〖Here come broken bones
Where's your sticks and stones? 〗

The classroom filled with noise, whispers, assumptions, even rumors were starting when lunch break started.

However, selfish as it was, Sawada Tsunayoshi was a thankful that most of the heat was off his back for a while, and was on the new [H/C] foreign exchange student instead. [Surname] [Name]'s glowing [E/C] narrowed orbs that were very much focused on a (Yaoi) Manga that was for much older teenagers, the air around him seemed to radiated even though he was only fourteen-years old, and his girl-ish bad-boy looks did not help much and it stirred up many rumors.

"Do think his gay?" An older class-man whispered to his young friend a couple of desks away from Tsuna's own, but it was still loud enough for everyone to hear and it caused more loudlyhushed words to spread around like oxygen and fire mixing together.

A bad feeling was growing in the pit of the young brunette's stomach as soon as he heard that and his neck whipped towards the [H/C] boy to see if he heard it – anger-diluted [E/C] caught his attention even though they were still eying the dirty book and Tsuna felt dread creeping in the back of his spine.

"It's not nice to call someone gay like it is a bad thing," [Surname] drawled, flipping the page causally and the girls on his right blushed when they caught sight of what was on the page. "Especially on their first day, it's not nice for their self-esteem."

'What are you doing? You shouldn't talk back to an upper class man!' Tsuna screamed, a screeched held tightly in his throat.

"Is that right?" ('It is!' Tsuna mentally shouted.) "I wonder if you really are a faggot."

"Did you even listen to me? I said – Oh, screw it!– Never mind, your pea-sized brain must be incapable of listening." [Name] stated shaking his head, confusing a few when he added his English when he interrupted himself.

'That isn't a way to treat your sempai – even if you have a point, you'll get beaten for sure!'

Eyes turned to the cowardly brunette and realized he said this out loud when his classmates and sempai looked at him with disgust but it also held something else Tsuna could not figure out before he looked at the foreigner looked at him with amusement before he looked as if something dawned on him as he gaped at him. 'Wh-why is he looking at me like that!'

"Oh!" Everyone removed his or her gaze from Dame-Tsuna to look at the happy [H/C] male. "You're the cowardly hero type!"

"W-What!"

"Dame-Tsuna is a coward, but him a hero... Pfft, please!" Other exclaims either agreed or added more harsh comments. Tsuna never felt so useless and embarrassed than ever before now.

At least he did not have to hear Yamamoto sneering comments about-

"Hey! What are you guys think you are saying about my little brother?" [Surname] yelled, slamming his book shut and placed it inside his gray jacket.

Everyone stared the new student – in a way, he is – oddly, and slowly tried to find out what he said. After all, they did not hear English spoken very much around them expect maybe the Language teacher swearing and that was not very often. Not to mention it was mainly Italian. (1)

Laughter erupted throughout the classroom, and [Surname] [Name] did not stop the scowl that came to his face when he saw the bewildered and downcast expression on the smaller, brunette boys' face.

"My God, what is this? It's like some kind of cliché fairy tale." His statement was loss to the people in the classroom, as he spoke in more English.

"Speak Japanese!" Hollered the same idiot sempai from before, acting all buff and shit as he stomped up to the foreigner. "Not all of us can understand – !"

The older boy was not able to finish his sentence, since a kick to the face interrupted him and knocked him out almost instantly. [Name] scoffed at lump of wasted flesh and blood, "Not even worth my time. Now, how to explain this to Hibari…,"

Everyone besides [Name] and Tamaki-sempai stared in shock and disbelief as the foreigner continued to mumble about giving the scariest boy in Namimori Middle an explanation . . .?

Looking up to your new-found 'little brother', you grinned and spoke aloud when you saw his worried and horrified expression. "Don't worry, I'll protect you . . . little brother~"

That sentence alone, even if he could not understand the last bit, gave Tsuna a feeling of relief, happiness, dread and shock. 'I… I am going to be having one Hell of a year, aren't I . . .?'

You have no idea, Sawada Tsunayoshi. You have no idea.

I edited this out, and made the first chapter that was originally in the second chapter as an extra; it's the same though, so, yeah. Series is still dedicated to LazyHotChocolate! And the romance will still be extremely slow! Tsuna is still going to have that massive crush on Kyoko; Male Reader is going to be oblivious to the fact that his feelings are growing into something stronger; it'll stay that way until I feel like they've had enough and just blurt it out, or something just. Happens without my permission.

Oh. Right, should probably tell you right now that; Things will be rather AU compared to Canon KHR, but lots will still be the same.

(1): Yeah, can you guess who it is? It is someone we all know and love.