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CHAPTER VII: Open Your Eyes and See an Angel

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Allen came out of the kitchen with two mugs of hot chocolate. After meeting Tyki a couple of hours ago Lavi had been almost completely quiet, just sitting on the couch hugging his knees. The angel knew he wasn't supposed to hate, but really couldn't stand Tyki, especially not at that time. He put one of the mugs on the table in front of Lavi and sat down next to him.

"You all right?" he asked and stroked Lavi's hair.

"Mhm," Lavi said, but he didn't really sound all right at all.

Allen glanced over at the door again. He had done that every minute since they had gotten back, making sure that Tyki and Road hadn't followed them. Luckily they hadn't. Suddenly someone slammed open the door and burst in; Allen got shivers down his spine, but then he realised it wasn't a member of Noah's Family, but Kanda.

"What the hell's going on?" he said, partly angry and partly… worried? "I saw that fucker Tyki Mikk walking down the street with a little girl, and then he came up to me and asked me if I'd seen you guys."

"What did you tell him?" Allen asked alarmed; if Kanda had told them anything they were sure to find him.

"I smiled politely and wrote down the address for him," Kanda said very sarcastic. "Che! Do you really think I'm that stupid, you Moyashi!?"

"Don't call me that, BaKanda!" Allen almost yelled.

"Do you even know what that means?"

"I do," Allen explained, sounding a bit like a brat. "I learned it on an anime I watched."

He stuck out his tongue at Kanda. Kandache-ed and sat down on the other side of Lavi.

"You met him again, didn't you?" he asked, but for once he actually sounded caring and nice.

Lavi nodded and Kanda put his arm around his shoulder in an attempt to comfort the redhead. Allen just stared in front of himself, not knowing what to say or do. So the three of them sat in silence for around ten minutes before something crashed into Kanda's head.

"Son of a-!" he yelled. "What the hell was that?"

The thing that had hurt him was flying around his head very fast, making it almost impossible to see it. Of course, that didn't stop Kanda from trying to kill it with a book he found on the table. Allen stood up and grabbed his arm.

"No, don't hurt Timcanpy," he said. "He didn't mean to do anything; he's blind, he can't really see where he's flying."

"What is it, a bat?" Kanda asked through gritted teeth, still trying to kill the thing.

"Actually, Yuu-chan," Lavi said, his head still on his arms. "Bats aren't blind. In fact, most bats have very good sight; they have the radar thing to help them even further, not instead of sight. That's why they hate bright light actually."

Kanda and Allen stared at the redhead. Allen took back what he had said before; Lavi wasn't stupid. At all…

"Fine, so it's not a bat," Kanda said. "I'm still gonna kill it!"

Timcanpy flew behind Allen's head and rested in his hood, hiding from the evil man who tried to kill him with a deadly book of doom. He didn't like books. Well, he didn't hate them as much as cats, but he still hated them.

"BaKanda, you can't kill him," Allen said and pouted. "Killing is a sin and sinning is bad. If you sin and aren't forgiven you will end up in Hell. Not that I can say I want you to be in Heaven with me, but still… Besides, God told me to at least act nice towards all humans and to-"

He was cut off when Lavi placed his hand over his mouth. He had already said too many weird things; Kanda would either think he was insane or… well, stupid. As Lavi had thought, Kanda stared dumbstruck at the white haired.

"… God told you to… be nice? God?" he asked. "What are you, a patient who ran away from the mental hospital?"

Allen tried to say hey, but it sounded muffled because of Lavi's hand.

"Yuu-chan," Lavi started explaining. "Allen's just… umm… very devoted to God, all right? It's not like he's some angel sent by God to help people on Earth get rid of their sins-"

This time it was Allen who placed his hand over Lavi's mouth. Kanda's eye twitched.

"You two are way too strange," he said and shook his head, as if trying to get rid of the insanity that was building up in his head. "I know he's not an angel, you Bunny. They don't exist!"

Timcanpy crashed into his head again, but this time he had meant it; no one insulted Allen or any other angels. He then decided to bite the Japanese teen's ear.

"What the-?" Kanda yelled and pulled Timcanpy off. "What the heck is this thing?"

He looked at the yellow ball and his eye twitched again.

"It's mechanic, right?" he asked the other two and pointed at the ball in his hand.

"No, he's a real living thing," Allen said and pouted again. "And you're hurting him!"

He went over to Kanda and took Timcanpy in his own hands, stroking him and talking to him. Kanda rolled his eyes.

"Lavi, why are all your friends freaks?" he asked.

"But you're my friend too, Yuu," Lavi said and smiled. "Are you calling yourself a freak?"

"We are not friends," Kanda said angry. "You just won't stay away from me!"

"Lavi," Allen said. "I'll go take a shower with Tim. He's covered in blood because of a certain samurai-wannabe."

He directed the last words towards Kanda and then went to the bathroom to take a shower. Lavi and Kanda sat down on the couch again, Lavi with a goofy grin as always when he was around the Japanese. Kanda was glad he wasn't depressed or thinking about Tyki anymore at least.

"So," he said, trying to make a conversation. "Where did you find the little freak?"

Lavi turned his head to him.

"You mean Allen?" he asked.

"Well, I did say the little freak, didn't I!?"

"Right," Lavi said and decided to drink his hot chocolate that Allen had made for him. "He showed up on my doorstep. He said he was going to put my life back in order so I wouldn't be screwed the rest of living days."

Kanda blinked.

"And you let him stay?" he asked. "Isn't it obvious he's insane?"

"Yuu, he's an…," Lavi started, but decided not to tell Kanda; he'd just call him insane as well. "No, you wouldn't believe me."

"Oh yeah? Try me!"

Lavi smiled. This was something he truly liked about his best friend. No matter how uninterested he seemed he was actually very curious and hated it when people, especially Lavi, had any secrets they didn't share with him.

"Okay," the redhead said and shrugged. "Allen is an angel working for God as an Exorcist. Exorcists are angels who are sent to Earth to help people who have fucked up their life with sins. They have a book called the Book with information about the person and their lives, which was how Allen knew about me and stuff. Timcanpy is some kind of messenger Allen has by the way, and I believe he's a golem or something. Anyways, he's cute. Oh, and Allen has proved this to me as he has wings and stuff."

He smiled at Kanda who just stared at him. Then Kanda had to use all his willpower so he wouldn't laugh as that'd be very non-Kanda-ish of him.

"You… you think an angel lives in your apartment?" he asked, trying his best not to let any laughter spill out while he talked.

"Told you you wouldn't believe me," Lavi said and pouted a bit. "It's true though! He can heal people too."

Kanda couldn't help it; he laughed. His friend had officially lost his mind and gotten friends with a nutcase who believed he was an angel. Lavi stared at him.

"You can stop laughing now," he said bored.

"I… can't," Kanda said between fits of laughter. "You're… so… stupid!"

Lavi rolled his eyes. For once it was Kanda annoying him, not the other way around.

"No, Tim, don't eat my hair," they heard Allen yell from the bathroom. "No, it's not edible. Let go!"

With that the bathroom door flew open and Allen fell down to the floor. The only thing he was wearing was a towel around his waist. Lavi picked up some paper he found on the table and covered his nose in it to prevent the blood from flooding. Kanda stared at Allen, his mouth open.

"What… he… I," he spluttered, not being able to talk properly.

Was that… an angel in front of him? It was either an angel or a bird-man, because the boy did have wings.

"What the heck?" Kanda asked with something that sounded like a mix of fear and surprise in his voice.

"Told you," Lavi said and smirked; the expression on Kanda's face had been priceless.

"Oh no," Allen yelled when he noticed that the Japanese boy was staring at him.

He got to his feet, a blush spreading across his face.

"He wasn't supposed to find that out," he said sad. "Now God will punish me… And you, Tim, because this was your fault."

The little creature flopped his wings sadly. Lavi suddenly was alarmed.

"Wait, does that mean you have to leave?" he asked shocked and Allen nodded. "But… oh crap, I shouldn't have told Yuu, should I!?"

Allen looked at him.

"You told him?" he asked and tilted his head. "Before he saw my wings?"

"Yeah…"

"Oh, good!" Allen said happily. "That means I won't get punished; it was your fault! Good, I thought something bad just happened, but it was only you making another sin. Oh, we need to make up for that too."

"Wait, what?" Lavi asked. "That was a sin? You never told me that."

"Well, I forgot then," the angel said and smirked. "Too bad!"

"Oh crap," Lavi said and hugged his knees again.

Although, he was happy that Allen could stay and that his best friend didn't think he was that insane anymore. Speaking of Kanda, Lavi turned to face him again. He was still staring at the place Allen had been two minutes ago, his mouth opening and closing, much like a goldfish.

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A/N: Well, Kanda HAD to find out! Actually, I just really wanted him back in the story, and to give him a bigger role. He'll have an important role later, I've already planned that.

I've gotten a few questions about where this story is set. I confused some of you because Kanda called Allen Moyashi and Allen called Kanda BaKanda. Well, this story is supposed to happen in England, not Japan. Like Allen said in this chapter, he learned the word baka from an anime.

Sorry for my lack of inspiration, time and chapter length. I checked eBay again, but the inspiration I found was expensive, the time had no quality and they didn't have more chapter length; sold out!

Well, hope you enjoyed this chapter as well! I'll update soon… I hope…