Title: Random Drabbles

Type: One-shot/Drabble Collection

Pairings/Character(s): Reborn, Sawada Tsunayoshi, Lal Mirch (mentioned), Sasagawa Kyoko (mentioned), Hibari Kyouya (mentioned), Miura Haru (emntioned) implied 1886, one-sided 2786

Word Count: 395

Rating: T

Warning: This is set during the future arc in my one-shot In loving memory. To better understand the story, I recommend you read it first.

Disclaimer: I do not own Katekyo Hitman Reborn. Though I wish I did, it's nay impossible for me.


Tsuna knew, he always was, that it was a dream that cannot be. He knows that. He painfully knows that. But he couldn't help it, he fell in love with her, more so than what he felt before for Kyoko. He saw her being carried by ten-years later Hibari during that time in the future. He saw the longing look on Hibari's face; he always saw that one too many times to count. He watched as he gently put her sleeping form to bed, and then he kissed her on the forehead, gently touching her cheek with his fingers. Tsuna put his hands in his pocket and dragged his heavy feet with a breaking heart in tow.

He put all his frustrations in his training, as such, his skills developed at a fast rate surprising both Lal and Reborn. Reborn, however, knows the reason behind all of this. He lowered his fedora and grimaced. His student is finally growing up and becoming the ideal boss he ought to be, but at what cost? There is one simple but complex answer: his heart. Tsuna may not cry outwardly, but he knows, he damn knows that one of these days he'll snap. He'll be damned if that happened, but it is the inevitable. Her heart already belongs to someone else a long time ago, but she doesn't know it, rather, she couldn't remember who it was.

Reborn knew it was a bad idea from the start, but he couldn't help it. Tsuna fell in love, Reborn may excel in almost anything, but he can't stop love. He's not a God. Losing people, losing things, they say you can bounce back from it, but even a single ball would stop bouncing after so many bounces, after so many experiences. It can be broken. No one can really be certain toward these things. He may not stop him from loving her, but he'll be there for him to help him grip back to reality. He'll be there for him when he'll finally snap, would finally accept the fact that some things are better left untouched. Until that day comes, he'll just be here in the shadows looking, watching as this ill-fated love unfolds right before his very eyes.

Tsuna had just created the X-burner, Reborn sighed. He'll definitely be there for his student before he hurt himself or others.