"Hayato… Hayato!"

Hayato opened his eyes slowly and looked around him nervously. Suddenly he had found his self standing in the middle of a green valley. He started to walk hesitantly looking around him feeling lost until he spotted two girls. Theyboth smiled at him dressed in long white dresses The young Mafioso cocked his head to the side and made a few steps forward. The girls held each other's hands calling his name. He reached out both his hands, but by doing so, their smiles vanished. The looked at at them with a judging look.

"You have you pick one."
"Only one," the said.
"Eh?"
"You can only choose one," they sounded more and more demanding.
"What? But..." he looked at each of them.
"CHOOSE HAYATO-KUN! CHOOSE...CHOOSE!" their expression were turning more and more scary.
"I… I… still can't..." he replied and everything turned back. "No… where are you… I'm going to pick one… I… I..."

"AAAAAAAH"

The young, stubborn, Mafioso woke up screaming. His was sweating all over, breathing heaving. When he calmed down a bit, he serialized that he was still in his bed and everything was just a dream; or better said a nightmare. His grip was tight on his blanket, still panting from the shock. He passed his fingers quickly though his hair and then he let his body fallback heavily.

"That was weird… And scary..."

Why did he have to experience a nightmare like this? First the fact that he saw them together, then their expression. Now that he was thinking about it, they kind of looked similar. Maybe that's why Akira was on his mind lately, because she resembled her, just a bit and he just wanted to see Aki so badly. He shuffled his hair groaning to make his frustration go away.

"WHY?"

He choice should be obvious, like it was just a while ago. Why was he struggling like that? Why did he even have to dream about it? When someone know that the girl of his dreams exists near him, it's obvious that he should go after her, why would he think of another girl the same time? Questions like that were troubling him for quite a while. He had to put an end to that, otherwise the whole matter would eventually drive him crazy.

"SHAMAL!"

"You really get sick easily these days."

"You know that it's not about that!"

"I'm not training you again."

"It's not about that either! It's about the girls! I had a dream with them! I dreamed of them!"

"Oh I see Hayato," Shamal said smirking. "You know all it happens to men of your age. You don't have to feel uncomfortable with your desires. There is nothing to treat if-"

"Not that kind of dreams, you pervert!" Hayato said out loud, still shaking.

A noise coming from the door interrupted their conversation. A group of guys was standing there looking at them confused, the scene wasn't that normal, obviously. That was was why the grip of one of them around his bag lighten and the bag fell on the floor.

"WHAT? Is it wrong for a student to ask for a medical advice?" Hayato barked making them and they started trembling.
"I told you I d-"
"SHUT UP!"

The guys took a few steps backwards and then ran away as fast as they could letting out frightened squeals. Clearly, they wouldn't like to involve their selves in something weird, moreover considering Gokudera's attitude at school it was only natural for them to ran away. Gokudera let Shamal out of his grib. He could never imagine that dealing with something like that would prove to be that difficult or that he could end up with so many tangled thoughts. He turned away placing his hands to his back pockets and he slowly exited Shamal's office without saying anything under Shamal's emotionless glance.

"Gokudera..."

"Tenth!" Hayato exclaimed surprised. "Shouldn't you attend our class?"

"Class just ended. Are you alright?"

"Euh? YES! Everything is fine! I feel honored by your concern!" Hayato bowing.

"No, Gokudera," Tsuna said forming an x with his hands. "Let's forget this mafia thing for a moment."

"If Tenth says so!" Hayato obeyed making Tsuna sweat-drop.

"As I said..." Tsuna started but he cut his words realizing that this wouldn't lead to anywhere. "Anyway... I just wanted to let you know that you can talk to me if you have a problem, not that I'm good in advicing; you probably can decide better on your own. I guess you're clever enough for this, you always achieve the best marks in tests," Tsuna said making a nervous monologue.

Gokudera blinked, paying attention to Tsuna's words, yet not really getting what he wanted to tell him. The young Mafioso narrowed his eyes trying to figure out the meaning of those words -after all Tenth went in the trouble to find him- whereas he should be ashamed of his self if he wasn't able to comprehend them. And soon he did, or better he thought he did; he had managed to create a deepest meaning behind Tsuna's simple words of concern.

"I understand! So you tell me that only by testing my very own self I will be able to find the right answer!"

"Eh? No! No, that's not what-"

"As expected of Tenth! You were able to find an answer so easy! After all Vongola's boss could never be just strong, he has to be wise as well! Tenth I'm honored to be your subordinate! Thanks for your wise advice!"

"But-" Tsuna tried to protest to Hayato's words of admiration.

"Thank you!"

Gokudera ran away waving, not letting Tsuna explain what he really wanted to say, but he was used to people ignoring him by then. The storm guardian let the building, not even caring that he had one class life and took the way to the elementary school. In his mind everything became simple through now. He could just face them and see who is really the one.

"It's simple. If one of them is the one for me, then she could easily make a tough Mafioso feel soft against her!" he mumbled to his self.

And so-proving that watching too many romantic/action movies about Mafia is bad- he finally reached in front of the gate. His eyes scanned the area. As he had calculated, the classes had just been dismissed. He curiously looked around him. As he had been home-schooled till the time he left his house he had never experienced elementary school and there were surely too many kids there.

In spite of that fact, he had managed to spot her and he had immediately gotten ready to walk to her; but in a blink of an eye a threat appeared. A tall guy, actually a little shorter than him, with black, middle-length haired appeared. It was like an alarm had started an alert inside him after the appearance of the newbie and after a short debate he had with his self, Gokudera walked towards them with a boiling sensetion.

"Ahem," he said clearing his throat to get their attention. "Excuse me."

"Gokudera!" Akira said astonished.

"Hi," Hayato said trying to play it cool.

"Ah, Chiba, this is Gokudera," she introduced him after an awkward pause. "He is my brother's friend."

Gokudera cringed. You could describe his relationship with Hibari using a lot of words but frienship was not one of them. Whereas the fact that she when she mentioned that, stopped him for denying it. He turned his attention to the boy again, he didn't look very interested.

"Nice to meet you," the guy said extending his hand.
"Huh, nice to meet you too," Hayato said shaking it.
"I'm Akira's friend since I moved here three year ago," the guy said smiling.

Was he challenging him? Gokudera raised an eyebrow tightening his grip as they were shaking hands. It did seem like a pretty obvious challenge in his opinion. Knowing someone more than another is a clear advantage. An unexplained panic consumed him for a moment but he regained him cool soon.

"I'm her brother's friend. We've helped each other a lot in the past." A lie, but still the strongest claim he could make, having the brother on your side is obviously and advantage. Though it was still a lie.

"Okay..." he did not know why that older guy felt the need to explain that. "Good for you!" he awkwardy. "I'll see you today, Akira," he said turning to her.
"Yes," she said nodding.

Gokudera froze for a moment after hearing that. Surprisingly those words hit him like a hard and for a moment a murderous instinct consumed him; that guy had suddenly transformed into a red moving aim into his eyes.

"Gokudera, has something happened? Is my brother okay?"

"Euh? Oh... no... Everything is fine," he said. "I was just wondering if you would like me to walk you home as I was randomly passing by here."

"That's really nice of you, Gokudera, though it's still the middle of the day," she was right. "I usually walk home alone, but it'd be nice to have company for once."

"Oh, I thought that you were going to walk back with your friend."

"Chiba?

"Oh, yes that one," Hayato said trying to look indifferent.

"No. Chiba came to tell me about the concert. They rescheduled it, so he told be that I should notify my family and friend but that doesn't really concern me as I do not expect anyone to come."

"What about your family?"

"Well, Kyoya is usually busy so I do not want to bother him with something like that. Dad will be working by that time and even if he wasn't he would be tired after work, so I wouldn't like to concern him with that. Mom is aboard, so nobody is left. But it's okay, since I'm really used to this," she said. "Maybe kind of lucky too, I won't get anxious since I won't know anyone in the auditorium."

Gokudera looked at her arching an eyebrow. He wasn't able to see it till that time. No mater how much she loved her family, she was really catering for was family moments. She was an elementary school kid after all. No matter how much she was trying to convince herself that she was fine with that, she obviously wasn't. He knew that feeling. As her family seemed to be busy the most of the time she was really treasuring moments like that and yet she seemed used with idea of being alone at the same time. But he knew, that having someone there, to feel that someone is supporting you was really important.

"I can come in their place," he said
"Really?" she asked surprised.
"Yes, I;ll be there, just give me the time and the place," Hayato said.
"Thank you!"

Her face lightened up. That wasn't the face of someone who considered herself like because no one would attend. She took out a pamphlet and gave it to him, giving him directions about how to reach the place.

"Do you have any other questions? Are you sure you can find the place?" she asked when they finally reached her home.
"Yes, I got it, no need to worry. I'll be there," he assured and waved to her as he was leaving.

"Ciaossu!" Reborn blocked his way a few meters away.

"Reborn!" that surprised him.
"Hi there, Gokudera. It's been a while!"
"Something happened?" he asked worried.
"Not at all! I have good news for you," he announced.
"For me? What could that be? A mission?"
"Cheer up! I have found your dream girl!"
"Seriously?" he asked in disbelief.
"Yes. I even asked her to meet you and arranged an appointment."
"And? Was she interested?" Hayato asked impatiently.
"Who knows? It's up to you to turn this chance into a date, like a real mafioso!" he faked a cheery tone.
"And? When? When are we going to meet each other?"
"Today. 6.45'. Come to the bridge," Reborn said with a small smirk on his lips.

"Okay!...But no! Wait! Can't we rearranged it for later? That's almost the same time as-"

"I don't think so! A man should take a chance when it's given to him, not whenever he wants. I'll be waiting there for you Gokudera to do the introductions. Be punctual!"

"O-okay… I'll be there..." he accepted it hesitantly.

Later that afternoon Gokudera was waiting on the bridge leaning against the bars. He had struggled on what he should do. After thinking of it for a long time, he decided to come and meet that woman and then leave as soon as possible and go to the concert. He had fifteen minutes till the start of the concert and it was not like Akira would appear first.

"Ciaossu!"
"Reborn, finally!"
"It's nice to see that you're on time Gokudera."
"Huh," Hayato said watching gray clouds gathering in the sky, it'd be a problem if it rained. "Yet I seem to be the only one on time."

"Don't worry, she will be here eventually. I true man has to be patient for his woman to come to him."

However the time was passing, but the young woman was nowhere to be seen. Gokudera's eyes weren't letting his watch and as the minutes were passing he was getting more and more impatient.

6.50'

"Reborn, are you sure she is going to come? Maybe she didn't want to after all."
"Huh... LEON!" Reborn said and Leon transformed into an umbrella as drops staring falling.

6.55'

"Reborn, isn't she late?"
"Relax Gokudera; women are always late on a date. A man has to wait."
"I don't think that's how it works but..."

7.00'

"Reborn! She is really late!" Hayato said as by that time pouring rain was showering him.
"What's the matter Gokudera? Isn't this the place you want to be right now? Waiting for your girl. It doesn't matter if it's a bit late."

Gokudera's eyes widen and he turned his face away. If that was the place he wanted to be, why was he looking forward to leave this place so much? He'd be late. And he made a promise. He was also looking forward to see her play. He was able to see it after all, that date was only a childish desire, that he was really catering for and he wasn't able to see was that concert.

"I'm sorry, Reborn, I really have to go," he bowed to him.

"But the girl hasn't come yet!"

"I'm really sorry. Apologize to her on my account. I'd like to apologize my self, but I don't have time right now. Thank you for arranging this for me, I feel indebted, but I can't stay," he said and ran away without waiting for an answer.
"So you did make you choose after all. I good mafioso have to be aware and treasure what's in front of him."

As for Gokudera, he was running like crazy pushing everyone in his way; it was not like he would change the fact that he was late but he wanted at least to be there. But the road was slippery, the umbrellas were blocking his way too much. When he finally reached the place, drenched from the rain, he recognized the slimy figure in front of the fate.

"Don't tell me… She wouldn't."

But it was true, Akira was standing looking at the ground disappointed. Gokudera looked at her worried; why would someone stand into the rain without a jacket or an umbrella? His eyes rolled and he started running even faster.

"Akira!" he called taking off his jacket the same time.

"Ah? Gokudera!" she said looking up.

"What are you doing outside like this!" he said covering her with his jacket. "It's pouring! You're cold!' he scolded her making sure to cover her well.

"Gokudera, I thought that maybe you've lost your way here. I didn't know what to do… But then I thought that maybe I've pressured you to come with my words and I felt bad," her nose was red because of the cold. "I thought that it would be better to wait you outside because you would be able to find the place like that..."

"I'm sorry I didn't make it to your performance," he said lowering his head. "I'm really sorry, Akira, I...Akira!," he exclaimed worried as he saw her loosing her balance. "I'm such an idiot after all..."

"That's..." she started but her words were cut. "My brother will... scold... me... right?"