A/N: We finally got to the Hibari chapter!*cheers* And Shizuka tries, and fails, to stand her ground against Kyoya. Her abilities act up at the most inconvenient times. *snickers* I hope you all continue to enjoy the story and feel free to leave a review, even if it's just to say I got a chuckle or two out of you guys.
Caught in the Act
Kyoya Hibari, also known as the Demon Prefect of Namimori. Even mentioning his name would send a shiver down a person's spine. He was also a constant target for Shizuka's pranks, since the teen could withstand anything she threw his way. And if he happened to be extra aggressive with Tsuna's bullies then it was a win-win situation for Shizuka.
What she wasn't counting on was being caught. Reborn was going bullet crazy with Tsuna recently so Shizuka would randomly find herself turning solid for about five minutes. It was both exciting and a pain, depending on where she was at that moment. Currently she was stealing Hibari's pens and was planning to scatter them throughout the office. Her feet touched the floor with a light tap, her body once again being filled with warmth. "Oh man, I need to get out of here before Hibari gets back."
Calling off her prank for self-preservation, she hadn't noticed the door opening in her panic. There were heavy footsteps heading towards her. "So you're the one that's been breaking into my office." Hibari growled, Shizuka froze and slowly turned towards the voice. Kyoya looked fit to kill. Daichi was right, maybe I should have toned down the pranks. Shizuka thought.
She backed away towards the window, giving him a nervous smile. "Errr, congratulations! You've been visited by Namimori's resident baseball god!" The prefect was not amused. Where is my cat army when I need them?! Shizuka mentally wailed. She glanced at Hibari, then the window. Tonfa to the face or gravity. Which would be more painful? It was when she saw a familiar figure below that she made her decision. Hibari was caught off guard when the small girl opened the window and flung herself through it without a second of hesitation.
Daichi was walking when he instinctively came to a stop. "Daichi! Catch me!" Shizuka screamed, limbs flailing wildly and eyes filled with terror. She landed on the larger teen and he gave a pained grunt. "I think I just saw my life flash before my eyes. It was really short." Shizuka says shakily. "Shizuka, why the hell were you jumping out of a window?" Daichi demands, her eyes widened. "Running from Hibari. Let's get out of here!"
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Hibari was still stunned that the herbivore thought that a plummet from a two-story window was preferable to being disciplined. The jump wasn't a big deal to a carnivore like himself but that girl was nothing but skin and bone. Thankfully she landed on a nearby student and neither appeared to be fatally injured. If he recalled correctly, Daichi Miyamoto was the captain of the school archery team.
Shizuka gave a startled shriek when Hibari landed on the ground near them, his tonfa already out. She hid behind Daichi like a child, her friend raised an eyebrow. Normally she would have gone back to her normal form, so why was she still solid? Daichi sighed. "I told you Hibari would catch you eventually. You are not using me as a shield." He says bluntly, pushing the girl forward. She looked between Hibari and Daichi. "Nope, I choose life." She states, bolting for the kendo dojo.
She ran past a bunch of stunned kendo club members and picked up one of their spare shinai. "Need to borrow this, Hibari is trying to kill me. I'll return it later!" And with that she left, dust trailing behind her. "Did that girl look like Crazy Tsuna?" Mochida asks, blinking in confusion.
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"Shizuka, this was not what I meant." Daichi face palmed. The girl wasn't suicidal enough to think that she could take on Hibari was she?
I have no idea what the hell I'm doing. Shizuka thought, gripping onto the shinai tightly.
She brought up the shinai to block Hibari's strike, wincing as a jolt of pain shot up her arm. "I am going to enjoy this." Hibari says darkly. "I'm not! You'd seriously hit a girl?!" The prefect gave her a blank look. "Oh, you would. Noted. Hiiieee!" She shrieked.
Tsuna was walking with Yamamoto and Gokudera when Shizuka ran past him. She was covered in bruises and had somehow pickpocketed Gokudera's dynamite, lighting the fuses and chucking it behind her. "Take that, you homicidal hard ass!" Shizuka yelled. The boys exchanged differing looks of disbelief, especially when they saw Hibari hot on her trail.
"I think Hibari is trying to bite your sister to death." Yamamoto says, Gokudera glared. "She's already dead!" Gokudera snapped. "Actually, in that form she is kinda... living." Realization dawned on them. "We'll save you Sawada-dono!" "Gokudera, please stop calling my sister that! You'll give her a complex!"
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Shizuka felt like her lungs were on fire, she was not enjoying being trapped in this form. She ran into a man that could've passed as Kyoya's father and instinctively raised her shinai. The man looked at her condition and sighed. "Let me guess, you pissed off my brother." Shizuka looked up in confusion. The man wore a pair of black framed glasses and his hair was pulled back in a braid. "Maybe." He looked at her for a moment. "Come with me then, I'll patch up your wounds."
When Shizuka looked at the older Hibari, it was like there was a heavenly glow around the man. "So what's your name?" She asks, the Hibari gave her a look that indicated he thought she was missing a few brain cells. "I already know your family name, your actual name!" He raised an eyebrow. "Masahiro." Shizuka grinned. "How about Hiro?" "No." "Oh come on!" Shizuka whined. "Keep pestering me and I'll punch you." He says bluntly. "Then I'll punch you back." It was no surprise when Shizuka got hit multiple times in the head. She still stubbornly called him Hiro.
Now that she wasn't running from a homicidal teen, Shizuka wondered why she was still solid. Usually she would have gone back to being a ghost by now. "What did you do to get Kyoya to go off on you? Usually he's more lenient with females." Shizuka looked down to the ground. "What haven't I done? I dyed his arm band pink, painted his office canary yellow, sprinkled glitter on him when he was sleeping-"
She stopped when she heard Masahiro chuckle. "No wonder he went after you. That brat has always prided himself on being on top of the food chain and you managed to get past his defenses!" "So, you're not going to turn me in?" She asks hopefully, Masahiro deadpanned. "I'm congratulating you for surviving this long. You're either brave or suicidal."
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The Hibari home was very quaint and was in a traditional Japanese style, with a regular garden as well as a zen garden. With the way Kyoya acted, she expected to be greeted with the sight of their enemies' heads on a pike. They took off their shoes and walked into the home, the wooden floor creaking beneath them. "Masahiro, and you've brought a guest. That's unusual." A woman walked up to them, using a walking cane. Her eyes were unseeing but she seemed to instinctively know where they were, turning in their direction.
She was a beauty, even with what looked like a burn scar on her neck. Her black hair was mostly in a bun with a few strands of hair left to frame her face. "H-Hello Miss Hibari." She gave a low bow, then hit herself in the forehead when she realized the woman couldn't see it. Meifeng chuckled, walking forward to touch Shizuka's face. "Ah, a Sky. And that's a Mist secondary if I'm not mistaken. No wonder he felt comfortable enough to take you into our home."
"Me, a Sky? That can't be right, my brother is the Sky." Shizuka protests, Meifeng tilts her chin up. "There are traces of a foreign Sky, that is true. But you have Sky flames of your own, you don't seem surprised by this revelation." She mused. "Apparently my brother's horrible luck is starting to rub off on me." Shizuka grumbled, wincing when rubbing alcohol was applied to one of her cuts. The woman ran her fingers through Shizuka's hair soothingly as Masahiro cleaned her wounds.
Shizuka felt tears running down her face. Was this what a mother's affection felt like? With her own mother, she felt like an outsider looking in. "There's no need to cry, we're not that terrifying." Meifeng says in amusement. "That's not-I mean..." She trailed off. How would she explain that her mother wasn't aware of her lingering presence in the house, unable to see her like her twin? "Knowing my luck, you both probably won't be able to see me after this."
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After two straight hours of being solid, Shizuka returned to her ghost form. "So you're a dying will ghost. They always tend to be strong Mists." Meifeng says, petting one of the cats wandering around the house. "You... know that I'm still here?" She couldn't exactly say that Meifeng "saw" her, the woman was blind after all. The woman scoffed. "Of course I can. And you better visit, both of my sons are a bore when it comes to small talk." She states.
"Mother always did want a daughter, she used to dress up Kyoya when he was a kid." Masahiro comments, Shizuka snickered. "I would pay to see the pictures." Meifeng stood to her feet and walked over to a bookcase. She took out a photo album and Masahiro hoped that the girl wouldn't use this to piss off his little brother even more.
Bonus: Collateral Damage
Hibari growled, he had lost the scent of his prey. He had gotten in a few good hits but she was still able to evade him before he could vent out all his frustration. And when he had found her, she was following his older brother like a lost puppy. One over the shoulder glare from Masahiro had told him the annoying animal was now off limits, especially if mother took her under her wing. She had always wanted a daughter after all.
"Shizuka! You guys don't think Hibari killed her, do you?" Hibari tightened his grip on his tonfas, that must have been her brother. "Maybe she's home already." Yamamoto suggested. "I told her to stop messing with Hibari but she never listens." Tsuna grumbled. "You knew who was invading my office?" Tsuna's face paled as Hibari attacked the trio, their screams of pain heard throughout the city.
Shizuka returned home later that night to see Tsuna with his head bandaged, his arm in a sling and one of his fingers in a splint. "Tsuna, what happened?!" She demanded, fussing over all the wounds he had collected. Tsuna deadpanned. "Hibari. Hibari happened." He says bluntly.