Chapter 1

Title: Bedtime story

Fandom: D. Gray man

Rating: T for now anyway

Parings: Yullen and Lucky

Summary: Cornered With a choice of Dying or being separated forever, Kanda and Allen choose to Die, right in front of Lavi's Eyes while he is helpless to save them. Years later Lavi and Tyki's Daughter, raised on the tale of the tragic lovers, want nothing more in her life than to ease her "mother's" near constant depression over her friends death. Then one day she meets a pair of twins her age in town, twins that scarily resemble her Mother's lost friends. Are Kanda and Allen not as dead as Lavi thinks?

Disclaimer: if I owned D. Gray Man Tyki would be secretly giving info to the exorcists and almost all the characters would be Gay. However, Libby Mikk, and 2 other characters that show up later are mine and Luna's.

A/N: This story was inspired by the Yullen drabble collection 50 Carresses By Inverted Iris. More specifically the Drabble "Sad Story Tale" it touched my heart so much and almost made me cry, and so I felt the need to elaborate on it. And just for the record, yes. Lavi is the "Mommy" XD

Chapter 1: Story Time


It all started with that story, her favorite bedtime story, the one her mommy always told her.

It didn't seem strange at first, I mean, other little girls got read bedtime stories by their mommy's too right? True, her mommy was different, her mommy wasn't a lady like all the other little girls, her mommy was a man, but she didn't see anything wrong with that, her mommy was her mommy all the same. He was just as good as any other girls mommies. And there nothing was wrong with the story either, it was a nice story, when she told people about they described it as "Beautifully Tragic" buut she just thought in was wonderful.

And she loved hearing it, her mommy often tried to read her other stories and she liked them too at first, but they got boring after awhile, not like that story, it never got old, which was why she asked for it every night.

And those nights would always go the same way:

"Mommy, will you tell me a story." she would say after her mother had bathed her and dressed her for bed.

"Of course, sweetheart," her Mommy would say, "What story would you like tonight? Jack and the beanstalk? Sleeping Beauty?" Her mother always listed stories out of books, trying to get her to choose one of those.

But she rarely did, she would always answer, "No Mommy, none of those I want that story."

Her mother would then give her a pleading look and aske her if she was sure, she nodded vigorously, then he would sigh and ask if she wanted the book version or not. She only chose the book version when she was really tired, because it was shorter, but she usually said no to it, because she loved it when her mommy told it himself, it was longer and more detailed.

At that point in the night, her mommy began the story:

Once upon a time, there lived 2 young people who were opposites in every way: Personality, ethnic background, views on life, even which side of the world they came from.

By circumstances beyond their control, or perhaps the hands on fate, these 2 people met each other, and at first hated each other with everything they had, and could never be in the same room without arguing. Even so, fate forced them to go through many hardships together.

And slowly that hate changed to grudging respect, then into unspoken friendship, and then into something more, until the 2 became lovers under a moonlit night. They were barely ever apart for long after that, realizing they would always be stronger together than they were apart, and in standing together they even managed to defeat a great evil that threatened the world, and live in happiness at last.

But their happiness could not last for long, as problems surfaced for the happy couple.

It all started when one day a woman entered the lovers home and attempted to kill the younger of the lovers, luckily the older lover immediately rushed to his beloveds side and chased off the assassin. But even more problems arose when the older lovers family, a vicious clan of samurai, resurfaced to cause trouble by attempting to force the older lover into a marriage to create an heir for their clan. And the woman they had chosen turned out to be the same one that attempted to kill the younger lover.

The older lover was faced with an impossible choice: marry a woman he could never love or be sacrificed to a Dragon God worshipped by his family in which case his soul would be destroyed and he would never be able to be with his lover again.

However, he chose neither. And because of his choice he and his lover were constantly running from the people who had once been his family. And even though their lives seemed to be spiraling downward the love between them never diminished.

They kept running until one day a pack of samurai, to many for even both of them combined to defeat, had them cornered on a cliff above the sea. There was no where to run and their friends could help them no longer.

Knowing this was the end, the lovers made a choice. They looked at each other in mutual understanding, both knowing that their lives were over. And then, joing hands before locking themselves in a tight, final embrace, they both fell from the cliff into the dark waters below, and never resurfaced.

When the story was finished, her mommy would seem to get really depressed. Then her daddy would come in and tuck her in and they would both kiss her goodnight before going to their own bedroom down the hall. And she would fall asleep.

But there was one night where something else happened. But was the night she finally realized that the story was not fiction, and the reason it caused her mother so much pain to read it to her.

That night happened just like another: bath, night-dress story time, but then, daddy was leading mommy out the door, she saw tears flowing from his single green eye. Against her better judgement, got out of bed and stealthily followed her parents down the hall to their bed room.

The door was cracked open so she tenetivly peeked inside. In the room her Daddy was holding her Mommy close, running his finers through Mommy's red hair and trying to wipe away the tears pouring from his single green eye, so much like her own emerald orbs.

"My darling Bunny," her father spoke, his golden eyes looking just as sad as her mother's, "If it really pains you so much to remember then why don't you just insist she choose another story?"

"I can't do that to her Tyki, she loves that story with all her heart, and to be honest, seeing her enjoy their story so much really does make me happy for a moment. Just the fact that their tragic story can make her smile. But.. Still.."

"You miss them Lovely. I know."

"It's more than just missing them, Tyki. I failed them! If only I had done something."

"You and I both know nothing could be done for them at the time. It was their choice to die sweetheart. We probably would have done the same thing in such a situation, please stop crying, when you cry something inside me breaks with each tear that falls."

But Mommy continued to cry, sobbing into Daddys shirt as Daddy stroked his hair and whispered sweet nothings in his ear. When his sobs finally quieted down into small sniffles, he spoke again.

"They were my closest friends..."

So the lovers were her mommy's friends!

It terrified her as she creeped back to her room and into bed, her curiosity satisfied. However, she found herself unable to sleep as the conversation her parents had was still fresh in her mind. She must have been causing her mommy so much pain every time she asked for that story. Because in doing it he forced him to remember the pain of watching his dearest friends die. So, she made a vow, that until she discovered the full nature behind the tale she so very much loved, and then found a way to heal her mothers dispare, she would not ask for the story again

So the next night, when she needed a story to fall asleep after her nightly bath and changing into her nightgown, she asked Mommy to read her Beauty and the Beast instead of her favorite story. She even thought she saw a tiny spark of happiness come to her mommy's eye as he pulled out the book and began to read the story to her, he even did silly character voices for all of them. And so she let her mother's voice lull her to dreamland and repeated her vow to herself before drifting off.

From on that day, Liberio Mikk aka Libby, vowed to do whatever it took to make her mommy happy again.

And so a new story begins...