I'm starting to put less dialogue and more monologue. I was thinking of maybe going back to edit the first two chapters, because they're not very good. Maybe. Just maybe. *sweatdrops* And I was thinking about the ending ('cause every story needs an ending); there's 5 choices: the happy ending, the happy extended, the bad ending, the bad turned happy, and the bad turned happy extended.
I'm so sorry this was late! OTL I had a problem with my internet… Well my wireless. And I had trouble with deciding some things in the story.
I don't own KHR. I'd like to own a Natsu,.. and a Shoichi… and a Tsuna… The list goes on. But I don't own them.
-KHR-
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I slam my hand onto my alarm clock and poke around for the off button. What time is it? I blink blearily and try to focus my eyes on the red digits. 6:10… 6:10!? Why do I have to wake up at such a ridiculously early time again? M… M… Ma… Oh that's right! Masaru… Wait. MASARU! I need to hurry up! I quickly throw my covers off, facing the cold, and stumble around my room trying to get all my stuff. In my rush, I walk into my dresser and I fell to the floor with a thump. Getting up quickly I run around faster, ignoring the dull pain in my side.
After I had come home from school yesterday, Kaasan told me that I had a call. It was Masaru. I called him back and he told me that he hadn't been able to tell me the conditions of him training me. I almost regret asking him for help. But it's too late to worry about it now. His conditions were that I was to listen to him and that the method of teaching was up to him. It honestly sounded sort of suspiciously similar to a certain fedora-wearing baby I know.
Packing up all my things, I move as quietly as I could through the house, which wasn't really all that quiet. As I exited I left a note on the door for Tsuna, telling him I was going to meet him at school, on my way out. As I exit the house I pause as I felt as if something or someone was staring at me. I ignore it. I start walking my way to Masaru's apartment when my mind went into a blank state and my body into auto pilot, totally ignoring my surroundings.
Now that I think about it, why did Masaru accept in the first place? Why did he say he can't? Why didn't he say anything about what I said about the mafia? Why was his face so blank when I was talking about Reborn? Why did he ask me whether or not I was sure I wanted him to train me? So many questions to be asked, so many answers to be found, and so little time... but is there really? Also I'm talking to myself… should I be worried? … Nah.
Before I knew it I was in front of Masaru's door. So I knocked. Ten seconds later the door opened up.
"You're late. You were supposed to show up at 6. It's 6:23," Masaru said blankly.
"Really? Not even a good morning?" I ask incredulously. "Give me a break. It's the first day."
"Good morning," he replies. Then he smiles. "Well, this will be your first and last break. Let's get started."
I'm about to find out part of the reason why he asked me whether or not I was sure I wanted him to train me.
…
Tsuna happened to wake up rather early today… around 6:30. Thanks to Reborn, that is. After yelling at Reborn not to hit him in the head (and only to get hit again), he followed his daily morning routine of morning things, like brushing his teeth, washing his face, and dressing, he walked downstairs expecting Yasu to be there to give him his share toast and help him with his tie. But she wasn't. Tsuna walks back up stairs to find his sister. Was she still asleep? He opens her door and she wasn't there. It was the same as always: messy like his… albeit on a lesser scale. Probably from all the lectures she got from Kaasan about being lady-like.
Now Tsuna was starting to freak out a little. Maybe she was in the kitchen? He checked there and she wasn't. What if she went missing? What if someone kidnapped her?! Tsuna thought in a panic walking past the front door. Then he caught a glimpse of something pink. What was that? It was a note. He looked at it more closely.
Hey Tsuna, I'm going to go a bit early today. I'll meet you at school! (-w-)b Your toast is on the table!
-Yasu
Tsuna sweatdrops at the note. So he freaked out for nothing? Deciding to just move on, Tsuna grabbed his toast and fumbled with his tie until it ended up in the proper knot. How he did that… he'll never know.
When Tsuna arrived to school, he quickly heard that there was going to be a new student. The new student was going to be in his class. Hopefully, he's not a bully. Tsuna thought.
This thought was wiped from his mind when the student walked in.
"We have a new transfer student who was studying overseas in Italy," Nezu-sensei introduced. Quickly girly whispers spread through the room about how good looking he was and how he'd come back to his homeland. There was a menacing aura from the males of the room. They didn't want to lose their crushes and girlfriends to this guy. But the silver haired delinquent was not at the least affected. Tsuna looked over to Kyoko hoping she wasn't charmed like the other girls. Then he thought about his sister. Oh Kami-sama, please don't let my sister fall for a guy like this! Tsuna prayed in his mind. "His name is Go—" the teacher was cut off when a blonde blur tripped into the room and slammed right into the guy and knock him down. I didn't mean like that Kami-sama! Tsuna sweat dropped mentally.
…
I stumble out of Masaru's apartment, obviously going to be late to school... again. My poor arms. They're so tired and shaky. Masaru told me something along the lines of if there's no strength behind the punch, then there is no point. So, I had to either do forty Masaru-standard perfect pushups or a hundred of my best pushups. Of course being noodle armed as I am, I could barely do any, but I somehow managed to do it. He wouldn't even let me rest. He kept throwing stuff at my head too. How austere… Wait. I don't even know what that word means! Dang it Masaru! Look what you've done to me! I curse him silently.
Shakily, my arm rose up and I read my watch. 7:48. The walk from his apartment to school was… 20 minutes give or take, depending whether or not I got lost, 16 to 18 minutes if I jogged, and it was 9 or 10 minutes if I ran like my life depended on it, which it probably did because Hibari-san returned today… Oh. Well, in that case… I ran like the wind.
When I made it to the campus Hibari-san was there beating up some people for breaking the dress code rather badly. It was 7:57, but I still needed to get to the classroom. I let loose a sigh and start speed walking towards the stairs. Once I'm out of sight and in the safety of the school I start running again. I know I'm not supposed to run in the hallways, but oh well. I barrel through the classroom door and I trip over my own feet and fly into a… a silver octopus? What? Looking more closely I see that it's a guy. Then I hear laughter at my latest fail and an intense aura aimed directly at me. I get up and off the guy quickly and I apologize as quickly as I can and return to my seat. I hear the jeers of me trying to get close to the new student.
"As I was saying before I was so rudely interrupted…" Nezu-sensei made a point by looking directly at me. "His name is Gokudera Hayato," he says to the class.
Oh I can feel the fan club forming now. I don't get it. He's not all that good looking. He looks like a flipping octopus, for crying out loud! Speaking of fan clubs, if I remember correctly they have a sort of underground market at school. Seriously, they have some pretty freaky stuff down there. I heard they were going to auction Hibari-san's pajama bottoms. I am seriously disturbed. How'd they get it in the first place?! While I was thinking about these things I wasn't really paying attention. So when this Gokudera guy walked up to my brother's desk and practically turned it over by kicking it, I jumped up, my chair scraping against the floor, and shout at him by impulse.
"What's your problem!?" I yell at him. Uh oh. I can feel the fangirls glaring daggers at me now. I shake it off and continue anyway. "He doesn't even know you! That wasn't necessary!"
"Tch," he responds as if I was lower than him. "Stupid woman," he says to me then goes back to his proper seat.
"Yeah, stupid woman, sit down!" I hear someone yell at me from the background. I turn bright red while the others laugh. I sat down quickly and bury my head in my arms in embarrassment. I felt Tsuna's eyes look at me worryingly. He just pats me on the head in reassurance before turning back around. I could tell that he was nervous though. The octopus was glaring at him.
…
The rest of the day was pretty uneventful. Well… except for the fact Tsuna and I bumped into some seniors at the end of the day. Normally it would've been no problem. We would just apologize profusely and be on our way. But no. They were ghetto seniors and, gosh, they were ugly. And tall. They towered over Tsuna, so imagine how it was like for me.
"Ouch, I might have broken a bone," one of the seniors said jokingly to his buddies like it was the funniest thing in the world. The look in their eyes promised pain and mischief for us.
I looked at Tsuna and gave him a small signal for him to go one way and me, another. I quickly ran towards the staircase while he ran towards the back quad. Not really having a destination in mind, I ended up on the roof. It sure was a nice day today. The sky was clear except for a few clouds and there was a nice breeze. Daring to get to closer to the sky, I started climbing the water tower on this side of the roof. When I got to the top I felt like the king-erm queen of the world. Kidding. It still felt great though. I smiled. Even though my legs were shaking a bit from the height, I liked the fluttery feeling in my stomach. I sat down, legs swinging over the edge. Then I saw the door to the stair well slam open. I got back up. The ghetto seniors actually followed me.
"There she is!" one of them shouted, pointing at me with his metal bat.
"Go away!" I shouted back stupidly. I picked up a stray rock and aimed at their heads. It actually managed to hit one of them in the head. Wow. I'm proud of myself. But back to the matter at hand. I managed to hit the leader in the head… it didn't help. In fact, it made them angrier. Whoops.
"Get down here you brat! We'll beat you up!" he shouted angrily.
"No."
"Why you!" the leader shouted at me. One of them started to hit the water tower with his bat and the other two tried to rock it. They're not very smart. With each time the bat hit the tower it made a resounding clanging sound. Before you know it I actually lost balance and fell off the flipping tower because of a nearby explosion. Luckily or unluckily I landed right in the senior's arms. Well… damn it. The guy slammed me against the tower and held me against it by pressing the bat against my throat. I struggled as much as I could by kicking my legs and trying to lift the bat off, but my arms were still weak from this morning's training. He just pressed the metal tighter. I couldn't breathe. My vision started to darken and I could hear the senior say something to me and all I smelt was his breath. Ugh. Disgusting.
All of a sudden, the pressure on my throat was gone and I fell to the floor. I could faintly hear a 'kamikorosu' as I sat there trying to catch my breath. All I saw were blobs and blurs and I observed as the blur beat up some blobs. I also heard some more explosions in the background. I wonder if that's Tsuna and Reborn. Reborn with his guns and all. Slowly everything became clearer and I saw that the blur had become Hibari Kyoya and the blobs had become the ghetto seniors. I watched as the seniors drag themselves away beat up pretty badly and as Hibari-san turn towards me. As he headed my direction, tonfas still in hand, I couldn't help but flinch.
"Get up herbivore," he commanded. I comply quickly and rise up to my feet. He continued. "Come with me." He turns around and starts walking, and let me just say, he takes very long strides which is hard for me to keep up considering I almost got strangled to death. Eventually, after a very nerve racking walk, we made it to the Disciplinary Committee's room. I followed Hibari-san in and the DC room is actually very nice, not looking like what the rumors say at all. It was lit by the sun through the windows and there were two couches faced together with a small coffee table between them. In front of the windows were Hibari-san's desk and off to the side was a smaller desk. At that desk was Kusakabe Tetsuya.
He looked up when we walked in and he looked pretty confused for a second. Probably wondering why Hibari was bringing a beat up looking girl into the DC room.
"Uh, Kyo-san, you didn't…" he trailed off. I looked at him and shook my head getting at what he was asking. No, Hibari-san did not beat me up Kusakabe-san. He just nodded at me to show he understood.
"Tetsuya, question her and fill out a full report," Hibari-san commanded tersely. Then he just left. I turn back to Kusakabe-san.
"Where's he going?" I asked head tilted to the side unconsciously.
"He's going to go sort out some delinquents that were caught tagging Nami-chuu."
"Oh."
After some questions like 'what happened?' and 'what did he do?' and 'who were you with?' I was finally done with the interrogation for Kusakabe's report. But something was really bothering me. What is up with that stalk in his mouth?
"Ne, Kusakabe-san?"
"Yes, Sawada-san?"
"You can call me Yasu. There's three Sawadas and it gets confusing sometimes."
"Three?"
"Yeah; Tsuna, Kaasan, and me. But that's not my question," I tell him, changing the subject. "If you don't mind me asking, but why do you always chew that stalk? I won't tell anyone. I promise." I held up my pinkie. I know it looked rather childish but this is how you make this official. I should probably come up with a better method later.
He looked at my pinkie skeptically. I jerked my pinkie forwards a little for emphasis. I'm not joking. Then he sighed and wrapped his pinkie around mine. His hand is huge compared to mine… but then again he is 2 or 3 years older than me and he's crazy tall. Figures. He lets go and then he starts talking.
"The reason I have this is because before I met Kyo-san I smoked. To break the habit I just replaced it with this," he told me.
"Wow, really? I didn't know it was all that simple."
"It wasn't."
"Oh."
"You should go now," he told me. Was he kicking me out? "Kyo-san probably wouldn't want to see any other herbivores in his reception room." That actually made a lot of sense. I waved good bye and left through the sliding door, not without tripping on the sliding track first. I really need to stop shuffling my feet. It's a safety hazard but bad habits are hard to beat.
I walk down the stairs casually, skipping steps and sliding down rails along the way. I probably shouldn't have done this considering I fell flat on the floor a couple of times on the way. I wonder where Tsuna is. I hope Reborn isn't beating him up. The chances of that happening are very unlikely though, sadly enough. I grab my first aid kit from my bag. Along with all the medical junk in there, I also had a spot for spare clothes for Tsuna. You'll never know when he might need them considering Reborn likes to shoot him a lot.
When I reach ground floor I head over to the back quad where Tsuna is I see that he's in his boxers with Reborn and some burnt seniors. I walk over there wondering what the hell happened.
"Tsuna!" I called out. He turned around and looked relieved before morphing into a look of panic. Was he telling me to run away? I asked him 'Why?' silently when an octopus intercepted and started yelling at me.
"Don't call Jyuudaime by his name so casually!" he yelled in my face. Wait. Was this the guy who was glaring at Tsuna all day? What was he doing here? Suddenly petty anger flared up in my system.
"Stop yelling at me!" I yelled in return.
"Then don't disrespect Jyuudaime!"
"Who the hell is Jyuudaime!?"
"JYUUDAIME IS JYUUDAIME!" he screeched, voice rising in volume.
"STOP YELLING IN MY FACE!" my voice rose to match his.
"YOU STOP YELLING STUPID WOMAN!"
"YOU STARTED YELLING IN THE FIRST PLACE, SO YOU SHUT UP USURATAKOCHI!"
"USURATAKOCHI?! SHUT UP YOU LEMON HEAD!"
"MY HEAD LOOKS NOTHING LIKE A LEMON!"
"I BEG TO DIFFER!"
"I didn't come to argue with you," I say normally, not screaming. I tried to stay as calm as I could despite being slightly pink in the face from my shouting match. I just hear a small 'tch' come from his general direction. I turn to Tsuna and then dug around in my bag, looking for something. "I came to give Tsuna some clothes," I state handing Tsuna the bundle.
"No, I'd be more than happy to give Jyuudaime the clothes off my back," Usuratakochi announces.
"Don't do it. No one wants to see you strip…" I tell him, raising a hand to say stop. "Except for maybe your newly acquired fangirls…" I add as an afterthought. Luckily they didn't hear me, except for maybe Reborn because he was looking at me with his kind of cute but creepy eyes.
…
As we went home I could help but feel the awkward in the air. Why is Usuratakochi with us? Why is he here?! He keeps switching between glaring at me and having this puppy aura aimed towards Tsuna. What is he a puppy octopus? … He's a baby octopus! Well, he switches from baby octopus to full out raging Cthulu. Maybe that's a little extreme, but that's what it looks like.
I speed up not really wanting to be around this… what was his name? This Gokudera guy. I turn around the corner and I bump into something that smelt like vanilla and strawberries. I rub my head and look at who I knocked over. Before I knew it, the person ran away with a 'Hahi' taking the smell with her. Who just lurks around like that? Is she a stalker? But who's? ... Amazing. Takodera's here for one day and he already has a stalker.
"Yasu? You alright? What are you doing on the ground?" Tsuna called out to me. "You know you turned the wrong corner again, right?"
"Don't worry about this Lemon-head, Jyuudaime. Let's get you home safely," Takodera says to my brother.
"Ano, Gokudera-kun she's m—" I cut him off. "I turned the wrong corner again? I always get confused because this is the way to the markets. Whoops. Anyway, I'm alright. I just bumped into the wall while going around." I wonder how Takodera would react if he knew I was Tsuna's sister. Would he still call me a Lemon-head?
"Alright then," he says. But I know otherwise. He's looking at me with doubt. I jumped up, grabbed his arm, and ran.
"Let's go home Tsuna!" I say happily.
"Don't touch Jyuudaime!" Takodera yells, running after us.
-KHR-
Usuratakochi is a word I made up. It's kind of like a pun. I use the word Usuratonkachi (which means useless in this context) and put in Tako which is octopus in Japanese. So thus Usura'tako'chi was born. So basically it means useless octopus. Oh the irony.
And I am sorry for those that are reading. I posted late! D: But if you'd like, you can read what could've been. I wrote this part around 2 in the morning.
-Extra-
Luckily or unluckily I landed right on one of the seniors causing his head to hit the concrete and knock him out. Well… damn. Talk about major luck even if it hurt when I fell on the bony guy. Remembering that there were other seniors I get up and run for it while they're still processing what happened. I quickly run towards the door of the stairwell and open it only to bump into a wall and fall on my butt. What the heck? I look up. It wasn't a wall it was Hibari Kyoya. Well I'm screwed. He looks down at me who's all bruised up and freaked out, then at the ghetto seniors with a bat, and then at the water tower which had a bunch of dents in it. Then he whips out his magic tonfas.
"For destroying school property, harassing an underclassman, and violating dress code, I will bite you to death."
Taking the chance while Hibari-san is beating up the ghetto seniors I exit through the stairwell and practically fly down the stairs, skipping steps and sliding down rails along the way. When I reach ground floor I head over to the back quad where Tsuna is I see that he's in his boxers with Octopus, Reborn, and some burnt seniors. I walk over there wondering what the hell happened.
"Tsuna!" I called out. He turned around and was going to say 'hi' in return when Octopus intercepted and started yelling at me.
"Don't call Juudaime by his name so casually!" he yelled in my face.
"Stop yelling at me!" I yelled in return.
"Then don't disrespect Juudaime!"
"Who the hell is Juudaime!?"
"JUUDAIME IS JUUDAIME!" he screeched, voice rising in volume.
"STOP YELLING IN MY FACE!" my voice rose to match his.
"YOU STOP YELLING STUPID WOMAN!"
"YOU STARTED YELLING IN THE FIRST PLACE, SO YOU SHUT UP USURATAKOCHI!"
"USURATAKOCHI?! SHUT UP YOU LEMON HEAD!"
"MY HEAD LOOKS NOTHING LIKE A LEMON!"
"I BEG TO DIFFER!"
"I didn't come to argue with you," I say, suddenly not yelling. I tried to stay as calm as I could despite being all red from my shouting match. I just hear a small 'tch' come from his general direction. I turn to Tsuna and then dug around in my bag, looking for something. "I came to give Tsuna some clothes," I state handing Tsuna the bundle.
"No, I'd be more than happy to give Juudaime the clothes off my back," Usuratakochi announces.
"Don't do it. No one wants to see you str-." I stop mid-sentence. I just had an epiphany. If people are willing to buy Hibari's pajama bottom, then what are the chances of them buying pictures of the 'hot' transfer student stripping? Very high. Wait no, bad Yasu. You can't take pictures of strangers stripping, no matter how much money you'll get. That's perverted. I focus and I see the three of them, Tsuna, Usuratakochi, and Reborn, looking at me. "Sorry," I say plainly. "I got distracted." I can see it in Tsuna's expression that he was thinking, 'distracted by what?!' "Well, you see Tsuna; sometimes the school's fanclubs gather and hold auctions and have underground-y school market things.
At this point Reborn joined in.
-Extra-
And I stopped there. I think I fell asleep. Reborn was supposed to say something along the lines of, "What underground?" and that's a way he could get and sell blackmail. When I get sleep-deprived my mind goes into a dangerous state. A delirious one.