Another update (Yay?) due to a spark of idea at school today (I sort of wrote this in my agenda during Math...). By now I supposed that you have noticed the slight Allen and Kanda (Yullen) fluff in this. I just love the pair...and maybe thats why the story goes like this...heh. But mostly I intend them to be very dear friends! Friendship's good, right? But anyways, Its sort of short (ever notice how it always looks longer in word document?!) and call outs to my dearest reviewers and such at the end! REVIEW so I'll be motivated to continue! Please and thank you's and enjoy!

DISCLAIMER: I do not own D.Gray-man, if I did it'd be Yullen overboard...

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Scene 4 – Hope

Slowly, ever so bit-by-bit, Allen was being consumed by his pain. The lost of his parents was the first toll…but more importantly, the lost of Mana, and the effect of his curse upon him. It ate away at him like a dog on the brink of starvation gnawing on a bone that was his soul.

The white haired boy stumbled uneasily off the train, almost tipping over entirely. Kanda reached out instinctively to aide him, but Lavi beat him to it. The Bookman Junior carefully supported him. Because he could see it too. He could see what Kanda saw. The frailness of Allen Walker.

He was breaking. More and more each and every single day. It was like someone pulling a rug beneath his feet, the particles in his world were cracking and reducing to ruble that tumbled downwards to his eventual oblivion.

But Kanda didn't want that. He didn't want to watch the terrifying scene of that, and couldn't stand it if it happened right before his very eyes. He barked out just like the old days, or the supposed 'routine' of days, "Be more careful next time, moyashi!" But this time it was different. Allen didn't respond, nothing whatsoever from him. Glancing into his two different eyes Yu could see the foggy deadness in his eyes. As if he had given up on life entirely… His blood boiling with anger, fear, and sorrow, Kanda grabbed the wrist of Allen roughly, nearly dragging the poor (now disoriented) boy behind him despite the protests that came from Lavi and Lenalee.

"K-Kanda, what're you doing?" Allen stuttered, wincing at the steel hold on his wrist and trying to keep up with the longhaired man's lengthy legs. At that point Yu turned a right, into an alley, pushing the white haired boy against the brick wall with intended and clumsy force. 'Ah…I'm going to die…' Allen closed his eyes in sheer terror, readying himself for the wrath of Mugen.

But none came.

"Huh…?" Allen batted open his eyes with caution, but immediately one of Kanda's hands covered them. "Kanda…?"

"Don't talk…" The taller man's voice came out cracked and wavering, heavy with pain and feeling. "I don't want to see eyes like those… It hurts so much. Moyashi…Allen…please hold on. I-I'm not as strong as I was back then when you first came to the order, but I'll try my best to hold you up like I did then. So don't give up yet…just don't…" Tears stung his eyes, but he refused to cry them. For Allen's sake he had to hold on when Allen had nothing to grip. He had to be the strong pillar that held him up, because Kanda didn't want him to be blown off and away.

That'd be like losing himself, but worse.

At that very moment Allen go it. All the time he felt as if he was too focused on his own pain, always expecting someone else to be there to keep him alive through the day at the very least. It was and had always been Kanda to be there for him. Sure Lenalee and Lavi helped, but Kanda was the one that was always there no matter what. And in this instant Allen also discovered something also…Kanda was not as strong as he thought. While holding up his pain and sorrows, Kanda also struggled to grip onto his own. It was like holding too many pencils then you should in your hand. They threatened to slip and fall to the floor at any second.

"I…I will…" Allen embraced his dearest companion tightly against his own small figure. He knew Kanda would support his uncertainties no matter what it was. But at that moment Allen Walker vowed to be the one to sustain Kanda's own uncertainties. Even if he couldn't hold his own up, there would be Kanda to help him. The very least he could do was to do the same back for the man who was indeed not as strong as he seemed. The very least he could do was support Kanda.

Because both their hearts were way too fragile.

And could shatter completely to nothingness at any second.

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"Yu-chan! Moyashi-chan! Are you two okay?" Lavi cried out when the two returned and immediately he embraced Allen tightly. "Yu-chan didn't do anything inappropriate to you, right?"

"Shut up, baka usagi!" growled Kanda as he quickly unsheathed his Mugen in order to obliterate Lavi. And the two continued to bicker and create an unnecessary ruckus in the festive town covered in snow. Slipping out of the hold of Lavi quite easily, Allen went to stand with Lenalee, away from the scene. When the girl met his eyes a wave of relief washed over her. The sparkle of hope in her friend's eyes had returned. It was bright and shining, bringing a giddy pang of joy into her heart. The two of them laughed quietly together as the Bookman whopped both Kanda and Lavi's asses for disrupting the calm of the day.

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REVIEW NOW!! Please...? And thank you to the following (PS: A SNEAKY PREVIEW FOR NEXT CHAPTER WHEN I TRY TO FOCUS ON LAVI FOR A BIT!):

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--PREVIEW--

Is the shattering of this bond near? Please God, as your faithful child, I pray for hope and a bit of happiness. Please answer my plea...a breeze...and whisper, anything will do. As one of your apostles, I serve you until the end of my life and cease of my breath, but is this road I take supposed to be this hard? Will there be light at the end of this sea of blood and war? And please...can I stand by the eventual destruction of my friends, and take their fate...their destiny as mine as well?

Why am I forced to observe from the side lines? To watch the pain with a unbiased, emotionless heart and mind.

Please tell me there is an answer to my questions.

Because I can't just stand by much longer.