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Take Him Home

Chapter 1. Saturday

The chilly night air passed through the open window of a black Mercedes driven by a certain redhead, a black and green bandanna was keeping his hair where he wanted it and an eye patch covered his right eye. It sure was cold outside, but it helped him wake up. Lavi, as the redhead called himself, had been sleeping all day after a long night of paperwork and this was not how he planned to spend his Saturday, first sleeping away the whole day and then have a meeting in the evening. Talk about ruining the weekend.

He slowed down by carefully stepping on the brake as the traffic light before him turned red. The red light also forced a silver car to stop and wait for it to become green. Lavi who studied pretty much everything recognized the car as a Trans Am, probably from the 80's. "Great car" He thought to himself.

Except of those two cars the road was empty and if it wasn't for the other car Lavi had ignored the red light and continued his way home with maybe a small stop at a bar or two. The Trans Am slowly drove up beside Lavi's Mercedes and the unknown driver winded down the car window on the passenger side exposing a beautiful and elegant, Japanese woman or was it a man?

"Hey, you! Redhead!" It was a man, alright. Lavi removed his gaze from the traffic light and turned his attention to the Japanese driver who was apparently calling him.

Lavi now got a better view of the driver of the Trans Am who was leaning his head out of the window. He had long black hair with a tint of dark blue tied up in a ponytail and his bangs almost cover his seemingly bottomless dark eyes. It also looked like there was someone in the passenger seat but he wasn't sure as all he saw was a fluffy, snow white thing that could also be a sleeping dog.

"…Yeah?" He asked with the eyebrow over his visible eye raised.

The Japanese man seemed satisfied with the response and gestured for him to step out so they could have a closer talk. As the road was still empty and at usual times it wasn't exactly the busiest street either so the redhead saw no bigger danger in leaving his precious ride for awhile but just to be safe he shifted gear and slowly backed his car behind the other one so another car could easily drive past them in case that would happen.

Curious about what the man had to say to a complete stranger he just pulled of the road Lavi stepped out of his black vehicle and ran a hand through his red hair in an attempt to fix the slightly mess in it which the wind from the open car window had caused.

One step after another he walked closer to the Trans Am driver who with a slim and slender finger pointed over to the passenger side of his car signalling Lavi to meet him there. The green eyed redhead blinked but surprisingly did as the other man suggested and met up with him by the passenger side. Once again the dark haired Japanese seemed satisfied that everything went his way.

"Name's Kanda." He stated firmly and held out his hand to appear polite.

"Lavi, nice to meet'cha." The redhead responded, still confused over the whole situation and shook the other's hand.

He opened the door and Lavi could see that the fluffy, white thing was actually a sleeping boy but the man, now known as Kanda took no consideration and roughly lifted out the boy.

"You wanna make some cash?"

But before Lavi even got the chance to say 'No' or even reply at all the sleeping boy was given to him. Too shocked to do anything else he just held the boy bride-style and stared at the dark haired man who went through the boys pockets.

"All you gotta do is take this Allen home," He nodded towards the boy. "Here you go!" He pulled out a few twenties from the boys left vest pocket and tucked them into the hand of the puzzled redhead before closing the passenger door. "I really gotta go but he needs a ride." Kanda shortly explained while walking back to the driver's side, the door was still open making it easy for him to just get in, close the door and take off; which was exactly what he did.

Lavi on the other hand stood speechless with the seemingly lifeless boy in his arms and stared after the silvery car.

Somehow the one-eyed redhead managed to open the door to the back-seat with his hand despite the passed out boy's heavy body and got him in there in a lying position.

"What was up with that Jap?" The redhead muttered to himself as he sat back in his car and slowly drove off with the boy snoozing in the back-seat. He glanced at him through the rear-view mirror, hoping he would wake up and tell him where he lived but being the nice guy Lavi always was (Yeah, right!) he didn't like the thought of leaving the boy, who had to be drunk judging by the way he reeked of alcohol, alone in an abandoned flat. And so, Lavi had to drive home.

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The neighbourhood got more and more familiar for each block and Lavi could finally take a breather. He was soon home and could stop casting glances through the rear-view mirror at the boy in the back-seat who Lavi now found kind of cute. He could barely believe it himself but the boy was in fact cute. The boy was cute. He blamed it on lack of sleep.

Before he could steer the car up on the driveway he heard a soft groan from behind and instantly his eyes shifted to the rear-view mirror once again only to see the sleeping boy not sleeping! "Awake now kid?"

Another groan.

"Mind telling me who you are, where you live and what the hell's wrong with you and the long-haired dude?"

Allen didn't say anything, either he ignored the questions or he simply didn't hear them for the sleepiness that still possessed him. He slowly sat up and rubbed his head as yet another groan came from him. Lavi, who just parked the car, turned his head back demanding answers to those questions. "What's your name, kid?"

"Allen, Allen Walker."

"Okay Allen, why did the foreign, woman-looking man drop you off on me?"

"Well…" Allen started, but it was just now that he realized what was going on. He let his eyes quickly scan the area inside and outside the car before calmly examining this red-headed driver.

"Well?" the same red-headed driver asked impatiently.

"I used to live with Kanda but he's taking the next flight to Japan, since he left me here I guess I'll stay with you!" His voice started to sound more like a voice than the raspy groans of a drunkard.

Lavi just stared, how could this little kid say something like that? He even sounded happy and if Lavi looked closer he thought he could see a small smile too. What kind of easy going kid did that Japanese dump on him?

Many thoughts rushed through the mind of the redhead. When he said 'Take him home' Lavi never even thought of the idea of taking the kid to his home. This Allen must have relatives or something where he could drop him off. Not a chance in the world that Lavi would consider living with a kid more than one night, and that one night was just to let him sober up.

At this time Lavi had no idea how wrong he was about that one night.