Longest chapter so far, but the beginning is like full of dialog. xD This chapter focus more on Miki and the rest of Tsuna and company, so sorry to Hibari fans for the lack of Hibari in this one. I popped him in at the last part though. Haha...

Chapter 4: Real or Fake?

"Hey, it's Takesushi! I ate here before! The sushi here is really good," Miki exclaimed when the group was now in front of Yamamoto's house. She turned to face Yamamoto with a surprise expression on her face. "You live here?"

Yamamoto laughed at her comment and then smiled at her question. "Yeah, I do!" He opened the door and stepped inside the house. "I'm home!"

"Oh, Takeshi, you're back?" a man in his mid forties greeted from behind the counter where he was slicing some fresh maguro for a sushi. "Oh, I see you brought your friends over."

Yamamoto gestured everyone to take a seat at an empty table. They all sat down and started state their orders, which Tsuyoshi gladly took and started making right away.

"So, what's the story behind you working at Hibari's place?" Gokudera asked Miki once they all ordered something.

Knowing that she couldn't avoid telling the group the truth and seeing that these people knew Hibari and looked friendly enough, Miki made the decision to explain everything from the beginning.

"Haha, omoshiroi" Yamamoto chuckled, once he heard the entire story.

It was clear on Gokudera's face that he had to put in a lot of effort in order to resist punching Yamamoto in the face.

Tsuna could only sweat and stare at his two friends.

"So, how long will you be working for him?" Reborn asked Miki.

Miki shook her head. "I don't know." She sighed. "Probably until he's satisfied."

Yeah, she would probably have to do that. She had no idea when that would be though. She didn't want to work for Hibari and stay at his house her whole life! That would be the worse case scenario; a complete nightmare. She could imagine her eighty year old self serving tea to a eighty-one year old Hibari, who's laying in bed with spectacles and reading a book.

NO! What are you thinking!? You can't think about that because it'll never happen! Yeah, that's right! She'll get out of this situation soon!

"Err…Miki, are you alright?"

"Eh? What? Oh, I'm fine. Hehe..." Miki said to Tsuna, rubbing the back of her neck in embarrassment when she noticed that he and the others were staring at her.

"Haha, you're cute. I like you!" Yamamoto suddenly said, grinning.

Miki literately choked on her green tea.

"Wah! Miki are you okay?" Tsuna asked.

"Don't start acting all lovely dovey all of a sudden baseball idiot!" Gokudera shouted at Yamamoto, who bore a puzzled disposition on his face.

Yamamoto blinked. "What's wrong with liking someone and wanting to be their friend?"

Gokudera slapped his own forehead. "How insensitive can you be?"

"Eh? How am I insensitive?"

"Arugh! Have I ever told you how stupid you were?"

"Um…A couple times I think."

"You're unbelievable!"

"It's fine. I'm alright," Miki said, blushing slightly while still trying to get over her choking incident. Yamamoto was nice, but now she knew how dense and naïve he was.

"Food's here!" Tsuyoshi announced, bring along plates of sushi.

"Yay! Lambo-san is going to eat the shrimp first! Ahhh!" Lambo declared, reaching for a shrimp sushi, but was kicked aside and off his chair.

"Not before I get my share," Reborn said, stuffing a shrimp sushi into his mouth after kicking Lambo out of his way.

"Reborn, how dare you? I'm going to kill you!" Lambo shouted, pulling out a pink grenade and throwing it at Reborn.

A second later, Lambo was sent flying outside, followed by the grenade and a loud explosion was heard.

Miki's mouth dropped opened as she stared at the scene in horror. She then looked at Reborn. What kind of person was this kid? How violent!

"Um…I hope you don't mind me asking, but how old are you?" Miki questioned Reborn out of pure curiosity.

"One," Reborn simply answered.

I don't believe you!

"How about we eat now?" Tsuna suggested, desperately trying to return the situation back to normal.

Thankfully everyone agreed and started to fully enjoy their meal.

"That was great! Thanks for the lunch Yamamoto," Tsuna told his friend once everyone was done eating.

"No problem!" Yamamoto replied.

"Are you sure that it's okay to have all of this for free?" Miki questioned, staring at all the empty plates on the table.

"No problem. This one's on the house," Tsuyoshi answered for his son from the counter.

"Arigato gozai masu, Yamamoto-san!" Miki said to Tsuyoshi, who smiled back.

"Now that we're done eating, let's play a game," Reborn suddenly said.

"A game you say? Yeah, let's!" Yamamoto happily agreed.

Tsuna however didn't seem to like the idea so much. "How about we leave now? I'm sure that Miki has to go back to Hibari's place now right?" he said, giving Miki a pleading glance.

"Don't worry. Hibari didn't say anything right? So, it should be fine," Reborn quickly said, before Miki had the chance to say anything.

"What if he isn't okay with it?" Tsuna said, still trying to avoid playing one of Reborn's games.

"I'll take full responsibility for it."

"Since when do you ever take responsibility for anything?" Tsuna yelled at his tutor.

"Let's go to the park," Reborn said, completely ignoring Tsuna and jumping to the floor before making his way out the door.

In a couple of minutes, the gang was at the park. All of them were staring at what was in front of them.

"What are these here for?" Tsuna asked, feeling even worse than before.

Before the group was four guns laid out on a bench.

"It's for the game," Reborn replied. "The rules are very simple. You each pick a gun in which each has only one bullet inside and pair up with someone. Then you take turns shooting at each other until one person falls down."

"What kind of dangerous game is that?" Tsuna shouted.

"So, it's basically like Russian Roulette except you're pointing the gun at someone else," Gokudera remarked. "Okay, let's get it on!"

"Gokudera-kun!"

"This sounds fun!"

"Yamamoto!"

Tsuna couldn't believe what he was hearing. His friends actually agreed to this.

"Hey, these are fakes right?" Miki asked Reborn before deciding whether to play or not. Of course normally they would be fake, but seeing how the small person in front of her can act, she wasn't so sure.

Reborn smiled. "Of course. Do you actually think that I'd kill someone?"

Isn't he suppose to be a hitman!? Tsuna thought. He still wasn't so convinced though. The last time Reborn had him and Kyoko play Russian Roulette, he said that same thing, but instead, inserted a dying will bullet in the gun.

"You guys can play. I'm going home first to work on some homework," Tsuna told his friends and started walking away. He came to a complete halt however when he heard the clicking of a trigger near his ear.

"This one's real," Reborn said, pointing the barrel of a shotgun at Tsuna's head.

"Eeeek! Fine, I'll play!"

"I'm pairing up with Juudaime!" Gokudera cheerfully announced, grabbing Tsuna by the arm and dragging him towards the bench and choosing a gun.

Tsuna reluctantly picked up a gun from the bench since Reborn still had the real gun aimed at his head.

"Guess you're paired up with me then," Yamamoto stated cheerfully, giving Miki a friendly pat on the back. He then went to pick out a gun for himself.

Keeping a cautious eye on Reborn, Miki picked up the last remaining gun.

Gosh, how on earth did I get myself into this mess…!? Furthermore, what kind of baby processes a real gun!?

"You can start whenever you like," Reborn said from the bench.

"Are you ready, Juudaime?" Gokudera asked Tsuna who was standing opposite of him.

Tsuna gulped. He took a glance at Reborn and seeing the end of the shotgun still pointed at him, immediately answered, "Y-Yes!"

Gokudera pointed the gun in his hand directly at Tsuna's head and pulled the trigger.

Tsuna closed his eyes tightly, bracing for a hit. Nothing came though. He opened his eyes and let out a sigh of relief.

"Your turn Juudaime!"

Tsuna looked at the gun in his hands. Was it really fake?

"Are you sure about this Gokudera?"

Gokudera gave Tsuna a thumbs up. "Don't worry about it. Even if the bullet is real, I'll still be able to dodge. Believe in me Juudaime!"

That's not the point!

"If you don't take the shot, I'll shoot instead."

"No!" Tsuna quickly shouted when Reborn's voice came flying again from the bench. He pulled the trigger. Again, nothing happened. Tsuna breathed another sigh of relief. So far so good. No one was hurt yet.

Miki watched Tsuna and Gokudera start the gamble. Even though Reborn did say the guns and bullets weren't real, it was still pretty frightening. The suspense caused her to hold her breath every time a trigger was pulled.

"We should start too," Yamamoto stated. "You ready?"

Miki slowly nodded. Actually, she was no were near ready.

"You can go first," Yamamoto suggested, facing her.

Miki just managed to nod again. She slowly lifted the gun and pointed it straight at the person in front of her. Her finger found its way to the trigger. She closed her eyes as everyone waited. Miki reopened them again. Her finger wouldn't budge. "I-I can't! I'm scared!" she finally admitted. Heck yeah, she was scared. She had never held a gun in her life before. Except for a toy one, but this one was different. The design was so detailed that the gun seemed real. Not only that, but it was a gun from a brutal baby, who currently was pointing a gun that he said was real at someone.

The gun in Reborn's hand suddenly switched direction from Tsuna to her.

The Arcobaleno's action defrosted Miki's frozen fingers. The trigger was pulled. Once again, nothing happened. Miki's knees almost gave away underneath her. This was just way too much.

"Reborn, don't just start threatening other people like that!" Tsuna yelled, obviously displeased at the hitman's actions. For Gokudera, Yamamoto and him, it was already a normal thing, but for someone like Miki who had no idea about the whole mafia world that he and the others were involved in, it must have been terrifying for her.

"Are you okay?" Yamamoto was now at her side.

"I'm alright," Miki answered weakly.

"We can stop this if you want."

"Yeah, I think that we really should stop," Tsuna agreed with Yamamoto.

"No, it's fine. Just keep playing."

What did I just say!? No, don't keep playing! I want to get myself outta here now! TOT~

"Are you sure?" Yamamoto asked.

Miki nodded. "Yes, I'm sure. It's your turn now."

Ahhhh! Miki, what's wrong with your mouth!? Baka mouth! Mouth, your traitor! Just because they are your new friends doesn't mean you have to be nice go along with everything that they are doing! What I'm I doing!?

"Are you ready?" Yamamoto asked the girl in front of him. She seemed a bit shaky. He was hoping that she was taking things alright. He raised the gun higher up and was just about to pull the trigger, but paused. Something felt strange. He lowered the gun down.

BANG!

"Miki!"

Everyone rushed over to the girl's side as her legs gave away.

Besides the pain in her butt that she got from falling down, there was also a burning pain in her right leg. Miki looked down and saw a bleeding red line on her leg.

"Don't worry, the bullet didn't go through. It just scratched her. The gash it left isn't very deep either. She'll be fine," Gokudera reassured his friends once he took a look at Miki's wound. He then looked up at Yamamoto. "You knew that the gun was real didn't you? That's why you pointed it downwards."

"Well, its weight just seemed strange; like it was heavier than a fake gun should be." Yamamoto explained. "Though, I never held a real gun before, so I wasn't sure."

"Like I said, Yamamoto's a natural born hitman. His instincts told him," Reborn came to join the group.

"What if Yamamoto couldn't tell? You went to far this time! Miki could have been seriously injured!" Tsuna yelled at Reborn. He was now starting to feel angry. The Arcobaleno had always taken things way beyond the limit and sometime it was just way too much.

"You're talking as if you don't trust your family member's abilities," Reborn remarked.

The comment caused Tsuna to be at a lost for words. "No, t-that's not it!" he stammered.

"Well, every thing is fine now. Right now we need to get Miki's wound done," Yamamoto stated. He got down low in front of Miki. "Get on."

Miki hesitated. "Are you sure?"

Yamamoto nodded and gave her a reassuring smile. "It must hurt to walk right now with that new wound."

Miki hesitated a moment, before allowing Yamamoto to help her onto his back.

"You guys can go ahead. I'll take care of things from here," Yamamoto told his friends.

"Are you sure?" Tsuna asked. He then however, received a kick by Reborn on the side of his face.

"Let Yamamoto take care of Miki. You have homework to do," Reborn said, dragging Tsuna away by the ear.

Gokudera glanced back at Yamamoto and Miki, but didn't say anything as he followed Tsuna.

"Where are we going?" Miki asked Yamamoto.

"Hospital."

Miki's eyes widen. "I'm alright! It's just a scratch anyways right?"

"Nonsense. The wound was still caused by a bullet. You should get a doctor or nurse to at least look at it and get it cleaned up."

"What are we going to say though? They'll just bombard us with questions they found out that a bullet caused this."

Miki's hands felt Yamamoto's shoulders move as he shrugged. "We can always make up an excuse," he simply said.

At first Miki sweatdropped, but then couldn't help but giggle at his answer.

Yamamoto turned his head back as much as he could in order to face her and raised an eyebrow. "What are you laughing at?"

Miki shook her head. "Nothing."

Yamamoto couldn't help but smile back.

It's been over three hours since Miki went out with Tsuna and the others and she still hadn't return yet. Hibari wondered what she was doing. Of course it wasn't like he was worried about her. She was just a worker for him after all. He just needed someone to make dinner. He was so going to bite the girl the death if she didn't get back soon.

Suddenly, Hibari heard the doorbell ring. Placing his book down on the glass table in front of him, Hibari stood up from where he was sitting comfortably on the couch and headed for the door. Once he opened it, he found a familiar figure standing in front of the gate. He went towards the gate and opened it.

Yamamoto managed a small smile at the Head of the Disciplinary Committee. "It's a long story. We were playing one of the little guy's games and she got hurt," he said, nodding towards Miki who had fallen asleep from her tiring day.

Hibari was a bit surprised when he heard Reborn being mentioned. He stared at the person in front of him and then at Miki who was on Yamamoto's shoulders. "Hand her over."

Yamamoto raised a questioning eyebrow at Hibari.

"I said hand her over," Hibari repeated.

Yamamoto hesitated a moment before sliding Miki off his back and handing the still fast asleep girl into Hibari's arms.

Hibari kicked the gate shut in Yamamoto's face and headed inside the house. He walked over to Miki's room and made one hand free to open the door. As he stepped in two slender arms made their way around his neck.

"My side pillow…Nice pillow…"

Hibari was a bit taken back by Miki's action and murmuring for a second. He then went ahead and laid her down on her bed. However, Hibari frowned. She wouldn't let go of him. He took his large hands and tried to pull her small ones off his neck, but her grasp only tightened. Starting to feel irritated, Hibari clenched his hand into a fist and knocked Miki's head with it. The method worked. Miki let out a yelp in pain and grasped her head with her hands.

"Took you long enough to wake up."

Miki turned to face the owner of the voice. "H-Hibari!"

She looked around her surroundings. This was her bedroom in Hibari's house and she was sitting down on her bed. Miki blinked. How did she get here? The last thing she remembered was that Yamamoto was carrying her out of the hospital. She must have fallen asleep and Yamamoto carried her back here.

Miki watched as Hibari walked over to the desk in her room and lifted up a girl school uniform. Miki remembered seeing the girls at Namimori High wear it when she went there to look for Hibari. What was Hibari doing with one though?

He walked back over to beside her bed and dropped the school uniform onto her lap.

Miki blankly stared at the uniform on her lap for a few seconds before a thought struck her. "Y-You don't mean…?"

"Starting tomorrow, you'll be attending Namimori Junior High School. I already sent in a student application and rearranged everything with the principal."

Miki's mouth dropped open in disbelief. What she was hearing couldn't be real. "You're joking right?"

"Why would I be joking?"

"Cause it's another way of getting me back for ruining your phone."

"You really are stupid aren't you? Do you think that I'd use such a method as joking around with you?"

She had to admit that he had a point. Hibari Kyouya was the most violent delinquent in all of Namimori. He would definitely have gone all out on her than just a stop at a joke. Which means…

"You're serious about this…?"

Hibari's glare told her that he was.

"Wait, how did you even find my information in order to fill out a student application form?"

"Ask that friend of yours," Hibari answered, making his way to the door. "Don't you dare wake up late. You're coming with me to school early to help me with some work," Hibari told her, before leaving the room. He then popped back in again a second later. "Get downstairs and make dinner soon," he added. He then disappeared.

Miki didn't even hear Hibari's order. Murderous thoughts were now already swimming around in her head. Oh yes, Aya was so going to get it for this…

A friend of my gave me the idea for the game, so thankies to her! I wonder if I made Yamamoto a bit too naive at the beginning...I was thinking of 18OC pairing and 80OC friendship at first, but now I'm starting to want to do 18xOCx80. What do you think? Whichever way, the final pairing will still be 18OC though, since the story was set up that way.