Undeniable Infatuation
A/N: Yes I know, massive fail. I'll get on with it anyway :D
The sadistic prefect reigned hate on the herbivore for aggravating him; his heart thumped and cheeks burnt whenever he saw the cheerful facade. But life isn't fair; it's cruel. Especially when you finally realise you how much pain you brought to the person you would die for.
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WARNING: 1827 Yaoi (boys' love) and herbivore bashing. Slight cussing. Rated M just in case; follows the actual story somewhat. Possible lemon.
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"Thinking"
"Normal"
'Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.' - Buddha.
Recap:
"I feel like I'm forgetting something important..." he thought for a whole minute or two, before he was disturbed by his two brothers who jumped onto his bed and gave him a bear hug.
"Oh well, I'm sure it's nothing bad!" he pushed the thought aside and tickled the two monkeys on his lap.
Nana stood at the door, holding a tray with cookies and milk, smiling at the sight of her three sons playing with each other. She let out a short laugh to interrupt them and set the tray down before leaving them and returning to her housework.
"It all seems too peaceful though..." the brunet couldn't help but think that way. Ever since he woke up in the hospital, he couldn't remember what happened on the day he was wounded.
End of Recap
Chapter three: Something, but nothing.
"Good Morning Tenth! Are you feeling okay?" Gokudera asked, rushing over to the brunet who stood at the doorway.
"Tsuna!" Yamamoto rushed over as well, grinning like usual, "Glad to see your at school now!"
"Tsuna-kun!" Kyoko and Hana walked over, waving.
Tsuna beamed happily at his caring friends, assuring them that he was perfectly fine now. After reluctantly agreeing to split the job, Gokudera and Hana copied their notes and handed it to Tsuna, who missed many days of school. Tsuna thanked them and skimmed through them just as the bell rang for the start of homeroom.
During the lesson, Tsuna looked around the room and saw his friends' usual personalities. Takeshi was sleeping secretly, Gokudera was sleeping openly, Hana and Kyoko were paying attention, and he was half-listening to the teachers' droning whilst thinking about other matters, one of which, was about the thing he seemed to be forgetting about. Suddenly, the lesson was interrupted by the sound of the door slamming open and the teachers' droning coming to a halt.
"Where is Sawada Tsunayoshi?" it was none other than the sadistic prefect, who had an unreadable expression written on his face.
All of a sudden, Gokudera and Yamamoto woke up from their sleep and screeched their chairs back as they stood up with their hands on the table; eyes glaring at Hibari. Mostly Gokudera though. Ever since the day they found Tsuna injured all over along with three delinquents beaten up quite similarly to him, and all the other pieces of the puzzle, they had a quite vague idea of who did it, no, they had no doubt about it.
"Bastard..." Gokudera hissed, "I let my guard down because I actually thought of considering you as one of us, but then you go behind our backs and -" he stopped his rather accusing greeting, when Yamamoto had come over to his desk and put a hand on his shoulder, making him realise the classroom in the middle of a lesson wasn't exactly the right place to vent out his accusations and anger.
"Calm down Gokudera, we can sort this out later, somewhere else" the baseball-lover whispered, looking disappointed at the raven-haired teen who did not move from his spot in the doorway.
"Where is Sawada Tsunayoshi?" he repeated, trying to keep his cool and refrain from biting the silver-haired boy to death.
"Are you going to try something again, you bastard?" Gokudera shouted furiously, unable to contain his anger towards the prefect who dared to injure his beloved 'tenth' and best friend.
"Let me talk to the herbivore or I'll bite you to death." Hibari threatened, sending a glare back. He scanned the room and spotted a spiky-brown haired boy who looked rather confused like the rest of his classmates.
"Sawada Tsunayoshi, come with me." the prefect demanded, stepping forward. Gokudera stepped forward with his glare burning into him more and more, whilst Tsuna stood up from his desk and stuttered back a useless reply.
"I-Is t-there something I did wrong, H-Hi-Hibari-san...?" the brunet asked, quite scared of the prefect.
"Tsuna, don't worry about it. We're here." Yamamoto reassured, but Tsuna honestly didn't know what he was talking about.
"Tenth, I shall humbly blow up that bastard for you!" Gokudera said proudly and angrily, pulling out a handful of dynamites from literally, nowhere. The boy had experimented and 'played' with dynamites ever since he was small.
"N-no, d-don't do that!" Tsuna pleaded, still incredibly puzzled.
Before anyone else could react or reply to that or anything else, in fact, the prefect who grew impatient, strode over to the brunet's desk and roughly yanked him past his two friends and dragged him out of the classroom, gripping his wrist as tightly as possible so he wouldn't escape from his grasp. Before he exited, he whispered an apology to the teacher, who was also incredibly confused and scared.
"Excuse us. Please resume your lesson." it also came with a free glare.
"THAT BASTARD!" Gokudera fumed, shouting out curses as he ran out of the classroom hot on Hibari's trail. Yamamoto laughed and apologised, excusing themselves from the lesson, "Wait up, Gokudera!"
あの、手がいたいです。;~;
"U-um, H-Hibari-san...I c-can walk by m-myself..." Tsuna stuttered, tears forming in the corner's of his eye as he felt his right hand and wrist throb painfully. The prefect's grip on his wrist was too tight, and it hurt.
"..." he continued to ignore the silent whimpers and questions the herbivore asked. All he wanted was to get to a place where no-one could disturb them. Not like anyone was going to dare disturb them if they were in a crowded place anyway.
"W-Where are we g-going?" the brunet tried to ask for the second time, trying not to agitate the prefect.
"..." still no reply.
"TENTH, PLEASE ANSWER ME!"
"TSUNA, WHERE ARE YOU?"
They could hear Gokudera and Yamamoto's desperate calls from somewhere behind them, making the 'carnivore' walk faster and drag it's half-obedient prey faster, since his legs were much too short to walk any faster.
"Hi-Hibari-san!" Tsuna almost shouted, finally ripping away his wrist from the prefects' clutch.
Hibari turned his head ninety degrees to the right and shot back a glare, which clearly stated, 'Shut-the-hell-up-and-follow-me'. Whimpering silently one last time, Tsuna reluctantly followed after the seemingly furious teen.
Seconds later, the brunet found himself on the the rooftop, staring at the prefect who was locking the door. Yep, he was definitely screwed.
"Hibari-san?" Tsuna asked nervously, fidgeting with his fingers as he saw the raven-haired teen walk up to him dangerously. However, when he saw his expression and form of walking, his head started throbbing crazily, making him fall to his knees and clutch his head in pain. It was all too strange.
"M-my head...i-it feels like it's...s-splitting in t-two!" the brunet shouted inwardly, squeezing his eyes shut to stop unnecessary tears from falling, "I-It feels like my b-body is trying to...re-remember something i-important..."
"Look up, herbivore." Tsuna flinched at the demand of the cold voice and looked up with his hands still clutching his head and beads of tears in the corner of his eyes, "Y-yes, Hibari-san?"
Hibari honestly wanted to pet the top of the brunet's fluffy brown head, when he saw the cuteness overflowing from the boy, but he knew better. He refrained himself from doing anything out of character and kept his cold, poker facade, which was obviously scaring the , he expected a more scared reaction, after what he did to the herbivore some time ago.
Suddenly, Hibari realised he didn't know what he was going to say. All he wanted, was to see the brunet. After days and days of mental and psychical thinking, he finally managed to figure out why he was so aggravated, but he wanted to make sure. He wanted to make sure the brunet wasn't completely oblivious to his realisation.
So, Instead of speaking, he bent down face to face to the boy and stared at his clothed torso for a moment or two, before lifting it up all of a sudden.
Tsuna squeaked, "H-Hi-Hibari-san, w-what a-a-are y-you doing?" he couldn't control his natural stuttering.
Hibari just frowned inwardly. He wanted to punish himself for doing such a thing to the cute, harmless little bunny. Ignoring the brunet's reaction, he scanned the boys' torso and frowned yet again.
Near the ribcage, there was a small stitch and various scars everywhere, as well as one or two light bruises which seemed like they were going to fade away any moment. Unknowingly, his hearts' beat rapidly increased and he suddenly felt a rush of guilt and sadness overflow throughout him. Why, no, how could he be so stupid and do such a thing?
It was all going to be cleared now.
"H-Hibari-san?" Tsuna squeaked again, watching the prefect nonchalantly lift his shirt back down and stand up, towering over the frightened little bunny-rabbit.
Before a protest could be worded out, Tsuna's eyes widened as big as plates when he felt surprisingly warm lips crash against his roughly. It was strange, the prefect who he just saw as a sadistic teen who beat up 'herbivores' as his past time, was kissing him? The most pathetic excuse of a guy, anyone could ever know? If possible, his eyes widened even further when he felt something wet, but warm slide into his mouth. Almost immediately, he pushed away with all the force he had, which wasn't very much.
"W-what are y-you doing, Hibari-san?" Tsuna asked, clearly frustrated, "I-I..You just kissed me! H-how could you? I-I mean, w-we're both guys, and...and, I d-don't know w-what's gotten into y-you, b-but..." he trailed off, unsure and confused about what to say. He couldn't stop his tears from falling.
Hibari watched in confusion and amusement, but decided to reply back, very much flatly.
"I've fallen for you, herbivore." the prefect said, looking un-embarrassed and not guilty of his sudden confession.
Tsuna's eyes widened in shock, his heart skipped a beat and he felt the blood rushing up to his cheeks, but he couldn't understand why. Not at all.
The cat got his tongue, "W-wh-what...?" he said, barely a whisper. Heck, even the howling wind was louder than his voice. He couldn't stand it anymore. The awkwardness and confusion was a bit too overwhelming for him.
"W-why...I-I d-don't remember..." he desperately searched for his words amongst his anguished tears, that didn't falter against his heated cheeks, "I don't remember affiliating with you in any other way other than greetings! So why?" he couldn't understand his own outburst.
If one were to pay close attention, Hibari's eyes widened slightly.
"..."
"I-I...sorry!" Tsuna buried his face in his hands, sobbing. He honestly wanted to smash the door open and run away, but he knew that was impossible. Hibari was holding the keys.
Hibari on the other hand, was also very much confused. Before his mind clouded with confusing thoughts, which was surely to aggravate him again, he glared down daggers at the boy and strode to the door nonchalantly, slamming the door behind in the process which ruined his 'cool'.
Tsuna was left alone on the rooftop, sobbing and stuttering his thoughts. It was really a bad day for him. Hopefully his friends would be able to find out where he was, because he had no intention of returning to class or seeing anyone at the moment.
"Tsuna, are you sure you're okay? You seem a bit dazed." Yamamoto asked for fifth time that afternoon whilst walking back home.
"Tenth, If anyone is harming you in any way, I'll gladly blow them up for you!" Gokudera suggested, smiling evilly as he took out a pair of bombs.
"Haha, you still carry those fireworks around with you?" Yamamoto asked, laughing like usual. No wait, oblivious as usual.
"Shut up baseball freak! These are dynamites, not fireworks!" An thus, their one-sided argument, or bickering, started.
Tsuna manged to break a small smile onto his face, but his mind was still in scrambles. He wished he could cancel the after-school study session he had with his two best friends, but he knew better than to worry them with his dazed attitude.
つなのへや
"You use this equation, so then the answer will be the total of x times y. Then you divide the answer using the square root..."
Gokudera's explanations were never easy to understand, but the addition of having to many things to think about wasn't making it any easier.
"Ah, I get it now!" Yamamoto grinned, finishing off his maths homework. Gokudera chose to ignore him and continue explaining the question to Tsuna.
"Tsuna, just times that and that, then write the root thingy!" Yamamoto laughed, pointing at the brunet's sheet.
"Ah...I get it now." Tsuna smiled half-heartedly, understanding it somewhat.
The rest of the afternoon continued like that, laughing and studying. Tsuna's mind wasn't completely down to earth with the other two, but he managed to avoid questions from the two. When it was almost five-thirty at night, the two left whilst bickering again.
That night, Tsuna managed to act like himself to stop his mother and little brothers from annoying him with questions, but he knew his thoughts would all flow back to him the moment he hit the sack. Which in fact, was very true.
"I've fallen for you, herbivore."
Tsuna laid flat on his stomach with his face buried into the pillow.
"Why...I've known Hibari-san for quite a while...b-but that doesn't mean he could fall in love with me like that!" Tsuna was arguing with himself whether he should go confront the prefect about it. Though, the side of him that told him not to go was winning. There were too many risks. He still wanted to live.
"Maybe...Just maybe I'm forgetting something important. Something that has got to do with Hibari-san, m-maybe...?" Blink. "What is it...I just can't seem to remember. The usual greetings, one-sided talking...that day behind the-" Blink.
"Oh god...Oh my god."
It finally hit him like a speeding truck.
Without hesitation, he shot up from his bed and changed his clothes with great speed. He didn't care what time it was, he didn't care where he was going. No wait, he did care about that.
Tsuna needed to see the prefect immediately. Though, he didn't know his address. The brunet stopped and thought for a second, but a voice in the back of his head was telling him to go to the school.
His so-called 'intuition' was always right, although he hated it when he was right. It was clearly bad news. And it was all clear to him now.
He finally understood everything.
Oh god, how could he be so stupid and forget something that important?
Quietly, he exited through his front door and made a dash towards his destination: The school, where hopefully a certain prefect would be. Hopefully, just hopefully, he could clear this misunderstanding.
"Hibari-san..." Tsuna thought, bringing his right hand to his lips. He remembered earlier that day when the prefect suddenly kissed him. Though he was confused and hating it at the time, he desperately wanted them this very moment. "Please be there!"
He skidded to a halt and caught his breath for a few seconds, before bravely walking into the shadows of the dark school.
Suddenly, without the need to search for his 'target', Tsuna inwardly thanked his intuition and bravely turned around to face the prefect whose' glare seemed ridiculously fierce due to the moons' illumination.
"Why are you here after school hours? I'll bite you to death." he growled, as he pulled out a pair of sliver tonfa's.
To be continued.
Next Chapter: Shadows and Misunderstandings
A/N: BLAME MY COMPUTER FOR BEING A STUPID PIECE OF JUNK (IGNORE MISTAKES!) The file got saved the wrong way and a few words will probably be gone. It was either the chapter was short or you guys wait another few weeks. Sorry! Please understand that all of this is currently an extended prologue which will end in the next chapter. Then in the chapter after that, the story will take a turn and somewhat different. Then hopefully I'll be able to finish it off without any problems with the storyline (which I don't really have planned). Thanks for reading, and do leave a review if you have a few words to spare. Anything will do! Ciaossu
