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Authors note: We have spring in Gemany! Yeah! The sun shines from time to time and it's getting warmer and warmer! This chapter may have a Little medical nonsense ... I was too lazy to research those things. So if by Chance somebody with medical knowledge reads this - please be kind and overlook my Laziness ;)

Enjoy or not, it's up to you!

Declaration of war

Time seemed to stop for him - the bullet moved in slow motion, if he had been the target he could move out of the way without much effort. But his teacher was neither sporty nor trained for this kind of situations. And he knew that he didn't have the time to help her.

He watched terrified as the bullet bored itself into white flesh, blood staining a costume-made dress.

Hayato had thrown herself into the bullets path, protecting their teacher.

The man laughed like a maniac and wanted to shoot again, but a punch broke his jaw, slamming him head first in the next wall.
A wild furry had taken over Tsuna, fuelling his flames into an unhealthy amount of energy.
His normally harmonic and soft flame had changed into one of wrath.
He didn't hear the screams of people, the pleading of his friends to stop, he just wanted to let this man suffer for hurting his precious person.

He wanted to end it with his most efficient weapon, but he couldn't move a muscle.

Yamamoto had used his rain flames to stop him in his rage.

From the corner of his eye he saw Nanashi-sensei pressing a suit jacket on Hayatos wound to stop the bleeding, talking to hear, pleading that she should stay awake, the ambulance was on the way, there was no need for her to worry.
Hayato moved her head in his direction, smiling encouraging at him and his flames died down.
His rain guardian sensed his change in attitude and let him out of his barrier.

He rushed to Hayatos side, she laid in a puddle of her own blood, her face was sickeningly pale.
He took her hand and kissed her forehead, he had to be strong for her. Her breath was uneven and she fought against the blackness of unconsciousness.

Faintly he heard the rushing footsteps of the police and medics.
Nobody with the exception of Hayato had life threatening injuries. Some witnesses were in a state of shock and couldn't talk. He saw Inukami touching the shoulder of the teacher, soft, convincing her to let go, the doctors needed to treat the wound.
Reluctant she let go of her student and the professionals did first aid, shoving him out of the way as they moved Hayato onto the stretcher. He wanted to go with them, but he wasn't allowed to. His mother somehow could convince them to take her with them, she would inform him about Hayatos condition later.

Now that he was calm he looked around once again.

Nanashi cried her heart out in Inukamis arms, police men asked questions about what had happened and he saw the medics taking away the offender.
Then he glimpsed at a familiar sign, tattooed on the hand of the gun wielder.
It was without a doubt the insignia of the Bakeneko clan.
And he decided that they would pay for the spilled blood.
He would make sure of it.

Nobody had talked much about his attack on the man running amok. They just said he had been able to knock him out, the police didn't question them further. It had been a terrible start for summer vacation, for all of them. Many people would spend their holidays with a bad feeling, some would need the help of psychologists and Tsuna would prepare the annihilation of the Bakeneko.

His mother had called him and told him were he could find Hayato and that she was operated on. The bullet stuck in the left side of her stomach, it had almost hit the artery and now the surgeon had a hard time to get it out, because there was a huge risk for him to hurt her. But they had assured her that the doctor was one of the best in his field and that he would be able to get it out of her.

He had rushed to the hospital and waited together with his mother and Bianchi.
It felt like they had waited days, but it had been three hours and the surgeon came to them.
"We got the bullet out of him,but he is weak. He had lost a terrible amount of blood, it will take some time for him to wake up."
Instead of relief Tsuna felt anger and glared at the doctor, who took a step back.
"Hayato is a girl, so don't refer to her in the male form." his voice was as cold as ice and the medic just nodded at him, he felt like a mouse before a snake.

Nurses moved Hayatos bed into the recovery room.
"I'll go and wait for her to wake up." he said to his mother and Bianchi.
"Tsu-kun, let Bianchi go." Nanas voice was soft but demanding, he wanted to disagree, but one look at Hayatos sister was enough for him to give in.
Bianchi was shaking, repressing her tears and biting her lip.
He nodded and sat down in one of the chairs in front of the room, waiting was all he could do. His hands were balled into fists, nails breaking skin, a sign of fear and frustration.
Fear because his girlfriend was badly hurt and frustration because he hadn't been able to protect her.

It was long since dark outside when Bianchi came out of the recovery room, a smile and tears of relief on her face.
"She woke up. They will bring her into a private room." Tsuna wanted to follow the nurses who pushed Hayatos bed, but Bianchi and his mother held him back.
"Tsu-kun I think it's for the best if we go home for the day, Hayato needs to rest." Nana smiled this motherly smile you couldn't argue against.
Longingly he looked in the direction where the nurses had disappeared. He wanted to see her so badly, to make sure she was alright, but his mother was right. Hayato needed her rest.
Sighing he gave in and followed his mother home.

But he wasn't at home for long, he just changed his clothes and packed some things. He wouldn't be able to relax there, he had answered Lambos and I-pins questions and told them not to worry, that Hayato was fine and everything was going to be okay. It sounded like he needed to assure himself of it.
Fuuta had wanted to know what exactly had happened, because he hadn't been there at the festival. Tsuna told him, but wouldn't answer the questions about his plans.

He was alone in his room with Reborn.
"What are you planning?" his tutor asked him, polishing a gun.
"For now I just want to go to Hayatos flat." he put some socks into his bag and looked around for clean underwear.
"That's not what I meant." Now Reborn looked at Tsunas back, he had leaned down to zip the bag closed.
"I will talk about it later, but I can tell you – this incident was caused by the Bakeneko and they will pay for it." Throwing the bag on his shoulder he left his room, a dark glint in his eyes. Reborn wasn't sure if he liked Tsunas tone or not, it was almost as if he wasn't Tsuna any more.
But he had wanted for him to grow out of his uselessness, he trained him to become a fitting Mafia boss, but he never wanted for Tsuna to loose his kind heart. Hopefully that wasn't the case or Vongola was doomed.

Tsuna talked to his mother.
He would move into Hayatos flat for the time being, because someone needed to take care of her plants, they needed one hour of classical music every day.
And that wasn't a lie, she had taken up this strange hobby after she had seen the plants in Fumikos flat and wanted to try growing some, too.
And because Hayato was Hayato she did everything that was written somewhere and seemingly she had read that music helped the development of flowers. It was cute and annoying at the same time.
The first time he had witnessed how she had told her plants about her day he had laughed so hard his stomach had hurt for days. It had been the first time Hayato had been seriously angry at him.

He entered the apartment building and was almost crushed.
Fumiko had waited in the lounge and attacked him as soon as he had seen him, crying and sobbing and saying something really incoherent.
Behind him his lover (Gen-chan) stood, big and broad as a bear but not as hairy.
"He has been like that since we heard the news that a lunatic had run amok in your school." That big guy had a nice voice and was a gentle giant (he worked as a kindergarten teacher).
"Where is my little Ha-chan?" Fumiko cried in his ear and he rubbed the back of the effeminate man.
"She is in the hospital, badly wounded but as fas as I know her life is no longer in danger." He couldn't help the shaking of his voice and the sob that escaped him.
Since the whole incident had happened he had been angry, had not once shed a tear, but now he felt them flowing out and their positions turned.
Now Fumiko consoled him.

It was way past midnight when he had finally calmed down.
Fumiko and Gen had been kind enough to let him stay at their place for as long as he needed a shoulder to cry on.

Now that he was in Hayatos flat he felt embarrassed about this whole thing, her neighbours were strangers to him and he had just cried his eyes out in front of them. His eyes and head hurt, but he felt like a weight had been lifted off of his shoulders. He took a quick shower and threw himself on Hayato bed, snuggling into her cushion, the scent was comforting.

The next morning he ate some cereals, brushed his teeth and let the music play.
Blushing he stood before Hayatos closet.
She needed fresh clothing, didn't she?
Yes she did!
With that he opened the door and walked into it.
Opening one drawer he found socks and put some of it into a small suitcase.
The next one had tights, he wasn't too sure if she needed them in the hospital, but to make sure he didn't forget anything he put two pairs into the suitcase.
The last drawer made him blush.
Reluctant he took one of the panties and unfolded it. It was orange with little tuna fishes on it. He fainted for a few seconds - where did she get something like that?
Getting over his first shock at seeing her underwear up close, he took some more and put them away.
He grabbed some clothes, her favourite sleep wear and even two of her special bras (he tried too put them away without looking but failed).
The next step was to collect her toiletries - she had too much of those! Toothbrush and paste, lotion, the stuff against unclean skin and a perfume had to do. He almost forgot her hairbrush and shampoo.
Sighing he looked around hoping to find something more she would need, than he remembered the book on her bedside table and took it. Satisfied with all his choices he took the suitcase and made his way out of Hayatos flat.

In front of the house waited Inukami with the car, he had called him earlier, getting to the hospital was much faster with a car, especially when you had luggage with you.
"Is Oujo-san alright? I mean is it okay to visit her? I even brought a fruit basket, but I'm not sure if she will like it or if she is able to eat." Inukami seemed worried and grabbed the steering wheel like he was afraid that it would glide out of his hands at any given moment.
"All I know is that she did wake up yesterday, after that I wasn't able to talk to her." Tsuna looked out of the window, he was worried and Inukamis questions didn't help to soothe his worries. They made him even more nervous.

They drove into the parking lot for visitors and saw a lot of reporters and camera people. Tsuna gulped and wondered how he would go through those people without being asked stupid questions.
"Inukami?"
"Yes sir?"
"You have to take the attention from those people, but please don't tell them anything crucial. I will take the fruit basket with me, I'm sure Hayato will be happy to hear from you." He smiled at the handsome man, who just nodded and knew exactly that he had to sacrifice himself for the boss. But he would take this chance to advertise for his club.

Sometimes it was really handy to have good looking subordinates. The minute Inukami had left the car all eyes had been on him and Tsuna could escape unnoticed, suitcase and all.

At the reception desk he asked for Hayatos room. The nurse looked at him.
"Are you a relative?" she looked like she would call the security any moment.
"No, but I'm her boyfriend." He smiled charming at her, looking deep in to her eyes, she blushed and began to act nervous.
"I've got strict orders …"
"I'm really worried and I know that she will throw a tantrum if I don't visit her." here he made a sad face - kicked puppy look.
"It's room 2759*, second floor intensive care, it's a private room." She looked everywhere but at him.
"Thank you very much." he bowed politely and grabbed his things.

He found the room with little difficultly and knocked three times, there was no answer, it made him even more worried. Opening the door he looked around and saw Hayato laying in the bed seemingly asleep.

As silent as possible he got inside and put the suitcase besides the small closet and the fruit basket atop of it.
Besides her bed was a chair he sat on it and looked at her.
A drip was attached to her left arm a wire connected her with a monitor, he just knew from TV that those were to watch over the heart beat, he frowned at that.
Wasn't she shot in the stomach? Why should they monitor her heart?
"It stopped for a moment during the operation." He jerked because of the unexpected voice. It had been so low and sounded like she just woke up from a nightmare. Hayato looked at him, her green eyes had dark bags underneath and her skin was sickeningly pale.
"Hayato! How are you feeling?" he took her hand, it was small and cold as ice.
"ugly." she made a face, somewhere between grinning and fuming.
Kissing her forehead he smiled a little.
"Don't say that, you are the most beautiful person I know."
"I would blush at that, if I had enough blood in me." now she grinned at him.
"You said your heart did stop?" his voice was worried and he squeezed her hand a little.
"Yeah ... " she looked worried about it.
"What is it?"
"They didn't tell me. I just hope it was because of the blood loss or something regarding the wound." now she squeezed his hand: "My mother had had a heart condition, it killed her." Tears formed in her eyes, he knew this story, but just because Reborn had told him about it. She never had told much about her family.
"I don't want to die." she whispered.
"You won't." A nurse came in and smiled at her.
"Your heart stopped because of the low blood pressure, caused from the blood loss." She explained and looked at her data, nodding at her encouragingly.

Then the nurse frowned at Tsuna.
"Who are you?"
"Her boyfriend." he answered truthfully: "I brought her clothes and the things she needs for her mourning routine and a book, oh and her medicine!" he smiled, because he felt like he had done everything right.
"It will take some time before she is allowed to stand up and she got the medicine from our stock. And In this ward we have rules - nobody with the exception of blood relatives is allowed to visit."
"Nurse, please don't throw him out. I need him more than any blood relative I've got." Hayato smiled pleadingly.
The nurse sighed: "But don't do anything rash." she openly glared at Tsuna, who just wondered what he had done wrong.
He felt like his fingers would break any moment, Hayato had a death grip on him, it seemed like she would love to snap at the nurse but held back. The nurse left them and he sighed.

"So ... you are not allowed to stand up? What with going to the toilet?"
"Please don't ask." she avoided his eyes, there was no way she would tell him that she got a catheter which let her pee flow into a bag, the nurses changed it from time to time. That was really embarrassing.
"Okay... Do you have cold feet? I can put some socks on them if you like." he offered smiling. She almost laughed at that, how silly would it be for a Mafia boss to change the socks of his girlfriend.
"Thank you, but I'm fine."
"Do you want some fruit? Inukami bought this basket just for you." he gestured to Inukamis present and she smiled fondly at it.
"I don't know if I'm allowed to eat fruits." Tsuna rubbed his head and thought what he could offer next.

Hayato sighed and Tsuna looked at her questioningly.
"I'm so stupid. I could have used the Systema CAI, but noooo I just jump right into the bullet. Now I will spend the most of our summer vacation in the hospital."
"Hayato. You saved the life of our teacher, without giving away Family secrets, nobody will tell you that it was stupid." he played with her hair and talked to her in a soft voice.
"This stupid wound will leave a scar. I will never be able to wear a Bikini at the beach." now she pouted.
"Maybe it will heal completely if we treat it with Sun flames, they never leave scars."
"Then please tell the turf top that he needs to get here asap."
"I will."

After some minutes of silence Hayato furrowed her eyebrows.
"Juudaime?"
"Yes?"
"Did you bring underwear for me?"
"Yeah ..." he blushed and looked away, remembering the tuna panties.
"So you saw …" she searched for a word.
"The tuna panties?" he offered.

She covered her face with her hands. Those had been a silly present from her sister, but she liked them, because Juudaime had a tuna at the door to his room. It was like the tuna marked his territory and with that thought she wore them with pride, but they were really silly and embarrassing. He wasn't supposed to know of them!
"Please forget that you ever saw them!"
"Nope, can't do. I think they are cute." now he grinned at her and moved her hands out of the way. Looking into her eyes he smiled and leaned down to kiss her.
But someone had to interrupt them.
It was their teacher.
"Gokudera-san! I'm so glad that you are okay!" she put a bouquet of colourful flowers down onto the table: "I'm sorry to be interrupting you." She smiled apologetic at them.

Tsuna had sat down normally.
"I wanted to thank you for saving my life. Thank you, but please never do something stupid like that again! As a teacher it is my responsibility to protect my students, I would rather die than seeing one of them die." At first her voice was small and caring and now she sounded like a scolding mother, who told her child not to put it's hand on the hot stove.
"I promise never to be so stupid again." Hayato smiled.
"Okay. Here - this is for you, I don't know if you like it but I think it's cute." She took a plushy out of her handbag and sat it down besides Hayato.
"It's a mini Yeti. Soo cute!" she squealed, yes she likes it, no wonder the yeti is a famous UMA after all.
Tsuna chuckled at that, her hobbies were really strange, but she was cute when something thrilled her.
Nanashi-sensei smiled at that and looked around.
"Ah, a fruit basket, I wanted to bring one, but then I guessed that someone else could do it too, and nobody can eat this much fruit."
"It's from Inukami." Hayato answered and the teacher blushed three shades of red looking a little dreamy at the basket.
"Sensei?" Tsuna asked.
"Yes?" she looked at him, a little embarrassed about her little moment.
"Did he do something inappropriate to you?"
"Sawada-kun! Don't ask stupid things, as if a gentleman like him would ever touch a woman like me." she sighed almost forlorn.
But fate was a nice thing, because in exactly this moment said underling came into the room, sneaking inside almost without a sound.
"Ah ... Nanashi-san, nice to see you. I hope you did sleep well tonight." His host instincts kicked in and he was friendly and charming, making the teacher blush even more.
"I think I will go and ask for a vase, before the flowers will wither." She stood up and bowed slightly, smiling at Inu and left the room in search for a nurse.
Inu frowned after her: "Did she just avoid me?"
"What did you do to her?" Tsuna and Hayato asked at the same time.
"I just spend the night with her, maybe I shouldn't have left before breakfast?" he scratched his head and looked at two dead-panned faces.
"Inukami ..." Hayatos voice was unforgiving.
"Oujo-san! I'm glad your okay!" he wanted to change the topic, but Hayato just glared at him.
"Don't go sleeping around with our teacher!" she hissed.
"I didn't sleep around. I just spend the night at her house, she needed some comfort." he smiled: "There was no sex involved, I'm a gentleman and would never take advantage of a crying woman."
"That's good to hear, because if you break her heart I will break every bone in your body and trust me - that hurts like hell." Tsuna was an expert at smiling and threatening people at the same time, it made him a little creepy.
Inukami gulped and nodded: "I didn't plan to."
"Good."

An hour later Tsuna stood outside of the hospital together with most of his friends.
Because They all had been worried they came into Hayatos room one after the other, crowding around and had been bitten to death by Hibari - who came as the last person and was annoyed at their behaviour.
The security personal had thrown them out more or less.
The only person still inside was Hibari, who had a special privilege inside the hospital and could do whatever he wanted.
"Haha I'm glad that she is alright." Yamamoto seemed relieved and Kyoko at his side nodded in agreement.
"But I think she will need clothes." the girl said.
"I brought her some." Tsuna smiled.
"Including underwear?" she asked frowning.
"Yes!" he smiled.
"Boss ... that is really unbefitting." Chrome looked at him, her eye showing that she didn't like his choice. "
Chrome is right, you should have called us to put her things together." Kyoko stemmed her hands at her hips glaring up at him.
"She is extreme right Sawada! You cant go looking around at girls panties!" At this outburst some people looked at him disapproving. Tsuna blushed to the roots of his hair. "You make me sound like a pervert! I just packed some for her! She is my girlfriend so I don't see a problem with that." now he pouted.
"It's a huge problem, I wouldn't want my boyfriend to see my underwear." Kyoko declared.
Yamamoto was smart enough not to mention how many times exactly he had seen her underwear, but just because Ryouhei stood at his side and would kill him him if he said it.
"kufufufu ... I saw my dear Chromes underwear on different occasions." Seems like Mukuro had no shame at all.
Chrome blushed deep red: "That's just because you are responsible for washing the dirty clothes."
Ryouhei burst out laughing: "That's extreme! The pineapple is a houseman!"
"Who are you calling a pineapple?" It seems he took more offence in the nickname than the fact that someone said he was a houseman.
"You!" the sun guardian still laughed
"Prepare yourself to see hell!" with that Mukuro wanted to attack him, but Ryouhei fled the premise and shouted: "Catch me to the extreme if you can!" Two almost adults played a deadly game of tag around Namimori for the rest of the day.

Tsuna didn't know what he should feel about their antics, he even wondered why Mukuro was there in the first place, he never spend much time with them.
"He wouldn't say it, but he feels a little lonely from time to time. He likes to play around with the other guardians." Chrome smiled at him.
"He shouldn't be so stubborn and just say that he wants to spend more time with us." Yamamoto laughed and pet her head.
Tsuna wanted to say something but his phone rang and suddenly he had a bad feeling about that.
Picking it up he asked what was wrong.
On the other line he heard the sound of a big fire, mixed with shouts of people and the noise of flowing water.
"What's wrong?"
"The shop is burning!" the man on the other line shouted against the sound of flames and water.
He looked in the direction of their shop and saw dark smoke clouding the blue sky.
"Do you now what happened?"
"I think it was a Molotov-cocktail. I saw it flying though the window, that was my luck, if I hadn't seen it I would be burned by now."
"Where there other people in the store?"
"No. Just me."
"That's good to know. Thanks for informing me Seguchi-san." He cut the line and looked at his friends.
"It seems like we need to prepare for war." Yamamoto looked in the direction of the smoke, Chrome had followed his gaze and looked sad.
Kyoko cried silent tears.
Things got dangerous really fast.

... I never really plant to include some Mafia war in this Story ... it just happened! Well, it will spice things up a bit, I guess.