A/N: you know how i said the last chapter was long? well, this is even longer. enjoy :)
Chapter Six
Kanda tried to ignore it, he really did. He hoped that it would just stop, but it just continued in the same irritating way. He opened his cobalt eyes and sighed in annoyance; the persistent knocking on the door had completely ruined his meditation. He rose from his cross-legged position on the floor in his room and walked over to the front door, however, before he got to the door, Kanda grabbed his prized katana and brought it with him; who ever was knocking had better have a good reason for disturbing him. Kanda opened the door, a red blob rushed past him and when he turned around he found the culprit standing in the middle of the living room.
"Yuu!"
Kanda unsheathed Mugen and placed the katana not a centimeter away from the intruder's Adam's apple.
"I'm going to slice you to pieces, baka usagi!" Lavi gulped; he had forgotten that Kanda and Mugen were virtually inseparable outside of school. "What the hell are you doing here?" Kanda continued angrily, not moving the katana away from the trembling teen.
"Is your best friend not allowed to visit you on the weekend?"
"Che. Leave."
"No!" Lavi stubbornly ran over to one of the plush black couches in the room, sat down with his arms crossed, and pouted at the samurai. Kanda groaned with annoyance; he realized he wasn't going to be left alone for a while, put his katana back into its case and closed the door.
"You never answered my question. Why are you here pestering me?"
Lavi had momentarily forgotten his purpose, but now that the Japanese boy reminded him, he jumped up off the couch excitedly.
"Because we're going to a party tonight!"
"I'm not going." Lavi froze.
"But you have to! Everyone is going to be there!" Lavi smiled, "Not to mention the ladies."
"I don't care."
"Come on, how will you get a girlfriend with that type of attitude?"
"I don't need a fucking girlfriend, you stupid rabbit" Kanda glowered, but Lavi continued.
"Oh, I see how it is" Lavi winked understandingly at the now confused samurai.
"What the fuck are you insinuating, usagi?"
"I always thought you were different, but anyway, you can't get a boyfriend acting like that either."
Kanda coldly stared at the ginger. "I don't need to be in a relationship, period. If you continue talking I'm going to break your face in two."
"Stop being so asexual, Yuu!" Kanda unsheathed his katana again.
"Don't call me that," he growled as he moved to cut Lavi, but by some miracle Lavi evaded the attack.
"I'll be back at ten!" He shouted out as he fearfully ran out of the apartment and escaped Kanda's wrath.
"Oi, usagi, where the fuck are we?" Kanda grumbled as he walked down the empty street next to Lavi, his breath formed wispy clouds in the cool, night air.
"I told you, we're getting someone else to go to the party with us! Do you really have that bad of a memory, Yuu?" Lavi smirked as he continued walking.
"Shut up, baka usagi! Where the fuck does this person live anyway? We've been walking in the fucking cold for twenty minutes!" Kanda stuffed his freezing hands further into the depths of his black leather jacket.
Suddenly Lavi turned and walked up to a rather beaten up looking house; Kanda followed with a confused look on his face, wondering who exactly this person was. Lavi knocked on the front door and a few seconds later, a certain white haired boy appeared in the doorway with his trademark smile.
"Hey guys!" Lenalee ran up to the trio of boys as they walked into the house party.
"Hi Lenalee!" Allen and Lavi greeted her back happily. Kanda grunted, indicating that he acknowledged her presence. A few girls stumbled past the four at this moment and Lavi stared at their figures with sparkles in his eyes.
"Strike!" He yelled excitedly as he ran after the women. Lenalee chased after him to make sure that he didn't offend the girls too much, leaving Allen and Kanda standing next to each other in the midst of the partying high school students.
"So what now, Kanda?" Allen asked the samurai as he looked around.
"Che." Kanda turned and walked away so he could lean against the wall with his arms crossed, leaving the sprout completely alone now.
Allen was slightly overwhelmed– he had never been to an actual party before and didn't really know what he was supposed to do, so he ended up just wandering around the crowded house. As Allen wandered, he took note of the whispers that his white hair, scar, and deformed arm caused; he heard the word "freak" slip past a couple lips. He sighed; a word like that didn't hurt him anymore, if anything, he had come to expected it.
He continued his aimless walking until he saw a small circle of people sitting on the floor with a few others surrounding them. Allen walked over, curious to see what the people were watching. He saw two guys playing poker: an attractive Portuguese with a medium build and black curly hair, while across from them was a very frustrated Asian with blonde hair sticking to his forehead with sweat.
"You lost Bak-Chan." The Portuguese said with an almost musical voice as he revealed his cards. "Full House."
The blonde gasped and hives began to spread across his face. He tried to cover the hives with his hands, dropping his cards to reveal a measly Three-of-a-Kind. His face grew red with embarrassment but the hives continued spreading and he ran away through the crowd of spectators. Allen glared at the Portugese. Under his keen eyes, Allen had seen the man cheating. Allen walked to the spot that was just vacated and sat; the crowd looked on with confusion.
"I'm playing."
"Aren't you a bit young to be here, boy?" The Portuguese looked at Allen with interest before adding, "Don't want to go home crying now do you, boy?" Allen smirked.
"I never lose at cards." The Portuguese laughed, he had to appreciate the boy's courage and determination. He held his hand out to Allen, who in turn shook it.
"Name's Tyki Mikk. Let's just see how good you really are, boy."
"You know I love Asians. They're all so cute with that shing-chang talk," a drunken girl slurred at the annoyed samurai while he tried to get himself a drink. "You know, you're really fit and I'm like the prettiest girl in my school…" She left the rest of the sentence hanging suggestively as she tried, and horribly failed, to flirt with Kanda. She clung onto his arm and batted her eyelashes. "Why don't we go upstairs?"
Kanda was fuming; he wanted his katana so he could cut off those stupid, pouting lips that the girl had. Kanda abandoned his beverage on the drink table as he almost threw the drunken girl off of him and walked back to the wall he was previously leaning on.
"Why, hello there sexy!"
"B-But ladies, come back!" Lavi called out desperately to the two girls he was trying to chat up. His swollen cheek had a distinguishable, bright red handprint on it as a result of his failed flirts. Lavi sighed with annoyance; he didn't understand how the women could resist his charm and good looks. He decided that he ought to go find Allen or Lenalee and hang out with them for a while.
Lavi was just about to give up on finding his friends when he noticed a rather large crowd of people surrounding something. He weaved himself to the front of the crowd and his mouth fell open in shock.
"Royal Flush!"
The crowd burst into gasps and shouts of disbeliefs. Tyki Mikk stared incredulously at Allen, who sat with a huge grin on his face and a pile of Tyki's belongings next to him. Tyki got up and removed his pants, leaving him only in his boxers– he already lost all his other clothes to Allen.
Lavi couldn't believe what he was seeing; he walked over to the supposedly innocent white haired boy to try to make some sense out of this.
"Um, Allen?" Lavi started, the white haired boy responded with 'Hmm?' and Lavi continued. "How are you so good at poker?" Lavi had a lot of questions, but figured that this one would hopefully give him the most answers.
"I'm not good at poker." Wrong, Lavi was even more confused now.
"Wait, but then how–?"
"I'm cheating." Allen did the transformation where his face turns dark and horns sprout out of his head as he smiles evilly. Lavi was scared.
"But Allen, how– what– I mean why–?" Lavi stammered, this kid was really confusing him.
"Well, I had to pay off all of my Master's debts somehow. Sometimes the collectors had me do manual labor to repay, but other times they just wanted the money, and then I needed more money to support my eating habits. What else could a thirteen-year-old boy do? Besides this guy's cheating too."
As if on cue, Tyki Mikk rose from his spot on the floor.
"You know, I'd love to stay and continue playing, boy, but I'd like to leave with some of my dignity intact." The Portuguese smiled friendly at Allen and walked away, however, Allen went after him.
"Hey, Tyki Mikk!" The Portuguese turned around to find Allen smiling and holding all of his winnings out to him. "Here, I don't really need your stuff and its pretty cold out."
"Thanks, cheating boy." Tyki smiled as he took his stuff back and began walking away again. Allen was about to say that he wasn't cheating (a complete lie on his part), but was unable to due to a loud crashing noise coming from the other side of the room. The room became silent and everyone looked to find the source of the noise; they saw Kanda holding up a guy against the wall with a hand around his throat.
"I'm going to fucking kill you, you perverted bastard!" Kanda angrily yelled at the horrified teenager. Lavi and Allen rushed over to the enraged samurai.
"What the hell are you doing, Yuu?" Lavi shouted.
"Call me that again and you're next to die," Kanda growled at Lavi, but never moved his cobalt eyes away from his hostage. "First the bastard started touching my hair then he fucking grabs my ass! I'm going to cut off his fucking hands!" Kanda's grip got a little tighter and the frightened teenager began to panic.
"I-I'm sorry! It was the ponytail! I thought you were a g-girl!" The boy began to explain, however, Kanda growled and tightened his grip even more.
Allen had enough of this; he looked at Kanda's victim and saw pure fear in his dilated pupils. He lifted his deformed left arm and took hold of Kanda's wrist.
"Stop it, Kanda. The guy's drunk and terrified, let go of him."
"What the fuck are you doing, moyashi? Are you defending this pervert?" The samurai turned his head to glare at the sprout.
"My name is Allen and I'm saying that you need to watch your temper." Allen continued to tighten his grip until Kanda was forced to release his captive, who fell to the floor but quickly got up and stumbled away. Kanda turned to fully glare at Allen now.
"Che. Get your hand off me you freak."
Allen froze. Allen and Kanda's relationship had been rough from the start, both of them hurling insults at each other constantly and even having physical altercations at times. The word 'freak' should've been a minimal insult to Allen especially, who had grown so accustomed to hearing it. Yet for some reason, coming from Kanda, the word regained its painful sting.
Kanda used this moment to free his arm and quickly left the party. Allen didn't notice– his body seemed to stop working and his mind was overwhelmed with thoughts of doubt and pain. 'Kanda never seemed to care for my deformities, is this what he really thought of me? Is he really the same as everyone else? Lenalee and Lavi, are they the same as well?' Allen's head was spinning.
"What is it, Allen?" Lavi started, but the mentally tormented teen didn't respond. Lavi put his hands on Allen's shoulders and shook him as he tried to wake Allen from his stupor. "Allen? Allen! Moyashi!"
Allen's eyes refocused as he blinked and came back to reality.
"It's Allen!" He protested. Lavi smiled and laughed at the ridiculousness of his friend. He hung his arm over Allen's shoulders and they both left the party.
"You really are a weird one."
sorry bak-chan, but i was sick of seeing krory always be fooled by people, and the hives is always amusing. if i wanted to write something really amusing i would've made Leverrier the one who groped kanda LOL
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EDIT: okay, thank you LovinOnlyforYuu for telling me that Tyki is actually Portugese, I changed it :)