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'Knock. Knock.'
"Yeah."
"Yo, Sagi. Someone's here for you."
"Who?"
"Dunno. Kuratchi just told me to come get your ass downstairs."
"Fuck. I'll be there soon, just tell him to hold up."
Tsuna got up from the window seat and stretched as far as he could, sighing in content. 'Great. Which stupid bastard wants their ass kicked now?"
Tsuna then proceeded to walk out of his room, made sure it was properly locked, and hurried down the stairs to meet up with Kuratchi.
"Didn't know you knew such people in high places, Sagi."
"Your ass must be jealous of the shit that comes out of your mouth, Wakagashira."
Ignoring the insult, the older man continued to watch the entrance with a frown on his face. "Be careful out there and don't disrespect the man. Don't really know him, but he is strong. Tread carefully, is that clear. If you need help just holler, alright."
Tsuna nodded his head despite his confusion, managing to not flinch when the other suddenly turned around to face him. The older man was obviously searching for something in his eyes and whatever he found did not please him.
"Sagi-" Kuratchi shook his head. "The guy's outside, best not to keep him waiting any longer."
Tsuna stiffly walked towards the door, still feeling the elder man's uneasy stare on his back.
Once the doors closed behind him, Tsuna immediately turned to the right to see the outline of what seemed to be two guys. Then again, he didn't have night vision, so he could be wrong.
"Alright. What the fuck do you need?"
"Carnivore, I'll bite you to death."
Tsuna smirked at that, slightly relaxing at seeing a familiar thing, or person. Whatever. "Well, if it isn't the one and only Hibari Kyoya. To what do I owe the pleasure of being in your oh so gracious presence."
That's when the other figure deigned to present himself in all his glory.
Tensing in anticipation, he checked over all possible exits once more. 'What the actual hell, the asshole went to the demon for help."
"Kimura."
Cue glare. "Old man."
"Hn. The caretaker carnivore wants to speak with you."
"I know, met the motherfucker earlier."
This incited a growl from Hibari while Reborn's hands clenched hard enough to make his knuckles stark white.
'Hibari protective? Over the hitman? Must mean he knows him on a personal level. A serious achievement right there, only a select few have made it past that cold exterior. Hell, I can count the amount of people on one hand and still have fingers left over."
"You understand the circumstances of what I am here for then."
"People who give a shit are right over there," Kimura said while pointing at nothing.
"Let's make a deal then."
Now this piqued Tsuna's interest, so he beckoned with his hand for Reborn to continue.
"If you listen to what I have to say and let me train you for a while before you decide anything, then Hibari agreed to let you have a free card from being beaten the next time he happens to catch you. I'll also pull a few strings to get you to be let off from your community service."
'Hm, I already know you've let me off community service old man, so what you playing at? Might as well though, can't let a fucking good chance to be freed like this go to waste, but why don't I add little extra something to make the deal worth it.'
"Make it two free cards, add a get out of jail card, and you got yourself a deal."
"Carnivore," Hibari said threateningly.
"Fucking take it or leave it."
The two of them glanced at each other before Reborn nodded in agreement. Tsuna rolled his shoulders while walking towards the back of the building, keeping the two in his line of sight.
"Alright, follow me."
"Hn."
"Where are we heading you ask? Well Kyo-chan ~ I have just the perfect place that we can talk without worrying about being overheard."
Surprisingly, Tsuna's personality did a 180, now having a playful air around him. Somewhat similar to how he acted when he was with that Police Sergeant.
"Childish Carnivore." Apparently Hibari's personality also changed about 007 degrees to the… less Hibari side of him which wasn't saying much.
"Oh, you are so sweet Kyo-chan. Giving me a pet name, even if it isn't the only one. You also didn't hit me with a tonfa, does that mean you've finally accepted your feelings for me?"
As soon as he finished saying the sentence, Tsuna had to step to the right in order to dodge an incoming tonfa before carrying on as if nothing had happened.
"Say, do you prefer Kyo-chan, or demon-chan, or even cutie?"
"None. Now quiet, or I'll bite you to death."
"Ah, but you call me so many nicknames with the word carnivore. So, I wanted to have one for you too. Though, have you ever thought of calling me something with the word omnivore?"
Hibari rolled his eyes at the weird carnivore before him, not even bothering to bring out his tonfas. He already knew it was going to be a waste of his time after all their previous fights. And no, it was not because he had a soft spot for the little carnivore, that was such an herbivorous act.
Reborn regarded the two from the background, finding it ironic that the person who hates crowding and rule breakers the most, had a banter with a short, rule breaking kid. 'Dang, this kid really is something else. He makes the impossible possible.'
Reborn was amazed at how easily Kimura made people come out of their usual personality. 'Look at how he's making Hibari act and he made me lose my cool a bit faster, not that I have a lot of patience in the first place. Huh, might be a useful quality as a future mafia boss.'
"So here we are, be prepared to be dumfounded."
Reborn looked up in time to see Kimura move a thick curtain of vines to see…
"There is nothing there, Carnivore."
"Glad you aren't fucking blind."
Tsuna dodged to the left before jumping back to avoid the other tonfa heading to his stomach.
"Kyoya. Stop. We need to talk to him and in order to do that he needs to be conscious."
Hibari growled but backed off anyways.
"Well, aren't you whipped."
Receiving a glare that could kill you thousands of times over on the spot just made Tsuna chuckle while putting his hands up in mock surrender.
"Kimura, I was assigned to train you to be the Vongola Decimo because all the other heirs died. Nobody, but those with Vongola blood can be the boss to the most influential mafia famiglia in the world. For it being such a powerful group, it's necessary for it to continue being on top, or there will be absolute chaos in the underground. It's why the Vongola Nono and the CEDEF Advisor assigned me, the World's Greatest Hitman, to train you to be a mafia boss."
For several minutes Tsuna stared blankly at the tree behind Reborn that he thought he might have fried the kid's brain on accident before he finally received an answer.
"For it being such a bigshot group, I would've expected the boss to have fucked several bitches so that he'd have a brat to take up the mantle. Or at least have a battle royal to see which power-hungry brat of his was the strongest one of them all. You said they're powerful, ha what a joke, they can't even protect their heirs properly."
This time, Reborn glared so menacingly that Tsuna went into a defensive position, prepared to move if the rabid bastard decided to attack him. Reborn sneered at him, noticing the way Tsuna shifted, as if he had the actual chance to fight him or escape.
"Nono is a self-respecting man who mourned the loss of his three sons that were killed by outside sources, so a pathetic waste of space like you should never even think of insulting him," Reborn spat venomously. He was completely done trying to be peaceful with the shitty brat. The Vongola Nono was an old friend of his and he saw the way grief had weighed down on his good friend.
Kimura's bangs covered his eyes while a cruel smile slid upon his face.
"Oh~ my bad. And here I thought that worthless old fucker just sends a bunch of dumbass followers to be brutally murdered without giving a fuck, all the while dragging innocents in for the fun of it."
"He cares for his subordinates unlike your pitiful excuse of a boss who fucking sits on his lazy ass getting stupidly drunk. Laughing as a child is tortured because it's his sick idea of entertainment. He probably fucked so many that he has more children than the highest number an imbecile like you can think of."
"Your motherfucking bitch, sent you, a douche who kills for money and fucks anyone for pleasure, to train someone who by my useless sperm donor's knowledge is an innocent civilian, to be the fucking boss of the bloodiest crime syndicate in all of history. What the fucking hell does that tell any dipshit with a brain about your trashy piece of shit for a boss!"
Kimura turned to the right before pivoting left and jumping further left to avoid the three bullets aimed for his head. He glared dangerously at Reborn who only glowered furiously back.
Hibari was off to the side, body tensed and tonfas in hand, ready to fight if needed. Which side he'd choose was uncertain. While he did like a good challenge, the killing intent that rolled off the two in rage filled waves made him anxious. This wasn't a test of strength or anything of the like, but one where the victor stood uncaringly above the loser's unmoving body.
Hibari didn't know about the little carnivore, but he had only ever seen the caretaker carnivore this angry before once. It was when the herbivores living with him had gotten captured and beaten badly to lure the caretaker in. While the anger hadn't been directed at them, it had definitely made them fear incurring his wrath onto themselves. For in the aftermath, there were nearly a hundred bodies mutilated beyond recognition, scattered among the collapsed buildings.
Reborn felt rage coursing through his veins, just looking at the shithead made him intensify his killing levels to see the weak idiot tremble in fear. Instead, the brat's eyes only turned more ruthless and his haughty laughter rang loud and clear in his ears. Somewhere in his subconscious Reborn was aware that he was about to take his anger out on a child- a child- but he ignored it. You don't become the greatest by picking daisies and catching butterflies.
With that he suddenly appeared in front of Tsuna and roundhouse kicked him, only for it to be dodged with a fist heading for his ribs. Quickly turning to avoid it, Reborn aimed a kick towards Tsuna's chest before following up with a bash to the temple. Tsuna chest ached, but he disregarded it in favor of ducking, then swiftly giving an upper cut to Reborn's jaw who took a step back and turned to the right, barely getting scraped on the side by Tsuna's kick. Immediately taking Tsuna's leg in the air, Reborn threw him towards a tree, rapidly following the other.
Twisting his body in midair, Tsuna landed in a crouching position before using his momentum and pushing off the tree, aiming a punch for Reborn's face. Reborn bent slightly to the left while bringing his fist to Tsuna's stomach who back flipped over him and landed on all fours. Tsuna nimbly tried to sweep Reborn's legs out from underneath him, but Reborn jumped and brought his foot up ready to slam down on Tsuna's head. Tsuna rapidly flipped back twice to get some distance between themselves.
Using this to his advantage, Reborn let out a barrage of shots at Tsuna, never letting up. Showing an impressive amount of speed, Tsuna managed to dodge most of the bullets barely getting nicked from time to time. Unnoticed to others but Reborn, Tsuna was getting slower, not by much though, which spun Reborn to shoot faster.
Tsuna continued to avoid any serious injury despite the number of bullets aimed in his direction. Several minutes later he was grazed quite deeply on his face and arm, startling him enough to lose his concentration. This resulted in him being cut badly on his side that began to bleed quite heavily. Fortunately for Tsuna, no more bullets were headed his way. Ripping a piece of his sleeve off, Tsuna applied pressure to the wound to staunch the bleeding before glowering icily at Reborn.
Reborn hurriedly stopped shooting and put away his gun the moment he saw the blood marring the other. He felt regret knowing he lost his composure like that, nearly killing a child over petty words, and not just any child, but the Vongola heir himself.
Ignoring the death glare focused on him, Reborn took a few steps forward, intent on healing the boy's side. Tsuna seeing this snarled at him, stopping Reborn from coming any closer to Tsuna.
"Don't. Don't you fucking dare come any closer."
"Do you want to bleed out and die? Just let me -"
"Now, I wonder whose faults that, you dick."
"Look – "
"Stop fucking acting like you give a rats ass. By the end of the week I'll meet with you to see when I can be trained and all that shit. Just-just stay over there."
Reborn sighed tiredly as he watched Kimura walk away, grimacing in pain with every step he took. He turned to see Hibari eyeing the both warily, tonfas in hand. Lowering his fedora, he motioned for them to go home. Hibari slowly relaxed before following Reborn, not before looking down at his Russian violet watch to see the worried faces of the herbivores.
Tsuna groaned in pain as he climbed the side of the building, hoping his body didn't quit on him. If it did, the others would have to be scrapping his dead body off the ground. Course, that was only if they were even in the mood to do clean up. The only reason he was doing this, was so he didn't have to deal with anyone asking him questions and now he was thinking it might not have been worth it. Finally reaching his rooms window, he quickly opened it before dumping himself onto his bed nearby.
"You're gonna ruin your sheets like that, you know."
Tsuna lazily opened his eyes to see Tesshin standing in front of him.
"Jackass. All you care about is the bed and not me."
Tesshin smirked like royal pain in the ass he is and always will be. "Well, I don't want to hear Imayoshi bitchin about us being dirty pigs again."
Tsuna rolled his eyes before sitting up. Tesshin, though a moron at basically everything, was very good at stitching up people. "How did you know I was injured?"
"Kuratchi."
Of course, that answered everything. Kuratchi always seemed to know things before it even happened.
"Though, you coming through the window was a surprise," Tesshin commented while Tsuna grimaced at the twinges of pain he felt. No matter how carefully Tesshin disinfected the gash, it still hurt like a bitch.
"Didn't want to be bothered by nosy assholes."
"Ha. This is going to hurt, so don't go crying alright."
Tsuna glared at him, but Tesshin started to stitch his side, refraining him from insulting the idiot. Gritting his teeth, he was now able to feel the full strain he put on his body since his adrenaline rush completely went away. Tsuna tried to ignore the pain, only letting out a hiss now and then, especially when Tesshin purposely irritated the wound. Bastard.
As soon as Tesshin finished, he threw the shirt laying on the floor next to him at Tsuna as he went and got rid of the bloody rags. With Tesshin's back to him, Tsuna quickly put on the black shirt with the white wording 'In Memory of When I Cared.'
"Want me to patch up your arm and face."
"Don't need it. It'll close off by itself within the hour."
"Fine, but don't come whining to me later. Although I'm curious."
"So."
"How cruel. No, but seriously, how did you get injured?"
"Pissed some fucking dipshit who had the brilliant idea to shoot me."
"Ha! Ha! Ha! What a fucking pansy!"
Tsuna chuckled softly at that. "Hell yeah. Now get the fuck out, I'm going to sleep."
"Hell no, you skinny bastard! We're going to drink our asses off!"
Tesshin hurriedly dragged Tsuna out, ignoring how the other yelled curses at him all along the way.
Everyone stared worriedly at one another as soon as Kyoya turned off the video call. They didn't exactly see much since Kyoya didn't want to bring any attention to himself, but they got the gist of what happened.
Not only were they concerned for Reborn's emotional state, but the fact that Kimura Tsuna may not be someone they were willing to follow. They wanted a boss who was kind and forgiving, someone who accepted them for them, not this person who, so far, didn't represent a sky at all.
Too caught up in their own individual thoughts they didn't hear the door being opened.
"What happened?"
Immediately, they all snapped their heads up to stare blankly at Reborn. Takeshi was the first one to come out of it, yet again. Rubbing his head sheepishly, "Maa~ Sorry Reborn, we were just thinking about how– "
"Nothing," Hayato hastily replied while glaring at Takeshi.
Reborn wearily looked around, both Mukuro and Chrome had vanished the moment Takeshi had opened his mouth (smart, but they shouldn't leave behind a single trace of their flames). Kyoko and Lambo were probably in their rooms asleep already (if he believed in divine beings, he'd be thanking them) and the remaining two nodded their heads in agreement to what Hayato had said (the trio of idiots).
It was quite obvious they knew about how his meeting with Kimura went and only one person could be at fault, one subtle glance behind him showed Hibari had long since disappeared. Too tired to deal with this now, especially with Leon giving disapproving flicks of his tongue at him, he just walked past the three sitting on the floor towards his room.
"Goodnight."
Said three glanced worriedly at each other before replying.
"Goodnight Reborn-san."
"Night Reborn."
"EXTREME goodnight!"
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