Disclaimer: Don't own Rave. Hiro Mashima did and still does.
Warning: Pouting Haru and sporks... xP
Notes: …The entire idea is due to… well… the whole thing is cute xD;
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Snippet 2 – What Lucia Fear Most
"Neh… Lucia…"
"Hn?"
"I want a cat."
CRACK.
WHAM!
Wide golden eyes stared at Haru with shock. He wants a freaking cat. A furball! What has the world come up to!
"Can we please, Lucy-kun?"
"…"
He kept his silence and ignored one of Haru's tricks; the use of nicknames. Grabbing the broken pieces of the mug, he frowned and twitched and frowned even more until his jaw aches and realize that even if he's the Blond Devil, he can't really frown all day long because he doesn't have any all-day frowning power. Besides, it gives him a wrinkler face.
Glaring at the broken pieces instead, he made his way to the kitchen. He has to get a book on how to keep oneself from shattering mugs when being spoken to about cats.
"Mou! Lucia! You're being mean!"
Eyebrow twitching, Lucia suddenly felt a pang of guilt stabs his heart. Yes. Stab. It stabs him with something worse than Rave, and it hurts even more when his mind keep repeating it in that annoying echoey way.
He whirled around to face the boy and regrets doing so. Haru is pouting. Pouting!
Now, a pouting Haru is NOT good. It is not tolerable for 10 seconds or less. It is the bane of Lucia's life. It can make him dig up a hole and bury himself there 'til kingdom comes. It can make him feel tingly there. It can make him pounce on the boy and do something. It can make go and take a cold shower to… well… clean himself. But worse of all, it can make him feel very, very guilty, which is something Lucia barely feel. It makes him want to apologize… and Lucia doesn't apologize to anyone. He's a bad boy. Very bad.
'I'm such a moron…'
'Glad you know.' Those eyes were staring at him, those round, angry silver eyes. First the pout, and now the eye trick. He'll never win against them. Why does god created him in an unholy way?
Haru was about to whine at him again when he suddenly opened his mouth and said, "You know what, you can get any furball you want and I won't care a damn!" And he left for the kitchen without reconsidering.
Haru just stood there, staring blankly at the blonde's back. Any pet, he said. And he won't care about any pet he gets.
Realizing the fact, the boy suddenly grinned freakily and quickly left the house, grabbing the key and his coat along the way.
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A Few Hours Later
"Haru? Haru?"
He's worried. He's really worried. Haru's been gone for 2 hours already, and he's still not home yet. He had called Musica, Let… Heck, he even called the wretched centre girl. But sadly, none of them knew where the boy is.
Lucia paced around the living room, fretting about what he should do. Did he anger the boy that much? No… he's the one who's supposed to be angry. Now he's really being selfish.
Pacing even more, he glared at the red trail of the carpet, until something hit him.
'Masaka!'
"Shit!"
He hurriedly run to their shared bedroom and wrenched their closet open to find…
'They're still here…'
Breathing a sigh of relief, Lucia flopped down onto the bed and stared at the still present clothes.
'Mou… where are you, Haru?'
Knowing he can't handle it anymore, he buried his head under the fluffy pillow and breath in Haru's scent. Suddenly, he felt really mean and evil and…
Guilty?
'I'm really one damn bastard…'
He stared at the molecular-sized holes of the pillow, fisting his hand son the blanket until he heard the sound of the door opening.
Knowing he has to apologize no matter how much it hurts his pride, he quickly left the room and jumped down the stairs to find a quite happy Haru, crouched in the floor with…
"A HAMSTER!"
Innocent gray eyes stare at horrid yellow ones, and then he smiled sweetly at the flabbergasted blonde and calmly said, "Well, you did say I can have any pet I want, right? Since I can pet you like a cat, I thought why not a hamster? Besides, it's very cute! Mitte!"
As if to emphasize it, he held the hamster at eye level, shoving it right in front of Lucia.
And Lucia was so sure the hamster is smirking at him.
Then he screamed on top of his lungs.
And Haru shrieked even louder when Lucia started to stab the hamster dead with a spork.
END OF SNIPPET TWO
