A.N: Spoiler notice: If you haven't read chapters 185 & 186 of -Man, beware. This fanfic contains some info from those chapters.


There was a knock at the door.

"What is it?" came the exhausted, yet still irritable, reply.

Lavi opened the door, grinning broadly. "Ready?"

"Are you sure about this, Lavi? I mean after everything I've told you?"

"Mm-hm," Lavi locked the door the behind him and sat down on the edge of his partners bed. He leaned over and gave the uke a small kiss on the cheek, "You nervous?" he teased. He laughed as his partner's face flushed crimson and started stuttering denials left and right. Then Lavi noticed that Kanda, whom he had woken up, was clutching the bed covers so tightly that his knuckles had gone white. The redhead cocked his head to one side, "Yu," he said, "did something happen?"

"Why do you ask?" Kanda snapped.

"Well, for one thing, you're shaking like a frightened rabbit and you won't look me straight in the eyes, either. What's wrong? We've doing this behind gramps' back for three years now, we're not about to get caught." It was true, the two had been doing this since they were eighteen, going behind so many people's backs just to be together. So there was no way Kanda would be nervous.

"It, It's not that…" Kanda looked down at his hands, still shaking.

"Then what is it? Wait! Did something at the Asia Branch?" Lavi had suddenly remembered that Kanda had gone to meet with Zhu Chan, the branch chief, Bak Chan's, father and Kanda's creator, about two weeks ago. Lavi knew that Kanda always took Zhu's advice and had wondered if the old man had advised his partner to stay away from him. After all, Yu refused to sleep with him up till now.

"Ah, yeah, s-something happened, but don't hate me when I show, okay?"

Show? What on earth was Kanda talking about? But, still, Lavi was curious as to what could've happened to make his partner act like this, "Okay, I promise, besides, I could never hate you" but that old man Zhu is another thing, he thought darkly.

Kanda pushed Lavi off the bed then lifted the covers. Lavi just stared, Kanda saw his shock and blushed, furiously.

"What's with that look?" he said angrily.

Lavi shook his head violently, but he couldn't stop staring, "Y-Yu, you… what have…why have…HUH?!"

"W-well," Kanda said, embarrassed, "you kept saying how it was a shame that the two of us couldn't have kids, so I went to Zhu and asked him for help and…" He broke off; Lavi was hugging him so tightly that it hurt. At his gasp of pain Lavi loosened his grip and let his arms fall loosely around Kanda's waist.

He rested his head on the uke's shoulder, "I can't believe you would do something like that. Just for me," he said quietly.

"Come on, we'd better get to it," Kanda said, abruptly, "or it'll be dawn before we know it."

"Yeah, okay," Lavi smiled warmly and the black eyes that were gazing up at him, he loved being taller than Kanda, it gave him a sense of dominance. However, he wasn't going to think about that power tonight. Instead of the usual, he would be nice. After all, this was going to be the best night of his life, and he wanted to make sure it would be Kanda's as well.

-One week later-

Kanda was in shock. He had been sitting in the cafeteria, eating his breakfast in his usual foul mood, when, suddenly, a wave of nausea overtook him. He had dashed to the men's room and, absolutely thankful that no one else was there, vomited spectacularly into the nearest sink. He was about to clean up when another wave came over him and he vomited again. Convinced that it was finally over, Kanda cleaned himself up then stood for a moment, clutching the rim of the sink, shaking and panting. He looked at his reflection in the mirror with wide eyes; he was white as a sheet. What the hell was going on? He was perfectly fine when he woke up this morning so why was this happening?

The door opened, Kanda looked up, wild-eyed, and saw Lavi standing in the doorway, toothbrush in hand. The redhead quickly registered the situation and rushed to his partner. He put Kanda's arm over his shoulder and supported him out of the restroom. "We need to get you to the infirmary, Yu."

"No" Kanda said weakly, "no, get me to Zhu."

And, thus, Lavi boarded the arc and took Kanda to the Asia Branch. When he came back, alone, he told Komui that Kanda was getting tests done over in the Asia Branch and that he wouldn't be back for some time.

"Tests?" asked the bewildered science chief, "what for?"

Lavi shook his head, "I have no idea," all Zhu had told him was that Kanda needed to be alone for a while and that he would see his uke when he got back.