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"It's been such an exhausting day already! And it's only twelve in the afternoon!" Lenalee whined as she and Miranda entered the shared bathroom.

"It's not fair!" Miranda only nodded in agreement while putting her towel down on a stool next to one of the cubicles.

"Miranda let's go to the end of the room in case someone else comes in." Lenalee suggested and pulled the German lady with her. Meanwhile Lavi cursed silently in his mind as he heard what the Chinese girl said and pushed Kanda further against the wall as well as himself, earning a deathly glare from the boy in his arms.

"I will kill him for this." Kanda thought as he tried to adjust to the cold behind him. "Nice and slow." he continued as he saw his clothes lying next to Lavi but were too far away for him to reach. Frowning he pushed against Lavi but still didn't quite reach them yet. The redhead noticed what Kanda was trying to do and whispered,

"If we crouch down you can reach them." after he heard two showers turning on. "Fine." Kanda hissed and they crouched down.

"How the hell are we going to get out of here? And do you always overreact? I mean, now were stuck here until they go and I'm freezing!"

"Well… did you want them to see you naked?"

"No, I didn't want anyone to see me but you obviously couldn't keep your bloody eye and hands off of me." The younger boy snarled while pulling his pants and underwear up over his legs.

"Hey, that's not fair, I saved you! And I didn't look." Lavi huffed while leaning back a little to grab Kanda's shirt and hand it to him. Kanda snatched the shirt and put it on thanking it for the little protection it was giving him from the cold.

"I think it's best if we stay here until the girls have gone." The bookman whispered and looked down at Kanda who had started to shiver again.

"He'll catch a cold like this." Lavi thought as he sat down cross-legged on the floor. He then pulled Kanda onto his lap and held him firmly against his chest saying,

"I know you will kill me later but you'll catch a cold if you don't get warm soon so please just bare with this."

"I wont catch a cold." Kanda protested but made no move to get away and instead to Lavi's surprise leaned against him while closing his eyes slowly.

"So cute…" was the only thing going through the redhead's mind as he heard the showers turn off and the two girls continue their conversation.

"By the way have you heard what happened to Kanda?" Lenalee asked as she and Miranda stepped out of the cubicles and wrapped themselves into their towels

"I heard that he was turned into a child by the science department. But also some other things that are going around." Miranda answered. Lavi could feel Kanda tense in his arms and damned the nosy Chinese girl knowing that Kanda was listening and would give him hell later if he learned about one particular rumour.

"Did you here about the one that is really secret but everyone knows about?"

"Was that the one that Kanda had gone bald?" Miranda asked while toweldrying her hair.

"No it was the one were Lavi and Kanda have finally gotten together and seeing as Lavi was in the dining hall for breakfast this morning, Kanda is the one on the bottom. Of course it was easy to put that together because Kanda has the body of a child at the moment." Lenalee said while both of them got dressed. As they walked out of the bathroom Lenalee called out,

"Bye Lavi, bye Kanda. Have fun!" and closed the door.

"Awh they found out…" Lavi sighed.

"Probably because your hammer is in the middle of the room." Kanda snapped and then smacked Lavi in the face sending him onto his back.

"So… you're the one on top?" Kanda sneered and straddled the redhead with an evil smile.

"Yu, I didn't say anything! Nothing! The finders came up with it!" Lavi defended himself while knowing he was going to die for sure this time.

"But you didn't say anything against it didn't you? In a matter of fact I think you also added to it."

"I didn't! God Yu you always come up with things that aren't true!" Lavi protested while sitting up. Kanda hit him in the chest with his fist momentarily knocking the air out of Lavi's lung. While Lavi was gasping for air Kanda got up and dried his hair with one of the spare towels.

"Is that it?" Lavi asked after having regained his composure.

"No stabbing with Mugen or any other slow torture leading onto death?"

"Shut up." the Japanese boy snapped while tying his hair up and swiftly headed towards the door to get away but Lavi made it in time grabbing his hammer as he went past and pinned Kanda against the wall.

"Why did you only do that?" the redhead asked again.

"I have my reasons." Kanda snapped while trying to stifle a cough.

"Was that a cough right now?"

"No."

"Yu." Lavi frowned while feeling the others forehead with the back of his hand.

"A little to warm…" he murmured and pulled his hand away before Kanda had the chance to bite it.

"I think you have a fever." Lavi diagnosed and watched as Kanda tried to stifle another cough.

"I don't have a fever." Kanda said stubbornly and slipped out of Lavi's hold and the room. Lavi sighed and followed him and as he caught up, scooped the boy up into his arms. Kanda snarled and struggled against Lavi.

"Let me down right now." he demanded while glaring at the future bookman.

"No, you would just run away again." Lavi argued while opening Kanda's door with his elbow.

"There's no where I can run to now anyway." Kanda muttered as Lavi set him down on his bed.

"I'm going to go to the nurse and get some medicine. Stay here and try to get warm." Lavi ordered and walked out of the room, closing the door quietly behind him.

"As if I will have any trouble getting warm." the boy huffed while pulling his shirt away from his hot and sticky skin. Lavi was currently heading back from the Nurse, having obtained the medicine when he ran into Reever.

"Oh hey, how's it going?" Reever asked with a smile.

"Good so far."

"Why only so far?"

"He hasn't tried to actually kill me yet, more like causing me pain but then leaving it at that."

"That's very…un-Kanda like."

"I know. Could it maybe have something to do with the fact that his body is that of a child and his mind is slowly following suit?"

"That could be… And if that is what's happening then we will have a real problem if he doesn't turn back into his former self by the end of the week. I should go and inform this to Komui. Is there anything else?"

"Yes, it seems that he has caught a cold."

"A cold? He hasn't been ill in years. In fact never. You should get that medicine to him quick if that's the case."

"Could it be that the tattoo thing he has isn't working?"

"It should be working, it did when he was that age. I should really get this to Komui… I'll see you later." Reever replied deep in thought and hurriedly walked away. Lavi waved a goodbye and walked back to Kanda's room thinking about the newfound situation. If Kanda was indeed slowly turning back into a child he might be able to get some information about why the angry swordsman always kept to himself. But first things first, he had to get Kanda well again before he started interrogating him. And hope that he would turn back into an adult by the end of the week or things could get really bad. The redhead entered Kanda's room and stopped as he saw the boy lying on his bed. Kanda had gotten rid of his shirt and pants and was only lying there in his underwear. He had placed his arms on either side of his head and had neatly tucked his hands behind the pillow showing his tiny chest muscles rippling when he breathed. Lavi quietly sat down on the edge of the bed and gently felt Kanda's forehead again.

"He's burning up." Lavi thought and quickly went into the bathroom, wetting a tiny hand towel. He swiftly walked back, pushed Kanda's bangs out of his forehead and placed the towel on it. Kanda stirred and opened his eyes slowly focusing on Lavi. "You need to take some medicine." he said while looking at the bottle to see how much Kanda needed to swallow. He then took the cap off of the bottle and filled it to the indicating line.

"Come on, sit up." Lavi said as he helped Kanda sit up and caught the wet cloth as it fell.

"It smells vile." Kanda said as he looked at the cap with the medicine.

"I know but just swallow it." Lavi said while holding it out to Kanda. The boy grumbled took the medicine and swallowed it, pressing down a cough afterwards.

"I hate you" he managed to say and glared at him weakly.

"Yes, I know, now lie down and get some sleep."

"I don't need to sleep." Kanda protested.

"You were sleeping a minute ago." Lavi said as he pushed Kanda back down on the bed.

"I wasn't sleeping" the boy protested again but sighed quietly as his head hit the pillow. Lavi put the cloth back onto Kanda's forehead and pulled the blanket up over the Japanese boy.

"I'll go and leave you alone." He said as he got up but stopped as he felt a gentle tug on his sleeve. He looked down to find that the other boy's fingers had curled around it. Kanda coughed again and managed to say,

"Don't…"

"You don't want me to go?" the redhead asked astonished. Kanda only turned his head and closed his eyes. Dumbfounded Lavi sat down on the bed again, seeing that Kanda hadn't let go of his sleeve and gently removed the small hand, tucking it underneath the blanket. He waited until Kanda's breathing had gotten slow and steady indicating that he was asleep before getting up and silently leaving the room. Lavi, knowing that the science department and Komui needed some time to think about the problem with Kanda, headed towards the dinning hall. He hadn't eaten since this morning and was getting a bit hungry. As he entered the hall it went unusually quiet and he looked around to see everyone in the hall look at him and whisper with his or her neighbour. This spiked a tiny flash of anger in the future bookman and as he spotted his friends walked over to demand to know what rumours exactly were going around. He sat down next to Lenalee and snapped,

"Why did they go quiet when I came in?" not like him at all and looked at the girl harshly. Lenalee squirmed uncomfortable and answered,

"It is mostly about the rumour you heard me say in the shared bathroom."

"The one about me and Kanda?! So this is what it's all about!?" Lavi cried angrily. "You really think I would force myself onto Kanda, in his state, and he would let me!?"

"No Lavi that's not what we thought." Allen said trying to calm Lavi down.

"Oh, so you have a problem with me being gay?" he snapped while standing up.

"No La-" Lenalee began but was cut off by the redhead.

"And it looks like you just had to tell everyone didn't you?! Thanks guys. Really, you helped me a lot." He snarled and stormed out of the hall. He knew he shouldn't have reacted like that but he was confused. First of all Kanda had been actually nice to him which had him getting his hopes up to much for his liking and secondly that rumour reminded him how much he actually wanted Kanda to be underneath him. Waving away his pervy thoughts he concentrated more at scolding himself for actually having told Lenalee that he was gay even though he knew at how bad she was at keeping secrets. Thank god he hadn't actually said that he liked the Japanese swordsman or he would have been dead weeks ago. In the shared bathroom he almost couldn't control himself when he had Kanda naked against the wall. The image of waterdroplets running down Kanda's pale ivory skin had almost been too much for him. He made it to his room and flopped down on his bed with a long sigh. Thinking that he might just as well take a short nap, he curled up into a ball and quickly fell asleep.

Awh, poor Lavi...

So, hope you like it! And sorry that it took me so long to update. I kind of had a writers block but my muse came back two days ago and voila! Here it is. Please review!! Love Churin