Hey! I'm here with another chapter of They Loved Me! I'm still challenging the 1000 words a chapter. I hope you enjoy!
Warnings: Swearing, Rate for a reason.
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"Dino-san! What happened to you?" The brunette boy exclaimed at the blond man standing in his bedroom doorway.
"Oh, is it bruised already?" Dino asked, smiling sheepishly, his hand instinctively reaching for the back of his head.
"What's it from?" Tsuna asked, raising his hand up to point at the bruise, only to trip a bit and poke it accidentally.
"Oww" Dino said, wincing. "Kyoya hit me" he told his 'little brother'
"Stupid bucking bronco" a growl was heard from behind him. Dino turned in surprise to see a shorter man behind him.
"Ah, smoking bomb-san, I didn't know you were-oof" the tall blond's sentence was cut off by the silverette shoving him out of the way.
"Gokudera-kun!" Tsuna said overdramatically.
"He's probably just on his yearly period" Gokudera said snarkily.
"What do you mean by that?" Dino asked, confused.
"You see Dino-san, every year around Hibari-san's birthday, he gets more and more intolerant of 'crowding' and things like that" Tsuna explained.
"Why?" Dino asked the younger.
"The rumour is that he was seriously beaten as a child" Tsuna said.
"It sure would explain why he's so fucked up" Gokudera snarled.
"Gokudera-kun! Don't be so mean" Tsuna scolded.
"Sorry tenth!" Gokudera overdramatically apologized, getting to his knees and hitting his head on the floor. Tsuna, being used this way of apologizing, ignored it and listened to Dino.
"I need to know everything about this" Dino said.
"Ask around, Useless" He heard the frighteningly familiar voice say from behind him.
"Ah Reborn!" Dino and Tsuna both said at the same time, startled.
"Well what are you waiting for Dino? The first person you should ask is downstairs" Reborn said, motioning down the steps.
"My Mom?" Tsuna asked.
"Go Dino!" Reborn said, Leon turning into a mallet.
"Okay okay Reborn don't hit me with that I'm going" Dino said, ducking down as he went downstairs.
"Ah Hello, Dino-san!" Nana greeted with a grin, holding her ladle up in a wave.
"Are you busy? I have a few things to ask you" Dino said to her.
She shook her head. She put her ladle on the counter and put water on the stove for tea. She sat at the table and offered a seat.
"I'm not doing anything that needs a lot of special attention so sit Dino-san and ask away" she told him.
Dino took the offered seat with a smile.
"Do you know the Hibari family?" he started.
"Oh yes of course! My best friend is the sister-in-law of Kiyoteru Hibari" She said, grinning. "Her name is Naniko, who is Juki's sister and Juki is married to Kiyoteru" She explained.
"Do you know of Kyoya Hibari? Where does he fit in all of that?" Dino asked.
"Oh he's Juki's son! She and I were on good terms! She sent me a family photo every year! Until…. One year she stopped and I never knew why… until I found out… she and Kiyoteru died" she said, getting up to get a box of old photos. She picked out one specific picture.
"This is the last one I got. Kyoya-chan was 3" She told him, giving him the photo to look at.
There was a three year old boy in it, a huge grin on his face. His black hair looked the same but his eyes were a bit more blue than they were now. Holding onto the boy's right hand, was a short, Japanese lady with long, beautiful, black hair and green eyes. She had a large grin too. The boy's left hand was occupied by the large hand of his father, a short (he assumed French) man with whitish-blond hair and slate coloured eyes. He had a soft smile too. The man reminded Dino of 25-year-old Kyoya, but this man had light hair and could actually smile.
"Weren't they a beautiful family, Dino-san?" Nana asked, startling Dino from his thoughts.
He looked up at her and nodded in agreement. She went into the kitchen and he followed behind her and watched as she took the tea kettle and poured the hot water over the tea bags in the teapot.
"Kiyoteru was a professional martial artist, his preffered style being tonfa-wielding. Juki devoted her life to her son" Nana said.
She set the teapot on a tray with two cups, sugar and cream before they headed back to the dining room. She set the tray on the table and sat down; he followed her example and sat too. She poured them each a cup and set his in front of him politely. He dropped a few cubes of sugar in it with some cream, she took hers plain.
"Nana, how did Kyoya's parents die?" He asked after setting down his cup. She set hers down too and looked down.
"I don't know. I never asked, I didn't want to think of them as… dead" she whispered. "I keep them alive in my heart like Naniko does. But… sometimes its just not enough" she told him.
"Ah I'm sorry about asking that question…" he said apologetically to her.
"No, its fine Dino-san!" she said with a grin, but he saw the tears formed at the corners of her eyes.
"If it's alright, I have one last question" he said.
"Go ahead. Ask" she offered, sipping her tea.
"When Kyoya's parents died, where did he go?" he asked.
"Oh, he lived with Juki and Naniko's mother, Raina for ten more years before he started living in his parents' old house again when he was fourteen. Dino-san, may I ask you a question too?" she said.
"Of course Nana." He said with a grin.
"Why are you so interested in this?" she asked.
"Well, you see, I'm Kyoya's tutor and I've heard from classmates of his that every year around about now, he goes on a rampage. And I want to know why 'cause I'm worried. All of his classmates fixated on the rumour that he was abused but I feel there's more to it than that" he explained.
"That's not what a tutor is there for. That's what a lover is for. Dino-san, do you love Kyoya-chan?" she said.
The shock on his face was evident.
"I…. don't know" He answered after a moment of thinking. It was true that he cared for Kyoya more than he should and he knew that. But to actually love him? He'd never considered that.
"Well, I'm always here to talk if you need me" she said with a silly grin.
"Thank you Nana" he said with a grin, before hugging her and leaving the house.
He hadn't figured out if he loved the prefect or not, but that was a problem for another day. First, he had to confront Kyoya, he thought to himself as he walked down the sidewalk towards the school with his head down as he felt rain, that he hadn't even noticed was pouring earlier, beat down on his back.
Little did he know, but a certain trio was watching him as he walked, unseen by everybody.
"It's a good thing he's trying to break Kyoya's shell" one whispered "The poor boy has only got this man left"
A/N: How was this chapter? I'm not sure how many more chapters I'll be doing so I hope you like! Review for more!