Mizu: I finally got to this story again! I curse plot bunnies and the fact that they love to distract me! As of right now though, my main focus is An Innocent Heart but when my brain gets fried from focusing too hard on it, I'm working on my other stories, hoping that I can upload at least one chapter to each one before the end of the year. Disclaimer: I don't own -Man. If I did, then Alma and Kanda would get to be together and live! I'm so worried for Kanda, ironic cause a year ago I couldn't stand Kanda. *shrugs* weird how things change…
Innocence's True Form
Chapter Six: One's Overpowering Anger…
"This is amazing!" C.C. exclaimed from his seat next to Allen in the cafeteria, "You did an amazing job, Johnny!"
"You really like it?" Johnny squealed.
"You bet!" C.C. chuckled, holding up his new uniform (looking almost exactly like a cross between Allen's and Lavi's), "You have no idea how happ-Keep eating Baka!"
Allen just groaned in response and continued to force food down his throat, "Now I know how it feels to be stuffed…I don't like it…"
"Poor Allen," Lenalee giggled from her seat across from the two.
"I still eat as much as I used to but now…ugh," Allen whimpered, lying his face on the table, "this is too much…"
"Don't worry, baka," C.C. soothed, patting Allen's head, "In a couple of days, you'll be able to eat as much as you used again."
Allen just groaned again and lazily lifted a stick of dango to his mouth.
"I see you're already wide awake, Moyashi-chan!" Lavi chuckled, setting his tray next to the white-haired teen.
"Morning Lavi," Allen groaned.
"So enthusiastic," Lavi teased, "I got a question for C.C.!" "I don't know when Miranda's innocence and her will fully link," C.C. stated, starting to hum a happy tune.
"Aawww…" Lavi whimpered, "You're no fun…"
Suddenly Allen shot up from the table, face painted a dark red with his hand covering his mouth. Lavi and Lenalee looked up at him questionally and saw the parasitic exorcist glare at his innocence. C.C. just smirked and pointed to the corner where a trash can was. Allen's eyes darted between the two before he took off for the trash can. Lavi dropped the fork he had brought to his mouth when he realized why Allen was running to the trash can.
"Wh-What just happened to him?" Lavi asked, a little worried.
"Hm?" C.C. looked over at the redhead and flashed him a mischievous smile, "Oh, nothing. Just giving him a lesson in things as he ate."
"A lesson in what things?" Lenalee and Lavi asked as they watched Jerry freak out about Allen, running around him like a first time mother.
"Moyashi!" Kanda bellowed, rushing into the cafeteria and stomping over to their table.
"Yuu?" Lavi gasped, noticing that Mugen had the same look as C.C. did.
"He's over there puking his guts out," C.C. pointed to his wielder, locking eyes with Mugen, "I don't think that they appreciated our lessons."
"Like hell I did!" Kanda snapped at the innocence, a light blush on his cheeks.
"Huh…Oh…OH!" Lavi gasped in realization and tried to stop from laughing, "No wonder Allen throwing up!"
"Hm, but it was pretty fun right?" Mugen snickered as she wrapped her arms around C.C.'s neck, "Their reactions were priceless."
"Stop that!" Kanda shouted, clutching at his head, "Moyashi! Control your damn innocence!"
Allen just looked back over to the table for a second before his attention was drawn back to the trash can. Everyone, including Kanda, sweat dropped for the poor boy in the corner.
"Haha, the kid got sick!" Mugen clapped.
"I think that we pushed him a little to far though," C.C. sighed, rubbing the back of his head, "He is only sixteen after all."
"So?" Mugen pouted, plopping down in C.C.'s lap, "Kanda didn't get sick."
"Kanda's older," C.C. pointed out.
"Not by much," Mugen chuckled evilly, "Watch."
Kanda's eyes widened for a split second before he glared at his innocence, "Stop that! I don't need to see that shit!"
C.C. just laughed loudly as he felt Allen finally block his mind from his innocence's, "There you go, baka! You're learning!"
"Learning what?" Lavi asked.
"When you are fully linked and you want some privacy, you have to learn how to block you mind from your innocence's," C.C. explained, "That's why we're doing this to these two. We know that these memories will drive them to learn."
"You're a sick bastard!" Allen shouted from his corner.
"Suck it up, baka!" C.C. shouted back.
No response.
"Oops," C.C. sighed, "Baka passed out."
"Aww, poor thing," Mugen stated, sending another wave of memories into Kanda's mind.
"I said stop it!" Kanda screamed.
"You have to learn to close your mind, idiot," Mugen sighed.
Lavi was rolling on the floor with laughter, clutching at his stomach. It was too much. Yuu's face to whatever memories his innocence was showing him was priceless. Looking up to Lenalee, Lavi felt another wave of laughter hit him. She just sat their dumbfounded, blinking in confusion.
"Oi~! Baka," C.C. called over to the unconscious boy in the corner, "Time to get up. We've got work to do."
"W-Work?" Lavi stuttered.
Something suddenly flashed in both of the innocences eyes. Kanda's blush suddenly disappeared and he was staring straight at Lavi with wide eyes. There was a bright, quick flash of light that surrounded the pair of innocence. When the light subsided, both were gone.
Lavi looked around for the missing two when he noticed Kanda holding Mugen in her katana form, activated and all. Nervously looking over to where Allen was supposed to be, Lavi came face to face with the mask of the Crown Clown as he wrapped the Clown belt around Allen's limp body. Gulping, Lavi quickly grabbed his hammer and prepared to defend himself. Why he was being attacked though, he had no idea.
Lavi quickly activated his hammer when something he never expected happened. His hammer shone a brilliant greenish blue, causing him to let it go and cover his eye. When the light had finally subsided, Lavi blinked his eye a couple of times, settling on three things. Mugen laughing at Kanda's face, back in her human form. C.C. carrying a still unconscious Allen on his back. A strange man in front of him with tattoos covering his arms, bandana covering his right eye, and a messy mop of bright, fiery red hair. On his face was a smirk that was all too familiar to Lavi.
"Yo, rabbit," the man smirked.
"Ōzuchi Kozuchi!" Mugen squealed, wrapping her arms around the strange man, "You finally found yourself a true accommodator!"
"Wh-What?" Lavi stuttered, rushing over to C.C., "You didn't tell me that I was close to being fully linked!"
"What? And have you run off because of your bookman clan?" C.C. sneered, "Not a chance. Now you have no choice but see this all through."
The man wrapped his arm around Lavi's neck, laughter bellowing in his ear, "Man, that old geezer's face is gonna be priceless when he finds out!"
"Let me go!" Lavi snapped, trying to free himself, "This can't be happening!"
"Man, I can't tell you how long I've been waiting for you to show yourself C.C.!" the man laughed even louder, making sure Lavi couldn't get away, "I was starting to get impatient with ya! After all, I've been dying to stretch my legs but everyone knows we can't do that till-"
Lavi found himself kissing the floor when his innocence finally released him. After rubbing his jaw, he looked up to a shocking sight. C.C. holding his innocence up in the air by his throat, eyes fiercer than Kanda's had ever been in his life. Mugen had too fallen silent and stood in complete shock, jaw slackened.
"Keep that filthy mouth of your shut," C.C. growled, tightening his grip.
Mugen finally snapped out of her daze and raced forward, latching onto C.C.'s arm, frantically trying to free Lavi's innocence, "Calm down C.C.! You have to calm down!"
C.C. chose to ignore the frantic woman, electing to throw Lavi's innocence into the closest wall. He slowly stalked up to him, Allen still unconscious on his back, murderous aura suffocating everyone in the room.
"Hehe," Lavi's innocence chuckled weakly, "Sorry. Didn't know that you hadn't explain this cr-"
"I said shut you fucking mouth!" C.C. shouted, power dripping from his voice.
Lavi watched with a widened eyes as C.C. approached his innocence. What the hell was going on! His eyes shifted to where Allen was still placed on his back. The boy was moving a little, a pained expression on his face. Chalking it up to being so close to his insane piece of innocence, Lavi slowly stood up and shaky legs and made his way over to where Kanda stood in shock. His eyes were wide, a cold sweat forming on his forehead. Apparently, Mugen was filling him in on everything.
The next thing they all knew was that there was a blood curdling scream coming from the previously unconscious boy. His silver eyes shot open, dilated and fear filled, as he shoved himself off of C.C.'s back. He scrambled backwards, as if trying to flee something. C.C., once he realized that it was Allen who had screamed, turned on his heel and chased after the terrified boy. Allen passed by Lavi without casting him any sort of glance. Lavi's single eye caught Mugen racing after the white-haired boy as well. She caught him just before C.C. did out of the corner of his eye. Without a second's hesitation, Mugen wrapped her arms around the teen and held him close. C.C. was by their side in a second as Allen clung to the female innocence.
"I told you you needed to calm down, you fucking idiot!" Mugen screamed at C.C., "Now look what you did! This is the reason why the Heart didn't want you to have anymore wielders!"
"What?" Lavi and Lenalee gasped.
"I'm sorry!" C.C. whimpered, reaching out for Allen's hand.
"Stay back!" Mugen snapped, forcing out an intimidating aura, "He's like this because of you!"
"What the hell is going on here!" Lavi snapped.
"C.C. hasn't explained everything yet, has he?" Lavi's innocence stuttered, appearing beside Lavi, "That boy probably had a horrible wake up call right now."
"Huh?" Lavi gaped, "What? Did C.C.'s anger awaken part of the Noah inside Allen?"
"I wish it was that," Mugen chuckled darkly, brushing passed C.C. without a passing glance, "No, this is a problem C.C. has always had with every single accommodator he's ever had."
"It has to do with what piece of Innocence he is and his position is in relevance to the Heart," Lavi's piece sighed, walking over to Allen and gently ruffling his hair.
"I thought you kept telling me that he was only sixteen!" Mugen snapped back at C.C.
"I know!" C.C. cried, head placed between his hands.
"Somebody please explain this to us humans!" Lavi snapped.
"To put it in simple terms, all of C.C.'s anger and bloodlust filled Allen's system, scaring the shit out of him," Mugen sighed as Allen started to whimper, "It's always like this. C.C.'s got one hell of a sort temper. A lot shorter than Kanda's that's for sure. And he doesn't know how to control it."
"But why would that-" Lenalee started to ask.
"Think about it. To be fully linked, your dreams, wishes, and emotions have to be the exact same," Lavi's innocence stated, "So whenever you get upset, we feel it and it influences us to try and make as feel upset. Once we're linked, we feel everything you feel. While we may not be expressing the same emotion at the time, we still feel it."
"And Allen is such a naïve child that C.C.'s anger is something that he just can't comprehend," Mugen stated, "Even at his angriest, Allen has never once thought of killing someone for any reason. The only reason he kills akuma is because he feels right doing it under the notion that they are being saved. But C.C.'s anger and bloodlust… Well, you guys felt it. It's simply terrifying."
"For a child like Allen, to feel something like that coursing through him is enough to scare him to death," Lavi's innocence sighed, "That's not what scared him the most. He actually probably thought that all of that bloodlust was from the Noah in him. So that's why he tried to run away. He thought that he was about to hurt someone."
Mugen stiffened when she felt a familiar hand touch her shoulder. Turning her head a bit, she smiled softly when she saw C.C. standing there, deep regret within his eyes. She also felt Allen start to shift, trying to free himself from the arms that kept him caged.
"I really am s-sor-" C.C. started to say before the white-haired boy flung his arms around C.C.'s middle.
"There you go, C.C.," Mugen sighed happily, "You've got yourself one brave wielder."
"Al-Allen?" C.C. whimpered, looking down at the small framed teen.
"You…you fucking idiot!" Allen snapped, drawing back enough to kick his innocence in his shin, "What the crap was all of that!"
C.C. yelped, and clutched at his leg as Allen made to kick him in the head. He moved to duck, earning the kick in his gut instead. Collapsing to the ground, C.C. looked up at Allen with confusion.
"Answer me!" Allen bellowed, tears still in his eyes.
"H-He's gone black," Lavi and his innocence whimpered.
"W-Well-" C.C. started to say, earning himself a kick to his jaw, "What the hell was that for? Don't you want me to explain things!"
Allen smirked and wiped the remaining tears from his eyes, "Good. You're back to normal now. Not that pathetic whimpering mass."
"What about you, baka!" C.C. demanded, pulling on both of Allen's cheeks, "Weren't you just clinging to Mugen crying your bloody heart out!"
"Hey! I'm still technically a kid! I can get away with that. You aren't though," Allen shot back, pulling his innocence's hair.
"Eh…" Lenalee and Lavi gaped.
"Allen's a lot like him, isn't he?" Lavi's Innocence smirked, walking up to Mugen.
"You got that right," Mugen chuckled.
"He's a lot like who?" Lenalee asked.
"The one that C.C. tried to bring back," both pieces of Innocence stated sadly as they watched the two to continue to fight.
"So what if O.K. started to say something he wasn't supposed to? It's your responsibility to clear that up, not prevent it from coming out!" Allen yelled at his innocence.
"O.K.?" everyone repeated.
"What? Lavi's the only that can come up with nicknames for the innocence? Ōzuchi Kozuchi would get so old to have to keep saying," Allen pouted as everyone erupted into laughter.
'He really is like him,' C.C. thought with a smile.
Mizu: Cliffhanger of sorts, if you ask me, is the best way for a chapter to come during the holidays.
Allen: Every one…In every single one, you make me so bloody emotional!
Mizu: Welcome to the world of Mizu! Please keep all hands, legs, and griping inside the car at all times and enjoy the ride!
Lavi: She's lost it…
Kanda: Che. She'd have to have something to lose first.
Mizu: Just for that, when the holidays pass Kanda, I'm going to use Komui's octo-gun on you.
Kanda: Tch.
Mizu: Just like always, reviews are still extremely enjoyed and so are suggestions. I really don't have any pairings for this story but I'm thinking about it. It seems a little weird not to have a pairing but if it works out that way, then so be it! Ciao for now!