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Chapter 3.

Sawada Tsunayoshi swallowed nervously as he stood before an imposing grey building the following morning.

"Yamamoto, help! I caught two perverts stealing my—" Here he stopped out of embarrassment and whispered to the phone,"—my underwear!" He fidgeted, red in the face and shivered as wind blew through the street, goosebumps pimpling his boxer-clad self.

"They're already tied up but could you pick them up please."

"Your un—!" Yamamoto laughed uncertainly. "Tsuna, you're not joking, are you?"

"No! Anyway just please come here already. It's a good thing you're with the police 'cos I don't think anyone else will believe what happened," he said, looking down at his scanty clothing.

"Ok, ok. I'm on the way."

Tsuna burned in embarrassment as he remembered the past night.

'Why do these kind of things always happen to me?' Tsuna silently wailed, clutching his hair.

Hot potato, hot potato
Hot potato, hot potato
Hot potato, hot potato
Potato~
Potato, Potato, Potato~

The blaring ringtone startled the already-flustered brunette, making him almost dance in his fumbling searches for the ringing phone.

Whooo, wiggy wiggy wiggy wiggy
Whooo, wiggy wiggy wiggy wiggy,
gimme that, gimme that, gimme that—

A passer-by looked at him strangely before crossing the street.

"He-hello?" Tsuna bowed his head in pardon to the former.

"What did I say about making a caller wait in the phone, Dame-Tsuna?"

"Reborn! It's not my fault! Lambo must have changed your—" Tsuna suddenly broke off what he was saying, aware of the dangerous ground he was treading on.

"My—?"the voice returned silkily.

"N-nothing! Nothing at all! Ahaha-ha." Maybe the other wouldn't guess the cold sweat that appeared in Tsuna's face.

"That stupid cow must have changed my ringtone again, right?"

Tsuna gave up and tried changing the subject instead, "What can I do for you, Reborn?"

"Don't think about changing the subject either. You tell that cow that he's not getting off my hate list."

'Was he ever out of it?' Tsuna was rueful as he silently asked.

"I'll be sure to add this and collect the next time I come visit you two ❤." Tsuna wondered why he could almost hear a plump heart at the end of the sentence. A black one.

"Anyway, the mess that cow made is almost fixed. He better make the most out of his hiatus or else—"

Tsuna wasn't the only one affected by the words. Across the town a curly-haired teen felt a chill run down his spine.

"I-I get it." Tsuna was silent for a moment. "He seems to like it here though."

The other paused before saying, "That's good."

"Hey, Reborn."

"Hm?"

"I visited Nami-Middle yesterday. Kind of nostalgic."

At the side of the grey building was a small garden, almost hidden from the street. Tsuna stepped into a wooden pathway and fingered a verdant leaf from a tree. "I start classes tomorrow."

There was another brief pause before—"Dame-Tsuna. Your pace is often slow but you always arrive in the end."

"Reborn..."

"You just thought I was cool, right?"

Tsuna smiled and said, "Thank you."

"You and that cow take care. I'll be checking back soon."

"Okay, take care of yourself too. Say hi to everyone from me."

Tsuna looked up at the building looming over him as he pocketed his phone. He took a deep breath before starting down the path, towards the building.


A/N + credits.

→ Ringtone is Hot Potato by The Wiggles, a fun song =D . I got the idea of Tsuna 'almost dancing' in his cell search through the song: www. youtube watch ? v= NBWQCHb95rg (no spaces)

Hot Potato lyrics taken from lyrics. wikia The_Wiggles : Hot_Potato (no spaces)

→ To those interested (I'm probably getting ahead of myself but what the heck ^^;), I'm going to make my lj comm: cameo-crush (refer to my profile for link) my "main base" for posting fics because I'll be able to update there faster & some html characters apparently don't show up correctly in ff (links too ^^;). I'll try to put up everything here in ff but if you want the full experience I suggest visiting cameo-crush. No need to join, the fics are public. I'm also going to be posting those rated M & higher (eventually) in there, because as you may already know ff is rejecting those kind of fics.