Here's Chapter 6! Last update for this month, I've got to work on TRoTaN..! It's not going well tbh... I thought I had two good chapters ready for publishing, but every time I reread it, something just seems wrong somehow! I wish I had an editor...

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Disclaimer: I still don't own KHR or KnB... which I think is pretty sad. I only own Setsuna, other OC's and anything they do that interferes with canon.

Dreaming of Skylarks

Chapter 6: Deathperation Time!

"It's Deathperation time." The trigger-happy infant beside me stated, cocking his gun in a very hitman-like pose.

I only had one thought.

Oh man, I hope you didn't wear that pair of heart printed boxers, Tuna..!

(=x=)

From the center of his uniform-clad back, Tsuna's clothes, along with his shoes, began to tear and peel from his standing body, and into nothingness. There goes a full set of uniform… The only thing left is his boxers, which is, thankfully, not of an embarrassing print (like the heart printed ones I folded yesterday afternoon…).

"REBORN!" Tsuna bellowed in a deep voice… Well, as deep as his whiny voice could go. I'll give a C for the effort. Hahaha. His fists are clenched in determination.

"I'll tell Sasagawa Kyoko how I feel, even if it kills me!" Okay, you do that. You'll definitely die of embarrassment when you snap out of it.

"Where is Sasagawa Kyoko?!" On her way to school, which is something we're gonna be late for.

Tsuna goes 'UWAAAH!', and dashes off, leaving dust flying in his wake… And also leaving me with Reborn.

…

"So..." I turn to the hitman beside me. "I should probably go, you coming with?" He stares at me for a moment before jumping onto my shoulder.

"Hold on." And I push off my foot from the ground, riding to school as fast as I can…

(=x=)

"Sasagawa Kyoko!" I arrive just in time to see Tsuna in front of the orange haired girl, finger pointed. He then flipped his palm upwards, in an inviting gesture. "Please go out with me!" He really looks like a pervert…

Kyoko blinked once, before her eyes slowly turned downwards and stopped at Tsuna's blue boxers. "Ah!" She ran from the boy, leaving him with his hand outstretched. The flames on his forehead started to dwindle, "You bastard!" and a punch was sent to his face, making him fall on his back.

"You okay, Tuna?" I asked as I helped him sit up. I frowned at his attacker.

"Don't be ridiculous, damn pervert!" Mochida sneered at the fallen boy and looked curiously at me before turning and stomping off to school. The flames completely vanished, and with a blink, Tsuna returned to his normal, wimpy state. He put his hands in his hair in mortification.

"What happened to me?"

"Well, you got shot, ripped off your clothes into nothingness, ran around town like a maniac, confessed to the girl that you like— in your boxers, and got punched in the face." He whimpered.

"That was the power of the Deathperation Shot." Reborn said as he jumped from my shoulder to the ground in front of Tsuna.

"Reborn!"

"This bullet is the Deathperation Shot." Reborn showed a red bullet with an orange flame printed on its surface. "Anyone shot in the head by this thing dies, and come back to life ready to die."

"Eh?"

"You'll be ready to die for whatever you regretted when you died. However, Deathperation Time only lasts five minutes. After that you'll return to normal." Reborn pocketed the bullet.

"Then… What would've happened if I had no regrets?" The baby turned his head to the side, fedora making a shadow over his face.

"I'm a hitman." He said plainly, the implications very obvious.

"I would've died?!" Tsuna exclaimed, and looked at his state of undress. I handed him the extra clothes I got for him. Tsuna looked at me and nodded his head in thanks. He then turned to the hitman.

"Anyway, what are you going to do about this? I'm so embarrassed, I can't go to school!" He closed his eyes.

"I had no intention of confessing to Kyoko-chan!" Reborn turned his head back to the boy.

"You didn't have the guts to even if you could, remember?" Tsuna picked up the baby, hands pulling at the hitman's chubby cheeks.

"Shut up!" Reborn raised a fist.

!

"Ow…" Tsuna cried on the floor. "It didn't hurt when I ran into a truck…"

"That's because you were Deathperate." More like desperate…

"Deathperation is a state where all the safety mechanisms in your body are halted. So in exchange for pushing your life to its limits, you'll be able to exhibit incredible power." Reborn explained. Tsuna sat up, his cheek red from the hitman's punch.

"I see." He smiled. "So it's my latent potential… But once I'm Deathperate, all that power comes out." The bell chimed, snapping Tsuna out his hopeful mumbling.

"Like I'm going to accept that!" He yelled at the baby.

"What are you doing?" The three of us looked up to see…!

"Class has already started, half-naked boy." A black haired teen, wearing the school uniform, with a red and gold committee band. Sharp slate gray eyes stared down at us, and the sense of danger he excluded was unmistakable. He is…

"H-Hibari Kyoya-san from the Disciplinary Committee!"

… The most beautiful person I have ever seen.

The prefect narrowed his eyes. "As a member of the Disciplinary Committee, I cannot allow…" Tsuna gulped in fear and snatched my arm, pulling me along away from the prefect.

"S-Sorry! L-Let's go, Setsu-chan..!"

"Eh? Tuna..!"

And as I was pulled towards the school building, I didn't notice the curious gaze of a predator directed at me.

(=x=)

"Uwah… That was close…!"

Ah, this is bad…

"Hie! Setsu-chan, are you alright? You're turning red!"

"He's…"

This is really bad…

"Ah, I understand how you feel! Hibari-san's really scary!"

Scary…? Not one bit.

"But don't worry, Setsu-chan! As long as we don't break anymore rules, Hibari-san won't bite as to death!"

"…mumble mumble…"

"Eh? Setsu-chan, I don't understand what you're saying… Can you repeat that for me?"

Shit, this wasn't supposed to happen. I knew I admired him, but seeing him in person…

"…I think I'm in love."

…

"E-EH?!"

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