Author's Note: It was weird looking at the manga and writing from that for the first time. I basically went, "Darn it! There's no voices to listen to!" but it was alright. It took me longer to short out what I was going to do with this though because I forgot what I could cut out because Kasumi wouldn't be there or whatever other reason. I ended up re-reading a few chapters so I can make sense of it all, so yeah. Basically, it took me a bit longer. Enough of my ranting though, enjoy the chapter!


Disclaimer: I do not own Katekyo Hitman Reborn


I grit my teeth as I head to school in an attempt to keep my expression under control. I feel as though there are lots of mafia families starting to gather around here. There's a heavy air of vicious intent as I walk around. Well, maybe not quite, but the mood feel stiff somehow. This is, well, disconcerting. As I pass through the school gates, Kusakabe greets, "Good morning, Sato-san."

"Good morning, Kusakabe-san," I reply. "I'd suggest that you be…" I pause. "particularly careful today," I finish. He gives me a questioning look and I shake my head. "Feel free to disregard it, it's just a feeling I have." I offer him a pathetically weak smile before I continue on and head to the classroom. When I get into the classroom, the Storm Guardian is yelling something about protecting his precious Tenth. I roll my eyes, but I will admit that he's onto a good idea there, seeing as it feels as though something is about to happen, but I don't think that he has the right reason behind it. "Rowdy as usual, I see," I comment as a place my bag down on my desk.

"You got a problem with that?!" the Storm Guardian exclaims.

"Not particularly," I reply with a shrug, "I think that the Discipline Committee does though." I show him my red armband. I think about it again. "Then again, I'd have to write the report and file it myself if I did anything about it," I say.

"You're just being lazy now!" he exclaims.

"Can you blame me?" I pull out the last stack of papers I have to finish re-copying and put it on my desk. It was really weighing down my bag this morning. "Hibari-san asked that I get these done and hand them in today," I explain. I sigh and begin to work. It's a pain, but I'm getting paid to do this, so why not? Sure. Fine. Yeah. I'll just… Yeah, no. It's not fine. I think that he's trying to punish me for something I did, but really, I have no idea what I did.

"T-That's crazy! There must be at least three-hundred papers in that stack!" Sawada exclaims.

I shrug as I continue to decipher the writing on the page. "This is only the last part of it. I finished most of it last night." I barely got any sleep last night. It was only when Ken yelled at me to quit grumbling to myself that I finally gave up for the night, or morning. Whatever you call it. You get the idea.

I stare at the page as I come across a section that I can't read. A thought crosses my mind and I start nonchalantly, "Say, Sawada-san, your handwriting is pretty messy, too. Can you read this?" I hold the paper up and circle the section I can't read.

"Umm," he starts. He stares at the page with a concentrated expression. His eyebrows furrow together. "I think it says 'running in the halls'?" he suggests. "Wait a second, you asked me for help and insulted me at the same time," he says in a deadpanned tone.

"That's it, Goth Loli, I'm going to kill you for making fun of the Tenth like that," the Storm Guardian declares.

"Oh?" I ask. "I'm kind of busy right now," I reply absentmindedly. "Ah, I know," I mutter. I pull my hair over my right eye and use the third path to summon some snakes to my side. I turn to the snakes. "I'm busy right now, so if you'd please," I explain before I pick up my pencil again and continue to diligently go through the papers.

"G-Gokudera-kun! Sato-san! You're being too violent!" Sawada exclaims.

I nod. "That's was I was aiming for," I reply a bit more slowly than usual. I continue to re-write the reports. "I figured that you would stop it before it got out of hand." I glance up at the clock. I continue to speak somewhat slowly, "Anyhow, class will be starting soon. You should all get to your seats."


As I go outside to rest my eyes a little after completing the paperwork, I hear someone getting beat up. It's pretty obvious from here. All I can hear are taunts flying around. When I get there though, Sawada and the new transfer student, Kozato, Enma, I think are both on the ground already. I sigh and look away from them and direct my gaze to the three males that beat them up. "You three. Aren't you aware that beating up other students is against school rules?" I ask.

"Oh, well if it isn't the secretary of the Discipline Committee. What are you going to do? Write us up?" one of them taunts.

I nod. "Precisely," I reply. Without waiting for some lame response I'm sure to get, I swing my bag at them, which contains all the paperwork due since I don't think I'm technically supposed to have weapons on me. Not that I'm saying that I don't have weapons on me. Of course I do. I don't think that killing them with my scythe would be too good though. That would require more work. I continue to attack until the three of them with my bag until they're on the floor, then I pull a marker out of my bag and start to write on their foreheads:

"Offence: beating up other students

Punishment: punishment by Hibari-san followed by one month of detention every day after school"

I put my marker back into my pencil case and into my bag. "That should do it. They can consider themselves written up. I'll write up the report myself later." I sigh as I look at Sawada and Kozato. "You two are birds of a feather, aren't you? Come on." I hold up the bandages I have in my bag and fix them up quickly.

"T-Thanks, Sato-san," Sawada says. "That's surprisingly girly of you to have bandages in your bag like that." His eyes widen, so I guess that he didn't mean to say that.

I raise my eyebrow at him. "I just happened to have them with me. It's an old habit. There's really not too many occasions to use them anymore," I reply coolly. "In any case, be careful from now on. I'm going then." I start to head off, but I remember something and turn back to them. "That's right. You're Kozato-san, aren't you? One of te new transfers." I ask the red-haired male, just to make sure. He nods. "I see. I'm Sato, Kasumi." I smile wryly, "As you probably heard, I'm the Discipline Committee's secretary of some sorts. The Discipline Committee guys are mostly a bunch of brutes, but they beat up anyone who breaks the rules. Just hang near some of them as they patrol. Generally, you'll be safe around them."

"Ah…" he responds a bit gloomily. He seems to get it though, so that's enough for me. I'm not so kind that I'll go too far for anyone's sake.

"I'll be on my way then," I say. "Sawada-san, Kozato-san." I nod at them and head off on my own.


When I go into the reception room, I find a girl in a different uniform, well, um… on top of Hibari. I feel my eyes widen slightly, but I fight to quickly regain my composure. I make sure to keep a flat expression and a flat voice as I apologize. "It seems I've… interrupted something?" I bow. "I'm sorry. I'll leave the paperwork for you here then, Hibari-san," I say calmly. I put the papers down by the door and bow again. "If you'll excuse me." I walk out without waiting for any kind of response and close the door behind me.

I hear a girl's voice ask, "Your girlfriend? She didn't seem to be fazed at all." I head down the hall. I have nothing to say. How am I supposed to react? I guess that it shouldn't really matter though? Yes. That's right, it shouldn't matter. There's no reason for it to matter. Exactly.


"Hey, Kasumi! Did you get the food?" Ken asks once I get back to Kokuyo Land.

I shoot him a blank look. "Huh? What?" I ask. "Food?" I repeat slowly. Food? What was I…? Oh. OH. Oh, food. That's right. Food.

"You forgot didn't you?!" Ken asks. He looks outraged for a second as he yells at me, but then his expression changes to one of confusion. "Wait a second. You've never forgotten something that important before. What's wrong with you today?" He kind of seems as though he's actually worried about me.

Chikusa, apparently hearing the noise comes over. "Kasumi? Is something wrong?" he asks. "It's not like you to forget something."

"Nothing happened!" It's quiet suddenly. Ken and Chikusa look at me with surprised expressions and my eyes widen.

"What are you being so defensive for?" Chikusa asks.

"I-It's nothing," I reply in a more composed manner this time.

Ken being well, Ken, starts to laugh. "It's about the duck isn't it?!" He continues to laugh and starts to roll around on the floor as he clutches his stomach. "Kasumi fell for the duck!"

"Like you don't have something for Dokuro," I retort.

He jumps up and threatens me. "Hey! I'm gonna attack you with the rhino channel!"

"Yeah? So what I'm hearing is that you don't want any dinner then," I threaten back.

"You two are acting like children," Chikusa says with a sigh. He's right. We are.

"It's not about Hibari-san," I say calmly. I used to wonder if it was a bad thing that I could lie without batting an eye like this, but I've given up on wondering about that. "I'm just really tired. I'm sorry about forgetting the food." Ken's not going to be the one to mature, so I will. It's always been this way, but its fine. This is how Ken is. No, this is how we are. It's how we work. I'd rather let Ken be himself than force him to mature. I'll do that instead. "Let's go out for dinner today," I decide. "I don't really feel like cooking today."

Ken looks at me with wide eyes. "Really? Where are we gonna go?"

"Let's go to the diner in the shopping district," I decide. "I'll pay. Then, I'll get stuff from the convenience store after that before we come home."

"Yeah!" he exclaims happily before he runs out the door. Chikusa sighs and laugh a little as I put my schoolbag down and pull my wallet out.

"Let's go, Chikusa," I say, "It would be a pain to chase him down if he gets too far ahead." He nods in agreement. I used to wonder what kind of person I would be if I didn't end up being born in the mafia, but I think that I've found an answer now. It doesn't really matter. I am who I am, and I have no regrets. There's nothing in the world that could possibly convince me to want to have a family different from the one that I have now.


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