27 & R & 5986 & ALL MINI-SCENE ~ BUS-RIDE DAY
BAM. Some merciless kick from Reborn awakes Tsuna painfully.
"Aouch, Reborn! What was that for?!" "We've reached Namimori terminus. As the Boss, it's your duty to wake up everyone before the bus company inspector kicks us out." "Wh… at…?"
A glance to his surroundings is enough for Tsuna to realise that he's not the only one who has fallen asleep during the trip back from the beach: everyone is snoring more or less quietly on the other seats at the back of the bus. The rest of the passengers has already left before the bus reached the terminus bus park, and only the old driver is left, having started a nap on his sit at the front while waiting for his last passengers to wake up and take their leave.
Tsuna scratches his cheeks, a little troubled and thankful at the same time.
"Now is tutoring time. As the Boss, what order do you think would be the most efficient to wake them up?" "Eeeh?! What kind of weird tutoring is that, out of the blue?! And give me a break with the Boss thing…!" BAM. "Just get going already, Baka-Pupil!"
Tsuna's first thought is to wonder if Kyoko is fine, and he walks to the seat she shares with her brother, before stopping with a hopeless moeing expression.
Dawww… She's just too cute… How could I wake her up…? No good, no good! I definitely won't spoil Kyoko's cute sleeping face…! But then Oniisan is…
TILT. Tsuna's hand instinctively suspends before reaching Ryohei. Reborn smirks with satisfaction under the border of his hat.
"Heehee, well done. The intuition of the Vongola is definitely flowing in you." "Reborn…?" "Leaving the loudest for the last is definitely the most logical choice. But you deserve a scolding for having passed on Kyoko although she would have been the best help for waking the others. Forgetting to gain allies in your task just because of some personal feelings, tsk. You still have a lot to learn." "… can't you give me a break…? I'm just waking up my friends, you know…" BAM. "Just stop taking everything so lightly, Baka-Tsuna. The bonds of a family are born from situations like this." "Uuh, alright, alright! Then, next ones are…"
TILT. But Tsuna stops with an eerie feeling in front of the next double seats.
After having complained, ranted, complotted so much to try and get the seat next to him, he would have never expected these two to sit side by side. No actually, considering how the only other free sit is next to Yamamoto, it makes sense Gokudera wouldn't pick this one even if he had to stay standing the entire trip… and wasn't there a granny next to Yamamoto until a couple stops ago… so then it would make sense for Haru to give up her sit for the elderly and settle for her last option… but still…
"What is it, Tsuna? Giving up on the test already?" "Well, it's just…"
It's just that it feels at the same time like the weirdest and the most normal thing he's seen in a while: his Vongola hyper-intuition is screaming it.
Tsuna pauses for a long minute while considering his options.
If he doesn't wake them up, he's sure Gokudera will spoil his ears with restless apologies of shame for the trouble caused… and Haru with blushing apologies for the misunderstanding… Not that he cares much about excessive loyalty or imaginary unfaithfulness, but he would rather avoid an umpteenth apology session from these two on these topics that he now knows by heart. It's just too embarrassing and he doesn't know how to reciprocate…
But then if he wakes them up now, he'll waste the only opportunity of seeing these two actually getting along, or at least looking like it, a rare and valuable sight making him feel relieved for some reason…
Raah, life is made of very difficult choices…
"If you're concerned of retaliation, you should prepare a back-up, Tsuna." "A back-up…?" "Yes, heehee…"
CLICK. And Reborn presses the camera shutter of Tsuna's phone with a smug smile.
"Or sometimes we call it blackmail too, heehee…" The little hitman grins while showing the picture to Tsuna.
On the phone screen, mirroring the pose they still have in reality, Gokudera and Haru are sleeping one onto another's shoulder, so intimately and peacefully that one would not imagine them being a bickering duet with a Tsuna-complex, but rather think them a couple… and a close one too…
Blackmailing resource for sure… Ah crap, he just started thinking like mafia!