OMG!!! It's been too long. So here's the new chapter.

I don't own D.Gray-Man (This is a rushed disclaimer because I've got Kanda Yu aka the writer of The Bitter and the Sweet is breathing down my neck)

It had been a two days since Kanda had yelled at Allen. Since then he had only seen the white haired boy when he climbed into bed late at night. Allen was always gone in the morning, which surprised Kanda because normally he was the first to wake.

"Ah, Kanda-san you should really go down to the kitchen soon," The finder said.

"I already ate, why should I go back?" Kanda asked.

"Well, there's enough food left over from breakfast again and they can't waste it," the finder said.

"Leftovers again? There shouldn't be any leftovers. We have a parasite exorcist on board; there should never be any leftover food. There should be people who are still kind of hungry on board," Kanda said getting angry.

"Well, Master Walker had a normal sized proportion at breakfast. Then I saw him head to the training room. He's been there a lot actually."

"What do you mean?" Kanda asked. "How long?"

"He usually goes to train at sunrise, gets breakfast, trains again for a while, eats lunch, trains again until dinner, then he showers and meditates until well past midnight," the finder said.

"How do you know that?" Kanda asked.

"Well, as part of his training he has me sparring with him. Other than that I don't know what he's doing."

"Excuse me. I need to talk to my partner," Kanda said storming out of the room.

Kanda couldn't believe that Allen had really taken what he had said to heart. Of course he did! Allen took everything to heart, even the smallest comments. Why had he said such horrible things to Allen? He stormed down up to the training area.

There was Allen, breathing hard, and sweating. He had his bare back to Kanda with his shirt discarded in the corner. Clutched in his right hand was a long wooden pole that looked like it had taken quite a beating. A few feet away from Allen was a strange man with blonde hair and a toothpick in his mouth that was red faced and breathing very hard, yet he had a smile on his face.

"Very good Allen, you've been practicing without me I see," the man said.

"Thanks Cid. I need as much training as possible," Allen said.

"Yeah well. I'm tired and there's someone here. It's not safe for someone else to be in here when you start swinging that pole around. Maybe next week we'll switch the wooden staff for an actual blade."

"Sounds like a plan," Allen said finally turning around.

Only to stop.

"Hey Cid, mind if I mediate with you for a while?" Allen asked avoiding Kanda's eyes.

"Yeah sure, I don't see why not," Cid said.

"I do. I'm afraid that Allen has been neglecting to talk to me for the past couple of days and it's time I end this," Kanda said.

"Okay, see you after dinner Allen," Cid said getting ready to take his leave.

"Okay," Allen said.

"Actually, Allen has a prior engagement after dinner he can't get out of," Kanda said.

"I do?"

"He does?"

"He does."

"Well then, I'll see you tomorrow then Allen," Cid said as he walked out of the room.

"What exactly do you want to say to me this time?" Allen said. "Is my hair too long that it covers me eyes? Because yours is longer. Or so I sleep too much now? Because I'll give that up too if that's what you want!" Allen said in a bitter tone that shocked Kanda. Had he really sounded that harsh last week?

"No, actually I was here to tell you to eat more because I know your cutting back, to sleep more because your going to fall asleep in your dinner soon, and to train less because your going to be so sore when we get off this boat that you won't be able to move for the next three weeks."

Allen opened his mouth to retort but was cut off by an intercom.

"Attention all passengers," the voice said. "Due to the storm last week we have been put off track slightly. The ship will be anchored for the next few hours while the sails are being re-adjusted. During this time you may go swimming if you wish. Thanks you, and please enjoy the rest of your trip."

"Excuse me," Allen said.

"Where are you going? I don't remember telling you I was done," Kanda said.

"I'm going for a swim because it's something I enjoy and I can't always do it. Now move."

Kanda stood there, frozen. Had the Moyashi just talked back to him? Eventually he snapped out of it and headed onto the deck, to see Allen jumping off the side of the boat.

"Get out of there!!!" he screamed.

"No, and you can't make me," Allen said.

"Get out of the water!" Kanda screamed.

"Why?"

"Because there is a huge ass wave coming right at us!" Kanda yelled pointing to the wave. Allen turned his head just in time to be shoved under the water. Kanda watched the surface of the water and waited for Allen's head to pop back up. It was taking too long. Then Allen's head popped out of the water, but his eyes were closed and there was another wave coming.

Kanda tore his jacket off, kicked off his boots, removed Mugen and dove into the water. He re-surfaced and headed straight towards Allen, hoping he would beat the wave that was almost upon them.

He did.

Right as he grabbed Allen's arm he was forced under the water again. He struggled with their combined weight to get to the surface before it was too late for Allen. He didn't know why it mattered so much. Something about the way Allen has been treating him over the past couple of days has made him very lonely, and that was just when Allen was ignoring him. He didn't really know what would happen if Allen was gone forever.

"Help!" he screamed when he broke the surface. "He's unconscious."

He saw a bunch of people running around on deck and eventually a rope ladder was thrown down. He slung Allen over his shoulder and climbed up it.

"Take him down to the doctor's ward. He swallowed a lot of water and is malnourished," Kanda explained to the people who were lying Allen down on the ground. Nodding in his direction they moved Allen below deck.

"That was a brave thing you did there son," a tall man said with short messy black hair said.

"Yeah, don't expect me to go in after you," Kanda said as he grabbed his stuff and headed towards his bunk. He grabbed a fresh pair of pants and changed into dry clothes before going to see Allen.

"What's going on?" Kanda asked the doctor when he got to the doctor's ward.

"He'll be fine. He just needs to eat more, and rest for a couple of days. There's only a few days left on the boat. Unfortunately because of the storm it's taken more than the usual two months. But we should be in Canada by the end of the week. So I'd say keep him in bed until then."

"Understood," Kanda said nodding.

So he watched as Allen slept for three days straight while being fed through a tube. On the fourth and final day at sea Allen woke up.

"Urg," he said groaning. "I have the biggest headache ever. Did Kanda kill me?"

"No, but I should have."

Allen turned his head to face the swordsman.

"Do you know what you did? You starved yourself to the point where you fainted. In the water no less. Did I mention that there was a huge wave coming as well? I had to save your ass or else you would have died."

"Sorry. Just add this to the list of things that you hate about me," Allen said in a defeated voice. He had tried to become a better exorcist but in the end he had failed. Kanda would mock him about this forever.

"And the ship is going to be docking in an hours time so get ready to leave," Kanda said. Allen sighed and decided he might as well crawl out of bed and get ready now. As Kanda turned to leave he said one last thing.

"For future reference, I'm not a morning person so don't take what I say first thing in the morning to heart again."

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Allen and Kanda got off the ship and walked into the busy street.

"Are we supposed to find the Order by ourselves?" Allen asked.

"No, someone should be sent to show us the way," Kanda said.

They walked around town looking for someone in an exorcist jacket or a finder's coat. Normally they would have just called but the finder that had been on the ship with them was on a different mission.

"Hey, Kanda…" Allen said.

"Yes Moyashi?" Kanda asked offhand.

"Is it just me, or is the crowd parting?"

"It's not just you Moyashi, they are parting." Kanda said not really paying that much attention.

"Right, new question. Is something coming at us?

"Yes, I think there is something coming at us," Kanda said just realizing they might be in danger.

"Don't you think we should…?"

"MOVE!" Kanda yelled shoving Allen out of the way. Just in the nick of time to because suddenly three girls were on the ground where they had just been.

"Awww man, we dove to late." A girl with short black hair said.

"It's your fault Nikki," a girl with long purple hair said.

"I wanted to hug them!!!" the youngest of the three said.

"Guys," a shorter girl with long brown hair said.

"Yeah guys. There new to the country, we don't need to scare them away." The final girl said. She looked like a female Kanda actually. She turned to face them.

"Hello, my name is Yuan, the girl with the brown hair and glasses is Laura, the one with the black hair is Nikki, purple hair is Destiny, and the youngest of us with the long black hair is Victoria."

"Hello, my name is Allen Walker," Allen said extending his hand towards Yuan. "And this is Kanda."

"Hello Allen and Kanda welcome to the Canadian Black Order."

Ok, two of the people are from random animes, but the 3 of the OC's are based on my friends and the other two are based on two authors I know.

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