This took longer than I thought it would be, because there are so many OOC-ness from many characters and I was writing this while reading Colorful Moments by SingingBlues and eating dinner at the same time, but I managed it somehow.
Disclaimer: I don't own D. Gray-Man.
Theme: Blessing
Kanda was very annoyed right now.
He was annoyed because his foster father had found out about his relationship between the moyashi, thanks to Marie, and the old man decided to make a party for it. He had told it to the moyashi's guardian, Cross Marian, and that drunkard womanizer decided to tell the younger boy's family, and now everyone demanded to see him.
"Come on Kanda, it won't be that bad." Allen comforted him while they were laying on the couch.
"Only you would say that, moyashi." the samurai grunted while trailing his lips down to his neck, creating hickeys and love bites here and there "And what did I say about my name?"
The white-haired man boy rolled his eyes "Yu, I know you're antisocial, but you have to meet them, or they'll probably come to raid our apartment."
"I won't let them." he said, wrapping his arms possessively around his lover's waist.
"Come on Yu, you have to get their blessings if you want to date me, or they'll spoil our time together. And believe me when I say they can do that." Allen warned.
A sigh, and then a peck on his lips "Fine."
Allen smiled.
And he hoped that everything would be fine.
-0-
Of course, when Allen hoped for something, it never works.
"I don't approve of him!" his uncle, Neah, declared when he sets his eyes on his boyfriend.
"Neah, you don't know anything about him yet." he explained "Why don't you two have some time with each other while I go say hi with the others?"
And the man left, with his uncle and his boyfriend in the same room.
The moyashi's uncle-what was his name again? Noah? Nia?-observed him before looking at him dead in the eye.
"Do you love him?" he asked.
What kind of question is that? If he didn't love the beansprout, he wouldn't even come here in the first place.
"Of course I do." he replied.
"Why do you love him?"
That made Kanda think. He didn't know what made him like the younger man, he was too polite, too fake, it irritated him to no end when the man wanted to cling to his mask so desperately, like he was disgusted at himself.
Oh.
So that's why he loves him.
"Because he's him." he answered, looking at the wall.
Neah blinked at the answer, but he didn't seem to look angry so Kanda thought he did good enough.
"Care to elaborate?" he asked.
"He doesn't act polite when he loves me." that's all he got to know, the rest are his and the moyashi's business.
Neah mulled over his answer and seemed to be hesitate on what he was thinking.
"I'm not approving this relationship, but Allen is right, I don't know you well so I'll give this relationship a chance." he said "Don't hurt him, Kanda Yu, he went through a lot and I will never forgive who hurts him. Hurt him, and you will have a lot of enemies to be wary of."
"Che."
They were in a comfortable silence and Allen came back with a nervous look on his face.
"Did something happen while I was gone?" he asked.
"Nothing's wrong, Allen. You're right, I'll give this relationship a chance, if I don't see it going well, I will end it, okay?" Neah said seriously.
"Thank you, Neah." the white-haired boy smiled at him.
His uncle gave him a sad smile "You know, Mana would be so happy right now, seeing you not wearing his mask anymore."
Allen seemed to be surprised by those words and chuckled.
"I guess he would." he said.
'Thanks to him.' he thought as he glanced at his boyfriend.
-0-
"Why the fuck do we have to ask for your guardian's blessing?" Kanda growled when the moyashi announced they will go to the redhead's house.
"He is my guardian, Kanda, and he told me to go to him once you've passed Neah's judgement." the younger man frowned at the memory "Maybe he just wants to know more about you?"
"What is this, a fucking challenge?" he sighed "Are there anymore people we should go to ask for their blessing besides your guardian?"
Allen hummed "There is one more after this, two if the Earl trust my uncle's judgement."
"Who's the Earl?" the blue-haired male frowned.
"Ah, he's Neah and Mana's older brother. They're triplets, his real name is Adam and we just call him the Earl as a nickname, it kinda stucks now."
"What the fuck is wrong with your family tree?" he frowned.
Allen shrugged "I don't know, all of us are adopted and only Sheryl, Tyki's brother, is married. I also heard he adopted Road too, instead of having a biological child...You better feel lucky because my whole family didn't want to meet you, or else this would probably take a week."
"Che."
-0-
When they reached the house that Allen used to stay before moving into his boyfriend's house, the white-haired man couldn't help but stare because the house looked so different than the last time he looked at it.
It used to be old and dirty, but now it looked new and remodelled into a one story house, even the garden was cut and there was some flowers and a tree growing.
What the bloody hell? Did he went to the wrong address? But the number written one the house told him he was standing at the same house that he used to work like a slave to pay the bills his guardian managed to rack up.
"Moyashi, are you coming or not?" his boyfriend's voice called him back to reality.
He followed the man and knocked hesitantly on the door.
"Oh, welcome back, Allen."
"Miss Anita?" Allen exclaimed in surprise.
"Hello Allen, and also…" she tried to recall "Kanda, right?"
Said man just nodded.
"Come in, Cross is waiting for you." the woman said.
"You're living with Cross?" Allen asked while they walked in the hallway, there were no bills, no bottles, no smell of smoke.
Did someone brainwashed Cross and made him a better man?
"There you are, idiot apprentice." and there his master was, lounging on the sofa with a lazy look on his face "Took you a long time to get here."
"Is miss Anita living with you from now on?" he asked.
The redhead gave him a deadpan look "What do you think?"
"Cross, be nice." the dark haired woman chided.
Said man grunted.
'Bloody hell.' was all the white-haired man could think of 'Cross had changed into a responsible man, I don't know if I should freak out or be glad about it.'
"Look, I'm not here to tell those bullshits like your uncle, but I approve of this relationship as long as you still pay for the bills."
At least there are some parts that still remains as the old Cross.
"He won't." a voice cut him off.
All eyes were on the blue-haired male as he glared at his master..
"Mind repeating that?" Cross grunted.
"He won't pay the bills, if I see it, I'll dispose of it." he growled "Go find someone else to pay those bills, or pay them on your own, you fucktard."
"Kanda!" Allen said.
Cross narrowed his eyes at Tiedoll's child, both of them seemed to glare at each other before he bursted into laughter, confusing all of the occupations in the room except Anita, who giggled along with the man.
"What's going on?" Allen seemed to voice out both him and the black-haired male confusion.
"It's just a test we want your boyfriend to go through." Anita said when her giggles set down "We do approve of your boyfriend, but we want to see if he will be loyal to you or not."
Allen was very speechless at that while his boyfriend just 'che'ed at them.
"So that means I have no more debts to pay?" he said hopefully.
Cross rolled his eyes "My answers will have some bills for you."
That shut the boy up.
"But since when are you and miss Anita are together?" he asked.
"Almost half a year." the woman answered "We wanted to settle down, so we remodelled the house and prepared ourselves for a new member of the house."
"A new member?" he repeated, and when she rubbed her stomach, his face broke into a smile "Congratulations!"
"We've decided that you and Kanda will be his guardians." Anita announced.
"What? Bu-But we don't have any experience with children!" he protested "Mahoja can take care of the baby if you're busy!"
"She's busy taking care of Anita's business while she's gone, so you brats are in charge of taking care of my brat." Cross interrupted "It's either that or I'll keep sending bills until your boyfriend gives up."
Allen wisely chose the first one.
-0-
"This last person better be a decent one or so help me, I'll fuck this thing up." Kanda grumbled.
"I guarantee to you that he won't annoy you one bit." Allen gave him a comforting smile as he gave him a peck on the cheek "Thanks for putting up with everything."
"Che." the blue-haired male said.
They parked near a flower shop and Allen went to buy some flowers, which raised some suspicions inside Kanda that the person they were going to meet will be the most important person out of the three visits.
When he returned to the car with a bouquet of pink and white carnation, along with a single sunflower, Kanda knew this visit will be different.
Both of them were silent as Allen pointed the way to the cemetery near there with a somber smile on his face.
Kanda followed him to a very simple gravestone, a cross with the name 'Mana Walker' on it. Allen set the flowers down gently cleaned the gravestone with utmost carefulness Kanda had ever seen, like he was afraid that the gravestone might break.
"Hello Mana." he said while sitting cross-legged in front of the grave "I'm sorry for not visiting you for a few months, I'd been busy with some things, but I still kept on walking forward, just like what you said."
He observed his boyfriend chatting almost comically to the gravestone about everything, from the past few months, about him, his new life, himself, everything.
"I'm really happy right now, Mana, it's all thanks to your saying. Don't stop, keep walking." he smiled sadly "I hope you approve of this relationship between me and Yu. I love him, I really do. He makes me feel happy and so complete. I-I…"
Words got stuck in his throat as the bitter memories came back to him, how much Mana means to him. The one who saved him from the circus, the one who raise him into the man he was today, the one who sacrificed his own life to let him live.
A calloused hand wiped his tears away and he blinked up at the man who changed his life.
"Stop crying, your father would probably fuss over if he sees you like this, like that old man." he grunted, looking at the gravestone "I'll take good care of him, like he said, he loves me, and I also love him back. He changed my life, I'm grateful for that. I'll prove it to you that this relationship is good for both of us, not only him, us."
Allen was rendered speechless at his boyfriend's speech, he couldn't believe that the man would say he loved him outloud like that, his heart warmed up, spreading all over his body and he couldn't help but to laugh as he stood up and wrapped his arms around him.
"I love you, Kanda Yu." he said as he kissed the man fully on the lips.
Both of them seemed to stand there, making out in the middle of the cemetery and his father's grave, but Allen didn't care how awkward it was, all he cared was the man in front of him.
"Let's get back inside the car, we're done here, right?" the blue-haired male asked.
Allen nodded, and both of them went back to the car, hand in hand, feeling happy.
If they looked back, they could have seen a silhouette of a man standing in front of Mana Walker's gravestone with a smile on his face.
"Thank you, Kanda Yu."
I don't know about Neah's personality much, but I think he's serious and sometimes funny, seriously, the newest chapters of D. Gray-Man made me laugh because of him.
I wanted to put Kanda meeting the rest of Allen's relatives, but that would be more complicated so I gave up on that thought and just put only Neah instead.
I'm embarrassed because I just read an interview of Hoshino-sensei about Kanda and I found out his hair was blue, I thought it was black.
Okay, choosing time:
1/ Coincidence
2/ Adoption