A/N:

*Edit: As some of you know, okay. None of you knew. But, I was going to post this chapter yesterday since it was a Sunday and I was lonely. Instead, I had many errors and bugs that traveled from f a n f i c t i o n . n e t to my own computer. (Ow.) And so, some you DO know that a lot of people were not able to access the Doc Manager. -not that any of you knew I was going to post this chapter yesterday-

I am a terrible person (DON'T CONVINCE ME OTHERWISE. Or else I might go back to procrastinating on this story.)

I may not be as good as (LEGEND) Jikage or SkyGem, but I'll definitely try to update as soon as I can. Finals aren't until the end of this semester, so I'll have more time to write these while school is in session (shhhh…) Anyway, I'm very sorry. Incredibly sorry for this inconvenience. I don't have a chapter ready as I'm writing this author's note, but I'll hurry and post it after righting this.

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Edit: Added "Yamamoto and Tsuna" as a choice for the polls. I like 802718 too. Heh.

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Warnings: Mild crack because I don't have a plot right now.

Pairings: Mild pairings.

Disclaimer: Don't own. Never will. Or else Tsuna would have unlimited husbands and they will all be good kiddos and share him every other day. This plot is completely mine; as I said.

I, :penname: DarkestEnd, did not STEAL this plot from anyone. If it sounds familiar, then I shall say: Great minds think alike.
As for the IX, can anyone tell me if that's a nine?

Love, desperately confused

Also! This chapter will only mildly stay with plot. Not intended to connect.

CHAPTER IX: Rated Tuna

It was an average day for Sawada Tsunayoshi. What he didn't understand was why Hibari Kyoya and Yamamoto Takeshi didn't have the same last time. He knew Yamamoto called Hibari's mother his own maternal guardian. So it was confusing as to why the two didn't bicker like he thought they would with their different personalities.

As he had noticed within the couple of days he knew them, Hibari was cold and distant; always trying to pick a fight. Whereas Yamamoto smiled brighter than the sun, which was in a way going to blind Tsunayoshi soon or have the radiation from the grin cook his dinner.

And being Tsunayoshi Sawada, he asked Reborn first.

Reborn knew everything.

Well, at least that's what Tsuna thought.

"R-reborn?" Tsunayoshi stuttered. He could never get over the habit of mispronouncing his tutor's name (or any words that start with a 'r' sound) with a Japanese accent. That, and he had seen Reborn naked in the shower yesterday.

"Don't stutter. Unless you want to peek into the shower while I'm in there, again?" The tall man tugged his fedora down watching the flailing tuna wave his arms up and down in denial.

"I-I! You know what, i-it doesn't matter r-right now."

"Oh? And why not?" Certainly interested by now, the tutor glanced at his student before turning his gaze to the espresso machine by the kitchen counter.

Tsunayoshi sat down on one of the chairs near him and asked Reborn, "Why don't Hibari-san and Yamamoto-san have the same name?"[1] Because in a redundant fact, Tsunayoshi thought better to call "Yamamoto-san" so intimately even thought the taller of the two wasn't there.

"And why would you want to know that?" By this time, Reborn had already stood up to get his delicious drink since Maman was out shopping during the ungodly hour of the morning.

"W-well, I r-really like Yamamoto-san and Hibari-san, so I wanted to know if they're r-related and-"

Tsunayoshi heard a sigh before he heard his answer: No.

"U-um, R-reborn? That's it?" Tsunayoshi glanced up at the taller figure.

"Dame-Tsuna, keep your big eyes out of other people's lives."

And then his tutor left.

Big eyes? [2]

As R-reborn wouldn't say anything, Tsunayoshi decided to take matters into his own "big eyes" as Reborn had called it. He was going to find out where the two of them lived and asked them directly. Now Tsunayoshi wasn't a very bright boy, considering the fact he would see the both of them tomorrow at school, he still believed that he needed to know right now. It was as if the back of his mind was going:

I know something you don't~ I know something you don't~ Now go find out, dear Tsunayoshi-kun.

He didn't know why his conscious called him "Tsunayoshi-kun", but he wasn't bothered by the fact right now. What he was frustrated about was that he didn't plan anything at all.

So that meant he didn't have Hibari-Yamamoto's home address.

Well, good going there.

He couldn't go to the school, obviously, as it was closed. But my some miraculous decision that the author(ess) made his neighbor Nezumi-sama [3], his, dare he say it, teacher that was obsessed with the English literature and told his students to call him by "sama".

By a stroke of luck, Nezumi-sama was about to go out with a pretty woman by his side. Although Tsunayoshi would in retrospect try to leave at all cost, he really didn't want the back of his mind to taunt him about not knowing something so obvious.

So he went up to the couple. And then realized that Nezumi-sama was walking hand-in-hand with a male.

And so without thinking, Tsunayoshi yelled out a string of apologies to the two of them before having the woman-like-male calm him down with the voice that sounded like a thousand angels sending him a jar of Nutella. [4]

"Tsunayoshi-kun, was it? What do you need? As you can see, I am taking my lovely fair maide-"

Nezumi was promptly wacked in the head by the male that leaked female pheromones.

"Quiet, Nezumi!" the white haired-boy exclaimed before turning to Tsuna with a bright smile, "Did you need something?"

"A-ah! Yeah, um, I need t-to know where H-hibari-san and Yamamoto-san l-live. I was hoping Nezumi-sama knew where the-"

And then he realized his mistake.

"U-um, Shion honey, I can explain."

"This poor child, NEZUMIIIIII!"

"Shion" ended up chasing Nezumi around the block leaving Tsuna without any information about the relation between the two dark-haired boys.

E/N: Alright. I didn't really like the ending, but if anyone wants a Part 2 of this, just tell me in a review/pm. This chapter was mainly a crack chapter that I wanted to add in. I like the idea of Hibari and Yamamoto being sort-of siblings while fighting over Tsuna. Heh.

Ciao~

[1]-Considering that we're only in chapter eight, I don't believe Tsunayoshi to be that intimate either Yamamoto nor Hibari and so "name" will be considered as "last name" for the rest of the world that does not see eye-to-eye with Tsunayoshi.

[2]-I'm sure you, and the rest of Hitman Reborn fans have realized the utterly ridiculous size of Tsunayoshi's eyes. I was debating on putting "small nose", but I find "big eyes" hilarious since well, you know, Tsunayoshi has eyes the size of my hand.

[3] Okay, I'm sorry. Do I have to put a disclaimer now? I don't own No. 6 (Anime nor Manga). I just love Nezumi and Shion. And Nezushi. And I am utterly disgusted by Safu. I thought she was a sweet girl with a nice crush on Shion. Oh, but no, she just has to go out in public and yell:

"OH SHION. GIMME UR SPERRRRRMMMMMMMM."

Well, she didn't say it quite like that. But it's the "sperm" that counts. Ew. Why did I just type that.

[4]-Don't own Nutella. Dammit.