He whipped his head around once more. Brown eyes scanned the empty street. The frustrated teen ran his fingers through his hair in stress. Someone was following him, but who? He had this annoying feeling ever since he woke up. He could not even go the bathroom in the comfort of his own home! Since someone was watching him, it made him think. Was someone stalking him? He could think of two types of peoples. He shuddered at second type. Who on Earth would want stalk him? Someone who liked to see him be pathetic, that is who. It was more likely someone who had a sadistic nature, enjoying the pains of others.
Tsuna was usually twitchy around people who were out to hurt him and right now, he was definitely feeling twitchy and jumpy. But there was no one around him! What the hell? It could not been a ghost… "Calm down, Tsuna. Ghosts can't exist during the daytime…" He shook his head to rid of his nervousness. He then took deep breaths to calm down his nerves. His hand dug into his school bag in haste and brought out an inhaler. Using the medical device, he sighed as he took it out of his mouth. That was one panic attack he avoided.
After calming down, his legs resumed their walk to the school. However, he still did not feel safe. He really did not like it when people followed him. It just made him extra jumpy and cautious. There was also the chance of freaking out more easily. He jumped at the sound of a broken branch. He turned around with his eyes shut and started shouting. "What the hell do you want from me? If you're a ghost, then I'm extremely sorry! Just stop following me!" He was on the verge of tears.
At the corner of his eyes, he spotted the school and made a mad dash for it. He ignored all the looks his classmates on him as he ran by. Even if he had to hide in this forsaken place, he will.
"Was that Sawada-san just now?" Her vision was blurred due to the sudden dust storm that flew past her. Her hand had covered her eyes so she did not see the person who ran by. Kyoko look up at her friend.
Her friend nodded. "Yup, the midget must be running away from someone again. Based on how fast he was running, he must have made this person pretty angry." Kurokawa Hana looked at the path the frightened boy just left. She sighed as she tried to untangle the few newly made knots in her slight wavy raven locks of hair. "Why? Are you worried about him?"
Kyoko shrugged. "I don't know. I guess I feel sad for him." Sighing, she began walking to the entrance of the school building with Hana trailing behind her.
"Doesn't everyone…" Hana rolled her eyes when she entered the building. Dame-Tsuna was on the floor due to the step he tripped on. That must have been some fall. She watched as her friend hastily ran over and tried to help the boy up. To her surprise, the boy tried to push Kyoko away. Hana smiled to herself. "Well, look at this. Dame-Tsuna is not enchanted by Kyoko." This could be interesting, just maybe.
The infant raised an eyebrow at how fast Tsuna ran. "I got to admit. He's pretty fast for a normal person." If the boy was not so clumsy, then he would have been able to make it on his school's track team. His speed was something not a lot of people could keep up. Yet, that ability of his was only developed after running away from his many bullies.
He jotted quick notes into his small notepad. Medical condition: likely to be asthma due to use of what seems to be prescribed inhaler. Stuffing the notepad away, he allowed his binoculars and continued to spy on the boy. He had been analyzing the Vongola candidate the whole morning and there were not a lot of good things he could say except for the boy's speed and few other things.
The boy was stupid. The boy was clumsy. The boy was pathetic. The boy was like a walking magnet for bullies and the list goes on and on. There was that one thing that annoyed him about the boy. He was surprisingly twitchy and jumpy. Right now, the boy had a few things that could get him out of hurdles in the Mafia: his speed and his facial features. His face would probably make his enemies second guess themselves but nothing more. Was Nono on something when he chose his heir…?
There also one quality about the boy that irked him. Tsuna would turn around every time he would make a move to get nearer to the boy. He had first thought the boy had sensed him but seeing how the boy react made him think again. It was probably a sixth sense to the boy to detect bullies. That might come in handy later.
As the both of them got close to the school, Reborn decided to leak some of his killing intent. But before he could do so, Tsuna was shouting some nonsense and then running away at the speed of light. Seeing the boy was scared senseless made Reborn want to laugh. Oh, this boy was going to be fun to tutor. A smirk graced upon his lips as he whistled. This was going to be fun alright.
Authors' Notes:
We decided to post shorter chapters. It kind of works better for us that way since the chapter flowed a lot better than the previous chapter.
Thank you for reading.