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Thoughts – Italic

Chapter 1 – New Member?

"Damn!!!"

A white-haired boy cursed as he hurriedly grabbed his exorcist jacket. Stuffing his feet into his shoes, Allen Walker wrenched his room door open and charged out into the hallway and headed for the entrance of the exorcist building.

Shit! Shit! Shit! I'm late! I'm late! I'm late!

He repeated these words in his head like a mantra.

Yes. He, Allen Walker, was supposed to greet the new member of the Dark Order.

Today. At 10.00 a.m. And it was 11.!He was late!!!

Unfortunately, Allen failed to notice a few things. Let's number them down.

1. He was missing one side of his shoe.

2. A few buttons on his shirt was unbuttoned.

3. His socks were mismatched.

And 4. ……His zipper was down.

Sadly for our dear Allen, he was not notified of his mistake since he took a wrong turning and went down a lonely hallway…but going down the wrong hallway also meant that he was lost.

[A/N : *sighs* I just love that about dear little Walker… cackles maniacally ]

It took Allen 30 minutes to get his bearings right. And he still hadn't corrected the mistakes in his appearance…especially the… ahem …the zipper one.

Anyway, when he finally did reach the entrance, he immediately spotted a short figure in a pair of baggy jeans and shirt. Panting slightly, he tapped the figure on the shoulder.

The person he had tapped turned around in an irritated fashion and glared at him. Allen noted that it was a guy who had his long black hair tied in a ponytail and a katana was strapped to his back. The only thing that surprised him was that the guy was shorter than him. He was told that this guy was around his age and usually, he was shorter than them.

He started when he realized the newcomer was addressing him.

"Well, it's about time don't you think!!!One and a half hours!!!!I have been standing here for that amount of time!!!And I don't even hear a word of sorry from you!!!And this IS my first day here!!!You useless moyashi!!!"

Allen winced at his tone as the new member did not yell but the cutting and harsh edge to his voice made that unnecessary. Then he blinked at the last word.

"M-Moyashi!?Err…What is that?"

The guy's face rearranged itself into a smirk as he flipped his long ponytail behind his back.

"Ever heard of an item called a dictionary, freak?"

Going slightly red, Allen chose to dismiss that remark.

"Anyway, I'm really sorry I'm late…I kind of woke up late and then I…err…I got lost when I turned down the wrong hall…"

The boy stared at him incredulously.

"Wait a minute…You ARE Allen Walker, ne?"

"Umm…Yeah?"

"But I could've sworn Komui told me he was sending an old member to escort me and see to my needs!!!"

"But I AM an old member!!!Well, more or less…"

"So how, in the name of all that's holy, did you actually manage to get lost in a place you've been staying in for like what, a few years!?"

Allen went slightly redder than before and scratched the back of his head.

"Well…err…let's just say I have a really bad sense of direction and leave it at that…"

The boy looked at him with a quirked eyebrow.

"You know…something tells me I'll be better off on my own than with you as a guide, moyashi…I don't exactly wanna end up in the toilet when the place I wanna go is actually the head office…"

With that, the boy spun around and started walking away, surprisingly in the correct direction which led to Komui's office. Just then Allen remembered something.

"Hey you!!!I didn't catch your name yet!!!"

The boy turned around and threw back sarcastically.

"Well, moyashi, obviously you didn't catch it cuz I didn't throw it."

"Hey, c'mon! If we're gonna be working as fellow exorcists, you might as well just gimme your name now, you know."

Sighing in exasperation, the dark-haired boy relented.

"It's Kanda. By the way, did you actually notice that your zipper's down? Have some decency will ya?"

With that, he departed and left Allen staring at an empty hall.

"Wait a minute…zipper…down? *glances down* … DAMN!!!"

Hurriedly zipping up his pants flushed red with embarrassment, Allen proceeded to notice his other mistakes in dressing. Growing rapidly into a colour that a tomato might have envied, Allen made his way back to his room in record time, surprisingly without getting lost.

Sadly for him this time, he bumped into both Lenalee and Lavi on the way. As they both stared at him in unsurprised amusement and Lavi opened his mouth to say something, Allen bit out.

"Don't even start."

After he had left them, Lavi turned to Lenalee.

"Wonder what he woke up late for this time."

Sighing, Lenalee nodded as well. In Allen's case, to them, it was almost a daily occurrence. Just then, Lavi remembered something.

"Ah…we're getting a new member today right? Is it a guy or a girl? I want a girl!!!"

Lenalee looked at him, her eyebrows raised.

"Cool it. Down boy. If it was a girl, I for one will not allow you to hit on a fellow exorcist. But, however, if it is a guy….well….be my guest."

Lavi looked at Lenalee with a faked pained expression on his face. The future Bookman fell on his knees with a hand to his heart.

"Oh, Lenalee!!!To think that you of all people would imply that I'm gay!!!The pain!!! The horror!!! The agony!!! The humiliation!!!"

Laughing, Lenalee booted his behind lightly.

"Oh, alright!!!I was kidding!!!Now get up you dope!!!"

"You kicked me!!!Lenalee, you cold hearted, ungrateful, evil, mean, sadis…"

He didn't get to finish the word nor his sentence as he received another kick, this time harder than the first accompanied by Lenalee's laughter.

"Just get up and quit being an idiot, you nut!!!If you don't, I'll just have to kick you till you do!!!And I wouldn't finish that sentence if I were you."

That pretty much did the trick. Lavi was on his feet in two ticks dusting off his clothes. He had witnessed Lenalee kicking her own brother, Komui, and he didn't doubt for a second that she would carry out her threat if he did not do as she said.

Soon, they were continuing their journey to the cafeteria. A brunch did sound kinda tempting…