PandaFlower: Wheee~! I'm baaack to terrorize FFnet with my ghastly creations! On to the chibi-fication!

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Spiders in the Corner

Through the dim, sleep fog of one knocked unconscious Yu could make out faint voices talking over his head.

"D'you think he'll kill Komui for sure this time?" huh, that voice sounded worried, should he be as well?

"I'm more worried about him going on a rampage to be honest. If Kanda gets angry enough he really doesn't care whose blood gets splash everywhere." That sounded like a girl. That's odd, there weren't very many girls in the Asia Branch Research Facility, did someone wake up? In that case he could finally foist Alma on someone else for a change.

"Stand back! He's waking up!" Yu groaned and turned over on his side, he propped an elbow underneath him and sat up. Yu flinched when the light struck his eyes; it was a bit brighter than he was used to. He seemed to be laying on a plushy blue…thing surrounded by wierdos. A nice looking girl with black hair and purple eyes, a pirate with red hair and a young man with old man hair and a weird twisty scar on his face.

They all wore a curious black uniform with rose cross insignia.

Yu gasped softly, eyes widening as he reached out to touch the nearest one, which belonged to the pirate, "You're an exorcist."

The pirate looked confused, "Um, yeah. Are you okay there Kanda? Did you hit your head?"

Yu's face twisted in annoyance, "What the hell are you talking about? My name's not Kanda it's Yu," he drew back from the pirate. Clearly he was stupid, didn't Alma once say that stupidity was contagious?

The Exorcists stared at Yu long enough to be awkward.

"Lenalee, go kill your brother," the old-man-haired boy finally said, "and then make him fix this."

The girl-Lenalee apparently, sighed, "On it." Then she was gone in a flash of wind.

"So are you two weirdos?" Yu demanded, swining his legs around to sit properly on the blue plushy thing. The two boys twitched at the weirdo comment but the pirate cracked a grin, Yu was immediately wary. It looked too much like the grins Alma would crack when he was getting ready to tease him. Yu did not do teasing.

"I am Lavi Bookman Jr. the most awesome person you will ever have the honor of meeting in this lifetime—OW!" Yu kicked him in the knee from his position on the plushy thing; he could already tell he wouldn't like this person.

The old-man-haired boy stifled a chuckle behind his hand, "Haha, and I'm Allen Walker. Pleased to meet you, Yu," for a moment Yu almost smiled back, this person was as nice as Edgar. Yu had always liked Edgar in his own way, even if he didn't much care for Epstein and the others.

Wait…where were Edgar and the others? He hadn't synchronized with his Innocence yet; he wasn't supposed to leave the lab!

Yu pushed past the pirate and Allen and glanced frantically around the office, he made a beeline for the door but Allen caught him, "Hey, where are you going, Yu?"

"Let me go you xxxxx! I gotta go back to Alma and the others! I'm not allowed to leave to leave the lab! Ugh, I'm gonna kill you!" Yu was almost shocked when Allen let him go. Usually when he got the kicking and screaming phase people brought out restraints.

"Yep, that's Yu-chan alright," Lavi whistled, "Damn, he looks so adorable and he still has a foul mouth."

Whatever that meant Yu wasn't stopping to find out.

As he pelted down the unfamiliar hallways it occurred to him that he probably should have asked where he was. Suddenly he became aware of eyes boring into his back; he turned to confront it and was met with the most vicious sight in the world. Even worse than Twi's blackest rage.

Spindly limbs covered in coarse black hair splayed in all directions like some kind of grotesque claw from the broken dreams of traumatized children. Multiple dead, soulless doll eyes drilling into his unblinkingly. Overlarge, dripping fangs working in delicious anticipation for their next meal. It made no sound as the thing inched closer in preparation of the fatal, poisonous pounce.

Yu screamed at the top of his lungs like a little girl.

Instantly Allen and Lavi appeared around the corner, huffing and puffing from trying to keep up with him. Stupid old men.

The creature inched closer and closer, trailing delicate threads of stickiness. The perfect trap for the perfect prey; set by the perfect hunter.

The thing died with a splat under Lavi's boot while Allen pulled him into his arms.

Yu buried his face in Allen's bony shoulder, quivering and close to tears. Allen rubbed his back awkwardly, "Er, Yu…? It's just a spider, there's nothing to be afraid of," Yu shook his head vehemently, "Nuh uh, it's a monster and it was gonna eat me. I could see it in its beady little eyes!"

Allen shot Lavi a helpless look, Lavi shrugged.

"So, Yu-chan, we're going to go meet our superior, Supervisor Komui." Lavi said, patting Yu's back, "you'll like him, he's a bit eccentric though."

Yu tightened his grip around Allen's neck, "Where am I?" he mumbled.

"You're at Black Order Headquarters," Allen told him, "The Black Order is—"

"I know what the Black order is."

"What happened to Supervisor Raphael?"

"Huh?" Allen turned into another corridor, following Lavi through the gray, depressing passages.

"Sarinz told me the Supervisor's name was Raphael. Did something happen to him?"

"Yu, there is a lot we need to tell you."

Yu pulled back to look Allen in the eye, "What are you talking about geezer-head?"

"Geezer-head—!"

"We're here~!" Lavi exclaimed, throwing open the Infirmary door where Komui and most of the Science Department lay wrapped in bandages, "Komui! We got a problem! what potion did you use on Kanda?"

Yu swiftly jumped from Allen's arms, embarrassed to be seen carried about like a weakling. He opted to salvage his pride by kicking Lavi as hard as he could, "MY NAMES NOT KANDA IT'S YU, YOU IDIOT!"

"Ow! Don't go hating on me lil' Yu!"

"Shut the hell up you xxxxx!"

"Yu stop kicking Lavi!" Nice or not, Allen was so getting kicked for that.

"So." Komui said from his sick bed, "What do you remember?"

After Allen and Lavi were sentenced to a day of bed rest, (For a nine year old, Yu kicks really hard.) Yu finally calmed down and sat stiffly at the end of Komui's bed.

Yu sighed for the millionth time that day, "The last thing I remember is Alma dragging me to the room with the sleeping Apostles but I didn't want to go 'cause it was cold but Alma kept dragging me, so I threw him into the wall and he didn't like that, so he punched me and we started to fight and the scientists broke us up, and then we had to do synchro tests and they were painful and my leg fell off, so I took a nap while my body stabilized. Then I woke up on that blue plushy thing."

"It's a sofa, it's like a chair."

"Whatever old man."

"Well, I know what the problem is now," Komui adjusted his glasses, "Kid, I don't know how much of this you're going to believe but you're actually eighteen. You got hit by a de-aging potion that affected your memories. You're an Exorcist named Kanda Yu, your Innocence is a Katana you call Mugen and you have every Finder in existence terrified of you."

Yu blinked, "You mean…I synchro'd?"

"Yes."

Yu grabbed the front of Komui's shirt, "R-really? I synchro'd? I actually got out of that dark place?"

"Yes."

Yu's dark eyes lit with happiness, oh he felt like he could fly!

"You're going to need a care-taker until that potion wears off though."

Crushed like a butterfly. Utterly and with contempt.

"Wha?" Yu leapt of the bed in shock, "I don't need some babysitter, I can't take care of myself!

"I'm sure you can, Yu, but Komui here has a tendency to unleash giant robots. You need to stick to a veteran when that happens," Allen chirped from the bed next to him. Yu crawled onto Allen's lap and pout/glared at him, cutely I might add.

Try as he might, Yu's gaze kept getting drawn to Allen's geezer hair. It wasn't gray though, it was silver, like his eyes. How did someone so young get old hair? Was it really as soft as it looked? Being a child Yu immediately gave in to the compulsion to wind his fingers in Allen's hair, and it was soft. Yu liked soft things, Alma once told him that meant he was a sensualist but he didn't know what that meant so he didn't care. He just liked soft things.

"Um, Yu what are you doing?" Yu was getting a little too close to face for comfort in Allen's opinion, it didn't seem like Yu was listening to him, he was too busy carding his fingers through Allen's silver locks.

"You're hair's really soft. I like soft things." Yu said bluntly.

Allen couldn't stop the blush that stained his cheeks.

"You know Geezer-hair you're really girly looking, are you sure you're a guy?" Yu asked equally bluntly. Allen went completely red and accidently knocked Yu to the ground with his mortified flailing. In retaliation Yu pushed his bed over.

Allen sat up rubbing his head and glaring at the smug little brat, "Geez, you didn't need to do that, it was just an accident. You're weirdly strong for a little kid, that was an iron bed," that last was muttered to himself but Yu had sharp ears.

"That's because I'm not human stupid," Yu said as if it was obvious, "They told me I was an artificial being, someone that wasn't real. I came from a watery hole in the ground, not a mothers stomach like other humans, that's why. Edgar was going to tell me once where human babies came from but Alma had to be a creepy stalker and interrupted him. Where do human babies come from, Allen?"

Was it just Allen or was the whole room suppressing snickers? Even Komui had slapped a hand over his to stifle the horrible giggles.

"U-um," Allen choked, "Are you sure you want to know?" then an epiphany struck Allen and he grinned evilly, large horns popping out of his head. In the back of the room Lavi cowered under his sheets in fear of the terror that is Dark Allen.

"I tell you, but just not here," Allen said sweetly, (?) "let's go outside, I know a nice clearing and—"

"Outside?" Yu asked, his eyes shining with disbelief and giddy hope, "We're allowed to go outside?"

"Well of course, why?" Allen asked, leading him to the door.

Yu looked up at him innocently, "It's just I've never seen the sky before," for a second Allen almost felt guilty over what he was about to put Yu through. Almost.

Yu couldn't stop staring in awe as Allen lead him through the woods surrounding the Black Order. Everything was so new, the light, the trees, the smell that tickled his nose and the sky-oh, the sky! Yu had never seen such a beautiful blue in all his life.

True to his word Allen lead him by the hand into a grassy clearing and plopped down in the middle, then Allen grabbed him and held him securely in his lap, "Alright, this is going to be pretty mind you, and you're not going to like what you hear so don't struggle so much."

Gradually, with much detail, Allen filled him in on the science and pleasure of making children. Many times Yu cried and screamed and begged him to stop, he struggled to break from Allen's grasp but Allen held him firmly, arms glued to his side so he couldn't cover his ears. On and on those awful words tumbled from Allen's lips, oh god, humans were just downright disgusting! How could they do stuff like this?

Finally when Yu felt like he would vomit his guts out did Allen let him go.

"Yu, you okay?" Allen asked softly.

Yu shivered, "Um, yeah, I just need to vomit a few times,"

"Oh, come on! It wasn't that bad! When you get to be my age and your hormones kick in you'll think differently!" Allen pulled him back into his lap despite Yu's struggles.

"But it sounds disgusting!" Yu cried.

"But that's what human's do," Allen said.

"Then humans are disgusting!"

"I'm human. Do you think I'm disgusting?" Allen asked softly.

Yu looked at him oddly, "N-no, you're kinda pretty."

"Yu!" Allen shrieked.

"What! It's true! You're pretty!"

"You have no idea what you're saying!"

"Yes, I do!" Yu pout/glared, "And I'll prove it!"

"Uh, Yu?" Allen asked fearfully.

"Alma said that when you think someone's pretty and you like them then you have to do this," Yu leaned up and sealed his lips against Allen's. Allen was shocked still as Yu kissed him. It was actually kind of…sweet how naïve Yu was.

Yu pulled back as soon as his mouth touched Allen's but it seemed much longer than that. Yu met his gaze confusedly, as if unsure what to do now. Allen smiled at him awkwardly and tousled his hair, "I'm afraid you're a little young for activities like that, but I'm glad you like me."

Yu blushed, "S-shut up."

PandaFlower: Tadaa~!

HirokoHana: What the heck is this crap? The readers haven't heard anything from us in almost a month and this is the best you can do? You worthless little-!

PandaFlower: Anyway~ I have an idea that i want a few opinions on. See I, like many readers, am plagued by ruthless plotbunnies wielding clubs. Half of my ideas never hit paper and the other half never get completely thought through and this makes me sad. So I want to start an Adoption Center for plotbunnies so that at least some people will be interested in them. So...Yea or Nay?

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