And so, after 5 months, the 10th reviewer reviewed. And with that, I shall continue with the long awaited Chapter 2!

OOC HIBARI. I'M SO SORRY HIBARI FANS. I'M NEW TO WRITING HIBARI AND HE'S SO OOC HERE. PLEASE DON'T BITE ME TO DEATH!


My Juliet and Her Romeo – Chapter 2

While patrolling the corridors for rule breakers, Hibari found his way back to his office. And as expected, Chrome was already there. She was, despite the rules of no food/drinks inside the main building, preparing tea for the disciplinary head. Hibari didn't mind since the tea was for him.

"Oh, Kyo-kun," She stared at him for a while. He acknowledged her presence by nodding at her, signaling for her to bring him his tea.

"Nn." Hibari sipped his tea while reading some pieces of papers. Chrome smiled slightly and sat one of the couches in the office. She, too, was reading a piece of paper.

"Nagi?" Hibari suddenly said Chrome's real name, which made the maiden blush.

"Y-yes?"

"Tybalt. Who's he?"

"Uhm, I think it was Yamamoto-kun . . ." Chrome replied.

"I see."

Silence followed. Chrome was unable to focus memorizing her script since it was awkward to hear the scary Hibari Kyoya call her by her real name. She sighed and tried to focus.

OooOO-flashback-OOooO

Dino-sensei was the one to arrange the play and he's the director as well. When he announced the names of those lucky people who gets a roll via random lottery lots, Hibari started to rampage. But Dino stopped him immediately.

"Come on Kyoya, it's your last year here in Namimori. At least participate in one of the school activities!" Truthfully, it was true, and the more Hibari stayed silent, the more Dino made a point. So, out of his love for Namimori, Hibari agreed on joining the play and Dino placed his name on the lottery box. And a minute later, he got Romeo's role. And Chrome got Juliet's.

"Ahh! Perfect! Now you two," Dino referred to Hibari and Chrome, "Here's the script, practice as much as you can."

"I'll bite you to death after the festival, haneuma." Hibari hissed, clearly annoyed at the turn of events. It would help him a great deal if he got one of the minor roles, like Mercutio or Tybalt since they get to fight. Although Romeo gets to fight as well, it's not the same when you know you just gonna die in the end. A waste of acting, as he might say.

"L-let's do our, b-best, Kumo-san . . ." Chrome stuttered, hiding her blushing face by placing the script in front of her.

Oh dear, Dino thought. Hibari sighed.

"Dokuro, my office, now." The Cloud ordered, his rough voice sounded highly demanding.

"E-eh?!"

"If you stammer like that on stage and disgrace me, I'll bite you to death." His menacing glare froze the purple hair and even the rest of the class.

"He means he wants to practice with you in his office, Chrome-chan. Go on, he won't bite you. I trained him not to hurt innocent women." Dino gave Chrome a pat on the back and shoved her to the door. Hibari's gaze fell upon him now.

"And to initiate the intimacy between Romeo and Juliet, why don't both of you call each other by your names, okay? Just so the two of you can be comfortable with each other. So, Kyo-kun and Chrome-chan." Dino felt so excited that Hibari's death glare didn't even affect him. The blonde gave the couple a small wink and pushed them out of the class room.

"Ah—uhm, K-kyo-k-kun . . ." Chrome tried her best, but she just won't stop stammering.

"Let's go, Chrome." Hibari emphasized every syllable, playing along to the haneuma's game. For once, he felt at ease. If any other girl were Juliet, he'd gone and bitten everyone in class to death already. But Chrome, she was different. She's quiet. He likes that. She's not too social and doesn't attract crowds. He likes that. She's clumsy yet reliable. He likes that.

"Nagi." Chrome suddenly said.

"What?"

"My real name is Nagi, b-but only Mukuro-sama calls me that . . . S-sorry, kumo-san."

"Hnn. Nagi it is." It's much easier to pronounce than KU-RO-MU. Hibari smirked.

KU-RO-MU DO-KU-RO

MU-KU-RO RO-KU-DO

Yes, he doesn't like anything related to that wretched pineapple, much less say his name backwards, so Nagi it is.

OooOO-end of flashback-OOooO

"Nagi." Hibari said after a while.

"What is it?"

"I want to see how you act." He won't admit it, but last night, Hibari, being the I-won't-be-defeated-by-any-thing-especially-that-haneuma's-stupid-play type of person, went and watched some videos of the play in the net. He was a fast learner, so the basic rules in acting were like a breeze for him.

"B-but—"

"Don't stutter."

For a few minutes, Hibari guided Chrome on the rules of acting and with a bit of patience, she learned fast. Her body gets stiff every now and then, but she tries hard to move. She had determination. She wanted to act. And Hibari is teaching her well.

"Now if only I can teach you how to bite people to death . . ."He mumbled to himself, amused at how fast this girl can learn. Not only have they finished the last act, in which both of them were to die, they also finished with their marriage scene. But the blushing Chrome made it hard for the man to maintain a serious atmosphere. So they decided to drop it and practice for the most famous act in the said play: The Balcony Scene.

". . . It is my lady, oh, it is my love— What are you laughing at?" Hibari stopped as a soft giggle came out from the Mist's lips. He didn't realize that he slightly blushed.

"Kyo-kun, this is the heart of the play. You should put more feelings to it." Chrome said, hiding her giggles. It was weird hearing swooning words, yet the speaker's voice is too cold. He was better a few minutes ago.

"Fine. You do your lines then. Start at line 35." Hibari frowned, not amused at all to have someone laugh at him, at his acting. Chrome nodded and she cleared her voice. For a moment, she closed her eyes, visualizing the scene, as what one of Hibari's rules said so, and with an exhale, she started blushing. After all, Juliet in this scene was fantasizing about her beloved Romeo.

"Oh Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo?" With confidence, she let out the lines with all the feministic feelings she could find in herself. When she thought of Mukuro-sama, her friends and everyone, it fueled up her passion and made that single line live like it was Juliet in the flesh. Hibari was silently filled with Chrome's aura. Her innocence breached his steel-grey eyes, making those pair of orbs focus only on to her, on to her moving performance. On how she said those words, as if he was the love-struck Romeo wanting Juliet for him to notice her, to notice his feelings for her. And he stood still, being absorbed by the angel in front of him.

"Deny thy father, and refuse thy name; or if thou wilt not, be but sworn, my love, and I'll no longer be a Capulet." She froze. Hibari was glaring at her, but not that I'll-bite-you-to-death kind of glare, but different, as if he was looking at her at an altered angle. His eyes were blood-lust-less and his facial expression was unreadable. He couldn't take his eyes off of her, seeing that marvelous, in character performance acted out in front of him.

"Kyo-kun?!" Suddenly, the skylark began leaning towards the girl, not knowing what was happening. He himself didn't know what was happening. His body just moved on its own, as if Chrome's acting awakened something in him that made him do so.

His face was only a few inches away from Chrome when the door suddenly opened and Dino came in.

"Kyoya-kun! Chrome-chan! Let's go eat lun— What are you two doing?!" Immediately, Dino separated the two and Hibari gave him an angry stare.

"Tch. We were practicing." Hibari answered, walking towards his open window.

"For real? But the look on Kyoya's eyes right now were differe— "

"He's telling the truth, sensei. We were practicing the Balcony scene a while back. . ." Chrome backed up. It was true, anyway. Dino's just assuming things.

"Promise me, you two, when you practice for scenes like that, please do it with adult supervision." Dino sweat-dropped. It seems that these two are getting along just fine, just too fine actually. "We never know what happens. . ." Dino sighed. He wouldn't let his precious students do whatever they like. They are still minors.

Two days onward, Dino urged the anti-socialites to practice with their classmates in their classroom instead in Hibari's office, much to Hibari's dismay. He can feel his pride diminishing. It was embarrassing enough to act opposite of himself in front of Chrome, and now he has to do it in front of his class.

"Come on, Kyoya. You're gonna do it in front of the whole school anyway, so why not show it to your classmates?" Eagerly, Dino persuaded Hibari to act. Even the other students were excited to see Hibari display an attitude of not his own. Hibari didn't answer; he only stood silent, death glaring everyone on the room.

"Si-silence means 'yes', Kyoya," Dino spoke but Hibari continued glaring, "Alright, let's start practicing. From the top . . ."

But to their disappointment, Romeo's lines were cold and emotionless.

Well, at least he memorized the lines. Dino sighed.

.:.:.:.:.:.

"Kufufufu~"

"Shishou, what are you laughing at?" Asked a young Fran. His master has been acting weird since Chrome left last Saturday. She promised to return the next morning, but she didn't. Instead, she called that she will be staying at the Sasagawa's house for a while.

"My dear little Chrome is all grown up, leaving me here and whiles she is playing with her girlfriends, kufufu. It does not please me one bit, especially if that skylark is involve." He muttered to himself. True, he trusts the Sasagawa girl more than Sawada, but at the back of his mind, he is still thinking about the fact that dear Romeo is none other than Hibari Kyoya.

"Say, Fran, have you heard of Romeo and Juliet?" He asks his disciple. As a child, he never knew the story of the two, only which they both died in the end.

"My grandma told me their story when I was still in France. What of it, shisho?"

"Do the two lovers . . . ahh, never mind. You are too young."

Just then, Ken, Chikusa and M.M. entered the room carrying grocery bags in their hands. Ever since Chrome taught M.M how to cook, she's been buying cookbooks and experimenting different recipes. It was fine for the Kokuyo gang since they needed all the nutrients they can. Ken and Chikuse were always eating junk food and a young Fran's body needs to be healthy.

"If they kiss? They do, actually." M.M said from the kitchen. "I've read the story when I was a kid and watched a movie version of it. They kiss way too many times." Her voice was light, as if she imagined herself as Juliet being so much in love with Romeo. Then Chrome came into her mind. She remembered Chrome was playing Juliet. "N-not that I care anyway. I'm sure Chrome's too shy and timid that she'll be worst Juliet ever!"

"You don't know M.M. I always feel Chrome can do something unexpected one day. Maybe this might the one." Chikusa commented, busily pressing the buttons on a controller. He and Ken were playing a two-player game and Ken was beating the crap out of the poor buttons.

"Nah, that useless woman is useless beyond compare, byon~!" Ken said. (Somewhere in Nami-chuu, Chrome let out a sneeze.)

"Kufufufu~ Chikusa has a point."

"Shishou. I wanna watch Chrome's performance. Can I?" Fran asked, tugging the pineapple's elbow.

"Kufufu~ Maybe." If I have the heart to see Chrome's kisses to be given to that Skylark. Mukuro mused. He kept on silently laughing to himself for the next few minutes (and everyone thought he'd gone crazy) before M.M announced dinner's ready. The Kokuyo gang was totally freaked out by their master's weird behavior.

During dinner, the gang decided to watch the play since all of them were interested if Chrome can pass as Juliet or not. They kept on thinking if she can do it, with the soft voice she has and the intense role she was given. Plus, her co-actor is none other than that scary disciplinarian.


Okay. I know it sounded rush, and it did. I'm really, really sorry! The next chapter's where the play happens. And it's going to take a long, long while, AGAIN.

And if by luck I suddenly got mental blocked (AGAIN), the next chapter maybe the last.

I'm kinda doing a Hibari X Chrome AU fanfic with a fellow KHR writer. So, I'm focusing much of my energy on that. And I hope you like this crappy chappie. Don't forget to leave a review!