#tokimiatta

┏Xanxus yawns, having being awoken from a nap, and at the first sign of bloodlust, his trained movements acted before his consciousness fully roused from the interrupted slumber. Somewhat still hazy, eyes lazily look around to see a cacophonous scene playing out before him.

Useless trash, the lot of them.

The annoying trash were the ones who were crowded about for one single purpose- to watch a show.

A low rumble of mirth bubbling from his chest, he couldn’t help but find this welp that finally grew some balls was amusing.

“Finally grew a pair, huh? You don’t need the bucking horse to start your battles for you, babysitting you from the sidelines, anymore?”

Aoobaaa ~ come play with him, he is bored. ( hi there, i hope you are doing well! )

But right now, in this moment... the tangibility of those adult things - pain, and the desperation to escape it - are hitting her full force. She never imagined her heart could feel so bad. It's such a heavy, awful sensation... and though she's experienced similar emotions only once before, she'd almost managed to forget them - or at least, she'd forgotten exactly how they felt, under her skin and in her soul.

"...Mmm..." Ib hums uncertainly as she looks up at Garry, unable to find the words she wants to say. Has Garry really forgotten her? Even though he was always so kind... maybe, just like the adults have told her over and over, what happened back then wasn't real at all. Just her mind playing tricks on her. That thought scares her, but she's too distracted by her bewildered sorrow to really focus on it.

"Garry... please don't say that. Lying is bad. You... you do remember me, don't you?"

((Continued from the sideblog, Haru is def on speed dial for some people because she can at least somewhat placate Hibari from going off the rails.

If Dino and or Xanxus visit, Kusakabe probably notifies her to come over so she sits there wondering... 'why?'

So she just reads through documents as everyone just exists and probably bickers. They have enough sense to not go too crazy overboard with her around out of consideration for her.

HOWEVER, the hidden factor that Kusakabe often forgets- Haru is sassy. She doesn't think before she talks when she gets annoyed. There is a decent percentage she starts sassing Xanxus off and then it's Dino that becomes the peacemaker.

Examples of things she may have said before:

"Hahi? OHHH Haru just realized, you must be the 'Boss of the Monkeys' that Boss mentions from time to time. You ran away last time and you're mouthing off? Bold... Haru respects." "Ehhh...? Why is he so angry every time he visits, acting like one of those jilted women in Haru's dramas?" < Whispered "Dino-san, why did you bring Romario-san over if you didn't want a fight?" Boss only has interest when you're not useless goes unspoken.

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Dino’s pleasant smile falters a second with Hibari’s question. Silence fills the air between them as he carefully considers how to answer the question. “I know my limits.”

That was not an answer to the question, but it was the one Dino was going with. Who was to say how the rest of the night may go? Perhaps he shall remain sober and witness Hibari getting drunk, or perhaps the opposite may hold true.

Maybe neither will become drunk and they’ll have a pleasant conversation. A Bucking Horse Dino could dream. “What’s new with you these days, Kyouya?”

"Hm? Kyouya is in Italy right now?" He hasn't come to visit him, though? That brat. (No matter how much time passes, Hibari is still affectionally regarded as his troublesome brat of a pupil)