AN: Yo! How long has it been? A couple of months, I think.

So you're all probably wondering why there is an update if this story was deemed discontinued by the shitty author. It's because there is something that made me continue this again(after some countless internal conflicts), but there'll be some changes in the story. As you can see, the summary also changed. This will now officially be an SXOC story. As far as I know, this is my first? (I started this first before my other fic) so I hope you'll take it easy on me. Another reason is that I'm currently taking a writing class, so this fic is like, where I'll apply all of what I'll learn (hopefully). The other is because I still can't get over the ending of KHR. So I decided that I'll just continue making this fic to satisfy all of my fangirling needs. 8D

Again, I do not own KHR blah blah blah.

Enjoy the 4th chapter!

The Reality

The girl looked at those eyes. She had never seen such intense yet very comforting ones. She found herself leaning towards the boy she was with earlier, and the latter doing the same to her. It was like her sanity was being sucked in by those eyes, mainly because she was losing control of herself.

They found themselves staring at each other...

"Vivi!"

...leaning, their distance closing in as each second passes...

"Vivi!"

...the boy's eyes closing, and soon she found herself doing the same. Their lips are only millimeters apart and dare she try to close it in...

"VERONICA VERDICCI!"

"Huh?!" Vivi snapped out of the trance. "W-where am I?" she asked, obviously not aware of the situation.

"You dragged me here remember?" a woman (baby) wearing a cloak, a brown tank top and shorts beneath, materialized in front of her. The woman had goggles on top of her head and a silver shotgun hugging her left wrist. The former began to take in her surroundings, and was now fully aware of the fact that the earlier events did not actually occur. As to why, she still doesn't know.

"Huh...wait. The oversized monitor...the bank of consoles beneath...the white, tiled walls...the very unfashionable woman in front of me...this looks like the training room back at the headquarters," the woman clad in a very formal outfit said. She was wearing a tuxedo with a white lady polo underneath, complete with a blue tie and black slacks.

"Cause this is the headquarters, stupid. Are you gonna gape like that or start talking? C'mon, chop chop! We haven't got all day!" the woman snapped.

"Lal!"

"..."

"Lal!"

"..."

"LAL!"

"What?!"

"I missed you!"

"C'mon start talking or else I'll shove that device down your throat!" Lal snapped.

"Sheesh, so snappy. Wait, what device?" Vivi asked and was answered by Lal pointing up her head. " Oh, you mean this?" and now it all makes perfect sense. How her boss gave her a mission and how she dragged Lal to accompany her to the training room to try out Gianini's new invention: The E-Helmet. It's a helmet with goggles thingy that is supposed to make one experience the possible outcomes when one decides to do a certain thing. Like for example, unfortunately in Vivi's case, where her damned, as she likes to put it, boss decided to assign her to a mission wherein she'll be babysitting his son (talk about disgrace) and she's supposed to watch him 24/7, so she needs to enroll to their school (Vivi wondered why her boss is assigning the mission to her, where in fact her position in CEDEF includes a lot of paperworks. In one word: secretary). The device let's one experience it first, so one will be ready for the real deal. The device has a drawback, though. It let's one experience things, but it adds some twist to the experience, like changing the user's name, family history and etc. But despite all of these, Vivi thought of it as cool. That's why she tried it in the first place. Lal, being the supportive best friend she is, just tagged along.

She shuddered at the sudden rush of memories, mainly because almost kissing someone seven or six years your junior isn't a very nice idea. "And now I feel like a pedophile," she mused.

"A penny for your thoughts?" Lal asked, jumping to take a seat from a chair she got from who-knows-where. "Uhm...well, it's not that very nice, so what do you say, let's get out of here!"

"Uhuh. You're not gonna fool anyone with that, so I suggest you start talking and quit wasting my time!" Lal snapped.

Vivi returned to business mode, her face suddenly lost of all emotions. "Alright. So...when I arrived in Namimori, I quickly disguised to being my 14 year old self-"

"So meaning you undergone puberty again?"

"Exactly. As I was saying, being the very awesome illusionist I am, no one suspected a thing. So the next morning I got ready for school and on my way I met Sawada Tsunayoshi. Dude, he's pathetic! Pathetic I tell you! He was scared of a freakin' Chihuahua!" Vivi's face was now contorted with disbelief and disappointment.

"And so? You're one to talk. Don't you remember the time when you actually bawled like a child despite being 22, when you saw a doll from the store? And that was just last week," Lal smirked. "I-I...M-mine was understandable! I just finished a fucking horror game where dolls are involved! I WAS TRAUMATIZED! It looked like the doll from the game! Dolls are evil!"

"The fact where a Chihuahua is a living thing and a doll is not makes Sawada Tsunayoshi's predicament understandable."

"W-what? Oh come on this is getting nowhere. Can I proceed now?"

"Go on," Lal smirked for the second time, having won the argument.

"So I glared at the Chihuahua and it scampered off, but when I looked at the boy, he also got scared."

"With a face like yours, whoever can't be scared?"

Vivi twitched. "It was a coincidence though, that I met him. So I asked him the directions to the school, thinking that he'll accompany me there. And I was right! But.."

"But?"

"But something happened. Something very unexpected."

"Entertain me."

Sigh, "You know disadvantage of using this device? Well it kinda happened the moment I stepped inside the classroom. And everything's a blur after that, but I remember something about Gokudera being my ex-boyfriend? Oh and something about fangirls, too."

"Gokudera? You mean the Hurricane Bomb Hayato?"

"Oh you know him?" Vivi's eyes suddenly lit up. "Everyone in the mafia does, stupid!" Lal looks like she had just seen a human with three heads. "Well everyone except me!" she announced, feeling proud for a reason.

"J-just continue," at that moment, Lal resisted to make any movements, fearing that she might make her hand meet her forehead...for the nth time.

"Just like I said earlier, everything's a blur. I just remember bits. Uhh...let's see. I remember telling Sawada Tsunayoshi's friend an episode of my favorite series. You know? The one with the girl killing her parents? So I'll just assume that it was just a friendly chat. And then I remember crying. I really don't know why I'm crying, though. Then I remember almost kissing him."

"What?!" the word was laced with some amusement. Oh this definitely took Lal by surprise.

"I never knew that this day would come, the day that I'll finally appreciate your impatience, Lal," Vivi said wearing her usual pokerface. "I just want you to know that I am truly grateful of the very thin patience God has given you. May you continue to save people in awkwa-" she was cut off by a blue beam heading in her direction. She quickly drew out a somewhat big kunai from her sleeves, blocking the beam.

"Dude, this ain't the time to show your awesome impatient skills!"

"I'm not impatient, dammit!" the blue-haired woman said, quickly firing a second shot. Vivi dodged it and raised her hand in mock surrender, "I give up! I give up! Impatient woman," she said but the latter statement being almost inaudible. But nonetheless, Lal heard it. Lal was about to fire another when the door opened.

"Veronica-san," a man in a formal wear walked in, clutching a folder. He was about to say something but decided against it, seeing he interrupted something. "I'll just come back later," he said.

Seeing this as a perfect opportunity, she quickly hid her kunai and ran towards the man, "No! I'll come with you. I was just heading out. Bye!" she said as she turned to Lal.

A scowl adorned Lal's face, "We'll finish this later," Vivi stuck her tongue out before she closed the door.

"So what seems to be the problem?" she turned to business mode. She is always serious all the time, but only a few knew of her other side. She can socialize if she wants to, but it was always her choice to be void of emotions when facing other people cause she doesn't want people reading her like an open book and discovering her weaknesses.

"Boss wants you in his office now," the man said as he handed Vivi a folder. "What is this for?" the man just shrugged and left her.

Vivi quickly went to see her boss, Sawada Iemitsu. She knocked first, not wanting to seem rude, and when she heard the affirmation, she went in. The woman is blunt...in business matters that is. So the moment she stepped in the room, she immediately made herself comfortable on a chair across her boss.

"Fire away, boss."

As Iemitsu's mouth started to move, she began contemplating on her life.

Oh how she hated that man. He does nothing but to annoy the hell out of the woman. And the mission he gave her just added to the raging hatred she feels toward him.

But in reality, she has no right to hate that him. Instead, she should be grateful, because the man she was loathing was the same man who saved her from the somewhat boring life she lived before. But then again, that thought just seem to irk her more.

"...alright?"

"Huh? I'm sorry, I didn't quite catch that," this seems to cut her out from her daze.

"I said, are you alright? Sheesh, you're more trouble than you're worth," Iemitsu told her as he positioned himself comfortably by putting his arms behind his head and reclining.

"Sorry, boss," she drawled out. Bastard.

"So, you gonna do your best?" well this piqued her interest.

"Huh? Do what?"

"Figures you're not really into this. I guess this is much a street rat can do, huh?" Iemitsu taunted.

Oh he did not. "Why is it that when I'm always in a daze, you always seem to bring out the past? Can't you think of something better?!" she snapped.

"Chill, girl. We're doing business here. Try to be a little more alert, okay? Your behavior gets me worried, cause that might kill you someday," odd enough, he sounded concerned.

"What are you, my father? You don't know me, so stop acting like one!"

That's another thing that adds to Vivi's hatred for the man. His parenting. She might not be a softie but she actually pitied his son, who never really knew his dad personally. To her, Iemitsu is a big fat liar, to his son and to his wife.

"And what are you, my daughter? Stop acting like a teenager in a rebellious stage. Heck, you're not even a teenager anymore! Look where being concerned got me. As I was saying earlier, if you get found out by my son and wife, you're going to get a punishment. Are we clear?" he was serious now.

"...Yes."

"Good. You're dismissed."

And with that, she bolted for the door. But as she was turning the knob, Iemitsu spoke, "Oh, and one more thing. You might want to train your physique." The man earned a confused look from the her before disappearing in sight.

"You might want to train your physique," she said in a mocking tone as she was trotting down the hallway. "Tch, what a loser! He already knows I hate training, so why bother? And my job here is being a secretary, not a bodyguard! The hell's even up with that?" she continued.

She headed for her room to prepare for the mission the day after tomorrow. After she packed all of her things, she took a shower and slipped on her favorite shirt and PJ. She tucked into her bed and as soon as she was starting to get to dreamland, her eyes shot open from the sudden realization, "Shit! I forgot to ask him what the folder was for!" I don't want to face him again! Well, it's not really a problem. I'll just check it out tomorrow. With that, she continued her merry way to dreamland.

AN: I'm deeply sorry for disappearing like that. Sorry sorry sorrrryyy! I promise I'll update as soon as I can, but I do not know when because it's the start of my second sem and I'll probably be busy. But I'll update when I have the time, I promise! Oh the life of a student T_T

I love you guys! Please review! :D