YAY! I told you the sequel would come out right? It did! Yay! I got some things planned out so far but I'm not too sure just how I plan on going about this whole entire thing. I'm a bit worried about how well I will be able to execute this story. Wish me luck!

Before we start I have to admit some things: I TOTALLY messed up the 'Hibird the Yellow Feathered Matchmaker' up big time.

I was not too overly aware of their school system so I based it off the American system. School starts off in the spring. I just made a whole bunch of random mistakes, but I'm sure as heck not changing it at all. I'm sorry for messing it up but I can't just change it now. Since it's like this, the timing will follow a more correct path.

It will be a bit confusing but please bear with me. 8( We are pretending a year passed by and it's the start of a new school year. A long time had passed. Technically with the time flow from the prequel this is not the case but shush. Details schmetails. Please disregard the time frame in the prequel. The times are more accurate in this.

Alright, so this is slight AU like always. Those of the Shimon family do NOT really show up in this story at all. I just don't feel confident to write much for them. It's bothersome to work with too many characters… and just no. Heh heh but some of the events that occurred during the Shimon arc may still occur.

The only thing from around the Shimon arc that I stole is [spoiler alert for ch. 346 and up] that Mukuro was released from the prison and that he could return to his original body. He will not need to really possess Chrome's body anymore. My other fics have him still doing so(Hibird the Yellow Feathered Matchmaker), and I will not change that. Also Chrome joins Namimori after being supposedly 'kicked out' from Kokuyo. I'm unsure of what is really the case since that's all I've read so far, but Chrome will not be joining Namimori until later. Also, Haru had not joined Namimori in the manga but in here she is. Thus, this is going all AU-like. [spoiler over]

I'm excited for this! I hope you are all excited as well! 8D

Disclaimer: Nothing in the prequel or this sequel belongs to me sadly enough. Tough cookies, huh?

A New Beginning

It's a very nice day today, though the atmosphere feels somewhat moist from the morning fog that hasn't condensed as morning dew yet.

Hello my name is Haru Miura, and I'm on my way to school.

I am, never mind scratch that, I WAS a student at Midori jr high, but now I'm a student at Namimori jr high.

Why am I talking to no one? Well, it's fun to talk to no one occasionally right?

It's like, being your own announcer- it's fun. Try it. Don't judge Haru.

Ah… here we are, in front of my new jr high. I'm a third year at this jr. high, and after that I'll be moved to the Namimori high.

I was transferred here after um… a few /cough/ minor problems.

Well, it's a new school year, I can be with my friends, and I can make new ones! I'm so excited!

"Haru-chan! Let's go to the board together to see which classes we're in!" Kyoko ran up to Haru excitedly.

"Okay, let's do that! I hope I'm in a class with at least some of our friends." Haru giggled running up to the board along with her and they scanned over the large board for their names.

"Hahi! Haru is in the same class as you Kyoko-chan!" Haru exclaimed happily.

"Oh we are! That's great!" Kyoko grinned.

Off to their side they could hear a couple of other familiar voices talking.

"Oh… I was placed in a different class." Tsuna sighed, a bit disheartened by the fact that he wasn't in the same class as Kyoko any more. Some things have never changed.

Of course after Tsuna was to say something someone else was surely to throw in his own two cents. Gokudera was at the scene observing the boards with a scrutinizing fact.

He stared at the board as if he were Just DARING for the board to tell him that he was placed in a different room from the most grandiose Juudaime that he admired oh so much.

"I'm in the same class as you Juudaime!" Gokudera informed him happily almost seeming as if he had a tail wagging from joy.

"Oh that's great." Tsuna said with a bit less enthusiasm as Gokudera, but he himself seemed not to mind as he was too happy over being in the same class as Tsuna.

The warm spring breeze flew past them all wafting a particular smell of the newly bloomed cherry blossoms in the air with it.

Haru tucked a bit of her hair behind her ear and she looked up at the bright crystal blue sky with the fluffy floating clouds all dispersed away from each other. So it wasn't just Hibari who hated crowding but also the clouds as well.

She was determined to survive through this year safely and have a blast while doing so.

"Come on Haru, we've got to go to the auditorium for the morning entrance ceremony~" Kyoko smiled taking hold of Haru's hand and rushed her to the auditorium excitedly. She just couldn't contain her excitement knowing that her friend was going to be in the same homeroom as her!

Things were just going to be so much fun, studying together, gossiping together, eating lunch together, and other girly things to do in school.

Haru had let herself be dragged along by her friend over to the auditorium to sit through the entrance ceremonial speech.

After the ceremonial speech, everyone walked to his or her new classroom to greet his or her fellow classmates.

Haru sat down in a seat next to Kyoko and they both stared at the door to see who else would be walking through the doors.

"Kyoko! We're in the same class again!" Kana exclaimed happily as she quickly made it next to Kyoko taking the desk right in front of her.

"Hey, you are that girl. I didn't know you went to this school." Kana said looking at Haru in confusion.

"Haru transferred here this year." Kyoko answered Kana's confusion.

The next person to walk in caused a big riot amongst the girls and the boys in the class.

"Yo! Yamamoto! Playing baseball again this year?"

"Ha ha! You know it! It's not me if I don't play baseball right?" Yamamoto laughed his trademark laugh.

The girls were of course busy fangirling over the fact that they had such a hunk in their homeroom.

The classes went by quickly since the most of the class lessons were dedicated to having the teachers and the students get acquainted with each other so no one really had homework that would take more than 20 minutes to complete.

Lunch time had come before anyone knew it.

Tsuna and Gokudera walked into their room and suggested that they all ate lunch together.

Everyone had decided to walk outside and find a nice place on the rooftop for everyone to gather around at and eat their lunches together.

The weather was just too perfect to not want to eat outside with friends. The warm sun was blazing down sunlight that enveloped all of their bodies like a warm blanket.

The light, whispy, spring breeze would occasionally blow through to cool their bodies down when it just so happened to get too warm.

"It's such a beautiful day out today." Kyoko smiled

"I'm so happy to know that you are in our school Haru, and I'm happier to know that we're both in the same class!" Kyoko grinned happily at her friend.

"Hai! Haru is overjoyed as well! She gets to be with her friends~" Haru exclaimed happily.

The door slammed open and Ryohei stood underneath the door from the rooftop. He was eavesdropping on a bit of their conversation.

Ryohei coughed a little bit, and what a grand cough it was.

"Is there something you wish to say, Kyoko's brother?" Haru asked him curiously wondering why he was suddenly standing there in front of them.

"Oh, you know I was just in the area and I heard what you were talking about. I was just thinking that there is another reason you'd be happy for transferring to Namimori." He said.

Haru looked at him with an apprehensive look wondering just what kind of a reasoning he'd possibly come up with.

"What reason would that be?" Haru asked.

Kyoko was just worried about why he was even there in the first place. He couldn't have possibly forgotten that he was a high school student now right?

"Also, why are you here Nii-chan?" Kyoko asked him.

"I ran over to visit! Of course I had to make sure that my baby sister was okay, right?"

"It's just school Nii-chan nothing would happen." Kyoko laughed.

"You may never know. Though to answer your question, you'd have a better chance of seeing Hibari if you transferred to Namimori." Ryohei stated.

"Ohhhh he's right- for once. You would." Gokudera said.

Ryohei heard Gokudera's comment and he quickly shot a daring look at Gokudera, just asking for him to say that once again.

"What was that Tako-head?"

Gokudera returned a daring glare at Ryohei, a battle of the ego's were surely to start between the two. Ryohei's muscles were tensing up in his body and Gokudera was moving his hands to where he kept some of his dynamites.

"I only said the truth, TURF-head." Gokudera stated with a smirk

"Why don't you say that to my face again!" Ryohei shouted.

"Bring it!" Gokudera ignited some dynamites that he hid somewhere on his person.

Someone had jumped down from the top of the water cooler and onto the ground with much ease. The one that dropped down was Hibari Kyouya himself, standing before them with his same old angry look.

"Both of you stop that this instant." His cool voice commanded.

"Hi-Hibari? What are you doing here?" Gokudera stumbled back and he snuffed out the flare on his dynamites and he put them away into his pockets.

Ryohei dropped his arms to his sides looking at Hibari curiously. That's when things suddenly dawned on him.

"Ha ha! I was wondering where you were! I've heard that you decided to take all of your work here, so the rumors are true, right?" Ryohei laughed.

Hibari ignored Ryohei's laughter and looked at the remaining 'herbivores' that were huddled about on his favorite rooftop.

"That is correct."

"So you won't go to class in the high schools unless there is a test?" Ryohei pressed for some more answers.

"To put it simply, yes." Hibari answered.

"I wonder why you would do that, Kyouya." Haru wondered, though she wouldn't lie, she was happy that she could see him around the school this way.

"I could not trust someone else to protect the school like I do. I have no attachments to the highschool thus I'll stay here and continue my studies on my own, coming to class for taking tests only. I have sometaking special notes for me." Hibari answered.

"Ha, I see, it sounds like a hassle-desu."

"Sacrifices must be made. Anyways, Haru, meet me at the gate after school." Hibari told her and he quickly turned on his heels and walked away.

"H-Hai." Haru answered watching as he walked away silently.

Haru attended the rest of her lessons like she normally would while counting down the hours until school was over when she'd have to meet Hibari at the school gates.

School was over and she double, no triple checked that she had everything that she needed before she left the school building.

She wasn't going to make a repeat of the last time, forgetting a book resulted in such a big mess.

Haru made her way to the school gates like Hibari had instructed her earlier in the day.

She saw him glaring menacingly at the students who were leaving school grounds, almost feeling intimidated she stopped in her tracks when Hibari took notice of her and his glare dissipated and he looked somewhat content washing away the remaining feeling of intimidating from her.

She quickly ran up to him with her normally happy smile.

"Well I'm here Kyouya, what did you want me for?" She asked him curiously, a bright smile brightening up her face.

Haru's eyes were very expressive, much like her smile and the way she moved like a cute little teenager just made it too hard for any normal teen to not throw her a long interested stare.

Of course, this would not be allowed on Hibari's watch. If a boy was to even LOOK at Haru he was sure to note the boys name in his memory and give him a 'stern talking to.'

"I'll be walking you home every day from now on." Hibari told her.

Haru gasped and she clapped her hands happily.

"Haru is so excited-desu!" Haru latched onto his arm happily.

Hibari stood there looking to the front with both of his eyebrows twitching a little bit.

Haru noticed this and was wondering what this meant. Was he angry with her? Haru let go of his arm and she kept her eyes on him to see how he changed. The twitching of his eyes stopped and she looked down at the ground moving a small pebble with her foot.

She pouted and puffed her cheeks a little bit.

Hibari sighed and shook his head moving his hand to take hers and he started to walk towards her house.

"So, how was school today?" He asked her.

Haru craned her neck to get a look at his face in attempt to decipher what he was feeling from his facial expressions. It looked calm enough.

"Haru had a great time at school today-desu. She made lots of new friends, and she is able to see a lot of her older friends as well." Haru giggled.

Haru was walking with a slight skip to her steps being in a rather chipper mood. Hibari, however walked at an even pace without a particular jump to his step.

"Anything else?" He questioned, the tone of his voice seeming a bit different.

Haru blinked not missing this change of his tone. She had a small grin on her face.

"Of course I got to see Kyouya too, so that made today even better." She told him.

"Hmph." Hibari's eyebrows started to twitch a little bit.

Haru giggled having a theory about what that eyebrow twitching quirk meant. He was embarrassed or something.

Haru looked to the front instead of right next to her and she saw that they both reached their destination, the front of her house.

"Well then, I'm here then. Thank you for walking me home." Haru thanked him.

Hibari was still holding onto her hand even though Haru had already let go. In curiosity she shook her hand a bit but his grip on her hand got a tad bit tighter.

She looked back at him to see that both of his eyebrows were twitching again. Haru tilted her head to the side not really sure what he could've possibly wanted.

She had a hunch but she wasn't sure whether it was right or not.

She blushed a bit, going onto her tippy toes to kiss his cheek. "Is that what you wanted?" She asked him innocently.

"Not exactly." Hibari sighed shaking his head.

"Hahi? What is it that you want then?" Haru had this adorably cute puzzled look on her face.

Hibari shook his head and he pulled back his hand to bring her closer to himself and he planted a kiss onto her own, which Haru was not dense enough to not return.

She returned the kiss and she pulled away with an embarrassed smile on her face.

"Well if you wouldn't look at that. My baby girl is growing up… You know you are so lucky that your father wasn't here to see that. Don't worry, I'll keep it a secret." Haru's mother stood in the doorway chuckling to herself.

"Kaa-san! Where you there the whole time?"

"Yep~ You betcha!" Haru's mother chuckled.

Hibari stood there without a word being said. He turned around to walk away silently.

"Aw… he got embarrassed and walked away." Haru's mother chuckled much to Haru's dismay.

"Kaa-san! Please stop teasing Haru!" Haru whinned.

OKAY, I cheated. I did not give details on the morning ceremony. I don't know how they go and I wouldn't know what to say…. So I left it be. Ha ha… whoops. Forgive me.

Hope you enjoyed it either way! Look, I put in something that seems a bit more intimate than things were in the Hibird one. Ha ha I think even that was a bit of a stretch though, but I think that's okay.

Oh gosh, just 'Hibari' and 'kissing' in the same sentence just tickles my funny bone. Well, hope you all look forward to the other chapters!

-Neospice12