ALLEN IS GOD!...Or something like that. I needed to have some male bonding between Link and Allen, because in the manga the two of them are just adorable together. Probably my favorite pairing that doesn't involve Kanda or Lavi. There wont be any of that in this fic, but still, I want them to at least be good friends by the end of this. (I might do a smutty oneshot with a fun foursome if I'm feeling frisky sometime in the future though.) No real plot development here, just wanted to make Allen look like Allen, you know? I think I am finally going to ditch the bandages completely next chapter too...sorry it's so short. Been occupied with other things a bit...*goes back to laughing my ass of at FF X-2*
On a personal note, I have started making jewelry. You can find a link to my deviantart and my jewelry pics on my profile, if you want to see.
~0x0~
Allen was annoyed.
He'd been here for three days already and not once had he seen the one person he wanted to talk to.
Inspector Howard Link would not leave him alone. Allen understood that assigning him a 'guide' was really a way for the Black Order to keep tabs on their guest. He hadn't been able to shake the man yet. Hell, they'd even moved him to a new room that he shared with the blonde man.
On the bright side, he'd gotten much better at walking. Now he only tripped if he wasn't paying attention to his feet.
He hadn't seen Lavi since their brief talk that first day. He looked for the red head desperately, but Howard Link wouldn't let him go very many places within the building. In fact, Allen was only allowed to walk from his room, to the bathroom, and to a small sitting room that the little old man (Who's name Allen had finally learned was Bookman) met with the white haired boy once a day in. The Bookman asked him all sorts of questions to 'try and make memories resurface'. In reality, he was trying to figure out if Allen was lying about having amnesia, but Allen didn't mind because it was an hour away from Inspector Two Dots. The second day, the Bookman had told him that Kanda had been the one to save him, and Allen had a genuinely tough time keeping the shock off his face. That certainly didn't seem like something the long haired man would do...he'd decided to seek out the enigma as well, to see if he could figure out why, but he had yet to catch sight of him.
The little girl with glasses and strange hair who had introduced herself as Rohfa had taken to bringing Allen his meals. And Allen ate ALOT. His appetite had increased tenfold since he'd come to land (though he still refused to eat any meat they gave him). Allen guessed that it was yet another side effect of the spell. By the second day, they'd learned that he was a bottomless pit and started bringing him many times the amount of food that a normal person would eat.
He enjoyed the few minutes a day that he got to spend with Rohfa. She was a bit timid, but she always answered his questions, no matter how silly, and always gave him a smile.
Mostly, the days were long, because the Inspector really didn't talk much, but it was tolerable.
Today, though, was turning out to be pretty irritating.
Allen learned that humans washed themselves in freshwater to keep clean. Which was fine with him. In fact, he loved bath time, because even though it wasn't an ocean, it was still water, and he missed water. But ever since he started washing his hair in freshwater, the texture had started to change. It was pretty gradual, but it was starting to get softer, frizzier, and more susceptible to tangling. He was really getting fed up with it. In the ocean, hair just floated around you, not in the way at all, but on land, it got into your food, got caught in your bandages and was generally a nuisance.
He and Link were in their room, each sitting on their separate beds (Allen had learned that the elongated chairs were really called 'beds'), with Link flipping though a book and Allen staring out the small window while trying to tame his unruly mane. After the tenth time of snagging his long hair on his fingers, he was done.
"Hey, Link." Allen said.
The Inspector looked up from the book he was reading (Allen had snuck a peek at it and was dismayed to find that the spell had not allowed him the ability to read) and blinked at his white haired counterpart to show that he was listening.
"Help me with this." Allen tugged lightly on his hair for emphasis.
The blonde just raised an eyebrow.
"It's getting in my way. Could you help me with it please?"
"You want me to tie it back?"
Allen shook his head. "No...it'll still get tangles."
"That's because you never brush it properly."
"If you'd let me practice on your hair, maybe I would."
Link rolled his eyes. "I can't believe how much you've forgotten. And there's no way I'm going to let you touch my hair."
"It takes too long to brush this much hair, and it pulls. I didn't even like it when Rohfa tried to brush it, what makes you think that I could tame this mess?"
"Then what do you want me to do about it, Neah?"
"I want you to help me get it shorter."
Link fully closed his book and straightened up. "You want me to cut your hair?"
"Well, I obviously can't do it myself, and you are the only one around, so...please?"
The blonde sighed and muttered something about being subjected to idiocy under his breath. He stood and told Allen to stay where he was, then he left. Just left, without locking the door or anything. Allen was dumbfounded. This whole time, he'd not been able to get two minutes of privacy for the most legitimate of reasons (the man even followed Allen to the bathroom, which was really awkward when Allen was still learning to use the damn things) and now that the white haired youth had asked for a hair cut, he just left?
Would wonders never cease?
Slowly, Allen stood and walked over to the door, opening it as cautiously as he could. He peeked out. No sign of his 'guide'. He stepped out and looked left and right, making sure he was alone. There was no one around, but unfortunately, all the hallways looked the same. Allen was fairly certain that he wouldn't be able to find this room again, should he get lost. He sighed, deciding not to risk it just yet and stepped back inside, though he made a mental note to analyze this situation later and try and come up with more scenarios that would make Link leave him for a few minutes.
After a while, his babysitter returned with a towel and something sinister looking in his hands.
"What's that?"
Link just looked at him like he was the dumbest thing to ever walk the face of the Earth.
"Seriously? I was always told the amnesia only affected personal memories and not general knowledge."
Allen flinched, pretending to act timid. He needed to continue to establish this nice, weak little child that he'd been portraying, even as he and 'Neah' gained confidence in the world around them. "Sorry, I just..."
Link rolled his eyes. "Don't get all emotional on me now." Link walked to the middle of the floor and laid the towel down. "Stand on this." He commanded.
Allen nodded and did as he was told. Link walked around and started to remove Allen's bandages.
"What're you doing that for?"
"These will only get in the way. If I'm to see to your personal hygiene, then I want to at least do it properly."
Once the bandages were off, Link held up the strange device in his hands.
"These are scissors. They're for cutting things. Now be quiet."
'Why go out of your way to helpfully explain things, if you are just going to have a bad attitude about it?' Allen wondered. But he just shrugged it off and fell silent.
From behind him, Allen heard a snip, snip, snip. He tensed up the first couple of times he heard the sound next to his ear, but eventually he relaxed. He watched in wonder as little white locks fell to the floor and clumped together on the towel. It took a while, but eventually his head began to feel much lighter and Link walked around to his front and started carefully cutting his bangs.
After he was done, the Inspector took a step back an surveyed his handiwork. He must've been satisfied, because he nodded to himself.
"Now, bend over and shake your head to get any stay hair out."
Allen once again did as he was told and watched the last few strands fall to the floor.
Link made him step off the towel and then folded it up, catching all the hair in it without having to clean anything up, which Allen thought was very clever. He set the towel and the scissors off to the side, them grabbed the dreaded brush off their small shared dresser that held Link's clothes and the small allotment of clothing that the Order had loaned to Allen (Buttons were a bitch to deal with, he'd found).
Link tossed Allen the brush. "Here. It should be easier to deal with now."
"Thanks..." Allen tentatively ran it through his hair, being very careful around the left side of his face which was still very tender. Link was right. It didn't take long at all for him to pass the brush over all parts of his hair, as he'd seen the humans do. Link nodded in approval again, and went to fetch new bandages (which were kept inside the room, since Allen often took them off, because they were hot and itchy) and while he was doing that, Allen walked to the small mirror on the wall and inspected himself.
His hair was much shorter now, with sort of a choppy, spiky feeling to it. His bangs weren't in his face nearly as much, and now that he wasn't downing in a mass of hair, he actually looked a bit bigger. Allen really liked it.
"Hey."
Allen looked over at Link, and the blonde grunted in response.
"Thank you." Allen said sincerely.
The Inspector looked over at that and studied Allen for a moment. Then he turned his eyes away, a slightly bashful look on his face.
"No problem." he muttered.
~0x0~
To My Reviewers:
Miso Ramen-sama- Happy, Happy, Joy, Joy! Funfunfun.
sweetkakes35- I'm glad you liked that. I really tend to question fics that have seamless transitions like that, so I am happy you noticed.
scrletfyre- I am glad you are liking it so much!
xenawp532- I'm super happy you are enjoying this. This is shameless advertising, but I do have a Naruto story, if you'd like to read it.
River Flows Backwards/Ichigo1010- Holy Shit. Just. Ohmigod. *dies* Ok, uhm, where to start? Let's see...Oh! The tattoos! His arm gets black tattoos as one of the later forms of his innocence in the manga (I think they might be red or something in the anime) It was after his arm lost the scaly look...If you look up 'Allen Walker tattoo' on Google, you can see pictures of it. Lavi probably will be the first one to puzzle everything out. Doughnut shops? Sure, why not? Lol, describing things by their own name in all caps for lack of any better adjective is okay with me. Reading-Block. That sounds about right...Yes, yes, go read my other babies and give them reviews too! If you like FMA, I bet you will enjoy LTIS. I also have a angsty Naruto oneshot and an FMA vamp story up. Wow, I have proven myself in the fandom...that's high praise. I fucking love Neah, so I had to put him in someplace. I felt bad for Lavi too...and poor Allen, having to learn to walk 250 years too late. XD Allen does have a lot of wiggle room with his story, and he will need every bit of it if he's gonna get out of this mess...not that I will let that happen so easily...*insert evil laugh here* (I think you did write more than my chapter...) LOL, how do you know I am a 'Missy'? XDDD I might have a penis, one can never be too sure. PS-I LOVE YOU!
animefan02- I am glad you are so excited to see things develop. The Yummy Yullen will get here, don't fret.
AuburnLove- I'm only as good as my readers encourage me to be. ^_^ Thanks so much for your kind words.
Conrii- I am certainly happy that it was a pleasant surprise.
ivory-fanged-goddess- Lol, I'm happy you find the story to be interesting.
vinecaper- Here you go!
Tintaglia In Flight- Allen will probably at least try to talk to Lavi when he gets the chance. No Kanda this chapter...*hides* He's pretty illusive. I hope my creative juices never run dry too...that would suck.
LizluvsSpongebob- The spellings in the printed manga, the online scans, the anime guides, and the DGM wiki are all fucking different. It drove me batty trying to figure out if I should use 'Rohfa' or 'Roufa'. Ugh.
Oaken Wren- I am soooo happy you think I am doing a good job!
TotalAmuto- I KNOW RIGHT? THESE ALL CAPS REPLIES ALWAYS MAKE MY DAY. XD
Kayday- Lol, I feel your pain.
Kurazilssia- Kuu-tan: Ah luffs yew too! Razill-chan: You don't speak alot, huh? Reminds me of Kanda. *huggles* Kussia-san: Plus a zillion points to you for having the name in the first place!
yang003- I wish I was a good actor like Allen too...:(
JayPay- Hehe, you are starting to see some of my plan with the 'Neah' thing, eh? SO clever.
My ultimate answer- Being kinda right still counts in my book. ^_^
KyoneRiverblade- Once Kanda and Allen start shacking up, I will be sure to throw in some cuddlez.
Cookies of Doom- I do like author's notes...Not really Black Allen, just...Allen has always been a man of many masks and layers, throughout DGM. I wanted to keep him that way in this too, even as he grows as a character over the course of the story.
endingscome100- Lol, Death Note. Allen isn't quite that evil. XD