Hi everyone still reading Silver Girl. Sorry for the rather long hiatus, enjoy this next chapter.
Disclaimer: I don't own Katekyo Hitman Reborn, but Shiyo and all of her... ah... friends are my OCs.
Chapter 6
Tsunayoshi was standing at his seat, turning bright red as Shiyona slipped back into class. She looked at him in mild curiosity. Judging from the awkward silence of the classroom and the faces all turned towards him, she initially thought he had said something uncustomarily stupid, though when she thought about it, she wasn't quite sure how possible it was for Tsuna to say something stupider than usual. The source of the disturbance, however, wasn't Tsuna at all.
The reason Tsuna was standing up, was that he was the very first person to have spotted a very odd looking bird standing on the teacher's desk. Slowly, every student turned their heads away from Tsuna to the bird in question. By this time, Shiyona had already sat down and gotten her bearings. She mimicked the actions of the other students flawlessly, gaping wide-eyed at the toucan as if she had never seen one before. More precisely, as if she had never seen this particular one before.
She continued gaping and the toucan, trying not to stand out, but internally she marveled at Tsuna's hyperintuition, which had never shown itself in front of her before. It was little wonder that it had sprouted at that very instant, considering how dangerous the bird was.
The students swarmed up to surround the teacher's desk, staring at the bird in unadulterated wonder and curiosity. She followed them, but stayed towards the back of the crowd. The bird's head had not turned in her direction, luckily, but she knew it was game over if the darned thing caught sight of her face.
Shiyo looked around to see how Tsuna, Gokudera, and Yamamoto were reacting. Well, Yamamoto was unsurprisingly having fun with the whole bird situation. Gokudera, always one to make a fuss, stared it down a bit, then "che"ed and turned around, as if the whole thing was beneath him. In the commotion, unimportant Tsunayoshi had been completely ignored by everyone else... except for the bird itself and the ever on-time arcobaleno Reborn.
Reborn had appeared, as always very suddenly, on Tsuna's desk, wearing his usual suit and orange and black fedora. She continued acting the surprised student, but she kept her eyes on the arcobaleno: he looked worried, and in irritation whacked Tsuna to calm him down.
"Shiyo-chan." Drat, some dimwit was trying to get her attention. If she moved away now, that would look suspicious, worse yet, if she didn't answer, they would continue to call her name, but she could sense the toucan reacting to the name, turning its head so that one eye looked straight at her.
She winced internally still chatting with the student, expecting it to squawk and come flying at her at any moment, finally having found its target, but it didn't. It just looked straight at her, its beady eye almost smirking at her. It ruffled its feathers once in a satisfied sort of way, then squawked and jumped off the teacher's desk, zipping over their heads and flying out the window.
Shiyo stared after the bird, analyzing the situation. No matter which way she looked at it, it didn't make sense. She had killed the toucan's owner with her own two hands, but since she had spent the longest time with it, it should now see her as master. The only reason it would only look for her without submitting itself would be if it was looking for her on a mission; if HE was still alive.