Hey sorry guys for not updating, I've been out and about lately so I haven't had time to update.
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The next morning when Kanda awoke from his slumber, he found his clothing rumpled and his hair in a very unattractive knot. He had never needed to brush his hair before, most of the time it was just untangled by itself. He didn't have to worry about trivial things like how messy his hair looked. His hair never was messy. Plus he was never really concerned with his outward appearance. He knew he looked gorgeous all the time; he didn't need to blind people with his beauty.
But today was different; he needed to change someone's mind. Alice's mind to be exact. He couldn't have her marrying that deceitful Tyki Mikk character. The very thought of him made Kanda shudder. Tyki was nice, at first. He was as sly as a fox, and would do anything to take advantage of anyone.
Especially someone like Alice.
Kanda grimaced at the thought Tyki probably thought making Alice fall in love with him was like taking candy from a baby. She no longer lived with her parents so she didn't have to worry about her Mother breathing down her neck all the time. Kanda didn't think Tyki was an arranged marriage either. Alice had freedom now. She wasn't the girl he'd know all those years before, she'd probably changed.
For better or for worse he didn't know. But it didn't really matter, what did matter was that they would see each other again. He didn't know what kind of effect it would have on her, but he hoped it would be one that would make her fall in love with him all over again. To make her realize her mistake and come back to him.
That's what he hoped anyways, but nothing ever works out the way you want them to. Even if he was the most beautiful creature to roam the earth what good would it do if he couldn't even get the person he loved most to re-fall-in-love with him?
He spent the rest of the morning brushing his hair and changing into more suitable clothing. For once in his life cared about what he looked like. And for the first time in his life he had competition.
Today was just a day of first's wasn't it?
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Alice awoke to the sound of someone talking on the phone, at first she was frightened. She thought that someone may have broken into her house and was in the process of robbing her. She rubbed her eyes and listened, the voice was familiar.
It was Tyki!
She burst out of her room. "Tyki! You're early!"
He turned around surprised, "Oh, you're awake." He quickly said goodbye to whomever it was he was talking to on the phone. A smile stretched across his face. "Alice, my sweet, it's been quite a while since we last saw each other hasn't it?"
She pouted. "That wouldn't be the case if you could have stopped agreeing to keep prolonging your trips."
"You know how important the trips are. Let's be reasonable." He wrapped his long arms around her and held her close to him. "How have you been without me?"
"Who did you see recently that I used to know?" She asked him, straight to the point.
"Oh, Alice, direct as usual."
"Tyki," Alice whined. "Just tell me."
"Oh, all right, well you see recently I ran into an old friend of yours. Actually you might not consider him a friend." His voice trailed. "But anyways, I was at a party, see? And I heard he was there so well it would only be nice of me to say hello, right?"
Alice nodded.
"Well he definitely was not happy to see me. And when I told him of our engagement, why, he was furious."
Alice cut Tyki off. "Wait, he? You're talking about a he? Are you sure I knew this person? That it wasn't a mistake or anything?" She looked skeptical. Alice had never known that many men. She'd met plenty of them, but none of them really got to know her, at least enough to be upset about her engagement with Tyki.
"Oh, no mistake, I'm sure you know a certain Kanda Yuu?" Tyki asked, his lips curled into a sly smile.
Alice froze. "Kanda? Kanda Yuu?" Memories flooded her brain. "You saw him? Where is he? God, I haven't seen him in…years!" She stuttered. This wasn't the right reaction for a woman that was engaged. But she was surprised; here was a man that she loved so much who just, disappeared from her life. And now he's back, well not really, but she knew he was alive and Tyki had talked to him, and she had heard about his wife and all these things about Kanda!
It's like he came back from the dead. All these years….and now he's back!
"Does he remember me? Wait of course he does! Why am I getting all flustered?!" She felt like her heart was about to jump out of her chest, her face was warm and she was getting a bit light headed. "Forgive me Tyki, this is awfully selfish of me to ask, but do you know where he is? Oh, please understand, we were such good friends!"
Tyki laughed. "Oh, Alice, I knew this is what kind of reaction you would come to. And I'm sorry to say I do not know where he is, we only talked for a short while. I didn't get much information out of him. I already knew about his wife though. Poor darling. It's quite unfortunate how she had to go."
"Yes, yes, I heard about that as well." She was silent for a minute. "Tyki, don't get the wrong idea, I have no doubts that I love you more than Kanda."
Tyki laughed his musical laugh again. "Of course not, I know that. What makes you think I don't think you love me?"
"You looked sad when I asked about Kanda. Oh, please forgive me! I just haven't seen him in such a long while! It only makes sense to ask about an old friend." Alice chewed her lip. "I'm sorry, and today was supposed to be a nice day. I even forgot to make the brunch." She sighed.
Tyki stiffened upon hearing that Alice would have been cooking for him. It was nice of her to want to cook, but her cooking was deadly. It was lethal, like poison, it was poison. The last time he had her cooking he was in the hospital for weeks! He'll never eat lasagna ever again. He watched her glance at the clock hanging upon the wall. "Well its still kind of early. I think I have time to make something…"
Tyki spoke quickly. "I thought maybe you'd like to go out to eat. On my way here I saw this lovely little bistro that I thought you might like. If I remember right you're very fond of Hungarian food?"
"But I wanted to make you a nice home made meal." Alice looked down. "But if you really want to go out to eat instead…" Her voice trailed. "Then I guess we can." Tyki was very aware of the fact that she was trying to guilt him into eating her cooking. But he had built up some sort of immunity to her cute little faces that she made when she was trying to get her way.
Tyki tackled Alice to the floor and started tickling her, she was shrieking with laugher. "Stop it!" She laughed. "Stop!"
"No! Never!" Tyki laughed with her. Just then, the door bell rang. Tyki stopped what he was doing and stood up, his face full of suspicion. "I wonder who that could be."
"I'll get it," Alice dusted off her night gown and walked to the door, Tyki following close behind her. Alice could see the figure of a man though the textured glass door. Her heart started to accelerate. Could it be? Could it be who she's been looking for for the past six years? Could it be him?
She unlocked the door, Tyki noticed that her fingers were trembling. "My dear," He said, laying his hands atop hers. "Are you alright?" He knew very well just who was behind that door. He knew what would happen when she saw the man behind that glass door.
Alice gulped, and opened the door. Standing there, in all of his Japanese self glory, his long hair tied neatly in a pony tail. He was smoking a cigarette, wearing a sleek black suit. His shoes polished.
Standing there, six years later.
Was Kanda yuu.
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Blah, this was a crap chapter.
I hope you guys don't cry from the crappyness of it all.
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~byrdie.