Chapter 9 - Explanations and Gifts to another. (I was playing Here (in you arms) by Hellogoodbye while typing this, I thought it would be quite fitting. You should get to the good bit by the chorus. :D)

A single emerald eyes slowly opened, the red head's mind awake, unlike the white-haired teen who still had his adorable face in the older's chest, looking so peacefull and comfortable. Why must you continue to be so cuuuuute Allen~? Lavi tried shifting, but then realised skinny arms had found their way around him, Allen's skinny (beansprout) arms.

"Lavi..." The small boy mumbled. "You're really warm... I'm not too cold am I? Some say I am."

Lavi tried replying back to the sleeping boy, just to see if he would reply back.

"You're not cold in a bad way, it's nice."

"You think so? Thanks." Lavi almost laughed, he wasn't actually expecting that. Suddenly Allen started trembling. "Huh? we're you going, no wait!" Allen sprung upwards. "Laviiiiiii!" he breathed slowly... looked around to find Lavi who replied.

"Yes?"

Without warning, Allen threw his arms around Lavi. "I almost thought I lost you." Lavi, surprised at first, returned a hug back to him whispering

"Don't worry Allen, I'm going nowhere." a moments comfort was suddenly interrupted when Allen realised what he was doing.

"Ah! Sorry Lavi." He tried to pull away. "It's just-" Lavi's lips interrupted him once again. Why must this guy always interrupt with kissing? but...still...it'...really calms me down, especially after a dream like that. I don't want to see you go Lavi. Please... "don't go..."

"I promise i won't" Their moment lasted much, much longer this time. Lavi let Allen breathe then asked a very reasonable question. "When did we get back to your house?"

"Oh that." Allen had almost forgotten. "Well, just before the film ended you fell asleep, and since I can't drive I had to carry you back to my house because your's was locked."

"Oh, I see. That's a bit odd though, I thought Gramps would be home, he said he'd leave the door open."

"He did? Well I'm sure it was locked. He forgot maybe?"

"Doubt it, maybe he had to go somewhere and he didn't know what time the film ended. Anyway that matter aside, we'd better get the ca-"

"There will be no need." An familiar voice spoke from Allen's doorway.

"Bookman!"

"I saw you taking Lavi home Allen, so I took it upon myslef to drive the car back to my house since it is shared between myself and Lavi."

"Thanks Gramps."

"Anyway, since you two seemed to have just woke up, I won't make Lavi go home just yet, he has a free schedule all week." The elder man left them alone and both let out a huge sigh.

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

"Yes." Allen shivered. "He took that the wrong way."

"Fortunatly he ain't a big mouth, and got enough maturity to not spread it around.I'm actually thankful."

"Same here. If it were Maste-" Allen sprung out of bed.

"What's up?"

"If Master sees us like this he'll probably kill me for sure."

"Ah, just more one thing." Again a familiar voice spoke to them from the shadows. "General Cross said he wouldn't be back untill late tonight, he made sure I was to tell you" Lavi and Allen stared at Bookman He hadn't even left yet? "Good day Allen Walker, Lavi" Silent had engulfed all noise from the room. The only thing hat broke the silent was the creak of the bed when Allen sat down again.

"So this means..."

"...we have the whooooooooole day together." Lavi smiled and embraced Allen. "So, what do you wanna do first?"

"It's 3 days till Christmas, I'd say we'd better get everyone's gifts."

"Good plan." Lavi then realised he had just been sleeping in his clothes. He looked down at them stained. Then Allen offered:

"Well, before that you should wash your clothes first. The shower's free for you aswell."

"Thanks Allen."

While his clohers were in the washing machine, Lavi took a shower. Allen was waiting for his turn, then they would both head to the shopping centre for Kanda (to Allen's dismay), Lenalee, Crowry (although, ALlen thought, it might be difficult to track him...), Cross (Wine obviously), Bookman (some history books, hopfully ones he hasnt read yet.) and then, of course, for each other, which was the most difficult of all. Hearing the running water cease, guess Lavi's out now, he decended downstairs, but what he saw made him blush the reddest red of all reds.

Lavi was only in a short towel.

He has the body of a sex god! Was Allen's instant thought. Noticing Allen was staring at him Lavi replied with a smirk

"Like what you see?"

Allen quickly returned to his senses. "Ah, sorry. I'll wait, you're clothes are still being dried." He turned to leave but Lavi stopped him.

"Don't worry, you just jump straight in." Allen nodded, just as he was going through the door, he gave one last, unexpected, speech.

"Don't catch a cold by being just in a towel." His face darkened "and if you try anything it won't be a great experience."

...did I just see Allen's dark side?...scary...I'll try my best not to get him mad...

Turning the heat down (Allen wasn't fond of boiling hot showers), he stripped, then got in. Warm water trickled down his short, white hair with the one part, that usualy stood up, drooping, all the way down to his feet. Allen always took extra caution when washing his left arm as to only wash in one direction to avoid any scales falling off (which was pretty darn painful). Quickly washing his hair, he turned off the shower and got out as fast as he had got in. What he didn't know was that something was waiting for him outside the bathroom door. Allen had only put his jeans on to let his hair dry naturally without water dripping down his shirt. He opened the door.

"Al~len~" Lavi stood there, still in a towel.

"Lavi!" He got a towel in his face with Allen's arm pointing in his direction. "It's rude to try and peep in on people when they're showering! Also, get your clothes on, I'm concerned abut your health!" Allen (again, forgeting his accent) stormed past Lavi, grabbed his wrist and dragged him along, to the dryer, dumped Lavi's clothes in his arms and ordered him to get changed. Not gonna try that one again. Lavi thought. but to see him shirtless and that look on his face... totally worth it. His thoughts satisfyed, Lavi did as Allen (who was glaring at him) asked. Lavi acended upstairs leaving Allen, still fuming. Realising (because he'd been so mad) that he was still shirtless, he grabbed his T-Shirt from the bathroom and slipped himself into it. The easiness of it made Allen realise just how thin he was. He made some of his tight clothes look slightly baggy. He shrugged and then put his pale gray hoodie over. Lavi then appeared from upstairs.

"'Kay, let's go." Lavi had a stuffed nose, Allen sighed as if to say 'I told you'. Accompanyied by Allen, the pair set off to the shopping centre.

It was a long, silent walk towards the centre. Allen was roughed up from their quarrel that morning, and Lavi had no idea how to resolve the matter. He tried to improvise.

"Errmmm, well..." hence the 'tried' "... sorry about this morning." Lavi said simply, usually he would try some sort of smart way of making Allen smile again, but today, he drew a blank.

"It...it's alright..." replied Allen, trying to forgive Lavi. "I guess I kinda... overeacted..." He detected something touching the side of his slim waist.

"I'm sorry too Allen" Lavi said, apologetically. "I shouldn't of just ignored you like that when you were just thinking of my wellbeing."

From that moment, the walk to the centre was instantly much more peaceful.

Upon arrival, they separated and arranged to meet at the counter. Knowing Allen's sense of direction and his habit of getting lost easily, he made sure he made a mental note of his route, considering the centre was quite big. On Allen's side, he looked for gifts for everyone. While choosing, his phone rang in his back pocket playing Here (in your arms) by Hellogoodbye, immedeatly telling him that it was Lavi. It continued ringing: well you are the one, the one that lies close to me, whispers hello-

"Lavi?"

"Hi Allen~"

"Why are you phoning when we're in the same building?"

"Just checking that you aren't lost."

"Thanks for your concern but I don't get lost after walking around a centre in less than 5 minutes"

"O~kay, see ya later." Allen hung up. Staring at his phone he chuckled at the recent conversation.

"Thanks Lavi" He whispered softly, knowing that Lavi had been trying to cheer him up with that conversation. It had worked.

Focusing on what he was here for, he looked around (hoping not to be distracted) for gifts. For Lenalee, his long, dark (almost black) green hair that was worn in pitails friend, he got her some new ribons for her hair. They were coloured light blue and sparkled in the sun. Yeah, these'll suit her.

Next, he got Crowry a Venus flytrap (He vaguly remembered Crowry standing outside a plant shop, staring aimlessly at them). Just to annoy Kanda, he got him a pair of white hair straighteners, then at home, I'll make sure I write Bakanda on the side in perminant marker Allen thought, his dark side laughing. For Miranda, he got her a silver pocketwatch (it works since her Innocence is a clock). Cross's favourite wine was found and also some intresting looking history books for Bookman. Now Lavi's gift was next. He had purposely saved it for last because he had no idea what to get him.

"A gift for Lavi..." He mumbled "a gift for-"

He had spotted the perfect gift.

*meanwhile*

"Lesseeeeee~" Lavi had already gotten a few presents. For Lenalee - a shiny silver necklace with her name on it. A headband for Kanda saying "Kanda Yuu" across it. For Crowry a toy crow (For when Lavi calls his Crow-chan). Miranda (Unbeknowest to him, she had repeated torture from this) a toy snake. Some historic books for Bookman (like Allen). Then came Allen's gift. He saw a golden glint from the corner of his eye. "Hmm?" He inspected it.

Perfect.

Both headed to the counter (at convinently the same time) and bought their gifts, hiding the ones for each other.

"By the way, I was thinking that we were giving them these when we got back to school, but you seem like it's gonna be before that." Allen was questioning about the smirk on Lavi's face.

"Oh, well we might do, I just hope we see them before Christmas."

"Hmm. Okay" Allen seemed to believe him. Well, I guess he's bought that story. Lavi thought cleverly. They trotted out of the store back to Allen's, or so he thought.

"Hey, I just thought of something." Lavi annouced as Allen's hand was on the handle. "You've never seen my house have you?" Allen shook his head. "Well, it's not exactly fair that I'm always at your house, so why not come to mine for a change?" His request was accepted, so they went two houses down towards Lavi's house. It was Allen's house polar opposite. It was decorated with pictures of historic figures. Books lays everywhere (not surprising) even though the bookshelfs were full. Smelling the air, Allen noticed it was Lavi's exact scent. It seemed that Bookman was out, so they left their gifts for him and their friends under the 10ft Christmas tree in the corner of the living room. It was beatifully decorated with possibly every decoration; boubles, tinsle, lights, snowflakes, Wise Men, Angels, then with a golden star on top, which glistened in the late hours of sunlight left. Lavi then gently guided Allen through the piles of books to his room. After closing Lavi's bedroom door, he admired his friend's (?) room. just like the living room, painting of historic figures hung from his walls. But he had added more modern effects to his room: his laptop, poster of singers and bands, Nintendo Wii, DS and PS3. His huge wooden wardrobe was shoved into the far corner, with his bed across from it so you could see the window betwen the gap. His bed was a double which was Black with character "Ho" meaning "Fire" in Japanese.

"Wow, you're house is really different to mine, in a good way." Alen stated his opinion.

"Oh really?" Lavi didn't see that one coming his way.

"Yeah." Lavi was glad that Allen was alright with his house and didn't think is was strange because of all the books.

"So... got any idea of what now?"

"Well..." Lavi's mouth twisted into a mischivous grin as he stepped closer to Allen. "I have one question."

"Ye-yes?" Crap! My accent! For once Allen had actually known his accent had come back.

"Have you ever seen how unbelievable adorable you are Allen?"

"Eh? Wha-" His torso had come to contact with skinny arms finding themselves around him. Head buried in Lavi's chest he heard his heart thumping faster and faster...then it calmed to normal beats. "La-Lavi.." Allen's felt his face fluster.

"No one's in, and you don't have to go until Cross gets back, which is quite late, so it's just us right now."

"But." Before he knew it, Lavi and leaned on his, then they both toppled into Lavi's double bed.

"L-Lavi-mmph!" Lavi's kiss was deeper than any other time. He's been waiting for a long time for this, just to get us alone without the worry of anyone else here... Knowing this, Allen didn't resist, he let Lavi do as he pleased...

but for what was coming next, Allen wasn't prepared for at all.

Note: I know this chapter is huge but I'm proud :D I may not make a chapter longer than this but who knows?