Mizu: I finally got to write on this story! All of my plot bunnies have been running away from me for the past month! *cries in corner of dispair* And it was coming along so well! Anyways, I don't own -Man. If I did, Timcampy would eat Leverrier.

Hidden Demons: Feasting Count.

"I'm sorry to have brought up painful memories of a past friend," Allen whimpered for the nth time while the three teens clung to him for dear life as the white demon raced through the countryside.

"J-Just shut up about it already!" Lavi pleaded, "And slow down a little!"

"Hm? I'm not even going half my speed," Allen stated as he tried to look away from the yelling redhead, slowly down fractionally.

"Y-You're not?" Lenalee gasped, "U-Unbelievable."

"Ah, but that is not true, mi lady," Allen smiled, jumping easily over boulders, "There is nothing that is impossible."

"Oi! Watch it!" Kanda snapped, ducking his head down further to avoid hitting a branch.

"Sorry, sir," Allen apologized, nervously laughing, "I must apologize once more. I have never had to carry so many people before. I'm afraid that I must soon stop and eat."

"Eat? Like dinner or something?" Lenalee asked as the demon slowly came to a halt.

"I'm afraid not, mi lady," Allen sighed, "for while those meals sustain me and are essential, I fear that is not the hunger that I speak of."

"Lavi, translate," Kanda sighed.

"He means that he has to eat some sort of flesh soon," Lavi stated, "Really, you were doing so well Allen."

"My apologies sir," Allen said, slowly placing the three friends on the ground, "but it is due to my malnutrition. I've used too much of my energy today. I must find something to replenish it."

"Well, what does your master normally bring you?" Lavi asked, rubbing the back of his head, "I mean, as a human flesh substitute."

"Hm…I believe you call it bull?" Allen thought, tilting his head slightly to the right.

"Bull? Do you maybe mean beef?" Lavi questioned, laughing a little uncomfortably.

"Ah yes! Beef. Raw beef," Allen nodded, smiling widely.

"Gah!" the three gasped, jumping away from the demon.

"Hm?" Allen sounded, tilting his head the other way and running his tongue over his elongated canines, "Oh! These! They only come out this much when my hunger starts to be noticeable. They are nothing to fear."

"I-I see…" the three stuttered.

"So…we just have to find you some place where we can get you some raw meat?" Lenalee asked, suddenly feeling like she wanted to become a vegetarian.

"A butchers maybe?" Lavi questioned.

"Oh no no!" Allen nearly hissed, hair spiking a little, "The meat will be too old by then. Must be freshly killed to appease this sinister hunger."

"Then that means…" Lavi and Lenalee whispered, eyes slowly widening.

"we have to get you somewhere you can kill an animal to eat," Kanda said bluntly, trying to keep his last meal in his stomach.

"That is correct," Allen nodded, still smiling.

"Wh-Why are you smiling?" Lenalee demanded, "Shouldn't that disturb you that you have to eat such things?"

"Why would it, mi lady?" Allen questioned cutely, "Do not humans do the same? You still eat meat that has been recently killed. It is no different for myself except perhaps possibly a few hours."

"Y-Yes but…" Lenalee gaped.

"But to kill an animal then kill seems very cruel, correct?" Allen finished for her, "It is just something I must do to survive."

"I-I have to agree with L-Lenalee on this one," Lavi stuttered, trying not to vomit, "Th-This seems so wrong."

"I will not force you three to come with me but I must set out now to find a meal. I must ask you to stay here until my return," Allen said before disappearing into the darkening air.

"K-Kanda…are…do," Lenalee tried to say.

"We'll be fine," Kanda stated, "He won't kill us. That Moyashi really does think of us as friends even though one day we may kill him. He doesn't care."

"I wonder who stole his humanity," Lavi thought to himself, "It must be this Earl that Mr. Mikk spoke of."

"Che, none of this is making any sense," Kanda growled, "First he says he's a demon but then he speaks so derogatory to them that you'd think he was the demon hunter."

"I wish Allen had told us more," Lavi sighed, leaning against a tree, "Right now it's like those five-thousand piece puzzles. You know, the ones that you can only solve after seeing the picture as a whole."

"Yeah," the two other agreed.

"I feel like we're missing some of the pieces to Allen's puzzle," Lavi stated, more to himself than the other two, "How did he change into a demon? Why did he change? What does he have to remember? And what does all of this have to do with us?"

There was silence between the three friends for a long time. They didn't need to speak to agree that whatever had changed Allen was probably looking for him right then. That whatever it was was not a force to mess with. This and everything that had happened within the passed forty-eight hours kept running through their heads.

"Wonder what Allen caught for his dinner," Lenalee said after about thirty minutes of silence between the friends.

"Who knows," the boys shrugged.

"Sorry to have kept you waiting!" Allen exclaimed as he flew down from above their heads.

"Speak of the bloody devil," Kanda grumbled, "Or should I say bloody demon."

"Hm? Oh! Do I still have some of my meal on my face?" Allen freaked, scrubbing his face furiously, "I'm so sorry!"

"I-It's fine Allen. You don't have anything on your face," Lenalee comforted, trying to still the demon.

"Really? Good!" Allen beamed.

"Baka…" Kanda scoffed, forgetting that Allen would understand him.

"So what if I am?" Allen pouted.

"Haha," Lavi laughed, "So Allen, do we know where we're going to now?"

"Actually, yes I do!" Allen smiled happily, jumping on top of a large boulder.

"Do tell, Allen!" Lenalee clapped, happy to know where'd she was being dragged to.

"Grass Range." Allen said bluntly, nodding and smirking proudly.

"…Huh?" the three gaped at the strange demon.

"Grass Range, Montana," Allen finished, still smirking proudly.

"Montana…" Lavi said, energy dropping down to zero.

"Yep." Allen said with one nod.

"Past the Rocky Mountains…" Kanda snarled.

"Yep Yep!" Allen exclaimed with two nods.

"Even though we lived in Boynton Beach in Florida…" Lenalee finished.

"Yep, Yep, and Yep!" Allen beamed, three more nods before jumping down from his perch.

"Are you fuckin' mental?" the three screamed at the poor demon.

"H-Huh?" Allen blinked.

"How do you expect us to get all the way to Montana?" Kanda demanded.

"I carry you," Allen stated.

"What about food?" Lenalee added.

"I have enough money to feed us for three months," Allen said.

"And sleep?" Lavi finished.

"You guys can sleep while I run. I do not need to sleep unless I'm restoring my body or I need to conserve energy," Allen said, stretching a bit.

"Alrighty then, mister smarty pants," Kanda growled, "What makes you think that we'd let you carry us the entire trip?" "Well, why wouldn't you? I mean, we're already close to the border of Georgia and Tennessee," Allen said, sticking his tongue out at the raven haired man.

"Wha?" the three teens gaped, "There's no way that even you could've gone that fast! We've only been running for maybe seven hours."

"Ah, but you forget my eye," Allen said, gently patting the now covered left eye, "I created an illusion to you three that we were not going so fast so not to make you sick or fearful or stuff like that."

"I thought that you were hiding our presence to everybody else," Lenalee and Lavi murmered.

"I was but I also did not to make you three sick so I included you three in a totally different illusion. That is why my energy was drained so quickly. I am not used to having to create several different illusions at once. Even the strongest of born demons find this difficult. In fact, most cannot create but one illusion at a time," Allen explained, covering his left eye with his right hand.

"S-So y-you're…" Lenalee and Lavi stuttered, hair rising on end.

"Yes. I'm one of the strongest demons in the world," Allen said with a dark smirk, "and I am neither a born demon nor am I a true demon."

"H-How?" Kanda ordered, "How does that make any sense?"

"Hm?" Allen questioned before smiling warmly, "I shall explain things soon."

"Why not now?" Lenalee asked.

"Because we must be off now. We have to try to make it to Green Range before the end of the week," Allen said, "Tyki knows I'm in this area so we must flee to an area where even he wouldn't dare look."

"And Green Range is this area because…" Lavi and Kanda asked cryptically.

Allen just smirked as he picked all three of his friend up yet again and raced off, "Green Range is surrounded by a demonic barrier."

"Wait…what?" the three confused teens screeched as the white demon's happy laughter filled the falling night's air.

"So let me get this straight," Lavi sighed as the three sat in the shade of a tree for lunch.

"Get what straight, Lavi?" Allen asked, swallowing a very large piece of watermelon whole.

"Will you slow down!" Kanda snapped at the demon.

"Eh?" Allen blinked.

"You're eating as if this food was going to disappear any second!" Kanda shouted, returning to his convenience store ramen, "You'll choke or something at the rate you were going."

"That's impossible," Allen said proudly, "I'm quite please with my ability to take in large quantities of food at once."

To emphasize his point, Allen took a large bite from the rest of the watermelon. The poor demon instantly regretted it. Kanda was right. At the rate he was going, he was likely to choke. Likely and currently doing so.

"Allen!" Lavi gasped, hitting the demon in between the shoulders to try and dislodge the melon.

Lenalee just laughed at the scene as Allen proceeded to hack up pieces of watermelon, "Yes yes, we can see why Allen."

"Ugh…" Allen groaned as he blushed.

"Baka," Kanda smirked.

"An-Anyways, what I was going to say was that to get away from Tyki, who is also a demon, we're going to a place with a demonic barrier," Lavi said, rubbing the bridge of his nose, "When you say demonic barrier…"

"I mean the type of barrier that keeps demons out," Allen smiled, reaching for the bag of cookies.

"Th-Then how are you going to get in!" Lavi demanded, snatching the cookies away from him.

"Awww…" Allen whimpered, throwing an extremely cute puppy dog pout his direction.

"Lavi!" Lenalee scolded, stealing the cookies from the redhead.

"What I do?" Lavi whined.

"Hmph," Lenalee nearly snorted, handing a cookie to Allen, "There you go Allen. But you really shouldn't eat too many sweets. It's bad for you."

"K~!" Allen beamed, happily munching, slowly this time, on his cookie.

"I just don't get it," Lavi sighed, sitting on a nearby stump, "If you're a demon, then how can you get into the town?"

"Because," Allen said, cookie hanging from his mouth, "I'm a human changed into a demon who refuses to eat human flesh. I haven't received all of my demonic powers and have retained some of my humanity. This allows me to go places that most demons can only dream of going."

Allen's face suddenly grew dark, startling the three friends. Jumping to their feet, they looked around frantically. Was it Tyki? Maybe another demon? A demon hunter? When they heard Allen's deep chuckled, the three slowly turned their attention to the white demon, spotting his evil smirk.

"Besides that, I'm insanely strong. There is no way that that stupid barrier and the creators of it could ever hope to keep me out of it," Allen chuckled evilly.

'Wh-What the hell have we gotten ourselves into?' the three thought to themselves.

The group of four had been only traveling for less than a week when they finally reached the border to Montana. To say that they were relieved would be an understatement. The second that they set foot on that ground, Lenalee burst into tears, causing Allen to skid to a stop fearing that he had done something to hurt her. Lavi and Kanda decided that while Allen tried to figure out the confusing emotions of women they'd continue on ahead to find something for Allen to eat. The two boys had somehow grown used to helping Allen find "food" over the past few, short days. It was almost second nature.

"Do you think that he'd eat badger?" Lavi asked as he pointed to the snarling creature.

"Only if he wants to lose his hand," Kanda scoffed, kicking the animal out of his path, "Plus it's to small. Moyashi has to eat a lot remember?"

"Right…" Lavi sighed, "It was just an idea. How long do you think it will be until Allen comes racing by with Lenalee?"

"Not long- OOF!" Kanda sputtered as his face suddenly collided with tall man in a cloak.

Both Kanda and the man stumbled backwards. Lavi raced over to his dear friend as the said boy glared at the man. He certainly looked out of place here. The man was insanely tall, at least 6' 5" or something. He had black hair for the most part other than the long, thick stripe of white of hair that jutted out from his scalp. On his face was a look of bewilderment, as if they had just shown him his dead lover's ghost.

"I-I'm terribly sorry. I was just waiting out here for someone. You see, I come from the town just down the path," the man apologized.

"There's a town nearby?" Lavi asked, sighing in relief, "That's great news."

"Lavi! Kanda!" Lenalee voice sounded from behind them.

Allen slowly (well slow for him) made his way up to the two boys. Gently placing Lenalee down on the ground, Allen smiled as he turned to the man. However, when he would have introduced them all, Allen's jaw dropped as his eyes widened.

"C-C…" Allen stuttered, body trembling.

The group of three friends flinched. Allen seemed nervous. Was this man yet another demon? They had had several run ins with demons but Allen never seem anything other than amused by their attempts on his life. But this man…what was he?

"Count Krory!" Allen screamed with joy, tackling the tall man with a hug, "You've come to see us in!"

"A-Allen!" The man now named as Krory gasped, "You've already arrived! The message your master sent us was that you were not going to be here anytime before two weeks passing!"

"I raced here to the thought of that this would be these dear friends' sanctuary while we search for I have lost!" Allen beamed at the man, "It gives my great joy to know that the Count has come out to find us."

"Why on earth would I not come and get you? Just because you can walk through the barrier, it doesn't mean that it's smart," Krory scolded, "You know that the barrier will drain you of most of your strength and then you'll barely be able to move, let alone think clearly."

"What?" Lenalee screamed.

"Why didn't you tell us, Allen?" Lavi snapped.

"I forgot?" Allen whimpered, smiling nervously at them.

"bull shit," Kanda growled.

"It's just a tiny detail-" Allen tried to fake.

"It's a major detail!" Lenalee and Krory snapped.

"Allen, you know what happens when you're weakened due to the barrier," Krory stated, gently petting the boy's head, "You know what I have to do now."

Allen jumped up and hid behind Lavi, pushing him a little further, "No wanna…"

"Allen," Krory sighed, "I don't want to either but it's the only way to get you through the barrier safely without any side effects."

"But last time-" Allen started to debate.

"Last time Miranda was here just in case and you had not just raced your way across the country carrying three people, who Cross informed us were demon hunter children," Krory stated, almost glaring at the whimpering demon, "Now come here."

Lavi swore that if Allen had a tail, it would have been between his legs as he slowly approached the tall man.

"What's going on here?" Kanda finally asked, "I thought that you said that you could walk through the barrier no problem."

"I can, Kanda," Allen sighed, finally getting the other boy's name right, "but it does severely weaken me. As of right now, I've been pushing myself further than I have ever pushed myself. Last time I came here, I was at my best health and even then I nearly lost it. We have no idea what I'd do if I wasn't at my best health."

"Nearly lost it?" Lenalee asked, confused.

"I nearly broke my own set will and nearly went after a human as a meal," Allen whispered his admission, "It was thanks to Master pressing Judgment up against my head that snapped me out of it."

The three teens gulped.

"Just do it, Krory," Allen whimpered, exposing the flesh at the crook of his neck.

Kanda was about to ask what he was doing when Krory's teeth suddenly elongated and suck into Allen's flesh. Lenalee fainted within a second as the stunned boy's barely noticed. Lavi quickly reacted and managed to catch the poor girl before she hit the ground. The redhead had to swallow the bile that was making the way up his through as he watched Allen's face go from one of pure pain with a silent scream escaping his open mouth to one of nothingness. Nothingness and relief.

Slowly turning to face Kanda, Lavi saw that his friend was no better than he was with all of this. His already normally pale skin had turned to a near milk white as his dark midnight blue eyes trembled as he watched Allen's eyes slowly shut. Both boys gulped as the white demon's body went limp in the arms of the "Count".

"Sleep, our little treasure," Krory sighed, biting his hand to try and subdue his own urges to keep going.

"Wh-What did you do to Allen!" Lavi demanded, feverishly pointing at the now out cold demon.

"I just knocked him out so that his body can adjust to going through the barrier," Krory said, unconsciously licking his lips for some of the stray blood on its corners.

"Wh-What are you?" Lavi and Kanda shouted, fear evident in their voices.

"Me? I'm a demon hunter employed by Cross Marian," Krory said, pulling Allen into bridal style embrace.

Mizu: Another demon hunter has arrived and has hinted that there are more lurking about. Plus Cross is one as well. What will become of our young white haired demon? Will Kanda and Lavi ever get to do more stuff? Will Lenalee stop being so pathetic? Who knows?

Lenalee: I'm not pathetic! Plus if you don't like that kind of stuff, then don't write it for me!

Mizu: I really do like you Lenalee, but lately you haven't really been pulling your share. This is just how I see things as it goes. Anyways, reviews are always welcomed and the same goes for suggestions. Ciao for now!

Lenalee: Nii-san! Mizu-chan is being mean to me!

Mizu: Crap…*Runs from insane Mr. Sister Complex*