Alrighty then! You guys ready to see what happens next in this story? I certainly hope so!
Road: Do I get to play with Allen?
Me: I don't know. It all depends on what all of the characters want and that's what I'll be typing!
Lavi: So you basically write this on the spot.
Me: No not quite. I do generally have a decent idea before I start a chapter and then the characters have fun with the story.
Allen: So all of this *Gestures to body* is because of me?
Me: Yes and no. What happened was that the first chapter was a prompt from my English teacher and so I had to go off of that. What happened though for you shrinking and all of that was you.
Allen: NO!
Me: Moving on… I don't own D. Gray Man. If I did it would have a more convoluted storyline then it already does.
After they got to the inn the five of them got two rooms. One room was for Lenalee and Vladlena that was just across the hall from Allen, Kanda, and Lavi's room. After they dropped off all of their bags they decided, mostly the exorcists because they were tired from the train, to go to the baths and just relax for a little bit in them and then get down and talk to Vladlena about what had been going on and what she had witnessed.
"Finally!" Lenalee said as she walked out of her room. "I haven't had a decent bath in days! Lets go Vladlena."
Vladlena chuckled, "Coming coming Lenalee-san."
Meanwhile in the boys room.
"So… What do we want to do while we wait for the girls to finish with their bath?" Lavi asked sitting on the bed he had claimed by the door.
"Well how about some poker?" Allen suggested smiling his Black Allen smile which was slightly more terrifying as he was in a kid form at the peak of his poker playing days.
"Che. No Moyashi. We need to go gather information." Kanda said in rebuttal.
"Well, Bakanda, we wouldn't be able to gather information very well without Vladlena and Lenalee who would be our 'buffers' here in Tulun. I'm considered cursed and your just unfriendly so the only to gather information out of the three of us would be Lavi." Allen said pointing at said red head.
"I'm flattered to know I have such praise from you Allen-chan!" Lavi said bowing slightly.
"Yeah that wasn't praise Lavi. Because there's also the fact that anytime you saw a pretty girl you would go 'Strike!' and lose interest in collecting information." Allen said shrugging his shoulders.
"Oh come on! You gotta give me some credit Allen-chan!" Lavi said with his puppy dog face.
"I did. Then I put the truth that would go with it on as well." Allen said bluntly.
"Is it just me or are you less polite right now?" Lavi asked.
"It's not just you baka Usagi. He is less of a 'gentleman' right now." Kanda replied.
Allen just shrugged, "This is more or less what I was like as a kid, though perhaps I'm a little more polite because it feels like I reverted back to just a few months after Master picked me up."
"So basically it's like when you were with Mana, Allen-chan?" Lavi asked as he looked at Allen who was smiling again. "Um Allen? You're kind of scaring me." Lavi shuddered.
"Well since we have discovered that we can't do anything because of our situation so we can revert back to some poker." Allen said his smile growing wider.
Lavi laughed nervously, "I'd rather sit this one out…" and then he started to back away a bit.
"But Lavi," Allen said smiling 'innocently', "what about all of the information you could gather from this?" That sentence caught Lavi's attention and he scooted closer.
"What type of information exactly?" Lavi asked his bookman side taking over a little bit.
"Well, for example, how Kanda reacts when he loses, how I act if I lose, how we act in a game that's not life or death. Things like that." Allen said trying, and partially failing, to keep his smile under control.
"That is tempting… Especially seeing Yuu-chan lose! I'm in!" Lavi said back in his usual hyperactive state.
"Che. I won't lose Baka Usagi, Moyashi." Kanda said as he sat cross-legged on the floor. "Now deal Moyashi!"
"It's Allen! Not Moyashi! And as you obviously didn't notice, I already am dealing." Allen said with his smile growing devilish and Lavi noticing this began to sweat. Kanda however was completely calm and collected. Or he at least seemed that way.
"So then, the person to the left of the dealer, me, goes first. What's your move?" Allen said motioning to Lavi.
"I will raise by two of my precious snacks." Lavi said placing some of his 'hidden' snacks in the middle.
Kanda grunted and said, "Call." Placing two of his snacks, not anything sweet obviously, but still food in the pile.
The game continued in this manner until Lavi dropped out for fear of losing more of his snack stash than he already had. That and it was fun to watch the two of them taunting each other.
"Baka moyashi. It's your move and you did something stupid." Kanda said growling at Allen. Though Kanda had lost more than he had won as far as the games went.
Allen scoffed, "Really. You think I would do something that stupid, Bakanda? I'm the poker champion."
"Really? I beg to differ, Moyashi." Kanda said as he placed down his hand of straight flush.
Allen just laughed, "Really, Bakanda. Watch and learn." Then Allen placed down a royal straight flush with the ace of spades, his card, right on top.
"Damn you Moyashi! You cheated! And if you weren't a kid right now I would beat you to a pulp!" Kanda said growling as Allen took the pile.
"I could still whip you even though I'm a kid, Bakanda!" Allen said taunting as he stuck out his tongue.
"You're going to die now Moyashi!" Kanda said as he pounced on Allen. Lavi by this point had wisely decided to go up on top of a bunk bed to avoid the destruction that was sure to occur.
This was the scene that Lenalee and Vladlena walked in on. Lenalee quickly whipped out her clipboard and smacked both of them promptly on their heads. "You two, I leave you alone for two hours and this happens! And Lavi get your butt down here now!" Lenalee said glaring at the three of them.
"I'm sorry Lenalee." Allen said sweetly without a trace of 'Black Allen.'
"Che. It's not like I care what happens. I just want to finish this mission." Kanda said standing.
"Sorry Lena-lady. Once these two get going they get going!" Lavi said bowing his head and trying to look up through his bangs innocently.
"Yeah yeah yeah. Whatever. For now the two of us have found some information about what has been going on here. It seems that sightings of a little girl with a pink umbrella has been walking around with a tall, handsome, and charming man in a top hat. Sound familiar?" Lenalee said giving a short brief on what they had found.
Allen and Kanda growled and then Allen said, "Road Kamelot and Tykki Mikk."
"Exactly. Let's just hope that we don't run into them." Lenalee said, her tone worried.
Just a few small streets away however were Road and Tykki walking towards the inn that the exorcists were staying in. "Ready for some play time Road?" Tykki asked as they got closer.
"Of course Tykki! Why wouldn't I be? I get to see a cute little Allen and play with him to my hearts content!" Road said smiling. And then Tykki began to laugh followed along by Road.
