My 'Innocent' Life (Part 6)

Story #6: Can't read me

AN: He's got love from everybody :P

"Hey Allen, Allen you here...? Dang it, where could he be? I wanted to ask him something..." Lavi walked around the Black Order building [thing] wondering where the hell his companion was.

'Hmm, I've checked everywhere in the bottom floor, including the kitchen, so maybe he's upstairs?' Lavi exited the kitchen with some pocky in his hands and went to check if his the white-haired kid was upstairs or not.

He walked over and leaned toward the door to pick up if he was there or not.

"My, my, you sure are persistent. How about we do another round... shall we?" He heard some mumbling behind the door.

'Darn, I can't pick up the whole thing, but I'm certain something's up; I can feel it in my guts!' He puts a pocky in his mouth and uses his free hand to turn the doorknob. He slowly opens it and takes a peek inside; he sees a white haired playing with some stuffed animals... and also Timcampy, the golden snitch thing, was in there too.

"No way, could Allen be that desperate?" Lavi whispered to himself. "I should keep Allen-chan company, it's the least I can do for my bestest friend~"

He slams open the door and greets him happily.

Allen suddenly turned to him with a gloomy expression on his face. "Knock first."

"Eh?"

"Close the door and knock first before coming in..."

"Oh, uh, okay then." Lavi slowly closed the door and then knocked on it.

"Who is it?"

"Yo, it's me, Lavi. Can I come in?"

"Sure."

Lavi opened the door again and walked in.

This time however Allen was in a cheerful manner as soon as he stepped inside. "Hey there Lavi, how are you doing?" He greeted with a smile.

"Um... fine, how about you?" Lavi asked looking confused.

"Fine, thanks for asking."

"But what about that behavior you had earlier?"

"Well I was in a good mood before—"

"No I mean when I first came in here... today."

"Oh, well I just don't like it when people come in here without knocking; BaKanda does that a lot..."

"Wait, Yu comes here too?"

"Well yeah, to inform me on some missions when I'm afar from the meeting room."

"Oh. So, what are you doing here?" Lavi asked skeptically.

"Well, I'm practicing for my Poker tournament matches."

"YOU play Poker?"

"That's right."

"How can you do that by yourself though?"

"I'm just using some of these stuffed animals as my opponents. I got them as a gift from someone, it doesn't really say who though, just came on the doormat addressed to me inside a package..."

"I see... can I watch?"

"Oh sure, have a seat and feel comfortable."

"Thanks Allen-chan, you're the best." Lavi finds a chair to sit on and watches the... performance of his.

Allen takes a look at his cards; he places some fake yen in the middle of the room. He then moves the dolls and takes a peek at all the cards of theirs; he throws them in the middle of the room in disgust and takes the fake chips away from them.

Lavi was even more confused with how he's 'playing'. "Um, Allen, isn't that cheating?"

"Huh? No, it isn't... technically. Ya see, each player in a game has to check their cards and see if it's good enough to keep. If it's not, you simply 'fold' and give up on your turn. That's why I discarded them for you guys."

"But you still checked their cards..."

"I know, but their not REAL opponents and it's just a practice match, so its fine. Not like I can read through the cards or anything like that."

"Don't be silly, you can do all sorts of stuff, I've seen you guess what I was going to pick for breakfast this morning!"

"But that's because you always pick that for breakfast."

"Anyways, how about I take YOU on in a match or two, ya know, so I can prove to you that you CAN read mi- I mean help you with the tourney coming up..."

"Are you sure about that? I am a pretty devious poker player if I do say so myself."

"Aw come now, if I can handle Yu and those other jerks in this place, I can handle a boring card game against a 'devious player' like you!"

"Ok then. Then let's get started... shall we?" Allen sets up the cards and hands some over to Lavi. They both check their cards carefully.

Upon studying them, Lavi notices Allen put his cards away and taps on the table. "Check." He said.

"Psst, hey bunny, what do you think I should do?" The red-head whispered to the bunny figure accessorized with a headband. "Mm, you're right; I should tap the floor also!" He does so.

Allen takes some yen and places it on in front of himself. "I call... ten million."

"EH? But that's just a coin!"

"So, can't I joke around for once?"

"I call too." Lavi looked at the cards again and placed the bunny plushy on top of the yen.

"Ok then, now you just gotta draw out some cards in place of some new ones. So, how many are you going draw?"

"Two. You?"

"Stand pat."

"EH? You're not even gonna bother drawing at least a card or two?"

"Nope, I'm good with the set that I have."

"Um, ok? You might actually regret that though; cause my hands a pretty good one..." After Lavi takes some more cards, he placed them down on the floor to show Allen the hand he had. "I got a pair of three!"

"Pair of ten, I win."

"Darn it! See, I told you you can read minds!"

"What does that have to do with mind tricks?"

"Well, um, you knew what I had in my hand?"

"If you want, I can show you a REAL mind trick. Wanna see it?"

"Yes please."

Allen shuffled the deck again and passed out the cards.

While Lavi was picking up and studying the cards, he whispered something to Timcampy and floated over to where Lavi was (Tim not Allen) for a little chat. He rubbed against Lavi's cheek, which got his attention, and he decided to pet it for a while. While doing this, Allen makes an evil smirk, placed his cards in the pile, and took some that had high numbers out. He also leaned over at Lavi's hand and then took out a two from the deck and placed in on top of the deck.

"So, Lavi, what are you going to do now?" Allen asked once he got everything ready. He covered his mouth behind the cards so that he wouldn't be able to see the smirk that's on his face.

"I check, Ally ol' boy!" Lavi tapped on the floor.

"Alright then... I raise."

"EH?" Lavi was shocked. "W-Well, I'll raise too, I'm certain that I can whoop you this time!" He placed down a doggy plushy this time while Allen continued to place fake yen in the center.

"Oh yeah? Well no offense, but I doubt you'll do any good here, even when you draw out some cards I don't think you can—"

"Nah, I actually don't want to draw out."

"Huh?"

"I said I'm fine with my deck..."

"B-but you can't possibly beat me with the cards you have right now!"

"Hey... did you look at my cards while I was staring at Timcampy's ass?"

"WHAT?"

"What?"

"You're crazy... staring at my pet's buttocks for no good reason..."

"I got bored, ok? And he was staring at me with those adorable eyes that I could not look away!"

"So, what's your hand?"

"Oh yeah, my hand. Behold... a pair of J!" Lavi turned his cards over to reveal the hand that he has.

"Pair of K, I win."

"Oh come on, how come I lost to that!?"

"I dunno, luck I guess?" Allen lied and shrugged. "Guess that means the doggy is mine."

"Why do you get this dog? Who is this anyway?"

"Yu."

"Me, I'm the dog? But I thought I was the bunny."

"You are the bunny."

"So I'm the dog AND bunny? That doesn't make any—"

"Kanda is the dog, ok?"

"Oh, that makes a lot more sense actually... now how to win a match in poker..."

Allen chuckled softly. "You don't know anything about poker, that's why you keep on losing. Because of your insignificant stupidity and cluelessness, you will never be able to win a poker match even if your life depended on it!"

"Um, Allen? You're starting to creep me out..."

"Who is this Allen you speak of?" A dark aura surrounded the white haired boy as he made a long crooked smile across his round-ish face.

'Dang it, I guess I'll have to beat Allen-chan in order to save him from despair and insanity... this is my big break!'

Then, all of a sudden... there was a knock on Allen's bedroom door.

"Yo, Moyashi, are you in there?" A familiar deep voice said through the door.

"Oh, hai. Come in!" Allen replied; suddenly back to his 'normal' state from the evil like aura.

'What just happened?' Lavi thought while sweat dropping.

The door opened and Kanda Yu walked inside the room. "Hey, uh, how's it going?" He asked.

"Doing pretty good, thanks for asking." Allen replied. "So what's up?"

"Komui wanted to see you for something so he asked me to go and tell you."

"Oh, okay. I'll be on my way then..."

"Also have you seen—" He started to ask but then noticed Lavi was sitting next to Allen. "—never mind."

"Oh crap, uh, hi Yu, how's it going?"

"..."

"What... happened between you two?" Allen asked.

"He left during the punishment... he still needs to do five more laps around the BO building!"

"B-but I- can't I get a break? Haven't I been punished enough!?"

"No." Kanda dragged Lavi away from the room and shut the door to Allen's bedroom.

"By the way, good luck on the upcoming tourney." Lavi opened the door to proclaim, then Kanda furiously yanks him away and it slams shut... again.

"What nice guys, don't you agree?" Allen glanced over at his kitty plushy and sighed.

AN: Wow, been a while since I last did one of these :P

Sorry about that I had gotten really busy and was planning on some future/new stories ahead of time that I couldn't find any time to do this one. Anyways, hope you enjoy this unusual parody fiction of mine and as always, thank you :)

Oh, and I kind of couldn't think of a better title for this one... sorry about that :S