I do not and never will own Man, nor will any one else own it aside from hoshino-san. ALL FLAMES WILL BE USED TO COMMEMORATE THE DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

When Allen woke up he was back in the tank, under water, and still without pants. Even more embarrassing than that was that his shirt had slightly ridden up on him during the night leaving his lower half completely visible. Horrified he hurriedly pulled down his shirt and glanced at the other inhabitant of the room, making sure that he hadn't been seen. Luckily for him Kanda was still sound asleep. With a sigh of relief he began to truly look around his surroundings, wondering how he had gotten back in the tank. He also was curious as to how the bed had come to be in the tank, but he decided to over look it when he noticed the food sitting on a table in the center of the room. He was about to get out and go over to look at the food when he remembered that kanda had told him last night that he was a prince and that this was his room. Once he remembered this he figured that the food was for kanda and that he shouldn't touch it. So he sadly began to try to focus on something else, such as changing his legs back into his tail.

He soon felt the pain that always came with the transformation wash over his body. His legs molded back together like clay, slowly sticking to each other as they came together once again. When it was done he heard clapping. Startled he opened his eyes, unable to recall when he had closed them in the first place, and looked up expecting to see kanda looking at him.

He was wrong though. It wasn't Kanda; it was the face that had haunted him since the death of his foster father, the face of Mana's murderer.

"y-you! Why are you…?" Allen began completely confused as to why he was there. Had he come for him? To kill him like he had killed Mana? Or was he there for something else entirely? Before he could come up with an explanation, though he saw the man pull a small vial of come blue liquid out of his coat and, uncorking it he began to dump the contents into the tank.

"I, boy, have come here on the Millennium Earls orders. He wants to have you, a bargaining chip for not just one nation, but three! Heh, you are more valuable than I think you realize." The man said as he watched as the boy slowly lost consciousness. He was about to grab the boy out of the tank when he felt a fist pass through his stomach.

"awwwwwwww, you woke up. Oh well." the man said before disappearing into thin air.

~~~Kanda's POV~~~

I watched as a man spoke with the moyashi. Unsure as to who he was I listened to what was said. I saw how moyashi seemed to recognize the man. Then I heard the mans next sentence.

"a bargaining chip for not just one nation, but three!" it was that one line that got me thinking. What did he mean, valuable to three nations, I knew that my country was included in the three, but what of the other two nations? There was definitely something the moyashi hadn't told me and I wasn't about to let the man take him before I got the answers that I wanted. Sadly I never got any of my answers because the moment that he saw me and realized that I had woken up he made some sort of exclamation that I didn't hear in my anger and disappeared into thin air. Though this perplexed me, I didn't have time to dwell on it as I realized that the Moyashi wasn't moving and I rushed to get him out of the tank before any lasting damage was done to him by whatever the substance that that man dumped into the tank was. All I knew was that it was blue, and that it had the Moyashi out cold and unmoving… that was never a good thing. So as quickly as I could I dove in and being careful not to hurt the boy I gently managed to get him out of the tank. As soon as he was out I quickly ran, carrying him as if he were as frail as glass, to the palace doctor, knowing that he would be able to do something to help with his extensive knowledge of medicine and the world in general. As soon as I reached his office I kicked the door in. I had no time to deal with such frivolities such as opening the door. The occupants within the room were startled, but I didn't care, I had to get the Moyashi to bookman as quickly as possible otherwise who knows what might happen to him.

END POV

"Bookman!" Kanda shouted, worry and anger evident in his voice. "I need your expertise, some weird gray skinned man was just in my room, and he put some weird blue stuff into the moyashi's tank, and the next thing I knew the Moyashi was out cold and unmoving."

"ok, slow down. You never get this worked up over anything, so why are you so worked up over this?" Bookman asked in a rather monotonous voice, not feeling the need to put any emotion behind his voice.

"he is my pet, and a rather rare pet at that. There are only three know merpeople that have ever been caught for displaying purposes. He is the third. And so I can't exactly let anything happen to something as rare and valuable as him." Kanda stated as if it were the most obvious thing in the world.

"well, yu-chan finally showing an emotion other than anger?" a cheery voice exclaimed in mock horror from the spiny chair before the doctors desk. "has the world finally come to an end?!"

"Shut it baka usagi, unless you want to have your head within the guillotine by the end of the day." Kanda stated threat evident in his low voice.

Said 'baka usagi' gulped and hid his vibrant read head behind the back of the chair he was currently taking up residence in. not wanting to take the chance of having kanda follow through on his threat.

"Lavi, why don't you help the prince put the boy on that table there so I can take a look at him rather than hindering the progress of everyone." Bookman said as he beckoned Kanda over to the paper covered table that took up residence in the middle of the room.

Within fifteen minutes Allen had been placed on the table, Kanda had kicked the read head off of the spiny chair and onto the floor; bookman was looking Allen over carefully checking for anything that might not be normal for a merperson. The room was completely silent. Even Lavi, who usually was the 'ice-breaker' within the castle, made not a sound. The only thing that could be heard from within the room was bookman's mutterings over the different aspects of Allen's' physical make up as well as anything that might have been off about it.

About half an hour later bookman finished his examination of the child on top of the table. As he turned to the room's other occupants he sighed. "I do not think that anything life threatening has happened to him. I do believe that he should be waking up fairly soon, and that whatever the "green stuph", as the prince put it, was didn't have much effect on him."

As soon as bookman finished speaking Allen began to wake up. But something was wrong; he was completely still, even though he had woken up.

"I… I can't…move, and why am I not in the water, what happened?! Where am I?!" Allen began to visibly panic as it became obvious that he had lost some part of his memory "Mana, what has happened, where are you?! MANA!!!!! Why aren't you here? Did you abandon me to? Do you hate me to? why does everyone hate me? Did I do something bad? Is that why yo-"Allen never got to finish what he was saying, because someone slapped him across the cheek.

"oi, Moyashi, get a grip, I don't know who this Mana person Is, but I doubt that he hates you, it is obvious that you have lost some portion of your memory, so let's get this strait. As of yesterday you are my pet, and as such you will behave your self, and not go spouting nonsense." Kanda growled, not helping Allen's mental situation in the slightest.

But before things could get out of hand, a messenger entered the room. "sir, there is someone here who wishes to speak with you." The man said, bowing.

"tell them that I don't have time at the moment and to come back later." Kanda said in annoyance.

"but sir, he says that he is cross Marian the king of the merpeople here to retrieve his adopted son." The messenger said in a worried tone.

"what?!" everyone in the room exclaimed before Kanda quickly said to let the man in.

A few minutes later, a man with wild long red hair and a mask covering half his face walked into the room, an air if negligence and booze emanating off of him.

"Allen!" the man exclaimed upon seeing the white haired boy sitting on the table with his head in his hands.

"wh-who are you?! You're not Mana!!!! Where is Mana! Where is my father!!!!!!" Allen shouted before being enveloped in a hug.

"Allen, Mana has been dead for a couple of years now, remember? I adopted you after Mana passed on so that nothing more would happen to you. "the man said gently. And this seemed to be all it took to restore Allen's memory.

"gah!!!" Allen exclaimed jumping away from the man with a disgusted and horrified look on his face. "cross, what are you doing here?!" Allen exclaimed. Before looking around a bit, "lavi? What are you doing here? Last I heard you and bookman were away on business?

"when I heard that the bastard* Tyki Mikk had somehow found you I came here as soon as possible. I had thought that you would be safer on land than in the ocean, but I guess I was wrong." Cross said with a sigh. "oi, you with the long hair, I want you to put Allen into a room with no windows." Cross said and as Allen started to protest, cross continued "because if he is in a room with a window then that is a chance Tyki could find him again, and the would probably end in a four way war."

"four way?" Kanda asked in masked confusion, wondering what the weird red haired man meant.

"yes, if Tyki, and incidentally the Noah were to capture Allen, you, my self, as well as the other mer Kingdome run by the lee's would probably end up fighting to have possession of him. And is something we must avoid at all costs, because he may not believe it but many people care for him and his well being."

"soooooo, who are these Noah people?"

Lavi's may not have known it, but this innocent question would probably land him with a headache in the morning.

Ok, I apologize about not updating in forever, but I am a lazy person, and for the later half of the summer into this year my aunt has decided to take me out to do stuph whenever she has time so I haven't gotten much of a chance to do anything lately… not a good thing, but it is true. I might have talked my parents into letting me go to AB this year!!!! I also am helping my make my Halloween costume at the moment, it looks like it is gunna be awesome when it is done!!! I recently got into the chronicles of Vladimir Tod through a friend and they are amazing!!!!! I love the smiley symbol!!!! (-\ǀ--) still can't believe my b-day is in 2 months… oh ya, the * earlier is because I NEVER swear, and this is the only exception within this fic, because it was necessary in order to get crosses feelings across. I do have a direction for this fic, just how to get to it from here is what I am still contemplating… well, it is 7:35 on October 25, 2009. Have a good night!!!

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I ended up making a change to the plotline, and now lavi and lenalee are step-siblings, weird, but I made a mistake and don't feel like redoing this entire chapter…. lenalee and lavi are both royalty, as is kanda, kinda wierd, yes, but...