Hello! I'm really hating myself for not focusing on only one story and uploading other stories I've written. I'm at a writer's block with Ghostly Vampire right now. Don't know why. Just am. But this story randomly popped in my head one day! Took me a while to type it up. Didn't even re-read it either. Please R&R and enjoy!
Disclaimer: Had I owned this series, the idea of red string would have brought these two lovers together already in the KHR series. Unfortunately, it's just my imagination...
Chapter 1: Down the Aisle
"Tsuna-san!"
"Eh?" Tsuna turned to see Haru running up to him. "Haru? What are you doing- Agh!"
Haru had ran up to him and jumped into his 'embrace.'
"Haru missed Tsuna-san so much-desu!" Haru screamed in their embrace. "Haru just had to run up to Tsuna-san because Haru hasn't seen Tsuna-san in a week!"
"That's...great and all...Haru..." Tsuna struggled to say, "but...let me go! I...can't...breathe!"
"Oh!" Haru immediately let go. "Gomenasai, Tsuna-san! Is Tsuna-san all right?"
"...Better..." Tsuna said in between large intakes of air.
"Oh, good!" Haru clapped her hands together. "Then Tsuna-san can accompany Haru to the store-desu!"
"Hah...huh?" Tsuna looked up at Haru. "What?"
"Hehe!" Haru giggled as she grabbed his arm and dragged him along. "Tsuna-san can be Haru's bodyguard! Haru's going to become Tsuna-san's wife in the near future so Tsuna-san needs to protect Haru-desu!"
"Wha- no!" Tsuna protested, but to no avail. "HIEEE!"
Haru did not hear his refusal and dragged him into a store with her.
"Here we are!" Haru finally let go of his arm to take a better look at the store.
"Ow," Tsuna cried in pain as he rubbed his sore arm. "Where are we?"
"Haru and Tsuna-san are at the fabrics store-desu!" Haru answered.
"...And why are we here?" Tsuna continued asking.
"Why, to get more fabric, of course-desu!" Haru stated matter-of-factly, walking further into the store. "Haru needs to get more fabric to make more costumes! Especially a wedding costume for Tsuna-san and Haru's wedding!"
"Wedding?" Tsuna cried. "Haru, we're not even dating!"
"Now then, what colors should Haru get?" Haru said to herself as she began walking away.
"Ha-Haru!" Tsuna called out to her. "Where are you going?"
Tsuna groaned in frustration as he lost Haru at the front of the store.
"I can't leave or else Haru will complain to Reborn and I'll get it even worse," Tsuna moaned to himself. "Might as well go look for her."
And so he began his search for Haru, although he wasn't sure where to start so he just picked a random aisle.
"Haru!" Tsuna called as he walked further down the aisle towards the end. "Haru! Where are you?"
"Herbivore," came a voice next to him.
"HIIIEE!" Tsuna jumped and bumped into a stand.
The stand broke and all the yarn stationed on it fell on top of Tsuna, the strings loosening out of the rolls they were in and tying Tsuna up in it.
"GYAH!" Tsuna screamed as he tried to move the annoying objects out of his way. "I'm stuck!"
"Oy," came a voice underneath him. "Stop squirming and get off me."
"Eh?" Tsuna stopped moving.
Suddenly, he had a sickening feeling that the soft floor that he just noticed he was on was actually a person, and that person happened to be someone he would never in a million years wished to have fallen on. Tsuna turned to meet steel gray eyes glaring daggers at him.
"HIIIIEEE!" Tsuna screamed. "Hibari-san!"
Tsuna tried to push himself off of Hibari, but the strings wrapping around them only tightened the hold around them, making Tsuna rebound and fall back onto Hibari.
"Gah!" Tsuna fell face first onto Hibari's chest.
Oh shit! Tsuna thought as he started sweating. I'm on top of Hibari-san! This is embarrassing! I'll bet Hibari-san's gonna bite me to death!
"Kimi," came an ominous tone. "Kami korosu."
HIIIE! Tsuna screamed in his head as he shut his eyes tightly. I knew it! I'm screwed!
But nothing came. Tsuna opened up one eye to see that Hibari was struggling with moving his right hand, along with his left (after Tsuna opened both his eyes), because of all the loose string wrapped around them.
Safe! Tsuna thought in relief. For now, that is...
"Get off me, herbivore," Hibari repeated himself.
"Hie!" Tsuna pushed himself up to keep as much distance from Hibari as he could. "I'm so sorry! I'm really sorry, Hibari-san!"
Tsuna thought he saw veins popping out of Hibari's head as his glare darkened.
I am so screwed after this is all over! Tsuna thought as he winced at the heated glare on him.
"Hey!" someone called, running up to them. "Are you guys all right?"
"Oh!" Tsuna turned to look at the store clerk running up to him. "Help! We're stuck!"
"What happened?" the clerk asked as he bent down.
"Um," Tsuna started as he bit his lip. "I accidentally bumped into the stand and now all this yarn fell and covered us."
"...How the heck does that happen?" the store clerk looked at him strangely. "Yarn does not fall out of its roll unless you actually ripped the string out. You guys look like you're in a red spiderweb!"
"Hehe," Tsuna chuckled nervously. "It just did?"
"Well," the clerk said as he stood up, "you're just gonna have to stay like this for a while. I gotta go get scissors, so I'll be back. All right?"
"You don't have any on you right now?" Tsuna looked at him in distress.
"Well, no," the clerk answered. "Why would I? My apron doesn't even have a pocket for it. Just hold on and I'll be back."
"Then hurry up, herbivore," came a demanding tone underneath Tsuna.
"That voice," the store clerk froze. "Don't tell me... that's Hibari-san!"
"Um... yeah," Tsuna replied.
"Oh!" the clerk jumped. "Um, well, I'll hurry up and get a scissor and help you and Hibari-san out of that!"
The clerk ran back the way he came and grabbed a pair of scissors and came back as soon as he could.
"That was fast," Tsuna commented.
"Well," the clerk laughed nervously, "this is the disciplinary chairman you're with, you know?"
"Shut up and get to work," Hibari boomed, "or I'll bite you to death."
"Hie!" Tsuna screamed in fear.
"Y-yessir!" the clerk started cutting up the yarn.
"Tsuna-san?" a girl's voice popped up in front of him.
"Haru?" Tsuna looked up.
"Hahi, what is Tsuna-san doing with all this red yarn-desu?" she asked.
"Um," Tsuna scratched his cheek. "Well, stuff happened and the yarn fell on me."
"Hahi!" Haru looked shocked. "That's terrible-desu!"
"I agree," came a soft voice. "What a terrible coincidence."
"Huh?" Tsuna looked at Haru's shoulder. "Fon-san! What are you doing here?"
"Hey!" the clerk yelled at Tsuna. "Stop moving! I'm trying to cut the yarn here!"
"Hiie!" Tsuna bowed his head down. "I'm sorry!"
"Tsuna-san!" Haru chimed. "I met Fon-san at the fabrics aisle and we were talking about wedding costumes for you and me. He suggested I try making a Chinese wedding dress-desu! Look at all the red fabric I got! Aren't you excited?"
"N-not really, Haru," Tsuna reluctantly answered.
"Done!" the store clerk exclaimed. "Man, that was a lot of yarn that you guys got covered in. Took me a while to cut it all out of the way for you guys to get out."
"Thanks!" Tsuna said as he got up and off Hibari.
"No problem," the clerk smiled.
Hibari stood up after Tsuna got off him and started walking off.
"Wah!" Tsuna screamed as he fell on Hibari again.
"Tsuna-san!" Haru ran up to him. "Is Tsuna-san all right-desu?"
"Y-yeah," Tsuna said.
"Herbivore," Hibari fumed. "How many times must I repeat myself?"
"Hiie!" Tsuna screamed (yet again) and he pushed himself off of Hibari once again. "I'm sorry, Hibari-san!"
As he pushed himself off and stood up, he ended up tripping and fell on his butt.
"Ouch!" he yelped.
"Oh dear," the storm arcobaleno said as he jumped off Haru's shoulder, "you seem to be tied up around your legs as well. Your ankles, to be exact."
"What?" Tsuna looked at his ankle and saw the red yarn tangled around his and Hibari's ankles. "HIEE! How?"
"Hold on!" the clerk said as he bent down again. "I'll cut these off for ya!"
"Hurry it up!" Hibari's eye seemed to be twitching from Tsuna's viewpoint.
"Y-yes!" the clerk began by cutting the string around Hibari's ankle, followed by Tsuna. "There! We're done!"
"Oh thank god!" Tsuna sighed in relief as he stood up.
"Hmph," Hibari huffed as he stood up.
"I'm really sorry this happened Hibari-san," Tsuna bowed.
"Hahi!" Haru went to stand next to Tsuna and bowed her head as well. "Haru is very sorry to Hibari-san that this happened-desu! Haru ran off and left Tsuna-san all by himself so Tsuna-san got lost and this happened-desu. Please forgive both Haru and Tsuna-san!"
"Haru!" Tsuna grabbed her shoulder. "It's not your fault! It was mine for not being careful!"
"But it was Haru's fault, Tsuna-san!" Haru turned to face him, eyes watering. "If Haru hadn't ran off without taking Tsuna-san with, then this wouldn't have happened-desu!"
"Man," the store clerk scratched the back of his head. "I feel like I'm watching a lovers' quarrel."
"Wha- we're not dating!" Tsuna exclaimed in frustration.
"Hahi!" Haru's eyes gleamed in excitement and hands clapped together. "Someone just called us lovers-desu!"
"Haru!" Tsuna palmed his face. "We're not dating!"
"You all are crowding," a foreboding tone popped up. "I will bite you all to death."
"Well!" the clerk brought his left hand up and looked at his wrist. "Look at the time. My shift's almost over! I gotta go!"
And so the clerk ran off to the back of the store, leaving Tsuna with Haru, Fon, and the fuming disciplinary chairman.
"Um, well, Haru," Tsuna said as he grabbed her arm, "let's go pay for your fabric, okay?"
"Hahi!" Haru was blushing at Tsuna initiating something this time. "Yes Tsuna-san!"
"Well, we're off!" Tsuna bowed quickly at Hibari. "Bye! And sorry for everything that happened!"
Now the only remaining people were Hibari and Fon.
"What were you doing here, Hibari Kyoya?" Fon inquired as he walked up to the red yarn on the floor that the clerk forgot to clean up.
"Hmph," Hibari folded his arms. "My mother required me to fetch some yarn for her."
"Is that so?" Fon said as he reached down to grab a piece of the yarn. "What a coincidence."
"What is?" Hibari asked, peeved at the words the storm arcobaleno was using.
"This piece of string that was tied between you and the Vongola Decimo around the ankle," Fon stated as he tugged on the string to grab the other end, "it's not tangled at all."
"I have no time to listen to your babbles, Storm infant," Hibari said as he walked off with a couple rolls of purple yarn around an arm.
"It looks more like... a red string of fate," he finished, even though Hibari wouldn't hear him.
TADA! End of chapter 1! I had actually gotten the idea of the red string of fate from an awesome HK love comedy I watched a long time ago. It's called Love in the Time of Twilight starring Nicky Wu and Charlie Yeung (I think that's her name). Awesome movie by Tsui Hark. Nothing about this story relates to the movie at all, just the red string. Thanks for reading and review if you could! :)