[Learning About You]
"What do you think about this, Reborn?" Tsuna asked while he sliced the vanilla cake he just baked a while ago. Hearing Tsuna's question, Reborn walked from his spot near the stove and leaves the mushroom soup for a while in favour of Tsuna.
The brunet turned around and lift up the sliced cake to Reborn's mouth, his eyes looked emotionless like usual but if someone squinted hard enough, they would found a little bit of expectant in that honey coloured eyes.
Leaning forward, Reborn take a hold of Tsuna's hand to make it steadier then take a bite from the cake.
Titling his head in question, Tsuna asked, "How is it?"
Taking he time to savour the sweet vanilla taste in the cake, he commented, "Not too bad I guess. The cream could be improved."
"Ah, it's alright." Tsuna's expression fell a little, he is a little disappointed in making this cake because how the ingredients to make it perfectly isn't enough. He tried to cover it as much as he can but just like Reborn just said, the cream can be improved.
Seeing the gloomy aura surrounding the android, Reborn let out a sigh. His hand found itself on top of Tsuna's head before ruffling it. The brunet let out a small, 'oof!'
It seems like it had been a habit for Reborn to ruffle Tsuna's hair whenever he felt like it. Reborn wonder how did Giotto had made Tsuna's hair to be that soft and still defy the gravity.
"You did good enough, dame-Tsuna."
Tsuna blushes
"Oi, get a room you love bird!" Lal, Colonello 's girlfriend, well, secret girlfriend since they haven't officially announce to the other that they are dating, admonished the two. She even sends her ladle flying towards both of them.
Swiftly, Reborn grabbed Tsuna and dodged the incoming ladle. The ladle hit the unexpected Basil.
"Hiee! Lal-san, that's dangerous!" Tsuna un-charasticaly shouted.
"Well, stop with your flirting, and then there wouldn't be any ladle coming for you." Lal said as she re-tied her Prussian blue apron around her. She gave an annoyed glare at Reborn where he just reply it with his infamous smirk.
"Don't be jealous, Lal, I'm here, kora!" Across the pantry classroom, Colonello shouted with Skull snickering besides him.
"YOU SHUT UP!" Lal immediately grab two butter knifes and send it flying towards Colonello and Skull. The blond ducked down to dodge. The poor Skull stood frozen on his feet as the butter knife embedded itself on the notice board behind him, grazing his left cheek a little.
"Yuni, could you please advise your dear friends to behave themselves? You're the class monitor and our Economy class teacher had long given up in lecturing them." One of the girl in the classroom asked Yuni.
They glanced at the sulking cooking teacher that had curled up into a ball at the corner mumble, 'They're scary-ssu!' ' I'm a teacher-ssu!' ' Everyone is so mean to me!' 'I want Aomine-cchi!'
"U-uh.. Kise-sensei…" Their other classmates tried to comfort the sulking teacher.
"We want to concentrate in our cake and we want the best for it." Another one added up.
"Haha, let it be, they will come down, like, right now." Yuni answered with a bright smile. Those that are referred as 'they' feel shiver run down their spines and all of them looked at the smiling class monitor.
Even Tsuna feels like he was guilty because of that.
They hurried back to their own devices.
Reborn cleared his throat, "Right Tsuna, make sure to bake more since Giotto-nii like sweet." Seeing the strawberry in one of the many ingredients on Tsuna's table, he added, "Especially strawberry cake."
Tsuna's eyes light up at that. Yeah, he liked to bake for Gio-nii since both of them liked sweet so much!
Tsuna smiled, "Alright, I'll do that after I finish the last touch for this vanilla cake. Thank you, Reborn."
"Mm." Reborn walked back to his stove.
Looking at the leaving back of Reborn's, Tsuna can't help but thought, 'Black apron sure suit Reborn well.' It's also added up that only in P.E and Economy class that Reborn would willingly detached himself with his favourite fedora. Without that fedora, he can see Reborn's healthy black hair, not to mention soft too.
Tsuna like to touch that hair. He would caress that hair when Reborn would lay his head on his laps while both of them are reading books. That sofa near the window in the library at the mansion seems to be their favourite spot now.
The brunet let out a small smile while remembering all the time he had spent with Reborn. At that, Tsuna felt like gentle warm had spread across his body, making him feel so warm.
'What… Is this feeling?'
A hand tugged at his soft orange apron, turning, Tsuna's eyes meet with Yuni.
"Tsunayoshi-kun…-"
-X-
There was silence.
Giotto never like silence that much but this silent felt very comforting. His head was being supported by something soft and a hand caressed his head over and over. The hand that was running through his hair felt sooth and he want it to never stop but it did.
'Was it time to wake up, now?' The blond mentally questioned himself.
He remembers the accident just before he passes out. The dread that he was feeling to know that his secret had been out didn't help his motivation to wake up.
'Giotto'
He knows that voice. There's only one person have that cold-almost indifferent-tone. He can't escape forever can't he?
He reluctantly opened his eyes though he squinted a little at the evening sunray that passed from the window. Recognising the room as his own bedroom, he let out a sigh of relief when he isn't admitted to the hospital.
Turning his head to the figure that sat at the edge of the bed, he let out an apologising smile.
He was greeted with a blank platinum blond man's face.
'Uh-oh, he was beyond angry. He's furious!'
"Alau-"Giotto tried to speak but Alaude beat it to him with a calm voice, "You're sick." It's a fact that can't be questioned.
Giotto winced. He guiltily looked away from Alaude and mumbles a small, 'I know.'
Looking at the blond, Alaude couldn't really describe how paralyzed and blank his body and mind is when he found Giotto fainted in the kitchen with blood trailing down his mouth. That gave a scare in his life to found the ever so active and bubbly blond laying so still and pale.
"Reason" Alaude spoke. Giotto trailed his gaze towards the platinum blond in question.
Seeing the blond didn't fully grasp the whole meaning in his one sentence, Alaude elaborate more, "There must be a reason for you to keep this secret all by yourself."
The blond blinked, slowly registering the question in his so called genius brain. A few seconds passed before Giotto's eyes dulled and his small smile disappear from his face.
"I…"
Letting out a shaky breath, Giotto's grab on the blanket tightened. "I-I don't want to give Reborn another nightmare." Alaude eyes narrowed at that.
Yes, Alaude know about Reborn's nightmare… or specifically, Reborn's hate.
Unknown too many, Reborn hate doctor. His hate for doctor had started when their family had involved in a car accident and both of their parents had the worse injuries. Giotto who was fifteen at that time had cared for the eleven years old Reborn with bandaging the smaller cuts his little brother had got (because at that time, Reborn was the clingy I-trust-my-brother-Giotto-only) when the worst happened.
They both had minimal injuries so they are allowed to wait at the operating room when they both had insisted that and didn't want to be bedridden.
They had waited and waited. Praying for their beloved parents, their otou-san and kaa-san would not be taken away from them just yet.
It seemed like they prayer had been heard by deaf ears.
Two doctors, the one who was on charge in saving their parents' lives walked out of the operating room, looking indifferent. Just when Giotto want to stand up to ask the doctors about their parent, a nurse also coming out, looking so desperate and yet at the same time, want to explode at the two doctors.
"Doctors, you can't GIVE UP on them!" The nurse hissed in anger.
Shrugging carelessly, the first doctor speaks, "You saw their injuries, which is beyond saving. They will die anyway despite all of our effort so..." the doctor eyed his companion.
"Let them die peacefully, their time had come anyway. No need to make the death god wait any longer." The second doctor said in that cold emotionless voice.
The nurse, Giotto and Reborn could just stand frozen at the two doctors as they walked out of the hall.
Another nurse comes out, now with a sad face and a shaky voice, declared, "N-Nurse Kyoko, b-both of the patient's heart had ceased. T-They… die." The last part had become a whisper but Giotto hears it.
All of it
Loud and clear
Giotto fell on his knees at all that had just happened.
He quickly gathered the still shocked Reborn into his arms and cried. It take a few minutes for Reborn to snapped out of his shock but right after he did, he had desperately clung to Giotto and cried.
The eleven years old boy should still be an innocent but that whole accident had tainted it.
The two nurses, they had known them as Nurse Kyoko and Nurse Haru had comforted them and endlessly apologising to both of them. They had become their aunts' right after that.
Two days after their parent's funeral, their grandpa Talbot had lived with them and be their guardian while their Grandpa Timoteo is their godfather.
A week later, they got the news that the two doctors had died in a car accident. The cause of that accident was driving while drunk. Nurse Kyoko was the one that break the news to them.
That is why, Reborn didn't trust any doctor. Nurse he can tolerate but not doctor. His hate towards them is very concrete.
Giotto knows that his sickness is quite grave and he didn't know if he can be saved or not. What the blond feared actually is when Reborn knew of his sickness and had somehow trusted the hospital and the staff in it to save him… and if somehow... in that period of time, he can't fight death and die, he really feared what Reborn hate toward the doctor would become.
Would he blame the doctors?
Blame their parents?
Blame Giotto?
"You have an IQ of what now?" Alaude asked, looking quite exasperated for some reason.
"What?"
"You gave up right before you fight. Giotto, Reborn is seventeen years old now. He has matured long enough to know that life isn't that all beautiful but at the same time still enchanting." Alaude said. His cold gaze turned warmer and gentle when his eyes met Giotto's.
Alaude could read those dulled light orange eyes. The very sole reason his Giotto hide his sickness.
'His insecurities could be the death of him.'
Alaude gently cupped Giotto's face. A side not many have seen.
"Fight this sickness with all your might so that Reborn won't have a new nightmare. I thought you don't want him to hate doctors more."
At that, Giotto lean his head into the warm hands and let out his sad smile.
"That's the reason I made Tsuna you know. Tsuna would help him cope with my abse-"; the blond couldn't finish his sentence when Alaude suddenly crushed their lips together.
It wasn't a gentle kiss nor was it a harsh one. 'It felt like a desperate one… and sad?'
Though Giotto should concern the fact that ALAUDE is kissing him, the blond is more worried with the desperate and sad feeling he had felt in the kiss.
They parted away when the air has become a necessity.
Alaude hand held Giottos chin and made the flushed and still out of breath blond looked at him. His face serious
"Then who would be there for me to cope with your departure?" At that, Giotto was shocked. Taking that as a chance, Slowly, Alaude leaned forward to kiss Giotto's forehead.
Grandpa Talbot passed away three years ago while Grandpa Timoteo died two years ago. The Godparent had passed to his youngest son, Uncle Xanxus. Though he now live in Italy but he do come visit them once a while.
Giotto had thought that the one and only person that would be affected by his death would only be Reborn. His friends, well, he thought that as the time pass by, they would be back to normal to live their life.
He never thought that someone would love him since he is always copped inside the mansion to experiment or invent something. Everyone knows him sure but he isn't that social.
It seemed like the platinum blond in front of him proved it wrong.
"I love you, Sawada Ieyasu."
-X-
That evening, right after Tsuna and Reborn finish their last class, the android stopped on his track in changing his shoes when a notification popped in his vision.
Curious, Tsuna mumble a small, "Menu. Status."
Looking at his state, the brunet found that the 'Emotions' section was the one that got the notification. He opened it and another screen entered his vision. It's the same screen that would notice (congratulated) him every time he discovered a new emotion.
Tsuna was confused; he didn't think he had felt anything foreign today. Right now, Tsuna had discovered happy, fear, shocked and… anger? (Blame Skull for accidentally burned his lion Natsu keychain that Gio-nii had got for him in their science class in the lab three weeks ago. Verde was also pissed that half of the lab got burned too.)
Reading the notice, Tsuna blinked.
[Congratulations, Tsu-chan!]
New emotion got discovered!
[Love]
… What is love?
Too deep in his thought, Tsuna didn't see Reborn's hand near his face before the said hand flicked his forehead.
"Ouch, Reborn!" Closing his menu and adjusting his view to see Reborn unimpressed face.
"Stop daydream and let's go home." Reborn ordered. Tsuna flushed and hurried to change his shoes.
The taller teen had walked to the entrance and wait for Tsuna, umbrella in hand and open. Quickly, the android walked near Reborn. "Let's go, Reborn."
Just when Tsuna was about to walk forward, Reborn stopped him and hold Tsuna's close to him. So close that Tsuna swear he felt the other warms flesh.
"Stay close to me; you can't let the rain touch you, which would take time to repair you. That and Giotto will cry." Reborn said and he can't hide the worry in his voice for Tsuna's safety.
'Aa, Reborn is worry for me. I'm… happy. I wonder what that love emotion meant.' Tsuna thought as they both walked together in the rain with only one umbrella as their shelter.
Can't say Reborn didn't like their close proximity.
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-SKY-
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