A/n hello there dear readers. After getting some help from a friend of mine I learned some things to improve the lines for speech. In other news thanks to Chacha556 for favorite and following this story and a shout out to Antiteethis for Reviewing. I skipped a few episodes since I don't know what to do in them, so sorry. Disclaimer: I do not own Katekyo Hitman Reborn.


Grauntie had suggested I get some rest from all the trouble I had in the past few days.

Let us not speak of it ever again.

Past the hysterics and sarcasm, she had gave me a lot of money for going out and to relax, chill have some fun and act my age.

She had suggested I go to the zoo and bring along that Yamamoto boy with me. I had blushed at that and started to ramble.

"G-grauntie! We're not in any relationship! I swear!" I waved my hands making crazy gestures to make my point. She just chuckled at how flustered I was and just placed a hand on my shoulder and reassured me.

"Whatever you say dear. But still bring him along." She winked at me and headed down the stairs to open up shop.

Still sitting on the dinner table I thought of what to do.

'Should I really go and have some fun at the zoo with Takeshi?' I thought, munching on the omelette we were having for breakfast. 'Or I could just stay at home and do some practice with my sketching or maybe my magic?'

"Gahhh…" I groaned out in frustration. I ducked my head down in hysteria "I guess I'll just go to the zoo then." I finished up my breakfast and went upstairs to get ready for the supposed 'Date' as grauntie would say.

Taking a cold shower so as to keep myself cool for the day and used the shampoo that I usually use. It always smelled of caramel they keep telling me.

Once I had finished bathing I had my towel wrapped around my waist while looking at my closet for the appropriate temperature and style.

I pulled out my gray Dj looking shirt. "If I went with this. I'd sweat too much and it doesn't have good air circulation." I muttered, and placed it back.

I pulled out my slightly ripped cool guy shirt. "Yeah… No." I placed it back.

"AHA!" I pulled out a pale sandy brown v-neck beach shirt in success.

Putting on a pair of light brown jeans and wore my charms and the medallion on my neck. Then I stuffed a satchel bag with some essentials and my wallet; I was ready to go and have a good time at the zoo!


Heading out I went to Takeshi's place as per grauntie's request.

Upon reaching Takeshi's place I knocked and stepped inside. Takeshi's dad was there but there wasn't any customers yet.

"Hello Jo-san! What can I do for you?" Yamamoto-san had asked me.

"I was wondering if I could bring Takeshi-san with me to the zoo?" I replied sitting on one of the chairs. "Grauntie told me to take some time off and relax. She gave me a lot of money for me to use." I pulled out my wallet and showed him.

He whistled at how much I got.

"That's a lot of yen." It was a statement. My cheeks flushed a little.

He then turned to the side and called Takeshi from upstairs.

"Takeshi! Your friends here!" I then heard shuffling as someone was coming down from above.

A side door then opened and there stood Takeshi in a fitting shirt and slacks.

I stifled a giggle.

"Hi Takeshi." I waved at him with a smile. 'Dang. It looks like he just woke up.'

"Ahaha… Hi Jo-kun!" he sat next to me bashfully.

"Do you want to hang at the zoo?" I asked. Rubbing my arm in apparent shyness.

"Sure! Can I go dad?" He accepted immediately and asked his dad.

"Sure thing kiddo!" His dad agreed quickly. "Ahaha! Thanks dad!" he ran up the stairs in a rush to change.

"Uhm… Can I order some ebi nigiri for takeout?" I asked Yamamoto-san, a bashful smile on my face.

"Sure thing!" he began making them while I waited for Takeshi to come back.

While waiting I stared and followed the curves on the wood until Takeshi's dad had finished the order, and placed them in front of me.

I pulled out my wallet to grab some cash but he stopped me.

"It's on the house." He smiled at me. "That Jasmin had thought of a good idea for once." He said chuckling.

"Huh why?" I asked tilting my head to the side in curiosity.

"She was quite the matchmaker back in the day." He replied, looking to the side. He was clearly reminiscing about it.

"What?" I said flabbergasted.

Then it hit me.

OH HELL NAW! He couldn't be thinking that I wanted to date Takeshi did he? Was this grauntie's plan all along? To get me on a date with Takeshi!? fak. Fak. FAK!

Just then Takeshi opened the door to reveal him in his casual clothes.

Oh shet. I cant back out now. It's way too late.

"I'm ready to go!" he shouted enthusiastically, a great big smile on his face present.

I clutched my heart. 'Too… Much… Hotness…' I slowly placed the sushi into my bag and stood up.

I took Takeshi's hand and headed out. "B-bye Yamamoto-san!" I shouted behind me.

"No problem! Good luck you two!" she shouted back and I blushed at that.

"Let's go." I murmured and ran as fast as I could Takeshi in tow.

"Ahaha… What was that about?" he laughed a cheshire smile on him.

"S-shush it!" I told him as we headed off to the zoo.


Upon arriving at the zoo, I let go of Takeshi's hand and we walked next to each other while walking around.

I had noticed that there were some familiar faces here.

Like for example: Hayato, Ryohei, Haru, Lambo, I-pin and lastly Bianchi.

Oh hell… This has Reborn written all over it.

I growled in annoyance.

"Hoooouu…" I breathed slowly in and out. "Just calm down." I murmured softly.

"Hey guys!" Takeshi went off and went to greet everyone, leaving me by myself.

'There goes your plans grauntie.' I thought in a deadpan face.

While walking around for a bit I saw Tsuna come In with Kyoko with him.

'Poor Tsuna…' I thought as I sat down next to the aviaries.

I took out the sushi from earlier and started to eat some. A little time has passed and a multitude of explosions occurred which made me choke on the sushi I was eating; I quickly drank some water to save myself from an early death.

Upon looking around I had noticed that the whole zoo was on red alert.

Hehe… Red alert.

Anyways. Back to the real world, all the animal pens had been opened and they were on the loose.

Thank you Lambo. For releasing all the damn animals!

Placing back sushi into my bag to save some for Takeshi, I then got up and tried to return the birds to their pens.

The birds were reluctant to go back but immediately went back in when they felt the killer intent I was giving off due to Lambo disturbing my lunchtime.

All but one bird had returned; it was a raven. Though what surprised me was its eyes.

The bird's eyes were white as snow. 'Was it blind?' I thought as it suddenly flew up into the sky, cawed and down a pathway.

"Hey wait!" I ran off, trying to chase it down.

As I ran after it I passed by Ryohei who punched a lion from attacking his sister. Tsuna was also there and along with Hayato who blew up 2 lion then Bianchi appeared and Hayato got a stomachache. But I just shook my head and continued after the raven.

After chasing it for about 10 minutes I had lost sight of it.

"Dammit." I cursed looking around for it. Then I saw Reborn on a hippo talking about getting a animal companion for him like Reborn with Leon and Dino with Enzo.

I just walked off after that to look for that raven from earlier, but not before hearing that we had to help return all the animals to their pens.


Once I had returned to my pursuit of the bird, I had seen them wrangle the animals but with a few setbacks here and there but in the end Takeshi led the animals to their pens.

I had seen the older Lambo and i-pin helping out 'till Bianchi thought she recognizes her 'old ex' as Reborn told me a few days ago. I grabbed the older Lambo by the arm quickly and ran off with him as I made Bianchi slip again with a simple slime spell.

"I'll get you Romeo!" I heard Bianchi scream at us. Phew.

Running off with older Lambo was a hassle but I could handle it.

"Maa… Maa… Thanks for the save again, Jo-kun." He pulled me into a big hug before letting go.

"Yeah yeah. You're welcome." I replied blushing harder than before as he wound his hand with mine and smiled.

'GAH-! My Heart! Curse yooouuuuuu-!' I thought, my cheeks a bright red and trying hard not to clutch at my heart.

Then I saw the only red panda in the zoo on the rails of the roller coaster. Damn.

I was about to make my move but.

Upon seeing that Tsuna was quickly climbing the thing to save the panda I didn't move any further.

The older Lambo seeing pulled me closer to him with a twirl, making me end up with my hands in an x.

"You perv." I murmured with my blush deepening. He smiled at this and placed his chin on my head.

And the moment ended when he poofed away in pink smoke and replaced him was the young Lambo.

He was holding onto my neck so I pulled him up into my arms. "You okay there Lambo?" I asked him smiling.

"Yahaha! The great is Lambo is fine!" he cockily replied. "Alright. Alright." I patted his poofy head. Walking off to find the other.


Upon finding the others I gave Lambo back to them and smiled sweetly.

"Oh. Uhm. Takeshi here." I pulled out the leftover sushi from earlier to give it to him.

Lambo then swiped it off me and ran away eating it.

"Hey…" I pouted at the Childs antics, I crossed my arms.

"Ahaha… It's fine Jo-kun. You're more than enough of a reward." He chuckled and placed me into a hug.

"Eeeeeeehhhhhhh…" I blushed really hard and had lost almost half my brain cells.

They all just laughed at me.

Bastards.

I saw the raven on top of a cage.

Curse that bird.


A few days later.

Winter had arrived and we were at school to babysit Lambo and I-pin.

I had brought like around 7 thermoses to share with anyone who wanted some.

Grauntie makes the best hot coco, better than Nana when I compared them from earlier this morning.

Since everyone wanted to do a snowball fight except Tsuna Reborn made a contest out of it and everyone had gone into 2 teams, then Bianchi appeared and made a team 3.

The prize was a snow globe courtesy of me. I was planning to give it to Takeshi but Reborn had forced me to make it into the prize.

Another thing I wasn't allowed to participate but I did sat next to Reborn as a watcher.

"Coco?" I offered a thermos to him while drinking some from another for myself.

"Yes please." He took it and poured himself some.

We watched as they all fought in total pandemonium and carnage of a snowball fight.

Mostly it was white going this way and that, barrages from one team to another. Hayato tried to throw his snowballs like the dynamite he uses but was shot down a minute later.

Takeshi had baseballed the snowballs like a pro 'till he was overwhelmed by too many snowballs and was sadly defeated.

I-pin was used as a bomb and had worked to an extent.

Lambo got himself blown up and was and I quote. 'Wasted'

In the end they all fell to the snowballs and no one had won except for Reborn who I expected to cheat the whole thing and name himself winner. But I didn't care and gave him the prize of the antique snow globe I carried.

After I had pulled all of them out and we sat on the benches, I gave each of them a cup of hot coco to warm themselves up and not catch a cold from this weather.

They thanked me for the coco and drank from their cups. I swear I saw sparkles in their eyes when they drunk from it.

I chuckled from their reactions and drank my own.

"Haa…" I breathed out after I took a sip from my own cup.

Today was a good day.

Takeshi then scooched closer to me. I didn't even blush at that since I was too focused on my coco.


A/n so there we have it folks, Chapter 8! Thanks again to Antiteethis for reviewing and to Chacha556 for favoriting and following. On the next episode I'm gonna skip some episodes so that we can get into the action! Also sorry if this chapter is 700 words short. I couldn't think of what I could write for these episodes but I did what I can and I hope that you guys liked this chapter. And for now goodbye and see you guys in the next chapter.