A Little Pain

By: Sixerine

Disclaimer- I do not own this anime or the manga.. so don't hunt me down... i'm just a writer! really!


The last time he checked, the innocent lotus blossom was dying slowly. Half of it had wilted, but yet it remained strong. Its pedals had fallen a lot more, but its still there. He's dying slowly, but he didn't tell his comrades about his conditions. He doesn't want to be the burden of the group. He accepted the mission, knowing that this will be his last.

The House of Noah had fallen, but they still need to collect all the Innocence before it falls into the wrong hands again.

They fought their way to the final piece of the Innocence, and he watched as the white hair boy reached out and grasped the little glowing cube in his hands.

"Timcanpy," He said, "Take this back to the Headquarter and tell Komui that we'll be back soon." The golem flew around Allen's head as in protesting, but Allen petted the golem gently. "Hurry! Go!"

And it took off.

The whole building began to shake.

"Earthquake..?" Crowley frowned.

Kanda shook his head. "Akumas."

Linalee and Allen's eyes widened and they looked around. This would be their last and final battle against the Akumas.

"Let's go!" They ran out through the door they came in

The Akumas hunted them like a pack of hungry wolves, shooting cannons and bullets at the five exorcists. They just come one after another, nonstop. Lavi smashed his enlarged hammer onto a nearby Akuma, Linalee dashed through the crowd of Akumas, leaving a trail of destructions. Allen fired his cannon at an Akuma, and his cannon look alike arm shifted into a sword. He turned and plunge his arm into another Akuma behind him. Crowley flew all over the room, biting all the Akumas standing in his way. "Kaichuu, Ichigen!" Kanda slashed his Mugen at a group of level 1 Akumas, and ghostly bug like creatures went soaring through the air, destroying the Akumas.

'Damn those Akumas,' Kanda cursed mentally. 'Why is there so many of them..!?'

"There's too many of them!" Lavi yelled, and smashed his hammer onto another oncoming Akuma's head. "What should we do?"

"I don't know!" Linalee shouted. "Just try to defeat them, and try to get back to our Headquarters in one piece!"

"But there are at least…a THOUSAND of them…" Allen called. It seemed almost impossible to defeat all of them. He can feel the energy draining away from his body already.

"Che, Beansprout, stop being so negative." Kanda yelled as he stabbed his Mugen into another Akuma.

"But why are there so many of them? I thought we destroyed the House of Noah a few months ago...Urgh… those blood are nasty!" Crowley gagged.

"They're probably the remaining Akumas Earl created before he died." Linalee yelled back as she kicked another Akuma. "And this is also the last piece of the Innocence that we need to collect-" she trailed off.

Allen frowned and decided to put that aside. Right now, getting out of this place alive is more important. He closed his eyes and breathed out. When he opened them again, his arm formed into a long slime claw, a long white cape was flowing down his back, and he smiled wearily. '"This will end soon, I hope." 'Edge End!' He stretched his claws and ran forward.

Kanda scanned around his surroundings. Level 1 Akumas had surrounded him, but that's not the problem. "Nigentou, Hakka Tourou!" they just kept getting more and more, stronger and stronger. He slashed at his enemies fiercely but yet gracefully eight times. The Akumas screamed and cried out, and they're gone. The fallen Akumas were soon replaced with a level 3 Akuma.

'Shit...'

"HA! You puny little weak exorcists think you can get the last piece of the Innocence that easily?"

"Why don't you just shut the hell up and die?" Kanda yelled angrily. He received a large slash by one of the Akumas earlier.

"Ahh, a foul mouth one too! This is going to be fun!" It said in an annoying sang song voice.

"It won't be fun after I destroy you! Nigentou, Shouka!"

Kanda's eye pupils turned into pairs of three. He can feel the life draining out of him as he slashed at his enemy viciously. But to his surprise, Kanda watched as the Akuma danced out of the way.

"Is this the best you can do?"

"…" 'I'm losing my time.'

"So tell me, exorcist, what will you do before you die?" It crackled. "Should I torture you slowly, making you watch your fellow exorcists die?"

"I won't die." 'It's just a little pain.'

"We shall see, won't we?" The Akuma suddenly disappeared, only to reappear behind Kanda. "My turn." Its cold breath tickled down Kanda's neck.

'I can handle it.' He smirked.


Allen blinked. He felt his whole body stinging and throbbing in pain. Earlier, he saw Lavi sailed through the air on his hammer with a Level 3 Akuma tailing him, and grabbed Linalee just in time before another level 3 Akuma attacks her from behind. He sighed in relieve and turned back. He is now facing a level 3 Akuma himself too. He saw the poor soul trapped inside the Akuma. "Help... me…" It pleaded.

"Don't worry… I will…"Allen smiled sadly. He rushed forward and swiped his claw at the Akuma. 'I hope this is the last one…' Just when he's about to touch the Akuma, the Akuma opened his mouth, and green gas came spraying out, hitting Allen's eyes and face. Allen felt his whole body falling apart. His eyes widened as blood gushed out of his mouth and eyes, and his Crown Clown Claw shifted back to its normal form.

Allen fell onto the floor, coughing up blood.

"Eh? You didn't even touch me!" Allen felt his vision blurred as he watched the Akuma's feet drawn closer. "You're weaker than I thought! All I did is sprayed my new type of poison at you, and you fell!"

'How…but… can't the Innocence purify it…?' It laughed as it pointed its finger at Allen.

"This is my new special toy, and I was thinking of testing it out. I never thought it would be this effective!" Allen stared blankly and blindly at the Akuma. He felt hot and sticky liquid coming out from his eyes. 'blood...'

All he can see now is darkness. "The Innocence in your body can't purifies it!"

"Die." A long beam of dark matters shot out from the finger and straight at Allen's head.

"AAAAARRRGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!" He once again felt the familiar pain shot through his body.

"Allen!" Linalee screamed. She ran towards the beam and tried to tear it off, but as she reached for it, her hand went through the beam. She looked at Allen quickly, and her eyes widened.

"Crowley! Lavi! Kanda!" She cried out. "Allen is fading!"

"Allen!" Lavi scrambled to his feet and ran towards them.

"Mmph! Gah!" Crowley spited out the Akuma and rushed toward his friends. He noticed the Akuma and widened his mouth, bare teeth.

Kanda looked up. He just finished destroying the Akuma, and he was covered in blood.

"Kanda! We need to cut off the string!"

His blood.

"Move!" He activated his Mugen and cut though the string. To his surprise, his sword went through the beam, but nothing is happening.

He watched in horror as Allen began to become more and more transparent.

"You stupid Beansprout!" He yelled "Why do you always have to fall at the last minute!" He slashed at the thread again.

"I got him!" Crowley cried. He came up behind the unsuspected Akuma and bit him.

They watched the Akuma fell onto the floor, but the beam is still there.

Allen's tortured scream continued ringing though the near emptied building.

"It's still there!" Linalee was crying, holding Allen in her arms. Rabi cursed and continued fighting off the remaining level 1 Akuma with Crowley, defending Allen, Linalee, and Kanda.

Kanda was now debating mentally whether to use his life costing technique or not while slashing at the beam blindly.

He remembered the day he died in the Noah's Ark. He was falling in the darkness, but he managed to hang on. When he opened his eyes, he was greeted by Allen's smiling face. "Kanda? Welcome back!" How did it all happened? No one knows.

He suddenly realized. He cheated his death once, and now it won't last forever. He probably can't live more than 1 month, he'll be dead sooner than all of them. Why not just make a final use of it?

Kanda sucked in his breath, and hold his Mugen and the energy sword out in front of him.

"Kinki Sangenshiki!!"

Linalee's watched in horror as Kanda activated his life costing skill.

He slashed at the beam again, and it finally broke.

"Finally…"He fell onto the ground and sighed. His chest is hurting like its going to crack, and he's losing his remaining life span on the Beansprout. He watched Allen slowly opened his eyes and stared straight at Kanda. It wasn't his usual smiling and innocent eyes. Kanda frowned. 'It's blank…'

These eyes are cold and dead.

Linalee was crying while holding Allen.
"Allen…Allen…Hang in there…" She sniffed and smiled happily. "Thank god you're okay!"

"Linalee…Where's…Lavi…Crowley….Kanda?"

"What…?" Linalee looked up and saw Kanda sitting a few yards away from them, staring at them.

"Are they all right? Are you okay?" Allen put on a smile and looked in Linalee's direction. She flinched. He wasn't looking at her in the eyes, like he always do. Blood are gushing out from his eyes and he winced. He closed his eyes and sighed.

Kanda was stunned. Why is Beansprout acting like that? Normally, he would thank them and apologized to them nonstop unless someone tells him to shut up. Can't he see that he's right in front of him?

A small scratching sound caught his attention as he looked up. A shadow flew past him and was going straight for Allen and Linalee. The Akuma Crowley had bit was still alive. He tried to warn them, but realized it's too late.

Without thinking, he did the impossible.

Kanda threw his body in front of the Akuma.

"Kanda!" Blood sprayed over Linalee and Allen.

Pain shot through his body. He looked down, and saw saw the Akuma's arm had went through his chest. The Akuma stared at him, a twisted evil smile forming. "Ahh… I was going for that white hair freak, but oh well… kukuku-"

"CONBO BAN: GOURAITEN!"

A huge snake of fire and iron crashed it way into the Akuma and dragged him away from Kanda. He fell onto his knees and began to fall backward.

'This is it…' Kanda thought bitterly, and closed his eyes for the impact.

It never came. Two hands reached out and wrapped around his wrists. Kanda felt the world spinning as he watch Crowley and Lavi in front of him, each holding one of his hands.

"Hang on! Yuu!" Lavi dropped his hammer onto the ground.

"He's got poison in him! Wait…" Crowley bended down and sank his fangs into Kanda's skin.

After a few while, Crowley stood up and looked at Lavi. "I got the poison out… I can't stop the bleeding…"

"C-Crowley…."

"Kanda! Don't talk! We'll get you back to the Headquarter!"

Linalee watched the scene unfolded in front of her. It suddenly hit her.

"Where's Kanda's golem?" She yelled. A black shadow appeared and hovered over her. "This is it…" She grabbed the golem.

"Brother! This is Linalee! Can you hear me?" She waited. A few buzzes and crackles… then…

"Linalee! Are you hurt? Timcanpy got the last piece of Innocence here. Why do you have Kanda's golem? What happened?"

"I don't know…Allen and Kanda is bleeding nonstop…" She looked at Allen and at Kanda.

"Where are we right now?" Crowley whispered to Lavi.

"Paris."

"….I can fly us back…"

Linalee stared at Crowley… It was true… He can fly them all back to the Headquarters right now…

"Brother! We're coming back now! Don't wait! Get the medical team ready!"

Without waiting for a reply, she got up, supporting Allen.

"But I need blood…" Crowley suddenly remembered. "Shit." He looked at his blood container, and found it emptied.

"You… idiot blood sucker…." Crowley looked up and saw Kanda glaring at him.

"Stop...thinking... U-use my blood…Hurry up…" Kanda tried to continue his glare, but turned into a wince, "I can't live that long anyways." He muttered the last part.

"…Kanda…I'm sorry…" Crowley bowed his head and sank his teeth into Kanda's arm once again.

'It's just a little pain…' Kanda shut his eyes. He felt his body began to heal itself... which also meant costing his life span to decrease.

"All right, you guys hang on!" Crowley's eyes began glow. Lavi went up to Kanda and gently patted his dying friend's shoulder.

"Are you ready?"

"Hn…" Kanda sighed.


One hour later, the five exorcists found themselves at the footsteps of the Black Order.

"Linalee!" Kumoi rushed out of the gate and hugged his sister tightly. "You're all right, you okay…"He sniffed.

"It's over." She said silently.

"Allen! Kanda!" He stared at the two fallen exorcists. "What happened to them?"

"We'll explain later… They need medical attention right now!"

"I know." A group of medical team came out and dragged them off into the Black Order medical center.

TBC


I just suddenly felt like posting a fanfic here…and..err…I hope you guys review the story…so maybe I can continue writing the story..?

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