'Time sure passes by quickly...' thought the particular dark-haired man as he went over some homeworks he collected from students yesterday. He smirked when he noticed one from his favorite herbivore. Just one look at it was all it took him to see all those mistakes he made. Was he even trying when he was working on it?

The skylark sighed and stretched his arms. Few weeks have already passed. It was November now. He heard shouts and laughter from outside and thought of standing up and looking outside. Seeing that some students had P.E. he was about to turn around and return to his desk when he noticed that one of them suddenly fell when they ran.

It was that herbivore! Sawada Tsunayoshi. Hibari smiled to himself and watched the small boy wearily stand up and resume to running again. What was with him? He looked tired. The man wondered if he was being bullied again but rejected the idea immediately. He personally took care of every annoying insect that would try anything on him so there's no way anyone was doing something to him, except for him of course.

At that thought he smirked again. He just couldn't help himself. Bullying this cute fool was fun. Wait! Did he just think about him as cute? Hibari frowned and kept watching the brunette. 'Well he's small, his eyes are unexpectedly big and his voice is high. I guess calling him cute isn't off the mark.' the skylark thought. The boy kinda reminded him of some little animal.

"He looks like one..." he muttered to himself.

"What are you mumbling, Kyoya?"

Hibari twitched. Hearing familiar voice belonging to a very annoying person, didn't made him happy at all. He let out an irritated sigh and glanced at the blonde man, standing beside him. "Do you want something?"

"Do I have to want something, so I can talk to you?" the man made a face as if Hibari's comment hurt him, but just a second later he grinned. "I was just about to pick some materials for class I forgot, when I saw you here." he explained and glanced at kids, who meanwhile started playing soccer. "Are you that bored that watching them entertains you?"

The skylark didn't reply. 'More like only one of them.' he thought and small smile curved his lips.

"Hmmm..." the blonde man just hummed, watching his colleague with knowing grin. Hibari shifted his eyes on him, glaring at him. "What?" he growled.

"Nothing." the man laughed and turned to leave. "Just-" he wanted to say something but when he saw Hibari lifting his eyebrow, giving him one of his typical cold glares, he decided to keep it to himself. "Well I'll take my leave then." he just stated and left.

The skylark rolled his eyes. This idiot was so irritating. His name was Dino Cavallone and they met at the university where they studied similar degree. Dino was an exchange student at that time so he returned back to Italia from where he came from after a year. Which is why Hibari was kinda surprised when he met him here again.

"I love Japan so I decided to try teaching here English!" he explained.

The man was so irritated. Dino was unbelievably annoying at the university and here he became even bigger pest. Expecting to eat lunches together and going on a beer after the work... So damn annoying! Hibari really felt like biting him to death. 'Well thoughts like these can wait.' he decided and glanced at the kids playing the game, his eyes quickly finding the brunette. After P.E. they have math with him. Strange how much he enjoyed the classes these days. But what was stranger was how he saw that boy. The more he looked at him, watched him and interacted with him, the more he felt something changing and growing within him.

Finally the P.E. ended. Time for math now. With that the skylark left the school staffroom, smirking dreadfully.

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Opening the door firmly, the skylark entered the classroom with a deadly smile. As he went towards teacher's desk, he already heard whispers roaming between students. "Is he in a good mood? Maybe he won't call on anyone today!" "If this is what his good mood looks like then we're all dead already! Don't you see how scary he is?" "Waa, he looks like someone who has just killed somebody!" "Or is about to!"

"Shut your mouths already!" Hibari silenced everyone and opened the textbook. He just couldn't wait to call on that animal already. "Sawada! Come solve something!" he ordered and waited for a moment but when no one was coming he lifted his head and looked around the classroom, noticing that the brunette was missing.

He glanced at the class president. "Where's Sawada?" he asked, narrowing his eyes and scaring the poor student.

"H-hai! Well, currently Sawada is in the infirmary because he got injured during P.E. so he probably won't be coming." the president explained. Suddenly whole class felt as if the temperature dropped. The skylark wasn't saying anything for a moment and just felt like killing someone.

"Is that so?" he growled, making everyone paler. He let out his breath, glaring at them. "Then someone else will do." Hibari stated and tried to push aside his irritation as much as he could.

It was unbelievable how long the class suddenly seemed. Well the usual entertainment was gone so that explained it. 'When did he injured himself that he had to go to infirmary?' he wondered but couldn't think of anything. Finally the class ended releasing everyone. Hibari quickly took his stuff and briskly left the classroom automatically heading to the infirmary. He knew those two annoying flies that kept the brunette company all the time will follow him soon and it wasn't like he cared but well he liked some privacy and for some reason especially with the spiky-haired boy.

At last he reached the infirmary and without even knocking entered. Luckily Doctor Shamal wasn't there. He looked around and saw only one bed being occupied, so he approached it and opened the curtains, revealing Tsuna who has just woken up. Probably because of the bell.

"Hibari-sensei?" he mumbled numbly, but when his head started to work properly his eyes widened in panic. "HIEE! Hibari-sensei!" he screamed.

The skylark lifted his eyebrow. He couldn't understand these outbursts of his. "Don't shout." he said calmly.

"W-what are you doing here?!" the brunette asked him with abruptly high voice. He clenched sheets before him as if it was some kind of shield and his cheeks were flushed. Was he sick or something?

"Checking if you're alright." Hibari explained and frowned. "By the way, do you have fever? Your face is red."

"..." Tsuna stared at him for a moment before he got his thoughts together. "N-no, I don't! I'm perfectly fine!"

"Hmm, then why are you here? Are you slacking off?" the man narrowed his eyes, cold aura spreading from him.

"HEE?! NO! Of course not! I-I...I fell during P.E. s-so I was he-here to get it treated..." Tsuna stuttered and unwillingly showed the teacher patched knee. Hibari stared at it and remembered that time how the brunette fell during running. "So just because of this you ditched the math?" he hissed, eyes colder than ice.

"HIII! I-I'm sorry!"

Hibari sighed and frowned at him. "I'll give you some extra homework tomorrow." he decided.

"What? B-but-!"

"Do you have a problem with it?" the skylark glanced at him and Tsuna quickly shook his head. "Thought so." Hibari smirked.

Moment later silence filled the room. The man thought of leaving but something kept him there. No, not something. Someone... As he watched the brunette sitting on the bed with his messy hair, flushed cheeks and unbuttoned shirt, he suddenly felt like touching him. What would it feel like to caress those fluffy cheeks? Would they be hot? And what about his body? And his pink lips? They looked so tasty that all it was for him to taste them and devour the little animal in front of him. Slowly the atmosphere got somehow very heavy and full of expectations.

The man was about to move forward when the door opened, making loud noise. "Tenth! Are you alright?!" yelled one of Tsuna's annoying friends and as soon as he saw Hibari, gave him a frown similar to angry kitten. "You! Did you do something to tenth!?"

The skylark just rolled his eyes and didn't even bother to say anything. Instead he turned around to leave but before doing so he glanced at Tsuna. "Don't even dare to skip tomorrow's class, little animal." he warned him with a smirk and left.

On his way to the staffroom he wondered what was that. What did just happen? And if that idiot didn't barge in what would he do? What was he about to do? Hibari rubbed back of his head and image of the brunette flashed before him. 'Did I just call him "little animal"'? he thought, sighing. Well whatever. Still looking back at it something definitely seemed off. Why did he suddenly started thinking about Sawada in such way?

He shook his head and decided to stop bothering with things that didn't matter...for now.

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"Tsu-kun! Could you drop by convenience store for some eggs and milk?" Nana asked her son when he entered kitchen.

"Hee? But it's so late already!" Tsuna whined, clearly unwilling to go out.

"But I'll need it for tomorrow's breakfast." she explained with troubled face. In that moment strong kick landed on brunette's head.

"Itteee! REBORN!" the boy cried out, rubbing his head. Small infant in his usual tuxedo meanwhile jumped on one kitchen unit, frowning. "Stop complaining and listen to your mum!" he yelled at him, making Tsuna flinch.

"...hai." the brunette muttered and went to change his clothes before going out. When he left, he couldn't help but sigh. It was so annoying, going out at this hour. Was it 7 or 8 pm? It wasn't that late but still he was too lazy to be willingly going out now.

He reached one store in 10 minutes and looked for stuff his mum wanted. He noticed some candies and wondered if he should take some for Lambo and I-pin. They would surely be happy about it. Smiling he took some and looked around if he should take something else and noticed some tea which reminded him of a certain skylark. He didn't even know why. Because he could clearly imagine Hibari drinking some tea in the tranquil quiet garden?

At that thought he felt his cheeks changing color a bit and his heart skip a beat. Why was he feeling like this whenever he saw him? During last few weeks something changed. Before he hated him and couldn't even think about him without grumpy cringe but now? He didn't hate and he also didn't dislike him. On the contrary he was quite happy that the dark-haired man beat those thugs because of him and for some reason no one dared to bully him since. He didn't know if it got anything to do with the skylark but since that event he was save, except from math classes. There he wasn't save at all.

He let out a long sigh. These days his head was filled only with Hibari. He was so nervous around him that he thought of using today's fall during P.E. and take some break from math and its intense teacher but instead he came to him. He was so surprised by it. He thought his heart will stop. And what happened afterwards was even stranger. That heavy atmosphere and hungry look of the man before him was...

'Just remembering it is enough!' Tsuna thought and touched his flushed cheeks. He could no longer understand anything. Before it was so easy - he just hated him and that was it but now his feelings were so confusing.

The brunette turned around to head toward the clerk when he bumped into someone. "Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't see you." he explained quickly and looked at the man in front of him.

"Kufufufu, don't worry. It's alright." smirked the man with blue long hair tied up in a ponytail. He was taller than the brunette, wearing black jacket and jeans with some chain on it. He looked somewhat dangerous so Tsuna smiled nervously and stepped back.

"Then I'll be going now." he said and bowed lightly before quickly heading to clerk. When he left the store he dared to look behind but didn't see the man anywhere. 'I don't even know why was I so scared...' he thought with embarrassed grin and decided to hurry home.

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Hiyaa! ^^

So sorry it took me so long to update again... I was kinda busy this past few weeks and on top of that started to have problems with my health... I'm still sick but hopefully I'll get better soon :)

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Hope you liked this chapter and I'll try updating earlier this time ;)