Disclaimer: DGM belongs to the wonderful Hoshino-sensei.
If it was mine, this wouldn't be fanfiction, and Lavi would have gotten with Kanda a loooong time ago. Hehs.
A screech of hastily applied brakes. Headlights streaking towards him. Lavi could only stare with eyes wide with horror as his lover took the hit in his place.
He doesn't remember much apart from that, except for the agony arcing through his heart as he scrambled over to where his love lay, redness, just like his hair, pooling around the limp body.
He remembers soft fingertips, slightly streaked with blood stroking the side of his face, and a whispered message, before his love's once vibrant brown eyes turned blank and glassy, and before Lavi's whole world turned to black...
"Lavi? Lavi?" Blearily, the red-headed teenager opened his eyes to see a short Chinese girl with black hair waving her hand in front of his face. Who.. Right. Leenalee. Class prefect.. Likes cute toys.. Has a scary-as-hell brother who is the school's headmaster.. Shaking his head to clear his thoughts, Lavi plastered a bright smile on his face.
"Yeah, Leenalee-chan?" he spoke, trying to infuse his voice with as many butterflies and sunshine as he could manage, in an attempt to convince Leenalee that all was well. "It's recess now! Let's go eat with the others!" Leenalee smiled, apparently not sensing anything amiss with the newly-joined student, aka Lavi, of the Black Order Academy.
Lavi had transferred to the Black Order Academy just a month ago, and nobody knew why yet. He was friendly, almost too much so, but never appeared to confide in anyone about his past or his family. Only Headmaster Komui knew the details of Lavi's life before his transfer, and even that was sketchy and full of discrepancies.
He lived by himself, had no relatives except an old man living temporarily in China, and apart from that, had been a straight-A student bound for Harvard or one of the prestigious Ivy-league schools before he decided to just drop out and join the Black Order Academy, a continent away from his homeland.
Grinning as he followed behind Leenalee, the emerald-eyed teenager made it to the lunchroom, where he ambushed Allen Walker, Leenalee's big time crush (Except that neither Leenalee or Allen had realised it yet), and proceeded to hug the short teenager (again, perfect for Leenalee) while whining about how boring his day had been without the chance to play with "Moyashi-Chaaaaan".
Five seconds, later, he finally let go and turned his sights to a certain black-haired and bad-tempered teenager standing just behind Allen. Knowing what was in store, Leenalee giggled and covered her ears as Lavi literally yelled out "YUUUUU-CHAAAAN!!!". All around the cafeteria, people rolled their eyes and took shelter as a very enraged Kanda began to chase after Lavi, threatening to slit the idiot-rabbit's throat and throw him into the gutter.
Thankfully, all of that was over soon enough, and Lavi was only hit over the head with the table before Kanda was stopped by Leenalee and her clipboard. Pouting and rubbing his hard-as-hell head, Lavi slid into his seat at their table and started to eat, or rather push his food around his plate before sliding it over to Allen's pile.
Kanda's sharp eyes caught all of this, but he chose not to say anything. It was none of his business anyways, and Lavi had already been doing that since the day he joined them, at Leenalee's behest, at their table. Kanda had just figured that Lavi just disliked the school cafeteria food.
Soon, lunch break was over and Allen had finally finished wolfing down the many plates of food that Jerry, the school cook, had whipped up specially for his "Dear Allen-kun~" As quickly as they could, they left the table, Kanda towing a very contented and very full Allen towards their next class, while Leenalee did the same thing to Lavi.
"Finally! I thought Maths would never be over!" Leenalee yawned, standing up and stretching before bending down to pack her schoolbag. School was over, after all.
Quickly, (Komui always threw a fuss by assuming that she was having 'relationships' with other boys when she took more than three minutes to reach his office, and she really wanted to just get a ride home in peace,) Leenalee strode out into the locker-lined hallways, only to turn around and see the back of Lavi's head going along the other end of the corridor.
"Lavi? Where're you going? Aren't you going to get a lift from me and ni-san today?" Kanda, passing by, perked up his ears at the sound of a certain red-head's name, despite their owner doing his best to deny that he had any interest in the baka-usagi.
"Ah! Leenalee-chan! I'm just going to wash my face! Don't worry about me, I'll just walk home. I need the exercise anyways~" Lavi grinned, his one eye curving into a smile. Cheerfully smiling back, Leenalee waved goodbye before hurrying towards the office with a brass plate hanging outside reading "PRINCIPAL".
Frowning, Kanda stared after Lavi, belatedly waving goodbye to Leenalee halfheartedly as she strode past him with a cheery smile. Was it him... Or did the baka-usagi's voice sound even more off than possible... He did his best to dismiss the nagging feeling at the back of his mind, but to his annoyance, the feeling just grew. Sighing in irritation, Kanda headed towards the toilet which Lavi had entered a few seconds ago.
Pushing the door open, Kanda looked around for Lavi. There appeared to be no one else in the toilet. Frowning, Kanda was about to turn around and leave, but then he heard a sniff. Halting in his tracks, the long-haired teenager surveyed the area once more, then started to walk over to the cubicles. He pushed the first door open. Nothing. The second door. Also nothing. The third door. Kanda's eyes opened wide in shock.
Blood. Trickling down too-thin wrists. A shocked green eye staring back at Kanda through a curtain of short red hair. Damn. Without giving much thought, Kanda lurched forward and wrenched the pocketknife away from Lavi.
"Idiot. What the fuck do you think you're doing"
A/N: Hmm.. What do ya think? I'm currently stuck on how to continue.. So I might need some plot bunnies~~ Help me? ^^