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Disclaimer: I, unfortunately, do not own D. Gray-Man. Otherwise, this would have happened a lot earlier in the manga.
Plot: Chapter 20!!! Celebration! *dances*
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Kanda felt relief almost immediately, the cream doing it's job rather quickly. Though it didn't work as well as the stuff the nurse gave them; hers must have been extra strength or something. The raven glanced at the screen again, not really hearing what the cheery little blond was talking about until she mentioned the apartment. But instead of hearing about Joe's murder, there was an elevator accident. That was strange, though he did see the caution tape around the...around the elevator they had taken yesterday. Was it a coincidence? Or had they gone any further they would have fallen to their dooms too?
Kanda was so close to that mental shrug that meant he no longer cared about the story, but then they gave the guy's picture...Kanda almost gawked. Lavi had been in that crash? No one could have known that he had any sort of connection to the obnoxious red head, but here he was, the only person in the entire complex that he knew, almost fell to his death in the stupid death elevator? Coincidence? Kanda didn't think so? Aug, his guardian must have been furious with the managers of the Lotus hotel chains, but...what if he was targeting the wrong guy? Though at that point, Kanda wasn't sure whether he was being paranoid or not; ever accident that happened around here couldn't be Solen's doing, right?
"Damn it Lavi, even when you're not around you complicate things." He muttered lunging for the remote and shutting down the television. Stupid news reports gave nothing but bad news. "Allen, how much do you think Solen knows about me from before you showed up?"
Allen raised an eyebrow but didn't comment, taking the time to finish his bandaging before he answered. How much did he know about Kanda before hand? Probably close to nothing. But how long would it take Solen to get the information he needed from an over exuberant, information spilling girl? Not long. How long would it take for him to get the apartment information from the office? If Allen was correct, and he had connections there, practically no time at all. How much did he know before hand? That was irrelevant, because Kanda was nothing but a tough ass wanna be. But now? Now that he had actually got in a life or death battle and won? Probably everything he needed to know.
"Probably not much. Why?" Allen asked, looking up at Kanda with a concerned look. "Did you know him? The guy who got hurt?"
"Nothing, it's...it's nothing." Kanda frowned, of all the people that took that elevator...no, he was just being silly. There was no way that Solen did that. Lavi just had terrible luck, that was all. "Yeah, he went to my school; lives on the top floor." Something about books being better read higher up, and you read best on an airplane, don't you? Kanda rarely listened to his yammering.
Allen took one good look at Kanda and instantly knew he was lying. There was no way he should be that pale if it was 'nothing'. Allen sat on the bed next to Kanda and leaned his head on his shoulder, looking at the empty black box. He stayed silent for a while, trying to figure out how to say this in the kindest fashion he could.
"Kanda, Solen probably did that. You know? It wouldn't take much for him to figure out who was your friend. It wouldn't take much at all." Allen stared at Kanda and shook his head. "And he would do anything to get to me. By hurting you, he hurts me. And he knows that. Kanda," Allen turned Kanda's face towards his. "Solen is a dirty bastard who doesn't care about who he hurts. He probably hurt someone who was innocent, just to get to you. To get to me." Allen looked at Kanda for a while and gave a little half smile. "Would you like to go check on him?"
"What happened to not much?" The raven muttered, looking away after Allen turned his head for a better look at his face. The world just loved pissing him off today, didn't it? So even though he probably knew little to nothing on his background, he knew about his cutesy little lack of a social life now? What kind of crap was that! He didn't tune back into what Allen was saying until his last sentence; and that was partially because he made eye-contact.
"It probably isn't safe..." He trailed off, suddenly not caring. "but I don't have a choice." Lavi would probably do the same for him; in fact, he probably wouldn't leave the room, taking every chance he got to annoy him. "We can do that while we get you some clothes." He had no idea where they were shopping, but didn't care. If it fit, it would be fine with Kanda, and most likely fine with the bean sprout too.
Allen nodded and handed Kanda back his T-shirt, hitching up his pants in the same motion. They were too big, but they would do until he got some new ones. Walking towards the hotel door, Allen thought about this "Lavi" character that Kanda seemed to be worried about. So he was a friend that lived in the same apartment huh? They must have gone to the same school and everything. Allen wondered if Solen knew that, then decided that he did. After all, you cant harm the person closest to your real target without knowing everything that you possibly could about them. "Kanda, what's Lavi like?" Allen asked, thinking it might help to talk about him. But, then again, what did he know? He wasn't from this world.
"Lavi is probably the biggest idiot on the face of the any universe." Kanda answered immediately with a snide comment. Though he was still getting dressed and facing Solen and struggling with bruising to see if the guy was okay; that deserved the right. Besides, it was better than lying. He really didn't want to talk about him, but Allen wanted to know. He hadn't met anyone else here, Lavi was a good start...sort of. He might disturb him somehow or 'd have to kill him if he scared his bean sprout. "But he's tolerable...you'll like him. I met him in middle school." Kanda spluttered out a few random facts about the red head, noting that Lavi probably knew more about him than he did the other...that was a bit mortifying. "Why?"
Allen smiled and shook his head, turning around a bit. "Just wondering." Allen said, opening the door and waiting until Kanda was right behind him to grab his hand and close the door. They walked down the narrow steps, past the clerk (who was watching with bright eyes at their joined hands), and out the door. Allen turned towards Kanda and smiled a bit more, eyes twinkling with mischievousness.
"Hey Kanda, bet you I can beat you to the corner." Allen said, challenging Kanda. And since when has Kanda ever backed down from a challenge?
Kanda snorted, could he really be serious? A race? Now? You can barely breath correctly when you're not gasping for air. "Just don't get lost Bean Sprout." Kanda said, tying up his hair for what seemed like the hundredth time that day. To the corner seemed reasonable, the bust stop was across the street from there. The hospital was a bit out of town from here, but wasn't everything? That's what Kanda got for living smack on the edge of said city.
Allen blinked. Bean sprout? What was that? He looked up at Kanda and frowned a bit. He wasn't sure what a bean sprout was, but he wasn't sure it sounded nice. "Kanda, what's a bean sprout?" Allen asked, tipping his head in confusion. Instead of running like he said he was going to, Allen gripped tighter onto Kanda's hand, distracted by being called a bean sprout. What if Kanda was calling him a name? Allen looked up and shook his head mentally. No, that didn't seem like something Kanda would do. But then again, he did call one of his friend the "biggest idiot on the face of any universe", so...he could be calling him a name. But then again...Allen shook his head outwardly. He was thinking to much into this. It was nothing. Kanda would explain.
Right?
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Okay kiddies! Have a chapter (because I forgot to update yesterday) because it's chapter TWENTY, Yay!
On another, sobering note, I didn't think it would happen, but it did. I have run out of stuff to post for this story. Not saying that I'm not going to update, but I'm saying that, out of the 52 pages that we have pre-written for you, I have run out of stuff. Now, what you'll be getting is pure, I-just-wrote-it. If, that is, I can get Kitty off her lazy buttocks and help me write! *glare*
So, I'm sure that with the combined efforts of me and you (all of you!), we can get Kitty to write with me! So...leave a review, bash Kitty a little for her lazy-ness, and then we can get this story rolling agian! But, in the mean time, enjoy chapter twenty!
Your's truely,
Kiyoko-kun
Kitty-chan (Neko-Kyoutan)