The Psychics

Genkai twitched.

It ain't every day a really cute little kid visits her temple all by herself, and judging by her appearance, did a lot of sneaking around, taking advantage of her size.

'So ojouchan, why did you come here for?' she asked the little girl.

'Papa's having a guest over, his boss from his job.' the little girl gasped out after drinking cool water given to her since she was very hot, sweaty and panting. 'But I feel really bad...the kind that I should run away and never look back - kind of feeling, obaasan.' she piped up. 'Nothing bad to mama but very very bad for me! I feel it!' she cried. 'This place is safe! I feel it! Nowhere else is safe, my feeling says so!'

'I see...so you won't go home until the bad feeling is gone?'

'Yup! Can I stay here until he's gone? Pretty please?'

Genkai twitched again as the girl blasted her with the kicked puppy-dog eyes look.

It gets better.

The girl is a powerful psychic. Her Intuition is off the charts. And she doesn't even know it. Not only that, she senses another power.

She senses danger to herself and obeys it like gospel...which is good because her power is useless otherwise if she won't heed its counsel, and possibly pay the price by getting the bad thing she sensed. Combined with martial arts, her power is very, very deadly.

Yikes.

Genkai chuckled.

'So what's you name?'

'I'm Sawada Mikumo.' said Mikumo. 'What's your name, obaasan?'

'I'm just an old hermit.' said Genkai. 'My name is Genkai.'

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'Ehhh? OK...OK...sure! I hope she behaves herself over there...' said Nana with a pout. 'She really worried me!'

/Maa maa, kids don't like too much adult stuff around them./ Genkai's voice spoke over the phone. /Kids love fun times, not boring times. I'll bring her home when your husband's business with his boss is over. She surprised me with her visit too you know. I'll let her talk./

/Mama?/

'Miku-chan, you're in for a scolding when you get back, OK?' Nana chided. 'Its OK to visit but at least tell mama first!'

/Ehehehe.../ Mikumo giggled. /Sorry mama but I can't leave when they arrive. I'll come home when they're gone, OK? I hate boring stuff and I'm having fun with obaasan here!/

'But what about school?'

/Oh, just tell them I ate something funny and got sick./

'Mikumo~!'

/Ehehe~/

Needless to say, Vongola Nono isn't sealing away anybody when he got there...

'Miku-chan went to visit an old granny friend?!'

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Well, Genkai had to teach Mikumo what her 'feelings' actually were. That, and they meditated to understand what her second power was.

Its flames, but its a flame that doesn't gain power by adding more and more power to it, but its a flame that gains power based on its user's will. So its stronger if she wants it to be by imagining how strong she wants it, not because she pours more power into it. It doesn't work that way.

However, Genkai also felt a sense of 'being pulled in into a warm embrace of coming home'. But she gently rejected the pull, as she's way too old for the kid she doesn't have much years left, while Mikumo has a long way to go. She had to make her intent clear to the unusual force in Mikumo's flames.

She was curious about it too.

In a week, she was able to teach Mikumo well about her powers, and advised her to learn some fighting before taking her home.

It was a miracle Mikumo got here unscathed, but she's not about to let the kid go home by herself. She was adult fear incarnated when she pulled that stunt of hers...

'I'm home!' Mikumo called out after climbing on top of a trash can and jumped to reach the doorbell and jabbed it three times with a finger before falling back down to the ground.

'Miku-chan!' Iemitsu cried as he went out to get his daughter, and with his kid, was a short old granny with pinkish-gray curly hair in a purple kimono and blue obi. 'Er, you're the granny she's with?'

'Obviously, you whipper-snapper.' Genkai snarked with a smirk as Iemitsu picked up his little girl. 'Well, I'm getting older and its way too quiet in my house, she's a joy to have around.' she said. 'Treat your kid well, brat, or she'll run again.' she chuckled before leaving.

Iemitsu eyed the granny.

She's clearly a Cloud who gently rejected a Sky. Not just any sky, she gently rejected his daughter since Mikumo wasn't suffering the usual symptoms. He thought she felt she was too old for his daughter. Well, its kinda justified...but still, she's one damn powerful Cloud...

Well, the opportunity to hide his daughter away is gone, and he has one day left in this house...

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Years later...

Mikumo grew up to be a very attractive young girl as a result of her quarter-italian lineage and popular in school.

But she was also a mysterious existence to her peers, even if to them, she was a graceful girl.

What was beneath her beauty however, is a powerful fighter as a result of years of training and honing her strength and powers...and every summer, winter and spring breaks, she visits Genkai for training in fighting skills and improving her own prowess that by age 13, her fighting ability is pretty high for her age.

She hides her well-toned legs by wearing a longer skirt variation of the Nami-chuu uniform, and black socks.

Nice try, but P.E shows it off anyway...and as Hibari has a TENDENCY of skipping classes...

He knows a fighter when he sees one, and attacked her much to the disbelief of her class that was doing Volleyball on that day...

Well, cover blown.

'...P.E really is a bad subject for me...how should I know someone like you is in school?' Mikumo moped whiningly as she fought Hibari on even levels. She's holding back, lest she kills the guy...who appears to be enjoying their time together...and he forces his own body in a bid to defeat her but she's years ahead of him...and for some reason, she knows she makes him grow so fast, too...which was SCARY as nobody develops THIS FAST. It took her YEARS, he took minutes!

While she was in utter inner turmoil on how unfair this was, her classmates and teacher forgot the whole thing, too dumbstruck, stunned into silence because last they checked, teenagers aren't superhuman fighters...but Hibari's untrained body eventually caved in from pushing himself so hard but it speaks volumes of Hibari's potential...had he been actually trained.

What his weakness was, was his own body that it fails to catch up to his mind. His mind as a fighter, is too fast. His mind also processes things too fast that in mental speed and reflexes, he quickly caught up to her.

His body on the other hand, was what's expected of a male teen his age who doesn't hold back.

'...wao...' Hibari gasped out very hard from panting from exhaustion. He was also sweating heavily compared to Mikumo who only has a thin film of sweat.

'...you're good but your body is untrained...by forcing yourself just to catch up to me, its only natural you spent your body to the extremes...and you'll be absent from school for a while, no thanks to the ancestor of all muscle pains imaginable in a few hours...well, you only have yourself to blame for that.' Mikumo chuckled. 'Unlike you, I trained for years.' she informed him in a cutesy coy pose. 'Have fun in bed later~' she said with a beaming, bright smile in a cheerful manner.

Hours later, Hibari felt she cursed him because by sundown...

His whole body was in utter pain!

His back!

His shoulders!

His thighs!

EVERYTHING save for his head and groin hurt.

But despite his pain, all that's in his head, was that super-strong girl in school.

In his eyes...

She was beautiful(as a fighter).

She was powerful.

Graceful.

Has immense confidence that she would never falter or lose.

He grinned ferally.

He'll defeat her, one way or another!

xxx

At school the next day...

Like Hibari, students gave her a nervous wide berth.

"It spread out in no time flat..." Mikumo sweatdropped while smiling serenely.

Yes, since the second week of Prelims...she is just as feared by her school. Hibari recovered and continued fighting her.

But it seems he learned his lessons of overexertion, and settled for gaining battle experience instead.

Along the way, respect was earned, too and Hibari pretty much felt at home with her...unaware that he was effectively snagged.

Only, it was he who willingly went to her, not the other way around when usually, its a Sky who reaches out.

Not that both teens knew that anyway...and routine was that he would ambush her every after classes and they would fight.

However, its not only Hibari whose mind was fast in battle...

Since that day in boys VS girls class, a boy was also able to follow with his eyes, too.

He could not get the fight out of his mind, too. His mind kept processing their speed over and over that eventually days later, he was getting used to it little by little unlike Hibari's comprehension that was way too fast...

He too, was attracted, but not quite yet snagged...