Chapter 10

"Kanda, I love you…" Lavi smiled and kissed Kanda passionately on the lips. Suddenly Lavi disappeared, leaving Kanda alone in a dark void less room.

"Hello…?" Kanda called. "Lavi?" Kanda looked around the room for the red-head, but he wasn't there. Kanda ran, but no matter how fast or how far he ran he reminded trapped in the void. Kanda stopped to catch his breath, finding his efforts futile.

A figure dressed in white stood in a corner.

Kanda looked, recognizing it was Allen. "Allen!" He called to the teen.

"Why? Kanda…"

Kanda looked at Allen confused.

"Why…? I loved you." A tear rolled down Allen's cheek.

"Allen… I …" Kanda stuttered trying to come up with an excuse.

"You betrayed me."

"No!" Kanda watched helplessly as the bottomless floor became tile, which broke apart and Kanda fell.

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Kanda woke from his sleep in a cold sweat. He looked around his room seeing his roommate Alma, but nothing suspicious. He checked his bedside clock.

5:20

Deciding he would go and visit his foster father, Kanda set about getting dressed.

After he was prepared he alerted a short, pudgy man in charge of carriage transportation that he would be requiring his assistance. Kanda left to buy a lotus from a local flower shop.

Meanwhile, the man set about preparing for the ride, but was knocked out by a figure dressed in black.

Kanda returned with the white flower and stepped into the carriage. "The graveyard, please." Kanda handed the driver a small bag of gold.

The driver nodded and ushered the horses forward.

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The carriage pulled up in front of the gates.

Kanda stepped out of the carriage. "It will only be a minute."

The driver nodded.

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Lavi woke up from a bad dream and walked to Kanda's room from the guest room where he was sleeping. Lavi was shocked to find Kanda's bed empty. He quickly ran outside to find the man from the stables lying in a pile of hay rubbing his head. "Sir, do you know where Kanda went?"

The man grunted. "I think it was the cemetery."

Lavi unhitched a white horse and mounted, riding for the cemetery.

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Kanda turned and walked through the graveyard.

"You were once my one companion,

You were all that mattered.

You were once a friend and father,

Then my world was shattered.

Wishing you were somehow here again.

Wishing you were somehow near.

Sometimes it seemed if I just dreamed,

Somehow you would be here.

Wishing I could hear your voice again,

Knowing that I never would.

Dreaming of you helped me to do,

All that you dreamed I could.

Passing bells and sculpted angels, cold and monumental,

Seem for you the wrong companion, you were warm and gentle.

Too many years,

Fighting back tears

Why can't the past just die!

Wishing you were here again,

Knowing we must say goodbye.

Try to forgive,

Teach me to live

Give me the strength to try!

No more memories,

No more silent tears,

No more gazing across the wasted years.

Help me say goodbye.

Help me say goodbye!" Kanda stopped at a grave. "Hello Tiedoll. I've missed you." Kanda laid the flower on the tombstone. "It's been so hard. I'm always confused with decisions. I don't know who to choose or what I should do. Please I need your help."

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Lavi rode up to the cemetery and parked beside the entrance gate was a carriage with no driver. Oh no!

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Kanda brushed the leaves from Froi Tiedoll's grave and cleaned up the site.

"Kanda!" Lavi rode up to Kanda on horseback. "He's here!"

"What?"

A figure clad in white jumped off the top of a mausoleum attacking Lavi with a giant sword.

Lavi countered by grabbing a hammer that was strapped to his leg and pressed a button on it which made it extend and grow in size. Lavi pushed off the attack and looked at the figure.

It was a teen with white hair. He was adorned with a white, hooded cloak and a silver mask obscured his face.

"Leave him alone!" Lavi cried and lunged at the figure with his hammer.

The figure blocked with a huge sword, almost bigger than Lavi himself, with a cross on the front. The figure pushed the block aside and knocked Lavi down into the thicket of snow which covered the ground and graves.

Lavi swang at the white-haired teen, but the teen dodged the strike by ducking and striking Lavi in the stomach with the hilt of the sword.

Lavi doubled over, gasping for breath, but swung at Allen.

Allen jumped over the strike and landed gracefully onto a tomb.

Now angry, Lavi barraged Allen with crushing blows, making Allen back up with each blow.

Allen's foot caught on a broken tombstone and he fell into the snow, dropping his sword.

Lavi saw Allen falling as his opportunity to strike, and with the tip of his hammer he sliced Allen's arm.

Kanda had watched the whole fight, but he now watched as the snow absorbed Allen's crimson red blood.

Lavi held the hammer point to Allen's face.

"Stop!" Kanda begged dragging Lavi away from Allen and into a hug.

Lavi hesitantly looked at Allen, but pressed the button on his hammer, making it shrink to normal size. He strapped the hammer to his leg and wrapped his arms around Kanda. He smelled Kanda's hair and placed a kiss on his forehead, right before Allen. Kanda watched a small tear escape down Allen's cheek.

"Let's go." Lavi said offering his hand to Kanda.

Kanda took Lavi's hand and he mounted the horse which Lavi rode in on. Together the two rode off, out of the graveyard.

Allen laid in the cold, white snow, alone. Allen pushed himself up with his injured arm and reached for his sword. The sword disintegrated and reformed at his left arm. Allen tried to push himself up onto his feet, but his ankle throbbed with pain. I twisted my ankle, great! Allen sighed and staggered to walk, limping as he attempted to walk through the thick snow. He continued to limp to the carriage waiting outside the cemetery's gates.