Disclaimer: The characters within this story all belong to Hoshino-san.
Warnings: This IS a MALE/MALE pairing, so if such things disturb you, or bother you in any way, you should stop reading.
Summary: In which the holidays are explored with the tidbits and the drama of the Kanda/Allen we all love and adore. Yaoi. This will only be updated on holidays that I recognize. Which means that if I know it, I'll probably write it if I have time, or care. Readers should mention closer holidays in reviews for faster updates.
Next Update: Next update is likely to be Christmas, unless other, closer holidays are introduced to me.
AN: Please thank buchouslvr for reminding me of Halloween. I'd entirely forgotten. XD
In A Year
All Hallow's Eve
by: Kagome-reincarnation
Trick or Treat...
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Yet another festival was coming into play; it seemed that the many people at Headquarters simply couldn't keep themselves occupied long enough to work... Which was actually a fairly good explanation for why so little ever got done. This time, it was in celebration of All Hallow's Eve, a long-standing traditional festival in which the lines between the living and the dead were blurred. It's entire name was actually 'All Hallow's Evening,' but it had been shortened to 'All Hallow's Eve.' Allen swore that he knew others that called the event Halloween.
Allen was always a mess come All Hallow's Eve, so the entire set-up of the festivities was, in a sense, reversed. Instead of being calm as he had been in the previous months, Allen was excited. Instead of the calm sense of feeling that he'd exuded for so long, he was entirely taken over by the eagerness to get at and eat sweets and food. He knew that the tables were laid out and creaking from the weight of food, but he wondered if the Black Order would do any souling.
What was souling? Why, it was the gathering of foods and treats on November first in compensation for prayers for the dead on November second. Allen wasn't quite sure, but somewhere along the line, the line had been blurred, so the festivities often took place on October thirty-first, which the Catholic church had deemed as All Saints' Day.
He pondered the idea, but shook his head, before grinning. He had seen a splotch of turquoise on a painting in his room and brought his spirits up. Though no one had known why it was that Kanda had been wearing that dress, Allen had later found out that it had something to do with Komui and a 'god damned machine that had better not try to get near me ever again.' The look on the older male's face, though, was entirely priceless. So priceless, in fact, that it had cost Allen over two hundred European Euros to get a hold of a photo. It was the only one, but well worth its money.
Kanda would never know why Allen snickered in the halls whenever he saw Kanda pass the portrait of one of the former generals of the Black Order. The portrait itself was of a woman - wearing a turquoise dress. In fact, Allen was still surprised to see the portrait up there day after day. He would've thought that Kanda would've figured out the reason for his snickers and happily destroyed the painting by now.
As it was, the two of them were freshly costumed - as was the rest of the Black Order. Allen wore a black top with black slacks and even more black dress shoes under a white lab coat. Around his neck was a false hospital ID - as you may have surmised, 'Allen Walker, exorcist,' was 'Allen Walker, doctor' for the day. Kanda though, had been a bit more interesting.
Allen would've sworn something was up - he and Kanda were the only matching characters in the Black Order. While he was a doctor, Kanda was his patient. In short, they'd been efficiently paired up for the entire event. Though, thinking about it now, he should've known something was up - Lenalee and Lavi had planned the event, and Lavi had been out to get revenge since the first of April.
Not that he was complaning. Nope, not at all. After all, Kanda looked delicious enough to eat. He blushed at the thought, glad he was alone.
But my, oh, my... Kanda had his pants on, but they were low slung - low enough that you could tell he wasn't wearing underwear. His ribs were ripped, hiding his delectable muscles, but that didn't bother Allen much. Who could be bothered over muscles when Kanda was exposing so much skin? He'd had to constantly remind himself to not drool.
The two of them had been forced into costumes before anyone else - rather, Lenalee and Lavi had hunted them down... Much like how the tire had hunted Mary down. Anyways, Lenalee had more or less barged into Allen's room early in the morning -
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You're so neat....
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"Allen, let me in right this minute!" Allen woke groggily, surprised at the sudden banging on his door.
"I'm coming, I'm coming!" he mumbled sleepily. He took the three steps necessary to open the door, only to have it burst open to the full capacity of the poor, innocent, Lenalee-abused hinges. Jolted awake, he stepped back wearily, "Wh-?!"
Too late, she'd entered the room. And shut the door. And locked it. And now she was glaring at him. Evilly.
Allen gulped. Hadn't this happened before? He felt much like a mouse cornered by a cat. An evil, conniving cat.
"Can I help you?" he asked both wearily and warily. What was she holding in her hands?
She shoved the clothes at him - "Put these on!" she demanded. "Hurry, Allen. We don't have time to waste!"
Disoriented and confused, Allen took the clothes she shoved into his arms, still sleepy. When he comprehended her orders, he nodded. "Er, okay?"
She sat down in his chair and crossed her legs, waiting expectantly to see motion. Allen blushed.
"Um, Lenalee...?" he muttered cautiously.
"Yes? What is it, Allen?" she asked sweetly, looking up at him with those dangerous eyes of hers.
He gulped. "Er... You told me to change..."
"Yes; yes, I did."
"I'm a guy." he told her.
She blinked, as if she were confused.
"And? What does that matter?"
"Lenalee, I'm a guy. You're a girl. And you just told me to change. And then you sat down."
She looked at him. Allen shifted uncomfortably. Oh, she knew what she was doing. She knew very well. And she was enjoying his squirming.
"What's your point, Allen?"
Allen blushed a deeper red. "I'm going to change, Lenalee. As in... I'll be taking off my clothes. And I'll be in my underwear. And you're not leaving my room yet!"
Lenalee giggled. "I know, Allen. I was wondering how long it'd take you to tell me to leave."
Allen scowled, still a bright red. "Out, you!" She was still giggling as she left. In fact, Allen could hear her giggling all the way down the hall.
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Give me something good to eat...
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Lavi, though, had a bit of a more hazardous, dangerous battle to fight with Kanda. Rather, he had an entire war to fight... in which there was one him and a million angry looking Kanda clones staring evilly at him.
Okay, so there really was only one... But Kanda looked really mad that he'd woken him so early. The other boy's hair was hanging low and his bangs were covering his eyes.... And his posture was a dangerous one... Kanda looked as though he were more than ready to take hold of his precious Mugen and send a couple of his Illusion techniques at him.
"Er.... Anyways...." Lavi tried to explain his reason for waking Kanda on a holiday - a day of sleeping in - at such an ungodly hour.
Kanda glared at him. Lavi winced. Explaning things so wasn't working.
Finally, the red-headed boy tapered off with, "I knew I should've made Lenalee come instead."
The Japanese boy glared up at Lavi through his bangs. "What. Do. You. Want?" he demanded of the other teen forcefully.
Lavi squeaked before thrusting the bandages into Kanda's arms. "Lenalee says to wrap that around your waist and come to Allen's room!" he rushed out, before turning tail and running for the hills - or, to be more exact, Allen's room.
Kanda, looking at the bandages and materials that went with them, scowled. He'd just finished healing from a break - he'd been more than happy to be able to take the stupid things off - and now he had to put them on again?
He considered ignoring the request... But decided against it. Lenalee was sweet, sure enough, but she had a dark side that no one wanted to see. He mentally winced as he remembered her sudden personality changed. Shuddering, he went back into his room, shutting the door as he resigned himself to wrapping himself.
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Nuts and candy....
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When he finished wrapping himself, Kanda put a comfortable button up shirt on, covering the bandages, and traipsed to Allen's room. As he moved down the hall, he could hear the loud voices and what sounded like Lenalee scolding Allen. Kanda sighed, bringing a hand up to massage his temple. It seemed that a lot of chaos would be occurring. Lenalee scolding someone - anyone - in the morning was often a sure sign of it.
He rapped sharply on the door when he arrived. Said door squeaked open to reveal the three within it - it seemed Lavi had adjourned to Allen's room as well.
Before he could get so much as a word out, Lenalee was in front of him, poking her index finger into his chest. Surprised, he stepped back. When she followed him, still poking him in the chest, he kept moving back, step for step, until he was backed up against the railling.
"Wh-what is it?" he asked, off kilter.
She frowned at him. "Why aren't you wearing the bandages?"
He blinked. Was that it? "I am wearing them." He pulled his shirt up to show them to her.
Lenalee smiled. "Good!" Before promptly dragging him back into the room.
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Fruit and gum...
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The first half of the day went fairly normally, save for the few people asking them why they were already dressed up and the decorations up everywhere. The second half of the day, though, was a little different. Lenalee had cornered the two of them before forcing them to change once more - this time, Kanda was dressed in normal clothing, but Allen was dressed as a little miniature detective. Complete with handcuffs.
Before Kanda's mind could run away with the handcuffs idea, Lenalee slapped them on him. Appalled and confused, he gaped at her. "What are you doing?!"
She looked at him for a moment, thinking. Lavi sighed. "You've just made it worse for yourself, friend."
Kanda blinked, confused. Then Lenalee uncuffed one hand - just the one - and immediately trapped Allen and cuffed one of his.
"What?!" he was utterly confused. Then, looking at Kanda and the handcuffs, he blushed. "Lenalee!"
"What?" she asked him, her expression far too innocent.
He sighed. "We're.... not getting out of this, are we?"
She grinned evilly. "Nope. No way in hell. Not even if the akuma show up."
"As challenging as that would be... I'd like to practice that on Level Ones before going to the levels that dare to attack the headquarters, okay?" he rubbed at his temples.
"Sounds fine to me." Lenalee said, grinning. Then, she took the key and slid it under her shirt, and into her bra.
The three males had very different reactions. Allen blushed and looked down, but Kanda sighed. Lavi, meanwhile, was now blatantly staring at Lenalee's chest.
"What's the purpose of this, anyways?" Allen asked curiously.
Here, Lavi cut in with a false-sounding explanation. "It's to help your relationship build up!"
The two handcuffed persons simply blinked at him. Lavi grinned weakly. "Right...?" he turned to Lenalee for confirmation.
The girl nodded eagerly.
Kanda grew wary, and worried. If they wanted to deepen their relationship, it meant that they wanted them to start dating... After all, they were already great friends. It didn't get any deeper than becoming lovers... Except maybe marriage, but that was something entirely different. As he thought, he realized something.
He didn't want to be rejected again.
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I'll go away if you give me some.
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As the day wore on into night, Kanda was still musing. Finally, his concern for Kanda overwhelming his sense of nosiness, Allen asked, "What's wrong, Kanda? You've been quiet since around lunch time."
Allen couldn't think of anything that might have happened - except being handcuffed together. But Kanda hadn't seemed too angsty or angry about it then. Had he perhaps done something wrong?
"...to you."
Allen blinked. "Come again?"
"I'm tired of being stuck to you." Kanda said, his expression carefully blank and his voice monotone.
The white-haired exorcist was struck by the words. "Oh. Oh, I see. Well, let's go find Lenalee, then."
Allen thought he was doing a remarkable job of keeping his voice and actions level. In fact, no one could tell that he felt as though he'd just been hit in the gut by Lavi's Oozuchi Kozuchi. He chatted amiably with those they came across, and for some reason, Kanda kept getting frustrated. More and more so as he waited for Allen to start searching for Lenalee again.
Finally, he growled and simply went, dragging Allen behind him.
"Kanda, wait!" the boy cried out from behind him. In response, Kanda tugged extra hard on the handcuff, if only to encourage Allen to hurry. "Kanda! Kanda, wait, will you?"
The Japanese teenager didn't slow down. If anything, he sped up. Allen stopped protesting, simply allowing himself to be dragged by the metal that was cutting into his wrist. He could feel it bleeding, but it didn't matter. Something was wrong with Kanda. Obviously, the older male wasn't thinking properly or he'd have stopped and realized that Allen was bleeding by then. But he hadn't.
Either Allen had done something very wrong or Kanda was just off. Thinking about it, though, Allen decided it was his own fault. If he hadn't taken so long to seek out Lenalee, it wouldn't have come to this. But he had to admit it. He didn't mind being tied to Kanda, so when the Japanese male had finally come out and said that he was tired of it, it was a major blow to the younger boy.
When they finally found the female exorcist, she silently handed the key over. She watched as Kanda uncuffed himself and toss the key at her before she caught it and slapped him solidly across the face.
"You're a fool." she said icily, before she led Allen away.
Even as the shocked Kanda was being watched by the surprised Finders, he watched her lead Allen away. It was then that he was struck by how small Allen's shoulders seemed. As if the boy was being swallowed up by the space around him, almost. Lenalee was fairly tall compared to the boy, and his head was bowed.
What....?