AN: Okay so no pairing are set but there will be Yaoi, Hetero and possibly Yuri (not a lot of female characters). Also Italics are flashbacks. The first couple chapters will be slow to establish the setting.
Summary: Four children, Allen, Lavi, Kanda, and Lenalee were once friends at an orphanage. Adopted many years ago they all reunite when they enroll in the same private highschool. Can the four regain their friendships and learn to live their lives happily when the group that put them in the orphanage in the first place is looming around the corner? AU. No definite pairings yet.
"Okay, open your eyes!" with a small giggle from the girl being spoken to, two heavily lashed eyes opened to see the face of Lavi, the boy that Lenalee had become friends with while she and he lived together at the orphanage. He was missing his signature bandana and she felt something in her hands. Looking down she gasped and the familiar green cloth laying across her fragile fingers, "Lavi… why are you giving me this?" The boy smiled and closed her fingers around the bandana as he sniffled, "A m-mo-memento." Lenalee's large dolllike eyes widened, "No! Lavi your my only friend here! Don't go!" Lavi wiped his and then her tears before whispering in her ear, "See you again someday," just as a caretaker found him and ushered him away, to his new family, leaving Lenalee in tears. "Why does everyone leave me?"
It was the first day of school in the fairly large private school district. The area was fairly wealthy, the three story private highschool was made from gray bricks, the outside resembling a castle. To three new students among the masses moving into the front doors it was a bit of a shock compared to other schools they had gone to.
The first shocked student was a thin Chinese girl, her large, almond shaped, dark violet eyes glittered with anticipation and anxiety at the prospect of entering a new highschool. She wore a red, ruffled skirt with a pair of black shorts underneath, while the top of her was cover with a black, double breasted, uniform top with red button and trim. Lenalee had thought the uniform strange and a little over the top but all of the students wore it so on the school grounds she felt at ease. The boys wore pants but other than that the uniforms were basically the same. The only differentiations that Lenalee could notice was the gold accent hanging across the collar of every uniform. Personally she had two lying against her collarbone while the other students had as little as one and at most four. Before Lenalee could decipher what the golden accents meant she was ushered into the school by the red and black clad crowd so she quickly decided to go towards her locker, her two high ponytails were the last thing a certain redhead running late saw.
Tall and handsome was the next student coming into the school, girls whispered about him as he passed, for one he was wearing white pants instead of black and across his right eye was an eyepatch. Those two traits were what made him initially stand out but then at second glance his bright red hair being held up by a headband was also something out of the norm, no one recognized the boy with three golden accents hanging across his collar under a red scarf. Lavi had taken it upon himself to add accents to his outfit, make it unique, and hopefully the ladies would be into it. Unlike the other students clutching their schedules he already memorized his own and the map of the large school, his first period was advanced placement United States history and then he had Advanced Placement European History, the classroom right next door, "This day is going to be a breeze." He was confident with his studies, his amazing memory was helpful and so was the fact his guardian forced him to read so much Lavi probably could be in college at his age. For now he headed toward his locker, needing to unload a few books in there.
The third new student looked up at the school with wide eyes, "Arystar High School…" The white haired youth had on a green hat, the school uniform with only one golden accent across the collar. behind him was a German Shepard, surprisingly it was completely gold colored and without a leash. Allen whirled around and petted Cross's dog one last time before ushering him away, "Go home Timcanpy!" The dog stood for a moment before darting into the bushes, avoiding the streets, he was trained to know that when alone stay off the streets. Allen sighed and then looked back at the school, all he knew about it was his schedule and that little kids in the park said a vampire had once owned the building. Without hesitation Allen walked forward in his right hand was his schedule and map. Over his left shoulder was a worn looking leather messenger bag. His fingers were gloved, white gloves covering them. He tried not to feel self-conscious but he knew he looked different, he had white hair, an odd scar across his face and well other might not see his arm but he knew how deformed it was underneath his sleeve. Up till now the snowy-haired teen had been home schooled by Cross Marian, his guardian. Allen wasn't prepared for public school, the last time he had gone to public school was when he was at the orphanage. Walking into the school he headed towards his locker, following the map but having difficulties with the school being so giant and well his sense of direction was poor at best.
"Allen! Come play with us on the monkey bars!" The sweet high-pitched voice of Lenalee Lee rang out to Allen, a brunette with his hair tied in a high ponytail. Allen frowned and said to the girl, "There's no way I'm playing on those stupid things!" The boy scowled at the group by the playground, currently Lavi was swinging across the monkey bars. Kanda scowled and went over to Allen, dragging him over to the monkey bars, "Allen!" Lenalee was a new girl, and was really nice to Allen and the other children but she often broke out in tears, Allen didn't bother to know why, something about missing her brother. Lavi had warned Allen to be nice to her; even Kanda, the boy from the other orphanage was nice to her. Kanda was nice to no one, not even his friend Alma. That was probably why Allen was getting dragged over to the monkey bars, "Go on, do the monkey bars kid." Allen scowled; Kanda was only a couple years older than him but on the playground it made all the difference. Lavi dropped from the bars and looked at Allen sadly; he knew that boy the longest, he often helped Allen with his studies and was the only who tolerated his behavior. "Yu, leave him alone!" Allen looked at his red-headed friend, the boy was one of the only ones who knew about Allen's left arm, he was unable to move it and it often caused him pain.
"Stop calling me that! Stupid rabbit!" Being distracted by Kanda and Lavi, Allen barely heard Lenalee, "You can't do monkey bars with a mitten on." Before Allen could stop her she pulled his thick mitten off, revealing his grotesque left hand. Lenalee gasped, and backed away. Lavi stared at Allen's hair, his one green eye piercing through Allen's heart, none of them had ever seen his arm before. Kanda spoke first, "What the hell is wrong with you? That's so gross." Allen gritted his teeth and swiped his mitten from the Asian girl, pushing Lenalee to the ground in the process, he ran past Kanda and Lavi and yelled, "You know what, you bastards… don't ever talk to me again!" They never did, Allen was adopted that day by Mana Walker, he never visited the orphanage since he thought his so-called friends saw him as a monster.
One of the last students to enter the school was Yu Kanda, a tall Japanese boy who seemed to scowl every moment of everyday and his hair was held in a high ponytail, the length even rivaling the girls in the high school. He knew his way around since he was a junior and had attended the school two years already, now his collar had three golden accents signaling his grade. "Finally the school to myself." The male meant that his 'brother' was finally out of the school and out of his hair. Kanda was looking forward to a peaceful school year but then again he was wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer so he was going to have to struggle a bit with his studies. The hallway where Kanda was heading was in an obscure area, the spare lockers for new students and well he had personally asked for a locker there so he wouldn't have to deal with the crowded hallways and locker neighbors. Kanda was the first in the hallway and hopefully the last; he spun the code for his locker and started to chuck some notebooks into the dusty compartment.
"K-anda?" her voice was weak and shaking, Kanda glared at the restraints around her arms, "Yeah, it's me, " Lenalee slowly glanced at him, her large empty eyes were doll-like. No one was supposed to visit Lenalee but Kanda had snuck into her room while their caretakers were busy. Lenalee had been suffering from depression; it increased in severity as time passed, and as people left. "I promise I won't leave like that baka Allen and Lavi." Kanda hoped his words would cheer her up but his delivery was still rude and he sounded unpleasant. Lenalee looked back up at the ceiling, not responding. "Kanda slowly reached over the side of the bed and combed his fingers gently through her hair, trying to fix it for her since he was no good at cheering her up through words. After a few minutes Kanda heard footsteps approaching, "Crap! I gotta hide, don't tell them I was here!" Kanda hid behind the long dark curtains just as a man burst into the room. Lenalee didn't look but Kanda did, he saw the look of horror on his face at the sight of the girl. Kanda watched the man sit next to her bed, saying something to Lenalee. Not hearing them completely Kanda guessed that this was Lenalee's brother, he looked like her. From behind the curtain Kanda watched his last friend be taken away by her brother, upset he lost her but happy that he saw her smile one last time.
In all of the commotion Lenalee managed to slip past the crowds of people with relative ease, her movements all held a certain amount of grace within them. She turned down the hallway where he locker was supposedly located. Not after taking three steps she dropped her black purse and binder. "K-Kanda!" The said teen turned, his narrowed eyes widening, "…" Lenalee paused before running up to him and looping her arms around his waist, not caring that Kanda wasn't into touchy-feely moments like that. "I thought I'd never see you again, I tried to find you but they said you were adopted!" Lenalee released Kanda and took a step back, "I'm sorry about that… I got too excited. You probably don't remember me." Kanda shut his locker, "Tch, you think I'd forget you so easily, don't think so little of me." Kanda tried to sound annoyed but in reality he was shocked, he had thought his childhood friends were something from his past he'd never see again. Lenalee smiled again and picked up her stuff, "Do you have a phone? Can I have your number?" Just as Kanda was about to explain why he had no phone he heard, "Oh! Yu! I want your number too! Gimme!"
At some point the redhead, Lavi had entered the hallway, and was watching Lenalee and Kanda. "WHAT DID YOU CALL ME!" Kanda carried on to chase Lavi around the corner, "Just like old times Yu!" Just then Lavi crashed into someone, the taller boy fell on top of the guy. Lavi saw a flash of white hair and quickly got off of the stranger, "I'm sorry sir, here, let me help you up." Lavi held out a hand, just as the assumed old man looked up. An emerald eye met two silver eyes, "Lavi…?" The white haired student said in disbelief, Lavi never forgot a face but he didn't remember Allen's face having a painful looking scar down the left side, "Allen?"
Kanda grumbled, "That annoying brat is here too?!" He looked over Lavi's shoulder and narrowed his eyes, his childhood acquaintance looked quite different than the boy sprawled out on the ground. "You look like a geezer; it hasn't been that long since we last say you, right?" Allen looked over Lavi at Kanda and felt a wave of anxiety, the last time he had seen these two Allen didn't count as one of his happy memories. Lenalee wandered over and looked at Allen in question, "Who is that…?" Allen quickly tugged his green hat back on, no longer caring about dress code, "I have to go, excuse me." The boy dashed away to the nearest bathroom, hiding from his childhood acquaintances.
Lavi looked at Lenalee, "That was Allen, you know the kid from the orphanage. He was adopted a couple of months before I was." The Chinese girl looked it Lavi and then said, "But that boy had brown hair… and that scar." Lavi sighed and was about to add something when the warning bell rang, "Crap! I have to go! I'll find you later, and you too, Yu!"
"STOP CALLING ME THAT, BAKA USAGI!" Kanda didn't leave Lavi till later, he chased the idiot all the way to the history hallway even though his first class was gym making him quite late, not that Kanda cared. As he walked in he ignored the teacher scolding him and turned to sit on the bleachers with the rest of his class. Usually he'd sit at the edge, away from the girls that giggled at him, but sitting in his spot was none other than Allen Walker.
AN: Review please!
