Summary: The closest—and most violent—group of friends in high school. It was rumored that they were all recruited by the Mafia due to their fighting abilities. Each one is downright frightening to the very last cell in their being in their own way. This group is called the Arcobaleno. AU
Disclaimer: Me no owns KHR, no matter how much I want to.
Arcobaleno in High School: Chapter One
Girl's Bathroom, Homeroom:
"Hey have you heard? The Arcobaleno are transferring to our school!"
"Are you kidding?"
"No way, I bet that it's just a rumor."
"No, the Arcobaleno really are transferring here! I'm so looking forward to it; I heard that some of the guys are hot!"
One of the girls rolled her eyes while applying some lipstick. "Yeah, but I heard that they're also weird; people didn't even know if one of them was a boy or a girl until middle school!"
"Maybe it's a transgender then?"
"Gross." Now eyeliner was being applied.
"Yeah, hey, there's supposed to be this one girl with a scar on the side of her face! I bet she's a gangster!"
"Whatever, anyway, the worst of them is this one girl; she's pregnant!"
"Ugh, what a whore!" a girl said while putting one some eye shadow.
SMASH!
…
The three girls turned to see three others in the room. One of them had blue hair and a burn mark on the side of her face with her fist being held against the crumpled wall, signifying that she was the cause of the loud noise. Another one had blue hair and eyes and a slightly noticeable baby bump; she was almost in tears. The last one had purplish hair and purple eyes while locking the door to the bathroom.
"I don't appreciate being gossiped about, you damn make-up freaks." The girl with the burn, also known as Lal Mirch, "And neither does Luche, you brainless dolls."
Viper merely looked at them. "I happen to be female. And I'm also not afraid to use my illusions to carve your intestines out."
And with that said, Viper conjured out a machete out of thin air and held it menacingly.
"Hey, what took you guys so long, kora?" Colonello called out to the three girls nearing the group.
"There were some gossips that we had to take care of; they made Luche cry, dammit!" Lal growled out.
The five teenage boys all obtained a dark aura.
"Luche, pay no attention to what they say." Fon
"Where are those girls? I need a new test subject." Verde
"How dare they talk about Luche-nee like that!" Skull
"Don't listen to them, kora!" Colonello
"I will blow their heads off, just say the word." Reborn
Lal shook her head. "Nah, that won't be necessary, Viper here threatened them with an illusionary machete."
The five stared at Viper, who merely shrugged.
"You do know that you're probably going to get detention for that. And this isn't going to be pleasant news, but I heard that the Varia have detention often." Fon told Viper, who shrugged.
"As long that self-proclaimed 'Prince the Ripper' doesn't have detention today, I'll survive." Viper said.
In a moment's time, Fon nudged Viper from an oncoming knife with a familiar design that stuck itself to the wall that was to Viper's left.
"Looks like you spoke too soon, kora." Colonello added as a grinning blond walked up to the group while removing the knife.
"Ushishishi, hello Mammon-chan; sensei wanted me to tell you that you have detention today. I'll see you there, Ushishishi." Bel grinned before pinching Viper's cheeks and turning to walk away.
"My name is Viper, you psychotic prince." Viper growled out. Bel merely turned and gave his signature laugh.
Reborn shook his head. "You know Viper, if I didn't know better; I would think that the crazy blonde was flirting with you."
"Hell will freeze over before the day that happens." Viper said automatically.
"Viper, even I must say that it does seem that way." Verde said before Viper glared at him, promising the scientist that he will have nightmares running through his head that night.
"I got to agree, kora." Colonello added. Viper glared.
"And you would know considering that you always flirt with Lal." Viper muttered. Lal blushed and hit Viper over the head.
"U-Urusai!"
"*Giggle* You're blushing, Lal." Luche stated. Lal turned from light red to a fiery crimson. Viper rubbed the top of her head.
"Dammit, I feel a migraine…" Viper muttered out.
"Would you like me to escort you to the nurse, Viper?" Fon asked. Viper nodded.
"I don't trust that Shamal to not grope me even if it is just a headache. Knowing him, he would probably slip an aphrodisiac into my painkiller or something." Viper muttered out.
"Yes, but you should be more careful Viper, illusionists are weak physically." Verde pointed out. Viper grumbled before grabbing Fon by the red sleeve of his traditional Chinese shirt and all but dragging him to the Nurse's Office.
Skull only rolled his eyes and took out his schedule and skimmed over it. "Hey what period lunch and break do you guys have? I got fifth for lunch and fourth for break."
Both Reborn and Colonello cussed at their bad luck. They did not want lunch with the lackey. Or break. Or any other class.
Lal rolled her eyes at the two. "Do you guys honestly think that the Headmaster would be stupid enough to actually separate the Arcobaleno?"
"And this is coming from the 'incomplete' Arcobaleno…" Colonello muttered. Lal growled and gave the blonde a taste of the steel-toed ball crusher.
"Shut up, Colonello. The only reason that I'm the 'incomplete' Arcobaleno is because you took my place at the very last second!"
Reborn pulled his fedora over his eyes and smirked. Verde snickered while Skull rolled his eyes while muttering about how his 'nee-chan and sempai' should get together already. Luche winced and wondered if Colonello was alright.
"You know, she has a point, Colonello." Verde said pointedly. Colonello gave the Lightning Arcobaleno a very distinct finger while muttering curses under his breath and clutching his jewels in pain.
"Ah, we should get going, home room is about to start." Luche pointed out. Reborn nodded, picked up his backpack, and walked into the homeroom with the other Arcobaleno following.
Twenty seconds later:
"Do you have a girlfriend?"
"No, and I don't want one."
"Want to go out with me?"
"Sorry, kora."
"Is that your natural hair color?"
"It became my hair color after the aftermath of a failed experiment."
"Why are you wearing a helmet in school?"
"'Cause I can."
"What's that machine on your arm?"
"…I'm afraid I can't answer you unless you're in the Mafia."
"Did you transfer to this school because you're pregnant?"
"No, I—Reborn! D-Don't kill him!"
Both Fon and Viper stood outside the door, making the wise decision to skip homeroom.
"Ushishishi, Mammon-chan, what are you doing out here, you'll miss homeroom~" A familiar voice sounded out.
No. The psychotic, narcissistic prince was not in her homeroom.
Bel only smiled, grabbed Viper by her wrist and Fon by his braid, and slammed the door open with his foot.
"Ushishishi, sensei, I found these two skipping homeroom~!" Bel chimed out.
Viper and Fon both glared daggers at the blonde knife-thrower. Bel returned their heated looks by gripping Viper's wrist tighter and yanking Fon's braid.
"You damn bastard…" Viper growled under her breath. Fon only tried to breathe in calmly and attempted to calm himself down, but failed to as Bel yanked the martial artist's braid harder.
"You three have detention today." The teacher told the trio. Fon only frowned and Viper cussed under her breath.
"Ushishishi~ Sensei, Mammon-chan and I already have detention today." Bel said, purring out 'chan' with a teasing tone. Viper's hand grew into a fist and she glared fiercely at the annoying prince.
"…Mammon?..." The unnamed teacher asked.
"This one," Bel said, lifting up Viper's wrist with enough force to pull the short and skinny girl up from her left arm. "Ushishishi~"
"Bel put me down!" Viper hissed (haha, word play) at the dead prince. Bel's grin widened and he smirked at the flailing girl.
"Ushishishi, why don't you get yourself out of this, Mammon-chan?"
"Fucker!" Viper growled out.
"Language, Viper. Bel-san, I must ask you to put Viper down." Fon told the two.
Bel only shrugged and dropped the girl, who fell to her feet unsteadily while rubbing her wrist.
"Viper, Fon, over here!" Luche called out happily, dragging the two over to the rest of the Arcobaleno. Bel only smiled and walked over to a certain frog and silver-haired swordsman.
Luche however, brought the two nearby Reborn and motioned for Viper to slip her hand under the desk. Viper complied and Reborn sat down and, unnoticed by the other students, slipped his hand under the same desk as a yellow glow glimmered from his hand and onto Viper's wrist where Bel bruised her. Ten seconds later, Viper took her hand back and gave a thankful nod to Reborn, her wrist showing no signs of harm.
Reborn looked at Fon, who shook his head. He wasn't pulled off the ground, so he suffered minor damage.
"I fucking hate that damned prince." Viper grumbled out. Colonello only grinned and pat her shoulder good naturedly.
"Oh Viper, that's just Bel's way of saying that he wants some—"
"Colonello!" Lal hissed out, punching the blonde in the cheek.
Colonello took the punch and winced.
"Ow, Lal, that hurt you crazy bi—"
BRINNNNGGG!
"Talk about saved by the bell…" Skull muttered.
Five Periods Later…
"That was hell." Skull muttered, dropping his tray next to Verde, who nodded.
"For once, I'll have to agree. Their AP classes are too insufficient. The students are all nitwits."
Viper dropped into her seat and attacked her fries. Lal sat next to the seething illusionist.
"The Varia are in your classes?" Lal guessed. Viper nodded.
"I can't go one period without at least one of the officers in my class! Why did I have to have this damn schedule?" Viper growled out, muttering curses and hexes in foreign and dead languages that only Reborn and Verde knew. "The only bearable class I have is Study Hall with that Fran kid! At least he doesn't try to dress me in skirts or scream in my ear or try to freaking stab me!"
Fon sighed. "People avoid me because they think that I'm related to an apparently violent student in the Elementary Wing."
"Who's the kid?" Luche asked
"Hibari Kyoya."
"… Fon, isn't that your fourth cousin?" Skull asked. Fon nodded with a sigh.
"But I didn't expect his reputation to go all the way to the High School Wing. Now everybody thinks that if I catch them littering or not handing in their homework, I'll 'bite them to death'" Fon finished, putting air quotes around 'bite them to death'.
"Well it was your own fault for letting him watch that episode of Animal Planet when you babysat him when he was five." Reborn stated.
"I know and I regret it." Fon sighed out.
Colonello stabbed his slab of meat before shoving it into his mouth. "I fucking hate all my classes, hey. The girls are butt ugly, kora."
"Hey, I'm in your classes!" Lal retorted. Colonello jolted, gave a sheepish smile and muttered an apology before running off.
"Get back here Colonello!"
"FUCK, KORA!"
"Lal-nee and Colonello-sempai need to get a room." Skull muttered. Reborn gave Skull 'the look'.
"Go get me a cappuccino, lackey."
"W-What?"
"I'll take some tea, Skull. Oolong, please."
"Green tea for me, Skull-kun."
"I'll have some lemonade, Skull."
"Strawberry milk for me."
"I'm sure that the two lovebirds would like sports drinks." Reborn stated.
"Well, off you go, Skull." Fon told the sweating teen, who grumbled before getting up and walking towards the vending machines.
"So, how were your classes Luche?" Lal asked.
"Alright I guess…"
First Period
As Luche sat down in her desk, she found multiple insults and messages scratched onto her desk.
WHORE
SLUT
COW
BITCH
EASY
Second Period
In the middle of the lecture about the impeachment process, a ball of paper was thrown at Luche's head.
Opening the paper she found the words: A pregnant freshman screams SLUT!
Third Period
Luche opened her bag to find that her new books had sharpie written all over the formerly untouched pages. What was written was not unlike the last messages.
Fourth Period
While a girl was passing out science textbooks, she pointedly stopped at Luche and went through the trouble of going into the middle of the pile of books in her arms to give the Sky Arcobaleno the textbook in the worst condition. Luche could not read on with the class due to the graffiti on the pages which completely covered the intended text, making it illegible.
"So, that's pretty much how things went." Luche told the group.
The table adopted a homicidal aura.
Reborn's fingers twitched to turn off the safety of a gun.
"Luche, don't listen to them. They wouldn't be able to go through the shit you went through even if they went through intense therapy and took lessons on their sense of pride."
Viper growled. "It looks like I'll have to threaten some more people today."
"Viper, you'll get detention again." Verde told the girl while thinking up places to put spy cameras and find the identities of the girls.
"To hell with the detentions. I'll get detention every day of the freaking year, see if I care." Viper grumbled, snorting down the last of her fries and snatching her strawberry milk from the recently arrived Skull, who came just in time to see periods three and four.
"Where are you going, Viper-nee?" Skull asked.
"Bathroom." The illusionist answered.
Reborn shrugged and sipped the cappuccino that Skull handed him.
"Oh, and Viper, make sure that you come straight home after your detention." Fon called out.
"I know." Viper said. "I think we can find the bastard soon. I could find traces yesterday. Maybe now that we're closer the connection will be stronger."
As Viper exited the Cafeteria, Lal dragged a steaming Colonello back to the table.
"W-what did we miss, hey?..." Colonello slurred out.
Reborn smirked and tipped his fedora.
In the Bathroom:
Viper locked the door to the cleanest stall and ripped a good amount of toilet paper off the roll. She held the paper in front of her and mumbled "Thoughtography". A blue glow engulfed the surrounding area of the paper as Viper sneezed into the sheet.
"Dammit. Bitches must've cut school after fourth. They got to the other side of town." Viper grumbled. "I'll just do another Thoughtography after school I guess…"
Viper tore out another sheet of paper and repeated the process. She cussed violently.
"That bastard is on the Pacific Ocean? Based on the direction I can guess that it's the United States… Damn it all. We'll have to wait this out and catch him when he returns…"
With that, Viper flushed both sheets of paper and walked out of the bathroom. The rest of the Arcobaleno needed to be told of this.
Cafeteria:
Verde tut-tutted. "Viper, are you sure it's wise to use your Thoughtography in school?"
"Urusai." Viper growled out at the scientist. "I saw you using your Electrico Thunder in AP Chemistry to get that Bunsen burner working."
Verde only shrugged. "Nobody saw me."
"And I was in a stall, so it's good, you mad scientist."
"Anyway, we better go. We'll see you at home after your detention Viper, Fon." Reborn said, dumping his tray on Skull's and picking up his bag before leaving.
"N-Nani?" Skull yelped out. Colonello, Lal, and Verde followed Reborn's example.
"Thank you, Skull."
"Ah."
"I'll make you extra cookies today Skull-kun!"
The three last, and thankfully, not completely heartless Arcobaleno told the Cloud before leaving. Skull sighed but got up to put the trays back nevertheless.
Three Periods Later:
Viper panted and sweated lightly as she walked through the halls towards Room 105, where she was supposed to serve detention. Fon was serving detention in their homeroom.
She hated Gym class with a dying passion. The lucky, athletically fit like Reborn, Colonello, Fon, and Lal had no problems. Verde spent most of his time in his lab and although he knew how to use a gun with his eyes closed and could control electricity, he was not athletic. Skull was strong and fast despite common belief, but he tripped over his own two feet, so sports were not his forte. Luche was excused from Gym due to her pregnancy, but if not for the life growing in her womb, she could be just as strong and fit as Lal if she was in her best condition.
Viper however was not athletic. She was scrawny, had no muscles, stamina, endurance, and she ran out of breath easily. She knew this was due to her limits as an illusionist and passed this off to the teachers as asthma. She was sweaty, out of breath, and now had to face the Varia. Not fun.
Viper carefully opened the door to the room, only to have a certain swordsman barreling into her.
"VOOOOIIIII! What the hell, you stupid boss?"
Viper was surprised that she had not died of the force of Squalo from her AP English class slamming into her. She tried to shove the heavy silverette away and knew that today was not her day.
A/N: Each chapter is mainly focused on one person. This time it was Viper, next time it will revolve around someone else.