"Yuuuuu! I'm sorry!" Lavi wailed as he trailed after the dark haired man in the hallway. "I just! Got caught up in the moment is all! Will you- agh hey wait just stop for a second!"

Kanda sucked in an unsteady breath and turned to the idiot. It had been a few days since Lavi gave him a kiss, really it was just a peck on the lips, but there was word spreading at the school that the two were gay. It was way too late in the year for Kanda to deal with this, he just wanted to go out peacefully with a passing grade. Then he could go home without his parents berating him about his school life.

"What rabbit? I'm not fuckin' mad okay? Stop following me like a lost animal," he told the other, his hand on the yellow bus he was about to enter. Lavi arched his eyebrow a bit in confusion.

"Yer not mad? But I thought-"

"Not mad," Kanda interrupted him, "I have to go. I'll see you at our tutoring." And with that he got on the bus and left Lavi standing there in a sort of stone-like state. Truth be told, he was a bit mad. If anything happened between them he didn't want it to be in front of other people, and he definitely didn't want to go through the last couple months as the 'gay' kid. He was already the 'Asian', 'asshole', and the 'he-she'. That last one really pissed him off.

That's when he started to think about a real relationship with the other, what it would be like, and how it would feel. He wished he could be his normal self around Lavi, but the second he noticed he had a crush on him he had been acting… like a child. He'd have to calm down and step his game, as Lavi referred to it, way up. He couldn't keep pushing the other away for too long or he'd never come back.

He settled with himself that after he passed highschool he would attempt to properly …date. Him, dating. He didn't really like the term so much but it didn't really matter. He wanted to let the one person who cared about him know that he felt some kind of emotion. But with the rate he was going Lavi would probably give up talking to him all together. Only and idiot would put up with Kanda's attitude for more than a week.

Kanda sighed and watched the houses pass out of the smudgey window. The tutoring session today was probably going to be really awkard.

It was so awkward. Lavi had opened the front door with a half-hearted smile. The normally messy place had been dusted, and there weren't any books left about on the ground. There had to be about ten different kinds of fruits out as snacks that basically filled up the whole table they were supposed to work at. Lavi had probably spent the time before meticulously cleaning and fretting over what his guest would want. Kanda wondered if he should ignore it or not but he didn't really get a chance to when Lavi was suddenly sighing.

"Sorry uh. I just really wanted to apologize for earlier. I know," Lavi cut him off before he could interject, "that you aren't mad. I felt like I should say it though. I mean, it was pretty over the top, especially at school in front of other people."

Kanda grunted a bit and set his backpack down by the chair, replying in a soft tone, "Yeah well, you just got excited or whatever."

Lavi nodded a little and sat at the table. He fiddled with the stem of an apple for a while before continuing, "I don't want you to get like, weirded out or anything either. Because I do… uh, like you that way. In case it wasn't clear."

"Rabbit," Kanda sighed and rubbed his forehead, "okay look, I just really don't need any of that stuff right now okay? I'm not saying no or anything and I'm not saying yes, just not now. You know how hard I need to study to fix these grades."

Was that relief on Lavi's face? Shock? It was kind of hard to tell, his one eye was a bit wide, staring him down. Kanda put his hands on his hips, staring back.

"What? You have something to say, then say it," Kanda commanded the other. Lavi just smirked a little and turned his face away before he started to laugh. It came out sounding almost sad and relieved. He wiped his eye and looked back at Kanda, his grin slowly turning to actual happiness as it made his eye crinkle up just a little.

"Alright! We'll get you through these exams and then we can work out the other stuff. I hope you brought your flash cards."

So Kanda sat down next to him and they went over the new material and the old material. They spent hours together, Lavi calmly explaining things to Kanda as if he were some kind of wise sage. A good deal of the fruit ended up being their dinner, mostly because Kanda was avoiding going home, and when it came time to pack up he felt rather calm. He already knew that his parents would gripe about the two points he missed on the test, and he knew he'd probably yell at them. But right now, he was in a pleasant state of mind.

Lavi gave him a hug like he usually would when Kanda left.

It was Friday and Kanda's parents had insisted that he spend the entire weekend studying the second he got back from school. Instead of arguing with them he just nodded silently, glad for an excuse to go to Lavi's house. He pulled out his phone, a stupid plastic block that he hated, and tried to text him.

'Rabbit. Can I. Stay at your house over the weekend.'

Kanda frowned at the miss-punctuation but didn't try to fix it. He put his phone on the counter and moved to get a drink from the fridge. His parents were talking about something mundane as he tried the weird sports drink Lavi had gotten him. He wrinkled his nose at the taste and his phone buzzed.

'Sure! Wow a sleepover with u would be super fun!'

Great, Lavi was excited about the whole thing already. He moved up to his room to pack and only told his parents where he was going when he was half out the door. They were about to protest to an entire weekend at his tutor's house but he slammed the door before they could finish.

He hefted his duffle bag up and onto his shoulder, setting out at a brisk walk. The sun was strong and he had changed into some more casual clothes, a loose sleeveless shirt and some worn out jeans. It was a little hot though, the dark colors of his clothes absorbing heat from the sun.

His phone buzzed in his pocket.

'Want me to come pick u up? It's like 90 degrees or something.' Thank god Lavi offered, because Kanda would never ask for it and the long walk would have been torture.

'Yes. I'm. On the street with the crutch.' Damnit. 'Church.'

Lavi sent him back some weird emoticon and Kanda tucked his phone away. He hadn't really thought about staying at Lavi's house longer than a few hours. Would Lavi's parents mind? They obviously didn't mind the mess all that much, seeing as the rabbit's house was always in a state of what resembled a tornado warpath. Come to think of it, Kanda had never met Lavi's parents. Not even in passing.

He shook his head a bit as he saw Lavi's little tan car driving up. It was pretty old and didn't really seem like something Lavi would have, but it was just a shitty first car. Kanda had worked on it a few times, though he was pretty sure Lavi knew how to fix it himself.

He got in the passenger seat and threw his duffel bag in the back. Lavi was grinning at him, excitement plastered all over his stupid face. Kanda could tell something was up because Lavi was wearing his 'going out' clothes, tight white pants and a gray V-neck with a little cat head on it.

"So!" Lavi started, "I'm kind of kidnapping you and taking you to the mall. Allen and Lenalee are there for some kind of author thing and we're going too! No arguing."

Kanda groaned internally at the thought of spending any time at all with the other male of their 'friend circle.' The kid was really annoying and they never failed to get into some kind of argument.

"Why the fuck do we have to go? I have to study you know," he argued, although he knew it was pointless. Lavi turned the car around and headed toward the highway.

"Well you need a break! It's time to celebrate over that good test you had!" Lavi was a little hard to hear since he was fiddling with the radio stations, narrowly avoiding death as cars swerved around him.

Kanda snapped at him as he clung to the roof handle, "Can you possibly keep your one eye on the fucking road or is this just how you plan to kill us both?"

Lavi finally settled on a very annoying auto-tuned song about alcohol and sex, getting onto the highway and watching where he was going. "Don't be such a scardey-baby, you know I drive just fine."

Kanda adjusted his seatbelt, muttering under his breath as Lavi cheerfully took them to the over-crowded mall.