Chapter Nine
The two had successfully escaped from the Varia hideout and were now at a grass field near Namimori.
"What do you think you are doing!!!??? It's the 15th floor for god's sake!" Aki chided.
"Hehe... But what matters most is that we are alive right?" Ganta laughed sheepishly.
"What if that fall failed!?" Aki told him.
"Well well we are still in one piece. What matters now is that we need to think of an excuse as to why we were truant for the second half of school." Ganta replied while bandaging Aki's leg wound with a piece of cloth from his shirt.
"We will think about that when we reach home." Aki replied as she popped another two painkillers.
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"Do you know where are they?" Yamamoto said as they were nearing the grass field.
"I'm not exactly sure, but I have a feeling that they should be around here somewhere." Tsuna replied while stopping and looking around.
"Super intuition. As expected from the Tenth (*_*)!" Gokudera said.
"There they are!" Tsuna exclaimed.
"Tsuna? But how did you all, I mean why did you all.." Aki asked, trying to find a simpler way to summarise the thousand questions that were floating in her mind.
"I thought something had happened since you suddenly ran off." Tsuna replied.
"Haha, it's nothing much. It's just that this guy got a bit carried off and went around picking fights. He got a bit of a bloody nose but it wasn't so bad." Aki replied.
At that moment, Ganta swiftly kept his gauntlet in his pocket while the rest were busy conversing. However, this movement did not escape the watchful eyes of Gokudera.
"What was that that he stuffed into his pocket? A glove or something? But it seems too big.." Gokudera thought to himself.
"Gokudera-kun! What's wrong with you?" Tsuna asked when he realised that Gokudera was staring into blank space.
"Huh, it's nothing Tenth!" Gokudera replied while managing a grin.
"Hmmm it's kinda late. I think we should all head home. Here are your bags." Yamamoto said and passed Aki and Ganta their school bags.
"We will just say that both of you had an urgent meeting about your family overseas."
"Okay.." Aki replied and started thinking of all the excuses Ganta liked to give when he skipped school.
"Oh I had a stomach ache."
"My dog died."
"I was sneezing and sniffling like crazy."
"Hopefully I do not take this as a habit.." Aki thought to herself. Just then, Ganta sneezed.
"Damn, it's the middle of summer and I'm sneezing. Someone must be cursing me." Ganta said out loud. That made Aki snap back to the present.
"Well, I think we should go now. Bye!" Aki replied and waved at Tsuna and the rest. She then started to drag Ganta along with her without even waiting for their reply.
When Aki and Ganta were far enough, Tsuna started to voice out his doubts.
"Hey, don't you guys think that after this afternoon, both of them are quite evasive from us?" Tsuna said.
"Might be the unfamiliar feeling in a new country." Yamamoto assured Tsuna.
"I guess so.."
Hmm... Something's not right. But what is it? Gokudera thought to himself.
