Title: Language Barriers
Summary: Snippets of Tsuna's time in China as he travels with seven other people and their rather colourful personalities.
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After Kyouya took his revenge for being awoken, he disappeared into the food carriage.
It took a while for the rest to gather the courage to follow - or at least talk about following. Tsuna volunteered to go instead and Hayato couldn't let his friend go alone, so the two took orders and left the rest to guard the luggage.
After a quick breakfast of simple fruit, Kyouya pulled down his and Tsuna's suitcases in preparation to leave. Hayato quickly grabbed his as well and Tsuna blinked in shock when everyone did the same.
He had completely forgotten to ask where everyone was getting off. He grinned brightly at everyone, incredibly happy that he got to spend more time with them.
Kyouya rolled his eyes.
'Hello, Shanghai!'
People shuffled away from the screaming German who just alighted.
They slipped off the train, able to stay together through the mass of the crowd by picking out strange hair colours of purple, silver and white or by finding Takeshi who stood a good head above the crowd.
Kyouya refused to put up with crowding more than he absolutely had to so he moved to the other side of the platform, where the mass of people was lessened significantly, and the rest followed.
They made sure to keep Tsuna in between them and Kyouya as a first line of defence as well as stay a good distance from the Chinese man, especially since Takeshi was still prodding gently at his ribs because of what happened that morning.
The platform cleared quickly, leaving only a trickle of people. Just as Kyouya was about to grab the handle of his luggage and leave, a man walked up to them, wheeling a trolley in front - the kind you see in airports for suitcases.
'Luggage?' asked the porter in stuttering English.
'Yes! Hello!' Ryohei cried back, not understanding English at all.
'Luggage?' the porter repeated, clearly not able to speak German.
'Hello!'
'We're going to be here a while,' muttered Lambo, lowering the handle on his luggage and sitting on it.
Chrome had her phone out to record it and Mukuro was gesturing over another porter to join in. Kyouya, on the other hand, was the only one doing something productive, dragging off his and Tsuna's luggage to the stairs. He then came back for Tsuna and dragged him off.
Hayato rushed after them and the rest decided they would join as well since they enjoyed each other's company (when it didn't involve twister).
They got to the stairs only to find Kyouya already at the bottom and glaring up at Tsuna who was holding onto the side handle of his suit case and stumbling down the stairs.
Hayato quickly ran down the steps to help, his own luggage held awkwardly from the size. As the others shrugged and picked up their suitcases a man suddenly dropped into stride beside Chrome.
'Is it heavy?' he asked politely in perfect English.
'Oh! Umm-' Chrome stuttered.
Before she could get an answer out the man grabbed the handle on the top since Chrome was using the side one and they both walked down the stairs, sharing the weight.
'Thanks,' Chrome said shyly.
Mukuro glared daggers into the back of the man's head right up until he parted from Chrome at the bottom of the steps. They walked a short distance down a tunnel and then down some more stairs.
'Is it heavy?' a kind woman asked Chrome.
They all blinked in shock as Chrome stuttered out the exact same words, far too identical to be just a coincidence. Chrome threw a smirk over her shoulder at them, clearly smug.
'That sly little...' Lambo mumbled, rather impressed.
Mukuro looked proud even though he still glared at the unknown woman.
The last set of stairs lead down to a parking garage area where taxis and buses would arrive to pick up passengers. A sleek black limousine was waiting and Kyouya headed straight for it.
Tsuna looked back to the rest who were pouting. He turned to Kyouya and made his eyes as big as they could go, sticking out his bottom lip and clasping hands in front of him shyly. The hunched shoulders finished off the technique, and when Kyouya turned to order Tsuna inside, he froze.
Suddenly Chrome was peeking over Tsuna's shoulder, her puppy eyes devastating, and Lambo joined in on Tsuna's free shoulder, the rest of them huddling into a group hug as they stared pitifully at Kyouya.
The man stayed frozen for a moment and then shuddered in disgust, looking away. 'Never do that again,' he ordered before ducking into the car.
Tsuna wasn't sure if he convinced Kyouya, but the chauffer gestured them over. They all took that as consent and once the bags were loaded into the surprisingly large boot space they pile into the car.
Tsuna was bouncing in his seat next to Kyouya from excitement. He was a fully grown adult, yes, but he was always happy to make new friends. Kyouya's hand comes down on Tsuna's knee and the Decimo stopped moving immediately, instead smiling up at Kyouya.
"Thank you very much, Hibari-san," Tsuna said earnestly. "I know I'm forcing you to go out of your way but thank you for bringing them along. I really think we can be good friends and it would be sad to lose contact after only a train ride."
Hibari glanced sideways and raised an eyebrow. 'I don't know why you bother to speak. I can't understand you anyway.'
Tsuna blinked. "Oh, right. Language difficulties. Never mind." He had actually completely forgotten.
'Listen, bastard,' Hayato began in Mandarin, a light tone to his voice so Tsuna doesn't realise he was insulting Kyouya. 'Tsuna said something so you should damn well listen and be thankful.'
"Wait," Tsuna cut in. "I recognise the word bastard. Hayato, you can't just insult people like that." He frowns in disappointment and then turned to Takeshi. "Tell Hayato to apologise."
Takeshi translated to Korean. Hayato hesitated, but Tsuna requested it of him, so he mumbled an apology. In French, just to be difficult.
Kyouya stared at Hayato for a moment and then looked to Tsuna, ruffling the fluffy hair in approval of the power the brunet had over the herbivore, before immediately going back to staring out of the window.
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A/N: This is for DirectSomething who actually reminded me that this story still exists. Woops.
Next chapter they sign into a hotel so please vote for who you want to share with Tsuna in the poll on my profile. You can also suggest other room sharing if you want. So far Kyouya is winning by a very large margin.
Languages:
Tsuna (Japanese) – Hibari (All Chinese dialects, English) – Hayato (Italian, Universal, English, Mandarin, French. Non-fluent in Russian, Korean, Greek, Spanish. In the process of learning Japanese for Tsuna)
Mukuro (Afrikaans, Italian) – Chrome (Dutch, English) – Lambo (Russian, German, Polish) – Ryohei (German) – Takeshi (Korean. Non-fluent in Japanese)
Poll on profile: Pairings?
All – 43
Kyouya – 42
Reborn – 14
Oblivious – 11
Mukuro – 10
Chrome – 6
None – 6
Hayato – 4
Lambo – 1