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She knew she shouldn't, but it was a temptation she couldn't resist, it was seducing her, beckoning her, just to try it. It was forbidden, and if anyone caught her the shame would be overbearing. But it was too good not to indulge in, she was caught in its beautiful trap and it was luring her in. She tried to resist but she was helpless against its lure, this was it she was going to give in to temptation.

Mei posed in a crouch and sprung across the room, snatching up her novel right before tumbling into the cushions that provided the sparse living room with some sort of comfort. She opened her hair-raising novel to the place she was at and she was immediately enraptured with the clever words that spread over the pages.

Dinner wasn't ready yet, and it was almost time that Hibari usually came home, and although he didn't say much she knew he was much more tolerant when there was food on the table, however if there was no meat, his mood would only get worse, Mei learned this little fact the hard way. Just because she was a vegetarian, didn't mean that her carnivore of a husband would turn into one too.

Shaking her head, Mei pushed those random thoughts aside and focused on her novel. It was page turning and she couldn't put it down, but as enraptured she was with her book she still felt guilty every tick of the clock in the corner of the room.

Exasperated she put a rather impressive doggy ear in her beloved book and slammed it down. Knowing that she was never going to be able to concentrate on her reading unless she got dinner done she stalked over to the kitchen, pulled out a slab of meat and slammed the butcher knife straight through the middle of it.

Even though all she wanted to do right now was read her book, Mei knew better then to rush dinner, she doubted Hibari would be every happy. He was scary enough in a relatively mild mood, the last thing she needed was to see him angry.

18-18-18

The clock struck nine. And Mei sent a glance towards the clock. Hibari still wasn't back yet, and she wondered if she should have even bothered cooking dinner for him. Mei had already eaten her dinner, vegetarian of course, and decided that if she didn't save the rest of the dinner it was going to go bad.

As she gathered the food off of the table and put it in containers she wondered if she was ever going to be able to talk to Hibari without feeling like running away screaming just because he looked at her.

Feeling like it was about time that she had a nice cup of relaxing oolong tea; she set the water on the stove to boil, and then continued with the tedious task of cleaning up the kitchen.

The food was neatly placed in the fridge and Mei couldn't help but let out a sigh. She wasn't exactly happy with the marriage or how it happened, but she knew that she had to make it work, even if only because she didn't like getting the silent treatment from her roommate/husband. It seemed like their one goal was avoiding each other, and seeing as they were living together Mei decided that that simply wouldn't do.

A very determined sounding 'Yosh!'was proclaimed along with a highly enthusiastic fist pump. It was decided, Hibari was going to be her friend whether he liked it or not! He could be as cold to her as he liked and he could also behave like a very large pole was shoved up his butt, but she was going to make Hibari like her, no matter how scary he got, they were going to be best friends forever!

After Mei's determined, and slightly suicidal decision, she quickly finished up with the kitchen and retreated back to where her book lay innocently on the floor.

Sitting on the plush living room cushions she picked up her book. She wasn't going to stay long, and she didn't think that she was going to wait up for Hibari. She would just read a couple chapters, take a shower and then fall asleep in her highly impersonal guest room.

18-18-18

Hibari loosened his black tie as he stepped into his house that has been taken over by a small, very herbivorous, herbivore.

Sharp blue eyes scanned the kitchen, it was immaculately clean and nothing was out of place, except, the stoic man noted, the kettle of- now tepid- water on the stove. Pinching the bridge of his nose Hibari fought the urge to let out a sigh, as much as he hated to admit it, and as much as he valued his privacy, the little plant-eater had her uses. After all now that she was cleaning his house Tetsuya had time to do other, more important things, and he didn't have to threaten anyone in order to keep his domain pristine.

He scowled, still not happy about the marriage arrangement that his father had pushed him into. His father was a carnivore in the guise of a herbivore, that much was clear now that he had managed to coerced Hibari into marriage.

Lithe fingers started to unbutton his shirt as he moved towards his room, continuing his inspection of the house. As he passed by the living room he looked at all of the objects in the room and approved of the fact that nothing was out of place.

'Wait a minute.' Steel-blue eyes narrowed as he backtracked, 'that is definitely not supposed to be there.'

The object of Hibari's current displeasure was, in fact, his wife, curled up on the soft cushions placed on the tatami floor of the living room and a book was hanging precariously from her hand. Mei's mouth was open slightly with a small strand of drool was dripping from the corner of her mouth.

'What on earth was that idiot thinking, falling asleep in the middle of the living room? Was she waiting for him?' Hibari had to scoff at that. The female may been quite stupid, but he had to assume that she knew better then to try and wait up for him.

Striding over to the prone form of the useless herbivore Hibari prodded the sleeping female with his foot. It wasn't exactly the warmest weather and the little idiot would be even more trouble then she already is if she managed to contract some kind of sickness.

Mei moaned lowly in her throat in annoyance and swatted at the thing prodding her relentlessly in her side, if anything the poking just got harder. Now it kind of felt like someone was kicking her in the side, and she could have sworn she heard a 'stupid herbivore' come from somewhere above her.

Realizing that she wasn't going to stop getting kicked until she got up she slowly opened her bleary, sleep-filled eyes and pushed her lethargic body into a sitting position. As she blinked, the large black form slowly shifted into something more human looking, but way more scary.

"Eh, Hibari-san, where'd you come from?"

Hibari resisted the urge to shake her head at her stupidity. "Idiot, if you want to die don't do it in my house." He was referring to the fact that she might get sick – dying in worst case scenario- if she continued her particularly stupid and herbivorous behaviour of sleeping in the open, after all only carnivores were able to sleep in the open- aka, on top of the school roof.

"Whatdaya talking about Hibari-san?" Mei's large eyes blinked in confusion, she certainly didn't remember trying to kill herself. Unless he was talking about her decision to make Hibari her best friend, but he couldn't possibly know about that.

Realizing that Hibari had probably just come home from work, she quickly blinked the remains of sleep from her eyes and wiped the corners of her mouth, slightly horrified to realized that she had been drooling.

"Oh, did you eat yet Hibari-san?" Mei got up and moved towards the kitchen. "I made food if you want to eat, and don't worry it's not vegetarian at all, and-"

"I ate already." Hibari turned away from Mei, interrupted her rambling and stopped her in her tracks.

Sighing, Mei realized that she should have expected it; it was already very rare that he ate at home anyway. Plus, judging by how late it is, he would have already eaten.

"Don't make me a bento tomorrow." Hibari said as he moved towards his room, continuing to unbutton his shirt as he went. "And if you're going to sleep, sleep somewhere civilized."

"Well, I think that went well." Mei confided to herself softly.

Then Mei turned around and walked back to her bed, not feeling quite up to the task of proving to Hibari-san that she could indeed sleep wherever she damn well pleased, and still be civilized while she was at it.

A/N: Well, there is Hibari for you guys, I was SUPER nervous writing this, and it took me AGES to get Hibari sort of how I wanted him. I'm still kind of scared that I made him OOC, and if you think he is- or you have any questions- please talk to me! Also, if you find that Mei is too Mary-Sueish, please let me know and I will try to fix it, Thanks!

Um, I was also thinking about maybe putting in a chapter in which Mei has a run-in with a certain purple bazooka that tends to shoot people ten years into the future. If you think you would like a chapter like that then let me know! =)

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