Kiri to Kumo

Dedicated to Deadly-Chronicle (who should really have a box of tissues beside her when she read this story) and to Bishi-Bishi, whom review still leaving me gasping for breath every time I see it.

Chapter 4: Namimori's ghost.

"I hate it. I looked like that stupid pineapple herbivore." Hibari grumbled as he adjusts his tie. Behind him, Nagi was lounging on his bed, reading his biology textbook in fascination.

"Kumo-san can wear contact lens or a pair of glasses if Kumo-san doesn't like it."

"I don't trust those herbivorous contraptions." Hibari turned tro the ghost, frowning, "And I looked ridiculous wearing glasses."

"Really? I think Kumo-san looked dashing when he wear glasses." Hibari walked out, growling, trying to hide his blush.

"You're talking trash as usual, herbivore."

School

"Boo." A couple yelled and run in horror when their bags floating in midair and a sheaf of torn papers rearranged in midair, spelling ominously.

'LeAvE BeForE its ToO LaTe!'

"What are you doing, Hinagi?" the ghost looked up to find Hibari looking down from the stairs.

"Oh, that? You hated crowding right? So I thought I should those people off before they disturb you." Nagi disappeared and suddenly reappear beside the skylark.

"Huh." The skylark went to the rooftop, Nagi silently followed him. "I guess you do have some uses after all." He said grudgingly. "Now come here." Hibari pulled her down and pull his head on her lap.

"Eh? Umm, Kumo-san, w-what are you doing?"

"The floor is too hard for my head. Now shut up." Nagi grimaced uncharacteristically as the prefect fell asleep.

"Oi, oi. Did you hear? There's a ghost in Namimori." Gokudera looked up to see a group of boys gossiping beside the bookshelf he was browsing. Normally, the bomber would have blown them off with his dynamites for talking in the library but the topic caught his interest.

"You're kidding."

"No, I'm not. Really," the boy gestured wildly. "A bunch of guys saw it yesterday."

"Really? Where?"

"You know the stairway leading to the rooftop? Minoru said he saw a girl floating there."

"Hey, you believed that?"

"Well," a girl stopped by their table, butting into their conversation, "Otaka-kun's right, you know. Nana-chan and Uruma-kun told me a ghost spooked them off while they were dating there yesterday."

"You believe her, Kushieda-chan?"

"Yup. And Satoshi-senpai told me this morning he saw a pale girl following Hibari-san around the school. And," she whispered confidentially, Gokudera had to strain himself to eavesdrop, "I was actually there when he saw it. There was no one there." She said gleefully. "And Mikogawa-senpai, who was with us that time, said she saw her too."

"No way."

"Way. Do you think she's one of Hibari-san's victim he bitten to death?"

"Nah. I mean, Hibari-san wouldn't hit a girl, right? Right?"

"I don't know. I mean Hibari-san looked weird after the accident.t"

"Really? I think he looked hot with those dual colored eyes." Kushieda sighed, blushing.

"Err, are you ok, Kushieda?"

"Guys, stick to the topi-… Oh, shoot, it's the librarian. Scatter!" the group split up as the librarian loomed over them.

Gokudera froze, still holding the maths book he was looking for the last half-hour. His mind was whizzing with several ideas, some more incredulous than others.

'I wonder…'

"Juudaime!" Tsuna sighed as he put away the maths notes he tried to decipher. They had a pop quiz after lunch and Reborn threaten to punish him if he fail test.'

Gokudera appeared in front of his in his full 'punk-geek form' (as Haru once said), his glasses gleaming. "Did you hear Juudaime? They said there's a ghost in this school!"

"Oh…Ehh?"

Tsuna sobbed helplessly into his test paper as he tries to salvage his answer. Suddenly feeling cold all the sudden (just like the time when Mukuro cast an illusion in front of him for the first time) the brunet looked up to see a purple-haired girl, a little younger than him, peering into the classroom, staring at the group of students bending over their test paper. Moving his head slightly to the right, he saw Kyoko; she too, was staring at the girl. The future mafia boss noticed that other than him and Kyoko, no one else noticed the girl. The girl moved away, her eyes staring curiously ever few seconds at the class.

"Oi, Sawada! I hope you finished you test and not trying to copy other people's answer." The boy hurriedly turned back to his test, trying to forget the girl.

After school, Tsuna found himself standing in the empty classroom with Yamamoto, Gokudera, Kyoko, Kurokawa and worse, Reborn, sucked into the Gokudera's so-called mission to investigate the 'ghost of Namimori.'

"Ha-ha, is this another game?"

"I'm telling you, Yagyuu-baka, it's not a game."

"I'm not letting Kyoko spending the night with you hooligans."

"Consider this as training, Dame-Tsuna."

"Should we call for Haru-chan, Tsuna-kun?"

The brunet sighed, feeling a migraine was coming. (It becoming a daily occurrence now)

Tsuna smiled happily as he and Kyoko patrolled the corridor. Lucky, he got Kyoko as his patrol partner (Yamamoto paired up with Kurokawa while Gokudera and Reborn patrolled the first floor, both rapidly speaking in Italian (of course, Reborn threaten to shoot Tsuna if he failed in his patrol.)

Everyone tried their hardest to avoid being caught by Hibari, who was in his office doing paperwork.

"Hey, Tsuna-kun." Kyoko turned to the brunet beside her. "Did you notice the purple-haired girl? The one that was peering into the class during maths test?"

"You noticed her too, kyoko-chan?"

"Um." The auburn-haired girl nodded. "I wonder what class she's from."

Tsuna answered but stopped when he noticed the girl they were talking about coming down the stairs, carrying a bunch of books and papers.

Nagi was walking down the stairs, singing to herself while trying to balance the books and papers she was carrying. It became a routine for the both of them; Hibari spending the night with his paperworks while Nagi would take the books back to the library and papers to the teacher's staffroom before they could start studying. (Hibari found himself he was stuck with a curious ghost who willing to learn…well anything. They would spend hours studying; Hibari tutoring while Nagi learning new things that her former home tutors had never and would never teach her.)

The purple haired ghost, therefore was surprised when a boy appeared out of nowhere and grab the stack of books from her while an auburn-haired girl took half of the paper stack.

Wait, they can see her?

"Here, let us help you." The girl smiled as the boy juggled the books. Nagi remember them as the students from the maths class she was peering into that afternoon. Furthermore, she recognized the brunet as the herbivore that always shrieks like a girl every time he met with Kumo-san. What was his name…?

"S-Sawada. You-re Sawada-san, right?" Nagi shyly smiled at them, "and you're the school idol, Sasagawa-san."

Nagi was shocked when the auburn girl smiled, shaking her hands. Not only they can see her, they can touch her?

"Yea, that's right! Tsuna-kun and I noticed you from this afternoon. Are you new?" Kyoko tilted her head to look at the girl. "I never notice you before. From what class are you?"

Before Nagi can answer, Gokudera ran toward them, quickly followed by Kurokawa and Yamamoto, the latter was laughing as Hibari chased them. The silveret skidded in front of them, trying to tell them to run before his brain caught up with what he was looking at. Beside him, Kurokawa was staring in shock while Yamamoto's laughed peppered out as he too, with Reborn stared in surprise.

Kyoko and Tsuna was standing at the middle of the corridor, carrying a bunch of books and papers. Between the two of them, a bunch of papers was floating in mid-air. Both of them looking as if they were having a conversation with whatever that were holding the papers.

"Juu-juu-daime?" Gokudera looked as if he was going to faint. "Ha-ha," even Yamamoto's laugh sounded strained. "I-Is that a new trick, Tsuna?" the baseball player point at Nagi. Tsuna and Kyoko were staring at each other in confusion while Nagi smiled ruefully.

"What are you talking about, Yamamoto-kun?" Tsuna asked. None of them noticed Hibari stood there, watching them around Hinagi, raring to bite them all to them for being in school after hours and crowding around his little ghost.

"He was talking about the floating pile of paper, dame-Tsuna."

"What floating papers?" the two peered around, "I don't see a thing, Reborn-san." Kyoko said.

The pale arcobaleno pointed silently at Nagi, or rather at he papers she was holding.

"Huh? Can't you see her?" Tsuna asked in confusion. Hibari decided to make his presence known by stepping out of the gloom and snarled at them.

"You're breaking rules, herbivores. I'll bite all of you to death."

"HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!"

Nodding to himself, Hibari left the pile of quivering herbivores (Reborn took off, ushering Kyoko and Kurokawa away, leaving the three stooges dealt with the punishment) and turned to find Hinagi frowning as she picked up the papers Kyoko had thrown into the air.

"What are you doing, herbivore?"

"Collecting papers of the floor?"

"…"

"That wasn't what I meant."

"Oh." Nagi looked up, staring in disapproval at the prefect. "You could have at least let them help me with the books before you bite them to death."

The prefect shrugged. "I don't like them crowding around you."

"Over protective much?"

"Nah. Just protecting my property."

The ghost rolled her eyes as the two of them walked away. "I never agreed to be yours, Kumo-san."

"You did, the moment you decide to haunt me."

And both of them continue to argued, both forgetting a little important detail.

How did Tsuna and Kyoko see her?

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