Author Note: Thank you for all the reviews!

Me: Reever, will you do the honors?

Reever: Sure, Crowsnight doesn't own DGM or the characters, only the plot.

Me: Thanks, and here's chapter 31!

Situation

Chapter 31: Visitors

It had been a few days since we had the funniest drunk caregiver story contest, and it was about noon. I had already eaten lunch, and at the moment I was sitting on the bed playing with Ice. Kanda was taking a shower at the moment, but I had already taken one while he was sleep.

The kit was swatting a feather toy I was dangling above her head. Of course, she wasn't very successful with her attempts to grab it with her front paw, but she didn't give up as she rose up on her hind legs to reach up higher, still just a few millimeters off. I laugh a bit, amused by her efforts, and I let her have it, watching her chew and lick the toy. One thing I didn't understand was why she would bite and shake it and then hold it under her paw as she licked it. Hmm, it somewhat reminded me of what Kanda does to me, gnawing on my neck before giving it a long lick. A blush creeps onto my face and I push away the images of last night, one reason I needed the shower this morning.

Then, I hear a knock on the door. I was already dressed, so I get up and open the door, assuming it was Lenalee. I couldn't have been more wrong. On the other side of the door was the person who saved me when I lost my arm, dressed in her normal purple tube-top and shorts even with it being the day before New Year's. I squeal, "Fou!"

I throw my arms, clad in a black turtleneck, around her neck, embracing her tightly as she says, "Hey, Allen."

After we break apart, I step back and gesture for her to come in, "What are you doing here? I thought you couldn't leave the Asian Branch."

"They made another humanoid to help me after what happened before you left, and I was allowed to leave. Well, I kind of didn't give them a choice but to bring me," she explained, sitting on the bed beside me, and Ice started sniffing her.

"Ice, this is Fou. She saved me multiple times and helped me get my arm back," I say, and the feline nodded, brushing against the girl. I continue, "What do you mean by didn't give them a choice? Who else is here?"

She smiles, "Bak and Lou Fa came to visit you."

"Why?" I ask, very confused.

She rolls her eyes, "I know you're pregnant. Bak was part of the team that helped with it, but Lou just tagged along with us because she wanted to see you."

Ice cries loudly and crawls onto my lap, snuggling against me as I reply, "You aren't freaked out?"

"No, I think that it's sweet. The only thing freaky about it is that Kanda is the father. I never thought he'd open up to anyone."

I tilt my head as I scratch behind the white snowball's ear, "How do you know Kanda?"

"The Second Exorcist Program took place at the Asian Branch, which is why I was hoping to avoid him while I'm here. He hates me." She looked down at her paw-like hands, and continues, "Before I got to really know Bak, I was so jealous of Alma."

My eyes widen, "You had a crush on Kanda?"

"Yeah, still do a bit. I'm not going to act on it though, don't worry," she glances up at me, her purple eyes showing that she meant it. I say, "Why do you think he hates you?"

Fou opened her mouth to respond when the bathroom door opened, revealing my shirtless boyfriend in a pair of jeans. He was still drying his hair and when he saw Fou, he growled, "What's that thing doing here?"

"Don't worry, I'm leaving," the said "thing" responded. "Allen, would you want to have dinner with me later?"

As she walks toward the door, I nod, "Yeah, five o'clock?"

"Sounds good," Fou replied before slamming the door. I looked at Kanda as he stood there, tossing the towel into the bathroom and beginning to drag a brush he got from his dresser through his damp, cobalt ribbons. I growl, "What was that?!"

"Why were you talking to it? I thought it was supposed to stay at the Asian Branch," he replied nonchalantly.

Balling my hands into fists on my lap next to Ice, I correct, "Fou is a she, not an 'it'. And if you forgot, she's one of my best friends and also saved me twice. The Asian Branch made another humanoid to help with the protection and she was able to come with Bak and a friend I made while I was there."

"Good to know. Figures that you would see a humanoid as an actual person, but it isn't. All that thing you were talking to was a robot, it doesn't feel or live," Kanda said, finishing with his hair and leaning against the wall near his dresser, his arms crossed.

I truly could have slapped him at that moment, but I calmly reply with an underlying bite, "Think what you want, but I don't ever want to hear you call Fou an 'it' again. If you do love me, then you would be grateful to her, because there wouldn't be an 'us' without her and we wouldn't be having a baby. She saved me from Tyki Mikk so show some respect."

"Whatever," he replied before stepping out onto the balcony, still only in his jeans. Fine, he can freeze if he wants to. I remove Ice from my lap, grabbing my jacket from my bed, and I walk out the door, not wanting to be around Kanda. He can go on about Fou while I'm not there, but he should know how protective I am of my friends.

I still had four hours before I was supposed to meet Fou for dinner so I figured I could say hi to Bak and Lou since they were here. Though, I hope it isn't awkward between Lou and I since she had a crush on me when I was at the Asian Branch.

Walking to the cafeteria, I decide to go ahead and order my smoothie except I get it in orange instead due to the thoughts of Kanda that I got when I drank anything strawberry. Yeah, when I'm mad at him, everyone knows about it since I think I have a weird evil aura around me, and I'm in and out of the cafeteria in less than five minutes, heading towards Komui's office.

Drinking the tangy yet sweet smoothie in my hand, I knock on the office door, waiting for a reply. "Come in!"

I open the door, peeking and walking into the room. "Allen!"

I'm nearly knocked to the ground when arms are thrown around my neck, and I realize that not only were Komui and Bak in the room, but Lou was there, too, obviously. Despite the chokingly tight arms around my neck, I say, "Hi, Lou."

The girl with glasses and two braids smiled happily as she pulled away, taking her suffocating grasp with her, and said, "I haven't seen you in months."

"Yeah, an interesting many months," I reply. Bak stood from where he was sitting on the couch and held out his hand, "Walker."

I take his hand and shake it with a nod, "Hey."

"Did Fou find you? I told her she could find you in your room, and she hasn't come back," Komui asked, spinning around in his rolling chair. I nod, "She didn't stay long because of Kanda, but she invited me to dinner at five."

"Great," he said. "I assume she went to her room then."

I tilt my head, "What do you mean her room?"

"Fou will be staying here until the baby is born. We needed someone who would be able to tend to you at all times who isn't needed to do other things, like your exorcist friends," Bak explained, sitting back down.

Lou added, "She volunteered to do it since she was replaced by Asa."

"Fou told me that it was a visit and the other humanoid was just to help," I say, not understanding why she would lie. I mean, I'm glad she was going to be the one to take care of me, but still. Bak shook his head, "After the level three broke through her defenses, the Council voted her unfit to remain the protector of the Asian Branch Headquarters."

"That's awful," I say around my straw as I finish my smoothie.

Komui replies, "Yes, but nothing can be done. Also, try to keep Fou and Kanda separate. They have a bad history and it's best they stay away from each other."

"Okay, what happened between them?" I ask, wondering why they hated each other. Bak shook his head, "That's a question for one of them to answer."

I nod before taking my leave, kissing Lou's hand as I go and giving her a nosebleed. Not sure where else to go after throwing away my smoothie cup, I go back to my room and find Kanda and Mugen missing. That didn't bother me at all since I didn't want to be around him and I decide to lie on the top bunk. Situated backwards with my ankles resting on the headboard, I stare up at the wooden ceiling, pondering exactly what I would do about being in the same room with Kanda.

It's not that I have issues with being with him while in a fight, but I didn't have really much to do without him other than talk to Ice and sleep. Maybe after dinner I would go with Fou to a bookstore to find a new book to read. I just love teen and Christian fiction, even though I know what it says in the Bible about being gay. I feel like it's something God meant to be. Why else would he make a prostate?

Anyway, I've already read the House of Night, Fallen, and Mortal Instruments series' so I was looking for a new one. That would be something I could do in order to not have to deal with Kanda and his disrespectful butt.

I hear the door open and realize two things: Kanda was back and it was already three. A small clatter tells me he had propped Mugen up against the wall, and then he walks into the bathroom, shutting the door hard enough to make me flinch even though it wasn't a slam. Mewling begins reverberating around the room before I feel the wet nose rubbing against the hand by my side, and personally, I have no earthly idea how Ice got up here.

I stroke her furry head and say, "Will you do me a favor?"

"Meow?" she asks, tilting her head to the side as she sits on my chest. Glancing to make sure the bathroom door was still closed, I say, "Can you stay away from Kanda, like not lay on him and rub against him?"

She mewed confusedly, and I continue, "He is being a jerk to one of my best friends."

To that she nodded, and I scratched behind her ear as I thanked her. The samurai tends to play dirty with me so this is just returning the favor, even if he doesn't give a crap.

The bathroom door opens then, and though I was staring at the ceiling, I could still see from the corner of my eye that he was shirtless and wearing low-riding jeans. Kanda practically strutted to the bed and lay down as I growled at my mean, cruel, suggestive, hot, sexy boyfriend, and I totally just went off topic. My point was that he purposely was trying to make me drool. Oh, how I wanted to smack him upside the head for wearing those clothes. The jeans were so low that I could see the top of where his legs attached to his pelvis and it was obvious that the jeans were the only thing he was wearing, his usual black boxers probably "lost" somewhere.

I bite my lip as I hear him lay down, making the sexiest moans and quiet noises, and I couldn't figure out why he would be doing this unless he was trying to make a point of the fact that I can't control myself even when I was angry with him. Was I allowed to ravish him and then continue being mad? I mean, I love our make-up sex, but I can't just give in without an apology from him. The kit on my chest moved off me and sat by my side as if waiting for me to rape the bluenette below me, and I sit up.

Grumbling about how Kanda had no virtues, I slide off the bed and glare at him before swallowing thickly. He had his hands above his head, overlapping like they were cuffed, and his legs were slightly apart, one bent upwards while the other was kicked out. To top it all off, his hair was fanned out around him while he gazed at me, intent shimmering in his eyes if you can believe his eyes can shimmer. Everything about the way he was laying screamed three things: trust, want, and dared me to jump on top of him.

I growl, "Just so you know, I'm still mad at you for what you said."

"Okay," he says with a smirk, nearly making me lose every last ounce of self-control I had left in me. "We'll see how long you can last."

Challenge dripped from his voice, and I accepted, staring as he brought his right hand through his hair, down his face, neck, and chest before stopping halfway down his stomach, but my eyes didn't, continuing down until I realize it was exactly what he wanted me to do. Stopping, I blush before giving him the best glare I can muster against his smolderingly smoky one, his eyes showing that he got the first point. This. Was. War.

Turning away, I walk to my dresser and pull out a candy cane I had stashed with the three lollipops I hadn't eaten, pulling off the film and twirling my tongue around it in an evocative manner as I gazed at Kanda. I grin as he followed my tongue, the lust in his eyes growing more prominent as I lick the candy, and I say around it, "One to one."

He growls as I pull on my jacket and walk out the door, continuing to suck on the peppermint treat as I make my way to the cafeteria to meet with Fou. Time flies around here, or maybe it's just in my room, but whatever the case it was about five till five.

As I walk into the dining hall, I finish off the candy cane and spot Fou sitting at a table near the back. When I sit, she smiles and says, "Hey, are you ready?"

"Yeah, but I talked to Komui earlier and he told me that you were staying until the baby was born," I reply, waiting for her explanation of why she lied to me.

She stands and leads me out of the large room as we make our way to whatever restaurant we were going to, "I'm sorry I lied, but I was afraid that Kanda would hear and he would just use it against me."

"Okay, just don't do it again," I tell her. "I'm really mad at him about what he said, and now he's turned it into a game."

She looks at me confusedly and tilts her head, "A game?"

"Yeah," I nod. "He's trying to make me give into kissing him even though I'm aggravated at him. Though, now I'm doing the same thing."

She giggles a little and responds, "Nice, but don't worry about me and him. Really, it's been like this for years and I got used to it."

It takes a bit, but eventually we get to Golden Corral and she agrees to tell me what happened between them after we sit.

Author Note: I think that cliffhangers are just the best thing ever, don't you guys agree? *Ducks from grapes and vicious-looking stuffed animals being thrown at me.* Should I get a new hobby? NEVA! Anyways, the next chapter will have stuff about the Second Exorcist Program in it that I have no idea if it is correct or not so just warning you, and any ideas for the battle between Allen and Kanda are greatly appreciated along with game ideas that Kanda, Allen, Lenalee, Lavi, and Fou (possibly Lou Fa) can play together! And as always, please, Please, PLEASE R/R! By the way, I figure anyone reading this story has nothing against gays, but please pay no mind to the comment about the Bible in this chapter. (I'm a very firm Christian and it will make sense why I added that in the next chapter, but no hating please!) Anyone else getting annoyed with all the talk about the Duck Dynasty guy?