Less than Innocent, More than Like 7/?
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?
And this is the chapter that catches you guys up to ff.net! have fun 8]
7. A Life for a Life
Michael helped with the evacuation of the train, getting as many people off as he could. Lavi and Kanda were doing a very good job of distracting the Akuma, it was more eager to fight and kill them than it was to get to the passengers. Still, the occasional traveller who got too close to the fight would be hit by a stray bullet. The train car he was currently in looked empty enough, but he decided to do a once-over, to check for anyone who may have been left behind or injured when the passengers had surged to the exits.
In the seat at the very front of the car, one woman sat, as calm as if she were at a picnic. “Miss, you need to get off, there’s an Akuma out there,” He said, giving the woman a strange look, why had she not moved at all?
“No, I don’t. That thing can’t hurt me,” She replied, her voice smooth and tranquil.
“Trust me, that thing can kill you. You must leave now.”
“The demons cannot kill me. Please, put your worries to rest.”
“I can’t just leave you here. I’m sorry, but you have to come with me.” The hooded figure looked up, yet only her smile was visible; it was wicked. “I do not take orders from men,” She said simply, her smile never faltering. Michael’s eyes widened, before dulling. In his last seconds of consciousness he looked down, he couldn’t see it, but he was sure his heart was gone.
000
With one swing he’d managed to cut the Akuma’s tails off. He was a little surprised that he’d done it, but looking back as he fell to the ground, he could see that he really had. Kanda had successfully cut through the Level 2's tails, taking away it’s means to shower them with poisonous bullets. The serpent shrieked at the sudden pain of having parts of it’s body cut off. The sound was horrible, it graded on Kanda and Lavi’s ears, both were sure they’d suffer some permanent damage from that.
Kanda had quite literally hit the ground running, ignoring the sting in his legs as he did so. Now that their enemy had been disarmed, he’d have to help Lavi deal with it up front. The beast writhed in pain, distracted long enough for Kanda to make it to Lavi.
“Wow, who’da though this thing was such a baby, huh Yuu?” Lavi said when Kanda reached him. “Che, it’s always the big ones that are weak.” Kanda thought the machine was making it’s injury out to be worse than it really was. He wouldn’t yell and scream in such an undignified fashion has someone cut his arm off or something. Besides, Akuma were just machines, right? Can they really feel pain to such an extent?
The level 2 finally calmed down, it was now ready to fully focus it’s rage on the two small exorcists. “YOU LITTLE PUNKS! I’LL MAKE YOU PAY!!” It roared, lunging at the two. Kanda and Lavi split up, each diving in opposite directions in order to dodge the snake’s mouth. The two continued to run, dive, and deal their own blows to the Akuma; soon enough they were fighting their fatigue along with the Akuma.
“Dammit...we can’t keep doin’ this Yuu!”
“Do you have any idea how to get out of this!?”
Their exchange was cut short when the Akuma once again came down on them. Both muttered curses as they jumped away from the Akuma’s mouth. Lavi was right though, they really couldn’t keep going. Their reactions were slowing from tiredness, breathing was becoming difficult, it was like inhaling fire. Their coordination was lacking now too, and the way the ground was being destroyed, and becoming unlevelled was not helping that in the least. One could hardly recognize this as the place where train tracks had once brought travellers around the country.
Neither of them expected to fall, but if Lavi had been asked who he thought would trip up first, he would’ve immediately said himself. But instead, it was Kanda, stepping back on an unsettled piece of rubble. One unsure step had sent him falling backwards, and the piece of cement he’s stepped on flipped backwards, effectively pinning his foot. He “tch”-ed at the pain, biting into his lip as he worked his foot from under the piece of rubbish.
“Shit! Yuu look out!” Kanda looked up immediately, to stare into the inside of the Akuma’s mouth as it lunged at him. He grabbed Mugen, ready to parry the snake’s teeth, and as he did the force of the snake’s movement pulled his foot from the rubble with the sickening sound of something breaking. He just had to trip over a heavy piece of broken concrete.
Thrown on his back, with Mugen as his only defence, it didn’t look good for Kanda; he could already tell walking was going to be difficult too. He was stuck, and it looked like he was about to be killed because of that. His face settled into a look of defiance, no way was he going to die on his first mission at the hands of a pitiful Akuma.
The Akuma lunged again, and Kanda was ready to defend yet again. This time though, something went wrong, very wrong. As the Akuma came down on him, there was an unexpected flash of black. He squeezed his eyes shut as a thick, warm liquid hit his face. A knot of fear was forming in the pit of his stomach, he didn’t want to open his eyes.
“Close call, huh Yuu?” More of that hot liquid hit him, and he forced himself to look up. Blood streamed from Lavi’s mouth, and a wound in his chest; he’d been run through by the Akuma’s tooth. No spots appeared on him though; it would seem that even though the Akuma mimicked a snake, there was no poison in it’s fangs.
“Y-you...you idiot! You didn’t need to...”
“Awe, don’t yell at me now...I did just save your life, Yuu.”
Kanda wanted to yell at him, tell him to stop joking. What was the point of one of them living when the other died? The snake pulled away, Lavi still stuck on it’s canine. It shook it’s head, and Lavi was thrown aside like a rag doll. Kanda was enraged, how dare that monstrosity harm his partner? And how dare that idiot do something so stupid!? What was the point of pulling one of those idiotic hero moves than always ends up killing the person who does it? Kanda had always hated hero-types.
He forced himself to stand, despite his foot’s protest. He ran as fast as he could towards the Akuma, which was now enraptured in the glory of killing off an exorcist, and the crazed joy of knowing it could kill the last one.
Nigentou...
His eyes widened, he recognized that voice, the voice of his innocence. It had been the same voice that had told him it’s name, and the name of it’s first attack. It repeated the word again Nigentou... Without needing anything more, he called for Mugen’s second state of activation. Grabbing the sheath of Mugen, he watched as both it and the blade of the sword became covered in a glowing energy. His innocence told him what to do, and without thinking he pushed off the ground with all the strength he had left in his small body.
“DIE YOU DISGUSTING AKUMA!” He yelled, and he slashed through the Akuma’s head with eight strokes; it was a special technique taught to him by his father, the Hakka Tourou, a move that could only be done with two swords. The Akuma exploded afterwards, the force of the expanding air sent him reeling backwards. His landing was scattered, and he was sure that if his foot wasn’t broken before, it sure as hell was now, along with the rest of his leg.
he pushed the pain to the back of his mind, making his way to where Lavi fell as quickly as he could. The other was still alive, but he was already cold, and he’d lost much more blood than was healthy. Kanda frantically tried to use Lavi’s coat as a wrap, to soak up the blood, and hopefully stop anymore from coming out. One day he’d say an exorcist’s coat shouldn’t be used for these things, but at the moment, that particular opinion hadn’t yet formed in his mind.
He had threatened it a million times, he had threatened to kill Lavi. Not one of those times did he honestly want the child to stop living though. All those threats made him feel even more responsible for Lavi’s current state. he would never admit it out loud, but already, he couldn’t think of that dreary castle without the redhead in it. The moment he had stepped into the Black Order, Lavi had been there, Kanda hadn’t known an Order without Lavi, and he didn’t want to get to know one either. If he could just stop the bleeding!
An unknown voice came from behind him.
“You poor child, your friend is going to die.”
000
He woke up slowly; white. It was white, and it was too bright.
so I’m dead...
“It’s about time you woke up, pain in the ass Usagi.”
so I’m not dead...
Lavi turned his head to the side, just that small movement sent pain shooting up and down his body. He ached and felt stiff, and the antiseptic in the air made him sick to his stomach.
“Yuu?” His voice was scratchy from disuse, how long had he been out? “What happened to you?” He asked, starring at Kanda. He was sitting in a chair by the open window, his head turned away from Lavi, as though now that he the boy was awake, he was uninterested. It was a beautiful sight, his face was haloed in the sun light that filtered through the clouds and came through the window, and his hair fluttered in the slight breeze. Lavi was unconcerned with that though, what he was concerned with was the cast that extended from Kanda’s foot to his knee, and the way his hands and wrists were wrapped up. The first few buttons of his shirt were undone, and Lavi could see bandages on Kanda’s chest too.
“What do you think happened? I had to save your sorry ass after you went and pulled that stupid self-sacrificing crap.” He said, with an annoyed huff. Lavi sighed, you never got a break from Kanda Yuu, not even when you were seriously injured.
“So...did we win?”
“Would we be alive if we didn’t?”
“Good point. So you killed that thing by yourself?”
“How else would we have gotten out of there?”
It was Lavi’s turn to huff, Kanda was the one annoying him for once, with the way all his answers were questions. Could the guy just loose his damned attitude for a minute? A “thank you for saving my life” wouldn’t kill him either. Yes, Lavi was a little grumpy, but who could blame him?
“What about the innocence?”
“It’s-” Kanda froze, what the hell had happened to the innocence? He shot up, immediately cursing the pain in his leg; he was feeling half-doped on morphine, but that still wasn’t quite enough to erase the pain. Making his uncoordinated way over to where he and Lavi’s coats were, he searched their pockets, sighing with relief when he found the innocence still zipped up in Lavi’s pocket; Lavi had learned a lesson after the cat ate it, never leave that pocket open.
“It’s here,” Kanda showed the sphere to Lavi before placing it back into the pocket he’d found it in, zipping it up again. He walked backed to his seat, slower this time, there was no need to rush.
“It’s a miracle that we got outta there alive! I was sure I’d be wakin’ up to an angel, not a high samurai.” Kanda twitched.
“Would you like me to send you to one?”
“Now, now, no threatening your friends,” a familiar feminine voice said. Lavi turned his head to the door, to see Lenalee smiling. “I got Ge ge to let me come down here when a finder reported that they had brought you back to Marseilles.”
“Really? That’s great! You can stop Yuu-chan from killing me in my sleep!”
“Che, like I’d do something so low and pointless.”
“Really Lavi, Kanda saved your life, why would he kill you after all the effort he put into saving you?” Lavi looked over to Kanda, who was sporting an indignant flush, and a face that clearly said “busted”.
“Awe Yuu-chan! I knew you loved me!”
“Sh-shut up! I only saved you because you went and pulled that stupid move and nearly got yourself killed for my sake! I have some honor you know, I wouldn’t leave someone who risked their life for me. Even though it was completely unnecessary!”
I’ll take that as his “Thank you for saving my life.”
Kanda looked out the window in angry embarrassment, stupid girls with their stupid big mouths and their stupid ideas about him saving stupid people.
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?
And this is the chapter that catches you guys up to ff.net! have fun 8]
7. A Life for a Life
Michael helped with the evacuation of the train, getting as many people off as he could. Lavi and Kanda were doing a very good job of distracting the Akuma, it was more eager to fight and kill them than it was to get to the passengers. Still, the occasional traveller who got too close to the fight would be hit by a stray bullet. The train car he was currently in looked empty enough, but he decided to do a once-over, to check for anyone who may have been left behind or injured when the passengers had surged to the exits.
In the seat at the very front of the car, one woman sat, as calm as if she were at a picnic. “Miss, you need to get off, there’s an Akuma out there,” He said, giving the woman a strange look, why had she not moved at all?
“No, I don’t. That thing can’t hurt me,” She replied, her voice smooth and tranquil.
“Trust me, that thing can kill you. You must leave now.”
“The demons cannot kill me. Please, put your worries to rest.”
“I can’t just leave you here. I’m sorry, but you have to come with me.” The hooded figure looked up, yet only her smile was visible; it was wicked. “I do not take orders from men,” She said simply, her smile never faltering. Michael’s eyes widened, before dulling. In his last seconds of consciousness he looked down, he couldn’t see it, but he was sure his heart was gone.
000
With one swing he’d managed to cut the Akuma’s tails off. He was a little surprised that he’d done it, but looking back as he fell to the ground, he could see that he really had. Kanda had successfully cut through the Level 2's tails, taking away it’s means to shower them with poisonous bullets. The serpent shrieked at the sudden pain of having parts of it’s body cut off. The sound was horrible, it graded on Kanda and Lavi’s ears, both were sure they’d suffer some permanent damage from that.
Kanda had quite literally hit the ground running, ignoring the sting in his legs as he did so. Now that their enemy had been disarmed, he’d have to help Lavi deal with it up front. The beast writhed in pain, distracted long enough for Kanda to make it to Lavi.
“Wow, who’da though this thing was such a baby, huh Yuu?” Lavi said when Kanda reached him. “Che, it’s always the big ones that are weak.” Kanda thought the machine was making it’s injury out to be worse than it really was. He wouldn’t yell and scream in such an undignified fashion has someone cut his arm off or something. Besides, Akuma were just machines, right? Can they really feel pain to such an extent?
The level 2 finally calmed down, it was now ready to fully focus it’s rage on the two small exorcists. “YOU LITTLE PUNKS! I’LL MAKE YOU PAY!!” It roared, lunging at the two. Kanda and Lavi split up, each diving in opposite directions in order to dodge the snake’s mouth. The two continued to run, dive, and deal their own blows to the Akuma; soon enough they were fighting their fatigue along with the Akuma.
“Dammit...we can’t keep doin’ this Yuu!”
“Do you have any idea how to get out of this!?”
Their exchange was cut short when the Akuma once again came down on them. Both muttered curses as they jumped away from the Akuma’s mouth. Lavi was right though, they really couldn’t keep going. Their reactions were slowing from tiredness, breathing was becoming difficult, it was like inhaling fire. Their coordination was lacking now too, and the way the ground was being destroyed, and becoming unlevelled was not helping that in the least. One could hardly recognize this as the place where train tracks had once brought travellers around the country.
Neither of them expected to fall, but if Lavi had been asked who he thought would trip up first, he would’ve immediately said himself. But instead, it was Kanda, stepping back on an unsettled piece of rubble. One unsure step had sent him falling backwards, and the piece of cement he’s stepped on flipped backwards, effectively pinning his foot. He “tch”-ed at the pain, biting into his lip as he worked his foot from under the piece of rubbish.
“Shit! Yuu look out!” Kanda looked up immediately, to stare into the inside of the Akuma’s mouth as it lunged at him. He grabbed Mugen, ready to parry the snake’s teeth, and as he did the force of the snake’s movement pulled his foot from the rubble with the sickening sound of something breaking. He just had to trip over a heavy piece of broken concrete.
Thrown on his back, with Mugen as his only defence, it didn’t look good for Kanda; he could already tell walking was going to be difficult too. He was stuck, and it looked like he was about to be killed because of that. His face settled into a look of defiance, no way was he going to die on his first mission at the hands of a pitiful Akuma.
The Akuma lunged again, and Kanda was ready to defend yet again. This time though, something went wrong, very wrong. As the Akuma came down on him, there was an unexpected flash of black. He squeezed his eyes shut as a thick, warm liquid hit his face. A knot of fear was forming in the pit of his stomach, he didn’t want to open his eyes.
“Close call, huh Yuu?” More of that hot liquid hit him, and he forced himself to look up. Blood streamed from Lavi’s mouth, and a wound in his chest; he’d been run through by the Akuma’s tooth. No spots appeared on him though; it would seem that even though the Akuma mimicked a snake, there was no poison in it’s fangs.
“Y-you...you idiot! You didn’t need to...”
“Awe, don’t yell at me now...I did just save your life, Yuu.”
Kanda wanted to yell at him, tell him to stop joking. What was the point of one of them living when the other died? The snake pulled away, Lavi still stuck on it’s canine. It shook it’s head, and Lavi was thrown aside like a rag doll. Kanda was enraged, how dare that monstrosity harm his partner? And how dare that idiot do something so stupid!? What was the point of pulling one of those idiotic hero moves than always ends up killing the person who does it? Kanda had always hated hero-types.
He forced himself to stand, despite his foot’s protest. He ran as fast as he could towards the Akuma, which was now enraptured in the glory of killing off an exorcist, and the crazed joy of knowing it could kill the last one.
Nigentou...
His eyes widened, he recognized that voice, the voice of his innocence. It had been the same voice that had told him it’s name, and the name of it’s first attack. It repeated the word again Nigentou... Without needing anything more, he called for Mugen’s second state of activation. Grabbing the sheath of Mugen, he watched as both it and the blade of the sword became covered in a glowing energy. His innocence told him what to do, and without thinking he pushed off the ground with all the strength he had left in his small body.
“DIE YOU DISGUSTING AKUMA!” He yelled, and he slashed through the Akuma’s head with eight strokes; it was a special technique taught to him by his father, the Hakka Tourou, a move that could only be done with two swords. The Akuma exploded afterwards, the force of the expanding air sent him reeling backwards. His landing was scattered, and he was sure that if his foot wasn’t broken before, it sure as hell was now, along with the rest of his leg.
he pushed the pain to the back of his mind, making his way to where Lavi fell as quickly as he could. The other was still alive, but he was already cold, and he’d lost much more blood than was healthy. Kanda frantically tried to use Lavi’s coat as a wrap, to soak up the blood, and hopefully stop anymore from coming out. One day he’d say an exorcist’s coat shouldn’t be used for these things, but at the moment, that particular opinion hadn’t yet formed in his mind.
He had threatened it a million times, he had threatened to kill Lavi. Not one of those times did he honestly want the child to stop living though. All those threats made him feel even more responsible for Lavi’s current state. he would never admit it out loud, but already, he couldn’t think of that dreary castle without the redhead in it. The moment he had stepped into the Black Order, Lavi had been there, Kanda hadn’t known an Order without Lavi, and he didn’t want to get to know one either. If he could just stop the bleeding!
An unknown voice came from behind him.
“You poor child, your friend is going to die.”
000
He woke up slowly; white. It was white, and it was too bright.
so I’m dead...
“It’s about time you woke up, pain in the ass Usagi.”
so I’m not dead...
Lavi turned his head to the side, just that small movement sent pain shooting up and down his body. He ached and felt stiff, and the antiseptic in the air made him sick to his stomach.
“Yuu?” His voice was scratchy from disuse, how long had he been out? “What happened to you?” He asked, starring at Kanda. He was sitting in a chair by the open window, his head turned away from Lavi, as though now that he the boy was awake, he was uninterested. It was a beautiful sight, his face was haloed in the sun light that filtered through the clouds and came through the window, and his hair fluttered in the slight breeze. Lavi was unconcerned with that though, what he was concerned with was the cast that extended from Kanda’s foot to his knee, and the way his hands and wrists were wrapped up. The first few buttons of his shirt were undone, and Lavi could see bandages on Kanda’s chest too.
“What do you think happened? I had to save your sorry ass after you went and pulled that stupid self-sacrificing crap.” He said, with an annoyed huff. Lavi sighed, you never got a break from Kanda Yuu, not even when you were seriously injured.
“So...did we win?”
“Would we be alive if we didn’t?”
“Good point. So you killed that thing by yourself?”
“How else would we have gotten out of there?”
It was Lavi’s turn to huff, Kanda was the one annoying him for once, with the way all his answers were questions. Could the guy just loose his damned attitude for a minute? A “thank you for saving my life” wouldn’t kill him either. Yes, Lavi was a little grumpy, but who could blame him?
“What about the innocence?”
“It’s-” Kanda froze, what the hell had happened to the innocence? He shot up, immediately cursing the pain in his leg; he was feeling half-doped on morphine, but that still wasn’t quite enough to erase the pain. Making his uncoordinated way over to where he and Lavi’s coats were, he searched their pockets, sighing with relief when he found the innocence still zipped up in Lavi’s pocket; Lavi had learned a lesson after the cat ate it, never leave that pocket open.
“It’s here,” Kanda showed the sphere to Lavi before placing it back into the pocket he’d found it in, zipping it up again. He walked backed to his seat, slower this time, there was no need to rush.
“It’s a miracle that we got outta there alive! I was sure I’d be wakin’ up to an angel, not a high samurai.” Kanda twitched.
“Would you like me to send you to one?”
“Now, now, no threatening your friends,” a familiar feminine voice said. Lavi turned his head to the door, to see Lenalee smiling. “I got Ge ge to let me come down here when a finder reported that they had brought you back to Marseilles.”
“Really? That’s great! You can stop Yuu-chan from killing me in my sleep!”
“Che, like I’d do something so low and pointless.”
“Really Lavi, Kanda saved your life, why would he kill you after all the effort he put into saving you?” Lavi looked over to Kanda, who was sporting an indignant flush, and a face that clearly said “busted”.
“Awe Yuu-chan! I knew you loved me!”
“Sh-shut up! I only saved you because you went and pulled that stupid move and nearly got yourself killed for my sake! I have some honor you know, I wouldn’t leave someone who risked their life for me. Even though it was completely unnecessary!”
I’ll take that as his “Thank you for saving my life.”
Kanda looked out the window in angry embarrassment, stupid girls with their stupid big mouths and their stupid ideas about him saving stupid people.