Story 1 How Kyouya and Tsuna Met

Twelve year-old Hibari Kyouya was on his way home when he met a particularly interesting child.

Since Namimori Elementary was near the park, he really couldn't avoid the fact that he had to go through the park where noisy children are always playing after school. But since it was almost sundown, he figured that most of them would be heading home. So he took a chance and turned to the park without hesitation and pulling on his earplugs. He always carried them to at least control his temper when it comes to noise, as advised by his mother. He could have sworn Alaude was smirking at him when he was given the earplugs. Blasted older twin brothers.

He was about to just ignore the kids and go home, when something caught his eye for some reason. He dared turn his head to see a girl, about ten or eleven, with short brown hair and large caramel eyes fixated on a book. She was sitting on the farthest bench from the playing kids her age, but none of them seemed to mind her, and ignored her outright.

Interested of the girl, he passed by her and stood beside the bench she sat on. "Why aren't you playing with the rest of them?" he asked outright.

Alarm flashed in the girl's features, but calmed down when she recognized him. Kyouya knew well of his reputation as the scariest kid in Namimori Elementary, and he could say that he was proud of it. The less people around him, the better. The only one he trusts to be beside him was Kusakabe Tetsuya, but that was because he only lived across from his house.

The girl simply smiled and looked at them forlornly. "Nobody wants a klutz as a playmate, most of all, Dame-Tsuna…"

Dame-Tsuna? He has heard of that nickname before. Roughly a year after entering grade school, he has heard of a girl that the first graders were muttering that seem to fail in everything she does.

"No one is useless for long," Kyouya found himself saying.

The girl stared at him in shock. It seems it was the first time that someone ever encouraged her like that. "Really?"

"That depends, herbivore," he replied.

A sudden realization flew by her. "Ah! You're that Hibari Kyouya-san that the others were talking about!" she said. "Kids in my class always say that you call almost everyone herbivores!"

"Tongues wag unnaturally there…" he grumbled. "What's your name?"

The girl stuttered a bit. "S-Sawada T-Tsunarumi," she replied.

"You better get home. The sun will set soon," he advised.

When the girl looked at the sky and saw that it was almost sundown, she shoved her book in her book bag and got off the bench. "I better get home. I hope to see you soon, Hibari-san!"

Kyouya was shocked at how the girl addressed him without any sort of fear. For one thing, ever since he beat up a bunch of herbivores, normal kids often look at him in fear. But not this girl, despite the fact that she knew what he was doing.

Kyouya smiled. "What a mystery…" he said as he turned to go back home.

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Story 2 The Thing About Chihuahuas…

Natsuki didn't know what to think when he saw three Chihuahuas in the neighbor's backyard while he was out jogging earlier. For one thing, it reminded him once when he and his sister were still afraid of them.

Of course, it seems so farfetched, someone getting scared of a Chihuahua, but when you look at it at a five year-old's standpoint…you will be scared as well. He could still remember the many times when he and Tsuna will run away once the Chihuahua next door will go free without the owner knowing.

But still, up until now, he was still scared of them. If you were Reborn's student, being chased by a small dog seemed like a good laugh compared to how a sadistic fifteen-inch baby trying to kill you at every chance he gets. But not for him. He still considered Chihuahuas more evil than Reborn will ever be.

"Ready to go Natsuki?" Tsuna asked as she grabbed her bag from the sofa at the living room.

Natsuki nodded. With a final goodbye to their mother and the other 'freeloaders' in the house, they got out and started to walk to school.

"It's a bit strange to see you in the morning." Natsuki commented. "Don't have duties for this morning?"

Tsuna smiled, "Yeah. Since we finished preparations for other events early, we get this rare chance to come in like the regular students," she replied. "It's so refreshing~!"

"Hey, Nee-san, are you still afraid of Chihuahuas?" he asked.

It was then when he noticed her stiffen, "What brought this up?"

"No reason really. It reminded me when we still used to run from Chihuahuas on our way home from the playground,"

"Ahaha…imagine that…" Tsuna trailed off.

Natsuki looked at her, "Nee-san…don't tell me you're…"

"Ah! Shiro! Jirou! Shou! Come back!" a woman's voice shouted.

The twins turned to see a woman in her fifties with three unclasped leashes as she tried to go after three Chihuahuas.

Both Natsuki and Tsuna paled when they saw the dogs, and did the only thing they can do in this situation: run.

"What kind of bad luck is this?!" Natsuki complained as he and Tsuna ran to a corner, but it seems like the twins were some sort of dog chase magnets that had been implanted on them since they were young. He turned to his sister who was also running, but she was close to tears. "Nee-san!"

"This is the worst!" Tsuna shouted, tears now forming on her eyes.

This wasn't good. Every time they were chased by Chihuahuas, she was always the first to tear up because of her wild imagination that they would actually tear them apart limb from limb. This was not good indeed.

"Nee-san don't cry! Think of happy thoughts and calm down!" Natsuki said as he tried to calm her down. He wished someone was there to save him and his sister.

Curse all Chihuahuas in the world! Why are they so adamant in chasing them for fun?

As if someone heard his wish, the Hibari twins and Giotto appeared from one corner.

"Tsunarumi…?" Kyouya muttered when he saw the twins running, and his girlfriend was in tears. That made his blood boil.

When Tsuna caught a glimpse of her boyfriend, she immediately leaped towards him. "Kyouya!" she said as she embraced him.

Natsuki took the chance to hide behind Giotto, "Chihuahuas are out to get us!"

"Chihuahuas?" Giotto muttered. "Don't tell me the two of you are still…"

"YES!" the twins replied in unison as they saw the three menaces coming their way. Tsuna clung to Kyouya like a lifeline while Natsuki made himself smaller to fit the back of Giotto, which wasn't really hard.

The dogs were still barking when they were coming, but when he peeped from his human shield, he saw the unimaginable.

The three Chihuahuas stopped abruptly in front of the Head Prefect who was actually glaring at them as he held his girlfriend in his arms.

As a result, the dogs whimpered and ran off to their running owner. "Oh my! I'm sorry if my dogs caused you any trouble," the woman said in apology.

Giotto waved his hand, "Everything is fine ma'am. No one got hurt," he assured.

Alaude then offerd to place the leashes on the dogs, and with that, the woman sent another set of apologies and left.

Natsuki turned to his sister who was still trembling in the prefect's arms.

"I was so scared!" Tsuna cried.

Kyouya sighed as he pulled out a handkerchief and started wiping her tears, "After all these years, Tsunarumi, you're still scared of those small mutts," he said exasperatedly. "You're acting like a herbivore again,"

"You'd run too if they suddenly had the urge to chase you! Right Natsuki?" Tsuna said, looking for a comrade in her belief that 'Chihuahuas are Evil.'

"Yeah!" Natsuki agreed. "Chihuahuas are evil!"

"You too?" Giotto said in shock.

Natsuki glared at his cousin, "Can't you see it in your eyes? Those little devils are out to get us!"

Tsuna happily hugged her little brother, "See! Natsuki is with me!"

It was then when the three older teens concluded that different the two may be, they still have some things in common.

It is now proven that the Sawada Twins consider Chihuahuas as Evil.

I got the info about Tsuna being scared of Chihuahuas on Chapter 315 of the manga while brainstorming. Well, this is how far my brain is going to work so far.

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