Finally! The next chapter before the omake!
Yep, you heard that right! We've reached 50 votes! *cheers* But the only downside to this is that I need to start the omake... Well no worries, I already have an idea for it. *whispers* And it will explain a detail in this chapter.
Ahem, so anyway, I just have another announcement to make. This one dedicated to my BL lovers, I can take another request in. Tell me what pairing, and make sure your proposal is outright. That'd help me a whole bunch. ^~^"
Now enjoy the chapter!
~SiP
"Would Sawada Tsunayoshi head to the BIT lab, Sawada Tsunayoshi."
The whole class turned to face the said brunette, who was currently facepalming. He got up, and turned to Tonari. "Take care of my bag, I won't be long."
"Alright." Tonari nodded as he watched his brother excuse himself from class. Lately, he was quite busy these past few days. Hibari wouldn't even let him rest, and ended up sparring him in the morning.
Every morning.
Speaking of Hibari, a rumor went around the school, saying that the infamous Skylark was defeated and humiliated.
By whom it was referring to was unknown.
It currently was in its second stages for the gossip meter, judging from the hushed whispers behind the said teens back.
No one was sure on how the rumor came out either. It just appeared.
Tonari let out a sigh, refocusing on what the teacher was writing on the board. He'll just have to ask his brother later, since it seemed like he knew something.
Tsuna made his way down the hall, muttering about confusing hallways. But was saved from the oncoming depression wave, when he had found the room he was searching for. "I wonder what they need me for during class... speaking of classes, don't they have classes to attend to as well?"
Taking a breath, he let it out. He opened the door. And was graciously met with an avalanche of paper. "Wah!?"
"Oh I see that you found the problem with our room."
Tsuna turned to see the twins standing above him. Not caring if they flashed their panties at him.
Not that they were actually showing their panties...
Nor did he look at them.
Tsuna got out of the pile with great difficulty. "I don't see why you would call me from class, in order to meet you here."
"it's obvious, isn't it? You're to help us clean the club room, that Mayuri neglected to clean up these past few days." Sayuri answered, shooting her twin a look.
Mayuri pouted. "It's not my fault that it decided to blow on me!"
"That's not an excuse on the mess you made." Sayuri pointed out. "Now the important documents are meshed with the photocopies you made."
"But still!"
"No buts, we have to retrieve those important documents by the end of the day."
"Fine~"
"May I ask on why you made the photocopies in the first place?" Tsuna cut in tentatively. He was still recovering from the nightmare, a night ago, so he didn't want any kind of trouble with the twins. Tonari had also said in the morning that Kyoko was quite saddened yesterday when he ran off like that. So today he had to make it right, and apologies were always something one could start off with.
Sayuri sighed. "I honestly don't know what she photocopied."
"You don't know?" Tsuna asked bewildered. "How on Earth do you not know?"
"Well, Mayuri photocopies anything in her delight. Like the one time a friend of hers lost a dog, she went ahead and photocopied stacks upon stacks of 'Lost Dog' signs." Sayuri explained, massaging her temples. "God knows what she photocopied this time."
Mayuri tensed, and started fidgeting. Looking down at her feet. Tsuna didn't miss it. Letting out a breath, he crossed his arms across his chest. "Alright, I'll help. But only on one condition."
"That is?" Sayuri raised a brow at the inquiry.
"That is that Mayuri-san helps." Tsuna replied. "And that you take a break, we'll get this done by the end of the day."
Sayuri thought over the proposition. "Ok, I'll let Mayuri help, I have to meet up with someone anyway. They don't tolerate tardiness, unfortunately."
"Well you can't have that," Tsuna smiled, pushing the said brunette girl farther. "Now off you go."
Sayuri nodded, before she turned to leave. Mayuri spoke up after the former turned the corner. "You don't have to clean up."
"I can't do that," The gravity defying haired brunette chuckled. "I promised your sister that I would help. No point on going back on my word."
Mayuri bowed her head. "Then why..."
"Why don't we start off with what you copied to cause this." Tsuna questioned, waiting patiently for Mayuri to answer. "I'm pretty sure there is a good reason for this."
"Take a look at the paper for yourself." Mayuri spoke up after a small moment of silence, handing one of the many fallen pieces of paper to the male.
Taking a look at the said paper, Tsuna quirked an eyebrow at the content. "20,000 Leagues under the Sea? Why on Earth would you photocopy this?!"
"I didn't mean to! I— I—" The brunette looked down, worried that she might be laughed at. Thinking that she would be better off at being yelled at, so she kept quiet. But instead was surprised when she felt a hand on her shoulder. Looking up, Mayuri was met with empathetic chocolate orbs.
"I'm guessing that you don't know how to use the photocopier, do you?" The brunette male smiled softly. "No need to be embarrassed about it. No one's perfect."
"B-but why...?" Mayuri allowed her sentence drift off.
Tsuna merely smiled. "Now then, why don't we start cleaning up? I'd like to be done before lunch."
"How are we going to do that?" Mayuri questioned, bewildered. The amount of paper in the room would at least take the whole day, if not more. It was impossible to finish by the end of the day.
The gravity defying haired brunette smirked to no one in particular. "Not with others helping us."
"Others?"
Tsuna flipped out his cellphone, and before Mayuri could ask another question, he dialed a number. Holding the phone to his ear, he waited for the other to pick up.
Three rings rang, and the receiver picked up. "Hello?"
"Ah, Kyoya-chan you finally picked up!" Tsuna answered cheerfully.
"... How did you get my number, herbivore." Hibari growled through the device.
"That's a secret~" The Skylark swore he could hear the other smirk. His scowl deepened. The caller continued. "Now I need your help, Kyoya-chan."
"I'm hanging up, herbivore." He answered bluntly.
Tsuna started panicking. "No don't hang up! How about I strike a deal with you! Just don't hang up~"
"I'm listening." Hibari answered after a pause.
The brunette teen sighed. "Good, the deal is this, you send some of your Disciplinary members to help me out at the BIT lab and I'll spar you two times a day. How's that?"
The silence stretched on, and Tsuna began to worry that Hibari had hung up on him. But the receiver crackled, when the Skylark spoke up. "Where is the BIT lab located."
"I knew you had some good in you!"
"Location, herbivore."
"Right, hold on a second." Tsuna turned to a shocked Mayuri. "Where's the closest classroom?"
"Ah! It's the Home Economics room, the BIT lab is at the end of the hallway." Mayuri gave out directions. Tsuna repeated them into the device.
"They'll be there in three minutes." Hibari hung up, then called for his vice-captain. "Tetsuya."
A third-year student, with a pompadour hairstyle, entered the room. Chewing on what seemed to be a long piece of grassy wheat. "You called, Kyo-san."
"Take three of the Disciplinary members, fast in their work, and head to the BIT lab at the end of the Home Economics hallway. Help them clean up." Hibari issued the order.
"Is there anything else?"
"Finish up by lunch."
"Alright, I'll be off then." With that, Kusakabe left closing the door behind him. Hibari continued with the paperwork on his desk. His thoughts circling around a certain brunette.
A smirk made its way onto his usual passive features.
Tsuna flipped his cellphone shut, sighing, relieved. "Man that was close..."
"Are you serious!?" He turned around to see that Mayuri was looking at him, still in shock.
Tilting his head, he replied innocently. "Serious about what?"
"How in the SEVEN HEAVENS did you get THE Hibari Kyoya to help out!?" She yelled out, pulling at her hair.
"What do you mean help out? I made a deal with him that's why, and when does that tsundere ever help out." Tsuna pouted, childishly crossing his arms across his chest. He then went to his corner of woe. "And now I'll have to suffer two times a day because if it~ Just think of the bruises I have to get treated~"
"You must be the ones that Kyo-san told us to help."
Both Tsuna and Mayuri turned to be faced with four DC members, all with a similar pompadour hairstyle. Tsuna whistled, running a hand through his hair. "It hasn't even been three minutes yet."
"Kyo-san told us to finish by lunch, so the earlier we get started, the faster we can get done." Kusakabe spoke up. The others nodding in agreement.
Tsuna mock sniffed. "I guess those bruises are worth it now."
"Bruises?" Kusakabe questioned, turning to Mayuri.
The girl shrugged. "Some deal he struck up with your captain."
The vice-captain sighed, shaking his head. "Then it all makes sense..."
"Well now let's get started!" Tsuna cheered. "I want all photocopies of '20,000 Leagues under the Sea' put in one pile, while papers with the unknown language in a different pile! We'll then shred the copies in the shredder!"
"But we don't have a shredder..." Mayuri put in feebly.
"Who said you did?" Tsuna deadpanned. "There's one in the staff room."
The group then started to work through the pile. And as Tsuna predicted, they moved way faster with a larger group than with two.
Sayuri entered the small café, casually scanning her surroundings. It seemed like the small shop was thriving with its regulars at this time of day.
She made her way to the back, and took her seat. Not a second later, a man took his seat across from her. "A bit late to come in, don't you think so?"
"I'm sorry, I had an... incident that needed to be taken care of." Sayuri replied with a straight face as she looked at her client.
"Is that so? I hope it's well taken care of." The man responded, not a single trace of care in his voice.
The brunette teen waved the topic away. "Nevermind that, just cut to the chase. Why did you want to call me here?"
"Business as always, is it not Sayuri-chan?" A grin made its way to the man's visible lower half of his face. "Or should I say Principessa della Pantera."
"Enough." Sayuri answered curtly. Her eyes cold. "Now state your business, otherwise I'll have to decline your request from the beginning."
"Alright, alright," The man chuckled, raising his hands in silent surrender. He then pulled out a folder, placing it onto the wooden surface. "I hear that Cielo's student is attending your school."
"The Neutral Sky? His student is attending Nami-chuu?" Sayuri questioned, flipping through the manila folder. She paused at a page, her eyes widened. "This is..."
"I want you to keep an eye on him, lay low, until Cielo comes by." The man adjusted his grip on his cane, getting up.
"And where would you be?" Sayuri questioned the man, placing the folder down.
The man chuckled. "I'll be having a chat in Italy. Until then."
With that the man left. Sayuri ran a hand through her hair, looking back down at the folder.
More specifically, at the photo of a happy Sawada Tsunayoshi. "To think he was the disciple of the Neutral Sky..."
The bell finally rang for lunch, as Tsuna entered the classroom. Sneezing. "Ugh... Someone's talking about me again..."
"Aniki!" Tonari waved his brother over to his small group, with Kyoko and Hana.
The teen laughed lightly, making his way over to the group. Greeting them with a smile. "So we meet again, Hana-san, Kyoko-san."
"Tch. Just Hana is fine, I don't like honorifics." Hana looked back towards her lunch.
Kyoko returned the smile. "Call me Kyoko-chan. It's nice to meet you Tsuna-kun!"
"So it is." Said brunette laughed cheerfully. "Tonari-kun has told me a lot about you guys."
"Has he now?" Hana raised a brow, glancing at the said teen. Shrugging, she went back to eating her lunch. "As long as he didn't insult us."
"He didn't, I'll assure you that." Tsuna nodded, removing his bento from his bag. He paused in the process, turning to face Kyoko. "Oh and before I forget, Kyoko-chan—"
The door to the classroom slid open, with Hibari scanning the room. Finding for what he came for, he made his way to the small group. Tsuna looked up at the raven haired teen, smiling. "My what a surprise, what kind of business do you have here Kyoya?"
Said teen merely cocked a brow with the drop of the humiliating honorific, but simply brushed it off as a considerate gesture in front of a huge crowd. Hibari seemingly glared at the brunette. "You owe me a fight, herbivore."
It took a while for Tsuna to remember his promise he had made earlier that day. He sighed, nearly whining. "Now? I thought it would start tomorrow~"
The raven haired teen glared daggers at the brunette, who in turn sagged. "Fine, I'll meet you on the rooftop. Just give me a minute with my lunch."
A whack on the head with a tonfa made the brunette recoil. "Follow. Now."
"Fine~" He got up and turned to Kyoko. "I'm sorry Kyoko-chan, but I'll tell you later. I promise."
Kyoko just smiled, with a nod of her head. "Alright."
Tsuna nodded happily, then turned to his brother opening his mouth in order to say something. But he was cut off short when Hibari grabbed hold of his collar and dragged the brunette out of the classroom. Sending a glare at the rest of the class.
Most likely to maintain his status.
Tsuna meekly waved at his brother, before he was dragged out of sight.
Silence remained in the class before it was broken with the regular flow.
As it should be.
Hana broke the silence on the small group of three. "Your brother fights with Hibari?"
"Yeah." Tonari nodded absentmindedly, as he picked at his food.
"Aren't you worried for him?" Hana pressed.
"No, he can handle himself."
"And why do you say that?"
"Because he spars with Hibari-san in the morning, and he comes back without a speck of dust. This happens everyday."
Both Kyoko and Hana were taken aback with the statement the blonde made. One more surprised than the other. Hana was the first to recover. "That's impossible!"
"And why do you think that?" Tonari questioned, looking up from his bento. His eyes filled with curiosity.
"Well, first off, that's a huge exaggeration!" Hana pointed out the obvious, jabbing her chopsticks in Tonari's direction. "Someone can't get out of a fight without a single speck of dust, since you'd get dirty even if you were dodging."
The blonde teen smiled amusedly. "That's what you would call a hyperbole."
"What? No! Wait... ugh! It's because of your monkey intelligence that I'm confused right now!" Hana pointed her chopsticks accusingly at Tonari, who merely shrugged in response; eating his lunch.
Hana huffed in annoyance, and resumed eating as well. Kyoko giggled at the antics her friends displayed. She also resumed eating her lunch, listening to the two bicker again.
And honestly, she wouldn't have it any other way.
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That's a pretty far off number. Think you can make it there?
Principessa della Pantera means Princess of the Panther…. My naming sense is horrible isn't it?
~SiP