A/N: I'm back! I'm so, so, so sorry that I lied I was supposed to update in October but things happened. Apologies! (I'm so disappointed in myself haha)

Okay the chronological order is all messed up, but the anime and manga are different anyway, so I'll just put whatever I need inside.


Hibari Kyoya

The first time Tsuna set his eyes on Hibari Kyoya, he thought, hey, that looked like Fon.

The next thought was that, this guy was probably as dangerous as Fon then, since they were related. Tsuna promptly raised his guard.

The third thought was even though they looked similar, they gave off such a different aura. The moment Hibari swept his eyes over him, his gaze sent chills up Tsuna's spine, and it was impressive for a teenager to do that to Tsuna, after all the mafia men he had seen.

Tsuna always liked hanging out with Fon, for the latter was like the someone calm amongst the chaotic Arcobaleno. The both of them were like the only sane ones when they went for missions, or during the normal times for that matter. Well, obviously Tsuna was close to Reborn, but honestly an excessive time spent with Reborn was definitely not healthy, with Reborn being so egoistic, arrogant, sadistic and, all in all, a bad influence.

Fon always made him feel calm, and reminded him of a gentle breeze brushing his face in spring, while Hibari reminded him of the harsh winter frost. Chilly, cold, and painful. However, no matter who Hibari was, Tsuna had planned to stay out of his life.

That was the plan. When they met again, it was on the school's rooftop. Hibari was as usual, on the rooftop, but Tsuna didn't know that since he just transferred in. Even if the rooftop was off limits to the students, Tsuna still went, as he was after all not one for rules.

"Herbivore, the roof is off limits to the students. Leave or I'll bite you to death."

"Oh, I'm sorry, I just transferred in and I don't know the rules yet." Tsuna replied, trying to act like a normal, frightened student.

Hibari narrowed his eyes at him. "If you dare break another rule, herbivore, I'll surely find you and bite you to death."

"I'm really sorry." Tsuna bowed. "But you're a student too, why are you here?"

"I can do whatever I want."

Can't Hibari let a man enjoy his meal alone, peacefully and quietly? It was not like the Hibari owned the school… or did he? Whatever, it didn't matter to Tsuna anyway.

Okay, so Tsuna heard that Hibari was the Head of the Namimori Middle Disciplinary Committee, and one should never cross him. However, his attitude really pissed Tsuna off a little. Maybe it was a bad day. Maybe Tsuna simply wasn't in a good mood. Maybe in the future, Tsuna would thank his foul mood on this day that bound the two of them together.

On a normal day, Tsuna would have given an innocent smile and walked away, but today was apparently not the day. "Then I can too." Tsuna simply sat down and opened his bento box.

"Herbivore… I'll bite you to death!" Hibari whipped out his tonfas, obviously angered and annoyed.

Tsuna simply picked up a salmon nigiri using his chopsticks and put it in his mouth. "Mmm, delicious."

"Her…bi…vore." Hibari gritted out. The tick mark was already on Hibari's forehead, annoyed that the herbivore actually ignored him. He rushed forward with his tonfas in his hands, attempting to strike Tsuna down in one blow.

To Hibari's amazement, Tsuna dodged easily as he stood up in a blink of an eye and jumped away nimbly, his eyes still set on his bento. "Wow." Was this weak-looking guy secretly a carnivore?

"Do you know? I'm not here to start a fight, I'm just here to have my lunch. I won't disturb you if you don't disturb me." Tsuna tried to negotiate, but it seemed like Hibari was only excited to fight him.

Tsuna sighed. Were teenagers these days all so hot-headed?

As Hibari continued to strike, Tsuna continued to dodge. The fighting pace got faster and faster, but the only result in the end was that Hibari was slightly tired and panting, while Tsuna just wanted to eat his nicely-made lunch.

"Omnivore…" That's right, that's the word to describe him. An omnivore. Even though the guy before him was strong, somehow Hibari thought he couldn't pull off the title of a carnivore.

Tsuna raised his eyebrow at the title, wondering if it was a form of acknowledgement of his strength or something. "Ah… So can I eat now? I'm going to be late for classes if I don't finish eating soon." The bell was going to ring in a few minutes, thus Tsuna managed to eat finish his bento in record time and rush off to his classes.

Hibari didn't deem it necessary to acknowledge him anymore, just threw a "hn" and jumped to a higher area to take a nap.

The next day, Tsuna was back on the roof again. He did try to go to other places, but he decided that he still liked the roof more. Hibari was just a minor downside.

Tsuna, though, did bring another bento with him, which he gave to Hibari, claiming that it was a peace offering, and from now on they will share the roof without disturbing the other.

Hibari had to admit that he was kind of hungry and Tsuna did cook very well (and he did give an innocent smile today so Hibari somehow or another trusted him to not poison the food), not that he would ever say it out loud.

In the end, with Tsuna occasionally cooking meals and adding the fact that Tsuna was indeed stronger than him, Hibari had no choice but to make-do with another being sharing the roof with him. Of course, Hibari still picked up fights with Tsuna, but Tsuna always tried his best in evading the attempts, most of the times succeeding.

It was an implicit friendship, and before they knew it, they spend most of their lunch breaks together.

Tsuna didn't know how that happened, but as others had told him, the sky-flame users do have a knack for attracting people to them, and in Tsuna's case, it was always the weird and dangerous people.

To Tsuna, Hibari was a different kind of companion. He was quiet most of the times, preferring his own personal space and time, and Tsuna was fine with it.

He didn't want to admit, but Tsuna thought that Hibari reminded him of a certain someone as days flew by. Maybe it was the aura they both gave off, but Tsuna kind of liked staying with Hibari.

He never did admit, but even he sometimes get a bit lonely, sometimes getting a bit sad thinking about the past, and sometimes missing a certain someone.


Tsuna just happened to walk past the reception room when he heard some ruckus inside. Knowing that the room was used for the disciplinary committee (he had occasionally dropped by to see Kyoya), Tsuna stopped to see what was happening inside.

Honestly speaking, Tsuna was not worried for Hibari, for the fact that he could defend himself well, but the appearance of Reborn kind of changed everything.

Who knows what Reborn is scheming again…

When Tsuna opened the door, the whole reception room was in a mess and it looked like a tornado had passed over it.

Hibari was pretty much unscathed, but Tsuna couldn't say that for Yamamoto and Gokudera lying on the floor. Ietsu was half-naked (courtesy of the Dying Will Bullet, probably), and Reborn was sitting on the window ledge.

Tsuna didn't know what happened, but the first words he heard upon entering the room was Hibari saying "I don't know who you are, but I'm very much irritated right now."

Uh oh.

Then he moved forward to attack Reborn, ignoring Tsuna's cry of "Wait!". Tsuna resisted the temptation to roll his eyes, because Hibari never actually listened to him when he asked him not to fight, but he nevertheless rushed forward to grab Hibari's right arm away from Reborn.

The thoughts of what the hell is Reborn planning again, why did I fall in love with such a weird guy, why does everyone like to fight so much, and Kyoya can you have more self-control than a five-year-old kid flashed through his mind.

Still, his efforts were proved fruitless when Hibari's tonfa clashed against Reborn's, and Tsuna knew everything was doomed when Hibari said "Wow. You're amazing.". If Hibari and Reborn started fighting seriously in the middle of nowhere, it was surely a cause of concern. Tsuna didn't want to attract any more attention than it was already, and it wouldn't really be convenient if the school suddenly collapsed.

Sometimes Tsuna questioned the sanity of people around him, but then again he had to admit that he was not the sanest person on earth either.

A tick mark appeared on Tsuna's forehead. "I said stop it already!" He reached forward and pulled Hibari away from Reborn.

The two ceased action, because it was common knowledge that Hell hath no fury like a Tsuna scorned, and it was high time they stop before Tsuna kills the both of them.

"Omnivore…"

Before anyone could continue to speak, however, Reborn grabbed Ietsu who grabbed Yamamoto and Gokudera and jumped out of the window. Reborn had wanted to use a bomb, but considering that Tsuna was there, he decided against it lest anything happens to him.

Tsuna just watched them disappear as they dropped from the window, took a deep breath, and decided not to think about Reborn's sanity anymore.

"I want to see that baby again."

Tsuna turned to Hibari, smacked him on his head and walked away.


When Tsuna saw Reborn and Ietsu in school the next day, Reborn commented on how close Hibari and Tsuna were.

Tsuna tilted his head at the sudden question, and said, "We are just… friends, I guess?"

Reborn raised his eyebrow, to which Tsuna smiled sheepishly in return.

Ietsu scoffed and said, "I don't think that kind of person actually have friends. If he can even tolerate you, you guys must be close indeed."

Ietsu looked up with a puzzled expression as Reborn smacked him with a Leon-turned slipper and shouted, "Ow! What's that for, Reborn?"

"Speaking of which Reborn, are you planning to make Kyoya one of the guardians?" Tsuna asked.

"Any problem with that?" Reborn replied, ignoring Ietsu's exclamation of "What guardians?"

"Nah, I was just wondering why everyone is suddenly in the mafia now…"

"That's all Reborn's fault! He's dragging everyone into the mafia!" Ietsu proclaimed, which earned another smack from Reborn.

Tsuna gave them a rueful smile. "Ah, so it is."


Fon

Tsuna was, needless to say, surprised when he saw Fon, in the middle of the street disguised and selling buns, no less. "How are you, Fon? It's been a while, hasn't it?"

"Thank you, I'm fine. Didn't expect to see you here either, Tsuna."

"Well, visions." Tsuna shrugged, implying that it was nothing of importance and there was no need to worry over it.

"I heard Reborn was training the Vongola Decimo here."

"Yes."

"Are you okay?" As usual, Fon was getting a little over-protective again, and Tsuna could actually hear the frown in Fon's voice even as his face was covered by sunglasses and a hat.

Tsuna sighed. "I'm fine."

"You shouldn't get into this kind of things… I thought you had always stayed out of mafia-related issues."

"I'm capable of protecting myself, okay? I know what I'm doing and just because I'm cursed… doesn't mean I'm weak."

"Sometimes you overwork yourself…" Fon shook his head. "If you get hurt, everyone would be worried."

Tsuna's eyes softened a little. "I'll be fine, really."

Fon didn't say anything else, and Tsuna waved him goodbye as he headed to school. "See you soon."

"Take care of yourself, Tsuna." Fon called out as Tsuna walked away.


Sasagawa Ryohei

"Join the club, Sawada!" Tsuna blinked as he felt a sense of déjà vu when he entered the school gates. He turned to where the voice was coming from, and saw Ryohei pestering an Ietsu without his clothes on, and Kyoko at the side.

Hmm?

"I'll wait for you in the gym after school!" Ryohei shouted, ignoring Ietsu's protests.

Then Ryohei spotted Tsuna in the distance, and came to greet him instead. "Tsuna! Have you changed your mind? Do you want to join the boxing club now?"

Tsuna sweatdropped mentally at Ryohei's enthusiasm, and rejected him politely.

"Well, that can't be helped then. Anyway, I gained a new member! See you, Tsuna!"

Tsuna just smiled and waved as he watched Ryohei leave.

"Eh? Onii-san asked you too?" Tsuna turned around as Ietsu came up to him.

Tsuna noticed that Reborn was sitting on Ietsu's head, and greeted him too. "Yeah, it's a pretty long story, actually. It was around the time I first transferred here…

"I was just walking on the streets, and I saw some yakuza pestering a girl so I interfered–"

Reborn interrupted. "That's so you, Tsuna. Haven't you heard of 'mind your own business'?" And try to stay safe?

"Yeah, yeah. Where was I… Oh yes, and Ryohei happened to see me fighting the yakuza, commented on how 'extreme' I was and asked me to join his boxing club, to which I politely declined, but as you have seen how effective that was, I had to participate in a boxing match against him. If he won, I would join the boxing club, but if I won, then I wouldn't.

"In the end I did win the match, and the rest, as we would say, was history. He never did stop asking, though."

Ietsu gulped. "You must be really confident then…" He couldn't do the same thing, could he? He didn't even know how to box, for god's sake!

"Hmm? I guess I was." Tsuna smiled. "Well, good luck with him, then. He's really a nice guy, albeit a little too passionate. Then again, he's constantly in Dying Will Mode, and I guess that's pretty impressive."

"EH?"

"You didn't have to tell him that, Tsuna."

"Oops." Tsuna gave Reborn a somewhat apologetic smile that didn't seem too sincere. "Look, class is starting soon. Better run now!"


Reborn's Birthday

Tsuna wondered what he should get for Reborn as his birthday neared. He hadn't given him birthday presents for god knows how many years. He remembered that when they were together, Tsuna had always asked what Reborn would like for his birthday.

The answer would always be "You."

Then Tsuna would blush, hit Reborn, and still wreck his brain for a birthday present anyway.

It was nice reminiscing the old days, but Tsuna still had the problem of finding Reborn's present.

Tsuna thought until his head hurt, but still couldn't come up with a suitable one, and decided to go with the usual, by baking an espresso cake for him. Honestly he knew that Nana would probably bake one for him too, but he knew how Reborn loved his cake and decided that a small one shouldn't hurt. As for the present… Well, they aren't together anymore, so it didn't need to be so grand, right?

And the cake takes a lot of hard work too, okay?


In the end Tsuna still bought a coffee cup along with the small espresso cake to Ietsu's home.

They had organized a birthday party for Reborn, and invited many people there.

Tsuna put the cake into the fridge, since they will have to eat the cake prepared first, but Tsuna knew that Reborn didn't like sweet things that much anyway, so he'll probably still be able to eat the cake later on. It'll be a surprise, maybe?

His present was placed with the others, and he went to wish Reborn a happy birthday.

"Just this present? Have you gotten a little stingy, Tsuna?"

Tsuna's eye twitched at the shamelessness of Reborn. "That's asking a bit too much of me, Reborn."

"I'm the world's greatest hitman. I deserve the best."

Tsuna resisted the urge to hit him.


Flashback

Tsuna had cooked a whole meal for the both of them, along with the three-layered cake he had baked. Tsuna had suggested going out at first, but Reborn insisted that Tsuna's food was the best, so Tsuna decided to cook one of the grandest meals ever, and according to Reborn, it was really good.

"Now it's time for the cake! Hmm, at first I wanted to bake a bigger one, you know like those kind of wedding cakes–"

"Are you implying something, Tsuna? Do you want to get married so soon?" Reborn gave his usual teasing smirk.

Tsuna glared at him and used his fingers to flick Reborn on his forehead. "Reborn! Can you not? Anyway, I was thinking of baking a larger cake, but I thought we won't be able to finish it and it'll be a waste to throw it away so we will have to make-do with this."

"I'll eat anything Tsuna makes."

"You say that but… Never mind. Let's sing you a birthday song then–"

"Pass. I'm too old for this."

"It's not like you're going to sing them anyway! I'm the one singing, so stop complaining."

After much bickering, Reborn finally relented and let Tsuna sing him a birthday song, grudgingly but dutifully blew out the candles and pretended to make a wish, because who believed in that anyway, and they finally could cut the cake.

As Reborn was enjoying the cake, Tsuna brought out the presents, which consisted of a photo album and Reborn's favourite brand of coffee beans.

Reborn thanked Tsuna for the coffee beans as they were quite rare and expensive and even Reborn didn't consume them as often as he wanted, then proceeded to open the photo album.

Reborn had to resist the urge to smile at the photos and wondered where the hell did Tsuna manage to get all of them, and how he didn't notice that their time spent together was so long that it could fill up one entire photo album.

Somehow Tsuna could always make his chest glow with this warm feeling and make his face want to grin sillily. What are you doing to me, Tsuna? I'm not supposed to feel human, you know.

"Tsuna, come here."

"Hmm? Is there anything you–?"

Tsuna was cut off as Reborn leaned in to kiss him. Tsuna's mind suddenly short-circuited. He could taste the cake in Reborn's mouth, and thought it tasted delicious – or was it Reborn that tasted delicious? – but that didn't matter anymore.

"As I thought, the cake was missing something. It's so much nicer with a dash of Tsuna." Tsuna blushed, and wanted terribly to wipe that smirk off Reborn's face.

"Thank you." Reborn ruffled Tsuna's hair. "Looks like I have to prepare something good for you tomorrow."

Tsuna scoffed. "You'd better."

Reborn just smirked, and pull Tsuna closer until he could hug him. He wrapped his arms around Tsuna and rested his forehead on his shoulder.

As long as you are with me, Tsuna, my birthday will always be the best.


Present

At the end of the party, Tsuna waited until everyone had left then he presented the cake to Reborn.

Reborn had raised his eyebrow at the box given to him, but smiled when he saw the cake inside it. Ietsu was in the kitchen helping to clean up, and nearly fainted in shock when he saw Reborn's smile. Reborn, for the sake of the cake, ignored Ietsu and the urge to shoot him.

"I haven't eaten your food for ages. Did your standard improve or drop?"

Tsuna rolled his eyes. "What kind of question is that?"

Reborn put a piece of cake into his mouth. "It's not bad, I guess."

"Just not bad? That's it, no more cake for your next birthday."

"There's a next?"

Tsuna didn't know how to answer that. "… If you want."

Reborn paused for a while and finally said, "Thank you, Tsuna."

Tsuna smiled, and Ietsu thought the smile made all his previous smiles looked slightly fake, "Happy birthday, Reborn."

I want to wish you happy birthday for your next birthday, Reborn, your next next and next next next.

Just… let me stay by your side forever.


A/N: The ending is bittersweet…? o.o Happy Belated birthday to Reborn! (Screw canon and Reborn's birthday party.) I was supposed to write birthday fics for Reborn and Tsuna, but I guessed I sidetracked. Still, here's wishing them a happy birthday! :D The stories will have to wait…

I'll write about Dino next chapter. Have a bit of writer's block on that character… I can't believe I wrote one whole chunk of weird stuff about Hibari D:

I kind of liked how this story became so Tsuna-centric LOL, but hey rest assured, more R27 coming haha, whether angst or fluff (both are good).

By the way, what's up with Reborn being jealous thing? Is there something in the previous chapter that made so many of you review that? Haha actually… If you looked carefully, Reborn was actually jealous of Lambo, heh.

Got the "What do you want?" "You." lines from Junjou Romantica. Cute, right? xD