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A/N:
Fancy: We're not dead yet! I'm sorry for taking so long guys! But it's kinda a longish chapter...If you call 12 pages long... TT^TT Anyways! 4/26 is Yamamoto's birthday! (I think) SO i wanted to get the chapter out today! *nodnod* Please to enjoy! And don't forget. WE TAKE REQUESTS AND PROMPTS!
P.S. Sorry for the format! I'm working on getting that fixed ASAP!
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Hitch Hiker's Guide to Stalking
"Since Gokudera will be taking his finals tomorrow," Reborn began as the hosts congregated around him and the reception desk, ready to begin hosting. "We're not hosting tonight."
"Well isn't that a lucky break?" Byakuran stretched.
Giotto's eyes brightened a little. "Perfect. Then I can finish my shopping early this year." He smiled, turning G. "You'll help me right, G?"
G nodded, "Sure, Giotto." Giotto laughed, a triumphant undertone lying beneath it as he pulled G out the club entrance with him.
"Thanks Reborn! See you guys later!"
And with that. They were gone.
"What was that just now...?" Byakuran asked, looking after the door as it swung shut.
Reborn placed his fedora back on his head. "If you're so interested, go find out for yourselves." And with that, he had left to return to his hotel.
Yamamoto laughed, "Do you think we should follow them?"
Mukuro chuckled. "Kufufu~ of course... I heard that there's a rumor going around that they're secret lovers~" Mukuro said, catching the attention of all the hosts.
Hibari crossed his arms, "It's just a rumor from the girls they've hosted before though." Byakuran slinged an arm around Hibari's shoulders, grinning.
"C'mon Hibari-chan~ Don't be a killjoy~ It could be fun and it's not like we have anything better to do ne~?" The white haired man said in an attempt to reel in the shorter blackette's interest to their benefits.
Tsuna piped up, "Even if they were together, don't you think it's a little wierd for us to be stalking them?"
There was a unanimous no from the remaining hosts, excluding Hibari who still didn't want any part in this.
Yamamoto laughed, "It's fine isn't it?"
'No! It's not!' The receptionist shouted in his head at the happy-go-lucky face of the club.
Hibari huffed, twisting away from Byakuran. "Do as you like, herbivores. I'm going to sleep." He said walking towards the stairs to the host bedrooms.
Mukuro smirked following Hibari, passing him easily with his longer strides. He wrapped and arm around the smaller man's waist, catching his wrist as the blackette made to punch him. "Now now Hibari-kun. You did say we could do as we liked, did you not?"
Hibari growled, hating that he had been caught in an unfortunate slip of the tongue. "Fine, I'll join your herbivorous game. But if we find out that the rumor is false...then you let me bite you to death." he wagered, pulling his wrist away.
"And if it's true?" Mukuro asked lazily. Hibari looked back at Mukuro, silent. "How about you dress up all pretty and be the club's waitress for a day?" Mukuro chuckled, ducking under a tonfa aimed for his face.
"Pervert."
"Nice to know that you agree then." Mukuro said grinning before turning to the others. "Hibari-kun's coming with us too!"
Byakuran laughed, "The more the merrier!"
"Ne G, What do you think they'll want?" Giotto asked his red head companion as they walked through the shopping district.
G shrugged, "Why are we even doing this now? Shouldn't you have done this a month ago like all the other people?" he asked, waiting as Giotto stopped to look at the window of an accessory store.
"But Reborn was here so we had to work the whole time..." he complained, tugging G into the small store.
-x-
Several heads stacked up on top of one another peeked out from behind a pole.
"Hmm? Where'd they go?" Byakuran blinked from the top of the stack.
"They went into the store you idiot." Mukuro replied from under the white haired host. Byakuran laughed as Mukuro attempted to kill him again but was stopped short by Yamamoto's hand on his wrist.
"Maa maa Mukuro~ we'll lose them if you kill him now." he said, laughing.
"Then I'll kill them both quickly." Hibari replied, pulling out a pair of tonfa.
Tsuna squeaked as Yamamoto blanched, they replied in unison, one pale in fear while the other tried to laugh it off. "No it's fine!"
Hibari huffed, putting away his tonfa and walking into the store that Giotto and G had entered, the others coming in behind him.
Tsuna looked around, trying to spot the two hosts before being alerted by a melodious laugh.
"G, you look good like that..!" Giotto commented, holding back more laughter as he looked at his companion wearing two pink barettes in his hair. G crossed his arms,
"Who even uses these?" he argued, blushing as he tore the accessory out.
Giotto laughed again, at G's expense. "Tsuna or Mukuro could...since their bangs are so long." Giotto said thoughtfully.
"Your bangs are longer than theirs." G grunted as they continued looking around in the store.
"But I think bobbypins suit me more, don't you?" Giotto joked, placing several accessories in his hair as he laughed.
Tsuna and Mukuro stared at the two from where they hid.
'My bangs aren't that long..!' they though in unison as the other hosts watched from a much farther vantage point.
The group sighed in relief that they hadn't been caught yet as the two hid again.
"Ne, G, do you think Hibari would use this?" he asked, holding up a two inch long purple barette. "I mean...his bangs are always in his face." he said, unaware of the growing murderous aura.
The skylark glared at the girly item as if it would spontaneously combust under his gaze.
Byakuran looked at a section of hair ties, taking one and showing it to Mukuro, "Muku-kun~ I think this would look lovely on you~" he said teasingly, showing the blunette a gaudy pink scrunchie.
Mukuro glared, "Go die." he said in unison with a certain raven haired host. Both Byakuran and Mukuro looked confusedly in the direction of Hibari as he was cornered by Yamamoto.
"But Hibari... I want to see..." the face of the club said, holding the same purple barette. Tsuna paled at the antics of the other hosts. They were going to get caught!
"Y-you guys..!" he whispered frantically, "What if we get caught? Then you'll never know!"
Byakuran hugged Tsuna, laughing freely, "You're finally getting into this, ne Tsunayoshi~?" he said, tugging Tsuna into the racks of hats and sunglasses.
-x-
Tsuna sighed in relief as they watched G and Giotto leave yet another shop after nearly getting caught 6 times.
"Quick! After them..!" Mukuro said, slipping out the door once the pair had turned the corner. Hibari stared after the group, sighing in annoyance.
"Has it ever occured to you herbivores that they might not be romantically involved with each other?"
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"Giotto darling!" A feminine voice called as Giotto and G entered the liqour store.
"Daniela." The blond greeted, smiling as a woman approached the two hosts with open arms. She wore a black corset over a silk shirt of vibrant red, complimenting the equally red ribbon accessorizing dark curls of hair. Giotto squeezed an eye shut as the shopkeeper gave him a suffocating hug. As soon as he was released, the blond stepped closer to G's side. "Daniela, I brought G with me today" he announced for the red head, who nodded at her.
Daniela's eyes glimmered as she greeted the host. "How do you do?" she asked, not expecting a response. She gave her attention back to Giotto.
"Would you like a drink? It's rare for Reborn-san to give you a day off right?"
Giotto scratched his cheek sheepishly. "Eto. Daniela, actually, I was wondering if Ricardo was here." Giotto piped up.
Mukuro peeked out from behind a shelf of vodka, "Hoh? It seems like Giotto's got good connections..." he commented, looking back to the others.
"Is that so?" Tsuna asked, peeking out as well and watching as a man with dark hair tied in a ponytail behind him came out from a back room.
"Mm...I don't know, he may have gone out again. I'll go check. Just stay here ne?" The girl ordered merrily as she disappeared into the back of the store where an ominous black door opened as she entered.
Everyone in the store seemed to simply sit quietly, with the exception of a man in a top hat and a mask who browsed through the whiskey and a girl holding a basket already nearly filled with different brands of scotch.
"Does it have to be this place?" The red headed Italian asked, exasperated.
Giotto chuckled, "Don't worry about it, I'm sure Ricardo won't mind." the blond replied confidently, turning his attention towards the back of the store as a tall imposing man with dark hair tied in a ponytail at the base of his neck approached them, Daniela tailing at his heel.
"Uncle, Giotto and his friend wanted to know if you could spare us a bottle of wine." Giotto asked blatantly.
The taller blackette seemed irked by the request. "You can't drink it here?" He asked, arms crossed.
Giotto swayed back and forth lightly, "Well...it's for a good friend." he explained.
The store owner scoffed. "Why should I give it to you two for free?" he asked, looking at G, who glared back at him, not saying anything for the sake of whatever Giotto was planning.
And did he have a plan. Giotto stepped up to Ricardo, leaning up and resting delicate hands on the other's chest to whisper in his ear.
The stalkers blushed in unison. Giotto was seducing him?
"Wah~ Giotto-kun has more skill than I thought." Byakuran commented. He turned to Hibari
The stealthy hosts began to reconsider their opinions of the blonde as Ricardo seemed to flush red in embarrassment.
The dark haired man looked at Daniela. "Go get a bottle of Barolo (1), Daniela." he ordered.
"Yes sir!" Daniela replied estatically as she tried to keep down her laughter so as not to disturb the other customers.
"What did you tell him before?" G asked the other host as they left the store. Ricardo was never one to miss out on an extra dollar so naturally the red head would be suspicious if he was just handing out bottles of Barolo.
Giotto chuckled, "I told him I'd keep a secret for him." G's interest was further provoked.
"What was it?" he investigated as the two walked down the street. He adjusted his grip on the several bags he was holding, gifts they had already bought for the other hosts.
Giotto only smiled cryptically, "That's for me to know~" he replied, hugging the brown paper bag with the liqour in it.
The red head huffed as he was lead to Giotto's next destination on the agenda, a tailor shop. They both twisted out of the way as a series of knives flew past them, lodging themselves in a leafless tree, aka a telephone pole.
"See that Bel-sempai? You almost hit the customers." A green haired boy popped out from behind racks of clothing, wearing your average vest and collared shirt outfit with a measuring tape around his neck.
The man behind the counter had blonde hair that fell over his eyes, a small tiara adorning his hair as he grinned uncaringly. "Ushishishi.. If you just stayed still, that wouldn't happen." he turned to look at Giotto and G. "What do you two peasants want?" he asked.
"We're here to picked up a couple things under the name G." The tattooed man spoke up, standing slightly in front of Giotto as he passed off several bags to the other host.
The blonde store keeper looked to the green haired boy. "Fran. Go get it Froggy." The boy seemed to blink mechanically before replying.
"Why do I have to get it?" he complained, going into the back and returning with a large white bag with the store's logo on it.
"Ushishi~ because you're the prince's underling." Bel replied, ringing up the clothing. He looked at G from behind a veil of golden hair. "That'll be sixty-nine dollars and thirty-four cents, peasant. Pay up."
G glared, placing the money on the counter and taking the bag from Fran. Giotto smiled as G walked past him with a impatient, "C'mon...let's go back already.." The blonde host laughed melodiously, looking back to the two shop keepers. "Thanks for your help you two~!" But they didn't respond, Bel keeping Fran busy after cornering him against the counter.
"Ahaha!-"
G and Giotto both looked in the direction of the familiar laugh.
Giotto looked at G, "Did that sound like Yamamoto to you?" G shrugged as they continued their walk.
"It's not like I sit around and listen to him laugh all day." He replied.
Five pairs of eyes watched as the pair entered another store, rushing into a nearby house and peeking out from the gates as they hid from them.
"That was...kind of close wasn't it?" Yamamoto commented as he turned to look at the other four.
"Who's fault do you think that is, herbivore?" Hibari replied bitingly, not entirely pleased with being dragged into a random person's yard against his will.
The face of the host club ont laughed, apologizing lightly to the other hosts.
"Anyways." Mukuro spoke up, "It's getting late, we should go back before they do. We can't draw any conclusions-"
"What are you guys doing in front of my house?"
The quintet whirled around in surprise.
Tsuna blinked rapidly, "G-Gokudera-kun? You live here...?" the brunette flushed as he realized the silverette's state.
Gokudera was clad in only a pair of unbuttoned shorts, red boxers peeking out as he held onto the ends of the towel resting on his shoulders. His hair was damp as it clung to the back of his neck, droplets of water falling onto the towel from the darkened tips of silver hair. His eyes showed slight displeasure with the trespassers, but that went away when they settled on Tsuna. "Yeah. This is my house...so...why are you here?"
Tsuna wasn't sure how to reply to that, and luckily, he didn't have to as Byakuran spoke up. "We're stalking G-kun and Giotto-kun to find out if they're together." The white haired man answered as if he was talking about baking cookies.
"Weren't you taking your finals, Gokudera?" Yamamoto asked, admiring the house.
Gokudera shrugged, "I finished early."
Mukuro chuckled, "Typical..." he looked back towards where they had last seen the two hosts. "Oya? We should probably head back before those two can get there." He suggested as the hosts realized that they had lost sight of the blonde and red head.
The hosts gave collective nods and sounds of agreement before saying quick farewells and dashing off. Gokudera stared after the group, cursing lightly before returning to his house, rubbing dry his hair with the towel.
Giotto opened the club doors, humming as he called to the other tired hosts as the clock struck 12:30am. "We're back~!-" He blinked at the hosts sitting around at the table, all seeming slightly flushed in complexion."You've been down here the whole time?" He asked, several shopping bags hanging of his arms while G carried a few in one hand, placing them on the table.
"Yup~! We couldn't stop playing ghost!(2)" Byakuran chirped, making up a lie on the spot.
Giotto smiled, "Sounds like you guys had fun then~!" He replied, tugging G by the sleeve so that the red head couldn't escape back up to their room. He rifled through the bags before setting all but one down. The blonde pulled out a cake from the bag. "Since we're all still awake, let's do it like this then~" He placed the cake in front of Yamamoto. "Happy birthday Yamamoto!" he congratulated as the other clapped.
A chorus of "Happy Birthday, Yamamoto!"'s went around as the host all congratulated the club face who scratched the back of his head and laughed sheepishly.
"Ahaha~! Thanks everyone!"
G grunted before throwing various other bags at the remaining hosts. "Here."
They all blinked as they peered into the bags cautiously.
"What is this?" Tsuna asked, tugging out a purple pinstripe vest and dress shirt.
Giotto bent down, cutting up the cake and passing it around to the hosts. "Since we don't get day offs very often, I wanted to shop for you guys to make up for all the lost holidays! I got Reborn and
Gokudera something too." He said, proud of himself as he placed a fruit basket, the bottle of wine and several skull accessories on a table to give to the two missing persons. "Of course, G helped me a lot."
Tsuna smiled, "Thank you so much you two!" the receptionist said gratefully, polite as always.
The sound of bags rustling filled the room as the hosts opened their gifts as well, reactions varying.
Mukuro smirked at the new CD he had recieved, looking at G, "I love the cover design." he drawled sarcastically as he looked at the pineapple decorated album cover.
G smirked, "No problem, pineapple."
A flash blinded the hosts momentarily as Byakuran laughed, "Arigato ne~~ Giotto-kun, G-kun." He said, grinning as he popped a fluffy purple candy into his mouth. Peeps.
Giotto laughed, "You're welcome Byakuran~"
Hibari stared at the purple and black yukata he was given, obviously approving of it as he folded it meticulously and placed it back in his bag and putting it to the side carefully before picking up his piece of cake and eating with the others.
Giotto and G, who had finished their cake already, having started while the hosts opened their gifts.
Giotto stood up, yawning and rubbing his eye. "Mn...kinda tired now after all that walking...G'night everyone~!" He called, waving as the other hosts ate their cake. G stood up as well, following Giotto, "I'm heading up as well. See you guys."
The other hosts gave their own good nights and several more thank you's as the two hosts disappeared.
Hibari turned to look at Mukuro, smug almost. "You lost Herbivore."
Mukuro chuckled, "Now now, Hibari-kun, we don't have any evidence that they aren't yet."
Hibari brandished a sleek tonfa, "We don't have any evidence that they are."
"Yet." Mukuro added.
Yamamoto laughed, "Couldn't we just ask them?"
"No." Was the collective answer of the other hosts.
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G flopped back on the giant king sized bed, sighing. "A~ah... Today was really tiring with that bunch following us around..."
Giotto crawled onto the bed, snuggling up to G, "It was fun though right? We got to mess with them a little bit." G grunted, rolling to face Giotto as he wrapped his arms around the blonde's smaller frame and kissing him gently.
"You locked the door right?" He asked as the blonde began undoing his shirt buttons.
"Of course I did~"
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A/N:
Fancy: Thanks for reading all the way! I'll do my best to get it up faster next time! *rushed at the end to get chapter out on time*
(1)- Very very VERY expensive Italian wine. Considered one of the best in the world and is required by italian law to be aged for at least three years.
(2)- A game where the players go around in a circle and say one letter each. The objective is to spell out a word but not have yourself end up with the ending letter. Words must be longer than 3 letters and you're not supposed to tell people of the word you're thinking of. (It has entertainment value! I swear!)