Allen scowled as he trudged to his room. His last mission had been awful; stuck with Landa for three days in France, in the autumn cold, with very little food had done little to keep his spirits up while searching for Innocence. Kanda had been quiet, but even more scathing when he did open his mouth, continually reverting back to Japanese and staring dismissively when Allen obviously had no clue what he was saying.
The finder had been extremely unhelpful, as his telephone-backpack had shortcircuited before he could triangulate the position any closer than Calais on of the busiest centres and ports of all France, due to England being just accross the channel.
After two weeks of scanning for any unusual signs, the finder pointed to a house that no-one ever went near; apparently anyone who went inside came out scared stiff but never knowing why.
Allen knew some french, mostly foodstuffs, and was trying to attract someone's attention for directions, the finder being called away to another point of interest.
"Excuse moi...madame..monsieur si...ah..merde." He sighed rubbing at this forehead in frustration. And all this time, Kanda had been standing slightly off path, staring at him in contempt.
"Che, baka moyashi can't even get directions."
Allen glared. "Well, why don't you try it?" knowing full well that Kanda hated even speaking English.
The Japanese man sighed. Then stuck out his hand and grabbed a random man from the crowd.
"Ou-est la maison de la peur, sur la rue 75?" Came the weirdly accented but perfectly understandable french out of the swordsman's mouth.
Allen fumed. If Kanda could speak french, why didn't he do something 15 minutes ago?
As the terrified bystander gripped by Kanda gibbered directions, Allen glared at the long-haired man's back. Why did Lavi always say that going on missions with 'Yuu' was fun? Insane redhead.
Kanda turned.
"It's not far." And without any other elaboration, the teen stalked off down the busy market street, ignoring all protests from his fellow exorcist...
Allen shook his head. There was no point remembering such painful and irritating memories, not when Jerry's scrumptious food was within reach. He turned into the corridor that lead to the dinner hall but was blocked. It was Lenalee, smiling like usual as if she wasn't preventing her friend from doing something very important (like eating).
"Um, hi Lenalee?"
The chinese girl beamed down at him, wrapped her arm around Allen's shoulders and dragged him off, oblivious or uncaring of Allen's wistful sighs, dreaming of Jerry's Mitsurashi dango and cream puffs, jam filled scones and honey glazed donuts...Allen was jolted out of his sweet filled daydream by the loud slamming of a door. He looked around. Lenalee had lead them to an abandoned store room. Creepy.
"So, Allen, I've been hearing things going around in the order.."
The white haired boy sighed.
"Is it the one about Komui and Bak? Cause I actually think that might be true."
Lenalee blinked.
"Ge-ge and Bak-san? That one was sorted ages ago." Lenalee waved her hand dismissively. She then grabbed Allens shoulder and pulled his face in close to hers.
"No, I'm talking about the rumours that you and Kanda slept together on your last mission." Lenalee stared into Allen's eyes as if to convey the importance of this.
Allen blinked. Then blinked again. Frozen, eyes wide, the muscle just underneath his right eye twitching, he contemplated what was just said to him. Something about him. Right. And Kanda. Okay, proccessing normally. Kanda and him having ...all systems down.
"YOUR SILENCE TELLS ME IT'S TRUE!"
Startled out of his comatose state, Allen frantically waved his hands and shook his head.
"What the hell Lena? Where did you hear...THAT?" Allen spat, not able to even contemplate it in a sentence. The girl stopped yelling at the younger boy and peered suspiciously at his face.
"So, you and Yuu-chan didn't sleep together when you got lost in France?" The suspicion face made Allen groan. If someone like Lenalee believed such a rumour, it had to be a pretty convincing rumour.
"It didn't happen like that."...
"KANDA!"
The man turned.
"What Moyashi?"
The smaller man huffed, having finally caught up to the other.
"What was that?"
The other man frowned (well, frowned more deeply).
"What was what chibi-moyashi?"
"What was with decimating the house? I mean yes you got the Innocence but seriously! There were people walking just outside that almost got hurt. I had to go and stop most of the house falling on them with crown clown!"
The taller man straightened.
"Che, the Innocence was at the very foundation of the building, and that stupid dead lady had set up so many traps and pitfalls that it was simpler to just crack the house open and take the Innocence, since it was making the traps a hundred times more powerful."
"But Kanda, according to the innocent bystanders you almost killed! The rubble also destroyed one of the only inns! And there's a festival and the trains aren't running until early tomorrow!"
Kanda growled.
"Stupid enchanted house...the finder said he booked us a room to store our things in and rest if one of us is injured. We'll just stay there."
This was the longest sentence he'd said for a while, so without saying anything else he walked off in the direction of the Inn they walked past when in search of the Innocence.
"Uh..Kanda? There's only one bed...Kanda...Kanda did you hear me I said there's only one-"
"I heard!Baka moyashi."
Kanda glared at the bed like his vicious glance could cleave it in two, therefore making another bed to avoid this awkward incident.
Allen sat on the bed.
"Well, it's quite a wide bed. And neither of us is particularly broad.."
Kanda sighed forcefully before sitting on the small rug beside the bed and crossing his legs, slipping into a meditative state. Allen stared blankly at the man, before turning over and trying to sleep.
Later that night...
Kanda rose from his sitting position, and stretched shortly, before gauging the scene on the bed. Allen was still in the same place, curled up by the wall, leaving enough space for Kanda to lay down. At this moment, in extreme tiredness, Kanda thanked Kami for the Moyashi's forced manners. He didn't need a blanket thank Kami, as from the way the smaller boy had them constricted around him, if he did, it would have been impossible to secure some.
Sinking back into the pillow, Mugen reverently leant on the wall beside him, Kanda drifted off...
As Kanda woke up, he felt something heavy on his chest. Mind slightly asleep, he panicked and threw the unknown object off him. As it travelled into the opposite wall, it emitted a rather loud squeak.
Kanda looked at the crumpled thing, to find it was Allen blinking in terror and surprise.
"Kanda!" Allen screeched, picking himself up and finding that he banged his coccyx quite badly. "What the HELL was that?"
Kanda che'd.
"I woke up with something clinging to me. I didn't know what it was so I took it off me."
Allen stared at him in disbelief.
"Why didn't you check that it was me? Then you could've just shoved me off back over on my side, not try and throw me through a wall!"
Kanda, by this time ignoring Allen, stood up and briefly stretched before grabbing Mugen and pulling on his coat as he opened the door. As he went through he stopped, turned to the still immobile Allen...and che'd before shutting the door adn stalking downstairs.
Allen groaned in defeat, as he too pulled on his outer layers growing angrier at the scene as he did so.
Kanda was just dismissing the finder who had returned for a status report for Komui when Allen strode up to him.
"You're unbelievable you know that?Who overreacts like that? Take stock of the situation first Bakanda!"
Kanda completely ignored the other Exorcist and finished his dealing with the finder. He then immediately walked off in the direction of the train station.
Allen fumed before running after him shouting, "See if I ever sleep with you again!" while limping from the bruising of his poor coccyx. The finder looked aghast and bewildered at the information apparent in that sentence...
"..and that's what happened Lena, honestly"
Lenalee was still laughing.
"I believe you Allen..." She said through giggling," but Lavi will be a whole other story."
Allen frowned. "What's Lavi got to do with it?"
Lenalee raised on eyebrow at Allen, giggling fit over, "Allen," She said in a slightly patronising voice, " Lavi's been in love with Kanda since he came to the order, why do you think he calls him Yuu-chan?"
Allen gaped, "But...Kanda...and...LAVI?"
"I'm not so sure that Kanda knows Lavi is actually in love with him...at least I've never seen them acting romantically..." Lenalee mused.
This time it was Allen lying on the floor laughing his head off.
"Kanda...romance...ahhahaha...LAVI!...Yuu-chan...!" He gasped giggling frantically. "Unbelievable.."
Lenalee sighed.
"LENALEEE!WHAT ARE YOU DOING IN HERE WITH ALLEN!SUSPICIOUS!LENALEE TELL ME YOU WEREN'T GOING TO DO ANYTHING WITH THIS HAENOUS BOY!"
Komui burst in, running over the laughing Allen and clung pitifully to his sister's shoulders.
"HE'S CLEARLY DERANGED, WE MUST VACCINATE AT ONCE AND GET LENALEE AWAY FROM HIM...I MEAN GET ALLEN BETTER!"
And with this Komui dragged Lenalee away laughing maniacally...
Allen stopped laughing eventually, just in time to avoid a hit from Komui's new vaccine gun that shot out syringes at shattering speed.
"WHY MEEEEEEEE...?" Screeched Allen as he sped off, dodging syringe bullets
"...eeee..."
Lavi turned from where he was combing Kanda's hair.
"Did you hear something Yuu?"
The swordsman, trying to relax after such a irritating mission, gave no reply but sank further into the bath. Lavi pouted but resumed his duty, massaging various scentless oils into the long black hair (he had tried to use scented oils once but Kanda didn't like any of the scents put into his precious hair;needless to say, Lavi was quite injured at the end of it).
"So how was the mission with Allen?" Lavi innocently enquired, as if he wasn't completely terrified of a certain rumour spreading around. Facts were facts, Lavi knew, no matter how shy and aloof his Yuu-chan was or how innocent and Lenalee-obssessed Allen seemed, and must be investigated.
"Che. Moyashi was as useless as usual. Couldn't even ask directions."
Lavi blinked.
"But Yuu, didn't I teach you french at one point? Because you wouldn't learn spanish?"
The other man grunted in affirmation. "But I had a headache and didn't want to deal with such trivial shit. But the Moyashi couldn't even get someone to listen to him so I had to actually interact with others because of his incompetance. I had to deal with the traps on my own because some idiot police officer went in after us and got caught in something and the Moyashi just HAD to save them. Then he blamed me when the house almost collapsed on some idiots who were staring at the falling building and weren't getting out of the way like normal people, because I took the Innocence that was holding the building up."
Lavi stared.
"That's the longest you've spoken in a long time Yuu. Frustration?"
The other man glared and gave up on relaxing, getting quickly out of the bath and grabbing a towel. After he put his yukata and tied his obi he turned back to the redhead still louging in the baths.
"Are you coming or not?" Snapped the Japanese teen. The redhead raised a thin eyebrow.
"One thing Yuu dearest." And he leaned forward slowly, face growing serious. "What's this about you and Allen having sex on your last mission?"
Lavi had been genuinely concerned...right up until his beloved had choked, strode over, grabbed him by the hair and pulled him out of the bath by his roots, facing him.
"WHAT."
This settled any fears Lavi had about Yuu's affection for the Moyashi. He had been concerned ever since Yuu had nicknamed the boy, something he had only ever done to Lavi. And he did say he found Allen annoying..which was his thing with Yuu not Allen's.
But the half furious, half sickened expression on the others face allied his fears until they were laughable.
"EHeheheheheheh..nothing Yuu-kun..just a rumour started by some bored finders.."
"We only slep together because there was no space."
Lavi's eye widened. "EH? Is my precious Yuu's virtue tampered with?" and with this he clung furiously to the swordsman, ignoring the boy's enraged shout at the wetness of Lavi's embrace not to mention the nakedness.
"Only by you baka-usagi." Kanda spat, trying to shove the clingy bookman off him, "There was only one bed so we shared."
"Oh," Lavi said as he slipped down and landed on his arse, staring adoringly up at his lover. Kanda glared back,
"What are you looking so pathetic for?" He said as he straightened his yukata and made for the door.
"YUU" Lavi called. The Japanese teen stopped.
"Can I sleep with you tonight? Bookman says he wants me to do some research that I'm very keen to skip out on..."
"...Che." And with this, Kanda walked back to his room. Lavi dressed, smiling softly to himself.
"Aishiteiru, Yuu."
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