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WARNING: This is a SLASH/MALExMALE/YAOI fan-fiction. If you do NOT like same-sex relationships, then this story is NOT for you. The reborn/self-inserted character may be a Gary Stue. This story is also FAST-PACED and involves the relationship between a sixteen and fourteen year old. If this offends you, you know where to find the back button.
BETA READER: None, so there will be some mistakes that I miss.
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Thank you suntan140, Sadow wolf fang, DarkDust27, fanfictionnatic, cookie-llama, Maester Ta, and drago123 for commenting! Here is chapter four. I hope everyone enjoys it!
Chapter Four:
"Punishment is not for revenge, but to lessen crime and reform the criminal."—Elizabeth Fry
Two months of being official and the spring semester is starting. It is also the day before, if I remember correctly, that Reborn arrives in Namimori under the guise of being a tutor for Tsuna. Well, he will be a tutor, just not in the sense Nana believes she is hiring the baby Acrobaleno for. Standing on the roof of Namimori, I watched through the chain link fence as Kusakabe and the other members of the Disciplinary Committee welcomed the returning students with hawk-like eyes to catch any uniforms breaking code. Over the last part of the winter semester, I have given Kusakabe more responsibilities to take care of and he seemed to be doing well with the added work. I think he is doing his best, because he wants me to believe that he is ready for the added work and that I can trust him. I do trust him, he is my (Kyoya's) Second-in-Command.
The light spring breeze fluttered my short ebony hair and my black coat that I had draped over my shoulders. Behind me, the door to the rooftop opened and Tsuna joined me by the fence. He was quiet for a moment, which caught my attention. Usually he would greet me in one form or another; lately it would be with saying my name and giving me a hug while he blushed. Now he stood beside me, his fingers looping through the fence while he stared down at the arriving students with a frown. Opening my mouth to say something, I closed it when Tsuna beat me to it.
"Mom is hiring a home tutor for me," Tsuna stated quietly, his fingers tightening on the fence ever so slightly.
"Hn, is that why you've failed to greet me this morning?" I ask bluntly, earning a pair of wide whiskey orbs looking up at me while Tsuna blushed.
"Ohayō, Kyoya-kun," Tsuna spoke softly, a smile blooming on his face as he wrapped his arms around my waist.
With the barest hints of a smile of my own, one that I only reserved for Tsuna, I hugged him back before dipping my head down to press my mouth to his.
"Ohayō, Tsunayoshi," I whispered against his lips.
The brunette parted his lips with a sigh, before I felt something wet brush hesitantly along my bottom lip. Surprised, I leaned away enough to see the furious blush dusting Tsuna's cheeks. Did he just … I crushed my mouth back to his, almost immediately our kiss deepened. We parted when the need to breath forced us to.
"When will your new tutor arrive?" I asked him, regardless of already knowing the answer.
Tsuna began frowning again.
"Tonight," Tsuna murmured.
This time I frowned. If I remember correctly, Reborn did not show up until tomorrow morning. Why would he be arriving a day earlier? Is it because I am close with Tsuna now than what would have actually have been if Kyoya had remained Kyoya and not me becoming him?
"Will you come over for dinner?" Tsuna asked me, his eyes growing big and his bottom lip beginning to quiver.
Over the time we have been dating and the month before, Tsuna had discovered a certain weakness of mine and the brunette chooses to exploit that weakness with every chance he gets. Cute animals, more so a baby bird, had started it and Tsuna took to the puppy-dog face like a moth to a flame. I covered the brunette's face with one of my hands while averting my gaze.
"I can't. I have a meeting with the student board and it will run late into the evening because a few of the members are difficult to decide on things," I told him as seriously as possible.
I could feel his bottom lip trembling against the palm of my hand. Smaller hands reached up and clasped my wrist, tugging my hand down. I made the mistake of glancing down at Tsuna and sighed heavily. Cupping his hip with my other hand, I nudged the brunette closer while at the same time pushing his back up against the fence.
"You fight dirty, Tsunayoshi," I huffed, not able to help my smirk.
Tsuna smiled up at me, his hands freeing my wrist to grab onto the front of my uniform.
"And you just like to fight," Tsuna stated.
"Ciaossu!"
Hearing that single word, I froze and could feel Tsuna tensing up as well. Whiskey eyes peered around my shoulder, widening when spotting whoever spoke. Glancing over my shoulder, I spotted the suit and fedora wearing baby standing on the uprise near the water tower. A familiar green chameleon was sitting on the brim of the fedora. Turning around, I made sure to keep Tsuna behind me as the baby jumped down from the uprise and began walking over to us.
"Non-students are forbidden to enter school grounds. Where are your parents, Infant?" I asked, my steel gaze narrowing down at the hitman.
Reborn smirked up at me, before his dark eyes landed on Tsuna. The brunette's fingers tightened on the back of my coat as something menacing flashed in Reborn's eyes. Tilting his hat down, a shadow was cast across half of the baby's face making him appear dangerous.
"Actually, my name is Rebon and I am Dame-Tsu—"
Welding my tonfas, I swung my weapon at the baby only to have it blocked by Reborn's night stick. My narrowed eyes met Reborn's and the baby smirked.
"So my information on you is correct. You are very protective of Da—," Reborn broke off as I applied more force to my tonfa while forcing the hitman to jump back to avoid my other tonfa. "Very protective of Sawada Tsunayoshi." The baby finished.
"Ky—Kyoya, wait. He's just a kid," Tsuna spoke up, grabbing hold of my left arm in an attempt to hold me back.
"No, he isn't," I stated, even if he did look like a baby and I knew exactly who he was, I could feel the strong and oppressive aura surrounding Reborn. "Carnivore."
As soon as the word left my mouth, Tsuna's grip on me went from holding me back to me being a source of strength in holding him up. Reborn's smirk fell and he gave me a serious look over. After a few moments of eyeing one another, he seemed to nod in acknowledgement.
"Hibari Kyoya, join Tsuna's family," Reborn said to me.
"Hiieee?"
Well, I haven't heard that sound in a while. I put my tonfas away and remained quiet.
"Tsuna, you have been chosen as a candidate in becoming the 10th Boss of the Vongola Mafia Famiglia. Your lover Hibari Kyoya has also been chosen to become Vongola's Cloud Guardian," Reborn spoke matter-of-factly.
-KHR-
After the early and unexpected meeting of Reborn, I had left the infant size hitman on the rooftop with Tsuna close beside me. The brunette was uneasy with the information Reborn had given us and I could feel the slightest of shakes coming from Tsuna. He was scared; a feeling he had gone without ever since that day I bit those three second year herbivores to death. The changes in Tsuna were subtle over the weeks he has been with me. He stopped stuttering around me and being afraid. Even though he still has yet to make more friends aside from Kusakabe, he has become more … Expressive with his emotions. Now that Reborn is here, I fear that Tsuna will lock up on himself and I won't see his true self until his confidence is built back up.
Separating in the hallway, Tsuna went to his homeroom while I met up with Kusakabe to patrol the school grounds before going to the Reception Room to work on paperwork. And it was a lot of paperwork. Sitting down, I sorted through the tall stack of paper before handing less important, but still important, documents to Kusakabe to go through. Having the larger stack of documents, I was left in my own world while Kusakabe left to patrol again and to gather the reports of the other Disciplinary Committee members. So focused on the current document, the sound of the door to the reception room opening went unnoticed by me until a rounded rectangular bento wrapped in a light blue and green cloth was set down to my left.
Straightening up, I held back a wince at the sore kink in between my shoulder blades and neck from being hunched over for a long period of time. Almost immediately, a pair of small hands removed my black coat that I had draped over my shoulders and placed it neatly on the back of my chair before those same hands began to knead my stiff shoulders.
"You still have a bad habit of not taking a break," Tsuna stated softly, pressing his hands in a circular motion.
I pushed my chair away from the desk and reached behind me to grab Tsuna. A surprised squeal escaped him when I jerked him around and caused him to be sprawled out on my lap.
"Mā, Kyoya-kun," Tsuna pouted.
I responded to his pout with a smirk. Giving a huff, something I would never have thought Tsuna capable of before hanging around me for so long, the brunette took the bento from the desk top and unwrapped it. He set the lid aside and I got a good look at what was packed inside.
"Hamburger steak," I spoke quietly.
"Mm-hmm. I figured since today is the beginning of the spring semester, I would fix your favorite meal," Tsuna stated, using the chopsticks to pick up a small piece of the hamburger steak.
"You made this?" I asked, becoming cautions.
Tsuna must to have heard the hesitation I tried to hide in my voice, because he no longer looked confident in the bento. His hand started to lower, but I clasped my larger one around it and effectively brought the bite of food to my mouth. Tsuna's eyes widened at this, his eyes locked on me as I chewed the first bite. It was a little sweet, but was not completely bad.
"Aaah," I voiced, opening my mouth in the universal sign of 'feed me'.
Tsuna's face seemed to light up and he quickly complied with my silent demand by taking another bite of hamburger and feeding it to me. Every other time, he would take a bite for himself. This continued until we had finished the bento and Tsuna's face was flushed.
"Di—Did you like it?" Tsuna asked, peering at me through his lashes.
I nodded, brushing the pad of my thumb over the corner of his lip to catch a stray drop of sauce before licking it off my thumb. Tsuna's blush darkened.
"Sweet," I told him honestly. "Has that infant caused you any trouble today?"
Tsuna went to answer, but was interrupted by Kusakabe rushing into the room. He stopped to catch him breath while motioning wildly behind him. Tsuna slipped off of my lap so that I could stand.
"Tetsuya, what is it?" I demanded, already walking towards the other male.
"Some of the third years are fighting out in the courtyard," Kusakabe voiced quickly. "Some of the committee members are trying to maintain them, but we're outnumbered."
'So those herbivores think that they can reign chaos over the school? I'll bite them to death,' I thought, steel gaze hardening as I stomped out of the Reception Room and towards the outer courtyard where the sound of a commotion was growing louder.
-KHR-
Tsuna watched as Kyoya left the Reception Room with Kusakabe hot on his trail. Wanting to make sure Kyoya did not get hurt or actually kill someone for destroying school property, Tsuna ran after the two Disciplinary Committee members. He reached the outer courtyard in time to see a third year go flying and from the middle of a crowd of other third years, the sounds of metal hitting flesh could be heard among shouts and groans of pain. Tsuna winced when one third year was kicked out of the thinning crowd and proceeded to roll like a tumble weed across the school ground. Whiskey eyes spotted the angry Skylark, a murderous look marring Kyoya's face as he gracefully and without mercy bit the third years to death.
"Ciaossu, Dame-Tsuna," Reborn greeted after landing on the brunette's shoulder.
Tensing up immediately at the sound of the infant's voice, Tsuna stared at the hitman from his peripheral vision.
"Why aren't you helping your cloud?" Reborn questioned; a smirk on his pudgy baby face.
"Eh?! What do you mean?" Tsuna asked, shaking his shoulder in a futile effort to get Reborn off of him.
Reborn frowned, the sudden appearance of a gun in his hand catching Tsuna's attention. The baby flicked off the safety and pulled back the hammer.
"You should help out Hibari with your dying will," Reborn ordered, going to pull the trigger.
He stopped when a gleam of metal shone in the sunlight and Reborn jumped off of Tsuna's shoulder least he be impaled by Kyoya's tonfa. The tonfa sailed over Tsuna's shoulder without harm to the brunette and Kyoya was stepping in front of the smaller male with steel eyes glaring dangerously down at the hitman.
"Kyo—Kyoya-kun!" Tsuna exclaimed, relieved that his boyfriend saved him, his hands automatically grabbing hold of the back of the prefect's coat.
"Yare-yare, it's not good to coddle him, Hibari," Reborn said with disappointment.
-KHR-
"As long as I am around him, Tsunayoshi will not have to fight anyone," I spoke, voice low and threatening as my glare sharpened.
The brim of Reborn's fedora shadowed the upper half of his face, but his smirk left nothing to the imagination.
"And if you're outnumbered like before?" Reborn asked just as serious in spite of his smirk. "You can't be in two places at once, Hibari, no matter how strong you are. Tsuna, you can't hide behind Hibari forever. One day, something will happen that will force you to fight, but what good will it be if you are weak? You are putting those around you in danger by being a weakling."
Harsh. I don't recall Reborn ever being so harsh to Tsuna. Feeling Tsuna's grip on my coat slip away, I glanced over my shoulder to see the brunette with his head down and shoulders slumped. My eyes widened when a drop of liquid ran down Tsuna's face to drip off of his chin and land on the ground. Is Tsuna crying? Something akin to rage flooded my veins and I turned to attack Reborn only to see the baby hitman gone. Tucking my tonfas away, I moved to gather the crying brunette, but Tsuna jerked away from me.
"Tsunayo—"
"He's right! I'm nothing but Dame and I've taken advantage of you shielding me from my problems. I'm … I'M SORRY!" Tsuna cried out before bolting towards the school gates.
Kusakabe, after he and the other disciplinary members cleaned up the beaten third years, had witnessed Tsuna storm off with tears trailing down his face. He frowned as he looked from Tsuna's retreating form to the stunned look on my face.
"Kyo-san, you should go after him," Kusakabe stated. "I'll keep an eye on the trouble makers."
Nodding, I began to chase after Tsuna who had disappeared beyond the school gate.
-KHR-
'All I ever do is burden Kyoya-kun with my problems. He hates annoying people and crowding and weaklings … I'm everything he hates. I don't deserve Kyoya-kun,' Tsuna thought, tears dampening his face as he ran away. 'Reborn is right! All I am is a weakling. I'm useless, bad-luck, Dame-Tsuna!'
The brunette raced through the semi-empty streets, everyone either at home, working or at school. His vision was obscured by tears and he was basically running blind. The only thing that kept him going was the miraculous luck of not tripping over his own two feet.
'One day Kyoya-kun will get hurt and it'll be all because of me. It'll be my entire fault. Just like all of the other times he got into fights because of me,' Tsuna thought, his mind going wild with Reborn's harshly spoken words. 'Kyoya should hate me. I won't blame him if he—'
"Iiitttaaaiiii," Tsuna whimpered in pain when he stepped around the corner leading into a familiar neighborhood and ended up spraining his ankle.
The brunette fell, landing on his knees and the palms of his hands. Clenching his fists, Tsuna squeezed his eyes shut while tears continued to fall. He really was Dame. A dark silhouette fell over him, causing Tsuna to open his puffy red and still wet eyes to look up at the other person.
'He came after me …,' Tsuna thought, surprised as more tears began to fall.
