A/N: So, second chapter's up! Yay!

Thanks to AmazinglyUntalented, Ms. Lightfairyprincess, Kaytlyn Hue, seaturtlesrox, and Chocolate and caramel for reviewing!

Okay, I know I said Lenalee and Diane were Juniors in the last chapter, but I'm now changing them to sophomores. Sorry about that.

Disclaimer: I do not own and D. Gray-man characters in this fic, only Diane.

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Tuesday, September 2: Second Day of School

At 7:30 the next morning, Lenalee, Diane, and Allen found themselves sitting together in chemistry class. Although Diane and Lenalee were a year older than Allen, he was taking several advanced classes, and had wound up in their science class.

A tired looking Australian man walked into the classroom with a cup of coffe in hand. "Good morning everyone, I'm Reever Wenham, and I'll be your chemistry teacher this year."

"Someone could use a good night's sleep," Diane muttered. Lenalee giggled.

"Okay, let me take attendance. Matthew A—"

"Excuse me, Mr. Wenham." A short, blond-haired man wearing a black beret poked his head into the classroom. "Can I talk to Ms. Diane Elkridge for a moment?"

"Sure thing, Vice Principal Bak."

The vice principal turned to Diane and said, " I'm sorry to disturb you, but your brother Kanda got into a fight this morning, severely injuring a fellow student. Now he's nowhere to be found. Do you have any idea where he might have gone?"

Diane sighed, standing up. "Well, I suppose you want me to go talk to him."

As Diane walked out of the classroom, Allen turned to Lenalee.

"She and Kanda are brother and sister?" he asked incredulously. "But I thought Kanda was Japanese, and Diane was Chinese." He didn't add that he had thought Diane kind of had a crush on Kanda.

Lenalee laughed. "Oh, they're not really related. They're both adopted, by this man named Tiedoll who has like four foster children."

"So they live together?" Allen shuddered at the though of anyone trying to live with Kanda.

"Well, they used, along with two other boys, Tiedoll's other foster children, Daisya and Marie. They both live alone now, though, since they're both overage. And when Kanda turned eighteen, he moved out of Tiedoll's house, because he hates Tiedoll's guts. But Tiedoll's a really rich businessman, so he travels all the time and isn't home a lot. So most of the time Diane has he place to herself. "

"Um, that's very…interesting."

"Yep. Diane and Kanda have know each other forever, which is why they argue so much."

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Diane walked up the stairs on the third floor that led to the roof, which was Kanda's usual spot for avoiding school administrators. She crawled up through the dusty trapdoor and found Kanda, sitting down with his back against one of the brick chimneys on the roof.

She sat down next to him. "In trouble already, Kanda?"

"Che. The idiot was asking for it."

"How badly did you hurt the poor kid?"

He shrugged. "Dunno. Broken arm, maybe a few ribs. Nothing major."

"And what'd he do to you? Accidentally bump into you while walking down the hallway?"

"Shut up. He called my hair girly."

Diane laughed. "Well, Bak Chan is looking for you. Probably wants to give you a suspension or something."

"Stupid Bak Chan can kiss my ass."

"Well, I'll be sure to tell him that." She stood up. "In the meantime, I'm going back to class. I don't see how you can miss half your classes but still get straight A's."

"Seems like I'm just smarter than you are."

"Oh, shut up."

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"So, I hear Yuu beat up another kid today?" Lavi asked at lunch.

"Yep." Diane rolled her eyes. "He's still on the roof, hiding from Bak Chan. Apparently if he gets one too many suspensions this year, he won't be allowed to graduate."

"And he does this a lot?" Allen asked doubtfully.

Lavi grinned. "Yep. Whenever Yuu gets in trouble, if he avoids the school adminstrators for a day or two Bak Chan is so absentminded he'll forget to punish him next time he does see him."

Diane snorted. "Bak Chan is such an idiot."

"Say, Allen," Lavi said, "how'd you like to hang out with us at Lenalee's place after school today?"

Allen blinked. "Me? Really? Why, I'd love to." He smiled.

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After school, Lavi, Diane, Lenalee and Allen found Kanda at his car.

"Hey, Yuu!" Lavi called out brightlly.

"Don't call me that, idiot. And what's the brat doing here?"

"We invited him to hang out with us after school today," Lenalee told him.

"Che."

"I think that means 'fine.'" Lenalee whispered to Allen.

They heard a sudden bark, and a big black dog came running across the parking lot.

"Hey Shadow," Diane said, laughing as he licked her face.

"He waits for you outside school every day?" Allen asked.

"Yep."

Allen sighed. "You're so lucky. I had to leave my dog back in Britain when I moved."

"Aw, I'm sorry. You must miss him a lot."

"Yeah, I do."

"If you two girls are done talking, we need to get going." Kanda snapped.

"Ignore him," Diane whispered to Allen. "He's probably just PMSing."

"Shut up!"

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Saturday, September 6

Kanda groaned as the phone rang at eight Saturday morning.

"What?" he snapped into the receiver.

"Hey Yuu!" Lavi chirped, way too cheerfully.

"What the hell do you want, loser?"

"You wanna come to the movies with me Lenalee and Allen this afternoon?"

"No."

"Aw, come on. Why not?"

"I told Diane I'd pick her up from her job this afternoon."

"Ooh, like for a date?"

"No, you idiot! I'm giving her a ride home from the animal shelfter where she works!"

"Geez, calm down, Yuu. I was just joking. Hey, why don't you pick us all up and bring us to the movie theater?"

"No."

"Please?"

"Leave me alone!"

"Pretty pretty please?"

"Che. Fine, just shut up and leave me alone already!"

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That afternoon, an extremely irritated Kanda found himself driving towards the town animal shelter with Lavi, Lenalee, and Allen in tow. Stopping the car in front of the building, Kanda honked the horn several times.

"Coming!" a voice called, and Diane ran out of the shelter.

"Hey guys!" she said, leaning over the driver's side door.

"Um, Diane…" Lavi started, "there's a cat on you."

"What? Oh, him?" The tiny black kitten whose cage Diane had been cleaning was still sitting on her shoulder. "Oops, I guess I forgot to put him back in his cage."

The kitten jumped into Kanda's lap.

"Get this thing off of me!" Kanda growled.

"Aww, that is soo cute! He likes you!" Diane squealed.

"Cat doesn't have very good taste," Allen grumbled.

The kitten purred, rubbing his head against Kanda's chest. Then it proceeded to climb up his arm, hooking its tiny claws into his shirt.

"Diane! Get this stupid animal off me!"

Diane sighed, gently picking up the kitten and unhooking its claws from Kanda's shirt. "He is not a stupid animal. This kitten was abandoned outside last week, and was dying when we found him. I nursed him back to health myself."

As Diane walked back into the shelter, Lavi said, "Yuu, you should totally adopt that kitty! You know Diane would be really happy if you did."

"Che."

Wednesday, September 10

The rest of the weekend, Lavi called Kanda constantly, bugging him about adopting the kitten, until Kanda finally gave in out of sheer annoyance.

On Wednesday, Lavi persuaded Diane to go home with Kanda after school to his one-bedroom apartment, saying that there was a 'surprise' for her. Diane didn't know what that meant, and knowing Lavi, wasn't sure she wanted to know.

When Diane walked through the door, a tiny black ball of fur pounced on her.

"Oh my God, I can't believe you adopted him, Kanda! You do have a heart, after all!"

"Che. It was all that idiot Lavi's fault."

Diane ignored this. "Well, you named him, right? What's his name?"

"Mugen."

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A/N: Did you like it? Hehe...I made Mugen a cat! LOL I think that's a really cute image...Kanda with a little kitten named Mugen.=]

I have no idea for what to write next. Someone give me a suggestion?

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