"Lambo is the best!"
"Lambo get down! High places-dangerous!" I-Pin called.

Gokudera's nerves were on their limits. When Reborn said that he had a special mission for him he could never imagine that he would end up baby-sitting. Tsuna had training with Reborn, Hana had to visit her doctor and she couldn't take the kids along. Yamamoto was occupied by the baseball club, Haru was busy that day and Tsuna couldn't ask Kyoko to babysit for him so he was their only option left. Of course, if he could he would have avoided the task for sure, but he didn't want to disappoint Tsuna or Reborn.

"Lambo! Get down! Playing there-dangerous!"
"Do what she says stupid cow!" Hayato snapped, grabbing Lambo.
"Let me down Octopus' head!" Lambo yelled.

The bell rang just when the two of them were ready to get into a fight. Gokudera ran to open the door hopeful that his time as a babysitter had come to an end, letting Lambo fall down as a result. Maybe someone had come to save him already. Full of joy that he would be free soon, he opened the door quickly only to make a face of disappointment a few seconds later. Lambo and I-Pin looked at him confused by the shift of his mood.

"A-ki-ra..."

"Gokudera..." she wan't as surprised as he was.
"Why are you here?"
"Mister Reborn asked me to take care of the kids because he was worried that you couldn't handle it."
"What?"
"I also brought something to eat."
"A-ki-ra! Akira!" Lambo cheered and jumped on her.
"LAMBO!"

Two months had passed since the day they had met that girl. Since that day, Reborn had managed to make her come closer to the family; Lambo was the most attached to her, to Gokudera's displease. She could get as annoying as Lambo, especially when she was with him and I-Pin.

"Food!" Lambo cheered grabbing the box she was holding.

Gokudera sighed. A least Lambo would stay quiet while he was eating he thought, trying to look at the bright side. Suddenly a bento appeared in front of him as well. Gokudera blinked and looked at her. Akira was standing there waiting and so Gokudera moved his hands towards it hesitantly.

"It's for you, Gokudera!"

"Ah, thank you," Hayato said taking it.

He watched the strange girl as she was taking her place beside him. Lambo and I-Pin were already eating theirs, they had a great apetite. Gokudera turned to his own bento taking out his chopsticks but when he eventually took a closer look at it his mouth hanged; the rice was actually shaped into a heart. He realised that even though she had not mentioned it for a while, all this time this girl hadn't given up on that idea. Hayato looked at her with the corner of his eyes feeling his cheeks burning. He decided that it would be better not to comment on this and he took his first bite nervously. His face joined Lambo's and I-Pin's expressions.

"This tastes good!" he said looking at the box surprised.
"Miss Nana says that love pass through one man's stomach! She also gave me some tips!" Akira said excited.

Gokudera sweat dropped at this comment and the corners of his lips moved spasmodically. He tried to keep eating his meal but due to his nervousness, while the others were about to finish theirs, he hadn't eaten even the half of it. Few minutes later the usual noise filled the house. When they finished cleaning around, Akira joined the kids.

"That's not supposed to be how a woman acts," Hayato mumbled while watching them.
"Gokudera! We decided that we want to take a walk!
"The great Lambo wants to go for a walk!"

"I-Pin wants too!"

"Hold on a moment!" Hayato tied to protest.

It was too late; all of them had run outside forcing Gokudera to run after them. If something were to happen to them, he would be the one responsible. Therefore, as those kids weren't willing to stop, he found his self pouting while following them around the streets of Namimori. Unfortunately for him he soon lost sight of them when he drew his attention away just for a moment.

"That's why I hate playing tag," he growled.

"AAAAhhhh"

Lambo's annoying voice rang into Gokudera's ears; at least he would be able to find them now. The point was that he didn't even have to search for them as the three hurricanes were running towards him laughing. His eyes rolled as they were getting closer and closer running faster than he would expect; and before he is able to react they bumped into him.

Gokudera fell back hitting his back on the ground, his eyes closed for a few seconds and when he opened them again, he was surrounded by a purple smoke. He coughed, trying to see around him, while he was hearing steps fading away mixed with yells and cries; most likely those kids had run away again. He clawed his nails on his jeans clearly pissed, ready to scold everyone for good. He looked up, trying to find his first victim when he saw a strange figure standing right in front of him.

Gokudera blinked and stood up trying to take a better look. When the fumes finally cleared, and he managed to see who that person was, his eyes opened wide. Right in front of him was standing a woman, about 19-20 olde with long black and onyx eyes. She was about half a head taller than him. He gulped when she turned and looked around her with narrowed eyes. Her right hand was placed nonchalantly in her pocket while she was holding a rope with the other one.

"Don't tell me," she said with a deep feminine voice looking around her startled.

'Tall, strong, mysterious... These eyes.. This voice... The woman of my dreams!'

The heart of the young Mafioso started beating fast as he had just seen a dream turning into reality. Gokudera's cheeks burnt and he stayed there stunned. The young woman looked troubled, however in the sight of Gokudera she looked surprised and then smiled, and her mood changed pretty fast.

"You..." she said. "Don't tell me…"
"I... I... I'm Gokudera," Hayato shuttered. "...Ha-yato."

'Ah! I can't believe it!" she said placing her hands on his shoulders while Gokudera's heartbeat was getting faster and faster.

"Ah.. euhm... I.. huh..." Gokudera vocalized.

"You look great... and kind of short!" she joked. "It's been-"

With these words Gokudera fainted; all this was too much for him. After all, even though he was acting all cool around girls because he wasn't interesting in one; the truth was that he was really nervous when things were coming into the point... of relationships.

"Hayato… It... Aki… You… Ok?"

'Aki?...If I stay like this will I get the CPR. Does this mean that I'll get my first kiss?' he thought.
"Gokudera?"
"Hahaha! Lambo beat Octopus-head!" he heard feeling someone jumping on him.

"Lambo lies!"

Gokudera's eyes opened immediately and instead of that girl I-Pin, Lambo and Akira were leaning over him blinking. Without losing time he lifted up his body and looked around him.

"Where is she?"
"Who? I-Pin saw no one."
"That girl!"

"Hahaha...Octopus-head is seeing things! It's because the great Lambo beat him hard."

"A girl! I mean a woman! A woman! She was here a minute ago!"

"Gokudera, are you hallucinating?" Akira asked.

"But I saw her! And she touched me, I could feel it and then..."

"Pervert," Akira said pouting.
"What?"
"Let's go," she added taking the kids away.
"I'm telling you the truth!" Hayato insisted. "Che... Whatever," he continued when nobody turned to face him.

He didn't really care, he just looked at the position that girl was standing. Maybe she was busy and she had to go, but he had decided, he had to find that woman because he had just found…his dream-girl.

"Gokudera, earth is here," he heard and he saw a hand waving in front of his face.
"Euh?" Hayato exclaimed turning back to reality.

"Octopus-head was blushing!"
"I-Pin saw it too!"
'Shut up, stupid cow!" Hayato said grabbing Lambo.

"Octopus-head can't catch Lambo," Lambo said taking water balloons out of his head. "That's for yelling at the great me!"

Lambo threw the balloons straight into Hayato's face and they exploded. The water got Gokudera's hair and clothes wet. Lambo was challenging his luck; Gokudera's blood was boiling with anger and the little guy would have received some serious damage if someone else didn't get in the middle.

"Gokudera!" Akira said taking Lambo away. "How can you act like this? He is just a little kid!"
"What? Didn't you see what he just did? Don't defend him!"
"Huh! Gokudera is always mean to Lambo!" Lambo complained.
"It's your own fault!" Hayato snapped.
"You could try to be nicer to him."
"Che.."
"Why don't you try?" she asked turning Lambo to face him.
"Ah?" Lambo exclaimed quizzically.

They looked at each other, she looked at her for a second Akira and then back to Lambo. Few moments passed with Gokudera and Lambo looking at each other's eyes, while I-Pin was watching them anxiously. Gokudera was fighting with his self on whether he should take Lambo in his hand or not. He finally decided to take him swallowing his pride, yet the time he tried to extend his hands Lambo started crying.

"Akira! Lambo don't want to go!" Lambo said turning to her lacing his hands around her neck.

"You little..." Gokudera growled balling his fists.

"At least, it was a start," she said making Gokudera turn surprised. "You stayed facing each other without arguing for a couple of minutes, that's a progress," she added sighing.

"Hahaha! Lambo would do better, but octopus-head had a strange glow in his eyes. Lambo saw it because Lambo is a great Hitman and he can tell!"
"That's wrong Lambo!" I-Pin said.
"You litte de-" he was ready to smack his fluffy head.

"See, Gokudera?" she said interruptig him. "You can do a lot if you try, maybe it will be better next time."

"Hu..Huh..." Hayato said and she nodded looking serious.

"Let's go back Lambo, I-Pin," she said turning to them.

Gokudera looked at this odd girl closely. For a very first time he noticed that despite he looks; despite the fact that she was looking so young and little, she was actually looking very mature when she wanted to. Moreover it was the first time someone talked to him like that. He smiled without noticing.

"This girl..."

Gokudera shook his head to make these thoughts go away. After all he had other things to think about; like finding a specific someone, or better a specific woman and indeed soon. He couldn't miss the woman or his dream, especially in the upcoming day.