I Promise - Katekyo Hitman Reborn [COMPLETED]

7: Hibari Kyoya

Hibari Kyoya hated the weak.

His ideology categorised people into two distinct groups-- herbivores and carnivores. No in betweens.

Hibari himself had stood at the top of the foodchain, as a proud carnivore.

And it had been as simple as that.

Him, a carnivore.

The rest; useless, crowding herbivores.

Yet, Sawada Tsunayoshi had been an enigma to him.

Weak, cowardly, noisy.

A herbivore through and through.

But of course, this tiny... foolish herbivore had the aura of a carnivore.

Hibari Kyoya was supposed to hate the weak.

But could you really hate someone like Tsunayoshi? The two sides of him that contradicted each other; an enigma.

And Tsunayoshi was nowhere near weak anyways. To call him that would almost be an insult.

An omnivore, he eventually deduced.

And that was that.

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Hibari had been the one to find the small animal, cold and blue and coloured in that sickly shade of crimson.

He remembered flinching, and his mind going blank, and everything abruptly stopped making sense.

The little animal had been cold and still. Too still, and Hibari had hated the fact that when he had grapsed Tsunayoshi's wrist to find a pulse, he'd found none.

And Tsunayoshi's wrist only felt limp and broken and so, so fragile in his larger and more calloused hands.

"Little animal, are you dead?" He remembered musing, before sighing and scooping the brunet into his arms, "How pathetic, an omnivore like you dying like this."

The fresh pain that stabbed him in the heart threw him off balance momentarily and Hibari was surprised.

How... human of him.

But well, he supposed he should have seen it coming.

No matter how carnivorous, no matter how high up the food chain one was; he was still human.

Painfully, cruelly, human.

In the end, all humans were weak.

And in the end, so was Hibari.

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The sight of Tsunayoshi's peaceful face haunted him, and Hibari found himself feeling more human than he had felt in years.

He hated that feeling of helplessness, knowing that there was nothing more he could do to ease the guilt weighing him down.

And somewhere within him, a traitorous voice whispered, 'This is all your fault.'

There was an unsettling feeling that he was being watched, but time and again he was unable to find any evidence of it being true.

And Hibari eventually chalked it up to paranoia.

But, no matter how hard he tried to shrug away the unease, the feeling never went away.

It was like eyes watching him, whereever he went, no matter how secretive he was.

And Hibari gradually began to feel more and more unnerved, more on-guard.

Well, until he realised just who was the culprit behind it all.