01 – Holding Hands

The city was crowded, as usual, and Kanda could already feel his temper fraying. It seemed that the majority of these morons still had to grasp the concept that they weren't the only people in the fucking world and had to actually look where they were going on the street. Within ten minutes he had been bumped into more times than he could count and if anyone else stood on his feet he was probably going to start throwing people through shop windows.

To be perfectly honest, if it wasn't for the girl weaving through the crowd in front of him he wouldn't be here at all. If it had been anyone else asking him to accompany them on this little shopping expedition he would have point-blank refused. But seeing it was Lenalee… well, he always seemed to be able to make an exception in his usual unfriendly attitude for her.

The stupid rabbit and the moyashi had picked up on this as well and had tried to tease him about it when he and Lenalee had first started officially dating. The stupid rabbit and the moyashi had learned the hard way to never tease him about this subject again.

He looked up and immediately noticed that Lenalee had disappeared from his line of sight. He frowned, scanning the crowd, a slight twinge of (it was not anxiety, he did not feel anxious about things like this) discomfort. However, before he could get too concerned the girl in questions suddenly pushed her way through a tourist group to reach him, panting as she said, "Sorry! Some people cut in front of me and I got dragged along with them. God, I didn't think it would be this busy today."

"It's always busy," he replied, his tone hiding the relief he felt. She smiled at him before she placed her hand in his, saying, "Let's stick together. It'd take ages to find each other in crowds like this."

His fingers instinctually wrapped around hers as she pulled him along. They had been dating for four months now and he no longer felt uncertain whenever she held his hand or hugged or kissed him. Now it was just something that happened and he felt perfectly comfortable with it. It was actually very nice, knowing there was someone there for him who cared.

A jolt of pain sparked from his foot and his jaw clenched. It was also a good thing they were holding hands so she could hold him back when he tried to enact brutal revenge upon the poor soul who had stepped on him.

A/N: Hey, I'm back! I've decided to honour the recently announced return of the -Man anime (I'm so excited) I'm going to do a 30 Day OTP Challenge. Each chapter will be a short little piece for either Kanlena or Laven. This is all set in the Four's Problems universe. However, Day 14 and Day 15 will be fanart so they won't be on here (obviously). Thank you to everyone who reads! 'Til next time!