Story 3: "Ragged Nights"

Summary: The fighting between Kanda and Allen has gotten so bad that it's time for the others to intervene. And you know what that means: locking the pair in a room together.

Contains an Arekan Lemon.

A/N: I envision this as being the sequel to Story 2 - "Silent Moments".

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In the past six months, things had gone from bad to worse between Allen and Kanda. The fighting between the pair was no longer cute and amusing. Everyone was afraid that they actually were going to kill each other. It seemed like a miracle that neither had ended up in the infirmary yet. A few finders had ended up with relatively minor wounds, but that was because they had been stupid enough to try to intervene.

If they were both at headquarters, it was guaranteed that they'd be pointing their weapons at each other before the day was half over, and that the air would be thick with insults the entire time. It was just as bad when they were apart too. Kanda would fly into a rage at the mere mention of Allen, while Allen no longer had anything nice to say about the samurai, and took to pairing his name with curse words.

The two in question were currently on the couch in Komui's office, along with Lavi, while the purple haired man briefed them on their next mission. Not that they were listening to him. No, they were focused on each other, with death glares so intense that Lavi wished that he hadn't decided to sit between them.

Then the bickering started. Lavi bolted off the couch to an empty chair. Komui stopped talking. The two couldn't even make it through a mission briefing without fighting. The Chinese man was done putting up with their antics.

"That's enough!" Komui slammed his hands down on his desk so hard that a pile of books and files fell to the floor.

The pair ceased fighting immediately. Allen hung his head in shame, his white bangs obscuring his face. The British teen was fully aware that they had crossed a line. Kanda, on the other hand, merely crossed his arms across his chest and glared sullenly at the wall. The angry Japanese teen would never admit that he'd done something wrong.

Komui cleared his throat. "Listen closely you two, because I'm only going to say this once. It's high time you learned to get along. I don't care how much you hate each other; you need to put aside your differences. If you can't... Then I'm going to have to separate you."

You could have heard a pin drop in the next room. The usually jovial supervisor was dead serious. "I don't want to do this, but you've gotten out of control. If you can't figure out how to be in a room together without fighting, I'll be forced to reassign one or both of you to a different branch."

Allen was close to tears, like he wasn't used to getting in trouble. Kanda looked angry, but the samurai always looked angry, so it was hard to tell what he was thinking. Lavi felt like laughing, but he had the sense to remain silent. He knew there was tension between the two, but he thought the supervisor was being a little extreme. But maybe scare tactics were what the Chinese man was going for.

Komui sighed and sank back into his chair. "Now, you've got a mission to attend to. Go."

Kanda stormed out of the office immediately. Allen smiled apologetically before he left too. Lavi leaned back in his chair and spoke to Komui. "You're insane. You know that, right?"

.x.x.

The mission lasted a week. All three boys were exhausted when they returned home. Allen headed straight for the cafeteria while Kanda went to meditate. Lavi wanted to go to his room and sleep, but he had more pressing matters to attend to.

He entered Komui's office without knocking. Lenalee was there having tea with her brother. They were startled by the sudden appearance of the redhead, but he didn't care that he was interrupting. Lavi sprawled out on the couch, grinning like a madman. "Want the good news or the really good news?"

"And what, pray tell, are you talking about?" Komui narrowed his eyes at the Bookman apprentice, he did not appreciate having his sister time interrupted.

"I know what's going on with Yuu-chan and Allen-chan~!" Lavi had the Lee siblings' complete attention. They were both frozen speechless, tea spilling from Komui's cup onto his paperwork covered desk.

"I spent the last week watching them try to get along. All that built up tension between them? It's sexual in nature." Lavi laughed at their blank faces.

"So you're saying that Kanda and Allen are ... attracted to each other?" Lenalee laughed in disbelief. "That's ridiculous."

"You wouldn't be saying that if you knew just how many times I saw Kanda check out Allen's ass this week." Lavi shuddered at the memory. It was only three times, not many at all, but that was still three more times than Lavi ever would have expected.

Komui cleared his throat and adjusted his glasses. "How is that good news?"

"That's simple." Lavi shrugged. "We get them to admit their feelings and they'll stop fighting."

Lenalee burst out laughing at that. "And how do you propose getting them to do that? It's not like we can just lock them in a room together!"

"And what's wrong with that?!" Lavi grumbled.

"Alright, settle down." Komui finally righted his now empty tea cup. "We can call that plan B. In the meantime, have either of you tried talking to them about it?"

Lavi gave a pointed look at Lenalee. "What?"

"You're close to Allen; the rumor was that you and he were..." The redhead cleared his throat after a nervous glance at Komui. "Anyway, if he's into Kanda then that's clearly not true. Which must mean that he's confiding in you. So..." He looked at the green haired girl expectantly.

She stared at both of them for a long while. Then she finally sighed. "All I know is that he's gay. That's all I could get out of him. He's too scared to tell me anything more."

"Scared of what?" Lavi blinked in confusion.

"Of Central." Komui answered after a glance at Lenalee.

She nodded in agreement. "Allen's already on thin ice with them. He thinks that this is something they'd use to send him away." She sighed wearily. "I know it's not, but he won't believe me."

The room fell silent as they tried to process what Lenalee had said. Lavi was the first to break it. "So talking to Allen isn't going to do any good. Anyone fancy talking to Kanda?"

The suggestion was met with complete silence. He grinned devilishly at the siblings. "So does that mean I can go ahead with my plan?"

.x.x.

It ended up being really easy to lock Allen and Kanda in a room together.

Lenalee asked Allen nicely to meet her there and he went without suspecting anything. Until the door burst open, and Lavi and Kanda came rushing in. Lavi had stolen Mugen while the samurai was meditating, and the blue haired teen had chased him all the way to the designated room.

Kanda stopped in his tracks when he saw Allen. Lavi took advantage of the still moment to escape. The very audible click of the door locking behind him had both exorcists banging on the door. "What the fuck, Lavi?!"

"You're locked in."

"I noticed that, Baka Usagi!" Kanda tried to kick the door down, but it didn't budge. "Now let me out!"

"Nope~! Not until morning. And only if you've talked." Lavi hoped this worked. If it didn't he was dead.

"Talked? About what?" Allen spoke at the same time as Kanda.

"And what's stopping us from breaking the door down?"

"Sir Koumlin the ... Fifteenth or something like that." The imprisoned teens froze in horror. "It's set to stop you from leaving the room."

There wasn't really a robot, thankfully, but it was a very convincing lie to keep Allen and Kanda locked up. "And you know exactly what it is you need to talk about."

Lavi ran at full speed to the room where Lenalee and Komui were waiting. He did not want to miss a second of what was about to happen. He was gasping for breath when he sank into an empty chair in front of the screen Komui had set up.

Giving up on trying to get out, Kanda moved to the bed in the corner of the room and sat down. Allen slid down the door to sit on the floor. He sighed and looked up at the ceiling.

After about half an hour of silence, long enough to make sure no one was outside (and drive the three watching in the other room crazy), Allen spoke. "Well we screwed that up, eh?"

"Che." Kanda stood up. "And how do you figure that, Moyashi?"

"The name's Allen, Bakanda." There was no bite to the insult. Then he laughed. "We went a little overboard with the 'pretending nothing's different' bit."

Kanda smirked as he helped Allen up off the floor. "I'm afraid I don't know what you mean, Moyashi."

Allen hit him playfully in the shoulder. "You do too, Yuu." The watchers gasped at Allen's use of Kanda's first name. "It's just so damn hard to act like I still hate you, Yuu. I must have-"

Allen's sentence was cut off with a moan as Kanda's hands cupped his ass. He narrowed his eyes at the blue haired teen. "Couldn't you have waited till I was done talking before you started groping me, Yuu?"

"Nope." The watchers were frozen in shock as Kanda started kissing Allen, his hands sliding into the boy's pants.

Allen placed his hands on Kanda's shoulders and pushed him away. Kanda growled at the action. "Calm down a second, Yuu."

Kanda glared fiercely as Allen reached behind himself and pulled the samurai's hands out of his pants. "Mo-ya-shii..."

"Relax, Bakanda. We'll get there." Allen walked away and began searching around the room for something. Lenalee glanced nervously at Lavi, wondering if he hid the camera well enough.

"Then what's the hold up?" Kanda demanded, coming up behind Allen.

Allen paused his search to roll his eyes at Kanda. "Lavi locked us in here."

"So?"

The British teen rolled his eyes again and went back to what he was doing. "So... he probably hid a recording device somewhere."

"Fuck!" Kanda joined him in a panic, his method of searching a lot less careful than Allen's.

Two of the three in the other room watched in horror as it took the two teens less than two minutes to find and smash the camera. But Komui had a hunch that Lavi's camera would be found, and had secretly hidden a second one in the room.

.x.x.

Satisfied that they were no longer being spied on, Kanda once again began trying to make out with Allen. Only to have the younger push him away once again.

"What now, Moyashi?" The petulant growl was Kanda's personal version of a whine.

Allen blushed and fiddled with his sleeves. "Er... We're in a strange room... The lube's in my bedroom... You don't suppose Lavi left us any..."

"It's in my coat pocket." Kanda stated calmly, pulling Allen back into his grasp.

"What?! Why?!"

Kanda snorted. "We've been on a mission with the Usagi for the past week. I wanted to be prepared to jump you the first chance I got."

Kanda didn't give Allen a chance to react. He captured the boy's lips in a passionate kiss. As the kisses grew in intensity, they started undressing each other. Kanda's long fingers slowly unbuttoned Allen's shirt, careful not to pop off any buttons, solely to avoid pissing the British teen off. Experience had taught him to not destroy the Moyashi's clothes.

The kisses didn't stop until all their clothes were on the floor. They broke apart to root through the fabric. It was Allen who found Kanda's jacket and retrieved the small bottle of oil they used for lube, commenting that it would have been easier if they had collected it before they started.

They moved to the bed, setting the lube on the side table. Kanda threw Allen down on his back and pounced on the smaller teen. After several minutes of the samurai teasing and playing with his chest, Allen finally found his voice. "It's my turn to top, Bakanda."

Kanda groaned as he finished marking the boy's collarbone with a hickey. "I was hoping you'd forgotten that."

He complained, but the samurai rolled over onto his back and let Allen take control. Being under that bean sprout was preferable to not having him at all, which was what the boy would do if he really tried to fight him off.

Allen nudged Kanda's legs apart and knelt between them. He leaned over and went straight for the samurai's weak spot, tracing his tongue along the grooves of Kanda's abs. Allen knew it was working when Kanda began to make that sound that the samurai would later deny was a whimper, his fingers tangling in Allen's hair.

Allen retrieved the bottle of oil without stopping his ministrations. Slicking his fingers and tossing the bottle aside, he never once lifted his tongue from Kanda's skin. Without bothering to give Kanda warning or even ask if he was ready, Allen shoved two of his fingers inside Kanda's hole.

He wriggled the digits, quickly stretching Kanda enough to add a third finger. From there he let experience guide him to the bundle of nerves that would make Kanda call out his first name and moan for more. Allen allowed himself to enjoy the noises for only for a few seconds before he withdrew his fingers and positioned himself at the prepared entrance.

Kanda cried out when Allen buried his shaft inside him. Allen didn't move for a moment, but Kanda knew that it was because the teen was trying to collect himself and not come on the spot, rather than because he was waiting for Kanda to be ready, because he knew that Allen didn't particularly care about that.

When Allen was ready, he started thrusting, soon finding that rhythm that Kanda enjoyed. And once again, he let experience lead him to Kanda's prostate. Allen repeatedly thrust into the spot until Kanda couldn't take anymore. Kanda screaming out Allen's name as he came, with the teen following him almost immediately.

Having achieved release, the teens curled up together under the blankets and fell asleep in each other's arms. Mumbled "I love you's" were the last thing either heard.

.x.x.

After quite a bit of tinkering, Komui finally got the second recorder working. The sound came through first, and the three got an earful of moaning and heavy breathing, making them all think that the recorder was still broken. Those were not sounds that belonged to Allen or Kanda.

That thought passed quickly though when they all clearly heard Kanda cry out Allen's real name. Lavi pulled off his headband in frustration. "What the hell did we miss?!"

It was at that moment that the static on the video cleared up. They stared at the screen in disbelief, trying desperately to process what they were seeing. Komui caught on first and was up in a flash, turning off the recorder before his sister's purity was tainted.

In the silence that followed, Lenalee whispered, "Were they just...?" She looked like she had seen a ghost. "...Having sex?"

Lavi's face was white. As much as he had secretly wanted that to happen, he hadn't planned on seeing it. There was quite a difference between knowing your friends were sleeping together and actually seeing them go at it.

Komui clapped his hands together and spoke in a fake cheerful voice. "I think it's about time we all got back to work." He ushered the teens out of the room.

.x.x.

Allen woke up groggily the next morning, in a bed that was neither his nor Kanda's. He panicked briefly before recalling what Lavi had done the night before.

He sat up slowly, yawning and running his fingers through his hair to smooth out his bed head. The moment his hand fell back to his side he was hit in the face with something white. Allen removed the fabric from his head, mock glaring at Kanda.

The samurai smirked from his position on the floor. Like always the Moyashi had perfect timing, waking up just as Kanda finished his morning meditation. "You may want to get dressed before the Baka Usagi comes to check on us."

A nervous sounding knock followed the statement, and Allen scrambled into his shirt. "Umm... Are you guys awake in there?"

Kanda was at the door in a flash, the way he banged on it made Lavi even more scared than he already was. "Let me the fuck out of here, Baka Usagi! If I have to tolerate this idiot for one more second-"

Allen paused his scramble for his clothes and stuck his tongue out at the samurai in response to the statement, which caused Kanda to cut off with a growl so that he wouldn't actually laugh out loud at the sight of his Moyashi acting like a child while naked from the waist down.

Lavi meanwhile found his courage; if Kanda was threatening to kill someone then he didn't know that their actions the night before had been recorded. Which meant that Lavi had blackmail to get the samurai to behave. "Come on, Yuu-chan~. You should be thanking me, not swearing at me."

"And just how the fuck did you reach that conclusion?" Kanda growled, torn between murdering a rabbit and laughing at Allen, who was rushing so much that he had put his pants on backwards.

"I know what you two did in that bed last night." The pair froze completely, Allen's pants falling out of his grip and to the floor. "So before I let you out, I want a thank you for having given you the opportunity to finally get together."

Lavi's demand was met with silence. Allen and Kanda held a wordless conversation before the younger finally spoke. "Umm, Lavi? We've been together for several months now."

"WHAT?!" Lavi flung the door open at the revelation. It was an anticlimactic action though, as Kanda had been leaning against the door, and with the samurai's weight against it, it banged back into the redhead's face. Allen jumped at the noise, blushing fiercely as he hurried to put his pants on correctly.

Kanda smirked as he moved away from the door. He pulled it open to reveal Lavi rubbing his nose. "That hurt!"

"Che. It was your own damn fault, Baka Usagi."

Lavi ignored him and turned his attention to Allen, who was sitting calmly on the bed as if he wasn't half-naked just a few seconds earlier. The British teen smiled sweetly at the shocked look on the redhead's face. "Yes Lavi?"

"You said 'several months'. Exactly how long is that?" It took Lavi a moment to form the sentence; his mind was reeling at finding out that the night before hadn't been a one-time thing.

Allen glanced at Kanda, wordlessly confirming the timeline. He shrugged at Lavi. "Six months."

As Lavi processed that, he suddenly recalled the reason this whole escapade had started in the first place. "Then what's with all the fighting?"

"We were trying to pretend nothing had changed between us." Allen blushed lightly. "We went a little overboard."

"Che. I don't see what the big deal is. It's just a little fighting." Kanda was leaning up against the re-closed door, his arms across his chest.

Allen smirked at him. "That's because you're a sadistic bastard. You don't even know how to be nice in the bedroom."

Kanda returned the smirk, but it was dark. "What does that say about you then, Mo-ya-shi?"

When Allen launched himself towards Kanda, Lavi thought a fight was imminent. He did not expect the pair to start making out. He'd seen them kiss on the recording the night before, but it was nothing like this. Allen leapt onto the samurai, wrapping his legs around the man's waist. Kanda's arms wrapped around the smaller teen, one hand tangling into Allen's hair while the other slid into his pants. Their lips were locked like they couldn't get enough of each other.

Lavi cleared his throat loudly, and the pair broke apart, Allen blushed fiercely and Kanda frowned. Allen's stomach rumbled loudly just then, and the teen's blush got deeper.

"Guess it's time for breakfast, eh Moyashi?" Kanda smirked at the white haired teen, pushing him towards the pile of his clothes that were still on the floor.

.x.x.

Word had passed quickly among the finders and scientists of what Lavi had done to Allen and Kanda that night. Bets had been placed on the outcome, though it was little more than picking which of the teens would be dead by breakfast. The general consensus was that the redhead would be the one to bite the dust.

When the three walked into the cafeteria that morning, all eyes were on them. It wasn't until they were seated at their usual table with Lenalee that the observers began to notice what had changed. And it wasn't what anyone had expected.

Allen and Kanda sat beside each other, closer than usual. Kanda's free hand was on Allen's knee. And every few minutes Allen would briefly lean into the samurai's shoulder. But the most astonishing part was when, after Lenalee demanded proof that the night before wasn't a fluke, Kanda leaned over and kissed Allen on the lips.

A few finders fainted at the completely unexpected action. Others tried to cheer, but they were silenced by the death glare Kanda gave them when he finally released Allen. The room was dead silent after that, so everyone could hear the conversation that followed. "Now, now Bakanda, we've been over this before. You have to be nice to the finders."

"Che. Baka Moyashi." Kanda's tone was angry, but he pulled the smaller teen onto his lap and kissed him again.

.x.x.

Initially Lavi was regarded as a hero for ending the war between the pair, but Kanda put a stop to that the second he heard the rumor. He was not going to let the redhead take credit for bringing him and his Moyashi together. Not when all exposing them did was cause Allen to become more stressed than he already was.

While Allen was thrilled to finally be able to kiss his lover in public, he was still waiting for Central to reach a decision regarding his punishment for that lover being male. It had been two months since their investigation had started. Howard Link had received disciplinary action for withholding information and deceiving his superiors. The investigation had revealed that in the time he was supervising Allen Walker, the inspector had actively covered up the teenager's relationship with Kanda Yuu. The problem with that discovery was that it called into question Link's ruling that the Fourteenth Noah was not a threat, and Central was forced to reopen that investigation.

As far as the Order was concerned, the relationship between Allen and Kanda was a good thing. They had always been the strongest exorcist pairing. A relationship between them only made that bond stronger. It also gave Komui peace of mind in sending them on missions together, knowing that the pair would do whatever it took to keep each other alive. No one cared that they were both men, or rather, the few homophobic finders had the sense to keep their mouths shut.

The fighting between the two never completely stopped. Not a day went by without Allen and Kanda hurling insults at each other. Yet for every curse word, there was a smile or a kiss to balance it out; real names were used just as often as the nicknames. And it was incredibly rare, but there were even occasions on which Kanda Yuu could be heard saying, "I love you," to Allen Walker. No one was going to ruin that with words of hate.

As the Lee siblings had known from the beginning, Central did eventually decide to ignore the homosexual relationship between two of its exorcists. But what happened next came as a surprise to everyone but Howard Link. Over the course of the investigation, they had learned what Link had instinctively known from the moment he had discovered the lovers: Kanda's presence in Allen's life was suppressing the Fourteenth to the point where the Noah could never awaken. From there Central decided that there was only one logical next step. And it was an order that the pair were happy to comply with.

Allen Walker and Kanda Yuu were married on their first anniversary. Lenalee and Lavi were their bridal party. It was a plain yet beautiful service. Everything set Teidoll off and he spent the entire day crying tears of joy. Cross chose an hour before the ceremony started to reveal that he had faked his death. He was not going to miss the opportunity to attend his apprentice's wedding. The redheaded general then proceeded to get drunk and tell embarrassing stories about Allen. Not to be outdone, Teidoll joined in with a story he knew would embarrass Kanda: the one about just how much Allen had changed the samurai. It would later be a wonderful memory, but at the time, the pair were all too happy to leave on the honeymoon that Komui had arranged for them.