Tsuna sighed in relief as Hibari fell asleep on his sofa. After giving up and finally agreeing to do what Reborn wanted Hibari had tried to leave and nearly face planted on the front steps. Reborn caught him, earning a growl from the school perfect. And an attempted elbow to Reborn's head. He dodged it easily and just sighed.

"Why are you so difficult?"

Reborn half dragged the teen to the sofa and tossed him on it. Tsuna saw the barely there flinch Hibari gave when he landed and wondered how the older teen wasn't screaming in pain.

He was probably the most experienced person when it comes to getting his ass handed to him by Reborn. The man had no mercy to speak of, and the word was probably not even in his vocabulary. It was a little nerve wreaking to have one of the scariest people in Namimori asleep on his sofa, but he figured it was better then Hibari being awake. Tsuna tiptoed around the living room to the kitchen to get something to eat.

Reborn wasn't the cooking type, and Tsuna was a kitchen hazard waiting to happen so he basically wasn't allowed to even attempt cooking. He didn't take it too personally when his mom or Reborn told him cooking could be turned into something dangerous if he did it. Cause seriously they might have been right.

So he heated himself up a cup of instant noodles. Then took it with him to head up to his room to do homework. If he didn't get started on it soon Reborn would offer to 'help' again, and those homework sessions never ended well. It was when he walked past the sofa as quietly as he could that Tsuna heard a grumbling sound. He jumped slightly and looked over to where Hibari laid, eyes open in a glare at the ceiling. There was another one of those odd noises, and Hibari placed a hand on his stomach.

It sunk in with Tsuna that Hibari must have been hungry. Only problem was he was too injured to even try and get some food for himself. Tsuna looked down at his cup of noodles and chopsticks he had got, then back to Hibari who seemed to be ignoring the fact that Tsuna existed.

Tsuna figured he could always get another one for himself. So he walked over to the coffee table in front of Hibari, and placed the instant noodles on it. Close enough that the perfect could reach it if he wanted to. Neither of them looked at each other as this happened. But neither of them noticed Reborn watching either. Tsuna just quietly headed back to the kitchen leaving Hibari alone once again in the living room.

Once the younger teen was out of sight, and hearing range once again Hibari looked away from the ceiling to the food left there.

"For someone so weak he really isn't that bad."

Reborn said as he walked by the back of the sofa to the kitchen with Tsuna.

Hibari just glared in his direction then went back to glaring at the ceiling. A few minutes later Reborn was pulling Tsuna along to his room. Tsuna protesting that he didn't need help on something. Hibari watched out of the corner of his eye, and saw another instant noodle cup in the younger teens hands. Once they were both gone again Hibari pulled himself into a sitting position and tentatively took the offered food.

By the next morning, after another rude awakening from Reborn Tsuna wasn't too surprised to know Hibari was gone. There was no way of him knowing for sure when the violent teen had left since Reborn kept him studying well into the night. So he had simply fallen asleep when Reborn decided to leave him alone.

"If you don't hurry up and leave you'll be late again."

Reborn said from where he once again sat reading the morning paper.

"Ah!"

Tsuna screamed as he ran out the door. Reborn smirked to himself as he sipped his coffee. Checking his watch he saw that Tsuna was already going to be late to school. No matter how fast the kid ran. Reborn figured he could bug Tsuna later on in the day so he could find more members to join the band.

A singer was just the beginning.

Gokudera Hayato was pissed off that Bianchi was going to make him go to school. The woman didn't even live in the same country as him anymore and she insisted. Now Gokudera had to walk early in the morning to some gay ass school that couldn't really teach him anything he didn't already know. Oh and he has to wear a uniform. If Bianchi hadn't threatened to tell their father were he was now Gokudera would have told her to forget it.

While he was walking Gokudera stared at his feet, and didn't really pay attention to the people around him. So it was practically inevitable that he ran into someone. More like someone ran into him. Literally.

Tsuna had just run out of his house half stumbling and was too slow to react when someone walked right into his path. He ran into the teen so hard Tsuna was knocked off his feet. The other teen stumbled and glared at Tsuna with annoyance and anger.

"Watch where your going."

He growled out. Turning away from Tsuna and briskly walking away. Cursing in what Tsuna guessed was some kind of Spanish. All he was sure of was that it wasn't Japanese. Shaking his head to clear it of thoughts on the mysterious teen he jumped to his feet and started to run to the school. He had a bad feeling Hibari would be in an extra bad mood today, and Tsuna being late would give him the excuse to take it out on him. As Tsuna ran past the silver haired teen looked back as he caught his eyes.

"Sorry!"

He shouted as he ran off. All Gokudera could think was that the kid was strange and sort of pissed him off. But then again everyone tended to piss him off.

Tsuna felt like crying when he heard the late bell ring while he was still ten feet away from the gate. And standing there like he was everyday was the terrifying head perfect of the disciplinary comity. The smirk Tsuna saw when he got closer told him all he needed to know about what was going to happen.

"Herbivore."

Hibari said emotionlessly, eyes as hard and unforgiving as ever. His tonfas flashed into existence and he brought them up in a ready pose. Tsuna had only ever been beaten by Hibari a few times for being late, or something small like that. But each time was still crazy painful. Hibari like Reborn had no mercy, and was ruthless with his attacks.

Tsuna limped to class with a black eye and swelling cheek. His stomach and ribs hurting badly. But compared to the other beat downs by Hibari Kyoya he had gotten, he considered this one mild. At anything Tsuna would even say the older teen had gone easy on him. Tsuna collapsed into his desk and tried to look like he didn't just get the crap beat out of him.

Yeah like that would ever happen.

"Thank you for joining us today Mr. Sawada."

The teacher said sarcastically. Not even noticing the very obvious wounds on his face. Yamamoto sat a few desks away and decided he would ask the shorter teen about it during lunch break.

"Now we can get back to our-"

The teacher was interrupted as the door was opened and there in the doorway stood the boy Tsuna had run into that morning. Silver hair, scowl in place, red undershirt showing because his uniform shirt wasn't buttoned, if counted he had about four rings on his hands, and a chain on his pant, probably for a wallet. His appearance screamed troublemaker.

Gokudera walked smoothly over to the teacher and handed him a slip of paper. After his eyes scanned it the teacher took one repulsed look at Gokudera and then sighed. Turning to the class he motioned to Gokudera.

"Class this is our new student Gokudera Hayato."

The girls were all nervous and gossiping in the back of the room, but all Tsuna could do was try not to hyperventilate. Because Gokudera was glaring at him, and moving closer to where he was.

"Che"

Was all he said as he walked by and took the empty desk behind Tsuna. Putting his head down instantly and trying to block out the annoying sound of the classroom as the teacher drones and the students whispered around him.

Lunch break was a huge relief to Tsuna when it came. Only a few seconds after everyone had split up and gone to eat Tsuna realized he didn't have lunch or money to buy anything.

"Hey Tsuna."

Tsuna looked up and saw Yamamoto once again standing next to his desk and smiling.

"Oh hi Yamamoto."

He said nervously. Smiling back slightly. Yamamoto pulled a desk over to Tsuna's and sat down. Pulling out his own food.

The other people in the class looked at Yamamoto like he had just grown a second head, including Tsuna.

"Um Yamamoto?"

Tsuna questioned. The other teen smiled questioningly to him as he pick up some rice from his lunch.

"Yeah?"

He asked.

"Why are you-"

"Hey Yamamoto why are you eating with loser Tsuna?"

Some of Yamamoto's teammates from baseball asked from the door. The smile on Yamamoto's face turned into a frown as he looked over to them.

"Because I want to."

Was his reply and the others were shocked into silence. Tsuna looked over to Gokudera who laughed a bit behind him. But he stopped abruptly when he saw Tsuna looking at him. Yamamoto turned away from his teammates and smiled once again at Tsuna.

"So how did you end up all beat up?"

Yamamoto asked curiously. Tsuna was still a little shell shocked from what had just happened and had to reply what Yamamoto had said to him over in his head before replying.

"Oh, um, well I was late to school and Hibari sort of…"

Tsuna trailed off and Yamamoto laughed.

"I hear he isn't too nice when you don't follow the rules."

Tsuna laughed a little at this too. After that lunch went by much smoother. With Yamamoto asking Tsuna questions and telling him baseball stories.

The whole time Gokudera pretended not to listen from where he sat behind the duo.

Lunch break was almost over when Reborn walked into the classroom. Tsuna thought nothing good could happen if his godfather was suddenly showing up. And now that he knew he was starting a band Tsuna knew exactly why Reborn was there.

He was scouting.

When Reborn saw Tsuna sitting with Yamamoto his face almost split into a full blown smile. He couldn't keep a small one off his lips as he approached Tsuna and his friend. As he walked down the aisle he also noticed the sliver haired teen sleeping on the desk behind the other two. He didn't really think about who he might be and focused more on forcing Tsuna to help him in his quest for talent.

"Reborn what are you doing here?"

Tsuna asked. Trying not to sound annoyed or frustrated with the older man. Reborn must have seen right through him cause he was smacked upside the head instantly.

"You don't sound happy to see me Tsuna."

Reborn smiled, and even Yamamoto could see it wasn't a friendly kind of smile. Tsuna didn't seem to be acting any different though.

"That's not it. It's just odd for you to come to my school for no reason."

Tsuna said rubbing his sore head.

"Well I needed to get the word out about band auditions somehow, and decided your school was a good place to start."

Yamamoto's ears perked up at this.

"Oh your in a band Mr. Reborn?"

He asked smiling. The older man looked over to him and smirked back slightly.

"No I make the bands."

Tsuna jumped into the conversation at this point.

"Reborn is a band manager and needs a new band so he's making one, or trying to."

Reborn leaned over and got a closer look at Yamamoto.

"You aren't interested are you?"

He asked. Yamamoto laughed, rubbing his neck and shaking his head.

"Sorry baseball is more my thing."

Tsuna nodded and smiled as well.

"That's right Yamamoto is the star player."

Yamamoto laughed again.

"I wouldn't say that. It's a team effort."

Reborn was slightly disappointed, but figured he had plenty of time to convince the teen to join if he was friends with Tsuna.

Gokudera half listened and sort of went back to sleeping. He wondered if the obvious baseball freak could even play an instrument. While he himself fiddled with the guitar pick in his hand.