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As rules went for anyone who was underage, no one below eighteen was allowed to live alone without supervision. And Allen fit the description down to a T, since he was only fifteen years old. But instead of being carted out to a facility that took care of children with similar cases, the school Principal, Komui Lee had volunteered to take Allen under his care and allowed him to stay in one of the school dorms' spare rooms.
Komui was kind. But everyone knew, that Komui was also very protective of his sister. That topic had been solved the minute his "precious little sister" had stepped into the halls of the academy. There was nothing more to add to that.
Allen's move had been scheduled about a week after Komui's suggestion. And yes, the students didn't have to wait for things to start steering around the place.
BEANSPROUT GARDEN
It was during a rainy Friday night that Allen had been scheduled to move into his new residence on the fourth floor of the school dorms. Some of the students who lived outside school saw him come out of a cab with two large duffel bags and a suitcase. He immediately ran for the entrance before anyone could offer him some help. And as a result, he was soaked by the time he finally got out of the rain.
The students that stayed in the dorms were all rather busy to have paid much attention to the teen. But when Allen stopped one of the students, Toma to ask for directions, the man readily helped the younger teen.
It was during this very day that the whole school found out about Allen having no sense of direction.
At all.
Toma had of course directed Allen exactly where he was supposed to go. But as it went, the students found out that Allen had first ended up on the opposite end of his supposed room on an entirely different floor.
Truthfully, the Black Order Academy dormers weren't so surprised. The dorms were rather confusing since all the hallways were the same shade of brown like wood, and the halls symmetrical almost to a fault. Not to mention the rooms had their own set of 1 to 100 for each floor, and at the time Allen had gotten lost, mostly everyone had gone to take their dinner.
It was only thanks to a few students who had decided to take their early dinner that the rest of the school was able to get such juicy updates of the life and times of 'The Samurai and His Beansprout". It was too much to ask for the students and - secretly, the staff to not snoop around when it came to the two.
Watching Kanda Yu, school heartthrob and the most antisocial student in the school, interacting with Allen Walker, the charming little gentleman as they had soon discovered, was like watching a cheesy romance novel come to life.
Only better.
This part of their story as was told, started with one simple sneeze coming from the end of the hallway to the right.
And another.
And another.
And another, and another.
"Stop sneezing beansprout. It's annoying", came Kandas irritated tone of voice.
"My name is Allen. Stop calling me that", Allen retorted without much fight and sniffed a few times before another sneeze escaped the younger teen.
It was about at this time the the curious students decided to slowly inch towards the corner and take a little peek.
It was just in time too, to see the older teen roll his eyes and fish out a hanky and start to fiddle with it. The spying students peeked a little more to see that Allens nose was running, but the younger of the two didn't seem to care that it was. Allen was also looking at Kanda like he was up to something stupid again.
Allen was right of course.
And said spying students were barely able to keep their mouths shut and their voices from breaking out, when they realized Kanda had been twirling two sides of the handkerchief to insert into Allen's nose.
Which Allen didn't even bother to stop. The white haired teen just looked at the smirking older boy with a deadpan expression.
"You...are an idiot." Allen said just as blandly. They saw Kandas expression turn upsidedown, and his previous smirk turnedinto an expression similar to Allen.
A moment later, they heard the unmistakable sound of a growling stomach, followed by a sudden uneasy feeling in the air.
Allen sighed and mumbled "I'm hungry...", which was answered answered by no words, but a "Tch", and a deadly aura replacing the earlier feeling in the air.
This was about the time the eavesdropping students decided to bolt and run in the opposite direction for fear of hurting themselves by holding their laughter for so long.
Figures Allen would choose food over a possible fight between them. What's more, it seemed to have pissed a certain dark haired someone off quite a bit.
This part of the rumor had spread quickly enough around the school, and it was soon followed by word of some of the students that had eaten their dinners later than normal, about seeing Allen happily eating in the cafeteria just about the same time.
No Kanda was in sight. But a lot of the students who encountered Kanda later that day saw him in quite the testy mood.
And for the next few days, Allen had been arriving in the cafeteria later than his usual time, even in class. Kanda's mood had been getting dangerously volatile by the day.
Though surprisingly, there were less fights happening between the two.
It turns out, Allen had been constantly getting lost around the hallways of the dorm, and it wasn't until he stumbled upon other dormers that he was able to get out.
This went on for a bit longer. Or at least until one Kanda Yu decided to snap.
The students already came to the conclussion, that Kanda had a really weird sense of humor, and they had borne witness that. But they never would've believed that Kanda. The Kanda Yu, would ever come to do something so absurd, and so highly amusing, until that one morning.
"...What the hell?" Allen said that same morning the moment he came out of his room.
Well someone wasn't amused.
The wall directly in front of him had been posted with words that were unmistakably written in Kanda's elegant hand writing, saying absolutely typical Kanda written words.
Idiot glutton Beansprout. Your stupid food is to the left.
The student saw how Allen's frame slightly trembled, before the teen looked to his right.
Not this way. What, are you retarded too? Your left bean.
It was all random student could do to not burst out laughing at the thoroughly irritated expression said Beansprout had on his face before said teen grumpily followed the signs with dark clouds hovering over him.
Despite that. The student didn't miss the words when Allen had lightly muttered under his breath.
"Idiot. You could have at least included the way to class."
Things turned back to normal a day or two after that. No student dared to take the papers down. The thought of it was suicidal in itself.
Now, the male population of the school snickered whenever they caught Allen reading anyone of the posts, while the female population cooed and giggled under their breaths. Allen would only give them a confused look.
The fight, insults, and verbal wars returned. Oh did they return.
Not to mention Kanda was finally back to his usual less grumpy self.
A group of gossiping girls had concluded that Kanda had done it to get a certain someones attention to return to him.
"Naw..." Lavi suddenly butted in and slung his hands over two of the ladies.
"That's saying things lightly. Kanda was jealous over food. But since plants need nutrients to live, his literally guiding this one in the right direction." Lavi finished, waved and left.
What the group of girls and soon the whole school thought?
What an absolutely brilliant way of putting it.
Authors Note: Everyone, I thank you all so much for the very warm reception! Thank you all for reviewing, for adding this to your favorites list, and for adding this to your alerts. I hope I didn't disappoint anyone with this new chapter.
And yes, Kanda was jealous that Allen preferred his stomach (and food) over fighting with him. XD
I'm going to rename the story to just plain "Beansprout Garden" now. Oh, and I'll re-post chapter one. I've edited it a bit and corrected the wrong grammar and spelling mistakes I saw. And this chapter is not beta-ed.
On side note, I've updated my profile and you can see bits of information about this fic over there.
See you guys in the next chapter!
