Mizu: Haha! Another chapter done! Yay! This story is well on course! Plus, school is starting to level out so after this week I should be getting some more time to write. Another yay! Disclaimer time: I don't own -Man. If I did, do you really think that the Earl would be so weirdly attached to the fourteenth?Hidden Demons: Chapter four- A Past Death
It all happened so fast. Tyki suddenly had his hands wrapped around Allen's throat. His skin was turning a charcoal like color while his eyes started to change to a amber-ish yellow. He snarled at the white-haired demon as he tried to choke the poor thing.
"Finally," Tyki snarled, "You've finally appeared, you filthy mongrel!"
Allen grimaced as he pushed Tyki away from him. His white hair was fully spiked up and his body pulsed with pure power. Shoving Tyki off of him, Allen ripped the bandages off of his eye. Instantaneously a monocle/gear thing appeared over it while it quickly flash to jet black instead of white. Where his iris and pupil should have been, there were three circles of red instead.
"You dare to show yourself here?" Tyki snapped, "I'll drag you back to the Earl and be forever praised!"
"Like hell you will!" Allen retorted, "I'll never be a demon who will allow you to harm others!"
"What a waste of time you were for him!" Tyki shouted, "Why he saved your ass that day I have no fuckin' idea! But…"
Tyki's smirk grew even more feral as his eyes locked with Allen's, "I've never had as much fun as I have when I fight with you, boy."
"Speak less, bastard," Allen cursed, grasping his left wrist, "I have said this on many occasions and will continue to say it until every last one of you detestable creatures understands."
All of the sudden, an enormous white cloak appeared around Allen's form. The hood of the cloak was furry although somewhat spiked. There was a mask that rested on the cloak. That cloak seemed to cover his right arm all the way down to the tips of his fingers. His left arm was another matter though. It was pure black and where there should have been fingers, there were sword like claws. The three teens swallowed. No matter how they looked at it, Allen was truly a demon. A graceful yet deadly looking demon.
"Do you honestly believe that you can defeat me, boy?" Tyki chuckled darkly.
"There is not a fragment of doubt inside of me," Allen confirmed, "You will fall before me, scum."
"Sc-Scum?" Tyki gasped, growling angrily, "I'll make you eat those words, filthy half-breed!"
There were several loud gun shots. Then, before they even realized it, Tyki lied on the ground unconscious.
"Idiot apprentice! What do you think that you're doing?" Cross snapped, "Get the hell out of here!"
"B-But master!" Allen protested, "Let me destroy this monster!" "No! If you kill him, then what do you think will happen! The rest of this family will be here within a second!" Cross shouted.
"I know that!" Allen retorted, "But I can't let this continue!"
"Shut up! I don't want to hear that coming from the one that won't eat human meat!" Cross snapped, aiming his gun at Allen.
"Wh-Where am I to go, Master?" Allen questioned, suddenly understanding.
"Like I care! Just get the hell out of here before he comes to!" Cross ordered then pointing to the three friends, "And before their guardians find out about you!"
"Why would our guardians even care about a demon?" Kanda snapped, "They won't believe us even if we told them!"
"So you really don't know the truth then," Cross mumbled, "If that's the case, then you three will go with him."
"What?" the three friends gasped.
"Hell no!" Lavi snapped, "I don't know what's going on but I know that it is bigger than the three of us and I'm sure as hell not going to get involved in it."
"That's right!" Lenalee agreed.
"Oh really?" Cross chuckled, aiming his gun at the three, "Are you sure about that? Who are you to say that you aren't involved with this?"
"What are you talking about, master?" Allen demanded.
"Think about it, idiot!" Cross snapped, "Why did you save them? Why did you let them get close to you? Why did you tell them your secret? What bloody reason is there for you to be so close to them considering what they are?"
"I-I don't know…" Allen whispered.
"These three must somehow be connected to you from before you were changed," Cross stated, "Now's your only chance to get back what that bastard stole from you. So fuckin' take it!"
Allen looked up at the three friends with sorrowful eyes, "Please come with me."
"Why, Allen? Why do you two want us to go with you?" Lenalee questioned, "What did you lose that you need us for?"
"If I tell you what I lost, will you come with me?" Allen asked.
"What?" Lavi questioned.
"If I tell you what that…that thing stole from me, would you come with me?" Allen questioned, trying to keep from crying, "I promise to explain everything else after we get out of here. I just can't right now."
"…fine. You tell us what you need to get back then we'll come with you," Kanda sighed.
Allen smiled and looked away from the group of friends, "He stole my humanity."
Silence…
"You…were a," Lenalee and Lavi tried to repeat.
"a…human?" Kanda finished.
"We have to hurry!" Allen ordered as they landed in front of his house.
"You better be freakin' happy that all three of us thought to bring shit with us last night!" Kanda snapped, racing to grab his make-shift bag.
"Oh I am!" Allen beamed, "I'm very happy!"
"That was rhetorical, Allen," Lavi sighed.
"But that doesn't change the fact that I'm really happy that you guys are coming with me!" Allen smiled.
"Oh? Allen, you've already changed how you talk," Lenalee pointed out.
"Ah, well, you did ask me to stop talking like I did." Allen blushed.
"Why do you care so much on what we think anyways?" Lavi questioned, flinging his bag onto his back.
"Because you three are my new masters," Allen smiled.
"What?" the three gasped.
"Master is only letting me leave this area because he gave up custody of me to you three," Allen stated, stretching a little, "Isn't that great?"
"No that isn't great!" Kanda snapped.
"Why do you think that it is?" Lenalee cried.
"Because I must have some sort of a master to stay by my side else demon hunters would come and destroy me before I can change back," Allen said, packing several bags of food.
"Demon hunters?" Lavi questioned.
"Yes," Allen sighed, "Actually, that's why I'm not supposed to be with you three."
"Huh?"
"You're guardians are all demon hunters," Allen stated, staring out into space.
"C-Come again?" Lavi gasped, "That old panda?"
"Well, he actually just records the stuff now and Lenalee's brother dissects and studies us. It's really just Kan-da's family that do a lot of hunting," Allen explained.
"No way," Kanda muttered, "The old man does nothing but paint."
"That's his weapon. His paint is special. It is his tool for hunting and killing demons," Allen said, "Same goes for your two brothers. The eldest uses strings of piano wire to play deadly songs while the other has a bell that he kicks like a soccer ball."
"Th-That's not true," Kanda stuttered.
"Come now," Allen smiled sadly, "Did you not find it a bit strange that they never searched for work? That you've always had so much money for leisure?"
"W-Well yeah but still-"
"And you three will one day become demon hunters as well," Allen sighed.
"What are you talking about Allen?" Lenalee asked, "There's no way that we'd-"
"Demon hunters are incapable of raising any human that does not have the blood of demon hunters," Allen interjected, "They can and will only raise those of their clan and blood."
"Wh-Why are you telling us this now Allen!" Lavi snapped, "Didn't you want us to come with you? If you know that we'll turn into your enemy, then why do you want us near you?"
"Because I'm running out of time to change back," Allen stated, "My window of opportunity is closing."
"What are you talking about now?" Kanda snapped.
"There is a way that I can change back to my old human self," Allen said, staring at the group, "To go back to my old life."
"H-How-"
"I must retrieve all of the memories that were stolen from me the night I was changed," Allen interrupted, "And to do that I must find the people that were precious to me when I was human."
"…and if you can't do that?" Lenalee questioned, almost afraid to hear the answer.
Allen sighed, "Then all my pent up hunger, anger, and bloodlust will be set free and I will become a disgusting man-eating demon."
The three dropped everything they carried. What the hell? Why was he telling them this?
"And should that day come, I want you three to be the ones to kill me," Allen said as he bowed in front of the three, "Use me to awaken your true selves. Use me to awaken your instincts as demon hunters that will allow to rid this world of the filthy pieces of rubbish."
"Th-That won't happen!" Lenalee shouted, rushing towards Allen.
"L-Lenalee?" Allen stuttered.
The young woman flung her arms around the stunned demon. She pulled him close as if to protect him from some sort of danger. Allen tried to look up to the girl's face. He felt a few droplets of tears fall upon his cheeks.
"Stop talking like you're going to die!" she cried, "Just stop it!"
"Wha-"
"I don't know why but I feel like I should I need to protect you," Lenalee whispered, "Like I need to stay by your side no matter what."
"L-Lenalee" Allen muttered.
"Same for us, too, Allen," Lavi smiled, "To tell you the truth, you remind me a lot of this kid we used to know."
"A kid you used to know?" Allen repeated.
"Yeah. He was always happy and cared more about the happiness of everyone else than his own life," Lavi said, still smiling but only to the floor, "He never did anything for himself. It was always for everyone else."
"That kid was so annoying," Kanda added, "He got on my nerves so badly. All he did was mope about how he wish that he could help everyone out even more. There were days that we'd find him passed out from fatigue cause he was trying to help everyone."
"What happened to him?" Allen asked, looking back up to Lenalee.
She just smiled sadly and slowly started to pet the young demon's head, "He died."
Allen's eyes widened, "H-How?"
"We don't know," Lavi sighed, "All we know is that he left on vacation then…"
"Then the idiot decided to save his deadbeat of an uncle by pushing him out from in front of a speeding car," Kanda spat, "They said that his uncle would have lived. The fuckin' kid died for nothing."
"His family never came home," Lenalee stated, "So he never got a proper funeral here on his home land."
Allen was silent for a long time before finally speaking up, "What was the kid's name?"
"That's the worse thing about it," Lenalee said, starting to cry all over again.
"We can't remember," Lavi added, trying to wipe away his fallen tears, "He was our closest friend and none of us can remember his freakin' name."
"The brat was a Moyashi too," Kanda muttered before letting himself to break down.
For the first time since they had heard the news, the three friends cried. That day was the worst day in history. The three of them had raced through the doors of school the first day after winter break. They had expected to see their best friend standing at his locker smiling but what they saw instead made their blood boil. There was someone else using his locker. After chewing the poor kid out, the three stormed up to the front office. They were going to make the school wish that they had never messed with them.
What they didn't expect was to be pulled straight into the principal's office and sat down in front of his desk. On said desk was a large cardboard box with all of their friend's locker stuff in it. They demanded to know what was going on when the principal handed them a large note. The three felt sick upon reading it.
***** passed away at 15:24 on December 25 in Tokyo, Japan. He died in a car accident. ***** pushed his uncles Neah and Mana out of the way of a speeding car. While the impact would not have killed his uncles, the young man died on impact.
The family has decided not to return from their trip rather choosing to move to the country where their son, brother, and nephew passed away. They will be staying with their relatives in Edo. They have also requested that *****'s things be kept by his three closest friends in the states. We do hope that you understand their wishes. May peace find your minds and hearts as you grief.
After reading and rereading the note time and time again, Kanda quickly grabbed the box and the three friends sprinted out of the building. They ran down the groups hide out behind the cafeteria's back window. Once there they huddled together and tried to cease each other's tears. Even Kanda couldn't stop his tears. The three stayed there for the rest of the day and grieved. It didn't seem possible that their friend could be gone. It wasn't fair.
'That idiot!' Kanda shouted, tears streaking down his face, 'Why'd he have to go and get killed?'
'Kanda!' Lenalee snapped, 'Sh-Shut up!'
'No!' Kanda snapped back, 'I will not shut up! That idiot broke his word!'
'He couldn't help that Yuu!' Lavi shouted, 'You know that that word meant the world to him!'
'Then why!' Kanda screamed on the top of his lungs, 'Why'd he have to go and leave us? He promised that he'd never leave us! That'd the four of us would always be together! He fuckin' promised!'
Lenalee couldn't take it anymore. She quickly moved over to her normally calm, quiet, somewhat pissy, and reserved friend and slapped him as hard as she could.
'You had better shut the hell up, Kanda!' Lenalee shouted, '***** didn't break his promise!'
'Lenalee…' Lavi said, amazed at the young woman's words.
'What the hell are you talking about?' Kanda demanded.
'So long as we don't ever forget him and keep his memory close to us, he'll never break that promise!' Lenalee snapped, 'And do you really think that he'd want us to keep crying over him? You know that he wouldn't! He'd never want us to be sad so you better fuckin' cheer up!'
After that the three did cheer up. The next day, the group made a makeshift grave for their friend under his favorite tree in the city park. One that day, each of them made a promise to their friend. Kanda swore to him that he'd become strong so that he could protect the other two and to never cry like that again. Lavi promised to his friend that he'd get through school without causing to many problems and always help the other three whenever they needed it. Finally, Lenalee swore to the deceased boy that she'd never let anything get her that depressed again and that she'd make sure that the other two boys never pushed themselves to hard.
The three stayed true to their promises all through school. They stayed by each others side. Not one was ever left alone. No relationships ever came in-between them. They pushed through classes as best they could, never leaving one to fail. Heck, they even made sure to eat his favorite food on his birthday together. But still, with everything they did after that day, there was still one thing that they couldn't do. They couldn't keep their promise with him to never leave each other. After all, only after a year, they had forgotten his name.
Mizu: Time for my happy dance! Oh! By the way, Hidden Demons will now be uploaded on Saturdays or Sundays.
Lenalee: Wait…Neah and Mana?
Lavi: I know who Mana is but Neah?
Mizu: *smirks* Allen knows who it is.
Lavi and Lenalee: Really? *looks around for the white-haired teen* Where is he?
Mizu: I sent him to the cafeteria to go get me some tea. He won't be back for a couple hours.
Lavi and Lenalee: awww…
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