After the incident in the training room, I was in serious need of comforting. And I knew I wouldn't get it from Kanda. Not when he'd already comforted me earlier that day. Once was already a fluke. Twice was too much to hope for.

I was also a little hungry. My Innocence had only been activated for ten minutes, and I hadn't even done anything with it. Yet from the way it drained me, it felt like I had just finished sparring with one of my friends. It obviously still had more recovering to do.

So I went to the cafeteria and ordered a whole lot of dango. I took it back to my room so that I could be alone, eating as I walked. But my favorite food did little to make me feel better. Not after everything that had happened in the past two weeks. Not now that I knew that Kanda loved me. It was his comfort that I really wanted. Food was a poor substitute.

I nearly dropped the plate when I opened my door. Kanda was sitting on my bed. He looked incredibly awkward, like he didn't know what he was doing there. It was weird to see him without his self-confidence. But if there was ever proof that he loved me, that was it. I was allowed to see him nervous. Even if it was only for a few seconds. He was back to his usual self by the time the door was fully open. "You really should lock your door Moyashi. You never know who might come in and go through your stuff."

"What stuff? I don't have anything other than clothes." I laughed lightly as I closed and locked the door.

I was pressed against the wall the second I set my plate down. Kanda's face was so close to mine that our noses were touching. He looked so gorgeous up close like that. His eyes narrowed in mock anger. "I can't get you back for invading my privacy if you don't care about your own."

Then he was kissing me. His body pressed mine further into the wall as we made out. My hands found his ponytail, pulling out the tie so that his hair fell down around us. The kiss was wonderful, tasting of my two favorite things: Kanda and the dango I had just finished eating.

He made a face as he pulled away. I couldn't help whining a little. "Come back... You taste so good."

"Well you taste awful." Kanda wiped his mouth on the back of his hand. "What on earth did you eat last?"

I stuck my tongue out at him and shoved him away. Then I moved to sit on the bed, picking up the last stick of dango from the plate as I passed it. He did nothing but glare at me as I slowly and deliberately ate every last morsel. It wasn't until I was licking the stick clean that Kanda finally moved.

He yanked the stick out of my mouth and tossed it aside. "Cut out the teasing, Moyashi. It's time for you to answer for what you did earlier."

"Are you still stuck on me breaking into your room? I really didn't do anything other than sleep. Honest."

The look Kanda gave me was weird. "Are you even aware that you broke Lavi's nose when you hit him earlier?"

"What?!" I was off the bed in a flash, planning to track the redhead down and apologize.

Kanda's arms around my waist stopped me before I even made it two steps. "There's no need to apologize to that moron. It was his own damn fault. Right, 'Kitty'?"

I froze completely. I knew Kanda was only reminding me why I had hit Lavi in the first place, but getting called that made me furious. It was hard not to hit Kanda for saying it.

His grip on my waist tightened. He leaned over slightly so he could whisper in my ear. "It's me you should apologize to, Allen. Getting me that hard in public, and then going off and eating sweets instead of taking responsibility for it..."

I was thrown onto the bed, too stunned by Kanda's words to even realize what was happening. He had my shirt completely unbuttoned before I could find my tongue to voice my confusion. "Why would me hitting Lavi arouse you?"

Kanda left off kissing my neck to look at me. I blinked at the earnest glint in his cobalt eyes. "You usually let that moronic rabbit walk all over you. I very much enjoyed seeing you stand up to him like that."

He barely gave me time to process the answer. His lips returned to my neck and his hands slid my pants off my hips. I couldn't hold in the moans as he began stroking my hardening length.

Kanda's lips never left my skin. He trailed kisses down my collar bone until he reached one of my nipples. He attacked it viciously causing me to cry out. His free hand slid under my back and I could feel his fingers searching for something. I couldn't think clearly enough to realize what until I felt him make contact with the base of my tail. His fingers wrapped around my tail, simultaneously tugging on it and rubbing the spot where it protruded from my back. The feeling was so overwhelmingly fantastic that it caused my half-assed attempt to remove his shirt to fail.

I couldn't see anything but white anymore, but I could feel Kanda smirk into my chest. His hands grew rougher in his ministrations. My moans were embarrassingly loud and catlike, and I knew I was drooling, but I couldn't do anything about it. I couldn't even make my arms move from where they lay sprawled out on the bed.

After a particularly hard yank on my tail, I came in Kanda's hand. He gave me no time to recover, flipping me over onto my stomach immediately. I was only vaguely aware of his fingers pressing into me. His other hand stayed firmly on my tail, keeping me distracted until he pressed his fingers against that bundle of nerves inside me.

I screamed. Loudly. The pleasure was all I could concentrate on. I was completely unaware of everything else, barely even registering that I had released myself once more.

He finally let go of my tail, and while the loss of that euphoric feeling was sad, I was thankful to be aware of my surroundings again. Kanda's hands were firmly gripping my hips, and he was kissing me between my shoulder blades. "Are you back in the land of the living, Moyashi?"

I tried to reply but it came out as an incoherent gurgle. My body felt like jelly, I couldn't move a single muscle. Kanda smirked at my reaction, or rather, my lack of reaction. "Good to see I'm not the only one your tail affects. Though if I had known you were going to do that I'd have played with it a lot sooner."

I willed something to move, so that I could hit him. But all I got was my tail pathetically whacking his side. Kanda laughed the weak attempt off. His hands lifted my hips a few inches off the bed, and then he was thrusting his length inside me.

"Oh god! Yuu!" I cried out at the feeling of him filling me. I would never tell him, it was just too cheesy and girly, but there was something wonderful in how perfectly he fit inside me.

Kanda snickered. "So your voice does still work, Moyashi."

"Sh-shut up, Bakanda." The words were too breathy to have the desired effect.

But I wasn't given the chance to care. Kanda took the words to mean that I was ready and pulled out of me. He set a pace that was fast and hard. And I don't know how, but I found the strength to rock my hips in time with his thrusts.

I lost myself in pleasure once again when he changed angles and began ramming into my prostate. This time when I came it was followed by Kanda releasing deep inside me.

.x.x.

The next morning I woke up alone in bed. I briefly felt sad that Kanda hadn't come back after his meditation, but it was better that way. I needed the chance to recover from the previous night's activities, and if he was there I would have been fighting off his advances. I got dressed slowly, taking care not to stretch my sore muscles too far.

When that was done, I headed to breakfast. Lavi was there, his nose covered in bandages. He didn't notice me, and I was too nervous to face him, so I ignored him and got in line to order food.

Of course with my heightened senses, I could still hear him. He was regaling the surrounding finders with a tale of how he'd broken his nose in a horrific training accident. I didn't care much for the sensationalized story, but I was somewhat thankful for it. There was no need for anyone to know what really happened.

I wouldn't get that wish though. As soon as Lavi was finished with his fictional account, Lenalee smacked him upside the head. She glared at him and the finders who were listening to him. "That's not even remotely close to what really happened. You pissed off Allen and he punched you in the face."

The entire cafeteria froze at her words. I didn't have to turn around to know that they were all avoiding looking at me. One of the finders spoke to Lenalee. "Isn't that a little out of character for Allen? Are you sure it wasn't Kanda?"

"I'm positive." She hit Lavi again. "This idiot should have known better than to call Allen 'kitty'. Right, Allen?"

Lavi jumped visibly at her words. He looked around frantically trying to find me. I didn't know whether to feel sad or proud at the scared look on his face. It was that moment when what Kanda had said the night before clicked for me. I really did have a tendency to let Lavi have his way at my own expense.

I smiled briefly at Lenalee. She clearly saw the situation the same way Kanda did, so maybe he was right in saying that I didn't need to apologize. The finders fled as I approached their table.

Lavi smiled nervously at me as I sat down beside Lenalee. "Hey buddy. How come you didn't visit me in the infirmary last night? I thought you'd come apologize for what happened."

"I was told to hit you again if you asked for an apology." He paled instantly at my deadpan expression. After a moment I sighed. "Look. I'll apologize for breaking your nose. It wasn't my intention for that to happen. But I'm not going to apologize for hitting you."

"And you shouldn't." Lenalee wrapped her arm around my shoulder. "He's the one who should be apologizing."

Lavi and I both blinked at her. She made a face at us. "Oh come on Lavi. You're the one who's been telling everyone to be careful of Allen's mental state. And then you went and said that. How stupid can you get?"

"You're right, you're right. You can stop talking now." Lavi turned to me and smiled sheepishly. "Sorry Allen. I was careless, I shouldn't have called you that."

"Tha-" A sudden thought hit me. "Wait. What's wrong with my mental state?"

Lenalee made an annoyed sound. "Absolutely nothing. He's just being a moron. He-"

"Hey!" Lavi interrupted. "Yesterday you agreed with me. Why am I suddenly a moron?"

I glared at them both before trying to move away. But Lenalee tightened her grip on my shoulders. "I'm sorry Allen, you just seemed really fragile. Like if we didn't treat you carefully you might break. Anyway, after last night, that's clearly not true."

Her arm fell from my shoulder and she clasped her hands in her lap. From the look on her face she had more to say, so I waited for her to finish. "I guess that's why you've been spending so much time with Kanda. He's the only one who hasn't been treating you differently."

I almost couldn't hold in my reaction. There was no way I could explain to them just how differently Kanda was treating me. I certainly couldn't tell them that he had fucked my brains out the night before. "Hmm. I hadn't thought about it like that."

They were looking at me weird, but my food had arrived so I ignored the looks and dug into it. I practically inhaled the food, which was nothing new, but the way they continued to give me strange looks was.

.x.x.

After breakfast, Lavi and I dragged Allen to the library. He protested, saying that he needed to go train. But we were able to convince him that he'd been pushing himself too hard, and that he needed a break.

He moped the entire way down the hallway. It was adorable watching Allen act like a little kid. The drooping ears and tail didn't help. I could see why Lavi kept comparing him to a kitten. And it didn't help that I was crushing on him again.

It took Allen over an hour to get settled. He kept moving from chair to chair, changing positions several times before getting up and moving to the next spot. It was definitely a cat thing, but there was so much of Allen in it. Hanging out in the library was far from his favorite activity. He wasn't much of a reader. Not because he didn't like it, but because he struggled with it. Growing up on the streets didn't exactly give him a great education. It was a secret I made sure to keep from Lavi. If the redhead ever found out that Timothy could read better than Allen, a very bad kind of chaos would ensue.

Eventually Allen settled down on the window seat. The room got quiet and I lost myself in my book. A little while later I was pulled out of my fantasy land by a strange rumbling sound. At first I thought it was Allen's stomach, but this was too soft and too constant to be that abrasive racket.

Putting my book down, I sat up and looked around. Allen had moved from the window, and was now curled up on a couch beside Lavi. It was obvious that the neko was asleep, but that wasn't too surprising. He looked like he had barely slept the night before.

I registered that the sound was Allen purring in his sleep around the same time that I noticed that Lavi was playing with Allen's ears. I moved towards them as silently as I could. "What do you think you're doing, Lavi? He'll kill you if he wakes up to find you petting him."

"He better not. It's his own fault." I gave Lavi a look, I didn't believe that for a second. "He kept complaining that his ears itched and he wouldn't sit still. It was driving me crazy; I don't like getting interrupted while I'm reading. I told him to shut up, but he just kept begging for attention. I started scratching his ear and he was asleep within seconds. Now go away, I don't want to wake him. I'm enjoying hearing him purr."

I gave him another look, but I went back to my spot. I didn't get why Lavi was so excited, but Allen clearly needed the rest so I let them be.

It was lunchtime when I next got interrupted. Allen's stomach had been going crazy for a good ten minutes. The noise was getting annoying. I looked up to find him still asleep on Lavi's lap. "God, Lavi! Wake him up already!"

"I'm trying! He won't budge!"

I went over for a closer look, and Allen was definitely out like a light. Getting an idea, I sat casually on the back of the couch. I activated my Innocence, hooked my feet under Allen, and kicked him to the floor. He hit the ground and rolled a coupled times. I quickly deactivated my Innocence when he started to groan. "Owww… How'd I end up on the floor?"

"We had to resort to violence to wake you up. Your stomach has been driving us crazy."

Allen winced and rubbed his lower back as he sat up. Even after napping all morning he still looked exhausted. "Sorry. I'll go down to the cafeteria."

As he started to walk away, a thought hit me. "Hey Allen?"

"Yeah?" He turned around to look at me.

"How late were you and Kanda up last night?"

Allen blinked. I couldn't tell if he was confused or embarrassed. "What are you talking about?"

"You two have been spending your evenings sparring, right? How long did you go at it yesterday?" It was going to be several months before I would learn that I had just asked Allen a completely inappropriate question.

He immediately got defensive. "What does that have to do with anything?"

"You just seem really tired lately. Maybe all that late night training is doing more harm than good."