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6:45 P.M
Haru was busy texting Kyoko about her experience at the Hibari household, as her mom was busy dressing up separate bathroom. The brunette laid forward on her bed as she kicked her legs back and forth. She kept a smile on her face, happy that Yamamoto remembered to call her; thus, she got his cellphone number in return.
Her attention was diverted away from the phone once her mother came out of the bathroom, fully dressed in a burgundy Henriette with strappy red ankle heels. Her hair was done into a bridal-style updo. She playfully twirled around, her dress spinning alongside her.
"How do I look?"
Haru flashed her mom a smile and a thumbs up.
"I hope it's not too flashy…" She muttered to herself, straightening out her dress, "I haven't worn this outfit in years."
"You look great, it's perfect for the occasion!" Haru replied, setting her cellphone aside. She was still taken aback, but happy for her mother. She was getting ready to go out on a date that her new boyfriend, Nezu-sensei, invited her to. Haru was glad because it was a chance to get out of the house, besides work, to get acquainted with new people. Anything that made her mother happy, would make her happy too in the long run, "Nezu-sensei will like it!"
Her mother gave her a bashful chuckle, "I hope so."
"He will; you brush up really well."
She glanced at the watch and noticed that it was nearly 7:00, "Oh my goodness where's my purse?! I'm going to be late."
Haru could barely restrain a laugh; she realized how much her mom was like her, "It's on top of your dresser."
Her mom saw where Haru pointed and grabbed her small brown purse from the dresser next to her bed. She gave herself one more look at the mirror, brushing away more imperfections before turning around to face Haru again.
"Okay, here goes. Wish me luck."
"Good luck, mom! Now go, you'll be late." Haru said making a swatting motion with her hand.
"I'm going! I'm going!" She left through the door, closing it behind her.
Haru lay flat on her bed, bringing her phone back to her face. Her thoughts immediately switched to Nezu-sensei himself. Since she only had the pleasure of meeting him for a couple hours before he had to leave for a business meeting during the yard sale, she barely knew him. She did, however, remember her mom telling her that he teaches at Namimori Middle.
Haru began to text Kyoko on her phone.
H: You know I told you that my mom was dating someone
K: Yeah
K: Did something happen?
H: No, but you went to Namimori Middle, maybe you might know him
There was a slight pause before Kyoko texted back.
K: Who is he?
H: His name is Nezu-sensei
Ring! Ring!
Haru's phone immediately rang; she raised her eyebrows. For a split second she thought it was going to be Yamamoto calling again, she almost slapped herself for being so outrageous with her thoughts. It was Kyoko instead. She stood upwards and immediately answered the call.
"NEZU-SENSEI?!" Haru grimaced and jerked the phone away from her ear, stunned by the loudness of Kyoko's voice.
"Kyoko-chan, you scared me!"
"You said the man your mom was going out with is Nezu-sensei!"
"Yeah, I figured you would know him since he taught at your old middle school!" Haru aggravatingly sighed, rubbing her ear; she could still hear slight ringing from her loud voice. She certainly didn't know Kyoko could be so loud; she was often soft spoken, at least compared to her.
"I-I can't believe this…" Kyoko continued, her voice in absolute shock. Haru was curious; why was Kyoko acting so strange?
"Why? Is it bad thing?"
"Why didn't you tell us earlier?"
"I couldn't because Kyoushi-sama's call interrupted me! Remember?" Haru replied, getting more frustrated by the minute. She wanted Kyoko to explain to her why she was so surprised about this, "What's wrong with Nezu-sensei?"
"He was the worst." Kyoko immediately replied, a darkness looming over her voice, "…at least when we were at school. Maybe he's changed, but he was really mean to all of us, even to some of the staff that taught there."
"What?" Haru's eyes widened, then she shook her head. He was a teacher, some teachers had excuses to be strict to students, but the minute they stopped teaching, they stopped acting all strict and mean. It was how some teachers were; that's what she noticed, "…He's a teacher; he's supposed to keep all the bad students in line."
"You remember Sawada Tsunayoshi, right?" Kyoko asked.
"Yes, I had the biggest crush on him!"
"Haru-chan! Don't change the subject!" Kyoko exclaimed from the other end.
"Sorry Kyoko-chan. Continue…" Haru sighed. She honestly was surprised at Kyoko's sudden energy; her best friend was never the type to become high-strung. If she was becoming easily excitable about this, maybe she wasn't exaggerating about Nezu-sensei at all. She had to hear all of what Kyoko had to say.
"He wasn't a bad student, Tsuna-kun was really polite even if others teased him. Nezu always made fun of him and picked on him in front of the whole class. He even encouraged other students to bully him. If you tried standing up to him, he would send you to the principal's office and give you endless detentions."
Haru hesitated for a bit; she didn't want to believe any of this, but Kyoko would never exaggerate. She did remember her best friend tell her stories of a certain strict teacher back in the day, but never mentioned their name. He certainly had to turn out to be her mother's boyfriend. What a small world this is.
"I don't know. Some teachers are really different outside of school. When I first met him, he was really nice to me."
"Maybe you're right. The middle school me must have been speaking!" Kyoko replied.
"Yeah, it's been nearly seven years, he's probably changed." Haru shrugged, "My mom knows better than to get with a jerk!"
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After her rather long conversation with Kyoko, Haru decided to go downstairs to the lobby to grab something nice to eat. Work kept her incredibly busy, so busy that she would forget to grab lunch occasionally. She and her mother almost never ordered from the hotel's food court since everything was very expensive. However, today was different, she was very hungry and she was going to use some of her hard earned money to eat well today.
She went towards a certain section of the giant lobby, entering a separate food court. It looked exactly like the ones at malls with an assortment of different restaurants. They ranged from traditional Japanese restaurants to Americanized fast food restaurants. It was well lit and busy, crowds of people eating at their preferred eatery.
"Sushi Dai…" Haru said, reading one of the restaurants. She did love sushi; it was a rare occasion that she got to eat high quality type and Sushi Dai was notorious for having well-made sushi.
When she was about to walk further into the restaurant, she stopped in her tracks and immediately backed away behind the entrance, nearly tripping backwards. Her brown eyes widened. Of all the restaurants…why does it have to be this one?!
She saw her mother and Nezu-sensei sitting next to each other at the bar section of the restaurant. She slowly peeked her head closer, to get a better look at them, all while trying her best to stay out of sight. Haru thought her mom would go out, as in go out. Why did Nezu have to take her out on a date at one of the Vongola Hotel restaurants? There were a lot more places in Namimori to spend a date at. Kyoko's words surfaced to her head; she couldn't help but to think of what her best friend said about Nezu-sensei to her earlier.
He was the worst. …at least when we were at school. Maybe he's changed, but he was really mean to all of us, even to some of the staff that taught there.
As much as she hated to admit it, this brought on a bad taste of her mom's new boyfriend. Apparently he just wasn't mean to the students, but to the staff he works with. Kyoko could have been overreacting for all she knew, but seeing her mom possibly get hurt didn't sit right with her.
She narrowed her eyes, but opened them up once she saw them laughing together. Nezu apparently told a funny joke of some sorts to her mother who laughed heartily at it. Her mother placed her hand over her chest doubling over in laughter, with Nezu-sensei laughing along. Haru twitched her lip, she couldn't compare the mean and nasty guy Kyoko described with this friendly man who seemed to make her mom happy.
The brunette sighed; she didn't want to have those thoughts spoil her opinion of him already. She slightly crouched down, zoning out as she watched her mother and Nezu chat it out as they ate sushi.
"Is this what you do in your spare time?"
Haru spun back, knocking down a folded poster sign next to her in the process. Her mouth was nearly wide agape when she saw Hibari standing a few feet away from her, Kukasabe-san at the back of him. Still crouched down, she immediately picked up the sign and placed it back in its previous position, giving him an incredulous stare. She didn't realize how awkward she looked.
"Hibari-san! What are you doing here?" Haru said, keeping her voice low. She caught a quick glance at her mom and Nezu before looking back at the prefect. He still wore the usual purple suit, looking sharp as usual. She assumed his workday didn't finish, "…Are you getting something to eat too?"
"What else would I be doing in a food court?"
"Oh…" She muttered, her smile faltering.
Haru slightly laughed, feeling stupid. She immediately got on her feet, no longer crouching down. She bowed to Kukasabe, who bowed back in return.
"Good evening Miura-san." Kukasabe said.
"Good…evening." Haru quietly replied, her eyes frantically shifting back and forth from Hibari to her mother. She hoped to god her mom wouldn't catch her loitering outside of the sushi Dai restaurant; she could come to assume that she was stalking on her date. That was obviously the last thing Haru wanted to deal with.
"…I have to go." She continued; she bowed twice to Hibari and Kukasabe. She sheepishly grinned at them, sneaking between them to leave. That was when she felt a hand on her shoulder. Haru's eyes widened; she spun back noticing it was Hibari.
"What?" She spluttered out, startled from his sudden touch. She so badly wanted to leave; what did he want now?
"Have you finished the forms for the Hasegawa family? I need to turn those in to them early tomorrow."
"W-what? I thought those had to be given to them by Wednesday!" Haru exclaimed. It was true; working as Hibari's assistant had a huge workload, but working outside of work barely happened. Haru was afraid she had to do it now.
"You haven't started?" Hibari frowned; the brunette could sense mockery coming from his voice. She pressed her lips together, annoyed that Hibari would automatically assume she didn't bother to start. Deep down he knew she wasn't like that; she was a fast and surprisingly punctual worker when it came to getting the job done. Kukasabe would make sure to shower her with praise and Kyoushi-sama would send her thanks for doing good work.
"I did! I'm three-fourths done actually!" She huffed, "…You could have at least emailed me earlier you were going to have to turn them in tomorrow instead of telling me now!"
"Don't talk that way to your boss." Hibari said, crossing his arms.
Haru gritted her teeth and looked away from him. I'm getting paid 1500 yen an hour. 1500 yen. Gaahhhh, The nerve of this bastard…!
"I only found out a few minutes ago before I came here." He continued.
The brunette frowned. This was just her luck. She knew it was going to take her a while to complete the last bit of those forms; she certainly didn't know how she was going to do it by tomorrow morning.
"...That means I should start now." Haru mumbled; a sullen expression on her face. When she was about to give Hibari another glare; her eyes nearly popped out of her sockets. Her mouth was wide open.
She saw her mother and Nezu-sensei come out of the restaurant, all finished with their meal. They caught sight of Haru, much to her dismay, and they were walking towards her. Haru's mouth slightly trembled; Hibari raised his eyebrows at her strange facial expression before turning around.
"Haru I didn't know you were coming here!" Her mother said.
"M-mom!" Haru nervously said, she felt her cheeks flare up and her hands sweat. She looked at Nezu who gave her a bow; Haru automatically bowed back. A wave of guilt and embarrassment passed through her once she realized her early stalking antics on them.
"I was going to grab s-something quick to eat! Yeah!" Haru timidly laughed, rubbing the back of her head. Deep down, she was cursing a million times to herself. Today was not her day; she managed to get stuck in an awkward setting which she could have easily avoided. She noticed Hibari stare at her at the corner of her eye; it was as if he had noticed her sudden awkwardness.
She could have sworn the prefect crack a small smirk after he glanced at Haru's mother and the same restaurant they came out from. She quickly dismissed that thought though.
Hibari's presence finally caught her mother's attention, "Oh! Who's this? Is he a date of yours-?"
"MOM!" Haru screeched, causing several passerby's to stare at them, "He's the junior chairman of this hotel! The guy I work for!"
Her mom gave out a whole hearted laugh, amused by her typical mistake while Nezu gave the two a smile.
"Oh! It's nice to finally meet you!" She grinned, ecstatically shaking Hibari's hand. The prefect's arm looked limp from the lack of tenacity in his hand shake. Haru looked away in embarrassment; she hated dealing with such awkward situations.
Haru's mom also saw Kukasabe who gave her a short bow in return.
"I'm Kukasabe; Kyo-san's subordinate."
"It's nice to meet you too!" She said, skipping over to Kukasabe. Haru looked at Hibari who kept silent; the brunette bit her bottom lip. He wasn't helping one bit; she however, didn't even sense one bit of discomfort or embarrassment from him. She saw her mother eagerly having conversation with Kukasabe before looking at Nezu-sensei.
"You two were going to grab dinner to eat, right?" He finally spoke up; Haru nearly jumped from his voice.
"Well…I-I…yes." Haru stiffly replied; Kyoko's words about Nezu were still lingering in her head. She swore her brain was going to collapse from all these simultaneous thoughts she kept having.
"If it's okay with you, I'll treat you both to Sushi Dai." He smiled, then looked at Haru, "We've never really had the chance to speak much since you've been so busy. Your mother has been insisting I do. It'd be a plus to get to know your co-worker too-"
"I'll do fine without your offer." Hibari interrupted, not affected by the kindness in Nezu's voice, "and I'm not her coworker, I'm her boss."
Haru gritted her teeth. He could at least not be so rude to him. He's so darn arrogant. She crossed her arms and pursed her lips at Hibari before looking back at Nezu. Before Hibari could leave them both, Haru spoke up.
"Yeah, it's okay; I'll get something cheaper to eat." The brunette glowered at the junior chairman, before placing emphasis on her last sentence, "He's not very fun person to get to know or spend time with anyway-!"
"Are you kidding?! Let's have dinner together!" Haru looked back and saw her mom trotter back in her heels towards them, "This is the perfect occasion for family and work to meet!"
When Hibari was about to reject the offer again, Haru's talkative mom interrupted again.
"It would be such an honor to have dinner with the junior chairman!"
"Mom, didn't you just eat-"
Haru's mother shot Haru a very scary glare, immediately shutting her up.
"I'll pay for them then." Nezu said; he saw Kukasabe-san a couple feet away from them, "You can come too, Kukasabe-san."
"That's fine. I'll wait outside."
"Are you sure?" Haru's mom asked.
"Yes." He bowed.
Haru looked at Hibari for what felt to be the millionth time. He didn't look too happy at all; that wasn't surprising one bit. He wanted to get out of this awkward situation as much as she did.
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"Ah…so you'll be taking the role of Chairman in just a few years? That's only in your late 20's; it's still very young." Nezu said to Hibari.
They sat at a four seated table inside the elaborate Sushi Dai restaurant. Haru and Hibari sat, as far as they could away from each other, across from Nezu and Haru's mom. The prefect kept a straight face the entire time; she was surprised Nezu didn't catch onto his rudeness. Her mother was oblivious to Hibari's usual grumpy attitude, so there was no surprise there. Haru wanted to knock some sense into the prefect and force him to show at least a bit of respect to Nezu-sensei. He was even paying for her and his meal.
She presumed he looked down on people who he saw "below" him. A middle school teacher like Nezu-sensei couldn't stand up to an extremely rich to-be hotel chairman.
"High work ethic should begin at a young age. Herbivores these days seem to lack it." He replied, a stone-cold tone to his voice.
"Well you should take time to act young while you're still young. It's not good to grow up too fast, you'll never get your childhood back." Haru replied, trying her best to give off a fake sweet-sounding vibe.
"Childhood?" Hibari replied, bemused at her choice of words.
"Yeah." She replied, looking back at him, "Childhood."
"I'm twenty-four, not fourteen."
Haru sunk back in her seat. She felt even more mortified, if that was possible. Way to make me look stupid in front of them…
"You know what I meant…" She muttered.
"How do you both get work done at a breakneck pace? You two seem very…" Haru's mom paused, trying to find an appropriate word.
"I do as he's says! Hibari-san takes pleasure in giving me orders." Haru immediately replied, her fake sweet sounding voice coming about again. She knew how childish she was acting by now, but she couldn't stop. Hibari knew how to push her buttons.
"She knows how to obey those orders too." Hibari replied, catching on to what Haru was doing. He noticed Haru's cheeks turning a dark shade of red, from anger.
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"Hahi! The food's finally here!" Haru clapped her hands together. She could feel her stomach rumble as the waiter placed the assortments of sushi on their table. The assortments ranged from Maguro to raw scallop sushi.
"For you two." Nezu-sensei said, pushing the sushi plates towards Hibari and Haru.
"Thank you, Nezu-sensei!" Haru replied, grinning from ear to ear.
She popped open her wrapper of chopsticks before grabbing several types of sushi from the different plates onto her plate.
"Itadakimasu!" She exclaimed, before shoving a piece of Eel sushi into her mouth. She nodded as she chewed, savoring the fresh and distinct taste of it, "…So good!"
"Hibari-san, aren't you going to try some?" Haru's mom asked, "It's very good here!"
The prefect stared at Haru for a while, who was characteristically immersed into her food, before he reluctantly grabbed his set of chopsticks.
"Don't eat everything, herbivore." He said, slightly pushing away Haru's hand out of the way with his arm before grabbing a couple pieces of sushi with the chopsticks.
"Glad you're enjoying the food, Miura-san." Nezu chuckled, amused by Haru's quick-paced gorging of her food. She certainly didn't eat like a typical girl.
"Sushi Dai is delicious, especially on an empty stomach. Everything here is worth the price!" Haru replied, her mind was completely off her stressful thoughts once the food came. Good food could easily take her mind off the problems she faced.
She completely brushed off Kyoko's words by now; so far, Nezu was very polite and nice about everything. He even overlooked Hibari's rude, stand-offish attitude and paid for his AND her meal.
"Haru had the pleasure to meet your family a few days back. What are they like?" Haru's mom asked.
"Talkative." Hibari's brief and annoyed reply.
"Ah…Haru must have easily felt at home with them then." She continued, then slightly laughed, "She's such a chatterbox; she goes on and on and on. Her friends are always telling her to calm down."
"You're a chatterbox too, Mom…" Haru replied, discomfiture creeping up on her.
"You both must take after each other a lot." Nezu replied, "That's nice."
"We do." Haru's mom smiled back at him, somehow flustered at what seemed to be a compliment.
Haru returned to her food.
"So your job must give you a lot of notoriety then; are you popular with the ladies? Have you found someone yet?" Haru's mother said, pestering Hibari with another question.
Haru almost spit out the sushi she was chewing, instead she swallowed it whole, almost choking on it. This was the first time she met Hibari-san; how could she possibly ask a question like that to him on their first meeting? Sometimes she really had more sense than her mom.
"…Mom!" Haru barely whispered. Her mother could become very embarrassing at the worst times possible. Nezu tried his best to hide his laughter.
"What? He comes from a successful family; he's a smart person, working harder than most people his age. Not to mention he's a handsome one at that."
How can my mom talk so openly about these types of things?!
"I could see them lining up for a guy like you." Nezu added, entertained at all of this.
…a rich guy like him indeed.
Haru smiled to herself from her clever thought.
"I don't seem to notice." Hibari replied, grabbing another piece of sushi.
Haru almost praised him for his perfect answer to that, but refrained from doing so. She cursed at herself for having such an unusual thought of action.
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"It was nice to meet you Hibari-san." Nezu-sensei bowed. Hibari nodded in return.
"Make sure Haru works hard!" He added.
"I will." He replied, glancing at Haru who stood behind him. Haru glared at him.
Nezu-sensei and Haru's mother left towards the exit of the hotel's food court to the lobby. Kukasabe waited a few feet away from Haru and Hibari as they were going to say their final words to each other for the night.
"I guess their date isn't over yet." Haru mumbled, watching them leave. She let out a small smile. Hibari turned back to face her; her smile immediately went away.
"If they knew better you were stalking them earlier..." Hibari said.
"What-" Haru immediately stopped when she realized Hibari did notice her peeping at them before, "L-Let's not talk about that…! I have to go finish those forms since I have to turn them in tomorrow! Good night, Hibari-san!"
Haru immediately skipped passed Hibari, dashing towards the exit. He watched her leave until she was out of sight. He was somehow but unfortunately captivated by her strange personality.
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7:30 P.M – The next day
"He's really nice. I had dinner with him, Hibari-san, and my mother! He even paid for it!" Haru exclaimed, as she sat across Kyoko, I-pin, and Yuni, "He was even a good sport about Hibari-san's annoying attitude."
"Okay…I kinda feel bad for saying all of those things about him to you on the phone. He was really different in school though!" Kyoko replied, looking down.
"My mom seems to be very fond of him too. When she came home today, she talked about how chivalrous and protective Nezu-sensei was to her during the rest of their date." Haru added. She poured herself a shot of sake before digging into the food that sat in front of her.
"Chivalry hardly seems to exist anymore!" Yuni added, "Your mom is lucky to have found someone romantic like that."
"Yeah, whatever happened in middle school shouldn't matter anymore. A lot has changed since then." I-Pin said, noticing Kyoko's sullen expression. It was easy for them to say such things because they never went to the same middle school as Kyoko.
Haru nodded in agreement. Not long after, she let out a long yawn; the sleepiness was inevitable. She never slept well these days, but last night was an exception. Finishing the forms for the Hasegawa family gave her only five hours of sleep. Haru ultimately decided she was going to sleep after dinner with her friends.
"I'm going to bed really soon; I don't think I can take feeling so sleepy anymore." Haru said lowering her head on the table, "…He really knows how to work me to death."
"You've even grown some dark circles under your eyes!" Yuni gasped, pointing at the half inch under Haru's eyes that accumulated over the days, "You should tell Hibari-san to shorten your workload."
"Or make him hire another assistant." I-pin added.
"If any of that happens, he'll lower my pay!" Haru sighed, "I really need the money."
Kyoko gave Haru an apologetic stare; she saw the tired and worn-out condition her best friend was in.
"Let's all treat Haru-chan to a relaxing day at the sauna!" She exclaimed, clapping her hands in excitement, "She deserves it!"
Haru couldn't help but to grin widely.
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Hibari and Haru were completely immersed in their papers and forms as they were half an hour away from being done from a hard day's work. Haru would organize dozens and dozens of files and sort them in their appropriate folders while Hibari would have even more of a heavy workload. It was completely quiet inside the office as usual, just the way Hibari liked it, but both were so occupied that Haru didn't notice.
The brunette from time to time would steal short glances at Hibari who never once looked up from his laptop or papers except to answer calls. She was in awe of how someone could be so immersed in their work.
Haru felt her stomach grumble, but she ignored the feeling. She had to get the documents done, then she would go grab something to eat after work. She knew keeping such habits would do no good for her health in the long run, but working for Hibari was a never ending relentless task.
Grrrrrrrrrgh.
Shut up stomach!
She clenched her teeth and caved her stomach in, disturbed by loud rumbling of her tummy. She certainly didn't want Hibari to hear, especially when it was so quiet in the office. When she felt another rumble coming on, she caved it in further.
Haru's whole body stiffened, her cheeks expanded like a chipmunk, as she waited for the rumbling sensation to go away. Her cheeks became red and she felt sweat gather on her forehead. She hated when this happened.
"What are you doing?"
Haru looked up and saw Hibari staring at her as if she had finally gone crazy. She immediately relaxed her body and hacked in a few coughs before she could breathe normally.
"I'm trying to force my stomach not to rumble." Haru replied, looking down at her papers.
"Go get something to eat then." He replied, the lack of patience in his tone obvious.
"We have 25 minutes left; I'll get something to eat afterwards. I have to get as much done here as I can! "Haru exclaimed, "It's not like I can eat while working, there's no eating allowed in your offi-"
GRRRRRRRPHHH!
Haru immediately shut her mouth and caved her stomach back in, facing downwards again. Her embarrassment was very well obvious by now. Hibari furrowed his brows at her silly posture and resumed his work.
Ring!Ring!Ring!
Haru snapped her head upwards once she heard the desk phone ring, her attention suddenly away from her incompetent stomach. Hibari picked up the phone next to him; his frown deepened once he saw the caller id.
"What?" He said after answering it.
After waiting a few seconds for the person on the other line to reply, his lips twitched. His anger was noticeable.
"Do you have a death wish?" Hibari replied.
Haru slightly winced from the malice in his voice, her curiosity rising. He obviously wasn't too happy at whoever he was speaking to.
"Don't come here."
A few seconds later the office door opened. Haru nearly jumped up from the sudden commotion. However, her startled look changed to a wide grin once she realized who so suddenly burst in.
"Yamamoto-san!" Haru exclaimed.
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"Jeez Kyouya you didn't have to hit me that hard." Yamamoto winced, rubbing his throbbing head.
"If I didn't, you wouldn't have any sense knocked into you." He replied; he kept a quick pace ahead of Haru and Yamamoto, both who trailed behind him. Judging from his posture, it was obvious he was fuming mad and barely keeping his anger restrained.
"But doesn't a knock to the head destroy brain cells?" Haru pointed out; even when Hibari was at his scariest she couldn't help but to take a few jabs towards him. Hibari expectantly didn't reply.
Yamamoto and Haru shared a few laughs.
"It was an emergency. My friend had to go somewhere quick so he couldn't drop me off at home." The baseball fanatic continued.
"And you expect me to drive you back?" Hibari reply, not looking back at him.
"Yes." Yamamoto replied in a quieter voice, trying his best to stifle his oncoming laughter. Haru shook her head, bemused by Yamamoto's flippant personality.
Haru thought Hibari was being a bit harsh on him. Even though Yamamoto had the guts to casually barge into his office like that, even when told several times not to before, he had no other quicker way of getting home. Judging from the trip she took to Hibari's house a couple weeks ago, it was a far drive.
Hibari flashed Yamamoto an impatient glare, irritated by his attitude. When he reached his car, he unlocked the doors using a clicker key. Yamamoto shrugged, unsure of what his older brother was going to do next.
"Get in the car."
"What?" Yamamoto raised his eyebrows, surprised at his sudden change of mind.
"I don't like repeating myself." Hibari stiffly replied.
Yamamoto looked back at Haru who gave him a silent wave, signaling a goodbye.
"Never mind, I'll just ride the train home." He finally said.
"Less annoyance for me then."
"I can always hang out with Haru while I wait for it!" Yamamoto grinned, placing his arm around her shoulders. Haru tensed from his sudden touch; however, a large grin managed to escape from her lips.
Hibari narrowed his eyes, not bothering to hide his irritation. He simply went inside his car and started the engine. In a matter of seconds, the car drove away. Yamamoto slid his touch away from Haru; her grin slowly faltered.
"Don't mind him."
"I'm used to it by now." Haru joked, then playfully jabbed him on the arm, "You forgot to ask if I wanted to hang out with you or not though!"
"Sorry." He laughed, "Would you like to hang out with me?"
Haru's grin returned once she heard his contagious laugh.
"Yes!" She replied, laughing as well, "I'm supposed to do something with my friends today, but I'll tell them I'll be a bit late."
"Okay, what do you want to do?"
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LATE UPDATEEE! School has been keeping me really busy, busier than expected. I hope you liked this chapter!
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