The Arcobaleno

Chapter 9 - The First Encounter

Anastasia huffed out a breath, slowing down her pace once she could no longer feel the tremors of the earth or the voices.

"I completely blame you two for this." She stated, grey eyes staring at the two figures in front of her.

Reborn simply smirked even as Collonello whined loudly. "But why? We did nothing."

"You two showed off during the exams!" The girl accused as she continued to walk through the grounds. "Defeating your opponents in less than 3 minutes, is definitely not nothing."

"But we helped you get perfect grades for the entire semester." The blonde continued, even as he trekked after her.

"Yeah well, I still would've gotten perfect grades even if you held back a little wouldn't I?"

Deciding to step in before the disagreement turned into an outright shouting match, Reborn spoke. "Well, no use getting angry over it now is it? What's done is done."

Anastasia sighed, "True, but I can still complain."

Collonello waved away her words, "Complaining is fine and all but shouldn't we plan of what we're going to do when the government takes action?"

The girl hummed, thoughts already whirring. She had filled in Collonello -and by default the entire gang- last night, receiving various degree of concern and fear. Along with various of advices, in which they basically told her to just kill the government off. Which did not help her dilemma. At all.

"I think we should wait," Anastasia stated, hands idily twisting a small leaf, "they haven't done anything yet and there's nothing we can actually do without proof or provocation."

Reborn hummed thoughtfully by her side, "But we should still take some security measures. In our line of work, waiting often gets us killed."

"As long as I stay in the academy and abide by the rules then they can't touch me." The girl pointed out. "Not unless they want to answer questions from both the school board and the Millefiore family."

Collonello sighed despondently, "Guess, we need to wait until they make their move. And here I wanted to fight them head on."

Anastasia shook her head in a mix of exasperation and tired fondness. "Why are all of you so bloodthirsty? Can't I actually get a normal Miod for once?"

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"...I need to go where now?"

Reborn sighed in annoyance, tugging of his fedora to run his hands through his hair in a desperate gesture. "America. With Collonello."

Anastasia simply continued to stare at him incredulously. The two of them were located inside her dorm room where the girl had been trying to finish up her workload before this -whatever this is- came up.

"Again, why?"

This brought on another sigh, "Because, I have a hit today and no one else is free enough to watch you."

The girl huffed, setting down her pencil and giving up all hope of doing her work. "I can actually just stay here you know, in the academy."

"Not a chance."

'Well, that was shot down rather fast.' She thought to herself even as she replied. "Why not?"

"Because I said so."

Anastasia felt herself twitch in annoyance, glaring at the man she turned to continue her attempts at finishing her work only to find it gone.

"Reborn," she ground out, "give me back my papers."