Well, so it continues! As you can see, this is why it's not a one-shot as I first intended, it's way too long and I don't like long one-shots, they bore me, I like going from chapter to chapter.
Anyway, although this was supposed to be a Cross/Allen story, another couple has somehow found its way into the story! I don't want to spoil you fun, so I'm not going to tell!
"Shishō! Shishō!" He opened his eyes to the voice calling for him and the hands shaking him.
"What is it, now?"
"I'm hungry!" The boy whined.
"Well, then go eat." He replied as he turned around to continue sleeping.
"I can't walk, remember?" And with that all the events of the past night came back to him. He turned around again and sat down on the bed just to pull the boy against him to kiss him.
"Morning!" He singsonged, chuckling when the boy blushed from head to toes, probably.
"Morning." The boy muttered as he found his way into his arms. "Did you sleep well? Was it cold?" He asked.
"No. It was perfect. Because you were with me." He said.
Hee… Who would have imagined that Shishō would be like that?
"That's great." He replied and kissed his neck. "Now, can we go have breakfast?" He asked, eying him with large puppy eyes.
"As soon as you get dressed." He replied as he stood up and went to fetch their clothes. "Does your foot hurt?"
"A bit, but nothing too serious." He replied as he started to get dressed.
"That's good." He said as he went back to Allen and sat next to him before kissing him again. "I love you very much."
"I love you too, Shishō." He replied smiling at him.
Cross heart swelled with pride at that. He kissed him again and then scooped him in his arms.
"Again?"
"Want to stay with the Head Nurse? I might get jealous." He teased as he sat the boy on a chair.
"Yeah, because Head Nurse is so beautiful, right?" He asked teasingly and laughed when Marian made a funny face.
Ten minutes later, they were eating, or rather, one was engulfing and the other one drinking coffee.
"I'm going to go get our stuff. Wait here." Cross said and ruffled his hair lovingly.
"Kay!" He replied happily before stuffing more food into his mouth.
It wasn't long until they parted. Somehow Cross had gotten him crutches so now he was battling with them. When they arrived to a lonely street he opened a door to the ark.
"We are home!" Allen yelled as they stepped in the main hall.
"Ah! Generals!" Lenalee said from above, waving at them. "What happened to you Allen?" She asked, jumping from the 5th floor to next to them.
"Fighting with high-heels is harder than it seems to." He said.
"Ah, Lenalee, could you bring those to my chamber, please?" The elder General said.
"Both?" She asked, confused.
"Yeah. I'm going to bring him to the Infirmary." And much to the girl's surprise, he picked the younger General up in his arms and left.
More surprising than that, though, was the fact that Allen did not even complain, but actually, snuggled closer to the man.
"Ohh… That is a surprise."
"Ah! Lavi! Kanda!" She said when she saw them on the first floor, Lavi leaning against a column and Kanda leaning over the hurdle. With one soft jump she went with them, sitting next to the General. "What do you mean, Lavi?"
"C'mon, Lenalee, don't tell me you didn't realise that General Cross was acting different lately!"
"Well… Yes, he was but… What does it have to do with that?" She asked, tilting her head.
Lavi smirked as he took a strand of hair from Kanda and twirled it in his finger. "All Cross wants is Allen to like him." He said.
"I'd say he has already accomplished that." Kanda said as he pointed at them, the white haired laughing cheerfully and kissing his cheek before resting his head on the elder's shoulder.
"Aren't they going to get into trouble?" Lenalee asked looking at the Japanese, who shook his head. "No?"
"We are waiting Socalo and Tiedoll to make an announcement." He only said and then stood, letting his hair slip off Bookman Jr.'s fingers, not scowling nor threatening at him for once.
They talked a bit more although somehow it ended up making fun of General Walker dressed as a girl.
"Wanna spar, baka usagi?" Kanda suddenly said.
"Really?" To say that Lavi's face lit up would be an understatement.
The girl sighed as she watched them go to one of the multiple training rooms. I wonder when will you two realise your own feelings. She thought before leaving to General Cross' room.
She was about to open the door when she heard shushed voices inside: Allen and Cross. She knocked and waited for the door to open. Cross. Shirtless Cross.
"Ah. I'm sorry to interrupt!" She said exclaimed, blushing like mad and handed the suitcases over to him, avoiding looking at him.
"Huh? You didn't interrupt anything. I was just going to bath." The man said. "Do you want to talk with that idiot apprentice of mine?"
"Shishō!" The boy yelled from the inside.
The man chuckled and patted his head before going to the bathroom.
"Hum… Are you ok, General?" She asked, politely.
"Ugh, don't call me that. Sounds weird." He said as he moved a bit so she would sit down next to him on the bed.
"But you are a General."
"I know, but it feels weird hearing everyone call me that… Everyone is older than me. Besides Timothy." He said, scratching his head.
"You finished the mission really quickly, only five days." She pointed out.
"Well, you know, with the Ark is a lot faster to come back. The problem was to arrive there."
"That's true! It's so easy for you!" She pouted. "How come the Head Nurse has let you stay in here and not in the Infirmary?"
"Uhh…" He pointed at a black golem. "Turns out she decided that Timothy, Krory and I are not allowed to stay in the Infirmary."
"Because of your eating habits and your definitely loud stomachs?" She asked, laughing.
"Yeah. So the Science Department made those cam-golems for her. Besides, Shishō is not going to let me do anything so she has nothing to worry about." He said, throwing his head back.
"Your relationship with him seems to have improved during this trip." She commented. "Something happened?"
"You could say that." Allen replied, smiling. "How were things around here? Any news?"
"Not so much: Nii-san keeps being himself, Reever tries to get him to work, Tim keeps trying to skip his study hours… Nothing out of the normal." She replied, thinking. "Oh! There is something!"
"What?"
"Kanda didn't yell at Lavi! Almost."
"What? You are kidding me, right? How's that possible. Did he drink a potion from the Science Department?" His relationship with Kanda had improved a tiny bit after having lived with him and becoming both generals.
"No!" The Chinese girl exclaimed. "But everyone was edgy because we thought he would snap at some moment he would snap and kill him."
"Man… I so wanted to see that! Not fair fun stuff only happens when I'm away!" Not that he regretted being on that particular mission, though.
"You are becoming less polite every time, Allen. I like it."
"Just be careful he doesn't start speaking like when he was a child." The red haired man said, wearing simple black cotton pants, an open button down black shirt and a towel draped over his shoulders.
"What do you mean, General?"
"This polite, British gentlemen here used to have a mouth like a sailor when he was a kid." He said and sat down in front of the boy, on the floor after he have him a brush.
She watched, amused, how the youngest put all the still slightly wet hair in his lap and start to brush the tips.
"Why did you change your way of speaking, then?" She asked and knew that she shouldn't have when he saw both master and pupil look down. Ah. So it was something related to Allen's past, probably about his dead father. "Oh! It's already this hour? I need to bring coffee to my brother. See you later Generals!" She said as she stood up and ran out of the room.
"Are you ok, Allen?" Cross said.
"Yeah. It's just…"
"I'm sorry. I shouldn't have told her that." The man said.
"It's not your fault, Shishō." The boy said as he bent over and kissed his head lovingly. "You should trim your hair. The tips are all open."
"Hm. I'll keep it mind. I'll go to a barbershop."
"I'll do it for you. I don't need more debts in my list." Allen said as he kept brushing. "When will Socalo and Tiedoll arrive?"
"Probably between tonight and tomorrow morning." Cross replied. "Do you want to do something in special today?"
"Hm… It would be nice, but we have to fill our reports and give them to Komui, remember?" He said, setting the brush down.
"And this is why I don't like to be in HQ…"
"What for? So you can have a collection of papers to sign when you come back?" He asked teasingly and then slumped to his side, leaving his head to rest in his master's lap when he sat next to him.
"That is a real inconvenient. Luckily it'll be turned down a bit from now on." He combed the white strands with his fingers.
"Hm… I hope so."
They spent some more minutes like that until Allen decided that they should do the reports and go through the papers they had. Plus the white haired General had to check on his own pupil, a ten years old girl called Aiala that he found after a visit to the Middle East Branch. She had attitude problems, reason for which she would always get into fights with Tim.
"Do you need help?" Cross asked, worried.
"Nah, I'll be fine, Shishō. It's not like I lost my leg." He replied as he stood up and grabbed the crutches and headed to his office and the elder, even though he had told him he would be all right, went with him. Although Allen enjoyed the fact the redhead was worried for him. "Thank you Shishō." Allen smiled and pecked him on the lips. "I'll see you at dinner."
"Don't doubt it. At 8?"
"Sounds good." He smiled and Cross caressed his cheek at what Allen responded by leaning into the touch.
After this Marian left to his own office, although the boy was pretty sure that he wasn't going to do anything, as usual. Chuckling he went inside the office and started to fill his report and other papers that he should have signed quite a few months ago. He sighed when he remembered how crazy Komui went when he realised that Allen was going to be more or less like Cross.
"Ah! Toma!" He called the Finder as he saw him running in front of his office.
"Ah! General Walker! I was looking for you!" The man said.
"What happened?"
"Miss Aiala…"
"Ah damn it all. Why couldn't I have a pacific pupil?" He asked as he took the crutches and followed Tohma to the cafeteria. "Please don't tell me Timothy and her started a fight in there…"
"I'm afraid that's the answer, sir."
"Jeryy is going to have my head." He growled as he opened the doors and everyone looked at him, relief written all over their faces. "Aiala!" He yelled and then let out a string of words in Jewish to the girl, who only pointed at the blue haired child who looked at them, confused but not really caring about it. That was, of course, until his master came in, whip in hand. "Ah, Klaud." Allen said. "Aiala, apologise." He said, in English this time to the girl.
"He started." She said sternly.
"Aiala…"
"Timothy, you too."
"It was her fault." The boy said.
And then they were going at it again. They finished when Allen smacked his student on the head. "Enough Aiala!"
"You hit me!" She said, almost crying and every one started to mumble around them: they would have never thought that Allen would ever smack a girl.
"You told me you wanted me to treat you the same way Shishō treated me, right? And I told you that it was not going to be pretty and yet you insisted. What did I tell you after that?"
"That if it was what I really wanted there was no going back and that you wouldn't go easy on me."
"Exactly. Now quit moping an apologise to Klaud, Tim, Jeryy and everyone you have disturbed." He said and she bowed, muttering 'I'm sorry' to everyone and although she hesitated when it came to the French boy, a glance to her master made her obey.
"I'm sorry, Timothy, it won't happen again." Everyone resisted the urge to snicker at that.
"Timothy, your turn." The only female General said and the boy did the same the girl had done previously. "Good boy. Now let's go, Emilia is waiting for you." She said. "Allen, I'll see you later."
"Of course. Let's go too, Aiala." He said and the girl trailed behind him.
Allen and Aiala looked up when the door of his master's office opened and she blinked at the red haired man: his clothes were also in black and gold, like her master, but she didn't recall having seen him before.
"Master? Who is he?" The girl asked, looking at the curse general.
"He? The man with the largest debt in the whole world, General Cross Marian, my master." He said, smirking to the elder.
"Your master?" She asked, eyeing him. "He's so big!" She exclaimed and that made both when snicker. "I'm Alaia, General Walker's apprentice." She said, bowing.
"Damn, you are so cute. Why does the idiot apprentice get cute little girls and I got an ugly, filthy thing like him?" Allen chuckled at that and the elder flashed him a small smile.
"I think Master is cute. And I love his hair! And his arm is so cool!" She said, quickly jumping to defend her mentor from the man's verbal attack.
"Don't worry, Alaia. He is always like this with everyone. Nothing personal." The younger male said as he messed her hair. "You are dismissed. And don't pick fights with Timothy or Jeryy will make you work with him!" He said and she nodded, bowed to him, glared to Cross and left, closing the door behind her.
"She's fiery, isn't she?" The elder asked as he leaned against the wooden table.
"Damn right she is." Walker replied, grinning. "And what do you mean 'an ugly filthy thing'?" he asked teasingly.
"Hm… Sorry." He relied as he bent to kiss him. "But you were filthy."
"And whose fault is that?"
"Probably mine."
He kissed him again when the door banged open. "Oi, Moyashi, Socalo and Tie… What the fuck? I did not need to see that!" Kanda said from the door, making the other two General's split the kiss.
"The hell Bakanda? Don't you know how to knock?"
"Don't you two know that this is why you have your private chambers?"
"As if you were one to talk!"
"What do you mean, now?"
"You were eye raping Lavi in the cafeteria the other day! It's a surprise how he didn't see it." Allen snapped at the Japanese one, smirking when the boy just blushed and left the room.
"So this is one of your famous arguments?" Cross asked as he helped his favourite (and only) apprentice to get onto his feet.
"Not quite. Usually there is a lot more of… physical contact." He replied, grinning cheekily.
"Should I be worried?"
"Only if you can get jealous of seeing your beloved apprentice being hit with Mugen." He said.
"Hm… Not entirely sure." Allen chuckled and they both left to the reunion Hall. The Branch Heads, Reever, Klaud and Kanda and Link were already there. And much to everyone's amusement, besides Kanda who only snickered, Cross helped Allen to sit.
"Thank you Shishō." The boy said, smiling up at him.
The man only chuckled before kissing him fully on the lips, sending Bak, Komui and Link into a frenzied state, Reever to cough inwardly and look away, Kanda only glared at them, but if one looked really well, he could see a small spark of happiness for them in his eyes, the rest of the Branch Heads were just blinking, confused and amused and Klaud… she just pulled them both by their ponytails.
"Stop it already! Last thing we need is a second Cross Marian." She scolded them.
The elder growled something as he sat down next to Allen, propping his feet on the table, as usual.
"Shishō…" The younger growled and the man lowered them.
"I'm impressed! Who would have told that little, quiet Allen could dominate a beast like Cross?" Renny asked.
"You just need to know what to do, Ma'am." Allen said, smiling sweetly, but everyone who had spent enough time around him, knew that this smile kept so much darkness hidden. So much that even Kanda cringed a bit, trying to imagine what could have Allen done to the General to make him obey this much.
Because, well, yes, they were in love and all, but he knew that if Lavi ever just told him to do something without saying it and with the tone of voice the Moyashi had used, he wouldn't obey… right? He sighed; he knew he probably would. That damn rabbit was making him go soft. He had barely snapped at him last week.
"Hm… I think I'll ask Jeryy to make me some stuffed rabbit tonight for dinner… Would you like some, Kanda?" Allen said and everyone looked at them, not really understanding why was he saying that. The only ones who seemed to understand were Reever and Link, who snickered.
"You… I'll fucking kill you Moyashi!" The Japanese hollered as he pointed Mugen to the youngest Exorcist.
"Yeah? Bring it o…!"
"General Walker! Sit down and rest your leg if you don't want to come rest in here!" Head Nurse yelled through the golem.
"Ugh, forgot about that." Allen muttered under his breath.
"And General Kanda, don't start a fight with him again! You two –specially you, General Kanda– might heel faster than the rest, so have consideration for those who end up in here because of your recklessness!" She yelled and they both nodded, mildly scared of the woman.
"We are here!" General Socalo said as he opened the door rather loudly, to be truthful.
"Perfect. Have your seats, please." Link said as he stood up. "We are all gathered here today to sign the form to become an independent organisation not related with the Vatican." The blond German boy said. "I believe we all know that this means we will have to move and that our funds will be reduced drastically." Everyone nodded. "Perfect then. Does someone have an objection?"
"Will we have Roman…?"
"Don't you even finish that sentence, Shishō." Allen said and Marian sighed before throwing an arm around his shoulders to kiss his temple softly.
"Cross? What's going on?" Tiedoll asked, narrowing his eyes at the red haired General who only smirked as he pressed the boy closer to him.
"What do you think?"
"You… You did that to a child? To your own apprentice?" The usually calm man said, slamming a fist in the table, startling even Kanda.
"What? I've done nothing!" Marian said.
"You want me to believe you didn't force the boy?"
"Shishō would never do that!" Allen said, standing up to and facing the French man.
"No need to cover it up, Allen. We all know how he really is." He said, anger all written over his face and voice.
"What are you talking about? I would never force myself on Allen! I would never harm him!" Cross yelled and everyone was amazed that the normal cold and indifferent Cross Marian had lost his cool so quickly.
"Tiedoll, it's ok. He is not forcing Moyashi into anything." Kanda said. And Link was starting to think that today was a really awkward day: first master and pupil basically demonstrated to be in a relationship (since when, no one knew), the ever calm Tiedoll snapped, the ever cool Cross did too and now Kanda spoke in Walker's favour. Did world go mad and he didn't know?
"He is not?" Tiedoll asked, looking at his precious apprentice.
"Moyashi knows how to handle Cross, so don't worry. Besides, if Cross was forcing him he wouldn't act all lovey-dovey in the corridors, I assure you." The two didn't even have the decency to blush.
"Anyway, now that this is… straighten out, anyone has any objection that doesn't concern wine or Walker and Marian's relationship?" He said, glaring at the French General, who only scratched his neck.
"Sorry about that, Allen, Cross." The both nodded, but one could tell they were both mad. It was amazing how some of their gestures were exactly the same, too.
"Since no one says anything, I'll assume no one has anything to say. Head Chief, if you can sign, please." He said, giving the form to Komui, who signed it and passed it along. In a couple of minutes they had all the firms. "Perfect. We should gather everyone from all the branches. Branch Heads, we'll be expecting for you with your unites by tomorrow at 8am in the hall."
"Yes." They all said.
"All right then. Meeting is dismissed." Link said as he stood up and everyone started to leave, the last only ones remaining were Walker, Kanda, Tiedoll and Cross.
"I think I owe you both a sincere apology. I should not have said what I said and I certainly shouldn't have intruded in your private lives." The man bowed and Allen went to say something when Cross spoke up.
"Don't you ever do it again." He only growled before leaving, one hand around Allen's waist to stabilize him.
"Hey, Bakanda, walk with us." He said and the Japanese frowned, but followed them.
"What do you want now?" He asked. "Hum, where's Cross?"
"Left us alone." Allen said as if it wasn't weird at all. "He used to do that all the time back then, you get used to it."
"Anyway, what do you want? I'm hungry."
"So I am. Let's go to the cafeteria, Cross said he'd meet me there at 8, that gives us about 30 minutes to talk."
"And why would I want to talk with you, Mo-ya-shi?"
"Because you need help to get that usagi, don't you, Yuu-chan?" The British one said, smirking.
"That's it, I'm going to sla…"
"General Kanda!" The Head Nurse yelled.
"Ugh. I know, I know."
"Good." She said.
"So, are you going to listen or not?" Allen said as they walked up to Jeryy.
"Do you give me any other option?"
"Of course, you can always go back to just staring and pitying yourself." He smiled sweetly, but Kanda knew better.
"Why are you helping me, Moyashi?"
"You helped me, it's only fair I return the favour."
"I was returning a favour, remember?" Kanda muttered, not really wanting to remember Alma's death.
"I'm sorry. Looking for me was returning the favour, that thing was not." Allen said. "What I don't understand is why you haven't told him yet, I mean, it's obvious to anyone that he is attracted to you just as much as you are to him."
Kanda sighed and rested his head on the table. "'Bookman does not need a heart' or however it is, remember?"
"But Lavi is not… Fuck, you don't know?" Allen said, staring eye-wide at his… friend? Frenemy? Whatever. They had achieved quite a close relationship after living together along with Johnny and Link for a whole a year in a 50m2 apartment in Italy. Surprisingly enough, they lived there for six month as all the previous landlords of all the other apartments they had rented had kicked them out after three weeks due Allen's and Kanda's arguments.
"Know what?"
"Bookman Jr. is not anymore Bookman Jr." A deep voice said behind them.
"Ah! Shishō! You left me all alone with Bakanda!" The boy pouted, causing Marian to lean and kiss him on the forehead, making Kanda growl and wanting to bang his head against the table. "Hm? What's the matter Bakanda? Jealous?" Allen said, smirking with his arms still crossed around his master's neck.
"Don't be a brat, idiot apprentice." Cross said as he sat down next to him.
"Yeah, yeah. As if you…"
"I'm sorry to interrupt your lovey-dovey talk, but can we go back to the 'Bookman Jr. is not anymore Bookman Jr' thing?" Kanda said, scowling at both of them.
"Oh. Yeah. That." The youngest said.
"Yes. That." The blue haired General replied.
"Lavi gave up his position as the heir of the Bookman title." Allen said as he started to write something down on a paper that Marian had given him seconds ago. For the looks of it they were food names.
"What? Why?"
"Seriously, Bakanda, can you get any slower?" Allen said as he gave the paper to Marian, who then left, shaking his head while reading the list of dishes. "For whom would Lavi leave the Bookman clan?"
Kanda blinked, confused as hell, trying to get all the information in his brain. "How do you know that?"
"Bookman told me." Allen replied, grinning at Marian when the man walked over with five trays, wobbling. "Shishō, you need to practice."
"Shut up." He growled as he set the trays down and passed a dish of soba to Kanda, who blinked. "Jeryy said this is the only thing you eat."
"Thank you." The Japanese said to the man, who only nodded and sat right next Allen, knees bumping under the table.
"How did you get Bookman to tell you? That man is like a tomb."
"I'll tell you something, boy, you don't really want to know the answer to that." Cross said. "This idiot apprentice of mine has a lot of ways to get what he wants and…" He stopped short when something cold and liquid fell on his head. "What the hell?" He roared and turned around, just to find his apprentice's apprentice.
"You insulted my master again!" Alaia said, folding her arms.
"Alaia!" Allen scolded as he dried the red haired General's face with a napkin, but one cold tell he wasn't really serious as his voice sounded more amused than angry. "I've told you that he isn't serious about calling names to me! He has done that since I met him." He said. "Right I think it's more of a pet name than anything." He said, starting into deep red eye.
"You got that right." The man leaned and kissed him again, hands gripping the cheeks tightly and rubbing soothing circles.
That set the whole cafeteria in silence: not only Allen and Kanda managed to sit together for thirty minutes together without attacking each other, now, the master and the pupil were almost giving them a full make out show.
"Moyashi, there are underage here."
"I'm underage, Kanda." Allen replied once he split the kiss, breathing a bit fast.
"Which kind of makes it more disturbing." A voice said from behind them.
"Link!" Allen left Cross and jumped on the German boy. "Where have you been lately? You don't hang out with me anymore!" The boy said.
"After being to be with you 24/7 for an year and a half I want a break from you!" The blond one said, although it was obvious he was just joking, he had become quite fond of the boy. "The only person who can put up with you for that long is General Cross." He said as he pushed the white haired General to said man who caught the boy in his arms.
In a few minutes, the cafeteria was full with everyone, the Generals and Link sitting on their own table.
"I'm sort of jealous." Lavi said. He was sitting along with Bookman, Lenalee, Miranda, Maria, Chaozii, Tim, Alaia and Krory.
"What do you mean, Lavi?" Miranda asked.
"Well, both Kanda and Allen are younger than me, were treated as traitors to the Order and now they are both Generals. It's depressing, really."
"If you want to think it that way, I'm the one who has been more time in the Order. Even more than Komui-nii-san." Lenalee pointed out.
"If you look at it like this…" Lavi said.
"I don't want to be a General." Krory said. "Its too troublesome." The man said and Miranda and Marie nodded.
It was then, than a rather loud noise was heard from the Generals' table and everyone looked how Kanda had grabbed Allen by the collar of his shirt, obviously not caring about Head Nurse's threats.
"What? I dare you to repeat that baka Moysahi!"
"I said that you are coward, Bakanda. You just keep looking at him but won't say anything to him. And I already told you that you can make a move on him now." Allen yelled back. "You always go saying that you won't give up and that you will never run from any situation and yet here you are." Allen growled.
"Moyashi…"
"Kanda, Allen, that's enough." Link said. "But I agree with him, Kanda. Do you know how disturbing was to wake up in the middle of the night and hear you mumbling his name in your sleep?" At that, the Japanese blushed like mad.
"Just go, Kanda." Allen said, this time smiling at him.
"At times I really hate you Moyashi, I really do." The blue haired General said as he stood up and went to his fellow Exorcists table.
"Yeah, yeah. You can thank me later."
"Already did once, not happening again, Allen Walker." The boy chuckled and Marian looked at him, confused.
"I'll tell you later." He replied as he tugged him down to kiss him once more, ignoring the coughs and eye-rolling.
"Are you done?" The youngest General nodded. "Let's go, then." He said as he picked all the empty dishes.
"Wait, Shishō." Allen said, grabbing his hand. "I want to see this. But first, could you get me something to drink, please?" He said, smiling as Cross just went to Jerry.
"There you go." He pecked his cheek and took his glass from Cross, who sighed as he sat by him, one arm wrapped around him as he lit a cigarette.
"Thank you."
"You are fearsome, boy." Cross said.
"I know." He snuggled closer to him, his eyes never leaving Kanda, who was now staring down at Lavi, who was looking at the samurai, confused.
"Yuu-chan? Is there any problem?" He asked.
"I…" The boy looked around, helplessly and his eyes darted on daring silver pools, a quite sadistic smirk and a held whiskey glass. And before he knew what was going on, he had held Lavi down on the bench by pressing his shoulder so he couldn't run away and kissed him.
What he didn't expect (despite Allen, Link and Cross sayings) was for Lavi to return the kiss. He felt a hand tug at his hair band, setting the ponytail loose and a hand to tangle in it.
"Yuu-chan…" The red haired boy said. "What…?"
"I'd rather have this conversation somewhere else." He mumbled and Lavi nodded, taking his hand in his before marching, tugging the General with him. Once they arrived to the Generals' suits floor, he stopped, facing him. "So?"
"I… I… Wasn't it obvious with the kiss?" He asked, looking down.
"Hm… That depends. Was it because you like me or because you are smitten with me and my amazing looks and dashing personality?"
"Lavi… You are pushing it!"
"Oh! You called me by my name." The boy said, smiling.
"I guess." The other one muttered, looking away when he felt two strong arms wrapped around his waist.
"Hey, Yuu-chan, will you answer me something?" He nodded. "And will you tell me the truth and nothing but the truth?"
"What now? I've gone to trials?" Kanda muttered.
"Will you?"
"Yeah. I will."
"Do you… love me?" Lavi asked, staring at him right in the eye, waiting for some cruel joke, a slap, Mugen pointing at him.
"Yeah. I do."
"W-what?"
"Y-you told me to answer truthfully!" Kanda said, breaking he embrace. "W-were you just… joking around?" He asked, suddenly nervous and feeling like running away.
"No! Of course not! It's just that you never really showed any interest in me and I thought that maybe you and Allen were pulling a prank on me. You two have become really close and I thought that you and him…"
"Baka usagi. That little moyashi is more of a little brother than anything else. Besides, can you really imagine us together? Jeryy would forbid us to get into the cafeteria, Head Nurse would all over us for fighting… And Cross would have probably killed me by now. No way I'm going after his 'precious idiot apprentice'." The Japanese boy muttered.
"Yeah, that would probably be it." The redhead said before hugging him again, clinging to him. "Why did you tell me now? Why not before?"
"Moyashi told me something."
"Something? What?"
"That you… That you were not going to become Bookman." Kanda said.
"How does he know this? I haven't told anyone!" The redhead exclaimed.
"Bookman told him."
"How the hell did he get Panda to tell him?"
"Knowing him it was either out a Poker bet or he threatened him with something." Kanda answered as he opened the door to his room and entered it. Stopping when Lavi didn't. "Something the matter?"
"I… Can I come in?"
Kanda rolled his eyes before grabbing the boy by his shirt and pulling him inside. "I kind of expect my boyfriend to come to my room, you know?" He said, smirking.
"B-boyfriend?"
"Well… I thought we could skip the whole dating thing as we've known each other for quite a long time but if you wanna do it…" He trailed off. He wasn't exactly the romantic type but for Lavi… he would at least try it.
"It would be nice to go on a couple of dates… but I have no trouble on being boyfriends first and then going on dates." He said as he sat down on the bed. "Aw man! This is so comfy compared to mine's!" He complained.
"Hey, we are Generals, we deserve some nice things, don't we?" Kanda said teasingly as he sat next to him, tying his hair again.
"Don't. I like it like this." Lavi said, stopping him and linking their fingers.
Kanda moved to kiss him again, savouring the soft lips that taste of yakiniku. Lavi moaned softly when pointy teeth bit gently his lower lip.
Knock, knock, knock, knock.
Aw fuck. Couldn't just leave them alone?
"What do you want now, Moyashi?" Kanda yelled, still holding Lavi's hand.
"Remember that we have to be by 5 at conference room! And don't to make too much noise!"
"I should be the one saying that knowing you and Cross!" He yelled back.
Allen was about to reply, when they caught a low rumble that sounded a lot like 'Well, kid's right' followed by a loud snicker from the white haired one.
"You two are door by door? Whose brilliant idea was that?"
"Komui. Who else?" He said before he pushed him down and kissed him.
Allen was laying half on Cross, half on the bed, arms folded on the elder's chest and resting his head there.
"I'm proud of you." The elder said.
"Huh?"
"You helped them to get together. I'm proud of you for that." He explained.
"Well, I owed Bakanda for that." He replied softly. "Aren't you going to ask?" He asked softly.
"Hm? About what, exactly?"
"About the 14th and my scars."
Tada! That's it for now! Next upload... Well, maybe within the next week, I'm kind of busy now and I still have other stories to upload. :D
Hoped you liked it!
(And with that, I redeem myself for making Lavi and Kanda the bad guys twice in my other stories!)