Well, here's scene 45~! :D

Again, a few more updates for today! –to cram-

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Hibari yawned. He was sitting comfortably on the school roof, taking everything in for the millionth time. He looked around as Hibird came stumbling to his side and chirped. Hibari raised an eyebrow. His pet was mauled by something that looked like claws…

It probably had its first encounter with a cat, perhaps.

The bird chirped a few more times, and climbed up to Hibari's shoulder, chirping affectionately.

"Did you?" Hibari raised an eyebrow and picked up the bird, detaching the small microphone from its leg. He smiled to himself, pleased with the information he had in that little chip in that microphone. Hibird chirped again, and, with it perched on his shoulder, Hibari calmly walked inside to the Reception Room to extract the information the chip contained.

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The computer's screen flickered on, and Hibari inserted the chip in the dock. A program popped open, and as Hibari was all too familiar with this hacking device, he immediately set to work. It wasn't long until he had extracted the information and de-coded it. He pressed the "Open" button, and the voice recording began to play.

"Kaia……t-Sh-sh… dead… goddammit!…rin-ring…lem-em…dea-de…sume-a-assume…" The rest of the recording was all fuzzy and static. Hibari figured it was because it was damaged when Hibird was being mauled by that cat… But he did know one thing – something was up about Kaia and death.

Could she be dead? Could that carnivore…?

The President of the Disciplinary Committee smiled crazily to himself.

No…would it be?

He frowned. He had gotten a packet of papers he didn't even glance at some time ago at the beginning of the school day. Something about…

Hibari dived to the stack of papers on his desk, flipping through them like a maniac. Then, he pulled out one of them, and it read:

"Raiahu Kaiashi – request: will not be attending Namimori Middle for an undetermined number of days."

He paused. It was certainly suspicious, of course. It was a copy of something from the principal early that morning. He frowned, and marched out to demand from the principal what it was all about and who had requested this skipping of school.

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"Reborn – how's Kaia?" frowned Tsuna, just leaving the hospital, flanked by Yamamoto and Gokudera.

"She's probably fine," snarled Gokudera. "She's not worth being so fussed over – she's too normal to be in anything even close to dangerous."

"Kaia hasn't been coming to school much," noted Yamamoto. "She's only gone for two days the past week since she came."

"And then there's Hibari's battle today," blinked Tsuna. "I hope he isn't going to lose…" He sighed. "Even if he is that strong, what if…"

"Like that's going to happen!" Gokudera beamed. "Hibari isn't going to lose – you heard what Dino-san said!" Tsuna cheered up a little, but Reborn snapped them back to reality.

"Tsuna, you have to complete your training today, like I told you."

"Oh yeah – Gokudera, Yamamoto, I'll see you guys later then," Tsuna gave his two Guardians a small parting smile and followed Reborn in another direction, to continue training.

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Ahh. Hibari finds out. Hehhhhh. :D

Tune in for next scene, everyone, and sit tight~!

Have an awesome week, everyone!