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Chapter 25

It was a really rare occasion when Tsuna was the first to ask Gokudera taking a walk outside the academy together. Since it was a day off, Dino didn't give any objections and opened the school's gate without any hesitations. On the other hand, Gokudera was wondering, Tsuna didn't like sunlight, right? For what reason Tsuna asked him to take a walk together with him in this sunny day?

"How about an ice cream, Gokudera-kun"

"O-Ooh, sure… ….Eeeh? Ice cream?" Gokudera replied him, maybe he really should pay attention where Tsuna would take him. He looked around at the shop for a while, he found out he was in an ice cream parlor, the decorations like were screaming to him 'I'm an ice cream parlor!'

"It's my treat, okay?"

When Tsuna ordered two ice creams, the waitress couldn't stop giggling and admiring Tsuna's features. The waitress even gave the ice cream extra topping, for free. Gokudera could only gawk at the waitress, wouldn't her boss get angry later? After they had gotten the ice cream that Tsuna ordered, both of them stepped out from the parlor with the waitress waving goodbye to their backs.

Gokudera ate his ice cream while crinkling his brows. Does he always get special treatment everytime?

"What's wrong?"

"Mmm, nothing"

"Are you… jealous?" Tsuna said to him as he tilted his head to the front to get a proper view of the silver haired boy's face.

Gokudera's face of course heated up and involuntarily let the ice cream slid down from his hand and dropped the ground.

"W-What! O-Of course not! Y-You're a guy! ... Aaaahhh! My ice cream! What have I done!" Gokudera screamed and he began mourning the ice cream that had been splattered on the ground. Tsuna was quite disappointed at Gokudera's answer, he quickly gripped one of Gokudera's wrist and held it upright.

"So what if I'm a guy"

"S-Sawada-san! Ow, ow! It hurts!" Gokudera cringed in pain when he could feel Tsuna squeezed his thin wrist painfully. Tsuna immediately let go his wrist and took a deep breath, he inwardly blamed himself for hurting him.

"I-I'm sorry…." Tsuna blurted out an apology as he saw Gokudera caressing his sore wrist.

"…. Fine, I'll admit it! I…I'm a bit jealous…. Just a bit! B-But! We're both guys! How can I say it out loud here for God's sake!" Hearing Gokudera's confession, Tsuna's tense expression broke into a smile and laughed half-heartedly. Gokudera saw Tsuna laughed to him, then he couldn't help it and followed him laughing. At first, Tsuna wanted to take Gokudera to somewhere that would make him remember something about Tsuna, but seeing Gokudera's cheerful face, it was good enough for him.

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(*O*)

It was a futile effort to talk with Tsuna last day. Those two vampires were still following him around, whenever he was gone, they both must always come together with him. He could only relax when they were having a class. And since it was getting closer to the performance day, the rehearsal getting more and more often. In the hall, all of the casts tried to improvise themselves to make the performance as good as possible.

Reborn didn't have any trouble in his role, he was their teacher after all and he must give them a good impression. The night class' students didn't have any problem either, including Lambo, even thought at first he didn't want to take a part in the drama, now he got fired up. Meanwhile, Hibari had done his part quite impressive, those two roles really suited him perfectly.

Just one person, Gokudera made Reborn got worried about how he would perform three days later. Gokudera was sometimes spacing out when he was on the stage, Reborn didn't know if he forgot his dialogues or he had a stage fright. To overcome his problems, Reborn called Gokudera to Dino's office after their rehearsal.

When Gokudera had came into the office, he saw Dino was sitting behind his desk while Reborn was standing beside him. Dino ruffled his hair and thinking what should he say first to the boy in front of him.

"I heard from Reborn, you didn't perform quite well"

"…"

"What's your problem? You ca-"

"It's nothing, old man" Gokudera replied him almost instantly, Dino knew this going to be happen. It was really hard to make Gokudera spill what was on his mind. The silver haired boy never wanted to share his problem with someone else. He exchanged glances with Reborn, asking him what to do.

"Listen, if you don't want us to barge into your problem, you better not make any mistakes in the future" Was the only thing that Reborn had to say, beside he didn't know Gokudera's personalities as well as Dino.

"Okay…" Gokudera weakly responded him, then he walked out from the office and headed for his room.

"Geez, you better tell Tsuna about this, Reborn" Dino sighed then he placed his chin to the desk.

"Why"
"Hmm… I don't know, but I got the feeling Tsuna was behind all of this"

"It's not that easy to talk with him"

"Reborn... Ahhh, my headache... maybe it's a stupid idea to make this drama after all..."

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In his room, he quickly approached his bed and threw himself there. Those nightmares now weren't nightmares anymore, he could clearly see the bloodied-face stood in front of him now. The bloodied-face as usual smiled a wicked smile to him and now even, he had materialized a body with blood dripping from all of it.

"Hey, how can I make you disappear" Gokudera boldly asked him while still laying on his bed.

"Nufufufufu, I think I've already told you, Hayato-kun"

Gokudera glared at him in return, he rose up from the bed and sat on the edge of the bed.

"Don't kid me, asshole. Like I will believe your story"

"I never tell you any lies, it's the truth" The bloodied-face said to him while slowly walking towards him.

"….. Bastard"

"I guess, he has realized about his too…. You just need to wait a bit longer. Soon, my time will come…" He said as he leaned his face closer to Gokudera's and his smile seemed to grow wider like it would reach his white round eyes.

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(*O*)

The night class' students were decorating the hall, a lot of papers and boards and other things were scattered on the floor. Haru had prepared the costumes thus they didn't need to worry about it. The stage was already prepared by Dino, they just needed to decorate it.

Almost all of the properties were quite heavy, Yamamoto and Ryohei obviously did most of the job. Lambo told Tsuna not to work, since this kind of work didn't fit him. Kyoko didn't have anything to do either, thus she walked towards him and sat beside him. She pulled out an envelope from her skirt's pocket.

"Tsu-kun, look"

"What is it" Tsuna asked her the moment Kyoko gave Tsuna the white envelope. He ripped the upper part of the envelope and found an invitation inside of it. The invitation said something about a meeting with other families.

"When Varia made a trouble here, a lot of families start to doubt us"

"Doubt about what" Tsuna asked her again but didn't bother to look away from the invitation letter.

"They think, you attacked Varia without any reasons, and they threatened me they will separate themselves from Vongola"

"*sigh* Why they didn't give the invitation directly to me anyway" Kyoko just shrugged in reply, Tsuna sighed again thereafter while palming his cheek. The invitation said one week from now, they wanted to discuss about Vongola's continuity and Tsuna thought maybe he must tell them the truth about Varia.

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The day of the performance...

A gentle voice was heard, it was really pure and full of love. The Prince couldn't help but tried to find the source of the sound. When he was following the sounds, he found himself at a rich garden with a castle in the middle. Then he spotted a well and a girl was sitting at the edge of the well. The girl was really beautiful, she had a very pale skin and lips as red as cherry. The Prince fell in love at the first sight, not only beautiful outside, from her voice, The Prince knew that the girl was a kind-hearted person.

"What a charming lady, if I may say"

The said girl quickly turned around with a blush crept on her cheeks. But as soon as she realized she was wearing inappropriate clothes, she immediately took the bucket beside her and run away from the garden then came into the castle.

"Wait, I want to know your name!" The prince shouted to the castle, hoping for the girl to hear him. The girl popped out from the window at the second floor for a while, then hid herself again under the window. The prince smiled to himself and then he throw a rose through the window. The girl was shocked when the flower hit her head, but she smiled thereafter after she discovered, it was a flower that was given by the Prince.

"I hope I can meet you again someday, my lady"

The girl was Snow White, she was happy, never in her life she got a rose from someone. Since her mother, the Queen always acted terribly to her.

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"Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who in the land is fairest of all " The Queen said to a mirror on the wall in her room. The Mirror suddenly had a smoke inside of it and showed a certain face.

"Queen, you are full fair, this true, but Snow White is fairer than you"

The queen became angry, she decided to make an evil plan by calling her trustworthy assassin, the Huntsman. The Huntsman immediately faced the Queen and kneeled before her.

"I order you to take Snow White's heart and put it in this box. I won't accept any failure"

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"*whisper* Pssst! H-Hey, Gokudera-san! *whisper*"

"H-Huh? O-Oh, y-yeah! I-I'll take her heart, your wish is my command, my Queen"

The Huntsman then took the box and kneeled once again before leaving. The Queen had told him Snow White was picking flower at the nearest field alone, so it was a perfect chance to attack her.

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Snow White was singing and playing with the flowers around her, she was very happy to be able to get here once in a week. When she was picking a flower, suddenly a man came out behind her. Before she could see her attacker, the man pinned her to the ground and pulled out a knife.

"No! Stop!" She yelled while covering her eyes with his forearms. The man was the Huntsman who was ordered by the Queen to kill her. However, he found himself unable to kill her, the Huntsman dropped his knife and retreated from her.

"I'm sorry, my Princess! The Queen ordered me to kill you!"

"M-Mother?"

"Please go away from here. Go away and never come back!" The Huntsman said as he pushed her away from the field.

"B-but"

"GO!"

Snow White was scared, she didn't know what to do anymore and decided to run to the forest behind her. She kept running and running... Then she found a small cottage in the forest, because she was tired, she forced herself to come inside and slept there.

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Seven dwarfs were working in the mine and were about to go home. When Doc rang the bell, the other dwarfs prepared to go home and took their equipment. However when they reached their cottage, they were surprised to see the door was opened. A bad feeling built up in their mind, they quickly came into the house. But shocked afterwards when found a beautiful girl was sleeping on one of their small chair. The girl slowly opened her eyes,... at first, she wasn't able to believe herself when she saw a lot of... handsome dwarfs surrounded her.

"I'm sorry, I was tired and... then..."
"Ahahahaha, that's okay, even if you were a burglar, there's nothing that can be stolen here" Happy said with a cheerful smile plastered on his face.

"You're so beautiful to the extreme! What's your name, Kyoko!"

"S-senpai!" Bashful elbowed Dopey, it was a very strange question after all... or weird?

"OOOH, sorry! What's your name to the extreme!"

"My name is Snow White, as a gratitude for let me rest here, I'll help you clean the cottage"

"Yare, yare, that's good, we need a lacke- OOOOOOOOW!" Sneezy cut his words when Doc stomped on his feet really hard.

Grumpy then stepped forward and threatened her with his... tonfas, not to forget he also sent her a very sharp glare.

"Herbivore, go away from here... and I hate crowding"

"Well, I don't mind her staying here. She can help us with the chores" Doc tried to calmed Grumpy down by stood between him and Snow white. Grumpy then pulled back his tonfas and headed for his room, he didn't like crowding with herbivores.

"Well, then, Snow White, you help us, okay? I'm kind of sleepy today" Sleepy said to her while yawning, after working for almost three hours at the mine, she was tired.

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The Huntsman came back to the castle and walked straight to the Queen's room. The Queen was as usual stood in front of the mirror, but when she felt the Huntsman's presence, she turned her back to face him. The Huntsman stepped closer to her then stepped backwards after giving her the box.

"Good job, you can go now, I'll send you a reward later"

"Yes, my Queen"

The moment the Huntsman left the room, the Queen didn't open the box first, instead, she faced the Mirror again to ask the same question.

"Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who in the land is fairest of all "

"Queen, you are full fair, this true, but Snow White is fairer than you"

The Queen snapped then she held the Mirror's side before yelling to it.

"What! But Snow White is..." She trailed off then quickly opened the box. She realized the Huntsman had betrayed her, he didn't gave her Snow White's heart, he gave her a boar's heart. The Queen got angry and threw the box to the floor until the box was broken. She decided she would give the Huntsman a death penalty as a punishment, and for Snow White...

"I'll kill her by myself!"

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When the seven dwarfs had gone to work, Snow White decided to do some cleaning. She decided to wash the dwarfs' clothes first. When she was walking outside the cottage, she saw an old lady with a basket contained of apples in her hand, Snow White felt sorry for her and approached her.

"Grandma, do you need my help?"

"What a kind girl. I'm just tired, I want to take a rest"
"Come inside, I'll make you a cup of tea"

Snow White held the old lady's shoulder and escorted her to the cottage. Inside the cottage, when Snow White was about to go to the kitchen to prepared a cup of tea, the old lady stop her from doing so.

"Here, take this apple, you have helped me"

"Really? Thanks! Can I eat it now?"
"Of course, it's yours now"

Snow White mumbled some thanks again to the old lady. She gave the apple a small bite,... suddenly she felt dizzy. The world around her started spinning in her eyes. Before she could say something, she fell to the ground with the apple rolling out from her hand. The old lady laughed maniacally before she wiped her make up and revealed her true self to the already-dead-Snow White. As expected by the audiences, the old lady turned out to be the Queen, and the apple, it was poisoned.

"Hahaha, at last! No one will be able to defeat my beautiful face now! I hope you go to see your father in hell. So long~, Snow White"

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The Prince was walking in the forest alone. He didn't know what made him want to take a look there, something told him he could find someone who he had yearned for long. As he getting deeper inside the forest, he heard some kind of mourning emitted from someplace. Hearing the voice as his guide, he unable to held back a gasp when he saw the girl that he loved was placed inside a glass coffin. Automatically he put down his hat and lowered his head.

"Who are you" Doc was the first who realized the Prince's arrival.

"I come to see my princess, but I don't know she's already dead. Can you open the coffin for me? I want to take a good look at her face for the last time"

Doc nodded then he opened the coffin. The prince came and kneeled beside her coffin, he was planning to kiss her on the lips, but... he stopped. He kissed her forehead instead. After he was done, Doc closed the coffin again and told the others to lift the coffin together. When they had lifted the coffin, Sneezy accidentally sneezed and this caused the coffin lost its balance and dropped to the ground.

This made Snow White fell to the ground and she threw up the apple she had bitten. Snow White opened her eyes, and her eyes caught the Prince who she was waiting for. The Prince quickly approached her side and Snow white quickly hugged him. The dwarfs cried in joy, Snow White hadn't died yet, but the only one who gave the snow white cold expression was only Grumpy. He didn't care about her after all.

The Queen who saw this behind the tree got angry, she was failed, and she shad said to the Huntsman before she didn't accept any failure. But the reality was, she had failed herself. She was gone crazy at the sight, she quickly went away from the scene and heading for the cliff unconsciously. She would end her life there. In the end, the Prince and the Snow White lived happily ever after.

End of Chapter 25

Well, that's a quick Snow White story, and I changed some parts in it, well, that's okay, right? Umm, hope you don't mind Xp