A/N: wow... chapter 6 already??? man, does time fly~!! sorry this took so long! i was REALLY procrastinating cause on the song..... anyway, enjoy chapter 6 and don't expect 7 up any time soon...
~Chapter 6~
"Please?"
"No."
"Ple~ase?"
"No."
"Please?"
"No."
"Pretty please?"
"No."
"Pretty please with sugar on top?"
"Okay, fine."
"Really?!"
"NO!"
Kanda slammed the phone down on the desk so hard, it smashed into pieces. This was the, what? 15th time Poe had called to get him to come down to Paris? It seemed like it…
Kanda had just about enough of this. The concert was in two days, then they leave for Spain. He could survive till then.
Then his phone rang.
"I said no and I meant no!" Kanda screamed into the phone without checking the caller i.d.
"I didn't say anything!"
"Oh, Allen!" Kanda said in surprise. "I'm sorry! I thought you were Poe! And I thought you didn't get service in Puerto Rico!"
"Yeah, you don't!" Allen said with a smirk. "But I'm not in Puerto Rico, I'm in Portugal!"
"I thought you said Puerto Rico!" Kanda whined, not really liking being wrong.
"I did say Puerto Rico," Allen said. Kanda could almost see the smug look on his boyfriend's face. "But Cross surprised me by taking me to Portugal instead!"
"Oh, that's awesome!" Kanda said with a smile.
"And, when Lavi comes to Spain, Cross is letting me and my cousins, Road and Tyki, take a train to Barcelona to see it! Isn't that great?!" Allen cheered happily.
"Sure," Kanda said sarcastically.
"What's wrong? You sound upset…" Allen said, worry laced perfectly into his voice. "Aren't you in Paris with Poe? Did you guys get into an argument again?"
"Yes and no…" Kanda said with a sigh. "You see, Poe went to Paris and I'm still in Japan. And Poe is trying to get me to come to Paris to stay with her… in all honesty, I'm bored to tears here…"
"Then why don't you go to Paris?" Allen asked, a plan forming in his head. "Then when you guys come to Spain, I'll be at the concert. So after, I could pick you up and then you can come back to Portugal with us! My cousins don't mind! In fact, Road is flipping out over the idea!"
"What about Cross?" Kanda asked tentatively.
"I have no problem with it," Cross said, having picked up the other line. "It might be good for Allen to have someone his age around here. Just don't take things too far, boys!"
"Yes sir, Mr. Cross, sir!" Kanda said, utterly terrified.
"Good boy," Cross said, hanging up the phone. Allen and Kanda let out relieved sighs.
"So, is it a plan?" Allen asked in a hopeful voice.
"I don't know…" Kanda said hesitantly. "I need to talk to Poe about it first…"
"Alright! Call me back when you have an answer!" Allen said with a huge smile.
"Okay, I will," Kanda said, letting out a short half laugh.
"Love ya!"
"Love you too."
Kanda flipped his phone shut and sighed. Lavi would never go for that… he dialed Poe's number.
"Hey, Bro! Change your mind?" Poe asked when she picked up.
"Well, Allen in is Portugal, you see…" Kanda began, getting straight to the point. "And he's going to see the concert in Spain… and he wanted to know if I could meet up with him there and go back to Portugal with him. But the only way to do that is if I came down to Spain with you guys for the concert from Paris…"
"And you want to know if that's alright?" Poe asked in a knowing voice.
"Well… yeah," Kanda said, leaning back against a wall.
"Well, I'll talk to Lavi about it…" Poe said hesitantly. "He might let it happen just cause he's getting you up here… but then again he might not… he's a little jealous of Allen… so he might not go for it. So don't get your hopes up!"
"Alright, Poe, I won't," Kanda said, flipping his phone shut again. Now it was time to wait…
~*~
Poe was a crafty one, that's for sure. She knew that Lavi would never agree to the plan if Allen was involved. Thus, she chose a perfect time to tell him. that time, was when he was surrounded by people and he could only pay half attention. That way, he would hear what she said, with out really hearing her.
"Hey, Lavi!" Poe said while they were stuck in a crowd.
"What's up?" Lavi asked between signatures and pictures.
"Well, you see, my brother is coming over—"
"Yu is coming up?! That's great!!" Poe now knew that he would agree to anything she said.
"Well, Allen is in Portugal and he's coming to the concert in Spain. Yu want's to stay with us till then and then go back to Portugal with Allen after the concert in Spain. Is that okay?"
"Hm? Yeah, sure, it's fine!" Lavi said, not really paying any attention.
Poe had gotten him hook, line, and sinker.
"Great! He'll be happy to hear that!" Poe said with a smile, quickly texting Kanda that it was okay to come.
~*~
"Hello? Noah residence, Allen speaking!" Allen said, picking up the phone when he heard it ring.
"Hey, beautiful."
Allen knew that voice. That perfect, velvet smooth tenor, slight Japanese accent. Allen could even smell the jasmine through the phone.
"KANDA!!!" Allen screamed, flipping out.
"Hey, so what time do I meet you in Barcelona?" Kanda said jokingly.
"You mean, you're coming?!?!"
"Yes, Poe said it was alright!"
"YAY!!!!" Allen cheered, jumping up and down.
"What's wrong with you?" a young girl with spiky blue hair asked Allen.
"Road, Kanda's coming to Europe!!" Allen cheered, setting the phone down to that he could hug his cousin.
"Alright!!! I'll get to meet the infamous Yu Kanda!" Road said happily.
"So, Kanda, when are you coming to Paris?" Allen asked, picking the phone up again.
"To be honest, I just landed," Kanda said with a smirk.
"ARE YOU SERIOUS?!?!??!" Allen asked, flipping out even more.
"Yup, I just got off the plane and—oh! There's Poe. I gotta go, Allen! I'll talk to you later!" Kanda said quickly when he saw his sister.
"Alright! I'll see you later!" Allen said with a smile. "Bye, love!"
"Bye," Kanda said, closing his phone just before Poe crushed him in a glomp.
"AH!!! I'm SO glad you could come!!!" Poe said in a happy voice. "I was getting kinda bored without you here!!! I missed you so freaking much!!!!!!"
"So did I!" Kanda said, happy to see his twin again. "Please, tell me Lavi didn't come with you…"
"No, he's at a press conference!" Poe said happily, grabbing one of her brother's bags. "Well, come on, let's go!!"
"Alright…"
Kanda followed Poe out of the airport and into the parking lot. Once there, a limo was waiting to pick them up. As they got inside, Kanda murmured something to the effect of, "so this is how the other half lives…" and was in awe for the trip to the summer home.
Once there, Kanda was in even more awe of the house. It was three times the size of his home; and his house was large to start with. It looked like a castle or something out of a manga set back in the European Manorial era. It was epic. Kanda was in awe once again.
"…And there's this GREAT dinning room—and are you even listening to me!?!?" Poe screamed, apparently having been talking before.
"Not at all…" Kanda said in a daze as he walked up to the front door.
Before he could get very far, though, he was glomped and all he saw was a shock of red hair. He was thrown to the ground and had the wind knocked out of him. and getting his breath back was a bit of a task because he was being crushed by a rabbit.
"Awe man, Yu, I can't believe that you're really here!!" Lavi screamed, hugging Kanda tighter. "I mean, I guess I can believe it since you're here and all!!! But this is STILL too good to be true!! Someone pinch me—Ow!! I said pinch, not punch!!"
"Sounded the same to me!!" Kanda hissed, his hand red from hitting Lavi. "Damn it, your skull is THICK!!!"
"Hard as a freaking rock…" Poe mumbled.
"Still, though, I can't believe that you're HERE!!!" Lavi said hugging Kanda tighter.
"Can't…… Breath…" Kanda said, turning a little blue.
"Oh, sorry!!" Lavi said, getting up and helping Kanda to his feet. "I guess I got a little excited there…"
"No problem," Kanda said with a smirk.
"Are you okay?" Lavi asked a little worried.
"Well, I got tackled and thrown onto gravel, I was squeezed till I couldn't breath and I almost broke my hand on your skull. So yeah, I'm just great," Kanda said with a fake as hell smile.
"Good to know," Lavi said sarcastically, laughing just slightly. He took Kanda's hand and started to pull him inside and said, "Come on, I wanna show you around!"
"Hey, let go," Kanda said sternly, pulling his hand away. "You know I have a boyfriend."
"Yeah, but he's not here! He's in Puerto Rico!" Lavi said with a smile.
"No, he's in Portugal, that's why I'm here…" Kanda said in confusion. "Didn't Poe tell you this already??"
"No… she told me that you were coming over…" Lavi said, glaring daggers at Poe. "But she didn't say anything else."
"I told you everything!! You just weren't paying attention!" Poe said defensively.
"Poe you didn't tell him that I'm going to be with Allen after the Spain concert?!" Kanda snapped, very upset now.
"You… you're what…?" Lavi asked, not believing a word of it.
Kanda sighed and pulled Lavi into another room. He set Lavi down on the couch and sat next to him. "Look, Allen called me yesterday. He wanted to get together with me this summer and had the plan that I meet up with him in Spain after the concert. Then I would go back to Portugal with him. I was weary about it, but Poe said that you 'okay'-ed it. I thought you knew…"
"Yeah, well you thought wrong!!" Lavi screamed, running out of the room in tears, leaving a very stunned Kanda behind.
"Well, that could have gone better…" Poe said with a sigh.
"Ya think?" Kanda snapped, feeling awful.
~*~
Later that day, Kanda walked aimlessly around the mansion. He was bored out of his wits end. And, to put the icing on the cake, he felt horrible about what he did to Lavi. The rabbit didn't deserve it. he's been nothing but nice since they met—Kanda didn't count the incident at the fair—and Kanda was nothing but mean. But, Kanda was Kanda. He would never admit it.
So, through all his walking around, he had a lot of time to think. He walked for hours, so he ha d hours to think. Think about how he would approach Lavi. What he would say the next time they spoke. There was a lot. Too much. It was making his head spin.
It was throbbing so much, that he didn't hear a piano playing until he was right outside the practice room. He heard the music through his entire walk down the hallway. But it was a classic example of hearing without listening. It was more like a low, peaceful hum until he got close enough to hear the words. It sounded like just practice of a new song.
"I'm not a perfect person,
There's many things I wish I didn't do~.
But I continue learnin'.
I never meant to do those things to you.
And so I have to say before I go~~,
That I just want you to know~!
I found a reason for me!
To change who I used to be~
A reason to start over new.
And the reason is you~!
I'm sorry that I hurt you,
It's something I must live with every day.
And all the pain I put you through,
I wish that I could take it all away.
And be the one who catches all your tears.
That's why I need you to hear:
I found a reason for me~!
To change who I used to be,
A reason to start over ne~w.
And the reason is yo~~~~~~u!
And the reason is yo~~~~~~~~~~~u!!
And the reason is yo~~~~u!
And the reason is you!
I'm not a perfect person,
I never meant to do those things to you~,
And so I have to say before I go~
That I just want you to know!
I found a reason for me!
To change who I used to be!
A reason to start over new.
And the reason is you!
I found a reason to show, a side of me you didn't know!
A reason for all that I do!
And the reason is you…"
Lavi stopped playing and sighed. Kanda would hear the song for the first time on stage in Paris. Or so the rabbit thought. That's what he had wanted. But he had never planned for Kanda to hear it the first time he played it through. Man, both had bad timing…
"That was really good…"
Lavi jumped when he heard Kanda. He turned to face him and went white as a sheet, then red as a beat.
"You weren't supposed to hear that!!" Lavi screamed, jumping up and knocking the piano bench over. He cursed and picked it back up, his back to Kanda.
"Why not?" Kanda asked curiously, walking up to the piano.
"Well… you weren't supposed to hear it yet…" Lavi said sheepishly, standing the bench back up.
"Why not? It was really good… well, for all that cookie cutter pop star stuff anyway," Kanda said absently as he ran his fingers along the keys.
"Gee, thanks…" Lavi said sarcastically. He looked at the piano, then Kanda, then the piano again and asked, "Do you play?"
"I only learned one song, and that was ten years ago…" Kanda said, sitting down.
"What was it?" Lavi asked, sitting on Kanda's left.
"Listen," Kanda said as he began to play Fur Elise perfectly.
However, it was only the right hand. Lavi, having learned the song as well, began to play the left hand for Kanda. Together, they sounded very good. Poe was right outside the door, listening to them. They were in perfect harmony.
They were in synch.
well, that took FOREVER! i NEEDED to listen to the song as i was typing it cause i was afraid of messing it up... i can never remember it.... anyway, i wanted to end the chapter on that line, so sorry if it's short.... and don't worry, this is by NO means the end! :3
anyways, please, R&R as usual. i NEED the feedback to remind me to do the next chapter! thank you!!!