Kondo Minami wasn't a good observer. She never paid attention to whatever happening around her, or to put it more bluntly, she didn't care.

The voice of crickets in the summer, the falling sakura petals in spring, and the cold breath in the winter, Minami didn't notice them until her friends brought it up. Sometimes she could feel the world moved around her, while she alone stayed in the same spot.

But it was hard to miss the weirdness that was Sawada Tsunayoshi if your house only a few blocks from his.

Everytime Minami went to school and went back to home, she could hear the loud sound of explosions, followed by shouts and screams that mostly belonged to Tsuna. There were times when pink smokes would come out of Tsuna's room, which made her quickened her steps because for some reason, the smell always made her nauseous.

This morning, as Minami anxiously walked to school in quick pace, she could see Tsuna talking with Dino-sensei, their handsome Middle-school teacher that Minami occasionally saw, whose face she had already known even before he had started teaching in Namimori. She also kind of guessed that the reason Dino-sensei became a teacher in the first place had something to do with Tsuna.

Gokudera and Yamamoto was there too, and a man in black suit who Minami didn't recognize, the five of them talking in hushed voice and face filled with concern.

Compared to every other days, it was almost a normal sight.

It would have been completely ordinary. Except, their topic was anything but.

"We just have to attack them all, right?" Yamamoto said, mouth twisted into a smile. It was a smile he only showed in the baseball arena.

"It wouldn't be that easy, shithead. It could be a trap," Gokudera said, frowning.

"But, we have to do something," Tsuna scratched his head, looking frustated.

None of them notice Minami walking closer. She started to wonder whether she even should go to school at all. There was a homework she hadn't finished yet and it seemed incredibly irrelevant now.

"That's why I come here to ask for advice, Tsuna," Dino-sensei said, his tone a little too serious for a grown man who spoke to someone almost half-his age. "Their goal is to mur-"

"Dino-san," Tsuna cut in. Minami flinched when his eyes turned at her with burning intensity. "Good morning, Kondo-san."

The other guys seemed flustered.

Dino-sensei looked especially nervous, though he easily smiled charmingly at her. "Good morning, Kondo-kun."

Gokudera looked away. Yamomoto poked at him in the ribs, smiling almost guiltily at her.

"G-good morning..." She said, hesitant.

"T-the wheater is good today," Tsuna scratched his cheek, his smile was obviously forced.

Minami didn't say anything more and simply walked past him. She hoped it was the good course of action.

Tsuna didn't come to school that day. Neither did Yamamoto and Gokudera. Minami found herself distracted by the empty seats in the class, her mind kept going back to whatever the heck happened this morning.

What Dino-sensei was going to say before Tsuna cut him off, it was murder, she was certain of it, just as she was sure that the next time Tsuna and his frends showed up at school, they'd be wrapped in wounds and bandages.