AN: Just want to apologize for the late update, (-_-)-I'm sorry! So just enjoy the chapter.

Chapter 6: Dresses and Cakes

How? How was it possible? How was it possible to have used up all twenty million yens in just three weeks?...were the thoughts running through Tsuna's head as he looked over his bank ledger once more. It had to be wrong!

Making his way toward the dresser, Tsuna grabbed the metal cookies tin from the top drawer before heading to the kotatsu. Putting the tin box on the table, he opens it to pulls out the sack of receipts for the past three weeks since he received the twenty millions from the Bovino Famiglia as a babysitting fee for taking care of Lambo.

It couldn't be true that they had used up the twenty millions already. After all, it's twenty millions for god sake!

Sure the amount of foods he needed to purchased had increase since the number of people he has to feed had increase by two.

Haru had refused to leave 'Lambo-chan' and 'Reborn-chan' alone with two irresponsible male students, so he had allowed the girl to stay after a long and difficult argument against Reborn and Haru which lead to his ungraceful defeat. That then led to him using a fraction of the amount they received to buy out the next room for Haru. On Reborn recommendation that they should remodel the two rooms into one living space, Tsuna allowed Reborn to oversee the construction.

The young hitman had turned the two single apartment rooms into a three bedrooms, one bathroom apartment. Their new living space also included a small simple yellow kitchen attached to lounging area. The only table-kotatsu Tsuna own made it new home near the back wall facing just a little to the left of the doorway and nearby the kitchen.

A slightly burned bookshelf made from wood was spared trash day thanks to Tsuna's begging and now made it new home in the corner nearby. Upon the shelf, books of all size cramped the bottom three shelves as the top and final shelf held articles of all sorts. Like the metal can of pens and pencils sitting atop a collection of unused papers. Some rubble bands, a small jar of marbles, the first aid kit, a sack of letters and a small golden pocket watch filled the space of the top shelf. It was pretty empty, but Tsuna had hope that someday that shelf will be filled with so many useless items that he doesn't even know what to do with them.

The bathroom was pretty simple, a plain white tiled area. A white western acrylic bathtub with a three settings showerhead sat against the right wall as a small ivory sink table with a mirror cabin right above it settled at the opposite wall. The toilet was hidden behind the bathtub and a double doors cabin attached itself to the wall nearby. Tsuna just hated it, mainly because of the whiteness of the room, but arguing with Reborn was just not an option.

At least his room was not white. It was instead a light tan brown, which Yamamoto had comment looked like his eye, but to him it was more of a golden honey color.

It was a warm sort of sunset color and he couldn't help but like it so much that he was able to ignore the fact that he would be sharing it with Reborn. That was a small imperfection, since he was used to sharing with that sadistic baby.

Tsuna being exceedingly happy to finally have the place repaired and getting a real room as an added bonus he might had splurged a bit more than what was wise for the feast he made to celebrated his home recovery. There were also the amounts he used to get some toys and provisions for Lambo. And the new furniture for Haru and Gokudera's rooms, but could he really had used up all twenty million yens without budgeting?

"8352…add to 62383…then 500000 for the rent with 26000 for the bed…no that's wrong!" Tsuna scratched away the numbers on the paper before crumpling up the sheet to throws at the ever growing piles of paper balls he created since the beginning of the hour that he been sitting there.

"Who am I trying to kidded" Tsuna gave up as he lay flat out on the ground, his hand behind his head to act as a pillow, "I'm just not good with math.", he sighed depressed by his own thoughts when Haru suddenly appear above him.

His eyes widen in surprised and he jumped up almost crashing into her head in his rush to sit up. Tsuna face became red out of embarrassment as Haru back away out of shock.

"H-Haru-san, is there anything I can help you with?" Tsuna stuttered as Haru slowly made her way over to a cushion and sat down, not planning to leave.

"Do you need help?", she asked picking up a few of the receipts scattered upon the table, "Haru's pretty good at math. Haru's father is a math teacher at a university, desu."

"Really?" Tsuna was excited, truth's be told, he suck at math and there was just no way he could do all these accounting business correctly, but he couldn't asks Reborn. The baby hitman would just threaten him until he did it correctly. Gokudera would only try to explain to him how to do it, but his way of explaining was too high-level for Tsuna tiny brain. Lambo…well Lambo was still just a kid. He had wanted to ask Haru, but he had thought that she hated him.

Which was why he was so surprised when she stood over him. She would normally avoid him when it was just the two of them. When it came to meal times, she would help him make the foods, but they would work in silence. Never had they really tried to talk with each others before.

"Yeah" Haru nodded as a silence sweep through the room. The two sat there; Haru keeping her eyes on the paper in front of her, while Tsuna fidgeted in his seat, keeping his sights on the move hoping to find something to break the silence.

"Where's Lambo?", He asked finally finding something to talk about. Usually when Lambo was around, Haru is never far behind, so he assumes, that it be the same backward.

"Lambo-chan is sleeping in the room, desu.", Haru answered not looking away from her calculations.

"Oh…" and another silence once again descend across the room.

20 minutes later, Haru finally looked away from the ledgers and was surprised to find a cup of steaming tea and a plate of daifuku waiting on her, Tsuna was about to pop another piece into his mouth when she looked up. He swallowed quickly, hitting his chest to stop himself from chocking and drowning it with green tea. Tsuna was surprised to have Haru looked at him stuffing himself while she was working on his financial credits.

"Are you alright?" Haru moved next to Tsuna, helping him to swallow, by rubbing his back.

"Y-yeah…I'm fine.", he assured her, a grateful smile upon his face, "Thank you."

Haru couldn't help it. She turns beet red as steams smoked from her head. It was the first smile she had seen on him since she moved here. She had seen how scary he could be, his face gave her nightmare of Namahage, the demon that chopped up children. Her face cooled down at the thought of him pointing a knife at Reborn.

"Yea…well you don't need to thanks Haru. Haru is only doing the right thing, not like some person.", she glared at him at the last word.

Tsuna could feel her loathing stare, but he didn't understand the reason, "Hm…Haru-san are you fine?", he repeated her question back at her.

"Hahi?" she couldn't understand him. For the last three weeks, she had witness him being kind to Lambo, bothered by the silver hair bully, being respectful with the young Reborn, and even to the occasionally visiting Yamamoto, he was hospitable. Her observations were what lead her talk to him after having put Lambo to sleep and seeing that he had seem troubled.

"H-Haru is fine, desu…" he gave a sigh of relief, which made her smile. He was being considerate to her. That first night was probably a mistake.

"S-so Haru-san…how is our financial situation?"

"Hahi! Our?" Haru blushed as Tsuna recognized his blunder.

"I-I m-mean…since w-we l-live together now…" Tsuna ruffled his head not really sure what he was trying to say. He had never really lived with anyone beside Reborn before and back then, the two would always share everything.

Haru couldn't help it as she found herself laughing, "Tsuna-san is a funny person."

"I am?" Tsuna gave her a disbelieving look, he had been called heartless, monster, useless, and many more terms that he didn't want to names, but never had he been called funny in his life.

The girl just nodded, not able to speak through her laughs just yet, Tsuna-san was quite innocent. "But…" she stopped laughing recalling the issue at hand, "o-our assets are a little low. Haru say we only have enough for another week…maybe two if we budget it correctly."

"Only two?"

"Not to worry, desu!", she happily exclaimed, "Haru have a plan!"

-KHR-

No no no no no. There is just NO way is he is going to go out looking like this! Tsuna stared at his reflection in the mirror. The image reflected there was of him, yet at the same time, he couldn't say it was him. The person staring back at him was…dare he say it…cute. He had to bow down to Haru's skills on fashions and costumes, but he never would imagine himself dressed in girls' clothing.

That was right! He was wearing outfits made for girls, wig included! It had seem that the plan Haru had was a job at a restaurant, but the owner there would only hires female waitress and so he was forced into Haru's clothes; a thin purple turtle neck undershirt to hide his adam-apple, which was then place over by a blue v-neck unbuttoned jacket. He was grateful that Haru had decided to give him pant instead of a skit, but the jean he was in was uncomfortably short. How do girls wear these?

At this point, he just looks like a boy in female clothes, which he was. But thank to Haru's make-up and the long tan wig he was wearing, it almost made him believes that he had a twin sister. The braided chocolate brown hair tied up with a blue ribbon looked really cute, and he couldn't help it but blushed at the girl in his mirror. I wish I have a little sister.

"Then let's go desu!" Haru shouted, seeing that Tsuna had finally stopped whining, she grabbed his quivering arm to pull him out the door.

As she dragged him passed a couple of block, she soon notices that he was still shaking. He had been shaking since she made him changed, but she had thought that it was just out of nervousness, but to still be shaking after he had resigned to her will and was allowing her to guide him passed three blocks heading toward the entrainments district was a little strange. She shook it off as his worries about getting the job.

As she leaded him into the place called Akai Kaze, 'Red Wind', Tsuna finally seems to have returns to being himself.

Just as the name had told him, the restaurant he found himself in was themed red. Red curtains of different shades draped over window and ceiling as if they were waves in a red sea. Red cushioned chairs with gold metal frame sat around dark brown oak table. The floor was a total opposite of pale gray green as the white wall gave way to the royal blue ceiling that doesn't seem to have an end.

It was strangely decorated for a restaurant, but the customers didn't seem to mind as Haru led him passed the golden brown counter. The pretty Chinese waitress or at least that was what he thought of the girl when she first came up to greeted Haru. She was actually a Japanese high-schooler dress in a bright emerald green Chinese dress with bamboo leaves of gold spiraling around in the wind. Haru returned the greeting to the short hair girl before guiding Tsuna toward the kitchen.

The kitchen was completely different from the front, with a clean, spotless room filled with two gas ranges for working woks, another two countertop stoves sat on opposite side from each other, with a double-decker oven on the right wall. Two iceboxes with easy open covers attached to the two long and wide stainless steel countertops sat at the center of the room. On the far side from the entrance were three walk-in fridges, and a pantry. Two men and one woman in chef uniforms were working independently on their own stations as another man chopped the flying carrots slices at a high speed.

Two waitresses on duty were placing orders and picking up their previous request from a man dressed in purple. Unlike the others wearing uniforms, this man was wearing a long-sleeve Chinese style shirt with a bun cap on his head; his face was hidden by huge shaded sunglass.

"Ohayou gozaimasu Boss!" Haru greeted as the man in purple turns to face them.

He gave her a nod in return for the greeting, telling them to come over, "Here for a visit?", he asked his employee before looking over at Tsuna, "You brought a friend."

"Yes, desu. Haru's friend is looking for work, and Haru remember that we have a spot open, right Boss?" Haru elucidated their presents.

The man just nodded, "Yes…a waitress", he faced Tsuna, closely examined the 'girl' before him.

Tsuna gulped his intuition warning him that the man was similar to Reborn in a way. Haru just smile at her boss' answer, "That's great! My friend Tsu-Tsukiko-san is perfect for the job, desu!"

He looked Tsuna over once more then faces Haru, "I'll try him out."

Haru just bow in thanks unaware that her boss had seen through their little lie since the man had spoken in a soft tone.

"Can you start this evening?" He asked Tsuna, "I need the help during Miura-san's shift."

"Yes!" Tsuna answered forgetting all about his stupid disguises or the nervousness he was feelings. He got a job! He doesn't have to live on furikake!

He doesn't have to live on furikake! He doesn't have to live on furikake! He doesn't have to live on furikake…Tsuna was repeating that litany as if it was an incantation to help him get through his shift. After all he needed something to keep his mind off of the orange Chinese dress he was forced to wear. Strangely the dress pattern contains a fish swimming up his leg as spiral wave patterns itched randomly around.

He had to continue his chant as he greets a table of familiar people, familiar being Kyoko and Hana, the two girls from class. While Hana had laughed, Kyoko had been sympathetic toward his situation, when he explains about his living expenses. It was a good thing that his school didn't care about their students working or not, but being caught wearing a dress even worst especially with Hana. The girl just keeps on making fun of him.

What was worst was that the Boss, the name still escaped him, had known about his real gender claiming, "I'll get a male uniform order up, so until then keep the wig and wear this.", while handing him the Chinese uniform. Why could he just wear the Chef uniform?

"JUUDAIME!" the shout from outside the shop made him turns toward the window to see Gokudera running pass at lightning speed, Yamamoto was happily chasing him with Lambo in his arms.

The brunet quickly looked away when he saw Yamamoto turns from sensing the stare.

"W-what would you like to order?" Tsuna asked the girls trying to avoid catching Yamamoto's attention.

"I'll take the Matcha Parfait. Kyoko?" Hana answered swiftly before passing the right to order over to her best friend. Tsuna had to take a double look at the menu he was handed to see that although; this was mainly a Chinese restaurant they had an exclusive desserts menu as well which he supposed explained the three walk-in-fridges in the kitchen.

As Kyoko quickly looked through the menu for something, Tsuna jolt down Hana's order before quickly taking a peek outside the window when Kyoko still didn't seem ready. Yamamoto had disappeared.

"A-an Ichigo Spring Cake…" Kyoko voice made him turns back to his order pad to begin jolting down the girl's order. Just as he was about to leave to fulfill the order, Kyoko soft angelic voice sound again, "Vanilla Roll Cake…the Seven-layer Coco Cake, Blueberries Cheesecake, and the house sweet dumping." Kyoko listed before slapping the menu close with a large smile on her face.

Tsuna had stopped writing after the first ones and had lost track of what she had ordered. He was surprised to know that a girl can eat so many cakes. Once Kyoko had repeated her orders for him with a faintly blushed face, he went back into the kitchen to drop off the ticket glad for the excuse to escape from Kyoko's adorable face.

Coming back out to take order for the next table he drop the order pad when the all too familiar voice of the Gokudera Hayato called out to him, "Juudaime!".

He was waving. He was waving with a huge smile on his face as Yamamoto turns around in his seat. Lambo hang himself against the back of the bench seat they were seated at.

"Gyahahaha, it's Tsuna! Lambo-sama is here to visit you!" Lambo cried as he waves his little hand.

I didn't want you guys to come! Tsuna internally cried as he dragged himself over to their table after picking up the order pad.

"Yo, Tsuna" Yamamoto greeted as he arrived, "So you worked here?", he ignored the dress Tsuna was wearing as he gave the boy his normal smile.

"Y-yeah…" Tsuna didn't know what to say as he had expected the jock to laugh at him like Hana did, "What are you guys doing here?"

"Reborn-san told us you were in trouble!" Gokudera exclaimed worries frowns marred his face as Tsuna silently cursed the baby hitman. "Why are you in a dress Juudaime?", the silver head asked the question Tsuna was trying to avoid.

"Haha, you're right! Tsuna is wearing a dress." Yamamoto laughed.

Tsuna gave Yamamoto a disbelieving look before ignoring them when Gokudera hit the jock for making fun of his boss, "What do you wish to order?" Tsuna asked them sternly instead.

"Lambo-san want grape!"

"There's no grape." Tsuna replied bluntly making Lambo cry. Haru came over hearing the noise and without asking about what had happened, she just hit Tsuna over the head with her tray, which lead to a quarrelling contest between Gokudera and Haru.

"Tsuna" Yamamoto ignored the shouting around him, "I want a glass of milk", he ordered like everything was perfectly normal.

"There's no milk on the menu.", Tsuna looked at Yamamoto seriously wanting to know if the boy was joking with him or not.

"Then a milkshake?"

He wanted to kill the jock, but the boy's face had said that he was serious about his order.

"No milkshake either"

Yamamoto's face looked dejected before smiling up at Tsuna, "Then what do you recommend, Tsuna?"

How should he know? It was only his first day for god sake!, was what Tsuna wanted to scream, but not wanting to lose his job quite yet for yelling at a customer, he decided to just look through the menu. "I'll just ask the kitchen to see if they can afford to spare a glass of milk." Tsuna told the jock before jotting down the order on his pad. They had an extensive list of sweets after all Tsuna was sure there was milk usage in those recipes.

"Okay", Yamamoto chirped happily.

Looking back at Lambo, the boy was playing with the menu which Tsuna just grab out of the boy's hands, "How about a chocolate cake, Lambo?", he quickly added before the kid could cry.

"C-cake?" Lambo sniffed back his tears as he determined if a chocolate cake can replace his beloved grape, "Yes! Lambo-san wants cake!" Tsuna quickly escaped, letting Haru take care of Gokudera's orders...if he orders anything. But knowing the bomber, Tsuna highly doubt it knowing the boy to be a picky eater; he only likes Italian cuisines.

Upon entering the kitchen, Tsuna was expecting a bit of quiet, but what awaited him were all the chefs surrounding a very familiar face. The black suit, had been replaced by a white chef jacket, the black fedora was swapped with a white mushroom hat, and there above his lip was a nicely trimmed moustache, but the ever present beady black eyes, springy sideburns, and green chameleon sleeping on top of his hat formed only one conclusion in Tsuna's head, "Reborn?"

The small chef turns toward him as the rest of the crowd looked at him like he was stupid.

"Non. I am not tis Reborn you speak of. Ma name is Monsieur Soufflé.", the tiny chef answered in a French accent, which Tsuna totally didn't buy.

"What are you doing here Reborn?" Tsuna asked a vein popping on the side of his head at the terrible act the baby was putting on, which the other totally brought.

"Che" Reborn voice returned to normal, surprising the others within the kitchen, "I was hoping you could have played along a little longer my pathetic little student." He shook his head in disappointment, "You should know by now that I only go by Monsieur Soufflé in these clothes."

"You know the great Monsieur Soufflé, Tsukiko-san?", one of the chef had made his way toward Tsuna, "He just said something about you being his student. You are so lucky to be training under such an amazing world renowned chef." Tsuna wanted to hit the guy for his stupidity, but he held it in, again not wanting to lose his job by causing trouble with the other employees. He decided to just ignore Reborn and continue in his work.

Too bad for him, Reborn is not a person to be ignored, "Tsukiko…"

Tsuna froze. Reborn, didn't just called him by that name. He turns around; the sound of rusty feet being dragged forward followed his movement as he faced the baby hitman in white.

Reborn was smirking, Leon-turns-gun was facing him, "I don't want you to work here.", his face turns serious as his eyes seems to hit a shadow, "quit the job or I kill you." He was serious.

Reborn was serious about killing him; he could feel the air grew cold…but why?

"It already too late to hide him.", the sudden calm, soft voice made Tsuna and the other employees jumped, Reborn being the only one to stare at the new occupant impassively. "Everyone, the customers are waiting. Please get back to work.", he ordered calmly but everyone scatter back to their station as if he had just yelled.

Tsuna too, rushed to pick up his orders before running out the kitchen, leaving behind the two people his intuition had label as 'dangerous' talking to each other.

Being back out in the front was a problem in itself as he brought the foods over to Hana and Kyoko's table, where the former of the two complained about how long it had taken for their foods to have come. Her ruckus had then brought Gokudera over to tell her off and that lead the two into an argument.

Seeing the commotion, Haru had came over to try and stop it only to be distracted by the cakes on Kyoko's side of the table and had begin a conversation with the girl, leaving Tsuna to do the shift alone, as he tried to calm the angry customers who were still waiting for their foods, while pacify those that started making noise as well, and smoothing those that got angry from the mess up on their orders.

-KHR-

All in all that was one hell of a day! Tsuna thought as he finally, FINALLY crawled to his bed and fell asleep.

BANG!

The sound of a gunshot made him jump off his bed to see a hole where his head had just been second before. His pillow had gain a nicely brunt hole as feather spilled out from it wound.

Looking around for an intruder, he found Reborn standing at the window, his green gun in hand as he glare, that's right Reborn was glaring! It was like seeing the god of war getting ready to completely wipe out his enemies until there is not even a speck of dust of them left.

"R-Re-Reborn?" Tsuna was cowering behind his bed as he wonders why Reborn had wanted to kill him. Was it still about his job? But he really needed that job and Reborn knew it…the baby was heartless, but he wasn't the type to ignore own his living style. He wouldn't want to live on furikake!

"I would rather have live on furikake…" Reborn said reading his mind as Tsuna panic, "I didn't want him to know…", he continued jumping onto the floor to walk over, "I didn't want him to know…" Tsuna fainted when Reborn jumped onto the bed to glare at him, "I didn't want him to know that I had such a disgraceful student.", Reborn cried without any real tears, but he cried nevertheless.

AN: I couldn't help myself making Reborn seem more baby-like than he really is or dressing Tsuna up in female clothing. This chapter is mainly just for laugh, but the next chapter will take you back on track to the main story. Hint: There going to be a little action scene (very light) and new characters will appear.