No, it wasn't her place - It wasn't her place to tell. She wouldn't tell.
But we're a team. They have a right to know.
To tell or not to tell?
Tricantiya's soft brown hair billowed carelessly around her face as she stood, looking aimlessly on the balcony, a million thoughts running through her mind.
Frustrated, she ran her hand through her luscious locks, entangling the silky strands.
"Ah, forget it."
Flinging her hand in the air, she gave up trying to sort out her thoughts and retreated to her room.
As she entered her room with a weary face, Triciantiya was more than surprised to find the Vongola Decimo seated on a couch not far from her bed.
"Sa-Sawada-san! What are you doing here?" She asked, flustered.
Tsuna blushed, his eyes glued to the ground.
'She sounds surprised… Maybe she doesn't want me here? !'
"I-I'm sorry, Pereira-san. I was having a conversation with Reborn who mentioned that you were in-injured because of Gokudera-kun so I-I came over to visit…" His voice trailed away nervously as he glanced at the girl in front of him, a quizzical look etched onto her face.
"Erm…I guess you need to rest, sorry for intruding…I-I hope you get well soon…"
Tsuna's feet shuffled reluctantly to the door, stopping abruptly when she attempted to rectify the situation.
"No! Not at all! You're more than welcomed to stay longer if you'd like actually. Please, call me Tri."
Her sweet voice was soothing to his sore ears after having had to put up with Gokudera, Yamamoto, Ryohei and Reborn's alternately rambunctious and terror-inducing voices. She beckoned for him to join her at the balcony. Anxiously, he strode over hurriedly, not wanting to keep her waiting. In his haste, he tripped, knocked Tri over, and landed on her.
"Oh my God! I'm so sorry! I'm so sorry!" Tsuna apologized quickly.
He suddenly noticed for the first time that Tricantiya was wearing a dress, and the fact that she was wearing a pair of extremely short, tight, black pants underneath them was now blatantly obvious. In split-second, Tsuna's head had snapped away from Triciantiya's, his face now creating new shades of crimson
Thank God for safety pants.
Tricantiya coughed lightly to signify that Tsuna could turn to face her again, but the moment he did…
"I-I'm sorry! I'm so very sorry for what I did, I-"
A single finger was placed on his pouty lips.
"No more apologies from you. Not at least for today. Not in front of me. You've said enough apologies to last the month!" She joked heartily, her embarrassment and the finger on his lips gone.
Tsuna smiled weakly at her angelic face as he stood up awkwardly, his legs slightly wobbly, before helping the other Sky Guardian up to her feet, their faces coming into close proximity as Tricantiya leaned slightly on Tsuna to recover her lost balance.
This time, they could clearly see each other's faces flush with a light dusting of pink.
"Tha-thank you," She told the Vongola Decimo meekly, her voice so soft that Tsuna had to strain to hear her.
"No, it's alright."
Tricantiya beamed happily at him, causing his face to flush redder - if that was even possible.
Deciding that starting off with a light topic be safe, Tricantiya chose something recent. "So, how were the exams?"
Tsuna's immediate response was to bring his hands to his temples and slowly massage them, the very mention of the exams bringing on a headache.
"Bad… I practically failed everything except math…"
Tricantiya gave him a sympathetic look as she patted his back.
"It's tough, isn't it? Living with geniuses, I mean," she commented lightly, empathizing with the Vongola's true Sky Guardian since she was in the same situation.
"Glad you understand…wait. Why do you understand?" His tone was one of curiosity and his expression, confused.
"Well…You do realize that I'm probably one of the dumbest of the VSD members?"
Tsuna shook his head, bewildered. Sighing deeply, Tricantiya looks at the breathtaking scenery displayed in front of her, contemplating how to phrase her description.
"You see, Donna's a genius with humanities and art. She actually enjoys it. If anyone can beat her at it, I'd serenade to Hibari Kyoya."
Tsuna bit on his lower lip to keep himself from exploding with laughter.
"Shannon can sleep in class and ace her math and science papers," She sighed. Biting her lower lip, she continued, "I know she's part of the Kyung family, so it's probably genetic…"
"And Deborah, her geography is… It- it's just fantastic."
Pausing for a moment, she continues after seeing the incredulous look on Tsuna's face.
"I know there quite a bunch of people out there who thinks she's just a good-for-nothing bimbo. I know. Classic blonde beauty. But know this; she has photographic memory. Everything that she sees, she memorizes. It's a disease actually, she can only forget these things if she imagines writing them on a piece of paper and burn them, but it gets pretty handy during lesson times and mission times."
Tsuna breathed slowly at this. All this time, he had thought she was just a brainless twit.
"Not to mention, Daphne's an athlete. A crazy one at that…she's kind of like the female version of Yamamoto-kun. Something like that or maybe even worse…scarier, you might say."
Tricantiya pouted depressingly, her brows furrowing together only too visibly. Tsuna tilted his head downwards slightly as he processed the information through his brain.
"Well, you have your good points too, Tricantiya-san."
She looked at Tsuna like he has grown another head, then suddenly requested, "Please elaborate."
Grinning, he began his explanation gladly.
"Well, Tri-san makes people smile and laugh. Everyone just seems so happy around you and nobody ever looks worried when you're around. And you're cheerful all the time, you're kind and you're very spontaneous too! Unlike me… who's a loser who doesn't even dare to raise my hand in class to answer questions…And Shannon was somewhat right about me. I am a sucker who can't even look at Hibari-kun in the eye and not faint…"
Tricantiya felt almost guilty for what Shannon has said but then again, it WAS Shannon Kyung who, sadly, was a very direct and somewhat rude person at times.
"Come on! You're not that bad! Gokudera says many nice things about you in front of us, like how you saved him from dynamites-"
"I had the dying will bullets at that time…"
There was silence between the two for a full half minute whereby a crow flew by and crowed mockingly 'Ahou~'
"Oh…Okay. But still…" Tricantiya shrugged casually.
"Yeah…I'm a freaking loser who doesn't even have the courage to confess to the girl that I like."
At this, Tricantiya's ears perked up noticibly.
"Is she pretty?"
Sawada jerked up at the question, startled
"She-She is quite pretty…" Hell, Tsuna thought, pretty is an understatement.
" Ok…" Tricantiya decided to guess. "Blonde?"
Tsuna frowned at the question, giving his answer only too fast.
Alright, Deborah and Angeline are off the list. And so are the tiny populations of girls with yellow hair in their school.
"Redhead?"
An expression of pure disgust marred Tsuna's petite features.
"If you're thinking its Charmaine then I can safely say no."
…The answer is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?
Tricantiya asks her next question, her heart already breaking even though she had not been given an accurate answer.
"Does she have black hair?"
Strangely, though, the answer is negative as well.
This would mean that Daphne, Donna and Shannon, along with nearly ¾ of the school's population of females didn't fit the bill.
"Then…brunette. There isn't another natural hair colour that I know of." She added gleefully, her heart repairing itself at the speed of light.
"Yeah. She has brown hair…And dark brown eyes… and she's not just pretty – she's beautiful. "
Upon hearing the description, her mended heart could only feel worse – as if someone had thrust their hand into her chest, ripping her heart out mercilessly before crushing her heart into millions of tiny pieces.
"I-I see…"
Tsuna fidgeted nervously at where he was standing as he looked around, his eyes on everything and anything other than the charming brunette beside him.
"Wha-what about you? Someone as pretty as you should have a boyfriend already though…" Tsuna mumbled, praying to whichever God that was listening to him that she would prove him wrong.
And prove him wrong, she did.
"Nope. Boys confessing sometimes but no, I'm not attached."
OH MERCIFUL GOD! I THANK YOU FOR YOUR GRACE AND KINDESS TOWARDS ME, SAWADA TSUNAYOSHI!
"Oh…I see."
Tricantiya smiled wearily at the boy before averting her eyes back towards the setting sun.
A comfortable silence made its way between the two oblivious sky guardians as they allowed themselves to simply relax and enjoy each other's company.
"But I do have someone I like, Tsuna-kun."
Ah, curse the Gods. And just as Tsuna was going to convert to Christianity…
"Oh…Who is it?" He asked cheerily, in his mind, the image of him drowning himself in his rooms due to his overflowing tears was pictured most solidly.
"It's a secret." Tricantiya whispers, putting a finger to her lips as they quirked up slightly.
"Any hints?"
"Hmm…his hair's brown. But lighter than mine. And he's pretty cute." Tricantiya giggled most adorably at the end, her eyes scrunching up slightly as Tsuna contemplated jumping off the balcony there and then.
"Oh…"
Because the authoress of Days of the VSD is Shannon Kyung Sun Hye, a mathematical statement is in order.
Two skies=Two awfully ignorant dumbasses.
"I…guess I should get going now…" Tsuna whispered after a few moments of awkward quietness.
"I…Alright…Your mom and Gokudera's going to be worried if you don't get back soon." She replied tiredly.
Trying their best to put up a fake smile for each other, Tricantiya walked Tsuna to the front door, meeting Donna halfway who gave them an irritated look before she resumed her walk up the stairs, carrying Tricantiya's arrangements for that week, mumbling something along the lines of 'lovebirds' and 'blind fools'.
"So, I guess I'll see you at school tomorrow?" Tricantiya asked, her voice hopeful and almost pleading.
"I suppose." Tsuna replied, giving her one last smile as he turned his back to return to his cozy house, full of love and comfort from his family, his plastic grin disappearing as soon as it had come.
Yamamoto was going to be there.
Gokudera was going to be there.
Ipin, Lambo and his mother would be there too.
But sadly, Tsuna thought, his lips twisting upwards in a sad smile. His crush wasn't there.
The slight drizzle of rain masked the tears that ran down his cheeks as he ran home.
XxXx
(Back at the VSD's home…)
After the door slammed shut resoundingly, Tricantiya ran up to Donna's room and hammered on the door. A deep breath was inhaled shakily on the other side of the door as the illusionist attempted to reign in her temper. Fixing a smile on her face, she got up from her desk and opened her door.
Triciantiya ignored the stacks of snow-white papers lined with dark ink and the many ring files on Donna's writing desk.
"DONNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Tricantiya cried out, flailing her arms around and knocking over a stack of files as she sobbed uncontrollably.
Annoyed, tired and dying for another cup of coffee, Donna wiped the smile off her face and glared pure murder at Tri who winced at the furious look which was sent in her direction.
"I'm not sure if you've noticed, but you probably should have as seeing how I have been doing this for the past eight years, but I am currently busy doing paperwork. Paperwork that the Vongola Secret Division's captain should be doing. IE – You.
"Unfortunately for my permanent eyeliner – otherwise known to mankind as eye bags - and I, you are incapable of doing it without completely and utterly screwing up the whole of VSD.
"So if you don't intend to take over the many mountains of papers that need to be done, please, go bug someone else, fuck a tree or do something – pun intended. I don't really care as long as it does not affect me and you don't die because then we'll have to find a new Sky Guardian. Good bye and good riddance."
Tricantiya gasped in shock at her Mist Guardian cursing before her words were processed. She sniffed tearfully, and tried to frown but ended up failing miserably.
"WAAAAAAAA! DONNA'S A MEANIE!"
And with that, Tricantiya fled to her room, locking herself in.
"Eleven years of living with me and she still hasn't gotten that through her head. She has issues…" Donna muttered.
(Ten minutes later…)
"Donna."
Somehow, the said girl knew this was going to happen.
"Donna."
…Maybe she'll go away if I just keep quiet and ignore her…
"Donna!"
No such luck I guess…
"Triciantiya Pereira. I realize that you are my friend and teammate and therefore as a friend I ought to hear you out. Nonetheless, I don't think that you realize exactly how important, frustrating, tedious, time-consuming, sleep-inducing - and any other adjectives you can think of – the damn paperwork is. I am trying to finish it so that I can do my homework and maybe get some sleep. It's not exactly the best moment to barge in and bawl your eyeballs out on me."
A few sniffles and hiccups were heard as Tri tried to wipe away her tears.
"I-I'm sorry Donny…"
"My name is Donna. Not Donny. That happens to be a guy's name. Refrain from calling me that." The raven smiled tightly as she glared at the atrocious nickname given by the oh-so 'lovely' Sky.
With a sigh, she caved in and inquired, "So? What's the problem?"
Sadly, Tricantiya only shook her head as she waved Donna off.
"Never mind. You just continue with your work. I'm sorry for disturbing you.."
The sound of clumsy shuffling feet was heard as the brunette made her way to the kitchen to brew something calming for herself.
"...Coffee for me, Tri."
Donna returned to her unfinished work as soon as Tricantiya's moving form disappeared from her line of sight, confused and pissed that Tricantiya had disturbed her all for nothing.
TBC
A/N: Okays this was actually done a long time ago but I was just lazy to post it and since EOYs are over...why not? This is also due to much persuasion of =.= (gets on wiv speech) thanks for reading n pls review. Will try to update soon. No flaming or saying anything about the names cause apparently, I wasn't given a notice when my name was put up the net either. BTW, Sun Hye=Shan Hui. I didn't tell the author about this earlier. My bad.