DISCLAIMER: Katekyo Hitman Reborn and the characters belong to Amano Akira respectively. I own nothing but the storyline, but if there is a resemblance in any part, that would be pure coincidence. Though, I'm not getting any profit from this and I'm not sure if this thing can make me a fortune. I know for sure the inspirations that I got while I'm here would make me one.


Chapter 2 – The Kids Mature Fast.

Meanwhile, at school Gokudera Ran keeps rubbing her tummy; the pain seems to be lesser than yesterday, but the cramp makes her feels like punching someone. Her friend, Yuko that sitting in front of her feels uncomfortable looking at Ran's facial expression that screamed, 'I'm in pain, crossed the wrong path with me, I'll kill you!'.

"Was it that much of pain…?" she asked while resting her chin on one hand on Ran's table.

"Huh…?" Ran raised one of her eyebrows.

"You said you're having your first period, right…?"

"Uh… I can't even describe the pain though… if you ask me to describe it, that is…" she said while still rubbing her tummy. She even felt uncomfortable around her butt too.

"Huh…."

Ran feels the need to go the washroom all of a sudden, but when she stands up from her chair and turn around, her face turns pale. There's a smudge of blood on her chair means her pants must be soaked through with blood. She then turns to look at her mortified friend.

"Uh… could you help me…?" she asked with a deep red blush covered her face.

Yuko feels reluctant at first, but looking at her teary eyed friend, she gave up. "Sure… first takes off your sweater and tied it on your waist…" she takes out her wet tissue that her mom provided for her. "Take this and wipe that blood stain, we don't want those bad boys come and make fun of it…" she says while watching her friend used the wet tissue. Once done, she carries her friend to the office to use the phone and call her father. From 3 inches away, she could hear how flustered Ran's father is when he's hearing what happened to her daughter. After that, she had to excuse herself to return to the classroom while Ran waiting for her father in the school office.

It takes half an hour for her father to come and get her. Since he drives that day, it was understandable; with the traffic jam and all. He came into the school office to fetch her, and it seems he's too dazzling; making the female teachers looking at him from head to toe. After she grabs her father's hand, she sends a warning glare to the teachers, that's enough to make them look away.

In the car, both of them fell into silence. They don't know what they should talk about or who should start first. Gokudera remembers when he had a talk with Tsuna.

'You just need to be by her side to support her… that's what a father should do…'

"How's your tummy feeling…?" he asks while having the steering wheel turn right.

"Um… the pain felt lighter a bit…" she answered lazily, she really didn't have the mood to talk about her period. She tries to forget about it so that the pain will be forgotten for a while. "Sorry tou-chan…" she said while watching a car move.

"Huh…?"

Ran blushed. "… For making you come and fetch me in the middle of your working hour…"

Gokudera has felt connected with his daughter even for a while, but it's enough to make him smile warmly. "You're welcome…" he murmurs.

"Mm…?"

Gokudera shook his head softly. "Nothing. So, what do you want for dinner…?"

She takes her time to think. "… Curry… Curry rice…" she blushed.

"Curry rice, then…" Gokudera said with smiles. He imagined how happy his son would be when he gets back seeing his sister went home early for today.

Upon arriving home, Gokudera spotted his son, Shun plays with Daichi, his cousin along with Bianchi, Daichi's mother and Gokudera's only sister.

"You're home, huh…?" Bianchi asked elegantly in not so elegantly tone.

"I sent Ran home and then I need to return to the office, Tsuna kind of out of hand there…" Gokudera takes out Ran's school bag and carries it with him into the house. He watched his son chasing her daughter and hugs her, even in pain she still smiles upon seeing her brother. Gokudera feels touched with the scenery that he didn't realize how close Bianchi had walked to get next to him.

"Touched, huh…?" she asked; making him startled. He walks out from the house with a blushed face. "Who would've guessed, Gokudera Hayato managed to be a father of two kids… I guess the world had looked at you the wrong way…" she smirks.

"Sh—shut up!"

"Well, are you sure that you want to use that tone…? I thought I should help you watch your kids for today, but it seems that you don't need my help…" Gokudera twitched. "So, bye-bye… Dai—"

"Wait! Fine, p—please takes care of them… I'll be back before dinner…" he says behind his gritted teeth.

Bianchi smiling victory to annoy him further, in the end she said, "My, my… my little brother actually said the word 'Please'… Alright, I'll help you and you must be home before dinner…"

"I did tell you, that— ugh!" he noticed the sister give him the glare. "I understand…" he gave up.

When the sun almost set, Tsuna already prepares to go home and meet his son to have dinner together, he promised Yuu that it's going to be hamburger for tonight's dinner. It would be very helpful to himself too, since Takuma and Takumi will have a sleepover at Tsuna resident tonight. On his way home, he went to the grocery store to buy things that are needed for the hamburger, smiling while picking the veggies, making the store owner look at him warily. When he wanted to go to the payment counter, he bumps with Sasagawa Ryohei, Kyoko's older brother. He seems that he had a hard time to choose the pasta. 'Is Oni-san will make pasta for tonight's dinner?' he thought. So he went to say hello and lend a hand if it's necessary.

"Hello, Oni-san…" Tsuna greeted him; making him looks at Tsuna fiercely out of startled. Tsuna shivers to the bone looking at the fierce look until Ryohei starts to speak.

"Ah… Sawada! Long time no see!" he said with a loud voice as he smack Tsuna's back a bit hard, enough to make the skinny Tsuna lost balance for a minute.

"Yea… It's been a long time… speaks about long time, though, it seems that you've been looking at the pasta for quite a while..." he said while pointing his finger towards several types of pasta. "… Are you making pasta for dinner tonight…?"

"Um… but it seems tough, I mean, look at this tons of types of pasta… I didn't know which one I should choose…" Ryohei grumbled while picking another type of pasta to take a look. "I really don't want to fail at my first attempt on cooking pasta since Mikan asked for it…" he asked with a slight blush.

Tsuna smiles, so this muscled Oni-san had his hard time too, he thought. "Why don't you tell me what kind of cooking that you want to do with the pasta…"

Ryohei takes out his Smartphone quickly and it seems he's searching for a recipe or something from Tsuna's point of view. Once he found what he wanted, he shows it to Tsuna which Tsuna read it for a while and then he smiles as he found he's been looking just now.

"One-san, if you wanted to do this, you should use this type of pasta…" Tsuna takes the spaghetti out from the rack as soon as he gave back Ryohei's Smartphone. "Spaghetti Bolognese is the simplest pasta recipes, I like to make those once in a while… Yuu-kun seems to like it as well and I'm sure Mikan loves it too…" he said with a warm smile.

Sasagawa Ryohei, a retired international boxer. Like Gokudera, he's in his late 20's and already opening his own gym in town. He retired from boxing world after his spine got injured, he stopped doing the only thing that he could do with passion. He married a beautiful woman afterwards, but then he was forced to get a divorce when the wife couldn't stand living with him anymore, since he's no longer famous as he used to be and leave Mikan with him. Sasagawa Mikan is their only daughter and the ex-wife said since she's going to start a new life with a new man; she would rather not have Mikan with her. Fortunately, Mikan was barely 5 months by the time the ex-wife gone so she wouldn't know that her mother thought of her as a bother. Now that Mikan has turned 5 years old, Ryohei seems to have a good life being a single father and being stronger for his daughter. That's what makes Tsuna and the rest look up to him.

After Tsuna explained how to do it and what is the best ingredient to put, Ryohei looks at him in a different way now. Since Tsuna knew how to cook and all, Ryohei looks at him with awe, but felt so jealous of him at the same time because even his daughter likes Tsuna's cooking than his even though he could understand why. After they pay their groceries, they went to the separate ways as they parted with hand waves.

...

Once he got home, Yuu, and the twins welcome him together at the door. While the kids watching television shows, he cooks as fast as he could. By the time the hamburger was ready, Yuu and the twins have already prepared the table since they already knew the routine; the twins has sleepover at Tsuna's resident for quite a number of times as Yamamoto has always gone overseas, luckily the twins understand their father's situation.

"Come on boys, let's dig in before the hamburger turns cold…!" said Tsuna cheerfully.

"Itadakimasu!" said the boys simultaneously.

Meanwhile, at Gokudera's resident, Ran and Shun seems to be pleased with their meal that night. Even though Gokudera arrives at home a bit late and being nagged by Bianchi, he managed to cook the curry rice to feed his children.

"So, how's the taste, Shun…? Were you okay with the spiciness…?" he asked, thinking he still young though Ran can eat spicy thing when she was the same age as Shun.

"Em! It's delicious tou-chan! I want to eat more tomorrow too…!" he said cheerfully.

"Sure…!" he replied as he looks at his daughter that enjoyed her meal silently. Even though she didn't talk much, her expression tells everything, and it seems she pleased with the curry. Gokudera smiles while watching his children eating.

And now to the Sasagawa Ryohei resident, Mikan seems anxious on her father's cooking tonight. Her father is cooking pasta. It's been a while since she had western cooking since Aunt Kyoko has lived separate from them, and her father's expertise seems to be in traditional Japanese cooking. She wanted to eat western so much that she asked her father to make one in a blue moon. To say that she was surprised seeing the real Spaghetti Bolognese served in front of would be understatement, she was never thought her father could actually making even one type of western food.

"So… um, you cooked western tonight, Papa…" she said as a matter of a fact.

"Yea! …. But I'm not sure about the taste though, since I'm only listening to (his) explanation…" Ryohei scratch his temple while Mikan take a bite of the spaghetti. He's not sure if the daughter had said 'Itadakimasu' but maybe she said it while he's busy worrying about the taste. He watched if Mikan's expression changed in any way.

Mikan smiles after she swallowed. "It tastes good, Papa…" she smiles brightly. Ryohei feels proud with himself until his daughter said this. "… But you still can't beat Aunt Kyoko's cooking…". Ryohei feels defeated right after he felt proud.

Nevertheless, they had their dinner in peace while Ryohei tells Mikan how he actually met with Tsuna and had given him quite a useful information on cooking the pasta.

Meanwhile, in Tsuna's resident, while they're having their dinner, they heard a knock on the door. All the laughter that crowded the table a second ago fell into silence. They keep looking at each other, thinking if they had heard wrong, but it proves that the knocks they've heard was real. Tsuna put his forefinger to his lips; telling the boys to keep quiet while he goes to open the door.

He approaches the door slowly and lightly, and then takes a look through the peephole. He could see a man standing in front of his door, but he couldn't see clearly who the man is. Trusting his gut, he opens the door to see who the man is and to his surprised, it is him, the person that could give the eerie vibe from afar, Rokudo Mukuro.


The Japanese names seems to be carried various meanings depends on the kanji. For example, Yuu – gentleness or leisurely. In this chapter, there's an OC character (Ryohei's daughter) named Mikan means tangerine. Kind of refreshing, I got it from the anime Atashinchi (it's family anime, really recommended!). This chapter mostly about a father that can cook and is learning to cook other style. Thinking about it, it's very seldom that a father could so well, but hey time is changing right? Most father now knows how to cook simple dish, sometimes even better than the moms. Heh...

So, that's it for chapter 2. I hope you guys enjoyed!