Disclaimer: I don't own anything you recognize.

Recap of last chapter: Hayami goes yandere and hurts Nakamura and Karma in the progress. Chiba is oblivious to Hayami's actions and his stalking classmates. When Hayami goes back to normal, what happens now?

Yandere Sniper Part 3

"Shoot."

"Yeah, right." Maehara said. "You were completely insane."

"Argh." Hayami groaned, burying her head in her arms. "Shoot. Shoot. Shoot." She fidgeted with every word.

"You can say 'shit'." Nakamura offered. "Because you screwed up big time."

There was a pause. "I don't cuss like you," came Hayami's muffled voice.

Hayami was beyond horrified. She couldn't believe what she did just now, how she had let go of logic and sense and let her be a slave to her emotions. She had completely destroyed her reputation single-handedly. Because of a date. Because of a freakin boy.

Yup. That single boy who messed up her emotions but also somehow made her life ten times more interesting.

"You said that out loud, y'know." Karma said, grinning. "ChibaHaya confirmed."

Hayami couldn't even find strength to cringe at the (horrendous) ship name the class gave to her and Chiba.

"That was literally the definition of 'crush'." Nakamura said. "Aww! The little tsundere finally admitted it!" She cooed.

Hayami couldn't think how she could make up to everyone. She couldn't thank Karma and Nakamura enough for stopping her. But she screwed up. She royally screwed up and there was no going back.

"People get angry now and then." Nakamura tried to comfort the girl.

"Normal people won't try to attack people." Hayami mumbled.

"It's okay to have feelings." Maehara supplied helpfully.

"So you say I have no feelings?" Hayami groaned. She lifted her tired face up. "I've reduced myself to such low standards. I used my skills for my own selfish desires. I nearly hurt someone."

"You hurt me." Nakamura said, pointing to her nose.

Hayami sighed. "How can face anyone after this? I don't deserve to be a sniper, or an assassin, or a student in this assassination classroom. I apologize for my faults."

Bad points about the sniper combo: when they make mistakes, they think it's all their fault and immediately activates their extreme self-blaming mode.

"It's okay." Isogai said with a comforting smile. "Everyone makes mistakes now and then. We'll keep this a secret, okay?"

There was silence. Hayami saw Isogai glare at Nakamura and Karma.

"Okay." Nakamura, Karma and Maehara agreed, somewhat grudgingly.

Thank goodness for Isogai! Hayami silently praised the class representative.

"I'm really sorry for bothering all of you." Hayami said humbly with her head down. "Especially you, Karma. And I thank you for stopping me from doing crazy stuff."

"Apology accepted," Karma said good-naturally.

"You talk a lot more when you're in post-yandere mode," Nakamura said thoughtfully.

Suddenly, Koro-sensei, in his human disguise, appeared between Isogai and Maehara. The boys quickly scooted away to make space for him.

"Hayami-san, I knew what happened just now…" Koro-sensei began gravely. Hayami lowered head, preparing herself for a black-faced Koro-sensei threatening to hurt her family like he did to Terasaka. And probably a lecture.

"I'm really sorry," she blurted out. "I shouldn't have done that. I really shouldn't have done that. Koro-sensei, I promise to have better control over my emotions. This whole thing..." She opened her mouth as if to say more things but no words came. Hayami flushed. "This really stupid thing I've done. This… yandere thing won't happen again, I swear!" She gestured lamely with her hands.

Maehara and Isogai stared at her like she'd grown two heads.

"You spoke more than three sentences!" Maehara whispered loudly and looked at Hayami in awe. "I never thought I'll live to see that day!"

"It's okay, Hayami-san." Koro-sensei said. "But Maehara-kun is also right. You are not able to speak easily, so you express your feelings through actions. School is for learning and preparing you for the world, but you not only learn knowledge, but also cooperation and communication skills. When you graduate, you will find yourselves always have to present your ideas at work and you have to communicate with your colleagues. Therefore, communication is a very important skill. However," Koro-sensei reached out a tentacle and patted Hayami's head. "I know you prefer to be silent, and I won't completely force you out of your comfort zone. But as I always say, an assassin always needs a second blade. Your strength is sniping, but you can't always hide in the bushes. Someone might find you, and you would need an excuse. This is when communication comes in. So, I hope you would try to improve your communications on your own. But as always, you can always come to me or the other teachers for help, as we are your teacher and we should guide you."

"I understand," Hayami said, suddenly feeling very small for some reason.

"Now…" Koro-sensei said, pausing for dramatic effect. "That's done with, and now we can move forward to something more important…"

His students raised their eyebrows, wondering what could be more important.

"Tell me all about the love scandal!" Koro-sensei shrieked. He started writing quickly in his notebook. "All of my waiting and patience has paid off! The sniper ship is official!"

"Koro-sensei, you talk really loudly…" Nakamura said, sweatdropping.

"My matchmaking attempts had finally succeeded!" Koro-sensei continued loudly, not allowing anyone else to interrupt. "I helped to make Chiba-kun and Hayami-san together! Hayami-san, you must invite me to your wedding! And then I must be the godfather of your children! And grandchildren! And great-grandchildren!"

"..." Everyone stared at their teacher. "He sure thinks in the long run." Maehara whispered. "And when did you contribute to matchmaking the ship?"

"And aren't we supposed to kill you before graduation?" Hayami asked in her usual cool voice, ignoring Maehara's low whispers.

"Well that should be what you planned, but you'll never kill me," Koro-sensei grinned, and green stripes appeared on his face. "Nurufufufu!"

"I'm pretty sure Chiba noticed everyone who's spying on him by now." Maehara said, trying to draw attention to himself again. "What is the point?"

"To stop yanderes, of course." Karma drawled. Hayami went red again, but knew Karma was only teasing her. She quietly tied her hair back in her usual pigtails, drawing back into her shell.

"What a pity," Nakamura mused, looking at Hayami. "You really looked like Bitch-sensei just now."

"And acted like her too." Karma added. Maehara and Isogai stared at her. "What?" They asked curiously.

Karma smirked and showed them his phone, which had a photo of Hayami acting all "bitchy".

"Ooh!" Maehara wolf whistled loudly. Koro-sensei's eyes went "fwoop" and he stared at the photo intently while his tentacles jotted notes down at Mach speed.

"Hey, stop it!" Hayami muttered, angry and embarrassed and tried to grab Karma's phone. He easily put it out of her reach and she gave up, in fear of making another scene. "For some reason, even that sounds tsundere-ish." Karma commented lightly. Everyone grinned.

"By the way, sensei, why did you dress up like a magical girl earlier?" Nakamura asked, a small smirk on her face and she held up the picture of her teacher doing his "Love Bullet Shoot".

"Eh?!" Koro-sensei shrieked, shocked, then hid his face with his tentacles, squirming. "How embarrassing! How mortifying!" Meanwhile, the others took a really good look at the picture, ignoring Koro-sensei.

When Koro-sensei calmed down slightly, he answered, "I wanted to encourage Hayami-san to be more assertive, but not in this… what-do-you-call-it, yandere way. So Maehara-kun," Koro-sensei brandished a tentacle in said boy's direction. "I did help to make them together!"

"So basically, you wanted her to dress in a magical girl outfit." Karma jumped to the conclusions quickly. "Hmm, nice. I think Chiba would like to see that." Hayami glared at him, but since everyone was so used to her cold eyes nobody gave much thought to it.

"Oooh." Maehara and Nakamura said unhelpfully. "Heh, maybe we should buy that next, shouldn't we…." Nakamura said to Karma, grinning evilly. The others felt a shiver of fear coursing through their body. Fear the class devils!

"Now this is taken care of, I have to go now for egg tarts in Hong Kong!" Koro-sensei said. "Good luck Hayami-san! Please go and confess to Chiba-kun ASAP. Goodbye, my lovely students!" Koro-sensei disappeared, leaving a gust of wind behind.

"Wait… what did he say about you confessing to Chiba?" Nakamura said to Hayami. Her eyes widened. "Ooh, you told Koro-sensei that you like him? Bad move!"

"I didn't tell him. He just assumed!" Hayami defended herself, cheeks red. "And besides, I don't-"

Karma yawned. "Stop being in denial. Everyone assumes you two are dating. And I mean everyone."

Hayami couldn't argue with him. Because for some reason everyone thought they were a couple. Even random people on the streets would shoot them glances. Her mother, who wasn't the most attentive mom, asked if she had a boyfriend because she saw Hayami with Chiba for like one time.

There was a short silence. Then Maehara hissed, "Red alert! Red alert! Chiba is standing up!"

"He's going to the bathroom," Isogai observed. "Probably." He added after a second thought. And for the second time that day, Hayami found herself being shoved under the table by the oh-so-helpful class devils.

She hoped she won't go crazy again.

But still, nothing would stop her from being protective of Chiba.

Meanwhile, we go back to Chiba. Remember the rules on how to interact with Chiba, Mr. No-Eyes-But-Don't-Ask-About-Them?

One, don't ask him any questions. Broken.

Two, don't invade his private space. Broken again.

Three, don't ask about his eyes.

Now he and his date just ate in silence. Which was okay. But still Chiba felt awkward and out of place.

Things didn't go any better when he suddenly saw Koro-sensei zoom past him. Chiba groaned internally. Great. At least four people and one unidentified tentacle creature spying on him. Ohh, he was so going to be bombed with questions when he got back to school.

"Umm… Chiba-kun…" Hiraoka began, somewhat timidly.

"Hm?" Chiba said, not really listening and instead focusing on the wooden structure of the café, which was quite interesting. No, he wasn't being sarcastic. He loved architecture.

"Actually, why do you hide your eyes?"

Bam. All three rules broken.

Chiba wasn't sure how to reply. Normally, he would ignore those questions. Or change the topic. Or move away slowly. But he was trapped this time.

"Umm, well, since I'm used to this hairstyle so I won't like to change it," Chiba said finally, which was half the truth.

"Okay." Hiraoka said, while thinking Did I offend him? Did I cross a line? She looked at the floor, suddenly feeling very shy.

Now Chiba thought about that, Hayami never asked about his eyes or his hairstyle. Actually they don't talk that much, their preferred way of spending time together was either shooting, studying or just sitting side by side. She respected his privacy and in return he respected hers too.

But the more he thought about Hayami, the more uneasy he became. Sure, they don't talk a lot, but they were more comfortable around each other than around anyone else. They were the closest to each other in the class, and therefore Chiba felt he had the responsibility to check on Hayami and make sure she was okay. Hayami could hide her emotions very well but when she talked she was blunt and honest (albit in a tsundere-ish way). Not many people could see beneath her cold facade and Chiba was one of the lucky few. But sometimes even Chiba couldn't pinpoint her feelings. It was at times like this he was most worried about her. It didn't help that he had hurt her in some way without knowing it.

Hayami… what did I do?

Something gnawed at his heart, and Chiba just wanted to ask Hayami what was wrong. He bit his lip and chewed at his food, but he couldn't taste anything at all.

Chiba decided it was rude to text someone, especially a girl, on a date with another girl, so he politely excused himself to the bathroom.

Hands in pockets, he made his way towards the bathroom. He sneaked a glance at the general direction of Karma and Co., and saw them pretending not to notice him. For a second, Chiba thought he saw a flash of orange hair like Hayami's. When he blinked again, it was gone.

Chiba sighed. I'm hallucinating. Wait, when did I start to hallucinate about Hayami?

Meanwhile, Nakamura looked at Chiba out of the corner of her eye. He seems kinda down, she noted. What if he's worried about Hayami? An evil grin appeared on her face. Ahh, the ship sails.

After the boys determined it was safe, Hayami reappeared from under the table. She moodily traced the wooden lines on the table with her finger. The others chattered with each other but Hayami stayed quiet, like always.

She felt a sudden vibration in her bag. It's a message. Hayami reached in and pulled out her phone, checking her messages.

"Hey, you got a message!" Nakamura noted. Like in real life, the sniper duo didn't talk much in 3-E's chat group. They weren't even online most of the time. "Who is it from?" she asked eagerly.

Hayami didn't answer and looked at the message she got.

Chiba Ryuunosuke: Hayami, why are so mad at me?

Hayami stared at her phone screen, pondering his question.

"So Chiba purposely went to the bathroom to text you?" Karma asked, peering over Hayami's shoulder. "Wow, he sure thinks a lot about you." Hayami gripped her phone tighter.

I'm not mad at you. Hayami replied, typing while trying to hide her phone from both Karma and Nakamura's prying stares. She hit the "send" button.

Chiba managed a small grin, back where he locked himself in the bathroom. Well she is the Tsundere Sniper for a reason.

I know you know you're mad at me.

When Hayami didn't reply, a new message from Chiba popped out seconds later.

Is it because of the date thing?

The girl froze, fingers hovering above her keyboard. She totally forgot about Karma and Nakamura hovering in the background, noting down everything that passed between her and Chiba.

No, why do you ask? Hayami managed to reply.

Because you started acting weird since Okajima yelled to the class that I had a date. Are you jealous or something? Chiba didn't even know why he added the last question.

The reply came back almost immediately. No. Don't think so highly of yourself.

"Tsundere mode on!" Nakamura cackled somewhere behind Hayami. Hayami, face red, quickly tried to change the subject.

By the way aren't you supposed to be on a date? Why are texting me?

And then Chiba stared at his screen motionlessly, wondering what to say. Because I'm worried about you seemed too mushy, and because your recent actions might affect your shooting skills seemed too cold. You're more important than the date was a definite nope.

"He's taking a really long time to reply," Karma muttered.

Because I am your partner after all. Chiba finally settled with that.

"Dammit, I was hoping for a mushier reply," Nakamura hissed.

Hayami was satisfied with his answer. Ignoring that sudden warm feeling in her heart, she wondered what to type when Chiba suddenly went offline. Well at least that solved her problem.

"Ooh, it seems like you text him pretty often…" Karma drawled mischievously. "Is there a reason? Perhaps a really special reason?"

"That is not any of your business, Karma," Hayami answered coldly although she was blushing slightly.

Meanwhile Chiba walked out of the bathroom, deep in thought. He stole a glance in the direction of his classmates and he saw his sniping partner Hayami Rinka among them for some reason. He certainly hadn't seen her earlier, but there she was, saying something to Karma. She was blushing and looked angry.

Chiba casually walked back to his seat, while keeping an eye on Ri-Hayami. He meant Hayami. When did I start calling her by her first name? Chiba muttered to himself angrily. It isn't right.

But seriously, why was that girl here, sitting with his classmates who were stalking him? It was no coincidence. Hayami was stalking him for whatever reason she had and she ganged up with his other stalkers to do their stalkerish stuff.

Then he thought, Well, that is Hayami. She won't do such a thing.

But evidence proved otherwise. Did that mean she didn't trust him? Maybe looking for stuff to blackmail him? Chiba's brows furrowed as he thought deeply.

Then he saw Hayami's red cheeks. Her hand grasping her phone tightly. Her immediate reply when Chiba asked if she was jealous. Karma and Nakamura teasing her with their sleazy grins. Hayami glaring at them. Her sudden change of behavior when she knew he had a date.

Chiba wasn't stupid. He started to piece the facts together to form one whole picture.

Hayami was jealous. And why would she be jealous? Because she liked him.

Hayami Rinka liked him.

Chiba felt a small smile tug on his lips, but stopped. This would highly complicate things. It would probably take her a thousand years to admit it. And they were both awkward and shy so how would a relationship work out? Things were going to get even more awkward if she knew that he knew she fancied him. Besides they had to focus on killing Koro-sensei, not on dating!

Slow down, Chiba ordered himself. She just has a crush on you, no need to move suddenly into a relationship.

And when Chiba finally sat down, Hiraoka got the distinct feeling that her date's thoughts were elsewhere.

The rest of Chiba's date passed uneventfully, as no one tried to stab someone else with a pair of scissors.

Karma, Nakamura, Maehara and even Isogai didn't give Hayami a break and bombed her with tons of questions concerning her relationship with Chiba. She refused to answer. In the end, they gave up, but Nakamura started offering Hayami love advice she got from Bitch-sensei.

"Look, they saw food is the way to a man's heart, why don't you-"

"Why don't you shut up." Hayami was too grouchy to be polite. That was the most emotionally draining day Hayami had ever experienced. And most people thought she had no emotions!

Nakamura pouted. "Y'know, I heard from Kurahashi who heard from Yada that Bitch-sensei says you should dress more boldly to be more attractive to boys."

No reply from Hayami.

"Look, this has been fun, but I think Hayami has enough," Isogai said, managing a grin. "We aren't going to get anything out of her."

"I can blackmail you with that photo with you flipping your hair." Nakamura pestered.

Still no reply. Hayami was mentally debating whether having an embarrassing photo of her out or having to admit her feelings was worse.

"Hayami, since I did you a favour by bounding you from killing someone, can you do me a favor too?" Karma asked suddenly, eyes too wide and innocent.

Hayami regarded with him with suspicion. "It's fine, so long it doesn't involve me dressing in a maid outfit or a magical girl outfit. Or any outfit actually."

Karma's grin grew wider. "How did you know what I want do?"

Oh, this is bad. Hayami thought to herself, sighing. This is very bad.

Next morning, Chiba and Hayami walked to the campus together as usual. Chiba noticed that Hayami seemed rather subdued.

"Chiba, I…" Hayami began, looking up at him. "I think I have been rather rude to you yesterday. I didn't mean some things I said… I'm sorry."

"It's okay." Chiba answered lightly.

"And… and I wasn't mad at you. I was mad at myself." Hayami confessed. "I was being stupid yesterday," she added quietly, more to herself than Chiba.

Chiba heard her. "What stupid thing did you do?" He asked curiously and leaned closer.

Hayami felt herself flaming up. "Nothing." She had spent the whole night analyzing her feelings for Chiba. After some careful consideration, she decided to hide her crush the best she could and hopefully forget about it.

"If you say so," Chiba said, looking at the girl carefully. Hayami looked away to prevent herself from blushing.

She's kinda cute when she's being a tsundere, Chiba smiled.

Hayami was yelling at herself. Stop the blushing! We can just be friends, nothing more! She managed to arrange her face into her usual passive expression.

They passed by some students from the main campus. One pointed to them discreetly and whispered to his companion, "Whoa, two kids from Class E dating? Is that even possible?"

Here we go again, both Chiba and Hayami thought in unison. The daily assumptions and questions. It was even worse for Chiba because of his date yesterday.

"Ooh, it's him!" Came a very audible whisper. Chiba groaned internally and saw Hiraoka with her friends. Said girl was shying away from him while her friends jabbered non-stop. "Ask him out again!" one whispered. Hiraoka shook her head frantically. The girl sighed dramatically. "Well, I'll ask him for you." "No!" Hiraoka squeaked, shaking her head.

Hayami frowned. It seemed like history was repeating itself. And she wouldn't let it happen again. Nor would she let her yandere side out again.

"Hey, Chiba, are you free this afternoon?" Hayami asked while walking closer to Chiba (they usually walked with a sizable distance between them). "Same time, same place?"

"Oh, sure." Chiba answered, knowing she wanted to go to the shooting arcade. He was also mildly surprised by her boldness. Chiba was reminded of Hayami stalking him yesterday but he didn't mention it. But he still couldn't figure out who shot that paintball and why.

Hiraoka's friend walked up to them confidently. "Is she your girlfriend?" She asked bluntly to Chiba, gesturing at Hayami.

"No." Chiba said, while his mind screamed please go away I don't like talking to strangers. "We're just friends." He added, saying the same words he had said to a lot of people before.

"Oh. I see." She bounded back to Hiraoka. "Too bad, he's busy." She muttered to Hiraoka.

Chiba watched suspiciously as Hayami drifted closer to him, eyes straight forward. He noted a tiny smirk on her face. Her eyes had a resemblance to her bloodlust-filled eyes back in training yesterday.

Chiba suddenly wondered if she had shot the paintball.

The sniper duo walked forward, approaching the stairs they had to walk every day to school. The other students made their way to the main campus.

Just before they stepped on the stairs, Hayami turned and glared at Hiraoka and her friends, eyes shimmering with bloodlust. The other girls turned pale and instantly got her meaning.

Don't get close to him.

Hayami whipped her head back and continued up the stairs as if nothing had happened. Chiba didn't question her.

They were almost at the top of the stairs when Hayami spoke. "Can you promise me a thing?"

"Sure." Chiba answered.

"Promise me that I'll always be your sniping partner no matter what. I mean," Hayami continued. "You can pair up with other people but I'll always be your real partner."

Chiba thought it was a strange thing to ask, but didn't object. "Okay, I promise."

Hayami's lip curled up.

"Good."

Somewhere behind, Maehara, Isogai, Kataoka and Okano walked up the stairs, Nakamura, Karma and Nagisa behind them.

"Maehara, you wanna practice handling knives after school today?" Isogai asked. "Karasuma-sensei said he might teach us to throw knives."

"Sorry," Maehara said cheekily. "I have a date today." Isogai sighed, his friend could never change.

"Really?" Okano asked, ice cold. "Didn't you have a date like the day before yesterday?" Her voice was sharp and biting.

"Well babe," Maehara grinned. "A lot of girls crave after me. It can't be helped when I'm so attractive." He winked flirtatiously at Okano. Isogai and Kataoka simultaneously facepalmed.

"Oh, I see." Fire slowly burnt inside Okano, eyes going dark. She stopped walking and her hands clenched into a fist.

"Hinata-chan? Are you okay?" Kataoka asked, concerned for her friend.

"I'm fine all right." Okano smiled, but it was the same chilling smile Hayami had yesterday.

Nakamura gulped. "Here we go again," she said softly to Karma.

Nagisa cocked his head, confused. "Umm, what?"

He never got an answer. Karma's golden eyes traced Okano's form, a smirk slowly spreading across his face. He and Nakamura were thinking the same thing.

Another yandere.

A/N: Thank you for the reviews, follows and favs! They mean a lot to me! :) And although this short story "Yandere Sniper" is finished, by no means am I finished with writing ChibaHaya stuff! This will expand to a oneshot/drabble series about ChibaHaya, because this fandom needs more of it.

And as always, please read and review! Thanks!