Disclaimer: If I owned D Gray Man, Allen would be in love with Tyki, Lavi and Kanda and he would be having sex with them every day. So it's best that I don't own it, don't you think?
Summary: He is like Painter's Grey, it looks black but when it is on paper, it is a light shade of blue grey… As Tyki crushes Allen's Innocence, he sees the exorcist's eyes turn yellow for a moment and it changes everything. Mostly consistent with the Manga up to chapter 196 page 21. Told from Tyki's point of view.
Pairings: Tyki/Allen aka Poker Pair
Warnings: Yaoi and lemon! If you don't like yaoi then why are you reading this? Also, there will be battle violence and swearing. Constructive criticism is allowed, flamers will be locked up with their flames and roasted alive.
A/N: Ahhhh! I'm soooooo sorry! Gomenasai! Gomenasai! Gomenasai! I've been so busy lately with my O'Levels' preparations and revisions and I'm gonna kneel over from exhaustion and stress. *sigh* The real world sucks but I'm sure you all understand priorities, I need to study hard so that I can take care of my wonderful mom in the future! So, updates for all my stories will be a lot slower for the next few months. However, Painter's Grey should be done by the end of next month. There's only another two or three chapters left and I swear I'll try to update faster.
Now, to Jazebeth, yes, I think you're quite tainted now~! *evil smirk* To CrimsonChains, thank you very much for your glowing praise and to everyone else who reviewed, I'm really touched that you all enjoyed my last chapter so much, this one is quite short but I hope you enjoy it too~!
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact.
Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
~Marcus Aurelius
It's been three months since Allen joined us. Every day he tells me of his dreams, dreams of his past as Nea and he gradually becomes more comfortable around the other Noah. During the first few weeks, he would cling to me, seeking comfort and protection from the other Noah and only allowed myself and Road to approach him. Now, he plays pranks on us with the twins and picks fights with Fiidora while occasionally bullying Sheril.
He wasn't very happy when he found out that we kidnapped his red haired friend and the old Bookman but he got over it after we stopped torturing the redhead. He spent many hours talking with the eye-patch boy – Lavi if I'm not wrong – and Bookman finally decided to cooperate with us.
Contrary to my expectations, Allen seems to have decided not to take Road to his bed and after a secret talk between the two of them, she's been looking slightly sad. I'd feel worried for her…if not for the way she keeps looking at me and then smirking like she'd forgotten what was troubling her.
Really, it's quite unnerving.
I am rather happy for my little one. He seems quite pleased that his friend isn't upset with him for giving in to his Noah and for joining us. Though, I can't imagine why he thought anyone could remain upset at him for long. I certainly couldn't, even when he turned all my shirts pink and put yellow hair dye in my shampoo.
It was actually quite fun, having yellow hair for a week. It was a rather interesting experience and the sound of Allen's laughter and the sight of his happy face made the humiliation completely worth it.
I sigh contentedly as I gently comb my fingers through soft white hair. The soft sheets are tightly tangled around Allen's naked hips as he unconsciously nuzzles his face against my chest.
I must say that this is now my favorite time of the day. The gentle light of dawn streaming through the window, my sleeping lover curled up against my side as I bask in the wonderful morning–after feeling. Even if my arm is quite numb from him sleeping on it the whole night.
He stirs slightly and I have to wince when his finger nails dig into my skin as he stretches in his half-awake state. He blinks owlishly as he slowly awakens. His smile is breathtaking and once again I have to wonder what I did to deserve this.
The question slips out without my consent and he simply blinks at me as though not really understanding the question. I decide that I've already got one foot in the mud, so I might as well put the other in and proceed to elaborate. After all, I was technically an enemy, yet he took my hand that day and placed himself in my arms.
A contemplative expression crosses his face and his answer gives me a start. He traces the large scar across his chest and says that he had stabbed himself with his blade once. That he suspected that it had actually 'destroyed' him as well, causing him to become more accepting of Nea and to face an undeniable truth.
He really liked Tyki.
Or at least the man he met on the train almost two years ago.
I listened with wide eyes as Allen explained that he had fallen in love with me when we first met on the train just I had with him. That day when he stripped me to my underwear and completely trounced my friends and I in poker. We had actually spent a while talking after my friends and I finally conceded defeat and were simply waiting for the end of our ride.
I still remember how oddly...not awkward our brief conversation had been. The three hours of travel, left after our big game, had been spent in quiet conversation as the other two exorcists chatted with Frank and Momo in a lively manner.
We had somehow found ourselves sitting together away from the others near the front of the cabin. I remember tiredly flopping into the seat beside Allen and offering him a bottle of complementary water. He had accepted with a beautiful smile that didn't really reach his eyes.
The two of us had talked about inconsequential things for about an hour and a half before I gave him a knowing look while pointing out that he looked tired and that always being on guard was not very good for one's health. He had seemed surprised that I saw through his smiling façade and had noticed his exhaustion.
After a while of prodding he finally decided to take a short rest and leaned against the window. It only took a few minutes before he fell asleep and I had easily pulled his discarded coat over him.
During a particularly sharp turn, the train leaned slightly to one side and Allen had unknowingly fallen against my naked shoulder. His sleeping face was filled with such loneliness and sorrow that my white side experienced a feeling that I had only associated with Eeez and my buddies.
Allen blushes lightly as he describes how comfortable he had felt while unconscious and how startled he had been when he woke to my white side's caring eyes. It had been the first time that anyone looked at him like that, and a stranger no less.
I feel slightly comforted with the knowledge that we seem to have actually began liking each other during those three hours spent on the train. Somehow, it makes me feel less like a sappy and overly romantic fool. Though I can't say my black side fell in love with him that early. That happened during our second meeting.
I grin at him as he burries his flaming face into the soft and expensive pillows. A few teasing comments and I am treated with the pleasing sight of eyes glinting yellow, right before I am pinned to the bed by my eager little lover. Well, not so little now.
~Poker Pair~
I grimace. This needs to happen, but I wish for my lover that it didn't. I glance worriedly at his hard set features as we emerge at the edge of a forest. The other members of our family and the Bookman and his apprentice appear beside us and the Ark gate closes behind Adam as he steps through.
Despite my best efforts, my lips curl into a vicious smirk when the numerous black surveillance golems begin to wail in alarm, alerting the Black Order to our presence. The Noah Family have appeared near the European Branch Headquarters.
~Poker Pair~
The redhead converses with Allen in a hushed tone as I survey the large building. It looks…really dark. Is this really the headquarters of the 'holy people of God'?
I mention this to Allen and his friend begins to roll on the floor in laughter. Allen smiles mildly and explains that he had felt the same why when he arrived at the first headquarters, and that one was even scarier.
I scrunch up my face and mutter something about weird churches with weird tastes. The redhead laughs at me as he has taken to doing ever since he and his mentor agreed to join us. The boy was certainly an odd one. Somehow, he seemed to have taken a liking to pranking me and using me as a source of entertainment.
I'd probably have killed him by now if Allen wasn't so fond of the red monkey.
It's been almost a year since Allen took my hand and left the Black Order. My beloved had finally completed his integration two weeks ago and revealed the truth about the Heart.
I'm still unsure what to believe. Many decades ago, the Millennium Earl and his followers, the Noah, led a rebellion against the favouritism given to the small and pathetic humans that were destroying our world. Finally, the humans triggered their own destruction and God decided to spite us by making us continuously respawn in their filthy bodies. Or so we thought.
Allen -he seems to prefer being called Allen- told us that the Lord had actually planned for us to be his protectors, his guardians. The ones to ensure that he would survive to complete the true purpose of the Innocence.
The Innocence had been bestowed upon chosen humans so that the Heart would grow with the experiences of the various hosts and to keep us Noah in check until the appropriate time. Apparently, that was because as Noah, we have the instinctual urge to destroy all corruption and thus, until the Heart was ready, we had to be balanced out by an opposing force, namely the Exorcists.
Like I said. I'm still rather unsure about this whole business of us Noah basically being kept alive for so many centuries just so that we can spend hundreds of years fighting until the Heart finished 'growing'. It kinda pisses me off.
Still, I guess this means that I have twice the responsibility to protect Allen.
It had been a shock to us when he revealed that he was the keeper of the Heart and that its merging with Nea via the original Allen had been a part of 'God's plan'. I still feel irritated when I think of that, since it means that my beloved had had to suffer so much, all as a part of some stupid plan that no one informed us of.
I sigh as I glance at the redhead who had finally sobered up and was eyeing the approaching Exorcists with an uncharacteristically serious expression. He mutters something to Allen with a doubtful expression. I somehow managed to miss what he said -along with my lover's reply- but then he takes on a determined expression and I can pretty much guess what was said.
After all, we're all loyal to Allen.
The group of Exorcists halt a short distance away and most of them are eyeing us warily, except for one fat idiot that is glaring at my lover, I think his name was Chaoda or something. I scan the team and recognise quite a few of them.
There's that girl, Lenalee I think, the Japanese teen with the katana, the vampire, the woman with the clock on her shoulder, the guy with the mufflers and the fatso with the stupid glare. I also recognise the blond guy that summoned the weird girl from the last time, the head of this branch, a cardinal and the generals, Tiedoll, Nine and Socalo.
The head of this branch demands to know what we are here for and honestly, I'm wondering that myself. The only thing Allen explained was that we needed to get him to the keeper of Innocence called Hevlaska. According to him, he would use her to channel his power of Destruction into her using the Heart and she would become something of an amplifier that would cover the entire world in his power, destroying all the negativity within the hearts of humanity.
I don't really care about any of that, I'd much rather just kill all of them but I suppose it won't be so hard to tolerate their stench if they stank a little less. I sigh as my beloved addresses the man as Komui and tries to explain what we were trying to achieve.
Naturally, none of them seem inclined to believe that the Noah would ever do anything to 'save humans'. After a few moments, the cardinal interrupts Allen's explanation and steps forward. I tense when the middle-aged man glares at my beloved as though he wants to attack the teen himself and loudly, in a commanding tone, orders the Exorcists to attack.
We brace ourselves when the fatso charges forward. A protective fury rushes through me and I quickly move to intercept the blow directed at my lover. I easily absorb the blow, gripping his fist tightly in my palm. The fatso glares at me and I glare back at him, how dare he so brazenly attack my beloved?
A low growl rips itself from my throat and I bare my teeth at him in a threatening manner. This battle is for Allen. I couldn't care less about the humans or some God ordained duty. All that matters is my beloved.
And I will not let any harm come to him.
A/N: Summary time~! So, basically, I figured that it was odd that the anime and manga never showed what happened after Tyki got stripped and I guess it's cause they're not gonna show a bunch of almost naked guys for too long. So, since I'm sure the train ride lasted a while longer after the poker game, I gave them a little back story.
I also made Lavi join Allen and the Noah because I always felt that he was never really loyal to the Black Order but more to Bookman and Allen. Since Bookman's fine either way, as long as they get to record history, I figured that it wouldn't be that much of a stretch to imagine Lavi joining the Noah if Allen did.
If you haven't read the latest chapters, it may be hard to understand what Lavi was doing at the Kamelot mansion but if you have, then you'd know that Lavi and Bookman had actually been kidnapped by Fiidora in an attempt to get info about the 14th. Also, I always felt that the 'real' Allen would be the pranking type. Don't ask me why, maybe it's the few shots of Red that we saw in the manga.
The whole 'God's plan' thing is basically that the Noah were supposed to protect the chosen person (Allen) who would use the Heart to cleanse the world of hate and the Exorcists were supposed to 'grow' the Heart till it was ready to be used. The original Allen was granted control of the Heart but he needed his Noah side to use it properly. So he (by 'God's plan') merged with Nea (his 'other half') and now he's able to use the Heart to destroy the hate of humanity.
Also, the Noah's destructive tendencies and the Innocences' need to grow, balance each other out, keeping them in a never ending struggle that will ensure that both parties remain 'in existence' until Allen and the the Heart were ready to fulfill their 'destiny'. Sounds kinda cruel no?
Oh, and if you know Chinese, then you should be able to get the joke that I made with Chaoji's name~ If you don't, then lets just say that 'chao-da' in Chinese means burnt. XD
...and I think that's it for now, I really hope you guys can forgive me for vanishing for so long. Please review to tell me how you feel about this chapter, and maybe I'll be extra motivated to momentarily shuck my studies to write~ XD Ciaossu~!