HAPPY LAVIYU DAY!
Blue Caravan
It was a dreary overcast morning, but given that it was mid-October in England it was just good luck that it wasn't raining. Kanda Yu sat in an empty room that wasn't his. He wasn't brooding, or sulking, or engaging in any other un-Kanda like behaviors. The only reason that he wasn't in his own room was because he'd wanted to see what the weather was like and his own stain glass window prevented that. It wasn't because the room hadn't been visited by the cleaning staff and still held an indefinable yet familiar scent. It wasn't because he had hoped that it wouldn't be abandoned yet. It wasn't because from the vantage point of this window he could see a tuff of bright red hair sticking up from a drab traveling cloak as two figures walk into the impending storm.
With a disapproving noise Kanda Yu turned away from the window before the figure had disappeared from sight. He had his own finial journey to prepare for.
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"I'm leaving tomorrow." Kanda glowered at the fool who had dared disturb his mediation and turned away from the door.
"Why are you telling me? Go find Lenalee, she'll give a damn." He snapped and stabbed ruthlessly at his clenching heart.
"Yu-chan! Anyone else would think you didn't love me!" The fool entered the room and threw his arms around Kanda's neck.
"Imagine that. Seriously you idiot rabbit, I don't have time for this, go bug Moyashi. He'll be sad that you're leaving." Kanda snapped trying to break the death grip that enclosed his body.
"Yu." The voice wasn't whiny anymore, the tone shocked Kanda enough to pay attention, "Yu, I can't tell them. I'm not even supposed to tell you. I'm leaving tomorrow, for good, as in not coming back."
"Well of course you're not coming back. No one is." Lavi snarled and spun Kanda to face him.
"Don't you understand?! Once I leave even if we meet again I won't be Lavi! I won't be allowed to know you!" The other boy's voice had been steadily rising till he was yelling and then suddenly he broke off and added in a whisper, "I won't be able to love you."
"Tch." Was Kanda's only reply and Lavi sank to his knees in front of Kanda and pressed his face to Kanda's shoulder.
"Please Yu; love me just one more night. Let me love you one last time.
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It was raining now as it had been threatening to do as they left Order. It darkened the vibrant hair of the boy who had been Lavi and plastered it to his face.
"Keep up Boy." The old man in front of him snapped.
"Yes Master." He murmured. He picked up his trudging pace, but knew he was still walking too slowly for the Bookman's tastes.
"Boy you will abandon all those attachments you formed with the last record now or you will leave me. Our order demands perfection." For a brief moment the boy considered it. Yu wouldn't have left yet, he hated the rain. It was his desire to be with Yu again that made up his mind.
"I abandoned them when I followed you from the Black Order."
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He kissed Yu fiercely, pressing the boy's narrow frame into the mats beneath them. The passion with which Yu returned the kiss belied his previous coldness. He pulled back panting slightly.
"Yu ask me to stay. If you ask me I won't stop being Lavi." Whatever he'd been expecting, it had been for Yu to strike him. His ears were still ringing as he caught Yu wrists to keep the hot tempted man from hitting him again.
"Yu-chan why'd ya hit me?" He whimpered. The man beneath him yanked one arm free and smacked Lavi again. The blow was softer and fell about his shoulders.
"Do you think I'd even want to look at you if you did that?" A third smack, "You stupid, stupid, idiot rabbit." Lavi opened his flinching eyes to look at Yu's face. It was contorted with anger, frustration, and something that Lavi had no name for but it reminded him of love.
"You will do your God damn duty. You will follow that annoying old master of yours and you will not leave him!" The words were too haughty and proud to be spoken from the floor of a training room, but Yu somehow managed. Lavi hung his head and his hair covered his eyes.
"I'm half a failure already. He might cast me off." Yu raised his hand and Lavi flinched slightly, half-expecting to be smacked again. But the hand just gently traced his face before tangling in his hair.
"If he comes to his sense and sends you away because you're an idiot then, where ever I am, I'll be waiting for you." The hand tugged his head down and their lips met.
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"I am leaving." Kanda announced. He was caring the entirety of his earthly possessions: Mugen, the clothing he was wearing, a hair tie, and that damn rabbit's headband. Moyashi and Lenalee looked at him with large eyes. The white haired brat appeared even shocked enough to pause in the consumption of his third breakfast.
"But Kanda it's raining." Lenalee implored, as if this could make him stay.
"It's always raining in this godforsaken place." He could feel her prying eyes fall on the bright green headband draped around his neck, but refused to acknowledge her curiosity.
"Where will you go?" She whispered.
"Back to Japan." Kanda replied and Moyashi scoffed at him.
"Japan? Last time I was there it was looking pretty flat."
"Just because you have no home to return to doesn't mean the rest of us are so unfortunate." Allen looked stricken and glared at Kanda. He opened his mouth to say something nasty back but Lenalee cut him off.
"You're going to Kyoto." It wasn't a question and he nodded.
"Do think that person will be there?" He shrugged and she sighed.
"Brother and I are going back to our home in China. Bak Chan at the Asian Branch knows where that is, he won't be leaving something about being linked to the place. Anyway let me know where you go after Kyoto, just in case old friends want to contact you." Again she eyed the headband. Kanda nodded and left the Order that he had belong to for the last eleven years.
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Kanda watched Lavi sleep beside him. He reached out his hands and carded them through the bright red hair. He traced Lavi's jaw and his swollen lips. Had anyone walked in he would have gladly removed the sight of him being so uncharacteristically tender by gorging out their eyes with Mugen, but no one disturbed them.
He listened carefully to Lavi's breathing and gently felt his pulse to ensure the other is truly asleep, before brushing his lips softly against the redhead's slightly parted ones.
"Don't go." He whispered.
"Don't go."
"Don't go."
"….I love you." But Lavi remained asleep and didn't respond.
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The nameless boy's hair fell down his face, irritating him to no end. And yet he smiled privately every time he brushed the hair from his eyes.
"Boy it's time to pick a new name." The redhead looked up. "We are starting a new record in Korea." The boy didn't dare tell his master that he wanted no name but Lavi, so after a moment's consideration he answered.
"Cain." His master nodded, but didn't say anything. Without anymore conversation they began their trek to the other side of the world. Cain smiled as he pushed his hair out of his face; it was his only memento of pervious life.
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Yu appeared to still be asleep when Lavi rose to leave. He wanted to wake the man, but fear that his resolve would shatter the moment Yu opened his eyes forced him to let Yu sleep. Instead he simply reached out and brushed aside the soft fringe. He pressed his lips to the sleeping brow before standing. He was almost to the door when, on the spur of the moment, he re-crossed the room removing his bright green headband as he went. Carefully he pulled it down around the sleeping Yu's neck. His fingers traced the other boy's lips one last time.
"Remember to wait for me." And then Lavi was gone.