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Chapter 6-Home
"Aah! Home at last!" Lavi smiled as he stepped down from the train to the station. Lenalee sighed. It felt like they hadn't been home for such a long time. Allen gazed around. It really felt like they had just returned from a long, long holiday. For their mission had become out of track ever since the idiot blonde monster challenged them to a battle.
"It's nice to be home." Allen smiled. Kanda kept silent. Lucius gazed around the place like an idiot. It was an entirely new place for him. "Now let's head back to the H.Q.!" Allen yelled.
"Right! Let's go!" Lavi replied excitedly. "I can't wait to see Komui's reaction upon seeing ya, Luci-chan." Lavi teased. Wow, how easy he got close to someone, wasn't he? Or maybe that's just one way to ease up the tension? Who knows?
"Yeah…whatever you say. But can you not call me Luci? That sounds like a female's name…" Lucius was taken aback by the sudden change on the orange haired exorcist.
"You sure get along easily." Lenalee commented. "Well, make sure you behave, Lucius. Remember that we can just abandon our deal if you were to betray us." She warned. Lucius nodded obediently. "Good. Let's head back to the black order!" Lenalee smiled.
The six of them headed back to the headquarters and handed the report to Komui. Komui was pretty dumbfounded by the blonde monster whose height 190 cm. He was quite tall, wasn't he? X3 Lenalee explained everything to her brother about the blonde's request and everything he did to help them (even though it was out of the deal they made).
Komui nodded understandingly and agreed to help the monster even though he still warned the exorcists (secretly of course) to watch the stranger closely and report to him every single odd behavior, and knowing Lucius, that would be a lot.
"Now, we need to prepare a room for you." Komui stated, looking closely to the blonde.
"No need. I don't sleep." Lucius smiled. "Besides, I can sleep on the floor for all I care. Since I have no home, I rest wherever I want, dirty or not I don't care too much." He laughed innocently. The others sweatdropped.
"Well then, you guys may return to your own room and take a good rest." Komui smiled in a very fatherly way. The exorcists bid thanks to the head officer and returned to their own room.
"I can't wait until lunch! I'm so hungry right now." Allen stated cheerfully to the three other exorcists.
"You sure have quite the appetite for a skinny guy." Lavi sweatdropped. Lenalee giggled.
"That's because of the parasite type Innocence need more to eat, right?" Lenalee asked. Allen and Lavi nodded. Kanda was as ignorant as usual. It was unusual enough for him to walk together with the other three, that's why Allen kept silent about his unusual attitude, so Kanda would keep walking together with them like that.
"I have to go to Panda right now. See ya later, Allen, Lenalee, Yuu-chan!" Lavi bid farewell to the other three and walked to Bookman's office. Allen and Lenalee waved back. While Kanda responded by his usual : "Don't call me that."
"I'll go to my room then, Allen-kun. Kanda. See ya later." Lenalee smiled and turned to her room. Allen waved to her as farewell. Kanda snorted as a reply and continued walking. A quite displeasing silence passed between them as they walked together. Allen was completely clueless of what to say to the older boy. He had never felt so awkward around the swordsman before. Maybe the new-developed feelings have something to do with it? Who knows.
"…umm…Kanda…what do you want to do now?" Allen asked clumsily. Kanda glowered at the younger.
"…training in the woods." He answered coldly before turning to his room. Allen sighed. He wanted to speak normally to Kanda like he usually did to his other friends. But he found it difficult to do so in his current situation.
"Ah, Kanda…umm, I…" Allen began. Kanda stopped in mid-step, as if waiting for the younger boy to continue. Allen was suddenly confused. What was he wanted to speak about?
'Oh dear, God, what was I thinking? Why did I suddenly call him? What do I tell him now?' Allen thought to himself in panicky. Kanda glared again at him in a demanding look of 'C'mon, don't waste my precious time! Speak up!' Allen stammered. He really didn't know what to talk about.
"What is it, beansprout?" Kanda began, since Allen didn't look like he was about to speak. Allen was really panicked now. Think something to speak about! Hurry!
"Umm, you see, err…I mean…" Allen stammered. "Y-you see, about earlier…thanks!" Allen bowed his head down. Kanda frowned at the awkwardness. He sent him a questioning look. Allen took a deep breath while bowing down and smiled. "Umm, you…tried to console me earlier when I was distraught from the battle in the train." He formed a sentence as neatly as he could. Kanda was the one who fell totally confused now.
"I don't remember doing such thing." Kanda replied coldly. Allen pouted. Oh, no, not that pout! Don't pout at me! Kanda thought. He didn't remember since when Allen's pouting face began to look so darling to him. He could barely keep his cool back there. The sight of Allen's face pouting to him was priceless, I assure you!
"You did!" Allen stated. "You patted my hair back there in the train!" realization hit him. Kanda turned back to conceal his blush ignited face.
'He's right!…hell, why did I do it? It just went like some kind of instinct! That beansprout, what has he done to me?! I've been strange these past few days!' Kanda thought, hand in front of his mouth.
"Well?" Allen asked, demanding an answer. Kanda was the one who need to take a deep breath now. He turned back to him with the same cold look.
"I didn't. Now, don't bother me, stupid beansprout. I'm going to my room." Kanda said, walking in a fast mode to his room. Allen pouted again, looking disappointed. Hell, how hard was it to admit that he did that, really? Allen sighed. Kanda was more stubborn than he thought he was.
Allen sighed and walked to his room. Timcanpy was already there, lying on his bed lazily. Allen was surprised but happy to see his golem friend there. "Timcanpy!" he called. The golem snapped up at the call of his name and flew to the owner, landing on his palm.
"You've delivered the Innocence safely. Good work." Allen praised. The golem flew again in proud. Allen chuckled. Lenalee had told him that she sent Timcanpy to take the Innocence back to the H.Q. alone. And it seemed the golem had successfully delivered it. "Hey, Tim, you know what? I think I've fallen in love." Allen began to pour his heart out to the golem who seemed to be quite ignorant to his master's speech.
"Tim, do you think Kanda likes me back?" Allen asked. No answer came. "No idea, huh? You got it. I feel exactly the same." Allen gave the golden golem a smile while petting its wings. "Hey, Tim, do you have any guess since when did I fall in love with him?" Allen didn't give up and kept asking the golem question after question. Again, no answer. "Heh, I guess you don't know either, do you?" Allen laughed slightly.
"I think I've gone crazy, talking to my golem about my feelings, haven't I? Of course you can't answer me, Tim, you can't speak." Allen asked again. This time Timcanpy flew from him and landed on his head. "You know, I'm quite hungry right now. Let's go to the cafeteria, Tim." Allen suggested. The golem merely flapped its wings a time or two. "Okay, let's go." Allen smiled. Talking to Timcanpy when he's got nobody else to talk to was quite his hobby.
"Aaah! If it isn't my favorite exorcist!" Jerry the cook smiled widely. Allen sweatdropped. He was always as cheery as ever, wasn't he? "Now, what do you want to eat, my dear?" he asked.
"Umm, let's see, I'm quite hungry, so I want…" Allen thought for a while. Jerry almost had to take a note of all the things Allen ordered. It was almost twice as much as he used to order everyday. Maybe he wasn't lying when he said he was hungry after all.
"Allen! Sat next to us!" Lavi waved from the table. Lenalee was there as well. Allen took his tray full of food and sat beside his friends. "Wow, that's a lot more than usual, isn't it?" Allen nodded cheerfully.
"I'mf a bith hungfrierf thanf usuarf." Allen answered between his chewing. Lavi sweatdropped.
"If you're a bit hungrier than usual now, I can't think of how much food you're going to eat when you're really, really hungry!" Lavi laughed. Lenalee giggled. Allen's way of eating looked so cute.
I don't think it's any secret anymore that Lenalee liked Allen. For her, it was be enough just being one of Allen's best friend now, since they still had a long time to understand each other, unaware that Allen had filled that empty space in his heart with someone else. (Poor Lenalee)
"Hmm? Where's Kanda?" Lenalee asked curiously since the stubborn swordsman wasn't there at the moment. Allen stopped eating for a while and looked around. Lenalee was right, the swordsman was nowhere to be seen.
"Now that you mention it, I haven't seen him since I return from Panda." Lavi stated. "Do you happen to know where he is, Allen?" Lavi asked the white haired boy beside him. Allen swallowed down the food and wiped his mouth with his sleeve.
"He said he was going to train earlier. I don't know if he's still training, though." He answered. Lavi nodded. "I wonder if he plans to train all day…" Allen said, putting a worried look in his face. Lavi smirked and Allen's face immediately reddened. "W-what is it, Lavi?!"
"N-o-t-h-i-n-g…" Lavi's smirk widened and Allen's blush deepened. Lenalee simply stared at the two confusedly. That's when a thunder growled from outside, shocking all the people there. Lenalee screamed and put her hands on her ears. Everybody stopped eating for a moment at the sound of the thunder. A flash of lightning appeared outside. Everybody could see the lightning from the window.
"Whoa, that was startling." Lavi commented. "You okay, Lenalee?" he asked. Lenalee nodded.
"That thunder was pretty strong. Are you sure this place is okay, Lavi?" Allen asked. Lavi nodded in lightly.
"Calm down, moyashi-chan. This place's got a few lightning rods. We're perfectly save here." Lavi said calmly. Allen sighed in relieved and continued eating when a realization hit him.
"L-Lavi, Kandfa ifs stillf outsfide rightf nowf!" Allen said suddenly, shaking the older boy. Lavi was totally confused with his words.
"Hoey, calm down, Allen. Swallow that food before continue speaking." He said, calming the younger boy. Lenalee sweatdropped. What's with the sudden panic?
"Lavi, Kanda is still outside right now! He said he was going to train in the woods like usual!" Allen said after swallowing down his food. Lavi and Lenalee flinched at the statement. Being out in the rainy, thundery day like that wasn't the best choice one could make. Especially when you were training in the wood full of high trees. No way, not a good idea.
"We've got to warn him!" Lenalee stated worriedly.
"B-but Yuu-chan should know better than to stay out in a day like this, shouldn't he?" Lavi asked, not more calmly than the other one.
"I'm going to go to find him!" Allen abruptly stood up, running to the direction of the door.
"Allen!" Lavi called, but the younger one ignored him and continued to run towards the exit. At the exit, one of the guards stopped him.
"You can't get out from here at a rainy day like this. It's dangerous." Allen frowned. He totally had to go out to Kanda. He had to get Kanda in before something bad happened to him. Maybe he was just being a worrywart, but he couldn't help it. He would never leave a friend out in a situation like that. Especially not that swordsman, who had just become so dear to him.
"Aww, c'mon, you can let me out!" Allen pleaded with a very cute lost puppy look in his face. The guards frowned. Komui had warned them when they first joined the order as guards, never to let anyone out in a bad weather 'cause it could be dangerous. But…Allen's face was too sweet to ignore.
"I'm sorry, sir exorcist, we have orders from higher up never to let someone, anyone out in a bad weather. That does not excluding you." The guard bowed his head down in an apologetic look. Allen sighed. He had to get some other way to get out. This way, even if Kanda wanted to get in, they would not open the gate for him.
"But my friend is out right now. C'mon, let me out for just a while?" Allen entreated. The guards were confused whether to let him out or not. But their orders are from the head officer and they can't just ignore it. Suddenly Lenalee and Lavi appeared out of nowhere and made a small ruckus
"Enbu: kirikaze!" Lenalee said, making small tornado. It was very small indeed, but enough to distract the guards. That's when Lavi came and stole their spears. Guards had simple spears for their weapon. That made them chased the orange haired exorcist to get back the weapons.
"Now, Allen, go!" Lavi said "We'll come after ya!" Lavi gave an ensuring smile. Lenalee gave him a smile too. Allen nodded. He opened the gate from inside and ran out.
"Thanks, Lavi, Lenalee!" Allen waved.
"O-oi!" the guards yelled. Lavi smiled to Lenalee and ran after the white haired exorcist too. "You guys!"
"Sorry about this!" Lenalee said while running, chasing the white haired exorcist with Lavi.
"You guys suck!" Lavi laughed.
"Lavi!" Lenalee scolded while giggling a little. The guards sweatdropped. Oh well, they had something to report to the head officer later.
Allen arrived at the woods. The lightning was still thundering and it seemed like a storm will approach later. 'I need to look for Kanda now.' Allen thought. Entering the woods and looked around carefully. He later found the raven haired exorcist still training, ignoring the rain and the lightning. He was still blindfolded and was soaking wet.
"Kanda!" Allen shouted. Kanda's concentration broke and he opened the blindfold, staring at the younger exorcist with an annoyed look. Mugen clenched tightly in his right hand and his left hand was holding the blindfold which was also soaking wet. He wasn't wearing the uniform and the white bandage around his chest was also wet.
"What the hell are you doing here, idiot beansprout?" Kanda retorted. Allen wheezed to catch his breath and then smiled. Kanda frowned. What was the idiot doing there? And it was raining. Surely not for a walk, wasn't it?
"I'm glad I found you." He smiled. "Let's go inside, Kanda. It's raining and there's a lot of lighting. It's dangerous here in the woods." Without himself noticing, Allen reached out his hand to the swordsman. The cold swordsman stared at him like he was an idiot.
"That's why you came out? To look for me? You really are the first class moron." Kanda turned back from him and was about to wear his blindfold again when Allen came to him, scowling.
"That's all you've got to say? After the trouble I went through to get out?" he retorted. Kanda glowered at him.
"Nobody asked you to." The swordsman spat. "Now, begone. I'm continuing my training." He said. Allen refused to give up. Suddenly a lightning struck the tree beside Allen. The white haired exorcist almost leaped in panicky at the sudden shock. The tree burned slightly but the fire was immediately out thanks to the rain. Allen sighed in relieved.
"See what I mean?" Allen said. Kanda narrowed at him. Why was the beansprout suddenly got so friendly to him? Like a plain lightning could kill him. Kanda thought. He chose to keep quiet and ignored the white haired exorcist.
"Kanda, I'm talking to you here, you bastard!" Allen spat. Kanda flinched at the sudden remark the younger boy launched at him and turned back to face Allen. Just when he was about to spat back, he abruptly noticed that the tree beside Allen suddenly creaked and began to fall to the younger exorcist. Kanda's eyes widened and he immediately jumped to save the cursed boy.
The tree fell down and almost sandwiched the white haired exorcist if it wasn't for the bastard he was scolding earlier. Kanda landed on the huge root of one the huge trees gracefully with the cursed boy in his arms. Allen noticed he was carried by the older boy bridal style. Allen's face was bright red that not even a rose could defeat the reddishness.
"That was close." Kanda stated. "That's what you get for being ignorant to your surroundings, idiot beansprout!" he scolded. Allen was staring at him with admiration in his face.
'He just…saved me?' Allen thought. He could feel his face was as red as a beet right now. The yelling of the raven haired exorcist brought him back to reality and he immediately stammered a thank you to him.
"T-thank you." Allen stuttered. Kanda snorted as a reply, but still didn't put down the boy. That's when Lavi and Lenalee ran towards them in rush. Lenalee's eyes immediately widened at the scene and Lavi swooned.
"A-Allen-kun, Kanda, what are you two…" Lenalee stammered, not knowing how else she should put it into words. Kanda flinched. He abruptly released the cursed boy and turned back, hiding a blush which ignited his pale face. Allen also turned away from him and blushed in deep shade of red.
"Aaah, maybe we shouldn't have interrupted?" Lavi grinned and the white haired exorcist immediately ran to shut him up. Lavi laughed like a madman while Allen was blushing furiously. Lenalee was pretty much confused and hurt at the scene.
'Why am I feeling this? Kanda and Allen are both males. Why should I feel…jealous? It's not making any sense!' Lenalee thought and shook her head.
"I-it wasn't like that!" Allen yelled. "He was only saving me from getting crunched by a tree! That's all!" the orange haired exorcist smirked naughtily and Lenalee immediately calmed down at the explanation.
"Oh, I see, that's all, isn't it?" she asked. Lavi laughed and Allen was about to kill him with his crown clown when Kanda interrupted.
"Let's go in. I'm tired." Kanda stated coldly and began to walk away from them with his uniform in his hands. Lavi and Allen stopped quarrelling and stared confusedly at the swordsman as he walked away.
"What brought the sudden change?" Allen commented. "And here I thought we had to dragged him in." Lavi sent him a questioning look.
"Whadaya mean?" he asked. Allen shrugged.
"He was going to continue training when we start fighting." Allen explained. Lenalee sighed.
"Now, let's go in too before a lightning strike another tree." Lenalee persuaded the boys. Both boys nodded.
"Again." Allen added.
"Again?" Lenalee questioned.
"How do you think the tree collapsed?" Allen said.
"Oh." A simple answer. Lenalee lead the two boys to the castle. Inside, Komui was waiting. Arms crossed on his chest. Kanda was staring at him blankly. Lenalee gulped and laughed nervously.
"What-do-you-think-you-are-doing-out-there-in-this-rain?" Komui smiled sickeningly sweet at them. Veins on his face and forehead. All sweatdropped.
"Err, you see Nii-san, it was just…umm…we were…" Lenalee stammered.
"DO YOU GUYS REALIZE HOW DANGEROUS IT IS OUTSIDE RIGHT NOW???!!!!!" Komui yelled. All had to shut their ears with both hands to prevent injuring their eardrums. Who ever noticed that Komui had such strong lungs?
"Oh, shit. I think Komui just shattered my eardrums." Lavi whined while walking to their room. Lenalee sighed. Komui had lectured them for 4 straight hours.
"I haven't heard my brother yelling like that for quite a long time." Lenalee complained. "But it was our own fault, though."
"Yeah, Yuu-chan! Why did you have to keep training in rainy days like that?" Lavi pouted. Kanda glowered at him.
"You're saying that it's my fault?" he asked threateningly. "You guys were the one came after me. I never asked you to." He continued.
"Ah, c'mon, let's get to our room and take a nice hot shower." Allen cut them. "I'm soaking wet." He whined.
"Me too. We need to hurry up and change clothes before we catch the flu." Lenalee nodded in agreement. The four returned to their own rooms and took a nice warm bath. Allen walked out wearily and sat on the edge of the bed. Timcanpy landed next to him with a questioning look which like he was saying, 'Where were you?'
"Oh, hi Tim. That was quite the ruckus we caused." He smiled, petting the golem's wings. It seemed Timcanpy returned to his room when he ran outside, not wanting to get wet too. "But I'm sure glad no one got hurt." Allen chuckled.
'Back there…Kanda saved me. He…held me in his arms…' Allen thought to himself and smiled softly. 'He was…so… … …handsome.' Allen thought, blushing slightly. How he wished that Lavi and Lenalee didn't come so early like that. Maybe Kanda would hold him in his arms longer. He could still feel the warmth of the other's hands wrapped around him protectingly.
'If only…he would do that often…' Allen sighed. 'I'd be so happy.' He closed his eyes and hugged his soft pillow tightly. The cursed boy laid himself on the bed and was about to fall asleep when he suddenly felt something soft was being thrown to his head. He touched it and felt it. It was a towel. Allen sat up in confusion and saw the raven haired exorcist glaring at him. It had been him who threw the towel to him.
Kanda was wearing his hair. It was obvious that it was wet. There was a small white towel resembled the one he threw to the younger exorcist on his shoulder. Allen sent him a questioning look and the other snorted. "Sleeping like that will got you a fever for a first prize, moron. Dry yourself. You're no use when you're sick." As he said that, the older exorcist walked away. Allen hurriedly ran after him and shouted.
"T-thanks!" he said, stopping dead tracked on the door. The swordsman didn't turn back or responding, but Allen smiled. Kanda was being somewhat kinder towards him? Oh, if that's true, how happy that made him. Timcanpy landed on his shoulder and Allen smiled to it.
"I guess this is a start, isn't it, Timcanpy?" Allen asked. The golem stared at him but didn't reply. Allen sighed and dried his hair. Kanda still insulted him like usual, but it doesn't matter. For him, it wasn't Kanda if he didn't act like that. Allen loved Kanda. He loved everything about him. Even his rudeness, though it sometimes got him irritated. But he couldn't help feeling like that towards the older.
'Thank you…Kanda.' Allen placed the wet towel on the small wardrobe. He would dry it off tomorrow. Allen laid himself on the bed once more, this time with dry hair. '…I love you…' Allen thought to himself before falling asleep.
Yaaay! Finished! Yahoo!! Yeah, I know, this chapter is the shortest for the time being, but I need to end it there. Why? Why indeed? Well, it's just that…umm…yeah, the chapter just ends there, that's it. laughs nervously
Sigh Oh well, I hope I can write longer chapter in the future. Anyway, do you enjoy it? I quite like this chapter myself. Well, review, please? Reviews make authors happy! I love reviews! XDD
Next chapter will be longer! X3 Oh, and sorry if there's OOC-ness and grammar mistakes! I'm currently trying my best! Go, me, go! XDD