A/N: Whoo-hoo! I know you all missed my stories dearly, and I'm in the process of writing a new one... Which I promise to finish before i post any of it, in order to not leave you all hanging... Dx
Anyhow, this isn't about me (That's tomorrow) This is a birthday present for Koru-chan! For today is her birthday! Everyone go wish Koru Da Fern Princess a big ol' whopping happy birthday~ (Feel free to wish it to me tomorrow lol)

Disclaimer: If Kanda is wearing a shirt then he isn't mine... -sigh-

Yuu Kanda gripped his crayon tightly, pushing rather hard as he drew a random scene with no meaning. A rather sloppy drawing of a pond surrounded by trees emerged, though it was drawn all in black, so much was left to the imagination. Simple and concise, just as Yuu Kanda is.

"Awww, Yuu! What a pretty drawing!" Cooed his 1st grade teacher, "May I show the class?"

"Fuck no. And don't call me by my name."

"Yuu! Time out chair for that kind of potty-mouth young man." Her delicate mouth pulled into a frown, pointing to the gaudily colored stool labeled 'Time Out Chair' as though the 1st graders could read well enough to know that.

Kanda stomped over to the stool and plopped himself down on it with an angry aura emanating from him.

"Alright children, gather up in the circle for an announcement!" The pretty young teacher called. The children scampered over into the indigo semi-circle, and plopped their little bottoms down on the edge of the semi-circle. "As you all know, the preschool children need helpers twice a week to watch over them, and teach them simple things like letters and numbers if they want to learn. Now I have offered you guys up to have your own preschool buddy, so then you can teach them all they need to know for kindergarten and 1st grade. Who thinks this sounds like fun?" all the little hands in the room popped up except for Kanda's, he was still sulking in the timeout corner. "That's great, now today there isn't enough time to play with them, but we will go down to let you choose your buddy. Now everyone line up at the door and Lavi will be the line leader!" She turned to Kanda in the corner and beckoned him towards her. He popped up and trudged rebelliously towards her, "Yuu, would you like to tell me what you did wrong?" She asked, looking at him in what was supposed to be a stern expression but really looked more like she was confused.

"I said a naughty word…" he mumbled into the floor, his young pride easily wounded

"Good boy, now don't use that word anymore, please. Now come on and let's get everyone a little preschool buddy!" Grins broke out across the young faces as the bounced in excitement.

Their teacher opened the door to the preschool section, revealing numerous young children playing with various toys around the room. "Okay everyone, now choose a buddy and stick with them! No fighting and everyone needs a buddy!" She said with a pointed look towards Kanda.

The bubbly boy named Lavi, who considered himself Kanda's best friend cried "Come on Yuu-chan, let's find you a buddy!" Lavi himself already having a small child latched to his side, a pretty young girl who was called Lenalee. Her bright eyes watched Kanda with a reserved fascination.

"Don't call me that, you stupid rabbit." Kanda growled, causing Lenalee to gasp with wide eyes at his use of 'potty-mouth', Lavi ruffled her hair to reassure her that Kanda meant no harm. "I don't need your help to find a buddy." And so Kanda set off with a scowl.

Five minutes later, the preschool teacher called out "Is there anyone left without a buddy?" a child, smaller than the rest, with cute cubby cheeks, and a pale complexion toddled over with his hand in the air,

"I don't have a partner ma'am." The small child looked up adorably, his grey eyes alive with natural happiness, one eye and cheek were marred by a strange scar, and his locks were as white as any snow drift. Kanda's eyes widened, then narrowed into a vicious scowl

"No, I'm NOT having THAT as my buddy." Kanda growled, "I'm not even sure of what its gender is."

"Yuu!" The outraged cry of his teacher fell upon deaf ears as the pony-tailed youth stuck up his nose at the preschooler. The preschooler dressed in a lacy dress, that was also clearly just an effeminate little boy, turned his tear filled eyes to his teacher,

"Ma'am? I am a boy aren't I?" His lower lip trembled

"Of course you are honey, you're the cutest little boy I have ever seen!" his teacher cooed, pinching one of his chubby cheeks gently, "Now Yuu here will be your new buddy, he's a little rough around the edges, but you're the only one who I think is mature enough to handle him, okay Allen?" The white-haired boy nodded enthusiastically, the ruffles on his dress bouncing as he spun to face the taller, slimmer, long haired Japanese boy,

"Hello, my name is Allen, may I ask your's?" He beamed his adorable innocent smile at the elder, who glared in return.

"Shut the hell up Moyashi." Kanda snapped, fingering the plastic sword strapped to his hip.

"Yuu-chan! Is this your buddy?" Lavi giggled, skipping over holding a grinning Lenalee's hand. "Awwww, he's so cute! What's your name little guy?"

"My name is Allen Walker, what's your name?" He asked politely grinning at the red-haired eye-patched boy with a grin on his face

"Why me? I'm Lavi, and I'm sure you know Lenalee here." Lenalee took this moment to smile shyly at Allen then tug on Lavi's sleeve, signaling him to lean down so she could whisper in his ear.

"Allen doesn't have any friends, no one wants to talk to him, because his father dresses him in girl's clothing, and he looks so odd…" Lenalee whispered, an awkward blush stained her young face as she averted her eyes from Allen's

"Stupid Moyashi, come on, I'm supposed to teach you something."

"What's a Moyashi?" Lavi piped up, asking everyone's unvoiced question

"A bean sprout." Kanda smirked

"Oh!" Lavi laughed, "Because he's tiny and his hair is white! I get it!" His body shook with suppressed laughter. Allen pouted dramatically, and shook his head angrily

"My name is Allen! Not Moyashi! And you never told me what your name is…" Allen tilted his head signaling someone to inform him of the foul tempered foreign boy's name

"His name is Yuu Kanda, if you want to die, or have some sort of authority over him, you call him Yuu, everyone else gets to call him Kanda." Lavi affirmed, Allen nodded solemnly and turned to the three others

"Well, Lavi, Lenalee, Kanda, I hope we can all be friends forever." And Allen sealed his hope with a broad smile

As time passed, and more visiting was done between 1st graders and their preschool buddies, Kanda and Lavi grew to learn better what the situation between Allen and his fellow preschoolers was. He was ostracized by most, and those he wasn't ignored by he was bullied by. They found this out best when the preschool day was lengthened an hour at the end of the first semester, signaling that the children were now old enough to stay for lunch at school and have a recess.

Allen and Lenalee had latched together and were now inseparable at best, so they sat together at lunch drinking from their little apple juice boxes and eating their little sandwiches. Recess though, was a different matter. It was a matter of principle that girls never played with boys at recess. It was instant social death to disobey this rule, and so Lenalee regretfully left Allen alone every recess.

Kanda only learned this by chance, since one day, when he and Lavi were racing to the top of the monkey bars, he heard a small shriek.

"Stoppit please!" Allen's distinctive voice cried out, his British accent making it impossible to not know it was him. Another small cry followed the previous. Kanda froze in his race, and hopped down to the ground and stealthily took off towards the commotion.

Three older boys, maybe old enough to be second graders, had crowded around Allen and were kicking at him whenever he tried to get up.

"This is the reason why boys don't wear dresses!" The biggest smirked, "It turns them into sissies!" His friends laughed and a fresh bout of 'let's all kick Allen' ensued.

Somehow in the middle of the fray Allen's wide eyes locked onto Kanda,

"K-Kanda!" he cried out as a large boot met him square in the ribs. Tears trickled down his cheeks and he looked so utterly sad and defenseless Kanda decided to do something he wanted to do for once.

"Stop." He growled, his very presence threatening even to older children.

"Oh ho," the biggest again smirked, "Look at the little boy here to save his little girlfriend." Kanda's scowl deepened.

"You ready to die then?" and the option of a violence free scenario had never really been there. So they fought… Brutally. And naturally, Kanda won.

The three boys scurried off, leaving Kanda with a split lip and a teary-eyed Allen for his troubles. Kanda turned and looked down at Allen's tiny abused body.

"Oi, Moyashi, are you okay?" Allen let out a pitiful sniffle

"Boys don't cry." He stated, as though this would prove that he wasn't crying to the older boy. Kanda let out a resigned sigh before offering his hand to the younger. Allen's eyes widened, but then clasped the bigger hand in his own tiny one, and was pulled to his feet and grasped in a rough embarrassed hug. Just as suddenly as it began the hug was over and Kanda, blushing, was looking at Allen to see if any serious injury had occurred. "I'm okay." The tiny boy smiled, looking up at Kanda, then his small face turned serious. "Thank you for saving me Kanda." Then Allen stood up on his tiptoes and kissed Kanda sweetly on the cheek. "Will you marry me when we grow up?" Allen asked, his eyes full of childhood innocence. Kanda averted his eyes embarrassedly

"Tch…" But his hand grabbed Allen's and led Allen back to the preschool as the end of recess bell rang.

tee hee, chibi fluff~ I tried to make this end as 12 years later, but it sounded so rushed and awkward... I couldn't give THAT to Koru-chan xD
Anyhow Koru-chan, happy birthday and hope you like this =D