~ I'm taking prompts for this pairing for a new drabble fic I might work on, if you're interested, please PM me~

Onwards~

Disclaimers~: Katekyo Hitman Reborn! does not belong to me, it respectfully belongs to Akira Amano.

Chapter 3: Of new contacts and texts

Hibari made it a habit now. Even though he is not the kind to be making habits such as these, in less than two days, he's grown accustomed to doing it now.

What was the habit? Well..

Everytime Hibari would sign in and go to his office for his daily duties, he'd make sure to take a look outside through his window, then get to work, rather than just working on spot.

Once again, this was one of Hibari's new habits, and Alaude didn't know of it, so he didn't question him based on the "weird actions" of always doing that.

Right now, his work was mostly maintaining the folder that Alaude gave him, which contained customer records, which contained their date of birth, work status and whatnot. He decided not to touch it for now and went back to writing a report for another client they had come in not too long ago.

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As opposed to the time Hibari woke up, which was 9:00 am, Rokudou had already went to college by the time it was 5:30 am due to early classes. For waiting out most of the time he had because of waking up too early, he read one of the other books he had signed out previously on the orientation day.

Because it was too early for anyone to be up, he received no call from Kakimoto even though he was, in a sense waiting for one, just to confirm that they had received the payment for the job Rokudou does as he told them to have it sent directly to Kokuyo Land.

He didn't think many would be awake, but the college doors being open told most of the IT managers were possibly the only ones who would be to have the doors open, computers running and whatnot.
Even as he thought that, most of the computer labs though, were closed. Scheduling to open much later, he had himself sitting in the atrium, casually reading, expecting no one to be arriving with him.

But of course he had to be wrong on that. When he heard shuffling, he glanced up from the book to see a messy haired blond boy who looked really short for his age and status, for some reason he was wearing quite the formal wear and what Rokudou would call, strange gloves. Overall he did look odd, but not in a very bad way as he had one of the kindest looking faces he had seen. Even if people didn't know him, by just one glance they can tell how mature the student really was.

The blond kid looked up from his bag which he apparently set down and then smiled at the indigo bookworm infront of him, who gave a cracked smile in return. The blond kid was worried that he made the other feel awkward and bowed to him, which surprised Rokudou and made him close his book and wave his arms in defense.

"My apologies for making you feel uncomfortable" the blond started as a sweat drop ran down Rokudou's face, not knowing how to react in a situation like this as many would either chat too much with him or either not at all.

"No it's fine, actually" he stopped waving his hands but kept them in the same position, trying to smile as normally as he can, but the awkward gesture wasn't obeying him in the slightest. The blond kid then looked up and stopped bowing and smiled again "We haven't met before, haven't we? My name's Giotto, what's yours?" he introduced himself as Rokudou then stood up, for the sake of manners
"I'm.. Rokudou Mukuro, it's nice to meet you um.. Giotto" sounding like an excited normal student was pretty hard on him especially when he finds someone he doesn't know yet, and especially when he knows absolutely nothing on them, but because he had the look of someone who didn't talk a lot, Giotto didn't mind it as he extended his hand "It's nice to meet you as well Rokudou san" Rokudou looked down at the hand, then shook it, feeling a little more calm.

"People said it was weird for me to go to College on seventeen, can you believe them?" when they both moved their hands away, Giotto sat next to him and engaged in a conversation which didn't sound like they were trying to say 'how old are you?' but rather in a more conversational way. "Kufufu.. I don't actually, because I'm seventeen as well" Rokudou laughed, but in his mind he literally said 'you don't look like you're seventeen!'

It was true though. Giotto still looked like a high schooler loitering around college. But it wasn't like Rokudou looked any older than him, but he did have a height which said it can work out. Standing at five foot six and a half, Giotto was a pretty small one, standing at five foot one. The joke was like Vice Principal Sawada, whose hair made him look three inches taller, Giotto's hair was a little scattered rather than a fire looking one, which was why it only elevated him by one and a half inch, rather than three.

Now to look at it..

"No, before you ask that, no. I'm not Mr. Sawada's son" Giotto laughed and said as if he read Rokudou's mind "Then are you psychic?" he asked as he bent a little lower, inspecting Giotto's orange eyes that seemed a bit.. transparent?

"No, I'm not psychic" he simply said as he kept a gentle smile on his face, "But do you think prodigies exist in this world?" he then asked Rokudou, who then leaned back on the couch like bench. "By an easy first glance, we only assume people are prodigies" lolling his head he looked at Giotto "Like yourself. At first glance, and because your height, people might think you skipped grades" Giotto then leant back as well "So they're just assumptions.. That's an interesting way to put it"

"Are you waiting for someone?" Rokudou changed the subject, making Giotto frown "No, I'm not waiting for anyone. But back to prodigies again, you seem younger looking than the others, do you consider yourself a prodigy?" he then scratched his head "Kufufu.. Me? Never" making the blond have a sad smile

"You know what? I think you are. No one would come up with things the way you do" saying that the blond stood up, and Rokudou turned his head to his direction "Rokudou-kun, I like people like you, would you like to be my friend?" once Giotto stood infront of Rokudou, he extended his hand again in an inviting gesture
"Isn't it a bit early for that?" he laughed, but nonetheless took his hand as he stood up, shaking it as humourously as he can, making Giotto laugh as he made it even more awkward "This could be our own handshake" he said as he laughed, and Rokudou just thought

"Weird, but he's cool"

Weird because he didn't think that Giotto would be such a welcoming person considering how stereotypically prodigies are, but cool because even when he's talking nonsense, he looks just right doing that. How laid back of him.

"Our own handshake, now what are you talking about?" Rokudou asked sarcastically "I mean what I mean, Rokudou-kun" which put him to a halt "You're serious?" Giotto smiled again, this time his smile was different. It was those smiles which wasn't to judge someone, but it was welcoming to any soul. It was like he didn't care whether Rokudou was some weird punky student or not.

Like how people describe a sky.

Giotto. Great Sky. That does make sense, he's like the sky on Earth.

"I'm very serious, Rokudou-kun. Don't worry, we won't do bad things together if that's what you are worried about." Giotto stated, ending it with a joke "Kufufufu.. The last part was the joke right?" then nodded "See? Rokudou-kun you're pretty smart enough to tell. Usually Gokudera-kun would take it so seriously, then Yamamoto-kun would shrug it off, and Sasagawa-Senpai wouldn't even understand it" Giotto used his free hand to make different gestures when he was saying that, and Rokudou concluded, those must be some people he hangs around with.

They might not like him if they get to know him.

Then Giotto shook his hand awkwardly as they previously were again "Rokudou-kun, just remember whenever you feel bored, you can always talk to me, eh?" he sounded rather angry when he said that, as the smile on his face told him otherwise. Rokudou quietly complied, saying a small "ahn" with an accidental stutter.

After a bit, they stopped the handshake, Rokudou was still spazzing a bit while Giotto laughed at him for an after reaction. "Rokudou-kun, it's a little out of my league, but can I see your schedule?" without a reply he took it out to show him "Is it the same one?" he asked as he saw a smile creep up Giotto's face again

"Mhm. We're in the same classes, this is great" he gave it back, "Now I can bother you everyday" he joked again, making Rokudou laugh "Kuhahh, shouldn't it be me to bother you?" Giotto shook his head quickly "Nah, I once asked Mr. Alaude about it, and he just made like a grump saying 'you do bother me actually'" Giotto puffed his cheeks pretending to be Alaude, and it didn't help stopping Rokudou from laughing than what he already was "It's hilarious, but he always told me and Mr. Sawada about how Mr. Daemon slacks off!" even though he found it funny, Rokudou found more that was funny. He knew vaguely about Alaude, but Daemon.. He just pictured him to be a funny looking guy.

"You know Mr. Hibari, right?" At the mention of Hibari, Rokudou stopped "Yeah, sorta" Giotto then pointed upward to tell a fact "Mr. Alaude looks just like him, but always in a trench coat, and has platinum blond hair" As he explained that, Rokudou remembered what Hibari told him previously, about slamming the door in this fragile person's face.

So that was Alaude who was the unfortunate soul who got slammed on the face. "You know awfully a lot about them, does Mr. Sawada tell you about it?" Giotto nodded at the question "He's my uncle, so I lived with him" then Rokudou just said "Oh" in a sense of understanding. That would explain the striking resemblance between the two. "Your name really isn't just 'Giotto' isn't it?" Giotto smiled at that, and left it as it was.

"Do you have any relation to Mr. Daemon though?" Giotto then asked, as he eyed the strange spikes of Rokudou's hair "I have no idea who Mr. Daemon is" making the blond make a dumbfounded expression "But your hair.." Rokudou huffed "Or I don't think.. he's related"

Either way, he didn't know who Daemon was, and what he looked like, but he can only assume that he had the same lotus bit of his hair, other than that, he didn't bother visualizing the rest "Anywho, enough of family, we have class in ten minutes, boy does time surely fly" Giotto said as he picked up Rokudou's book and put it in his bag, before picking his own bag

"You can follow me if you want, I'm sure you don't know where class is" Rokudou smiled sheepishly when Giotto mentioned 'you don't know where class is' "I really don't. Sorry" He said as he begun to follow the little blond. Giotto told it was fine to not know about it as he led him to class, stating that since they have the same class, he could just follow him to class, which made Rokudou shudder thinking about always looking like some leech, but Giotto said "It's a friend thing. Friends follow one another" which was a good enough excuse for him to comply, even though he'd disagree heavily with it.

They just got to know each other and yet, Rokudou felt like he knew Giotto for years. That is quite horrifying, but sentimental at the time.

When they were in their classes, Rokudou noticed that Giotto's group were actually supposed to be considered diligent students that attend every class, even after he was told that one of them, Gokudera, skips classes a lot because he was too smart for them, Yamamoto was seated on Giotto's left, as he made Rokudou sit by his right. Sasagawa Ryouhei was a year ahead of them so he wasn't in this class.

Rokudou noted that Giotto also had other friends which went by the names Sasagawa Kyouko, who was the little sister of Sasagawa Ryouhei, Miura Haru, and Kurokawa Hana. Sasagawa was happy to see that Giotto had another friend to add in his group, while Miura was a little skeptical because within their group of friends, even though they had like unnatural hair colour and whatnot, Rokudou had the presence of a person who didn't seem to fit with them. Kurokawa on the other end, was one of the quickest to warm up to him, seeing as they were quite similar with their thoughts and features. Miura being too bright for Kurokawa, she found it refreshing that there was someone who doesn't make her eyes bleed.

The teachers in Rokudou's opinion were alright, at least they were able to cover the course materials in a way which was understandable, sometimes he'd stumble because of the long method for something as small as the answer for certain things, but he found it fine, because that was a way to make students self-teach the shortcuts, which was the teacher's secret. Some students were able to catch on that, some weren't.

It was too early to judge everyone already, so he might have to stick with them for another week to make actual judgment.

By the end of the day, Rokudou actually received homework that he needed help on, and hoped that Hibari wouldn't be so busy because he did ask yesterday if he could assist him, which the other replied with "If I'm not busy", so it was unknown whether he was actually busy or not.
Giotto offered him help because he was going to have it done as a group tomorrow, and Rokudou said "It depends" confusing Giotto, but he told him it was fine because he could always join at the last minute tomorrow, and had actually given Rokudou his contact information, along with the group's contact information.

He felt a bit odd about it, but at the same time he was happy about it as he held his phone, checking his new contacts that came by in less than a day, smiling like a high school girl who receives a present. But at the same time, he felt sad, because there was a possibility that they'd be a distraction to him with his job, and they could be persecuted as well, so he made sure that they were private information.

He couldn't let more people get into the trouble he narrowly had a few children escape from.

Speaking of phones, he checked his messages in case they had sent him another log for a mission, which they haven't. None today, relieving and saddening at the same time.

He went back to his dorm building while reading a few group messages from his new set of friends, unlocking his door before locking it again as he went inside. He looked at the window, and then smiled. He should get Hibari's contact information as well, just to ease things.

With that he left his room by jumping out of the window rather than getting out a normal way, and then went to the office building by the front entrance.

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Hibari heard someone something outside as he looked out at the window, seeing that Rokudou's window was still open and looked to the floor, seeing nothing there. Did the child already commit suicide when it's the first few days?

For some reason a small pain came inside Hibari's heart as he thought about it. That would be too early for someone to commit suicide.

He felt that he was to blame for not talking better with the child.

But as he begun to feel sad about it, he heard a knock on his door. He walked over to it and slowly opened it, expecting Alaude to ask him something related to work, except he saw nothing but small specks of blue hair. He lowered his head to see Rokudou smiling with his hands behind him.

"Oh it's you" Hibari simply said, thanking his voice box for sounding so stoic even though he was actually lamenting earlier thinking about a child's death, but he was right in front of him, like right there. So he dead was impossible.

Hibari quietly let Rokudou in as he looked to and fro before closing his door. Seeing that Rokudou didn't move from where he got in from, he pointed to a chair on the side and told him to sit, which he complied, because it wasn't his own room where he could sit anywhere.

"Alright, what do you want?" he asked as he opened the window to let the breeze inside the already lively but quiet room. Rokudou was seated on one of the chairs he made him sit on, with his bag on his lap as he looked up with a smile "Kufufu.. Mr. Hibari Kyouya, you told me you'd help me with homework if you were free" then Hibari flicked him on the forehead "And I told you to just call me either Hibari or Kyouya" he scolded, seeing as the student had a hand on his forehead, covering the area he flicked.

It was a common thing in college that the students don't need to speak to adults in a formal manner but rather just address them like if they were just some other person in the world. Hibari was unaware of how Rokudou was not used to that sort of sense of informality that runs in colleges.

"Don't give me that look" he coldly said when Rokudou gave him a smile of uncertainty. So he decided to get to the point "Alright, what's the work you need help in?" Rokudou looked confused but then took out his notebook and showed him one of the word scenarios that he was having trouble with.

Hibari began to read through it, more like the usual skimming through, and then went forward to the questions "Do you understand what they're asking?" he asked to make sure he is not just slacking off and making him do his homework. "I have, and my answer was I wasn't sure of it" he showed a stray page that was almost ripped out of the book, so Hibari flipped to that page, seeing the neat handwriting showing evidence of being crossed out and erased a lot of times. He mentally shrugged and decided; he'll just give him a little clarification.

When he started to figure out what was in the scenario, his questions to the questions were very similar to what Rokudou was asking himself as he was writing, which made him slump. "What happened?" Rokudou asked when he noticed Hibari's shoulders slump "We aren't getting anywhere" He sulked as he kept writing, now he was scratching out the things he wrote himself, and then looked at Rokudou who was smiling at him, unsure whether he should be laughing or just sympathizing with him.

"Don't laugh" he glared, Rokudou then played with the bangs that he used to cover his eye for, and of course Hibari noticed that. Why he is suddenly hiding it? Was it an accident when he saw it that time?

"Your eye.." he put the notebook on the table while looking at the hidden eye under bangs. Rokudou moved back on his seat then saw something to change the subject "Let me see what you wrote" he said pointing at his notebook, which Hibari knew he was trying to dodge the statement, but it wasn't like he was going to get more information on it, so he showed him the book which had a million scratched out stuff.

Rokudou tried holding his laughter looking at the book, while Hibari looked away, slightly embarrassed at his failure. "Stop looking at it, rip it out" he said while looking in nowhere in particular, then Rokudou actually held his laughter and put a more rational smile "No.. I think I understand it better now" Hibari raised a brow as he looked at the little student suddenly writing a lot of words without having to erase any part of it. He actually does have the right idea now.

"Alright, I think this does it" he stopped writing to show it to Hibari, who took the book from him and began to peruse through it, seeing as he was actually able to make connections through the bull they both previously wrote, and it even sounded better than before.
Rokudou looked up again as Hibari looked so concentrated reading "Is it good?" when he was done reading, he gave it back to Rokudou "Yeah, much better" he said in the most pleasant tone he can muster, which is almost impossible for him, but it still made Rokudou smile as he put the book back and stood up. "Wow, it really was all thanks to you Mr. Hibari" Rokudou bowed in thanks and Hibari was about to turn away, but then he saw Rokudou wasn't moving.

"What's wrong?" He asked as he saw that the student was still looking at him and before he knew it, the student was hugging him. "Thanks Mr. Hibari~" he said as he hugged him, and Hibari wasn't sure what to do, so he did nothing as Rokudou let go, smiling at the student "You owe me now" which made Rokudou laugh "and of course I'll have it paid soon"

What Hibari didn't know was that he just caused Rokudou to worry about that. He didn't know that Rokudou assumed it was a monetary thing, and was wondering how to pay him and how much would it be. He just thought it was a favour, and that's all there's to it.

"Oh well, see you Mr. Hibari~" He waved as he left, before Hibari can say "Just say Kyouya" as the door quietly closed.

He ran a hand through his hair "troublesome child", until he saw Rokudou come in again. "What happened?" Hibari asked as he watched him come inside "I forgot something" he replied, looking at his phone. "Can we exchange contact numbers?" he then asked, showing his phone screen to him.

Hibari went in a total pause mode. Even though he can be amazing when it came to software skills that was only on the computer desktop, not a phone or any other thing. He was still those old fashioned using telephone user rather than the everyday mobile users. Yet he carried an emergency phone in case things happened, even if he didn't know how to use them.

Rokudou's phone looked a bit old however, compared to what the students usually purchased. Normally people would be having those huge cased I-phone 5's, but his looked like a low I-phone 3s, and it looked a little used. Looks like he is also a backwards person as well, who prefers the oldies and bought the new fashion just because the old ones don't function anymore.

"Mr. Hibari?" Rokudou waved his hand at him "Are you alright? Did I say something bad?" he asked for the second time, the first time went unheard by Hibari, as he took out his phone from his pocket and had a frustrated look at it. He threw the phone to Rokudou, who was caught off guard by that and tried not to have it dropped on the floor, which he was successful on, after a few fail catches.

"Kufufufu.. please warn me next time" he laughed nervously as he fiddled with it then gave it back to Hibari "Now look, you have me in your contacts" he showed both phones to him "And I have you in mine" as he understood what happened, he nodded at the student in acknowledgment.
"If you need something, or just some company, you're welcome to phone me~" he then said as he put his phone back in his pocket before leaving for real this time.

As soon as Rokudou left, Hibari sent him a message knowing he just got out of the room. What he sent was all on the RE line that it was an incomplete message 'I don't like phones be-'. Because he wasn't used to texting people either, he actually had trouble doing one. Then he received one back after a while saying 'Lol. Not on the RE line silly~'

Hibari read that message again, then thought 'The RE line?' as he realized his silly mistake, but little did he know, RE lines are not something that always need to be filled with urgent information. Being someone who wrote business letters so much, he incorporated that in my mind that every time he would send a message, he'd add the RE line with the actual converse name or case name.

Oh well, till then he might just write things wrong. But now that Hibari had Rokudou's number, he went back to his computer in attempts of actually trying to acquire background information on the odd child. Maybe Daemon knew something of him, they did have almost similar hairstyle if not Rokudou had his longer and had an eye covered rather than having a fringe of hair.

Either way, he might have to have a talk with Alaude or Daemon. Hibari didn't look forward to that, but he was still pretty curious due to Rokudou's vague details on his profile and his room didn't help him understand him a bit.
Maybe he should keep his phone after all, it might help him find what he's looking for as well. Wait, there's Giotto he can ask as well, but talking to a student is strange. Then again, he is talking to Rokudou who's a student. The misunderstanding of an adult man liking children. How would he explain that?

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Rokudou laughed at the message Hibari sent him, and already concluded that he was bad with technology, which was ironic for someone who should be working on the computer all day long, and having more experience in software than him, yet can't use a phone? Hilarious.

He sent Hibari another message, this time offering to teach him how to use a phone, and laid down on his bed, looking at his phone again, seeing that he replied. "Is this for the favour?" which Rokudou looked surprised at, then messaged back "I forgot that, I'll pay you later" while thinking how much would he have to pay. It wasn't like he was hired to be his instructor or anything, but he volunteered to help him, but paying back favours are usually money involved.

He might have just made the biggest mistake he could think of, other than mistaking a pillar of stone to be someone glaring at him. But that caught him out of his worries was a reply from Hibari "I don't want money", which made Rokudou smile. That got rid of some worries there, he was frightened that Hibari would accept a money deal to begin with.

He checked his messages in case anything came from them, but nothing came. For some reason, he had the gut feeling that at night they would call him for something. Because it was only the evening, he decided to take a short nap and then probably be ready in case they actually do what his gut thought they'd do.

Before he put his phone on sleep, he messaged Giotto about the assignment they had, asking if he was still doing that gathering plan he had, which Giotto quickly messaged him back saying they are still doing it because even though he may or may not be done, the others most certainly are not and are going to rely on the session he held. He asked Rokudou if he was going to join them, which he replied, telling him he would, even though he was done with it already.

"See I told you that you were smart enough to come up with something" was the latest message from Giotto. Rokudou didn't know how to reply other than smiling at it.

"Lol, The same about you" he messaged back, before tossing his phone near the pillow, looking at the window which was next to the bed, well not next to, but a few meters away because the drawer beside it, and the curtains to avoid it from getting stuck, but the window was still visible even if he was laying down.

The night sky was as blank as the morning sky, which was contrary to people's sayings once again. They always said the night sky was dark, but had beautiful stars sparkling in the sky, along with the moon rising and lighting up the dark spots with the nocturnal light it reflected from the sun. Books told him that the moon never shone alone, not without the sun's light on it which makes it illuminated, making it look like it was a weaker sun in the dark blue sky.

More lies about the sky. Then again, someone who reminded himself of the moon itself was Hibari Kyouya. He was dark, but yet stood out to him in a group of people, like the moon standing out in the starry sky, or so what people say.

He felt embarrassed thinking about an adult like that, people will assume that he either idolizes him or actually is interested in him. He covered his mouth with his hand, trying to calm himself as he was slightly showing his embarrassment on the outside by getting a bit flustered over it.

"He's just a friend, nothing more. Like Giotto, just a friend" he told himself as he sat up, then looked at the sky again. "Maybe I'm thinking about them too much" he sighed, waking his phone from sleep to checking it again, seeing a message from Giotto which said "Goodnight" as it was possibly his sleeping time, so Rokudou messaged him back the same thing and then sighed again.

If anyone noticed why this was so quick was because I was writing this all day yesterday when I posted chapter 2. Chapter 4 may, may not be delayed

As always, any sort of feedback would be greatly appreciated~