Disclaimer: If I made NEEDLESS do you think this would really be an AU? I'm just a fan who likes AU and Time Travel stories and this happens to just involve both.

Warnings: OOCness, Canon-typical violence?, Blade's lolicon tendencies, and any other warning the manga may have.

This is most likely be a mostly bullet point fic so if that's not your style, here's your warning.

Summary: Time Travel AU story. Diverges from Eve Story Arc. Manga based. What if a version of Cruz stuck around and "Yamada Nadeshiko" grew up being childhood friends with Adam and Eve?

AU Details - Beware! Manga Spoilers!

Based on the manga.

Diverges starting from Eve Story Arc, wherein Cruz/Yamada and Saten get sent to an alternate past.

The Alternate Past is different from Canon Past, it is an alternate past made from future Blade's scrambled memories so this past is based on what he knew at the time and his assumptions.

The Alternate Past also has a bit of a basis on some of Cruz/Yamda's memories due to his help in locating Mengroze.

Cruz/Yamada also discovers his fragment earlier than in canon, while protecting Young!Blade from Strom

Cruz/Yamada has the ability Shield of Aegis, an impenetrable shield where he points his hand and it also nulls annihilates needless energy, because anti matter.

The Alt!Past created a copy of Cruz based on what Blade and Young!Blade knew of him.

Alt!Cruz/Yamada is a girl in this AU due to Young!Blade thinking "Yamada" is an actual female and Future!Blade's hopeful wish.

Alt!Cruz/Yamada is aware that he was once male, still uses male pronouns on himself, he goes by Yamada Nadeshiko, based on the High School AU of the anime, so as to not be confused with the Alternate Past's version of Cruz Schild.

Will sort of follow canon but also not due to the involvement of Yamada.

Kafka is a friend because I feel that Alt!Kafka is a badass that needed more screen time.

Not sure how canon it is but, Stigmata level fragments give Needless red eyes.

Only Yamada is around because as he was transformed into a girl he can stick around but Saten can't because he doesn't look that much different from his past self so he ends up counting as the same Saten, unlike Cruz who looks different enough from his past self to not count and pretty much already having a new identity by that point.

These are the basics. If anyone has questions that need answering, I'll be adding it here.