Aha! and it is a series! of two parts so far! can Saya keep it up? Lets hope, let's pray, let's thank the heavens! Let's see if Saya can slip random french in here without seeming stupid! Just kidding, that's the language class she just started, she's hoping to become fluent someday...

Oh, and because this was a question Saya was asked and figured many would have, Kanda and Lavi are around 12-13 in this fic.

Saya owns the play but not the actors, they belong to Hoshino-ka.

Rated K-ish...because nothing so horrid has happened at this point.

2. Interesting

Kanda Yuu was on a mission. That mission was to avoid a certain eye-patch-wearing redhead at all costs until he had Mugen safely back in his hands.

Yes, Kanda was being taking extra precautions when it came to Lavi, fear didn't come easy to the boy, but confusion did. And confusion helped the fear along. Kanda was very shaken by the fact that his first kiss, yes, his very first, had been stolen from him, and by another boy no less! Kanda thought back to his family in Japan; his sweet little sister who nearly idolized him, his slacker of an older brother who was too laid back, and most importantly his extremely conservative parents; what on earth would they think if they knew that their youngest prodigy of a son had let that happen?

So, to ensure that incident was not repeated, he refused to let himself fall into the redhead's sights until he had Mugen. He hadn't had the sword for long, but it was something that by just holding it made him feel more powerful, and it reassured him. Besides, if he had that with him, he could simply kill Lavi the next time the younger boy tried something. Now is Kanda over-reacting? Just a bit, yes. Does he care? No, not at all.

Finally, he was told by Lenalee that her brother had finished doing whatever it was he was doing to Mugen and that Kanda could pick it up anytime. Kanda was ecstatic, though he didn't show it at all. He was so happy though that he forgot to check for the red-haired menace. His mistake.

"YUU-CHAN!" his own name assaulted his ears as Lavi glomped him from behind, his arms around Kanda's upper arms, his head resting on Kanda's shoulder. Kanda let out a slur of swears under his breath, too ugly to be said with such a pretty face.

"You've been avoiding me all day since yesterday ya' know..." The bunny-boy whispered, his voice didn't hold it's hyper-happy tone, but instead a mischievous one, with a hint of not-so-dangerous danger. Kanda froze; Lavi was not gonna do anything to him here, in the crowded hallway, right? He wouldn't, would he? It had only taken Kanda once day to establish that he was not someone to be messed with, but Lavi was his one foil, and if he kept it up, who knows what type of annoying idiots would bother him in the future?

"That's not nice Yuu..." Lavi continued, turning to face Kanda ever so slightly; once again they were too close for Kanda's comfort, he was highly aware of how he could almost feel Lavi's lips moving against his cheek, how his breath hit his skin. Kanda's posture was stiff, and he glared forward as he addressed the red-head.

"I don't care about being nice. Now get off me and for Kami's sake stop using my first name like you have some kind of right to." Lavi did as told, but he didn't leave Kanda alone. Instead he chose to fall into step besides him, his happy-go-lucky persona reestablished.

"So how ya likin' things around here Yuu-chan? It's really boring, ne?" Lavi asked, and Kanda mentally groaned; he just couldn't get rid of the kid once he was found. Finally they reached what Kanda remembered to be the mad scientist's office, and Kanda's eyes gained a rather evilly happy gleam, finally he'd have his means of beheading idiots back! Specifically the idiot following him around.

Kanda stormed into the office, Lavi still talking insistently to him.

"I want my sword back and I want it now," Kanda demanded, with a glare that said "object and you die, say anything irrelevant to Mugen and you die. Comment on Lavi following me and you die." Komui didn't test the young teen's patience. Well, maybe he did, but he did so in an indirect way that basically looped Kanda out of things, so he wouldn't have any solid reason to kill the insane one. Handing Mugen to Kanda, Komui looked over to Lavi.

"So why are you following Kanda?" He asked, Kanda huffed, but listened for an answer as well; he had a right to know why he was being stalked, right?

"Because Yuu-chan's interesting," He stated simply, once again throwing his arms around the older boy's shoulders. Kanda smirked as he swiftly brought Mugen to Lavi's neck.

"Get off now, or you will be dispatched to the neither world by my blade." It felt good to threaten Lavi. Lavi let go, putting his hands up in a gesture of peace as he backed away. His cheery smile didn't fade at all though; Kanda decided that if he ever wanted to feel sane around the red-head than he'd have to wipe that damned smile off his face.

Kanda sheathed Mugen, tch-ed, then went on his not-so-merry way. Lavi followed. Kanda whipped his head around to look at his tag-along over his shoulder, his glare at full-power. This annoyed Kanda even more; he'd never had to use his glare's maximum power before, usually a glower was all that was necessary. But Lavi was bending all the rules of Kanda, and refused to be effected by anything that wasn't positively life-threatening.

"Why won't you just leave me alone!? I've only been here two days, in that short amount of time, I can't imagine I did anything that would make me seem so horribly interesting to you! Do you not have some responsibility or other to be attending to? Or are you just following me to avoid working?"

Lavi thought Kanda's words over for a minute; it was all true, in a way. All Kanda had done since he got here was train, eat, and sleep, and as enjoyable as it was to watch the pretty boy work up a sweat, it didn't take long before he had the image perfectly memorized, and therefore, the need to actually watch the older boy was lessened. And Lavi did indeed have important business to go about doing, he had yet to write his oh-so-important logs for the past two days, he had a load of reading and memorizing to do, and Bookman was bound to give him a flying kick to hell when he actually found Lavi. Lavi was most definitely avoiding work. And an angry Panda-jiji.

"Hm... you're correct on all points. But still... you are a very, very, interesting person in your own right. You're rather complex, and it's in my nature to want to figure things out. Besides, I told you yesterday..." Lavi paused, giving Kanda a sly look; boy it was fun to tease the new kid. "I like cute things."

Kanda snarled in response. For one, he didn't like the fact that Lavi was being around him for the soul purpose of dissecting and inspecting his mind; he didn't like how the boy seemed to want to expose his real self for no other reason than to do so. Also, Kanda most definitely didn't like being referred to as a "Thing". He was a human being, and an exorcist, he should be referred to as such! Lavi really needed to drop the "cute" bit too, because Kanda was not cute!

"Well I am not a "Thing", so if you like cute things I would suggest a teddy bear for you instead."

"Awe you wanna be my teddy Yuu-chan? Thou I prefer rabbits..."

Kanda scoffed, this guy was truly an idiot! Rolling his eyes, he turned away from the baka usagi, to continue on his way to his room.

"Awe, do ya have to get so mad? Geez, you're so sensitive, you're like a girl. Really, are you sure you're not...I'd be glad to check..."

Kanda was once again ready to kill Lavi, Kanda was not sensitive, and he was NOT girly. So, to quell his fury, he stalked back over to Lavi, punch his gut, then continued to storm off to his room.

For fuck's sake what is with that guy!? I swear never in all my life has anyone been so damned persistent in annoying me! Everywhere I go he's talking in my ear, hugging me, getting too close to me in general! I don't care if he's bored, happy, or dead, he just needs to leave me alone! That dumb bastard, always saying and doing indecent things...

Yes, after only two days, Kanda had already labeled Lavi as annoying, indecent, persistent, and dangerous in his own way. Kanda really needed to think of something that would get Lavi to lay off him.

000

Lavi watched the young Japanese walk down the hall in his swishy manner, and sighed. He wasn't being very fair to the poor kid, and he knew it. Kanda was simply just trying to keep to himself, and Lavi was making that as difficult as possible. Really, the only thing that had caught Lavi's interest the other day was how beautiful the boy was, but was that really enough to warrant his behavior? No, and it most definitely wouldn't be enough to explain why he'd kissed Kanda either. It had been a while before he realized that the conservative child was probably very shaken by being kissed by another boy.

Still, Lavi couldn't help himself, he was bored and Kanda was such a fun person to annoy. He wondered just how long this new boy could hold his interest, how long it would be before Lavi had discovered everything and then moved on when the air of mystery was stripped away.

hm... though he seems like a tough case, I get the feeling that if I find out something really important, then the rest will come out easily... I'll give him six months at best. If he still seems interesting to me then... well then maybe by then he'll be more than just my source of entertainment...

Lavi couldn't help but scoff at the idea as he walked down the halls to his own room, there was no way any human could still be interesting to him after just half a year, there was nothing he hadn't seen before. Besides, he was a Bookman, who could inspire anything more than schadenfreude in him?

No one, surely. Besides, there was no guarantee that Lavi would be around long after the six months were up, or if he'd even be here six months at all. Bookman had warned him that this log would be different from the other's Lavi had done though, and told him that they would be staying here much longer, so Lavi was simply assuming he would have plenty of time to go about his games.

And what fun he would have playing them.

So that word count for this one is a bit shorter than the first, but that's only to be expected, after all, the original was intended to be able to stand as a one-shot if Saya couldn't think of anything for it... so here's the LaviYuu that you all are so supportive of! Thank you for encouraging Saya to continue!