A Katekyo Hitman Reborn One-shot Fanfic

Why am I doing an I-pin x Hibari fanfic? Very simply, I just saw episode 18, the Valentine's Day one, and was touched by the scene near the ending where I-pin gave Hibari her chocolate. In my opinion, they really could make a good couple if not for the age difference.

Looking Back

Every time she passed by the school, usually during deliveries, a distant memory would tug at her mind, as if begging to be remembered.

Ever since she quit the road of an assassin she considered herself a normal girl: going to school, studying, working part time at a ramen restaurant. She no longer had to fight, and that annoy broccoli monster, that Lambo, was gone for good – gone with the 10th boss of Vongola to Italy.

I-pin missed Tsuna a lot. Sometimes she still went to his house, never going inside, just standing across the street, catching a glimpse of Mrs. Sawada when she could.

Her memories in that house were precious – the man who always fell sick at the sight of Bianchi, the baseball maniac, Kyoko onee-san and Haru onee-san… And Bianchi onee-san who was just scary.

She wanted to deny it but she also missed Lambo, just a bit. His overconfident rants and childish antics had been replaced by the 'scratch', 'scratch' of pencils and strict academic agendas.

But there was someone she was forgetting, she knew. Every time she came to Tsuna's house she felt uneasy because of the shadow in her mind. Every time she stopped in front of Tsuna's old school she was drowned in an indescribable loneliness. So she dulled those sad emotions by busying herself with various tasks.

With time that memory was pushed farther and farther back, back into the chasm of her mind, back until she could hardly recall anything about that shadow anymore.

The loneliness stayed, and would not go away.

She wondered who that person was, who refused to be forgotten.
One day, while running a delivery, I-pin found herself suddenly standing at a foreign street corner. But no, it wasn't exactly foreign. The street was as it was ten years ago and standing beside her was Lambo. Not the young, obnoxious, stupid Lambo but the grown up Lambo who was much more mature but still stupid.

"Ah…it looks like my past self misused the bazooka again," murmured adult Lambo bemusedly.

"Ah!" gasped I-pin, "I have to make the delivery!"

And off she ran, though she didn't even know the directions. Past familiar yet strange streets, past people who were the younger versions of people she knew, past old structures that were gone in her time.

Again, she stopped before Tsuna's school. It was near dusk, and the school bell had rung perhaps minutes ago. Now students flooded through the gates, backpacks swung over their shoulders, chatting with a boy here, a girl there.

The school looked newer than it did from the time period she had just come from. But of course it did.

Then she saw him, leaning casually by the gate, arms crossed, gazing at the passing students like a hawk. Ever so collected, ever so alert.

And she remembered.

She remembered Hibari Kyoya.

She stared fixedly, heart beating faster and faster, the delivery temporary forgotten. She wanted to watch him more. She longed to speak to him. She yearned to listen to his voice!

Gingerly she stepped forward, a movement that Hibari easily noticed. And as he turned his head in her direction she froze, then started again.

As she slowly, slowly approached him, she caught his eyes and held the gaze, drowning in a sudden euphoria, a warmth that spread from her heart to the rest of her body and lit her on fire.

Tentatively, she reached out a hand, and despite his inquisitive and warning glance and the sudden tensing of his muscles, she kept reaching out. Just a few inches more.

One more inch.

His curious eyes never left hers, but I-pin thought he probably interpreted her action as an attack.

Half an inch.

Hibari of the past and I-pin of the future showed no signs of noticing the 10th boss of Vongola walk through the gates, nor did Tsuna and Gokudera and Yamamoto notice them.

Just a little more. A fraction –

A pink cloud surrounded I-pin. She was back in her own time, standing in front of the school with the delivery in hand.

Her five minutes was up. Love across time was not possible, thought I-pin sadly. She became tormented by a terrible pain stronger than any she had ever felt before.

Perhaps in the future, when she finished college, she could go visit the Vongola in Italy and maybe take up assassinations again, just to be able to work beside Hibari once more. In the near future, Lambo would probably misuse the bazooka again, and she could then look for the cloud ring bearer and watch him in wistful silence until he has to leave with Tsuna once more.

After all these years, I-pin finally remembered Hibari Kyoya.

This time she would not forget.

End.

Author's Note:

I-pin is awesome, and so is Hibari. Perhaps it's because I am Chinese myself that I like this character more than any other characters in the series.

Hopefully no grammar mistakes were made here. Review please!