Chapter Three
Those two's time alone
They were alone. They were sitting together on the couch, watching a romance movie. Their hands were touching and the movie had reached a kissing scene. They were very close to one another. The same thing was on both their minds: "Should I dare kiss him/her?"
Just as Tsuna decided to take a chance…
DING! DONG! DING! DONG!
The door rang. As Tsuna got up disappointed and headed for the hallway Chrome whispered:
"He was leaning towards me…" she blushed.
At the door…
"Pizza delivery" a guy with a cap announced handing Tsuna three packages.
"Pizza?" he asked confused. "I didn't order any!"
"Sure you did. This is the Sawada residence, right?"
"Yes, but…"
"No buts. They've already been paid for. Good night." the guy said and walked away.
"Hm, that's odd… Ah, maybe Reborn ordered them and forgot he had to leave." Tsuna said to himself smiling and going inside with the pizza.
"Boss, who..." Chrome began but saw the look on his face, the same he had earlier as they walked home.
"Who was that, Tsuna?" she asked and noticed his smile.
"Pizza delivery." he answered putting the packages on the coffee table in front of the couch.
"Pizza?"
"Yeah, I didn't order myself. Probably Reborn did before he remembered he had to leave."
"Oh, Reborn-san"
"Yeah, Reborn… hold on!"
"What's wrong, Tsuna?"
"I just remembered something disturbing."
"Disturbing?"
"Last year Reborn poisoned the pizza that was delivered to the volley team just to force me play." he said grimly and Chrome froze.
"B-But… he wouldn't do that to you. Would he?" she asked hesitantly.
"He's done worse. Anyway, let's just test it to see if it's poisoned."
"How?"
"Gokudera gave me last year a special chemistry kit. It has some special paper that changes color depending on the type of poison." he told her.
Seeing the confused look on Chrome's face, he added:
"His sister, Poison Scorpion Bianchi, has been staying here to be close to Reborn."
"Oh, Bianchi-san!" she remembered. "That explains everything" she added with an understanding look.
"Yeah… here it is." Tsuna said as he pulled out a box out of a drawer. "Lets see now…"
He took the absorbing piece of paper and let it touch a few parts of one of the pizza. The result?
"It's sleeping powder. And a strong kind as well. One wouldn't wake up even if he were shot." Tsuna said grimly.
"So it was Reborn-san?"
"No, he would use something painful". "That's right! Who could it be from? Gokudera didn't like the idea of Chrome staying here... but he gave me this kit so what would be the point? Yamamoto… nah! Ryohey? He's too happy that I gave up on Kyoko. Mukuro couldn't have even if he wanted to. That leaves… HIBARI! Now that I think about it, he did make quite the reaction…" Tsuna thought.
Meanwhile at school…
"Chairman, can you give me some time off tomorrow?" Tetsuya asked.
"Fine, it's summer anyway…" Hibari answered before he took out his ringing phone.
"Baby?"
"Hibari, can you destroy the XXXXX Pizza delivery firm for me?" Reborn asked in a grouchy voice.
"Sure, I needed a workout anyway." the Cloud Guardian answered as he got up.
"While you're at it, find out who had them deliver three pizzas to Tsuna." the hitman added before smashing the phone back on it's hook.
"Whoever interferes in my plans pays." Reborn said while turning his attention to the monitor in front of him.
Back at the Sawada residence…
After carefully disposing of the poisoned pizza, both Tsuna and Chrome had completely lost their appetite. And since it was late and the movie they were watching had finished while they were busy with the pizza, they decided to head for their bedrooms.
Remembering they kiss they almost shared, Chrome decided to try to compensate for it a little.
"Tsuna…" she said as they reached their bedrooms doors.
"Yes?" he answered turning towards her.
"Good night" she said kissing him on the cheek but also reaching his lips.
After that she turned around blushing and had had her hand on the doorknob when Tsuna repled.
"Good night, Chrome." he said smiling warmly.
Turning her head towards him, she returned the smile before entering her room.
Being pretty pleased of the evening, Tsuna went to sleep.
On Reborn's side…
"Well, at least they had a good-night kiss." the hitman said as he was setting the monitor on Record and went to sleep himself. "And there's always tomorrow.
The next morning at Tsuna's house…
Tsuna woke up at about nine o'clock. It was summer and for the first time in years he didn't have remedial classes.
Unlike the previous day, Chrome was the one to wake him.
"Tsuna..." she called gently.
"Hm?" Tsuna mumbled as he rolled towards the voice. Suddenly his stretched hand touched something soft. Opening his eyes he saw Chrome's bright red face and closed eye. Lowering his view, he saw his hand squishing her breast.
"OH GOD!" he yelled backing away from the girl and blushed like crazy. "I'm sorry! I..."
"Its alright." she said breathing hard and with her eye a little absent. "Breakfast is ready" she added before running out of the room.
Outside on the corridor, she leaned on Tsuna's door and thought "He made me feel so warm..."
Tsuna on the other hand was panicking, but only apparently as he was actually thinking "...soft..."
On Reborn's side...
"GOOD accident!" he said giving the monitor a thumbs-up.
"Hey, Reborn!" Dino said as he entered the room.
BANG! BANG! BANG! Three bullets were shot around Dino's head, burning his hair slightly.
"Get me a cappuccino, pronto" the hitman ordered. "And change those wet pants" he added after a glance at Dino.
After the blond left trembling, Reborn turned back to the monitor and congratulated himself on being an early riser and placing a new camera in Tsuna's room.
After Tsuna got dressed, he went downstairs only find out Chrome was missing. Since her shoes were still at the entrance and he just came from the bathroom... "That leaves her room" he thought before asking himself worried:
"She's not crying, is she?"
Running up to her room, he opened the door wide. Chrome was indeed there. But she wasn't crying.
No. She was in the middle of changing her clothes. Fortunately (or not) she still had her underwear on.
They stared at each other for ten seconds, period in which they went from blushing to having steam coming out of their ears.
"S-SORRY!" Tsuna yelled closing his eyes and turning around only to hit his head against the wall. After finding the door, he ran out without closing it and, from what Chrome heard, he fell down the stairs.
Worried, she pulled her clothes on and ran after him and found why he slipped. The hard way. For some reason, the area near the stairs was wet. But luckily for her, Tsuna cushioned her fall as he was a little slow at getting up.
"T-thanks" the girl said and got up quickly as she felt where Tsuna's hands were touching.
"No problem" he answered. "Um... Let's have breakfast."
"Sure"
As they ate, Tsuna couldn't help but be amazed.
"It's delicious! I don't think I ever ate something so good!"
"Oh, it's just omelet." she said with modesty.
"Yeah, but it tastes great! I'm sure you'll make a great wife someday!"
Blushing, she murmured a "Thank you"
"Well, that went well" Reborn smiled looking through his binoculars from the tree in the yard. After that, he headed back to Dino's.
As the day went on, their studies in magic revealed that some spells didn't require a wand or their rings made good replacements. How did they reach that conclusion? Tsuna somehow petrified Chrome's skirt, leaving her in her panties when it shattered at the slightest movement.
And that was Haru and Gokudera busted in…
"Tenth! Where are you?" Gokudera asked loudly.
"Tsuna-sa…!" Haru began but froze when she saw Chrome.
"Did you find the Boss?" Gokudera asked as he appeared beside Haru.
Well, she did find him but…
"WHA! WOMAN, WHY ARE YOU DOING TO THE TENTH LOOKING LIKE THAT?" he yelled.
"TSUNA-SAN! WHAT ARE YOU DOING TO CHROME-SAN?" Haru yelled herself.
Well, nobody can blame them for misunderstanding. Why? Because Chrome had slipped on the remains of her skirt and landed on Tsuna who was panicking.
"It-it was an accident!" Tsuna said bright red.
"That's some accident you got over there" Yamamoto said as he appeared behind Gokudera.
"It really was an accident!" Chrome said on the brink of crying.
"Tsuna-san, explain yourself!" Haru demanded.
"Sure! But first… let Chrome get dressed…" he said covering his eyes.
Yamamoto took his example and turned around. Gokudera on the other hand was staring at Chrome with anger. Noticing this, Haru poked his eyes and called him a pervert.
A few minutes later, the misunderstanding was cleared.
"Sorry I doubted you, Tsuna-san." Haru said.
"Yeah, sorry Tsuna."
Silence. Silence. Then Haru hit Gokudera on the head.
"What was that for, woman?"
"Don't you think you should apologize to someone?"
"I didn't doubt the Tenth for a second!"
"She meant Chrome" Yamamoto enlightened him.
"Why should I apologize to her?" Gokudera asked annoyed but then he felt a chill. Turning towards Tsuna, he noticed his glare. He had only received that kind of glare twice in his life. Both times he was beaten or poisoned to near death.
"I apologize! I'm sorry I doubted you!" he said with a deep bow to Chrome, much to the girl's surprise. She obviously didn't see the look in Tsuna's eyes.
"Anyway, why are you guys here?" Tsuna asked normally, like nothing had happened.
"Well, I just heard Chrome-san was staying here so I dropped by to say hello." Haru said.
"I met up with Gokudera by the park and he told me you two are home all by yourselves. So I brought a snack" Yamamoto said as he revealed the sushi in his bag.
"Here just by yourselves!" Haru said suspicious. "What have you been doing all by yourselves?"
"Nothing" Tsuna said and added a more quieter "yet".
Fortunately (or not) Gokudera was the only one who heard and he was still too spooked to react.
"More like: How did you know, Gokudera-kun?" Tsuna asked.
"Oh, well, Cavalone told me yesterday. He told me Reborn-san was staying at his place and that the Tenth's mother was away."
"Don't worry Tsuna-san! Haru will stay here until your mother comes back!" the girl announced.
"Ok, now I'm worried." Tsuna and Gokudera thought.
"Then I'll say here too!" Gokudera announced.
"You don't mind if I stay here too, do you Tsuna?" Yamamoto asked.
"N-no" Tsuna answered half-heartedly. He didn't mind Yamamoto, but the others were another story.
At that time…
"Reborn! What did I do? Scratch that. FORGIVE MEEE!" Dino yelled as he was running from Reborn who had machineguns in both hands.
"It seems I didn't teach you enough in the art of discretion." the hitman said.
During that evening at Tsuna's…
"Tenth, the pizza we ordered has arrived." Gokudera announced putting the stack on the kitchen table.
"Great. Nobody touch it." Tsuna said while Chrome went in the living room.
"Why?"
"Yesterday we received some pizza with a sleeping drug in it."
"No way!" Yamamoto said surprised.
"Yeah. Good thing I had that poison-detection kit Gokudera-kun gave me."
"Kit? Oh, that one! I forgot about that!"
"Hm?"
"I mean I'm glad you had it." Gokudera said quickly. "Maybe it was from Reborn-san" he added grimly.
"Nah, he's not that gentle. If it were from him, it wouldn't be something so painless" Tsuna said.
"Here it is, Tsuna" Chrome said as she put the kit on the table.
"How dare you call the Tenth by his first name!" the Storm Guardian erupted.
"I told her to." Tsuna intervened. "If I recall correctly, I told you the same over a dozen times, but to no avail"
"As your right-hand man…"
"Ok, have it your way. Now let's see if this is safe to eat." Tsuna cut him off and began testing the pizza.
The result was…
"Well, it's not a sleeping drug this time." Tsuna said blushing.
"And it isn't something painful either…" Gokudera said angry. "But…"
"But what?" Chrome said taking the color-poison correspondence list from their hands. "WHO COULD HAVE SOMETHING LIKE THIS?" she yelled after seeing the result of the test.
"Well, the only person I know that's into this things…" Tsuna trailed off.
"Is Shamal" Gokudera finished.
"What is it?" Chrome asked as she and Yamamoto looked at the list over Haru's shoulder.
"WHA!" Chrome reacted.
"Oh boy! That sure seems like the Doctor."
"Hello? Hibari?"
Everyone turned towards Tsuna who was talking on the phone.
"I need you to destroy the YYYYY pizza delivery firm. And find out who had them put and aphrodisiac in my pizza!" he said and then closed his mobile phone.
And so, within a mere period of 24 hours, two pizza delivery firms fell at the hands of Hibari. Unfortunately, they were all too badly beaten to tell him who hired them.
Next morning, Reborn came home with Hibari.
"Why do you two have blood on your clothes?" Yamamoto asked carefully.
"They didn't talk" Hibari replied.
"What about you, Reborn-kun?" Haru asked horrified.
"Dino talked too much" the hitman replied.
