CHAPTER 9 – A day off

A/n: for the record for people who read this, we purposely made Lenalee useless as part of a joke and we didn't make Allen weak, it was hintage you know Lavi protecting his love from harm.

"But Nii-san said we could stay-"

"Yes well it's MY house and I say GET THE FUCK OUT!" Nanashi argued childishly, just wishing she could fully enjoy her time away from work.

It seemed as though Lenalee, Allen, Kanda and Lavi had also been given a week vacation. And to the dismay of Nanashi, Komui told them they could visit Eiko and Nanashi.

"But Nanashi-san-" Lenalee tried to reason with the short tempered girl when Kanda intervened,

"Komui said if you didn't agree you were going straight back to work." He stated sternly,

Grumbling under her breath, she had no choice but to comply. "Fine...but there are rules."

Eiko placed a tray of hot drinks at the coffee table for the weary group, "If you make a mess, clean it up." The blonde didn't sound as laid back as she usually did, "or I will beat you."

"She's an OCD ignore that for a moment. Break any of my furniture and I will kill you. My room, is off limits so don't go there."

"That's it really." Eiko smiled, "Oh and before we forget. We do have other jobs here so whilst you're staying please go along with our story."

"Of course Eiko-san." Allen was the as normal the most polite out of the four.

"Ne Nana-chan, what's wrong with your face?" Lavi questioned, drawing the angry teen back to reality,

"Huh? Oh unhealed wounds and such," Nanashi shrugged and tugged on her headdress.

"I'm tired. I'm going to bed." Eiko said. Nanashi nodded and flapped her hand at her friend.

"I'll do breakfast tomorrow, Eiko-chan." She said, as she passed the drinks around.

"This is a nice house." Allen said, looking about the room interestedly.

"Thanks." Nanashi replied. "It was my mother's house. She left it to me when she died. The order let me stay here with Eiko since it was close to headquarters."

"Oh, I'm sorry about your mother." Allen said quickly, looking sincerely apologetic.

"That's alright, it was a long time ago." Nanashi put her cup down on the table. "Let me show you to your rooms."

They followed her up the stairs and across a large landing. "There's only two guest rooms I'm afraid, so you'll have to share." She glanced at the boys.

"That's alright!" Lavi chirped, slinging an arm around Allen's shoulder. "We can stay up and tell ghost stories!"

Kanda scoffed. "Like hell."

"Are you scared, Kanda?" Lavi taunted mischievously. Kanda scowled at him.

"You can share with Lenalee if you want, Kanda." Nanashi suggested, with a glint in her eye.

"No thanks." Kanda crossed his arms. "That's unnecessary."

"Is this the room?" Allen asked, gesturing to the door they stopped by. Nanashi nodded.

"You can stay in there, Lenalee." Nanashi pointed to the door next to it. "There's no doubt that Eiko will have cleaned them up so just make yourselves comfortable."

She turned and walked across to her own room on the other side of the landing, closing the door behind her. She already heard the crashes and yells of the guys fighting and didn't bother to resist rolling her eyes. "They better not wreck that room or I'll kill them."

Morning soon came. Nanashi was sat on the wooden fence that surrounded her tiny balcony having a smoke, staring out at the town. There were a few people awake and setting up their market stalls for the busy day. Stubbing out her cigarette, Nanashi swung her legs off the fence and headed back into her room taking a quick glance in the mirror to make sure the bandana was covering everything that wasn't a normal skin colour before exiting her room.

Click.

Nanashi stared with raised brows as Allen emerged from the room that Lenalee was staying in.

"...I didn't know you were like that Allen-chan." The black haired girl giggled as Allen's face turned a deep shade of pink.

"It's not like that! Lavi and Kanda were being rough, so I ended up sharing with Lenalee." He argued quietly, Nanashi stared blankly at the shorter boy. "What?"

"They were being rough, were they?" she smirked at Allen's poor choice of words.

"Yes..." Allen said slowly, then gradually came to realise what Nanashi had implied. "I-I didn't mean it like that!"

"Oh I know exactly what you meant. So...you didn't do anything naughty with Lenalee?" Nanashi pestered enjoying seeing Allen so embarrassed, though Allen didn't answer her question though he looked even more nervous, "No way! You did?" she grabbed his arm and hauled him off downstairs into the kitchen.

"What's wrong Nanashi-san?" Allen looked worried when a mug of coffee was slammed in front of him and the black haired teen sat on the counter grinning,

"Tell me what happened?"

"Huh?"

Nanashi sighed and lit a cigarette "What happened with Lenalee?" she asked again more slowly this time.

"It...was only a kiss-"

"Ehhh? That's boring. Best start breakfast now." She changed the topic very quickly, seemingly bored with the lack of gossip and started to prepare the most important meal of the day: breakfast.

Allen sat himself down at the kitchen table as she gathered ingredients, a considerably larger amount than what would normally be required for six people. But since two of them were parasitic types, there wasn't much helping it.

Gradually, more people joined Allen at the table as the smell of pancakes, crumpets, omlettes and all types of breakfast meals wafted through the house. The kitchen was silent until Lenalee pointed out a streak of drool that had apparently been stuck on Lavi's face for most of the night.

"Charming." Kanda muttered with a frown. Lavi didn't seem to notice.

"It's great that you can cook, Nanashi-chan," Lenalee said. "I don't know what these boys would have done for themselves." She gestured at Kanda's sour expression, Allen's sparkling eyes while he gazed at the food and Lavi's half-asleep, slumped figure.

"I'm a parasitic type," she replied, flipping a pancake in the pan. "I had to learn since I always seemed to be hungry."

Lavi yawned loudly.

"Allen, could you tell Eiko to get her lazy ass out of bed before I kick it out?" Nanashi asked sweetly as she placed some plates on the table. Allen looked a little startled but agreed and hurriedly left the room.

"Thank you for the meal."

"That was great Nanashi-san." Allen smiled putting is knife and fork together on his empty plate,

"Breakfast is the most important meal of the day." Nanashi stated wisely whilst looking quite smug with the compliment,

"Every meal is important to you." Eiko retorted, earning a glare from her friend,

"So what do you have planned for today?" Lenalee asked sipping a hot cup of tea,

"I'm going to help out at the local cafe, I promised I'd help yesterday." The blond explained as she started to clear away the breakfast dishes,

"I have shopping to do."

"Well we can help." Lenalee suggested,

"That's a great idea, Nana-pyon you can show them the town too." Eiko added,

"No. I can do it myself-" with that statement the taller girl roughly grabbed Nanashi causing her to almost drop a stack of plates and dragged her into the kitchen,

"Have you forgotten?" Eiko hissed, "We have a job to finish and we need Allen and co to be around remember?"

"Urgh, fine! Oh yeah speaking of job..." Nanashi lowered her voice "Looks like Allen got a little bit too close to Lenalee."

"What!" a hand was clamped over Eiko's mouth to silence her loud exclamations

"Be quiet will you? Apparently they shared a room last night and Lenalee took the initiative. Only a kiss but Rhode will blow a fuse."

"O dear, keep a close eye on them."

"Good morning Nanashi dear." The old lady at the fruit stall greeted kindly,

"Mornin' Oba-san." The black haired teen glanced over her rather long list before grabbing apples, cherries, oranges and a watermelon.

"It's rare to see you with other people than Eiko. It's good that you have made so many friends."

Nanashi sighed again, arguing with old people was always a waste of time.

"Thanks Oba-san. Bye." She waved and walked off to the next destination on her list.

"Wow you live in such a nice town." Lenalee gawped enjoying the quiet peaceful town.

"It's a nice change from the order, it's so dark and boring there." Lavi complained walking with his hands behind his head, Kanda was being stoic as per usual and Allen was rather quiet himself for once, walking silently near Kanda.

Lenalee decided to break the silence between to two and pretty much jumped between them smiling brightly "Come on don't be so moody. O wow look at this Allen-kun!" she latched on to Allen's arm and half pulled him over to a store window, completely blanking Kanda.

"God she is so annoying." Nanashi huffed, "Oi! I have things to do! So hurry up already." She stated loudly.

"It's okay we will have a look round and meet up with you later." The female exorcist smiled and tugged Allen into the shop. The three remaining exorcists stood unimpressed at the turn of events and it was Nanashi, who broke the tense atmosphere.

"O screw this!" she snapped, turning her back to the shop and stormed off towards another the butchers Lavi and Kanda slowly followed her reluctantly leaving Allen in the clutches of Lenalee.

"HEY? Where does she think she's going? She's leaving MY Allen alone with Lenalee." Rhode grumbled angrily watching from the shadows with narrowed eyes. "I hope she's got a good excuse for this."