Daily Life Arc

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Feelings and Perverted Doctors

Kyoko wasn't blind to how exhausted Tsuna and Mia looked when they come into class, Tsuna physically more so than Mia. The moment they arrive, Tsuna would dump his bag beside his desk, plunk down on his seat and magically fall asleep instantly until Mia would gently rouse him up. It happened so often it was considered a normal occurrence now.

Kyoko wondered what they had been doing… the other day she passed by through the neighborhood and had come across Mia confronting a strange man in a white suit.

"Dr. Shamal right?" she gasped, lost of breath. "Are you him?"

"As a matter of fact, I am and who you might be darling?" Dr. Shamal asked her, leaning closely.

She backed away and Kyoko saw that her clothes were partly singed and her hair was tied up into a hasty bun. Mia looked very uncomfortable but she steeled herself for what she had to do. Setting her shoulders straight and chin high she stepped right into his face, surprising him. "Doctor," she started. "Please, you have to cure my friend."

Dr. Shamal snorted. "You mean the little punk? Nah, I don't treat men." He leaned down instead, his face close enough that was merely inches away from hers. Mia held herself resolutely. "I'd rather much spend my time with you."

She looked at him straight in the eye. "I'd rather waste all of my time away from you but here I am," she shrugged flippantly. "So, are you going to come with me or not?"

The doctor pulled back, surprised. He smirked. "Aren't you spunky?"

Mia blew the loose strands from her face impatiently. "Reborn calls me a smartass but I prefer to be called an aleck." She muttered something and shook her head. "Alright, what is it that I have to do to get you to come with me?"

Shamal pretended to think about it. "How about… a kiss?"

Kyoko gasped. Mia looked disgusted but she didn't say anything. "The things I do for that idiot," she fondly said. Taking a deep breath, she screwed her eyes shut and elevated her head. "Okay, I'm ready."

Doctor Shamal stared at her and frowned. He opened his mouth but was interrupted when Tsuna came skidding from around the corner. He was breathing heavily and when he saw them he stood stock still. His eyes were darting back and forth from the doctor to Mia who still had her eyes shut. Kyoko could see the confusion, suspicion and over protectiveness in his brown eyes before they settled on the doctor accusingly.

"Um… are you going to leave me here hanging?" Mia suddenly asked. She shifted nervously. "Just kiss me already and let me get over it!"

Tsuna looked like he would have flipped his lid if Dr. Shamal hadn't flicked her on the forehead. Her eyes opened in surprise. Her confused stare had the man sighing.

"It's no fun to force yourself," He told her seriously. He sighed again. "I'd rather you come after me confessing your undying love."

She blanched at the very idea of it. "Yeah… no."

"Besides," Dr. Shamal looked behind her. "I don't do little girls although I don't mind it if you come to me. Hey, come over here already." He gestured for Tsuna. Mia turned around. Kyoko couldn't see her expression, but Tsuna was an open book. He looked so relieved then, he smiled at her sweetly. Captivated by the side of Tsuna that she had never seen before, Kyoko continued to watch. He then looked at the Doctor and an expression of distaste crossed his face. The Doctor gave him the same look.

He took something out of his pocket. Kyoko couldn't see and tried to stand on her toes but she couldn't see what he was doing. Tsuna flinched and slapped a hand to his neck. He blinked a few times, looking a bit disoriented. He swayed on the spot and Mia steadied him. She glanced at Dr. Shamal questioningly.

"He'll be fine," he assured her. "But you know…" he flirtatiously said. "Once you're old enough, you and I could go out. I know a place."

Mia actually laughed. Kyoko couldn't understand how she found this so funny. Tsuna was looking at her the same way.

"Why are you laughing?" he asked her disbelievingly. "He's old enough to be your dad!" Precisely, Kyoko nodded. She was sure he was a nice man but he came too close for comfort.

Dr. Shamal glared at Tsuna. "Watch it kid, I don't care who you are but I am damn hot for all ages." He smugly fixed his jacket. Tsuna was unimpressed.

Mia giggled. "Dr. Shamal, thank you." She sincerely said to the doctor. Tsuna was still gaping at her like a nutcase until she elbowed him disapprovingly. They shared a look and Tsuna sighed, defeated.

"Thank you," he told the doctor. Dr. Shamal brushed it off with, "I don't need thanks from men – oh wait – I meant boys."

Another side that Kyoko hadn't seen, Tsuna actually glowered at the older man.

"Well then, let's go Tsuna." Mia tugged the sleeve of his shirt. "I feel like celebrating. Come on, my treat."

He looked at her and frowned. "What kind of treat?" he asked.

"Dinner." A smile tugged on Tsuna's lips at her reply.

"Brownie Biscotti for dessert?"

Mia knew where this was going and delivered her line, "If you'll carry the groceries."

Kyoko had never seen Tsuna look so comfortable than right then and there. Something fluttered in her stomach at the sight. He was just so… so… she couldn't find the words to describe how Tsuna looked then. She had a sudden thought… he looked at her the same way he looked at Mia. Thinking about it, her face grew hot and she flattened herself against the wall to place her hands on her face, trying to stop the heat in her cheeks.

When she looked back, they were leaving. Mia looked back on Dr. Shamal and grinned. "If you're still hot when I'm forty, let's go out Doctor!"

Dr. Shamal gaped at her. "I'll be seventy then!"

Both teens burst out laughing as they walked away. Kyoko was perplexed, not realizing it was a joke until she went home that night, thinking deeply in her bed. Mia didn't take it seriously. It took her a while to understand but when she did, she murmured, "What a strange person."

Now, Kyoko couldn't help but watch the group of friends. They don't look tired as they usually did and Tsuna was leaning back on his chair, choking on air as Mia was tricked into eating a seaweed flavored candy that Yamamoto offered her. She was spewing insults in Italian at who knows what while wiping her mouth furiously.

Her face was pinched as she stuck out her tongue. "Oh that is just gross. How can you people eat this stuff?"

The two Japanese boys grinned at each other and shrugged. Mia went to Gokudera to share her woes instead. There was a certain longing in there, as Kyoko continued to watch them. She was in a completely different world from theirs. She envied Mia although she admired her a great deal. She wondered if she can be a part of that. Just then Tsuna's eyes slid to the side to the meet hers and she shyly waved at him.

He fell off his chair.

Kyoko quickly turned back to the board but she slowly looked back. Tsuna had gotten up, rubbing the back of his neck sheepishly. Gokudera was fussing over him while Mia had this knowing look. Tsuna glanced back at her and the two of them blushed. They looked away from each other. Heart thumping, Kyoko decided.

She liked Sawada Tsunayoshi.

Confession and Exploding Lunch Boxes

Tsuna was ready to drop dead. His arms and legs were aching, he had a headache and lord did he just want some tea. Earlier today I-pin brought him his lunch and instead it was a box full of nitroglycerin. Here's the thing if no one knows what that is, nitroglycerin is a chemical agent that is very explosive. One drop could blow his classroom up. Thank goodness that mess was sorted out. He collapsed on his bed and fell asleep instantly.

He dreamed of marrying Kyoko. He used to often have that dream but now it occurred less and less. He didn't know why – he blamed it on the exhaustion. But anyway, it went awesome… until he lifted the veil and Haru was looking back at him.

He woke up instantly after that, screaming and fell off the bed.

It's not that he didn't like Haru it was just… she wasn't his… type? Okay, she was way too pushy and too clingy. She's cute but… he could not believe how easily she falls for Reborn's lies.

"Dame-Tsuna, you are so pathetic." Reborn commented from his spot on the desk. Tsuna glared at his tutor. "Listen, I've had it with your pitiful daydreaming. If you don't confess to Sasagawa Kyoko, I will ban Mia from coming here."

"You wouldn't." Tsuna glared at him but Reborn continued on.

"Oh yes I would." Reborn experimentally cocked his gun. "I'd do it with a Thompson M192 machine gun."

"What?!"

Leon transformed into said gun and Tsuna looked at it horrified. "She won't be able to set a foot in here, I'll promise you that."

Sometimes, his tutor was a complete asshole. Reborn pointed the gun at him instead and he flinched.

"Call me that again and I will blow a hole through that head of yours," he threatened. Tsuna nodded slowly, too terrified to speak. He didn't even question how Reborn knew what he was thinking.

"Confess." Reborn repeated and this time Tsuna didn't have the heart – or courage – to say no.

He tried; he failed because everybody was being complete cockblocks! Like what the hell. The only time he was going to confess the universe thought it was funny to use his friends against him. Goddamn it. Miserable and dejected, he went home. He bumped into Haru who dragged him into a cake shop then Kyoko came in and then they were at his house with Mia there then everything just got awkward – everything was just – what the hell is going on?!

How the hell did they come to this? Not just Kyoko and Haru but Mia too?! All three girls had eaten a Gyoza bun that I-pin offered. Now they were dying and he had a limited amount of time to save all of them. He followed I-pin's directions to look for her master frantically. Eventually they found the guy – who was very suspicious – and the girls were saved.

Well everything just went dandy and he didn't even manage to confess. When he finally had the chance to Kyoko just looked so happy that it felt like it was enough for him.

"Coward," Reborn told him snidely.

He really hated his tutor sometimes.

Mountain of Death

After several weeks, Mia finally had a day to spend time with her Pa again, an actual a weekend. She had come skipping to Tsuna's house at ten in the evening just to tell him in person how excited she was to go camping with her dad. He wasn't pleased with her visiting hour but he was happy for her and had promised to convince Reborn to halt her lessons for the duration of her father-daughter bonding experience. She was so thankful she hugged him, almost knocking him down on the ground.

Feeling good in her boots, she trailed behind her father as they got off a bus. Her father was a lean man, with straw blonde hair and blue eyes similar to hers. He was thin but had strong arms. He wasn't the most outgoing person but he enjoyed camping and mountain climbing.

They were heading to the mountain when her Pa's phone started ringing.

"This is Nicola Matteis," he answered. His eyebrows furrowed into a frown. "I'm in a middle of a trip with my daughter… can we please reschedule?"

From the way the call was going, it didn't sound like they were letting him go anytime soon.

Mia could feel the crushing disappointment coming and her throat constricted. She knew that times with her father were rare but he had a job to do and she couldn't just take up his time to entertain her. He didn't know but she knew that it was hard for him to look at her, see her mom in her, and expect her to be there. It hurt but she loved her Pa. Reaching out a hand, she tugged his sleeve, her father paused to look at her.

It'll be okay. "It's okay. I don't mind," she told him. "They need you don't they?"

He looked down at his phone then at her. There was an apology in his eyes that Mia was so familiar with but she smiled understandingly anyway because she was just that kind of kid.

"Next time," he promised.

She nodded even though she knew there won't be one. "Next time."

He pulled her in a hug which she willingly returned. He held her there, swaying on the spot. "My girl is so grownup."

Mia laughed softly. "That's because I'm just awesome like that." He let her go and pressed a kiss to her temple. After that, her father left and Mia remained behind after convincing her Pa she would follow up home. She adjusted the strap on her bag, sniffing. It was such a waste, she thought. She might as well camp while she was out here so she did.

Never did she expect to find all her friends on the mountain she was on. She had come across them just as the boys met up with the girls and kids.

"Am I hallucinating?" she asked herself as she stood to the side.

"Mia-chan!" Haru gasped when she saw her, attracting the attention of everyone around. "Were you lost too?"

"Uh… no," she answered slowly. "I came up here deliberately."

Tsuna frowned. "Didn't you and your dad have a camping trip today? Is he here?" Tsuna looked around.

Mia awkwardly shuffled her feet, looking away from everybody. "He was called in."

"So you came alone?" And there's overbearing Tsuna. She didn't miss the slight disapproval in his tone either.

"Yeah. It's great seeing you guys here but I'll be going now so…" she backed away slowly. She actually wanted to be alone right now and camping in the mountains sounded great. She could cry like a howling wolf out here and no one would bother her. It's not like she didn't know how. Her Pa thought her and this wasn't her first time camping.

"You're not thinking on spending the night on this mountain right?" Bianchi demanded suddenly.

Feeling annoyed, she frowned at them all. "You know, I'm kind of wondering what you guys are even doing here. Lost? There's a trail east just a little bit from here you can take to get down."

"Really?" Tsuna gaped at her. Mia fought the urge to tell him to go look at it himself. Instead, she waved at them goodbye and slipped right back into the trees.

Downhearted and feeling the need to be alone, she went straight into a jog ignoring Tsuna's calls for her to come back… and practically everybody else's. She can handle herself. She knew how to fish and scour for food. The farther she got, the more she could feel her sadness ebbing away, she began to smile until she was jerked backwards by Yamamoto.

"What the hell?!"

"Sorry Mia, but we need you," he told her. He hauled her on to his shoulder like a sack of potatoes and took her back to where everyone is kicking and hissing. She couldn't believe them!

Actually, she couldn't believe how stupid almost everyone was here. The boys were dragged in by Reborn but the girls… her brain cells were dying just listening them. A cake shop. On a mountain. Sometimes she wondered if Tsuna was attracted to ditzy girls. She didn't hate them but they don't make it easy to for her to hang around if they kept this up. By the end of their explanations, her expression was so dry everybody turned sheepish.

Mia sighed. "Alright, I know the way back. Let's go." She gestured for them to follow her and then after that she was coming back here. She needed her private girl time in the woods. It was that time of the month anyway.

Except things didn't work out the way it should have. Some things got a bit out of hand, a forest fire, Tsuna going into Dying Will Mode to put out the fire, Enzio growing to the size of Godzilla and then being chased by a giant turtle. In the end, Tsuna got hurt and Mia forgot her woes at the moment.

Sassy

Mia was so mad at her friends when she found out that Tsuna was demoted to a storage room.

"This is a hospital!" She admonished them all. "It's not just Tsuna you guys are bothering. What about the other patients? You're noisy, you litter and none of you even dispose properly."

"Ano Mia…" Yamamoto meekly called out to her but she didn't listen, too mad at their lack of common sense.

"You're the oldest!" she pointed at Dino. "You're supposed to be responsible!" Dino looked down on his shoes, properly ashamed.

"And you two!" She glared at Yamamoto and Gokudera. "Silence." They straightened and nodded. Mia turned to Ryohei who flinched backwards at her terrifying temper. "I don't need to say anything. Catch my drift?" he nodded jerkily.

The girls in the background were slightly at the back, watching in silence as Mia reprimanded everyone. After that, she demanded for the nurse that was tending to Tsuna at the time. The woman came over and Mia, with her striking blue eyes, marched straight up to the nurse. A bunch of men entered the lobby in black suits. Dino's men, she thought offhandedly.

"Are you the nurse who's assigned to Sawada Tsunayoshi?" she asked cutly.

"Yes I am," the woman didn't back down.

"Tell me then," her voice took a dangerous edge that had the others standing on their toes. "Why is he in a room that's fit to be a morgue?"

The nurse sniffed haughtily. "He was disturbing the other patients."

Mia lifted a brow. "Oh?" she said. "Care to elaborate on what he has done?"

The nurse told her side of the story. From what Tsuna said and from this woman said, Mia concluded that the nurse was stupid.

"So you mean to tell me…" she slowly began. "That you blame the commotion on a teenage thirteen-year old boy who is disabled at the moment? You think the patient has any control of the situation he's in?" She took a step towards the nurse, her voice dropping to ice. "Is it not your job to regulate the number of visitors that could enter? To inform them the guidelines of the Hospital? To make sure that the patient is comfortable and healing?" The nurse was slowly being backtracked as Mia continued on. She couldn't even get a word in!

"You had one job. One job," she hissed. "Whatever reason you may have it cannot excuse the fact that you treated a patient so badly he had to be put in a room that is psychologically distressing!" The woman came in contact with the wall behind her but Mia wasn't finished yet.

"Now if you want your records clean and your superiors out of this, put him in a private room where he was paid to be or god help you I'm bringing this up with his family. Bet they'd like to know why their kid was transferred to another room without their consent. Is the hospital feeling good for a lawsuit?"

The nurse, terrified, quickly started barking orders to set everything back as it was supposed to. She turned back to the rest. They flinched.

"Th-Th-That was… amazing Mia-sama," Gokudera said, he was gaping at her.

She placed her hands on her hips. "I leave just to take a shower and this happens." She shook her head.

"Um… Mia-chan, can you really do that against the hospital?" Haru asked her tentatively.

She snorted and replied, "No." They stared at her, jaws slacking. "Seriously, it's just a bluff and I don't even know if the Vongola would even take legal action but this would generate bad publicity on their part." Mia adjusted her pony tail, placing her tie in her mouth as he fixed her hair.

Impressed, Dino's men shook hands with her in approval, even offering to back up her bluff. Reborn merely watched in Bianchi's arms, smirking at her underhanded thinking.

The Ranking Prince

Tsuna helplessly looked at Mia, who just shrugged at their current predicament. There was a young boy was in his room named Fuuta. He asked for protection that Tsuna was uncertain he can provide… well he wasn't that strong. Then Reborn came in and convinced him to take Fuuta in. Well the kid was right… he couldn't say no to him.

Fuuta had a peculiar ability. The little boy can accurately figure out a person's ranking in the whole world and so far, I-pin, Lambo and Haru had gotten their rankings.

"So what's mine Fuuta?" Mia asked. Fuuta took a moment to know her ranking. During that time, it was like the gravity switch was off and they floated to Mia's disbelief.

"Mia-nee's ranking is tenth for being Improvisational and…" Fuuta didn't finish as Gokudera and Yamamoto came in, breaking the boy's concentration. He quickly scribbled the ranking before Gokudera asked for his ranking next.

It was the usual Vongola ruckus that happened after that. Fuuta's ranks were dubious when it rains they found, after he told Gokudera the wrong rank. Mia was laughing into Yamamoto's shoulder at the look on the bomber's face and then at Tsuna for his ranking.

"Hahi! There's a lot of people outside your house Tsuna-san." Haru pointed out the window.

Tsuna stood up and went over to look as well. "Huh? What in the world?"

Fuuta buried himself in Mia's lap. "Oh no! They know I'm here!" he cried. Mia did her best to comfort the poor boy. Pulling him in her arms, she pushed his head gently on her shoulder.

"It's alright," she cooed. "We won't let them get you. Right Tsuna?"

Don't look. Don't look. Don't look. Don't look. Don't look. Don't look.

Tsuna slowly turned to look at her and once again, those blue eyes were pleading with him. It's bad enough his conscience was bugging him now, Mia too? He sighed.

"Right."

Despite their carefully planned distraction, they still caught up with them. Surrounded, Mia sheltered Fuuta. Keeping him close to her side. Tsuna stood protectively in front of them, feeling nervous. All he had done lately was strength building – can he really go against these Mafioso? He suddenly wished that he knew how to fight even just a little bit.

As if Reborn knew what he was thinking at that moment, the familiar spread of warmth sank in his head that spreaded to the rest of his body, filling him with overhwhelming desire to fulfill his dying regret.

It's ass-kicking time.

Fuuta had never been happier to be wrong about a ranking. He pulled away from Mia to write on his large book while Mia kept off some men by throwing sand in their eyes and just pulling every dirty move in the book until Tsuna dealt with them.

He finished scribbling just as the two were done. Satisfied, Fuuta leaned back to admire his new rank.

The flame going out, Tsuna heaved a sigh of relief. Mia similarly did so. They looked at each other and she raised a hand. They high-fived and it occurred to Fuuta that he didn't tell her what her other ranking was. Oh well, he'll tell her if she asks for it.

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