Thisissolatedon'tkillme

HAPPY 1827 MONTH \^o^/

Prompt: First Meetings

Of Sakura Sprites and Skylarks

Hibari would never forget their first meeting. How could he forget that cherry-blossom fairy that had fallen out of a tree and dared to stand on top of his head?

He had simply been resting against a blooming sakura tree during his second year as the Head of the Disciplinary Committee, his second year at his beloved Nami-chuu. He leaned against the tree now, scowling at the sight of trash littering the ground next to the tree. Kicking it away, "Kusakabe, tell the Committee to catch all herbivores they see littering and force them into mandatory trash pick-up for the next week," he commanded.

The pompadoured teen nodded respectfully, going to find his fellow Committee members and ignoring how Kyo-san actually bent down to pick up trash around that particular sakura tree. For some reason, the Head had a fondness for that particular tree.

He would never know the real reason why, though.

"Eto... thank you for removing the trash, Hibari-san..." a quiet, nearly inaudible voice whispered around the prefect.

With a hint of exasperation, "If you are grateful, herbivore, then come out in front of me and say so," Hibari replied, unsurprised when the breeze around him picked up.

The cherry blossoms swirled around a space in front of him, a wide-eyed brunet appearing from the midst of the pink petals. "Thank you," he whispered.

Before the prefect could lunge at the sakura fairy or properly react, the boy blew away.

Last year was when they had met, at the beginning of the school year.

It was after the Introduction Ceremony, Hibari Kyouya had found a bunch of delinquent herbivores smoking under the sakura trees without caring about the cigarette buds that they were dropping on the petals in the ground. The prefect had promptly bitten them to death, all of them, and forced them to pick up their herbivorous trash. After that, he had leaned against the nearest tree, scanning the campus with keen eyes for any more herbivores to bite.

Thank you...

If he had been a lesser man, Hibari would have been startled or flinched. But instead, he whipped out his tonfa, looking around him for the voice. "Who's there?"

...You can hear me?

"Show yourself, herbivore. I hate mind games," he had growled. The voice was so odd... no, it wasn't odd. It was unearthly and ethereal. It was the voice of something unnatural.

I can't believe it. You can hear me? The voice continued, a hint of shock in it.

He frowned. "Of course I can. Now show yourself or I will find you and bite you to death," was his responsory snarl.

Okay... But I don't think you can bite me to death. I,don't think my body would taste good... It said doubtfully.

Hibari tensed as there was a sudden wind blowing around his spot, cherry blossoms blowing around in a spiral directly in front of him. Suddenly, there was the feeling of something... on his head.

Before he could grab whatever was on his head off, a person landed in the middle of the sakura petals. It was boy with brown, spiky yet fluffy hair, and large brown eyes. He wore a long white shirt with sleeves that covered his hands and white pants, both of silky-looking material. He was barefoot. "Hello...? Can you see me?"

The boy had been answered with a whack to the head by a steel tonfa. He had barely dodged the first strike of an irritated Skylark. "What are you saying, stupid herbivore? Of course I can see you and hear you. Get to class, now."

The brunet looked at him dumbfoundedly. "I'm not a student here," he laughed abruptly. Holding out a hand, he pointed at the tree Hibari had been leaning against, "I'm not even human, silly mortal. I'm a sakura fairy!" he explained brightly. "I'm in charge of all the sakura in Namimori!"

The prefect stared. And stared. And stared. This herbivore seriously thought he would believe something like that? "Prove it, herbivore," Hibari challenged. "I doubt that you're telling the truth. Fairies do not exist."

The boy in front of him pouted. "Aw, I finally meet a human that can hear and see me, but he doesn't believe me..." With a sigh, he waved a hand around him, disappearing in a puff of cherry blossoms. Hibari remained unimpressed. "I'm right here," the voice muttered from above him.

The teen jerked his head upward, nearly causing the fairy that had been sitting in his hair to slip off his head. "You are..."

Right about him was the boy, but in a much more diminutive form, a pair of orange, feathery wings sprouting from his back and keeping him aloft. "Believe me now, human?" he said, voice a little bit higher than it had been before.

"..."

The mortal held out a hand silently, the fairy alighting in his palm and smiling a bit. "My name is Sawada Tsunayoshi!" he introduced, bouncing on the prefect's callused hand. " I already know your name, Hibari-san! The trees have said a lot about you! Thank you for making those smokers throw away the trash!"

"You're welcome, herbivore," Hibari managed to say, staring at the creature that was now no taller than his middle finger. Tsunayoshi beamed at him.

"I'm so glad! You're the first human ever since I was born that can sense me with all five senses!" the fairy said cheerfully, relishing in the warmth of the human teen. He really was happy that he was lucky enough to meet someone like this. He didn't know many other fairies or supernaturals in this area, so he didn't have many friends.

"Sawada Tsunayoshi..." he tested the name on his tongue, "You say you guard the sakura of Namimori?" Hibari asked, a hint of curiousity leaking into his voice.

"Yep! I tell them when to bloom, when to stop, and I make side that no bugs or parasites get to them!" he said proudly, "and call me Tsuna!"

That was their first meeting, and certainly was not to be the last.

Exile: Review?

This fic shall be a compilation of a sakura-fairy!Tsuna and Hibari drabbles