Allen growled as Kanda managed to evade his hands and pull out his sword. He grabbed at the sword with his clawed left hand, trying to prevent Kanda from stabbing or slicing him with it. His other hand tried to cover Kanda's mouth as he pressed against his body, trying to pin him to the wall. He wasn't fighting carefully at all, he was just desperate to stop Kanda from saying anything else. He heard a voice behind him, and glanced momentarily to see Calera behind him.
"He knows the goddamn phrase!" he growled, concentrating once again on trying to subdue Kanda. "He's pulling the same shit as Lavi, making me do weird stuff." He didn't actually remember anything he did, but he was positive Kanda would have used the opportunity to humiliate him.
"WHAT? I didn't think he'd…God damn it, Kanda!" She shouted, ignoring the formality that she was supposed to give. Kanda just squinted his eyes at her, the other half of his face mostly covered by Allen's hand. He noticed how Allen wasn't fighting adequately, and took his opportunity to use his sword-free hand to grip the one clinging to his face, and twisted it violently, yanking it off for a few seconds. Allen was already fighting, the conditions were set, and a few seconds were all he needed to show Calera what he had done.
"Stop moving, sprout." Kanda spat out, jaw aching from the tight grip it had endured. Calera just watched angrily, trying to think of a quick way out of the situation that she and Allen had been thrust in by the sword-wielding man.
'You have got to be kidding me…'
Allen winced as his wrist was twisted and pulled away from Kanda's face. Before he could get free from Kanda's grip, he spoke another command. Allen froze, and glowered silently at Kanda. Now that he was not moving, he noticed how awkwardly his body was positioned. His wrist was still in Kanda's grip and his body pressed close to Kanda's in his attempts to stop the other from moving. He swore mentally as he blushed, hoping Kanda would push him away since he was unable to move.
Calera, do something!
"What the hell sort of trigger did you give him, K…Master Kanda?" She snapped. This wasn't any 'say a word and you do this'. Kanda wouldn't have bothered with that. But then why was Allen reacting so strongly to the trigger, and what was the extent of it?
"Because I need to answer a finder. Why don't you go find something to do that's worth your time?" Kanda snidely responded. Looking down at Allen's stiff form, he 'gently' pushed Allen off of him, and smirked over to where the finder stood. Allen fell to the ground with a moderate thud, but Allen didn't seem like he moved himself by an inch. "You knew what that phrase could do, all I did was add a bit more. He won't remember anything once about half a minute has passed from now, so I'll be quick, for the both of you. If sprout wants to hurt or run from me, I control him for a minute. That simple."
Calera let out a small breath of relief. 'That can be easily fixed. For a second there I thought Kanda had done something worse.' It didn't excuse this at all, and Allen being shoved over like that didn't help matters whatsoever, but she could fix this if she could get just 10 seconds of silence from Kanda. But how to get that was the question, especially since he knows that she can put Allen under just as easily as he.
Allen stayed on the ground after Kanda shoved him off, still glaring but unable to make himself move. He wanted to say something, to make Kanda stop treating Calera like dirt, or to just swear at him, but the command seemed to apply to moving his mouth as well, and he could not speak. He can only control me for a minute, but I'm going to forget that as soon as its over… if I get mad or run he can control me again, but I won't remember that either…
"Surprising." Kanda jeered.
Calera was just getting more and more pissed off, but held it in as much as she could, trying to feverishly work out a way to get Allen out of this mess. "What could be so surprising? I would have thought that nothing much could have done that anymore."
"Shut up. I'm just wondering how the rabbit did this." Kanda drawled, watching Allen out of the corner of his eye for any movement. If he ignored the sprout for too long, he could end up just running away before Kanda had a chance to see what else he could do. 'Damn, this finder is getting annoying..'
'That's it. Allen could run off if I distract master Kanda long enough. Just long enough for a few seconds, perhaps a minute.' Time to see how far Kanda can argue before he tries to kill a finder like her.
Allen watched the two of them, waiting out the time until he would once again be in control of his body… and when he would forget what was even going on.
Allen blinked, looking around. Why am I on the floor? He looked up and saw Kanda next to him, and not far Calera was standing, looking angry. Allen stayed still, trying to get a grasp on what the situation was. He remembered fighting with Kanda, and Calera showed up… and then nothing. God damn it, Kanda did whatever he is doing again. Rather than get up and fight again, since Kanda wasn't paying much attention to him at the moment, he stayed still, biding his time.
"Master Kanda, you know I can wipe away those conditions you gave Allen just as quickly as you gave them. As can Lavi, especially if he was the one to put him under in the first place, as you are so inclined to believe." She venomously spat out, aiming to let Allen get enough time to snap out of the minute-long time span.
"Try it, finder. I'll have you unconscious and the sprout ready to fight me again, and that's all I need to have him be controlled." Kanda gave a swift smirk to the finder, before grabbing the collar of her cloak and dragging her near the blade of his sword.
"I won't use this on you, Mugen isn't worth that. Why don't you run, finder? You aren't like the sprout, running or fighting won't bring you under my power, so flee. That's what you do whenever an akuma arrives, and I'm far more dangerous than any akuma could be to you." Calera just stared at Kanda, mind racing with panic, but just barely managing to keep a sustained glare back at those piercing eyes. Risking a glance over at Allen, she saw him with his head turned. It was slight, but he wasn't able to move before. He could leave.
Allen grit his teeth, wanting to jump up and help her, but knowing Kanda could easily stop him now if he did. He noticed Calera glance at him, and realized what she was trying to do. Thank you…
He slowly rose, making sure Kanda's attention was on the finder, and started backing away down the hall. His years of training with Cross, having to sneak in and out of wherever they were staying whenever Cross brought home women, made Allen very good at walking with no sound, and he carefully made his way towards the nearest corner, figuring the sooner he was out of sight, the more likely he would actually manage to get away.
I should try to find her room and just hide in there. No one will look for me there hopefully. Now he was going to have to avoid both Kanda and Lavi, and try to find Calera later to try to get the triggers removed. He planned to ask her to remove the phrase that made him fall under hypnosis as well, he had quite enough of that for now.
"I'm not worried, Master Kanda, and I refuse to run as well. Consider it a bold move, but I'm trying to just do my job."
Kanda narrowed his eyes, and sheathed his sword before grabbing the finder around the neck with the previously sword-held hand. Not enough pressure to stop her breathing, but certainly enough to hurt. "And what sort of job would that be? I don't remember you ever being assigned to babysit the sprout."
Calera gave another risky glance over to where Allen used to be. He must be leaving around the corner. If she can distract Kanda for a few more moments, she can try fleeing herself. "It's my job to help..Protect other exorcists, and I believe this would be part of it!" 'Kind of hard to speak with that clamp of a hand around my neck.'
"Wait. How long has it been?" Kanda growled. He knew the answer already. The beansprout could easily be out of hearing distance by now, and his game was useless. "The sprout decided to leave someone like you behind. Tch, you would have thought he'd have struck out at your pain." Dropping the finder, he walked past her, towards the training hall once more. He wasn't interested in fighting the finder over something that wasn't there. 'Unless…'
Allen crept around the corner, apologizing mentally to Calera for leaving her behind. He hoped Kanda wouldn't be too rough on her. He couldn't remember any times Kanda actually hurt a girl.. but that didn't really mean anything.
As soon as he felt like it was safe and Kanda wouldn't hear him, he started sprinting down the halls, making a wide circle around where he last saw Kanda to try to get to the area where the rooms were so he could find Calera's. He turned a corner, and ran into someone, knocking them over and falling on top of them.
"Oww… sorry, I should have been more…" Allen let his voice trail off as he got up and looked at who he had knocked over. Lavi stared up at him in surprise.
"Oh, hey Sprout. Kanda didn't kill you yet?"
Why can't I catch a break?
Calera slowly got up off the floor, thanking the heavens that Kanda didn't see her as as much of a threat or a nuisance as the other male finders. Forget the fact that it might have been sexist. She's well enough to go find her friend. Rushing off, she made her way to her own room, thinking that perhaps she would find Allen hiding around her. Hearing the rabbit's voice, she dodged behind the corner of the wall, and listened for him to leave, if it weren't for what Lavi said.
"What's the matter buddy? Didn't Calera take the last thing off of you? And how did you get away from Yu so fast?"Lavi watched Allen's expressions, and the way his eyes flicked backwards, back towards the hall that he was running from gave the rabbit answer enough. "Oh, you didn't." Lavi couldn't let this go to waste, and grabbed Allen's arm before the smaller one could try to flee. "Hey! It's not like He gave you a trig- Ohhhhh…" he twisted his smile in a smirk. He saw the answer in Allen's eyes. Now he had to know what happened.
"Let go of me Lavi!" Allen said in a furious whisper, not wanting to speak too loudly in case Kanda was nearby looking for him. He was trying very hard to not punch Lavi, but the longer he was in the redhead's presence, the stronger that urge felt. "This is your entire fault! Let me go now or I really will hit you."
"Aww, but I want to see what he did to ya~! But wait! I have an easy solution to this!" Lavi cheered. It would make it so Allen wouldn't run, and maybe let Lavi in on the obvious fun Kanda was having with the sprout too! "Sink and listen, my friend. We're going to go find Yu together!"
Calera stormed out from where she was hiding, she was not going to let Lavi pull another one of his triggers on the entranced exorcist. "Lavi! Just what the hell do you think you're doing?"
"Apparently, trying to find an easy way to die." Said the familiar, dark voice, quickly breaking in on the scene. Kanda was just waiting for Calera to lead him back to the quarry he had just held.
Allen scrambled backwards when he heard Lavi say he had a solution, he knew exactly what Lavi meant by that. But before he could get up off the floor to run, he was put under hypnosis once again. He sat there, oblivious to his surroundings as Calera and Kanda appeared.
"Hi there Yu! I was just about to go look for ya-"
"Shut the hell up Rabbit, and maybe I won't try to cut you open when you flee." Kanda growled, shoving Calera to the side. She wasn't hurt by the toss, but it certainly wouldn't help her if she tried to stop those two.
So Calera did her part by just feigning fright and letting Kanda storm past. While they argued, she carefully crawled her way towards Allen, and carefully began to whisper in his ear. She didn't get very far, having forgotten how well Lavi's ears are tuned. ('Why is she not afraid of me..She must have put on a trigger for it before! Oh, she's GOOD. "Hey Yu-!"') "Allen, please just ignore"-
Lavi motioned Calera's actions to Kanda, and he was quick to snap out. "-Anything you hear Calera say." Calera froze, before looking up to glare at the two. "Really? How did you even learn I gave him that command, Lavi!?"
"Because you didn't fear me being near ya while you were doing it!"
"But I forgot!"
Allen's mind stored the new order flawlessly, as his physical body did little else than sway slightly and drool a bit from the corner of his mouth.
"Guess your own subconscious gave me the clues I needed~! Hey Yu, how about we strike a deal? You get to have your fun with Allen, but you gotta tell me what the triggers are, and make sure you take off the one that prevents him from listening to me, 'Kay?"
Kanda didn't look like he really wanted to sway for anyone, so Calera became all the more enraged when he just looked over at the rabbit and gave a huff of consent. "Leave, Rabbit. And take the finder with you. I'll tell you later."
Lavi just gave a comical salute of approval, and grabbed Calera by the shoulders, knowing that Kanda keeps his word. "Okay! I'll be seeing you later then, Yu!"
"I SWEAR TO GOD YOU TWO I WILL MAKE SURE You…" Calera trailed off, shutting up as she was helplessly dragged off by the stronger exorcist.
Kanda watched for a few moments, before turning to Allen to give a simple command. The minute long range was fun, so why not make it so Kanda could do it anytime? "When you wake up, anytime I begin a sentence with ' Sprout' or 'Moyashi', you'll immediately follow whatever the sentence commands, but forget I ever said the sentence."
Should be interesting to see. "Wake up, sprout." Kanda wondered what Allen would make of the whole ordeal.
Allen woke up and looked around. Hadn't he just run into Lavi? He looked up and saw Kanda standing over him, and was filled with dread. Allen absentmindedly wiped the thin line of spit that was on his chin, and looked around nervously.
Oh no. What happened this time?
Luckily, he had heard some of what Calera had been saying to Kanda before he ran off, and knew what he needed to avoid. I can't get angry at him. I can't think about running away. He took a deep breath and stood. He let the breath out slowly, trying to keep his mind empty. I'm going to go get a snack. Just going to go eat. He concentrated on the thought that he was merely walking away for food, not to escape, and started walking away, ignoring Kanda.
Interesting, so Allen is just trying to walk away, not even run? 'I guess the sprout must have heard me talking to Calera about that damn trigger…not like it means much for him now.' "Sprout, walk back over here. Thinking about running won't help you anymore. Moyashi, make sure you walk at a decent pace this time, not that snail's walk you tried earlier today." Kanda called after him, as soon as he thought Allen had gone a far enough distance as to give the shorter one a bit of hope. 'Nice try, sprout. Allen won't forget anything this time, well, he'll forget two of my sentences, but the middle and his own walking should be enough to clue him in on the game.'
Allen had begun to hope that Kanda might just let him go, but the next thing he knew, he was walking back towards Kanda. What?
"Thinking about running won't help you anymore." he heard Kanda say, and he grit his teeth in frustration as he increased his pace until he was standing in front of Kanda again. How am I going to get out of this?
"Kanda… please just stop. This has all gone too far." he said, hoping maybe Kanda would take pity on him. It hurt his pride to do this, but he was really sick of being controlled and manipulated. "If this is about how I acted towards you, I was being controlled. You can see now that I can't do anything to stop it. Please just let me find Calera to take this thing away…"
