Tofu- I figured a couple of things out while writing this fic. Firstly, Allen scoot over, Kanda has become my new favorite character.
Chibi Allen- HEY! I've been demoted? (glares at a smirking Kanda)
Tofu- (ignores fighting in the background) Writing gives you the most wonderful feeling! Reviews have become my new anti-drug!
Chibi Rain- I'll say that it has become your new addiction.
Tofu- (continues ignoring) There's always a chance for improvement! Especially for lost causes like myself! Expect- don't ever, EVER give your hard-core DGM friends a sneak preview of your next chapter. 'Cause one of them demands that there should be logical reasons why stuff appear in the 'Bakappuru universe' as they do.
Note- Bakappuru will be updated every Tuesday or sometime during the week…except on special occasions.
Chibi Kanda- This can be loosely translated to- 'whenever the hell she feels like updating.'
Tofu- Ehh... (scratch back of head nervously)
Chibi Lavi- Disclaimer: This disclaimer has been approved by the fans of D.Gray man. Proving that Tofu-chan does NOT own the characters of D.Gray man.
Day 3- San Francisco: The Vanjacking
The room they had gotten had only two beds. Kanda had immediately claimed one of the beds for himself, and threaten to harm anyone that even thinks about sleeping together. Everyone was used to his threats so it had no effect. Allen was surprised to see that he kept Mugen near by the bed post. Paranoid bastard.
Rain had taken one look at Mugen, and her whole body seem to glow with excitement, eyes widen with a starry look in them. This tomboy had an affinity with sharp pointy weapons that could hurt people. Kanda had seen her eyeing his sword and promised a quick, deadly, painful death if she so much as breathes near Mugen. The hitch hiker was left sulking in the corner muttering about 'lucky bastards.'
Allen and Lavi had insisted that Rain take the other bed. But she shocked them by, literally, dropping onto one of the comfy armchair and falling asleep immediately.
So Lavi had taken resident of the other bed and Allen slept on the couch.
This bed arrangement was decided by a game of rock-paper-scissors, where Allen discovered that although he maybe the king of poker, he had epically lost against Lavi. Five times in a row. They would've settled the score with a death match, but Kanda didn't want them touching Mugen.
Allen was usually a early riser, and not surprised to see he was the first one wake that morning.
Lavi was sprawled across his bed, limbs dangling off the sides, and he quietly snored. He occasionally rolled around in his sleep, throwing the sheets in disarray and getting more tangled in the blankets. Of course he was very tired, Lavi was the one driving Eureka all day long and making sure that no one died yet.
Kanda was a different matter. He was the same asleep as he was awake. Silent and very deadly.
With Mugen at the side, Allen had no doubts that the swordsman would quickly detain anyone that happens to disturb him. Still Allen couldn't help but appreciate the sight of sleeping Kanda, from a far-away, safe distance. He was always so cold and anti-social, it was refreshing seeing this other side to him. His eyes traced over the relaxed look on Kanda's face, the normally frowning mouth was open slightly. His face held some sort of angelic beauty. Sure, Kanda had always looked very pretty, but it seem even more eternal when he was asleep. He slept on his left side, curled up with his left cheek on the pillow. His long hair was free from its usual braid and spread out over the white sheets and pillows. Allen couldn't help but let his eyes wander.
Allen blinked. What was wrong with him?
"Ouch!"
The white-haired boy snapped out of his daze and turned to look at the forgotten hitch-hiker, waking from her armchair/bed. She looked as though she didn't get enough sleep, having been woken by Timcanpy biting her. Rain sucked on her bleeding finger before taking a closer look at the thing she caught in her other hand.
"The fuck is this is?"
"Ah, sorry!" Allen glared at his golem. "That's Timcanpy, he's my golem. See, my guardian is an inventor/scientist. He's pretty well-known...for certain reasons. Anyways, he was trying to invent something that would help with expeditions and gathering data from places we can't easily reach. So, Timcanpy was made when he was researching. "
"Aren't golems supposed to be black and bat-design shaped?" the black-haired girl questioned watching Tim whiz through the air.
"Those are the mainstream ones that companies use." he said, letting Timcanpy land on his hands. "But Tim here is the original prototype and has a little more extra features installed in him. Recording images, locating items/people, lots of stuff like-"
"Biting you to death?"
Allen laughed. "Sorry about that. He makes for a good alarm clock though. That is- if you don't mind bleeding to death through the stumps of your fingers."
"That's gotta be a killer to explain on the autopsy report." Rain laughed along. "So, where are you guys headed?"
"Originally Kanda and I were kidnapped by Lavi. See, Lavi was planning this little road trip to pick up our friend Lenalee, who lives all the way on the other side of the country in Connecticut. She was planning on moving back to our hometown L.A. California. Then along the way, things got a little... messed up."
"I'll say. Most people won't normally stop to pick up a hitch hiker." she agreed. "And all of you are friends?"
Allen laughed embarrassedly. "They're my best friends in the entire world, and we're all pretty tight. It's like our own little gang of friendship. Looking at us, you'll never know that. I think it's the fact that we can argue endlessly, but still stick together that kinda confuse others. We're certainly a very odd group of people."
"Well, you got a suicidal hyperactive bunny at the wheel, a short tempered Japanese samurinja and a white-haired moyashi in denial." she listed on her fingers. "And they're all stuck in a van on this little field trip to hell. Chances are- things are gonna get pretty fucked up."
"In denial?" asked a confused Allen.
The only girl in the room smiled, before turning to look at him. He was very well familiar with the particular look in her blue eyes, he got it all the time when Lavi was just about to explain his next evil plan of genius. Which usually got them into heaps of trouble and lead to Kanda chasing after them with Mugen shouting death threats and curses in his native tongue.
It was a look that suggested that Rain knew more than she was letting on. Like she was in on some joke they were all missing out.
"Well, you and the jerkass Kanda seem to have some sort of chemistry together." Rain smirked. "Is there any reason you two are always arguing?"
"BaKanda and I never got along." Allen huffed. "He's always insulting me and calling me names like 'moyashi' or 'baka!' His attitude is just terrible, and he never smiles, always having that stupid smirk or frown on his face!"
"And you're still friends." she said slowly, like she wasn't getting the point of this. "Any good points about him?"
"Like he has any!" Allen cried, before stopping to really think about it. "Well, he'll never say this, but I'm the only person that really gets under his skin. He snaps at everyone, but I'm the one that doesn't have a one-sided argument with him, because I hate being insulted. But Kanda loves verbal arguments so-"
Allen trailed off unexpectedly, as his mouth opened and closed. What the hell was he saying? He quickly tried to reminded himself that Kanda was nothing but a jerk that liked to make fun of people! No, the frequent arguments between them meant nothing at all!
"BAKANDA IS A BAKA!" Allen thought rather loudly. Unfortunately his inner thoughts somehow became his outer voice.
Someone threw a pillow at him.
Allen was very surprised when he got hit in the head with the flying pillow.
"Shut the hell up moyashi!" growled an awaken Kanda. One hand reaching to grab Mugen. "Do you have to be so LOUD this early in the morning?"
"Why? Did I interrupted your beauty sleep?"
"Ohh. Burned." cried a just-awaken Lavi, watching the fight quite happily while he hung upside-down on his bed.
"You wanna fight, moyashi?"
"It's Allen!"
"Now, everyone let's calm down." Lavi tried to settle the fighting duo, "I'm sure we can handle this-"
Allen and Kanda simeantously turned to look at Lavi.
And glared.
"Shut it! Or I'll shave your whole body!"
So, Lavi shut up.
Sadly for Allen and Kanda, their epic fight never happened.
They were stopped when Rain, who was laughing too hard, accidentally choked on her own spit. After trying to hack up her lung for a couple of minutes, Lavi attempted to administer CPR on her. This had led to a rather nasty looking bruise on his right cheek, where she had slammed a fist into his face.
Yes, it just ended that un-epically.
All three boys were arguing over the order of using the bathroom/shower, with Rain watching them fight, apparently not really caring about her hygiene. And this had led to another mini-squabble between Lavi and Kanda, because Lavi had only packed his orange-scented shampoo. And Kanda -as quoted- 'did not want to smell like a fucking fruit.'
While Kanda went first, they discovered that since Allen and Rain were almost the small size, she fitted into his clothes perfectly. She was a bit curious at why Allen only possessed shirts that were long-sleeve and wore fingerless gloves too. But decided not to ask as it was none of her business.
Currently they were piled up in Eureka, driving through the streets of San Francisco's Chinatown.
"Seriously? Chinese take out in the morning?" Rain said.
"Lavi, it's nine already, why not just stop at a pancake house or somewhere that serves us breakfast?" asked Allen.
"'Cause Yuu-kun insisted that he has to have his precious soba." the driver said, glancing at the shops for a place to eat.
"And we're gonna listen to what Kanda has to say?" Allen stated in disbelief.
"Well, Allen." Lavi began cheerfully, "If I were threatening you with a very pointy, and a very sharp katana, you would listen too!"
"Actually, I'll just be scare that you're gonna hurt yourself."
"Allen-kun!" Lavi cried in a fake hurt voice, "Don't you have any faith in my samurinja sword fighting skills?"
"...Remember the time when I first got Mugen and you attempted to show off your 'samurinja sword fighting skills?'"
"Yes, but we don't talk about that." whispered Lavi darkly.
"Hey! This place is open. We can eat here!" He pulled the van to a stop in front of some random Chinese restaurant. Allen's stomach growled very loudly in hunger. Kanda took one look outside his window, glanced at the place and instantly frowned.
"Baka, keep driving the van." Kanda ordered. Lavi tried to talk back, but was shot down by an evil glare.
"But I'm hungry!" whined Allen, unhappy at being denied food.
"Forget it moyashi. I'm not eating at a place that beings with 'Bangkok.'" Kanda stated firmly, making Rain erupt into another fit of laughter.
Lavi seem a bit deflated, before Kanda reached out to get Mugen, and instead he kept driving. They spent another ten minutes arguing about places to eat at. Eventually found another place five minutes later, just when Allen was starting to feel his stomach trying to eat itself.
Kanda was pleased to note that they served soba and tempura, and asked to get three orders of each. All for himself.
Allen was busy stuffing as much food as he can, there was something about Chinese cuisine that only encouraged his appetite. Lavi was making sure that Allen didn't choke on a grain of rice, and crying at the same time 'cause he was forced to pay for breakfast that morning.
They were surprised that Rain managed to eat almost half as much as Allen's pile. While not as impressive as the mass that the moyashi could put away, it was still considerably a lot for a girl her age and size, looking not much bigger than Allen himself.
"Where does it all go?" Lavi asked in amazement, watching endless amount of food disappear. Kanda tried not to stare, as it was starting to disturb him, but found that he couldn't look away. Were their stomach's black holes or something? Allen and Rain gave each other looks and shrugged.
"Fast metabolism."
"Same."
"And you're eating with chopsticks too." Lavi pointed out, he was the only one eating with a fork, seeing as he was incapable of handling the Asian eating utensil. "I have trouble enough with getting food to stay on my fork!"
"It doesn't matter what you can do with your fork. It all depends on your spooning ability." Rain pointed out, making everybody else choke on their rice.
Allen looked at the rather red and stuttering Lavi, and a widely grinning Kanda. "What does she mean by that?"
"Moyashi, you have no idea how much I love the fact that you're so naive about this kind of stuff." Lavi said, trying to figure out if he should be highly insulted or just keep on laughing. He settled for something that looked like a combination of amusement and outrage.
"Guys? I don't get what's going on." Allen tried to gain their attention again. Lavi leaned in close and whispered something, and he repeated it back in confusion. "So, it meant that Lavi's really good at hugging? HUH?"
"Moyashi, you epically FAIL, cause you don't know what it means." declared Rain.
Kanda decided to save them the effort and bluntly explained exactly what it meant in full details.
Allen blushed a deep red when he finally realized what Rain had been suggesting with her double entendre. Lavi cried out in horror-
"Yuu-chan's corrupting Moyashi's Innocence!"
"Shut up baka usagi!" Kanda sneered, noticing that Lavi's voice tends to carry when he was hyper. "You're causing a scene."
"The interesting thing is that this is just another completely normal morning for them." Allen noted sadly.
"Hey everybody," Lavi announced when they got back into the car, driving through the lower parts Chinatown. "I would like to thank everyone for their kind services and leaving me to pay both the check and the tip!"
"You're welcome Lavi!" Allen piped up, glad for once that he wasn't left with the pick-up debt.
"With that being said," he looked back, grinning creepily at the backseat, and waving a long sheet of paper trailing to the floor around in his right hand. "I need you two to get everything on this shopping list!"
"WHAT?" was the outraged reply from Kanda, and Allen gave a weak "Huh?"
"Well, I didn't know we were picking someone up when we first started!" Rain waved her hand to signify herself. "Plus, have you seen how much she eats!?"
"But why do we have to do it?" asked Allen.
"'Cause, Kanda has the social charisma of a rock, and it's for smacking me before. And Allen has no direction skills whatsoever, but Kanda will make sure that you won't eat everything. " Lavi explained. He then stopped and parked the car in front of a rather ugly tree. "And now, I'm officially kicking you out!"
Allen opened his mouth as though to argue back, but Lavi pointed a threatening finger. "OUT!"
Giving a very loud huff of air, they both exit out of Eureka. Kanda yanked the shopping list out of Lavi's hand, glaring as he did. Allen slammed the door behind him, leading Lavi to yell that if the paint clips 'he's so putting that on his' debt'. Allen replied by sticking his fist up in the air and waving his middle finger.
"Geez that's nice." Lavi commented. And both him and Rain turned to look at each other for a moment. "I think we're the ones corrupting moyashi-kun."
They both shook their heads. "Nah, couldn't be."
The remaining occupants of the van stared at the retreating backs. They watched as Allen began chasing the other around trying to grab the list, and Kanda was playing keep-away-from-the-moyashi. Somehow, it was endearing to watch them fool around in the streets and seem like they had something going on under their so called 'friendship.' Even if the idiots couldn't see for themselves, their relationship ran a lot deeper than the facade they pretended was there.
"Either they hate each other's guts," Rain concluded, "-or they're in complete denial that their passionate burning love exist."
Lavi could do nothing but nod along in complete agreement. What was there to deny?
"You really think that sending them off together is such a good idea?" she asked, looking at the quarreling duo walk further away.
"It'll be fine!" Lavi said, waving his hands in a 'don't worry' manner. "What's the worst that could happen?"
"..." Rain decided wisely not to answer and looked at the violent couple. "I think Kanda's trying to dismember Allen with a pair of chopsticks on display."
"WHAT?" it was almost comical how wide Lavi's eye grew when he heard this. Peeking his head outside the window, he gave a quick 'eep!' before rushing outside to help the defenseless moyashi from the angry chopstick wielding samurai. "NO YUU! There wasn't any diced beansprouts on the shopping list!"
The girl remained in the van, looking interestedly at the strange trio locked in a deadly chopstick death match. That is, before she turned her attention to the dash board and slid noiselessly into the driver's seat. In his sudden haste, Lavi had forgotten to remove his keys from the gas ignition. If someone was just walking pass by, they could have just gotten in the seat and stolen the van. It was almost too easy how her plan had all fallen together so fast.
Rain smirked.
Perfect.
And she didn't even have to use the sedative.
Lavi was familiar with Kanda's swordsman skills.
After being on the receiving end of the sharp blade of Mugen for years, he learned that Kanda was not a person you'll wanna mess around with. Although this fact never stopped him from teasing his friend for everything he was worth. After all, Kanda had yet to kill anyone, never moving pass 'dangerously maimed.'
Still that doesn't mean Kanda would restraint his murderous rage.
And when equipped with a pair of chopsticks instead of the usual katana, he was even more deadlier than usual. 'Cause you know that Kanda will have to come up with some really creative ways to mutilate your body when he's only holding a pair of wooden utensils on display.
"-real nice, sticking the baka moyashi with me. I dunno what the fuck you were thinking-"
At least that's what Lavi was thinking when he stood between a scared moyashi and the pair wooden chopsticks.
"-this whole trip was the stupidest idea you've ever had-"
Although it was kinda hard to think when Kanda was ranting and shouting loud enough for the whole city to hear. Apparently, being stuck with his 'friends' for the last 48 hours had got him so worked up he was actually talking about his feelings! If you ignored the fact that he was emo-ing about everything that has happened to him. But, hey- it was an improvement from his silent, 'disturb-not' exterior.
"-seppuku would be less painful-"
Allen and Lavi watched in amazement as Kanda proceed to 'lose his cool.'
"Now, if you don't mind me, I'm going to head back and I'm locking myself inside the screaming-metal-death-cage you call a van, so I can go angst about my friends in my little corner of emo! Don't try to stop me, I've already made up my mind." Kanda said very loudly in a mocking tone as he walked backwards, not breaking his glare at Allen and Lavi. He turned around, expecting to see an eyesore of an inducing seizure.
And froze.
In the middle of traffic.
"Hey guys?" he called out in an increasingly horrified voice, "Where the fuck is our effing van?"
Allen and Lavi snapped their head so fast, they got whiplashed. They stared in shock at the empty space where Eureka was previously parked, but there was only the view of a very ugly tree. Even though their eyes were transmitting the image to their brain, it was obvious they could not believe what they were (not) seeing.
Lavi immediately dropped to knees, a look of frozen terror etched on his face. His body was in a state of hopelessness and absolute horror. His mouth open and closed, emitting a sound like a dying van engine.
"My precious Eureka!" he cried, grabbing weakly onto Allen's leg to support himself. "Where is she? My insurance doesn't cover stolen vans!"
"What do you mean it doesn't cover it?" Allen asked in disbelief, wondering how Lavi forget to include this important detail. "Didn't you look at the fine print?"
"Well, we're perfectly fine if Eureka crash, explodes and/or drowns." Lavi explained. "However, would anyone really consider stealing my rainbow-colored sunshine? I mean, it would make for the worst choice possible if you were going for a stealthy escape. Besides, I thought the seizure inducing paint job had a cool effect."
Lavi was momentarily surprised when Allen was hastily shoved away and Kanda roughly grabbed the collar of his shirt and forced them to look eyes to one eye. There was slightly look of terror and panic in his dark eyes, and the always present glare of instant death.
"Who cares about the stupid paint job?" he yelled. "Mugen was still in the back seat!"
"Our ride was stolen..." Allen said in disbelief, tuning out the fighting in the background, before noticing one missing person. "Where's Rain?"
The three stared in horror as the pieces of the puzzle came together.
"No way."
"It couldn't have-"
"For the record I blame both of you." Kanda stated. "This wouldn't have happened if you didn't pick up the stupid hitch hiker!"
"But, it couldn't have been her." Lavi insisted. "She looked so cute!"
"And her face hides a heart of pure darkness." was the reply. "She's a chibi-sized hell spawn of evil."
"We don't know that for sure!"
"How are we going to find Eureka?" asked Allen, still concerned over their current issue. "Follow the victims suffering from seizures?"
"...That seems like a plan." Lavi said right before Kanda tried to throttle him. "What the-? Ouch! Yuu, you didn't have to bite me!"
"As if I'll bite your! You'll taste digusting." Kanda said. Lavi then shook his left hand, discovering that Timcanpy was the thing that had just bitten him.
"Sorry Lavi! I didn't know he would do that!" apologized Allen before snatching the golden golem away. Timcanpy struggled in his tight grasp before freeing himself when he opened his mouth to show his sharp set of teeth. Allen released him immediately, not wanting to be bitten. He watched as Timcanpy flew in front of face and a screen appeared from Tim's mouth. It looked like some sort a map of the city, with three glowing blue dots clustered together and a glowing red dot not too far away.
"Hey! Timcanpy can locate the van!" the words were barely out of his mouth when Lavi suddenly attack-hugged Tim.
"Thankyouthankyouthankyou!" he repeated the words like a mantra, squeezing Timcanpy very tightly. The golem darted out of the embrace and began flying in the direction of the located van. Lavi gave a yelped and pulled Kanda and Allen along, not wanting to lose sight of his savior.
"Quickly! We have to catch the Golden Snitch!"
They discovered the van about ten blocks later, doubled parked in front of some cafe. It looked very out of place indeed. Rain had seated herself at one of the outside plastic tables with the horrible green umbrellas, her bag in the next seat. Currently musing over a map, she frowned while chewing on the end of a red pen, and she seem to be tracing out some sort of road on the map.
The trio had hid themselves in the alley across the street, where her back was turned away from.
"Look at her sitting there." Lavi muttered darkly. "I hope the ink explodes on her face!"
Allen stared quietly. "This doesn't have to do with the kidnapped van would it?"
"This has everything to do with the kidnapped van!" he snapped back. "And her name is Eureka!"
"There wouldn't happen to be a plan now, is there?" Allen asked.
"We should just ditch her here, and just continue on our merry way." Kanda scoffed. Allen blinked, having never heard him use the word 'merry' before. "Let her sham some other group of idiots with a hippie van she can steal."
"But she stole Eureka! This calls for plotting! Revenge! Explanations! And I had a plan all figured out!" Lavi smiled and motioned them to move closer. Kanda made no effort to move.
"Deal with it yourself."
"What if you could use Mugen?"
And so Kanda listened.
"And so we meet again."
Rain had been so consumed with the map in front of her she completely failed to notice that someone was talking. About a minute later, she finally looked up to see that there was someone standing before her table. She was surprised to see the smiling face of one (not-so) innocent Allen Walker.
In the blink of an eye, she had grabbed the map and shot backwards, reeling from the shock. This was not something she had predicted.
"You!"
"Actually, that's my name." smirked a voice. Rain suddenly found herself unable to move when the sharp edge of Mugen pressed against her neck. She had unknowingly backed up against to Kanda's chest, and Allen held her messenger bag in his hands. Where was Lavi?
"Thought you could get away, huh?" asked Kanda. Rain frowned before giving a wide smirk.
"Actually I kinda did." she confessed. Then she twisted Kanda's wrist, ducking underneath his arm and using the momentum to change their position, pressed Mugen to Kanda's neck instead. He appeared shocked, this had never happened before. "And look- I kinda am."
Rain's eyes widen when a flying golden sphere hit her from behind. She dropped her grip on Kanda's wrist, and Allen pulled her into a tight hug. "What the-?"
"Hurry Lavi!" Allen cried. The red haired boy appeared from out of Eureka and quickly tied her hands together with the stuff he had threw in the back previously. It had all happened so fast, she didn't have time to react. Although she tried to struggled, the tip of Mugen was once again pointed at her neck. Kanda quickly picked her up and threw her into the backseat of Eureka while everyone else climbed in.
"Drive, usagi!" Kanda barked, and Lavi gave a small salute before hitting the gas pedal so hard, it made skid marks on the pavement. Allen looked at the glaring, sullen girl seated between him and Kanda. One on either side in case she tried to make a run for it.
"Lavi, I think we should have a report for everyone you've kidnapped so far."
Lavi nodded and smiled widely. "Don't think I haven't started my own record file yet!"
"It'll be perfect for when you turned yourself in." commented Rain, she glared at the golden flying golem. "Timcanpy betrayed me!"
Kanda glared. "You're gonna start talking about everything, now."
"I don't have to say anything, I don't feel like saying." Rain gave him a dead stare. Even in captivity she still possessed her stubborn and snarky personality.
"Rain, why would you do such a thing?" asked Allen in a confused and hurt voice.
She looked a little guilty, but couldn't bring herself to look at him. Rain glanced warily at the surrounding people, and signed heavily, as though resigning to the situation. "Look, tell me what I did wrong and we'll start from there."
"You stole Eureka!" was the accusing cry from Lavi.
She gave a very sarcastic snort. "If you hadn't noticed- you're the ones kidnapping me! Beside I've never taken anyone hostage, yet."
Kanda rolled his eyes while Allen explained. "He means his van. The van is Eureka."
She blinked. "You named your van?"
"The term is actually- affectionately entitled." Lavi corrected.
"...Nice."
And because Lavi couldn't ignored the sound of approval from her voice, he nodded and smiled. "Pretty cool, huh?"
"Lavi!" Kanda barked. "What have I told you about conversing with the suspect?"
Lavi pouted and looked upset. Rain then saw this as a chance and used the moment to try and clarify things.
"Listen, it was not suppose to turn out this way."
"Right, I'm sure that you were just taking our ride to give it a car wash." Kanda said in a mocking tone. Rain frowned deeply.
"The voices in my head can hear the sarcasm in your voice BaKanda, and it's not helping. Do you mind?"
Allen gave a look when Kanda growled and turned back to look at Rain. He smiled sadly. "So, I'm guessing everything was a lie then?"
"Ehh." she shrugged disinterestedly. "Certain parts. It depends on how you look at it."
He nodded. "What's your name?"
"My name is Raine."
"No really, not falling for that." Kanda shot down in a 'do-you-think-we're-idiots?' tone. She looked hurt and embarrassed.
"It actually is- expect with an 'E' at the end."
And because Lavi couldn't help himself- "...Nice."
"I know." she nodded. "I can so totally get away with my name like that!"
"But apparently, you couldn't get away with stealing our van." Kanda shot back, after seeing Lavi glare he added- "Fine. Eureka, whatever!"
Allen looked at the girl, who apparently was named 'Raine' (did it really make a difference? he wondered) and smiled kindly. She didn't look someone really guilty or violent. Her attitude was more like a little kid that was caught stealing from the cookie jar, but didn't even really cared that she got caught in the first place.
"How about you start at the beginning?" he asked. She remained silent while Lavi drove on to the next destination, moving out of the city and onto their next stop on the map. She looked out the window, her eyes dazed and wistful looking, before she started talking.
"My best friend moved away nine months ago-"
"Yes, and I'm pretty sure that has everything to do with attempted van-jacking. Sorry, but we're not really interested in your life story at the moment." said Kanda. Allen threw Timcanpy at his head. "The fuck-?"
"Shut up, it's story time."
"My best friend moved away nine months ago." Raine continued, "Jace was my only friend, actually. Has been for the last 13 years. There was no one else that even came close to forming the kind of bond that I had always shared with him. He was an orphan, and the people that adopted him never accepted him for who he really was, always trying to mold him to fit their image of the perfect ideal son."
"I learned last week, that he's getting into a forced marriage in two months. His parents- they're planning to seal the deal of a business offer by marrying him off to the other CEO head's daughter. I couldn't let them control him like that! Couldn't stand by and them condemn his life like that! 'Cause if I were him I would lived the way I wanted to. And it probably wasn't the smartest idea- stealing Eureka to rescue my friend."
It was all very quiet and still when Raine finished speaking. Eureka was filled with a silence that no one really knew how to break. Somehow their situations were very similar. The difference was the force behind the action, hers was fueled by determination and an iron-willed stubbornness that deprived her of common sense.
"Does this guy mean that much to you?"
"Listen, I've known him since we were still small enough to be chasing after ice cream trucks. We became best friends ever since I smashed his face into his applesauce during snack time." Raine stated.
The other members of Eureka didn't want to point out that the only thing that proved was that she was just a strange as a child as she was in the present. And that she probably had a very violent bond with that boy.
Although when you analyze the relationship shared between Kanda and Allen and Lavi, one could almost conclude that those random acts of violence could be labeled as 'terms of affection.' But Kanda would rather commit seppuku before ever admitting it.
"Besides, that punk's got a promise he still has to keep."
And even before it was spoken out loud, Kanda knew what was gonna happen. It might have been from the sad in Lavi's eye, the crying Timcanpy or the way Allen was sadly smiling at her.
Kanda groaned.
"Anyone up for a detour to Ohio?"
This had officially became the field trip to hell.
Chibi Kanda- She's still doing these mini-chibi omakes? Che. What a waste of my time.
Chibi Allen- Lavi couldn't make it because he fell asleep. (looks around) Hey, where is everyone else?
Tofu- (comes in with a giant cake) No need to worry your pretty little head off, moyashi-kun! Lavi and Raine are kinda busy right now. (sees Allen eyeing the cake) Moyashi-kun stop raping the cake with your eyes! (whacks Allen) No you can't eat the cake yet!
Chibi Allen- Why not? (a dressed up Raine in a pink ballet suit pops out of the cake breathing heavily)
Chibi Raine- It's so stuffy in that cake! I HATE dresses! (grabs a piece of cake and eats) Nice, chocolate and frosting. So where's the birthday bunny boy?
Tofu- (twitches) Lavi is still asleep.
Chibi Raine- Oh. Bad timing. (stares at Tofu) You're gonna have to pay extra to get me back in this thing. This wasn't in my contract!
Chibi Kanda- The contract also never said anything about working overtime! (leaves)
Chibi Allen- (follows after him) BaKanda wait for me!
Tofu- Happy belated 8/10 birthday Lavi-kun!
Chibi Lavi- (snores. rolls over in his sleep)