I think this is going well. What do you think? I'm a bit confused with myself because I'm all over the place right now, but I've thought that maybe I'll finish this one up and then focus on the other two, but who knows, I might change my mind any moment, I have a terrible self-control.
I hope you'll like this chapter! (Oh, and by the way, there's no lemon in it, sorry if you thought there would be! I just enjoy teasing.)
And a spitfire Allen had been. They didn't go past kissing and groping, but damn if Allen wasn't good, he made his skin crawl every time he touched him.
When he woke up, at seven, the white-haired wasn't by his side, but he could hear him downstairs bickering with his guardian, or at least that's what he thought at first, because when he got downstairs, his excellent hearing told him that they weren't bickering but discussing, in the language of their clan, but he had been trained to read the voice of the people he was spying on or talking to and they were definitely having an argument.
''Lavi, I can see you.'' Allen said suddenly and he came out, smiling sheepishly and gulped down when Cross glared at him.
''I'm sorry. I didn't mean to spy on you.'' He offered and the boy shrugged.
''It's not like you could understand us.'' Well, he had to give that to they boy.
''Idiot apprentice, I'll see you at night, we have work to do.'' The boy nodded and kissed the man's cheek.
''Don't fall sleep, ok?'' The man grumbled and walked out of the house.
''Is he... is he mad at me?'' The green-eyed one asked, not liking that perspective on bit.
''Nah, he's just pissed because he has to go to the meeting and doesn't know who the clan is sending with him.''
''I don't understand.'' Lavi said, scratching his head. Meetings? What meetings? The clans meetings? How could Allen know about that? Gramps had told him that very few knew about those meetings.
''I'm usually the one to go there with Shisho.'' He explained absent-minded.
''You? Gramps told me only the highest ranked persons of each clan goes to those meetings. Why would you go there?''
''I'm the only one who has been trained directly by a General and only in the field. Besides, I'm the only one who is a member of the Noah clan, so I can go as a representative from both clans, though usually Tyki-pet, Wise or Sheryl go there. Besides, there's one more reason as to why I'm allowed to go there.'' He said, grinning as he gave Lavi a dish with rice-noodles and some red chilli peppers.
''Which is?''
''I'm the only one he will actually listen and not really threat at.'' He replied as he sat down. ''Hm... We've got around twenty minutes before we have to leave. So hurry up if you want to take a shower.''
Lavi nodded, finished his breakfast in five minutes and went to the shower. Ten minutes later he was out, his hair damp and Allen smirked before walking up to him and kissing him. ''Shall we?'' he smirked and nodded, following the boy to the black Corvette.
Morning went without much notice: Kanda and Allen yelled at each other all the time, Lavi kept provoking Kanda, Kanda kept threatening him, Alma would soothe Kanda, Lavi would grin like an idiot every time his and Allen's eyes crossed paths, Allen and Wisely would talk about their family affairs and Wisely would listen to all of them, smirking eerily and talking with Alma from time to time.
Nothing out of the usual.
The only remarkable thing was the fact that Allen, as soon as he got a call from his guardian, he walked away from their gym lesson. The Bookman successor had no idea what the call had been about, but if he had to guess it from Allen's sudden dark mood it was definitely something bad. Really bad. And he didn't need to see his soul to know that.
Even Timcanpy, who was always around Allen had moved next to Wisely in fear.
Thankfully, everyone was smart enough to leave him alone for the rest of the day.
After school, Allen left in a hurry, leaving Tim behind with his cousin, phone in hand and the cast in his eye disappearing, much to everyone's surprise.
''So... What's up with your cousin?'' Alma asked Wisely when the four of them were getting back.
''I have no idea. He didn't tell me, which probably means it's something related with the Curse clan. That or Cross fell sleep again and they can't wake him up.'' He shrugged.
''You don't seem worried.''
''I'm not. I've known Allen for a long time. If I had tried to talk to him in that state he would have cast a spell on me. And believe me, his spells are not to be taken lightly.'' He shuddered slightly as he remembered the one time (and only) he pissed Allen so much he ended up being in a baby body for three weeks and unable to communicate with anyone.
Allen arrived at the harbour and quickly scanned the area, looking for the red mane of his master. Once he spotted it he walked there, powerfully and glaring at anyone who even tried to say something to him.
''Why is it here?'' Allen growled, watching the animals in their cages, and standing right next to his master.
''That's the million dolar question.'' Cross growled.
''And who the fuck is that?'' Allen asked looking at the man that was a few steps from him.
''Who? Him? He's Major Rock... Or something like that.' The elder General replied and the man came up to them.
''Major Oscar Ross from the Second Division. And who you might be, private?'' The Major realised he had upset him (even more) the moment Allen looked at him and a dark aura enveloped him.
''Private? What the hell do they teach at HQ? I'm General Allen, member of the Noah clan, you dumb-ass!'' He yelled and the man visibly paled. ''Just get out of here, I don't want to see your face!''
''B-but my assignments...''
''I don't fucking care about your stupid assignments!'' His skin was starting to turn grey, but the man refused to leave.
''I can't sir. Colonel Fei made perfectly clear that I am to stay with General Cross until his apprentice is with him.''
Marian sighed and stroked his face. ''Allen is my apprentice, you idiot. Now get the fuck out of our sighs or I'll make sure you end up in the next slave shipment!'' Cross yelled.
''General Allen is your apprentice!?'' It was clear that he didn't understand anything.
''Yes. Now get out!'' Allen yelled and then he went all Noah: dark grey skin, seven stigmata on his forehead and his right eye golden.
''Yes sir.'' And he fled the pace: he had heard stories of a Noah member in the organisation, but he never thought it would a General. Even less Cross Marian's apprentice. The tales of those two were known all around their clan and he definitely did not want to be one of their main targets.
He looked behind him once more and saw how Master and pupil were talking, the younger gesturing widely.
Ross knew a lot about Cross Marian, hell everyone knew him: lazy, womaniser, heavy drinker, quick to spend his money and having no repair to send really large bills at HQ for the clan to pay. The Generals would always complain about him and his apprentice, but they always gave them a really, really, really long leash to do as they thought fit.
As he went to his car, he recalled that he had heard them discussing about General Allen, but it turned out that because he was under Cross' wing they had no power over him until Cross said so. And the other thing was, that because Allen was a General himself he could mostly do what he wanted to and had to answer to basically no one besides his Master. So they just didn't know how to act towards the boy.
Man, he could have remembered all of that before getting threatened.
Cross went to the fifteen cages that he had in front of his eyes and opened the one with the cheetahs, who roar at him.
''Shut it.'' He growled and the beasts just sat in front of him. ''Allen, can you move them?''
''Not all of them at once... There are too many.'' He fidgeted, he never liked admitting he wasn't able to satisfy his master's wishes: the last thing he wanted to do was to let him down. He didn't want his master to leave him behind, alone. He wouldn't be able to get pass that.
''It's alright. I'll call Tyki and ask him if he can come and help us out.'' Marian said, ruffling his hair.
''Ok, Shisho.'' He nodded and looked at him suspiciously: his left eye wasn't picking on anything out of the ordinary but he had just called the younger Portuguese Noah by his name... And that was weird. True, it wasn't the first time he had done that but lately he was doing more and more often... without forcing himself.
''Tyki?'' He heard him talking while he petted the cheetahs and freed the other animals with a simple spell.
''Cross? What's up?''
''We need your help. We received a shipment a week earlier that supposed and Allen can't handle the teleportation spell by himself yet.'' He looked at his pupil fondly and smiled when he saw him scratching a lion under the chin and the animal purring contentedly.
''Of course. Where are you at?''
''Harbour number 17.'' Marian replied.
''I'll be there in five.''
''Perfect. And could you ask Road or Fiidora to go to our house and keep and eye on the animals until we get there?''
''Sure.'' Cross heard him yelling around and chuckled. ''What?'' The Noah asked him.
''Nothing.'' There was amusement in his voice. ''Just get here, will you?''
''Be there in ten.''
''Alright.''
And so, in just ten minutes, Tyki Mikk was there, dressed in jeans and a white button down shirt, with the sleeves rolled up to his elbows and his always neatly pulled hair, was slightly loose.
''Wow. What the hell happened to him?'' Was the first thing he asked to the redhead when he spotted his cousin/nephew or whatever Allen was of his.
''The one they sent to control him drove him over the line.'' He simply said, smiling at him. ''Oi, idiot apprentice.''
The boy turned around and made a humming sound when he picked on the powerful dark pink colour of their auras; Tyki's was slightly more pinkish where Cross' was more reddish.
He smiled and they both frowned at him. ''What is it?'' Tyki asked.
''Nothing. Just reading.'' He turned around and stretched
His two eldest blinked, but said nothing as they both knew what that meant: he was reading their auras rather than seeing them as usual, but if the was reading the, that meant that there was something interesting in them, but they knew better than to ask: Allen never told them and probably never would.
''Should we start, cheating boy?'' He asked.
''Yeap.''
Cross watched them starting to chant, the stigmata in Allen's forehead shining and Tyki's appearing and shining a few seconds later. The Noahs usually didn't show their stigmata, but it was more for a fashion thing than any other thing. The only one who would always show them was the Earl, but then again, he barely left the house as he was always surveilling everything.
After twenty minutes the only ones left were them. Allen walked up to his master and looked at him in the eye. ''Drop it already.''
''In the car.''
''No. Do it now.'' The boy growled and Tyki looked at the interaction without understanding what was going on, but he saw how the object of his affection sighed and closed his eyes and then... stumbled. ''I got you.'' Allen whispered as he caught him.
''You better.'' The red-eyed man grumbled.
Tyki followed them to the car in silence, his mind wandering why the hell Cross was in such a state.
''Are you coming home with us?'' The white-haired one asked.
''Yes. I'll take your car and tomorrow we'll come pick mine up.'' He said and the boy nodded, kissing his cheek.
''Ok.''
Once at home, Fiidora was sitting on the sofa, playing with a snake, but when the man saw them, he just stood up and went to the door.
''I'll be leaving now.'' He only said and left.
Tyki helped Allen to put the passed out Cross in bed and when he went to exit the room, the boy's voice stopped him.
''You sure you want to leave, Tyki-pet?'' He frowned at him: he was being an ass again.
''What do you mean?''
''You see... I'm going to have to undress Shisho because he hates being in bed with his normal clothes and usually Tim helps me around, but I think I scared him today at school, because he left with Wise... Maybe I should call to see if he and Lero and getting along today or what...''
''Al, focus.'' The elder Noah simply said, already used to Allen going from one topic to another.
''Yeah. Anyway, you have to help me undress him.'' He said, smirking. ''And don't you even bother on saying you don't want to, I can see you.''
''Sometimes I really wish I could hate you.'' He said. And maybe his voice had been a little too serious, because the boy looked at him with fear clouding his eyes.
''You do?'' His voice was small, fragile, and Tyki soon realised the error he had just made. He quickly kneeled next to him and hugged him.
''Of course not. You know I love you like a baby brother, Al. I'm sorry, I didn't mean it. Of course I didn't mean, how could I?'' He whispered and kissed his head. ''You are one of the most precious things I have, Al. I would never hate you. Nor wish to.''
''Really?''
''Promise.'' He stroked his nape and got up, the boy following his movements with his eyes. ''What do you want me to do?''
''Just hold him upright so I can unbutton his shirt.'' Mikk did so, his heart pounding a bit faster than usual.
''You know, Tyki-pet? I think you and Shisho are keeping something from me.'' Marian-Walker started to say as he popped the first button.
''What do you mean? You know we can't hide anything from you.'' He replied.
''Yeah. But that doesn't change the fact he is calling you 'Tyki' instead of 'Mikk' and that you don't try to rile him up to have his attention.'' He replied, almost absent-mindedly.
The man sighed and put Cross back down on the bed. ''You know? About how I feel him?''
''Of course I do. I've known since like forever. Besides, it was really easy to see through you: you were never angry at him when you had an argument. You were both sad and happy. Sad because you thought you could never have a chance with him and happy because he was paying attention to you. Though at the beginning it was really confusing.'' He said as he pulled down the trousers and the underwear, leaving him completely naked.
And suddenly, he felt a wave of heat hit him like a ton of bricks.
''Tyki, you are projecting.'' He groaned as he felt himself grow excited.
''Not my fault. You knew that would happen. Hell, knowing you, that was probably your plan. Besides, don't you remember who I am?'' Tyki asked, his normal self coming back.
'''Course I do.'' The boy grumbled as he slipped the pants up his master's legs and kissed his cheek, making the man stir and wake up, groggily. ''Hey, Shisho, do you want something to eat?''
''Romanée-Conti.'' The man grumbled and Allen rolled his eyes while Tyki only chuckled.
''Eat, Shisho. Not drink.'' The boy said.
''Cheesecake. With peach.'' He only replied.
''Kay.'' He kissed him again and left the to adults alone, smirking on the inside when Tyki went back to being skittish.
Mikk stood there, in silence, without knowing what to do: should he stay? Should he leave? Go with Allen? Call home and tell someone they were fine?
''Mikk.'' And he was back at calling him by his surname. The younger one hated that. Always had, but now that he had a taste of how his name sounded when the redhead said it, he hated his surname even more.
''Y-yeah?'' He looked up and saw the man staring at him, what caused him to blush like mad.
''Help me sit up.'' The man asked (well, demanded).
''Sure.'' He sat down next to Cross and helped him sit upright. What he didn't count on was to receive a sweet smile.
''Thank you.'' He blinked and nodded, as if he was dumb. And hand travelled to his face and stroked his cheekbone.
''Cross? Are you alright?''
''Yeah. Why wouldn't I be? The Magdala sucks all my energy, but that's it.'' The man was obviously confused but the Portuguese said nothing about it.
As a matter of fact, he didn't say anything at all until few minutes went by.
''Can I ask you something?''
'''Course. Shoot.''
''Why do you hate me?''
Allen opened the door with three portions of cheesecake with peach (one of them visibly larger than the other two) and frowned: he didn't need to watch with his left eye to notice that something was obviously off between them; Cross was staring at Tyki with narrowed eyes angrily and Tyki was gaping at him with hurt in his eyes.
He'd have to call Sheryl. And fast.
''Allen!'' He heard, in the distance, and then two strong arms wrapped around him before everything went black.
Fuck his curse.
That's it for now! I just felt bad because Cross is the one always having blackouts and because Tyki is the one suffering most of the time and Allen seemed the fucking boss who could just do everything and had no weakness so... There we have it! Allen's weakness (or at least, one of them). My head works in really weird ways.
Please review! They give me the strength to keep going!