It was really hard to come up with things for this chapter… I really don't know how I did write this… But I hope you like it, and will tell me what could make it better!
Disclaimer: I don't own –man or Dance with my Father by Luther Vandross
A/N: I have a thought sequence; thoughts will be in italic
I stared at the ceiling wondering if I should get up and get dinner. I glanced at the bedside clock and sighed. It was only eight 'o'clock, I had an hour before we were to meet. I groaned as I dragged myself out of bed and tied my hair up. I went to the elevator to head to the ground floor. While heading down I realized that it was playing my favorite song. I leaned against the wall and let the melody sweep me away to times long ago. It was my mother's favorite song, that's why I like it. It was Dance with my Father which is ironic because he was the man who started all my troubles. But that is another story for another time. The doors opened and I walked into the lobby. I saw Lavi and Allen entering the restaurant attached to the hotel. I slowly followed them hoping that they wouldn't see me in my deranged state.
The restaurant was crowded and lucky for me the only two tables open were booths that were back to back. I could easily eavesdrop and not be seen. Lavi and Allen were seated and a waitress came up and did the usual routine of how many people, would you like a booth or wait for a table, etc., etc. She then led me to the booth next to the pair and I sat down with my back to them. The booths were nice but cheep and there was a wooden plank back stop to the booths to give the costumers "privacy" but perfect for my purpose. The waitress walked away and as I glanced at the menu and seeing that it was Italian and not an Asian restaurant I choose to just have noodles and not cause a scene. I leaned back against the backrest and closed my eyes to concentrate on the conversation they were having.
"Kanda wouldn't like this restaurant would he? They don't have his favorite dish, Soba!" Lavi said so jokingly that if I didn't know better I would have thought that he had said that to provoke me, as if I were right there beside him. In reply Allen said "Of course he wouldn't! He would throw a fit and kill someone if he had no restraints or self-preservation!" at that they giggled like the girls they were. Although the mood quickly turned somber. Before anyone spoke the waitress came up and asked for my order. I glared at her for interrupting me and speaking quietly and in a higher voice then I normally speak in (though not high enough for anybody to think I was a girl) I ordered and she rushed off to give it to the chef.
Turning back to the conversation I found that I had not missed much. "… And I don't know why I feel this way anytime I see Kanda!" Wait! ME!? Feel this way!?
"Don't feel bad moyashi, I believe it is love your feeling." Here Lavi lowered his voice and I strained my ears to here his next words. "And your not the only one who would go gay for that hunk, I feel that same way. Only I express it by teasing him, not secretly enjoying the fights I have with him!" How I wish I could see their faces and tell them that I loved them too. I could see their faces in my mind and I imagined them talking one blushing with a light smirk plastered on his lips the other face downcast hiding his madly blushing face and a relived smile that he wasn't they only one to feel this way. Their food came soon followed by mine as I shifted my thoughts away from them to my food I almost missed the next words spoken by the usually obnoxious Lavi. "And I feel the same way about you as I do Yuu-chan." I heard a small gasp by presumably Allen. "Same here." He said in almost a whisper. "Same here."
We sat in the dark at our positions waiting for the hour to strike when the guards where to change. I sat in meditation to try and forget the words spoken that had thrown my feelings into a whirlwind until a more appropriate time. I heard a rustle in the bushes behind me, turning and drawing Mugen at the same time I went to investigate. All I saw there was a small white rabbit. But that brought back the turbulence that Allen and Lavi had caused. From behind me I heard a voice that I didn't recognize say, "Who are you and what are you doing on the closed grounds?" I whirled around; I had been careless and let my guard down! I mentally chided myself for this act of carelessness. I studied the person. He was a guard who was patrolling. He looked as if he were a younger Santa Claus working a part time job during the summer. I replied harshly in hoped of intimidating him, "Che, I could ask you the same question." He grinned that all too familiar grin of the Akuma, bursting out of his uniform and growing larger both in width and height stopping when he was almost twice the size of me. He cackled "All intruders must die but I shall enjoy the small snack you will give me!" He then spurted out a thick liquid seeing coming from a mile away I was able to doge. My golem was not so fortunate. The substance caught it head on dropping like a rock. Watching out of the corner of my eye I saw it start to bulge as if under great pressure. Then to my surprise it burst into small shards as they rained to the ground a white substance stuck to parts of it. The Akuma Knowing that I was watching it spoke, "Oh isn't that amusing! Would you like to know how it works?" Without waiting for a reply it continued, "My frosting I shot out hardens on contact, weighing much more than you would think. Once it has hardened it seeps fats into whatever it has come in contact with, it doesn't matter if it is living or nonliving, it will get fat and burst!" With that it laughed. I am extremely mad. If anybody (other than Akuma) was near they would have seen the waves of evil emanating from me. Though the level two was oblivious to it and I made my move. Darting to the side and running in zigzags I reached it without being touched by the "frosting" as it called it. Jumping I drove Mugen down deep into it pulling it out as it exploded using the force to go over the trees to another location when the clock struck ten. I landed in a small clearing near the one I must pass to get to the tower. I neared the edge of the trees but retreated back into the shadows. As I peered out into the clearing I saw the Noah of Lust. She turned as if to look at me with her golden eyes and I stood stock still not even daring to breathe. She turned back again and continued on her way. As soon as she was out of sight and hearing I made a run for it. I had to warn Allen and Lavi that this was a trap!
I was on the observation deck looking for the dynamic duo and bunch of Akumas came out of nowhere and from behind them Lulubell stepped out. In her cat-like voice she purred "It is not like you Kanda to fall blindly into a trap as obvious as this one, or is it that you came for one of your comrades?" And all I could say to that was "Che." But in my mind I was taking care of a bother. Manly that old fart Leverrier.
"You do know that I can get you out of this situation, for that price you know." Leverrier's voice drifted into my mind.
"Yes I know that, just like you know that I will say 'Not on my life'" I replied as tartly as I could.
"But it never hurts to ask, seeing as you can't handle the Noah, and I can't fight without meeting the conditions."
"Bug off baka your distracting me, unless you want to lose your chance at being forever young as you so eloquently put it."
And with that I turned my attention back to the battle.