Warning. Slight Twilight bashing. If you squint really hard you'll see it. :3
"I've been hypnotized
The city's your playground,
I watch you take a bite
At 5am roaming in the streets
Drunk all night"
Chapter 2: Aftershocks
"What the freaking hell was that?"
Misaki coughed, trying to get the smoke out of her system as a newly-forming bruise in her shoulder clouded her mind with pain- she decided to visit the infirmary after this. Her question rang out between the four of them, and Tsuna wasn't sure what to answer.
They were at the stairwell farthest from the rooftop, and she wondered for a while how they got themselves there so fast. Tsuna looked a little panicked, but that was to be expected. Gokudera was bowing to him, apologizing all the way. He twitched when he heard her voice, whipping his head to see Misanagi with a horrified expression on her face.
"Shut up, woman! What if the Tenth was hurt?" Gokudera lit a cigarette and smoked it, irking Misanagi even more. "Why'd you even do that?"
She grunted. Men and their mafia games. Well, I'm sorry for speaking my mind, for angering the already irked prefect, and for causing you to freaking use a smoke bomb. Yeah, it's all my fault. My shoulder freaking hurts, you dolt. I'm going to have to see that perverted doctor again.
"Gokudera-kun! Don't yell at Misaki-chan!" Tsuna shrieked, seeing the other teen whip out his weapons. "Put your dynamite out!"
Funny how when it comes to Tsu-chan, Hayato-chan does just about anything to please him. Weird. Maybe he has a man crush on Tsu-chan? Nah. On Takeshi-chan maybe. Wait, why does he have dynamite? Where did he pull that from? The same rip in the time and space continuum that Hibari pulls his tonfas from?
Gokudera lowered his hands, the fuse in his explosives dying as he put it away from sight. A scowl was etched unto his face, but she couldn't really remember if he ever had a different expression. "She doesn't even know..."
"Oi, Gokudera, don't be so angry at Misaki-chan. It was a reflex, right?" Yamamoto laughed like the near-death experience didn't just happen, and she resisted the urge to hit her head on a wall. Jeez. We almost die and he's still laughing, thinking we're just playing hide-and-go-seek-the-herbivore with that darned prefect.
"Listen, I'm sorry, okay? I've been irritated at Hibari since the incident, and the comment just rolled off my tongue." She looked at Gokudera, and he huffed. "I'm really sorry, you dolt. It's hard enough for me to say it, don't make it harder than it is!" She pouted, and Tsuna put his hand on her shoulder, indicating that he was fine with it.
"It's okay, Misaki-chan. I'm used to getting into situations like this anyway." Tsuna smiled lightly, and his words echoed in her mind. Used to? Just what kind of things do you do that get you into these situations? Yamamoto patted Gokudera's back as well, doing nothing to ease the bomber's irritation. She looked at Gokudera and poked his chest, stepping forward as she looked him in the eye.
"C'mon, Hayato-chan. Forgive me?" she smiled, and he grunted, bonking her head with an irritated expression on his face. "Ow~"
"Just don't do it again, idiot woman!" his hand still on her head, he patted it twice- rather roughly, but she understood- before turning to his beloved Tenth. She giggled, turning to Yamamoto.
"Yay! I'm off the hook!" she pranced around the baseball player, looking like she didn't just have an encounter with the devil personified a few minutes earlier. Or that her shoulder ached like hell. "Ne, Takeshi-chan, I want some sushi~"
He laughed, nodding his head. "I'll treat you tomorrow. How about-" he stopped speaking, hearing the warning bell signal that lunch was over. Tsuna and Gokudera turned to them, beckoning them to start walking back to their classroom. She turned to the opposite direction, heading to the infirmary as her insides squirmed.
"Erm... I think I have a dislocated-" she knocked on the clinic door, and as it slid open, was almost pinned down by the school 'nurse'. "Shamal-sensei, please don't glomp me. My shoulder hurts already, and-"
The man looked at her, a goofy grin on his face. "It's rare to have such pretty patients like you, Misaki-chan!" At this, she twitched. Pedo. "I'll treat you with-"
Misaki turned around, feeling a presence near her. True enough, Gokudera Bianchi was walking in the halls of Namimori-Middle, most likely looking for Reborn. When Shamal saw her, he immediately chased after the Italian woman, who was throwing poisonous dishes everywhere.
Misaki sighed. It had been hard to go to the infirmary seeing as the doctor was a pervert, yet she was willing to sacrifice that if the pain in her left shoulder would go away. But seeing as Shamal was busy at the moment, she stalked away, muttering about getting her shoulder popped by her brother.
Normally, she couldn't care less about being late. But the fact that Hibari Kyouya was probably on the look-out for them breaking any rules for an excuse to legally (as if it's any way legal) bite them to death made her a bit more lenient towards following the rules. She slammed open the door to her classroom and giggled at her teacher's shut-up-you-might-wake-Hibari expression before bowing low.
"Sorry for being late, I got a little bit caught up with the Head Prefect." immediately, her teacher's eyes widened and she nodded stiffly, beckoning at her to sit down quickly. Say Head Prefect here and you can get away with almost anything. These people are so afraid of Hibari, it's kinda funny. Maybe I should really hang around Tsuna-chan and the others more so I'll get to irritate him even more~ Wait, what the hell am I thinking? He's going to kill me if I say even one word out of line. Bah. Let him try.
Twirling a pencil around her fingers, she looked at the blackboard, seeing the foreign letters next to the kanji. She read the sentences on the board, feeling rather peculiar as she translated them easily in her mind.
I wanted to see him, for he was leaving.
They were gone, and I don't know where to find them.
They were her protectors.
Jeez, I'm getting the classic damsel-in-distress vibe from these words. I wonder where sensei got them. Probably that book about sparkly vampires that are so out of character. She ignored the teacher's droning and focused on looking out the window, the sakura trees more or less deemed more important to look at. A fluffy yellow bird caught her attention, and she held out a finger for it to hop on to. It perched itself on her forefinger, and chirped silently. What a cute bird! It's kind of silent, though. Maybe it gets why we're being so quiet in the classroom? Nah, a bird isn't that smart.
It flew off, and she followed it with her eyes until her teacher's voice snapped her out of her reverie.
"Nishimura!" she half-whispered, half-growled. "Stop spacing out and translate this!" she pointed to a fairly hard sentence and smirked. The teacher felt a bit irritated that Misaki had come to class late, and was targeting her for that reason. Misaki cocked her head to the side, and read the sentence silently. It was old English, a bit tricky at first, but more or less easy for the language-oriented girl.
The teacher huffed. She wouldn't be able to translate it, no doubt. Heck, even she didn't get it right on her first try! But Misaki raised an eyebrow mockingly, her voice loud enough the shock her classmates into fear that Hibari might cause another incident again.
She winced when she stood up, the pain in her shoulder acting up again.
"Wherefore art thou, Romeo?"
Smirking at the teacher, she sat back down, feeling a bit defiant. Let me be, sensei. Your period is the only time I can slack off and still get a good grade! A piece of crumpled paper landed on her desk silently, and she spread it out to read, "You okay, Misa-chan? I saw you wince when you stood up. Did Hibari hurt you or something?"
She felt two pairs of eyes staring at her back. She looked around, seeing Asakura's worried expression. She gave her friend a thumbs-up to indicate she hadn't been hurt by the prefect (the irritating pain in her shoulder nagged at her, but it wasn't caused by him, anyway). A sigh of relief escaped the lips of the girl, and Misaki's eyes trailed over the room to find that a familiar-looking baby was perched on the window, stroking his chameleon. His black fedora didn't fail to catch her eye as she realized who he was.
What's Reborn-chan doing here?
She picked up her bag and deposited her shoes in the locker, spotting the trio she had eaten lunch with earlier. Smiling, she waved, and Tsuna waved back as she made her way to them. Gokudera was flustered a bit, spewing off insults at the oblivious baseball player who was laughing his Yamamoto-laugh. Nothing unusual there.
"Hey, guys." she grinned, and Gokudera turned to her. "Going home?"
"Of course, you idiot woman! Where else are we going?" he bonked her head again, and she whimpered, immediately touching the sore spot he had hit again.
"Mou, Hayato-chan, you know I have zero pain-tolerance!" she pouted, tears flooding her eyes, and Yamamoto laughed again, the sound filling her ears. "If I get a crack on my skull or something, I know who to blame!"
"I thought you already had a crack in that empty head of yours, woman." Gokudera teased, and she half-frowned, half-smiled (which was kind of weird since she felt a bit offended but found the comment rather funny). Turning away from him, she faced the baseball star and Tsuna to say;
"Let's go home!"
The four teens passed the school gates, and Gokudera lit a cigarette. Misaki wrinkled her nose in disgust, inching away from the smoke. She knew inhaling it would probably cause lung cancer or something, so she settled for getting as far away as possible while still walking with her friends.
Funny how she always looked like she just hadn't been through getting brain hemorrhage from the bomber or an encounter with the prefect. She skipped ahead, and Tsuna looked at her small silhouette- her almost-blonde light brown hair flew about in the wind, her arm-warmers were as bright and contrasting with the school uniform as ever, and her bag bouncing as she took every step. He felt a warm feeling bubble in his stomach, finding the urge to protect his 'sister' like how he protected his own famiglia.
She turned towards them, running over to Yamamoto. She pulled on his sleeve, her insistent voice fading from his ears until he saw Yamamoto bend over and let her climb on his back, piggy-back style. Her right arm was holding on to the baseball player's neck as her left arm lay uselessly at her side. Gokudera, who was walking beside Tsuna, couldn't help but lose his scowling expression for a more serene and relaxed face. The sunset light set over Namimori, the different colors blending in the sky as the foursome trudged home. For a moment, Tsuna forgot about the Mafia, the Vongola, and the dying-will flame. He felt at peace, which was something only his 'sister' and other few could bring to him and his guardians. He broke out of his thoughts when he heard her shout loudly;
"Onwards, my trusty steed! We shall conquer the world!" she said in a haughty voice, and Yamamoto laughed in affirmation, setting into a run at her command. As he ran, she almost fell off his back, her left arm flailing a bit as she winced with every movement.
A/N: Wow. *u* You guys are awesome~ Thanks for the reviews. :3
(Oh, and the song for last chapter was Teeth by Lady Gaga. LOL. :3)
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