Title: Namimori Daycare

Pairing: Mukuro x Tsuna

Summary: Tsuna doesn't like kids so when his at-home tutor knew about this, he applied him to work at a place where Tsuna describes as hell. But what happens when he met someone who can help him like kids and learns to fall in love at the same time?

This is AU so there will be no mafia-related stuff in here; just pineapples, tunas and a bunch of gremlins. Please enjoy this birthday fic for myself, haha~

18-years old Sawada Tsunayoshi never liked kids, especially the overly energetic ones. He can't stand them or try to be alone with one; he'd go crazy within minutes or maybe less.

It all started two years ago when their neighbor, the Bovino family asked Tsuna's mother if they could leave their 5-year old son in her care while they were off to the city because of their work. Of course, being the good and understanding of a mother Nana is, she agreed to look after their son. But since Nana is usually busy handling almost all of the house chores, taking care of the Bovino kid has been appointed to Tsuna who was busy prepping for his exams that time.

Although the babysitting only lasted for a week, Tsuna who was known to be a kind and charismatic albeit clumsy boy started to dislike kids who like to make your life a living hell. How, you may ask? Put Tsuna and any 5-year old energetic, obnoxious, annoying kid in a room alone and see what happens after thirty minutes.

No one suspected him of disliking kids since he never let anyone find out about it with an exception of someone namely Reborn, his 30-year old at-home tutor (and also his godfather and coincidentally an English teacher in the same university he studies at) who knows absolutely everything about his favorite student. So when he found out about this secret, Tsuna was forced to work in a daycare center where he will be spending his precious time tending to kids – a bunch of energetic kids and the at-home tutor will surely have fun with it, the brunet was sure of it.

When one day Tsuna asked him why, his at-home tutor only said, "You can only cure your dislike by staying with them."

And so Tsuna sighed in defeat knowing that he will never win against his at-home tutor with arguments such as this.

Chapter One

Namimori Daycare is located not so far from the Namimori University – the only escalator school that goes from elementary school to graduate found in the small city of Namimori. It is a place where the parents usually leave their children to someone to take good care of them in their stead to go to their respective jobs and come back for them later before the day ends.

Tsuna hesitantly stood by the daycare's gray-colored metal gates, clutching on his school bag on his left hand and a piece of crumbled paper on the other, carefully eyeing his surroundings for naughty gremlins (and perverts) that might grab him out of nowhere. When he saw no one that fits the description, he slowly walked inside the place, looking around.

There were playgrounds on the right side; slides, swings, monkey bars and sandbox, the usual you can find in public parks. On the other side, there were seven or more flower pots with scribbles written in front of the pots (probably the children's names, Tsuna thought) and a small vegetable garden.

What am I even doing here…?

The brunet stood up straight, his back facing the entrance door and looked up at the cloudless blue sky with an expression of morose on his face.

How did Reborn even know it when my friends didn't anyway?! My life will surely end if I really start working in here! People will know me as a dame who can't even handle very energetic kids!

Too busy with his own little world, he didn't notice someone come up to him from behind not until this person tapped him in the shoulder and spoke to him in a deep voice with a bored drawl evident in it.

"Are you Sawada Tsunayoshi?"

Tsuna quickly spun around and let out his trademark shriek as the older man smiled at him with a leer evident in it.

"Ahh… I'm really sorry for shouting earlier. You surprised me."

"Kufufu~ No worries."

Walking behind the older man, Tsuna can't help stealing glances at him or can't stop the feeling of being drawn to him. The man's hair was long in a purple-bluish color and stops just below his waist swaying that reminded him as a cat's tail as he walked along the corridor. What caught Tsuna's attention was the way the older man's hair at the back of his head spiked up like a pineapple's and the way he looked tall and lanky and sexy at the same time.

Yes, sexy.

Tsuna has been well-aware of his preference two years ago when he wasn't really that interested in dating any of the girls at his school or noticed the way most of the girls would look at him (he may not know despite him being clumsy but he has this charm that makes people, boy or girl like him). In short, he likes boys and this man in front of him is giving him that butterfly feeling in his stomach whenever he looks at him.

"Is there something fascinating on my back, Tsunayoshi-kun?"

Tsuna blushed to the tips of his ears as the man in front of him caught him red-handed. He looked up only to find the man staring back at him with that creepy smile on his face, "Uhm… By the way, h-how do you know who I was… Uhm…?"

"Kufufu~ Rokudo Mukuro, at your service~" The man chuckled as he made a gesture with his hand for the brunet to follow him to wherever he was taking him, "That man, Reborn, told us you'd be coming today. He gave us quite a description of you that I knew right away."

What? Description?

The brunet stared at Mukuro's back as he continued walking with a look of aghast on his face. Stupid Reborn! Knowing him, he must have pointed out every negative detail about him to these people! The horror! Tsuna can't believe he'd do that. Oh wait, this is Reborn after all, he would definitely do something like that.

Tsuna mentally cursed.

After a few turns, they finally reached their destination. Tsuna looked up from the speck on his rubber shoes to the closed door in front of them. He flinched when a loud crash was heard from the inside then followed by a very familiar boisterous laugh. Tsuna can't pinpoint where he heard that obnoxious voice from but his intuition is telling him not to go inside.

Tsuna warily eyed him as the pineapple-haired man gave him an assuring smile as he slid open the door. He didn't notice him side-stepping nor he heard a timid gasp coming from above him when a solid black and white thing suddenly whizzed past the open door and painfully collided right on the brunet's face.

Tsuna only remembered it now whose voice it was from. The only source why he started disliking kids like him – Lambo, the 5-year old kid next door; in other words, the Bovino kid who made his life a living hell.

Tsuna hates his life.

First chapter is a bit... short, I guess? But the next chapter ain't gonna be short... I hope.

Here's a teaser for the next chapter:

"I sincerely apologize, Tsunayoshi-kun. It was not my intention to surprise you." Mukuro said, hoisting up Tsuna from the floor, "You simply were" Mukuro brought his other free hand and gently caressed the brunet's cheek, liking the feeling of his soft skin on his callous hand and smirked as he watched the brunet's face turn pink, "amusing to tease."

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