Chapter: Chapter 1 – Enter the Demon
Disclaimer: Katekyo Hitman Reborn does not belong to me but those people who have the rights to it. And we thank them for giving us such a wonderful story.
Warnings: Shounen Ai (boy love but not into Yaoi territory)is found throughout the whole story, cursing, and violence and gore in later chapters. The violence and gore is the reason for this being rated M, just to be on the safe side. Sorry no lemons or limes to be found here. And only cannon pairings are official. Any other pairings are just speculations or hinted at. Oh and a male OC being a main character in this…
Author Notes: Welcome to Red Shadow! Thank you for clicking on this to read. Now enjoy!
"Tsuna?" Aka blinked as he looked over at his friend who was crouched on the ground looking like his world had just ended.
"Kyoko-chan and Mochida-senpai…" Tsuna mumbled. Ah, his world had ended, Aka nodded in understanding, then skipped over to his friend. He looked his friend over and crouched down too.
"I have just decided that we are going to the arcade!" Aka proclaimed with a grin.
"What?!" Tsuna gasped looking up at his friend in startlement. "I don't have any money Aka-kun!"
"Psh! I'll pay," Aka waved it off. "Maybe we'll go karaoke too!"
"Aka-kun…" Tsuna started in protest, feeling guilty for having his friend use money on him. Aka just looked at him, grinning, almost daring him to protest, and Tsuna dropped his head with a sigh. "Okay…"
"Party!" Aka shouted, striking a pose. "Clean the gym super fast! Super cleaning engage!"
Tsuna sweatdropped as his friend proceed to run around the gym to clean it. At least he wouldn't have to do much.
"Thanks, Aka-kun," Tsuna smiled as they walked back to his house for dinner.
"You're welcome! It's my goal to get the highest score on all the games anyways," Aka cackled. Tsuna let out a nervous chuckle and edged a little bit away from the curly haired brunet.
"Glad I could help you with your goal," Tsuna smiled as he scratched his temple. Aka just laughed and bounced ahead so he could twirl around. Tsuna laughed at his friend who just grinned. Aka was happy he could take Tsuna's mind off his crush and her apparent new boyfriend.
Suddenly, Aka froze and blinked. Tsuna's smile fell as he watch his friend turn slowly to look at his house that they were about to come upon.
"Is…is something wrong?" Tsuna asked softly, nervousness coiling in his stomach, as he looked at the house too. Nothing seemed wrong.
"Not…sure," Aka answered after a moment, looking back to Tsuna. "Mind if I go in first?"
Tsuna shook his head and his friend led him towards the front door. The bounciness that had been there was gone, replaced with smooth graceful moments as Aka seemed to stalk the house. Aka paused at the front door, frowning, then grasped the knob and pushed it open to look inside. Seeing nothing out of the ordinary in the entry way, Aka lead them both inside stopping just inside the door. Neither started to take their shoes off nor even move to close the door just in case they had to run. Aka glanced at Tsuna and jerked his head towards the kitchen.
"Mom! I'm home and Aka-kun's with me!" Tsuna called out, getting the message. Aka was looking towards the kitchen waiting for an answer.
"Tsu-kun! Aka-kun!" Nana called from the kitchen, and then appeared in the hallway after a moment. "Welcome back."
"Hi, Mama, sorry to intrude," Aka smiled at Nana, eye glancing back behind her briefly. "Is everything alright?"
"Of course! Well, except for," Nana smiled then frowned as she looked towards Tsuna. "I got a call from school today Tsunayoshi."
"Eep!" Tsuna and Aka both whimpered as they moved closer together. Calls from school were always a bad thing, for both of them.
"They said you've been skipping class again. And Aka-kun, I know you were probably with him too," Nana frowned disapprovingly and Aka chuckled nervously. "What are you two thinking? Don't you want to succeed in life?"
"I dunno…" Tsuna mumbled and Aka shrugged not looking Nana in the eye.
"I don't expect you to get into some top high school or university," Nana sighed, hands on hips. "But you should enjoy life! Seize the opportunity right in front of you! Not just waste it away."
"I do enjoy life and seize all the opportunities I can," Aka pointed out with a pout. "Why do you think we skip? We're only young once."
"Akatsuki!" Nana yelled, leaning closer to the short boy. "I know you're parents aren't around a lot, but must you live your life in such a careless way? I'm sure they would be very disappointed with the way you treat your school work and drag your friend into it."
"Mom!" Tsuna protested as Aka flushed and looked abashed. Tsuna looked embarrassed at his mom lecturing his friend, even if it wasn't the first time.
"And Tsuna! You should set an example for your friend! Stand up!" Nana told him.
"Whatever," Tsana muttered sulkily. Nana just looked annoyed at her son's behavior. Suddenly, a mischievous glint came into her eye.
"Well, I hired a home tutor for you," Nana announced. Both boys gaped at her in disbelieve.
"Is he already here?" Aka asked as Tsuna stammered and tried to find the words to voice the million thoughts running through his head.
"Why, yes he is. He just got here," Nana nodded looking a little surprise.
"Ciaosu!"
Aka eyes widen at the voice having not expect it, and was pulling Tsuna further behind him as he located the person. Aka blinked when he saw a…
"What the heck? A baby?" Tsuna asked in disbelieve as he peered around Aka to see who had spoken. The baby was staring back at them with a smirk and Aka just knew that smirk did not promise good things to come. So Aka bared his teeth in a mock of a grin, the baby had the nerve to just up his smirk level; much to Aka annoyance.
"I'm the home tutor, Reborn," the baby introduced himself.
"Mom, this is a joke, right?" Tsuna asked his mother as Aka and the infant engaged in a glaring contest.
"Nope! He says he'll raise you to be the leader of the next generation! And in return he stays here until your grades in prove!" Nana explained happily.
"Mom! I think you're being scammed!" Tsuna shouted at her. "He's nothing more than a baby! What could he possibly teach me?"
Aka blinked and grabbed Tsuna. Suddenly, Tsuna's world tilted and pain bloomed in his side. "Ow!"
"Don't hurt Tsuna, Baby," Aka ordered with his teeth still bared as he tucked Tsuna behind him again, having pulled the other boy out of the way of a kick Reborn had directed at him.
"Oh, I'm his home tutor, I can do whatever I want," Reborn challenged with a smirk. "But you have good reflexes."
"You don't hurt Tsuna," Aka repeated, his grin becoming real and taking an evil tone to it as he shifted a little. Tsuna grabbed the back of the other boy's shirt.
"Aka-kun, Mom's here," Tsuna whispered making Aka hum. "I'm fine."
"How does tutoring Tsuna give you the right to hurt him?" Aka asked after a moment of thought.
Reborn eyed the two boys as he thought about his answer. He was sure that the curly haired one had just been about to attack him. This friend of Tsuna's was proving to be more interesting then the reports had lead him to believe.
"Pain is a great way to learn, isn't it?" Reborn smirked. Aka hummed as he thought about the answer.
"I guess," Aka finally drawled, "But Tsuna's mine. You can't hurt him."
They stared at each other and then Reborn's stomach growled. "It's dinner time." Reborn announced and walked back to the dining room.
"Ah! That's right! Aka-kun, are you staying for dinner?" Nana asked with a smile, not bothered at all by the tension that had just been in the air.
"If it wouldn't be that much trouble," Aka smiled back, still keeping Tsuna between him and Reborn who had disappeared to the dining room.
"Of course it wouldn't! Come in and close the door Tsuna," Nana told them as she walked back down the hallway.
"That baby isn't really a baby, is it?" Tsuna asked in low tones as his mother disappeared back into the kitchen.
"I don't know," Aka shrugged looking down the hallway too.
"Is it safe?" Tsuna asked, still clutching onto Aka's shirt. The other boy didn't answer right away. Suddenly, he sighed and gave Tsuna a tired smile.
"Not sure if that guy could be considered safe, but he doesn't bare ill will towards you or Mama. Or even me for that matter. Not sure I like what he bares you, but I don't think there's anything I can do about it at the moment. I think he's stronger than me," Aka confessed as he toed off his shoes.
"Aka-kun! That's not reassuring!" Tsuna whined as he reluctantly let go of Aka's shirt and closed the door before taking off his shoes too.
"Well, nothing we can do about it now," Aka shrugged before giving Tsuna a wide grin. "Besides, I'm hungry!"
Tsuna rolled his eyes in annoyance, and muttered something not nice under his breath about his friend as they walked towards the dining room.
"Morning Mama!" Aka greeted brightly as his friend's mom answered the door the following morning after that weird home tutor had shown up.
"Aka-kun, good morning," Nana smiled and waved him in. "Tsuna should be down in a bit."
"He's up already?" Aka asked in surprise, as he toed off his shoes and followed her in. It was rare for Tsuna to be up before he got there. Normally, he would go wake the other brunet up.
"Hum, yes he is! Isn't it wonderful! Maybe my son's finally growing up," Nana sighed happily with stars in her eyes.
"Sure…" Aka agreed shaking his head. That baby probably had something to do with it. Aka followed Nana into the kitchen and asked, "Do you need help with anything?"
"Oh no! Just sit down and breakfast will be on the table in a bit."
"Okay, thank you!" Aka grinned as loud thumps sounded from the stairs. "Are you okay Tsuna?!"
"Gak! I'm fine Aka-kun," was the muffled reply from the hallway. Tsuna walked in looking annoyed and slightly disheveled. "Morning."
"Caiosu."
"I was hoping you were just a nightmare," Aka greeted the baby as he walk over to Tsuna who eeped and jump away from the baby.
"Life isn't fair. Learn to live with it," the baby responded as he hopped up on a chair. Aka just bared his teeth and growled before turning back to Tsuna.
"Did you have a good night?" Aka asked brightly as he hugged the other boy.
"Not really," Tsuna grumbled as Aka started straightening his clothes out. "And that baby is a demon. It's not human."
"What was that Dame-Tsuna?" Reborn spoke up from the table.
"There are evil, evil people in the world," Tsuna answered as Aka ran his hand through Tsuna's hair in a vain attempt to tame it.
"Yes there is," Reborn agreed as Nana brought breakfast to the table.
"He didn't hurt you, did he?" Aka asked as he and Tsuna sat down.
"No," Tsuna shook his head, "Thanks for the food. But I need to talk to you."
"Kay," Aka agreed, "Thanks for the food. Nana, would it be alright if I spent the night tonight?"
"Of course! You're welcome over anytime Aka-kun! You know that," Nana beamed. "I'm just glad that Tsuna has a friend."
"Mmm, thank you, and it's only polite that I ask you," Aka smiled back, and then stole Tsuna's food back from Reborn who had just snagged a piece. "Don't steal Tsuna's food."
"He should learn how to defend his own food," Reborn countered with a smirk. The hitman made a note to put more effort into the food stealing training when eating with Aka.
"Mmm," Aka eyed Reborn, then shrugged and grinned at Tsuna, "Tsuna! Race!"
"Eep!" Tsuna squeaked as he scrambled to get ready.
"Go!" Aka crowed and stated shoveling food into his mouth.
"Boys!" Nana scowled as Tsuna followed Aka in shoveling food in his own mouth.
"Gong!" both boys said with mouths full of food after a few minutes. Tsuna then stated chocking.
"Sorry Nana," Aka laughed as he pounded Tsuna on the back. "Breath, Tsuna. You ready to go?"
"Yeah…" Tsuna chocked out as he tried to breath. He got up with Aka and grabbed his bag. "Bye Mom!"
"Bye Mama!" Aka waved and they both ran out the door.
"Boys…" Nana sighed.
"What happened last night after I left?" Aka asked once they were about a block away from the house. He hoped the baby wasn't following them yet.
"Reborn told me he's actually a hitman sent from a mafia family to train me to be the next mafia boss," Tsuna answered in a dull tone, clearly not happy about that.
"…he, no, people, want you to be a mafia boss?" Aka blinked in disbelief. "How the hell does that work anyways? Don't you have to be in the mafia already to be a boss of mafia?"
"I don't know!" Tsuna wailed, "He mentioned something about me being descended from the first boss of the family and that's why I'm a candidate to begin with. And he showed me pictures of what happened to the other three candidates. I don't want to be a mafia boss, Aka-kun!"
"I still don't get how you can be a candidate when you're not in the mafia," Aka muttered.
"Are you sure you can't just make him go away?" Tsuna asked.
"…If what he's telling you is true then making him go away is not going to help. They'll just send someone else," Aka frowned, not liking his friend's situation.
"Then what am I going to do? I would never make a good mafia boss," Tsuna grumbled.
"You would make a horrible mafia boss," Aka agreed making Tsuna glare-pout at his friend. "But maybe we can make that work."
"What do you mean?" Tsuna questioned as Aka grinned widely at him.
"You'll just have to be such a horrible mafia boss that they see this and give up!" Aka declared with a rather evil cackle at the end.
"That should work…shouldn't it?" Tsuna asked hopefully.
"Yep! Just be yourself and I'm sure that baby demon will be gone in no time!" Aka smirked.
"Haha, I really don't know if I should feel insulted or relieved," Tsuna laughed lightly.
"Relieved, being a mafia boss just isn't you. I know you're no good at a lot of things but in the end I don't think that matters," Aka smiled.
"That's supposed to make me feel better?"
"Come on Tsuna," Aka rolled his eyes, and threw one arm over the other brunet and pressed their cheeks together. "You're very good at being a friend. Of accepting people for who they are. You're very forgiving and have a big heart. It's sad that no one else seems to realize just how awesome of a person you are."
"…you think so?" Tsuna asked quietly.
"If you weren't, do you think we would still be friends?" Aka asked back just as quietly. He leaned back a little and they stared at one another.
"I guess you're right," Tsuna smile faintly.
"Of course," Aka chirped happily giving a full hug to his best friend.
"You two seem really lovey-dovey for two males."
Tsuna let out a shriek and Aka spun, pushing Tsuna behind him as he spotted the demon baby.
"Don't you have school or day care or something?" Aka deadpanned folding his arms across his chest.
"Hitmen don't go to school," Reborn replied making Aka pout.
"Whatever then, we do have school so go find something to entertain yourself with," Aka waved off as he grabbed Tsuna's hand and started walking away.
"Oh Sawada-san and Himura-san. Fancy meeting you here."
The two boys looked to who had called out to them and saw a pretty amber-haired girl smiling at them. Tsuna's face heated up and he stared at his shoes not able to look at his crush. Aka just smiled back.
"Sasagawa-san, morning!" Aka greeted back.
"G-g-good m-morning S-s-sasagawa-s-san," Tsuna managed to get out. The girl just beamed at him.
"Would you like to walk to school with us?" Aka asked in a mischievous grin. Tsuna gaped at him in horror.
"I would but I'm in a bit of a hurry. I need to drop something off before classes start," Sasagawa declined as she started to walk off but something caught her attention. "Oh! How cute!"
"Ciaosu," Reborn greeted.
"Are you with Sawada-san and Himura-san?"
"Sasagawa-san, the things is a demon. It's best to leave it alone," Aka informed the girl who blinked and gave him a confused look.
"Himura-san, that was mean. He's just a little baby," Sasagawa frowned at him.
"And that's why I'm telling you. It's always the cute, little things that you have to watch out for," Aka said in a wise tone.
"Like you?" Reborn asked innocently.
"I'm not little!" Aka pouted.
"Well, it seems like you two get along," Sasagawa chuckled.
"Do not!" Aka protested.
"Haha, well I got to get to school. I'll see you later!" Sasagawa waved as she jogged away.
"Why did you ask her to walk with us?!" Tsuna demanded as soon as the girl was out of sight.
"So you can woe her with your awesome self," Aka grinned.
"Aka-kun!" Tsuna whined.
"So you have a crush on that girl," Reborn noted with a smirk.
"Don't you have something else to do besides getting involved in the drama of preteens?" Aka drawled.
"Would you both just stay out of my love life? Please?" Tsuna begged.
"Why haven't you confessed?" Reborn question, ignoring the request. Aka just rolled his eyes with a huff.
"Because she's on top and I'm at the bottom," Tsuna answered as if that explained everything.
"Sounds like loser talk to me," Reborn committed.
"News flash, I am a loser. And losers don't confess their love to the school's idol," Tsuna threw back sounding annoyed.
"Well, then we're just going to have to fix that then won't we," Reborn announced. That was the only warning Aka got before Tsuna was falling backwards, bits of blood flying into the air from the hole that had suddenly appeared in his forehead. Aka's eyes widen as Tsuna hit the ground not moving. He spun to Reborn, eyes now narrowing as he snarled at the suit wearing baby.
"You're dead," Aka announced as he lashed out at Reborn. Reborn jumped away, narrowly missing the fist that Aka thrown at him. He blocked the kick that was immediately followed, using the momentum to get away from the enraged boy.
Reborn frowned a little at the boy as he landed on the wall nearby. Aka was calmer than one would expect after seeing his friend die. His moves were controlled and well executed, instead of sloppy and blind. The fury was defiantly there, showing its self in the crazed smile the brunet now wore, the boy having dawned it at some point in their exchanges. But it wasn't blind rage. Aka was studying him. Reborn could see him calculating the best way to get at him, and the baby frowned as the area around the boy seemed to get darker.
"REBORN!"
Startled, the darkness vanished and Aka turned to look back at Tsuna, who was suddenly very much alive and…nearly naked. Oh and there was a fire ball on his forehead.
"I WILL CONFESS MY UNDYING LOVE TO SASAGAWA KYOKO LIKE MY LIFE DEPENDED ON IT!"
"Am I am in a nightmare that doesn't know it's suppose to be a nightmare?" Aka asked after Tsuna had run down the street in his boxers.
"Tsuna will need new clothes," Reborn informed him not bothering with the question.
"He's not died…right? This isn't some one last thing to do and he's gone," Aka asked in a hesitant tone, making the boy seem much younger than he was.
"No, he'll be fine," Reborn asked, studying the boy. That seemed to make the boy go back to his normal self as he glared at the baby.
"I hate you," Aka snarled as he turned back towards Tsuna's house and ran to go get the boy another uniform.
It took just over ten minutes for Aka to sneak back into Tsuna's house, grab another uniform, and find Tsuna. Aka immediately hugged his best friend over joyed that he was in fact alive and not dead. After looking over his friend, Aka wondered if it would be better to just blow off school for the day. Tsuna seemed very distraught.
"Thanks Aka-kun," Tsuna sniffled after he put on his spare uniform. His face was still red from embarrassment over whatever had happen.
"No problem," Aka waved off. "What happened anyways?"
"It was horrible…" Tsuna muttered looking depressed.
"I'll say," Aka muttered before giving his friend a grin. "Let's go back to my place, change clothes, and ditch school! And you can tell me what happened."
"Yeah, that sou-ACK!" Tsuna started with a smile but suddenly cut off as his face hit the ground with the baby standing on his head.
"As Dame-Tsuna's home tutor, I can't allow him to miss school. Both of you will be going," Reborn informed them.
"Or you'll do what? And get the hell off Tsuna!"
"I'll shoot you," Reborn smirked pointing a gun Aka. He glared then made a swipe at Reborn making him jump off of Tsuna.
"Are you okay?" Aka asked as he helped Tsuna to his feet.
"I'm fine," Tsuna grumbled, rubbing the back of his head where Reborn had hit him. "Let's just go to school."
"You have three minutes before the bell rings," Reborn informed them cheerfully.
"Screw you!" Aka growled before grabbing Tsuna's hand and dragging him away.
Morning classes had been horrible. They should have just skipped school despite the threat from the baby demon. Aka was sure that their classmates were worst then whatever the baby would deal out to them. Even with the gun. And killing Tsuna. Okay, maybe not, but the baby had said go to school. He hadn't said anything about staying. Tsuna was just looking way too depressing sitting in his chair with a gloom cloud hanging over him as their classmates sneered and insulted him when they could.
The moment the bell rang for lunch, Aka was out of his seat with his things pulling Tsuna out of his own chair. They were getting out of here.
"Aka-kun?" Tsuna squeaked as his friend pulled him up.
"We're leaving," Aka stated as he dragged Tsuna out the door as their classmates started up with their teasing.
"Ack! What about Reborn? He said that we had to stay at school," Tsuna questioned as he stumbled to righten himself so that he wasn't being dragged down their school's hallways.
"Grr, I'm really passed caring what that demon wants," Aka snarled. "And he just said to go to school. Nothing about staying. We should have ditched after first class."
"Aka-kun, let's just go up to the roof and eat. After school we can go out and have fun," Tsuna countered, not wanting to feel Reborn's wrath. Even with Aka's logic, Tsuna knew that baby would do something to them.
Aka stopped, took a deep breath, and sighed. "Do you really want to stay at school?"
"More than wanting to face Reborn's wrath," Tsuna answered. Aka stood there not looking at him for a moment. Then bowed his head and muttered a, "Fine," and started walking towards the roof.
"Ah…" Tsuna started; face flushing, "can I stop by the restroom first."
"Yeah," Aka smiled softly.
Aka sat on the stairs leading up to the roof with Tsuna's and his stuff next to him as Tsuna went down the hall to the bathroom. Aka leaned back and looked at the ceiling before closing his eyes. Feeling all these negative emotions were not good for him. He needed to figure out something to get back at that monster. He would pay for killing Tsuna, even if Tsuna didn't stay dead.
Tsuna's name ringing out in the hallway among other noise made Aka open his eyes and look down the hallway. He saw kendo members running down the hallway with a small brunette. Aka growled as they rounded the corner out of sight. They had Tsuna with them.
He stood up, remembered to grab their things, and started after the crowd of people. He cursed suddenly and tried to scramble backwards out of the trap but it was too late. Aka continued to curse everything he could think of as he struggled with the straps of rope that held him up in the air.
That demon baby was going to die!
Tsuna stood trembling in front of Mochida, the school's kendo captain, who he had just so happened jumped on this morning to confess to Sasagawa Kyoko. This was not good. He tried listening to Mochida as he went on about something or another but Tsuna had something more to worry about than Mochida beating him up. He was worried about what will happen to Mochida when Aka showed up.
And it was worrisome that he hadn't shown up yet. Reborn probably had something to do with that, Tsuna thought. He had made a comment last night about how mafia bosses shouldn't be hiding behind their subordinates.
What Reborn didn't understand though was Tsuna wasn't using Aka as a shield, he was making sure he was in a position to talk Aka down he snapped. Or if he did let lose, he was out of the way and Aka didn't have to worry about him.
"EEP!" Tsuna screeched as Mochida jabbed his sword towards him, bring him back to the matter at hand.
"Don't worry. This a challenge that even an idiot like of you can understand," Mochida declared with a smirk. "You're a beginner at kendo. So if you can manage to score even a single point in ten minutes, then you win! If you can't, then I'll be the champion. The prize of course is…Sasagawa Kyoko!"
"P-prize?!" Kyoko said.
"Sasagawa-san is not a prize," Tsuna growled, annoyed. If Aka wasn't here yet then maybe he could figure something out before he got here and everything went to hell.
"Tch, you have no right to sound noble, pervert!" Mochida snarled whipping his sword back towards Tsuna.
"And you have no right to treat Sasagawa-san like that!" Tsuna yelled back, his face flushing red. The students around them muttered and whispered to each other about Tsuna standing up for Kyoko and standing up to Mochida.
Tsuna frowned as he tried to figure out what to do. He didn't like fighting – or being beaten up – so he always tried to find some way out of it. Running away was normally his first option but with Kyoko's honor on the line like that he couldn't do that. Next then was using Aka to scare the crap out of whoever was harassing them. That normally resulted in the person being too terrified to do anything. And last option was that Aka actually fought. Since the last two options involved Aka, they were out as well. This was so not fair!
And he had no idea how to use a sword, any sword. Tsuna wasn't even sure how you were suppose to get a point in kendo. Maybe he could just use his fist or something. If he knocked Mochida out then that should count as a win. He wouldn't be able to fight anymore.
"Whatever," Mochida drawled as Tsuna tried to figure out a way to knock Mochida out. "Let's get this started!"
Tsuna suddenly felt a sharp pain in the middle of his forehead, followed by the sensation of falling backwards. Blackness started to creep up on the outskirts of his vision and he realized he was dying. Damn, if only he could have knocked Mochida out. If only he could defend Kyoko's honor. If only…
Burning heat rushed through him, giving him strength. The blackness in his vision was driven out by brilliant white as he rose back up to his feet.
"REBORN! KNOCK MOCHIDA OUT!" Tsuna shouted as he stared at Mochida with his burning gaze.
"HAHAHA! You really are a pervert stripping out of your clothes like that!" Mochida egged, confident of his win.
Tsuna ran up Mochida, people around him gaping and committing on going into a kendo match without any armor. Mochida had raised his kendo sword up to defend but was too slow. Tsuna punched Mochida in the face and the boy went down hard enough to leave cracks in the floor.
Tsuna gulped air as the high he had been on suddenly faded. He blinked as he took in Mochida on the floor, his face already turning black and blue, and the silence that filled the air as everyone gaped at what had just happened.
"Does this count as a win? I don't know how to get a point in Kendo," Tsuna asked the referee. The referee jerked and gave Tsuna a wide-eyed look and then looked back at Mochida. The kendo member raised Tsuna's flag for him to win. Tsuna let out a sigh of relief.
"That was awesome!"
"Who would have thought?!"
"Go Tsuna!"
"Epp!" Tsuna yelped as he was suddenly swarmed by everyone around him. They kept showering him in praises and Tsuna felt his face heat up in embarrassment.
"Sawada-san, thank you."
Tsuna jerked towards that soft voice and felt his checks heat up even more as he saw Kyoko smiling at him.
"I'm sorry about this morning," Kyoko continued looking slightly embarrassed. "But my friends tell me I don't know when to laugh."
Tsuna felt like dying as he realized that his crush thought his confession was a joke. Sighing in defeat, Tsuna waved it off and gave an embarrassed grin. "No it's fine."
"That's good! Is it alright if we become friends? Can I call you Tsuna?"
"Yeah!" Tsuna quickly agreed. Being friends was good, even if he wanted more.
"Alright! Then you can call me Kyoko," the girl grinned happy.
The two blinked as people started shouting and yelling in pain. They looked towards the commotion and Tsuna epped as he saw his friend making his way over to them.
"Aka-kun! I'm fine," Tsuna called out making the other brunet pause. Aka looked Tsuna up and down and then glanced at Kyoko.
"Seems like it," Aka agreed and came over. "You lost your clothes again though."
"Epp!" Tsuna flushed as he realized he was still in just his boxers. Kyoko giggled a little.
"Well they should have a spare uniform in the nurse's office. Let's go," Aka shrugged, grabbing Tsuna's hand and dragging him out of the gym.
"Bye Tsuna-kun! Talk to you later!" Kyoko called out.
"Bye!" Tsuna waved. Tsuna managed to get his feet under him and was walking along with Aka instead of being dragged. Once they were away from the gym and other students, Tsuna studied his friend with a frown. "Are you alright, Aka-kun?"
"No," Aka growled. "That baby trapped me. What if you had really been in danger? I wasn't there to protect you! You could have…"
"I'm fine," Tsuna said calmly, pulling his friend into a hug. "I'm here, I'm fine. And Kyoko-chan wants to be my friend now. So all is well."
"Didn't you confess to her this morning?" Aka asked as he gripped Tsuna back, burring his face in Tsuna's neck.
"She apparently thinks that was a joke," Tsuna grumbled as he rubbed Aka's back.
"Poor Tsuna-kun, he has his work cut out for him," Aka chuckled finally relaxing but not ready to let go of the other boy. "Do you think this is how life is going to be? That baby making you do dangerous things and keeping me from protecting you?"
"I don't know, Aka-kun. How about we just take it one day at a time?" Tsuna suggested.
"…That would probably be best," Aka agreed, then with a sigh pulled away and gave Tsuna a small smile. "We should get you some clothes and then go eat our lunch…do you still want to stay in school?"
"If this is the kind of crap Reborn does when he's not being wrathful, then I don't want to feel his wrath," Tsuna sighed.
"Damn, I was hoping you would want to skip school…oh well, maybe Kyoko-chan would want to hang out with us after school," Aka grinned slyly as they started walking to the nurse's office again.
"Kyoko-chan didn't give you permission to call her that!" Tsuna protested.
"She gave it to you therefore I can use it!" Aka cackled.
"Aka-kun!" Tsuna whined as his friend just laughed.
"Finally! He's asleep," Aka grinned as he climbed onto Tsuna's roof.
"He's probably faking. Do you think demon's need to sleep?" Tsuna asked as Aka helped him up. He sighed as he sat down next to his best friend and looked up to the stars. He grunted as Aka hugged him and made himself comfy, head resting on the fluffy haired boy's shoulder.
"Not sure. Read somewhere that vampires don't sleep…but they sparkled," Aka mused sounding a little confused.
"I don't think Reborn's a vampire then," Tsuna rolled his eyes, deciding it was probably better for his sanity if he didn't ask Aka what he had been read to come across that piece of trivia.
"He's not suave enough to be one anyways," Aka agreed, pulling Tsuna closer. "What did you want to talk about anyways? This is probably the best time. There is a chance that the demon is actually asleep."
"…We…are probably going to have to rethink our plans for later," Tsuna mumbled. "The way Reborn said it; I'm the last resort for an heir. I don't think they're going to let me go. Even if I'm a really horrible boss and they don't want me…aren't mafia families big on being blood related to inherit…things?"
"Don't know. The closet thing I've gotten to dealing with the mafia is the Yakuza and I wasn't a part of them so I really don't know how it all works," Aka answered frowning. "Are you thinking you're not going to have a choice in not being dragged into the mafia world?"
"Yeah…they may end up just making me a mafia boss puppet or something and make me have kids that they'll train up probably or something," Tsuna sighed. "And if I'm lucky then maybe after one of my kids becomes boss they'll let me go."
"That won't do. That would take, what? 30 years at the least. You'll be an old man before you were able to do anything," Aka growled.
"That's my point…I don't want to be a mafia boss but I don't think I'll have a choice if I remain Sawada Tsunayoshi."
"We could move our plans up early but that would mean saying bye to Mama earlier," Aka offered tilting his head to look at the sky.
"Aka-kun…if I became a mafia boss, would you still be able to be my friend?"
Aka frowned at the question, pondering it, before taking a deep breath and slowly exhaled. "I honestly don't know. I'll ask Maple. I think she's had dealings with mafia."
"When will you be able to talk to her?"
"Probably this weekend," Aka shrugged and turned his head to look at Tsuna who was still looking at the sky. Aka raised his hand and gently grasped Tsuna's face and moved it to look at him. Tsuna blinked but made no move to break the grasp. Aka leaned in till their noses touched and smiled a soft smile. "You're mine. I'm not going to let you go."
Tsuna blinked again, before a grin spread across his face, "Of course, Akatsuki. Now and forever, no matter what."
Author Notes: Hmm, I know this looks like it's shaping up to be a Tsuna/Aka story but Aka just suppose to be really possessive. This story is suppose to remain gen but we'll see how it goes. Thank you for reading this and I hope you enjoy and look forward to the next chapter. If you are feeling kind then drop a review. I included some prompts for reviews if you don't know what to write in a review. Thank you and again and till next time!
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