I do not own Man. It belongs to Katsura Hoshino. Sorry for the slow update. You know christmas and everything.
Chapter Eleven
"Are you really okay Allen?" Lavi asked delicately.
Allen turned to look at him. His lips quivered softly as he tried to give his friend a smile. He obviously sensed his own failure at this and he burst out crying.
Lavi held onto him as Allen fell to his knees.
"Would you like me to call Yu for you?" he asked
Seeing Allen nod Lavi pulled out his phone and called Kanda's number.
"Mushi, mushi"
"Yu?"
"Lavi? What is it?"
"It's Allen."
"What's wrong? What happened? Hurry up and tell me!"
"You better come down to the school…quickly."
"That filthy bastard when I catch him I'll ram Mugen so far up his arse; and then rip his balls off with my teeth and stuff them down his throat!"
Needless to say Kanda was in a rage. He had just raced to the school to discover that a teacher had just sexually harassed his boyfriend. This teacher also happened to be a friend of Allen's no less.
"Calm down Yu." Lavi looked at the small white haired boy resting in Kanda's arms. "We should get him back home, he looks exhausted."
It was true. The boy did look exhausted, been manhandled and then crying does that to you.
Kanda looked down at the boy before lifting his head to glare up at the school.
"Like hell he's going back home. That Mikk will probably be waiting at his house to rape him when we leave."
"Where are you going to take him then?" Lavi asked, as they started moving towards Kanda's car.
"He'll stay at my house."
Lavi sighed. "Alright but I'm coming too."
The Japanese teen frowned at him. "This is not going to be one of your lame-ass sleep overs baka Usagi."
"I promise to have some decorum." Lavi offered.
"Che, fine then."
Kanda maneuvered Allen so that he was resting on a backseat of his car with Lavi sitting beside him. Allen rested his head on Lavi's shoulder and promptly fell asleep. Lavi looked fondly at the poor boy.
"What are you going to tell your dad?" Lavi asked Kanda.
Kanda kept his eyes on the road and ignored the question except to murmer that the old crackpot was not his father.
"Are you going to tell him what happened?" Lavi persisted "You know he cares about what happens to Allen. I think you should let Allen chose who to tell, I mean its his business isn't it?"
Kanda glanced into his rear view mirror angrily. "Are you suggesting that it is not my business?"
Lavi sensing the dangerous position he was in proceeded to word his response with care. "No I am saying that ultimately the decision is Allen's whether you like it or not. Even if he is your boyfriend think how you would feel if he told somebody something about you that you didn't want to people to know. I'd be furious and disappointed. You should trust Allen to make the right choices when it comes to his own issues. The most you can do is offer your support and...."
"Shut up. I don't want your advice. I know all of that already." Kanda snapped.
Lavi was wise enough not to test out his freindship with Kanda and say something he might regret so he kept his mouth shut. He did not always agree with Kanda but he was just as protective over their small friend as he was (and that is saying something).
"Come on moyashi. Get out of the car." Kanda's tone was almost soft as he pulled Allen out of the car toward himself. Allen showed no apparent signs of having heard the boy however and continued to sleep on. Kanda sighed, it wasn't that he really minded carrying him, but it was a hassle.
"Go open the door baka Usagi," he ordered Lavi; shifting Allen so he could carry him bridal style.
Lavi ran forward onto the front verandah of Kanda's house hurriedly, as he was about to open the door however he was beaten to it.
"Yu-kun my beloved son you are finally home!"
Lavi was thrown back and away from the door as it hit him in the face.
"What the fuck?" he asked as he held a hand up to his face. "I think you broke my bloody nose!"
Tydoll paused from his exubrient welcome to take in the situation having heard Lavi's complaint. His eyes moved slowly from Lavi sitting on his verandah holding his nose; to Kanda holding up a prostrate Allen.
"Oh dear," he said softly. "What happened Yu?" he asked.
Kanda blatently ignored this as he strode into the house with a blank look on his face. He proceeded directly to his own room where he placed Allen on the bed and moved back to the others, closing the door softly behind him.
Tydoll and Lavi had moved into the lounge room, where a mere couple of months ago they had been in a similar situtation regarding Allen. Kanda frowned, he was not pleased to have these memories dragged up. As much as he was loathe to admit it, he had been worried about Allen at that time. He even had to acknowledge that he had started to like Allen a long time before they ever hooked up and realised what they meant to each other.
Kanda must have been zoning out quite a bit as when he looked up next the other two occupants of the room were regarding him cautiously.
"Are you okay Kanda?" Lavi asked him wary if his response.
"What do you mean?" Kanda asked confused.
"Well....you know you were so angry about Allen before." Lavi looked just as confused as Kanda now. "Wasn't that what you were thinking about?"
Kanda realised what Lavi was talking about and promptly gave him a venomous glare. "Of course I'm still angry, but that's not what I was thinking about."
"Oh... wet thoughts, Kanda. Really, don't you think its a bit early to be thinking about that after what just happened to Allen?" Lavi smirked up at him.
Kanda snapped his hand bringing Mugen's point to his friends neck a centimetre short of slitting it.
"Do you care to repeat that last comment?" he asked
"Um...no. I think i'll be alright." Lavi moved back slightly away from the sword's edge.
"Do you think you can tell me what is going on here?" Tydoll spoke up finally.
Kanda and Lavi gave each other a side long glance. It was ultimately Allen's decision to tell anyone, that was what they had decided. But Allen wasn't awake at the moment and it was Kanda's father so what should they do?
"I...think we should wait for Allen to wake up. He can decide whether to tell you or not." Kanda said slowly.
Tydoll's lips turned down in a frown. It must be really serious if Kanda wouldn't tell him, but would let Allen tell him if he chose to. Tydoll sat up from where he was sitting cross legged, stretching, and popping his legs as he did so.
"I think i'll go make a phone call to an old friend, why don't you get something to eat" he advised.
Tydoll grimaced as he moved away, Allen would not be happy when he found out who he had called.
Allen woke up in a daze, where was he? It was dark so he couldn't see anything around him to identify his location. He realised he was lying down on a bed, and as he woke up a little more he sat up straight on the bed. What had happened? Where was Kanda and Lavi? Where was Tyki?
Allen held his head in his arms and he brought his knees close to his chest, he remembered what had happened. Tyki had met him in the store room late and had almost.... Allen couldn't say it. Was that were he was? Had Tyki found him again? Where were his friends?
Allen began loking around for a light sourse, his head moving around the small space quickly. "Kanda" he whispered. Where was he?
Allen's head started to spin. "Lavi....Kanda" he called louder getting more dizzy and anxious by the moment.
"Kanda, KANDA!" he shouted, starting to sob.
He started as the door opened suddenly hitting the wall as someone came charging in.
Allen froze up, it wasn't Tyki was it? He ducked his head into the fold of his arms cowering closer to the wall.
"Allen?" a voice asked, it wasn't Tyki...but it wasn't his friends either. He started shuddering it was too much for him. The figure ran out of the room.
Meanwhile Kanda and Lavi were in the kitchen, having decided to get a sandwich each while they were waiting for Allen to wake up.
"Do you think he'll be okay?" Lavi asked.
"Che." a noncommital remark came from Kanda. Inside he was as worried about Allen as his friend was.
"I don't think..." Lavi started but he was interrupted by Marie running into the room.
"Kanda, Allen's awake." he said in a rush.
The tone he used when he said these few words made it clear enough to Kanda that he needed to get to his room fast.
He ran to his room and sped in finding the door open.
"Allen." he moved straight to the bed seeing Allen huddled up against the wall and clearly crying. Allen obviously didn't hear him because as soon as he was touched he started struggling agianst Kanda. He shuffled as far as he could away from Kanda and still stay on the bed.
"Allen, it's me." Kanda said softly not wanting to scare the boy more. "It's Kanda." Allen's head shot up. It was Kanda, he saw. It wasn't Tyki come to try and hurt him again.
"Yu!" Allen exclaimed jumping forward to grab the man. Wringing his hands into Kanda's clothes in a death grip Allen shoved his head into Kanda's chest and began to sob.
After a while Allen began to calm down again and Lavi was allowed into the room. Kanda had chucked him out before because knowing Lavi he would say someehtin awkward as a joke and start the moyashi crying again. Kanda didn't need that, and neither did Allen.
"Hey Al, you okay now?" he asked rubbing the back of his head in discomfort.
"Yeah," Allen gave a short chuckle his eyes still watery.
"Like hell he is." Kanda disagreed leering at Lavi. "When I find that teacher I am gonna get him so bad, and then I'll hand him into the police. He'll get stamped as a pedophile and won't be able to work ever again, not that people would want him to with what I did to his face. He'll become poor and have to live on the streets until he dies of exposure."
Allen and Lavi stared at him slightly awed. That had been an extraordinarily long comment for the man, he must really be irate.
Allen laughed fondly stretching up to give him a chaste kiss.
"As much as I would enjoy seeing that I think you should restrain yourself. If you did that you would probably get arrested for assault or battery or something. I appreciate that you put so much thought into it though."
Kanda's face softened a little seeing Allen laugh. Lavi whose face had been a little somber cheered up.
"Hey guess what Allen, We're having a sleep over here." he started jumping up and down in excitement. "We'll have to order pizza's and watch a movie or something."
Allen's face brightened up, and he cracked into a huge smile.
"Really?" he asked in anticipation.
"No!" Kanda burst there bubble. "I though I said that this wasn't going to be one of your lame parties baka usagi."
Allen's face fell "Can we have pizza anyway?" he asked. He looked at his belly as it growled loudly. "I really am kind of hungry."
"Fine." Kanda agreed. This was going to be exactly like one of Lavi's stupid sleep overs, he thought to himself as Allen and Lavi grinned to each other behind his back.
Rei; "That was awesome."
Allen; "how was it. You scared the living shit out of me."
Kanda; "If you weren't such a scaredy cat, that wouldn't be a problem."
Allen; "Care to repeat that?"
Kanda; "If you weren't such a...."
Allen; "Rei, defend me from this ruffian."
Kanda; "Oh you need a women to defend you in battle, that's shows how bad you really are."
Rei; "This won't work you are supposed to be all lovey, dovey, with the Yullen action."
*waves hands around*
"There we are be good boys and kiss."