Mizu: It's finally done! This chapter is finally finished! Woot! Now for the disclaimer thingy. I don't own -Man. If I did, Kanda wouldn't be dieing so quickly! Don't leave us Kanda!

An Innocent Heart

"Crap…I've already come this way," Allen cursed, staring down a random hallway, "Why do all the fuckin' halls have to look the same anyways?"

Allen sighed and began to walk in the direction he had hoped his room was. All he wanted to do was to get there and change. That way he could get back to his party and kill Lavi and Komui. It was there fault that he had to change and leave Lenalee's side anyway. After all, the two of them had been tugging on both of his sleeves until they ripped off. Then Komui decided to add salt to the wound by deciding that it would be a great time to fix his left arm.

"I'm gonna kill that man when I get back," Allen muttered as he passed yet another door.

"Moyashi?" Kanda's voice asked from the door he had just passed.

Allen spun around to see a rare sight. Kanda not scowling or glaring at anything.

"Kanda…" Allen muttered, thinking for a second, "Shit! If I'm by your room then mine is on the other side of the Order. Dammit! I've been in the wrong area this entire time!"

Kanda just sighed and walked up to the younger man, "You're hopeless, you know that Moyashi?"

With that said, Kanda dragged the white haired boy into his room and slammed his door. Allen, surprised that Kanda said something other than an insult to him, let himself be shoved down into an empty chair in front of Kanda's bed.

"Drink," Kanda ordered, holding a glass of yellowish-brown liquid in front of his face.

Allen slowly took the glass and brought it to his mouth. However, his nose forewarned him of what the glass held.

"Kanda!" Allen gasped, pulling away from the glass as if it was going to kill him.

"What, Moyashi?" Kanda asked, sitting on the bed with his own glass.

"You know I can't drink this, BaKanda!" Allen snapped, "You know that I can't drink any alcohol yet! I'm still a minor!"

"Nobody's gonna care, baka Moyashi," Kanda sighed, rubbing his eyes.

"Why's that?" Allen asked, curious why Kanda hadn't snapped at him.

Kanda sat on the edge of his bed and stared down at the floor. Allen fidgeted in his seat while Kanda tried to sort out his thoughts. What could have the stupid stoic samurai been thinking about?

"Alright," Kanda sighed again, looking up at Allen, "I'm not going to baby you like everyone else."

"What do you mean?" Allen scowled, "And what does that have to do with my legality to drink alcohol?"

"Because you won't live to be the legal age, Moyashi," Kanda stated, staring straight into Allen's eyes.

Allen's eyes slowly widened as Kanda's words sunk into his skull. He couldn't feel anything, couldn't hear anything. His grip on the glass loosened as his fingers went numb, sending the glass down to crash on the floor.

"Moyashi?" Kanda questioned.

"No…" Allen whispered, voice trembling, "It can't be true. Tell me that you're joking Kanda!"

"I don't joke," Kanda stated, handing Allen his glass, "Now enjoy your damn drink."

Allen slowly took a drink as he sighed heavily, "I knew that I had overused my innocence a little bit, but I didn't think that it was that bad…"

"That bad? You could have died, Moyashi!" Kanda snapped, "The only reason that you're still alive is thanks to that stubborn mentality that you and your innocence share! And that's half of the reason for all of this!"

Allen just sat there and stared at the glass for a few moments. Finally, the white haired teen caved and took a reluctant sip from the glass. Kanda relaxed a little but didn't take his eyes off of the white haired boy.

"What the hell happened out there, Moyashi?" Kanda asked, his voice sounding so unnaturally gentle.

"Where? The battlefield or the party?" Allen asked, taking another sip from the glass.

"Both, I suppose."

Allen sat the glass down on the floor next to his chair and sighed, "It wasn't just level 1-3 akuma…There were several level four and…"

"And what?"

"Noah…"

Kanda was silent for a moment, "Which one?"

"Those damnable twins that Krory fought. I thought for sure that they were dead," Allen cursed, rubbing his eyes, "but they aren't. They used those fuckin' level fours to distract me so that they could get closer to me and attack."

"We didn't see any level fours when we reached you," Kanda stated, "there's no way that you could have survived if what you said was true."

Allen chuckled slightly, "You'd be surprised what Innocence can do when it is truly needed…"

"What do you mean?"

"Somehow, after the twins had nearly destroyed me, my clown belt managed to break through all of the akuma around me, including all of the level four. True, that really shouldn't have been enough to stop them but…"

Allen paused and closed his eyes trying to remember what happened.

"I'm not exactly sure what happened myself, Kanda. All I remember is my clown belt running through the akuma and then I felt a sudden burst of pain rushing through my body and out through the clown belt. After the pain subsided, it left a slight…warmth of some sort I guess is one way to explain it. It was gentle but it, and I know this is going to sound ridiculous, but it felt like it was sorry for something…

"After that, I looked around and saw all the akuma destroyed. Noticing the twin Noah in a state of shock, I charged at him with my sword. I just let my innocence move my body for me after that. I was too weak to do anything so I let it rule over my motions. The only thing I cared about at that moment was staying alive long enough for you guys to get there to protect the kids…I don't remember anything else until I woke up in the hospital earlier."

Kanda was silent. He couldn't believe that the kid was still alive let alone sitting here talking to him.

"So what do you think that pain was, Kanda?" Allen asked, staring at the older male.

"Your innocence, Moyashi," Kanda stated, "It's just a guess and you'll have to have Komui to confirm it but my guess would be that your Innocence used a lot of your life force there at that moment to amplify it's power enough to destroy multiple level fours all at once."

The two males were silent once again. There wasn't much else to say over the subject and they knew it. They both knew that Allen was going to die soon. No matter what they talked about that truth wouldn't change.

"I really screwed up my life, huh, Kanda," Allen chuckled as he ran a hand through his white hair.

Kanda just nodded.

"No one was going to tell me, right?" Allen asked, staring up at the ceiling, "They didn't want me to know so that I wouldn't get depressed, right?"

Kanda just nodded again.

"I'm glad you told me," Allen smiled, "Now that I know, at least I can enjoy what time I have left. By the way…"

"A little more than a year," Kanda stated, knowing what question the Moyashi was going to ask.

"A year, huh?" Allen thought aloud, "Well, I am an exorcist. I mean, we are all going to die before our time anyways. Nice to know when my date is going to be so I can do my best to fight it."

Kanda's eyes widened, "What?"

"Oh, come on, Kanda," Allen smirked, "You didn't really think that I'd just sit by and wait for it to happen. Hell no."

Allen grabbed his glass and took a large drink from it, "You and I are the same now. Both of us have only a limited amount of time left and we're trying our damnest to fight it. Has your limit ever stopped you from doing something? No. You're fighting yours so I'm gonna fight mine."

Kanda stared at the younger male. When had the immature little brat of a Moyashi grown up to be a Moyashi of a man?

"Now to the second part of your question. What happened at the party," Allen whispered, staring into his glass, "Well…Where to start?"

"What do you mean, Moyashi?" Kanda questioned.

"You know how I'm the pianist for the ark and the host for the fourteenth's memories, right?" Allen asked, still staring into the glass.

"Yeah…"

"Well, I can see him," Allen said, "I can see the fourteenth whenever I look into a mirror. He's always there. Standing behind me. A hideous looking shadow that is forever there."

"So that's why you kept covering the mirror on that mission," Kanda thought aloud, "And you haven't told Komui yet?"

"Nope. I don't want to give central any more reasons to doubt me. If the fourteenth starts to be a problem, I'll turn myself in," Allen sighed, "Not a moment before though."

"…that doesn't explain what happened in the party though," Kanda stated, "You could have just looked away and pretended to be crying. Lavi would have taken it down then."

"True," Allen chuckled before looking straight at Kanda, "but that's not the whole truth."

"Then what is?" Kanda snapped, not meaning to do so, but snapped nonetheless.

"I had a nightmare with the fourteenth and everyone at the order just before I woke up," Allen said, sternly, "The fourteenth was talking to me then I was with Lenalee and the rest of the order to celebrate my birthday. The banner was there too…"

"So?"

"I…I killed everyone. My innocence killed everyone," Allen said, turning his eyes down to the floor, "It was so horrible."

Kanda's eyes widened, "You…you killed everyone with your innocence…"

Allen nodded, "Then…when I saw the banner that Lavi had made, I saw the fourteenth. He started to talk to me. Telling me to do something."

"What did he say, Moyashi?" Kanda asked, already knowing what the answer was going to be.

"Kill them. Kill the bastards who pretend to be your friends. To be your family! Kill them before they kill you! KILL THEM!" Allen repeated the horrid words, no emotion in his voice, "At the same time he was saying those words, he kept replaying my dream to me. That's not all…"

Allen paused and took a deep breath, "My innocence kept trying to activate itself to purify my body of the Noah who was trying to take over my mind. It wanted to save me but I didn't let it activate. It hurt. Activating seemed like it was hurting. So I fought to keep my innocence from fully activating. I allowed it to send blasts of power through my body but that was it.

"Now that I think about it, I'm sure that I was also keeping it deactivated so that my dream really wouldn't come true. I was afraid, Kanda. I was so fuckin' scared of myself at that moment."

Allen stood at that moment and chugged the rest of his drink, "I'm going to my room. If anyone comes looking for me tell them I'm there…or at least trying to get there."

"S-Sure," Kanda stuttered, shocked from what Allen had told him.

"Kanda…" Allen smiled, walking up to his door only to stop before opening it, "Thanks. I know that you can be a complete ass, at times, but I'm still glad that I met you. I don't know when we'll ever be able to talk like this again so I'll just say it now."

Kanda stood up and stared at Allen as he slowly opened is door to the hallway. The younger male just turned around enough to show the samurai his face. The silent tears that were falling from his eyes. The fuckin' smile that was always present on his childlike face.

"I'm really glad we could be friends Kanda. It met so much to me. Even though we fight all the time, I've still come to think of you as a close friend," Allen stated, starting to step out into the hallway, "as a big brother even. Bye Kanda."

The normally stoic samurai watched as the door close. The second that it did, Kanda sat down on his bed with an undignified plop. He slowly raised a hand to his face and tried to hide it from the view of those who were not even in the room.

"…Baka Moyashi," Kanda cursed as a few tears fell from his eyes, "Didn't even let me say that I thought of him as a fucking annoying, bitching little brother…"

Mizu: That could have come out a lot better. Now I have a kind Kanda and a weirdly depressed Allen to work with…They'll turn back to normal in the next chapter…I hope. I wil try to make the chapters a little longer in the next couple of chapters.

Komui: *dancing around like an idiot* I'm finally free…Now *evil glare as he charges for Allen*

Allen: Crap!

Mizu: Oh no you don't Komui *saps him with a shock collar that was secretly placed around his neck* I need Allen for the rest of the story. You have to wait till then.

Komui: Damn. You.

Mizu: Love you too Komui! Anyways, all reviews are very welcomed. Ciao for now!