CHAPTER TWELVE: Heat

"I SAID WHAT?" Allen exclaims, looking and feeling too shocked to be at all embarrassed when the waiter walks in and sees him and Kanda being suspiciously close while have a suspiciously suspicious conversation.

"You said—"the shorter boy quickly covers the dark-haired man's mouth. The Englishman thinks that he is being tormented on purpose, why else would the Japanese attempt to announce what he said that night while the waiter was serving their damn food? They stay like that for a while, and are completely quiet till they hear the waiter close the sliding door shut.

"Are you trying to make everyone think I'm a slut?" with tacky lines?Allen mentally adds.

"That's impossible." Kanda replies flatly "That's what people already think of you. You look so slutty just SITTING there."

"You're just saying that because you slept with me" the Englishman replies "Most people, given they are not butt ugly, look sexier once you've slept with them"

"When did I say you looked sexy? I said you look slutty." he pauses, considers something "Besides, I don't even REMEMBER sleeping with you. MAYBE I was conscious for some of the foreplay, but even my memory on those parts is a bit vague…"

"Are you SURE I said that?" Allen asserts, refusing to fall out of denial

"Of course" the dark haired man was looking pretty confident about his statement

Allen heaves a long sigh "Oh divine beings in heaven, Why me! Why HIM! Why—GAH!"

"What are you so worked up about?" Kanda tilts his head to one side "It was just sex"

"Sex is never JUST sex Kanda"

"Well when neither party remembers the parts that count, I THINK it's safe to say it was JUST sex" he pauses, then scowls "Why are we still talking about this anyway, didn't I tell you to forget about it?"

"I can't forget about it, it was—" but just then, Allen stops himself

"It was what?" Kanda asks, somewhat intrigued when the Englishman grows silent. He chooses to observe Allen's fidgeting for a few moments, simultaneously formulating his own theories on the other's silence as well. Then, predictably, it hits him. He then says "OH" in a tone showing an uncharacteristic amount of amusement.

"Oh what?" Allen looks scared more than anything

"It was your first" Kanda says matter-of-factly

"It—" Allen stutters "It WAS NOT!"

"I bet all you have experience with is testing waters…" as the Japanese talks, the shorter man in front of him turns a bright shade of red "…You've never actually taken the plunge have you?"

"I…" Allen Walker does not lie "…Well technically I STILL haven't, it was MY waters that got breached…" the last phrase, he immediately regrets saying

"Fuck, I told you not to tell me if you found something in your bum…" Kanda grimaces

"I didn't!" Allen exclaims, but then he turns bright red "…I just found a co—"he remembers that they are in public restaurant (albeit in a private room) and feels uneasy "…a… a safety device…"

"And it wasn't anywhere near your size?" Kanda doesn't usually insult other people's manhood, but the bean was a special case

"STOP THAT" the Englishman is still blushing madly "It's just that, I noticed you weren't sore at all the whole day after, while I was feeling kinda funny and…" he mumbles the next phrase "…wasn't my size…"

"We should really just forget about this whole thing…" the Japanese grunts "It's a pain in the ass… specially yours…"

"STOP THAT" Allen says again, "I just…" he fidgets "… the 'main show' aside, do you remember anything else?"

"Quite bugging me about it bean… I just want to fucking eat my Soba in peace…" he picks up his chopsticks "Anyway, it doesn't matter cause obviously it's not happening again"

"But I..." Allen's voice trails away

"Look, if you're gonna be so damn persistent about it, just go on and try remembering on your own"

"I don't even remember the part where I initiated!"

"Well that's YOU'RE problem"

"You're such an ass"

"Be quiet and eat bean, we didn't come to this place just to dine, we came to buy a gift for my FRIEND"

"I know, I know…" the Englishman then sighs as he picks up his own chopsticks

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"They obviously slept together" says Lenalee, after Lavi tells the story of the early morning involving Allen in his underwear, Kanda in his (Allen's) bedroom, and the boa named Mel.

"Damn, kinda figured there was something between them…" this is called, Lavi getting carried away by the moment (slash revelation)

"There ISN'T anything between them…" Lenalee pauses "…well not yet… I think they were just drunk" if you're wondering why Lenalee is so serious, it's because she's still in her party-planning-mode which is so far, according to Lavi's information, the only mode in which Lenalee ends up being mean, or mean sounding, for most of the day.

"Well that explains why Kanda lingered till morning…" the doorman laughs "… it's amazing Allen still agreed to 'helping Kanda'"

"Well…" says Lenalee "…Though Allen doesn't know it yet, I think he's EXTREMELY into Kanda…"

"YEAH he is…" Lavi snorts "… he's always STARING at Yuu…"

"At me?"

"No, at Yuu"

"That's what I said"

"…." Lavi thinks that party-mode-Lenalee is also very strange (and perhaps even a little bit slow).

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"Stop thinking about it bean, you're straining yourself…" though Kanda DID think that this statement applied not only to Allen thinking about 'it', he decided that one insult about Allen and thinking was good enough for today.

"I am NOT straining myself" Allen REALLY hated it that he was kind of lying when he said that, because honestly his head kind of hurt

Kanda snorts and points out "Your eyes are twitching"

"They are NOT!" but they SO totally are

The Japanese snorts "You think this is a good enough gift?" he shows Allen was looks like an expensive pair of sunglasses. He is blatantly ignored.

"I don't fucking remember saying any of it!" Allen grips his hair in frustration

"You're cursing in public bean…"

"Oh shut up"

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"Is it hot it in here? Or is it just you?" Kanda is thankful he's not drunk enough to spout something equally tacky in response to that one heck of a pick-up line. Unaffected at all by the lack of response from his companion, Allen then continues by saying "It's just too damn hot" he groans "Kanda, can you do me a favor?" Kanda didn't even think about the consequences replying "What?" before he did just that. The Englishman then leans in and says "Take of your clothes, and get busy with me", to that, the Japanese replies with a shrug.

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(Original A/N:I'm sorry this was short, I was thinking I should at least reveal part of what happened that night… What happens after Kanda shrugs? HAHA, soon, soon :| for now I'm off to studying for my Logic midterms…. Sigh… Just updated cause I might not have been able to update any other time. And I'm sorry I didn't even so much as re-read this, so it's COMPLETELY unedited, there was bound to be some funny typos and grammatical errors… I'll fix that when I'm not busy with school anymore(which might not be soon unfortunately, bright side is just one month till my sembreak, haha)…)

A/N after edit: changed some of their lines and some minor details, nothing's too different from the original version though