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A/N: Finally! Fuck, I Never Actually Learned Shit (FINALS)week is over! I'm getting my results back tomorrow...oh my, I don't even wanna know what I got -_-
Not much 1827 in this chapter...sadnessDX...there will be some next time, for sure (≧∇≦)/
Kichou- I'll try my best ^_^, XXxKHRObsessionxXX- Soon enough ^_^ Not sure yet but before chapters hit double digits (I hope..), AmiiStar- I'm glad you like it :D, Dremagon- yes, I had a lot of fun thinking up that part in math, PrimoWing- Salamat ^.^, usaangel509- I've returned :D yeah!, lalalovekhr- yes, I know right? Hiba-chan can be so sweet~, animebaka14- I wanted to update really quickly before Fuck, I never Actually Learned Shit Week..And my laptop was acting up -_-, XShagayaku- Ah, thank you :3, scyterfrnz- I'm sorry it confuzzles you D: but Tsunayoshi actually has some important roles to play in the future, so he must keep appearing, xmelonBreadx- yeah...very short :( this ones a bit longer though, orangesky3- Yes, I'm part Korean ^_^ And I understood the name of your trap! it took me four tries though... lolmao, ezcap1st- ahh, no (about the community channel thing). Yeah, Hibari gave up his tonfas...they'll be returned to him in the future though :D, poakkis- Adorable as hell eyes...yeahp, no one can!, Orcux- I try my best to keep them in character ^.^ I'm glad its working!
Tsuna woke up feeling very, very drowsy- as if his uncle had decided to train him the night before, except... 'I...don't feel sore.' Opening one eye, Tsuna took in the sight of large walls painted a bright purple, a series of blue-ish gray blankets and pillows, and a medium-sized mahogany wardrobe. After opening both eyes to blink at his surroundings for a few minutes, Tsuna's thoughts and memories of the day before came back, earning a mental "Hieee!" from the brown-haired 16 year old.
Sitting up and throwing the covers off of him, Tsuna made a beeline for the restroom, stopping to grab his suitcase, to do his daily morning rituals in slow motion. A good thirty or so minutes later, a freshly cleaned Tsuna stepped out of the bathroom, suitcaseand dirty clothes in hand, Tsuna shook his head slightly, like a puppy, to dry of his(somewhat flatter) wet hair. He folded his used clothes as small as he could, then stuffed them into a small compartment in the worn brown case.
He made his way to the door of the bedroom, and a thought came across his mind. 'Oh...No one's here to help guide me around this humongous manor/mansion..I'm gonna get lost.' He turned the door knob and opened the door slowly.
"JUUDAIME!" Tsuna was momentarily blinded by the brightness of someone's smile. "G-Gokudera-kun!" he exclaimed, staring incredulously the enthusiastic boy. "Wh-what are you-"
"Tsk, tsk. It took you exactly 31 minutes and six seconds to take a shower. What are you, Tsuna? A girl?" Tsuna looked past Gokudera's smiling face to see his scary uncle's scowling face.
"Uhmm..no?" Tsuna said, mentally cursing his uncle for being so ridiculously detailed.
"Hi Gokudera-kun. I haven't seen you since last year."
Gokudera smiled eagerly at Tsuna. "Yuhp! And I spent that time in Italy helping arrange your inheritance ceremony!" He frowned a bit after that. "But...juudaime, they aren't allowing you to have the inheritance ceremony without having found a fiance."
Tsuna sighed and smiled reassuringly at Gokudera. "It's fine Gokudera-kun. I'll find one sooner or later."
"Good. If not finding a fiance is the reason the V-"
"Ohayo!" The three males turned to see the smiling face of Yamamoto Takeshi. "Ahaha, sorry for startling you! The Hibari's felt it would be rude if they woke you up, so they had breakfast without you. Then they sent me up here with some breakfast!" He disappeared into the hallway and came back with an overstocked cart of food: steamed rice, miso soup, grilled fish, tamagoyaki, seasoned nori, okayu, tofu, natto and some western food.
Tsuna sweatdropped. "Ano...Is that just for one person, Yamamoto?" He asked, staring at the ridiculously food-filled cart.
"Ahh, no, they sent me up with a whole bunch of stuff so you could choose." He smiled. "You can give some to your uncle and, uhmm-"
"I'm juudaime's right-hand man!" Gokudera exclaimed proudly.
"Ahaha! That's cool!" Yamamoto directed a smile at Gokudera, then gestured to the cart. "You can dig in now. A maid will come by later to pick it up, okay Tsuna?"
Tsuna smiled and nodded, ignoring the insults and curses Gokudera was aiming at Yamamoto, pertaining mostly to "DON'T JUST NONCHALANTLY CALL JUUDAIME TSUNA!"
Once Yamamoto was out of earshot (and thanks to Reborn's extra measures, this meant two flights of stairs and four hallways), the three boys decided to dig in and talk bussiness.
Through a mouthful of steamed rice and tofu, Tsuna looked at Reborn and asked, "How did you get up here without getting lost?"
Reborn swallowed whatever the heck he had been chewing. "I got Arisu to direct me. She was in the sitting room when we came in."
"Oh, juudaime! We forgot to tell you! Colonello will be here to discuss some issues the V-"
"Palourde," Reborn interjected.
Gokudera nodded. "Yeah, Colonello will be here to discuss some issues the Palourde are having. He didn't tell me or Reborn-san about it, he says its strictly bussiness between you, the Nono and him. Though he should tell me and Reborn, since I am your right-hand man and Reborn-san is your tutor."
Tsuna was about to explain to Gokudera that he was absolutely NOT his right-hand man (sorry Gokudera!), when the graceful figure of the youngest Hibari flounced in.
"Hmph...don't...crowds," the teen mumbled, eyes darting from Tsuna to Reborn to Gokudera. "Sorry to disturb you, but my father wants me and Sawada at his office," he said, the expression on his face clearly stating that he wasn't happy that he got sent all the way up to his room, in the highest tower, just to pick up some flimsy herbivore.
"What for?" Reborn asked, a blank expression on his face, and Tsuna knew he wasn't happy their little "bussiness chat" had been interrupted.
"I do not know," Hibari replied. "He just wants us there."
Tsuna could feel the awkwardness growing. "Uhm...I'll, uhm be right back then, uncle Reborn," he said, standing up to follow Hibari.
Reborn tilted his fedora downward. "Fine. Get someone to direct you to the sixth sitting room. Colonello should be there by the time you finish," he said, making a gesture with his hands indicating Tsuna to leave.
"Okay," Tsuna called back, trailing after Hibari. He tilted his head, staring at the back of Hibari's head, and wondered what the heck his dad wanted.
When Hibari woke up in the morning, he wasn't in a comfortable bed; oh no, he was sleeping on a futon. He stared blankly at the foot of his bed before remembering he had insisted to the herivore to sleep on his bed.
Curses.
Sighing, he got up, his hair an absolute mess and his back hurting like hell. No wonder his parents thought their plan in making them sleep together was going to work. He walked over to watch Tsuna sleep, asking himself why he was going to waste time just to watch the herbivore sleep (the thought itself seemed slightly pedophilic to Hibari, even though they were only two years apart). He smiled, amused, at the sight of the sleeping boy. His mouth was slightly open, and he was slightly salivating (Eww, disgusting. Hibari definately had to get someone to change his sheets). He was only on one side of the bed, curled up, so he barely took up any space. The thick comforter was only covering him halfway, a sign that he had probably tossed and turned when he slept, and his pajamas were a bit too loose on him, so pale skin showed on random areas of his body.
Hibari turned away and headed for his bathroom. He needed a shower. Badly.
A quick five minutes later, a freshly dressed, squeeky clean Hibari Kyoya stepped out of his bedroom and headed for his office. However, his tall father blocked him from passing through.
"Kyoya...why didn't you sleep next to the boy?" Hibari stared up at his father, whose facial expression didn't exactly scream "happy!"
"I have no intentions in sleeping with a stranger. And how you found out I did not sleep with him, I do not know."
Saburou rolled his eyes. "There was a futon on the floor, and more than half the bed was completely undistrubed. It doesn't take a genius to put two and two together."
Damn. Hibari mentally told himself to be more careful. "Fine. So I didn't sleep on the same bed as him? Why is that bad?"
His father sighed and placed a hand on Hibari's shoulder. Hibari felt his eye twitch.
"Kyoya, there are two things about you not sleeping next to the boy that upsets me and your mother. One, you didn't obey our wishes of you sleeping next to him. Two, this goes to show that you are NOT trying to find yourself a suitor, someone to continue our bloodline. You are an only child Kyoya, and if you don't bare a child than we'll have to hand over the Hibari famiglia to a subordinate or something like that."
Sigh. "I understand father. But I cannot force myself to like someone." And with that, Hibari sidestepped his father and headed for the dining hall, followed by his father, who he knew was disappointed in him.
After a quiet breakfast (his dad not talking was actually a pleasant surprise), Hibari was approached by his mom.
"Kyoya, come with me. Some people are coming over, and I want you to tell me what famiglia they are from. You are an expert in those things," she instructed, pulling her taller son along to a sitting room. He patiently waited in a chair, staring at the numerous paintings on the walls while waiting for something to happen. Finally, after what felt like forever, the sound of three voices echoed through the walls.
The three figures approached, and Hibari identified two of them immediately. One was the dark haired, clumsy maid who used to constantly spill tea on Hibari's important documents. The other one was the herbivore's uncle or something like that (though Hibari thought the fact the man was only about five years older than the herbivore was slightly strange). The third figure, a silver haired teen with a scowl on his face, seemed awfully familiar. Just like the herbivore's uncle.
Hibari narrowed his eyes at the youngest of the three people, trying to recall exactly where he had seen this guy before. 'In one of my files...which famiglia?' Hibari narrowed his eyes at the silver haired boy, annoyed that he couldn't quite place his finger on where the heck he had seen him before.
"Ahh. Are you Arisu?" The oldest male tilted his head in Hibari's mom's direction.
"Yes. What of it?" his mom asked, sipping a cup of tea (wherever the heck she got THAT from).
"Would you direct me to where you think my nephew is?"
Arisu sipped some more tea, then drew the cup away from her lips. "In my son's room probably. Go left, keep going until you reach a painting of skylarks, then turn right, go up the first flight of stairs you see, keep going until you've reached royal purple carpets, then keep going straight until you see a rose painting, take a left when you see it, then go up another set of stairs, through a room marked Practice Area, then go out the back door and go up the last flight of stairs, turn left and when you see a bright purple door decorated with clouds, you've reached his room ." She went back to sipping tea.
Anyone would've spazzed out with these kind of directions, Hibari noted, then glanced nonchalantly at the fedora wearing man.
He didn't even look the least bit fazed. "Thank you," he said, walking out the door without a second glance.
When they were gone, Hibari's mom placed her cup of tea on the coffee table and turned to face Hibari. "Well, Kyoya, did you notice who the two men were?"
Hibari raised an eyebrow. "Why is it important, mother?"
Arisu stared distantly into the open doorway. "I sense something of with the boy Tsuna, and the Palourde famiglia he's from. I searched all day yesterday about the Palourde, and not one single person we have connections with have heard of them." She paused, and turned to face Hibari. "And...the fedora man. He's a bit too talented to be part of such a tiny famiglia. Do me a favor and research about him, will you?"
Hibari digested his mom's information, and quickly realized why his mom was suspicious. "I will look into it mother," he answered, standing up.
"Yes, yes. Oh, and your father wants you to fetch Tsuna and bring him, along with yourself, to his office," she called out to the half gone Hibari.
"Alright," he called back, sighing and heading towards his room.
A/N: Erm yes, thats that ^_^
I hope you didn't get confused, because I tried my best to write it unconfusing while keeping my original intention for this chapter.
And for anyone who cares: I'm working on Tsuna Got What, don't worry! I'm even getting help from co-writers ( ・ω・)