A/N- I actually finished all of my writing (all of it!) before 11:30 so I'm not scrambling to meet my daily posting deadline at the last minute. The last several have been exactly that, 11:59 and like 45 seconds. Yay for getting stuff done on time. This is a light one. Enjoy.
7/1 snowflake.
One early December morning found several of the members of the science division crammed in tight around a window, peering out intently. This was how Allen Walker and Kanda Yuu, who were walking down to breakfast together, found them.
"What's going on," asked Allen, approaching the knot of people.
"Look outside, it snowed!" Exclaimed Johnny. "It's so beautiful!" He extricated himself from the huddle so Allen could take his spot and get a glance at the swirling flakes just beyond the glass. Allen still had to stand on his tiptoes to see over the heads of the other science workers. A white blanket covered the ground and the forest just outside the Order, and piled in drifts against the windowsills.
Kanda snickered from somewhere behind and Allen whirled to glare at him. The older boy was standing with his arms crossed and the hint of a smile disguised as a smirk on his face. "Just what is so funny?"
"You," he replied, "Moyashi." Then he turned and continued down toward the cafeteria.
Allen glared after him for a moment, and considered leaving him to eat alone as retribution for the comment, but the call of food was just stronger than any sense of indignity. When he got to the cafeteria, Kanda had already collected his soba and was eating it at an empty table, ignoring the world around him.
When Allen approached the pickup window, Jerry started loading it full of trays. "Your usual," he said once the boy had collected enough of the trays to be visible again.
"Thanks Jerry," Allen said with a nod.
He was about to turn around when the cook said, "Wait just a minute, cutie." He disappeared into the kitchen for a second and then returned with two steaming mugs of hot chocolate. "I whipped up a batch since it's snowing. I've got one for you and one for your honey over there. He wouldn't take any. Maybe you can convince him."
Allen turned red to the roots of his hair when Jerry winked at him, but he let the flamboyant chef balance the cups on one of his trays. When he sat down next to Kanda, the swordsman kept his face blank as if the boy wasn't there, but pressed his leg against Allen's. He nearly jumped and spilled his burden. He recovered and set the first mug in front of Kanda before gulping down half of his own, and nearly scalding his tongue. It warmed his stomach nicely.
"Moyashi, what is this?"
"Hot chocolate," Allen stated before drinking another mouthful.
"Hm, want to give me a taste?" Kanda leaned toward Allen with a predatory grin. Allen leaned back a bit and quickly held up his mug between them. Kanda snickered. "I don't want it. You can drink mine."
"Then why did you want a taste?" Allen squeaked, flustered.
"Oh, our poor Moyashi, still so innocent," Lavi teased, sliding onto the bench across from the two with own meal breakfast. "Is the big, bad Yuu picking on you?"
"Say that one more time baka Usagi," Kanda threatened. He said it like a casual remark, and barely paused in eating, but Lavi knew he was perfectly serious.
He was saved from putting his foot in his mouth again, which he undoubtedly would, when Komui came on over the loudspeakers. "In light of this morning's weather conditions, we will all be having a snow day!" The cafeteria erupted into cheers, all except for Kanda who wore a skeptical look.
"What's with the face?" Lavi asked.
"Che, a snow day, how stupid. It's not like people can't work in here with the weather."
"Don't complain," the redhead suggested. "Let's all go play in the snow!"
"No. I'm going to meditate," Kanda gathered up his dishes and marched off to deposit them at the drop off window.
"Allen will come play with me!" Lavi called after Kanda's retreating back but he didn't pay attention. "Oh, well," he shrugged. "Come on then!" Allen found himself being pulled down the corridor and toward the awaiting snow.
Allen blinked in the light reflected off the snow through the wide open doors. Lavi left him behind with a whoop to run out into the unmarred powder and cannonball into a snow drift. Allen ran after laughing. It was only moments before what seemed like every person in the building minus one had packed out into the snow. Lenalee and Miranda started building a snowman. Lavi was still in his snow drift, laughing as he tried to make a snow angel. The finders were chasing after each other, to be pushed into a bank if they got caught.
Inside the building, Kanda glanced out the window at the Order members romping around. He didn't get why people like the snow. It was fucking cold, and made everyone act like an idiot. Although, he snuck a second look, his lover did look quite good with his cheeks all flushed from the cold and from laughing… He shook his head to clear it and settled down to meditate. At least there was one good thing about everyone being out there: it was perfectly quiet.
Back out in the snow, Allen could just see the top of Lavi's red head as he tried to dig his way out of the snow drift. It gave him an idea. He leaned down to pack some snow into his hand and then waited for the perfect moment. As soon as Lavi's headband emerged, he let fly; it was a perfect bulls-eye. For a moment, his red target disappeared under a burst of powder. Lavi shook his head like a dog and then called, "Oh, it is so on," while launching a snowball of his own.
It didn't take long for everyone to join the full on snowball war. The science division whipped up a snow fort in record time and kept hurling missiles out at record speed. Everyone suspected Komui had snuck out some invention to help with the assault. Allen and Lenalee used their innocence to carve out a high wall to defend the exorcists' team, not nearly as fancy but just as effective. The finders were struggling to build their defenses, but their numbers allowed them to still hold their own. Laughs and shrieks filled the air as snowballs hit home, the victims rushing to brush the powder off their clothes before it could melt into their collars and socks.
The battle ground to a halt when a window opened in the wall of the building and a voice shouted, "Could you all shut the hell up? How can you be so noisy?"
Allen spotted the head of raven hair topping Kanda's irritated face. He furtively scraped a bit of snow out of the defense wall, took aim and…
His face covered in snow, Kanda quickly picked out his Moyashi, who was meeting his eyes cheekily, almost in a dare. "Moyashi! You are so dead," he roared before ducking back through the window and rushing down through the building.
The little trouble maker was still standing in the same spot with the same cocky look when Kanda emerged into the blinding whiteness. To everyone's surprise, Allen laughed and shouted, "You have to catch me first, Yuu," before turning to dash into the forest
Kanda chased after him quickly. The trees were also a world of white. He had just managed to catch a glimpse of the white haired exorcist when a white cloak settled itself over his shoulders and he disappeared. Kanda cursed Allen's camouflage loud enough for the other boy to hear him. A laugh echoed back through the trees from some unseen point. It sent shivers down Kanda's spine, good shivers.
He relied on his ears to track Allen deep into the forest. He finally caught him, still laughing happily, in a clearing. Kanda tackled him to the ground and they rolled about in a tangle of limbs, trying to shove snow down each other's shirts. Their wrestling match was brought to an abrupt halt when a gust of wind swept through the trees, shaking branches and dumping enough snow on top of the two to nearly bury them. They dug their way out and lay in the snow, exhausted and breathing heavily.
Kanda watched Allen gazing up at the sky as snowflakes fell onto his pale face and collected in his white eyelashes. Suddenly, he stuck out his tongue.
"What are you doing?" Kanda asked.
"Catching snowflakes on my tongue," Allen replied, his voice distorted by his open mouth. "You should try it."
"Why would I want to do that? You look stupid." He actually thought his lover looked rather… tempting, but he wasn't going to say that.
"'Cuz it's fun!"
Kanda could think of something else that would be fun, and he wasn't about to let a brilliant opportunity like this pass. He rolled over so he was pinning Allen to the ground and pressed his mouth over his Moyashi's open one. Allen squeaked in surprise but quickly got into it. He reached his hands up to undo Kanda's hair tie and run his hands through the long black locks, a favorite habit of his, as their tongues danced.
A wolf whistle from somewhere overhead interrupted them. "Nice show guys," called Lavi. They could see he was sitting high in the air on the extended handle of his hammer. "If you were out here any longer we were going to send out a search party. Good thing we didn't or they might have gotten even more of an eyeful."
Allen yanked the hood of his coat over his face in mortification. Kanda just waved his hand absently at the redhead and ordered, "Get lost. We weren't finished yet."
"I'll leave you be then. Don't stay out so long you catch cold." Lavi gave them a salute and a wave before disappearing over the tops of the trees.
"Hm, now where were we?" Kanda asked before going back to attacking his Moyashi's mouth. When they finally broke, Allen's lips were swolen and he didn't feel cold at all despite the fact he was lying in the snow.
"Maybe we should go inside," he suggested, breathing heavily, "I'm soaking wet."
Kanda smirked and remarked, "yes, you should get out of those clothes or you'll catch a cold. And you know you never gave me that taste of hot chocolate." He stood and held out a hand to haul Allen out of the snow. The white-haired boy twined their fingers together before Kanda could pull away. He rolled his eyes, but he didn't let go either.
As they neared the doors, Kanda stopped suddenly, seemingly having forgotten he was holding hands with Allen. He stopped as well and looked back in time to see Kanda catch a snowflake on his tongue. He couldn't help but smile at the sight.
"What are you smiling about?" Kanda asked, tilting his head back down to meet Allen's eyes.
"Yuu," he replied and leaned in for a quick kiss before his lover hauled him inside to enjoy the rest of their snow day.
A/N- And we can all guess what happened next ;)