AN: Hello! Before I get on with the chapter, I'd like to repeat something from the first chapter:
WARNING: This fic may contain many clichés known to fanfic readers everywhere, but I hope that at least some of my ideas are original. If not—well, this is fanfiction people! We can't all be geniuses at literature!
I know that some of the ideas for this fanfic aren't very original, but because this is my first Xover fanfic, I feel more comfortable writing about similar things to other stories I've read before, and when you really think about it, I haven't read any other HarryisTsuna! Fics, so it's not that unoriginal right? I also know that some of you think that the whole 'Tsuna has an older brother who is originally chosen as Decimo and also bullies him' thing is overused, and I agree, which is why later on at around chapter 5 or so I plan on adding my own spin to it.
Sorry for my rambling and without further ado, here is chapter 3 in Death's Curse!
Disclaimer: I don't own Katekyo Hitman Reborn or Harry Potter!
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Death's Curse: Chapter 3
Tsuna walked out of the school building and strolled towards Hibari's meeting place.
For the past three months, he and Hibari had gotten to know each other better, for example, now he knew what his name was, Hibari Kyoya, and he also knew that Hibari never called anyone by name, preferring to call everyone else herbivores. He also found out that he was the only one Hibari called 'omnivore', something that he thought probably happened after Hibari saw the fight between him and the assassin three weeks before. He still couldn't understand why Hibari hadn't mentioned that fight, he hadn't even been remotely curious about the huge flames on his hands for God's sake! But then again, Hibari didn't seem like the type to get fazed about anything.
Hibari also reminded him of a friend from long ago.
Alaude.
It seemed like his previous life as the Vongola Primo would haunt him throughout this life. Hibari reminded him so much of Alaude. His aloof cloud guardian. He and Alaude could have been identical twins of not for the difference in hair and eye colour. Hibari preferred to be alone, and didn't like crowding, something he tried to get rid of by attacking the people around him. He liked to lie down under a Sakura tree and stare at the clouds, often falling asleep while doing so.
Tsuna always felt the most relaxed while around him.
As long as they weren't fighting of course.
As promised, he and Hibari began to have fights every once in a while, and while he did win a few times, Hibari won just as many if not more often than him. The fights had clearly showed him that he had much training to do if he ever wanted to reach his ultimate goal of having the power levels he'd had during his time as Vongola Primo, so in between fights with Hibari he would often go out alone to train.
Once Hibari had found out about this, he'd said it was better if they trained together, and to stop acting like such a herbivore, scared of asking for his help to get stronger.
Of course, he still kept up his clumsy and foolish façade while under the scrutiny of other children and adults, it had gotten to the point that everyone started to call him Dame-Tsuna. While at first he hadn't appreciated the silly and insulting nickname, he'd ignored it in favour of hanging out with Hibari. He was kind of reminded of his first childhood, except this time he had a loving family and didn't care much about the childish taunts.
Hibari seemed to not mind, because they didn't talk while at school, Tsuna reading a book while Hibari took naps and glared whenever someone accidentally woke him.
He and his brother had reached an accord as well. Natsume was now ignoring him, something he thought might have to do with the meeting between his brother and his first friend. He had every reason to believe that Hibari must have 'persuaded' his brother to stop bothering him (he flinched whenever Hibari's name was mentioned).
He supposed this was the best it was going to get between him and his brother, at least they managed to have conversations once in a blue moon that actually ended with no yelling and name calling, which was a step in the right direction at least.
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Today was May 5, Hibari's birthday. It had taken sneaking into the school archives in the middle of the night to get said information, Hibari would have never told him the date himself.
Tsuna had gone to a martial arts weapons shop in town and used almost all his money to buy the best tonfas they had. Why tonfas? Well, he'd remembered Alaude's handcuffs and thought of a suitable weapon for his only friend. Immediately zooming in on the tonfas, he'd decided they would be the perfect weapon for Hibari and bought them. At least now Hibari would have something to fight with.
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Tsuna found himself staring at the huge gates of the Hibari household.
He'd never have imagined that Hibari was so rich, usually rich children went to a different school for the upper class. So he'd had a bit of a shock when he saw how big his house was.
'Here goes nothing', he thought as he rang the doorbell.
No more than a few seconds passed and soon he found himself staring at his friend's annoyed face.
"Ah! Hello Hibari-san!"
Hibari looked even more annoyed. "Why are you here omnivore? We haven't agreed to meet today."
Tsuna decided to just give his present and go. It didn't seem like Hibari was up for any company for his birthday.
"Don't worry Hibari-san, you didn't forget anything, it's just that I found out it was your birthday so I wanted to give you a present so here you go!", he shoved the gift into Hibari's hands and ran away as if the hounds of hell were on his heels yelling goodbye as he left.
'He really doesn't like his birthday does he?, he thought.'Hopefully he won't throw away his present'.
Tsuna stopped running and headed home.
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Hibari's POV
Hibari was irritated. It seemed like sometimes the omnivore still forgot about his mask and acted herbivorously at times.
He looked down at the package and opened the box.
He stopped to stare at the tonfas.
"Wao."
He closed the box and started walking towards the house, shutting the gate behind him.
'I suppose I can try out my new weapons with the omnivore tomorrow.'
Anyone who saw Hibari now would be scared shit-less, who knew what a maliciously smiling Hibari was thinking of doing?
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Tsuna was tired. He had never regretted doing anything more than giving Hibari those tonfas.
'Why couldn't I just give him something nice, like a book or something, at least that wouldn't have hurt as much while being thrown at my head!'
He hadn't thought of the repercussions of giving Hibari the weapons, it seemed even now, after hundreds of years he still did things before thinking something like, 'Hmmm, I wonder what Hibari would do if I gave him something to more accurately hit me with?!'
He cursed his naïveté, he sometimes wondered if he'd inherited this from his current mother, she sure as hell acted naïvely whenever Iemetsu's job came up.
Back to the cause of his pain.
Large, purple bruises could be seen all over his arms and legs, and he could also feel some on his chest.
'Thank god for my rapid healing ability, this body is way too young to have to go through such harsh training, I wonder how Hibari does it?'
Ever since his first 'rebirth', he'd been left with some of his magic, but never as much as he'd had as Harry Potter. In some lives he'd gotten strange supernatural powers such as telekinesis, power over the elements, or as he had now and while he was Giotto, Sky Flames.
The only constant had been his healing abilities. Something he was now VERY thankful for.
The last fight with Hibari had been brutal, the way he used those tonfas you'd think he'd been using them all his life! Tsuna had actually had to use some power from his Sky Flames in order to strengthen his body and raise his speed.
Sometimes he wondered if Hibari subconsciously used his flames, and if so, which flames did he have?
'If I was betting on which one I'd say that he's got a Cloud flame, just like Alaude. He reminds me of a cloud, moody and aloof.'
He suddenly felt sorrow. This always seemed to happen when he thought of previous lives, Giotto's in particular due to both looking in the mirror and spending time with his one and only friend. Every single day he was reminded of what he'd lost in all his lives, by looking around a park and seeing happy families, children playing together. He'd never had the chance to act like that when he was a child, and now it just wasn't the same, he wasn't actually a child after all.
'You've got to remember that he's not Alaude, and that your life as Giotto has long since passed. God, look at me, giving myself advice, I guess I am going crazy, but then again, compared to Hibari I'm probably the sanest guy alive!'
He had done his best during that life, and he was proud of all the things he'd accomplished with the help of his friends and guardians. The years of running Vongola had long since faded away, still able to be remembered, but not something he thought of every minute of every day.
He had to think of the new threat to his family. He'd almost forgotten about the assassination attempt, if it had been his brother instead of him, things might have turned out differently and he would have been mourning his only brother by now. He couldn't let things continue the way they were going. Someone had sent that assassin, someone in the Varia.
He knew all about the Varia assassination squad of course. He just thought himself lucky that the man they'd sent hadn't been anywhere near the famed Varia's level. He wasn't foolish enough to think that he would have lasted anything more than a few minutes in the condition he'd been in back then, with his physical fitness level at an all time low, his flames the only thing to have saved him.
Every day was spent watching his surroundings, anticipating that at any moment more mafia members would pop up and try to kill him or other members of his family. The only problem of course was that he couldn't be with his mother all the time, and his brother even less. They were both very clearly in danger yet Iemetsu didn't seem to have done anything about it. There was no extra protection around the house, or even the school Natsume went to, didn't the man even care to think of the dangers his job as CEDEF leader would bring to his poor unassuming family?!
He really wondered sometimes what went on in that man's head.
Alaude had been the first head of the CEDEF, and had run all operations in an efficient, yet most of the time brutal manner, he had been one of those people that enjoyed fights, another reason why Hibari reminded him of his now long dead guardian.
He wondered how much the CEDEF could have fallen to take such an idiot as that man as its leader.
'Well, if that man doesn't want to protect his family I'll have to get stronger to protect them myself!'
He had always taken those in his family directly under his protection, and many a life of his had been lost fighting the people who dared to hurt or kill his family.
To him, family wad the most important thing in the universe and he'd do anything in his power to keep them safe.
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AN: I'm back, wow, it's like I'm writing chapter after chapter without stopping! I think there will probably be a gap between this update and the next, but worry not! The longest this gap will be is seven days, so I'll update sometime between then and now!
On another note, I sort of meant for this to be a filler, and next chapter will probably have a timeskip. If any of you get tired of Tsuna's long monologues to himself, don't worry, because next chapter I think I'll skip to a few weeks before Reborn's arrival, maybe to set the stage on how things have gone in the past eight years.
Thanks for reading and don't forget to review on your way out!
