AN: Hello and welcome to chapter 7 of Death's Curse! I have so many wonderful readers, thank you to all of you who reviewed, this story officially has over 100 reviews! I appreciated each and every one of them, no matter how random some may be. This chapter isn't as long as the previous one, but it has a lot of character interaction and we also get introduced to two of Tsuna's guardians! I hope you enjoy!
WARNING: This fic may contain many clichés known to fanfic readers everywhere, but I hope that at least some of my ideas are original. If not—well, this is fanfiction people! We can't all be geniuses at literature!
Disclaimer: I don't own Katekyo Hitman Reborn or Harry Potter, they belong to JK Rowling and Akira Amano. If I did own them, I'd be rich and own a mansion or something.
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Death's Curse: Chapter 7
It was another day at Namimori middle, the birds were chirping, the teachers were teaching, Hibari was drinking coffee in his office, and Tsuna was dodging bullets.
Wait. Bullets?
"Aaaaahhhh! Reborn! Stop shooting at me, I'm late for school!"
The sadistic hitman's only response was to pull out another gun and continue shooting.
"Dame-Tsuna, get to school with your dying will!"
The brunettes' only option was to jump again, barely dodging the shower of bullets raining down on him.
'Mierda!', Reborn thought. 'How is he dodging all my bullets? I need to see his flames for myself, after the great disappointment his brother was it wouldn't surprise me if he didn't have sky flames as well.'
Of course, he was only telling himself that as an excuse, the real reason was that he was irritated at the brunette's secrets, and an irritated Reborn made for a trigger-happy baby hitman.
Today was officially his first day as Tsuna's tutor, and already he was frustrated with his student. Earlier that morning he'd told Natsume about his change of student and the boy had seemed relieved, being sympathetic enough to give his younger brother a pitying look.
'I only had him as my tutor for less than a day and faced humiliation at school, who knows what else he might have done?'
Natsume had not for the first time felt pity to his clumsy brother, with his luck, he'd never survive to take over that mafia family Reborn talked about.
Neither he nor Reborn knew that in the following weeks Dame-Tsuna would become a person of the past, Tsuna beginning to act more mature and intelligent, and that finally people would figure out just why Hibari remained friends with the fluffy-haired brunette.
"Keep running Dame-Tsuna!"
While Tsuna was running from Reborn, he didn't notice that he'd pushed someone in his haste to get away from the psychotic baby.
Eventually the only thing a curious passerby could see was the trail of smoke as Tsuna and Reborn ran towards the school.
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While Tsuna and Reborn ran past him, Sasagawa Ryohei looked at the running brunette and shouted.
"EXTREME! Look how EXTREMELY fast that kid is running! I'll find him and EXTREMELY suggest he join the boxing club!"
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Hibari was angry.
His morning had been going just fine, with no herbivores crowding his way and his coffee waiting on his desk. Then he'd overheard two of the teachers commenting on how Tsunayoshi had been more than one hour late to his class and his mood had worsened.
"I can tolerate the omnivore being late, but not this late! I'll bite him to death!"
Hibari always became angry at the omnivore for his herbivorous act, and decided to finally put his foot down and 'encourage' he start coming to school on time and start acting like his true self, he was tired of walking around and hearing the other students mock him as if they were his betters, when no one else but him and Kusakabe knew the truth.
While Hibari was fuming, Tsuna was hiding up on the roof, hoping Reborn wouldn't find him. Even if he was a much better fighter than he appeared, he still didn't appreciate having to dodge bullets, especially coming from his new sadistic tutor.
'At least I have been getting better', Tsuna thought. 'My reflexes have improved a lot thanks to that baby'.
He stopped suddenly, hearing the door to the roof opening. He turned around, hoping it wasn't Reborn, and he got his wish.
"Huh? Oh, it seems the roof wasn't as empty as I thought. Hey! What are you doing up here alone?"
Tsuna immediately noticed that the one standing on the roof with him was Yamamoto Takeshi, star of the baseball team and one of the school idols.
'Why is he up here? Escaping from fan girls perhaps?'
Tsuna just smiled back and said; "Hello Yamamoto-san! I was just up here because I like to watch the clouds, what about you?"
Yamamoto seemed surprised to see Dame-Tsuna (not that he calls him that, but his other classmates do) talk so well, usually the boy stuttered while around others.
"Ah! I was running away from girls! They said they wanted to eat with me, but I didn't want to!", he said this with a smile on his face.
Tsuna sweatdropped. 'I knew it! Fan girls, they're all the same, no matter what universe you're in.'
Yamamoto was thinking about the brunette, and how even though they went to the same school they never talked, the only person Tsuna seemed to hold conversations with was Hibari-san. He decided right then and there that he'd befriend the quiet brunette, partly because he was curious about Tsuna, and also because he'd noticed that Tsuna seemed lonely, more lonely than anyone he'd ever met.
'I wonder if that's why he's friends with Hibari-san, perhaps he recognized that he was lonely as well.'
Yamamoto Takeshi was far more perceptive than he let on, often playing the part of an always smiling, always happy person, while on the inside he always felt as if he was alone, the only reason so many people hung around him being his skills at baseball or his happy act.
'Lonely people should be friends, that way they're not so lonely anymore.'
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Tsuna was surprised. Yamamoto had just asked if it was okay for him to stay and eat with him.
'Why would Yamamoto, one of the school's idols want to spend his lunch with me, the supposed 'Dame-Tsuna'?'
Nevertheless, he smiled, happy that someone apart from Hibari wanted to spend time with him at school and answered.
"Of course! It's fine Yamamoto-san, I don't mind at all!"
Suddenly Yamamoto grew serious and said; "Call me Takeshi! Being called Yamamoto-san makes me think of my father."
Tsuna smiled. "Then call me Tsuna!"
They spent the rest of their lunch break talking about different things and looking up at the clouds.
Both Tsuna and Takeshi were pleasantly surprised with each other, promising to meet again on the rooftop the next day.
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Tsuna was lazily doodling on his notebook, ignoring the teacher as he taught them math.
'God, all this going to school gets boring so fast, I can't even remember the number of times I've had to go through this same lesson in different times. I could even teach this class better than the teacher himself!
The door to the classroom opened and Kusakabe-san poked his head inside.
"Sorry to interrupt, but Hibari-sama is looking for Sawada Tsunayoshi."
The teacher looked irritated. "Sawada! I know you weren't paying attention to this lesson anyways, but know that there'll be a test on this tomorrow! Now leave!"
Groans could be heard throughout the classroom as the other students suddenly found out they had a test the following day, but soon everyone forgot about it and began to discuss why Dame-Tsuna was being called to the head of the Disciplinary Committee.
As Tsuna and Kusakabe walked away they could hear the teacher trying to get quiet in the class.
Tsuna turned towards the disciplinary Committee member and asked; "Why does Kyoya-san need me?"
Kusakabe was the only one apart from Hibari that knew about Tsuna's true personality, often joining him and Hibari at his house on the few occasions that he managed to drag Hibari with him.
He smiled. "I believe it has to do with your tardiness this morning, it seems you were more than an hour late! An impressive feat, even for you I must say."
Not for the first time Tsuna cursed Reborn. 'It's all the Arcobaleno's fault! When I get home I'll put salt in his coffee!'
The rest of the journey was quiet, each of the two students thinking about different things.
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"Enter."
Tsuna walked into Hibari's office.
As head of the disciplinary committee Hibari owned a medium sized office in the left wing of the school. There was a desk in the far right corner, along with a filing cabinet and a book case. There was a couch on one side of the room, often used by Hibari when he took his afternoon naps.
At the moment Hibari was sitting on his desk, writing something down on a sheet of paper.
Kusakabe just let Tsuna in and closed the door.
When Hibari looked up, his face suddenly took on a scary expression.
"Omnivore, would you be kind enough to tell me why you were so late today?"
Tsuna just smiled weakly. "A baby hitman was shooting bullets at me this morning?"
Hibari just looked at him again. "Explain."
And explain he did. While he'd indeed told Reborn that he wouldn't speak of any Vongola secrets with anyone else, Hibari had some ties to the mafia from one of his uncles, Fon, who happened to be one of the legendary Arcobaleno, the storm Arcobaleno. Hibari had already been aware of Tsuna's ties to Vongola due to his help with the various assassins over the years so Tsuna explained about Reborn's arrival, and how now that Natsume was unable to take over as Vongola Decimo, he was the only candidate left.
Hibari was quiet throughout the explanation, and stayed quiet as he processed the new information.
"That is still not an excuse to your tardiness. Today after school, you will be bitten to death. Don't be late."
Tsuna just sighed, knowing that once Hibari made up his mind it was almost impossible to change it. "I'll be there Kyoya."
After Tsuna had left, Hibari smirked. He couldn't wait for the fight.
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It was the afternoon and school had finally ended. After the students and left, the only ones left were Hibari and Tsuna. Both of them were aware of the small baby holding his binoculars watching them start to fight.
Tsuna was too occupied to get annoyed with the baby, or he would have realized that him being late had been his plan all along in order for him to fight Kyoya.
Spin. Kick. Block.
Both of them were fighting, going full out, Hibari using his tonfas and Tsuna carefully using his flames, something that shocked Reborn.
'He's using his dying-will flames without the help of the bullet!'
It should have been impossible, unless he had a very strong will, to be able to use his flames so well.
'One more mystery to add to his already huge list. When I asked if he knew about dying will flames he told me he knew a few things about them, but by the way that he uses his own flames, he probably knows far more than he let on.'
As he saw the fight end, he decided to send the video of the fight to Hayato Gokudera, also known as smokin' bomb Hayato, along with a letter inviting him to Japan to test the Vongola Decimo, with a bit of embellishment of course. Perhaps he'd tell him that the winner would take over as Vongola Decimo, that'd be sure to get the mafioso's attention.
He walked away, following Tsuna and Hibari to the Sawada's home.
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"Kaa-san! I'm home!"
Tsuna and Hibari walked inside while Reborn jumped in through a window.
Nana Sawada came out of the kitchen and smiled at the three of them. "Oh look! You brought Hibari-kun as well! How lucky that your brother decided to stay at a friends house, we have enough food for everyone!"
Tsuna smiled at his mother and walked into the dining room, along with a quietly sulking skylark because of Nana's nickname.
For the past three or so years, it had become a habit for Tsuna to drag him to his house after a particularly tiring fight, exclaiming how he didn't trust that Hibari would eat enough to replenish his energy, a valid concern. Of course, at first Hibari had been against it wholeheartedly, but he'd grown fond of the omnivore's mother, and enjoyed her cooking as well. Nowadays while he still pretended as if he didn't want to be there, everyone knew he enjoyed spending time with the small family.
Once they were all seated, Nana placed the food in front of them. "Enjoy!"
They all thanked her and began to eat her delicious food.
Reborn seemed to be contemplating something as he stared at Hibari until the meal was over.
Hibari stared back, not feeling amused at the baby's stare. "What do you want from me baby?"
"Would you like to join Tsuna's family?"
Tsuna couldn't believe what he was hearing, he'd known it was coming, yet he'd allowed himself to think that perhaps Hibari wouldn't get recruited, a foolish hope it seemed.
Hibari seemed to think about it. "Will I get to fight stronger herbivores?"
Reborn smirked from under his fedora. "Of course."
"Then I accept."
Tsuna opened his mouth to argue, but Hibari sent him a glare and continued.
"Not only that, but the omnivore is my...friend..., and I'm the only one allowed to bite him to death."
Tsuna was overjoyed to finally hear Kyoya himself admit that they were friends, and he knew that the previous sentence spoken by the skylark of Namimori was probably as close as he would get to mentioning him as a friend ever again, but he was just happy that Kyoya would join his famiglia, and that no matter what would happen from now on, his best friend would be by his side.
Reborn looked satisfied with himself as he welcomed Hibari to the Vongola.
"Welcome Hibari Kyoya, cloud guardian to the Vongola famiglia.
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AN: Hey readers! I hope you enjoyed this chapter, we finally got to meet another one of the main characters! I not know why, but I'm getting the feeling that this story is moving too quickly, what do you think? I think it's just because I want to go through the daily life arc faster.
I loved writing the scene at the end, I wasn't sure if Hibari might have been a bit OOC or not, but hey, this WILL eventually become AU, so I think it's fine.
Next chapter will introduce: Gokudera Hayato! And there'll be some more Yamamoto/Tsuna interaction.
Some of you were asking about a pairing, and at the moment I'm going to have to say that there probably won't be a pairing. I'm not very comfortable writing romance, but perhaps later on I'll do something, who knows? But just so you know, IF there's any romance it'll be a background thing and it won't dominate the story's plot.
I seriously can't wait for the Kokuyo arc, I'm really looking forward to writing Rokudo Mukuro! The next chapter might be a little later than usual, so you might only get one chapter next week.
I'm not sure if I got any names wrong, but if I did, please point it out in a review.
I'll see you next time, and don't forget to review!
