A/N: Thanks to all of you who reviewed and said that you liked the story it makes me smile so much even when i get them during school ´ ▽ ` )ﾉ (I use that emoji too much). I tried really hard to get this finished right away but I kept getting distracted (both school and video games) but today I finished it and looked it over and now its here to you readers so I will leave the rest of my talking to the end of the fic. Hope you enjoy :)

Disclaimer: Uhhh if I owned DGM I would give Allen a break because he needs one after all he's been though but sadly I don't own it.

All Allen saw in front of him was white, such a blinding white that reminded him of the ark's piano room, and the only other color he saw was the brown on the trees that were scattered all around but the color was very dull against the flurry of snow that seemed to cover everything and so all he saw were snippets of light brown when he really concentrated to look at the trees. The blinding snow also caused Allen to trip several times from not being able to see the roots of the trees, he tried to look where he was going but soon to be futile at the attempt since he could see nothing even at his feet (which the snow had climbed up to his ankles), there were also times when the wind would blow to hard and caused Allen to stumble and crash into nearby trees and when that happened it somehow always blew him to the left making him crash into the bark with his wound, he was sure that he had a million splinters in the distorted flesh, hell he could even feel a few in there and it made him a bit sick to the stomach, he even had his head smack against the tall trees which increased his headache even more. Allen was slowly growing cold, it would only be a matter of hours before he caught hypothermia and freeze to death, it was death either way he looked at it, keep going or let the Noah get him which he would rather take the former than the latter, he would rather piss off Kanda and face Mugen then let Tiki get to him any day and Allen wished he was faced with a pissy Kanda right now. The thought of Kanda made him stop in his tracks, he hoped Kanda was alright, he hoped Kanda had looked around the house trying to find Allen in annoyance, he hoped Kanda found out that he was nowhere to be found, he hoped with all his heart that Kanda was coming out to look for Allen, to hopefully save him from the numb he was feeling.

Footsteps echoed though the halls, boots making contact with wood flooring as eyes held irritation. That stupid Moyashi just had to run off like the idiot he was. Although Kanda will never admit it out loud he was surprised that Allen had yelled at him with such distain, not like Kanda cared what hurt the smaller teen. But when he thought about what he had said to the white haired teen he felt what was a smudge of guilt- No! He should not feel guilt for the other. It just seemed wrong to but at the same time he felt like it was required to. Ever since he felt a warmth grow in his chest when he heard the soft tune of a piano playing back when he was in the ark in Edo his thoughts were plagued of a white that resembled the Moyashi and he was starting to think more and more on the matter and it always brought him to guilt or worry over the younger teen whenever Kanda said poisonous words toward Allen or whenever he felt or saw the other in a state of distress. He wanted those thoughts to go away, it just brought back bad memories of his own, even that smile on the white haired boy reminded him of that 'person'. That one person that smiled as bright as Allen, that laughed as lightly as he does, that had that sparkle in their eye like Allen did, but recently that sparkle started to dim in Allen's eyes, like something weighed his spirit down, almost everyone's spirits were down in the Order but there was something in Allen's, he always keep everyone smiling when they were down, Allen still keep doing that but that laughter was hollow, that smile was empty, those eyes were dim, like the night sky in the city when you couldn't see the bright stars that stretched across the dark sky. Kanda noticed it all but when Allen really came alive was when he antagonized the younger, that's when that sparkle came to life, those are the moments Kanda likes to remember because they are memories of the real Allen and not that bullshit mask he always had on around others, even Lavi and Lenalee, the other two never expected a thing but as of late Lavi started to catch on to Allen's act, nothing can deceive a Bookman. The creaking of wood and the soles of boots stopped mid step, something wasn't right, nothing was ever right on a mission, but this screamed something worse, nothing like 'Get the fuck out! Now!' but more like 'Someone is in serious danger and possibly on the brink of death.' sometimes that how Kanda's thought process went half of the time. Kanda looked around, only darkness plagued the ends of each hallway, but something caught his attention at the corner of his eye, it seemed to have a red tint to it, but when he turned to look his face consorted into one of confusion and maybe worry. It looked to be a scarlet red but as soon as the smell of iron hit Kanda he knew it was blood, but whose blood? He saw it trailed into twin blue doors that lead to a ballroom but a blood-smeared handprint had stood out to the contrast to the navy blue doors, but what scared Kanda, yes the ever most stoic Kanda was scared, was the puddle of blood in the dead center of the room. The puddle of blood was as big as if you had spilled a bucket full of water on the floor. What happened here? His gut was telling him to go running outside in search of something, but what? Kanda hasn't seen Allen in roughly an hour and a half. What if this was Allen's blood? He had a sinking feeling in his stomach that something horrible had happen to the other and that the blood on the floor, that gave off a murky red that seemed to close to Kanda's feet, belonged to him as well. When it all clicked together, Kanda ran from the room and followed the trail of blood that just made Kanda more worried.

The snow seemed to lessen up a bit but trying to see what was in front of him still gave him a hell of a time. Allen's thoughts had drifted to Kanda every now and then and with each passing second Allen keep on losing hope that Kanda had even noticed that he wasn't even on the property anymore, oh well, not like Kanda will ever care, Kanda always had that threatening glare toward Allen and had even lost hope of Kanda ever holding any concern for him let along love him. As Allen was caught up in his thoughts, as well as clouded over eyes, he barely took notice (what was there to notice when there's snow everywhere?) of a slope that when Allen felt that absence of ground it caught him off guard and his knees buckled underneath him, the slope didn't seem all that steep, but when you didn't notice it, it gave you a hell of a whiplash. Allen started to tumble down the slope, he tried to regain his footing but each time he tried it he just gave himself more of a distance to fall down, snow painfully stung his wound as it got stuffed in the flesh, when he neared the end of the steep slope his back painfully collided with a tree. Allen groaned as he got to his knees, how much is he going to have endure? As he carefully got to his feet Allen wondered about so many things and thought about how he got here in the first place and wondered what would have happened if he had done more work in the library, that Link keep him busy for hours on, and didn't have to go on this mission. Allen hung his head; he knew it was selfish to say that but if only he could get a break once in a while. Once again deep in thought he didn't pay attention to the frozen lake that had a building layer of snow on it but lightly enough for Allen to slip on it and fall down, damn, he needs to stop spacing out so much. He slowly sat on his knee's, he knew he can't balance on ice very well no matter how hard he tries, Allen slowly took in the large expanse of the frozen lake, it was huge but just small enough so it didn't take a large amount of time to cross it, he also looked down and swiped some gathering snow to look down in the ice solid lake, yep it was frozen all the way through, how did this manage to get frozen all the way so quick? And when Allen looked closer he saw something glowing bright in the center on the solid lake, something green. As Allen's face was an inch away from the ice trying to get a good look at the core of the lake he didn't sense another body closing in on him, coming up behind him.

Eyes darkened as he found a back door open to a wild and hazardous storm that brewed in a white mass, snow blowing in and dotting the wooden floor with white that looked like tiny flowers. He knew Allen was hurt and something was on his trail, something that Kanda didn't want to face right now but he also didn't want to carry back a dead and blood partner, he knew he had a Noah after him and he knew Allen had no choice but to run out into the blizzard, "Che, idiot." Kanda started to walk out into the curtain of snow cursing all the while at how he couldn't see a thing but as his eyes traveled down to the snow covered ground he noticed two sets of foot prints, both looking very different from the other, and one he knew all to well and one he hated to remember. Why didn't he know? Why didn't he figure out sooner? God, he was a fool and a dumbass. Kanda took off running out into the storm thinking all the while why he couldn't stop this from happening, from Tyki causing all this crap, from Allen getting hurt. Damn. His thoughts are just all over the place today, aren't they? First he's all worried about the Moyashi then he's all pissed off about him the next second. Yeah, today is not a good day. Kanda made sure to step carefully out around here because he may or may not have tripped over holes that were covered by snow, but he won't admit it out loud like everything else he's said out of line in his mind. How far did the brat make it out here? Even Kanda was having difficulties with the snow swirling in his face (which was pissing him off) so how did Allen even find his way all the way out here? Kanda looked around with studying eyes, trying to find any sign that the other was anywhere near, the footsteps disappearing long ago, but as soon as he concluded to go in a different direction Kanda heard a sickening loud crack. What? It sounded like it was coming from somewhere to the side of him.

Fuck...

Dammit. Why didn't he sense the presence that had slowly made its way behind him? It had proceeded to clamp a firm hand on the back of his head while he was busy kneeling on the almost transparent ice to were he was investigating the innocence that was stuck in the frozen ice, the lake had seemed to be completely frozen over even all the way down to the packed earth and plant life that to were stuck in a wavy pattern by the ice. The hand drove his head straight down to the thick layer of ice, 'God, why did today have to be a bad one?' That thought went through Allen's head ever since Tyki attacked him, and ever since he had that fight with Kanda. Well it seems things were catching up with him as it seemed like it was repaying him with a broken heart and head. When his head made contact with ice a loud crack, like a giant tree falling down, echoed around the clearing with a sickening sound, almost like when you heard wood splitting, not the most pleasant sound to hear. But shock came like a crashing wave over Allen, he could feel everything when his head first started to split against the ice, the pain, the coldness (and not just from the ice), the blood, the bone cracking open, the light chuckle. That chuckle sent shivers down Allen's spine, making him sicker to the stomach. He knew that Tyki had caught up to him when Allen was distracted, that little time when he was looking through the ice had cost him which led to giving his attacker more time to catch up to him, to form how he would slowly kill this boy. Allen knew he was pressed for time but never saw he was cutting it close to the heart, now here he was, head smashed against ice, chilling him to the bone, and a foot digging painfully into the split wound on his side. It was hell, the pain just made him feel numb now with the cold air and ice below him; he was just as good as dead.

That sound of something cracking didn't sound like a branch off a tree breaking, no. It sounded like bone was breaking, and it was only coming off to the side. It seemed to be close to him but as the storm let up a little he saw a way off a frozen lake that Kanda only saw half of the huge thick ice that covered most of the dip in the landscape of woodland. But... if Kanda really looked close enough to the shimmering blue ice he could see... two figures? "What the fuck?" Kanda took two steps closer but once he recognized white hair on one of the figures he felt something. Something white hot coursed through him when he saw that bastard standing over the younger teen. Kanda's hands twitched with unknown anger as he registered that loud crack to have been Allen's skull hitting the ice.

Rage.

Hot.

Boiling his blood.

Kanda had a sense of protectiveness wash over him.

At first he didn't register this feeling but once he remembered feeling this before.

Why did he feel this way toward Allen?

Why him?

Didn't they hate each other?

Maybe under all that hate...

Maybe...

Kanda's eyes didn't falter from their place from watching the two figures, nor did he waste time from his pondering thoughts, his thoughts didn't falter him when he quickly made his way toward them, Mugen unsheathed, ready to kill.

This time he will make sure there is no mercy like all times before.

He just prays.

Pray's this one time.

Praying that stupid idiot is still alive.

And he hopes.

A/N: Sorry that's a short chapter, I can never type longer than 3,000 but if it was a one-shot that would be a different story, but I can probably get past that limit if i really add more things to type. And if any of you were wondering this is set after the Ark Arc, there might be slight mistakes since I've only read up till volume 17 (I know a little bit of the Alma arc, which is extremely sad) so sorry if anything is off. I hope to start the next chapter and I will probably be wrapping things up in that chapter and after that I'll start another fic and maybe continue I Want To See You Again, who knows. There's a lot of things I want to talk about but my mind always forgets what I want to say. Hope you all liked this chapter ^-^