Hey! Kurokumo once again, back with another -Man Fanfiction. This one is a bit speedy, I know, so bare with me. It's basically Lavi and Kanda, though it focuses more around Lavi than Kanda. So yeah… Sorry. XD; So without further ado, allow me to introduce to you 'The Halloween Treat'! (No one was hurt in the production of this Fanfiction except for maybe the pumpkins. XD)
Line Steal Credit: TehExorcist! I love you! ^_^
Disclaimer: -Man is the property of Katsura Hoshino. This series is a parody and nothing more, so please support the official release. Got it? Damn well better.
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October 31st, 8:27 a.m.
The Black Order
It was still early in the morning in his book, but he still forced himself awake anyways. Why? Because it was probably the most important day of the year, second to Christmas. He felt his grin grow on his face as he sat up, yawning and stretching out. The morning sun's rays beamed through the window as he sighed, reaching across the table for his bandana, going to put it on as usual. His fingers reached out to only feel the hard wood of the table. His favourite article of clothing, short of his scarf, was missing. He blinked once, eyes wide. Someone took his bandana! But who? And why?
"Tsk. Just because someone took my bandana doesn't mean I'm not gonna let down on the Halloween celebration," he concluded. "I'll find it later. Right now… I need to go do the Halloween Trick Handbook tricks! Heh heh heh…" A slight glint in his eyes revealed more mischief than usual. "This will be the best Halloween day EVER! …Just so long as Yuu-chan doesn't kill me before breakfast."
He stood up, his feet freezing, as he grabbed some clothes and put them on as he searched for his boots. They were right next to the bed, he knew he had put them there, but they were missing as well! A frown fell across his face. Was he going to have to walk around the Order barefoot? That would seriously suck, because the floors were cold and he was already partially freezing. He frowned. Well, he'd find those later, too. Right now, he was hungry, and he was starving for some meat.
He left his room, running his fingers through his shaggy-looking red hair as he proceeded down to the dining hall. Everyone gave him awkward looks when they looked down at his feet, but he ignored them. This really did suck. He entered the dining room to see Allen wearing his boots and his bandana. Lavi stopped, eyes wide. Why in the seven hells would he be wearing his clothes? He approached him quickly, nearly yelling. "Allen-chan! Why did you take my boots and my bandana, ah!? I need those, don't you know?!"
Allen shrugged. The bandana was covering his mouth. He looked kind of different. "It's Halloween, remember? I needed your bandana and your boots to pull it off. I'm sorry."
Lavi frowned. "You know what, fine, you can have my boots and my bandana. Halloween is supposed to be fun, so why not? I'll let you borrow them for the day."
His feet were freezing half to death, though, so he sort of was regretting his words. But hey, Allen actually looked slightly menacing with the fake blood and the gothic look. It looked like he was a juvenile delinquent in his eyes, but even so, Allen was generally the nicest person around, so switching around personas was a good thing to do on his part. He approached Jerry's window. "Oi, Jerry! Can I have some--" He stopped dead, mid-sentence. Obviously Lavi wasn't the only one who was excited about today. Jerry grinned at him, hair down and dyed in a mix of colours. He looked like a rock star only not. "--uh… some… er… You look different, Jerry. Nice. One order of yakiniku, please!"
"Sure thing, hon!" Jerry nodded as he began to grab the ingredients and started making Lavi's favourite dish. He then paused and frowned. "Sorry, but it looks like we're out of meat for today. Everyone has been wanting my meat for blood and what not, so we're out. Is there anything else that suits your fancy?"
Great. So first his bandana and boots were taken, and now his favourite kind of food was unavailable. "Uh… Never mind, then. I'm just gonna go back to my room and, uh, train and stuff…" Jerry blinked once, watching Lavi sulk away from the window. Lavi's angst made Jerry feel a bit upset and confused. 'Why is that boy not wearing any shoes? The Head Officer of the Science Department refuses to turn on the heat of this building until the 15th of November…'
Lavi sighed heavily, walking back into his room. It really was cold, but he had no shoes and wearing just socks made him look stupid. He opened the closet door and tugged at where the scarf should have been, but it wasn't. This made him sad as he looked up to see it missing as well. Someone took his scarf, too? What was the world coming to? So far, this day was not his day, and it was Halloween. Why did it seem like the day was out against him and everything he had? And why him? He looked for something warm-- a sweatshirt, something of the like-- but most of his clothes were missing. That's right, Reever wanted all the unused clothes to be cleaned yesterday. His clothes were still in the wash. He felt more depressed as he closed the closet door with a heavy 'thud' and slid down the wall, hugging his legs into his chest. The building was too damn cold. Why was Komui reluctant of heating the building up? So long as his feet were cold, he was cold.
"Well, I can't let this get me down," he announced loudly. "After all, it is Halloween! I can do anything on Halloween and pick on people while getting away with it! So what should I do first, I wonder…?" He pondered over it for a long time and almost came up with a thought when Johnny from the Science Department opened his door and grinned at him widely. "Here you are! Okay, listen, I need you to go bring in the pumpkins from outside in the garden that we made for this event only to the Order. Everyone else is busy, and by the looks of it, you aren't. So could you please do this for us? It would mean a lot to everyone! Thank you, Lavi!"
He left before the apprentice Bookman could get a word in. There was a long silence before he could feel a moan come out of his own mouth. He stood up and left the room and headed towards the back gate. The pumpkin garden was filled with many pumpkins, he knew, because he always went out to check on them everyday before Halloween came around. He wouldn't of had a problem getting the pumpkins today otherwise, but today he had no shoes, but Johnny asked him, so he knew he had to. He couldn't just disappoint everyone. He stepped outside, the bitter cold marking the near beginning of winter. Leaves scattered around him as he headed further down the garden and began snapping pumpkins off of the vines that held them prisoner. Luckily they had no frostbite, so they would be perfect for carving later. He sneezed, his feet growing more and more numb with each passing second while he snapped off several of the orange vegetables and brought them back into the Science Department Main Room where Komui was.
"Ah, thank you, Lavi!" Komui exclaimed, taking another long sip from his coffee before saying anything. "Could you get us about thirty more from there? We need to make this place look rather Halloween-y. If you know what I mean."
"Yeah, will do," the redhead said, regretting his words. He was too cold for this kind of thing. "It's strange. You're actually making sense unlike the last time when you kept trying to say "The Rewinding Town Wraps Around the Wheel!" over and over again. I guess even the craziest of people love Halloween, then."
"That was only one time!" Komui protested as Lavi left the room.
Lavi walked down the hallways, hearing people occasionally screaming and then laughing afterwards. Everyone seemed to be having such a good day, how come he was having the opposite? What did he do to deserve this? He stepped back outside and stopped. It felt even colder now. But it was still early in the morning, how could it be cold? He looked up to realize the dark clouds forming up above. A rumble of thunder echoed off in the distance as his frown grew. "You've got to be kidding me! Are you just trying to make me feel bad?!" he yelled at the sky and then felt very silly for doing so, so he just stopped talking and picked more pumpkins when a close-to-freezing rain pelted the outdoors. He grimaced. He had five more pumpkins in his hands and that was all he could carry at one time, so that meant five more trips back outside. He dropped them off at the science department, walked back outside, picked more pumpkins, and dropped them off again. He was soaked to the bone by the time he was done, his red hair dripping with the cold water.
Komui thanked him again, and before he could say anything else to him, he was chased by Reever who was yelling about approvals. Lavi just shook his head, sneezing again while heading back towards his room. Another rumble of thunder boomed through the halls of the Order.
"Ooh, perfect!" it was Lenalee's voice he heard first. Sweet, sweet Lenalee, the untouchable Lenalee Lee. "A thunderstorm for Halloween! It just doesn't get any more suspenseful than this, don't you agree, Allen-kun, Kanda-kun, Miranda-san?"
So the group was all together? He approached the door he was hearing the voices come from behind and hesitated. He was dripping wet and needed new clothes, so he could probably join them later. It dawned on him then-- He had no other clothes to wear because they were all taken by Reever! He slammed his head off the wall which silenced the group within the room that was talking. Hell, why did today suck so bad?! The group came out of seclusion and blinked once to see Lavi standing there, head against the wall and dripping wet. Allen, Miranda and Lenalee's eyes widened as Kanda stood there with the same cold and indifferent look he always had, but a slight fidgeting of his eyebrows proved that, yes, Kanda Yuu was actually worried about the apprentice Bookman.
Only a little bit, though.
Not that much…
Not really.
"Lavi?" Allen dared to ask first. "Are you okay? You just slammed your head off of the wall, and the wall looks pretty bad-- I mean, er, you look pretty bad…"
Lenalee elbowed Allen in the gut to shut him up. He took two steps back, surprised from the sudden attack and out of air. She approached Lavi and smiled at him. "Really, are you okay? You look a little bit whiter than usual, maybe even a hint of blue, too. And why are you dripping wet?"
He grinned at them. He didn't want them to worry. It would be rude of him to do something like that, especially on such an awesome holiday like Halloween. "What are you talking about, Lenalee? I was out getting pumpkins for your older brother and it started raining. Not that big of a deal, you know?" He felt a cough start to swell up in his throat. Oh, no, with all of him feeling super cold, no doubt would he get a fever and a cough, too. He really didn't want to be sick, not today, of all days. "Anyways, I was going to go see if Komui needed something else to be done for Halloween."
"Oh, Lavi!" Lenalee spoke before he had the chance to leave. "The science department are making us all costumes, so make sure to pick yours up later, okay?"
He gave her a half-hearted smile. "Thanks for telling me that, Lenalee. See you all later!"
Kanda frowned as he watched Lavi leave. Something was wrong. For one, the stupid rabbit-brat wasn't wearing his bandana or his boots because Allen had them. For two, his scarf was also missing. For three, he looked colder than certain kinds of meat in the freezer, and for four he just looked wrong overall. Worried? Not really. He was in denial of it, but seeing Lavi like this-- Especially since he knew how much Lavi loved Halloween-- kind of irked him. He couldn't make up his mind if he wanted to follow him or not. It was pretty obvious to him that he wasn't going to the science department.
"Kanda?" Lenalee asked as he started to go after him. "Where are you going? We were about to get some apple cider…"
"Che." That was the only response she got as he chased down the apprentice Bookman to the places unknown. She, Miranda and Allen looked at each other, blinking and then shrugging at one another before heading towards the dining hall to get some apple cider.
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October 31st, 10:44 a.m.
The Black Order
Kanda hated holidays.
His least favourite was probably Christmas, but Halloween was up there, too. Everyone acted like a fool on this day, dressing up and pretending they were something that they were not, all of the little kids being greedy for sweet and sugary things, the frequent telling of ghost stories and legends, and the stupid tricks of it all, too. He hated last year especially, since Lavi actually managed to scare him last year…
"Yuu-chan!" Lavi yelled loudly, his smile addictive. "Yuu-chan, today's Halloween! I'm gonna scare you if it's the last thing I do, you hear me? I will get you, Yuu!"
"Che. I doubt it."
The redhead pouted, eye looking like it was going to overflow at any second. He pulled out a knife and grinned widely at him. "Oh yeah? I'm gonna stab you, then, and maybe you'll believe me then! How 'bout it, Yuu-chan?"
"No. And stop calling me Yuu-chan before I kill you."
He frowned more as he playfully crept closer, changing his voice to make him sound more like a lunatic. "I stole dis knife fwom Komui's lab. Once I keel you, Yuu-chan, I will take yer blood and take yer skin and skin you to make myself a new skin coat. Or maybe even some paper? Either way. De point being is that I am going to stfeal yer skin and use it fer something! Bwahahahhaha!"
Kanda couldn't take all of the noise as he swiped the knife from Lavi, glaring at him. "Do you ever know when to shut UP, Baka Usagi?! You are getting on my nerves more than usual today! So piss off!"
Lavi grabbed onto the handle of the knife, pouting. "You're just mad because today is Halloween and I might not have been joking because this is a real knife." He tugged at it, trying to get the knife free from Kanda's grasp. It wasn't exactly working-- The Japanese exorcist was about fifty times stronger than him and thus he was easily overpowered. Lavi gave a sudden jerk at it, but it ended up piercing him in the side. Kanda inhaled a little gasp as Lavi's eyes widened. "Ah… Yuu-chan…?" He collapsed to the floor, eye closed and wincing, blood coming out of where the knife had entered. Kanda's eyes widened, entering a panic-mode.
"You… You…! Baka Usagi, you idiot, why did you…?! How come you…?! Damn it, are you okay?!"
Lavi was motionless for a few more seconds, which panicked Kanda even more, when he sat up and grinned. "It was a collapsible knife, Yuu-chan, and fake blood. Y'see? I did get you, after all!"
"GET OVER HERE SO I CAN KILL YOU!"
He frowned at the memory. He hated it whenever Lavi tried to trick him like that, but then again, it was Halloween. But for whatever the reason, Lavi looked more sad than he usually did. He approached the semi-large door to the room Lavi stayed in, hesitated, then knocked on the door. "Oi, Baka Usagi…" He had to come up with a reason of why he was checking up on him What did Lenalee say? Hot cider… "…the other two were wondering if you wanted to have any cider that's being served down in the dining hall…"
A sneeze was his answer. He frowned more. He was pretty sure that no one would want to talk about the Baka Usagi because he was annoying, so that must have meant allergies or a cold. "Oi! I was talking to you! Either open this door or I'll knock it down!"
"Jeez, Yuu-chan," the redhead opened the door. Kanda frowned more. The idiot was still soaked to the bone and was still looking half-way upset. "You threaten me all the time, don't threaten my stuff, too."
"Che. The door belongs to the Order."
"But right now, since I'm living here, it's mine until further notice."
"No it-- Che, it's pointless arguing this…" He sighed, letting himself in by pushing him out of the way. "Why the hell did you not change your clothes…?" He noticed the bare closet. Oh, right, Reever… He remembered that because he didn't allow that stupid Australian near his clothes. He could deal with it later. Lavi sheepishly grinned.
"Tell Allen-chan and Lenalee-chan that I'm sorry, but I think I'm just going to call it quits for the rest of the day." Now Kanda knew something was wrong. "I think I might be coming down with something. Ehehe…"
"Idiots can't catch colds."
"They can if they stand out in the rain long enough."
"Why in the seven hells were you out in the goddamn rain?"
"Picking pumpkins for the science department."
"Alone?"
"Yeah. Why?"
Kanda could feel the twitching of his fingers as they subconsciously reached for Mugen, eyes glowing a strange yellow. "They should have at least offered to help you."
"Meh, I handled it by--" he coughed a little bit, which made Kanda raise an eyebrow. "--myself pretty well, so yeah. Yuu-chan, you look like you're gonna maim someone. You feeling okay?"
'Funny, I was about to ask you the same thing…' he thought before turning. "Che. I'll be back in a few minutes. Stay here."
"Huh? Oh… Okay…?"
Kanda left the room, slamming the door shut behind him as he proceeded towards his room. He opened the door, frowning and subconsciously looked over to the hour glass with the lotus flower in it. None of the petals had fallen off lately, so he was doing pretty good in his book. A faint rumble of thunder was sounded in the distance as he opened his closet door. He glared at the vacant space that loomed in front of him. That bastard Reever! He stormed out of the room and closed his door before making his way towards the science department. He passed Lenalee who happened to have a glass of cider in her hands and bumped into her, causing it to spill all over her shirt. He didn't even notice as he saw Reever and grabbed him by the collar.
"Oh. Hi Kanda," the Australian man said in response, but his eyes were side-glancing as if he were guilty about something. "Can I help you?"
"My clothes. Give them back. Now." He glared dangerously enough to make kittens and puppies stop moving and die of heart attacks.
"But--"
"Now!"
Reever looked over to Johnny, who was watching the entire situation but what doing nothing, and gave him the motion to go retrieve them. Johnny furiously sprinted towards where they were and came back twenty seconds later with them in his hands, all perfectly folded. Kanda let Reever go and took them back. "Take them again and I will kill you," he warned, then proceeded out of there. The two scientists looked at each other, unblinking, and turned to return to what they were doing.
'They're lucky I didn't do anything more,' he thought as he walked back into his room and put most of them away except for an outfit that would have suited the apprentice Bookman. He frowned, closed the closet door and approached Lavi's room slowly. He was tired of this. Why did he even care? He shouldn't have cared. He didn't care. But he did, as the little voice in the back of his head kept on echoing. He knocked on the door, and when there was no response, he opened the door and frowned. Lavi was sleeping on the floor, his wet clothes not looking any drier. Kanda rolled his eyes as he kicked him gently in the gut. "Wake up, Baka Usagi."
There was no response. Kanda grimaced, then bent down and shook him awake. Lavi's eyes snapped open, confused and curious of what was going on. "Yuu-chan! You did return, after all! You must love me."
"Like hell."
"Oh, c'mon--" he coughed again, which made the shorter exorcist frown, "--Yuu-chan. I was only kidding with you."
"Che." He placed the stack of clothes onto the bed. "Here. Where them if you want, but I expect them back, or I will kill you." He got up off of the floor as Lavi blinked once in utter confusion. "And so help me God, if you don't start grinning like an idiot again soon, I will murder you in your sleep along with Reever and Johnny. Do you understand?"
Lavi said nothing as he just nodded and grabbed the pile of clothes that were placed onto the bed, sighing. Kanda's eyebrows furrowed close together. What in the hell was this idiot's problem? He couldn't figure it out… He turned back and sighed, sitting back down next to him. Lavi was staring at the clothes he had just received, though his eyes were focusing something that wasn't even in view. They were looking worlds away from where they were, somewhere that only existed in his mind. He frowned, snapping back to reality and looked at Kanda. "…Today's not my day, Yuu-chan. But I really am coming down with something, so unless you wanna get sick, stay away from me."
"Something's wrong, isn't it?"
"Is it that obvious?"
"Che."
There was a pause. There really wasn't anything wrong aside from the day not going as well as he had hoped, which was a pretty stupid reason for him to be angsting, but even so. "Well…" he rubbed the back of his head with his left hand. "It's just… Today has been sucking more than usual, and I think I might be coming down with a cold, as I said earlier… And… You know… Today is one of my favourite days, and everyone else is having such a good time except me, I think."
"Idiot."
Lavi looked up. "Huh?"
Kanda stood up, frowning at the apprentice Bookman. "You. You are going to change your clothes and come down to the dining hall and get some apple cider with me, and then-- I can't believe I'm saying this --we can plot a prank… against… the science department. How does that sound?"
Lavi couldn't believe what he was hearing. The asshole Kanda Yuu was offering to help him set up a prank for Halloween? Either he hit his head or someone got him drunk, those were the only two explanations that came to mind. He thought about it, then nodded slowly. "That… sounds good. Yuu-chan, are you feeling alright? Generally you'd tell me to grow a pair and start acting like a man…"
The Japanese exorcist turned towards the door. Little to Lavi's knowledge was that the man was currently smirking. "Yes… Well, I've been wanting to get back at the science department for a very, very, very long time now… And today is the perfect day to do it… and besides, those bastards didn't even offer to help you when you were helping them. So you know what, it's a fair trade! Don't you agree? So hurry the hell up so we can start planning." He left the room, closing the door behind him and leaving a very stunned Lavi alone to contemplate what the hell just happened. He blinked once, then twice.
'M-Me thinks Yuu-chan is getting a little bit too into it…' he thought before taking off his clothes and putting the new ones on. '…because I have never, ever seen him act so strangely in my life… Then again, I've only known him for, what three years now? Four? Bah, I can't keep track. Whatever the matter, though, I do know that Yuu-chan's acting funny.'
He grabbed his hammer off of the table and put it in his pocket, a grin reaching his face.
'Though I don't mind it at all. Now Halloween can really be epic!' he thought before heading out the door of his room.
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Part one, done! So! Did you like it? Hate it? Love it? Destroy it? Hit me with a review, por favor! It would be very much appreciated! See you all later in part two! And I have to tell you, it grows even more crazy in the next chapter. Ciao! --K.S.
