Disclaimer: Katekyo Hitman Reborn Belongs to Akira Amano

Warning(s): Gokudera's bad language

Chapter Three

Accident

Tsuna was sure Mukuro was lying about being fine. But since he looked clearly disturbed he didn't bring it up again.

"How is it?"

Mukuro was just sipping his coffee. He seemed too immersed in his thoughts that he didn't hear Tsuna's question. Whatever he had seen had shocked him quiet a bit.

"Mukuro…" Tsuna called again. He seemed to snap out of his thoughts this time.

"You were saying something Tsunayoshi-kun?" He asked with a small smile.

Tsuna just shook his head. "I asked how the food tasted."

"Oh." He made an 'O' with his mouth. Then he smirked. "It tastes very nice. I should say but unfortunately my head hurts too much to say anymore."

"Whatever. Did you forget we still have classes to take today?" Tsuna had finished his meal rather quickly. He was standing up. "You should finish this and I don't know, get ready."

Mukuro groaned. The food was helping but he obviously had a big headache. Then there was the fact that he was still in yesterday's clothes. Tsuna had already taken a bath and was getting ready. He would have given him some of his clothes but he was a bit taller than him. Mukuro decided that he would not change and go like this anyway.

Tsuna and Mukuro both walked to school. When they went to the teacher's room they saw a very interesting scene. Everyone was moving along and working with a scowl. It was evident that they were feeling the after effect of the party.

"Ku fu fu…Well that's certainly interesting." Mukuro commented as he went to his own desk. Tsuna just shook his head. He was enjoying the fact that everyone was having a hangover. Tsuna just went to his desk and groaned. Paperwork.

"Tsuna!" He heard someone call him from behind. He turned around to see his cousin Dino. He wasn't looking too good.

"Dino-san! What's wrong?" Tsuna was quickly by his side as Dino was about to slip. "Careful!"

"Thanks little bro!" Dino stood up. Hr then rubbed his head. He was having a major headache too. "My head hurts too much. What do I do?"

Tsuna sighed. "I told you not to drink too much. Just drink some strong coffee. That should help ease your pain."

"Thanks."

Then there was the clicking of heels. Not many teachers wore shoes like that. Tsuna turned around and saw Kyoko coming their way. She seemed to be suffering from a bad hangover as well.

"Tsuna-kun, you seem fine." She said being surprised. If she remembered correctly he had drank a lot.

"If it isn't Sasagawa-sensei." Dino smiled. Kyoko then noticed him standing there. She smiled back politely.

"Good morning Chiavarone -sensei." She greeted him. "Are you all right?"

"Nah. Just like everyone else." Dino shook his head. Then he looked at Tsuna. "Not everyone can be like this guy." He poked Tsuna's ribs.

"Ow!"

Kyoko seemed confused. "I don't understand."

"He never gets drunk. Ever. Just like our teacher." Dino informed her. "I'm so jealous!"

Kyoko nodded in understanding. Tsuna just rolled his eyes and looked at the clock. Sheesh if he didn't move now he'd be late for his classes.

"Honestly you should have listened to me. I don't have time now. Just take some pills and go to class." Tsuna shook his head and walked out of the room.

Inside the classroom there was a huge commotion. Tsuna could hear it even from outside. He wondered what could be wrong. Without pondering about it too much he just opened the door. The whole class became quiet as they saw him.

"What's going on here?" He asked. The students looked at each other. It seemed they were unsure how to explain. Tsuna looked closely and saw that Gokudera and Miura were both exchanging heated glares.

"Miura-san, Gokudera-kun explain." Tsuna looked at the two of them with raising his eyebrow. Gokudera gave a heated glare at his direction before pushing past him and getting out of the door.

"Gokudera-kun! Gokudera-kun! Come back here!" Tsuna yelled after him but he was already gone. He sighed and looked back at the students. "What happened?"

The students didn't know how to explain. They looked at Haru.

"Gokudera-san is being rude again!" Haru exclaimed. "He makes Haru so mad!" She huffed. "Haru only asked Gokudera-san to help Haru in assigning duties. But he threw all the papers away. Then Haru got mad and yelled at Gokudera-san."

"I see." Tsuna sighed. "I'll deal with this. Everyone get back to your seats."

Tsuna shook his head. Gokudera really was a problem child. He knew something like this could occur but didn't think it would be like this. Maybe he had to do something about it. But first he had to finish the next class.

It was with class 3-B, Mukuro's class. He was actually very interested in seeing what type of students that class was filled with. Mukuro seemed to be very annoyed with some of the students.

He was walking through the empty hallway when he overheard some students talking. Tsuna assumed they were students. He looked at his wristwatch. Hmn, there was still time before the class started. He could check it out.

Deciding to see what it was about he walked towards the source. He was on the second floor. They seemed to be coming from the ground. He went to the nearest window and looked down. It seemed Gokudera was surrounded by a bunch of delinquents.

Tsuna mused how they survived with Kyoya still there. He must have overlooked them. He tried to hear what they were talking about. Apparently they were in an argument where Gokudera was glaring and talking back. He didn't seem like he cared and acted like he could take them on. But what kind of teacher would he be if he didn't stop this type of brawls?

Gokudera was pissed. Today was just not his day. First it was the annoying idiotic girl. She kept talking in third person and told him to help her. Like fuck he would! Who the fuck said that he accepted the position? Then he had stormed out of the room bumping with their air head of a teacher. He looked pathetic and weak. And now these pathetic punks thought they could teach him a lesson.

Gokudera gave a feral grin. Well he could vent his annoyance using them as an excuse.

"Punk you think you're so cool? Huh?" Dumb jock no 1 snarled.

"Yeah! Who do you think you are?" Dumb jock no 2 looked very pissed.

"Let's teach him a lesson." Dumb jock no 3 said licking his lips.

The three idiots were getting ready. They pulled out the knife they had hidden under their shirts. Gokudera looked annoyed and he scowled at their direction. Then he pulled out a cigarette and lighted it.

"Fuck off." He gave a chilling glare which made the three idiots lose a bit of their confidence. But they quickly regained them.

"Shut up!" Dumb jock no 3 said and lunged. The other two followed suit. Gokudera looked at their general direction for a second before pulling out his weapons.

The idiot trio looked at Gokudera's hands and saw a bunch of dynamites. He lighted them using the cigar.

"Blow away!" He said before throwing the dynamites at them. The three idiots didn't even get a chance to run. They got hit and instantly got knocked out as the dynamites exploded sleeping gas.

When they fell Gokudera gave a scowl at their direction. "Fucking idiots ruining my day…"

"Well I never would have guessed that you ditched class just so you could have a fight with a bunch of delinquents."

Gokudera quickly turned around and saw his so-called homeroom teacher standing there looking unimpressed. How did he get here?

"What do you want?" He spat.

The teacher just arced an eyebrow. "Today your behavior was unacceptable. You not only avoided your representative duties but also hindered the class."

Gokudera scowled and looked away. "Why the fuck should I care?"

"You did accept the role. Is it not your responsibility to see through it?"

"I never accepted the responsibility!"

"I don't recall you having said that you didn't want to be the representative…" Tsuna mused. "I never expected you to be like this Gokudera-kun." He looked disappointed.

"Shut up! What do you know about me?" Gokudera was trembling in rage.

Tsuna looked at the boy with uninterest. "Enough to say that you're a spoilt child who only learned to run away from reality and doing reckless stunts."

"What did you say?" He was ready to jump at him.

"Honestly I thought you were better than this. I suppose I was expecting too much. I don't have much time to babysit you." Tsuna coldly said leaving a stunned Gokudera behind.

Tsuna looked at the students of Mukuro's class. Honestly speaking, they were very interesting too. He could see the Head prefect glaring at him; Kyoko's little brother Sasagawa Ryohei, and some other interesting students looking at him with interest.

One of them had white hair and purple colored eyes. There was a purple colored tattoo under his left eye. He was smiling cheerfully while secretly popping marshmallows in his mouth. Then there was a blond boy with a curl on his hair. He had ash colored eyes. He seemed bored and there was a lollipop inside his mouth. There was also a boy with teal colored hair and eyes. He looked emotionless. Tsuna was sure they were foreigners. Most likely Italian. He just knew.

There was this red headed boy whose eyes were hidden behind his glasses. He looked a bit skittish. There was also this redheaded girl who seemed to have no regard for anyone.

Their names were respectively Byakuran Gesso, Spanner, Fran, Irie Shoichi and M.M. Interesting names.

"Hello class, I'm Sawada Tsunayoshi. I'll be teaching you Japanese language. If you cannot understand something then feel free to ask." He gave a pleasant smile and opened the text book.

Suddenly a hand shot up. Tsuna was surprised to see it was Fran. "Yes? You have something to ask?"

"Well New Sensei what happened to the Banshee-sensei?" He asked.

Tsuna was confused. "Excuse me?"

"Umnnnn…" Byakuran smiled. "I think Fran-kun just wanted to ask what happened to the previous teacher, Tsuna-sensei."

"Ah he quit." Tsuna couldn't remember if he asked them to call him by his name. But he didn't correct this as he could tell the boy would just ignore it.

"Stop asking questions and get on with the lesson." A very irritated Kyoya hissed. He was only here to observe the herbivore closely.

"Why so angry Hibari-chan?" Byakuran asked with a pout.

"The demon-prefect is scary." Fran said but Tsuna could tell that he wasn't feeling anything from his facial expression.

"I'll bite you to death marshmallow-herbivore!" The boy hissed. He had already stood up and pulled out his tonfa's

"Extreme!" Ryohei exclaimed as he too stood up. "Let's have an Extreme match!"

Kyoya glared at his direction. He hated this idiot.

"EEEh!" Shoichi who was next to Byakuran exclaimed. "Please stop it." He whimpered as he clutched his stomach. If they start fighting then the classroom would be destroyed.

"Why are you worried Shoichi?" Spanner asked. He could care less.

"Ooh!" Byakuran seemed to be having fun. "Did Hibari-chan attend today's class so he could evaluate Tsuna-sensei?"

Kyoya narrowed his eyes in response. He was surely going to bite this herbivore to death. But before Hibari could attack anyone or there was a commotion, Tsuna slammed his book on the teacher's table. Everyone was started and they quietly looked at the teacher.

"Please be seated everyone. I'll start the lesson now." Tsuna said with a smile. The students quietly obeyed.

"Sensei there are flowers dancing around you." Fran told him.

Tsuna ignored the comment and carried on.

"Your class is quite interesting." Tsuna commented. It was lunch time once again. The three of them were sitting together.

Mukuro twitched. "The entire annoying bunch together I'd say." His headache had lessened.

"But they are all good students!" Kyoko protested. Most of them were in her class last year.

Dino wanted to tag along with them but the English teacher was busy with paperwork.

"Enough about those annoyers." Mukuro waved his hand as though he was swatting away flies. "I heard there was a commotion in your class in the morning."

"Did something happen?" Kyoko looked concerned.

Tsuna sighed. He wasn't interested in reciting that story. But Mukuro would not leave him alone.

"Gokudera-kun and Miura-san had a fight."

"Ku fu fu… I told you that boy was trouble." Mukuro smiled. "Last year he transferred here. Just because he's grades are good he was able to stay even with all the destruction he caused."

"Gokudera-kun is a genius. He's good in everything and I'm sure he's a good kid." Kyoko told them. She stopped eating and looked at her lap. "He just needs time to adjust."

Tsuna doesn't reply. He puts the Onigiri inside his mouth. It was salty.

It was time to leave. Tsuna looked over his desk. There was less paper than yesterday. He was feeling better as they were finishing up nicely.

"Sawada-sensei!" he heard someone call him. He turned around to see it was Nezu-sensei.

"Yes?"

"The Principal would like to see you."

Tsuna was more confused than ever. Why would the principal want to see him?

"Oya oya, what is this? Did you do something bad Tsunayoshi-kun?" Mukuro asked from behind him. He was just about to leave. He wore the same clothes for two days straight. He wanted to go home early.

"I don't remember anything happening." Tsuna pondered about what the Principal could possibly want. He was that he hadn't done anything wrong.

"Maybe it's nothing important." Kyoko wondered. Then she looked at Tsuna and gave an angelic smile. "Well then I'll see you tomorrow." She nodded to the both of them before walking away.

"Goodnight." Tsuna waved at her.

"I shall take my leave as well." Mukuro said. Tsuna waved him bye as well. Then he took a deep breath and headed for the Principal's office.

Tsuna knocked on the door softly. There was an immediate reply for him to come inside. The principal's office was very clean and organized. There was a picture of a Chinese dragon behind the principal's chair. The principal looked calm as always. There was a hot teapot on the table.

"Sawada-sensei please sit down." The Principal smiled gently as always as he motioned for him to sit down on the chair opposite of him.

"Thank you." Tsuna bowed in courtesy and sat down. "Did the principal need me for something?"

"Oh no no." The Principal waved it off. "I just wanted to ask about how you liked working here so far."

"I quite like it here. Teaching is very fun." Tsuna replied.

The Principal just quietly observed the man before him. He took a deep breath. "You are Reborn's student, right Sawada-sensei?"

Tsuna was surprised about him knowing this fact. "Yes, but how did you know Principal?"

"Please just call me Fon. Principal seems too formal. He and I are friends from school." He stopped as though he was remembering the past. "He said he had an interesting student."

"Oh." Tsuna was embarrassed for some odd reason. He never thought he'd meet one of Reborn's friends here.

Fon smiled. Then he looked at him with an apologetic look. "I'm sorry if my nephew has done something."

"What?" Tsuna was startled. How did he know about that?

"I know that child very well. He picks a fight with everyone. Do not mind his behavior."

"No it's all right. I understand how he is." Tsuna quickly said.

Fon nodded. "I hope I haven't taken too much of your time."

"Not at all Fon-san." Tsuna stood up. "Well then I'll be leaving first." He nodded and walked out of the room.

When Fon was sure the young man was at a distance he poured some green tea for himself. "Hmn, he turned out to be an interesting man indeed Reborn."

Tsuna was walking through the empty corridor. Everyone was gone. He hoped not to see the prefect now. He wasn't in the mood at all. He remembered that he had forgotten his bag in the teacher's room. He walked towards that direction first. It was just ahead. He quickly opened the door and picked up his bag when he heard that peculiar hissing noise.

"What is that?" He asked.

The noise seemed to be coming from a room close by. Tsuna wasn't sure what to do. Would he check it out or not? With few minutes of hesitation he finally decided to see what it was.

He followed the noise. It was getting louder as he came closer. After a while he stopped in front the room which the noise seemed to have originated from. It was the school Chemistry lab.

'What is someone doing here in the middle of the night?' Tsuna thought before opening the door and entering.

Tsuna never expected to see Gokudera doing a science experiment in the middle of the night in school.

There he was standing before the chemical bottles. He was experimenting something. Tsuna noticed the dynamites littered on the table. He was so absorbed in whatever chemicals he was making that he didn't notice Tsuna entering.

"What are you doing?" Tsuna asked him.

Gokudera was so surprised that he almost dropped the vile he was holding in his hand. He was too shocked to say anything.

Tsuna rolled his eyes. "What are you doing at school at this time Gokudera-kun?"

Gokudera gritted his teethes. "It's none of your business."

"Actually it is. Your one of my students that means you're my responsibility."

"Shut up! Stop your fucking preaching! It's annoying."

Tsuna frowned. "Call it whatever you want. But what are you doing in the middle of the night? Are you honestly making dynamites?"

"And what if I am? What would you do about it?" There was a sign of madness in his eyes. It was like he would be doing something dangerous.

"You can't be thinking of doing something crazy are you?" Tsuna looked quizzically at him. "I can't let you do that."

"The hell you will!" Gokudera shouted. Then he pulled out some dynamites from his clothes.

'How did he hide them?' Tsuna thought. Gokudera threw some of them towards him and he quickly dodged. The dynamites exploded. There was no sleeping gas this time.

"What is with the students of this school?" Tsuna asked as he dodged another set of dynamites. "Are they always trying to kill their teachers?"

"Hold still!" Gokudera couldn't hit the target. The man was skillfully dodging every dynamite. It was an amazing feat as they were inside a room.

"Stop this Gokudera-kun before something happens." Tsuna said.

"You stop your meddling! Who the fuck do you think you are?" He accidently thew a bunch of dynamites towards the explosive chemicals. Both of their eyes went wide. The dynamite fell on them and they exploded with a bang and started a fire.

Gokudera was very close to the table where the fire started. Because of it he became trapped by the raging fire. The fire started spreading rapidly. He stood like a fool unable to move. He could feel the all consuming heat coming towards him. The smoke of the burning chemicals along with the heat of the fire was too much and he fainted.

The next time he woke up there was only white. 'Am I dead?' Gokudera asked himself. But slowly his eyes adjusted and he could make outlines once again. Judging by the patterns he concluded it was actually a ceiling. He looked around and saw that he was lying on a hospital bed and there was someone sitting beside his bed.

"You woke up."

Gokudera couldn't believe that it was that idiotic new teacher of the school. He looked a bit tired and worn out. It was as if he hadn't slept last nice.

"What happened?"

Tsuna gave a tired smile. "You inhaled too much smoke and fainted. You were too fatigued."

"What about the fire?"

"It wasn't that big so I was able to extinguish it with minimal damage. It'll be fixed in no time."

Gokudera was quiet for some time. He didn't know what to say. He looked at the man sitting beside the bed. He could have left him alone. He could have run away. But he risked his life to protect his. Why?

"Why did you save me?" his voice was but a whisper but Tsuna heard him clearly.

"Why are you asking that?"

"Because I tried to kill you. Why did you still bother?"

Tsuna stared at the boy for a long time. It seemed that he couldn't trust anyone and had made a barrier around him. He pushed people away because he was afraid of getting hurt. He reminded him of someone.

"Because…I'm your Teacher." He smiled. "Believing in their students…that's what they do."

Gokudera was speechless. He lowered his eyes and looked at his clenched hands. Then he felt someone put his hand on his head. It was warm and very inviting. He didn't want to lose this warmth.

"You, why are you still here? I thought you left." A bruised and beaten young Tsuna was looking up. There was a man standing there. He was wearing black colored complete expensive suit with a black fedora with a yellow stripe. He had two curly sideburns. He was smirking.

"Heh. You can't get rid of me that easily Dame-Tsuna."

"Why?"

"Because I'm your teacher."

Sorry for the long wait. But I was busy. Anyway about the romance poll the votes are,

Hibari- 26

Mukuro- 17

Chrome-11

Yamamoto-11

And everyone else has loo less votes

If you want to change the rankings then keep voting on the poll. Only 2 chapters to go. Thank you for all the reviews! I hope you enjoyed this too!