I don't know if Japanese people actually celebrate New Year with fireworks, but in my country it is. Actually it started since 9 p.m. until 1 a.m. (sometimes it's so loud that makes me can't sleep).
Hibari grunted in annoyance as the blasted loud day finally come: the New Year Eve. It's the only time beside Summer Festival that people using fireworks without fear that they will disturb people, since almost everyone is celebrating the day. The blast and light from the fireworks is enough to make the once calm night turns bright like the day. And loud too. The constant explosion sound from the fireworks and cheering of people in town leaving the prefect insomniac. After all, who can sleep with that kind of sound blaring nonstop?
He is not in mood to patrolling, as he knew that crowds will be everywhere, and nothing he does will make them dispersed. It seems that the joy from the changing year is enough to make them null from him. He orders the Disciplinary Committee, with Tetsu replacing him for today, to patrol the town.
"Hibari! Hibari!" his pet's chirping sound calming him a bit. The little fluffy bird seems to be in edge, as it too can't sleep from all the sound. The bird actually squeaked in surprise on the start of the fireworks, and has calming down now. Though every now and then, it will chirp disapprovingly at some especially loud explosion.
Midori tamabiku~~ namimori no~~
That isn't the sound of Hibird. Hibari patted his blanket as he searched for his cell phone. Finally found them, he flipped it open and frowned when he didn't recognize the caller ID. Only Tetsu knows his number, so who is it? If it's some prank, Hibari will make sure the prankster regret calling him in the first place.
He ignored it, and about to continue his reading when the same number call him again. Hibari stared at his cell phone for a while, until finally on the third call, he pick it up, "Who is this?"
"Hi-Hibari-san! Thank God you finally answered!" he heard some mumble of, "I'm saved from Reborn's bullet…."
"What do you want, Sawada Tsunayoshi." He is contemplating to end the call, but maybe he or that baby have something interesting (and interesting to him is a fight, or something to vent his anger on), "If it's only wasting my time, you better be prepared."
Hibari put the phone on a safe distance from his ear when Tsuna shrieked in fear, now that makes him irritated. He can faintly hear Tsuna's apologizing words and request, "Re-Reborn told me to invite you watching fireworks to-together….he said that the family have to bond together at time like these…."
"Not interested." And when Hibari is about to end the call, he can hear Tsuna's panicked sound.
"B-but, he is already coming to your place to pick you up-!" and the call ended. He? Who is that herbivore use to pick him up? No matter, he is not interested anyway. He hates crowding, and Hibari knows that he is not the only one to be invited. After all, that baby said the Family, and though he despised to be putted in the same group as those herbivores, he has already remembered each one of the Family member. Without doubt, everyone will be there tonight.
Hibari picks up his book and continue on reading while sometime stroking Hibird's soft feather when he hear the bell of his home. A guest, at this time? And again, who will come here? He already told Tetsu to give the reports tomorrow morning, so it can't be him. No way that his parent is inviting someone without telling him first. The neighborhood is already learned the hard way to not disturbing the home of the skylark without something important.
And then he remembered, Sawada Tsunayoshi told him before he ended the call that someone is going to his place to pick him up. So, this uninvited guest must be someone from that herbivore's group. Hibari is intent on ignoring the guest, when the said guest ringing the bell repeatedly and impatiently. The sound making Hibari growled and picks up his black haori[1] and tonfas. He is wearing his black pajamas, as he doesn't have any intention of going anywhere tonight. Hibari walked to the front door of his house in intention to bite that rude guest to death for disturbing him, with Hibird following him silently.
Hibari slides the door opened quite roughly and slams his tonfa to the guest face….at least it should be if his guest didn't quickly dodge it. Hibari is shocked though, when he see his uninvited guest.
"Oya oya, that is not the way to treat your guest, Kyoya~" Mukuro smirks a bit, "After all, I have voted myself to pick you up from your nest, skylark."
"Rokudo Mukuro…." Hibari glared at the ever smirking man, "Why you are here?"
Mukuro sighed, "It seems that on Christmas ago, my dear cute Chrome make a wish to Santa Claus. She wished so that I can be freed from my prison. And as you can see now, Kyoya, I'm free."
"Stop talking in such nonsense, Mukuro." It is Hibari's turn to smirk, "Now that you are free, I can finally bite you to death!" Hibari attacked again, not going to let this waited moment to pass without using it.
"I'm not really free though." Mukuro dodge again, and he showed Hibari a bracelet in his hand, "The Vendicare is still keeping an eye for me. If I even showed any sign of treason to Vongola, I will be captured once again." He scowled at the bracelet on his hand, "And I won't be able to run, as this tracker will keep me in their hands."
Hibari stared at the bracelet for a moment, "And you let yourself be caged like that, that is pitiful, illusionist." Though Hibari doesn't feel any pity towards the cunning boy in front of him.
"I can't release this bracelet, as the Vongola also hold the other one of my chain." Mukuro stopped at that, just looks at Hibari with a tired expression, "So, I can't fight with you with all of my power. I can't harm any Vongola either."
Mukuro's chain is his subordinates. Chrome, Ken, and Chikusa. The only reason why Vendicare hasn't yet captured them is because Vongola is protecting them. If now Mukuro attacks them again, Vongola will lift their protection from them, and who knows what Vendicare will do to them in order to control Mukuro. It's ironic to say at least, that the only bond he has with human (and the only thing that is stopping him from making his dream come true) now is chaining him from any freedom he had.
"I'm not a Vongola." Hibari said suddenly, startling Mukuro, "Don't group me together with them, and fight me, illusionist."
"You're a Vongola. More importantly, you're the Vongola Cloud Guardian." Mukuro pointed at Hibari's Vongola Cloud Ring on his finger.
Hibari looks at the ring on his finger, before shrugged, "So?" Hibari without any hesitation, pulled the ring from his finger, and throw it away. The ring clattering soundly to the cemented road, and it lay there, reflecting the light from the fireworks.
Mukuro is shocked at how Hibari can easily toss away the Vongola Ring, which holds great power and practically the most wanted thing in the mafia world, "Are you serious?"
"Even without those, I can fight you." He knows that this Mukuro is different from the Mukuro he met when he is in the future. This Mukuro, even though has the memory from the ten years later Mukuro, never experienced any box weapon. Unlike Mukuro, he prefers to fight fairly.
"Kufufufu…." But to Hibari's surprise and annoyance, the illusionist started laughing, "Kuhahahaha!" he laughed until tears coming out from his eyes, "Really, Hibari Kyoya! You are really one of a kind, kufufufu…"
"Stop laughing and fight me, illusionist." Hibari's patience is wearing thin….and again, his patience is always tested when he confronted the blue haired boy before him.
Mukuro's mismatched eyes filled with amusement, "Oya? But today is New Year Eve, Kyoya. It's not good to fight on the countdown of the New Year."
"You always have excuses." But Hibari store his weapons away, knowing that Mukuro won't fight today, "So, what do you want now?"
"Well, Tsunayoshi-kun told me too picked you up….but it's not an order, so I can ditch it up." Mukuro walks nearing him, "You don't like crowds, but two surely not a crowd. How about accompany me watching the fireworks?"
"Why should I do that?" Hibari turned around, about to enter his house, when Mukuro's voice stopped him, "I will fight you again, with all my might, if you do that."
Hibari glanced back, "I just need to accompany you?"
Mukuro smirked, "It's so easy to convince you, Kyoya." He chuckled at the cold glare the prefect give him, "Do you know a place where we can watch the fireworks without anyone else?"
"….wait here."
"Well….why should I be surprised?" Mukuro chuckled as the Vongola Cloud Guardian brings him to Namimori Middle School. After Hibari changed to his winter clothes [2], he wordlessly takes him here. It took some time to get there, and all the while on the road there, they keep silent except Mukuro's usual teasing and Hibari's usual threats or grunts.
Hibari easily jumped the school's gate and using a copy key, opened the glass door of the school and get inside, not waiting for Mukuro. Mukuro sighed before jumped the gate and run a bit to follow the prefect.
"I assume this is not your first time trespassed the school?" Mukuro asked, not actually expecting Hibari to answered, but to his surprise, Hibari did.
"This is my territory, so it's not a trespass." Hibari said indifferently as he leads Mukuro towards the roof. He used another copy key to opens the door, and as they walked to the steel fence of the roof, Mukuro noticed that the school has the view of entire town. The fireworks blasting on the distance makes the night sky illuminated with endless color. The stars and the moon are covered from the black clouds, but the fireworks make a great displacement for it.
"You are hooking this place all by yourself?" Mukuro sits on the floor, enjoying the view, "Not a bad choice though."
"You already know this place too." Hibari remains standing, as he watched the fireworks. He doesn't mind the light, but he hates the sound. If only those fireworks are a lot more quiet….
Suddenly, something is shoved in front of his face. Hibari quickly take a step back, and looks at smirking Mukuro, "What is that?"
"I don't know what it is called, but it's a firework too. Want to try?" before Hibari can reply, Mukuro already pulled a lighter from his pocket, and pulled one of the fireworks and lit it. The firework quickly burnt and emitting sparks of light. Mukuro hold it in one of his hand, and with the other, giving one to Hibari, "It's not as flashy as those everyone used, but it's a quieter than those rocket ones."
"Are you a little child?" Hibari watched as Mukuro crouched down on the floor, content in watching the tiny sparks of light.
"Well, I don't have the luxury of watching fireworks when I'm little." Mukuro smirked, "I lived poor before my parent sold me to those mafias. And in those lab, you will never see these sparks of light." He told them like those haunting past means nothing to him.
Hibari watched in silence, as Mukuro almost pouted, almost, as his firework runs out. He sighed and gets another one, before lit it up. He looks at Hibari who still not lit his firework, before using his firework to lit Hibari's firework. In no time, both of the fireworks lit, and Mukuro ushered Hibari to sit down. They watch in silence, as both of the fireworks runs out, and replaced with new ones. The silence is comfortable to both of them, as they watch the sparks of light.
Hibari breaks the silence by flipped open his cell phone to see the time, "It's almost countdown."
"Is that so?" Mukuro stretched before standing up and looks at the night sky, "Time sure is flowing fast." He can hear the town's people shouting the countdown, "Oya? They started."
10….9….8….
"Kyoya?" Mukuro called without looking at him, "Thanks for bringing me here."
"Hmm…" Hibari just nodded, not bothering to look at Mukuro. He keeps his eyes on the town.
7…6…5….
Mukuro chuckled, "You know, it seems I enjoy our time together more than I should." He finally looking at Hibari, "I will look forward to our match later."
Hibari smirks at that, "You better prepare for your lost, illusionist."
4….3….2….
"So confident to beat me, aren't you?" Mukuro smiled, a true smile for once, "But, maybe I've already lose something to you."
"What do you mean, Muku—" but his words are cut off when he noticed that Mukuro slowly leaned into him, their faces just inches apart. Puff of hot breaths in the night air mingled together as two pair of lips slowly nearing each other….
1….0…!
As the first firework is being shot to the sky, Hibari froze as a pair of warm, soft lips capturing his own in a chaste, sweet kiss, before the owner of those lips backed away as soon as those lips touched his.
Mukuro turned his head towards the night sky which illuminated with bright colors from so many fireworks shot together. The amount of fireworks is enough to make the sky looks like raining with shooting stars. The light created shapes of flowers that bloomed in the sky, and Mukuro smiled at how beautiful the scenery is. He is grateful that humankind can still create something so beautiful, even if they are corrupted.
Hibari doesn't do anything but just stare in shock at Mukuro. But seeing the contented smile on his nemesis's lips, and glint of happiness in those mismatched eyes….Hibari only looks back towards the night sky, and watches the fireworks in silence.
Tsuna and the other is about to pray at the shrine. Everyone is laughing and happy, but Tsuna is slightly depressed. In the end, neither Hibari nor Mukuro come at all. He can't call on Hibari's cell phone too, and as Mukuro doesn't have one, he can't ask what happened. Well, at least everyone else is with him now. And he glanced shyly at Gokudera, who keeps grinning at him as he holds his hand in his.
"What's wrong, Tenth? You look slightly out of it today." Gokudera asked with concern in his eyes, smile changed into frown.
"Ah, nothing. Just wondering about Hibari-san and Mukuro." Tsuna admitted with a sigh. He knows that it was a bad idea to let Mukuro pick Hibari up…..
Chrome beamed him a smile, "Don't worry, bossu. Mukuro-sama has informed what happened last night." Tsuna gasped as Chrome answered him, did he just say that out loud?
Ryohei asked her in curiosity, "What happened to that guy? He EXTREMELY missed the fireworks."
Ken roared indignantly, "Don't say that skylark dare to do anything to Mukuro-san! And why did we have to go to the shrine with you guys!"
Chikusa sighed, "Ken, calm down. We go to the shrine because Chrome asked us to go with her, remember?"
Ken snapped at him, "But I thought it will be just the four of us, but rather than Mukuro-san, we have to go with the Vongola!"
Chrome tried to calm them down, "Ken….Chikusa…."
Then a bullet almost hit Ken's head, "Shut up, stupid dog! Now go pray to the shrine calmly!" Reborn sits on Yamamoto's shoulder, the gun turned back to Leon.
Yamamoto grinned, "Wow! Everyone sure is lively today, isn't it! It's good! After all today is the New Year!"
Haru then remembered, "Hahi! Lambo-chan and I-Pin-chan are gone!"
Kyoko gasped in horror, "We must be lost them when we are in the crowds before!" she started to called, "Lambo-chan! I-Pin-chan!"
"That stupid cow! To mess with Tenth's New Year like this….if I found him later, I will blow him up!" Gokudera let out his dynamites, which make Tsuna shrieked in fright.
"Bossu." Chrome poked gently at him, to not alert the others. Tsuna turned to face her, and Chrome smiled. She pointed out towards the lesser crowd, and Tsuna is shocked to see Hibari and Mukuro there, walking side by side in peace. Tsuna's hyper intuition picks up as he saw Hibari holding Mukuro's hand as they walked away from the crowd.
Tsuna can't help but smile gratefully at the scene. It's a good way to start a new year.
Mukuro laughed lightly as he walks along with Hibari to go back to Hibari's house, "So, how is your Omikuji[3]?"
"Fair luck. Yours?" Hibari looks at the sheet of paper in his hands with words written on it.
"Big luck~~ Oya, it seems that I will win this match, Kyoya~~" Mukuro showed him his own paper.
Hibari smirked, "Don't be so sure, illusionist."
"Well, here. I kind of forget it last night." Mukuro gives Hibari his Vongola Cloud Ring back, "With that, your probability to win will raise right?"
"I don't need it, Mukuro." Hibari is about to give it back to Mukuro, when Mukuro shakes his head.
"Even with those, I will still fight you with all my might." Mukuro playful smiled turned into a smirk, "After all, the almighty Cloud Guardian is never really a part of Vongola, is he?" Mukuro is happy, at least. After all, even if that he is creating a new bond, this bond won't chain him down. Hibari is never a Vongola to begin with, and he is strong enough to protect himself if someone dare to use him as a tool to control Mukuro. Maybe somehow, he can finally be free...
"I don't give a damn to those herbivores." Hibari shrugged before tugged Mukuro's hand, "Let's go home, it's starting to get colder."
"I want a hot chocolate, Kyoya~"
"Make it yourself, Mukuro."
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The End…of chapter 1~
[1] haori = a Japanese traditional clothes, usually people wear it along with yukata and usually used like a jacket. It looks like yukata, only thicker.
[2] Hibari's winter clothes = I forget which, but it's shown on the ending song of Katekyo Hitman Reborn, where everyone using their winter clothes.
[3] Omikuji = a fortune telling that people get on the shrine on the New Year. It consist of Big Luck, Fair Luck, Normal, Fair Bad Luck, Big Bad Luck.
I kind of forget Hibird at the middle of it, sorry there little guy...
Next maybe I will write about 5927...anyone else have a suggestion?