I do not own d gray man (at least not in this reality). It belongs to Katsura Hoshino.
Kanda hearing the commotion ran to his room. Kanda had gotten up earlier to do his morning work out. He was intending to leave Allen to sleep in while he made breakfast for him. Slamming the door open he was in all honesty not that surprised at what he saw. The baka usagi had latched himself onto Allen's waist and was snuggled up in bed with him. Kanda's brow twitched, although he was not surprised it doesn't mean he wasn't pissed.
Lavi was probably going to have a really bad morning Allen determined looking at Kanda's murderous visage. Oh well, Allen thought, drawing the curtains and flopping back down to return to peaceful sleep. Surprisingly enough the sounds of Lavi screaming helped lull him back to sleep in no time.
Chapter thirteen
Allen walked down the hallway humming quietly to himself. He had just finished his first period music class and was making his way to his next. Stopping at his locker to pick up his English books Allen was startled when he felt someone grab he from behind.
"What the hell?" He turned around to see Lavi against his side glomping him.
"What's wrong moyashi-chan?" Lavi asked smiling up a storm.
Allen just responded by punching him in the face. "Don't do that! Do you have a death wish? If Kanda saw you hugging me you would be dead."
Lavi shrugged. "Yu-chan wouldn't hurt me he's all just bluster."
Allen shook his head returning to his locker. He took out his English book and was putting it in his bag when he caught sight of something out of the corner of his eye.
"Lavi quick hide me!" he whispered moving behind the boy.
Lavi scanned the area and caught sight of a certain Portuguese language teacher. Taking Allen's hand he pulled him a few metres into a vacant classroom and closed the door. Seeing Tyki coming closer Lavi turned around and leaned on the door post.
As Lavi made a pretense of fixing his scarf and bandanna he glared at the teacher passing him by. Unfortunately for Lavi and his friend currently hiding in the classroom behind him, the teacher stopped.
The two stood staring each other down. Lavi with an iron glare and Tyki an regretful, but slightly recalcitrant smile.
"Good morning Lavi." he greeted him softly.
Lavi stopped playing with his accessories. "It was." he said still glaring. "...before I saw you."
The Portuguese man sighed. He was really fond of Lavi, he was smart, funny, and most importantly was fluent in many languages (very important to a foreign, language teacher).
" Have you seen Allen? I really want to apologise to him."
Allen had been avoiding the man all week so he wouldn't have to face him. Although Allen knew that Tyki really couldn't help his traits he still felt betrayed and was now paranoid about his relationship with the man.
"Nope, and if I did I wouldn't tell you about it."
Allen was sitting against the door listening as Lavi covered for him. He was thankful he had such a good friend as Lavi.
"How much has Allen told you about my 'situation'?" he heard Tyki ask quietly.
Lavi paused before answering. "A lot."
"Then you know that I couldn't help it." Tyki sounded desperate to explain himself to the young student. Allen frowned why was that?
"Come on you know I'm not going to believe that, don't you?" Lavi snarled.
The older man sighed. "Can I talk to you about it later you are supposed to be in class right now."
Without waiting for an answer he stalked of down the corridor.
Allen bit his thumbnail between his teeth. He felt a little bad about avoiding Tyki although he didn't want to see him. Deep in thought Allen did not realise that Lavi was opening the door. Startled Allen fell backward to lie on the floor looking up at Lavi. The red head smiled lopsidedly at him. "What are you doing down there?" he laughed.
Allen blushed and accepted the hand that was stretched out to help him up. "Nothing."
Lavi looked at Allen. "Did you hear?" he asked seriously (as serious as Lavi can be that is).
Nodding Allen picked up his bag from the floor and they started walking.
"You shouldn't have to hide from him Allen. You did nothing wrong."Lavi said.
"We're late for English." Allen ignored his last comment.
"Don't worry. Its only Miranda. She won't care about late passes."
Lavi swallowed his words as when they walked into the classroom it was not Miranda waiting for them.
"Where have you two boys been?" a harsh voice demanded. Adding on a soft. "Damn, little bastards" on at the end (even though it was quiet all the student were still able to here it though).
Allen paled, he would know that voice anywhere. Looking up he caught a flash of red hair before he gulped.
"MASTER WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE?" he yelled startling the class.
As the rest of the students entertained themselves staring at the small boy Cross swore.
"Fuck. It's my baka deshi, I forgot he would be here."
Allen's brow ticked. "You are aware that I can hear you aren't you?" he informed Cross.
"Shut up idiot." he said taking out his old hammer in warning.
Allen backed up slowly. He had issues with that hammer. Oh, the bad memories it produced. Unfortunately Cross was overly fond of using it...on his head. As Allen backed away Kanda stood up. Seeing Allen's fear he moved in front of him protectively.
"Who the fuck are you?" Cross eyed him up and down. "Pretty boy."
"Che." Kanda decided not to deign the man with a proper response.
"Hey, idiot who's the fucking Jap?"
"Yu k-Kanda." Allen answered hesitantly as Kanda growled.
Cross sat back at his table and pulled out a cigarette. He lit it up and reclined in his chair propping his feet up on the desk.
"Master you can't smoke in school." Allen said with reproach.
Cross leered at him silently asking if he wanted to rephrase that question. "Watch me." he said
Kanda pulled Allen closer to him. "Why are you calling him master? Who the hell is he?"
Allen ducked his head. "He's my guardian, General Marian Cross." Allen grabbed his sleeve. "Don't say anything, please Yu."
Seeing Allen's eyes stare wide and imploringly up at him pulled at Kanda (almost non-existent) heart strings. He had heard all about Cross from Allen, and seriously this man was one sick puppy. Leaving debts to Allen, making him work for his girlfriends, and clean his huge house. Treating Allen kind of like a modern day Cinderella, except harsher.
"Kanda Yu. I know where I've heard that name before!" Cross snapped his fingers in realisation. "Your that fag son of that sentimental dick."
The whole class sweat dropped. That wasn't very descriptive. Why weren't they being taught anything, where was Miranda?
Kanda's hand however twitched towards his sword. Both for being called a fag, and because he had many childhood issues (though that is kind of irrelevant).
"You're the boy who my idiot apprentice has been fucking hey." Cross got off his chair and slowly circled Kanda still smoking. "I don't like you." he said moving close enough so that they were almost touching. He stopped to puff a breathe of smoke into Kanda's face.
Kanda was shaking from fury and only Allen's calm hand on his sword arm was preventing him from smashing this bastard with his Mugen.
"The feelings mutual." he replied through gritted teeth.
Cross turned away from Kanda grinning, this expression fell from his face when he looked down on Allen. Leaning down to leer at the boy intimidatingly he moved his mouth next to the boys ear not touching it. Quietly he whispered something into Allen's ear and as he did so Allen first paled and then tears started to well in his eyes. Soon enough Cross pulled back and gave a small smirk at Allen reaction before turning back to his desk, crushing the remains of his cigarette into the floor with a fancy Italian leather.
"Read a damn text book or something you little shits." he snarled grabbing the hat of his desk and placing it over his eyes to go to sleep. Kanda and Lavi were left standing with Allen. The boy was standing stock still with mouth hanging open and the tears rolling silently down his face.
"Al-" Kanda began.
This seemed to start the boy out of his reverie and he shuddered slightly before he turned tail and ran.
After leaving the room Allen bolted to the closest bathroom he could find. Not caring if it was male or female he dashed in and fell towards the nearest cubicle. He landed hard on his knees and gripped the toilet bowl with one hand; the other hand clenching tightly onto his knee. His breathe caught roughly in his throat as harsh pants making him feel dizzier as he released the contents of his stomach.
Unbeknown to Allen, he had been chased as he left the room. As he continued to be violently sick he noted that there was a cool hand on his forehead. His initial burst of nausea ebbed away slowly and shock took over slowly for Allen. Leaning forward he pulled his knees up to lean his head on them as he started to cry. One hand scrunched up in his shirt over his heart as the other gripped the top his head knotted in the hair. Sobs racked his body causing him to shake, he was vaguely aware of a hand rubbing comforting circles on his back. Why would Cross? Agh! He couldn't even think about it. He started to hyperventilate again.
"Hey shonen, calm down." the person supporting him finally spoke.
Allen shot around his eye widening. He found Tyki Mikk crouched next to him and he shuffled back as far as he could. When his back hit the edge of the toilet his eyes darted around frantically looking for an escape route.
Tyki sighed and backed off a little. "Don't worry Allen. I just wanted to say I was sorry. When I saw you rushing here I was just hoping for a chance to apologise."
Allen looked at him a little bit skeptical. However his breathing calmed down slightly. Tyki smiled at him seeing this and stood up. He stretched down a hand to help Allen to his feet, which Allen reluctantly accepted. As soon as he was on two feet Allen's nausea increased two-fold. Eyes rolling back into his head Allen crumpled into Tyki's arms as his knees gave out on him and he fell unconscious.
Kanda was stomping the hallways in search of Allen when he saw Tyki coming out of the bathroom with the boy limp in his arms.
"What the fuck did you do?" Kanda demanded.
"Nothing." Tyki answered truthfully. He handed Allen into Kanda's arms as if to emphasise this.
"He has to go to the sick bay. Come with me and I'll make sure you don't get in trouble for being out of class."
Kanda was not convinced. "If I learn that you did anything...anything at all. I will not hesitate to cut you fucking head off, got it?"
Tyki nodded solemnly. He did not have a doubt that Kanda was serious, he did have issues with anger management after all.
Entering the sick bay the nurse ran up to them. Taking one look at the situation she had Kanda lay Allen on a spare bed and ran off to organise somethings.
"Tell me exactly what happened." she demanded of the two men standing at the end of his bed.
Kanda started first. "We had a substitute teacher instead of Miranda for English today." the nurse nodded aware of Miranda's absence. "The man was an absolute bastard for most of the lesson. Allen and Lavi came into class late."
Tyki twitched that was probably his fault. He knew Allen was hiding somewhere around when he was talking to Lavi.
"When Allen came in he seemed to already know the bastard. Then basically he threatened the moyashi with a hammer and I moved to protect him. He blew his freaking cigarette smoke in my face and then he said something to Allen. I don't know what it was but as soon as he finished Allen started crying and ran out of the room."
They both stared at him.
"Wow, that was a long speech from someone as apathetic as you." Tyki commented.
"Che." was the only response he got back.
The nurse turned to Tyki. "I'm presuming you know the rest of the story right?" she suggested.
"I saw Allen running away from the classroom. I followed him because....well...i had to talk to him about something."
Kanda snorted, making the nurse look at both of them. Tyki continued on regardless.
"He ran into the bathroom and then started hurling. He didn't seem to realise it was I who was helping him until after he finished and I tried to stop him hyperventilating. He fainted when he stood up and then we came straight here."
The nurse nodded. "Who was the teacher?" she asked
"Allen's guardian Cross." Kanda answered angrily.
Tyki expression changed to one of shock, he hadn't known that man was here. The nurse was busy checking on Allen again when she turned back to them.
"Mr. Mikk, do you think you could possibly go and 'pick' this 'teacher' up for me. We need a few words I think." Tyki nodded silently before leaving that woman sure was intimidating. The deadly aura exuding from her was enough to make even Kanda cringe.
"I believe you can go back to class now." the nurse informed Kanda.
"Che." Kanda sat down on a chair next to Allen's bed. Like hell he would do that, stupid fucking woman. The nurse just gave a sigh resigned to Kanda staying, she knew better than to try and fight him for something as trivial as this. As she moved to her office Kanda stayed by Allen's side softly stroking his hand with a finger.
Tyki stuck his head through the door. "Madam?" he jerked his head indicating that Cross was outside. The nurse went to the door throwing Kanda a cautionary glance as she exited.
For a while Kanda couldn't hear anything, then the nurse began to shout.
"You are not to put any more strain on this boy Mr. Marian. If I hear one word about you pressuring him, I will make you regret it."
The corner of Kanda's mouth twitched.
"Why would you say something bad enough to make him like this?" she basically screamed.
Although Cross was nowhere near shouting Kanda still heard response. "Cause he forgot to pay something for me."
Kanda growled. He could just picture Cross saying this with a laid back attitude still smoking. It was nothing to be blasé about, he shouldn't be making Allen pay his debts anyway, and the kid had been through a lot while he was away.
Hearing a small shuffling sound coming from the bed Kanda returned to look at Allen. From all the signs it looked like Allen was coming to. Kanda smirked he had a good idea (shocking I know).
Taking the hand that had been stroking Allen hand he moved it to Allen's thigh. He then stood so that he was leaning over Allen and moved his other hand to Allen's stomach where he let it roam freely.
Allen's eyes fluttered open and he lay still for a second before he shot up. Looking around the first thing Allen saw was Kanda.
"Why are you feeling me up?" he asked tiredly.
Kanda smirked. "Oh, no reason." he said leaning close to give him a passionate kiss.
He moved up to that one knee was supporting him while his hand moved to the side of Allen's face. Able to move more freely now he deepened the kiss leaning forward.
"K-Kanda." Allen tried to speak only to have Kanda interrupt him with more kisses. "As much as I appreciate the attention. Where the hell are we?"
Backing of a bit Kanda raised his eyebrow. Taking the time to look around Allen saw they were in the infirmary. That was when he remembered what had happened with Cross and all.
"Oh." he said softly.
"Is that all you have to say Moyashi? Oh?" Kanda teased before becoming serious. "What did that bastard say to you?"
Allen turned his head away. "I don't want to talk about it."
Kanda nodded, he would expect Allen to tell him later but right now he was fine with not knowing. As Allen was looking depressed Kanda decided to use their usual method of changing the subject and kissed him again. Allen locked his hands around Kanda's neck pulling closer as their tongues fought. Kanda moved one of his hands so that it was stroking Allen's side slowly.
"What the hell do you think you are doing?" came an angry voice from the doorway.
They paused from their make out session to look who had spoken. Standing in the doorway was Cross, Tyki, and the nurse. The one who had asked the question was obviously Cross who was red faced and fuming. The nurse was little astonished but she didn't look like she minded too much, Tyki just looked uninterested but slightly turned o at the same time.
"Well?" Cross demanded an answer.
Kanda and Allen looked at each other, their faces blank, before returning to their original activity. Not before Kanda gave a quick "Fuck Off!" to Cross.
Cross went storming out of the room and the nurse dragged Tyki out of the room giving the boys a wink which they didn't see as they were too busy.
Kanda; "You know you really need to wash your mouth."
Allen; "Why?"
Kanda; "Your breathe stinks really bad."
Rei; "No shit he was just spewing his guts out, that tends to smell a little."
Kanda; "Then why the fuck did you make us kiss?"
Rei; "Its more fun that way?"