Enraged
When Kanda woke up the next morning, the very first things that he noticed were his splitting migraine and the aspirin next to his bed. Grabbing the water and the pill hastily, he drank it, grateful to whoever had been considerate enough to put it there. The next thing that he observed was that he wasn't in the palace. With an out-of-character leap of joy, the prince tumbled out of Kaen's bed and flung open the window, drinking in the sight of the village.
"I'm free." he whispered to himself, amazed. "Free." It was all he could do to stop himself from yelling the word out into the morning sky.
A knock on the door made him spin on his heel and open it with a weird grimace, as he was struggling to not reveal his wide, uncharacteristic grin.
"Morning, Kanda." Allen greeted him, trying not to show her confusion at the battle of expressions that he was showing. "Breakfast is already ready. And I need to go wake up Lavi, so just go downstairs." with that, the maid walked off to the room which the redhead inhabited.
Kanda combed his fingers through his hair, throwing on a t-shirt and pants, both black. He got ready for the day, wiping the sleep from his eye, and oddly enough, there was actually a light in his eyes that wasn't normally there. Probably from being free, or awakened by Allen first thing in the morning, most likely both.
"Lavi! Hurry up and get downstairs! Breakfast is ready, and you know I'll eat your serving if you don't!" The maid opened the door and the redhead was only in a pair of jeans.
"Do you ever knock?" He smirked evilly at her as her face was redder than his hair. He slipped on a t-shirt. Her jaw hit the floor, turned around, then smacked into the wall. She was flustered while she descended down into the kitchen.
She put out the spread for breakfast, well, what was left in the kitchen that she and Kanda hadn't wasted. There were hash-browns, bacon, biscuits and gravy, cereal, orange juice, and milk.
No matter how hard she tried the incident that occurred not that long ago kept popping up in her head. I knew he worked out, I just didn't know that much. She shook her thoughts as the doorbell rang, and Lenalee was at the door, noticing how out of it the young maid was.
"Tell me what happened!" Lenalee was squeezing the poor girl.
"N-nothing. If you're hungry, breakfast is out on the table." Allen bowed her head, rushed passed Kanda, heading straight into her living quarters, shutting the door.
When everyone, except Allen were at the table, they were wondering what was up with the look on Lavi's face. His eyes had a glint of mischief.
"I can't wait to go to the mall; I haven't been out there in such a long time." Lenalee smiled and took a sip out of her orange juice. "I brought a change of clothes for Allen since I know she only has her work clothes and pajamas. I'm going to help her get ready."
Kanda and Lavi sat in awkward silence, only the sounds of them chewing were heard.
"So what type of stores do you like to go to?" Lavi tried to get some form of communication started. Kanda only grunted.
"I've never been to a store." He mumbled.
"Are you serious? Well fret not, for you are friends with the amazing Lavi! I shall guide you through out the place! I'll even show you some spots where all the girls are at." He started ranting.
Meanwhile, inside the maid's room, Lenalee was trying to get Allen out of the closet to talk to her. Even though the door was cheaply made, it held up pretty well, especially at how determined the Chinese girl was to knock it down. The banging and creaking got louder, and sounded harsher. How did Kanda and Lavi not hear it?
"Come on Allen, I promise I won't tell! Anyways, you're coming to the mall with us today, remember? I also have an outfit here for you, that way you won't have to wear that short maid's dress." The Chinese girl was finally able to get the door and pulled Allen out. Lenalee sighed.
"Fine, at least get dressed then." She handed the white-haired girl a pair of shorts, a gray tank top, and flip flops.
"Are you kidding? I'm practically albino! I'll burn! I'll look like a lobster because of the sun!" Allen complained.
"Use some sunblock then."
"It doesn't work! I've put on 110 SPF and I still got sunburned, that's how pale I am!"
"...It's not that bad outside either..." She gave the maid an incredulous look.
"What?"
"110 SPF? There's no way you should've gotten burned."
"Well, somehow I magically did!" Allen crossed her arms.
"Well, I have a pair of skinny jeans you can wear instead of shorts, I only brought one shirt, and that was the tank top." She stated.
"Is there any chance I can ditch today?" The maid already knew the answer.
"No."
Lenalee had the girl change quickly, then added some light make up and fixed her hair.
"Ouch! Stop yanking the brush so hard! It hurts!" The younger girl pouted, tears threatening to come out of her eyes.
"There I'm done combing it out. Don't you ever get out the tangles?" She pushed Allen in front of a mirror. She only put the white hair in a simple French braid, bringing back her bangs with a couple of hair clips.
"No, I just put it aside so it doesn't mess up my work." She let out a sigh and straightened herself out.
"Lavi! Kanda! We're ready to go!" Lenalee shouted down the hall. As soon as Allen stepped out, Lavi tackled her into a hug.
"I didn't know you cleaned up so well! You're a diamond in the rough!" Lavi continued squeezing her.
"You jerk!" Allen took offense to the comments.
Everyone decided to take public transportation (Allen wanted to stay out of the sun as much as possible). The group tried to get enough seats for them, but two of them had to still stand, and that was Allen and Kanda.
"Allen, here, you can take my seat." Lavi offered.
"No thanks, I'm fine standing."
"I insist. Take the seat." He pursued her.
"I happen to like standing." She continued. Lavi was getting annoyed, and just pulled the girl onto his lap, arms around her waist. Kanda's reflex was to pull her back, but he resisted against it.
"Lavi! Let me go! This isn't appropriate!" She was getting flustered.
"You walking in on me while I was changing wasn't appropriate!" Lavi pointed out while practically yelled. Everyone on the bus was watching the pair, Allen still struggling and getting redder by the minute. Finally, their stop came, and she dashed off the bus, Lenalee in tow.
"Strike!" Lavi fist pumped into the air. Kanda had the strongest urge just to punch his face out, but sadly, the redhead was his guide.
Girls started flocking around them instantly, and batting their eyelashes at the two guys. Kanda nearly relived the kitchen incident at the castle all over again, they thought he was a girl at first. He cursed his feminine face more than anything.
Lavi took him to cell phone accessory carts, music stores, anywhere he could find girls. He was trying to "introduce" Kanda to the "fish in the sea" as he put it. Kanda barley glanced at any of the girls. Most of them had too much make up to where they look like clowns, or smelled like they fell into a field of flowers. The enhanced smell was too much for him
Right when he was about to explode, Lavi took them to a food court since he was hungry. It was as if he could sense when Kanda was at his limits. When Lavi ate, it was the only time he was ever silent, and Kanda enjoyed every moment of peace he could get.
Roles were now reversed, and Lenalee started leading Allen around since she had a bad sense of direction. There were so many stores, even ones that had imports from different countries. Lenalee went shopping the other day and raided everything in the mall the week before. Today, Allen would be her doll to dress up.
Lenalee paid for her to get a manicure and pedicure. It took forever since her nails were dirty and chipped from always cleaning. She had so many calluses on her hands, as much as a swordsman.
"Allen, I know this great Indian store that has such beautiful traditional saris!" Lenalee started grabbing the garments and helping the girl wrap it onto her. Allen had one stringed with gold coins that jingled, the color of the fabric was gradient, going from yellow, to orange, and finally red.
"That looks so pretty on you!" Lenalee gushed. The maid was still trying to hide herself into the fabric. Lenalee had Allen go to many more stores. So far the maid had tried on bikini's, halter tops, mini-skirts, strapless dresses, stilettos, backless, etc.
"Next store! Time for kimonos!" the Chinese girl continued on. Kanda and Lavi saw them pass by there. Kanda didn't eat much for breakfast, and wanted to get soba there, even though it was made to give you a heart attack later on.
"Let's go see what the girls are doing!" Lavi dragged Kanda by the pony tail. They went into the store, towards the back where the dressing rooms were.
"Hey guys! I'm just waiting for Allen to come out, want to wait with me?" Lenalee looked up at the two. Both nodded their heads.
"Lenalee! I don't like this one. It's really tight on my chest and waist! I can barely breathe!" Allen began to complain. She walked out in the kimono styled dress. It was black, lined with gold thread. Dragons of light blue were on it, along with some sakura blossoms that were gray. Two long slits were up to mid thigh. It was nearly skin tight, squeezing around her chest an making it look like she had a lot more in that area. Around her waist, it gave her even more figure than usual.
Lavi went up to a clerk and purchased the dress for her, Lenalee took back her clothes she lent Allen just so the maid would have to wear it. She wouldn't have accepted it if he offered, but since it was already bought for her, it'd be even more rude to turn the gift down.
"Thank you Lavi." she said. Allen's face was red and she was uncomfortable in the dress she was wearing. It got worse on the way to the park near the mall that had a beautiful lake nearby. Throughout the mall, Lavi was cracking jokes, sending winks, and attempting to wrap his arm around her shoulders or waist.
Kanda on the other hand was opening doors, pointing out all sorts of things (since he's never been to the mall), and holding her hand (mostly to pull her away from Lavi). Lenalee, though she didn't get much attention from anyone, was okay with it. She thought it was so cute how the three were going back and forth.
In the park there was a little dock near the lake, a playground, all sorts of vendors out there. There was even a fried ice cream stand, funnel cake, popsicle/ice cream carts, and other food stand assortments. Allen got a bunch of mitarashi dango, funnel cake, and a popsicle. Lenalee and Lavi settled for popsicles, and Kanda didn't like sweets that much.
It was a beautiful day to be outside overall, it was nice and sunny, no clouds in the sky, and a breeze that made it bearable. So far it looked like Allen hadn't gotten sunburned. The breeze carried around an assortment of music from the performers in the park.
Children were playing, clapping, laughing, and running around in circles. Some people were even fishing in the lake. The sun glistening off the lake was a sight to behold. The four decided to sit on the edge of the dock. Allen kicked off her shoes, dipping her feet into the water.
"Hey Allen, you want to try my ice cream? Here, have some!" Lavi held a spoonful of ice cream in front of her. He just smiled, eyes shut and put the spoon in her mouth.
"Thanks." She responded. Allen saw something on the other side of the dock. It was a flash of red, and the only redheads she knew were Lavi, Kaen, and Master Cross.
"Is that Kaen over there?" She asked, pointing in the direction. Everyone looked in the direction of her hand, about to confirm what she said until an "accident" occurred. Kanda's eyes widened and he tripped while walking away from the dock.
Said man crashed into the maid, and they went tumbling into the water.
Kanda, at this moment, was even more of an idiot. He couldn't swim, apparently Tiedoll thought that water was too dangerous for his son. That he could drown or get cramps, even somehow get poisoned by chlorine or something. The closest he'd ever been to a pool was his bath tub.
Lavi threw a lifesaver at him. Kanda put it on Allen since her dress was making it impossible to swim. She was coughing up enough water to fill up the lake and then some. Though he didn't know how to swim, he held onto the lifesaver around her, and started kicking towards land.
Allen was shaking like a wet chihuahua, freezing from the water, it must have been at least 50 degrees in the water. Kanda patted her back, getting the rest of the water out. She was still shaking even after she was done. He held her close, trying to keep her some what warm, even though he was also soaked.
"Kanda! Allen! Are you alright!" the shouts of their friends coming closer.
"Allen, you're freezing, Lavi and I are going to go find some clothes for you guys. We'll be back as soon as possible!" She headed back towards the mall, redhead proceeding along side her.
"Allen?" Kanda whispered, barely loud enough for her to hear. "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to do that I-"
"Thank you for saving me." She cut him off and smiled. "I'm just really cold and tired." She yawned, shutting her eyes slightly. "Lenalee had me in and out of outfits for four hours straight."
"The damn rabbit took me any place there was a girl."
"Don't worry, Lenalee does the same thing for me to meet guys. They mean well, I just wish they stopped caring so much." She yawned again and started dozing off. She leaned her head in the crook of his neck, she was too tired to care that she was in his lap, she'd probably regret it later and be embarrassed.
After thirty minutes of sleeping, Lavi and Lenalee finally came back with clothes. Lavi saw where Allen was at, and sent a glare with his eye towards Kanda, who didn't notice it. Allen changed fast into jeans and a graphic tee, waiting with the others for Kanda.
"Why did you complain about sitting in my lap earlier! You slept on Kanda!" Lavi pouted at the girl.
"I was tired and didn't care. Besides, you did that on purpose in front of so many people!" She retorted.
"You still haven't told me what happened. So you walked in on Lavi naked?" Lenalee remembered the piece of conversation she heard on the bus. Allen flushed, Lavi smiled, Lenalee had a look of shock on her face. Kanda was listening on the other side of the wall, and punched it. Luckily the sound went unheard by the trio.
"N-no! Nothing like that!" Allen waved her hands in front of her in defense.
"She's telling the truth, I just didn't have a shirt on." Lavi chuckled. "It was all on accident."
Allen let out a breath of relief, finally glad that it was straightened out. Kanda chose that moment to walk out and the group ended their outing. The pair that fell into the lake was thankful for the nice warm clothes.
"I don't know about you guys, but I want to go home. I smell like the lake and could really use a shower." Allen felt guilty wanting to end the day early, especially since it was Kanda's first time being at the mall. All looked at Lavi since it was his decision.
"Sure, no problem." Lavi said, linking arms with her and heading towards the bus stop looking at the times. Allen didn't mind, not really noticing since she was being dragged, having the soles of her shoes worn out. Or at least, what was left of them.
"Should be there in about fifteen minutes." Allen read. As soon as the bus came, all finally got a seat to sit in. Lenalee started showing pictures of Allen in many outfits, the girl started fidgeting, placing her head in her hands. I swear this is the most embarrasing day of my life! She thought to herself over and over.
"Did you see her manicure and pedicure? I recommended that she get the French tips, they look good on her, don't they!" It was mostly Lavi and Lenalee talking to each other on the bus. Kanda offered her nothing but silence, and Allen was grateful. At this moment, she really didn't want to talk.
"Hey, Kanda, have you ever been to the amusement park?" Lenalee asked. "I mean, I can understand if you've never been to the mall, but everyone's been to the amusement park!"
Kanda hesitated before answering.
"No. I told you guys; I've never been outside the castle until Rei snuck me out." Everyone on the bus gasped loudly, turning to stare at Kanda with pity. "Hey! Don't look at me like that!"
Lavi's eyes grew wide. "Yuu-chan, you're so deprived! That's it; after Allen washes up, we're going to the amusement park!" They got home, Kanda mumbling and grumbling about just wanting to stay home and be alone and not do anything for a while, but in the end when Allen got out of the shower he was reluctantly dragged back to the bus stop as the bus made the journey to the amusement park.
"We're hereee!" Lavi hopped off the bus, followed by the rest, and the moment Kanda looked in front-
BAM.
He was promptly greeted by a spectrum of bright, annoying colours, filling up the area in front of him. Rubbing his eyes, he looked behind him, at the roads – normal, and then he turned around again,
BAM.
Every time he seemed to look from something perfectly normal in colour to that hideously painful thing of an amusement park, the colours seemed to smack him right in the forehead, annoying him like fat little hyperactive toddlers running around public places with ice cream dripping from their hands…
Whaddya know. There they were, so now along with this nauseous rainbow, there were a bunch of fat hyperactive toddlers squealing like fat pigs and trailing ice cream EVERYWHERE who would CONSTANTLY be ANNOYING HIM TO NO END.
His other companions took no notice of them, and started excitedly planning where to go and what to do.
Didn't they feel his pain? Did they not find this place an aesthetical atrocity? Did these flabby, pudgy kids not have any parents or something? Kanda swore he was going to kill them ALL, with his trusty Mugen, when he realized…
Damn. He'd left it at Allen's house.
He proceeded to make an extreme effort to stop his mumbled curses from turning into screamed vulgarities, but with each passing second in this hellhole felt like he was going to puke at the thought and sight of this vexing supposedly happy nightmare when he felt a hand over his.
Allen tilted her head to the side and smilingly looked over, as she continued to hold on to Kanda's hand. "Kanda? You don't look very comfortable, is anything wrong?"
At once, Kanda's frustration disappeared into thin air as he felt her warm gaze on him and her hand in his-
Hastily, he shook his head rapidly, being temporarily mute.
Soon he regained his voice, "I-I'm fine, don't worry about me," he swallowed, his mind solely revolving around the fact that Allen's hand was still wrapped around his, and that they were standing side by side. When did he become so vulnerable? This whole love business was turning him into a babbling idiot.
He turned to look at her. "That's good then," she smiled, pulling him behind her as they ran to catch up with the rest.
"Oh, there you are, Allen! And Kanda." Lenalee said, looking up from the park map. "We were thinking of going to check out the awesome stuff first, like the roller-coasters, then leaving the slower rides to later to relax or something."
"Hey, that sounds good," Allen replied as she let go of Kanda's hand.
The prince mentally sighed, as he followed the chirpy bunch to wherever they were going. What were roller-coasters, anyway? All he knew about coasters were that they were used to protect cups from tables, or something.
After a while of walking, Lavi stopped at a sign boldly proclaiming the words 'THE TWISTER!'
"We're here!" he yelled, hopping from one foot to another. "LET'S GO!"
They lined up for the ride, Kanda not knowing what to expect and not even knowing what he was in for, while Lenalee and Lavi busy enthused about how this was the best ride in the park. Foolishly, he decided to trust in their better judgement that it would be a good ride.
Finally, it came to the end of the queue, and they went to sit in some train-like thing with seats.
Some sort of heavy contraption lowered, strapping them to their chairs, and there were three sharp beeps, before they started moving.
Suddenly, Kanda realized what they were riding, and what he was in for. Gulping, he looked at the metal track in front of him, complete with steep slopes, and loops that went all the way 360 degrees.
Surely they wouldn't be going on those loops, Kanda gulped. Doesn't that defy all the laws of gravity or something? They'd surely fall out. Which would be too risky for the amusement park to do.
Then he realized the purpose of the things strapping him to the seats.
By the time he started panicking, the roller coaster was gaining momentum, and it was definitely way too late to back out. It started going faster… and faster… and faster…
The roller-coaster kept going up and down, and sideways, and all around, and somehow what? they were up in the air, upside down, on the loops. It was all so fast that he couldn't even comprehend what was going on, just that his stomach kept lurching and churning and bile seemed to be rising to his throat and his eyes had to reduce to a watery squint due to the speed they were going at.
It came to a stop, somewhere between a minute and three hours, but when they all finally stumbled off, he realized, hey, I quite like this ride.
Something gave him thrills from being rapidly swung in all directions, which seemed weird, but nearly everyone else seemed to feel that way, so!
In a dizzy and druken-like stupor, he fell forward, unfortunately bringing Allen down in the process.
"Eeek!" she screamed, as they went crashing to the ground.
The screams attracted the unwanted attention from the other people walking by, and Allen was frozen in shock for a while as blood rose to Kanda's cheeks in embarrassment. Hastily, he got up from the ground, and offered his hand to Allen with a blush still evident on his face. But his hand was pushed away by Lavi as he rushed to the maid's side,
"ALLEN! Are you okay?" Slightly menacingly, he shot Kanda a glare as he pulled her up and dragged her away from the scene.
Lenalee scratched her head a little, looking over at the departing duo and back at Kanda. "Hey, you okay? I'm not very sure what happened to Lavi. He was kind of acting like a bitch back there."
"Yeah, I guess," he grunted, still rather confused. And still dizzy from the ride. "So what are we going to do now?"
"I informed Lavi when we were deciding where to go to meet at the ice cream parlour at 4 in case we got split up. So meanwhile, I think it's better if we leave them alone."
Silently, he nodded his consent.
"Okay, I know this is kinda crazy for you to be in public after spending so much time cooped up there." Lenalee sighed and smiled at him. "Honestly, I think you're a pretty nice guy."
"Seriously?"
"Yeah. I mean, you're quiet and stuff, but you're cool."
"Uh... thanks, then."
There was a short silence between them.
"Hey, uh, Lenalee,"
"Yeah?"
"Do you still want to ride anything else? I kinda feel like sitting down for a while."
She chuckled. "Not so used to all this high speed stuff?"
"Kind of. Although that roller-coaster was pretty fun."
"Sure then! Why not we go over to the ice cream shop first? Then I can interro- get to know you better, yeah?" slyly, she winked at him, and went skipping off in one direction, Kanda in tow.
It wasn't very long before they reached the parlour, it being nearer to the roller-coasters so that paralyzed or scared-to-death people could go and relax. After buying a scoop each and sitting down at the booth, they spent a moment to eat up their ice creams (Kanda thought it was the best thing he tasted ever, he began fantasizing about a Allen-flavoured ice cream kiss...)
"So, Kanda. When was the first time you went out of the castle, anyway?"
"Just days ago. I made a deal with Rei. I think I saw Allen on the way to town."
"Ahh. What do you think of out here, anyway?"
"It's a lot bigger than I thought the world was."
Lenalee laughed, nearly spitting out her ice cream. "That's for sure! Anything you like in particular so far?"
"The openess. Ice cream. Roller-coasters."
"Here's to the childhood you never had then!" Lenalee raised the ice cream cone, laughing even more. She didn't know whether to laugh at his answer or cry at his deprived-ness, "So anything you've experienced that's not been very pleasant yet?"
"Just now? Altogether it's been, uh, nice, so far."
"That's good. So what do you think about Allen?"
"Wait, what?"
"Don't tell me you're oblivious. I know you have something for Allen, don't you? Which is fine. I think she's pretty into you too."
"Really?"
"It's kinda cute. You're both good for each other."
"Really?"
"Oh boy do you look earnest. It's perfectly fine to be in love, Kanda, that's basically what the world is all about."
"That sounds cheesy."
"Yes it is, but oh, whatever! Love is a pretty cool thing, yeah?"
"..." Kanda looked down. "...no comment."
They sat there for a bit, eating their ice cream in silence. Kanda had gotten green tea flavor, and it appeared the Lenalee was a major chocoholic. Kanda was enjoying the peace and quiet when ALL OF A SUDDEN, he heard an unmistakeably familiar high-pitched voice. "MY DARLING LENALEE!" A man cried. The man himself didn't look weird, it was the fact that he was perched atop a giant robot that Kanda had no doubt could pulverize the ice cream parlor they were at. Lenalee turned her head and saw the man, and the chocolate ice cream cone disappeared from her hands and was promptly gobbled up.
"Kanda, this is Komui." She introduced as if there wasn't a giant robot charging their way. "He's my brother." Kanda stared at the giant four-legged robot that had people screaming and diving for cover. His hand went to his side for Mugen, but he left it at Allen's house, darnit!
Lenalee stood up, still completely calm, lifted up her feet, and appeared to press the back of her heels. "Kanda, no offense, but without Mugen I don't you can do any damage to one of my brother's robots." Kanda nearly snorted if Rei hadn't whacked him repeatedly on the head every time he used to.
"Don't you remember who my bodyguard is?" he sneered, dropping into a fighting position and sprinting forward. One of the many rules the mercenary had taught him was: Beat up the enemy first, save people second, freak out later. Another one was Don't display your emotions.
Lenalee was surprised when Kanda dashed forward towards her brother's insane robot and leapt directly in front of it. The Komurin (as Komui liked to call him robots) promptly focused its electronic eye on Kanda. She paled. I'm completely screwed if Brother kills him!
"You filthy octopus! Sitting with my darling Lenalee and eating ice cream with her!" Komui cried insanely, pointing a finger at Kanda, who nearly rolled his eyes. "Komurin, kill the octopus!"
No matter the enemy, a neck is a neck.
The prince leapt everywhere, confusing the robot and making it spin around in all directions in order to properly target him. The rapid movements left it dazed, and Kanda took the opportunity to, as he put it, dismantle the robot.
However, ater kicking the back of the robot's neck several times, the 'bot spun around, facing Kanda and fixing the eye on him. Why did I leave Mugen at Allen's house?
"Idiot nii-san!" Lenalee chided, her Dark Boots fully activated as she vaulted into the sky, sunlight shining of the boots that she wore. Kanda stared at the supposedly harmless shoes, which had a plethora of blades sticking out from the sides and several spikes at the bottom of the sole. Kanda escaped the robot the moment the younger Lee crashed into the head, sending debris everywhere.
Omake – The Rules
These are the rules which the prince's bodyguard drilled into him in order to be a better fighter and prince.
1 – No killing, maiming, or damaging any property unless you get Rei's permission first
2 – Carry Mugen at all times
3 – Don't display your emotions so then your enemies have less advantage over you.
4 – Beat up enemies first, save people second, freak out later.
5 – Do not, I repeat, DO NOT develop a martyr complex.
6 – Do not invoke any cliché tropes while fighting.
7 - #6 means don't declare attacks like a stupid idiot.
8- If you're going to do something illegal, make sure you don't get caught
9 – learn how to cook. When you're on the road, cook for yourself to prevent someone poisoning you!
10 – Everything can be a weapon, including things like nutcrackers
11 – Do not underestimate women. Do not underestimate the pain of a woman's shoes.
12 – Do not make any lewd comment or Rei will murder you in cold blood.
14 – always skip the number 13.
15 – When you want to cuss someone out, just smile, nod, and walk away.
16 – When beating up people, put a bag over their head so they can't tell you're the one beating them up.
17 – Rei is entitled to drilling new rules in your head at all times.
18 – Do not forget the Rules.
Exile: We have some good reasons why we haven't updated for a while. It's testing month for all of us, and Lex and I are in bad family situations at the moment. Also, it appears that when they sent the doc to me...they forgot to insert author's notes. *sweatdrop* As always, we don't own.
Also...my family situation is really extremely stressful, leading Lex and Joy to take up the bulk of typing while I moped, worked, and worried. All I did was a transition between their parts (Lex did the mall, Joy the park) and the Omake.
By the way, if you're slightly irritated at this chapter's ending, blame Word for repeatedly crashing on me. Don't worry, we shall pick it up in the next chapter.
Us three are not going to update this story until late June so then school will end. We WILL keep working on the story, but we won't be posting them until June. So don't worry.
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