@maxxim-writes-here I put this together really quickly, but I hope that it’s okay!
Happy belated birthday Komui!! I love him so much!!
All Kanda had wanted was to eat his soba noodles in peace. It was, for the first time in months, a day where he had nothing that he had to do. He had even already indulged and slept in, not having awoken unit five in the morning. Now he had time to sit down and enjoy his meal as opposed to rushing through it before he had to leave for a mission. But nobody else had seemed very interested in letting him just relax.
Everybody, it seemed, had the day off. There had been a strange lull and almost none of the Exorcists were being sent on missions to retrieve Innocence. The few that were seemed to always come back relatively soon, having been able to secure the Innocence with a peculiar amount of ease. It had put everybody on edge for the past few weeks...where were all of the akuma?
What was the Earl planning?
But now, as Kanda attempted to eat his meal, he was flanked on either side by the idiot rabbit and the stupid moyashi. But even more strangely, they weren’t the problem right now. The problem was the one Exorcist that he didn’t actually completely hate, who was now standing at the opposite side of the table, cheeks puffed out and her hands resting on her slim hips as she glared daggers at him. He had tried to simply ignore her, but her eyes were boring holes into him. With an obviously frustrated huff of breath, he set his chopsticks down. “Lenalee, knock it off.”
“No, Kanda. Not until you agree. I need everybody’s help.”
“I don’t want to do what you’re asking.” He almost growled it out, the throbbing in his head growing to unreasonable proportions.
“Come on, BaKanda, she’s asking you to take care of the easiest part.” Allen argued.
Kanda whipped his head to the side to glare at him. “Call me that again and I’ll be giving you a mullet.”
Allen returned Kanda’s glare, his own meal temporarily being forgotten.
“And it’s probably the hardest part, short stack.” Kanda countered, eyes glowing with unbridled rage.
“Oh no! Don’t you two dare start.” Both of the Exorcists jolted and turned nervously to Lenalee. As much as they hated each other, an angry Lenalee was the scariest thing either of them had ever seen. “Kanda. You just have to keep big brother distracted for two hours tops.” She pouted her lips.
Oh no. He saw the pouting lips. If she whipped out the puppy dog eyes, he knew that no matter how much strength he mustered up, he wouldn’t be able to say no. “Lenalee.” He groaned. “Lena.” He tried again. “I don’t want to. Plus, birthday parties are stupid.” He grumbled, irritated at how childish his voice sounded.
“You just got to have a birthday party.” Lavi has entered the chat. Thank God, Kanda thought with a roll of his eyes.
“And I didn’t want one.” He exploded at the other.
“Kanda.” He turned his head slowly back towards Lenalee and regretted it immediately. Fuck. “I worked really hard on your party. I even learned how to make castella, just for you. Didn’t you like it?” Her voice was thick with the tears that were brimming her full eyelashes.
“Great, you made her cry, BaKanda!”
“Shut up!” He stood, needing to leave the cafeteria as soon as he could. He knew that Lenalee was playing him and still, with the tears lurking, even the mean and grumpy Yu Kanda couldn’t say no to her. Damn her. “Fine. But if I come back bald, it’ll be all your fault.” He stomped out, leaving his half-finished lunch on the table.
Lenalee smirked proudly to herself. She was damned good. “Great, Allen. Once everyone finishes lunch, you’re in charge of the decorations. Lavi, you’re going to help Jeryy prepare the food.”
“Can I help with the food?” Allen asked, hope gleaming in his eyes.
“Nope. You’ll just eat it all. It’s too risky.”
He sighed before frowning. “Okay.”
Lenalee walked with the redheaded Exorcist to drop him off with Jeryy. She knew that the chef could handle everything for the party tonight, but she just wanted to double check that he had everything he needed and offer to lend a hand should he need it.
“Why was Kanda so against seeing Komui? I know that Kanda doesn’t like spending time with anybody, but he seemed especially upset about having to spend it with your brother.” Lavi asked as the pair walked, his own curiosity overwhelming.
Lenalee chuckled then. “My brother sometimes charges him too much to help him out with his Innocence and if he doesn’t have money he comes up with...more interesting types of payments.” She shook her head and sighed, her brother truly was a weirdo, even she knew it. She knew that Kanda’s main reason, however, was his generalized fear and hatred of the science division. They had drugged him and tied him up once to try to steal some of his hair to make an elixir for Lavi’s mentor, Bookman. The pigtailed girl wasn’t sure if Lavi knew about that incident, but she didn’t really want to explain it. The science division, her brother included, could be a little too weird sometimes.
She left Lavi as Jeryy was helping him tie an apron around his waist.
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Lenalee sat at one of the cafeteria tables, her head against her knee caps as she hugged her legs close to herself. How had everything gone so wrong?
Lavi, apparently, was really bad at baking. He had started the kitchen on fire. It had never occurred to her that Lavi couldn’t bake so maybe kitchen detail was a bad idea.
She had gone to check on her brother to see if he needed any help with his work and to check in on Kanda. She had found them with Komui’s cheek red and swollen and Kanda screaming and yelling as Reever, Tupp, and Johnny struggled to hold him back. It had occurred to her that leaving Kanda in charge of distracting Komui wasn’t the best idea but she hadn’t had anymore options since she did know that he was bad at baking and that he just wouldn’t have done anything with the decorating except maybe clean the cafeteria if he was motivated enough by her crying and whining.
When she had made it back to the cafeteria, she had found Allen proudly hanging up a banner he had made that said, “Happy Birthday Comunei!” with a scary-looking drawing of her brother on it. Though, she felt more guilty than anything else since Allen had seemed so proud of himself. It had never occurred to her that Allen was not very strong when it came to reading or writing or drawing so maybe leaving him in charge of decorating was a bad idea.
When people showed up to the cafeteria, she had to be the one to tell them that the party was cancelled. Everything had been ruined. It had never occurred to her that she couldn’t handle organizing the party.
She felt defeated. Lenalee had just wanted to do something nice for her brother, but more importantly, everybody at the Order. Everybody had been tense with the sudden disappearance of akuma. They all knew that the Earl had to have been planning something big. The stress and the tension in the atmosphere had been so overwhelming. She had just wanted to have a big party so that everybody could enjoy themselves for a few hours. Kanda’s party hadn’t counted, because it wasn’t much of a party. She had only invited a few people and kept it as small as possible, with no decorations. He hated his birthday and he hated parties even more. But her brother was different. For him, she could go all out.
What a waste of time.
She dragged herself to her room, ready to just sleep for the rest of the night and put this awful day as far behind her as she could.
Lavi, Allen, and Kanda just stood there watching her back as she left the cafeteria. They all felt defeated now. Lenalee was the heart and life of the Black Order’s headquarters. When she was down, everybody was down.
They had to do something, Allen and Lavi had decided. Even Kanda felt a small pang of guilt and had agreed with the pair much quicker than either had anticipated.
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When she got to her room, she saw the small box wrapped with paper sitting where she had left it on her nightstand. She should at least bring Komui his birthday present, she figured.
She ran a hand through her bangs before grabbing it and heading off to his office.
As usual, Komui had been excited to see his sister. But he noticed the sadness in her eyes immediately and frowned. Silently, she just held out his gift.
He didn’t know what she was upset about, but he took the gift into his hands. “Lenaleeー”
“Just open it, please, big brother. I’m going to go to bed afterwards.” She stared at the ground, fighting back tears. “Happy birthday.” She mumbled.
With a frown tugging at his lips, Komui carefully unwrapped the present. His heart got stuck in his throat when he saw it. It was a small pocket watch with a picture on the inside of it. It was a small painting of Lenalee and Komui together, presumably done up by Tiedoll.
Lenalee tended to get gifts that were useful. While a pocket watch was definitely practical, he hadn’t expected something so sweet.
“Brother? Why are you crying?”
He hadn’t felt the tears form in his eyes and he hadn’t felt them fall down his cheeks. “My sweet sister!” He shouted before pulling her tightly against him for a hug, burying his head into her shoulder.
“Brother?” Her voice was soft but she returned the embrace with fervor. Her stress from the day seemed to melt in his arms.
It always did.
“Before you go to bed, do you want to get some tea?” He asked as he finally straightened out and pulled back from her.
“I’d like that, Komui.” She smiled then and Komui was pleased to see that it reached her eyes and was genuine.
When they reached the cafeteria, they were greeted by just about everybody in the Order yelling, “Happy Birthday Komui!”
Lenalee was just as surprised, to say the least. When she looked around, she saw a new banner hung up, a beautiful cake sitting on a table surrounded by a ton of delicious looking food. She saw a table mounted with wrapped gifts.
When her eyes found Lavi, Allen, and Kanda standing together, she found them all to be smiling at her. She left her brother to approach them. “Did you do all this?” She asked softly, tears glittering in her eyes as a lump formed in her throat.
“We sure did! Since we kind of destroyed your whole party, we realized we had to fix it.” Lavi started.
“Yeah, we recruited more help.” Allen explained.
“I even got the old panda and Miranda to help with the cooking.” Lavi beamed, very obviously proud of himself.
“Even BaKanda pitched in. He got Tiedoll and Krory to help with the decorating.” Allen explained.
When Lenalee looked to Kanda, he was looking away from them and grumbling.
“You guys are the best!” She shouted before launching forward to pull them all into a group hug, holding firmly so the struggling swordsman couldn’t even worm his way out of it.
When she let them go, Kanda stalked off, and she stayed to talk with Lavi and Allen. Though, at one point, when she turned and glanced at her brother, she found him deep in conversation with Jeryy and Reever, and the smile on his face stretched ear-to-ear.
She really did have the best family a girl could ask for.
I deleted the ask because I am a Dumb Bitch™ but an anon asked if I would post all of my headcanon/imagines headers in one post, and since I love to show off aim to please, here you go!!
If anyone wants to use them for anything, feel free! All I ask is that you re-blog this post :)
