Happy New Years everyone! Thank you so much for supporting me this past year! So, as a token of my appreciation, here is a gift fic for everyone who reads my story: Catching the Solitary Cloud! For those of you who don't know, Catching the Solitary Cloud is a story that centers around my OC: Sawada Suzune, and the main pairing is with Hibari, however, since an increasing number of people started supporting the YamamotoxSuzune pair, I decided to write a story about all their encounters with each other behind the scenes.
This story will be a collection of random events that will show how Yamamoto and Suzune met and became friends and well, in Yamamoto's case, a little more than that, but anyways... It will be written in Yamamoto's point of view and will cover some chapters in CTSC as well. Please note, however, THIS STORY WILL NOT END WITH THE YAMAXZUNE PAIRING, so please don't get your hopes up. However, like I said, this will tell you guys a lot of things I didn't have time to mention in the CTSC so if you want, you can go ahead and read it.
ACTUALLY, the beginning of this story will be extremely confusing for those of you that have not yet read Catching the Solitary Cloud so I strongly suggest that you do read CTSC first.
Also, I did not run this chapter through with my Beta either so please forgive any mistakes I have made.
Disclaimer: I do not own KHR.
Chapter One: First Encounters
If there ever was such a thing that is versatile enough to cover a wide span of situations, first meetings, can definitely qualify. For example, some people meet at schools, work, social gatherings and other such normal settings. Others, however, might meet at the bus stop, the supermarket, on vacation, you know, somewhere out of the ordinary context. So how did they first meet? Well, that really depends on your take on the situation. Did he first meet her in a normal setting? Well... yes, I suppose so, I mean, he met her at school... So why did I it sound so complicated? Well, he did meet her at school yes, but the catch is, Yamamoto Takeshi met her in a tree.
Okay, fine, let's back track for a tiny bit. If you must get technical, he was in the class room that happened to be located next to the tree, and she was the one actually in the tree. But, I think in this case, the technicality of the who-was-where matters little, point is, he met her, she met him, and thus the wonderful journey of their friendship (and other issues that are slightly more complicated) began.
Oh great, I'm getting ahead of myself again. Perhaps, it would be best if I started from the beginning and told you the entire story. Oh, and one more thing, if you're looking for a story with a happy (lovey) ending, you should probably go back and look for something else to read, because I'm going to tell you right now, this story will not end happily. Well, to be fair, it won't end sadly either. In fact, depending on how you look at it, this story might not even end at all. Okay, I guess that's technically not true either... the story will have an end of course, it's just, the actual end, the kind of end that most people look for in a story, won't exactly happen here. But I'm just rambling again, sorry, old habit. Alright, so how about we start things this way:
Yamamoto Takeshi (also known as "Baseball freak"), age fourteen, human male, blood type O, middle school student, star player of the baseball team, half clueless member of the Vongola Famiglia, Rain Guardian of the Vongola Decimo, and the person that placed second to last on the math test the class had just gotten back.
Was he bothered by that? A little, but being the happy-go-lucky guy that he was, he just scratched his head and laughed it off, then quickly busied himself on trying to comfort a certain chestnut haired boy that he had settled next to.
Sawada Tsunayoshi, the not-so-lucky holder of the title of "dead last"and the person towards whom the Yamamoto's encouragements were directed, however, remained a deflated mass collapsed on his desk and refused to be moved.
"Cheer up, Jyuudaime!" Gokudera Hayato said as he hovered anxiously around Tsuna as well. "You'll do better next time!"
The orange haired girl named Sasagawa Kyoko nodded vigorously. "That's right Tsuna-kun! Don't feel down about just one test!"
"Reborn's gonna kill me!" Tsuna mumbled, still in his own woeful world.
Takeshi laughed, again with the kid. It was nice that Tsuna and the kid had such a good relationship. He had been about to make a remark on this when an amused voice drifted from the window.
"Failed another test Tsuna-nii? That's so you!"
All eyes turned to the window and quickly zeroed in on a grinning girl sitting comfortably in the tall tree next to the classroom. She had medium length blonde hair with eyes the exact same shade of brown as Tsuna's, she wore a look of amusement as she looked about the room once before her gaze returned to Tsuna, obviously, she was very happy to see him.
Tsuna, however, jumped up from his seat with a yelp and all but screamed her name, looking extremely surprised. And it was through this that Takeshi first learned her name: Suzune.
She let out a lilting laugh. "I'd I'd originally hoped that you've changed in these nine years Tsuna-nii, but that doesn't look like the case!"
At this, Gokudera let out a growl. "How dare she talk to Jyuudaime that way." He muttered darkly.
Takeshi laughed. "It's fine, isn't it? They seem like they're having fun!" He looked at the girl, even though she spoke in a teasing manner, it was hard to miss how her eyes practically sparkled with happiness.
She had just finished explaining to a very upset looking Tsuna that she had moved in with him when Reborn crashed into Tsuna's head, causing him to hit the desk.
The girl, Suzune, saw this and laughed her lilting laugh again before resuming her lighthearted teasing. This caused Gokudera to cry out in protest and Reborn, after speaking with Tsuna, turned calmly to her.
"Ciaossu Sawada Suzune! We meet again!" He smiled.
Takeshi blinked once and laughed again. "Sawada? Tsuna, is she some relative of yours?" So, that's why their eyes look so similar.
Of course, at this point, everyone started talking at once so Tsuna did not answer him, instead Reborn answered in an indirect way.
"This is Sawada Suzune, Tsuna's younger cousin. Starting today, she will be living with Tsuna at the Sawada residence. And," He smiled, "she has also been selected to be Tsuna's external adviser. Treat her well people!"
This new piece of new information, of course, induced another onslaught of chaotic chatter. Takeshi grinned at her, "Hahaha! Are you playing the Mafia game too?" She glanced at him and opened her mouth to speak but her attention was quickly taken away as Sasagawa Kyoko began to introduce herself.
It was in the midst of all this that the door to the classroom slid open slowly; at first, no one seemed to notice him, but as he entered the classroom, so did that almost tangible angry aura that always surrounded him. The temperature in the room dropped several degrees as he spoke in that monotone voice of his. "You guys are too noisy, keep this up and I'll bite you all to death."
No one had the guts to disobey Hibari Kyoya.
Haha, a troublesome character appeared! Takeshi thought as he glanced around the room, he himself wasn't particularly afraid but fear was evident on everyone else's faces, well, save for Gokudera's permanent scowl and Reborn's mysterious smirk, and... his eyes fell on the girl. The amused look on her face had not wavered and she looked altogether unaffected by the dangerous aura that had permeated throughout the room, something about the way she locked eyes with the prefect told Takeshi that they had met once before.
It was the kid that broke the tensed silence in the room. "Ciaossu Hibari!" He waved nonchalantly.
Hibari broke eye contact with the girl to glance at Reborn. "Oh, baby," he half smiled, "sorry, I don't have time today, I have some other business to take care of." He shifted his glance back to the girl for a second before turning to Tsuna, who in turn, squeaked and shivered.
"So this kid is affiliated with you Sawada Tsunayoshi." He observed coldly, his eyes promised trouble. Takeshi kept his smile in place but tensed in preparation to help should the Hibari decide to attack.
Tsuna immediately shrunk back into his seat, threw up both hands and squeaked once more in fear. "Um, you see..." He started quickly to explain himself.
Unfortunately for Tsuna, Hibari wasn't the least bit interested in listening. He held out one of his tonfas and took a step forward. "That makes things simple then." He smirked dangerously. "I'll bite you both to death."
Tsuna looked ready to pass out as Hibari took another step forward.
"Tsk!" Gokudera spat as he took a step forward towards Hibari, reaching into his shirt, he, himself looked ready to kill.
Takeshi grinned and followed suit, looks like things are going to get a little troublesome around here.
It was Tsuna's cousin who broke the tension. "Sorry prefect," She said and everyone's attention zeroed in on her once more. She wore a proud, defiant smile, as she winked once at her cousin and looked Hibari straight in the eye as if provoking him. "Somehow, I don't feel like getting bitten today, or any other day for that matter. So see ya!" With that, she waved once, stood up, and did a back flip straight out of the tree.
By the time everyone got to the window to check the grounds below, she was already halfway across the school yard.
"Ahh! Suzune! Don't leave!" Tsuna cried.
She slowed for a moment and turned her head to grin up at him. "Sorry Tsuna-nii!" She called, mischief colored her tone. "I'll see you at home yeah? Bye!"
Takeshi couldn't help but laugh out loud. What an interesting person! Looks like things are going to get fun around here.
And that, was how Yamamoto Takeshi met Sawada Suzune for the first time.
Okay, hope that wasn't too bad. So, I don't know, please review and tell me how I can improve this. I'm not really familiar with writing in third person POV so pointers are welcomed!