Yamamoto stood with the panting Dino in the center of the room, cheek swollen and aching. "It was most likely best you did that."

Dino's knuckles pulsed red.

"I'm aware that I come off as naïve and stupid a lot, but I'm also aware that I cannot regret doing anything that caused you pain." Yamamoto said. He put a hand to his punched cheek. "This is fine though."

"You asshole!" Dino shouted. "You lead on Kyoya so badly that he thought you two were going to be together then kiss someone else in front of him! You got to do all kinds of things with Kyoya I wish I could do! He knows all about you, he wanted to talk to you, to be near you. Just standing next to you made him glad." Dino punched Yamamoto once more. "And there's been so many times when he's smiled for you. You! I've helped him love you and because of it, I haven't seen him for days. He said he hated me. Imagine your Hayato telling you he hated you then disappearing. I should hate you Yamamoto Takeshi. I should." He pat the boy on the shoulder and said, "Thank you."

"Did you let it all out?" Yamamoto asked as Romario put ice packs to his face.

"Most of it, I think. Though I might've left out the parts about how mad I was that Kyoya was constantly talking about you when he was with me."

"Eh? But he was always talking and thinking about you when he was with me."

"If you're lying, I'll hit you again." Dino promised with a laugh.

Yamamoto laughed as well. "Dino-san, that was scary since I couldn't tell if it was a joke or not."

Dino glared back at him. "I assure you that you don't want to find out. So you better have been telling the truth."

A few drops of sweat leaked down Yamamoto's nervous chuckling face.

The clouds passed by so leisurely that Hibari wasn't sure how to envy them. "Though you're up there tirelessly exerting energy by gliding through a vast ocean of atmosphere and I'm down here peacefully lying in the grass," He mumbled to the floating white puffs. "Somehow I find myself jealous of your lack of emotion."

"So as much as you act incessantly pissed you truly do feel things other than anger." Dino said coolly. He slowly approached Hibari with a cocky smile.

Hibari snarled and snatched up his tonfa. "You!" He bellowed.

Dino stood his ground. "Yamamoto told me to come here. Isn't this the place where you said you fell in love with him?"

Relentlessly, Hibari beat Dino with the tonfa. When he grew tired of holding them, he dropped his weapons and hit with his fists and kicked at Dino the harshest he could. Five minutes into the beating, Hibari stopped to look over his work. Blood seeped from Dino's mouth as well as a few cuts. He was huddled up in a ball on the ground, bruises and scrapes plastering his body. He wasn't whimpering or crying. He simply squatted in place, taking each hit with unrivaled pride. During the break, Dino stood up.

"Kyoya," He said. "I've learned from a kid that as a man, stuff like this must be done for the people you care about."

Hibari slapped him with an unwavering infuriated expression.

Dino snorted up a line of blood then went on, "I apologize for making you feel so bad. At your age, it must be confusing to go through a first love."

Another slap.

"I ruined it for you. Your pace and your heart. I pushed you to do something you weren't ready for. I should've let you make your own decisions rather than call myself a trainer and barge in on your life. But from this experience I feel that I've learned a lot about you. You don't understand the ideas of a neko and tachi, you daydream when you're in a good mood, and you have a beautiful smile. You don't find it strange that you think letting someone wallow in their pain is a favor and you believe in your love until its end. I admire that and I want to do that too."

Another.

"Kyoya, I love you."