Second chapter is up! Again, thank you Skitter for beta-ing and animaniac-aizel012 for reviewing!!! Read and Review please!
Hopefully this chapter is good. :)
"I really like Kenji-senpai, but he doesn't even look at me…"
"Hm… Then why don't you befriend Ariyoshi Shizumi?"
"Ariyoshi-san! She's…so quiet…"
"But she knows Kenji-senpai, right? Maybe you could get close to him through her."
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The Reception Room:
Reborn had instructed the long-haired girl to check out the room, Shizumi couldn't reject him, for god knows what would happen to her if she did. The baby hitman had told her the Reception room was empty and was perfectly safe, but she had her doubts. Shizumi gulped and she turned the doorknob, wary for any traps Reborn might have set-up.
"What are you doing here?" said a dangerous voice behind her.
"I...I…" Shizumi stuttered as she spun around and saw Hibari Kyouya, probably the most dangerous man in Namimori. Every student of Namimori Middle knew very well what would happen if they angered the head prefect of their school. They say someone that challenged him fell into coma for three months.
"Let me ask you again, what are you doing here?" Hibari said as he walked towards her, holding his tonfas, his eyes staring at her coldly.
"Wh—" Shizumi couldn't answer. Her mouth was suddenly as dry as a desert.
Hibari suddenly lunged forward and attacked, aiming for her stomach, but the girl managed to dodge away miraculously.
"You are good, being able to dodge that." Hibari moved forward swiftly.
She acted out of impulse and desperation and kicked him, managing to knock him to the ground.
Hibari got up and tried to attack at her but she backed off, but after a few more attacks from the irresistibly strong prefect, Shizumi was leaning against the wall, with nowhere to escape. Hibari raised his fist again, but she blocked him with her arm. Pain erupted throughout her entire arm, but she stopped herself from whimpering; she was good at repressing pain.
"The last guy that I came across had broke several bones, he was crying like a baby after I dealt with him, you must be strong…for a girl." Hibari said.
Enduring the pain, Shizumi took the risk. She turned to the side and burst open the door of the reception room and took off in top speed. Hibari would probably be able to catch up with her and attack from the back but whether or not, she ran. Besides, she would be dead anyway, in that circumstance.
Hibari watched as the girl charged off; she was remarkably fast. While he might be able catch up with her, he decided to fight her another time.
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Shizumi stopped running after making sure that Hibari wasn't after her. While she tried to catch her breath, she checked her bruised arm. While it still hurt, it was healing. It would probably recover soon.
"So how was it?" Reborn asked, suddenly appearing in front of her.
"Reborn-san…Didn't you say the Reception room was empty?" Shizumi asked, still panting.
"I lied." Reborn said bluntly, smiling.
"Reborn-san!"
"Anyway, that isn't a big injury, so you should be fine." Reborn said, pointing to her arm, before disappearing underground.
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Shizumi was slumped down, her cheek against her table the next day, tired and still traumatized by what happened the day before.
"And thus the formula can be used to…." Shizumi slowly drifted away from the lesson, ignoring the teacher's drawling and fell asleep.
"Ariyoshi-san!" Ayako approached her, Riko by her side.
"You seem to have not made any friends yet, why not join us?" Ayako asked, with a cheerful smile on her face.
Shizumi remembered the conversation between Ayako and Riko she had overheard in the toilet a few days ago, she was about to decline when Ayako just held her hand and said.
"So it's settled then, Shizu-chan!"
Shizumi awoke abruptly, her knee banging against the bottom of her desk. Cursing herself mentally for dreaming of that particular memory and for herself being unable to decline Ayako, she tried hard to concentrate in the lesson. Now, how did that formula work?
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"It was just a fall." Shizumi explained as a concerned classmate asked about her bruised arm.
She continued making her way up to the rooftop, as ordered by Reborn for her to meet up with the family for lunch almost everyday.
"Konnichiwa, Ariyoshi-san." Tsuna greeted as he saw her. Yamamoto greeted her casually as well. Gokudera simply acted indifferent.
Shizumi ate her lunch in silence until Tsuna asked, "Ariyoshi-san, how to you get that bruise on your arm?"
Feeling that there wasn't a need to lie to them, she answered honestly, "Hibari, but I am fine though."
Tsuna started panicking upon hearing 'Hibari', while Yamamoto simply smiled. Gokudera was muttering something along the lines of 'weak'.
Reborn suddenly appeared from yet another secret hideout and walked towards Shizumi.
"Shizumi, come over to Tsuna's house after school today." He gave her a piece of paper containing Tsuna's address.
Ariyoshi Shizumi received a great shock as she saw Tsuna's address. He stayed only about 3 houses down the street!
Chapter 3 is probably going to take sometime since school is reopening and i have yet to do my homework!