Hey guys, it's almost the end of year, and the first mistake I'm probably going to make once I'm back to school is the date, 'cause years are harder to adjust then days.

I never knew finding a dress for Allen to wear is that hard? It's hard to find the right style of dress for Allen to wear, I had to search up on Pinterest and stuff to find different kinds of dress and jackets that goes with it.

Who knew how difficult fashion had gotten?

Anyways, thank you AnimeHIME-chin, AmbertheCat, Lena-luvs-cats, ShadowWolf62400, Sadistic Yaoi Queen, Vampirefreak4eterity, icegirl75 or thesoniclove, Chocowrites, Kanra Nakura, Blaxis and Guest for choosing. And thank you for those who commented on the last theme, it made me felt great when I read them. And Mashiro Ruri, you're probably right, it's a bit too perfect, but Allen had gone through so much in the manga and I don't want to torture the moyashi anymore. He needs to be loved sometimes, that's how plants grew.

I'm done rambling, enjoy the theme.

Disclaimer: I don't own D. Gray-Man.

Theme: Pretty

Allen adjusted the wig on his head, looking at the mirror to make sure nothing was out of the ordinary.

In truth, he felt embarrassing wearing doing this, putting makeup on himself and cross-dressing as a girl, it made him feel like some pervert.

But he liked it, he liked how the boys would look at him like he was their crush and how the girls would glare at him in jealousy.

He's so sick and tired of people looking at him in disgust when they saw the ugly scar on his left side of the face and his left arm, how the adults told their kids that he was a 'demon' and how people his age gossipping to each other what a freak he is.

He just wanted to feel pretty in his true self, but it seems like that was impossible to achieve, so he decided to crossdress.

Right now, he was wearing a simple white apron dress with a handkerchief style for the bottom, a small design of a stargazer flower around the belt. He also wore a brown duffle to cover his arm and put on a wig that has the same color as his hair to make it looked like it reached his mid back. He had put on some foundation to cover up his scar and did some other stuffs so he would look like a 16-year old boy trying to dress up like a girl.

He wasn't a pervert, he just wanted to feel pretty.

Those were the words that he had told himself every time he did this.

-0-

He decided to take a walk downtown for a few hours before returning back, Cross was somewhere in Earth and wouldn't bother to return for a few years, so he had no one but Timcanpy waiting for him to be home, and no one to find out this hobby of his.

As he expected, people stared at him in wonder and some gawked at him without covering it up. He had to cover up his smirk as he saw some girls glare at him.

Allen decided to buy some food for Timcanpy, seeing that he was running low on the dog food, and some ingredients for next week's meals. He could come by at Jerry's if he still have some money left.

Jerry's was the diner that he worked for money, and the owner, Jerry, was the only one who knew about this hobby. He was the one who helped Allen some tips about makeup and fashion choice, and he was eternally grateful for the flamboyant man.

"Hm...what should I make for dinner?" he mumbled under his breath while carrying Timcanpy's dog food.

'Maybe I could figure it out while swinging by Jerry's.' he decided.

He weaved through the crowd and entered the diner. He took in the smell of the food inside the kitchen and waited at the line while checking the clock.

He stiffened when he felt a pair of eyes aiming at the back of his skull, he turned around and let his eyes looked at the busy tables. Allen froze when he saw who.

'It can't be.' he thought.

But there he was, the man who he considered as his rival, who was also the man he harbored a crush on, Kanda Yu.

But why, why this time out of all time?

'Just act natural, act like you just saw a hot guy and you openly gawk a-Okay, where the bloody hell did that thought came from?' Allen asked himself.

He acted as naturally as he could, looking somewhere else that was Kanda, and prayed he could just order and leave like nothing ever happened. He hoped that he and Kanda would never meet up again, the older male had already graduated high school, and now he was moving up to The Black Order University as an art major.

This never felt so awkward in his whole life.

"Sorry for the wait!" Jerry said, but the he grinned "Oh, Alice-chan! How nice to see you today! What can I get for you?"

He ordered all of the menu and managed a smile when Jerry gave him a discount.

"You really don't have to do that." he said.

"Nonsense, you are my favorite customer, after all." then he went to the kitchen to make the orders.

Allen fidgeted while waiting for his meal, praying for someone up there who really pitied him to make his order finished faster. He could still feel Kanda's dark eyes at the back of his skull, he hoped Kanda hadn't found out yet.

He was busy with his thoughts, he didn't notice the man he had been cautious of was approaching him with steady steps. He didn't notice how his eyes looked at him up and down.

But he did notice him when an arm touched his covered shoulder.

Allen almost jumped, but he refrained himself and offered the taller male (curse him and his growth spurt) a smile.

"Um...do I know you?" he asked.

"You may not." Kanda said slowly "But I do."

His heart skipped a beat, not the romance kind, the oh-god-he-must-have-found-out kind of beat.

"Hm...You must be Yu Kanda from the Black Order High School right? I think I saw you sometimes." Allen decided to play along, weaving lies together inside his head to turn this disguise into a girl who from somewhere that had transferred to the Black Order High School not long ago "My name is Alice, I just transferred here."

"Hn." Kanda absentmindedly replied.

He didn't leave, and he didn't spoke, which drove Allen into another turmoil of emotions.

After 10 minutes or so, Jerry finally came back with his order. He made a move to take, but a strong calloused hand beaten him to it.

"Oh." Jerry said, looking between the both of them before his face broke into a grin "I see what it is now, well, have fun with your date, Alice-chan!"

He flushed "It's not what it looks like!"

"To me it does." then the chef shooed both of them so he could take the next order. Kanda had followed him out, and Allen couldn't stand those eyes that seemed like they were accusing him that he was Allen Walker.

Shame raised up at his throat, and he tried to push the thought of Kanda laughing and mocking him because of this stupid crossdressing hobby of his. He wondered how would he face the reality of Kanda possibly spreading this around the whole campus.

"Do you need something from me?" he asked while they were walking.

"Hn." he replied while walking to the park near there "You're the moyashi, aren't you?"

Words stuck in his throat, but he tried his best to push them out "I'm afraid I don't understand who are you referring to."

Dark eyes narrowed "Drop the act, moyashi, no one would eat so much food like you."

"How rude, can't a girl eat how much she wants without being judged?"

Kanda stared at him some more, and then he finally drop the plastic bag into his unprepared arms with a smirk.

"Well then, Alice." Allen shivered at the way it was said "If I can prove it to you that you are the same person I am referring to, then you'll have to listen and obey my request."

"Fine then, Kanda-san." he said "I'll see how you can prove it to me."

Suddenly, rough lips landed on his own, and Allen's brain seemed to stop working. When it did, the male was already pulled back and Allen's face was as red as it could be.

"Yo-You…" he stuttered.

"I'll be seeing you again, Alice." he said.

And the long-haired man left, and Allen wondered if he had made the right decision.

-0-

Two weeks had passed since the incident, and Allen had been extra careful about everything he did. He stopped crossdressing, in fear of encountering the man again, and looked around while he was on campus. The Black Order was rich, so the campus was all mixture from kindergarten to university, and Allen didn't have to worry about filling applications and stuff. But that also meant that the most annoying arsehole in the world, a.k.a. Kanda Yu, could also be in the same campus as him.

Allen always prided himself to be careful and on guard, because of all the years of being chased by debt collectors, but one day, he wasn't so careful.

He was tired after pulling two days of being an owl because the final terms were merciless against him, and probably the whole school. He felt like a zombie and he responded like one, because his brain was too tired to function after the tests was over.

He was sitting on an empty bench, under a tree and he was trying his best not to close his eyes, but it was hard. When someone sat next to him, he didn't bother looking to see who it was.

When a hand pulled his head to lean on the person's shoulder, he didn't push him away, instead, he snuggled into the person.

"Hey, moyashi."

"Hm?" he asked groggily.

"You're Alice, right?"

"Hn." he replied without thinking.

"You're the girl who I meet up with two weeks ago at Jerry's, right?"

"Hn."

"The girl, who carried the dog food and Jerry's food?"

"Yes." he said, a bit annoyed at the constant question.

And that's when his brain caught up to what he said.

He sat up abruptly and his eyes widened at the man, who was sported with a sharp grin and a small recorder in his hand.

"Look who I found." Kanda said in delight, a tone he never used before.

Red covered his cheeks, as Allen tried to come up with some excuse, but none could cover it up.

"That-That was-"

"A confession?" Kanda cut him off while pressing the end button.

"Please don't tell anyone." he pleaded. Fine, he could tolerate being humiliated by Kanda, but he couldn't, for the life of him, stand the disgusting look from everyone again.

Kanda put the recorder back to his pocket, then, he beckoned him over, and Allen obeyed. When he was right in front of him, nose millimeters from each other's, Kanda finally spoke.

"Do you remember what I said last time?" he asked.

The white-haired male nodded.

"Mind repeating what I told you?"

"That if you find out that Alice is me…" he hesitated, and when one dark blue eyebrow rose, he continued "...then I'll have to listen and obey one request from you."

"And do you know what request I'm going to make you?"

He shook his head.

"Be mine."

Allen's brain failed him for the second, or third time, that day.

When it did, he shook his head.

"I can't do that." he said.

Dark eyes narrowed once again "And why not?"

"Because I'm already yours." he replied before pecking him on the lips.

Kanda deepened the kiss and they practically had a French kiss, Allen hoped no one was looking at them.

They broke apart when Allen needed some air into his lungs, and Kanda asked him another question.

"Mind telling me why you'd dressed as a girl?"

The shorter male flushed.

"Well...because of...reasons." he said.

"Hn." the man replied, pulling him onto his lap and resting his chin on his shoulder "From now on, you're going out with me when you're wearing them."

"What, why!? It's my life and I can do whatever I want with it."

"..."

"Kanda."

"I'll tell you why when you tell me why."

"Fine."

He could tell him later, right now, he just wanted to enjoy the moment.

Anyone can guess why Kanda didn't answer?

Wanna hear something interesting? I heard D. Gray-Man's gonna have a new chapter on January 20. Who's excited?

Oh yeah, while I was going through the reviews, I saw some people wanted a continuation on some themes, and I'm actually very interested in hearing if you guys want a continuation or not. I'm not sure about writing it out, but I wanna hear it from you guys.

Here, have a pick on the next theme:

1/ Phone

2/ Childhood

Until next time.