Yellow Lies
Disclaimer: Katekyo Hitman Reborn! nor its characters does not belong to me.
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AiYui: Yoh~ and a good day to all~! :)
Ai: Chapter Seven is a complete filler chapter!
BUT! This chapter presents one of the many weaknesses of my beloved Ryumi.
AiYui: Hope you enjoy~! :)
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(Yellow Lies happened after the Varia arc)
+Chapter Seven: Stumble down, down…
One sunny school day, we again direct our eyes on this eccentric house with odd family members. But, the only thing that differentiates this day from the other days is that…
"MIKURA-SAN, STAND UP!!!"
"No, I can't… I don't know how…" Ryumi was apparently glued to the floor of her room, certainly showing that she doesn't want to stand up.
She was already wearing her school uniform and her bag was arranged and ready, only she was not.
"Who are you anyway…?" she added.
Hiroshi's jaw dropped and he also went pale.
"Mikura-san…!" he then finally got back to himself again. His voice was faltering, as if he indeed does not know of what the hell is going on with Ryumi. "Come on, don't joke around!!"
Ryumi stared at him blankly. "Who is Mikura?"
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"I WANT TO GO HOME!!!"
"Shh, keep quiet Mikura-san; you are disturbing other homes!"
Hiroshi was now finally on his way to school with Ryumi. The only thing is that this brown-haired girl is being dragged around and was hesitant.
"I don't care, Hiroshi-san!" So she finally remembered who this dude is…
"I don't want to go to school, I don't want to walk, and I don't want to be dragged around— I WANT to GO home!!!"
He didn't mind this fourteen-year old showing her senseless and childish tantrums. Instead, he continued to walk forward, showing no signs of submissiveness to the demanding girl.
"Let me go!" she shouted once again.
And this scene continued on, people around were looking at them suspiciously, especially at Hiroshi. It's as if he was a kidnapper.
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"I WA—"
"We are already at school, Mikura-san!" Hiroshi happily announced.
"I wanna go home…" she muttered sulkily.
"Come on, stand up straight now…" Hiroshi advised her as he was pulling her up. "It is very unwomanly to act like a senseless child."
"You are saying that I'm a 'senseless child'?" she asked on impulse.
Now, Hiroshi got off-guard there…
"What are the both of you there doing when you should go to your rooms already?"
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"Ah, H-Hibari-san…sorry. We are actually about to go upstairs… Sorry." He apologized nervously.
Kyouya glared at them, especially at Ryumi who was already forming tears in her eyes.
She stared at him blankly, as if not remembering who this black-haired boy was, what he can do, and what he had recently did to her.
"I hate herbivores…especially when they show their pathetic weak side."
Then when Kyouya appeared to walk away, he actually gathered force then hit Ryumi right on the face.
"Wha—Kyouya-san!" Hiroshi gasped and immediately ran to help Ryumi get back to her feet.
"That's for herbivores showing weakness…especially for a nest-head girl like her; she's pathetic." Then he walked away.
While he was doing so, Ryumi sat up and wiped the blood on the side of her lip.
Kyouya thought that she would fight back.
But he was wrong.
Instead, Ryumi sniffed. Her lips wet with fresh blood slowly turned concave. Her lips crinkled and her eyebrows met in a heightened angle.
Then she sobbed.
"Wh-What was that for, you war freak crow-head?!" she stammered as she apparently tried not to cry. That is, even if tears were already trailing down her cheeks…
What happened to this nest-head? , Kyouya thought quietly. "Hmph." He grunted then walked away.
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"Ah, Mikura-san…? It's just a cut, why are you—"
"It hurts!!!" she swiftly defended her self.
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Later that day, inside Class 2A…
"I want to go home… Where exactly am I…?"
"Are you saying something, Ms. Giallo?" the teacher in front asked.
Ryumi didn't respond. Instead, she kept on resting her head on her desk. A black gloomy atmosphere surrounds her and she was apparently lifeless.
"Alright then; since you look so happy today, why won't you answer the problem on the board?" the teacher said sarcastically. Then he added so to balance the positive and negative atmosphere, "I think you can and you always can, right?"
Ryumi's face began to sink down deeper. Depression was written all around her face but, even if she does not seem to care about anything at all (even herself); she stood up and proceeded to answering the problem written on the board.
"Give the equation that will have the roots -2 and -6."
…silence abounds the whole room…
Ryumi, even if she obviously didn't want to, closed her eyes then started writing…
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In the middle of writing a solution, Ryumi suddenly asked a question.
"How many solutions do you want, Sensei? One or two?"
The teacher seemed pleased. He took out a heavy sigh as if saying that even if she appeared not to be listening, she actually understood what to do.
If only he knew what kind of person Ryumi is…
"Give me two solutions." was the teacher's reply.
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Hmph, such a show off… That bitch who aims to be Juudaime's right-hand woman… I'll get back on her someday, when Juudaime's not looking…, Hayato thought furiously.
And I thought Mikura-san was out of her mind this morning! She is actually solving quadratic equations! , thought Hiroshi while gazing steadily at her writing in front.
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"First Solution:
X2 – (r1 + r2) x + (r1) (r2) = 0
X2 – (-2 – 6) x + (-2) (-6) = 0
X2 + 8x + 12 = 0
*just substitute the roots to the formula then solve
Second solution:
(x+2) (x+6) = 0
X2 + 8x + 12 = 0
*give the opposite sign of the given roots then place it in a factoring method. Then use FOIL (first, outside, inside, and last terms) method to get the needed quadratic equation."
After solving that, she went straight to her seat then sulked in her place again.
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"Okay, your answer is correct, Ms. Giallo. Now, let's continue our discussion—Mr. Gokudera, is anything wrong about her answer?" The teacher noticed the intelligent student's annoyed expression in his face.
"None." Hayato replied nonchalantly. Hmph, show off bitch.
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Breaktime~!
"Hey, Mikura-sa—" Tsuna suddenly got cut off of his statements.
"No, Juudaime!" Hayato was doing some hand signals to show that Ryumi shouldn't be approached by anyone or they'll get hurt. "This woman is dangerous! She might bite!"
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"AHAHA!!!" Takeshi laughed heartily.
"What's so funny, you baseball freak?!" Hayato demanded, looking rather pissed off by the other's laughter.
"I thought Hibari-san was the only person that can bite!"
*sweat drops…*
"Anyway, Juudaime, how about we eat already?" Hayato offered.
Tsuna glanced at Ryumi then muttered, "O-okay…"
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"I thought you don't want and cannot do anything at all?" Hiroshi asked Ryumi while the latter was resting motionless on her desk.
"It was a mathematical problem; no way in hell I can resist it."
"Oh…" he interjected in amazement. "Oh yeah, Mikura-san…"
"I want to go home… I have to find it…" she muttered repeatedly again.
And when I actually thought that she was already back to her senses… "What 'it'?"
Instead of a decent answer, all Hiroshi got was repeated murmurings of "I want to go home…", "I have to find it…" and "I'll be dead for sure…"
"Guess I will not know anything from you, eh?" he remarked. "Anyway, the Prefect wants to see you later dismissal."
"I don't care to any damned hellish thing he says…" she mumbled in between her silent tantrums.
"Hey don't speak of the Prefect like that! You might get beaten up!"
"…he is just as cursed as his brutality, anyway…"
"Mikura-san!"
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Later dismissal, Ryumi was rather lightening up, but still in a low mood.
"I'm finally going home… but can I find it?"
"What are you looking for, nest-head?"
Ryumi turned around, and then saw no one else but the feared Hibari Kyouya.
"Hi-Hiroshi-san…?" Ryumi turned to her sides to see where her companion is in this time of dilemma.
"He's home already… I sent him away."
Ryumi pouted. "So what would a cursed crow want from a broken nest? There's no food to be bitten, crow.
Besides, I want to go home already, please let me go home… I have to find it."
"It, eh?" Kyouya repeated slyly. His eyes narrowed then said with an outstretched arm, "Is this stupid herbivore's trash yours?"
His hand opened, and a choker made of red silk with Victorian laces was seen dangling from his fingers.
"Th-that's…" Ryumi's eyes beamed and glittered. Her faced expressed much joy, as suggested also by her lightening mood.
"…mine!" she shouted as she tried to snatch the dangling choker from the Iinchou's hand.
But Kyouya retracted his hand in time, so as the little cat not to reach her toy.
With that action, Ryumi had almost fallen face-down on the ground. Luckily, she got composed and prevented that shameful act.
"You think I will give this to you just like that, nest-head?" he asked seriously.
"Hai, Iinchou!!!"
"You look stupid." He remarked casually. We can't blame him; Ryumi really looked stupid back there.
"Anyway, you owe this to me. I will give this to you without any hesitation but, remember that you have a debt to pay."
"Hai~, Iinchou~!!!" Ryumi nodded like a pathetic dog.
Kyouya stretched his hand again, giving the little girl her choker.
Once she got hold of it, she immediately started to walk home.
Then she stopped.
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"Iinchou… where and when did you get this?" she asked without even facing him.
"Back when we fought. Inside your bag."
"You certainly know that it's a violation of rules of this school and of humanity, right?"
"You are not even human."
"That's not the point."
Kyouya then turned to the opposite side. "I don't want to hear a lowly nest-head's sentiments."
"Nor do I for a homeless crow."
After that, the both of them took a step, slowly and leisurely.
Then the both of them smirked.
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AiYui: What about it? Please tell me!
Ai: Maybe you noticed that I don't write long A/N's anymore… even if I really, really want to…
Anyway, this just came out of nowhere. It was when I was feeling a bit lazy planning for the next chapter's events.
The math equation? Yes, that's real. It was actually included in our quiz and I thought of including it here to add to the classroom effect.
Well, I don't know a thing about Japan's curriculum so I did a random insertion from our education here.
Ai: Hope you liked this filler chapter. (Even if all of what I write here is actually a filler!)
AiYui: So, ja ne, minna-san! :)
See ya next time! :)
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Disclaimer: Katekyo Hitman Reborn! nor its characters does not belong to me.