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Chapter 18: Inheritance Arc 2

Kazami spared an uninterested glance at the tall girl, feeling her rage at being so easily dismissed grow, and confirmed that she too held traces of someone meddling with her mind...
The next moment, Kyoya and Adelheid were rushing toward each other, while Kazami after observing them a few seconds, closed her eyes again – the girl was strong, and her pack-mate would enjoy the fight, but ultimately, he was but playing around. Between their stunt to the future and the training done during the summer, those that were able to compare to them in term of raw strength were far and few. Of course, experience would still be a problem against older opponent - but the girl was a teen, just like them...

By the end of the lunch break, the two fighter were still going at it, and a lot of student were observing the battle from the ground, awed at the idea that someone was skilled enough to fight the disciplinary committee head on – the only other students known for this were, after all, Takeshi and Kazami.

Stretching like a cat, Kazami picked up Padfoot, who after observing the fight for a few minutes had decided too that sleeping was much more interesting, and headed toward the roof door – she was nearly by the door when she felt the transfer student change course and launch a powerful kick toward her back. She snarled, and snatched her leg in the air, throwing her to the ground "Playing around with Kyoya-kun is okay, but let us be clear, girl." she growled, the other struggling under her " You may be used to be at the top of the pecking order back at home, but this won't be the case here, and if you don't learn quickly, you'll find no pity from me."

"Let me go!" ground Adelheid, furious
"Not strong enough to fight against one girl two year younger than you and you want to rule this school?" teased Kazami, her eye belying the light tone "Like I said, I don't mind fighting, but back-stabbing allies, I won't tolerate. So tell me, Simon girl... are you an ally of the Vongola, or should I erase your name from the guest list of the Inheritance Ceremony?"
Her eyes widened a bit – visibly, she hadn't thought the Vongola knew who they were, and she finally managed to get out "Ally."

Kazami nodded, and let the girl go, and Kyoya threw her a disappointed glare as she flew the roof "Hn. Herbivore parading as a carnivore..."
"She could be a true carnivore." corrected Kazami with a sad smile "If her mind wasn't so messed up." she frowned, unhappy "I hope we find who's the one behind this. The three we've seen for now seem like good kids, under that stupid mind-meddling."
"Prey."
"Probably, yes. The timing is such that it would be surprising if the one who's controlling them wasn't the true prey of our current Life Quest..." a lazy smile "But well, let's get to class for now, we'll talk more about this later..."

Takeshi was the one to meet the forth transfer student during club hours – where a tall, blond man had signed up for the baseball club. With his face closed off and his tall frame, he looked more like a hooligan than a Middle School student, and the rest of the club member were too afraid to approach him.
Taking a look at the alone man and the people avoiding him, Takeshi frowned – he didn't like judging on appearances and his instincts, sharpened by hours of practice, told him that this wasn't a bad guy. Smiling, he went to introduce himself under his fellow club members protests...

A few words later, and his impression were confirmed – Mizuno Kaoru may look like a truant, but in truth he was painfully shy and reserved. Takeshi wondered if he too, like the other three transfer students seen by Kazami, had his mind messed up.

[Goal update: 5/7]

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Earlier that day, Tsuna, that had announced that he'd talked to Kozato during the break, had used the lunch break to look for the boy – when he arrived, a few idiots were ganging on the weak looking new student. Tsuna took a look at the situation – and cleared his voice loudly, making the three bullies jump and turn toward him "Scram!" snarled the dumbest looking of the three