The Pot or the Kettle
This sequel is pretty pointless, just showing Lenalee trying to cope with the events of "Behind her curiosity" and pretty much failing. I also wrote it to bring a little lightness after the last story. I hope that it's worth the read though. Though it's not a true lemon this is my first attempt at such a descriptive act, I hope it's not too terrible.
In case you were curious about the title "The Pot or the Kettle" I chose it to describe both Lavi and Lenalee (and her mindset). Basically I think they're both perverts but Lenalee only thinks Lavi is and Lavi doesn't think he's one at all. So they're the pot calling the kettle black, sorry but I have trouble with titles.
Rated M: For my piece of mind and my terrible attempt at heat.
Warning: Yaoi (?) ahead; citrus, as close to lemon as my writing skills let me go.
Disclaimer: This series is owned by better people than me.
Sorry no beta on this, so please forgive (or point out) the errors.
Lips with the softness of a rose petal start kissing the base of the engorged member before gliding up the side and slowly headed to the tip. Stopping only to let a pale pink tongue flick out to caresses the tip and delicately tease the silver metal before moving on to the pulsing slit, tasting the first of the salty liquid.
The need for silence is paramount and results in strained breathing, echoing among the sanctity of the tomes of knowledge. Yet it's that same need for silence, fighting against the need for the cries of release, which only adds to the thrill and increases the feelings of pleasure.
The kisses continue on as light as a butterfly's wing, back to the thick dark curls at the base and below, pausing to tease each perfect globe with more delicate licks like that of a kitten's tongue lapping at milk. The strained breathing now graced with barely restrained moans.
Dark eyes meet silver as salvia joins the mix and the member is eagerly taken into an awaiting mouth, hitched breathing a sign of the enjoyment the action brings.
Fit thighs quiver at the strained need for movement, while teeth gently rake across the fragile skin and a willingly head bobs up and down in repeating cycles, suction constantly varying to increase his pleasure.
Infinite pauses to nip or lick at the various exposures of flesh all to extend the torturous pleasure and result in panting breathes broken only by faint whimpers of need.
The dark eyes glaze while time and sound seem to stop as the breaking point is finally reached and liquid explodes with the force of all of the passion that's been repressed in his life, all of it swallowed by the eager throat.
The once pale lips now passion darkened after all of its actions open to speak…
BEEEEEP
When the shrill cry of the alarm sounded, Lenalee awoke with a start cursing the device, then noticing the time she cursed herself.
'I didn't hear it at all when it first went off; I wonder how long it was going for?'
Knowing that she was in for another rushed day already, put her in a bad mood and she proceeded to curse Lavi, blaming him for starting the whole thing.
'I haven't gotten a decent night's sleep in a week thank to that idiot and that stupid bet of his.'
Sighing, she quickly untangled herself from the light purple sheets and stretched as she swung her legs over the edge of the bed.
Her thoughts stayed in that line of thinking as she quickly brushed her teeth, 'I didn't need to find out that Allen was going out with Kanda that way.' She spat the vanilla-mint toothpaste into the sink with a vengeance.
'And I really did not need to know that Kanda had a piercing nor did I need to know its location.'
Yet every night the same dream repeated itself in her tired mind. Not letting her get the rest she so desperately needed.
It starts in the library just as she'd seen it that day with Kanda sitting at a nearby table. Then suddenly as she approaches him the table disappears and she's watching Allen's actions to Kanda uninhibited with all the details provided by her mind.
As she changes out of her light blue pajamas and into the clothes that she'd laid out the night before, she tries to focus her mind back to school and the work that needs to be done. 'Three assignment due by the end of this week, and I can't afford to get anything less than a B on any of them.'
'I'm already in enough trouble as it is for turning in my mathematics assignment late not to mention the fallout from my last two exams.'
The head Administrator, Leverrier, had already called her into his office to reprimand her about the failed tests, threatening to place her on a scholastic disciplinary notice if she didn't show improvement.
As she rushed without stopping for breakfast, she pulled on her shoes to leave and thought about what that meant, 'He could get rid of me, I'd better shape up because he'd like nothing more than to have a reason to kick me out.'
She feared that with a passion because that meant that she'd have to go back home with her brother, Komui, and quite frankly that thought frightened her as he was prone to a certain amount of tunnel-vision and seemed bound and determined to ruin her social life.
'If I don't improve my grades I'll be stuck with him again, and there goes any chance at a date let alone getting a boyfriend,' she thought with a shudder as she grabbed the heavy bag sitting by the door and slammed it shut.
Groaning as she hurried down the hall she had a thought that caused her a small feeling of dread, 'that means that I'll have to go to the library again.' This caused her to shiver as she exited the dorm and proceeded at a fast pace down the street and headed to the community college.
Knowing that she was already going to be late to class also meant that she wouldn't have time to stop for her first cup of coffee either, and considering that she was somewhat addicted to it, that meant trouble for the first non-professor that she would encounter.
'I'm going to need help studying again but I don't know if I want to ask that pervert Lavi.'
Fate was not kind to her, or Lavi, as said red-head was the first person she ran into. Quite literally, as she was racing for around the last corner of the building to make a grab for the main door, she rather suddenly and forcefully encountered Lavi and the resulting collision left them both without their bags and on the ground.
"Hey, watch it man," Lavi cried as he struggled to see who had hit him.
"You should be the one watching where you're going," Lenalee snapped. She was going to apologize until she saw who it was that she'd plowed into, really she was.
Now, however, her coffee lacking mind recalled why she was running late and suddenly she found herself lacking the concern that she'd had moments ago.
'It's his fault, all of it.'
So instead of apologizing she simply glared and brushed herself off as she stood. Noticing with perverse justification that his bag had apparently been opened and many of his books, both school-related and personal were scattered on the ground.
After she was up and had collected her bag she simply stated, "I'm late." And just like that left him on the ground to stare after her and pick up his belongings on his own, though she did manage to restrain herself from stepping on a few of them "accidentally".
The morning seemed to take sick joy in going as slowly as possible for her as each class felted like it had lasted twice as long as it should have, until lunch arrived to give its reprieve. However fate wasn't done with her yet and she would still find no peace.
'Just great, I was in such a hurry this morning that I didn't remember to grab my wallet. Now what am I supposed to do for lunch?' Lenalee mentally whined to herself.
"Hey, Lena, over here!" A shout interrupted her rambling.
A low growl escaped her lips before she could contain it, yet she looked over and saw the three people who had caused so much trouble in her mind lately.
There they sat in the shade of an old maple tree on the grass near the commissary. Lavi was still waving a cup of something at her even though he had her attention, while Kanda barely seemed to give her a second glance but continued with eating his lunch, and Allen, sitting between them, nibbled on a sandwich while meekly staring at her.
'At least one of them seems a little ashamed,' she mused as she made her way over to them.
Previously during the week she'd had a hard time looking Allen in the eye since, and she couldn't even bring herself to look at Kanda's face, remembering what it had looked like before. She had tried talking to them, well to Allen, reasonably but in the end she couldn't seem to stay calm long enough for an explanation and neither of them seemed in a hurry to elaborate either.
She honestly hoped that this time with all of them there, she'd be able to discuss the events of "that day" with a level head.
'And if nothing else maybe I'll get something to eat out of it.'
"Hello," Allen's voice greeted her, coming out softly.
"Hn," was Kanda's reply as he greeted her without breaking away from his food, eyeing her coolly.
"I'm glad that you decided to join us, Lena," Lavi chirped as seemingly oblivious to the discomfort as always while he hand her the cup he was holding.
Lenalee merely nodded in return as she sat with them and looked at the cup discovering that it was coffee. In the award silence that followed she took a sip of the coffee and looked closer at Lavi, trying to find the best phrasing for her question. Fortified with caffeine she settled on being straight forward.
"Lavi, tell me why in the world you wanted to know if Kanda had a piercing?" She was proud of herself; her voice remained steady the whole time.
"I was curious," he replied back with a shrug.
'Remember to stay calm,' she repeated to herself. "Why would you be curious about that?"
"Well, what kind of budding anthropologist would I be if I didn't have curiosity?" He asked with mock wide-eyed innocence.
'It's true that Lavi is studying to become an anthropologist and as such displaying a natural curiosity would benefit him, but was that really an appropriate subject to study?' She agreed silently but… "Why would you be curious about whether or not he had any piercings?" At this she pointed to Kanda.
"Because I already knew that he had a tattoo," Lavi stated simply, like that answered everything.
Lenalee could only groan, but before she could formulate a response Allen choose that moment to speak up.
"How do you know that he has a tattoo?" He stopped eating to look at Lavi a little suspiciously.
"Easy there Allen," Lavi held up his hands in mock surrender. "It's on his chest everybody saw it when we used to hang out by the pool in the summer.
"Oh," Allen looked inquiringly at Kanda who had finished his lunch but had so far stayed out of the conversation as if it didn't affect him in the least.
"An old friend made the design, when he died I got the tattoo to remind me of him," Kanda replied showing that he was indeed paying attention to the flow of the conversation.
"I see," was Allen's only response but you could see the suspicion in his eyes be replaced by sympathy.
"So that's the reason!" Lavi exclaimed as if he had just solved the greatest mystery of the century.
Still a man of few words, Kanda merely shrugged.
"How does knowing he has a tattoo lead to wondering if he has any piercing, and why would you ask Allen to find out?" Lenalee didn't dislike Kanda, she really didn't; but she wasn't about to let her feelings distract her from how this whole mess started.
"Don't tattoos and piercings just seem to go hand in hand? And I only asked Allen because I figured that Kanda wouldn't tell me and that Allen would be the best one to find out."
"Why would you think he's the best choose?"
"Well, it was obvious to me that Allen had feelings for Kanda and that Kanda seemed to care equally for Allen as well," Lavi stated matter-of-factly.
"…you knew that I liked him?" Allen asked while a slight blush crept onto his face.
"Of course I did. I would have been blind not to notice how you were always looking at him, and I assure you Kanda returned those glances when you weren't looking."
A slight blush was now trying to take form on Kanda's face but he steadfastly refused to look flustered by it or by Lavi's announcement.
'I always thought that I knew Allen so well, yet I never noticed his feelings for Kanda.' Lenalee had always prided herself on being there for all her friends, but especially for her "baby brother" Allen. She had always felt protective of him. 'Maybe I've picked up too many of Komui's bad habits. After all this is his life and if he's happy why should I complain?'
"But why did you have to discover it that way and in the library of all places?" asked Lenalee looking at Allen and breaking the uncomfortable silence again.
"Sorry, I guess I got carried away," Allen's face was now a rather becoming shade of rouge. "I just wanted to talk to him but then when I finally admitted that I liked him, he said that he liked me too. After that I placed my hand on his thigh and…well…I guess I liked his reaction a little too much, and…" he trailed off in embarrassment.
"Yes, I saw the next part," Lenalee cleared her throat while a blush similar to Allen's covered her cheeks.
"…Sorry," Allen muttered almost too low to hear. "I didn't think anyone would see us."
"Apparently," came Kanda's dry reply.
"I didn't hear you complaining!" Allen all but squeaked in indignation.
Thus began another uncomfortable silence, this one punctuated by some rather pointed stares; most coming from Allen with a few from Lenalee thrown in.
"Well, I'm glad that that's all taken care of," Lavi proclaimed as if expecting everything to go back to the way it was.
Lenalee remembered the three assignments that she still needed to do, 'no actually now it's four assignments counting this morning's. I'm going to need Lavi's help again and so thinking could only sigh again as she worked up the nerve to ask again.
"Lavi, I need your help with studying again." Great now they're all staring at her now.
"Sure Lena, you know you only have to ask," Lavi reassured her.
"Do you want me or Kanda to help you, Lenalee?" Allen asked as well, while Kanda frowned a little but said nothing to contradict him.
"No offense but I'd like this one to have a better outcome," Lenalee tried to joke, but as it was too close to the truth she didn't find it funny. A couple of half-hearted chuckles greeted the joke, but Lavi was surprisingly quiet.
Glancing back at him Lenalee discovered him looking at Kanda with a thoughtful look on his face.
"Say, Kanda," Lavi began, "you got your tattoo to remind you of a friend, right?"
Dread was gathering in Lenalee's stomach as she heard this and peering at Allen's face she believed that he was feeling it too, yet a glance at Kanda showed that he was as calm and stoic as ever.
"Yeah," was Kanda's short reply, clearly he was waiting for the point of the question.
"Was there a reason why you got the piercing?"
And just because they were getting along so well leave it to Lavi to make the situation uncomfortable again by asking that.
"Of course," Kanda's short reply making it clear that he thought that Lavi was an idiot for not grasping it.
"Well, what's the reason?" Lavi asked when it became clear that Kanda wasn't going to elaborate for him.
"Pleasure," yup Kanda's reply definitely made Lavi sound like an idiot for not grasping it.
"Pleasure?" Was Lavi's dumbfounded question.
Allen let out a rather shocked squeak at the response and Lenalee could only stare and wonder what she had done to deserve this and why God was picking on her today.
The look that Kanda shot Lavi revealed that he clearly though that the other was a total.
"I read the piercings there increased sexual pleasure," Kanda replied with a deadpan expression.
'My God,' Lenalee thought. 'Doesn't he have any decency, shame or modesty? He sounds just like he's discussing the weather.'
Another uncomfortable silence ensued as Lenalee kept her face as blank as possible and tried to mentally scrub the last bit of conversation from her mind. Allen however was wearing a look that was a cross between curiosity and excitement though the blush on his face and creeping down his neck showed embarrassment as well.
Even Lavi looked a little stunned and was silent, seeming unable to think of anything to add at the moment. Kanda just sat as calmly as ever, apparently waiting for the other to finish their lunches. Though after he'd glanced at Allen's face there seemed to be a little bit of amusement in his eyes.
Then thankfully lunch was over and the four friends separated and went their own ways to their classes.
It was now well after classes were over and here was Lenalee returning to that imposing building to meet with Lavi.
But now as Lenalee entered she was filled with trepidation.
'What if they're there again?' she thought as anxiety began to build and make her heart pound.
She needn't have worried the library was actually quite crowded and she couldn't spot either of them.
'I hope this means that I'll actually be able to get all my work done.' To be safe she stayed in the most populated area of the library.
'It's a little bit noisier than the other place but a much safer bet for me.' Taking her seat she began the same ritual she had one week ago. As she pulled out the needed papers Lavi appeared seemingly out of nowhere and leaned over the table to her, dropping his bag on the floor.
"Heya Lena, I got out of dinner with Allen tonight so what books do you need me to find this time?"
"Here start with these," hearing him talk about that dinner she remembered the bet again and that made her think of lunch, so she rather roughly thrust the papers at him and he took the hint that she wanted to get out of there quickly.
This time studying went uneventfully well and Lenalee managed to finish the assignments without distraction.
Twilight spread across the sky as Lenalee and Lavi walked from the library back to the dorms.
"Lavi thank you for your help this time," Lenalee thanked him as she carelessly swung her bag with joyful abandon.
"No problem after all I feel a little guilty about last time," Lavi just lifted his bag to his shoulder.
"You should," she replied a little testily.
Sigh. "You're just not going to let this go are you?"
"Could you if you saw your baby brother doing that in a library?" She pointed out.
"Hmm…I guess you've got a point, there's a time and a place for certain things isn't there."
"Lavi, why do you have to be so curious?" She asked with a genuine need to know.
"It's just my nature," he shrugged indifferently.
Groan. 'I should have known that's what he'd say,' she thought to herself.
"Well, since I didn't get anything to eat at lunch I'm going home for some much needed food and hopefully some uninterrupted rest. See you later." Giving a little wave she spun her bag one last time and sped off.
"See ya, Lena. Have a good night." Lavi waved to her back, but as he went to leave he noticed something one the ground and on closer inspection he discovered that it was one of Lenalee's papers 'Hmm, it must have fallen out of her bag as she was leaving.'
Deciding to be nice once again he headed towards her dorm to return it.
As Lenalee's hand approached her doorknob she thought she heard a rather familiar sound and she hesitated momentarily as dread filled her.
'Not again, please not again.'
Steeling her nerves she pushed the door open and…
"How did you get in here?" She asked sharply, accusingly in a somewhat high pitched voice.
"The door wasn't locked," Kanda replied blandly as he straightened up on the couch and readjusted his shirt.
Allen wasn't ready to talk at the moment because upon hearing the door he had leapt up and almost over the couch in an attempt to find his missing shirt.
As amusing as it was to watch Allen scramble, Lenalee couldn't over look Kanda's comment. 'What did he mean the door wasn't locked, I always lock it…,' yet thinking back. 'I was in such a hurry this morning, did I lock it or not?'
Seeing the state of dress (or undress) of the men before her she had to admit that she most likely forgot to lock it in her haste.
"Dare I ask why you were in here?" she believed that this was a perfectly valid question.
"Waiting for you," Kanda answered shortly again.
Lenalee was seriously getting irritated with Kanda now.
"We wanted to see if you wanted to get something to eat with us," Allen replied while hurriedly pulling his shirt back on as he emerging from behind the couch.
"I see. And why may I ask were you doing that on my couch?" she felt she deserved this answer after all.
"Uh, well…" Allen began.
"We got tired of waiting," at this point it was hard to tell if Kanda was purposely baiting her or not, as he seemed to have genuine amusement in his eyes.
Before Lenalee lost it all together Lavi chose that moment to enter through the still open door.
"Oh, what's going on here?" Lavi asked with a gleeful expression on his face.
'Like someone as observant as Lavi couldn't guess,' Lenalee thought.
"Nothing, now," was Kanda's cool reply.
Before things could progress further Lenalee had to ask, "Lavi what are you doing here, we just parted?"
"Now is that anyway to greet someone who's going out of their way to do you a favor?" Lavi waved a paper in front of her face, "You dropped this and I thought you'd want it back."
"Oh, thank you, Lavi," Lenalee responded simply, snatching it from him. "But if that's all I'd like everybody to leave. Now."
Before anyone could move however Lavi just had to ask something else, "hey, Allen, do you have any piercings?"
"WHAT!" It was hard to say who exactly was the loudest as both Allen and Lenalee shouted at the same time.
"Well, I was just thinking that a tongue ring might be appreciated, ya know?" The mischievous gleam in Lavi's eye was unmistakable.
In response Allen could only blushed so much that his face seemed to glow.
Lenalee's face was red as well though from the expression in her eyes and her throbbing veins it's pretty clear that hers was caused by anger and that Lavi was in danger of serious harm.
Only Lavi noticed the thoughtful look on Kanda's face.
"That's it everybody out this second," Lenalee's voice was harsh and shrill as she was now on her last nerve and they all knew better than to argue with her, so they all shuffled out of the room.
Kanda's face stoic once again. Lavi's almost as blank as he tried to proclaim his innocence and Allen's face still red as he kept his eyes lowered and mumbled a quick 'good-bye.' Barely was Allen out the door before Lenalee slammed it, taking extra care to make sure it was locked.
'What a long day. I hope that I'll get some sleep tonight though I doubt it after what they were getting ready to do on my couch,' back in her pajamas Lenalee settled tiredly in bed and cursed all of them again and again.
Of course thinking about what they were getting ready to do on her couch made Lenalee remember not just the incident in the library but also Lavi's comment, 'lousy pervert putting ideas in my head.'
As she closed her eyes and let sleep claim her, Lenalee groaned and once again cursed Lavi as a familiar dream began, with a slight difference this time.
Lips with the softness of a rose petal start kissing the base of the engorged member before gliding up the side and slowly headed to the tip. Stopping only to let a pale pink tongue that had the sparkle of a metallic stud flick out to caresses the tip and delicately tease the silver metal before moving on to the pulsing slit, tasting the first of the salty liquid…
Elsewhere at the same time Lenalee was having her "nightmare" two other people were up and talking.
"You know, it's not a bad idea."
"What's not a bad idea, Kanda?" Allen asked absently as he sat on Kanda's lap and continued to kiss the slim neck in front of him.
"You getting a tongue ring, of course," Kanda replied as brushed his hand up Allen's back and craned his neck further back to allow Allen better access.
Allen just hummed thoughtfully and continued to kiss and suckle the offered neck.
A/N: Right Lenalee's the one having a dream about her "baby brother" and Kanda and Lavi's the pervert.
Sorry there's no real lemon, I'm just not very good at writing it so I didn't. I hope that it didn't stink too much.
Well, that's it. Was it good or bad? Feel free to be honest but also try to give me reasons; I can't improve if I don't get feedback.
I would like to give a special thank you to Shizuhana for her encouragement to start writing and to Kichou for encouraging me to keep writing.
Also thank you to Crazymonkey12345, HeliosHime, AN1M3, Kichou, LunaticV, PureVampirePriestess, and mearr for reviewing "Consequences and Curiosity". I appreciated it so much!