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Authors note:

Nothing much to say about this chapter, it's just a Little "filler" because The Time has to move a bit ...

Enjoy or not, it's up to you.

Of school, landlords and horny boyfriends (and some time skips)

It was raining and Hayato didn't feel like going to school at all, but she had to, it was a promise between her and Juudaime. She sighed an felt sluggish, she had had a hart time to fall asleep the last night, because of all the things that had happened yesterday. Every time she thought about it she felt hot all over and her heart would race.

As she opened her front door a cool breeze hit her, making her shiver.
The rain fell down on her umbrella and the earth in thick drops, the sound was making her even more sleepy.

She walked to Juudaimes place in a leisure pace, there was no need to rush, she had gone out much too early. People hurried down the street, cars rushed and sometime they would splatter a puddle all over an innocent passer. Hayato was clever enough to walk as far away from the street as possible, she didn't want to get dirty with water from a puddly.

She reached his house and rang the doorbell, she didn't want to wait outside during this downpour. The one who opened was Tsuna himself, she wasn't expecting this and blushed a cherry red.
"Go … good morning Juudaime!" she greeted hastily and bowed, the memories from yesterday rushing down on her. Tsuna smiled, waiting for her to end her bowing before he gave her a short kiss on the lips.
"Good morning!" he was cheerful this morning, Hayato was his personal drug, just seeing her made him happy. Closing the door behind him he took Hayatos hand and walked with her to school, sharing one umbrella.

On normal days the both of them would arrive just before the bell signalled the start of homeroom, but today they were way too early.
It was unusual for them to be the first ones in the classroom, but it was kinda nice.

Tsuna looked at his watch and seemed to be in thought. Then he smiled at Hayato, she blushed, because this smile was the one charming smile that definitely shouldn't be allowed outside of a more intimate setting.
But before she could ask him what was wrong he had leaned in and captured her lips, his hands on her hip. Every reason she had, vanished the moment his lips touched hers.

Her arms were slung around his neck and his tongue teased hers, the rain played a soothing tune against the windows glass.
"Before you two loose any restrain, please be reminded that not all people at this school ship you." Nanashi-sensei put some things onto her desk, she looked like a drenched cat.
The both of them broke apart, blushing furiously.
"Good morning Sensei!" Hayato and Tsuna greeted at the same time, she smiled at them and put away her mobile phone.
"Good morning. You two are early."
"Yes. It just somehow happened." Hayato answered. "What is all this stuff?" Tsuna asked.
"It's material for the school festival. We need to decide on a theme early on." she had some prospects and even Manga on her desk, as well as a picture book.
"Ah and Gokudera-san, it's good to have you back. Did you solve your family problems?"
"The most of them." Hayato smiled.
"That's good then. Bye the way – did your friends tell you ?"
"Tell me what?" she was confused.
"You were chosen to be the class president. Sasagawa-san is your stand in." Nanashi-sensei smiled and Hayato looked dumbfounded.
"Why me? They all hate me!"
"Not all, just a few guys actually. Most of our classmates were afraid of them and just held back their comments." Tsuna shrugged his shoulders: "But because Yamamoto had beaten a guy up and I somehow, well, I just ... slightly punched a guy into the locker of the changing room? (add a sheepish smile) They declared that you are awesome." He scratched his head and was nervous, but he wasn't afraid to confess this thing in front of their homeroom teacher, Nanashi-sensei was cool like that.
"But I don't even want to do it." she sighed and rubbed her temple, that would be annoying, she had so much to do and now that!
"Well … you don't have any say in it." Nanashi-sensei shrugged.
Before Hayato could protest other students came into the room, greeting her friendly.

When homeroom started there was no empty seat in the classroom, Hayato was confused there was a small girl with messy black hair sitting at the first seat of the middle row – she seemed familiar.

The teacher was cheerful, like something good did happen to her.
"Because our school will have a festival the week before summer vacation we need to think about something that we as a class could do." she declared proudly.
"Do you have any suggestions?" she asked.
A guy shouted: "Maid café!" she wrote it on the blackboard.
A girl suggested: "A play!" it was written down.
"A horror house!" others said.
"Any more? No? Well those three are very typical … How about doing all three together?" her eyes sparkled.
"How should that even work?" Hana wanted to know.
"My friend Reboyama-sensei had a nice suggestion. We will make a Mafia café – with shoot outs, a boss and everything related." At that Tsuna slammed his head on the table, damn Reborn, why did he interfere with things like that?

Kyoko giggled: "That sounds nice. But how will we pull it off?"
"We draw a role for everyone, I've prepared the lots." she pulled out a little box and shook it. With that she walked around and let everyone draw.
At the count of ten they opened their papers and looked confused at her.
"So who has the X?" she asked, Tsuna face palmed and raised his hand, he knew what that would mean.
"Sawada-kun – congratulations you are a Mafia boss!" Yamamoto laughed out really loud, Kyoko stifled her laughing, Chrome just coughed and Hayato grinned over her shoulder. That confused their teacher and the rest of the class, but they didn't ask.
"Who has the Y?" Hayato raised her hand.
At that Nanashi grinned like mad: "Congratulations – you are the boss' wife!"
She blushed a nice shade of red and Tsuna grinned happy.
"Everyone with an Z raise your hands!" Hana, Yamamoto and two other guys.
"You are the underlings."
People with an O would play guests – those will start the shooting and war with the Mob boss.
The three who got the K were responsible for the costume design, just one of the three was thrilled about it. Everyone who had nothing on their paper were the workers, they had to decide whether they wanted to work behind the scene or as waiter/waitress. All in all the students were excited about this project, they would make it awesome. The rest of homeroom was spend with planning for the festival and how they should make it realistic.

The brake between homeroom and Ethics was really funny … Hayato did now recognize the girl who she thought familiar – it was Kururo Saruko, the young designer.
Kururo was as surprised as she was to see a business associate in the same class.
She explained that she was a week too late, because she had thought school would start later. But she just shrugged it off – it did happen to her once before. And the both of them were in the same team for the Ethics project about intolerance.

Somehow those two ended up doing all the work for the project, they guys in their team had no imagination and just wanted to do a boring essay. They would make sure to make an awesome presentation, with history and pictures and all those things.

During break time Hayato was at a loss, she stood before the toilets and couldn't decide which one to take. If she had been in a café she would just go straight into the girls bathroom, but at school everybody knew her face and therefore the gender of her body. The girls could feel offended if she just walked in there. She was a girl and didn't want to take the boys toilet, it would feel wrong to her and she really didn't want to see the guys things.
"What are you doing?" it was Kururos voice which stopped her pondering.
"I need to pee." she just declared.
"Well then ..." Without another word Kururo grabbed her arm and dragged her into the girls toilet.

Three girls stood before mirrors refreshing their make up, now they looked at them, glaring.
"What do you want here, fag?" one of them spat, but not at Hayato but at Kururo, who just blinked and tilted her head. The other two girls snickered sickly.
"Maybe we should teach you a lesson – a guy dressing as a girl is just too pathetic." Even then they talked to Kururo – and that wasn't strange at all, because she looked like a little boy in a female uniform, no breast and no femininity at all. How come there were people who didn't know Hayatos face by now? Before she or Hayato could talk some sense into those girl they attacked them …

Later in the infirmary they had to nurse a scratch on Hayatos arm, one of those girls had had really dangerous nails.
The other girls were unconscious in the infirmaries beds, one of them had a nice swollen eye.
"I forgot to put on the armband." the black haired girl face palmed.
"Armband?" Hayato asked.
"Of the disciplinary committee, I joined them." Kururo grinned: "Meaning I won't get in trouble if I beat chicks like them to a bloody pulp."
It was the first time Hayato had heard that a girl was a member of Hibaris group, but it made sense – she could punish female rule breakers without being shunned by others. Even if Hibari never cared much about gender, he knew that it was against the rules for guys to hit girls, it was a predicament he couldn't really solve, but with a female prefect everything was settled. And Hayato had seen that Kururo had too much fun beating people up, it was disturbing and nice at the same time. But how the hell was someone like her a designer?

The door to the nurses office opened and Tsuna stormed inside.
"Hayato what happened? I heard you were hurt!" his voice was shaking and he had a faint blush, he had run down the hallways.
"Juudaime! It's nothing, just a scratch." Hayato blushed, her Juudaime was handsome in his slightly messy uniform. If he wouldn't be a Mafia Boss he could have been a great model, looking all hot and sexy like that.
"Let me see." He took her arm, tenderness and concern showing in his eyes. Looking at the wound he decided that it really was nothing serious, but to make sure it would heal real fast he kissed it.
At Hayatos side Kururo Saruko grinned like she just got to eat her favourite meal.
"Now it will get all better."
Tsuna smiled -That Smile-, that smile which was really troublesome to deal with, the smile which turned the earth the other way and would do things with peoples minds, things minds weren't supposed to do.

Blushing three shades of red Hayato had to cover her face, whoever taught him to smile like that had developed a weapon of mass destruction, that smile could turn men and women alike into goo.
Was the underworld really ready for this destructive weapon? Kururo had fled upon witnessing this smile, she didn't want to turn into goo, thank you very much. Tsuna wanted to lean down and capture her lips in a passionate kiss, but the nurse came back in and shooed them out of the infirmarie.

During class Tsuna couldn't help but stare.
The way Hayatos silver hair was bound made it flow over one of her shoulders, exposing her nape. It was perfect straight and had white skin, he had the sudden urge to touch, to kiss it, but she was to far away, out of his reach.
Frustrated and hungry for her taste, he licked his lips and sighed.

The teachers ramblings about x and y made no sense at all, but his hormones made him imagine strange things because of that. Without his intention his mind wandered, he saw Hayatos nape, back and well formed bottom and because he had seen his share of porn (thanks to Yamamoto) he could see her under him, moaning his name.
Damn, now he was hard, sitting in the damn mathematics lesson without a way to relieve himself.

He was red and looked around, wanting to forget his thoughts and to calm himself down. His eyes met Yamamotos, who grinned and moved his eyebrows in a strange way. Tsuna gave him a dead panned look, what the hell was Yamamoto thinking?
The rain guardian rolled his eyes and made a gesture with his hands, seems like he had seen Tsunas predicament or just guessed it. Tsuna blushed and glared at him, leave it to your best friend to know when you are horny.
Still grinning Yamamoto wrote something on a piece of paper, folded it and threw it.
It landed on Hayatos desk, who looked around to find the source of it. The baseball freak smiled at her and did the same strange eyebrow thing like before. Making a disgusted face Hayato took the paper and read it.
- your man is horny and ready for a round of sweet love making – She blushed.

Then with a smile she looked at him and gave the paper to Kyoko, Yamamoto wanted to protest, shaking his head, but she was ignoring it all.

Kyoko was confused about the little letter, but as soon as she read it she recognized Takeshis handwriting and blushed deep red. Yamamoto had a slight panic attack and Tsuna had to hide his laugh, with his head on the table and his hands covering his mouth.
He didn't know what stood on the paper, but he guessed that it was something inappropriate. The girl looked at Takeshi and moved her mouth – Wait until lesson is over - she smiled sweet at him, like she never had suggested anything related to sex.
Takeshi blushed and scratched his head.

As soon as the bell rung the teacher was out of the room, lunch break had started and he was starving. Without a word Kyoko left the room, a few seconds later Yamamoto did the same and Tsuna was jealous, he wanted to get touchy, too.
"Do we eat here?" Hayato asked him, smiling, not knowing that he had other things, than eating, in his mind.
"I would like to have a more private setting." he confessed, pouting because the weather had ruined their roof lunch.
"I don't know where at school we would find something like that. Most likely all private spots are taken by others and I think Yamamoto and Kyoko have something like that." Here she grinned and Tsuna was even more frustrated that he couldn't be alone with her – stupid rain. Even Hana and Chrome had left somewhere and the feeling he had a few minutes ago was proof enough that Mukuro had come to see the female mist guardian.
"Then let's eat here." he sighed and took out his Bento, he was moody.

"Juudaime? Is something wrong?" she was concerned, this morning Juudaime had been in a good mood, but now he seemed annoyed and angry. Did she do something wrong? Looking at her face he saw that she was unsure if she was responsible for his foul mood, he sighed again.
"I'm just a little … displeased. I would have liked to spend a little coupling time with you during lunch." he smiled sheepish.
"Oh." was all Hayato could say.
She moved her chair at his side, near enough to feel his body heat. "Because we are in the class room, with others, that is all I can do." she whispered and blushed.
"Thanks." he stole a fast kiss.

The both of them ate their meals and talked about Yamamotos stupidity and what he had written. Tsuna almost choked on his egg-roll, he had guessed right. He didn't mention that the paper really was for her and not Kyoko, rather would he die than confess that he had improper thoughts about her. Not that she wasn't aware of his attraction.

"Say Hayato." They walked down the street, dressed in their business attire, going back to the office after they had brought the money to the bank. It was safer to go together instead of alone – you never could be too sure, out there were many greedy and dangerous people looking for cash.
"Yes?"
"Can I sleep over today?" Stopping in her tracks she looked at Tsuna, blushing. He had slept over a few times already, it wouldn't be something new. But yesterdays events had changed their innocent relationship into something more intimate. Thinking about the possibilities, a sleep over would bring, made her nervous.

It wasn't that she hadn't liked the deep kisses and exploring hands, it was that she had liked it too much. His touches had made her so defenceless, they had awoken an animalistic instinct in her, the drive to have be as near as possible with her chosen mate. It had been the first time her body and mind were on equal terms – simple wanting had clouded her whole self, it was creepy but also exciting, pleasurable. The look in Juudaimes clear brown eyes showed her that he didn't want a simple sleep over, he wanted to devour her with skin and hair, it made her shiver in fear and anticipation.

Her whole posture showed her indecision, she wanted to be near him and spend as much time as possible alone with him, but she also feared that they would do something too intense to soon. Sure, they had been together since half a year and it had been damn time that he had kissed her for real, but the thing that followed had been too fast and too much to handle for her. She had never known, that Juudaime was a man with this kind of needs, a man who liked to touch her like that. It wasn't that she never knew that he had a little perverted side in him – everyone had one, even she liked to fantasise about things like that. And that is why she was so unsure – what if his and her expectations were too high and in the end they would end up regretting to be a couple and not just friends.

Tsuna noticed her inner conflict, he didn't know what brought it up. He could just guess that it had something to do with his need for body contact.
The things he had done to her had really been intense, kissing and touching her skin made him addicted on the spot, but he also knew that Hayato wasn't keen on showing and exposing her body. Maybe he wanted too much, sure he knew Hayato had a penis and a flat chest, it didn't really bother him, because he loved her for her. But it made her insecure, because she didn't like her own body, that is why she was afraid to let herself fall and drown in pleasure – it would made her feel good in this body, something she didn't want.

"I wont do anything. I just need to sleep. Lately it is more hectic than ever at home, Fuuta and Lambo don't get along really well, that is why Lambo sleeps in my bed every night and he moves around a lot." He smiled warmly at her.

What he had said was the truth – ever since Fuuta had hit puberty he was a little cranky and would get annoyed easily, Lambo didn't understand that and it always resulted in conflicts he had to solve.
I-pin became more and more aware of being a girl, that was something troubling, because she was now more shy than ever and wouldn't take a bath together with the boys and Lambo was oblivious to that and stormed inside her room or into the bath without thinking much – it often resulted in fights or an exploding I-Pin.
His mother never paid much attention to those things – she just thought they all were lively children, but that was far from the truth. All in all Lambo was the one who caused trouble all around the house and wasn't even aware of it.

"If you want I will sleep on the sofa." She looked at him and could see the light bags under his eyes, it must be difficult for him to manage the Family, solve family problems at home, going to school and doing homework. That he didn't break under all this pressure was awesome.
"Sleep over as often as you want." Kissing his cheek she smiled, if she could be his place of comfort she would gladly accept it. And it was nice sleeping in his arms ...

It was Wednesday afternoon and Hayato was dressed casual, a fluttery dress and a light jacket, the perfect combination for a nice day in spring.
She walked down the street a nice breeze playing with her hair and dress, giving her a charming look, a guy walked against a lamp post, seemingly too fascinated by her to be paying attention to his surroundings. If it had been Juudaime she would have considered it cute, but she thought this guy was an idiot and clicked her tongue in annoyance.

She reached her destination and looked at her watch, calculating the time she would need to walk to school, Juudaimes home or her work place – it was at the perfect centre of all three.
The building she stood before was modern and painted in a nice yellow colour. It was three stories high and she knew that it was formed like an "U" if you would look from above, between the west and east sides was a garden for the use of all residents.
And the best thing was – the landlord was friends with Inukami, maybe she would get the apartment.
She knew many people were interested to live there, but the landlord was rumoured to be picky.

And on cue, three people walked out of the entrance – a young couple and some strange figure. The couple didn't look too happy and the strange thing behind them shook it's head, shooing the couple off.
"Are you Gokudera Hayato-kun?" It's voice was high – too high, it was dressed in bright colours and Hayato couldn't put a gender to it, but she knew it was the landlord – Soemon Chinose (supposed to be male).
"Yes, nice to meet you." She bowed to show respect.
"My, You are cute!" The man rounded her once: "Even I have to squint my eyes really tight to recognize your bodies gender." He winked at her with disturbing long pink lashes, she smiled.
"I'm really happy to hear that, even if I look like that, sometimes I'm not too sure if people really recognize me as a girl." she looked down at herself and fiddled with he handle of her bag.
"Don't be afraid honey, you look more like a girl than some girls. Now then, I will show you the apartment." He led her inside and she was surprised to find a reception desk with a guard (more like a grandpa who didn't have much to do).
She bowed to him and he did the same.

"Do you mind taking the stairs? I need some training!" the landlord said.
"No, even I need more exercise." a charming smile. The both of them made their way to the third floor, every level had three flats Hayato noted.
"The free one is in the middle. The bathroom has no window, I hope you don't mind." breathless but smiling Soemon asked.
"No." Hayato didn't even sweat, her secret training (and stopping to smoke) had paid off. The landlord opened the door and let her in.

The entrance was way bigger than the one in her flat and what she could see was that the apartment had dark parquet flooring.
She put off her shoes and got inside, the hallway let her into the living room and on her left side was an open kitchen – with furniture and everything you needed in a kitchen, seemingly modern and top quality, like the floor.

The living room was spacious and It even had a balcony, she opened the glass door to it and could took a good look inside the well kept garden. Behind her the landlord smiled.
"That's not all Honey, wait until you see the bedroom!" She smiled excited and followed the landlord. The bedroom was great and had a wall closet, big enough to walk in, she couldn't hold back her squeal, that was so much space all her clothes would fit in there – even her shoes!
With sparkling eyes she grinned at the landlord, who guided her to the bathroom.

Like the rest of the apartment it was modern and had a top quality furnishings, she blushed the tube was big enough for two persons.
"How much?" She had to get this apartment, no matter what! The landlord told her, the price was high, but not as high as she had expected. With sparkles all around her she smiled at the colourful landlord.
"When can I move in?"
"Are you sure you have enough money for the rent?" he had to ask, a high school girl living alone was too suspicious, no young girl could have this kind of money.
"My Family is rich – money is no problem at all." It was just a light lie! The Family was rich and she got enough payment, she had the money to pay for her dream apartment. The landlord looked at her calculating.
"The security guarantee is three times the rent, you need to pay it before you can move in." Now his voice was all business like, a level which Hayato could handle.
"Well then, why don't we sign the contract? I want to move in as fast as possible."
"Do you have a guardian who will sign for you?"
"Yes my sister."
"Then call her and you get the contract!"
Now the both of them were once again all smiles.

During the signing of the contact the landlord told her she could paint the walls whatever colour she liked, but if she moved out they had to be white again. The floor was to be kept, underneath it was the heating – she didn't need to worry about cold feet during winter. All in all the contract was fair for both sides – even pets were allowed in here.

She would get the keys to the apartment as soon as she had paid the security guarantee and then she could move in.

... and that's it for now. I know it was nothing much ... but I said it's just a filler to move the time a bit.
The next chapter will have Tsuna x Hayato fluff and smut!
Please Review, it gives me energy and inspitation to write on and on and on ...
How long will this Story be? ... just long ... like really long ... I didn't even write one third of what I'm planning!