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Title: The Dynamics of Crowding
Author: K8
Pairing: ...Hibari/Shouichi if you squint REALLY HARD.
Rating: PG (zomg I know)
Summary: Hibari's been part of Namimori since he was young... Shouichi used to know Hibari, does know Hibari, will always know Hibari...
The first time Shouichi meets Hibari, he has just started elementary school. Shouichi is six, and is very bad at making friends. Namimori Elementary looms over Shouichi, a mass of dark red brick and eerie windows. His mother never sent him to Pre-school, and kindergarten had not prepared Shouichi for the rush of children pushing each other around. Shouichi flinches slightly when a boy near him is flung against the wall. He looks up over the thick rims of his glasses to look into the fuzzy face of Hibari Kyouya.
"Ah." Shouichi pushes his glasses up, and Hibari's sharp little face comes into focus. Shouichi cannot ascertain Hibari's age, he is too big to be a first year, but might be a second or a third. Hibari looks angry, both at Shouichi, and the boy next to him who is wailing and holding his arm. Shouichi can see that it has bruised.
"You." Hibari points an imperious finger at him. He has yet to take up the tonfa in public, but is training after school. "Stop *crowding*, herbivore." Hibari speaks with a slight lisp, but Shouichi is too busy peeing his pants to comment on it.
Hibari does not follow him around school, skulking in his shadow, but Shouichi finds himself running into the other boy quite often. Hibari lives in an apartment building near his own, though Shouichi never asks where and never sees Hibari with an adult, and Hibari's class breaks tend to coincide with Shouichi's. Hibari likes to nap on the school roof, which is off limits, and it takes Shouichi several weeks before he remembers not to sneak up to the roof to stare at cloud formations. At lunch time Shouichi becomes King Hibari's favorite subject, Shouichi is always quick to give up his lunch money and never complains. For some reason this seems to mean that they are 'friends', the teachers tell Shouichi things that Hibari needs to hear, and some of the bigger, rougher students crowd Shouichi and 'punish' him for Hibari's transgressions.
Hibari never steps in to save Shouichi, though the bigger students often get beat up afterwards.
Two years after Shouichi has started at Namimori Elementary Hibari moves on to junior high, and Shouichi breaths a sigh of relief, happy to be rid of him. Shouichi fades back into the background, no longer 'Hibari's friend' but now 'Irei-kun' or 'that glasses kid'. Shouichi's nightmares fade after the first year of separation, with the knowledge that Hibari will never attend class with him again. Hibari is 3 years older than he is, and this means they will never meat up in junior high or high school. Shouichi is young, but he dreams of going to a foreign university, and studying astronomy. He wants to go into space.
Time moves on, and things change.
Shouichi spends a blissful six years of being a nobody. He is acknowledged for his talent with science, and math, but Shouichi's ideas are far-fetched. He dreams of going into space, of time travel, of things like quantum mechanics and the affects of the sun's gravity on light. It is beyond his teacher's comprehension, and Shouichi knows that it is beyond his as well. But Shouichi still dreams. He is not the top of his class, Shouichi finds most homework boring, and does not do it. Shouichi plays no sports, and he joins the Chemistry club only to quit the next day. Shouichi spends six blissful years not having to worry about anything or anyone but himself.
Things change, Shouichi meets Hibari again, at Namimori High.
Shouichi does not know about the disciplinary head when he enters Namimori High, though he is informed soon after. Everyone knows about Hibari Kyouya, an extremely strong and opinionated high school student who forces even the townsfolk to bow to him. Shouichi does not connect the dots, from Hibari Kyouya, to the bratty Hibari from his elementary school. After all, Hibari is three years older, he should have graduated by the time Shouichi entered Nami High.
Right?
Wrong.
Shouichi spends too much time in the computer room one day. He does not have a computer at home, so he makes use of the computer room to work things through. Shouichi is hoping to enter an international robotics competition, and there is paperwork he needs to fill out, along with a robot he needs to build. Shouichi carries a flash drive filled with blueprints and schematics and PDF files around with him everywhere. Shouichi spends too much time in the computer room, and he does not realize that everyone else has left until he hears the sound of the door fly open and bang into the wall loud enough to be heard of Shouichi's music. Shouichi starts, his fingers hovering over the keyboard, Shouichi's headphones slip backwards to fall off of his head and sit on his shoulders, blaring the single of a new band Blood + Pepper.
"The school is closed." Hibari Kyouya is no less menacing in his wrath than when he was a child. He is, in fact, even scarier. If Shouichi was still six he might wet his pants again. "You are breaking school rules."
"I'm-" Shouichi fumbles to shut down the computer. Two tonfa appear in Hibari's hands, and Shouichi trips over the computer chair, crawling backwards on his hands and knees. "I'm sorry?"
Hibari does not smirk. "I am going to bite you to death."
Shouichi ends up with a pair of broken glasses (his first broken pair, since Hibari graduated elementary school), a bloody nose, and several cracked ribs. There are bruises up and down Shouichi's arms, defensive wounds from where he tried to block. Shouichi's mother frets, worries, wonders if she should have sent Shouichi to that private school. After all, Shouichi was going to be getting a little scholarship from them… then she becomes distracted by Shouichi's father, and Shouichi is left to clean up the rest of his wounds on his own. They heal, in time, and it is a badge of honor. You cannot really be a student of 'Namimori' unless Hibari has shown you what for.
Shouichi begins to see Hibari everywhere. He sees Hibari napping on a bench in the park, or asleep in the stacks at the library, Shouichi sees Hibari buying juice from Shouichi's usual supermarket, and beating up punks in alleyways. Shouichi wonders how he could have missed Hibari's presence before, or if he was subconsciously ignoring it. The distinctive band of white and red on Hibari's black uniform is impossible to ignore. Shouichi's lunch money begins to disappear again, though it is obvious that Hibari does not even need to bother with the pretext of paying the lunch ladies. They seem to know where the money is coming from; Shouichi gets extra servings of curry on curry day.
The roof top is once again off limits, and Shouichi misses middle school when he could go up there and stare at the clouds… so long as none of his seniors were up there. Namimori students tend to lean towards 'thuggish' as opposed to Shouichi's 'intellectual' bent. Shouichi stands outside the grounds sometimes, near the wall where everyone smokes, and stares up at the clouds. They are further away, from down there.
Shouichi gets beaten up by Hibari a total of three times before Lambo flies crashing through his wall and things change… again.
Things change, and things change, and things will always change. Time and people are not static, they are dynamic, and they will forever be changing. Shouichi changes, Namimori changes, the world changes.
There is Byakuran.
The last time Shouichi sees Hibari Kyouya, in the flesh, and not footage from a spy camera soon to be destroyed, he is standing in a room waiting for Sawada Tsunayoshi. Hibari lazes on a divan, looking indolent and composed at the same time. He wears a suit, like a good mafiosa, but Hibird perches on the tip of his finger, and there is an air around Hibari that reminds Shouichi of Spanner's Japanese obsession. Hibari, even in an Italian tailored suit, will always be a dangerous, Japanese man.
"Have you learned anything about crowding, Herbivore?"
Author: K8
Pairing: ...Hibari/Shouichi if you squint REALLY HARD.
Rating: PG (zomg I know)
Summary: Hibari's been part of Namimori since he was young... Shouichi used to know Hibari, does know Hibari, will always know Hibari...
The first time Shouichi meets Hibari, he has just started elementary school. Shouichi is six, and is very bad at making friends. Namimori Elementary looms over Shouichi, a mass of dark red brick and eerie windows. His mother never sent him to Pre-school, and kindergarten had not prepared Shouichi for the rush of children pushing each other around. Shouichi flinches slightly when a boy near him is flung against the wall. He looks up over the thick rims of his glasses to look into the fuzzy face of Hibari Kyouya.
"Ah." Shouichi pushes his glasses up, and Hibari's sharp little face comes into focus. Shouichi cannot ascertain Hibari's age, he is too big to be a first year, but might be a second or a third. Hibari looks angry, both at Shouichi, and the boy next to him who is wailing and holding his arm. Shouichi can see that it has bruised.
"You." Hibari points an imperious finger at him. He has yet to take up the tonfa in public, but is training after school. "Stop *crowding*, herbivore." Hibari speaks with a slight lisp, but Shouichi is too busy peeing his pants to comment on it.
Hibari does not follow him around school, skulking in his shadow, but Shouichi finds himself running into the other boy quite often. Hibari lives in an apartment building near his own, though Shouichi never asks where and never sees Hibari with an adult, and Hibari's class breaks tend to coincide with Shouichi's. Hibari likes to nap on the school roof, which is off limits, and it takes Shouichi several weeks before he remembers not to sneak up to the roof to stare at cloud formations. At lunch time Shouichi becomes King Hibari's favorite subject, Shouichi is always quick to give up his lunch money and never complains. For some reason this seems to mean that they are 'friends', the teachers tell Shouichi things that Hibari needs to hear, and some of the bigger, rougher students crowd Shouichi and 'punish' him for Hibari's transgressions.
Hibari never steps in to save Shouichi, though the bigger students often get beat up afterwards.
Two years after Shouichi has started at Namimori Elementary Hibari moves on to junior high, and Shouichi breaths a sigh of relief, happy to be rid of him. Shouichi fades back into the background, no longer 'Hibari's friend' but now 'Irei-kun' or 'that glasses kid'. Shouichi's nightmares fade after the first year of separation, with the knowledge that Hibari will never attend class with him again. Hibari is 3 years older than he is, and this means they will never meat up in junior high or high school. Shouichi is young, but he dreams of going to a foreign university, and studying astronomy. He wants to go into space.
Time moves on, and things change.
Shouichi spends a blissful six years of being a nobody. He is acknowledged for his talent with science, and math, but Shouichi's ideas are far-fetched. He dreams of going into space, of time travel, of things like quantum mechanics and the affects of the sun's gravity on light. It is beyond his teacher's comprehension, and Shouichi knows that it is beyond his as well. But Shouichi still dreams. He is not the top of his class, Shouichi finds most homework boring, and does not do it. Shouichi plays no sports, and he joins the Chemistry club only to quit the next day. Shouichi spends six blissful years not having to worry about anything or anyone but himself.
Things change, Shouichi meets Hibari again, at Namimori High.
Shouichi does not know about the disciplinary head when he enters Namimori High, though he is informed soon after. Everyone knows about Hibari Kyouya, an extremely strong and opinionated high school student who forces even the townsfolk to bow to him. Shouichi does not connect the dots, from Hibari Kyouya, to the bratty Hibari from his elementary school. After all, Hibari is three years older, he should have graduated by the time Shouichi entered Nami High.
Right?
Wrong.
Shouichi spends too much time in the computer room one day. He does not have a computer at home, so he makes use of the computer room to work things through. Shouichi is hoping to enter an international robotics competition, and there is paperwork he needs to fill out, along with a robot he needs to build. Shouichi carries a flash drive filled with blueprints and schematics and PDF files around with him everywhere. Shouichi spends too much time in the computer room, and he does not realize that everyone else has left until he hears the sound of the door fly open and bang into the wall loud enough to be heard of Shouichi's music. Shouichi starts, his fingers hovering over the keyboard, Shouichi's headphones slip backwards to fall off of his head and sit on his shoulders, blaring the single of a new band Blood + Pepper.
"The school is closed." Hibari Kyouya is no less menacing in his wrath than when he was a child. He is, in fact, even scarier. If Shouichi was still six he might wet his pants again. "You are breaking school rules."
"I'm-" Shouichi fumbles to shut down the computer. Two tonfa appear in Hibari's hands, and Shouichi trips over the computer chair, crawling backwards on his hands and knees. "I'm sorry?"
Hibari does not smirk. "I am going to bite you to death."
Shouichi ends up with a pair of broken glasses (his first broken pair, since Hibari graduated elementary school), a bloody nose, and several cracked ribs. There are bruises up and down Shouichi's arms, defensive wounds from where he tried to block. Shouichi's mother frets, worries, wonders if she should have sent Shouichi to that private school. After all, Shouichi was going to be getting a little scholarship from them… then she becomes distracted by Shouichi's father, and Shouichi is left to clean up the rest of his wounds on his own. They heal, in time, and it is a badge of honor. You cannot really be a student of 'Namimori' unless Hibari has shown you what for.
Shouichi begins to see Hibari everywhere. He sees Hibari napping on a bench in the park, or asleep in the stacks at the library, Shouichi sees Hibari buying juice from Shouichi's usual supermarket, and beating up punks in alleyways. Shouichi wonders how he could have missed Hibari's presence before, or if he was subconsciously ignoring it. The distinctive band of white and red on Hibari's black uniform is impossible to ignore. Shouichi's lunch money begins to disappear again, though it is obvious that Hibari does not even need to bother with the pretext of paying the lunch ladies. They seem to know where the money is coming from; Shouichi gets extra servings of curry on curry day.
The roof top is once again off limits, and Shouichi misses middle school when he could go up there and stare at the clouds… so long as none of his seniors were up there. Namimori students tend to lean towards 'thuggish' as opposed to Shouichi's 'intellectual' bent. Shouichi stands outside the grounds sometimes, near the wall where everyone smokes, and stares up at the clouds. They are further away, from down there.
Shouichi gets beaten up by Hibari a total of three times before Lambo flies crashing through his wall and things change… again.
Things change, and things change, and things will always change. Time and people are not static, they are dynamic, and they will forever be changing. Shouichi changes, Namimori changes, the world changes.
There is Byakuran.
The last time Shouichi sees Hibari Kyouya, in the flesh, and not footage from a spy camera soon to be destroyed, he is standing in a room waiting for Sawada Tsunayoshi. Hibari lazes on a divan, looking indolent and composed at the same time. He wears a suit, like a good mafiosa, but Hibird perches on the tip of his finger, and there is an air around Hibari that reminds Shouichi of Spanner's Japanese obsession. Hibari, even in an Italian tailored suit, will always be a dangerous, Japanese man.
"Have you learned anything about crowding, Herbivore?"