Updated 14th of August 2017
ED: So for future reference when there is a brake in the story with a horizontal line indicates a lime jump I.G.
= Nine was too lazy to wright the walk from Allen's shack to the school.
On the other hand a brake in the story that is characterized by a bunch of X's means a sudden change in perspective. I.G xXxXx = Nine is taking some initiative to show you how other characters see the world from an omnipotent perspective because she got bored of writing for Allen.
Just a little heads up for the upcoming chapter. I'm sure you could have figured it out your self, but just encase, now you know for sure.
Warnings: Nine insults Catholic schools using Lavi, but she doesn't mean it and apologizes now for anyone it may offended.
Disclaimer: On the list of top ten people who could possibly one day own DGM Nine is not one of them.
Allen woke up later in the morning then he had meant to. He had just been so tired. He had been more tired last night then he had been since the day Cross left.
Allen had to pry himself out of bed at nine. It was finally Wednesday, he could go in and pay for school today. That meant food, a nice room, and running water. Allen couldn't wait. He got up and put some color in his hair. He made it lighter today since he would be washing it out often now with the new job. It would be a waist to make it too dark. Just a few shades after blond was going to have to be good enough. Then he applied the make-up. If Allen rand his had over his cheek or forehead he could still feel the slight indent of the tattoo like scar, but from a normal talking distance no one would be able to tell. Allen threw on a hoodie he had left out and started on his way to the Black Order with the paperwork and cash in his pockets.
Allen looked at the giant looming building again. It was as impressive and intense looking as ever. He walked into the front doors and pulled out the map that Lenalee had helped him with before. Five flights of stairs later, Allen was once again standing in Komuis office. Only this time no one was around.
"Uh, hello? Principle Komui Lee? ?" Allen waited for a response but received none. The room was still a mess, but it had kind of an eerie feel to it when no one was around. Allen walked forward to the desk that had previously held the principal.
"Hello?" Allen poked his head around the desk. There was nothing more then lose paper. Not even a strange weapon. "Hm," Allen made a face that would have shown discomfort and confusion to others had any one been around to see it. Allen resigned himself to sit and wait for the principle on the surprisingly comfy couch.
Time seemed to pass slowly once he sat. The night had been long. Even if Allen had slept in until nine, he hadn't made it home until about three in the morning. And all of the time leading up to then was filled with walking, fighting, more walking, and lots of movement up and down the bar. Honestly Allen legs where still kind of tired. He went from a few weeks of mostly just focused sitting and studying, immediately to a day full of constant activity. That was a hard transition to make.
Thinking about such things convinced Allen to close his eyes. In his mind Allen thought he was still fully alert and ready to great the principal at a moments notice if he walked in. In reality Allen had drifted far off in to dream land and was beryl staying vertical by resting on his hand.
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Lavi was late registering for school. Again. He hadn't technically missed any actual school yet, but because this place was so over the top, Lavi had missed a lot of post summer classes that had already begun and where just about to end. This was their last week. Technically the classes where optional, but the unspoken agreement seemed to be that every student would take them any way. It was like this school wanted the kids to attend every day of the year but legally couldn't make them, so instead they had a bunch of optional classes that ran damn near year round
The post summer classes where just a waist of time for Lavi any way. All they did was spend three weeks reviewing what they had learned over the year right after school ended. Or three weeks a week later reviewing what they had learned over the past four years. Or right before school started they would spend three weeks lightly reviewing what they had reviewed the last two summer class sessions and introduced the concepts that would be learned next year. It was ridiculous. That kind of thing was a waist for some one who had a photographic memory like him. Not that the school was aware of that little fact, but he still refused to show up for that crap.
Lavi needed to hurry and get the fees paid so he could keep his room before the real classes started. Taking some time off had been tons of fun, minus the Panda trying to work him to death, but it was lonely with out his friends. Even the ones who refused to accept him as a friend. *cough*Kanda*cough*.
The giant doors to the principles office opened and closed with out a sound for once. Not that if mattered because no one was in the room. Oh well, that just meant that Lavi could have a little fun.
'A little fun' of course meant that he could snoop through the principal's documents. He wouldn't touch anything, just read what was laying around. If they didn't want others seeing it then they shouldn't leave it in plain sight. This kind of snooping was how Lavi had managed to skip every fire drill and lock down they had last year. Fire drills sucked when you had class on the 8th floor and it was hard for him to sit through the other drill. It was also how he found out Kanda's first name a few years ago. All good things came from snooping.
Lavi was just about to settle in an look through Komui's papers when a sound from the couch scared the shit out of him. He whirled around and tried to act as natural as possible. It took the redhead a minute to realize that the sound had come from some sleeping kid on the couch. Lavi immediately abandoned his position next to the desk in favor of getting a better look a the stranger.
Lavi was not disappointed by what he found. Boy what a cute-ie. Lavi didn't recognize him at all so he had to be new. It was a real shame that a boy with looks like that was coming to this school. Damn Catholics, keep putting all the cute guys in the closet. His hair was a light brunet and his face was smooth and almost porcelain in color. Except for right above his eye, the skin seemed oddly rough there. Lavi moved in closer to get a better look, but the boy twitched a little under his gaze and Lavi backed off.
As much fun as watching the sleeping guy would have been it made Lavi feel like a creeper, so he decided to go back to his special brand of detective work. He still kept one eye on the other teen though. A thought that made Lavi laugh considering the fact that he only had one.
The redhead threw himself onto the other side of the couch when he heard foot steps approaching. He'd just found the new kids personnel file laying on the desk and had just finished reading his scheduled, so Lavi may have over reacted when he heard the foot steps. Especially since his hasty sitting awoke the guy who Lavi had just decided was going to be his new best friend.
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Something flopped down with all the grace of a sack of potatoes next to Allen and bumped his head off of his hand. The sudden decent woke him up so violently that he jerked his attention forward but the room was still empty expecting to see the principal, but the room was still empty. Allen looked over his shoulder one way to see more empty room.
"Hi-a! Over here buddy!" A sudden overly cheerful voice brought Allen's attention to the other side of the room. Sitting beside him on the couch was an attractive and agressively happy redhead who looked like he needed a hair cut. He was wearing some green bandanna around his neck and had an eye patch on. He had an air about him that made Allen think he was probably a pretty popular.
A door on the other side of the desk from them slammed open and the principal walked in with a flurry.
"Now now Reever, I can't possibly sign all those paper, my hand will fall off!," Komui took a look around the room that he had just entered, searching for an excuse to get him out of doing work, "And I have students that I must attend to. Who knows how long they've been waiting because of you. You should feel bad Reever," Komui sat down at his desk and turned to his two new favorite students. "So, Allen, Lavi, how can I help you? Did you two come in here together?"
"Ah no I came in waaay after this kid Komui," the redhead next to Allen answered first.
"Oh, well then what can I help you with ?" Komui wanted to honestly help the students almost as much as he wanted to honestly avoid all other work.
"Oh um, I came to pay my class fees and pick up my schedual, if that's all right." Allen spoke politely. He wasn't sure if this was the kind of thing that should be discussed with another student in the room.
"That's just fine boy, give me the papers and I'll give you your scheduled, which is riiiiiiight," Komui shuffled some papers around on his desk and then flipped open a folder that had been on top the entire time, "Here! We could't get you into astronomy this time, but you where all set for our sparing class. There was only room in the advanced course, I hope that's all right? You application made it seem like you where quite experienced." Komui went off talking quickly again and event though it made Allen uncomfortable to discuss these things in front of a stranger. "All of the other electives you chose where fine though. And we moved you up a year due to how well you tested. Your book fee is included right there, and you will pay that once you pick them up, okay?" Komui took a breath to make sure that Allen had caught everything.
Allen took this as his chance to speak up, "Ah, yes Mr. Lee, but I was wondering about moving into the dorms. It would be more convenient for me that way," More convenient then living in a shack at least.
"Oh? Well if we sign you up for them now I suppose that we could get you into the dorms in about a month or so." Komui delivered the news clueless about how crushing his words where to a young boy who just wanted the ability to take a hot shower.
"A month?" was Allen's weak reply. Had he really just packed up all of his belongings for nothing?
"Well of course! We would have to find you a room and a roommate, and you would have to sign the additional paper work, and pay for the room. Nothing big, it just takes time to arrange roommates." Komui shrugged out his answer.
"Arrange roommates?" Allen had been under the impression that he wouldn't have to share a room. Maybe I should have looked into that more.
"Yes, it takes time since it requires approval from a second party. Or we would have to get the big man upstairs to allow you to room by yourself. It's in the handbook that every student must share a room as roommates can provide 'a pillar of support and integrity in times of weakness'." Komui held up a finger and recited the one part of the hand book that Allen had only glanced over. The common morals section. He was really regretting that decision now.
The red head picked now as a time to speak up. "Oy, Komui, class starts next week. Are you really going to make a sweet kid like him commute to school for over a month?" he had such a casual way of speaking with the principal that Allen almost missed the fact that he was speaking on his behalf.
"Well I have to, setting up roommates takes time," Komui started to pout like a kid who refused to take responsibility.
Lavi shrugged and stretched his legs out as he put his hands behind his head. "Alright then make him my roommate. I've needed one since Yuu threw that big fit freshman year right? Think about it, this kills two birds with one stone! And it'll take less paper work this way~," Lavi said the last line like it was an offer Komui couldn't refuse, and based on the way his face suddenly lit up Allen would say that he was right.
"I probably should't do this butttttttt, yeah alright. If I just do it like this now then I don't have to later!" Komui opened up a drawer in his desk and took out two more folders. "What is your room number Lavi?"
"787," Lavi smiled, and suddenly Allen felt less like he was being done a favor and more like he should really be worrying about why this Yuu character had thrown a fit.
Komui wrote a few things down in Allen's file and then also in in the other two, "Alright then you are all set, Allen. Here are your papers. If you go down the hall and take the third right you can pay for your fees with Helveska in that office okay? Just give her your files and she'll tell you what the new total is. You can move in the day after you pay the fee." Komui moved on with out even waiting for Allen's response. "Now Lavi I assume you are here to register correct?"
"Righty-o princi-pal,"
Allen started on his way down the hall as Komui began to lecture the redhead on how late it was to be registering. Allen was just focusing on not messing up the directions that Komui had given him. It would be a shame to get lost just walking down the hall way.
An: Haha silly Lavi, I'll bet you wish it really was a dream now, huh? Heheh, I guess I was a little mean to the poor boy this time around, but it's fun so who cares right? Haha you know it's time to stop typing when the word 'have' starts to look like it's spelled wrong to you.
xXxPhantomxXx: I'm so glad you got to enjoy two chapters in a row, that it always the best feeling. It's also nice to know that you actually read these long ass AN. Also, ALLEN POWER!
Cutiepie120048: I'm glad Laven is cool with you because this chapter makes it clear what Lavi's goals may one day be.
awesomepsyco: Thanks for the encouragement. This one may have been up a little faster, but Leo takes for ever to edit.
Also the last few chapters have been really long, how do you guys feel about that? Do you like it? Do you hate it? Do you not care? Tell me how you feel about that and the story it's self in the reviews, if you have any questions I'll answer them to the best of my ability, maybe clarify some things, what ever. Se ye next time. PEACE V-_-V