Dino jumped out of the western style car and helped Hibari out, earning him a glare. Dino opened the door for Hibari earning him an elbow in the stomach. By the time he and Hibari got in the restaurant Dino was ready to collapse in pain. Luckily, he didn't.

After they were seated and their drink orders taken Dino tried to make conversation. "So, Kyoya, what's it like running a school like Namimori?"

"What's it matter to you?" was the rather icy reply Dino received.

"Well, I just happen to take an interest in your life Kyoya, one usually wants to know more about the person they love," Dino replied resting his head on his elbow as he turned a little to face Hibari, who insisted on glaring at the upholstery of the seat in front of him.

At Dino's reply a slight blush formed on Hibari's cheeks, which did not go unnoticed by Dino. Before Dino could remark on it though, Hibari spoke. "And why would you say you love me when I obviously hate you."

"Well," Dino paused in thought, "I'm hoping that if I say it enough it might finally break through the icy cover on your heart and you'll someday say it back." Hibari scoffed and took a sip of water.

"Never, Bucking Bronco, Never." Dino merely smiled a small fond smile and opened the menu.

A few minutes after placing their orders a thought crossed his mind. There was something he wanted to try. "Hey, Kyoya, can I…hold your hand?"

"No."

"Why not?" Dino nearly whined. Hibari sighed and looked at Dino.

"…because, Cavallone, holding your hand would mean I hold even a shred of affection for you, which I do not."

Dino pouted. "You're so mean…" Dino brightened up though when their food was brought to them. The dinner was uneventful and full of failed conversation starters, until a slightly shrill voice was heard from the front of the restaurant screaming, "Where is he? Where is Dino Cavallone!"

Hibari looked at Dino in confusion when he started to sink in his seat, chanting, "Don't let her see me, don't let her see me…"

A woman with wild red hair and equally wild green eyes rounded the corner searching the different booths and tables. She whipped her head around as if rabid and kept screaming for Dino. Hibari sneered at her too tight outfit which showed off her curvy body. She reminded him of a stampeding Rhino. Finally her eyes landed on the small amount of blonde hair poking out from the underneath the table. A slow smile of mild victorious glee spread across her face as she walked over and, reaching over Hibari, grabbed the hair and pulled Dino out of his hiding spot. Dino groaned in pain as he was let go and met the girl's eyes with a look of annoyance. "Francesca, what do you want?"

"I want you or more specifically, your presence at the meetings between our families. You have an obligation to your family to attend meetings, especially with those of higher power than you."

Dino glared at the girl like she was gum stuck to the bottom of his shoe, and nothing more. "Look, I already told you and your father I refuse your request and I'm in my rights to do so, so please, I am on a date," he said gesturing to Hibari who had been basically ignoring everything up to this point.

Francesca slammed a clenched fist down on the table startling the other patrons of the restaurant. "Why the hell are you on a date! You are supposed to be engaged to me!"

Dino clenched his teeth and glared at the woman with so much hate Hibari thought, or hoped, she would fall to the ground crying. "I don't know why you insist on marrying me but I have already told you before I am not going to accept your offer! I don't care what you do I am not going to marry you!" Dino said clearly angry.

"Fine then, until you agree to marry me I am going to send my men out to wreak havoc in one town every night. I think I'll start here in Namimori. Nice place. Too bad I'm going to destroy it."

The woman was truly crazy. The look she gave Dino as she spoke said that she was completely serious about destroying towns and thought it was a completely rational response to being rejected. Dino more worried at Hibari's reaction to the woman's threat than the woman's threat itself completely ignored her watching Hibari. He seemed calm, too calm. His beloved Namimori was in danger yet he hadn't made a move. All of a sudden he stood up pulling Dino's arm up slightly due to the cuffs, and looked the wild woman in the eyes.

"You make one more threat against Namimori or Dino and I will bite you to death." Hibari said still calm.

"Awe, how cute he's going to bite me to death," she said in a mocking baby voice. "Listen kid, this is grown up time how about you go find some little kids to try and scare because it sure isn't working on me."

That was the final straw for Hibari; no one laughed at him and called him cute like that, not unless they had a death wish. Dino quickly grabbed Hibari's arm not wanting bloodshed. "Francesca, I suggest you leave, you really made a big mistake laughing at Kyoya. Now leave, or he really will kill you."

Francesca laughed heartily. "What's this kid going to do, I've got my men with me," she said, Dino just now noticed the men in black suits standing near the entrance to the restaurant. Dino noticed the scared shitless looks the other customers were giving him and the waiter seemed to be on the phone calling security. He shook his head.

"They'll offer you no protection; you'll be dead before they even reach you. Trust me, it's better to leave and not return to Japan, ever."

"He's just a fucking kid! You act like he's the strongest man in Japan, no the world!" Francesca cried in exasperation.

"Because I am," Hibari said glaring so hard the Francesca had to take a step back.

"Francesca, this is Hibari Kyoya, Vongola tenths cloud guardian," Dino said.

"Cloud guardian….? Hibari…you mean he's the Vongola's strongest guardian?" Francesca said critical. Dino nodded causing Francesca to look into Hibari's eyes as if that would tell her how powerful Hibari really was. In his silver blue gaze she saw the eyes of a killer, she saw that he would kill a man or woman without hesitation or regret and had the power to do it.

"You know what, I think I'll just get Daddy to call you and we'll talk later Dino," Francesca said a mixture of caution and worry in her tone, Dino sighed in exasperation but nodded his head, it was evident that he would have to deal with her later but that could wait. Dino smiled as she rushed out of the restaurant her men following closely behind.

Hibari scoffed and sat down to finish his meal, not even bothering to ask why that woman was there, nor why she had hunted Dino down picking up on enough of the conversation to realize it was a problem best left to Dino to sort out.

Dino spent the rest of the meal apologizing to the patrons of the restaurant.

When the bill was paid Dino was finally able to escape the stares of the patrons, some curious, some disgusted and some sympathetic. Dino stepped out of the restaurant Hibari following, they both shivered when the cold air swirled around them, Hibari pulling on mittens and fixing a hat onto his now wind tossed hair. Dino in only his regular coat and cargos shivered relentlessly as the two Mafioso walked down the street the only sound the clattering of the handcuffs' chain blowing in the wind.

About six minutes into their walk Dino started to complain, his voice starting as a low grumbling then rising over the howl of the wind to reach Hibari's ears. "I'm cold~! Kyo-kun, I'm cold~!"

Hibari narrowed his eyes in annoyance. He was ready to kill something or rather someone but decided against it as he would be forced to drag around Dino's dead weight for a day. Hibari halted in the middle of the sidewalk people quickly stepping around them to avoid crowding the two, and pulled off his scarf. He wrapped it around Dino's throat pulling it a little tighter then necessary then tucked it into Dino's jacket and zipping it shut.

Dino blushed slightly before raising his hands still a little shell shocked from the rare act of kindness, and said whispering. "My hands…"

Hibari furrowed his eyebrows in thought staring at Dino intensely. 'What is he thinking…?' Dino thought. Finally, coming to a decision Hibari pulled off the glove on his cuffed hand and put it on Dino's hand leaving one hand, the cuffed one, on both boys unclothed. Dino cocked his head in confusion, 'But that only warms up on hand…?'

Dino's confusion evaporated when Hibari grabbed Dino's hand and intertwined his warm fingers in Dino's rather cold ones. "To share body heat," was Hibari's simple explaination before he started walking along, the cold masking the deep blush on his face.

Dino smiled remembering the words Hibari had said earlier that night, "…because, Cavallone, holding your hand would mean I hold even a shred of affection for you, which I do not."

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LONG-ASS AUTHOR'S NOTE!

And there it is the next chapter! I kind of liked this chapter, it took me forever to write though, I couldn't figure out how to make the dinner a little interesting, because who wants to read about a bunch of munching and chewing…not me! :] Anyways, I plan to have about two more chapters? The next one…or two, will be a proper confession, and smut, then the last chapter the readers who were disappointed by Tsuna's lack of injuries will get a surprise…maybe! :]

~Akki 3