"Hahi! Haru is not a stupid woman, Bakadera!" She huffed and turned away. Why was Bakadera the only other guardian that was accepted into University of Tokyo again?

It had been years since they had all come back from the future, years and he really should have grown up. But he, being true to form, didn't. He was still the same irritating name calling and hotheaded person that he had been.

And Haru was sick of it. At least at University she would be able to make new friends and not be around him so much. Was it really too much to ask that he treat her like a normal person? Perhaps, not speak to her like she was stupid or something?"

"And maybe if you thought things through and didn't ruin things for Jyudaime I might consider thinking you weren't a stupid woman, you stupid woman!" Bakadera screamed from behind her. Of course, she had messed up Tsuna's newest date with Kyoko by trying to have him cosplay as a monster on it, but really that was a small fault and a habit she couldn't get rid of, so why why why was Bakadera upset again? Besides, he ruined that date more by stalking Tsuna in a way that was clearly obvious for the soon-to-be mafia boss. Didn't that mean he ruined the date more?

Tsuna and Kyoko had started going out the year before. Even though she was hurt she would never be able to not be happy for her best friend. She had moved on from her childish crush on Tsunayoshi Sawada. Of course she would still do what it took for them all to be safe.

"Haru thinks that you ruined Tsuna-kun's date more than Haru did, Bakadera!" She had turned back to glare at him, chocolate brown eyes meeting his green. If he wasn't so mean he would look really nice. "Also, stop smoking idiot." She plucked the cigarette from his mouth and ground it beneath her heel. "You really want to get cancer don't you!" If Bakadera got cancer Tsuna would most certainly be upset, therefore to save her friend the pain she had to get the stupid octopus head to stop exhaling more smoke than a smoke stack.

But she did it for Vongola now, and not only for Tsuna. Haru was a grown woman now, and she understood. Even back when she and Tsuna had first met, Haru wasn't blind. She could see how his eyes followed Kyoko, how he lit up and blushed whenever Kyoko entered the room. Haru had known that Tsuna didn't like her as anything more than a friend, but she just didn't want to give up hope that maybe sometime, Tsuna would see her.

When he had started to date Kyoko, all of Haru's dreams of Tsuna ever liking her vanished like dew in the morning sun. It just wasn't to be. And in the year that followed she had moved on.

"I think you purposefully want to ruin Jyudaime's dates, stupid woman, you never ever could get over him could you." Haru didn't even register that she had slapped the stupid octopus head until she heard a crack and felt her hand sting.

"How many times does Haru have to tell you, that Haru doesn't like Tsuna-kun anymore?!" An awkward silence fell over the room.

"U-um...Haru...Gokudera-kun..." Tsuna stood in the doorway. "If you continue staying here you'll miss the going-away dinner that Kaa-san made for all of us..."

"Of course I will eat the wonderful food that Mama lovingly made for all of us!" Gokudera rushed towards the kitchen without a second thought. Haru followed more slowly.

"H-haru?" She turned to see Tsuna still standing in the doorway watching her.

"Hai, Tsuna-kun?" What did he want to speak to her about anyways?

"Did you really mean it when you said you didn't like me anymore?" Oh, so it was that, he had heard the end of their shouting match after all...

"Hai." Haru turned and began to walk away. "Haru doesn't want to be Tsuna-kun's wife anymore."

A.N. And here's the second still somewhat short chapter of When the Time Comes. I feel like this story is going to have chapters that are all somewhat short, like snapshots in the lives of how Haru and Gokudera's relationship changes. This one takes place just before they go off to college.

Tell me if you feel like they're out of character.

Also, as a side note, I didn't want to go the route of Haru being comforted by Gokudera because Tsuna and Kyoko got together or something like that. I feel like Haru is a strong enough person to get over it by herself without needing Gokudera as a springboard or something.

Send me your thoughts!

~Leaf