A/N: I've decided I need to post some of my backlog of unfinished stories, and this is one of them. This story won't be updated with any sort of regularity; instead of being on a schedule like my main stories, it will be updated whenever I feel like it. Basically, I'll update it based on how it's received. If you like it, please review it; I'm more likely to work on this story and update it if I feel like people want to read it.

To warn you right off the bat, this story is going to get a little dark. But everything will work out and no one dies. The only other things you need to be warned about are the lemons and mpreg. ;)

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It had been a long mission so far, but the three exorcists had recovered the first of the Innocence fragments they'd been sent to retrieve. Sort of. The fragment in question was inside a small sculpture that they were unable to break, forcing them to lug the heavy stone chunk around with them while they searched for the next fragment. Then came the akuma attack, and Allen was injured. He insisted that his twisted ankle wasn't worth sidelining him over, but it was decided that he would spend the rest of the day at the inn, babysitting the one fragment that they had already found.

And that's where he was now, lying in bed and pouting about being left out. Normally he would have followed them against their wishes - he was a general now, and as such, he could do what he wanted - but despite his words to the contrary, his ankle hurt. Bad. He didn't think he'd even be able to walk down the hall to the bathroom if he had to go.

The white haired teenager eventually gave up on the pouting and fell into a fitful sleep. And with the human asleep, that's when the Innocence chose to wake up. And it turned out that there wasn't just one fragment in the sculpture they had recovered, there were two.

Crowned Clown laughed as he listened to the two new Innocence fragments lament over not being able to find their accommodators. It was an interesting change of pace. Newcomers usually disliked getting found and wanted to go back to playing.

These two did not appreciate his laughter. "You can shut up. You're a parasite-type; you've been with your host since before he was born. You don't remember what having to wait for the right human to come around is like."

"You could do the same thing I did, you know."

The female fragment gasped in shock at what Crowned Clown was implying. "Are you actually saying that you attached to his mother and made her get pregnant?"

Crowned Clown's smirk was audible. The second fragment responded with a snort of derision. "We could never do that. It's too risky. There's no way to guarantee that the baby would make it to the Order and become an exorcist."

A somber silence fell, but Crowned Clown brushed it off. "Whatever. It was just a suggestion. You don't have to take it."

"But there is a way." The female fragment was giving the suggestion serious thought. "If one of the parents was already an exorcist, then they'd recognize their child as having a parasitic Innocence."

Her companion snorted at her, but she kept talking, growing more excited as she did. "That would really be the best way to do it anyway. If my host had an exorcist as a parent, she'd be better prepared for her destiny. She'd know what to expect and wouldn't resent me for possessing her."

She paused to sigh longingly at Crowned Clown. "You're so lucky you don't have that problem. It must be nice to have your host actually like you."

He laughed. "Yeah, that is pretty great."

"You're being ridiculous, Artemis." The male fragment huffed at his optimistic companion. "How would you even go about doing it? A female exorcist would abort any pregnancy you caused; she can't perform her duties if she's with child. And it wouldn't be any different if you used a male. Unless he's already married-"

He paused as Crowned Clown butt in, "There aren't any married exorcists right now."

"-There's no way of predicting whether or not he'd stay with a woman you made him knock up."

Artemis was silent. She wanted to argue with her brother, but he had a point.

"What if you used my host?"

The two fragments gaped at Crowned Clown's suggestion. The male found his voice first. "What do you mean?"

Artemis snorted and mentally head slapped him for being stupid. "A parasite-type exorcist knows that there's a possibility his child will also be a parasite-type. He wouldn't abandon a woman he impregnated; it would be too risky."

This time it was the male fragment who was momentarily speechless. "Fine. Suppose that's true. Is this guy really going to let us use his host like that? Will he actually let the kid be with a woman just so that we can have hosts?"

"Actually, I was suggesting that you use him as the woman in this scenario."

The two fragments were beyond stunned by Crowned Clown's words. He took their silence as permission to explain his idea. "I realize he's male, but if you work together, it's within your power to give him the organs he needs for carrying children. He won't be able to abort the babies; they'll have to investigate the cause of his pregnancy first, and the higher ups won't let him when they find out that it's the work of Innocence."

Artemis was intrigued. "Will he actually want the babies? Or will they be abandoned as soon as they're born?"

"Trust me, he'll want the babies." Crowned Clown smiled to himself as he caught a piece of Allen's dream. The kid must have subconsciously picked up snippets of their conversation as he was currently imagining himself taking care of a child. "Even if he didn't, it'd be known before they're born that they're accommodators, which is what you wanted in the first place, right?"

The male fragment was unconvinced. "And how exactly are we supposed to get him pregnant? In case you didn't know, he still has to have sex for this to work. Do you really plan to manipulate him into letting another man take him anally?"

Crowned Clown laughed. "That's for me to know and you to find out."

Artemis mentally punched him in the shoulder. "You already have the guy picked out, don't you?"

"Maybe~." Crowned Clown smirked playfully, but he sobered up quickly at the thought of Mugen and her accommodator. "Though I probably should make sure his Innocence is on board with this first. She can be a little finicky, and I don't want her mad at me for doing this without her permission."

"I knew it. This was too good to be true." The male fragment pouted sullenly.

Crowned Clown gave a snort of annoyance. "If you're going to be this pessimistic about everything, being constantly stuck with you for the next few years is going to suck."

"Hey!"

"As I was saying, Mugen will be pissed if I don't ask her first, but we've discussed this before, and I know she'll agree to it."

While the male fragment felt stupid, Artemis was thinking hard about what Crowned Clown had said. "Wait. When you say that you've discussed this before, you don't mean-"

"I do."

"Really? You're going to manipulate your host into sleeping with her gay accommodator?"

Crowned Clown snorted. "Given that they do it all the time, there won't be much manipulation involved."

"Oh."

"So that's what you get out of this." The revelation that Allen was gay was the missing piece of the puzzle for the male fragment. "I was wondering why you would volunteer to put your host's body through all that and have him be out of commission for months. You want to give your gay host a baby."

Crowned Clown scoffed at the accusatory tone. "Is it wrong of me to want to give my host the family he so desperately wishes for?"

The conversation died when the door was thrown open with a bang. A bag was tossed roughly inside, and then Kanda turned back to the hallway and snarled orders at the finders waiting there. Without waiting for a response, the samurai slammed the door. He stalked to the empty bed and threw himself down on it, muttering curses under his breath the entire time.

The new male fragment couldn't help commenting sarcastically about Kanda's behavior. "He's pleasant."

"Well, I see the new kids are finally awake." Mugen spoke from where she'd been leaned against the bedside table. "Have you been having fun calming them down, Crowned Clown?"

He grimaced; she only used his full name when she was mocking him. "Actually, Mugen, we were having a rather interesting discussion about finding accommodators."

She groaned at him, but before she could say anything, Artemis butt in. "Wait. You're Mugen? We were just talking about you."

The crystallized sword mentally glared at Crowned Clown. "What exactly did he say about me?"

"Hold on a second! I-"

"Hush, Chowderhead, I was talking to them."

While Crowned Clown pouted at Mugen's nickname for him, Artemis spoke hesitantly, choosing her words carefully in order to calm Mugen down. "He really didn't say much; just that you get angry at him easily and that your accommodator is gay."

Mugen focused her attention back on Crowned Clown. "Why did you tell them my Yuu is gay?!"

He balked at her tone. "I already told you, we were talking about finding accommodators. They were complaining about not being able to find theirs, and we-"

"Wait! You mean they're interested?!" Mugen briefly lost herself in excitement. "You actually found someone willing to help us impregnate Allen?"

Crowned Clown raised a metaphorical eyebrow at her. "What's with that reaction? Aren't you going to call me an idiot?"

She snorted. "I didn't feel the need to state the obvious." Back to her usual composed self, Mugen focused on the new fragments. "Are you really interested, or is he falling victim to wishful thinking?"

The female fragment responded with a resounding "yes!" as the male hedged. "I don't know..."

Hearing his uncertainty, Artemis huffed at her companion. "What's wrong now, Apollo?"

"Two things, actually." He stared at Crowned Clown and Mugen. "First of all, you two are more powerful alone than the two of us are together. You're more than capable of doing this without us. What exactly do you need us for?"

Crowned Clown sighed. "Without you, there's no guarantee that the baby will be an accommodator. If it's not, the higher ups will either force Allen to abort the baby or they will take it from him as soon as it's born. Either way, he'll commit suicide within the month, and we can't let that happen."

The silence that followed his words was tense; none of the Innocence fragments liked the thought of an accommodator committing suicide. Artemis was quick to change the subject. "And what's your other problem, Apollo?"

"Him." At that one word, the other fragments all focused on the bed where Kanda was sleeping. "I don't think I could stand having that guy be the father of my host."

Crowned Clown gave Mugen a look before he smirked at her. "It appears your Yuu made his usual awful first impression. What are you going to do about it?"

She snorted at his teasing tone. "Oh, I'm not going to do anything, Chowderhead. You are."

"Huh?"

"Give your host a nightmare."

"What? No way am I doing that! I won't hurt my precious Allen!"

Mugen rolled her eyes. "You know as well as I do that Allen is my Yuu's weakness. If you give him a nightmare, it'll wake Yuu up and make him reveal his sweet side."

Apollo snorted. "Like that guy has a sweet side."

Crowned Clown and Mugen both glared at him for interrupting before turning back to each other. Crowned Clown caved with a sigh. "Fine. I'll wake Allen up. But I'm not giving him a nightmare."

Hearing Allen whimper woke Kanda, who had always been a light sleeper, immediately. "What's wrong, Moyashi?"

"I have to pee."

The samurai snorted at the childish whine and rolled back over. "Che. Then go to the bathroom. Baka."

Allen whimpered again when he jostled his ankle while moving to sit on the edge of the bed. "Can't. I can't walk."

Kanda was out of bed the second the admission was out of the Moyashi's mouth. He stood over the teen and glared down at him. "So you did hurt your ankle."

White hair bobbed as the teen nodded. "Yeah."

"Che. Baka Moyashi. You should have said something." The samurai tousled the boy's hair and then he walked away.

The light was turned on and Kanda began rooting through his bag. "Yuuuuu! What are you doing? I have to pee!"

"Che. Then either hold it or wet the bed. Your choice." The two young men simultaneously stuck their tongues out at each other.

Then Kanda was kneeling at Allen's feet. He scowled at the brat as he slid off the boy's right boot. "Idiot. If your ankle hurt, you shouldn't have been sleeping with your boots on."

Allen winced as the movement of the boot jostled his ankle again. "Couldn't get it - ah! - off. It - unnn! - hurt too much."

The sock swiftly followed the boot, and Kanda began feeling the bruised and swollen joint for signs that anything was broken. "Can you wiggle your toes?"

The teen bit back another whimper as he complied, the slight movement of the digits causing pain to shoot through his ankle. Kanda kissed the injured ankle as gently as he could. "Sorry, but I had to make you do it."

The samurai picked up the bandage roll he'd grabbed, and began wrapping Allen's ankle. "Nothing appears to be broken. It's probably just a sprain. Knowing you, you'll be up and walking around on it in the morning, even though you should take it easy for a couple days."

They stuck their tongues out at each other again as Kanda finished. Before Allen could get to his feet, the samurai had him in his arms. The white haired teen protested being carried bridal style to the bathroom, but he gave up quickly when Kanda began reminding him how much he had to pee.