Maaan, this have been taking me, like, ForEVER! Sorry for not updating, the Zombie had a small lack of inspiration. Dx
Let's see now... Thanks to Elliott for plot-ideas, Q for beta-reading and to Kira-senpai for her useful advices!
/Zombie-chan~
As Fran came home that afternoon, he had headed straight to the bathroom. No one was home yet and he needed to take a shower; wash everything away...
It wasn't before he stepped out again he saw his silhouette in the mirror and almost gasped at the image.
The bite-marks. They were still sore, he realized, and there was no way those bloody red gashes could not be seen in contrast to his pale skin.
'What am I going to do?'
Fran dried himself off and headed back to his bedroom. He locked the door, put on some clean clothes and collapsed on his bed.
And here he was now.
"Fran? Fran, please open the door!" His mum knocked on his bedroom-door for what seemed to be the thousand time "Is there something wrong? We can talk about it."
"Leave me alone. I'm tired."
"…Fran, what happened?" She sounded seriously worried. "If there's something… Are you listening? I'm your mother, you can trust me."
Fran didn't move an inch from his bed. If he'd opened up, his mum would come in… and she would see…
What would she see? The marks, of course.
Fran hated to lie to his mum, but this time, he simply couldn't. It wouldn't be a good idea to tell her that he had been harassed by the school's worst bully. She would surely make a huge fuss of it and Fran would only sink deeper in trouble.
"Fran, please answer me. What is it?"
"I'm fine… just tired. I'm going to sleep."
"What about dinner?"
"I'm not hungry."
"…Okay." his mum became quiet for a minute before adding "If there's something wrong… then come talk to me. I promise we'll solve it, you and I."
"…Thanks mum."
As he woke up next morning, the first thing on his mind was one simple yet important question: How the hell was he going to hide it? Skipping school would be impossible – he didn't want to get into more trouble than necessary, and his mum would surely think something was wrong and make it ten times worse. He sighed, wondering if he was allowed to wear a scarf in class.
'Probably not… plus that it will catch too much attention…'
Wait… what about that shirt he never used… He crawled out of bed and opened his closet.
'Somewhere in this mess…'
He found it deep inside the closet, took it out and looked at it. It was a dark blue, long-sleeved polo shirt. Meaning high collar.
'I can always wear another t-shirt over it.'
He first glanced up and down the school's hallway. He didn't want to run in to foes the first he did in the morning and he was lucky. He made it all the way to his locker without meeting anyone he didn't want to meet.
"Hi Fran" he heard a voice say from behind him. Fran turned around to see the brown, untamed hair of Tsuna.
"Morning."
"How're you doing?" Tsuna lowered his voice so the other students around them couldn't hear. "What happened yesterday?"
"Nothing out of the ordinary."
"…Really?"
'Idiotic question…'
"No, I'm just kidding you. He hit me unconscious, raped me and left me to die."
"Shishi, now don't overreact froggy. I wasn't that cruel, was I?"
Tsuna gasped.
'…Oh, damn it.'
There was nowhere to escape to. With a sigh Fran turned his head to look at his antagonist from the corner of his eyes as he answered: "You've never heard of sarcasm, senpai?"
"Of course I have, silly frog" The older boy walked up beside him [3] "It's nice to see that you followed orders and came to school, by the way."
"Like I wouldn't have anyway. I don't want to end on the street for failing school."
"Shishishi, stupid froggy… But, what's this?"
The younger felt him suddenly tugging his polo shirt.
"It's a shirt. You wear them, you know."
"Stop being sarcastic frog. Take it off."
"…Excuse me?"
"You heard me. It hides all the marks" the blonde added and tugged the collar of the shirt.
"Senpai, stop it."
"Take it off then."
"I'm not going to strip in the middle of school, stupid senpai."
It had suddenly became quiet in the corridor. The most of the students were now paying attention to the both arguing, and some looked really worried; Tsuna was one of them.
"You better, or I'll use force." Bel took a hold of Fran's wrists, a big grin on his lips.
"If you're trying to scare me, you fail."
"So you want more marks? Shishishi~"
"Is there a problem here?"
Everyone's attention was now turned to the teacher in the end of the hallway, who was standing there eyeing the both students with a very calm smile on his face.
"You're picking a fight now again, Belphegor? Haven't we talked about not bullying new students before?"
The blonde snorted.
"As if you can order me around, you stupid pineapple. I can do whatever I want."
"Not today, sorry" Mukuro said and walked to them "Let go of him. Now."
"Shishishi, and if I refuse?"
"…You really want to play with the fire?"
The silence was so thick you might have been able to touch it. All the students waited for the senior-student's answer.
"Hmpf, fine then." Shocked stares as Bel suddenly let go of Fran. "I'll save it for later."
When Bell disappeared around a corner, Fran felt a hand on his shoulder.
"Didn't I tell you that you could come to me if anything was troubling you?"
"If you couldn't see it, I was pretty stuck, Mukuro-sensei."
The teacher let out a soft 'kufufufu'-sounding chuckle. "But from now on, okay?"
"Okay then."
"Good." the blue-haired man gave Fran a smile and headed back the way he came.
"Woah…" Tsuna said while looking after the disappearing man with amazement. "That was scary…"
