Bold/Bold Italics - Neah talking (Mainly)

Underline/Underlined Italics - English Dialect (Since, y'know, everyone will be speaking Japanese.)

Italics - Character(s) thoughts (Or Timcanpy. "Gaaah!")

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"Where do you think Allen goes," Rin asked one day. Yukio looked up from his work, most of it being just him grading the markings of the students. This is one of the times he envied Allen, who didn't have papers to grade for his classes.

"I don't know," the brunette responded, making a mark on Takara's paper. Probably whatever immortals leave to go do.

Sometimes he'll leave Rin with his brother and go disappear for the afternoon.

"Does Mephisto even give him an allowence like he does us," the ravenette inquired. His twin paused, becoming curious himself.

"I don't know."

"Wanna go find out how he spends his time?"

Yukio was going to decline. Really, he was. And then he was going to make sure that Rin stayed as well. But what did a century-year old person do in their spare time?

He pushed his glasses up the bridge of his nose, the sunlight reflecting off his lenses.

"...Very well."

The next day, Rin and Yukio followed Allen carefully. The male seemed oblivious to their presence, chatting to the golem by his side.

"He really does let Tim go out in public everywhere," Rin stated as a bead of sweat gathered on his forehead. "I thought that was just at school."

"And Timcanpy isn't even a demon," the brunette muttered. His older twin glanced at him incredulously. "What? You never noticed? Everyone in the High School can see him. Tim's a huge hit with the female populace-"

"Seriously?" Rin shuddered. "All I can imagine is Tim smiling..."

"He went in there," Yukio stated rather suddenly, snapping Rin from his thoughts. They hurried after Allen, who disappeared inside a building. Stopping outside, the two looked up and sweated.

This was a bar.

"Let's go," Rin said, pulling his brother in before he could say anything.

It wasn't too crowded and Allen was rather easy to find. After all, he was his own neon sign. The male was sitting idly at a table seeming to hold something in his hands. As the twins approached, careful to stay out of sight, they noticed that Allen held a deck of cards.

"Cards, anyone," he asked, catching the attention of more than a few people.

Several rounds later and both Yukio and Rin were staring at Allen with a gaping maw. The snowy-haired male had completely wiped the men out of their earnings. With a smile. The men grumbled but accepted it as Allen slid out of his seat. He paused when he saw the twins.

So this is what an immortal does, was Yukio's thought. To think that Allen...gambled.

"Oh, hello you guys. Shouldn't the two of you not even be in here?"

"Neither should you!" Rin had exclaimed. "You're the same age as us!"

If only he knew...

Allen however, gave Rin a closed-eyed smile as he didn't bother to correct anything on the subject. "Yes, that being said, we should probably leave before the manager comes. Sukiyaki will be on me."

"Sukiyaki," the teenager exclaimed, pumping a fist. Yukio smiled softly at the exchange. They left the bar and went walking around town. Timcanpy landed on Allen's head, probably tired of flying around. "Say, Allen. Aren't you hot wearing all that stuff?"

"Hm?" The male tilted his head slightly as he stared at Rin. He was wearing a beige jacket with a black vest and a white-long sleeve with a ribbon tie. He was also wearing black pants and combat boots. While it could fit in with modern times, Yukio was surprised that he didn't note the strange old era feel it had with it. Like a gentleman.

Maybe he was just noticing because he actually knew that Allen was older than he seemed.

I'm going to keep comparing him to the 20th century subconsciously, Yukio thought with annoyance, hiding it perfectly by shifting his glasses.

"I guess that you can say that I'm use to it," Allen added.

"Yeah but you wear long sleeves when you're training the class. Hell, even when you're training me."

"Maybe if you give me more of a challenge, I'll put on my training outfit."

Allen's tone was light-hearted, if a bit teasing. Rin of course, got rather hotheaded.

"Maybe if you let me use Kurikara, I would have a shot!"

"Certainly," the male agreed, to which Rin blinked in surprise at. "Then I'll go empty-handed."

Yukio finally spoke up. "Allen, do you think that'll be alright? What if you get... hurt..."

He stopped speaking when Allen's face became more...sinister. Ah, there was Black Allen again. It was very disturbing.

"Don't worry about me." Yukio couldn't help but gulp. "I will be perfectly fine."

"U-uh, I think we're here," Rin finally said aloud, breaking the dark atmosphere. Black Allen disappeared in a flash, leaving Allen to look up at the sign. The twins were relieved.

"I guess we are," he finally said.

"I thought you couldn't read Japanese," Yukio spoke.

"I can't but I recognize this sign. And can you not smell the yakiniku?" Allen's eyes lit up like a child. But no, Yukio couldn't smell it. "And they have mitirashi dango here!"

Before either of the twins could say anything, the male headed inside. Rin and Yukio glanced at each other, the latter shrugging, before they followed him in Now they could smell yakiniku.

Allen had already found them a booth. Tim sat on the table as the male folded his hands on the table. As the twins sat down, a waitress wandered over and handed them their menus.

"I already know what I'm going to order," Rin said with excitement.

"At least be considerate and look at the menu," Yukio scolded as he opened his. "What if there's something else you want?"

"Oh... Right."

Allen chucked at their antics as he placed his hands on the menu that he had yet to order.

"The same as usual, Allen," the waitress asked. Both twins perked their ears. The same as usual!? She even called him by name!

"Yes, please."

The waitress smiled brightly at him and scribbled something down.

"Ooo, I want some sukiyaki and pepsi!"

Yukio sighs. "I'll take some sukiyaki and root beer."

The woman nodded and took the menus before walking away. She seemed to have a little skip in her step as though she had gotten a favorite customer.

"I'm guessing that you come by often," the brunette Exorcist asked, watching the woman go.

"From time to time. When Ukobach needs to get more ingrediants, I usually end up here."

"And gamble too, it seems."

"That? It was just a card game to pay some of my Master's debts."

Yukio recalled Allen having mentioned a master before. Many times, actually. Some of his sentences always seem to link back towards this unknown teacher of his. And each time, Allen would shiver somewhat, as if holding unpleasant memories. How could he still be paying debts from the past hundred years?

"How much debt was your Master even in?"

There it was, that shiver. This time accompanied by a shadow of despair that seemed to chill the very air with depression. "Too much... Still too much..."

Neither of the Okumura brothers said anything. In fact, they just watched as Allen seemed to mourn over that fact. Still too much? How much debt did someone have to accumulate for it to be a hundred years and it still had been paid?

Needless to say, Allen was glad when his food came. And he ordered even more so he could try forgetting the whole ordeal.

Rin was glad for summer break. There would be no exams, no classes. Even Konekomura asked if Rin would join them for the closing ceremony.

"Can Allen come," He asked, surprising not only the white-headed male but everyone else.

Allen will admit that he wasn't exactly on a friend level with the rest of his classmates/students. If they asked him something in class, he responded as politely as possible. If it was him teaching, his tone was more stern. Other than that, he tended to not interact at all. The same would have been for Rin if the boy didn't turn to talk to him about everything. They were so use to Allen following him around like a shadow that they hadn't even thought to ask.

"It's fine," the white-headed male said, raising his hands with a closed-eyed smile on. "You should hang out with your friends, Rin. I'll have Timcanpy."

The small golem fluttered his little wings from where he perched which, of course, was on Allen.

"B-but they're your friends too, aren't they?"

Allen shook his head. His gaze flickered to Rin's wrist. If someone looked very closely, the edges of the red ribbon the male had given him was still tied there. He smiled softly as he returned his gaze to the teenager's face. "I haven't interacted enough with them to gain the title as their friends. I would just be intruding." Suddenly, his smile grew a little more darker. And his voice, although calm, had an edge to it. "Just don't go causing any fights or explosions. Or you'll leave our next training session with more injuries than your last punishment."

Rin turned white as a sheet as he recalled what happened after the whole deal with Shura.

**Flashback**

"Hey, Rin~." The ravenette looked over at Allen as the male adjusted the cuffs to his long-sleeve. His tone was light and he had a smile on. In fact, he looked rather happy. But something told Rin that he wasn't. "You're better at brawls than you are at swords, right?"

"Uh...yeah?" His uncertainty made it a question. "Why do you ask?"

"Good. Good." The male nodded in response, momentarily casting aside the question. "Then how about today, we'll train on that."

"O...kay..."

"Get ready," Allen had said, his body tensing. Rin was still hesitant as he raised his arms. "Go."

The ravenette barely took a step before he found himself flying into a wall. He heard himself crash into it long before he stilled. Then the pain came rushing at him at full force.

"Ngh," Rin pushed himself up to his feet. He didn't even see Allen move. And yet there he was, standing a little more closer. "What the hell was that for!?"

Allen tilted his head slightly.

Cracked his knuckles.

And smiled pleasantly, all at the same time.

"Do you remember how I said to not blow things up at the park," he asked.

Rin nodded.

"And yet the rollercoaster ride mysteriously ended up ruined beyond use."

"Uh... That wasn't entirely my fault..."

"But you were there. You were a part of it. Now get ready, Rin. Because we still have more training to do~."

Rin gulped.

**End Flashback**

Yeah, that was not a fun experience. Just that alone made his sprain his shoulder, his ankle, his leg... If he wasn't a half-demon, he was certain that he would be a little out of commission. Rin couldn't even dodge any of the punches Allen had pulled, much less hit the teenager with one of his own.

"Y-yes sir," he managed to stammer out, astounding his classmates. Everyone was aware that he wasn't one to use polite words like that.

"Everyone, from today onwards, the summer break is going to be so much fun," Yukio had announced. Both he and Shura stood beside what Allen thinks is a railcar. All these strange vehicles and their strange names really made him wistful for a good, old-fashioned carriage ride. Yukio went ahead and told them that it was a camping exercise, the half talking about getting stronger while the second half was about combat. That's a very interesting way of doing it. It's definitely better than having Exorcists thrown out into the world to go fight without checking to make sure that they could.

They ended up walking through the forest on a rather hot day. Everyone had large backpacks full of the supplies they'd need but it seemed like it was only Rin who was into this.

"Look, a waterfall," he exclaimed. "Can we drink from it!?"

"That's probably not a good idea," Allen responded with a smile. Unlike the others, he had discarded his uniform for some normal clothes. It was summer after all. The other students were wondering how both him and Yukio seemed so adversed to the heat. Even Timcanpy himself seemed unaffected but that wasn't surprising since the class didn't know what the hell he was. "It might still contain some parasites. You should boil the water first."

"Oooh." Then Rin made a face. "Ew, parasites?"

Allen nodded and the students continued their trek. He was at the back of the class so they had to pause to look at him when he spoke. They happened to pass by a rather large trantula on the way. Allen stared at it before a sharp-toothed grin appeared on his face.

"And Black Allen strikes again," Neah stated.

A few more minutes later and they finally reached a clear space inside the trees. That's when Yukio took off his trench coat and began telling them where to put the tents.

"I thought he was superhuman," Shima commented. Then he glanced over at Allen. "You're still wearing that jacket!?"

"Well, yes." The white-headed male raised an eyebrow. "Am I not suppose to?"

"It's, like, ninety degrees out! How the hell are you not burning up!?"

"Just ninety degrees?" Shima's eyes nearly bugged out of his head when Allen held his chin thoughtfully. "I suppose it's because I'm use to it."

How the hell could anyone be use to that?

"Allen, go put up your tent," Yukio had ordered, cutting into their conversation.

"Yeah, about that..." He had a sheepish smile. "I didn't bring one." At Yukio's look, he waved his hands. "I didn't forget it or anything. It's just...I've never used a tent before. I usually either rent a room at an inn or sleep under the stars."

"What did you bring then?"

"Some normal clothes, some training clothes, Timcanpy's polishing kit... The necessities."

Tim, who had taken to the air sometime during their walk, nodded in agreement.

"That's why I said don't hit it!" Bon could be heard yelling. Both Allen and Yukio released a sigh as they faced the group Rin was stuck with. The tent they had managed to set up collapsed.

"Okumura," the brunette scolded. Allen lightly laughed.

Dinner was peaceful. Everyone really liked Rin's food. Allen got the leftovers, of course, since they had to bring extra for his appetite. As they sat down eating, sometimes a peaceful silence would ring out.

"Walker," went Bon, deriving Allen's attention from the delicious food. The male nearly had his fork in his mouth when he looked over. Tim had gobbled it up in seconds. "Where are you from? You're obviously not Japanese."

That grabbed everyone's attention. True, while Allen could speak Japanese nearly flawlessly, he didn't look Asian. Yukio quietly berated himself for never thinking to ask that question before.

"England."

There was another span of silence before Kimiki scoffed. "I guess that explains your politeness."

"Stereotypes..."

"You're a bit far form home," Shima commented. "Is your family fine with that?"

Yukio and Rin tensed. Even Allen looked caught off-guard at the sudden question. Yukio was certain that his family must be dead. And that it still hurts him. The air around them turned somber as Allen dropped his gaze to his food. Even Tim tried to console his master by landing on his head.

"This concludes dinner," the brunette said, rising to his feet. Allen looked thankful about the intervention. "Now, I'll start explaining the training content."

"I'm not sure this is a good idea," Neah commented as Allen walked through the woods in the dark with his ghostly uncle. Tim flied right cbeside his master .

"I know," he groaned. "My sense of direction will just get us lost."

"That... And the fact that we need to replace the seal."

"So soon?"

"Allen, it's been about three weeks since we last did it."

The male stopped abruptly in his steps.

"Three weeks... Are you sure?"

"I said 'about'. But yes."

"It can't have been three weeks already."

"You know the saying: Time flies when you're having fun."

Yukio had set the group on their way to go and retrieve some lanterns. There were three laterns and those who brought them back could participate in combat missions. The class thought that it's be simple to go ahead and grab them but that didn't seem right. Why would a lantern have to be lit up with a flare?

"I guess I'll just summon the Ark then and go fix it," Allen pouted, holding his hand in front of him.

"...Wait."

"Wait? Wait for what?"

"Until dawn to use the Ark. It's as dark as the last Earl's heart out here. With the light of the Ark, any one of those kids could come look. Do you want to explain how you suddenly appeared walking out of a bright light?"

"..." Allen frowned. "No, not particularly."

And so, returning to silence, Allen kept walking.

Until a female scream tore through the rather peaceful silence.

"Sheimi!" yelled another voice. Allen and Neah glanced at each other before the latter dispersed and the former started sprinting through the trees. "Sheimi, what's wrong!?"

That sounded like Rin.

Allen followed his frantic shouts as quickly as he could, utilizing his superhuman speed. As he reached an opening in the trees where he caught a glimpse of the ravenette, a blue light suddenly blinded him. Grunting, Allen sheilded his face as he thought of what it could be. Those had to of been Rin's flames.

"Rin," Allen hissed as he was suddenly able to see again, the light dimming until the flames were no longer present. The ravenette whipped his head over. "What if someone saw?"

"A-Allen," he stammered. "I wasn't- I didn't mean to-"

"You guys," another voice said. Allen tensed for a battle when he brought his gaze over to a stripe-haired teenager. "What was that just now?"

Allen's mind spurned for a lie to tell that would save Rin's hide.

"Is Moriyama okay," Bon inquired.

"Pro-probably." The ravenette looked down at Sheimi. Allen moved over to check on her. "For the moment anyway. Her head's bleeding though."

"I'll wrap it," was Allen's response as he dug through his bag. Since Yukio had prepared it, besides Allen throwing in his stuff, it should have bandages. Ah, there it was. As he tended to her head, Bon was telling Rin to turn off his light due to how the moths were attracted to it.

"So anyways, what was that blue light just now?" Rin stiffened. "'Cause it was so dark and the light shined so suddenly, I was practically blinded. I could hardly see what it was."

"That was my doing," Allen had spoken up. He was glad he did because Rin seemed as though he was going to give a pretty half-assed excuse. "There were a bunch of small demons attacking Rin and Miss Moriyama when I arrived so I used this talismen I had to get them away. The light of it is so white that I guess it can come off as blue sometimes."

"You're looking at the CROW's magic seals to lie with, aren't you?"

He didn't need to respond, for his uncle already knew the answer. Bon himself didn't look convinced while Rin gaped at him with awe. Seeing as there was no other information available, he had no choice but to accept Allen's lie.

Sheimi then woke up, much to their relief. She panicked for her demon for a bit then, when Rin asked her what happened, she said that she blacked out. But not before catching sight of a giant moth. Then something moved through the trees, catching everyone's attention.

"Get down," Rin hissed, pulling Sheimi with him. Something came out of the trees with a leap, a weapon in hand aiming for Rin's face. The ravenette was a little too slow to bring up his own wooden sword.

Allen moved on the way, raising his left arm to have the weapon hit his skin. He barely caught sight of a surprised-looking Shima before Allen forced the pinkette away. From there, he landed on the ground.

"Huh? What's everyone doing here," he asked.

"The same goes for you," Bon hissed. "And turn off your light."

"I wass surrounded by moths. And after that..."

"Oh, that's right. You hate bugs."

Is that so? Allen fought off a smile. Wait until he sees his little surprise.

"By the way Walker, I'm sorry for hitting you so hard." The pinkette laughed nervously. "Is your arm alright?"

"Hm? It's fine." He smiled at the teenager. "Don't worry about it."

Then both of their phones rang. Bon pulled his out and looked at it. "It's from Konekomaru."

"Bon?" Konekomaru looked relieved when he saw his friends. "Shima! You brought Okumura, Moriyama, and Walker too! Thank goodness, its over here."

Timcanpy looked a little put out at not having his name called. Allen chuckled as he let the golem land in his hair. "It's okay, Tim. It's okay."

He frowned lightly as his curse finally activated. It's been about... twenty minutes since they entered the forest. It must be that the quantity of lower demons have finally become problematic enough for their collective matter to force it to react. No, not only that. There's something big skirting the edges of his curse's vision.

"It's huge," Rin exclaimed, taking away the male's focus. He looked over to see what the others were doing and sweated. "This is a lantern!?"

It was a giant stone lantern that sat on some steps. Bon went on explaining how it was a peg lantern and apparantly liked to eat anything living when lit. Using a demon to pass a test and become an Exorcist... True Cross really are hypocrites.

That makes sense now... Yukio always kept telling them how they had to work together as a group. And the flare was meant for such a large thing.

"I thought of a formation the six of us could do," Konekomaru had said, holding up a hand.

Shima and Konekomaru ended up on the sides of the cart they were to use for the lantern's transportation, Bon was in the back for prayer recital, Sheimi was in the cart with the lantern to feed it, and both Allen and Rin were at the front of the cart for pulling.

"Is Allen even strong enough," Shima asked, looking a bit dubious at the white-headed male's position.

"...Definitely," answered Rin, who was turning pale at the memories. Allen furrowed his brows. Did he scare the ravenette that much during training? Shima then shrugged and let it go on.

"By the way, Allen." Konekomaru looked up at him from behind his huge glasses. "I just realized that your curse activated. Does that mean that you can see the demons?"

"Yes. My eye can detect their position. I'm sure we can make it past them rather easy if we go through their weakest paths." He frowned. "But there's something strong at the edges of my vision. I can't see it clearly because it keeps moving in and out of range... Wait, it just disappeared."

"That's good, right?"

"For now. Come on, let's get going." Allen lifted the front where he was to pull the carraige with relatively ease. "Rin?"

"Y-yeah!"

The two pulled the cart through the trees without a problem. Even Shima was asking what planet they had come from. The only thing that made them stop... Was a rickedy old bridge. Bon pointed out that the seal on the top showed that it was sealing something away.

After devising a plan to get across the bridge, Allen was having a really hard time not giving the pinkette a withering look. As it turns out, Shima was utterly useless when it came to bugs. How the hell he slipped stag beetles into the twins beds, it was really hard to tell. So yes, Allen was sure that this boy deserved his surprise later because now he had to carry the cart. And poor Rin cried out when Sheimi nearly dug her fingers into his eyes.

"Ouch..."

Yep. A definite ouch.

He set the cart down on the other side with no problem. Then when Rin was about halfway across the bug swamp, they set the lantern free. The ravenette had to hightail it out of there but they got the lantern back into the cart no problem. The only problem was...

Rin.

The teenager had snapped the rope that held all those seal. As soon as it broke, a powerful demon spiked in Allen's vision.

"Rin," he yelled, just as a giant moth busted from the swamp.

"I'll be fine," Rin had said, the look of horror on his face becoming a smile. "I'll catch up as soon as I've defeated it! You guys go on ahead!"

Allen cracked his knuckles, giving Rin a really pleasant smile with a tick mark on his face. He wasn't stupid, he knew that Rin was going to try using his flames. But that idiot first needed to learn how to get on without them.

"You wait till we get out of this, Okumura," he said happily. Rin paled. Allen hadn't called him by his last name since he first arrived at the monastery.

Suddenly, being held against his will by a gigantic moth demon seemed far more preferable.

After Bon threw Shima's staff at the demon and chanted some words, the demon went flying back and let Rin go. Allen pulled him to his feet, his pleasant smile still on his face. "Now you get over to that cart and run like I'm about to kill you. Because I just might~."

If Rin was pale before, he was white as a sheet now.

"Yes s-sir," he stuttered, hurrying over to the front of the cart where both he and Allen grabbed. Then they started to move as fast as they could go with that moth on their tail. After the heat was over, Bon and the others started telling Rin not to do things by himself. That he has friends. The look on Rin's face told Allen that it mattered a lot to him.

Even though he was still irritated at him, Allen smiled.

Shura's barrier had cut off Amaimon's attack for now, leaving the rest of the class safe inside. For now. His hair was sopping wet from the holy water and Tim, who was stationed there, also recieved his dosage. All-in-all, the golem was not pleased and poor Allen was trying to dry his little wings.

"Moriyama!?"

Pulled from his activities, Allen looked up to see Sheimi slipping past the barrier. She was walking to the woods as if she had a purpose. Amaimon then dropped down and held her close.

"I had a female chuchi lay her eggs inside of her. Although it took a while for incubation until they were parasitically living on her nervous system. Right now, this girl will only obey my commands."

Rin was about to follow when Amaimon's Behemoth got in his way. There was Shura there, slashing in front of the beast to prevent Rin from dying. She threw him his sword. "Go! I'll catch up later!"

"Allen," Rin called, motioning to the trees. "Let's go."

The white-headed male nodded and, with a "Tim, stay," followed the teenager through the trees.

As Rin went flying back, Allen grit his teeth and summoned Crown Clown. One of the tethers held Amaimon's wrist to prevent her from taking one of her he used that as his anchor to go flying at the demon, planting his combat boot firmly on Amaimon's torso. At the same time, his arms also wrapped around Sheimi, allowing him to successfully pull her from the demon's grip. The demon twisted, doing a handspring before ending back on his feet again.

Bang!

Something went flying through the air, where it met Amaimon's point on his hair.

The smoke filtered away, showing that Amaimon's hair now looked... Well, the color made it look a lot like a thing of broccoli. Shima did a spit-take before laughing. Konekomura, who was the one that held the firecracker that exploded in his hair, looked utterly horrified. Allen set Sheimi down besides Rin. Amaimon disappeared.

Allen was so close to not making it to Shima in time to prevent Amaimon from landing a kick on the pinkette. His cloak wrapped around Shima, preventing him injury as his own spine collided with a tree about six meters away. It was a sharp jolt, one he hadn't felt in a while. Crown Clown unraveled from the surprised pinkette.

"A-Allen? What is this? What happened?"

The white-headed male got to his feet with a light grunt. The color of blue lit up in the corner of Allen's vision.

"Dammit Rin," he growled, looking agitated. Even Shima, seeing his expression, took a step away. The male ran towards where the others were.

Rin had his flames unleashed and was fighting Amaimon. Allen tensed to join.

"Not yet," Neah cut in. "With him just using his flames like that, even you will recieve devastating injuries that'll take forever to heal."

"But-"

"Rin seems to be handling himself quite well. Besides, you should probably take it easy."

Shura arrived, ending Neah's conversation as Allen watched the demon and half-demon fight. Every time Rin recieved a hit, he'd come back with one more wild than the last. He recognized what was going on rather well. The ravenette was losing himself...

"Walker, let's go," Shura ordered. "It's not safe here for us."

"On the contrary, Miss Kirigakure, this is the best place for me to be."

Her gaze was critical as she stared at Allen. "What even are you?"

He smiled back. A very soft and simple one.

"I'm a destroyer who can save."

Rin was getting too far gone. Amaimon had already been sent away and yet the ravenette still raged with his blue flames. Even Mephisto was having a bit of difficulty with him.

"Rin, that's enough," Allen commanded as the ravenette landed in front of him. All he got in return was a throaty snarl. "Rin?"

The ravenette lunged at him. And even though Allen was able to dodge past him, the flames lashed out against his skin. Allen hissed as his skin turned red.

"Allen, you might need those Noah abilities."

"I know..." The male closed his eyes. He can't use Crown Clown to attack. His Innocence could hurt Rin far too much. No, he'll have to knock the boy out. And with Destruction... It was definitely possible.

Allen allowed his skin to turn gray. As his stigmas lined his forehead, he opened his gold irises to see Rin coming his way.

The crazed boy couldn't react fast enough when Allen's fist collided with his stomach. Grabbing Rin's shoulder, Allen then spun around and used his momentum to fling Rin into a nearby tree. The trunk splintered and with a little help from Allen's powers, began to fall towards a dazed Rin.

"I'm not trying to kill him," Mephisto had stated, pulling Rin out of the way before the tree crashed onto the ground.

"Neither am I," was the response. Rin was too durable of a person. And Allen didn't want to risk using his Noah powers too much with the seal so loose. Besides, he wasn't as good at controlling it as Neah was.

"You could have fooled me. You know, for a gentleman, you do devise brutal ways of getting things done."

"..."

"Come along now. Oh, and do keep that form present. The True Cross Order already suspects you so it might be best to get rid of their little suspicion as soon as possible. Otherwise it will get quite annoying, if you know what I mean."

"It might be best if we do," Neah stated begrudgedly. "Stupid they may be, the Vatican at least knows the trademarks of a Noah."

Allen hesitated for a brief second and then nodded. If they were already suspicious then...

Timcanpy was delighted to see Allen appear behind Mephisto and therefore, in front of his classmates. He had to keep some distance since Rin was trying to grab him. The small golem nudged his master's face, to which he got a small smile in return.

"A-Allen," spoke Yukio. "You're skin... You're eyes..."

The male refused to look him.

"Noah," some blond guy spat, standing on top of the tower. He said it as though it were a curse. "So you not only had Satan's spawn in your midst, but a Noah as well?" The students gaped at Allen. "Grigori will be informed about your betrayel. This incident has all the crucial evidence I need." He held up his sword as Mephisto woke up Rin. "Caliburn 'give me strength'."

And Allen swears, the sword talked back.

The man, to the human eye, would look as though he disappeared shortly after. Allen was there in an instant, catching the him (he would later discover that the man's name was Arthur) by his throat. His golden eyes were cold and merciless as he glared at the Paladin. "I'll kill you before you even lay a finger on him."

And like that, he threw the Paladin away, watching as the man scowled as he glared at him. He looked ready for a fight but then paused...

"New orders from Grigori. It seems that I will be preforming the disciplinary action of interrogating Mephisto Pheles, the head of the Japanese Branch. Naturally, I'll be taking Satan's spawn and the Noah as material evidence."

"If that's what your inhumanly large ego demands," Allen shot back, allowing the Paladin to carry Rin. He kept a close eye on Arthur. After all, who knows if he was going to stab him if he wasn't looking.

Rin... Allen grew somber as the ravenette tried asking if everyone was alright. Instead, he was met with harsh words. The male didn't react in the slightest when Bon demanded to know why a Noah and Satan's son was even there to begin with. He had expected this treatment and, with a sigh, allowed his human form to take front stage once more.

The words about Rin being Satan's spawn burned Allen's ears. They didn't even consider him a person. Something with feelings, emotions. They spoke as if he was a mere thing that couldn't have humanity. And Allen hated it. Mephisto spoke about needed Rin as a weapon. An edge on Satan. The poor boy knelt on the ground with his expression hidden from sight. However, even Allen could feel the pain radiating off him.

"And let's not be afraid to mention the Noah that Mephisto has let run around."

"Noah?" The men up in their high chairs looked to Allen when Arthur forced a hand in his direction. "Mephisto, is this boy over here truly a Noah?"

"I am." Allen's clear voice cut the demon off. He moved in front of Rin, the latter being surprised. "I was an Exorcist of the Black Order about a hundred years ago." Rin did a spit-take. "I put an end to the Holy War when I had killed the last Millennium Earl." The male paused. "My name is Allen Walker. In your history books, I am known as Crown Clown."

Silence premeated the area. None of the Vatican even seemed to know how to respond. Then...

"So your arm and that cloak is made up of the God's Crystal," they finally asked.

"Yes."

"Does that mean that there are more?"

"No." Allen narrowed his eyes. "Most of the Innocence had been destroyed. The only one that remains is mine. And once chosen, the Innocence will not find another Accomadator. Trying to force it so will bring a tragedy that your eyes had not yet seen."

There was silence for the longest time before there seemed to be a quiet agreement for a change of subject.

"Allen Walker, if you were to stay, will you watch over Satan's spawn?"

The male felt his eye twitch. "Yes, I will watch over Rin Okumura."

"Very well, let us vote..."

"So you're a Noah," Kamiki had said when her, and the other students entered Allen's class. Yukio had informed him that the ravenette would be taking some different classes for now to try to control his flames. Since he was with Shura and his twin, Allen wasn't too worried.

"...Yes," he had admitted after a while.

"And you haven't tried to kill us or humanity because...?"

Allen had an appalled look on his face. "I went through a lot to save it. Why on Earth would I want to destroy it?"

"Because that's what Noah do," Shima responded uncertainly with a shrug.

"No, that's what the other Noahs have done." Allen crossed his arms, looking mildly annoyed. "Since I've became Earl, I'll be happy to inform you that I haven't killed a single human. Demons yes, but not humans."

"So you... you killed humans before you became a Noah?" inquired Konekomaru timidly. This time, the male flinched.

"One must kill the last Earl in order to take over it's burden to become a new one. So yes, I have killed something akin to humans once before becoming an Earl."

"Akin to humans?" Bon looked dubious. "But they're demons."

"Now that's where your Exorcist studies are wrong." At this, the male frowned. "Demons are made up of Dark Matter. Now while Dark Matter is, in essence, tainted, the demons themselves are made up of impure Matter. Now Noah were once humans. Humans who were turned into something much more dark and powerful and could use Dark Matter in it's purest form. Demons are made of it, the Noah just use it. That's that."

"H-how did you become the Earl," Konekomaru asked. This time, Allen's response began with a pregnant silence. He finally closed his eyes and sighed.

"I was an Exorcist of the Black Order. My weapon, like other Exorcists, was called Innocence. I became the Earl during the last stages of the Holy War. By the time it ended... No one but Tim and myself was left."

At the mention of his name, the golem began to open his maw.

"No, Tim." Allen shook his head. "They don't need to see it. Just remembering it is bad enough."

The golem nodded, his mouth closing in response as it left the Exwires to simmer in curiousity.

"Today, you can have a free period. I apologize; I don't quite feel like teaching at the moment."

Some nodded while the rest shuffled through the training room to go do whatever. Allen found himself wandering over to the wall to go lean on it with a sigh. They didn't seem to mind much about him being a Noah as they did to Rin being Satan's son. Then again, Satan's actions have been far more recent. And Noah have been inactive for about forty years, due to him finally getting tired of the reincarnation's antics.

The door opened to his classroom but Allen didn't pay any mind. If the students wanted to leave for the day, so be it. He just didn't care right now.

"Mister Walker~"

Oh no...

It was him. Allen did not feel like dealing with Mephisto's antics right now.

"Mister Walker, you have a visitor~"

"Go away, Mephisto," the male grumbled, not facing his way.

"Che, same as always," a familiar voice grumbled. Allen felt his eyes widen as he moved from the wall to look in the direction of the person.

Blue-ish black hair, a scowl, a katana. Allen felt himself gulp as he pointed at the person incredulously.

"I-it's you..."

Kanda.

I...had the HARDEST time fitting Allen into the plot with Amaimon and the Vatican. :( It actually ruined my creative bits and I had to sleep in order to get them back. I'll have to put the Omake I had planned in another chapter.

~YokaiAngel - :P

~MillenniaPhoenix - Riiiight? But too late, the Vatican learned on their own violation.

~Ryuakilover27 - It's definitely one of those moments where you want to slap the character. And here it is.

~Blitza - I do have some plans on th seal yes, but there will be no "evil half". As appealing as it is, I cannot think of an evil half of Allen besides Neah, and he's rather tame in this story... I also cannnot write what I can't imagine so if I myself cannot imagine Allen evil, he isn't going to be.

~olivia-rodriguez-927 - Thanks~

~Nagisa Acchan - No problem. And thanks~

~xellostroubl3 - There you go!

~Guest - Arigato!

~Ary - Thanks! I'm so happy that they're in-character enough. Studying people does come in handy! Anyways, this will be following the manga. If I'm vigilante on the series, I might slip in more areas that were covered in the anime that wasn't in the manga. Like how Ukobach wasn't in the manga at all.