Tsuna's P.O.V
As I soon as I woke up, I told Gothi that Astrid and Hiccup knew the truth, but she didn't seem surprised and said that they were the smartest people in Berk. I even explained how Astrid found out which just amused the short, old lady. I even told her how Hiccup confessed to me and she had the audacity to laugh in my face!
Honestly, is everyone in the Viking era really fine with homosexuality?! (1) The thought made a tiny part of me happy but I squashed it like a bug. There is no point of giving myself false hope.
Gothi shooed me out the house as she had patients to deal with so I decided to head over to Astrid's, I really didnt want to see Hiccup. I know it's childish and cowardly to avoid him, but I didn't know what to say after the revelation last night.
The walk to Astrids seemed long when it really wasn't, she was outside feeding Stormfly. She didn't notice me, but Stormfly did and prance up to me, wanting a scratch so I obeyed.
Astrid strolled to me and inquired about last night, so I told her, "I rejected Hiccup's confession and when I told him the truth, he didn't overreact and took the news calmly, but he did scoot away from me and he didn't say another word afterwards so I don't think he likes me anymore," I said, dejected.
Astrid 'hhmed' and said she'll have a little chat with Hiccup, she had an evil look in her eye and a shiver ran down my spine. I definitely didn't want to know what she had planned. She then left, but not before giving me permission to ride Stormfly.
Hiccup's P.O.V
I woke up this morning to find Dad and Gobber downstairs eager to find out what happened last night so I told them what I did for the date and they were impressed.
"You must of really swept her off her feet," Gobber told me, "so she must of said yes!" I corrected Gobber by saying 'she' hadn't given me an answer and that I was going to find her and get a proper answer.
It wasn't exactly false, Tsuna said he couldn't accept my feelings, but he never said if he didn't like me plus he probably only rejected me because I didn't know he was a guy! I knew he liked me due to his flustered behaviour whenever he's around me.
Where was Tsuna by the way? By the time I reached Gothi's he had already left and I had no idea where to find him.
"Hiccup!" A voice yelled, I looked down below and saw Astrid waving both her arms, trying to get my attention. I flew down to her to see what she wanted and to ask Tsuna's whereabouts. As soon as I jumped off Toothless Astrid punched me in the shoulder.
"OW!" I rubbed my shoulder to ease the pain, "what was that for?!" I asked, frustrated at being punched for no reason.
"For Tsuna!" She almost yelled, "you hurt his feelings when you started to avoid him!" Him. Astrid knew Tsuna was a guy? I questioned her on this and she told me she found out on Breakneck Bog, I then began to diffuse Astrid's anger.
"Astrid, I know my attitude to Tsuna was bad, but I want to fix it!" I correct, my voice full of passion, "Tsuna is the first person who I never needed to prove myself to. He liked me for me, you and the villagers all accepted me after defeat in the Red Death," I said just as she was about to correct me, "I don't care if Tsuna's a guy or girl, all I want is not to lose him," I was panting at this point.
Astrid gave me a knowing smile, "Then go tell him."
I planned to do just that, but first "Where is he?" Astrid froze when she heard this.
"He came to me upset so I left him with Stormfly and gave him permission to take her out for a flight," she admitted, sheepishly.
I sighed and told Astrid I'd see her later, I mounted Toothless and began to look for Tsuna and Stormfly. Toothless found Stormfly still in her pen so Tsuna was walking around Berk.
"Where can he be?" I mutter to myself, while I was looking around I noticed that a lot of the children weren't outside. That was strange as a few of them would be outside playing with the dragons, but there was none of them. At that moment I realised where Tsuna was.
"Bud, to the Great Hall," I tell Toothless and he shot off to the Great Hall. I was right and Tsuna was there with the children who were arguing about what kind of story they want. Tsuna looked lost and didn't know how to calm them down so I came to his rescue.
"Sorry guys, but I need to borrow Tsuna," upon hearing my voice, Tsuna whipped his head towards me, shock written all over his face. The kids began to protest but I assured them that it wouldn't be too long and Tsuna would still tell them stories.
I looked straight into his eyes and requested, "Tsuna, I really need to talk to you now," he hesitantly followed me out the Great Hall and when we were outside I apologised which caught him off guard.
"Huh?" He said unintelligently and then babbled on about how it was his fault for lying and how I shouldn't apologise but I put my finger on his lips, silencing him and giving myself time to speak.
"No," I say, "it was my fault for starting to ignore you, I shouldn't of done that. Tsuna, last night I realised that I still like you, it doesn't matter whether or not if you're a guy or girl. I love you and want you stay with me! Please stay by my side!"(2) Tsuna teared up then bear hugged me and accepted, but warned me that he still needed to return home soon, but I didn't care right now and returned the hug.
I could hear giggling coming from not too far away so I spun round to face the Great Hall and found the children hiding behind the doors who obviously listened in to our conversation. Tsuna also realised this and began to scold them, but they said they didn't care and even mentioned that me marrying Tsuna meant that Tsuna would stay forever and tell them new stories everyday. We both blushed red on hearing marriage considering that it hadn't even been a minute since we got together.
Gustav called us out and said that Tsuna had to come in since it was Mary's birthday and she really wanted a story told. Well it was a special day for the little girl so I called her and out came a six year old with a large lamb toy in her arms. I knelt down and said, "since you're the birthday girl you definitely need the royal treatment," so I picked her up and put her on Toothless' back. She squealed with delight and asked Toothless to take her inside and he obeyed.
Everyone went back inside except me and Tsuna so I held out my hand and asks, "Shall we head to the Great Hall, M'lord?" He shook his head but took my hand and replied, "we shall, good sir," and we both went inside. The children sat in a semi-circle like yesterday and I sat on a bench close by. Toothless sat behind the group with Mary still on his back, Tsuna was stumped on what story to tell, but Mary shouted out a love story.
"Ah," Tsuna notifies, "I know the perfect story; Tanabata," he then proceeded to tell a story about two star-cross lovers in the sky. All in all, it was a great morning.
Tsuna's P.O.V
After telling the kids about 5 stories, I stopped which got them disappointed, but they knew it wasn't fair to me so reluctantly yielded for today.
"That was a good story," Astrid said, walking to me and Hiccup. She asked if she and Hiccup could have a race between their dragons and he accepted, we all headed to the arena where the other riders already were. Snotlout and Tuffnut immediately pulled Hiccup away from us and proceeded to pick a fight. Apparently, they found out about our date and wanted to teach Hiccup a lesson for wooing me when they had first dibs.
Snotlout pulled his fist back, aiming for Hiccups face and that's when I decided to strike. I grabbed Snotlout's fist with my own hand and pushed him away with all my strength which caused him to fall back.
I glared with the full intensity of a dragon's rage which caused him to flinch, "Snotlout," I say, letting out my killing aura, "I'll let you off just this once, but if you try to harm Hiccup again then you'll need to learn to ride Hookfang with one arm," he nodded wildly and spat out apologies. I could hear the fear in his voice and I sighed, sadly. I didn't want him to fear me.
"Guys, there's something I have to tell you," that got the attention of all the riders, Hiccup and Astrid questioned whether I should tell them, but they needed to know the truth.
Before I could say it Ruffnut intervened in a bland tone of voice, "Are you going to tell us that you're a guy?" Everyone stared at her in disbelief but for different reasons.
"What?" Ruff asked, perplexed.
"How and when did you find out?" I question in disbelief.
She just inspected her nails nonchalantly and said she knew when she first met me as she saw I had an apple.
"An apple?" The boys asked, confused. Ruffnut went into a complicated explanation of the Adam's apple.
"The Adam's apple is a lump or protrusion that is formed from the angle by the thyroid cartilage surrounding the larynx. It is found in both males and females but is considered to be a characteristic of an adult male. It's main function is to protect the walls and the frontal part of the larynx, including the vocal chords. It also deepens the voice," we all stared at her, jaw-dropped at the fact that she knew this.
"Why didn't you tell me?" Tuffnut snapped at his twin, she chuckled and said that it was funny that the two of them were chasing after a lost cause. Tuffnut looked like he wanted to cry which led to Ruffnut teasing him.
"Is this true?" Fishlegs asked me, hesitantly, mind still trying to comprehend what was happening. I nodded and that's when he fainted from information overload. Snotlout looked back and forth between me and Hiccup before going over to Astrid and telling her she was always the one in his heart causing her to punch him unconscious.
Everything was normal.
"Are you guys gonna race now?" I ask Hiccup and Astrid who finally remembered why they came to the arena. They both mounted their respective dragons and shot off, both wanting to beat each other badly.
(1) In terms of homosexuality, only being on the receiving end during sexual encounters is considered shameful but I don't think dating the same sex was bad. To sum up what I think, I don't think the village wouldn't care about Hiccup being in a relationship with a male right now, but in the future he needs to get married to a woman and produce an heir as this is law. He has about 6 years so there's no rush so everyone will be fine with him being in a relationship with Tsuna, when discovered as a male.
(2) I feel like the confessions are too repetitive but I don't know what to do about it.
ARGH! Writing on the tablet is such a pain! All the stupid spelling mistakes caused by autocorrect! If I write 'from' it changes to 'fromantic', I write 'village' it changes to 'v I'll age' etc!