I finally updated!
I know I skipped over a lot, so just bear with me. It's a little rushed again, but it turned out better than I thought. :D
Disclaimer: I do not own -man.
Oh, also, the part with the Head Nurse- I don't know whether she actually has an accent or not, but I decided she did. I don't watch the anime version much, so..
Chapter 4
Allen sighed as he waited in the room, running his fingers over the dusty grand piano. Kanda was supposed to meet him here after classes to start on the assignment, but he was late.
Late, as in an hour late.
He blew some of the dust off the piano, coughing as it billowed up into his face.
Creeaaak.
"Beansprout?"
Allen almost jumped three feet in the air. "Kanda?"
The Japanese teen huffed in reply. "Of course."
Allen smiled weakly. "Right. What do we do?"
"Hmph." Kanda walked over, setting down a black folder on the side. "Have you composed any songs other than that one you made for the entrance exams?"
"Er..Yeah." The white-haired teen flipped through his own folder, searching for a score. He pulled it out. "Yeah, this one."
"Play it," Kanda said.
Allen brought his hands up to the keys, taking off the red cover on the white and black keys and folding it neatly. He placed that on the side and set up his music. Then he began to play.
It was a hauntingly cheerful, clownish, cold, calculating, but it was warm, in a strange way. Kanda felt himself shiver a little bit.
"Crown Clown.." Allen murmured after playing a bit. "It's the name of the piece."
Kanda felt a little disappointed when he didn't finish. "Can I see the score?"
Allen nodded and gave it to Kanda. The long-haired teen scanned it, and he took out his own musical score, comparing both.
"Do you think this will work?" he asked. "Sangenshiki..and Crown Clown.."
Allen laughed bitterly. "The great Kanda Yuu, musical prodigy, is asking me?"
"Che," Kanda hissed, rolling his eyes. "You're not too bad of a pianist yourself." There, he had just managed to admit it.
The white-haired teen looked at him with doubt in his eyes. "Thanks," he said sarcastically.
"Damn it, beansprout, I wasn't kidding," Kanda said.
"Thanks," Allen repeated, still a little doubtful. "Yeah, I think these will work. If you finish it to match the rest with Crown Clown, it'll definitely go together really well."
"You think, beansprout?"
"It's A-L-L-E-N. Yes, I think it will. Also, I think you should change this note to this one."
Kanda nodded absentmindedly.
"We'll meet here later! Maybe Wednesday?"
"No, Thursday."
"Alright, Thursday, back here, at the same time."
"Mm'kay." Kanda stood up to leave, but before he did, he glanced back at the beansprout. "Hey, beansprout."
"Eh?" Allen looked at him, his eyes wide.
"I wasn't kidding when I said you weren't too bad of a pianist, beansprout," he said, walking out the door.
Once he was sure Kanda left, Allen smiled to himself and pressed his gloved fingers to his lips. "He's like Mana.."
Mana, I miss you so much..
--
As Kanda bent down to insert the key into the hole, the door flew open, and his face met with Lavi's knee.
"The hell, rabbit-"
"Oh, I'm sorry, Yuu! I thought there was like some burglar-dude or something picking the lock, and then so I-"
"Forget it." Kanda tenderly touched his broken nose. He threw down his stuff on his desk, and he walked out. "I'm going to see Head Nurse."
"I said I was sorry!"
"Shut up, rabbit, your annoying voice makes it worse!"
"Sorry!"
"Shut up!"
--
Kanda stumbled into the nurse's office.
"Oh, Kanda, you have a broken nose!" The statement would've ticked him off with its sickly sweetness, but when the Head Nurse said it with that look on her face…
She pushed him down roughly into a chair without any explanation whatsoever, and she expertly fetched a wet towel, cleaning away the blood with unnecessary force.
"Ow, damn it, you're not making it any better!"
"I am merely cleaning all the blood away. It is making it any better," the Head Nurse replied with a thick accent that suggested English was not her mother tongue. Then she glowered at Kanda.
"Kanda?" Allen's tinny little voice wheedled into his ear from the other chair.
"Beansprout?" Kanda turned his head, but the nurse smacked his broken nose and he turned back around, glaring at her. "What happened to you now?"
"Simply put, I fell off a bridge on the way back from practice and then Lenalee found me."
"You fell off a bridge?"
"I was looking at the fish, okay?!" Allen's pale face was now red like a tomato.
"Pathetic excuse." He was met with a bashing with Lenalee's clipboard, and he looked up to see Lenalee's face, looking very angry.
"Kanda, don't be so mean to Allen; he's your friend." Kanda was tempted to say that Allen wasn't his friend at all, but the clipboard flashed dangerously in his eyes.
"Right," he choked out, obviously strained. "My friend." The Head Nurse finished applying some bandages, and she gave his nose a swift hit. "Itai!"
"There, it'll be fine. Now leave, leave, all you leave." She ushered Allen, Lenalee, and Kanda out of the office, specially whacking Kanda on the back. "You, especially, bad patient. You do not sit still." She jabbed a finger at his face. "You behave next time."
The Japanese teen scowled.
No matter what happened, he was never going to the Head Nurse again.
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The students entered the classroom and sat down at the desks.
"Welcome, children!" exclaimed Tiedoll. "Now, tell me what you learned!"
An over-enthusiastic Chaoji's hand shot up first. "Pick me, pick me!"
"Chao-kun!" Tiedoll smiled warmly.
"I learned that Kanda-sempai is amazing, and I learned that in order to succeed in life, I must follow in the steps of Kanda-sempai!" Chaoji replied excitedly, his eyes sparkling. He looked over at Kanda with those sparkling eyes, and Kanda sunk a little lower in his seat. The students snickered.
"Is no else going to volunteer?" The old man peered at all of the students, and he picked Daisya. "Dai-kun, what did you learn?"
"I learned that soccer balls can break windows, which leads to Cross," Daisya mumbled, sporting a black eye.
"Yuu-kun, my dearest son?"
"I learned that," Kanda started, making sure to give Tiedoll his best glare, "a beansprout seems to appear wherever I go." To get his point across, he glanced at Allen.
Allen's hand shot up. "Yes, Allen?"
"I learned that a certain Bakanda has speech problems and can't pronounce my name right," Allen said.
Lavi raised his hand after. "Yes, Lavi?"
"I learned..that Kanda's nose is really, really, really hard," the redhead whimpered pitifully. And he lifted up his pant leg to reveal a bandaged knee.
Lenalee decided to raise her hand. "I learned that Allen, Lavi, and Kanda are all best friends!" she exclaimed happily, her violet eyes full of innocence and a beautiful smile plastered on her flawless face.
You have got to be kidding me..Lenalee, of all people? I thought she was the only normal one!
They all gawked at her.
Tiedoll clapped. "Ah, what a wonderful observation, Ms. Lee! I agree with you 100%!" Then there was a thud.
Allen had fallen out of his chair due to overreaction.
Road kneeled beside him. "Allen, you're so funny!" She giggled and blew him a raspberry while tweaking his nose, and she got up and skipped away.
Kanda felt a very strong urge to strangle her.
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