Morning

Hayami wakes up first and finds herself trapped in Chiba's arms. (Not that she minds) she decides to lay there listening to his heartbeat till he wake up.

She didn't have to wait long. Chiba hugs her and mumbles something before letting go and turning to lay on his back as he rubs his eyes sleepily.

Hayami sits up and blushes watching him.

"Rinka?" He says sleepily.

Rinka blushes hearing her name be said by him "Ryuu?"

He smiles and yawns.

Rinka looks at him noticing his bed head as he sits up.

Rinka giggles and manages to snap a picture (she's taken a few sneak shots and so has he but neither have noticed).

He looks at her with a sleepy expression which makes her heart stop.

"Hayami?" He ask still really sleepy

His eyes fall to her lips "Is it bad that I wanna kiss you?"

She blushes deeply at his words knowing he doesn't know what he's saying "H-huh?"

"I'm tired." He lays back down.

Rinka's about to say something when the door opens.

Tadashi comes in "Dipshit wake up!!"

Chiba groans and shoots a nerf bullet at him "Shut up Tadashi. Let me sleep."

Tadashi pulls the bullet off his forehead 'how does this idiot hit headshots asleep?!' "Hayami right?"

Rinka nods.

"Wanna hear an embarrassing story about Ryuu from when we were kids?" He taunts.

Chiba sits up fast and shoots him a few more times. 2 on his head and 1 where his heart is.

Chiba "I'm up I'm up."

Tadashi pulls out his own nerf gun and shoots but Chiba hits the bullets with his own.

"Out." He demands showing a hint of bloodlust in his eyes.

Rinka can see the speck of bloodlust and smiles.

Tadashi runs out closing the door.

Chiba groans and lays back down "That dumbass is only good for target practice."

Rinka laughs "That why you've been getting better at moving targets?"

Chiba jumps slightly forgetting she was there for a second.

'Cute…' she thinks not holding back her laugh.

Chiba pouts "Oh shut up. I'll use you for shooting practice."

She smirks "Paintball after school?"

"Maybe get ready for school first?" He smiles seeing he messy hair forgetting his is worse.

Chiba stands up and puts the toy gun away before grabbing his uniform "Do you wanna change in here or in the bathroom?"

"I'll change in the bathroom."

"Remember where it is?"

She nods and leaves with her clean uniform (Rukia washed both yesterday)

Chiba gets a phone call and answers while change "Sugino?"

"Have you left your house yet?"

"No why?"

"When you leave can you stop at Hayami's House? Apparently she disappeared yesterday no ones been able to get a hold of her?"

Chiba sighs "Don't worry she's fine. I'm with her right now."

"Huh? You're with her right now? But you said you haven't left yet? Chiba??"

Chiba chokes on air "I mean we walk to school together. She came by about 5 minutes ago. She's in the kitchen talking to my sister probably."

"Hmmm? Oh Karma-kun's here? Karma-kin it's Chiba. He said he's knows where Hayami is so it's okay."

Chiba feels himself heating up as he drops his shirt "Sugino?! Sugino?! Don't give Karma any more information!!"

Karma's voice "Hey no eyes-kun~? You know where the other sniper is~ hmmmn interesting~ where is she? Rio said she didn't answer her phone at all yesterday or this morning? Since you know where she is that either means she's only texting you or she's with you right now? Which one is it Chiba-kun?"

Chiba's door opens and Rinka comes in. She blushes deeply seeing him shirtless and flustered

Chiba "Karma it's not what you think you red devil idiot."

"Oh? The quiet shy boy can talk?"

"Karma don't get any ideas. Hayami and I are just friends. Get that smirk off your face before I shoot it off."

Karma's smirk remains "Look sharp shooter. If you don't confess to her soon me and Rio will start pulling pranks and tricks. Okay."

Chiba knows the smile he has "Tck."

"Admit that you like her~"

"My feelings for Hayami aren't important. We still need to kill Korosensei."

"That's the only thing you think about isn't it Chiba? Kill Korosensei. Shoot Korosensei. Kill. Shoot. Shoot to kill. You'd think you'd notice being shot in the heart by your partner~"

"Shut up Karma." He hisses hanging up.

"Damnit. Damnit damnit damnit damnit. Karma's gonna tell the class… ughhh if he does she's gonna think I'm so lame!!"

Rinka "Who's gonna think you're lame?"

Chiba blushes deeply and quickly puts his shirt on "I-I didn't see you there… how long were you there?"

"Since you called Karma a red devil idiot. Bold move."

He blushes more and rubs his neck "So you heard most…"

"I only heard you're part. And Karna snicker sometimes."

"You didn't hear anything he said?"

"No. I'm assuming it has to do with me not answer my phone since yesterday?"

He sighs and starts doing his hair "Yeah. Apparently you disappeared and no ones heard from you. They assume I know where you are and you just came about 5-10 minutes ago so we can walk to school together after breakfast."

Rinka smiles and laughs slightly "Okay. So where was I yesterday?"

"Shooting then took the bus home. Unless you want to say the truth?"

"Errrr… either way it's gonna cause a scene."

"And we won't live it down anytime soon."

She nods in agreement and watches him do his hair.

Chiba glances at her "What?"

She smiles "I didn't think you spend so much time on your hair?"

He rolls his eyes and points to her with the comb "Says the one with still messy hair?"

She blushes a little "Fair point but my hair's wavy."

He smiles "You'd look really cute if you were to live it down."

She pouts "I refuse."

"Why not?"

She sighs and takes it down "Because with my hair down like this I look to much like Bitch-sensei."

"Oh I have an idea." He says with a smile.

"Huh?"

He finishes his hair and goes over to her "Sit. And close your eyes."

She sits down in front of him and closes her eyes "What are you doing?"

"Something."

Chiba braids the sides of her hair and puts the back in a pony then wraps the braids around it. "Okay hold still. One more thing."

Chiba grabs his phone and takes a few pictures.

Rinka fidgets in her seat.

Chiba "Okay. Here. Open."

She opens her eyes and he hand her a mirror.

Rinka hesitates and take the mirror. She smiles is amazement "How'd you? I mean this is amazing! But how?!"

"Rukia and Senna…" he explains sheepishly.

She smiles and looks in the mirror "Thanks Chiba. Let's go to school."

He nods "Yeah let's go." They grab their bags and go downstairs.

Tadashi holds out his gun and shoots his brother.

Chiba catches it "To slow in drawing. I didn't even have to look to stop it."

"Tck!"

Rukia hands them plates "Mom left already. Also no shooting. What did I tell you two boys."

Chiba and Tadashi sigh "No shooting in the house…"

Rinka laughs quietly and gets a glare from Chiba.

Senna "Rinka-chan! You're still here!! Yay!!!"

Rukia "Oh your hair? Did Ryuu do that?"

She nods with a smile.

Senna "Wow!! Ryuu-nii!!"

Rukia smiles "Looks good. Nice job Ryuu. You're getting better."

He rubs his neck and sits down across from Rinka.

The rest of the siblings sit down and start talking.

Chiba "Senna. Eat."

She pokes her eggs "They're gross though!"

Chiba pouts "You're hurting Egg-chan's feelings ya know?"

"I don't wanna hurt egg-chan…"

"Then stop ignoring him."

Senna makes a grossed out face then eats them.

Chiba smiles and steals a piece of bacon "I'm taking Bacon-San."

Senna steals some of his food.

Rinka smiles at them seeing this side of him is definitely sweet.

They finish eating.

Chiba "Let's go Hayami. Rukia can you take those two today?"

Rukia frowns "I'm taking Senna. You take Tadashi. You go to the same school."

Tadashi groans "I'll go by myself. I'm not gonna be seen at school with someone from class E-3!"

That got him a nerf bullet between the eyes.

Chiba "Sorry. My hand slipped."

He touches his belt "Ah I forget something. Hayami do you have your project?"

"Left them in your room."

They go back to his room and grab their guns and knives.

Chiba "Okay we got our projects. Let's go."

They go downstairs

"Bye guys see ya when I get home." Chiba calls out to his family.

"Bring Rinka-chan back soon!!" Senna calls.

The two assassins leave and walk in silence for a bit.

"You're different at home than at school." Rinka comments randomly.

"Huh? Oh I suppose I'm a little bit different there. But that's cause I have to take care of the younger two." He explains

Rinka smiles "You're family is all so nice."

He smiles slightly "Yeah. I suppose they are." His smile fades "Also I'm sorry for my brother. He feels like he needs to be better than me. Since he's on the main campus and I'm in E-3 and all. The school considered sending him to E-1. That's why he's so against me. He knows E-3 has a huge secret and is strange. He doesn't like being seen with me either. Especially if we're in our school uniforms."

Rinka puts a hand on his shoulder "Even so, you still mess around with him and act like normal brothers would. At least I think that's how siblings would act…"

He smiles "Aside from one of them having insane accuracy in shooting yeah. My family doesn't care that I'm in the End Class. Other than Tadashi that is. He's a pain in the ass."

Rinka laughs a little and they walk in silence till they get to the main campus.

They get the usual threats and comments but ignore them and start walking up the mountain to their classroom.

"Broccoli-san" Rinka says with a smirk.

Chiba glances to the side "I'm not living that down am I?"

"I won't say anything in front of the class. But I don't promise not teasing you when we're alone."

He sighs and smiles "I guess that's good enough."

She smiles too then fake pouts "I can't believe stole Bacon-San!"

He blushes slightly "Shut up she wasn't gonna eat it and I knew that the more i said the more you'd tease!"

She smiles cheekily "Correct. Who'd of thought the stoic, mature, shy, best sniper in the class would baby talk?"

"How else am I suppose to get a 4 year old to do what I want? I can't use my trump card all the time!"

She smiles and looks at his eyes "You're eyes are really pretty. I'm glad I got to see them. Even just for a little."

He rubs his neck and turns his head away "They aren't pretty. They're creepy."

As if the word creepy summoned her their classmate Hazama appears.

"I heard creepy?"

The two snipers aim their guns at her

"Oh."

"It's just you Hazama."

They lower their guns.

Hazama "What's creepy? I haven't found anything yet?"

Neither of the two snipers speak and instead leave.

Terasaka and his group walk over to Hazama and slap her for being a creep again.

The two snipers walk in peace aside from them occasionally teasing each other or talking about strategy.

They walk into their school building laughing quietly.

"Shut up Hayami. Unlike you I had control. You were totally smitten by that kitten~ seriously you shoulda seen your smile!" Chiba says nudging her playfully.

Rinka rolls her eyes "Says the boy who didn't hesitate to baby talk~?"

"She's 4 you dummy. I do what I have to to make her listen."

Karma and Rio both go over there.

"Oh? If it isn't the sniper ship?" Karma says coolly.

"Why didn't you answer your phone yesterday Rinka?" Rio asks holding out her phone.

The snipers shrug them off and go to their seats pretending nothing happened.

Unfortunately Chiba sits in front of Karma and Rinka's behind Rio.

Karma "So no eyes? Pretty bold thing for you to say earlier? 'Red devil idiot' was it? You're lucky I don't expose you right now."

Chiba turns to face him "Karma don't be like Korosensei."

Korosensei's beside them "Hmm? What we talking about?"

Chiba slashes his knife but Korosensei dodged (what a surprise) "It's nothing Korosensei."

Karma "Just it seems like our best sniper has a crush on someone."

Korosensei turns pink and holds up his notebook for student romances "Oh? I need some gossip!! Chiba-San who do you like?!"

The classrooms silent other than the racing hearts belonging to Chiba and Rinka.

Chiba blushes putting his head down "I'm not talking about this… can we just start class so we can kill this octopus…"

Korosensei's face goes red to show correct answer "Good answer! Today I'll be teaching…"

Chiba zones out not paying any attention to the work on the board. It was math. He was good at math. His eyes wander around the room but stop on Rinka.

Her hair's up the way he did it and he smiles.

Karma taps his shoulder and hands him a note.

Chiba takes the note and reads it discreetly.

"Rio and I decided to help you two out. Check your phone."

Chiba nervously glances at his phone and blushes at the picture and types "How'd you get this"

Message from Red Devil: Ritsu

Red Devil: We had her take a picture of the two of you.

Chiba: You gonna blackmail me or expose me

Chiba: You can't do both

Red Devil: Look up

Chiba looks up to see Korosensei in front of him with his arms crossed.

Korosensei "No texting in class. I get to read your messages to the class! Maybe get some juicy gossip out of it!"

Chiba pulls out a gun and shoots Korosensei's tentacle.

Chiba smirks "What was your rule? We don't have to as long as we do some damage to you?"

Korosensei punches the wall in defeat and stays that way till English when Bitch-sensei comes.

Irina "Good job whoever broke him. Now let's get to work. The art of subduing someone is not an easy skill but a few of you are getting it. I need two students to demonstrate. No volunteers? Then I guess I'll pick to random students."

Everyone sinks a little.

Chiba and Rinka practically hide under their desk.

Irina "Chiba. You hardly participate in this class. You and… Hayami! You two are dating so this should be easy!"

"We are not…" The two snipers mumble as they do their best not to blush as they walk to the front of the class.

Irina "So I'd like a demonstration of the boy, Chiba, subduing the girl, Hayami."

Chiba rubs his arm "Um Bitch-sensei? Can't you teach us English?"

"Subdue in English then."

He blushes nervously and Hayami looks just as nervous.

Irina "I'll raise your grade 10% if you do."

Both sigh.

"Partners?"

"Forever."

They do their arm bump with a smile before preparing to be awkward.

In English

Chiba smiles deviously "Hey there gorgeous? How about we ditch this place and go somewhere where it's just the two of us?"

Hayami blushes stepping back against the wall "I-I can't…"

Chiba smirks tilting her chin up a little "Why is that?" He whispers in her ear.

Rinka shivers "An innocent girl like me? I could never?"

Chiba uses his new trump card facing the wall so only she can see. He smirks and runs his hand through his hair enough to show his eyes a little "Why not~?"

The class watches amazed.

Chiba (showing his eyes a little bit) "Just for a few minutes~" he whispers in her ear

Japanese again

Rinka blushes being lost in his eyes and words. She looks away "Okay I give!"

Chiba sighs relieved "I didn't think that'd work. Honestly if it didn't I'd have been out of options…"

Rinka punches him slightly and the class claps.

Irina "H-How'd you?"

Chiba shrugs "Secret skill. We all need at least 2 blades."

Irina looks at him for a moment and reply's it in her head "I got it!"

"It's a cheap shot…" Rinka grumbles unhappy about the defeat.

Irina "Chiba stay after class a minute. I wanna talk about that trick."

He nods and returns to his seat and Rinka goes to hers.

Rio "Subdued by the shy boy~ if it wasn't for the fact you're crushing on him I'd be more surprised."

"Shut up. That's a kill move. You couldn't tell but it felt like he raised a knife to my throat when he moved his hair." Rinka says then trails off thinking about the kill move.

Karma leans over Chiba's shoulder "So you managed to subdue the stone heart girl~ impressive? I think you made her fall deeper in love with you?"

Chiba scoffs "It's a kill move you idiot."

The two snipers look at each other, smile, then look away blushing.

English goes on with other pairs but none succeeds.

English ends and Chiba stays in the class for a moment

Rinka looks at him for a second before going

Chiba "Yes Bitch-sensei?"

Irina "That move you did on Hayami. You moved your bangs enough for her to see your eyes then moved your other in position of grabbing a knife and putting it to her throat."

Chiba nods "Kill move. I can only use it on a few people probably. Only if they aren't used to seeing my eyes."

"Out of the class who's seen your eyes enough to not be effected?"

"No one."

"I see. A kill move that uses your mysteriousness and not your specialty. Good work Chiba. Just out of curiosity though? If I choose anyone else would you have used that move?"

"Probably not. Can I go now?"

"You were able to use it on Hayami because you're so close correct?" He nods so she continues "You seemed more relaxed during the demonstration. As if you wanted to do it?"

Chiba blushes slightly "I simply made it believable. I need to go get ready for Karasama-sensei's class. Excuse me Bitch-sensei." He bows and leaves.

"That's the most I've heard him talk all year?" She mumbles to herself.

Chiba goes to the locker and changes while the other guys talk about the demonstrations.

"Out of all our demonstration the snipers were definitely best!"

"Probably cause they're a thing already."

"Still who'd expect the shyest boy in the class to have moves like that!"

"You can tell by both of their reactions that they actually enjoyed it."

Chiba tries to ignore them

"He definitely enjoyed it."

"Yeah he actually wasn't to red when they were actually presenting."

"I'm curious about that kill move he did though."

"Seriously! How'd the shy boy get moves like that?!"

"Ask him. Oi? Chiba. That demonstration. What the fuck."

Chiba shrugs "I wanted to raise my grade." Was all the explanation he gave as he closed his locker and walks out.

Meanwhile in the girls locker room

"He actually made Hayami give up."

"Let's be honest. He's a good looking guy, mysterious, shy, mature, and best sniper in the class."

"And given how often they're together."

"Not to mention them being in love."

"I can't wait to write a fanfic about them!!"

"Fuwa calm down. Anyway if those two did get together and have a kid…"

"The baby would probably be able to shoot bullseye before they could walk!"

Rinka tries to keep her calm face as she leaves but fails as soon as she's out of view.

Chiba's laying outside in the grass waiting for the rest of the class.

Rinka sits beside him and lays her head on his chest "What'd Bitch-sensei talk to you about?"

He smiles looking down at her then closes his eyes again "That kill move I did."

"Yeah I wasn't expecting that. You don't usually use knives. And your speed was intense."

"Yeah I wasn't planning on that. I was thinking to do the basic one but I knew Bitch-sensei would call on me again so I made something up on the spot."

Rinka smiles with her eyes closed "You sure are talented Chiba. With so many skills you have tons of options for after we kill Korosensei."

He chuckles "If I stick with Assassination that is. All I can do ya shoot and calculate distance. I'm super socially awkward remember."

"Still. You're really smart. Plus since Korosensei started teaching us you've improved a lot remember. By the end of the year you'll be able to get into the high school of your choice and probably go into whatever you wanted. Me… I'm not even half as talented as you…"

Chiba opens his eyes sits up a little so she does too.

Chiba "You're kidding me right? You're more talented and smarter than I am. Plus better with people. Not much better but still better. Hayami you're one of the amazing people I've ever met. You're my best friend. You're so much more than you give yourself credit for. Without you I'd have given up a long time ago. You encourage me to keep trying."

Hayami blushes and looks at him shyly "Thanks Chiba…"

He looks at her lips for a moment 'can I…'

Karasuma "Gather up everyone!"

The two snipers put their masks back on and go with the rest of their class.

Karasuma "Today. Parkcore. There's Targets throughout the mountain. You can do teams up to 5 people or you can be alone. You have 5 minutes for grouping and when I blow the whistle game starts."

Chiba and Hayami arm bump and talk quietly.

Rio and Toka join them.

Chiba "Hayami Same plan?"

Hayami nods "Rio take left. Toka right. I'll be in the trees taking shots from there and Chiba's handling long distance."

The two other girls nod.

Beeep "start!" Karasuma yells and they all take off into the woods shooting targets.

End chapter