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"Talking"

'Thought'

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Chapter 5

Striding into the gym, Tsuna cast a quick glance behind him before closing the door. He had left the house alone, but after his little speech today, he wasn't sure if Reborn would follow him or not. Being followed by a notorious hitman tutor was the perfect way for it to be revealed what exactly he was doing. It was already suspicious enough for him to be entering school grounds on a weekend when that was strictly forbidden by the Disciplinary Committee.

"You're late, omnivore."

Seeing nothing suspicious outside, Tsuna closed the gym doors and turned to the Prefect standing in the center of the gym. "Reborn and I got into an argument this morning."

Hibari raised a brow, mildly curious. "And why were you talking to the new student-teacher on a weekend?"

"He's supposed to be my tutor." Tsuna said with a frown.

"You'll have to explain it to me later." Hibari decided after a moment and raised his tonfas. "For now, fight, omnivore."

Tsuna took a step back, while at the same time bending his back backwards to avoid the tonfa that was swiped at his head. Before Hibari could move back, he grab the tonfa to pull himself back up, then swung his foot at his opponent's stomach. It never connected as Hibari caught his foot by his ankle with the handle of his free tonfa.

Both boys stared at each other for a moment. But it was only for a split second before they were moving again. Using the only foot he had left, Tsuna jumped and swung it at Hibari's neck, letting go of the tonfa he held at the same time since it was just in his way. At the same time, Hibari released Tsuna's foot. Using the tonfa that Tsuna released, he blocked the kicked and swung his other tonfa at his opponent. Tsuna blocked that tonfa with the bottom of his now free foot, and using the momentum from the attack, flipped himself in the air to get away from Hibari.

Landing on one knee, Tsuna twisted his left ankle around under him. Even if he did block that attack, Hibari was not weak and just blocking it was enough for pain to flare in his foot.

After a moment of impatience, Hibari asked, "You going to fight or not?"

Tsuna looked up with an amused smirk as he rose.

"Something funny?" Hibari asked.

"Nothing, just feeling nostalgic." Tsuna told him as Hibari charged at him.

"You going to fight or not?"

Grumbling under his breathe, Tsuna stood up and rubbed his head where a fist had just recently connected with it. He looked at the men in front of him with a frown. Sad to say that at nine years old, he attracted the worst kind of people. It was still a mystery to how this happened to him. As far as he knew, he didn't do anything to piss off the yakuza, besides "accidentally" tripping one of their men when he killed a young girl in the middle of the day in an alley and was running away. What was he supposed to do? He did deserve to go to jail for that.

So, these men were pissed off at him and probably wanted to kill them. So, he sure as hell knew that these men were not talking. Plus, that voice sounded too young for it to be any of them talking.

Looking over his shoulder, he tried to find the owner of the voice while keeping one eye on the men to see when they would make their next move. To his surprise, he saw feet hanging in the air in his peripheral vision. When he looked up, he saw a boy who was hardly older than him sitting on the fire escape of an apartment complex, watching all of this in extreme fascination.

"Well, are you? If you don't, they'll kill you." The boy asked him.

"They'll kill you just for seeing this much." Tsuna retorted.

The boy smirked. "I'm not a weak herbivore. They can't kill me. Can the same be said for you?"

Tsuna chuckled as he turned his eyes to the sky. A few grey clouds filled the sky, but not a lot and they simply moved along in the breeze. No matter how hard one tries, those clouds simply won't be caught by anything except the sky. Chuckling at the thought of the sky being the master of all, Tsuna turned his full attention back to the yakuza members. "We're about to find out." He called over his shoulder to the boy.

Tsuna slid onto his knees to dodge the tonfas that were crossed and coming for his throat to choke him. Sliding under them gave him range to Hibari's stomach. He grabbed Hibari's shirt to pull the boy down, then slammed his elbow in his face, while letting go of the shirt to send his head snapping back.

He just barely sidestepped the lead pipe that was coming for his head. He almost chuckled when he slammed his foot into the man's stomach, causing him to keel over. If they were going to fight, then they better learn not to leave themselves wide open. He was not just some little kid who didn't know anything.

Picking up the dropped lead pipe, Tsuna used it to whack the man he kicked in the head to knock him out. Then he twirled the pipe between his fingers, while using his other hand in a sign that said 'come get me if you can.' It was a mocking gesture, and one that seemed to always work as the men charged at him.

Not letting this chance go, Tsuna slammed his hands on the ground and threw his feet up to hit the older boy in the chest before flipping himself away just in time to miss the first tonfa, but the second managed to hit his shoulder so his flip was thrown off. With his balance lost, he skidded across the gym floor.

Tsuna ducked under the chain swung at his neck before swinging the lead pipe into the man's stomach. When the man keeled over, he used this opportunity the slam his fist into the man's face now that he could reach it. He didn't get the chance to see if he was down or not because at that moment, he felt the need to dodge to the left. He didn't know why, but he thought it would be for the best.

So it was a surprise when he saw a knife fly passed him and wedge itself into the wall of the apartment. He looked over his shoulder to see a man with throwing knives. "Curious," he murmured to himself as he pulled the knife from the wall. He twirled it in his hand until he was holding the tip of the knife. "Now, how do you use throwing knives?"

The boy on the fire escape raised a brow. It was a foolish move to use a weapon in fight when there was no experience or knowledge of the weapon. Was this kid trying to get killed?

Tsuna rolled to the side to dodge the tonfa that came slamming into the ground just where his head was a moment before. Hands moving in a flash, there was suddenly a knife in each of his hands that were blocking the second tonfa that came for him. Using his dominant foot, Tsuna pushed his foot into the ground hard enough to spin his body so he could swing his foot at Hibari's foot, knowing he would dodge so he wouldn't get tripped up.

Tsuna blocked a knife with the pipe he was holding. The man with the knives threw multiple knives at him at once, but Tsuna simply ducked and if they were still coming at him, he twirled the pipe in his hands to block the knives. Seeing enough of the knife throwing, Tsuna decided he got the basic idea and threw the knife he was holding at his opponent.

"Person on fire escape!" Tsuna called suddenly as he turned away from the knife thrower who was trying to pull a knife from his hand. "If you aren't a weak herbivore, then what are you?" He asked curiously.

CLANG!

"You let your guard down." The boy said with a smirk at the younger boy.

Tsuna's head spun around to see a metal tonfa next to his head and a knife on the ground.

"To answer your question, I'm a carnivore."

Climbing to his feet, Tsuna couldn't help but twirl his knives between his fingers. It just became a habit of his to twirl his weapons in his hands in a fight. He guessed it helped his senses and was why he did it.

"For disrupting the peace of Namimori, I'll bite you to death."

Tsuna almost face palmed. Just who was this boy?

Hibari raised his tonfas once more.

This time, Tsuna started. He crossed his arms over his chest so his hands rested behind his shoulders for a moment. In the next moment, he was releasing six knives at the older boy. Each of Hibari's tonfas blocked three knives, but they served their purpose. Tsuna was charging at Hibari now with a knife in his hand.

"Found you."

Ten year old Tsuna spun on his heels to look at the boy that was leaning against the wall that surrounded Namimori elementary school. He frowned at him. "Carnivore."

The boy blinked at the name.

"That's all I know you by. We didn't exactly exchange names that time." Tsuna told him with a shrug.

There wasn't another word exchanged since Tsuna suddenly found himself ducking a tonfa trying to decapitate him. On instinct Tsuna's hand shot up to grab the tonfa before it could be retracted. He tugged it down and slammed his fist into the boy's face.

"I knew it. You are that boy from the alley."

"You confuse me." Tsuna grumbled as he moved away from the older boy. "What do you want?"

"You're a mystery that I cannot solve. In that alley, you were strong and confident as you fought, but at school you are a weak herbivore. You are so weak that I thought for a while that you weren't that boy in the alley so I tried to find him. To think, he was under my nose the whole time." The boy said, eyes narrowing in annoyance at the boy in front of him.

Tsuna raised a brow. "And why were you looking for me?"

"I want to fight."

"Huh?"

"I want to fight strong carnivores. I consider you one, or I did until I found you were a weakling at school."

"There's a purpose for everything."

"Explain."

"I'm not about to tell a stranger anything."

"Hibari Kyoya."

"Your name?"

"Yes."

"Sawada Tsunayoshi."

"Talk."

"Thought you wanted to fight, or is your curiosity for the mystery to be solved too great?"

"You are trying my patience."

"I will not say anything in public."

"My apartment then."

"The apartments where we met?"

"No, I just happened to be there at that time."

*K.H.R.*

"We've been hacked!" Iemitsu Sawada growled, slamming a hand on the desk.

"Are you sure?" Oregano asked.

Iemitsu nodded. "No doubt about it. It was hard to catch. This hacker definitely knows how to hide his trail. I would have missed it completely if he didn't make a mistake when hiding his trail. Judging by the speed he got in and out, I say he's not an amateur. His mistake was though. Something must have happened for him to make such a mistake."

"Boss? Can we trace it back to him?"

"We can sure as hell try, but I do not believe it will lead us anywhere. There was a single mistake in this hack. It's doesn't give us an exact location, but we do know the country, or we will when we get the file." Iemitsu said with a frown, rubbing his eyes.

"Could it be Erebus? Even the best of hackers have to make a mistake at some point." Basil, a fifteen year old being trained by Iemitsu, asked curiously.

Iemitsu frowned. "Erebus? Is he still interfering in Mafia business?"

"He hasn't been around much lately, but yeah, he's still around." Oregano replied. "It seems no one trusts him, but he is helpful."

"He'd get more trust if he would show his face. People don't like not knowing." Lal Mirch growled.

"He would most likely get assassinations after him then." Basil pointed out with a frown.

"Or have offers from every Mafia to join their Famiglia to help them get ahead." Lal Mirch said darkly.

"What files did he take anyway?" Turmeric asked.

"Files on the candidates to be the successor of the Ninth," Iemitsu grimaced.

Turmeric raised a brow. "But why? They are all dead. The only one left is…."

Iemitsu shot him a dark frown that said to shut up.

*K.H.R*

"You pretend to be weak to protect everyone who makes fun of you."

"Yes."

"Stupid."

"I did not ask your opinion on this matter."

"Even so, I'm interested. Being the son of a Mafioso, you will bring trouble."

"And you'll bite them to death like the yakuza?"

"…."

"What do you want, Hibari?"

"We can help each other out."

"Oh? And how is that?"

"I will train with you in secret to help hone your skills, but when you have enemies, I want to be a part of it so I can fight them."

"Just get involved in the Mafia like me."

"I do not appreciate the sarcasm. I'll bite you to death."

CRASH!

"You're looking for any reason to fight!"

CLANG!

"So it is all starting." Hibari said.

Tsuna nodded his head. "Honestly, I didn't think this is how it would start."

"Anyone who doesn't know you will think you are completely unfit for boss." Hibari said with a smirk.

Tsuna rolled his eyes. "You'll be happy as long as I attract people for you to bite to death."

The Prefect simply gave one last smirk before he was leaving the gym. Sighing, Tsuna followed after him after a few minutes. The best way to avoid detection was to leave at different times, even if it was only by a few minutes.

If only he had been paying more attention for people besides Reborn, he would have felt the pair of warm light brown eyes watching him and realize that he was going to be found out.

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