A/N: This is a prequel to "The Storm's Legacy". You'll want to read it first, otherwise this might not make a lot of sense. It's a one-shot for right now, and is therefore marked as completed, but I reserve the right to add more if/when I come up with more.

Written in response to Tsukiko K and Ryuakilover's requests for a sequel. I wasn't planning on writing more of this series until you guys put ideas in my head. Thanks for that. (Mild sarcasm intended.) And yes, that is ideas, plural. There's more to come. I am working on a story that's actually a sequel.

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It was a normal day at the Order. Or rather, it was a typical unusual day. It had been five years since I joined the Order, and it still surprised me what I had come to accept as normal. I was in Komui's office to turn in a mission report. Timothy and Lavi came bursting in, being chased by Kanda. Things turned chaotic as they began to run around the room.

I moved towards the edge of the room to get out of the way of the chase. The last thing I wanted was to get caught in the middle of it, I needed to save my energy for later. I hadn't seen Kanda in two weeks, the sex that night was going to be long and intense.

Komui's attempts to send them away only made things worse. I didn't see which of them bumped into me. But everything went slow motion as I slammed into the bookshelf. The contents wobbled, including a few potion jars that were precariously close to the edge. I moved before they fell, but not fast enough. One of the bottles shattered as it hit my head. I was doused in the pink liquid and enveloped in smoke. Then everything went black.

.x.x.

When Lavi accused me of being particularly grouchy that morning I certainly couldn't tell him it was because I was horny. And when he started teasing me, saying that I was in a bad mood because Allen was late returning from his mission and I secretly missed him, well I certainly couldn't tell him that was true.

I never expected to fall in love with that white haired brat. And I certainly never expected him to love me back. But there we were, still together four years later, and I was as madly in love with him as I was the day I confessed.

Eventually Lavi's teasing got to be too much to ignore. And he got Timothy in on it. Somehow the fight that followed ended up in Komui's office. With four years of practice under my belt, not reacting to the unexpected appearance of my Moyashi was easy. I didn't even notice that he'd been slammed into the bookcase until the first potion hit the ground.

All activity stopped the instant one crashed into Allen. He hit the ground unconscious before any of us could react. Lavi reached him first, his trained eye taking in the broken glass and traces of blood in Allen's white hair. Timothy was sent to get a nurse, and Lavi and Komui began cleaning up the shards of glass around Allen.

I kept my fingers on Allen's wrist, monitoring his pulse. I knew without looking that the head wound wasn't bad enough to do any serious damage, my Moyashi had a hard head after all. The potion was what I was worried about. Komui's concoctions ranged anywhere from harmless to wacky to hazardous. And we wouldn't know which this one was until Allen woke up.

.x.x.

The next thing I knew, I was laying face down on the floor. "Allen? Are you ok?"

My attempt to respond resulted in a coughing fit. Something on my head felt really weird. I tried to push myself up to a sitting position, but a hand on my back stopped me. "Don't move, Moyashi. They're still pulling the glass out of your hair."

I could hear the concern in his voice, even if the others could only hear irritation. It didn't help me relax, there weren't a lot of things that worried Kanda. "What happened?"

"You got hit with one of the psycho's potions."

"I know that, Bakanda. What did it do?"

"We don't know yet." This voice belonged to Lavi. "You're bleeding from a couple cuts on your scalp. We have to get the glass shards out before we can bandage them. Once that's done we can figure out what it did."

I sighed and fell silent. The next voice belonged to the head nurse. "Keep him talking."

"Is that really necessary?" I was tired and didn't want to do anymore talking.

"It is." It was still the head nurse speaking. "Head wounds can be tricky, we need you to stay conscious."

"Ugh, fine." For lack of a decent topic, I finished my mission report. Komui asked a couple routine questions that I did my best to answer. It was distracting, but not enough. I was aware of every glass fragment being pulled from my skin.

The glass was gone by the time I was done talking. They helped me sit up, making sure I did it slowly enough to not do more harm. Then the head nurse was leaning over me. The cuts were cleaned and examined. "They're all really minor. Nothing worth worrying about. You're going to be fine."

"Relatively, anyway." I couldn't help glaring at Komui. "What did that potion do to me?"

"I don't know." I wanted to throw something at Komui for the chipper way he said that. "But there's at least some good news in that you don't appear different, there's no animal ears or weird hair growth. So the real question is: do you feel any different?"

"Right now all I feel is pain coming from my head. Can't you figure out what it was from the bottle?"

Komui shook his head. "Unfortunately the bottle is completely shattered, so I can't tell which one it was."

"Did you see it before it hit you?" Lavi helped me to my feet and walked me to the couch.

I started to shake my head, but instantly regretted it. "Not very well. I think the bottle was plain, I didn't notice anything special about it. The liquid was pink."

"Was it a fluorescent pink or a dark pink?"

I blinked at the strange question. "It was more of a light pink. Like strawberry ice cream."

On cue, my stomach rumbled at the mention of food. I ignored it. Figuring out what had happened was more important than eating at that moment.

Komui seemed confused. "Are you sure? I don't recall making any like that."

"I'm positive."

The next thing I knew, I was hauled from the couch and dragged to Komui's laboratory. He ran a few tests on me, then announced, "Well nothing's wrong with you, so it must not have worked. Guess you were lucky."

I glared at him. "I'm never that lucky."

Lavi laughed. "I wouldn't say that, Allen. You do have a dozen cuts on your head, and you were unconscious for a while. The potion may not have worked, but you certainly didn't escape unscathed."

.x.x.

Waiting to be alone with Allen was going to drive me crazy. I wanted to know how he was really feeling, and he certainly wasn't going to say that in front of the others. Honesty with his feelings was still something he struggled with. But he wouldn't lie to me.

When I finally got him away from Lavi, I dragged Allen to my room. Though 'dragged' is the wrong word. He was incredibly willing to follow me. Getting him to talk was a different story.

"Honestly Yuu! I'm fine! My head stings a little from the glass, but nothing else is wrong." I scowled at him in the way I knew would make him keep talking, and it worked. "Well, physically wrong. Wondering what that potion did to me is going to keep me up at night, but that's nothing for you to worry about."

I couldn't help laughing. "Yes it is. I worry about everything concerning you. You are mine after all."

Allen laughed as he got in my face and pushed me into the wall. "Careful with that possessive tone, Yuu. You might start something you can't finish."

I captured his lips and pushed him onto the bed. "Oh I know how this is going to end, Moyashi. And since you've already admitted that you're not going to be able to sleep tonight..."

.x.x.

I spent the next week on edge, looking for signs that something was wrong. But when I continued to feel nothing different, I forgot about it and moved on. Komui's potions never lasted longer than a day or two.

So when something strange happened several weeks after that, I didn't connect the two.

I was on a mission with Lenalee when it happened. It was an akuma extermination, nothing too difficult. My eye let me know we were close. I activated my Innocence as I turned to tell her.

Only my Innocence didn't activate.

I gaped down at my left hand, tried to activate it again, and once again it didn't respond. That was weird.

"Allen? You stopped in the middle of the road. Is something wrong?"

I blinked at her, failing yet again at activating my Innocence. "Yeah, umm. My Innocence won't activate."

She grabbed my shoulder and pulled me to the side of the road. "Are you sure?"

"Yeah. I've tried several times now, but nothing happens."

She looked me over, noticing that my eye was still active. "And where are the akuma?"

"Further ahead. The edge of town, by the river."

She nodded and activated her boots. "How many?"

"Too many for you to handle alone, if that's what you're thinking."

"I have to try!"

I grabbed her arm, accidentally taking out my frustrations with my Innocence on her. "No, you don't. They don't know we're here yet. If we back off now, we can call for backup, and get someone else out here to help."

Lenalee sighed and deactivated her Innocence. "You're right. Sorry."

We walked back to the inn and she pestered me with questions about my Innocence the whole way. There were no answers to her questions; I had no clue why it wasn't activating. We called headquarters, I opened a gate, and Lavi and Kanda came through to help.

.x.x.

Getting yanked out of my meditation session did not put me in a good mood. Learning that it was because Allen and Lenalee had run into trouble on their mission, that just made it worse. My worry for my Moyashi was thankfully taken as annoyance. The worry died when the emergency turned out to be "there are too many akuma for them to handle", that was pathetic. I expected better of Allen.

We traipsed through the ark, arriving at the inn where they were waiting. "Alright let's get this over with."

"Allen. Stay." Lenalee spoke like she was talking to a dog.

"But-"

"No! No buts! Your Innocence doesn't work! You have to stay here!"

The Moyashi's Innocence doesn't work?! "Oi! What the fuck? Why weren't we told about this?"

Allen just gave an annoyed gesture. "I'm probably just tired or hungry. It's not a big deal."

Lenalee smacked him upside the head. "Your Innocence won't activate! Of course it's a big deal!"

"She's right, Bean Sprout. You need to sit this one out." Lavi grabbed Allen's shoulders and began steering him away.

He wrenched himself away. "But my eye still works! I can still help you with this!"

In the end he got his way. He was allowed to come close enough to where he could detect the akuma, but far enough away that they wouldn't be able to detect him.

Between the three of us the fight was easy. Which was a good thing because we all were distracted with wondering what was wrong with Allen's Innocence. Afterwards we literally dragged him kicking and screaming to Komui's office. I felt a little bad for throwing him to the wolves, but it was drowned out by my concern for his wellbeing. I needed to know what was wrong with my Moyashi.

.x.x.

Komui took great delight in examining my Innocence and running tests on my body. When he was done, I was escorted to Hevlaska's chamber. I did my best to hold still while she examined me, but the urge to squirm away was strong.

"I don't know what to tell you. I've never seen anything like it before. Allen's Innocence has gone completely dormant. It's not active at all."

I blinked at her. "Why would it do that?"

"I can only speculate that it's trying to keep itself from draining you. I have no clue why it would do that though. And there's something else. There's another Innocence fragment inside your body."

"How can I have a second Innocence? Isn't that impossible?" I threw a scared glance at Komui, but he was lost in thought and wasn't looking in my direction. This whole thing was bringing up unpleasant memories of the time that sentient Innocence tried to absorb me.

"It's not trying to synchronize with you, it's just there. I've seen something similar happen once before, but that exorcist was female."

"Why would her gender make a difference?" Komui finally spoke.

"The second Innocence fragment belonged to her unborn child. And that's clearly not the case with Allen."

Komui nodded, deep in thought once again. "Is there anything else you can tell us?"

"No, that's everything."

"Thank you."

For the umpteenth time that afternoon, I was dragged from a room. Komui took me back to his lab. I was made to sit down while he looked over the tests he'd done earlier. "Get on with it already, Komui. I can tell you have a theory."

Komui sat in a nearby chair, deliberately out of arm's reach. "You remember that potion you got hit with?"

"The one you determined didn't work?"

He nodded slowly. "Yes that one. I was wrong before. It did do something to you."

Of course it did. I knew I couldn't be that lucky. My frustration made it easy to ask the question, but if I had been paying better attention to Komui's expression, then I would have known to be scared. "What did it do?"

"It gave your body a functioning uterus."

"Huh?" I didn't know what that was, but I didn't like the way it sounded.

Komui sighed before he explained. "The potion restructured your internal organs to make it possible for you to conceive and bear children."

Yeah, that's definitely not good. "... And why are you just discovering this now?" As soon as the question was out, Hevlaska's words echoed in my head. I knew what Komui's answer was going to be.

"Because you're pregnant, Allen."

I got up to storm out of the room. Komui's next words stopped me in my tracks. "You've been throwing up a lot lately, haven't you? And having trouble eating? Like just the thought of food is enough to make you want to throw up."

My fingers fell from the doorknob. "How did you know that? I haven't told anyone that I have the flu."

"It's not a flu, Allen. It's called morning sickness. It's a symptom of your condition. Proof that you're pregnant."

It felt like I was underwater. I couldn't breathe. "You mean this isn't some elaborate joke?"

"Allen, you heard what Hevlaska said. There's a second Innocence inside you. That means that your baby is an accommodator. I would never joke about something like that."

I felt my knees turn to jelly. Komui caught me before I collapsed and helped me onto the examination table. "Allen, I know that you're having trouble processing this, but I need to examine you and the baby. Will you be able to hold still?"

I nodded briefly, then looked away. He unbuttoned my shirt and began to feel around my abdomen. I squeezed my eyes shut before the tears could fall. For some reason the feeling of his fingers poking and prodding at my middle hammered everything in. I was pregnant.

When I finally found my voice, I was surprised at the first question that came out. "What if I don't want it?"

Komui's fingers froze. "You don't have a choice, Allen. An Innocence fragment has already attached itself to the baby. Any attempt to abort it is going to fail."

"That's not what I meant." I had already assumed that I couldn't have an abortion, if it was possible then Komui would have suggested it right away.

The look Komui gave me was odd. "Then you've decided to carry the child to term?"

"No." I stared up at the ceiling. "I simply already figured out that I don't have a choice. I'm still coming to terms with that, and I certainly haven't decided anything."

"Of course." Komui's fingers began prodding my abdomen again. "To answer your question, after you have the baby, you can either raise it yourself or you can give it up for adoption. But before you think about either of those options, you need to talk to the baby's father."

I bolted upright. That's right. Kanda's involved in all this.

Komui spoke before I could get any words out. "Look, for you to have become pregnant, you had to engage in anal sex with another man. And while I'm curious as to who you would let do that to you, the whole thing is a can of worms that I don't want to touch. If I am to protect you in all of this, then I have to remain ignorant of your sexual activities. And that means I can't know who got you pregnant, understand?"

I nodded. I didn't particularly want to tell him that I was sleeping with Kanda anyway.

At Komui's prompting, I lay back down so he could finish the exam. When it was over he suddenly started babbling. "You need to go pack. Make sure it's all clothes that are comfortable and loose. You'll need them to be able to fit through as much of your pregnancy as possible. I'd also advise you to not cut your hair while you're gone. It should help you hide that you're male. You-"

"Komui? What are you talking about? Where am I going?"

He stared at me for a moment. "Oh, sorry. I got ahead of myself. I'm going to make arrangements for a house for you to live in."

"Why?"

This time when Komui started talking he wouldn't shut up. "We need to get you out of here as soon as possible: we can't let Central find out you're pregnant. I'll tell everyone that you have an illness; the earlier incident with your Innocence should make a good reason for why you would need to be quarantined. They wouldn't want something that affects Innocence to spread among the exorcists. It'll be easy to tell them that Kanda's immune. Now I know you'd rather be with Lavi or Lenalee, but I can't send either of them, so Kanda's who you get. And before you try to convince me to let you go alone: you'll need someone around who can protect you if the Earl finds you."

I nodded numbly as I tried to process everything he had just said. He continued to talk. "Now go pack. If anyone asks about what happened earlier, tell them to come talk to me. Don't tell anyone you're pregnant. Except the baby's father, he should know what's going on. Oh, but before you do that, send Kanda here. He needs to be briefed. I won't tell him you're pregnant, you'll have to do that after you get to where you're going."

Komui shoved me out of his lab, and I wandered away, a variety of thoughts swirling through my head. I wondered how I was supposed to tell Kanda I was pregnant before I left, if I had orders to not tell Kanda until after we left.

.x.x.

I was worried about Allen after the incident with his Innocence. But he dodged every single one of my questions. And when he told me that Komui had a mission for me, I certainly didn't expect to be ordered to protect the Moyashi while he was under quarantine.

I managed to hold my silence until we arrived at the house Komui had set up for us. We didn't just take the ark to get there, we also took several different trains, even doubling back at one point. Apparently Komui wanted to make it especially hard for anyone to follow us.

The Moyashi had acted strange the entire trip, and it was really starting to get to me. I didn't like having him keep secrets from me. "What the fuck is really going on, Moyashi? You sure as hell aren't sick!"

Allen sighed as he settled into a living room chair. He wouldn't meet my gaze. "Do you remember that potion I got hit with last month?"

"Of course." I snorted. How could I have forgotten?

The Moyashi's face scrunched up like he didn't know what words to say next. "Well it ... messed with my insides."

I blinked at the vague statement. "What's that supposed to mean?"

"It means that when you and I had unprotected sex that night, you got me pregnant."

I don't know how long I stood there just staring at him. I couldn't even form a coherent thought. "What?!"

"That look on your face? Replay that feeling every second of the day for about a week and you'll be where I am." He yelled out something nonsensical in frustration and buried his head in his hands. "No, scratch that. There's no way you could be where I am. You're not the one that this is happening to. You're not the one throwing up every day. Or going through something that you never in a million years would have thought could happen to you. You don't have to-"

"Allen!" His babbling was giving me a headache. He shut up immediately. I may have been freaked out, but I hadn't missed the tears that were pricking at the corners of his eyes. "You're not making any sense. Do you really expect me to believe that you're having a baby?"

"No, I guess not. But it's the truth." The stray tears that had fallen were wiped on his sleeve. He smiled and got up from the chair. I was wrapped in a tight hug and he buried his face in my neck. "And it doesn't really matter if you believe me or not. You can call Komui, he'll tell you I'm not messing with you. Or you can wait till I start showing, but it shouldn't even take that long for you to be convinced. The morning sickness, mood swings, and food cravings should be more than enough to get you to believe that I'm not making this up."

I pulled his hands away as they started to drift south. Mood swings would certainly explain why he'd just dramatically gone from angry to flirty in a matter of seconds. I needed to change the subject. "Assume I buy that, then what's all this for?" I gestured at the room around us. "Why lie about being sick and run from the Order?"

"Not the Order- Central. And it's for the same reasons we've been hiding our relationship for the past four years." He sighed and hugged me tighter. "As for the house: I guess you could say it's an apology from Komui. If it wasn't for his potion we wouldn't be in this mess. He sent us out here so that I can have the baby in peace. He's going to buy us as much time as he can. We won't have to go back until we're ready."

.x.x.

I wish I could say that I became a loving father right away. It took a week of dealing with a temperamental Moyashi for me to cave and get the story from Komui. The rest didn't click until around the time he started showing.

That first week had been bad. Allen and I weren't on the best terms. We weren't fighting, but my inability to accept that he truly was pregnant had caused a gap between us. If I had known that calling Komui was going to fix things so quickly, I'd have done it that first day, when Allen first suggested it. Because once I was able to accept that he was pregnant, things became so much better than they'd ever been.

I was living alone with my Moyashi. There was no sneaking around, no hiding from obnoxious rabbits. We could make out whenever we wanted without the fear of getting caught looming over us. There were no missions to pull us apart, no wondering if the last time I saw Allen was going to be the last time I saw him.

So when the Moyashi decided that he was going to keep the baby, I didn't argue with him. Even if the idea of Allen raising a child was ludicrous. Even if I thought children were annoying and gross. I liked how things were between us, and if having a child around was what it took to make it stay that way, then that's what I would go with.

That mindset lasted four days.

We were in bed one night, nothing sexual, just the two of us laying together. Allen was wrapped in my arms, his back against my chest. He was absently playing with my fingers. I couldn't see his face, but I knew from the action that he was lost in thought. "What's on your mind, Moyashi?"

He sighed deeply. "I was just thinking that you're weird."

It was said without insult, like he wasn't really aware that he had said it out loud. That didn't stop me from being offended. "Excuse me?"

Another sigh. "You're so possessive. You hate it when people touch your things. You get insanely jealous when people flirt with me. And God forbid someone ever take your hair tie."

He laughed briefly. "I've told you several times that I'm not something you can own. And you never listen."

"Are you going somewhere with this?"

He moved my hand like he was going to let go, but instead he placed it on his abdomen. There was a small yet distinct bump there. I tried to pull my hand away, but he held it in place. "You may not be able to claim me, but this baby is yours. You can be as possessive as you want with her. Yet you won't even acknowledge her. You avoid everything having to do with her."

I opened my mouth to deny it, but it was true. Allen spoke again before I could think of anything to say. "I know that you don't understand my decision to keep her. I don't expect you to. And I know that I'm asking a lot from you, especially since you've already blown my mind by staying with me through this. But I want you to love our daughter. I want you to be her father, not just the guy dating her mother. I-"

When I found my tongue I couldn't help interrupting. But what I said surprised me, it wasn't the question that had been running through my head. "'Her'?"

"Yeah." He sighed for what felt like the thousandth time that night, and moved my fingers along his belly. "I know there's no way to know the gender until she comes. But I feel it in my bones that our little one is a girl. We're having a daughter, Yuu."

I don't know why, but that made all the difference. Not that the baby was a girl, but the way he said it, 'we're having a daughter'. That's what he'd been trying to say before he started rambling, when he was teasing me about my possessive side. It wasn't just his baby, it was my baby too. It was my child that was growing inside him.

The hand against his belly that had felt so awkward before suddenly didn't feel like enough. I rolled Allen onto his back and knelt over him. When I grabbed the hem of his shirt and exposed his abdomen, the look that flashed in his eyes was full of fear. I kept my eyes locked on his as I leaned down and kissed his baby bump.

It was a weird sensation, my lips against the firm skin, but the love I felt for my Moyashi was feeding my newfound love for my unborn child. This was no longer about putting up with a baby to keep Allen happy, but about loving and raising a child together.

The shocked expression on his face was priceless. I knew he was thinking about how out of character the gentle action was. He sat up suddenly, forcing me to lean back. He captured my lips in a fierce kiss.

When he finally pulled away he was gasping for breath. I smirked at him until he was able to talk. "That was a sudden switch. What changed?"

I frowned to hide my embarrassment. The Moyashi always went straight for the question I didn't want him to ask. "You'll think I'm stupid."

He laughed. "I already think you're stupid."

"I guess that's true." He was definitely expecting an answer, there was no way he'd let me get away with changing the subject. I would just have to suck it up and tell him. "Until you started talking, I hadn't realized that the baby was mine. I mean, I knew that you got pregnant because we... But I..."

I paused to figure out the words for what I was trying to say, but I never got that far. Allen's lips were pressed against mine, his fingers wound into my hair. He pulled me down on top of him, and once we hit the mattress we were done with talking for the evening.