Allen stared in the mirror his toothbrush hanging out of his mouth as he stared.

Something about this seems familiar. But I'm kind of getting used to this. Allen thought. Neah was chilling in the background as Allen stared at him. Neah had been showing up in his reflection since he came home from the match with Donnie. Allen was positive no one else could see him but it was still strange and Neah didn't say much or anything unless Allen specifically addressed him.

"Could you stop staring at me it's kind of creepy." Allen said after spitting out a mouthful of toothpaste foam.

Then what do you suggest I do.

"I don't know… make origami or do an Irish jig." Allen said then he proceeded to rinse his mouth out with Listerine. Neah just hung back not saying anything.

"You know you're really annoying me today." Allen glared.

Am I? Neah asked raising an eyebrow.

"Yes. I think I might take a page out of Bakanda's book and threaten to cut you up." Allen said glaring. Neah sighed.

So you really hate me.

"Not hate…" Allen paused, "Maybe hate is a little strong, I don't know. You are going to kill me one day and you are my enemy but I guess I can't completely hate you. I still don't know a lot about you… I don't even know enough about me." Allen reasoned. Neah nodded.

I guess that is a fair assessment, but for the time being we are still on the same side.

"Don't hold your breath." Allen said then he ran a hand through his hair and glared at the more prominent scar down his face.

"Well… I'm headed out. Wish me luck fourteenth." Allen said waving in the general direction where Neah had been in the mirror as he left the bathroom.

Good luck. Neah responded surprising Allen. You're going to need it. Neah finished ominously. Allen ran into Richard as he exited the bathroom and walked down the hall.

"Hey, have a nice talk with yourself?" Richard teased. Allen laughed.

"It was very invigorating Mr. Johnson." Allen said. Allen walked out to the kitchen and bowed to Mrs. Johnson.

"I'm leaving now." Allen said, "We're going to hit a movie at the mall and then probably go to the food court and wait for the next feature to start." Allen said. Mary nodded.

"Be careful." Mary warned and put her hand on Allen's shoulder. Allen nodded to her and gave her a reassuring smiled.

"I'll be fine." Allen assured. Allen then smiled, Mary stopped him.

"Allen, what is this?" Mary took Allen's face in her hands and traced a faint scar over his cheek, "I don't remember you having this." Mary said. Allen waved her off.

"It's nothing, just an old scar, I guess you just haven't noticed it before." Allen said, "I'm headed to the movies." Allen gave a half bow, "thanks for letting me go." He smiled then he grabbed his light jacket and put his shoes on. Mary smiled.

"Be careful." She warned. Allen nodded.

"Of course." Allen smiled. Mary waved goodbye and Allen exited through the door giving a happy wave as he did so. Mary sighed then turned back to vegetables she was cutting.

Outside Allen was immediately being tracked by Kanda who observing Allen stealthily. Allen waited on the sidewalk storm clouds gathering above him. A chilled breeze blew Allen's hair around his head revealing white streaks where the rust brown hair usually covered. Allen began humming and rubbing his hands together in the cold breeze. A car rounded the corner and Allen stood up and waited as the car came to a stop. Todd rolled down the window and gestured for Allen to get in. Allen smiled then took the passage seat.

"You were closest to my house so you get shot gun luck bastard." Todd smiled. Allen laughed.

"You could have gotten anyone else first, it would be a bit pointless but you still could have done it." Allen shrugged. Todd nodded.

"I guess that is true… dude… you have a white hair." Todd said looking over at Allen briefly as he drove. Allen rolled his eyes.

"Yeah. I know." Allen said.

"Weird." Todd responded with a shrug still glancing over at Allen.

"You still have marker on your hand." Todd commented as Allen rubbed his left eye with his left hand. Allen looked down at the red patches on his hand.

"Yeah… I was drawing." Allen said.

"You draw?" Todd asked. Allen deflated eyes going dark as he sulked.

"Not very well." Allen admitted.

"Oh… yeah. Emma says she's going to go to that art store and that we should leave her because she'll be in there for a time." Todd smiled. Allen laughed perking up.

"So… arcade." Allen wondered. Todd nodded.

"Yup, let's see if I can finally beat your high score on Surf Plant Snow Boarding." Todd smiled. Allen smiled wickedly.

"We'll see about that." Allen said. The car turned a corner and Allen's eye twinged Allen's eyes going wide as the scar began to fill in with red. Allen clamped his hand over the scar immediately.

That evil Noah memory and innocence, you carry two monster's inside of you.

Allen cringed away from the word eye throbbing as white feathers danced in his vision.

"Allen?" Todd asked concerned. They rounded the corner; Allen recognized the territory he'd been in the night before gambling. Suddenly his eyes stopped reacting. Allen hesitantly lifted his hand from his eye and looked in the mirror, other than the scar being slightly more prominent he looked completely fine. Allen blinked.

"Allen?" Todd asked. Allen looked up at Todd then gave one of his wide smiles.

"I'm fine." Allen said. The back door opened and Damon got into the car squeezing into the back seat. Allen pulled his seat up a bit to give Damon more room. Todd forgot about the attack and continued driving. Damon looked at Allen who had his head rested against the window looking out.

"You ok?" Damon asked Allen started then twisted around in his seat to give Damon the same grin he gave Todd.

"I'm fine." Allen smiled. Damon stared at him Allen's smile wavered then returned full force, "Let's just enjoy today to the fullest." Allen stated. Damon nodded still suspicious but Allen had already turned around.

As the car passed Kanda stared after it then gripped Mugen.

"Che." Kanda said turning to the Akuma that had activated Allen's eye.

"Noooaaahhhh!" The Akuma called.

"Die!" Kanda spoke charging with Mugen.

(When from the ashes shall rise)

Emma climbed into the car Todd giving out a low whistle.

"Whoa." Todd exclaimed looking at Emma. Emma was wearing a bodiced shirt that went nicely with her pants that accented her every curve, all the good ones. Todd was speechless.

"Can you stop gawking at me and drive?" Emma asked rolling her eyes and finishing pulling on her sweater.

Todd fumbled with the ignition and began driving Allen snickering at him and rubbing his eye again. A bloody tear leaked out of the corner which he hastily wiped away. Damon frowned.

"Allen, does your eye hurt again?" he asked. Allen shook his head giving another big smile.

"Naw, its fine, don't worry about it." Allen professed. Damon stared at him, "Seriously." Allen said before turning back around to stare look out the front window as Todd signaled to turn and get on the freeway.

"So, the movie starts in thirty minutes to that should be enough time to get there buy popcorn and grab seats. The second feature is about two hours or so after the first, so we have some time to chill, eat or shop before it starts." Todd smiled, "Other than that its free rein on what to do."

"Well… there is an open art exhibit downtown." Emma suggested.

"No." Damon said, "It's too far away and Todd needs to save gas." Damon said reasonably.

"I haven't been downtown in a while." Todd said, "We can go." Todd said. Damon nodded but something else was bugging him. Allen frowned then rubbed his eye once more.

"Well downtown is somewhat close to where some of those murders were taking place." Allen said.

"I'm sure we'll be fine, it's a weekend, it will be crowded, we'll be good." Todd smiled. Emma brightened.

"Thank you so much Todd." She smiled at Todd, Todd blushed.

"Yeah no problem." Todd said. Allen nodded then looked out the window at the passing cars.

"So why did you call Mr. Kanda Bakanda?" Emma asked.

"You heard about that?" Allen wondered. Emma nodded.

"Yeah, everyone has been talking about Mr. Kanda, he's pretty hot, according to rumors he graduated at the age of twelve and he is working toward his doctorate… Todd why are you chewing on the steering wheel?" Emma asked Todd released the steering wheel then frowned.

"No reason." Todd said grumpily. Allen was busy snickering.

"Bakanda? A doctor?" Allen erupted into full blown laughter. Emma blinked.

"So you really think that teacher guy is hot?" Todd asked. This caused Allen to laugh even harder. Emma rolled her eyes.

"Yes, he's only nineteen too!" Emma said. Todd looked dejected as he signaled to change lanes and gave another frown. Damon of course was silent.

"Bakaaanndda!" Allen laughed, "Hoot… ha ha…. Bakanda… a hawt doctor!" Allen said before laughing even harder. Emma growing fed up swung her bag out hitting Allen in the arm who only, if possible at this point, laughed harder.

I think that's all I'm going to do today, I'll edit it later so please enjoy this chapter.

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