The following days at school, Katsumi was still bright as ever. No one noticed except for the people who were there. When Tsuna asked her if she was okay, she shook it off and said that it was going to happen sooner or later. He nodded hesitantly and chose to never to speak about it ever again. Everyone else in her class thought that she the same with her smile. A smile that they never noticed was forced.

Katsumi still trained with Hibari but the quality of her movements were gradually decreasing. He noticed this when his tonfas hit her in the arm and ended up fracturing it. Ever since then, there hasn't been training until she was in her top condition, otherwise there wouldn't any point. She was immediately dragged to the hospital by the perfect. He wanted to fight and defeat her in a fair battle – he had too much pride to defeat a girl in such a lowly state. However, he did wonder why she was getting weaker. He didn't want to lose a worthy opponent so quickly, especially when he hadn't bitten them to death yet.

To which that is the reason why Katsumi had been called to the disciplinary room. With her cast on it had taken her longer than usual and that irritated the perfect. He didn't like herbivores wasting his time so once she had arrived he threw his tonfas at her and she narrowly dodged. It went past her hair and lodged itself onto the wall. "Hey dinosaur, you're going to have to get a new wall," she pointed out after checking out the cracks. "Oh and, what did you want to talk to me about?" She was leaning on the wall, refusing to sit on the other couch. She didn't want to be caught off guard and get hit by one of his deadly tonfas. Who knows how many had been led into the same trick?
"You're going to sit down whether you like it or not," he growled, getting off from the window ledge and walked towards her. She pouted slightly before obediently sitting down on one of the couches. Hibari sat on the opposite couch and stared at her – well, more like he glared at her. Katsumi stared right back before tilting her head and smiling her bright smile. He wanted to puke right then and there but he had too much pride to. Her smiled was sickly sweet while her eyes, they… They were lifeless. "What happened?" he asked, irritated. Her eyes blinked in confusion before she voiced it.
"Huh? What now?" she cradled her casted arm close to her chest unconsciously. He eyed her suspiciously before slamming his weapon onto the coffee table.
"Don't try to lie to me," he growled harshly. "And stop with that sickly sweet and fake smile." Katsumi's smile faltered slightly and her eyesight drooped down to the floor. She brought her knees to her chest before failing trying to wrap her arms around them.
"Nothing happened," she mumbled out softly. Hibari raised his eyebrows at her when he suddenly felt déjà vu. He shook it off, dismissing the thought instantly before walking up to her and grabbing her wrist making her look up at him.
"If nothing happened then why are you crying?" he argued, trying his best not to growl. Like he had said tears were dripping off her face. She looked away, not daring herself to show her weak side to the person she was training. She bit her tongue so that she wouldn't say anything but something in the back of her mind made her spill it all out.

And that was she did. She struggled out of Hibari's iron grip and hugged her knees. She felt comfort from the same position she did many years ago when she met her one and only best friend.

A young small three year old girl was sitting on the ground in front of her preschool gates, crying her heart out. One arm was around her legs while the other was furiously rubbing her eyes. "Haha[7], chichi[8], doko[9]?" she sobbed uncontrollably. It was long past since the school ended but her parents still have not arrived. When she felt something tapping her on the shoulder she almost jumped in fear.
"Ne[10], daijoubu desu ka[11]?" a soft male voice asked. She turned her head to the voice and blinked once… twice… thrice… the person she saw was still there. She shook her head hesitantly before she was forced to stand. "C'mon then, my parents come really late too," he smiled. "I'll keep you company until your parents come." He dragged her to the kiddie's swings and forced her to sit on it. He pushed her slightly as a start and then slowly pushed her higher to the point she was giggling and screaming on the top of her lungs with joy.

Time passed quickly when the sun had set and her parents finally came. "Katsumi!" a high-pitched voice called out. The girl's ear perked up when she heard it that she almost fell off the swing in the process of hopping off. She ran to her mother's opened arms with her beaming smile. Before she left she turned and glanced at the person who was standing beside the gate, waving softly.
"Ah! Onamae wa nani desu ka?![12]" she called out. The boy answered but she couldn't hear it, only the first part was heard when the wind carried it to her. 'Kyo…' She wasn't sure what the rest of his name was bust she waved furiously and yelling out an 'arigatou gozaimashita![13]'. Her father came back and suddenly swung her in the air, giving her a ride on his back on the way home.

Katsumi suddenly felt a pat on her head when she had finished her story. She turned her head to the male in surprise only to see his back as he was looking away. "Just… Just let it out," he softly chided. Her eyes widened in astonishment that the dinosaur had feelings. She didn't know why but his soft command was all it took for her to sob uncontrollably into her legs. She felt Hibari patting her on the head and normally she would never let anyone do it because she hated it. But in the perfect's case it somehow soothed her. He just softly patted her on the head with no expression whatsoever while she cried and cried.

Outside, the perfect's right-hand man Kusakabe winced in when he heard the crying. "Kyo-san made another girl cry…" he sighed deeply. He was away dealing with some other matters when Katsumi arrived so he wouldn't know it was her. If he did know then he obviously wouldn't say something like that, right?

Glossary #2:

[7] Haha (はは)– Mother, the humble version. It is used when you're talking about your own mother.

[8] Chichi (ちち) – Father, the humble version. It is used when you're talking about your own father.

[9] Doko? (どこ?) – Where?

[10] Ne (ね) – Hey.

[11] Daijoubu desu ka? (だいじょうぶ です か?) – Are you okay?

[12] Onamae wa nani desu ka? (おなまえ は なに です か?) – What's your name? Please note that in the Japanese language, the は (or ha) is a particle wa so meaning, we use that if we want to talk about something not the hiragana わ (wa).

[13] Arigatou gozaimashita! (ありがとう ございました!) – Thank you very much, the past tense.

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