Sleepwalking

If you are persistent, you will get it. If you are consistent, you will keep it.

"Are you sure you want to sleep on the floor?" Tsuna asked for the third time, fretfully twisting his blanket between his hands as he watched Leora set up a futon on the other side of the room. For the third time, Leora waved him off.

"Yes, I'm sure. And you can stop asking, because my answer isn't going to change in the five minutes it takes me to finish this and get comfortable enough to sleep."

"But you're a guest," Tsuna argued, "You shouldn't sleep on the floor."

"I sleep on the floor of my apartment. How is this any different?"

"It just is!" Tsuna shrieked, flailing his arms around even as he winced at the volume of his own voice. Leora send him a pointed look.

"Stop yelling if your head still hurts." She admonished as she finished spreading out the top part of her futon. Nodding in satisfaction, the carney made quick work of crawling under the covers and nuzzling her head against the pillow.

This futon was so much nicer than the threadbare one she had back at her place. It was thick enough that she couldn't really feel the floor through it, and she had an actual pillow. It couldn't beat an actual bed, but it was still leagues above what she had.

As if reading her thoughts, Tsuna tried again to get her off the floor.

"We can just share like we did yesterday," he offered, hugging his pillow to his chest and giving her puppy eyes. The carney rolled over so her back was to the brunet.

"Yesterday I woke up with you wrapped around my legs like I was your favorite stuffed animal," she shot back, ignoring the embarrassed squawking coming from behind her, "I'm fine over here."

"If you're sure…" was mumbled petulantly, shortly followed by the sounds of someone shifting around in bed. Satisfied that the matter was resolved, Leora settled down for a nap.

Eyes snapping open, Leora stared at the wall in front of her, wondering what exactly woke her up. It was still day time, the curtain only blocked so much sunlight, and the shadow of leaves from the open window were waving lazily against the wall and floor.

Rustling fabric and the shuffle of bare feet against the floor had her running a hand over her face. Of course it was Tsuna. Everything recently seemed to happen because of Tsuna.

Rolling over the carney carefully arranged her face so it wouldn't look as dead as she felt, not wanting to intimidate the easily startled boy for no reason.

"Is something wrong Tsu-" snapping her mouth shut Leora stared, dumbfounded, at the brunet slowly making his way towards her.

A brunet who was also very fucking obviously asleep.

His eyes were closed, eyebrows furrowed slightly to match his frown as he mechanically inched his way in her general direction.

Well… this was… something. The details weren't that clear from the manga, but she was pretty sure that Tsuna didn't have a sleepwalking problem. Running around in his boxers yes, but sleepwalking hadn't ever been mentioned.

Maybe it was just a childhood thing? It's not like the manga or anime covered anything about his childhood other than the sealing and bullying. Maybe he grew out of it by the time Reborn showed up?

When he showed no signs of stopping Leora rolled out of the way, just in time for Tsuna to trip on the edge of the futon and land in the spot she had just vacated. Burrowing down into the warm spot she had left behind, he rolled over and started wiggling around to get comfortable.

Still dead asleep.

Leora felt like laughing. Or banging her head against a wall. She settled for rubbing at the building headache in her right temple.

"Fine. You win. I'll take the damn bed."

Climbing into Tsuna's vacated bed she flopped down, pulling the discarded blanket up off the floor to wrap around her small shoulders, fully intent on finishing her nap. Not two minutes later she heard Tsuna moving around again.

Cracking open one coffee colored eye, she watched as Tsuna rolled around with a frown on his face, smooshed his face into a pillow unhappily, then start to get up again. Both eyes fully opened now, Leora watched with detached interest as Tsuna started a slow shuffle back towards the bed.

"You offered the bed, no take backs." Leora called out, pushing herself into a sitting position. Tsuna didn't react, just kept up his insensible bee-line for the bed.

Chalking it up to not worth the effort of arguing with a person completely dead to the world, Leora got out of the bed so Tsuna would be able to shuffle past her and flop back into his previous spot.

Moving past the sleepwalker, the carney made to head back to her futon and would have, if Tsuna hadn't paused and then changed directions to follow her.

Blinking, and not really believing was she was seeing, Leora moved in another direction fully expecting Tsuna to just walk right by her. Except he didn't.

Moving in a circle around the table in the middle of the room, Leora's disbelief grew as the boy kept following her.

"What the fuck? Is this some anime bullshit I'm not aware of?" Leora exclaimed, getting increasingly agitated the longer Tsuna followed her around the room. "How are you even doing this? Your intuition is supposed to be sealed with your flames!"

Tsuna didn't reply, just continued to follow her around like a puppy, his frown getting continuously more pronounced the longer Leora dodged his increasingly faster attempts to catch up to her. Vaulting the low table they were playing poker at not an hour ago, Leora choked down the irrational fearpanicdesperationnonono that threatened to drown her after the third lap around the room, and tried to calm down and think.

Eyes landing on the open window, the carney decide to screw calm and dove through it, nearly taking the curtains with her. Latching onto the nearest extended branch of the tree before she plummeted, Leora hauled herself up then crab walked to the trunk, plastering herself against it.

Sucking in a breath Leora counted to ten, then blew it out. Repeating the process a few more times her heartrate started to drop down to something normal, and she was able to release the death grip she had on the bark.

Shuffling at the window damn near had her crushing the branch. Jerking her head up, Leora stared hard at the little boy bumping into the window ledge and scowling down at it with a surprisingly evil look for a kid who looked like a rabbit most of the time.

"Go back to bed Tsuna." Leora called, trying to end this weird Twilight Zone moment and get things back to normal. Or at least what's normal for a goddamn anime. "You can have the bed and the futon. I'm sleeping in the tree."

In hindsight that was a stupid thing to say. The brunet could obviously understand what she was saying even if he wasn't acting like he would if he was conscious, and he didn't seem to like her decision. His sleeping face scrunched up in determination, and then he set about trying to haul himself onto the window ledge. With a lack of anything not lethal to throw, Leora ripped off a decent sized branch and threw it at him.

The branch hit him squarely in the chest and knocked him back into the room and out of sight.

"Stay, damnit. You're going to get yourself killed." Leora hollered through the open window, hoping the words would penetrate his sleep addled brain and he would actually listen. Not a minute later Tsuna was back at the window and trying to crawl out of it. Leora chucked another branch.

Leora didn't know how long this went on for, but eventually she was out of branches immediately at hand that she could use and the little idiot was still trying to climb out of the window. As a last ditch effort to keep him from killing himself Leora launched herself, tackling him back through the window and twisting at the last second so he landed on her and not make his head injury any worse.

The landing knocked the breath out of her, and all the branches she had thrown dug painfully into her back as the two's combined weight crushed them. Tsuna didn't seem to notice the landing; he immediately latched onto the curly-haired girl the second she was in arms reach and buried his face in the crook of her neck with a happy hum, scowl melting away into a content smile as he finally settled down to sleep.

Leora ran through every curse she knew as she got her breath back and not all in the same language. When prying off the little leech proved ineffective, Leora tried to drag them both back to the futon so they would at least be off the floor, but her hands and feet kept sliding on the numerous leaves, twigs, and branches she'd used during her bombardment.

Making a strangled sound not un-similar to that of a dying cat, Leora finally gave up, squashing her growing hysteria and glaring at the spikes of brown hair obscuring her vision.

"I hate you." She hissed. Tsuna just snuggled closer if that was possible, giving off another happy hum as he wedged his head more firmly against her neck.