Pairing: KandaxAllen

Disclaimer: Isn't it obvious? Not mine. ^^

Summary: Allen was stuck taking good care of one bratty slash suicidal slash samurai-fanatic kid.

Warnings: [cough] none [cough]

Author's Note: I've seen a lot of fics where Allen was a kid. So, this is basically the opposite of that. Now, it's Kanda's turn to be the 'brat'.

Enjoy!

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Who. The. Hell. Are. You.

"What?"

Allen was furious. That shit of a man, Cross, had just robbed his monthly pay check (again) and given him the task of babysitting some eight-year old brat that Allen didn't even know the name!

"Are you sure Lenalee? There's nothing left from this month's pay check? Nothing at all? Not even a cent?" Allen felt his world slowly crumbling.

"Y-yeah… I'm sorry about that Allen-chan; I tried to stop him but he has your password." She said, guilt written all over her face.

He tried to smile. This was not Lenalee's fault. If there's someone that should be blamed then it should be that bastard.

"It's okay Lenalee, don't worry about it. I'm used to Cross's ways and I think I still have some money left from my other part time jobs." He said though it's a big, fat lie. He bid her goodbye and sighed when he closed the door to the accounting room.

Now, where is that kid…?

He looked around and saw a couple of his co-workers encircling something, giggling and smiling.

'Is Lavi here yet?' He asked himself. Lavi was the son of the company's President and was Allen's age. They were both twenty and this was Allen's first job. Lavi surprisingly liked him but then again, Lavi liked everyone. He was the official mascot of the company because he loved to laugh a lot and brought smiles to just about everyone in the office.

But he can't see Lavi and as he's quite tall he'd have seen him right away.

Then he heard a very loud scream.

"Ugly people! You're a bunch of ugly people! Get the hell away from me!"

Uh-oh.

He hurriedly went towards the commotion and saw a small kid with very sharp eyes, killing everyone in the circle with his death-glare.

Everybody just laughed at the kid's words but the girls of the group were obviously laughing a little too hard; now feigning amusement to the small kid who had just called them 'ugly'.

"Excuse me…" Allen excused himself and made his way towards the pile of people encircling the kid.

"Don't touch me!" He heard the kid shout again.

Then Allen remembered his conversation with Lenalee a while ago:

"A kid was left in your care by General Cross, Allen."

"A kid?"

"Yeah. I don't know his name though. He's around six to seven years old and is quite a handful, believe me!"

"You know him Lenalee."

"Not really. But I've seen him here at the office. Once, twice. Can't really remember."

"Okay… So where is he?"

"Now that you mentioned it, I remembered I left him on the first floor with Miranda-san."

"You left the boy with Miranda?"

"Don't give me that look Allen."

"I was just asking."

"Now go! He's been waiting for almost an hour now. And I'm telling you, the kid's not that tolerant."

The kid was not just 'not that tolerant', Allen thought. He was very intolerant and extremely rude, not to mention being very profane with his words. He was saying 'hell' in almost every sentence and that, in Allen's opinion, is a profane word and act already. He sighed and tried to gather himself together.

He dropped on his knees and caught the attention of the boy.

"Hello there…" He said to the kid and smiled.

The kid stopped wiggling furiously and looked at the new comer. He looked at Allen from head to toes, clearly scrutinising the man. Then he raised his eyebrows in a very perfect way, reminding Allen of how aristocrats in medieval era act when seeing something lowlife in front of them.

"Who the hell are you?" The small kid asked, not shouting but cold enough that it sent shivers down Allen's poor, poor spine.

Uh-oh.

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I am not hurt.

So the first meeting was not that bad. Really. Allen was just spoken to rudely and as much as he hated profanity, he didn't have a choice but to answer the kid's question and ask him his name in return in which the kid did answer obediently but coldly nevertheless. He said his name was Kanda and Cross left him here and the annoying woman at the tenth floor said that he should wait on the first floor with some boring and almost lifeless woman and that had bored him so he had decided to stroll around on the floor, away from the spot he was left in but then a mass of annoying people had suddenly crowded him saying he was cute and all and then he got angry because they're all ugly people with ugly faces and ugly voices then he (Allen) suddenly came and said 'hello there'.

'Perfect', Allen thought, sighing to himself.

Another headache - that was certain!

The kid was still looking at him while he drove the two of them to his apartment.

"Um, is there any problem?" Allen asked. He tried to smile, really, but tiredness was slowly eating him away; draining his enthusiasm. Not to mention what Cross just did again.

The kid didn't answer. Not right away, anyway. He just looked at him a few more seconds before he answered Allen's question… with a question.

"Are you okay?"

Allen stopped driving and looked at the tiny figure next to him.

The kid just asked him if he was okay.

Guess he was becoming so much of a loner that he was shocked to hear a kid asking if he's okay.

"Y-yeah. Yeah… I'm good. Perfectly f-fine." He said, now genuinely smiling. Maybe having the kid around him for a few weeks won't be that bad…

"You're lying." The kid said, throwing daggers at him with his eyes.

Eh?

"Alma said we shouldn't lie."

Alma?

"Who is Alma?" Allen asked, still bewildered.

"My father."

Oh.

"I see." Allen continued his driving but thankful that there was traffic ahead of them.

"So are you hurt?" the kid asked again.

Allen smiled again. So much for being a kid…

"No. I am not hurt."

"Good." He heard the boy mutter under his breath.

Allen took the biggest risk of the year and ruffled the shoulder-length hair of the boy.

Allen was sure he heard the small kid purr.

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You. Yuu.

Allen was currently frying an egg when he heard something fall in the other room. His heart thumped loud enough to send his ears deaf.

Kanda!

He left the kid in his room playing the Playstation. He had said that he was okay on his own and that Allen should stop worrying about him. They've been together for a week now and so far, so good. Kanda was a bit rude (but never to him, surprisingly) and not much of a talker but he was good enough for Allen's liking. And Kanda probably noticed that Allen winced every time he said the word 'hell' so he stopped saying that word (in front of Allen, anyway) for his sake.

Allen, with his apron still hugging his body, hurriedly went into his room. "Kanda!" He looked at the television that was on and showed Yoshimitsu kicking Jin Kazama and the latter not moving at all. He searched for the kid.

He gulped. Did he fall from the window?

"I'm here." Said a small voice.

He looked down and saw the kid sprawled on the floor, leaning against his bed. He ran to him and looked for any injuries but saw none.

"What happened? Are you hurt? What was that noise?"

"I fell."

Allen closed his eyes and tried to calm his furiously beating heart. He swallowed again because he felt that his throat was becoming dry and he slumped to the same floor and hugged the kid.

"Don't make me nervous, Kanda." He said to the boy, his face at the back of his small neck.

"Yuu."

"Huh? Me? What about me?" Allen asked, but still didn't let the child out of his grasp.

"No. Yuu."

"Y~uu?"

"Yeah."

"What was that?" He asked.

"My name. Call me that."

Allen let go of Kanda and stared at him. The kid was not looking at him, an alien colour suddenly invading the natural colour of his face.

"Call me Yuu." The kid said again, slumping on his knees. "That's my name. When you called me Kanda, I thought you were calling Alma. My name's Yuu. So you better call me Yuu." His face was beginning to borrow a shade of red, his lips pouting in a very cute way and his eyes desperately trying to look away from him.

Allen laughed and ruffled the boy's hair again. A gesture Kanda surprisingly loved (even if he didn't say it).

"Alright. Y~uu. Yuu. Yuu. Yuu. Yuu. Is that enough, Yuu?" Allen said smiling widely.

"One is enough."

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Beta'd Version Uploaded: November 16, 2010

Thanks to AustralianGypsy for a her amazing job!