A/N: I need a quote from Shakespeare. It doesn't matter what play, it just needs to be Shakespeare and it needs to make you, at the very least, chuckle when you imagine Tsuna saying it in an imitation of Hibari's voice with a perfectly straight face in a tense situation. That's not hard, is it? Or, you could just go the easy way and chose the funniest line from... oh wait... you can't use that video because it's part of the chapter I need the line for. NEVER MIND! But seriously, help me out otherwise I'm going to use 'Come Lawrence, help me to my closet.' Not that that isn't funny, but I thought you the reader might want a hand in making our dear Skylark's life miserable. Now, on with the regularly scheduled madness.
Oh, and, none of this is really mine.
Chapter 35: The Case of the Swallow and the Boss
"BASEBALL IDIOT! HOW COULD YOU! JUUDIAME WAS FALLING AND YOU DIDN'T CATCH HIM! YOU WERE JUST RUNNING IN PLACE WHILE YOUR BOX WEAPON ATTACKED JUUDIAME!" Hayato roared, tearing through the mansion to get at the Rain Guardian.
"Eh? What? When? Which one? Who? How? Where? … Huh?" came the confused reply.
"VIDEO! BIRD! JUUDIAME! FALL! HEAD-BEAK!" Hayato roared, face as red as his Flame.
"You're not making sense," Takeshi said calmly, though he was edged around the seething man in hopes of escaping his rage.
"SHUT UP SWORD FREAK! SWALLOW! JUUDIAME! HEAD! ATTACK! YOU DIDN'T STOP IT!" came the unhelpful reply. Now Takeshi was intrigued. What was this about his swallow?
"Calm down," Takeshi said.
"NO!" the irate bomber huffed. Takeshi sighed and flagged down a passing maid.
"Ah! Miss? Could you bring a cup of coffee and some lemon squares to the west parlor? The one with the piano?" he asked. The maid bowed and hurriedly left. "Thank you!" Takeshi called after the departing maid.
"DO NOT CHANGE THE TOPIC MORON!" Hayato yelled, stalking after the Rain Guardian who was making his way to the aforementioned parlor.
"Ah... could you bring the Boss to the west parlor? I think this is going to require a lot of leverage," Takeshi asked another maid. Seeing the raging Storm behind the Rain, the woman bowed.
"DO NOT ASK JUUDIAME TO SAVE YOUR SORRY BEHIND YAMAMOTO TAKESHI! THIS IS BETWEEN YOU AND ME!" Takeshi was getting rather frustrated with the constant yelling and was trying hard to keep it from showing.
"Right away sir," the maid told the slightly peeved looking swordsman, understanding exactly why he wanted the boss. Only Sawada-sama could calm the raging Storm.
"HEY!" Hayato blustered, not happy with being ignored.
"Thank you... Marie right?" Takeshi asked, always one to be polite.
"Yes sir," she answered, blushing slightly before scurrying off to fetch Tsuna.
"HEY! I'M TALKING..." Hayato screamed before Takeshi cut him off abruptly.
"No, you're yelling at me for something I have no idea about and quite possibly happened years ago if the current trend in youtube videos is anything to go by. I find my request for authoritative back up quite justified."
"BASEBALL... !" Hayato began before...
"Hayato," Tsuna said softly behind his Storm Guardian. Takeshi quickly and quietly vanished, heading toward the security room where he could watch through the cameras. It was going to be a show down and he didn't want to miss it, but he didn't want to wake up in the hospital room either. Hayato turned slowly to face his sweetly smiling boss. The sweetly smiling boss who had a Mukuro worthy evil aura swirling around him and blazing gloves.
"H-hai, boss?"
"Don't yell in the mansion." And with that, Tsuna proceed to drop kick Hayato across the hall, down the stairs, and out the door – without breaking anything – before pounding the bomber into the ground. "And don't scold someone until they know what they're being scolded for." Hayato moaned and Tsuna went to collect Takeshi. Together, they went and watched the video that had set the temperamental bomber off. They were both laughing before the third second.
"Oh man! The timing, the music, the look on your face! HA! This is hilarious!" Takeshi said, holding up his slightly wheezing boss.
"No wonder Hayato went off on you! It looks like you're running in place while your Rain Swallow is ramming into my head over and over!" Tsuna wheezed, his breath spent in laughter. By the time Hayato made it out of the infirmary, the whole mansion had seen it. Because it had been Tsuna who introduced it, with a smile and a laugh, no-one had the same reaction as Hayato. It was typically more like Tsuna and Takeshi. It made its way onto the favorites list of the Arcoblano as well. Particularly Reborn's. He loved to watch videos depicting his student in pain, though he also enjoyed watching videos that showed his student's growth. Ah, to be a sadistic tutor in the Mafia. The title was 'Yes, that just happened,' but anyone wanting to find it had to go to the uploader's profile. Who was the uploader? Well, it was VongolaCrack and none of the Vongola Familia knew quite how to respond to that. Tsuna would never deal in drugs like that, it went against his policy. All the same, that user had several... 'interesting' videos about the Vongola. And the Varia. In the end, Tsuna chose to ignore the name in favor of the videos. His favorite was 'fourteen seconds of Xanxus' in which Xanxus head-banged for fourteen seconds. Ah, he got a lot of mileage out of that one!
A/N: Do not underestimate the fanatical loyalty of Gokudera Hayato. And always have a pair of ear plugs handy when dealing with any Vongola Guardian. Or Varia member. Some days, it's best to be deaf.
