Title: Twenty Roads to Eternity
Author: leriko
Written: 7th September 2008 02:00:50 PM
Rating: T
Spoiler: Some parts of the earlier Daily Life Arc and tiny parts of the TYL! Arc.
Character: Gokudera and Haru, mentions of some other characters.
Genre: Drama/Romance
Warning: Tidbits of implied sexual activities in later parts. Not too explicit, though.
Summary: They had a long way from two bickering teenage to true soul mate. Twenty short drabbles divided into four parts about how Gokudera and Haru's relationships developed from the first time they met until… Read if you want to know. Don't forget to review.
Disclaimer: Only own the tears I shed when I wrote the last road.
22/09/08 Edit: Part One betaed!! Thanks to my beta-readers.
The First Road, First Impression
The first time they met, they were still in middle-school. Young and naïve. She was attacking his boss because of some misunderstanding. He attacked her because of some other misunderstanding.
She didn't care about him because she fell in love with his Boss and decided that she was going to be a mafia boss' wife. He thought she was stupid for that.
The Second Road, Stupidity
The second time they argued, he, along with his boss and the baseball-freak, were trying to solve an un-solved math problem. He thought he could solve it because he was a genius. Apparently he couldn't. She tried to helped him… er… his boss solve the math problem because she was somehow a smart girl. Apparently, she couldn't too.
He shouted at her when she said she couldn't solve it after three hours. Both of them thought that they were smarter than the other. While in truth, they were both as smart and as stupid as the other.
The Third Road, Truth and Lie
The third interview she did, so she could get to know her new mafia friends better, was about him. As usual, he was irritated by her quirks and she said that he was an idiot. But after the troublesome interview, she got to know that he was born on September 9th, his blood type was B and his height was 172 cm. She was a little bit unsure if he told her the truth about his height because when she stood beside him, she could still see his green eyes without having to crane her neck too high.
The Fourth Road, Heartbreak
The fourth summer after they met for the first time, both of them stood side by side on their high school's rooftop. She was crying. He was listening to her cry. She just got the news that her beloved Tsuna-san finally confessed to Kyoko-chan and she agreed to be his girlfriend. He was relaxing on the rooftop when he suddenly heard her cry.
She didn't tell him what made her cry, who made her cry or why she was crying. He understood when he saw his beloved boss walking home with Kyoko, holding her hand. She cried louder when he told her she should have seen it coming. He gave her a handkerchief when her tears began pouring out of her eyes like waterfall. Both of them kept silent. She smiled to him when they went on their separate ways after that.
When she reached home, eyes sore and swollen, she thought that he wasn't just a heartless and stupid man after all. He was kind enough to not scream at her about how annoying or stupid she was when she cried. When he saw her close the door, secretly following her home, he thought that she wasn't just a happy-go-lucky girl after all. She could still cry and then smile even after she realized her dream to be a mafia boss' wife was never going to come true.
The Fifth Road, Speechless
The fifth time his boss and so-called best friend told him how unique she was and how he was blind to have not seen it, he snapped and charged up his Storm flames onto the box weapon containing one particularly cute but dangerous kitten like weapon. The cute cat clawed his annoying best friend's face (it did not attack his boss, mind you). There is still the scar the cute cat caused on the swordsman's chin to this day.
His boss really freaked out when he saw the blood pouring down from his Rain Guardian face and asked… begged for his right-hand man's forgiveness. Being a good right-hand man, he obliged. But, when he saw her running towards that sword-freak and looking really worried, he felt a little bit, only a tiny weeny little bit, pang of jealousy.
Usually, if she told him he was an irresponsible, stupid, heartless, selfish, and intolerant jerk, he would scoff at her and tell her she was a stupid woman along with some other swear words. Not that time, though. He was speechless. His Boss and the now injured baseball-idiot were speechless too, but for another reason.
He was speechless because that day, he couldn't find any words to retort back at her and somehow or another, she suddenly looked really different. His Boss and his supposedly best friend were speechless because they were shocked to see him, of all people, speechless.
Author's Note:
These drabbles could be called the summary of my whole fics about Gokudera and Haru. This part one didn't have anything to do with my previous works though. Maybe I'll use some of it for future fics.
I decided not to up-load one drabbles at a time and divide it into four parts instead. I've finished writing until the Eleventh Road and now I'm stuck at the Twelfth Road. DX
Part Two will be up some twenty hours from now. Don't forget to review!!