The Handmaiden's Diary (KHR Fan-Fiction)

chapter 40

The morning sky was still dark. I woke up earlier than usual because I could not sleep well. It was already a week after our encounter with Daemon Spade and I could not forget about the old pocket watch he gave me.

I was at my study table and I was looking at the pocket watch attentively. Daemon told me that Vongola Primo had requested a craftsman named Talbot to make seven golden pocket watches for his guardians including himself as a proof of friendship. I assumed that the pocket watches given by Vongola Primo were important to them since Daemon had been keeping his own for a long time.

But why Alaude did not want to keep it? Was it because he did not regard his boss and the guardians as his friends?

"He said that he doesn't want to keep it. It brings nothing but a pain if he still has it."

What kind of pain that Daemon was trying to say? I could not ask more from him after he was defeated by Tsuna and joined Elena in the afterlife world.

As much I wanted to bring it along with me, I was afraid that the Disciplinary Committee members would confiscate it especially Hibari. He would probably ask where did I get that pocket watch. Since it was made with gold, someone else might steal it.

"[Name]! Someone is waiting for you!"

My mother called out and I hastily placing the pocket watch in my drawer. I took my school bag with me and I leave my room. My mother was smiling at me while she was standing nearby the door.

"Mum, who's waiting for me?"

"Well, you should have known better."

I was looking at the clock and it was nearly seven in the morning. Hibari told me that I would not need to go to his house as his grandfather was away for urgent business. But still, the students had to be early for personal belongings check. I went down the stairs and I knew what my mother was talking about.

The same motorcycle was parked near my apartment.

"Kyoya, what are you doing here at this hour?" I asked curiously.

"What else?" Hibari spoke and passed a helmet to me. "I'm fetching you to school."

"But it's still early," I blinked and I was looking at my watch. "Unless you're taking me back to your house-"

He flicked his finger across my forehead in sudden and I flinched.

"Even if there's no one in my house, I still won't allow you to work until you fully recovered. Now hurry up before we're late to school."

I had the feeling that he had something important to do and I did not want to keep him waiting. I put on the helmet and climbed on his motorcycle before we went to school. 

A few students who were coming to school earlier noticed that I was on a motorcycle with Hibari and they were in shock. Why would a student like me end up sticking with the Head of Disciplinary Committee? They would think that I broke the school rules and I needed to be punished.