Best Before Broken

Allen Walker is a patient in a local hospital after getting into a car crash. He now suffers from having a weak heart, and short term memory loss. When he starts to fall in love, and make friends, how will he remember them..?

"Mister, um, Walker, sir...? Are you awake?" The nurse asked very carefully. The boy in the room was very fragile now, and he was very pale. He couldn't remember anything, actually, except he remembered who he was. He knew that he was in a car crash, and that due to that he was hospitalized for having a weak heart, and newly acquired short term memory loss. What he didn't know is if he had any family, or if he had any friends. He simply knew; he was him, and that's all he could be no matter how hard he wanted to be someone else.

"I'm awake.." Allen said slowly as he looked out the window. He moved the curtain with his shriveled, red arm, and then he stared through the now completely open window. "It feels so weird sitting in here... I wish I could be one of those people that remembered the things they did throughout their lives, and the people they spent their time with, and where the live, what they eat, even. I don't even know what I had for breakfast this morning anymore..." He said, looking down at his shriveled arm and running over it slowly. "I don't remember... I don't know how my arm became like this or my scar appeared on my face." Allen said, breaking down into tears slowly. He saw some people come in his room, and while they had something familiar about them, he didn't know them... or did he?

"Allen, buddy, hey." The red-haired one said to him. There was only three people here, besides him, not including the nurse who was almost out of the door at that point. "We talked to the nurse before we came. It seems like you're not remembering anything... So, my name's Lavi. We're best buds, fer sure." Lavi said with a ridiculous grin on his face. "This here guy that looks like a ridiculously sexy girl is Yu." He said, and when Allen gave him a confused face, he got it before Allen could ask. "Er.. not you, I mean Yu... Er.. Yu Kanda. Not you are Kanda, but his name is Yu Kanda. Just, call him Kanda." Kanda glared at him, and he was most likely thinking Why the fuck do I have to be here? Because the damn Moyashi isn't careful? But that probably won't matter anyway. Probably. "This here is Lenalee. She's like, rad, and all that jazz." Lavi said, pointing at the only girl in the room.

"I... I'm terribly sorry to say that I don't remember any of you." Allen said, looking at Lavi with a distressed face. Lavi, however, didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He looked at Allen sadly, before looking down. "I-I'm really sorry, but I do have short term now... I doubt I'll even remember this conversation soon." Allen said, frowning deeply.

"Allen. Baby, don't forget me." Lavi said, somewhat dramatically. "It's like, you're in a car crash and you forget your best friend? That's not right, dude. But, then again, you did hit your head pretty hard.. I was so scared when I heard you got hospitalized that I wanted to cry, baby. I wanted to sit down and cry. But Yu- er, I mean Kanda hear was being such a jerk about it that went out to eat pizza instead." Lavi said, earning a glare from said jerk. "What? I can't tell him the truth?" Lavi said, and looked at the two sadly. He probably shouldn't have asked that question, but it was to late now.

"Yo. Cyclops, if you're going to be gay for Moyashi here, then please for all that is good, don't do it in front of me." Kanda said, looking disgusted. The three gave him a weird look, and Allen paused, confused. He honestly didn't have an idea what they were talking about.

"Woah. Woah. Woah. First, who's cyclops... and am I this... Moyashi you speak of? I-I'm not that short.." He said, frowning. "Wait.. Cyclops.. isn't that Lavi...?" Allen said, hoping that he was starting to remember things again, but that was easy because if you looked at him, he was the only person that could reasonably be 'Cyclops'. "And I also somehow feel that you wouldn't know what good was if it hit you in the face," Allen continued. Kanda glared at him with one of his 'Do you want to die faces', which wasn't that odd, normally, but right now, it was very horrifying.

"Now, now, Kanda. Down boy," Lavi said, and Lenalee hit Kanda upside the head. "Woah. Lenalee, I appreciate your help, and all, but this is a hospital. I think we all need to calm down, before some crazy shit happens. And I mean like, real crazy." He nodded, and it seemed quite obvious that Lavi almost definitely did not think about what he said before he said it. "Anyway so Allen, baby, are you remembering anything about your cool, sexy beast of a best friend, also known as me?" Allen shook his head sadly and Lavi frowned. "Aww, man, that's too bad. We had some fun times together." Lavi said, sighing lightly.

Allen looked at Kanda, and he could feel his cheeks turning red, so he hid under the covers. He knew this wasn't going to be good for him, but he was going to pretend that he had forgotten them. "W-Who are you...?" He asked, uncovering his eyes and hiding his still flushed cheeks while secretly staring at Kanda. They frowned lightly, as they had just gave him introductions not to long ago.

"Y-You forgot us already?" Lavi asked, and Allen made the best possible confused face that he could make. Lavi was going to say something else, but Allen, who had been staring at Kanda for awhile, messed up his heart rhythm, and started to look light headed. He reached for a button, but he couldn't reach it.

"U-Uh," Allen said, almost breaking down in tears. "C-Can someone press that button...?" He said, pointing at the button that he had been trying to reach. Right after he said it, Kanda dashed to the button and hit it as fastly as possible. Lenalee and Lavi stared at him all 'What the hell, Kanda?' because everyone thought that Kanda hated Allen. Apparently that wasn't true. A nurse came rushing in.

"Mr. Walker? Did you take your medicine today? No.. of course not you have to take it with food and you forgot it at breakfast..." The nurse walked out of the room in a hurry, Allen screaming from the intense pains in his chest. She came back with food and a rather large pill for Allen. "Take this," she said, handing Allen the pill. Allen took it quickly, hoping it would actually help him, instead of taking forever to work, and start working when he didn't need it anymore. Allen slowly became less pale, although he was pretty pale in the first place. "Well, if Mr. Walker doesn't remember you, then you should probably leave... I don't want him to start freaking out and thinking that there are odd civilians in his room.." The nurse said, laughing a little at her own joke.

She started walking out of the room, directing the three out, but Allen called her back and she told them to wait there as she walked over to Allen, looking at him sweetly. Before she could ask what he needed or why he called her, he pulled her down to whisper in her ear. "I want to know if Kanda can stay in here... please? I haven't forgotten them, but I can't handle three at once." He said, frowning lightly as he looked at the three, taking a longer time to look at Kanda than the rest of them. She thought about it for a little, then nodded her head at the small teen. He celebrated a little inside his head, but was sure not to show that he cared a little bit too much.

The nurse explained that for now, only Kanda would be able to stay in the best way that she could, without telling any of the three that Allen had wanted only Kanda in the room with him at the time. That wouldn't be easy to explain, even if they could already tell that Allen had taken a liking to Kanda from the minute that he saw the aggressive male. Kanda looked suspiciously at the boy who was laying on the bed, looking a bit to helpless for his own good.

"So, tell me, Allen, why am I the only one she allowed to stay? Does she have something against the others... or do you just have a really bad attachment to me, already?" Allen didn't know how to answer these questions, nor did he want to. He just wanted to spend time with the one that he had fallen in love with at first sight before he forgot him. That makes sense, right? Yeah, I'd say so. You don't want to forget someone that easily when they're right in front of you, especially when you know that you can reach out and touch them at any time. It feels like they're slowly ripping pieces of you away from you, and that as you slowly forget things, you can no longer tell what actually exists and what doesn't.

"B-Beats me, Kanda. Maybe she just thought that you looked like you were the most mature out of the group... or she didn't want me to be lonely but she didn't want me to have too much attention at the same time. I don't know how she thinks, that woman," Allen said, sighing lightly. Kanda was such a beautiful person, which while it didn't cover up for the fact that he's a complete and total jerk, it almost did.

"Really, Moyashi? You don't know? That's funny, because even I know. In fact, it's hard to not know when you make it so obvious. It's easy to see that you like me, and I'm not just saying that because I have a big head. Fine, if you can prove to me that you're worth the effort, I'll go out with you. Once you can remember my name every day, I'll know that you're worth it." Kanda said with a slight smirk, thinking that it was impossible for me to do, I blushed, and I nodded. I didn't intend to let him win this, even though it's highly possible that he would have, anyway.

"It sounds like a deal to me. On Monday through Friday, I'm allowed to have two hours of visiting time. On Saturdays and Sundays I'm allowed to have three houurs. That's a total of sixteen hours per a week. I expect to be seeing you, Kanda." Allen said, smiling. He then lay in his bed as he fell asleep with the same grin on his face. Yu Kanda looked at him with a small smile, then went to walk out of the room.

"It seems that we have an interesting deal, Allen. I can't wait to see how this turns out, especially with the way I feel about you." Kanda said, and looked at his small friend who he didn't like to consider as one although he knew it was true. He smirked lightly, and walked out of the room.

"Yu! We were just coming to get you. The nurse said that visiting hours for Allen were over already!" Lavi whined, sighing lightly. "Why did you get to stay?" He continued with his whining, but kept on smiling, anyway. Yu frowned deeply at his complaining not-so-much friend, and sighed. These next couple of weeks were going to be... interesting.


It's finally done! I know, why must I torture the Allen, right? Well, it's because.. I actually don't know. D:

This is dedicated to Mariah, because she's cool, and she's Lavi in our roleplay group thing. Crystal, because she's my Yu-pon in our roleplay group thing. Yeti because she's plain awesome. Mama and Papa because I say so. And Abre because she makes me smile with her nickname that she gave me. :'D