AN: Okay... so I wrote this really "crack" story after seeing some KHR fanart... I'm not sure if I can find it again, since I saw the picture quite a while ago... I found it on the LiveJournal community for KHR (lurker. cough) But, when I do, I will credit it and show it you all...! It really made me laugh. Pfft. (- A -) Anyway, you can ask questions now or read the damn fiction. It might get confusing... but I still hope it's enjoyable...?

Identity Crisis

by: Paio Ichiris Jin

In which a few of Tsuna's guardians coincidentally meet up and undergo body switching...

A soft breeze wafted through a lonesome park full of blooming trees, sending small showers of pink petals flying across the worn stone walkway running through the lines of trees. The sun was just setting behind a low building in the distance, illuminating the sky with a pale orange and pink color, blending together with the shades of blue and purple high in the sky. A girl with an eye patch over her right eye and well-kept blue hair stumbled into the park, staring wordlessly at her surroundings, unfazed by the lack of people or animals in the beautiful park. There was no quiet singing from the birds or the murmur and soft tapping of people moving in the park, observing and indulging in the fantastic sight of the light and colors engulfing the area. Only the rustling of the flowering trees, the sound of wind whispering past her ears, and the incessant strumming of crickets as the day neared night. She clutched her staff to herself and continued to wander down the stone walkway, further into the park, oblivious to the obvious change in scenery compared to the usual dull streets surrounding Namimori Junior High.

"Is this where Reborn-san wanted us to come, Jyuudaime?" A loud voice asked from her left, the sound seeming harsh among all the soft scenery among them.

"I think so…" Another voice chimed in, much gentler than the first. "Wait, I'll get out the map…" There was a rustle of paper and then the person suddenly exclaimed in an agitated and exasperated tone, "Wha?! How are we supposed to find anything with this kind of map?! Reborn….!"

The girl made her way through the trees, drawn to the familiarity of the voices.

"Ha ha ha!" She heard another voice laugh in a carefree way as her green skirt brushed through the tall grass between the trees. "Well, we're not too far from the school so even if we search around a bit, we won't get lost."

As she neared the people in the secluded park, she spotted the messy brown hair of a certain boy and heard another voice shout passionately. "Okay! Then let's start searching around! If we split up, we can cover more ground. So let's meet back here in fifteen minutes."

The blue haired girl hopped out from between the trees and turned her face to observe the four boys in the clearing. There was Sawada Tsunayoshi and his three guardians standing together in a rough circle. One of them had silver-hair with long bangs hanging over his eyes. Another boy had unruly black hair and was the tallest of the group. The third guardian had shortly cropped silver-hair with a scar over his left temple and a bandage pasted securely over the bridge of his nose.

"Ah!" The silver-haired boy with bangs pointed a finger at her, face contorting into a look of irritation and surprise. "It's that girl!"

Tsuna blinked once and then turned to look at the girl Gokudera was pointing at. "Eh? Chrome? What are you doing here…?" The group of boys huddled around, staring at her curiously. Out of all the other places nearby Namimori Junior High School, what could Chrome possibly be doing, walking by herself in an empty park…?

The blue haired girl stared at the people for a few seconds before shaking her head once wordlessly. "Boss, I think I am lost…"

"EH?!" Tsuna's eyes widened and he glanced nervously towards his companions before settling his gaze back upon Chrome. "Umm… well… where are you trying to go?"

Just as she was about to answer, a low voice floated down from above them, suddenly spearing through their conversation. "How long do you intend to crowd around here…? I specifically told them to make sure no one intruded this place."

Tsuna's spine stiffened as he recognized the voice and Chrome merely tilted her head upwards, searching for the person who owned the low and menacing voice. A boy with neat black hair, wearing a Namimori Junior High School uniform, was settled on a thick tree branch, looking as if he had been resting peacefully and enjoying the view before any of the people had come. He stared at them, eyes narrowed almost into slits and face still emotionless, but anyone could tell that he was about to snap at any given moment. Tsuna hastily backed away, pulling his friends back with him.

"Hibari-san! Um… no, we were just passing by…" He gave the older boy an awkward smile and glanced nervously from left to right, trying to find a place to flee to before Hibari jumped down and beat them all up. Why did Reborn tell them to come here…? Did Reborn plan all of this…?! To have them meet both Chrome and Hibari?

"Hey…" Yamamoto suddenly spoke up, glancing around the trees curiously, eyebrows furrowed together in confusion. "Do you guys smell that…?"

"What the hell are you talking about?" Gokudera frowned deeply, sniffing the air. "I don't smell anything strange. It all smells like flowers to me."

Ryohei took in a deep breath and then scratched his head, turning to address Yamamoto. "Hmm… I think I smell it, too. But it still smells sweet like the trees."

Gokudera took another whiff and crossed his arms over his chest. "Are you two going crazy?"

Tsuna glanced towards Hibari and Chrome while sniffing the air cautiously. It did smell as if there were two different fragrances in the air… something different from the usual smell of the flowering trees of Japan. The smell was so sweet it made him feel… sleepy… He felt his eyelids start to droop and his legs grow suddenly soft. So soft that he couldn't even feel them anymore. His knees suddenly buckled and gave way, sending him falling to his knees heavily. Wha…? Why was… he so sleepy… all of a sudden…? He glanced up at his companions, fighting to stay conscious. What was going on?!

"Tsuna! What… happened…?" Tsuna heard Yamamoto exclaim before suddenly slurring off and falling to the ground beside him heavily. The tall boy looked as if he had only fallen asleep and Tsuna fought fiercely to keep his eyes open.

"Ya… Yama…mo…!"

"Jyuudaime?! Baseball nut?!" Gokudera rushed to Tsuna's side, mind racing. What was going on? Why did Yamamoto suddenly pass out like that and why was Tsuna also falling asleep?!

Tsuna, unable to resist any longer, fell to his side. His eyelids flitted open and closed before finally shutting contently, giving into the sudden tiredness that had crept upon him. Gokudera quickly caught the boy before he hit the ground and then heard two more thuds nearby and the clatter of metal hitting the ground. He swiveled his head around anxiously, finding Chrome and Ryohei on the ground, both in a deep sleep. Now those two were sleeping?! Maybe that smell that Yamamoto had mentioned was a sleeping gas? Someone was targeting Tsuna?! Without another thought or second to spare, Gokudera did what he thought was the best decision at the moment: to protect Jyuudaime no matter what. He lifted Tsuna up easily—for the boy wasn't that heavy, being so scrawny and all—and started moving the brown haired boy in his arms to a safer place. But as he took one step in the direction of the trees, he felt a wave of fatigue spread through his body and his knees seemed to turn to jelly. "The hell?!" He urged his legs to move but soon the rest of his body started to feel the same weakness and he dropped onto his front, feeling Tsuna's body falling upon him, crushing his body into the ground. The impact of another weight upon his body should have hurt, but the fatigue seemed to numb everything. He couldn't feel anything… Only the urge to sleep that kept persistently pressing upon his mind.

Just before Gokudera fell into the deep sleep he had witnessed the others fall into, he glanced upwards, remembering faintly at the back of his mind that Hibari was still sitting up in the tree. Had he planned this…? But when he looked up through his gradually blurring vision, the silver haired boy noticed Hibari fall backwards on the tree branch. Hibari had also been affected by the sudden fatigue…?

"What's… going on….?" Gokudera grunted out before letting the sleep take over, plunging him into a sea of darkness and nothing.

Tsuna woke up, still feeling groggy from the nap he had been forced to take. He rubbed his eyes and sat up, glancing curiously around the park where the sleeping bodies of his friends lay. What had happened? The last thing he remembered was a sweet smell and then his body felt as if he had just stayed up practicing baseball for an entire week, non-stop, without any sleep… He scratched his head and then realized that there was something under him… a person…? Tsuna peered down and noticed that Gokudera was sleeping under him, cheek plastered to the ground. Strange… how did Gokudera get under him when they had been a few feet away from each other when he had fallen asleep? He stood up and blinked once in confusion, taking in his surroundings. The trees were still in full bloom and the delicate petals were scattered all over the ground. The sky was still slightly dark, but it was brightening at a rapid rate...

Was it morning…?

And wait, did that tree look a tiny bit taller than before…?

In fact, everything seemed to look a little taller now.

"Wait a second…" Tsuna glanced down at his clothes and noticed that he was not wearing the same clothes that he had been wearing. In fact… these looked like… Tsuna's clothes. "Huh?" He blinked for a couple of times before glancing around the park, searching for something. And then, he finally spotted it. He jogged towards the body lying on the ground and then crouched over, staring wide eyed at the motionless body.

It was him…

Himself… lying there... on the ground. Fast asleep.

His body looked like he was in a deep, but content sleep…

But… why was he looking at himself sleep?

He wasn't in his own body…?

Then… was he having one of those 'out-of-your-body' experiences?

But then, how would that explain Tsuna's clothes on him?

Perhaps he was in Tsuna's body?

Then… was there someone in his body…?

Or maybe… it was a doppelganger and somehow he had gotten into Tsuna's clothes…? Weird…

Pushing those thoughts aside for now, Tsuna decided that trying to wake himself would probably answer a lot of his questions. Strangely calm, even after figuring out that he was not just having a warped dream, he placed a hand on the sleeping Yamamoto and shook himself a few times. He received a soft mumble in reply that he was sure he would never make if he was still in his own body. Then, Tsuna watched as the other Yamamoto sat up and yawned widely before rubbing his eyes with both hands.

"Wha…? What happened…?" Tsuna heard himself say.

"I'm not sure…" He answered and realized for the first time that the voice coming from his mouth sounded awfully similar to Tsuna's. Then… he really was in Tsuna's body…?

How bizarre…

Yamamoto's eyes suddenly widened in shock as he saw Tsuna crouching before him. "Wha- Wha- What's going on?! Why am I over there?! And…and… why am I wearing Yamamoto's clothes…!"

Tsuna smiled sheepishly, lifting a hand up to scratch the back of his head out of habit. Then, he slowly pulled his hand away from his head and stared at the hand carefully, feeling slightly surprised from having another person's hair on his head. What surprised him even more was how soft his hair actually was. Whenever he saw Tsuna with his spiky looking hair, he always thought that it would be prickly feeling. Looks like he was wrong…

"I'm not sure what's going on either but… it seems like we switched bodies or something…"

Yamamoto stared at the brown haired boy before him. "Then… you're Yamamoto…?"

Tsuna nodded happily, glad that the real Tsuna had quickly and painlessly understood their current situation.

"WHAT?!" Yamamoto leapt up to his feet, holding his head with both hands and shaking nervously from the prospect of being stuck in another person's body. "Wait, wait… so… Yamamoto is in my body right now? And I'm in Yamamoto's body?! And… we have no idea how to change back…?"

"Mm, it seems like it." Tsuna nodded again, unfazed by the sudden predicament they were facing.

"No way!!" Yamamoto cried miserably and Tsuna laughed heartily from hearing himself shout out in a way he had never heard himself shout out in. Suddenly, Chrome's body sat up with a small groan and then, after a few seconds of squinting her eyes into the distance, as if trying to focus her vision, and staring straight out in front of her, she lifted a slim hand up to rub the side of her head while frowning slightly. "Chrome!" Yamamoto exclaimed and ran towards her, followed shortly behind by Tsuna. "Chrome, you're awake! Are you feeling okay?"

"Ahh…" Chrome winced and rubbed the bruise on her head angrily. "What the? I think I hit my head or something. It hurts."

Yamamoto and Tsuna turned to look at each other; Yamamoto, staring at Tsuna with round eyes; and Tsuna, staring back with a slightly confused look.

"Wait. Why are you guys calling me, Chrome? That's that girl's name, right? I'm Sasagawa Ryohei! Did you guys hit your heads, too?!" Chrome stared from Yamamoto to Tsuna with furrowed eyebrows. Yamamoto turned to Tsuna and he felt beads of cold sweat start to form on the back of his neck.

"Onii-san… is in Chrome's body?!'

Tsuna chuckled, glancing towards Ryohei's body. "Then the girl is in Sasagawa's body…? Or maybe she might be in Gokudera's body? Who knows…" He shrugged his shoulders as if this thing wasn't also his problem. "Maa, this whole thing should be pretty interesting! Haha!"

"Noo!" Yamamoto gulped nervously, already imagining the image of Chrome smiling uncharacteristically, jumping and jogging freely in the way Ryohei always did in his own body. Or the image of Ryohei speaking to Kyoko softly, hands crossed shyly in front of him like a girl. Or the image of Gokudera acting like a girl and calling him 'boss' in a soft voice instead of the usual loud 'Jyuudaime!'. Yamamoto shook his head furiously, hoping to never recall such strange visions again. "That's not interesting at all!"

"Hey… what are you guys talking about? I'm in a girl's body?" They heard Chrome's feminine voice say in a not so soft way. "Stop joking around. How could I be in a girl's body?"

Yamamoto pointed at himself, eyes wide open with fear and anxiety. "But I'm stuck in Yamamoto's body! And you're in Chrome's body!"

Chrome scoffed and stood up while frowning up at the tall boy. "What are you talking about? Of course you're in your own body! Where else could you be?"

A bead of sweat ran down Tsuna's head but he continued to smile at Chrome and himself. Gokudera suddenly rose silently to his feet, a few feet away from the trio of conscious people. Yamamoto hurried over to the silver haired boy's side. "Gokudera-kun! You woke up!"

Gokudera turned to stare at the taller boy and then glanced around Yamamoto to survey the surroundings. He glanced wordlessly at the sleeping Ryohei on the ground and then frowned slightly as he glanced down at his clothes. Then, he looked up at Yamamoto and spoke in a strangely calm voice compared to the normal Gokudera. "You are not who you really are then…?"

Yamamoto smiled sheepishly, wondering who this person was. Was it Chrome? Or was it Hibari-san? "Umm… yeah… I'm Tsuna." The tall, black haired boy answered meekly.

Gokudera paused for a moment to look at Yamamoto's face, as if he were scrutinizing a strange specimen. Then, he frowned and glanced down at himself, picking at the clothes with an air of disgust. "Hmph, this is irritating…"

Yamamoto took a step back cautiously, recognizing the unique tone in Gokudera's voice. "Hi-Hibari-san…?"

Gokudera looked up, gaze full of the harsh severity that Hibari usually had. "I don't have time for this…" The silver haired boy glanced around the trees and then walked calmly towards a spot next to the tree he had been sitting in only a few hours ago. He found his true body lying in the tall grass, sleeping peacefully. Without any hesitation, Gokudera gave the body of Hibari a heavy kick, assuming that the physical pain would knock out whichever soul who had decided to reside in his body. Yamamoto saw this and his mouth dropped open in horror.

"Hibari-san! Wait! You shouldn't kick yourself…!!" Yamamoto cried out and ran towards Gokudera, who had stopped upon noticing that he had not returned to his body yet.

"I see…" Gokudera nodded and then lifted a fist up. "Then, maybe this will work." And then he proceeded to punch himself.

"Waah! No, wait!" Yamamoto grabbed the other boy's fist fearfully before Hibari would do any more harm to Gokudera's body. "You shouldn't do that either!"

"Then how am I supposed to return to my own body?" Gokudera frowned and pulled his hand away harshly. "And don't touch me, you herbivore."

Yamamoto gulped and looked to Tsuna for help, which suddenly made him feel so disoriented that he had to look away and at the trees instead. A strange, low sounding groan came from behind him and Yamamoto turned to watch as Hibari lifted himself up on his elbows, blinking his eyes a few times, trying to clear the blurriness in his sight. He squinted at the nearest person and found Yamamoto standing in front of him. He immediately frowned.

"Get away from me, you baseball freak." Hibari made a swatting motion towards the baseball player and then stood up, patting off his pants of any blades of grass or clouds of dirt. Suddenly, he paused and his eyes widened—which made Yamamoto involuntarily shiver because he had never seen Hibari's eyes widen so much before—and he swiveled his head around anxiously. "Jyuudaime? What happened to Jyuudaime?!" And then he spotted Tsuna standing in the clearing, talking animatedly with Chrome. "Jyuudaime!" Hibari rushed towards Tsuna, leaving Yamamoto to stare after Hibari's back with wide eyes and Gokudera to watch on with an agitated look.

"Jyuudaime!" Tsuna heard Hibari's low voice exclaim in relief. Then, two hands clamped around his shoulders and he blinked a few times in confusion as a relieved looking Hibari smiled in his line of sight. A bead of sweat ran down the back of Tsuna's head.

Weird. This was really weird.

And scary.

Quite scary.

"Um… Gokudera… I'm not Tsuna right now…"

"Huh?" Hibari frowned slightly. "What's that supposed to mean? Of course Jyuudaime is Jyuudaime."

"No…" Tsuna smiled sheepishly, "I'm Yamamoto…"

"Huh…?"

"I'm Yamamoto in Tsuna's body…ha ha…" He laughed nervously and then pointed at himself standing in the thicket of trees. "Tsuna's in my body. Over there. Next to Gokudera… oh wait, er… I think Hibari is in your body…? So Tsuna's next to Hibari… but technically he's next to you…but sort of not…"

"What…?" Hibari raised his eyebrows, feeling extremely confused. "Jyuudaime, can you say that again…?"

Yamamoto returned to the clearing and joined the conversation. "Gokudera-kun… what Yamamoto means is that we've all switched bodies. I'm in Yamamoto's body and he's in mine. So you're talking to Yamamoto right now. And onii-san is in Chrome's body while you're in Hibari-san's body and Hibari-san is in your body… that leaves Chrome in onii-san's body…" He shivered involuntarily as he started to realize how strange everything was right now… and that everyone was in a different body… and all the trees looked a little shorter, too. In fact… everyone looked shorter right now… especially himself. He never realized how short he was compared to Yamamoto… until now.

Weird. This was really weird…

Hibari stared at the tall boy for a few seconds, eyes wide from trying to comprehend everything that was happening. Then, he quickly let go of Tsuna's shoulders and stood very still. "So… back then, I called Jyuudaime… a baseball freak?"

"Huh?" Yamamoto blinked and then scratched his cheek. "Umm… yeah, I guess…"

Hibari hastily dropped to his knees and started bowing lowly before Yamamoto. "I'm sorry, Jyuudaime! I didn't mean it! Those words were not directed towards you at all! Please forgive me."

Yamamoto's eyes widened at the sight of Hibari kneeling before him and he quickly grabbed the boy's arm to lift him back to his feet. "G-Gokudera-kun! It's okay! It's okay! Just… don't kneel like that!! It's… really strange…!"

Tsuna smiled cheerily. "It's getting really interesting, isn't it? I mean, I get to look at myself acting like Tsuna! And Hibari is acting like Gokudera while Gokudera is acting like Hibari. Haha, Gokudera even has his own bird like Hibari now! Or… is it just that Hibird knows where the real Hibari is?"

Yamamoto turned to look in Gokudera's direction, wondering what Tsuna had meant by saying that and then noticed a little yellow bird perched upon Gokudera's shoulder.

"What's up with that?!" Yamamoto shouted, staring at the scene incredulously. "Hibird knows that Hibari-san is in Gokudera-kun's body?!"

Amidst the commotion caused by Hibari and Yamamoto, Ryohei finally stirred and then sat up, rubbing his eyes gently with one hand. "Mm…? Boss…? Ah!" He scanned his eyes along the ground and found a staff lying a few feet away. Ryohei quickly got to his feet and rushed over to pick up the staff, clutching it to his chest tightly. Then, he finally looked up and noticed herself standing slightly behind Tsuna. "Me…?" He rubbed his eyes again with his free hand and then stared for another moment, lips parted slightly open. When he noticed no change in the scene, Ryohei walked towards the group of people, eyes glued to the girl standing only a meter away. "Why am I…?"

Tsuna, Hibari, and Yamamoto stared wordlessly, still trying to process the image of someone like Ryohei go through a 180 degree change in personality.

Ryohei… was being as soft-spoken and gentle as a shy girl…

The information was jamming up in their brains. It was difficult to process. But there it was, clear as day. The evidence of the complete change stood right before them, in the form of Chrome in Ryohei's body.

Weird. This is really weird…!! Their thoughts echoed as one.

"AH!" They heard Chrome's voice shout from behind them and they turned their heads to face the girl. At that very moment, the trio felt the gears in their heads jam once again as they became witnesses to a completely different Chrome, who was currently pointing a finger accusingly at Ryohei with eyebrows furrowed closely together in confusion and mouth still wide open from her shout. "Why am I moving when I'm not in my own body?!"

Ryohei blinked and took one hesitant step backwards, beads of sweat on his brow. "Why… am I shouting at myself…?"

Yamamoto lifted his hands up in an appeasing way that almost resembled the usual Yamamoto. "Well, you both just switched bodies so…" Chrome and Ryohei both turned to look at Yamamoto with expectant eyes and the black haired boy gulped and glanced down at them nervously. He peered hesitantly in the direction of Hibari and Tsuna and when they both stared back at him dumbly, Yamamoto sighed and turned towards the two people who had just gone through a sex change. "Eh… well… so… basically, you're in each other's bodies. Not in your own…"

Chrome and Ryohei stared at the baseball player for only a second before giving a sign of reaction. Chrome jumped backwards in shock, shouting a loud "EHH?!" in surprise. Ryohei lifted a hand up to his mouth, eyes widening slightly. Then he brought his hand back down to his side and mumbled quietly in his rough voice.

"Then… do… do you know if we'll ever change back…?"

"Umm… er…" Yamamoto gulped once and felt the sweat grow on the back of his neck. "We… don't know…"

It was silent after that. And only the sound of Yamamoto's hesitant voice echoing in all of their heads. They stared at each other. Silent. Just letting the moment sink in. And then, the reality of everything seemed to click in their heads. They were stuck in another person's body, with no idea how to change back… Stuck. For possibly an eternity.

"Noo!" Yamamoto cried suddenly, squeezing his eyes tightly shut as if everything were only a dream and he would only have to wake up for everything to return to normal. "No more! How do we change back?! This is terrible!"

Tsuna laughed and patted Yamamoto on the back, "Hahaha! Is it really that awful being in my body, Tsuna?"

Yamamoto peeked at Tsuna and whimpered at the shorter boy. "You know that's not what I meant…"

The brown haired boy smiled reassuringly. "Don't worry about it so much, Tsuna. I'm sure we'll just switch back sooner or later. And besides, isn't it pretty fun right now?" He turned his head to stare at his scenery and then laughed some more, smiling warmly at his surroundings. "This is so nostalgic. I've forgotten how the world looked when I was still short…"

Yamamoto blushed in embarrassment and clenched his fists together indignantly. "Yamamoto…!!"

Tsuna smiled sheepishly. "Sorry, Tsuna… but really…" He moved himself to stand beside the baseball player and measured his own height with a hand. "I'm only up to your shoulder now! Hahaha!"

Yamamoto flushed an even deeper red and frowned. "You're just too tall! That's all…!"

As Tsuna pointed at Yamamoto and laughed some more, Hibari stood forward, frowning deeply, and he took a step towards Tsuna, addressing the boy. "Stop mocking, Jyuudaime! You… bastard...?" He stared at Tsuna in confusion. It was strange… yelling at the image of Jyuudaime to stop mocking Jyuudaime… but Yamamoto was the real one inside Tsuna's body right now… Hibari frowned in irritation and growled under his breath. "Shit, why didn't you switch with someone else, you baseball nut? Like the turf-head or someone else…"

Chrome frowned, hearing this. "Hey! So you can be angry at me but you can't be angry at Sawada?! At least you guys are all in another guy's body!" She furrowed her eyebrows and grabbed her breasts with both her hands. "I'm still trying to get used to having these hanging in front of me!"

The eyes of Yamamoto, Tsuna, Hibari, and Ryohei widened as they saw this motion. Ryohei blushed a light pink and stretched a hand out shyly. "Umm… could you please… stop… touching…"

Yamamoto flushed a bright red and then quickly looked away, waving his hands in front of him "WAAH!! Onii-san! S-stop doing that! That's… That's really weird!" As Yamamoto grew all flustered over Chrome's actions, Tsuna turned his head to observe himself in interest.

"Hoh? So that's what I would look like if I ever blushed a lot, huh…" A bright smile jumped onto his lips and he laughed without a care, "This is getting really interesting! Maybe… I should try something out, too." He paused for a moment to think and then nodded once before flexing his biceps and posing himself in a position that he thought looked pretty cool. "Hey, Gokudera! How's this?"

Hibari glanced over to Tsuna when his name had been addressed and then his eyes widened in shock before narrowing in indignation. "What do you think you're doing to Jyuudaime's body?!"

"Don't I look cool like this? No?" Tsuna returned to a normal position, smiling happily. He furrowed his eyebrows in thought again before smiling widely as he came up with something. "How about this then?" Tsuna turned to Hibari and held two hands up under his chin, pouting his lips cutely. He blinked his eyes twice, twinkling with innocence, and stared up at Hibari, taking one step closer to the other boy. "Gokudera-kun…!"

Hibari stared at the sudden change with blank eyes. After a few more seconds of staring at Tsuna, he quickly turned away and covered his mouth with one hand—to hide the silly smile spreading across his lips—cheeks blushing an intense pink. "…so cute." Tsuna saw this reaction and then burst out in laughter.

"Hahaha! A red-faced Hibari sure looks strange! Did I really look that cute?" Tsuna poked Hibari in the shoulder a few times teasingly. "Did I? Did I?"

Gokudera watched the two from the corner of his eyes, annoyance and anger glowing in his pupils. "…" How dare that guy blush in his body…! And if he continued to watch those two morons, it would be exactly like watching him and Tsuna together… talking… like good friends… which was something he did not want to see. Besides… instead of wasting time like this, shouldn't they pay attention to the even greater problem closing in upon them? Hadn't they realized that it was morning and that school would be starting soon? Those idiots.

Chrome removed her hands from her breasts and then glanced down at her skirt and bare legs. "Hmm… but this entire body switching thing sure is extreme! I feel like a totally different person!"

Yamamoto sighed in exasperation, hanging his head to the side and feeling like he wanted to cry because no one seemed to be worrying about the whole body switching problem as much as he was. "You are a different person right now, onii-san… that's why you shouldn't make weird motions like that…"

Suddenly, Gokudera walked up to the group, a calm but menacing look on his face. "If you insist on crowding any longer, I'll bite you all to death." He sent a glare to Yamamoto, causing the boy to jump back with fear. Why did Hibari-san always immediately direct that glare at him after saying his catch phrase…?! He was in Yamamoto's body right now, and still the leader of the Disciplinary Committee managed to remember to aim his glare directly at him!

Tsuna glanced in the direction of school. "Oh, that's right. I have morning practice today. See you guys in class later! And don't worry, I'm sure we'll switch back soon enough…! See ya!" And with that, the little brown haired boy dashed off in the direction of Namimori Junior High, mumbling to himself something along the lines of 'gotta get to practice, gotta get to practice'.

Yamamoto blinked for a moment and then started running after Tsuna hurriedly. "Wait! Yamamoto! I think I'm the one who's supposed to go… hold on! Wait for m—wah!" His sentence was abruptly cut off as his foot caught onto a tree branch and he fell onto his front painfully. The onlookers stared wordlessly as the usually athletic Yamamoto hastily picked himself off from the ground and started running clumsily after Tsuna, who was already far in the distance.

After a few moments of quiet contemplation, Ryohei glanced anxiously around at the people left in the group and then set his eyes on the running form of Yamamoto a few meters away. "Umm…" He turned towards herself, while holding the staff tightly. "I think I should follow them to school…?"

"Oh!" Chrome grinned, smiling at himself because it was just like looking into a mirror even though there were no mirrors around at all. "Okay. And don't forget to go to the boxing club after school! I've got a match today." She watched as Ryohei nodded awkwardly and then jogged off, both hands on the middle of the staff.

Chrome then turned to beam at the remaining members of their body switching group. Then, her eyebrows wrinkled together as she realized something and asked in confusion, "So, where do I go?"

Hibari frowned and shouted out irritably, "How the hell should I know? Just go do whatever. Skip school or something. Or go look for those two guys that sometimes show up around that girl." He kept his gaze on Gokudera, who was standing coolly near the trees. Why did he have to switch with Hibari and not Tsuna instead? The baseball nut would probably mess up Jyuudaime's body by being in it!

"Oh." Chrome blinked and then mirrored Hibari's frown, unhappy with the sudden attitude directed towards him. "Fine! I'll just go do whatever I want." But, really… what should he do now? What did this girl usually do…? Shopping? That was what girl's did, right? Or did she go eat sweets? Kyouko seemed to like eating sweets so… maybe Chrome liked to as well? Or maybe she practiced making illusions during her free time…? But… he couldn't make illusions… so… instead of practicing magic, he could… train instead! Yeah! That was a great idea! "OU! Then I'll be going now!" And then with that, Chrome ran off optimistically, speeding off into the trees, shouting something along the lines of, "Training to the EXTREME!"

Now left with only Gokudera and Hibari in silence, Hibari finally decided that he should go and check on Jyuudaime to make sure everything was okay. After all, the right hand man had to be beside his boss at any moment, prepared for any sort of danger. He smirked to himself and started trotting down the stone walkway, imagining all the moments where he and Jyuudaime would be fighting alongside each other, protecting other members of the Vongola and other mafia families while creating the greatest mafia in history. Hibari's eyes sparkled with glee and a great smile spread across his face as the images raced through his mind.

Gokudera stepped closely after his body, a few feet away because being too close to any weaklings, such as a certain silver haired boy, would surely be bad for him. The Italian kept his eyes narrowed, looking quite menacing and alert at the same time.

After ten long minutes of dead silence, save for the occasional passing car and nervous gulps from a few pedestrians as they passed by, the two boys made it to the front of the school. Hibari immediately entered the gates and started heading towards the baseball field, where he could already hear a few shouts and calling from anonymous and unimportant people.

"Where do you think you're going?" His own voice, much smoother than normal, stopped him from taking another step.

"To the baseball field. Where else?" Hibari grunted out, turning around lazily to give a sleazy glare at his previous body.

Gokudera's eyes narrowed a little further. "Have you forgotten whose body you are currently in?"

The dark haired boy scoffed and turned his back towards Gokudera. He stuck his hands in his pockets carelessly and started moving towards the field again. "Ha, like I care. It doesn't matter whose body I'm in. I'll always be Jyuudaime's right-hand man! See ya." Suddenly, he heard a familiar rustle from behind him. That was… his dynamite! Hibari spun around quickly, glaring fiercely at the silver haired boy. Was he gonna start a fight? A bead of sweat ran down his cheek but he smirked to himself. Interesting. This would be just like fighting against his evil twin. If he had one that is...

Gokudera held up the dynamite threateningly. "You have a Disciplinary Committee meeting to attend now…"

Hibari reached behind him and felt the two tonfas tucked neatly against his back. He pulled them out swiftly and frowned in agitation. He could be by Tsuna's side right now… he didn't have time for this! "But Jyuudaime's not there, is he?" The boy answered coldly.

The two boys faced off for several seconds, staring at each other, neither one backing down for even a nanosecond. Their gazes were locked upon each other, sweat starting to perspire on their bodies from the rising intensity of the morning sun. The two waited patiently for the other's first move. Then, as they finally realized something, the two simultaneously glanced down slowly. These weapons…

I can't use this…

"…" Gokudera stared quietly at the dynamite in his hands.

Hibari peered up from the two tonfa and attempted a twitchy smile to shrug off the embarrassment.

"…trade?"

To be continued...

How was that for the first chapter...? I hope it was a fun read (because I sure had a lot of fun writing it... heh.) It must've been pretty confusing, huh... Especially when they all switch. o.o This story would probably be more easy to understand if it was drawn into a comic/manga... ha... ha ha... sweat.

Well, in any case, here is a preview to the next chapter:

How will Tsuna and Yamamoto cope with morning baseball practice in their different bodies?

I bid thee all a good day, afternoon, or night!