to feel the pain and not Allen.
You're welcome. Let's do something. I stay in control of your body until night, you rest and then at night you stay awake so you can see who he is.
Yes. Thank you. Again. Allen kissed Nea softly on the cheek and then went to sleep, thanking that he wasn't alone anymore. Nea was taking really good care of him, mentally of course, supporting him at any breakdown he could have had and entertaining him whenever he was bored. They had even started playing poker together.
It was funny how it worked having another completely different, independent person inside his head and body, but it was interesting too. Back in the days when he was in the Order, he was freaking scared of what Nea would do to him only to have him take care of him like the adoptive uncle he was.
Nea?
Yes?
Is it all right if I call you uncle? He could sense the elder's surprise but smiled when Nea nodded. I'm glad.
I'm too. Now hush and sleep.
And sleep he did, until Nea woke him to shift. Hey, Allen, wake up; he must be about to come.
Okay.
He waited patiently until he heard the door open, the lights flick open and then he felt the bed dip next to him. It was then that he opened his eyes and the person he saw changing the bandages of his right arm, was the last person he would ever imagine.
"Tyki?" He gasped and then man looked at him, dumbfounded.
"Oh. Hey, Shonen." The Noah said, smiling a bit. "I thought you'd be sleep as usual."
"I… What the hell are you doing here? No, wait, why am I here?"
"You were trapped under the rocks in that cave and I was looking for the Innocence. I found Tim looking for help and we ran into each other so well, I rescued you and brought you here."
"Here?"
"The Ark." Tyki said as he took his hand.
"Why would you help me? And how come Tim trusts you?" Mikk didn't reply he just looked away. "Do the others know I'm here?"
"Yeah. They've come to see you. Especially Road and the twins." He explained. "You are not freaking out."
"Would it lead me to anywhere?"
"Probably not." Tyki conceded. "Well, your hand is healing nicely."
"Why are you helping me?"
"You are family. Family helps each other." The Noah said. "I know you don't consider us family. But we do."
Well, they might be a better family that the assholes that left you to die. Nea said and Allen had to agree to that.
"Does The Earl know I'm here?"
"Of course. He said he would like to talk to you once you are fully recuperated."
Surprisingly, that didn't terrify him. "Where's Tim?"
"Probably playing with Lero and Road. Or helping the twins look for your Master." He replied as he bandaged his hand again and then moved to look at his legs. "If you haven't seen it yet you might want to look away, shonen."
Allen frowned at that: how bad did his leg look? Was he going to have another scarred, dark, ugly limb?
"I want to see it. It can be worse than my old arm." He said.
"Well, as you wish." He said before he started to unwrap his left leg.
Allen flinched at the look of his foot: it was completely dark, much as his arm.
"Is it… Is it dead?" He asked, fearing the worse.
"No. You'll be able to walk and run and whatever you like to do with them once you are recuperated."
"Why are they black?" He asked as he tried to sit up, failing miserably, what brought a groan from him.
"We have to drench them in Black matter or otherwise you would have lost them." Tyki explained as he helped him to sit up. "Like this?"
"Hum." Tyki then moved back and sat right at his feet before lifting one and put it at the point his legs crossed.
"What are you going to do?" Walked asked. And surprisingly, he realised he was not afraid, but curious at whatever the Noah was going to do to him.
"It's my turn this week."
"Your turn?"
"Yeah. Road, the twins, Wisely and I have been taking turn to take care of you." He explained. "We are still fighting your friends in the Orders and…"
"They are not my friends." The white haired man interrupted, looking to a wall. "Friends don't abandon friends. I guess I've always been alone and always will be." He whispered.
"I told you before. You have a family here waiting for you to join." Tyki said and Allen smiled a bit at him.
"Anyway, what were you saying?" He said, returning his eyes to the Noah.
"I was saying that since we still have to fight the order and we can't all be always around, we decided to take turns."
That was unexpectedly comfortable and weird, to have your enemy taking care of you and… Wait, did Tyki earlier mention his Master?
"Tyki?"
"Yes?"
"Did you say Tim was helping the twins to look for my dead Master?" He asked.
"Dead? He's not dead."
"You killed him."
"Nope. He escaped. No idea how he did it, though." He said and Allen chuckled at the obvious resentment in his voice. "You find it fun?"
"Quite. I should have known it was another one of his tricks." He said.
"Tricks?"
"Yeah. Whenever he didn't want to pay and had a bit of compassion on me he would just fake our dead and then we would ran out of the country."
"And it never occurred to you this could be one of his tricks?" Tyki asked as he started to unwrap the other leg.
"Never thought he would pull one on me." He whispered and then winced when his right feet was set on next to the other.
"Does it hurt?"
"Yeah. Although not as bad as before. How long have I been in here?" He asked.
"About two months or so. We don't really keep track of time, you know, with the whole 'not aging' thing." He explained. "That might hurt a little. Your innocence is still mad at me."
"You tore it off, of course it's mad you." Allen replied, but there were not heat behind those words. "What are you going to do?"
"As I said, we have to heal your feet with Dark matter, but obviously we can't put it on a bucket and your feet in it, so we apply it directly to your feet." He explained as he took the left one and then let the Dark matter flow out of his hands until it had covered his foot in a thick layer of it.
"It tickles." Allen said, giggling.
"You are taking this a lot better than I imagined."
"I have nowhere else to be. Besides…" he hesitated a bit in here. "You are not as bad as you seemed before." He said.
"Well, thank you." He flashed a smile and Allen returned it before he groaned when his right foot was picked up. "Does this one hurt more?"
"Hell yes." Allen groaned.
"Hm… I'll tell Wisely to look at it. Your innocence doesn't react to him as much as it does with me or Road."
"Probably because I never fought against him." Allen mused.
Tyki nodded silently and continued to cover the foot in dark matter.
After that, Nea took over during the day so Allen could be awake and talk with whoever was that it was taking care of him. The older Walker had to admit it was amazing to see how the boy interacted with them: with Road there was a resentful edge on both sides, especially on Allen's but it was disappearing every time the girl brought him mitarishi dango and other sweet stuff.
With Wisely it was ok, since they hadn't known each other. Besides, they almost looked like brothers and they had lived a similar life before being taken in: one by Sheryl and the other one by Mana.
Now, with Jasdero and Devit it was so fun! They kept fighting with Allen about who had to pay more debts. They even made a book with all the debts Cross had left them. They didn't expected to Timcanpy to arrive with Allen's own debt-book. It was at the least two times thicker than the twins and the amount of money was so much higher than theirs.
They had actually hid inside a closet.
You are happy. He said to the boy one morning.
What about it?
You were never happy back in there. You had never been… like that, before.
Is it bad?
Of course not. I'm glad you are happy. Nea replied and ruffled his white hair and then looked at him. Something is bugging you, what is it?
It's silly…
Is it about my brother? Allen grumbled: Nea knew him so well. Ah, so I was right. Now, tell me what is it, yeah?
I… I don't have a name.
What? What do you mean? Your name is Allen.
No… Allen was Mana's dog name. He started to call me that when the real Allen died.
How did people call you before? He asked as he hugged his adopted nephew, mentally cursing his brother for hurting him.
Before the circus… They called me monster, demon, abomination… In the circus they called me Red, because of my arm. He replied playing with the hem of his shirt and looking down.
But you are Allen now, my nephew, ok? I think that this name's suits you, dog name or not. You are Allen, my Allen, ok? He whispered in a comforting manner. Besides, everyone knows you by this name, not that damn dog. Can you imagine someone calling you Ethelbert, Mortimer or Humphrey? At that, Allen chuckled and hugged the elder.
Thank you, uncle.
No need.
The topic died there, but Nea was fully conscious that it still bothered Allen however he never asked again, not wanting to cause him any unnecessary pain.
"Hey Allen!" The boy turned to the door and saw Road there.
"Yeah? What is it, Road?" The boy said, as he sat up, finally on his own. His feet didn't hurt as much, but he still wasn't able to walk on his own, always needing someone to help him, usually Tyki because Road was too petite, Wisely preferred to talk and the twins… well, no explanation needed. Besides, Tyki enjoyed helping him.
"First, I need you to teach me to play poker. I just lost all rounds against Tyki!" She pouted and Allen chuckled, knowing that this was because the elder had cheated.
"Ok, I'll teach you." He agreed and she grinned and jumped on top of him.
"For real? Thank you Allen!" She said. "Oh yeah, The Earl says he would like to talk with you."
At that, the boy frowned. "What for?"
"Well, he wants to know if you are going to join us or not." She said.
"I… I need more time to think about it." He whispered and Nea wanted to slap him across the face for that, however he decided that the boy needed to see by his own eyes that his so-called friends had abandoned him.
"Ok! But don't make him wait too much!" She grinned and then walked away. "I'll come tomorrow for the poker lesson!"
"Yes, yes." He said and then let his body fall against the mattress, sighing.
He had no idea what to do: he wanted to stay with his newfound friends and, maybe family but… He deep down, he couldn't believe his friends had just abandoned him, didn't bother to check on him.
So he made up his mind to go and see if they had really abandoned him: if they did, he would gladly accept the Noah's offer and become one of them if they didn't, he would stay.
But there was only one problem… He couldn't walk.
Don't be a sissy. You haven't even tried to walk on your own because you enjoy Tyki helping you.
Allen grumbled at his uncle, knowing that this was a 100% true: he enjoyed Tyki's company a lot. He was starting to like the man a lot and that was clearly reflected in the fact that his Dark Matter didn't react as much against his Innocence.
But, he still had someone back in the Order he wanted, needed to see. So he sat up and slowly stood up.
"Going somewhere, Allen?" Wisely said from the door.
"Huh? No." He said, smiling reassuringly.
"Fake smile doesn't work with me. Used to pull that one too, remember?" The whitehead Noah said as he sat on the bed. Yeah, homeless forced smiles did not work on other homeless people. "Are you going to go there?"
"I just…"
"Need to know if they really left you behind?"
"Yeah." He nodded and Wisely did too before standing up and going to him.
"C'mon, I'll go with you."
"What?"
"Well, not inside, but someone will have to tell them that you are going to stay there, right?" He asked.
"I guess you are right." The not-so-sure-to-want-to-be-an-Exorcist agreed.
"Of course I am. Now let's go." He threw Allen his Exorcist jacket and then opened a door and they disappeared.
Allen looked the headquarters and Wisely sat on the floor.
"Be sure to tell me what your decision." He said. "Anyway, if you decide to stay, I'll probably miss you."
"I'll miss you too. You are the only sane Noah." Nea huffed in his head at that. "But we can still hang out someday." They hugged each other and when they split Allen made his way to the tower, waking The Gatekeeper.
"Who is it?" The Gatekeeper looked at the small figure in front of him. "Allen Walker?"
"Yeah. Care to open?"
"B-but… They said you were dead! That they left you under that mountain of rocks!" He hollered and the white head opened his eyes as wide as he could.
"That's all I wanted to know, thank you." He said as he left his jacket fall on the floor and then turned around.
"But… Where are you going?"
Allen turned his face and smirked. "With my family, of course. Oh, and tell Kanda that he was a good piece of ass, will you? And make sure everyone hears it or I'll be back and I'll tore you to pieces" Yeah, he definitely was becoming a Noah. He walked up to Wisely. "Let's go home."
And right in front of the eyes of the door, he disappeared.
Three seconds after, he was giving the alarm.
"What is it?" Reever asked.
"W-walker was just here."
"Allen?" Lenalee said.
"Y-yeah. I told him you thought he was dead and he just… he told me to say Kanda something." He said, obviously nervous and terrified to say that thing.
"What?" The Japanese asked, coolly.
"H-h-he said that y-you were a n-n-n-ni-ce piece of ass." He stuttered, and inside the tower, if a needle fell, everyone could have heard it.
"WHAT?" Everyone yelled and Kanda felt his face flush out of anger and embarrassment and a part of him die at those words.
Both whiteheads were staring at the ceiling of Allen's room. "So, what happened?"
"Nothing much. They did leave me behind. Told him I was going with my family. Gave him a message for my former lover, too."
"You had a lover? I thought The Order worked for the Vatican. Isn't that… treason or something?"
"Maybe. Who knows? They are going to pin it on him, not me." He replied and then door was shoved open, Tyki under the threshold. "Tyki?" The human asked, surprised.
"You are here." The older man said and Wisely, after putting a weird face slipped out of the room not wanting to see, nor hear, what was going to happen there. If it was going to happen.
"Well, where else would I be?"
"There." The Noah said as he sat down next to the boy.
"Why would I?" He asked, arching an eyebrow. "They abandoned me, right?"
"Right."
"Would you go back to the people who betrayed you and help them out to destroy the people who saved you?"
"Well… No."
"Exactly. Besides, I like you."
If they had been closer, Allen would have probably seen the light blush that darkened grey skin.
"You… like me?"
"Of course. You are the only decent poker player I know!" He smiled and the hugged him. "Also, you took care of me when I needed it the most."
"What do you mean?"
"You were the one who took care of me the first days, aren't you?" He asked softly.
"How do you know?"
"I recognise your touch now." Allen replied. "Could you do me a favour?"
"Of course."
"Could you tell The Earl I'd be happy to see him tomorrow morning?"
"Uh. Sure." He nodded and went to leave to tell the Earl so but a black hand caught his wrist.
"Wait. Can you stay a bit more? We could have a few rounds if you are up to it."
"Sure thing." Although he wanted to have a different kind of rounds. "I tried to play with Road."
"I know. She came here asking for some Poker lessons." He said as he crossed his legs and Tyki sat in front of him in the same position and drew the cards from one of his pockets, before he started to deal them.
After two hours, Tyki had lost every single hand they had played. "Damn, boy, could you just let me win one?"
"Nope. There's no fun in that."
"Then can you play without cheating?"
"Can you?" He shot back and Tyki chuckled.
"Touché."
They lost track of time between hand and hand and they only stopped when Timcanpy broke into the room.
"Oh Tim! Where have you been la…?"
"Idiot apprentince!"
"Shishō! You could use Timcanpy to communicate with me all the time and you don't do it until now? And how could you pull a trick on me?" He yelled at the golden golem.
"Because I didn't want you to annoy me! Anyway, how are you?"
That was a huge taken aback, having in mind that Cross never cared for his well-being. "Excuse me?"
"I heard that you went to the HQ."
"Hum… Yeah. I'm sorry Shishō but I'm not going back."
"It's ok, Allen." A second voice said, definitely female.
"M-miranda?" That was a surprise.
"Hi. Krory is also here, but he's hunting…"
"What are you doing the three of you together? Shishō! I can't make them pay your debts!"
"You and the twins are doing that. They just left the order when they heard about what they did to you."
"Well, there's no way we are going to work with the people who abandoned you, Allen." Miranda said.
"Isn't the Innocence going to turn back on you?" He asked worried while Tyki sat there and started to undo the bandages Allen still had in his legs.
"We still hunt down Akumas, so no." Cross replied. "The biggest problem is the Vatican."
"They are looking for you?"
"Yes, but well, General Cross is good at hiding so I guess we are safe." Miranda said. "Anyway, how are you, Allen? Where are you?"
He looked at Tyki, who was massaging his feet slowly, making the Dark Matter enterer inside his skin and then flesh and chuckled.
"With my family." He replied and Tyki snickered.
"Idiot apprentice, tell the twins I got some more debts for them… and for you."
"What? How can you do that to me, Shishō?" He hollered.
"Someone has to pay for my expenses."
"Yes. You. Not me and definitely not the twins! They hid in the closet when I showed them MY list of debts!"
"You are with the Noah?" Miranda exclaimed, but she didn't sound terrified or scared… she sounded, relieved.
"Well, they saved me and took care of me." He replied and Tyki laughed.
"Anyway, take care, Allen! And thank them for us." The woman said.
"And pay the debts!" Marian yelled before Allen quickly cut the connection.
"Well, I guess he does care about you."
"First time in four years." He said and giggled when the Noah pressed the sole of his feet.
"I don't think so." Tyki said, serious.
"Uh? What do you mean?"
"When I 'killed him'" he made air quotes "He told me 'Please, take care of him.' I must say it was a huge surprise that he was saying that. And to me, precisely."
"He must had known something like that was going to happen. He always has had a second sense for these things." He sighed and let his upped body fall against the mattress. "Hey, Tyki?"
"Yeah?"
"Could you make the Dark matter blur in my skin? You know, like paler up the knees or something."
"Hum, sure, but why?"
"Because the way I have it know, it looks I'm wearing socks." He replied, grinning.
"It kinda does." The Noah replied as he started to move his hands up. "Get comfortable, this is going to take a while."
And he might have relaxed a bit too much, because when he woke up, he found a note from Tyki.
You fell sleep and I didn't want to wake. I already talked wit The Earl; he says he'll come tomorrow around ten.
Have a good night.
Tyki Mikk.
P.D.: You look really cute while sleeping.
What the hell? He thought at the last line, his cheeks burning from embarrassment that he had fallen sleep.
Allen, go back to sleep. You can blush later. Nea said and tugged him back to sleep.
Hey, Nea.
What now?
Why did you kill them?
Ok. That was not a question he was expecting at 3 in the morning and he wasn't sure he wanted to answer either but he knew how stubborn the boy could be so he ended up choosing to answer it. I just wanted to become the Earl.
Uh-huh. And the real reason?
What do you mean by that?
I mean that you live in my head so I know when you are lying. Besides, you are terrible at it and you so need to work on your poker face. The younger listed. So, tell me. You are always telling me I should share stuff with you, so you should too. We are family after all, are we not?"
'Damn the kid…' Nea thought before replying. I was… jealous, ok?
Jealous? Of what, pray tell?
Nea growled but answered nonetheless. That he was paying more attention to the others than to me.
You… killed everyone minus him and Road because he didn't pay attention to you? That's so sweet!
Sweet? You find that sweet.
I felt doing the same with Kanda, I can relate. The white haired teen said, shrugging. Were you and The Earl… you know, together?
After all you did to the samurai boy you still blush while asking this? Nea laughed. But no, we weren't. I never worked up the courage to tell him how I felt.
Idiot. It's so obvious that he likes you, why do you think he wanted me so badly to join them? He wants you by his side, not me. Allen pointed out, and he could avoid sounding a bit sad at that, the thought that they only wanted for Nea and not for himself.
I don't think so… He used to say he wanted someone in his lines that knew his enemy to the root… That's you, you know? Besides, you are the only one who can match him in a fight. Allen smiled at that, comforted by the elder's words. Now go to sleep already. You can see Tyki tomorrow.
W-what? What are you talking about? He asked blushing from toes to hair.
You know perfectly what I'm talking about. Now shush. Good night.
Allen woke up because of some knocks in the door and he stood up, a bit wobbly still and opened it, blinking at the tall handsome man in front of him.
"Earl?"
"Ah, good morning, Allen." He replied as he put his arm for the boy to take so he could help him to go back to the bed.
He didn't hesitate a moment to grab said arm. "Thank you, Earl."
"Please, call me Adam." He said and the teen nodded. "So, tell me, Allen Walker, are you going to join us?"
"Of course, Adam." He let the name roll in his mouth. "But I do have four… requests."
The Earl sat down on the bed next to the boy and nodded. "Let's hear them."
"First, my Innocence stays. Second, my master, Miranda and Krory are not part of the Order anymore; you and none them get to touch him. The only ones that can are the twins and I for obvious reasons. Thirdly, I want you to reverse my curse."
"Reverse?"
"Well, considering that everyone in the service in here seems to be an Akuma, my eye is going to be reacting all the time and it's definitely not a pleasant thing, therefore, I want it to detect Innocence, can you do that?"
"Of course. How come it's not being reacting now?"
"I have no idea." He really didn't know, but it was ok, he didn't care uch about it.
"And the fourth request?"
"Separate me and Nea." Allen said, looking at him straight in the eye. "I like having him in my head, but kind of takes away my privacy."
What?
Shut up, if you ever tell him how you feel, I don't want to be conscious and know and even worse feel it!
Did you even think of that when you fucked the pretty samurai boy?
Oh shut up Uncle! As if you didn't enjoy that time you took over me and fucked him into the mattress.
Yeah… We were lucky he didn't notice or we would be dead.
It was fun, though.
Hell yes.
"I hate to interrupt your little chit-chat that you have going on in there, but we still need to talk about that, Allen."
The boy blushed a bit and stuck his tongue out. "Sorry, sorry. This is another reason of why we shouldn't share body… Happens a lot."
"Ok. I can do that. It shouldn't hurt… much. Do you want to do it now?" The Earl asked and Allen nodded.
"Yeah, before Nea decides he doesn't want to." He said. "What do I have to do?"
"Just lay down, this will take a while." The elder said as he stood up next to the bed.
Four hours and forty-six minutes later two grey bodies laid on the bed: one had long white hair while the other had dark brown hair, both had golden eyes, one had a scar crossing his cheek, the other did not, one had a black arm, the other did not.
"That did take a while." Allen said. "Thank you, Earl." He said as he stood up. "And I do believe you two need to have a talk so I'm going to explore around and try to find Tim." And with that being said, he left the room only too find Road, the twins, Wisely, Sheryl and Tyki in front of the door. "What the…? How long have you been here?"
"Three hours and a half." Road replied as she poked his face. "So, is this Nea or Allen?"
"Hey, stop it!" He swatted her hand away. "It's Allen, Nea is inside with the Earl." He replied.
"They are… alone?" the girl asked in fear.
"Yeah, don't worry. They need to talk about some stuff." He smiled reassuringly at her and she smiled too. "So, someone is going to show me around?"
And before anyone could have even moved a finger or pronounced a syllable, Tyki had already an arm around his shoulders. "Let's go, cheating boy."
"As if you are one to talk, Tyki." The just-turned-Noah said, rolling his eyes as he unconsciously leaned against the Pleasure.
They didn't see Sheryl arch an eyebrow in amusement. Well, well, well, isn't that interesting, my dear little brother? He thought and then they left, Wisely silently following him.
"You can walk perfectly now." Tyki pointed out.
"Yeah. I guess it's because of The Earl." Allen explained as he eyed everything. "This place is so big, I'm going to get so lost."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean I have a terrible sense of orientation." He whined and then he felt a soft pressure in his shoulder. "Good thing is that Tim has a great sense of orientation." He said as he petted the golden golem who nipped at his fingertips.
"Ah, don't worry for getting lost, shonen, I'll always find you." Allen laughed loud and clearly and shook his head in amusement.
Tim grinned at that sound: he had never heard his Master laugh like that, but he was glad Allen could find finally the happiness he deserved. He nudged the white stark hair and rested in there, falling sleep.
"He loves you, doesn't he?" Tyki asked ash eh watch Allen cradle Timcanpy in his arm as if it was a baby.
"I don't know. But I do love him, for so long he has been my only true friend… but…"
"You fear he will go back to Nea?" Walker nodded. "I don't think he will, though. He cares for you deeply. He didn't leave alone until I agreed to go see what he wanted to show me. I'm glad I did, though." He whispered and cupped Allen's face in his hands and then kissed his middle stigmata softly. "Really glad."
Meanwhile, Nea and The Earl were in the room were Allen left them, both sitting in the bed and not saying anything.
"So…" Adam started, or tried to, because he had no idea what to say. He was so happy to have The Musician next to him again and not in Allen's body because, sure, he was beautiful and sexy, but he wasn't his Fourteenth.
"I'm sorry." Nea said, twisting the bed sheets in his hands.
"Why did you do it? I never sensed you wanted to harm us." He said.
"I didn't." He quickly said. "I just…" He shook his head as he kneeled on the bed and pressed his lips against the Earl's and quickly retrieved. "That." He sighed and stood. "I guess if it's better I go, I don't think any of them want me here s..." He never got the chance to finish the sentence when he found himself being pressed against the nearest wall and a mouth ravishing his.
"I wanted you since you arrived. Loved you." The Earl breathed and Nea blinked, dumbfounded.
"Then why did you always ignore me?"
"Didn't want to harm you. Aaaand I didn't what to be rejected."
"So I just killed basically my whole family because we were stupid?"
"Seems that way." He whispered and then kissed him again. "I guess you are staying, right?"
"Wouldn't be anywhere else." He replied and then nuzzled the other's neck.
"Good. I've waited too much for this, there's no way in hell that I'm letting you go." He whispered.
"Just one thing."
"What?"
"You are not allowed to go back to that fat version of you. You look creepy."
"Yeah, Tyki has told me so more than once. Which is quite weird considering how creepy can he be." Adam replied and then kissed his cheek. "Well, I believe we should go check on this nephew of yours."
"Maybe we should. This boy could get lost on a straight corridor." He replied as he opened the door, only to find Road, who was staring up at him. "Hum…"
"You touch them, you die." She said, then turned around and left.
"She hasn't changed a bit." Nea said.
"But she is serious."
"No need to worry. I don't plan on hurting anyone from our family. Besides Tyki if he wrongs my nephew." He replied and then grabbed Adam's hand and tugged him. "Now let's go see if I'm going to have to beat Tyki or not."
"I really missed you, you know?" The Earl suddenly said after ten minutes of looking around.
"I did too." He replied, smiling up at him.
"See? Now I'm jealous!"
"Of what?"
"Allen got to see you smile during all this time and I didn't." The Earl explained.
"Well, if you hadn't turned my brother into an Akuma, Road hadn't stab his eye and Tyki hadn't tore his Innocence off probably he would have accepted a long time ago." He said, teasing and the Earl chucked.
When they did find Allen, Nea couldn't help still laugh uncontrollably while the Earl smiled in amusement: Tyki and Sheryl sat in front of totally dressed Allen; the former with only his boxers and the later was stark naked. Allen, on his side, was smiling darkly against the other two clear embarrassments.
"You didn't say he was that good." Sheryl said and Nea jumped and hugged the white haired one from behind.
"That's my nephew for you, Dezaiasu."
The Earl didn't pass the fact that he always remarked the 'my' and that even if he was talking with the elder brother, he was staring at the youngest, smirking.
"Well, since the game has been so kindly interrupted and Tyki got to switch his cards, how about we start over?" Allen said and Tyki huffed. "Would you like to join?"
"No thank you, I've lost enough times already against you."
"You owe me, uncle." He said and smirked when the elder Walker sat down next to him with a huff.
"Should have known that asking Marian to take care of my reincarnation wasn't a good idea. It was obvious that it would turn out to be a kind person."
"Yeah well, to late for that, uncle." He said. "Are you going to join us, Earl?"
"Sure, why not?" Once the five were dressed and sat, Tyki and Allen started to discuss who should deal the cards.
"Neither of you, that's for sure. You both are cheaters. I say we get a dealer." Sheryl objected. "Toraido why don't you...?"
"Not him." Both poker experts exclaimed. "Road! Come deal!" Tyki called and the girl went there.
"You still have to teach me how to play, Allen."
"Of course. You know how to deal in poker?"
"Yeah. You serve one facing down and the other 4 open." She said and Allen laughed before shaking his head to the Noah of Pleasure. "What?"
"You seriously pulled that trick on your own niece? That's the most cruel way of beating a newbie!"
"Hey, she was the one who instead in 'show me how you play poker'." He defended himself. "And as if you are one to talk about cheating! I don't even think you remember how to play without cheating!"
"Hey, I needed the money to pay Shishō's debts." He replied. "Anyway, The Earl can deal the cards and Road can stay here with me and watch."
"I don't want my daughter to become a cheater. She should watch how her father plays."
"More likely how he loses." Tyki corrected and ducked a smack from his brother.
Allen watch everything amused: he had never thought that the Noahs could be like that. They were so funny and he loved having them around. It felt right to be there, he felt that he was among kin, among family, something he never truly felt back in the Order.
"I'll stay with Allen." She said as she sat down next to him.
And in two hours, Allen was still dressed; Tyki had only lost his jacket, one shoe and the shirt leaving his chest bare (which, both Kamelot noticed their newest addition was eyeing a lot); Nea and Sheryl were completely naked and the Earl was in socks and underwear.
Allen and Tyki smirked and fist-bumped before looking at the head of the family devilishly, who gulped a bit, knowing he had lost this battle.
Three rounds later, he was also dead naked and eliminated.
"So, Tyki, ready for another ultimate defeat?"
"Bring it on."
And that he did. And he won again. And Road was clapping next to him.
"You seriously are the best, Allen!" She exclaimed.
"Did you doubt it?" He asked back.
After that, it was decided that Allen would be the Noah of Cheating.
As month went by, Allen became an important of the family and not only because of his definitely useful ability of locating Innocence but because he was one of the two parts that had been missing.
And it was obvious that his favourite 'relative' besides his uncle was Tyki since they spent almost all of their time together, he surely got along with Road and Wisely and the discussions with the twins about debts definitely lacked any real heat.
The Earl usually sent him to South-America and Africa for his missions, not wanting him to bump with any Exorcist he could know. At least not yet.
One of the things they found out in those first months was that Nea and Allen were still mind-bonded and when it came to really strong emotions and physical feelings as they found out one day when Nea woke up in the middle of the night, yelling in pain.
To say that The Earl looked terribly worried and without knowing what to do, was an understatement. Road had to break into his dreams to see what was going on and to pull him out of it and the Fourteenth woke up, breathing hard and Adam quickly hugged him.
"Allen is in trouble." She said.
"What do you mean?" Tyki asked, his heart racing at the thought of Allen being in a delicate situation.
"He's up against four Exorcists and I think someone hurt his arm." She explained and before she could explain further Nea had opened a door. It still amazed everyone how he could do it without much thought and Tyki and Road crossed it immediately.
Surprisingly, they appeared at the exact same place Allen was resting against a tree.
"Allen!" Road sprinted to him. "Hey, you ok?"
"Yeah. I think I lost them for a while." He replied and grabbed his arm, which was bleeding. And Tyki saw red at that: he felt his thirst for blood increase at the thought of someone hurt his Allen. "But what are you doing here anyway, guys?"
"Seems to be you and Nea are still connected because he woke up yelling and when I checked his dreams all I could see it was you, hurt." She explained. "We need to bring you back to The Ark. Tyki! Where are you going?" She asked when he saw her uncle going the other way.
"I need to finish something."
"Let's go to the hotel I'm staying." Allen said. "We'll meet you there, ok, Tyki-pet?" He had started to call him that way after a bet and since Tyki said he liked it, it stuck.
"Alright."
"Be careful. Here, take Tim, he'll show you the way back." The Noah of Pleasure nodded and then ran to the Exorcists, the golden golem right next to him.
And while the other two made their way to the hotel, Tyki had finally found the Exorcists, but he found a scene he didn't expect: Cross Marian, Miranda and Krory were fighting against them.
He blinked, thinking that maybe he was hallucinating. But he wasn't.
"Are you going to stand there all the time or you plan on helping us?" The red haired one yelled at him and he joined them, much to the Exorcists surprise.
"A Noah helping ex-Exorcists?" One asked. "You are going soft." He mocked and Tyki sent him a cloud of Teases.
"On the contrary, that makes us smarter and stronger." Tyki said.
The fight didn't even last twenty minutes until the four Exorcists were dead.
"I must say, this is the last place I expected you." Tyki said as he took one cigarette from Cross, nodding to thank him.
"We were chasing some of your Akuma and I sensed Tim, which meant that Allen was here." The redhead explained as he played with Timcanpy. "We saw him running from them and decided to interfere."
"Must thank you for that. Guess you want to see him?"
"If it is possible." Miranda said, nodding.
Timcanpy led the way, resting on his old master head, nuzzling the read hair. Tyki opened the door to the room and Miranda jumped to hug Allen.
"Oh God. Are you alright?" She asked, looking at his bandaged arm.
"Yeah, but it hurts like a bitch." He replied before returning the embrace. Next one to hug him was Krory.
"I still can't believe they did that to you." He said, shaking his head.
"Not that I regret it much." He replied and then posed his gaze in his Master who sighed.
"Could you leave us alone, please?" The Ex-general asked and everyone left, although the Portuguese seemed a bit reluctant to do so and only did so when Road pushed him outside. "How are you, idiot apprentice?" Allen blinked; this was weird. His Master had never asked how he was in a worried tone. Or how he was at all.
"Uh… Fine…"
"Grey-skinned bastards treating you right?"
"Well, so far they haven't abandoned me anywhere to die, so that's a plus for them. You can't smoke in here, Shishō." He said when the eldest took out a pack of cigarettes and grumbled. "Anyway, how did you find me?" He asked.
"We saw those Exorcists so we decided to follow them. It was then that Krory saw your hair and detected an Akuma… And, by the way, I must say I was surprised to see you with one. Doesn't your eye bug you?"
Allen smiled smugly before replying. "It doesn't react to Akuma's anymore. Now it reacts to Innocence's that I haven't seen before. It's quite useful, actually."
"I see… You've got Nea there? I'd like to talk to him."
"Not anymore. The Earl separated us. Although it seems to be we are still connected. And I can still open doors to the Ark whenever I desire, just like him." He explained.
"So you are the 15th? What Noah are you?"
"The one you created, Shishō." He replied arching an eyebrow but Cross imitated the gesture. "Noah of Cheating."
"Of course." He nodded and then ruffled his hair." By the way, I have something for you." He said as he grabbed an envelope from inside his coat and gave it to him. "I'm going to go get the others…"
"SHISHŌ!" Allen yelled: he knew what the envelope contained without having to open it!
"Don't be like that. Not all of them are for you." He replied as everyone came in and Tyki, as fast as ever when it came down to Allen, was already sitting next to him.
Cross stared at them, in his mind smiling when his apprentice leaned against the Noah without noticing, as it seemed.
They spent another week together (after they had told the rest of their family that Allen was alright), catching up with each other and Road couldn't help to think that it was really funny to see Tyki and Cross sharing wine and cigarettes together, completely putting behind the fact that they almost killed each other. And Miranda and Krory were actually really nice and the most important thing is that they stood up by Allen.
"Why did you and Krory-chan leave the Order?" The girl asked Miranda one day that they decided to have a girls-day.
"Allen was the one who brought us there. And he understood us in ways that no one else could."
"What do you mean?" She tilted her head, curious.
"Krory and I… we both were rejected by society. Just like Allen had been. He was the one who gave us hope of becoming something else. And when we knew that they had left there to die…" The German shook her head, brown hair following the movement. "We didn't even hesitate to join General Cross when he abandoned the Order. Allen was… is a kind a person who did not deserve to be betrayed like that by the ones he cared."
"So you are not upset he is a Noah now?" Road asked.
"If he was unhappy I would be. But it's obvious that he is not. I have never seen him smile like that. A real smile, not that polite mask and smile he used to sport all the time. Besides, I can tell you guys actually care for him. Specially Lord Mikk, am I wrong?"
The girl laughed. Bot the sadistic laugh so many had heard before, but a clear one. "No, no you are not. But those don't even realise what they feel for each other. They just act on impulses."
"Should we do something to bring them together?" The brunette mused and Road's eyes shone with interest.
But it hadn't been necessary, much to the girls' dismay, a month later Tyki kissed Allen on the lips before parting to his mission.
"What the…?"
"TYKI! How do you there taint my nephew like that?" Nea was about to jump to him when the Earl stopped him and made him watch how Allen kissed him too. "You corrupted him!"
"Uh, Nea, I think that is actually your fault." Lulu pointed out.
"How's that my fault?" He asked as he pointed to the Cheating and the Pleasure.
"Well, you are the one who basically made the kid live with Cross in the first place." And Nea groaned since he had no comeback for that.
The main question, though, was: since when were those two together? And how?
So that's the first part! Did you like it? DId I went way over my head by adding Allen as a new Noah? Please review and tell!
Thank you very much!