Please don't kill me for this chapter! I know it's been a bit too, so I apologize for that. Ryuu's been using the computer and hadn't let me use it for a while with his obsession over writing his new story. It's interesting to say the least. And annoying. Really annoying. I will be putting my A/Ns here now since I don't want to ruin the moods at the end. Anyways, tell me what you think about this chapter! ^^
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Forgetful Insanity~
Yunan ftw! Anyways, this isn't the chapter for your tissues, but you can use them now if you want. :3
Megi Keishii~
Yes, I have yet for Haru and Hibiki to actually interact. I didn't notice that before, but I will be using that sometime soon. Most likely after the Mukuro Arc though. That trio is a mess, but you've got to love them. :P Thank you for your positive review! I hope to see your next one soon!
Eftir því sem gamlir fuglar sungu, kvökuðu þeir ungu.
-Icelandic Proverb
"Ah, Tsunayoshi-kumichou," Hibiki walked through the door behind Yamamoto and Gokudera, making him squeal in surprise. "HIEE, Hibiki too?" She walked over and set a box atop of his head before opening the door to leave, when a bunch of nurses fell on top of her when a bunch of nurses fell on top of her, pushing her to the ground. Breasts were pushed to his face as women were sprawled all over him surprising everyone in the room. "Sawada-san, what is the meaning of this ruckus!? Your friends must leave, they're seducing all of the staff members!"
The nurses whined at the yelling lady as they got off of Hibiki. She sat herself upright and raked a hand through her hair as she spoke up from the ground, pushing herself upwards as she held eye contact with the head nurse, "Ma'am, please don't blame Tsunayoshi, it was my fault so let me take the blame." She had walked over to the woman and bowed at a ninety degree angle, making the woman splutter and blush.
"N-No, it's alright. But p-please leave, the nurses are getting distracted by you and your friends."
She looked up and gave her a small smile and a "Thank you," before walking out, the smile quickly dropping from her face.
Gokudera and Yamamoto both appeared next to her as she walked, Yamamoto in between Gokudera and her. The former huffed and looked away from her with a blush adorning his cheeks, "You did an average job of protecting Juudaime, so I'll forgive you for speaking out of line woman."
Yamamoto laughed as he slung an arm around the two, "Maa, maa, calm down Gokudera-kun. She got the head nurse off Tsuna's back didn't she?" He looked at her with a wide grin, "Nice job for defending Tsuna back there, though you could have let me and Gokudera take part of the blame too since it was also our fault."
Hibiki stayed silent and looked away, making Yamamoto laugh cheerily, "You're so shy Hibiki!"
Gokudera growled, "Oi, can you shut up yakyuu-baka. I'm getting a headache and you're fucking annoying."
Yamamoto laughed and they started to go into a heated one-sided argument as they got outside of the building. Yamamoto had dropped his arms from Gokudera and Hibiki's shoulders and was now facing Gokudera, the duo most likely forgetting she was even there.
Hibiki walked out of the door, stopping as someone bumped into her. She looked down to see Haru and Kyoko, the latter holding onto her shirt so that she didn't fall. Haru jumped and yelled, "Hahi, what are Hibiki, Gokudera, and Yamamoto-san all doing here!"
Kyoko quickly got up from her stance and quickly apologized, "Ah, gomen Hibiki! My hands just grabbed the closest thing so I wouldn't fall and I guess I grabbed onto your shirt." Hibiki's lips twitched as she shook her head, "No worries. I should have reacted in time."
Kyoko gave off a faint flush in embarrassment, but smiled brightly at her idol, "No, it was my fault for not looking. Anyways," She looked over at Haru and Gokudera arguing while Yamamoto was laughing at the sidelines, causing Gokudera to yell at him and draw him into the argument, "Don't you think they all get along so well?" Hibiki looked down at the smiling girl who watched the trio with an oblivious smile etched on her face, then looked back at the scene, nodding.
"Kyoko,"
"Y-Yes Hibiki?"
"Why are you, Haru, and I-Pin dressed in those clothes? Are they cosplays?"
"A-Ah! No, these are clothes worn in a traditional spirit warding ceremony. We were going to Tsuna-san to see if this would cheer him up."
Hibiki hummed as she looked at the girl from the corner of her eye as she faced the trio who were still fighting. She then promptly plucked off the hat off of Kyoko's head and ruffled her hair before quickly stopping and putting the hat on and left Kyoko confused while Hibiki jogged off to the dojo.
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"..."
Hibiki looked around the area. She was lost in a forest... just what she needed. A forest in what Reborn had dubbed 'an exact replica of the mountain of death back in Italy'.
All there was were trees, trees, and more trees, no road to-
SNAP
"GYAAAAH!"
She blinked, turning her head to the left. That sounded like a bunch of people screaming... thought it was coming down rapidly as it got louder.
"UWAAAAH!"
Hibiki knew this voice, she just couldn't put her finger on who's scream it was. Maybe... Tsunayoshi-kumichou? No, he had a higher voice. Gokudera? As if, he only screams when he see's his sister's face. Even then he only groaned in pain or muffled his mouth as he passed out. Yamamoto maybe? But he doesn't scream... at least she's never heard him. She sighed. Probably just some poor soul who yelled and died of shock.
Maybe she could figure out the way she came from. Reborn wasn't here and the group probably left a long time ago. Hibiki sighed in humorous exasperation. She didn't even need to come in the first place.
A shadow covered her entire body and so on, making her turn around to see a giant... snapping turtle. Her eyes widened before quickly running for it.
She coughed as her lungs and eyes started to burn as ash was all over the place, forcing her to breath it in. Trees crashed down all around her as the giant turtle smashed his way through and some were weakened by the fire and the rough quakes the being behind her gave out made it enough so that they would fall. Scratches formed on her body as sweat formed, quickly running and failing to see that she ran into someone.
Long arms wrapped around her so she wouldn't fall, hands gripping tightly on someone's shirt as she gasped for air, but then the person holding her tripped at fell at the force of her knocking him down.
"HIEE! Hibiki-san! Why were you running!? And why did you land on Dino-san!?" She looked up to see Tsunayoshi's panicked face a few meters away and she managed a few words, "Giant snapping turtle."
The entire group around them then proceeded to freak out as they processed what she had just said.
"A-Ano, Hibiki, can you get off of me?" She blinked and looked down at Dino's face, only centimeters away from hers, beet red.
"Ah, gomen," She got off him and bowed, "I rushed into you without realizing. I'm sorry."
He winced as he got up, "No, no. It's alrigh... Guys, it's Enzio!"
Gokudera started screaming about a forest guardian and started to mutter weird things under his breath as they all ran away from the giant turtle, now dubbed Enzio, AKA Dino's pet.
...
It was peaceful the next few days. No yelling, laughing, children tugging at her hair (that onesie wearing child liked to get his hands on it when he can), sponge-like snapping turtles, or the high pitched screams of her boss.
Hibiki looked at the bird flying around in front of her. It felt... a bit lonely without those idiotic chaos everyone around her had made her deal with for a while. She shook her head. No, she can't think that. Not when she had to go back to her dad.
Dad. The word sounded a bit foreign to her now. A small frown etched onto her face. How was he? Was he eating three meals a day like he should (says the girl who eats only two. Lunch didn't seem like a real meal to her)? Or was he overworking himself? Did he go to see mother's grave? Her eyes widened as she shot up from her seat on the tree branch and jumped down, quickly running back to her apartment.
What day was it today? It was a few days past New Years. She'd been here for around a few months and no call from her only family?
Idiot, she was an idiot. How could she not notice before, the reason why he'd let her go so willingly to Japan without him.
He was doing it again.
He was forgetting she existed again.
He was forgetting who he was again.
He was forgetting mother again.
Hibiki quickly slammed open the door to her apartment and checked the calendar before calling her father, body awkwardly stiff as she did so. Her breathing stopped as the other line beeped, "I'm sorry, but the number you've called is no longer avail-"
She dropped to the floor, phone in hand as she let it drop. The other hand was pressed to her face that was shadowed by her hair.
.
.
.
He was gone... and she couldn't do anything to stop him.
He succeeded in ruining himself with the use of suicide.
Suicide.
The thing that took mother away from her.
Now... it took away father.
First her mother, a stern, but loving woman who wanted the best for her husband and daughter after being exiled from her family, though not disowned.
Then her father, a man who was goofy and was a family-orientated man because of his past as an orphan.
Why? Maybe because fate wanted her to suffer. Because she deserved it for not paying attention to her mother, who was starting to break apart when her parents tried to take her away, believing her facade of everything was alright.
Maybe it was because she didn't listen to her parents when they told her not to depend on herself too much, or telling her parents she didn't need them to baby or spoil her since she was eight.
Maybe because she couldn't even stay with her father because of her selfishness and she needed to leave her father, her father who only had her in his life. She was his world and she'd left him just because she wanted to.
It was disturbing.
She was disturbing.
She couldn't even keep her family's needs in front of her own. Even her unborn sibling had to die because of her idiocy and naivety at the time.
Hibiki laughed. Even now, she wasn't even trying to understand the people who reached out to her just because she didn't want to. They had all wormed their way somehow into her head and now were aiming for her heart and she didn't even put up a fight. She just let them do whatever the hell they wanted.
It was nerve wracking how things could change so quickly. One day, she's with her mother and father at home, having fun while trying to figure out if her mother had eaten her new sibling and a watermelon seed, making her stomach round and the next, she was here with Rune nowhere to be seen at the time, alone in a small apartment in a foreign land alone.
It was scary how things could change so quickly.
It was scary how quick one's life is.
It was scary how she was alone in this world.
Everything was so scary now.
Hibiki curled her legs up, feeling vulnerable. She didn't like the feeling of being vulnerable. She didn't like how she felt like she was five years old again either.
Everything looked dark to her now.
She had no family now. No one would care if she rot. Rune could become free, scouring the skies. Tsunayoshi-kumichou didn't even know her that well and neither did his friends. She shivered. His friends had turned into his family, not one by blood, but by bonds. He was a flame that every moth just was waiting for in their life, that warmth and happiness making them want more as they were hypnotized into following.
He wouldn't notice if she were gone when there were so many bright lights following him. A dim light is a dim light. No one notices it there when there are a bunch of brighter, larger, beautiful lights there were hiding it.
Hibiki started to laugh.
It was true. She was now going to be kicked out of Japan and be sent to Germany, not even Iceland where she was born. Not to her hometown, but a place she didn't know anything about, a place where her father only worked and destroyed himself. Somewhere she'd be reminded of how morbid her inner self truly is. She wouldn't live with her mother's relatives, they would be disgusted with her. She bet they didn't even pay for her father or mother's funerals. It came from their own pockets.
She would be sent to an orphanage, sent somewhere she didn't belong. It hurt her chest, knowing she didn't belong anywhere. And...
.
.
.
Everything was just so scary now that she was alone.
"There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."
-Syliva Plath