So this is the start of the plot. Hibari will be somewhat OOC in this chapter, but you'll soon see why. They're in Italy by the way. I don't own Katekyo Hitman Reborn.
2 weeks later:
Sawada Tsunayoshi, Vongola Tenth Generation Boss, sky guardian, the man who fought with his brow furrowed and his fists held up in prayer... And the apparent babysitter/nanny for his guardians. Yes, the fearsome Vongola Tenth Generation Boss is currently in a hospital room with his worse for wear cloud guardian, who had not only forgotten to eat for about a week and then some, but also never took a break from work, instead taking dangerous mission to (even more) dangerous mission, fighting like he did back in his middle school days.
'What were you thinking?' Tsunayoshi thinks as he starts reading the report that Hibari had apparently nearly died writing. He continues to read through said report for an uncertain amount of time, when he noticed movement coming from Hibari's general direction. He looks up and puts on his usual business smile, the one reserved for the dubious and those that have encouraged his wrath in any way.
Hibari woke up, feeling pathetically weak from the past several missions. He looks around him to see that not only is he in a hospital room, but also that his boss is there, and he is not pleased.
"Kyoya," Tsunayoshi begins, "what were you thinking?" Hibari looks at his boss in disbelief. He continues to look at his boss.
'What is the herbivore doing here?' Hibari thinks.
"You're not going to answer me, now are you?" Tsunayoshi says sighing.
"What is there to answer?" Hibari replies. Tsuna sighs again and then he gets up from his chair.
'No use forcing him to answer...' Tsuna thinks. 'I don't need to waste any more time or money to try to get answers.'
So, Tsuna went to the only person who could possibly know what to do with Hibari. Suzuki Adelheid.
Suzuki was doing her daily rounds around the city. Someone had to after all. 'Kyoya hasn't been around for days,' she thinks to herself. She feels a presence behind her. She readies her fans, thinking that it's some punk who thinks that they can still mess with the Shimon.
'After all these years, people still think that the Shimon is some weak famiglia that needs the Vongola to save us,' She says, gripping her metal fans until her knuckles turn white. 'I'll show them the true power of the Shimon,' she narrows her eyes. She quickly turns around fan ready to slice whoever is behind her.
"W-wait! Suzuki-san!" A familiar voice says.
"Sawada?" Suzuki says quietly. She retracts her fan. Indeed, the person standing before her is the Boss of the Vongola wearing more casual clothing. "What are you doing here?"
"I need to ask some things about Kyoya," he says.
"What happened to him?" While Suzuki wasn't worried about him, for she knew that he could take care of himself in battle, she was to Hibari as Tsuna was to Enma. They were comrades and friends. The first family that went whenever the Vongola were in trouble was now the Shimon. Everyone knew their counterpart's style. 'I know Hibari can be careless in battle. He seems to think that he's invincible. But he never loses. The only thing that he loses is interest.' Suzuki mused to herself. Plus, she had to pick up his slack for not showing up! They have an alternating schedule, and she had her own duties at the Shimon residence.
"He's kinda in the hospital..." Tsuna says, voice getting smaller at each word. After all these years, Tsuna still has a slight fear of Suzuki Adelheid.
"He's WHERE?" Suzuki retorts, maternal instinct going crazy.
"And that's all I know," Tsuna says finishing explaining the situation to Suzuki. Both parties are sitting in a bar*, since Suzuki freaking out in the streets was gaining unwanted attention.
"That. That. THAT IDIOT!" Suzuki says banging the table.
"So, can you tell me what you know?" Tsuna says looking her in the eye.
"Kusakabe got married."
"What..."
"Kusakabe, the one that always communicated between the Vongola and the Foundation, got married. To a civilian." Suzuki says calmly to Tsuna. Based on the look that is a cross of confusion and horror on the poor boys face, Suzuki gathers that he didn't know about that.
"When did this happen!?"
"About a week-and-a-half ago."
"That's when the doctors said that Hibari stopped eating. But... That can't be why..."
"Why not?" Suzuki says, shocked that Tsuna would think that about Hibari.
"Well... Hibari's never been one to let things affect him. He's always played it calm and cool. He's also normally the one that I don't have to worry about." 'Now does that mean that I don't worry about Hibari? No. It means that I have night terrors created by worry about him.'
"He only makes it seem that way. He cares for his men, and for the famiglia. He's just -" She pauses searching for a word to use, " odd at expressing it."
"Odd indeed," Tsuna says thinking back to all the times that Hibari had help any and all of them saying that the opponent "was crowding" or that he "hated having debts" or even that the person messed with/defiled the school.
"He also doesn't think that civilians, women and children especially, should be dragged into this life."
"How so?"
"In all of my time knowing Kyoya Hibari, he has never once physically hit a girl," Suzuki says, leaning her arms on the table.
"But he's fought you, hasn't he?" Tsuna asks confused by what Suzuki was saying. Granted, he's still trying to figure out when the hell Kusakabe got angry.
"We have fought, and we spar all the time. But he never seriously tries to hit me. I asked him about it once and he just looked at me. I don't think that he knew that he was doing that himself."
"So where is Kusakabe now?"
"He currently lives in Florida... I think. That's where his last post card is from at least."
"Why is he in Florida!?"
"Hibari kicked him out two weeks ago when Kusakabe told Hibari that he was getting married." Suzuki assumed that Tsuna knew that at least. But she forgot that both Hibari and Kusakabe had their main base in Japan where Kusakabe resided for most of the year.
"Ah... Well that explains a lot," Tsuna says sighing. He puts his head in his arms, which are on the table in front of them.
"Un farfalle ai perperoni," the waitress says placing the dish of fresh pasta with bell peppers in front of Tsuna. " e un gnocchi acrobaleno," she says carefully putting the colourful dish of gnocchi and local herbs, beans and veggies in front of Suzuki. "Qualcos'altro?"
"Niente al momento. Grazie," Tsuna says. The waitress leaves.
"You don't eat a lot typically do you?" Suzuki says, referring to Tsuna's dish.
"Not really. I can only eat un primo piatto before I'm full," he says with a blush.
"And you wonder why most of your guardians are taller than you, even Lambo's getting there, and he's almost ten years our junior." Suzuki says with a playful smirk on her face.
"Hey!" Tsuna says blushing more. "I'm taller than the average Japanese man."
"Just barely though." She says chuckling. Tsuna pouts and Suzuki laughs. They chat throughout the primo piatto. When they are done the waitress takes away the plates.
"Un baccalà fitto," she says putting the dish of fried cod in front of Tsuna, "un pollo alla curcuma," she places the dish of chicken in a turmeric sauce with bell pepers and onions in it, "e due lati delle cime di rapa." Two small plates of broccoli rabe are placed on the table.
"Grazie," Suzuki and Tsuna say to the waitress, who smiles, bows and walks away.
"That was strange," Suzuki says.
"She's the one who normally buses my table whenever I come her. The other staff is either too afraid to, or can't get over my accent," Tsuna informs, "She knows I'm Japanese, and has no fear of whatever dons, hitmen, guardians, etc that I bring here."
"How is she not dead?" Suzuki has seen some of the other Vongola allies, they tend to be a bit trigger happy.
"Because she points out that she's the only one that's willing to serve them food and that she doesn't have to put up with them harassing her. And since she's never signed an omertà, there's nothing stopping her from calling the police. She's also a foreign citizen, who's here because of a student visa. So, messing with her is a political nightmare waiting to happen."
"So because they don't want the headache and the paper work?" Suzuki says.
"She's from America, says that she's had enough of the 'mafia rules the world bull' and that most of them are disrespectful wimps who never learned to be nice to the people who prepare and serve them food."
"So they don't want the American government after them?" Suzuki says bemused.
"Italy doesn't want another situation, especially with the Amanda Knox case coming back into public view."
"Ah." A little known fact to the public that almost all famiglie** have connections to the Italian government. These connections advice them against certain actions depending on what's going on politically.
"So what should I do about Kyoya?" Tsuna says.
"What do you mean?" Suzuki cocks an eyebrow. 'Kyoya will always be Kyoya. Nothing is ever going to change that. Not even you, Tsuna, no matter how much Kyoya respects you.'
"Well, I can't leave him like this. He's only in the hospital because Yamamoto happened to stop by, next time he could actually die."
"Why not get your waitress friend to look after him?" Tsuna gives Suzuki a confused look at the comment. "I mean, she's not afraid of the other bosses. I'm sure that you've come here with Xanxus and the other Varia members."
"This is my normal spot," Tsuna says out loud. "I, also, tend to give individual missions here."
"So, she's probably already met Hibari. And if she's not afraid of him, she'll be able to actually take care of him. And if she's not afraid of anyone in your famiglia, then whose going to intimidate her?"
"What about other famiglie?"
"Either you can get Kyoya to protect her, as a mission, or I can teach her some moves so that she can get away."
"HIYA!" They both turn their heads to see their waitress physically throwing someone out of the bar. She managed to throw him from the far end of the bar through the open door.
"And don't come back!" She says, angrily waving her fist in the air.
"Maybe I won't need to teach her that much, after all," Suzuki muses while Tsuna and the other guests look on in horror.
* = in Italy a bar is more of a café than a pub.
** = plural of famiglia.
So, Hibari might be OOC in this chapter because he's kinda drugged up. The extend of his injuries: his tibia and fibula are fractured, he's essentially broken his femur. He has 4 broken ribs, he's dangerously close to puncturing his only working lung, his other lung is collapsed. His left humerus is shattered. He has a hairline fracture on the right side of his collar bone and his skull has a (mostly superficial) crack in it, radiating from above his left eye stretching to his right. That's just in addition to being malnourished, because Hibari barely ate anything but hamburgers and meat before Kusakabe left him. So they have him hooked up to an IV with something more potent than Morphine or Vicodin, as well as something with essential nutrients in it to give him back all the vitamins that he's been missing for God knows how long. He also has a minor case of bronchitis, so he's getting oxygen being put into him via a nasal cannula (tubes that directs oxygen into his nose). And I'm just going to stop. Basically, he's in a lot of pain, has several broken bones, only one working lung and an infection that affects his breathing and malnutrition.
On another note: So this chapter took me longer to write than I was anticipating. But I can't really write the next chapter without you guys answering the poll for my Hetalia story. It's the same person. My OCs will migrate between stories. So I kinda need people to give her a name. Go FORTH AND ANSWER THE POLL! Or at least look at it. Until next time! Ciao~!