Once upon a time in the 100 Acre woods lived a pumpkin head umbrella by the name of Lero. Lero was a happy and joyful umbrella, unless his owner was mistreating him, that is.

Lero loved his owner, the Earl that is, however he had run away, because it had hurt him quite a bit that the other day his owner had punished him for a petty little things of asking a harmless question.

So he ran away and being a special umbrella which could transform into a human shape it was easy.

So now he was wandering through the 100 Acre Woods, when he suddenly realised that he had no idea where he was.

"Oh NOES, lero, Lero is lost!" shouted the pumpkin head umbrella in distress.

A stream of tears ran down his face as he flew around in circles. Crying helplessly he yelled, "HELP!"

Suddenly he realised that he was rather loud and that could attract unwanted attention. Nervously he peeked over the bushes, watching the shadows shift, unsure if he had attract any wild animals attention.

Although he had some special skills like transforming into a boy, he was not sure if he would be able to fight against some of the wild animals which lived in the forest.

The Earl had always warned him about the dangers of those animals, because some of them possesed magic skills as well.

But whatever was coming now, he better would be able to fight in his human form.

Quickly he transformed and his umbrella body dissapeared in a bright light and in the next second a slim young boy, who seemed around 15, with wispy brown and light orange hair was standing there, wearing nothing...well, apart from his own skin.

He had forgotten to take clothes with him...

All the sudden he felt exposed. The chilling wind blew down his naked back and before he realised it, whatever was making the bushes rustle was a mere step away from seeing him, wait make that seeing him right now.

Lero yelped, literally, but instead of a wild animal that his master had warned him about so many times, it was a mere boy probably his age with silvery white hair.

You could have said the scence was awkard, two boys one naked and one clearly stupified in a small patch of the forest.

"Erm hi..." began the white haired, "You see um... I'm err kinda... lost."

Lero stared. Now was the time to do that voice alter-y thing that master had taught him, just incase he was in a situation like this.(It would be weird if he used his normal umbrella voice, it doesn't sound very human.)

He hummed nervously and said, "U-uhm hi are you lost? I think I'm a bit lost too, but I think I might know my way around, I've been here quite a few times."

A little bit not true, he wasn't very often outside, only togheter with his master, because he could propably get attacked by those dangerous animals. Lero had never tried to go out by himself.

But he had if he wanted to escape his old, cruel master... and to be honest, that boy looked really nice, he couldn't sense any danger from him...

Then there was another thing he needed to survive in this new freedom he had aquired, he had to learn to talk with other only natural not to talk with other people when you are an umbrella, so he really needed those experiences."W-what's your name?" he shyly asked the other boy, who stared at him with confusion written all over his face.

The white-haired boy jumped in surprise and answered, "Oh, how rude of me, I just spaced out for a bit! I am sorry for that, my name is Allen Walker, nice to meet you ! And what's your name?" He smiled warmly to Lero and gave him his hand to shake it. Lero was surprised how easy it was to talk with a human except his master, of course,so he answered happy " Well, my name is Lero."

"Lero," Allen repeated, his face going from a happy smile to a dreaded face (the one that he got when he saw his master), but then he stopped and thought, best not to jump to conclusions.

"Uh," began Lero realising the mistake he had made, this was the Exorcist boy, "My friends call me Lero, but my whole name is Leroy Chaplam," yeah as if, thought Lero, it was just a random name out of the hat.

"Oh I see," replied Allen, so he's not a pumpkin head of an umbrella, "Um, I'm kinda lost, but wait, you need clothes."

Lero felt himself flush, Ah crap, he thought.

"Here," said Allen, holding out his Exorcist coat for Lero, who awkwardly put his arms through and wrapped it around himself.

"Okay," said Allen, "Time to get myself unlost."

"Well then, we have to go to..." Lero stopped and started to think of where they are, although he had panicked in the first instance, now he was calmer he had to think.

Hmm, did't his old master told him about a really big and old tree? Many animals lived there, it was the heart of the forest, the protecter of its inhabitants. The whole tree was humongous, and it led to a path that would lead them to a small village.

"So, Allen... um, I know theres a huge tree in the forest, if we could find it, it will be easy to get out of the forest...I think..." he mumbled under his breath. He still had the voice of his master in his head, warning about the wild animals which could attack them on the way.

Allen nodded and asked, "Which direction do we have to go? Maybe its better if you go first, I am bad at finding my way as it is," he said a little embarassed to Lero. Lero smiled and pointed in the direction of a group of bushes, the same were Allen first had shown up.

"Let's try this way, my intuition is telling me it's this was."

"Then let's go."

They stumbled through the woods, passing the big tree that Lero remembered his master telling him about, after following the path for a while they reached a small village.

They entered the village, walking down the street, the place was eerily quiet.

"Let's get a room in the Inn," suggested Allen, picking up the pace and walking to the hanging wooden sign that stated Inn.

As they stepped over the threshold, there was not a person in sight, all there was were clothing and dust.

Akuma had been stared with wide eyes at the empty place.

This village had been once full of life, with happiness, joy, emotions, he remembered from the time he had visited with Rhode. But now it seemed like a grave nobody knew of.

Of course Lero had seen how his master destroyed villages with no mercy, creating flaming hellholes here and there, but to see a place after a Akuma attack, it was different, there were remains, proof that people existed, while the Earl's power wiped everything out and nothing remained.

The Akuma They had always left before the villages or cities were completely destroyed, well, usually when Lero was taken by Rhode or another noah. It send shiver down his skin, even under the coat.

He looked to Allen and was scared somehow. Allens face was pale but unnatural calm, he looked all over the place and then slowly started to search in the houses.

Lero was confused,didn't the exorcist knew nothing living could be found after a Akuma attack? They were standing now in front of an old church, broken and painted black. Allen slowly went inside it, staring at the cross which still hung there, lopsided, but it was there, showing an almost mocking promise of protection while clothing was scattered around. Lero watched how Allen kneed down in front of it, then the white-haired boy started to speak, now no longer able to hide his trembling voice: "Please... please forgive me... for not being able to save those people, while they were crying for help in their worst situation... let your mercy come down and take their souls with you."

A single tear ran down his cheek, then he stood up and looked at Lero with sad, tired eyes.

"We should go now, I have to find a place with a phone, this is needed to be reported."

Lero noded, while he noticed the first time in his life, since he ever first had meeted a exorcist,he felt something like regret towords one of them.....

But why?

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Hey, it's Mao (emi to mao 374) Kamo-chan and I have been working on this little baby and here is chapter 1, hope you enjoyed and for now I think there aren't going to be any relationships.

Disclaimer, Pretty sure I don't own, and nor does Kamo-chan.

Haha, Mao is right, we don't own it( but i wish of course)

i just wanted to say something at the end,too ^^ please review !!!!