Fon arrives the next day, apparently worried that the hitman might have upset Kyouya, which is a ridiculous concern because Kyouya does not have feelings like an herbivore.

"I understand," Fon says calmly. "But if Reborn ever crosses a line-"

"Enough," Kyouya snaps, coming to a halt and turning to face the man. "You've already made me late for patrolling. If you follow me into school then I will bite you to death."

"I am not in the school," Fon points out happily. It's technically true, because he is standing just outside the front gate.

"Go. Home," Kyouya deadpans.

Fon holds up his hands, covered by long sleeves, in surrender and smiles serenely. "I'll pick you up after school."

"No."

"Have a good day, Kyo-"

"-WITH MY DYING WI - gurk!"

Kyouya lowers his outstretched arm after using a coathanger to stop the half naked bunny. The herbivore pops right back up after getting an arm to the throat, head literally on fire, and then screams something about confessing into Kyouya's face before sprinting off.

Fon waits patiently at the gate for Reborn to saunter up. "Good morning."

"Chaos," Reborn greets back. "Have you seen a little brunet, pathetic looking, maybe this tall, run by?" Reborn holds up a hand around lower chest height on him to show how tall the brunet is supposed to be.

"Well," Fon muses. "I didn't catch the hair colour since the boy was on fire, and I was thinking more pitiful due to him being half naked, but he was around that height, yes."

"Ah," Reborn murmurs with a smirk. "Perhaps I should have lead with the 'on fire' part."

Fon gestures behind him, to where Kyouya has Tsuna in a choke hold on the floor of the school yard. "Is that him?"

"Maybe," Reborn hums.

Tsuna's struggling is getting weaker.

Mochida Kensuke watches the brutal judo pin and decides to not get involved with the DC demon. He promptly turns and walks away because he's already being practically blackmailed into teaching a few DC plus one Takeshi some beginner's kendo. Except with actual, razor sharp swords.

Kensuke should have just let the demon die in the gym.

"Extreme boxing!" Ryohei roars and charges in the opposite direction of the fleeing crowd to reach the extreme fight.

Takeshi laughs and jogs along behind the boxer because his self-preservation is non-existent.

Reborn turns back to Fon. There's a cool down period so he has to wait an hour before he can shoot Tsuna again. In the meanwhile… "Do you want to buy me an espresso?"

"Not particularly," Fon says honestly.

"Are you going to buy me one anyway?"

Fon sighs. "Most likely."

Tsuna is dazed and groggy when he wakes up, but it's mostly his cold feet that urge him awake. He doesn't recognise the room but he definitely knows whose jacket is laid over his shoulders and he can certainly tell who's sitting behind a large desk on the other side of the room.

Kyouya glances up from his paperwork. "Clothes are on the coffee table."

Tsuna sits up woodenly from the couch. Is he in the DC room? He spies the neatly folded clothes and quickly dresses.

"So," Kyouya muses. "How high were you when you charged into my school?"

"High?" Tsuna squeaks. "N-no, I was shot. By Reborn!"

"Shot?" Kyouya echoes. "You don't seem the type to use needles. What was it, heroine?"

"No!" Tsuna wails. "It wasn't drugs! Reborn literally shot me, with like a-a mafia bullet! It starts a cut scene or something and I had no control over my character – uh, I mean body."

Kyouya pauses. "Mafia?"

Tsuna nods rapidly and words spill out of his mouth without any conscious input from him, repeating everything Reborn explained about the game route Tsuna stats are suited for.

Kyouya says nothing, wondering if Reborn is using the screens as a way to intimidate or as a way to comfort the herbivore by giving Tsuna something to cling to that he already understands.

"I'm just… panicked," Tsuna says quietly. He's not sure why he's telling Kyouya. They're not close, the older teen wouldn't care, but Tsuna needs to talk and he really doesn't have any other friends. "I'm freaking out over Reborn and the whole mafia thing."

Kyouya hums. "That is a very difficult situation. Some people, like the hitman, are so full of themselves that others just can't fit. He will push and pull and tear you apart until you follow his path, however little there is of you left when he's done, and he'll only respond to strength."

That's why Kyouya admires the hitman so much.

"What, am I supposed to get stronger than him and then refuse?" Tsuna asks, a little hysterical. "Besides, he doesn't seem the type to get respectful just because someone survived him."

"True," Kyouya accepts. "But what I mean is that the only way you win is creating your own future. If he gives you two choices, pick a third. That is the strength I refer to, and while being able to fight will allow you even more options, it's really not necessary. Just figure out the rules to your situation and move around them."

"And I would get that information how? I only have Reborn and even then, he's certainly not talking."

"Have you tried?" Kyouya raises an eyebrow.

"I… no."

"Then try, and when that doesn't work, try something else. It's common sense, herbivore," Kyouya shrugs.

Tsuna lets out a weak little laugh. "You make it sound so easy."

"Because it is. If you don't like the situation, change it," Kyouya states with the confidence of someone who rules over a small town and can deadlift a hundred kilos easy. "What, do you think I hatched into teenager form, already able to punch through brick walls?"

That was actually one of Tsuna's guesses. Either that or Kyouya is an alien who landed on earth to destroy the planet, Dragon Ball style.

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A/N: I'm trying to go back to Kyouya-centric but I also want to show how Tsuna slowly comes to terms with his new pet hitman. Good news though; finally into cannon territory!

To burntdream: Yes, at 400 reviews I'll write a mini-game as a thank you to everyone who reads this. It was supposed to be at 300 but we hit that milestone and I… um, kind of forgot so we're going to 400 now. I think it might be a Red Riding Hood one, or maybe a Disney Princess…? I'm hovering between the two.