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DISCLAIMER (Must I do this again?): I do not own Katekyo Hitman Reborn nor its characters! I only own Alana and Karasu! For now!

Warriors Don't Cry

Chapter 5: Detention and an Offer - Alana

"Mmmmh, don't take my candy, Octopus-head!" I yelled at the silver haired idiot only to realize that the whole candy-stealing incident was only a dream. I looked around the rooftop only to also realize that I wasn't on the roof but in an unfamiliar room. A group of tall guys with ridiculous looking pompadours surrounded the couch that I was lying on with funny looking expressions on their faces. "Wha? Where the hell am I?"

The leader of the pompadour group awkwardly spoke up. "Um, Kyo-san brought you here because you fell asleep on the roof. You were asleep for a about an hour."

I cocked my head to the side. "Who's Kyo-san? Where's that carnivore? Don't tell me that the jerk left me up there for a random dude to find and drop off."

"Omnivore, you're awake."

Hibari walked into the room and the pompadour gang (as I fondly dubbed them) cleared the way so he could walk through to where I was. I gave him a "no-duh" look.

"You woke up just in time for the next class to start." Hibari told me, "Now go or I'll bite you to death."

"If you run, you just might make it to your next class." The leader of the pompadour gang told me kindly while patting my head, messing it up. I shot him an annoyed look and smoothed out my hair. I hopped off of the couch and walked up to Hibari. I looked up at his taller form and pointed at his tonfas. "Can I play with those? They look pretty awesome."

I'm an American. I have the right to speak my mind.

The pompadour gang gaped at me as if I just asked God permission to cut the world into two. I probably just did something close to that but that was no reason to gape in such a stupid way.

Hibari stared me down for a couple of minutes and I stared at him back with the equal amount of intensity. Our staring contest went on for a while and I could tell that the Pompadour gang was becoming a bit edgy.

Hibari wordlessly handed me his tonfas.

I grinned like a kid in Christmas and held the pair of weapons. "Coolness! I haven't held one of these babies in years!" I chattered excitedly while testing the weight of the tonfas. They were pretty heavy but I was pretty strong, not to brag or anything.

I spun the tonfas with experience and confidence while the pompadour gang stared in shock at my awesome moves. Or maybe they were shocked that Hibari just gave me his tonfas. It was probably the latter.

I handed the tonfas back to Hibari, who was looking at me with interest now. "Omnivore, do you know how to handle weapons?"

"Yeah," I said offhandedly, "it was supposed to be part of the training that my Weapon Sensei put me through before I got here. I can use other weapons too. Knives, Swords, Staffs, Nunchucks, Chopsticks, you name them. I'm not perfect at using them all, but good enough according to Sensei's standards."

I grimly thought about the torture the three of my Sensei's put me through.

Yeah, their standards were pretty high.

A specific image of my weapon sensei throwing butcher knives at me for dodging practice for the first time made me shiver in fear. Those were the darker days of my training.

"She must've had a harsh teacher." Someone whispered behind me. If only they knew.

Hibari seemed to be thinking about something very deeply because he didn't notice me taking a book from his desk and began reading. I gawked in shock at the book's title.

Rules and Regulations of Nanimori

My right eye twitched and I reread the bold letters. Rules and Regulations, my ass! This was a freaking encyclopedia! There's no way that there could be that many rules.

…Right?

I quickly began to flip through the pages and gaped at the small writing talking about each rule with detail. I skimmed a few pages before grabbing my hair in frustration.

Oh my God! This book was seriously filled with rules! How the hell am I going to survive in this freaking school? I'm going to break at least one during my stay here if not more!

Then, a horrifying thought hit my mind.

What about Karasu, Tsuna-fish, and co.? I mean they don't have years of experience of breaking rules and getting away with it like I do! They'll probably be bitten to death within a week with all of these rules! Gah!

I visualized my friends being tonfa'd to death.

I grabbed the book with my eyes burning with determination. No way was I going to let that happen. I was going to memorize every rule and find a loophole in every one of them. For the sake of friendship!

I tossed some sort of dramatic pose for some good humor. I bet I looked like a fool to anyone who was watching me but I didn't care.

By then, I was unconsciously crying out of frustration because the whole rulebook was freaking huge. The logical part of my mind (which never really spoke up most of the time) asked myself how was I going to find a loophole within a week at most.

I kicked the logical part of me over the hill and dusted off my hands.

I survived without it for a while, no need for it to ruin everything by coming back. I'll just wing it and make it up as I go just like I always do.

I was pulled back into reality when I heard dramatic sobbing. It seemed a bit out of character for Hibari to do something like that so I immediately knew that it wasn't him. I looked up from the book and sweatdropped when I saw that everyone, save Hibari (that would be disturbing), was sobbing like they just watched some tragic soap opera.

"Um, guys? Are you okay?" I took a tissue box that was so conveniently placed on the desk beside me and passed them all out. They all blew their noses simultaneously with a watery "thank you". Did I miss something important? Why would a group of perfectly almost-grown men cry like a baby in diapers? Reborn was one but I never saw him even shed a tear!

Well, Reborn was one unique baby who's also my best friend's twin brother's hitman home tutor so he's an exception.

But back to the group of almost-grown men all bearing a pompadour hairstyle.

Why the hell were they crying?

"Kyo-san! Let's keep her!" The pompadour leader shouted between sobs. I guess he was the second-in-command judging by his bravery to speak up to the bloodthirsty prefect. "She has potential!"

Hibari was still deep in thought and he ignored the pompadour leader's statement. I looked at both of them in confusion. What are they talking about now? Potential for what?

I didn't get it.

"Um…can I go back to class now? I'm already twenty minutes late." I said, a bit creeped out with the whole situation. Hibari waved me away. "Go now or I'll bite you to death. And because you're twenty minutes late for class, you'll serve an extra hour of detention in addition to the one you earned this morning."

Harsh

I nodded. "Okay and…um, can I borrow this?" I asked sheepishly, holding up the encyclopedia of a rulebook. "I want to study it some more." So you won't beat up my friends for not knowing more than half of the crap in here.

Hibari nodded. "Keep it, we have another copy."

I almost fell over. There was another copy? Man, the person who made this was definitely not eco-friendly. How many trees were killed to make these?

"Yosh! I'm off then!" I said cheerfully before hitting to the halls as if hellhounds were nipping at my heels.

I would take hellhounds over Hibari any day.

"FREEDOM FINALY!" I screamed into the air. Karasu patted my back. "Yeah, but today is Monday so you'll have to endure this for four more days before the weekend." She reminded me. My face fell. "NOOOOO!"

"Ha! You're American friend is so funny!" I heard Karasu's annoying friend say cheerfully. I glared at him. "The name's Alana. A-la-na. Can you get that through your thick head or is baseball the only think you can understand?"

The Baseball-nut grinned. "Okay, A-la-na-chan."

I'm really starting to hate that grin. I groped for my Nunchucks before I realized that I left them back at home because of the stupid, stupid school rules. "Can I hit him, Karasu? Just a little bit so I can make him stop laughing?" I begged my friend.

As expected, she shook her head no.

"Ah, Karasu-chan! Alana-san!" A pair of girls jogged over to us. I recognized them as Karasu's childhood friends. What were their names again?

"Kyoko-chan! Hana-chan! Long time no see!" Karasu greeted the two cheerfully. I waved. "I'd like to say the same but I just saw you back in the boring classroom five minutes ago."

The girl called Kyoko smiled at me sweetly. "You're funny."

"So I've been told multiple times." I said grimly. "I almost forgot that I have detention, thanks so much for reminding me. Goody, more time in school." I said sarcastically.

"Good riddance," Octopus-head snorted while walking toward us. Tsuna-fish sent him a reprimanding look. "Gokudera-kun!"

Then, he noticed Kyoko and turned twenty shades of red. Karasu told me about his crush on this girl so his reaction was no surprise to me. I've seen many boys his type who acted like that when Karasu came around back in America. Tch, whelps wouldn't have the guts to even speak to her when I'm around.

I rolled my eyes and made a shooing motion at Octopus-head's way. "Shoo fly, don't bother me." I stated in a monotone voice.

Karasu threw her head back and laughed, getting my joke.

I'm going to be honest and say that Karasu's laugh wasn't exactly a choir of angels, but her laugh had a pleasant ring to it and it was undoubtedly infectious. In no time, she had everyone laughing with her.

"Omnivore, why aren't you in the reception room? You have two hours of detention to serve." Hibari's voice broke us all from our happy moment and brought us all back down to reality with his almighty tonfa.

I gulped and laughed sheepishly. "I…got lost?"

For a moment, Hibari looked like he was going to kill me then and there. I was really lucky and only got a good thump on the head with his tonfa. "Remember where you're going next time Omnivore or I'll bite you to death."

Then, like this morning, he took me by the collar and walked away from my baffled friends. I struggled from his grip and yelled over my shoulder dramatically. "SAVE ME, KARASU! I'M TOO YOUNG TO DIE!"

"I'll see you back at home, Alana. Don't forget to get eggs on your way back. Mom said that she needs them." Karasu called back calmly, that heartless girl.

"TRAITOR!"

"I'm sure detention won't be that bad, Alana. You're over reacting."

I crossed my arms and pouted the whole way to the reception room with the stupid Octopus-head's mocking laughter ringing in my ears.

I need something sweet.

Hibari finally dropped me onto the couch that I slept on earlier. I jumped up and saw the rest of the Discipline Committee gathered in the room. Ooh look, the pompadour group was here too!

"Err…Yo dudes, what's up?" I asked the group awkwardly.

All of them wore identical grins that somewhat resembled mine when I was handed a wicked weapon during training. Was that a good thing?

"We have an offer for you, Alana-san." The pompadour leader said with a straight face (I only met the guy once. How do you expect me to know his name?) Because he wasn't wearing a creepy grin, I focused my attention onto him. "Because of your impressive skills on weaponry and obvious passion in obeying the school rules, you are offered to be Kyo-san's pupil and our first Junior Member of the Disciplinary Committee!"

Never knew things like this were such a big deal.

Big, sparkly eyes waited for my answer

Awkward~

"Um…sure?" I said while shrugging, "I mean, I have nothing else to do and I'm totally bored out of my mind so why not? Just as long as I don't have to restyle my hair into something like yours."

"Deal." The pompadour leader said seriously, "I'm Tetsuya Kusakabe. I hope we'll have a successful partnership."

Why were they acting as if this was some sort of business deal?

A cheer went up from the group and I was officially accepted into the Disciplinary Committee. They went all out and even revealed that they had hidden a huge "WELCOME ALANA" sign behind a curtain. I swear it wasn't there before. Hibari, in the other hand, smirked wolfishly at me.

Something about that smile told me that I made the right choice.

So…

What would've happened if I said no?

Detention was pretty sweet for once in my life, despite of me getting into a committee that I didn't want to in the first place but had to because I didn't want to be bitten to death and my scary new Sensei staring me down like I was some sort of steak dish. Probably because of the endless amount of candy my new pompadour friends showered me with for being "so kawaii!"

I like candy more than anything, nuff said.

Next up is Karasu! Didja miss her POV despite of Alana's awesomeness? Don't worry, I did too.

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