Three Months Later

Namimori, Japan. August 26th Year 20XX. 4:39 P.M.

Ryohei had extremely had his extremely extreme third birthday today. The extremely sad part was that Kyoko was still extremely not able to participate in any of the extreme activities that had been extremely present at his party.

Then again, it may have been extremely too much for him to even consider that his 2 year old sister, who was of course very extremely extreme, would be able to extremely do any of the extremely extreme activities available at his extreme birthday.

This brought him extremely back to why he was using extreme so much. He was extremely going to be an extremely extreme boxer when he grew up and extreme boxers were always extremely shouting about something. Besides, his extreme uncle thought it was an extremely good idea.

He didn't even think about how extremely painful this was going to be for everybody's (extremely extreme) ears. That extremely reminded him that he was extremely going to a very extreme school about an extreme week from right now.

Six Days Later

Namimori South Preschool. September 1st Year 20XX 7:30 A.M.

Preschool had again started for Emiko and Kyoya, this time though, they were not replaying what had happened exactly a year ago. They had both calmly bid goodbye to their mothers, and walked into preschool together.

Kyoya was significantly more reluctant than Emiko. It's back, all the loudness and headaches are going to be back. Just a single look at the new and somewhat younger students who were sitting on the floor of what used to be his classroom bawling like there was no tomorrow was giving him the beginnings of his newest headache.

Except wait, there was a child in the corner that was looking around and not bawling. "EXTREME! WE SHOULD ALL LOOK FORWARD TO AN EXTREMELY EXTREME YEAR!" His eyebrow twitched slightly. Make that an even bigger headache than the one he thought he was going to have.

Emi giggled softly behind him. He turned and raised an eyebrow.

"What's so funny?" She simply smiled brightly up at him.

"I think the person that you are so irritated with is quite admirable." Here Emi's face immediately darkened. "I haven't even been able to talk to anyone else besides you and Masu-sensei much less shout in the middle of a classroom." She mumbled the last sentence while hiding behind her thick dark hair.

"Nonsense. I'm sure you will be able to talk this year just fine." He found himself retorting before he could properly stop himself. "Besides even if you didn't there's nothing wrong with that."

He turned his back on the previous classroom, and headed towards the new one. This year better be more interesting. A few more shouts of extreme wafted through the still open doorway. His eyebrow twitched again. And that child better stop shouting about extreme-ness or whatever it was.

Or he really didn't know what he would do about the rest of his school year.

Emiko watched Kyo stomp into their new and slightly bigger classroom with growing concern. If at all possible, he was even more upset about the noise level this year than what she remembered him being last year. She really wasn't quite sure what to do about it. Ah well, if worst came to worst Kyo would just be a bit more grumpy than usual, but that was nothing that couldn't be handled by keeping him as far away from noisy people as possible right?

She sighed and found her desk with her nameplate on it. Again, their class was in alphabetical order, with Kyo being more towards the back, and she was more in the middle. She looked around and sighed yet again, she wasn't just towards the middle, she was practically exactly in the middle of the entire room. Kami was against her it would seem, because she would spend a great deal of time being stared at by all the people behind her. Emi practically shrank even smaller in her seat if it was at all possible, because even at four, her feet didn't even brush the ground.

Just then Masu-sensei walked in and quieted the rest of the class.

Kyoya was not pleased, the state of the classroom had not quieted a bit during the summer break. In fact, it would seem that most of his classmates, although he loathed to call them his peers, were even louder today as they tried to compare what they did during the summer with each other.

He noted that Emi was located in the middle of the room, and seemingly trying to make herself invisible by shrinking. A small frown graced his lips, she shouldn't have to be so under confident about everything, or so self conscious that slightly under half of the class would be staring in her general direction. But knowing Emi, she would probably still be worried about it.

"Hello everyone, welcome back to class!" There was a few hurried whispers, as friends exchanged the last of their conversations, but they quickly died out.

"We don't have any new students with us this year, so all of you should be well acquainted with each other, but since we are all supposed to be doing an ice breaking activity the first day of school, please take out a piece of paper and write down two truths and a lie about yourself." Kyoya resisted the urge to groan, and slam his head repeatedly against his desk. What was the point of this stupid ice breaking exercise anyway? He only barely refrained from doing the above embarrassing activities because he was a Hibari, and Hibaris do not groan or slam their heads against their desks in an attempt to destroy their brains.

Ryohei didn't really wait until most of his classmates were in his classroom to begin his extremely extreme introduction.

"HELLO EVERYONE I AM EXTREMELY SASAGAWA RYOHEI AND I EXTREMELY WANT TO HAVE AND EXTREMELY EXTREME YEAR WITH ALL OF YOU TO THE EXTREME!" The few people in the room with him including his sensei winced.

Ryohei pretended not to notice this state of affairs and turned to the closest person to him, a black haired, black eyed boy.

"I AM EXTREMLY SASAGAWA RYOHEI! What's your name?" The boy also winced.

"Mochida Kensuke" The boy-no wait Mochida-mumbled. "Don't you have a volume switch or something Sasagawa?" Ryohei blinked, once then twice.

"A VOLUME SWITCH WOULD MOST EXTREMELY NOT BE EXTREME TO THE EXTREME!" Mochida's eyebrow twitched.

"Never mind, pretend I didn't say anything." Ryohei at this point was extremely confused.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY PRETEND I DIDN'T-"

"AHEM. Class has started, Sasagawa-kun please report to your seat." Ryohei turned around to see a brown haired man look at him with faint disapproval.

"I AM EXTREMELY SORRY SENSEI BUT I NEITHER KNOW WHERE MY EXTREMELY EXTREME SEAT IS OR WHAT YOUR EXTREME NAME MIGHT BE!"

"My name is Fukui-sensei." And here the man-Fukui-sensei- gestured. "Your seat is right next to you Sasagawa-kun." Ryohei laughed embarrassedly.

"I AM EXTREMELY SORRY FUKEI-SENSEI!" he sat down as Fukui-sensei shook his head.

"Now class since you all don't know each other yet, we will start with an ice breaker." A short haired girl raised her hand.

"But sensei, we all know who he is now." At the word he she shot him a somewhat disapproving glance.

Fukui-sensei let out an exasperated sigh. "Yes obviously we all know Sasagawa-kun right now, but the point remains that he doesn't know any of you, nor do any of you know each other. So we are going to do this ice breaker, and you all will enjoy it. Any questions?" There were obviously no questions asked. "Now take out a piece of paper and brainstorm two truths about you and a lie, whoever manages to most sucessfully conceal their lie among the two truths and have no one guess it correctly means that they win the game and will be awarded with a piece of candy."

Meanwhile, back in Masu-sensei's room...

"Kyoya-kun, what have you written down?" Kyoya's eyebrow twitched again. His headache was getting worse.

"Number one I hate loud people. Number two counting I think for three months is stupid. Number three, I am secretly not having a headache right now." His lie was...he knew that it was...a little obvious, but he really couldn't think of anything else to lie about. Besides, as a general rule, Hibaris lied as little as possible.

Masu-sensei sighed.

"Kyoya-kun, all of those are true even with your weirdly worded third piece of information about yourself." Kyoya's eyebrow twitched again.

"Fine, another list would be: "Number one I hate loud people, Number two I do have a headache right now, Number three I secretly want to talk about soccer." Masu-sensei sighed.

"Let's just move on class." Half the class was gaping at him anyway.

Several people later...

"Emiko-chan, read your list for us please." Emi squeaked and shrank down even more in her seat.

"N-number one, I-i like p-painting. N-number t-two, K-kyo is my b-best f-friend. N-number Th-three I-i l-like w-wasabi." After that display of actually speaking three sentences, Emi hid behind her long hair yet again.

"That's very nice Emiko-chan. Do you perhaps dislike wasabi?" Masu-sensei smiled encouragingly at her.

"H-hai." Emi squeaked back from behind a curtain of thick black hair.

A.N. So, because I finally got hit with more inspiration, I present to you chapter 10 of Blooming Flowers, Floating Clouds. This is one of my longest chapters yet, at about 1, 638 words.

How was Ryohei by the way? I am discovering a new fondness for him and his Extreme-ness. Anyways, he's probably the second person in all of preschool who is going to speak to Hibari. That will take place next chapter.

Also, for those of you that don't remember. Mochida Kensuke is actually a person found in KHR Cannon. He appears in about the first anime episode as the person who later becomes Nami-chuu's Kendo Captain. The Guy who fights Tsuna Episode 1 because Tsuna, under the effects of the dying will bullet, asks Kyoko out.

He's also not such a great person because he calls Kyoko a 'prize', but I figure maybe we can avert that in this Fanfiction.

Anyways, as always, tell me what you think.

~Leaf