A/N; I was really bored. And I decided to write a fic with a tiny Allen. I really should be working on my other stuff. And I am. I have a little bit of each chapter for all three of my fics done. So. I'll try to have those up in the next couple weeks. Last week was FFA Camp for my Animal Management class. It was really fun. I did some archery. I can shoot well enough...but I have no aim whatsoever. xD;

Oooh. Time-line for this is between Timothy and the Alma Karma arc. So. Yup.

So after reading the new -Man chapter. I'm really happy. And I'm pretty sure Poker Pair Week is...next week or so. I have an entry made up for that already. When I'm not lazy I get stuff done.

-Man is owned by Katsura Hoshino.

A Small Problem

It was that time of the year again; time for spring cleaning in the Black Order. Every nook, cranny, and room would be cleaned from top to bottom. The rest of the Order was completed….only the Science section of the Order remained. Namely Komui's office. It was filled with paper work, dangerous potions and objects, and who knew what else.

Komui had somehow managed to bribe some of the Exorcists to aid him in the organization of the office. With its giant piles of paper, some very precariously perched…it would be a feat that could take hours, or even days to complete. After all, that paperwork had to be organized as well.

Allen carried a giant stack of papers over to Komui's desk, where Lenalee stood with her boots activated to make sure the supervisor went through it properly and signed everything. "Here, Komui-san. …more papers. You really should keep up on it…then we wouldn't have this issue," the white-haired exorcists commented, setting the stack down delicately on the desk.

He ran a gloved hand over his forehead, taking a deep breath of air. Even fighting Akuma wasn't as tiring as cleaning was. He moved towards a corner of the office that hadn't even been touched…however, Lavi had taken to falling asleep on the floor in the middle of the room. Never a good place to sleep. As Allen moved towards the corner of the room, he tripped over Lavi and was sent into the large pile of papers.

A crash, the papers sent fluttered over the room, coating the sleeping Lavi, and knocking over the other slightly organized papers. Only…several potions had somehow been somehow placed on top of the pile and the sound of glass shattering over Allen's head, dousing the exorcist in a myriad of liquids.

"Allen!" Lenalee cried, leaping over a paper-covered Lavi. "Are you alright? Oh my…you're bleeding." The small bits of glass had cut into Allen's face and his hair, sending the smallest trickles of blood down his face. He plucked the small pieces of glass from his skin. He looked at Lenalee and frowned. "Is it just me…or are you suddenly waaay taller than I remember?"

"Niisan! What were those potions!" Lenalee cried, turning on her brother. Komui looked up in mild amusement, happy to have finally gotten those potions tested out as he began scribbling down notes from it, watching Allen intently. "Oh. Various things. They're meant to revert an adult back to their childhood." He seemed very proud of himself for developing such a thing. "I was going to use it on you, my darling Lenalee! You were always so adorable as a child! I wanted my cute baby sister back."

"Niisan! What about Allen?" Lenalee cried, turning around. She'd only taken her eyes off of him for a second…but what she saw when she turned around to gesture wildly at the boy and demand Komui turn him back was oddly making her change her mind about the matter entirely.

Where Allen Walker had once stood there was a small reddish brown-haired child with the meanest look anybody could imagine on a child wearing much-too-large clothing. Yet…he still seemed oddly adorable. "Who're you people?" The child demanded. "Yer all a bunch of perverts prolly. A bunch of pedophiles."

Lenalee looked at Komui in annoyance for an explanation on this newest development.

"Oh. It seems like it also erases the memories of their adult life…oops."

"Niisan!"

Allen was on his feet now, glaring angrily around the room. "What'cha looking at, you bunch of bloody wankers." The British accent was heavy on the boy and then the group realized that he really was British and worked hard to keep his voice without the accent. A snort passed the boy's lips as he brushed out of the room passed the startled group. This was Allen as a child? This brash, uncontrolled child that had just called them wankers was Allen Walker?

Lenalee looked at Komui and smashed her foot into his head and then into Lavi's side before taking off down the hall after the child. "Allen!" Where had that kid gone? She couldn't find him anywhere. She returned to the office of her brother and shrugged helplessly. "I lost him."

Lavi was awake and rubbing his side. "Jesus, Lenalee…that really hurt. So Allen's a chibi moyashi now? And you lost him. That's…just lovely. I'll go hunt the little bugger down. He's Allen. He's probably lost somewhere."

He was lost instead, however he'd managed to find some clothes that would fit him at least. In fact, however, he was so lost, that he'd wandered into Kanda's room where the samurai was meditating. That couldn't be good at all. Not at all. Kanda's eyes flickered open and narrowed as the child knocked over his supply of extra katanas and wooden training swords. "Oi, runt...what the hell are you doing in here?"

Allen left the swords to their own device on the floor before looking at Kanda and glancing him up and down with contempt before speaking the truth. "She-man."

"What did you just call me, runt?"

"You heard me. You. She-man."

Kanda drew mugen and proceeded to chase the boy out of the room and down the hall. "Oi, runt. I will cut you," the samurai screamed angrily after the boy.

Back in Komui's office, Lenalee Lee and Komui Lee's ears caught the sound of crashing, screaming, swearing words that no child or anybody should even be swearing. The two hurried out of the room and were met with mild amusement, but horror at the scene.

Kanda was angrily slashing mugen at the child that was Allen, but couldn't reach him. The kid was on his back, yanking on his hair angrily. "Oi, you bloody tranny! Get yer toothpick out of my face!"

"I will kill you!"

Lenalee came to…well Kanda's rescue actually. He seemed to be having issues with a mere child. She removed the boy from his back dodging his wild kicks and punches at her now. However, once he noticed that the one grabbing for him was a female, he paused in his struggling and fell limp and was placed on the ground.

Kanda moved to impale the child but he moved lightly behind the Lenelee's legs and his killing impalement was paused. He sheathed the sword, glared with a death glare at the child before storming off. "Keep the little /beast/ away from. I don't know, and I don't give a damn."

A stuck out tongue, but being called a beast seemed to have a sobering effect on the child and he moved out from behind the female's legs. "I'm not…just different."

Lenalee and Komui glanced at each other and frowned. This wasn't anything like the Allen they knew and loved today. Could somebody change so much in the span of about eight years?

Lenalee knelt down in front of the child. "Allen, how old are you?"

"What…who's Allen? I ain't got a name. People generally jus' call me Red. I'm…" he frowned, thinking…it was as if he didn't really know. "Eightish maybe…"

Again the Lee siblings looked at each other in a bit of confusion. His name wasn't really Allen? Red? What kind of name was that? It couldn't be from the hair color, a dark dusty shading of brown. That wasn't even red.

Lavi come loping around the corner, panting lightly. "Couldn't…oh. You found him." Lavi wrapped his arms around the child. "I'm so sorry, Allen! It's all my fault!" the nineteen-year old fake sobbed.

"Get offa me, you creep," Allen hissed. "My name ain't Allen! It's Red. Who the hell are you people! You crazy pedophiles!" He was now wildly struggling in the red-head's grasp and while Lavi did this, Komui took the moment to explain something to Lenalee.

"That potion…it'll wear off. In a week or so," the scientist commented, glancing down towards the bookman apprentice and the child. He smiled brightly. "This gives us the perfect opportunity to see what Allen was like as a child! I'll take care of him," Komui stated proudly.

"I will, niisan," Lenalee stated with a glare at the man. He shouldn't get anymore distracted from his paper work than he already was.

"I'll help!" Lavi chimed in, finally releasing Allen from his grasp.

"The hell you will! No way my cute Lenalee will play mommy to your daddy, you octopus!" Komui shrieked.

"Yer all psychos!" Allen announced. "I'm goin' back to my circus and gettin' away from your loonies. I dunno how I wound up 'ere, but I ain't staying."

"Wait, Allen-kun. You can't go. The ah…circus left you here for us to care for when they left town," Komui shouted after the boy and watched him stop in his tracks.

"There ain't no way those wretches would ever leave somebody in charge to take care o' me," the boy said, his face blank. "I ain't stupid. And mah name ain't Allen. It's Red. Are you people that stupid?"

"Just stay with us for a week, Al…Red. We could use an extra hand around here," Komui stated, pleading with the child-form of one of the exorcists. He couldn't just let him leave without. "We'll feed you?"

Allen frowned deeply and then gave the slightest of nods. "One week…then I'm out of here. I eat a lot, you lot have been warned."

A/N; So. Yep. Little Allen is so snarly. xD