A/N: Hmm…What a lonely Christmas. XD But then again, my dad bought me a Suzuki-san Jr., (you know, from Junjou Romantica?) and the Cinnamonroll bag thingies that you get for free when you buy a McDonald's happy meal…Owo (reminder: chumee is a currently a college studentXD) The pineapple was the first thing I bullied him into buying…because of MukuroX3 But I'll stop saying random things nowXD;;

Ah, but really. It's a stressful time of the year, even if there are no classes. XD

On Updates: For those who are waiting for the bonus chapter of 'Who is Your First Kiss', please give me more time. I don't have enough safe moments to write the fic. You know, with prying, homophobe parents always trying to see what I'm up to. For God's sake, please mind your own business, already;;; But anyway, the plot is already figured out. I just have to type it down. Ovo (as soon as there's a safe moment, that is)

Of Luck and Choices
(chapter four)
by chumee

Tsuna wondered why he ended up like this, again.

He wondered if all the sufferings he went through this week was enough to atone for all his past lives' sins. Maybe he even paid for his own sins (past and future) already. Heck, he might have even paid for his future self's sins already. But of course, this is just Tsuna's exaggeration.

He also wonders why he just doesn't see how this set-up is okay with him and why he's enduring all of this. And indeed, he should be wondering.

Because, when Hibari saw his boxers, that's okay.

When Hibari demands for coffee for himself as well as for all of his goons, that's okay, too.

When Hibari makes him help sort out the various papers ranging from application forms (for goons) to school equipment upgrade forms, and even some love letters addressed to Hibari himself, that's okay. No, really. Just not the uh, love letter part.

And damn, if Hibari wants him to clean the toilets, or wipe the windows, or mop the entire gym five times, that's…well, not really okay, but if it makes him see a trace of even the smallest smiles on Hibari's lips, then that's probably okay…maybe.

But one thing that isn't okay for Tsuna is his thoughts that are getting out of hand. See the thought pattern above? Yeah.

The other thing is the topic Hibari just had to raise one fine afternoon.

It came up when Tsuna was sweeping the floor. Yes, he's been promoted to a maid, now.

Fortunately…or unfortunately, he didn't have to wear an apron because Hibari had been strict about wearing the school's complete uniform only. No apron, no maid's headband, no maid's dress, no net stockings, no—wait, that's a female maid's uniform, isn't it? But anyway, just the regular school uniform.

Before Hibari spoke, it had been eerily quiet. Sure, Tsuna hears the sound of the broom against the floor of the DC room, but it kinda felt like…sweeping the grounds of a satanic temple. Okay, not really. But with Hibari seldom times looking up to check if Tsuna's slacking off, it's got to feel that way. 'He's acting like a demon guardian that's waiting to pounce and bite me to death,' as Tsuna put it.

Before the topic came up, Tsuna had been thinking about deforestation. And dust bunnies. Tsuna was beginning to think about coconuts when suddenly, the demon, namely Hibari, spoke, in his quiet, almost bored voice.

"Whatever shall we do for your physical examinations?" he asked, and turned a page of the English novel he's been reading.

Tsuna looked up, forgetting deforestation, dust bunnies and coconuts altogether. 'Eh? Is Hibari-san practicing for an audition? Is that one of the lines to be said? But…physical examination? How come—'

Then he saw the cover of the book Hibari was reading. It looks like an extremely gory murder mystery novel. But that's to be expected, anyway.

…And there's no way in hell a line like that is written in a murder mystery novel! Except if he's the murdered person and Hibari is the killer. Yes, most likely…What is he thinking at a time like this?;; He'll get killed easily if he keeps this up. He should listen closely for hints that will tell him if Hibari is in the mood to kill him or not, right?

"No student should use being late as an excuse to skip it." Hibari looked up for a second, just to make eye contact, making sure that Tsuna would see that he isn't in the mood for jokes. Not that Tsuna would have courage to joke at a time like this. And no, it doesn't look like Hibari's going to kill him soon. The thought should have somehow eased Tsuna, but he didn't, as if there's still something unsaid, something else to fear than death.

"Ah…umm…" Tsuna thought of a way out. Lessee, lessee…Physical examinations…

"Eh…ah…I have to go to the nurse's office, now?" he tried. Well, of course Hibari will allow hi—

"Don't bother." Hibari turned a page. "I'll do it for you." And then Hibari looked at Tsuna, the beginnings of a demonic smile forming on his lips. "Or would you refuse again?"

"…;;;" Tsuna froze. 'Crapcrapcrapcrap!' said his mind.

Hibari closed the book, set it aside, and smiled, looking like a pleased demon about to be served his dinner. And his dinner seems to be tuna. "I thought so."

'I'm really in trouble!' Tsuna informed himself, and tried to get away, as discreetly as possible. "But I thought you…"

Hibari leaned forward a bit, interested at what Tsuna thought he did. "I…?"

"I thought you umm…forged it for me or something…" Okay, so that wasn't what he thought. But still, wasn't it—

"Forge?" Hibari repeated, as if he cannot understand the meaning of the word. "And why would I do such a thing?" he asked, looking slightly offended. "Forging is a crime."

'Like you don't commit crimes like sexual harassment;;;' Tsuna thought, sweatdropping.

"In any case," Hibari continued, and leaned back. "Is going to the nurse's office that bothersome? I'm going to have it relocated, then?" he suggested, sarcastically sincere.

"Uh…let's just say I'm not 'No-good Tsuna' for nothing." Tsuna said, scratched his nape and laughed forcefully. It sounded creepy, even to his own ears. But Hibari didn't even flinch.

"Alright then, 'No-good Tsuna.'" Hibari said in a suspiciously pleasant voice, playing along. "Your measurements are due tomorrow. The nurse took a day off, and I believe Dr. Shamal has no interest in treating or even measuring men."

Hibari stated the facts so plainly that Tsuna's jaw dropped.

"Now," Hibari continued, using a voice that demanded obedience. "What will you do?"

Tsuna stared. 'What the hell?! It's not as if I've been provided with other choices!' he screamed in his mind.

Hibari stared back with an unrelenting gaze. Well, he did say he would have to make Tsuna realized he'd only want him, but this method is very…unconventional.

Tsuna didn't know what to do. Of course he could make anybody measure him for the sake of measuring him. Even a takoyaki vendor would do. But the documents needed to be signed by a person with authority. Plus, the document is due tomorrow. And the only person who has the authority to sign the documents other than the nurse, Dr. Shamal, or the teachers…is Hibari.

But why the hell did Hibari just informed Tsuna now, when tomorrow's the deadline? And it's nearly 5pm, too!

Hibari sighed quietly and stood up to fix his table. He doesn't plan on leaving, but he just had to make the herbivore decide fast. After all, he isn't the most patient man in the world, and time isn't under his control. "If you are done sweeping the floor, you could—"

"M-measure me…" came the timid request.

Hibari looked up from putting the book inside one of the drawers. "Excuse me?"

Tsuna looked up shyly, looking like he was ready to cry anytime. 'Like a newly-wed bride asking her husband to have sex with her.' Hibari thought, amused, and slightly aroused.

"…Please? Measure me…" Tsuna said, and looked down again. He gripped the broom tighter, relaxed, set the broom aside, and let his arms fall limply on his sides. Nervous. He was nervous. And who wouldn't be?

Tsuna was starting to think that it was scarier to be touched by Hibari gently than being beaten up by him.

"Very well." Hibari grinned despite himself. It was good that Tsuna was looking down. Otherwise, he would've seen the look on Hibari's face, get scared, and run away again. Then Hibari moved towards Tsuna and took out his tape measure. When he touched Tsuna's upper arm, the boy shivered, but refused to look up to acknowledge his presence.

Hibari didn't mind not being looked at. After all, having Tsuna ask him such an embarrassing thing, well, he can't really complain and say that that isn't improvement.

"Stand still." Hibari commanded and held Tsuna's shoulder firmly, to emphasize his point.

'Maybe I'm just overreacting.' Tsuna thought, as Hibari continued to measure him.

Hibari didn't touch anything he didn't need to, didn't speak or comment, and just silently wrote down the data on a form.

'Perhaps I'm just imagining too many things.' Tsuna thought and scolded himself. 'Hibari-san isn't even interested in me that way.' The thought made his heart beat painfully. 'That…sounds kinda sad…'

Sad..?

Ugh, again, the thoughts! Tsuna squeezed his eyes shut as if that could block the thoughts that he wasn't supposed to be thinking. It sounded like he was in love with Hibari, the predator. 'That's wrong.' Tsuna tried to reason out to his treacherous mind. 'If I fall in love with a carnivore, I'll get eaten!'

'Eaten?' he repeated, and contemplated on the word. 'Why did I think 'eaten'? Isn't it supposed to be 'bitten'? He thought long and hard (no pun intended) until he manage to pinpoint the error in the sentence. It wasn't even grammatical. 'I'm thinking about being eaten in a sexual way by Hibari Kyouya at this very moment?!'

Shocking.

Like hell it is.

The gods might as well be laughing about him at this very moment. Was falling in love with the same gender this insane? Or was it just him? Is he even falling in love?

Ah, love…! How wonderful it is…supposedly.

And while Tsuna was pushing out both mushy and, surprisingly obscene thoughts out of his mind, he heard it. It might as well be a dream, or even a nightmare, but the voice was too real to ignore.

"Lift your shirt."

'WHAT. NO WAY.' Tsuna's conscious mind protested while his demons cheered and gave him more obscene thoughts.

"Umm..?" For the first time, Tsuna looked up, blushing insanely. For a second, he made eye contact with Hibari and then looked away just as fast. Well, Hibari didn't look particularly lecherous, with his arms across his chest, waiting for Tsuna to comply. But he didn't look particularly patient, too.

"Honestly, Sawada, do you understand what I just said? Or should I translate it in another language?" Hibari said dryly.

Tsuna started to feel the fever his blush had caused. 'Lift.' He told himself. 'You're just going to lift your shirt.'

With all the willpower he had left, he lifted his PE shirt awkwardly, all the while refusing to look at Hibari. When Tsuna decided that it was high enough, he stopped and held his shirt there. But Hibari didn't move to measure him.

"I'm not going to measure your stomach. Lift it higher."

Tsuna felt he was ready to faint from blushing. He felt like he was strip-teasing very unsexily. And that there's no way that Hibari would get aroused from that.

But who is he to say that? He doesn't know what Hibari's thinking now, does he?

'STOP THINKING PERVY THOUGHTS, BRAIN!'

Poor Tsuna.

When Tsuna lifted his PE uniform such that his shoulder blades were showing, Hibari smiled a bit in approval. Then he closed up on Tsuna and put his arms around him. Or at least, That's how it felt like to Tsuna.

Tsuna looked up and felt his face touch the cloth of Hibari's uniform. He didn't know what to think. His thoughts were too disorderly for him to keep up with, and if translated, it would just probably be, 'AKVFAJHBDFLG??!!' anyway. So there.

"H-H-Hibari-san?" his voice sounded a bit muffled. Tsuna's heart felt like it would fail him soon.

"Yes?" Hibari asked, in his normal voice, unperturbed at the least. Well, if that isn't self control, Tsuna doesn't know what it is.

'Too unfair!' Tsuna told himself, regaining a bit of his rational brain back. 'My heart goes crazy, and he's not even affected!' His eyebrows formed a horizontal line. 'But well, that's Hibari Kyouya for you. I'm such a loser, blushing like this…'

Then he felt something cool and thin along his back. It felt like…

Hibari pulled the tape measure from Tsuna's back to the front. Then he slightly bended to see the measurement. Nothing more than a simple movement. But Tsuna shivered. Not from cold, but from something else entirely. And he should. No one in their right malicious minds would see this as an innocent moment.

"If you won't stay still, I'll get your chest measurement wrong."

Was it just Tsuna or did Hibari's voice sounded husky? Damn pheromones, making him hallucinate. And even as obscene thoughts attacked him once more, Tsuna bravely fought them off and kept them at bay. He never thought that his lips would betray him, too, letting out a sound like—

"Hmn..!"

Yes, like that.

Tsuna's eyes widened as he realized what he just did. He went even redder. This time it was from embarrassment.

Hibari looked up curiously and slid the tape measure off Tsuna. He stood up straight again and took the form he wrote Tsuna's measurement data on, that was placed on the table, without taking his eyes off the boy.

Tsuna's eyes were seriously telling him to 'stop-looking-already!' but Hibari chose to be indifferent about it. Hibari was a demon again. And he looked a lot malicious than last time.

"Arousing me again, I see?"

Tsuna glared as well as he could while blushing. Hibari couldn't be more amused. He gestured at Tsuna's still exposed flesh. "Would you like to put down your shirt before you catch a cold?"

At Tsuna's realization, his eyes widened comically, pushed his shirt down, got his bag and ran out of the DC room. Again, Hibari heard the hurried footsteps in the corridor, this time tripping at least twice, and the "YAAARGH!!" from faraway.

Hibari chuckled, still unwilling to believe he's getting amused for the little herbivore's curious ways. Today, his toy had acted too cutely for him to ignore…or let go of. He rolled up the tape measure, satisfied.

He was looking forward to meeting Tsuna tomorrow.

A/N: Does it sound like Hibari is falling in love already? Please answer in your review, teehee~XD (What a crazy laugh;; ) And Tsuna is obviously going to the dark side, so it takes some load off my shoulders. ovo

Ah, New Year is tomorrow, isn't it? o_o (since it's already 12:45am here o_o) So as thanks to all the blessings and trials that I received this year, I appoint this chapter as my year-ender chapter for 2008! Wahahahaha;; And I don't even think there's even such a thing as that;; Oh well, whateverXD Anyway, Happy New Year, guys! Looking forward to a happy year to write fics and fangirl again..! XD

Credits:

~Reviewers - Thanks so much for the reviewers, who told me my Hibari (no wait, that's wrong, he isn't mine o_o) was not OoC. *gives away Hibird plushies* So as thanks, I gave everyone this chapter a few days earlier than scheduled. (Is there even a schedule?o_o)

Well everyone, please thank the reviewers! XD And you should review, too, because I need people to tell me how the characters are behaving. ^_^ (Does it count if I tell you it cheers me up? ^o^)

…Review? ovo/