Hey guys sorry for the long wait. It's come to my attention I never really described how Allen is supposed to look like. He had cat ears and tail but he also has cat legs. It's kind of like A faun if you guys know what that is.

Beta'd by In a silent night

The neko sighed sadly as he sat down in the middle of an alley, the same alley that Kanda had found him in. It was here he first met Kanda. It seemed so long ago but in reality it had only been a couple of weeks ago.

A shadow passed him and Allen looked up to see Tyki walked along the alley wall. The wolf gracefully jumped down.

"Tyki." Allen whispered, relief filling him.

"Hello shonen, I'm sorry I haven't been around I've been busy," Tyki said, sitting close to Allen to keep the neko warm. Allen knew that it was a lie but he chose not to say anything, he was just happy that Tyki was there. "Now, why are you here, sitting in the cold snow, on a Saturday afternoon? Where's your owner?"

"He's on a date with Alma." Allen answered, trying to keep his tone light.

"Who's Alma?" Tyki asked, frowning when he saw Allen's eyes darken.

"Kanda's boyfriend." Allen said, and Tyki looked at him with disbelief. Looked like he didn't have to wait long after all for Kanda to screw up.

"And you're alright with this?" Tyki asked, and Allen shrugged.

"What can I do Tyki? I'm just a humanoid pet and Alma's a human. Anyway, I kind of knew my feelings for Kanda would never be returned." Allen said, and he leaned against Tyki for comfort.

"So what are you going to do? You're just going to stay with him, even though it's hurting you?"

"Yes, I still like him Tyki and I want to be with him anyway I can." Tyki bit back a growl, wanting to throttle the neko and tell him how stupid he was being, but he gracefully refrained.

"Well, no use moping around, let's go for a walk." Tyki said, yanking Allen to his feet, not noticing how the neko swayed slightly before he followed him out the alley. As soon as they entered the sun that had been previously blocked out by the alley, Tyki noticed how flushed Allen was and how unhealthy his skin looked. "What's wrong with you?"

"Huh? Oh nothing, I'm fine really." Allen said and Tyki narrowed his eyes. "Look, I'm a little sick is all, I'll be fine."

"Then you shouldn't be out in the cold!" Tyki barked, placing a hand on Allen's forehead and growling when he felt how warm it was. "I'm taking you home."

"Tyki!I'm fine it's not a big deal!" Allen protested but he swayed when a dizzy spell hit him and Tyki had to steady him. The wolf growled before he picked up the neko with ease and began running quickly, remembering where Allen lived.

This was his fault, if he hadn't been off sulking for a whole week he would've noticed that Allen wasn't well. It was also the stupid human's fault for not noticing either. Wasn't it an owner's job to look after his pet? Stupid, idiotic, good for nothing humans.

By the time they got to Allen's place, the neko had passed out and Tyki had to struggle to get the key from Allen's pocket and not accidently drop the neko. Tyki opened the door after a couple of failed attempts and walked in, closing the door with his foot. He used his nose to pinpoint Allen's room and he gently tucked the sick neko into his bed.

Tyki wondered around the house, looking for things that could help Allen. He grabbed more blankets, a wet towel, medicine he had found in the bathroom and some water. He went back to Allen's room and he gently placed the towel on the neko's feverish forehead and spread the blankets on top of him. Allen muttered something in his sleep, his face frowning.

"This is just one big mess isn't it, shonen?" Tyki asked with a sigh.

Kanda sighed as he opened his front door. It had been a long day with Alma. The boy had an endless amount of energy and they had practically gone everywhere in the city. Not to mention he had missed the moyashi a lot and felt a little guilty for leaving him home all day. This was probably the longest Allen had been by himself, usually he had work during the day. He hadn't wanted to go out with Alma but the boy insisted so Kanda gave in.

As Kanda closed the door and walked into his house he saw Allen's friend standing in the doorway. Apparently Allen hadn't been alone all day. The wolf looked angry, his teeth was bared and his tail puffed out like a dog would do to make himself look bigger.

"You," Tyki snarled. "All you had to do was one thing. One somewhat simple thing and you screwed that up."

"What the fuck are you talking about?" Kanda snarled back.

"All you had to do was take care of Allen, look out for him, and make sure he stayed healthy. How hard is that?"

"What the hell are you talking about?" Kanda asked, frowning. Did something bad happen to the moyashi?

"He's lying in his room sick with a high fever. A fever that couldn't have appeared overnight. Are you so involved with your new toy that you stopped caring about Allen?" Tyki asked. It was all he could do to not attack the pathetic human in front of him. The only reason he didn't was because he knew Allen would get upset with him.

"What the hell are you babbling about? Allen's fine!" Kanda retorted, his mind going back to the past week. He hadn't seen too much of Allen, he had been busy trying to please Alma but surely he wouldn't have missed something as important as him getting sick.

"I suppose your definition of 'fine' is different from mine. I don't see what he likes about you, why he would demean himself to being a pet for someone like you. All I know is he's sick right now and you're the only one who could take care of him." Tyki snapped before he walked past Kanda and went through the front door, closing it with a slam.

Kanda frowned and stomped into Allen's room to see what all the trouble was. Surely the neko couldn't be that sick. Surely he would've noticed if Allen wasn't well. He couldn't have been so distracted, by trying to make the relationship with Alma work, that in the process he neglected Allen, right?

The Japanese slowly walked to where Allen was lying and he frowned when he saw what state Allen was. The neko's face was pale, aside from his unhealthy red cheeks, with beads of sweat dripping off his face and he was panting like he had just run a mile. Guilt filled Kanda as he flipped the towel onto its cooler side, the side that hadn't been resting on Allen's warm forehead.

"Shit." Was all Kanda managed to get out. He didn't know what to do and how to take care of Allen. He didn't even know how Allen got so bad and why the neko hadn't said anything to him. Was it because he had been so busy that Allen had felt that he couldn't come to him? Damn it, he had gone out with Alma to distract himself from his feeling for the neko but instead he ended up actually neglecting Allen.

Lavi… of course the damn usagi's grandpa! Kanda stormed into the hallway and dialed Lavi's phone number, agitation filling him with every second Lavi didn't pick up.

"Hello?" Lavi chirped.

"You need to come here with your Grandpa. NOW!" Kanda snarled and there was a pause.

"What's wrong?" Lavi said, his voice growing serious.

"Allen's sick and I don't know what to do." Kanda said.

"I'll be over soon." Lavi said and Kanda hanged up before he went back to Allen's room. The neko had woken up, his confused glazed grey eyes looking around the room. Kanda sat on his bed and Allen's eyes hazily focused on him.

"Kanda?" Allen said questioningly as if he wasn't sure if Kanda was really there.

"Yeah it's me moyashi," Kanda responded, another pang of guilt hitting him, when Allen smiled. "How do you feel?"

"I'm okay." Allen replied and Kanda glared at him.

"You have a high fever. I don't think you're okay," Kanda growled. "Why didn't you tell me something was wrong earlier?"

"I don't know. I guess I didn't want to worry you." Allen answered and Kanda growled.

"This is the type of thing you should worry me with moyashi! I'm your owner, it's my responsibility to take care of you!" Kanda said.

"I'm sorry." Allen responded and Kanda rubbed his eyes.

"No, this is my fault too. I should have seen something was wrong with you," Kanda said tiredly. "Look, I promise to be around more often, but you have to promise to tell me whenever there's something wrong, okay?"

"Okay." Allen responded with a small smile. Kanda patted his head and Allen let out a small purr, happy that Kanda was there for him and had even promised to be around more.

There was knocking on the door and Kanda answered it quickly, knowing that it was Lavi. The redhead immediately went inside, Bookman right behind him. Kanda led them to where Allen was and the two took out an assortment of things from the bag.

"Okay Allen, you need to answer a couple of questions. Now, how do you feel? Tell me everything." Lavi asked, his green eye scanning the neko worriedly.

"I feel a little dizzy and it's like my head is full of cotton." Allen tried to explain and Lavi nodded jotting it down in a pad of paper.

"Okay, have you felt anything else before this?" Allen bit his lip and looked at Kanda who was leaning against the doorway worriedly, before he answered.

"I feel pain sometimes." Lavi looked up in surprise.

"What do you mean pain? What specific area is it in?"

"Well, it's sort of everywhere. Like sometimes it would just be in my paw or my ears. Except for last night, yesterday it hit me everywhere." Allen said.

"This is very serious," Bookman commented. "Tell me have you been under a lot of stress lately?"

"Uh yeah I guess. I just started work this week." Allen said, not mentioning how he had been depressed lately because of Kanda and Alma dating. The kitten obediently stayed still as Bookman leaned over him to take his temperature and check his pulse.

"So, do you know what's wrong with him?" Kanda asked impatiently.

"We won't know for sure until his blood results come in. I'll give them a call tomorrow to speed up the delivery and I should have themin a couple of days." The bookman said, as he stood up.

"So what are we going to do until then?" Kanda snapped. "Are we going to just sit on our hands while my pet is in pain?

"We will prescribe some pain relievers, of course." The bookman answered, not fazed by Kanda's anger. Lavi took out a bottle of pills and handed them to Kanda.

"Give them to him whenever he's in pain. They work best when he's eaten something first. Hey Allen, did you have an owner before this?" Lavi said and Allen gave him a surprised look.

"Uh, yeah I did. His name was Mana but that was a long time ago." Lavi nodded and wrote the name down on his notepad along with a sketch of Allen's branding mark hoping that the clues would help with figuring out what was wrong with the neko.

"We'll go now, there's nothing else we can do." Bookman informed them as he packed up his equipment back into his bag.

"Ah, Panda-jiji I'll stay here for a while, I want to talk to Kanda." Lavi said and Bookman gave Lavi a nod before he left the room.

"I don't want to talk to you usagi." Kanda stated but Lavi gave him a serious look, which didn't happen very often. He sighed before he looked at Allen who looked painfully weak. "I'll be back in a bit okay? If you need anything just yell."

"Okay." Allen replied, with a smile. Kanda nodded, before he led Lavi to the living room, impatient to get the conversation over with so he could get back to Allen who obviously needed him.

"So tell me what's up Kanda." Lavi said. The fact that he still had that somber look on his face and didn't use his first name was proof that Lavi had something serious to say.

"What do you mean?"

"Kanda, I know that you care about Allen, I see it in the way you look at him. Now tell me, how can you neglect him like this? It isn't like you." Kanda sighed, before he rubbed his face.

"I started going out with Alma. I guess I got distracted."

"Why? I know you, you don't like Alma like that."

"Because I've developed feelings for the damn moyashi and I didn't want him to find out, so I thought I could hide them by going out with Alma." Kanda said reluctantly, watching Lavi's expression for any hint of disgust. Instead all he saw was confusion.

"Why is that such a bad thing to have feelings for him? Don't you know he likes you too?" Kanda had the redhead an incredulous look and if he didn't think Kanda would kill him for it, Lavi would've laughed.

"What the hell gave you that idea? He sees me as a father or something." Kanda said and this time Lavi burst out laughing, barely dodging the punch that Kanda had aimed for his good eye.

"Anything but! Look, on new years I bribed this couple to talk near Allen, about having to kiss the one he loves during the end of the countdown if he wants to stay with him. Then, when I counted down the countdown I saw him kiss you!" At first Kanda stared at him for a whole minute before he slapped his face groaning.

"Fuck," Kanda muttered. "All this shit happened over nothing. If I had known earlier no one would be in this mess. WHY THE FUCK DIDN'T YOU TELL ME SOONER YOU FUCKING USAGI!" Lavi took that moment to run out of the house, dodging a variety of things on his way that Kanda threw at him like knives, vases, small statues that he hadn't even known Kanda owned.

When Lavi was out of the house and Kanda had nothing else to vent his anger on, he went to Allen's room where the neko was cowering under the covers. When he saw Kanda, he gave him a scared questioning look.

"What's going on? Is everything okay?" Allen asked quietly and Kanda sighed as he sat down beside Allen and patted his head.

"Everything is fine, moyashi," Kanda reassured Allen. He wanted to confront the neko about what Lavi had told him but he didn't want to upset the cat when he was so sick. He would ask him about it when he was better. "How are you feeling?"

"Sleepy." Allen replied.

"Well, you should go to sleep then." Kanda said getting up to turn off the light and leave but Allen grabbed his shirt.

"Please stay with me. Just for tonight." Allen begged, giving Kanda a pleading look. The Japanese nodded and turned off the light before he got into bed with the necko who immediately curled up against him. He frowned as the closeness alerted him to how unnaturally warm the neko was, empathizing how sick he was.

Allen relished the intimacy with his owner, scared that tomorrow things would go back to the way it had been before. He closed his eyes and his owners scent, lulled him into sleep.

The next day Allen wasn't any better, in fact he was even worse. Kanda tried to get him to eat but anything that was solid was puked out. All Allen could stomach was liquid. And the pain was getting worse and apparently more frequent although the pills were helping. Kanda was running out of ideas on how to help Allen or at the very least make him feel better but it seemed that the only hope was to wait for the test results.

Kanda had even sought out Tyki so the wolf could look after Allen when he went to the store to buy more soup, a testament to how desperate Kanda was. The wolf was equally worried and he was consistently pacing around the room when Allen was sleeping.

Allen on the other hand was a little pleased despite the situation he was in. It was the first time Tyki and Kanda were…accepting each other's presence and weren't fighting. Even though the neko felt a little guilty for making them worry he was glad that they were at least getting along even though he had a feeling it probably wasn't going to last long.

"Hey Tyki, this is pretty bad huh?" Allen asked with a small smile and Tyki gave him a tired on back.

"Yeah shonen, this is the worst situation you've ever gotten yourself in. I knew you were going to be trouble the first time I laid eyes on you." Tyki answered softly.

"But you helped me anyways." Allen gloated and Tyki laughed.

"Couldn't help myself. You were so cute back then how could I resist?" They both laughed softly. Suddenly they heard the phone ring and they quieted down as they listened to Kanda answering it with an irritated tone. It was a short conversation and after a few minutes Kanda appeared at the doorway with a peculiar expression on his face.

"That was Lavi. Apparently he did some research on your branding mark on your face and he found out a few things about your past. He's coming over now." Allen looked down nervously, feeling both Kanda and Tyki's gaze on him.

"What do you mean my past?" Allen asked quietly.

"Where you were born and how Mana got you." Kanda answered and Allen nodded, still not looking up. He was curious of course, it was his past after all, but he was a little scared too. Mana had never told him about how he had gotten a hold of him and Allen couldn't remember anything. He had tried to ask Mana several times but the man would just give him a smile and avoid the question so Allen had eventually dropped it thinking the truth was either terrible or just not important. It was a little scary, knowing that soon he was going to know the truth.

Can you believe there's only a couple of chapters left? I'm going to miss writing this lol.

And if you guys can do me a huge favor can those who haven't already check out Secrets of the City and review? It would mean a lot to me ^-^

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