Title: The Outbreak

Rating: T for mild violence

Characters/Pairings: main – 1827 other pairs – 8059

Genre: Mild Violence, Tragedy, Angst, Romance, little AU-ness after the outbreak

Chapter: 1/?

Summary: After the future battle, a strange and alarming outbreak started, and that's how Hibari learned that he had feelings for the brunette. Tsuna's PoV, 1827

PLEASE READ! IF YOU EVER HAD WATCHED "HIGH SCHOOL OF THE DEAD" YOU MIGHT FIND SOME SCENES SIMILAR, BUT I'M NOT PLANNING TO MAKE IT LIKE I JUST CHANGED THE CHARACTERS AND PLACE, ETC. THE ONLY THING SIMILAR IS HOW THE OUTBREAK STARTED IN SCHOOL AND ABOUT THOSE CREATURES [what are those? Then read.] [and you might find lots of grammatical errors, but I tried my best to make it understandable]

Tsuna's PoV

It was an ordinary day, no ring battles, and our battle in the future at last had ended. The feeling dominating inside me was wholly peace, and I was so happy to be able to interact with my friends again, in school or in my house, and not in underground base or in battlefield.

Today had been the second day since that time we returned from future, and today was Friday. Lucky! And tomorrow there will be no classes. I can finally sleep in peace tonight, nothing to worry about. The mood of the Family had become in total harmony after the long battle, plus, our box weapon's spirits became our rings today, a gift from the Arcobalenos of the future.

Even though Gokudera was still proclaiming himself as my right hand, Yamamoto still in high spirits with his sword, Ryohei-nii-san crying about his beloved box weapon, Hibari still wanted to bite us to death when we crowd, and Lambo spitting out all the happenings in the future in front of Mom, while she really thought that the child was just telling a fairy tale, I was in pure bliss that I gained more strength to protect my friends, Nuts was one of my rings now, and no conflict for a while, or I wish it would be forever. But as long as Reborn was with me, I cannot really tell if my being as a mafia boss was already over. Well, as for now, I thought I would just take it easy in school...and that was what I thought...

"SAWADA, YAMAMOTO, GOKUDERA, AND SASAGAWA!" our most violent teacher in school shouted. What was his name again? It didn't matter anyway. "WHY THE HELL WERE YOU ALL ABSENT IN THE LAST TWO WEEKS? WHERE DID YOU GO?"

And when I thought I could be merry-go-round in school here comes the yell of our teacher that could be hear miles away. I thought my eardrums would explode. And anyway, how could we say we had gone to the future? No one would surely believe in that.

"Hahaha! I really had anticipated this!" Yamamoto gave out his cheerful laugh.

"Che!" Gokudera, with his hands crossed in his chest and his legs both in the top of table, commented.

"WHY DIDN'T YOU GAVE AN EXCUSE LETTER! DON'T TELL ME YOU GUYS WERE LOST IN PICNIC AGAIN!" the teacher eyed me

"A-uhmm...Sensei, we really can't tell you why...a-and, e-e-even if we tell you, I'm su-sure yo-you wouldn't believe us..." I stuttered as I answered my most beloved teacher. Damn you Reborn, you didn't tell me any excuse I can tell the teachers and other classmates...

"HUH!" the teacher then cough a little bit, sign of excuse. "ANYWAY, YOU GUYS HAVE TO GO IN DETENTION!"

"...and, it might be a little late, but you have a new classmate." He added with a formal voice. I can sense some kind of curiosity from my classmates. "Come in!"

There entered a girl with of course the school uniform, and she walked formally, carrying her bag with both of her hands. When she reached the middle in the front, she smiled optimistically in front of us and introduced herself.

"My name is Hana Yu. Nice to meet you!" she said gleefully.

"Your seat is there, in the back." The teacher pointed to a chair beside Yamamoto's.

She was a fairly normal girl, but I thought she's nothing compared to Kyoko-chan. When there was a transferee in our class, the first thing that I would think was that person would be somehow involved to mafia [since most had been, like Gokudera and the two fraternal twins, which was really Belphegor and Mammon from Varia], but this girl had an innocent face, and she didn't seem to know the three of us from Vongola Familia, unlike what happened when Gokudera and the twins introduced themselves in front. Haa... I can still remember Gokudera's look on me that time, and how I wondered how one of those twins even heard what I commented about them.

I heard the creak of the chair, and I think she had seated. Good, nothing to worry about. Maybe she wasn't part of mafia after all. Reborn didn't tell me anything anyway. Gokudera didn't seem suspicious about the girl also. But...wasn't her presence too timing, just after we came back from the future? No, no! I put away my thoughts; maybe I was just jumping to conclusions.

It was recess time, but it seemed that the transferee was interviewed by a lot of my classmates. The transferee seemed to be friendly, cheerful, just like Yamamoto. She already made friends with Kyoko, as well as to Kurokawa, maybe because the two of them share some common name? Funny. But maybe she wasn't part of mafia. She seemed too innocent to be part of it.

In class, I was of course ignoring what my teacher had been discussing in front, since it was Math, and I cannot understand anything about it at all! Then I thought the teacher saw me and eyed me. I thought he was going to make me answer some hard equation, but he didn't.

"Hibari-sama told me that you need to go to the Reception room after this class. Only you." Was what out Math teacher said. All eyes were positioned to me. It was the eyes of what-did-sawada-do-why-he-was-called-by-the-leader-of-discipline-committee look. Huh...maybe, detention... And anyway, since when the teachers had called Hibari-san with –sama ? Haha, Hibari-san was indeed powerful in school, or maybe to whole Namimori.

The Math class ended peacefully, why, because I wasn't made to answer any equation in the board. Then now, I have to go to Hibari-san's room.

"Juudaime! Are you sure you're going there alone! We don't know what that bastard will do!" Gokudera screamed as I tried to calm him down.

"Maa, maa, Gokudera, calm down. Hibari has sure reason why he wanted to be alone with Tsuna." Yamamoto still displayed his signature smile.

Alone with Hibari-san!

The thoughts just made my heart began to move faster and faster. What's happening to me?

"How can I calm down, you baseball-freak! And what do you mean by that?"

"I don't know. Maybe Hibari has something to discuss with Tsuna?"

"HUH?"

"Gokudera-kun, Yamamoto, I'll go now!" I shouted as I left the room.

After some minutes of walking, I finally reached the Reception room. First, I knocked there. I heard a "Come in" from inside, yet I still hesitating if I would open it or not. My heart was beating too fast, maybe I was so I opened it and found Hibari-san siting behind the table near the windows with some angered eyes on me.

"You're 1 minute late, herbivore." Hibari said with stern voice. My mind thought that Hibari-san's voice is too soothing... wait! Why the hell am I thinking about this!

"I-I am so-sorry, Hi-hibari-s-san! I had trouble to go here alone, so plea-please d-don't bi-bite me to d-d-death!" I don't know but I was already covering my head as I pleaded him not to bite me to death. My heart was already racing, and when I turned my gaze to Hibari-san from the floor, I saw a faint smile, but it had gone just after a while.

"This. Complete this form before this day end."

I walked towards the table as my legs were shaking, and what I saw was a survey form. Lucky me, and I thought I would just be bitten to death here.

"Come." He arose from his seat and walked outside the room.

"Where are we going, Hibari-san?"

"Come or I'll bite you to death." Hibari-san said, and I was almost afraid to do so, then the bell rang.

I continued to walk with him, bringing the papers along with me. My heart was still racing, and it really made me wonder why. I was walking behind him and I saw his form, it was so upright and outstanding.

Handsome...

"No! No!" I shrugged the thoughts badly.

We reached my room, and Hibari-san stood in front of the door and opened it without knocking it.

"Hey, excuse Sawada from his classes until the end of the day." Was all he said, and I think the teacher had no choice but to say "Yes" in front of Hibari-san. Hibari-san was sure a fearsome identity, even to teachers. I thought I kind of admire this part of him.

"Go, complete that form." We stopped in the corridor, and looked at me, still with those eyes with deadly intent. "If you will be late even a second, I'll bite you to death. You have until 2:00 to finish it."

"H-hai!" I ran away to the nearest place I could start to do the survey. I just had 2 hours to do it!

I surveyed most of the teachers and some outstanding students from each class about the topic I cannot understand why Hibari-san bothered to ask to people for. The survey was fun, when I would tell that it was a survey for Hibari-san, the teachers would answer my questions without hesitation, with a large amount of fear presented in their voices. Some of the teachers who were still in the middle of teaching didn't dare to speak no when I told that the survey was for Hibari-san, and some sweat in their heads appeared each question. And I thought it was kind of funny, and at the same time, interesting. I really admired Hibari-san for being such an outstanding person in school. In this school, I just stand out because of my being no-good in anything, being so clumsy, yet having such great, popular friends such as Yamamoto, Gokudera-kun and Kyoko-chan whom the whole school almost admire.

Finally, I finished summarizing the survey, and I was on my way in Reception room. I completed the forms and finished up all the write ups under the sakura tree in front of the main school building, where the main gate nearly stood. I just noticed now that the Reception room was the room in second floor that you could already see even if you were just standing in the gate. No wonder Hibari-san chose that room: it was nice, neat and he could already see those who cause trouble even if he just stayed there.

I reached the Reception room, and found out Hibari-san had been waiting there. He was looking in the scenery from the window which was opened.

"Hibari-san, I have finished my survey." My heart began to beat fast again. It really happened to me every time I see Hibari-san. What's wrong with me! I have been this since after the battle in future.

I put the forms in the table, and after that, I had been praying to all Gods that Hibari-san would praise me even once.

I stood in front of the table for almost five minutes, as Hibari continued to ask me questions about how the survey had gone, and etc.

...Then there was a loud thud made by the gate. I and Hibari-san were completely startled by the sound. I made my way near the opened window, and found out there was a single person [who seemed drunk] punching and trying his hardest to enter the school gates. His hand lay out from one of the holes from the gate, and his eyes seemed really different. Was he sleepwalking?

Then I had a sudden thought in my mind. Bad! This is bad!

"What's that?" Hibari-san asked, almost only hearable by himself.

I really had a feeling that interacting with that person in the gate was a pure disaster. No one must notice it! Why-why am I saying this?

Then some disturbed P.E. teachers went to see the happenings in the front of the school gate.

Don't!

"Hey! Do you plan to destroy the gate?" one of the male teachers near the gate asked with disgust on the man in the gate.

I and Hibari-san just watched in silence. When I took a look to Hibari-san's face, I saw a sweat dropped from the side of his face, and I saw a pure fear from it. This was the first time I saw it. I myself was purely frightened by the happenings, but I don't know why.

The man in the gate just continued what he had been doing, and created a louder thud and noises from creaks of the gate. He seemed really drunk; he didn't even paid attention to those teachers who had been shouting at him. It seemed that everyone in the main building was bothered.

Don't care about him! Leave him alone!

There were a lot of bad thoughts enveloping my mind, which it seemed that my hyper intuition was saying that it was a very very bad idea to fight or even to talk to that person.

It didn't take a minute before many students and teachers gathered in the front of the gate, and created a larger noise.

"Crowd..." I heard Hibari-san said to himself, as he arose from his seat. He was about to go outside when I held his hands to stop him. "Herbivore...you..."

"A-uhm...! I-I mean...do-don't go..!" I know something bad was with that man.

"Do you want to be bitten to death?" he said with scary voice. I thought his eyes were ready to kill me anytime. "Let go of my hand."

"P-please Hib-hibari-san..! Do-don't fight...! Just now! I can sense danger if you will do! Please! That man is not a human!" I was already crying and on my knees as I still held Hibari-san in his hands tightly.

What am I saying? That man is certainly a human...well, a little different...

"Not a human?"

"Ahhhh! What am I saying? Just please stay here and be quiet! Don't make any noise, Hibari-san!"

"Are you ordering me, herbivore?"

"No..."

"Well, as for finishing this survey in time, I think I'll oblige, just this time." I let go of Hibari-san's hands, and he came back from his seat. "Then tell me, what kind of creature is that man if he's not a human?"

"I...I don't know...My instinct is saying me not go near that man..." I still sobbed and still on my knees. "Maybe he's a beast or a zombie?"

"You're really funny herbivore. Such creatures don't exist." Hibari seemed to let out a small laugh. Somehow, it gave me a relief.

"Haha, sou dane...Gokudera-kun had been telling me that those creatures exist, but not in Japan. And they're really sensitive to noise."

"So, that's why you're telling me not to make a noise?"

"Y-yes..." I made a smile as Hibari-san faced me, and I was so happy to be able to talk with Hibari-san in normal way.

"AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Our conversation was interrupted when I placed my eyes outside and I saw a lot of blood from the ground below the gates, and it came from one of the teachers.

The hell...that man doesn't have any kind of those...

"He bit me! HE BIT ME! HELP! IT HURTS!" The male teacher screamed with absolute terror that made all the teachers and student who were already in crowd backed a little.

That man was just bitten and lots of blood came out?

"What the hell is that?" Hibari-san said, as he watched with anxiety.

The man who was bitten fainted on the floor, and just after a while, he ascended from his place, and became like that man who was creating noise from the gate. His skin color became darker, and his way of walking became different. He was walking very very slow, and he was moaning, like a groan of fiend. His tongue was already out from his mouth, like a dog, and his mouth was open all the time. He approached the nearest woman teacher and also bit her. And the same happened to the woman.

"Juudaime! You know, zombies are those creatures that were also called a living dead. So that means, they had been awakened from the grave. Zombies multiply by biting other humans, and these humans become zombies too. Yes, just from a bite, so if you happen to encounter one, you must be very cautious." Gokudera explained while reading a book about beasts and zombies.

"Hahaha! Gokudera, such creatures don't exist!" Yamamoto laughed.

"Ah—ahahaa..." I also laughed. I totally agree with Yamamoto.

"...And! They're very sensitive to noise! They don't see you, but when they hear you talk a little, they will come to you and will bite you! One way to kill them is to smash their brains!"

"So...what does a zombie look like?" I asked like I am interested. I can't just ignore Gokudera-kun's explanation since he seemed to put a lot of effort telling these to us.

"Zombies are just like those you see in movies: dark skinned, mouth opened very big, walking slowly, and they're always moaning. Maybe it's their language to other zombies."

"Hey, Gokudera, don't scare us! If zombies really exist, then there would be no humans today!" Yamamoto commented with a laugh. I really wanted to agree, but Gokudera-kun was so eager to tell these things to us.

"Shut up, baseball freak! You believe in what I have said, right, Juudaime?"

"Ahahaa..."

While I was remembering our conversation yesterday, all of the students who gathered near the gate had already became those weirdoes and Hibari-san was already making preparations.

"Hibari-san...what are you doing?"

"I need to bite those creatures to death."

"Hi-Hibari-san, if you do that, you might get bitten and become a zombie too!" I said. "And we need to be quiet."

"You're the noisy one, aren't you?"

"Announcement, Announcement: Everyone in the school please evacuate immediately. Something dangerous is already happening in the school grounds. I repeat..." the school radio broadcast, almost ten times. "...Something dange-AHHH! IT HURTS! IT HURTS! SOMEBODY HELP ME! AHHH...!" Click. "GRMAHHMMM" Just after that, everyone in the classroom dashed outside their classrooms, screamed as they ran, and created a stampede in the corridor.

3rd person's PoV

"Gokudera, go with me!" Yamamoto faced Gokudera with fear.

"Who the hell will go with you, baseball freak?" Gokudera shouted, as he was ready to dash outside the room along with the other students.

"Hey, this isn't joke time, Gokudera. I can feel a very strange sensation from what's happening now." Yamamoto said with a formal tone. "It has those horrible, terrifying moans. It made me shiver, really."

"Shh..." Gokudera, soon realized the current situation, placed the index finger of his hand in his lips, signing to stay quiet in front of Yamamoto as other dashed outside. "We will stay here."

"I agree with you..." the swordsman concurred with fear. "I wonder how Tsuna's doing now... I just hope...he wouldn't be..."

He was cut-off when Gokudera exclaimed, "Of course! Juudaime is saf—"

"Shh"

"Ah...okay"...

"Yamamoto-kun, Gokudera-kun! Let's go!" Kyoko shouted as he faced the two boys while a hand from Kurokawa held her tightly.

Yamamoto signaled something saying "Go ahead" and the two boys situated themselves in the farthest corner of the room from the door. They saw the retreating figure of the two girls as they sat in the floor. "Let's stay here."

"Ahh," Gokudera agreed decisively. There's no time to argue with the Yamamoto anyway.

"Hey...Gokudera," Yamamoto whispered hesitantly. "This situation seems really dangerous. I mean even the teachers are killed easily. Maybe they're the recent serial killers being reported?"

"I don't know. And as far as I know, no human can moan like that, unless their some sort of voice actor or whatever..." the bomb man just answered, not looking at the swordsman. "Be alert."

"Okay." Yamamoto got hold of his Shigure Souen as Gokudera held his dynamites.

Tsuna's PoV

"HI—HIBARI-SAN!" I shrieked in fear. Then Hibari-san held me and used his right hand to cover my mouth.

"Keep quiet. We'll hide under this table."

"H-hai..."

One hour had passed since the events that happened in the gate, and Hibari-san and I stayed very silent under the tables. However, my heart kept on beating so fast for being so close to Hibari-san.

"GRAAAHHHHHH..." the horrible moans were very close to us, seemed a lot of them outside the Reception room.

I don't know but I really wanted to scream in fear. I couldn't take the terror anymore. "HIIEE-!" and I were cut off when Hibari-san planted his lips on mine. My mind went blank for the first time, and the terror inside me seemed to have left me, and I was most of all shocked. Why did he kiss me? Why didn't he just use his hands to cover my mouth! Those thoughts kept circling my mind.

"I TOLD YOU TO KEEP QUIET, HERBIVORE!" my heart broke...Hibari-san for the first time whispered in my ears with such an angry tone, and I couldn't help but to be quiet.

Then it seemed that the door was thrown aback, it created a large noise, and the moans became really close.

"Tch!" Hibari-san just said in irritation. I saw his angry face, and I really regretted my actions. After the groans became very very close, Hibari-san crawled and stood up from the table, and readied his tonfas, now longer than usual. "Thanks to my dear herbivore here, several batches of herbivores came to my room. Stay there and be quiet, herbivore. If you don't, I'll bite you to death!"

"H-hai!" I heard sound of blood spurting out from many bodies. I prayed to God that it wasn't Hibari-san's, and it seemed always answered as I still heard the sound of tonfas killing every one of his "herbivores", or rather zombies. I really didn't get a chance to see those creatures in close, but I didn't really wish to. For now, I just prayed and prayed for Hibari-san's safety.

But after a while, the sound of tonfa stopped and the groans of those creatures became lesser.

What happened to Hibari-san?

"Tsu-tsunayoshi...stay there..." Hibari-san uttered dejectedly. "Ctchh! Get away from me!"

"Hibari-san!" I stood up from the table immediately and saw Hibari-san lying on the floor, and he was in the center of zombies near the door! And it was so far away from my current position.

"GRAAAHHHHH" the groans became now louder and the zombies were ready to bite Hibari-san in no time! I ran as fast as I could as I swallowed my pills but... I won't make it...!

"HIBARI-SAN!"

...Arhhkk...!

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