Disclaimer: I own nothing! Except my OC, Mizumoto Akihiko. (forgot to put the disclaimer in chapter 2)

AN: Thank you to those who reviewed. It is really encouraging that there are people who like my work! I work twice as hard after reading them!

Moring came and Akihiko felt oddly refresh. The sun shone brightly and as the twittering swallows flown by, the early spring breeze greeted Akihiko, carrying a sense of freshly bloomed blossoms. All in all, it was a very calming morning. Though Akihiko cannot help but have a foreboding feeling, as if this was merely the calm before the storm.

Shrugging off the bad feeling, Akihiko put on his school uniform and went down stairs for breakfast. As usual, he would eat his breakfast then take the bento that he usually prepared the night before. Then he would go to school. He didn't encounter anything strange in particular and safely arrived to campus ground.

Since he was early, there was no reason for Hibari to bite him. And for some odd reason, the school seemed devoid of students, or at least none that he could see. But then he heard a scream from the roof. Immediately looking up, he noticed a group of students that stationed themselves ridiculously near the fence and one was even at the other unprotected side of the roof. "Kids these days," He muttered in annoyance and took a closer look. It turned out to be none of other than Yamamoto Takeshi. Sighing in annoyance, he marched toward the school building. Instead of going to the roof, he chose his destination to be the Disciplinary Committee Office, which is estimated to be located somewhere on the third floor.

Knocking gently on the door, he waited patiently as someone from the other side answered. "Coming" They called. The door gently opened and Kusakabe Testuya, the second-in-command of the Disciplinary Committee, greeted Akihiko. "Ah Mizumoto-san, good morning, what brings you here?" He asked.

Akihiko nodded lightly in respond to Kusakabe's greeting. Then he said, "Hibari?"

"O, you are looking for Hibari-san. W-well I don't think you should, cause…" He trailed off as he gestured to the sleeping Hibari, well, napping.

Akihiko nodded but nevertheless walked into the room and silently approached the sleeping Hibari. He gestured to Kusakabe that it would be fine, despite Kusakabe silent protest. As he got closer, Hibari suddenly opened his eyes and glared at Akihiko and said, "Herbivore."

Akihiko nodded slightly then looked up and back to Hibari, as if to say, "Are you going to do anything about that?" That referred to Yamamoto.

Hibari snorted, "Hn." This translated to, "not my business"

Akihiko quirked an eyebrow as if to say, "If he succeed, he's going to disturb the peace, you know."

Hibari glared," get out of here herbivore," and got up, fixing his tonfa. This indicated that he would be doing something. During the whole exchanged Kusakabe was looking back and forth nervously. Actually, since he couldn't hear a single word beside a few snorts now and then, it made him feel twice the amount of anxiety he usually felt. Akihiko smiled lightly and stepped out of the room, but not before receiving a smack to the head by a flying tonfa.

"Next time, if you disturbed me, I'll bite you to death, herbivore." Hibari growled.

Akihiko turned around, rubbed his head sheepishly, and nodded. Then he offered a small smile to Kusakabe and walked off. As he was walking down the hallway, he thought he saw two people, who looked suspiciously like Yamamoto and Tsuna, falling. It happened so fast and Akihiko thought his eyes were playing trick on him. After all he was sure Hibari had taken care of this.

Actually, when he turned around, Hibari stood there with this seriously pissed off face. He looked as if he was about to murder someone. On second thought maybe he is. Hibari glared at Akihiko and walked past him. "Come, I have some herbivores to bite."

Quirking an eyebrow, Akihiko, nevertheless, followed him. Who in their right mind would disobey the Hibari? Surely not Akihiko, he totally doesn't want to be bitten today. He wordlessly walked behind Hibari. Along the way, he received many weird glances from fellow students.

He heard something like, "Would you look at that, who would have thought Mizumoto-senpai is a delinquent,"

Annoyed, he gave the speaker a glance. Said speaker shuddered involuntarily. That proved to have a negative effect as the speaker quickly whispered to his friend, "Did you see the glance? That was totally delinquent style!"

Akihiko furrowed his eyebrows lightly, getting irritated. Hibari merely smack his tonfa against said speaker and said, "I hate crowding." He strode down the hallway as if nothing had happened.

Akihiko smiled lightly and muttered, "Thanks." He wasn't sure if Hibari heard it or not. Or if he did, he shows no sign of acknowledgement. Eventually they reached the open area outside of the school building. Both Yamamoto and Tsuna was there talking happily and sighing in relief, respectively. They seemed to notice Hibari and tensed.

"For attempting to stain Namimori with unnecessary bloodshed," Hibari growled and glared harshly at Yamamoto. Then he glanced over at Tsuna and continued, "And dragging other people with you, I'll bite you to death!"

"N-now, wait a minute, Hibari, it wasn't like that, let me I assured you." Yamamoto tried to placate him, a nervous smile plastered on his face. But it proved fruitless as Hibari dashed forward.

"Hieee, Yamamoto-kun!" Tsuna screamed.

Off to the side, Akihiko mentally face-palmed. Letting out a huge sigh, he murmured, "How did it come to this?"

"O-Oi, Hibari!" Yamamoto shouted. The sound of tonfa swishing and Tsuna's screaming, with occasional Yamamoto shouting slowly fade out as the trio ran off somewhere. Akihiko sighed and walked back into the building. Unbeknownst to him, Reborn perched on top of the tree and observed the whole thing.

When Akihiko entered the building, Reborn muttered, "Hibari would be a good addition to the family. As for Mizumoto..." He trailed off as he produced a phone and dialed a certain number.

After awhile, a person answered the call. "Hey, Reborn, it's rare that you would call me during work."

"Iemitsu, I want you to look up someone name Mizumoto Akihiko." Reborn said.

"Always straight to the point eh?" Iemitsu teased.

"Iemitsu, this may regard to your son's safety. I want the information as soon as possible." Reborn warned.

"Alright, alright, I'll have him look up by the end of today," Iemitsu sighed. "Expect my call then."

Without saying anything, Reborn hung up. "Mizumoto Akihiko, if you proved worthy, I'll add you to Tsuna's Family. If you proved to be a threat…" The chameleon, which was on top of Reborn hat, transformed into a gun. Reborn aimed the crosshair at Akihiko's head. "You are a goner." He finished.

From afar, Akihiko shuddered involuntarily. He felt as if someone was planning his death. Shrugging off, he opened his shoes locker and changed into his indoor shoes. The day passed by peacefully, or as peaceful as it can get, which included random screams of terrors caused by Hibari and occasional "Extreme" from Ryohei. Actually, sometime Akihiko could hear Tsuna's wails too and random explosion noises that sounded like gunshot. But he paid it no mind. It had become a regular occurrence for him.

Later that day, Reborn received a phone call.

"Oi, Reborn, I'm sending them over right now." Iemitsu spoke from the phone.

Leon, the chameleon, suddenly transformed into a machine and information was quickly faxed through. Getting the papers in hand, Reborn quickly scanned through the information. He heard Iemitsu muttered over the phone, "I think you are losing your touch, He's just a normal kid."

Reborn respond with, "Don't think you are safe just because you are in Italy."

"Aw crap," Iemitsu groaned and hung up the phone.

Looking over the folder, Mizumoto Akihiko, indeed, does look like a legit normal kid. After much contemplation, Reborn finally came to the conclusion. "Mizumoto Akihiko, I'll trust you for now." He muttered and burned the papers in a bright yellow flame. Disappearing down the secret tunnel, he had on this smirk that would promise pain to a certain student of his.


The next day came around pretty quick. It was like any other day. Akihiko got up, ate then go to school and listen to boring teacher rambling on and on about tangency and angles. It seemed like Gokudera finally came back from his little trip. Akihiko wondered if he was the reason that Gokudera ran out of dynamites. He doesn't know that it was actually a combined effort of Tsuna, Hibari and him. It's safe to say, he wasn't so happy about Yamamoto and decided to give him the nickname, "Baseball-freak."

As per usual, lunch rolled around and Ryohei magically disappeared. There are only two places he could check, the boxing room, or the roof. Akihiko stopped over at the boxing room first since Ryohei is most likely to be there. It was empty. So therefore he must be on the roof.

Arriving at the roof, he opened the door and was greeted with empty spaces. "Seem like Ryohei is not here either, how strange," he thought. Well, since he's already here, might as well enjoy the breeze.

Since it is still early spring, the sunlight is not too hot as to cause harm to the body if stayed under for too long. Looking over to the side, the supposedly broken fence was miraculously fixed. "It must be the work of the Disciplinary Committee," he concluded. As he were enjoying the breeze, the door swung open and Ryohei came rushing out with Hibari hot on his heels.

"Extreme work out!" Ryohei shouted. Akihiko had on this bewildered expression as he saw them. Ryohei stopped in the middle and turned around to look at Hibari. "Hibari, I challenge you to the extreme!"

Akihiko thought he saw a vein popped on Hibari's head. Usually when this happened, the roof is devoid of people. But today, there seemed to be three more new additions. Tsuna, Gokudera and Yamamoto stepped onto the roof.

"Oi, Baseball-freak, what's so funny?" Gokudera growled.

"Haha, nothing," Yamamoto laughed.

Their conversation reached Akihiko ears. Sighing, if Akihiko doesn't do something soon, they'll be bitten for "crowding". "Sorry, Ryohei," Akihiko muttered tiredly and walked over to the underclassmen, ushering them back downstairs. Meanwhile, behind them, Ryohei was fighting passionately with Hibari. If Kyoko heard this she would totally be so upset at Ryohei.

"Oi, fan-freak, what are you doing!" Gokudera barked as being push gently downs the stairs.

"What was that?" Yamamoto asked as they walked downstairs to class 1-A.

"Bonding." Akihiko answered completely ignored Gokudera's outburst and continued to push him, despite his protest.

"B-but they were hurting each other," Tsuna stuttered. A hidden door suddenly opened to reveal Reborn and his favorite espresso. Reborn said, "Dame-Tsuna, sparring is a great way of bonding,"

Akihiko nodded in agreement. He looked at Reborn questionably. Reborn spared him a glance and said, "It's my secret network," referring to his hidden trap doors and tunnels. Akihiko nodded and they soon reached room 1-A. Reborn had already left the trio by now claiming to have some personal matters to attend to.

At the doorway to class 1-A, they met Kyoko and Hana.

"Ara, Akihiko-senpai, what are you doing here?" Kyoko remarked completely ignoring the bickering between Hana and Gokudera and Yamamoto who's trying to break them apart. "What's that, Monkey?" "Shut up you hag!" "Maa, maa, calm down,"

At that moment Tsuna has a single thought ran through his head, "She called him by his first name!"

"Lunch with Sawada-san" Akihiko answered.

Muttering up his courage, Tsuna asked timidly, "Ano, how did you know each other?"

Kyoko answered brightly, "Oh, he's onii-san's best friend! He's like my second brother. Because you know, onii-san is always running around looking for fights. Akihiko-senpai, please take good care of onii-san."

Akihiko nodded and smiled lightly.

Tsuna mentally breathed a sigh of relief. "Kyoko-chan, would you like to join us for lunch?" He shyly asked.

Kyoko smiled brightly and shook her head, "Sorry, I promised Hana I would spend some time with her today during lunch. You know, girl talk." Hana and her walked over to a table near the window and stationed themselves there, chattering happily.

As Akihiko entered the room, people looked at Akihiko strangely, wondering why a second year would visit the first year classroom. Akihiko ignored them and joined Tsuna, Gokudera and Yamamoto for lunch. They had a decent conversation about random things ranging from the weather to clubs. Well, ignoring the constant shouting about "Juudaime" and "Baseball-freak" and "Ahahaha", it was a decent conversation. Akihiko just sat there and listened tentatively to their bickering. He smiled lightly, enjoying the relaxing atmosphere.

Then suddenly, the atmosphere shifted as Tsuna thought he heard people gossiping around him. Some saying stuff like, "I'm so jealous. Why must Yamamoto-kun sit with Dame-Tsuna?" or something like, "Kya, I hate Dame-Tsuna, why must he hog Mizumoto-senpai too?" "Not only does he get both the school idols, he also hogged the new student too! Gah, I'm so jealous!" "I bet he blackmailed them somehow." "Yeah that totally true, this is Dame-Tsuna, after all."

Fidgeting in his seat, Tsuna ducked his head. Yamamoto noticed the gossips and looked just as upset, a dark look settled on his face. "That wasn't very nice."

"What was that? I dare you to say that again!" Gokudera barked. He was about to say something else when Akihiko's voice cut through the room, effectively silencing everyone. "Have you no manner? If you wish to gossip about someone, do it when you are not in their presences. Such a nuisance to society."

Several of them were speechless and a few of them had a look of indignant. One of them spoke up. "W-what is it to you? It's none of your business!"

Still fuming with silent anger, Akihiko glared at her. But it was Yamamoto who spoke next, "Friends cared for each other! That wasn't very nice when you spoke so harshly of him." He had on a very cold expression. Gokudera had already stood up and is now extremely close to her. He had on this dark menacing look and the girl cannot help but back away slowly.

After gaining some distant, the school girl looked enraged and pointed at them, "What, so you are claiming to be his friends? Don't joke, I bet he blackmailed you into doing it! You are just a loser like him!"

Kyoko decided to step in. "Sasaki-san, that wasn't very nice!"

Akihiko spoke up, "When you point at someone, which direction are your other fingers pointing at?" He gave the girl a glance while Yamamoto eyed her coldly and Gokudera advanced further.

"W-what?" she stuttered, caught off guard by the sudden question.

It was Kurokawa Hana who explained it, "It means that when you accused someone, you should look at yourself first since three of your fingers are pointing at yourself."

"S-so you are saying I'm a loser?" She yelled. "W-why you!"

"So what if you are a loser, hag, I'll destroy you!" Gokudera growled and got ready to take out his dynamites.

It would have continued to escalate into a full blown fight had not for a sudden slamming of table that caught everyone's attention. The person who did it was none other than Tsuna.

"Enough! Gokudera-kun, Yamamoto-kun, Mizumoto-senpai, let's eat our lunch in peace." He said slowly.

"What, you're scared?" The girl taunted.

"No, it's not because I'm scared, it's because I refused to acknowledge your presence! What you've said was clearly out of line. I felt there was no need to hold conversation with you any longer." Tsuna glared harshly at the girl and caused her to flinch. Akihiko swore he saw something akin to orange flame flickered through Tsuna's eyes. Everyone was quite after that. Gokudera had on this expression of pure admiration. He said, "Juudaime is so cool."

Even Yamamoto was amazed at Tsuna. He muttered, "Wow, Tsuna." Breathless.

Then suddenly someone shouted from the hallway, "Everyone! Hibari's coming, act normal!" Hibari must have heard words about the commotion.

True enough, Hibari stepped in and everyone tried to act normal. "Who was it that disturbed the peace?" He looked over the room. No one dare meet his gaze. Gokudera would, but he was being held down by Yamamoto and Tsuna. He growled and fixed his tonfa.

It was that girl who answered him, "W-wait Hibari-senpai! It was Mizumoto-senpai who started it!" She smirked in triumph, thinking she had Akihiko.

Akihiko merely quirked an eyebrow and looked at Hibari as if saying, "You are too smart to fall for that."

Hibari's glared intensify and instead of attacking Akihiko, he swung his tonfa at the girl. "For lying to me, I'll bite you to death."

During the whole "biting", Akihiko gestured to Yamamoto, Gokudera and Tsuna to continue their lunch. They nervously, except Gokudera who was still bathing in the afterglow of Tsuna's coolness, ate and kept a close eye on Hibari, in case he chose to bite them too. Other than the occasional flying tonfa that would magically hit Akihiko in the head, they received no casualty. He felt that Hibari was doing it on purpose, just to warn him not to do anything stupid that would result in getting bitten. From that day on, class 1-A received brand new tables and chairs and that female student were never seen again. Akihiko thought she was expelled for harassing someone.

Up on the roof, Reborn nodded silently. "You passed" He smirked. Earlier that day, he had purposely set it up so that Tsuna and friends would go up to the roof around the same time Hibari is biting Ryohei while Akihiko is there. He planned it so that Akihiko would have to help the trios to avoid Hibari and have lunch in class 1-A. Then he notified Hibari about the commotion discreetly just to see how Hibari would react. Another reason was that Hibari would resolve the situation without causing it to be too messy. And the rest was history.

The moment Akihiko defended Tsuna without physically hurting the girl, Reborn has deemed him passed. If he could wield word like a weapon, then it wouldn't take a long time to train him to be good in diplomacy. He smirked, satisfied with the outcome. He was also satisfied that Tsuna is showing some back bone, which translated to, he now can use much more sadistic method to train his student. His smirk widened.

As he walked off the school ground, he was seen answering to a call.

It seemed like the Poison Scorpion would be visiting him pretty soon. How interesting.


To be continued…