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I remember how my mother threw me out on the streets when I brought Alma home to us.
Because Alma was disabled and we didn't really have the money to feed the family, she threw us out.
Saying it was better for me to stay with Alma, rather than staying home.
I knew she hated be, but I'm actually pretty thankful because of her, I get to live with Alma.
We had it hard first, finding a home and getting food. But when we met Komui, it actually got better.
His family was really nice, they let us live with them. We became really good friends with Komui, playing, fooling around every day.
Telling and writing stories together so Alma could read them. That time I was happy.
Komui soon had a sister, Lenalee. Sadly Aunt Lee passed away giving birth to her.
And their father ran away leaving a huge debt.
Komui just smiled saying he'll work something out. And he did, we started working together in the village patrol. Well it's not one of the best jobs, but it pays. Alma used to look after Lenalee at the time, she really was a nice kid, and she listened to Alma, even if Alma couldn't move around.
After getting enough money, I brought a small house, a few blocks away their house. It took years to have enough money to do that, but I made it. And me and Alma moved in.
When I had enough money to actually have money to feed ourselves for a month without worrying how much money we had left. I wanted to help Komui with the debt, because he and his family had been so nice to us. Only seeing him that he shook his head saying "That's what friends are for aren't they"
He's the second person, who'll have my gratitude for life.
"Get me out of here, I don't want to be alone" a voice screamed.
"Allen" he thought, and opened his eyes.
Kanda gasped air as he sat up in bed shaking. Wiping his sweat of his forehead he noticed that Alma, who was lying next to him, had opened his eyes.
"Did you have a nightmare" Alma said giving a worrying look.
Alma wrapped his hands around Kanda, giving him a hug.
"It's ok Kanda, it was just a dream" he said.
Kanda flinched; he shoved Alma aside, then covered his face with his hands, taking a huge breath.
Why was he thinking about Allen? Alma was the only person he needed. Did he feel sorry for him?
Alma could hear Kanda faintly say the name Allen.
"Kanda, you idiot, what's wrong with you" Alma shouted, he had the feeling like he wanted to cry, you could hear it in his voice was shaky.
Kanda took away his hands from his face and wrapped around his hands around Alma, and laid down on the bed.
"I'm sorry" Kanda said, grabbing one of Almas hands that were wrapped around him and kissed the hand.
Alma pretended to smile, even giving a faint chuckle.
Kanda fell asleep his arms wrapped around Alma. Alma wrapped his hands around Kanda.
"Kanda is mine, and mine only." he thought, as he soon fell asleep.
Kanda woke up early in the morning, doing the same routines like he always had.
Making breakfast, waking up Alma, tie his hair, put clothes on and go to work.
He always woke up the same time, and always made the same routine, like he was on autopilot.
(Meaning that you do everything same time every day.)
Kanda walked to work, putting on his patrol mark, seeing Komui.
"This makes it a week,huh" Kanda thought. "A week sense Allen 'disappeared' "
Nobody had seen him. Lenalee was extremely worried, thinking they did something wrong.
Komui again was suspicious because of the masks Allen was wearing.
Even Kanda admitted that he was worried about him, after all what he had seen.
Hell, he had even begged Johnny to ask around if they had seen Allen in the neighbor villages.
But when Johnny had come back from visiting his family, he said that nobody had seen the boy.
Another thing he had noticed that a redhead had come in town.
The redhead hadn't done anything wrong, just buying food and sometimes books.
Kanda didn't really think about it, but the red hair stood out, so even Kanda noticed him when he was in the Village.
[Two days later.
One week, two days since Allen 'disappeared'.
One week, three days since the mass-murder incident.]
Kanda took a deep breath and opened his eyes. He had taken extra work hours, and nothing seemed to happen in town. He was bored.
He noticed the redhead walk in to town square.
"Hell, why not" Kanda thought.
Kanda walked to the redhead.
"I've seen you here many times, have you moved here?" he asked.
The redhead scratched his head.
"Yeah, kind off. Me and gramps are drifters, so we're staying in town for a while" he answered.
"Oh, are you staying at the Inn?" Kanda asked.
"No, they're too expensive" the redhead answered and scratched his head again.
Kandas eyes widened "But they're really cheap" he thought.
"Oh is that so… Oh my name is Kanda, forgot to mention it earlier" Kanda said and bowed.
"Lavi" he grinned "But I really have to go now, I have to go buy some food now."
Lavi seemed like he was in a hurry, so Kanda apologized and walked away.
Kanda walked around, eyeing Lavi. He tried to look less suspicious by walking around and talk to other people, but from time to time he looked up and watched where the redhead was standing and where he was walking.
Lavi seemed suspicious, the way he was acting like he wanted to avoid talking to anyone.
Lavi had bought food enough to last three days. He even had bought a book. He turned around and started walking away from the town square and started walking slowly towards the forest.
Jiji had forbidden Allen to do anything but rest.
Lavi was surprised that Allen had opened up to them.
.:Flashback:.
"How do you know that I haven't done anything? What makes you think I'm innocent?" Allen said, almost shouting.
"Let's say that I knew you in the past" Bookman answered, pressing his finger against his smiling lips, looking at Neah.
Neah smiled and pressed his finger against his lips.
.: End of Flashback:.
After that, Allen seemed to have no problem opening up.
Allen told them about his past, about how he met the Akuma, the scar on his face.
(Note: Allen doesn't know it's the sign of the witch, only Neah knows.)
He told them about what happened that day, that he fell down from the roof because he was shot, and well that's how he met them.
But because Allen was only allowed to rest, so Neah sang and opened the gate.
They had made an promise that when Lavi went to buy food, one hour after he had stepped out from the gate, the gate would open at the same place. So he could return to the Ark.
As Lavi walked on the street, watching the houses he passed, he started thinking how beautiful this village really was. "Well, the villagers were a different story" he thought.
How could they had done that to Allen. To think that they called a 4 year old a freak, a monster, because he had white hair and a … unique arm!?
Even if they had been there for more than a week, Lavi thought Allen as his little brother.
Lavi, who was sailing in his thoughts, didn't see Kanda, following him.
Lavi stepped in to the forest, and stood still for a while.
Kanda was hiding behind a tree, when he heard the song. It didn't seem like Lavi was singing, like someone, somewhere else sang.
A dark voice, beautiful yet it gave you the chills.
Much different than Allen's voice that sounded like sorrowful bird song.
Kanda saw the same scene again.
The air split in two, pushing the air to the side, creating a black gate.
Just how does Lavi know about Allen? What has happened to him?
The redhead stepped in to the gate.
Watching how the air started to push back, making the gate smaller.
Kanda had to make a choice now, walk back and pretend he didn't see anything or walk in to the gate.
Kanda looked at his pocket watch. Alma would expect him at home in three hours, he had time left.
Kanda scratched his head, he wasn't the person to skip work.
Noticing he didn't have much time left until the gate was completely gone, Kanda stepped in to the gate.
Holy… I can't… even explain how many hours it took me to form this part of the story from my head to text. It made me write the text over and over again on paper, it made me eat 2 bowls of ice cream, and drink a cup of coffee. I don't usually even drink coffee, I'm not a coffee person.
And I'm not really the fan to write flashbacks, but… :|
Well anyway, hope you like it. -Onmoraki