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"Those two are idiots", that was how the conversation around a small group of friends started while eating their early lunch in the cafeteria.
Away from the by then, common scene of one Kanda Yu and one Allen Walker verbally abusing each other while sitting opposite from the other in the same table.
The group of students turned, surprised of course, since the words came out from none other than Lenalees lips.
"Oh?", one of the students from the table said and leaned in to hear the rest of the words. So did the rest of the students close enough to the table and all the others within earshot. Some glanced over to see the still arguing duo that were about only a few seconds short of actually turning their argument into a brawl.
It was a safe distance away, they were sure. Besides. The two of them were too focused on one another to even notice the majority of the students in cafeteria talking about them right under their noses.
"I mean, just look at them. They insult each other to start a conversation and they turn things into a brawl with the smallest of excuses." The students nodded in agreement, noting the female Asian teens exasperated expression. "If I didn't know any better, they fight because it's the only way they can touch each other without looking weird...I bet they do..." Some guys snickered and others just coughed or muttered under their breaths.
They totally agreed to that.
SMACK!
Some of the students jolted and turned their heads to look at Lenalee, who had her palms flat on the surface of the table and her eyes blazing with unwavering determination.
"That's it! I've had it with the two of them. If they can't tell each other how much they feel, I'll do it for them so I can see more of the real action!" She said and started marching her way over to the two. Some of the students continued to nod sagely at her words...until the words finally sunk deep enough fo them to understand.
"Wah!" One of the female students stood.
"No" Another on of the females said and followed after the first.
"Where's the action in that?", this time, a guy said and every body paused to look at the man like he had grown two horns. "...What?"
"Never mind that! Get her! She's six feet away!" And everybody scrambled to get to Lenalee before she got to the other two and ruin all the fun moments they could witness between the two in the future soon to come.
Since they guys were faster than the ladies, they naturally got to her sooner. One guy was just about in time when Lenalee opened her mouth and clamped a hand over eat to keep her silent. Another guy latched on to one hand, while a third person grabbed the other.
Lenalee blinked in surprised. But so did Allen and Kanda.
Kanda was currently looking at them with a withering glare tremendously lessened with the way Allen was pinching the sides of the mans eyes and stretching them away from each other. In front of him, Allen was looking at Lenalee and the three men with a bit of a nervous expression that looked quite funny, seeing as in retaliation, the older teen had his hand on the sides of Allen's mouth and stretching them the same way.
"...if that's some sort of technique you three came up with to have an excuse to touch Lenalee..." Allen started slowly, releasing Kanda and inching away.
"Tch. That stupid sister complex is going to kill you." Kanda finished the sentence and slowly took his hands off...before pausing, looking at 'his' Beansprout, and pinching his nose with one hand.
"...that's cheating Bakanda." Allen complained without much bite before the two of them returned to their own little world.
Daaaaaaawwww...The student body thought at the little scene. They had just finished each others sentences. How cute.
But the fact remained though.
They were idiots.
BEANSPROUT GARDEN
Already, more than half of the school year had gone by, and nothing too special had happened between the two subjects of the schools' interest since the little thing Kanda did with the directions.
Admittedly, the students saw at least some sort of development play. They'd been hanging around more often than not for one. Almost never the two of them alone, but when they were and when they thought that no one was looking, they bickered less, and even had an almost normal conversation pass.
Well, almost, as far as their spies could tell. And almost, almost, like good ol' friends.
Of course, if they thought they were fooling anyone with their actions, it was already far too late.
Kanda had been a lot more obvious about it no matter how hard he denied it whenever
Lavi asked about the matter.
"Yu's not fooling anyone, that's for sure." Lavi said at one point when some of the students had gathered to talk about the two and the topic somehow strayed. "He gave himself away the moment he called Allen a beansprout." Lavi laughed, and so did the rest of the students there.
They couldn't agree more.
Allen was a different case though. They'd found him being a lot more oblivious to the matter, though something had happened that confirmed everyone's suspicions about the feeling being mutual.
It was a simple thing really. One of the students, Daisya, had decided to scribble on one of Kanda's very well written, and very insulting list of directions. What was more, Allen had caught the older teen red handed.
"Oh? Are you giving me directions too, Daisya-sempai?" Allen had said then, looking all innocent and smiling as usual. But as Daisya had narrated a little later that day, the aura Allen had been releasing that time had been downright evil. Daisya never tried his little stunt again.
And after hearing how bone chilling the experience was for their schools regular trickster, no one even dared.
But that was about it for the development that happened between the two. After that, everything else stood still. Just like that. They all understood why Lenalee had been frustrated enough to want to confront them. Heck, at that point, they all wanted to do the same.
Though it turned out, it seemed fate only needed to make a slight push in one direction for things to start moving again.
No matter how bad that small little push was.
At seven months and two weeks after Cross had been report missing, news arrived around school of circumstances confirming the man to be dead.
And after seeing Allens reaction when the man had been reported missing, the students couldn't even imagine how Allen felt right now. Everyone expected the worst to happen, and the worst did.
Allen stopped going to classes. He stopped going to the cafeteria for food. Heck, nobody saw him come out of his room for a week and a half. A lot of people were worried since the 'beansprout' wouldn't let anyone into his room.
Komui, Lavi, Lenalee, the teachers, students and staff. They were already imagining the worst happening behind the closed doors.
Kanda however, surprisingly remained calm. And no one understood why.
When the daily count reached two weeks, everyone. Everyone was relieved when Kanda finally decided to make his move.
Cause as far as everyone saw it, if there was someone in the world who could do something about the matter, it was none other than Kanda. And since the man had no tact what so ever, the dormers who were lucky enough to watch the scene unfold weren't too surprised when Kanda decided to kick the door open to get the boy.
Worried as they were, the students stood just a few steps away from the man and looked inside the room with horrified faces.
Dishes.
Dishes piling up to almost half the height of the room in almost all the vacant space the area used to have. They were clean, though the way they swayed back and forth made the dormers nervous just by looking at the things.
And who else would they find right in the middle of it all other than one Allen Walker.
One Allen Walker that was currently shoving spoonfuls of food into his mouth until he noticed the audience he had in front of his door. He stopped in the middle of chewing his food, one noodle sticking out of his mouth which quickly disappeared along with the rest of the food.
"Kanda..." The Beansprout said, blinking a couple of times. "Um...hi?"
Everybody paused.
"Tch. Figured you'd be stuffing yourself with food, glutton Beansprout." The students watched as the older teen rolled his eyes.
"It's Allen", Allen bit back.
In the next second to fast for anyone to register, Kanda had stormed into the room, tossed Allen over his shoulder, and started making his way to the school courtyard.
All the while Allen was rapidly tapping Kanda on the shoulder and repeatedly telling the man to put him down.
Seeing the boy, the students whom they passed by sighed in relief at the scene.
Allen was pale, but nothing too bad.
The students only paused long enough to hear Allen scream for his unfinished tofu noodles, before they moved again to spread the word.
Elsewhere in the garden where one lucky female student was strolling around and admiring the plants, the scene every one in the school was dying to witness slowly started to unfold.
"Kanda. Kanda, put me down. I just ate, my stomach hurts, and if I bounce off your shoulder one more time I swear I'm going to throw up!"
The female student, Emilia, did a double take and turned her head just in time to see stop under a shaded tree not too far away, before diving into the nearest shrub.
She later found out that it was the worst shrub she could've possibly chosen, for while it was close enough for her to hear them even if they whispered loud enough, she couldn't see a damn thing.
And so she could only curse herself silently when she hear the Asian man click his tongue and lower Allen to the ground.
"Ouch." She hear Allen say. "Way to be rough BaKanda. I can't believe you almost made me throw up my food."
"Tch. Will you stop talking about your damn food? You're pissing me off."
There was a pregnant pause. Emilia held her breath and heard one of them shift.
"...I'm not actually as upset as people think I am" Allen started.
"Even if they report Cross to be dead, as long as they don't find a body, I won't believe he is. That idiot guardian of mine won't die so easily."
"Then why do this idiot Beansprout?" Kanda asked.
"My name is Allen and it's because I didn't feel like confronting anyone about the matter. It looks to me like they were far more shaken than I was."
"You made people worry."
"...were you?"
At the question, there was a long pause. Emilia tried to lean in as close as she could. She didn't want to miss the response-
"Tch. You're a stupid little beansprout with a black hole for a stomach. Not a wimp."
You're stronger than what everyone gives you credit for, Emilia translated and almost squealed in delight.
"Well if you know that, why did you bother then?" Allen asked again.
Oh how she wished she could see their faces at that very moment.
"You're already puny Beansprout. You'd have wilted away in there." Kanda said with a deadpan voice.
Emilia nearly burst out in laughter at the implication. All the talks she heard in school about the plant references, oh how true they were.
And now Kanda just vaguely implied at how Allen, as a plant, as his Beanprout, needed sunlight and air to stay healthy. Why else would he have brought Allen outside and to the garden otherwise?
The man could really be sweet at times. And with the way Allen had laughed at the statement, it seemed like she wasn't the only one who caught on.
"Thanks." She heard Allen say.
"I know what you've been doing. And for that, thank you so much."
It was at this moment that Emilia could no longer help herself and finally gave in to her desire to peek. She made it just in time to see Allen lift his head from Kanda's shoulder and smile.
Oh how she wished they had kissed instead.
As a woman, Emilia believed that moments such as the one she had witnessed was meant to be kept between the two of them and no one else but them.
However, since she had seen such a sweet sweet moment, she decided that sharing the news with her closest friends wouldn't hurt.
"They were actually talking this time, that Kanda and Allen" she sighed dreamily. "Just the two of them too...", she continued. "Too bad they didn't kiss though", she finally ended.
She was talking with her friends in low whispers, though that didn't stop another students from hearing the words 'Kanda and Allen,' just the two of them', and of course the word 'kiss'.
The very next day, Kanda barged into the cafeteria with a passive expression set in place and stopped in front of the table Allen was eating in.
"What the hell is this talk I've been hearing about us kissing?" Kanda didn't even beat around the bush.
The room fell silent, and everyone wondered who had made that rumor slip. Allen only blinked at Kanda in confusion.
"Really when?" Allen asked, to which the man clicked his tongue.
The people in the cafeteria were too busy wondering which idiot had let that one slip enough that one of them heard to listen further into the conversation.
Up to the point Allen slowly stood up from his chair and faced Kanda.
"Does it bother you that much? The rumor I mean?" Everyone started to pay attention again.
"I fucking hate rumors that aren't true." Kanda declared. Some of the students actually flinched.
And that's when Allen, then and there, decided to lean a little closer to Kanda, stand on his tip toes, and plant one real solid kiss on the edge of the Asian teens mouth. Allen withdrew with a meaningful smile on his lips and stared at the slightly surprised Kanda.
Now the rumors aren't fake, Allen's smile said. What are you going to do about it, BaKanda?
Frozen as they were after seeing the scene, some actually almost fainted, when in reply, Kanda clicked his tongue again and the smallest of smiles graced the mans face.
For the first time ever.
"Let's go Beansprout." Kanda turned away and walked to the door.
"I already told you. My name is Allen." Allen replied.
...
...
The most meaningful event of them all, and everyone was too stunned to even move.
There was no holding hands, no touchy feely actions other than that one small kiss.
But for all it was worth, what a happily ever after it was.
Authors Note: Mushie! It was mushie! Anyway, I got everything I wanted to be in this chapter, in the chapter, and for that I am happy. I hope my readers are too with the outcome of the chapter, though I admit, this was a bit of a rush.
Also , sorry for mistakes.
And once again, thank you all for reviews, alerts, and favorites. I'll be acknowledging all of you guys in the epilogue chapter as my proper thanks!
Until the next chapter then!