I had time this morning, so I just decided to finish chapter two up. This one came out kinda short though. =P I'll try to make the next one longer.
Chapter 2: First Day
"Hello?"
"Aya!"
"Miki, you're still alive! I'm so happy!"
"Happy? Some friend you are! Why didn't you tell me who Hibari Kyouya was?"
"I was afraid that you may chicken out if I did."
"So, you basically sent me, an innocent lamb into a lion's den?"
"Oh, come on, don't exaggerate."
"I'm not exaggerating!"
"Calm down. How about I treat you to anything for free at my bakery as an apology?"
"All I can eat?"
"Fine."
"Okay then."
"Using your friend to get free food are you?"
"You are in no position to complain."
"Yeah, yeah, I get it. So, how did it go anyways?"
Miki let out an exasperated sigh as she recalled what had happen earlier on during the day. "Well, besides getting bruises all over my body and besides that fact that my muscles hurt like crazy, I'm lucky that I didn't break anything. He probably wanted to make sure that I can still walk in order to do his work for him tomorrow."
"Do work for him?"
Miki paused a moment before continuing. "He made me work at his house in order to pay for the phone that I broke."
"What!? Now that's something that I didn't expect. How did you break his phone anyway?"
"Blame the guy who was drinking soda in the library! I bumped into him and the soda spilled all over Hibari's phone!"
"Well, that was unlucky. At least you're still able to stand. I heard that the last guy Hibari beat up went into a coma for three months."
Miki's mouth hung open in disbelief. "He was in a coma for three months? Aya, what I'm I going to do? If I do something to displease Hibari, he'll surely kill me!"
Aya sighed on the other end of the phone. "Oh well. Just bare with him and keep me updated. Got to go now! Good night!"
Miki place her phone back on the desk before throwing herself onto her bed. Just bare with it? That's the best advice that her so called best friend can give her? She was definitely not going to get much sleep tonight.
When the dreadful morning finally arrived, Miki got dressed and started to pack her things. Hibari had told her to move in with him and even gave her a map of where his house was. Luckily for her, both her parents were out on their, what, tenth honeymoon? So, she didn't have to go through the trouble trying to explain things to them.
Grabbing a taxi, Miki finally came to Hibari's place. The first thing that she noticed was that the place was huge. It was tremendously big. Her house seemed like a dog house when compared to Hibari's place.
Walking up to the gate, Miki pressed the doorbell. After a moment a figure came out of the door and walked towards the gate and opened it for her. Miki stood there and looked up and Hibari. Even though it was a Saturday, he was still wearing his school uniform. Yamamoto was right. This guy was really proud of his school.
"Stare at me like that for another second and I'll bite you to death."
Miki immediately jumped inside the gate. She now knows that whenever he says that catchphrase of his, he meant business.
Hibari closed the gate and walked on ahead of her into the house. Miki followed him while keeping a good distance in between. As they walked into the house, Miki realized again how large Hibari's house was. The area near the entrance was wide and a large staircase led to the second floor.
"Is your family rich?"
"None of your busy," was Hibari's reply.
He made his way up the stairs and stopped at a room. Opening the door, he beckoned Miki to go in. The room was around the size of her own room with a small desk, a closet and a twin size bed. There was even a personal bathroom.
"This is my room?" Miki turned to face Hibari.
"What do think?"
Miki decided to zip her mouth shut once she noticed the slight irritation in the male's voice.
"Get unpacked and come downstairs," Hibari ordered, before slamming the door shut and leaving her alone.
Glad to be relieved of Hibari's presence for the time being, Miki plopped herself onto her new bed. She hoped that she could survive staying here for who knows how long.
Once she finished getting her clothes in her closet and her other belongings set into place, Miki descended down the long winding staircase. She found Hibari sitting on the living room couch with a book in his hands.
Hearing Miki coming into the room, Hibari looked up from his book. "Start cleaning the house," he said, nodding over to the broom, dustpan, mop and a bucket that were laid against the wall. "You can go fill the bucket up with water using the hose outside in the garden." After giving his orders, Hibari resumed reading his book.
Knowing that she wasn't in the position to complain, Miki reluctantly grabbed the cleaning props and got to work. She hope that she can get everything finished by lunch, but judging by how big the house is, she highly doubt that she will.
Two hours had past and Miki was only one third of the way done. This was absurd. How was she going to get the whole house done by herself? Hibari should hire another person to share the work load with her. That way, the job would get done quicker. Wouldn't he like that? Then again, maybe he was just torturing her in order to get her back for ruining his cell phone.
Deciding to take a short break, Miki sat herself down on the cold floor. She sighed. All of this because of a stupid dare. She suddenly felt like hating her school now. Shouldn't they take responsibility for this?
"You don't get any lunch until you're finished."
Hearing a familiar deep male voice, Miki slowly looked up and saw Hibari towering over her. She immediately got up on her feet.
"Gomen na sai, I'll get back to work!" she said, grabbing the mop.
"Hey."
Miki froze. "Yes?" Did she just do something wrong? No way!
"Make me a cup of coffee."
"Yes, sir!" Miki said, dropping her mop and rushing into the kitchen.
Opening the cabinet, Miki carefully rummaged through the stacks of plates in order to find a cup for the coffee. If she were to break something Hibari would kill her for sure.
Next she went to look for some packs of coffee. After searching for a few minutes, she couldn't find any. All she found were coffee beans. She then looked at the counter. There was a coffee machine sitting on the kitchen counter. Miki frowned. Great. She had no idea how to use a coffee machine. She better tell Hibari.
Miki started heading out of the kitchen, but then stopped. If she came back without and cup of coffee and told him that she didn't know how to use a coffee machine, how would he react? Get Irritated and beat her up maybe, or even worse, stick her head into the coffee machine and grind it. Just thinking about the possibilities got her scared. Maybe she should tell him that they were out of sugar and go buy a package of instant coffee. Yeah, that might work better.
"What's taking you?"
Miki froze in terror. Hibari was now in front of her, glaring.
"Um…There's no more sugar. I need to go buy some more."
"I just bought some two days ago."
That's just great. Why did you have to buy some two days ago!? Can't you be a bit more patient? Can't you live two days without sugar? Who are you? L from Death Note!? He needs sugar for his brain, what do you need it for? To give you the strength to beat poor innocent people like me up!?
"If you don't tell me the truth, I'll just bite you to death right now," Hibari threatened her, raising his tonfa as a warning.
Miki started to sweat. "The truth? I uh…don't know how to use a coffee machine."
Hibari lowered his tonfa. "Idiot. Even the last fourteen maids knew how to work a coffee machine."
Miki's mouth dropped open. The last fourteen?
"Get over here," Hibari told her, moving to plug the coffee machine in.
"Hai!"
Miki went to stand next to Hibari as he showed her how to work the coffee machine. She couldn't believe that he didn't beat her for not knowing and actually took the effort to show her how.
"Thanks, for teaching me," she told him once Hibari finished teaching her along with making his own cup of coffee.
"I didn't expect much from you anyway."
Miki blinked. He didn't expect much from her? So, he was basically saying that she was stupid or what?
As Hibari made his way out of the kitchen with his cup of hot coffee, Miki followed. Upon reaching the living room, Miki completely forgot about the mop that she dropped in a hurry a couple of minutes ago that Hibari didn't even bother to pick up for her.
The coffee cup in Hibari's hand hit the floor as he stumbled when Miki tripped over the mop and collided into him from behind. Hibari pushed Miki away so hard that she ended up on the floor. He got out his tonfa again and started advancing towards her.
Realizing what had happened, Miki scrambled up on her feet and started running. Finding herself cornered in the kitchen, Miki grabbed the nearest thing she could get her hands on.
"Don't come any closer!" she yelled at the advancing male, while pointing the blade of a kitchen knife at him. She was obviously very frightened of him at the moment.
However, Hibari didn't stop.
"I said, stop! I'll stab you if you don't! Don't think that I'm afraid to kill you!"
Hibari suddenly stopped advancing.
Was she successful with her threat?
Hibari stared at her for a few more seconds before allowing a smirk to plaster his face.
Miki was confused. Why was he smiling at her like that?
"Fu-n. You're not afraid? Then tell me this. What kind of brave person threatens to kill someone with a weapon in their hands and cries at the same time."
Miki touched her face with her right hand. Sure enough, she felt wet tears rolling down her cheeks. No way! She was crying? Since when?
"You're pretty amusing. Keep me entertained and I just might let you live a bit longer," Hibari said as he turned to exit the room.
Miki just continued to stand there. She couldn't believe what just happened. She cried in front of Hibari!? She cried in front of Hibari with a knife in her hands, threatening to kill him? Could things get more embarrassing than this!?
