Author's Note:

"…"

...I am most truly sorry.

I'm serious.

I should kill myself. I should get killed.

I haven't used this Username(Victory Is My Name) for a WHILE, and now I finally upload a chapter.

I apologize deeply, I am just so, so sorry!

I've been busy lately – Korean high school students stay at school for more than half of their day, no joke – PLUS, it was exam weeks...

I actually considered abandoning my KHR stories, BUT! I wanted to continue this one:) PLUS, I've been getting a LOT of ideas for "Letters For The Carnivore" – I've already hand-written up to chapter five, I think – so I was planning on uploading them when my exams finished. They finished today! Yawr!:D

…I'm so sorryD': I'm terrible, I know.

But thank you for reading this(if you do), and please stick onto it!

Throw a tomato at me – I won't even dodge it. I really am sorry…:'( Actually, I beg you to throw a tomato plus a raw egg and some flour at me for being such a horrible author. I deserve it fully.

*BOWS DEEPLY*

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NOTICE:

OOC-ness is like a MUST here. Sorry! Oh, and the replies to your reviews are at the end of this chapter;)

Story:

Chapter Two: Purple letters? Indigo letters?

Dear Always great but sometimes cruel, Chairman Carnivore-san,

It made me sad,

My gift for you,

It wept for it was broken.

It wasn't long,

Before I realized,

That my heart was broken too.

It broke my heart,

That single box,

The box full of chocolates.

It was abandoned,

In the trash,

And so I was abandoned too.

I wept at night,

I wept at day,

I swore I'd never talk to you.

But my heart works,

The other way,

So I write to you once more.

Once again,

So full of love,

I simply cannot leave you…

-Broken Herbivore.

PS. I apologize for the box of chocolates, Chairman-san. I did not know.

xXx

It was there.

Again.

The same white letter sheet.

The same purple ink.

The same neat, bubbly writing.

And again, Hibari could not register what this simple letter meant.

xXx

"I hate riddles." Hibari declared, grumbling to himself. He slammed the door open to his office, and called out for the vice chairman. "Tetsuya."

"Yes sir!" Kusakabe came to him in an instant. "Is there something wrong, sir?" he asked as he closed the door behind him.

"Nothing is 'wrong', herbivore." Hibari corrected as he sat on his chair. "It never will be while Namimori is safe in my rules."

'More like hands…' Kusakabe thought, but he spoke differently.

"I apologize, sir. Is something bothering you?"

Instead of an answer, Hibari tossed a letter into his right hand man's hands.

The letter.

"…A letter, sir?" Kusakabe looked confused.

"Read it." Hibari ordered.

That's exactly what Kusakabe did – and he almost fell into faint because of it.

"What- this- where-"

Hibari narrowed his eyes.

"I will not have my disciplinary men mumbling unintelligently."

"I- I apologize, sir!" Kusakabe bowed.

"And no stuttering. They are simply just herbivorous."

"I apologize once again, sir. I am not fit to be your second hand."

Hibari sighed through his nose.

He didn't like talking too much. But.. He felt as if he had to say this.

"Do not apologize so many times. Apologizing is for the weak. It reminds me of annoying herbivores." He muttered, while Kusakabe just stared at his boss's talkativeness.

'More like an annoying herbivore…' Hibari mentally scowled.

Yes.

Everything Kusakabe was doing wrong; mumbling nonsense, stuttering, apologizing too many times.

It reminded his of the herbivore.

Gripping his fists in anger, Hibari glared at Kusakabe while asking – ordering – him to 'translate' the letter.

"I.. Yes sir." Kusakabe looked back at the letter again.

Now that he paid attention to the letter itself and not its words, he could see it was very similar to the one Hibari had received yesterday.

"It says… 'It made me sad when I found the box of chocolates I gave you abandoned in the trash bin, and it left my heart broken and abandoned, too. I cried a lot, and I pledged to myself that I'd never talk to you again, but my heart wants to talk to you, so I'm writing you a letter again. I can't leave you because I love you.'" Kusakabe winced slightly at the 'I love you' part.

Hibari was silent when he finally opened his mouth.

"Why couldn't the herbivore just have written that instead of some nonsense writing."

'Because it sounds too straightforward and lame..?' Kusakabe thought.

"Because it's a, er, 'love letter'… Kyoya-san."

"I don't get it." Hibari said flatly.

"It's a girl's thing, sir." Kusakabe tried to reason.

"How do you know this?"

Because Kusakabe was far from being a girl.

"Because… I'm good at reading 'love'? Maybe I'm quite romantic." Kusakabe joked. He felt embarrassed when Hibari just stared at him with cold eyes.

"What does the last line mean?"

"The one with the 'I love you', sir?"

"No. The PS."

"But… Uh, I think it's a small note, sir. Not part of the love poem."

Hibari wrinkled his nose at the words 'love poem'.

Disgusting.

"I know that, herbivore. I meant, what does the love sick herbivore," He said 'love sick' in a quite disgusted way. "Mean by 'I did not know'."

"Oh, um… Maybe she didn't know the rules, sir."

"But I made these rules clear two years ago."

Kusakabe shuddered at the memory.

"Well.. Yes. Yes you did, sir. But there are always students who break the rules."

Hibari grunted, muttering something that suspiciously sounded like 'Tsunayoshi…'

But he pondered on what this herbivore could have meant by 'I did not know'.

Was she unfamiliar with the rules, or did she think he'd like chocolates? Or maybe she had thought she'd have a chance with him?

"So.. What about that girl yesterday, Kyoya-san?" Kusakabe asked, hoping to change the subject. "Did she come today?"

Hibari clenched his jaws.

Apparently, it was the wrong kind of subject to say.

"What girl." Hibari asked, even though he perfectly knew who.

"The transfer student, sir. Chrome Dokuro, I believe."

"The herbivore with purple hair." Hibari glanced out the window, pretending like he didn't care who this girl was.

"…Indigo, sir."

Hibari shot him a glare, and Kusakabe shut his mouth.

"I do not have time for pathetic herbivores." Hibari answered, looking out the window again.

"Yes..but she was supposed to come here in the morning, right, sir? Uh, wasn't that your plan, Kyoya-san?"

Hibari didn't answer, still gazing outside, when his eyes widened just a fraction, and he stood up from his chair.

"Kyoya-san?" Kusakabe startled.

"I will go punish the herbivore." Hibari answered Kusakabe's unspoken question, and with that said, he walked out the room.

Kusakabe blinked.

Once.

Twice.

Then he straightened his posture and shuffled back to do his duty.

'How odd.' Kusakabe thought. 'Kyoya-san actually looked excited for once…'

xXx

'Yes.' Hibari smirked.

It was perfect.

'I will find the herbivore, and bite the herbivore to death.'

If she wasn't going to come to him, then he was going to find her.

Hibari strolled across the hallways, when he paused at the sight of his locker.

He wondered for the slightest moment if there was, perhaps, another letter there for him.

'No.' Hibari scolded himself. 'What is wrong with me?'

He continued his walk, passing the lockers.

'Nothing is wrong.' He assured himself. 'Nothing is wrong with me.'

But the sound of his steps silenced for a few seconds, until Hibari turned around, walking back to his locker.

'What am I doing?' Hibari growled. 'Why am I doing this?' But he opened his locker anyway, and, there.

There sat another letter.

Nicely folded and enveloped.

Hibari hesitated, but then he reached for the letter.

'Why am I being so careful..?' He asked himself as he closed his locker and opened the letter.

Dear Chairman-san,

I've been thinking a lot about you today, Chairman-san…

Of course I always do, but today I couldn't keep my mind empty of you at all.

I know you'll say I'm a 'pathetic herbivore', and yes, Chairman-san. I am…

I'm still struggling with my emotions, Chairman-san.

I love you, but obviously, you do not.

Well, you don't know who I am, yes…

But I'm only 'trouble' to you, and I know you hate me.

It makes me sad, Chairman-san.

It breaks my heart, but…

I know you'll never love me, but…

But I still love you.

I try not to, I really do, but I can't.

I still love.

And in love, there's hope.

I'm very sorry, Chairman-san…

I most truly am.

I'm sorry that I love you, Chairman-san.

I'm sorry..

But.

I still love you.

-Stupid, pathetic Herbivore.

Hibari stared at the indigo writing.

Indigo writing.

Not purple, indigo.

Yes, it was still the same font, but the color was different.

And Hibari knew the reason for this, because this letter…wasn't a 'love letter'.

It was a simple note.

A plain letter.

True, it had some words of 'love' in it – many, actually – but Hibari could understand it, meaning, it wasn't a stupid 'love poem'.

Hibari stared at it curiously, before shaking his head and pocketing the letter.

And as nothing had ever happened, he continued to look for the 'purple herbivore' – or so he mumbled.

But behind his cold façade, there was something else.

A small smile.

The 'stupid, pathetic Herbivore' had actually, truly understood him.

A/N:

So…. I hope that was good enough for me to be forgiven! I'll upload chapter three when I think there's enough reviews, so… Review, please?;)

…God, I'm selfish, aren't I? I'm really sorryD:

RTR: Replies To Reviews:

_LoverForAnime:

I will; I have future chapters too! Yes, please wait, and thank you, my honored first reviewer!

_MayanMoonFlower:

I know, but that's the Hibari we all know, huh?;) It won't be over yet, don't worry! And thank you!

_VariaGuardians27:

Thank you, and I will!

_Drika-Veras:

Yes, yes she does. Which is ironic, seeing she doesn't have the real thing. Actual guts, you know?X) Of course I will! I'd be horrified at myself if that had been the end.

_la Pianissma:

Aw! You're the first to say it actually wasn't stupid! Thank you so much;) Thank you! But Hibari will turn more OOC as time goes… That's what I call Gokudera too haha. And Yama-chii? Wow, interesting:O Thank you again, and of course I'll update!

_san134:

Aw! Thanks for saying its cute!X)) Excited to the extreme, huh? Sounds…extreme! Haha:) …Sorry I couldn't update 'soon', but I will update again, so please wait!

_AnimeDAngel:

Thank you, and it probably feels incomplete because it is…?X) Please stick with it if you want to know how it feels when it is complete!

Vimn, OUT!