A/N: Hey guys! Sorry for my absence for so long, I don't know if you follow my other stories, but if you do you'll know that my grandmother was hospitalized a few months ago, and my whole family was so worried I kind of lost all inspiration.
But I was rereading your reviews and all of your support has inspired me to start writing again! So thank you for that.
This story was especially hard to continue because I actually lost all of the work I had on the newest chapter. And since these chapters are so loooong that means I lost a lot of work. Which is incredibly frustrating and depressing and doesn't make me want to rewrite things I've already written.
However, I do love this story. I could never abandon it, or you guys! So, here's an omake:
OMAKE 1
Kurokawa Hana is determined.
Kurokawa Hana is unstoppable.
Kurokawa Hana is a girl on a mission. And nothing can distract her.
When she knocks on the door of the intended house, it is firm and confident, like Hana is with all other things.
She is all ready to go right into attack mode except-
Except who else would open it other than her always-sunny first ever friend, Kyoko.
(First, but not only. Hana is now the proud owner of two friends, thank you very much. She'd wait for the rest to become working adults, and then maybe they'd be tolerable enough for her to become amicable acquaintances with them.)
"Oh, Hana-chan!" Kyoko exclaims in delight, "I didn't know you were coming today!"
This is an expected reaction. Kyoko is a forgetful of the small details, and she is often surprised when Hana comes over, even when the two had discussed the time and place earlier that very day. Often, Hana calls the Sasagawa family in order to make sure Kyoko doesn't wander out when Hana is scheduled for a visit.
But today is not such a case.
Hana smiles. There is no need to distress her friend with the details of her mission, after all. "I didn't come here to play, unfortunately, Kyoko." Hana's smile would have turned apologetic had she been any other person, "Actually, I came for your brother."
"Ryohei?" Kyoko asks.
Do you have any other brother? Hana is tempted to snark, but Kyoko is entirely too sweet a girl to be the brunt of Hana's sarcasm. It'd be like kicking a puppy that's wagging its tail with pure excitement at seeing you come home.
"Yes. Ryohei," Hana confirms, sounding not at all impatient or ill-tempered. Her mother may say what she liked, but Hana feels she is making distinct progress.
"He's out training right now, but he should be back in twenty minutes," Kyoko explains, gesturing for Hana to follow her inside the house. Then, with a flowery smile, she asks, "Do you want to play dolls while we wait?"
Hana doesn't want to play dolls – she never wants to play dolls - but Kyoko is her best friend and Hana has succumbed to much more degrading acts than playing dolls for the sake of her friend before.
"…Sure." She answers, and Hana counts herself lucky for having such an oblivious friend, since it means Kyoko doesn't notice the cringing tone of her voice.
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When Ryohei returns home, Hana is waiting for him in his room.
She had spent fifteen minutes playing dolls with Kyoko (Kyoko's was named Cute Kitty-chan and the doll had eloped with her sister's fiancée, and Hana's was apparently named Eloise Augustine deRoux and was best friends with Kitty-chan, as well as being a foreigner that was having an affair with an Arabian prince but had to deal with his massive harem. Kyoko had explained to her that if they had a third person, then she could bring out her doll Antoinette Marie LaMouche, who, like Eloise Augustine deRoux, was also a foreigner and was also having an affair, except it's with her homeroom teacher who is eight years older than her. Personally, Hana feels like Kyoko is watching too many late night Western soap operas. She is also mildly depressed that the most normal sounding name is Cute Kitty-chan). After fifteen minutes of playing dolls, however, Hana had begged off, saying she wanted to wait for Kyoko's brother in his room.
So here she is, sitting on his desk chair, and that is exactly how Ryohei finds her when he enters his room.
Ryohei is not at all surprised to find her there, instead greeting her with a wide smile. Hana knows this is not because he expects her to be in his room, nor is it because his family has told him, but because he is entirely too dense to react in any way that common sense would dictate.
Hana has taken this into account.
Before Ryohei can exclaim her name in that insufferably loud voice of his, Hana interrupts his forecoming effusions.
"The morning of April 9th, what were you doing?" No sooner has Ryohei stepped in the room, Hana starts her interrogation.
Hana doesn't believe in wasting time on chitchat.
"Huh?"
"The morning of April 9th, four days ago," Hana clarifies, "What were you doing?"
Hana's glare could have frozen lava.
Of course, whereas others would cower in fear, Ryohei is entirely oblivious.
"Four days ago, huh? Four days ago, four days ago, four days ago…" Ryohei mutters confusedly. "AH!" He exclaims, "I WAS EXTREMELY TRAINING!"
Hana would have banged her head against the wall if she hadn't foreseen this exact scenario occurring.
Being Kyoko's best friend, this is not the first time she has had to deal with Sasagawa Ryohei's particular brand of idiocy. And Hana has come prepared.
"I know," Hana replies nonplussed. "You train every morning." And most afternoons, you boxing maniac.
"YEAH! I EXTREMELY DO!" Ryohei shouts, and Hana can feel the first stirrings of a headache making their presence known.
"During that training four days ago, did anything… unusual… occur?" Hana elaborates calmly.
She doesn't know what her mother is talking about. Hana has the patience of a saint.
"YEAH IT EXTREMELY DID! I MET AN EXTREME PERSON!" Ryohei pumps his fists in excitement.
Finally, we're getting somewhere.
"And what was this person's name?"
Here, she is less certain of her success. Ryohei is as bad with names as he is at not getting kicked out of libraries.
Well, it doesn't matter. I'll just ask for a description next and that should give me enough information to-
"TSUNA!" Ryohei shouts. Hana hadn't thought it possible, but Ryohei's smile gets even brighter.
Just as expected then- Wait, what?
"Repeat that," Hana orders.
Ryohei doesn't miss a beat, "TSUNA!"
Sasagawa Ryohei remembers someone's name? The name of someone he has only met once before? Hana is incredulous. It took him four months to remember my name, and I came to his house to play with Kyoko every week!
Wait… since when is he allowed to call Tsunako so familiarly?!
Hana takes a composing breath. No, I can't let him distract me.
Facing Ryohei with a renewed glare, Hana continues her interrogation, "And how did you meet this Tsuna?"
"I EXTREMELY RAN INTO HER!" Ryohei proudly exclaims.
Does he know no shame? Can he even truly be considered Japanese when he doesn't have a polite bone in his body?
"And then what happened?" Hana doesn't relent.
"AND THEN WE EXTREMELY FELL!"
"And then?"
"AND THEN I EXTREMELY HELPED HER UP AND TOLD HER SHE HAS TO JOIN THE BOXING CLUB TO THE EXTREME!"
…Of course he did.
"Let's go back to the moment you ran into her. Would you say you ran into her with great force?" God, why is talking to Kyoko's older brother so exhausting? Hana can feel her headache getting worse with every word that comes out of his mouth.
"YES!"
"Enough force to make her fall down?"
"Y-YES!" Oh, is that hesitation?
"Enough force for her to be injured?"
"Y-yes…"
Hana is shocked. Is that shame in Kyoko's what-is-common-sense-and-shame-all-my-monkey-brain-can-think-of-is-boxing brother?
Ryohei looks downright remorseful.
Hana's shock doesn't last long, however, as she registers exactly what Ryohei has admitted to.
Ryohei hurt Tsunako.
It was an accident, she knows, but that doesn't come near to excusing it. Hana's grip on the desk chair tightens. Hurting Hana's friends is-
Unacceptable.
"She sprained her wrist, you know?" Hana informs him, stern glare never leaving his regretful one. Ryohei looks even more downtrodden at her words, and Hana pounces on the exposed vulnerability, "And her entire arm was covered in bruises and scratches."
Ryohei's shoulders slump. Hana doesn't think she's ever seen them do that before.
Good. He better feel guilty.
Hana is petty and vindictive, and she's proud of it.
"I heard you're trying to create a boxing club at Namimori Elementary," The abrupt change in topic would have sounded ominous to any normal person, but Ryohei is not normal and as such doesn't notice anything wrong.
"TO THE EXTREME!" He shouts, but Hana notices that perhaps there is a degree less of exuberance compared to before he was informed of the depth of Tsunako's injuries.
"I know there's been concerns on the board, though. Parents that don't want their children to be part of a club that's so violent, especially at such a young age," Hana comments slyly. "After all, when kids are so young, they could very easily decide to use the skills they learned in club to hurt the other children."
"THAT WOULDN'T HAPPEN TO THE EXTREME!"
"All the parents need to scrap the idea of a boxing club entirely is one more push." Hana grinned maliciously, "It'd be just too bad if a kid suddenly got injured and said it was because of boxing, wouldn't it? Why, there'd be no hope for a boxing club at all then."
"THAT WOULD BE HORRIBLE TO THE EXTREME!"
Hana nearly groans. Subtlety is completely lost on this kid. He doesn't even have the decency to know when he's being threatened.
Hana decides to cut her losses and try a different approach. She's always been more of a straight-forward, tell-it-the-way-it-is type of person anyway.
"We're not getting anywhere, so let me make this perfectly clear," Hana gets up from the desk chair and walks right up to Ryohei until she's right in his face. Pointing a threatening finger at him, she makes sure her voice is as deadly serious as she is, "You hurt Tsunako again and your little boxing club will never happen. I don't care if it's an accident- you hurt her, it's done."
"I WON'T EVER HURT TSUNA AGAIN TO THE EXTREME!" Ryohei earnestly promises, and Hana knows he speaks the truth.
"BUT WHAT DOES THAT HAVE TO DO WITH THE EXTREME BOXING CLUB?" Hana shoots him an incredulous look, but Ryohei just looks at her, honestly confused.
Hana closes her eyes in an attempt to calm herself. Maiming Ryohei would not only not be conducive to anything (except for maybe relieving her of the aggression building up inside), it also won't work since he's so much physically stronger than her already. Explaining to him that Hana will be the one to shut down any possibility the boxing club has should Ryohei hurt Tsunako would take all night.
Hana brings a hand to massage her temples and tries to ease the quickly worsening headache there, "Look, just remember this: You hurt Tsunako, the boxing club loses all hope of being founded. That's all you need to know."
Judging those to be words to be clear enough, even for Ryohei, Hana heads for the door. She's not spending a second longer with this monkey if she doesn't have to.
Just as Hana is about to leave the room, Ryohei shouts, "WAIT!" He turns to look at her, and Hana is surprised to find honest concern there. Not because Ryohei is not a compassionate person, but because it is not in his nature to worry about anything. Once he realizes she's stopped walking out, he continues in a soft voice (by Ryohei standards, at least), "Is… Is Tsuna feeling better now?"
Trying to assuage his guilt, huh? Well, Hana isn't going to make this easy for him.
"Yes," She reluctantly concedes. And Tsunako indeed would be healed before school started. "But she's still favoring her right side, and every time she holds something too heavy, she has to suppress a wince." One that was extremely hard for Hana to detect, and makes her worry about to what extent Tsunako is used to coping with pain.
"I WILL EXTREMELY HELP HER GET BETTER!" Ryohei vows.
Hana is about to protest, to tell him that that was not the point of this whole conversation (if it can even be called that), but she knows that glint in Ryohei's eye, knows it means he's committed his mind to something and there's nothing anyone can do to change it anymore, and resigns herself to the inevitable.
Urgh. I've got such a headache now.
Honestly, this whole visit has been exhausting, from playing with dolls that have way too much drama in their lives, to trying to threaten Ryohei, to dealing with Ryohei in general.
The things I do for Tsunako.
And so Hana leaves and doesn't turn back.
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"So what did Hana-chan want with you, Nii-chan?" It's a little after the siblings have had a nice family dinner, and Kyoko is curious about why her best friend would seek out Ryohei individually for the first time ever.
"I'M NOT SURE TO THE EXTREME, BUT…" Ryohei shouts confusedly. He stops to think over what occurred over the past half hour, "But I think maybe Hana-chan can be pretty scary to the EXTREME."
Kyoko nods, having known this already, and takes a sip of her hot chocolate.
A/N: Well then! The end to what is possibly the longest OMAKE in the history of OMAKES!
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