A/N: I am SO sorry for the late update! I feel really bad about it, but I got caught up with family christmas(I get three of them) and with packing and everything to go to my grandma' house (about four-five, somtimes six hour drive) I didn't have time to upload these on the 24th. I then learned that she didn't have internet... So yeah. I actually got back two days ago, but I was wiskedaway to a party withmy friend, I was actually tempted to just stay home but I hate being a stick in the mud. Yesterday I was busy with unpacking and other crap that x-mas always brings around and today I had appointments left a right... So I apologize for the late update.

Also, I have two endings/last two chapters. I've already decided which one to use, but I want your guy's personal opinion. Do you want a) An ending where it focus more on Haze's connection to Allen with a splash of yullen, or b) An ending with yullen enhanced-nessand Haze just being his strange self with no back story. I might do Haze's back story if requested however so keep that in mind. I will update the final two chapters tomorrow during the night. I'm not sure how to gauge this with all the different time zones, but basically it will be around twenty-four hours from this upload till the next two. Till then, have fun and don't kill me~

Reading Legend

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"Speaking"

"SHOUTING"

Thoughts

Sarcastic Exaggeration

You and Me, That's All We Need

Chapter 5: Playing to Capturing; Dance of Tongues

It was a swing. A swing that held two similar but completely different memories. It held the memories of two different kinds of capture.

Allen beamed as he walked towards the cafeteria. Though the others still kept their distance, they seemed to be warming up to him, and even Haze had made a few odd friends. Yes the akumawas deemed converted by the science department and thus was seen as an official alley of the order. When it had gone in for the tests, Allen held his breath and had waited outside for the entire day that it took. He knew, after all, that Haze was not a converted akuma, but rather one with no soul. He still wondered about that, especially when he himself had accepted it so quickly, as if he always knew.

Putting the hard thought to rest, Allen walked up to Jerry to order his normal mountain of food. He was going on a mission today with Haze and Link only, so he wanted to be prepared.

"Is that everything deary?" Though the boy had ordered twice the amount he usually does, Jerry always wanted to be sure knowing that Allen sometimes held back for his sake.

"Nope! That's everything~" Jerry smiled calling out orders as he set to work on the exorcist's lunch. Haze, who was sitting at a table with Lenalee and Lavisneaked off to aid it's master with the luggage.

"Excited?" The akumaasked with a grin.

"Of course! I haven't been on a mission since the one I was on when we found you!" Haze smiled. It had been a week since then and the machine had adapted very well to the ways of humans. It held a childish innocence, marveling at everything that was as simple as a fork to as complicated as a Koumerin. Perhaps that was why Haze got along so well with Lavi.

"Ah, Bean sprout, where have you been?"

"It's Allen." The boy dead panned, face set into a stoic look. "And I've been in my room withLink, good news, the printers working again." The red hair slung his arm over the boy with pity as he sat beside him. Haze sat beside Lenalee, who gave a pleasant smile in return. The boy began his annual food scarfing as the other three made small talk.

"So Yu won't be back till tomorrow, shame that you're going to miss him, Bean sprout~" Allen spared a harsh glare at the rabbit and an even harsher one at Haze who put it's hands up in mock defense.

"Allen, you can't blame Haze for us knowing. We would have found out one way or another." Lenalee soothed. Indeed, the two exorcists knew about Allen and Kanda's 'relationship' much to the younger ones horror. "And I think it's great that you two are so close." The girl and rabbit had been unruly happy to find out that Kandanot only had a social life, but Allen was able to find someone who he could be happy with. The two felt like his older siblings and were worried that Allen would never be able to find that special someone.

"I believe Lenalee just had a corny thought..." Haze said absently. That akuma really loved to ruin the moments... The others laughed softly, Allen almost choking on a eggplant in the process.

"So where are you guys going any ways? That way I can send Yu that way." Lavi happily smirked. Allen glared, though it was very soft, at the red head.

"We're heading to someplace in Germany, through gate number 17 before you ask." The red head nodded, being true to his word of sending Kanda.

"To be more exact, the cit name is Cree, it is located in the southern part of Germany, and is famous for it's sheep liver. It has year round rains but is currently in it's dry season but because of the rain it's lake is almost always over-filling. Also, if my memory is correct, it has very good bread because of the excellent wheat they have their. Because of that, they usually have sheep live placed inside the bread when it cooks so it tastes like heaven..." At this point Haze began to drool and the others sweat dropped.

"So you've been there before Haze?" Lenalee asked while Lavi scribbled the notes down to give to Kanda (who he knew would demand for them).

"Yes actually, I was born their." Haze said smiling sadly. The two older exorcist's showed their sympathy, thinking that since it was a convert that that must be where it kill it's loved one. Allen slowly ate his sandwich, a feeling of dread filling him. They were returning to a place that an akuma that held no soul was born. Perhaps he could find out a little more about Haze and how it was connected to himself. The akuma saw the calculating look in Allen's eyes and smiled sadly.

Some things, dear Allen, is best not to know.

The first thing that the three noticed upon arrival was the locals. They didn't even bat an eyelash at Haze and seemed to be uncaring that they were from this 'Black Order'

"Everyone's an equal here outsiders, so we treat you the same as our brothers." One of the inn keepers told them as he led the trio to their room. Link had insisted on them sharing a room, so that he could keep better eye on the two 'delinquents' that he know liked to call them.

"If I leave the two of you alone there is pound to be trouble. So stay put." Link ordered as he left the room to get some information from the locals. Apparently there was an broker around here that had been coming and going as to not be found.

Haze sighed as it sat on a chair facing the window. It's knees were bent so that it could twist and kick them in the air behind it because of the orbital joint. "Master~ I want to go play~" It whined out at the boy.

"No Haze, we have to stay here. Do you know how much trouble we'll get into if Link came back and we weren't here?!"

"But their's a playground..." The akuma pouted.

"I don't care- wait what?!" The pale teen rushed to his akuma's side and gazed out the large window. It hadn't been lying. There, only two blocks from their inn was a playground. It was old by far but looked beyond fun. The people of the town had obviously worked unbelievably hard to make it. But what really caught Allen's eyes were the swings. Dangling from a large oak, three swings pushed three kids effortlessly in the wind. Haze looked at him sadly.

"Perhaps when two-spot comes back we can go play?" The akumaknew that Allen loved those kind of things, more than he would ever admit. His childhood had been robbed from him and thus he still held that childish side that just wanted to leave his worries behind as he swung. Allen gripped the windowsill, forcing back tears of happinessand joy. How long had it been since he went down a slide or crossed monkey bars? Or, more importantly,swung on a swing? He didn't know but he wanted to go play, to have fun like other, normal people. He wanted to play withHaze and then sit in the shade with Kanda. But he knew that he was asking too much.

"No... I think it would be best to stay on task..." The teen said softly, turning away from the site. Haze frowned, opening it's eyes to get a better look at it. The akumacould see, in a sense, without its eyes, but it was never able to get all the details out. All of the toys and equipment were made of pure wood with small screws placed in several safe parts. "You could probably play though. I mean, it's not like the broker would tell an akuma who helped us that he was one..." Haze could hear the tears run down Allen's cheeks as he fought to keep his voice even. "It's not far if I ruin all of your fun." And then the green-clad akuma was hugging him from behind, resting his head of top of Allen's.

"Kandaisn't here to comfort you, so I will. No that I'm complaining mind you." It smiled down at him as Allen wiped his tears. "Master, you have to have some fun too, otherwise you'll get wrinkles!" And then Haze attached the poor boy in a tickle fight, ending with Allen on the floor begging for mercy as the Haze continued.

"Pl-please s-stop it H-Haze!" The akuma laughed a bell-like laugh as he stopped.

"What, no revenge?" It teased.

"Not fair!" He cried out, lunging at him and tickling him back. There was a knock on the door (strange, Link shouldn't have been back yet) and the two kids called a "Come in!" at the same time.

Kanda, opened the door, his face showing extreme displeasure. "And why, might I ask, do I need to know their delicacy, Bean sprout?" Ah, the liver... Lavi really did give him that sheet.

"Well, you see Kanda. I thought it would be good for you to treat Master to some good food and since you have no food knowledge outside of soba and tempura, I decided to give you some suggestions."The akumasaid, standing up with Allen. Kanda growled.

"Eh?!" Smiling, Haze pushed Allen into Kanda who caught him on reflex. "Now take Allen to the park Kanda! I'll be down in a second!" and before they could even utter a word, the door was slammed on the two.

As Haze listened to the disappearing footsteps, it wrote a quick note for the stupid blond stalker.

Dear Two-Spot:

Kanda came over before you got back and so we decided to do something USEFUL. If you want to find us, just look outside the window and think of kids. After all, Allen still is one.

Short and sweet, that's how Haze left notes, leaving the room with some sort of elegant grace, waving its hand as if dismissing. If it was allowed to kill, Link would be a corpse splattered against the Black Orders walls. Don't get it wrong, it didn't actually hate Link, but at the moment, he was the only one from the damn organization that was making the poor teen suffer. Hadn't he done enough of that? Clearly god wanted more entertainment from his damned buffoon.

In truth, the two lovers hadn't seen the akuma, but neither really cared. They had walked around the village, hands together as they viewed the flowers and people. No one seemed to care about their obvious relationship, some even offering flowers to Allen for landing such a fine man. The boy would smile in a funny way, one expressing both happiness and enjoyment. Kanda would just snort at them.

As Haze had suggested, the samurai treated the teen to the liver bread thing. Much to their happiness, the cook actually knew what soba was and though it wasn't the greatest, was good enough for Kanda. Allen ate the liver thing happily, saying that he was definitely going to get Jerry to teach him how to make it. The cook had been teaching Allen proper food preparation and cooking ever since they had returned from China, bent on making it so that Allen could cook decent food for himself.

"Don't want my deary to be stuck with gross food~" The cook had said when he dragged the man off to his first lesson.

"So, how was your mission Kanda?" With the ark's gates, the Order was able to get around much faster than normal, thus making it possible for Kanda to had made it from North Russia to South Germany in less than a day.

"Stupid." The man answered as he began drinking some water. His mission was to find innocence, obviously there was none.

"Don't say that Kanda, I'm sure it wasn't that bad." Said man che-ed as they got up to pay for the bill. The sun was beginning to set, creating a lovely glow through out the village. As the pair headed back to the inn, they passed the playground, both stopping. Kanda looked at Allen, who had a look of longing in his eyes. Taking his hand in his own, Kanda tugged the teen towards the monkey bars that was just tall enough for Kanda to be suspended to inches of the ground.

"Common Bean sprout, lets have some fun." And Allen smiled as Kandahelped him onto the high monkey bars. Haze sat in the tree with swings, a smile on it's face as it headed back to the inn, wishing to calm down the stalker before the two love birds came back.

Allen sat on Kanda's lap on one of the swings. The seat was large so Kandawas able to sit down with Allen on top comfortably. The boy was turned to the side, his head resting on Kanda's chest as the man slowly pushed the swing back and forth. Eventually the wind caught it like a cradle and the swing began going back and forth on it's own lightly.

"You really are a kid." Kandasaid as Allen smiled, to tired to argue. He had been running around non-stop since they had arrived, the still lingering kids had invited them into a game called macro-polo which ended up with Kanda never being it and Allen always being it. Still it had been fun, more fun then the two had in a long time.

Kandapulled the younger into an embrace as the swing once more settled. The silver pools met the blue as they slowly closed with the touch of lips. The pleasant feeling was there once more, however Kanda wanted to try something. The rabbit had been bugging him about it ever since he found out.

So, slowly, Kanda pushed firmer onto Allen's lips, not wanting to scare his young lover. Allen responded, pushing back as well. And then, just as the damn rabbit said, a small gasp for air opened Allen and his own lips. Locking their lips in their still opened state, Kanda slowly licked at Allen's, causing him to let out a small moan. Feeling that this was a sign to continue, Kandapushed his tongue into the others mouth, it opening upon request.

Allen brought his arms up around Kanda'sneck as they explored each others mouths, moans escaping ever now and then. Slowly separating, the two looked at each other with love filled eyes. Kanda pulled Allen in for one more sweet kiss and then resumed the gentle swinging Allen falling asleep on Kanda's lap.

The next day, the two woke up to a green mechanical face peering down at them. Allen yelped while Kanda eyes widened a fraction. The annoying akuma known as Haze smiled down at them, slowly helping Allen up and Kanda stood.

"Know, may I suggest not to fall asleep on the swing. Had I not been out taking a walk, you two would have hit the ground pretty hard." Kanda seethed, knowing full well that Haze had probably been stalking them the whole day. The sick bastard!

"Any way, it's time to get back to work you two, Link is quite mad with you guys." At Link's name, Allen began to panic running back to the inn to apologize. Kanda glared at Haze.

"Stalker"

"Rapist." Yes, the two would be great friends.

After spending the entire day searching for the damn broker, the group called it a night, heading back to the inn with slow steps. As the playground neared it was Haze's turn to grab Allen' s hand. "Kanda, Two-Spot, we're going to play at the park for a bit!" It called out as it dragged the poor bean off to the slide. Kanda huffed out a sigh, deciding to let the akuma have Allen for the rest of the day. Link yelled at them telling them to come home before the next day.

"Don't worry mommy, me and Master will be good~" It joked out as it balanced on top of the slide. It was Link's turn to huff and the two adults began their journey back to the inn.

"Hey Haze, were you really stalking us yesterday."

"Yup!"

He doesn't even deny it! "So, that means you saw-um..." The younger face turned red as he stood to the side of the slide, letting Haze come down after him.

"No, I turned away for that part." It said kindly as it sat on the middle swing.

"T-thatsgood..." Allen said, sitting on his own swing. As the two kicked off and began the wonders of flying, another shiver ran down Allen's spine. He had been having them all day and yesterday too. He had thought it was Haze just following them, but today he was with them so he shouldn't have been having shivers.

"Master! I'm going to go get some ice cream from that nice lady! Do you want some!" Though Haze didn't actually need to eat, its wonders for food was as large as Allen's and it adored ice cream. The small exorcist smiled warmly at his friend and nodded. "Alright be right back~!" It called out, going at a humans jog so not to scare anyone.

Allen sat alone on the swing, watching the sky darken to the night's blue. It reminded him of Kanda's eyes. Hearing a branch break behind him, Allen turned a shiver running down his spine. And then the world ran black, reminding Allen blissfully of Kanda's hair.

"Master I'm bac-" the cones were dropped as Haze reached the swings. There was blood dripping off of the seat that Allen had been and the rope was broken, showing that something either heavy or sharp had hit it's masters head. Gripping it's fits it punched the the tree with enough forced to dents and crack the bark.

"DAMN IT!" Haze shouted. It should have known. It should have known that leaving Allen alone would not be a safe idea. But he was having so much fun, the boy was finally able to be normal if even for a few days!

Opening his eyes for one last look at the playground, Haze sped of, at the speed of sound, to the inn to speak with Kanda.

It was a swing. A swing that held two similar but completely different memories. It held a memory of lips capturing each other in love, and the capturing of a pure child.

There, I hope that wasn't too bad. It was the first time I wrote a make-out scene... I hope I didn't scare anyone. Till tomorrow~