Are You The One?

Written by: CherryDrug

Disclaimer: Katekyo Hitman Reborn doesn't belong to us. If it did, we would have shipped anybody with everybody, and the series wouldn't be as dead as it was now. Thank freaking sprite for fan fiction having not died yet.

Rating: T-rated, 'cause we're still a bunch of pussies who can't put on their big girl panties and publish a smutty chapter

Genre: *slaps every genre here*

Characters: Everybody. Duh

Summary: It has been said long ago that actions speak louder than words ever could; however, when you live in a world where the first thing your soulmate says to you is etched upon your skin—well, suffice to say, actions don't even hold a candle to how important words can be.

Pairing(s) (for this chapter): Tsuna/Kyoko, Tsuna/Hana, Kyoko/Hana

Warnings: Alternate Universe where people bear soul-identifying marks; yaoi AKA boy x boy in the future; All27; drabble series


CHAPTER 6

Tsuna is insecure again, but is immediately placated by someone unexpected.


School is over and Tsuna is sitting with his new friends, talking and sharing stories with one another because Hana doesn't like to play like all the other kids do. At first, Tsuna is horrified that the black haired girl loathes doing stuff meant for kids, because even though he hadn't had a lot of playmates, Tsuna still knows the joy of platime, but he slowly understands the girl's personality as he gets to know her

Hana is strangely mature for a six year old kid, and Tsuna admires her for that, and thinks that it's no wonder Hana is one of Kyoko's soulmate. She is the cool and icy to Kyoko's warm and spicy; it's a perfect combination of soulmates, Tsuna thinks, because Hana is like the moon—silent and ever watching—whereas Kyoko is the sun—bright and ever guiding.

Tsuna just wonders where exactly does he fit in the middle.

When he asks them this, he's met with a pair of stares that are scarily blank—because he's never seen Kyoko wear such an expression, even though they'd just met a few hours ago, but he knows that it's wrong on her face. A smile belongs on her lips, just as much as a light belongs to her eyes. Negative and blanks expressions do not suit to her, Tsuna decides.

Then, finally, Kyoko grabs his hands in hers and grips them tightly.

Tsuna is startled by the determination that glints in his soulmate's golden eyes.

"You don't have to fit right now," Kyoko tells him with words that do not fit a six year old. "You just have to wait until you feel like you belong, just like when you move into a new house and wait to get 'settled in,'" she tells him. "You're my soulmate, and my friend too, Tsuna-kun, so I'll wait as long as you want until you feel like you fit in," she ends with a sparkling beam.

Tsuna shyly looks up at her through his lashes with big brown eyes, and he bits his bottom lip in nervousness. "Promise?" His voice sounds meek—soft and weak, something that girls don't like, and he mentally berates himself for acting like so, but he internally sighs because he's been acting soft and weak since he'd been born and there's nothing that he can really do to change his personality.

It's not Kyoko who responds this time, but Hana.

She slaps him on the back of the head, and he squeaks in surprise, almost tumbling down into the ground, face first, but he manages to upright himself, heaving a sigh of relief once he realizes that he's escaped gravity's cruelty for now.

"What are you talking about now?" Hana asks, the words coming out as a snap, and Tsuna flinches because he thinks that he's done something wrong again. "You don't make promises to stay friends forever. You just do," she ends harshly, her bottom lip sticking out with her eyebrows furrowed deeply.

The glare is still in place, but if Tsuna just imagines it away, Hana actually looks kinda cute like that.

And then, after recomposing himself, Tsuna nods unsurely, because he didn't really get whatever Hana had just said, but goes along with it because he doesn't want to anger the short-tempered girl.

"O-Okay."

He may not understand what Hana had just said, but Tsuna feels better that they get to be friends and that it might, just might because he's known to never have the best luck, last a very long time.


Word Count:800