Chapter 2 - For a better me (part 2): Storms and Warnings


"A mafia boss... A leader who rules a criminal organisation.

Able to move a number of trusted member with one hand, willing to risk his life for them family.

Surrounded by the respect and admiration of all...seen as a hero by the children of the slums..."

Tsuna reads out loud, Reborn smirking as he held a gun to his student's temple.

"Is that so?", he asks innocently, as the gun shone with an ominous light.

"You're the one forcing me to read it!", Tuna-fish screams, which reborn simply ignores.

"Hey!"

"Read it every morning,", Reborn orders, smirking as the safety clicks on his gun, " because you are the one to become the 10th generation boss."

"Haven't I been saying I don't want to be a mafia boss!", Tsuna whines in fear.

"Don't worry", Reborn shuffles through his briefcase, "I'll take care of it."

He happily smiles as he pulls out and assembles a riffle.

"I'm very, very worried!", Tsuna screams, horrified.

"Tsuna.", a female's voice came from behind him, startling the small brunette.

"Hiie! Yu-chan how'd you-", he freaked, seeing the ravenette leaning on a wall behind him

"Window, now hurry up.", she walks over to him, knocking his head lightly, she turned to Reborn.

"Ciao, chibi.", she nods to the baby, before heading out the room, "Nana-kaa san! Ohayou~~"

The girl greets brunette woman as she took a seat around the table.

"Ara, ohayou Yu-chan!", Nana happily greets the girl as if it was normal before turning back to her cooking.

"Hiiee!", soon Tsuna appeared, stumbling down the stairs as Reborn took a sip of his espresso.

"Do you normally eat here, Snow?", Reborn asks.


Yuki nods absently as she takes a small bite out of her food.

"Yu-chan is a great cook but she can't be bothered in the morning...", Tsuna sighs as he explains, "she used to just eat the first thing she gets her hands on, like bread, or buy food along the way... So kaa-san made her eat here every morning...although she usually appears a lot earlier then this and disappears by the time I get down because of her disciplinary committee duties..if she's busy she'll even skip meals completely if it's too troublesome..."

Said girl simply ignores the frown from her papa'n and focuses on her food, not even bothering to add anything as she finishes and washes her dishes.

"Yu-chan! How many times do I have to tell you you don't need to?", Nana scolds the younger girl as she simply bows slightly.

"But nana-kaasan, it's completely fine! You already make me breakfast everyday so it's the least I could do...", she calmly reassures the woman, who simply huffs and shakes her head fondly.

"Ara..if only my Tsu-kun could be as polite as you..", she says jokingly, Yuki nodding along knowingly.

Tsuna could only gape as the two woman insult him, only huffing indignantly after as the two woman laugh and Reborn smirks.


School...

'Since the match everyone's been treating me better..', Tsuna thought happily as he greets a few students that called out to him.

'Although some think I'm weird...', he sweat drops as a boy and two girls freak out as he passed them.

"Tuna, I'm going to my office. See you later.", she pats his head as he held back an embarrassed blush at the childish gesture. She smirks at him as she turns around and headed upstairs.

"Ooi Tsuna!", a boy from his class ran up to him.


~* again, you know what happens right?*~

"Tsuna.", Yuki's soft voice reaches the brunette's ears.

"Ah! Yu-chan!", Tsuna excitedly calls out to his friend, "Guess what? They asked me to-"

"You are playing in the tournament.", she states, narrowing her eyes.

Tsuna sheepishly nods, his cheeks pink from embarrassment.

"Un! They're relying on me after the thing with Mochida-senpai...", he explains, his eyes bright from excitement and cheeks darkening, "They even called me a hero! All I need is the dying will bullet and-"

Yuki cuts him off with a glare.

"Yu-chan?...", he nervously gulps, unsure of what he said to cause her to be unhappy with him.

Yuki sighs, shaking her head slightly before looking at him straight in the eyes with...disappointment...?

"It's exactly the same...", she grumbles under her breath, too low for him to hear as she turns to walk away.

"Ah! Yu-chan?!", Tsuna calls out to her, she stops.

"Wha-", 't's wrong?' Died in his throat at her next words.

"Don't be conceited just because of one win, Tsunayoshi.", she sharply glares at him from the corner of her eyes, "Especially when it was because of someone else. Arrogance may cause your downfall, especially in our world."

She pauses, "and I won't be watching, I don't want to see a foolish herbivore try and act like a carnivore. It's pathetic."

"Don't blame anyone but yourself when something you relied on causes you to be hit where the sun doesn't shine.", with that she turns heel down the hallway, ignoring the brunette's calls for her.

"What's up with her...", he grumbled, hurt that his childhood friend would scold him harshly after he finally proved himself to not be completely...no-good, and then shivering at her warning. A warning, no matter the kind, from Yuki is definitely one you don't ignore if you want to live. Still, sulkily and significantly less excitedly, he turns around and starts calling for his tutor.


~*the match*~

? POV

'Tch, so that's the Vongola 10th...', a shadowed figure stalks in the shadows, keenly observing the small, vulnerable brunette as he enters the gym.

Completely unaware of a pair of indifferent blue eyes watching him from above...

'Hayato...' The owner of the eyes thought, watching him.


~* After *~

'Ow...', Tsuna internally wails as he lays in bed, nursing his sore...*cough*.

'Ugh...Yu-chan was right, as always..', he sulked, remembering her words before the tournament.

'I wander how she does that all the time...it's like she can predict the future!', he absently thought, gazing at the ceiling.

He got up, sitting up slightly as he looks at a photo from on his study desk.

There, two 8 year olds, a boy and a girl, stood side by side in the midst of a festival. The boy, a short, fluffy haired brunette, wore a bright orange, tuna fish patterned yukata while a bright orange lion mask hung from the side of his head, he was holding cotton candy with a water yo yo dangling from one wrist and a bag of gold fishes in the other.

He was holding the taller girl's hand tightly. The girl wore a purple kimono, with black lining and fine, flower patterned embroidery encircling the outfit. Snowflakes seeming to fall on the flowers as they decorated the kimono, white birds, skylarks to be specific, danced with the snow. Her hair was pinned back on one side by a snowflake hair clip, and she wore the traditional sandals and socks. The taller girl stood elegantly, holding her grace naturally, while remaining relaxed and at ease by the smaller brunette, a small, rare smile on her red lisp as she watched him with fond, bright sapphire blue eyes as he tugged at her sleeve, amusement clear on her face.

On the side of her face a porcelain fox mask dangled, in one arm she had a small, black pouch dangling from her wrist and a caramel apple in her hand, in the other, dangling from her wrist was a sliver and black fan with traces of purple from the image hidden within it's folds, as she held the boy's hand. Fireworks bursts in background, lighting up the sky and illuminating their childish features.

Tsuna's lips twitched upwards at the photo, taken nearly six years ago. He remembered the time when he couldn't win any of the games so Yuki had to step in, after she got bored of seeing his flustered and embarrassed face. (She got so many blackmail worthy pics that night... Tsuna still wanders if dragging her out was worth the potential humiliation he would receive at a later date... And the ones he already experienced...) She won him the yo yo, mask and mountain loads of toys ,which she simply some the majority of and kept the ones either of the liked, and the fishes, although they gave the fish to a friend of his mum after since Yuki didn't trust him to look after them.

'But come on! They're fish! It shouldn't be that hard...' Tsuna grumbles, although he could faintly hear Yuki's sarcastic voice in the back of his mind..

"For normal people with normal amounts of clumsiness, sure. For you...the fish wouldn't last a week."

Yuki had only came since Nana didn't want Tsuna to get lost, also since Nana knows she could trust her to keep him out of trouble. (Tsuna nearly tripped 15 times that night, nearly got lost 6 times and nearly became a target for bullies 12 times, and they were only there together for 2 hours!) She also went to collect blackmail material, of which she now has countless volumes worthy hat he still hasn't found where she hid, but in the first place she went there with Kyoya, who didn't join her until shortly after that picture was taken and Tsuna was securely asleep in Nana's arms before whisking her away.

Tsuna sighs, glancing at the picture before going back under the covers.

'I gotta apologise to Yu-chan tomorrow...', he thought, 'She was right, I was getting arrogant after the match with Mochida-senpai...not to mention she was right about the whole 'getting hit where-the-sun-doesn't-shine' part because of the bullet...', he shivered.

He drifted to sleep as his eyes close and body relaxes.


~* Next Day *~

"O-ohayo...Yu-chan..", Tsuna anxiously greets the female prefect in class, not looking at her eyes. It was the first time the two spoke to each other after their fight, Yuki was busy with her committee secretarial duties and Tsuna couldn't bring up the courage to talk to her until now. Although he still doesn't know what to say.

She looks up at him, observing the nervous boy.

"Tsuna", she narrows her eyes as the smaller boy flinches.

"Look at me.", she orders sharply.

Tsuna timidly does so, lifting his head to meet her eyes.

She stares blankly at him, before lifting her hand...

Tsuna flinches at the movement, tensed and fearing a blow from his friend.

*pat pat*

'Eh?', he blinks, feeling her familiar hand on his head, ruffling his hair.

"Good job.", a motherly smile glowed softly on her face.

Tsuna's eyes widened as he stares, dumbfounded.

But when he blinked it was gone, to his disappointment.

'Maybe I was imagining it...', he sulked.

Just then Yuki's phone vibrated, the sound of a bird's chirp sounding from it.

"I gotta go. Don't destroy the school too much or else Kyoya will have a fit.", she sighs, walking past him and out the class.

'Eh? Why would I-' Tsuna's thoughts were interrupted as his teacher came in.

"Alright class! We have a new transfer student from Italy joining us.", his teacher, a self-proclaimed 'elite' by the name of Nezu Dohachiro announces.

"Tch. Gokudera Hayato.", the silverette growls, causing the majority of the female population to squeal excitedly.

'Italy...isn't that Reborn's homeland?..', Tsuna absently remembers then grumbling as the girls continue to coo at the new student.

'Wait...Kyoko-chan!', he frantically turns to look at his hair, gaining a depressed cloud when sure enough, he saw her smiling happily with an excited blush on her face.

'Nooo!', he internally despairs scowling slightly, 'Tsk. The transfer student pisses me off...'

His thoughts trailed off as his chocolate eyes meet dark green ones.

He freezes in fear, panic filling him as the new student stalks towards him.

*slam*

His desk clatters loudly as Gokudera's knee flips it almost completely on him.

Tsuna shrieks in fear, sweating and pale as he watches the delinquent walk to an empty seat.

Tsuna's slumps in depression as he hears his classmates whispers, the most disturbing one about a fan club...


With Yuki...

"Ciao, Kyo~", she smiled as she saw the head prefect sitting in his chair with his eyes closed.

The male simply grunts, Yuki chuckling lightly at his antics.

She walked over to him, sitting on his desk as she reached out to move his hair from his eyes.

Her eyes softened as he relaxed at her touch, she moved her hand down, softly cupping his cheek, caressing it with her thumb.

He leaned into her touch, causing her smile to widen.

Leaning back she moved her hand away from his face, earning an unsatisfied growl from the raven haired male.

She chuckled, leaning in again to plant a kiss on his forehead.

Kyoya stretched out his arms, wrapping them around her lower waist before pulling her onto his lap, his head snuggling into her chest.

She relaxed, leaning onto him snuggling her head into the he crook oh his neck, his comforting scent filling her nose and relaxing her nerves.

They stayed like that for a while until, slowly, he lifts his head from her chest, the movement gaining her attention as she watched him lean into her ear.

"Yuki", his husky voice echoed as his warm breath tickled her ear, a faint blush appearing on her face as her ears reddened and she shivers in pleasure.

"Kyoya?", she whispers back, earning similar shivers from the male.

Her warm, unguarded blue eyes met his softened grey ones.

He leans forward, pressing their foreheads together.

Yuki looks shyly at him, her rapid heartbeat falling into step with his.

Slowly, he tilts his head and starts to close the gap between them, his eyes closing.

Yuki too, closes her eyes, leaning towards him.

Just as their lips were about to touch...

*Boom!*

*Boom!*

*BOOM!*

Their moment was ruined as the sound of explosions reached their ears.

They pulled back, Yuki sighing as she knowingly guessed the cause of the explosions.

'Guess that's my cue...'

Kyoya growled, furious that they were interrupted.

Breaking free from his grip Yuki stood up, Kyoya moving in sync with her as the two swiftly returned to their cold demurs and stormed out the room.


~* After Go-kun VS Tuna-fishy: Infirmary! *~

"...Tuna.", Yuki blankly watches as her (newly beaten) childhood friend gets dress in another uniform she brought and his new 'friend' (also beaten) fussed over him.

"Y-yeah..?", he nervously asks.

"...care to explain why you're in your boxers again? And why is your hand covered in burns? While you're at it, why does the back of the school look like it's been assaulted by a barrage of dynamites?..", her eye twitches, Tsuna flinched as he thinks that she unknowingly hits the last part spot on.

"Hey, woman! Don't speak to jyuudaime like that-", Gokudera shouts angrily.

Yuki raises an eyebrow at the bomber's outburst.

"Calm down, Smokin' Bomb, or I might end up inviting Scorpio over some time...", she calmly comments, not at all placating the now, very pale, green but still angry silverette.

'Although knowing Reborn he probably would have covered that by now...well along with a bunch of troublesome others...', she mentally laments, letting Reborn read her thoughts through an exchange of glances before the baby smirks, tilting his fedora uncooperatively.

Her mind wanders absently, ignoring the shouting teen.

"A-ano..it's fine Gokudera-kun, Yu-chan's just like that...", he tries to placate his irritated friend.

"Well if Jyuudaime says so...oi woman! Be lucky that jyuudaime is so kind!", Gokudera hesitantly complies, shouting at the disinterested raven-haired girl.

"Hn? Sure, sure...anyway, you should really be glad that Kyoya didn't find you guys, Tsunayoshi, Hayato...although it makes me wander how, he wasn't here all those other times too... Maybe he's getting lazy? I should really stop spoiling him...", Yuki grumbles, muttering most of it quietly under her breath making sure the other occupants don't hear her after the 'Hayato' part.

Gokudera fumes, turning read in anger.

"Oi! Who gave you permission to call me that!", he angrily shouts at her again...Yuki only yawning and giving them a lazy wave as she left the room.

"Don't forget to study for the science test next period... I don't mind if you fail and all, since Reborn will "fix" that, just do me a favour, 'Kay, don't let an insects words get to you. He's just a bug who's stupidity will leave him jobless.", she casually remarks as she heads upstairs.

Tsuna froze, drastically paling at her reminder, failing to comprehend the latter half of her words as he panicked at the first few.

'Hiiiee! What am I going to do? Reborn's going to kill me!', he internally screams in despair.

Yuki chuckles as she watches the small brunette from above.

'Sigh...never change, Tsu-kun.', softened, sapphire eyes flicker with colour for the briefest moment, before they harden, her guard back up.


~* Next Day *~

"Kawada."

"Hai."

"Kurihara."

"Hai!"

'Hiie! We're getting our science test back! I didn't understand anything!', Tsuna panics as his classmates receive their tests back.

"Kondo."

"Hai."

'And it just happens I got Nezu of all people! I'm doomed,', he sulks, devoid of hope.

"Kumo."

"..."

"...she must be out on patrol..."

"Sawada."

"H-hai!", he squeaked nervously, waking up to get his test.

"Pfft.", a laughter 'escaped' for the man's arrogant mouth.

Tsuna reaches out anxiously for his test, confusion appearing on his face as the sheet was moved away from him.

"This is just hypothetically speaking but...", the (old) man drawled condescendingly, "Let's just say there was a sole student who scores in the 20 point range and painfully lowers the class average..."

"A-ano...", Tsuna shrinks back nervously.

"According to me, who's come through an elite course...", Nezu continues, "...that kind of person will just be baggage and a burden on the education conscious society.."

Tsuna grits his teeth, his bangs covering his eyes.

'He means...'

"Is there a reason for that kind of trash to live?.."

Nezu holds the piece of paper towards the bottom as he mocks the boy, letting the class see a flash of the bright, red '27' on the paper.

Tsuna accepts the paper, quickly walking to his desk with his flushed face lowered as his classmate's laughter rang out.

Nezu smirks smugly before continuing with the next student.

'Damnit..Just because he graduated from Tokyo University he acts like a complete asshole to people who can't get good grades..', Tsuna bites his lip, still flustered from his earlier humiliation.

*bang*

The door slides roughly open, a familiar green eyed bomber entering the class nearly at the end of the period.

"Gokudera-kun...", Tsuna blinks, staring at the bold mafioso.

"Hey! You're late! What're you doing coming in at this time...", Nezu's voice trails off as Gokudera's glare froze him in place.

Tsuna looks around the class, at anything except his hot tempered friend as the class erupts in hushed whisper.

Tsuna tenses as he hears Gokudera's footsteps closing in on him.

"Good morning, Jyuudaime!", Gokudera excitedly bows at his boss, puppy ears and tail wagging excitedly.

"Hiie!", Tsuna shrieks in panic as the class whispers some rather..crude..comments.

"Y-you've got it wrong! He's just a f-friend!", the brunette exclaims anxiously, trying to divert their attention to anything but him.

"This is just hypothetically speaking...", Nezu recovers, drawling out each word once more, "Let's just say there's a student who carelessly comes late to class..."

"Without question he hangs out with the loser trash...because people that are alike gravitate towards each other.."

He didn't get further as a 'snap' was heard from Gokudera and his temper flared.

The teen walks ominously towards the teachers, his eyes overshadowed by his bangs.

"Old man...", he growls.

"I won't forgive any insult towards Jyuudaime!", he shouts angrily, lifting the older man by the collar and pulling on his tie.

Gokudera ignores the teacher's pitiful excuses, choosing to smile happily at his Jyuudaime.

Tsuna's head slams onto the table as he tries to make himself smaller in his seat.


~* Principle's Office *~

"You guys are EXPELLED!", Nezu screams angrily as the principal tries to placate his angry staff.

Not listening Nezu continues to scream at Tsuna and Gokudera.

'Why me?!', Tsuna shrieks in his head while Gokudera simply scowls at the teacher for yelling at his Jyudaime.

"But to expel the them now might be hasty'", the Principal tried to reason.

Nezu scoffs, then smirks as an idea forms in his head.

"Principal, I recall a time capsule buried here 15 years ago...", the now confident man began.


~* Later *~

"...time capsule that wasn't buried..", the words echoed in Tsuna's head as he eavesdrop the two teacher's conversation.

"No Way!", Tsuna cried.

*Boom! Boom! Boom!*

A series of explosions wrecked the school grounds like an earthquake, startling the students and teachers.

Tsuna gapes as he watched Gokudera light the field with his dynamites.

'It's, it's over!' He internally wails in despair, slinking onto his knees, 'Ky-Kyoko-chan!'

"Gokudera doesn't think so.", Reborn's high voice reached his ears he comes face to face with a pitch black gun.

"There must be a way not to be expelled.", the baby continued, the safer unlocking with a 'click,'.

"Reborn!"

*Bang*

"Reborn!" Tsuna, now in his boxers as he enters dying will mode yells, "Split the playground with my dying will!"

Dying Will Tsuna screams, running outside as Leon latches itself onto his shoulder.

"! I was waiting, Jyuudaime!", Gokudera shouts excitedly.

"Locate the ground, WEAKNESSES!", Tsuna orders Leon, who complied, turning into a pair of dousing rods.

"DOWSING!"

Following the transformed chameleon he watches it lower.

"Fault, DISCOVERED!", Tsuna screams, "Break here!"

Tsuna drew his right arm back as he leapt, targeting a specific spot where there was a fault line in the earth.

*Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!*

A series of gunshots were heard as three bullets entered Tsuna's arm, elbow and shoulder with the forth hitting his spinal cord.

"Shoulder, elbow, arm 3-hit combo is the megaton punch bullet,", Reborn narrates, "Direct shot to the spinal cord is the heat resistant skin bullet."

Gokudera follows his boss' lead.

"I'm going too!", he throws out a bunch of dynamite, scattered in the air and exploding around the area Tsuna targeted.

*BOOM BOOM BOOM!*

With Gokudera's dynamite softening the earth, and Reborn's bullet powering the punch, the earth easily split in two along the fault line as explosions tore through the ground and dust blew up all around the boss in training.

The students in the class watched, wide eyed, as the school grounds danced with dust and fire.

"What is going on here?!", Nezu screams as he angrily storms across the broken earth, "Sawada! Gokudera! This is your doing isn't it?!"

"Looks like it's decided! You're both EXPELLED-!", Nezu was cut off as a bunch of papers were shoved into his face, bright red ink spread across the pages with crosses littering the test pages and scores ranging from 0-6 written boldly across the top.

"!?", Nezu gapes at the pages he was given.

"The 15 year old time capsule didn't show up...but a 40 year old one did instead.", Gokudera holds up a large plastic capsule, dating 40 years ago to when Nezu was still a middle school student.

"Why are the test scores of an elite-course guy like you, in the times-capsule of an ordinary middle school like this? And these scores...What the hell?!", Gokudera scoffs triumphantly.

'Nezu Dohachiro' was on each of the test papers inside the capsule, all of them scoring less the 10 percent each.

"That's- Thats not mine!", he desperately denies, "How could and elite guy like me get scores worse then Dame-Tsuna! It must be someone else-"

He was cut off as the papers were snatched from his hands.

"Hn.", Yuki stares at the papers, then narrows her eyes at the teacher.

"Ku-Kumo-san!", he starts to sweat heavily at the sight of the female prefect as she glares coldly at him, "th-this is j-just a misunderstanding! These boys are trying to frame me to avoid expulsion!"

Yuki glares harden at the stuttering 55 year old man, behind him Gokudera was just about to explode with insults at the man framing his Jyuudaime and he.

Yuki puts up her hand to stop both of them, giving Gokudera a look saying he better wait.

The bomber growls, but complies reluctantly as Tsuna hastily holds the bomber back.

Yuki turns her glare back to the profusely sweating adult.

"These answers...they're written in your handwriting are they not?", she coolly says, shoving the pages I front of the teacher, leaving just enough space above them for the piercing cold blue eyes to bore into him.

"N-no!", the man denies.

Yuki's glare intensifies and Nezu gulps, his mouth dry.

"Are you lying to me, insect?", Yuki's eyes narrowed further, her eyes glowing coldly as the man frantically shakes his head, "So tell me... Are. They. Not?"

A dark aura surrounds Yuki, spreading to trap Nezu as she released a 'small' amount of killing intent.

"Y-yes!", the man finally breaks down, collapsing as the aura's intensify before dispersing.

"Hn. Took you long enough, insect.", Yuki scoffs coldly, "With this I have another piece of evidence, although it was unnecessary considering we already had enough but it's a good time I suppose...", Yuki mutters.

"By the authority granted to the school, teacher, Nezu Dohachiro (55) we hereby terminate your contract under grounds of fraudulent educational background.", her glare lessens but her eyes turned cold, calm and blank.

"Now...for disrupting peace and lowering the reputation of Namimori...I'll send you to hell, insect.", she smirks coldly, bloodlust seeping out as her fans appeared in her hands.

The students could only watch in fear as the grown man was rendered into a bloody pulp. Cuts heavily seeping blood littering his body as a swing of her large, metal edged fans forced him crashing into a nearby wall, a massive hole appearing on it.

Their eyes dart from the female prefect who was now a examining her still untainted weapon and then the wall the former Namichu teacher crashed into, to the unmoving, bloody body of the former Namichu staff.

"Tch. Didn't hold back enough...great, now I have to get that fixed as well", she mutters under her breath, just loud enough for the closer ones to hear.

'That was her holding back?!' They thought incredulously, fear prickling their spines and causing them to shiver.

They watched, horrified as she spared only a glance at the actual, unmoving body.

"Hn, he'll live...probably.", she comments nonchalantly.

'Pr-Probably?', the spectators inwardly shrieked.

'Hiiiee! I'm getting a sense of déjàvu here...' Tsuna inwardly groans, thinking back to a similar incident back when they first met.

"Anyway, good job, Tsuna, Baka-yato", she coolly nods to the two before pausing, causing Tsuna two nervously sweat in fear, "However...for disrupting the peace of Namimori and destroying school property...I'll send you to hell."

Her eyes narrow as she launches herself at them, mercifully only knocking them unconscious before they could react.

"Hn. I'll leave it at this so I don't owe you two anything.", she sighs as she takes out her phone and dials a number.

"Tetsu, send over some of our member to fix up the playground, wall and you might as well call an ambulance..or maybe just send some men to hide the body..and send two to take Tsunayoshi and Hayato to the infirmary...", she speaks into the phone, walking away from the three, unconscious bodies.

'S-scary!', screamed the hearts of the watching students.

To summarise... If there had ever been any doubts about Yuki being the Hibari Kyoya's childhood friend and secretary of the DC...they were 1000% sure now.


~* After *~

"Sigh..thank goodness I'm relieved I'm not expelled...", Tsuna sighs heavily in relief as he, Gokudera and Yuki exit the office.

"Don't worry Jyuudaime!", Gokudera reassures his boss, "I'll trade my life to stop that from happening!"

"Gokudera-kun...", Tsuna blushes faintly, awed and touched by his friend's words. Yuki smirks, nodding approvingly at the bomber.

"Isn't it's great to have made such a reliable subordinate?", Reborn randomly appears.

"Reborn!", Tsuna shouts, startled.

"More like a lost puppy...", Yuki mutters, ignoring Gokudera's glare and Tsuna's nervous look.

"Anyway, I said I don't want a subordinate!", Tsuna exclaims, "Anyway if two losers stick together will Kyoko-chan even notice me?!"

Tsuna panics, Yuki simply snorting while shaking her head at her old friend.

"By the way...", Gokudera starts, realising something, "the tests in this school are a cinch huh?"

He holds out his test papers, bold, red '100's across the top of each one.

Yuki nods in agreement, showing her own papers, a row of '100's across the top of each of them beside her elegantly written name.

"Huh?!", Tsuna gapes at the two while Yuki raises an eyebrow at him before turning to Gokudera, the two soon engaging in a heated (one-sided) argument of insults while exchanging opinions and facts.

"You need to study more, Dame-Tsuna", Reborn comments as he watched the two continue to 'talk' to each other, their conversation going up and down from a calm and intellectual exchange to pure insults, shouting and arguments (which again, were pretty much one-sided).

Tsuna groans, slumping slightly but his lips curved upwards as he sees Yuki's eyes glow with amusement and life, which he rarely saw even when they were kids.

'Maa...it's not so bad I guess.', he thought as he watched Gokudera bring out his dynamites in fury, Yuki sends him skidding several meters across the hall by hitting him in the stomach for 'breaking the rules by bringing weapons to school' before making him forget everything by bringing up a topic on space and alien life forms...

'Although I'm pretty sure Yu-chan's sadistic side is coming out..she's definitely playing around with Gokudera-kun...', he sweat drops as the mood flipped again.

"Of course I am, Tuna.", she calls out, smirking in amusement as he panics, and nervously scratched the back of his head, he forgot she could read his mind...

"Obviously, Baka-Tuna", she scoffs, infuriating the already red bomber as she insults his precious Jyuudaime.

"Hiiee! Stop that, Yu-chan! Gokudera-kun, put those dynamites away!", Tsuna shrieks in fear, Reborn watching the three of them with amusement, a smirk hidden on his face.

"Saw that, papa'n.", Yuki comments, which lead to a kick aimed at her head, which she dodged, letting it hitting Tsuna instead..

"Jyuudaime!"


Hi~! hope you all enjoyed this chapter! Ano...about the side story, I'd rather publish it after I've written the chapter about the three meeting Hibari in the reception room in chapter 16, but since I'm doing the story to be (mostly) following the manga it might be two chapters or so later then I first planned for it to be, which would've been at the same time as this chapter... Gomen! ( ) anyway! Next chapter is meeting Yamamoto! After that is Lambo, Bianchi, Haru and co! All though I won't go too much into detail...I don't really like those characters, except Yamamoto...(sorry!) The first side story for Yuki x Hibari (under 'Per il Romantico - For the Romantic) will be split into about 3 or so parts, from their first encounter to becoming friends and so on.

Please continue to vote! Current stats are:

Main story pairings:

Tsuna x Kyoko: 4

Haru x Gokudera: 2

Mukuro x Chrome: 2

Side stories:

Yuki x Hibari: 7

Yuki x Tsuna: 1 (wasn't expecting this..O.O)

Yuki x All: 1

Tsuna x Reborn: 1

Ah, just to let you know at the end of the votes, (should be around the time the future arc starts) I will write side stories for each of the winning pairings and popular ones, oh and characters without votes won't be paired up with anyone at the end...

Side story requests/votes are on going until I either go on a hiatus (which would only be temporary) or discontinue completely.

Thanks everyone!~ Please rate and review!

~Nuvola~

P.S this story is the kind that gradually reveals things, so it's like a mystery I guess. Oh and the line breaks and stuff might be different since I'm still kinda experimenting with the format..let me know which seems best if you could!

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