AnKyouXKHR
Beauty As the Beast
ARC I - Her Arrival in Class E
Target Period 10 Assassins' Summer Vacation [Part 01]

"Listen!!"

"Tell Us, Kunudon!"

"Hi everybody! It's me, Kunudon!"

"Sir Kunudon!"

"The students with the best grades at Kunigigaoka Academy are entitled to a fantastic privilege:"

"Vested interest!"

"Three days and two nights at a luxury summer school in always-summery Okinawa!"

"Diplomatic passports!"

"The school pays for the hotel and everything that goes with it. Students can study to their hearts' content!"

"Sheer debauchery! Yay!"

"What's up with that mascot? He looks creepy!" Satsuki asked behind the camera as her right hand is place to her hips. Nagisa only chuckles.

"Who knows~ who cares about his gimmick?" Karma answered lazily as he was leaning at the chair and legs were on the table. Nagisa chuckled again.

"What?! What do you mean the E class is going?! MORE OF! WHAT ARE THOSE THREE FROM 3-E DOING HERE?!"

*****

Walking alone in a dark alley, Satsuki took an abrupt stop, her head tilts to the right with a blank face, she lifts up her left arm and shoved it on her jacket's pocket, her right foot takes a step forward, then swiftly turns half her whole body and points her gun on top of a café building and pulled the trigger.

A man wearing all black is shaking violently as he holds his right ear that is bleeding. He runs like crazy forgetting his sniper gun.

Satsuki sighs while hiding back her gun and continues walking, pretending nothing has happened.

Meanwhile looking closely at the cement floor where Satsuki previously stands, four holes are freshly made.

She clicked her tongue, 'again.'

*****

The brunet in the picture that displays at Satsuki's living room, is sitting behind his desk, he seems to have a headache and is burdened by problems, sighs and escapes from his mouth before slamming his hand on his desk in anger.

This man is the boss of the well-known mafia family in Italy, the strongest and richest family, the Vongola, and he is currently reading the latest report from his most trusted advisor.

"Juuidame?" His right-hand man known as Storm Ring Guardian flinched in shock, he didn't expect that his boss would suddenly snap while reading that strange written report from their advisor.

Again, the boss sighs, "Nothing. Hayato is there else you need?" there's no reason to snap at his guardian, he knew that.

"No more Juudaime..."

"I see... thank you and please leave me alone for a while."

"Understood." Hayato cannot understand his boss anymore ever since he rejects his boss' bastard daughter.

But the thing he and most of the Guardians reject is their boss' reason, and they don't know why they are doing it.

"Juudaime..." Hayato whose hand is already on the doorknob calls.

"What is it, Hayato?" the boss asked while leaning on his chair.

"Why... why is that girl so important to you?"

"Satsuki? Of course, she's important to me, she is my daughter."

"Then what about Ieyasu?"

"He too. But you guys wanted me to focus only on Ieyasu and forget my daughter. I love both of my children, and that would never change." Tsuna lowers his eyelashes, "Hayato, you all of the people know best the feeling of being rejected by your own family."

Hayato left his boss's office after a bow. After closing the door from behind, he leaned on it, 'What's happening to me?'

The boss that was left alone in his office, rereads the report that is in Baybayin, an old tongue of Filipinos.

[
Dame-Tsuna,

Your daughter is doing fine like my usual report, but her assassins have increased in number. Three assassins per day and they even tried to assassinate her even on school grounds.

But you don't have to worry, Shinigami is protecting her when in school. On the roads, she takes care of them herself and I watch her when she is in her house.

Ah right! I asked one of her assassins, and Shinigami too asked the assassin he caught, and you know what? They are answering the same, Iemitsu of Vongola.

That idiot is breaking the deal that you two have agreed on.

What should we do? Shall we punish him? Or torture him? Oh, wait if you want to torture him, let me do it, I would love to.

Well, that's all for my report...

Ah wait... your daughter will be on vacation with her classmates on an island, owned by that marshmallow freak.

Plus, your daughter is in 8th place overall and top scorer in Math.

Here are her scores in every subject:

Math: 100
Science: 95
Japanese: 97
English: 99 (1 point because of purpose mistakes.)
Social Studies: 90
Home Economics: 90

Total Score: 481
8Th Place in Top Ranks

Shall I tor-tutor your daughter?

Anyways, she's doing fine here.

Stop being an overprotecting father. She might not get a boyfriend if you worry too much.

Akabane Karma and Shiota Nagisa, these two students in her class were really close to her and they are both boys.

Good luck Dame-Tsuna. She might come back there with a guy that she will introduce to you as her boyfriend~.

Reborn.'
]

That... doesn't worry Tsuna at all.

Tsuna smiles at the thought of studying other languages that have been proven worthy; languages which his Guardians and Iemitsu didn't take, as they find it worthless, useless and irrelevant.

The thing that angers Tsuna is Iemitsu's moves.

One of their deals is never to touch Satsuki.

But Iemitsu is breaking that deal.

When did his father change?

Tsuna let out his uncounted sigh of that day.

*****

One week until their assassination vacation to the southern island, the E Class gathered to their building for training and put the plan in order.

"Well, well! I see you little brats are working up a good sweat." Irina said as she is sitting on a foldable chair and having some tropical juice.

Satsuki has a sweat drop on her head as she looks at her female blonde teacher. Meanwhile, Reborn who keeps his distance away from them, especially from Satsuki has also had a sweat drop on his head, even Leon the shape-shifting chameleon has.

"You should train too, Bitch-sensei." Mimura spoke. "Your gun and knife skills aren't that much better than ours."

"Adults are sneaky. I'll hitch a ride on your strategy and take away the best parts."

"Meaning stealing..." Satsuki said

"It's not stealing, my dear Satsuki. It's called-"

"Stealing." Satsuki cut her off.

"I TOLD YA! IT'S NOT STEALING!"

"Oho~ then what is it, Irina?"

"L-Lovro, sir!"

Lovro is there next to Karasuma with all his dark glory.

'Lovro?' Both Satsuki and Reborn (who is hiding somewhere) recognized the Assassin who had just arrived.

"He's here as a special instructor for the summer. He'll give us tips and strategies from a pro's perspective." Karasuma explained not just to Irina but to everybody else as well.

"Rest one day and your fingers and arms forget about killing. IF YOU DON'T WANT TO FLUNK OUT, HURRY UP AND GET CHANGE!" With Lovro's command, Irina obeys instantly.

"Even Bitch-sensei can't say no to him," Sugaya said as he and Maehara were watching Irina running towards the old building.

"Yeah, well, he's one scary dude."

"Hmm? This is the first time I've seen you here..." Lovro said as he looked at Satsuki.

"Hai!" Satsuki responded to Lovro.

"This is Kudou Satsuki; she just came here recently." Karasuma explained.

Lovro stares at Satsuki who stares at him in return, not flinching and unmoving. "Have we met before?"

"That's... I think... kind of impossible sir."

"Really?"

"Indeed."

"My bad, you just look familiar, but... forget it."

"Right." It was a lie, on both sides.

As an assassin, there will be times where they would meet another pro in their field. Sometimes they fight, sometimes they just ignore each other but there are also instances where an assassin works with another especially if the other is hired for additional manpower.

Satsuki did meet Lovro before, but why should she expose herself, or let him expose her?

Besides, Lovro might see her somewhere else, as in that first meeting no one could see Satsuki's face at all, even though she's only standing next to her boss.

"Why Lovro? Is she that familiar?" Karasuma questions, wondering if they really haven't met before, knowing full well that his student is a genuine assassin.

"Kind of or might be I really mistaken her for someone else." Seeing there's no reason to stand near Lovro, Satsuki turns her heel. "Hey..." that dark tone halts her.

"Yes?"

"Ming Yue..." Satsuki's eyes undoubtedly widen but it was for only a mere second, "Do you know her?"

'Min-Yu-huh?' Nagisa who heard got confused.

"Wh-what's that?" Satsuki almost exposed herself, her head tilted with an innocent farce.

"...I see... you're not related to "her"." Satsuki has a sweat drop behind her head as she hears doubt on him.

"Who is this Ming Yue, Lovro?" Karasuma asked him, basing his question on what Lovro had said.

"She's one of the best assassins that I have met. But... she suddenly went missing. Everyone in the underground thinks she's already been perished. If you're interested, you could ask Irina about her. Irina worked with her before."

Satsuki's fist grips tightly on her anti-sensei gun and her lashes lower, her bangs hide her face which fill with pain, but other than Nagisa no one in class ever notices.

"By the way, thank you for your cooperation."

"Making matters worse, I couldn't contact the assassins who'd shown the most promise." Lovro said while Satsuki continued training along with Nagisa and the others.

"Were they scared off, knowing that even the pros had failed?" the male PE Instructor asked,

"Perhaps. Now, all we can do is leave it up to them."

After Lovro asked about Korosensei, he with his dark glory examines the plan of class members that wrote down in the papers.

After finishing today's training Nagisa and Satsuki walk home together.

"In the end, Karma didn't come." Nagisa suddenly spoke.

"You know how lazy he is, Nagisa." Satsuki replied.

"Right..." Nagisa then turns his head to his brunette friend which also turns to him, after feeling his gaze.

"What's wrong Nagisa? Already missing Karma?" Satsuki asked, teasing him with a sly smile of hers, which made Nagisa blush.

"W-why should I miss him?" Nagisa coughed once and returned his gaze to Satsuki "Ne Satsuki... who is "Ming Yue" to you?" his question made Satsuki's sly smile gone and replaced by a faint smile.

"And why did you think "Ming Yue" is a person, rather than a thing?"

"Lovro-san refers to "Ming Yue" as "she", therefore "Ming Yue" is a person. Plus, he said too that she's an assassin best known."

"Eavesdropping are we, Nagisa. Anyways, I don't know her, heck I don't even know that "Ming Yue" is a person!"

"Satsuki..."

"Yea?"

"When you come into our classroom, you're really scary, unlike Karma who enjoys things, your eyes have seemed empty like you're dead. But that has changed as time passes by. I just wanna say that your eyes are going back to those empty ones when you are hiding something or lying." Satsuki's eyes widen,

"Satsuki's eyes weren't that bright when Satsuki was lying." The boss once told her with a gentle smile.

She smiles as she remembers the vague memory.

"I see... I'm really a bad liar, am I?"

"But... if you really don't want to talk about it... I won't forc-"

"I'm really sorry Nagisa, I cannot tell you anything about "Ming Yue" and basically about myself. That's for the best."

"Alright."

At the old school building, Karasuma works on his laptop and Irina is polishing her nails, when Lovro walks in making Irina stand straight from her chair.

"Karasuma, about that student of yours..."

"Nagisa?"

"No. The other one, that Kudou Satsuki."

"What about her, sir?" Irina joins in, interested in the incoming topic about her brunette student.

"Do you know about Vongola?"

"Vongola? You mean the Vongola Corporation?"

"Yes, but the darker side. A strong person from that side put a bounty on that kid's head. Dead, worth ten million whatever your method is."

"Are you sure it is Satsuki?" Lovro then lays out a picture; both teachers look at it and shock to see their student wearing a hooded black jacket, gray undershirt, and black cargo pants.

"If this really is her then there must be assassins targeting her now!" Irina concluded.

"Yea, but having that Target around her, assassins have less chance of killing her." Lovro said.

"But what about when she's alone? Do you think she's aware of the danger?" Irina, believe it or not, is worried about her brunette student.

"But why does Vongola want her dead?" Karasuma asked.

"No reason given... in truth, I'm also curious about it, especially now that the Vongola is being run by its tenth boss who knows as the gentlest boss in history after Vongola Primo."

*****

"Then we'll part ways from here, Nagisa." Satsuki said going to the opposite road to Nagisa's. "See ya!"

While watching his friend walking away from him, he wears a worried expression as he stares at the cemented floor that has a bullet-size hole.

"Satsuki..."