A/N: Hey there. So I hope you're going to enjoy my new story. While I love Gokudera and Yamamoto it always annoyed me a bit, that Tsuna would mainly hang out with them and their friendship was the most developed out of the group. What about Hibari and Mukuro and tons of other characters with which I would have liked to see a developed friendship. So I thought about writing a story about friendship and family, with a bit of romance later on. Because I think Tsuna has the potential of being everybody's best friend.

Warning: slash (male/male) in later chapters, a bit of a procastinating author with lots of side problems and problems with my tenses; english is not my mother langueg so sorry for that

Disclaimer: Don't own KHR! If I would there would be lots of Hibari, Mukuro, Varia and Vongola 1st Generation.

Enjoy! Ciaossu!

It all started with an 'I will bite you to death, herbivore!'.

Well actually it all started when Tsuna was eight and the other kids learned pleasure in hurting him with more than their words.

But in truth everything started when Tsunayoshi Sawada, an adorable brunette with doe like eyes, was late for school. Again.

"Hieeeeee!", shouted little Tsuna as he was rushing down the stairs. He shut the front door with a hurried 'Goodbye' to his mother.

"Ara, Tsu-kun is going to be late again.", chuckled Nana Sawada, the mother of Tsuna.

Meanwhile, little Tsuna rushed to get on time, even though he had a feeling he would be late again.

Just as he saw the front gate of the school and started to breath in relief his doe like eyes immediately widened when he saw who was waiting at the front gate for him.

"Look, No-Good Tsuna is late again.", sneered one of his classmates and bully.

"B-but you're also l-la-te.", pointed little Tsuna out, before he realized what he said.

"What was that, No-Good Tsuna?", asked another boy growling at Tsuna.

"N-nothing.", whimpered Tsuna casting his eyes downward.

The guys leered at him and Tsuna knew what was going to follow, when one of them caught his wrist in a bruising grip and dragged him behind the school.

They threw a few punches and kicked him with their feet while he was on the ground. Tsuna was whimpering and openly crying, while the other kids where taunting him.

"Please, help.", cried little Tsuna, who still had hope that one day somebody will help him. But he also knew he had no friends and wished for that to change.

Nobody ever stood up for him because they thought he was useless. Even Kyoko, the kindest girl in the school tended to avoid him.

Tsuna cried even harder. Nobody was ever going to help him.

"For crowding and disrupting the peace in Nanimori I shall bite you to death herbivores!", said a menacing voice and suddenly his bullies stopped and cried in pain. Tsuna watched in wonder how one after another they dropped like flies on the ground.

Tsuna looked at his savior. A boy older than him, with jet black hair, and a black jacket draped on his shoulders. He was handling two wooden tonfas, not that young Tsuna knew what a tonfa was. To him it simply looked like the boy was handling two sticks. Tsuna knew the boy. Everybody in Nanimori knew him.

With his two sticks (tonfas) he quickly took control of the whole school, including the teachers. Nobody dared to step out of line when he was around. His name: Hibari Kyoya.

The other boys scrambled on the floor and started running.

Tsuna shook in relief and stuttered. "Th-thank you Hi-hibari-san."

And then the dreaded words that changed everything were uttered: "I will bite you to death, herbivore!"

"Hieeeeeee!", and so for the first time in his life (but to his dismay, not the last) Tsuna was 'biten to death' – even though, thinking back on it years later, Hibari had been much gentler then he was with others.

And the first step towards their strange friendship was taken.

Tsuna goes home bruised that day and his mother fusses over him. But he is strangely happy.

"Mama, will you teach me how to make a bento?",asks little Tsuna of his bemused mother.

But Nana, with no daughter to pass her secrets to is more than pleased to teach him – she secretly thinks Tsu-kun would make an adorable housewife, but keeps her opinion to herself, least Iemistsu finds out and comes to lock his adorable son in a tower or something.

It is only two weeks later, that Tsuna is satisfied with his bento.

In the two weeks nobody has bothered Tsuna again and that only makes him more determined to make the absolute bento.

At lunch break Tsuna searches the whole school but when he doesn't find him his lower lip begins to wobble and his eyes to water. He makes for an adorable image, but also a weak one.

Some bigger boys see him and make his way towards him. The bento his crudely thrown on the ground along side Tsuna.

But when one of the boys makes a move to stomp on the bento, little Tsuna feels a flame roar up inside him and he tackles the bigger boy to the ground. Due to the surprise, the bully lets himself be tackled.

The others quickly get over their shock and make a move to jump Tsuna, if not one of them spotting the demon, ehm, Hibari, making his way towards them. They quickly run.

"Herbivore!", threatens Hibari taking his tonfas out.

But Tsuna is so happy, that his face instantly brightens and Hibari pauses a moment in surprise.

He gently picks the bento up and presents it to Hibari, whit a shy smile and rosy cheeks.

Were Nana there she would have already started making wedding plans.

Hibari just stares from the bento to the herbivore in front of him, for the first time in his life unsure of the situation.

When too much times passes, Tsuna's face slowly transforms into that of a kicked puppy, and Hibari, panicking takes the bento from him. Tsuna's smile outshines the sun and Hibari finds his breath catches in his troath.

The second step towards their weird friendship is taken.