Sorry it's been a while. I get really lazy when I'm tired and stressed. Hopefully this chapter will satisfy you all. If not, I shall work harder to do better the next time around. That's what I'm aspiring for at least…

Disclaimer: NOTHING BELONGS TO ME! It all belongs to Akira Amano! Though the writing itself belongs to me.


The Sensible challenge

It was a beautiful day, and Haru Miura was walking down the streets with a slip of paper in her hand.

She walked into a building and took in the scent of different mixed smells.

Yes, the glorius place called the 'market' where you could buy bountiful amounts of food and ingredient to use to make scrumptious food to ingest and serve to others with a smile.

It may be difficult to do all of the shopping and bring everything back alone, but Haru wasn't too worried about it.

Haru went down every aisle looking for everything on the list that her mother wrote for her.

With everything she found, she put it in the little basket, which got heavier with each and every added item.

In the beginning the weight wasn't much but in due time the weight seemed to compound itself with the things she added to her basket.

"Ara? Isn't it… Haru-chan?" Nana's voice rang out.

Haru turned to look at Tsuna's mother and she smiled happily. "Hello Nana-san." Haru bowed her head looking to see that she had a shopping list in her hand.

"Kaa-chan, I found the onions… what is next on the list?" Tsuna sighed holding a big basket full of groceries.

Nana just laughed at her son. "Now don't sound like such a wuss Tsuna, you'll embarrass yourself in front of your friend." Nana said.

Tsuna had finally noticed Haru's presence and waved at her. Tsuna and Haru had been getting along rather well over the course of a few years. Haru had gotten over her small little crush over him, and she has been easier for him to get along with.

She even helped with trying to get Tsuna to get together with Kyoko as well and it was quite successful. Tsuna smiled at Haru waving with his free hand. "So how are you?" He asked her.

"Haru is just fine. She's doing some shopping for her mother. I just finished shopping so I should probably head on back home now." Haru said holding up her heavy basket full of groceries.

Nana looked at the basket and deemed that it looked pretty heavy. "Do you need help?" Nana asked her.

Haru shook her head. It was heavy but nothing that she couldn't handle herself.

"I'll be just fine-desu, thank you for asking." Haru said. "Well, I should be taking my leave now. See you another time." Haru said waving before she left to scan and pay for all of the groceries.

She hadn't known it at the time, but someone else had joined in on the shopping party. Dino was curious about the grocery marts here and wanted to help out as he was staying at the Tsunayoshi residence. He was helping Tsuna look for groceries.

Dino was currently away looking at pet cleaning products for his little turtle since it was usually Romario that cleaned him, but since he wasn't there Dino was going to have to do that himself.

Once he had found what he was looking for, he walked over back to Tsuna and put the groceries in the basket.

"Ah, Dino, you just missed her, Haru-chan is here as well. Did you get to say hi to her?" Nana questioned him.

Dino looked around wondering where she was. He hadn't seen her yet. He did see a familiar figure about to leave the shop.

"Would you mind if I went quickly to talk to her?" Dino questioned.

Nana just chuckled shaking her head, shaking her hand in a 'shoo shoo' motion. "Go and enjoy yourself." She smiled dragging Tsuna along to help her do more of the shopping.

He was such a good son helping out his mother with all of the groceries and holding all of the heavy groceries for her.

"Hey! Haru-chan! Wait a moment will you?" Dino called out.

Haru froze and looked around having thought she heard Dino's voice.

She finally turned around to see Dino smiling down at her. Haru giggled and waved her hand at him.

She set down her groceries for a moment thinking that their talk may take a while and holding the groceries were a bother.

"Hello Dino-san, were you also shopping today?" She asked.

Dino rummaged through his sleeves and pulled out a green turtle. Haru was shocked to see that he stored such a thing in his jacket.

She got a closer look at the turtle and she giggled. It was cute!

He had little stars on his shell, how interesting.

"His name is Enzio. He's my pet. I had to go get some cleaning products for him." He explained.

Haru smiled never letting her eyes leave Enzio.

"Woah, Is that Enzio? I haven't seen him in two years now. Wow he's still going strong I see." Yamamoto laughed walking up to the two of them.

The two smiled at him greeting him.

It seemed as though Yamamoto was practicing from the baseball bat in his hand. Yamamoto looked down at the ground to see Haru had some groceries. "Do you need someone to hold your groceries for you, Haru? I'm about to go home now, so I don't mind helping you." Yamamoto offered.

"Actually, I'm very sure that I would be sufficient enough to help her. You don't have to worry yourself, Yamamoto-kun." Dino said with a superficial smile towards Yamamoto that he only used when he was trying to disguise his true intentions.

Yamamoto was taken aback by this, his serious switch being flipped, going on the defensive.

Haru looked around for a ball coming their way.

"Did someone just throw a ball nearby? Yamamoto only gets that look when he's playing baseball. Why are you so serious? Did something happen? Is Haru being left out? Tell Haru what's going on. She doesn't like being left out." Haru puffed out her cheeks cutely.

Dino and Yamamoto seemed to be sending out warning glances towards one another. Were they competing about something, Haru wondered?

She looked at the two curiously. "Is this…" Haru trailed off.

She took another good look at the two of them. "I got it! This is a staring competition! Haru is quite good at staring-desu. Let Haru join?" She asked excitedly.

"This is just a friendly competition between men Haru, please stay out of it." Dino asked of her.

Haru frowned puffing out her cheeks again.

Sexist.

Where in the rules of staring contests was there a rule against gender?

This was gender discrimination!

She crossed her arms over her chest and waited for this petty little competition to finish.

"Dino-san…" Haru tried to gain his attention.

"What is it, Haru-chan?" Dino questioned her not looking away from Yamamoto.

"Nana-san is calling for you." Haru said.

Dino blinked having forgotten the reason why he came outside in the first place.

He hastily put Enzio in the pocket of his jacket. "I have to go, see you later then." Dino said running back into the market.

Haru knelt down and hoisted up the bag into her arms.

Yamamoto held out his hand.

Haru looked at Yamamoto curiously who was smiling at her with his carefree smile.

It looked like things were normal again?

"I can help you carry the bag home. It looks pretty heavy." Yamamoto said.

Haru huffed to herself, keeping the bag in her arms.

Yamamoto tilted his head in confusion wondering what brought about that reaction?

"Haru can carry this just fine, thank you. She doesn't need help. She wasn't even allowed to join the staring contest." Haru grumbled feeling sore over how she was left out.

Yamamoto laughed at her, rubbing the back of his head.

"You see… that was a … guy thing… we like… acknowledged each other as rivals sort of… I guess that's one way to see it as." Yamamoto explained.

The word 'rival' sparked Haru's interest.

What could they possibly want to compete with one another about?

They have always been on good terms. Did something change today?

"Rival? Over what?" She asked.

"Ah!- Come one, don't be so angry and let me help you, alright?" Yamamoto took her bag and quickly started to walk towards her house.

"Hahi! Yamamoto-kun! No fair! Tell me! Tell me! Haru demands to know!" Haru whined following after him.

Yamamoto would just laugh at her and ignore her questions by trying to change the conversation.

"Hey, did you know? A new cake store is about to open up, and apparently they will start giving out mini samples to the houses nearby. If we get one, you can come over and try it to see if you like their cakes." Yamamoto said.

Haru gasped. "Do you know the name of the cake shop? Do you know what their specialty cakes they have? Where is the shop located? You wouldn't mind me coming over? Yo- wait a darned minute. Yamamoto is trying to distract Haru-desu! That's not very nice! Answer Haru's question!" Haru raged hitting his back with her small fists, though she wasn't hitting him with a serious intent to hurt him.

She was only doing so playfully.

"Alright alright, I'll answer your question…" Yamamoto shook his head laughing nervously at Haru's adorable way of getting angry at people.

Haru smiled skipping in front of him, turning around to watch him as he would finally answer her question.

"Cake éclair, tiramisu is their specialty, the shop is located about 2 blocks away from where I live, and no, we wouldn't mind if you came over to try some cake." Yamamoto grinned, teasing her.

Haru gasped loudly, glaring at him.

"That wasn't the question that Haru was referring to! Yamamoto-kun is teasing Haru!" She complained waving her arms around in a pure blind rage.

Yamamoto only laughed at her still, finding her angry side to be so amusing and adorable much to Haru's discontent.

Yamamoto put a hand on top of Haru's head. "I swear, it's nothing that interesting. You wouldn't understand. It's a guy thing." He said.

Haru grumbled to herself words along the lines of: 'Haru could understand if you gave her a chance-desu,' 'So mean keeping secrets to yourself,' 'Haru is always being left out of fun things.'

Yamamoto stopped in front of her house and he handed her back the grocery back that he took from her.

"Ah, we're here already? You took this long to distract Haru from the question." Haru pouted having wanted to know about it.

Curiosity killed the cat, good thing that she wasn't a cat, huh?

"Well I should be going back now. Pops will probably need a bit of help around the shop again. So I'll see you around Haru. Try not to worry too much about things. After all you look the best with a smile." He laughed sprinting away from the house before she could stop him to attack him with more questions.

Haru tried to stop him but he escaped too quickly.

She gave up for now and she walked into the house to set down the groceries on the kitchen table for her mother.

"I got the groceries Kaa-san!" Haru shouted for her mother.

"Alright! Thank you, sweety!" Haru's mother shouted from the second floor.

Haru walked into the living room, peering out the window to see Yamamoto still running away.

"I'll get you soon enough. Don't worry. You can hide from me when we're at school." Haru muttered to herself, not wanting to give up so easily.

She's not known for being stubborn for nothing!


Hopefully this worked for you all.

I'm sort of splitting one day into two different chapters. Thought I would like to make this scene of Yamamoto and Dino being aware of each other as rivals into the main focus of a chapter.

Come on, having two male rivals being wary of each other is great isn't it? It totally deserves its own chapter. B3

-Neospice12