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Hibari was being mean!

Mei pouted slightly as she walked through Namimori, she didn't quite know where she was headed, and she was pretty sure she didn't have any money. She reached into the pocket of her dark blue jeans and pulled out crumpled 300 yen and Mei's face dropped. Although, it was better than nothing, but Mei couldn't really think of anything substantial to buy with that amount.

Also, Mei couldn't help but wonder what time was she supposed to go back to Hibari's house, after all, he had told her to come back 'later'. And she had no idea what she was going to do while she was banned from the house.

The face of a tall, wall-like man flashed in her mind, Yamamato wasn't it? She wished she could run into him so they could hang out. But, she sighed, she didn't have his phone number and there was a very little chance that she would run into him and even if she did, Mei had a feeling that the loud silverette would be with Yamamato, they seemed to give off the impression that they were a package deal. A shudder passed through Mei's small body. Although she still didn't want to think bad thoughts about someone she just met, she couldn't help but think that the two of them were not going to get along if they ran into each other again.

Well, at least she had her phone with her! Mei decided to count that as a good thing until she remembered that she didn't have Hibari's house phone number, or Hibari's cell. Stopping for a moment Mei wondered if Hibari even owned a cell phone, it's true she didn't know him all that well, but he didn't quite strike her as the type to call people.

Passing by a small café Mei immediately doubled back, what was this? A bookshop with a café in it? Hearts formed in Mei's eyes as she discovered what she would do for the rest of the day. Granted, she couldn't actually buy a book, but it didn't cost anything to read!

The auburn-haired girl was so happy to have finally found a bookstore in this small town that she failed to practice any form of caution as she rounded a corner coming down the stairs that led into the bookshop/café. As a result she crashed into another unsuspecting person coming up the stairs. However, because the person she crashed into seemed to be the same size as her they both ended up falling back. Mei landed on the floor. It seemed that the girl she crashed in to had a better sense of balance and coordination because she didn't fall, however, she did end up dropping her bag of groceries on the floor.

"I'm sorry!"

"I'm so sorry!" The two girls exclaimed at the same time bowing profusely to each other in apology.

'Seriously?' Mei's subconscious screamed at her. 'Because of you we've ended up on the floor twice in one day!'

"I really sorry." The other girl apologised again. Mei couldn't help but notice that the girl's hair was an impressive shade of blue and was cut in a very interesting style, a pineapple maybe?

"No-no!" Mei protested. "I really should have been looking where I was going."

The two of them finally stopped bowing to each other, and straightened up. Mei was happy to notice that the two of them were the same height; she had been meeting way too many tall people lately.

"Oh my gosh!" green eyes fell on the blue-haired girl's grocery bag, or what was left of her grocery bag, it had split open and its contents were no scattered all over the floor, the eggs had obviously not survived the fall and the egg goo was oozing out from the egg carton. "I'm so sorry! Let me help you clean this up!"

"Oh no," The blue-haired girl protested. "It's quite alright!"

"No, I bumped into you, so I'll help you clean it up." Mei declared.

Eye patch and blue eye met green eyes and the two girls nodded in consent, both of them bent down and began picking up the salvageable groceries.

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"Thank you for coming with me Mei-chan, you really didn't have to." The blue haired girl exclaimed gratefully.

"It's no problem Chrome; I needed something to do anyway!" Mei smiled as she shifted the bag in her arm to the other. "Plus, I'm happy to have made a female friend finally!"

"Are you new here?" Chrome inquired in her quite voice.

"Yup, just moved here around two month ago, but I haven't got around to meeting too many girls!" Mei answered happily.

The two girls walked in comfortable silence. They had just come from grocery shopping to replace the spilt food items, in the end the females had bought way more than the blue haired girl had in the first place, and Mei and effectively spent all of her money on candy. But the two girls had become fast friends, despite the fact that they were almost polar opposites. Mei was just happy to have met someone as short as her.

"Hey," the silence was broken by none other than Mei, "where are we headed?"

The blue-haired girl's eyes widened. "Oh I'm so sorry. I was headed to my house, but you really don't have to walk me all the way there."

"Oh, it's really no problem, you can't carry all these bags by yourself! And I need something to do anyway."

"I could manage-"

"No," Mei decided that she was going to have to lay down the law on this one. "I want to go to your house, so lead the way Chrome!"

Chrome was more than happy to.

After twenty minutes of walking the two small girls reached a modest looking apartment building, nice, but not over the top.

Mei watched quietly as Chrome produced a pineapple keychain from her pocket. 'Wow, I guess I wasn't imagining the whole pineapple theme.'

"Well, this is it!" Chrome turned to face the auburn-haired girl. "Do you want to come in?"

Mei smiled, "Sure!"

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"AHHHHH!" Mei fell out of her chair landing on the floor in front of the TV, Chrome let out a giggle. This wasn't the first time the green eyed girl fell out of her seat on the couch during the movie.

After Mei had helped Chrome bring the groceries in the two girls had got to talking (Well, Mei talked, Chrome listened – you get the picture) in a way that only girls can. Mei ended up helping the blue-haired girl make dinner, (Chrome didn't seem to be that big on meat, for that Mei was thankful) eat dinner, clean up and then the two females decided to watch a movie. Mei was all for it, Hibari hadn't seemed to want her back home soon anyway.

The movie they were watching was 'The Ring', Mei was not good with horror movies, at all. But she did not feel the need to point that little issue out when Chrome suggested the movie. Hence Mei was screeching to appropriately scary parts in the movie.

Chrome wasn't quite sure what to make of her jumpy new friend, but after a while she decided that Mei's outbursts were quite funny, and settled on watching both her and their movie. As Chrome though, both also provided equal entertainment.

As the dead girl climbed out of the TV in the movie Mei's eye's widened to almost comic proportions and she scrambled back onto the couch glancing distrustfully at the frame of the flat screen TV.

Sending a quick glance over towards the wide eyed girl Chrome smiled before turning her attention back towards the TV. It wouldn't be long now before –

"AHHHHH!" Mei let out a shriek yet again.

Another smiled graced Chrome's pretty features; she loved it when she was right.

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Hibari licked his lips as he looked down at the auburn-haired herbivore so nicely draped across his lap.

Now that I've got your attention. I would very much appreciate it if people could tell me whether or not you guys want other pairings in this story. I will do Yaoi or Het, whatever you guys what.

And yes, this is a random authors note in the middle of the chapter. =)

Now feel free to continue the story! Thanks for reading!

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The movie had just finished and Mei was still staring distrustfully at the TV, half expecting that scary girl to crawl right out of the TV and kill her.

Mei moved her gaze over to her phone trying to calm herself down, the phone hadn't rung yet so that meant that she wasn't going to get a phone call and that ment that the little girl wasn't going to kill her in seven days!

Yes, Mei assured herself, the phone hadn't rung at all today, she was perfectly safe!

Her cell phone ring sounded and Mei went pale.

She had half a mind to simply throw the phone against the wall, but she really didn't want to have to buy a new phone. Hand shaking Mei picked up the small white phone – no caller ID! Mei took in a deep breath and answered the call.

"I REALLY DON'T WANT TO DIE IN SEVEN DAYS! I'M SORRY I WATCHED THE MOVIE AND-"

"Is this Mei-san?" A voice cut off her desperate plea for her life.

Hope was given back to Mei; the voice on the other end of the line was definitely not female, thus could not be the dead girl from the movie!

"Um, yes, who is this?" Mei answered the voice on the phone politely now that she was pretty certain the person on the other end of the line was not a dead girl about to kill her.

"This is Kusakabe Testsuya, I work for Kyou-san!"

"Oh, right! How's it going?" Mei had never actually met Kusakabe-san, but she had heard enough about him on occasion, and she already knew that he was quite close to Hibari, like a personal assistant of sorts. That's probably why he called Hibari-san Kyou-san.

"Quite well Mei-san, thank you. But may I ask to whom you were talking to when you picked up the phone?"

"Oh," a light blush spread across Mei's cheeks, she definitely wasn't going to say that she had been talking to a fiction character from a movie, that was just silly! "Don't worry about it Kusakabe-san, it was nothing important."

"Alright," Kusakabe said slowly before going right to the point. "Kyou-san has told me to inform you that his meeting will not be finished for quite some time." Kusakabe paused.

Mei took this pause as a chance to hope that she would be allowed to come back to Hibari's house now, even though the meeting wasn't done. She didn't have anywhere else to go and she didn't want to infringe on Chrome's privacy, especially after she had been so nice and invited her to stay for dinner and a movie.

Kusakabe continued on, Mei crossed her fingers. "As such, Kyou-san also wished to inform you that he does not want you anywhere near the house until his meeting has finished."

A sigh escaped Mei's mouth at those words, and she slowly uncrossed her fingers. "Oh, that's alright Kusakabe-san, do you have any idea when Hibari-san might be finished his meeting?" Mei asked in a resigned tone of voice.

"I'm sorry Mei-san, but I have no idea. Do you have anywhere you can go?" Kusakabe's voice seemed to take on a gentler quality as he talked to his boss's wife.

"Eh?" Mei realized that she might have sounded a little lost before so she decided to adopt a lighter tone of voice. "Don't worry about me Kusakabe-san, I'm quite alright where I am so I'll be fine for a while longer." She would hate it if someone she never met was worried about her.

"Well, if you're sure Mei-san."

"Yep, Totally 100% sure, I'll be perfectly fine!"

"Goodbye Mei-san."

"Bye Kusakabe-san!" Mei waved goodbye into the phone, oblivious to the fact that Kusakabe couldn't actually see her as they both hung up.

Mei frowned and snapped her phone shut. Hibari was being so mean! "Stupid!" Mei growled out sticking her tongue out at the phone before chucking it at the couch.

"Ano, Mei-chan what's wrong?" Chrome came back from using the bathroom.

"Eh, oh it's nothing much Chrome." An imaginary light bulb flashed above Mei's head as she had a naughty idea. "It's just my roommate had his guy friend come over and they kicked me out of the house, he just called to say that I couldn't come back anytime soon." Mei shrugged as if getting kicked out of the house happened all the time.

"I'm so sorry Mei-chan." Chrome immediately replied. "But if they're two guys why would you have to leave the house?"

"I'm not really too sure myself." Leaning forward conspiratorially Mei whispered, "But I think the two of them might be gay, so they might have wanted me out of the house so they could…." Mei really didn't want to say or even think the rest of the sentence, even though it would be funny to see Hibari with a pink feather boa!

Chrome's eye widened in understanding and Mei inwardly giggled, 'Haha, take that Hibari-san!'

"O-oh well, you can stay at my place since your roommate kicked you out." Chrome offered quietly.

"Eh, really Chrome? I mean I don't want to be any trouble! I'm sure I could find somewhere else to go!"

"It's fine, I want you to stay!"

Sparkles formed in Mei's eyes as she pictured Chrome with a halo and wings. "Thank you so much!" Mei grabbed Chrome's hands in her own, eyes still sparkling. "You really saved me there."

A bit taken back by her more outgoing friend's outburst Chrome couldn't help but blink in shock. "Aah, it's quite alright Mei-chan."

Letting go of Chrome's hands Mei followed the blue-haired girl into the kitchen, and watched as she put another bag of microwave popcorn into the microwave to cook.

Mei just watched, she wondered how long she was going to end up staying here for.

"Did you want to watch another movie?" Chrome asked, looking away from the microwave.

"…Is it going to be scary?"

"Yes?" Chrome thought to pose the answer in the form of a question.

Mei just grinned, "Yea! Let's do this!" She pumped her fists in the air looking way too enthusiastic for someone that was going to most likely end up screaming and on the floor from fright.

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Groaning, Mei shifted in her sleep, and threw her arm over her head. She had ended up staying the night at Chrome's place, her phone died on her and Chrome insisted that she stay over. So after two more horror movie's Mei ended up falling asleep quite comfortably on the soft couch. Chrome had lent her a pillow and blanket after all.

Someone bustling about in the kitchen woke Mei up and she let out another small groan of annoyance. Light flooded behind her eyelids so she kept them closed.

Soft footsteps made their way over to where Mei was laying on the couch and a shadow was cast over Mei's face.

Figuring it must be Chrome coming to see if she was up Mei let her eyes slowly flutter open.

The blurry image of blue pineapple-shaped hair towering over her presented itself to her, although Mei's vision wasn't exactly clear she figured it must be Chrome. After all, how many people have blue pineapple-shaped hair?

"Chrome?" She asked in a vague sounding scratchy voice.

She blinked again, hoping to clear away the last vestiges of sleep from her eyes.

"Oya oya!" A deep voice came from above her.

A Mei's vision adjusted to the light she realized that there was no way the figure standing in front of her could be Chrome, his figure was much bigger and more male looking.

Suddenly realizing there was a stranger in front of her Mei promptly freaked out and fell off the couch to land, face down, at the strange man's feet.

Turning her face around best she could while still plastered against the floor she examined the new comer. He looked exactly like Chrome, except he was male of course, and much taller and more muscular and he looked a little older. But his hair colour and style was exactly the same and both Chrome and the man had the exact same left eye colour. However, where Chrome's right eye was covered by an eye patch this man's eye was a pretty red colour. There was only one thing this man could be:

"Chrome's dad?" Mei asked incredulously

The mismatched eyes widened for a millisecond, he had never heard that one before. "Actually no, I am not nearly old enough to be dear Chrome's father. And who might you be?" The man that was apparently not Chrome's father reached down a black gloved hand for Mei to take.

"I'm Aizawa Mei, but you can just call me Mei!" Once she was back on her feet she introduced herself, she also couldn't help but notice that he was also incredibly tall.

A sly smile crossed the man's face as he looked at the honest, oblivious face of the younger girl blinking sleepily at him, her smaller hand still in his larger one. "I am Rokudo Mukuro, wonderful to make your acquaintance Mei-chan." On a whim he bent down and brought his lips to the back of Mei's hand.

That woke Mei up all the way, her green eyes widened to a nearly impossible size and a crimson red rapidly spread across her cheeks, Mukuro's smile widened further, Mei's hand went limp in the larger hand holding it and she started stuttering nonsense. A familiar gleam made its way into the male's mismatched eyes, it was clear that this one would be fun to play with.

"No offense or anything," Mei said once she had gained control of her limbs. "But if you're not Chrome's dad, then who are you?"

"Why I am simply someone very close to my Chrome, however we are not related."

Mei blinked and decided to ignore the fact that this Mukuro didn't really answer her question at all. As Mei was trying to think of another question that would make Mukuro's relationship with Chrome's more clear, the blue-haired male grabbed onto her shoulders from behind and guided the oblivious girl out of the living room.

"How do you know Chrome?" Mukuro inquired as he firmly steered the sleepy eyed girl into the kitchen.

"Oh," Mei let out a yawn as she was pushed into a chair "I just met her yesterday, I ran into her and she dropped her stuff, so we had to buy more stuff, but we bought a lot of stuff so Chrome couldn't carry it all so I helped her carry it back, then we watched lots of movies and by the time we finished it was way late so I stayed here." Mei finished all in one breath; she looked up only to find that this Mukuro wasn't paying attention at all. She decided to do the mature thing; she stuck out her tongue at the male's back.

"I saw that."

A pink tongue belonging to a certain small, auburn-haired girl was promptly put back in its respectable place.

"Mukuro-sama?" Chrome was standing in the doorway blue hair mussed and eye patch askew.

"Aah, Chrome-chan, I see you're awake. I have something I simply must discuss with you."

"Of course Mukuro-sama."

That sounded familiar. It was right about now that Mei decided that it would be a good time to leave.

"Chrome, thanks so much for having me, but I think I should be heading home soon."

Two blue heads turned towards Mei.

"Are you sure Mei-chan? You're welcome to stay here."

"Nah," Mei replied standing up from her seat. "I think its all clear back with my roommate." She couldn't help but send a discreet wink towards Chrome.

Chrome giggled and blushed lightly, and Mukuro shot a look at both of the younger girls.

Chrome looked pleadingly at Mukuro and he silently nodded back. Chrome let a pretty smile dominate her face at Mukuro's apparent consent.

"Well Mei-chan, if you ever need a place to stay feel free to come back here."

Sparkles reappeared in Mei's eyes and she lunged for Chrome yet again, enveloping the now startled girl in a hug. "Thanks so much Chrome, you're an Angel!"

Chrome just kept on smiling and walked the other girl to the door, Mukuro stuck around before pouncing right before Mei was about to walk out the apartment door.

"It was lovely meeting you Mei-chan! And your welcome to stay at my place anytime."

"Eh?" Mei cocked her head to the side, "This is-?"

Mukuro grinned. "It is."

Mei opened her mouth and appeared to have something to say, perhaps an apology for staying at his house without his permission.

Mukuro abruptly silenced her with another kiss to the back of the small girls hands and he sent her on her way, pretending he didn't notice the way her face lit up with a blush, or the way her mouth opened and closed like a fish out of water. At least he managed to keep her from spouting the apologetic nonsence that he was sure was about to come out of her mouth.

'Yes,' Mukuro concluded, 'This one will make a very amusing toy.'


A/N: Enter Chrome and Mukuro!~ In case your wondering; no this won't be a love triangle fic, and no Mukuro does not like Mei, amuses him nothing more.~

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