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Target 07: "Intertwined Minds"

"I'm sorry but Haru's not been feeling well since yesterday, so I let her skip school today, maybe by tomorrow she'll be up and about again" Mrs. Miura explained in the phone.

"Oh. I see. Well, please tell Haru to get better soon, and tell her also that I have all the notes for the lectures she missed today...Uhm thank you Mrs. Miura" relayed by the person at the other end of the phone.

"Oh, yes I'll tell her that, what a considerate boy you are...eh, what's your name again young man?" She inquired.

"Ahhh, thank you Mrs. Miura..." while he unconsciously scratched the back of his head like he was embarrassed or something "...it's Takeshi, Yamamoto Takeshi ma'am"

"Well thanks then Yamamoto-san...goodbye"

"Thank you too ma'am, goodbye" and he shut his phone looking disheartened that he hadn't had the chance to talk to Haru.

It has been two days after the kissing accident happened, ever since then Haru had locked herself up in her bedroom, refusing to talk or see anyone claiming that she's sick.

Of course the gang didn't believe her, she wasn't sick, and they all knew that. They knew it was all because of that kiss. Yes that stupid kiss.

That scene kept on playing and playing on her mind for two straight days like a video on repeat, never letting her to fall asleep.

Well not actually since she still did sleet out of her tiresome heavy eyelids because of all the crying parade she had done for 48 hours straight.

But what made her cry most is not the humiliation she received from that accident, nor the fact that her first kiss was stolen.

No, although she never admits it, Gokudera's words made her cry the most.

'Tch. What are you moping for, stupid woman? It's not like I wanted to kiss you, did I?'

Those words that strung something deep inside her heart that made her hurt more.

"That jerk...how can Haru find herself a husband now? Now that he did that...I-I can't get married anymore!" and then she wailed again punching her pillow like a crazy woman would do.

Then as if she remembered something she slowly took the pillow and hugged it, burying her tear stricken face on the pillow and muttered something.

"You even said that you don't even want to kiss Haru...Is Haru that ugly that he don't even dreamt of laying his lips on mine as in never in his entire life?"

Then all of a sudden she shoots her head straight back up as hot red sprawled across her face.

"Hahi! What on earth am I thinking? Haru's not a pervert!"

Then she buried her face again at the pillow.

"I just wish that everything will be back to normal...It's hard to see him now especially after what happened...and it was in front of everyone too..." her words where muffled by the fact that her face was buried in the pillow and because of the silent tears that escaped her brown eyes.

A sudden realization hit her and made her smile.

"Hahi? It was really in front of everyone, right? But it really didn't bother Haru about Tsuna-san seeing all of this...Haru was so consumed about Bakadera and me that Haru forgot about Tsuna-san...was I really over him? How odd Haru was in-love with him since middle school but it only took me about a couple of weeks to completely forget him"

At least Haru was now fully recovered from her present broken heart, but still the thought of Bakadera kept her mood sour.

"At least Yamamoto-san had the decency to ran up to Haru and escorted me home, at least he made Haru feel at peace a bit with his comforting smile...not like the source of the problem who never even bothered to follow me or apologized for being such a jerk...well I never expected him to do it anyway but still...he really is such a jerk! B-but Haru still don't understand why Yamamoto-san did that-desu" she wondered as pink tint slightly graced her cheeks.

With that last confusing thought, Haru wailed like a mad person until she finally drifted to sleep as if her energy left her dead.


Yamamoto kept on glancing at Haru's now empty chair while his mind wandered at that night's events.

He grimaced at the sight of the two who shared a kiss. But what made him furious was how easily Gokudera made Haru cry after that.

He followed her that night not knowing what to do. Hurt and anger filled him that night but when he caught up on Haru he immediately grabbed her wrist and pulled her into a warm embrace.

Haru back then was still crying but the moment she was pulled into his arms she became ultimately astonished by his sudden action.

Yamamoto sensed Haru's body stiffened into his embrace but he didn't care, he didn't care that what he was actually doing now made him seemed out of character. No he didn't. Because now, all that he can think of is Haru and nothing more. He wanted to cheer her up, seeing her cry like that makes his stomach twist in audible pain.

After a few minutes that felt like hours for the two, Yamamoto let go of Haru not before rubbing her lips with his hand.

"There. Like nothing happened" he grinned towards the puzzled girl.

"Hahi?"

"The kiss, it's gone...I rubbed it off of you, so smile now Haru, 'cause its suits you much better than crying" he smiled genuinely making Haru skip a beat.

Haru just smiled in return at loss for words and walked side by side Yamamoto until they reached the Miura's Residence.

He knows that she knew it will never be gone, that it really won't appease her that much, that whatever he did, the idiot silver haired man got it from her.

But there was one thing that he didn't know, that his words, his smiles even his hug made Haru at peace even for a little bit.

Gokudera casually walked inside their classroom as if nothing happened.

He gave a quick glare at Yamamoto as he passed him by and an offhand look upon seeing Haru's vacant chair.

"Shish. She's absent huh, I thought the stupid woman's okay now?" he thought as he again shot Yamamoto a death glare.

To his surprise Yamamoto was actually reciprocating his death glare with his own deadly version.

Gokudera raised an irked brow towards him and scoffed "What the hell baseball-freak? Glaring at me? What? So you finally decide to show your true colors?"

That made Yamamoto's patience break; he roughly stood up as he charged at Gokudera and took him by the collar of his shirt, a suspending fist not too far from the silver haired teen's face.

"What? You'll hit me? Then go ahead freak and be my guest" Gokudera smirked.

The way his scowl turned into a smirk, made Yamamoto to just really hit him good in the face, well, he really and I meant badly wanted to since his fist was already gonna give him what he deserved when their homeroom teacher suddenly crashed in and stop Yamamoto in time, making his fist stopped an inch away from Gokudera's face.

The students fell silent as they observed the two boys who still stood at the same position when the teacher suddenly barged in.

Gokudera smack his hand off his collar and after giving his final death glare at the young man he roughly took off even bumping the teacher on his way out the room earning him a remark from the Vongola Rain Guardian.

"Idiot"

"I know" Gokudera muttered.

Yamamoto smirks upon hearing this, knowing that for the first time of their lives he agreed to what he just said.


In actuality he really did follow Haru that night; he knew he was being a jerk and that he had gone over the board. But what made him halt dead on his tracks was when he saw Yamamoto lovingly hugged a crying Haru. The sight of the two made him sick and turned his mood as bitter as it did before.

"Whatever, he can take care of her, I'll just go and leave the two love birds alone" he muttered as he walked away unseen from the two.

"Here I' am worrying about her, and there she was letting herself be hugged by that baseball freak" he scowled as he kicked an empty can away from him that just bounced off the wall and hit him square on his knees that made him curse more.

Remembering that night's event had added more fire into his already burning mood due to Yamamoto's sudden actions towards him earlier that day.

Just to cool his head Gokudera decided to just skip school altogether and just walk aimlessly to hell's where his feet will take him.

"I'll probably go and apologize to Juudaime later for not being with them at lunch and after school" he thought and sighed when he finally stop to look at his surroundings.

"Where the hell I am?" he queried until the answer dawned on him.

"Oh great...Just friggin great! Damn these stupid feet, why the hell did you even take me here? Oh crap now I'm scolding my freaking feet. What the hell am I even doing now?" Gokudera cursed as he realized where he was even scolding his feet upon walking there, feeling like a total idiot for what he just did.

"This is where she cried her heart out because of Juudaime and Sasagawa. How the hell did I even cope up with her that time with her frantic wails and all?" he questioned his self.

It was already late in the afternoon when he stumbled across Namimori Park feeling a bit idiotic and sluggish, so he decided to just kill the time there as he reminisce the event he shared with a crying Haru Miura.

To his surprise he saw a lone girl who was sitting at the swing. He felt that he knew the person since her back was unmistakably familiar to him, even that sight was all to familiar, like that night when he saw Haru by the swing heartbroken.

He hesitated at first since his eyes were kinda bad and that the setting sun just made it worst for him to see the girl clearly.

But after hearing the lone girl shouted his name paired with words like pervert, ass, stupid and jerk, he immediately knew it was her after all.

"Shish, it is her...that stupid woman" he said in gritted teeth.

He coolly went to where Haru was and before she knew it, she was smacked hard in the head by Gokudera.

"What the! What did you do that for? You idi-..." She stopped midway when she saw who it was who smacked her.

Gokudera smirked upon seeing her bewildered expression turned into a horrified one the moment she saw him.

"Idi- what again? You haven't finished your sentence, stupid woman?" He scoffed.

"Hahi? Go-Gokudera-san? Why are you here?" She blinked as if she had seen a ghost.

"Why the hell is he here anyways? Here I' am moping and stuff because of what he did, then here he is picking a fight, not even minding a thing about what happened that night" she thought.

"What seen a ghost or something? Why do you even care if I'm here stupid? Do you even know the phrase 'Mind your own friggin business' woman?"

"Hahi! Haru soooo don't give a damn care about you, you know! And Haru does own her business not like others I know" she barked.

"Oh so you do give a damn care about me?" he raised an exquisite brow towards the reddening girl.

"I don't you Octopus Head! I just said I don't, didn't I? Are you deaf or something? Well, whatever, since you're here, I can't find peace! So I'll go ahead" Haru stomped hard on the ground before she turned the other way to leave the annoying brat behind.

But Gokudera's next words made her stop.

"I thought you were sick? Then why were you here?"

"Hahi? How did you know?"

"Well that was your reason for skipping school today, right?" he mocked.

"A-ano...yeah, I was...whatever" she resigned unable to hide her embarrassment anymore by feigning her so called illness.

"So you weren't sick" he said as he crooked a smile.

Haru's heart skipped as she let it all out, lashing it all on Gokudera.

"Fine! I wasn't sick, okay! I didn't come to school 'cause I knew you'd be there, you really thought what had happened that time came no meaning to me? Well you're wrong! I'm the type of girl who reserves her first kiss for the one whom I'll marry! You even made it worst when you just shrugged like nothing happened and that you don't even like it, and that I was just over reacting! You're such a jerk! You haven't even followed me to apologize, and then here you are feeling almighty by picking a fight with me? I hate you...so much" then Haru broke into tears. Haru tried to suppress her tears but it got the best of her, she tried to wipe it with her sleeves but it kept on pouring.

Gokudera inched closer to Haru and took hold of her arm; she reddened by the sudden contact.

"You know what...I'm actually surprised to know that you can talk properly" he teased yet his smile was tender.

"Huh?" she blinked back her tears.

"I mean, that was all that you ever need, is to be angry, so that you'll stop your third person speech and all of your 'Hahi' and 'desu'" he laughed as she stared at him wide eyed.

"You jerk!" she tried to punch him on the chest but was effortlessly caught by Gokudera.

"It's a joke, can't stupid women know that?"

She just hissed, trying to take her hands away from his solid grip.

"I did" he said, suddenly turning serious.

"Did what?"

"I did followed you...I mean that night, I did followed you to apologize" he explained clearly when he took Haru's dumbfounded expression with his first set of words.

"Hahi?"

"There you are again, with your stupid 'Hahi'"

"Whatever! Never mind that Bakadera, but...y-you did, seriously?" she can't believe it, Gokudera followed her?

"Yeah I did, don't you believe me stupid woman?" irritation filled his voice making Haru jumped nervously.

"Hahi! Haru does...but Haru didn't see you that time"

There was a long pause before he suddenly muttered something that Haru failed to hear since she was too wrapped up about Gokudera's sudden change of attitude.

"It's because you were too wrapped up by Yamamoto's hug" he muttered.

"What again?"

"Nothing stupid woman!" he retorted he can't believe himself for saying that, he was all too thankful to the heavens above that the stupid girl hasn't had the chance to hear it.

"Waaah? You're awful Gokudera-san! Just tell Haru why she didn't see you that time"

"This is bad, the stupid woman might actually know about it, she might even draw some weird conclusions out from it like being jealous or whatever, and hell, if she did know then I'm definitely screwed...Wait... Crap! Why the hell am I over thinking about it anyway?" He grimaced at his thoughts. Why was he really worked up that much for that stupid woman? The Gokudera Hayato who never cared about saying stuff is now over thinking about this stuff?

"Look, Stupid woman" he started.

"Haru's not stupid, Bakadera" she interrupted.

"Fine...Look Haru, I'm sorry...for being a jerk, for accidentally stealing what's precious to you, and for making you feel worse with my carefree comment"

Haru widened his already big chocolate eyes at his sudden apology.

"Crap, I actually did apologize to her, but it's much better I guess than having the stupid woman flatter herself by knowing I was jealous that time...Hell! I'm not friggin jealous! Why would I be! Crap think straight you stupid brain, Gokudera Hayato will never be jealous because of this stupid wo-...man here" Gokudera thought but was cut near the end when Haru gave him a bright tender smile that made him skip a beat.

"Apology accepted-desu...Hahi! Look at the time, it's already late, Haru needs to go home and prepare for tomorrow since we have school" she smiled as she glanced at her imaginary watch on her bare wrist.

Gokudera was dumbfounded for a while because of her sudden smile, but quickly fixed his composure as he arched a brow at her for the second time around.

"School? What about your sickness?" he sneered while emphasizing at the word 'sickness'.

She rolled her eyes and said "Yeah, it was cured, so whatever...Well, bye for now Octopus Head! And just for a friendly advice, try staying as far away from the market, because they might mistook you for a giant octopus!" with that last snide comment, she left Gokudera while laughing her heart out, making the smoking bomb froze right in the spot as pink tint invaded his pale cheeks.

"Crap. I forgot to retort back, I'll let you slide this time stupid woman" he uttered as he watched the retreating form of Haru.

She laughed wholeheartedly for the first time again, after two straight days of crying as she thought of how the day went for her and him.

On her way home she wondered, how each time she'd visit that park; her sullen mood would always be turned around by the most unexpected person, who always did show up at the most unexpected time, having the worst unexpected method of cheering her up.

At first making her extremely sad, then outermost angry, then ultimately embarrassed and then finally ecstatic. She paused for a while and declared...

"Gokudera's bad for the heart, and Haru's 100% sure of it"

And boy was she right.


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