Summary: Even after almost a year here I'm still not used to the weird stuff that goes on around Tsuna, and now it seems like Bucking Horse Dino and Le Petite Prince Futa have come along for a ride as well.

Disclaimer: Haha, I totally own Hitman *Click* R-re-reborn hi, how are you? I was just telling my readers that there was no way I owned KHR. You can put your gun away now, right?

Words: 11,250

Chapter 22 -Dino & Futa

As someone who by this point in my life should have been acclimated to the strange and out of norm -especially when around Tsuna- I was still shocked by what I saw outside my friends house.

It was a normal Tuesday morning that I was walking to Tsuna's house to pick him up before school when I ran into Gokudera. I offered a greeting to him but the bomber just glared at me and ran ahead, wanting to make it to his bosses house before I did, but that was pretty normal by now. What stopped me short in my tracks and make me wish that I had had some coffee that morning -because it was just too damn early for this- was the large intimidating men in black suits polishing guns surrounding Tsuna's house.

Tsuna came out the next second only to stop on his doorstep when saw what was going on as well, he was then followed out the door by a sleepy disheveled -well, hello there cutie- hot blonde with tattoos coming out from the collar of his shirt up his neck.

"Why are you guys here?" Dino asked grumpily. "I didn't ask you to pick me up."

"No one came to pick you up, Boss." One of the men replied with a full face smile. "I was just taking a stroll and ended up here." This statement was agreed upon by the other men as well.

"From the hotel, all the way here?" Dino replied dubiously, but he didn't get to question the likeness of that statement before he was interrupted by a loud bomber.

"Good morning, 10th!" Gokudera shouted happily with a big smile looking a lot like how Dino's men had looked when talking to their boss. "I woke up too early so I was just wondering around and ended up here." He said rubbing the back of his neck.

"He is lying, he ran all the way here so that he would get here before me."

"Shut up woman!" Gokudera spat at me, it was so interesting how he could go from one emotion to the next so quickly. I just returned his glare with an overly large fake smile before turning to Tsuna.

"Here you go Tsuna," I took out a bread from my bag and handed it over. "Mr. Asahina gave me an extra one this morning, and you usually get up to late to eat breakfast so I thought you should have it."

"No, you don't have to it's yours." Tsuna refused shyly.

"Okay then, your loss." I said with a shrug, opening it up and taking a big bite making Tsuna look hungrily at it as he rubbed his empty stomach. Gokudera seemed to realize that glaring daggers at me wasn't actually going to make dagger appear and stab me so he changed to the topic.

"Anyways, these guys here," He said looking at the men in suits, "Who are they?"

"Hey smoking bomb brat!" Dino said before Tsuna could think of a response, leaning his arm on the top of the fence giving me a good view of the tattoos on his arm. "It's our first time meeting, right?"

"That tattoo...Bucking horse Dino!" Gokudera got a dark look once he realized who the guy was, the way he started to grinned his teeth together made me take a step back not wanting to be in the way if he exploded. I breathed a sigh of relief when Takeshi came up.

"Hey Tsuna and Gokudera! What are you guys doing?" He said swinging an arm around each boy. "You're going to be late!"

"Yamamoto!" Tsuna squeaked in surprise.

Takeshi offered Dino a quick "Hello" which was returned before herding the boys away, not bothering me knowing I would follow. I swallowed a bite of my bread before turning back to face Dino only to see Reborn had appeared on the wall right next to him.

"Good morning," I offered to Reborn, who returned my greeting with a nod, before turning to Dino. "It's nice to met you, I'm Akiyama Tomoko, you can just call me Tomoko."

I introduced myself with a smile, offering my hand. Dino returned my smile and took my hand in his giving me the a gentle shake that most men usually gave women, I refused that though and gave him a strong shake of the hand, refusing to be treated like I was going to break, before letting go.

"You can call me Dino," He offered with a smile.

"Well I gotta go, see you both later." I said with an apologetic smile before turning away and jogging to catch up with the three boys. Tsuna was in the middle of speaking when I caught up to them.

"...It was bigger than me, and it destroyed the entire bathroom!"

"Woh, that's a crazy story Tsuna." Takeshi said in amazement.

"What are we talking about?" I asked taking another bite of my bread.

"Dino's turtle," Tsuna said moodily. I made a hum of understanding, remembering what that turtle could do, then focused on eating the rest of my breakfast. "So Gokudera, you seemed to know who Dino was?"

"Yeah, he rebuilt the family's financial structure that was ruined by the previous generation. The Cavallone family has the third most influential power within the alliance." Gokudera explained, happy to offer his knowledge.

"Wow," Tsuna said looking impressed, and somewhat awed, before darting a glance at the bread I was eating, clearly hungry. Rolling my eyes, I took out the other bread I got out of my bag and handed it over to him. He didn't protested this time, just smiled gratefully as he took it.

"Either way, I don't like him," Gokudera continued darkly.

"Eh… W-why?"

"Anyone older than me is an enemy." Tsuna looked shocked at that answer, while I had to cover up my mouth to stop myself from laughing.

"Hey, Tsuna. You just said something about the mafia," Takeshi said making Tsuna freeze up, most likely afraid that Yamamoto figured out what was going on. I resolutely didn't look at Takeshi, focusing on finishing up my food. "That's a weird company name." He finished with a grin.

The next second a black car with tinted windows came to an abrupt halt next to us, the door opened and a rope was tossed around Tsuna and used to tug him into the car, making him drop his unopened bread in surprise, before driving off with him. This all happened so quickly I didn't even get to swallow my last bite before it was all over.

"Tsuna!", "Tenth!" The two boys next to me shouted in alarm, but we turned around at hearing Reborn speaking behind us.

"They're Yakuza called The Momokyokai that controls the area around here. Yakuza is Japanese mafia. You middle schoolers won't stand a chance against the adult mafia. Leave it to the police."

I blinked, before crumpling my wrapper in my fist and stuffing it into my jacket pocket. This all seemed too much of a coincidence, I had become a lot more suspicious of things after what happened with the fake murder accident. It was at times like these that I wish I had a better memory, this was probably in the manga or anime somewhere but it's not like I could remember every little thing that happened.

"Like hell I'd leave it to them!" Gokudera yelled already running off in the direction the car went.

"I'll leave the cops to you, little boy." Takeshi shouted back at Reborn, running right next to Gokudera, leaving me standing there like a confused idiot.

"Oh okay, I'll look for clues or something." I shouted towards them, but was sure they didn't hear me, before picking of the bread Tsuna dropped and turning to Reborn with a raise eyebrow. "Where is Tsuna really?"

Reborn didn't answer me with more than a smirk before Dino walked around the corner in the opposite direction that Gokudera and Takeshi went, followed by one of his men who set down Tsuna who was still tied up.

"I like that, their minds are set on rescuing Tsuna. They lost their composure, but they're trustworthy." He said with a smile before giving me a look that I couldn't read.

"Ah so that was the test." I said more to myself than anyone else before walking up to Tsuna who was crying and started to untie him.

"What are you doing Dino!" Tsuna shouted.

"Sorry, sorry, I just had to test your family." Dino explained sheepishly, kneeling down next to me to help with the rope. I handed Tsuna his breakfast once he was out and listened as Dino explained that the Momokyokai was just an imaginary yakuza group that Reborn made up.

"Tsuna, you're a lucky guy." Dino said fondly. "Lately, there haven't been many family members who are thoughtful of their boss.

"Wait, but, they're not family, they're my friends." Tsuna tried to explain.

"Ah. I forgot to tell you guys." Reborn announced, making me realize that the next thing he was going to say wasn't going to be good. "Momokyokai is a real existing yakuza in this town."

"What!? Then they really went to the yakuzas territory!"

"What were you thinking Reborn! The opponents aren't just some punks or delinquents. There is no way those kids can win against them!" Dino shouted at the hitman in panic.

"That's true. I heard they're very strong in martial arts." Reborn replied nonchalantly.

"Reborn why do you always do extreme stuff like this? It's not a joke!" Dino berated him.

"For real! What are you going to do if they get hurt?" Tsuna added on, but Reborn didn't say anything -he had fallen asleep.

"Fine, lets go Tsuna." Dino said gritting his teeth together in frustration.

"Lets go?" He repeated fearfully.

"This time you should do something for your family." Dina smiled encouragingly.

"No! But! Please wait!" Tsuna struggled fruitlessly against Dino's grip as he pulled him over to his car.

"Don't worry! I'll go with you." Dino reassured him, but I didn't know if that would be a good thing or not. "You coming Tomoko?" He asked almost as a last thought, not even looking at me as he jumped into the driver's seat of the expensive black car he had used to kidnap Tsuna earlier.

With a sigh I followed.

"We are going to be so late for school." I mumble to myself with a resigned sigh.

. o . O . o .

As we drove Dino made some calls to find out where this Momokyokai hideout was, and Tsuna hurriedly ate his bun as if it was the last thing he would ever eat. I just took out my phone and sent a text to Hibari, hoping that that would subdue his anger somewhat.

I'm not going to be making it to school on time today.

The reply came immediately.

I hope you have a good reason.

Did I?

Well, I think I'm about to take down the yakuza group Momokyokai with Tsuna, Takeshi, Gokudera, and Tsuna's family friend Dino.

I had to wait a couple of minute before the next reply came.

Text me when you're done I'll send some people to take care of the mess.

Ok sure thing.

Also, take pictures.

Of what?

The criminals, the area, and anything else incriminating you can find.

Okay I'll do what I can.

"We're here." Dino said, stopping the car and getting out. I looked out the window to see a run down building with the name Momokyokai graffitied on the front. Well that's not obvious at all.

I took a step out of the car leaving my bag in the car, and take a quick snap of the building and the address.

"This is it," Dino said coming to a stop at the front door.

"It's Yamamoto's school bag!" Tsuna whispered loudly. "What if he's hurt?" I looked at the bag -where it looked like it was set down nicely on the ground- dubiously. How did those two boys even know where to find a yakuza? Okay, Gokudera I can understand, but Takeshi?

"Of course they came. Okay, lets go." Dino said determinedly before smashing open the door and running through it with his whip out and raised in the air.

Only to stopped short when he took in the sight of bloody men passed out or crying on the floor, all of them bloodied and bruised. Gokudera and Takeshi stood in the middle of the room both holding up a different person and questioning them about Tsuna's whereabouts. Timidly, I took a picture.

Both Tsuna and Dino freeze in their spots as they look around with wide eyes. Yamamoto and Gokudera finally notice us a moment later, and once they do they drop the men on the ground without a care and smile widely as if they hadn't just beat up a bunch of gang members without getting so much as a scratch.

"Tenth you're safe!"

"You look alright." Yamamoto says relieved.

"That's really something." Dino says impressed, Tsuna just looks proud and happy to have such good friends while still looking sick and nervous about the whole situation.

"What did you do, you brats?"

It wasn't over though.

Tsuna and I turn around slowly, gulping as we took in the sight of eight large dangerous guys who arrived, each with a sword. This shit just doesn't happen in real life, I think to myself as I take a step back realizing that I didn't have a weapon and didn't even know how to fight. Unsuspiciously, I raised my phone to take a picture.

"Bastards just keep showing up." Gokudera growled.

"Wait, they're not like the youngsters you just beat up, you can't do it." Dino tried to disway the bomber. "Leave it to an adult opponent." He said stepping out in front of the four of us. I was relieved that Dino was going to protect us and everything but I still couldn't help feeling afraid as I watched some of the men draw out their swords or shake the feeling that I was missing something.

"I'm the tenth boss of the Cavallone family, Dino. It's my fault it turned out like this, I apologize. I'll pay for everyone's medical fees as well as the fee to repair all equipment. Please accept that offer."

That made me do a double check, I had been expecting him to go straight into fighting. It was a very mature and intelligent choice, and I couldn't help but look him over again in a new light.

I already had impressions formed of everyone in the manga, and sometimes I had trouble separating fantasy with, well, real life fantasy. Sure, I already had my opinions on Dino from reading the manga, but it was a completely different thing to experience the thing in real life. I couldn't but look up at him in awe, respect forming for this man.

The rest of the gang didn't seem to agree with me.

"Huh? Family? What are you talking about. This is Japan."

"Acting all frivolous." One of the guys said, causing all the others to laugh.

"We'll take the money alright," The leader said. "but you guys aren't going anywhere." At that Dino's face hardened.

"You've broken off all negotiations, then." He said, eyes hard as he brought up his whip. "I guess we'll have to return with force. Here I come!" Then he launched his deadly attack swinging his whip to hit… Gokudera, Yamamoto, and himself, making me glad that I had stepped back far enough to avoid being hit. Riggghhhhht, this was what I had forgotten, Dino can't fight without his subordinates around him.

We are so screwed.

"What the hell was that?" The yakuza laughed. "What a fool he just hit himself."

Quickly I looked for something to defend myself with. I picked up an empty glass bottle just in time before they attacked.

"Make sure they never talk again!"

"W-wait! N-no! Someone help!" Tsuna screamed, completely defenseless. I pulled him behind me and raised the bottle, next there was the sound of glass shattering but it wasn't from me.

"REBORN! BEAT UP THE YAKUZA WITH MY DYING WILL!"

I just stepped aside, bottle held lamely in my hand, as Tsuna went at everyone, his fist somehow had grown huge, bigger than his head. I knelt next to Takeshi to help him to his feet, noticing the shattered window which Reborn must have shot through to hit Tsuna.

Seeing Tsuna fighting must have gotten Yamamoto and Gokudera worked up because they were soon on their feet, back to back, fighting.

"We can't lose to them either boss." To my surprise Dino's men were coming through the door. Reborn's doing most likely.

"Why are you slacking off by yourself?"

"That's uncool."

"You guys! God, you guys are so noisy," Dino said in surprise, before narrowing his eyes in determination and deadly smirk showing on his face and picked up his whip again. "Okay, let's have some fun."

. o . O . o .

The four of them defeated the rest of the yakuza easily, while I just stood back and took as many photos as I could. Hibari probably wasn't interested in looking at the action shots I took of everyone fighting but I was (I still made sure to take the photos he had asked for too though).

And with that, the Momokyokai gang that had been terrorizing that part of town was completely destroyed.

We ended up not going back to school at all, just heading over Tsuna's house where everyone collapsed in Tsuna's room.

"I'm impressed." Dino said, grinning brightly at us. "I can leave Tsuna to you guys."

"Leave me? No, it's not like that!" Tsuna protested, but, as usual, no one listened to him.

"I'm going to go shopping with my men now, see ya." Dino waved as he walked out of the room.

"Ciao."

"Gokudera," Tsuna addressed the bomber hesitantly. "I thought you hated Dino… so I was afraid you were going to turn on him."

"He just talks big and is petty so I'd rather not pay attention to him."

"No, Dino isn't petty." Tsuna protested, and I was about to as well when we heard a crash down stairs. Rushing out of Tsuna's room we were greeted with the sight of Dino on his back at the bottom of the stairs, obviously just having fallen down. Tsuna didn't seem to have anything to say to that.

"Well, guys I need to head out, Hibari is going to want my report."

"Oh, okay then, bye." Tsuna said sounding a little disappointed so, not being able to hold myself back, I gave him a tight hug.

"See ya later, cutie." I said trying to stop myself from laughing as Tsuna turned bright red. I gave Takeshi a hug as well which he return enthusiastically bringing me off my feet. I tried to give one to Gokudera as well but he just pushed me back harshly enough that I almost fell down the stairs as well.

I had to step over Dino to get to bottom as he just lay there groaning.

"Need some help?" I offered holding out my hand.

"Yeah thanks." He accepted and I helped him to his feet, he stood there for a few moments get his bearings back together before we walked out the door together where I could see his men waiting a little bit away.

"So I guess I didn't pass your test then?" I couldn't help but ask before he left, feeling a little bit disappointed and nervous -it was strange thinking I was really talking to a mafia boss.

"Naw, you did okay."

"What? Really?" I asked hopefully. It was a little weird for his opinion of me to matter to me so much, I mean we had just met. Still, it would be nice to know I wasn't holding everyone back or maybe I was just fishing for compliments?

"When we were at their base and it was only you and Tsuna standing, I saw what you did. Standing in front of him and preparing to fight even though you don't know how, that was a really brave thing to do. I've seen grown men run away screaming from less than that." He smiled brightly down at me, the corners of his eyes crinkling, and I couldn't help myself from blushing.

"You were pretty great out there today too, not your fighting, I mean the way you tried to solve it peacefully at first," My face was becoming even more red. "I mean, you're fighting was good to, it's just…" I trail off, feeling thoroughly embarrassed now.

"Thanks," Dino said, seemingly pleased with the comment. "Unfortunately in my line of work fighting seemed to happen a lot more often than the peaceful way."

I just stood there for a few second feeling extremely awkward now.

"Well, you helped out a lot," I said for lack of knowing what else to say before grinning cheekily and added. "I mean, if you can end up becoming a good boss, Tsuna going to have no trouble."

"Oi! What do you mean by that?" Dino shouted in fake outrage.

"I have no idea what you are talking about," I replied evenly before walking away cheeks hurting with how big my grin was.

It was only a few blocks away that I realized that I was still smiling stupidly. Slapping my cheeks lightly, I frowned to myself.

"Pull yourself together girl."

. o . O . o .

Ever since Dino arrived in Japan he seemed to show up everywhere, trouble following close behind him. Before I knew it the Japanese news year had come and gone and it was already parent participation day, thankfully, he didn't show up to that.

I had actually thought that the day wouldn't be much different from any other besides the fact that I would actually be trying to look like I was paying attention and the teacher would be actually trying to look like he taught an interesting class, but it seemed like Reborn could never let an opportunity pass him by.

So parent participation day was more interesting than I thought it would be but my parents weren't as amused as I was.

"Can you believe some parents?" Akiyama Fumiko complained, shutting the car door with a little more force than necessary. She adjusted her deep red chevron scarf as she shivered in the cold, walking up to the restaurant we had just parked in front of her heels clacking on the pavement.

Akiyama Hibiki pressed the button on his keys locking the car automatically, as he nodded to what his wife was saying before catching up to her. I followed behind, head bowed so the wind didn't hit my face and my hands stuffed deep into the pockets of my dark blue double breasted pea coat.

"Showing up late, bringing kids, and then letting them roam free like some wild animals?" She continued, as her husband came up beside her and opened the door to the french restaurant for her. She was obviously referencing the accident that had happened earlier with Bianchi, Nana, Lambo, and I-pin.

"It was very unprofessional," He agreed.

"Not that it's really her fault," She said after a moment pondering after they were shown to their table. The two of them sat across from each other, so I took the seat next my 'mother'. "Her husband did leave her."

I frowned as I looked down at the menu, and it wasn't just about the outrageous prices. I had resolved myself into not taking part of this conversation, but I had the urge to defend Nana even if it was true that her husband had pretty much left her.

I had never liked Sawada Iemitsu, just because Nana didn't act like she thought her husband had abandoned her and he sent money to her didn't mean he was somehow excused from being a shitty husband and father.

"Being a single mother would be a difficult task, it does grant her some leeway," Hibiki said looking at the selection of wines.

"Yes that's true. The sad thing is though, she denies that he left her, they're technically still married even if it's been two years since he was last home. It's a shame too, she could find herself such a better man especially with her looks, even if she already has a kid."

They paused their conversation as the waitress came up to the table asking about drinks, the two of them ordered a bottle of wine. I caught a glance at the price and blanched and just ordered myself water. I wonder if Tomoko's dad actually made that much money, or was just one of those people who liked to spend money they didn't actually have.

As the waitress left my mom leaned toward me and placed her hand on mine. "You did so well today, we are so proud." She said sincerely a proud look in her eyes, as she squeezed my hand. I looked down quickly to avoid her eyes and felt an awful turning feeling in my stomach.

"You're grades have improved so much, we're glad you're taking your school work so much seriously now." My dad added in ruffling my hair, then chuckled when I frowned and ran my hand back over it to fix it.

"Get whatever you want for dinner and dessert, honey, you deserve it." Fumiko smiled sweetly at me as she fixed my hair. I felt an uncomfortable feeling in my chest, like it was tightening and expanding at the same time.

"Thanks," I muttered. She just looked at me fondly before turning back to her husband and continuing their conversation.

"So that Tsuna kid who was running around the classroom with the big hair was her kid?" Hibiki asked.

"Yes it was," She nodded as she looked down at her menu. "The kid is a troublemaker if you ask me."

No one asked you, I thought bitterly in my head.

"He apparently is terrible at everything he does."

"That is unfortunate, but if that was her only kid, who were the other ones?" He leaned back as the waitress came back with their bottle and poured them both glasses.

"No one knows exactly," She said bringing her glass up to her nose to smell it then rolling it around in the glass before taking a sip, she seemed pleased enough by it. "The girls think they're her husband's children from his trysts all over the world. The children are obviously not from around here and do not look anything a like. Nishi told me that Nana's husband sent them to her, the children's mothers not wanting them."

"That's awfully kind of her, taking in other people's children -especially one's that are a product of her husband's affairs." Fumiko sighed nodding as she took another sip of her wine before sitting it down.

"She is a kind woman, naive and oblivious maybe, but very kind." She agreed.

I had to suppress snorting at their conversation. They didn't know Nana and her family and yet they had some how come up with this ridiculous tale. I frowned at myself after thinking that, thinking the conversation over. There was actually a lot of truth to the story, and now thinking about it, it made a lot of sense.

I mean who would actually believe the real story of what was going on, no one -not even Nana- would believe the mafia stuff. The story was actually very realistic and close to what was actually going on. When I had read the manga I had never really thought about what everyone else in Namimori thought of the events that happened around them, why would I? It had nothing to do with the plot, and who cares if they destroyed building or caused mayhem in general, they weren't real people.

They were really people now.

I shook away the thoughts, saving them for another time, as the waitress came back over to the table and asked what they would like. I ordered first and handed over the menu.

We continued to talked till our food arrived, there was then a pause in conversation as we started to eat.

"Soooo, Tomoko," My mother started in an innocent tone, seemingly nonchalant, I looked up at her taking another bite out of my food. "Who was that boy you were sitting next to? He was very smart, not to mention very handsome."

"Oh that was Yamamoto Takeshi," I said but then wished I hadn't when I saw Fumiko smiling slyly and immediately regretted taking part in this conversation.

"Oh!" She exclaimed in glee. "I knew it!"

"Knew what dear?" Hibiki asked.

"You know the boy who was seated next to Tomoko, the tall one who sat behind the Sawada boy?"

"Oh yes, the baseball player right?"

"Yes him, he's the one. Tomoko has a huge crush on him."

"I do not!" I shouted indignantly.

"Really? Is that so?" She asked me with a smirk. "Is that why all you used to be able to talk about is Yamamoto this, Yamamoto that? And those times you had your friends over and I heard you girls giggling about him, oh! And how you always stay after school to watch his baseball practice?"

"Oh is that what she does after school?" Hibiki asked grinning as well but trying to hide it with another bite of his meal.

"She even sometimes goes to school early to see the morning practices." Fumiko said in a fake whisper bringing up a hand to her mouth and leaning closer to her husband as if sharing a secret.

"I do not!" I denied vehemently, but I could feel my face heating up with a blush. All of what she had said had been true though. Tomoko had had a huge crush on Takeshi, she had gone to his practices and fought hard to get that seat next to him in the hopes that he would notice her.

While it's true I stay after school everyday I don't sit on the bleachers watching him practice, I stay to help Hibari and Kusakabe with the disciplinary committee, and when I don't stay after for those duties I go to the library to read or study while I wait for Takeshi finish up.

"That's not what I have been told. You know, just because you are too busy hanging out with your boyfriend to spend time with your friends doesn't mean I stop talking to your friends moms, we are friends after all."

"We are not going out," I said again, not blushing as much anymore.

"That's not the way it seems to me. Yoshiko, you know her her son, Eiichi, is on the baseball team too, well she was told by him that he sees the two of you walking together almost everyday to and from school."

"It's n-not like that." I looked over to Hibiki to get support from but he seemed content to watch the conversation as an amused outside observer, I glared at him for his betrayal which just made his grin grow wider.

"And then there's Umeko," She continued as if I hadn't said anything. "She's the mother of your friend Andrea, the one you went to ballet with when you two were younger, she's seen you working at Yamamoto's father's restaurant, and her daughters told her that you only spend your time with Yamamoto these days and that you don't even bother to call her anymore."

I looked down, frowning, as I stabbed my vegetables with my fork in frustration realizing that all of those claims were true. "Me and Takeshi are just friends." I finally admitted glumly.

"Oh so it's Takeshi now?" My mother teased so more, taking another sip of her wine.

"Mmmmmoooom!" I moaned. She just continued to smirk victoriously, as if she had won some sort of battle.

"Did you really think I wouldn't notice you acting so differently? I knew something was going on with you, but you never came to me to talk about it -and you used to tell me everything- so I knew you were hiding something." She explained before turning to talk to my father. "See, I told you there was something up," She told him as if finishing a conversation they had had before without me there.

"I never told you that there wasn't, I just didn't that there was some sort of mysterious secret," He told her before glancing at me from the corner of his eye. "Turns out I was wrong though."

"You thought it was just some teenage rebellion." She scoffed as if it was a ridiculous notion.

"Oh, I don't know, I wouldn't count that out just yet."

I just glared at the both of them, frustrated that they weren't listening, and also a little flustered, but they just grinned at me. The conversation changed after that, both of them finally letting the boyfriend thing go knowing I didn't want to talk about it.

Hibiki started to ask me about my job, telling me about how proud he was that I had got a job so early. When I told him I wasn't actually getting paid he was a little worried thinking I was being taken advantage of, but I quickly reassured him that I volunteered and that I was never asked to come in or put me on the schedule. He felt better at that and told me I could put that down on on resumes as volunteer work and even hinted at raising my allowance since I was working so hard which I was looking forward to.

Both my parents then started giving me advice on all kinds of things about my job, telling me their own stories about the places they worked. Hibiki was keen on letting know how much this experience would help me down the road, both with how to work with other people but also learning how a business is run.

Once we had finished our dinner we all got dessert the conversation went from about my job to Hibiki's. Fumiko was ecstatic to hear that the dinner we had had at our home had gone so well and impressed his bosses so much, and even more delighted when he told her that it was very possible that he could be getting a very big promotion.

He told her quickly though that it may not happen, that there was another guy from work that could get the job as well, and that was one of the reasons why he hadn't wanted to talk about it and get everyone's hopes up.

After we had finished dessert we left but before I could get into the back seat of the car Fumiko pulled me into a tight hug.

"I am so proud of you," She whispered in my ear giving me a tight squeeze before pulling away, then wiped gently at her eyes so as to not mess her make up.

"Thanks, m-mom," I stuttered out plastering on a smile as I felt what seemed like a bolder drop into my stomach.

I got into the car quickly, and was immensely grateful that it was already dark out side so that Fumiko and Hibiki couldn't see the as few tears that ran down my face.

What have I done? Have I killed their daughter? Tomoko, where are you?

. o . O . o .

I was on my way to meet up with Hibari for lunch when turning a corner I bumped into a little boy. He only came up to my chest, had hazel eyes, dark blonde hair, and was clearly not Japanese. Looking him over he just looked like a normal kid, he wore blue jeans, a green sweater with a white collared button up shirt underneath with a black jacket and white scarf with black stripes on it.

He looked up at me rubbing his nose that had gotten bumped when we ran into each other. I felt my chest constrict in pain with sudden heart clenching homesickness as I looked down at the boy. He looks so much like… I shook myself out of my thoughts quickly.

"Uh, hi?" I say unsure.

"Hello, do you think you could tell me what class Tsuna is in?" The blonde asked politely. I look the boy up and down again.

"You're Futa right?" I ask thinking back to the conversation I had earlier that morning with Tsuna.

"Yes, how did you know?" Futa asks looking at me warily, most likely thinking I may be one of those people after his book.

"Tsuna told me all about you, we're friends."

"Tsuna was talking about me?" Futa asked, clearly awed.

"Uh, yeah, and out of all the good things he told me about you he seemed to have forgotten to mention how cute you were." I said grinning patting the boy on the head, and trying not to think about how much Tsuna had complained about the new house guest he had gotten. It was hard to imagine this little boy on the run with the mafia after him (harder still to imagine Tsuna defeating them). I'm glad Tsuna took in the little guy but I may just be acting a little bias considering how much the kid reminds me of my little brother.

Futa blushed at my comment, but still seemed pleased.

"Tsuna has his lunch right now so you can go see him I think. You need to go down this hallway and take your second left, the classroom he's in will be the second on the right, got it?"

"Second left, second right," He murmured to himself before smiling up at me. "Okay, got it thanks."

I waved bye to him before continuing on my way, wondering to myself how freaked out Tsuna will be at seeing Futa here.

. o . O . o .

It had snowed all night and had left the entire town of Namimori covered in deep snow. I may have looked at it all in awe, admiring the natural beauty of, well, nature, if I had been inside my house sipping hot chocolate and not trudging through it all as I walked up to Tsuna's house.

Yamamoto had talked to me earlier that day and told me that everyone was going over to Tsuna's for a study session since the end of classes were so close. At the time I thought it was a great idea, everyone getting prepared for the exams, but I was regretting my decision at the moment. I sigh in frustration as I rub at my numb nose yet again with my gloved hand before stuffing it back deep into my pocket.

It's not like I'm not used to snow, where I used to live we would get plenty of snow every year, just not in February! I mean, come on, Valentines day was only a few weeks ago, I'm not used to this climate its supposed to be warming up not getting colder.

I was just about to knock on the door to Tsuna's house when it opened up for me. There stood a man in a black suit with black sunglasses and an earpiece. I stepped aside quickly as he took a step forward out of the house without giving me a glance. More men followed after him all dressed the same way until familiar blonde came out.

"Dino?" The blonde looked over at me with a huge smile and walked over, behind him more men walked out of the Sawada house.

"Hey there kiddo, whats up?" I looked over the rest of the men all waiting outside patiently for their boss before answering.

"Everyone is meeting up at Tsuna's for a study session, why are you here back in Japan?"

"Oh, there has been some problems back home with one mafia family called Gospella, they've been passing out firearms to hoodlums who then have been attack citizens. Futa was giving us the information on there most influential weapon dealer so we could stop them." I just look up at him feeling awed and touched with his dedication to helping people, and how he believes it's his responsibility.

"You are so cool!" I can't help but blurt as I tackle him with a hug, my arms wrapping around his waist. I'm letting go of it almost immediately thought and taking a step behind Dino for protection from the guns being pointed at me from every single one of Dino's men.

"Jesus christ, all I did was give him a hug," I yell out to them, panicked. Dino just chuckled before giving out some orders in Italian which makes every man put away their gun.

"Sorry about them, they're a little over protective." He apologizes as I remove myself from my hiding place behind him.

"You think," I mumble sarcastically to myself. "Well, I'm glad Futa was able to help out, he is a really sweet kid. He spent all day today following Tsuna around, Tsuna was freaked out but I thought it was cute."

"Yeah, he is pretty adorable…" But before he could say anymore he was interrupted.

"Did you say Futa? As in the ranking Futa?" I turned behind me to see Gokudera looking up at Dino in glee at the thought of meeting Futa, behind him was Yamamoto smiling as cheerfully as usual.

"Yeah, that's the one," As soon as Dino answered Gokudera was bolting up the stairs, Yamamoto followed after him waving at the both of us before disappearing into the house.

"Yeah… okay then, looks like I should follow them so I can stop something from blowing up." I say, frowning and rubbing my forehead as I feel something wet hit my head. The sky is dark and cloudy and looks like it's going to start pouring any second now.

"Have fun," Dino said patting me on the shoulder before walking to his car.

"Bye," I waved as he drove off, he gave me a wave back from inside the car before driving off.

I make my way up the stairs to Tsuna's room but stop midway, shaking my head back and forth. "It's just the tattoos, just the damn tattoos, get a grip." I murmur to myself, before taking a deep breath and walk into Tsuna's room.

What…?

Look's like I hadn't gotten here in time to help stop anything crazy from happening.

"For the ranking of people suitable to be the 10th righthand man, what place am I?" I hear Gokudera ask in all seriousness staring intently at Futa who was standing in the middle of the room his eyes distant as things floated all around him including I-pin and Lambo who were on the ceiling.

"Hayato's place is…" He paused as if he was listening to something before speaking again. "Out of range."

"What!" Gokudera cried out in shock.

"There's such a thing a range in ranking?" Tsuna asked confused.

"I didn't say it was out of range for the ranking. It's atmospherically out of range." Futa clarified, causing Gokudera to freeze in shock. "But there are more jobs for you than just being the right hand man. Hayato ranks number one out of 82,203 for people suitable as a kindergarten teacher."

This didn't seem to make Gokudera feel any better. His jaw dropped in astonishment and ran a shaky hand through his hair as he questioned everything he knew about himself. Yamamoto seemed to think it was a perfect fit though.

"But the most important thing is love."

"Jesus fucking christ," I could help but curse as I looked up to see Bianchi floating on the ceiling arm and legs wide and her hair flowing in all directions.

"So cool!" Haru exclaimed in awe.

"It looks like a horror movie!" Tsuna disagreed, and I couldn't help but agree with him. Tsuna's attention moved from the floating woman as he noticed Gokudera standing next to him frozen. "Gokudera has petrified from all of the shocks."

I moved to the corner of the room so as to not get hit by the table, and it seemed like gravity was less distorted over there. As I listened to Bainchi ask Futa to rank who Tsuna loves I plucked a stray pencil from the air and examined it curiously. Yup, it was just a normal pencil so I let it go to see what would happen, and even though I was witnessing human being floating around in the very room I was in it was still a little shocking when it didn't drop to the ground and instead started to float slowly away from me.

"Tsuna's love ranking number one is… Leon." That seemed to surprise everyone, including Tsuna who seemed to be questing everything he ever knew about himself as he started to float as well, wondering if he really did love Leon. Haru seemed especially disappointed, while I couldn't stop laughing.

"Haru has lost to such an opponent," Haru said dramatically as came to kneel next to the window resting her hand on the glass and staring out distantly at the rain. "Haru's heart is just like the sky; a rain storm."

As Haru said her last words everything dropped to the floor abruptly. Futa laid down on his side curling himself up on the floor. I came up to him immediately and started to rubs his back looking at his face in concern.

"What's wrong?"

"I feel heavy, I'm really weak to rain. I hate the rain, it makes my ranking go all wonky" He said scrunching his eyes closed frowning.

Reborn then explained to everyone that the ranking goes askew when it rains because there's an interference with the "ranking planets" connection and that the rankings were wrong, while I lifted the ten year old off the floor and placed him in Tsuna's bed to get some rest.

. o . O . o .

I went home a few hours after all that chaos. I was happy to say that not only had it stopped raining and Futa was all good now but we had also got a lot of work done. I was exhausted though, hanging out with all of them was fun but it was hard work.

I opened the door and shouted out "I'm home" as I toed of my shoes. I didn't hear a reply which wasn't that strange, even though I knew Fumiko and Hibiki were home because I saw the cars in the driveway and the shoes in the hallway. No, the strange thing was the whispers and clanging coming from the kitchen, and someone shushing the other.

All the lights were off including the ones from the kitchen so it only made me more suspicious. After hanging up my bag I walked over to the dark kitchen.

"Mom? Dad?" I called out as I turned the corner to walk into the kitchen, I heard the sound of feet shuffling on the ground but couldn't see anything. All of a sudden I was blinded with light and I lifted my hand cover my eyes for second as they got used to the change.

"HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" Two people chorused.

I looked to see Hibiki and Fumiko standing in the center of the kitchen with party hats on and blowing party horns. Fumiko reached into a bag and pulled out a hand of confetti and threw it at me. I couldn't help but laugh as I wiped the little pieces of paper off my face.

"What's going on?" I asked, as I took in the large banner that was hanging up that said 'HAPPY 14TH BIRTHDAY TOMOKO' in bright colors, the presents on the table along with the large cake with pink icing, strawberries all over it, and a cute bear face drawing on the top.

"What do you think silly," Fumiko teased me. "It's your birthday obviously."

Right, February 28 was Tomoko's birthday. I couldn't help but feel stupid that it hadn't even crossed my mind.

Both of Tomoko's parents lead me to the table where we ate some very fancy sushi that they had picked up (because neither one of them could cook), they then sang me happy birthday with Hibiki filming as I blew out the candles.

It was late by the time I made it to my room to full of delicious food, and carrying a large pile of presents, and trying to pretend like the guilt I felt in my gut didn't exist. I tried to fall asleep but even though I was exhausted I just couldn't escape into the reality of my mind.

Finally giving up I turned on my light and looked through my presents. One of the thing I had gotten was new diary. I had never kept one before, but apparently it was a sort tradition in the Akiyama household for Tomoko to get one each year.

I went over to my desk and opened up on of the bottom drawers, there I found all of her diaries. I had seen them before when I had explored the room, and even had memories of writing in them but had felt like I was intruding then more than I already was and left them alone.

I took them all out, she had kept a diary since she was her tenth birthday so including this birthday there was now five. I opened the the last one she got and skimmed through it. Only the first twenty or so pages were filled out, but that made sense considering she hadn't had it for long before I appeared in her body.

God, it had been over ten months since I came here.

I shook the thought out of my mind, not willing or able to deal with the implications of what that meant for me, and focused back down on the blank page in front of me of her old diary.

I was about to put it away with I got an idea. All this time I had been writing all the information I could remember on on little sheets of paper to make sure I remembered as much as I could, but I had gotten paranoid and soon after writing anything I would make sure to get rid of the evidence so no one could read it.

No one would think to read into an old diary, and if they did they would read the first few entries and see it was just a girls ramblings and feelings and nothing significant.

Getting out a pencil I started to write down every piece of information I could remember. As I wrote I couldn't help but think with a snort that maybe I should get one of those pink heart locks that you see on dairies sometimes.

. o . O . o .

Extra (this has nothing to do with anything)

This was bad.

How bad, I wasn't sure. It could be a sign that the world was coming that an end, or that the apocalypse was coming. I just new that nothing good would come out of it.

Hibari had done something very strange and completely out of the norm, he had…

Sneezed.

Like I said before, this was bad.

Hibari refused to acknowledge it of course. Just stayed at his desk going over his reports and dealing with his men as normal. At first I thought maybe I had heard wrong or imagined it, but then it happened again, and again, and again.

I had silently pushed a tissue box onto his desk, not knowing if he would get mad if I pointed this out, he may think of it as some sort of weakness.

He didn't even acknowledge it, but when he sneezed again he did use the tissues.

He seemed to be getting worse so I made some herbal tea that was supposed to help, then skipped classes to go and buy some warm soup, and medicine. It was just getting worse so finally I came to a hard decision.

"Hibari, I think you need to go to the hospital."

Surprisingly, he agreed not that he said so. So I called Kusakabe and told him the problem and he took Hibari and drove him to the hospital while I cleaned up the reception room and locked it up.

. o . O . o .

Valentines Omake

Valentines days was turning out pretty much how I expected. There was lots and lots of chocolate and none of it was for me, which was disappointing but, like I said, expected.

Yamamoto's arms were already fully of chocolate and we hadn't even made it to class yet. Every time another girl or group of girls approached I would back up trying to blend into the background -I didn't need anymore girls glaring at me- and at this point we were getting stopped so many times we were going to be late to class. So when the latest batch of girls finished giving him his chocolate I secretly took his wrist and lead him quickly to class, to find that there was chocolate already on Takeshi's desk and all of the girl were giving him discrete shy glances.

None of them bothered him yet thankfully because class started almost right after we took our seats. Class was even more tedious than usual, every girl seemed to be staring at Takeshi and since my seat was right next him it often felt like I was being watched from all angles. So when the lunch bell finally rang I tossed the chocolate I had gotten Takeshi on his desk before quickly standing to escape before I was stomped on by all the girls crowding around the baseball player.

After just avoiding being trampled over I headed over to Tsuna who definitely wasn't having the same problem as Yamamoto or Gokudera at the moment, but he did have one visitor.

"Hello Akiyama," Kyoko greeted me cheerfully.

"Hey," I said giving a small half wave before grabbing something out of my bag before turning to Tsuna and handing it over. "Here you go Tsuna, I saw you hadn't got any yet."

"You're giving m-me ch-chocolate?" Tsuna asked my disbelievingly with wide eyes as he took the box.

"Oh what kind did you make?" Kyoko asked eagerly.

"Oh, I didn't make it, I just bought some on the way home yesterday. It's nothing special." I feeling lacking now because I didn't make mine, I shook off the feeling though it didn't matter it's just chocolate.

"Oh, me and Haru going over to Tsuna's after school to make chocolate."

"You are?" Tsuna asked surprised and sounding eager.

"Yup, Bianchi is going to help us." Kyoko answered with a bright smile. Any eagerness Tsuna had had was now replaced with a nauseous looking face.

"Bianchi!" Tsuna exclaimed alarmed, then turn towards me and the two of us exchanged glances speaking through them without Kyoko realizing. Tsuna was begging me to help him out, obviously torn between wanting to eat Kyoko's chocolate and wanting to run away from anything Bianchi made.

"You're welcome to come over and help too Akiyama." Kyoko offered.

"No I'm not much of a chief, I'm sure you three will be fine on your own." I declined with a tight smile, before turning to Tsuna and giving him a small bag. "This is chocolate for the kids and Reborn, it has their names on them, will you give it to them?" I asked.

"Yeah sure, thank you for my chocolate too." Tsuna thanked me but sounding depressing. Giving him a reassuring pat on the back I walked over to Gokudera who was trying to make his way over to Tsuna but was being stopped by girls every step.

"Gokudera!" I shouted for his attention, seemingly just in time too because it looked like he had been about to bring out his bombs to get rid of the girls. I tossed him his chocolate which he caught with a grimace, then escaped out of the classroom.

I made a detour from my way to the reception room to an upper year classroom. I shyly ducked my head in, and immediately found who I was looking for by the loud laughing. Ryohei was accepting all the chocolate he was receiving with a wide enthusiastic grin.

It took him only a moment to spot me and shouted me over to him loudly causing people's gazes to land on me much to my embarrassment.

"Hey Ryohei, I just wanted to quickly give you this." I said holding out my chocolate.

"Extreme! Thanks Akiyama!" He said already stuffing into my chocolate enthusiastically.

"Akiyama? This is the girl boxer?" One of Ryohei's classmates said looking me over curiously.

"No, no, no, I'm not a boxer," I denied at the same time Ryohei shouted "This is her!" causing a few people to chuckle and offer me sympathetic looks.

"Okay, well I gotta go," I said before Ryohei could rope me into doing something stupid. I headed up to the reception room where I found Kusakabe going through a huge pile of chocolate.

"Hello Akiyama, looking for Hibari?" He asked as he looked over one box of chocolate.

"Oh, yeah. What are you doing?"

"Oh this? This is all the chocolate Hibari has gotten so far today."

"Wow," Staring in awe at the pile. "Hibari is going to eat all that?"

"No, Hibari never eats valentines day chocolate."

"So you are just going to through it all away?" I asked in disbelief.

"What? No way. Valentines day is the Disciplinary favorite holiday. We get to eat all the chocolate, after we check it for poison of course."

"Poison! Hibari gets poisoned!"

"I'm surprised that you don't know about that," Kusakabe said frowning. "I would have thought he would have told you since you bring in food for him so much."

"He mentioned it once, but he said it like it was no big deal, so I assumed he was just messing with me. Oh my god, what if I had accidentally killed him!"

"No, you're fine," He said dismissing my worries right away and going back to putting the sweets in the bag. "I'm sure that Hibari will accept what you got him though, he's on the roof."

"Thanks Kusakabe, don't get poisoned," I said waving as I left the room and made my way to the roof.

I opened the door to the roof slowly watching out for any tonfas, but when none came I stepped through. I looked around but couldn't see him, turning around I stood on my tip toes to see if he was laying on area above the door and saw the prefects jacket.

"Hibari," I whispered still standing by the door ready to run if he woke up in a bad mood. "Hibari."

A hand came flying downing wards smacking me on the back of the head, but not hurting me much. I waited as I saw Hibari leaning forwards to look down at me with a bored expression, before bring a hand up to cover his yawn.

"What do you want herbivore," He asked looking back down at me.

"I, um, well I, see," I stuttered, suddenly nervous.

"I don't want to listen to your inane chatter."

"I got you some chocolate," I finally said, bringing out the box. Hibari looked down at it curiously before gesturing at me to come up.

Placing the box down next to Hibari, then planted both hands down flat and pushed myself getting enough leverage to swing my leg up and push myself up the rest of the way. I sat there on my knees unsure what to when Hibari seemed to have gotten impatient and grabbed at me.

The next thing I knew, I was face to face with Hibari straddling his lap. He let go of me and leaned back so that his palms were flat on the ground to hold him up. The position left him looking up at me while I was almost leaning over him.

"Uh..." Was my intellectual reply, but I couldn't really say anything else. I could feel my face turning red. Hibari didn't say anything just picked up the box and handed it to me. I had an idea of what he wanted me to do but it was even more embarrassing to think about. "Do you want me to feed you?"

Hibari just continued to look at me expectantly so I opened the box. It was just a simple tacky thing, a heart shaped box with five chocolates in it and each one was in a heart shape as well.

I picked up one of them between my two fingers and brought it up to his lips, I felt my cheeks flush even more as he took it out of my fingers and slowly ate the treat as if savoring as he stared directly in my eyes. He did the same with the second one, and I was feeling indignant at how he seemed to be trying to mess with me on purpose so I decided if he want to mess with me then I could give as much as got.

For the third chocolate when he made to take it into his mouth I moved it so he had to take a bite out of it, breaking the heart in half and revealing the caramel that was was in it. I took the other half and brought it to my own mouth staring him in the eyes as I hummed in appreciation, caramel was my favorite after all.

I did the same with the fourth one, making sure Hibari bit it in half, this time instead of caramel it was a single almond in the middle that Hibari got. The two of us slowly ate the chocolate together not breaking eye contact, I noticed that without realizing it the two of us had drifted closer together our faces less than a foot away.

I went to pick up the last chocolate when I noticed that my two fingers were covered in melted chocolate. I couldn't help smirking as I got a idea, and I was sure Hibari saw it. Trying to hide my smile I brought my forefinger up to my mouth and wrapped my mouth around it sucking the chocolate off of it.

I heard a crack from Hibari as he bit harshly into the almond, he was staring directly at my mouth his eyes wider than normal, and I couldn't stop my smirk from showing as I took it out and did the same with my thumb only this time when I brought it out I licked the pad of my thumb as if making sure I got it all.

Hibari looked back into my eyes as I went to pick up the last chocolate heart his own narrowing as he no doubt saw the mischief there. This time after we both got our halves he grabbed at my hand brought my fingers to his own mouth.

I couldn't hold back my own gasp as I watched him do the same thing that I had just done only with my own fingers. I couldn't even bringing myself to be bothered as he watched me from half lidded eyes that were gazing up at me in amusement as well as challengingly.

When he was done he didn't remove my hand, and I some how found myself cupping his cheek as my thumb stroked his bottom lip with our faces mere inches apart. Both of our breaths were coming fast, and I could feel his breath on my own lips. Looking into his eyes I finally found the courage to make the next move, and leaned in closer...

When the door to the roof banged open startling us both and freezing us in place, neither one of us had heard the sound of people climbing the stairs we hand been so absorbed in ourselves.

"Tomoko! You here?" I heard Takeshi's voice call out as he walked out onto the roof. "That's strange, they said they saw her come up here. I never got the chance to thank her for the chocolate she gave me," Takeshi whined.

"You can just thank her in class you sit right next to her, idiot." Gokudera said, I could see the two of them now, neither one of them were facing our direction. Gokudera took out a cigarette and lit it turning away from Takeshi and towards us, if we were lucky he wouldn't look up at see us. He took a drag of the cig closing his eyes as he held in the smoke for a second before tilting his head back and breathing out looking relaxed.

His relaxed composure completely disappeared when he opened his eyes and made direct eye contact with. Me and Hibari hadn't moved an inch, I was still straddling his hips, our faces an inch apart, and my hand cupping his cheek. Gokudera's eyes went impossibly wide, mouth dropping in shock along with his cigarette which fell limply from his fingers onto the ground.

I heard Hibari growl angrily in his throat which would have been too quiet for Gokudera to hear but he must have seen something dangerous on the prefects face because snapped out of his shocked pose and scowled fiercely before stomping out his cigarette harsher than needed and grabbed onto Takeshi and pushed him through the doorway before he too could spot us as well and then slammed the door behind them.

"Herbivores..." Hibari growled menacingly. I just leaned backward running a hand through my hair as I let out a sigh, I couldn't help but agree with a sentiment.

. o . O . o .

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A/N: Hey guys! Wow, this is my longest yet and it goes through 16 chapters of the manga (chap 26 to 42). This one has been the hardest for me to write, I was having a lot of difficulties, not only with lack motivation and inspiration but it was a lot harder to plot this chapter out than the others ones for many reasons I wont get into. I'm sorry it took so long to update this, but the next chapter should take less time to write than this one because I already have it mostly planned out.

The next chapter will be even longer than this, I hope you don't mind long chapters because that what I'm going to be doing now, expect each one to be at lest 8,000 words. Also I know that valentines day was a long time ago, but it went in with the time period in the story, and in the manga there was a valentines day chapter and I couldn't let opportunity pass. MsNi98 was the one who picked the pairing for this omake. You guys can pick the pairing for the next omake if you want, it doesn't have to be Yamamoto or Hibari it could be any pairing that you want.

There was something else... oh yes! Flames! All of you had great idea's that I never even thought of, you all explained very well the reasons why you thought she should be a certain flame and also gave brilliant ideas for weapons and what role she will play with everyone else. At first I had pretty much already decided what flame she should be, but you guys completely changed my mind and it was great!

So her flame type is... HAHA I'M NOT TELLING! God, I'm such an ass. It's going to be a surprise! Don't worry all of you will probably be able to guess it, I'll be dropping little hints everywhere.

And for those who want to now, the daily life arc is almost over, the next chapter will be the lead up to Kokuyo arc. So, two chapters from now (chapter 24) we will meet Mukuro! YAY! I am so excited.

Q: What do you think is Hibari's back ground? (Childhood, parents, growing up, etc.)