Falling Slow
By Ryukansen
Chapter Four: A Little Sunshine
Author's Notes: R&R! Nothing much else to say, but sorry for (what some people may think) the delay of this chapter -- I seem a little out of it this whole week… Oh yeah, I ended the whole preview thing, but I promise…the next chapter will be full of fluff.
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That man looked oddly familiar…although he had never truly met that strange, lanky herbivore, he could still have imagined of meeting him somewhere before. "Ne, Ne…Hibari-san!" Tsuna's voice piped up as he crawled up the vice-president's arm and managed to encircle his thin arms around Hibari's throat. Unfortunately for the child, he wasn't in the mood to respond (as always) and just observed his supposedly new secretary. "Fine." The boy hopped off of him and walked towards Hibari's desk. Sitting down, he clasped his hands together firmly and let out a sheepish smile. "Hibari-san, Yamamoto, Takeshi." He let his breath go and flung his arms in strange movements. Gokudera at that time was trying to hush the child, fearing something was going to blow up between those two.
"Yamamoto, Takeshi." Hibari repeated, rethinking the name twice. His head ached, as his hands twitched. Where did he see this man before?!
"Yup, that's me!" How childish as well. One of Tsuna's idiot lackey's again, huh? Hibari let out a glare, than a glower and ordered the President himself to get off of his desk. Gokudera at that time was throwing back tantrums, and took out those worthless fireworks - or whatever, out of his jacket pocket. Tsuna, attempting to stop him, hugged the man's arm and shouted for him to stop - which even more irritated Hibari.
"Now, now! Let's not fight!" The one called Yamamoto smiled vibrantly and walked over to Gokudera. He pulled Tsuna's hands away from the white-haired idiot, and patted Tsuna on the head like a child…well, of course he was a child; however, Yamamoto was the first to treat him like one. "Are you alright, Tsuna?" He asked with a worried look. Hibari grew even more aggravated and shouted for all of them to get out of his office.
"But, what about Yama-"
"Do whatever you like with him, I don't need one." The irritated man called out, and slammed the door as hard as he could. This Yamamoto….god….still where had he seen that man? He took out a pen, and rewrote the idiot's name a million times, rethinking and thinking while ignoring his contract sheets and information. "The hell are you?" He muttered ungratefully to himself and leaned on his wheelchair.
"What do you mean? I'm Yamamoto, Takeshi!" The stupid, stupid herbivore appeared with a tray of coffee and donuts from the downstairs department. Hibari's dark eyes gleamed with interest, and a little anger (since when did he let that man in anyways).
"Why are you hear, Takeshi." He muttered disturbed at the man's presence. A chuckle was his response, and it seemed to annoy him even more.
"Well, Tsuna told me that you weren't feeling well, so I decided to you know- help out!" He smiled while handing a cup of coffee to his own boss and a chocolate-cream donut. "After all, it's hard work…babysitting and everything!" He replied childishly and slapped Hibari hard on the back, as if he were proud of him. Unfortunately for the unsocial man, the small sip he took immediately spouted out of his mouth after the hard impact, and he was almost about to screech at the man to just leave him alone, until he actually remembered who he was.
"What's a pro-baseball star working here for?" He muttered, remembering Yamamoto's face on the projection screen of a baseball field the Vongola Corporation seemed to have bought for fun purposes, as what Giotto had said for an excuse.
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"Is it alright for you to let Yamamoto in that cage?" Gokudera asked while watching Tsuna look over a spreadsheet of various store names.
"What do you mean, he's fine!" The boy smiled while double-clicking on a name and viewing the properties within it. Gokudera sighed and helped Tsuna out with the contract-making since the child barely knew what he was doing. It was unfortunate for Tsuna to have inherited the corporation at his young age, but at least…he inherited it…at least he had the time to.
"No, I mean…that Hibari is a bastard- how could you pair those two up?!" Gokudera asked with his gray eyes shining with curiosity. " I mean, I'm Yamamoto's best-friend and all, so I need to check his health conditions and see if he's doing well." He replied with an odd sounding cough, and Tsuna cocked his head sideways with a sweet smile. A smile Gokudera always loved.
"Yamamoto will help Hibari loosen up a little!" He replied. "He did the same for me!" The boy added and grew bored of the contracts, minimizing the spreadsheet window and reopening a Pac-man game online.
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So that's what Tsuna was! A complete, sadistic genius! That stupid, stupid child actually had some brains, but it was frightening to know the truth. Hibari's eyes twitched with frustration as Yamamoto sat down on an unoccupied chair and chewed on his jelly donut. "Let me get this straight." The cold man replied a bit angrily. "He hired you, just for playing purposes?" He asked, as if it was such a bit joke. And it was! Tsuna was in trouble.
"Well, no…I thought this was all a big game, anyways!" Yamamoto replied casually and started twirling around his own chair. Hibari was pissed. This was a whole big game, now was it? Was the Vongola corporation really nothing to little Tsuna? When this day passed, he was going to go and get that child, bite him to death, and teach him a lesson…(if he somehow, survived his bites). "Are you going to finish that?" Yamamoto asked as Hibari left one of his donuts untouched. The man didn't respond, so luckily Yamamoto took it and ate it up with delight.
"Excuse me, will you?" Hibari replied politely and walked off to Tsuna's office. Oh yes, there will be hell in that room in a matter of seconds.
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"You know you shouldn't bother them." Tsuna whispered while clutching tightly on Gokudera's arm. For some odd reason, Hibari disliked the fact that that child, that noisy, idiotic brat was clinging onto that older, immature one. If anyone he should be clinging to him. Yes, to him…after all the President and the Vice-President had so, so many more things in common than their secretaries.
He shook his head, miserable. After ten seconds of entering the room he found Tsuna and Gokudera in an odd position. Well, mostly Tsuna who was clutching onto Gokudera's arm and rubbing his soft cheeks against the rough coat of the octopus-head. "Oi, Sawada…let's talk." Hibari replied emotionless while grabbing the child's arm, no matter how much he didn't want to. Gokudera hollered obscene things at him, though he ignored it and dragged the child out to the hallway.
"Listen up." He whispered almost pissed to the point of killing something or someone. "You make a false movement, I'll bite you to death." He hissed, and a light smile formed on that brat's face. It annoyed Hibari, and made him more curious.
"Okie dokie, Hibari-san!" The child saluted him, but in a matter of seconds as Hibari turned around Tsuna dashed towards him and gave him an unnecessary embrace. "Do you like it?" Tsuna replied quietly, his eyes showing no emotion and his face expressing everything. Hibari; though, could not see the child's facial feature, but could feel his heart speeding. "Ne, Hibari-san? Do you?" He replied his words holding heavy meaning.
"The hell are you doing, Sawada?" The man muttered, and let go of the child's arms. Tsuna pouted, but then didn't bother to call out after him.
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The hell was that feeling again? Hibari disliked it, and once he entered his office room he had tossed nearly everything out of his way. The papers, folders, even his own recliner! He tossed everything away, and some outside the window. He had never been so humiliated and confused in his life, and the fact he had felt this way for the first time annoyed him even more. The Vice-President was in a turmoil!
"Did Tsuna tease you, again?" Yamamoto had entered while trying to recollect the remains of the folders and papers from Hibari's desk. "It's alright, he made all of us feel that way in the beginning." The Pro-baseball star replied quietly while sorting out the letters properly. "He has that charm you know?" He added, and handed the files to his boss. Hibari grunted and sat back down on his seat after picking it right back up.
"What do you know?" He muttered angrily.
"He's like that….he was born that way, he wants everyone's attention!" Yamamoto chimed. "He's just a child of course. He just wants to spread a little sunshine in everyone's life!" His grin never faltered, and that made Hibari even more annoyed.
"A child should be going to school, not a business."
"Well…it's not his fault."
And for some reason the conversation ended there. Hibari puzzled but apathetic, while Yamamoto a little bit uneasy with where their conversation had ended.
"Ah, anyways! Can I get you anything?"
"Get out."
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"My, my…it ended so early actually." Yamamoto was sipping some green tea with Tsuna as he sat on the other end of the child's desk. "I never expected Kyouya to be so mean." He laughed and dangled the glass back and forth, gazing lazily at the semi-transparent liquid in his hand.
"Well…Grandfather did warn me about him." The child sighed while sipping an apple juice Gokudera had served him not too long ago. Tsuna's eyes closed, bored and sleepily. "He's a workaholic, and he needs some fun." He replied while catching a look at his pro-baseball friend. Yamamoto laughed and sat up with a big smile that Tsuna always liked. It made him happy and his heart seemed to be at ease whenever he saw it.
"Well then, it's Saturday tomorrow…so how about we get Kyouya to hang around with us!" The man was a genius. A pure genius. No wonder Tsuna budded with him in the first place!
"R-Really?!"
"I mean, it's just our friend's night out! It'll be good for him!"
"Ne, ne! I hope Gokudera will be accepting!"
"No problem, we'll just invite Hibari during our day!"
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