Hi! This will be the first story that I'm going to publicise here! I have written other KHR-stories before, and I have wanted to post something sooner, but because of my rather low self-esteem, I haven't dared too do so until now... =)

Anyways, English is not my native language, so I have probably made some misspellings and grammar errors here and there. Sorry about that!

Like I said, this is the first story that I have posted here, and I hope you'll like it.

This story will mostly be focused on Hibari, Chrome and Mukuro. But of course, Tsuna and other characters will be in it too.

Pairings: 1896 in later chapters and a little 6996 as well. Possibly other pairings will show up later. No yaoi or yuri though. Sorry ^^;

KHR belongs to Amano Akira. I don't own KHR or its characters in anyway!

Wednesday

12:17 p.m.

There was no doubt that Hibari Kyoya was the most fearsome person of Namimori Junior High. Not only was he feared by the students, but also the teachers. For that reason, most people would think twice before picking a fight with him.

Today, Hibari was feeling extra moody. He had had a fight with Rokudo Mukuro yesterday and lost. He could always blame it on Mukuro's annoying vessel who had been watching them from a distance, looking frightened. Hibari had just been about to strike the final attack at his opponent when he had noticed her presence and been distracted.

Thinking back, he felt the frustration building up inside of him.

'Flashback'.

Hibari swung his tonfa at Mukuro, who in return blocked it with his trident.

He smirked evilly at the prefect and chuckled. Hibari glared back at him, annoyed by his stupid laugh and that he seemed to find the situation amusing when Hibari himself was dead serious. He attempted to attack him again, using the other tonfa, but something had caught his eye and distracted him.

Looking to his left, he saw Chrome Dokuro standing with her back against the wall and with a frightened look on her face as she was watching the scene in front of her. She was slightly trembling and her hands were clasped, as if she was praying. Maybe she was.

While Hibari was diverted from the battle, Mukuro trapped him in another one of his illusions, in the form of Sakura's and defeated him. Hibari's right arm took most of the damage.

"Is that all you got?" Mukuro asked teasingly while looking down at him "I wasn't expecting you to be such a letdown, Hibari Kyoya".

He laughed his infamous laugh once more before leaving Hibari wounded on the ground.

Chrome waited until her master had disappeared before approaching Hibari and kneeling down next to him. She brought out a bandage from her green satchel and tried to bandage his injured arm.

Hibari angrily slapped her hand away and frowned at her.

"If you hadn't distracted me like that, I would have won" he said harshly.

Chrome lowered her gaze.

"I'm… sorry" she mumbled shyly "I'll…just leave".

She excused herself and followed Mukuro.

'End flashback'.

Hibari's eyebrows narrowed when he thought of yesterday, and the humiliation that Mukuro had put him through, just like he had done that day almost three years ago.

Hibari had been training hard to become stronger, so to defeat Mukuro the next time they fought. However, he hadn't been really prepared to find Mukuro stronger as well. He just couldn't understand how that was even possible when he had spent over two years in a water tank. There was no way that he could have gained so much power during that time, unless he was using Chrome in some sort of way.

Nevertheless, Hibari couldn't care less about neither Mukuro nor Chrome.

One day, he would get his revenge, and that was all that mattered.

As he was patrolling the corridors, students immediately moved out of the way, afraid to get bitten to death if they got in his way.

Even the other members of the Disciplinary Committee were extra wary of him today.

At lunchtime, Hibari settled himself on the school roof, scaring off some other students who had gotten there before him just by glaring at them.

From here, he had a great view over the town. If it weren't for the high buildings in the way, he would be able to see all the way to Kokuyo Land where he had been fighting Mukuro the day before.

"I thought I'd find you here" a voice said suddenly "Hibari".

Hibari looked behind him. He hadn't noticed the presence of another person up here until he spoke to him. He had been quite surprised by it.

Either, it was the irritation and frustration of losing to Mukuro that made him unfocused of his surroundings or the other person was simply really good at concealing their presence.

It could possibly be both alternatives.

"Hmh? The baby?" Hibari said when seeing the small hitman by the entrance "What do you want?"

Reborn leaped closer to the prefect and looked up at him.

"I heard about your fight with Mukuro from Chrome a few hours ago" he replied.

Hibari's eyes narrowed and he unconsciously clenched his fists.

"Did you now?" Hibari muttered in annoyance. He did not want to be reminded of yesterday.

"I'm not here to humiliate you though" Reborn told him "I came here to remind you of the Vongola party on Friday".

Hibari rolled his eyes and turned his back to the Arcobaleno.

"I'm not going" he said shortly "I hate crowds".

Reborn smiled a little.

"I see. I guess he was right then" he said and shrugged his small shoulders. When Hibari looked back at him over his shoulder questioningly, he continued "Mukuro that is".

"What?" Hibari frowned.

"According to Chrome, Mukuro had said that you would be too scared to show up since he would be there" Reborn explained "And Chrome isn't the kind of person who would lie about such a thing, is she?"

At that moment, Hibari felt like killing someone. He was utterly enraged. However, he managed to keep his cool, because going on a rampage would have been a very un-Hibari-like thing to do.

When he didn't reply, Reborn added:

"If you don't show up, people might think that Mukuro is right and lose their respect towards you, Hibari".

That was it. There was no way Hibari was going to allow something like that to happen. If people were to lose their respect and fear of him, he might end up like Sawada Tsunayoshi; or Chrome Dokuro for that matter as well, pitiable and looked down upon. He could not risk his reputation to be destroyed by Mukuro.

"I'll be there" Hibari said avoiding and turned away from Reborn once again.

Reborn smirked satisfied and nodded.

"I'll be expecting you".

12:26 p.m.

While Hibari was still on the roof, feeling grumpy about last night, Mukuro had persuaded Chrome into getting a new dress for the upcoming party.

Though he wasn't particularly fond of parties (especially not those held by the Mafia), he had promised that he would tag along for the sake of seeing Chrome in a pretty dress. Or that's what he had said at least. Chrome knew though that the main reason that he would attend as the Vongola Mist Guardian would be as a gesture of gratitude towards Tsuna for having him released from Vendicare.

As Mukuro was roaming the streets, with a somewhat reluctant Chrome following him close behind, he would peek through the shopping windows, searching for the perfect dress for her.

"Mukuro-sama" Chrome said carefully "There… really is no need to…"

Mukuro turned around to face her. He was smiling.

"No need?" he inquired "Chrome dear, you've done so much for me, and I have taken you for granted and neglected you for the past three years that I've known you. The least I could do for you is to buy you a proper dress for the party".

"Th-that's not true, Mukuro-sama!" Chrome exclaimed. When seeing the surprised look on his face, she immediately blushed and added quietly: "I'm the one who owes Mukuro-sama. And it… hasn't been three years. Only two and eight months…"

Mukuro raised an eyebrow before smiling, noticing how cute she looked at that moment.

"You've been counting the weeks and days too?" he asked teasingly.

"Eh?" Chrome said puzzled, looking worried "Sh-should I have?"

Mukuro surprised her by laughing out loud, and probably the people passing by as well.

"Kufufu!" he chuckled and ruffled her hair with his hand "My cute little Chrome. No, you don't have to do that".

Chrome sighed relieved. But she couldn't figure out what it was that had been so funny. Deciding that it probably wasn't anything to fret about, since Mukuro would sometimes suddenly laugh at people when they said something, Chrome followed him as he motioned for them to go into an exclusive looking clothing store.

Okay, that was the first chapter. It wasn't very long, I know. But I'll update the next chapter as soon as I'm done writing it.

I'd be super happy if I got some reviews! Thank you for reading! =)