By: Junpaku Hakuma
Author's Notes:
Hello, sorry for the late chapter. I know I keep saying I'll update sooner then don't but life keeps tossing me curve ball after curve ball and it's really stressful. Things seemed to have calmed down now (knock on wood) so I should be able to start posting more often.
I do not own D. Gray-man, the characters, the story, and the idea all came from Katsura Hoshino, so, it's not mine. With that said, enjoy.
Yaoi warning!
Chapter 2: Over board.
"Walker! Get your ass up!" Kanda snarled as he shook the Albino awake.
Allen groaned as he opened his eyes, unable to move and feeling sick from the shaking.
"Damn it get up!" Kanda growled again but Allen just groaned more and he quickly gave up, growling and picking up the limp form before rushing towards the head of the train.
Allen winced as Kanda rushed him through a door way, making him smack his head on the metal door way. Then he was tossed to the floor like a potato sack without a care of if it hurt or not. His head was turned so he was able to watch as Kanda scrambled around the room trying to figure out how to slow the train down. Allen winced as the train hit a bump and heard the screeching of the rails below the train as they flew along the tracks. That was when this really hit home, his eyes widened and he watch Kanda grab hole of the lever that controlled the breaks and struggle to pull on it. He forced his heavy body up but it slumped over the moment he sat up, leaning against the wall. His heart pounded in his chest as his eyes locked on the bridge just around the bend.
He felt the man rushed over as he was unable to pull the breaks on, knowing even if he did they wouldn't stop in time. They had precious little time and only one chance to get off this train without any broken bones. The man dragged him to the door by the back of his neck making Allen whimper as the man opened it and used a second hand to grab onto the back of his pants.
"Kanda?! What are you doing?!" Allen squeaked over the roar of the engine and rushing wind.
"Shut up Moyashi!" Kanda only barked back, not explaining what he was doing or what he was waiting for.
Then he saw what, as the train gave a nice turn Allen noted a bridge over a smooth flowing lake and his eyes widened. He wouldn't! With his arms numbed like this Allen couldn't swim!
"Kanda no! I can't swim!" he yowled with wide eyes but didn't get a response before he was tossed out of the moving train and he was in mid air., Kanda following after him.
The next thing he knew was the sting of his body hitting the water and the feeling of his lungs emptying. He grit his teeth to keep from gasping in water, eyes closing tight as he felt him self start to sink. Something grabbed his tail and his back arched a gasp leaving his lip as his head was pulled above the water leaving his coughing and gasping for air. Shaking faintly as he realized Kanda had him on his back and was swimming to shore.
"YOU! YOU! PSYCHOPATH!" he yelled as loud as he could, cringing as Kanda cast a glare over his shoulders that made the hairs on the back of his neck stand on end.
"I could have drowned!"
"Shut up Moyashi! Or did you forget the that Noah is still out here." He flinched at those words and looked across the shore nervously.
As much as he hated to admit it, Kanda was right, that Noah was still out here and was probably looking for them. But why had they jumped train in the first place? A sudden crashing sound from further off informed him why and his cat like gray eyes shot to the forest near by as smoke and fire erupted into the trees.
"Oh…" he muttered softly and sighed, resting his head on the samurai's shoulder.
Kanda could have just jumped without him and yet… he hadn't… He'd tossed him out and was now struggling to get his lip body to the shore…. Allen didn't ask why, for fear of the man changing his mind about getting him to the shore, knowing he'd be useless in a fight right now.
Shore was a welcome change from the dirty river water but it was freezing out here and they were both soaking wet. Kanda propped the silver haired teen up on a rock and sat back, squeezing out his long hair with a scowl on his face.
"We're g-g-gonna need a fire." Allen voiced as his teeth started to chatter and he wished this could have happened sometime during spring instead of the dead of winter.
"I know that Moyashi!" he hissed at the nick name but didn't counter this time, letting the man call him names just because he just saved his life, twice.
"I'll get wood, so don't you dare draw any attention to your self." He barked and stood up, grabbing his blade and storming off in a huff.
Allen sighed as he watched the dripping wet man leave him alone under the wooden bridge and frowned in irritation. Saved his life or not the man was still a pain in the butt.
"It's not like it's my fault the blade was poisoned… Oh god I hope it isn't fatal…" he voiced softly in a mild panic then shook his head.
If it was fatal it would have killed him by now, no, he knew that Noah all too well. That Noah liked to get his hands dirty. It made his stomach churn as he recalled the damage that had been done to one of the generals… and knowing that Noah was out there and he was helpless to fight didn't make him feel better. Even more so with Kanda not here, he hated to need the PSMing samurai but right now he was as helpless as a kitten…
Ok did he seriously just call him self a kitten?! DAMN IT KOMUI WHY DID YOU MAKE SOMETHING LIKE THIS!?
A crack of a twig made him jerk, eyes going wide for a moment before he sighed in relief as said samurai appeared from the bushes.
"You look like you just saw a ghost Moyashi." Kanda commented dully as he dropped the pile of sticks he'd found as well as some burning wood, he must have gone to the wreckage to check things out and grabbed that while he was there, that meant that fire wasn't far away.
That was likely the first place the Noah would check, if he could even find bodies in that inferno, he could see the glow of it from here, still burning. His eyes turned to the fire that the other man had started and he shifted, even with it this close his clothes were soaking wet and he couldn't feel any of the heat radiating off of the flicking stack of wood. As if reading his mind the samurai was taking off his own jacket, tossing it over one of the wooden beams that hung over head so it could dry. His eyes turned to Allen and the boy's ears fell back, flicking a drop of water off them as he blinked.
"Oh no, no no no. Don't you dare!" he hissed but the man didn't listen.
"You want to get warm don't you?" why was he smirking? He didn't like that smirk!
A flash of the kiss on the train made his gut churn and his ears flattened as he hissed, trying to seem threatening but the samurai obviously wasn't impressed.
"You're helpless right now Allen, you really think hissing at me is going to stop me?" Kanda voiced irritably as he moved over to the silver haired exorcist.
Allen growled and tried to wiggle but only serve to knock him self over and flop against the ground, he wasn't sure he liked the chuckle that left the other exorcist's lips as he moved over him to unzip his jacket.
"Damn it Bakanda! Stop!" he hissed but Kanda didn't listen, unzipping the uniform and leaving him un nothing but his pants and boots as he tossed it up next to his near the fire over a beam.
"Hold still Moyashi." Allen hissed at him again even as his boots were removed from his numbed feet.
"I said stop it!" he wanted to kick the man in the face so bad!
"Shut up Allen!" Allen's eyes widened as Kanda said his name for what seemed like the first time, blinking and falling quiet as he looked down at the man as his last boot was tossed aside.
Silence fell over them as the samurai stared down at him. Scowling as usual and watching the albino just stare back.
"What?" he finally barked down at him and Allen fumed a little.
"You've never said my name before."
"Yeah and?"
"….Nothing." his ears fell back revealing his irritation and the raven haired man snorted.
"Those ears of yours really make it hard to lie, walker." He snorted and shifted.
Allen gasped as he found his hands pinned above his head and felt the soft drip of water from the other male's hair on his chest. Kanda was looming over him with an odd and distant look on his face.
"W-what are you doing?" he whimpered but didn't get an answer, heart starting to pound as the samurai slowly moved closer to his face.
He couldn't fight, couldn't move, Kanda knew he was helpless and he was using that against him, damn it! He wished he could feel his legs, but who knew when that drug was going to wear off!
"You want to get warm right?" he shivered as Kanda whispered in one of those cat ears making it flick, the albino's face turning a deep red.
"Kanda?" he questioned, more than a little confused.
A sharp gasp left his lips as the raven haired man nipped his ear, his eyes closing tight as he shuddered a little and bit his lip. And then he was gone, the weight on top of him fading and he opened his eyes, blinking. Kanda was on the other side of the fire now, staring at him where he lay on the ground topless with a red face.
"What the hell!" he hissed but the man said nothing, leaving him to fume from his place on the ground.
Soon the crackle of the fire was the only thing filling the silence around them, the neko boy's eyes trying to drift shut but he kept him self awake through pure will power, knowing somewhere out there the Noah was probably looking for them and he still couldn't feel his limbs or move them. He wasn't sure how long they had sat there when small tingles of feeling started to return to his limbs, making him feel kind of sick to his stomach. The sky over head was starting to lighten and he sighed softly, they hadn't gotten to eat and he hadn't gotten a lick of sleep. Kanda seemed un-phased as always but he was starving and the growl of his stomach showed this very pointedly.
"Are you ready yet?" Kanda barked as him and he frowned.
"Almost…" he muttered irritably and tried to move, shuddering at the stabs of tingles that ran up his limbs as he forced him self up against the rock he'd been laying against before and groaned.
His eyes trailed to their cloaks and he sighed softly, well at least those were dry, even if they would be all itchy now. Of course that didn't really bother him, he was so used to things being rough that it came a shock when he found him self mildly upset about that fact. A faint shrug and he pushed him self up, feeling finally returned to his limbs.
"Ok I'm ready." He voiced and reached for his jacket calmly, pulling it from it's place on the beams and rezipping the jacket before buttoning it as well.
"About time." Well Allen never thought he'd be happy to hear Kanda being so abrasive again.
If that Noah was still after them he was taking his sweet time finding them, maybe he thought they had died in the crash… but why was he on the train to begin with? Normally the trains were a perfectly safe way to travel, in all the years one hadn't ever been attacked and taken down while they were on the trains. Least not that he knew of anyway. As he was wondering this he'd pulled on his shoes and found them to be dry as well, much to his relief.
"Let's go!" Kanda barked from up the hill, making Allen jump and turn, scowling at him.
Well at least he'd even told him he was leaving, normally he'd just walk off without you and leave you scrambling around lost on your own. He suddenly realized how happy he should be that Kanda was here, if this had happened while he'd been by him self not only would he have died on that train but he also would be totally lost even if he hadn't fallen for that poison knife. He scrambled up the hill after Kanda before the man could get out of his sight and sighed faintly, well at least things couldn't get any worse… Right?
Author's notes:
Not much happened in this chapter but don't worry the next chapter which I'm working on right away to make up for my absence, is coming very soon. These things only take me like an hour to write, and the only person I talk to isn't on this week end so I've got a lot of spare time on my hands. (my ps3 died D: )