Dealing with Little Yuu

Chapter 2

An hour had passed since the telephone call and Allen was growing more frustrated. Komui's first reaction had been laughter.

"He must look soooooo cute! Bring him home! I wanna see him!" he had said. Now they were in the room the Inn had provided for them, and he had a bored Yuu in his hands. He had gotten tired of playing with Tim, and Allen had no idea how to keep the little boy busy.

"Boooooowing!"Yuu whined for the hundredth time. Allen could feel desperation creeping in.

"Don't you want to sleep or something? Little kids should sleep a lot!" he said, making Yuu pout at his comment.

"Not a little kid! I'm big!" Yuu complained, trying to look serious with his little arms crossed and a cute frown on his face. Allen started laughing because it was just too cute and so funny.

"Of course you are!" he said while tears started rolling down his face from laughing so hard. He stopped immediately when he heard soft sniffling.

"Allen mean!" Yuu cried. Allen ran to him quickly and picked up the small child and started rocking him- now totally serious.

"Okay, okay! Bad Allen! I won't be mean! Don't cry!" Allen said, trying to soothe the child. The Inn's owner's wife had told him what to in case Yuu cried, so he was prepared. Kanda calmed down after a while, but he still had his face buried in the now older boy's chest.

"Hungwy!" Yuu exclaimed after a while. At the same time Allen's stomach started making demanding noises.

"Me too!" Allen laughed. He walked out of the room with Yuu in his arms and hoped that the kind woman could help with the food as well.

Sometime later they were sitting at a table with their dinner in front of them, which was made by the very eager wife of the owner. The mentioned woman was standing at the doorway watching them. Allen, as usual, was eating like…erm… won't mention anything. At the same time, little Yuu stared at his plate uncomfortably. He had a sandwich.

"What's the matter little one? Why don't you eat?" the kind woman asked after Yuu left his meal untouched. Yuu looked up at the woman, and then returned his gaze down making a pouting face. Allen stopped eating as guilt came over him for enjoying his meal while Yuu wasn't eating. The little kid did not like to be on the spotlight, so he pushed his plate away with his head bowed down.

"Don't like…" he mumbled. The woman blinked, confused.

"But all kids like this! You should too!" She protested.

"Don't like!" Yuu snapped back angrily. The two older persons stared at him, taken aback. So was short-tempered as a child too! Allen thought.

"Then what do you like?" the woman asked in defeat. Yuu opened his mouth, and then closed it. He continued to act like a fish thrown out of water. Under the curious stares of the other two, he stammered out letters like's' and 'b', but nothing understandable came out. As realization came over Allen, he burst out laughing.

"He's never changed!" Allen exclaimed. "You want to eat soba, right Yuu?" Little Kanda nodded with big round eyes.

"But little kids can't eat soba! No way!" The woman shouted. Kanda sniffed. Slowly the, now familiar, crocodile tears appeared in his dark blue eyes. (I couldn't resist XD) Nor did Allen.

"Just today?" Allen asked hopefully.

"No! He eats what he got! He will become a spoiled brat if you let him do what he wants! That's the end of the argument!" With that she stormed out.

"Sorry Yuu! I can't do anything more." Allen said regretfully. After that, he fought with Yuu to stop crying for half an hour and spent the other half forcing him to eat something.

When they arrived back to their room, Allen was totally exhausted. Yuu, on the other hand, didn't seem to be a bit tired. He climbed onto the bed and started playing with Tim.

"You stay here while I go take a shower, okay?" Allen said, but Yuu didn't even look up. After locking the bathroom door, the older boy took his time and relaxed under the hot water as long as possible. When he decided that it he had been away long enough, he dried himself and left the room. When he stepped out he nearly got a heart attack. Little Kanda was playing with Mugen. The very, very sharp Mugen!

"Y-Yuu!" he stammered, "Put it down!"

"I like it!" The kid protested and as he grabbed the sword he held it close to himself in a V-E-R-Y D-A-N-G-E-R-O-U-S way.

"You can play with Tim! He is very nice and cute…"

"Don' wanna! I like swowd!"

"No you don't!"

"Do!"

"Don't!"

"Do! Allen mean!"

"It's not fair! I'm not mean!" Allen was lost in thought for a little while as he came up with an idea. At this time tomorrow they would be at home, so… "If you give it to me and be a good boy, I'll show you something really interesting tomorrow. If you don't, you'll be scolded!" Yuu stared up at him with a, cute, small frown. Then he slowly released the sword. Allen took it carefully and locked it away in his bag.

"Thank God! I have to be more careful!" he mumbled to himself. "Okay, now it's time for you to go to bed, Yuu!" He said and turned towards the kid… Who was not where he should have been…

"Yuu?" Allen groaned, when there was no answer. He searched in the room, in the bathroom; he even looked under tables and beds without success. His voice started to grow hoarse after calling for the kid so many times. He found the door open, so he left their room and continued his searching mission. After an hour of desperate searching, he ran back to his room so he could call for help. He stopped in the middle of the room in surprise. Kanda was sitting on his bed half asleep.

"I won! Allen's bad at hide 'n seek." He mumbled and yawned. Without any other word he climbed under the cover and pulled it over his little head and was asleep right away.

"You gotta be kidding with me!" Allen groaned. He crawled to his own bed and collapsed on it. He was sure that the next day would be Hell too. He just hoped that when they arrived home, Lenalee and Lavi would be ready to take over. He had enough of kids to last for ten years!