Hello everyone who reads my stories. I finally finished this chapter (and while I wanted it to be longer I figured I should update now instead of making you wait for longer.
Thanks to all who reviewed! Without that I probably wouldn't have finished this chapter anymore. So good news: since I wanted this chapter to be longer I already started with the next one! ^_~
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It was midday when Allen finally stopped walking aimlessly through the town and sat down on a bench in a park. He had ran away from Kanda's house some hours ago, and had not cared about anything but getting away. He had been too deep in thought to realize where he was going, which led to the situation he was in now: he had not the slightest clue where he was. The whole area was completely new to him. What was worse, it was new to Timcanpy as well, so his beloved golem couldn't bring him back either.
If he only had let the small golem out of his hands after leaving Kanda's house! But he had held on to him until he realized he was lost. His plan to going back to Kanda's house and starting from there also wasn't working. He had tried for hours to find some place or building that he knew, but didn't recognize anything. He was somewhere away from any main streets, in an area where many families lived, just that no one was outside - it was too hot for that.
Allen cursed himself at that. He had needed to get away from Kanda, from the way he had stared at his arm. Still that didn't mean he wanted to be lost in a big town, where he had no idea whatsoever as to where he was. To make things worse he had left his money and cell phone in Kanda's room, so he couldn't even call Cross and beg him to get him out of there. It would have been humiliating like hell, but at least he wouldn't have had to walk outside in this heat. He really missed the weather from Great Britain. Even during summer it often rained and almost never was this hot.
"I didn't even have breakfast yet." He mumbled as his stomach growled viciously, reminding him of its empty state.
Tim flew around his head and flapped it's wings before landing on his head. "You're hungry too, huh? Sorry Tim."
The golem started munching on his hair in reply. "And here I thought you only liked Kanda's now."
Kanda… it hurt thinking of the other boy. He had thought he hated him at first, with the way the other was an arse from the beginning. But he had been fine with that as it meant he didn't have to try and be nice either. It also was more easy to stay distant, like he did with everyone else he got to know, so that if Cross decided to move away again or if they saw his arm, he wouldn't be disappointed or hurt again. And yet somehow, without him realizing it, he had become intrigued by the black haired student.
He had wanted to spend more time with him and get to know him better. In some way it was also fun to annoy the other, even though Kanda always paid back in kind. He had let the other become part of his life and get close, without wanting to.
From all the people he got to know, Kanda was the only one he had actually believe would snort, if he ever saw his arm, and tell him to get over himself. That's why he hadn't been able to laugh and stay until he could say a polite goodbye to everyone else. That's why he had run, as the other had stared at his cursed arm. He didn't want to see the disgust in Kanda's eyes. Or the shudder that usually ran through people who had seen or - even worse - touched his arm.
He had hoped that Kanda's reaction would be different, but when he stopped yelling and only stared, all he could do was run before he once again saw the reaction all the others had shown him.
He drew his legs against his body and leaned his head against his knees. He had thought it wouldn't matter anymore, if people were to discover his arm again and normally it worked too. But this time it did matter. Because it was Kanda.
"Tim… why is Kanda different?" His golem seemed to look at him in a way as if he thought the boy before him was the biggest idiot ever.
As midday arrived Kanda's patience had given way to full fledged anger. He had resolved to wait here for Allen, had read the newspaper because it really was the only thing he could do. But even after three hours of waiting the damn kid still hadn't shown up. His house was not that far away from Cross' place. Heck even a slug could make it in half an hour! He had been sure the brat would come here, his bottomless pit of a stomach sure would make him. But even though it was midday now, he still was nowhere in sight.
Just as he wondered if he should smash the cup against the wall to let out some frustration the door to the kitchen opened and Cross came back into the room, looking dumbfound to see him still here.
"What?" He growled. "You said I could make myself comfortable."
Cross blinked and started to laugh. "I didn't think you were the type to wait for so long."
Kanda twitched in reply. He wasn't! "So is it normal for that idiot to take so long?"
Cross arched his eyebrows. "Without food?"
"Well where is he then?" Why the fuck couldn't that cursed man just spit things out? He glared icily at him and Cross smirked.
"As I know him he's probably lost in the town somewhere. What's much more interesting is why he isn't using Timcanpy as a guide. He normally does when he is lost."
The cup in Kanda's hand suddenly broke under the pressure of Kanda's fingers. "What the fuck is wrong with this idiot? There are fucking signs everywhere on the streets! It shouldn't be possible to get lost like this in our town!"
The redhead laughed even more. "It is for him! I'm sure he wouldn't have found out of the Black Order if you guys didn't lead him."
That shut Kanda up. Allen indeed was this bad. No wonder he sucked in Geography.
"So if he isn't using Timcanpy then there is no way for him to get back within… the next week?"
Cross shrugged. "I never had to find it out. Tim remembers all the roads he sees once so he is a reliable guide."
"In that case he must have gotten separated from Tim."
The grin on the others face spread. The kid before him sure showed a lot of concern for a person who constantly insulted his apprentice. He really could do some good for his brat. "If he wasn't with you that's not likely. Tim doesn't like strangers and has some strange obsession with Allen. He always follows the idiot."
Again Kanda twitched. How could a golem have some obsession? Then again how was it possible for that… thing… to eat his soba… Kanda decided not to dwell on it too much .
"Well, try to find Tim and most likely you should find Allen. If not then my idiot apprentice will probably die from starvation."
"Fuck it! How could I find Tim if I have no idea where they went?"
Cross left the room without giving an answer and came back two minutes later with a black golem. He activated it and gave it to Kanda.
"Use this. It can find Tim."
Kanda let out a string of curses. That fucking guardian couldn't have given him this shit after he got here. He made to leave but was stopped once again.
"Second door to the left. You can find a broom there, use it to clean up the mess you made." He gestured to the pieces of the cup.
"…" He would kill the white haired boy when he saw him again.
Half an hour later he finally pulled into a parking lot near the park where Timcanpy was supposed to be. He got out of the car while the black golem hovered above him. This one seemed to be different from Timcanpy as it didn't touch him. Luckily. His patience was nonexistent and he couldn't afford to slice this one in half. He might never find the fucking moyashi then.
The golem led him through the small park, that was void of people at the moment. It was simply too hot to be outside Kanda decided. He would beat the moyashi for being stupid and then… well he would see that later.
Finally he saw the cause of his problem hunched on a bench under a tree with the cursed yellow ball on top of his head. He strode over quickly, grabbed the boys arm, pulled him up and roughly pushed him against the tree.
"WAAA-" Allen yelped.
"Do you have any idea how long I have been waiting for you?" He shouted. "Fuck you and your complexes!"
"K-Kanda?" Allen couldn't believe his eyes.
"Shut up!" Kanda took a deep breath before continuing. "You piss me off so much! How the fuck did you end up here? Why didn't you go to your place?"
His hold on Allen's wrist tightened. "I wasted all morning fucking waiting! And you have nothing better to do than sit here in a park? Fuck you!"
"Bloody hell!" Allen finally got over his initial shock of seeing the other teen here. "It wasn't my fault I got lost! And you were the one who was staring at… You were the one who wasn't comfortable anymore. So instead of having you kick me out I left. What's the problem now… why did you even look for me? I was finally out of your life, wasn't that what you wanted?"
Kanda pulled the sleeve of Allen's shirt up before the boy could pull away, ignoring the way the other almost started to panic.
"What are you doing? Let go!" Allen trashed against the iron grip and kicked at Kanda.
"Che… Your fucking arm is ugly. So what?" Kanda growled. "Should we cut it off so you can feel normal? Would that make you feel better? Your life doesn't revolve around that fucking arm! Who the hell would care about shit like that?"
The white haired boys movements suddenly froze and he stared at Kanda with wide eyes. "Who cares? I… you don't know anything!" He shoved the raven away and glared. "Don't make light of my problems!"
"I talked with your shitty excuse of a guardian. He explained a few things." Kanda informed him. "I don't see why you're making a fucking drama cause of an arm? Of course people will stare. People also stare when you eat like a pig, they stare when they see your hair or that scar. Get the hell over yourself! You should have been used to it ages ago!"
"I am used to people staring. What I am not used to is people being friendly to me for a while and then suddenly treat me like a monster after they see my arm. My own parents probably abandoned me because it never was as it should have been!"
"And now you're so scared because of that ugly arm that you don't even try to give others a chance anymore."
"As if you would, if you were disappointed time and time again!" Allen retorted.
"I don't give a fuck about others. In fact, I would be happy if they left me alone!" Kanda smirked.
"Then why are you here? I was leaving you alone. Did you come here to rub it into my face or what?" Allen stared at the other boy, truly questioning his motives. He hadn't thought that the Japanese teen would do something like this, but at the moment he truly wondered.
"Be glad I am here, damn moyashi. You'd probably starve to death if I hadn't been looking for you. And again, why the fuck would I care about some ugly arm?"
"…" Allen watched him wearily as he sat down on the bench.
"God damn… you are so fucking annoying. Stop drowning in self-pity already!"
"I am not drowning in self pity!" Allen huffed indignantly. "And anyway… why are you here? Why did you look for me?"
"I don't really know… Tiedoll would throw a fit if he read about the news of your death by starvation tomorrow in the newspaper." Kanda shrugged.
"Shouldn't you be happy about that then? You can't stand me. Mah… I would leave you Timcanpy."
"The fuck you would! Keep that cursed thing away! And while I would be happy I don't want Tiedoll in my ears for months!" The raven glared at the golem, just to make sure he stayed away from him.
"So since you still have it… why didn't you get Timcanpy to lead you back?" He questioned.
"Uhm… I held him… and he couldn't see for a while… by the time I realized we were already lost." Allen admitted and cursed his sense of direction once again.
"You are an even worse idiot than I thought!" Kanda stared at him. "Anyway… if you are done with the self-pitying let's go." He got up and turned to walk back to the car.
"I don't pity myself!" Allen cried again while he hurried to follow the raven haired man to his car.
"Will you take me home?" Allen asked as they reached the car.
"No."
"Why not? Where are we going then?" Kanda pushed him inside the car.
"Shut up! We're going to my place. I don't feel like seeing your damn master again! Fucking man made me waste an entire morning. At least now I know where you got that talent from." He clenched his fists at the memory of the smirk when Cross finally gave him the golem. He really should have killed him.
The boy besides him huffed. "Then how am I getting back to my place?"
Kanda shrugged. "Be glad that I take you to my place. If I didn't you would just end up with a heatstroke… actually that thought sounds more and more appealing. Maybe I should just ignore Tiedoll's whining."
He smirked at the angry look on the white haired boys face.
When they finally reached their destination Kanda at once left the heated car. He could have used airco, but he hated turning it on just for a few minutes. Despite the heat the white haired teen made no motion to follow however.
"Are you fucking asleep or what? Did the heat finally burn the last few brain cells you had?"
Allen glared tiredly at him before he broke eye contact. "Is it… really ok for me to come in? What do you get from it? Did your family bug you to come watch for me?"
"Moyashi…" Kanda growled. "Get. Over. It. I don't hate you because of your fucking arm, even if it is ugly as hell."
And finally Allen got up with a tiny smiled. "Thank you, Kanda."
"Che…" The older turned away to hide his surprise and a moment of awkward silence followed.
That however ended as soon as Kanda opened the door. At once Tiedoll came running, hugged him and started to cry. "Yuu! I'm so glad you're alright and Allen is back too!" Said boy at the moment had a hard time hiding his laughter at Kanda's murderous expression. A moment later he found himself hugged for dear life as well, while his shirt got soaked by tears. "Yuu left without a word… and you didn't even wait to say goodbye. I thought you two had a fight!"
"I'm glad your back again, Allen." Marie said as he and Daisya came out of the kitchen. "Th-Thank you." He said while trying to get out of Tiedoll's grasp.
"Was Kanda a jerk again? Did he hit you or something?" Daisya asked with a big grin on his face.
"N-"
"I did nothing. He freaked out when I came into the bathroom and saw-" Kanda tried to inform his family.
"HAHAHAHA, you sneaked into the bathroom to watch him naked? HAHAHA" Daisya doubled over from laughing. "Are you a pervert or a stalker?"
"THE FUCK?" Kanda grabbed his beloved katana. He so would kill him.
"Oh… that explains everything." Marie added.
"Is that true, Yuu? You finally found someone? But… sneaking into the bathroom-" Tiedoll began.
"FUCK YOU! I DID NOTHING!" Kanda shouted at them while Daisya escaped and bravely hid behind Allen.
"You guys got it all wrong. He just came into the bathroom and stared at my…" Allen trailed off, he didn't want to draw attention to his arm again.
"He stared at what?" Marie asked curiously.
Daisya once again collapsed in laughter. "Of course you would run, Moyashi-chan!"
"It's ALLEN!"
" I would too if some guy came into the bathroom when I shower and stared at my di-"
"SHUT THE FUCK UP!" Kanda grabbed Allens wrist and pulled up his sleeve. "That freaking thing is what cause the whole mess!" He glared murderously at Daisya who stopped laughing once he caught sight of Allen's arm. "Look who's staring now." He added venomously, all the while ignoring the way Allen tensed up completely.
Tiedoll took a step towards the white haired teen and took his arm into his hand. "Oh… does it hurt?"
"Err…" Allen blinked confused. "… No."
Instead of awkward silence and avoidance Kanda's family only seemed genuinely intrigued. Especially Tiedoll. The man had stopped crying and was now watching his arm with serious fascination. He turned it and his eyes finally fell on the green cross on the middle of his left hand.
"Is that…" He touched the cross lightly and trailed it with his fingers. "Amazing…" He whispered as Allen pulled his hand away.
"So if Kanda didn't stare… at your private parts then why did you run?" Marie inquired.
"Huh? My arm doesn't disgust you?" Marie shrugged, Daisya just poked his head while Tiedoll didn't even seem to be listening. He was much too fascinated by the cross that Allen now was covering with his gloves again.
Kanda snorted. "Why the hell would it?"
Allen blinked a few times before he hid his eyes behind his bangs. Whenever someone had seen his arm, they would scream at him, turn away in disgust or look for an excuse to get away from him. No one, who had seen his arm, wanted to be touched by him again, especially not with his left hand. They all ignored him. Tiedoll however was fascinated, Marie and Daisya were curious and Kanda didn't give a damn at all, arm or no arm.
"Ah! You made him cry, Yuu! You're always so insensitive!" Daisya exclaimed.
"Shut up. Go annoy someone else!" Kanda snapped at him.
Marie smiled and pulled Allen into the kitchen. "Sit down. I'm sure you're hungry. Daisya, bring some after sun lotion. Allen has a sunburn!"
Sorry I didn't update in so long. I didn't feel like writing much and the fact that Fullmetal Alchemist ended was adding to that a lot (I still have a hard time to accept that it ended!).
The newest chapters of D. Gray-man were quite annoying as well in a way. Really makes me wanna leash out *sighs*.
Anyway… Holidays have started so I think I should write more again.
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