Consumato (Worn Out); Chapter 2
Warning: Contains family fluff and no slash. However, interpret it your way.
Disclaimer: I do not own KHR.
Gokudera Hayato
Day1
"Tenth! You shouldn't be moving! You just woke up!" A certain Storm yelled.
Tsuna sighed inwardly, as he masked a smile on his still pale face, "yes I know. I just wanted to be a little bit more comfortable." Tsuna had been simply shifting his own weight to get a more comfortable position, after all, he still felt like crap.
"I'm escaping paperwork, how else can I complain?" Tsuna chuckled.
Hayato flustered over giving Tsuna a cup of water and touched his burning forehead. He gasped before fumbling for the thermometer that lay beside the table. He took it up, wiped it at the bulb and inserted between Tsuna's lips.
Tsuna smiled as he saw his Storm fumbling over him. He felt relieved that his Storm was doing such things after all.
The thermometer beeped and Gokudera pulled it out before exclaiming, "FEVER! TENTH, YOUR FEVER IS STILL SKYHIGH!"
Tsuna nodded. He knew it was still pretty high from he felt right at that moment. His eyelids was burning, head was screaming and his joints were murdering him from the inside.
"Mm.. I'll just..." Then Tsuna fell into the grasps of Gokudera.
/
Day2
Tenth was still asleep since the day before. He fainted and was unconscious since. He had immediately called for the nurse and was told: "Vongola Decimo should not even be awake with that type of fever. You should be happy he even woke up, and not screaming that he fainted. Your looks and brains does not equate to your level of EQ huh!"
Gokudera had a sudden impulse of wanting to kill that ...woman right at that moment. But he needed her.
'I'll kill her after Tenth has recovered.'
And so, Gokudera had 'immigrated' to Tenth's circular bedroom. He did his paperwork on the sofa, that lay beyond the bed, settling its back at the wooden frame of Tenth's bed.
Tenth did not wake up the entire day.
Yamamoto Takeshi
Day3
On the third day, Yamamoto crept into Tsuna's bedroom and had transported the sleeping Gokudera back to his own bed. He guessed that the stupid Storm was awake the entire day, trying to do Tsuna's paperwork and fell asleep.
Yamamoto went closer to the sleeping Tsuna and sat down on the edge. He was sleeping soundly, just like...
'Stupid me! Haha! He's just having a high fever!'
He touched Tsuna's forehead and felt the burn. He retracted his hand quickly and proceeded to put cold cloths on the forehead.
Tsuna did not wake up on Day3 either.
/
Day4
Yamamoto silently hoped that Tsuna would wake up soon. He had prayed to every single deity he knew.
And it worked.
Around the early morning, even the sun was not up yet, Tsuna stirred. Yamamoto knew because he was holding Tsuna's hand at that point of time.
"Mm.. Takeshi...?"
"Yup, Tsuna! How are you feeling?"
"Like I've went through Reborn's training thousand times over without any rest."
"Woah, that bad?"
Tsuna paused a while, as he scrunched up his eyebrows and Yamamoto thought he was in pain until he spoke.
"Million times."
A soft, relieved chuckle escaped Yamamoto's lips and he stroke the fluffy bed hair of his boss.
"Sleep, Tsuna."
"Mm..." And the brunette drifted off to sleep.
Chrome Dokuro
Day5
Chrome entered the large, circular bedroom meekly, as she held onto her trident. She saw her boss propped up and eating his breakfast.
Boss was wearing pyjamas and a thick woolly hoodie. Not to mention, he had at least 3 blankets pooling around his waist.
"Chrome?" Boss said, his voice contained happiness.
"Bossu... Are you alright?"
"I'll be lying if I said I am," then Tsuna's eyes sparkled a little, "but better."
"That's-that's good to hear, Bossu."
Boss nodded his head and placed the tray of breakfast down on his bedside table. Chrome took a glance to the breakfast and noticed Boss only ate a bite of the sandwich. Boss' face looked guilty.
"I promised Takeshi and Lambo to eat my breakfast but I really don't have the appetite."
"A bite is better than nothing, Bossu."
Boss glanced up at her and smiled warmly, "Thanks, Chrome."
/
Day6
When Chrome entered her Boss' room that day, he was sleeping soundly although beads of perspiration had layered his pale face.
Chrome sighed and took a towel and wiped his face clean. After that, she took Boss' temperature again, only to find that his temperature went up from the previous day.
She took a look at the clock, sitting peacefully at his bedside table and nudged Boss.
"Hmm..?" Boss' stirred, but his eyes refused to open.
"It's time of medicine, Boss."
"Chrome?" Boss was now alert and he shot up immediately. His actions showed that he minded a girl being in his room at wee hours.
Chrome chuckled and fed the Boss, who had been clutching his head and stomach due to the action, and patted him to sleep.
Chrome smiled as her boss went to sleep, with a small smile etched on his face.
Lambo Bovino
Day7
Lambo rushed into the room as he heard a piercing scream from Tsuna-nii's bedroom. He kicked open the oak doors, without a care for whether they would spoil or not.
Tsuna-nii was trashing on the bed, screaming and he was perspiring, face paler than ever before.
Lambo shook his big brother, whimpering, as tears caught in his eyes.
"Tsuna-nii..." He kept on shaking said brunet.
Tsuna-nii's eyes shot open as a trickle of blood skidded down his chin due to him biting down his lips. Tears escaped his eyes, both from Tsuna-nii's and Lambo's.
Tsuna-nii gasped and reached out to Lambo, hugging Lambo round the neck. Lambo's arms went aound Tsuna-nii's neck and waist as he sobbed into his shoulder, scared.
"Lambo..." Tsuna-nii whimpered and Lambo only hugged tighter, not willing to let go. All the other guardians are on mission, and only he was available for Tsuna-nii. He had wanted to be always there but between school and taking care of his big brother, Tsuna-nii would have harangued him if he skipped school but he wanted to – no one was more important than Tsuna-nii.
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Day8
After yesterday's nightmare, Tsuna-nii became better, in terms of physical. He could step out of his bed even though he got tired quite easily. What was troubling Lambo was not the fact that his Tsuna-nii was getting better (of course he liked that!) but the fact that he talked less. Most probably from the aftermath of the nightmare. Lambo hated the fact that Tsuna-nii kept giving him fake smiles and that whenever he mentioned 'nightmare', Tsuna-nii would get a little jumpy.
"Go to sleep, dear."
Lambo glanced at his Tsuna-nii, who was reading a book on his bed, bed sheets pooling at his waist. Tsuna-nii did not look up but was smiling.
Lambo pouted," but Tsuna-nii isn't recovering yet!"
"Was that a curse?"
"Eh?!" Lambo panicked a little, jumping up from his seat beside Tsuna-nii's bed. "No! Of course not!"
Tsuna-nii chuckled a little, closing his book. He let out some coughs but still patted Lambo on his shoulder. He smiled, patting onto an empty space beside his bed, inviting Lambo to sit beside him. Lambo compiled and leaned towards his big brother, head snuggling into the other's neck. Tsuna-nii gave a sincere gentle smile and patted Lambo to sleep.
Sasagawa Ryohei
Day9
"I'M EXTREMELY BACK!"
"Yes, I can hear you, Ryo-nii."
"How are you!"
"I'm extremely fine, thank you."
"EXTREMELY can only be used by me!"
"Was Lambo alright? Did he make a huge fuss when you sent him to school?"
"Hmm..." Ryohei placed his hand on his chin as he let himself onto the seat beside Tsuna's. Tsuna was still reading the book, without looking up at all.
"Well?" Tsuna drawled.
"He did. When I drove him there, he refused to get off the motorcycle and started hitting me. But I told him that you would be angry and he went in almost immediately."
Tsuna chuckled and reached over to the bedside table on his left. He took a red book and passed it over to the boxer.
"It's a good book."
"What's it about?" Ryohei flipped the book around and saw the title.
HOW TO KEEP YOUR VOLUME down
"WHAT DOES THIS EXTREMELY MEAN, SAWADA!"
Hibari Kyoya
Day11
He woke to the sound of screaming.
He took out his tonfas and stomped towards the source.
The man was on his bed, trashing around. He reached over, keeping his tonfas. He placed his cool hand on the forehead of the man's and felt the feverish skin.
Fever-induced nightmares...
"Hey, Omnivore."
Trashing. Screaming. Panting. Sweating.
He shot up, making Hibari step back. Bloodshot eyes greeted Hibari and he placed his hand on his shoulder.
"Kyoya... The man... he killed all of you.. you're still alive.. thank god.. thank god.."Tsuna choked out. Tsuna pulled the said man closer, surprisingly to no struggle.
"We're all alive."
"Thank you, Kyoya."
Mukuro Rokudo
Day14
"My dear Tsunayoshi~"
It was 11PM and Mukuro opened the heavy oak doors.
"Yes?" Tsuna looked up from the desk. During the days where he was sick, the stack piled up significantly. However, the respective guardians knew that they could do some help and cleared their own pile. The rest of the papers belonged to those that needed his signature. Two days ago, he already have been up and signing the papers but the nurse was pretty adamant about the fact that he should still rest.
That was also the reason why, today, he stayed up till so late. The nurse was out and his fever broke. Only the coughs remained persistent but were fading, nonetheless.
"Let's sleeeeeeeeep~" Mukuro dragged the 'e', acting like some spoiled brat.
"Please don't behave like another Lambo, Mukuro. Even though your name rhymes, but please, act like your age."
Mukuro pouted, "I'm young at heart."
Tsuna smirked, "so you're admitting you're old physically?"
Mukuro frowned and threw the pillow he was holding on at Tsuna. Tsuna saw it coming but life on the bed for hours at end was a bother. The pillow hit on the face.
"OMPFF!"
"STRIKE!" Mukuro shouted, punching his fists into the air.
"Fine," Tsuna commented as he removed the sickeningly white pillow from his face, "but I'll check on the others first."
And that's how the guardians found Tsuna and Mukuro sleeping in the same bed the next morning. Mukuro was hugging onto Tsuna, one leg on the other's thigh while the hand was on the chest. Tsuna, on the other hand, was showing grimace on his face, either from a nightmare or the man beside him, it was unsure.
But definitely, the sight caused the entire mansion fill with laughter.
Fin
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Okay, first of all, I'm sad. There were little people who actually even read this fic! :( For those who read it, I'm sorry for putting so much hurt and well... sickness on Tsuna but I was just wondering if there were any times where he actually worked himself so much he got sick. I have a friend who did that (tire himself out) for the exams and did faint. Exhaustion and stress can cause many illnesses! He went on two weeks of R&R and came back, still pale but better. That's what triggered this story.
Just to clarify some things. I placed Gokudera the first because the right-hand man comes first no? The Yamamoto always come after Gokudera. He seemed like Gokudera's guardian angel. Chrome was acting like a mother hen because... she's a girl facing someone she respects and cares for. Lambo is Lambo. Ryohei was the big brother and I doubt he will really fuss over Tsuna. I made Hibari wake to the nightmares simply because he would not just stroll into the room acting like he cared. He's not that... well, his personality ain't that. Mukuro was acting slightly gay-ish cause I like it.
Alright, I'm gonna work on my next one-shot that came into my mind like... a few minutes ago? Haha!
Thanks for reading!