Hey, everyone, thanks for reading up to this point~!! :D

Oh yeah, someone voted again! Thanks to that~one! Yes, re-voting is allowed. And here's the scoreboard again:

Mukuro/Kaia: 8 [and 5 re-votes from Shin] [one of the votes are from Shoko-Chan, and she re-votes twice]

Mukuro/Kaia with a Hibari twist: 1 [and 3 re-votes from Shoko-Chan]

Gokudera/Kaia: 4 [and 1 1/2 re-votes from Shin] [another re-vote from Crazee4anime]

Hibari/Haruka: 2 [and another re-vote from Shin]

Yamamoto/Chrome: 2 [and 2 re-votes from Shin] [and a re-vote from Banyou]

Hibari/Kaia: 3 [a re-vote from that~one]

Belphegor/Kaia: 2

Soto/Kaia: 1

Byakuran/Kaia: 1

Xanxus/Kaia: 1

Thanks for the reviews, everyone! I've been really happy reading them all. Heh.

Happy Reading, everyone, and please review~!!

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"Well, you've finished two worksheets already!!" cheered Kaia. She yawned. "And it's nearly ten… I should be getting home…" Kaia looked to Gokudera. "But I can't leave if you're still here." Her eyes drooped from exhaustion.

"Ahh, Juudaime, is it okay if I go now?" asked Gokudera. Tsuna nodded and yawned.

"I think I should get to bed too then…"

"Then I'll be going too!" smirked Yamamoto. "I'll see you guys tomorrow morning for school then~!" He stood up, as Kaia stood up, along with Gokudera.

"Jaa, good night," smiled Kaia. She stretched and yawned again. "I'll be seeing you guys later then, hmmm? Tomorrow's school, right?" She looked around and left the room, along with Yamamoto.

"See you later, Juudaime!!" beamed Gokudera, and with a wave, he left as well.

"Dame-Tsuna," called Reborn.

"Eh-" Tsuna turned his head.

*thwack*

"W-What was that for?!" complained Tsuna, rubbing his head.

"Two worksheets, two and a half hours?! That's a new record, I'm sure," remarked Reborn. He sighed. "Get to work. If you don't finish by 11, lock-down tomorrow."

"ACK!" paled Tsuna. He was deathly afraid of lock-downs, and he had one only once. A lock-down was when Reborn locks Tsuna in his room to do what the tutor says, surrounded with various dangerous and lethal traps and explosives. And on top of that, each of the explosives have timers.

And by now, Tsuna had learned that not all timers were accurate. And that led to the time the bombs that exploded half an hour after the timer hit zero, and other bombs that went BOOM an hour before Doomsday.

"Get to work!!" ordered Reborn, shaking Tsuna from his daydreaming.

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"Oii, Yamamoto-san~? Your dad runs the Takesushi shop, right?" blinked Kaia. "I've heard of it…" She looked up at Yamamoto, who was at her right. Gokudera walked on silently to her left.

"Really?" Yamamoto smiled down at her. "Drop by sometime then, okay?" Kaia looked uneasy. Gokudera clenched his teeth but continued walking as if nothing happened.

"Well…I don't know exactly where it is…" Kaia frowned. Yamamoto chuckled.

"Oh yeah, you're sort of new here in Namimori, right? I can take you there after school, if you want."

"As if she'd want to come after school, baseball idiot!!" Gokudera rolled his eyes. "She still didn't finish all her make-up homework, anyway."

"Y-Yeah…" nodded Kaia. She lowered her gaze back to her eye level, back to see what was in front of her. Nothing was perceivable aside from street lights, walls, and various vegetation peeking up over the brick walls.

Ushi-shi-shi-shi…

She suddenly halted.

So principessa got bodyguards?

Gokudera and Yamamoto, both confused and surprised, stopped as well, one step ahead of Kaia.

That's so cruel, considering that I wanted to see you again…

U-shi-shi-shi-shi…

I'll be back then, principessa~~

"I-It's the prince…" whispered Kaia. Both Guardians turned to face Kaia in confusion.

"What do you mean?" Gokudera's eyes were narrowed angrily. "What do you mean by the prince?"

"Y-You didn't hear that?" blinked Kaia. She looked back into the gloom. "I'm pretty sure I heard something…" Something like words, like…that.

"Oh well, it might just be a bird with a nightmare," shrugged Yamamoto. He looked around cautiously. "Are you okay though, Kaia?"

"Y-Yeah, I'm fine," Kaia shrugged it off a little nervously and continued to walk, head bowed and in deep thought. Gokudera was concerned, however hid it well. If Yamamoto suspected as well, he's likely to voice it to Juudaime, of course.

They continued to walk in silence. Nothing else happened, but Kaia was still on edge. They came to a crossroads, and street lights intertwined with each other's light. It was a spotlight, in a way, and the three stood in its center. Kaia was visibly nervous.

"Jaa, it's time for me to part ways, Gokudera, Kaia," smiled Yamamoto. "I'll see you guys tomorrow, then!" With a last smile, he turned and disappeared into the gloom, walking down the right fork. Kaia gave him a small good-bye smile, and it gradually disappeared as he left her in the light. Gokudera looked down to Kaia.

"Come on, it's time we got home, too," Gokudera said gently. "It's late, too, and tomorrow's school. Come on." Kaia looked up, fear stubbornly refusing to leave her heart.

Is he…one of them, too?

She sighed and nodded as if she were very tired, as Gokudera's arm found itself on Kaia's shoulder.

"Come on."

And they walked on.

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That was really creepy. :]

Heh, cute ending. :D

Anyway, please review! And that~one, Hibari/Kaia will be coming, so please have some patience. :]

Have an awesome summer [break] everyone! :D