Ah, thanks so much for all the reviews, everyone!! xD
And for anyone confused about the same thing as meki was, I'll just directly quote from the review reply. xD
"Gokudera was referring to Kaia being the weakpoint. In essence, saying that Hibari is no longer a carnivore. But I don't think Hibari understood what Gokudera was getting at. He would, later on, though. ;] And yes, Gokudera is smart. How many tests have he aced already?! O.o"
There. Meki, I'm sure you can remember that from the review reply. I think that was a pretty good explanation. It explained what Gokudera meant. And I am in no way saying that Hibari isn't as smart. People think differently. Obviously, in Hibari terms, a carnivore doesn't think like an herbivore. xD
And since little-L.A.M. reviewed with a vote and a re-vote, here is the updated scoreboard~!!
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: 5 [and 1 1/2 re-votes from Shin] [another re-vote from Crazee4anime] [a re-vote from little-L.A.M.]
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: 4 [a re-vote from that~one]
Belphegor/Kaia: 3 [a re-vote from The Great Pineapple MEKI]
Soto/Kaia: 1
Byakuran/Kaia: 1
Xanxus/Kaia: 1
Woah. Hibari/Kaia overtook Bel/Kaia. And Hibari/Kaia even has a chance of overtaking even Gokudera/Kaia! Woah. If you want Bel/Kaia to overtake Hibari/Kaia again, vote! If you want to keep Hibari/Kaia in the lead, and make it work its way to the top of the list, vote! If you want any of the other pairing entries, VOTE!!
Ah, and since I only updated once yesterday, I should update more today. :]
So I might be updating the next scene as well. This one is rather short compared to the other ones before, but quite long compared to the early scenes. That reminds me. Readers, I am ready to listen to pleads for making scenes longer or shorter! Again, the average is about 850 now, I think, and the range is 400-1400 words. Review or PM me about it, if you want that to change, and I can or will change it. If nobody objects about what you want to change. PM-ers, if you want the suggestion to be private, please tell me about it. Or else it will be public. Everyone wants to know what's going to happen with the scene length. That means the amount of the story that I'll release every day.
I have a creeping feeling that people are going to come and scream at me to make it longer. O.o
In fact, that makes me feel pretty happy. ;D
Anyway, happy reading, everyone, and please review about anything you want to say or have to say about anything related or not related to anything about the story or me or anything at all! Length doesn't matter either, just REVIEW and/or VOTE!! xD
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The door slammed shut, and there was the sound of keys, locking the door. The skies outside were looking quite gloomy this morning – gloomy to the normal person's eyes. Kaia looked up to the skies – rather dark and stormy clouds hung in the horizon. She smiled a gloomy grin to herself and set off down the stairs. But she halted and looked back.
Usually Gokudera-san would be coming around now… I wonder why he isn't…?
Kaia's expression softened, and turned into one of guilt. She turned back to the stairs and set off to find her way to school.
Down in the neighborhood and the houses of students of Namimori Middle, Kaia walked through the grids of residences. She looked left and right – whenever she was on the right path, there would be more and more students joining them on the main road. She heard voices all around her – gossiping, talking, whispering. She turned a block, and down the other bend, there was Tsuna, Gokudera, Yamamoto, and Reborn all walking to school together. It was quite a distance, but Kaia could discern a few details from them, and of course, emotion.
It seems Tsuna stayed up quite late last night – he looked as if he were still half-asleep. Yamamoto was still himself. But Gokudera, he was forcing himself to be himself, but in reality, he was still hurt from yesterday. He was quite miserable on the inside.
But the Storm Guardian had good eyes; he looked in Kaia's direction. Kaia immediately looked away, as if she hadn't even been looking at them in the first place. She was walking alone – Sakura and Yuuki would have joined her, but they live on the other side of the school, therefore take different paths to school. She missed Haruka. By now, she knew that Haruka would just shrug off Kaia's existence and move on, with new friends.
She arrived at the gate of the school. This time, it was open, and streams of students piled in to get to class. Kaia walked into the campus, her inner self a little cheered up that she finally got to school by herself, and made a beeline to the classroom.
The gossiping was everywhere, even the classroom. But everyone stayed at quite a distance from Kaia; even Sakura and Yuuki were gossiping with a few other girls in the class that Kaia didn't know. It was as if Kaia wasn't even there. Everyone ignored her, but when she came near, the people would move away, or just ignore her until she moved on. Kaia sat down in her seat dejectedly and sighed. She looked around; people usually wouldn't be like this to her.
But nobody told her what was going on. Kaia looked out the window, the laid her head down, and buried her head in her arms to doze a bit before class.
All this talking…just go away! It's so annoying, just shut up! Kurosaaiiiii…
"Hi, Kaia!!" This jolted Kaia fully awake again.
"Hey, how're you doing?" beamed the baseball idiot, or Sword-person. The one with the sharp, scary-looking sword.
"Yamamoto-san…?" Kaia blinked. She looked away, burying her head in her arms again.
He's…no. He is, but, no. He's just pretending. He's after my life, but he's doing it for…them…
"Ehh? Kaia, you okay?" blinked Yamamoto. The class was eerily silent, all eyes staring at Kaia and Yamamoto. "Kaia~ Wake up." She stirred.
"Go away," Kaia laid her head down again. Now, her voice was muffled as she continued. "The entire class is staring at us." Yamamoto looked around the class. But just then, the bell rang, and the teacher strolled in. Everyone rushed back into their seats.
Class started.
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Yeah, that seemed pretty short. Compared with the Acts that I post with A Second Chance. Come to think of it, I still need to update that. Only thing keeping me from doing that is that even though I've written it down, I'm utterly stuck. I still should update anyway. It deserves it. I wrote it a long time ago anyway. And also – seems I can guess pretty accurately. O.o
You'll see why when I update. Later. When I get off of my butt to do it. Ugh, I really should. Also, come to think of it, I have a ton of junk fanfictions that I should be doing but I can't seem to go further with. I'm utterly stuck. Should I post them? Like a ton of discontinued previously-unposted fanfictions? That would bring my fanfiction story number up, but my words average down. Oh well, who cares. Wasted Life would bump that up already. As I said, I have like more than 50k words stacked up in scene 101. That would give me about two months of no writing. Not like I wouldn't write. xD
I'd probably come up with 50k more words by the end of that time. I hope. Or at least something. I don't want to get stuck in the story. D:
Okay, just stop listening to me rant on and on about this. Review!! ;]
Have an awesome summer [break] everyone!! xD
