A/N: This idea stuck with me and refused to let go. D8. Admittedly it's many fetishes smashed into a written piece of work. Orginally it was meant to be a oneshot, but well, the boys had too much fun and the entire story went up to six thousands words... so I'm splitting the story into the four years of high school. However, I must state that I have almost zero knowlege of the Amercian education system - I am taught by another kind. Enjoy!

It was even before school started in mid August that Lavi decided he would be Kanda's best friend. The red head was a scholarship student - not that he needed the funds, but Bookman (his guardian) had refused to let him leach off any longer. It wasn't really a problem since they both knew the boy genius would have zero problems getting a scholarship to anywhere he wanted to, just that there were a few... restrictions.

He couldn't skip classes and he couldn't flunk papers for fun. Which meant responsibility for the hyper teen that the old man nodded his approval to. Bookman also controlled his monthly allowance, so no getting into trouble like suspension or expulsion.

He was enrolled into this private rich kid school called "The Black Order". He grimaced slightly at the dull name, but was pleasant to find that the school had good facilities that would definitely be taken advantage of. Money was of no problem here. There were chauffeurs on standby and dorm rooms were spaciously huge and single.

Lavi squealed when he saw a 40 inch LCD television in his dorm room. He threw his luggages into the closet to unpack later and bounced on the King sized bed, rolling about just for fun. He steamed the insanely huge full body mirror in the toilet and scribbled random doodles on it. He slammed his room door not more than six times just running along the corridor and marvelling at the carpeted floor. He flung open the balcony window and screamed.

"THIS IS FREAKING A!"

There was a "tch" sound from his right and an extremely ticked off voice continued, "Can you stop making so much noise, moron?"

Lavi whipped his head around in surprise, not expecting anyone to be in the dorms just yet. The balcony next to him had a dark long haired Asian standing in the middle with a hakama on, and a bokken in hand paused in mid swing. His features were so feminine, but his voice and lack of chest gave him away. His dark blue eyes were narrowed, and they shone fiercely. His lips were pulled into a tight frown, but he couldn't help but notice that this boy was stunningly beautiful. This said person lowered his bokken and glared, almost in a condescending manner, stalked off back into his room, slamming the sliding window shut.

Lavi stood there for a full minute before bursting into a happy grin, swinging himself over the partition that divided their balconies, and invited himself in.

It was even before school started that Kanda wanted to kill Lavi. Refusing to rely on Tiedoll any longer for ANYTHING, he got himself a scholarship through Kendo, but Tiedoll firmly had a say in which school he choose, ("Only the best for Yuu-kun my boy.") and so he ended up in this disgustingly affluent institution.

After much quarrelling in the morning about who was going to send him to campus (where Tideoll had insisted that he take the day off to send his son personally, to getting Marie to drive him there, but it was decided after much insults and threats that Kanda would just take his regular chauffeur.), he finished the remaining paper work and received his dorm key.

And so he was just relaxing by doing practicing a few strokes when he heard a disturbing squeal come from the room beside him. He wholly prayed that his neighbour would not be a noisy idiot. Unfortunately for him, it was. He heard insane laughter and doors slamming for the nth time, before the culprit ran to the balcony and screamed.

Needless to say by then, Kanda was convinced that this guy was in desperate need of a shrink.

The clueless idiot had bright red hair that he vaguely wondered if it was natural, but it covered half his face... an eye patch was hiding underneath it. His emerald eyes were sparkling and mouth open in surprise. His boyishly handsome features would make him popular, Kanda mused, but with an insane mind, he highly doubted so now.

Kanda decided that the world would be better without him when Lavi entered his dorm room and flopped on the living room couch like he had done that every day of his life.

Freshman.

When school started Lavi was clinging to Kanda like they were stuck together, much to Kanda's displeasure. After all, the Asian valued his personal space, thank you very much, to which the red head had zero understanding of.

"Ne, Yuu-chan, we have every single class together!" Lavi was nearly bursting with happiness while Kanda was looking positively suicidal when they compared their timetables.

"Don't call me that unless you want to die usagi," Kanda snapped irritably. He had no idea how Lavi found out his first name or attached the girly suffix and even after two hours of nonstop chasing with his bokken, Lavi still persisted.

Lavi slung an arm around Kanda's shoulder and dragged him to their first class, humming contentedly. Who knew Kanda was a literature person? When he had drilled Kanda on the subject combination he was taking the few weeks before term started, the Asian had been relatively quiet about it. But it didn't matter because they had the same subjects! And with a weird combination of Lavi humouring Kanda while the other threw every single possible insult that he could remember, they entered the class.

"STOP TOUCHING ME YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE!"

"You know you love me, Yuu-chan."

"NO. I DON'T. LET GO OF M-"

The entire class stood stunned in silence as they entered in the doorway.

Kanda was fuming. His reputation, already down the drain. Now he would be labelled as one of the retarded idiots.

Lavi on the other hand, didn't seem to think the attention was bad.

"HEY EVERYONE! I AM LAVI AND THIS IS YUU. NICE TO MEET 'CHA."

"IT'S KANDA YOU MORONIC THICKHEAD."

Kanda pulled himself roughly away and strode to the window seat, immediately claiming his. Lavi tagged after, sitting behind Kanda. After a few seconds of awkward silence, whispering started and the noise rose to its normal volume. Lavi was up and about making new friends, while Kanda glared outside and refused to talk. Hopefully the idiot would find someone else to bother and go away.

"Hey, is he jealous or what?" A girl giggled, apparently thinking that the two of them were a hilarious duo.

A hard glare from the swordsman nearly rendered her crying, but Lavi patted her forehead.

"Don't worry about Yuu, he's just cute like that."

Kanda determinedly ignored the steadily growing group around Lavi and tried not to be aware of his cheeks growing slightly pink.

Four months into the year and it was winter break. It was snowing and freezing like hell, something Kanda didn't really like. He had chosen to stay in the dorms, anything to stay away from Tiedoll, but groaned when Lavi announced that he would be staying back too.

"Don't you have your family to go back to?" He snapped.

"I've never known my family," was the direct reply. "I've been with my guardian ever since I could remember."

Kanda didn't know what to say, irritation gone from the sudden serious mood. There was a moment of silence, then Lavi looked up bright and cheerful as his idiot self.

"What about you, Yuu? Won't cha cute sister miss ya?"

"How did y-," Kanda had never told Lavi he had a sister, long time ago.. so the red head just have just been teasing. "Never mind. I'm the same as you."

"Oh."

And that was that.

(Until Lavi found out that Kanda's guardian was Tiedoll, but that's a different story.)

There was once where Lavi tried to enter Kanda's room but the front door was locked. He shouted and begged till surrounding students poked their heads out and told him to keep it down, he went around to their balcony but found the window locked.

Kanda entered his dorm after practice and found Lavi leaning against the window in the cold winter air.

That was the last time he locked his balcony window.