A/N: Wao, it'sbee forever and I'm so, so sorry! *grovels* I've had writer's block for some reason. My main stroy, All Over Again has gotten stuck atm, so it's going to be super late. Good news- the next AOA chapter should be decently long, and right before Reborn appears woot! Hope everyone is in character for this. I wrote the beginning of this months ago, but I simply didn't know how to continue it ick. Enjoy c: (Thanks for the support guys! I didn't expect this much! 370 faves, and 448 follows)

Beware: Language, crazy antics and manners.

Tsuna stared at his palm blankly.

His flaming palms.

The orange blaze flickered brilliantly and danced around on his hand, not causing harm yet still warm. He continued to stare at it until it flickered and died out.

Finally, the brunet let out a resigned sigh. Welp, there went his normal life. One had to be weird when they could calmly stare at one's hand while it was burning.

That didn't mean he couldn't pretend it never happened though.

Flames? What flames? Mum didn't like it when he played with fire.

Having pushed all thoughts of flames aside, Tsuna decided to just relax and go out for a bit. Just because he was no longer normal didn't mean he couldn't act normal. Perhaps he could walk by the stores or something, while avoiding his 'friends' of course. They would undoubtedly drag him into doing something impossibly weird. His pleasant thoughts were unfortunately shattered by a loud angry roar. He cringed.

"VOOOIIII! What the hell do you mean he doesn't want to come?!"

A pause.

"I don't care! Bring him you fucking trash!"

Tsuna blinked at the rather tall man, blanching as he tried to shift back and blend with the buildings. I'm not here. I'm just another piece of..wood? Brick? Tiles? on the wall. His 'STRANGER DANGER!' alarm was tingling...along with his 'Weirdo alert' and 'Guy-I-seriously-don't-want-to-mess-with' alarms. The man's sleek shoulder-length silver hair rustled and swung around as he continued to scream into his cellphone, while waving his other arm around.

Tsuna felt rather sorry for the person on the other side of the phone, surely his or her eardrums must have bursted?

The loud noisy man then proceeded to shut his phone, with a perpetual scowl on his face. "Incompetent morons, you'd think they understood orders better."

The brunet blanched once more. Was he some sort of gang boss?! The silver haired man then blinked as he noticed Tsuna.

"What are you looking at, brat?"

Tsuna internally cringed before smiling pleasantly at the scary man. The power of smiles was indeed a strong thing, as it had made even the bloodthirsty skylark do a double take multiple times before. " I apologize, I was just trying to blend into this wall you see, I did not mean to stare." Manners, what would I do without you? He thought with no small amount of thankfulness. When in doubt, be polite- it would be hard for the other party to be mad when you were so unfailingly kind and polite after all.

Or so they say.

As expected, the loud man looked like he had been suddenly blindsided. He recovered remarkably fast however, as his brow furrowed before he gruffly scratched the back of his neck. "Voi, you've got guts kid. What's your name?"

Tsuna was taken back for a moment, before he replied with a brilliant smile. "My name is Hibari Kyoya, sir." He lied smoothly and blatantly with little remorse. And while lying was bad, Tsuna felt that this was completely justified in case this strange man tried to hunt him down. Besides, this man was clearly a stranger, and you weren't really supposed to talk to a stranger anyways. "What is your name?" He added as an after thought, if only to be polite.

He was raised to be polite after all.

The stranger stared at him with sharp eyes, as if he was inspecting the brunet for any suspicious traits before sighing. "Why the hell not? Squalo. And if you tell anyone, I'll run you through with my sword."

"...I see." The boy was quite impressed that the stranger- the crazy (that has definitely been confirmed) stranger could say such morbid things as if it was simply a greeting. "Then I will make sure to not say anything. Because dying at age eight would totally suck."

The crazy stranger snorts. "Whatever brat, just pretend I was never here."

"Of course, I have been talking to myself the whole entire time."

The crazy stranger snickered. Snickered, to Tsuna's absolute confusion. What did he do? He was only being honest.

"Kid, if you ever want to kill people for a living- call me." He then threw something, which distracted Tsuna as it embedded itself onto the wooden fence. "Wha-?" He looked at the stranger, but he had already disappeared, leaving Tsuna wide-eyed and confused.

The brunet blinked, and warily poked the card. It shook slightly at the impact, but did nothing else.

Tsuna then tried to yank the card out, only to completely fail.

.

"...Hibari is going to murder me."

Tsuna is eight, Squalo seventeen and Xanxus has spent three years as an ice cube. Review on your way out please!