Disclaimers: I do not own Katekyo Hitman Reborn, cause if so then this couple is really a sealed deal. :)
enjoy~desu :)
Target 02: "A Sudden Change"
A week has passed since the first day of school begun. The gang are still at their everyday antics minus the mafia drama.
Although it's only been a week, changes are seen among them.
Yamamoto and Haru became closer friends because of their one week being paired with each other for cleaning duties.
Gokudera seemed a little grumpier than ever.
Tsuna seemed a little down for some reason.
And the most shocking change was Kyoko was deliberately avoiding Haru. And it's making Haru to worry a lot.
It started two days back.
"Kyoko-chan! Let's go to Tsuna-san's place after school!" exclaimed the brunette.
"Oh...Haru-chan...I-ah, I have important things to do...bye" her response after running towards her next class, as if she'd be late since she has a lot more time left before the next period.
"Hahi?"
Haru knew something's wrong since Kyoko was awfully cold to her these past few days. And it's making her sad. Even at lunch, she can barely see Kyoko around the rooftop with the gang.
She even manages to ask Tsuna about Kyoko's sudden change, and as an unexpected response, he'll just feign a smile and say "Kyoko-chan...Is kind of...busy right now" then looked down shortly after that statement.
Ryohei didn't seem to notice the strange atmosphere and cheered for her sister as if she was really busy.
"Geez, what's happening with her now? Chrome also said that she doesn't know as well...I feel kind of sad since my best friend is not talking to me lately anymore-desu" sighed Haru.
Five days has passed since the last conversation she had with her best friend. She too doesn't want to avoid the brunette or miss out the lunch break she'll have with everyone.
But she needed space; she knew that she needed time to think especially what she was dealing with now involves Haru and she doesn't want things to turn out for the worst.
"Haru-chan, I'm sorry...this should be simple for me, yet surprisingly it's not" thought Kyoko, who seemed lifeless in a corner.
A few days back, as the bell rang and students quickly went home, Tsuna stopped Kyoko for a while to tell her something, letting themselves be alone in their now empty classroom.
"Kyoko-chan...W-well, it's be-been a lo-long time since we be-became fr-friends, right?" stuttered the flustering Tsuna.
"Yes, that's right, Tsuna-kun" said the confused girl.
"W-well, I-ah, I-ah...I LIKE YOU KYOKO-CHAN, MORE THAN AS A FRIEND, SINCE MIDDLE SCHOOL I'VE REALLY LIKED YOU!" blurted out Tsuna who is now red as a tomato.
Kyoko too became red; she doesn't know that he had these feelings for her. All she knew that she became in love with him the moment he rescued her during the future battle with Byakuran, and how he managed to become courageous for his friends. She totally admired that side of Tsuna, until little by little; she loved Tsuna for everything he is. But she chose to ignore these feelings since she also knew that her best friend was also in loved with him from the very beginning.
"Tsuna-kun, I'm glad that you liked me, but I-I-I can't return them. I'm sorry" her voice broke as she bowed in front of Tsuna.
Tsuna noticed that Kyoko broke her sentence midway, he placed a hand over her shoulder and smiled "I'll wait for your answer, please think about this again"
Ever since then she started to avoid Tsuna and Haru. She doesn't know what to do. Her feelings are all mashed up. She wants Tsuna, and she was totally happy that he confessed to her, yet she doesn't want to hurt Haru, worse to lose her, that's the least thing she wanted to happen.
The bell finally rang, and before Haru can go to Kyoko and Tsuna's classroom to finally talk to her after giving her enough time to cool down, Haru was called by the teacher to deliver some materials to the faculty room.
"Oh well, I'll stop by Kyoko's classroom after delivering this to the teachers, I hope she's still there-desu"
After delivering the materials, Haru swiftly went to see if Kyoko's still at her classroom.
Much to her surprised, she hastily hides behind the door as she saw Kyoko and Tsuna were talking.
"Kyoko-chan, are you ready to give me a reply, now?" blushed Tsuna yet worry was clearly seen on his eyes.
"Tsuna-kun...I..." Kyoko was cut half way when she heard a familiar voice and a thud.
It was Haru, after hearing Tsuna said those words, she finally realized as it dawned on her the reasons why Kyoko was avoiding her, why Tsuna was down all the time. It was because...
"Tsuna-san already confessed...leaving Kyoko for her answer...what will she say? I'm sure she'll say yes, since I already noticed her growing affection towards Tsuna-san, I'm such an idiot for running away, but I can't help it!"
"Haru-chan! Wait!" Kyoko ran after Haru whom she lost sight off when she dashed faster after hearing her calling after her.
Haru ran endlessly as she thought and ended up at the rooftop.
"Baka, why did I run away from her? I'm such an idiot!"
She stayed there as she broke into tears, not knowing someone was watching her from a corner.
"She doesn't seem to notice that I'm here" observed Hibari.
Hibari wanted to comfort Haru as he saw her broke into tears the moment she ran inside.
But because of his personality he doesn't know how to comfort since it seems all mushy for him. So he stayed quiet as he watched the young girl crying while hearing her lament.
"Haru knows this will happen sooner or later...yet Haru still stubbornly hope for a different outcome...I'm such an idiot being so selfish against my best friend...I can't help it...since it hurts...a lot" she shouted, hoping to ease her pain by shouting since no ones there.
After letting her puffy eyes calms down a little she started moving since she also noticed that it's already dark. She stood up and brushed off her skirt, and gently smacked her face to bring life into her dull, puffy face.
Hibari set he's gaze upon the disappearing maiden saying "Cry again, and I'll bite you to death" then laze around, now with Hibird who just flew beside him.
As she went into her classroom to get her things, she noticed a note beside her bag.
It was from Kyoko.
Haru-chan,
I'm sorry for avoiding you this past few days. I just want some space after hearing Tsuna-san confess to me that day. I'm sorry that I needed time to think…I love you so much that I don't want to hurt you, you're like a sister to me and I don't want Tsuna to be the reason to end this wonderful friendship. I… I rejected him, because I knew from the very beginning that you like him…Please don't be this way, please stay as our friend. Sorry for hurting you.
Kyoko S.
Haru started crying again, she feels awful and responsible for Kyoko rejecting Tsuna. She knew that she was so selfish to forcibly not notice Kyoko's feelings as she pursued Tsuna.
"Kyoko-chan…I'm sorry…I don't want to lose you either…and I don't want to lose Tsuna-san but I knew from the very beginning that I was not part of the picture since the picture compose you and him… Although it hurts so much. I'll make you two to reconsider not for my sake but yours…But before that I want to cry first so that my heart will lighten as Haru will talk to them tomorrow" uttered Haru as tears kept on falling down her porcelain skin.
"Fu~Fu~Fu, hey man there's still a girl here, I thought that all students should go home after 6 right, since all club practice finished just a while ago" smiled the dangerous looking guy with two other men by his side.
Haru just stared at them frighten; she seems to remember that those guys were deliquent seniors.
"Hahi! Haru will leave soon-desu" she rapidly arranged her things and hurried towards the exit. The moment she step out the guy grabbed her arm.
"Hahi! Let me go!" shouted Haru.
"Oh-hoh, she's crying man…Cute girls should not cry" he said as he lifted her chin.
The guys laughed as the guy holding haru was diving for a kiss aiming at Haru's lips.
"NO!" shouted the horrified Haru.
That very moment she saw the guy in front of her was hit by an unidentified flying super fast object. As the guy was hit and tumbled to the ground, mini bombs followed hitting the trio making a very loud noise.
It was all too sudden, she didn't knew what happened anymore, first that she was nearly molested by a deliquent pervert then the next thing they're fried to the crisp at the floor.
All thing Haru knew was that she felt someone protecting her from the blast earlier.
The warmth of the embrace and how it was tightened around her made her secure and let out a quivering cry because she was emotionally tired and scared. It was like a roller coaster of emotions.
Haru whiff a very sweet scent from the person protecting her; yet strangely enough the smell also hinted scent of cigar. It was contradicting yet it smelled quite nice.
As she took in the scent and felt how secure she was, she slowly drifted into slumber before overhearing someone's argument.
"Che. You didn't need to help, Baseball idiot!" glared Gokudera.
"Maa, maa Gokurdera-kun, if you just threw those bombs at them, you'll surely hurt Haru too" grinned Yamamoto as he looked unto Haru who was still at Gokudera's tight embrace.
"Ne, Gokudera-kun?"
"What?!"
"How long are you planning to hold her like that?" Yamamoto's stare pointing at how tight Gokudera embraced the motionless girl.
Gokudera blushed and released the girl. Yamamoto laughed as he observed how red Gokudera became.
"Oh, look she's sleeping. She must be tired. Really, were lucky to stay after school since I have club practice and did some errands for the club so I stayed behind. Haru to be able here so late, why is that?" query Yamamoto.
"Che. I didn't have to stay here up late you know. It's just that I heard from tenth that this stupid woman overheard he's conversation with Sasagawa and ran away, crying. The tenth was worried so I said I'll find her. Geez, I can't find her anywhere, only this time when I ran into you while roaming the classrooms again, since I thought she'll return to get her bag, and I was right"
Suddenly Hibari dawned upon them, pissed.
"Who the hell, destroyed the hallway?" as he hold his tonfas on each side up, ready to attack to whoever destroyed his most beloved school.
"Che. What the hell!" Gokudera shouted glaring at the guy with the tonfas.
"Now, now you guys should stop the glaring competition...Hibari-kun we didn't destroy it on purpose...we just taught those perverts a lesson never to touch our family" he said as his grin turned into a deadly smirk.
Hibari noticed the three beaten guys on the floor; Hibari seemed to understand the situation as he gazes upon the sleeping girl. He abruptly withdraws his tonfas and drags the three unconscious guys away from them before saying "I'll clean this up, since no one should hurt Namimori High's students. I'll make sure to bite them to death" with a devious crooked smile he took them away.
"Che. What a weirdo" annoyed Gokudera.
"I wonder what he'll do..." Yamamoto laughed at the thought "...serves them right! Ne, Gokudera-kun I'll just carry Haru home since my way is nearer to her house than yours" offered Yamamoto.
"Che. No need, I'll take this stupid woman home by myself..." brushed Gokudera as he stood up and went on his way after picking up their things "...It's a right hand man's job after all, baka" smirked Gokudera.
"Who's the baka here? Denial freak" Yamamoto laughed.
As the silver haired man carried her, he heard her utter "Tsuna-kun" as hot tears melted down on her cheeks unto his back.
"Ei! Stupid woman, you awake?" he asked as he gave her a tug.
"Eh? Where am I...?" As Haru finally regained her consciousness, she tried to focus her eyes onto the back of the one carrying her "...Hahi? Gokudera-san? L-Let me down this instant!" exclaimed the flustered brunette.
"Che. Stop struggling stupid woman or you'll fall, you ungrateful idiot!"
Haru stopped struggling, afraid that she'll fall.
"Ei, wait...how can I be ungrateful? Aho-dera?" questioned the irritated teen.
"You don't remember? Gosh that's why I tell you you're stupid as ever."
Haru tried to remember what happened a while ago, as it dawned on her as she gaped at him.
"...Oh now I remember. I stayed at school till it became dark, and some perverted seniors saw me...gosh I really thought that was the end of me. You saved me don't you? But I vaguely remember that part though since I lost consciousness, but it seems you weren't alone, right, you were with Yamamoto, right?"
"Sheesh, do you really need to remember that? Why won't you just shut up and thank me? Baka" said Gokudera as he continued to carry her down to her street.
Gokudera was kind of shock when he heard nothing from Haru, no return of insults or anything.
Then suddenly a low voice broke the silence between them and made Gokudera skip a beat.
"...thank you...Gokudera-san" said the sheepish girl.
Gokudera just replied "Che" as he blushed deep red.
Thankfully Haru can't see the blushing Gokudera, as he hid his grin behind his bangs as he look forward.
"Gokudera-san? You can bring me down now, you know. I can walk from here"
"Che. You can stay there for now, stupid woman, since you really had a rough day and you're tired, just for now anyway, this will never happen again. Got that?" snapped Gokudera.
That's what he says but the real reason why Gokudera won't bring Haru down was because of the fact he still cant calm down from the earlier remark made by the maiden. He can't still calm the redness on his face, and he can't let Haru see that so he just keep on carrying her until his blush calms down.
Haru just smiled as she rested her head on Gokudera's comfortable back.
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