53. Blanket

Yuni sighed despondently. She knew this was going to happen. She timidly ran her fingers around the cup of tea she had been drinking.

Before her was the normally adoring Tsuna, face grim. Already five minutes had passed since Tsuna began pacing around. Every now and again he would mumble something. "Yuni I feel that we need a serious conversation about our relationship."

It was with great effort she prevented her flinch at the sentence. A tremble passed through her lips as she calmed herself down. "You're right", she said with great reluctance.

"Yuni, you asked me to trust you and you knocked me out."

Yuni said nothing.

"Vongola Hyper Intuition isn't omnipotent. A lot of it is based on instinct, at least that's how it begins. Did you know that when you told me to trust you, my intuition didn't set off any alarms?"

Thinking back, she had found that odd, especially when she had seen firsthand how useful the intuition could be. It made her stomach drop at the implication.

"My instinct didn't register you as a threat. I had full trust in you. Yuni, you're detectable to my intuition now."

She felt hurt at that admittance, but didn't try to defend herself.

Tsuna took a seat beside her and looked at her not unkindly, "My most valued aspect of our relationship had always been our friendship. Before the guys, you were my first friend I made in a long while and I really appreciated it."

"I'm so sorry, Tsuna. I wanted to help you."

"I know. And maybe I'm being a hypocrite, but you can't make those decisions for me. God knows what could've happened to you. If future versions of the guys hadn't been there, where would I know to look for you? With the kind of world we're submerged in, trust is paramount."

She gripped the mug tightly and trembled a bit. A warm hand reached for her shoulder, she dared to look up to a regretful teen.

"I lost a lot of trust in you that day, but I believe we can start building that up again. I won't pretend to be an expert, but relationships are like the tides it ebbs and rises. I don't need some intuition to see that we'll make it through this." He punctuated his statement by holding his girlfriend's hand.

Sniffling a bit, she said, "You're right." Timidly, she brought her arms around him for a hug. Relief washed over her when he hugged back lovingly.