Kurai: Wow, I got this one done pretty fast
Jen: Now if only you can do this for DoD...
Kurai: Shut it you! Do you know how hard it is to continue that? No your a beta you just read and make corrections, and my apologizes to those readers but I dont think I'll have it up before the holidays but I swear I WILL WORK ON IT! That's what a laptop is good for (to bad it doesnt have internet connection +cry+) So I should have it up after the holidays (hopefully before the new year if we get back in time) So please forgive me and please enjoy this stress relief story, it helped me out...so I should get DoD updated soon.
Jen: That's got to be the longest note you have written...can we please get on with the story Its soo cute! and soo much better then you ranting on about a different story...
Kurai: Fine fine, please enjoy this! and if you didnt see the disclaimer go back a chapter it's there. ENJOY!!
2nd Night: A Normal Day.
The drizzle seemed to have followed them all the way to England for it didn't lighten up when they hit land, but it didn't bother Kanda to much Allen didn't seem overly excited about it for he was always sleeping somewhere. At first Kanda didn't think anything of it he thought it was just a cat thing but worry began to seep in when he notice the child's lack of energy and that he kept getting paler. So he forced the boy to wear his exorcist jacket, true it wasn't overly warm and was way to big for him but it kept his cat ears and tail hidden well and Kanda had to admit Allen did look adorable curled up sleeping in it. Still walking towards headquarters he could help but feel all the eyes watching the two make their way down the street. Sighing Kanda really wandered why he was caring for some kid…
"he's different" A voice in the back of his head kept telling him he strongly wanted to ignore it but it just kept returning saying it every time he wandered why he was being over protective. Sighing he just kept moving forward, the feeling would probably go away when he reached headquarters and dumped the kid onto Komui or Linali. Still Kanda must have a troubled face for Allen took his hand.
'is there something wrong?'
"Ah there's nothing wrong, I was just thinking…"
'About…?"
"How the others are going to react to you,"
Allen's mouth made a small 'oh' before he turned his attention to what was in front of him. It took awhile but they made it to headquarters before noon, Kanda noticed the sudden nervousness that Allen had as they walked up the stairs from the underground water way.
"Don't worry Allen you'll be fine, we just have to take you to the science department to get your throat looked at."
Allen nodded but his tail fidgeting constantly as his ears dropped lowering the hood that hid them. Kanda patted his head lightly and gave him a comforting smile. As they made their way Kanda didn't expect so many odd looks true Allen did look a bit out of the ordinary with Kanda's coat on him and it was out there that Kanda was helping a small child anyways.
Still they made it to Komui's office without interruptions and Kanda knocked slightly before the door opened. It was Linali.
"Oh! Kanda welcome back! How did…" her voice faded away when she noticed Allen hiding a bit behind Kanda. "Oh and who's this?" she knelt down to be eye level with Allen and smiled warmly.
"His name is Allen, he's the so called monster of Dublin."
"Kanda that's not funny!"
"It's true, here Allen take off your hood for Linali,"
Allen gave him a hesitant look but removed the hood that hid his ears. Still soon enough he covered them with his hands when Linali released a high pitches squeal.
"Oh my you are so cute!" she squealed again hugging the boy before dragging him into Komui's office Kanda close behind.
"Brother! Brother look what Kanda brought back from Ireland!!" she said pushing Allen in front of her, Komui didn't look up from the paper work in front of him in which he just sat there staring at it in a daze. Still he murmured something none the less.
"Hopefully not the monster in the reports…"
"Well, yes he did bring back the 'monster' that was in the reports."
Komui quickly stood up and looked around in a fearful way before turning to Linali.
"No! you cant be serious! We cant have a monster running around HQ it's just unheard of!"
His ranting would have gone on if Kanda didn't send the frantic man a cold glare. Komui settled down and looked at Linali, completely ignoring Allen who was in front of her.
"So…where is it?"
"right here brother he's standing in front of you."
Komui was going to comment that Kanda couldn't possibly be the monster of Ireland but he finally spotted the poor shaking boy standing in front of Linali.
"Your not serious…they thought this boy…?"
Allen's ears twitched next thing that had happened Komui was hugging Allen blue.
"He's so cute! How could anyone call this boy a monster?!"
Komui's raised voice had caught some attention a few people had started appearing to see what the commotion was about. After awhile everyone was squealing happily over Allen, which looked ready to cry. Instead he broke free of the wall of people and ran away as fast as he could. Kanda quickly tried to catch Allen but he was to fast.
"As if he wasn't scared enough" he stated glaring icily at the crowd of people no occupying Komui's office. "None of you go looking for him you'll only scare him more, I'll go look for him." Kanda left leaving everyone in Komui's office, it's then Komui voiced out some of his thoughts.
"well when they return I'll have to check the boy's throat." Linali looked at her brother a bit confused.
"Why is there something wrong with him brother?"
"Linali you didn't see the bandages around his throat? Didn't you notice that he didn't say anything or make a noise at all?"
Linali shook her head making her brother chuckle lightly before waving it off and shooing everyone but his sister out of his office.
Allen felt like he ran forever before he found some place with barely anyone in it and a lot of hiding places. With a ragged breath he made his way along the sections of books. Quickly he found a place far away from the entrance and with it's dusty appearance it seemed that barely anyone went back this far, still a fire place had been lighten probably to warm the place since of the rainy day. Settling in a rather comfy arm chair near the fire he curled up falling asleep in hopes to recuperate from the fearful event of being hugged half to death by complete strangers.
Lavi yawned lightly as he walked towards a rather secluded place for him to record a few things that Bookman wanted him to do. Sighing he moved some of his hair that was now free from being held back by his usual headband. He reached his destination and found something rather odd. A white furry tail flicking every now and then hanging over the arm of one of the chairs. Quietly he tip toed over to see an adorable sight. The snowy furry appendage belonged to a young boy who had ears to match he was sleeping soundly but still he looked like he just been though hell. Still Lavi couldn't help but notice the oddly familiar exorcist coat. Still he ignored it and decided to let the exhausted boy sleep.
It didn't take long for the turning of pages to reach Allen's ears which twitched in response to it, waking him up half way a chuckle was what made him bolt upright and turn to his right to find someone with red hair and a black eye patch. He almost made a jump at the man for he looked exactly like the man who took him in before disappearing in Ireland.
"Morning," He said lightly giving another chuckle. Allen smiled nervously the man wasn't like the others but still the scary similarities he had with the man that had found him years ago wasn't overly comforting.
"I'm Lavi if your wandering, now how about you?"
Lavi wasn't expecting for the boy to take his hand and write lightly in his palm.
"Allen? Ah, so you cant talk"
Allen shook his head sadly, and by the way he communicated it seemed he just lost his voice. Ruffling Allen's hair Lavi smiled.
"Here I'll make a deal, since it seems you'll be voiceless for awhile I'll teach you something that will help you communicate with me better until you get it back alright?"
Another soft message was traced on Lavi's palm.
'but…I might not even get my voice back.'
"Oh come on Allen be optimistic! And don't worry if you don't then you have a new way to communicate, so do you want me to teach you or not?"
Allen nodded happily and so the lesson began.
Kanda scowled darkly as he walked along heading to the only place he hadn't looked for Allen, the library. Why didn't he even think of the place before? It was quiet, who ever would be in there wouldn't notice a cat eared boy walking in for they'd be to busy reading and none the less there where thousands of hiding places for him to hide in or fall asleep in a chair. Scowling again he opened the doors to the library and walked in. Walking briskly between columns of bookshelves in search of Allen. It took him awhile but he finally found him resting near a fire, Lavi with him and happily teaching him something.
"There you are." He said in a monotone voice.
"Ah Yuu-chan I didn't think you missed me so much" teased Lavi only to get hit by Kanda.
"Not you, moron. I was searching for Allen, Komui has to look at his throat."
"Oh is that the only reason? I never knew you to be one to give up your coat for some little kid"
Lavi mocked fear as Kanda glared at him, Kanda wasn't in to mood to deal with Lavi so he turned his attention to Allen.
"Come on Allen, we need Komui to look at your throat."
Allen's ears fell and his the tip if his tail brushed his bandaged throat.
"Don't worry Allen, Komui wont attract more people to bug you and you don't want to remain silent forever do you?"
Allen shook his head.
"Alright well come on."
Allen got up and headed over to Kanda and thanked Lavi who waved. He sighed once they were out of his eyesight, now he had no choice but to do what Bookman asked him to do.
It took longer for them to return to Komui's office since Kanda decided to take a different route which lacked people so Allen wouldn't be jumped making him run off again, and speaking of which Allen stayed extremely close to Kanda rather scared of the thought of someone trying to hug him or a high pitched squeal. Still once they arrived it seemed the head officer and his sister had gotten that out of their system. Komui used a gentle touch to remove the bandages around Allen's neck, the giant drills that Komui used at points to repair people's innocence were hidden from sight so Allen wouldn't be even more scared of the already psychotic man. It seemed that the infection hadn't worsened anything further.
"Well it looks like we got him here at a good time his body is already fighting the infection, but since it's progressed so much that he lost his voice, it's going to take awhile for it to go away and for him to get his voice back, so to help speed this up I'm assigning him some medicine"
Kanda nodded lightly as Komui grabbed a bottle from a cabinet checking it before he handed it to Kanda.
"Twice a day one at breakfast one at dinner alright?"
Kanda nodded when something struck him he didn't think of it before for he thought some of these over protective feelings would dissipate when he reached headquarters but now after he saw how afraid Allen was of everyone the boy would surely not leave his side.
"Komui…where is Allen going to stay? He is a bit young and not to mention the traumatizing effect you and everyone else had on him I don't think he'd be willing to sleep in a room alone."
A wicked grin grew on the man's face which irritated Kanda to no end. The sudden out burst from the man made Allen jump.
"Aww Yuu has a little brother to look after! How adorable! I cant believe I missed the over protectiveness that you showed! How silly of me…"
Komui would have continued but Mugen came close to Komui's throat silencing the older man.
"R-right well, he should probably stay with you…I mean Linali would probably be ecstatic but young Allen over there is probably still trying to regain some of his hearing, as for me I'm working day and night and my experiment rooms would probably make him run away for good, and with his sensitive nose I believe he would pass out if he even went near Lavi or Bookman's room. Cross's room is out of the question also…So it's logical that you take him in Kanda after all it seems he's more attached to you and more comfortable."
Sighing it seemed Komui was right in all of this Allen would have to stay with him until he was a bit older or at least less traumatized. Kanda glanced over at Allen who was playing with Cross's golem Timcampi. No nothing was different today like any other day. A new member, a traumatizing experience for him and an exhausting search for Kanda.
"You two should get some rest, I'll bring Allen to Hebraska tomorrow to find out what the future holds for Allen,"
Kanda motioned Allen to follow him, Allen obliged thanking Komui shakily before following Kanda down the corridors. For him, it was a normal day like when he was living with Cross.
Kurai: Tada! I hoped you enjoyed it because I stayed up to midnight on a school night just to finish it for all of you (Oh feel special..feel VERY special) So theres an explination to why somethings are repeated or somethings just might not make complete since. Right well you read, reviews would be nice. Flame me and you better be perpared to fear me. Your Not Perfect if you were prove it so I can kick your ass later...
Jen Sorry Everyone Kurai has...a bit of a mood swing to day...she'll get over it! (I hope...) So dont be offended by her alright?
Kurai: Yo ho Yo ho...
Jen: No! Bad Kurai put the rum down! No! No! BAD!
(see you all next time, hopefully I'll be in my rightful mind ((my crazy actions were because of being sleep deprived plus NIGHTINGALE UPDATED! rejoyus!!)) soo until then enjoy the story and I'll see ya in the next chapter of Kitten or Descendents of Darkness!!)