AN: I blame youtube for this one. do not own d. Grey man. Google hates me... I don't know the name for those robes people wear at Japanese hot springs. I'll just call them robes. Maybe I'm dumb Nd that's exactly what they are called. ;~;

Sitting at his desk Allen worked diligently to finish his reports for the day. His snow white hair was pulled back in a small pony tail with only the upper half of his hair pulled back out of his face. As he was working a group of his friends walked up to him since the work day was actually over and most people were going home. Two of three of his friends were chatting away as Allen worked. He didn't look up from his work as his friends started talking to him.

"Hey Al-Chan!" Lavi called cheerfully as he sat on the corner of Allen's desk watching his friend write his reports.

"Hey Lavi." Allen greeted not looking up from his work or stopping his writing.

"So it's frinday~" Lavi stated as if Allen was completely unaware what day it was.

"Yes I'm well aware what day it is Lavi." Allen replied still not looking at his friend.

"Well we're going to a hot spring for the weekend and we want you to come!" Linali chipped in cheerfully. Allen internally sighed when Linali spoke. They never really got along as to Allen, Linali seemed rather fake. Linali acted like the most kind and accepting person but when Allen rejected her telling her he wasn't into females she had been rather rude saying he was a sinner.

"I'm busy right now. I want to finish these reports and get started on next weeks work." Allen continued his work refusing to look at Linali and she knew it was because he still didn't like her.

"Moyashi go pack your shit. If I have to suffer through this so do you." The third voice made Allen stop his writing and look up straight ahead at no one before he turned his head to look at his friend Kanda. He hadn't realized Kanda was there since Kanda was always so quiet. Staring at Kanda for a moment Allen sighed setting his pen down standing up. It was never safe to argue with Kanda so Allen wasn't about to argue with Kanda's order.

"Fine. I don't want to die today so ill go pack." Allen straightened out his files before he turned to his friends.

"Yay!" Lavi cheered latching onto his white haired friend grinning. "You'll be riding with Yu okay?" Lavi laughed nervously as Kanda glared at him ducking when a punch was thrown his way putting Allen in the line of fire. Quickly so he didn't get a nice bruise on his face Allen caught Kanda's first spinning Kanda around bending his arm up behind him. Gasping Allen quickly let Kanda's arm go stepping away as a shocked Kanda looked over his shoulder at him.

"Oh Kanda I'm sorry! It was just instinct!" Allen panicked worried Kanda was going to be pissed. But really it had been in self defense so Kanda couldn't really get mad...could he?

"...It's fine Moyashi. It's the baka Usagi's fault for ducking." Kanda grumbled glaring at Lavi who shied away. Everyone soon was heading out of the office building. Usually Allen rode the bus home but since Kanda was his ride to the hot spring 's Kanda gave him a ride to his house. Linali and Lavi left in Lavi's car as they had other people to go and get.

Allen let Kanda into his house leaving him in the living room as he ran upstairs to pack for the weekend. In the living room Allen had a couch, a fire place with a mantel that had some pictures on it, a few book shelves and a grand white piano. As Kanda waited waited he stood by the fire place arms folded across his chest. Out of boredom he stared to look at the photos on the mantel. There were some pictures of Allen when he was younger with some older men. One Kanda knew as Marian Cross, he owned the company Kanda and the others worked at. The other man Kanda didn't know. There was one picture of Allen in some foreign country with some boy about Allen's age when Allen was a teen.

"Hey Kanda. I'm ready." Allen called as he entered the living room to see Kanda looking at the pictures. "That's Narain. I met him in India. He was my first boyfriend."

"I didn't ask." Kanda looked over his shoulder at Allen glaring softly even though he HAD been curious about the boy. Allen smiled softly at Kanda as he moved to stand by Kanda looking at the pictures.

"Right. And those two are my dads." Allen gestured to the pictures with him and the two older men.

"Dads?" Kanda looked to the other pictures.

"Yeah. They were together since high school." Allen smiled tenderly at the pictures.

"They 'were' together?" Kanda looked to Allen seeing the pain hidden behind the smile.

"Yeah. Mana..." Allen pointed to the man with the long chocolate brown hair in one of the pictures. He was hugging Marian, the red headed man with Allen sort of squished in the middle. It was a rather cute tender picture. "He died when I was ten."

"Oh. Sorry for bringing it up." Kanda said softly which was unlike him as he looked at the picture. They seemed like a really happy close family. That would perhaps explain why Allen was usually so happy and smiling all the time.

"It's fine. It doesn't hurt as bad as it used to." Allen replied softly as he placed his left hand on the right side of his chest as if lost in a memory. Soon Allen seemed to snap out of it smiling again. "Anyway we should go."

"Right..." Kanda said as he stared at Allen before following him out of the house heading for his car as Allen locked up his house. Once Allen was in the car and buckled up Kanda started off for the hot spring. Allen had been living in Japan for years but he had never been to a hot spring so he was rather curious.

It turns out it had been his cousin Tyki who had set up the little vacation at the hot spring and had paid for the rooms. Tyki and Lavi were sharing a room, Linali was sharing with Wisely and Allen and Kanda had to share a room. Allen didn't really mind but Kanda didn't seem too thrilled to have to share a room with anyone. But he was glad he at least didn't have to share with the baka Usagi. The group headed to their rooms, Allen looked around the room curious. There wasn't too much to the room really, lots of floor space, two folded up futons and a small low table. Allen was sure Kanda's house had a similar feeling for some reason. Kanda usually was very traditional and that was something Allen admired about Kanda.

"Hey Moyashi." Kanda called as the two were on opposite ends of their rooms with their backs to each other as they changed into the black robes provided for them.

"Yes?" Allen replied as he worked to tie his robe which was a little more difficult than it looked. Kanda looked over his shoulder and could tell Allen was struggling with the foreign clothing. It was a simple robe not a yukata or kimono so it shouldn't really be that hard... Sighing Kanda walked over to Allen reaching around Allen to help him with the robe. Blushing Allen watched Kanda's hands work.

"Have you ever been to a hot spring before?" Kanda asked as he tied Allen's robes looking over Allen's shoulder to see what he was doing. As he did he saw a bit of a scar on the right side of Allen's chest, it clearly was not a small scar but Kanda couldn't see all of it.

"Um...no...why?" Allen asked still looking down to hide his blush from Kanda. Kanda chuckled softly as he was finished with helping Allen with his robe.

"Are you comfortable bathing naked in front of others?" Kanda asked stepping away from Allen. Allen closed his eyes blushing bright red. He knew that people were naked in the hot springs but it made him really nervous.

"I uh... dunno. It's not something I do..."

"Well it's tradition here to wash up in a communal bathing area then go into the hot springs." Kanda explained smirking at Allen's bright red face. He noticed Allen clutching the right side of his robe. So Allen was self conscious about the scar. Kanda was curious about it since Allen had done the same thing when he had talked about his late father.

"Right... not strange at all..." Allen sighed looking off to the side.

"Relax it's a rather small secluded place so I doubt there are many strangers here." Kanda huffed softly as he headed for the door tying his hair up into a bun as he did with Allen following some distance behind him. They met up with Lavi, Tyki and Wisely in the males bathing area.

"Al-Chan!" Lavi cheered hugging Allen who really didn't seem happy or comfortable. "You should let me wash your back!"

"Um... no thank you... why don't you wash Tyki's back? He's your boyfriend no?" Allen tried to shy away from Lavi. Tyki, picking up on Allen's discomfort, pulled Lavi into his arms away from Allen.

"Yeah you should wash my back and I'll wash your...well ya know~" Tyki smirked as he held Lavi from behind making Lavi squeak and blush.

"Tyki!" Lavi protested Tyki's perverse talk.

"Hey! No filth in the hot springs" Kanda scolded as he moved past the group to start washing up.

Allen was the last person to walk into the hot springs as his nervousness had made him take longer to wash up. When he walked in everyone stared at the huge jagged scar that ran from his right shoulder down to his right hip trailing off. Allen quickly got into the hot water sinking down so the water covered up to his shoulders wetting the tips of his hair. Everyone quickly acted like they hadn't been staring at Allen's scar. Allen sat close to Kanda simply to avoid sitting near the few older men that he didn't know. One of the men had NOT been trying to look at Allen's scar but somewhere else. Luckily Allen had had a towel to cover where the man had focused his attention.

Kanda didn't really mind Allen sitting close to him. Damn that Moyashi could do just about anything and NOT piss him off. He just summed it up to Allen being polite and respectful to people. It had NOTHING to do with Allen being so adorable and innocent. Wait... where was Kanda's mind going right now!? He had NOT just called a 22 year old Moyashi adorable. Damn it.

Lavi was currently sitting in Tyki's lap giggling as Tyki whispered in his ear. What he was whispering in Lavi's ear Allen couldn't and didn't want to imagine. After a little while in the bath Kanda looked to Allen speaking in English.

"You doing okay Moyashi?" Kanda's question made Allen look over at him.

"Hmm? Yeah... but I think I'll be getting out soon..." Allen replied in English smiling softly. Allen was always amazed how easily Kanda could switch from Japanese to English with no accent to complicate understanding him. Allen's accent when he spoke Japanese sometimes was pretty obvious and Kanda would have to correct him.

"Getting light headed? That's normal. You should get out before you pass put." Kanda suggested with a gesture to the sliding door.

"Mm... okay..." Allen stood up covering himself with his towel heading inside to get dressed. Having watched Kanda's hands so intently earlier Allen managed to tie his robe no trouble. Who knew his shyness would come in handy. Allen headed back to his and Kanda's room not sure what else to do. He grabbed his futon laying it out before laying down on his side with his back to the door. The bath left him a tired so he decided to take a little nap before dinner.

When Kanda entered their room he saw Allen passed out on his bed with his head resting on his arm with his other hand close to his face. He seemed so peaceful as he slept.

Sitting at the table Kanda was drinking some tea when Allen started to stir. Slowly Allen sat up rubbing one of his eyes sleepily. He noticed Kanda sitting at the table drinking tea.

"Hey..." Allen greeted still half asleep covering his mouth when he yawned a little.

"Hey Moyashi. Feeling better?" Kanda looked at Allen out of the corner of his eye sipping some tea. Allen blushed a little scratching his cheek a little.

"Y-yeah... thanks."

"Yeah sure. There's some food for you here. You slept through dinner." Kanda pointed to the container on the table. Allen quickly crawled over to the food saying his thanks for the food before he started eating happily. Food was one of the main ways to make Allen very happy. You'd think with how much Allen ate he wouldn't be as scrawny as he was. Kanda looked down nothing Allen's robe had loosened in his sleep. Reaching over Kanda pulled on Allen's robe a little to close it to keep Allen modest. Kanda didn't want to see Allen's bare chest as he was trying to drink his tea. Allen looked down to his chest confused when Kanda had closed his robe.

"Oh thanks." Allen said from behind his hand as he paused his eating to speak before he resumed eating quickly. Soon Kanda and Allen were joined by their friends who had brought drinks with them. Kanda stuck to his tea as everyone else was drinking sake. Kanda was keeping an eye on Allen out of the corner of his eye as Allen drank with his friends. Allen was only drinking a little at a time knowing he wasn't the best at holding his alcohol. The group stayed up chatting and laughing for a while before Kanda kicked everyone out around midnight as he wanted to get some sleep. Allen slowly crawled over to his bed just a little on the tipsy side. Laying down on his side Allen sighed closing his eyes.