Chapter 26: The Right Person

Lavi washed his face with new vigor and fresh water. Sighing with a satisfied end, Lavi reveled on his new addition to his already masculine and perfect face. He couldn't wait to face his gang!

Meanwhile, Krory was enjoying a casual walk with the normally stoic samurai in the long and hallowed Black Order corridors.

"Hey Kanda, is it true that Lavi's back from his mission in America?" Krory broke the valuable silence with a polite question.

Kanda grumbled warily but appeased his elder with his answer, "4 months without the stupid Usagi isn't long enough!" Here, the pokerfaced man gave out a exasperating sigh, "there goes the peace and quiet,"

"Ahahahaha!" Krory chuckled at the saddened look on Kanda's face, "But without Lavi here, Allen has been-"

"HUUUUUUULLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOO!"

A ascending scream of happiness shot through the echoic corridor, making the 2 introverts cringed. A lively streak of red ran towards them with open arms and floating flowers in the background. They -read: Krory- was about to welcome Lavi back when they saw Lavi's new image.

Kanda was the first one to get back into reality after that immediate blackout, "Usagi.. Why do you have an overgrown caterpillar on your upper lip?"

Krory blinked once, then twice again to reconfirm his eye vision. He thought that maybe it was time to get that elderly sight check that Komui was nagging him about. Because right in front of him was Lavi with a-

"It's called a moustache, Yu~ How do I look?" Lavi smirked, showing off the red line of short hair above Lavi's lip.

Krory cleared his throat as he avoided eye contact with the moustache guy, "Lavi... Honestly, I don't know what to sa-"

"I'll tell you; that is an abomination to your already pathetic face!" Finally, Kanda told the truth face up.

But Lavi wouldn't take no for an answer, "Tease me all you want. I look manly in this and you're just jealous!" The insulted man stomped off fuming, leaving behind a grumbling swordsman and a sad vampire.

Lavi mumbled to himself as he traveled along the corridors when he heard another happy scream, "Laaavi!"

Hugging the charging Chinese lady gleefully, Lavi smiled brightly and waited for Lenalee's reaction to his moustache. Surely she would appreciate the facial hair, since the girl was all into make-up and good impressions.

"What happen to your face?!" Lenalee gasped as she held both cheeks to further survey the so-called damage, "You poor boy! Did an Akuma scratch you this hard until you bled?! You should get that checked out!"

Lavi swiped Lenalee's fretting hands away as he stepped back with a heartbroken heart, "it's a moustache, Lenalee!"

"Oh!" Lenalee had the decency to blush lightly. She tilted her head with a calculating look before those sharp eyes turn soft, "You don't look nice with it, Lavi. I think you look better without it,"

Surprised by the blunt comment, Lavi collected what was left of his pride and stalked off after saying a quick goodbye to Lenalee. He was fuming angry by now, determined to keep the facial hair.

"I'm gonna keep it! And nothing's gonna make me shave it off!" He announced to the Black Order gang who were gathered in the cafeteria. Steadfast with deep perseverance, the Exorcists could tell that Lavi really is not going to allow anything stand in the way between him and his moustache.

"LAAAVI!" The childish laughter rang out, making the gang turn to see a excited Allen running their way.

Lavi's heart skipped a beat as he embraced his long, lost lover with open arms. The familiar scent of peppermint and dark chocolate flooded Lavi's senses, and it felt good to feel Allen's lithe body against his own once again. It had been a long time since he felt Allen's bare skin below his hot fingertips, a long time since he touched those luxurious lips that begged to be ravished. Too long, just too long!

"Allen..." He murmured lovingly, his voice dropping an octave lower.

Allen glanced up to see his lover once again, but he widened his silvery eyes and pushed himself back as if being touched by fire. Looking frantically around for something, Allen said worryingly, "Don't move, Lavi! You have strawberry juice all over your upper lip! I'll go find a napkin!"

Unlike other people, Lavi treated his little one with calmness and rare maturity. He chuckled as he tried regaining the hold on Allen's moving waist, "Allen, hold on! You can't wipe-"

"But if I don't wipe it off, how am I supposed to give you your welcome back kiss? I can't do that with juice on your face!"

Lavi's mind came to a full stop after the word 'kiss'. Within a blink of an eye, the hyperactive bunny left the cafeteria in such a great speed, that it left the curtains flying away.

Allen stood with confusion in his face, whilst the gang looked at the scene amusingly (save for Kanda, who decided that his lunch was more important than seeing the idiotic Usagi make a fool of himself).

Before they knew it, Lavi came back in a red blur and literally swept Allen off his feet. With one important difference: the moustache was nowhere to be seen! Carrying the flustered angel bridal-style to his private bedroom, he walked away with a lecherous grin, "now... About that kiss..."

After a satisfying 24 hours, Lavi was seen walking around the hallways with the exact expression of a red cat that had successfully ate the white canary.

Lenalee couldn't help but giggle as she heard that Allen couldn't be able to walk for a few hours now. She smiled at Lavi's old face that cannot be changed whatsoever, "Whatever made you change your mind? I thought you said that nothing would make you shave the moustache off,"

"It's not a matter of something that'll make me shave it," Lavi grinned back cheekily, "It's a matter of someone special that motivates me to do stuff that I wouldn't do for anyone else,"