Bitten

Hibari/Tsuna

PG-16 for gayness. XD

3 of 5

Chapter 3: The Problem

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It happened, like most things did for the two of them, in the afternoon during lunch. Why these things continued to happen to him, Hibari would never know.

"I still don't understand why I have to be involved in this ridiculous debacle, Tsunayoshi." Hibari deadpanned, unimpressed by the pleading case his boyfriend was currently trying to win him over with.

"B-but Kyoya! This is important! I can't believe you'd just refuse like that. They're our friends!" Tsuna beseeched him imploringly, his large caramel eyes glittering in a way that he knew annoyed his boyfriend to no end, mainly because he knew he couldn't say 'no' to those eyes. And Tsuna knew it.

Hibari snorted in disgust. "They're your friends, not mine."

"Kyoya!"

Hibari finally stood up and smacked his hands on the polished surface of his desk. They had decided to have lunch together in the disciplinary reception office in order to enjoy some privacy that hanging around with Tsuna's bumbling friends obviously prevented. Somehow, however, somehow they had gotten back to the subject of those particular bumbling friends, and Hibari did not like the direction this conversation was heading in. He was beginning to get a headache.

"Tsunayoshi." He said slowly, lowly, and Tsuna stiffened in displeasure and a little dread. He really, really hated making his boyfriend mad, because he also knew that Hibari hated being mad at him, but sometimes, his overeager desire for Hibari to interact more with his friends backfired. Tsuna sighed sadly.

"Yah yah." He looked at Hibari woefully. "I just…just thought that since, well, you know…" He looked at his feet uncertainly, "Since I'm pretty sure they think of you as sort of a friend too…that you might want to help me-"

"Tsuna." Hibari interrupted, "Yamamoto and Gokudera's relationship is one that they should discover and explore by themselves. It would not be appreciated if you were to needlessly meddle and harm something that could otherwise potentially bare... ah, Tsuna?" Hibari blanched slightly as Tsuna's previously depressed expression positively bloomed into a full-fledged grin, equipped with sunshine, rainbows, and puppies. "Tsu-" But Tsuna cut him off by running around his desk and promptly throwing his arms around Hibari's neck. The taller boy automatically brought his own arms up to steady his exuberant boyfriend who was suddenly laughing joyfully into his shoulder and showering his neck with warm little kisses…not that he minded.

"I knew you agreed with me!" Tsuna beamed up at him. Hibari groaned internally, knowing he'd totally walked into that one, and tightened his arms around his smaller boyfriend. Tsuna kissed his jaw, happy that his boyfriend had mellowed a little in the last few minutes.

"It's just…just…" His kisses stilled, and the air in the room went a little tense. Tsuna continued softly, "It just makes me sad, Kyoya-kun." He rubbed his cheek against the dark-haired boy's shoulder. "I know they like each other. Yamamoto is painfully obvious, but won't take the extra steps needed because he's afraid of scaring Gokudera off permanently. And Gokudera! Well…he's just…just…prideful. And scared." Tsuna leaned out of the embrace and looked Hibari in the eye. "He hasn't known enough love in his life, and can't accept it as easily as some. He's afraid to be hurt. Just like I was…" The last sentence was whispered, and Hibari slowly leaned in and kissed the skin above Tsuna's left eye. His lips lingered thoughtfully before he sighed and pulled out of the embrace entirely, shooing Tsuna out from behind his desk. His voice was noticeably softer when he spoke next, but neither teen mentioned it.

"I have some work that needs to be taken care of. I'm sorry I couldn't spend the entire lunch with you. Go spend the rest with your friends."

Tsuna's shoulders slumped in defeat, but nodded anyway. He gathered his bag and made towards the door. Just before he opened it, however, Hibari's voice called out to him, causing him to look over his shoulder.

"I…" He paused, uncertain how to express things he'd never before needed to say in his life. He swallowed around the lump in his throat and whispered.

"I…" He tried again, but failed. Saying what he felt the moment needed, what the moment demanded, was just simply beyond his abilities. It was like making a rock bleed. He couldn't say the thing that he didn't actually want to say, but was on his mind, and that he knew Tsunayoshi deserved to hear. But he couldn't.

Tsuna smiled, a small, uncertain little smile that Hibari wasn't quite satisfied with at the moment, but knew he couldn't do anything about right away. He sighed tiredly when Tsuna nodded a last time and closed the door behind him. The room was finally quiet once again, and Hibari's head ached.

"I was too." He said into the silence. Scared. It sounded loud in his head.

Growling in disgust at his own weaknesses, his damned boyfriend, the stupid baseball idiot and his pet, and the whole freaking world in general, Hibari grabbed his tonfas and gave them an unconscious, intricate little twirl. He marched out into the hallway, barely one whole minute after Tsuna's departure, and made a beeline for the stairs that would lead him to the alley behind the school where he was sure to find some students smoking, doing drugs, or beating up freshman…something! Anything that he could thoroughly punish a couple of idiots for to forget his own problems.

If only for a little while.

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ahem. And now for a little different flavor. It's not all fluffy clouds and rainbows here in 1827-land. But I'm sure you all knew that. I'd like to thank everyone for the reviews I've gotten so far. I appreciate your approval of how I write 1827, cuz obviously I write them both rather OOC, but still!! I feel like it's a good OOC. In a comfortable (totally AU) relationship, Hibari would act like this, I'm sure!! LOL.

but anyway, here you've got some of the first tastes of 8059 seeping into the story. There'll be more to come from them in ch. 5. I'm really really planning on trying to make that chapter a doozy! (hopefully). Anywho, sorry that this chapter is so odd. And short. Haha. Enjoy.

OH! And btw, I've already sorta planned out the next chapter pretty thoroughly, but what do YOU guys think Hibari's parents are like?

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