It Starts with a Kiss
Genre: Drama & Romance
Summary: Allena and Kanda are dating and everyone's definitely taking time to adjust seeing the duo coddling up to one another. Though with the fights and insults it could be that they were together all along. One way or the other, there's no denying it's certainly…interesting.
Warning: Fem!Allen
Chapter One
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Allena sat at the table drinking a large smoothie; the taste of rich bubblegum running down her throat. She licked at the spoon languidly as her eyes widened slightly from hearing Lenalee speak.
"I don't get how you two ended up together…. I mean…."
Lenalee trailed off meaningfully, wanting her friend to fill in the gaps that she didn't necessarily want to, and was grateful when Allena actually did.
"Kanda may be a complete twat sometimes…most of the times, but we get along."
Lenalee's eyebrows knitted together in a perplexed expression because she was sure that 'get along' was something they did not do.
Allena felt a slight pressure on her cheek and smiled. Lenalee looked on with interest.
"Hullo Kanda," Allena turned to look at the newcomer as he moved his finger away from her face; his raven coloured locks securely fastened at the nape of his neck. His eyes narrowed in what was known as his default expression with his lips down at each corner in a deep frown.
"Who the hell are you calling a twat, Moyashi?"
Allena sighed, resting her head in the palm of her hand, and went back to licking the spoon in her other hand, "The one who says 'What'…"
She didn't even need to look to see Kanda's confused expression as he answered, "What?"
Lenalee giggled, "Well, at least that part of you hasn't changed."
"Hmm…where's Lavi?" Allena's cloudy grey eyes roamed across the immediate vicinity but could not find the mass of obscenely radiant red hair that should stand out anywhere.
"How should I know?
"Umm, how about the fact that you were supposed to arrive with him?"
Kanda blinked, Allena glared, and Lenalee looked between the two uneasily.
"It's okay guys," Lenalee placed both her palms on the table and gently pushed the chair back and stood, "I'll go look for him," she then walked off in a seemingly random direction and quickly got swallowed by the mall's afternoon crowd.
Kanda pulled up a chair and took a seat across from Allena; she looked over at him to see him eyeing her drink. Her eyes rounded innocently as she pushed her smoothie to him and tilted her head to the side looking more under-aged than the 15 years she was.
Kanda's glare went from the cup in her hand to her, "Get that sorry excuse of a drink away from me."
Allena stuck out her tongue and continued with her drink before Kanda spoke again, "Don't think I'll kiss you with that thing on your breath."
Allena blinked before she puffed out her cheeks as her lips puckered into a pout.
"And definitely not with that expression."
She huffed, "Yuu Kanda are a horrible person!"
Kanda grabbed Allena's hand that wasn't occupied with the drink and roughly pulled her over to his chair which made her stumble and fall into his lap. She looked startled and her face gained a pink hue when she saw Kanda's smirk imprinted onto his lips. Allena took the spoon and stabbed at the contents of her cup not really seeing as it sank through the cream effortlessly; she was determined not to look at the older teen.
Kanda grabbed her chin gently and turned her to look at him, but she couldn't see into his eyes as he dipped his head to kiss her neck.
Allena swallowed thickly and her eyes widened before her lids drooped heavily, "Thought you said you wouldn't kiss me, BaKanda…"
"Che" and with that one word…sound…it was meant to be understood 'it was implied that I meant not on the lips, idiot.' But of course Kanda didn't speak like that so it was more like, 'Shut up, Moyashi.'
Kanda's teeth grazed Allena's collarbone and his lips ran up along the skin of her neck to nip at a spot that almost elicited some sound she was sure she did not want to be let out. Whatever it was, she bit it back when she heard someone clear their throat. Allena looked toward the direction of the noise and smiled nervously.
Lavi and Lenalee stood before the couple and looked at each other before Lavi spoke, "ya kno... I'm pretty sure there's an indecency charge somewhere in there."
Kanda nipped at Allena's neck again, which in Kandanese simply meant he didn't give a damn, and caused Allena to squirm in his lap.
"Where were you Lavi?"
Lenalee took the opportunity to answer the question, "I found him at Eliade's Boutique."
Kanda's glare stayed in place but everyone knew it was one of disgust as he 'che'd.'
"You do know she's dating Krory don't you?" Allena's eyebrows shot up in amusement. She lent back into Kanda as if he were a chair; his body was firm enough. Maybe she should hint that he didn't need to exercise his body so much. Though his brain could use the workout...Was she still supposed to think that?
"Ah, vampy Kro-kins. Sure, sure. But come on my fair female friend. Who can resist those-" Lavi made a gesture with his hands to mimic the shape of a body similar to that of an hourglass.
Kanda actually muttered 'disgusting,' Allena rolled her eyes, and Lenalee smacked Lavi upside the head.
"Honestly Lavi, is that all you think about…" Allena shook her head, until hearing Lavi's 'innocent' response.
"Don't worry Ally, flat bodies like yours are good too."
Lenalee gasped and Allena's left eye twitched in the same instance.
A cough escaped Kanda, and another and another tumbled out of his mouth. Only it wasn't a coughing fit but a sorry excuse to hide that he was an emotionless bastard incapable of 'normal' laughter. Nothing solidified that fact more than the obscene smirk on his lips that should not have been there. Two weeks ago maybe when the two were hiding their feelings for each other, but not two weeks later when they were dating. Forget the workout... Kanda needed a transplant for a new brain.
Allena promptly exited Kanda's lap and didn't even feel the satisfaction of seeing his disgruntled expression. Her lips twitched as they went into a strained smile. She clapped her hands twice, "Well then, now that we're all done, let's leave."
"Ah, right-"
Lavi looked toward Lenalee but she offered no comfort as the four friends departed with Allena leading far ahead.
Lavi got into the driver's seat as it was his car a.k.a technically Bookman's. Allena sat in the back and Lenalee quickly piled in after her earning a glare from Kanda, but only gave him a sweet smile through the rear-view mirror when he sat in the passenger seat reluctantly. The ride was quiet as Lavi seemed to pay more attention and focus than necessary while driving. Lenalee softly hummed along to the radio and shook her head to the melody. Allena focused on the images that flashed pass outside the window, glancing time and again at the rear-view mirror only to catch Kanda's hardened glare. She sighed as the car came to another stop.
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"We're here~ Thy house awaits its lady," Lavi called out cheerfully.
Allena smiled again, waving everyone as she left the car. Lavi placed his hand on the gear when Allena shut the door but stopped when Kanda made to leave the car as well. Lenalee and Lavi shared a look before their eyes followed the pair walking to the house.
Allena reached first and stepped over the threshold before turning back to look at Kanda as he approached her with long strides.
As Kanda reached the front door Allena muttered a 'Goodbye Kanda' and promptly slammed said door in Kanda's well-deserving face.
Lenalee and Lavi shared another look at what had just transpired and busied themselves with anything but looking at their black haired friend who looked every bit as a wound up kitten waiting to pounce.
"You're next on the drop-off, Lena." Lavi tried to still hold onto his cheer as Kanda reentered the vehicle.
"Actually, Lavi- can you take me to Bookman's library? I need to finish some schoolwork."
"Right I can." Lavi stopped by Kanda's house first before driving to his grandfather's library. He looked over as Lenalee squeezed herself between the front seats to settle into the now vacant passenger seat.
"Thanks for the save Lena,"
"I wasn't saving you Lavi. I really do have a project to finish."
"...I need to apologize to Ally huh."
Lenalee spoke as she turned up the volume on the radio to one of her favourite songs, "And carry lots of food."
x-X-x
"Gramps just came back from China and bought these sweets," a red headed boy uttered handing over a large paper bag to a short white haired girl.
"Since when does Bookman condone sweets?" said girl responded, wasting no time putting one of the contents of the bag into her mouth.
"That's what I said!" the boy said, his voice rising in excitement, "I figure he's wrapped up in some opium trade and smuggling it in!"
The white haired girl spit out the cake in surprise while the red head stuck his hand in the bag and took one for himself. He bit into the cake's soft round body, "It's so good, ya?"
"Mine," the girl took what was left in the red head's hand and quickly ate it before sticking her tongue out playfully.
"So~ forgiven?" the red head blinked repeatedly, batting his eyelashes at the girl.
"Oi Moyashi, ever heard of answering your phone."
The two looked toward the direction the new voice came from seeing a flurry of dark hair, heated eyes, and determined long strides.
"Hullo to you too, Kanda."
Kanda glared at the short white haired girl before him as she blatantly ignored his earlier statement. His eyes only narrowed further as he took in her appearance, "What the hell is wrong with your uniform?"
"I'm trying to distract from the fact that I have a 'flat body,'" The two boys looked taken aback by the girl's outburst before she turned to the red head, "And yes Lavi, you are forgiven."
Lavi would have smiled but the glare from Kanda stopped him before the thought even crossed his mind. He just nodded and wished he could blend into the lockers they were standing in front of. Kanda turned his gaze to the girl and raised an eyebrow, "You forgive the Usagi and not me…"
"I'm not dating Lavi, I'm dating you." The two once again looked taken aback and Lavi was not sure his heart could take the tension before a new voice descended upon him and promised to take away the awkwardness.
"Hey guys."
"Lenalee," Lavi uttered before he could stop himself.
The newcomer smiled brightly at her friends before her eyes landed solely on the shortest of the group, "Allena. What's wrong with your uniform?"
"Six lines too late on that one."
Lenalee looked to Kanda, one eyebrow raised and the next lowered to clearly express her confusion before turning back to Allena. Allena chose to avoid further eye contact and stuffed her face. The school had many different variations so that students could have free range to express themselves, but Lenalee was certain that hobo hand-me-down chic was not part of her friend's style. Allena's white polo was about three sizes too big and hung at all angles; one side almost falling off her shoulder. It could have been worn as a dress and would hide the fact that she even wore a skirt if she wasn't wearing one that stopped mid calf. And one could not tell if the socks were knee-highs or leggings. Thank goodness there was not much one could do with shoes if they still wanted to walk properly. Allena either decided to wear clothes from her bigger days which Lenalee knew she didn't have, or they weren't her clothes to begin with. Which brought up whole new questions...
"I have an extra uniform," Lenalee chose instead and grabbed her friend's arm as Allena shoved her bag into Lavi's arms. It was all she could do before she was dragged off behind Lenalee to the gym.
The bell rang almost a minute later. Lavi put the snacks into Allena's locker before he and Kanda walked to their homeroom.
"This is your fault, Usagi."
Lavi sighed, "Sorry Yuu, but I didn't control your laughter. If I did ya'd laugh like a normal person. Like ha ha he ho— ow! Damn Yuu!"
Lavi cradled his head and watched tearfully as Kanda cracked his knuckles, "I need my brain cells for college man."
"You won't need them if you don't even make it out of high school," Kanda took a threatening step toward Lavi.
"Okay okay, sorry. Clearly that wasn't a normal laugh either–"
Kanda was about to hit Lavi again when the door opened.
"You two wanna join the rest o' us in 'ere or what."
Lavi smiled gratefully at the save from their homeroom and English teacher, Mr. Wenhamm, and slipped into the classroom. Kanda followed with a scowl.
x-x-x
The four friends didn't meet back up until lunch. Lenalee steered a less than eager Allena by the shoulder through the crowded cafeteria until she spotted their two other friends. Lavi and Kanda looked up when they neared the table and their eyes promptly fell on Allena. She was now in a collared white button up that instead of attempting to swallow her, simply belled around her and hung loosely. The hem stopped at mid thigh allowing the bottom of the very much shorter skirt to peek out and stop just below her thighs showing a decent amount of skin before the rest was covered up by what turned out to be knee highs. She scuffed the tip of her polished black Mary Jane oxfords against the floor under the scrutiny.
"Can you two stop staring at me? It's nothing you haven't seen me in, in the past almost two years," Allena sat opposite Kanda and her eyes immediately took in a small mountain of food stacked precariously on two trays. It was the only thing that even made her look in Kanda's direction, well that and his annoyingly pretty face.
Lenalee sat next to Kanda as Allena spoke still eyeing the food, "Is that for me?"
Kanda scoffed, "Who else eats all this shit?"
Allena made to pull the trays toward her before Kanda's hand stopped her, "wha-"
"Is that all you have to say?"
"Huh?" Allena looked at Kanda like he had grown another head and looked over to Lavi and Lenalee; they weren't none the wiser. She looked back at Kanda and as his eyes narrowed hers widened with understanding, "I forgive you Kanda," she gave him a smile, "Now don't stand before my grub and I, cause I haven't eaten since those cakes this morn' and I skipped breakfast."
Kanda che'd and pushed the trays to her. Lenalee rolled her eyes but then blinked at what she saw, "Why is Road Camelot dancing in the middle of the cafeteria?"
The others looked over and indeed saw the girl twirling in the midst of tables, her skirt poufy and swirling around her.
"Because she's insane," Kanda offered when it seemed no one would.
Allena stopped in the mid bite of a loaf of bread choosing to offer the answer they were looking for, "She's having a birthday party this Friday."
"What's she turning now? Ten."
Lavi interjected before anyone felt obliged to answer the older teen, "Where? Creepy mansion on the hill?"
"Her house isn't on a hill…" Lenalee said slowly.
"But we don't deny that it's creepy…or that she is?"
Allena looked at Lavi with raised eyebrows, "She's not creepy."
They all looked at Allena, and Kanda was the first to talk, "Her and those non-twin twins are freaking creepy."
Lavi nodded, "Freaky rich creepy."
"It's not like you see them show up in a limo every day," Lenalee decided to add.
"Yeah, but they are really rich, ya? 'Cause their sugar daddy."
Allena coughed and they all turned to Lavi this time, and Kanda scoffed, "Who'd want to be that to them?"
"The Earl," Lavi finally contributed something useful, "Bookman's pretty secretive but I heard him mentioned it before."
"I once heard Cross rightly sloshed, talk about it too. I think he knows the Earl or something."
"How many of them are there?" Lenalee wanted to know, "How are they related?"
"Sugar daddy," Lavi uttered like it was the most natural thing in the world.
"Who's crazy enough to take in a psycho like Road?"
Allena took a bite of an apple, "She's not a psycho."
"I heard she just watched as a kid was on fire, man. Even laughed." Lavi shivered.
Allena's eyes widened, "Where was this?"
"Home Ec," she looked at Lenalee as the girl spoke.
"But I don't miss food class," Kanda snorted and Allena kicked his shin from beneath the table.
"You were absent," Lenalee offered again.
Allena's eyes widened even more. She was about to speak when Lenalee and Kanda's eyes focused on something behind her and she chose not to. The weight around her shoulder's proving that it was the wise decision. Allena and Lavi turned to see Road standing next to them; a large gray and red bow sat atop her hair matching with the gray pinstriped dress she wore over a poufy sleeved white collar polo and a white petticoat to make the dress skirt bell around her.
"ooh~ Allena, you look so cute today," Road gushed, "Someone told me you were pretending to be a hobo, guess they were wrong."
Allena tried to laugh nervously but it died in her throat, "What did you want Road?"
"ah, right, I can't stay long-"
"Then don't," Kanda muttered to which he earned a sweet smile from Road which was much more intimidating than the straight glare he got from Allena.
Road continued.
"I'm handing out invitations for my birthday party~ Are you doing anything next Friday?"
Road looked expectantly at Allena who side glanced Kanda.
"You should come, it'll be fun! And lots of food," she practically whispered the last part into Allena's ear and earned her full attention. Road handed over the invitation; a hard white rectangle with italicized print and lacy pink ribbon wrapped fashioned after a plus sign, "You can bring Dolly, Bookman," Road took turn to look at Lenalee and Lavi respectively when she called their nicknames until she got to Kanda and practically leered at him, "and Girly-face."
Road spun once and made her way to anyone else worthy of her time.
Lavi and Lenalee looked after Road as she skipped away, probably because they both wore the same smile that Allena had as she looked at Kanda.
He glowered, "Continue smiling and I will not hesitate to kill you."
"What's wrong? I think it suits you…Girly-face," Allena's eyes had widened innocently before squinting as she smiled once again.
"The way old lady ironing board would suit you,"
The smile dropped.
Allena stomped on his feet under the table. And their usual bickering and name-calling erupted.
"Sometimes I wonder if they really are together…" Lenalee muttered to herself as she watched the two.
Lavi chided in, "Or if they were together from the start."
Just felt like putting something new up. Genderbend Allen because… uh yes. Fear not though, because Allen is still Allen regardless of sex, because I can't imagine it any other way. And I absolutely adore Kanda and Allen fights. Hope you guys enjoyed that. I was kind of 'wtf'ing' my writing while reading it over...urgh