HELLO MY PRECIOUS READERS!
chapter 4 is here! It is hopefully as long as I think it is and I'm not just imagining things!
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dear patatachip,
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ok...story time children gather 'round...
Chapter 4: Day 2/ The Caf and the yard
(one night)
"Aaaaaaahhhhhh!" Allen screamed as a loud ringing woke him from his sleep, he bolted to sit upright, his hair brushing against the ceiling as his head missed it by mere centimeters.
He heard a small, ^che^, and looked to his right to see Kanda watching him with an amused smirk and a raised eyebrow.
"That's what you get for sleeping until the bell, get dressed Moyashi and we can go get some breakfast."
Allen stared at Kanda for a minute before the elders words registered in his still sleep-hazed mind.
"Oh! Um...thank you" He said quietly before he began to change out of the previous days uniform that he was using as pajamas. He threw on the new uniform had been left on his bed the day before during his talk with the Warden.
Kanda was waiting impatiently for the white haired boy to change, sighing deeply he leaned against the wall opposite their beds, and he could feel the coolness of the concrete through the back of his thin shirt, his hair tied in its ponytail reached his lower back but it wasn't helping against the deep cold of the wall, and it was giving him goosebumps as he stared at the floor to give Allen some privacy.
'So I'm stuck baby sitting the Moyashi? Damn bean spout, I'm going to have to watch him, I don't want blood all over the cell.' Again he felt a spark of anger at the thought of someone hurting Allen, but he pushed the feeling away to ponder later as a pair of black sneakers jumped into his line of sight.
His eyes followed the legs that were attached to the shoes, up to what he imagined was a slim, lengthy frame, hidden under a baggy uniform. He took note of the slim neckline that peaked out from under the boys uniform before reaching his face, his cheeks were red with embarrassment.
Allen was inwardly trembling under Kanda's gaze, he could feel the other mans intense eyes as they traveled up his body, and his cheeks were burning. He was intimidated by the mans emotionless gaze, he barley knew this man and he hated to admit it but he found the feeling of Kanda's eyes on his body arousing, it was making him blush in embarrassment.
Kanda unconsciously licked his lips and began to exit the cell, "let's go Moyashi."
Allen's eyes widened slightly when Kanda licked his lips, 'I hope he's not a cannibal...' He thought following Kanda down the hall.
As they walked Allen could feel an ache deep in his bones from having to sleep on the thin, lumpy mattress for the first time.
He rubbed a kink in his shoulder as they descended the spiral stairs, following behind Kanda as they reached the bottom and turned right. They past another set of spiral stairs before Kanda went to open the single door on the right wall. He stopped, hand grasping the doors metal bar, and looked towards the next few staircases.
"See that last staircase? Don't go up there, it's where they keep the really dangerous inmates."
Kanda glimpsed back at Allen to make sure he was listening, and he could see Allen giving the stairs a worried look.
"Don't worry Moyashi, they don't get to leave their cells often, but don't do anything to stupid or you'll be locked in one of the spare cells for a few days."
Kanda continued through the door and he didn't need to look back to know Allen was watching him thoughtfully as he followed him into the cafeteria.
"And do you know this by experience?" Allen asked as he examined the room, again the walls and ceiling were gray cement, the room itself was a large L shape, and long lines of stainless steel tables where placed to make paths from the entrance to the serving counter.
Kanda sighed at the memory, "Unfortunately yes."
Allen was quiet, waiting to see if Kanda would explain, but they were both silent as they headed towards the serving counter.
They got into line and waited a few minutes before they came to the counter.
"Follow my lead," Kanda told Allen, "there's a few things you should watch out for..."
Kanda grabbed two trays handing one to Allen before turning towards the questionable foods.
"Ok...you want to get all the basic food groups so bread is always safe when it's by itself or if you watch or put on the added condiments," Kanda grabbed a piece of plain toast off the rack, Allen following his movement, while trying to ignore the looks of interest from the prisoners working as kitchen staff.
"Never eat the eggs..." Kanda pointed to the yellowish-green colored lumps sitting untouched in a steel container, "sausages are ok as long as you check them out, if their under cooked or seem funny in any way, don't risk it..."
They came up to drinks and fruit, and Allen was reaching for a bowl of mixed fruits when Kanda quickly slapped his hand away.
"Ow!"
"Fruit is safe, fruit SALAD is not." He replied simply to Allen's 'ow!', putting emphasis on the word salad.
Allen simply nodded and they both reached towards a banana that sat on the table.
"Oh! Sorry.." Allen apologized as they realized they were reaching for the same thing.
"No, you can have it Moyashi." Kanda said reaching for an apple and swiftly moving on so Allen couldn't argue.
He heard a quiet, "thank you" from behind him and he smirked to himself.
"Kanda! What's up man?!" A voice came from behind the serving counter and Allen looked up to see a tall, tan man wearing sleek black sun glasses and dressed in a sleeveless chefs overall, his black hair neatly braided and tied up. He smiled as Kanda rolled his eyes at him before turning to Allen.
"Who's the raw steak?" The man asked gesturing to Allen with nod of his head.
"Raw steak?" Allen questioned. Kanda just sighed.
"Don't question him Moyashi. Jeryy, this is Allen, he's my new cell mate."
"Ahhahaha! Nice to me you! You are a lucky, lucky boy! But, Kanda, what's this Moyashi business?" The man, Jeryy, said raising an eyebrow and giving a slight smirk after switching from Allen to Kanda.
"Giving out nicknames now, are we?" Jeryy say as he restocked some yogurt containers onto a nearby shelf and Kanda shrugged his shoulders and giving Jeryy a small glare in response.
'Lucky?' Allen thought ignoring them, 'how am I lucky?'
Allen contemplated asking but was barley given the chance as Jeryy looked down at their trays.
"Kanda! You better not be teaching him to skip his proteins! I'll be right back!"
With almost superhuman speed Jeryy rushed into the kitchen and returned with two fresh breakfast sausages.
"There you go! Now eat up! It's my teams shift for dinner tonight!"
"Ok good. See you later Jeryy." Kanda huffed out as he began to leave, Allen following behind after a short "thanks, it was nice to meet you."
"He was cheerful," Allen said once he caught up to Kanda's side.
"Yeah, he teaches the cooking classes for the prison, anything he gives you is safe."
Allen gave a quick nod of his head and they continued in silence, weaving their way through the tables until they stopped at one that occupied two other inmates.
Kanda put down his food before sitting at the table and Allen followed, his nerves a little on edge from the strangers.
One of the inmates looked up, and surprised to see Allen, the man looked a Kanda with a raised eyebrow.
"Morning Kanda" the man said giving Kanda a puzzled look.
"Krory." Kanda said in response before taking a bite of his toast.
The inmates at the table were both very pale with black hair, the man Kanda had addressed as 'Krory' had short hair with a long, thick, white bang growing from his hair line. It hung lazily down the center of his face.
The other inmate had long black hair that covered their face.
After a few moments of awkward silence and quiet eating Allen spoke up.
"Um... It's Krory? Right?"
Krory looked up at him shyly, "yes Arystar Krory, nice to meet you..."
"Allen, Allen Walker."
"It's nice to meet you Allen Walker...oh! Um this is Miranda Lotto." Krory gestured to the inmate next to himself and the inmate looked up at the sound of their name.
Allen was surprised to see makeup on the man's face, pink lipstick lightly covered his lips, his foundation was easy to spot from the off color, and a thin lines of black eyeliner circled his eyes.
"Miss...?" Allen said confused, making the man slightly smile at him.
"Thank you darling, your sweet." Miranda said quietly with a little pity in his voice. His voice sounded feminine but to Allen it also sounded an octave too high, Miranda's facial features a little to pronounced.
Other than that Allen was totally confused.
'Why is a woman in a men's prison?'
It was quiet as they waited for Allen to figure it out, but after a long silence Krory spoke up.
"He's a transvestite"
"He's a...oh..." Allen was embarrassed by his own brain fart, and the soft ^che^ that came from Kanda wasn't helping.
"Well it is nice to meet you both," Allen said finally getting back his head, "I apologize if I offended either of you."
"Don't worry about it honey, I get that reaction all the time, I'm flattered though, I'm not even in full makeup." Miranda said kindly giving him a small smile, Allen made note that Miranda seemed unnaturally soft spoken.
They all smiled at one an other politely, except for Kanda who rolled his eyes, and they shortly ate in silence until Krory struck up some more conversation.
...
After the bell rang, signaling the end of breakfast, Kanda and Allen had headed back up to their cell along with the rest of the prisoners for role call.
"Kanda Yuu and Allen Walker?" Asked a guard as he stood outside their cell with a clipboard and pen.
Allen and Kanda both nodded to the guard and he check marked something on his clipboard waiting patiently for the other two guards to finish the cell and cavity searches before closing their door and moving to the next cell.
"Ugh," Allen made a displeased noise as he reacted to a shiver running through his nerves.
"You ok Moyashi?"
"It's Allen and yeah, I'm fine, those cavity searches just make me so uncomfortable."
"You'll get used to them."
"I don't know if that's a good thing."
Kanda stared at Allen for a few seconds, not a hint of emotion breaking through, before a man's monotone voice came over the loudspeakers.
"All prisoners may now leave their cells, the yard will be open at its regular time, and please be on time for your shifts, your the one who signed up to do them."
At the sound of a loud buzz all the cell doors slide open, and some prisoners began heading out to the yard or their shifts while others mingled in the halls or stayed in their cell.
"Kanda what are shifts?"
^che^ "like work shifts Moyashi, God." Kanda said like it was the most obvious thing in the world, "someone's gotta do the laundry and the guards sure as hell aren't going to do it."
"Well I'm sorry that I've never been to prison before and don't know anything about them!"
^che^ "whatever."
"Your so moody, like a teenage girl."
"What was that?" Kanda growled
"You heard me." Allen said back sassily.
"You wanna take this outside?!" Kanda threatened him.
"You know what yes, I would LOVE to go outside, let's go, you can show me the yard." Allen said calmly and a little sarcastically, like Kanda hadn't just been growling at him a second ago, as he left the cell.
Kanda was a little dumbstruck as he watched the Moyashi turn the corner, before he realized what Allen had done.
'Hmm... Interesting way to get out of a fight.'
Allen poked his head back in the cell with a raised eyebrow.
"You coming or not?"
Kanda huffed and scowled, "yeah, yeah, I'm coming."
Allen's head disappeared around the corner once again and Kanda smirked,
'Smart ass', Kanda thought as he left the cell and they began making their way to the yard.
They once again wounded their way down a spiral staircase, Kanda leading as they turned and walked to the other end of the cells, after reaching the bottom. They moved towards the only pair of large steel double doors that sat on this side of the cells, which were situated a little ways to their right.
Kanda put his hand on the steel bar to open the right side door and Allen grabbed the left side, they pushed open the doors together.
"Welcome to the prison yard," Kanda greeted Allen as they pushed passed the doors, shielding their eyes from the brightness of the sunlight.
Allen blinked rapidly before his eyes adjusted enough for him to squint and barley see the yard.
The yard was large, it was easily half the size of the prison building, with fencing 30 feet in hight and barbed wiring at the top. Two guard towers made the corners of the rectangle shaped yard and a strange grayish colored box sat off to the side. A large pavilion was to their right, push up against the building, with a few benches and tables cemented into the pavement. The first thirty feet of the yard was paved over but the rest of the yard was dry and cracked, the dirt that was there was fine like sand.
Kanda lead Allen through the yard, passing different sized groups of inmates, all of them stopping to stare at Allen with curious but intense expressions. Kanda ignored them as he confidently strode through, Allen keeping his head down, hiding his face from the threatening glares.
Without any greeting more than a quick glance their way, they approached Krory and Miranda, who stood quietly chatting against some of the large fencing.
Kanda leaned next to them, Allen following his actions trying to seem as non-awkward as possible, and they listened to their conversation.
"I had to work a few extra shifts, but once I get my foundation it will all be worth the extra effort." Miranda said happily, and Krory smiled at her small moment of joy.
"Well the shift schedules should be changed up pretty soon, in three or four months I think, so hopefully I can go back to laundry, kitchen was a horrible idea. I have peeling duty in an hour for dinner tonight..." Krory said before their conversation paused.
Allen took this moments to speak up.
"Shifts, like the work shifts?" He said questioningly.
Krory raised an eyebrow at Kanda, "are you teaching him anything?"
Kanda scoffed as he scanned the yard with his eyes, "^che^ it's not my job."
Krory's eyebrows raised a little higher at Kanda's attitude, he was used to it by now, but Kanda was acting a little off. He decided to ignore him for now and answer Allen.
"Yes, Allen, like work shifts, every year they give inmates the chance to sign up for jobs around the prison or classes you can take to better yourself for when you get out. You get special credits for working, and a diploma, if you pursue certain classes."
"That sounds...interesting," Allen said.
'Maybe I can take some of those courses, it's not like Cross would ever have the money to send me to collage...'
"Oi, Kanda, you should show the him the ropes"
"Ropes?" Allen looked confusedly between Krory and Kanda.
Kanda rolled his eyes, "Why me?!" He asked annoyed that he was being pinned as the Moyashi's Sensei.
"Cause your the one that's going to be saving his ass when he fucks up and pisses off the wrong psychopath because he don't know any better and you were to stubborn of an ass to teach him anything."
Kanda rolled his eyes once again, he hated when Krory was right.
" ^che^ whatever..."
'My god he's such a reluctant jerk' Allen thought as Kanda gave Krory a long hard glare, 'but then again we are in jail and nice, hard working guys don't usually end up in jail...well usually, I'm apparently a special case...'
Kanda shifted a little closer to Allen and leaned his head in so that they were only inches apart. Allen froze slightly, eyes slightly widening at Kanda's close proximity, and a blush lightly dusted his cheeks.
Kanda raised his arm pointing to a scary looking group of inmates that lounged against the fence, inwardly smiling to himself at the sight of a slight blush on Allen's face from the corner of his eye.
"See the group by the weight rack, on the far end of the fence?" Kanda asked Allen putting a hand on the boys farther shoulder, the younger's blush deepening against his will.
"Y-yeah?" Allen stammered mentally cursing himself for being so nervous, the raven haired man's hand was warm on his shoulder, and he could feel Kanda's warm breath on cheek.
"That is the head group of the biggest gang in the prison, The Noah's."
"The Noah's?"
A serious look clouded Kanda's features, "Yes, The Noah's, their some of the strongest and scariest asshole's in this joint. They do whatever they want, to whoever they want, and the Warden and baka main officer are none the wiser."
Kanda could feel Allen's body go ridged as he pointed out the different lesser members of The Noah's group only mentioning names and who to stay clear of the most before he moved to the more crucial members.
"See the farthest guy to the left? Huge bulking muscles with the small head?"
Allen could tell immediately who Kanda was talking about, the man's body was HUGE in every aspect of the word, his muscles bulged like they would tear through his skin with one wrong flex. He made Allen frown and furl his eyebrows in disgust, he reminded the younger of a model for a steroids commercial.
"They call him 'Skinn,' he's inhumanly strong but never talks so no one knows much about him, we don't even know what he's in here for..." Kanda put his hands back down to his sides, releasing his light hold on Allen and taking a few steps forward so he could see better, his arms crossed against his chest.
"Next is the tall, thin guy with the long, blonde-black hair..."
Allen moved in front of Kanda so he could also see and nodded when he spotted the man a few seconds before the inmate next to him suddenly swung his fist at him heavily, but he easily dodged the blow and quickly had the other inmate on the ground. The inmate let out a sharp scream as a few guards arrived, and they pulled the blonde-black haired man off the inmate.
"That is Jasdevi...sometimes he's a cocky sadistic bastard, other times he's a childish little masochist and he's bat-shit crazy but he's smart, has a lot of knowledge on how people think, he used to be a top physiatrist until one day he just lost it. Turned out he has multiple personality disorder, tried to plead insanity, but the courts sent him here."
"You mean he's seriously crazy?! Like mad as a hatter?!"
Miranda giggled at Allen's choice of words, Krory and Kanda gave him funny looks.
Krory scratched his jaw, "well yeah, I guess you could say that..."
The group watched as the inmate who attacked Jasdevi was helped back to the prison by the guards, from were they stood they could see that his uniform was now splattered with a little blood and his arm had been twisted at an unnatural angle. Jasdevi laughed like he had just heard the best inside joke in the world as he was dragged towards the large gray box that sat in the yard.
Krory shook his head disappointedly, "their putting him in the hot box again?"
"Yeah, you think they'd have learned by now, bunch of idiots." Kanda huffed.
Quietly, they watched as the guards and a laughing Jasdevi disappeared behind the 'hot box' as Krory called it. Jasdevi continued to laugh hysterically until the sound of a heavy medal door slamming shut echoed through the yard, it was suddenly very quiet.
Allen cocked his head to the side curiously, and he thought he heard Kanda let out a small ^che^ but it was quickly drowned out by the loud torturous screams that began to escape from the box. Allen jumped back in surprise and shock, tripping over his own feet, and falling back into Kanda. Kanda reached down and caught him under his arms, he was a little surprised to find the Moyashi was heavier than he had thought.
Krory and Miranda exchanged suspicious glances as, instead of throwing Allen off of him like he would have anyone else, Kanda helped him back up.
"W-what's going on in there?! He sounds like he's being murdered!" Allen stuttered out.
Miranda giggled lightly, "Don't you worry hon, he's fine, he does it every time they throw his ass in that damned box."
"W-wh..." Allen was at a loss of words and stood with his mouth open as a fresh set of screams sounded from the box.
"He's in there all by himself, honey, and he wants out so it triggers his more childish personality, he has a tantrum and he'll do if for hours if he has too."
Kanda ^che'd^ in displeasure, "The Noah's have it good in this prison, their brains and leader, was an old mafia boss who used to run a drug and human trafficking cartel throughout Europe, he was a careful man who liked to hide in the shadows and he probably would have never been caught if his wife hadn't turned him into the FBI, revealing that he'd been handling his 'business' from over sea's in the United States. A few weeks after his incarceration, his wife was found dead in their home, their daughter was the main suspect but they weren't able to prove anything. His lackey's call him 'Millennium Earl' and his daughter's called 'Road' but only the warden knows their real names, even the guards call him the Earl..."
Allen's expression only grew more intense with every word, and he started shaking, 'Holy Shit...This Millennium Earl guy sounds a hundred times worse than Crosses debt collector's...'
"The old bastard never really leaves his cell...but the one man you should be afraid of is Tyki Mikk..."
Kanda pointed to the tall lean man that was stretched out across a bench, one leg was straight, the other was propped up, and he used his elbow to hold up his upper body while his arm rested over his face, his long wavy black locks hung loosely from his tipped back head.
"Tyki Mikk, also known as 'Mr. Pleasure', is a dastardly asshole. He's the Earl's second in command, he's smart, greedy, and has many contacts in and out of the prison. The Earl trusts him with everything, he doesn't care how it gets done, as long as the job gets done. If the bastard see's something he likes he'll take it, doesn't matter what it is, he'll find a way to get it."
Almost as if he could hear their every word Tyki moved his arm, turning his head to look straight at Allen. A large sinister smile spread across Tyki's lips as they locked eyes and Allen felt raw fear corse through his veins, a pit forming in his stomach before Tyki broke their contact and said something into a nearby inmates ear, who in turn smiled evilly at Allen.
Kanda also noticed the movement and smiles and only one thing ran through both their heads was...
'...I hope he didn't like what he saw...'
So here's whats happenen' on Wednesday I'm going to the states for vacation and were going to be staying up in my uncles cabin for like 4 days. So I will have no wifi. FOR 4 DAYS. I hope I don't die... Ya so anyway, chapter 5 is going to be up Wednesday morning and maybe pretty early at that depending on when I get up...