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Here's chapter 4. Enjoy.

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Recap:

"Yeah, really. I don't think it's weird, but come on who am I to say if your name is weird or not when my second last name means." He was laughing after he was done talking. Tsuna's attention snapped back up to Giotto not because of his words, but because of his laugh. It was wonderful in Tsuna's opinion. He never heard someone laugh like this before not with a complete stranger at least, and certainly not with him. It was so real, sincere, and full of live that he couldn't help but laugh a little too even if it made him blush even more.

"So Tsuna, what brings you to the park?" He asked after the laughter died down.

At that question Tsuna's little happy smile was wiped cleaned off his face.

Tsuna's P.O.V:

'Who can I answer that? Oh nothing much Giotto-san, I was just being verbally harassed by a sadistic bastard who found out my inner most important secret and for some reason I can't begin to comprehend he is now interested in me. And there also this other sadistic person in my school that likes 'biting people to death', and I'm currently his target, the reason being sadistic bastard number 1's fault. So I fought sadistic bastard number 2, escaped and ended up hiding here, so you know, the usual. Yeah I can see that conversation going well. Not.' Tsuna internally sighed.

"I didn't have anything else to do so I just kind of ended up here." I lied looking away because I can't lie to his face. When I receive no response I look back at him, and found him just staring at me still smiling. I waited to see if he would say anything but he didn't, he just kept staring.

I blinked.

Stare.

I looked directly into his eyes this time not just his face in general. Big mistake.

Stare.

I could feel sweat starting to form on my forehead.

'Why won't he say something? He just keeps staring at me. Damn I think he already knew it was a lie from the beginning.'

Stare.

Stare.

Stare.

I sighed in defeat.

"You didn't believe a word I just say do you?" I asked already knowing the answer.

"Nope" He said happily.

"How did you know I was lying?" I asked actually curious.

"Call it intuition. And adding to the fact that you didn't look at my face when you said, plus I saw you enter the park running really fast as if you were running from the devil himself." He said in his normal velvety voice.

'They were two actually. But he isn't so far off in that comparison.' I thought.

"I see." I said, visibly sweat dropping.

"So you want to try again?" He asked, referring to answer his earlier question.

"Only if you tell me why you're here first." I said. I have no idea where that came from, nor did I know where the courage to say that came from either because my heart is still beating like crazy. I guess I'm just desperate to not answer the question anytime soon.

Giotto-san looked a little surprised at my reply and arched a perfect brow but then his normal kind smile was back.

"Alright, seems fair. An answer for an answer." He said. I nodded at his reply.

"I come here every day to clear my mind after school, and forget all the stuff I have to do, all the expectations people have of me. It's kind of my place to get away from it all, you know. And this is actually my favorite spot because I have a perfect view of the whole park, the playground, the little pond, the flower bed, the hill, the entrance, everything. I was when I first arrived in Namimori and somehow ended up in this place, and it was so peaceful that now I don't stop coming here. Sometimes people just need to stop, stop thinking, talking, working, studying, worrying about their problems, just stop completely and watch how beautiful and quite the world can be. And that is what I come here for, to stop doing and worrying about other stuff, and afterwards I can focus better on my duties." He said all this with a far off look in his eyes as he looked at the scenery playing before him, with a small smile on his plump lips.

"Ah, I think that I just told you more than you wanted to know. I was ranting. Warina." He said after he looked at me again, the far off look gone from his eyes now replaced with his usual spark.

"Ummm, no it's ok I don't mind." I said. I really didn't mind it; I was actually admiring him when he talked like that. The way he said all that was so full of sincere passion. I wish I had a place like that, where I can stop doing everything and stop, and maybe just be myself.

"Oh ok then. You're turn." He said suddenly.

'Oh darn it. I got so lost in what he was saying I didn't think of what to say beforehand.' Tsuna mentally face palmed because it be weird to do it for real.

"I was um, huh…" I trailed of not sure how to phrase it, knowing lying to him wouldn't work anymore. He was smiling at me with those big blue beautiful eyes hanging on my every word. I sighed dejectedly.

"I was being chased by some violent people." I said truthfully, but without many details.

"Did they attack you? Are you ok?" He asked concerned. He face was now serious.

"Hai but I'm ok, I got away in time." I said.

"That's good. Do you know who they were?" He asked.

"Huh, yeah." I said hesitantly

"Can you tell me?" He asked with an eyebrow raised at my tone.

"A new classmate of mine who I just met today and um…" I trailed of worried about his reaction to the next person.

"And?" He encouraged.

"My school's Head of Disciplinary Committee." I said hurriedly just to get it over with.

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"The Head of the Disciplinary Committee attacked you?" He asked just to make sure he heard right.

"Hai." I said.

"You don't look like someone who would steal, get in fights or break the rules but you still got your schools prefect to come after you?" He said more to himself than to anyone else. And I do get in fights on a daily basis just not the way his referring to. My fights involved me being a animated punching bag for a bully.

"Hai." I said softly.

"May I ask how did you manage that?" He asked.

"He said I was tainting the school grounds with my useless herbivore presence after school hours when I'm not in any club so it's considered breaking the rules." I said simply.

Awkward silence…

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"I'm sorry what? Herbivore?" He asked confused after an eternity of awkward silence or so it seemed to Tsuna.

"Hibari-san is a complicated person. He thinks if someone is weak physically and can't defend themselves then they are herbivore, you know simple plant eaters, but he seeks strong fighters and he calls those carnivores as in strong. His also obsessed with fighting and protecting Nami-Chuu and Namimori in general so yeah. Don't get me wrong he protects the weak at time too, like when there being bullied or can't help themselves he save them, but if they get annoying he 'bites them to death' as he says." I kind of rambled out.

"Ok. So he bite people he saves to death if they get annoying. People that can't defend themselves, and did nothing wrong?" He asked confused, but come on who wouldn't be.

"Umm yeah like I said Hibari-san is a very complicated individual." I said hoping to leave the topic there.

"Yeah, I agree." He said referring to my earlier statement.

How did we end up with such a serious topic that led to two awkward silence moments? We were fine at the beginning, me getting ridiculously nervous problem aside, apart from that we were having a nice talk. I don't know why I'm talking so much with a stranger about this stuff if I just met him, it's so unlike me.

We settled into silence again, but this time it wasn't uncomfortable. It was actually kind of nice. We were admiring the view before us when suddenly a green puff flew in our line of sight and landed on the ground before us then it started picking at it to see if it could find some food crumb. It was a little fluffy green bird that had a light blue line on its side, red on it stomach area, little paws, small beak and bitty eyes.

Giotto smiled at it, and reached into his pocket where he got a little paper back and threw on the ground in front of the bird what looked like bread crumbs.

"I see your back." He said this while looking at the bird happily. Then he looked up at me.

"I always see him every day in this exact same spot looking for food ever since I gave him some two weeks ago when I was having lunch here. I don't know his species or anything, I like his mix of colors, and I think his cute." He said. I just looked at him, and then to the bird then back at him.

"It's a Hooded Pitta. The Hooded Pitta or Pitta sordida is a passerine bird. It is common in eastern and southeastern Asia and the Maritime Southeast Asia, where it lives in different types of forests as well as on plantations and other cultivated areas. They can reach a length of 16 to 19 cm and a weight of 42 to 70 g. Their diet consists of various insects including their larvae, which they hunt on the ground, and berries. In the breeding period, which lasts from February to August, they build nests on the ground; both parents take care of the eggs and the fledglings. They are highly territorial and their fluty double-noted whistle calls can be constantly heard from their territories, sometimes throughout the nights." I said all the facts that I know of the bird.

Giotto just looked at me with an impressed expression. I blush profusely and turned to the bird.

"How do you know all that?" He asked.

"I read a lot." I said truthfully because all that I know about the birds and every other Japanese species there is, plus some not Japanese, I learned from two birds books, one from the school library, and one I bought after I finished the one from the school.

"And you memorized all that the first time." He asked.

I just nodded.

"Wow I'm impressed, that's some memory you got there. I bet you're really smart too." He said smiling now looking at my still red as a tomato face.

"It's not that impressive, and I'm not really all that smart it's just really easy to memorize." I said modestly.

He shook his head.

"Now you're just being modest." His smile grew.

"It's not that big a deal I just like learning about other things, and when I learn something I didn't know before I research it until I'm satisfied." I said as a matter of fact.

What I just said is true when I find out things that I didn't know about and found interesting, and worth learning more about I study it none stop which is we I read in two lunch breaks a 450 paged books about birds, and then the next day I bought a 510 paged book about birds at the library to satisfy my curiosity. Between both books there were over 2,000 bird's species, and Tsuna memorized every fact about each bird the first time he read them. He does have an incredible memory, and he is unbelievably smart, that goes without saying, but it helps when he understands it. When he understands something, especially on the first time, he never forgets it.

"I see. I'm like that too, but not exactly. I like learning about new things not just getting the same information old things I already knew about, and I certainly don't like being oblivious." He said happily.

"Information is not Knowledge." I said quoting Albert Einstein.

"Albert Einstein." He said.

I nodded.

"Now he was a genius." I said as a matter of fact. I studied his theories of relativity since I was nine. I read everything that he worked on, and that was made public, and loved it. I also love his quotes. Some are so simply but amazing, and others are just simply amazing.

"You know what is said about geniuses, right?" He asked playfully.

"Hm?" I tilted my head to the side in curiosity. Wait a minute is Giotto-san blushing? Why is he blushing?

"Daijobou Giotto-san?" I asked worried.

"Huh, hai." He said rapidly.

"Soka." I said.

Then he just shook his head, like when someone does to clear it.

"Intellectuals resolve problems, geniuses prevent them."

"Ah, of course." I said smiling lightly.

"Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious..." He quoted.

"Michael Stipe's, the American singer. You did some research on famous quotes." I said happily.

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" He quoted Einstein again.

"Well that makes sense, and it's also true." I said agreeing.

"The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes." He said. Again by Einstein.

"Hum, ok?" I said unsure as to why he's still quoting him.

"The world needs heroes and its better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler." He quoted, smiling.

"True." I said.

"There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle." He quoted.

"Also true. Giotto-san, why are you suddenly quoting Einstein so much? Are you bored or is it your imagination taking over or what?" I asked him.

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere." He quoted.

"Right but that doesn't answer my question." I told him.

"Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile." He said or quoted.

"I agree, but…" I was saying, but he started talking before I could finish. His smile by now was bigger.

"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." He quoted.

'My only problem is you randomly saying Einstein's most famous quotes nonstop without at least giving me a reason as to why.' Tsuna thought exasperadly.

"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough" He quoted.

"Explain what Giotto-san. You're not making any sense right now with that quote." I said to him starting to get frustrated.

'I think he should apply that quote to himself.' I thought.

"The only real valuable thing is intuition." He said. At that quote I froze. That quote is important to both me and him considering from what he told me earlier, he trust his intuition. As do I, it's saved me from some sticky situations.

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." He quoted. That brought me out of my thought. I sighed.

"When do you think you'll stop quoting Einstein?" I asked.

"I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!" He quoted, again.

"Giotto-san." I said his name while I sweat dropped.

At that he started laughing harder than last time. Full on laughing fit with tears in his eyes.

"Giotto-san, don't laugh at me." I practically whined at his laughing figure that's almost doubled over from his laughter. His oh so wonderful laughter that's like music to Tsuna's ears. Too bad his too flustered to appreciate it.

"I'm sorry you're just so cute when you get flustered. Hahahaha." He said then kept on laughing.

At hearing his words I was blushing for like the fifth time today. My eyes going wide.

'Cute? Did he really just call me cute?'

"I'm not cute, and I wasn't flustered." I said, but did not pout. Nope that certainly is not a pout on my lips.

He finally calms down from his laughing fit.

"Warina, warina. It just so amusing to see you like that I couldn't help it, I was having fun." He said. And I went completely rigid. Not because of his words, no, it was because of the fact as he said this he extended a hand and petted my hair while his other hand was wiping away the tears from his eyes caused by the laughing fit.

A big, but soft and warm hand ran through Tsuna's silky smooth gravity defying hair. Tsuna soon relaxed into the touch.

'It's so warm.'

Giotto-san suddenly looked at me in the eye and smiled his sweet smile. My blush came back tenfold.

"Well I'm gl-glad you en-enjoyed yourself." I said looking away, with a real nervous stutter accompanied by a blush with Giotto's fingers going through my brown locks now.

With the corner of my eye I can see him still smile at me. Then he looks at my hair.

"Your hair is really soft." He said randomly.

And I snapped my head back to stare at him with wide eyes.

"Huh…" I said.

"Just saying the truth." He said retracting his hand. And I immediately missed the warmth it brought.

He stood up, and stretched then turned to Tsuna.

"I'm starving, haven't eaten lunch yet. Are you hungry?" He asked.

"Yeah, a little bit." I said.

"Want to get some lunch?" Giotto-san asked.

"Ok." I said softly.

"Come on then." He said as he smiled brightly as he offered a hand to me to help me up from the bench. I took it slowly and he pulled me to my feet then he let go, and led the way.

We walked down the path towards the parks gate in a comfortable silence. Giotto-san looked at me and smiled.

I couldn't help but smile back.

To be continued…

Well, finished with chapter 4.

I just wanted to let you all know that I fixed the typos in the other chapters and reposted them. So now there you be none to barely any typos

Hope you enjoyed it so far. Please review if you want to continue this story…

Until next time,

Girl in Blue