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Summary: There were so many things that separated Hibari from the person he was interested in. Sometimes, he vaguely wondered that if he hadn't become famous things would have turned out differently- but even he knew that something stupid would have gotten in his way. 1827. Famous!Hibari. Student!Tsuna. AU.
A/N: Lyrics used from the song 'Crash' by Fit For Rivals. I take no credit for it.
Chapter Two
With his mother cheering him on and practically shoving him out the café door, Tsuna didn't have much of a choice but to go with Hibari- never would he want to witness how easily the raven-haired teen could make Nana's heart melt with fondness just by being polite.
Walking through the backstreet's and ally-way's, Tsuna could now understand why Hibari kept his hood up and hid in the shadows. The amount of people hanging about the area was shocking. The seventeen-year-old didn't think that Hibari was that well known, but after seeing girls screeching his name over and over, he quickly changed his mind.
Hibari took the other through the back entrance, earning a few questioning stares before he turned around, staring at Tsuna calmly.
"Cavallone might seem a bit... doubtful of you when he meets you," he commented quietly. 2But I'll put that herbivore in his place-"
"Kyoya! What did I tell you about wandering off? What if someone had recognized you?" Tsuna's attention was brought onto another male, with wavy blonde locks. He'd managed to pick up that the person wasn't Japanese- or at least fully Japanese, from his accent. "Gah! Never mind that- who is this you brought with you? Someone you know?"
Tsuna was quick to look away when the questioning gaze landed on him, before Hibari speaking for him.
"This is Sawada Tsunayoshi. He works in a café not far away from here and is a part-time student studying composition," Hibari spoke calmly. "I wanted him to work under me."
"E-Eh?"
"Kyoya? Are you okay?"
Hibari knew he was going to get this reaction straight away, so he pulled out his notepad before handing them over to Dino calmly.
"These were lyrics that I wrote. I was planning on casting them aside- but Tsunayoshi got his hands on it before I could and edited it," Hibari then let a lazy smirk cross his face. "I can't believe that a student still learning could make me change my mind."
Dino was staring at the lyrics before glancing at Tsuna, a sudden smile crossing his face as he laughed, handing the notepad back to Hibari. It made Tsuna assume the worst, causing him to bow his head- yet what the blonde-haired male said next surprised him.
"Kyoya can seemingly see talent within an instant! I never thought I'd see the day-" it wasn't long before Dino was sprawled across the floor, Hibari hitting him on the head with his guitar. Tsuna then noted that he didn't want to piss the raven-haired teen off any time soon. "A-Ahhh..."
"I'll be taking Tsunayoshi to the practise rooms," he then nudged his supposed boss' on the side softly with his foot. "I suggest you get some ice for your head herbivore."
With that, he grabbed Tsuna's arm and dragged him off, the brunette stuttering the whole way before he was shoved in a room, his complaints and worries about Dino coming to a halt as he looked around himself.
The room was fairly large, with various instruments and recording equipment lining the walls- but what caught the brunette's attention was the maple wood piano by the window, his eyes lighting up as he rushed over to it and ran his fingers off the keys, noting that it was used quite frequently. He turned his attention back to Hibari, his eyes practically sparkling with joy.
"You act as if you've never seen a piano before." Hibari bluntly stated, watching him with slight amusement, Tsuna looking back at the piano before sitting on the stool.
"Well, I only ever get to play the piano at the college... but I often get stuck with the piano with keys mission or stuck in place..." he tilted his head as he thought about it. "I usually only get to use a good piano if I go early in the morning."
Hibari was now beside him, placing the notepad in front of Tsuna before drawing a seat up beside him, moving raven bangs away from his eyes as he took his guitar out of its case once more and then started strumming quietly.
Tsuna was listening to the strumming silently, before his honey-caramel eyes widened slightly when it was the tune he'd made for the lyrics Hibari wrote. He pressed his fingers on the keys of the piano, pausing for a few moments before then joining in, closing his eyes as he focused.
Hibari seemed pleased, stopping his strumming as he listened to the piano, tapping his foot once every so often. It was only moments later that Hibari had noticed Tsuna was singing the lyrics at the same time, choosing to focus on the others voice instead.
"Don't know where I'm going,
Everybody's running, everybody's running,
Coming back after all is broken,
Everything is burning, no one is returning..."
Hibari knew that the song was originally meant to be faster than this, yet since Tsuna had slowed it down, it sounded smoother than what he had in his head originally. He noted the younger teen had, by far, a much softer voice than him, yet it was good. If he managed to train his voice a bit more, Hibari could see him actually getting a singing contract himself. Possibly.
"Step back, step back, everybody step back, step back,
It's time to pick up the slack, the slack,
You ought to know..."
He noticed how Tsuna had tweaked the lyrics just slightly, not that he minded too much. It was still a lot better than what he had originally written.
"Save me,
From this wicked person I have become,
As the world comes crashing..."
Closing his slate blue eyes, Hibari tried not to admit to himself he was writing slightly about how he felt. Not that it was that obvious. To any one else, it was just lyrics. Lyrics that he was originally going to scrap. Tsuna had somehow made the song into something that could be perceived differently just from the way he was singing it.
After a few times of verses being repeated, Tsuna had stopped singing, seemingly not having noticed he even started- or that Hibari had stopped playing his guitar- before he looked at the other, his eyes filled with confusion.
"Kyoya-san, what exactly where you thinking about when you wrote this?"
The question startled Hibari slightly, but he kept a calm composure on his face as he held his guitar.
"What exactly was I thinking about when I wrote it? I wasn't thinking anything. It's just lyrics."
Tsuna could only frown, his expression looking confused as he picked up the notepad and read over it once more, before placing it on his lap.
"I don't believe that. Music, in some form or way, has the emotions of the person who made it in it," his caramel-honey eyes flickered slightly, almost appearing to be amber for a moment. "Are you sure you weren't asking for someone to save you because your world is crashing?"
Someone to save him. Someone to prevent his world crashing. Someone to save him from the person he could possibly become.
'...Is that really what Tsunayoshi picked up just from reading those lyrics?' thoughts flowed through Hibari's head- and it ached. It hurt. He didn't like it when it ached and hurt. He never had this problem before. Usually is was easy to block out, easy to ignore, but it was like Tsuna had opened up a floodgate just by asking that question. 'My head...'
His vision wavered, the room spinning around him as the room very slowly darkened, as if the lights were being dimmed. He could feel himself swaying, yet he kept his foot on the ground, trying to push back what he couldn't.
"Kyoya-san? Are you okay? You've gone really pale and- Kyoya-san!"
Tsuna panicked when the other suddenly passed out, his head connecting with the corner of the piano before hitting the floor. He was quick to move and flip the other on his back, brushing the hair away from his face and biting his lip when he saw the blood trickling down.
"KYOYA-SAN!"
Tsuna stood by Dino when the ambulance came and took Hibari away, his head bowed and his fists clenched tightly as he tried not to cry. He felt horribly guilty, since he was sure that he could Hibari in that state by pushing him into thinking what he had written.
"I'm sorry Dino-san... it's all my fault..."
"Don't blame yourself Tsuna! He just got sick and passed out from strain probably. He'll be fine by tomorrow probably," Dino tried to cheer the boy up, resting a hand on the brunette's head. "Besides, your probably in shock since it happened so suddenly and-"
"But it is my fault. I pushed him into that state," he replied bitterly, feeling his eyes prick. "I questioned him about the lyrics he wrote a-and then he suddenly got like that when I was asking him what kind of emotion he put into it..."
Dino paused, before he gave Tsuna a weak smile. He knew what had happened- but he couldn't blame Tsuna for it. Tsuna didn't really know anything about Hibari. About his life, about his past, about all the stress he was forced to endure from a day to day business.
Tsuna then pulled away from Dino, before putting on what could possibly be called one of the most fake smiles in the world.
"I'm going to head home now before Maman gets worried. It was nice meeting you, Dino-san."
He quickly ran off before Dino could get another word in- and before he could see his tears. It was his fault. Why did he have to ask? He should have known there was some form of hidden meaning in the words, yet he should have ignored it. But at least he learned one thing out of it.
He was going to stay as far away as he could from Hibari Kyoya, so he couldn't hurt him again.
