'Its finally lunch time.' Allen thought as the bell rang. The entire class period she could feel stares from the students and glares from Kanda. She didn't even pay attention but she did recall that they would be watching videos on tragic events from around the world. Nothing too big just burning buildings and shootings. And then during gym, which she also had with Kanda, Lavi, Lenalee and Link, was strange. Though that was probably because of Socalo the crazy gym teacher. He appeared to work everyone but her to the bone. Allen wasn't allowed to work as hard because of her health and because she had to get her papers signed before participating.
She could have cared less though she was already tired of the school. Although she swore some of the students were trying to find out what gender she was. Allen sighed one would think her C-cup was enough to prove her gender, but apparently not. Regardless of what they came up with she didn't really care, she is who she is.
After almost 10 steps down the hallway the speaker came on. "Allen walker there is a visitor for you." She heard Komui say happily, "Please come to the main office." At that she began walking faster towards the office.
Once she was inside she was immediately enveloped in a hug. "Auntie Anita" Allen gasped out. "Allen you look so cute." She said giving the girl another squeeze. "How's your day been so far?" Anita asked as she let go of Allen.
Allen stared at her aunt for a moment before giving her a smile "It's going well auntie, everyone here so far has been really kind to me." Anita hugged her again and began crying softly into Allen's shoulder.
Whispering into Allen's ear "You don't have to force a smile on your face for me Allen, its okay." The statement caught Allen off guard and she stared at her aunt as she pulled away. "Well now that you're here I can give you your lunch." Anita said happily. She handed Allen a medium sized bag and watched as Allen opened it to find that it was filled with mitarashii dango.
"Oh Auntie" Allen began; it had been a fairly long time since she had dango and it was her favorite. "That's not all, the rest is waiting outside." Allen looked at her confused but followed anyway while eating the dango.
Once they made it outside there were students standing around talking, while some were eating their lunch. But everyone was staring at the buffet that had been set up. There were two bodyguards keeping the other students from trying to have a taste. Allen stared at it then stared at her aunt.
"I wasn't sure what to bring you so I made a buffet for today." She told Allen "I hope you'll like it Allen." Allen turned back to the table; she was speechless. "Allen!" her trance was broken by someone calling her name. "Lavi?" she said.
"Allen is that buffet really for you?" he asked, Allen was surprised he knew already. "It is but how do you know that?" she asked as Lavi gawked at her in total admiration, once he snapped out of his gaze he explained. "There's a sign on the table that says 'Reserved for Allen Walker' on it." Allen blushed a little. "She didn't want the entire school to know her through something like this. "Sorry I'm afraid that's my fault Allen." Anita said gaining their attention, she laughed nervously.
"Strike!" "Allen is this one of your friends?" Anita asked. Allen looked back and forth between Lavi and her aunt and slowly nodded yes. "That's wonderful, he's welcome to eat some as well." "Am I really?" Lavi asked incredulously, Anita nodded to him. "Woohoo I can't wait to tell Yuu!" he shouted joyfully only to have a katana pointed in his face.
A little startled, Lavi jumped back from the blade into Allen, making her start to fall down the front steps. Anita gasped Allen's name, which brought attention to her by some of the students, including Lavi, Kanda and the student that caught her.
"Allen as in Allen Walker?" he asked, Allen blushed at how close he was to her. All she could do was nod her head as he righted her. "Uh thank you for helping me…" "Tyki Mikk." He looked at Lavi and Kanda and noticed their glares.
"Tsk tsk you two were about to cause an accident for the new student on her first day." He shook his head as if scolding them. "I'll see you later Allen." He said softly and continued into the school brushing past Lavi and Kanda.
Allen walked through the empty halls, headed for what she hoped was the nurse's office. She had been thinking about everything that happened during the morning:
-She got acquainted with the school and staff
-Made friends with a girl named Loufa and apparently Lavi, and Daisya
-Had at least three people ask what gender she was
-Had a wonderful lunch courtesy of Anita
-Realized that there are people bent on scaring her out of the Black Order
"Oh its you again." She heard someone say to her. Allen looked to see Lenalee Lee, the 'darling' little sister of the principal. Allen saw her scoff, almost disgusted with Allen's very existence. "I don't understand what people around here think is so cool about you." She commented getting closer to Allen's face.
"Cute, friendly, and shy my ass." Allen winced a little; even the people who didn't like her weren't this cruel. "All I se is white haired freak." That actually hurt a little bit. "Which reminds me, I've heard some of the students debating on how your 'too cute to be a boy' or 'or too princely to be a girl'. So what are you exactly? Because either way you're still the freak that's new to the school."
With that Lenalee brushed past Allen and kept walking. Allen stood there for the longest time before finally walking, stumbling actually, towards the nurse. "Walker, is something wrong?" Someone else's voice rang in her ears. 'No not again, my vision is darkening.' She thought as she tripped on her own feet and went crashing to the floor. Before she blacked out she saw Link running towards her calling her name.
"Allen? Allen!" She heard a woman's voice calling her name. She looked in the direction of the voice and saw her mother, with a hole in her neck. Smiling with blood dripping out of her mouth. Allen was about to scream when a large hand grabbed her wrist in a tight grip. It was her father Mana.
"Allen promise me you'll always keep moving forward."
"I promise papa…" Allen muttered in her sleep, then sat up slowly. When she opened her eyes they were a scary shade of dark gray. There was a far off look in her eyes yet there seemed to be a small part that had a murderous glint in them.
"Ms. Walker, you're awake." The head nurse said walking carefully to the disoriented teen. "Matron?" Allen said with a raspy voice, the nurse smiled at her softly. "Good you remember who I am. Do you know where you are Allen?" Allen looked around the room then looked back at the Matron.
"The nurse's office at the Black Order." She answered "Good this is wonderful." The matron said, "You don't seem to have any brain damage from your fall. Don't worry I already gave you your medicine but you've been asleep for the rest of the day, school is almost over."
Allen sat up slowly while holding her head "How did I get here?" she asked. The matron gave Allen some painkillers and a glass of water. "Link brought you here, it was rather cute. He carried you like a princess, he seemed really worried about you."
Allen almost blushed at this knowledge. 'He carried me here?' "Once you're ready or when the bell rings you can leave. The matron said taking the cup from Allen "Just so you know, I will have to inform your guardian of this. Are you okay with that?" she asked as a precaution, Allen nodded slowly.
The nurse began to leave and Allen swung her legs over the bed to get up after she left. When she went towards the door handle and the door slid open to reveal Link and Komui. "Allen good you're awake." Komui said happily. "Walker should you be up so soon?" Link asked concerned. Allen stared at them before smiling "I'm doing just fine Link. Thank you for bringing me to the nurse." She said showing her mask once more.
"Allen, are you sure you're okay, Link told me what happened and I called Cross he's waiting for you." Komui said. Allen looked shocked for a moment "Then I guess I shouldn't keep him waiting." She stated walking past them.
Allen stopped by her locker to grab her book bag, when Timcampy flew at her. "Tim!" she exclaimed smiling genuinely since she'd been here today. She didn't notice that there were people watching her again.
"Moyashi you know there are no pets allowed right?" Kanda said walking towards her. He had kendo practice in the doo behind the school and his teacher let him go early- half because he was the best and half because he threatened them. "My name is Allen and Tim isn't a real bird." Kanda snorted as she stood up and turned to face him. "Looks pretty real to me." "Well he's not, my uncle made him for me." She retorted as Tim landed on her shoulder and nuzzled her cheek.
"Whatever" Kanda said and continued on his way. Allen continued on the opposite way to Komui's office. Surprisingly she made it despite her inability to know where she was going. She opened the door to find a pacing and slightly panicked Reever. "Allen, I'm glad you're here! Your uncle and our new music teacher are in there fighting. Maybe if Cross sees you he'll calm down." He told her in a hurry, trying to gently to push her through the doors.
She finally did and indeed found her uncle arguing with another man. His dark brown hair was somewhat wavy yet spiked out in the back. His skin was semi-tan while his eyes were a dark gold. He had a long tan trench coat over a black vest and pants, with a white dress shirt and red bow tie. His style reminded Allen of her father.
She quickly pushed that thought out of her head as she tried to gain her uncle's attention. "Cross!" she shouted at them somehow surprising them with both her presence and her shout.
"Allen…" Cross said walking to her. He grabbed her shoulders and began looking her over to make sure she was okay. Allen got a little irritated at his behavior. "Cross I'm fine so please stop." Allen actually managed to pull away from Cross's grip.
She noticed that the man Cross had been fighting with kept staring at her. She didn't know if it was out of recognition or something else. Cross seemed to notice as well because the next thing she knew she was being dragged out of the school just as the bell rang.
"Allen!" both she and Cross stopped to see Daisya and Lavi coming towards them. "Allen where were you last period?" Daisya asked. "Tiedoll was worried you skipped his class." Allen was a little surprised, had he really been that excited for her to be in his class?
"Apprentice" Cross called "Who is that?" he stared at Lavi as he spoke. Allen sighed exasperated "I'm not your apprentice and this is Lavi Bookman." Cross continued to stare at him then finally turned and nodded at Daisya who waved.
"Sorry boys but I need to get Allen home, you'll have plenty of time to ask questions tomorrow." And they promptly left them to stare at their retreating backs. "We'll see you tomorrow then moyashi- chan." Lavi said making Allen turn to shout, "I'm not a beansprout!"
In the car Allen and Cross sat in a painful silence until Cross finally spoke "Did your first day go well?" he tried Allen, who was staring out the window turned to face him. "It was, minus a few details."
"Such as?" Cross questioned. She paused in pretend thought, "Well I have a new nickname I hate, the student population is debating my gender and oh my favorite, I now have a bully." She answered with fake excitement. Cross nearly winced at the tone, really she could make a person reevaluate their life with just her voice.
"Were they the reason you had an attack?" Cross inquired, his grip tightened around the wheel. Turning back to the window Allen shrugged "I think so but it was a fairly rough day too. It was probably a combination of everything."
The conversation ended there and things became awkward once more. Once they pulled up to the house (mansion) Cross said to Allen. "Be careful while you're at the Black Order, I don't care, if you get in fight with this kid as long as you don't swing first or lose."
For a moment Allen thought that he cared but that feeling disappeared shortly after. "I know you know how to fight and you know how to defend yourself with and without weapons." "And I can only use weapons if my attacker draws one first. No killing unless they aim to kill me and nearly succeed." She cut him off as they walked inside.
"And above all else-" "Be cautious." They finished together. Cross almost smirked at her attitude, it was like a combination of Mana and Rosalynne when they were younger. "Glad to know you remember that." He decided to grin as they walked inside, Allen snorted at the look he had on his face. "You've only told me this everyday since I've been living with you."
Cross snickered a little, while sad was the reason for them living together, he was glad she was here, even if he didn't say or show it. "You got any homework, apprentice?" he questioned. "I'm not your apprentice and no I don't but I am going to go work out." She said dropping her backpack on the floor before heading towards the back door.