I think Math is getting to me.
Chapter 24: Mori by her lonesome
Mori plus Kyouya equals love (oh yes!) Mori plus Kyouya minus Kyouya equals Mori. Mori equals Bloodshed. By the property of substitution, Mori plus Kyouya minus Kyouya equals Bloodshed x 5. It works!
It wasn't until Kyouya actually disappeared that Mori actually realized how much she depended on the guy. Well, guess what? He did disappear one day.
Everything started out normal. Nothing out of the ordinary at all.
"Kyouya!!!!!" As usual, Mori was there to meet him as he left for school. As usual, Kyouya would ignore her until either her cuteness or annoyingness gets to him. As usual, he would pummel her, regardless of what made him crack. As usual, she would sulk into her depressed corner. As usual Kyouya (feeling mildly guilty; not too much. Can't ruin his character just yet) would unintentionally cheer her up one way or another. And as usual, they would get to school, at each other's throats for some random reason (this particular day, it was about carrots).
Unfortunately, the as usual will have to be dropped by the time they reached school. Apparently, there have been lots of people having the living shit beaten out of them recently. Unfortunately, most of them were prefects, so... "Ne, ne...Kyouya. You should be careful." She tugged on his sleeve.
"..."
"That's alright! I'll look out for you!" She chirped brightly.
"Right, and a shrimp like you could do anything?"
"No really!" And suddenly, Kyouya felt a very scary aura replacing Mori's normally cheerful atmosphere. "I'll make sure anything that hurts Kyouya will get skinned alive and their internal organs sliced and pinned to my front door." Were those...knives in her hands? Oh god. He felt the great need to edge away just a bit. Perhaps...she hung out with him...just a bit too much. "Ano ne, Kyouya!" She was back to her happy mode again.
"What?"
"Did you know I can do all that while keeping the victim alive for almost an hour? And I have a special way that keeps them conscious for the entire process." He never truly appreciated being on Mori's good side to its fullest extent until now. "While I'm at it, I can poke out their eyeballs too." Now was the time to get her professional help. "If I had a set of tweezers, I can remove their fingernails too."
Kyouya was just about to call a psychologist (Mori: I'll never let anyone touch Kyouya. Kyouya's MINE. Muhahahahaha) when...Tsuna came along.
"Mori san!" He waved before walking up to her, though not without looking warily at Kyouya. Unfortunately, Mori was still in her "kill anyone who hurts Kyouya" mode, so..."Uh...Mori san, why are you...talking about blood and murder?"
"Cause I don't wanna see Kyouya hurt!!!!" She whined.
"Eh...is this because of the assaults?" Tsuna asked. "Still, isn't worrying that much... a bit..."
"IT NEVER HURTS TO BE PARANOID!!!" She jumped on Kyouya. "I'm not letting go of you today!" He was just about to shove her off when...
Somewhere...came Namimori Middle School's...song? Wonder where that came from...
Kyouya frowned and pulled out his cell phone before flipping it open. The singing stopped.
"That was...Hibari san's cell phone ring?"
"I wondered that too when I stole his cell phone."
Tsuna stared at her. "Ah...well, I'll be going!" He was about to run off when...
"Eh?" Mori apparently was eavesdropping. "Ne, Sawada san! You might wanna pay a visit to the hospital!"
"Why?"
"Sasagawa got sent there." Pause. "I didn't do it! I swear!!!!"
So...when Tsuna left...
"UWAAHHHH! THEY'RE ATTACKING EVERYONE!!!! I'M DEFINITELY STICKING WITH KYOUYA!" Mori hugged the previously mentioned boy, who looked positively murderous.
"Get off."
"But..."
"Now."
She got off. "But...what if Kyouya gets hurt? Or...or..."
The atmosphere suddenly turned cold as Kyouya smiled his creepiest vampire smile. "You think I'd let anyone touch me?"
"You let me touch you." She pointed out. "Like right now." The atmosphere dropped.
"It was a figurate expression."
"Oh..." She cocked her head. "Anyhow...I think..." She thought for a moment. "You need a good luck charm!"
"..." Mori reached for something around her neck.
"Here!" She pulled at something until the string holding it snapped, and handed it to him. "You can have it." It was...a sort of...red heart charm...a really flat, shiny one. Not that big, which explained why he never noticed Mori wearing it. How...cute...as in...There was no way in hell he was going to where that. "Please?"
"You're mad."
"But I want you to have it!"
"Drop dead." Suddenly, the strings suddenly slid from Mori's fingers and slithered around his neck before promptly tying itself together.
"See?" She smiled. "It likes you."
Kyouya stared at it for a sec before (scowling), he reached to snap it off. And to his mild surprise, a small spark of electricity suddenly ejected from the string, promptly stinging his finger. "..."
Mori smiled that oh too sweet to be sweet smile. "It's special, ne?" And before he could object, she hopped off of him. "I'm gonna go torture Sasagawa. There's not gonna be another chance like this." And she hopped off, leaving Kyouya really, really annoyed. Wasn't he even curious about how that thing was...like that?
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"Uh...Mori san..." Tsuna stared at the girl next to him. "We're at the hospital."
"Yeah?"
"Then why did you bring a chainsaw?"
"...no reason!" She suddenly looked abashed. "I wasn't planning to cut out Sasagawa's heart!"
Tsuna gulped. "Mori's...black..."
He looked pretty sorry, Sasagawa... All covered with bandages and whatnot...
Apparently, he had been attacked, lost a few of his teeth (five), and now has convinced his younger sister that he fell off a chimney and only had a few sprains. Said sister came in and believed the whole thing. Pathetic.
Even for Mori's standards. Though if it were Kyouya, then maybe she would've fallen for it.
"Ne, Sawada san...is it me...or...is the place..." Mori looked around. "Full of people from out school?" It was true; everyone around besides the hospital faculty was dressed in the Namimori school uniform.
"Hey, you're right!" Tsuna now definitely looked worried. "They can't be here for the prefects...so...! Those people are attacking everyone!"
"Seems like it." Mori had that evil look again. "They better not touch Kyouya. I will eat their internal organs for lunch." Tsuna backed away.
Just then, two prefects came strolling along. One was Kusakabe, the second head guy. Their conversation when something like:
"Nobody's seen the head anywhere?"
"Probably went after the attackers as usual. They'll be eliminated before too long."
"Is that so." They were stopped as Mori skidded in front of them.
"Wait? You said Kyouya went after them?" She looked really spazzed out now.
"Fujisaki?" Kusakabe stared at her. "Yeah, what would you expect from Hibari?" He then noticed Mori wasn't listening.
"UWAHHHH! KYOUYA'S GONNA DIE! KYOUYA'S GONNA DIE! GRAHH!!!!!!" Mori was bouncing all over the place, completely freaking out. "THEY'RE GONNA KILL HIM! THEY'RE GONNA KILL HIM! KYOUYA'S GONNA DIE! KYOUYA'S REALLY GONNA DIE!!!"
"You're worrying too much." Kusakabe snapped. "How could Hibari lose?"
"They won't kill him." Mori suddenly said. "I forgot...cause they have self preservation right?"
"????"
"Cause if they hurt Kyouya, I'LL RIP THEM TO SHREDS AND STUFF THE REMAINS INTO THE SEWAGE!! BWAHAHAHAHA!!!"
"..." Scary...
The two prefects edged away from the now completely murderous girl/ disguised as boy. "I'll skin them and use it as wallpaper. They will be alive during the process. I've done it before...nehehehe..." Now she's just mad. Then..."Hm...I'm gonna go find Kyouya in that case."
"Eh? How?" Tsuna ran up to her.
"I put a tracking device in his food. He never noticed it."
"..."
"I was originally going to use it for stalking, but..."
Now Tsuna edged away. But then... "Uh, Mori...what's with that really big bazooka?"
"Nothing in particular." She had that mad glint in her eye again. "I'm just going to blow everyone who hurt Kyouya up. That's all." Then to herself. "I'll make sure they're alive and scarred after I'm through with them." And ignoring the looks of disbeliefs from her fellow classmates, Mori skidded off with that really dark aura.
Silence...
Apparently, Mori was destined to not make it that far, cause...as soon as she stepped out of the hospital... "??? Who're you?" She stared at two boys dressed in really strange green outfits, who were blocking her way. They looked somewhat familiar. This glasses guy with a white hat...and this other guy that somewhat reminded her of a lion. "...do I know you?"
"She's denser than I remembered." The lion guy muttered to his companion, who nodded in response. "Whatever. You're Fujisaki Mori, ain't you? (pyon)". He had this really animal way of talking too.
"...????" She cocked her head sideways. "Sure."
"Great." He looked pretty happy, and not in a good way. "You're on the real top of the list, but I don't see the problem of messing you up out of order."
"Messing me up?" She paused. "Are you going to dunk me in mud?"
"..."
"..." The two boys looked at each other. "She's not dense. She's just plain stupid."
"Agreed."
"I am not stupid!"
"The proof goes against you."
"WHAT PROOF?!" She whined. "SAWADA SAN! These weird people are harassing me! Get rid of them!"
"Eh? Why me?" Tsuna ran up to the girl. "And...Hey...Oniisan (Sasagawa!) mentioned that his attackers were from Kokuyo Middle school...then...those uniforms...!!!!" He was holding Leon, who was changing shapes a lot, too. Strange.
"Oh, they're the people who hurt Kyouya?"
"You don't even know if Hibari san was actually hurt!!!"
"...intuition." She said simply. Tsuna wondered if she even knew what that word meant. "Ok. So they're the people who hurt Kyouya, right? Then it's settled." Mori suddenly had her arms filled with enough firepower for three world wars. "They die. NOW." And for once, she looked quite angry. Tsuna never exactly knew how terrifying Mori was.
Unfortunately, those attacker people didn't look too moved. "Whatever. Those other idiots didn't put up much of a fight. I doubt a scrawny gaki (Mori: I'M NOT SCRAWNY!) could do anything." Lion man shook his head. "Just how did the idiot get that high on the ranks anyways?"
"Saa, who knows."
"I'm not weak!!!!!!!" Mori looked rather offended. "I'm very good at fighting, thank you!"
"Then prove it."
"That sounded like you were picking a fight."
"I am."
"Oh..." there was a pause. And before anyone knew it, she had somehow managed to kick the lion guy straight in the face, conveniently sending him flying into a brick wall. No, correction. Through a brick wall. "..." She smiled. "See? I can hurt people!" It didn't seem like she noticed that really big shower of needles heading towards her. She dropped her bazooka on accident. "Oh, oops." And when she bent down to pick it up, the needles flew right past her. "Eh? Did something happen?" She stood back up, blinking. Does she plan this stuff out or is it just spur of the moment?
Lion guy, who was trying to pick himself up from the rubble, shot a venomous glare at the oblivious girl. "Damn brat. I'll kill you!" And that was what he tried to do. As in tried. The results?
"I don't like animals." Another trip back to the same brick wall. "Especially cats." She paused for a moment. "Unless they're stuffed and mounted." Tsuna stared at his dear friend in complete disbelief.
"This is not Mori." How could it be? He's seen her fight before, but...Mori was supposed to be a blundering idiot who shouldn't even be smart enough to realize that those guys were trying to kill her. Mori was not someone who could send someone almost twice as tall as her through a brick wall with one kick. She shouldn't have been able to do what she did next too.
As in... Throw the second, bespectacled boy straight into his animal friend with one arm. There was a silence. It didn't look like those two were gonna get up any time too soon. Mori smiled and made a victory sign. "Ja, I'm gonna go find Kyouya. Bye!" She was just about to leave when...
"Why are you so concerned about Hibari san?" Tsuna asked. "It's not like it's guaranteed he's hurt."
Mori stopped for a moment. "I know, but..." She sighed. "It's...just a bit lonely without him, ne?" And she ran off without another word.
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Ok, what she said to Sawada Tsunayoshi was a complete lie. It wasn't a bit lonely. Not at all.
It's complete...LONELINESS!!!! If that was even a word.
So this is what it felt like without that evil prefect with her, doing all those violent things to her, huh. If Mori were sane, she should just enjoy the brief moment of not being sent to the hospital. But Mori wasn't sane. Unfortunately, Mori did not like being separated from Kyouya. And also unfortunately, the last thing those Kokuyo guys were gonna learn in their lives is that Mori can be scary when it comes to her precious Kyouya. You really gotta pity them, if you think about it.
Never underestimate the power of female love. Or...in Mori's case...female obsession. Well, just to be safe, we'll file it under...devotion. That works, right? Not really, but...
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Finally, in the second arc! I'm happy. I'm proud of myself. It took twenty 3 chapters to get through the intro! There's gonna be more random chapters after this, but... different scenarios!
Review? Please? If you really don't wanna, then I'm not forcing...but...please? With sugar on top? Even though I apparently ran out of the stuff...