Snowflake: I'm sorry to say that I haven't finished the 1859 Story, somehow it didn't turn out how I wanted, meaning I need to rewrite it until I'm satisfied, because I think when I write it, it should be awesome XD

Saruko: Fumiko is just a nickname, his real Name would be Fuji Mikoto or something like that XD and Inukami is just joking around!

Fatin Adolfina: I'm happy that my Story makes your day ^^ So have fun with this chapter!

Thank you for your Reviews!

Authors note: I plan to make a Little spinoff or something like that. It will have things that didn't really fit in to the Story, but I would like to write. It will consist of short stories about them, like how Hayato gets closer to her neighbours or such things.

Well then enjoy or not, it's up to you!

Territory fights

It was the end of June and they had so much to do that they didn't even know where to begin. Between school, homework and paperwork wasn't much time to spend together. Tsuna had had a hard time to decide on managers for the bar and host club. In the end he had decided to let Inukami handle the host club, because that guy had been an host himself. That hadn't been so surprising, he was flirting around all the time – even with his Hayato, but she never responded to it. One of the older subordinates would take care of the bar.

As soon as they had begun to work the results showed up, there was a nice income. But because those things worked well he had to deal with the finances and taxes. How he was able to handle those things, when he had a hard time to comprehend maths, was beyond him. But Reborn had assured him that he did a great job, and it had seemed like even his tutor was surprised about that.

Today his whole attention was on the report he had to write to Nono every month, because he wanted to know how Tsuna handled the business. And he had to write it in Italian, because he needed to learn it, it was the language of Mafia and for them it was more important than English.
Later Hayato would read over it and explain his mistakes to him.
He knew there was another, more pleasurable method to learn this language. Dirty talk under the bedsheets was so much more alluring in Italian. He blushed at the memory from a few days ago.
Hayato sounded so much more erotic when she spoke in her native language, especially with her hand on him.
Reborn kicked his head. "Don't think about dirty stuff when you should be working!"
"I'm not thinking about dirty stuff!" he lied.
"Then why do you have this perverted grin on your face?" the infant looked at him, grinning himself. Tsuna just blushed and wrote his damn report.
"It's good to be young." Reborn sipped his espresso and sounded like an old man.

"How did we end up in this situation?" Hayato asked.
"Hahi! I have no idea." Haru answered.

The both of them were bound together, back to back, and sat on the dirty floor of an abandoned warehouse. Just a few moments ago they had been grocery shopping, because they had decided to cook something delicious for the hard working men and now they had been kidnapped. Hayato had been stupid enough to leave her Vongola gear at home and bound like that she couldn't reach her dynamites. Just her luck to run into trouble defenceless.

"What do we have here? Two little kittens." that voice was just disturbing. She could almost feel the twisted intent.
"Who are you?" she asked coolly, if she would panic they were doomed. Guys like that enjoyed panic and despised calmness.
"Who am I? Who are you?" his voice dripped with venom.
"You ugly bitches work for some wannabe Gangster, isn't that right? Miura Haru here played almost the perfect role of the junky, but she never actually took the pills we gave her."
"How do you know?" Haru asked and was really pale.
"No needy junky would buy them and say: "I will safe them for later." They would just gulp them down." he laughed creepy.
Haru shuddered, she was afraid.

Hayato glared at the direction where she guessed the enemy was.
"But it doesn't matter, because we know your hideout – the 2nd station isn't it? My men are on their way to smash it down good." At that Hayato had to giggle, those guys had chosen the wrong day to do that. Juudaime was really stressed and needed a let out, Reborn was at his side and she knew Yamamoto and Ryouhei were never far away. Chrome had taken over the shop.
"You are the Bakaneko (stupid cat), aren't you?" she mocked.
"It is Bakeneko (ghost cat)!" he shouted angry.
"Whatever." she just laughed more, because she had been able to loosen her bonds and could attack any time. For a guy like him she wouldn't even need her VG.
"You stupid bitch! I will rape you until your little pussy becomes useless!" He came out of the shadows and wanted to grab her hair, but she avoided his hand and kicked his leg hard. He fell on one knee and cursed, with angry tears in his eyes.
Hayato used the time to free Haru. "Go fetch my handbag and call Juudaime!" She gestured to her left and Haru made a run for it.

He wanted to go after the girl, but Hayato was faster than him.
She got into his path and punched his gut as hard as she could. The kidnapper grunted in pain, but had enough energy to slap her with the back of his hand. Because of the force behind it Hayato fell down, she wasn't prepared for this kind of strength. As she wanted to get up, he slammed his foot down on her chest, making her see black for a moment, but not knocking her out.
She held his leg in place, grinning, she turned around, making him loose his balance. He fell down and Hayato jumped up, smirking evil, he had bad luck – she had worn penny heels today. With one well aimed kick she rammed her heel onto his balls, almost castrating him. The offender passed out because of the pain.

Posing like a fashion model she flicked her hair behind her back and looked around, taking the ropes from before and binding him. Because she knew how to do it right, there was no way he could flee, that is, if he woke up.
"Tsuna-san doesn't pick up!" Haru sounded worried and relieved at the same time.
"Maybe they are fighting." Hayato looked around, all her senses were concentrated for any movements, but there was none. She didn't feel any other presence besides Haru. Those people had believed that this guy would be enough to handle two girls. Seems like they liked to underestimate people.

Chrome stared at the guys with baseball bats, her face showed no emotion besides curiosity. They didn't look like baseball players or costumers. Maybe they were troublemakers?
"Uhmm … How may I help you?" she asked, just in case.
"Bring us to your boss!" one shouted and the others roared obscenities.
"Do you have an appointment?" she tilted her head, already holding her trident beneath the counter and establishing an open mind link to Mukuro, just in case she couldn't handle those guys.

The one who had spoke leered at her: "Those things are enough of an appointment. If you don't want to get hurt, call him over." he whispered and shoved the bat into her chest, just lightly to poke her and attempting to let her feel fear.
The guy gulped loud. He hadn't seen the trident coming, it rested at the soft underside of his chin.
"Please leave or I have to hurt you." Her sound was polite and friendly, making the threat oblivious.
"Okay." he took a few steps back: "Isn't what I will say!" he shouted and the troublemakers began to crash the shop.

Tsuna looked up from his report.
What was that sound?
He looked at Reborn who just shrugged and said he should concentrate on his work. Sighing he did just that.

Chrome shook her head a bit, seems like she had to pay them a lesson.
She slammed her trident down.
The room distorted and they all stood upside down. Not knowing what had happened the men shouted in panic. It seems like they never had encountered an illusionist before. So those guy where just a bunch of wannabe gangster with no knowledge whatsoever.
The poor guys will live in fear and agony by the time she was through with them. Yesterdays splatter action film night made her really creative ….

All of them had shit their pants and fled at an amazing speed as soon as she had ended the illusions. She bowed politely and wished them a good day.

Hayato did call Tsuna, at her fifth attempt he picked up.
"Sorry I didn't hear the vibration!" his voice sounded over the phone.
"That doesn't matter much. But I need a little help. I and Haru had been kidnapped, we are in some warehouse outside of Namimori." She explained to him and Tsuna paled at the other side of the line.
"You were what? Who did it?" He asked hurriedly, putting on his jacket and walking out of his office.
"It was the Bakeneko clan. They said they wanted to attack the store." Hayato furrowed her eyebrows – how come he didn't know?
"Well there was a crash some time ago, but other than that I didn't hear an attack. I will ask Chrome to look out." He waved Saruyama at his side and mouthed to him, that he should get the car ready.
"Maybe she did take care of it already." she answered and kicked the unconscious body, just because she felt like it. That guy had been annoying like hell.
"Maybe. I will come pick you up, please be patient and don't do something reckless." That was something he couldn't really expect, she was the epitome of a storm, recklessness was in her nature.
"I will try, but I can't promise anything." she smiled and hung up.

"Let's hurry." Tsuna urged Saruyama to move on. He had talked to Chrome and she had told him about the attack and that those thugs had been no problem at all. But she would hold her link with Mukuro, just in case they showed up with more experienced people.

Yamamoto Tsuyoshi was in a bad mood.
Just as he wanted to open his restaurant, some thugs had come in, threatening him to pay money or see hell. At first he didn't take them seriously, they had been just a bunch of punks.
But then the first one took one of his chairs and slammed it against a wall, no need to say that it broke. He had wanted to let it slide and reasoned with the young guys, that they could earn money trough more legal means, they had just laughed.
One of them even grabbed is collar, calling him names and demanded even more money.

Tsuyoshi was a man of the firm believe that unnecessary violence wouldn't solve anything. But those guys needed to learn that nobody should mess with an old dude who had sharp knives and a lot of experience in kendo. As they ran out of his little restaurant he shook his head. Maybe he should warn other shop owners about those delinquents.

Saruyama had no problem to find the warehouse, it was one on the outskirts of Namimori, he and his friends used to play in there a lot. The Bakeneko clan had drawn their symbol on it. Strangely nobody was around to guard it. Tsuna didn't believe that that was their real hideout. Maybe it was just some kind of a small base one could abonden at any given time. He pushed the door open.

As soon as Tsuna entered the warehouse Haru had rushed forward and hugged him. She cried and sobbed, she had been scared like never before. He hadn't had the heart to push her away and comforted her, rubbing her back. He noticed that she was really small and slender.

Hayato had wanted to hug him, but this girl had beat her to it. And now she had to see how her Juudaime hugged her back, instead of pushing her away. She felt a burning sensation in her heart and glared at her back. Her hands formed into fists, she was angry at Haru and Juudaime, but mostly at Juudaime, because he hugged another girl like it was nothing and looking quite content doing it.
"Are you alright Oujo-san?" Saruyama asked her concerned.
"tch. Of course, I'm not some weak little girl who gets scared easily." Without meaning to do it, she let slip her real voice out, sounding like the male she was. Normally she would talk softer, it had taken her a lot of training to really sound like a woman, but now she was angry and didn't give a damn.
"Take this stupid shit! We need to question him later." she kicked the hostage hard, this time because she needed to vent her frustration.
She grabbed her bag and rushed out of the warehouse, not even glancing back at Juudaime, who had a hard time to calm Haru down.
Cursing she jumped into the co-drivers seat and slammed the door shut.
Some time later Saruyama opened the trunk compartment and shoved the still unconscious guy in it.

Tsuna and Haru came to the car and he looked confused, because she sat in his favourite seat.
Haru took his hand and motioned for him to go into the passengers seat with her. It was not like he had any other choice. Hayato glared at Harus image in the rear mirror and clicked her tongue. Saruyama sat in the drivers seat and felt quite uncomfortable, he sensed her anger and could guess what inspired it, but the Boss seemed oblivious to it.

All the way to the store Haru clung to Tsuna, searching for comfort.
He let her be, because it had been his fault that she was brought into such a dangerous situation.

Back at the store Hayato jumped out of the car as soon as it stopped and got inside.
Tsuna was confused at that, but something inside him told him to talk to her as soon as possible. He got out of the car and helped Saru to emtpy the trunk, it seems like the hostage had woken up and Tsuna wasn't too sure how many laws they had just broken.

Haru was inside and searched for Hayato, finding her in the kitchen.
Hayato was making some coffee, Reborn sat on the counter and watched her carefully and seemingly in thoughts.
"Gokudera-san, can I help out?" Haru asked nicely.
Hayato snapped her head in her direction, a glare on her face. Her green eyes spoke promises of torture.
"I don't need your stupid help!" she slammed her hand down on the counter, shouting at Haru.
"Hahi! What is wrong with you?" Haru took a step backwards, she didn't expect Hayato to be angry.
"What's wrong with me? What's wrong with you! I accepted your apology about everything that had happened, I even considered you as something akin to a friend, but you stupid bitch won't get it into your little brain, that I won't tolerate it when you make passes at Juudaime!" Hayato had angry tears in her eyes and Reborn sipped his coffee and watched their interaction. Haru glared back at Hayato.
"I don't make passes! I just show him, that I care about him and that I feel safe if he is around!"
"Tch. The last few days I have watched you carefully – those lingering looks, subtle hints, your flirting attempts. Do you think I'm stupid or what?"
"No. I don't think that you are stupid, but I think you and Tsuna-san don't match. And even if my obsession with him is over, it doesn't mean that my interest has faded. He is a nice and good looking man, I would be stupid to let him be." Haru crossed her arms over her chest, looking challenging, a smug smile on her face.
Hayato felt like she had been slapped, she had begun to trust Haru and now that bitch just threw the delicate friendship away like it had been nothing.
She grabbed the brunettes collar and slammed her against the wall and in this exact same moment Juudaime came into the kitchen.

"Hayato! What are you doing?" he sounded angry.
"I'm just teaching her a lesson!" she hissed back.
"Let her go!" his voice wasn't loud, but clearly a no nonsense tone. She let go of her, just because she couldn't ignore his orders. He was at Harus side and looked at her, searching for any injuries.
"Apologize to her." he demanded from his right hand woman, grinding her teeth she shook her head.
"I won't, because I have nothing to apologize for." With that she left the room, defying him. Tsuna wanted to follow her, but Haru held him back.
"Tsuna-san, please don't leave me alone." she looked up at him with her big brown eyes and he felt more manly than ever. She wanted to be protected, needed it even, she needed him to protect her, because she couldn't fight and didn't know how to handle the situation.
Her height was nice, he could hold her, without feeling like a useless shrimp. She was ...
"Let go of me." he glared at her hand around his.
… not Hayato and would never be.

Haru hadn't expected this cold and uncaring attitude, she had hoped to never feel it again. Shaking she let go of him and he followed Hayato, he knew she wouldn't be too far. She never was.

Hayato sat at her computer, writing the report about what had happened today, precisely and professional, nothing about her own emotions would show up in it. But her long fingers moved over the keys in an angry dance, making loud noises.
"Hayato." Tsunas voice was soft.
"I'm writing my report." she sounded like nothing happened, like a pro she had changed from furious to uncaring.
"Please. I want to talk about what had happened today." he moved at her side.
"It will be all in the report." she gridded her teeth, she didn't want to face him, not now. He sighed.
"It's not about the kidnapping and Bakeneko. I want to talk about you." he turned her chair, so that she had to face him. She looked up, taking of her glasses. Her eyes were a little red and he could see a small trail, left behind from the tears she had shed a few moments ago, in silent agony.
His heart clenched at that, he didn't like to see her weak like that. Wanting to caress her cheek he lifted his hand, but she avoided the contact.
"You wanted to talk, then talk." she whispered and looked away.
"What happened between you and Haru? You were getting along so well and now you just attack her." he asked softly, he needed to be careful with her feelings.
"She hugged you."
"That's all?" he asked, just because of a simple hug she was angry?
"No that's not all! You hugged her back!" She shouted and jumped out of her chair and looked at him.
Blinking.
Looking down at her feet.
"What's wrong?" Tsuna didn't know if he should be confused, scared or exasperate.
"Just wait a moment." She kicked her shoes off and now had to look up to see into his eyes.
He blinked.
Since when was he taller than her?
She picked one of her shoes up, holding it for him to see.
"Those are ten centimetre high heels. I took up wearing them by the same time I choose to wear short skirts. It never dawned to me, that I was as tall as you just because of them."
Neither did he.
He laid his hand on her head and moved it in a straight line to him. It landed at his nose. Now that he thought about it, the clothes he had bought a size too large were now a perfect fit. He had had a growth spurt without noticing it. Hayato had put the shoe back onto the floor and looked up at him, waiting for a further interrogation.

She looked up at him and he couldn't help but lean down to kiss her. And man, that felt so good it had to be a sin.
Surprised she replied, wasn't she supposed to be angry at him? But if he kissed her like that all her anger vanished. Wounding her arms around him, she had to stand on her toes to get better access to his lips.
His hands were on her ass, squeezing it and holding her close enough for her to feel the muscles under his shirt.
Didn't he want to talk?
She sighed into the kiss and broke it.
"Juudaime you wanted to talk about something?" she whispered in his ear and bit the lobe. His mind was clouded with lust and he had to think.
What did he want to talk about?
"Haru." he whispered.
Hayato glared. "Don't whisper her name when you fondle me!" she shouted. "
What? You asked me what I wanted to talk about!" her outburst brought him back to reality.
" … what about her?" she hissed angry.
"Why are you so angry at her?"
"Because she hugged you! And you hugged her back!" Hayato crossed her arms, now remembering what had fuelled her anger.
"I just did it because she needed comfort." her furrowed his eyebrows, not getting why Hayato was so angry at him.

"I also needed comfort, but seemingly she is more important to you than I!"
"How should I have known? You are strong and you know how to handle dangerous situations." now even he raised his voice.
"But that doesn't mean that I'm not scared if someone threatens to rape me!" He looked at her like she just slapped him, tears rolled down her cheeks and now that he looked closer, she hadn't crossed her arms, she hugged herself.
Hugging her he held her close, petting her head in a soothing manner.
She tremble in his arms, a sob escaping her lips. Her arms found the way behind his back, clinging into his suit jacket.
"I'm sorry, so sorry. I'm a stupid useless idiot who doesn't deserve to live. All the time I think about how nice it would be if you were a little weaker, if you needed more protection and how I want you to depend on me more. But at the same time I just say – whatever might happen she can handle it, she is strong – I'm really useless, I can't even see your vulnerable side behind your strong exterior. Please forgive me." he kissed the top of her head and she sniffled.
"Sometimes it is hard for me to decide if I should see my storm guardian or my girlfriend in you."
" … depends ..." she whispered.
"On what?" he had his chin on her head.
"The situation." she moved her head to look into his eyes.
"Do I get some hints how I can read the situation better?" She shook her head.
"Just hear at your instincts." she tapped his chest with her forefinger and smiled. He smiled back at her and kissed her forehead.
"Boss! I have put our hostage into the meeting room!" Saruyama destroyed their little moment, but he had a good reason for it.
"Then we should ask him a few questions." Hayato could see a dangerous glint in Tsunas eyes as he said that.

He stared at him. He didn't say or ask anything, he just stared at him, not even blinking once.
It was creepy.
Shifting in his seat he cursed silently, because his left ball hurt like hell. That stare was really unnerving.
Where were his comrades?
What about the boss?
What had happened?
Tsuna smiled friendly and the guy broke. He told them everything. He was a part of the Bakeneko, he was just an underling and didn't know anything about the real plan, he never had met one of the higher ups and he just joined them because he was paid to threat people and he could do whatever he wanted.
He didn't want to die, his mother had been a abusive bitch, never caring about him, being drunk all the time. He hated woman and that's why he liked to rape them, because they didn't deserve good treatment.
He sobbed as he told them his childhood memories and the things about Bakeneko he knew, all scrambled and in a random manner, but Tsuna could make sense out of it. By the end of his speech the guy was a crying mess.
Tsuna laid his hand on his shoulder. "It's okay, let it all out. I won't kill you, but if you ever touch a woman again I will put you into real agony." Everything he had told them, just confirmed Tsunas suspicion, that they were just a bunch of amateurs who wanted fast money.

During the interrogation Hayato was in the store and sorted things. The Bakeneko members hadn't destroyed anything important, but it made her angry nonetheless. She had put so much thought and time into this store! Somebody tapped her shoulder. It was Haru.
"What?" she hissed.
"I learned from past experience, that Tsuna-san won't fall in love with me if I force myself onto him. Now I know how to be subtle, I've grown and won't loose against a guy. Even if said guy looks like a picture book princess. No matter how much he declares that he loves you, you can't give him what he needs." her voice was not angry, she declared her intent clear and without fear.
Hayato saw that she was dead serious and wanted to fight with all she got. She smiled.
"I can give him everything he wants and more. His body is my territory." she whispered in Harus ear, who blushed at the hint.

Tsuna stood in the kitchen and drank some water, talking to Reborn about their further approach regarding the Bakeneko. Haru came up to him, breathless.
"Tsuna-san! Did you have sex with Gokudera?" she wanted to know.
Because of the shock he spit his water out, he had almost chocked on it.
Reborn looked almost as surprised as Tsuna.

"WHAT?!" he shouted.
"Just answer me!" she demanded.
"I won't! It's got nothing to do with you!"
"It has everything to do with me! I like you and even put myself into a dangerous situation for your sake. So just tell me!" she stemmed her hand at her hip, waiting for his answer.
Even Reborn seemed curious, he knew that those two were a little more intimate nowadays, Tsunas sometimes perverted grins were enough hint for him.

Tsuna ran one hand through his hair. How should he respond to that?
"I thought you were over it." he whispered.
"I was over my obsession, but I fell in love with you anew." she blushed, but he didn't find it cute or anything.
"Haru go. I don't think you should be here any longer. You did your work, thanks for that. I will see to it that somebody protects you for the time being."
"No. I joined your Family, it's not something you can cancel easily. Isn't that right Reborn-chan?" she looked at the three year old.
"That's right. You wanted her to work for you, it's the sign that she is a member. So don't be a wuss and just answer her question!" Tsuna glared at the two, but had to think about this question – where did sex begin? Was sex just the act of defiling or was it already the touching and kissing, the completion of the intimate high known as an orgasm?
He never wanted to tell those things to somebody, those had been his precious moments with the woman he loved.
"Miura you don't need to know about the love life of your boss, it's unbecoming of a subordinate." At this moment Tsuna could kiss Inukami, that guy had shown up at the right moment.
"I'm no subordinate, we are friends." she declared.
"No. You are nothing more than an underling, a friend wouldn't ask such questions and neither would a friend interfere with a relationship." it was Tsuna, he had to say it, she needed to get it into her thick head that she couldn't behave like that.

He had expected for her to cry, but she didn't. Smiling she looked at him.
"As long as I can stay by your side I will be whatever you want me to be." This time he couldn't shove her off like a little child, she had matured and was giving him a headache.
He knew that Hayato would have even more fights with her in the near future and he wouldn't interfere with them. Never in his life had he thought that the day would come when two girls fought over him.
If only he knew what the future held for him …

This chapter and the next seem pretty random, but they will lead to the most important part(s) of the Story. I rushed the timeline a little ...
Oh well, see you next week and happy easter!