Chapter 8: This is Halloween
Namimori Middle School had undergone a major transformation. The halls were lined with fake spiderwebs, and flashing lights bright enough to induce seizures. Eerie music played around every corner, and teachers dressed as the century's best scares jumped out of closets. It was a haven for creeps. The dark atmosphere was goaded on by those dreary enough to blend into the shadows. KT's mood shifted once she stepped into the hallway. "I love Halloween..."
Habira fixed the tiara on her head. "They outdid themselves this year..."
Tsuna kept his eyes fixed on the doors, knowing one was going to open. Sure enough, a teacher jumped from the shadow of an open door. He jumped, but succeeded in suppressing a scream. Habira grabbed onto him, she was quaking with fright. He exhaled, and felt instantly stronger. ~"You have the strength to suppress the fear, and protect those you care for..."~ The voice echoed in his mind. He wanted to respond, but he had a feeling he wouldn't get a reply. KT set a hand on his shoulder. She was smiling."Let's keep moving, TC is probably already stealing the spotlight."
He nodded. They continued on until they reached the gym. Music leaked through the cracks in the door, the song "Monster Mash" was playing. They walked in. The scene looked like a scary movie in Tsuna's mind, all the innocent people dressed up, and an apparent evil hidden within the crowd. And, as KT had said, TC was the center of attention. "I've got a party at home tonight...I'll come back for you later, okay?"
He looked at her. "You're...leaving?"
She nodded. "I'll be back, though. It'll be fine."
"Okay..."
She left him with Habira. "Let's go over to TC..."
"Okay..."
They walked over to him as he charmed the girls in the crowd. "Hey, Tsunayoshi! How you doing?" He put his arm around Tsuna's shoulders. "Ladies, you know Tsunayoshi, don't you?"
~This was probably a bad idea...~
-Oh relax, Tsunayoshi...- "Obviously you do. How could you not?"
A slow, relaxing song went on. A teacher grabbed a mic. "Alright, grab a partner. It's time for the Halloween slow dance."
TC pushed Tsuna toward Habira. -Good luck, and don't screw it up!-
He blushed. "W-would you like to dance? With me, I mean..."
She smiled. "Mhm..." She took his hands, and led him away from TC a ways. They danced slowly under a dim light. "I-I don't really dance..."
"I love to dance...it makes me feel free..." She twirled out, still grasping his hand. "You're doing very well..." She moved back in. "You can't tell me you've never danced before..."
He gave a sheepish smile. "Actually, I haven't..."
"Really?"
"Mhm..."
The song ended.
An hour passed. Tsuna was sitting on a bench outside the gym. He was watching the stars. He heard the gym door open, then close. He looked over, hoping it was Habira who had gone inside for drinks. He saw one of Ty's subordinates walking his way. Tsuna tried to act occupied with his suit. "Hey Dame-Tsuna..." The kid sat next to him and placed his arm around his shoulders roughly. "What are you doing out here all alone? Did that girl stand you up?"
He flinched away. "No..."
The kid laughed. "What a weakling! A no-good like you will always be alone. You know why? It's easier for you to be jumped."
Tsuna squeaked, and ran from the kid. He was followed into the courtyard by the rest of them, and Ty stood in the center. Tsuna stopped running and stared. He was surrounded. "Well, Dame-Tsuna...it's time for your welcome back ceremony." He pulled a knife from his jacket pocket. The other kids did as well. ~"Tsuna! Get out of there now!"~
~I can't!~
Ty slashed at Tsuna, getting him in the arm. He screamed into the quiet night.
[Meanwhile]
Habira walked back out of the gym. "Tsuna-san, sorry for the..." She noticed he had disappeared. "Tsuna-san?" She ran to the bench. "AHHHH!" She heard the scream in the chilly night's air. She dropped the drinks and ran back inside. "TC!" She ran up to him. "TC, Tsuna-san is in trouble!"
TC waved away his posee. "What kind of trouble?"
"I don't know! I heard him scream from the other side of the school..."
"I'm on it...he's probably got himself lost in a maze or something..." -Damnit, Tsunayoshi!-
[Back]
Tsuna sat on the ground, holding his arm. The group was getting closer to him. "You're so weak!"
He shoved his hand into his suit pocket. He pulled the gun that TC had given him. "S-stand back!"
Ty snorted, then laughed aloud. "You're trying to pull off that thing for a real gun? Please!"
His hands were shaking, and he stood up. "I'll pull the trigger...I will..."
A kid behind him kicked his shin, making his knee collapse. His finger hit the trigger, and it fired. One boy fell to the ground in pain, his arm bleeding. The others backed up. TC heard the gunshot. "Oh shit...he actually used it!" He teleported behind a bush in the courtyard. Tsuna dropped the gun out of fear, and sat completely on the ground. His entire body was shaking.
[At the house]
KT felt something wasn't right. TC...what's going on?
-Uhh...nothing, really...why?-
She got up from her seat. "Hey, I need to end this early...something has come up that I have to deal with."
Her friends left. She shook her head and sighed. "I can not believe I am about to do this. Oh, I hope I get there in time." She took off her heels and pinned her hair up. She closed her eyes and got into a track runner position. Then, in a snap, she lifted her head up and opened her bright green eyes. She slowly stood, bringing her arms straight out beside her like a "T". "Oh how I hate what he gets Tsuna into."
[Back]
Tsuna stared at the boy on the ground, tears running down his face out of fear. ~O-oh no...I-I shot him!~ He felt someone jump behind him. He looked up at the older form of TC. "Get up, Tsunayoshi."
"I-I shot him...I didn't mean to..."
"We'll talk about this later...get UP!"
He stood, his legs buckling underneath him. "Drink this..." He handed him a can of Pepsi.
Tsuna took it, confused. "Drink it...what is that going to do?"
"Don't argue, just drink it!"
"O-okay!" He opened the can, and started to drink. He finished it, and felt a surge of power. "W-what..."
He burped, and in a flash of light, he was instantly transformed into his other half, Tsune. He cracked his knuckles. "Oh yeah...it's time to kick some ass..." His cape whipped as he stalked up to a pair of boys. "Now you'll learn what happens when you mess with the wrong people..." He grabbed one kid, and threw him against the other. "Two down...the leader to go..."
TC ran after two others. KT made it to the school and hid behind a tree just in time to see Tsune face off with Ty and TC with the other boys in his clutches. "Shit! Are fucking kidding me! TC!" KT's eyes turned a dark emerald as she stood on the side walk and stomped her foot on the ground, making the pavement move towards them like the inching of a worm. She looked at TC, giving him the death stare, then turned back to Tsune and Ty. At the top of her lungs she screamed, "STOP!"
At that instantaneous moment, a lightning bolt screeched out of the sky sprawling and hitting the ground between Tsune and Ty, leaving a massive hole. Tsune jumped back and remembered such happening from his "child hood" training. "Oh shit! I am not going through this again. I know the out come and it's not good!"
He tried to get away, but he only got about 20 feet away from the scene before KT grabbed him by the neck, her hand right under his chin and her fingers at the pressure points under is ears.
"Where do you think you're going?" She pushed the pressure points on his neck, turning him back into Tsuna, paralyzed, but Tsune still in control. She saw the fear in his eyes as she dropped him on the ground under a tree. "You are staying right here while I deal with that!" KT pointed at the Godzilla sized TC with the "tyrants" between his fingers yelling "Who Wants To Go First." She looked back at Tsune glaring, "Now stay put and don't you DARE try to move!"
She grabbed the branch over head, and perched on it like a hawk. She then jumped into the wind and within a second, she landed 20 feet away and started yelling at TC.
"Damn she is pissed!" Tsune said to him self. "Why does this seem so oddly familiar?" He thought for a second. "Wait a minute! The lighting, the thunder, the rain, and KT's mood... Now I remember, sort of..."
~Flashback~
"Today is going to be a great day!" said the weather man on the radio. "The sun is shinning and not a cloud in sight"
He was broadcasting live from the park. "So take your family, friends, and head to the nearest park and have a picnic! If you're a teacher, take you class outside to learn. Don't just sit inside, do something on this magnificent and luxurious day!"
It was about 11:30-11:45 in the morning and KT had just been let out of school. She had some time to spare before Tsuna went to lunch. She decided to drop by the music store to get a few CD's and to talk to the guy from her school that she had been crushing on on for some time now. She walked in the store a smiled at the sight of Tairā? at the cash register. She walked over to the Alternative-punk section and picked out a couple CD's and the new releases of the ones she already had, then walked to the counter to check out. "Hey Tairā?," she said placing the CD's on the glass counter top.
"Huh? Oh, hey Kera-Taka. What's up?" He glanced up at her as he scanned the CD's. "
"I'm great. Just killin' some time before I have to go and eat lunch with Tsuna. What about you? How have you been? You seem kind of shocked to see me," she said with a little worried look on her face as she pulled her wallet out of her purse, retrieving her credit card. "OH, ain't Tsuna that little Dame-Wimp you babysit all the time? And I'm doing fine actually. I have a girl friend, today is our two week anniversary. I was surprised to see you considering who my girlfriend is!"
KT looked at him "OH a-a girl friend" Her hand had begun to fidget "So who is the l-lucky lady?" Her voice rose and she clenched her teeth.
"Well... if you must know..."
+Dling Dling+
The door to the shop opened, and in walked Litritha Teethermen. "Here she is now! Hey baby, you're early!"
He gave her a hug and kiss as she walked behind the counter. KT's eyes started changing multiple shades of green.
"H-Hello Litritha, long time no see. How is my ex-best friend and the baby?" She gave her a smirk. Litritha gave her an evil, wide eyed stare as if to say: "What Have You Done Kera-Taka, What Have You Done?". KT snatched the bag off the counter, and turned quickly heading for the door, making her skirt spin. She reached the door as the sky out side darkened with giant gloomy rain clouds making the day time look like night. "Tsuna is neither a Dame nor a wimp," she said, and her eyes flashed deep green. "You will regret saying that cause he'll save ya'lls ass one day. Oh and Litritha, tell my god daughter I send love her way." She left the store as rain began to fall. She climbed into her car and stared at the couple inside the store. Her eye started to twitch a little before the first tear rolled down her cheek as she started the car. "You better watch your back, Litritha, because I will be back." KT said to her self as she stared at the couple in side the store arguing.
She gripped the steering wheel, turned off the radio as she looked at her clock. It was now 12:00pm and Tsuna's class was getting ready for lunch. Taking a deep breath she puffed as she started to cry, the rain starting to fall harder. Puffing again backing out of the parking lot and on to the road, she made the lights in the store explode scaring the living hell out of the couple. She pulled in to the parking lot of the school as the rain poured, the thunder crashed, and the lighting flashed. She took out her cell phone and called the front office pretending to be Nana here to check Tsuna out of school. Tsuna got in the car and noticed that KT was crying. "KT is every thing alright?" Tsuna asked buckling his seatbelt.
"Oh, yes I'm fine. I guess. Why do you ask?" she said pulling out of the parking lot and heading in the opposite way the house.
"It's just that the weather always matches the mood you are in. It's as if your mood controls how the day is going to turn out. Why is that KT?" Tsuna asked looking at her. KT laughed a little and smiled.
"I don't really know why it's that way, it just is." KT wiped the tears off her face as she drove onto the highway. "I guess mother nature just choose me to determine what the weather is for that day." She said faking a smile as she glanced at Tsuna. "Oh. Okay KT." Tsuna set his seat back and enjoyed the ride. KT drove and drove till she found a town far enough away that she could calm down. She parked the car at the bottom of a mountain, looked over and found Tsuna asleep. She got out and hiked through the woods in the rain, leaving Tsuna in the car to sleep. She climbed to the very top of the mountain and sat there crying and thinking until she felt as if she could finally return home and not have to worry about anything. Until she felt that the worst was over. And there, at the top of the mountain, she planned her revenge.
~End Flashback~
Both TC and Tsune were tied to the tree. "Okay...explain to me why two grown men were beating on 7th graders!"
"They had knives! Seventh graders should not have knives in their pockets!"
Tsune shook his head. "They said it was their 'welcome back ceremony'...they were going to kill him! Now, I don't know about you, but I wasn't going to sit back and watch that happen! 7th graders or not, they're murderers!"
"It doesn't matter...just bring Tsuna back...you've put enough strain on his body."
She got a slight stare, then he disappeared, thus bringing Tsuna back. She untied him from the tree and held him. She felt his tears wet her shoulder. "Tsuna..."
"I...I shot him...I didn't mean to..."
"What are you talking about?"
He pointed behind her, and she turned to look. "I...didn't mean to shoot him...I fell and my finger hit the trigger..."
He was shaking in complete and utter fear. "Calm down, Tsuna..."
From down the road sirens blared, and from the tree, someone jumped. "What happened here?"
KT looked over at Hibari. "Tsuna was being jumped."
TC appeared next to her in his younger form. "I saw it! They had knives! Look at his arm! The one you should punish here is Ty!"
"What of the herbivore over there?"
"Self defense."
Hibari sighed. "Go home...I'll deal with this."
"Thank you, Kyouya-san..." She felt Tsuna's steady breathing. "We appreciate it."
"Go. The police are here."
TC snapped and all three were transported home.