Barney was seething. You could practically see steam coming out of his ears. The reason for this was the man by the bar, ordering a drink. Every female in the room had their attention on him. Every female in the room! And probably the ones outside the room too. He even had Lily and Robin's attention.

Barney had been chatting up a smoking hot chick by the bar earlier when he walked in and ordered some wiskey from Carl. Wendy the waitress had practically swooned and he hadn't even tried. The girl he was talking to had instantly stopped caring about what he was saying and was staring at the man in something akin to awe.

He was obviously very handsome and very not from New York. In fact he was very not from America at all, he wasn't even from Canada. He was quite obviously from Italy, the accent dictated it so.

Damn Europeans and their sexy accents! He looked like something out of a mafia movie, black suit and tie and a fedora with an orange brim resting beside him on the counter, all tall, dark and handsome, all around stylish and he looked like he would have no problem killing someone. The problem was that chicks were attracted to the whole 'bad boy' thing and though Barney would occationally play the part he wasn't naturally like that. There was also the fact that even Barney himself knew that the man was more physically attractive than him, not that he would ever admit that outloud.

The worst part is that he wasn't even trying, he didn't even seem interested when the hottest chick in the bar sat down beside him and tried to flirt with him. Oh, it wasn't that he was oblivious, he knew exactly what she was trying to do if the amused smirk was anything to go by, he simply wasn't interested.

That could only mean two things (to Barney), he was either gay or had the hottest girlfriend in history.

"What's up with that guy?" He said derisively as he sat down heavily next to the others in their booth.

"Uh, he's hot", Lily said in a 'well, duh' voice.

"Lily!" Marshall cut in sounding scandalised.

"Don't worry baby, you know I love you but even you have to admit he's hot", Lily soothed her husband.

"Yeah, I guess", Marshall agreed, resigned.

"Yeah, and his accent, whoo boy", Robin added.

"Psssh, he's nothing special", Barney said, just a little uncertainity leaking into his tone without his permission.

"Dude", Ted started. "Every woman in the bar is looking at him, there's no use denying it". He downed the last of his beer. "Let it go man."

"Wow." They all looked towards Robin and followed her gaze to the goddess who had just entered the bar. She was probably the most gorgeous girl any of them had ever seen. She had soft, slightly curly but otherwise straight brown hair and creamy, slightly tanned skin, she was obviously Asian but some of her features made Barney wonder if there was something else in her heritage, the wide, expressive eyes for example. She was wearing bussiness attire, black slacks, black suit jacket and a white blouse underneath, there was a necklace with some kind of orange gem about the size of Barneys thumb nail around her neck. If there was anyone to use the 'fall out of heaven' - pick up line on, it would be her.

And then she headed straight for the man at the counter. Her smile seemed to light up the entire room with its radiance. "Reborn", she said and all the men and even some of the women in the bar were captivated by her soft accented voice despite the confusing statement. The man looked up at her and smirked and Barney realised Reborn was probably his name. Weird name. "It's time to go, the meeting starts in an hour." This was said in Japanese, which fortunately was one of the languages Barney could understand, everyone else looked like question marks though.

The man stood up and gave her a kiss on the cheek. By this time almost all of the people in the bar were glaring at either the woman or the man in jealousy. "Let's go then Dame-Tsuna", the man said fondly while Barney frowned at the nickname. And like that they were out the door and a collective sigh escaped various people in the bar, Ted, Robin and Barney included. Well, he evedentily had the hottest girlfriend in history so that explained that.

It didn't make Barney feel any better.


AN: So I've really been getting into KHR fanfiction lately (even though I haven't read the manga or watched the anime) and this idea came to me after googling 'adult Reborn', read a couple of Reborn x Fem!Tsuna fics and watched an episode of 'How I met your mother'. Hope you enjoyed it :)