Alright time for this chapter! The drama will start picking up after this chapter, its kinda short, but more emotional than the others, I hope you guys enjoy!

Chapter 5

Promise...

Boss held her rose tinted cheek firmly with his gentle calloused hand. He softly parted her lips with his. She slowly began to move her lips in rythem with her Boss. This was actually happening.

Her first kiss... And it was with Boss!

It was gentle and warm. He deepened the kiss leaning higher over her. Chrome placed her lonely hand on the one holding her cheek. His lips pressed against hers, both pair of lips, wet and warm. Swapping saliva, their lips slowly danced with eachother, swaying up and down. His grip on her cheek loosened and he pulled away from her lips, Chrome sucked on his bottom one before they broke the kiss.

He still had his eyes closed, and gently rested his forehead on hers. Her eyelid slowly lifted up, and she innocently peeked at Boss. He opened his lips to speak, but it came out as a slow, confused, whisper, "Chrome... I... but we are friends..." He said. She didn't know if he was talking her or himself.

"Boss..." Her breath came out in a pant. The tingling sensation of their kiss still lingering on her lips. He dared to open his eyes and gaze into her huge amethyst orb. Their was a shine in it, as it gazed warmly at him. His heart beat grew fast and his cheeks grew scarlet at her beauty.

She was still holding the hand cupped around her cheek, under her eyepatch. She rubbed it gently with her finger tips, and leaned her head against it, cuddling it.

"Your palm is so warm..." She smiled out in a whisper, enveloped by his body warmth. She ran her free hand over his shoulder and behind his neck, she soflty gripped the brown locks of hair under his strawhat, their noses pecked eachother when she deepend their embrace. "I always feel safe and happy when I'm with you, Boss..."

She closed her eye and let out a breath of comfort, being in a tender embrace with Boss. Her breath tickled his lips, and he caressed her other cheek with his free hand, rubbing his thumb along her pink shaded cheek, he closed his eyes. He shifted his face leaning his lips towards hers, he kissed her again with whispered lips.

She clutched harder at the locks of hair around her fingers. Boss was kissing her again, she was growing more red, her cheeks flustered at the kiss. This was more than she asked for from Boss. Why would he kiss her again?

But she wasn't going to reject his hot moist lips. She really liked the first time. He was kissing her slower this time, but with a more protective manner, holding both her cheeks softly. Their lips parting slowly and reuniting fast, not wanting to be away from eachother.

They slowed to a stop. Those quiet and beautiful words she whispered to Boss made his heart beat and lips act. 'Why do you make me feel like this... I feel so honest with you... And your naive nature... I want to protect it so much from the mafia world... You were thrusted into it faster than me... but it was never fair to you... Chrome I will keep my promise...' He gave a small smile to the confused but bliss induced Chrome. They slowly broke their confusing, but loving hug. Chrome was shy and nervous. She had her hands on her lap.

"B-Boss, um I only asked for one...?" She stuttered out with a guilty, but happy blush. She was timidly staring down, but he didn't speak until she dared to gaze up with her amethyst orb, she didn't look scared of his answer, only shy and curious. Her strawberry red cheeks visible after she raised her cute pineapple head.

"I promised you didn't I?" He let out with a warm smile, his cheeks still a hue of pink from his first kiss. She gazed at him with confusion, until he answered, reminding her of the last words he said when they became real friends. "I, Sawada D. Tsunayoshi, your Boss, will always be here for you... I will definitely keep my promise to you, Chrome." He kept his gentle smile, but his eyes were flicking with orange, a sign of his resolve.

Chrome gasped out and blushed. She clutched her fist tight, her heart was about to burst out of her chest. To promise such an act for her... 'Why Boss? Why can only you make me feel like I actually have an inside, and not just some hollow vessel?' She gulped at the way he was able to make her feel like her own person...

'I feel like I can be honest with you, Chrome...' He thought to himself. 'About my hat and dreams...'

Chrome was a blushing mess for the rest of the time they did their homework. The promise and kisses still fresh in her mind. Boss was... Boss? She needed answers but she couldn't to talk to him about it. Just looking at him, caused her stomach to flip, and cheeks to burn. Boss being the dense he was never seemed to notice the nervous wreck she was. Even being closer to her, sitting next to her, with his back also facing his bed.

He would lean close to her, checking how she got her answer, and asking for tips. His breath would hit her neck at times, and his strawhat would seemingly play with the spikes of her pineapple hair. It was driving her crazy!

He was gazing into her eye, from the side of her face, also at the Vongola Mist Earing. She was stuttering, trying to answer a question he asked. She was staring hard at the work sheet, avoiding his gaze, with a blush across her cheeks, that kept growing, the more he stared.

She didn't see the blush graze his cheeks, and soft eyes. She was so cute and innocent, like always. Chrome, his pillar and bridge to the daily life, he wishes, she could at least have... But he knew his family could never have that privilege. It was because of his bloodline and fate, that brought so many people into the mafia world. He would carry that burden, he has to, and accept the sin of being Vongola Decimo, he would protect all of them, and cast away his childish dream... But maybe one day, in the hopeless of the maifa world chained to him, their would be a glimmer of hope and he could follow it...

To become a mafia boss was never in his dreams, but fate is a cruel creature you can't fight.

He realized he was obligated and was going to accept his tittle. Staring into the eye of Chrome, and the peaceful day they had, he knew it was only temporary... But he was going to enjoy them with her, as long as he could. Before he accepted the cross that was already handed down to him by Vongola Primo, a man who probably fought for the same reasons he does, to protect his family.

Tsuna casted away his thoughts as Chrome answered his question. But he decided already. After the sports festival he would tell Reborn he was ready to become Vongola Decimo once and for all. He would carry the burden of the Vongola and do what he could to keep his friends, family and Chrome safe. He would do his best to keep her naive and precious nature.

"A-And that's how I found X, Boss." She stuttered out, she couldn't take his stare anymore and faced him after finishing her explanation. She didn't ask with her lips, but with her curious eye.

He blushed and quickly hid it with his strawhat, looking down at his hands and lap. He was lost in thought staring into her beautiful orb. She must of been uncomfortable the whole time. His blush grew even more realizing everything he promised himself, was for her...

"S-sorry Chrome!" He quickly stammered out, looking down, now the one who couldn't meet her gaze. "I got lost in thought, thinking about something, I wasn't trying to make you feel awkward."

Her blush began to settle away, she giggled at him. Boss was so sure of himself when he promised to be there with her, but then completely back to his timid side with a glance of her being uncomfortable. He always thought about her feelings first.

"Ne, what was it that you were thinking about, Boss?" She asked with a small smile, her beautiful eyelashes blinking curiously at him.

He almost chocked on his own spit at the question, and the way she asked it. 'She is too cute!' He recovered and rubbed the back of his hat, looking at her, a little bit unsure of his answer. It was hard to lie to her innocent curious eye, and cute face. "Ehehe, I was thinking about officially becoming the boss of the Vongola and train to become Decimo..." He answered, but grew a tint of pink, thinking how he made that choice for his family, but also to protect her, and her innocence.

Chrome's eye shifted from curiosity to slight disbelief. She leaned closer to him, rechecking for any injuries, did he bump his head? She didn't find any, so she asked, "But Boss, you always had reservations about being the leader of the mafia family?" She head her head tilted to the side.

He gasped out at her question. No one ever listened to his complaints of being the tenth Vongola Mafia boss. Reborn always ignored it, Gokudera took any opportunity he could to involve the mafia, and Yamamoto enjoyed having Tsuna as the leader of the role playing game he thought it all was. Chrome was actually listening to him during their many adventures, and how he kept denying his title. 'Chrome...' He gulped.

He scratched his cheek answering her question. "I have been denying it for a long time, but we are all already heavily involved, and if I don't accept it, I'm worried everyone I dragged into this will be targeted or suffer." He gritted his teeth and clentched his fist. "I won't let my family pay for my selfishness." He was speaking full of resolve to protect them, but she heard a trail of regret leave his voice.

She could hear how badly he didn't wish to accept his fate. Her eye was drawn to his strawhat, feeling it was connected to this. She wanted to tell him he didn't have to become a mafia boss and that everyone would be ok, but her voice was was silenced by the truth in his words. Boss couldn't escape the shackles of the mafia world...

Her heart dropped and her eye was becoming tearful. "Oh Boss..." She cried, tackling him into a hug, she wrapped her arms around his neck and strawhat. They fell. She was on top of him resting her head in the crook of his neck.

He was caught of guard, and laid on the floor for a sec, before hugging her back, he was blushing, but wasn't nervous. "Chrome..." He whipsered, confused at the whimpers he heard next to his ear.

"... It's not fair..." She cried silently to his ear. His eyes widened, before softening, he rubbed her back, soothing her.

'She is crying... for my sake...' He chocked back the sobs he felt coming. She was already tearful, he couldn't be. "I'm the one who should be worried for you, Chrome, not the other way around." He tried to comfort her, while whispering to her ear.

She shook her head and squeezed him tighter. "Your my only friend, Boss, its just like what you said, of course I'm going to be worried about you." She cried silently, but he felt a fear tears drip down his earlobe. He was willing to carry the weight of the Vongola. All for his family, because he was given no other option. How could she not be concerned and in distress for her Boss.

She felt the gasp leave his body before he relaxed. He placed his other hand on her hair running his hand through a few stands of her hair, prompting her to lift her head and gaze down into his calm but caring eyes.

Her eye was bloodshot and puffy, she was sniffling, but the way Boss was combing her hair was comforting. He gazed back at her while he told her, "As long as I have you, and our family is safe and together, I won't seek anything else in this world. I will accept my fate as Decimo." He worded it in a way that made her wonder what he truly seeked in this life, but for now she wouldn't question it. Boss was so calm and sure of his words. This side of Boss was the one that always kept her safe, and she was able to believe in him.

She nodded before whispering, "I want that too Boss..." She pushed her self up with her hands on his chest staring down at him with a tearful, but warm smile. He smiled back with the same emotions.

"Let's definitely win that three legged race, Chrome!" He cheered softly at her. Her eye was still puffy, but there was a shine in it.

She nodded with a smile, closing her beautiful purple eye. "Yes!" She cheered back. They both were going to give it their all and win that day!

Alright the next chapter will be the chapter before the sports festival, I think, I might get carried away and write more! And then the first half of the story will be done, because the second half will have more mafia related issues like Tsuna becoming the Vongola Boss, and some moments of violence. But the central theme is always goin to revolve around the relationship between Tsuna and Chrome. I really hope you guys enjoyed it, and the story so far!