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/

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Chapter 13

It was something Tsuna should have already been used to by now.

But that doesn't change the fact that it's embarrassing, Tsuna whined mentally.

It all started on Wednesday, the day Hibari had came to see him when Gokudera, Yamamoto and Reborn had suddenly arrived to come visit him too (or in Reborn's case, just to rattle on and on about how weak Tsuna was till it was an extremely pitiful sight to see).

He had been a little sad that Hibari had to leave (since obviously the prefect disliked crowding) but he was slightly shocked—and maybe glad?—when Hibari had patted him on his head and left him his favourite chocolates.

Once Hibari had officially left through the window was when all questions were being fired at Tsuna at rapid speed.

"Tenth," Gokudera had sputtered, "you aren't going to accept that, are you? I mean, we brought you your favourite food too!" Gokudera held up the rectangular bag he had been carrying and set it down on the chair at Tsuna's bed side.

"Haha, we've got sushi, the bento your mother made for you, sweets and chocolates! Which one would you like to have first?" Yamamoto had asked cheerfully.

"My, my," Reborn had smirked, "when I first saw you two alone in the Reception Room I didn't think it would come that far to this. Just words of advice, Dame-Tsuna, but your grades are currently still too low for you to waste time on dating. Try to start studying harder from now on, hm?

"No!" Tsuna had exclaimed indignantly, his face flushed red. "I-I mean, I will try to start studying harder but it isn't like what you guys think! Hibari only gave me these chocolates as an apology for breaking my right leg!"

"You mean he broke your right leg?" Gokudera whispered in disbelief which quickly changed to anger and Yamamoto had to pull him from letting him jump out of the window after Hibari.

Reborn just eyed the scene in front of him in faint amusement as he watched his student panicking and begging Gokudera not to jump while the latter was currently struggling against Yamamoto.

"Gokudera," Reborn called out after a moment, "don't do things that will burden Tsuna. If the nurses find that you're all too noisy we'll get kicked out."

Gokudera stopped struggling and Yamamoto let go of him, and Gokudera grumpily turned around to take a seat beside Tsuna. Yamamoto followed.

"So Tsuna," Yamamoto tried to get a light conversation going, "since when have you started calling Hibari 'Hibari'? I'm really curious." Gosh, he noticed?

"Um, but you call him that too," Tsuna said, hoping the topic could be somehow changed.

"That's not answering the question, Dame-Tsuna," Reborn said and smirked as the poor boy fumbled to find an appropriated answer without saying too little or giving away too much.

"You call Hibari without the –san?" Gokudera straighten up. He didn't like the idea of the Tenth getting closer to that demonic prefect, even if it was just a little. But to drop the –san? That would almost be like the way Tenth calling him or the baseball idiot!

"Please Tenth, I beg of you," Gokudera was determined, "feel very free to start calling me Hayato from now on!"

"Ooh, it seems that someone here is jealous," Reborn said.

"Then call me Takeshi too," Yamamoto injected, "I insist."

Tsuna looked at his two best friends.

"Please," Gokudera said.

"Since we called you Tsuna," Yamamoto reasoned.

"S-Sure." Tsuna smiled. "Hayoto. Takeshi." Their names felt warm in his heart when he said them.

"Tenth!" Gokudera was almost crying tears of joy when he heard that. Just when he thought that this day would never–!

"Haha, thanks Tsuna." Yamamoto smiled.

Reborn decided to leave the three friends alone for some bonding time and just reminded Gokudera and Yamamoto before he left, "Be sure to return to school by nine though."

"Got it," Yamamoto answered and Reborn nodded, shutting the door close as he went back to school.

"Hm?" Tsuna said, "oh yeah, how did you guys manage to get the teachers to allow you two to come here?"

"Oh, Reboyama-Sensei helped." Yamamoto said. "That's why he came too. He just told math teacher Nezu-Sensei that since we were your best friends we should at least have a chance to come visit you today."

"I was standing at the side," Gokudera said, "and if Nezu-Sensei didn't allow us to go I would've already blown that man to pieces. Annoying old man, always picking on the Tenth."

"Haha," Tsuna laughed nervously at Gokudera, hoping that he wouldn't actually do so, "but there's also time for you two to come visit me after school." He said.

"No, after school's too long," Gokudera shook his head immaturely, "and since the Tenth's mother wanted us to bring this bento to you we decided that we should come now, before the food gets cold." He took out the bento and placed it on Tsuna's lap.

"Yeah, not to mention my father also wanted me to pass you this sushi when he heard you broke your leg," Yamamoto took out another box, opening it in front of Tsuna. Inside the box lined up neatly was all sushi.

"Thanks a lot, Go—I mean Hayato and Ya—Takeshi." Tsuna smiled as he accepted their gifts.

Placing the numerous packets of sweets and chocolates on Tsuna's bedside table so Tsuna could reach for them easier later, Gokudera looked at the time and said crestfallenly, "It's time for us to go, Tenth."

"Hm? O-Oh, bye then." Tsuna said a little sadly, it was going to lonely without his friends around him. Sensing Tsuna's slight dejection Gokudera hurried up said to try comfort the Tenth, "Don't worry, we'll come back to see you after school again!"

"Hayato's right, Tsuna! We'll also bring along your homework later so you can finish them!" Yamamoto said and Tsuna felt a little better at his friends trying to cheer him up.

"S-Sure," Tsuna smiled a brighter smile, and waving his hand he bid Gokudera and Yamamoto goodbye.

It didn't help that his heart felt a little heavy though when the door clicked shut.

Somewhere in the Namimori middle school, a certain carnivore felt as if dead weights had been settled in his chest. Hn, that's means he'll go bite some herbivores for now to relieve the tug. He silently promised to visit Tsunayoshi later as fast as he could.

The day went by fast. It actually took a broken leg and swollen ankle to make half the class realize that they really missed their class idiot, and now life was boring without Dame-Tsuna to do something stupid to make it interesting again.

Sasagawa Kyoko, one of those few who were concerned of Dame-Tsuna's wellbeing decided to go visit Tsuna later after school.

She didn't know what Tsuna might like so she decided to give him flowers (which Hana had then commented that this practice normally was done the other way round where the guy gave the girl flowers instead), and made it sure to include 'flower shop' and 'hospital' to her plans that day.

With all these things in mind, the orange haired girl didn't notice that currently three rows behind her a certain silverette and raven-haired classmate were also thinking the same thing, which was to visit their friend straightaway after school too.

But as luck would have it Yamamoto couldn't make it with his baseball club practice and of all times Bianchi, Gokudera's sister, had planned a sudden visit from Italy to Japan today so Gokudera couldn't exactly leave her alone by herself without making sure she knew the way to Namimori.

The only time they were free to visit Tsuna was in the evening, and hopefully Tsuna wouldn't feel too lonely without them there with him in the afternoon. Hopefully, they (Gokudera mostly) were praying hard.

So straightaway after school it was only the Kyoko who visited Tsuna (Hana was busy so she couldn't tag along) but before that, she would have to go get some flowers from the nearby flowers shop.

There were many different kinds, but Kyoko chose to get daisies because they had meant get well soon, and with a bouquet of them in hand she went to the towering white building that stood at the edge of Namimori to visit the brunette with the broken leg.

Second story outside room 27, Kyoko knocked lightly on the door to announce her presence, pushing the door open to step in.

"Gah, Kyoko-chan!" Tsuna exclaimed, quickly shoving all the chocolate wrappers under his bed covers and licking his fingers clean. Her visit was rather unexpected and Tsuna didn't want his female friend to find out that he'd been stuffing himself with the chocolates and sweets Hibari, Gokudera and Yamamoto had given him just before she'd walked in.

"Hello, Tsuna-kun." Kyoko greeted warmly as she sat down on the chair by Tsuna's bedside near the window. "I'd brought you some flowers today, hope you get well soon." She smiled brightly and even though Tsuna only liked her as a friend, he still could not help but blush slightly as her smile dazzled him.

"U-Um, thanks." Tsuna said, watching as Kyoko reached over to place the bouquet of white flowers on the table which oddly seemed to fit in with the white décor of the whole room.

"Are those daisies?" Tsuna shifted a little to his side to point at those flowers—gosh, his broken leg and swollen ankle was really troublesome—and by doing that, he caused part of his thick bed covers to also shift slightly.

Tsuna froze for a moment when the shiny orange and purple wrappers of sweet evidence had been exposed. "U-Um, I can explain, haha, you see, I was bored and a little hungry so…"

"It's okay," Kyoko smiled gently as she watched Tsuna blush rather madly while stumbling over his words.

"Sometimes I eat a lot of candies too, especially on appreciation day," she said while pulling off Tsuna's covers to reveal more of those similar orange and purple wrappers hiding underneath. Reaching over she slowly picked every one of those wrappers and went to throw them in the bin, smiling as she took her place back at her seat again.

"Thanks, Kyoko-chan." Tsuna said as he leaned back in bed. "You didn't actually have to do that, you know." Kyoko giggled.

"We're friends, I don't mind helping."

"Want some?" Tsuna asked as he offered Kyoko the chocolates and sweets that he had been eating. "They're really good."

"Sure." Kyoko took one each from his hand and unwrapping them, she ate the chocolate first.

"Wow, milk. It's really sweet, Tsuna-kun." She said.

"Yup," Tsuna's heart swelled with pride. "It's my favourite. I like them very much too." He helped himself to another chocolate.

Popping the sweet in her mouth Kyoko asked, "So, Tsuna-kun, it was Gokudera-kun and Yamamoto-kun who bought all these sweets and chocolates for you?" Kyoko had noticed that the two said classmates had not attended first period today.

"Hm? Oh, yes, they bought the sweets and most of the chocolates. One packet of the chocolates came from Hibari though," Tsuna said, placing the wrappers on the table beside the daisies.

"The daisies, they're really nice," Tsuna commented. "Thanks again, Kyoko-chan."

"Haha," Kyoko gave a small, pretty laugh. "You're welcome." And the duo continued chatting about school stuff, homework, their likes and dislikes until early evening when Gokudera and Yamamoto came to visit and Kyoko said goodbye and left, the whole time Tsuna wondering how come Hibari hadn't came to see him yet. Maybe he was busy? Tsuna tried to ignore the sharp tang in his heart.

After the first ring of the school bell Hibari had immediately grabbed his black gakuran jacket with the sole purpose in mind to visit Sawada Tsunayoshi. That however, had had been shifted to a few minutes later when Hibari caught sight of some despicable herbivores breaking the school rules. With a 'I'll bite you to death, herbivores' and a few swings of his tonfas, he had punished those students and was back on his way to visit Tsunayoshi.

Hibari wasn't the type to follow the trend, he liked to do as he pleased and he would do as he pleased no matter how odd it seemed to others. Walking through the hospital entrance was too troublesome and he knew and preferred that he could save time simply just by going through the window into Tsunayoshi's room.

So imagine his slight surprise when he was on the tree, about to swing in when he saw that Tsunayoshi already had an orange-haired girl as his company. There weren't many people around in Namimori who had orange hair so Hibari's eyes narrowed a little as he recognized the girl, Sasagawa Kyoko. The younger sister of that loud-mouth herbivore. What the heck was she doing there?

Hibari watched Tsunayoshi blush as Sasagawa stood up to pull away his covers—Hibari growled at that—and bent over to take some things around Tsunayoshi on the bed. He felt his blood boil—with anger? Jealously?—as he saw the girl threw away those things into the bin at the corner of the room. Oh, those things were wrappers, but that still doesn't change the fact that she got so close to Tsunayoshi.

Hibari continued to observe from the outside, and he felt irritated and annoyed somehow when he saw Tsunayoshi offer the girl some chocolates and sweets. Offer the girl the chocolates he'd given Tsunayoshi just now. It wasn't meant for her, and would never be. Hibari suddenly didn't feel like seeing Tsunayoshi with that girl talking so happily eating his chocolates for Tsunayoshi and he jumped off the tree, leaving. Hibari decided that he would go visit the old couple sweets shop today instead.

The shop's tiny silver bell twinkled and Hibari walked in, the old couple welcoming him in warmly once they saw him.

"Ojii-san, Obaa-san," he said respectfully and the old man chuckled. "Hibari-kun, you came today." Hibari nodded.

"Well, I'm afraid there's not much to help out though," the old lady came forward and said as she placed a sweet into Hibari's hand. "We haven't got many customers today."

"Then I'll be one," Hibari said smoothly as he placed a thousand yen note on the counter.

"Oh? You came here today to buy chocolates again?" The old man pushed up his thin rimmed glasses. "Sure, sure, how many packets do you want?"

"Just one would do." Hibari's tone was polite.

The old man nodded and dropped two packets into the plastic bag, collecting the money on the counter before returning Hibari his change.

"Ojii-san, you gave me two," Hibari pointed out as he tried to take the second packet out.

"No, no." the old man gently pushed away his hand, "the second one's free. You're not eating those chocolates but giving them to someone, aren't you?"

"Yes." Hibari answered, it wouldn't be much of a use to lie, however old the couple was they still had eyes of a hawk.

The first time he lied was when his left arm was bleeding from a fight—that herbivore was actually stupid enough to fight back—and not wanting to worry them, he'd told them stacks of hard covered books on his desk had fallen on him.

The old lady had immediately turned stern and inspected his hand, saying that the injury wasn't like the mark of a hard book cover and the old man—having lots of knowledge from years of experience in his long life—had purposely knocked on a shelf causing jars of sweets to drop and on instinct, Hibari had thrown out his right hand to catch a jar that was about to fall on him leading the old man to the conclusion of "you're a right hander, Hibari-kun. Seeing how flexible you were just now being able to catch that jar, I'd doubt that you couldn't block a few books from falling onto you."

Pretty damn smart, the old couple was and Hibari learnt that that was the greatest thing about the elderly; they looked weak and fragile but actually were very wise and probably smarter than most young people nowadays. It was a big mistake to ever underestimate them, but Hibari's acknowledgement of them weren't all about strength. The old man and lady possessed compassion and kindness too, and for that, Hibari respected them. They were herbivores, but at least they were good herbivores who cared for others.

"Is for the boy who fell sick the last time?" The old lady asked, smiling. "I can't really imagine who else you would be giving the chocolates to, Kyoya-kun."

"They are." Hibari said and the old man laughed. "Oh? So what's the occasion this time? You confessed? Or was he who confessed?"

"No," Hibari said although the idea of Tsunayoshi confessing (if the herbivore even harbored any feelings for him) didn't sound that bad. He imagined Tsunayoshi blushing madly, saying "H-Hibari, I like you! Go out with me, please?" And there Tsunayoshi would be standing there, acting so flustered and cute Hibari supposed that he could say yes. But only because it was Tsunayoshi.

He growled to think of Sasagawa Kyoko going so near and acting so friendly with what may be his. And Hibari certainly hated sharing what was his.

"No," Hibari repeated again. "Neither of us confessed. I broke his leg by accident."

"Oh my," the old lady said concernedly, "what happened?"

"I was carrying him," Hibari answered truthfully, "he was on a class trip but it seemed that his irritating herbivore partner abandoned him," in his annoyance Hibari let the word 'herbivore' slip out, "I found him, but he had passed out due to dehydration. While running to find a water source I tripped and fell."

"And he fell along with you?" The old lady asked. Hibari nodded.

"My, what an amusing way to break his leg," the old man commented from behind the counter, "so have you apologized?"

"Yes, I did. These chocolates are for him. More apology for making such mistakes." Hibari said.

"I don't think Kyoya-kun is the type to confess first though," the old lady suddenly said bluntly, referring to their previous conversation. The old man agreed.

"True, he isn't that type to do that," the old man said, "but I'm sure if he ever accepts anyone's confession that would only mean that he really, really, likes that person."

"And then he would be super possessive," the old lady continued, "hey, Kyoya-kun, next time bring along the boy whose leg you broke, alright? I really want to see him. For you buy chocolates for him out of your very own free will, you may have fallen hard for him already since you have never bought any candies from the shop before."

"Maybe." Hibari said as he held the plastic bag of chocolates. "I'll see you two again then, Ojii-san, Obaa-san."

"Bye, Kyoya-kun," The old lady waved him goodbye. "Be sure to bring him along next time, 'kay?"

Even though Hibari had already left the shop he still heard her and softly said a "Yes."

Gokudera and Yamamoto had arrived at six, and to his surprise his mother had came too.

"Mom!" He remembered calling out excitedly as his mother went to hug him. Kyoko-chan had greeted everyone politely before leaving, and his mom had smiled at him, asking, "how was the bento? I added more of your favourites in it." Tsuna smiled back.

"They were great, Mom." He thanked her while Gokudera stood at the side and bowed.

"Tenth's mother!" Yamamoto laughed.

"Haha, hello, Tsuna's mother."

"Hello to you two too," Nana had said, "Gokudera-kun and Yamamoto-kun, Tsu-kun is so lucky to have such great friends like you two."

Gokudera had almost cried out in happiness and he bowed again, "That's so kind of you, Tenth's mother!"

"Haha, thanks, Tsuna's mom." The four of them talked happily and Tsuna had to rush in to stop his mother from sharing one of his embarrassing childhood stories which started off as "You know, Gokudera-kun, Yamamoto-kun, when Tsu-kun was three-years I found him trapped in the laundry room crying alone and—oh? You don't want me to tell them? Oh, then I suppose I'll talk about other stuff…"

The warm, lively atmosphere in the room only lasted for an hour and a half and ended at seven-thirty when Gokudera and Yamamoto had to leave for their dinner. His mother couldn't stay with him that long too since it was already past visiting hours and the nurse had already politely asked her to leave.

Very unwillingly Tsuna had said goodbye to his friends, his mother, and then he was left all alone in the white room again with only the daisies Kyoko-chan had given him earlier today for company.

Tsuna was feeling very lonely indeed.

Lying on his bed he sighed against his warm covers and stared at the white ceiling; it would be a whole week before he gets discharge from the hospital and even then, he may need to use crutches for the time being after that.

He closed his eyes and sighed again.

Suddenly, a hand seemed to brush gently over his eyes and he was about to open them in shock when a familiar voice said, "Hush, close your eyes and don't move."

Tsunayoshi immediately relaxed once he realized that it was Hibari—how did he manage to get in here so easily? And wasn't it long past visiting hours already?—but the insides of him were practically dancing with joy.

Hibari, he was here! He'd came to visit him!

Tsunayoshi felt Hibari leave his hand over his eyes to cover them as another hand played with his bangs, sometimes reaching over to pat his head. Tsuna liked that, he liked the feeling of Hibari's long fingers through his hair.

After a few minutes Hibari removed his hand from Tsunayoshi's head which made the brunette pout a little but Tsunayoshi squeaked when a cool finger was being placed on the tip of his nose, the hand over his eyes not leaving yet.

The finger on his nose continued to trace down to his mouth where it danced around in small circles, intentionally not touching the pale pink, soft sensitive lips of Tsunayoshi's and his throat dried at that, though he didn't dare make a sound yet.

His breath, however, did hitched a bit when the same hand grasped his chin and tilted it upwards towards Hibari, though Tsunayoshi couldn't see him yet with his eyes still closed and Hibari's hand covering over them.

The prefect suddenly hugged him, the hand covering Tsunayoshi's eyes falling away as the prefect buried his face deep in Tsuna's neck inhaling deeply. The smell was just as the prefect had remembered; it was this smell that had made him so attracted to Tsunayoshi, and now thinking of it the brunette really seemed to be made for him considering how well Tsunayoshi fitted in his arms.

Hibari smirked as he felt Tsunayoshi's neck go warm and knew that the brunette was blushing, feeling rather stunned right now.

Tsunayoshi had his eyes wide open in shock and pleasant surprise and moving his hands, he slowly reached up to grabbed Hibari's jacket to make the hug complete. The prefect didn't move away so Tsunyoshi grew a little more confidently, wrapping his arms tighter around the prefect and grasping his black gakuran jacket. Hibari smelt of green tea and lavender.

Hibari said nothing and Tsuna didn't move, both of them hugging in silence as Hibari continued to inhale and exhale deeply, his hot breath fanning on Tsuna's neck.

And it didn't seem as if they two would let go any moment soon.

Hello, I read online that daisies were a good gift meaning 'get well soon', but they also mean innocence and purity, which I thought that it suits Tsuna pretty well since he's naïve in a way too.

Hope you enjoyed this chapter!