"Heads up!"

The sounds of sneakers screeching against the floors and whistles going off filled the gymnasium of Black Order High. Freshman running laps around the spacious room and seniors taking physical tests to the side where they would not be bothered while the juniors faced off with the sophomores in a friendly game of volleyball.

"Allen-kun, watch out!"

Allen looked up just in time to set his hands up and push the ball back to the other side of the net.

"Thanks, Linali-chan" Allen smiled and thanked the girl quietly as she nodded and smiled back.

Being a sophomore meant Allen was sent against the juniors but having friends on the opposite side was always helpful to avoid being injured by clumsy serves from the opposing side. They'd learned just how easy it was to get injured with competitive junior boys taking full force swings in sports when Allen had to walk around with crutches for a month with a broken ankle he received in a game of baseball at the beginning of the year.

'Well at least we're not against the seniors..' Allen sighed to himself, watching as another sophomore by the name Chomesuke ran to quickly pass the ball back right before it hit the ground.

Cheers were exchanged for the girl's quick moves as the other side ran to hit the ball in return and Allen went back to his previous train of thought, looking over to the seniors on the side of the gym doing curl ups and push-ups. He eyed one in particular.

Kanda Yu had to be the most stuck up and most selfish person Allen had ever met, which was saying a bit considering who his father was and some of the friends he brought home. The particular boy was currently waiting his turn to be tested by the teacher, just leaning against the wall with his usual grimace as another senior, Daisya Barry, chatted away while trying to impress everyone with one-handed push-ups, which he wasn't pulling off too well.

Kanda had been one of the first people to approach Allen his first year at the Black Order High. It wasn't to befriend him, it was just to confirm that Allen was indeed a boy, a boy in a girl's uniform. He had sneered and called him a 'gender confused bean sprout'. Allen hadn't appreciated the comment and later swindled Kanda out of his precious soba lunch in a game of poker. Kanda's way of getting him back was through the beginning of the year baseball tournament all P.E students were required to participate in. Him and a few juniors had purposely ganged up on Allen, all hitting the ball right at him with full force swings of their bats.

Allen shivered at the memory and turned his attention back to the game..

"Allen-kun, watch out!!"

Just in time to be hit in the face as he looked up to see the ball coming down right above him.

There was a collective gasp from his team mates as Allen fell to the ground, face red with line indents from the volleyball that had just collided with his face moments ago and was now rolling slowly toward the seniors. The seniors all looked up to stare at the scene as the coach and a few others ran over to help Allen up.

'I can already feel Kanda's smirk..' Allen sighed and winced as the coach helped him to his feet.

"What are we going to do with you, Allen when you keep getting injured" the coach seemed like he was trying not to laugh at the boy's sore, red face. "Go change and go to the nurse"

Allen nodded, rubbing his cheek and slowly walking off the courtyard, careful to pass into the changing rooms after the freshman had ran by to avoid another collision. It was a relief to change out of the P.E uniform though. Allen gave a content sigh as he slipped off the suppressing fabric in the changing room and slipped on his usual pair of undergarments. Sure he didn't get to wear boxers with the uniform skirt but the panties Cross had gotten him were even better than the spandex uniform shorts he was forced to wear every morning to run around in.

Once fully dressed in his uniform, Allen exited the changing room, waving to his friends out on the court as he left the gym. Upon leaving the gym, Allen gave a long stretch, wincing as there was a slight sting from the wind against his sore face and continuing to the main building to go to the nurse. He stopped though when he came up to the double doors to enter the main building, a strange man just standing outside the doors as if examining them and what could be through them. Raising a brow at the strange man, Allen slowly approached.

"Excuse me?" Allen asked as slowly as his steps as he walked up to the man who turned at his call.

"Ah.. Hello" Allen almost felt a blush from the man. He wasn't wearing a uniform so he wasn't a student but he didn't look much older than Allen and the puffs of red hair sticking out from under the green beanie and over his right eye gave a sort of punk teen aura.

"Are you looking for someone?" Allen asked again, slowly rounding the man to get closer to the building's door.

"Well yes but that's not my priority right now.." the man paused, almost as if thinking as his expression went soft for a moment. "I'm actually looking for the library. I was suppose to help a friend out at this school's library but he didn't quite tell me where it was and I thought it'd be strange if I was just walking around inside the halls" he chuckled softly.

Allen smiled and chuckled back. "But you look kinda strange just standing out here anyways."

"I guess that's true.." the red head sighed as he slipped off his beanie and ran a calloused hand through unruly red locks.

Allen seemed stunned for a moment. He hadn't seen hair like that in so many years. The face of the last person he'd known with hair like that almost seemed like a blur in his mind. His brother.. And first friend..

"Lavi.." Allen whispered to himself quietly, brows furrowing at the thought of the long departed sibling.

The stranger's ears seemed to perk at the name but he simply looked down, slipping the beanie back over his head and even pulling the hood of his hoodie up over the beanie.

"So.. library?" he repeated and Allen seemed to snap back to reality.

"Ah yes.. It's on the way to the nurse, I'll see you there" the boy said with his usual good nature, opening the buildings door and holding it for the stranger to enter then entering himself.

It was a silent walk down the strangely complex and long halls of the school until the two came upon a larger set of double doors with a sign above them reading "Library".

"Here we are" Allen smiled, though somewhat reluctant to look at the man with his striking resemblance to Allen's lost dear one.

The stranger looked up and grinned at the doors, obviously happy to have found the library at long last and nodded.

"Thanks a bunch.. Allen" he smiled and ruffled Allen's snow white hair, opening the library doors and entering the room without another word, leaving a stunned and flushed Allen behind.

His hand through Allen's hair had felt..

'Tingly..' Allen thought with a soft smiled as he looked down at the ground with a goofy grin and ran off to his original destination of the nurses' office.

"For a kid who's suppose to be injured, you sure seem happy" the nurse mused as Allen walked into her office, having already had a call from the P.E coach about Allen's unfortunate run in with a spiked volleyball.

"Ah yeah" Allen chuckled nervously as he rubbed the back of his head, following protocol and sitting down on one of the many beds provided in the nursing office while the nurse came up to him with an ice pack.

"It almost seems as though you've met a nice girl" She giggled, which wasn't the best look for her considering she was a 65 year old woman, and gently placed the ice pack on Allen's forehead. "Which almost seems strange with how you dress" she added with a small smirk as Allen's face scrunched in response.

"I guess you could say I met someone.. I didn't catch their name though.." Allen's feelings showed on his features and it was obvious he was upset. "Infact, I didn't even introduce myself.."

"Thanks a bunch.. Allen"

"So how.." Allen almost dropped the ice pack as confused over swept him. How did the other know his name?

.:Library:.

There was only the sound of a loud sigh to echo through out the entire area of books and shelves as a certain red head had settled between a stack of historical novels and literature textbooks.

'What the hell did they dress you in, Allen?' he thought with another flustered sigh.