Ahh~ Thanks, everyone, for the reviews!! :]

Since meki has asked what Kaia/Ria looks like, here it is, quoted from my reply to her:

"Compared to Tsuna, she'd be about the same height, I guess… Which is about Chrome's height as well. And I'm speaking in general. I don't know who's taller than who in terms of narrow margins of centimeters, but they're about the same height. Her hair is up to her shoulders, and is brown. Just plain brown. Natural beauty? All her features are average. Neither too much nor too less. And then I came across some news article saying that normal features are sometimes the prettiest. =.="

Also, just to add to that, her eyes are brown. Normal eyes. Ria's eyes are red – the Storm Flames are reflected in her eyes.

Since RemStrike78 has voted, here is the new 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] [a re-vote from RemStrike78]

Soto/Kaia: 1

Byakuran/Kaia: 1

Xanxus/Kaia: 1

Well, taking a look at the scoreboard, I think it's best if I wrap up Hibari/Kaia a little early so Bel/Kaia can come in. It isn't that wise to have seven guys going for the same girl at the same time. And love comes and goes. Who knows, Hibari could come back sooner than expected. :]

But even though I'm wrapping up Hibari/Kaia, doesn't mean that the romance would fall away. Much Hibari/Kaia fluff in parts of the story, but it would fade away in the next…two and a half months I think. Enough time for Hibari/Kaia, you think? And I still have to get to Gokudera/Kaia and Mukuro/Kaia.

No worries, still. I've got ten years on the timeline to work out seven guy's romances to the same girl. And everything else, too. xD

I don't think I should update more this time, since the next update would be a completely different pairing coming up.

And it's the first bit of probably the Mukuro/Kaia pairing's beginning. Don't be too excited, though; Kaia still hates all those people involved with the mafia. Never mind about the next update; that would be for tomorrow. Today, is this update.

So, read up! Don't listen to me rant anymore!

Happy Reading, and please review!!

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Kaia sighed. It was her fourth day eating alone since she asked Reborn to call her mom for money. And yet, she still has money. She had miraculously discovered a store of money somewhere in her apartment – it would probably last her a while. She had money enough to buy some food, but she wanted to ration it. No lunches. Breakfast is strictly some orange juice and some bread. Dinner, either out in the restaurants or at home to eat whatever she had. Snacks, whatever she had. Grocery shopping is for the weekend – and it wasn't the weekend, not yet.

She was still sitting at her desk – the bell had merely rung a few minutes before, and yet the classroom was virtually devoid of any life form. All students and staff had ushered out as quickly as they could, as if they wanted to get away from Kaia, as if she were some alien to be feared of. The noise from outside drifted in through the half-closed door.

Kaia stood up and looked around. The classroom was a plain one, nothing to be proud of. The blackboard was all dusty, some of the chalk still not dusted off. The teacher's desk is scattered with papers, a few boasting letter grades scribbled on in red ink. Dull wallpapers and projects decorated the otherwise blank and boring walls. The desks were all colored one monotonous color – brown. The chairs were all green, clean, and shiny. Kaia grew sick of seeing the same thing every day, and it wasn't right either.

She liked the feel of her old school, even though she's been only a week there. It felt more like home, like where she's supposed to be. There, all the students actually acknowledged her as one of them, one of the crowd. But here, she was like a foreigner, an outsider. Everyone shunned her from everything. She would never be one of them either. She didn't want to be one of them, the weirdos. She wanted to be normal. All she wanted was to be normal. She never asked for anything more, never asked for anything else.

Step by step, Kaia inched to the door again. She looked out the door, and she saw people, talking. Two girls and a guy. And on they chattered, about…

"You know that new transfer, right?"

"What's her name-"

"Raiahu, I think."

"Yeaah, Raiahu. She's…like…weird, isn't she?"

"Heard she came from the other city. Kokyou."

"The rich city?"

"No, the other one, dummy! The one with the destroyed amusement park that used to be a big hit a few years back, remember?"

"Ohhhh, that…"

A head turned. Kaia closed the door a little, so she couldn't be seen. She was hidden in the shadow now; she could only hear the conversation now.

"Isn't that Raiahu allowed to skip PE?"

"What?! That's not fair! We have to do multi-kilometer runs, and she gets to lounge about, doing nothing?!"

"Well, I don't know. Oh yeah, you know what's been the talk since Tuesday?"

"What- that?! Dude, you know that both the Gokudera Fan Club and the Hibari Fan Club are both in shambles because of that… Who knew that they both would go for the same weird girl? And to top it all off, she's so freaking normal, but she's so weird at the same time."

"There's just something up about her, you think?"

"I heard that Hibari-san won in the end."

"Well, of course, he's the President of the Disciplinary Committee."

"I heard that Gokudera-kun won though…"

"How would anyone know?! Nobody saw anything except Hibari-san, Gokudera, and that Raiahu girl."

"Can't we just ask Raiahu then?"

"No way! She's probably not going to know. I mean, it's pretty scary that two hot guys confess at the same time, to the same stinking girl."

"True."

"Whatever. But I've noticed that Gokudera's attitude changed. And Kaia hasn't even been as much as three meters close to him. Hibari-san obviously won."

"So they're together?!"

"We can assume only so much. The Fan Clubs don't know what to do now, do they? I mean, Gokudera has a case of unrequited love, and Hibari reveals that he can actually love, can he?"

"It's really odd, seeing Hibari love an actual living thing."

"Actually, it's weird how he loves a new kid from Kokyou. He typically loves the school more than anything."

"Yeah, poor choice. He chose something that can't love him back. But now, it's Raiahu, right?"

"I'm telling you, she's weird!"

"Yeah, true. Even if, logically, there's nothing about her, I just get that feeling…"

"It probably rubbed off from Hibari-san – you know, that feeling of 'keep away' and stuff."

"Nah, don't be mean… She's still a girl, you know. We girls take things seriously, especially from guys like you."

"It's not like she's listening to our every word, right? She doesn't have super powers."

"Tche. Whatever. I still feel hungry."

"Come with me for some more snacks? Let's go to the vending machine."

"Can I come-"

"You're not coming. Come on, let's go."

The door closed. Kaia slowly inched her way from the door, and out to the window, and she looked out. The classroom was entirely dark, and everything happening outside seemed to play in Technicolor.

There was a bunch of boys, third-years, by the look of the group, trying to bully out some money from a first-year; the kid ran for it, money still tightly clutched in his hands. The group of third-year bullies opened their mouths in laughter and in mockery, then turned to wait for the next little boy to prey on.

There was no next little boy. The next one to come around was none other than Hibari Kyouya. Kaia blushed, and ripped her eyes away from the sight of the President.

He's planning to kill me soon, isn't he?

No, but wait, what kind of love did they mean? Beethoven had family love and love-love…can't it be the same to me?

What kind of love does Hibari-sempai have towards me?

It can't be love-love, right?! It just can't be… it's probably like family-love, or like a sense of best friends, or family, or-

Best friends…

That can work.

Can it? Can it really work?

I doubt it; this is Hibari-sempai we're talking about.

He's dangerous. He's one of them.

I can't trust him like that, right?

I-I just don't know…

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So I'll leave it at that. :]

Again, please contact me about how long you want the new scenes to be, or they will continue to be the same length as before. Please vote and review, as well!

Have an awesome summer, everyone!!

PS: I also want to know how many people actually read these comments and stuff… I admit it, I am getting a little tired of writing all of this. But I'm still happy typing that all up. Anyone who doesn't read it, it's fine to be honest. I won't be offended. I might even be glad; I won't really have to type that much for something people don't read that much. Or something that people skim all the time, or something like that…