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Chapter 11

The brunet opened his eyes with a jerk, and before he could even have any rational thought. He had already made a mad dash towards the bathroom. Tsuna emptied his stomach loudly and with each heave, his stomach kept churning and his eyes stung with painful tears. He kept throwing up everything as his stomach protested and ached for release.

He couldn't think at that moment. All he registered was the dizzying ache on his head and the churning of his stomach as if being blended. As his action dimmed, the burning ache on his throat grew, making his body ache for blissful water.

Tsuna inhaled loudly with eyes closed, his head tilting upward with that motion and exhaled while willing his body to continue that action.

There was now numerous thought running through his mind all at once but he forced himself to focus on the feeling of the slowly cooling air through his throat and nose in a large bulk. However, his distraction remained fruitless. His thought remained captive on his mind, like a domino at the starting line. As the domino fell, he gritted his teeth, making him lower his head, uncaring that some strands of his hair was almost touching his vomit and he could smell how filthy it was.

The brunet's hand didn't fumble as he turned the faucet on with slightly shaking hand, letting the cold water run down atop his hair. It was cold and he liked the sensation of cold water splashing onto his hair as if washing him clean.

He remained like that for few minutes, allowing the cool sensation to lull his mind into nothingness but it only dimmed. Tsuna's thought was still caught and it wouldn't go away.

Tsuna lifted his head up, his soaked hair dropped water droplets onto his shirt making it wet and clung to his sticky skin. As Tsuna gazed at his reflection absent mindedly, he noticed that he looked like he was crying with the way the droplet cascade from his hair to his eyes then to his chin but knew it was only water.

'Pathetic.' The brunet insulted on his mind as he peered at his reflection. There was a displeased frown on his face along with that thought. Then he abruptly looked away, finding the tiles more amusing to stare.

He crouched and sat down, his back leaning on the cool tiles and he stretched his legs slightly apart, letting the cool temperature of the tiles seep on his skin. Tsuna sighed almost happily after that as he closed his eyes and slowly fell into a rest. Not caring that he was sleeping sat upright with his back on the wall and the sound of the water running continued.

Tsuna's ears perked up a little when the tap water suddenly stopped but he was already far gone into his slumber to fully realized that someone had turned the faucet off.

Reborn silently stepped towards the brunet who almost looked relaxed in his current position. With the way, Tsuna's body was in a relaxed state, his hands on both his side unclenched and head tilted to the side. It made the brunet looked like he was experiencing a blissful sleep full of happy dreams. However, the brunet wasn't and Reborn knew that. There were creases near the brunet's brows, his eyes closed tightly in imaginary pain and his lips parted taking irregular breathing. Every now and then, Tsuna's fingers would twitch in a show of distress and his brows would pinch together in obvious pain.

It made Reborn slightly curious what did Tsuna see in his dreams. Then he shook off his curiosity. Reborn expected that Tsuna was having a nightmare about his deceased mother. There was no other explanation than that. There was another explanation but the hitman knew it wouldn't cause nightmare, yet.

Reborn still stayed despite knowing. It wasn't because he was worried about his student but due to the fact, the hitman was mapping every expression, every twitch the small child did. As he stared at the almost vulnerable child, because that was Tsuna is, he suddenly thought about his ongoing side project. It was somewhat irrational of him, to push a mere child but knew that in all practicality, it would make his student stronger.

And that was his goal.

The hitman almost took a step forward; towards the brunet's hair but he refrained from such action. All he did was a small twitch of his fingers before abruptly spinning on his heels and turning away from the scene. The tutor's expression was unusually blank.

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"The number you have dialed is either unattended or out of coverage area. Please try your call later."

The brunet let the hand holding onto his phone rest onto his side when he received the same automatic answer. Before abruptly blinking and lifting his phone then pressed the call button for another try. The bright screen illuminating the word Nee-chan as he dialed.

When the call he made met the same mechanical answer, he immediately pressed the end button with slightly more force than necessary.

'I'll try again next time.' He concluded with no other choice as he closed his eyes before getting up, grabbing his wallet, keys and pocketed his phone. With his nee-chan unavailable, he would need to distract himself and staying coped in this house, despite feeling sore, wasn't acceptable and would only lead to thoughts of his deceased mother and how this house was where she was sh-

His mind abruptly halted from thinking when he tripped on his feet that made him hit his kneecap on the door. He noted the fact that his clumsiness reared its ugly head to distract him. It made him think that his body was, for once, was in accordance to find distraction.

As he straightened himself, batting away imaginary dust on his person, he walked downstairs in a normal pace. It just showed that he wasn't thinking on his action as he went through the motion with passive face.

"Where are you going?"

Reborn's sudden voice interrupted his automatic action of walking towards the door, leading to outside. The familiar squeaky voice made him pause from turning the handle of the door, making the brunet turn on his back to where the voice was coming from before answering one word with almost tired voice yet with hint of minor annoyance. "Out."

Tsuna registered the fact that Reborn was standing atop the shoe rack wearing the same clothes the first time they met and the shape-shifting slash weapon-shifting pet lizard on the brim of Reborn's fedora as he answered. He didn't care what the baby was going to respond that was why when the answer left pass his lips, he turned back towards the door, turning the handle open.

Bright clear blue sky, greeted him upon walking outside of his house. The refreshing look of the sky made him look upward before locking the door behind him with a click of the keys.

Tsuna didn't know where to go, maybe a place where he could be alone on his thoughts. If he did that, his painful thoughts would only pester even more. Knowing this, what the brunet needed was a place where he couldn't hear his thoughts or his voice, somewhere obnoxious and loud. If this was Tokyo, Tsuna could easily find it on almost every corner but here, well, he could still find it but as he didn't really sought out that kind of place, it'll take time.

With Tsuna's destination made up, he passed through the gate and locked it for safety before heading to the direction of the crowded Namimori district. However, before he could start his way onto his destination, the brunet felt a weight on his shoulder that made him immediately wince.

"Reborn." Tsuna said the name in acknowledgement of the infant sitting onto his shoulder that had deliberately pressured his bruised shoulder blade after hopping on it. Reborn looked at him with boredom, before raising his brow questioningly.

"Where are we going, Dame-Tsuna?" Reborn asked with genuine curious emotion on the infant's black eyes. The sincere emotion made the brunet avert his gaze as he answered evasively. "Out." Just the same that those words left, he realized that Reborn had said we making his eyes widen with growing annoyance. He didn't want Reborn with him, not an infant, not anyone.

"I am not taking you with me!" He said with an annoyed almost raised voice by the end. It was different on his outward emotionless motion from the time he woke up on the bathroom floor.

Tsuna threw a heated glare, but not overly, at the infant that remained sitting on his shoulder without a care in the world. Yet, he could feel that Reborn had pressed deeper onto his bruised shoulder blade even more so with his chubby hand that he recoiled in pain. It felt like Reborn was digging his bruise, making it sting.

"Reborn," He bit out with a pained look towards the infant and the said infant gave him an amused smirk before pulling his hand away. The brunet immediately knew that Reborn did that on purpose, it made him inwardly bristle, and threw an accusing look at the baby.

With the pressure on his bruised shoulder blade gone, his shoulder relaxed but he still threw an accusing glare at the infant riding on his shoulder. His eyes narrowed in obvious distaste. "Why did you do that for?"

"So where are we going, Dame-Tsuna?" Reborn said without answering his question and it definitely irked him. He also noticed that continued annoying usage of we, making him glare at the fedora-clad infant.

Tsuna narrowed his eyes before huffing, and slightly tilted his chin away from Reborn's direction before responding his declaration with a displeased frown on his face.

"I am not bringing you with me!"

Reborn raised his eyebrow inquisitively. It looked like a bored action coming from the infant with his chin tilted slightly upward and his eyes looking at the brunet.

"And why not?"

It was merely a polite inquiry. However, the brunet felt there was danger on that seemingly harmless question that he immediately clamped shut, not answering in any way or form before turning straight ahead, facing the road, and started walking with heavy shoulders.

He'll ignore the dangerous infant, was the conclusion the brunet reached after that.

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Tsuna was sitting in a crowded café. He absent mindedly steered the strawberry shake that he had ordered. He looked around, obviously noting that everyone seemed to be having fun, though there was some who were lonesome but quite busy. His observations were interrupted by the sound of sipping in front of him, making him sigh. His tutor was sipping cappuccino shake loudly and it only served to irk him more. Not only was Reborn here with him, the baby had charmed several waitress, and the crowd that were cooing at the fedora-clad became larger. It just made their table crowded with strangers that sometimes would ask him if Reborn was his brother and asking the Mafia baby for a hug.

The apparent crowd was a great distraction to sneak away. But the first time he tried to, Reborn had turned on his direction and asked him where he was going. Obviously, he lied convincingly about going to the restroom, someone even offered to take care of his brother during that time. It was going so well, he would sneak when he get on the restroom but that evil baby had decided to go with him. He almost snapped at Reborn during that time, but managed to reign in his frustration, as it was not wise to show his annoyance in front of strangers.

Tsuna still tried to sneak away even when he was on the restroom but before he could even attempt. Reborn had flicked his forehead and said, "Where do you think you are going?" The brunet knew instinctively, that he would have to retreat from his attempt, lie about even attempting, before trying again later. He did exactly that and now he was thinking of how to sneak away. His excuse of going to the restroom would surely fail, that much he knew that was why he'll choose a different tactic.

And that's why he was steering his strawberry shake, seemingly playing due to boredom but inwardly thinking of how to get away.

"Dame-Tsuna." The voice of the evil baby made him attentively look at the infant with a confused expression. With a blink, he let out a huh before he caught sight that the crowd around Reborn was dispersing.

"It's about time we leave." With that declaration he hurriedly stood up and exited the place with hurried pace. He almost looked like he was running away but despite walking in a fast pace, Reborn, the baby, still managed to keep up with him, or rather, had leaped to his shoulder.

Looked like, sneaking away from Reborn without any distraction would be hard. Just when sneaking away from a baby did become hard.

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Tsuna heatedly glared at the fedora-clad baby before him. The brunet's lips pressed into a firm line, and he was glaring with apparent distaste towards the evil baby that had followed him everywhere.

He didn't know what was up to the baby. Tsuna obviously stated that he didn't want Reborn's companionship but the baby had insisted to follow him around. Despite him trying and failing to sneak away and finally it left his mind reeling.

It left his mind baffled at the fact that he couldn't sneak away from a baby! And frustrated because it meant, he wasn't able to get time for himself.

There was the sound of doorbell and a muffled voice. Tsuna didn't know who it was, so he ignored it. It was probably a businessman and it was better to ignore them completely instead of opening the door. Those greedy businesspersons tend to sprout obvious lies that he was tired of hearing.

"Tsuna." The infant piped during the brunet's musing. Tsuna dubiously turned at the infant with distaste and a raised eyebrow but he tried not to be angry anymore. It was getting exhausting to keep up his distaste slash anger for the mafia baby that had ruined his day.

"What is it?" He spoke with normal yet wary tone.

"That was my order. Get it."

The heck? He blinked with confusion. As that thought passed on his mind, the brunet was hit and flung towards the hallway with force that made him cry and groan with pain.

He immediately stood up despite his aching body and cursed out with angry, puffing most likely bruised cheeks. "What the heck was that for?!"

If only he saw that attack, he could have evaded, well tried, but the thought count that he should have seen that attack instead of getting caught off guard. However, he did and the pain isn't going away soon, now that his bruises had increased and his old bruises got worse when they are healing nicely. He inwardly cried, taking a step forward to his room, only to get interrupted by a wheezing bullet that grazed his cheek and embedded onto the flat surface before him.

When he noticed what happened, his eyes widened with fear making him leap to his feet with a shriek. "Hiee…!"

Tsuna audible gulp down after his outburst before turning on his back and towards the baby that had shot him. He had a scared look on his face but with accusing look on his eyes.

Reborn was holding onto a green gun, and that gun turned back, or into, a chameleon that climbed on the infant's hand to the brim of his fedora. The sadist baby looked at him with amused eyes before saying once again, now with an added insult. "Get my order, Dame-Tsuna."

The brunet didn't want to obey. He was about to open his mouth for a vehement refusal but Reborn's eyes glinted, and something dark flashed onto those black eyes. Danger, that was the feeling he get during the time. It made him stutter a feeble answer. "F-Fine."

With a nod afterwards, he turned tail from that danger zone.

He didn't understand why he felt danger, but Reborn's dark eyes wasn't something he didn't want to see. That baby was different, very unlike all other infants he had seen in his life. If all mafia babies were like that, he would be utterly terrified even more if he had to deal with adult mafia men. They would be surely much worse than Reborn.

When he was about to open the door, he paused from that action. It made him wonder why Reborn even looked at him like that to make him do something. He sighed. It was probably Reborn being trigger-happy. If his inside churned, it was probably at the fact he was afraid of the danger that Reborn had posed a while ago.

"Take-out delivery for Sawada Residence!"

It was the same man from Friday. Tsuna blinked at the coincidence before schooling his expression back into a polite smile. Though, he knew that he was failing at his act due to the pain on his body but the man seemed to be oblivious of it.

Tsuna noticed that the man kept smiling at him and he inwardly grimaced. He should try not to seduce older man in a place like Namimori due to the off chance that he might meet the same person and that was his current dilemma. The brunet grimaced because it felt humiliating because someone in Namimori knew or had the slight idea about his activities. He decided that he would act as if what happened the other night didn't happen. He could do that.

"Here is your order!" The older man that had fairly looking skin, tall height and muscled body, if what he noticed was correct since he couldn't see under the clothes, said with a customer-friendly cheerful voice. His darkish brown and almost wild looking hair were swept by the wind, he lacked baby fats on his cheeks and his grey eyes looked at him, totally seeing him with a captivated look on his face.

The man was attracted to him. Tsuna surmised that it was the case and it only made his decision of acting to strengthen. He hoped that the man was morally restricted and wouldn't make obvious advance on him.

The older man handed him the plastic bag containing the take-out with his customer-friendly smile but the man had slight blush marring his cheeks and seemed to be embarrassed. The brunet gulped nervously. The man almost looked innocent with those blush and he felt that this man was attracted to his face but embarrassed to do anything to a mere child.

"Hey."

Tsuna opened his mouth and he inwardly froze as panic set in. 'What the heck? Why did I open my mouth?'

The older man turned to him with a curious expression. There was a kind smile on his lips but the man seemed to be restraining himself. It was probably from flirting because Tsuna acted as if their exchange of contact number didn't happen. "What is it?"

Tsuna inwardly bit the inside of his cheek. He shouldn't have opened his damned mouth but he did and Tsuna didn't even know what to say in the first place. He could tell the other man to fuck off but that would be cruel because the man was obviously trying not to act on his feelings. What did the man even see in the first place to make him attracted? It was merely a seductive smile on a cute innocent face, it was normal but the man was affected despite being, well, not a pedophile. He sees the difference, since he didn't last time and he didn't restrain of not showing his seductive side, Tsuna had to deal with the man that developed a crush on him from that encounter.

He remained silent when that question left the man's lips. He should shake his head that would surely confuse the older man and hopefully make the man notice that he wasn't interested or confirm the man's unasked question and dump him right after.

"I still have that piece of paper."

When those words left passed his lips, his heart froze and his mind blanked.

The man seemed to have perked up from that sentence. And Tsuna felt bad that what he would say next would be hard. But he didn't want an annoyance, especially when the man knew where he lived. The man might stalk him. Though the older man seemed kind enough not to act on that extreme action, however, it was better safe than sorry.

He opened his mouth, readying for the harsh words he would descend upon the other. "Sor-"

"Tsuna."

Reborn's sudden squeaky voice interrupted and it startled him, making him whip his head towards the direction where it was coming from and exclaimed. "Reborn! What are you doing here?"

His eyes widened in alarm. It made him confused because Reborn was supposed to be at the kitchen doing whatever the infant want not here, when he was about to say something important to the older man.

Reborn glanced at him, made a sidelong glance at the other man, that were looking at the baby with a confused frown on his face, before peering at him. His heart almost leaped due to suddenness of Reborn's appearance.

"It was taking you too long to get back so I decided to check on you." Reborn answered. Tsuna noticed that the infant glanced at the plastic bag on his other hand before the infant walked back inside the house and left parting words. "Get inside already before that food gets cold, Dame-Tsuna."

Tsuna's eyes widened in annoyance at that command. He glanced at the evil mafia baby's back with annoyed glint on his eyes then to the older man. Obviously, he didn't heed Reborn's words and choose to talk with the older man. After all, he needed to say what needed to be said. If he didn't, it would lead the older man on and he shouldn't do that here in Namimori, where everyone knew everyone.

There was also the fact that Reborn was an annoyance, it only made him see clearly that Reborn would keep interrupting in his life and he would surely need a distraction.

He remained silent in thought. The man wasn't a pedophile, only attracted to him, that's what he noticed. The man wouldn't stalk him, the man was even embarrassed and probably not a push-over. Still, leading the man was horrible especially when he knew he wouldn't have feelings for anyone.

The fact that the man was attracted to him, it could also mean that the man was actually a budding pedophile. But the man was probably attracted only to him.

He looked at the older man. Tsuna doubted on what to do. He shouldn't lead anyone on especially when he didn't reciprocate the feelings. He wasn't even attracted to men, well, he appreciate when a man was good-looking but that's all there was to it. On his line of work, he needed to appreciate beauty and tolerate ugly older man. That was in Tokyo, right now, he was in Namimori. He wasn't an unknown, he was Dame-Tsuna. There he could do anything he wanted, here his action was restricted because of Reborn, that frustrating evil mafia baby.

Tsuna abruptly looked away, while chewing on his bottom lip. He didn't want to lead the man on. He didn't even like the older man or male in general, well, he also didn't like women, so his sexuality was still dubious but it was of no importance. Though, he appreciate beauty, and he was embarrassed when talking about his nonexistent lovelife. His sexual preference might come later on in his life but right now he didn't like anyone, male or female.

Sasagawa Kyoko was different. He cared for her and that was different to being attracted to her romantically.

"I still have that piece of paper." He repeated the same words he uttered earlier before Reborn's sudden appearance. But this time, he stared at the older man directly onto the eyes. The man's eyes widened, obviously taken aback on why he repeated that line but the man didn't interrupt.

"Can I be your friend?"

The man smiled, and the man looked at him with a smitten look on his face as he answered, "Sure."

Tsuna gave a seductive smile while blush marred his cheeks as he kept staring at the older man in the eyes.

He didn't want to lead the man on, but it didn't mean he couldn't be friends with the older man. Though, the meaning of friends was obviously sketchy, and he already knew that this man would be a great friend.

"I'm Tsuna." The brunet introduced with bright innocent yet playful smile, his eyes showing hidden amusement. He raised his left hand, since he was holding the plastic bag on his right, for a handshake. The man was confused at the orthodox greeting but went along with the business-like introduction. During that time, Tsuna's smile didn't disappear from his lips and the man grasped the brunet's smooth hand tighter. The man was about to pull from embarrassment but the younger brunet held tighter, and the man was totally enamored at the beautiful angelic smile Tsuna had that he didn't want to let go.

It was a start of a beautiful friendship.

A/N: Please read and review.

Timeline: June 24, Sunday