This actually took longer than I thought. At first I was in the middle of typing the other theme, which is phone, and then I looked back at the comments and then realized that Childhood was the one I supposed to write.
Welp, life is full of surprises.
Anyways, thank you AnimeHIME-chin, Cuitepie120048, Kanra Nakura, Guest, A Breath of the Wild, Dark Magpie, AmbertheCat, Mashiro Ruri, Lena-luvs-cats, Happycafegirl, Mariachanne, btmdiamond, jy24, Guest for voting. Some reviewers hit the homerun with the reason why Kanda didn't answer, great job, although I'm not revealing it, you guys probably know.
I cried when D. Gray-Man only got 7 pages, but I couldn't blame Hoshino-sensei, her health is first priority to me.
Ok, enjoy the theme.
Disclaimer: I don't own D. Gray-Man.
Theme: Childhood
It's a well-known fact inside the Black Order High School that Kanda Yu and Allen Walker were childhood friends.
Many found it hard to believe, since Allen Walker was a cute freshman with a gentleman attitude, being all polite and kind, while Kanda Yu was outright rude to everyone else besides some people. There was another reason, too, Kanda was adopted by Froi. Tiedoll, the art teacher, and Allen was the godson of Cross Marian, the school's chemistry teacher, both teachers disliked each other, so it's hard to believe they would allow their children ("That filthy brat is not my child, for the last time!" "Cross Marian, stop cursing in front of the students right this instant!") to be friends, much less best friends.
"So, I have a question." Lavi said one day, when he, Allen, Kanda and Lenalee were sitting inside the cafeteria for lunch.
"Hm?" Allen exclaimed while chewing his 3rd sandwich.
"Tch, stop talking and eating at the same time, baka moyashi, or your shortness will stick to me." Kanda glared at him.
Allen glared back and swallowed before saying "I wasn't talking, BaKanda, and I am not short, this is the average height for boys at my age. Not everyone can be a pole like you."
Another thing that made people find it hard to believe was that they threw insults at each other like it's a pleasant conversation.
"Anyways," Lenalee cut in "Lavi and I were wondering how you two met each other when you were young."
That made both of them stopped insulting each other, and Allen let out a snicker while Kanda glared at him.
"Don't you dare…" he warned.
"But it was-pfft!" Allen bursted out laughing when he remembered that time.
-0-
Allen was sitting at the bench near the park with a look of longing on his face as he watched the other children played in the park. Mana had gone near there to buy ice cream, and he had strongly encouraged him to play with the kids, but Allen didn't want to.
No, not that he didn't want to, it's that he couldn't. Kids his age would ran away when they saw his hand, so he saw no point in joining when he knew they would just run away.
How he hated his deformed arm so much like right now.
He swung his legs back and forth while humming the tunes that Mana had taught him, wondering if this would be the same thing forever, when a person sat next to him abruptly.
A boy to be exact.
He tensed up nervously and turned his head to look at the boy, who was taller than him (and older too), with beautiful dark blue hair and a pissed off look on his face, his equally dark eyes glaring at the kids playing in the kids area.
Allen had never been this speechless.
"U-Um... " he tried to say.
"What?" the boy's glare was not directed at him.
"Nothing!" he said before looking back at his hands in his lap.
All was silent between both boys, the boy right next to him was still glaring at something, if it's not the kids, then it's trees, if not the trees, then it was the grass. It was as if everything was pissing him off, and Allen didn't want to be the receiving end of that glare.
"Why aren't you playing with them?" the older boy suddenly asked.
"Uh-umm…" he stuttered while looking at the boy "I-I can't."
"You can't, or you couldn't?"
Allen froze, but he quickly recovered and sent the other a meek glare.
"Why do I have to tell you, that's none of your business. Also, why are you sitting next to me, there are other empty benches around the park, you could have sit there rather peacefully instead of sitting next to someone like me." he retorted.
"Do you think I want to, midget? I'm stuck because the old man wouldn't stop talking about how he wanted me to make friends, so here I am." he grumbled "And what's with that 'someone like me'?"
"Nothing." he huffed.
They fell into silence again, this time much less awkward. Allen sneaked some glances at the boy while wondering when will Mana come back with the ice cream.
Things turned to worse when three or four kids, probably older than the boy sitting next to them, approaching their direction with sneers and mocking looks in their eyes. Oh boy, here comes the bullies.
The other boy seemed to see it too, for he targeted his glare towards them.
"Looks at this, a little midget and a girly little boy sitting together." the biggest boy, probably the leader, sneered.
That made Allen's patience run too thin and his amusement to rocket. While the boy was, ahem, a bit feminine, but he had a feeling that he was capable of beating those three to the ground with ease.
"Mind repeating that, asshole?" the boy challenged.
The fatass (Allen is going to call him that, since he is a rude boy by heart, and no amount of teaching from Mana would make him change it, he still have his own opinions, even if his father disagrees with it) snickered.
"What, did that hair got in your way of hearing, girly?" he made a move to probably yank those dark blue locks of hair.
That was the fatass' biggest mistake.
Everything happened in a blur, and Allen just sat there in awe and the boy slapped the hand away and lunged at him with a look of murder on his face. His hands curled into fists and punching the daylights out of him.
The fatass yelled in terror and pain, trying to shield his face from the rain punches. Out of the corner of his eyes, he saw the fatass' lankey trying to yank him back by the hair, again.
Allen didn't think, he acted. He threw away Mana's teaching and tackling the brat down, manners be damned.
"And what the bloody hell do you think you're doing?" he sneered down at him before punching him across the cheek with his left hand, and he was out like a candle.
The other one screamed and ran away, crying loudly, attracting attention to the fight.
And that's when Mana came back, with a man following behind him.
-0-
Allen was scolded thoroughly by his adoptive father, and he hung his head in shame.
He gave in to the anger again, even though Mana had taught him to be polite with everyone. Now he just bring disappointment to Mana again.
"I'm sorry." he mumbled after Mana was done with his scolding "I promise I won't do it again."
He heard the man sigh before a hand landed on his head, ruffling his brownish red locks of hair
"I forgive you, Allen. I know you never start a fight for no reasons." he said softly "I trust you."
Tears sprung into his eyes, and Allen nodded while hugging the man.
"Thank you." he said, voice muffled by the cloth.
Mana smiled "Now why don't we greet our new friends officially?"
He looked up questioningly while some tears clinging at the corner of his eyes. Weird, last time he remembered, he didn't even get near the kids, except the fatass and-
Oh.
"But he's not my friend." he scrunched his note cutely while rubbing his eyes "We didn't even introduce each other properly."
"That's why we are doing it now." he said "Right?"
"Yes, we are." Allen turned around and gasped as the boy he met was ushered along with a man with ruffled greying light brown hair and kind eyes "Come on, Yu-kun. Go and introduce yourself."
"Tch." the older grumbled with arms in front of his chest, sparing a glance at Red then looked away "Kanda."
Allen looked at him before his face broke into a shy smile and offered his hand.
"Hello Kanda, my name is Allen." he introduced himself.
Kanda looked at the hand, as if it had offended him, before slowly grasping his left hand instead. He held it for a few seconds before letting go and stomped away from the trio with a heavy blush on his face.
Allen's smile broke off into a grin as he looked at Mana.
He couldn't wait to meet Kanda again.
-0-
"Oh...so that's how it went." Lavi said before his face broke into a grin "So Yu-chan got mistaken as a girl, eh?"
The chopsticks in the taller male snapped and he chased the redhead around the cafeteria.
Allen hummed while sipping his tea, ignoring the look Lenalee sent him.
If this was how long everyone found out and believed that he and Kanda were friends, he wondered when will they know they were dating.
Alright, have a pick:
1/ Lovelessxxx
2/ The Tragedy of Chateau Cepage
Vocaloid, a good inspiration to have themes to write. I just recently finished listening The Tragedy of Chateau Cepage and I fell in love with the song.
Until next time.