Dr8wy: OH MY FUCKING GOG, thank you so much for the 21 reviews! And only one chapter? God, I suck for not updating. I totally didn't notice till my Moirail pointed it out to me... so yeah, I'mma update now! Hope you guys haven't got your panties in a bunch... yet.

But you probably will, sticking around with me.

Warning(s): Yaoi. And shit. Yeah.

End of the Ride, Start of the Tsunami
CHAPTER 2.

Hikaru was really close to throttling someone. Especially the dumb blonde seated opposite him- doing nothing but wailing about what a tragedy it was that Kaoru got kidnapped by some 'evil people in banana masks and pantihose' and something dumb like that.

"Calm down, Tama-chan!" Honey said, his eyes all big and teary. He was clutching his bunny really tight, but knew well enough to control his own strength so he wouldn't accidently break it.

"Mitsukuni. You're not in a position to tell anyone to calm down." Mori said, his usual blank expression on his face.

This only made the blonde boy (well he wasn't exactly a boy per se) burst out into floods of tears, he and Tamaki hugging each other tightly and shrieking at the top of their voices.

Kyoya's eyebrow twitched. Hikaru grit his teeth.

"Could we just focus on getting Kaoru back? It's not like you're making this any easier!" Hikaru snapped, glaring fiercely at them.

This abruptly shut them up.

"Good. At least now I have some capacity to think..." Kyoya said, sending them the evil eye, accompanied with a chilling smile. Everyone else in the car shuddered, including the driver.

The vice-president, or 'Mother'- as Tamaki preferred it, closed his eyes and sighed. "Just give me a minute and I'll think of something. In the meantime, do me a favour and just keep silent... and calm. Calm."

"He repeated calm twice."

"Aa."

"I think there was a reason for that." Haruhi said, sending them an exasperated look.

Hibari glared at the whole bunch of Tsuna's 'family'.

"Get away from here. You're gathering a crowd." He said, directing his gaze at the baby and Tsuna. The latter squeaked and went to hide behind Gokudera, while Reborn merely smirked. "Aren't you interested about what's about to happen, skylark?"

"... No."

Reborn sighed slightly. "Just leave us be for now. You may chase the other brats away, but leave Tsuna and his family be. I want them to learn how a proper hostage exchanged is performed."

The President of the Disciplinary Committee continued glaring at them, patience decreasing by the second.

"Um..." Hibari turned his attention to the sound of a soft, and unfamiliar voice. It was the red-headed boy that was tied up on the ground. "Could you just wait a few minutes...? I'm sure my brother's already on his way."

Kaoru said this while looking Hibari straight in the eye.

Everyone else was slightly stunned, including Hibari. Reborn continued to remain indifferent, though, concerning himself with sending out messages on his BlackBerry- when the hell did he get one, anyway?

"You... looked me in the eye."

"... So?" Kaoru said, tilting his head curiously. Why was everyone acting so weird around this guy? He seemed normal- except for that killer death glare he possessed and his 'ninja-skills' (from when he appeared out of nowhere to confront him and the girls he met earlier).

"... You don't know who I am?" Hibari asked. "No. Should I?" The redhead inwardly rolled his eyes at this guy's ego. Was he some sort of model? Maybe he'd seen Kaoru before at one of his mother's shows... Eh, nope. He didn't remember seeing any hot, muscular raven-haired guys like him.

"C-can't you feel the aura?" Gokudera hissed, leaning down to whisper in Kaoru's ear. "He's emitting some sort of... dark aura or something. And I get the feeling it's pretty fucking purple."

The younger Hitachiin blinked. "I'm not scared. I haven't done anything wrong, after all." He stated confidently, looking at Hibari straight in the eye once again. This seemed to shock the skylark, the latter's eyes widening by the slightest fraction.

"..." Hibari wanted to say something, but nothing left his lips. He merely stood there, causing a long moment of awkward silence to fall upon the group, with the exception of Kaoru remaining clueless and Reborn typing something in his phone.

Then, the squealing of tires could be heard.

"KAOOOOORUUU!" Someone screamed. It grated on Hibari's nerves, that pathetic scream. Sounding like a pig getting butchered. He turned around and-

Huh? There were two of them.

Another boy, who looked exactly like the boy who was tied up on the floor, came dashing towards them. Two blondes were on his tail- one tall and the other... minuscule.

"Hikaru!" Kaoru said, looking extremely happy to see his brother again.

Reborn stepped on front of the older Hitachiin twin and swiftly threw him back with just a small flick of the index finger. Tsuna winced, feeling a douse of sympathy for the boy. He'd been a victim of Reborn's forehead flicks one too many times during tutoring sessions.

"HEY! WHAT THE FUCK?" Hikaru snarled. All this bullshit was taking a toll on him. He wanted his little brother back, and he wanted him back now.

But before anyone could make a move, about hundreds of men donned in black military attire burst out of nowhere, rifles in hand. They marched in an orderly manner towards the small group of people in the middle of Namimori's foreground, and got into position.

"FREEZE!"

And they froze. Even Reborn, who had a really displeased look on his face.

"You see, Reborn? You'll never be able to win against me," Kyouya said, not even bothering to look at the Arcobaleno, eyes focused on the little black notebook he always carried around.

Snapping it shut, he finally looked up.

"Release Kaoru, and we'll leave. It'll be like nothing ever happened." The raven-haired host coolly stated. Reborn just stood there. He seemed to be thinking it over, and Tsuna recognised that familiar twitch of his fingers. He must've been thinking of something rather violent- the twitch was a premonition that Reborn was about to use Leon.

For a moment, they all thought that Reborn would command the family to fight back- they easily could've defeated the men, of course. A small group of highly trained gangsters against a load of bumbling fools who barely knew how to aim and shoot with a rifle? An easy win.

But not this time. The tutor seemed to have something... different in mind.

The baby turned to Hibari. "Take him. And keep him secret."

Hibari seemed to know exactly what to do- or even if he did not, he just didn't care anyway. He leapt to Kaoru's tied up form and scooped the redhead in his arms, ignoring the Ouran Students' yells, and leapt towards the rooftop, and out of the school compound.

They were gone.

"... Fire." Kyouya muttered under his breath.