I left on the 27th for a 5-day trip. Thus, I apologize for not letting you know nor putting up my third chapter before then. Hopefully, I can get started on the fourth chapter soon.

Reviews are appreciated!

Disclaimer: I do not own D. Gray Man, it belongs to Katsura Hoshino.

Simultaneously, I will try and revise the current chapters that are already up for you. It makes me –ugh- when I re-read my writing…

Besides that, please enjoy this chapter.

Reviews are appreciated. I'd like to see at least 15 with this chapter or the next. Thank you.


Canis Lupus

Chapter 3 – One Memory and the Black Order

"Leo's been dead for a long time now~" The Earl continued in a cheery voice. "Ever since his mother died~" The Earl's eyes narrowed threateningly behind his spectacles. "But, you've been causing me a lot of trouble, Jean-kun, and for that, your friend is going to be the akuma that will kill you~!"

Jean's eyes widened. "Leo? An akuma? N-no way!" He took a hold of his friend's shoulders and shook him. "Hey, Leo!"

"Get out of the way, kid." Jean registered the arrival of the Exorcist he met earlier, still with the silver dog, tensed and ready to pounce. "That is an akuma."


Kanda's eyes narrowed, fixated on the man before him – the Millennium Earl. Drawing Mugen from its sheath, he quickly ran his fingers the blade. It glowed dimly. "Activate." The sword now flooded the graveyard with light. After a few moments, the previously overwhelming brightness ebbed to a faint glow.

"Oh, an Exorcist~!" The Earl clapped his hands in mirth. "Nice to meet you…" He paused, tilting his head. "Wait… meet you?"

Ignoring the rotund man, Kanda faced the akuma with the Leo's appearance.
I was going to warn you, but I guess even you aren't stupid enough to attack the Earl without prior knowledge of his abilities. Allen commented sardonically.

"Shut up, Moyashi. Fight now, everything else for later." Kanda spoke quickly, managing to get a sarcastic tone across.

Yes, about that. My body…

Kanda scoffed. And that body can withstand such a masochist?

"Kaichuu … Ichigen!" Swinging the blade, a small horde of silver crescent shaped insects appeared and swarmed towards the akuma, still bearing an inhuman smile in the skin of its host. A rustle was heard as the insects stopped their progress.

"… move, brat." Kanda growled, displeased that his attack had not reached the akuma, for Jean had stepped into the line of attack moments before the target could be destroyed. The illusions idled for seconds longer, a hair's breadth away from Jean's chest before vanishing.

"Why?" Jean cried, his arms outstretched beside his body in a protective stance. "Why is Leo an akuma? How do you know he is?" Jean shook his head fervently in denial. "W-we started the akuma patrol together, the two of us! We swore that we would protect everyone, s-so…" Jean stopped, trembling. "There's no way Leo could be an akuma!" He screamed.

Chink.

The instant Jean felt cold metal tap lightly against the back of his skull, he knew that it alone had proven him wrong. He knew, that if he turned around, he would be staring down the barrel of a gun… of the akuma that his friend had created from his despair.

"Move!" Kanda snapped. He propelled his legs.

The sound of a gun rapidly firing filled the silence of the night. When the shooting ceased, particles of dust swirled, creating a barrier of smoke. A figure jumped back quickly, breaking the form of the smoke with a struggling bundle under its arm.

"Hey, Mister…" Jean said slowly, afraid. They were still under the cover of smoke, thus, they were safe for the moment. "Y-you… you shielded me from the bullets? But, the akuma virus…"

"Che. I didn't do it for you. That idiot would never get off my case if I let you die." Kanda stood up shakily. Despite his intense physical training, the virulent poison within the bullet weakened him as it coursed through his veins. Multiple times, the pentacles disappeared, only to be replaced moments later as more appeared.

Isn't it supposed to kill immediately? Jean thought, bewildered at the pentacles which seemed to blink on Kanda's skin.

This tattoo… Kanda fingered his chest, on the area above his heart. Those scientists only made me so that it would regenerate all physical injuries… but if it was a virus… Kanda's body ached with pain. Che. This is the first time I've gotten hit by a bullet… Kanda shot Jean a dirty look. (A/n: Check the bottom of the page)

"I'm sorry! But, thank you…" Jean quivered, trailing off.

"Shut up. The Earl might hear you through the smoke. We would be at a disadvantage if we did not know where the akuma is firing from!" Kanda hissed under his breath.

Kanda! A familiar voice called.

He heard footsteps approaching from behind him.

"What, Moyashi?" He growled.

The wolf Exorcist silently emerged from the smoke behind Kanda and Jean. The younger of the two nearly yelped in fear when he felt the creature brush past him.
"Oh, it's only your pet…" Jean said, relieved.

Pet. How annoying. The wolf shot a dark look at Jean, who backed off in response. As if I'd want to be degraded to the level of the common dog. However… The wolf cocked its head. I see you have been hit by the bullet.

"No shit, Moyashi." Kanda rasped. Jean gave him a strange look.

"Mister, who are you talking to?"

"…"

I'll ask about why it's fading and reappearing later, but I can purify the virus from your body.

"How?"

Like this. Without any further warning, Allen sunk his jaws into Kanda's non-sword arm.

Kanda winced. "What the hell, Moyashi?"

"Why are you attacking your owner?" Jean said in a panic. "Bad dog-"

"Oh, for-" Kanda stopped himself mid-curse. "This is a wolf. A wolf. Which is also an Exorcist." Before Jean could reject the idea, he began to watch with horrid fascination as the pentacles began to fade from Kanda's skin. The pain eventually lessened until it was only a dull ache where the bullet had hit Kanda.

"At least you're useful, Moyashi." Kanda snorted. He swiftly stood up, experimentally cutting the air with his sword.

"But… how…? Aren't Exorcists always human?" Jean mumbled, shocked.

Until me, yes, Exorcists were always human.

Jean was near to jumping due to the sudden invasion in his head. "Who…?"

Me, of course. A furry leg pawed at Jean's skates. Come with me, we must move you away, lest the Earl aim for you again. Allen turned tail and bounded into the smoke. After a few moments of hesitation, Jean followed suit.


The Millennium Earl sighed with disapproval. "This won't do, Exorcists~" Reaching into his coat, he removed a pink umbrella with a pumpkin adorning the tip. "Lero, please clear up the smoke~?"

"Yes Earl-tama!" The mouth of the pumpkin moved slightly before a colossal gust of wind pushed all the smoke away. Surveying the graveyard, most of the surrounding graves had been smashed to pieces, as well as the cobblestone path turning into a mass of smaller stones.

"Where are you, Exorcist~?" The Earl glanced around, his hands circling his eyes as if they were binoculars. A battle cry came from his left. Turning his head, he saw Kanda quickly closing the distance between him and the akuma who bore Leo's face.

"Now now, that won't do~!" The Earl lightly jumped on top of the akuma, unusual due to his bulky appearance. "I've got to keep this one, you see," He said, wagging his finger at the scowling Kanda. "I need him to kill that meddling brat- hmm, what's this?" The Earl, gaining altitude whilst sitting on the akuma, swept the graveyard with his eyes. "Where did you take Jean-kun, that little pest~?"

When Kanda gave no answer (besides glaring harder at the Earl), he shrugged. "Never mind, then~" He raised the umbrella – Lero, to the sky. The pumpkin's head began pulsing with a faint light. "Ne, Exorcist~! Do you know this saying? 'If you have many weapons, even if they're bad ones, shoot, and it will eventually hit something~!'" Like a beacon, the light attracted a black swarm visible in the night sky. Hundreds of akuma were seen. Kanda stopped.

"Jean-kun~! I know you're there, hiding~! You're annoying, you know~? You claim I'm a bad person by making akumas yet you have none of your own power at all~!" The eyes behind the spectacles narrowed. "I make akuma for humans!" He patted the akuma he was sitting on – Leo. "It's so ugly, isn't it? This is a physical manifestation of a human's heart! You think I just make weapons out of them, but akuma are what come from the hearts of humans… just like this one. Your friend Leo made this, you know? When his mother died, he just couldn't-"

"Che. Shut up. Your voice is annoying!" Ignoring the hordes of akuma he would have to face simultaneously, Kanda brandished his sword, running at the Earl.


Jean, here. Allen led Jean outside the graveyard, sitting him down behind the wall to remain unseen.

"T-thanks, Allen." Jean wrapped his arms around himself. "B-but… I've been so stupid." He tightened his grip. "I told Leo all about akuma and the Millennium Earl… but I didn't even consider him. I knew all about akuma, but I knew nothing about humans!" Tears were flowing now.

Allen remained silent, looking at Jean, knowing just to listen in fragile moment such as these.

In the distance, Allen heard Kanda curse loudly.

Jean… Allen nudged the boy with his muzzle. I have to go. Kanda will need me to help him. Allen looked up in the sky, seeing the thousands of black dots – akuma.

"Wait, Allen, one more thing-"

Hearing his request, Allen nodded once before speeding off.


"I don't think you quite understand your situation, Exorcist." The Earl said icily. "You see, with-"

Stop, Kanda. A voice echoed in his head. You can't take down that many at once.

"Oho, reinforcements~?" The Earl clasped his hands. "But you know… it won't make a difference."

He can hear the Moyashi speaking to me? Kanda thought, bewildered.

Leave this to me, Kanda. I have an ability that can take all these akuma down in one shot.

"Oh? I'd like to see you try!" The Earl waltzed on top of Leo's akuma before pointing down at… a wolf? "What?" The creator's eyes widened in surprise.

Howling – Long Range! Allen sat back on his haunches, tilted his head, and howled. The Innocence imbued howl covered the town like a blanket, vibrations jolting through the ground due to the destructive power of the howl. It was much stronger than what Allen had used to draw Mark out (chapter one). The level ones covering the sky began to scream in pain as a few of them exploded, soon followed by the rest. The only akuma to remain intact was Leo's akuma, still carrying the Earl.

Abruptly, the howling stopped as more blood dripped from the wolf's jaws. Wheezing heavily, it fell heavily on its side.

"You masochistic Moyashi!" Kanda yelled at Allen before charging the remaining akuma.

"Oh dear~" Both the akuma and the Earl avoided Kanda by rising higher into the sky. "That's an irritating ability you have there…" The Earl mused as he solemnly scrutinized the wolf lying on the ground, still attempting to get up.

Kanda, don't worry about me, just… destroy the akuma!


"Wait, Allen, one more thing…" Jean asked, shivering behind the wall.

What is it?

"Please destroy Leo, t-that idiot…"


Kanda instantly sliced through the sole surviving akuma, and as he did so, the Earl back flipped into the air, opening the umbrella, Lero. He began to swing his legs back and forth as if he were walking. The Earl glanced at the wolf. This must be…

Weakly lifting its head, the wolf and the Earl's eyes met. As if it had been shot, the wolf once more flopped down.

Then that wolf must be… "This is only the beginning of the final act, Exorcists~!" The Earl began to speak as he was in the midst of leaving. "I am the Millennium Earl, Creator of all akuma, and I will bring an end to this world and mankind with its corrupted Gods!" He raised a hand and pointed at the fallen Allen. "And you, Allen Walker, will be personally killed by me once more!" With that, the Earl vanished into the sky.

How…

Kanda sheathed his sword with a scoff and languidly walked over to Allen. "What, Moyashi?"

How… did he know my name…?

The wolf's body went limp.

What… is this feeling?

"Oi Moyashi! Stop dying!"


I was abandoned. I was found in the streets, discarded by my parents for having a deformed arm.

My birthday is December 25th. Christmas, the very day that my foster father, Mana Walker adopted me.

My name is Allen Walker, and I made my father, Mana Walker, into an akuma.


"Would you like me to revive Mana Walker?" A large man with a top hat leaned around a newly made grave marker – a cross with simple name engraved into it. Peering down in the falling snow, a young boy sat stiffly in front of the grave, an expression of pure melancholy on his face. The boy's eyes overflowed with tears as they trickled down his cheeks.

He wasn't my real father… but he definitely was, to me. He, in spite of my abandonment and my deformed arm, took me in and raised me like his own son.

A dark skeleton resembling a mechanical doll appeared in front of him. The frame holding the skeleton trembled slightly as the soul of Mana Walker returned. His name was quickly stitched into an odd hat with a reversed star that sat attached to the skull.

"All… Allen…" A hoarse voice croaked. "You… you made me into an akuma…"

"Mana!" The boy, recognizing his foster father's voice, called out in happiness. His reason for living had returned.

However…

The akuma leapt out of the frame, brandishing its scythe like arms. "Allen… you made me into an akuma!" In its rage, the akuma sliced through the nearby boy's left eye. The boy's remaining eye, unscathed, widened in fear and shock.

This was not his father. His father would never do this to him…

The boy hit the ground with a thump. He still lived, and he still breathed…

The skeleton bent over him. "I'll curse you! I'll curse you, Allen!"

A tear trickled down his cheek.

Satisfied, the Millennium Earl left, searching for more tragedies.

His largely deformed left arm twitched noticeably under the glove. The fabric was instantaneously ripped apart as the deformed arm – Innocence – made its first invocation. A large claw emerged, instantly crushing the akuma.

A pained scream.

The boy's right eye stared in alarm at the arm. "What… what's happening?"

Of its own volition, the arm began crawling towards the akuma, struggling to recover from the attack.

Allen did not care that his father had sliced him through the eye. "Mana? Please…" He pleaded to his arm. "Please, stop! Don't hurt him!"

"Allen…" The claw now lunged for the skeleton. "I love you. Please… destroy me."

A sickening bone crunching sound was heard. A scream of despair ripped from the throat of Allen Walker, a boy cursed by his foster father whom he had made into an akuma, with his newly found anti-akuma weapon.

For an akuma to be made, two deaths must occur.

I was born with a parasitic anti-akuma weapon, Innocence. It is my fate to fight as an Exorcist, with Mana's curse – an ability to see the souls attached to akuma – side by side. The light and the dark give birth to gray, which will destroy the Millennium Earl and save the world.


A single eye opened. It blinked lazily before the surrounding came into focus. Immediately, a scowling face greeted him.

"Took you long enough to heal, Moyashi. Took you even longer to wake up."

Feeling vibrations, the wolf quickly sat up. Disregarding Kanda's comment, he glanced around. They were in a boat in a place akin to a… sewer? Who was the man paddling the boat? Water dripped from the ceiling, hitting Allen on the head. The wolf yelped, jumping slightly.

"Oi, don't shake the damn boat." The swordsman informed sourly before looking away.

Allen remained silent. He could feel his head pounding in his ears. What was it, that he saw, when he met the Creator's eyes? A vision of another Exorcist's past? An Exorcist who happened to have the same name as him? Allen jaw tightened. For the moment, he would stay silent about it, until things became clearer.

Stepping off the boat, Allen curiously cocked his head, glancing around. As soon as his feet touched solid ground, Kanda was off, taking large strides. Allen bounded after him, swiftly catching up and keeping pace.

Black Order?

"Hn." Kanda grunted.

Kanda climbed up a winding stairway, Allen following with little difficulty. Slowly, light began to fill the dimly lit stairwell, indicating an exit. Reaching the top of the staircase, Allen shook his head, blinking as the bright light blinded him. Kanda was a few steps in front of him, greeted by a tall Asian man in a white lab coat holding a pink coffee cup comically designed with a rabbit. His left was flanked by an Asian girl holding a clipboard. The two were strikingly similar in appearance. Quietly, Allen walked up to Kanda's side.

"Welcome back, Kanda." Komui took a quick sip from his coffee cup, quivering with anticipation. Lenalee, likewise, repeated the greeting. "So, where's the Innocence?"

"Oi, Moyashi." He pointed a thumb at Komui. "This is the siscon Supervisor."

Siscon? Allen choked slightly in amusement. Pleasure. I suppose this is Komui.

"Woah…!" Komui flinched slightly in surprise. "There's a voice talking in my head."

Down here, Supervisor.

Komui glanced over the top of his spectacles, looking down. A large gray wolf sat on its legs, looking up at him almost… expectantly?

"Amazing…" Komui dropped down to his knees to examine the Innocence imbued creature. "In appearance, you look like a normal wolf." Komui faintly heard the echoes of a chuckle in his mind.

"Nii-san…" A voice piped up from next to him. Lenalee was also bending over, curious. "You forgot to introduce yourself."

"Oh yeah, right right!" Komui said clumsily. He held out a flat palm. "I'm Komui Lee, Chief Supervisor."

Allen pawed him on his hand. Allen Walker. Nice to meet you.

"I'm Lenalee Lee. I'm his sister, and I'm also an Exorcist." Lenalee similarly held out her own hand.

Nice to meet you, Lenalee. He repeated the same gesture with slightly less formality.

"Now now, Allen, I know you're a wolf, but that doesn't mean I won't be watching you! You are a boy, after all, and I need to protect my sweet Lenalee-"

A clipboard met the ranting scientist's head.

"Nii-san…" Lenalee chided.

"Sorry, sorry!" Komui shielded his head before adapting a more serious expression.

"Welcome to the Black Order and your new home, Allen Walker."

Home, hm?


A/n: The anime is different from the manga, as Kanda's life is tied to the lotus (no mentions of Second Exorcists in the anime). This is my personal take on Kanda's abilities as a Second Exorcist. I don't remember seeing him shot by an akuma bullet in the manga before, so I have no idea how his regenerative abilities work. If I am incorrect, feel free to correct me and I'll amend it immediately.

But phew, that took a long time to write, even if I knew what I was going to write about.

You know that feeling I was talking about the last chapter? The feeling that I was reusing a lot of words because I couldn't think of any other? Yeah, it happened again. It doesn't feel terribly satisfying.

I hope it isn't too boring reading about a different adaptation of the manga... which is still very much like the manga. However, future events will be altered A LOT now that Allen is a wolf... there might not even be a Leverrier or Link in the story (not that I particularly liked them, in any case).

I'm terribly sorry for the late update. At this moment, I will begin revising my chapters... unless someone would like to beta for me? :)

I hope this chapter was to your liking. Review if you'd like, and please continue reading!

-Mirai no Kibou

If anything is unclear, you may ask me. Corrections are appreciated too! If it does not spoil too much, I might answer a few questions - however, I will answer in PMs ONLY.