A/N: I do not own KHR. I'm sorry i didn't update sooner, but FFN wouldn't let me update it. i dunno why.

Fran glanced back at Chrome, who was still asleep- or in other words, passed out.

"Bel-senpai. Are you tired of carrying her?" Fran asked, impassive. The Prince turned around and grinned. "Why? Is the Froggy peasant worried about the Prince?"

"No, it's just because I don't want you to drop Chrome." Bel frowned, and shifted Chrome a little so could he could free his right arm. He threw five knives at Fran. The green-haired boy looked down at his arm.

"Senpai. It hurts…" Fran mono-toned before pulling the knives out and throwing them carelessly over his shoulder. The prince scowled, but couldn't do anything because if he bent down to pick up his knives, Chrome could fall off.

But then he grew curious.

"Oi, Froggy."

"What is it, idiotic –senpai?" Fran turned. "We really shouldn't keep stopping to talk or Chrome will wake up again and we're going to have to knock her out again." He continued walking.

"Why don't you bleed?" Fran stopped walking. "Why don't I bleed?" Bel nodded vigorously, his hair flapping.

"It's because…" Bel waited tensely for the answer.

"Because…?" Bel prompted Fran because he had gone quiet.

"It's because I'm a zombie and I have no blood to shed!" Fran whipped around, his eyes glazed, drooling, and his arms stretched out towards Bel. He staggered drunkenly toward the Prince.

"I need fresh meat!" A tic appeared on Bel's cheek.

"Fresh meat! I need to tear all living beings into –oomf!" Bel kicked the green-haired teen in the stomach.

"Shut up!" Fran rubbed his stomach and rolled on the ground. "It hurts…idiot senpai…carry me…"

"Are we there yet?" Bel interrupted Fran's moaning. The younger boy got up and looked around. He pointed to a house at the end of the road.

"It's that one." Bel nodded and started walking towards the house.

"Idiot-senpaiiii…" Bel continued walking. "Idiot-senpaiiiii…" The blonde ignored him. "Idiot-senpaiiii…you're going the wrong wayyyyyy…" Bel whipped around.

"Stop joking!"

"You must be really stupid senpai. It's on the other side of the way. Stupid fallen Prince."

"But you pointed at that house and said it was that way!" Bel howled in outrage. "So that doesn't make me an idiot! I just followed you directions!" Fran put a finger to his lips.

"Shh. You'll wake Chrome up. Besides, I was just messing with you. It is that one." Fran smiled triumphantly and continued walking. When he passed Bel, the blonde kicked Fran on his shin. Hard.

Fran jumped around hugging his shin and he opened his mouth to yell in pain. Bel smiled.

"Shh. You'll wake up Chrome. Ushishishi." So Fran hopped around screaming in silence as Bel walked down the lane toward the house.

*K*H*R*

Fran opened the door and called out "I'm back." A woman who was sitting on the couch sorting bills looked up. She had purple hair and had a hoodie on, covering her eyes.

"Ushishi. Hi Mammon." Bel grinned. Mammon nodded. She spotted Chrome hanging limp over his shoulder.

"Bel, what did you do to her? Now we have to pay the hospital bills, and they're expensive." She got up and took Chrome from the blonde. Bel shrugged.

"Froggy ordered me to." Mammon turned to stare at Fran, who stared emotionlessly back. There was silence for a few minutes, until Bel laughed.

"Ushishishi. Now I know where Froggy gets monotones." Both turned to look at Bel, who said "When are we gonna ask her?" he nodded at Chrome. "She's gonna wake up soon."

Fran nodded grimly. "Right. The mission." He looked around and pointed upstairs. "Put her in the guest room." Bel saluted before carrying Chrome upstairs.

Mammon raised an unseen eyebrow. "Mission?" Fran nodded. Mammon waited for him to explain, but when he did nothing, she shrugged, and went back to her bills.

"She seems to have a connection to Rokudo Mukuro." Mammon's head whipped around to look at Fran.

"…..What did you say?"Fran nodded grimly. "She doesn't know what happened between you two yet." Mammon was silent. "Don't worry," Fran assured Mammon. "I won't tell her about the incident, but I can tell her what he's like, since he used to be my tutor." The woman relaxed.

"Ok. But how do you know she was with Mukuro?" Mammon asked, her hand tucking a stray strand of hair behind her ear. Fran pulled out a piece of paper and handed it to her.

Mammon scanned the paper and stood up. "I want to know too." She deftly gathered all the bills and put them in their files. She opened her mouth to say something but she was interrupted by Bel.

"Oi! Froggy! The guest room's the one with the canary wallpaper right?" Bel's voice floated down the stairs. Fran nodded, even though Bel couldn't see.

"… I'll take that as a yes!" Fran and Mammon sighed and started up the stairs.

*K*H*R*

Chrome groaned. She opened her eyes, and saw Fran, Mammon, and Bel staring at her. She squinted, because they surrounded her with lamps that were shining at her face.

"Wha-what's going on…?" She said, holding up a hand to shield herself from the light. The three of them continued staring before bursting into questions.

"Ushi, where did you go today after lunch?"

"How did you come in contact with Rokudo Mukuro?"

"Did he pay you to meet him?" At this, everybody stared at Mammon. "Aneki, What do you mean by pay?" Fran asked.

"Ushishi, Nee-san, are you really that crazy about money?" Mammon sighed. "Just get on with the interrogation."

"In-Interogation?" Chrome was bewildered. "What interrogation?"

"Ushishishi. Mammon, you and Froggy make it sound like a movie." Bel snickered. Fran sighed.

"Chrome, how did you meet Rokudo Mukuro?"

"H-Huh?" Chrome didn't get why Fran was looking as if someone had died. "Um.. during lunch, I was cornered by a gang who seemed to be led by…uh.. a guy with glasses… I think his name was Glue Xinia?"

Fran nodded "His name's Glo. He's one of the seniors. Go on."

Chrome took a deep breath and continued . "He asked if I wanted to hang out with him and I refused…so I used the BB gun you gave me and hit him on his cheek. Oh, and I shot three of them then I started to run away and that man started beating me up-"

"What? He beat you up?"

"Yes. And he was about to take me back to Glo but Mukuro came and knocked him out and carried me to the nurse room. He said I was sleeping for two hours." Chrome concluded.

"Fran. Bel. Get out of this room." Mammon ordered. "I need to check to see if this story is real or not."

"Awww, why do we have to go?" Bel pouted. "I wanna see the evidence too."

"Senpai… Mammon's gonna check for wounds on Chrome body." Fran explained.

Bel tilted his head and frowned, confused. "…So?" Fran sighed. "It means she's gonna take Chrome's shirt off. Stupid fallen-Prince." Fran muttered.

"Oh." Fran grabbed his sleeve and dragged him out of the room. Mammon turned to look at Chrome.

Chrome froze. "…Chrome. Please. Just this once. You don't even need to pay me." The petite girl gulped and tugged off her shirt. Chrome hated taking off her shirt because she was thin and spindly.

Mammon looked at her and saw the cuts and bruises. She nodded. "You can put it back on now." Chrome slipped on the shirt and walked out of the room with Mammon.

"Uh…Mammon-san?" Mammon gave a nod to show that she was listening. "Why are you and Fran so against Mukuro-san?" Mammon hesitated, before turning to Chrome.

"He isn't the nicest person in the world. That's all I'm going to say. Unless you give me money."

Chrome sighed and walked downstairs with the older girl.

*K*H*R*

Hibari unlocked the door and hung his jacket up neatly before going into the kitchen and getting out a hamburger and popping it into the microwave.

"Hibari! Hibari!" the teen stroked the bird with a finger. "Wait. I need to heat it up." While Hibird watched the microwave, Hibari went to the living room and got his hedgehog out. Roll yawned and blinked at Hibari.

"Kupii..." Hibari carried him to the kitchen. "Hibari! Hibari! Burger!" Hibarid chirped, excitedly flapping his wings.

"I know, I know." He took the hamburger out of the microwave and broke a piece of for the small bird. "There."

Roll eyed the hamburger, sniffed it, and decided it wasn't good. He turned and slept on the table. Hibari quickly finished his burger and was about to put his plate in the sink when his phone rang.

[Midori tanabikunamimori no. Dai naku shou naku nami ga ii. Itsumo kawa-]

"Hello?"

{Kyo-san.}

"Tetsu."

{Kyo-san, it seems that Rokudo Mukuro did have a reason for fighting.} Hibari raised an eyebrow.

"Oh? And you know this by…?"

{I have questioned Glo-san and the rest. It seems they met a girl and- ahem- er…they were attracted to her. She fought back, but Mochida-san chased after her. Then he was knocked out by Rokudo Mukuro.}

Hibari sighed. And he was solooking forward to have a reason to beat Mukuro. "Fine. And who is this girl?"

{I don't know yet sir. They said that she was small, had purple hair, and eye-patch over her right eye.} Hibari's heart stopped.

"…"

{… Kyo-san?} Hibari snapped back to his senses. He didn't know why he was getting worked up over such a small problem but he didn't like it. It made him feel herbivorous.

"Tetsu. I'll question them tomorrow." What? What was he saying? Shut up, shut up!Said a little annoying voice in the back of his head. You're getting worked up over nothing! "You can let them go."

{…Kyo-san, are you feeling alright?} Hibari knew what he meant. Usually he let Tetsuya deal with minor problems like questioning and he did the biting to death, but he felt the need to do it this time.

"I'm fine. Good night."

{Night sir.} They both hung up. Hibari ran a hand through his hair. What the hell am I doing?

You're being an herbivore, obviously. Carnivores are alone. They don't care. They don't feel. That's the price of being alone.

Hibari wanted to strangle that annoying voice and yell and scream that he already knew that and did he think that he, the head of the Disciplinary Committee did not know that? But that was showing weakness and it was an herbivorous thing to do so he calmly sat down on the couch and put Roll on his lap while Hibird slept in his hair.

"… Why am I getting so worked up over a girl whose name I don't even know?"

*K*H*R*

"Eww! Ken, you idiot! Stop drooling!" M.M recoiled at the strands of saliva hanging at Ken's jaw when he ate.

"I'm not drooling! This is just how I eat-byon!" Ken snarled at M.M, specks of chewed food and saliva flying everywhere.

"Ken. Close your mouth." Chikusa was sitting and reading a book. He pushed up his glasses. "Mukuro-san would not want his furniture ruined after he is sharing his house with us."

"It's the Kokuyo house Kakipii! Everyone in the gang is allowed here. Except for stupid girls." At this he opened his mouth and sprayed M.M with bits of chips. He laughed. "Now that, Kakipii, is a good punishment for stupid wo-gak!"

M.M thwacked Ken with her clarinet. "Ken you absolutely disgusting idiot!" She stormed off to take a shower. Ken laughed, although it was more like a choke.

"Ha-hack! I-I won that last match!" Said Ken weakly from the floor, rubbing his stomach. "K-Kakipii, get me an ice pack." Chikusa observed the whole scene calmly before saying "No." and turned back to his book.

Mukuro entered the room holding a bag of cheeseburgers. "Kufufu!" He laughed triumphantly. "I managed to ask an old lady to buy us six cheeseburgers!" His mismatched eyes danced. "Free of charge!" He paused.

"Ken, what are you doing on the floor?"

"M-Mukuro-san. M.M hit me with her clarinet." groaned Ken.

"You didn't provoke her did you?"

"Uh… n-"

"He did, Mukuro-san." Ken glared at Chikusa. "Kakipii! Don't be a tattle-tale!" The teen merely pushed his glasses back up and said "It's the truth. Besides, if M.M hears that you lied, she'll go full-blown- banshee on you."

Ken gulped. Mukuro laughed quietly and sat down, putting the bag on the counter. Mukuro draped his jacket over the couch, sat down and started flipping through channels on the T.V.

The Kokuyo house belonged to Mukuro after his parents had died, leaving him everything. They were billionares, and Mukuro let everyone in the Kokuyo gang stay, and they all had to do chores. Although they had enough money, they preferred to get stuff by using other people's money instead.

"Mukuro-chan! When did you come back? I didn't hear you come in." M.M smiled from the doorway.

"That's because you were upstairs too busy washing of the chips, stupid." Ken grumbled from the floor. M.M, still smiling, kicked Ken again while walking past him. Mukuro smiled lazily from the couch.

Mukuro smiled as M.M sat down next to him on the couch. His attention wandered as M.M chattered about random things.

"…and why didn't you come to class? You said you would right after dumping that ugly girl at the nurse's room." M.M said sourly. Mukuro turned to look at her.

"Kufufufu… she would be my responsibility wouldn't she? Because I helped her." He got up and stretched. He yawned hugely and decided to go upstairs, since he wanted to go upstairs and sleep early.

"I think I'll go sleep now. I'm tired." M.M and Ken stared. "What?"

"Mukuro-san, you never sleep early! Its only 9:00!" Ken said, sitting up from the floor.

"Mukuro-chan, come and watch T.V with us," Coaxed M.M from the couch. The purple-haired teen shook his head. "Good Night."

"…What the hell is wrong with him?"

*K*H*R*

Hibari was sitting in the reception room the next day when Tetsu appeared with Glo and the gang.

"Good morning Kyo-san." Hibari nodded and gestured for him to leave. The man bowed, and left the room.

"So. You are the three who tried to harass a girl." He picked up his tonfas. "Discipline at Nami-chuu should be in order."

"W-Wait! I, I already told your partner everything! Why do we need to be beaten?" Shrieked one of them. He had a bandage wrapped around his head.

"Oh? But you didharass a girl. And that is breaking the rules." He settled into a stance.

"Wait! If you want to know who the girl is, I can give you her room number!" Yelled Glo, his hands out in front of him, a vein throbbing near his eye. Hibari stopped.

"And how do you know this?

Seeing that the violent prefect wasn't going to do anything, he pushed up his eyeglasses and patted the bandage covering his cheek. "Well, when she was reading, I noticed her schedule sticking out of her bag. She's in Sawada Tsunayoshi's class."

Hibari nodded. Then he swung his tonfa at the back of Glo's head. Glo doubled over.

The skylark swung his left tonfa into the spectacles' gut, keeping him from falling onto the carpet.

"Ack!" The teen pulled back his tonfa, and the senior collapsed to the ground. The others stared in horror. Hibari smirked.

"Prepare to be bitten to death."

*K*H*R*

Chrome scribbled down the last sentences to her essay. Her topic was "Curiosity is the Cure for Boredom." But I thought that curiosity killed the cat?She thought bitterly, trying to come up with a decent essay. All she got was a crappy essay which clearly said "I don't exactly know how to explain how Curiosity is the cure for Boredom."

"And time's up! Pass the papers up." Called Irie Shouichi, their English teacher. He adjusted his glasses and gathered all the papers.

"Ok, I'll grade these papers and correct them. If I think that you can do better, I'll make you write it again with a different topic." Shouichi ran a hand through his hair and stacked the papers neatly on his desk.

"Right. Homework is to come up with a presentation debating whether or we should have capital punishment, and present it in the next class. Class is dismissed."

The bell rang, and everyone stood up and packed away their things.

"Fran. I've got Technology with Spanner next." Chrome said, shouldering her bag and reading her schedule.

Fran nodded. He led the way out, Gokudera, Basil and Tsuna following. The rest of the gang went the other way, since they had a different class next.

"Oi, green-haired bastard." Fran pretended not to hear. "OI! Listen to me you idiot!" Gokudera yelled.

"I can't hear you." Fran replied, walking with Chrome. Basil, Tsuna and Chrome glanced at each other nervously, sensing a storm brewing. The silver-haired teen bunched up his fists and drew a deep breath.

Everyone backed up quickly, leaving Fran alone.

"Eh? What's wrong?" Fran turned to see Gokudera, red in the face from holding his breath, centimeters away from his own face.

"GREEN-HAIRED BASTARD! LISTEN-TO-WHAT-I-HAVE-TO-SAY!" roared Gokudera. Everyone stopped what they were doing to look at the furious teen. Basil and Tsuna winced. Chrome plugged her ears.

Fran looked indifferent and merely said- "Don't stress yourself anymore, or you hair will turn whiter that it is now." Sensing danger, Basil quickly intervened.

Grabbing Gokudera and putting him into a headlock, he hastened to say the magic words.

"Gokudera-dono, dost thou wisheth Sawada-dono to be shamed?" the raging teen froze. Then he turned toward Tsuna grinning hugely.

"Tenth! Don't worry! I won't shame you by being mean!" Basil sighed, relieved that the teen had stopped. Fran turned muttered to Chrome.

"You'd think he's always on period or something." Gokudera's eyebrow twitched, but his smile stayed on his face, bright as ever.

"But, its only girls who have it right?" Chrome whispered back, not knowing that Gokudera could hear.

"Yeah. But don't you agree he looks like a girl? He could be a girl acting as a boy." Fran replied, his voice low. Gokudera twitched again. Chrome looked at Gokudera, thinking about how Gokudera was a lot like a tomboyish woman, and that he was, truthfully, a beautiful boy.

So she nodded.

Gokudera flew into another rage, ranting about how stupid people could be and that they should just shut up. Basil face palmed while Chrome looked down at her feet, plugging her ears once more.

"Ah? Screaming in the hallway? That won't do." Everybody except Chrome froze at the soft, dangerous, drawling voice that could only belong to one person.

Byakuran Gesso.

Fran nudged Chrome to get her to unplug her ears.

"Oh dear, aren't you all late for class? Do you know what this means?" He smiled sweetly. "This means detentions."

"Byakuran-sensei," said Basil bravely. "I-"

"Tut-Tut. I'm sure you all have excuses. But for now run along to class, and see me after school." Byakuran said, all the dangerous aura dissipating as quickly as morning mist in the sun. He waved cheerfully and grinned.

"Wait."

Everyone turned to look at the direction of the new voice, freezing as they saw that one, terrifying person.

Hibari Kyoya.

*K*H*R*

Hibari was looking for the purple-haired girl, having checked her schedule after beating up the seniors. He strode down the hallway, looking for the Technology lab, walking in quick, brisk steps.

He turned the corner just in time to see the girl and her friends being scolded by the Byakuran herbivore.

"-All have excuses. But for now run along to class, and see me after school." The herbivore waved happily, and smiled.

"Wait." Hibari called out. Stupid, stupid! Not again!He ignored the voice again, keeping his face impassive. They all turned around to look at him. He saw everyone gape and saw the brown-haired herbivore open his mouth to make his signature scream.

"Cloud Person?" Tsuna whipped his head around to stare at her. Hibari inwardly thanked his lucky stars for the girl to interrupt the small animal before he screamed.

"HIE-eek? Eh?" Tsuna whipped his head back and forth about a dozen times. "Eh? Wha? B-But I don't underst-"

"I need to talk to her." Hibari said smoothly, effectively shutting up the herbivore. He gestured for the petite girl to follow him.

He bowed politely to the white-haired herbivore. "Byakuran-san."

He walked back the way he came, the bewildered girl following. He heard the hysterical boy cry out-

"Cloud Person?"

"Run off to class now Tsunayoshi-kun."

Hibari shrugged. He didn't care what happened to them. He led the way up the stairs to the roof. He opened the door and motioned for her to go outside.

He closed the door, and the both of them stood there in silence. The girl was the one who broke the silence first.

"Umm, Cloud Person, why did you bring me here? I need to go to class." The girl stammered, pointing at the door.

Hibari stood in silence, observing her. Clearly, this girl didn't look like she could fight. Don't judge a book by its cover. Remember Sawada Tsunayoshi? Whispered the voice. Hibari nodded, remembering the boy's nervousness, then he surprised everyone when he suddenly got strong.

"Um... So, I'll go now then." The girl said softly, taking his silence for a yes. She backed up until she reached the door.

"What's your name?"

The girl blinked. "Huh?" He repeated the question.

"Ch-Chrome D-D-Dokuro." He nodded. Chrome furrowed her brow in confusion.

"Is that all you've called me up for?" She asked, fidgeting. "I-I need to get to class, since I missed half my classes yesterday."

"…Why?" The girl blinked her huge eye again, reminding Hibari of an owl. He chuckled, liking the girl's uniqueness.

"Why did you miss your classes yesterday?" He asked, feeling bold enough not to be guarded and wary.

"Uh... I was knocked out by a man." It was Hibari's turn to blink. "Why?"

"We-ell… I guess he was angry?" The girl asked, turning the sentence into a question. Hibari tilted his head.

"And why do you think he was angry?" Chrome's eyes darted around, looking at everything except him.

"Well, he and his gang came to me at lunch. They wouldn't let me go past them so I made them let me go. And, uh, I was going to tell the teachers but the man came and started beating me up." Chrome said in her soft voice.

Hibari crossed his arms. "So how did you get out of there?"

"Mukuro-san helped me." A red haze settled over his eyes. Those three simple words made something in his chest roar ferociously, wanting to get out and destroy the pineapple herbivore until he was a messy pile of idiot.

"…Cloud Person? Are you ok?" He started. The girl had walked up to him and peered anxiously at him, her face closer than her would have liked.

"I'm ok." He replied, trying to calm the monster inside of himself and trying to stop the blood from rushing to his face.

"Are you sure? You look like you have a fever." And before he could do anything, she reached up and pushed his bangs up. At the same time, she brushed aside her own bangs, and pressed her forehead to his.

"!" Hibari stumbled backwards, his hand clutching his forehead, his face a brighter red than before.

"You're a little warm Cloud Person. You should go to-"

"Wha-what did you do that for?" Hibari mumbled, trying to get his thoughts into order.

"To see if you had a fever."

Hibari stared. Chrome fidgeted, edging toward the door again. "Well, if that it, I should go now, since class is almost over…" She trailed off. "Wait." She stopped.

"Why do you call me Cloud Person?" Hibari asked.

"Because I don't know your name."

Silence. Then, "Hibari Kyoya." The girl blinked, then nodded. "Ok. Well, if that's it Cloud Per-"

"Why are you still calling me that?" Hibari interrupted, a tic appearing on his cheek.

"It's because it fits you." Chrome answered. Seeing the confusion on his face she quickly explained.

"It's because when I first saw you, you were alone. And I could see that you're independent. Never being able to be tamed, going your own way, like a floating cloud never being caught." Hibari shifted uneasily. She could see through him with just one look?

"Well, I need to go now. I've already missed half of my classes yesterday, and I can't keep up if I keep on skipping. See you, Cloud Person." She said quietly, closing the door, leaving a dumbfounded Hibari alone on the roof.

*K*H*R*

"Kufufu, my cute Chrome. Have you decided to try out for the special club?" Mukuro called, after Chrome sat down at their table. She stared at her plate.

"I…I don't know…" she whispered to the plate. Mukuro smiled at the quiet girl.

"Then you'll just have to try outtt~!" Said Mukuro in a sing-song voice. He smiled at Chrome. "I'll go with you after school. I think Lal's looking for another person anyway." Chrome stared at him confusedly, blinking that huge eye of hers at him.

"…Lal?"

"Lal Mirch. She's one of the coaches." Mukuro grinned. "You'll be fine. Don't worry." He assured her, before continuing eating his lunch.

"Mukuro-chan! Why is she here?" M.M said sourly, clinging on to his arm, preventing him from eating.

"Um, M.M-san, I think he has to eat too." Said Chrome quietly, swallowing a piece of teriyaki chicken. M.M glared at her, and Mukuro chuckled.

"Kufufu… M.M, don't look like that." Mukuro chided, but prying her arms away nonetheless. The red-haired girl pouted, and slid back in her own seat.

"Mukuro-chan, today, after school, do you wanna go to the arcade?" The girl batted her eyelashes so fast that they were a blur. Mukuro chuckled again, but shook his head.

"I'm sorry, but I'm gonna take Chrome to try out for the target shooting team." M.M whipped her head around quickly to stare at Chrome, who looked like she wanted to disappear.

"But-"

"Oi! Stupid woman! Mukuro-san said no!" Ken barked, pausing from shoveling food into his mouth.

"Ken. Close your mouth." Chikusa chided, cutting his chicken into small, neat slices. "And eat your veggies, or you're bowels are going to be bad."

"Why do you care? You're not my mom!" Ken spat, glaring at the quiet teen.

"Yes, but I'm worried that you'll lay another disgusting fart bomb in Mukuro-san's living room." Everybody but Chrome winced. She looked around curiously.

+Flashback+

A few days ago, when everybody was in the living room doing what they were doing, Ken farted. The stench that polluted the room spread quickly, and everybody was out in seconds.

Mukuro ran out, a gloved hand covering his mouth and nose, the T.V remote still in his left hand. M.M staggered, out coughing, eyes, streaming, and stopping her clarinet practice, the clarinet wedged in between her arms. Chikusa dropped his yo-yo and strode out of the room, dragging Ken outside by the collar.

Once they were outside, everyone tried to get their breath back.

"Ken…what… the hell…did you…do?" wheezed M.M, her hands on her knees, keeping herself upright.

"Ken… if you need… to do this… again… please warn…us first…" Mukuro said weakly, his voice a little muffled since he had collapsed facedown onto the carpet.

"…K-Ken…" Chikusa choked out. "Eat… your … goddamn veggies…" He gasped out, clutching his chest. . Ken rubbed his neck where Chikusa had dragged him.

"Oh, don't be such a drama queen Kakipii." Ken scowled. "It wasn't even that bad."

"'NOT EVEN THAT BAD?' " shrieked M.M "Are you out of your fucking mind?" She glared daggers. Ken winced, and rubbed his ears.

"Quiet down will you?" He yelled, throwing his toy denture at her. M.M's face darkened.

Mukuro and Chikusa sensed the banshee within M.M emerging, and the two hastily got out of the room with excuses like "I'm going to air out the room" or "I want to finish making my pineapple salad!"

The two burst out of the room, with their hands covering their ears, and heard M.M scream-

"KEN YOU ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING DOG! YOU FARTS SMELL LIKE THE SEWERS! AND TO THINK THAT YOU ACTUALLY LAID ONE IN MUKURO-CHAN'S ROOM! THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE!" Then,-

THWACK! SLAP! PUNCH!

And the sounds of Ken's yells could be heard throughout the Kokuyo Mansion.

+End of Flashback+

Mukuro laughed after he explained what had happened to Chrome and saw the small girl look at Ken with apprehension.

"Kufufu… Don't worry, M.M will take care of him if he does that." Mukuro assured her. The girl nodded, relaxing, until two pairs of hand grasped the underside of her arms, and jerked her away from the table.

*K*H*R*

Fran was walking down the hallway to lunch with Bel-senpai when he spotted something that made him stop in his tracks.

"Ushi? Why is the Froggy stopping?" Bel turned in the direction where Fran was staring. "Oh? Isn't that your friend slash sister?" Fran nodded grimly and muttered "Didn't I tell her to stay away from Master?"

Bel stared. "He's your master?" Fran sighed. "Don't ask." He was about to walk to Chrome when a hand gripped his shoulder. Fran turned to see the Head Prefect staring at him.

"Isn't she your friend?" Hibari asked, nodding toward Mukuro's table. Fran nodded, idly wondering why the head prefect would concern himself with a new kid like Chrome.

"I won't allow a new student to be under a bad influence like Rokudo Mukuro." Hibari stated. Fran waited, and then asked "Why are you telling me this?"

Hibari looked at him. "Are you going to separate her from the pineapple herbivore?" Fran nodded again, and eyed him. His eyes widened a little as a thought came to his head.Don't tell me he... likes… Fran's thought were cut off.

"Fine." Hibari said. "I need to talk to her too, so let's compromise." Bel stood there and gaped. The Prefect had never, ever,evercompromised. Fran agreed, thinking that it would be better if both of them pulled her away since he too was small. So the both of them strode over to the table and yanked Chrome away.

*K*H*R*

Hibari was walking past the cafeteria when he noticed something that made his blood boil. Chrome was sitting with his arch-enemy. He clenched his fists. He would not, under no circumstances, let Chrome sit with delinquents like Mukuro or the rest of his gang.

He saw her emotionless friend staring at her table along with the idiot with the tiara. He walked over to them.

"-your Master?"

"Don't ask." As the green-haired herbivore was about to walk away, he quickly grasped his shoulder to stop him.

"Isn't she your friend?" Hibari asked, trying to calm himself. The kid nodded. "I won't allow a new student to be under a bad influence like Rokudo Mukuro." Said Hibari, thinking of an excuse to whisk the small girl away.

The herbivore waited for him to speak, but when Hibari did nothing, he asked "Why are you telling me this?" Hibari inwardly growled. So this kid wasn't as stupid as he hoped.

"Aren't you going to separate her from the pineapple herbivore?" He asked, trying to cover up his irritation and to stop himself from running over, bashing Mukuro's face in, and taking Chrome away.

But reality set in, and he realized that Mukuro was never surprised, and at this level, he wouldn't be able to even lay a finger on him. Hibari wasn't stupid to try and lie to himself, as much as he hated to admit it.

The kid nodded, but didn't say anything, which made him even more annoyed. He was itching to go but all the herbivore did was stand there and stare.

"Fine." Hibari said, becoming desperate, so he decided to do the thing he hated to most. "I need to talk to her too, so let's compromise." Ugh. He hated crowding. He set his jaw, and waited for the stupid green-haired herbivore to answer.

"Sure." Hibari nodded and the both of them strode over to their table. They grabbed Chrome, and she gave a little "Eep!" of surprise. Mukuro stood up, his eyes glittering dangerously.

"Kufufu… Hibari-kun. What are you doing here?" The teen let go of Chrome and handed her to the green-haired kid.

"F-Fran, what's going on?" He ignored her, and the both of them glared at Mukuro.

"Oh dear Hibari-kun, what on earth are you doing?" Mukuro said, his mismatched eyes glittering even more dangerously. He reached for his staff. People were beginning to stare. Mukuro noticed the green-haired kid.

"Ah, Little One, you're here t-"

"Don't call me that." The herbivore called Fran/Little One said coldly. Mukuro's eyes widened in surprise. "Little one? What's wrong?"

"I said don't call me that." Fran glared, slipping out of his emotionless mask. The tiara idiot and Chrome shifted uneasily. Chrome tugged on Fran's shirt.

"Fran… let's go… you and Cloud person wanted to talk… so let's go…" She said quietly, trying to pull him away. Hibari came up to pull him away too so he could talk to Chrome.

The green-haired herbivore shook them off, glaring at them, silently warning them to stay out of it. He turned to the confused teen.

"Little one? What's wrong?" Fran glared at him and everyone in the cafeteria sensed the tense atmosphere, and soon the room was emptied within seconds.

"Mukuro. If you don't know what's wrong, then I can't help you. But stay away from Chrome." The kid said, his eyes full of hatred. "And if you call me that one more time, I will kill you. I swear it."

Hibari, the weird herbivore, and Chrome stared. Fran was beginning to shake with fury and the rest of the Kokuyo gang stood up.

"If you're gonna talk to her then go away- byon!" Ken crossed his arms.

"Mukuro-san. We should go." Chikusa murmured. M.M ran over and clung onto Mukuro's arm and stuck out her tongue.

"Mukuro-chan, let's go." The pineapple herbivore glanced at Chrome for a moment, and hesitated, clearly unsure whether or not he should leave her with them. Hibari twitched. Leave already pineapple. Nobody wants you here.

"Chrome?" Mukuro asked uncertainly, and offered his hand for her to take. Chrome eyed the gloved hand, and then looked at Hibari and the others.

And shook her head.

The teen stiffened a little, and smiled falsely.

"Kufufu. Oh well. See you later then my cute Chrome." He smiled, and turned to M.M.

"I guess we'll be going to that arcade after all." The herbivore left the cafeteria with his lackeys. Hibari saw Chrome breathe out in relief and turned to look at them.

"F-Fran, what's wrong?" She asked. A tic appeared on the skylark's check. What about me? Chrome noticed, and nodded a hello to him. Hibari shrugged. It was better than nothing.

"Fran?"

"Froggy?" both of them were getting worried. Not that Hibari wasn't. It was just that the kid had snapped out of his emotionless self so quickly it was…weird.

"Fran? Are you ok?" Chrome said, worriedly pressing her forehead against his. Hibari's inner self roared in outrage. What the hell am I thinking? He shook his head quickly to clear his head.

Fran looked at Chrome before he said-

"Stay away from Master. He's not the nice person you think he is." The girl blinked. "Master?"

The bell suddenly rang, signaling the end of lunch. Fran ignored it. His eyes narrowed.

"We are skipping school today." He declared before dragging Chrome out. Hibari stepped forward.

"I believe I need to talk to her. And skipping school is not allowed, or I'll have to bite you to death."

"No way inhell are you going to stop us. We're skipping whether you like it or not. And if you want to talk to her, talk to the hand." Fran spat, and raised a hand in front of Hibari's face. "I need to talk to her privately, and you are notgoing to stop us. Now. Get. Out. Of. The. Way." Fran snarled, before pushing past him. Bel grinned, and followed.

"Ushishi. I like this Froggy more."

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Ok, so I'm gonna explain everything about Mammon, Fran, and Chrome in the next chap and why he wants her to stay away from Mukuro. There are gonna be more HibaChrome scenes but you guys have to be patient cuz I'm having a little trouble thinking how to get the both of them alone and stuff. Please review!