Less than Innocent, More than Like 5/?
Title: Less Than Innocent, More than Like
Pairing: LaviYuu
Rated: PG for the moment...Just because Lavi's a bad boy >:]
Warnings: Well, it's yaoi...but you already knew that, surely. No spoilers, because this is all speculation about their past. Just don't take this like it's really their past, and you're good.
Disclaimer: Saya owns the play, but not the actors. They belong to Hoshino.
Summary: Lavi hasn't even been in the Order for two weeks, and he's already bored with it! Lucky for him a very interesting new exoricst comes in around the same time. Will Kanda be simple entertainment? Or will unfortunate circumstances force Kanda to stay close to Lavi?
geez this chapter starts out so...wonderful fun <3
5. Le Chat
In Kanda’s opinion, there had never been a more retarded, idiotic mission. Surely there had never been a mission that had started so normally and ended so stupidly. And surely there would never again be a mission so completely asinine that he would have to chase down some stray animal to complete it.
000
Their mission in Marseilles had started in an average way, that they were sure every mission would start in, finding the places where the Innocence was likely to be. So they had first gotten information on the earthquakes, specifically where the epicenter was. That had been easy enough to find out, and it had been just as easy to get there. Their finder Michael simply lead the way to the edge of the city, to where it met forest. This was where the slightly difficult, but annoyingly simple part of their task came in, they had to scour the forest for the Innocence, if it was really there at all.
But it had been there, luckily for them. Even more luckily, they found it after only a few hours of search. The raw innocence certainly didn’t look like Kanda had expected it to; for it differed from the way his own raw innocence had looked, but it certainly didn’t look like it belonged in a tree. It was rather strange, really, it stuck to a hollow in the tree like some abnormal growth. And it glowed, a definite clue that it did not belong in a deciduous tree.
“Oi, Idiot, this is Innocence, right?” Kanda asked, pointing into the hollow. Lavi sighed, a small, tired smile on his face as he walked over.
“The Name’s Lavi, Yuu. Not Idiot, Lavi. Say it with me now, La. Vi.” When he was within arm’s length Kanda punched him, but not nearly as hard as he could’ve; after all, he was asking a question.
“Sure looks like innocence to me. Now how to get it out...” The mysterious substance was fused with the wood, it looked. Kanda was wondering how something above ground had managed to cause earthquakes, when as far as he knew (which wasn’t very far) they started below ground. It took him a minute to decide on an appropriate answer to his question; trees have roots underground, therefore the Innocence’s power was travelling through the tree and into the ground. That satisfied the samurai’s need for an explanation, as far off as it may or may not have been. Lavi was just glad that they wouldn’t have to conduct an (attention-attracting) excavation to some point 30-old kilometers into the earth’s crust. A project so large and so time expending would certainly draw Akuma to them, which would most likely result in this mission going over their heads.
Kanda pulled Mugen from it’s sheath, mentally sighing at the fact that he was going to use his precious sword in such a stupid way, when a pocket knife could’ve done the same thing, and probably with a little more ease, considering the fact that trying to carve something out of the hollow fo a tree while on the other side of a long katana was rather difficult. But, he somehow managed, though the innocence seemed determined not to be ripped from it’s resting place. Kanda would gladly cut the entire damned tree down if that’s what it took to get the innocence out of that forest so that he could go back and rest; there was some truth in the old saying “if you want to hide a tree, put it in a forest”, it was unexpectedly hard to find the innocence, as simple as the actual task was. But then again, “simple” and “easy” aren’t always synonymous.
“Thank God that this day is over! I’m gonna crash the second we get back!”
“...”
“Too tired to talk, eh? Come on, have a little more energy! Be a little more excited! We just successfully accomplished our first mission!”
“...”
“I get it! You’re disappointed that our lovely mission together is over! You wanted to spend more time with me in this country of beauty and romance!”
“OH WOULD YOU JUST SHUT UP! I am not too tired to talk, I simply do not WANT to. And the mission we just finished was probably the stupidest, more time-consuming thing I’ve ever had the displeasure of doing. It didn’t help that I was accompanied by an idiot who took every chance he got to flirt with the locals.”
“Jealous Yuu?”
“AND THAT’S ANOTHER THING! I am not disappointed at all that this mission is ending, if I’m lucky my next mission will be a nice, long mission without you. And why would I be jealous of some random girls you chose to talk to? They can have you.”
“S-so cold...I s’pose the Ice Queen has spoken...” Lavi said, sniffling like a kicked rabbit. There was much twitching on Kanda’s part, but as much as he wouldn’t admit it, he was indeed tired, too tired to bother with hitting Lavi for the queen comment. Besides, it’s not like he could deny being a frigid bastard, but he was a boy bastard dammit.
Silence overcame the weary duo, a silence Kanda was glad for, while Lavi felt oddly uncomfortable in, he didn’t usually have a problem with silence, maybe it was because he had gotten used to being loud?
Something brushed by Kanda’s ankle, and without really doing any mental work, immediately thought of Lavi, the only person who touched him at all. His mind completely overlooked the fact that in order to touch his ankle, Lavi would actually have to bend over and stop moving forward, which he was still doing. Kanda looked down, anger radiating from his being. It was a cat. A cat, rather plump one that looked to be in great health, was walking by his feet, rubbing it’s head against him, hoping for his attention. Even though the thing looked so well taken care of, the fact that it had no collar was an obvious sign that it was a stray. The french do love their domestic animals, even if they were strays, it seemed.
Kanda glared down at the thing, not wanting to deal with an animal but not having the energy or motivation to kick it away. He wasn’t much into animal abuse, even if he couldn’t care less about animals.
“Er...there’s a cat at your feet Yuu,” Lavi said, pointing out the obvious.
“I know...” Kanda ground out, wanting to punch Lavi just for pointing out something he knew. The creature looked up, with an adorable look of innocence and anticipation on it’s face; it obviously expected something from Kanda, seeing as he had stopped because of it. Kanda just glared at it and decided to keep walking; he hated innocent, cute things. The cat followed.
“Che...this thing’s following us...”
“No, it’s following you. I never woulda guessed you were a cat person Yuu-chan, how cute!”
“I’m not. I don’t see why this stupid cat would want to be near me anyways, it makes no sense.”
“Well, maybe it just has weird tastes and likes you.”
“Baka, animal’s don’t cut and chose, they like whoever feeds them.”
“Not true, my simple-minded compadre. Cat’s are complicated creatures, ya never know why one might get attached to one person and not another.”
“...Whatever, let’s just ditch the thing.” Kanda said, rolling his eyes at Lavi. The cat did not want to let him escape, however. It was also quite annoyed with the fact that Lavi was getting more attention than it was. The cat seemed to march over to Lavi, giving him it’s best glare. Lavi blinked down at the thing, with a mix of disbelief and amusement.
“Hehe, this kitty’s jealous of me, ‘cause I’ve got all your attention. See, even animals can tell you’re into me.”
“That cat is high on catnip, most likely then, because I am not into you. And you hardly have my attention at all.”
The cat gave a quiet growl, and Lavi realized that getting this thing to lay off was gonna be difficult. The mini-feline pounced on Lavi, attaching itself to the front of his shirt. Lavi, not expecting an attack from anything but an Akuma, fell back, the thing was unexpectedly heavy. Then, it happened. The innocence, which had been in Lavi’s pocket, fell to the ground. The cat looked over to it, and then to Kanda, who’s attention had gone to the innocence the moment it hit the ground. Realizing it had another, bigger, competitor for Kanda’s attention, the thing jumped off of Lavi, landing next to the innocence. It looked down at the thing once and then...
“My God... Yuu...did that cat just...”
“I’M GONNA KILL THAT THING!”
000
Kanda was still shaking with anger after they got back to their hotel. They had had to chase down that pesky cat, and wait for it to cough up a hair ball ‘o innocence; it had taken forever and it was now incredibly late. Kanda decided that the devil must love cats, if he was not one himself. The Earl probably liked cats too. Kanda, on the other hand, decided that cats needed to disappear off the face of the planet.
“That... was so... exasperating...” Lavi said, even he seemed a bit annoyed by the turn of events. “I swear I will never own a cat.”
Kanda agreed whole-heartedly for once. He walked numbly over to his bed, wanting to fall face-first into the soft mattress and curl up like a little kid, but refrained, he was sharing a room after all, he couldn’t act like that in front of another, relaxing was something he could only do when alone. Instead he sat on the edge, taking his shoes off before stretching across the bed slowly, the old bedframe not making a sound as he did so. Lavi however, chose to do all the plopping, bouncing, and noise-making he wanted as he descended. On Kanda’s bed. Was this child alright in the head?
“You have a supreme death wish, don’t you?”
“Noooooo, it’s just fun to cuddle with you, Yuu-chan!”
“Like I said, you have a death wish.”
Kanda looked like he was ready to explode, as an angry flush came to his face, and he turned on his side, his back now to Lavi. He was too tired to put up much of a fight today, he just wanted to sleep, and prayed that the redhead would let him. Lavi tried to move closer to Kanda, willing to take advantage of the fact that Kanda wasn’t killing him, and Kanda noticed the shift of weight on the bed.
“Come any closer and I will skin you and feed you to that cat.”
Lavi sighed. “You’s so mean Yuu.” Kanda tensed, Lavi noticed. He had gotten close enough so that Kanda could feel his breath on the back of his neck, which was exposed, seeing as his hair was still pulled into a rigid ponytail. Lavi wanted to change that, he’d love to see Kanda’s hair down. Surely, he’d look even more beautiful and even more dangerously androgynous than before.
Lavi’s hands moved quickly, and he pulled the tie out of Kanda’s hair, making satin strands of ebony pool over the bed. Kanda immediately turned, sitting up, anger written clearly over his face, his hair moving around him perfectly, framing his face just so.
“Stunning...” Lavi murmured unconsciously, not intending to let his opinion slip out. Kanda’s anger was accompanied by incredulity.
“What do you think you are doing!?” Kanda nearly yelled, his glare like a snake’s.
Or maybe like that stray cat...maybe that’s why the thing liked him so much...he glares a lot...
“Didja really plan to sleep with your hair up like that? Dunnit hurt?”
Kanda had to mentally agree with that, he didn’t usually sleep with it up because it is annoying and sometimes painful, but he had been so tired he’s simply forgotten about that.
“I was takin’ it down for ya.” Kanda sighed, allowing himself to fall back onto the bed with a thud, once again turning from Lavi, and increasing the distance between them. What was done was done, it wasn’t like Kanda was going to put his hair back up and then take it down, just for the sake of doing it himself.
“Just leave me the hell alone...”
“But of course, ‘night Yuu-chan.”
“Tch...”
Ah...Yuu. You can say you want me to get away until you turn blue in the face, but it doesn’t mean a thing if you don’t make me leave. Really, the more you tell me to get away, the more it shows you want me around. You’re such an open book and you don’t even realize it.