A/N: Hello, hello! Well, I couldn't try out for softball, sadly, since I banged up my ankle. Fear not! It's healing. I think. But, I signed up for stage crew for my school's production: Peter Pan! & I've been reading the Iron Fey series which is definitely worth reading for fantasy people. Trust me. You will not be disappointed. I've been losing few hours of sleep too... ^^'' oh well.

AWE-some-NESS-bLaH; Don't worry! On my profile, I have a list of animes that I started but never finished... I should really finish them. Like, I watched the first episode of Death Note, and never finished the rest of the series. I think I made it up to episode thirty in Shugo Chara. Yeah, I can't imagine normal USA backpacks on them as well... Americians are weird, haha. I'd much prefer to live in Japan and I'd actually feel like I'd fit in. :P I'm such an otaku.

And I won't worry, I guess. Haha, it just interested me. :O Thanks so much, haha. Yes, quite useful. I make sounds when I'm reading stories. =_='' I'll take a moment to pause from a book and yell. At the book. Or make some indiginifed sounds. Or just stare at the book in disbelief at what a character has done or what happened. Or make an exaggerated sob. You get the point.

Chibisu's an interesting character, isn't she? She does, I guess. Like the basics, (more like hello, bye, where's the bathroom, the necessities.) but I would hardly call that knowing a language. And OC means "original character", and OOC means "out of character". Now you know, haha.

And it's fine, I don't mind long reviews :) I enjoy it, matter of fact. Haha. And thanks so much! Top favorite? Blushies. lol. That's so nice, but I don't think I would be the top :p I'm not that skilled, there's always room for improvement! (like my spelling.)

I'm not like sixteen or something, or higher, so I'm a bit young, I suppose. :p (I'm somewhere between 13-15) Anyway, I read a lot of books and whatnot, so I learn a few things. :P

Lost Canvas; Maybe I will, maybe I won't, it depends on what happens :p I might be able to slip it in or something, but I dunno. I feel like the plot's going very slowly. Oh well. I've been getting lots of positive reviews, so it's okay, I guess. She's 153 cm, I think she would, but who knows. Possibly. Hibari's like 169 cm, so he can reach it preeetty easy. And, no, that wasn't the Valentine's Day chapter haha. There might be several chapters before it, cause I wanna do the snowball fight and such. Maybe I'll just smush it all into one big chapter for you guys. That'd take a while, but whatever you guys like, I'm fine with it. :p Meh. I'm just gonna do it next chapter, if you don't mind a two day time skip. And yes, I'm updating haha. It lets me know you guys are reading my story haha.

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A week had past when I accepted- excuse me, let me rephrase that- forced to be Hibari's maid in exchange to be part of the Disciplinary Committee. I hardly had time to see Tsuna and friends because Hibari was a bossy person, wanting me to clean this, organize that which left me little time to socialize. But I did it efficiently, unless I found the task a bit tedious and stupid. Which often led me to be bitten to death. I was sent to the hospital once or twice throughout the week, fortunately, I still had Shamal's pills that allowed me to heal rather quickly.

I had missed Tsuna's New Year party because Hibari made me do paperwork that day. I had begged a lot that day, 'cause Dino was gonna be there, and I wanted to see him again. He reminded me of Tsuna, I guess. "MY LITTLE TUNA FISH! I MISS HIM SO MUCH!" I wailed, doing paperwork in the reception room at school. We were the only ones there at school- correction, I was the only one at school. On a Sunday. And on top of that, it was snowing, but Hibari, being the little grumpy person he is, wouldn't let me play in it.

I was sitting at my desk put in the corner near Hibari's desk, where I assume he put me there so he could keep a close watch on me. Hibari ordered me to do a stack of paper work and I had to comply. He would bite me to death if I didn't. I watched the snowflakes fall quietly outside, and I longed to be in the snow, throwing snowballs at people. Hibari was outside, claiming he had important business to attend to, but he ordered me to stay here. I hear several shouts outside the building and raised an eyebrow.

I dropped the pen back onto the desk and buttoned several buttons of the Disciplinary Committee jacket and grabbed my scarf. I wrapped the soft cloth around my neck, and trudged outside, regardless of Hibari's orders. When I was heading down the steps to the exit, I heard a loud groan, then trembles. I clutch onto the railing to prevent myself from falling.

"What the heck is this?" I groaned, and pushed the door open. My mouth fell wide open when I see a big turtle on school premises. I resisted the urge to run up and poke it. I didn't want to aggravate the thing. I slowly edge along the school walls and I hear some familiar voices.

"Bianchi, Ryohei Sasagawa, and I-Pin are out of the game." I jog toward the voice and I was surprised (not really) to see Reborn in a... caveman outfit on a stand with Tsuna looking like he was freaking out. "Ah, ciaossu, Chibisu," he greets.

"Chibisu-chan!" I hear a familiar voice call to me. I swerve around to find Yamamoto and Dino in a giant snowball. What did I miss? "Hey! We're just having our snowball fight." I grimaced. This was a snowball fight? What kind of snowball fights have turtles? Large ones, I might add.

"Hey, Chibisu," Dino greets, and I wave meekly in response.

"We're having a snowball fight," Reborn said as if that explained the big snowball that Yamamoto and Dino were in and the huge turtle. "Don't worry bout it." I hesitantly nod, nothing ever good comes from Reborn. Tsuna stops freaking out momentarily to notice me.

"Eh? Chibisu?" Tsuna gawks. "Why are you here? In your Disciplinary Committee jacket?"

"Hibari wanted me to wear it. He said that I was to do paper work in the reception room," I huff. "He left me all alone." Tsuna blinks, and a green car comes zooming past.

"T-That's right! I'm the only one left in the game!" he says. I frown, saddened by the fact that I had missed a game. "I need to get Leon-Turbo!" He starts to race after it, and I chase after him, wanting some exercise from being cooped up so long. Tsuna starts to dive for the Leon-Turbo and the car drives just out of his reach. He gets up only to find that the car was picked up by someone.

"H-Hibari-San!" Tsuna cried.

"What's this? Also what's with that big turtle?" he questioned. Then he saw me. "And what are you doing outside the reception room not doing your work?" I pouted, and stuck my tongue out. He gives me an amused glance.

"What were you doing huh? Leaving me all alone in the reception room! Do you know how bored I was?" I scolded. He shrugs.

"I was in the mood for a snowball fight. Although I just throw them at people without their consent." I twitched. I wanted to do that! I take a glance at Tsuna, and he looked like he was in disbelief. Shaking my head, I stomped up to Hibari and he glared at me.

"Is this what you call important matters?"

"Of course," he replies. "No winter is complete if I don't throw snowballs at people." So he was able to lounge around in the snow while I had to do stupid paperwork. I scoffed and look at the toy car in his hand. It had transformed into a green ball and was shaking uncontrollably. I snatched it out of his hand and gave it to Tsuna.

"Run along now," I told him. He muttered his thanks, but stayed with me. I rolled my eyes. Hibari had an impassive face and walked away, probably to throw more snowballs at victims.

"Get back to your work," he tells me. I frown, and crouch down to form a snowball. Just as he was about to leave school premises, I tossed the snowball and it hit him on his shoulder. He froze, and the air just suddenly got a lot colder. A murderous intent starting to come from him. Tsuna squeaked, and Leon turned back into a car and drove back to Reborn.

He pulls his tonfas out, and I shiver. "I'll bite you to death," he says, his voice calm. I start backing away, and looked at Reborn. My mouth dropped open when he was casually sleeping in a little hammock that came from out of nowhere. I sighed mentally, of course he wasn't going to help. When I looked for Hibari, he was already gone.

I blinked, confused, and looked around. "HIII!" I hear Tsuna yell. "Look out!" I turn around in time to see a tonfa slam into my rib cage. I widen my eyes, all the air knocked out of me. He brings his second tonfa and slams it into my side and the impact sends me to the iron fence.

"C-Chibisu!"

I glare at him, and shakily get up, using the iron fence for support. I hope I wasn't going to go to the hospital again. I looked around for something I could use as a weapon. Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything that could fight off his tonfas, so I had to rely on myself. He rushes up to me, getting ready for another strike, but I was ready for him. I sidestep his swing, and duck at his second tonfa. I roll out of the way and end up behind Hibari.

I aim a kick at his back, but he whirls around and blocks it with his tonfas. He pushes back, making me fall into the snow. Tsuna helps me up, and I accept his help. I push him away and he falls into the snow, and I jumped out of the way before Hibari managed to land another hit on me.

He runs up to me, and I sidestep him, heading towards the school gates. I need to find a weapon! I bite my lip when I hear Hibari charging after me. My scarf was starting to become undone, and was flapping in the wind. I grimaced, and I decided I had to use the scarf as a temporary weapon. I slid to a stop, and Hibari was right behind me. I turned around and used the scarf to stop his first tonfa from hitting me.

The fabric was about to rip, it was barely able to hold the tonfa from touching me. Using the scarf, I placed it over the tonfa and pushed down, bringing his weight down. He stumbled and I took that opportunity to use my hands and press against his back and jump over him.

Similar to leap frog.

He fell face first in the snow as I ran back to school premises. I had dropped my scarf when I had used it to bring Hibari down, and my neck was freezing. I was going to need another scarf. Tsuna was there, witnessing the whole event near the gate, and I crashed into him, not able to stop.

I fell on top of him, and the air was knocked out from my lungs. I groaned, and laid on Tsuna for a minute or two, the aftermath of Hibari's tonfas hitting me finally taking effect. "Are you alright?" Tsuna asks, gently sitting up, and letting me lie on his lap. I groaned loudly and he winced. "I guess not."

"She'll be fine," I hear Reborn say. I looked up at Tsuna and saw him looking concerned. I rolled my eyes. I wanted to tell him I'd be fine, but currently, I'm just kinda lazy. I mean, who would wanna talk right after Hibari jabs his tonfas into their stomach? I close my eyes and listen to Tsuna's breathing.

I feel him stiffen and I guess Hibari came stalking back. "Ciaossu, Hibari."

"Infant," he acknowledges gruffly. I opened one eye to take a look at him. His raven hair was slightly ruffled and a few scratches were on his face from the floor. Otherwise, he was just fine. I wish I could say the same for me though, my insides ached like crazy.

"How is your maid?" I turned my back on Hibari, putting my face in Tsuna's shirt.

"Fine," he replies, "although she can do better." I stiffened. Did Hibari really just complement me? "But I quickly take care of that when I offer her motivation." I winced, his idea of motivation involved me being in the hospital and/or aching insides.

"Wonderful," Reborn replies. I can feel Hibari's gaze on my back, drilling holes into them. "I take it that you will accept our deal?" Deal? What deal?

"...Yes," he answers. I looked at Tsuna, he looked utterly confused.

"Deal? What deal?" he asks.

"None of your concern, Dame-Tsuna!" Reborn says while he launches a kick onto his face, knocking him onto his side. My back hit the snow, and I shivered. I scrambled to get off of Tsuna's lap, and got up. I offered him my hand, and he gratefully accepted it.

I turned around, and Hibari was staring at me with this unreadable expression. "Ne, Hibari, are you okay?" I ask. He turns his head, and starts walking away. "What's up in his butt?" I ask Tsuna. He shakes his head, and I turn to Reborn.

"Oh yeah," I say, "what deal are you talking about?" He tilts his fedora back, and doesn't answer me.

"Are you coming or not?" Hibari asks me, all of his murderous intent gone, but there was something else I just couldn't place my finger on. I nod, and wave good bye to Tsuna and Reborn. Reborn waves lazily and Tsuna nods at me, waving.

I rush after Hibari, and stand by his side. "Are you okay?" I ask again.

"If you think you can injure me, you are strongly mistaken," he replies. I frown, I wasn't talking about that. But the glare he gave me told me to just drop the subject, so I did. We continue to walk in silence, but it didn't bother me, I was thinking about the deal they were talking about.

"Hibari," I asked.

"What?"

"What was Reborn talking about?"

"Talking about what?" Either he was trying to play innocent, or he was just doing this to annoy me. Probably both.

"The deal," I answered angrily. He continued walking and looking ahead as if I had never answered. I poked his arm repeatedly. "Hibari, tell me about the deal!" I continued poking his arm and he sent me such a malicious glare that I whimpered in fear and stopped.

He sighed, "It's nothing you should be worried about," he replied. I blinked. Why wasn't anyone telling me anything? Nonetheless, I decided to drop the subject. "I have some important matters to attend to," he informs me. "Stay here."

"No way mister! If you're going to throw snowballs at people I wanna come!" He pinched the bridge of his nose and raked his hand through his hair, giving me a frustrated look.

"It's not that," he says, "I just have to attend to some delinquents Kasakabe informed me about."

"Suya-kun?" Hibari stiffens when I say that, but it was gone so quickly that I didn't know if I imagined that. "Well, okay... But come back as quickly as possible! I'm hungry," I tell him. He stuffs his hand in his pocket and pulls out several bills.

"Here," he says while handing them to me, "go buy some food and come right back to this spot. Understand me?"

"Eto... are you sure I can have this?" I ask.

"Hurry up and take it before I change my mind," he replies. I take the money and stuff it gingerly into my pocket. "Get your food and come right back. Do you understand?"

"Well, yes, but-"

"Understand?" I sighed in resignation.

"Yes." He nods curtly and stalks off, leaving me alone. "Don't forget to hurry back!" I yell after him. He makes no effort to show that he heard it, but I think he heard it. I walk to a convenience store across the street, carefully looking out for cars. When there were no cars heading my way, I rushed over to the store.

I pushed open the door, hearing the bell above me jingle loudly. The man at the register looked up at me. He gave me no attention and looked back to his magazine. I strolled through the aisles and grabbed a bag of chips and a can of soda.

I headed towards the register and when he didn't look up, I tap gingerly on the table. He sighs and closes his magazine and looks up at me with a bored expression. I motion to my items and he scans them. "That will be 300 yen." (A/N: Approximately $3.24 in US dollars.) I hand him the money and gives me back my items in a bag.

"Thanks," I say and he nods, already reading his magazine. I exit the store and head back across the street. I lean against the wall and sit down, rummaging through the bag. I opened the bag of chips and popped one in my mouth. Passerbys payed me no attention, and I was grateful. I was starting to feel self conscious eating on the streets like this.

I opened my soda as well and took a gulp from it. About twenty minutes later, I had already finished my chips and stuffed it in a trash can near me along with the bag. I still held the soda in my hand, and was anxiously waiting for Hibari to come back.

It was becoming very cold and the sun was beginning to set. I buttoned my jacket fully and wished I hadn't used the scarf during the fight. "Oh?" I hear a voice say. "A Disciplinary Committee jacket?" I twirl around, facing the person- I mean people in front of me.

"Does this mean you're in the Committee?" another person says. I was extremely weary of these guys; I've never seen them around before.

"Of course she is, idiot!" another person says while hitting the person who asked me that. "But I wonder why she's a girl. There's never been a girl in it before, at least none that I've known." They grin at me.

"No matter," a big burly person says, with a scar across his cheek. "Girl or not, I'll have great pleasure in getting revenge." I widened my eyes. They all surrounded me, and there wasn't a passerby in sight. The shops had closed about ten minutes ago, and they had packed up and left immediately. I had wondered why, and now I know why.

"We're the delinquents that the Disciplinary Committee beat up a while back. We're back and we're looking for revenge. You'll do," he says. With an evil glint in his eye, he and his goons started to close me in the circle.

"Chotto matte! Matte!" I say. (A/N: Chotto matte = wait a second.) (A/N: Matte = wait.) He leers at me and does nothing to stop. "Oh well," I say, shrugging. "Your funeral." He scoffs, and starts advancing towards me with a fist out. I sidestep very easily, as he was very clumsy. He growls and I aim a kick at his gut, and made contact successfully.

He was sent sprawling toward the ground, and his followers looked up at me with resentment. They all charged me at once and I ducked at the punches they gave me. I rolled out of the way, and slammed my fist into someone's face, hearing their nose crack. I winced at the pain of my knuckles hitting their nose, but quickly dismissed it.

He crumpled to the ground, and twirled around, as two other people rushed towards me. I blocked their punches, and found their movements awkward and clumsy, not like Hibari, smooth and graceful. I slammed my elbow into his chest and he coughed. I whirled around aiming a kick to his face. He acted fast however, and grabbed onto my foot.

I stood there awkwardly, as he pulled fowarding, planning to aim a punch to my face. I brought my foot that he was holding down as strong as I could, and he started to stumble towards the pavement, surprised. I jump on his back to launch me off to land in front of a person watching me carefully.

He aims a kick at me and I duck, and I stand pack to land a punch at him. He smirks as he grabs my fist and I frown. He holds my arms behind my back, and I struggle to get out of his grasp. He takes one of my arms and bend it roughly, making me squirm in pain.

The big burly guy stepped up holding a gun. I stiffen. He smirks, seeing my reaction. "Okay girly," he said, circling us. "I can either make your death quick and painless, or I can make you suffer." He pulls a knife out as well, and I can't help but shudder. The knife reminded me of my nightmare. He notices and lets out a big hearty laugh. "It looks like you're afraid of the knife!"

I glowered at him. "Shut up," I told him. He stopped laughing and narrowed his eyes at me.

"Suffering it is," he says. He starts to walk towards me, dropping the knife, laughing. He presses the gun to my temple and the cold metal sends a shiver down my spine. "Are you ready?"

"No," I say, "I think the question is are you ready?" He frowns, and he seems to buy my bluff. I was only stalling for time until I could think of a plan. I see my soda at my feet, probably shaken up from the fight. I smirk.

"What are you talking about, girly?" I feigned an innocent look.

"I mean, you're just about ready to kill an innocent girl. Are you ready to hold the guilt that will haunt you till the ends of time?" He frowns.

"Just what are you going on about?"

"All I'm saying is just do me a favor before you kill me," I reply. He stares at me wearily.

"Alright, since I'm such a nice guy," he answers. I rolled my eyes mentally. Such nice guy to threaten to kill me. "What do you want?"

"Well, you see, fighting to you has left me awfully parched. I'd appreciate it if you grabbed me my soda down there and let me drink it before I die." After several moments of hesitation, he bent down, the gun never leaving my head, and picked up the soda.

"Alright," he said. He put the gun inside his pocket. "I'll feed it to you. I wouldn't want your hands getting free now."

"Yes, because that would be terrible."

"Shut up." He opened the soda and the liquid came out like a volcano, splattering his face. Several drops hit me as well, but I was too busy laughing to care. He slammed the soda bottle down and I shut up. "You think this is funny girl? Let's see how funny you think this is when you die!" he said, his face dripping with soda.

"Let's see how funny it is when you get hurt if you don't let the girl go," a smooth baritone voice said. My face lit up. Yay! I wasn't going to die! The big burly guy scoffed.

"And who are you?"

"You don't need to know," he said as he stepped out of the shadows. He took a sharp intake of breath and he fumbled for the gun in his pocket. He was too slow, and Hibari slammed his tonfa into his stomach making him gasp. The guy holding me let go to go try to help his boss, but I slammed my knee into his "area". He dropped to the ground and I used my elbow to hit the top of his head hard.

He slumped to the ground and I whooped. Just as I turn around, Hibari had just finished with the big burly guy, slumped to the ground, battered and bloodied. "You should have left the other one for me as well."

"And let you have all the fun? As if!" I say, jokingly. I didn't go looking for a fight, I only acted in self defense. He pulled out his phone, and waited for a few seconds before barking orders about bodies that needed to be disposed of in our area. He hang up and started walking.

"T-Thanks," I said. "For saving me."

"I didn't mean to save you," he said, "I was only doing it because they were disrupting the peace of Namimori." I snickered.

"You don't mean that," I urged. "You did it 'cause you care!" He didn't answer, so I took that as a yes, and began squealing until he took it upon himself to hit me on the head with a tonfa.


A/N: Well, new chapter. I'm not particularly satisfied with this chapter... oh well. Do you think Hibari was OOC? Well, in a chapter or two will be a Valentine's Day chapter, and you can tell if it's going to be a Valentine's Day chapter. Hearts everywhere. Shame I couldn't get this out on February 14, but this story was too young. And I don't think I made this story on Valentine's Day...

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**edit; well, now that I checked when my story was made, it was made on February 11th! Today is March 11th! It's been one month since I created this story! Hooray! Thanks so much for all you faithful fans!