Tsuna let out a loud yawn as he crawled out of his bed. It was half past seven in the morning. The bright sunlight from outside the window cut straight into his dopey eyes. He grabbed the towel and his Vongola uniform from his dresser as he headed out of his room to downstairs for a quick shower to freshen himself up. When he reached the third floor, he heard some loud beating noises. He turned to see that Ryohei was fisting viciously against the punch bag swinging on the side whilst Yamamoto was holding the punch bag upright for him. Ryohei stopped for a breath or so, and Yamamoto turned to notice Tsuna standing there.
"Morning, Tsuna!" Yamamoto greeted the unexpected Tsuna.
Ryohei turned his head to Tsuna upon hearing Yamamoto calling his name. "Morning to the extreme, Sawada!"
"Morning, Yamamoto and Big Brother." Tsuna returned the greetings. "Working out so early?"
"Yeah. I was helping Senpai as he has a boxing match coming up in a few days time." Yamamoto said cheerfully.
"Boxing match?"
"Yeah, I am all pumped up now for this extreme boxing match!" Ryohei shouted exciting, fisting against the air.
"Aside from his job here, Senpai is also a local boxing star. He won lots of big championships before." Yamamoto explained.
"Really? That's awesome. I didn't know that, Big Brother."
"Umm… Did I not tell you before? Well anyway now you extremely know." Ryohei grinned as he patted Tsuna's shoulder lightly. "By the way, would you like to come and support me for my extreme match, Sawada?"
"Of course! I would like to come!" Tsuna said smiling.
"Thanks for your help, Yamamoto." Ryohei turned and thanked Yamamoto as he swung his arm around his shoulder.
"My pleasure!"
"You know, Sawada? Yamamoto used to be an athlete like me. He was a star player in the major baseball league." Ryohei said as he ruffled Yamamoto's hair lightly.
"Really? That's so amazing as well! You two never told me these things before." So that's why Gokudera-kun called Yamamoto "Baseball freak" yesterday…
"Ha-ha. That was years ago before I joined the company. I must have gotten rusty from then on." Yamamoto laughed sheepishly, scratching the back of his head.
"No, I am sure you are still awesome!" Tsuna laughed. "I am going for shower now. I will see you two later on." Tsuna smiled and walked off as Ryohei and Yamamoto waved him off.
Tsuna walked slowly downstairs to the second floor where the shared living room is. He shifted his attention to the couch sitting in the middle of the room, and how glad he was that the scary Hibari-san was no longer here. He turned to the bathroom on the side and headed for his relaxing and refreshing shower, but then a cold wind blew from behind him and sent a shiver down his spine making him paused in his course of action. Not again… He turned to only see the creepy violet-hair man staring intensely at him with his mismatched eyes, and giving him his usual strange smile like a feline looking at his prey.
"What do you want now!?" Tsuna shouted at the man, couldn't careless how rude he could have sounded.
"Kufufu… Morning, Sawada Tsunayoshi-kun." Mukuro simply greeted him.
"What's not I was asking!" Tsuna shouted in annoyance.
"No need to be so loud in the morning. Kufufu. You might wake unnecessary people up. Kufufu." Mukuro plainly said seemingly completely oblivious to the annoyance of the other boy.
Tsuna decided to ignore him out of frustration and headed straight inside the bathroom, but Mukuro followed behind him.
"Why are you following me!?" Tsuna shouted infuriatingly as if he was about to bang his head against the wall any time soon.
"I wish to use the bathroom." Mukuro simply stated.
"But I am using it now!"
"Well…" Mukuro simply pushed Tsuna out of the bathroom and locked the door. What the hell!?
"What's wrong, Boss?" Chrome gently said as she appeared beside Tsuna out of sudden.
"Oh, Chrome-chan… Nothing really, just Mukuro-san… kicked me out of the bathroom." Tsuna stated in slightly irritation. Judging from his last few days in the company, it seems that as the manager here he had absolutely ZERO control over his co-workers…
"No worry, Boss." Chrome simply smiled. "There's also a bathroom on your floor."
"Really? You didn't show me last time."
"Well, there's a reason why I didn't tell you…" Chrome nervously said. "You see… the bathroom is right next to Hibari-san's room, so nobody dare to use it unless they… wanted to be bitten to death…" Tsuna flinched as he recalled his encounter with Hibari last night, and simply decided that his life is by far more important than a mere morning shower. In slight annoyance of not being able to shower, Tsuna just went back to his room to change into his uniform and headed down to the kitchen for breakfast.
"Good morning, Sawada-san." I-Pin greeted him as she was frying some eggs in the pan.
"Oh! It's Dame-Tsuna!" Lambo shouted from the dining table on the side. Tsuna shot Lambo a slight glare but then turned his attention to I-Pin.
"What are we having for breakfast, I-Pin?"
"Fried egg and bacon with toast~" I-Pin replied cheerfully, singing the words out. I-Pin reminded Tsuna of his mum, as every morning before, Nana would be making breakfast for him at the kitchen, singing happily and greeting him with a sweet smile. I wonder what is mum doing right now? I miss her…
Tsuna sat himself down on one of the chairs around the dining table and looked at Lambo who was hastily doing his homework. Tsuna laughed at the sight.
"What's so funny?" Lambo asked.
"Nothing. It's just that this kind of remind me of something."
"Is Dame-Tsuna always this dumb?" Lambo said as he picked his noses.
"Lambo! Stop picking your nose, it's dirty!" Tsuna said to Lambo.
"You are not Lambo-san's mother~" Lambo ignored Tsuna.
Just then the door slammed open with a big bang, and a very sulky Gokudera came into the kitchen.
"Umm… Good morning, Gokudera-kun." Tsuna tried to greet Gokudera with a smile.
"Che." Was all Gokudera said to him as he sat down on one of the chairs.
Just tried to be nice…Tsuna thought.
"Oh, it's stupidera." Lambo turned to Gokudera with a pair of lazy eyes still picking his nose.
"What's that stupid cow!?" Gokudera shouted angrily at Lambo, who just gave him a boring kind of look.
"You are no fun, stupidera."
"I am not meant to be fun!"
Tsuna watched the scene unfolding in front of him with concerns. The rude moody Gokudera and the childish demanding Lambo must simply be the worst combination ever!
"Lambo-san wants some milk." Lambo demanded ignoring what Gokudera was saying and showed his cup to Gokudera, it was fine until Lambo flicked his ummm... "boogie" at Gokudera's face.
"You stupid cow! How dare you!" Gokudera bursted out in anger and grabbed Lambo's head and threw him straight onto the wall VERY HARD making a loud bang. Tsuna watched the scene in horror as he looked worryingly at Lambo who was now on his knees, tears starting to swell up around his eyes.
"Gotta…stay…calm…. WAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" Lambo bursted in tears and started to cry, throwing his arms around on the floor in a fit of rage.
"Lambo, you alright?" Tsuna walked slowly to him in an attempt to help the poor boy but to no result, instead Lambo accidentally threw the cup right at his face. OUCH!
"What's that? Is Lambo crying again?" Chrome came in through the door and she rushed to Lambo's side. Lambo ran to Chrome's opening arms and continued to cry as Chrome tried to calm him down as she ran her hand softly on his curly black hair. Yamamoto and Ryohei also arrived at the kitchen.
"What happened here?" Yamamoto asked.
"Lambo was crying 'cause Gokudera-san threw him onto the wall." I-Pin explained as she continued cooking the breakfast, not amused at all with what just happened.
"WAAAHHH! IT WAS ALL STUPIDERA'S FAULT!" Lambo shouted, still crying loudly.
"Not again, Octopus Head. You extremely need to learn to control your temper." Ryohei told Gokudera.
"Shut the fuck up, Lawn Head!" Gokudera spat. "This stupid cow is getting on my nerves!"
"He is only a kid!"
"I don't fucking care!"
"Gokudera…" Yamamoto added.
"Don't you dare get into this, baseball freak!" Gokudera shouted loudly as he sat back down his chair.
"Kufufu looks like Gokudera-kun is having a bad day today…" Mukuro teased Gokudera, and shocked everyone else slightly with his unexpected entrance.
"Mukuro-sama…"
"You again, pineapple head? Just piss off."
"My. My. Did something happen to poor Gokudera-kun?" Mukuro teased.
"None of your business! Why do you care anyway!?"
"Actually I don't…"
"Guys…" Yamamoto interrupted the bickering duo. "Let's just all calm down and have breakfast together. We are going to run late if this continues." Ryohei nodded in agreement.
Seeing how Yamamoto did have the point, Gokudera muttered something again before he quietly sat down, and Mukuro did the same. Lambo finally stopped crying and Chrome helped him to the chair and sat down beside him patting lightly on his head, though Gokudera still shot Lambo an angry glare. As the situation was finally in control, the remaining people too sat down as I-Pin happily brought the finished breakfasts to the table.
"Ok so morning everyone." Tsuna addressed to his co-workers in the office, well, with the usual exception of Hibari. "There are quite a few requests to be completed today, and I have already divided the jobs between you all. Due to the number of requests we have for today, some of you will be allocated with a few more jobs. Any questions?" Tsuna said as he looked through his checklist of jobs, and like last time, one has already been crossed out which Tsuna assumed that Hibari had already gone off for.
"So the midget finally was able to get his ass working for once." Gokudera laughed. Tsuna simply just ignored the rude comment and continued at what he was doing.
"Stop being so extremely rude, Octopus-head!" Ryohei shouted.
"Kufufu Gokudera-kun really needs to learn to control his mouth." Mukuro said from the side.
"Piss off you two! I can say whatever the hell I want!" Gokudera shouted back roughly at them.
"Guys… That's enough, Gokudera. Senpai and Mukuro-san too." Yamamoto interrupted them and the three remained quiet. Tsuna sighed at the scene, as the fact had occurred to him that this is possibly a daily part of life in the Vongola Limited. At least, Gokudera didn't start a proper fight this time.
"So," Tsuna continued. "Yamamoto, you are first going to help an old couple tidying up their back garden, and then work as assistant in a champagne party in a five-star hotel."
"Roger!" Yamamoto said cheerfully.
"Big Brother, you are going to help painting the walls of a new family house, then along with Yamamoto help in the champagne party in the evening"
"Extremely no problem!" Ryohei exclaimed.
"As for Gokudera-kun, you will be tutoring Maths for the same boy from yesterday…"
"What!? That fucking brat again!?" Gokudera complained angrily.
"Yeah… his parents specifically request you to come again. According to them, their hyperactive child became really behaved after your tutor lesson." Tsuna plainly said. Gokudera-kun must have really scared him…
"Che whatever!" Gokuerda spat.
"Now, Mukuro-san…" Tsuna turned to Mukuro who was giving him his usual creepy stares, but Tsuna just decided to ignore it, despite how uncomfortable and disturbed he felt around the violet-hair man. "… you would be helping in the mental institute all day."
"Kufufu… how interesting."
"Okay then everyone can be dismissed." Tsuna announced as everyone started to work off away for their jobs and waved Tsuna off. "Chrome-chan, what do I have to do for today?" Tsuna said he turned to Chrome who was standing by his side.
"Just a second, Boss." Chrome said as she ran to the reception counter and pulled out a small purple parcel from one of the drawers.
She passed the parcel to Tsuna. A letter in a pink envelope was sticked on top of the small parcel box and was addressed to "The Manager". Tsuna lifted the letter up from the box and turned it around to see that there is a heart stamp at the back of envelope when kept the folding area down. This looks like a love letter~ Tsuna thought a second or so but decided to open it anyway since it is addressed to "The Manager" i.e. him.
My dear Manager-san,
I am very happy that my transfer was approved, and very much looking forward to working with the lovely you~ I shall arrived in your office tomorrow to see you~
P.S. Please take time to enjoy my delicious cookies. I made them specially for you~
With all the love in the world 3
Bianchi~ xxxxx sweet kisses
"That's an odd letter." Tsuna commented and shifted his gaze from the letter to Chrome. "Are we having a new worker coming here soon?"
"Umm yes." Chrome said. "The main office informed us a few days ago."
"But Reborn didn't tell me anything about this…" Tsuna said as he unfolded the wrappings around the parcel and indeed revealed a box of chocolate-chip cookies. It looked amazingly delicious and it kind of reminded him the cookies his childhood crush used to make for him (or rather for everyone in the class…) With that feeling, Tsuna happily reached for one of the cookies and slowly munched on the small delicacy enjoying every bits of the extraordinary flavor. However, Tsuna's enjoyment soon turned into hell when he felt that his stomach is slowly crumpling away from the treat and the pain is increasing in accelerating levels. His face turned a ill pale blue and he collapsed on the ground with a painful growl, and then passed out on the floor.
"Boss, you okay?" Chrome rushed out to Tsuna's side worryingly, but was distracted when someone entered into the reception area. It was a beautiful and mature woman with long pink hair, emitting her adult charm as soon as she entered through the door, making Chrome blushed slightly at how beautiful she was indeed. The lady turned to Chrome with a friendly smile.
"Excuse me, my name is Bianchi. I am here to see the Manager."
Tsuna didn't know how long he had been passed out for. He slowly opened his eyes when he realized that he was lying down on the sofa in the kitchen with a small wet towel on top of his forehead.
"Are you okay, Boss?" Tsuna turned to see a concerned Chrome kneeing down next to him.
"Yeah… I am feeling better…" Tsuna needed a bit of power to speak up as he felt his head still ringing slightly.
"You enjoyed my cookies so much that you fainted?" Tsuna tilted his head slightly to see a lady he hadn't met before standing behind Chrome with her arms folding across her chest. Tsuna had a slightly flush across his face when he noticed the woman's adult charm. She is beautiful…
"Ahem." The lady coughed which made Tsuna realized he was staring at her with a rather awkward gaze, he snapped himself out of thought as he tried to sit up on the sofa with Chrome's help.
"My name is Bianchi. I've been asked to report to the office today as the new worker here." The lady said. "But to my disappointment that Rebo- I mean Manager-san isn't in the office at the moment, and I believe that you are the now acting manager here right?"
"Ah yes. I am Sawada Tsunayoshi, but everyone called me Tsuna."
"Tsuna, ah?" Bianchi walked up and crouched down to Tsuna as she observed him thoroughly.
"Ummm… What's wrong?" Tsuna asked with a nervous smile.
"So you are the "Tsuna"?" Bianchi said as she stood up and offered a handshake. "Nice to meet you. I shall be looking forward to working with you."
"Umm…Yes nice to meet you too." Tsuna smiled sheepishly as he shook Bianchi's hand firmly. Yet another person who knew about him… It did made Tsuna wondered if his own stupidity and silliness had already spread across the organization for all to be heard within just days, he couldn't help but felt a bit concerned for his own privacy. His thought was interrupted with a loud bang outside the kitchen, and the three of them went outside to see what has happened only to discover a sulky Gokudera on the ground with a bruise on his head. It looked like that Gokudera was just not taking care into looking where he was running to and just hit his head against the kitchen door hard. Gokudera shot Tsuna a death glare that read "I am fucking going to kill you!" and grabbed Tsuna angrily by the collar.
"Why the fuck did you put me into tutoring that piece of shit!?" Gokudera shouted in full volume at Tsuna making his ears ringing uncontrollably, and since he was not completely recovered from the cookie incident, it was the worst for him.
"I…I thought you… ought to be tutoring right now." Tsuna tried to speak up against the raging Gokudera with all his courage.
"I fucking run away from that insane house!" Gokudera shouted in full volume yet again. "I can't stand staying for another fucking second!"
"Hayato…"
Gokudera stopped immediately upon hearing the voice and dropped Tsuna onto the ground as his grip slowly softened. Chrome helped the freaked-out Tsuna up as Gokudera slowly turned his head in horror with wide-opened eyes to greet the person standing beside him…
"AAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!" Gokudera screamed in exceeding horror that made Tsuna and Chrome flinched at the spot, and within a split second, Gokudera was already down on the ground, white foam coming out around his mouth with a very pale blue face, completely passed out from shock. Tsuna stared at the scene at amusement as the super arrogant, moody and ill-mannered Gokudera was defeated within seconds. Who is this woman?
"Goodness. Is he so happy to see me that he fainted?" Bianchi sighed shaking her head. "By the way, I forgot to mention I am also Hayato's sister." Bianchi said as she shifted her attention from the dying Gokudera to Tsuna.
"You're Gokudera-kun's sister!?" Tsuna said in disbelief, even Chrome was taken aback for a second or so.
What kind of sibling relationship is this!?
"We do look alike do we?" Bianchi said smiling as she lifted up the passed out Gokudera and turned his head next to hers. Not at all was what Tsuna thought.
"I do apologize for my silly brother. He must have caused you all a lot of troubles." Bianchi continued. Tsuna was so tempted to agree with a clear "yes" but decided to drop it out of complete politeness and decency.
"Boss, what shall we do now that Gokudera-san ran away from his tutoring job?" Chrome said worryingly.
"Oh yes. Our client must be really angry now!" Tsuna all of a sudden started to panic upon realizing the situation.
Bianchi sighed as she lifted the unconscious Gokudera up with her arms. "It's alright. I shall go and finish the rest of the job. After all it is my responsibility as his sister to undo his wrong doings. I will apologize to the child's parents on his behalf. Meanwhile will you be kind enough to take care of my dear brother for me?" Bianchi said she passed the still Gokudera into Tsuna's arms.
"…O…Of course." Tsuna smiled sheepishly.
Bianchi gave a slight bow and soon dashed off, after Chrome passed her the details of the clients.
On the other hand, Tsuna realized that he still had Gokudera in his arms, and Tsuna panickedly dropped him onto the ground with a bang because of the sudden realization of the heavy weight on his arms, but thank goodness that Gokudera did not regain his consciousness. Tsuna breathed a sigh of relief.
"Wow! That was an extremely tiring day!" Ryohei exclaimed stretching out his arms in the air as he strolled down the dark streets with Yamamoto. They had just completed their last requests in the hotel and were now heading back to the company's building.
"Too bad we didn't get to have any drinks at the champagne party, it would have been great." Yamamoto followed Ryohei behind hands in his pocket.
"Well a lot of ladies were too busy crowding around you asking for your phone number." Ryohei laughed loudly.
"Well weren't they asking for yours too?" Yamamoto chuckled. "You almost spill the drinks on their dresses."
"They were being extremely annoying! I couldn't move anywhere when they were crowding around me like…" Ryohei paused when his eyes took a glance at a poster stuck on the lamppost next to him.
"Senpai?"
Ryohei smile dropped in disappointment as he look clearly at the poster. Yamamoto curiously also took a glance at the poster, it was an advertisement with a young-looking girl with short orange hair holding a bottle of sport drink.
"…You thought it was Kyoko-chan right?" Yamamoto said with a sigh.
"I should have extremely knew that it won't be her. Kyoko would never decide to work in the modeling industry." Ryohei said with a hint of sadness in his voice and continued to walk off into the dark alleys.
"Senpai…"
"I am extremely back!" Ryohei exclaimed as he entered through the kitchen door with Yamamoto swiftly following behind.
"Welcome back, Big Brother and Yamamoto." Tsuna greeted them happily as he was helping Chrome clearing the table. "Everyone else had already had dinner, and I-Pin and Lambo had already left. We saved yours for you knowing you will be back late in the evening." Tsuna said whilst Chrome brought out their dinner from the side.
"Thanks, Tsuna and Chrome-chan."
"EXTREME THANK YOU!"
"What's Gokudera doing there?" Yamamoto asked as he pointed to the still unconscious Gokudera on the sofa.
"Well, something unfortunate had happen and Gokudera've been in this state since." Tsuna made a quick and brief explanation. "By the way, we have a new worker joining us from today. She is Gokudera's sister." Tsuna said as Yamamoto and Ryohei choked slightly on their food.
"You mean… Bianchi-san?" Yamamoto smiled nervously.
"You guys've met her before?" Tsuna asked, not expecting the two's reactions.
"Of course we extremely know her, she was working here also a year ago before she was transferred into a different branch of the company. The "Poisonous Scorpion Bianchi"." Ryohei added with a slight frown on his face.
"Poisonous Scorpion?"
"Kufufu… She has the extraordinary ability of turning anything she cooked into deadly poisons, which grants her the title "Poison Scorpion" Kufufu." Mukuro said appearing out of nowhere (again) startling the group.
"How did you know this Mukuro-sama? You and I have not met her before." Chrome asked.
"Kufufu I know everything, my dear Chrome-chan." Mukuro said with a creep smile. Tsuna started to wonder if Mukuro was indeed a stalker.
So that's why I passed out from her cookies…
"By the way, why is Gokudera-kun so scared of his sister?" Tsuna asked recalling what happened earlier.
"Long story…And complicated too"
"An extremely tragic story…"
"Kufufu…"
Judging from the other's reactions, Tsuna thought it might be best not to dig deeper into the matter.
"By the way, where is she staying now? I thought there aren't any more spare rooms in the building." Yamamoto asked.
"Well… Bianchi-san demanded that she stayed in Gokudera's room for the meanwhile. She said it will be great for her to stay with his little brother. But seeing at Gokudera's reactions, I don't think he would want to stay in the same room as Bianchi…"
"Kufufu so virtually he was kicked out kufufu…" Mukuro finished the sentence for Tsuna.
"Yeah so are any of you kind enough to share a room with him?" Tsuna said begging his fellow workers for help, but everyone else was silent as they exchanged glances with each other.
"WHO SAID THAT I WANT TO SHARE WITH THESE IDIOTS!?" Gokudera shouted loudly from the other side startling everyone in the kitchen at his sudden revival.
"But… where else are you going to stay…?" Tsuna asked nervously.
"I will just sleep in the kitchen for now," Gokudera simply said. "'cause there are no ways I will stay in the same room with any of you crazy fellows!" Gokudera spat pointing at them.
"It's not like we want to share with you either, Octopus Head!" Ryohei shouted back.
"Kufufu I hate you, so why will I want to share with you?" Mukuro simply said.
"Ha-ha Gokudera, you know I won't mind but … my room is too small." Yamamoto said with a sheepish smile.
"All our rooms are the same size, you baseball freak!" Gokudera shouted roughly. "PLus what are you guys all doing here now!? Get out of MY ROOM!" Gokudera shouted as he booted away everyone out of the kitchen.
Great, now the kitchen "belongs" to him… Tsuna thought worried for his oncoming life here in the Vongola Limited.
To be continued...