Ugh, finally got this chapter done. I hoped you all liked that extra I put out :) I'm thinking about writing another extra but I don't know what it will be about yet…But that doesn't exactly pertain to the story lol!
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~8~
"Duck! Duck!" sang out the voice of a little girl who walked alone in the streets of Namimori. A fish bowl, that had no fish in it but was filled with water, was being balanced on her head of shiny black hair rather unsuccessfully since the water inside it kept sloshing out onto the ground.
"Duck! Duck! Duckie!" she still sang, the puffy red jacket she was wearing was soaked from keeping the fish bowl placed on her head and her yellow rain boots squeaked with each step she took.
"Duck! Duck! Duck!" she finished her song loudly and placed the bowl on the ground in the barren street. The little girl leaned over the fish bowl and examined the contents of it closely, the bowl was half-full with water that was still swirling around. "Still not back!" she said to the bowl and put it back on her head to sing cheerfully, "Duck! Duck! Duckie!"
~8~
In less random news, Hide was quickly being put to sleep by his teacher's monotone voice as he droned on and on about the current lesson. It was Geometry. The various shapes and equations were even putting the new assistant teacher to sleep.
"Sensei," Hanabi raised her hand, "Kurokawa-sensei is being put to sleep by your boring lesson."
"Wh-What!" their math teacher shot a glare at the assistant teacher, he was snoring in a slouched position on his chair and had his arms folded together, "Kurokawa-sensei!" the teacher barked.
The assistant teacher immediately fell out of his chair and yelled, "Kurokawa Takuma! Here!"
The whole class snickered as the assistant teacher's face went red and he was sent out into the hallway to be scolded by their math teacher.
Suzuki turned around in his seat to Hide and whispered, "Isn't that new assistant teacher supposed to be just a coach for gym?"
"Don't talk to the Twelfth when he's studying, bastard!" Hanabi hissed from where she was sitting, which was right behind Hide.
The boy whimpered to himself as the two (or more like Hanabi) had been arguing with each other (very one-sidedly) ever since school started back up. They had also been doing this ritual every day ever since Suzuki and Morita were both switched into Hide's class.
"Calm down, Gokudera, I was just making small talk," Suzuki smiled wistfully.
"Small talk or large talk, you're just a huge distraction to the Twelfth!" the silver-haired Italian stated.
You're being an even bigger distraction, Gokudera-san! Hide thought to himself but said out loud, "It's alright Gokudera-san, he was just talking about the class's new assistant teacher."
"Kurokawa-sensei?" she questioned and slouched in her chair, "That guy seems like such a lazy bum, all he does is sleep during the lessons and play games on his phone. I heard he was just aiming to be a gym teacher and he had to learn how to teach another class in order to get hired."
The teachers soon came back into the class, Kurokawa looked slightly dejected as he went to the back of the class and sat down at an empty seat.
"Now then," the math teacher coughed while keeping a wary eye on Kurokawa, "The angles used in this formula…"
The teacher then went back to his droning and before anyone knew it, Kurokawa was fast asleep.
"Kurokawa-sensei!" the math teacher scolded, his face was a livid red.
"Kurokawa Takuma!" the assistant teacher stated after falling out of the desk from hearing his name shouted.
There was a murmur of laughter from the class but it was then quickly hushed when the teacher glared at all of them. Hide sighed in his desk and rested his head on top of it.
"Today's going to be long again, I know it," he sighed as Hanabi continued to bicker with Suzuki.
~8~
The bell quickly rang for lunch to start, the class's math teacher shot a glare at Kurokawa before stomping away angrily. The assistant teacher soon followed after rather embarrassedly.
Hide looked towards the front of the classroom where Megumi was sitting and saw her talking to a few of her classmates about having lunch in the school's courtyard.
I wish I could have lunch with Megumi-chan…he thought wistfully.
"Hide!" Morita yelled as he jumped in between Hide's view of Megumi, "Let's have lunch on the rooftop!"
"The roof?" Suzuki questioned cheerfully, "I'll go too!"
"Okay, the more the merrier, right Hide?" the boxer grinned.
"There's no way in hell that I'm going to leave you idiots and the Twelfth alone!" Hanabi declared.
"We'll go too!" Adam quickly volunteered both him and his sister.
Instead of being with Megumi-chan, I'm stuck with the most dangerous and random people in the school! Hide whimpered to himself, he then sighed and said, "Alright, we'll go to the roof for lunch. But I need to buy a drink from the vending machine first."
"I'll go with you, Hide," said Suzuki, "I need to get a drink also."
"Then I'm going too!" Hanabi yelled.
Hide left the classroom with Suzuki at his side and Hanabi trailing behind him while keeping a wary eye on Suzuki.
"What are you going to buy at the vending machine, Hide?" he asked as he was impervious to Hanabi's sharp glares.
"I don't know, probably-" Hide began and then stopped when he heard something squelch underneath his feet, "Water?"
"Water? That's pretty plain, Hide," Suzuki shrugged.
"No, water," he shook his head and looked down the hall, "There's water all along the hallway!"
"Eh? Did someone have to do that bucket-punishment*?" he questioned.
"Don't be an idiot," Hanabi rolled her eyes, "If that was it then the water would only be in one part of the hallway, not all over it."
"Do you have an idea, Gokudera?" he asked cheerfully.
"Che, isn't it obvious?" she scoffed, "It's clear to see that the reason why there's water all over the hall way is because someone peed their pants."
The three immediately became silent and looked down at the puddles on the ground.
"I don't think anyone's bladder is big enough for this much…uh…pee, Gokudera-san," Hide said slowly as he cautiously moved his foot away from the puddles.
"Well, I can't think of anything else," she shrugged as she too avoided the puddles.
"Maybe someone had a bucket of water and spilled it?" Hide suggested as he decided to take the common sense route, "Or something happened in the chemistry lab or in the home economics room."
"Heh, maybe you're right, Hide?" Suzuki grinned.
"As expected of the Twelfth, of course he's right!" Hanabi nodded confidently.
"Quack!" Hide nearly fell over when he turned around and saw a little girl quack at him.
"W-What…?" he faltered.
"Quack, quack, quack!" she sang out happily while keeping both hands on the fishbowl on her head, "Quack, quack!"
"Uhm…" he looked around uncertainly until he turned back to the kid and asked, "Are you lost of something, little girl?"
The girl immediately stopped quacking and stared straight into Hide's eyes before asking, "Who are you?"
"Ahiru," Reborn stated as he suddenly appeared out of a nearby fire extinguisher case.
"Reborn!" Hide jumped when he saw the infant, he quickly regained his composure and looked back at the little girl, "Do you know this girl, Reborn!"
"Yes," his tutor nodded, "She is the granddaughter of a friend of mine."
Great, another weirdo Reborn knows…Hide sighed and looked back at the girl and thought, but for some reason, she looks kinda kind of familiar…
"Reborn-chan!" she brightened and leaned towards the infant as the fishbowl balanced on her head sloshed everywhere.
"Hello, Ahiru," the infant nodded and looked up at the fishbowl, "Is there supposed to be something in that bowl?"
"Hn?" she questioned and then turned her attention the fishbowl on her head, "Oh yeah! Ahiru lost her pet! Have you seen my pet?"
"Reborn, why is this little girl referring to herself in the third-person**?" Hide whispered.
"Hey there kiddo!" Suzuki instantly greeted the girl cheerfully, "Did you say you lost your pet?"
"Yes!" the little girl nodded, more water spilled out of the bowl and got Suzuki's feet wet, "Ahiru lost her pet in this school! Ahiru knows it because Ahiru saw it go this way!"
"What's with the fishbowl?" he asked while grinning.
"This is Ahiru's pet's bowl, not a fishbowl!" she said stubbornly.
"Hey kid, bug off you're bothering the Twelfth," Hanabi warned to the little girl.
"Meanie," Ahiru stuck her tongue out at her, Suzuki had to hold Hanabi back from beating the living daylights of the kid, "Reborn-chan, will you help Ahiru find Ahiru's pet?"
"I can't, I'm helping Hide," Reborn stated.
"Hide?" she questioned.
"The weakling you see standing before you."
Ahiru stared up at Hide blankly before saying, "Boring."
"Why you-!" Hanabi began angrily but was held back by Suzuki.
I get the feeling that this girl and I are going to be good friends, Hide thought as he remembered the wonderful and blissful days when he was called 'plain' and 'normal'.
"Twelfth, give me permission to beat the crap out of this girl…" Hanabi asked in a rather frustrated tone.
"G-Gokudera-san, you can't beat up little kids!" he stammered.
"Scary!" Ahiru stated while pointing straight at Hanabi.
"You little-!" the older girl began but before she could even do anything Ahiru was already running off with the fishbowl on her head sloshing water everywhere.
"What the heck was that all about?" Hide muttered.
"She must've been in a big hurry," Suzuki smiled.
"We still have time until lunch is over, let's just go get something from the vending machine and meet on the roof," he sighed.
~8~
Of course more trouble met them when they came on the roof as they found Adam, Anna and Morita being scolded by one of the teachers. Apparently a new school rule passed that didn't allow kids to go on the roof.
Luckily for Hide, Hanabi, and Suzuki though, they managed to stop themselves from getting in trouble.
"Ah! Wait!" or so they thought, "You're Sawada Hideyoshi-san, right?"
Hide turned around and was surprised to see the assistant teacher, Kurokawa, standing at the door entrance from the roof to the stairwell.
"Uh, y-yes," the boy nodded cautiously.
"What do you want with the Twelfth, bastard?" Hanabi growled, she was still angry from the encounter they had with the strange little girl.
"Wow, you're Gokudera Hanabi-san, aren't you?" the assistant teacher said with amazement and noticed Suzuki, "And Suzuki Kouhei-san too!"
"Heh, yeah," Suzuki nodded sheepishly.
"Are you guys friends with those foreign twins and the scary looking-guy?" he asked.
He went straight to the point! Hide gulped and said nervously, "Um-well-you see-um…"
"I see," the assistant teacher nodded without needing to hear anymore words said, "I guess the rumors about you are true, Hideyoshi-san."
"R-Rumors!" the boy yelped.
"Don't call the Twelfth so familiarly, bastard!" Hanabi warned.
"Yeah, rumors say that you run around the place in your underwear without a care in the world," Kurokawa continued while ignoring Hanabi's threats, "And that you're friends with really good-looking people despite looking so plain and boring. They also say that you can be very impulsive and not give a second thought about stuff."
Everything he just said is probably the exact opposite of what really happens…Hide thought.
"It seems that the entire student body looks up to you, Sawada-san," the assistant teacher continued, he took extra care around Hide's name when Hanabi shot him an evil glare, "I hope you don't mind me asking, but could you please look after me?"
"Wha-What!" the boy's face went red and his mouth fell open.
"Hm, maybe that was the wrong choice of words…" Kurokawa said thoughtfully and then said, "Sawada-san, if you haven't noticed, I'm not real popular with the other teachers…"
That's because you sleep in all of the classes! Hide mentally added.
"And I'm not that popular with the students either," the assistant teacher added, "But all the kids, and even some of the teachers, have a bit of respect for you. This may sound awkward, but could you help me with my popularity?"
Eh? Hide grimaced, Does an adult want me to help him with popularity! N-No way!
"That sounds pretty awesome, Hide," Suzuki commented.
"Hmph, as expected," Hanabi smirked, a hint of pride was in her tone, "The Twelfth is the right person to ask these sorts of favors."
"He is? Then I definitely came to the right person!" Kurokawa brightened and added, "Oh yeah, and as compensation for helping me I'll let those twins and the scary guy loose! And I'll owe you one, true as my word!"
"W-What if I don't?" Hide dared to ask.
"Then you all go to detention and those guys get expelled from all club activities," he said in the same bright and cheery tone.
Morita-kun will get expelled from Boxing! Hide gulped and reluctantly nodded, "O-Okay then…"
"You're such a great guy, Sawada-san!" Kurokawa exclaimed as he shook Hide's hands.
"Y-Yeah…" the boy nodded, Only because you're threatening me and my friends!
~8~
The bell rang for lunch to end and Hide reluctantly went back to class. The minute he sat down at his desk the English teacher came in with Kurokawa following behind him. The lesson started. It was boring.
Hide was a little surprised that it went by so quickly; after English they had gym, which was apparently Kurokawa's forte so Hide didn't really think he had to help the assistant teacher with anything…at least until trouble arose.
"I wish we had gym in the morning instead of the afternoon," Morita huffed as the boys' group ran around the track while the girls' group was inside playing volleyball.
"That's enough you guys," Kurokawa blew the whistle around his neck, along with him there were two other assistant teachers that were also aiming to become gym teachers.
"Line up!" hollered one of the other two assistant teachers; his name was Sugiyama, nobody really knew his given name just his family name but they all knew that he was much stricter out of the three assistant teachers.
"I-Isn't Kurokawa-sensei a great gym teacher?" said Hide as he had remembered his promise to Kurokawa.
"I guess he is pretty laid-back," shrugged a boy that was standing right next to Hide, "Sugiyama-sensei looks like someone who would just make us run all day."
"Is someone bad-mouthing me!" Sugiyama hollered.
"Okay guys, since the girls are taking up the gym, today we're going to play soccer," Kurokawa ignored Sugiyama's outburst and looked over to Hide, "Sawada-san, could you pick someone to go to the shed and get the balls?"
"Um, Suzuki and Morita?" the boy gulped as he looked at his friends imploringly.
"Okay," they both nodded and followed Hide to the sports supply shed.
~8~
Once they reached the shed, the three boys piled all of the balls into the rolling metal basket and started their way back.
"Come back!" they turned around and saw Ahiru chasing after them with the fishbowl still balanced on her head with water sloshing out of it, "Come back!" she yelled.
"Huh?" Hide questioned, the girl grabbed onto the ball-basket and climbed up it.
"Come back!" she was still yelling, Ahiru jumped off of the ball-basket, causing it to fall over, and started to run away.
"Oh no!" Morita yelped as the balls fell out of the basket and started to run everywhere, "Quick, get them before the teacher comes!"
And as luck would have it, Kurokawa soon came along after wondering what was taking so long and he tripped on one of the balls and landed straight on the basket.
"Ow…what happened?" he groaned as he rubbed his head and slowly got up from the basket.
"Kurokawa!" Sugiyama was standing before him with some of the other students behind him, the assistant teacher's face was bright red with fury, "What are you doing knocking down the students' balls, you idiot!"
"W-Wait, Sugiyama-sensei!" Hide quickly said, "Kurokawa-sensei didn't do this, a little-"
"I don't want to hear it Sawada," the teacher said sternly and turned to the rest of the students, "All of you grab a ball and put it back in the ball-basket, if I so much as see one of them missing you're all running two times around the school!"
"Look here, Sugiyama," Kurokawa began as he stood up from his fall, "I may have been the one that knocked over all of the balls but you shouldn't take your anger out on the students."
Sugiyama rolled his eyes and said, "Just stay out of the way, Kurokawa."
His face went deep red with anger at this comment but he chose to stay out of it.
Eh? But it wasn't Kurokawa-sensei's fault…Hide thought as he looked from Kurokawa to Sugiyama, But how exactly do I explain that a little girl suddenly showed up and pushed the basket over?
~8~
Once gym was over, Hide immediately went with Morita and Suzuki to apologize to Kurokawa.
"It wasn't me who did that?" the assistant teacher asked in amazement.
"You thought it was you?" Hide asked.
"Well yeah, I tripped on something and I thought I was the one that pushed the basket down," he nodded.
"But Kurokawa-sensei, that wasn't you!" the boy quickly shook his head, "A little girl came running past us and pushed the ball-basket over! We were in the middle of picking up the balls when you came and tripped over one of them!"
"Is that right?" Kurokawa looked at Suzuki and Morita who both agreed to this, the man then smirked and said triumphantly, "Yes! I have something on Sugiyama now, the bastard!"
"Y-You're not mad?"
"About what? It's not your fault," he said while shrugging, "But Sugiyama's been getting on my nerves for a while now, he thinks I'm a completely useless idiot! But he falls asleep in class as well!"
I don't think falling asleep in class necessarily counts as being an idiot…Hide mentally added.
"Anyways, you guys better get to class," Kurokawa grinned, "I'm gonna go to the teacher's lounge and gloat to Sugiyama."
The three boys looked at each other when Kurokawa left and decided to go back to the class.
~8~
"Hey Boss, how was gym?" Adam greeted them cheerfully.
"Good, why weren't you there?" Hide asked suspiciously.
"I can't stand people ordering me around, Boss," the American shrugged nonchalantly, "So I definitely couldn't go to a class that was all about being ordered around."
"Why are you saying that as if it's a plausible excuse?" the young Boss asked tiredly.
"Get to your seats students," the history teacher ordered them as he came walking in with Kurokawa behind him, Hanabi entered the classroom right after they did and sat down at her desk while ignoring the teacher's disapproving look, "Gokudera?"
She darted her grayish-green eyes at him and glared, the teacher backed away a little and let the girl go. This was what generally happened whenever one of the teachers tried to punish Hanabi.
Hanabi slouched at her desk and promptly fell asleep behind Hide, while said-boy sweat dropped at how Hanabi had waved cheerfully to him before continuing her glare at the teacher.
"Alright, class, let's do attendance!" Kurokawa announced as he held out a huge binder and put down at the podium at the head of the class.
"Kurokawa, I'll be right back, I just remembered something in the teacher's lounge," their history teacher said as he walked out of the class room.
"Okay then," he nodded and looked down at the binder full of names, he began, "Ayakashi-"
It was then that the door was slid open and Ahiru came running into the classroom, Hide's mouth hung open as the whole class watched in stunned silence at the little girl who was simply running around the class with a fishbowl on her head.
"U-Um, where did you come from, little girl?" Kurokawa struggled to ask.
She looked up at him blankly before stating, "My mom."
The whole class burst into laughter at this, Kurokawa simply tried to repress the laughter and said, "Well, that's a person, little girl, what I need to know is where were you last at? Don't you have elementary school or something today?"
"Elementary school is boring and stupid," she stated simply and then added, "Plus, my pet has disappeared and Ahiru knows it came this way!"
"Pet?" the assistant teacher questioned.
"Ah!" Ahiru turned and pointed straight at Hide, "You there! You said you would help Ahiru!"
"What!" Hide's mouth fell open, "When did I say that!"
"You said you would help Ahiru!" the little girl insisted, she then began stomping her feet and chanting, "Help Ahiru! Help Ahiru!"
"N-No I didn't!" Hide shook his head and looked around desperately to find a distraction for the little girl.
"Hide, you shouldn't break promises to little girls," said Kurokawa sternly.
"I didn't promise anything!"
"Liar!" Ahiru exclaimed and started to fake-cry.
Megumi quickly got out of her desk and patted the little girl on the back, "Aw, there, there, little girl…Hide-kun, you should probably help her."
"M-Megumi-san…" the boy looked distraught and gave-in, "Fine…"
"Yaay!" Ahiru immediately brightened and latched onto Hide's arm, "Let's go! Let's go!"
"Hold on now," Kurokawa interrupted, "You guys can't just go now! I'm in the middle of class!"
"No!" the little girl stuck her tongue out at him and started to runaway while dragging Hide along for the ride.
"W-Wait!" Kurokawa called after them and then looked back at his class and said hesistantly, "Um, you all just…uh, stay in here!"
He then ran after the two, leaving the whole class stunned in amazement.
"Who wants to go get ice cream?" someone asked, the class agreed to this and spent the rest of the day getting ice cream.
~8~
"This way! This way!" Ahiru demanded as she ran throughout the halls of Namimori Middle.
"Do you even know where you're going!" Hide screamed.
"W-Wait!" the boy looked back and saw Kurokawa running after them.
"I forgot he's training to be a gym teacher!" he yelped and looked at Ahiru.
"No!" she refused, though there wasn't really any question that she was refusing.
"Hold on!" Kurokawa yelled.
"My life is over!" Hide cried to himself.
"Here!" Ahiru announced after suddenly stopping, this caused Hide to fly head first into the ground as he tried to avoid running the girl over.
"Gotcha!" Kurokawa said triumphantly as he swooped the girl up, "Let's take you to the teachers' room and-"
"Herbivores are crowding," they all turned around and were stunned/shocked to see the principal outside of his office.
"Principal Hibari!" Hide gulped and noticed that the principal was staring straight at Kurokawa, "I-It's not what you think! I have no clue who this girl is!" he quickly said.
The principal ignored the boy and only said one word, "Ahiru."
Hide's eyes widened in shock, he then turned to the little girl and his mouth fell open, "Huh!"
"Grandpa!" the child brightened and jumped out of Kurokawa's arms to run straight towards the principal, "Grandpa! Grandpa! Ahiru had a lot of fun today!"
"Granddaughter!" both Hide and Kurokawa's mouths fell open.
"Hn, you did, did you?" the principal said and patted her head gently, "Ahiru, why aren't you in school?"
"Ahiru lost her pet, grandpa!" she said sadly, "Ahiru tracked it to the middle school, but Ahiru still can't find it…"
"I thought so," her grandfather nodded and held out a fist, "Here."
She kept the palm of her hands open as the principal handed her something. When he lifted his hand away a small fluffy yellow bird*** was in her hands.
"Ahibird!" Ahiru said brightly and danced around with the small bird in her hands, "Ahibird! Ahibird! Thanks grandpa, for finding Ahibird for me!"
"It flew into my office," he said solidly as he gently took the fishbowl off of her head and allowed her to place the bird there, he then glanced over to Hide and Kurokawa and said coldly, "Herbivores, what are you doing crowding around my granddaughter?"
"Grandpa!" Ahiru tugged on her grandfather's pant leg before the two could even respond, "Ahiru got lost in your school, and Hide-nii and Takuma-nii helped Ahiru!"
What's with this 'Hide-nii' and 'Takuma-nii' stuff! Hide thought.
Principal Hibari's gaze went from his granddaughter to the student and to assistant principal. His ominous silence seemed to last forever to Hide and Kurokawa.
"Hn, I see," the elderly man said flatly and turned around and started walking away with his granddaughter trailing after him, he took a few steps before stopping and saying, "Kurokawa Takuma, correct?"
Kurokawa gulped and said weakly, "Y-Yes, sir?"
"You are to be put in charge of Ahiru's well-being whenever she is at the middle school," he stated, there was no arguing this since Kurokawa seemed to be fearing for his life at the moment.
"Yes sir," he said obediently.
"Does that mean I can come over whenever I want to, grandpa?" Ahiru asked brightly.
"Only when you get bored of those herbivore-teachers at your school," he said solidly.
"Yay!" she cheered, the tiny yellow bird flapped its wings on her head as she danced around and clung onto Hide's arm, "Hide-nii, let's play every day!"
"Huh!" the boy's mouth fell open.
"Hide-nii is acting like a herbivore!" the little girl giggled.
"I don't even know what that means…" he groaned.
~8~
*The 'bucket-punishment' Suzuki is talking about may or may not be real since I've only seen it in a few manga and anime; the punishment is normally given to a students, they are forced to go out in the hallway of their class and hold a bucket full of water in both hands for an extended period of time without resting, making it feel like their arms about to come off.
**Children in Japan will commonly refer to themselves in the third-person or by their name, this sounded adorable so that's why I'm using it for Ahiru.
***Ahiru's Ahibird is a slightly different breed from Hibari's Hibird, but Ahiru believes that both are baby ducks which is why she ran around the school quacking with a fishbowl on her head.
~8~
Whew! Done! I've been so busy with school and all that stuff that I haven't really thought much about my story, but I'm glad I can get this much done in…3 weeks!
Oh yeah, and about what the next extra will be about…I've decided to put up another poll! Just because lately I've been a huge poll-monster lol XD, the poll is on my profile and you can vote for up to two of any character you want the next extra to be on. I found it mildly hilarious when I put up a poll about Katsura asking if she should go away or not and all the answers were "YOU'RE the author, shouldn't YOU decide?" but since these extras won't particularly effect the story in anyway (unlike Katsura) I feel that this one will be more light-hearted than all my others :P
So I hope you all have fun with this poll and liked this chapter! :)
BTW Katekyo Hitman Reborn! is the baby-child of Amano Akira