Disclaimer: I do not own KHR, I write this fanfic to practice writing and for my own entertainment. I make no profit off this fanfic.
Warning this fic contains: ooc-ness, genderbending, violence, theft, cussing, disguises, lying, sexual tension, flirting and panties.
Ladro Fantasma
Ch3
As the contents of the beakers simmered slightly the tall and well endowed figure carefully measured in the next ingredient. For Verde everything had been for science, from changing her name and erasing her past to joining a small group of people known as the best of the best.
Except for now.
She could joke and complain all she wanted about her current situation. The greatest mind of the century and she was working at a small high school in the middle of nowhere. Though in the end it had been her choice and perhaps that was what had been irritating her the most about it.
If she had been order, hired or even blackmailed into taking this job Verde could have denied her true purpose in this small town. The fact that she followed him here of her own free will said much about her interest, her interest in her sky.
In truth Verde didn't know much about skies or the harmonization of elements. It was laughable in a way, considering she had been stuck in that twisted form forced to be bond to a sky that had never needed her, never wanted her. A bitter taste filled Verde mouth as she thought about her previous sky. No… never her sky. Luce had betrayed them, had sacrificed them and had left them all for her own devices. In a way Verde could admire the woman for the cruelty and deception she was willing use to get what she wanted.
Turning off the flames that where being used to heat the beakers Verde carefully arranged her current masterpiece inside two boxes. Wrapping them up she pick them and her suitcase up.
Luce and her bloodline meant nothing to her. The other Arcobaleno at best could be considered semi-valuable test subjects. Whether they lived or died meant nothing to her. But Tsuna is different. A sky who had found a way to break the Arcobaleno curse and didn't expect anything from those he had saved. The fact that he had his own reason for breaking the curse, to fulfill a deal, meant nothing to Verde. As an added bonus Tsuna seemed to have an interesting power or two that where worth studying.
As she walked out the door Verde smiled and said, "this is also for science."
…..
'Mornings are the worst,' Tsuna thought as he stood before the stove cooking some eggs. As he hadn't been to the store recently Tsuna only had some eggs, bread and cup of noodles. So breakfast would consist of eggs and toast or at least that was the plan. Unfortunately Tsuna found himself falling asleep on his feet. He had only wanted to rest his eyes but in the next moment Tsuna was being startled awake by the sound of the smoke alarm.
Looking down Tsuna noticed the blackened eggs and quickly threw them and the pan into the sink. Turning on the faucet Tsuna let the water run over it and then walk over to the smoke alarm. Grabbing a chair Tsuna used it to reach the alarm and turned it off. He then proceeded to open all the windows and doors in his apartment.
Walking back inside Tsuna headed to the sink and shut off the water.
" This sucks…" Tsuna muttered, "those where the last of the eggs."
Letting out a sigh Tsuna filled the teakettle on the stove with water. After turning on the stove he walked over to the cupboard and pulled out a cup of noodles. Setting it down on the kitchen table he noticed that the smoke had finally left the apartment and started to close all windows and doors. As the teakettle made a whistling sound Tsuna picked it up and brought it over to the kitchen table. After poring water into the cup a noodles he walked back over to the stove and put the kettle down.
Heading over to the kitchen table Tsuna paused as he thought, 'I should check the news.' He then walked into his bedroom and grabbed his laptop. Walking back to the kitchen table Tsuna sat down and opened his laptop to skim through some of the new articles online.
"Stocks" Tsuna muttered as he saw an article about a change in the stocks. Tsuna felt a slight tingling sensation when he thought about his own stocks and supposed he would need to sell some of them. Focusing on that tingling sensation he knew that he had a few days before he had to sell. As he continued to scroll through the news Tsuna thought about his mysterious powers. How useful and annoying they could be.
Since Tsuna had been a child he had always gotten this weird feeling, it was difficult to describe but it was like Tsuna just knew things. When danger was nearby, someone was lying, someone had alternative motives and even what stocks to sell or buy. It was a pretty useful ability. Tsuna other power though could be useful but was also annoying.
Lifting up his cup of noodles Tsuna used a pair of chopsticks to shovel some of the noodles into his mouth. He then paused as his saw an article that caught his interest. Leaning forward in interest Tsuna read "Germany to reveal centuries old ring collection thought to have been lost."
Clicking on the article Tsuna saw a picture of seven rings all equipped with a different colored stone. "All the colors of the rainbow," Tsuna muttered as his mouth began to water. Reaching over to the chair next to him where a bag lay he retrieved the gem he had shoved inside.
'That last heist,' Tsuna thought, 'could have gone better. I should have Verde look at my equipment.'
Placing the gem back into the bag Tsuna notice a piece of black cloth hanging out of the bag. Without thinking Tsuna grabbed the cloth and found himself looking at a pair of black panties.
Blushing Tsuna thought, 'and this is why that power is so annoying.'
"Oh," Tsuna muttered, "there's a yellow pattern on these. It's sort of cute…"
Looking back over to his laptop Tsuna noticed the time and quickly stood up causing the chair he had been sitting on to fall over.
"Crap! Im going to be late!" Tsuna shouted as he stuffed both the panties and his laptop into the bag next to him. Grabbing the bag he proceeded to run out of the apartment but then quickly returned to retrieve the jacket that hung off the coatrack.
Locking the door behind him Tsuna muttered, "I'm late, I'm late."
As the bell rung to signal lunch break Tsuna slammed his hand on the white board behind him and said "listen this is all going to be on the test, be sure to memories it. If you're not dreaming proper sentence structure and grammar, then you're not working hard enough."
"Yes sensei," the students of the class said in unison.
"Alright, you're dismissed." Tsuna said.
As the class left the classroom one student said, "dreaming about sentence structure, isn't that more of a nightmare?"
"Only for you Itami-san," Tsuna answered.
A few of the students laughed and Tsuna smiled. 'They're all good kids.' Tsuna thought as he watched them leave the classroom. A frown appeared on his face as Tsuna thought about the grades of the last test. "I should probably set up a mandatory study Session."
Picking up his bag Tsuna walked out of the classroom and sighed as he heard his stomach growl. Picking up his pace Tsuna headed for the cafeteria. Walking through the hallways Tsuna felt that tingling sensation and quickly took several steps backwards just in time as a loaded cart stopped where he had just been. Looking over Tsuna found three Namimori high students and a middle age woman all wearing cafeteria food server uniforms.
"Ah hello," Tsuna said.
Student one turned to the student behind the cart and said. "Really, this is why you can't be rushing down the halls with this thing. What if you had hit Sawada sensei?"
"You probably would have been suspended," student two muttered.
"No way!" Student three, the one behind the cart said. Looking Tsuna over she said, "Sensei looks okay. So no harm no foul, right."
"Learn from your mistakes," Student two said.
"Huh! Why?" Student three questioned. "I haven't made any mistakes."
Tsuna attention was drawn as the cafeteria lady took a step forward and said, "Sorry about that. The trucks delivering the food today where late and then they dropped everything off in the wrong area. Its really troublesome…your not hurt or anything?"
"Oh no, I'm perfectly fine." Tsuna said, "actually I was just heading to the cafeteria to grab some bread."
As one all three students turned to Tsuna with pitying looks in their eyes.
"Really Sawada-sensei bread?" Student one questioned, "You know that's not very healthy?"
"That's right and considering your age you should be careful with what you eat," Student two muttered.
'My age!' Tsuna thought, 'I'm only twenty-five!'
"So does Sawada sensei not know how to cook?" Student three asked.
"Maybe you should find a wife or at the very least a girlfriend," Student two recommended.
"Hey! What's that suppose to mean?! It's not as if it's the woman's job to cook. Men are perfectly capable of cooking themselves." Student one argued.
As the students continued to talk amongst themselves Tsuna found it hard to tell them that he did know how to cook.
"Well I guess in your case you'd have to find a husband to cook," Student two reasoned. "I mean your food can be classified as a form of chemical warfare."
"What was that?!" Student one angrily asked.
"But seriously sensei with todays economy women are just as likely to work as there male counterparts. It's important to learn how to cook." Student three said.
"If you want I'll teach you," Student one said.
"You'll probably die," Student two replied.
"What was that?" Student one questioned.
Trying to calm everyone down Tsuna said, "thank you for the thought but I don't think that would be appropriate."
Stepping forward the cafeteria lady suggested, "in that case how about I give you a cooking lesson."
"I don't think that would be appropriate," all three students said in unison.
"What was that?" the cafeteria lady asked.
"Nothing," they once again said in unison.
"Anyway you're in luck sensei," Student three said.
"Hm?" Tsuna questioned.
"We happen to be delivering bread," student three said, "so you can have first pick."
"Don't go deciding that on your own," student two complained.
"So rude," student one muttered.
"Stop picking on me!" Student three cried out.
"Oh no." Tsuna said, "I wouldn't want to cause any trouble."
"It's no trouble," the cafeteria lady said.
At that moment Tsuna stomach growled and he blushed. "Ah, in that case could I get a yakisoba bread and chocolate cornet?"
After paying for his purchase Tsuna waved goodbye to the students and cafeteria lady as they headed on their way.
Turning around Tsuna started to make his way to the teacher's office. Opening up the packaging of the yakisoba bread Tsuna took a bite. As he passed by a classroom the door suddenly slammed open and a pair of arms reached out dragging Tsuna inside the dark room. The door then closed.
Tsuna found himself in a darkened room the arms that had grabbed him before still hung onto him and a body was pressed flush against his. It didn't take a genius to figure out who had grabbed Tsuna. Reaching over Tsuna flipped the light switch and illuminated the room.
Realizing he was in one of the down stairs science room Tsuna took notice that as he suspected the person who is holding him is none other than Verde.
"Do you mind?" Tsuna asked.
"Not at all," Verde happily replied.
"I mean will you please let me go?" Tsuna asked.
Reluctantly Verde parted from Tsuna and smiled.
Suddenly Verde took interest in Tsuna lunch. As she looked down at the bread in Tsuna hand she asked, "What's that?"
"My lunch," Tsuna answered.
A disgusted look crossed Verde face and she flung her hand out smacking the bread out of Tsuna hand while saying, "that's so unhealthy."
Tsuna stared mournfully at his bread. His chocolate cornet was still sealed in its packaging so it was safe but his yakisoba bread had fallen out of its packaging and onto the floor. For a second Tsuna contemplated the three second rule but all ideas of eating his bread where brought to an end as a pair of high heels stomped down on them.
'No…'Tsuna silently thought.
Verde quickly threw both bread products away and took out a cloth to clean her shoes. She then walked over to one of the sinks in the room and washed her hands. Returning to Tsuna side she steered the young man to a desk and push him into a seat. Looking forlornly at the garbage can that held his lunch a black box was placed in front of Tsuna.
"Here you go," Verde said as she lifted the lid to reveal a perfectly packed bento lunch.
Tsuna stared in wonder and for a sec as he thought he saw the food start to glow. 'Is that a lobster tail,' Tsuna wondered and, 'oh! There's tempura too.'
For a second Tsuna held himself back. This Bento was most likely made by Verde so there was no telling what everything was really made of or if anything extra was added to it. Though he didn't sense anything wrong with the bento but then again he wasn't always able to sense Verde.
Verde handed Tsuna a pair of chopsticks, a box lunch almost identical lay in front of her. She then began to pore the two of them tea and set a glass in front of Tsuna.
"Is something wrong?" Verde asked.
"Not really," Tsuna answered.
"In that case would you like me to feed you?" Verde asked as she picked up some food with her chopsticks and held it out to Tsuna. "Or maybe you would like be fed mouth to mouth," Verde muttered as she placed the food in her mouth and lent towards Tsuna.
"That's okay!" Tsuna yelled as his face reddened. Gripping his chopsticks Tsuna started to eat. "This is really good."
"Naturally," Verde said, "cooking can be seen as a sort of science."
"So you really made this?" Tsuna asked.
"That's right," Verde replied and took a bite of her own bento. She looked down at her bento and then muttered, "maybe next time I could slip in a bit of…"
"Oh," Verde said as she lent over and took notice of the bag Tsuna had slung over his shoulder. "Do any of my inventions need to be repaired?"
Tsuna paused and then said, "I'm not sure about that but I wanted to have them looked over."
He then took the bag and handed to Verde.
"Well I'll take a look at them tonight," Verde muttered as she rummaged around in his bag. "Although you'll probably want to keep your laptop unless you want me to upgrade it…"
"Well well!" Verde said.
Curious Tsuna looked over to find Verde holding the black panties he had shoved in there when he was rushing to school.
Face flushing Tsuna tried to think of an excuse.
"You know if you had wanted a pair of women's underwear I would have happily given you some of mine," Verde said.
"That's not it!" Tsuna shrieked, "at the museum there was this guard and…"
"Of course if you wanted to remove them I would much prefer if you did so by hand rather than that interesting ability you have" Verde said.
"No thank you," Tsuna stated.
"So cold," Verde complained.
"So I take it you had some trouble," Verde asked.
"There was this cop or at least they looked like a cop," Tsuna explained, "I'm pretty sure they weren't one though. They were a bit too trigger happy and I'm pretty sure they started firing even before they knew if I was Ladro Fantasma or a civilian."
"I see." As she waved the underwear in the arm Verde asked, "so was she pretty?"
Grabbing the panties from Verde, Tsuna placed them back into the bag and said. "That's the strangest thing the cop had looked like a guy."
"Oh my," Verde teased, "I hadn't realized you where batting for the other team."
Blushing Tsuna yelled, "I'm not! I was trying to get the fake cops gun but instead I ended up stealing these. "
Verde laughed and said, "I know, with all the test we've done on your little power its clear that they follow a certain pattern. When using it on a male you have a fifty-fifty chance of being successful of stealing the object you want. In the case you fail to steal the item you want you always steal an item of equal value or importance. Of course in the case of an attractive female you always end up stealing their underwear the first time you use your power on them. The second time you end up stealing their bra if their wearing one and the third time you always succeed in stealing the object you had originally wanted. And if your target wasn't wearing a bra you steal the object the second time."
Tsuna sighed and thought, 'it really is a troublesome power.'
As he took a sip of tea Verde said, "of course its still unknown if you enjoy stealing women's undergarments."
Spitting out his tea Tsuna glared at Verde.
"I suppose there are about three ways you could have ended up obtaining women's underwear when you tried to steal from that fake police officer." Verde thought out loud.
"Really?" Tsuna asked.
"First the man happened to have some woman's underwear on him." Verde said.
"Seriously?" Tsuna asked, "it could be that simple?"
"Well in all of the testing we did we never used your powers against a man in possession of woman's underwear." Verde said. "Second, the man was wearing women's underwear."
"…why?" Tsuna then asked, "so what its possible like the first option because in the testing we never used this power on a man wearing women's underwear."
"Basically," Verde answered. "Third the man wasn't a man but instead is a woman in disguise."
"Out of all of them I think I would prefer it being a woman," Tsuna muttered.
"Then is it possible that you were imagining that the fake police officer was a woman?" Verde asked.
Tsuna stared in silence at Verde. Before Tsuna could tell Verde that no, in no way had he thought that person had been female, Verde spoke.
"So was she prettier than me," Verde asked.
"What does that matter?" Tsuna questioned.
"It matters to me," Verde said as she pulled out a syringe and tried to stab Tsuna.
Tsuna easily dodged her and said, "I'm more concerned that there was someone pretending to be a police office. There shouldn't have been any cops. I'd been observing the police routines for days. Not only that but whoever that person was they hadn't been interested in the diamond at all. They just showed up and started shooting."
Verde had calmed down and put her syringe away she looked at Tsuna and said, "I'll look into it."
Tsuna grabbed his laptop and some school papers and handed his bag to Verde.
"You don't need anything else?" Verde asked as she motioned to the bag.
"Not really," Tsuna answered.
"Not even the underwear?" Verde questioned.
"Especially that…" Tsuna muttered.
"In that case," Verde said, "I suppose I'll do some test on it."
"Test?" Tsuna asked, "why?"
"I might be able to get some DNA from it," Verde replied, "and find out who they are."
"I see," Tsuna muttered as he finished the bento. "Thanks for the food and Thanks Verde that was really delicious."
"As if I need to be told that," Verde reasoned and then said, "but you can keep on praising me if you want!"
"Thank you, I really enjoyed the food you cook," Tsuna said. As he stood up, "oh yeah you can keep that diamond if you want."
"The diamond?" Verde questioned out loud as she remember Tsuna last heist.
"Yeah I think I left it in the bag," Tsuna replied.
Verde dug around in the bag until she pulled out a large yellow diamond. "You sure you don't want it?"
"What am I going to do with it?" Tsuna asked.
"Sell it, cut it down and make it into some jewelry or even trade it," Verde answered. Sometimes the scientist worried about how basic Tsuna thought process was. It was as if the man didn't care about the items he stole.
"That's okay," Tsuna replied.
"In that case I'll hold onto it," Verde said, "but there's always a chance I might use it in one of my experiments."
Chapter three is done! This would have been done sooner but my computer froze on me and I lost some of it.
I find Verde an interesting character. Out of all of the Arcobaleno he is the only one who has shown a desire to want to eliminate the other Arcobaleno. He also doesn't seem to be very interested in Luce's bloodline and the sky Arcobaleno. You really have to wonder what's going through his mind.
So thank you to everyone who favorite, followed and reviewed last chapter. It means a lot to me, espiecially those who took the time to review. You all are so awesome. So thank you katyuam, mukuro234, crayontesla, Sakura Lisel, Cyber-Kanochi, Lady Avarice, Littlest1, Abigaming and hellfire45.
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Lady Avarice: I'm happy to hear you're enjoying it so far and hope you enjoyed this chapter. Verde is quiet the character. Thanks for the review.