Oh snap, here's the third chapter...
THE MYSTERY MAN; REVEALED!!!
(I'm sorry, in advance, this seemed longer in my story archives..)
Disclaimer: I don't own KHR nor the billion of other names it goes by
please enjoy!
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"You're..! Ah, thank god!" Tsuna sighed, rushing to meet the new arrival halfway. The three young men left glared daggers at this interference, Hibari even more dangerously then the students. The new man smiled with a sly ease, like he knew something the others didn't. He pulled Tsuna to his side, slinging an arm around his shoulder as naturally as can be, and nodded to the others.
"Ciaossu."
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Tsuna looked up with a frown on his face and eyebrows furrowed.
"What the… Don't say 'ciaossu' like that! It makes you sound like that guy..!" he scolded, grabbing the large hand that was hanging over his shoulder and giving it a shove. The man chucked, placing his hands in the pockets of his light green jacket.
"Sorry sorry, I couldn't resist, kora." he said with a grin, fixing his eyes on the two sneering students and one glaring principal. Tsuna sighed, crossing his arms over his chest, using a free hand to point at his sudden companion.
"Everyone, this is a... 'friend' -I guess- of mine, Colonello." he stated, muttering a "I don't really know what else to refer to him as, cept maybe 'former home-tutor.." under his breath.
'Colonello', all towering six-feet-plus of him, was decked out in casual army attire, from his steel-toed combat boots to the camouflage headband that held back impressive spikes of vibrant blond hair. His electric blue eyes sparkled with mischief as he surveyed what no doubt seemed to be player pieces in one big game to him. He stood out, just as much as Mukurou and Byakuran did with their foreign flare and vibrant non-native colors, but maybe it was the loud, cocky attitude that seemed to positively radiate from his smug smile and arrogant posture that really drew a hard glare from the three who stared him down so viciously.
Tsuna was, naturally, oblivious.
"'Colonello'? What kind of stupid name is that? No elegance in that kind of name, you foreigner." Mukurou spat, crossing his own arms and turning up his nose.
"...Mukurou... you're a foreigner too...He's even from the same country as you..." Tsuna murmured. Colonello tilted his head down a bit, his smile still turning up at the corners of his lips.
"You seem like fun group, kora. How did you all come to meet my Tsuna?" he inquired. All three raised their hackles.
"Your Tsu-"
"Hibari-san is the principal at the school I work at, Colonello. Mukurou and Byakuran are students there..." Tsuna responded, kinda seeming upset himself at the fact that that was how these people were connected to him. Hibari's bird -who had been flying about since Colonello appeared- had gone back to his spiky black perch atop Hibari's head, apparently content with the level of awkward tenseness in the air. Tsuna was paranoid about the little feathered animal, wondering why the Principal wasn't really acknowledging it.
"And just how, pray tell, do you know Tsunayoshi, Mr. Kokoro?" Hibari interrogated.
"It's 'Colonello', Hibari-san..."
"Me? I know him through a mutual friend, kora. Well, that person and I have been Tsuna's tutors for half his life, so we're like life-long friends. We're very close, Tsuna and I." the blond man stated simply. Tsuna made a face like he was sick just from hearing it. In the background, Hibari, Mukurou, and Byakuran were on full alert, more then irritated to hear about yet another potential rival had surfaced. It seemed when Tsuna was concerned, there was an annoyingly long list of enemies.
"Oh yeah, just where is that guy? Did he send you rather then come get me himself?" the small spiky-haired physician asked, his face hopeful that such was the case. Colonello closed his eyes in a pitying smile.
"No, we just raced to see who would find you first. I lost him about 15 miles back. I had to tamper with his GPS a little bit to get a head start..." he said, scratching the nape of his neck. Tsuna paled.
"So he's still coming?! Whats worse, he's going to be really angry that you messed with his car! Colonello!! He's going to blame me for it and kill me even more now!" he whined, dropping to his knees and clutching his brown spikes in agony. Hibari frowned, not liking that there was someone who could provoke a reaction from his employee that ordinarily only he could.
"Tsu-chan, you're neglecting us! More important then that, you're neglecting me! I can't just stand here thinking of all the possible things I could be doing to you right now in a romantic beach setting and having you just blatantly ignore me!" Byakuran suddenly shouted, catching the elbow that Mukurou attempted to shove in his gut. Tsuna snapped up.
"I'm going to keep on neglecting you for as long as I want! Just stand there quietly until I say so!" he ordered.
"Oya oya, Tsunayoshi-sensei, order me around too, I like it when you talk like that. It's like I'm your underling and your my Boss who's had a rough day and wants to vent with a round of violent se-"
"Shut up!!"
With a sigh, Tsuna pressed his fingers against his temples, looking to his taller companion with an exasperated expression.
"Colonello, can we just go? You came in your car, didn't you?" he asked. The blond man hummed in his throat, throwing his arm over Tsuna's shoulder once more and leaning against the smaller man.
"Hmmm, thats true, but... That guy's still on his way here, kora. He'll be mad if he comes all this way for nothing. Besides, do you really want to leave from this place? You look like you're having fun, kora."
"I'm not!"
"Well I am! I think at the end of the day, that's what you like best, right? Making me happy, Tsuu~na?" Colonello took great pleasure in the way his audience looked on the verge of explosive murder when he swept his lips along Tsuna's ear lobe, bringing about an undignified squeal from the younger man as he succeeded in wriggling away.
"What the hell, cut that out!" the brunet nurse sputtered, stamping his foot. "If you keep embarrassing me, I'm going to tell Lal!"
From Hibari, Mukurou, and Byakuran's point of view, it seemed that whoever this 'Lal' person was, she was extremely effective in putting a halt to any further contact between the new army-fashioned [idiot] and their small prey. Taking this into account and snatching up the opportunity, both 2ed year students of Namimori High grabbed hold of Tsuna's arms and began attempts to 'purify' the places he was touched by this strange [idiot] of a man.
Tsuna was not pleased.
Nor was Hibari.
Hibari's bird (which he still hadn't acknowledged, even though it had been atop his head for quite some time now, singing and chirping unsettling phrases), appeared to be perfectly at peace with its human perch's nearly suffocating perimeter of irritation.
Colonello stood behind Tsuna, watching and observing the interaction with amused eyes. He smirked, a pleased little aura about him bubbling happily. True, he was on wary guard since the mention of 'Lal', very much so, but it didn't stop him from enjoying a good show when he saw one. Tsuna did indeed appear to not be having the least bit of a good time, but really when it came down to it, the young man had lived a life surrounded by people who really didn't care if he was enjoying himself or not. And this made Colonello very happy, as, like other people who surrounded the young nurse, he was a sadist at heart.
Of course, that delightful feeling of 'happiness' shriveled into dust when the sound of a engine revving and tires screeching against asphalt swelled over the sound of the one-sided battle Tsuna was engaging in. Colonello felt a shudder vibrate down his spine though he hid it well with his usual uncaring expression. Over by the boys, Tsuna paled ghostly white right in the middle of having his body groped by his two students.
"...Co..Colonello...? That sound... what..."
The blond man stood rigid.
"If I had to guess... a Mercedes.... black... with a broken GPS... kora..."
There wasn't very much room at that moment to wonder how Colonello was able to properly guess in such a detailed way and still be correct even without even turning around and looking at the sleek black vehicle that had come to a halt directly behind him. A cool sea breeze whipped through the street, and it was all too apparent that Tsuna was no longer amongst the living (not mentally anyway). Mukurou blinked his strange eyes down at the rag-doll that was his school nurse, shaking him a bit around the shoulders to make his head flop back and forth.
"What nonsense is going on...?" Hibari demanded in his cool, steely baritone, eyes focused on one very awkward looking blond man. Colonello sighed.
"Things are going to get ugly, kora..." he muttered under his breath, just as the 'cla-chack' of a car door opening gave way to the tense air.
Tsuna looked over his shoulder, pressing a palm against Mukurou's chest to get him to stop flinging his body about (Mukurou sent a braggart smirk over to his white-haired classmate at the accomplishment). The young physician watched with severe perturbation as a finely polished patent leather shoe, black, stepped out onto the sand-dusted board walk. This was followed by it's pair, which were followed by long legs in black trousers, crisp and freshly pressed. Then came the rest of the body.
Tsuna groaned in futility. Colonello began mumbling possible excusses to himself. Hibari glared harder then he had at any other time, his little yellow bird taking off and flying in wide swooping circles. Mukurou and Byakuran stared with smirks, but they both closed in against Tsuna's body as much as they would allow each other. Any of the men grouping around Tsuna could tell, just from one look at the person standing beside the dark Mercedes, that this person was purely and simply: a threat.
He was dressed in a dark black pinstripe suit (expensive looking with its fine tailoring, maybe Valentino or Armani), with a black tie to match. The only color on the man was a canary-yellow dress shirt and the dark orange brim of his mafioso-like fedor, which sat atop slicked back spikes of ebony hair. The brim of his hat shadowed over where eyes would normaly appear, so only a perfectly shaped nose and emotionless set of lips were seen, with tapering sideburns running down either side of his face, curling in an odd style near the ends.
"Ciaossu."
"Reborn..." Tsuna whined, his skin crawling from the pair of hidden eyes that were currently burning into the back of his skull. Colonello, perhaps in an act of pity or perhaps to score some points with Tsuna himself, was the first to jump into interaction with the sudden arrival.
"Hey! Reborn, there you are You got here quicker then I thought you would, kora! I guess I should never underestimate a man of the Mafi-"
"Colonello. If you say one word to me, I'll shoot you right in your brain." Reborn stated, slamming his car door shut and taking short, measured steps over to the group, stopping just beside his army-clad counterpart. Colonello scratched the back of his neck.
"Mmnnngh... Hey, you shouldn't be angry at me, you're the one who agreed to race. Besides, Tsuna was found either way right?" he offered, pointing to the flinching mass of tropical shirt that appeared between the gaps of the two highschool transfer students.
"Geeze Colonello, way to distract him from the fact that I'm here!" Tsuna complained mentally, cringing against the shoulder blades of his students (when the hell did teenagers get to grow this tall and well-built now-a-days, anyway?!). Sure enough, there was a pause, and then came the inevitable.
"Oi, Tsuna." Reborn began, his tone pretty much doing the job of pulling the brunette from behind Mukurou and Byakuran without physical contact.
"Re-Reborn... finally you got here." Tsuna chirped, putting on a false air of carelessness. And then, Hibari and the two students he governed saw them, the flash of two deep dark black irises that hid under the fedora's brim. Two deep dark black irises that were fixed solely on Tsuna's meek frame where he stood awkwardly in the middle of their group.
"'I finally got here'...? I finally got here? You, who doesn't even know where here IS, remarking to me that I finally got here? Like I was making you wait?" with each finished sentance the tall, mysterious man Reborn took one more step bringing him closer and closer to Tsuna, until at last there was only one foot of pavement separating the two very different men. Reborn's hand reached out, his long fingers only just centimeters away from the brunet's delicate chin...
Tsuna crashed back into Hibari's chest, the man's pale hand around one arm while the other wrapped a strong arm about his middle.
"I'm afraid you and your friend have wasted your time." the Nami High Principal said (ignoring "Hey, it's pronounced 'Colonello'" from the blond man). "Tsunayoshi will be leaving with me."
Reborn stared for a moment, his face blank as he calmly shoved his hands in his trouser pockets, then slowly shifting into a smirk. Tsuna could only lean against Hibari's embrace completely frozen, eyes darting every which direction to see if anyone was in the particular mood for helping him out. Sure enough Mukurou and Byakuran, rarely possessing the capacity to think things through, rushed forward and tore their beloved school Nurse away once more. All this really accomplished from Tsuna's point of view is removed him from one cage to be put in another with double the locks.
"Oya oya, Tsunayoshi-sensei is here to enjoy Summer holiday on the beach in the Sands of Love with me!" Mukurou stated with a triumphant smirk. Byakuran, not to be outdone, pushed his own pale cheek against Tsuna's, his eyes closed in his fox-like grin.
"More like, Tsu-chan is staying with me to enjoy our youth and make memories that we can share with our children together some day~!" he sang.
"...Who's going to have your children..." Tsuna seethed, his eyes dead white and disturbed.
"You disgusting herbivores, that pitiful creature is my employee and he'll be doing whatever I say he'll be doing, and I say he'll be coming with me." Hibari snapped snatching away one arm for himself. Inevitably, Tsuna found himself pulled about between the three and wondering how he'd gone from sitting in his apartment with the air conditioner running, to being some kind of sick trophy for the battle of the worlds most unbalanced testosterone.
The tugging and pulling (and in some cases ducking away as Byakuran began throwing his googley-eyed clam souvenirs at the back of Mukurou's head) rocked Tsuna about, scrambling his brain and making him dizzy. He could see just a few feet away the two tall figures of his older 'friends' just standing and talking to one another as if nothing was going on.
"What exactly is all this...?" Reborn asked in a condescending way, crossing his arms over his chest as the group fought over the little brunet nurse. Colonello, with a grin on his face and his hands on his hips, laughed.
"Well from what I'm able to understand, they've all taken a fancy to our little Tsuna there, kora."
"Our Tsuna?"
"You don't want him? Fine, more for me, kora~!"
Reborn twitched, the creeping feeling of a challenge crawling over his skin. Colonello (who seemed to know full well what his taunting words would bring about), smirked a little with a gleam in his eyes.
"He doesn't want you anyway. Not when he could have this blond bombshell, kora." here he jabbed a thumb at his chest "I suppose you never even noticed how cute he is, the way his big ol' eyes tear up over the slightest teasing...? What could a withered old fart like you do anyway with that sexy little-"
"Colonello." Reborn's head tilted, and his dark black eyes disappeared. "I do not think that Lal Mirch would care to hear you speak in such a way about her nephew, nor would she want to hear such perverted words coming from the mouth of her idiotic husband. Don't you think?"
Colonello dimmed immediately.
"...S-she's.. only a distant Aunt... kora..!!"
"Further more" Reborn cut him off "Don't begin to assume you're tiny little brain knows anything."
Tsuna wriggled about, trying desperately to free himself from the trap between his kidnappers and his boss (who was in a way also a kidnapper). After a certain point he gave up -like usual- and just stood there, occasionally getting hit somewhere in the head from Byakuran's google-eyed clams ("Oh, sorry Tsu-chan~!"). He was a little annoyed that he wasn't in front seat of Colonello's car with the air conditioner on as they sped along to bring him back home. True Reborn was here now and he could just as well go with him (Tsuna had called Reborn after all, Colonello was just an extra), but with a choice between both of his former home-tutors, he'd rather go with the one who had a less demented sense of humor.
Thinking of it now, Tsuna thought that a summer trip with normal people wouldn't be so bad. Someone like Yamamoto or Dino, the calm people he knew. Gokudera pretty much fought with anyone who stood near Tsuna, and Ryouhei tended to make a scene a lot (Tsuna could imagine that man at the beach, demanding someone find him a whale or a shark so he could fight it for some inconceivable reason). Either way with calm people, maybe it wouldn't be such a horrible trip.
Truth was Tsuna wasn't a huge fan of the beach anyway.
Sure it was bright and had a cheerful atmosphere (well, not now, but any normal time it would), but too many things about the ocean scared Tsuna half to death. The crashing waves that would pull him out to sea, giant massive underwater predators with razor sharp teeth, rip currents ready to drag him under to drown, those little freaky little crab-like creatures that made holes in the sand and would scuttle about in you palm and across your fingers if you picked up a scoop of sand.
Terrifying.
"That's it!" Mukurou suddenly stopped the quarrel with his sudden out burst, scaring the bejeezus out of Tsuna who had been in his own world.
"Tsunayoshi-sensei, you must decide right here and now who you want to spend the rest of your life with! Who do you love from the depths of your heart?! Who makes your loins burn with passion at the thought of their long ebony-blue hair hanging down as they **** your **** and-"
"Are you talking about yourself in that example?!"
But it seemed that despite the obvious disturbing quality in the way Mukurou had said it, Byakuran agreed to some extent. Hibari looked like he'd rather cut off his own face then group himself in with the two student's way of thinking, but seemed to stare at the young male nurse in a sort of pressuring way. Tsuna blinked up at the three men, completely oblivious to what they'd all just agreed on.
"Who do I want to... what...?" he sputtered, trying to find a way he could possibly get past the maze of arms and muscle-rich bodies that surrounded him. Sharp eyes dug into him; steel-grey, light purple, and a odd mix of red and blue, all staring and waiting and coming in closer and closer and then all of a sudden pulling away farther and father.
Sea gulls shouted to one another in the background and waves crashed out on the distant pylons, and a warm salty-breeze carried the tune of a merry little yellow bird.
Tsuna's mind registered the feeling of arms against his back, his body leaned against someone's knee in a dip with his lower back supported like some kind of romance novel cover page. It was concerning, but more then how he was being held, was the fact that there was something in his mouth.
Something smooth, hot wet, and very, very skilled.
It pushed past his teeth and swirled against his tongue, and as it retracted, hot, firm lips pried loose from Tsuna's own with a soft 'smack' that left behind a trail of saliva to run down the young physician's chin.
"I believe the only one Dame-Tsuna would choose,-" came an ever-suave baritone voice that seemed to echo in Tsuna's addled brain "-would be the one who taught him everything he knows."
Tsuna hung limp in Reborn's casually arrogant tawney brown spikes flipped upside down as his neck lost the ability to support itself, much like the other limbs in his body. He could hear the battle starting.
Colonello's laughter. Mukurou's shouting outrage and Byakuran's eerie cheer that spoke volumes of pain and suffering. Hibari wasn't really saying anything, but the little bird of his began chanting some of the most blood-chilling things Tsuna would care to recall for a very long time.
But through it all, there was something else.... Something that came from farther past where Tsuna could hear...
"You bastard! Get you're dirty hands off Jyuudaime right this instant!"
And then everything faded to the back of one exhausted male nurses' eyelids.
Ohohohoho~
I've introduced ANOTHER mystery man! (or two or three...)
Still not long enough for you? Please believe me, I'm working on that. I've just had a lot to do lately.... (thats a lie, I'm just suffering from writers road-kill).
The next chapter.... well, you'll have to wait and see what goes on! I feel like I've ignored the fact that this is a continuation of Kangoshi, where Tsuna is, in fact, a nurse! So I should have him do something nurse-ey.... Well I'll cross that bridge when I get to it.
Hope you like this chapter~!
I love writing smooches between Reborn and Tsuna. So rare and wonderful, like an eclipse.
o_o maybe i should open a pole to see who Tsuna winds up with at the end of this? Ah, but everyone always says Hibari or Mukurou, I don't know if it would be fair.... oh well I'll try it anyway LOL.
Thanks for reading, and all your silly reviews! There are a QUITE a few of you who are friggen hilarious, you know.
Rae