DISCLAIMER: I don't own KHR or any of the associated characters aside from my OCs.

Boxing was an impressive feat from many of Sawada's Guardians. Gokudera, Yamamoto, and of course Sasagawa were dominating in the gym. Shirtless and sweaty, they greeted me. For once, they had gotten out of bed before nine o'clock, coming here on their own to show their resolve.

I brought Lussuria with me today, getting a startled response from many of Sawada's friends but Yamamoto was welcoming to everyone, inviting the okama up for a round while Sasagawa volunteered to teach me how it went.

There were so many rules. I wasn't allowed to duck lower than his belt, I couldn't kick him, I couldn't backhand him, I couldn't headbutt him, etc. I was baffled but it came down to the simplest of tactics-fist fighting.

At noon, Yamamoto and I squared up. I had promised them a meal if Yamamoto could land a blow on my face after all. Turns out, at the very last minute, Yamamoto and I smashed each other's faces in and we called it a draw. The two of us were nursing our bloody noses, huffing and puffing at the thrill of the fight rather than out of anger.

"You remind me of Dino more and more." I said before I could stop myself and I froze when his eyes went wide. I quickly tried to make amends, "Uhh… I meant that in the best of ways. Not that you remind me of a whiny crybaby."

"Dino-san's a crybaby?" Yamamoto grinned, shaking his head, "It's okay! I think you remind me of Hibari more and more! Of course, I also think you're prettier and prettier every day."

"Oh my~" Lussuria was giving me the shifty eyes, "What's this? An affair?"

"L-Lussuria!" I hissed, blushing darkly at the gawking looks they were giving me all of a sudden, "That's not to be said in front of them. They're just kids!"

"Whatttt?" The Rain Guardian to-be grinned, feigning hurt, "You had a boyfriend all this time, senpai? How could you? I thought all those adorable smiles were meant just for me."

"Don't push your luck, herbivore." I grumbled, "I know you've got a girl back home."

He gasped for real this time, "How did you know?"

I rolled my eyes at the gawking high school brats, "There's a picture of her above your bed! Unless you're a freak, that's got to be your girlfriend."

"We're not talking about me." He snickered, "Is it Dino-san?"

"No, you moron. It's the boss." I huffed, blushing at the jaws they just couldn't seem to pick up after that revelation. Even Yamamoto was staring at me with wide eyes, "Wh-What?!"

"Boss as in… Xanxus?" Sawada managed to choke out, silenced by my glare.

I'm pretty sure I told them before. Although I might've told them I was already rejected.

"Why is that a surprise?" I grumbled, only negative thoughts filled my head.

Sure the boss is a good-looking guy and all but that doesn't mean it should be that surprising. I'm the only woman among our officers so naturally, I should at least have a chance, yeah? How rude. Or is it our odd height difference? He's like almost a full foot taller but… Okay it's an exaggeration. He's not a whole foot taller but… Meh! Height is just a number!

"Umm… By force?" Yamamoto asked quietly and suddenly everyone was serious. His eyes narrowed into a glare, the first I've seen on him in a long time, "For adult things?"

My eyes narrowed, offended, "I can't force him to do anything with me! I wouldn't!"

"I'm pretty sure he meant it the other way…" Gokudera's clarification lacked its usual bite and condescending jab, "You might not but Xanxus looks like he would."

Oh. They were worried about me. I mean, I guess boss is kind of a manipulative and forceful man. Except I'm no pushover.

"He can't force me to be with him." I reached back, rubbing at the back of my neck in discomfort, "I confessed to him first so… leave it alone."

The Rain Guardian was all smiles again, "Ah! So you're in love! Great! I'm happy for you, senpai. I'm hungry. Let's have lunch."

Everyone was in motion again, bustling about to gather their things and retreat to the showers. Lussuria sang happily as he went in after them, leaving me with a teasing wink as Chrome and I headed for the lockers on the other side. I was just about to unlock my locker when Chrome caught me off guard by approaching me. I looked up, waiting for her to speak.

"I-Is… A-Are you really not being forced?" She asked, cheeks blushing and eyes wide with anticipation as she waited for my response.

"Do I look like I could be forced?" I grinned, shaking my head at how dumb her question was as I unlocked my safe, "If anything, I should be asking if you love Rokudo Mukuro or if he's forcing you to love him with ridiculous threats."

She was a blushing mess. Chrome was extremely shy compared to the rest of the Guardians and it was an amusing color all on its own. She stammered, "M-Mukuro-sama is kind."

My expression soured as I reached for my stuff, "Him? Nice? … Then again, I say our boss is nice and people gag at me too so I guess it's fine. To each their own."

She seemed relieved, sighing quietly, "By the way… You do look like you could be forced so… don't say it like that."

My eyes narrowed and I slammed the locker shut, jabbing the shampoo bottle into her face weakly, "You're an herbivore. You look like you can be forced. I'm not like you."

"You're shorter than me." She murmured, looking at me innocently through those long lashes of hers, "And you look like you weigh less…. H-He could easily throw you down."

Irked, I nearly lost it on the spot but I held it, "Chrome… Let me tell you something. Anyone else and I would've flipped them over onto their empty little heads but I'll forgive you this time. If you call me short one more time, you're dead. I'll bite you to death."

After a startled moment, she smiled softly, "You remind me of the Cloud person."

I grinned, "There you go. That's better! Tell me I remind you of Kyoya any more and I might bring you a hamburger next time."

Laughing, we hit the showers. I feel bad since the boys had to wait. We'd taken a long time discussing the boss and Mukuro even in the shower. We talked through the curtains and walls separating us. I've never had a female friend before… I mean, if you don't count Lussuria who insists on calling himself "Mama Luss" or "Luss-nee" my only friends are biologically male.

When we returned to the main group, Lussuria looked refreshed and Sawada's troops looked harassed as could be. I patted Yamamoto on his hung head and offered him some water to which he murmured a weak thanks and whined about how much his poor ass had been groped.

I spun on Lussuria accusingly, "They're just kids."

"Ara~" He exclaimed, feigning hurt, "You'd be surprised, Kira-chan. They like your ass about as much as the guys at HQ."

Chrome gasped, putting a hand daintily over her lips as the rest of the Guardians went bright red in the face. Protectively, she came up behind me, pouting like an herbivore as she put her hands over my butt area, "Th-That's dirty, boss."

"Hiee! I didn't say anything!" Sawada screeched in fear, putting his hands between his face and my glare, "I'm sorry! I just looked a little!"

"It's these stupid pants, huh?" I grumbled, glancing over my shoulders at Chrome who was now giving my yoga pants-clad ass a full on stare, "What the fuck…?"

"I never noticed." She said meekly, staring as if she had been left out of something important, "The benefits of working out…"

My eyes settled on her decently shaped chest and I snorted at her, turning away in bitter envy, "Are we getting lunch or are you going to just talk about my ass all day?"

"Can we do both?" Yamamoto tried to lighten the mood of shame with a joke, "I'll confess I was the first to say it out loud but only because Gokudera was staring."

"I was not!" The Storm Guardian was pissed about the accusation, strangling Yamamoto and pushing him out of the gym towards the car, "I keep telling you I was just spacing out and you thought I was looking!"

"I was EXTREMELY looking! I'm sorry!" Sasagawa said it out loud as if there was something to be proud of and the whole conversation was basically just them trying to dignify their dirty looks.

The car was a wild storm of insults and accusations at each other, trying to determine who looked first and why they looked in the first place. Chrome looked extremely embarrassed to be grouped with the rest of the Guardians and I just grinned, nodding each time someone apologized and they went right back to trying to find out who was the scumbag who looked at another man's woman first. I thought it was cute.

In the end, I blamed the pants, "Enough! I won't wear these pants anymore so just order something!"

"Not the pants!" Yamamoto was all jokes and it was beyond adorable, "Anything but that!"

The meal was as amiable as it could get even after the dirty comments about my ass in tight pants or what not. I honestly don't see why they would want to look at my ass in the first place but I can deal with it. Looking is respectable. Touching would be a problem.

When we dropped them off and started our ride home, Lussuria was blabbing on and on about how much ab muscle Sasagawa was sporting, "It's criminal for a child to have that much definition!"

"... He's an adult now." I pointed out, immediately regretting it when Lussuria began to squirm in his seat and wiggle his eyebrows suggestively, "You freak!"

"Oh, come on! I have morals too. I won't look at your brother but let me have my fun." He said, still wiggling his eyebrows at me, "You must be curious if your only lover has been the boss. Yamamoto is definitely gifted in that department."

I went bright red, screamed in embarrassment, and shoved him aside, "You freak! Leave him alone!"

He was howling with laughter, "He said he wouldn't mind doing you a favor if you know what I mean."

"Favor…?" I lowered the window and made an embarrassed attempt at shoving him out the small space, "Stop harassing them! I'll kill you!"

"It was a joke! He has a lover back home!" Our Sun-Flamed martial artist struggled against my grip, whining, "But you're his number one on the cheating list!"

"There's a list?!" I was actually kind of curious about their childish talk, "What's wrong with him?!"

"You're the only one on his list!" He groaned, shaking my stiffened arms when he found himself stuck against the door, "Let go!"

I relented, finally letting him breathe to close the window, "... You know… Yamamoto is…."

"Kind of hot?" Lussuria finished for me, grinning when I glared at him like he was a lunatic, "What? He's attractive, isn't he?"

"He's younger than my little brother…" I'm honestly disturbed by how young he is but he doesn't really feel that young for some reason, "That's wrong."

"Doesn't he turn eighteen soon?" He was not having any of my talk on morals, dismissing it with a wave of his hand, "It's fineeee, dear. Everyone has a type."

"A ty-type?!" I don't have a type but my heart was pounding, blush exploding over my cheeks as if to contradict my thoughts, "You think Yamamoto is…"

"Uhh…. Yeah?" He shrugged, "Dear… if you hadn't come to Italy, you would've picked a man from over there and in terms of looks, Yamamoto's not shabby at all. It's in your instincts to be attracted to that kind of appearance."

Red in the face, I couldn't deny it. I'm a poor liar when it comes to this kind of thing because I blush easily. I can't help it.

"If he invites you, are you going to go?"

"No!" I snapped, "I'd rather die. The boss would be…"

Be what? Would he even care? What am I talking about? He gets jealous too! It's proven! Or… wait does he just not like Dino?

No, no, no. That's not the problem. Yamamoto is attractive. I can admit that part but my loyalty was already given to the boss. I'm stuck with him.

But Yamamoto's kind of sweet.

But he has a girlfriend.

Doesn't mean we can't look at each other.

Stop it, Hibari Kira! You're a dirty pervert!

"AGHH!" Frustrated with myself, I slapped my hands over my face, "You stupid okama! I'll kill you!"

Howling with laughter, Lussuria was dancing out of the car that stopped while I was having a mental breakdown, "Poor Squ-chan! Number two even on the cheating list!"

"Don't you dare tell Squalo-senpai!" I roared, giving chase with my gauntlets on, "Fucking herbivore!"

We scrambled to Squalo's room and started babbling over each other. No one could understand anything but it's okay. I was trying to get Squalo to hear me out first and Lussuria was trying to spill everything.

In the end, Squalo roared over both of us, "SHUT THE FUCK UP! ONE AT A TIME!"

"I don't like Yamamoto Takeshi!" I blurted while Lussuria was trying to breathe from a swift punch to the throat from me, "I swear to god! He's a little brat!"

"Okay…" Our long-haired strategy captain sighed, a hand over his head, "And why do you need to tell me?"

"Because she chose him as the cheating material over you." Lussuria choked out, getting an immediate second punch to the throat.

"You what?" Squalo was now sheet white, staring at me as if I was some sort of beast with two heads, "Does the boss know yet?"

"I didn't do anything!" I threw my hands up and screamed at him in frustration, "I'd own up if I did something bad but I didn't!"

"Shhh!" He kicked the door closed and drew me down, arm thrown over my shoulders and Lussuria's, "If boss hears, we're all dead. So tell me now. What did you do?"

"She admitted he was hot." Luss was all wiggling eyebrows and goofy grins, "It's cute."

"I didn't say anything!" I was a mess. I was blushing badly, rolling around on the floor like a loser now that my feelings were on the table. Feelings? Is that what you call this?

"Yamamoto's totally her type."

Squalo gave me a dull stare as I screamed indignantly, "... I know. Why are you telling me?"

"Huh?" I can't believe this guy. I sat up, glaring at him, "What? You're not going to bully me?"

Squalo sighed long and hard, growling, "Look, Kira. I'm going to point this out for you since you're dense as can be but Pipsqueak Dino was a smiley loser. Yamamoto Takeshi is a smiley loser. Get it?"

"Ahhhh!" Hearing it out loud seemed so shameful and I couldn't help but whine, "I'm such a whoreeee! I hate myself!"

"I think your definition of whore is really skewed." Lussuria huffed, rolling his eyes, "How many people have you even remotely liked? Including Yamamoto it's four or so isn't it?"

The number four rang in my head and I rolled around some more in embarrassment since exactly four names popped into my head all at once.

Dino, Squalo, Xanxus, and Yamamoto.

"Kira, I've slept with more people than you've had crushes." He admitted, "Don't be a prude."

"Crushes?!" I was miserable. Another name popped up.

Ottavio.

"Boss has also slept with more people than you've crushed on so don't worry about it."

I was suddenly screaming in Squalo's face, shaking him by the shoulders as I babbled about how terrible I was for thinking about Yamamoto as an actual man.

Barely able to get himself righted enough to speak, he managed, "Everyone has that person!"

I only paused for one moment before starting to shake him violently again, "That person should be the boss! I'm a terrible person! I'm horrible! Why is it Yamamoto Takeshi?!"

"I meant a person who fuels fantasies!" Squalo gurgled, actually getting dizzy, "Stop!"

I went pale, held my breath as all these horrible thoughts swirled in my head about some woman fueling boss' fantasies and then I began to shake Squalo again as if he would give me all the answers, "I have no fantasies! The boss is the only one I ever thought of that way! Don't say fantasies!"

"Fantasies are okay! It's not cheating! It's fine!" Squalo was actually slowly dying, hardly able to breathe with the way I was shaking him by the collar of his shirt now, "Everyone has them! I bet he does it all the time!"

"I don't want him to!" I paused, "Wait, boss or Yamamoto?"

"Cause you're totally okay with Yamamoto thinking dirty when he sees you." Lussuria was not helping my case, "Cute."

I was rolling on the floor again. I was immediately shedding off my pants and Squalo scrambled to stop me, "It's these damn pants! This started all of this! I'm burning them!"

"You're fucking insane! Stop it!" Squalo barely managed to stop me, pants caught with just an inch or so of my underwear showing when the door opened and we were caught in a compromising position.

I went red in the face when I spotted Yamamoto Takeshi standing at the doorway with a very puzzled look on his too-handsome face. I stopped breathing. I wanted to die on the spot.

Yamamoto grinned, holding up his hand to cover his eyes, "S-Sorry?"

"Geh, Cannibal and Squalo?" Gokudera was there too but I only had eyes for Yamamoto, "God."

"I-It isn't what it looks like!" I squeaked, yanking up my pants miserably, "Wh-What are you doing here?"

"Ahhh uhhh…." He looked to Gokudera for help, "Why are we here again? I saw something good so I'm not complaining if we forgot."

Red faced, the Storm Guardian managed to choke, "Your tournament finals?"

"Ah!" Yamamoto fished some tickets out of his pocket, handing them to me with a kind smile, "Friday night, I can't come to the tutoring. I have baseball practice until super late and then the next day, the finals of the tournament starts at ten. Come watch me play. I'll hit a homerun for you."

I was redder than Gokudera as I put my hand out meekly, blushing from my head down to my toes when he placed the tickets in my hand gently.

"Two. Bring your lover." He said teasingly, "Although, I'm not sure if your lover is Squalo or Xanxus anymore."

"Please stop it." I choked, face so hot that I was about to cry, "Boss is the…"

Flustered, Yamamoto waved his arms around in panic and knelt down to put his arms around me, "So-Sorry! Please don't cry!"

Suddenly, everyone around me was in motion but I couldn't see. My face was buried in Yamamoto's shoulder and I never would've expected what came next. The Rain Guardian was ripped away and flung against the wall with brain rattling strength. I watched with wide eyes as the boss drew back a clenched fist and aimed it straight at Yamamoto's eye. I scrambled to my feet, barely managing to grasp the boss' arm in time to stop him from hitting Yamamoto in the face.

"Please don't!" I couldn't imagine Yamamoto managing to play baseball with a black eye. This was my fault, "Leave him alone!"

Boss couldn't have known the whole story but he was furious. He never even took his eyes off the young Rain Guardian to-be.

Gokudera pulled his companion out of the way as boss stormed forward, unbothered by my attempts to hold him back at full fury, "Xanxus, it's not what you think!"

"You fuck with my things, you die." He snarled, steam coming from his burning palms, "Fight like a man, Yamamoto Takeshi!"

"He wasn't messing with me!" I shouted over the insults Gokudera was spitting about how stubborn our boss was compared to Sawada, "If he was fucking with me, I'd kill him myself! You know I would!"

Timing perfect, Squalo sharply ushered the two students to the door and personally showed them out. Lussuria was right on his tail as the boss fumed, expression dark.

"Jeez…" I sighed, "He's still in high school, boss. Why are you getting so serious over Yamamoto anyways?"

"Me?" He said in a deftly accusing tone, roughly cupping one side of my face to wipe the tears that had gathered at the corner of my eyes, "What about you? Crying over something a little kid said? Aren't you the one getting serious?"

I fished the tickets to Yamamoto's baseball game out of my back pocket, waving them in his confused face, "He said to come watch his baseball game. Told me to bring my lover. Go on a date with me."

"Sports are dumb." He said, rejecting my demand swiftly, "You're not getting away without an answer. Depending on your answer, I might shoot him from the window."

"... If you want to shoot someone, shoot Lussuria." I huffed, pushing away the fingers still rubbing at my cheek. I took fast hold of his tie when he arched a brow at me, surprising him as I yanked him down to my height, "You have two choices. We can keep talking about this or I can kiss you and see where that goes."

An amused smirk curved his lips upward. His hands settled straight on my ass, hardly bothering to behave, "Look at you. Confident now that you're not a virgin?"

I pretended to think about it for a moment, "I wonder who to blame for that one."

"If we're playing the blame game, you invited me that night. Clearly."

"And I'm inviting you right now but you're still just standing there." I grinned as he did, "Hurry it up, boss."

"We'll fuck when I'm good and ready." He repeated the words I had heard once before but his actions sharply contradicted him, lips claiming mine without giving me a chance to retort.

All I can say is he was most certainly good and ready.