A/N: Happy 'Day of the Dead'! I was planning on doing this on Halloween, but I went trick-or-treating and then had a sleepover... this one turned out to be a hell-of-a lot more factually that I thought it would be... Oh well, I like it and it has a "Allen's Past" thought that had popped into my mind a while back. I apologize if the ageing it wrong in certain parts of the story. I see them all as their given ages, cause we haven't had a b-day party yet...

pika318: Thanks for the review and the complement!

signrain: Thanks~! I love creating creepy/eerie atmospheres!

LonelyKitty:Your dog is almost as evil as mine... Thanks for the reviews as always and I love you too! I don't really know what Cross is all amazing about, he just is. My ability to spell check it low... cause I suck at spelling (I even spell better in flipping Spanish! What's wrong with me?!)! Cross will always be somewhat friendly in my stories, I just think he has a soft spot for Allen... I really do.

baka usagi (nss,year of bun...: Your name got cut off... Any ways, what kind of warning? I'm a little confused by your review... and do you want me to expand "Cold Spell" into a multi-chapter story? -tis confused-

Characters Included: Allen, Lavi, Kanda, Lenalee, Koumi, 'Crown Clown, mass people
Pairings: None...
Time M/A: After the ark but before Link/Levier
Summary: A small fight explodes into something more as Allen's friends learns of one of Allen's more gory memories.
Dedication/Inspiration: No dedication or inspiration, just myself being sick (cause that's how I am)
Warnings: Swears, slight gore, cannibalism
Rating: Probably M because of mentioned cannibalism.

Title

Kills of the Young

The group of friends sat quietly around one of the dinning tables. Allen was scarfing down food, Lenalee was giggling lightly, Lavi was making fun of Kanda, and Kanda was giving death threats to the stupid rabbit.

"I am seriously going to murder you!" The black-haired man shouted as he unsheathed mugen.

"Ah! Lenalee, help me!" said rabbit cried out as Kanda began chasing him around the hall. There was only the four of them so Lavi did everything in his power to get out of the samurai's way. So much that he knocked over one of Allen's dish piles. Both the food and the plates smeared and shattered against the floor. The room fell deathly silent. Lavi could feel an aura of evil reach towards him as Allen walked slowly towards him.

"Lavi." his smile was scarier and even Kanda shuttered. "What do you think your doing?" Crown clowns black claw raised itself beside Allen's cursed eye which seemed to gleam murderous intent.

"Ah, sorry Allen. I'll get Jerry to make you more."

"Lavi, have you forgotten that Jerry went to bed?" Lavi's eyes darted around the room in hopes of escape. He was doomed. Any ways of escape would be cut of by Allen the instant he moved.

"Common Allen, it's just a little food." An unpleasant memory flashed in front of Allen's eyes and he growled loudly as anger filled his body.

"It's NOT just food!" he shouted, charging at the poor red-head. Lavi ducked to the side and was surprised at the large gash that now scarred the floor.

"Wow Allen, calm down! There'll always be more!"

"No there won't!" Allen shouted back as he made to attack Lavi. Kanda's blade met Allen's claw.

"Oi, calm down bean sprout." To say the least Kanda was surprised when those bright silver eyes glared deep into his own. It felt like Allen was barring into his soul, seeing everything that he had kept locked up.

"Shut. Up." Allen stated. Lenalee was no longer giggling, Lavi was scared shit-less and Kanda had difficulty holding his ground.

"Allen? It's okay, I'm sure you have enough..." Lenalee whispered trying to quell the fight. Allen's eyes left Kanda's only to glare at the girls.

"How do you know that?" His voice rang with furry that the three had never witnessed. Pushing Kanda's blade away, the young exorcist now faced Lenalee. "How the FUCK do you know that?!" Lenalee felt a powerful force smash against her body. She smashed into one of the cafeteria walls and struggled to stay standing.

Allen gripped his head as memories flew into his vision, his eyes filling with tears. "How the fuck... do you know that?" He clenched his eyes closed and he fell to his knees gripping his head painfully.

"Allen?" Lavi asked as Lenalee wobbled towards them. "Is something wrong?" Kanda sheathed his sword and watched Allen silently.

His body was shaking with sobs and he knew that he should apologize to Lenalee, but he just couldn't. Only fouler words rang in his vocabulary.

"Allen?" Lavi touched Allen's shaking shoulder lightly. "What's wrong? Don't worry, it's not like you starve!" Lavi flashed his brilliant smile. It soon vanished as he watched Allen's shake his head.

"If... if it gets hungry" A hiccup interrupted his sentence and Allen began rubbing his eyes. "I, I might." Lavi sighed.

"Allen, you have enough alright. Lenalee is right, you haveenough." Lavi knew he was being cold, but Allen was being childish.

That same cursed memory flashed in front of the poor child's eyes. Laughter, threats, screams, the sound of flesh ripping, and then silence.

"No..." Allen spoke silently out loud. Stop it. His shaking had increased and the others held worry in their eyes. No don't. S-stop it. You're going to die, so please.

"Allen? Who are you talking to?" Lenalee asked lightly, trying to find the source of their worry.

Stop!

"Allen?"

No, run!

"Bean sprout?"

"Shut up!" A strong force, like a gust of wind forced the other's away. The trio had to hold up their arms as the force tore at them. Allen sat in the center, his white hair dancing wildly around his head as his eye's went pure white. His body felt like it was exploding as violent tremors erupted through him. The wind forced it's way out of his body as he screamed loudly in pain. His innocence hand and his human one shot up together, in an attempt to lighten the pain. He cried out as he struggled to bend forward, the gust of wind having a mind of it's own.

The other exorcists and finders rushed to the scene and watched in morbid horror as the wind grew stronger till they couldn't even see Allen any more. It wiped and howled as it threw the tables to the far back walls. The three friends skidded to one of the entrances. The science group soon arrived.

"What the hell is going on?" Koumi cried out to the three. "We heard someone scream!"

"We don't know! The four of us were just eating when this suddenly happened!" Kanda spat out.

"Four?"

"Oh shit!" Kanda swore as he realized a key point.

"Allen." Lenalee gulped. "Is still in there."

"What?!"

"He's at the center! Supervisor, we have to help him!" The wind blew harsher and soon evolved into a tempest. Another scream erupted from the center, sounding more like a monster than the human they knew dwelt there.

"Allen!"

"Bean sprout!" And then everything went blissfully white.


Allen lay in one of the many beds at the infirmary. He didn't even have to open his eye's to see that he was connected to several different machines. Not wanting to 'wake up' just yet, Allen listened in to the people surrounding his bed.

"And you're saying that he suddenly went ballistic?" Koumi's spoke sternly.

"Exactly. I mean sure, it was a lot of food, but I've never seen Allen act like that." Lavi's usual happy voice sounded slow and sad. "I'm sorry."

"It's okay Lavi, it wasn't your fault."

"Do you know what's going on with bean sprout?" Allen wasn't sure, but he thought he heard worry evident in Kanda's cold voice. Koumi shook his head.

"I'm afraid I don't. Lavi, you said that Allen was concerned about something getting hungry and starving him. Do you think that he was talking about his innocence?"

"I thought that's what it was, but it seems to be on a much larger, deeper scale."

"Yes, I've never heard of an innocence acting out so violently."

Allen sighed sadly, If only they knew...he thought as he slowly sat himself out, receiving questioning faces from the others. Koumi was by his side before he was even all the way up.

"Allen are you alright?" How he wanted to punch the man, luckily his stomach answered him by growling loudly. Koumi smiled lightly. "I'll get Lenalee to bring you some food." The scientist soon left.

An awkward silence fell over the three. Allen gazed at his throbbing hands, Lavi watched the machines that were attached to the boy, and Kanda stood silently to the side. Lenalee soon entered with a stray filled with sandwiches.

"Here you go Allen. Brother said that you were hungry." Allen took them silently and began eating them slowly. He throat was raw from screaming and it was painful every time he had to swallow. Lenalee pulled up a chair and Lavi sat down on the edge of Allen's bed. Kanda remained to the far side.

"When..." Allen started, finishing another painful bite of food. "Did you guys first kill something?" The other's all gazed at Allen. The question was weird, but his wording was even weirder.

"What do you mean Allen?" Lenalee asked.

"Like, when did you kill your first akuma?" The three pondered the question.

"Well, I think I was fourteen when I did..." Lenalee answered slowly.

"Hmmm, sixteen." Lavi shrugged.

"Twelve." Kanda's voice was emotionless.

"What about you Allen? When did you kill your first Akuma?" Lenalee answered sweetly.

"Akuma? When I was twelve." Lavi's and Lenalee's eyes widened, they didn't expect Allen to have started so young. Kanda's however, grew colder.

"What do you mean by "Akuma"?" Kanda's question seemed to shock Allen as he tensed. "You said it as if you've killed other things." Allen's hair fell in front of his face, casting his eyes in shadow.

"When I was about five, I was homeless, as you know." The others nodded. "So, every scrap of food I was able to obtain was very important. I never knew when I might eat again so I had to be very careful about it." A light went off in Lavi's head as he realized why Allen had seen the destruction of his food as a sign of hunger. "My innocence made it all the worse, and sometimes, when we hadn't eaten in weeks, it would become desperate to keep myself and it alive." His voice grew shaky, which the teen quickly corrected. "One day, I had finally found some food. However, some other homeless people wanted it as their own. They claimed that I had enough and that there would always be more. That I had had enough." the trio was shocked at how much their own words mirrored these peoples. "They took the food from me, I was to weak too stop them. But..." Allen covered his face with his hands, his knees pulling themselves to his chest. "I killed them. It was so hungry that it knew that we would die! I had to kill them!" Allen shook with sobs. "I killed five adults! I was only five years old and I killed them over a scrap of bread!" Lenalee leaned forward.

"It's okay Allen, you didn't mean to."

"It's not that!" Allen shouted, his voice hoarse. "It's not that..." Lavi swallowed.

"What is it Allen?" he dreaded the answer.

"I ate them." Everyone gasped, suddenly becoming aware of the memory that they had accidentally cause to stir. "I ate their flesh and drank their blood. I was a monster!" He cried out as he held himself. "But worst of all, I liked it! I felt warm and I was fuller than I had been in months! My innocence didn't care that we took innocent lives! As long as we live, it doesn't care!"

"Allen." Lavi's voice was strong but quite. "Are you afraid that it would eat us yesterday?" The others remembered how Allen had been eating less and less lately. Allen nodded slowly. "Can you tell me what that wind was?" Allen looked up at Lavi, expecting a look of disgust and horror to be on his face, but instead he was met with one of the boy's caring smiles. One that he only showed when he truly meant it.

Allen gazed down at his hands, the fear of the memory leaving him. "When Crown Clown is desperate for food, it will unleash itself in the form of wind. It happened before when I was at the Asian Headquarters. You see, my innocence is able to understand when I am in danger and becomes brash and violent. Master told me that Crown Clown was special, because of it's understanding direct towards me. You see..." Allen held out his pure black arm. "In some strange way, I can understand it as well. Knowing when it wishes for me to act and such. At first I though it was because it was parasitic, but I'm not to sure anymore." Allen laid it to his side as stretched out his legs. "It, it was craving food and when you guys caused me to remember that times ten years ago, it was torn between resulting to that method again. So instead, it forced it's power out of my body, hoping to drain itself so that is could enter a state of dormancy. That way it wouldn't hurt me or cause me to crave human flesh again."

"Wow, you sure know a lot bout you innocence."

"Well, to tell you the truth, it told me..." he could feel confusion radiate off of the others. "When it evolved and I gained a synchro above 100%, I sometimes hear it speak to me when I sleep. I really don't know how to explain it..."

"Well that's okay." Lenalee's voice was bright. "Because no matter what has happened, or what will happen, we will always be your friends." Lavi smiled and nodded and even a smirk appeared on Kanda's face. "Okay?" Tears fell from Allen's silver eyes as he smiled.

"Yes!"