"Please train me! I have to get stronger, and become a Jeager pilot! I-I'll do anything!"
Tsuna groveled at Kyouya Hibari's feet. Hibari wasn't the least bit pleased, but he saw a chance. A willing chew toy with potential.
Make no mistake, Hibari wasn't doing this out of kindness, instead for entertainment. Either the boy would measure up, or he'd have another punching bag. Might as well be useful.
"Hn. We start now." Hibari launched himself at the startled boy.
"Hiee! Hibari, you can't attack me right out of the shower!" Tsuna struggled to dodge the tonfa and keep his towel up. Hibari had taken to attacking anywhere, anytime, and in any state of dress.
Tsuna had gained quite the rainbow of bruises across his body over the past few weeks. But never anything worse than a bruised rib. Hibari wanted his chew toy able to fight back.
He shrieked when his inattention earned him a smack to the temple. Tsuna's vision swam, he barely dodged the next strike. Steeling his nerves, metaphorically and literally, he threw himself into the fight.
He walked away from the fight with another loss, but Hibari said 'wao'. Tsuna counted that as a win.
"Tsu-nii! Hibari-obaa-san said we could go visit kaa-chan today!" Fuuta tackled his knees and brought him down. The other two followed Fuuta's lead and dog piled Tsuna. Tsuna wheezed when Lambo started jumping.
"-ambo! Lam-Lambo that's enough!"Tsuna wheezed out. I-pin caught on that he was hurting Tsuna and scolded Lambo in fast-paced chinese. Lambo somehow able to keep up and rebuke everything I-pin said.
"Tsu-nii, can we go see kaa-chan? Please?" Fuuta ignored the other two. He was the child most affected by kaa-san's absence. Having lived on the streets until kaa-san scooped him up and brought him home. The other two had come from orphanages and at least had some reference for a home.
"We'll go, Fuuta-kun. I need to bring her more flowers." Tsuna ruffle Fuuta's hair and hugged him.
Tsuna lingered in the doorway and watched the three children scramble onto kaa-san's bed. They all talked to her, telling her about their days, who threw a mud pie at who and how the current game of tag was going. That Tsuna wanted to become a Jeager pilot and Hibari was beating him up all the time.
Tsuna winced at that, but let them have their moment. Tsuna made visits to kaa-san every three days. The children had only been able to see her once, right after she had been hospitalized. That was nearly a month ago.
The doglike Kaiju, Ken, had torn many things to shreds.