Syaoran: Yes, yes, it's me with a new fic :D I should NOT be doing this, not with my reputation for never completing my stories (most of the time), but oh, I just couldn't resist! T-T My precious Yuukan & Andy are here again, just several years older—they're about eleven, twelve years old in this story; I mean, have you heard of five-year-olds headbanging to rock? Yeah, whole point.
Jasdebi are in the story too, after much much much pestering from Jasdero, who's currently practically glued onto my back in happiness.
Jasdero: Dero's always wanted to be a rockstar! Hii!
Syaoran: …Right. Debitto, of course, remembers that he has a reputation as an annoying, vulgar, scarily childish Noah to upkeep, though I can see from his face he'd be whooping if I weren't here.
Debitto: You— you shut up! –blushes-
These are the ages of the characters (whom ages I know or want to put as, of course) in the fic:
Allen – 17
Rinali – 18
Lavi – 20
Kanda – 20
Jasdebi – 19
Rhode – 20-ish, near Tyki's age I guess
Tyki - 25
Oh, and Rinali's somewhat less nice than she always is. You know, like, she doesn't like to shout at the guys or anything like that. Well, that's gonna change here. & OF COURSE, IF YOU DO NOT LIKE BOY X BOY ACTION, STAY FARRRR AWAY FROM THIS HERE FIC BECAUSE THERE'S GONNA BE PLENTY LATER ON. (& a teensy bit of shoujo ai for Rhode & Rinali's sake.)
Disclaimer: If I owned D. Gray-Man… yepp, you guessed it, yaoi would be perfectly canon here. xD
T h r e e . ( A nd . T w o ) ' s . A . C r o w d .
C h a p t e r . O n e – P r o l o g u e .
In an apartment, two adults-to-be were childishly playing video games on their plasma LCD TV, completely oblivious to the sound of the phone ringing.
"Jeez, guys, can't you listen to your surroundings for once?" Their female companion ran across the room to pick up the phone.
Allen Walker and Lavi blinked at each other over their game controllers.
"Did you hear the phone ringing?" Allen asked.
"Nah, but then again, you know how perceptive old Rinali is when it comes to that sort of thing," Lavi shrugged.
"Right. Must be what they call women's intuition," Allen considered. "Hey! That's cheating!" He pounded furiously on his controller.
"Gotta cheat if you wanna win," Lavi grinned, tongue sticking out. "You of all people should know that, Moyashi-chan!"
"Stop calling me what that stick-up-the-ass Kanda calls me! I have a name, dammit!"
Both struggled with their game for a moment, then Allen shoved his controller down as the screen displayed "GAME OVER".
"Whatever," he said, amid Lavi's victory whooping. "Who d'you think's calling?"
"I'd bet you the popularity of Black Order it's Komui," the redhead grinned. "We're getting pretty hot, yo. Our last album lasted weeks at the top of the charts, good going huh?"
"Not bad, considering it's our second album," Allen agreed, smiling. "Lucky we've got Rinali. She's got a great voice and she's a pro bassist."
"Come off it, you just want to look modest," Lavi accused, poking the younger guitarist on the nose.
Allen aimed a punch at Lavi but he dodged, laughing.
"Okay, I'll admit that I think my guitar skills are pretty good," he admitted. "But hey, Rinali's even got band experience."
"So have I," Lavi snorted. "Okay, it was just a garage band," he added with a shrug at Allen's disbelieving stare.
Rinali Li appeared behind them and plopped down on the floor with the cordless phone to her ear. "Yes nii-san. No, we'll be fine. Seriously! I'll whack them if they don't agree. Yeah. Bye." She sounded exasperated, and the boys didn't wonder why.
"Toldja," Lavi whispered to Allen.
"Nii-san's got news about our tour next month," Rinali said, snapping the extension shut. "We're not the only band on the tour."
"What?" Lavi and Allen looked stricken. "Why?"
"My ex-band, The Noahs, released their last album just a bit after our last and they've also just signed under our D. Gray-Man music label," the Chinese girl explained, "so DG-M decided to make it a label tour."
"Aw man," groaned Lavi. Then he perked up in surprise. "Wait, what? The Noahs was your ex-band?"
Rinali nodded, but her face twitched slightly. "Yeah. I was the ex-bassist. Their vocalist Rhode Camelot didn't take on bass for nothing."
"I haven't heard much about The Noahs," Allen admitted. "Aren't they like, all Gothic and dark and stuff? Is that why you left them?"
"No, they're pretty flexible and I don't mind wearing freaky makeup like Jasdebi do," Rinali smiled. "I left because I felt kind of like the odd one out, though we were all really close. I had some… personal problems with Rhode."
Something in Rinali's tone warned them to shut their traps, so Allen hastily said, "Uh, well, if it's only Black Order and The Noahs, then there isn't much of a problem, why wouldn't we agr—"
"Kanda's on the tour too," Rinali snapped, as if resentful that she shouldn't be the only one having problems with a labelmate.
Allen completely forgot what he intended to say. "WHAT? K-Kanda… Yuu?"
"Of course. It's a label tour," the Chinese girl huffed.
"But he's under Exorcist Records!" Allen sputtered.
"Hello, so're we," Rinali said flatly. "He's our soloist labelmate in both DG-M and Exorcist Records."
"Heeey, cool! I haven't seen Yuu-chan in forever!" Lavi beamed.
"I don't want to see Yuu-chan in forever," Allen retorted darkly. "He acts and talks to me like I'm an annoying kid!"
Rinali smiled pityingly while Lavi snickered. "Kanda doesn't much like you so he finds a way to insult you, and it so happens you've got a rather cutesy kind of look," she said.
"I'm not cutesy!"
"Yeah right. You should hear the fans sometime. 'OMG, there's Allen! Isn't he just the sweetest thing with a guitar? KYAA!' "
"Your imitation of the fangirls always never fails to scare me, Lavi."
Allen scowled, though it came off more as a petulant pout despite his supposedly mature age. "Hmph. I still think Kanda's an asshole."
"Oh, you don't say," the redhead beside him tutted. "Yuu's not an uke."
"A what?"
Rinali looked scandalized. "Lavi! You can't teach him that yet!"
"Yet? Yet? Rinali, the guy's seventeen," Lavi said in disbelief. "He's not seven."
"Yeah! I'm not a kid! C'mon, Rinali!" Allen pleaded.
"I daresay you're not a child anymore, Allen, but—" Rinali began.
"He can handle it, Rinali," Lavi assured her. "Trust me."
Rinali exhaled sharply. "Oh, fine! But mind, Lavi, you're held responsible if anything goes wrong with poor Allen!"
Lavi grinned wickedly. "Aren't I always? Okay, Moya—"
"ALLEN!"
"—shi, here's the deal. There's this amazing thing called yaoi."
"Ya-whoa what?"
"Yaoi. To put it simply, male homosexuality."
"Male homo—WHAT."
"Jeez, stop repeating after me with that 'What?' like some broken-record parrot. Yaoi is male homosexuality. Girls all over the world are in love with it. That's how fanservice comes about."
Allen's eyes widened. "Fanservice? You mean like when you kiss my cheek onstage like some fag?"
"Don't put it so crudely," Lavi shook his head. "Yeah. An uke is the bottom, the girl, the submissive in a gay relationship. A seme is the top, the guy and the dominator."
"Ew. Why are you telling me this?"
"So that you'll loosen up to fanservice better, idiot!" Lavi pinched his cheek in exasperation. "And so that you won't go 'What's that?' again when Rinali and me use the terms."
"Oh." Allen blushed. "Hehe."
Lavi rolled his eyes while Rinali chuckled at the expression on Allen's face. Then the drummer (Lavi) looked at Rinali. "Hey, Rin? Could you like, tell us who the members of The Noahs are? In detail?"
"Fine. The vocalist and bassist is Rhode Camelot. She looks pretty young but she's actually about Tyki's age, and Tyki's the oldest. She always wears Gothic Lolita, it's her trademark. The two guitarists are twins (though they look nothing alike, ahem) who call themselves Jasdebi, but individually the blonde one is Jasdero and the black's Debitto. They're both very into visual kei, and though they're nineteen now they act like ten. I used to have to 'babysit' them when I was in The Noahs. Then there's the drummer, Tyki Mikk. He's the oldest and to put it simply he is extremely gorgeous, but I'll leave you to see him for yourself. He's a chain-smoker and an alcoholic, unfortunately."
Rinali stopped and both boys were staring at her with their mouths open.
"W-whoa," they both said in unison.
"They sound… interesting," Lavi said uncertainly, looking at Allen.
"This tour's going to be interesting," Allen nodded, looking back at him.
"Oh, yeah, I forgot! Remember the D. Gray-Man label lookalike contest?" Rinali said.
They both nodded.
"Well, turns out that there are only two winners because one looks exactly like you, Allen, and the other looks exactly like Kanda. I'm talking identical here, apart from hair colour. The Allen lookalike's Andy, and the Kanda lookalike's Yuukan. They'll be following us on the tour."
"Oh, okay," Allen said, blinking. "Er… just for the record, how old are they?"
"They're eleven, both of them. Nearing twelve soon," Rinali said. She lowered her voice as if somebody else would be listening. "Here's the weird thing, their birthdays are the same and they're both orphans from the same orphanage. Freaky, huh? It's like a weird sort of karma."
"Yeah…linking you and Yuu-chan, Allen!" Lavi smirked.
"Shut up! That doesn't make sense!" Allen snapped.
"Guys, c'mon, don't fight. We'll have to go pack for the tour," Rinali reminded, standing up. The other two did the same and grinned at each other.
"Yosh! Packing time!"
Syaoran: Whaddaya think? Okay? I kind of like how this story might turn out, hii! Oh God, get off me, Jasdero, before I morph into your real twin.
Debitto: No way! Get off her, Jasdero!