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Kitakami: Enjoy the chapter and watch out for grammar mistakes. And just so you all know, our authoress replaced 1st the chapter 5 times because she kept seeing grammar mistakes in it.

The birds are singing~! The sun is shining~! The trees are rustling~! You all can tell that it's a very beautiful morning!

And in this Friday morning, it is 9:20 A.M.

Our favorite protagonist, Tsuna, has (somewhat) woken up just now. He checked the time, stared at it for a few seconds, nodded to himself with a sleepy smile and rested his head back onto his bed.

TICK-TOCK TICK-TOCK TICK-TOCK!

"...Wait... WHAT!" Snapping his eyes open, he instantly pushed his arms on the bed to lift himself up to check the time again. "Nine... twent—OMIGOD! I have ten minutes left until school starts! CRAP! Why didn't I hear it ring! ...Unless I turned it off lucid... or something like that... CRAP! Kaa-san!" He called his mother.

"Yes, Tsu-kun?" A faint voice replied back downstairs.

"Why didn't you wake me up earlier!"

And you all know those same old cliché lines. "I did! I tried to wake you up four times, but you still wouldn't get up!"

"Gaaahh!" He ruffled his hair vigorously.

Before he could literally jump out of bed he noticed the rainbow-like colors glowing like fireflies at the corner of his eye. "Eh?" Then he instantly remembered what had happened last night. 'Th-that's right! The six pacifiers!'

"Um! Uhh... O-ohayo everyone," He greeted the pacifiers. "Did you guys um... have a good sleep?"

The pacifiers glowed a bit brighter in response.

Sensing that it was a happy response, Tsuna smiled at them, giggling a bit. "I'll take that as a yes!" Wanting to feel the warmth again, he picked up one of the pacifiers and held it in his cupped hands. The pacifier he picked up was the blue one. And sure enough, the living object was definitely warm.

"So... were you um, content on sleeping on my pillow throughout the night?" He asked softly.

"Yeah! It was a lot better than sleeping in the box, kora!" A voice replied happily out of nowhere.

"HIIIII!" Tsuna shrieked loudly, also falling off the bed. "ITAI!" He had landed on his back and his head had also hit the carpeted floor. "Kuuhhh! Hurts...!" Still on the floor, he rubbed the back of his head with his left hand, while in his right hand held onto the blue pacifier safely.

"O-oi! You okay? Kora!" The same voice from a second ago asked worriedly.

"EH! Wh-who's there!" Tsuna instantly went into a sitting position, bringing his knees to his chest and holding the object tightly in his hands, keeping it in between his chest and legs.

"Oi, Tsuna! It's me, kora! I'm the blue pacifier you're holding onto!" It said, sounding like he's trying to convince Tsuna.

"...Eh?" Feeling a little bit calmer, Tsuna brought down his knees and opened his hands to look at the object. "...Y...you're... talking...?" He whispered slowly.

"Yup!" It happily replied.

"..." Registering the small conversation that started about 20 seconds ago, Tsuna concluded, "You're... you're really alive...!" He made a small gasp.

"That's right, kora! I should introduce myself now; since I couldn't do it last night. My name is Colonello, the holder of the Rain pacifier. Nice to meet you, kora!" He said.

Tsuna had a feeling that this Colonello guy was grinning. "Y-yeah... It's n-nice to meet you too, Colonello." He tilted his head forward a bit; making a small bow. 'Rain pacifier?'

Not knowing what else to do or say, Tsuna just stared at Colonello's pacifier. 'This has to be unreal! How is possible that he can talk? It's certainly not a toy since we made a small conversation, but... TALKING? REALLY? GYAAAHHH! THIS HAS TO BE IMPOSSIBLE!'

Still stuck in his own thoughts, Tsuna ended up making a shocked face expression while violently shaking his head, forgetting that Colonello was still there.

The blue pacifier sweat-dropped. "Uhh... You okay there, Tsuna?"

"What?" The brunette snapped out of his thoughts. "O-oh, yeah... Umm... C-can I ask you something Colonello?" He asked hesitantly.

"What is it, kora?" Colonello was all ears.

"How is it that you can talk when you're only a pacifier...?"

"Ah! My heart is inside the pacifier. You can think of it sort of like person inside a shield, kora!" The voice stated.

"A...shield...?"

"Yeah! Okay, imagine it this way: you draw a big pacifier on a sheet of paper. You following?" He asked the boy, making sure he understands the image.

"So..." Getting out a random worksheet on the floor, that had '2 points' on it, and a pen (while he's still holding Colonello), Tsuna drew a big pacifier at the back of it. "Like this?" He showed his drawing to the blue object.

"...That's uhh..." It sounded like Colonello was trying not to fumble with his words. "That's... a very... unique drawing, kora."

Tsuna blushed. "Well sor-ry for not being a professional artist!" It was pretty decent for a doodle! "Now what?"

"Now you just draw a small person inside there."

Tsuna went with a stick figure instead. "Is that it?" He asked; his doodle finished.

"That's it. And that's what it basically looks like, kora."

"Really?" Tsuna asked, stunned in amazement. Thinking he can see what Colonello looks like inside the object, he got up and walked towards his window, opened the curtains, and held the blue pacifier in the sunlight. And sure enough, Tsuna was surprised at what he was seeing.

Inside the pacifier was a small flame inside flickering.

"It's... a flame...?" He questioned softly.

"That's my heart that you're seeing, kora!" The voice made it seem like he was grinning at the moment.

"Your heart is a flame...?"

"Actually, we call it our dying will flame, but yeah, it's basically our hearts, kora!"

"Dying will... flame..." Continuing to stare at it in awe, Tsuna whispered, "It's so beautiful..." He softly smiled; his eyes were sparkling from the sunlight, giving him a serene appearance.

At this moment, Colonello couldn't respond to Tsuna's compliment, also being awed, but from Tsuna's angelic appearance.

"Tsu-kun! Aren't you going to be late?" His mother's faint voice from downstairs asked.

Tsuna snapped out of his thoughts, turning his head to the clock that said 9:27 A.M. "GYAAHHH! I have less than three minutes left! I'm totally going to be late!" He shouted in panic.

He set Colonello down with the other pacifiers and instantly grabbed his uniform from the hanger and changed his clothes in less than 15 seconds.

Then he grabbed his school bag and ran to his bedroom doorway. But, before he took a first step out, he looked over his shoulder to face the pacifiers and quickly said, "Um! I have to go to school now and I'm going to be late! But I'll be home soon so please wait for me until I come back for you guys! Ja ne!" And with the parting done, Tsuna ran down the stairs, grabbed a toast from the table, muffled an "Ittekimasu!" to his mother (who in turn replied with an "Itterashai, Tsu-kun!"), ran out the door, closed it, and ran to his dying will.

Back in his bedroom, the pacifiers started to talk a bit.

"Hmm... He's not a bad person, but why do we have to be sent to Tsunayoshi?" The indigo pacifier asked.

The purple pacifier loudly whined, "Yeah! I wanna go back to Luce!" Then his voice got softer. "But...Tsuna's really nice to us. Like Luce..."

"I agree, but it's only been 12 hours since we got here. We don't know Sawada Tsunayoshi quite well yet." The green one stated.

The red pacifier mused, "Really? I think it's a great for us to be here and meet Tsunayoshi. He said he was willing to do what Luce told him: to care, love, protect, and understand us. His smile last night and the look in his eyes were sincere when he said he's willing to do those for us."

"That's right, kora! Like just a minute ago; he didn't completely freak out when I started talking to him. We had a –sort of— normal conversation! When he learned that our hearts –the dying will flame- looks like what it is, all he said was that it's beautiful, kora!" If we could see Colonello's face right now, it would be tinted in pink.

"...Hm. We'll give it a while. If Luce was right about sending us to Dame-Tsuna, then we'll stay. She's usually never wrong when making choices." The yellow pacifier announced his thoughts. 'Let's see what's special about you, Dame-Tsuna.' He thought.

Akari and Kitakami: ...We don't know the characters personality well yet. It's probably OOC...

Kitakami: We haven't gotten far in the anime yet. We're on episode 119.

Akari: We know... We're FAR behind... But we're still reading the manga too! But we're MUCH more far behind in it too...

Kitakami: Err... We'll reply to reviews.

Akari: AngelDono: Really? Tsuna's like a mommy? :3 Haha! Yes! indeed it's CUTE~! X3 And, we're still not sure about the pairings. Sorry!

Breathless02, Kimmy, Catxmelons, Wolf Den, Skye Gaurdain27, Kichou, coolgirl, and katekyuu: THANK YOU FOR YOU PRAISE AND KIND WORDS~! XD We hope you liked this chapter!

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Illusionist Owl: YAAYYYSS! We got an interesting idea! XD And the pacifiers are alive alright! :3

Kitakami: Okay, now that the review replies are done: the story is still developing pretty slow, but be patient please.

Akari: YUP~! See you in the next chapter, minna-san! XD