phew *wiping away sweat* i'm not going down in word count. in fact, i'd just passed 2,000, yay!
now for a really confusing one-shot
just to tell you guys, none of the one-shots are making any sense to me. so do tell me if you don't understand either. i didn't put in them all the things to understand the lot, so you can flame me if you want *stands proudly in front of the flame*
kidding, but still do review me, i looo~ooove reviews ^J^
never had, never have and never will own -Man *sob*
Pairing: Yullen/Arekan (not much of romance, sorry guys)
Rating: K+
Theme: Northern star
Day: 7
Summery: "Look, it's the Northern star that'll guide you when you're lost," he remembered his old man smiling. Years after, he was lost, when he came across the person that guided him outside his cage.
Once, when he complied with his old man's desire to watch the stars on a lonely night, his old man said something that he'd always remember for life, even after the old man had died and he had stayed alone again.
"Come, Yu," a man with frizzy gray hair and spectacles pulled an annoyed child toward the sea next to their house.
"Let me go, old man!" the boy struggled, but at the man's strong grip he soon gave up and followed the man.
When they'd reached the sea shore, the man released the boy and sat on a big rock, a far away gaze held in his eyes.
Usually, when the old man got like this, Yu would leave him and go train with his little wooden sword; but this time, the old man seemed to be very serious and it felt like he was predicting something only he knew about.
"Yu," he called him simply. Yu hesitantly approached him and sat next to him on the rock.
The man smiled warmly and patted his head. The boy huffed in annoyance, only to be distracted by the man's arm pointing up, to the sky.
"Look, Yu." He pointed on a brightly shining star in the skies. "This is called the Northern star. Sailors use this star to guide them through the sea safely. The Northern star will guide you when you're lost and without hope."
His knowing eyes sparkled in content and old knowledge; Yu knew that the old man knew something that will happen in his life later, but didn't want to press due to his fear, not that he would admit it.
"Oi, Yu!" a red-headed male with a green-scales bandanna shouted to a long dark-haired male walking down the corridor. An eye patch and a green eye completed the look as the red-headed jumped back when a sword swung on him.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! There, Yu. Try not to kill me."
"Actually, I did try to kill you. And don't call me that, idiot rabbit!"
Lavi smirked, he didn't really care about the death-threats because he knew that Yu never really meant them, sometimes.
But never mind that. He'd thought of the smartest thing ever! He's going to bring Yu to a bar and meet his friend's cousin that Tyki had told him that was the best suited boy for Yu's friendship.
'And if everything is according to plan, even more then friends,' he thought amusingly.
But he'd have to be a little bit more serious so as to not raise any suspicions.
"Yu." He must have understood the hint, because he lowered his sword and only grumbled about his first name being used.
Lavi beckoned him to stand closer; Kanda only eyed him then sheathed his sword and hesitantly walked closer.
Lavi smiled, "I asked my friend to meet me at a bar and he told me that his cousin needs someone to watch over him, so that he won't be alone at the bar with us. So can you please come and befriend him?"
"No." 'Damn, no hesitation here.'
"Why no-"
"It's going to be annoying. I'm not watching some baby while you are having your fun with your boyfriend."
Lavi blushed at the accusing hint, "He's not my boyfriend. But anyway, his cousin is not a baby; he's eighteen and he just finished high-school."
"Still a brat, no way."
"Pleeeeeeease?" Lavi mustered his best puppy-eyes.
"No." 'tch, didn't work, that leaves...'
"I'll pay you."
Kanda froze, and then pondered a bit before sighing.
"Fine…"
He was jumped on from the hyper red-headed. He cursed and buried his elbow in said male's stomach.
Lavi fell down, clutching his stomach, wailing like a baby.
"Yu~ how could you punch the perfect me?"
'With that attitude, I'm surprised he even got a boyfriend,' Kanda thought grimly, having been won by that stupid hyper rabbit.
"What's that brat's name?"
"Interested?" Lavi wiggled his only see-able brow.
Kanda rolled his eyes, "No, stupid rabbit. I just need to know so I won't think that your boyfriend is the brat."
"Yu~ how mean."
"Tch, just tell me."
Lavi smiled, "I have no idea. Tyki never told me." He had then to jump back from the angry long-haired's sword.
He ran away with Kanda on his tail, passing people that sighed before returning to their normal activities.
"I told you I'm sorry, Yu."
"Don't call me that, rabbit."
They were standing at the side street next to the bar 'BlackArk', Kanda annoyed while Lavi was almost jumping in his place.
Kanda wore plain simple black jeans tucked into high black leather boots and a black sleeveless shirt. A silver belt held his jeans. His hair was pulled in his usual pony tail, and his hip was devoid of the sword because of the place's rules, how he hated them now…
Lavi wore his normal green scales bandanna and eye-patch. He wore black with red linings vest over red tight shirt, and black trousers. He wore black and red snickers and red socks.
"Hi, there." They turned to see two different people approaching them.
"Tyki!" Lavi jumped on the darker one. Tyki had a dark complex with black curly hair resting on his shoulders. He wore a black suit with white gloves and black leather shoes.
"Why are you dressed like at your house?" Lavi blushed. "I feel like I'm degrading myself for not coming with a suit also."
Tyki smirked and hugged the sulking man, "I just didn't know what you would like me to wear, my bunny, so I went with the one you saw me in the first time we met."
Lavi shivered and smiled, "I really don't mind what you wear, I'll like you anyway."
Kanda snorted, "Get this idiotic display inside, will you?"
He smirked as he saw them both blush and disappear inside the bar.
"Um, excuse me?" shit, he'd totally forgotten about the brat.
"Yes?" he turned to the brat and his breath hitched.
The brat had a pale-complexion, almost like an angel. He had white hair that just tickled his shoulders, which glowed a bit in the darkness. He noticed red under them, but was distracted by the stormy-gray eyes that seemed as if they pierced through his mind, reading every thing. He shivered as he looked away from them and concreted on his clothes.
He wore a replica of what Tyki wore that surprisingly, complemented his body well.
"Excuse me, are you okay?" a timid but strong voice shook him out of his staring.
Staring? He doesn't stare! Kanda Yu doesn't just stare at people.
"Mister?" shit, now I'm daydreaming.
"What?" really? That's all he could say?
"Are you the one accompanying mister Lavi and Tyki?"
"So what if I am?" so he's the brat? Is he really eighteen?
The brat face brightened up, and Kanda felt like his insides flipping over, making him feel sick.
"That's great," he lent out his hand for a shake. "My name is Allen Walker, nice to meet you. What is your name?"
"Tch," he folded his arms. "The name's Kanda, now let's go inside, I'm so annoyed I can kill someone right now even without Mugen."
"Mugen?" Allen withdrew his hand, his face solemn. Kanda wanted to wipe that face, but he inwardly panicked and threw that thought away.
"My sword," he tried to act normally. This brat was draining him from any power at all… and he wasn't even trying.
"Ah, I see," he didn't understand. "Let's go, you can kill whomever you want later, okay?"
That smile was a tad evil, Kanda shivered, understanding that he wasn't as innocent as he appeared.
They went inside, and Kanda was attacked by the smell of alcohol and sweat invading his nose.
Allen, it appeared, was used to the smell, although you could see a tick appearing in his eye.
"Kanda, let's go there," Allen grabbed his hand and pulled him to a table far away from the center and close to the back door, so it was much quieter then the pounding music that hurt his sensitive ears.
He was thankful for that, as the music and the people bumping into him started to irritate him more and more. His head ached and his throat was dry.
Allen noticed that, as he disappeared for a few minutes, only to return with a bottle of white wine and water.
Kanda raised an eyebrow, "What's the wine for?"
Allen giggled, "It's the only alcohol I'll drink and I didn't know what you liked, and your head seems to be in pain, so I brought you water."
'Damn, that brat is observant. But he does have a point.'
"Thanks, brat."
The white-haired boy frowned, "The name's Allen, Kanda."
"Tch, can I get my water?"
He eyed him a bit before sighing and pouring water into a glass and passing it to him like a professional barman.
Kanda looked in confusion, and Allen, who realized what he did, blushed and rubbed his nape embarrassingly.
"I-I kind of worked as a barman for a while."
"I thought you didn't like alcohol," Kanda wasn't going to admit it, but the boy intrigued him.
He sipped from the water and eyed Allen, who seemed to be uncomfortable.
"My master owned a bar, so I had to work there."
Who calls a person 'Master', what is he, a slave? Kanda didn't like the thought.
"Master?"
"Yes," Allen shivered in fear. "My guardian. Or in other words, the supreme devil."
Kanda had to chuckle at this, "Because?"
"You don't want to know," Allen shook his head. He then smiled again and took a sip of his whine glass. "What about you? What do you do?"
'Damn,' he sulked inwardly, "I monitor my late father's company."
Allen's face turned solemn once again, "I'm sorry for your father."
"Don't. He died old and happy," He felt the urge to offer him consolation, what's wrong with him?
"I'm glad," Allen offered a small smile. "I see that you are covered, no?"
"Yes, I don't have to do much anyway, so I teach Kendo at one of the schools around here."
"Let me guess, the 'Black Order' high school?"
Kanda's eyes widened up, "How did you know? We had only just met."
"I learned there, before I went overseas."
"Really?"
"Yes, and I do remember the grumpy new teacher that everyone adored. That was two years ago, I think. But I do remember his name. You… Yu! Yes, it was Yu Kanda."
Allen smirked as he saw Kanda turn red.
"So I was right. Why didn't you tell me your first name, Yu?" he was gripped by the collar and pulled to the fuming red male.
"Don't call me by my first name, brat." Kanda had expected Allen to get terrified and run away, not laugh.
"What's funny?"
"That-that face!" he let him go, only for the boy to curl in his chair, laughing his butt out.
What about his face? "Y-you were pouting!" what?!
"I was not," now he was red from humiliation.
"You were!" Allen's cheeks were red from his laughing and Kanda felt his throat dry up again.
"Just shut up already, bean sprout," He didn't know where he brought that nickname, but when he looks closer now… he does resemble a bean sprout.
That had shut him up, "Huh?"
Kanda smirked, but the blush didn't leave his face, "I said bean sprout, brat."
"Who are you calling a bean sprout, long-haired he-she?" Allen was furious, he knew he was short, but this?
"Who are you calling he-she?" Kanda knew he was overpowered and growled at the thought of defeat.
"You! You idiot!"
They had started to bicker until a certain rabbit and his boyfriend passed them, then paused and returned.
Lavi's mouth hang open and Tyki's face had a tint of smile.
"I see that you guys became friends really fast," Tyki smirked at them.
They froze and whipped their heads to them, murderous auras emitting from them.
"Shut up," they basically growled. "Or I'll cut you."
The innocent duo shivered in fear. Lavi glanced at Tyki and took Allen's arm, and pulled him to the center.
"L-Lavi?"
"I'm going to show you the world of dance, my new friend," Lavi winked with his one eye.
Tyki watched them disappear in the crowd and music and looked back at Kanda, who looked at Lavi angrily.
"Don't worry, Lavi is mine. You can have Allen if you want." Kanda's head snapped to him and he snarled."Who cares about that bean sprout?"
"So you're already on nicknames basis, that's fast."
"For the last time, there's nothing between us."
Tyki laughed and took a sip from Allen's forgotten glass and his face darkened down. Kanda took notice of that and quieted down as well.
"I don't care if you two are romantically involved or not, I just want you to promise me not to break him."
Break him? "What do you mean?"
"I don't know what you had been through in your life, but Allen had it ten-times and even more worse."
"Why? I had a pretty shitty life myself, what gives you the right to say that to my face like this?" he was pissed; his life was horrible until he was adopted. Until the old man showed him the correct road to walk on.
"Because you didn't retort into keeping everything inside for the fear of people knowing of your existence. You still have a need to let people know that you're here, Allen lost that need a long time ago."
He wouldn't lie and say that he wasn't interested in what Tyki meant, but Allen and Lavi returned at the same moment, interrupting his question.
"My bunny!" Tyki hugged Lavi while he threw a glance at Kanda that meant 'Remember what I said.' Allen sat on the abandoned chair and gazed questionably at Kanda.
Kanda shook his head and sighed in relief when the duo vanished once again.
"Are you okay?"
"Yes."
He stared at him, not knowing what to say. Allen looked at him, tilting his head as he smiled. Kanda smiled the smallest of smiles back, making Allen perk up and smile brighter.
"You have a nice smile, Kanda."
And for some reason, he didn't care. He took Allen's hand and took the back door behind them as they escaped the bar.
They stood at the alley, with Kanda hugging Allen.
"Kanda?" Allen patted his back. "Are you okay?"
"Yes, just let me be for a while."
"Okay."
They stood there in silence, until Kanda opened his mouth and sighed.
"My old man told me once," he spoke into the smaller one's hair. "That if I get lost, I can track the Northern star and it will guide me to home."
Allen closed his eyes and warped his arms around the elder's shoulder. "Did you need it?"
"Yes, I was lonely. I guess that's kind of losing the right track, because there's no one to tell you otherwise."
"So did you find it?"
"I am hugging him right now," Kanda kissed his forehead and smiled. "I hope you'll lead me the right way."
Allen chuckled, "I'll try my best, Kanda. I'm not the best known here for my direction sense."
"I'll manage."
"Okay then."
Because when love is involved, getting lost is the best gift.
End.
sorry, i'll try to make it better soon, i just need to fly away really fast for my rehearsals, see ya ^^
