Finding Love in Darkness

Summary: Tsuna gets hit on the head by Hibari's tonfas and lost his eyesight temporarily. Hibari offers to take responsibility of him. Romance ensues. Will they both admit their feelings for each other? Review please :)

Chapter 9

"Wake up Tsunayoshi. You have to eat."Although the voice sounded harsh the concern lingered behind the words. Tsuna smiled a little. It was Hibari who was showing him concern. Tsuna complied and followed Hibari who had a secure grip on the smaller boy while he guided the boy to the dining area. "If only Hibari-san was like this more often..."

~End of flashback~

That night Hibari had been extremely attentive to the brunette's needs. He had fed Tsuna, showered Tsuna, changed Tsuna's clothes and even had the boy to sleep with him on the same futon. Throughout the entire experience Tsuna was wishing that this dream would never end. On the other hand Hibari was experimenting with his new found feelings.

Tsuna slept peacefully that night and Hibari watched the brunette as he slept. Hibari thought about any possible aspects which he liked about the brunette to make him fall so hard in love.

Hibari ran his thin fingers through Tsuna's unruly brown locks. Tsuna unconsciously moved closer to the source of warmth in his sleep. Hibari's eyes softened at the thought of how Tsuna resembled a small animal.

"A squirrel?" he thought. Then he soon dismissed the idea. Squirrels do not suddenly show an aggressive side when threatened. Even if they did it would not be as deadly as the potential Tsuna had come to reveal.

"How about a rabbit?" Hibari thought once more. He looked carefully at the sleeping face of the brunette and sighed. Rabbits do not fly into sudden aggressiveness and also the mating nature of rabbits is too different from Tsuna's innocent nature. It may be common for teenage boys to have thoughts of those ever so often but Tsuna showed no signs of those, not even to the girl he had a crush on. He might know what those words meant but he was certainly not one to apply them. Rabbits were certainly out.

Birds were beyond the question because Hibari represented himself with birds to be strong and free. Tsuna had too many things binding him to be a bird. A bird in a cage is no bird at all even if it can fly.

Hibari thought about dogs and chuckled when he thought if a certain silver haired bomber. Tsuna was certainly nothing like that so the mongrel was out of the picture. "If I remember correctly the baby had mentioned something about this herbivore getting bullied by neighbourhood dogs. He must be like a cat then..."

Hibari compared the sleeping brunette with a cat and found to his liking that they were very similar with the exception that this cat is extremely kind and caring. "Almost like a female feline protecting her children," Hibari mused and was reminded of the brunette's box weapon in the future arc.

"A lion huh? Seems befitting. However the lion now is too young to harm anyone. Tsunayoshi you truly are an interesting person. Should I classify you as an herbivore or a carnivore?" Hibari thought.

He stroked the cheek of the boy and sighed. "Why must you be the one to invoke the feelings I was trying so hard to lock away, Tsunayoshi?" The smaller boy did not answer and Hibari sighed. He planted a gentle kiss to the sleeping brunette's forehead before opting to wrap his arms around the boy's waist and fell asleep, little did he know that someone had been listening to him all along.

Xxx Destiny Aitsuji xxX

The next morning Tsuna awoke with a start. He screamed and tumbled out of bed even faster than Reborn could make him with a Leon hammer.

Hibari growled with a silent promise to murder the cause of disturbance but refrained from doing so with a heavy sigh when he realised that it was only Tsuna.

"Oh? So you woke up," Hibari mumbled while Tsuna tried to piece together his sanity.

"Oh? OH?! Don't 'oh' me Hibari-san! What happened yesterday? Where am I? Why am I here with you? What time is it? What did I do? What did you do? Did anything happen between us last night after dinner? Don't just 'oh' me and start explaining Hibari-san!" Tsuna ranted.

Hibari flinched with Tsuna's sudden outburst and sighed again. This triggered another fit from Tsuna and Hibari had to tolerate the over reacting boy. When he opened his mouth to call the brunette, the brunette had already rattled on for the third time straight in the morning.

"... Don't Tsunayoshi me! Do you have any idea how serious this is? We could have been hunted down by the entire mafia community for the inappropriate behaviour of the guardian and the boss. Reborn is going to kill me, Xanxus is going to kill me and heck even Mukuro will..."

"TSUNAYOSHI!"

This effectively shut the brunette up. Tsuna was shocked. Often he had witnessed people getting bitten to death but never nice had he heard Hibari raise his voice to anyone. Tsuna retreated back into his shell reeling in from the shock he had just received.

Hibari sighed and glared at the boy half-heartedly. He knew this would be coming but never had he expected for the brunette who was traumatised just last night to be this bold in the morning.

"Tsunayoshi," Hibari said this time and Tsuna flinched. Hibari rejoiced slightly that the brunette was back to normal and being cautious around him.

"Nothing happened," Hibari told him. Tsuna was silent and processed the words.

"Eh?"

Hibari resisted the urge to smack the brunette or tonfa him to death.

With gritted teeth and tightly controlled temper he forced the words out "I said nothing happened, Tsunayoshi. Don't make me repeat it again unless you want me to bite you to death. If you don't understand then repeat it until you understand!"

After saying that he got out of bed, stormed past Tsuna and slammed the bathroom door shut behind.

Tsuna blinked once then twice. Finally realisation clicked in his mind and he snapped his fingers with a bright smile on his face. Tsuna shouted loud enough for Hibari to hear from inside the bathroom "Thank you Hibari-san! I'll make breakfast!"

The reply from the bathroom was quick. "Touch anything and die Sawada Tsunayoshi!"

Tsuna gulped and obediently sat on the floor waiting.

Author's Note: Haha! I know this is a rather short one but I finished writing it on the bus and train back home ^_^ please review and tell me how you find their relationship progress... I have a hard time understanding what love is :/

Also, thank you for the feedback about the line breaks xD I had no idea such a thing existed :$