Kateikyoushi Hitman Reborn © Amano Akira
Greetings KHR fans,
This is my first KHR fanfic. To be honest, I didn't plan to write a KHR fanfic because I have no complain about how the manga ended. I would prefer a pairing-less ending than getting some random pairings thrown at my face like Harry Potter, Naruto and recently Bleach that all began their final chapter with "ten years later, they get married and have kids with the one we had seen no romantic moment during the long ride to start off their happily ever after". I don't know if the pairing Hibari x Tsuna is an odd one or Tsuna pairs with any of the guys is odd, but one day as I was roaming around an old forum and tumbled on the doujinshi "Summer Break" by 7menzippo, I was like "hold on, they can actually work, seriously".
I hope you enjoy the read.
1. As a friend, as a family
"Tsu-kun is late," Nana looked at the clock worriedly. In her lap, Ipin bowed her head and Lambo was silent for once.
Reborn wore a solemn expression. Tsuna said he would go home straight after school for supper when he left this morning and now dinner was getting cold. That Neo-Primo-in-training was in for an ass-kicking session whenever he showed his face at the front yard. As soon as his murderous plotting took place, the tell-tale of door opening and closing resounded from the entrance way. Nana and the kids immediately ran from the living room to greet the late comer.
Tsuna raised his gaze to look at his family and greeted them with a dull, "I'm back."
And got a kick to his chin that caused him to land backward on his butt.
Instead of the dramatic exclamation as expected, Reborn's eyes flashed and narrowed when Tsuna wordlessly stood up and dusted his pants before turning to his mother with a tired sigh, "I'm sorry, Kaa-san. Please have dinner without me, I don't feel like eating right now."
Before Nana could ask if he was feeling unwell, her son had walked pass her to the direction of his room. She looked worriedly at Tsuna's retreating back, "Tsu-kun…"
"Worry not, Mama," Reborn said beside her, "It's Tsuna. He'll come around on his own."
"I hope you're right," Nana sighed, "This is the first time I see him so down."
Tsuna turned the other side to face the wall moment before Reborn's black polish shoes shrank heavily on where his head used to be on the pillow. "Go away Reborn."
"You should have known by now that my hobby is to harass you whenever I want," Reborn stated nonchalantly, pulling Tsuna'a earlobe until the younger was facing him, "And look at me when I am talking to you. Where are your manners?"
Tsuna frowned at the baby hitman, swatted the offending hand away and started nursing his abused appendage, "I don't want to deal with you now. Go annoy Lambo or someone else." That said, Tsuna turned his back to his home tutor again.
Brown eyes opened when he felt small hand touched his forehead. Reborn sat between his pillow and the wall, observing him closely.
"What happened, Tsuna?" Reborn tried his father-figure approach.
"It's not something you can help me with," Tsuna mumbled, "Actually you tried, but…" He shook his head dismissively and buried his head in the pillow, talking to himself, "I guess I am just too no-good and wasted your efforts too many times already."
Obsidian eyes narrowed. Reborn made to ruffle Tsuna's messy hair but halted himself, and slugged the middle schooler off his bed instead.
"Ouch!" Tsuna rubbed the lump on his head, tearing at the treatment, "What are you doing Reborn!" He cringed when the door to his room slammed violently, signalized Reborn's leaving.
"As his Guardians, it is also your job to take care of him, but you got kicked out of his room instead?" Reborn pointed his gun at the Storm and Rain Guardians, almost seriously considered shooting them for their incompetence.
"Ha ha," Yamamoto rubbed the back of his head, forcing a laugh, "He kind of told us he doesn't want to see anyone."
"As his Right-hand man, I can't live with this humiliation of being unable to help Juudaime! I deserve to die!" Gokudera screamed as he kowtowed, hitting his forehead against the floor repeatedly before Reborn.
"Um… If I may…?" Enma said timidly, fidgeting where he sat at the table when all eyes turned to him.
Reborn raised an eyebrow at the Simon boss, "You know something."
"Actually Tsuna-kun asked me to keep this a secret but with this situation I don't think it's wise to do so…" Enma started uneasily.
"Whaaaaat?! How come he told you some secrets that he can't even tell me, his Right-hand man!" Gokudera pulled at his hair and howled in despair, "I'M SO SORRY JUUDAIME! I HAVE FAILED YOU AS YOUR RIGHT-HAND MAN!"
Enma ducked his head, adding under his breath, "He was worried about what you would do if he told you…"
"JUUDAIMEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"
"Maa maa, I'm sure Tsuna has his reason." Yamamoto said good naturally.
"I EXTREMELY have no idea what is going on!" Ryohei shouted at no one in particular.
"But I was with Kyoko-chan during lunch break and we didn't see Boss at all." Chrome told Enma.
"That's strange," Enma folded his arms on the tabletop thoughtfully, "I am pretty sure he went looking for her. And when he came back he looked upset."
Reborn glanced at the disappearing indigo mist from the corner of his eyes before setting his ever observant gaze back to the rest of the Vongola Guardians. He blinked. Hm? Maybe not "the rest", since a certain one was absent.
He stealthily left the noisy living room and headed out of the Sawada household. Fortunately enough the Chiavarone was around for a brief sightseeing so maybe he wasn't going to need the more expensive bait to catch a carnivore's interest.
"Kufufu, showing your back to an enemy? You are full of openings, Vongola."
Tsuna didn't do so much as a flinch at the menacing dark voice, too used to his Mist Guardian's antic after all these bizarre time. "It sucks to be you, for going to possess someone so useless like me to destroy the mafia..."
One eyebrow twitched. Oya…?
Not expecting Mukuro to make any comment, Tsuna droned on, "Poor Chrome having to put up with someone so useless like me. You should take her back before I become even more useless and let something happen to her because I'm just too useless to do anything. Even I am wondering why Gokudera-kun and Yamamoto are hanging around a useless—"
"Shut up now, Sawada Tsunayoshi." Mukuro hissed, sank his trident by the brunet head where it was in Tsuna's line of view, "I don't remember ever associating myself with someone useless, neither am I fighting alongside someone useless, and most of all, I will never entrust Chrome to someone useless. So whatever useless phase of puberty you are in right now, get over it."
Tsuna stared blankly at the sharp edges of the offending weapon, and glanced at Mukuro, who was hovering over him on his bed. Their position could cause a fuss but he was currently not in the right mind to bother. "You only say that because of Chrome."
"She is worried." Mukuro told him, neither confirmed nor denied his statement.
"All I do is making everyone worry for someone usele—"
"Finish that word and this time I won't miss your head, Sawada Tsunayoshi." Mukuro threatened.
"Isn't that kind of messing up your plan if I am to die now?"
"So you are not entirely hopeless if you still remember your worth." Mukuro situated himself to sit on the edge of the bed, his back to Tsuna. "Someone who has come so far like you can never be useless. I don't care whoever put that idea in your brain, their ignorant opinions about you are of little concern to me."
"That's probably the nicest thing you've ever said to me." Tsuna chuckled to himself.
"Consider it's the payment for taking care of Chrome."
Tsuna's expression immediately turned sour. He turned his head away from his male Mist Guardian, "Of course, you only say it for Chrome's sake."
Is he an idiot? Heterochromia eyes narrowed.
"Mukuro-sama, you are an idiot." Chrome told him as soon as he closed the door to Tsuna's room. Mukuro promptly turned into stone where he stood.
"Come on Kyouya, it's your turn!" Dino urged a little too eagerly, So I can run back to Italy before you come after my ass! Reborn, you bummer!
Hibari glanced at the silent tiny carnivore standing beside him, "Remember our deal, Baby."
"Sure thing. You can fight Dino to your heart content after we know what happen to Tsuna."
"That's unfair, Reborn! He will kill me!" Dino screeched.
Reborn pointed Leon, who had turned into a gun, at the Chiavarone boss, "Shut up, you said you would do anything, even die for your lil bro, right? Now prepare to die for him."
"That's too sudden!"
Chrome tapped the end of her trident to the floor. White smoke surrounded Dino and vanished with him. "Please be quiet outside Boss's room," She said with a disapproving frown.
"Wao." Hibari smirked.
"Kufufu, my cute Chrome is getting bold." Muruko said, stood leaning on the opposite wall. His attention returned to Tsuna's room when Hibari closed the door after entering. He crossed his arms thoughtfully, "I don't like this."
Chrome looked at him in puzzlement, "Mukuro-sama?"
"Someone obviously said something to him. But Sawada Tsunayoshi is no longer the same boy as when I first met him to let petty words get to him like this."
"The Simon boss told me he went to confess to Sasagawa Kyoko at lunch. But I had been with her and he never showed up." Chrome informed him, "Kozato Enma had left with his family members before the Cloud-person came. He told me he would call back to check up on Boss."
"I don't get him. He can give the most embarrassing speech while overpowering his foes then he is up and upset over some nobody's words that hardly matter at all." Mukuro grunted, shaking his head at the ridiculous situation.
"He still has a long way to go." Reborned stated, turning to Mukuro, "I am surprised you are here."
"Most likely the same reason as him." Mukuro laughed mysteriously to himself.
Reborn blinked. Well, this was unexpected, but not entirely unpredictable. Tsuna did have the ability to gather his friends and especially, his Guardians together whether he purposely called for it or not.
Hibari was starting to have second thought about this. The bucking horse had made it sound too easy and he was thoroughly tempted by a good fight (something had been terribly missing as of late since the last chapter with Bermuda) to care about placating a mafia-boss-in-training who might have failed to confess his undying love to a long time crush. He didn't even know what love was to begin with, been busy biting rule-breakers to death on daily basis to spare anytime for something else. That Italian herbivore had told him he only needed to come and that was all, because his presence alone could lift the little animal's mood. Heh, Sawada Tsunayoshi didn't even dare to approach him out of fear, were they hoping the little animal would be too terrified at the sight of him to remember himself had been upset over something? Anyway, he came, so he was done here. Besides, he wouldn't know what to do now so might as well walk out before it became more awkward as if standing in the middle of Sawada Tsunayoshi's room and stared at his back was not creepy enough.
As soon as Hibari turned toward the window, he caught sight of the foreign herbivore shaking his blonde head frantically while making the hands cross sign at him, trying to balance himself on the poor tree branch with the carnivorous Baby on his head. Perching on a branch other side was the male pineapple herbivore mouthing something dreadfully like 'say something to him' while twirling a Sakura branch in between his index and middle fingers with that irritating smile of his; his female version sat next to him, staring blankly at Hibari, clutching her trident to her chest.
Hibari visibly flinched.
"Hibari-san?" A small voice said from behind, followed by a rustling noise that told him the little animal was sitting up.
Hibari said nothing, hopefully the boy would give up talking to him and just send him off like the herbivorous horde too since his escape route was blocked by the blackmails on the other side of the window.
"Hibari-san, why are you here?" Tsuna asked curiously. Realizing he must be sounded like he didn't want the other here at all, he hastily added, "I mean, um, there are many people down there right? And you hate crowding…"
Hibari was about to tell the little animal that a certain blond herbivore came to his school and dragged him to the house when he saw the male pineapple snapped his fingers, the tree they were sitting became a Sakura tree. The female was holding up a Sakura crown and still staring blankly at him.
When this was over someone was going to die.
Preferably the blond herbivore who was waving a white board written "CHEER HIM UP! BE NICE TO HIM!" in bold and red as the tiny carnivore was feeding his Hibird. That traitorous feather herbivore was in for a long lecture later too, for letting himself get kidnapped in the first place.
Hibari sighed in resignation and turned around.
Tsuna nearly jumped backward in startle when he was suddenly face to face with his Cloud Guardian. It was easier to talk to Hibari's back than looking at his face while trying not to stutter and made himself look more of an idiot than he usually was. "Hibari-san, err, I, uh…" The smaller boy fumbled over his words.
Hibari blinked, no ear-splitting shriek in fright and then covering his head screaming something remotely along the line of "Please don't bite me to death"?
"Um, Hibari-san…?" Tsuna tried again after Hibari made no attempt to do anything other than giving him his familiar penetrating stare, "Would you… like to sit…?" The brunet offered, scooting a little closer to the head of his bed, leaving a spacious area in the center for Hibari.
Hibari wordlessly came over and sat on the edge a little away from the little animal if only to give him more personal bubble. He couldn't help comparing Tsuna to a kitten, small and skittish, and would show the not-so-tiny claws hid under his paws when feeling threatened enough.
"It's been a while since I saw Hibari-san even when we are at the same school," Tsuna started, "Because nothing bad happens. I mean, it feels like I can only see Hibari-san when there is something… um, it's not that I want something to happen, what I want to say is… um… I… Hiba—"
"You are rambling," Hibari cut him off.
Tsuna laughed uneasily, unable to meet Hibari in the eyes. He folded his legs up, circling his arms around them and propped his chin on his knees, "I guess I only miss Hibari-san…"
What was he supposed to say to that? Hibari inwardly panic. He looked outside the window—bad move. The stupid blond herbivore still held up his board, this time it wrote, "SAY: I MISS YOU TOO!" The pineapple herbivore was obviously cackling at his expense and finding the situation too interesting to not keep peeping on him. The female herbivore was putting a Sakura crown on Hibird, and that still traitorous feather herbivore had the gall to obediently let her do it to him. The Baby had already set up a tea table for himself on another tree branch. He was going to bite them all to death!
"Why are you shutting out the other herbivores." His question didn't sound like one but Hibari had lost too much of his patience to pay any attention to it. It was fortunate that his voice still sounded neutral.
Tsuna slowly hid his face in his knees and heaved a long sigh.
This was the sign he had been dismissed, right?
"Hibari-san…"
Or not...
"Do you think I'm no-good?"
Hibari stilled. Of all thing, the little animal asked him that question? But it left him speechless all the same despite he seldom got speechless over anything aside from that time the blond herbivore was introduced as his home tutor. He already knew the whole Nami-chuu minus the herbivorous squad called this little animal Dame-Tsuna. "True that your scores leave nothing to be proud of, or how you often trip over nothing, but," Hibari leaned backward on his hands, looking at the ceiling, "You overcame many opponents stronger than you. Even though you are weak, you have gathered friends who will not think twice in lending you their strength and trust you with their lives. When you have your moments like this, people crowding around you because they are worried about you. Why a brand name matters at all if those who gave them to you are not one bit knowing the true you."
Tsuna looked up at his Cloud Guardian in wonder, "Hibari-san…"
"My future-self trained you, right?" Hibari continued, briefly glancing at Tsuna from the corner of his eyes, "I wouldn't waste my time if I know it was useless."
"I didn't get the chance to properly thank him…" Tsuna smiled a little.
"Better?" Hibari asked after a while.
Tsuna nodded timidly, he opened his mouth to say something but biting his bottom lip second later.
"What is it?" Hibari couldn't help feeling like he was walking on landmines all of a sudden, as if he was forgetting something…
"Hibari-san…" Tsuna hid the lower half of his face under a pillow which he was clutching to his chest like his life depended on it, "Do you think I'm… like a girl?"
A faraway thud from outside the window as a result of Dino fell off his branch.
Hibari, after getting over his initial surprise and speechlessness the second time of that day, managed a "What?"
"Some guys overheard I practiced confessing to Kyoko-chan today and… they told me I sound like a girl because my voice does not even start breaking yet… and my cheeks are still chubby like a kid… a—and…!" Tsuna sniffled and buried his face in the pillow, the nonsense he spilled after that was unable to decode.
"Puberty is only a phase. You will eventually get to it." Hibari said carefully.
Tsuna immediately raised his head and looked at Hibari with shimmering eyes, "But Hibari-san, your voice has already been low-pitch since the first time I saw you. Gokudera-kun and Yamamoto's too, Nii-san too, and even Mukuro too! But my voice is…!" Tsuna made a strangle noise and buried his face in the pillow again.
Had anyone outside any idea about how to pacify an adolescent herbivorous mafia boss-in-training in distress about his less-than-favorable manliness?
Mukuro shook his head and shrugged, doubting the young Vongola would prefer to be bound into a chair while scientists pondering what they would like to inject in him first. Reborn most likely was too interested in hunting his preys that he didn't even notice his puberty had come and gone. Dino still tried climbing up the tree and somehow got miraculously tangled in his whip which had been tucked in his belt.
Maybe it was best if he said nothing at all and hopefully the little animal would get over it on his own.
"Is it why Kyoko-chan still does not see me as anyone other than a friend?" Tsuna mumbled, making himself as small as he could.
Apparently saying nothing was making it worse.
"If she was, as you assuming, a person of face value then you should give up on her. Because by that same theory, as soon as she met someone with a better face than you," Hibari turned to look at Tsuna with a smirk, "She would forget you."
"KYOUYA! YOU ARE MAKING IT WORSE!" Dino and his board had returned.
"Kyoko-chan is not like that!" Tsuna shouted at Hibari's face, "She is kind and always takes care of everyone together with Haru and Chrome and Bianchi! Hibari-san, what you said is mean!"
"You seem to think she only cares about how you look instead of who you are earlier though. Between what I said and what you think, which is more offensive to what kind of a person Sasagawa Kyoko is?" Hibari antagonized.
"I didn't mean it like that! I just…" Tsuna trailed off, his shoulders dropped.
"Listen to someone who actually know you because they care instead of believing in the rotten herbivores that walked away after knowing they had hurt you just for the fun of it."
"Gokudera-kun and the others would always try to make me feel better, even I know I am hopeless," Tsuna sighed dejectedly, "I wish I can be like Hibari-san, confident and cool and strong, not to mention you are drop-dead gorgeous."
Hibari was speechless for the third time that day as his mental system rebooted itself after getting forcibly shut down for several seconds. "I…" He cleared his throat, which suddenly felt too raw.
Tsuna observed his Cloud Guardian curiously until his eyes widened in realization, immediately brought a bright smile on his face. Who could have thought the Hibari-san would get embarrassed too! "Hibari-san, don't you know you have a very big fanclub? But because you hate crowd so they don't dare to get close to you." Tsuna chuckled at the almost horrified expression crossed Hibari's face as his Cloud Guardian turned pale.
Hibari grunted, looking at the floor until Tsuna tugged the end of his sleeve to get his attention.
"Thank you, Hibari-san, for being there for me and the others, and helping us," Tsuna said with a grateful smile, "And… if it's possible, would you like to… um, could you, could we hang around more often? Because… you know, you are also an important person to me not because you keep one of the Vongola Rings but, as a friend?"
"Aaaaaarrrgggg! I can believe you, Kyouya!" Dino groaned noisily, pointing a finger at the nonchalant Hibari, "You could have told him something, like "Yes I'd love to because I'm your Cloud Guardian!" but noooo! You left saying nothing!"
"I've done my end of the deal, Baby," Hibari told Reborn, pulling out his trusty pair of tonfas.
"Double shit!" Dino turned around and tripped on his whip, which had been tucked in the front pocket of his long trench coat.
"Thanks for the good work and have fun, Hibari," Reborn said and started sipping his refilled tea.
Several violent minutes later when Dino and Hibari were out of sight.
"Kufufu, that has been much easier than I thought," Mukuro remarked, helping himself to the homemade chocolate freshly made by Chrome and Nana.
"You seem to be expecting something else," Reborn watched the Mist Guardian closely, couldn't help feeling like he had overlooked something along the way.
"Oya, what are you talking about," Mukuro smiled less than friendly but not too hostilely, "I merely want to make sure Sawada Tsunayoshi will be brought up as the proper Vongola boss who is going to become my puppet when I start destroying the Mafia." Mist surrounded Mukuro as he was disappearing, "Raise him well, Arcobaleno."
"You are not honest at all." Reborn smirked darkly, Unlike your eyes.
"I think Mukuro-sama is worried about Boss too," Chrome said, snatching Gokudera's share of chocolate truffle to give Lambo under the table as the obvious Storm Guardian was yelling at the top of his lungs, shaking Ryohei's neck demand him return his stolen truffles while Yamamoto was trying to break them up before they destroyed another door.
Tsuna saw Hibari leaving the house as he sat on the rooftop. When he was about to call his Cloud Guardian, Hibari stopped and looked over his shoulder at Tsuna before he continued walking off.
"Did something good happen?" Reborn asked as soon as Tsuna dazedly sat down beside him, all the while ignored the commotion his three male Guardians had caused and the broken wall as well as what left of a door behind them.
"Something good?" Tsuna repeated, didn't appear to register the question.
"You are grinning rather creepily." Reborn stated.
Tsuna patted his cheeks, feeling the stretch of his mouth as proof of Reborn's claim and nodded to himself, "Mm, I guess I am," He sighed dreamily.
Onyx eyes flashed.
SMACK!
"Ow! Reborn! What was that for?!" Tsuna yelped, rubbing his swollen cheek.
The harisen turned back to Leon, the shapeshifting chameleon then crawled around Reborn's fedora and stared unblinkingly at Tsuna.
"You look like an idiot," Reborn told him, nibbling on his chocolate, "Stop swooning over Hibari and eat dinner."
"Eh?!" Tsuna looked at Reborn in confusion, "Dinner?"
"You think they can happily enjoy dinner without you after you've made everyone worry about your idiotic self?" Reborn demanded, whacked Tsuna upside the head with his oversize Leon-hammer, "They are your family, not strangers, Tsuna."
"Reborn…" Tsuna ducked his head, both in shame and embarrassment.
"I hope everything is alright with Tsu-kun," Nana settled the reheated dinner on the table before Tsuna, "Let's have dinner now," She looked around in search for something or someone, "Where are Mu-chan and Kyou-chan and Dino-kun? Mou! I told them they must stay for dinner!"
Tsuna blanched. Mu-chan? Kyou-chan? "Kaa-san…" Tsuna called hesitantly, "Are you by chance talking about Mukuro and Hibari-san?"
"Hm?" Nana stopped humming as she was preparing the table to look at her mortified son, "Who else?" Then she turned to the silent girl, "Nagi-chan, would you please get Lambo-chan and Ipin-chan for me?" To the three who were still fighting over the lost snack, she said, "Haya-chan, Takeshi-kun, Ryohei-kun, dinner is ready!"
"Yes, Mama," Chrome nodded and left to do as she was told.
What happened behind my back?! Tsuna shrieked in his head, staring wide-eyes at Reborn who only gave him a knowing smirk that no way answered his silent question.
But as Tsuna looked at everyone's content expression, that didn't matter anymore. He clasped his hands, happily echoing "Itadakimasu" with his family.
Omake
"So, Tsuna, have you decided on who you are going to marry?" Reborn asked airily as if he was making comments about the weather, "Hibari, perhaps? Or Mukuro?"
Tsuna promptly choked on the rice which came down the wrong pipe, he shrieked, "What the hell, Reborn?! Hiii—!"
Reborn pointed his gun at Tsuna's forehead, "Go propose with your dying will!"
A/N:
I am not entirely happy with my bad writing ability for this chapter, somehow it sounds very forced beside a lot of grammatical errors and misspellings. I am very bad at English and still learning, so if you spot any mistake please feel free to correct me.
Thank you for reading.
Asuka K.