"Hey, what are you doing!?" Chiyo whispered angrily. There was a boy spray painting graffiti on the door to the disciplinary committee meeting room. There weren't any actual words, but there was a crude caricature of Hibari and quite a few cruder swear words.

The boy turned to her and smiled roguishly. "Come on, this asshole has it coming. He beat the crap out of me yesterday for smoking ad I wasn't even in the school, I was on the roof." he grumbled and then frowned at her. "Are you gonna tell on me?"

Chiyo snorted. "No, I don't need to. He's probably going to find out and when he does you'll only have yourself to blame." No way in hell she was going to say anything; Hibari would probably think she was in on it.

"I wish I hadn't even seen this." Chiyo thought with a sigh. "I just want to go home. I'll be late for dinner and it's nearly time for-"

"Oh shit!" she cursed out loud; the boy looked at her startled. "What?"

"You have to leave now! Hibari-san is-"

"Yes?"

"Speak of the devil." she thought weakly; she turned around slowly and the boy looked ready to piss himself. Hibari was standing right behind her; it was nearly time for the disciplinary committee's usual meeting, but he showed up early.

He looked downright murderous; thankfully Hibari didn't seem to even register Chiyo's presence. He was staring directly at the shaking boy who had just dropped the can of paint.

"H-Hibari-san! This isn't what it looks like!" the boy looked close to tears; he clearly hadn't thought this through, and as obnoxious as he seemed, Chiyo felt a twinge of pity.

Hibari pulled out both of his tonfas. "I don't like liars. Damaging school property is against the rules." he said with cold indifference to the boys pleading.

"Please, I'll clean it up right now! It'll never happen again!" Hibari pushed Chiyo aside carelessly and approached the boy.

"Now's my chance to escape!" Chiyo thought turning away.

"Oh you will clean up this mess." Hibari said as he raised his weapon. "Right after I bite you to death." he swung down one of his tonfas to crash it down on the boy's skull; he clenched his eyes and steeled his nerves, ready to take the hit.

He waited for the pain, but it didn't come.

"Huh?" he opened his eyes. "Holy crap!"

Chiyo stood in front of him; she had blocked the hit with her hand.

"Are you crazy?" she asked Hibari through gritted teeth; she tried to keep her pained tears from falling. "I get it, he broke the rules and he should be punished, but this is too much!"

Hibari's eyes widened slightly before his glare returned; he withdrew his weapon and studied her for a moment.

"You will not interfere. I am in charge of enforcing the rules of this school and I will use whatever methods I see fit."

He turned to the cowering boy. "Clean this up. Now." the boy nodded quickly; he ran to the nearest cleaning supply closet, got what he needed, and went straight to work.

Hibari turned to Chiyo. "Get to the nurses office."

She cringed; no way was she going to see that perverted Dr. Shamal; besides he had already left for the day. "I have to go home right away Hibari-san, and Dr. Shamal has left. I'll just be going…" Chiyo trailed off and walked away quickly.

"Herbivore."

She paused and a sense of dread welled up in her chest. "Yes?"

"What is your name?" Hibari didn't so much ask as demand to know.

"Amagawa Chiyo." she said trying to keep her voice from stuttering; Chiyo was afraid that he was going to punish her for stepping in. She stood there waiting for a few seconds.

Hbari scowled. "Why are you just standing there?"

Chiyo blinked confused. "Um…"

"Didn't you say you were leaving? Go. I have work to do." he stalked off into the meeting room without a second glance.

The boy paused in his scrubbing and turned to Chiyo. "Thank you!" he whispered and bowed his head several times; she sighed and smiled back kindly.

"I bet Hibari's going to keep my name on his list of students to keep his eye on. Great." Chiyo thought ruefully; what if he was going to find a legitimate way to give her detention? It bothered her a bit; it's not like she was causing trouble, he's the one who always takes punishments too far.

"I'm home!" Chiyo called out as she entered her house; she convinced her parents that she had fallen on the way back and hurt her hand. After Chiyo had it bandaged and iced, they all ate dinner; she wanted to tell them what happened, but what could they do? Hibari practically ran the whole town, and she didn't want to worry them; it was over now at any rate. Chiyo went to sleep that night without much thought on the day's events.

Chiyo got ready in the morning and walked to school checking off her mental list of things she was supposed to bring; she neared the school entrance and made her way to go through the gate before an arm was held out in front of her.

"Amagawa, correct?" It was Hibari and he didn't look happy.

"Not that he ever is." Chiyo reminded herself; he seemed irritated and looked at her expectantly.

She tried to look Hibari straight in the eye. "Yes, you're correct. Why do you ask?"

Hibari looked at her blankly; it was as though he didn't know what to say to that.

"Don't talk back." he said shortly with a glare. "Are you headed to class?"

"Yes." Chiyo answered puzzled.

"I will make sure you get there on time. Punctuality is a high priority in Namimori." he crossed his arms as if to make a point. "Walk."

Chiyo obeyed reluctantly and began heading to her classroom once more; other students looked at the two strangely. Chiyo supposed they thought she was on death row or something and it sort of felt that way. Hibari was an ominous escort, for lack of a better term; he was completely silent and didn't spare her a glance the whole way.

"Um, I'm going to go in now." she said awkwardly as they reached the classroom.

Hibari's eyes narrowed. "I would think you'd thank someone for helping you."

"Oh, of course." Chiyo said confused. "Thank you very much Hibari-san." she bowed; he nodded his approval and began to leave.

"See you later." she called; immediately Chiyo wanted to smack her good hand over her mouth. Hibari paused but didn't turn around.

"Perhaps." he continued on his way; if the other students weren't so terrified they'd gawk at his retreating form.

She certainly felt like doing so.