AN: Next chapter. No singing this time! Yet, I have a feeling I was inspired by both version of the song (yes, both male and female. I recommend the 6918 PV. Hilarious... especially the horse thing. *shot*)

Song: World is Mine by Ryo (supercell) feat. Miku Hatsune (and technically the Kaito version)

Disclaimer: I can't draw. I also can't sing. I'm also too poor to buy $200-250 products. Yeah. And I can't mix (yes, I have tried, and I gave up. Who said Audacity was easy... maybe I just fail?) So, in other words, I really don't own any songs or KHR. (Unless owning products count?)

Ietsuna smiled, feeling a bit annoyed by the people that called him their friend. However, he had to admit that it was nice to be praised by his so-called friends. With a smirk, which could be seen as handsome, he noticed that Tsuna was sitting by himself. While he was horrified that someone like Tsuna was related to him and oftentimes, would use his brother's naivety for his own benefit.

Like the time that Tsuna had been bullied, he used the bullying to his advantage, telling his friends to stop picking on his younger brother. However, the cruel smile had managed to fool the others into believing that he was being sincere, that he actually cared about his own brother's wellbeing. While he didn't show it in front of others, he didn't like his brother's existence, and made sure to show that.

However, he did use his skills in manipulation to create as much of a ruckus as he could in order to look like the good guy, the hero, the knight in shining armor. It was working, as all the girls were tripping over themselves in order to get near him. While some of the guys disliked him for "stealing" the heart of the girl they liked, Ietsuna knew that they could never be truly angry—they liked him enough to not hold a grudge against him. He was too likable to hate for a long time, and he planned on using that throughout school.

His brother, the only one who knew of the real him, would never speak out against him, and Ietsuna knew that no one would believe him in any case even if he did decide to say something. Ietsuna also knew that, in the end, if his brother decided to speak up, he could always reteach him the lesson that had been taught long ago.

Of course, he would have to do it when their mother wasn't home—while she was wrapped around his fingers as completely as the other girls, he didn't want to risk anything, especially losing that control of his own mother.

The day he met Reborn, the so-called tutor, Ietsuna couldn't help but direct him towards his useless brother, No Good-Tsuna. That didn't go as planned. Instead of having the infant agree with him (and ignoring the fact that the baby was articulate enough to confuse him at some points in the conversation), he was promptly "shown his place" by the infant who claimed to be able to read through his actions (and apparently disapproved of it.)

Ignoring the faint voice in his head that said to be wary of the infant, he aggravated Reborn even more by subtly mocking him while sounding sincere in his compliments. Ietsuna expected Reborn to be fooled—most of the people he knew were fooled by his words—so he was rather shocked to receive such a loathing glare.

No Good-Tsuna, his brother, looked on with a mixture of wariness and disbelief, but Ietsuna didn't bother to comment on it. Instead, he gave a charming smile, which seemed to irk the infant even more for an unknown reason.

It may have been a momentary lapse in intelligence, or it may have been due to the recent head injury, but Ietsuna decided that mocking Reborn was the best thing to do. Receiving another kick, which more or less hurt twice as much as the first (and thankfully he was used to fighting, as he was certain someone unused to it would have fainted), he glared at the infant, showing his "true nature" for a moment before allowing a smile to grace his face. If Ietsuna had to deal with someone like Reborn being his tutor, then he would make the tutor's life a living hell.

With a smile of his own, Ietsuna just showed the tutor his room, watching as Reborn took it in with a critical eye. The room was spotless, kept quite nicely as there was nothing that irked him more than uncleanliness, and he felt proud by the slightly impressed look Reborn shot him (for unfathomable reasons).

Shaking off the feeling of something going wrong (he always had this feeling, and usually pushing it to the side did the trick of avoiding it), he allowed the infant to room with him, if only to see his prowess as a mathematical genius (maybe he could finally come up with a sensible way to memorize the quadratic formula)—he assumed the infant was one because that was the only thing he needed tutoring in.

However, after being dragged by the infant and told about the "truth" of his tutoring (honestly, one does not introduce themselves as a tutor while being an infant), Ietsuna could only stare in shock, thinking that, once again, his mother had fallen for some scam. Obviously, that had to be the case because, honestly, no one goes around saying that they'll be training someone to become a mafia boss.

Watching his brother's reaction, he nearly snorted in bemusement—obviously, his younger brother (by five minutes) believed the crazy infant. Laughing silently, watching his brother's obvious nervousness, he allowed himself to grimace at the thought of the supposedly torturous training regimes.

The next morning, he hadn't expected to be awoken by a trigger-happy infant, wielding some green gun (why it was green, and how he got the weapon, Ietsuna didn't know.) He also didn't expect the man to know about his crush on Kyoko Sasagawa, and he definitely wasn't expecting the infant (Reborn) to threaten him to confess with a gun.

However, knowing how to charm women, he only smirked in response and replied with a, "Sure, I'll do as you say," as he walked away from the crazy, mental baby who should have been locked away in a mental asylum long ago. With that in mind, he set it upon himself to find the girl that had managed to occupy his thoughts.

With a charming smile, he told her that he was in love, that she was all that he could think about (which wasn't completely a lie, but not a truth within itself), and that he would like to date her. While she was against the idea at first, he managed to charm her with compliments and exaggerated truths. (Phrases such as "you're the number one princess", etc., came to mind, but never left his lips, yet.)

If there was one thing Ietsuna definitely knew about Kyoko, it was that she was a hopeless romantic at heart. From there, he was able to deduce that she would fall for him if he complimented her while spouting out cheesy, purely romantic lines that he heard his dad use around his mom.

He smiled, genuinely smiled, when she finally accepted his confession, and even agreed to go out with him soon. However, that feeling of happiness was squashed by his feeling of accomplishment and vanity—it was obvious that she would have accepted his proposal, but Ietsuna was also pleased that it didn't take more than an hour. Had it been anyone other than Kyoko, he wouldn't have even bothered to try to seduce the girl, but she was important to him. At least, she was kind, well-liked (maybe even respected), and she was known for not being violent. Also, she wouldn't be extremely clingy, as she oftentimes showed "evil" people kindness, a bleeding heart from what he could remember.

However, it was very nice, especially when he managed to convince his brother to fight Mochida-senpai (not that he couldn't win) in his steed, and the icing on the cake was when his brother won against the upper classman. Had it not been below him, he would have offered some form of praise to his useless brother, but Ietsuna didn't.

Instead, he planned out the date, ignoring the fact that Reborn had returned from wherever he goes and could very well kill him in an instant. It would occur on Sunday, the only day that they were free from school, and he would choose the place (in hopes of avoiding everyone and their… cheering.)

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Blue Nail Polish: Can I say, first, that I love you for the con crit. I mean, not many people leave them (and I'm also one of those people. Hypocrisy is awesome.) And that I challenge you to that Queen of Lurkers title?
Now, I will on respond to things that I either don't agree with, or that I think should be addressed. The songs, after having plotting out how half the chapter will be affected by them, I realized, more set the mood for the chapters. Looking at it, a bit more than a fourth of them will have singing (and not even all the lyrics will appear), and that in itself becomes rare. The other three fourths will be used as mood setting, songs I found fitting for the overall mood, which I will explain (and the list will probably be up by the time I update.)
Actually, that was the only thing I really had to reply to. Everything else, I sadly agree with. As much as I would love to incorporate some of what you said within this chapter, I had this one finished before I posted the fic. (If anything, I withhold posting a chapter so that I'm motivated to finish the next so I can post the former chapter.)

AN: If you bothered reading my rambling, I will be posting a list on my LJ (mostly for my sake) about why I had a song for each chapter. I guess it's more of justifying something that shouldn't need to be explained, but I will do that as I update each chapter. I have the link up on my profile. (It's obvious, I think.) Anything that's not spoiler-y, I'll try to answer.