Hi People! It's been a while since I wrote a story.... This is a continuation ...I hope it don't suck cause it can get a little rusty after a long time of no writing...Enjoy ^^
Every family member of the Black Order stood in lines before the heroes that were sacrificed in the war. All heads were bowed with full of respect in front of hundreds of white coffins crested with the black logo of Black Order.
The grim priest stood at the front saying prayers, every general stood straight and tall, hiding their tears behind their strong facades. Friends weep silently behind their hands, lovers cry brokenly, comrades bit theirs lips trying to be strong while others stood on, eyes brimming with tears.
A tall, long-haired exorcist stood at the farthest line of three thousand people. His pale face held no emotion at all as deep sapphire blues eyes could only focus on one particular coffin that was wrapped by a black and white flag signifying exorcist.
Two more exorcists, his good friends, their good friends stood beside him weeping openly, unable to contain their sadness. Allen slowly wrapped an arm around Leenale trying to comfort her, trying to give her the strength he didn't have. The short-haired girl leaned into his shoulder and cried.
Yuu Kanda stood there in a hall filled with three thousand people, feeling more lonely then anybody else in this whole wide world. There were no cries, no denials, no frets nor fuss, he just stood on looking at that one particular coffin.
Strong wind from the large windows blew into the hall, bringing in the smell of approaching rain. Cold midnight blue eyes tore it's gaze from the coffin for just a couple of brief moment to look out of one of the windows. The softest hand of wind caress his pale cheeks gently and lifted his long hair in it's melancholy rhythm. The sun had set a long time ago, it must be at least nine in the late evening.
Harsh heavy rain started to fall. God must have received the heart breaking news and cried for the brave souls that had joined him and Angels wept for the grieving souls that were left behind. Soon, all prayers were said, friends, lovers, comrades can say goodbye their love ones for one last time before all the coffins were sent to burn. Carefully Kanda place his blue violet, the red-headed's favorite flower, into the coffin. Sad dark blue eyes gazed at the face of the man he loves so much.
This will be the last time ever I get to see you again. He thought silently, his eyes gazing at the pale face that was framed with sharp nose and wild flaming red hair. Slowly, the Japanese exorcist leaned down and kissed his lover on the lips that were once warm as tears sneakily slipped down his cheeks.
A lump formed in his throat when he realize that never again will he look into those soulful green eyes again. Never again will he hear his whinny voice calling him 'Yuu-chan'.
His lips trembled when it came contact with cold, lifeless lips instead of the usual warm pouting ones. All his insides died a little more when he realized that he will never get to kiss him ever again. He shut his eyes in agony, desperately holding in his painful emotions. He let his lips linger on Lavi's lips longer then he should but nobody stopped him. Instead, everyone cried even harder, touched by the intense display of affection shown by of all the people, Yuu Kanda.
"I love you, baka usagi." he whispered into his ear, oblivious to all the stares around him before slowly straighten up. Tears rolled down silently and dropped onto Lavi's cold cheek as Kanda reached out a shaky hand to caress his stone cold cheeks and touch his lifeless hair with deep affection.
"I love you so much." he whispered shakily, no longer care who heard him or how he should keep up with his tough image. It doesn't matter anymore.
"Let's begin." the priest who was watching Kanda from the front announced. Every one back away from the coffins, while some were pulled away. Workers carefully, grimly close the lids of every coffin. Kanda did not scream and shout and cry like he expected himself to when it was Lavi's turn. Instead, he just stood there numbly trying to fight the lousy lump off his throat, his heart silently torn to pieces in his chest.
He stared at the huge box that contains his lover, all he wanted to do was to cry and hide in a corner and fade away. Slowly, his head started to throb long and hard. All the sounds around him started fade and his vision wavered.
He moved his hand to grab his sword tightly willing his head to stay clear.
Lavi, how could you leave me like this. How could I live without you? Were the last words his heart cried when suddenly his head felt too heavy, body felt weightless and his legs gave off beneath him. Yuu Kanda collapsed to the cold, stone floor.
"Kanda!" a few of his comrades shouted his name but none of the voices were the voice he wanted to hear. A few hands touched him and shook his shoulder but none were the hand that he wanted to be touched the most.
"Somebody bring a doctor..." that was what he last heard as he fell into unconsciousness.
A Love that has no Boundary, in a Time with Limit.
The next time Kanda open his eyes, a ring of faces filled with worry hovering around him in a circle. Hazy dark blue eyes looked around in confusion. What happened? He asks himself and his gazed stopped at Allen who looked so tragic.
"Che! I'm not dead Moyashi! What are you crying for?" he snapped, irritated by the sight of stupid tears rolling down from those dark stormy gray eyes. His head immediately throbbed in pain.
Everyone's face immediately looked relieved as Komui smile sadly at him. Kanda sat up on his bed, his wounds from the war stung and his head throbbed long and hard. He closed his eyes for a few moments to clear his vision.
The white ceiling and white thick blanket told him he was in the infirmary. Kanda couldn't recall what happened.
"What are you all starring at? Don't you have anything else to do then standing there in a tight circle, watching me like I'm some kind of animal?" he snapped, glaring at them, being his usual self.
Only silence replied him. He looked at the faces again, sensing a missing presence.
"What happened to me and where's baka usagi?" he asked without thinking, pulling strands of long, dark silk away from his face.
Everyone visibly winced by that question. Painful faces and silence answered him. Jerry, Allen, Tap and Johnny started crying while Komui, Reever, Leenale and old bookman stood quietly, starring at their feet.
"What?" Kanda snapped annoyed yet worried at the same time.
"Do you not remember, Kanda?" Reever asked silently from the foot of his bed. Only a blank face glared back at him.
"You fainted last night..." he told him quietly. "During the funeral."
Funeral?
Oh yeah, that's right. The funeral.
Painful memories came flooding back into his throbbing brain, awakening his heart from the intense pain he felt. He looked down at his long pale hand.
That's right. How could I forget? Lavi's not here anymore.
I would give up the world in just a second, if I could see you once again. I would kill every existence of this earth, if I could touch you once again. I would exchange this very soul with the devils, if I could hold you once again. I would rip my heart out with my own hands, if I could hug you once again.
I would spend the rest of my days in hell, if I could just feel your presence once again. I would walk around the world a thousand times, if I could just kiss you once again.
I would shout 'till I go mute, if I could hear your voice answering me once again. I would cry my eyes out, if you could come back for just a brief moment to wipe these tears away. I would sit here forever, if you could come in to my room to call me out for dinner. I would search every corner of this whole damn world, if you still exist.
But Lavi, you're gone aren't you?
* flash back *
"Lavi! What the hell are you doing there?" Kanda yelled at the red-headed one who was sitting alone by himself on the swing, swinging high. Surprised green eye turned around to the direction of the voice.
"Yuu-chan!" his lips immediately broke into a huge grin and waved at Kanda as he sway back and forth on the swing.
Kanda strolled up the small hill behind Black Order to the huge playground specially made for the young finders and exorcists. There were dozens of swings and slides and many other play stuff that Kanda cannot identify. There were also the top of the hill where children likes to roll down the hill and watch the blue blue sky on summer days.
The long-haired exorcist stopped in front of Lavi, eyeing the wild red hair, going back and forth in front of his vision.
"Baka usagi! It's lunch time, what are you doing here on a swing?" Kanda asked, irritated by looking at the red-headed one going back and forth.
"Yuu-chan, this is fun!" he giggled and continued to swing even higher.
"Che, how old are you? Six? For your info, you're a decade older than that!"
"Aww, don't be an old man Yuu-chan! Come join me!" deep emerald green eye smiled at him, the other hid behind a black eye-patch.
"This is for kids! Nobody after the age of twelve comes here but you."
"You're standing here aren't you."
"Don't make fun of me rabbit and don't spoil the bloody swing, you're 80 pounds too heavy to sit on it!" Kanda snapped, watching the mixed race exorcist swinging higher and higher.
"Come join me Yuu-chan! This is really fun." he said nodding his head to the empty swing next to him, ignoring what Kanda had just said.
"No thanks."
"Always the grumpy Yuu-chan." Lavi sighed.
"Don't you want to eat?"
"I don't know. I feel so free, I think I can fly!" irritated, Kanda che-ed and glared at Lavi.
"You keep thinking that, I'll have lunch without you." and with that, the Japanese exorcist started walking away.
"Yu~u-Ch~an!" an annoying voice dragged his name after him. "Don't leave me here!"
"Tsk!" Dark sapphire cold blue eyes frowned at his childish friend. "Then get going!"
Lavi slowed his swing down to a stop then cheekily said,
"Give me a kiss first."
Kanda gaped. "What?"
"Come on! Give me a little kissie!" Lavi said making kissing sound with his lips at Kanda. Somewhere in Kanda's brain, a blood vessel popped.
"Bloody rabbit!" he yelled and ran towards him as the other quickly got off his swing and ran up the hill. Because the hill was rather steep, they both ran out of breath when they reached the top.
"OK! OK! I'm sorry!" Lavi shouted when Kanda almost caught him.
"Baka usagi, when will you learn to use your brain before you talk?" Kanda yelled, trying to catch his breath.
"I said I'm sorry!" Lavi cried as he sank to the grassy ground and closed his eyes to rest.
"Wow," Lavi whispered when he caught his breath and opened his eyes. "What a beautiful day!" he turned his head to the sideways at Kanda who was too occupied in glaring at him.
"Come lie down beside me Yuu-chan. The sky is beautiful today." Lavi urged Kanda gently.
"Che. Good-bye." The Japanese exorcist started to stalk away.
"Come lie down with me!" the red-headed grabbed his arm and pulled him down to the grass with him.
"Tsk! Stop acting like a kid! I don't want to!" Kanda yelled, struggling away from a pair of arms that tight itself firmly around his waist.
"Let go moron!"
"No." was the stubborn reply and finally, Kanda gave up from trying to get away and stopped struggling.
They lay in silence for awhile.
"That's cloud looks like your pillow Yuu-chan." Lavi commented pointing out at a big fluffy looking cloud.
"Che. Almost every cloud looks like pillow, moron."
"And that!" Lavi shifted his hand towards another cloud, floating lazily in the sky.
"That looks the shape of your face!" he exclaimed excitedly.
"No, it doesn't. My face is thinner then that." Kanda disagreed.
"That." Kanda stated, pointing his slender finger towards the sky. "That mess of clouds looks like grass, which reminds me of your hair."
"Yuu-chan! That is mean!" Lavi whined and pouted like a child.
The two of them laid there for quite a long time, enjoying the beautiful day with Lavi keep pointing out clouds that always look like something related to Kanda. The young Japanese exorcist could hardly believe that he was lying with the stupid rabbit watching clouds!
But what he wouldn't deny was the comfortable feeling of smelling and sensing the red-headed beside him. It indeed made his heart go all warm and fuzzy.
"That one looks like your puny neck." he stated coolly.
"And that one looks like your ugly head." Kanda continued.
"That one over there looks like your huge nose and that-"
"Yuu-chan!" Lavi cried pathetically. "Stop! My neck is not puny!"
"Che. You're the one who started watching the clouds!"
"Baka Yuu-chan." Lavi punched Kanda's thigh playfully as he broke into a fit of laughter.
The sound of pure innocent laughter calmed Kanda's heart and the edge of his lips turned up while he reached out a hand to pinched the red-headed on the stomach to sober him up a bit.
Kanda closed his eyes and tilted his face towards the sun. It was indeed a lovely day in the summer and Kanda could not remember he had ever lay on a grassy hill just for fun. Then again, he was always in his dark room whenever he was not out doing a mission, so he never knew that the feeling of the sun on his skin was so happy.
A gust of wind blew, bringing them the smell of fresh cut grass and lovely summer flowers, there was a comfortable silence for a long time.
"Yuu-chan." a soft voice called from beside him.
"What?" he answered, his eyes still closed.
"That cloud looks like your lips."
"Huh?" he frowned and felt Lavi shifting beside him. Suddenly, the warm sunlight on his face disappeared, replaced with a dark shadow. Wondering if a cloud had moved to hide the sun, he opened his eyes only to find them locked with a pair of green, green eyes above him.
"What happened to your eye-patch?" he asked without thinking. It was the first time he'd seen Lavi without his eye-patch, and he had to admit to himself, Lavi certainly looked better with both eyes visible.
Kanda suddenly noticed that the red-headed was straddling him, his face dangerously close.
"Tsk! What is it? You're invading me personal space you moron." he snapped frowning up at him and his breathe caught in his throat. Lavi's face had this unreadable expression and the sun shinning down on him from behind made him looked like an angel.
It was the first time ever Kanda thought someone looked like an angel. His heart begin to increase it's speed. Fast and steady, it banged against his ribcage.
"Yuu-chan." he felt his warm breath on his cheek. "Did you hear what I said?"
"What did you say?" he was surprised that his voice managed to sound calm and cool.
"I said," he leaned forward, his lips closer to his ear. Kanda can smell the scent of Lavi so close to him, he didn't knew how to react.
"That cloud just now looked like your lips." his voice deep and perhaps, seductive?
"What?" Kanda frowned a little.
"It made me wanna kiss it." Lavi confessed softly and before Kanda's brain can digest the information. A pair of soft warm lips brushed his own and kissed him firmly but gently.
Kanda's midnight blue eyes grew wide with shock. He had never felt something so soft and warm against his lips before. It was the first time anyone has ever kissed him.
Ba-thump. Ba-thump. Ba-thump. Goes Kanda's heart. He never knew what happened but he was soon enchanted by those warm lips and slowly, he kissed back.
The kiss lasted for more then two minutes. When they finally pulled away for air, hazy and confused blue eyes met deep, unfocused green eyes. Lavi looked like he was dreaming.
"Lavi," Kanda said frowning confusingly and touched his lips with his pale fingers unconsciously. Green eyes snapped back to reality and those lovely lips that just kissed him lifted into the brightest smile ever.
"You stupid moron!" Kanda blushed furiously, pushing Lavi away from him. "Why did you do that? It's not funny!" The Japanese exorcist quickly stood up and started walking away from the red-headed. Fast.
"Yuu-chan." his heart missed a beat. Since when did Lavi's boyish voice can make Kanda's heart jump?
"Go to hell!" he threw his harsh words over his shoulder at him.
"Yuu," Lavi whispered, grabbing his arm and twirled him around to him face him.
"Why are your cheeks red?" he teased gently.
"Let go you idiot! That was my first kiss!" Dark sapphire blue eyes glared at him angrily.
"You still have your first kiss at 16? Aren't I a lucky one?" he smiled at him.
"You want to die don't you." it was wasn't a question, it was a statement.
"Sure, but after this." Lavi pulled Kanda into his arms and their lips once again meet. Too late, too bad, Lavi had fallen in love with Kanda. Too soon, too easy, Kanda too fell for those lovely lips and sunny smile.
*end of flashback *
Lavi. Where are you? Are you thinking of me as much as I am thinking of you? I'm here all alone. I thought you promised to always stay by my side? Where are you?
I hope it's not too bad...Hehehhe....I was surfing my stories a couple of days ago and I came across this story written when I was kinda depressed... And so I decided to continue it... Drop a comment and tell me how it was...Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoyed it... *BoundaryOfLimitation*