At first things came up. Getting sick, final exams, and plenty of other stuff. But now it has been almost a year since I last updated; and there is absolutely no good excuse for that. My midterms of my senior year are coming up now and I am fully aware of just how long I have kept you all waiting and I sincerely apologize. I am so thankful to all of you that have reviewed, subscribe, and favorited this story and stuck with me thus far. What makes this all the worse is that I have had the majority of this chapter written and sitting on my computer since a short while after I last updated. I also wrote a good majority of the next chapter while I was at summer camp, though I still have yet to actually type it up. But, I spent most Thanksgiving typing up and editing the rest of this chapter, but primarily and over all, I am so sorry that this sort of delay ever happened. Because, in all honesty, it never should have.

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Tsuna grimaced.

It had been two weeks.

TWO WEEKS!

And he still was no farther along in figuring out what animal you were in the least!

Groaning, his fluffy brown head met his text book in hopeless despair. He didn't care about math or history or the culture festival plans the class representative had been droning on about for the last forty-five minutes. He just wanted to know your animal type! He really, really wanted to know!

"Tenth? Is something wrong?"

The brunet's head immediately jerked up.

"Haha~, hey Tsuna, are you feeling okay? You've been mumbling to yourself all through class."

"A-ah, it's nothing, just…" he stole a tedious glance over to where you were putting away your school books and preparing for the lunch period.

"Tch," Gokudera had followed his gaze, "is she bothering you Tenth? Cause I'll gladly-"
"Maa maa, [Name]-san wouldn't do something like that"

"Would you shut up you-" alas Gokudera seemed fated to never be able to complete a full sentence while in the presence of his beloved Tenth.

"It's not that, it's-" Tsuna had interrupted and then sighed, "look, I'll tell you guys during lunch, okay? Let's go up to the roof."

"Oh! So that's it!" Yamamoto laughed, as always, as his chopsticks dug into his food once more. "So, any luck on finding out her animal yet?" He asked through a mouth full of sushi and rice.
"No," Tsuna mumbled, glumly and depressed. He'd even followed you around a couple of times to try and question you and find out, but you were refusing to drop even a single hint. Why were you so infuriating? Hmm, actually, what was an infuriating animal…?

Sighing, the boy reached for his bento, after having staved off more of Gokudera's overly passionate offers to blow up annoyances and force information out of pesky, stupid women (you and Haru would have hit him if you were there), only to have his hand land on air.

"Eh?" quickly searching around himself Tsuna confirmed that his bento was nowhere on the roof and another quick train of though led him back, down the stairs, around the corridor, through his classroom door, and…onto his desk. Putting a hand to his face in embarrassment, Tsuna clambered to his feet.

"I'll be right back guys, I forgot my lunch box in the classroom."
"Eh, do you want us to go with you?"
"No, it's fine!" the brunet protested quickly, holding up his hands. "I'll be right back," he called over his shoulder as he left the roof.

Trudging his way back to class the boy genuinely cursed his bad luck, why did he have to leave his lunch behind? Lunch time was limited and he was hungry!

Entering the classroom, the brunet proceeded to his desk and extracted his lunch from his school bag, which was right where he left it, before turning to head back to the roof when something caught his eye.

It was a notebook.

A journal.

Nothing fancy or exceptionally special, but it was sitting on your desk.

Quickly the boy stole a paranoid glance around the room. You weren't in sight, and nobody was looking…it was just going to be a peek, no harm, you'd never know…besides it wasn't like he was doing anything horrible, right?

Besides, what did he have to loose?

'So', Tsuna mused to himself as he sat cross-legged on the floor of his bedroom, 'How did it come to this?'

And why was he currently engaged in a rather heated staring contest with the journal that lay so touchable and not-supposed-to-be-there on his carpeted floor? His eye twitched slightly as he looked down at the imposing blue booklet that lay in front of him. The plan had been simple; steal a quick peek, put the journal back exactly how it was, and no one's the wiser. It was simple. So, for the life of him, he could not explain how he had ended up putting said journal in his bag and bringing it home with him. This-this wasn't just taking a quick look and walking away, this was theft! Or stalking! O-or, okay he was going to stop that trail of thoughts now. But, still…his eyes never left the note book in front of him.

Oh, what the heck, he thought to himself. What on earth was he getting so worked up about? For all he knew the book probably just contained [Name]'s math or history notes. Nothing that would cause a problem. And even if he was caught with her journal he could always just say he had made a mistake and grabbed the wrong one. Sighing to himself and cursing his foolishness Tsuna finally began to relax. Honestly, what was he getting so worked up over anyways? He should just open the book and find out what kind of notes it held. And so, without further ado, he reached forwards and flipped open to the first page of the book.

Oh how wrong he was about just what type of notes he would find contained in that innocent little book.

You sighed as you sat down at the desk in your room finally you were home, had taken a hot bath, and finally you could relax for a bit. However, there were still other matters to attend to as well. You lifted your brown, standard school bag and began shuffling through inside with out really looking.

That was odd.

Pulling the bag front and center on your lap you began looking through more thoroughly, shifting aside papers and relatively unimportant folders and books quickly in your search.

Just where was…

Oh. My. GOD.

Tsuna had to try very hard to keep himself from squeaking in fear as he stared into the notes with the book pulled right up to his nose in apprehension.

Th-these weren't notes, well, school notes, this-this was a-a journal! A Diary! A- a something special, private, and personal written by you that he was not supposed to be reading, so why couldn't he put it down!

Tsuna's mind continued freaking out, telling himself to stop oh-my-god-oh-my-god-she-is-going-to-kill-me-if-she-finds-out-oh-my-god-oh-my-god-Reborn-will-murder-me-for-invading-a-lady's-privacy-oh-my-god-oh-my-god even as his fingers continued to turn another page and oh-my-god-oh-my-god- wait.

These entries were familiar.

No, he hadn't read them before, most certainly not, but they were familiar. They were about him. They were about the days around when he had asked what kind of animal she was herself. They were about-Tsuna blushed as he read out how 'cute' and 'flustered' he had been when he asked about it in the café and how 'surprised' she'd been about the sudden outburst-that incident, and about what had caused him to even have the barest trace thought of taking the journal cross his mind. They were about- Tsuna's eyes widened- "I know I challenged him, but I kind of wonder if he'll ever figure out that I'm—". They were about-his fingers turned the soft page to finally find the destination of the final words – "that I'm – "…

"DAME-TSUNA!"

Tsuna shrieked at the top of his lungs and leapt five feet into the air as the door impaled the wall with a resounding CRASH! And the tiny fedora and suit clothed baby that had entered the room stared at him disapprovingly.

"Dame-Tsuna, stop acting like a girl who's just been caught reading her best friend's secret diary. A mafia boss should be more refined."

"Reborn! Don't scare me like that!" he shouted at his so-called sadist of a tutor.

"A mafia boss should be prepared for any situation"

"I told you, I'm not going to be a mafia-"

"And," and unholy spark glistened in Reborn's eye, "just what were you reading anyways. It certainly doesn't sound like homework and the cultural festival is nothing for you to get that excited over."

That was enough to bring Tsuna up short and very nervous.

"N-nothing!" he practically shouted, frantically making to put as much room as possible between him and the demonic baby tutor from the abyss.

"Nothing at all," he could see Reborn's eyes going to the blue notebook still clutched tightly in his hands, "I-it's really just," the eyes were now traveling back up to Tsuna's face and that smirk was starting to build on Reborn's face, "that is to say i-it's just," he was doomed. So desperately, totally, and utterly despairingly doomed. And this black suited hitman baby was about to kill him to get the notebook and see what was going on and he just knew it.

Reborn put a tiny black loafer forwards.

Tsuna threw his arms up in front of his face, "Oh my god! Please don't kill me!"

"Maman says that dinner's ready and that you should come down and eat before it's all gone" Reborn turned on his heel, leaving Tsuna's bedroom, without so much as a further comment, barely glimpsing back, "the stupid cow will eat your share if you don't hurry up" he stated as he began his procession of hopping down the stairs.

Tsuna just stared, peeking out from behind his scrawny arms at the now empty doorway.

…he wasn't dead? Or maybe he was and Reborn had just killed him so fast that he still hadn't realized it. Or maybe…another idea dawned on him or maybe Reborn actually hadn't noticed that he was hiding something? He squashed that idea as quickly as it had come, that was just impossible. But, why hadn't Reborn…

"Bwahaha! All the food is Lambo's!"
"Lambo stop!"
I-pin and Lambo's voices sounded up the stairs as his own stomach let out a very odd growling whining sound. Oh come on, couldn't even his stomach have the guts to sound at least a little assertive and manly? On second thought, Reborn could wait because it sound like what was left of his dinner was just about to be gone! He sprinted down the stairs. A blush skirting across his face as the last few lines of the journal flitted across his mind again.

"…that I'm – "

He had found out!

Reborn smirked as he hopped his way down onto the first floor landing. So his idiot student thought he could hide something from him. How pointless, he already knew the basis of what had been going on for the last three weeks. The boy couldn't hide anything from Reborn to save his life. He needed more training.

The smirk stretched across his face as he though of what would ensue from this. He already had a pretty good idea of what his student's reaction had been all about after all, and besides; who ever said that he never did anything good for his students?

And with that Reborn entered the dining room, prepared to beat the snot out of the little cow brat should the five-year-old dare think he could get away with stealing the hitman's food.

You pushed the hair out of your face and grinned in triumph as you lifted your favorite pen before your eyes.

Found it!

The search had been worth it and the valiant struggle made against the wicked, now completely disorderly, remains of your school bag had been worth the fight even though the strewn remains of homework lay in the piles of paper now clustered in unkempt heaps about your desk and feet.

Now you could finally write in your journal and…and- your eyes drift to the clock on your desk, neon numbers revealing the undesirable time as you felt your eye brow twitch.

Screw it.

You would finish your entry tomorrow, you thought as you threw back the covers of your bed, you had already done most of the entry at school, and besides; with the cultural festival tomorrow sleep came first. Your head hit the pillow and the lights went out.

Birds chirped in the sunny, blue sky streaked with light puffy clouds as the world seemed to shimmer and shine with joy and exultation. A spiky haired brunet running to school with a spring in his step and a full force grin carved onto his face seemed to be soaking the good mood quite the dynamic foil to his usually panicky personality.

He knew. He Knew. HE KNEW what her animal was!

He had woken up early and was on time to school and he knew!

Tsuna kept grinning, his eyes sparkling in happiness! He KNEW and this may just be one of the best days in his life!

He had no idea how oddly appropriate that statement was going to be.

"Welcome~!" A pair of girls greeted the parents, guests, and visitors as they entered through the front gate to the school. Everything was hustle and bustle as joy and excitement ran rampant (as well as noise much to the displeasure of Hibari) as students went about running booths, attracting customers, and overall enjoying themselves (again, much to the displeasure of Hibari) with a day at least somewhat free of the rigorous mental work school usually required when inhabited. Students were cheery, excited, and busy and the crazy class, home to the highest concentration of homicidal hitmen in the school was no exception.

"Can you bring that over here?"

"A little more…"

"Hey where are the-"

"Be careful with that!"

"Have you seen the programs?"

"Hey! Wait up!"

"Urrrgh~" Tsuna was currently straining under the weight of an enormously heavy box at least three time his own size. He felt his shaking arm twitch and then suddenly yelped when the weight of the box was suddenly alleviated. Looking up he found a pair of bright eye peering back at him from the side of the box.

"Hey, you looked like you could use some help there," you said as you stuck your head around the side of the enormous (what the heck was in here anyways?) box to talk face to face with Tsuna. "Where does this need to go?"

Between the two of you you manage to maneuver the box to the part of the classroom that had been allotted to storage space and subsequently hidden from the visitors. Finally settling the box into place you gave it another skeptical look to its possible contents and then turned to face the brown haired boy.

Tsuna was anxiously looking you up and down as the box was finished being settled into place before you turned to look at him. He glanced around you…were alone now. He felt himself begin to sweat slightly with anticipation. Would now be the good time to tell you? He knew after all and it would be better if no one was around to hear, right? Ahh, but what if she was angry when she realized he had read her journal. No, he wouldn't have to tell her that…but what if she found out anyways? He couldn't just lie about it…

You raised a brow in amusement; Tsuna was making those funny faces again.

"Hey" your voice snapped the cub out of his highly amusing to watch train wreck of thoughts and his head snapped upwards, his eyes to meet yours.

"What going on?"

It was now or never.

He gulped.

"[Name]-…"

"[NAME]!"

The curtain cover the back of the room was ripped back violently.

"Help! We can find the right props anywhere!"

"What?" you immediately snapped into action mode, "ask Kingfish, he should know, but I'm pretty sure they're- ah" you turn back Tsuna, "Tsuna can we talk in bit?"

"Ah sure-"

"Hey Sawada!" another boy came sprinting over so fast he nearly cracked his head on the wall, "where's that box I asked you to move?" he sounded panicky, "Is it safe?"

"Err, it's right here," the brunet point behind him.

"Ahhh! Thank goodness!"

Just what was in that box anyways? Tsuna turn quickly back to find you only to see that you had been dragged off by yet another student with a problem to be fixed.

"[Name!]"

"Ah, Tsuna! Sorry, I got pulled away earlier. What were you trying to say?" Tsuna shook his head and called to you over the noise.

"Later!" he could already see more eager classmates headed your way, "after everything's done can you meet me on the roof?" he asked thinking fast.

You blinked.

"The roof? Sure, but why?"

"I'll tell you later!" The excited brunet called out just before someone else grabbed your arm to pull off for help else where.

The roof? You wondered somewhat bewilderedly, why the roof?

Inside Tsuna cheered. Yes! Finally you could meet in a place that would be free and quiet and away from all distractions where he could tell you. He ran off to complete his next task with an extra skip in his step. Yes! Yes! Yes!

The bright green Italian eyes of a certain irate silver haired smoker were focused almost dangerously on a certain part of the classroom. Something was going on. His eyes narrowed as the tenth interacted uncomfortably with the damn-animal-woman. He followed both of their forms as they retreated and his cigarette crunched hard beneath his pearly white teeth. If that woman wanted anything to do with the tenth she would have to go through him first and he would damn well make sure of that.

"Hey, Gokudera! What going on?"

Said bomber jump nearly a foot in the air as the laughing baseball star clapped him on the shoulder.

"Idiot!" he hissed out, "Don't do that!"

"Haha! Why are you whispering?"

Growling, the silverette yank him into the back by the collar.

"Shut up and listen to me! Something's wrong with so stay out of my way!"
That got Yamamoto's attention.

"With Tsuna?"

Dusk had fallen and, while the festival was still going on, Tsuna was happily ascending the stairs to the roof. Rushing, footfall after footfall increasing in tempo all the while. A smile stretched across his face as he got closer and closer to his destination. He knew!

You sighed slightly. Perhaps you should have pulled Tsuna aside and asked him for a more specific time? You felt the cool wind glide through your hair as the sun finished sinking below the horizon. You had been the one to reach the roof first and had been waiting for some minutes now. You were almost starting to wonder. Maybe Tsuna had meant to meet up after the whole festival was over? When you heard the door swing open and turned to face the panting, smiling brunet.

"Maa maa I'm sure everything's alright. This is [Name]-san after all."
"Shut up you baseball idiot! I didn't ask you to come anyway!" Gokudera hissed as he peered cautiously around the edge of the ajar roof door. He would do what ever he had to to protect his precious tenth.

"Maa maa" a hair ruffle.

"I said shut up!"

The sky was quickly descending into a deep navy blue blanketing the town and the school as the sunlight peeked away on the horizon. It was like one of those fairytale scenes, it was somehow reminiscent of the pivotal setting between two characters in any movie or customary teen love story.

And Tsuna was panicking.

Sort of. It was one of those incredibly confusing moments in which Tsuna was shaking and torn between running the hell away and staying put in his bravery as incredible as even having that was. All the bravado he had held on the stairs seemed to be fading. Fast.

His mind immediately started flipping back into the mode he had been in last night when he had finally worked up the courage to open the journal and to see what was actually in it. Oh-my-god-oh-my-god-oh-my-god- was shooting through his head at a million miles an hour. Was he going to do? What was he going to do!

Calm down he told himself, attempting to pull in a shaky breath. You're fine. She challenged you to find out her animal and you did. You did nothing wrong.

'Yeah, besides invade her personal privacy by stealing and reading an obviously private journal'

'You're not helping!' he shouted back at his inner voice.

"Hey, Tsuna," your voice snapped him out of his panicky trail of thoughts, "What did you want to talk about?" You smiled at him, and then grinned, a possible idea coming to mind.

"Do you think you've figured out my animal?"

That got Tsuna to react. Ok, he felt uncomfortable about this, sure. That he was scared and more nervous about this than he could remember ever being were undeniable facts, but…he swallowed hard and firmed up. He was going to do this. His looked up, meeting yours fully.

"Ah, w-well" Curse his stuttering! He lifted up his right hand from behind his back, watching your eyes widen as they fell upon the innocent blue journal he was extending out to you, "I kind of have, [Name]-san".

"You're a lioness, aren't you?"

There was a world of silence, the eye contact stretching between the two of you. Alone. On the roof. It was just the two of you.

"You cheated."

"Er, w-well" Tsuna blushed, turning red under your scrutinizing focus "it was just sitting on your desk and I was kind of getting desperate-"

"You took it off my desk." An eyebrow raised and your gaze became more focused. Tsuna just turned even redder.

"E-er, w-well" gahh! Why couldn't he just say that he found it? It would have been the truth!

"I-I honestly didn't know it was a journal until I opened it!" he protested.

"Yet, you still kept on reading it after you knew it was." Tsuna flinched, face brightening further.

"W-well…"

"Well-" you turn your back to him haughtily, "I don't think I'm going to give you you're prize now."

He gaped at you, "W-what?"

"You heard me," you back at him from over your shoulder, "You cheated."

"T-that's not fair!"

"You cheated"

Ugh…he could really argue against that, he had invaded your privacy after all, but…he eye fell down to land on the blue journal still clutch within his hand. Ok, so maybe this was going to be a really bad idea but… he gulped again "I-" you turned your head back to look at him, "I do still have your journal" he pointed out.

You gaped at him. Baby lion has fangs! Was he-"are you," you started out, "Threatening me?"

He squeaked and jumped turning red again before waving his hands fiercely.

"Nonono!" He protested, "I mean- I'll give it back! But-," he looked back up at you hesitantly, "please?"

"…" you looked at him and observed his sorrowful pleading expression before finally sighing and closing your eyes. "Fine." You relented, finally turning to face him and beginning to approach. His face brightening up almost made it worth it your repeal. "But you better not do anything like that ever again, got it?"

He nodded fiercely, bush like brown hair shaking with the force. With a final sigh you leaned forward and step towards him to close the distance when all of a sudden…you tripped.

Your eyes went wide and you stumbled forwards, eyes just barely catching the glint of the wire wrapped around your ankle as you were sent careening forwards. "Wha-?"

Tsuna was wide eyed as he attempted to arrest your fall only to go pitching forwards himself when a solid weight slammed itself between his shoulder blades.

You both stopped when lips were smashed into each other.

…And then the fireworks went off.

You stared at each other eyes wide and lips still connected.

And then Gokudera and Yamamoto fell through the roof door, eyes wide and a very pleased Reborn smirking on top of their heads.

The two of you jumped back spluttering, red faced, and incomprehensible. Staring at Tsuna, Reborn, and the others you suddenly covered your face and wailed, "It was supposed to be on the cheek!"

Reborn just kept smirking as Leon crawled back up his arm to his usual place on Reborn's fedora rim from the roof.

All according to plan he thought as he watched the blushing stuttering roof counterparts.

And whoever said he never do anything good for his students?

Omake:

"Herbivores" A chilly and unamused voice cut through all of their personal freak outs as their eye immediately swiveled up to the figure standing at the base of the school water tower. To a very unamused Hibari Kyouya. The prefect lifted his tonfas menacingly under the colorful glow of the still exploding fireworks, their muffled voices held up high in the atmosphere.

"You will all be bitten to death for disturbing the peace, crowding, and participating in Public Displays of Affection while on school property."

Ignoring the pale forming behind your prominent blush you immediately gripped Tsuna's wrist. "RUN!"

And high tailed it off the roof with blushing beau in tow. Leaping over Dog boy and prissy Kitty boy who were still lying on the floor of the roof you flew past Reborn who continued to smirk at your very red faces. Neither of you bothered to slow down with the tonfa wielding disciplinary maniac hot on your heels even as you burst out of the front doors of the school. This was truly the school festival to remember.

Still! Nine pages single spaced (18 double-spaced for upload) and 4,211 solid words of story! I hope you all enjoyed and please review! It make feel good and super motivates me to update on time!

I'm seriously starting to wonder if I should just make this Tsuna series its own story...by the way, I only fully edited about half of this story because I wanted to get it out to everyone still reading faster. So, if you see and typos as I am sure exist, please feel free to report them and they will be fixed! Thanks!

By the way, I've thought about this and wanted to know, is there anyone that would be interested in reading a male reader/OC story? I've been thinking that is would be interesting to write at least one chapter like that, but I wanted to know if anyone was interested in it first. Just wondering...ooh I could even make it a genderbend fic...actually, that would probably be pretty fun...so, anyways, anyone interested? Tell me so and I shall write it!

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