Hana: Hello~ We're back~
Kanda: Che.
Allen: ...jeez, hold your enthusiasm, why don't you?
Hana: No fighting! Anyway~ Hello everyone and welcome to a new chapter! As always neither me nor XavierForest own D. Gray-man.
Allen: -reading through the chapter- ...
Kanda: Hn...I'll take what I can get, I suppose.
Allen: -blinks- W-what's that supposed to mean?
Hana: Enjoy the new chapter, you amazing people you~
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+ - Chapter 17 - +
"Uh...excuse me, do you know if Yu Kanda is in right now?" Allen asked a fairly large man. He'd be lying if he said he didn't feel a little intimidated.
"Yu Kanda? I don't think that's a good idea..."
"I'm his fiancé." Allen tried. "I'm pretty sure—"
"Fiancé? Wait, you're Allen then, aren't ya?"
"I get the feeling he doesn't really talk about his personal life with you..."
"Ah! I'm Goz. Nice ta meet you, and...I may or may not have stumbled across his phone at one point..." Well, that certainly did explain things.
"I doubt it'd only say "Allen" as the contact...how much do you wanna bet he put "Moyashi" as the nickname?" Timothy whispered. Lala giggled, nodding in agreement.
"Timothy!" Allen hissed, cheeks flushing red.
"Just pointing out a fact," the young boy grinned.
"You're impossible!"
"No, I'm a kid. We're supposed to cause you some trouble."
"He's not wrong." Goz pointed out. "I wasn't much an angel as a kid myself. My parents can vouch on that."
"We're not all bad," Lala put in, smiling.
Allen sighed, deciding now was a good a time as any to change the topic. "So...is Kanda here?"
"He just got back in from the field...I think I may have angered him while we were out..."
"Trust me, I doubt it's nothing I can't handle."
(* - *)
"You idiots! How the fuck do you even mess up that badly?! They're complete opposites you fucktards!"
Apparently Goz had been right. Allen and the children had come in to the sight of his fiancé scolding — more like verbally abusing — around about half-a-dozen terrified — possibly — new recruits.
Timothy grinned, pointing to the angry Japanese male. "That's the one."
Lala gaped, glancing between the pissed-off FBI agent, and the frozen British white-haired young man. "H-how?!"
Allen blinked, handed the bento box over to Timothy, and stomped right on over to his fiancé, who had yet to see him because his back was turned. He tapped the elder on the shoulder and waited.
Sure enough, Kanda whipped around, a fearsome glare in place. "Piss the fuck o-" He cut himself off, choking on his own words at his lover's bright — though somewhat forced — smile.
"Okay. I'll come back later then."
He didn't even make three steps before hands grasped at his hips and pulled him back against a larger body, lips at his ear. "What are you doing here, Moyashi?"
Determined to ignore the man's obvious teasing, he stood still, though still caught the grateful looks shot his way after calming his partner. "I made you lunch. But if you really don't want it, then I'll eat it."
"You? Cooking?" Kanda scoffed.
"Hey! I've gotten better!" The younger scowled.
"Sure you have," the other muttered. "What are you doing here?" He asked, repeated the question from earlier.
"I already told you th—"
"No," Kanda interrupted, nipping at the boy's ear. "What are you really doing here?"
This wasn't good. His lover had already figured out that something was wrong and this wasn't going to plan and—
...oh... he could feel Kanda's length pressing hard into his back. Hopefully the man would think twice about doing anything here... where there were people... lots of people... and Timothy was grinning at him... and Lala was blushing...
Stiffening, Allen tried to pull away, but his lover tightened his hold. "Where do you think you're going?"
"I w-was ju—"
Allen gasped as he felt a tongue trace his ear, just like when they'd first met. A hand groped his rear and it took everything he had not to deck the pervert in front of all these people. "Just what?"
The younger grit his teeth, crossing his arms as he did so.
"Excuse me."
Kanda, whose sole focus had been on his young lover, finally looked past the boy, gaze first on Timothy, and then settling on Lala, who stood by his side, her single blue eye expectant. Frowning, the Japanese male pinched Allen's butt. "You didn't...Moyashi?"
Annoyance mellowing out into discomfort, the Brit nodded. "Sorry for not asking first."
Not letting go, Kanda appraised the girl with narrowed eyes. Beside her, Allen saw that Timothy was still grinning, although Lala seemed nervous. That was to be expected though; she was meeting Yu Kanda for the first time.
Finally, after much mental deliberation, Kanda spoke. "Name?"
"I-I'm Lala..." The girl finally managed to get out. Where Allen was kind, and gentlemanly, Kanda was...scary.
She hadn't expected this. Since Allen was as he was, she'd thought that his fiancé would be, too. Turns out she was mistaken.
The Japanese male frowned, taking in the girl's bandaged left eye and strange name, but otherwise nodded. "I'm going on lunchbreak," he said to no one in particular, pulling his young lover with him into his office, motioning for the children to follow.
"C'mon, Lala, he won't kill us." Timothy said, ushering his sister-to-be towards where the adults were.
"Even if you say so...first impressions say otherwise. He looked like he was going to slaughter those guys."
"Tough love." Timothy said, brushing it off.
"Are you sure?" She asked worriedly.
Timothy grinned. "If he really was a bad guy, then why would Allen be with him?"
Well, she supposed the boy had a point. To some extent, why wouldn't Allen be with this man if he weren't at least a little nice...right?
Though that guy did just grope Allen... and his hands were still at Allen's hips...
This was honestly conflicting for the Italian female. Sighing, realizing there wasn't much she probably could do about it, entered the space the other three males had gone.
"Alright, so here's your lunch, Yu." Allen said, taking the bento from Timothy, and placing it on the table.
"Maybe I should have you sample it. If you get sick, I'll know it's bad."
"Yu!"
"But Allen eats just about anything...do you really think it'd affect him at all?" Timothy asked.
"In that case, I'll make you try it."
"Hey!"
Lala rolled her only eye. "You pretty much walked into that one."
Kanda's gaze flickered back over to Lala, and he smirked.
The girl quickly looked down, meaning she didn't see Timothy and Allen grinning at one another behind Kanda's back.
Was this even a good idea? Could she really call this scary person a father? She already started calling Allen "Papa", but that wasn't really intentional...at first anyway. It just seemed like it fit him...if Allen was gonna be her "Papa"...then what did she call Kanda? What felt right when she said "Papa" with something other than "Mama"? "Papa" and..."Dada"? No, definitely not. "Dad"? "Daddy"? "Father"? Definitely not "Father"...
She couldn't call him something more feminine... he'd hate that. So... "Kanda"? But that didn't feel right either... And she didn't even know if he wanted another child anyway...
"Moyashi, what the hell?" Blinking Lala quickly looked up, seeing the man now had a scowl on his face, aimed for Allen, who was smiling innocently.
"What the hell, what, Yu?"
Kanda's eyes narrowed all the more, and Lala stepped back.
"Moyashi."
"Kanda."
"Can y'eat now?" Timothy whined. "I'm boooorrrrrrrrred!"
Allen smiled. "You know what? That's a great idea Timothy." He crossed his arms. "Come on, Yu. Eat up."
"We worked really hard on it, daddy!" Maybe it was Allen and Timothy's imagination, but did Kanda just blush? "Please eat it?"
"...daddy?" Kanda asked, his attention back to the long-haired girl.
A blue eye looked up innocently with a begging puppy expression. "Is that not okay?"
"I...don't dislike it." Kanda muttered. He then sighed, and ran his hand through his bangs. "Fine then. I'll eat it."
"Yay~!"
"How'd you do that?" Timothy asked.
"Do what? I don't know what you're talking about."
"A force to be reckoned with..." Allen said.
"She's scary like that," the younger boy continued.
"Yeah...she is..."
Kanda was pleasantly surprised that what Allen made was actually far better than he thought...sure, it was a character bento...whoever the hell he chose to pick was...but it was good. The moment he'd seen Lala, he knew it was a way to butter him up. He was pretty sure that Allen knew there'd be more to it than a homemade lunch.
A whole lot more.
And going by the way that the Brit kept shifting around uneasily, it was easy to tell that he knew that, too.
But Lala... she was okay, actually. She was wary at first, like most people where when meeting Kanda, though when they'd later moved into his office, he'd seen that she, like Timothy, had a devious side to her. Hers, however, was different. Instead of the bribing the young boy had used against the Brit, she was trying to play on his emotions by calling him 'daddy' and using puppy-dog eyes. And it'd worked.
In that way, at least, she was like the Moyashi. Though Kanda wasn't so sure about letting a girl in the house. One girl, three guys...
"Why are you looking at me funny?" Lala asked, after noticing Kanda's attention had been on her for a while.
"If we do decide to adopt you, you'd be the only girl."
"I've always been the only girl." She admitted. "I've been through the foster care system, before my grandfather was able to find and adopt me...and in all those cases, I've been the only girl in a house consisting of rowdy boys."
"Really?" Timothy asked, his interest piqued.
"I can even show you what my foster brother showed me when I lived with him and his father!" the amount of life the three men could see in her eye was outstanding. "Umm...Timothy, try and tackle me!"
"What? Why me?"
"Please?"
"If you get hurt, it's on you!" Timothy said, before standing. Lala followed suit, and did nothing when the younger started charging at her. At least, she didn't until Timothy was in arms' reach, where she managed to grab him, and flip him over her shoulder, having the youngest male get the air knocked out of him once he hit the floor.
Allen and Kanda blinked.
"Can we keep her now?" Allen asked, a grin lighting up his face as the blue-haired boy on the floor groaned and struggled to stand.
Kanda arched a brow. "Are you prepared for what I'm going to do to you after this?"
"Uh..." The nineteen-year old blushed, the colour bright red, and nodded. "Yeah... I guess..."
"Then I don't see any problems."
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Ah~ I love a good Kanda molesting Allen scene~ It's a little funnier because apparently that guy just can't keep his hands to himself with our favorite moyashi~ Even with people around xD
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