Well hello again and thank you for taking the time and chance to read this story! This is my second D. Gray Man story (I still need to rewrite the one shot I wrote for this series) and my second multi chapter that I have attempted to write. I know that there are a few grammar mistakes and I'm trying my best to edit and catch them on my own, but if anyone likes this story enough to want to BETA for me, I'm more than willing!

I actually go the idea for this story while zoning out and trying to figure out the best way to word the the last chapter of my other multi chapter story (The Voice of Silence) and this just popped up. Initially, I was going to try and save it for another time, but it kept being persistent and the result is before you now.

So please go forth and enjoy what I have to offer.

Please feel free to leave a comment, question, or review when you are finished. They are very appreciated.

Warnings for Entire Story: This is rated M for a reason. Will include yaoi (boyXboy), possible sex, nekos, and possibly mpreg (we'll see on that one)

Warning for this chapter: None

Disclaimer: I don't own D. Gray Man or any of the characters.

Prologue

Rain has followed the cloaked figure since they initially departed for this more dilapidated area of the city. The water is soaking into its thin coat despite how desperately they try to protect a small bundle from the chilling element. The unwanted wetness encourages the figure to move faster to their intended destination.

The elements seem to take it upon themselves to hinder the figure as much as they can by changing the rain into a downpour and adding a fierce wind that chills the figure to the bone. The figure has a brief respite from the downpour as it huddles under a porch awning just out of the light of a nearby streetlamp. The figure gages the distance from their current hiding spot to its destination, a dark building just out of the streetlamp's influence.

The figure makes a dash to the intended building, quickly hiding their face from view when passing under the lamps judging light. As the figure reaches the dark building it slowly and carefully pulls out a simple brown paper bag. They hold the bottom of the bag carefully as they set it down on the driest piece of cement they can find.

The figure gives the bag a sad look as the water begins to soak the bag and its contents within moments of being set down. They turn to the door and bring their hand up to knock and resign themselves to the fate of whoever would answer, but the figure looks down once again at the plain brown bag. Something seems to compel the figure to take one more look at it.

As they move to open the bag and possibly take another look at the bags contents, a light suddenly appears one of the windows of the very same building. The figures starts and quickly takes off down the street in the direction opposite of the one they used to travel, still keeping to the shadows in their flight. The cloaked figure never looks back, as it flees the truth reveling light seems to chase them.

….

Kanda had been restless all night. Not even Lavi's attempts to anger him could distract him from this nagging feeling. It was like something kept telling him that there was more than just rain outside tonight.

He tossed and turned in his bed as he tried to find some position that would let him sleep in peace. This was easier said than done, as Lavi was content to share a bed seeing as a single bed was a bit big for even the two of them together. However, Lavi slept like a rock and hardly moved from his spot on the bed, which just so happened to be exactly where Kanda normally slept.

When he could no longer even try to find a comfortable spot to sleep in, Kanda decided to get up and look out the window and prove once and for all that there was nothing out of the ordinary outside tonight apart from the pouring rain.

He moved over to the window and used the window seat as a boost to get him closer to the window. At first all he could see was the rivulets and waves of rain as streaked down the dingy window, but upon closer inspection more of the everyday details started to become clearer. The sign at the bakery seemed to be swaying as a wind started to pick up and even the streetlamp was starting to have its light become blurry as the water came into contact with the glass.

Kanda was satisfied that it everything was normal just as he thought it was and that is imagination must just be working overtime again, probably because Lavi was trying to make him read stories to him and Lenalee again. As he starts to turn from the window he sees movement near the awning of the bakery. He watches intently as the figure seems to be holding something close to it and it runs across the street, heading straight towards this building.

He leans closer to the window, but scoots closer to the bottom edge so as to try to see the figure better. It stands just barely in his view and he sees it move the bundle but can't see what it does with it. He goes to lean even closer when light suddenly floods the room.

He spins around to see Lavi with one hand still on the switch and the other rubbing sleepily at his eye. "Wha'cha doin' Yuu? Did the rain scare you or something, or is there a reason you're acting like a goldfish pushed up on the window like that?"

Kanda sends him an annoyed glare as he turns back to the window. "There's someone out there. I saw them come to the door and they had something with them but now I can't see anything. Turn off the light, I want to know if they're still here."

Lavi turns off the light and meanders over to join Kanda at the window. The two look intently about for any signs of movement.

"Hey Kanda? I don't think they're there any more. You sure you didn't just dream them? 'Cause I can't see a thing out there."

"Che, you can't see as well as me. Obviously you couldn't see anything even if it was right in front of you."

"Hey! Just because you can see in the dark and I can't doesn't make you better than me." Lavi crosses his arms in a huff. "I bet you made this up just to wake me up, didn't cha'?"

Kanda just glares at him and climbs off the window seat and heads out of the room. He heads down the hall and down the stairs making as little noise as possible. When he is half way to the door he hears Lavi start running after him sounding like an elephant running amok in the process.

When he reaches the front door Lavi is silent behind him as he reaches as high as he can to reach the top lock for the door. His hand fishes around for it for a bit before he is finally able to grab it and turn it to completely unlock the giant door.

Pulling it open required a bit of effort but soon he was able to slip out onto the rain soaked porch. He looks around a bit before seeing the bundle off to the side sitting in a large puddle of excess rainwater. He moves over to it with Lavi right behind him.

They stand on either side of the bad and each grabs an edge to move back to reveal the contents of the bag. When they pull back the wet paper they see a single thin blanket with a single white fluffy cat ear sticking out.

Kanda quickly closes the bag and squats down to pick it up by the bottom and not drop its contents. He grunts a bit as he tries to lift it, but Lavi quickly grabs the other side and the two of them carefully lift the soaking bag and move it and them back into the building.

….

"Miss Hevlaska! Miss Hevlaska!" Lavi runs though the building yelling for the caretaker. He goes through hall after hall not quite remembering exactly which room she sleeps in seeing as she normally goes after bed long after he does.

Eventually a young woman dressed in a white nightgown steps out of one of the many doors lining the corridor that Lavi is currently running through. She watches the child stumble through the hallway and reaches out to catch him as he trips over his own feet approaching her.

"My, my. Slow down there Lavi. What could you possibly be doing at this time at night? Did you have a bad dream? Did Kanda? Did he lock you out of the room again?" Her eyes flashed a tired concern at the small bouncing boy in her arms.

"Yuu and I found something! You have to come see!" Lavi wiggles huffing and puffing to get out of Hevlaska's arms and then races off. Hevlaska sighs and goes back into her room to retrieve her slippers before heading off after Lavi. She sees him waiting at the end of the hall, impatience clear in every aspect of his demeanor.

When they reach the front entryway they find Kanda peeling away the sides of the wet paper bag, exposing its contents. As soon as the blanket becomes visible, a loud shriek starts up, echoing across the entryway and through the building. Immediately Hevlaska rushes over and gently has Kanda move back so that she can see the cause of all this ruckus.

When she sees what is inside the shredded remains of the plain paper bag she gently moves her hands under the blanket and pick up the still screaming mass within. She unfolds a little of the blanket exposing just a little more than the lone ear and a look of shock and sorrow flashes across her delicate features.

She quickly covers up the newly exposed mass and holding it tight to her chest, dashes out of the room leaving a curious and confused Kanda and Lavi behind.

They look at each other for a moment, not knowing quite what caused their caretaker to rush out so fast, or why she took the blanket and mass with her. They look at what little remains of the bag and carefully tear it apart more to see if there is anything they missed in there. When they found nothing they decided that since Hevlaska had not come back yet, they would go and find her themselves.

They search through most of her normal spots, the kitchen, laundry room, playroom, and even their room but they cannot find her anywhere. They consider going and waking up Lenalee and her annoying bother to see if they know where Hevlaska went, but decided against it as they soon find a light shining under the door to the nursery and they quietly open the door hoping to find their caretaker. Inside this rarely used room they do indeed find Hevlaska and the bundle but she seems too busy to notice them. She is running around picking up various things, bringing them over to the mass doing something or another before running to put them back.

After a few moment of watching this, the boys approach Hevlaska as she finishes rebundeling the mass and holds it close to herself trying to help it stay warm. When she turns and sees the two boys staring up at her, she smiles at them and carefully lowers herself to the floor trying very hard to not jostle the bundle.

"I don't know how you boys knew that he was out there. But had you not gone out and brought him in, he surely wouldn't have survived till morning. Thank you." She moves the bundle away from her and shows the boys just what they have found.

The blanket covers all of it except for its tiny little head. Round and pink like most babies, but a bit more pale at the same time, a tiny nose that slow breathes in and out, occasionally twitching at something. Its eyes are closed tight and small fluffy ears are clamped close to its head. It seems smaller than a normal baby though its features seem proportionate to its current size.

It shifts around a little and a small hand appears from out of the blanket as it reaches to rub at one of its closed eyes. "Miss Hevlaska, somethin's wrong with it. Its arm looks all funny colored." Lavi looks at the kitten with growing concern and confusion since it is not acting like it is in pain or anything despite how its arm looks.

Hevlaska gives a small, sad smile as she pulls the child back to herself. "There's nothing wrong with him Lavi. It's just a birthmark, that's what causes the different colored skin. It's quite common and if I recall even you have one on your –

"But why is it covering his whole arm? I know mine isn't that big." He crosses his little arms in what is supposed to be a posture of defiance but he is smiling too much to have any effect.

Hevlaska laughs quietly at this defiant display from the little redhead. "I don't know why Lavi. He is the way he is, just like you are the way you are, and Kanda is Kanda. Besides, it's just on his arm, see?

She pulls back the blanket showing the younger boys the infant and that the mark does only appear on his left arm and nowhere else on his little body. Kanda however, is noticing something else.

"He has a tail." A small tail curves around by his little feet with a thin layer of fine downy fur on it, the same fur is also on his ears.

She smiles as she quickly warps the baby up again and pulls him closer once more. "And why shouldn't he, Kanda? He is a neko just like you, you know."

Lavi's eyes grow even bigger at this and he raises his hand and starts jumping up and down trying to get Hevlaska's attention.

"Yes Lavi?"

"So he's a neko just like Yuu? But why are his ears so close to his head and his eyes not open then? I can understand it if he's sleeping but I know he wasn't a second ago, but he didn't even look at us. And considering we saved his life and all, I think that was rather rude."

"It's because he's a neko that he is like that. In a lot of ways neko kittens are much like normal kittens. Their ears don't perk up or a day or two, just like his eyes probably won't open for another week or two depending on how early or not he was born. And in case you are curious, he won't be able to control his tail very well for a while either except for instinct."

"Ok I guess that makes sense, but if his ears are still closed how old do you think he is?"

"Well normally I would say that he is probably only a day or so if even that. He is so tiny I can't help but think that either he was part of a bigger litter, or that he must have been early which means that his eyes and ears could be closed for longer. So I can't say for sure."

The kitten starts to fuss and wiggle around again. Soon it starts crying, not shrieking as much as before but still loud and strong. Soon both of his little fists are flailing about as his demands continue to not be met.

"Kanda can you hold him for a minute while I go get a bottle for him?"

"Me? But what am I supposed to do? How do I even hold it?"

Hevlaska just smiles and brings the screaming kitten closer and gently sets him in Kanda's arms. She makes sure that he is able to support its head and body well enough before she gently takes one of Kanda's hands, the one not supporting its body as much, and gently places one of his fingers by the infant's mouth. It immediately latches on and begins sucking intently on it hoping that the finger will somehow provide it with food.

Kanda just stares at the kitten in amazement as Hevlaska leaves him and Lavi and goes off to prepare the formula. Lavi quietly and slowly scoots closer to Kanda to get a better look at their foundling and a contented smile fills his face as he watches it. He slowly reaches out and tries to pet the kittens ear, but as soon as he touches the ear the kitten immediately stops its sucking and starts crying and shrieking even harder than before, tears streaming down its little cheeks.

Hevlaska runs back into the room a partially filled bottle in one hand. She immediately goes to see if the kitten is alright and sees Lavi's hand just a few centimeters away from its ear and the clues explain themselves.

"Lavi, I know that its ears look soft, but you can't touch them yet. They are extremely sensitive right now so anything touching them will be extremely potent. Now, give it a few days when he has gotten used to you and his ears have fully opened up before you try that again. You don't want to accidently hurt him do you?"

Lavi looks taken aback with that statement, but is fully ready to defend himself. "I'm sorry! I didn't know! I wasn't trying to. But why do I have to wait for him to get used to me even after his ears have opened? He'll probably just sleep and cry a lot so it's not like he'll know me for a while but why is Yuu allowed to be holding him and touching him and I'm not? I don't think that's fair. I should get a chance to hold him." He is huffing by this point, is own face turning red as frustrated tears threaten to spill out.

Hevlaska looks at him with knowing eyes. "The reason that I can hold him is because he instinctually recognizes me as a type of mother and Kanda can hold him because he is a neko, and since this kitten probably hasn't had much exposure to humans, he sees nekos as safe and doesn't know much about humans. Do you understand now? He just doesn't know about us, so he clings to what is familiar. You probably did something like that too when you were his age."

Lavi looks to be in thought for a moment so Hevlaska takes the opportunity to go and finish preparing the bottle. By the time she returns, Lavi has backed up a few feet from the kitten and Kanda is letting his finger be sucked on again, effectively calming and quieting the kitten.

She gently pulls Kanda's hand out of the kitten's mouth and carefully encourages it to take the bottles nipple instead. It seems confused for a second with the different texture and taste but after the first few gulps of milk it begins to suck even more greedily desperate for every bit it can get.

"Miss Hevlaska?" Lavi hesitates for a moment. "What's his name? Or do we get to name him since we found him and all?"

Her smile brightens as she puts a hand in a pocket of her nightgown. "Actually, that is a very good question. I was surprised that when I initially took him out of that sorry excuse for a blanket that he had this around his neck." She pulls out a small red ribbon with a little piece of paper taped to it. "This paper has a single name on it, so I assume it's his. Want to take any guesses as to what it might be?"

Lavi thinks for a moment before shouting out, "Moonlight! 'Cause he's all white and stuff."

"Good guess, but that's not quite it. Kanda, do you have any ideas?"

"Che, he's Moyashi obviously."

Hevlaska giggles for a moment. "Well you are both wrong but good guesses though. This is his name." She extends the ribbon over to the boys. There written in horrible handwriting is the name ALLEN. "See, his name is Allen."

"I don't care what you people call him, his name is Moyashi."

"But Yuu! If he has two names, won't that just confuse him?" Kanda gives Lavi a glare.

"I know, how about you two go back to bed and figure out which name you like best? I need to get this little guy changed and ready for bed as well, so how about you come back and see him tomorrow. Does that sound ok?"

Lavi and Kanda roll their eyes at her. In reality, they can hardly keep their eyes open, but this is all so exciting that sleep seems to have been forgotten until she mentioned it just now. Hevlaska reaches over and gently removes Allen from Kanda's arms and brings him back into her own. The two boys slowly get up and start heading for the door, and eventually for their room.

As the two leave, Hevlaska gives Allen a long loving look. "Welcome to the Black Order Orphanage, little Allen."

Well that's all for now. This is just to get a feeling of how everyone met and such. The next chapter will take place several years after this when Kanda, Lavi, and Allen are all teenagers.

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