Finding Love in Darkness
Summary: Tsuna gets hit on the head by Hibari's tonfas and lost his eyesight temporarily. Hibari offers to take responsibility of him. Romance ensues. Will they both admit their feelings for each other? Review please :)
Chapter 4 He also seemed to realise that Hibari never mentioned anything about his clothes. "No way..." Tsuna whimpered.
Once Tsuna had removed all his clothes and somehow managed to shower, he went to search for a towel but could not find it no matter how much he searched. He paled.
End of flashback~
Hibari smirked from the kitchen where he was stirring a pot of miso soup. He had heard the trademark screech from the brunette in the bathroom.
No, it had not been intentional at all to leave out the towels or the clothes. It just happened that yesterday was laundry day and he had washed his old towel. It happens on a weekly basis actually. Whenever Hibari washes his towel, he would forget to replace it with a new one so the next time he bathes the towel would be missing. However because Hibari lived alone he had no need to fret over such a small matter. He would usually walk naked to his bedroom to grab the new towel. It just happened that Tsuna chose to bathe first on the wrong day.
Also, he had not the heart to tell Tsuna the clothes brought by the Sasagawa siblings had only been school uniform for the week. Surely sleeping in school uniforms would be very uncomfortable so Hibari decided to omit the part of his clothes earlier.
Hibari had told Tsuna to call him if he needed help and he somewhat expected it sooner due the mafia boss in training's natural gift for clumsiness. Hibari had to respect the brunette for making it this far.
Simmering the miso soup on the stove, he checked on the rice cooker before turning the switch off. The tempura was ready as well and Hibari took his time to clean the kitchen. Finally the words he had been waiting to hear were uttered and he quickly turned off the gas.
Dumping the cleaning cloth in the sink, Hibari hastened his steps to the bathroom and yanked the unlocked door open. Tsuna was hiding behind the shower curtain as he told Hibari his ordeal to which Hibari silently chuckled at. "Naive..." he thought.
Once Tsuna's stuttering had ceased, Hibari strode over to the bathtub and drag a blushing Tsuna to his bedroom. Tsuna stumbled all the way. Only the tight grip on his arm prevented his face from embracing the fall with every step.
Once in the bedroom, Hibari ransacked his entire cupboard for some smaller sized clothes of his fir Tsuna's sleeping wear. Meanwhile, Tsuna wrapped himself with the fluffy towel Hibari thrown at him earlier.
When Hibari finally found the clothing he was searching for he told Tsuna to change. Quickly Tsuna obeyed without thinking twice.
As Hibari was about to pick up the strewn clothes on the floor he caught sight if Tsuna changing in front of him. He deadpanned at Tsuna's oblivion.
"Damn! This herbivore is too trusting for his good. How dumb can he get?" Hibari thought.
He watched in silent fascination how the brunette tried to wear a T-shirt backwards and the head sticking out from the wrong hole.
"Herbivore," he drawled out "you are trying to stick your head through the sleeves."
Tsuna blushed heavily and mumbled an apology only to get tangled in the cotton fabric.
Sighing, Hibari moved over to help him get the shirt on the right way. Once Tsuna was dressed he noted that the brunette's hair was still as gravity defying as ever despite having water dripping from it.
Curious to touch it, Hibari made an excuse of having to take care of sick herbivores when they fell I'll just because they don't know how to dry their hair properly. Hibari dumped the towel on Tsuna's head and began drying Tsuna's hair while occasionally brushing his fingers through those brown strands.
"I guess this is the only aspect of him that is truly a carnivore. Even Kusakabe uses hairspray to keep that pompadour up from time to time," Hibari mused to no one in particular.
Tsuna was enjoying how those warm and comforting hands felt when they brushed through his hair occasionally and how safe he felt with someone around. He nearly purred in content when that conflicting hand ruffled his spiky hair.
"There, all better now," Hibari announced once Tsuna's hair was dry enough. It was only a little damp now and Hibari was about to walk away when he caught sight of the brunette blushing.
He smirked and mocked "Oh? So the herbivore is feeling self-conscious now. Not to mention he was such an exhibitionist a few moments ago and fearlessly changing in front of me."
This caused Tsuna's face to explode with a series of scarlet.
"No you got it wrong! I mean... That's not it. Wha-what I wanted to say was... Actually, thank you. Hibari-san has been very kind to me," Tsuna told him earnestly.
Hibari was stunned for a moment before he snapped out of his daze. He sneered as harshly as he could, causing the smaller boy to flinch.
"Kind? Don't be too full of yourself herbivore. I'm only kind to small animals like Hibird. You are hardly worth anything. The only reason why I am doing this is so that I can bite you to death. Or did you possibly think that there was some other reason such as a weak feeling of herbivores' called compassion?"
The words stung painfully and Tsuna kept mum even when Hibari called for dinner. He shuffled soullessly to where he remembered was the dining area.
They both ate in silence both thinking about what each other had said. Tsuna made a big mess if the food but Hibari does not say anything. He does not make any attempt to help Tsuna eat even though he knew he should because he did not want Tsuna to know that he was guilty for saying such mean things. His pride did not allow him to do such things.
"It would be considered weak," Hibari told himself. "The herbivore will get over it soon like he always does."
Somewhere far away, Reborn put down the binocular version Leon and had an unreadable expression on his face. The letter from Vongola Nono and the CEDEF head was clutched tightly in his little fist. Would there be enough time?
Author's Note: Thank you for all the kind words Q.Q although my father is still forbidding me to read or watch anime and manga I do not intend to stop writing at all! I've read all the reviews and it really cheered me up :) I like this pairing very much too because I like the kuudere and moe type of couple compared to a kuudere tsundere type. I'm afraid of yandere to be honest and I'm not too familiar with dandere :/ I promise this will not hit an M rating because I have a feeling this would be a fluffy sweet thing although emo and angst is very much my forte. I like bittersweet romances the best thus my previous two Col x Lal ffn. This should be my first time doing a fluffy series :# and sometimes it gets so sweet I have to stop myself writing before I destroy it completely by adding a tragedy to it :P
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