Re: Remastered Fall For Me

by lazura234

Two friends are selected to play a game in the world of KHR. What tales of adventure, romance, and heartbreak will follow them as they progress through the story, both following and bending the rules? This is a remastered version of Fall For Me by the same authors that wrote back in 2012 until now. Can also be found on AO3.

6. Did You Mist Me

Disclaimer: We don't own KHR at all except our ocs.

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Vi got up slowly, stretching her muscles. As soon as Lana got downstairs for breakfast, Vi would have to tell the other girl about her dream. She had set her alarm to go off earlier last night so she would have some time to prepare for school that day. But before her preparations, she grabbed her glasses and headed into the bathroom to freshen up. Brushing her teeth, combing her hair, straightening her bangs all without making too much noise to wake Lana up. After she was done washing up, she went back into her room to prepare for classes.

Taking out the textbooks they had each received after school, she carefully organized them in her book bag. As an afterthought, she took her eraser out of her pencil case. Grabbing the student handbook from the packet the principal gave them yesterday, she quickly rifled through it with a pencil, found what she was looking for, scratched a couple of notes in the margins, and put it into her book bag.

Picking up her uniform, she wondered if she should iron it a little before putting it on. "Nah, too much work." She quickly put it on, not worrying about the wrinkles. White blouse first, then plain grey skirt, pop on the weird sweater vest, some black thigh highs and the odd red bow tie. She smirked as she grabbed a grey knit scarf from her closet and the grey gloves from a drawer. Finishing her outfit with her rings and a silver watch, she headed downstairs to get breakfast.

Forgetting about the alarm ringing, Lana slapped her hand to shut off the buzzer, "Morning again." Shuffling out of her bed, the girl grabbed a comb to straighten her hair out while getting rid of stray hair strands. Finishing her hair, the girl made grabbed her folded uniform sitting on one of the cushions by her coffee table. Changing to her uniform, like the previous day, Lana headed over to the laundry basket to put away her pajamas. However before she headed into the bathroom to wash her face, Lana stifled a yawn trying to keep herself awake; otherwise she'd drop to the floor to continue sleeping. Going into the bathroom, Lana's pupils constricted at the brightness of the room. Ignoring it, she moved over to the sink to wash her face. Pat drying her face with a face towel, Lana proceeded to brush her teeth and then rinse out the toothpaste.

By the time she finished her daily routine in the bathroom, Lana returned to the room to unplug her cellphone to place it inside her messenger bag. Everything else she packed in the day before sat in her bag already, now all that's left for Lana is to fold her bed sheets. "And…there." Lana muttered, fixing the bed to how it should resemble before she leaves the house. Or else she'd feel like her mother was nagging her from the real world about her room. "Instilling rules into the mind of a child is terrifying, but at the same time, useful for reinforced cleaning." Lana admitted while putting her messenger bag over her shoulder, before she left the room. The girl grabbed the black bow hair clip, setting the bangs of her hair back. Taking one last look at her room, Lana gave a satisfied nod at its cleanliness. Finally, she left the room to go down for breakfast.

When Lana got downstairs and entered the kitchen, Vi was already there with a tall pile of pancakes on a plate as well as some sliced fruits on the side.

Speaking around a mouthful of pancakes, Vi muffled out, "Morning! Help yourselves." Handing over a bottle of chocolate syrup, she swallowed her bite. "There's also maple syrup if you wanted that. Whipped cream?"

"Thank you, Vi." Lana thanked Vi as she took a seat, grabbing some pancakes onto her plate, "Could you pass me the maple syrup?" Vi slid the bottle of syrup toward Lana. "Thanks." Grabbing it, Lana drizzled a good amount atop of the stack of pancakes.

Milk walked in and began eating from the bowl in the corner.

Looking up from her pancakes, Vi remarked, "Aw that's adorable." She looked at Lana, who was sleepily eating the pancakes. "How's it?"

"It's good," Lana replied after swallowing a bite-size chunk of her pancakes.

"Good." Changing the topic abruptly, Vi decided it was a good time to bring up her strange dream. "So I had an odd dream. Like weirder than usual. Worse than that one with the robots and polar bears."

She continued, ignoring the confused look from Lana. "I think it was memories of the KHR arcs. In book form? I'm not sure, but it feels like they were locked up or blocked away? But some of them, like the Daily Life and the Kokuyo arcs that have already happened were open. And the Varia arc, which we're in now. Also when I flipped through through the books, memories started coming back. So I'm assuming that means the books that were locked are my missing memories? Lana, thoughts?" Vi looked expectantly at the other girl.

Lana's eyes were wide as saucers, "You experienshed the shame ming too?" She forgot that she was still chewing, and swallowed it before repeating herself again. "You experienced the same thing too?"

Vi raised her eyebrows in surprise. "Too? Well, that answered one of my questions. What was your dream like? Exactly like mine, with the big whitespace and books? Or something different?"

Lana shook her head, "Something completely different from yours. In fact, the place I was in was a moving train in the sky. I almost had a heart attack after seeing the sky when I opened the curtains." Lana paled in memory of it, but was grateful that she wasn't falling to her doom thanks to it. "And instead of your books, I had treasure chests filled with photographed images of what took place in Daily Life, Kokuyo, and finally the Varia arc."

"Thanks to the treasure chests, I was able to regain most of my memories regarding the current arc for now." Lana then decided to ask Vi a question in turn, "If your books are similar to my treasure chests, did you manage to see one titled Future?"

Vi hummed in agreement. "Yeah, I wondered what that one was! Do you remember there being a Future arc?"

Lana shook her head again wearing a frown on her face, "I don't remember a single thing, so I tried to pry the treasure chest open for the memories but the padlock wouldn't budge a single inch."

Stifling a snort behind her hand, Vi swallowed a bite before responding, "I slammed a book against the table. Nothing. Nada. But!" She opened her mouth as if to continue, but just shoved more pancakes into her mouth.

Lana stared at Vi feeling as if she almost landed on a cliffhanger, "But what?"

"I have a theory, but I'm not 100% on it yet. You said that you thought you saw your ring light up last night?" Vi placed her fork down and rested her head on her hands.

"Yes, I'm pretty sure I wasn't hallucinating."

Vi nodded, realizing her theory was probably right. "I thought so. And remember yesterday I accidentally shot you with the moon thing?"

Lana nodded in affirmation to Vi's question, "Yeah?"

Vi pointed dramatically with her fork. "Hypothesis. Our unique flames are the key to unlocking our memories."

"Our flames?" Lana blinked a few times as she tried to fit the new pieces of information together, "You mean our star and moon flames right?"

"Exactly. I don't know how, but if the two are linked like I think they are, then the more we use those flames, the more memories we get back." Vi waved vaguely in the air to emphasize her point. "So the faster we practice our powers, the more we remember and the more of an advantage we have. It's like your basic level grinding before a boss."

"So you actually want us to agree if Reborn ever asks us to help the Vongola fight?"

Vi frowned and shook her head. "I don't know. The benefits are pretty nice. We get formally allied in exchange for helping out. They might trust us faster since we helped them. We get involved with the Vongola and can follow the story deeper. But there are definitely cons to helping them. We might have to answer Reborn's questions about who we are. We might get hurt if we try to help them. It's a very complicated decision."

"Dang." Lana scratched the back of her head after taking in Vi's information, "Is this probably the true part of the game Checkerface set us up on?"

"We definitely will have to reveal ourselves to the Vongola soon." Vi sighed heavily and stabbed a pancake. "They're going to school the day after tomorrow, after Hibari's battle."

Lana pointed her fork at Vi while giving her a stern look, "We are not going to that. That battle is an endangerment to us especially if we end up getting hit by either a missile or a rain of bullets."

"If you say so."

'We're not gonna die from that mess of a battle.' Lana shuddered remembering the image of Hibari fighting against Gola Mosca.

"Anyways." Finishing her thoughts, Vi picked her fork back up. "That's why it's time for training." Punctuating her sentence with a stab of a banana slice, she paused before putting it in her mouth. "Well. not right now, but like, after school, ya know?"

"Sure, it actually gives purpose to the training room at least. It'd be a waste on not using it to prepare." Lana nodded, accepting Vi's suggestion for more training.

"Eugh, is that why Checkerface put a training room in the house? Gross." Vi finished her last bite of pancake and headed for the sink to wash her plate. "Gimme your plate so I can wash 'em."

Finishing her last pancake, Lana handed Vi her plate to go grab a bottle of water from the fridge before heading to the living room.

When Vi was finished washing the plates, she headed for the living room where she started petting the cat. "So fluffy, it's like a cloud. Ah, so comforting."

"You are not taking Milk to school today." Lana intently reminded Vi, heading back into the kitchen to get the lunch boxes.

Vi continued to pet Milk. "Yep, I wasn't going to do it anyways since Hibari's comin' back. No rule breaking is part of Plan DPAC."

"Yes, please don't. The last thing we need is death chasing after our hides the minute we disturb his peace around the school." Lana reminded Vi, "Yesterday was enough to scare us to the point of running back home."

"Yeah, yeah. No poking the very angry murderous bear with a pointy stick. Got it." Vi lay on the floor, Milk on her stomach.

"So…what's for lunch today?" Lana opened the fridge and took out their lunch boxes. Walking back into the living room and handing Vi her lunch box, the two opened their own box to reveal the leftover curry from yesterday night with lil cats made outta rice. Lana gaped at the rice cats, "That's so cute."

"Oh shit, that's fucking adorable," Vi cooed internally at the sight of the adorable food. "I hope he does this every single day. Just cute as fuck bentos."

"Oh man I can't believe Tsunomichi can make something so cute like this!" Replacing the lid on her lunch, Lana quickly packed it into her messenger bag. "Though it's sad that we have to eat something so neatly designed."

Glancing at the wall clock, Lana stated, "Time for school."

Vi packed away her lunch box into her bag. "Alright, everyone got everything? School books, coat, whatever else?"

"Yep." Lana replied with a thumbs up.

They were about to leave the kitchen when suddenly they heard a loud clamor of footsteps approaching from the hallway.

"Wait!" Screaming, Tsunomichi tripped through the doorway, holding onto a black box. "I have something before you go to school!"

In his hand was a black and white flip phone with a charm of what looked like a chibi version of himself.

Vi looked at the phone in Tsunomichi's hand with a dumbfounded expression. "That's a brick."

"What do you mean that's a brick?" Lana stared at Vi with a weirded out expression, "That's just a flip phone."

"Flip phones are bricks." Vi explained with a disdainful look. "So old. So decrepit."

"Have you not seen the cellphones with the antennae that you need to take out?" Lana brought up the even more ancient phone that her aunt had. "Those are much more closer to bricks. Closer to the original cellphone concept that was actually a brick."

Vi said nothing but had an incredibly disgusted look on her face.

Tsunomichi held out his phone. "I need to give you my phone number in case you run into any problems."

"Exactly what problems do you anticipate in which we'll need your help?" Vi asked with a wary look on her face.

With an innocent look on his face, Tsunomichi replied, "It's always best to be prepared!"

"Okay?" Lana then proceeded to take out her phone to enter Tsunomichi's number.

Vi, still disgusted, took Tsunomichi's phone and sent herself a text. "Please just get a smartphone, old man." Handing it back with her number in it, she took out her own phone and saved the new contact.

"Hey!" Tsunomichi put a hand on his chest. "I'm not that old!"

Looking incredulous as his statement, Vi turned to Lana. "Ready to go now?"

"Yeah." Lana nodded in agreement as she slipped her phone back into her bag.

They left the house, making sure to lock up behind them and headed for school.

Lana made sure to tell Vi this time, "No running off today, since the reaper is going to be at school this time."

"Aye, aye. Captain." Vi jokingly saluted the other girl. "I don't think I can pull off the moon energy thing again."

Nodding her head, Lana internally applauded to Vi's compliance. "At least we know you have some kind of support that might be useful in the future."

Vi narrowed her eyes. "As long as no one tries to yell 'I need healing' at me, I'm down with playing a support role."

"We're not in a video game, Vi." Lana pointed out, pretty sure of herself.

"You never know, Lana." Vi mimicked. "After all, we're in a manga already. Anything could happen."

Lana shrugged, "But it's not like they're going to add characters involved in the video game versions of this world."

"Fucking snow flames." Vi muttered under her breath. "A goddamn joke. What kind of paradox. Fire and ice. Honestly."

"Dunno, maybe the game producers didn't think too well on the premise of the game and the main plot." Lana recalled how some animes didn't follow according to their video game counterpart, but man was the KHR game a little bit too far off.

Suddenly wide eyed, Vi turned her head quickly and almost hit Lana with her hair. Pointing into an alley, "Holy shit, there's a cat."

"Vi." Lana spatted, almost getting hit by Vi's hair, "Vi, no!"

"Vi, yes!"

All of a sudden, the cat spotted them and started running and Vi immediately gave chase after it.

Lana puffed her cheeks and yelled at the runaway Vi, "I told you not to run off!"

She walked half a block, muttering darkly to herself. "I'm going to get Vi for this one day. Just one day."

'But how am I going to do that?' Lana continued to think to herself of what she could do get payback. 'Maybe I can befriend Chrome somehow and ask her to help me to prank Vi if she doesn't visit Kokuyo Land.'

Without warning, Vi popped up, slightly out of breath. "I caught him." Cuddling a chubby gray tabby cat, she scratched behind its ears.

"Really, Vi?" Lana frowned at the sight of seeing Vi holding yet another cat. "Let it go Vi. You're not allowed to have another cat. Our house is a one cat limit."

Vi held it out to the other girl. "Alright, but do you want to pet it first?"

Lana paused for a minute at Vi's suggestion, "…Kinda."

After they had gotten their fill of petting, Vi put the cat down and backed away. The cat sat there and looked very disgruntled for a second, having been petted by too many hands, then got up and walked away, very rumpled and fur sticking up. The two continued walking after the cat left.

Suddenly a loud barking started charging down Lana's way, the clicking of nails and the growling of a dog gaining closer. Instantly, she dashed away from Vi's side and started running like her life depended on it. Of all the times to get chased by a dog, why now?! And from the sound of said animal, it had a good bark to scare intruders. Although, why did it decide to chase her in particular?!

Dodging through the crowd, Lana noticed the crowd staring at her like she was crazy. She wondered if the dog was huge and wanted something from her bag. In an attempt to check her bag, the poor girl didn't notice the incoming obstacle in front of her

At full speed, Lana slammed against another steel pole head first. Leaving her sight in a disarray of what was happening, she soon found herself sitting on the ground.

"Grrr…" Lana gulped at the growling that was suddenly next to her. Turning her head slightly to see what she was up against, she was left in a small moment of shock. It was a baby chubby puppy cocker spaniel with short coffee colored fur and floppy ears that seemed too big for its small body. The little puppy woofed at an unexpectedly lower octave for such a small dog. Reaching her hand out to the puppy, it sniffed her outstretched hand, only to lightly lick at it. Lana giggled at the pup's action, it felt cold yet cute for a little puppy.

"What an adorable little puppy." Lana smiled, taking the puppy closer to her to ruffle its fur, "And much floof."

Vi stared as Lana ran from the small tiny dog. "Wow, I thought she said not to run off."

She continued walking, sure that Lana would eventually find her way to school. "Rude. After everything she said to me." She sniffed in mock offense. "Well, the only thing I can do now is plot my revenge."

'Something evil. But not too evil. Like getting Kyoko to put more smileys on her stuff. Passive aggressive stuff. Oh my god, I have a great idea.'

"She'll never see it coming!" Vi assumed an evil pose, laughing maniacally.

Lana slowly walked up to Vi after petting the puppy that chased after her, placing pressure on her bruising forehead, "What is happening?"

"I will exact my revenge." Vi nodded decisively and continued walking as if nothing was wrong.

"What do you mean?" Lana sent Vi a look of confusion.

Vi raised an eyebrow. "You said not to run off and ran off not five minutes after. That deserves retaliation."

Lana returned Vi's argue, "Hey, you ran off too! Besides I was chased by a dog while you went after a cat!"

"Point." Vi shrugged. "Well, I'm 71% sure you thought of your own revenge plan."

"29% says that I didn't." In truth, Lana was going to think of one until the dog ran after her.

Vi added on to her previous statement. "22% that you were thinking about it and decided not to make a plan."

"Stop decreasing the percentage and let's just get to class before we get killed by the prefect." Lana reminded Vi, not wanting to start another argument.

"Fine. Whatever." Conceding the fight, Vi followed after Lana. "But! 80% sure you'll agree to a prank war."

"I did not say that." Lana stated while standing her ground on the argument.

Vi grinned mischievously and asked, "Well, if I propose a prank war, will you accept?"

"Never." Lana flat out muttered under her breath.

"Boo." Vi pouted at Lana's refusal. "I'll wear you down eventually. How will I have my revenge otherwise?"

"Probably in the future or something when I have the esteem to allow you to do so." Lana brushed off the topic without much thought.

As they passed through the school gates, they saw the school buildings from yesterday's battle.

"I still find it unbelievable to see the school intact." Lana admitted upon seeing the school building.

"Such is the power of the mist." Vi boasted, wiggling her fingers.

Walking to class, they noticed some of the students whispering with each other. Thinking nothing of it, they walked into their classroom and headed for their seats. Vi smiled sweetly at Sakamoto who was already in his seat fully prepared for class. Strangely, many of their classmates were huddled up whispering furiously.

Curious at the whispers, Vi asked the boy what that was about.

"Oh! The Disciplinary Committee president has come back to school." Sakamoto explained. "They're in charge of maintaining order in the school. Many students seem to be afraid of the prefects, since they are very intimidating. But they do good work for the school, I'm sure!"

"Good work?" Lana mumbled to herself while dreading the thought of meeting the disciplinary prefect. 'Intimidating and beating sense of justice to people using brute force seems a little off for maintaining order.'

As if he was summoned, Hibari showed up in the doorway and entered the classroom. Immediately, the students hushed and watched as he approached the two new students.

"Who are you." Hibari demanded as he stared down these unfamiliar students.

"Hibari-san! These are the new transfer students!" Sakamoto stood up and announced, barely meeting the Disciplinary Committee leader in the eyes.

Looking unimpressed, Hibari ignored the class representative. "Hm."

Terror filling her vision upon seeing Hibari, Lana couldn't look him in the eye at all.

Vi got up, looked Hibari straight in the eyes, and stuck out her hand with an innocent smile on her face. "Nice to meet you, Hibari-senpai. My name is Victoria."

Lana was too frozen stiff to even respond, but she can't help but frown at Vi for bringing the teacher's pet expression toward Hibari of all people. 'I can't believe Vi is going to die today.'

Hibari looked down at her with a blank face and Vi met his stare, continuing to smile innocently.

Sakamoto stood to the side, starting to look slightly distressed about the situation.

Hibari blinked and looked down. He stared at the grey knit scarf around Vi's neck and spoke, "That's violation of the dress code."

Eyes sparkling, Vi internally thought, 'I am so glad I came prepared for this.' Out loud, she said innocently, "Really? Because I read the student handbook in its entirety just recently and I don't think I saw that." She tilted her head forward and grinned with all her teeth showing. By now all of their classmates were staring at the girl who seemed to be standing up to Hibari.

'Since when did Vi have the time to read that?!' Lana was pretty sure she didn't see Vi take a single look at that book the whole time. 'Unless she always prepares a surprise from out of nowhere. No wonder she's a mist user.'

Hibari started to show the beginnings of a scowl. "Hn?"

Vi took out the handbook from her bag. "See? Right here. 'Accessories that are distracting or inappropriate to the school environment are prohibited. However, garments or accessories that are for functional purposes, including but not limited to: gloves, scarves, hats may be worn during such circumstances.' I'm just wearing my scarf because it's so cold outside." She pouted at the last statement, giving an innocent look to Hibari who narrowed his eyes and looked at her suspiciously.

Watching the scene unfold, Lana's eyes widened abruptly, "Did Vi just?"

'Oh great gawd, she did.' She silently noticed Hibari staring or rather glaring, well Lana wasn't sure at all, she just felt a chill running up her spine.

Hibari, feeling irritated that Vi had defied his 'rules', was tempted to fight the girl for insubordination. Raising his tonfas slightly, he took a step forward.

Sakamoto couldn't bear it anymore. "Hibari-san! Victoria-san is new and shouldn't be blamed for not knowing about your disciplinary committee! Please excuse her for any misconduct!" Stepping in front of Vi, he bowed his head slightly to his upperclassman.

In her head, Vi was frustrated that she didn't get a chance to sass Hibari some more. She memorized like half the handbook just for this. But she was also smug that the class rep had stuck up for her at risk to himself after knowing her for just a day. "Eh? Did I do something wrong?" Pouting, she tried to look as unsuspicious as possible.

Hibari, frustrated that he couldn't bite a class rep since he was important to the school, had a hard to tell expression on his face. Suddenly he turned to Lana. There was one new student left that he had yet to thoroughly inspect.

The second Hibari glanced over to Lana, she instantly hid her face to stare at the window muttering a mantra to herself for protection, "Don't look him in the eye, never look him in the eye. Terrifying mystery year disciplinary committee leader."

He found both her body language and words inexcusable behavior for a student of his school. Not to mention the bruise shown on her forehead hasn't been properly cleaned, "Tch. Disrespectful."

Hearing that word was enough to jolt Lana out of her chair, otherwise it would've been seen as a sign of defying Hibari. Strangely the sound of a chair being pulled back sounded beside Lana, causing her to shift her gaze over. Her eyes widened to see Kyoko getting up from her seat to face Hibari. In a calm manner, Kyoko simply stated, "Hibari-senpai, you're intimidating Lana-chan. It isn't right for an senpai to intimidate their underclassmen, especially when Lana-chan isn't doing anything at all."

"Kyoko." Lana mumbled the girl's name in disbelief of her actions. It felt nice to see someone like Kyoko trying to stand up for her.

Hibari glared at the two of them who didn't seem to notice, then turned and glared at all the frozen students around the room. Satisfied that he still instilled terror into the hearts of normal students, he shifted back to the two new girls. "Hm. I'll be keeping an eye on you." He turned to leave the classroom.

In Lana's mind, she began to question Hibari's words and compared them to a certain baby hitman who threatened them not too long ago. 'What is with this situation, why are we being watched by two terrifying people?!'

Vi smiled and spoke in a respectable tone of voice, "Have a nice day, Hibari-senpai!"

Hibari looked incredibly menacing as he headed to the exit of the classroom, glaring coldly at anyone who dared look in his direction.

Suddenly a loud chirping came from an open window. Hibari's head snapped around at the sound of a bird.

Lana felt something nestle atop her head, a sudden chill ran up her spine as her skin tone suddenly became pale. 'I'm going to die an early death.'

Vi's eyes widened comically and she hissed at Lana, "There's nothing in the rule book about that."

Hibari stormed to Lana's desk and slammed his hands on the desk so hard, it rattled at the force. "What do you think you're doing."

'How am I supposed to return your bird if you're intimidating me as I sit?!' Lana really wanted to go home and cry in her pillow. What did she do to deserve attention from the death reaper of Namimori? Why did Hibird choose her head? These questions will never be answered, because Lana knew she was going to die pretty soon by the hands of the prefect.

Hibird paid no attention to neither the furious boy nor the terrified girl as she burrowed further into Lana's hair.

Hibari's eye twitched.

Vi began mentally writing Lana's eulogy.

Lana continued to internally suffer before saying her last prayers. 'And then I want to give Vi my limited edition poster once I am dead.' She was still deciding on who would gain her stuff from the top of her head.

The entire class was at a standstill watching the scene play out in front of them. Hibari seemed ready to grab his pet from Lana's head or remove Lana's head altogether with the power of his furious glare. Vi was sitting at her own desk, head in her palms, muttering to herself, "I read the entire rule book and this is what happens?" Lana was frozen still unable to meet Hibari in the eye, as Hibird, still completely oblivious to the torment everyone was going through, finally settled in a nest of Lana's hair.

'I regret showering yesterday. I should have showered in the morning.' Lana mumbled hoping that some miracle would happen at the last minute.

The deadlock was broken as the door to the classroom opened with a sharp bang!

"What's going on here?" The homeroom teacher walked in with his arms full of materials. "Why are you not in your seats?"

The students began inching towards their seats, still on edge considering Hibari had made no move to leave.

"Well? I'm about to start class, so hurry up and sit down. I'm not sure what you're doing here, disciplinary committee president, but you're disrupting class, so I will have to ask you to leave."

Hibari tsked, glared coldly at the teacher, and walked out of the classroom. The teacher nodded slightly and headed to the front of the class. "Okay class, time to take out your books and turn to page 67."

The students took out their books and materials and thus class begun.

Opening her pencil case, Vi took out a pencil and rifled through it before making a small huff. "Oh shoot, I don't have an eraser."

Seeing Vi's dilemma, Lana grabbed her extra eraser from her desk and was about to give it to her when another arm reached out to Vi.

Sakamoto leaned across the gap and held out an eraser. "Would you like to borrow mine, Chō-san?"

Batting her eyelashes, Vi grinned. 'All according to keikaku. Translator's note: keikaku means plan. Lol.' Biting her lip, she responded, "Oh thank you, Sakamoto-kun! You're so nice."

Blinking in amazement, Lana couldn't believe the scene she just witnessed unfold right in front of her. It felt weird and oddly seemed to resemble a boy meets girl drama. But, the only one falling was the class rep, not Vi at all by the gleam in her eyes, "…wow." Lana muttered to herself, slowly placing her eraser back where it belonged.

Refocusing her gaze back to her notebook, Lana couldn't help but mentally wish the boy luck. No offense, Vi's definitely her friend; however it was difficult to catch her interest in terms of affection after recalling what happened a few times in their world. Indeed, Lana pitied him, because Vi had high standards of which no boy in their world, nay the universe, could match. A girl, however, was far more likely to catch her eye.

Sakamoto's face pinked again as Vi went on the attack. "N-not a problem, Chō-san! Just being helpful!"

"Eh?" Vi's smile seemed to get evil for a split second, then resumed its innocent facade. "Didn't you call me Victoria when you stood up for me from the disciplinary committee leader?"

"Ha?! Did I?!" The poor boy seemed even more nervous. "I'm sorry for overstepping my bounds!"

"No, I don't mind. Actually," Here, Vi paused momentarily, acting shy and looking away slightly, "I'd like it if you called me Victoria."

Sakamoto now resembled an attractive tomato. "A-aah, if you would like that, then I suppose I will comply, Victoria-san." He managed to stutter out before turning down to his book, hoping that his face wouldn't catch on fire.

"Thank you, Sakamoto-kun!" Vi grinned and then looked down at her own book in success.

After class finished, Lana decided to thank her neighboring seatmate who stood up for her, "Thank you, Kyoko."

Beaming another sparkly smile, Kyoko grabbed Lana's hands, clasping them into her own without a care in the world. Whereas Lana felt trapped in Kyoko's grip over her own hands as it continued to envelope them, "It's nothing for a good friend!"

Lana blanked at the continuous flood of sparkle being slapped across her face, in a small gulp she unconsciously wondered out loud, "Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to have you as an enemy."

"Hm?" Kyoko hummed while tilting her head out of curiosity, "What was that, Lana-chan?"

"N-nothing, nothing at all." Lana shook her head and gave a reassuring grin to Kyoko, but the movement caused her bangs to part, revealing the bruise she received from the event earlier that morning to the girl gripping onto her hands.

As Lana pondered why Kyoko started calling her in a friendly manner, Kyoko's hands tightened around hers a bit too much for comfort. Glancing up, Lana found Kyoko staring at her face very closely, "What's wrong?"

"Lana-chan…" Kyoko released one hand, pointing directly at Lana's forehead, "Why is your forehead bruising?"

"Well I kind of lost track of where I was going while walking to school." It wasn't far from the truth or a blatant lie stated by a certain hard-headed brother of Kyoko's. Lana, at least in her mind, felt the need to be truthful to Kyoko.

Quickly releasing her grip on Lana's hands, Kyoko grabbed a small box from her book bag, "Here it is!" It was a band aid. Kyoko immediately plastered the band aid over Lana's bruised area in hopes of it healing. Although Lana strongly knew that bruises wouldn't heal by a mere band aid.

"Thanks?" Lana patted her forehead to see that it was completely placed over her bruise by the small amount of pain received.

Kyoko simply smiled at Lana before leaving to go talk to Hana.

Snickering behind her hand, Vi reached in her book bag. "Hey Lana, you might wanna take a look at this." She pulled out a small compact mirror and pointed it towards the other girl's face.

Lana looked into the mirror and spotted the band aid Kyoko had stuck on her forehead. The light pink bandage had a smiley face in the middle.

Lana's skin paled the minute she saw the dreaded symbol on her own forehead. The girl internally screamed inside her head in anguish. 'Not again!'

The bell rang and break ended as the students began to re-enter the classroom.

"Alright kids." The history teacher walked into the class holding a packet of papers. "I hope you remember what I taught yesterday. Pop quiz!"

Most of the students groaned under their breath. They all put away their things and took out their pencils. Soon the classroom was silent as the papers were handed back and there was only the scritch scratch of writing and the occasional cough or sneeze.

"Oh when you're done, just wait at your desk until everyone's finished," the teacher added before sitting behind the table in the front and taking out a book.

Vi's face scrunched up upon hearing the words 'pop quiz', and in history class, no less. Classes like English and history were her least favorite classes. She was much more suited to math and science classes. Especially math. Even so, this was middle school world history and so Vi finished the quiz quickly then lay her head on her folded arms and waited for the rest of the class to finish.

Lana wasn't too bad in history since most of it was based on memory of what they reviewed in class. Unlike Vi's deep hatred for English and History, Lana didn't hate the two class subjects since she often got above average grades for them. Finishing the history quiz without a complaint, Lana flipped her quiz paper to show only the blank backside and to hide her answers from wandering eyes. After placing her pencil down, Lana then awaited for the rest of the class to finish their quiz.

After everyone finished their quizzes, the teacher collected them and moved on to the driest history lecture anyone could ever remember. If asked about it, Vi could not be able to tell you what happened as she had stared blankly at the board for twenty minutes lost in a daydream, but pen in hand scribbling on her notebook as if she was paying avid attention.

In the seat next to her, Sakamoto was glancing at Vi every so often, impressed with her intense concentration towards the subject, unaware of what she was truly thinking about. Which was cats. Just rivers and rivers of cats. It was a mountain of cats and Vi was the one true ruler of the land.

The bell rang, snapping Vi out of her daydream. She blinked in surprise. Turning back to Lana, she leaned in. "I have no idea what was said in the last half hour."

"Were you literally daydreaming this whole time?" Lana frowned at Vi and didn't realize that she wasn't paying attention to the lesson at all until Vi deliberately mentioned it.

Vi stared into Lana's eyes without blinking. "The cats were many, and I was their queen."

"Seriously?" Lana was beginning to question as to how Vi managed to get all of that within twenty minutes of one lesson.

"I have a skill for extensive daydreaming. It's a talent." Vi grinned.

The bell rang again and Vi and Lana settled back into their seats.

After break, they ended up having a substitute teacher for English Comprehension. However the level of the words seemed advanced for middle schoolers. Rather it was closer to questions that would be asked in a high school level for those in their second year.

'Did someone mix up the textbooks or something?' Lana wondered to herself as she read the pages of her textbook carefully while following along with the teacher. However as Lana was immersed with her reading, the teacher noticed that she wasn't focusing on the lesson. Therefore she decided to pick on the student ignoring her lecture, "Lana-san?"

Snapping out of her focus, Lana's eyes trailed over to the front of the room to see the teacher watching her. She gulped before answering, "Yes?"

"The English Alphabet starts with the letter A and twenty-five more, so here's a quick question since you came from America." The teacher pushed up her glasses as she read out loud, "The word alphabet comes from the words alpha and what else?"

"Beta." Lana answered without missing a beat. She felt confident in her answer after noting the same words in the difficult English Comprehension textbook.

Vi held in a laugh as the teacher in the front frowned, unable to scold Lana for not paying attention.

"Good to see that you're reading, but next time pay attention." Lana knew what the teacher meant, after all she often got picked on in class whenever she wasn't paying attention to the lesson. The teacher proceeded to continue the lesson, "Now as Lana-san answered, the English Alphabet comes from the first two letter of the Greek Alphabet which are alpha and beta. Any set of western European characters in a specific order is called an Alphabet."

Lana gave a small sigh. 'At least I managed to get the answer right.'

The bell rang, ending the teacher's lecture. Before she left the room, she reminded them to do the reading and homework due in two days.

Kyoko turned to Lana as soon as the teacher left. "Wow Lana-chan! How did you know how to answer that question? That was pretty advanced."

Lana scratched the back of her head while giving an embarrassed smile, "Well I was kind of invested in reading the English textbook since it's different than the ones we have in America. Besides the answer was also on the page she was teaching on."

Turning around in her chair, Vi faced Lana with a weird look in her eyes. "Werewolf fanfiction."

"What?" Lana sent Vi a raised eyebrow, completely confused of what she meant.

"I will never look at the Greek alphabet the same ever again." Vi seemed to have gone through an experience.

"Lana-chan?" Kyoko whispered to ask Lana, "What does Vi-chan mean by Werewolf fanfiction?"

Lana could only give Kyoko a shrug, "I really don't know." No seriously, she didn't know what Vi was talking about at all.

Vi dropped her head onto Lana's desk and whined. "It's what I get for going into the weird parts of the Internet. It's just so weird. Who does that?! Who looks at a werewolf and thinks, 'Yep. Absolutely.' Weird people!"

Hana walked over as Vi was whining into Lana's desk. "So Lana, how'd you know about the alpha beta? Fanfiction or something?"

Vi snapped her head up so fast, Lana thought she heard a crack. "What do you know about alpha and beta in fanfiction?"

In a very uncharacteristic turn of events, Hana turned pink under Vi's scrutinizing stare. "Well. It's not like I went searching out for it on purpose. But it was… An interesting read. Very illuminating."

"I see." Vi continued to stare at Hana. She blinked once, twice and then turned to Lana and Kyoko with a blank look. They looked at her confused. Turning back to Hana, Vi stood up, putting an arm around Hana's shoulders. "Hana, let's have a talk over here. Have you heard of Teen Wolf?"

Kyoko looked as Vi and Hana got into a deep conversation in the corner of the room. "Lana-chan, do you know what Teen Wolf is?"

"No." Lana replied adamantly while wearing a blank knowing expression, "I don't think I want to."

The bell chimed, signaling the end of break. Immediately after the final notes rang out, the door slammed open to reveal a balding male teacher who quickly took his place at the podium and began speaking, effectively stopping all conversation.

This particular teacher wasn't exactly a favorite in the school. He sure loved going off topic and talking about his personal life during the math lesson, even though none of the students ever paid attention to his story.

The teacher continued to go on a bit on their life story, until he resumed the math lesson halfway through the hour. As boring as it seemed, the class had no choice but to listen to the teacher drone on and on, occasionally writing math problems on the board or talking about whatever they ate for dinner a week ago. Most of the students just copied down the material on the board word for word, not particularly paying attention to the explanations. Until Vi noticed something not quite right on one of the math questions' answer.

Vi raised her hand up immediately to inform the teacher. "Sensei. I believe you should go back to question 16."

"And why is that?" The math teacher raised a brow, questioning the student who had the guts to speak during their lecture.

"Because," Vi explained, unfazed by the teacher's response. "That's not the right answer."

The teacher made an unimpressed face. "I think I know more about math than you, young lady. What's your name?"

"Victoria." Vi stared down the teacher who, first of all, made a mistake; second, wouldn't even admit it; and third, tried to belittle her. She was determined to prove this teacher wrong.

"Well, V-victoria-kun, was it?" The teacher looked down at her, stumbling a tad at the foreign name. "How exactly is the answer wrong?"

"Well." Vi got up without an invitation, surprising the teacher and gaining the attention of the class. Walking towards the board, she grabbed the piece of chalk right out of the teacher's hand. "There's two mistakes here," circling the two numbers, "because your handwriting was so bad, you mistook the numbers. Also, the problem asked for a cube root, but you only squared it. And the decimal point is even in the wrong position." Marking each mistake the teacher made and rewriting it on the side, Vi finished solving the problem and took a step back, crossing her arms.

"…I suppose I can see where the mistake was made. Sit back down now." The teacher took the chalk back from Vi and waved her off.

Vi harrumphed softly and returned to her seat.

The teacher, having been humiliated by a student, finished their lesson quickly and left the classroom in a rush as soon as the bell rang.

"I forgot that you take your math so seriously." Lana commented as soon as break started.

Vi leaned back onto the other girl's desk. "The teach was a mess. Math deserves better than that. Also I'm pretty sure they made more mistakes than that, but if I corrected them all, he probably would have quit."

"Vi." Lana reinforced the tone of her voice. "Don't you even dare try." After warning Vi, the girl turned down to her notes to recheck her answers.

Sakamoto, who had been quiet until that point, spoke up suddenly. "That was impressive how you caught the calculation error, Victoria-san."

Vi turned to the boy. "Ah, thank you, Sakamoto-kun."

Sakamoto blushed in response to Vi's appreciation, "You're welcome."

The bell rang signifying that it was finally it was time for lunch and the students began either unpacking their bentos or heading to the cafeteria to buy food.

As Lana and Vi moved their desks so that they could eat together, Kyoko came over with Hana in tow, each holding a wrapped lunch box, "Lana-chan, could Hana-chan and I eat with you guys?"

Lana answered giving Kyoko a smile, "Sure." Lana somewhat found it weird that Hana's name had a similar pronunciation to her own and wondered if Kyoko might mis their names up at some point . 'They are pronounced too similar…how's Kyoko gonna deal with our names later on?'

Vi looked up at Kyoko in surprise as the other girls had made no move to eat lunch with them the day before.

"Thank you!" Kyoko chirped as she joined her's and Hana's desk closer to create a table for four. Kyoko sat across from Lana whereas Hana sat the opposite of Vi.

"It's been a quiet second day, hasn't it?" Hana asked the two girls. "Everyone's always curious when someone transfers in. Especially if it's a girl. They practically went crazy yesterday."

Vi groaned in agony. "Oh my god, you knew that would happen and you didn't warn us? I was exhausted by the end of the day with all the questions!"

"But it wasn't that bad, it was bearable to an extent." Lana pointed out, "Plus Kyoko and Hana mentioned that there were other transfer students that came here before us, right?" She turned over to look at Hana and Kyoko to agree.

"That's right." Kyoko agreed, remembering the day they received their first transfer student. "Although that transfer student and two other students have been absent to class lately." Kyoko then proceeded to say their names anyway to the two new girls at their school. "Their names are Gokudera Hayato, Yamamoto Takeshi, and Sawada Tsunayoshi."

"Hmph." A frown formed against Hana's face the moment Kyoko mentioned those three in particular. "Those idiot men."

Vi restrained from smirking at Lana and instead looked curiously at Hana. "Oh really? Tell us more."

"One of them is a useless idiot that's a sissy that can barely talk to a girl, another is a baseball idiot that might be popular if he knew anything besides baseball, and the last is a silver headed idiot with an obsession for the useless idiot calling him 'Tenth' for some reason that we don't even know." Hana summarized all three of the absent students without missing a beat.

"Hana-chan!" Kyoko gasped at her friend. "Don't be so mean! Gokudera-kun's not an idiot! He's really good at math."

Hana raised an eyebrow. "But the rest of them are idiots?"

Kyoko blinked her big innocent brown eyes. "I didn't say that."

"So what you're trying to tell us is that this Gokudera person is smart, just on an equivalent level to the other two in regards to them being friends?" Lana tried to put Hana's words into one sentence and was pretty confident in it.

Amused by Hana's description of the boys, Vi summed it up in her own words. "So we have a wimp, a baseball nut, and the wimp's fanboy."

"Yup." Lana added on as she finished unwrapping her lunchbox in the midst of their talk, she could already smell the curry from under the lid.

Upon seeing the duo's lunches, Kyoko gasped lightly, "Your lunch looks so adorable, did one of you guys make it?"

Lana shook her head, "No, our parental guardian did." Moving her lunchbox closer to Kyoko, Lana asked, "Do you wanna try a rice cat?"

Kyoko seemed surprised by Lana's offer, "Are you sure?"

"Yes." Lana nodded, not minding to give away one rice cat.

Using her spoon, Kyoko ate one of the rice cats and immediately squeezed her cheeks in delight, "Wow it's so yummy!"

Next to them, Vi had also shared a rice cat with Hana.

"Mmm! That's good!" said Hana, hand covering over her mouth.

"Yum." Lana mumbled in bliss after eating the curry together with the other rice cat she had in her lunchbox, "Curry is always so good."

"Could be more spicy." Vi remarked offhandedly, in between bites. "I crave the burn."

"Really? How spicy do you like curry?" Kyoko asked curiously.

"I can't handle anything spicy at all." Lana answered without a doubt after taking a bite of a potato, " I feel like I've been lit on fire to the point of begging someone for milk to sustain the burning sensation."

"I like anything from mild to medium." Hana added in her own opinion about how spicy she preferred her curry.

"Huh. Same." Vi looked at Hana with interest. "I also like it with mushrooms. Sometimes onions if they're chopped thinly enough. And basically any kind of meat."

"I heard some people put really bitter chocolate, some apples, or coconut milk in curry to change the flavoring." Lana informed the three of them from what she learned from her mom. Lana can't deny her mom's cooking advice since she's an actual chef with a keen sense of taste and smell.

"Oh! I use apples in my curry sometimes. It makes it taste super yummy!" Kyoko remarked, eyes sparkling. "My big brother loves them, too!"

"Your brother likes apples in curry?" Lana thought back to the time she first experimented in adding new ingredients to her curry base. At that time she was using coconut milk as a form of sweetening the spicy curry paste her brother accidentally got. "My older brother prefers coconut milk over apples as an added ingredient to curry."

"Lana-chan, you have an older brother?" Kyoko's eyes widened in surprise, while Lana nodded in response.

"Yep, although he's currently busy back home ever since I transferred over to Japan with Vi."

Hana seemed to be interested in this new topic. "Oh? How old is your brother, Lana?"

Vi immediately sensed Hana's intentions. "Mm! Didn't you say that your brother was dating the girl from the… Something? Flora?"

"Yeah, he met a girl named Fauna at his job in the planetarium." Lana, finally catching onto what Vi was trying to do covered for her.

"Is that so?" The hope in Hana's eyes dimmed once Lana explained her brother's relationship status. Unfortunately it was the biggest lie Lana could ever say about her brother. 'That is the biggest lie we could ever make up, but the only cover we can do to prevent Hana from trying to ever hunt down my brother despite being another world.'

The bell rang, lunch ended, and Kyoko and Hana went back to their seats, but not before promising to eat lunch again tomorrow.

The rest of school was boring as usual since the two girls knew most of the material already. Mostly they just sat in their seats. Vi looked like she was taking notes when she was in fact writing down plans for the future and Lana was taking diligent notes even though they weren't necessary.

When all the classes had finally ended, the students began to pack up their things and go home.

The duo walked down the stairs, through the front door, past the school gates without seeing hide nor hair of the death prefect.

"I feel this is a bad omen." Eyes narrowing, inspecting their surroundings, Vi began to pick up the pace, leaving Lana a couple steps behind.

"A bad omen indeed." Lana agreed as she gripped tightly onto the strap of her messenger bag.

Vi looked back and saw the other girl struggling to catch up. "Curse your adolescent legs." She paused to let Lana catch up.

"We can only blame it on growth." Lana replied in a huff, tired from following after Vi.

"If only we had wheels, I would just pull you along." Vi shook her head thoughtfully.

Lana sighed at the thought of Vi pulling her while wearing roller blades, "I have a sinking feeling that we'd both end up getting injured in the process."

"Hmm. Probably." Vi conceded. "Honestly, where do you think the bird man is? If he wasn't at his beloved school, where could he possibly be?"

Lana shrugged, not really wanting to think about it. Wanting to change the subject, Lana remembered Vi's desk partner. "So what's up with your relationship with the class rep?"

Vi's eyes brightened. "Listen my friend, I'd like to establish my rule over these children as soon as possible. So here's my plan."

Remembering Vi's plans, Lana narrowed her eyes at the other girl, "Exactly how many plans do you have right now?"

Tapping a finger on her chin thoughtfully, Vi rattled off her plan to rule the school. "Well, there is currently a single notebook. For now. Anyways, students follow several authority figures, including teachers, admin, and certain student led groups like the disciplinary committee and student council. I won't risk disciplinary committee because that route leads to certain death. My remaining options include class rep, student council president, and any other popular clubs. And since I got the good fortune to sit next to the class rep, I decided to start there first."

"Now you're making me feel bad for him." Lana muttered out of pity for Sakamoto's one-sided crush for Vi.

Defending herself, Vi stuck her tongue out. "Well hey I'm trying not to lead him on excessively since it won't last. I'm just playing a nice girl routine now and not a smitten girl act."

Lana made a blank expression toward Vi's statement. "Why in the world would you do this?"

Vi frowned. "I'd like to maintain a position of power in this school asap. If you're talking about why I would use Sakamoto like that, it's only because he was there. Plus I'm not planning to mess with him too much. It would hurt his feelings if I acted like I really liked him and then ignored him or broke up with him as soon as I got student council president or something."

"Aw." Lana clasped her hands together, finding Vi's opinion about Sakamoto to be rather sweet, "So you do care about him?"

"Not enough to date him seriously," Vi scoffed out. "He's too…" Her voice trailed off as she tried to think of a word to describe the class rep. "What's the word?"

Lana rattled off a bunch of words to match Sakamoto, "Kind? Nice? Gracious? Affectionate? Compassionate? Friendly? Loving?"

Vi snapped her fingers, thinking of the word. "Useless."

"Ouch." The word just slammed a ten ton weight on her heart. Lana placed her right hand over her heart clutching her sweater vest. The sensation of sympathy for the boy stabbed Lana's heart, "I pity Sakamoto so much now."

"Aww, not like a bad useless. I mean, the boy got class rep, so that's something. Well he could have just gotten it because no one else wanted it…" Trailing off again, Vi began to pity Sakamoto a little. "Or he could have gotten it because he's hardworking! Either way, he's only useless since he won't be able to contribute much to my overall plan of world domination."

"That is a new plan." Lana deadpanned.

"It's still in the works. Humanity has nothing to worry about yet." Vi crossed her arms over her chest. "But eventually, the world will be mine!" Raising her arms over her head, she laughed evilly.

Lana didn't know what to say the minute Vi spouted on about taking over the world. Those words sounded like a line from a certain someone that she copied from.

"It's a very new plan after all. With all our shiny new powers, we could certainly manage to take over at the very least a small country." Explaining her somewhat diabolical scheme, Vi had a smug grin on her face. "Or Antarctica. I would like a penguin."

Lana blinked a few times at the continent Vi mentioned, "Why Antarctica?"

Tilting her head slightly, Vi blinked back. "There's so few people there. Little resistance. I think we could handle a few penguins, couldn't we?"

"Why not the Arctic? Do you have something against polar bears?" Lana brought up, "Polar bears are just as nice as penguins."

"There's not much land up there to conquer, ya know? It's all slippery ice and stuff. Plus global warming's just shrinking it even more! Terrible." Shaking her head sadly, Vi sighed. "I would like a polar bear though. Imagine riding one into battle with a fucking sword or something."

Lana nodded, agreeing on the idea of riding a polar bear. "That would be awesome. Polar bears show no mercy."

The pair was almost home when there was a sudden flutter of wings and a flock of birds flew from a distant tree as if scared by some predator. In the distance, the girls could hear a faint tune.

"Midori tanabiku Namimori no~"

"Oh shit." Vi paled at the bird song.

"You jinxed us." Lana groaned, as she quickly took cover behind Vi.

They turned the corner slowly and immediately backtracked as they saw Hibari almost directly in front of their house.

"What the hell!" Vi whisper yelled at Lana.

Lana was practically sweating beads unsure of what to make of this predicament, "I'm literally clueless as to how he managed to find our house." However a thought suddenly arrived in mind, which caused the girl to deadpan. "Unless...the bird found a way to alert his owner about his location."

"That's absolutely terrifying. How are we going to get in?" Vi was already reaching into her bag for her phone.

"Wait." Lana stopped Vi for a moment. "I'm not sure calling him would be the best answer, but we're going to have to be silent as heck if we want to contact Tsunomichi right now or better yet sending him an SOS text would be best."

Vi opened the text messenger app on her phone. "How do you suggest Tsunomichi help us? I was just going to ask him to distract bird man somehow."

"Is that his nickname now?" Lana shook her head to ignore Hibari's new nickname, "I think Tsunomichi will be willing to help us distract him."

"We technically owe him for our recent lunch and dinner." Lana reminded Vi of what Tsunomichi had done for them, "Plus he also gave you permission to keep Milk and helped feed her."

"Well good for him. I don't trust him as far as I can throw him." Vi waved her arms in emphasis. "And I cannot throw him very far, Lana."

"Then what else can Tsunomichi do to save us? Do want him to drop Milk out of the window or something?" Lana considered a scenario that would avoid them being seen by Hibari, "In order to scare Hibird away from the house at least?"

Shaking her head vehemently, Vi rejected that idea. "We are not placing Milk in danger."

Lana looked around the corner, her eyes widened at what she saw. "Your cat is already in danger."

Vi whipped her head around and spotted the fluffy white cat walking on top of the walls stalking towards Hibird. Quietly shouting for dramatic effect, she extended a hand towards the cat. "Milk, nooooooo!"

At the same time, Hibari seemed to see the cat stalking Hibird and took a battle stance.

All of a sudden, Tsunomichi burst out of the house screaming, wearing an apron, holding a ladle, somewhat disguised with old lady hair curlers. "Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah Mystic Marshmallow where did you go?!"

Hibari saw the 'old woman' and relaxed his stance. "Hn. Take your reanimated stuffed cat back indoors above the mantle where it belongs."

"How dare he say that to my precious Milk." Vi clenched her fist.

"He was also rude to Tsunomichi." Lana added on to Vi's words.

Vi shrugged. "Yeah I guess but my poor nyas."

Looking back around the corner, the pair saw that the school prefect had Hibird back on his shoulder and was walking away from their house, presumably back to school. Quickly, they ran over to the gates and unlocked them as fast as possible.

When they got them open, Tsunomichi was still standing outside holding the cat in his arms. "The nerve of children these days honestly."

"That was death senpai," Vi deadpanned, making grabby hands for the cat.

"He almost discovered the location of our house." Lana huffed a sigh of relief, "Thank goodness he didn't see any of us."

Lifting the cat up, Vi praised the cat, "Well thank Milk he didn't."

Tsunomichi seemed confused by the statement. "There's milk in the fridge, but I thought you were lactose intolerant?"

"Milk is the cat." Vi raised an eyebrow.

Tsunomichi looked sheepish. "Oh. I've been calling her Marshmallow."

"We know. We heard you scream Mystic Marshmallow." Lana bluntly pointed out.

Tsunomichi looked even more embarrassed at that. "O-ohho… Well! You kids should come inside before that scary boy comes back." He ushered them inside the house quickly and closed the door behind them. "I'll be in the kitchen if you need me!" he yelled behind him as he escaped, the cat following shortly behind him.

Lana and Vi exchanged amused looks at their mess of a caretaker.

"Alright…time for a nap!" Lana was going to head to the stairs, only to be grabbed by the collar of her dress shirt leaving her to choke for a second, "Ack!"

"Nope! It's training time!" Somehow Vi's grin had turned sadistic. "You ready to work out your star flames?"

"No!" Lana yelped with tears in her eyes while being dragged away to her doom, "Dear lovely death please take me." At that point, Lana prayed for her doom.

"Sorry bud. No death, just me!" Laughing at her own terrible joke, Vi began to drag her to the basement door."

"That's even worse than death! Pain is unnecessary for death! Vi, why?!" Lana continued to screech for mercy.

Exiting from the kitchen, Tsunomichi wiped his hands in a towel to ask the both of them, "So how was your day at school?" Until he stopped dead in his tracks to question their small dilemma occurring in front of the trap door, "What is happening?"

"Ah! Help, Tsunomichi!" Lana grimaced flailing her arms around trying to squirm herself outta Vi's grip.

"Hey Tsunomich." Vi used her free hand to wave at their caretaker, "School was good, although we're going to train now."

"I…see…?" Taking this as a normal situation, Tsunomichi decided to change the subject by a suggestion, "Would you two like any snacks?"

Lana tried to reach her hands out to Tsunomichi in attempt for saving, completely vexed in her soon to be misfortune, "Save me!

Vi stopped dead in her tracks at the mention of snacks. "What kind of snacks are we talking here?"

Tsunomichi put a finger to his chin, "Um let's see. If you're going to be training, I would suggest granola bars, fruit cups, fruit jellies, and fruit gummies. Things with plenty of sugar and calories to balance out the energy you'll be spending while training."

Lana reached out to Tsunomichi in a desperate plea. "Tsunomichi please…! Don't make me train with her!"

"Sure just bring some snacks down when you can." Vi called out dismissively and opened the trapdoor to the basement. Letting go of Lana's collar and nudging her to the ladder, Vi stared at her meaningfully, "Down you go friend."

Lana screamed and grabbed onto Vi's arm, staring down into the darkness of the hidden training room. "Ohmygod Vi, no!"

Vi yanked Lana back a few steps away from the edge and stared at her with a blank face. "You know, if you don't want to go willingly, I can always just drop you down."

Lana's face hardened into one of resolve. "Fine."

"Good." Vi nodded decisively. "By the way. Tsunomichi thanks for lunch. How do you make rice cats?

Tsunomichi scratching the back of his head, he gave a small smile, "Eheh you're welcome. They were just something I picked up."

Milk arrived to meow at Vi allowing the girl to pick her up.

Upon reaching the bottom of the ladder, Lana fumbled for the light switch realizing there's no such thing within reach. "Where's the light switch?!" Lana scrambled around to grab the ladder rings before gravity pulled her down.

Vi yelled back, petting the cat softly, "Just keep feeling along the wall!"

Patting around the surface of the wall on the right, Lana finally felt the shape of a light switch, "Found it!" Switching the light on, Lana immediately closed her eyes from the blinding light.

Tsunomichi paused in his chopping and asked Vi. "How come you two have decided to train today?"

Vi blinked, mentally debating whether to ask Tsunomichi about the dreams. "Well. I thought that it couldn't hurt to be more prepared in case we need to fight or defend ourselves soon."

"That's good. More power to you then! Have a nice training session." Tsunomichi smiled at her before resuming making the snacks and preparing for dinner.

"Alright thanks." Vi slid down the ladder, landing on her two feet. Glancing up, she grinned at Lana, "It's fucking neat isn't it."

Lana turned to Vi wearing a dissatisfied facial expression, "Not when I'm the one being trained."

"I will also be training with you, so you don't need to be that worried." Vi cracked her knuckles. "Are you ready to get down to business?"

Crossing arms around her chest, Lana sighed in discomfort, "Don't tell me I have to figure out the hint without you."

"You gots to feel it." Vi did a vague hand gesture to explain to Lana.

In response to that, Lana bit her lip, "That's not much of a hint." Releasing her arms, Lana glanced around the room to find her weapon, "Is that my crossbow?"

Vi looked on the wall where Lana noticed her weapon. "Probably, I took my ruler like the first day I came down."

Lana thought back onto their arrival, "Really? I thought I placed it in the living room." She speculated a bit, until an idea came to her, "Maybe Tsunomichi moved it, but that would be amazing if he moved it while he was fainted."

"Maybe it was magic," Vi joked, raising an eyebrow and wiggling her fingers.

Lana gave a fake laugh, not amused by her joke, "Haha, I doubt my magic had anything to do with moving my weapon."

"You never know. If you did it, you could call your new move Shooting Star or something fancy." Vi contemplated her own moon shot move.

Lana looked at Vi with a distrusting face, "What's the point of a fancy name when its supposed to do damage?"

"Battle cry purposes." Vi grinned and struck a victory pose.

"We don't live in a video game." Lana pointed out the obvious.

Vi nodded but hooked an arm around Lana's shoulders. "But we apparently do live in a shounen battle manga now."

Slapping her hand onto her forehead, Lana grunted at the double pain from the bruise and the slap for a short moment, "Okay." She lowered her hand down to her side, "I'm going to get my crossbow."

"Yus. Now I'm gonna go find the training dummies." Heading over to the only closet, Vi stepped inside and started browsing the rows of weapons.

Lana began to set up her crossbow according to what the Cervello had told her. "So how am I supposed to light up my star flame?"

Vi dragged out a dummy from the farthest lane in the closet, "Alright, so you already lit your sky flame. The star is more or less the same feel, got it?"

"Kinda?" Lana scrunched forehead somewhat understanding her explanation. She slipped on her star ring after grabbing it from her messenger bag.

"Do you need a moon shot to prep yourself for training?" Vi raised her hands in anticipation.

Backing away slowly, Lana refused the shocking energy boost, "Nope. No need. Plus it kind of hurts."

Vi raised her eyebrows in surprise. "Really? I didn't feel much when I shot myself."

"Now I wish there was another way to heal than your moon shot." Lana hoped that she would get a healing power just to avoid getting another jolt of electricity.

"See it sounds weird when you say it. I'm giving it a fancy name." Vi turned around and sat in a corner, thinking of something to call her healing power.

Lana shooed Vi off with a hand gesture, "Sure sure, go think while I stare at my ring for a moment."

'Emotions are the key? Let's see what about stars do I know? They're hot gases in the solar system, and they don't exactly have a physical form unlike meteorites or comets.' Pausing at her last thoughts, Lana backtracked on the last two words, "Wait, meteorites and comets." Snapping her fingers, Lana figured out a connection and blurted out, "Comets! That's it!"

A louder voice interrupted Lana's train of thought. "Aha! Got it!"

While Lana was focused on training, Vi was thinking about the mysterious healing power she now had. 'Well it restored health. Or would it be energy? Stamina? So it's more like an energy drink instead of a healing potion. Not a healing potion, but a mana potion? Moon Mana? Luna Mana?' "Luna Mana! Lunamana? Lu Namana?" Looking amused at herself, Vi played around with the pronunciation, emphasizing different syllables. "Lunama Na! Nope, that one's weird. Lu Manana. Lumana. I'm getting off track now."

"Okay?" Lana blinked a few times, listening to Vi's mental train of thought being spoken out loud. She decided to tell the other girl about her newfound discovery. "Well Vi, I may have finally figured out a way to use my star flames."

Vi looked excited and bounced over to Lana. "Nice! Show me!"

Igniting her star ring in a similar manner as her other one, Lana focused her gaze on the sole item, "First I need to form a shape. A physical image of what I'm picturing." Concentrating, Lana's eyes narrowed, glancing over to her crossbow in hand. The image in her mind resembled a crystal-like arrow, and in turn, the ring gleamed in response as the arrow nocked right into the crossbow.

"Very glowy. Nice." Vi clapped in approval of Lana's new power.

Lana frowned, not satisfied with her results yet. "Hm. But it's kind of…crystal-like, isn't it? Wouldn't a more sturdy arrow work better?" She continued to focus more on the arrow, trying to get it to resemble the image in her mind, until all of a sudden the arrowhead shard burst into a scattering of crystal particles contained in a transparent white orb. Lana was displeased by the outcome. "I think I messed up."

Vi was surprised at the sudden shattering of the crystal. "No wait, it looks cool! See if you can shoot it or something!"

"Uhh, I'll try?" Raising the crossbow to her level, Lana aimed it at one of the dummies. Once she pulled the trigger, the orb sped toward the dummy only to trigger a small explosion of the shards upon impact, scattering like rubble. "Was that supposed to happen?"

"You just set the wall on fire. I don't know if that was what you wanted, but that was fucking cool." Vi stared at the slightly charred wall. "Let's do it again."

"I heard a loud noise. What happened?" Tsunomichi entered the training room, managing to climb down the ladder with only one hand, the other hand holding a tray of snacks.

Vi panicked and yelled on instinct. "Lana did it!"

"I can't believe you." Lana sent Vi a glare, she turned over to Tsunomichi to apologize, "I'm sorry. The explosion was my fault, and I didn't intend for that to happen at all."

Tsunomichi stared at the damage to the wall incredulously, "What happened to the wall?!"

"I didn't know the extent of my star flames." Bowing her head, Lana was sheepish on how much damage she had done.

He sighed, before patting Lana on the head. "Well, this was to be expected, I suppose. Anyways I brought some snacks, so eat up!" Tsunomichi held out his tray of cut up rabbit apples, sliced pears and persimmons, and a couple of nalgenes filled with water.

"Nice. Thanks." Grabbing an apple slice, Vi munched on the head of the rabbit. "Holy, I feel bad eating these apples man. They're too cute."

"Thank you." Taking a persimmon slice, Lana bit into it savoring the fruit. "Oh it's crunchy and sweet."

Tsunomichi added on to reassure them while they were eating, "Do not worry about the damage, it will be taken care of, feel free to train as much as you want." Grabbing onto one of the ladder rungs, Tsunomichi continued, "I will go back upstairs to make dinner. So please do enjoy the snack."

"We will." Munching on another persimmon, Lana returned to gaze upon her failed attempt. "Maybe I shouldn't focus too much on the star flames physical form. I mean look what happen to the wall." She pointed at the poor excuse of a wall, bearing the ashes of an unexpected bomb explosion.

"You should work on maintaining them, but probably not fire them." Vi shoved another apple slice into her mouth and thought. "Like figure out summoning and dispelling."

Lana shrugged, unsure of whether she could do it, "It's a start at least."

Finishing off the last of the apple rabbits, Vi wiped the juices off of her fingers. "Do you need a Mana refresh?" Waggling her now clean fingers, she approached the other girl, grinning wickedly.

Shaking her head, Lana backed away in fear, holding her persimmon close protectively. "Not when I have food."

"Just give me a shout! I have to work on making it hurt less apparently." Vi frowned, metaphorical feathers ruffled by the thought that it had jolted the other two when she used it.

"I don't want to be your guinea pig for your healthy shot." Lana muttered in annoyance of becoming an experiment subjected to electrical volts.

"Well if you want it to hurt less, I need to keep using it. And it's either you or me, because Tsunomichi doesn't seem like he gets out much and I'm not testing it on the cat." Vi grimaced at the thought.

Closing her eyes, Lana clapped her hands in a pseudo prayer, "Please let there be another way to heal this annoying bruise on my head. Just make it hurt less please."

"Well, for now you gotta deal with me so might as well get it over with. Come on! Let me do it!" Making grabby hands at Lana, Vi grinned excitedly.

Lana heaved a heavy sigh, still keeping her hands together, "Ugh. Please, any god, answer my prayer soon." She extended a hand reluctantly toward Vi, not happy to receive another.

Pleased with her friend's acquiescence, Vi grabbed Lana's hand and concentrated on her ring, this time visualizing a flow of light starting from her hands to the other's hands. The ring lit up and Vi's hands began glowing slightly. "Illuminate."

Lana blinked once and then twice. Surprised that it hurt less than the other day, Lana raised her hand at Vi, "Hey Vi, your moon shot seems to have less jolt than last time."

"Mm. Maybe it's like exposure therapy. Or maybe I have less oomph if I use it too much?" Vi mused out loud.

"Oh." Lana nodded while taking in Vi's assumption. "I see."

Vi continued her thoughts. "Well! The only way to know for certain is to keep testing it!"

Soon a thought began to occupy Lana's head and she questioned Vi about it, "So you have a healing support move and I have a sort of special attack move? Do you think we'll get anything else?"

Vi raised an eyebrow at Lana's description of her own move. "A 'sort of special' move? You have a veritable bomb with your star shards."

"But is that all we have? I mean I do have some kind of luck streak evasion, but not really helpful unless I feel like I'm being attacked." Lana admitted, tapping her finger over her mouth. "There might be more than what meets the eye."

"I would like to have another power," Vi contemplated the possibilities. "I have my behind the scenes support and you have a fucking bomb thing. You set the wall on fire damn."

Lana sweated in discomfort, putting her hands up in defense of her unintentional attack, "I didn't know what I was doing!"

"Aahh! Now I want something destructive!" Vi tapped her shoe out of frustration, then strided over to the corner to think, "Gimme like five minutes to figure something out."

"Sure." Finishing the last few slices of the persimmons, Lana left to face the wall resuming her self-training.

Rolling her sleeves up, Lana stretched suggesting to herself. "Let's see if I can try to control the shape." Putting her crossbow down, Lana placed her hands out before her trying to form the arrow again. Breathing in and out a few times, Lana murmured softly, "Focus ."

Unfortunately the arrow didn't appear in her grasp. Frowning, Lana bit the edge of lip, "Nothing."

'What in the world was I thinking in the first place when I made the arrow?' Lana crouched down to stare at the ground in thought. 'I just thought the image up. I didn't make any changes to form it.'

"Emotions are the key, huh?" Lana muttered the Cervello woman's hint, "Emotions."

'Her hint sounded like the same thing she said for igniting the sky flame ring.' Lana freed her right hand to stare at the ring. 'Don't think, just feel.'

"Don't think, just feel." Getting from her crouched position, Lana raised her hands up as before. She muttered a chant to herself as she closed her eyes, "Don't think, just feel."

The minute Lana closed her eyes, all she saw was darkness. Nothing but the sounds of Vi trying to figure out something along with her own breathing was left. 'Don't think, just feel.'

In the depths of darkness, a bright light flickered on and off. Lana pursed her lips together, but the light continued flickering in her mind. Letting out a disgruntled sigh, she reminded herself the Cervello's words.

'Don't think, just feel!'

Shouting those words in her mind, the light completely stopped it's flickering. Lana groaned in anguish. She opened her eyes to reveal her now open sweaty palms, "I'm thinking too much."

'Wouldn't it be better to not think at all?'

Scratching her hair in distraught, Lana tried again in emptying her current thoughts.

'The Cervello said this: Null all ill thoughts. Empty one's mind into one singular being.' Lana inhaled, holding it in place for a few seconds. Once she exhaled, Lana muttered, "Finally light the ring as if it's in tune to my own breathing."

The star ring ignited again, but instead of the usual flickering sensation she received from earlier Lana felt it hold itself out longer. Determined to keep it going, Lana refocused her eyes over to her open palms slightly regretting what she going to say next. 'I know I said that to Vi, but maybe she has a point.'

"Appear like a shooting star, and marvel at the Comet's arrival!" She shouted in a whisper tone to avoid getting any attention from Vi. The pale yellow light strengthened into a small flame responding to Lana's commands, and the arrow slowly morphed its way back starting from the feathered end to the sharp tip of the crystal sharp arrowhead.

By the time it formed a shape, Lana kept on leveling her breathing to keep it from breaking.

'So far so good.'

The moment she said those words, a crack sounded from the almost perfect object.

'No. No. No!' Lana pleaded to the flame. 'Not when I've almost got it!'

Her hands clenched over the arrow, hoping the item wouldn't continue to dissipate in her grasp. Lana closed her eyes, clenching the arrow closer to her as if she were hugging it, "Don't leave yet, little comet!"

At first, Lana thought it would shatter due to her foolish idea of emptying her mind. However upon opening one eye, Lana still found the arrow in its ideal shape, apart from a small crack on the neck.

"It…it worked." Lana gaped in surprise, "I guess naming attacks stabilizes them?"

'This is such an odd way, and as ridiculous giving an attack a name sounds…it really did help.' She defeatedly admitted to nicknaming her attack, Lana rolled the arrow around in her hands to see how long the crack was. It was halfway, anymore than that it would have snapped into two. Though in the end, Lana didn't like the name she gave to the arrow and had the urge to change it. 'Naming this arrow "Little Comet" isn't right at all. I think it's better off as Comet.'

Nodding at the attack's newfound name, Lana pondered on what to do next, "Now to turn it off. Let's see…this thing is like a comet, right? So I need to form the dust tail it makes to disappear."

The arrow began to shine and started to shake a little in her hands for a moment as cracks started to appear until it poofed into dust, getting into Lana's eyes.

"Oh my god! My eyes! My eyes!" While trying to rub the dust out her eyes, Lana's back hit against the wall, leading her to slide down to the ground wiping off the dust the from her now watery eyes, "Note to self." Lana sneezed before raising a hand up, "Don't stare too long at the arrow."

Despite her first three arrows, Lana was unable to reform the arrow into the dust tail imagery she had in mind. Leaving constant amount of small explosions of dust particles to scatter directly into her face. It felt like having a glitter bomb explode right in front of you, except it stung a lot like sand.

Huffing out in frustration, Lana grimaced as she distanced herself away from the next arrow she made, "One more time." This time she refocused again, the arrow cracked. It continued to crack until it broke into miniscule pieces, "C'mon Comet." She muttered hoping the item would listen to her again.

The particles continued to minimize, forming a small mound of dust in her clasped hands. Pursing her lips together Lana blew the dust off her hands creating a trail. The dust floated into the air and then into nothingness.

"Finally." Lana sighed feeling her weakened arms get the best of her, "I finally got the hang of creating the dust tail to turn it off."

She grabbed her unfinished water bottle from the side to drink away the inhaled amount of dust that spewed across her face. After a few gulps of water, Lana wiped a stray trickle of water as the remembrance of the transparent orb returned to her mind.

'…I wonder how the arrow disintegrated into that?' Lowering her water bottle, Lana wondered of the orb's capabilities besides exploding like a grenade when thrown. 'It felt like a container meant to explode on contact. Unlike the arrow meant for piercing…it will react on rapid contact.'

Gripping tightly onto her water bottle, Lana recapped it not wanting any water to splash out of nowhere. Stretching her arms out, she decided to see if she can control the orb.

Taking another deep breath, Lana mumbled out in hope, "Now let's reform that orb again." Remaking the same arrow as before, Lana concentrated her focus solely on recreating the particles. The same particles that swirled within the transparent orb's structure. Breaking itself down the arrow's leftover particles wavered a few times, floating up and down a few times trying to form a sphere.

'Swirl. A swirl.' The image of a swirling black hole flew into her mind. 'That's right,' the swirling motion from the orb resembled a smaller version of a black hole. Keeping the picture in thought, Lana focused on the floating particles. Slowing down it's repeated up and down motion, it began to form a trail circling at a blank point, "Yes, that's right Comet."

Lana suddenly had a feeling as if she were talking to the attack, despite its inability to speak. The swirl's edges started to form a barrier similar to the transparent orb she held in her crossbow. 'Solidify.'

Maneuvering the orb floating in her hands, Lana continued to cheer the particles on in her mind as the edges began to form into solid glass pieces of an orb. It seemed like watching a jigsaw puzzle put itself together right before her eyes.

"Wow." Lana breathed out in awe as the final piece filled the last spot on the barrier, leaving a transparent orb in its place. A swirl of dust particles revolving within it's trapped space. 'This is amazing, yet so deadly at the same time.'

Not wanting to drop the orb, Lana decided to remorph it back into an arrow again. Dissipating the orb's barrier, the particles merged together in her palms to reform the same arrow she wanted.

In the background, Vi seemed to be screaming in rage and mutilating a poor dummy on the ground.

Lana ignored Vi's antics, keeping her focus directly on the arrow in her hands. The current arrow held out better than the previous attempts and didn't explode into dust immediately. Seeing it as Comet's withstanding form, Lana decided to use the arrow for target practice. Better the arrow than the orb, otherwise it'd explode again.

Locking the item into position, she aimed it at the dummy trying to pierce it. Luckily the arrow didn't explode, but it scattered into particles almost immediately upon impact, leaving a small dent in the dummy.

"Yes, I've struck through!" Doing a small victory dance or more like prancing around in a circle, Lana paused a moment to realize that her friend's antics were literally getting to her.

'I don't think Vi saw…' Lana glanced over to see Vi still focused on her training. She wiped away her the sweat from her forehead in relief. 'Phew…I'm safe.'

"Anyways…" Lana stared at her crossbow in hand. She felt glad that she was capable of attacking alongside Vi. Lana found her crossbow pretty useless since it didn't have many arrows to use for attacks unlike the time she first used it but that was mere practice. Tilting her head side to side, Lana tried to think of how their flames have anything to do with their missing memories of the KHR plot line.

'I don't understand why we have these at all. What if we don't want to attack anyone using these powers? Do we not get our memories back then? Or…?' A stupid thought popped into her head, and Lana frowned at it. 'Would an explosive power increase our chances of getting our memories back work?'

On one hand, it was a yet to be tested theory that had the possibility of being true, but on the other hand. It could lead to the same disaster as before. Lana visibly flinched in remembering the sudden explosion from earlier, glancing back at the still ashened wall. "Arrow practice or orb bomb?" Lana debated between the two using eenie meanie miney moe, the result of the debate wasn't pretty.

"Orb bomb." Lana's face paled in shame on her decision making skills, "Do I really want to do another?"

In the very back of Lana's mind, a yell of yes sounded. Her inner foolishness was speaking to her now. Ironically, the voice sounded very much like Vi. Chewing on the edge of her lip, Lana's eyes narrowed at the crossbow held in her right hand.

'No. Yes. No. Yes. No. Yes! No! Yes!' The voice resembling Vi was much louder than the other, leading Lana to hold her breath as she set up the crossbow again. "I really hope Tsunomichi won't be too mad if I mess this up."

She could see it playing out in her mind's eye, the memory of the orb slamming into the wall along with the sound of glass shattering. Unlike the particles she made to form a dust tail, the ones from the orb practically exploded right on the wall. Without even thinking, Lana accidentally tapped the trigger, launching the orb of doom toward the wall.

Right before it landed, Lana could already tell. It would be much worse than the previous explosions. Even worse than the one that destroyed the wall. Her last thought before it exploded was 'Oh dear, I hope Tsunomichi won't be too mad.'

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While Lana was trying to fix her star arrow, Vi was standing in her corner, pacing in frustration. "Moon flame. If I remember correctly, Tsunomichi said something about balance between creation and destruction. So like a full moon and a new moon? Hm well, I think I have the creation down with the healing, so it's just destruction then. How does the moon destruct? Well for that matter, how does the moon create? Why would it be a healing thing? Is it taking creation literally? Am I physical healing or energy healing?"

Thinking back on the times she used her power in the last couple days, she remembered how they seemed to be re-energized after the magic and Lana's bruise had faded slightly. "In that case, it might be similar to the sun flames? Since the moon gets its light from the sun. Eugh. I don't want anything to do with that muscle head." Grimacing at the thought that she had similarities with the sun guardian, she shook her head trying to banish away those bad vibes.

"And just now, I said Illuminate on accident. Well, I guess it wants to be called that. Even though I liked Luna Mana just fine. Lunamina? As in stamina? Lumina for short then."

"The first time Lumina happened was…? I think when Lana showed up at the school gates…"

She smiled smugly to herself thinking back on it. "Lana should know by now not to challenge me and my ridiculously competitive ass. I have a Thing about needing to win. Plus it doesn't hurt that winning feels nice."

"So I guess my trigger is intense emotions. Pride? Self-confidence, at least. So if I believe I can, then I will be able to."

Continuing with her thought process, Vi sat on the ground and crossed her legs. "Anyways why do I have to heal for creation? If anything, I'd assume creation would make a light blast or something. Or is that too destructive? Well, if I'm supposed to be balance between creation and destruction, a light blast might be perfect. Creating light that's destructive. Or maybe an eclipse is more balancing? Ahhh this is all too much!"

In her frustration, Vi grabbed a switchblade off the wall, remembering her ruler was still in her bag upstairs. "This is ridiculous! Why do we have to have all these extra powers?! Why can't I just deal with mist?!"

She stalked towards a dummy in the corner of the room. "Can't even figure out how to work it! There's no fucking rule book for this!" Taking swings at the dummy, she took a stance and began stabbing into it, cursing at it the whole time.

Absolutely furious, she stuck the knife in its gut and began throwing punches. "Stupid moon powers! What the hell am I supposed to do! Make a crater or something?! I'll show you a crater!"

After several punches in the poor dummy's face, she "Just do something already!"

The moon ring on her finger lit up brightly and her fists began glowing white. The dummy head she was holding was engulfed in a bright white light between her hands. Just as suddenly as the light appeared, the light went out and the head detached from the dummy and fell onto the ground with a thunk.

"What the heck." The head was somewhat deformed with some smoke rising off of it. Vi stuck out her hands and reached down to grab it but retracted her hands immediately. "It's cold!"

Looking around quickly, she grabbed two knives and tried to stick them into the head to pick it up, but the knives wouldn't go into the frozen head. Improvising, she used the knife tips to carefully balance it, almost slipping a few times. Finally she managed to get it onto the counter.

After closer inspection, Vi realized that only the outside of the head was frozen. The inside was mostly normal while there was a thin layer of frozen foam around it. Carefully prying the layer off with some fancy knife-work, she saw that it seemed to be a strange combination of frozen and burned. "Huh. Bizarre."

Her contemplation was interrupted by a shockingly loud explosion in the corner where Lana was.

Vi screamed in surprise as a cloud of smoke and dust covered half of the room. "Lana! What was that?!"

Aside from the scorch marks, you could see crystallized jagged flames stabbing the wall Lana was supposedly aiming at. The target was lying on the ground, completely filled with a bunch of crystallized flames as if it was slammed to the wall then the seams unravelled allowing the target to drop like it was dead body.

Vi whistled in awe. "Wow. That would kill someone dead."

Lana whined in a depressed tone, "I can't make my powers work properly!" Stomping her right foot a few times on the ground, Lana folded her arms as she asked them a question, "How did you even do yours?"

"Judging from what I did just now, a lot of rage. Or I suppose you would call it determination?" Vi pondered the word choice. "Definitely intense emotions though."

Lana's eyes trailed over to Vi's side to see a certain dummy on the ground, "Did this happen while you were beating up your dummy?"

"Maybe…" Vi's voice trailed off, face looking vaguely guilty.

Lana made her way over to the chunk lying on the counter to see what had happened. Turning the head over, she paled at her discoveries. Small burn marks and an uneven melting layer of ice decorated the poor head. Seeing this, Lana felt the need to have a chat with Vi in the near future about her anger issues.

"I can burn things now. Or is it freeze? Don't really know." Vi shrugged. "I was about to inspect the results when you blew stuff up again."

"What in the world did you do to the dummy?" Lana kneeled down, taking a closer look at the destroyed decapitated dummy on the ground. "Besides that, why were you screaming in the background in the first place?" Lana took the dummy's decapitated head and returned it to the counter for Tsunomichi before sending Vi a questioning look.

"Whop~" The look on Vi's face was deceivingly innocent. One could barely believe that she was the cause of the crime on the ground.

"From my count, there's gotta be at least forty-two stab holes in this. Some of them are overlapping, and there's a few slashes from the back." Lana roughly estimated the autopsy of the dummy based on how much Vi put into attacking the poor target. Remembering how the head of the dummy had a strange layer of contrasting frozen and burnt foam, Lana decided to ask Vi. "Do we need to have a one on one? Or can you explain whether that head on the counter is frozen or burnt?" Lana, at this point, questioned the girl's power since it was hard to tell since it looked like a mixture of both.

"Yes." Vi deadpanned. "Both probably. Like I said, I haven't finished looking at it yet."

"You killed the dummy out of frustration." Lana summarized Vi's tantrum, "I guess anger is something that triggers your attack? But, you didn't seem mad when you gave me the moon shot for the first time."

Vi agreed with Lana's statement. "True. I was more smug than anything else. But maybe positive emotions make a positive power. To quote Tsunomich, the moon flame has a dual nature of creation and destruction." She motioned at the frozen head. "Voila. Negative emotion, meet negative power."

Lana finished her deduction with a nod. Stroking her invisible beard, Lana answered pointing at Vi as if she were the perpetrator. "So you were angry when you unlocked this."

Vi grabbed the head from the counter and sat on the ground, prying it apart. "Most of the rage was from trying to figure out the whole moon thing. You know, our flames didn't exactly come with an instruction manual and Checkerface, the bastard, wasn't exactly forthcoming with the details. Plus everything's still fucking terrible, with not knowing what's going on back home and finding out we're in a fictional world. So as you can probably guess by now, I'm pretty fucking angry." While she was talking, she was also picking apart the head in her hands and by her final statement, all that was left in her grasp was a mess of foam bits, some frozen, burnt, or both.

"You're not the only one who's mad." Lana frowned, sending her gaze over to the floor. "I'm still upset at the fact that we didn't get a complete explanation from Checkerface from the start. I just…want information about our families the most."

Vi took a deep breath calming herself and stood up, foam falling to the ground. "Okay, I think that's enough of a pity party. I smell food."

The smell of food wafted from upstairs, causing their stomachs to gurgle from hunger.

"It's time for dinner!" Tsunomichi's voice announced happily to them from above, killing the somber mood in the room.

"We should go up now, since Tsunomichi is already calling for us." Lana brought up as she went back to hang her crossbow on the wall.

"First!" Vi ran towards the ladder, wanting to get up and eat as soon as possible.

Lana sighed and stood off to the side. "I'll just wait until you're up. I don't want you falling on me if you slip."

Upon entering the kitchen, they saw that Tsunomichi had made fried tempura sided with some leftover curry from the previous night. Fried shrimp, eggplants, sweet potatoes, and squid.

"It looks delicious." Lana clapped her hands in awe at the amount of fried tempura.

Vi made a face upon sighting the eggplant. "Eck. Why eggplant? Why not zucchini or something?" She headed to the fridge and took out a water bottle and a bottle of strawberry calpis.

Tsunomichi ignored Vi's comment. "Please have as much as you want." After pouring some food into the cat dish in the corner, the man oddly didn't leave the kitchen like he usually did. "What was that explosion just now? Did something happen during your training?"

"Uh." Lana clammed up the minute Tsunomichi decided to ask about their progress, "Well you see that explosion was-"

Vi placed a water bottle in front of the culprit and looked meaningfully. "That was Lana."

"Yes, because apparently Comet—" Lana was going to explain her situation, until Vi cut in.

"You named your move." Hand still in the air, halfway through filling up her own bowl, Vi stared at Lana in disbelief.

Heaving a heavy sigh, Lana admitted, "Yes Vi, I named it. Now going back to what I was saying, Comet at first started out as a crystallized arrow meant to be used for my crossbow since the Cervello didn't leave me with any and somehow during my concentration, it reformatted into some sort of transparent orb with an internal black hole made up of shards. Since I never used it before, Vi suggested that I shoot it at one of the dummies."

"It lit up the wall." Waving her thankfully clean spoon in the air, Vi made large gestures to show the explosion. "There are scorch marks!"

Tsunomichi widened his eyes in surprise. "Scorch marks! Oh my goodness!" He paced out of the kitchen. "I will fix that, don't you worry!"

"Sorry about that!" Lana yelled at Tsunomichi's exiting figure.

She chewed her food before she continued, "I miscalculated. I didn't know the extent of how strong Comet's orb form would be. However I feel that we really shouldn't use that form at all."

"Why not?" Vi opened her drink and took a sip. "It looked pretty cool and very powerful."

Lana shook her head out in disappointment, "You saw how it exploded right? I would feel better shooting an arrow than a bomb at enemies."

"Bud, do you need me to repeat what I said earlier. We're in a shounen manga, specifically one with the mafia of all things. The magical. Fucking. Mafia." Vi emphasized the last sentences to get the words nailed into Lana's head.

Lana shook her head, maintaining her stance, "But the attack is dangerous if bystanders are involved."

"Most of what's happening now is at night time. Innocent bystanders don't just walk into a middle school at midnight." Vi frowned, still not getting why Lana would be so afraid of her powers.

"But—" Lana was going to retort to Vi's statement, only to have food stuffed into her mouth in the middle of her words.

Vi had grabbed Lana's spoon and shoved it in her mouth. "No buts, butts, or otherwise. Now shush your mouth and eat your food. We have a battle to see tonight. A very important battle."

Lana glared as she chewed the food stuffed in her mouth. 'What if there are people going out to go get something at a twenty-four hour convenience store?' She contemplated in her mind as an image of her orb bomb scattering then accidentally leading to a direct stab to an innocent bystander. Lana gulped nervously as the image blared out in her mind. Shaking off the thoughts, Lana decided to ask Vi. "What's so important about this battle anyway? Isn't it simply Chrome's first appearance in the Varia arc?"

Vi spluttered at Lana's short summary. "What?! How could you say that?! It's the best ring battle by far! They win so tremendously, completely overwhelming the enemy without a scratch!" Vi paused and muttered under her breath. "Well if you don't count that bit with the internal organs and all that."

"Oh that's right." Lana did that in order to make sure she wasn't missing the memories of the next battle, "But what I still don't get is how Mukuro managed to recreate organs."

"Something about real illusions. Something something hell, something something came back from the dead. Gives him the power. Blah blah illusions." Vi personally understood about half of what made an illusion, but still couldn't put it into words. Mukuro was a completely separate enigma. "Basically."

"So just illusions in general?" Lana quickly summarized from Vi's continuous explanation regarding Mukuro's powers.

"It's a mess. But a mess that I'll figure out eventually." Vi lifted up her hand, palm up. "I can make a bubble," she announced as a faint outline of a sphere floated in her hand. "Mist powers are weird, my friend."

Clapping his hands together, Tsunomichi suddenly returned to the kitchen, startling the duo, to announce, "It's almost time to leave for tonight's battle."

Once the two girls finished clearing away the items on the table, Tsunomichi began cleaning the items in the sink and shooed the girls out of the kitchen.

"We should change." Lana suggested while gesturing at their uniforms, worn out from training.

"Ye." Turning back to the kitchen, Vi yelled, "Thanks for dinner, Tsunomich!"

"Thank you very much, Tsunomichi!" Lana thanked the caretaker from behind Vi.

They headed up the stairs and into their respective bedrooms to change into more fitting clothes for their spying.

Lana had to fish through her drawer for clothes that wouldn't stand out too much in the middle of the night. Her previous night's clothes haven't exactly been washed yet, so she had to make do with the jeans she hid in the back of her closet. It was worn out, but still retained its nice shade of black. Next, Lana debated between wearing a dark blue long sleeved t-shirt with 'Cool Beans' as the logo on it or the black and white tie-dye she got from a vendor a long time ago.

"Cool Beans or Tie-dye?" Lana muttered to herself as she stared at the two shirts lying atop of her bed. "In all honesty, the tie-dye would make me stick out like a sore thumb. So Cool Beans shirt it is." She refolded the tie-dye shirt and returned it to its respective drawer. As Lana tugged on the edge of her socks, she stared at the accessories sitting atop of the drawer. Unclipping her bow clip from her hair, Lana fixed her hair a bit making sure there weren't any stray hairs sticking up. Once Lana finished she made her way over to the messenger bag she brought up from the training room. Opening a pocket from the messenger bag, Lana unclasped the necklace to place around her neck. Her rings dangled off of the chain, clanging against each other as Lana double checked her cellphone to make sure it still good before pocketing it.

"Now time for a check off." Lana reminded herself as she pointed at each furniture item in her room. The accessories were put away in its respective places atop of the dresser, the clothes hanger that was once holding the pants was now holding Lana's worn out uniform. She made a mental note to wash the clothes at least by the end of the week or some time soon. Lana had already placed the rest of her laundry in the laundry basket sitting in her closet. Messenger bag was sitting on one of her pillow cushions by the coffee table. Laptop was off and had been like that for the past few days. She realized she hadn't checked it yet due to their time at school combined with discussions of what to do next before the next Varia battle.

'I should really take a look at it when there's time.' Lana nodded at the thought before resuming her check off, but so far the room was pretty much done with its daily room check off. "And now to go wait for Vi downstairs." Before Lana headed out of the room, she swiped a grey jacket from her closet for warmth; after all, it did get cold at night.

Vi quickly shed off her uniform and scarf and socks. Seeing the clothes she wore last night in the hamper in the closet, she pondered if she should just wear the same thing. Finally deciding that it would be tacky, she meticulously picked out different clothes.

Dark blue skinny jeans with a black and blue striped short sleeve turtleneck. A long sleeved black coat on top. A scarf wouldn't be necessary since there was a turtleneck, so she just left them to the side. Remembering the mild winds from last night, she figured a hat wouldn't be a good idea. Thinking about what shoes would match the outfit, she decided a pair of ankle boots would be a good change. She dug her favorite black pair out of the closet and made sure they wouldn't be too conspicuous. "Alright, the heels aren't too tall and they don't click too loud if I run. They're good!"

The rings were practically always on her hands now so she didn't need to grab them. Although, thinking about it, it may be suspicious if anyone saw them, so she took a pair of black gloves from a drawer. Grabbing her phone and sticking it in her pocket, she wondered if she needed anything else. She started to just shove random junk into her pockets, figuring she might need them later. Not seeing anything else important, she brushed her hair quickly, not wanting to tie it up tonight, and quickly headed back downstairs.

By the time Lana went downstairs, the living room was strangely empty.

Lana raised a brow as she wondered out loud, "Is Vi still upstairs?"

"I'm in the kitchen!" came a shout.

"Are you getting snacks again?" Lana figured that'd be one of the other reasons for her absence.

Vi yelled back, head in the pantry. "Yeah! Do you have any requests?"

Lana hummed a bit on the thought of snacks, specifically chocolate, and decided to head into the kitchen. "I'm gonna go get some snacks too."

Approaching the kitchen, she overheard Tsunomichi and Vi talking.

Vi had a worried tone as she asked their caretaker, "If I remember correctly, the mist battle takes place in the gym. How will we observe if we can't get in?"

Tsunomich nodded in understanding. "I've prepared some aids for you, to help in your observations." He handed them each a pair of binoculars.

"Fancy gadgets." Vi held them up and inspected them closely.

"What are these for?" Lana asked their caretaker while holding her binoculars close.

"These special items help you two to look into the gym to avoid getting seen by the main group. They're specially modified with a combination of flames and technology to enable you to see whatever you want from a distance."

"A flame enhanced item?" Lana promptly stared at the device in curiosity, wondering what type flame was placed into the item. "What type of flame is being used on this?"

"There's a mist flame in here." Vi stated, peering through the lenses.

Tsunomichi seemed impressed. "Correct! But you should have known that having a mist flame yourself. The mist flame assists in extending the range and enabling you to see through some objects. There's also a rain flame so you don't get a headache from prolonged use."

Lana then decided to add on another question, "What about my flame? In the way you worded about sky flames, you made it sound like they neutralize the effects of other flames when they touch the other six flames right?" Lana proceeded to continue her questioning, "Is there something coating mines to prevent the mist and rain flames from neutralizing?"

Tsunomichi suddenly seemed incredibly nervous. "Oh! Well. Um… I'm afraid that… Well? I don't know enough about your flame to say?"

"Hm, then I guess Checkerface is the only one that can answer it." Lana concluded in the end, deciding to save those questions for later.

Vi narrowed her eyes, suspicious, but didn't say anything on Lana's behalf.

"Yes! I suppose so! Hahaha!" Tsunomichi laughed in relief. "Well! You'd better be off now!" He shooed them into the living room.

"Wait! I need to change! I'm indecent!" Vi yelled, running up the stairs. "I need to be perfect on this day of my baes!"

"But we're not even meeting them face to face yet." Lana commented on Vi's yelling.

"It's for my poor bi heart!" came the yell and the slam of a door.

Once in her room, Vi quickly changed out of her uniform, messy from school and then training. She grabbed a pair of black skinny jeans, a dark purple flannel shirt, and a black windbreaker with blue lining. She grabbed a gray beanie and slipped it on her head, making sure her hair was neatly under it. Putting her rings on, she also grabbed a small crossbody and stuffed it with her phone, the binoculars from Tsunomichi, and more candy. She grabbed a pair of ankle boots from the closet, perfect for sneaking around quietly while looking fantastic. Patting herself down, she checked her outfit in the mirror before going back downstairs. "Excellent."

Lana massaged her temples, groaning from the sharp pain of too much thinking. "I'm going to change too."

She headed upstairs from the training room and made a beeline for her room. Once Lana locked herself in her room, she decided to be lazy in picking an outfit for herself. Even though Vi is officially meeting Chrome and Mukuro at the same time, Lana just wanted to get this day over with for sleep. Lana exchanged her school uniform for some grey jogging pants, a white t-shirt, and a black jacket with two parallel white stripes on the arms. Making sure she placed the necklace holding her rings on correctly, Lana grabbed her phone and binoculars sitting atop of her dresser before heading out. Smoothing her messy hair, Lana decided that this was the lazy day outfit needed for tonight's battle. "Tonight is relax night, stress free." Lana then muttered under her breath, "I hope."

Down in the living room, they put their shoes on and were quickly sent on their way by Tsunomichi.

Tsunomichi stood in the doorframe yelling at them after they left. "Be safe! Don't get into any fights! Stay away from that cloud boy! Be warm! Don't catch a cold!"

Eventually Lana and Vi walked far away enough that they couldn't hear Tsunomichi's screams of worry anymore.

Sighing very heavily all of a sudden, Vi decided it was the right time to bring it up. "Okay, I waited until we left the house to talk about it. After all, we don't know if we can really trust Tsunomichi."

"Why not? He's cooking for us, keeping the house clean, and managing our situation better than how he did the first time he met us." Lana named off a few things Tsunomichi did.

"He still works for that bastard, Checkerface. I don't trust either of them, especially now because of the memory dealio." Vi thought back on everything the two had done so far. It did not make for a good first impression, or second or third at all. "What's their role in KHR? Why are they invested in the plot? Why did they take us from our world?" She practically snarled out that last question.

Vi brought up another point, wondering exactly how much the nervous assistant seemed to be involved. "Do you think Tsunomichi knows about our memory loss?"

Lana decided to give their guardian the benefit of the doubt, "I thought it would have been Checkerface since Tsunomichi doesn't seem to have any special powers plus he was only following orders and he still is by being our caretaker."

"Both are liable and thus I don't trust either." Vi concluded her thoughts with a short statement and kicked a rock on the side of the road.

"You seem to be getting along with him well though?" Lana wondered what that was about. "Isn't it because he doesn't seem too bad of a person despite being Checkerface's assistant?"

"Part of the plan." Vi grimaced and looked around suspiciously. "I can't have him not trusting me, so I need to act like I trust him."

"Another plan?" Lana sent Vi a wary look and started to back away cautiously from her.

Vi scoffed and stared at Lana who was still backing away slowly. "At any given time, assume that my actions are premeditated."

Lana, at this point, stopped backing away to ask Vi. "What if you sneeze?"

"I don't sneeze." Vi retorted, grinning with all her teeth.

"Really." Lana looked at the other girl sarcastically. "So there's not a video on Facebook of you sneezing like a baby kitten multiple times in a row?"

Vi muttered under her breath, "Damn it, I thought he took that down."

"Nope, I'm pretty sure Ian posted that video a while back." Lana admitted, remembering the video quite clearly. "I'm surprised you didn't see it or threaten him to take it down yet."

"Fucker." Vi cursed out the boy. "I blackmailed him with that video of that time we went to karaoke. How dare he?"

"Are you two in some kind of blackmailing war or something?" Lana wondered since she rarely got involved in their antics.

Vi looked at Lana innocently. "We have a shared account with videos of everyone."

"Wait...everyone?" Lana stared at Vi, her eyes narrowed at the girl trying to play the innocent look.

"Don't worry." Vi calmed the other girl. "No one will ever see the video of you tripping into a stranger's arms and getting dipped."

"Oh my gawd." Lana's face exploded red, "Since when did you two manage to film that?! It was a quick accident that happened out of nowhere!"

"Google Earth. Always taking pictures." Vi managed to say in between laughs. "Or in this case, Ian's constant selfies."

Lana placed her face into her hands, mentally crying in embarrassment of what took place during the incident. Lana swore her accidental tripping will be the death of her whenever she encountered someone new.

The two girls arrived at the school gates when suddenly two Cervello members stepped in front of them.

"We've been expecting you, bearers of the star and moon rings." The two women said simultaneously.