Walking to School with a Skylark

(Hibari Kyouya)

The day was warm yet dark, and I was trying to remember the reason for been at the park at 5 on the morning, still yawning and sleepy as I was, fighting my desire to sleep where I was. Been in a bad mood was part of myself when not getting enough sleep; my head was spinning non-stop and I coudn't see where I was going to, good luck there was no one nearby I could pick on, that would be hell for him (or so I thought, I wasn't particularly strong or a good fighter). I was most likely sleepwalking, until a frightening voice made me turn around and gave me quite a scare be facing the devilish skylark in front of me, too close to avoid those piercing eyes of him.

- You are late herbivore. Hibari said as he reached his tonfas from under his coat.

- Actually, I'm just 2 minutes late, and that's because "you" ordered me to buy some tea in my way here. I replied annoyed as I backed away of his reach and threw the tea at him.

He snorted at me as he set away those dangerous things and caught it gracefully, then he started walking with quick steps without anymore talk.

Yeah, that was it.

It came flying to my mind as fast and cold as a bucket of iced water. The reason I came here today was because I got in trouble with the disciplinary committee president do to being late for the third time in a row; well, not like I'm a morning person so can´t help it. Now I'm forced to walk to school with "him" every morning from now on to ensure it won't happen ever again; the worst thing of all this it's "him" going there at 5 am se he can do some patrolling befor reaching school, as well as to make sure everything is in order for that day's work.

In our way, clearly him walking in front of me, we didn't talk at all, but (do to my paranoid self I could swear it's true) he glanced at me from time to time; to my disappointment that made me feel awkward. Treating to erase that idea I let out a heavy sigh and let my mind wander on some minor thoughts, at that moment I felt his gaze on me and found out he was rushing his pace. On my moodiness I couldn't care less and kept my own speed, letting my train of thoughts go wild once more until minutes later a wall made me come back to reality; a really painful reality. When I looked around I noticed three important things:

Hibari wasn't with me any longer.

I wasn't in any path that leaded to school.

A group of some kind of hooligans was ganging aroound me. *What kind of person keep on gathering at 5 am?*

- Hey cutie! What about playing with us? You look like someone needing to be wasted. As he spoke, a scary looking guy took me near him and laid his hand around my waist so I wouldn't run away from them.

- Tonight was pretty boring, so what about helping us getting over it as a good samaritan? One of his no-so-smart friends followed him and started to play with one of my bangs that was covering my face.

- Heehhh! What about no? I'm kind of busy right now, so I'm taking my leave. As I tried to move away from there some of the guys cut my scape route and the scary one began to tighten his grip on my waist, hurting me so much that I couldn't help but shouted the first thing that came to my mind at the moment.

- Hibari, help! With that I just earned a hit on the face, and it ended up as a big bleeding cut on my lips. Now I was freaking out.

- I love it when you bitches struggle. It made me want to hurt you more and more. He then moved to a nearby hall followed by his minions, whom were shaking in prior excitement. *I'm going to have nigthmares with those grins.*

I was desperately trying my best to free myself but everything was useless. Just when I thought I was going to be done for, a really pissed Hibari appeared from no-where at the corner of the hall, just behind those idiots. After one glance at the situation he muttered something about herbivores who didn't know their place and started to take down every single one out there.

Once he was done biting them to death, he walked towards me (I was still rubbing my wounds while crying), one look at his face and I it seemed it was my turn to be punished. I froze when he caressed me all over my face wounds and approached me to his chest.

- Never again step away from my sight! You are forbidden to see anything other than me, you toothless, harmless herbivore. His words were said in a murderous and threatening voice but, the warmth of his body and his non-stop shaking told arms me he was really worried about me. I just feel in cloud nine. His piercing eyes got a new meaning for me, they where the eyes of the strongest carnivore out there taking care of what is important to him; including "me".

Nothing has changed since that day two months ago. I'm still being forced to walk to school at 5 in the morning, I'm never going to become a morning person it seems. He still is being the same devilish skylark that watch over Namimori. We still walk to school without a single word between us.

Then again, everything has changed since that day two months ago: Everyday at 5 in the morning you can see a remarkable pair walking in silence on Namimori streets, holding hands tightly as they reach school.