TITLE: Allen Snow Walker & the Theatre Troupe of Seven (unbetaed)

AUTHOR: Akiko

GENRE: YAOI, Romance, Drama

PARING: KanAre

RATED: T (PG-13)

SUMMARY: loosely based on the well-known fairy-tale 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves'. AU, set in the 1700s when British people first came to Japan.

A peasant boy, long ago orphaned came to Japan, lost he was found by Cross, awakening his fate. His name is Allen Walker.

The heir of a dominating clan, destiny all already laid out for him, everything changes with this one chance encounter. His name….Yuu Kanda

DISCLAIMER: I don't even own the title of the manga.

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Foul souls trapped

Allen didn't't have to use his sword for a while, he was starting to wonder if it was necessary. He traced a finger on the smooth sheath, until his finger landed upon the cross. Yes, now he lived to serve God and the trapped souls. He got up and walked out to the dining room, tying the sword to his thigh on the way out.

"So it begins, our Winter Goddess sets out to serve her duty when winter has not come forth, what souls will she set free now, what secrets dwell in their hearts", Komui sang in his stage voice.

"Komui, please stop that, you'll wake everyone up"

"Yes, yes, how are you feeling Allen-kun, up for some soul slaying?"

Allen swallowed the last of his food, "I'll have to get used to the idea of cutting… I'll be going now"

Allen opened the door, only to impact his nose on something, he looked to find Kanda standing over him.

"Che, watch where you're going beansprout"

"It's Allen"

"Like I care"

They heard a sigh, "I really can't tell if you're lovers anymore", Ayumi appeared from no where again.

"Ayumi, you have to finish your homework", Sayuri suddenly came behind her with ropes.

Everyone developed sweat drops upon seeing Sayuri drag off a figure wrapped with layers of rope.

Allen stood for a moment watching the sisters retreating silhouettes, he started to walk out himself. Kanda followed him without another word. Allen thought hard for a name for his sword. It was white and gold, it bore a cross. What else? He remembered watching a play once in his child hood, a character of white and gold stood with radiance and pride on the stage. Who was this mysterious character, a cloak of pure white, a mask of solid gold. The clown that chased Augustine's! Yet still, calling a sword clown? Allen smiled, he was quite the clown to think such idiotic names. What had the clown done in the play? I know, the clown was crowned the throne of a wonderful world. Strange creatures in every corner, mystic beings hidden from the sun. Crown Clown! Yes the king of all clowns, leader of the geniuses who acted like fools.

(A/N- I think a certain someone who hit my head knocked something askew in my brain, sorry if you think that this paragraph is weird)

"Crown clown"

"What?"

"My sword"

"What?"

"I'm calling my sword the Crown Clown"

"What?"

"I came up with the name Crown Clown…"

"Yes…"

"For my sword…."

"…. Ok"

"My swords name is Crown Clown"

"Oh!… Why'd you call it that"

"It's like my crown, and I'm like a clown, don't you think"

Kanda ruffled his hair, "My clown", he hugged Allen to himself, resting his chin on his head. Allen smiled and returned the hug. Now this, the crowd couldn't help, but gape at, the most feared man was hugging a girl fondly with a smile. Well, it's not like they knew Allen was a boy.

"Let's go find some souls to save", Allen let go and ran off.

"Che, he's still a brat"

…

Allen looked everywhere, but not a bound soul was in sight. Did people not mourn and long for their deceased loved ones? Allen was so bent on saving souls, he forgot something. Souls can be bounded to the earth for many reasons.

A ugly figure hid in the shadows, watching the white haired girl pass. She has a mark on her eye, this was going to be a lot trickier, she can see him that way, but she lacked the powers to destroy him. He snickered to himself.

Something flashed past Allen, he turned swiftly to see what it was. Nothing was with in her view, but she couldn't shake off the feeling she was being watched.

"Damn you soul reapers are annoying"

Allen gasped, a figure slowly came into view, he had bandages again, hollow eyes and rotting limbs.

"Poor soul, allow me to save you"

"Ha! You think I want to be save, I'm having so much fun right now! It's a pity you can see me! I killed every other soul reaper that wondered to me"

"They couldn't see you"

"The only way they can slay a soul is to let their body guide them, even if their body goes the right way it's damn hard to get me"

Allen tightened his grip on his sword.

"Heh! It certainly is rare to se a reaper with the soul seeing eye, most people don't pick that, you know why, it's because they don't want to see things like me! See, I'm ugly, offensive to the eye and loving it!"

"You can kill"

"Yes… like this!", his nail shot out catching Allen off guard, the grew out at lightening speed and made a few scratches lined up on his arm.

The boy clutched his wound, his hold on the sword faltering a bit. Allen grabbed his sword with both hands again and rushed at the foul soul.

"You are better off dead!", Allen slashed, but the ghost dodged and cackled like a maniac, amused at Allen's persistence. Allen turned and extended the sword out, but the attack only caught a bit of the bandages, nipping a bit off it.

"Beansprout!"

"Kanda, don't come any closer"

"That someone you know", the ghost turned to Kanda, "It won't hurt just to cut him right?"

"Don't you dare", but the man ignored Allen's threats and his nails made a tear through Kanda's Yukata, he winced and stared at the wound that came out of no where. How was that possible?

The ghost watched in amusement as Kanda took out his sword ready to defend himself, "Fool, you don't even possess the reapers power to fight me"

"You're fighting me! It's weak to fight people you have an advantage over!"

"Alright", the ghost lunged at Allen.

Kanda could only watch helplessly as Allen dodged something and dust flew everywhere when the attacker smashed into the dirt floor.

"Don't underestimate me", Allen slashed the ghost. Crown Clown was glowing, was the reaper power in his blood reacting his emotions? The soul studied the sword, it wasn't possible, his sword was resonating with a power that was bound to finish him off. It didn't make sense, Allen's power was in his eye.

Kanda gaped at Allen's sword, but he smirked a bit afterwards, "That ghost doesn't stand a chance, giving the sword a name binds it to it's owner, I didn't think you had it in you beansprout"

Allen raised his sword, green flames started to dance around the tip of the blade, "Cross Glaive!", he stabbed the blade into the ground.

The soul froze, what was this strange feeling swelling up in his heart? A beam of light broke out from his chest and burst into a crucifix shape, the bandages came off.

"Hey… for some reason, I feel really good…" the man underneath the form dissolved.

Allen stood in one spot for some time, he wasn't regretting cutting the soul, he was merely mourning for it.

"Beansprout, are you ok?"

"I'm just feeling a bit sleepy"

Allen leaned against a wall, Kanda fell to the ground in disbelief. Sighing he went over to Allen and lifted the boy off the ground, "Even if you're sleepy, it's not good for you to sleep on the ground, let alone a open street, we don't history repeating itself now do we?", Kanda smirked when Allen blushed. The older teen sheathed Allen's sword and put the sword back under Allen's Yukata. Allen's hands automatically smacked Kanda's.

"Ow! What is your problem, I'm replacing your sword!"

"Oh… sorry", Allen smiled, Kanda stopped glaring at him, it took him a few seconds to realise he was bending down towards Allen's lips, though their sweet moment was interrupted by the thundering noise of a ninja girl running.

Ayumi flashed past them, but they heard a screeching noise as the girl applied the braking with her heels.

"Nii-chan!!"

"What!?"

"Nee-chan is having a baby!!"

………………………………...

Kanda and Allen arrived at the house and were greeted with countless screams of pain. Kanda looked at his master, it was the first time he'd ever seen Katsuragi show fear. Then again, it is only natural when someone you love reaches a critical point in their lives. Sayuri frowned at the floor, she was slightly angry that she was sitting here doing nothing while her sister was in extreme pain. Ayumi had lost her cheerful spirit, she clenched her little fists as hard as she could, she didn't even notice when crimson started to seep through her fingers. No one noticed. Allen flinched every time a scream erupted from the room, but Kanda wasn't giving him any comfort. He looked worriedly at the silhouettes of the doctor giving instruction to maids and calming his elder sister. Allen felt like he listening to a horrible nightmare.

At last the doctor came out receiving many questions about the current conditions, he held up a hand asking for silence before going on.

"I assure you, miss Itoe is fine and delivered a healthy boy",

Everyone gave a sigh of relief and Allen collapsed to the floor, dropping to his knees, at last he was free from the overwhelming tension.

"Beansprout? Are you ok?"

"Allen's worried about having a baby", Ayumi poked his shoulder.

"I am not!"

The youngest girl stretched out his cheeks, "C'mon admit it, you want a child of your own"

Kanda knuckled her head softly, "Please do not forget that he is a guy"

"I didn't forget, I didn't you can adopt you know"

Kanda knuckled her head harder.

"Ok, ok, I'm sorry, forgive me, that hurts!!"

Kanda released her from the head lock, she scooted a few metres away from him before flashing a sly smile.

"I crossed my fingers by the way", she ran off, blasting down the halls for her dear life. Kanda walked off in her direction calmly.

"Don't kill her ok!", Katsuragi called after Kanda as everyone laughed.

Things pop up in life. Good or bad, or even both, things won't always turn out the way you wanted it, but when you take the long hard road, it's surprisingly satisfying at the end of the journey.

A/N- Ok, ok, I'm finally finished. Can't imaging Allen having kids, but speaking of kids, what do you think of mini Kanda and Allen's, sigh I've seen fan works of that stuff. I especially liked this one where mini Allen dragged mini Kanda to their "parents" (aka Kanda and Allen) room to go to the toilet. Ha! Kanda will never get to sleep or go on missions.