Consensus

Allen and Kanda were sitting at a table in the cafeteria, bickering as always. Every once in a while their voices would rise or they would get into a fist fight. It was relatively calm that day though, as they only raised their voices to argue about their nicknames. Everyone knew by now not to get involved with the two of them, since they really didn't want to get the shit beat out of them. At another table, speaking quietly, Lenalee, Lavi, Johnny, Jerry, and Miranda were talking about the two.

"Come on, we have to make them a couple!" Lavi said.

"B-but what if th-they get upset with us?" Miranda said, shivering at the thought of losing her dear friends.

"Lavi's right, they're too perfect together!" Lenalee exclaimed.

"It is a bit strange, but they do seem to get along better recently," Johnny said.

"Yes, they have!" Jerry cooed, thinking of his favorite young exorcist falling in love.

"Then we reached a decision? We'll tell them that they should be together?" Lavi said excitedly.

They all nodded and stood, then walked over to stand by the table where the two of them were eating. Lenalee smiled as the two looked extremely confused at them, "We've reached a consensus." Kanda raised his eyebrow, prodding her to go on. "We all think you two should be together."

Allen and Kanda were silent for a few minutes, then looked at each other. A smile appeared on Allen's face, and an amused smirk on Kanda's. Allen began laughing, he leaned on Kanda as he calmed down. "We figured that out a few weeks ago!"

"What?" Lavi said.

"We've been 'together' for three weeks now, baka." Kanda said, rolling his eyes.

Bear

Allen's face was beet red when Kanda looked down to see what had tumbled out of the Moyashi's luggage. Johnny and the two of them were travelling across Europe, trying to avoid detection by either the Order or the Noah. Johnny was in the sleeper car, but the two of them refused to pay for it. Allen had reached up to get a jacket from his bag to use as a blanket, but the bag had fallen open on the floor, revealing it's contents to the other man, who was occupying one of the bench seats, laying across it quite comfortably with his trench coat covering him.

A teddy bear lay on the floor.

Allen snatched it up and held it tightly in his arms, looking both embarrassed and indignant. "Don't you dare tease me. I mean it. Not. A. Word," he growled.

Kanda opened his mouth to say something, but was cut off by Allen. "Look, I know it's really ridiculous for me to have a teddy bear at my age. But really, who cares? I mean, Victor's been with me since before I met Mana. He's helped me through a lot, you know. Sometimes I need someone to hug, because it gets sort of lonely. Sometimes having Lenalee and Lavi around isn't enough, sometimes I need someone to listen when I'm too embarrassed or scared to tell anyone else. And...and..."

By the end of his little rant, the white-haired man was sniffling and holding the blue, tattered, old bear with matted fur with trembling hands. He looked like he was about to cry.

"I'm not going to tell people, baka. I get it," Kanda said.

"What?"

"I've been alone too, you don't think I've done it too? When I was younger, I did the same thing with a little stuffed dog that Alma made, with a little help from some of the women scientists," the samurai shrugged, trying to look as if it didn't really mean anything. But it did. Everything about his dead friend mattered, and Allen knew that.

"What happened to it?" Allen asked quietly.

"It, and the rest of my bag, got hit by an akuma's blood bullet a couple of years ago."

"I'm sorry," the fugitive said.

Kanda simply shook his head, shaking it off. "I talk to Marie now instead, it's better. You get a response, and you don't feel like an idiot when it's someone who actually gives a shit."

"I don't have anyone like that. Not anymore," Allen muttered.

Kanda looked him over for a second, then crossed his arms over his chest and leaned back against the adjascent wall. His eyes shut as he said, "Might as well talk to me, since we're stuck together."

Allen smiled softly, out of Kanda's view. "Okay."

Drowsy

Lavi giggled as he and Lenalee stared at their two friends who were sitting together in the very back-right seat. They hadn't been happy with their seating arrangements, so for the first hour of the bus ride, they hadn been bickering incessantly. After a while, they had bother gotten tired and dozed off, leaving the bus relatively quiet compared to before.

The red-head was snapping pictures of them with his phone, not because they were cute sleepers, which they were, but because of how they were sleeping. Allen's cheek was leaned against Kanda's shoulder, and the Asian man was leaning over the armrest of the coach bus, making them very close. Lavi wanted evidence, and possible blackmail material for the future.

Hours later, when they all hopped out into the parking lot of the amusement park, the destination of their senior trip, Lavi showed the two of them the pictures. Kanda was boiling with rage and demanded that they be deleted immediately. He raged for ten minutes while Lenalee tried to calm him down. Allen and Lavi walked on, toward the roller coasters.

"Send me copies," Allen whispered, casting a glance back at his crush.

Machine

Recently, a finder girl had taken to hanging around Kanda. She'd follow him almost anywhere when he was off-duty. The samurai was indifferent to her, but his friends thought she was cute and nice. Kanda ignored her existence, letting her be around him as long as she didn't bombard him with chatter, so she was quiet.

Her name was Olivia. Her hair was wispy, straight, and auburn. Eyes so large and brown they looked like coffee or chocolate. Olivia's skin was pale, soft, and dotted with freckles over her cheeks and shoulders. She was cute, with her tiny, upturned, pixie-like nose and her slender, petit frame.

Allen liked her. She was adorable in every single way. She was fun to be around and it didn't matter to her what Allen looked like, or that he was cursed. He was jealous though, of all the time she got to spend with Kanda. He envied how Kanda didn't start arguments with her. He wished that he could be so unscarred by life as she was, with her bright, optimistic eyes that were so different from his real expression.

But he did genuinely think that if Kanda fell in love with Olivia, he would be okay with it. She was just too lovable. So when Allen accidentally overheard the girl say, "U-Um...Kanda? I love you," he was sure that Kanda would respond in turn.

Instead he heard, "So?"

"So do you feel the same?"

"No, why would I?" Kanda said, ever so insensitively.

Olivia burst into tears and dashed away. Allen's heart went out to the girl, who shared his feelings toward the stoic samurai. Allen walked up to the dark-haired man and glared as he said, "Why'd you have to hurt her like that?"

Kanda began walking away, his back turned on Allen as the white-haired man exclaimed, "Are you a machine!?"

Before the shorter knew it, Kanda had turned around, laced his arms around Allen's waist, and had their lips together in a forceful, but somehow soft kiss. He was breathless until Kanda broke it and said, "I'm not a machine. I'm gay and I never liked her."

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