A/N: So, here's chapter two for you guys. I'm very grateful for the reviews and fav's and stuff. :D I love you all! Anyways, this chapter I like more, because there's more action. (I should really go to bed...) I hope you guys like it! Feed a starving author moar reviews! 8D
Ouh, I guess I could put this here, too... I'm not getting any email alerts from the site anymore, guise. D: I 'unno why. Any thoughts? (I'm still reading my reviews, though. XD)
Anyways, enjoy!
Chapter two: Leaves and Curse Words
"Your eyes are drying up like raisins, Yuu."
"Your squinty little eye is arid as a desert, Eyepatch."
"You guys are weird…"
"Shut up, Moyashi!" Kanda snapped at Allen.
"But it's been twenty two minutes since either of you have blinked!" Allen complained.
"Eyepatch is squinting so badly, he should be disqualified," Kanda said.
"Fuck you!" Lavi said. "It's still open! I can see every tear that falls down your pristine doll-like woman's face."
"You asshole! I'll kill you when this is over…"
Allen sweatdropped. They were both becoming irritable…
-BANG!!-
The three friends all flinched at the sudden loud noise… and blinked. They all turned their heads towards the doorway.
"Reever?" Allen asked, a little stunned.
Reever was standing in the doorway, his arms and hands in front of him as if he had just been carrying something. Directly below his hands was a thick, leather-bound book a foot thick.
Lavi and Kanda starred in horror at the scientist. Kanda immediately began wiping wasted tears from his face.
"Reever-san?!" Lavi cried. "Why? WHY?!"
Reever shrugged. "I was watching you guys for a few minutes and got bored…" He knelt down and picked up his book. "You guys need hobbies…" He said tiredly as he walked away.
Lavi held his hands in front of himself in woe, while Kanda simply sat there, fuming.
"Fucking scientist should mind his own business!"
Allen raised an eyebrow at Kanda. "It was just a staring contest!"
Kanda began chasing Allen around the room with Mugen. "FUCKING MOYASHI!! WHAT DO YOU KNOW!?"
"UUWAAHHH!! LAVI-KUUN!" Allen cried.
Lavi rubbed his eye a few more times before standing up. "Well, I'm still the man, because it was a draw." He picked up his hammer from the floor.
Kanda stopped chasing Allen around and huffed. "Say whatever you want…"
Allen, carefully avoiding an irked Kanda, walked over to Lavi. "So, Lavi-kun! You want to go get some ice cream?" he asked, smiling sweetly.
Lavi pushed his thick red hair out of his face and fanned himself with his headband. "It's so hot, though…"
"It's just as hot in here as it is outside," Allen said. "And I'm so bored!" he complained, clasping his hands together and bringing them to his face. "Please, Lavi! Please please please!"
"Okay, okay!" Lavi said, waving his hand. "Just stop begging!"
"Yay!" Allen said, hugging Lavi.
"Moyashi is too effeminate…" Kanda said, watching the scene with a raised eyebrow.
Allen turned his head and glared at Kanda, still hugging Lavi.
"You're just jealous!" Lavi bragged, wrapping his arm around Allen's waist. Allen laughed.
"I'm gone…" Kanda said, slightly red in the face and walking towards the doorway.
"You want to come, Kanda?" Allen asked, letting go of Lavi.
"No."
"Why?" Lavi asked, scratching the side of his head with the handle of his hammer.
"Because…"
"Yes?" Allen asked.
"…because…"
"Yeah?" Lavi said.
"…You guys look idiotic when using Eyepatches hammer to travel…"
Lavi and Allen sweatdropped. "You're so prideful, Yuu…" they said in unison.
Kanda sighed irritably. "If you two won't leave me alone, then I suppose I'll have to accompany you…" he said, not looking at the two. "You two are going to get lost if I'm not there, anyways."
Lavi snickered and began leading the way out of the room. "Look at this guy, thinks he's Mr. Navigator. I guess he's better than Allen-kun, at least…"
"You're mean, Lavi-kun…"
--
The three exorcists found their way out of the ominous building, and now stood next to each other along a grassy cliff nearby. Kanda looked out of place wearing his uniform's coat, next to Allen and Lavi who were wearing clothes suitable for the hot weather. They were all staring into the distance.
"Ah, I know which town you're talking about, Allen-kun," Lavi said, holding a hand to his forehead to shade his eye. "It's the one with that cafe owned by that middle-aged brunette woman. It should be right… over there," he said, now pointing with the same hand. He turned to Allen. "What's the name of that town, again?"
Allen glanced at Lavi and then upwards, furrowing his eyebrows. "It's… Rimbey? Or is it Eckville?..." Allen blinked and cocked his head to the side, staring hard at a cloud.
"Tsk…" Kanda said, closing his eyes and lowering his head. "You don't even know the name of the place we're going?" He opened his eyes partly and stared at a grasshopper near his feet. "Stupid Moyashi."
Allen glared at Kanda. "It doesn't matter what the name of the town is. What matters is if they have ice cream there or not!" Allen explained, smiling goofily.
Kanda shook his head, staring down into the greenery below the cliff. His eyes widened slightly and he became even more still.
"Yeah, I remember going there twice before," Lavi said to Allen, swinging his bare arms back and forth in the sun. "The brunette woman who owns the place is pretty attractive."
Allen laughed and fanned his neck and chest with his pink fan. "You really need to take an interest in girls your own age, Lavi-kun."
Kanda squinted. "Akuma…? Here?"
"Hm?" Allen murmured, turning to Kanda. "What was tha-"
Allen stopped mid-question when Kanda leapt gracefully off of the cliff. Lavi and Allen's jaws dropped.
"KANDAAAA?!"
The two remaining young men ran over to the spot Kanda had jumped off of, and sure enough, he was falling (In a graceful dive) towards two level one akuma.
"Does that guy have a death wish?!" Lavi cried, pulling out his hammer. "You don't just jump off a cliff like this!"
--
With a relatively calm expression on his face (especially for a person free-falling towards the ground), Kanda had drawn Mugen to his side and was prepared to attack the unknowing, slow, level one akuma.
-KA-BOOM!-
Kanda sliced cleanly through the first akuma, leaving behind a small explosion.
"One down," Kanda noted to himself, changing his mid-air position to retain more wind-resistance (now that he was closer to the ground). He pulled Mugen to his side once more and just barely launched an attack at the remaining akuma, before he was abruptly grabbed by the collar of his now open uniform's coat, the only thing he was wearing on his upper body.
"What the-" Kanda asked aloud, arching his neck back to see who (or what) had grabbed him.
"Kanda!" Allen cried, gripping onto the long-haired one's coat collar with one hand and Lavi's growing hammer with the other. "What were you thinking? That's a very-"
"Stupid Moyashi!!" Kanda complained, akuma explosions growing farther and farther away. "Who do you think you are, to pluck me out of battle?! Let me go!"
"Eh?! I saved your life, and this is how you thank me, girly-hair?!" Allen shot back.
"I never asked you to save me, old-man-hair!" Kanda barked.
"You guys suck at insults," Lavi called from a few feet ahead. The redhead was sitting sideways on his growing hammer, and had a happy look on his face. His hair, unrestricted by his headband, flowed fiercely behind him. He turned to face his arguing friends. "Can't you just enjoy the ride, guys?"
Allen reluctantly pulled Kanda up so he could grab the handle, which he did. Kanda positioned himself in between Allen and Lavi, still looking pretty pissed off. "How can I enjoy anything with Moyashi always getting in my way? What if I hadn't gotten that last akuma? We'd have to go back because of his meddling!"
"BE GRATEFUL!!" Allen complained, tugging on Kanda's long hair.
Before a fuming Kanda could turn around and attack Allen, the both of them produced a look of horror on their faces and stared straight ahead.
Lavi, who had been keeping himself amused by watching the pair, cocked his head at them. "What's wrong, you two?"
The other two exorcists pointed forwards. "THE TREE, YOU IDIOT!!" They both yelled.
Lavi raised his eyebrows and swirled his head around. Sure enough, the redhead was leading them all blindly into a very tall tree.
"GYAAAH!" Lavi cried, yanking the handle roughly upwards and to his left. The stiff handle turned, with some difficulty, the direction Lavi pulled it towards. The three managed to avoid the tree trunk, but everyone crashed through a fairly large section of leaves at high speed.
"Pfft!" Kanda spat, pieces of leaf shooting from his lips. "You stupid Eyepatch!" Kanda growled, sticking a finger in Lavi's collar and tugging him back. "What the hell are you thinking?! Pay attention to where you're going!"
"Nyaagh!" Lavi cried, trying to bat Kanda's hand away with on of his own hands. "Let go, asshole! Is Allen okay?" he asked, not looking backwards anymore.
Kanda, who was thoroughly pissed off now, looked back. He raised his eyebrows. "Moyashi… why are you all the way back there, now?" he called.
Allen was about twenty meters away from the other two at this point, gripping onto the handle for dear life. He had leaves and twigs in his hair. "Ugh! I got knocked back!" He yelled back to Kanda as he started to crawl towards the front.
Kanda turned back around, only to see Lavi turned around as well. He had a concerned look on his face.
"Allen-kuuuun!" Lavi yelled. "Are you okay?!"
"Idiot!" Kanda barked, leaning the opposite way of Lavi. He raised an eyebrow and let his mouth open slightly. "We're… We're not even on course anymore…"
"Heh?" Lavi asked, looking Kanda in the face (instead of turning around).
"We're not on course you moron!" Kanda said, gripping onto the handle with his thighs and turning Lavi's head around with both hands. "The town is a few miles to the right! We're heading for that lake!"
"Shit!" Lavi said, trying to redirect his hammer. The handle had been descending at too fast of a rate, though, and soon all that was visible was more trees.
"Eh? What's going on?" Allen yelled, from about ten meters away. He leaned his head to the side and stared at the direction they were all heading. "Augh! Not more trees!" The white-haired male clung even harder onto the handle and ducked his head.
"Duck, Yuu!" Lavi cried, holding one arm in front of his face and the other tightly onto the handle.
"Fuck!" Kanda cursed, tightening his own grip on the handle and lowering his head behind Lavi's back.
And so Lavi's growing hammer handle shot through the trees, and towards the lake. Allen's cries, Lavi's yelling and Kanda's cursing could be heard from the newly disturbed greenery as they plummeted through.
-SPLASH!-
The somewhat shallow, pristine lake was now littered with broken branches, leaves, and ripples on its surface. A few seconds later, Kanda broke the surface of the water, closely followed by Lavi. Lavi gasped for air while Kanda wrung out his hair, now in disarray and freed from its hair tie.
"Plugh!" Lavi coughed. He bobbed at the surface and lifted a hand out of the water to push his red hair out of his face. He looked around frantically. "Allen-kun?"
Kanda continued to wring out his hair, staying afloat somewhat more gracefully than Lavi. "This… I can't believe this! You two are unbelievably stupid!" He complained, looking around calmly for what one could assume to be his uniform coat instead of Allen.
Lavi was now swimming around awkwardly. "Allen-kun! Stop hiding, please!" His scanned the area with his eye. Kanda was floating about nine feet away from him, branches and debris coated the lake's surface… no Allen!
"ALLEN!!" Lavi cried.
"Shut UP!" Kanda yelled, treading the water calmly, but angrily.
"You shut up!" Lavi yelled back. "I can't find Allen! What if he drowned? What if he got skewered on a tree branch?" He fretted. "ALLEN!"
"If the stupid little Moyashi dies that easily, he deserves it!" Kanda complained. "Where in hell is my coat?"
"We lost him…" Lavi said, swimming and scanning the area over again. "WE LOST ALLEN!!"
A/N: Oh noes!! What on earth could have happened to our poor Allen? D: I guess you'll have to find out next chapter. :D Nyah. Review, my loves! -heart-