Mizu: I still curse the day that I allowed plot bunnies to enter my mind. Here I am, starting to study for finals (which are not even two weeks away! DX) and then I get the idea of writing something of a Christmas fic. So, seeing as I was inspired, I sat down to write it…now I am worried cause I just know that I won't finish it for Christmas but I really, REALLY like it so far. Oh well. Let's go with it~! Disclaimer: I don't own -Man and I think that might be a good thing, even though I really wish I did. I mean, I would be worse at updating than the manga is already.
I'll be There:
Chapter One- Beginning Crushes…
If there was one student you didn't mess with at Black Order University, it would be Kanda Yuu. Why, you ask? Because he would not hesitate to rip anyone who irritated him to shreds. He didn't care about consequences if he did. Though that was because all of the professors were too afraid to even dare think about having him in their office alone to give him any sort of punishment. There wasn't anyone on campus who wasn't terrified of this stoic man.
However, there were a few times that Kanda didn't kill someone for insulting him. The first was if you were meeting him for the first time. Most of the time, when someone met him, the first thing they noticed was his extremely long black hair that he kept up in a high ponytail. Then they would always somehow take note of how deep his dark midnight blue eyes looked. That was always a laugh seeing as that Kanda was very lucky to have been blessed with a very masculine (and extremely handsome) face and build but for some reason, but everyone just seemed to ignore that fact. So a lot of people mistook Kanda as a girl the first time they met him. A very tall girl, mind you, but a girl none the less. Which of course Kanda fixed right away, ensuring that the poor soul would never forget who he was.
The only other exception was when the person trying to stand up to him was a female. It was funny the first few times. The Great Kanda Yuu would stutter something under his breath and stalk away. Well…until he got fed up with the girls who were ganging up on him. He soon found very creative ways to use his surprisingly broad vocabulary to tear the women to shreds. True, they never wound up in the hospital but there was one girl that ended up in a mental institution.
Everyone knew that there were a few people that Kanda would hang around. Of course his three adopted brothers and his adopted father, though most thought that even then Kanda wanted to strangle them all (mainly his dad). Then there was the hyper blur of red hair named Lavi Book. The man himself was a strange one. His hair was actually bright red, not some sort of orange. He had brilliant green left eye. Why just his left eye? Well, no one knew what his right eye looked like. The redhead always wore an eyepatch over it.
There was one other person that Kanda would willingly spend time with and that was one Lenalee Li. She was a very pretty Chinese woman with long greenish-black hair that she kept up in two ponytails. She had cut it during highschool after it got caught in a Bunsen burner flame but that was a different matter. Her eyes were shimmering pools of purple and she too had one little quirk. Her brother and his crazy sister-complex, Komui Li. If any boy other than Kanda or Lavi got near Lenalee, he would go on a mad rampage with his own brigade of robots.
Not that Kanda would ever try to go out with Lenalee anyway. There was a rumor going around campus that the Great and Almighty Kanda was actually gay. Now, normally these kind of rumors would have been dealt with and dispelled already. But there was one strange thing about this rumor. Kanda was actually the one who started it. Truthfully, it was more or less to keep the annoying women from stalking him around, hoping to ask for a date, but sometimes he had to wonder himself. He knew that he had never been really attracted to anyone before. He had never wanted someone before so he really didn't know what he was. So why try to defend his sexuality when he might really be?
"Remind me again, baka usagi," one Kanda Yuu growled as he followed the redhead down the street, "How did I let you talk me into this one?"
"Oh come on, Yuu-chan~!" Lavi chirped, marching happily through the snow, "It won't be so bad~!"
Somehow Kanda highly doubted that. After all, he had been literally pulled from his bed and thrown into a very un-Kanda outfit. All of his outfits were either black, dark blue or purple, and blood red with a little bit of white splashed in. This…This monstrosity was a bright red costume covered on the edges with white fluff. It even came with a matching hat.
"Standing out in the freezing snow dressed as fucking Santa Clause isn't so bad!" Kanda snapped as they finally arrived at their destination; the supermarket, "Fuck…Lavi!"
"Language, Yuu," Lavi sighed, "and just be happy that I was able to find a place that would let you volunteer. Everywhere else in town is too afraid of your rep."
"My what?" Kanda blanched.
"You know, your rep. What everyone says about you and everything you've done," Lavi chuckled, "Let's just say throwing people out windows for the simple reason of them just looking at you wrong."
"Hey, those chicks were asking for it with the way they kept staring at me!" Kanda defended, remembering the only time he had ever used some sort of violence on women (luckily they were all on the ground floor so nobody got hurt).
"Of course they were staring, idiot!" Lavi laughed loudly, "They thought that you looked hot and were trying to get you to notice them."
"Che," Kanda sounded, stomping over to the stand.
"Look," Lavi sighed, "Just try not to kill anyone. Reever-sensei isn't going to give you another extension if you mess this one up. Just stand there and ring the bell."
"Fine," Kanda sighed, praying to whoever was listening to keep the idiots away from him, "But don't let Wenhamm-sensei catch you calling him that!"
Lavi blinked, "I just realized something, Yuu."
"What?" Kanda sighed, taking the bell from the person who was last in charge of the stand.
"You haven't yelled at me for calling you Yuu-chan all day~!" Lavi laughed.
"Baka," Kanda scoffed, "I made a bet with Daisya last night that I could go a full day without trying to maim someone."
"Eh?" Lavi blinked before being pelted in the face with a snow ball.
"Now beat it before I decide losing fifty bucks just to strangle you isn't that bad of an idea," Kanda smirked.
Apparently, someone had actually listened to Kanda's silent plea. Kanda had no run ins with anyone who would irritate him his entire time in front of the supermarket. People had walked by, occasionally dropping some change in the red bucket next to him. None stopped to chat. The children didn't come up to him and beg him for a candy cane. Another plus was that while there was snow on the ground, the temperature was tolerable.
Checking his watch, Kanda counted down the minutes until his replacement got there. He scanned the parking lot for anyone dressed in red similar to himself. He couldn't wait till he could leave and return to the comforting warmth of his apartment.
Then, whoever had listened to Kanda earlier either decided to take a break or finally got bored. For just as Kanda spotted a speck of red walking towards him, he was bowled over by something.
"Owwww…." A pathetic sounding voice sounded from next to him.
Or by someone. Kanda growled as he slowly stood back up. Glaring at the source of the voice, the stoic man fought the urge to give the poor soul a boot to the head. The urge to do so suddenly died down as the person slowly sat up. The said person pushed the hood off of their head revealing hair the same color as the freshly fallen snow. Over the left side of the person's face was a bright red scar. These two details were enough for Kanda to identify who the person was.
"Walker?" Kanda gaped.
Walker blinked before noticing who they bowled into.
"Kanda-sempai?" Walker asked nervously.
The two locked eyes as people continued to walk by. Midnight blue danced with silver mixed with light blue. Both seemed to forget the rest of the world for a moment.
"Yuu-chan~!" Lavi's voice rang out, snapping both out of their reverie.
"I told you not to call me that!" Kanda snapped as the redhead approached with a tall man dressed in red with short black hair and a long stripe of white.
"It's good to see that you haven't been arrested yet. Though, I do think that you might now owe Daisya fifty dollars," Lavi joked, motioning to the other man, "You remember Krory, right?"
How could he forget? Krory was the idiot in their class that nearly blew them up at least once a week cause he always added the wrong things together.
"I'm here to sweitch off with you, Kanda-kun," Krory sheepishly said.
"Finally," Kanda sighed turning back to Walker only to find no one there.
"Huh?" Kanda blinked.
"What's wrong, Yuu?" Lavi asked.
"Walker…Walker was right here just before you two got here," Kanda stated.
"Really? Walker-chan was here? With you, Yuu?" Lavi asked, eye wide.
Looking around, Kanda glared at all who passed in front of him.
"Where did she go?" Kanda questioned as he bent down to pick up checkered glove off the snow covered ground.
Walker was a girl that Kanda shared most of his classes with. She was quiet and mostly kept to herself. She never spoke to anyone. No, really, Walker never spoke a word to anyone other than to the professors when asked a question. Her voice was a little deeper than most other girls but it was still definitely mostly femine. She wore very baggy clothes most of the time at school, hiding whatever figure she most likely had. But it was her face that drew the most attention. She was stunningly beautiful, even including the scar running along the left side of her face. Occasionally, Walker would wear glasses in class and all the boys would whisper throughout the time how adorable she looked. And Kanda would sit in his seat, silently agreeing with them.
But that was really all anybody really knew of Walker. Nobody even knew her first name. The professors all called her by her last name and her handwriting was so bunched together nobody could read whatever it said. To top it off, whenever someone would try to ask her about it, she would literally run away. Of course, this just made the guys proclaim how cute and shy she was. Everybody loved her, even though nobody knew her. The girls wanted to become her friend and the guys all had crushes on her. It was quite comical some days.
What everybody else didn't know, though, was that the one guy everyone assumed wouldn't pay any mind to Walker was the same one who could never keep his mind off of her. Whenever they were in the same room together, Kanda couldn't think straight. He kept trying to figure out some way to talk to her. To get to know her. But every day in class, he was too afraid to speak to her. Him! The Great Kanda Yuu was afraid to speak to Walker. If anyone found out, they would never leave him in peace.
But still, he wouldn't deny that he did indeed want to know more about this mysterious Walker…
"I'm just saying that you're so lucky for seeing Walker-chan, even if it was just for a second, Yuu!" Lavi whined as they walked down the hall to their Sociology class.
"Don't call me that!" Kanda snapped at his best friend, "And what's the big deal? So we ran into each other while I was there? So what?"
"So what?" Lavi sputtered, "So everything! Nobody has ever seen Walker-chan outside of class. It's like as soon as she finishes her classes, she vanishes off the face of the earth!"
"Baka," Kanda sighed as they entered the classroom, not at all surprised to see Walker sitting in her seat even though there was still fifteen minutes until class started.
Lavi chuckled, "Oh well. I wish you luck with talking to Walker-chan, Yuu-chan~!"
"Usagi!" Kanda snapped, a very slight blush appearing on his face.
Lavi quickly found his seat, still cackling a little. Kanda fumed for a few moments before heading straight for Walker. The young woman was too busy reading her book to even notice the normally terrifying man now just a few steps away.
"Hey," Kanda said, grateful that his voice didn't betray him and tell her just how nervous he was.
Walker jumped almost all the way out of her seat. Her glasses nearly fell off of her face as a light flush spread across her cheeks. Apparently she wasn't expecting anyone to try and confront her this early in the day.
"Here," Kanda stated, holding out the checkered glove, "You must have dropped it yesterday."
Kanda fought to control himself as he watched the precious girl looked back and forth between the glove and Kanda's face in confusion. She really was too cute for her own good.
"Th-Thank you," she whispered as she cautiously took the glove from Kanda's grasp.
"Don't worry about it," Kanda said, suddenly noticing something about Walker's left hand, "Hey, why are you just wearing only one glove anyway?"
The girl's face suddenly lost all emotion as she gave Kanda a cold look that chilled even him to the bone, "I'm sorry but that's not really any of your concern now is it?"
With that, the woman went back to reading her book, completely ignoring him. Kanda stood there in shock for a full minute before his temper suddenly made itself known. He knew that he couldn't get upset at the girl but that didn't mean that he was going to let that last retort slide. All he had done was retrieve her glove. Not even he deserved that kind of cold shoulder from anyone.
So just to spite the mysterious female, Kanda stalked over to where Lavi and he normally sat. Before the redhead could ever start to say anything, the stoic man snatched up his backpack that he had given Lavi earlier so he could go straight to Walker's desk. The next thing Lavi and Walker knew, Kanda had taken up the seat next to the strange girl. At first it appeared that she was going to complain but soon she calmed down and returned to reading her book. Kanda caught Lavi's stunned look and smirked. Since no one knew anything about Walker, nobody had sat next to her all year. This was just the chance Kanda needed. Of course, right after getting revenge over her rude remark to him.
Everyone else was just as shocked to see Kanda sitting so close to Walker. The guys were instantly furious with him, not that they would do anything about it though. The girls, however, were insanely curious. Kanda could hear all the whispers about why he was sitting so close to Walker. It wasn't like he really cared. However, Walker seemed to. Kanda risked a glance towards the silent girl only to be shocked when he noticed the dark blush covering her face as she tried to hide in her book. And all of the sudden, Kanda's previous slight anger at the girl turned into full blown rage against the class.
"Shut up!" Kanda roared, jumping to his feet.
Everyone froze.
"Y-Yuu?" Lavi nervously asked, chancing glances towards Walker.
"All of you just shut up!" Kanda snapped, scaring their sensei as she walked in, "The only reason that I'm sitting here today is because I have a major migraine and don't want that baka usagi to make it any worse! I really don't think any of you would want to witness a murder today, do you!"
Everyone quickly shook their heads.
"Then be quiet!" Kanda shouted, sitting back down.
As soon as everyone's fear dropped back down to normal levels, class started and the normal chatter among students began. Kanda looked back and Lavi who was giving him his best puppy dog eye. He responded by throwing a pencil at the redhead to get him stop focusing on him and Walker.
"You didn't have to do that," Walker whispered five minutes into class.
Kanda nearly jumped out of his seat when he heard the silent girl actually speak to him, "W-Well, I just…"
"I can take care of myself!" Walker quietly snapped at the stunned Kanda.
"Wah?" Kanda blinked before his old friend temper made its return, "I was just trying to be nice! I noticed that you were uncomfortable so I decided to do something to help you!"
"Well, I didn't ask any help!" Walker snapped, anger reflecting in her eyes, "I am perfectly capable of taking care of myself!"
"Then why didn't you!" Kanda snapped right back, careful not to be too loud.
"Because I don't see the point of yelling at everyone when that'll only cause more problems!" Walker growled.
"Tch. For you, maybe. But for me, it always works," Kanda smirked, "Besides, these people talk about you every day. They say how cute you are, on how they wish that you would grow your hair out. They literally are obsessed with you. You've never let that ever effect you. Why should today be any different?"
"Because now they were talking about you and me!" Walker snapped, opening her notebook to start to take notes, "And I refuse to be associated with the likes of you!"
Okay. That one hurt. A lot. What hurt even worse was that Kanda knew it hurt. And he did not like it. One bit. He no longer cared that Walker was the one girl that he felt even the slightest thing for. Nobody got away with such a horrible crime on Kanda Yuu's pride. But there was one problem. Normally, with all the girls he had ever torn down emotionally, he had some sort of brief knowledge of them. He always had some sort of insecurity to work off of. But not with Walker. She was still a complete mystery. So instead, Kanda started racking his brain for something, anything, that he could say to get something out of the adorable but infuriating Moya...That was it!
"Hey," Kanda said, glancing at Walker.
Nothing.
"Oi," Kanda tried.
Still nothing.
"Hey!" Kanda snapped quietly.
"Not listening," Walker sighed, focused on copying everything down off the board.
"Hey," Kanda smirked, "Moyashi."
Walker froze. Okay, that was something interesting.
"What?" Walker snapped, glaring at Kanda.
"Finally, Moyashi," Kanda smirked even more as he watched the girl start to flush, "I thought I was going to have to hit you upside the head to get you to listen."
"No," Walker growled, "What did you just call me?"
"Moyashi," Kanda repeated.
"I am no Moyashi!" Walker shouted on the top of her lungs as she jumped up from her seat.
"W-Walker-san?" the professor gasped, "D-Did I say something to upset you!"
Walker blinked and looked around. She flushed as she realized that everyone was staring at them. And why wouldn't they? The normally silent girl in class had just shouted for all to hear.
"I must have!" the professor cried, flinging herself into hysterics, "I'm so sorry, Walker-san! For the crimes of angering you, let me repent by eating this chalk!"
"I-It's alright, Lotto-sensei!" Walker exclaimed, still blushing, "You didn't do anything wrong!"
Once the professor finally calmed down, Walker let out a heavy sigh as she sank back into her seat. Laying her head down on the desk, she glared at the bemused man beside her.
"That wasn't very nice of you to do," Walker sighed.
"If you haven't noticed, I'm not a nice guy," Kanda scoffed, "After all, isn't that why you don't want to be associate yourself with me?"
"Huh?" Walker sounded, stifling a laugh, "Baka."
"What was that?" Kanda growled.
"Baka," Walker repeated, "I wasn't talking about you and your violence."
"What?" Kanda blinked, dumbfounded.
"You see, as you can most likely tell, I'm not from around here. I moved to Japan in my last year of high school," Walker giggled, "Before I came here, I spent my whole life traveling around the world. I've had to learn so many languages that it's not even funny. So I'm sorry, but I'm not completely fluent in Japanese yet. I tend to make slight mistakes that make for huge misunderstandings."
"Th-Then what did you mean to say?" Kanda asked.
Walked sighed sadly, "I don't want anyone to become associated with me."
"Why not?" Kanda questioned.
"Let's just say…" Walker paused for a moment, thinking of what she could say, "Let's just say that I'm just tired of losing everything and leave it at that."
Kanda did leave it at that but he didn't leave Walker. Seeing as they had so many classes together, the fearsome man made sure to sit beside her every time. True, most of the time they just argued back and forth, but for some reason, Kanda found it relaxing. There was something about her that just made him feel at peace. Or maybe it was just the fact that he enjoyed seeing her flustered. Especially when she pouted. After each time Walker pouted, Kanda would glare around the room, daring anyone to try and say something.
But unfortunately, Kanda's glare had no effect on Lavi.
"Yuu-chan~!" Lavi cried out at the end of their final class.
"I told you not to call me that!" Kanda snapped, causing Walker to laugh a little.
"Just like I've told you not to call me Moyashi," Walker stated, gathering her things, a small smile on her lips.
"Already given her a pet name, Yuu?" Lavi smirked, elbowing Kanda in the ribs, "Boy, do you work fast!"
"Eh?" Kanda and Walker blinked.
"You two~! Everybody's talking about how cute you two look together!" Lavi chuckled.
"And now that relaxing feeling was gone.
"What!" Walker shrieked.
"What a bunch of morons," Kanda sighed, noticing Walker starting to stalk off, "Oi! Where are you going, Moyashi?"
"Away from you, BaKanda!" Walker snapped.
"Ba…BaKanda?" Kanda repeated.
"That's awesome!" Lavi laughed, "you two both came up with awesome names for each other!"
Kanda glared at the red head before stomping away. Damn that rabbit. Thanks to him, all of his chances with Walker had just flown out the window.
Mizu: Yay! I found a really good stopping point~!
Allen: Wait a second…WHY AM I A GIRL!
Mizu: Cause I felt like making you one…again…
Allen: Why do you only torture me, Mizu?
Mizu: Not true, remember? I tortured Kanda by turning him into a girl once as well. I am always torturing Komui. And I've tortured Lavi with your black half.
Allen: Yeah but you always do the worst to me…
Mizu: That's because you're the main character~! You have to go through the worst stuff. It would make no sense if someone like Lenalee went through everything you did.
Lenalee: Hey, I wasn't even in this chapter. Leave me out of this argument.
Mizu: Fine. Anyways, remember that I love all reviews and suggestions~! Ciao for now~!
Allen: I hate you, Mizu…I really, really do…
