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Courtship for Dummies
Chapter Seven
"I think we should do something with his hair first." Miranda suggested to Lavi as they looked at the younger exorcist.
"I've always wanted to shave someone's head before." Lavi sounded a little too excited by the prospect so Allen took an unconscious step backwards, he definitely didn't want to be bald or for Lavi to be the one who was going to shave him.
"I don't think making him bald will make Allen look more attractive. Maybe longer hair would suit you?"
"Ah! I always knew a long white wig would come in handy one day, I've been holding on to this for three years now. Here, Allen put that on."
Lavi handed Allen a fluffy white mass which he pulled out from somewhere, the other two exorcists weren't quite sure. While waiting for Allen to finish struggling with the wig Miranda admired his room.
"Your room looks really nice and smells good too with all the flowers."
"I've got to admit that it does look pretty good, you'd never guess they were a memento of your several failures."
Lavi imparted his words of wisdom, sparing nothing. Allen thought it would be best if he ignored such comments for now and stood in front of Lavi waiting for the next step.
"Side burns would make you look more like a hairy beast, a beard would make you look like a tramp, how bout stubble, can you grow some stubble?"
To be honest Allen wondered that himself.
"And we've got to make you look less old man and more like a strapping young buck. This calls for leather, lots of leather, go ditch the flouncy shirt and ribbon."
Allen was about to ask what was wrong with his shirt when he was cut off by the door opening, all three occupants held their breath in suspense.
And then sighed in relief when it was Lenalee who peered into the room.
"Allen-kun, what's wrong with your hair?"
Glaring at Lavi, Allen explained the plan.
"Do you really think that will work?"
"It's worth a try, nothing I've done so far has made a difference."
"Oh, what have you done?"
"I gave him chocolate."
"But Kanda hates sweets."
"I gave him poetry."
"To Kanda?"
"I tried chat up lines."
"I thought you were trying to show how much you respect him?"
"I tried flowers."
"What ones?"
Pointing at the flowers respectively Allen began to list them and to every flower Lenalee rejected the choice.
"Red roses"
"Too cliché"
"Daisies"
"Too happy"
"Lilies"
"Too big"
"Gardenias"
"Too delicate"
"Orchids"
"Too pretty"
"Bird of paradise"
"Too weird"
Well Lenalee sure made Allen feel like a twat. He was about to ask what Lenalee would suggest when he was again cut off by the door opening.
"LENALEE! What are you doing in here!"
Thinking quickly Lavi threw Miranda onto Komui, dragging Allen and Lenalee with him as he ran out of the room shouting back to Miranda:
"Your sacrifice will be remembered!"
As they continued running they could hear Miranda's wail in the background.
After running for a few minutes without hearing any danger following, they decided it was safe to come to a stop so that they could catch their breath. Allen not wanting to take the chance of standing around with Lenalee for too long hurriedly asked for her help.
"Have you even considered what Kanda might like in all of this? Or even how he might be feeling, I can assure you that you aren't the only one being harassed. Kanda has been on the receiving end of quite a few glares from the majority of the finders and who knows what else, as if this was his fault!"
Allen felt truly chastised by Lenalee's announcement as did Lavi, of course they hadn't considered Kanda, the prickly bastard. Taking a moment to themselves, Lavi hesitantly spoke.
"We were on a mission once and I did see Kanda looking at some lotus flowers."
"Good, try starting with that." Lenalee nodded her head, pleased with such an observation.
"Allen." Lavi called the white-haired exorcist's name drawing his attention away from Lenalee.
"Yeah?" Pointing down the corridor Lavi once more transferred Allen's attention, this time to an angry looking Marie stomping towards them.
"Now would be a good time to run."
"Yeah"
"See you in the library tomorrow?"
*****
The next day when Allen walked into the library, sans wig, Lavi and Lenalee both noticed he looked quite unsettled.
"I tried to give him a lotus flower." Allen spoke unprompted as he sat down. Lavi eager to find out the result, asked for more details.
"How did it go?"
"He fainted."
"Do you think that means he likes you now?"
"What!?"
"Well he didn't try to kill you."
"I have no idea what it means"
"That was unexpected" Lenalee, speaking for the first time since Allen entered the room, pushed the white-haired exorcist's concern over Kanda to the side for the moment.
"Should you be here? Won't Komui come looking for you?" Slightly scared he swung his head around the room checking that he wasn't about to be ambushed.
"He is currently very distracted." Lenalee replied in such a matter of fact way that though Allen was sceptical that they were safe for the time being accepted her reassurance. Thinking about Komui had also led him to think of someone else.
"Oh. Hey where is Miranda?"
"She's on a date."
--Interlude of a Stunned Supervisor--
Komui Lee was scared, very, very scared.
He was alone in a bedroom with a young woman in his arms, screaming her head off.
He had to think quick!
"Please…Please go on a date with me!"
--Interlude of a Stunned Supervisor--
--TBC--