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Chapter 4

Puppy Love

Vongola Operation 001: Introduce Fuuta to Shikata Ayame.

("Wait. Since when we have operation numbers?!" "Since now.")

"That's the girl?" Tsuna said.

Shikata Ayame is a girl with shoulder-length black hair, with dark brown eyes. Right now, she was walking with her friend, presumably on a way to a convenient store two blocks ahead.

"Emm." Fuuta's face is already red.

Right now Tsuna, Fuuta and Hibari watched the girl behind an electric pole. Well, more correctly, Tsuna and Fuuta watched Ayame behind the pole, while Hibari coolly lay against a wall with his arms crossed. Reborn? Like usual, disappear right after making the deal with Hibari.

"So now, what do we do?" Tsuna asked Hibari.

"Go and talk to her." Hibari replied with a half-hearted tone. Why did he agree to this again? Oh right, he got the chance to bite the pineapple head to death.

"Eh?! But what do I say?" Fuuta said in a panic. "I've been watching her all this time?"

"That likes saying you are a stalker." Hibari said.

"Then I want to become friends with her?"

"You're a stranger, if you suddenly said that she will think you are weird."

Hibari-san really knows all these things, Tsuna thought. He can't resist the urge to ask Hibari. "Hibari-san, how do you know the right thing to say?"

Hibari smirked. "Hn, if I want to bite someone to death, at least I want him to cower in fear from my words."

Reborn was right.

When Tsuna was thinking of how does he get this purely sadistic person as his cloud guardian (and also his mist guardian), Fuuta grabbed the end of his sleeves. "Tsuna-nii, hurry! We are going to lose Ayame-chan!"

"A-ah! Right!" Tsuna turned back to Hibari. "So what should Fuuta say?"

"If he just go to her alone, it's highly probable that she will just run away. Kids are told not to talk to strangers (Gee, maybe he experienced it, Tsuna thought) and the kid doesn't go to the same school as the girl, so there's no reason for the kid to know her."

"Then what we should do?"

Hibari glanced at Tsuna. "You have female friends. Use them."

Tsuna blinked. "Huh?"

Hibari was annoyed by this. Can't the herbivore think out for himself? "Ask your female friend to come and chatted with the girl with the kid by her side. The girl will feel more comfortable to talk to with an older girl than the kid. Then your friend can introduce the kid as a friend's brother, or whatever."

"Wow! That's a great idea, Hibari-san! You really know how to talk!" Tsuna praised Hibari but regret it immediately when the prefect send murderous intent from his glare to the Vongola Decimo.

To avoid the worse situation, Tsuna nervously take out his cellphone and immediately dialled some numbers.

Sasagawa Kyoko: "Hello, Tsuna-kun? Oh, you want my help on something? Sorry, right now I'm helping Onii-chan on his training ("EXTREME TRAINING!" Tsuna could heard Ryohei's scream in the background followed by the sound of something being punched) so I can't come. Why don't you ask Haru?"

Miura Haru: "Hello? Tsuna-kun! Why do you call me on a Sunday? Do you want to ask Haru out on a date??! (Tsuna quickly said no and told about Fuuta's problem) Oh, really? Hahi, I'm sorry Tsuna-kun! Right now I got to study, this week I got a test coming up. Haru is really sorry!"

Kurokawa Hana: "Oh, why do you call Sawada-san? You want me to help a kid? You know I hate kids." And hang up after that.

Bianchi: "I'm sorry, but the number you called is out of reach…" She turned off her phone, Tsuna thought.

Tsuna looked back at Fuuta and Hibari, his hand still held his phone. "I can't get a hold to any of them.

"Then what we should do?" Fuuta asked.

Coincidentally, like they always do, Lambo and I-pin appeared. I-pin was chasing Lambo who was running along the top of the wall.

"Lambo! Give back I-pin's candy!" Why do Lambo always steals I-pin's things? Maybe it's the start of a beautiful romantic relationship.

"Muahahahah! It's all Lambo's! Gyahahaha!"

Lambo, who was running with his eyes closed, smacked right to the electric pole where Fuuta and Tsuna hide. He fell to the ground.

"Got…to…hold…in…"

"Lambo! That's what you get from stealing I-pin's candy!" I-pin jumped down from the wall and stood beside Lambo. That's when she noticed Hibari was there.

Pinzu Time Bomb activated.

"Hieee!!!" Tsuna was on his way grabbing I-pin to throw her, however,

"Uahhh!!" Lambo already shoot the 10 year old bazooka at himself and also I-pin.

After the pink smoke cleared, in the children's place, sat the older Lambo and I-pin.

"Hmm? Where am I? I was on my way on delivering ramen to Uncle Kawahiro." The Chinese girl looked around her.

The older Lambo stood up, brushing some dust from his pants. "Young Vongola, sorry to bother you again."

"That's alright." That's when it occurred to Tsuna. "Older I-pin, will you help us?"

"Hmm, with what Sawada-san?" Older I-pin tilted her head innocently.

"Looks like all going well for now," Tsuna said.

The older I-pin is now walking with Fuuta to Ayame. Right now Ayame and her friend is already in front of the convenience store.

"Oh, hello there."

Ayame and her friend looked up to see a Chinese girl with two long-braided hair.

"Will you tell me where is this address is? You see, this boy," she gestured at a boy beside him, "is new to the town, and now lost his way. And I don't know much the area around here."

Ayame looked at the address that written in a piece of paper. "It's near my house." Ayame looked at Fuuta, making the boy felt uncomfortable a little. "Hey, I've seen you before! Don't you live in the Sawada residence?"

That statement made Fuuta's heart soar like the birds flying to the sky. She noticed him! She knew him! He wasn't invisible, like that Clay Aiken song! (sorry, it's in my mp3, can't help relating it.)

"But don't you already live there for a year?" Uh-oh.

"Umm,emm, yeah, but I usually only follow Mama and Tsuna-nii to walk around town, so yeah, I still don't memorize the roads here." Fuuta was stuttering a little but he managed to give a full sentence.

Good one, Fuuta! Tsuna thought. Fuuta put a listening device on the collar of his shirt so that Tsuna will be able to hear their conversation, courtesy of Hibari. Tsuna was smart enough not to ask Hibari what he uses this for.

"Really?" Ayame smiled sweetly at him. "Then how about we walk home together after I finished buying some groceries? Our houses are nearby, after all."

That really is the happiest moment in Fuuta's life. Not only he managed to strike a conversation with the girl he had a crush on, he was going to walk home with her!

Older I-pin took this opportunity to leave. "Then, I'll leave him to you!" She ran around a corner and as the 5 minutes are up, there's another boom and hey presto, our cute I-pin is back!

Sorry Woopa, Tsuna did not get beaten up in this chapter. And thanks for reviewing each chapter!