GUILTY

"Hey, did you hear? Did you hear?" a seemingly talkative girl near the school gate asked to her friend. "Hibari's not here anymore!"

"Yeah! Yeah! We should celebrate! Yay!" her friend rejoiced, as they jumped out of bliss.

"But, I wonder what happened right?" another friend joined the conversation. "Did he die?"

"Haha! Why are you so worried?" the talkative girl asked with a smirk. "You have a crush on him, don't ya?"

"No way! But he was indeed good-looking!"

"I heard in our local radio station," maybe, one of their classmates also joined the talk. "That Hibari got into accident!"

"SERIOUSLY?" the three girls chorused.

"He must have been dead! Did you hear it? Yes!" the first girl yelled. "I can continue with my usual life!"

"That's right!"

But from afar, Sawada Tsunayoshi eavesdropped in the conversation of the four. Did...Did Hibari really died just from accident? What kind of accident?

"Um-umm..." Sawada went to the circle of the four. The said four stopped from their chatting and turned their heads to the brunet.

"Oh, isn't that Dame-Tsuna?" The chatty girl called first. "You worried about Hibari? Haah!"

"Is it...Is it true that Hibari-san...has really died?" Sawada asked nervously, his eyes facing the ground. He couldn't bear the mischievous looks of these students who rejoiced after someone died.

"Yeah! So are you really worried!" the second girl busted in. "You lose your savior now, Dame-Tsuna! Prepare yourself from bullies!"

"H-hai..." the brunet then excused himself from the four, and went to his classroom quickly to avoid those bullies who were itching to bother him again. But as he did so, he couldn't get out of his mind what that girl told him.

You lose your savior now, Dame-Tsuna!

Savior? Since when did Hibari-san become my savior?

Countless thoughts about Hibari entered Sawada's mind, until he reached his classroom. Upon closing the door, all he could hear from his classmate was what happened to the infamous discipline committee leader. Apparently, even Kusakabe-san and other members of the committee had also disappeared.

When Gokudera greeted him "Good morning" enthusiastically, as well as Yamamoto, he pretended not to be worried about Hibari. Surprisingly the topic about the guy never came up, which he thanked God for. After many hours, the class ended as usual.

And time to go home. But Gokudera and Yamamoto left him for some business – the former for some unknown reason while the latter about the baseball practice – and now he had no companions in way home. He felt shiver ran down his spines. He knew what would happen without them. And since Hibari wasn't here anymore, bullies awaited for him.

Yet it echoed again.

You lose your savior now, Dame-Tsuna!

Right...without Hibari, maybe he could have been in his coffin now or confined in the hospital. The prefect always came at the right timing whenever bullies went straight to him every time he would go home alone. He was almost killed two years ago when Hibari was the one who sustained the injury from another bully who tried to stab him for some unknown reason. Also a year ago when he was forced to dress as a girl and some bullies ALMOST raped him, Hibari came there again to save him. Some thugs who also tried to snatch his lunch and money also lost consciousness when the prefect came at the right time to save him. The dark-haired man also came to accompany him one night when he walked alone to home. He didn't realized that Hibari had done a lot of things for him.

Though, the said prefect would never admit that he did those things for the brunet. He always said that he did it for the sake of peace of Namimori – nothing more, nothing less. But Sawada was still thankful.

And then the events of yesterday filled up his mind. He just rejected Hibari. What the hell did he replied to that man who always saved him? Rejection!

And tears welled up in his eyes.

Hibari told him that he loved him, and Sawada thought that that was the reason why the prefect always came there to save him every time he was in trouble.

The brunet thought that Hibari wasn't really that affected much to his rejection as he was rather smiling after that. He smiled, not smirk.

And when he did remember what kind of smile the prefect showed him – it was a forced smile...a fake one.

The eyes full of sorrow, anguish, dismay and disappointment, but hid themselves in the mask of the blue grey eyes who always displayed strength and irritation.

How come he didn't notice it right away?

He held his bag tightly, with the pair of tonfa inside it. He felt guilty, really guilty for what had happened. Because of him, the Namimori's discipline would die, the school's peace would vanish and many innocent people would be overthrown by hooligans.

And where really did Hibari-san go?

Did he really die? No, no! That's impossible. Hibari-san would never killed himself or let himself be killed by such reason!

Then he just realized. Hibari had been saving him for almost three years, meaning, the prefect might have been in love with him for three years as well.

He tried to place himself in Hibari's condition. What if he was three years in love with a certain person, who you did save whenever he's in trouble? Then when you had the courage to tell that person what you felt, you were just rejected. And Sawada concluded that if something like that happened to him, he wouldn't know what to do.

He ran as tears continued to flow from his eyes, and suddenly he bumped into something that felt like solid.

Sawada looked to that thing where he bumped himself and saw a very muscular man who looked like a yakuza. He was accompanied by other thugs who also looked like syndicates.

As he just expected, bullies were really attracted to him.

He shut his eyes closed for he feared what might happen next, but he was already prepared. He just wished this bullies would just beat him up and leave him right away.

"You..." a very deep yet hoarse voice sent down shiver in his spine. "...were that traitor's – I mean – Young Master's beloved..."

Huh?

"Come with us." That thug dragged him out of the school, as he struggled to have him let go, but to no avail. "We'll show you something beautiful..."

Okay, a really fast update? Just really a miracle :D It's just I got lots of inspiration to do fanfic today. I'm sorry for grammar errors. If anyone is willing to be my beta, please tell me! I do fanfics almost every week, though I don't post it since most of them have cliche plot.

Anyway, please review!