Finally finished the next chapter! Go me!!!
Somehow this chapter was really hard work. Most of the time when I write a story the characters start moving on their own and I am just the idiot for them and type what they want to do/say. With Kanda more often than not that would be 'sit down, eat soba, meditate, train with Mugen and not saying a word for the whole day'. ¬_¬
Finally the relationship of the two … is finally moving on a little bit (they're both slow, so they don't quiet go along with what I want…) as a setback time is moving more slowly (last chapter was two weeks… and now two days. Somehow I really think I'm doing something wrong :( Unfortunately my beta reader isn't back before the 28th so I still don't get the second opinion on things that I'd need. And yes, this chapter isn't beta read yet either.
Anyway, thanks a lot for reviewing my story ^o^ It's really important to me :)
Now have fun reading! ^_~
Like usual Kanda woke up first the next morning. He sat up and looked at his guest, who was currently still sleeping on the makeshift bed. The boy looked a lot more peaceful now than he did when awake. Peaceful and vulnerable.
Kanda scowled as he realized he was staring at the sleeping figure. The white haired kid made him do things he certainly didn't normally do. He wasn't one to help others, ever, so why had he agreed to study with him, or looked for him when Fou didn't find him? He even spent time with him when he didn't have to at the play yesterday. Not only that but he was curious about the boy's past. And now, for the first time ever, he allowed someone else to sleep in his room.
He had thought (hoped in Lavi's case) that he wouldn't see any of his friends for the next two months, as it was summer holidays and yet here he was, having a sleeping moyashi on his floor when it was the first day of holidays.
The boy turned in his sleep and was now lying on his side, a still gloved hand in front of his face. He remembered that Daisya, who had tried to undress the boy so he would sleep more comfortably, couldn't finish as Allen had held on to his clothes. His idiot brother had ignored his advice to just rip his clothes if it bothered him so much.
He wondered quickly if he should just pull the glove away now, but decided against it in the end. He really didn't care about the weird fetish.
Finally he got up, deciding to train and then take a shower. This should take his thoughts of the frustrating subject, for that was what Allen was to him. An annoying, even infuriating presence, which wriggled itself into his life somehow and disturbed his routine. Yet at the same time he was just as intriguing as he was annoying and he even managed to get him to relax completely – and he couldn't remember when he had last felt as relaxed as he had when the boy played the piano.
He returned to his room an hour later to find the other boy sitting and staring around his room. Obviously he hadn't noticed him coming back. Maybe he was feeling out of it from drinking yesterday.
"Do you have a hangover, moyashi?"
"Huh… Kanda?" Allen turned around and blinked. "Good morning." He finally said.
Somehow the reaction surprised Kanda. The boy didn't show any sign of pain and he also didn't show his usual reaction to being called moyashi. "Are you sick or something?"
Allen looked at him confused and tilted his head. "Why would I be?"
Kanda was getting annoyed. Did the idiot drink so much that he forgot everything? "Maybe the spiked drinks yesterday did more damage than I assumed they would." At least he hadn't puked.
Allen thought for a moment. "No… I feel fine. And I do remember what happened yesterday, thank you very much."
"Good."
"Thanks." He smiled at Kanda. "Were you concerned about me?"
And finally Kanda's frown returned to where it belonged to. "Not at all. I just would have hated to throw you out when you are sick."
"You'd throw your guest out? Before giving them any breakfast?"
Kanda rolled his eyes. Leave it to the kid to think of food. "First of all, moyashi, you are not my guest. I never invited you in. And second with your bottomless pit of a stomach everyone with normal brain functions would throw you out!"
"Jerk. So if I am not your guest, then why am I in your room? Or is it not…?" Allen trailed off to look around the room again. When Kanda had appeared he had thought it was his room.
"It is my room." Kanda answered the question with a sigh. "The old man wanted you to sleep here."
"That's surprising. I didn't think you'd be the type to do what others ask you to do."
"Shut up."
Allen smiled at him and turned to take another good look at the room. Who knew when he could do that again. Kanda however seemed to catch this and pulled him up. "Go take a shower!" He said considerably irritated.
Sighing he followed the raven haired student to the bathroom, where Kanda threw a towel into his arm. "Come downstairs when you are finished." Kanda strode away, not waiting for an answer.
Twenty minutes later the white haired boy came down into the kitchen, to find Kanda sitting at a big table drinking tea. "Sit down." Kanda told him and got up to get some coffee. "Milk and sugar?"
"Sugar only please. Thanks." Allen half expected a snide comment and smiled happily when none came. Somehow it seemed Kanda was more agreeable this morning.
"What's it with those gloves?" Kanda finally gave in to his curiosity and asked the white haired boy who held the cup in his gloved hands.
Allen stared at the coffee in his hand when he answered. "My hand is ugly. I don't like showing it around."
"That's all?" Just how horrible could a hand be that it needed to be hidden? "Didn't think you were the self conscious type, with that strange tattoo of yours." Kanda pointed to the star-shaped scar on Allen's face.
"Hn… It's not a tattoo, it's a scar. I wouldn't want a tattoo like that. And I can't exactly hide my face."
"So you would if you could." Allen didn't bother to reply to this. He already was regretting his early thoughts, the other was as agreeable as always, which meant not at all.
Luckily for him it was at that moment that Marie came into the kitchen. Allen thanked god that not all in the family were jerks. Actually Kanda was the only one.
"Good morning, Allen. Did you sleep well?" He asked and smiled at the boy who was drinking coffee with a small frown.
"Yes. Thank you. And before you ask, I feel fine and don't have a hangover." Allen said with a smile, rightly predicting the next question Marie wanted to ask.
"Ah damn. You didn't puke in Kanda's car and now you don't even have a hangover. How boring." Daisya followed after Marie and plopped down besides Allen.
"I actually think I wouldn't be here right now, if I had puked in the car." Did Daisya want him dead or something?
"It would have been fun. I was sure you'd have a headache today. Maybe they didn't give you much after all." Daisya shrugged.
"Che… Maybe they didn't for the first time. But there were three glasses and they wanted him drunk for real."
"How about I can just hold more than you assumed?"
"Anyway, I am glad you are well, Allen."
"I would have liked to see Kanda taking care of you." Daisya sounded disappointed for real.
"Thank you so much." Allen said wryly.
"Like hell I would."
"I'm sure you would have. Tiedoll planned a family meeting. And now you don't have a reason to not join. You've already missed the last two, so he made sure that you don't have an excuse this time." Daisya informed his younger brother with a happy smile.
"FUCK NO!" Kanda was seriously pissed off. "I will not join any of those fucking meetings again!"
"Why not? I'm sure everyone would love to congratulate you." Daisya snickered at him.
"SHUT UP!"
"Isn't a family meeting nice?" Allen had never been to a family meeting. Mana had been his only family and with Cross he only met women or people from work.
"It is." Marie said at the same time as Kanda said "Fuck no."
"Kanda hates social gatherings." Daisya said with a grin. "Don't tell me that surprises you."
"Ah… not really." Allen had to admit.
"Shut the fuck up!" Kanda hit the table. It was true, he didn't have any excuse why he wouldn't join today. And Tiedoll was sure to ruin the next few weeks with his endless whining if he didn't come along today. He would have indeed preferred to take care of a sick moyashi instead.
"Moyashi, hurry up. We're leaving."
"Where are you leaving to?" Marie asked while Daisya grinned evilly.
"Away from here."
Before Allen could get up however Tiedoll came into the kitchen and Kanda cursed whatever god he knew. Tiedoll gave him a disapproving look. "Stop using such language, Yuu."
Kanda ignored him. "Ready to leave, moyashi?"
"It's Allen, you thickheaded imbecile!"
"Where are you going?" Tiedoll asked.
"I'm taking moyashi home first and then I'll show him around the town. He hasn't seen much except from the Black Order. And even there he gets lost still." Kanda told him swiftly and ignored the coughing that suddenly came from the white haired kid. The old man most likely wouldn't interfere if he was spending time with another living being. And moyashi was the better choice when faced with a family meeting.
"But-"
"I don't know yet when I'll be back so don't wait up."
"At least let Allen eat something. Yuu didn't prepare you anything to eat yet, did he?" Tiedoll asked and turned to Allen.
"No. He suddenly was in a hurry to leave." Allen replied with a pleasant smile on his lips.
Kanda glared at the kid. Trust the bottomless pit to agree to eat something.
Marie and Daisya smiled at each other and Marie helped Tiedoll with preparing their breakfast.
After they had eaten, again Kanda couldn't help but stare as the food vanished in the mouth of their guest, Kanda dragged Allen out.
"Yuu, when you return c-" Like before his beloved son didn't let him finish his sentence though.
"We'll be late."
"We?" Daisya asked with a grin.
"Yes. Moyashi will stay here tonight again. The fucking bed is still prepared too." He glared at Allen, a clear message that he would kill him if the boy would say anything. He'd NOT go to the damn family meeting in the afternoon or the evening.
Tiedoll contemplated this and nodded. "Well… I'll see you tomorrow then. Be careful and don't drive too fast." He hugged his son, who froze at the action, and began to cry. "It's so good that you have finally found a friend."
"Get off!" Kanda yelled at him while Daisya cursed himself for not having his mobile here to take a picture of the epic moment.
Marie pulled Tiedoll away from Kanda and wished them a nice day.
Kanda pushed the white haired boy towards his car and didn't even wait for him to be buckled up before speeding off.
"I didn't think Yuu would open up to someone else so fast." Tiedoll wiped his tears away.
"It's only thanks to the family meeting." Daisya informed him.
"He wants to take him along to it?" Tiedoll was truly surprised by this one, his youngest son never had taken anyone along somewhere ever before.
"No. He thinks the meeting is today." Daisya laughed and Marie smiled.
"We didn't want him to have an excuse then. I played along with Daisya. Besides, Allen is one who can put up with him."
"I'm sure he'll be angry when he finds out." Tiedoll said so he looked rather excited.
"Are you seriously going to stay the whole day?" Allen asked the madman he was currently sitting besides. Trust his luck to put him with the guy that had hated him ever since he had first met him.
"Shut up! Fucking family meetings!"
"So you just chose the lesser evil then? Nice to know there are things you hate more than me."
Kanda turned to glare at the annoying brat. "Would you f-"
"WHATCH THE STREET! Blimey! Do you want us to die?"
"THEN SHUT UP!"
Since Allen actually liked to live and wanted to become older and taller he did what he was told to do. They got to his place in complete silence and Allen opened the gate so Kanda could put the car inside, as he wasn't sure how long his companion would want to stay.
His master still wasn't at home, not that he had really expected him to be. It was still pretty early and who knew if he hadn't decided to vanish again for a few days or even weeks. It wouldn't be the first time after all.
"Want something to drink?" He offered as Kanda sat down on a chair in the kitchen and looked around. If he didn't know better he would say the other was curious.
"Tea without sugar."
Allen prepared tea and a little snack for his golem. "Is your family that bad?"
Kanda sighed, he knew the kid wouldn't shut up about it until he answered. "The only thing they care about is Tiedoll's money."
That was a thing Allen understood well. Some of Cross' flirts had been the same. And yes, the man was loaded… At least until he had spent it all again and left him to deal with the debts. It was always the same. The man would earn a shitload of money and then spend it all in a week on expensive wines and women. Or he just kept it for a while (until he disappeared again) and made Allen pay for his expenses.
"So are you really going to spend the day with me?" Allen asked in disbelief. If it had been him, he might have used the same excuse and then gone to a park or some restaurant or do whatever, instead of spending the day with a person he didn't like.
"Obviously." It seemed the older boy didn't share his escape plans. "You are staying at my place again tonight after all."
"Jeez… you were serious about that?"
"Yes, I fucking was so get over it! It managed to shut the old man up!"
Before Allen could reply anything to that they heard the front door open. Allen shuddered and cursed his luck, his master had come back. Why couldn't he have stayed away longer?
"You know… staying at your place suddenly sounds a lot better." He said quietly enough so his master wouldn't hear. "Please drink your tea quickly." Before Kanda finished his tea however the door opened.
"Doesn't look like you have a hangover." Cross Marian said as he entered the kitchen.
"Of course not! I am not like you." Allen sniffed.
"Though you did get drunk." Kanda offered.
"Did he? Did he do something stupid like dancing on a table then?" Cross asked with sudden interest.
"No."
"Master!"
"So what did you do to get drunk, idiot apprentice?" The red haired man asked with a grin while he started to smoke a cigarette, ignoring Kanda who looked at him with disdain.
"I didn't do anything. My drinks were spiked."
"Figures. Your first time drunk and you didn't even get drunk voluntarily."
"I'm only fifteen! Why would I want to get drunk?" Allen huffed.
"What a bore. Those things are mostly interesting before you are legally allowed to do it." The man sneered at him.
"I don't see the fun in having a headache for the whole next day just to drink something. And I wasn't even really drunk."
"You were, just that you fell asleep right away." Kanda recounted ever so helpful.
"I should have known you would be that kind of drunk. So I guess the girl that spiked your drink didn't even get what she wanted."
"WHAT?"
Cross raised an eyebrow at his yelling apprentice. "God. How can you be so naïve? Why else would someone spike your drink if not to get you into her bed?"
"Ma- Master!" Allen blushed crimson at his stupid master's comment. "It wasn't a girl that spiked my drink!"
"So it was a guy." He laughed and looked at his angry and still blushing apprentice. "Oh well… with your girlish appearance it's actually not surprising."
"Master!"
Kanda coughed ever so slightly and Cross turned to him. "It wasn't you, was it?"
"THE FUCK?"
"WHA… WHA… MASTER! I was playing cards! Cards!"
Cross blew cigarette smoke at Allen and shrugged. "Get a life. Find a girlfriend or something, idiot apprentice."
"Unlike you I am only fifteen. I don't have to hurry with such things!"
He turned to Kanda to see if they could go upstairs. He seriously didn't want to spend any more time with his idiot guardian than necessary. "Are you finished with your tea, Kanda?"
To his relief Kanda got up and followed him wordlessly.
As they entered his room Kanda looked around with the slightest hint of interest. He had been here before but at that time it had been night and he only had dropped the teen into his bed and then left right away.
The room was bigger than he had assumed at first. He wasn't really surprised though, after all, the house was big too. Everything in the room was neatly ordered in its rightful place. He actually had expected more chaos, but he supposed it fit Allen to keep things in order, a trait they shared.
"I didn't know you had a piano in your room."
Allen remembered that Kanda had carried him here before. "Ah… Cross bought it some years ago. I moved it into my room when I decided to study music next year."
Kanda's head shot up and Allen froze. "What? Is something wrong?"
"I didn't expect you to go for music."
"I like it, and I'll only do it for a minor. There are so many things I would have wanted to do, it really was difficult to decide. I left Chemistry and Physics behind completely."
"Get over it, it's not as if you could work in all fields either."
"That's why I decided to leave those behind."
Allen packed some clothes to sleepover at his grumpy companion's place before he excused himself to go to the bathroom and change his clothes (of course Kanda insulted him for being girlish for that.)
When he came back he found Kanda sitting at his piano and pressing some keys. A smile tugged at his lips and he sat down beside him. "Can you play anything on it?"
"No. Marie can. He changed to organ two years ago however."
"I didn't know! I'll have to ask him about it." Allen was clearly excited. "I don't know many people who can play organ. How did he get the idea to change to it?"
"How the hell would I know?"
"You're a family, you know."
"No reason to ask about things I don't wanna know. Stop whining about it!"
Allen held up his hands to stop another argument from forming. "Move over a bit." He told the other instead, so that he could play his instrument. Allen focused on the melody he had tried to get down and started to play.
Kanda watched the kid somewhat fascinated. If he was someone else he might have actually smiled when Allen started to softly whistle along with the melody that he played out. Somehow the melody seemed familiar.
"That's the song I tried to play when you were… interrupting me last time."
"I think I know it."
"Could be possible. The single came out last week. It's faster normally. I don't think it would sound good if I tried playing it faster on the piano."
"Do you often try to play songs like that?"
"Only when I really like the song and don't have the score. It takes a while to get it right without one." Allen closed the lid of the piano. "What do you want to do? If you want I can play a bit longer, but I'd like to do something else later on."
"What do you normally do when you have free time?"
"It doesn't happen too often. I usually either played the piano or read some books. In winter I liked going to the gym, in summer to the beach, though preferably in areas where there are not many people. That or I went to some places that weren't as hot. Is there a place like this around here?"
"Moyashi… this area is pretty warm, so I am sure the only cool places you will find are rooms with air-co. There are more secluded places at the fucking beach, but we'd need to get up early to get a nice one. Don't dress as warm as you do and you'd have an easier time."
"It's not as if it makes that much of a difference really. It's too warm no matter what."
"I should invite you to Tokyo during summer once." Kanda smirked and Allen answered dryly "I'm sure I'd love it. As always, your consideration of my well being is amazing."
"Let's go with the original plan moyashi. I'll show you a bit of our town, even though I know you won't remember the directions anyway."
Allen threw a dirty look at him but after a heated staring contest both of them wordlessly got up, Allen grabbed his packed bag and they went back downstairs.
Cross came out of his study just as Allen was about to call for him to say goodbye.
"Where are you going?"
"Kanda will show me some places around here. I haven't seen much of the town yet after all."
"Try not to get lost, idiot apprentice." Cross handed him an envelope. "Take care of that."
Allen took a look at it and opened it quickly "F… five hundred? How am I supposed to take care of it? I don't have any job at the moment!"
"Idiot! I told you I wouldn't pay the parts that you want for your computer!" Cross hit him with his hammer, though not hard enough to knock him unconscious.
Kanda couldn't stop himself from grinning when Allen started to curse under his breath, it was a rare sight after all.
"You want something special, you pay for it! I said I'd get you what you need, but I won't pay for extras."
"… Yes sir." Allen replied while still rubbing his forehead. "I'll sleep at Kanda's place."
"Make sure to go shopping if you don't want to starve when you get back." Cross turned around and went back into his study.
"Wait one more second." Allen told Kanda and rushed back to his room to get yesterday's jeans.
"What did you forget?" Kanda scowled at him as he came back.
"Well I do have to pay the bill. And I did win some money yesterday after all. It was more than I thought too." Allen smiled happily.
"How much did you win then?"
"Enough to cover the bill, get some decent food and buy a new pair of jeans."
"Che… you're really doing this as a job, aren't you?"
The smile vanished at once. "Not by choice. I only learned playing cards when Cross took me in. If I hadn't learned how to play I would never have been able to take care of all the expenses. But it seems like for the time being I won't have to do too much of it." That thought did cheer him up. Cross didn't try to give him a bad time at the moment… is what he would have liked to think. He never could be really sure with his guardian.
He would have liked to know the reason for it all. Four months ago his guardian had suddenly told him to not come with him to work again, even though he was one of the few who could connect to the computer they had built and use it to its full capability. Then a few weeks after that they had suddenly moved here and Cross gave him the assignment that led up to him being accepted into the Black Order. The only rule his master had given him was to get a degree and start walking the path that he wanted to walk. He didn't ask the man about it. Better not knowing, instead of having the treat taken away again.
The rest of the day went by rather fast in Kanda's opinion. First they went to the bank, so Allen could pay the bill, after that he took the other boy to some important office buildings, that he should know about. At midday they had lunch at one of his favorite restaurants (a Japanese one). In the afternoon they went to a shopping mall, where it was a lot cooler than outside. Allen bought two new books and a new CD there. Last but not least they went to a park he liked, where Allen bought an ice cream (that he ate more slowly than any other food as far as Kanda could tell).
The day could have been a lot more annoying if he was honest. The only thing, that really had pissed him off, happened in a second hand shop where Allen was about to buy a stupid mirror and the two had somehow come to argue about it. Unfortunately the mirror got in between their argument and it broke. Not only were they thrown out after that, but they also had to pay for the damn mirror.
They returned home after it was dark already. As expected no one was at home, most likely they were still at the damn meeting. Kanda put on the TV and sat down on the couch, and his guest plopped down beside him.
After arguing about what to watch (Kanda certainly would not watch 'The Hangover' while Allen refused to watch 'District 9') they ended up with some documentary movie that managed to make both of them sleepy.
In the end the white haired boy indeed did just that. Kanda considered letting him sleep on the couch but more likely than not Tiedoll would interrupt his sleep later on then. So he did what everyone would do in such a situation and (not without some feeling of pleasure) kicked the kid of the couch. Sure enough that method helped and after a short shouting contest, they went upstairs.
The next morning was less than pleasant for Kanda. First he still had a guest in his room (it didn't help that this time he had no one to blame for it), second said guest's golem had made a mess of his hair and seemed to sleep cozily in it, third the damn brat was awake so he couldn't follow his normal morning rhythm. And last but not least the stupid kid had nothing better to do than grin at him as he saw he was awake and realized that Timcanpy was sleeping on his hair.
Kanda glared at him and threw the damn thing into his face. "Ack… sorry Tim, Kanda is in his usual bad mood." The kid told the golem when it appeared to be angry.
"Did you set the fucking thing against me or something?" Kanda's glare deepened at the winged creature.
"Tim just seems to like your hair. That's all."
"Keep your fucking bird away from me and my hair!"
"Sure Kanda…" Allen's trademark smile adorned his face. Why couldn't he once kick puppies? Kanda silently wondered.
"Go take a shower moyashi!"
"It's Allen! Stupid jerk!" Still Allen got up and left the room. Kanda was just about to put the makeshift bed away when the white haired boy came back. "Uhm… where was the bathroom again?" Allen asked with a sheepish smile. "I kind of only found Marie's room and didn't want to wake anyone else up."
"Idiot." Kanda, though irritated, once again showed him the bathroom before finishing his previous task. Just as he was about to go downstairs he noticed the damn yellow golem in a corner of his room.
"Fuck it." He muttered and grabbed Timcanpy's tail. The damn kid couldn't even take care of his fucking bird. He barged back into the bathroom "FUCKING IDIOT! I TOLD YOU TO…"
His eyes widened as he saw Allen naked in the middle of their bathroom, rubbing his dripping hair with a towel. Kanda would have cared less about the naked state of his body, but his eyes were transfixed onto the ugly, deformed red arm. It looked like raw flesh and veins could be clearly seen, especially where the raw flesh merged back into the kid's normal flesh.
For a moment everything was silent before Allen grabbed his clothes with shaky hands. He quickly dressed in silence, not bothering to finish drying himself. He hesitated as he passed Kanda, who still was staring at him, though his face looked more aloof again and took Timcanpy out of his hands. "Well… thanks for the nice day and… for letting me sleepover." He said with a forced cheerful voice before he ran down the stairs and out of the house, not bothering to turn around as Kanda yelled for him to wait.
Kanda regained his senses too late to stop Allen. Just as he made to follow Tiedoll as well as Marie came out of their rooms. "What's going on, Yuu? Why are you shouting?"
"Is Allen alright?"
Kanda glared angrily at the floor, his fists clenched and unclenched several times before he finally answered. "He just left." He ignored both of them and went back into his room and plopped down on his bed. His thoughts circling back around the moment when he had come into the bathroom. The shocked look on Allen's face as he had entered… that soon after turned into one of sadness and hurt.
The trembling of his hands as he took his clothes. And the most disturbing thing was the tears in his eyes that had threatened to flow over. "My hand is ugly. I don't like showing it around." … So that was it, Kanda wondered. His hand indeed had been ugly. Still that didn't explain the kid's reaction. He didn't understand it, and he hated things he didn't understand.
With a sigh he took out his cell to call the moyashi, but to make things worse the kid had left his used clothes here. "Well… thanks for the nice day and… for letting me sleepover." Kanda punched the wall. What the fuck was it with the damn kid?
Twenty minutes later Kanda was in his car driving for the fourth time back to the kid's place. He had wanted to just ignore it and let the brat pick up his clothes on his own again, but even his meditation was disturbed by the memory of Allen's face as he had passed him. "Damn him." Kanda really wanted to grab him and punch him for disturbing his routine so much.
He parked his car in front of the gate and rang. Since no one opened he repeated the process until after a few minutes finally the red haired guardian of the kid came out (not without a lot of insults, which Kanda kindly ignored at the moment).
"What the hell are you doing here already? And why isn't my idiot apprentice using his keys? Don't tell me he lost them." The man said as he finally saw who the person was, that had woken him up.
"Moyashi isn't with me. I was hoping he'd be back by now."
"Wasn't he supposed to be with you?"
"He left."
Cross glanced at the angry teenager in front of him and opened the door after some consideration. "Come in." He went ahead into the kitchen, started the coffee machine and motioned for Kanda to sit down.
"Want something to drink?" Without waiting for an answer he put down a teacup in front of Kanda. "Now tell what has happened. Allen's an idiot, but he's not an idiot that runs away normally."
And Kanda told him what had happened this morning. "So that's what happened, huh." He stubbed out his cigarette before turning to Kanda. "Well I suppose it won't hurt to tell you that the kid has some… issues he doesn't deal well with."
"Are you fucking kidding me?" Kanda glared, did the man think he was stupid or something?
"His left arm was the reason his parents left him behind when he was a small child… He had an arm that, while it didn't look as bad as it does now, didn't work. The arm couldn't be moved and he had red nails and all. I don't know more, just that his parents left him in a dirty alleyway as an infant." He took out a new cigarette. "He was more or less on his own, until his adoptive father, Mana, found him and took him in. Mana was a bit of an idiot, but he clearly loved Allen, and apparently was the first one who didn't mind his arm, or how it looked."
He paused for a bit and drank his coffee. "And then? You said it looked different?"
"Mana was a friend of mine, so he asked me to help him regain control of his arm, since an operation at that time would have meant that Allen would have lost his arm. We built a device that let him transfer his thoughts to objects and in the end his arm. It was however Allen that figured out how to make full use of the data we had gathered and in the end he was finally able to use his arm, though it started to look uglier."
"You had all that work just to help some brat from the streets?"
"Allen's uncle… Mana's brother paid for it."
"So they were rich?"
"Mana had enough… but he wasn't all that rich. His brother though was loaded. Anyway, a year after Allen regained his arm completely Mana died in an accident. I found him at the graveyard a month after and took him in. I don't know much about what happened before I came along, but I guess that because of the way his arm looked people didn't want to take him in. I took him to work with me and he helped out, though even there people always were reluctant to deal with him as soon as they saw his arm. It became the way it looks now at work."
"So…"
"So back to your problem, since obviously you haven't figured it out: as soon as people saw his arm he was spurned. The only one who was different was Mana and he's dead. Your reaction, when you saw the cursed thing, probably was reminding him of all the other times where his friends pushed him away afterwards. It's not something he deals with easily." Cross lit up another cigarette and took a drag and studied the dark haired student in front of him.
"I'm sure my idiot apprentice will avoid you from here on, so you can go back to not being friends or whatever your relationship was like before." The other tensed up at that and Marian Cross smirked. "If that's not what you want try talking it out with the idiot."
"Now then, be a good little kid and either let yourself out or entertain yourself. Beautiful beings need some more sleep. Don't wake me up again." And Cross left the room ignoring the enraged teen that probably would have liked to hit his beautiful face.
It's probably useless to tell you guys now, but I LOVE CROSS (as if anyone could have overlooked that till now :p ) I probably also should hurry up with my other fics (and this one too) since I have a feeling that one of the next chapters might be a blow for my liking for DGM (kill that woman!!!! And finally leave my Allen and Kanda! I want them happy . AND GIVE CROSS BACK!!!)
I am just as upset by Fullmetal Alchemist (ok… upset is the understatement of the century. The only good scene was Winry … ok I won't spoil, but anyway… GET THEM OUT OF THERE O_O!!!!!!!!!! *dies* Give me Ed you sadist!!!!) *cries*
Last insane note: this chapter was written partially to the wonderful music of Chemistry - Period but even more so to the song Continued Story – by Hiromu (Code Geass R2). It's thanks to that song that I finally started to bother watching the series (to all who know just WHERE that song appears: yes – I am insane enough to sometimes watch series in a… random way)
Reviews are greatly appreciated.
