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Here's the latest chaper! Things take a turn for the worse here because Narien can't just screw up Allen and Kanda's life once – oh no, he has to do it REPEATEDLY.

I hope you enjoy it. Please review. Any comments or criticism are welcome just please don't flame-broil me. XD.

((P.S. Someone asked me - I'm sorry! I can't find your review, dear person! – to see flashbacks of Tyki and Lavi when they met and became mates. Would you guys be interested in that?))

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Chapter 9: Stormy Weather

Sunlight streamed through thin curtains to bathe the two on the bed with warmth. It cast itself over their entwined limbs and upon feeling it seep into their skin, both buried deeper into the bed and each other. It was a moment of peace and bliss. The next thing Yuu and Allen registered was a delicious, meaty smell. Even in the midst of sleep, their noses twitched and two sets of ears, one platinum and the other a midnight blue, turned to the doorway.

Then, suddenly there was a loud cry from downstairs. Both NECOs shot up, instantly awake – Allen in anticipation and Yuu in a foul mood—as they recognized it was Lavi screaming.

"BACON IS REEEEAAAADDDDY!"

Allen leapt out of bed, as he usually did most mornings, only to fall flat and yowl in pain. Yuu moved to scoop his mate onto the bed again.

"Baka! You can't move that fast after having sex!"

"Oww, that really hurt" Allen muttered, clutching his rear as his silver ears remained flat to his head. Yuu nuzzled his nose into Allen's fluff of white hair, before biting his neck gently.

"Move slowly today. You're gonna hurt for a while. I'll carry you everywhere if I need to."

"I'm not in that much pain! I can walk just fine and I don't need you to carry me."

"Oh really?" Yuu purred lowly into his mate's ear, delighting in the shiver it caused. "If you can still walk then perhaps I didn't do my job well enough last night. You up for another round tonight, moyashi?"

Allen blushed a dark red and struggled out of his mate's hold.

"I… you can't! That's… well, O-ok yeah, but…" His blush grew darker as he braved a glance at his mate lounging on the bed. Allen just shook his head. "You're such a pervert," he muttered, trying to ignore the way he could feel Yuu smirking at his back.

Just then, Allen's stomach let out a monstrous noise. Allen clutched at it, realizing that he'd missed dinner last night. Apparently, his stomach was determined he eat twice as much this morning to make up for it.

Allen moved gingerly over to their dresser, hearing the bed creak behind him as Yuu got up. His mate moved up beside him at their dresser, pulled a few things from the top drawer and then turned to silently get dressed.

Allen pulled his own clothes out from a lower drawer but paused to dig around in the small wooden jewelry box they had. After removing the top, he beamed as he pulled out his favourite gift – a thin bracelet embedded with polished white gems. The stones danced as light reflected off them and Allen looped the bracelet over his left wrist.

"Che, what are you grinning at moyashi?"

"I'm going to wear my bracelet today," Allen announced, clasping the bracelet in place. "The gift you gave me after we escaped. Remember?"

A small grin touched the dark-haired man's lips as he nodded, pulling on pants over his boxers.

"Make sure you don't lose that thing," the Japanese NECO said through a smirk.

"You know I never will."

Allen took a moment longer to admire the bracelet and its sparkle. It was only a thin band, but it was the most valuable thing Allen owned because it came from Yuu. Satisfied that the gift was securely on his wrist, Allen dressed with some help from his lover. As soon as he finished the two shared some grooming and kissing before heading for the kitchen.

Allen was embarrassed to admit he had trouble walking down the stairs with the ache of last night still being felt on his body. Yuu just grinned behind his moyashi's back the whole time, doing his best not to embarrass his mate any further.

As soon as they walked into the kitchen, Allen spotted the two plates of meaty bacon and moved towards them like a magnet.

Lavi swatted at the younger NECO's hand with the spatula he was using to flip the bacon, causing Allen to pout. Yuu watched his mate to ensure he was alright and then took a seat beside Tyki. The Portuguese man sipped at his coffee and offered the pot to Yuu, who just wrinkled his nose in disgust.

Tyki just grinned, having expected that from the Japanese teen.

"So then boys," the wolf-NECO drawled, setting his cup down, "How was your night?"

"Good, how was yours? Sorry I missed dinner."

"Che. Are the brat and your family gone for good?"

"They'll be back this afternoon to say goodbye to us all," Lavi said, flipping more bacon. Yuu growled at the response, but was cut off by Tyki.

"Don't worry, pussycat. Narien isn't going to touch Allen ever again… Rhode made sure the thought won't even cross his mind, plus we'll tear him limb from limb if he thinks he can ever get away with it."

Yuu's glare and growl didn't waver. Tyki's dark ears twitched atop his head, before perking to their full height.

"Oh well, onto better topics – how was your night together, boys?"

"You already asked us that," Allen said through a mouthful of toast.

"Ah, did I? My apologies." Tyki's smile was wide and eerily cheerful. His gold eyes glinted. "I guess I was just curious as to why Lavi and I came home to dirty footprints on the table and the countertops –"

Allen froze. Yuu just rolled his eyes and took an apple off the table.

"—and the floor was a mess. It was very strange. And the house was so quiet, almost as though you two had done something very exhausting for hours on end before passing out. Hmm, I wonder what that could've been…"

Tyki's grin was pure evil. Allen did his best to avoid the gold eyes starring at him.

"Che, the moyashi and I had sex for the first time last night. It's exactly what you're thinking," Yuu stated bluntly. Allen and Lavi both spluttered incredulously behind the Japanese teen. Tyki did a double-take.

"Wait, the first time? You're saying last night was the first time you and Allen had sex?"

"What the fuck are you hinting at, mutt?" Yuu growled out. Lavi placed a final plate of bacon on the table before sitting across from the other two.

Tyki rolled his eyes before giving the Japanese NECO a bored look. "Relax pussycat, I'm not insulting you or your mate. But if that was sex, how the hell do you explain all the moaning that went on yesterday morning? With Narien at the kitchen table? That definitely wasn't the sound of you two playing cards."

Allen blushed a cherry red at the realization that his moans had been heard all the way downstairs. Yuu kept his face impassive, but the swagger of his tail told how he really felt.

"That was me showing the moyashi what a blowjob is." A hint of a smirk touched his lips as he spoke, which Lavi noticed with all too much glee.

"Damn, Yuu-chan, you must be amazing with your mouth if you got Allen to scream like that," Lavi teased with a grin in Allen's direction. The platinum-haired NECO reacted accordingly, blushing a darker red and covering his face with his hands. Lavi just laughed at the poor boy before he turned to grin back at the cocky-but-pretending-not-to-be Japanese teen. "Say, you mind giving me a chance to see how good you are with that mouth?"

Tyki swiftly turned to glare at his lover as he all but growled out, "Excuse me, querido? In case you've forgotten, the only mouth you need is mine. Are you saying my mouth isn't enough to satisfy you? Because that sounded like a fucking challenge – I'd be more than wiling to drag you into the next room and remind you just how much my tongue can make you –"

"Ahh! You're both like my brothers, please stop!" Allen said hurriedly.

Tyki quieted yet didn't remove his gaze from his bunny-eared mate. Lavi's grin just widened as he blew his lover a kiss.

Hours later, there was a swift knock at the door that Tyki confirmed was the rest of his family. Yuu shoved Allen behind him and nestled them both into a corner of the kitchen. Narien wasn't going to even get the chance to look at Allen – the Japanese NECO would make damn sure of that.

Sheryl waltzed in with a smile and a kiss for his brother, followed by Skin who lumbered over to the fridge. Rhode skipped in next, dragging Narien behind her. His head was wrapped in gauze and he had a collection of bandages tied around him. There were also pink band-aids and heart stickers on his cheeks. Yet what was most disturbing was the smile he wore - his smile was hollow and his eyes were unfocused.

Tyki gave Yuu a nod at the Indian-NECO, while Lavi moved to welcome them in.

"Hey Narien, how are ya? I hope your head's ok and the doctor –"

"G-g-get aw-away from m-me!" Narien shrieked, and he suddenly spun on his heel and ran into Rhode's welcoming arms. She giggled and kissed his cheek, muttering little soothing words.

"I only want Rhode, just her, only her" Narien said stiffly, eyes wide and unmoving from Rhode's face. She just 'aww-ed' and cuddled into him, looping their arms together. The brown-haired NECO smiled again like a doll while Lavi cringed and moved away from the pair.

Narien's gaze remained distant and unseeing, and Allen's tail curled around his thigh at the broken expression.

Rhode cocked her head, noticing Skin digging through the fridge.

"Uncle Tyki, may we have a snack?" she pleaded, pouting up at the other wolf-NECO.

"Of course, feel free to eat anything in the fridge," Tyki told his niece, ruffling her hair. She grinned up at him and then dragged Narien after her to join Skin in finding a snack.

Tyki waltzed over to kiss his lover, enjoying the way Lavi slipped his hands under his shirt to trace patterns on his hips. Both missed the way Sheryl's mouth puckered in distaste behind their backs.

"Tyki, I'm going out for a smoke. Look after Rhode for a moment won't you?"

"Mmm-hmm," Tyki muttered, his lips still firmly on those of his mate's. He squeezed Lavi's backside just as Sheryl left in disgust.

"Oooh! This looks delicious!" Rhode cried from the fridge, her head poking up from the white door. "Can the 3 of us have it?"

"Whatever it is, sure." Tyki kissed Lavi again, enjoying the redheads' smile.

Meanwhile, in the other corner, Yuu was busy making sure Allen was alright.

"Did Narien stare at you at all?"

"No."

"Do you want me to kick him out? I'll happily –"

"I'm ok, Yuu." Allen said through a smile. "I just want to make sure he knows I'm yours. Only and always."

"Damn right you are," Yuu said, sealing his lover's lips in a firm, possessive kiss. Allen gave into it happily and the two lost themselves in the act. Too soon it seemed, Yuu pulled away to lick at his moyashi's lips. Allen stroked Yuu's tail in response, yet the clatter of forks drew Allen's appetite. He pulled away from his taller lover to get something to eat for himself. He smelled chocolate and that really -

As soon as Allen caught sight of what Rhode, Narien and Skin were eating, his heart skipped a beat. His features became pale and he felt like lead had dropped into his gut.

This can't be happening. No no no NO NO -

"MY CAKE!" Allen cried in a panic, dashing over to the ruined lump of chocolate as though he could somehow bring it back. The young NECO looked between the near empty plate and Rhode with distressed, pleading eyes. Narien remained by her side, his head cocked in confusion. Allen sent them both a look of horror before his ears fell and his arms dropped lifelessly to his sides.

"We had a cake in the fridge?" Lavi asked his lover. Tyki just shrugged, his eyes trained on Allen and his niece.

"Allen," Tyki called, "are you ok? You look like you're about to cry. If that was your cake I assure you Rhode will buy you a new one."

"No no no no... no no no…" Allen murmured. "That was Yuu's cake."

Yuu turned to look at his lover questioningly, while the other occupants of the room grew still.

"I made it just for him. For tomorrow. All I had to do was put icing on it…" Allen's eyes, to Tyki's horror, began to fill with water. Allen scrubbed at his eyes with his blackened left hand, his tail hanging limply behind him.

"S-sorry, I don't mean to sound so worked up over a cake but –"

"Yuu's birthday isn't until June though. Was tomorrow something special?"

"It's our anniversary. The anniversary of when me and Yuu met." Allen turned to give a watery smile to his lover. Yuu's heart clenched at the sight. "I wanted to give you something and I thought I could make a cake for you, since we don't really have money for expensive gifts and shopping is dangerous. I made the cake just for you… it was all dark chocolate, so it was bitter cause I know you don't like sweet things." Allen gave a sheepish smile to Tyki then, and the wolf-NECO felt guilt fill him up in him at seeing his little brother so upset. "Hah, you asked me yesterday morning why I was so tired, it' s cause I stayed up late making this the night before. I was… I dunno… I should've hid it better I guess but I just… wanted something to give Yuu for our anniversary…I can't believe it's all gone…"

Yuu immediately turned a harsh glare over to the injured Indian-NECO. His eyes were in slits and bloodlust was clear in his voice.

"So now, not only have you violated my moyashi, you fucking brat, but now that's twice you've made him upset. And you fucking ate my cake." Yuu's made sure to grin maliciously at the boy, ensuring he could see the sharpened canines Yuu possessed. "I'm going to kill you. No more excuses" he hissed, taking a menacing stride forwards.

"But you said you wouldn't!" Rhode whined, pouting at Yuu and ignoring the way her mate was whimpering and desperately hiding behind her.

"I lied. Fucking deal with it."

"His ear is still bleeding," Lavi said, suddenly noting the dark liquid was still dripping down Narien's ear. "It shouldn't be bleeding for this long. Something's wrong with it. Allen didn't you put ointment on it and bandage it yesterday?"

Allen felt guilt swell up in him. He had forgotten how badly injured Narien's' ear was.

Yuu moved swiftly in front his pale-haired mate, glaring nose to nose at Lavi.

"No, the moyashi didn't clean the fucking brat's ear. Do you have a problem with that, usagi?"

Lavi eyed the two cat-NECOs before understanding registered in his emerald eye.

"Ah, right," he murmured, eying the blood-stained ear. "You and Narien tussled before Allen could …wait…" Lavi's eye went unexpectedly wide. Then, before anyone could react, Lavi moved to violently yank the bleeding Narien out of Rhode's grasp.

"No!" Narien screamed, as though he were being attacked. "Miss Rhode! My Rhode! Let me go back to her!"

Lavi ignored the cries and locked an arm around the boy's waist, pinning his tanned arms to his sides and holding him still. The rabbit-NECO gripped the boy's cut ear and pulled the skin upwards, stretching it.

Narien cried out and flailed at his hurt ear was abused, causing pain to shoot through his body and into his toes. He arched in pain and the bleeding grew worse, yet Lavi continued to scrutinize his slashed ear.

"Lavi! You're hurting him!" Allen cried worriedly. Even if Narien had kissed him and tried touching him where only Yuu could, he was still a runaway like them. The young NECO couldn't stand the sight of someone in pain, especially someone like them.

The door opened, revealing Sheryl,who stepped inside just as Lavi's ears perked and the redhead let out bellowing curse.

"Fuck!" Lavi shouted all but throwing the Indian boy out of his arms, causing said boy to go stumbling back to Rhode like a madman. "Shit! You stupid kid... Argh! Fuck-a-duck!"

"Excuse me, Lavi? That is disgusting!" Sheryl shouted, nose crinkling in horror as he stared at the redhead. How dare the rabbit NECO say such a thing – and in front of his precious Rhode!

"Lavi, what's wrong?" Tyki hurriedly asked, seeing his lover's uncharacteristic distress. The redhead didn't reply and instead ran into the kitchen.

Feeling his patience wear thin, Sheryl turned to younger brother with a puckered mouth and a low voice. "Tyki, really, how can you call this thing your mate? Just listen to his language, its repulsive! And what on earth does he think he's doing by daring to harm my baby's mate?"

"Thing?" Tyki barked, his own blood boiling at the unexpected insult to his lover. "Sheryl, apologize this instant! Lavi is my mate and I won't let you talk to him like that! So, how fucking dare you!"

"Shut up, all of you!" Yuu yelled, effectively silencing the arguing brothers. Lavi was cursing lowly under his breath still, and was now running around the kitchen, inspecting the window and the cabinets and the inside of the fridge. "Oi, baka usagi, what the fuck are you doing? Stop fucking running around and start talking, dipshit!"

"Ugh, is there no-one in this house with decent manners?" Sheryl muttered, eying the redhead and the Japanese NECO with equal distaste now.

Lavi just eyed Yuu with a pleading look, his green eye flickering around everyone and at everything.

"Yuu, look at Narien's ear. Look. At. It. I'm going upstairs to grab clothes and you guys should grab some food and towels, and uhh….whatever!" the redhead snapped, suddenly running to the living room and the stairs. "Just grab everything you can and let's go! Hurry! "

Yuu looked to Tyki for an explanation, only to find the Portuguese man was doing the same to him between furious glares at his brother.

Yuu and Tyki shared a brief look, golden eyes and blue eyes flickering over to Narien. Lavi's panic struck a suspicious chord within both of them. Allen moved tentatively to grip his mate's arm while his platinum-tail curled worriedly around his thigh.

Seeing that Yuu now had Allen clinging to him, Tyki went for Narien's ear. His niece pulled the boy to her chest as he approached, glaring up at him haughtily. He quickly said "Rhode, let me see him. This isn't a game."

"No, you'll hurt him! And I need him in one piece so I can play with him – Hey! No fair! TYKI!" she cried as Tyki took the opportunity, to wrench the boy from her arms and tug at his bleeding ear.

Tyki glared at the damaged ear just like his mate had done, ignoring the chocolate-haired boy's whines and trying desperately to see what his mate was so worried about. There was a lot of dried blood, and some dead skin that he could see, but what was –

There was a momentary flash of something beneath the blood.

Some kind of metal? Copper? Steel? Tyki thought.

And then the realization hit him.

Suppressing Narien's struggles with one arm, he used his other hand to swipe away the blood, slicking it away from the wound until he could see it for himself and be sure. Upon seeing the upraised, silver rectangle folded over the edge of Narien's ear, he cussed in Portuguese and turned to Yuu.

"He has a stainless-steel tracking chip in his ear. It's active," Tyki said, watching as Yuu and Allen's eyes widened. Allen's hands began to tremble on his mate's arm. "It's either one from the scientists at the Rejection Center or one from a Master. Either way –"

"You fucker!" Yuu hissed, moving to strangle the Indian NECO. Allen gripped his mate with both hands now, barely restraining him. "You lead humans right to us!"

DUN DUN DUHHHHHH. Does anyone remember that Allen stayed up late in Ch.2 making something?... No? Ah well, yeah that's what the anniversary cake was.

=P

And man, Narien is just a shit-disturber. Tsk tsk. He's making everyone's life bad. Angst and drama start up again in the next chapter. Thank you again to all the reviewers!