Ren yawned as the warm sun beat down on her, she was tired and the last class had been extremely boring because of the fact she knew the material that they were going over. Technically she should have been a third year in the middle school or in American terms a freshman in high school, the board of directors insisted that she take some lower level classes to make sure she understood everything. She hoped they soon figured out she did and let her take the classes she should be taking.
She yawned again glad for it to be over, now she needed to attend to the never ending annoyance of her uniform. And seeing as how going to the principle was partially useless as all he could tell her was it was delayed she was going to the next highest power in this school. 'Or most likely this whole town.' She thought to herself, yes she was heading to see her name sharing friend, Hibari Kyoya. Ok so maybe they weren't friends but they weren't actually annoyances to each other. Ren opened the door to the committees room and found him sitting behind his desk reading threw a handful of papers.
"What do you want carnivore, and why aren't you in uniform?" Kyoya demanded but had yet to move to pull out his tonfas.
"That's exactly why I'm here. The school had at least a week and a half to get me my uniform and yet I still don't have it." She explained as she sat on his couch without his permission. "Normally I wouldn't have paid it much mind but I'm getting tired of beating up your Disciplinary members for breaking the rules. And don't go telling me to talk to the principal, I know very well that he is the one that is supposed to be handling that kind of thing, so when I did see him he said it was being delayed. So here I am hoping you can do something about it."
Kyoya looked at her surprised, that was probably the longest thing she had ever said to him before, and strangely it didn't bother him. Especially at how annoyed she looked at the moment, her silver eyes just radiating the emotion while her left eyebrow twitched in annoyance. Before he had compared her to a graceful feline like a black leopard but at the moment she reminded him uncannily like a feline cub that was just tossed in the river, now with its fur all puffed out and hissing.
"Why are you staring at me?" She demanded and Kyoya's mouth twitched into a semblance of a smile.
"So you were the one taking out all of those weak subordinates. That solves one mystery. You haven't joined a club yet have you?" Kyoya asked in an easy amused voice.
Ren stared at him for a moment surprised at the abrupt change in topic and the fact that he was participating in a conversation while not fighting, "No, I haven't there's nothing really that peaks my intrest, besides it's not required. Why?"
"Hum." Was his only reply as he reached into a draw and tossed her something, it fluttered over to her and when she caught it, it was the arm band of the disciplinary committee, before she could ask why he had given it to her he spoke up. "You'll be the new secretary of the disciplinary committee it means you'll help me with the paper work and accompany me on patrols."
"What-"
"It also solves the problem of your uniform, as long as it is the colors of the committee you can were anything." He finished.
"Why?" Ren asked after she finally processed everything.
"Do I need a reason?"
"No, but considering what I know about you there is some reason behind it."
"hum, your perceptive, your strong and not nearly as annoying as most of the others and I do not mind your company." Kyoya said without blinking. "Now go home you start tomorrow."
Ren stood a strangely satisfied feeling coursing through her and a smirk on her face. "I'll take the compliment, but I also have the feeling that Reborn had a hand in this."
"You wouldn't be wrong, but I decided to let you in because I think you're worthy."
"Alright see you tomorrow Kyoya." Ren said over her shoulder, she was gone before he got a chance to object to her use of his first name. She didn't head straight home but stopped by the classroom to grab her things before heading to the gate were she was surprised to find Tsuna and Reborn waiting for her.
"Ciasso, Ren. I heard No Good Tsuna got you to agree to be in his family." Reborn said from atop the school wall.
"He showed me something that I thought was worth following."
"Well now that that is settled, catch." Reborn threw a short black rod at her. The rod was light and with a shiny and smooth black lacquer coating with a pointed silver cap on each end the shaft had elegant cravings of clouds and swirls that resembled the wind, she loved it immediately.
"What is this?"
"Your new weapon. The Vongal smiths just created it and were waiting for someone worthy to come along and use it, but it's not quite the same as your old staff it's going to take some training to be able to wield it properly."
"What do you mean?" Ren asked it was a staff what could be different about it from her last one?
"You'll haft to find out that on your own. Now extend it." Ren did as she was told, twirling the rod with ease she extended it to its full length. She twirled it a couple more times to get a feel for it and almost dropped it twice.
"It's lighter than what I'm used to and slips away easier." Reborn watched as Ren slid a hand along the rods length getting a feel for it her silver eyes taking in all the details with a delight that only a person who loves to fight would have. He watched as the exact moment she found the hidden tricks to this modified weapon.
"I'm told there are several combinations that you'll haft to figure out. Let's go home Tsuna." Reborn said then kicked poor Tsuna in the head for no good reason. "Oh, and congratulations on your promotion."
"Thanks Reborn, but I suspect that you had a hand in this position." Her only answer to that was a knowing smirk that made her think that Reborn had more in store for her eventually.
"Promotion?" Tsuna repeated, then looked back at Ren noticing for the first time the red and gold arm band on her left bicep. "Heiii! You're in the Disciplinary Committee!"
Ren gave a dangerous smile. "I'm working as Kyoya's secretary, which means I'll be working right beside him. So don't be late tomorrow ok." Ren held back a laugh as Tsuna paled and began stuttering incoherent things until Reborn kicked him again. "Bye Tsuna see you tomorrow."
"Reborn, why did you get her to work with Hibari?" Tsuna asked quietly on their way home.
Reborn was surprised to see such an intense and serious question coming from his no good student. "Because she needs him and he needs her, though they don't know it yet."
"But they're nothing alike?"
"Actually they are very alike, but unlike Hibari she's also friends with you and the others. She is aloof and independent but she also makes a point to connect with each of you and the rest of the family. You need that, someone that can easily communicate with Hibari without being killed but someone who also cares for you guys, though she cares in a distant way."
"What do you mean?"
"This morning, when there was the accident instead of rushing over and worrying about you like the others she was calm and caring but in a direct and distant way. You'll see what I'm talking about eventually." Tsuna didn't get much of what Reborn was saying but he also trusted him and what he said so for now he was going to let it be.
When Ren got home she indeed found that she would need some additional training for her new weapon. She sat cross-legged in her room, not only was it a staff but it was also a four part poll with a chain connecting each of the parts. She hissed in pain as something unexpected happened and she dropped the weapon, and found that the silver points on both ends of the staff were actually blades that she could release. In both the staff form and in the four part pole, she could decide if she wanted the blades on both ends or if she just wanted one.
Reborn had been right, there were a lot of tricks to this weapon and that she would defiantly need some training, she had no idea how to wield it properly, unless you count hack and bash. No, she wouldn't stand any real chance with a master. She would need to hold off on using that form until she found a suitable teacher. Hissing again she glanced at her left shoulder there was a good sized gash in it that was dripping blood onto her bedroom floor.
A sudden chill over took her as she watched the blood drip from her hand as she tried to staunch the flow. The red of her blood made her queasy and her head began to throb, it started as a dull pain but quickly escalated to sharp incapacitating pain dark images flashed threw her mind at a dizzying pace. And as quickly as it had begun it stopped, Ren uncurled herself from the fetal position she didn't remember making, she felt weak and her body shook uncontrollably as she rose to her feet. Using the wall as a support she made her way to her bathroom where she cleaned and bound the wound. Splashing some cold water on her face she looked in the mirror and found herself to be ghostly pale, flashes of the dark images flickered in her mind and made her shudder. Whatever those images meant they weren't pleasant and she wonder for a moment if she really wanted to remember whatever they were.
Once she had calmed down she left for her room again only to be stopped by her grandmother standing in there.
"What do you think you're doing getting blood all over the place?" Her grandmother yelled, reluctantly Ren faced the older woman. She had once been pretty; she was the image of a geisha doll with a thin and delicate face and body, full lips and silky black hair. Now that beauty had been lost to age and time, though she still held fast to the old ways of her country, she still wore kimonos and did things very traditional like. It appalled her sense of womanly duties that Ren walked around carrying weapons and fighting men, when men should be the ones that should be fighting for her.
With a sigh Ren answered, "I cut my self and was just bandaging it."
"Well things like this wouldn't happen if you would just act like a lady, instead of this-this…awh." She trailed off in frustration unable to even voice what she thought of Ren's actions.
"Well deal with it, I cut myself on accident, so sorry that I got blood all over the place." Ren retaliated giving her relative an icy glare and before she could say anymore retreated to her bathroom again, quickly closing the sliding door. Still fuming she picked up the weapon feeling a tingle go through her at its touch and returned it to its collapsed form, before getting ready for bed.
When morning came Ren was still irritated with her grandmother, sure her grandmother never wanted her here and she hated her dad but neither did Ren want to be here. But Ren didn't have a choice, her grandmother was her only living relative and her grandmother thought it not fulfilling her womanly duties to just send her off to an orphanage. So whether or not they liked it they were stuck with each other. With that, to add to irritation on top of irritation she still didn't have a uniform to wear to school, which meant she would most likely get stopped by the disciplinary members again. But as she began dressing she noticed the red and gold armband on her bedside table and that irritation she had suddenly turned into something else. With hurried patience she quickly finished in the bathroom and changed the bandaged on her arm before hurrying to get ready for the day.
She was part of the Disciplinary committee now and as Kyoya had said she didn't need to wear the school uniform, just the disciplinary committees colors, namely black. So with a certain happiness at that thought she began dressing. Knowing she still had to were a skirt she grabbed a short black one that allowed free and easy movement with a pair of tight black shorts underneath just in case she got in a fight. She decided to go with a short sleeve white from fitting dress shirt leaving the top buttons undone with a red ribbon she had found in a loose looking tie. Lastly she pulled out one of her favorite pieces of clothing, a gift from her dad, a black jacket that looked vaguely like a suit jacket but was more feminine and casual. She had loved this coat so much that she had bought several more like it, another in black, one in blue and one in a deep forest green. And at the moment a deep purple and a blood red one were on their way now.
Ren smiled at a memory of her father, he had thought her love of the jacket a bit excessive but that was her thing, after all she was still a girl, some girls liked purses or high heels, Ren liked Jackets. Picking up the arm band she pinned it to the left sleeve of the jacket pulled on a pair of dark knee high socks and fished around in her dirty clothes pile for her weapon holder. It wasn't anything special dark brown leather with an intercut holster that allowed easy release she slipped the new weapon into its place at her side hidden from view by her jacket she grabbed her bag and house keys and made her way to the kitchen where she shared a quick and heavily silenced breakfast with her grandmother before lacing up a pair of knee high, low healed black boots and heading to school and her first day as a Disciplinary member.