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Flashback
Allen was born with white hair and gray eyes.
Well, that wasn't one of his problems, his left hand was pitch black and it looked like it was melting.
Because of his looks, he was abandoned by his parents in early age.
They cared for him a couple of years, claiming their family the child wasn't theirs. That they only looked after him because of their friend.
But when Allen turned 4 he was left.
Allen didn't really remember his parents face, well he didn't really care about it.
He wasn't alone, he had Neah.
Well he could only talk to Neah through his mind, sounds lonely doesn't it?
Well if he was living with his parents they could have said he had a personality complex.
But Neah was real, sometimes when Neah took over his body, his skin would turn gray and his forehead ripping open, forming black stigmata.
Well his parents couldn't have explained that could they? But they weren't here so what the heck.
Neah rarely took over Allens body, so he didn't have to worry about that.
When Allen was abandoned by his parents, it was Neah who took care of him.
Taking over his body and sing the song so the ark would open, there Allen could sleep without a worry of freezing to death at night.
Stealing food for Allen while Allen was asleep so, food would magically appear in front of Allen when he woke up.
Later Neah taught Allen the song so he could open the Ark himself.
Allen learned later that Neah had stolen the food he was eating, but the past is the past. He really couldn't go back and change that.
Allen rarely was in the ark when the sun was up in the real world.
He would go outside exploring the forest. At this time Allen wore short sleeved shirts and didn't hide his face.
When the villagers saw him walking in the forest, they started calling him "The cursed". They would always scream if he came in to the village, he even walked to the neighbour villages, none of the villages accepted him. So he decided to stay in the first village that called him "The cursed", not Monster or freak, like the other villages did.
He started wearing hoods hiding his white hair, heck he even started dyeing his hair when it was so hot he couldn't wear the hood.
He dyed his hair with herbs and nuts he found in the forest. He would boil them in water till the water turned black.
The stench was horrible, he even threw up a few times, but he learned to get used to the stench.
He would then smear the black thick water on to his hair, and the black color held for about a week.
The color would start to fade when he washed, so he had to be careful.
Besides wearing a hood or dyeing his hair, he wore long sleeves and gloves. Hiding his ugly black arm.
"I didn't ask to be born this way" Allen cried out in the forest, sitting below a tree, leaning against it.
"But if you weren't born, I wouldn't have met you Allen"
"I don't want that either" Allen cried.
Some Akumas noticed Allen crying, deciding to kill the little boy who was alone in the forest. Noticing that he was talking to himself.
Neah noticing the Akumas, too over Allens body.
The body turned gray and the stigmata appeared on his forehead.
"Do not kill this boy, he is precious" Neah shouted, standing up.
The Akumas stopped noticing the boys skin turn gray and the stigmata that appeared on his forehead.
"The witch, the witch" the Akumas whispered with a rending noise.
"The witch?" Neah thought.
Noticing too late, that one of the Akumas slashed with their knife like hands through Allens left eye.
Hearing a "Tssssssh" sound when the blood came gushing out of his eye.
The Akumas turned in to the shape of a human and ripped his shirt, treating the wound they just created.
"This is just the sign of the witch" the Akumas said, giving a warm smile to the boy who was about to lose consciousness.
When Allen woke up, he could see two unfamiliar couple sitting next to him, like they were watching over him when he was asleep.
He could feel a small sting on his left eye making a small "ouch", covering his eye with his hand.
"Oh you're awake" one of them said.
"The witch is awake, the witch is awake" the other one said, flapping around with his hands in the air.
Allen sobbed "Are you too calling me a freak" taking his hand away from his face, noticing there was blood on his hand.
The Akumas looked at each other taking a pity on the boy, had he been alone all this time?
"No. It's that you're precious to us, you are our family" they said giving a warm smile. "We will listen to you, we will love you, do anything you say"
That one word, family. Made Allen happy. Ever since, the akumas and Neah, were Allens only friends.
End of Flashback
Allen had given permission to the Akumas to do anything they wanted around except in the village they were practically living in.
The sign of the witch, was the scar on his left eye.
His left eye would turn black with red circles in it, he could see where the Akumas were and he could understand what they were talking about.
To normal humans, it sounded like screams and hisses. Well normal humans could understand them if they were in a human shape.
He really didn't know how the villagers knew about his eye, adding it to 'How the cursed looks like'.
Allen, known as the cursed by the villagers, was the protector of the village. The villagers didn't know this, they thought it was some miracle.
Even though they treated him badly when he wasn't hiding or, was wearing 'masks', he didn't want to harm them.
Allens day had been shitty.
He walked out from the ark, humming to the song, and came out from the gate in the forest.
Humming the song, while walking down to the village. (The gate only appeared if he was thinking of a specific place he wanted to go to.)
Wearing his usual long sleeved shirt, gloves and hiding eye and scar.
He had just dyed his hair, he was somewhat pissed that he had to do all this just to go outside to look 'Normal'.
The akumas usually brought money back after they had feasted on humans in other cities and villages.
So Allen didn't have to work to get money. Honestly he didn't like the feeding on humans thing, but if that's what they had to eat to survive, it was ok. But he had permitted them to eat a small number of humans per week. So they, you know, wouldn't just die out.
Because Allen was in no mood of moving out from the village, the village was actually pretty nice, a lake, forest, pretty ok people, he bought many books, because he wanted to learn about the outside.
He often walked in the shadows, because he didn't want to get noticed, because he would stand out with all the clothes he's wearing, talk about the eye patch and bandages on his face.
He had bought an apple, while eating it, he walked to the bookstore.
He bought a new book, it was pretty heavy, but it was ok. A little training wouldn't kill him.
And just when he was about to go back, he was stopped.
"And what do you think you're doing, sneaking in the shadows" the man said.
Allen was confused, why would this man just suddenly pop out and start to talk with him?
Best solution? He slammed the heavy book in the mans face, making an escape.
He thought it would be best for him to blend in with the people, so he stepped out in the light and walked normally, like nothing had happened.
Well soon, someone grabbed his arm.
"What the hell do you want" Allen shouted turning around and jerked his arm out of the grip.
The man had beautiful long blue hair, deep blue eyes. He was probably japanese. Allen noticed he was wearing the patrol mark.
"Shi...fuck." Allen thought.
"Moyashi, you slammed a damn book in my face" the man said, his 'nice-smile'-mask was falling of showing his angry face.
"Moyashi? The name's Allen" he said, giving the man a serious look. "I'm sorry if I slammed a book in your face, but it's your fault scaring me like that"
Allen wanted to get out of this situation. And fast.
"It was your fault sneaking in the shadows" the man said.
"Well if you have finished talking with me, I have to go home" Allen said, turning around and started walking.
He wanted away, back to the ark, now. His heart was pounding like crazy, he never talked to another human before.
Suddenly stopping when the man said "Wait, how long have you lived in this town?"
Allen thought he had to make a good impression of himself, well he had slammed a book in the mans face, but...
He turned around giving of a smile. "Ever sense I can remember"
Noticing that the man was shocked, Allen turned around and continued walking, giving of the 'I said nothing'-face.
Maybe the man knew everyone that lived in this town. Truly regretting that he said he lived in this town. Maybe he should have said he was visiting his granma? No that would be suspicious. Why would he have walked in the shadows then?
Allen got back to the forest, while he was walking deeper inside the forest he started singing the song, imagining the ark.
And soon after finishing the song, the gate stood there before him. He stepped in the ark.
The gate closed. Allen fell on the ground, trying to take a hold of his breath.
Regretting that he had spoken with the man, cursing around.
"As the woodcutter once said. As many trees you fall, as many fires it will start." Neah laughed.
"Thanks for cheering me up, Neah" Allen said, trying to kill his regrets.
Allen sat down and leaned against the white house walls. He was tired after all that.
"Allen, may I take over your body for this night while you're asleep" Neah asked. Allen gave him a small nod.
"But don't do anything stupid"
At night, Neah walked on the roofs in the village. Singing with his hearts joy.
God he loved the night.
The wind, the smell. Everything.
Some akumas following him around, listening to Neahs song as the villagers feared below.
So what do you think about this chapter. It was rather long wasn't it?... Well who cares, I think you like reading long chapters instead of a shorter chapter.
Yea, so this chapter was a bit about Allens past and how Allens day was when he met Kanda.
Thank you Natsuki D I enjoy reading your reviews, always giving me a review after reading a new chapter.
Honestly thank you for everyone that have written a review to me, it keeps me going and it makes me to write more, one of the reasons I update so fast. Thank you.
-Onmoraki