Butterfly Kisses Part 1

Chapter 29: School Walk

A thick, cold frost enveloped an alleyway close to the Phoenix Bar, shrouding two figures in the night.

"Lobo, I have a task for you." Frozen wisps of hair trickled past her bright blue eyes and curling around her ears. "There is a target we'd like you to terminate. She is a student at U.A so I trust you know what to do."

"I have someone who can help. Who's the target?"

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05:00am

It was about 05:00am when Hiko shot up, startled from another nightmare. Because of the incident yesterday, every time she closed her eyes an image of her grandmother's bloodied corpse filled her head. Then almost every night, if she hadn't woken up before then, the image turned into mist and reappeared as a crazy Hiko, also covered in blood. She only got half an hour of sleep that night, mostly because she continued to cradle her Pichu plushie like a little babe.

Tears ran down her neck again and she sobbed. Thankfully Kaiyo heard her weeps, ran into Hiko's room (with tissues) and immediately hugged her, cradling her the same way Hiko cradled her Pichu plushie.

"It's okay, it's okay. I'm here now. Deep breaths, remember?" Kaiyo spoke softly as she took Hiko's tears and placed them onto the tissue on the bed.

"Sorry I just..." She took a few quick breaths in an attempt to stop the crying, "I had another nightmare."

"It's okay, don't worry about it. We have a few hours before we need to leave to go to school."

After a few minutes of sobbing Hiko forced herself to stop and opened her wardrobe. Her school uniform was right next to the clothes she'd worn at the bowling alley. Grabbing the hangers, she took her blazer, skirt and shirt out and lay them on her bed. Her tie was lying over the back of her chair so she grabbed that and tossed it onto the pile that was her school uniform. Her socks followed, since she hated wearing tights.

"Not wearing tights today?" Kaiyo questioned from the door.

"Nope. I don't like wearing them on school days." Hiko replied, waving her socks in Kaiyo's face.

"Right. Well breakfast is ready so you might as well eat it now."

"Fine." She said, walking down the stairs to be greeted by a bowl of cereal.

"Coco pops, my favourite." She tried to sound happy but it didn't work.

"Hiko what's wrong? You're not acting like yourself today." Kaiyo was obviously worried about her friend.

"I'm just tired. I'll be fine after some fresh air." Hiko replied.

After finishing their breakfast, the two of them got changed into their school uniform, grabbed their bags and hurried out the door. U.A wasn't that far from where they lived, so they took the time to meet up with Kugutsu and Okami before resuming the journey to school.

"Any of you got any plans for the weekend?" Kaiyo asked with a smile plastered on her face.

"Well me and Kugutsu are going to go to the zoo on Sunday and Kugutsu's coming round mine on Sunday!!" Okami declared loudly.

"What about you Hiko?" Kugutsu asked.

"Going to meet with someone." She muttered under her breath.

"What was that?" The others could barely hear what she said.

"I'm going to be working with Snatch over the weekend." She had no choice, she had to lie. No-one else should know about what was really going on.

"I'm working too." A soft voice spoke from above them. Pale skin parted to let the words escape. Yellow eyes almost as bright as the sun looked at the four of them.

"Hi Mitsuki! When did you get here?" Kaiyo waved to him.

"I noticed the four of you so I decided to say hello." He smiled.

A good few minutes of chatting passed until they finally arrived at the school gates. Just ahead of them was Tamaki, walking alone. Kaiyo pushed Hiko towards him so she had no choice but to keep on walking towards him.

'Just one more day and then I can talk about my parents.' Hiko thought.

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"I have a target for you to get rid of. The Dragon's Table demands it." Lobo's rough voice echoed through someone's phone.

"Who is it?" Another, softer voice replied.

"Hiko Suimin. Make sure you get the job done."

"Yes Lobo."

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That is the end of this chapter. It's pretty boring, I didn't have a lot of motivation to write this chapter. But hey ho, I wrote it.