"Hey,hey,hey Nine!" nudge Twelve when their school uniform has arrived. Nine lazily spin his head to his partner. He doesn't like it when he was interrupted, but he always have his ear ready when the brunette want to say something.

"What is it?"

Twelve waggling the white shirt from his package and holding Nine shirt side by side, comparing. "Doesn't my uniform kinda look too big for me?"

Nine exhaling his breath. Something trivial. "Well, they must got the wrong size to you" and back to his laptop.

"But tomorrow is our first day!" beam him and tossing those two shirt into the air. "I want to look cool at least!"

Nine doesn't say anything and continued to his work. The reason they going to school are not for acquiring knowledge, since they already studied much more than high school degree when they're on the institution. The only purpose they are going to school is to use the locker to hide the plutonium they stole on nuclear reprocessing facility at Aomori. Nothing more and nothing less. Because of their age now are on high school student and to made nobody will suspect them with their chain of terror, going to school is the only option. But Twelve never stop talking about it. Like, how he want to sit beside the window or what color of the notebook they going to brought. Something trivial, something a 10 year old would say to their parents, something normal.

Normal huh…

"Well, I think I'm going out for a bit. You're not fun Nine" mock Twelve with a slight pout. He got up and left with a click on the door. When he was gone, the room become deadly silence, only the sound of keyboard being pressed by him that mull over the entire apartment. But even the sound of clack-clack continues, the mind who caused it felt nothing but blank. Nine pondering what normalcy on society norm is… somehow it sound so strange and so dull but it's also sound nice ands hurt at the same time.

He and Twelve never taste a normalcy is.

Nine thought life are nothing more but a desert he need to take a walk upon. Its so exhausting and so dry to him, but the thirst that come from his throat are enough to making him keep moving. There are mission for him coming to this desert, something he need to do, something he need to focus and he can't look to anything else.

But yet Twelve always pondering on that desert, asking many things and looking at everything. He like a tourist trying to understand what place they came into, and he was like a wanderer with one destination but doesn't enjoy the ride to.

Its make him feel empty somehow.

A few hours passed, and orange-purple evening creep to his window. Twelve burst inside holding a plastic bags with one filled with food-stock and the other that looks like come from fashion shop. He drop the food bag to kitchen table and proceed to where Nine is.

"Hey Nine, just drop your eyeball out of monitor and come here for a sec"

Nine let out exasperated sigh and spin around, giving his attention full to his joyful brunette. He still not finished his binary code of data so he doesn't move from his spot. Twelve smiled from his lazy reaction and brought out what he buy.

"Tadaa! It's a bracelet!" announce him spectacularly while producing a red-white-blue strip bracelet out from plastic bag. Nine eyes actually go bigger than he expected.

This tiny accessories are not something special, useless even. But yet Twelve bought it anyway. It doesn't have necessity for their mission, well the colour have some memories anyway but still it still useless. Its just hang in his hand, not showing anything valuable like a time like his watch. It's just something teenager would buy in order to make themselves look better.

And someone outcast as him thinking about his look, it's just doesn't feel right.

Its not for someone abnormal as him

"You don't want it?" ask Twelve when all Nine did was just stare.

But for some reason…

"Thanks" murmur Nine as he grab his little prize and use it on his hand.

It's fine to be like normal.


"Hey Nine! Can we exchange the uniform? It's really too big for me y'see?"

"It's your fault for being short, Twelve"

Twelve is bit taken aback with Nine insult banter. Usually he just grunt and then ignore it, but for some reason now he responded. It's not often Nine carry their conversation unless its something tangled with mission or anything that need attention. Whenever he do that, it make his chest feel light. Like some wall between them was melted, even only a bit.

Wait, does Nine said he was short?

"What did you say?!"


A:N: Hey! So I don't know it's a fluff or not so yeah… and i think i made this two a bit OOC here.

Oh, and I will make this into one-shot series for filler at each episode. This one is pre-episode 1

Review is much appreciated, and also critique! English is my second language so I'm so sorry if my tenses doesn't make any sense