Disclaimer: I don't own KHR, or you'd find this show every five minutes after the anime.
AN: go to the bathroom, and get some snack before you read this, it's long for my standard. To:Shara Sherenia, I'm sorry, the chapter you're waiting for turned out to be like this. I'm going to meet a friend, I'm so happy
The sparkling interests in the girl's eyes made Shoichi bit back his protest, and the audiences' curious stare didn't help anything. He doesn't have the heart to shatter her hope, he's completely sure hat he's going to regret it later. He glanced at the girl (who's chatting animatedly with the audience) and sighed, alright, so a few tricks to avoid telling the truth is needed.
"Eeh… wouldn't it be more fun if you discover it yourself? Why don't you guess, Miura-san?" he offered, smiling, feeling a tad bit of guilt consuming him, but satisfied, because he's sure the girl wouldn't guess it right. Haru blinked, then pouted.
"Hahii? Why is Haru always asked to guess today?" she whined, but then sighed and smiled, "Alright, then! Haru's going to ask some things in order to get a clue," she said, then pointed her finger toward the boy, "and Irie-san definitely must tell the truth!" she said cheerfully.
Shoichi was going to answer her with a half hearted 'Well….' when his eyes caught a sight of something. That mentioned thing being an almost transparent string in the supposed-to-be sleeping baby's hand. When the redhead glanced upward, he saw a heavy-looking equipment hidden behind the stage lamp, supported with a short rope that's connected with that suspicious string in the baby's hand. He immediately knew: one single lie out of his mouth, and his soul would be out of his body in splits of second as well.
He glanced once again at the baby, who's lips curled up to form a smirk, and he gulped. "…..yes…." he finally responded to Haru's earlier statement, making the girl cheered up.
"Uhm….uhmm…." she played with her hair a bit, eyebrows knitted in concentration "well, when did you start loving that person?" she asked, avoiding using the word 'she' or 'he', learning from her experience with the previous guests.
Shoichi could feel his stomach tightened, "Uhh…when…" his eyes darted around, trying to make his answer as unclear as possible, "we were studying in the same place," he said, biting his lip slightly. Calm down, I did well, he reassured himself.
"Wait! Let Haru thinks!" she said dramatically, "umm…umm…." A few seconds passed and she finally sighed, "none coming into Haru's mind," she said, disappointed, "Alright, what's that person's favorite?" she asked, smiling.
Shoichi was going to answer 'Me, maybe?' but he said, "Uhm…sweets, I guess…" many people like sweets, and Shoichi's sure about that. The girl tilted her head to a side, eyes closed, trying to imagine the said person. Shoichi sighed in relief, but that relief quickly replaced by fear when he saw that the thing above his head swayed dangerously.
"Uhh…." She stared at the baby, then sighed, "Reborn-chan is still asleep, and Haru doesn't know much about Irie-san," she said, and Shoichi perked up, thinking that she finally gave up, "Haru knows! Let's ask Spanner-san since he knows more about Irie-san!" she said cheerfully, making Shoichi groaned inwardly.
In the control room, Spanner stood from his seat, he then bid Gianinni good bye as he walked, along with a pat on his shoulder. Gianinni only frowned. Why do these people think that he has no love interest?
As Spanner walked into the stage, Haru stood, once again welcoming the blonde. Shoichi was considering this to be a good time to run away when he remembered that his ankle's chained, and he groaned. Spanner saw his problem and chuckled slightly, but that's enough to make Shoichi curse his fate.
After they sat, Haru asked, "So, Spanner-san, what do you think we should ask Irie-san about his love?" Spanner glanced at the redhead who mouthed 'No, no, no' to him, and then to Haru, feeling up to some mischief, he spoke.
"Wont it be better if I tell you that person's name?" he said lightly, making Haru squealed happily, and also making Shoichi's mouth opened widely. Seeing Shoichi's expression, Spanner then turned to him. "Well, if you don't want me to say it myself, then say that you love me," he said, successfully managed to look shy.
"Hahi!! So, the two of you are dating?" she asked, hands clapped in delight. She's thankful that nothing happened this time. To say that Shoichi is surprised would be an understatement. He was going to deny everything that he blonde said, but then he think that maybe it's the best if the others don't know about his love interest. He sighed, he's going to thank Spanner later, and then throw him into the sea right after.
"I…I…" he began, he glanced toward the sleeping baby, the string in his hand sparkled because of the lamp, and when he turned around, he noticed that Haru has moved closer to listen, he then glanced at Spanner, who's looking at him, amused. He gritted his teeth in annoyance, "I….think we should keep it to our selves." He managed to say with a smile.
Spanner blinked, then turned to Haru and said, "You see? That's the face Shoichi makes when he's lying." Haru nodded in understanding. The brunette stood and walked away, only to be back a few seconds later. Holding what looked like a gun in her hands, wait, now that Shoichi looked closely, it really is a gun, similar with Reborn's.
"Reborn-chan taught Haru this," she said, positioning the thing in her hand, Shoichi gulped, imagining why did the girl even agreed to be taught things like that. But, knowing Haru, the 'bullet' inside couldn't be dangerous right? At most it'd be water. "Liar!" Haru shouted and shot. Splash of water came to contact with Shoichi's body, he smiled dryly while Haru jumped happily since her accuracy level raised.
'Well, I was right' thought Shoichi, 'it's only water, with salt' he shook his head, that's when he caught a sight of the chain on his ankles that he decided to look at it closely. He tried to locate where the thing ended. Following the chain with his eyes, he gulped as it was connected to a cable. Fears creeping up his whole body, even more when Reborn oh-so-innocently rolled off the sofa (still 'sleeping') and kicked the cable oh-so-accurately until Shoichi swore he could hear something is buzzing. 'Metal chain', he listed the things, 'Salt water', he added, gulping, 'electricity?' he was unable to think of anything else as waves of electricity hit him, and he screamed. Haru (who was checking Reborn's body for any damage caused by the fall, 'poor Reborn-chan' she thought) turned to him, "Hahiii! Irie-san!" she squeaked, Spanner only clapped his hands. The audiences, thinking that it's part of the show clapped their hands also, amazed by their ability to make the show seemed so 'real'.
Reborn 'woke' after hearing Shoichi's scream, "Haru," he called for the girl, who immediately turned, "Why is Spanner here?" he asked.
"Ah, that was because Haru thought Spanner-san is Irie-san's dangerous love." She reasoned, Reborn glanced at the blonde, and replied,
"…He doesn't look dangerous at alL, how could you think that it was him in the first place?" he questioned the girl, and took a mobile phone out of nowhere, "doesn't matter, I already contacted the right person this morning," he said airily, ignoring Haru's protest ("Hahi? So why was Haru must go through all of that?"), "you can come in," He said to the phone, only to be answered by a cheerful 'Ok' with a voice that made Shoichi shuddered instantly.
The stage shook greatly that the people on it fell on their knees or butt ungracefully, and then an elevator came up slowly, showing the tip of white hair that make Shoichi paled instantly, and Haru wished that she fainted, so she wouldn't be able to see anything that might happen later. There standing carelessly, waving cheerfully, was a white spiky haired man dressed in white also Haru's thankful that the lights are on this time, or she might scream at seeing him (mistaken him for ghosts and such).
"And here he came, Irie Shoichi's dangerous love," stated Reborn, followed by the Audiences (plus Spanner)' s applauses. "Why is he dangerous, you asked? Well, just look at his face," he added, pointing toward Shoichi's face (eyes unfocused, looking like he's ready to faint the next second) as Byakuran hugged him (suffocating him) tightly.
"Sho-chaaann~" he called, nuzzling Shoichi's cheek, "Hmm? You look pale, is your stomach okay?" he asked, placing his palms on the other's stomach as his arms encircled his waist, "Are you nervous, hmm? Don't worry, I'll take you far, far away, so let's go, Sho-chan~" he said, walking away with Shoichi in his hands, only to be stopped by the chain on the redhead's ankle.
"Oh? So Sho-chan is into this kind of things?" he asked with a teasing smile, and released Shoichi and crouched down to take the chain in his hand, "I'll be sure to prepare things like this later, so no worries, Sho-chan~" he said as he broke the chain with bare hand, Shoichi must think fast. Shoichi looked around, to find that everyone is staring at them, and that Gianinni has kindly installed a gigantic monitor that showed everything in the stage oh-so-clearly, he cursed Reborn's ability to look innocent, he cursed Haru's inability to think of this as kidnapping (and not a romantic scene that came out in fairy tales where the princes took the princesses' hand in a marriage), he cursed the audiences who came only to see him suffer, and he also cursed Spanner, who looked at him, interests in his eyes, but did nothing.
"Spanner!" he called, "I…. love you, so help me out of this!" he said, struggling to get out of Byakuran's embrace, Spanner only pointed at his face as if saying, 'me?' and shrugged.
"Naahh….I'd rather watch from the sideline, right, Miura?" he nudged the girl who's too absorbed in her own fantasy, she squeaked and nodded hurriedly. And there gone was Shoichi's only hope.
"Is Sho-chan cheating on me? What should I do, I wonder? Should I kill all of them so that there's only us?" murmured the white haired one slowly, effectively making everyone present there shuddered. "Just kidding, I wont care as long as Sho-chan is with me~" he hugged the poor boy tighter. "That's it, thanks for giving Sho-chan back to me, I missed him so much, bye." He said, walking away. Haru shuddered, and thought that the air conditioner is set with temperature a bit too low. That, or else something bad is coming. Her eyebrows knitted in concentration, trying to predict where will that bad thing going to pop out of. She scanned the audiences' seats.
"Oya…oya…what a fun show we have here," said a voice, sure enough coming from the VIP seats for the audiences, Haru was sure the one sitting there a few seconds ago was an old lady with her grandson, not a blue-haired man and a green haired teen, no at all. "You're good at guessing, Miura Haru." He said then.
"Oh, Mukuro-kun, fancy seeing you here," said Byakuran, smiling at the man as he released Shoichi from his embrace, an act that somehow brought a frown up on Shoichi's face. It seems like Byakuran was everywhere, because the next second he's right before the blue-haired man, "Tell me your reason? Hmm?" he asked the man, touching the other's face lightly. Spanner didn't bother to hide his chuckles as Shoichi's frown deepened, making the redhead elbowed him in the stomach.
"Are you planning to cheat right in front of your wife?" asked Mukuro back, with a smile as chilling as his tone. And the next few seconds, that Mukuro was replaced by a big stuffed frog. The green haired teen on the next seat finally spoke,
"Ah, that's my stuffed toy, so it was there…." He said, taking the toy on his lap, "Master, cant we go home now?"he asked, looking straight at the stage.
"Patient, little one," answered the so called master, then turned toward Haru, "I'm here to accompany my cute dear Chrome, she's in the back stage," he said, and Haru cant help to think:
'Then, why is Rokudo Mukuro here? it'd be dangerous!'
Unknown to Haru, Shoichi was also thinking the same thought, for different reason.
"Sit down, Byakuran. Let's talk for a bit, then I'd give Irie Shoichi for you, and I even will send him to you on his free time," said Reborn with the voice that held authority in it, Shoichi made a mental note; make sure to always have something to busy himself whenever Reborn is present, and only relax when he's away.
"Is that so? Then I guess spending some more time here isn't that bad. Nee, Sho-chan, aren't you happy, we could be together forever now!" he stated, forcing the redhead to sit beside him, then he stared at Spanner, challenging the blonde (who only huffed, and proceeded to walk away had Haru not beg him to stay). Shoichi instantly paled.
"Haru, the question." Ordered the baby, Haru squeaked in surprise, but managed to calm down and chose one of the cards that the baby gave her just now.
"Ha…hahi….when….when did the two of you started loving each other?" she asked, then added, 'let's started with Irie-san's answer first!" she stated cheerfully, forgetting her fear completely.
"Uh….I told you already…." Said the flushed redhead, Haru thought it's cute, but Spanner thought he's so pitiful in that state, without denying he looked cute.
"I heard nothing, so just answer it." Said Reborn menacingly. Shoichi gulped and in his fear unconsciously getting closer to Byakuran.
"Aaah…..Sho-chan, patient, you don't want me to suddenly jump on you here, right?" teased the man beside him. Shoichi instantly inched away, only to find his and Byakuran's hands are chained. He stared at the thing, and Byakuran said, "I hope you like this one, Sho-chan, don't worry, we have the other models at home." Shoichi seriously considered to commit a suicide there and then.
"Uhh….some time after we met, when we're in the same college." He said, only to shut Byakuran up.
"…Uhh…and…." Haru looked at Byakuran, wondering whether to call him with his family name or not, and if yes, what's his family name? but fortunately she didn't need to call him at all, Byakuran cheerfully piped,
"I always loved Sho-chan ever before I was born, I knew Sho-chan is the one destined for me." Shoichi froze, sweats dropping, face flushed in embarrassment. The audiences sounded happy thought, judging from their tone.
"Next question….Hahi?" Haru stated as she read the card, "Hahi….what do you see in the other that made you love him?" she asked, wondering why the baby prepared this kind of question, after all, it wasn't asked in the previous episodes.
"Uhh….I thought he was kind-hearted, a warm person and he's also smart…." Answered the redhead, purposefully forgetting to add 'Handsome' and gave emphasizes in the word 'was'.
"But, Sho-chan, I'm always kind toward you," replied the white-haired one, snuggling closer, "are you cold Sho-chan? Don't worry, we'll get warm as soon as we're alone." He said, smiling.
"Byakuran, the question." Said Reborn calmly.
"Mou…that's such a silly question, why should I answer that?" he replied, but remembered the prize he'd get home after, "I love everything about Sho-chan." Another embarrassing statement that made Shoichi hid his face with one of the couch pillow, and also made Spanner's stomach hurt from laughing so much, Shoichi instantly throw the pillow at the blonde.
"Hahi…it's today's last question," Haru stated once she feel bad atmosphere coming from the dangerous-looking man. "For Irie-san, which do you choose between your projects or Byakuran-san? And for Byakuran-san, which do you choose, Irie-san or your….." she paused at reading, wondering whether it's relevant or not, "…..marshmallow?"
"…..Byakuran-san, I guess…." Said Shoichi, "Just because that'd shut him for a while and I could get back to my projects right after!" he added quickly, avoiding the stares from everyone in that place.
"Sho-chan, don't be that embarrassed," Byakuran piped in, poking his cheek, inching closer to the redhead. "I'll chose Sho-chan of course, I'll give my marshmallows for him if he want them, I'll give everything for Sho-chan." He said, smiling sweetly.
"Ok, cancel all your plan to attack Vongola, forever, and I'll install peeping cam in every corner of Irie's room," Reborn started the bargain, with Byakuran as the head of his family, there's no telling when that would happen, "and bathroom," he added airily when Byakuran didn't respond.
"Deal~" said the other happily. Haru's face was as red as an apple, and by this point, Spanner was already sprawling on the ground, his energy gone after laughing the whole time.
'Poor Spanner-san' thought Haru, 'He's so in love with Irie-san that he became crazy…' she added, nodding to herself in understanding, and sent him pity stares when the blonde started roling on the ground.
How about Irie Shoichi? He chose to pretend he's in his lab, doing his project, and not here, being harassed (physically and verbally) by Byakuran, whom he's going to be sent to on his every single free times.
"Everyone! It's time for us to part! Let's thank our guests for accompanying us this whole time, thank you, everyone!" she said, followed by thousands of 'thank you's
"Ciaossu." Said Reborn simply.
"Now….Sho-chan and I have something to attend if you don't mind…." Said Byakuran cheerfully, standing, automatically forcing Shoichi to stand also. "Come on, Sho-chan…" he called. The redhead tried to unlock the chain, only to find out it's locked with keyword. He then turned his head.
"Hey, Spanner, we're friends, cant you at least be a knight in shining armor for this time?!" he yelled, panicked. The blonde only stared at him.
"….ok," he said finally, took out a gadget from his pocket, "You want to be saved by a shiny thing, right?" he stated. His statement followed by Haru's loud scream as King Mosca entered the stage once again. "Go." He said as he changed the robot's mode into 'Automatic' and set it up to a 'full range attack'.
"Not this again!!!" Haru's scream accompanied by Shoichi's.
AN: aa….I hope the length's enough to cover for the lack of update, yeah, exam ended a week ago, but there're make up exams that I need to do, so… *shrugs*