Hot Damn 16
Fufufu…I have returned with another chapter of goodness! So you guys seemed to enjoy the last chapter and made quite the uproar with the news of Cross coming back. To some of you, I told you his entrance was going to be flashy! (I'm sorry if it's not what you imagined. Personally I don't think it's flashy but whatever.) Can you guess what he's going to do? Where he's going to show up? Well let's see if your guesses are right! And congratulations to Kiri-Exorcist92 for getting out of the hellish prison we call summer school! Thank you doomshuriken for your upbeat review! Well on with the chapter! Enjoy gaiz!
WARNING: Kanda's bad mouth, Cross's bad mouth, Allen's bad mouth and utter chaos. DD
DISCLAIMER: Hoshina Katsura
Sixteen: Kick things up a notch.
Stare. Poke. More poke. Stare. Repeat.
Lavi sat opposite to Allen probing him with his fork. The Brit had been an empty shell all morning and now he wasn't even touching his heaps of food in front of him.
"Come on Allen! What's with you?" Lavi asked exasperated throwing his fork onto the table in which it made an annoying clattering sound.
Allen twitched. "It's him...!" Lavi watched as the white haired boy shuddered.
"What? Did Yuu-pon plant another one on you?" The redhead teased. Kanda just sat there trying to stop the twitch in his eye from the comment eating his lunch that Lavi had bought oh-so-kindly for him. But we all know it's because Kanda reluctantly (Yeah, right) went to the fair with Allen…as a date.
"It's not him…it's him." Allen corrected his cheek planted onto the cafeteria table.
"Be more specific, Allen." Lenalee sighed taking a bite out of her sandwich.
"It's…C…Cr-Oh God I can't say it. It's too horrible." The white haired boy cried miserably.
"I don't get what so damned hard about it. It's just one name." Kanda scoffed. He pushed his tray away and threw a few glares around the room that managed to scare off some girls that were shooting death glares at Allen. Not that he cared but they were getting annoying.
"But it's too horrible to say. I'm afraid if I say it out loud he'll appear out of nowhere." Allen lifted his cheek off the table only to place his chin onto the surface.
"Ugh, why do you have to be so difficult Brit?" Lavi asked poking at a lump of mashed potatoes.
"Fine. I g-got a letter the other day and…" Allen started to explain.
"And?" Lenalee urged.
"Well…i-it was from…C…Cr…"
"Spit it out Moyashi." Kanda spat.
"IT WAS FROM CROSS." Allen blurted out sighing relief that he actually said though not really feeling any better than that.
"Oh. What did it say?" Lenalee asked curiously knowing well that Allen didn't really like Cross.
"Yeah, don't leave out the details." Lavi chipped in suddenly interested.
Allen sat there for a while wondering how he should explain considering the fact that Cross was coming back from God knows where after God knows how long. And on top of that, it meant that he might be dragged
around the world again trying to pay off all the debts that had accumulated over the years. That scared him the most. Not only did he not want to leave school after barely a year, he didn't want to leave his friends behind.
"W-well…it said he was coming back from…where ever. I don't know when but it's soon. At least, that's what he said in the letter. There wasn't much else on it…" Allen said quietly. If he was going to be dragged off around the world then he didn't want his friends to know.
"So, you're afraid because some fucking crackpot could show up at any given time?" Kanda asked sceptically.
"Umm…I guess." The white haired boy confirmed.
"…The rabbit's getting to you. He's got you fucking paranoid." Kanda commented standing up.
"Hey! I am not!" Both Lavi and Allen retorted simultaneously. Kanda just snorted and walked off down the hall leaving two flustered idiots and an amused Lenalee.
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1:57pm Monday. 5th period Physics
Allen slumped in his chair. He just wanted class to end. He looked up at the clock ignoring Mr. Reever and his lecture on momentum. It had barely moved the last time he had looked at it which was apparently…two minutes ago. The clock was mocking him. He looked over at Lavi who was doodling in his notebook. His redheaded friend was lucky. He barely had to put any effort into school since he had such a great memory.
Lenalee did well in school too. At first Allen thought it had to do with the fact that most the teachers used to work with Komui and knew his…well 'negotiating' skills. But alas, Lenalee earned her grades painstakingly. Kanda? Smart. Allen would've never guessed. Honestly…never.
There was a knock on the door and Mr. Reever paused his lecture and went over to open it. Allen noticed that he went rigid after opening the door a crack. Since he sat at the back near the corner he leaned a little over his desk to see if he could get a peek at who was at the door. He instantly regretted it. He immediately tried to hide behind his textbook as Mr. Reever back away from the door hiding behind his clipboard. The door was flung open and standing there in all his womanizing glory was Cross Marian with his foot still poised in the air after having kicked the door open. He stepped in and instantly the girls started swooning over him even though he was probably 20 or 30 years older.
His long red hair was the same as always. His face dawned glasses along with a mask covering half of it, long black and gold coat and his hands in their rightful places in his pockets and a lit cigarette dangling in his mouth.
"That's him isn't it?" Lenalee whispered to Allen after Cross had shot a look over the class that silenced the sudden chatter.
The white haired boy nodded sadly sinking in his seat hoping he'd either combust into sudden flames or disappear. Whichever happened first.
"Erm…Class this is Cross Marian. Some of you might know him. And I must say I have no idea what he's doing here and would like to know why." Mr. Reever gritted out not so subtly.
"Don't get your panties in a bunch Reever." Cross replied waving his hand in a dismissing manner. "I'm only here to collect a piece of trash."
Allen twitched at that but remained silent inwardly praying to whatever was up there to make Cross not notice him.
"OI! STUPID APPRENTICE! I KNOW YOU'RE FUCKING BACK THERE NOW GET YOUR SORRY ASS UP HERE NOW!" Cross roared making the class snap their heads to face Allen.
Said boy cringed and looked at his friends for help. Lavi was actually laughing quietly to himself but laughing nonetheless. Lenalee looked at him
with a look that screamed 'Do something before something goes wrong'. And Kanda was the worst of all. He looked at him with that damned smug smirk of his. He was enjoying this. That bloody prick.
Allen grit his teeth and abruptly stood from his seat and marched down the rows of desks the stares of his peers following. When he stopped in front of Cross he threw the scariest glare that he'd even shot.
"Master…" Allen hissed.
"Stupid apprentice." Cross countered.
"Why are you here?"
"You got my letter didn't you?"
"Yes. But why are you here in my school, in my class?"
"Because I feel like it."
"BECAUSE YOU FEEL LIKE IT? HAH! BECAUSE YOU FEEL LIKE IT MY ASS!" Allen spat unbelieving the fact that his 'Master' was here because he felt like it.
"You got a problem with that?" Cross asked quirking a brow. He was challenging Allen and he knew it.
"Yes, I have a problem with it. You could've gone home instead of coming here. Or a bar or where ever you spend your time!" Allen exclaimed ignoring the looks that everyone were looking at the two with.
"After I came all the way back here to see how you're doing and this is the treatment I get?" Cross muttered stomping on the cigarette butt he dropped to the ground.
"…You leave me here, go off around the world womanizing and drinking, racking up a load of debts that you have absolutely no intention of paying and you come back here expecting me to welcome you nicely?" Allen inquired frustrated.
"…Ahem." Cross coughed into his fist and grabbed Allen by the collar suddenly and oh-so-nicely lifted him off the ground.
"Eh?" Allen breathed before Cross sent him flying out the door only to crash into the hard cold metal of the lockers.
"A-Allen!" Lenalee gasped getting out of her seat.
"Oi! BRIT YOU ALRIGHT OUT THERE?" Lavi exclaimed standing up not believing that Cross had just tossed Allen out the door.
"That bastard is fucked up in the head." Kanda muttered staying in his seat glowering at Cross. He was NOT angered at the fact that some half assed bastard had come into his class and threw the moyashi out of the room. He was NOT annoyed at the fact that some half assed bastard was ordering the moyashi around like it was nothing. Oh no, Yuu Kanda was NOT fucking pissed to the extreme. But we all know that's not true.
"That…HURT!" The white haired boy called from out the hall.
"We're going home." Cross stated walking out of the room.
"What? School isn't over and what makes you think you can make me?"
"Che. I'm your guardian stupid apprentice, and I'll drag you back if I have to." The red haired man threatened actually grabbing Allen by the collar of his shirt starting to drag said boy down the hall ignoring his protests. Lenalee and Lavi merely watched from the doorway.
"Poor kid." The redhead mumbled still able to hear Allen's screams even though they were out of sight.
"Things just got more complicated Captain." Lenalee sighed heavily shaking her head.
"You're right Commodore. We'll just have to kick things up a notch." Lavi agreed scratching the back of his head.
The three didn't hear from Allen for the rest of the day. When he came to school the next he was sporting a nice big bruise on his cheek.