Author's Note:
I made sure I would finish this during New Years, so here it is, the moment we've all been waiting for, Hibari and Dino's meeting! Too bad it's not so romantic, XD. It took me a while to write this chapter, I'm not really the romantic type unless it is angsty, suspenseful, or dramatic, ha ha. And my sister was downloading something that made the computer retarded -_-But alas, I wrote it with ideas coming at me little by little. My hardest part was writing Dino's description of Hibari without getting all sappy and exaggerated, XD, but it probably is, ha ha. I had lots of fun with the Yamamoto and Gokudera scene, and the Tsuna vs. Hibari scene, XD. Good news is, I'm more than halfway done with the next chapter, that one was definitely fun… probably because it has my three favorite characters in it (in order: Hibari, Mukuro, and Chrome). Anyways, enjoy readers, and have a happy New Year!
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Warnings: Some bad language, sexual humor, crossdressing, shounen-ai, triangle or threesome (still thinking on that), and a violently pissed Hibari.
Ch. 4 The Unexpected Encounter
Five minutes had passed, and Hibari was still stuck in this dastardly dress! The only thing he had accomplished doing was ripping off the skirt so much that it looked like a miniskirt (thankfully he had boxers underneath). He tried once again to pull the bottom up. It would not budge. The prince growled and sat inside his Resting (not Comfort) Box, crossing his arms like a spoiled child who did not get what he/she wanted. If Hibari had his choice, he would have ripped the dress up into pieces. But, knowing his mother, he did not, as he always tried to stay on his mother's good side. His mother's bad side was a whole different story that he would rather not bother at all.
Defeated by mere clothing, Hibari contemplated over a way to escape from the basement to his room without anyone seeing him, so he would at least keep his dignity. Maybe he could skip school for today (he felt miserable for ever thinking of neglecting Namimori) and stay here till nightfall so that by the time he came out, everyone was fast asleep. Other ideas were laid out, but he had no time to picture them when a loud crash arrived near the walls of the basement. Dust gathered up in that direction and Hibari got up to see what had happened. Moving closer, he backed away just as a groan sounded. An intruder, Hibari thought. Taking out his tonfas he called out, "Who's there?"
No answer. Hibari waited for the dust to disperse in order to get a better look. He glared when he saw a blonde man in foreign clothing.
"I'll bite you to death," the prince threatened, placing one tonfa under the man's chin.
Dino, somewhat falling out of his stupor, held his hands up drunkenly and murmured, "No need… No need to..."
Hibari raised an eyebrow. "What are you doing here?"
"An… accident."
His vision clearing and his brain functioning correctly, Dino was amazed by the sight he was seeing. Slim waist and a slight curve of the hips that looked somewhat fragile (though we all know Hibari's not the fragile type); a dress that was a creamy custard color which looked nice with pale skin; peculiar but adorable Hibird-patterned boxers with Namimori's school colors that concealed what the dress could not; nice slender arms and legs; and the most significant part, the face, which was slightly round and had alluring onyx eyes that seemed to brighten fiercely with Hibari's glare; fine lips, and jet black hair that looked smooth to the touch. All in all to Dino, who hadn't seen a woman in gosh knows how long, drop-dead gorgeous.
Dino was sure this was not King Tsuna's daughter, Chrome Sawada. As seen in the Sawada family profile, Chrome's portrait looked nothing like this woman's. And the voice was a bit low compared to what he expected the princess's voice to sound like.
"Who are you?" Hibari carried on his interrogation.
"Dino Cavallone," the assassin said in his trance. What was wrong with him?! He was supposed to think of an alias!
"Cavallone, who would name their child that?"
"No, no, it's my last name. And yours is?"
"Hmph, I might as well tell my victim the name of the man who will kill him. It's Hibari. Now prepare to be bitten to death!"
Dino ducked from a blow, and pushed himself up; only to fall down as another closely hit his head. She's fast, Dino thought. Taking out his whip, Dino jumped aside from the woman, then uncoiled his whip and clasped it onto one of Hibari's tonfas. Hibari growled and pulled his trapped tonfa. Dino stood on his heels and was able to force the woman's grip to release the tonfa. Unluckily, as the assassin was about to grab the tonfa, it hammered at his head and he collapsed yet again. Hibari smirked.
"Pathetic," Hibari remarked, "but after that attack, I guess I was wise to assume you were an intruder. Die."
Holding his tonfa threateningly against Dino's cheek, Hibari spoke vehemently.
"I'll give you five seconds to explain yourself, intruder. 5…"
"Wait!"
"4."
"You're mistaken!"
"3…2…"
"Look Hibari," Dino walked up to Hibari, and tripped over a cord. He held onto Hibari for support, and ended up bringing him down with him.
Expecting a hard drop to the floor, Dino was surprised when he didn't feel much pain. Instead, his lips were pressed on something soft. He hovered his head a little to see he had just kissed a pale thigh. Dino's right hand was on something that was just as soft. Pushing himself up a little, he noticed the soft thing was sort of well, squishy. The body beneath him jerked. Dino thought that if his lips were on Hibari's thigh, then his hands were… oh dear.
Hibari, who ended up being the cushion for the fall, blushed and almost yelped when he felt something squeeze his left butt cheek.
"Get off of me!"
He pushed Dino off, and swiftly got up. Then, Hibari felt a wet, cold, and slimy thing on his thigh, and looked down. Saliva. Quickly, he swiped it away with the sleeve of his dress. He glared at Dino.
"Eheheh," was all Dino could say at that moment.
"You really are wishing for your death sentence, Cavallone." Only a couple minutes they had met, and Hibari was already saying his surname like it was a curse.
"Hibari," Dino tried one last time, "could you please listen to me just this once?"
Hibari continued his stare for a few seconds before his arms fell to the side. "Fine, but only because I don't want you making a foolish move like that again. State your business here."
"I'm applying to serve as a knight."
Hibari smirked. "Aren't you lucky? I got several of the knights here fired for pulling bone-headed remarks. Let's hope you don't do the same thing."
Good, good, Dino thought, he was getting through the woman.
"Though of what use you are, I have no clue." That was rather rude, Dino thought.
"If you're able to fire knights," Dino questioned, "of what status are you?"
"Higher than yours," Hibari commented. This woman sure knew how to bring a guy down. She must be influenced by Reborn, Dino thought.
"Mind explaining how you ended up here?" Hibari asked.
"Um, well," Dino began, "the king allowed me to look around before he hired me. I must have gotten lost and ended up falling from the door up there."
Pointing up to the ancient door swinging in the air, Hibari frowned. "Fa… the king didn't even tell you about the basement?"
"Must have slipped his mind." That's so like my father, Hibari groaned mentally.
"How about you?"
"I live here."
"In this basement," Dino gasped. Hibari threw his other tonfa at Dino's forehead.
"Of course not! I live in this castle."
"Got that."
"Cavallone," Hibari threatened, "if you're going to live here, you better stay away from me or else you'll face a far worse case than death. I won't have you falling on me in so humiliatingly a posture again."
So this woman was Miss Doom and Gloom, Dino commented in his head.
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Chrome, who finally managed to free herself from the small encased dumbwaiter, had a hard time seeing anything, with her one eye, in the darkness. "Little brother?"
"Could you help me up here, Hibari?" A foreign voice (literally with Dino's Italian accent)! She ran to a corner and hid behind a couple of boxes to see what was going on. The princess's violet eye widened when she peeked and saw Hibari pick up the stranger. My little brother's helping! And it's a total stranger he's helping!
"Little brother!"
"Chrome?" Hibari turned towards his sister.
"What are you doing, little brother," Chrome asked worriedly.
"Helping this herbivore up so I can kick him out."
"You don't even know him!"
"He said his name was Dino Cavallone." Chrome remembered this name from somewhere, but was more worried about Hibari at this time.
"So you're not strangers because he told you his name?"
Hibari paused to think about that. "…Yeah."
"Little brother!"
While the siblings argued, Dino was taking in the information he just got. Chrome? That meant that the person he was talking to was the… Oh great, even the prince had an alias readily made. What was going on with himself lately? Wait… prince?
"You're a guy?!"
Everything went silent. Dino made a major mistake in saying that. He wanted to crawl up in a corner when he sensed and saw the dark aura that surrounded Hibari he would have never seen in his whole life as the top assassin. So much for the goody-good first impression. The prince grabbed Dino by his jacket and threw him back up to the doors he came from.
Though Dino was a foreigner, Chrome felt sorry for the assassin getting involved with her brother. She then gaped when she saw Hibari get into the dumbwaiter, leaving his legs out so he could move freely as he pulled the rope to bring him up. So that's what he does! She exclaimed in her thoughts.
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Three knights strolled around the castle, talking about whatever knights talk about. They grinned lecherously as a woman stomped across from their path, dragging some huge baggage, they thought.
"Oi Jeff, now's your time," joked one of them. The bald guy in the middle shook his head.
"Nah, can't do it without feeling guilty with my wife at home," he said, "why don't you do it Bill?"
"Oh I'll do it," said the third, "Hey toots, need some help with that?!"
They jumped when the so-called 'toots' turned around and revealed herself to be Hibari. He glared murderously and prowled closer to them. "What was that again?"
"Ahaha, we didn't know it was you, Hibari."
"Yeah, we were just joking around."
"Joking, really?" Hibari smirked. "Then why don't I show you something to laugh about?"
The three men shivered when they saw that what Hibari was actually dragging was a man.
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From the Throne Room, you could hear begging and pleading, then screams and the clanking and clashing of metal.
"What's going on out there?" King Tsuna asked.
His question was shortly answered as the three knights and Dino were thrown through the bolted doors and skidded across the carpet floor. Hibari entered and put one foot on top of the knocked out men. He glowered at his father. He's really pissed, Tsuna thought, nervously chattering his teeth.
"Kyoya, my nephew," Ryohei shouted, "I want you to join…"
"No." Hibari knocked Ryohei on the head with his tonfas. At first, Tsuna panicked as blood spilled out of Ryohei's head, but was soon relieved when Ryohei sat up and yelled, "Continue fighting to the extreme, Kyoya!"
He went unconscious soon after.
The knights, who were around the room, stared at Hibari's unusual choice of wear.
"What are you all staring at?"
They shook with fear when Hibari came over to them and held up their shields for protection. Hibari simply rammed his knees through their armor, which dug into their stomachs, beating the air out of them.
The king flinched when Hibari turned to look at him. In Tsuna's perspective, he could literally see the Dying Will Flames emitting from his son.
"Father," the prince ordered, "I want all these men fired from their jobs. And this guy…"
Hibari held up Dino, who was slightly regaining consciousness. "I would advise you not to hire."
"I can't do that to all my men!" Tsuna exclaimed instantaneously, "And that guy, ugh…"
"Dino," the assassin murmured. Tsuna thought that it was a bold move to use his actual name instead of an alias.
"Dino is your second guardian knight." Hibari's eyes narrowed and raised his tonfas.
"Do you think I can't defend myself, father?"
"Well, for now, I really don't," Tsuna answered honestly, having Mukuro on his mind. Hibari's glare deepened.
"Then why don't I show you?"
"Don't be rash, Hibari-san!" Tsuna exclaimed. Hibari stalked up to his father anyway, readily in his fighting stance.
"Wait Kyoya."
Both father and son looked up to see Reborn standing on top of Tsuna's throne.
"You can't fight the king until he accepts," Reborn raised his gun to King Tsuna's head, "which he will."
"Wait, Reborn, don't!" Bang! Tsuna fell to the ground. Reborn shot the king! Dino exclaimed in his head.
"Reborn! Fight my son as if I were to die!" Tsuna stood up in only boxers, the Dying Will Flame blaring on his forehead. The profiles weren't joking, Dino thought, that King Tsuna liked to fight half naked.
"Well, won't this be fun?" Hibari commented.
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Yamamoto and Gokudera, the soul survivors of Hibari's rampage, hurriedly headed out before the battle between father and son commenced. Once safely at a distance, they laughed.
"Ha ha," Yamamoto laughed, "I can't believe what I just saw there. It was enough that Hibari-san was wearing a dress, but to add a half naked king? Wow!"
"I respect the Tenth," Gokudera snickered, "but that was hilarious! Especially when you saw how serious they were!"
"Yeah, yeah," Yamamoto gasped out, "I would have stayed to watch the fight, except I'd rather be able to move today than be beaten to death from laughing."
As he pulled himself together, Yamamoto thought of something that was pretty peculiar to him.
"Hey Hayato," he asked, "you know how Hibari-san always fights men? How come he never fights women?"
"First of all, it would make him look stupid," Gokudera explained, "And secondly, everyone knows that the guy's a Mama's Boy."
"Really?!" Gokudera wanted to punch the knight real badly.
"Yes, and it was obvious when you saw him as a child always clinging onto the queen, idiot."
"That's true. But what does that have to do with not fighting women?"
"If you love your mother, you respect women." Though this did not relate to Gokudera, who was rebellious no matter what.
"I didn't think of that."
"That's because you always have baseball on your mind, you fanatic."
"Not true, I think of you."
"Stop with that sappy romantic crap!" Gokudera then forced Yamamoto to bow down so his lips were next to his ear. "Okay, this is supposed to be a secret; however I'll let you in on it if you promise not to tell."
"My lips are sealed."
"Close enough. Anyways, there's another reason why the guy would never harm a woman."
"What is it?" Gokudera whacked the back of Yamamoto's head.
"I'm getting to that!" He went on. "There was this rumor this guy told me about my sister."
"Bianchi?"
"Would you stop interrupting? Well, he said that one time, the bratty prince came to the kitchen to personally request a meal from my sister.
The brat was about six then, and saw Bianchi's wedding ring for Reborn."
"She was going to propose to Reborn?"
"In her dreams, yes. So, like any kid, he was attracted to the shiny object and decided to play with it. Apparently it slipped out of his hand and went into the drain of the kitchen sink. Bianchi heard about it and was pissed, like she always is with every Reborn-related shit. She took her revenge on the brat by poisoning his food. The guy wouldn't stop throwing up for a whole three weeks."
"Wow, I feel sorry for Hibari-san now. How do you know it was true if it was just a rumor?"
"The guy doesn't eat anything that is made from the kithcen, remember?"
"Oh right. What about the Japanese food?"
"It was made from Japan."
Yamamoto laughed.
"And since when did you call that guy Hibari-san?" Gokudera eyed Yamamoto suspiciously.
"Since he told me to." Gokudera rolled his eyes and turned his head away from Yamamoto.
"Idiot." Yamamoto smiled and wrapped an arm around Gokudera's shoulder.
"I know, but you still love me, right?"
"Shut up!"
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"Boss," called Romario, watching the other men bring in some covered equipments and suitcases, "sorry it took so long for us to come back. The equipment was much heavier than we expected. And we… Boss?"
The men were shocked seeing all the knights, Ryohei, King Tsuna, and their boss lying on the floor and beaten badly.
"Boss!" The men dropped everything in their hand to head up to their leader.
"Did Mukuro do this?!"
"No," Dino murmured, spitting some blood out, "just a rambunctious teenager."
"You have no idea," Tsuna moaned.
Author's Note:
Hmm, this was longer than I expected it to, XD. And boy, a very aggravated Hibari is not a good thing for these guys, ha ha. Everyone be happy that Mukuro will appear in the next chapter!!! YAY!!! And some small drama. Yay!!!
