Ch 04 :

'Annoying Fangirls'

Tsuna groaned in annoyance as girls flocked around him just as he stepped passed the gates. Even with fourteen bodyguards, they can't subdue the threat.

'Argh! Kyoya! Where are you patrolling ?! They are crowding ! Fangirls crowding everywhere!'


"You're wrong, Idiot! Everything in Sawada-san is worth standing up for! He's worth fighting for!" Reika declared firmly which made everyone stare at her with wide eyes. Each have their own meanings.

"He's worth fighting for?" Mochida repeated in a mocking tone. "Everything ? Even his idiopathic ways? His failures ? His clumsiness ? His cowardice ?"

"I'm well aware that he's really a bully-material. But that doesn't mean you should do it! I won't come clean in this, I admit that during late elementary years that I, myself, laughed at him." She confessed as her bangs shadows her face. Her voice clearly sounded guilty. "But just this one time that I saw him all by himself, I finally understood that he was lonely. Sad gazes covered by fake smiles."

Everyone kept listening, none dared to interfere. The mafioso and everyone within Tsuna's circle of friends clearly reads her feelings, each one had a small knowing smile on their faces.

"Oho~ So what? He's a loser. It is already automatic that he'll be lonely." Mochida snickered. But none laughed with him.

"You know what? I'm clearly amazed that Sawada-san hasn't snapped yet." Reika suddenly said. Everyone had clear confusion on their faces. And waiting patiently for her explanation.

"What do you mean?" The ever insolent Mochida asked the same question.

"Well... he was bullied everyday. It takes a great toll on ones mentality, he is also lonely before he became friends with Yamamoto-san and Gokudera-san. Let's not forget that Nezu-sensei always singles him out from the rest of the class everyday." Reika explained while giving a short glare at Nezu-sensei, who flinched under her glare. "You say he is a weakling. But for me, this is enough evidence to prove that he is strong. Stronger than anyone else."

"But that doesn't change the fact that he's a failure both in academics and athletics" Mochida pointed out.

"Are you an idiot?" Reika asked as she folds he arms over her chest.

"What did you say, you bitch?!" Mochida sneered.

"To someone who gets bullied everyday, especially before class wouldn't be able to concentrate on the lesson. By the time he gets out of his stupor, he already missed half of the lesson." She explained slowly to let the words sink in Mochida's brain. "Meaning, he's already left out and no teacher would give him a special lesson or tutorials."

"Why didn't you volunteer to teach him then?" A new voice chimed in. Everyone looked at the source, a teenage boy wearing a suit and his face was shadowed by a black fedora; Reborn.

"Well.. Everyday after class he was sent to detention or cleaning duties. So after he is done with everything, he's already too tired to get a tutorial from me. I am also busy in the Student Council Office for me to help him." She answered.

"How about weekends ?" Reborn asked again.

"I'm staying in Kokuyo every weekends. Every Friday after school, then I would return Monday morning for class."

"Lunch breaks?"

"I am the Vice-president of the Student Council. It's rare for me to get a free time during Lunch Break. The only help I did for Sawada-san was to help him go to the infirmary to get bandaged up when I saw him beaten up."

"If you're in the SC, that's in Middle School. How about during Elementary?" Byakuran asked.

"During Elementary my parents always picks me up after school, so I can't come to Sawada-san's aid." Reika replied. And added in a whisper, but still audible in the silent gym. "And I really can't bring myself to approach him."

"Can't bring yourself to approach him? Kora!" Colonello repeated then asked "What do you mean by that? Kora!"

"as I said before, I was one of those who laughed at him. I felt guilty after I realize my immature actions towards him. I felt like I don't deserve to be near such a great guy like him." She answered in a low voice.

"Up until Middle School you felt like that?!" Enma screamed in bewilderment. "You never thought that maybe you can help him in his loneliness ?!"

"Well I realize my mistake about that too. It's just that by the time I was about to approach him, there's this guy who always sticks with him and glares at everyone who approaches Sawada-san then shouts 'What do you want with Juudaime?!'." She said, even imitating Gokudera's trademark scowl. The gym burst into laughter and everyone glanced at the direction of the silver head, who was now blushing in embarrassment. Well, that lightened up the mood.

"Haha! Good point. Everyone gets scared to come close to Tsuna because of Hayato's strict approach." Yamamoto laughed good-naturedly.

"Shut up Baseball-Freak!" Gokudera shouted from the other side of the gym. Another round of chuckles echoed inside-out of the gym.

"Maa~ Maa~" Yamamoto soothe as he waved his hand apologetically. "But there are also times that we were not accompanying Tsuna."

"Ah. Those times.." Reika murmured in a gloomy way. "One time that I saw him walk home without you, there's this kid in a suit pointing a green toy gun at him. Then Sawada-san would run away before I even get the chance to catch up."

Mafioso glanced at Reborn who was smirking under his fedora.

"A toy gun? He's afraid of a kid holding a toy gun?!" Mochida asked then burst into a fit of laughter with his group of friends.

"That would be me. And this is not a toy." Reborn said as he transforms Leon into a gun. Even giving a warning shot to Mochida's feet.

*bang!*

Mochida's face paled in the sudden action, along with the rest who never knew Reborn.