Yes! My first KHR fanfic! Hopefully you will like it, R&R! And thank you Skitter for Beta!
"Boom!" A few more explosions followed, Shizumi could not help but to be curious about it, then again, who wouldn't? She strayed from her path home and followed the noise.
More and more explosions continued in succession, it sounded pretty much like a war, and the sounds definitely wasn't coming out from a radio, TV or any other electronic devices.
She hid behind a building, at an angle that gave her a clear view.
Two boys were running, they looked strangely familiar. A baby was using a rocket missile, shooting at them, another boy threw dynamites at the two. A rather charming man stood on one of the balconies, using another weapon as well. The taller of the two fleeing boys looked rather calm but the shorter one was panicking. Shizumi stared at the commotion shocked the weapons were real. The smell, look and effects confirmed that those weapons were genuine.
It all seemed rather fine until the mix of dynamites and missiles overwhelmed the two boys. Shizumi expected two burned, grotesque bodies lying on the floor after the smoke cleared up, but surprisingly, two figures stood within the smoke, one supporting the other. The boys then started a conversation, talking like good friends. Shizumi had to wonder, who attacks people then talks to the victims like good friends? Maybe they were learning how to avoid explosives? Hey wait, who would learn to dodge such things in this time of peace? Something had to be wrong, but ignorance would be a better choice.
The group of boys separated, Shizumi had no reason to stay on too. She wouldn't be reporting this to the police, who would believe her if she said that a baby wearing a suit was using a rocket missile? But she would have a reason to be afraid of them now.
Reborn smirked as Ariyoshi Shizumi turned to leave.
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"Shizu-chan! Don't walk so fast!" A girl ran after her classmate. "Ayako, let her be, you will only tire yourself running after her, she has been like that for some time, right?" Another girl called out.
Shizumi wasn't looking forward, her speed increasing. It wasn't a surprise that she crashed right into someone. And that someone happened to be too busy chatting to his friend to notice her either.
"Gomenasai!" Shizumi said immediately as she got up. Looking at the person she had just crashed into, her eyes widened. So this was why the boys from yesterday were so familiar, they were in her school! Shizumi didn't notice their uniforms the other time.
"Gomen-" Yamamoto said, but the girl had already scurried away. "Weird."
"It's natural reaction after all." Reborn explained, appearing from the ceiling. Tsuna could only think that it was because the girl, having crashed into Yamamoto, who was extremely popular with girls, felt embarrassed and ran away.
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Students poured out of the school, glad that the tiring school day was finally over.
"Damn the teacher." Gokudera cursed, having been called by the teacher about his attitude in class. Not paying attention to where he was going. He walked straight into a girl. "Watch where-"
"Gomenasai!" The girl said and ran off at full speed.
"Yo, Gokudera." Yamamoto approached him from behind. "That girl..."
"She looks scared." Tsuna appeared beside Yamamoto.
"Gokudera does look scary at times." Yamamoto laughed.
"Baseball idiot."
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Finally reaching home and showering her stomach grumbled, her parents were out that day, and the fridge was empty. Remembering about a certain sushi restaurant a classmate had recommended, she fetched her wallet and went out.
It took her a while to find Takesushi since she wasn't familiar with the area. But there just had to be one of the "dangerous boys" inside the restaurant. She turned around, fleeing from the restaurant as fast as she could. Why on earth was she so unlucky these days?!
Yamamoto, alerted by the sudden movement, spun around just to see her trip over something on the floor as she hurried to escape.
"It's that weird girl again…"
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"Ne, Shizu, aren't you interested in boys?" Ayako asked.
"No interest in both genders."
"Eh, you should start getting interested in boys." Another girl, Riko said.
"How about Yamamoto Takeshi from 1-A?"
"Yamamoto Takeshi?" Shizumi asked, not knowing he was one of the "dangerous" boys.
"You are clueless, Shizu-chan, he's so popular in school and yet you don't know him! I will show you during lunch break later, don't you walk away."
"Not like I am interested, and stop calling me as if I'm your close friend!" Shizumi mumbled, not loud enough for anyone to hear. Her bad mood was increasing already.
On cue, the teacher walked in and everybody scrambled back to their seats. "And now, take out your textbook and turn to page 112."
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It was lunch break and Shizumi did her daily ritual of rushing to the door despite calls from her classmates. Unfortunately, she walked way too fast, only managing to stop just in time before crashing into somebody, again.
"It's the weird girl." The tall boy with black spiky hair said.
"She seems to be avoiding us, given from what you saw yesterday." The shortest suggested, "And I get this feeling too."
"Then go ask her." The baby in a suit said, sitting on the tall boy's shoulder.
They apparently didn't seem to realise that she was right in front of them. Shizumi had no place to run, the classroom was crowded, and there were no other escape routes nearby.
"Ano, why do you seem to avoid us? And you seem to be scared of us." Tsuna asked, noticing fear in her eyes.
"Er…" Shizumi didn't know what to say.
"You saw it, didn't you? Yamamoto's family entrance test, where we used explosives." The baby spoke up.
Shizumi nodded uncertainly.
"Eh!!! No wonder you were so scared of us." Tsuna shivered as he imagined himself being in Shizumi's shoes, seeing the usage of dynamites, missile and other weapons.
"But since you know about, we can't let you off easily, you will have to come with us." Reborn said.
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Reborn had dragged Shizumi up to the roof, despite Tsuna's protests. Gokudera could only mutter something about idiot woman while Yamamoto laughed it off.
"How much did you see?"
"From when you used a rocket missile and er…that guy throwing dynamites, and another man, to the end.
"In any case, you have to stay with us, we can't have you telling the police about this." Reborn pointed a gun at her.
"But, if I wanted to tell the police, I would have done so."
"She does make a point, Reborn, and don't just go pointing guns at innocent people!" Tsuna argued.
Reborn pointed the gun at him saying "This one is not a dying will bullet, it's a real one."
"Reborn-san, I could kill her." Gokudera took out several dynamites.
"Calm down, Gokudera." Yamamoto smiled.
"And so concludes it, Ariyoshi Shizumi, you will have to join us." Reborn concluded.
"Reborn! You don't intend to drag someone innocent into the family?"
"She might just be useful though."