A/N: Meet again in next update!! I start to play with Lavi-kun now, so screech, Lavi-kun fan!! I hope I don't get him out off his ordinary character too much. Please see him cute in my fic!!
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"Talk"
'Thought'
Sound
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Childhood
Chapter 4
New Friend?
Since, a new member had been attended in the Black Order, everyday and everything seemed to look livelier. His red-orange shot hair and a black right eye patch caught everyone's sight. His thigh-length black and white Exorcist robe made everyone feel sympathetic as he's just eight but he jumped in the war already. Yet, his always cheerful face, big green eye and smile usually made them forget that fact.
Yes, it'd be good to have this kid here but the most negative one in the Black Order surely didn't agree. It's really the cheerful kid's luck that he couldn't activate his Innocence, yet.
"Just leave me alone and does anything better than walking after me like an obedient dog!!"
And, it's usual angry and very irritated shouting from the stalked one. It's impossible since he's signed as this latest Exorcist's babysitter by Komui but he couldn't help it. Wait till he could activate his anti-Akuma weapon, and that stupid supervisor would be the second one to die in his list. The first one? Who else if it wasn't this stupid redhead….
"I'm not a dog, Yu-chan!"
The stalker just defended himself with pout face. His babysitter wasn't the only one who got annoyed with some thing. Why did he always call him stupid and say those harsh words? He had not done anything to the other more than talking to him and walking after him.
"Then, quit it!!"
With the last words that nearly shook all over the tower, the very pissed one walked off without looking back, again. This eye patch boy really got his nerve as he just shrugged and kept walking after him!!
Kanda didn't know he did whatever in the world for making this boy attaching to him like this. He knew this was his job but it didn't mean he had to stick with him nearly 24 hours! He had not even gotten any private time for taking a breath alone. Why didn't Bookman just bring this silly head with him?
"Stay here!!"
Kanda ordered when they stopped in front of the heavy door of the science ward before he got in. Lavi just turned to look at him and nodded. He seemed wasn't effected by his cruel words. And, it made Kanda wonder that this kid was nuts or something. Yet, deep down at the very bottom of his heart, he knew that smile and cheerful appearance just covered something painful inside. He used to get a gleam of it in that emerald eye sometime. And, he hated this kind of person because it's hard to know when or what he showed was real. Yet, Kanda could catch the hint of those real things, so he didn't care about this subject much.
"I'll go just a few minutes but if it's longer than that, you just…….go and do something else." He couldn't help to say softly when he caught that gleam of hurt in that orb, again. He silently scowled himself.
"Oh, and I really hate people like you." And, he nearly felt regret, yet he didn't. He stepped inside and the door closed after his back.
Lavi stared silently at the place the other had used to stand before he sat against the wall, beside the entrance. He pulled his legs up against his chest and wrapped his arms around them.
That last sentence and cold tone still echoed in his mind. He tried to ignore like usual but it's hard. And sometime, it's too hard, so he slipped showing his true feeling on his eye. He really hoped that Kanda didn't mean it. He always changed the subject or dropped his harshness a little after he saw his pain, right?
'Why did I have to suffer myself like this? For all people in the world, why do I have to be interested with this anti-social, harsh and arrogant boy?'
He asked himself and couldn't find an answer. He just knew that he felt like that since he had laid an eye on Kanda. He'd something so familiar to him. Maybe, it's loneliness? He felt like the other had got through the painful past, lost everything and was left alone in this cruel world and disappointed people like him.
He felt like he couldn't leave Yu alone, though the other seemed to be fine and preferred to suffer himself more by staying alone. He couldn't bring himself to hate him. Why? Why did he believe that? He wanted to know.
'Well, I guess I can just wait and see. Really, what a crime for calling his given name?'
Though, he didn't know the reason, he determined to keep calling him that. Because, it proved that he never gave up and finally could be friend with him, at the end.
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Kanda just sat dangling his legs off the edge of metal bed, at the middle of the room. His sapphire eyes looked around the place while waiting for Komui. Two big strange machines were at the left wall. Several wires linked from the others to the main computer at the right. Tall human-high capsules were at the back for who heaven knew. What got chill running down his spine was the several types of surgery tools for structure ur……building (?), in the big cabinet beside it. This was really a normal surgery room or insane doctor's!?
Well, whatever, someway, that nonsense supervisor could use them in medical way, so he just dropped it. As long as, they didn't get near him, it's fine. He's annoyed that he had to be checked when he did know that there's nothing wrong with it, right now.
"Sorry for keep you waiting, Kanda-chan." Komui came in with a needle in his hand.
"Just get over it. Honestly, you just waste your time." The kid just grunted back.
"I just want to know and make sure you're perfectly healed. It's good to know about any progress of your Innocence because it has some critical link and meaning with your body, right? Though, it's not a parasite type."
"Yeah, somehow I can feel like that." He said very quietly but the other could hear.
"So, you can activate it, right? What power it's?"
"I don't know. I refused his bound. This Innocence isn't like any reckless one you had gotten me read in any book. If I want to use his power and those white worm monsters, again I have to find a miracle way by myself. He doesn't ever tell me his name. Somehow, I feel like he's teasing me."
"Name?" The young man asked with surprise. As long as he knew, Innocence never had had it and ever had communicated with their compatible user before. Well, at least not like this. "That's really surprised."
"Why? Innocence doesn't have it?"
"Yes, normally. As long as we know, Innocence doesn't have name or cans talk."
"That name is the most difficult part. This idiot wouldn't get any use if I don't know his name." Kanda said annoyingly. "What a puzzle and difficult way to have one weapon."
"I'm sorry with that. I honestly don't know the way. Innocence's unpredictable. Only the compatible user can activate its power." He said thoughtfully.
"Whatever, just get over with your check." The boy said carelessly, making the other giggle softly.
"All right, do you mind if I inject you to sleep?"
"No. Though, I say yes, you'd find someway to get that in me, anyway." Kanda shrugged and lay down on his back as he did know what was coming when he saw that clear liquid in the small needle.
"Thank you, Kanda-chan."
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A cracking sound of opened door made a small sitting figure on the floor awake. A sleepy green eye looked up at a teenager. He rubbed his eye a bit for clearing his sight.
"Reever-san?"
"What a surprise. Did you wait here, all day?" The young man asked with slight worry. He might be sore by staying in one position for this long.
"Um! I'm waiting for Yu-chan. He told me he would get in a few minutes but if he's in longer than that, I'd leave him and went to do something else. Since, I didn't feel like doing anything, I just waited here." He said lively.
"Or you just wanted to wait for him and were really worried that why he had not come out, yet."
"Heheh, you caught me."
The boy rubbed the back of his neck and smiled with slight blush on his cheeks. The other laughed softly and put his hand on his head.
"Well, I guess you don't have to wait any longer, ne?"
"What! Is he finish!?" Said very excitedly, the boy.
"Yes and supervisor asked me to look for you."
"Why? What's happen to him? Why didn't he come out himself?!" The kid started to panic.
"Wow, easy boy. Kanda-chan's just fine. He just got a sleep drug while he was being checked and he had not wakened up, yet." Reever tried to calm him fast.
"Really? Yokatta. Can I see him now?" He said very excitingly, again.
"Yes, and that's why I came to get you. Let's go. My, you really like him, don't you?" 'I really wonder what he sees in Kanda-chan.'
'I wanted to ask myself that, too.' Lavi thought as if he knew Reever's thought.
The small cheerful kid nodded with big smile and walked quickly after the young scientist to the surgery room.
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"Oh, here you are. Any place you're sore?"
Komui greeted the boy who rushed in and quickly got on the bed to look at his liked one. He'd think Lavi ignored him if he didn't answer.
"No, I'm alright. Ne, how long would he sleep?"
He asked while caressing Kanda's smooth cheek. He amusingly smiled when his sleeping face turned away with soft annoy groan. Kanda's just so cute whether he slept or awaked.
"Thanks, Reever-kun." The vice-leader nodded. "It's for three hours, that's why I ask you here. Can you help bring him back to his room?"
"But if it's only three hours why won't he just stay here? It's not that long." The boy asked curiously.
"You see, this table is uncomfortable. And I have another thing to ask you."
"What?" Lavi started to get excited as he knew he would be useful to help his liked one in some way.
"Because of my special sleep drug, he'll get light fever through three hours, so I want you to take care of him."
"Yes! Thanks for give me a chance with him!!" 'Now, I have a chance to do something good to him. Maybe, he'd be nice to me after this.'
The red haired boy immediately thanked and got the sleeping one on his back before he jumped on the ground and ran out of the room. The supervisor looked surprised a bit that this little future Bookman knew his hidden reason.
"This kid is very sharp." Komui mumbled under his breath.
"And you should rub your smart with work. Let's do it with me, Shishou."
Before the precious supervisor would protest, the back of his collar was grasped and he's dragged to the working hall. The vice-leader just ignored his wail and objection as usual.
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Translation
Name-chan – Call the one that younger or as same age as you. Mostly use with girl but sometime with boy
Name-san – Call the one that older and you respect.
Yokatta – It's relieved.
Ne - Here