Title: Together with you

Summary: Tsuna knew that he was clumsy, but to trip and fall over a ball during PE and send a loose shoe flying straight towards a certain prefect napping under a tree, what more could happen? Love...perhaps?/1827/

Chapter 11

"Hey, Tenth!" Gokudera turned around and whispered. "You sure you don't want to change seats?"

"Huh?" Tsuna had an elbow propped up on the armrest to support his chin. "Na, it's okay. It isn't that bad, you know." Tsuna turned back to his left to stare out of the glass window again. Gosh, the scenery outside was sure nice.

Yamamoto turned around too. "Hey, want some?" He offered a packet of dry biscuits to Tsuna.

"Sure. Thanks, Yamamoto." Tsuna reached out to take one. Gokudera turned to glare at Yamamoto.

"Hey, don't offer things so casually to the Tenth!" He hissed, then quickly turned back to Tsuna again to apologize, "Tenth, I am so sorry. I had originally wanted to pair up with you at first but I had somehow gotten stuck with the baseball idiot being my partner. I am so, so sorry. But you must be feeling much worse than me now, seeing as to which you have got the bastard sitting next to you."

"I can hear you, you know." Said bastard of the name Mochida gritted his teeth, "and it's not like I wanted to pair up with Dame-Tsuna of all people for this whole trip too. It was Reboyama-sensei who did the whole bus ride seating arrangement so shut up; at least Dame-Tsuna has got the window seat."

"Why you-!" Gokudera was about to stand up and pull Mochida's shirt collar when Yamamoto acted faster, pulling the fuming silverette down back into his seat and shoving the packet of dry biscuits towards him. "Maa, Hayato, calm down. Have a biscuit."

"Tch." Gokudera said, but otherwise still took one out and bit it off harshly, chewing it slowly.

Mochida leaned back into his seat and crossed his arms, deciding to ignore the trio whom he deemed were all idiots.

Meanwhile in his seat Tsuna just yawned, continuing to stare outside at the picturesque land fields. Weird, he thought as he rested his face against the cool glass window, wondering why he would always feel sleepy when on a moving vehicle.

He had a snort from his right and turned to look at Mochida who had his eyes closed and was facing the other way away from Tsuna. Yeah, maybe he could take a short nap too. After all the entire bus trip was about two hours long.

Tsuna closed his eyes.

The bus stopped and those who were sleeping were being jerked awake. Reborn's voice suddenly rang out, "Class, please remain seated. It seems that we are experiencing some technical difficulties and the bus can't move." There were a few gasps from the class and those sober enough began to chatter excitedly, some worriedly, making the whole bus rather noisy. Reborn held a hand up for silence.

"Haha, just kidding. We've reached our destination." There were a few sighs of relief from those worried ones and Reborn just smirked. "Just wanted to shock you all into being alert." He explained. "We need everyone to be awake for we still have got some walking to do since this is the furthest the bus can take us." Some students nodded and everyone began packing their bags.

Tsuna grabbed his bag pack and made sure that everything was inside before joining the rest to step down from the bus.

"Man, that was a long nap," Yamamoto said as he stretched his arms widely. "A walk!" He exclaimed, "Just how exciting is that, Hayato!" Gokudera turned to glare at him.

"Don't give me the 'just how exciting is that, Hayato', you were leaning on my shoulder the whole ride!"

"Haha, sorry, sorry," Yamamoto said. Tsuna didn't hear the two as he was too busy dreading the walk that Reborn had mentioned. Knowing Reborn, it would probably be a long and horrible one. To Tsuna's surprise it was actually just a fifteen minutes' walk and they soon reached a small forest clearing .They continued on deeper into the forest and reached a waterfall, where the whole class all stared at in amazement. Reborn stopped.

"Okay, here we are. This is the place to reach if any of you ever gets lost. Before we leave this place and go home today we would all assemble here for a head count first. We are going leaves and mushrooms hunting today and everyone is to take your bags along with you. Never leave without your partner and stay together at all times." Reborn checked his watch. "Okay, the time now is ten-thirty, everyone be back here by four-thirty. That's six long hours for all of you, so off you go." Everyone went their separate ways.

Mochida was panting; he had purposely taken the harder and longer route upwards in the forest for two reasons: Number one, follow Sasagawa Kyoko and her friend Hana; Number two, lose that annoying Gokudera and Yamamoto who had kept insisting to follow their friend. Mochida looked behind him and instantly felt better once he saw that Dame-Tsuna was clearly having a harder time then him. Ha, served that brat right. He looked back in front again and cursed, suddenly coming to a full halt. Shoot, in that one second of glancing back at Dame-Tsuna he had lost sight of Kyoko.

"A-Are we there yet?" Tsuna asked, breathing heavily. Man, this was so, so tiring. From the way Reborn had worded his briefing this morning it had sounded as if Reborn would be leading the whole class through the forest for the leaves and mushrooms hunting. And why leaves too? Reborn was really weird.

'Shut up, Dame-Tsuna," Mochida turned to Tsuna and splat out. "You really are stupid, aren't you; couldn't you even tell that what I'd told you just now were all lies?" He sneered. He didn't know why but for some reason seeing Dame-Tsuna's face made him really angry and he felt like pushing the brunette down. Tsuna took a step back when he saw Mochida's face twisted in resentment, and just for that tiny second Mochida lost it. He took a step forward and shoved Tsuna hardly, and gasping Tsuna lost all balance and fell. He rolled off a sleep slope hidden behind some bushes and twigs.

His right shoe got caught on a branch and Tsuna jerked and stopped for a moment, heaving a sigh of relief before the branch snapped suddenly and he tumbled down all the way, his shoe left behind after having gotten tore off. His head reached the bottom first and his ears rang painfully when he made his first contact with the ground, groaning as he lie on ground.

Mochida panicked and like the wimp Kurokawa Hana had said Mochida to be, he ran off leaving Tsuna all alone at the bottom of the steep slope. He didn't even look back once.

Tsuna's bag was digging painfully into his back but he felt too sore to go shrug it off. He couldn't feel his two feet and his face and arms were covered with cuts and bruises from the hard rocks of the slope. He supposed his legs were still okay as he was wearing his school trousers but he might have twisted an ankle. He grunted in pain slightly and tried to slip off his bag pack before collapsing onto the ground into a starfish position. Well, unlike a starfish if he had really broken a leg badly that needed to be amputated; he certainly wouldn't be able to grow that leg back again.

Haha, Tsuna thought as he glanced up, trees towering high above him blocking the sky but some sunlight had still managed to peek through the leaves. He reached out for his water bottle in his bag pack but found that it was empty. Oh, so he had drank all his water up just now while following Mochida. Figures.

Well, he was lost now and it wouldn't do him any good to just be lying here doing nothing. Tsuna decided to go find a river to lead him to the earlier waterfall Reborn had mentioned and wait for everyone there. He got back up to his feet slowly but there was suddenly a sharp pain in his ankle and he stumbled down. His ankle was flaring up, swelling a bright red. Tsuna eyes widen, whoa, he didn't know what to do! Besides, his shoe was up there, somewhere at the top of the slope so it would be very difficult to walk and find a river. Should he crawl? Yeah, he should. It was worth a try.

He pulled his bag along and hadn't even crawled five feet away when he encountered a big, fallen log. It was impossible to even climb over it unless he could stand up on his two feet. Ah, never mind. Let's just wait here. Forsure Reborn wouldn't forget about him later, right?

Two hours pass and Tsuna knew that because his stomach had grumbled rather loudly. It was lunch time; he was not only thirsty but also very hungry. He pushed himself up to lean against the fallen log and took out the bento his mother had made for him, and it had never looked that appetizing as it did before. He grabbed his chopsticks and was about to attack his food when wait, he remembered something. He reluctantly placed his chopsticks down and set his bento on the ground.

Tsuna had no water. He was also very thirsty. Eating food right now may cause him to need even more water for the digestion and he might end up being thirstier. He shook his head. The thirst he felt was already almost unbearable and he couldn't bear to make it worse. Being without food for a few hours was okay and for sure someone might actually chance upon him sometime later. He held on to that small hope.

It was rather unlucky that Tsuna had no cell phone to call for help but being in this type of place, somehow Tsuna doubted that cell phone connection would even be possible. He tried to look up at the sky which annoyingly seemed to be covered by the leaves of the trees. Great, now he couldn't really see the weather at all. He just would have to try feel it.

Tsuna had half expected it to rain because most of his limited collection of books had the scene of when a character was lost and it had rained heavily, adding the more harshness to the situation the poor character had to endure. Needless to say, Tsuna didn't know that this time was quite different from the books he had read and instead, he had passed out due to dehydration.

There were some gentle patting on his face and Tsuna slowly came to. The hand felt cool.

"Y-Yamamoto?" He asked, his throat raw with dryness. Ow, it hurt to speak.

"Tsunayoshi, I am certainly not your herbivore friend 'Yamamoto Takeshi'. Wake up." Hibari ordered.

"W-Wha—Hibari?"

"Yes, you're in the hospital now. You broke your leg." Tsuna eyebrows shot up. Broken? He could have sworn that he had only twisted his ankle.

"I-I have to apologize," Hibari said with some difficulty, "your broken leg was due to my fault." He swallowed.

"Your favourite chocolates." He placed a packet in front of Tsuna. "You were knocked out cold by the time I found you. We rushed to bring you to the nearest hospital, and coincidentally it the Namimori hospital. Severe dehydration, lack of food, broken leg and a twisted ankle, your health report shows. Almost….thought," Hibari's bangs covered his eyes. "Almost thought that I was too late," he finished softly. HIbari remained still for a while below looking up at Tsuna again.

"I have already bitten that herbivore partner of yours to death. But I want to hear the whole story from you." Hibari stood up.

"It's late at night. I'll drop by in tomorrow again to hear it from you. Goodnight." HIbari said as he was about to leave the room.

"W-Wait!" Tsuna called out. He didn't want Hibari-san to leave yet. Not just when he had just woken up to see him. No, Hibari-san couldn't go yet.

"If it's about the hospital bills, don't worry. Your mother wouldn't need to pay a single cent since the broken leg of yours is my fault. I have already settled the bill, if that is what you are so concerned about."

"No! I mean, that's not what I wanted to ask you, I mean; I wouldn't be able to go to school tomorrow since I'm in the hospital, right? I don't have to sleep early today so wait, I'll tell you everything that had happened today, anything you want to know!" Tsuna knew that he was just buying time and using excuses to ask Hibari-san to stay but he didn't care. What matters now is that Hibari-san doesn't leave yet.

HIbari turned around to observe Tsunayoshi briefly, and then he went back to his seat and pulled it closer to Tsunayoshi's bedside, waiting for him to speak. Tsuna glanced at Hibari and opening his mouth, he started his story.

Okay, end of chapter 11. Next chapter would be from the point of view of Hibari, leading all the way to what happened when Tsuna blacked out and how his broken leg was due to Hibari. Hope you enjoyed this chapter:)