JackalGod: Just to let your know, I don't particularly like Reborn, and while I've written him as a nice guy in some of my other KHR work, I'm not in this one, so just fare warning.
Tsuna had come home to a worried Haru who'd heard that he'd had an accident. The moment he was through the door the girl and wrapped her arms around him.
"I was worried!" she cried. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah I'm fine," said Tsuna gently prying her off. "Just got on Hibari-san's bad side. But it's nothing that won't heal."
"Oh I'm glad," he sighed with relief, hugging him again. "I worry about you and everything that keeps happening. I...I really like you and you're always in such dangerous situations and I can never do anything."
"I'm sorry," said Tsuna feeling guilty. "Believe me if it were my choice none of this would happen."
"I know, just try to stay safe, please for me and everyone else that worry's about you."
"I try," said Tsuna with a smile, as Haru let go.
"I should go or else my mum will start worrying about me. Take care Tsuna," at that she leant over and pecked Tsuna on the cheek before leaving the house. Tsuna slowly raised a hand to his face, a slightly blush forming.
"She really worry's about you, you know," said Reborn from the couch were he was sipping tea.
"What do you care," sniffed Tsuna heading for the stairs. "I'm going to bed."
"You should marry her."
"What!" exclaimed Tsuna. "Stop saying such weird things."
"It would be good for the family," said Reborn seriously. "Haru is loyal, dedicated, trustworthy and it's a plus she already has feelings for you."
"You really don't care about any one but yourself do you," said Tsuna his tone icy. "Sorry to burst your over inflated bubble, but I would never marry someone just because you though it was good for the family. The family can rot for all I care. Now I'm going to bed." With that Tsuna turned around and disappeared up the stairs.
"That boy is so inconvenient," sighed Reborn returning to his tea.
"Dinner is ready Reborn," said Bianchi emerging from the kitchen with a plate of food (made by Tsuna's mum.) "I head voices, has he come back yet?"
"Yes, and he's being a difficult as ever," sighed Reborn snapping his chopsticks and reaching for his meal.
Upstairs Tsuna lay on his bed, staring at the ceiling.
"Haru really does care for me," he mused. "And it's not like I don't like her. She's pretty, sensitive, nice to be around and likes me back. But hell if I'm marrying her just to make Reborn happy. I'll marry whoever I damn well want even if they're 'bad for the family.'" Tsuna sighed curling up into a ball. "What am I saying, this isn't like me at all. I hope sleep will help, I'm so tired."
The next day Tsuna was woken by the sun through his window. That was odd he though as he sat up and stretched. Usually it was Lambo or Reborn that woke him up. Never mind, he preferred this better. He glanced at his bedside table clock and noticed it was only seven O'clock. That was good, he'd have more than enough time before school now. He slid out of bed and while he was gathering his clothes he glanced sideways at his calendar
"Valentines is next week," he noted. "I wonder if I should get Haru and Kyoko something? Well they're the only...wait no they're not. Let's see, Haru, Kyoko, my mum, Bianchi, I-pin and umm Chrome if I can find her. That's a lot to buy for, umm, well I have a week I can think about it later." Tsuna left his room and after a waiting a minute or two for Lambo to finish he went into bathroom. He leant against the wall of the shower while washing his hair thinking about the up coming holiday. "I have to buy for the girls, but what about everyone else? Gokudera and Yamamoto are my best friends, I should maybe get them something to. No better not, they'll be getting truck loads from everyone else anyway. So just the girls, but still that's a few people. Umm, maybe something small for each of them, just to show I care. I know a flower each is sweet enough without being overly romantic." Having decided Tsuna turned and water off and stepped out of the shower. He dried himself and got dressed before going downstairs. Reborn sat at the table being fed by Bianchi while Lambo tucked into his own breakfast.
"Where's I-pin?" he asked as he sat down.
"I-pin-chan is in bed," said Tsuna's mum (what's her name?) "She's got a stomach ache from eating too much of the cake that Haru had brought over."
"Oh, is she okay?" asked Tsuna concerned.
"She'll be fine, it's just a stomach ache," said Reborn making Tsuna's eyes twitch.
"I'm going to head off early," said Tsuna when he was done eating. "See if I can grab Gokudera and Yamamoto on the way."
"Alright," said his mum and waved his off. Tsuna walked down the street at a leisurely pace, not paying much attention to anything in particular. He was at school before he even realised it, and glanced down at his watch. It's was only a quarter to eight, far too early to be walking into school. Late was bad, but too early and you were trespassing. Tsuna sighed and leant against the school gate thinking, wondering if Gokudera was still in the school infirmary.
"10th!" Obviously not, though Tsuna and he turned to see his bomb happy friend jogging across the school yard towards him. "Good morning!"
"You feeling better?" asked Tsuna.
"Much," replied Gokudera. "I'll definately get that bastard back..."
"No!" exclaimed Tsuna. "Just... never mind about it. I'm sorry for getting you in trouble as well."
"I'd do anything for you 10th," said Gokudera his eyes bright.
"Yeah I know," said Tsuna with a resigned sigh. Gokudera would always be Gokudera. "Though it looks like I'm a bit early for school today, no one else is here yet."
"Yeah only Hibari would get here this early, wanna go and get a snack and then come back?" asked Gokudera.
"We really shouldn't, snacking just after breakfast is really, but then again I suppose it wouldn't really be hurting anyone," mused Tsuna thoughtfully. "Okay why not, but just something small."
"Great!" exclaimed Gokudera enthusiastically.
"Something good happen?" asked Yamamoto appearing out of nowhere making Tsuna jump.
"W...where did you!?"
"I was going for a before school walk cause I got up really early this morning," explained Yamamoto cheerfully. "And I ran into him." He jerked his thumb behind him where Ryohei was punching the air.
"Big brother," greeted Tsuna waving catching the older boys attention.
"Extreme morning!" he exclaimed racing over.
"Never changes," sighed Tsuna. "Gokudera and I were going to get a bite to eat seeing as there's still over an hour before school. Did you guys wanna come?"
"We really shouldn't," said Yamamoto. "Snacking just after breakfast like this kinda makes me feel like a delinquent."
"If you don't want to that's okay," assured Tsuna. "We could just go for a walk."
"But 10th I haven't had breakfast," muttered Gokudera.
"You could have just said," sighed Tsuna. "Fine let's go get breakfast, we'll see you later okay?"
"Nah, I'll tag along," said Yamamoto. "If it's breakfast then that's okay."
"I must finish my warm up," said Ryohei before jogging off screaming at the top of his lungs. "To the Extreme!"
"He worries me sometimes," deadpanned Tsuna. "Well anyway, let's go and get breakfast."
"Finally food," moaned Gokudera grateful as they headed towards the train station. "But just something small."
In the end they just grabbed a burger each from the nearest fast food joint. By the time they were heading back it was nearly bell time. In the end they wound up running back to the school and making it to the classroom just on bell, but it wasn't a problem.
"We cut that kinda close," said Yamamoto sitting down.
"Not my fault you can't run for crap!" snapped Gokudera, making Tsuna sweatdrop.
"I don't think his running is the problem," groaned Tsuna, flopping down in his seat. Truth be told he'd been positive that Hibari would have 'bitten him to death' the second he'd walked through the gate. Not that he particularly wanted it to happen, he'd just assumed on account of what happened yesterday between them. That said he hoped the older boy was okay.
"Good morning Tsuna," greeted Kyoko pulling him from his thoughts.
"Oh hi Kyoko-chan," replied Tsuna. "Did you want something?"
"Actually yes," replied Kyoko pulling out a newspaper article. "According to some scientists there's a meteor shower tonight, so I thought I would invite everyone who was interested. The best place for it is apparently up by the Shrine."
"So how many is everyone?" asked Tsuna reading the article.
"Oh you know just the 'family'" said Kyoko flippantly. "But I'd thought you'd like it to."
"That sounds cool, I'll pass it on to the others," said Tsuna handing the article back. He kept forgetting that Kyoko was now aware of the truth. She'd bought her brothers lies, or so they'd thought but even she couldn't ignore how bad things kept popping up one after another, so he'd had no choice. With Reborn to help he'd sat the girl down and explained it. At first she'd been horrified at the idea, but when she realised how into it her brother was she calmed down. She was however quite blunt about not being involved in it. Reborn had agreed saying that Ryohei would have a cow if his sister ever got involved in something dangerous.
Kyoko smiled and walked off with the newspaper.
"So what was that about tenth?" asked Gokudera leaning over.
"Meteor shower tonight, I was thinking of rounding everyone up and going to watch it."
"That sounds like fun," said Yamamoto. "Everyone, like all the guardians?"
"Well yeah, that's the idea," said Tsuna then paused realising 'all' would involve Hibari as well. "But I'll skip on Hibari-san. He wouldn't want to come any way."
"Who wants him there anyway!" snapped Gokudera. "You better not invite Mukuro either."
"But he's still family," said Tsuna. "At least he might want to come. He and Chrome might want to watch the shower together."
"Well if you think so," said Gokudera. "Then it's okay with me 10th. If he tries something I'll kill him."
"It'll be fine, it's just a meteor shower," said Yamamoto offhandedly.
"That's the attitude that puts the 10th in danger!" snapped Gokudera.
'Here they go again,' sighed Tsuna as Gokudera went into a full blown rant. 'I wish Gokudera would be nicer to Yamamoto.'
Nothing really happened in this chapter but chapter five is on it's way!