Hello there! I know that I might seem dead and I do feel that way I am alive and kicking! I wrote this for you guys after reading my old comments which gave me an incredible boost and thank to that I have a 4k chapter for you guys :D moving on im planning and have started a Xover between Fullmetal alchemist and Akame ga kill. IN other news this story only has about 6 to 8 thousand words to go and don't be sad it wont be soon that it finishes anyway.
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On with the story!
-Chap 8, day 5-
That morning Kanda woke up Allen like a normal person. Not by dropping him on the ground but instead in more of a get-up-or-no-breakfast kind of way. Allen complained under his breath as he got up and fixed his clothes when he noticed that his ankle had stopped hurting. He learned from recent experience that he shouldn't put weight on it while it was healing so he decided to just let it heal until he stopped noticing the pain coming from it when he walked slightly faster.
"Hurry up, Moyashi!" Kanda yelled from inside. Allen hurried off to the living room where Kanda was waiting for him with the table ready. That day they were having pancakes. They ate in silence with the tv being the only thing that could be heard. Kanda wasn't really interested in tv but Allen seemed to be enjoying it so he left it on.
He really had nothing else to do as he ate his food so he stared at Allen. He studied Allen's facial features as Allen ate. It was surprising that Allen didn't have any pimples on his face even at that age. Genetics guessed Kanda. Allen also had bright, shining grey eyes and white almost ghostly skin. He turned away before Allen caught him staring. Soon after they finished eating and packed up the table.
They sat down in front of the tv and watched whatever was on at that moment. It was Mythbusters and as usual they were blowing stuff up in the name of science. Kanda's coughs had mostly stopped but he did cough every now and then. It had increased a bit since Allen had come over but it was mostly because he talked every now and then. As the show came to an end, Kanda got up and motioned for Allen to do so as well.
"Come on put your shoes on," Kanda said, as he walked to the door. Allen nodded and did as he was told. He knew that Kanda was going to kick him out eventually since he couldn't stay forever. He was sad but also glad that he was going. He had grown used to having Kanda everywhere he went (other than the toilet) but he also had a prank to complete. He put his shoes on slowly and walked outside to where Kanda was standing with his bike ready on the street.
Kanda glared at him until he finally understood what the other wanted him to do. It was to get on the bike. Allen mentally face palmed at how long it took him to figure it out. He grabbed the helmet waiting for him on the bike and put it on.
"Tch, slow Moyashi," Kanda said without turning back.
"It's not my fault you don't know how to form sentences with more than 3 words," Allen said with a huff as he climbed on to the bike. Allen could have sworn that he heard a sound very similar to 'Tch' coming from the person in front of him but instead decided to ignore it in favour of not arguing the whole way back to his real home. He mentally face palmed when he realised a crucial problem of where they were going.
"Do you even know where I live?" Allen asked already knowing the answer. Silence. Allen sighed and shook his head. He knew he had to stop before Kanda got too far away from where they were supposed to be. But Allen knew this would probably be the last time he and Kanda would talk so casually. Allen laid his head on Kanda's back and savoured the moment of being so close to him. He tightened his arms around Kanda and breathed in deeply.
"Don't fall asleep, idiot," Kanda said. Allen smiled into Kanda's back. He heard Kanda sigh at the lack of a reply from the person behind him. They made a turn then started to slow down before coming to a stop. Allen immediately lifted his head to see that they were back at the supermarket where they Kanda had met his uncle. Kanda got off the bike and walked over to the bush that they had found his uncle in last. When the bush had been parted all they could see were branches, leaves, and dirt with some grass growing here and there.
"Aha! I knew you'd fall for it!" Kanda paused and turned towards the noise. He saw a man, identified as Uncle Neah, standing in a different bush with a branch and a few leaves stuck in his head. Despite wearing a smart but casual outfit he still manage to look like a clown.
"Another one fallen for the amazing plans made and brought to life by the one and only… Neah Campbell!" He laughed comically as Allen and Kanda stared at him as if he'd grown two legs on his head.
"I guess stupidity runs in the family," said Kanda, not making an effort to say it quietly. Allen's hands twitched as he heard his 'statement'.
"I could say the same for you but I feel like it might just be you," said Allen. He had never met his parents or relatives so he decided not to say bad things about them that were probably not true. Since Allen was a gentlemen and did not lie. Only when necessary.
"Is that right old man?" Kanda growled. Allen was just about to jump at Kanda when uncle Neah barely held him back. Allen only calmed after struggling and realising that this was absolutely pointless. He sighed and wriggled out of Neah's grip. He realised that he hadn't yet thanked Kanda for letting him stay over. He blushed, embarrassed out of his mind as he didn't want to thank this jerk. Even though Kanda had looked after him well, they had slept on the same bed, slept together on the couch and they may have cuddle a little bit. Allen went even redder with every thought. He finally looked up to Kanda.
"Th-thank you for looking after me!" Allen said with a little bow. Then he heard the unexpected.
"You're welcome." Kanda said softly, as if he wasn't used to saying such things and blushed a little. He hadn't expected gratitude at all. He felt a warmth in his stomach almost like butterflies fluttering about. His blush increased to cover his face as he realised he had never experienced such feelings.
"Well if you two stop blushing like idiots we can all be on our way." said Neah in a teasing way. Their blushes increased tenfold at Neah statement and they both nodded at each other and quickly left. Allen to Neah and Kanda to his bike. Kanda sped off quickly to hide his blush and get home. While Neah guided and helped Allen towards his car.
"Why did you say that, Neah?" Allen asked still blushing from what happened less than a minute ago. Neah chuckled.
"It was pretty funny you gotta admit." Allen glared daggers at him the whole way home. He stepped outside and onto the cement as he exited the car. He breathed in the air allowing himself to relax. He liked his uncle's apartment. It didn't look bad on the outside and had a few floors. Not enough to warrant an elevator but enough for the people at the top to complain.
He walked up the stairs to the fifth floor with his uncle and waited patiently for the door to be unlocked. Once inside he immediately sat on the couch somehow exhausted by the climb up the stairs. It was probably because of the nerves of being around him all the time or how he was emotionally taxing to be around. He relaxed into the couch with ease and closed his eyes.
"Don't fall asleep now," Neah warned, "Otherwise you won't be able to sleep tonight." Allen nodded and straightened up and looked around for Neah's laptop. It had a second mode just for him similar to a desktop. He opened it up and immediately went to his favourite website to illegally download games from and immediately started searching for a good one. He gave up after a while and went to website he had found a couple of days ago. Fortune cookie was what it was called and you could open your very own and special cookie everyday and he did just that. His cookie said 'What is missing will be found'. He had no idea what it meant but started to think about what he missed that day. Other than Tim he couldn't think of anything until he looked at his ankle which was still tightly wrapped and remembered immediately.
"Neah! Can you take me to the abandoned house? I forgot to get something!" Allen yelled not sure where Neah was. Neah popped up around the corridor leading to the bedrooms and nodded. They quickly grabbed their shoes and slipped them on. Neah also grabbed the keys and locked the door once they were both outside. They climbed into the car, Allen on the passenger side and Neah on the driver's.
-Abandoned House, 4:52pm-
When they reached the abandoned house Allen quickly exited the car and briskly walked towards Kanda's house. He made sure to not be seen through the window as he ducked low and hid behind the bushes. He sneakily ran over to the other bush which hid his precious bricks and pulled one out. Just as he was about to get up to place the brick in it's place he realised he hadn't written anything. Allen started to panic slightly as he realised that he didn't have anything to write with or on. He placed his brick down as he got an idea. He ran to the neighbours house as he couldn't go to Kanda's for obvious reasons and knocked on the door.
The door opened to reveal a sleepy woman who more a nightgown and looked like she had just woken up even if it was nearly five.
"What d'ya want?" She asked impatient and wanting to go back to sleep. Allen was put off by her demeanor but needed the paper and pen.
"I'm really sorry to bother you but could I borrow some paper and a pen, please?" He asked nervously. He wasn't sure if she would give him some as he had most definitely annoyed her. She sighed and told him to wait for a second while she retrieved the items. She came back five minutes later with paper and a pen. He thanked her and bowed politely. She was stunned at how polite he was but not enough to wake her up properly.
"You can keep the pen and don't come back," She said and slammed the door on his face. He sighed and immediately started writing the pun or more like a statement of the day. Satisfied with how neat it was he signed it off with his initials and walked towards the bush containing the bricks. This time he was sure he was ready to go when he realised he didn't have anything to stick it on with but knew better than to annoy the already irritated neighbour and wrapped the brick with the piece of paper.
He placed it in front of the door with the writing facing up so that it would be noticed and went to the house across Kanda's to sit behind the bush. He had hidden behind this bush before and would again as he got comfy. His pants were going to become incredibly dirty from sitting on the dirt for who knows how long but it would, Allen hoped, be worth the wait. After waiting for ten minutes Allen stood up and casually walked to Neah's car. He knocked on the window of the car and waited patiently as Neah rolled it down.
"Sorry Neah, but this might actually take longer than I thought," said Allen. He wasn't sure if Neah would let him stay as even he was getting tired from all that happened today and it was getting close to dinner time. Neah nodded and handed Allen his phone.
"When you finish call me because I'm going to take a nap." He said as he magically pulled out a blanket from seemingly nowhere. He even had an eye mask which was decorated with two cartoon eyes that were open and staring in opposite directions. Allen smiled at Neah's antics and left and headed for the bush to sit down again. Just as he was about to pull out his phone he saw a brick fly over to where the bush that he was going to hide behind was. He stopped where he was and did a one-eighty before running back.
Once he reached the car he rapped his knuckles on the window to get Neah's attention. Although the window was open he needed Neah to drive as quickly as possible. Neah lifted his eye mask and stared at Allen for a few seconds before hearing yelling and screaming from down the street and immediately started the engine. Allen hopped in and hoped to Tim that Kanda would not hear them driving off.
-At Kanda's house, 4:58pm-
Kanda being the person that he was sitting on his bed and reading a book to entertain him as time passed slowly. The only problem was that he was a quick reader but that didn't stop him from reading all of the books in his house rather than conserving them for when he was actually bored. He was about to reread the book in his hands when he looked out the window to see if it had gotten dark yet but what he saw instead was a certain boy who went by the name 'Allen' who was waiting in front of his neighbours house for something. He couldn't care less as to what the boy was waiting for and proceeded to reread his book.
In only a few minutes he had finished the first chapter and although he knew exactly what was going to happen he still stopped to read every paragraph rather than skipping the ones that he remembered perfectly. Halfway through the second chapter someone, possibly Allen, had rung the doorbell alerting the now irritated man. Kanda stood up and placed the book carefully on his bed. He walked over to the door slowly and opened it to reveal it.
"Good afternoon, Yuu-chan!" Lavi said with enthusiasm. Lavi had arrived with a backpack and a hat for some reason. Why the hat? Kanda thought.
"What are you doing here, idiot?" asked Kanda. He was ready to jump back and finish reading his book any second the idiot let his guard down for him to smash the door on his face.
"Well, you see I've come for a sleepover!" yelled Lavi. He was super excited about spending time with his beloved Yuu-chan and was looking forward to staying up talking about anything and everything.
"A sleepover?" Kanda asked hoping that he had somehow, over three seconds, had degraded his hearing to the point of him not being able to understand anything.
"A sleepover." Lavi confirmed. Kanda fell silent but after a few seconds regained his composure.
"For this sleepover I'm going to sleep inside while you 'sleep over' there," he said pointing to a bush on his front lawn and putting emphasis on the words 'sleep' and 'over'. Lavi stared at him in shock. Kanda seeing his chance shut the door on Lavi's face and left him there. He didn't know whether to be proud or disappointed in himself at what he did. He had just punned. He hadn't expected to but he saw the perfect opportunity that only appears once in a lifetime.
He went back to his room and laid on the bed. All of his energy had left him ever since he made that pun. Maybe this was the universe's way of punishing him for what he had done. He rolled on his a couple of times before he heard a door opening and looked up to see Lavi emerging from the corridor.
"How the hell did you get in?" Kanda asked asking almost a little too calmly. Lavi started to fidget under his gaze and eventually replied.
"You really need to lock the balcony door." Was his simple answer. Kanda sighed and gave up on getting rid of Lavi as he seemed to be acting like a decent person. Only very slightly but it was enough for Kanda to be able to tolerate his existence.
"You're preparing dinner and breakfast and depending on how long you stay you might also be making lunch." he told Lavi. Kanda wasn't letting him stay in his house as a freeloader. He had to work for his rights. Lavi nodded knowing that it could've been a lot worse and settled down on the floor. He had brought a blanket and even a pillow knowing that Kanda wouldn't lend him any. Kanda looked down at Lavi preparing his makeshift bed and sighed. He felt like he owed Lavi after what he had said to him earlier.
"If you want you can sleep next to me," Kanda said. Lavi immediately perked up and and was about to slip under the covers when Kanda interrupted him. "You have to use your own pillow and blanket. Also where's dinner?" Kanda said feeling the need to be even if a little nicer to Lavi.
"I'll get it now! Is pizza alright?" Lavi asked. He knew not to push his boundaries as his friend was being slightly nicer than usual. Kanda nodded at Lavi knowing that if Lavi touched even a pan that he would somehow make it explode along with the house. Lavi called Peter's Pizza and decided on which pizza he was getting. "Which pizza do you want Kanda?"
"Vegetarian." Kanda replied as if it was the most obvious thing in the world. He did like the other that they had to offer but he did feel like he was eating too much junk food for the past few days and decided to try and make it a little healthier. Lavi nodded at Kanda's response and told the pizza guy what they wanted; one pepperoni and one vegetarian. Lavi hung up and went inside followed by Kanda who was cautious about what he was doing.
"Do you have anything we can watch till the guy gets here?" asked Lavi not really expecting more than a nod or a grunt.
"The Chaser, it's recorded." Kanda said taking the remote from Lavi's hand and turning it on. They both sat down on the couch. The host introduced the players then asked a series of questions that the first player had to answer in one minute. Every correct answer was two thousand dollars towards the team bank but only if he could get it passed the chaser. The chaser gave the first player three different amounts of money that he could choose from the smallest being the one closest to the goal and the highest being the furthest away, and the one that he had earnt with the questions earlier being in the middle. The first player chose the middle one as he said that he felt more confident in going with what he had earnt and according to the host 'The Chase is on!'. Then questions were fired at them with three choices, if they got the correct one they would move one step closer to the goal if not they would stay where they were. The same rules applied for the chaser but the chaser only needed to catch up with the player. Once the player was 'caught' he would leave the show and lose the cash he had gotten in the first round with the host.
The first player had been caught by the chaser and just as the second player was about to start the pizza arrived. When Lavi opened the door to collect the food the pizza man looked weirded out and was staring at a brick next to his foot which was badly wrapped in a piece of paper with some writing on the top. Lavi smiled and paid the pizza guy before collecting the food and alerting Kanda. Kanda came over to where Lavi was standing and looked at him quizzically.
"Your daily mail arrived," lavi said and left to put the pizza on the table to pick up later. He came back to the door to see Kanda pick up the brick and read the words written on the paper.
"'You will never be this hard. A.W.' I'm going to kill this kid!" he yelled as he threw the brick at the neighbour's bush. Lavi winced as he felt bad for the bush to be on the receiving end of Kanda's anger.
"Let's just eat pizza and completely forget about what happened. Sound good? Okay let's go!" Lavi said trying to brighten the mood which seemed to work well as Kanda stopped glaring daggers at the air.
They settled down on the couch and proceeded to discuss which ones they thought were correct and for what reason. And time flew like that and by the time it got to the last player, (there were four) it had already been about forty minutes since they started watching. After finishing the first one they proceeded to watch another, then another of The Chaser. They hadn't realised how late it had gotten until Lavi pointed it out. It was almost eleven thirty so they decided to finish the one they were watching and go to sleep.
Lavi went to the bathroom first and changed out of his clothes into his pajamas which had a giant panda at the front of the top and panda paw print for the bottom. Kanda put on a tank top and some shorts not bothering to match it up as well as Lavi had and went to bed. They both fell silent but after a minute Lavi whispered to Kanda.
"Do you think I'm gay?" Kanda snorted.
"Not really." he replied. He just wanted to go to sleep.
"Do you think you're gay?" Lavi asked for fun.
"I'm bi, already know this so be quiet and go to sleep." Kanda said this time intending on silencing Lavi for the rest of the night. Lavi didn't ask anymore questions for about ten minutes before asking again.
"What about Allen, he seems pretty cute and gay." said Lavi excited to hear his response.
"I don't really think so. Plus he is a really annoying brat who only knows how to be polite when he's around women or when he's saying thank you and sorry. He also wants to eat an enormous amount and seems to love cuddling on the couch!" Said Kanda, his becoming more than a whisper. Lavi whistled.
"You sure know a lot about him but there's one thing that you still don't know." Lavi said his voice also above a whisper.
"And what could that be, idiot?" Kanda asked not really caring about the answer.
"He is polite around everyone, even me," Lavi said knowing that Kanda would connect the dots. Kanda was an intelligent person after all. "But my real question is, do you feel the same way for him as he does for you?" Kanda fell silent at Lavi's words and turned to face the other direction. He didn't know. He didn't want to know.
"Kanda! Come on you can tell me, I'll keep it a secret I promise," Lavi begged. He was so curious about what Kanda would say that he couldn't stop himself from imagining every possibility. Kanda sighed.
"I'll tell you tomorrow because I know that we both seriously need sleep." Kanda said finally ending the conversation. Lavi pouted but didn't say more. No more than half an hour later both of the boys were fast asleep.
Now wasn't that long! Review to get me motivated or you might have to wait another year for an update! :D (this shoudn't sound like a threat)
