The result of one very long day during winter break. If I get enough reviews, I may continue this. Let's just see how the first chapter goes shall we? :D - miiika
Strange occurrences had been a part of Tsuna's life ever since the day he was proclaimed the tenth boss of the Vongola family.
Between meeting seemingly normal people ( only to later find out they are connected to the Mafia ) and juggling his life as a student by day and a mafia boss by night, strange occurrences littered Tsuna's life like trash on Mount Fuji.
His mornings felt incomplete without some kind of disturbance in his household. It was frightening to him how strange events seemed to tie in so perfectly with his daily routine.
Wake up, go to school, survive his cloud guardian's threat, daydream about his crush during class, dodge the random knives, illusions and explosives that were hurled at him around lunchtime, walk home with his friends ( or 'guardians' in this case ), endure Reborn's grueling training, go to sleep and wake up to a brand new morning full of dangerous excitement.
Tsuna sighed. He could already feel the stress lines that were slowly beginning to form on his forehead.
That morning, he had left the house without running into too much trouble and was mildly surprise to see his supposed 'right-hand man' absent from his post. Tsuna quickly disregarded his storm guardian's absence and headed on to school without him.
(It wasn't as if he disliked Gokudera, of course, Tsuna just wanted to have one peaceful morning to himself.)
Tsuna sighed, walking slowly towards the source of hell to all students whose average was below a 60. A girl's scream instantly caught his attention, and Tsuna raised his head in fear. Was the mafia attacking his school now?
"Hey Tsuna! Over here!" He heard a familiar voice cry out in a hushed whisper. Tsuna quickly identified the source and quickly ran to his friend's side. He pushed through the thick crowd, panting as he finally made it beside Yamamoto.
"What's going on?" Tsuna asked curiously, blinking at the sight before him. Sure, Tsuna had seen a fair share of strange occurrences (maybe a little too much) in his life time, but nothing was comparable to the bizarre sight he saw.
There, in the midst of the crowd, was an older girl wearing the uniform from the neighboring high school. Her skin was lightly tanned due to the summer weather and her hair was bleached a noticeable blonde and fashioned into a high side ponytail.
Despite the numerous accessories she had piled on, she was actually quite cute. Tsuna blushed at the thought and shook his head. No, Kyoko was the only one for him. The strange girl looked as if she walked straight out of a fashion magazine; she was what people considered a gyaru (1).
Never in his mere fourteen years of existence had Tsuna seen a 'gyaru' in real life. Weren't they supposed to be extinct anyways (2)? Well, never mind the gyaru, that wasn't the bizarre sight Tsuna saw.
It was the person she was yelling at that surprised Tsuna.
Standing three feet away from the girl was his very own cloud guardian - with his tonfas drawn out - and he did not look pleased. "Herbivore. You're disturbing the peace of Namimori."
The said girl snorted, crossing her arms as she did so. "Oh. And I suppose that you are protecting it by attacking innocent people?" She sneered, her expression matching Hibari's steely eyes. The crowd quickly dispersed as Hibari's ran his eyes across the students.
"I'm protecting the peace of the town." He said, justifying his answer with a smirk. "Now get out of my sight before I bite you to death."
"Before I bite you to death?" The girl repeated, her voice rising an octave as she glared venomously at the discipline chairman. "Did you threaten my adorable little brother with that threat?" Tsuna's eyes shot to the boy standing behind the older girl.
His shaggy black hair covered his eyes as his head was hung low in shame. He was rather short and was so delicate that it looked as if a gust of wind would snap him in half. Tsuna recognized him from the class next door. What was his name again?
Daiki? No, that wasn't right. Dashi?
"It's Daichi, Dame-Tsuna." A small high-pitched voice said as the cursed infant kicked the back of his student's head. Tsuna stumbled forward as the renowned hitman landed gracefully on his feet. Tsuna clutched his throbbing head as he turned towards his tutor. .only to see him gone.
"What are you doing out of class, herbivore?" A cold voice said, sending chills down Tsuna's spine as he mentally screamed in his minds. Even if Hibari was one of his 'guardians', Tsuna felt as if the cloud inflicted more damage on him than protecting him.
The girl interjected, "Leave him out of this." Tsuna sighed in relief as Hibari's attention was shifted from him and back to the girl. "Listen, all you have to do is apologize." Hibari's eyes narrowed and Tsuna gulped nervously.
Everyone at Namimori knew that Hibari Kyoya never, ever apologized to anyone. It was obvious to everyone who had the nerves to remain on the premises that the girl was fueled by her emotions and was clearly not thinking logically. Her hand trembled slightly, but whether it was from fear or anger, Tsuna didn't know.
The cloud guardian's lips turned up in an amused smirk. Tsuna stiffened as the prefect hand's tightened around the tonfas. "I don't apologize to herbivores."
What happened next happened so fast that Tsuna could barely register the event in his mind. Hibari's head was slightly turned to the side while the girl stared at him with her hazel eyes narrowed. "Wao. Now I'm really going to bite you to death." Hibari said slowly, raising his hand to touch his swollen cheek.
She had slapped him. The girl had slapped the Hibari Kyoya.
"Apologize." She said flatly, her voice void of any emotion. It was obvious that she felt no fear towards the prefect who had his tonfas ready to attack her. "Or I'll exact my revenge on a tens-fold."
"This will be interesting to see," Reborn remarked, leaping on the Vongola Decimo's shoulder. "I wonder how she will fare against Hibari. Women shouldn't be messed with when they are protecting someone they cherish you know." Tsuna shuddered, recalling the incident when Bianchi went rampant in Namimori looking for Reborn - who had mysteriously disappeared one night.
If you looked hard enough, you could still find traces of her poison cooking around Namimori. "Hiie! Don't say that Reborn! Do something to stop the fight!" The future mafia boss panicked, seeing that his guardians weren't doing much to appease the situation either. At this rate, the strange girl's family would have to make funeral arrangements soon!
Tsuna felt a familiar cool object touch his temple and paled. He had the gun positioned to blow out his brains enough times to remember the feeling. "Don't tell me what to do, Dame-Tsuna." Reborn said coldly, "If you want to stop the fight, you do it. He's your cloud guardian after all."
Tsuna looked uneasily at the prefect who had begun to advance towards the girl at an alarming rate.
"Nee-chan!" The forgotten timid boy cried out in horror. The said girl cursed at herself for letting her guard down and whirled herself towards Hibari - deflecting his first blow with her bare hands.
As soon as her hands made contact with the smooth surface of the tonfas, Hibari released the spikes, successfully cutting her skin. "Shit!" The girl cursed, leaping back as she cradled her hands close to her chest.
Hibari raised an eyebrow. Was the fight already over? Such a shame, he was hoping the girl would put up more of a fight after she hurled insults at him. A malicious smirk stretched across his face as Hibari quickly caught up with the girl, preparing for another strike.
This time however, she successfully dodged the fatal blow and retaliated with a swift kick to his midsection. The impact did little to hinder his movements and only fueled his anger as the stupid herbivore continued to dodged his attacks with precision.
Growling in irritation as the girl attempt to land another blow - this time on his shoulder -, Hibari frowned, slamming his tonfa on the girl's side.
Crack.
Hibari smirked in self-satisfaction when he heard the familiar sound of a bone breaking. He watched with uncaring eyes as the girl was tossed to the ground. "H-H-Hey! S-S-Stop it!" The boy cried out upon hearing his sister groan in pain and cough blood as she rose to her feet unsteadily.
The cloud guardian watched with interested as the boy scrambled in front of his sister and stretched out his scrawny arms - in futile attempt to protect the older girl. He believed that he could protect the girl. Hah, laughable. Hibari noticed the shaking in the boy's legs as he drew up his tonfas again.
How pathetic. "Tch. Get out of my sight, herbivore."
At this time, Tsuna had finally snapped out of his daze and stumbled forward after being hit with the 'Dying Will' bullet. Daichi watched with wide eyes as his seemingly normal classmate ripped off his clothes and flew towards Hibari with nothing but his boxers.
Tawny eyes widened even more when Daichi saw that Hibari was actually being pushed back by the seemingly fragile boy. Daichi snapped out of his daze, noticing his sister was lying on the ground with her hazel eyes staring blankly at the sky as she spoke.
"Keh. I can't believe kids these days." A pause. "Call Otou-san would you?" Then, she fainted.
(1) - A gyaru is a fashionable teenage girl in Japan. They tend to wear the latest fashion trends and dye their hair. There are many subdivision of 'gyaru', but the girl is technically a kogyaru because she is in high school.
(2) - Tsuna is thinking of manba gals, which is rare today in Japan. They wear dark makeup and outline their eyes in white eyeliner - making them resemble pandas.
An additional note - dashi is a stock base for soup. You can use it for miso.