It's been a few days since the incident with Haru and despite her weird personality, Kiyomi got along with her pretty well. Right now, Kiyomi was watering the flowers in the garden of Namimori Middle School considering it is her job as part of the Garden club. She joined the club about a day ago since she always loved flowers as she was growing up and helping her grandfather with his garden back at his home.
As Kiyomi was refilling the watering can, she heard some noises coming from around the corner of the school building. She let the water run as she poked her head around to see a group of boys wearing matching black uniforms and a familiar red armband. The boys were standing in front of another group of boys who were down on the ground unconscious.
"It wasn't because you were trying to defy Hibari. It's because you were crowding in front him." One of the boys said.
Kiyomi looked up to see Hibari looking down at them from an open window. "Just who exactly are you Hibari Kyoya?" She asked herself.
"I believe I can answer that." Kiyomi turned around to see Reborn with a laptop in his hands. "Reborn."
"Even though he is the head of the Discipline Committee for Namimori Middle School, he holds the position as the most dangerous guy in the school. Hibari Kyoya."
"Hmm…" Kiyomi looked back up at Hibari with wonder filled in her eyes. "How interesting."
"I agree."
Kiyomi met up with Tsuna and the others at the rooftop during their lunch break. Gokudera yawned just before Yamamoto yawned, causing Gokudera to glare at him.
"Why were you yawning?" Tsuna asked with a laugh.
"He was imitating me." Gokudera stated.
"I wasn't imitating you. I was bored so it just came out." Yamamoto said.
"You can't really blame him, Gokudera. Yawning is very contagious, you know." Kiyomi stated.
"He didn't even give a warning." Gokudera said as he narrowed his eyes at Yamamoto. "He's ten years early of yawning in front of the 10th!"
"Come on, it's just a yawn." Yamamoto said as he leaned back on his hands.
Gokudera got up on his feet with a stick of dynamite on each hand before lighting it up and said, "If you ever decided to yawn in front of the 10th again, I'll stuff these in your mouth!"
Yamamoto just smiled and said, "Again with the fireworks."
"These aren't fireworks!"
"There, there. You're doing it again." Tsuna said with his hands up.
"But he's being cocky!"
"You don't always have to put the blame on him, Gokudera." Kiyomi said.
"I'm the 10th's right hand man! He's like something gross on the bottom of his shoe." Gokudera stated.
"Wow, Gokudera. That was a very impressing comeback. How long did it take for you to think that one up?" Kiyomi asked in a sarcasm voice, causing Yamamoto to laugh.
"Hey!"
"Why don't you guys just stop that?" Tsuna asked.
"If the 10th says so." Gokudera put out his dynamites before putting them away and leaning against the fence. "But it really is boring. Is there really nothing interesting around here?"
"There is."
"Huh, Reborn?" Tsuna looked around him before he felt something sharp being thrown at his arm. "Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!"
"It's lucky." Reborn appeared by Tsuna in what looked like a sea urchin costume. "Ciassou." Reborn started to poke at Tsuna, who cried out in pain.
"Reborn, what's with the costume?" Kiyomi asked.
"A big surprise with a big chestnut?" Gokudera wondered. A moment of silence filled the area until Kiyomi covered her giggles with her hand covering her mouth.
"That's right? He got it right?" Tsuna asked.
"Nope. This is a sea urchin." Reborn replied.
"He's going along with it." Kiyomi said once she calmed herself down.
"That's funny." Yamomoto laughed.
"This is a camouflage for spying on people who commute on long distance trains." Reborn explained.
"But wouldn't hundreds of people notice you in that costume? That would ruin the purpose of spying." Kiyomi said.
"It's all right. Everyone's too scared of the spikes to come close so it's easy to relax."
"It's got nothing to do with spying!" Tsuna exclaimed.
"Bianchi made it for me for a project in Home Economics when she was in elementary school." Reborn added.
"Wait a minute, you met Bianchi even way back then?!" Kiyomi wondered with widen eyes.
"Yes. So whoever touches these spikes will go to heaven in thirty seconds." As soon as Reborn said that, Tsuna fell back unconscious. "Exactly thirty seconds. How precise."
"H-Hey 10th! 10th! Are you okay?! 10th!" Gokudera was calling out to Tsuna, but was getting no response.
"Reborn, he's not really dead, is he?" Kiyomi asked out of concern.
"Of course not. He'll wake up in ten minutes." Kiyomi sighed in relief as Reborn continued, "Until then, I know a place where you can rest Tsuna."
Reborn took them to the reception room as Yamamoto and Gokudera were holding up the unconscious Tsuna while Kiyomi was carrying Reborn in her arms.
"Is it here?" Gokudera asked, which Reborn nodded 'yes'. Kiyomi slid the door open and walked in first while the boys gently placed Tsuna on the couch. Reborn jumped out of her arms and sat on the sofa chair while she and the boys looked around the room.
"Wow, I never knew there was a room like this." Yamamoto said.
"The reception room isn't used much. The furniture is nice and so is the view. It's also in a convenient location." Reborn stated.
"What do you mean by convenient location?" Kiyomi asked.
"This is going to be the family's secret headquarters."
"Wow, sounds like fun! A secret hideout." Yamamoto was obviously happy about that.
"Are you a kid or something?" Gokudera asked. "It sounds good though. There definitely needs to be headquarters for the family."
"It's decided." Suddenly, the door slammed opened to reveal the Discipline Committee.
"You there, what are you doing here?" One of the Discipline Committee members demanded. "Who told you to come here?"
"Huh, what do you want?" Gokudera demanded with him, Yamamoto and Kiyomi glaring at the members.
"Don't act cocky. This room was given to us, the Discipline Committee." One of the members stated.
"Who the hell is he?" One of the members notice the unconscious Tsuna on the couch just before kicking the end of the couch in order to wake him up.
"Bastard." Gokudera muttered before walking up towards the member and said, "I don't care that you're some Discipline Committee. You're going to bite the dust."
"What?!"
"In other words, you're an eyesore. So get out." Kiyomi explained as she crossed her arms over her chest with a smirk, causing the members to glare at her.
"You bitch!" Just as one of the members was about to charge towards Kiyomi, Gokudera pushed him back. "This guy…!"
"Trying to defy a Discipline Committee member…" Three of the members charge towards Gokudera, but Gokudera was too quick for them considering he dodged their attacks and knocked them unconscious after one punch.
"Well, well. It can't be helped." Yamamoto said with Kiyomi nodded her head in agreement.
"Stupid brats!" One of the members charge towards them with a mop held up in the air, but Yamamoto quickly grabbed the mop with one hand and said, "Mops are for cleaning." As soon as he said that, Yamamoto punched the boy in the face, knocking him unconscious.
The last few members of the Discipline Committee charged towards Kiyomi who just smirked as she waited for them to make their move. One of the members jumped towards her until Kiyomi jumped on his back and landed her feet on the two of the member's chest before making her upper body fall down and pulled their ankles up, causing them to fall on their front and Kiyomi doing a front flip and landed on her feet. She faced the last member who quickly got on his feet and charged towards her again but she stopped him by punching both sides of his face and his actually face before doing a couple of spinning heel kicks, knocking down on the floor unconscious.
"Are you done?" Reborn asked once every member of the Discipline Committee were down for the count.
"Yeah." Yamamoto answered for everyone as he, Gokudera and Kiyomi walked towards Reborn who was preparing coffee.
"I've made some coffee." Reborn stated as he held a mug for Kiyomi who accepted it with a smile.
"You were totally unnecessary. I could have handled it by myself." Gokudera said towards Yamamoto who handed him a mug.
"Oh, really? You looked like you were in trouble." Yamamoto said with a grin.
"What the hell?" Gokudera muttered as he accepted the mug.
"Besides, Gokudera, we couldn't just let you have all the fun." Kiyomi giggled.
"Hmm…These watchdogs are useless." Everyone turned their attention towards the entrance to see Hibari Kyoya leaning against the opened door with his hands in his pockets. "Who are you?"
"He's Hibari Kyoya." Yamamoto stated.
"Huh, what? Are you one of these guys?" Gokudera asked before walking towards Hibari.
"Gokudera, wait." Kiyomi tried to stop Gokudera, but of course, he didn't listen to her.
"Just now this place has become the headquarters for the Vongola family." Gokudera stated.
"Family? What kind of crowding is that?" Hibari wondered.
"Crowding? Whatever, just get out." Suddenly a bright flash appeared for a quick second and the mug and its handle split from each other, surprising Gokudera, Yamamoto and Kiyomi with widen eyes as the mug shattered onto the floor and the hot beverage splattered all over the floor.
"What the hell is this guy?" Gokudera wondered as he jumped away from Hibari, who was now holding a tonfa in his hand.
Hibari gave the group a harden glare before he said, "I hate weak herbivores that crowd around."
The boys and Kiyomi stared at Hibari while Gokudera pulled out a dynamite stick on each hand and lit it before he stated, "Bastard!"
"If you come into my sight, I'll want to kill you." Hibari stated.
'This guy…' Kiyomi narrowed her eyes at Hibari as she took a step back just before Hibari charged towards Gokudera with his tonfa trying to land a hit but Gokudera kept dodging the attacks with the lit dynamites still in his hands until he fell down and landed on his head on the side of the couch, knocking himself unconscious and dropping the dynamites in the process.
"One." Hibari muttered to himself while Kiyomi quickly picked up the dynamites and threw them out the window just seconds before they exploded.
Hibari charged at Yamamoto next while Yamamoto was doing more dodging than attacking, which Hibari caught on pretty quickly. "You move well, but you're protecting you right hand." Hibari said, catching Yamamoto off-guard. "I see, the baseball club."
'Of course. Yamamoto's in the baseball club, which makes him very protective of his right hand. Especially since the club is preparing for a game and they're counting on Yamamoto.' Kiyomi thought to herself as her eyes filled with worry. Kiyomi gasped a bit as Hibari kicked Yamamoto in the stomach very hard, causing him to land roughly on the back of the couch and sliding down unconscious.
"Two." Hibari looked to the side to see Kiyomi who was glaring at him while standing in a defensive stance. "Well then, looks like you're all that's left."
'It's better not to correct him in order to keep Tsuna safe.' Kiyomi thought to herself before she charged towards Hibari until she was close enough to land a high kick on him but he was quick enough to dodge it by taking a step back.
Hibari quickly charged towards her with his tonfa ready to land a hit on Kiyomi, but she jumped straight up into the air and tucked her knees in before preforming a front flip and landed by the other side of the room. Kiyomi jumped up on her feet and quickly turned around to see Hibari looking over his shoulders with a smirk on his face.
"Wow. Looks like there's more to you than meets the eye." Hibari stated before both he and Kiyomi charged towards one another until she got close enough to try and land a hit on him with her fists, but he kept on moving his head. As soon as she performed a high kick, Hibari ducked down before quickly getting back up on his feet and used his free hand to grab her incoming fist and his tonfa landed roughly against her neck.
Kiyomi chocked a bit from the impact as Hibari pushed her against the wall which caused her head to bang against the wall really hard, almost knocking her unconscious while he held her up with his tonfa pressing against her neck and his free hand now holding both of her wrists over her head. She tried to get his wrists out of his grip, but all that did was causing the tonfa to press against her neck a bit more, just enough to cause her to cough out.
'Man, this guy's incredible.' Kiyomi thought as she glared at Hibari who narrowed his eyes at her.
"I must admit, out of all of the herbivores I've eliminated, you're not the weakest one I've faced." He stated.
Kiyomi smirked as she asked while gasping for air, "Should I take that as a compliment or an insult?"
"Huh, Yamamoto? G-Gokudera-kun too?" A familiar voice called out, causing Kiyomi to gasp.
Both Hibari and Kiyomi looked towards the source of the voice to see Tsuna looking down at his friends with his face and eyes filled with worry. 'Oh, no. Tsuna, now's not the good time to wake up!'
"Why? What happened?"
"So there was another one." Hibari stated, grabbing Tsuna's attention. "The Director of the Discipline Committee, Hibari-san? K-Kiyomi?!"
Hibari released his grip and tonfa from Kiyomi as she slowly slid down to the floor while gasping and coughing for much needed air. "To be continued." Hibari said to her before turning his attention back to Tsuna who was checking on his friends.
"They won't wake up. It's because I did that kind of an attack on them." Hibari stated.
"What?"
"Now then." Hibari walked towards the boys, causing Tsuna to screech in fear and jump by Kiyomi's side as they watched Hibari. Hibari stared at them with the most terrifying eyes that they have ever seen.
Hibari grabbed Yamamoto and Gokudera by the back of their shirts and walked towards the opened window before placing them over the window, surprising Kiyomi and Tsuna.
"What do you think you're doing?!" Kiyomi shouted.
"I'm cleaning up." Hibari said as if it was a no big deal. "They're in the way."
"Huh? H-Hey, wait a sec!" Tsuna pleaded, causing Hibari to look over his shoulder as Tsuna stood up on his feet. "You can't do that! Do something! Reborn?"
"Um…Tsuna." Tsuna turned his attention at Kiyomi who pointed at the empty chair that Reborn was sitting.
"Where did he go at a time like this?!" Tsuna exclaimed as Hibari went back to the process of throwing Gokudera and Yamamoto out the window. "Stop it!" Tsuna shouted, catching Kiyomi by surprise and Hibari to look over his shoulder again.
"If you can, do it."
"Do it with your dying will!" Both Kiyomi and Tsuna turned to the direction of the voice to see Reborn shooting a bullet at Tsuna's head, causing him to fall back until his clothes were gone, leaving him in his boxes and a flame on his head.
"REBORN!" Tsuna shouted.
'I get the feeling that I won't get used to this.' Kiyomi thought with a sweat drop on the back of her head.
"I'll beat you with my dying will!" Tsuna shouted as he charged towards Hibari with Leon, who transformed into a green slipper, in his hand. "Idiot!" He hit Hibari over the head with the slipper, causing him to release his grip of Gokudera and Yamamoto and slid out of the window.
"I'll stop it!" Tsuna quickly grabbed his friends on the back of their shirts just seconds away before they hit the ground.
"Tsuna, hold on!" Kiyomi shouted as she rushed over to her friends and grabbed Yamamoto from Tsuna.
As they was trying to pull their friends back into the room, Hibari smirked as he pulled out his tonfa and asked, "Can I smash you up?" Just as Hibari was about to throw them out the window with his tonfa, a coffee bean was thrown across the room, causing him to stop in his tracks.
"Oh, a coffee bean?" Hibari turned towards the direction the bean came from to see Reborn standing by the window sill.
"That's enough." Reborn stated.
"I don't know who you are, but I'm annoyed right now. Could you lie on your side and wait?" Hibari said before rushing towards Reborn with a swing from his tonfa. Reborn stopped the tonfa with a sai that he pulled out of nowhere.
"Wow, you are great." Hibari complimented with a smirk.
"You really are strong." Reborn complimented back.
"I want to fight you."
"Save it for later." As soon as he said that, Reborn lit up one of Gokudera's dynamite which exploded in a matter of seconds. Luckily, Reborn grabbed Tsuna and his friends out of the room and suspended them in the air together.
Suddenly, Reborn released all of them, in mid-air, into the school pool. Kiyomi, however, was able to do a double front somersault and landed just at the edge of the pool.
"Ta-Da!" Kiyomi cheered with her arms up in the air.
"What?! You made us run into him on purpose?!" Tsuna shouted at Reborn while Kiyomi handed the boys some dry towels.
"It was a dangerous gamble. Luckily it finished with only a blow and some scratches." Reborn said.
"Huh? What's that supposed to mean?"
"I think I understand why Reborn did all of this." Everyone turned their attention to Kiyomi who explained, "What happened today was a real-life training so neither one of us wouldn't get soft from the peace. Whenever it gets too quiet or too boring around here, you'd assume that everything is okay and you don't need to worry about anything. But then, when danger does appear, you get all sluggish and you get defeated very easily, which I don't think it's very good for the Vongola family, right, Reborn?"
"Correct. For training, real-life training is the best." Reborn said with a nod of agreement.
"W-What are you saying?" Tsuna was still confused, which is nothing new.
"Dang, to be beaten by that guy…" Gokudera muttered to himself.
"What have you done?" Tsuna cried out while holding his head. "That guy's going to be after me!"
"There, there." Yamamoto tried to calm Tsuna down.
"I'll be sure to beat him to a pulp next time, 10th." Gokudera declared.
"This time you two were saved by Tsuna and Kiyomi." Reborn said. "Good job, Tsuna, Kiyomi."
"Thanks." Yamamoto said.
"You're too friendly!" Gokudera shouted.
"There, there. Let's all get along together."
Tsuna and Kiyomi smiled at their friends before everyone turned their attention back to Reborn who said, "It's important that the family cooperates well. The family's union has gotten stronger from this."
'Reborn may have done some crazy stuff, but he thinks about it a lot.' Kiyomi looked up at the blue sky with a smile still on her face. 'I'm really glad we moved here.'
As the Discipline Committee members were refurnishing the reception room, Hibari was looking out at the window Kiyomi and her friends escaped from.
'That girl…' Hibari looked down at Kiyomi who was talking with her friends as they stood at the front gate with Reborn leaving with an older woman. She waved goodbye to her friends as she walked down the path that he assumes is her way home.
He will admit to himself that out of the four of them, he was most impressed with Kiyomi's fighting skills. She was able to take out three of his best men with ease and she probably would've had him if he didn't take the fight seriously. He couldn't help but think that there's more to her than meets the eye.
"I want to meet her again."