Day 7: Santa Hat

For the first time so far this month, Tsuna seems to have had a normal start to his day. No Reborn to ruin his day or wake him up in a painful or strange way, or even a painfully strange way. In fact, none of the freeloaders were at home either. It was like Tsuna's old life was back.

Until he arrived at school.

The young boss walked into his classroom with Gokudera and Yamamoto, and they found that the rest of their class was staring out of the windows. "What's going on?" Tsuna wondered. The trio joined their class and looked out the window. "Ehhh?!"

Outside of the classroom, there was a giant santa hat like structure standing out there in the middle of the baseball field. Tsuna and his classmates were shocked and confused, some terrified for the poor person that built it because Hibari is going to totally kick their ass for ruining the peace of Namimori.

The bell rang and everyone pryed themselves away from the windows, settling down into their desks. Their teacher entered the room and made an announcement. "I know all of you are curious about the santa hat outside of our window. Our principal has worked with someone he trusts very well to create a fun activity for everyone as we get closer to Christmas!" Tsuna, once again, had a bad feeling about this.

Someone jumped onto the desk and it was the one and only, Professor Borin! 'This advent calendar has made me see Reborn more than I'd like to...I already see him everyday at home!'

A piece of chalk came flying at the young boss, hitting him straight in the forehead. "Oww! What was that for?!" The arcobaleno ignored his student and focused his attention to the rest of the class, who was currently snickering at Dame-Tsuna. "Within that giant santa hat is a Christmas maze. The two people that finishes it first will be under a mistletoe," a smirk creeped onto his face, "meaning that you'll have to kiss your partner." Everyone's eyes, except for Tsuna's friends, lit up with determination. Unfortunately for the young boss, his bestest friends were the most popular kids in their class: Yamamoto, Gokudera, and Kyoko.

"Gather down at the santa hat and begin once you hear the school bell. Good luck! Try not to get Dame-Tsuna!"

"Oi, what's that supposed to mean?!" Gokudera shouted, bringing out his dynamite sticks. Reborn jumped out of the window, easily dodging a bomb that was thrown his way. Tsuna quickly stopped his storm guardian before any more damage could be done to the school, he doesn't want to be bitten again.

The class headed down to the field and realized just how big the hat was. It's height paralleled the top of the fences surrounding the field. The size of the structure didn't discourage the class at all, however. The guys flocked to Kyoko, trying to pair up with her but were being held back by Hana while Gokudera kept trying to bomb the girls constantly surrounding him. Yamamoto was just Yamamoto.

The school bell rang but the two crowds kept fighting one another. Tsuna decided to sneak through the crowds and enter the maze on his own. His jaw dropped at the sight.

It was a hedge maze but it was filled with decorations, a giant Christmas tree sitting in the middle of the giant santa hat structure. Tsuna placed his right hand on the side of the hedge and began walking.

A few minutes pass by and he hears the voices of his classmates and friends who were now entering the structure. He heard the faint yells of:

"Teeeenth! Where are you?!"

"Tsunaaa!"

"Tsuna-kuuun!"

The young boss sighed and sweat dropped. He just continued to stumble his way through the maze. Finally, he turned a corner and found himself in the room with the Christmas tree. "That's huge!"

How Reborn got a giant tree was beyond him. He looked at the bottom of the tree and noticed a single present sitting beneath it. Curious, Tsuna walked to the present and kneeled down to inspect it.

Turns out, it was a present addressed to him!

The santa hat shook a bit but he also saw a cloud smoke coming from a nearby spot in the maze. Seems like Gokudera and the others were closer than he thought.

Tsuna picked up the present and was about to head out of the room.

Bad idea.

The ground shook and he heard the screams from his peers. He saw snowflakes fly past him and he froze. 'No way…'

Tsuna turned around and saw the giant snowman, that he had an unpleasant meeting with at the beginning of this month, standing there in place of the giant tree that was just there.

Letting out his signature scream, "HIIEEEEE!" the young boss quickly escaped into one of the openings and ran through the maze. The snowman destroyed parts of the hedge maze as he chased after Tsuna once more.

As he was running for his life, Gokudera and the others finally arrived into the middle room. Since the snowman cleared a path as he chased Tsuna, the group followed its trails in hopes to find the exit while Tsuna's friends' top priority was finding him and making sure he was safe after hearing his screech.

"It's that damn snowman thing again! It must be chasing the Tenth again!" Gokudera said to Yamamoto. The two of them picked up their speed and tried to catch up with the giant snow monster. The rest of their class followed behind, keeping a safe distance from the snowman. Kyoko seemed worried about the two guardians but trusted them.

The storm guardian threw several bombs at the base of the snowman to throw him off balance as Yamamoto sliced the monster in two. It screeched and slowly began to melt. "Nice teamwork, Gokudera!"

"Tch, I didn't need your help." The baseball freak laughed it off.

The snowman cleared a so much of the hedge maze that it created a path from the middle room to the edge of the hat. At the exit, Tsuna had fallen onto his butt and stayed sitting there catching his breath while his friends destroy the snowman for the second time.

"Tenth! You're safe!"

"Yo, Tsuna!"

Before the two guardians could reach their boss, somethingーor rather, someoneーran by them, catching up to Tsuna before they could.

"Tsuna-kun! I was so worried that you suddenly disappeared on us!" Kyoko said, looking at him with a relieved expression on her face.

"Ah...sorry, Kyoko-chan..!" He apologized. The golden haired girl helped him up. Tsuna remembered what Reborn had said back at the classroom and looked up.

However, there wasn't a mistletoe hanging above the two, much to the guys' relief. Instead, Reborn came down from the ceiling, still disguised as Professor Borin.

"Since the snowman destroyed the mistletoe, there won't be a kiss. However, since they finished the maze, they can have these."

The hitman tutor brought out two matching santa hats that had an interesting pattern sewn onto it and placed them on Tsuna and Kyoko's heads.

Tsuna, although a bit disappointed, was glad that he ended up finishing the maze with Kyoko. "Oh yeah, you guys should clean this up now. Hibari expects this santa hat to be gone by tomorrow."

"REBORN!"

"I'm not Reborn, I'm Professor Borin."

The young boss sobbed as he and the rest of his class try to get rid of the structure before Hibari can bite them to death.


a/n:

fuk omg sorry senior year made me feckin busy

why do i take on these monthly challenges, i dIED IN INKTOBER

anyways, will be postin chappies as soon as i finish them

sorry guyyys!