A/N: KHR! does not belong to me in anyway.
Once upon a time, in a far away land, there lived a beautiful princess. Flowers bloomed at her touch and birds sang at the sight o-
"What the heck is this mess? Blooming flowers? Just by poking them? And birds always sing, you idiot!" The girl snapped, shaking the paper harshly in her hand, waving it back and forth in-front of the silvertte. "You call this a fair-"
"I call it a work-in-progress, stupid woman!" He snatched the paper back, glaring at her while he smoothed it out. "Jeez, go away and let me work in peace…" he picked up his pen, returning to the beginning. "I'm the writer. Not you. You're the princess. Get over it." he stated. She rolled her eyes. Bright green hair and red eyes—courtesy of contacts, of-course—this was Yoshioka Miyoko. She decided she had an identity crisis at the beginning of the school year and dyed her hair and got colored contacts. Gokudera Hayato didn't like her at-all.
But… the Tenth liked her… so he put up with her.
"Whatever. I'm telling you, it's stupid."
"What's stupid?" they both looked down at the floor where the little child called Lambo looked up at them with big eyes, a single finger pulling at his bottom lip. Miyoko winced. She knew that look. Oho, yes she knew that look…
"Stupid? Oh, nothing. Go play with I-Pin and Fuuta, Lambo." She waved him off and his lips pulled into a pout.
"That's not fair! You're hiding something from Lambo-san! Tell Lambo-san! Tell Lambo-san now! WAHHHHHH!" The child plopped down on the carpet, beginning to wail. Miyoko cursed, covering her ears with her hands and Gokudera did the same. The boy had some lungs, that was for sure. He could keep this up for hours!
Oh no… Oh dear Lord, no… Hours… She couldn't last that long…
"ALRIGHT, FINE! I'LL TELL YOU A STORY, OKAY?" the child quieted immediately, looking up at her expectantly. She blanched, looking to Gokudera for help. He was gathering up his several sheets of paper, going to move to a more quiet spot in the Sawada household. Like Tsuna's room. "And Hayto's going to help. Aren't you, Hayato~?"
"Oi, you don't get the privilege of calling me-"
"Yay~! Bakadera's gonna tell Lambo-san a story!" the Cow plaid boy cheered, jumping about. Gokudera glared at her as she smiled innocently.
"That's right. Now, how about you go get I-Pin, and Fuuta, and Mama, and Tsuna, and Yamamoto? Hmm, Lambo? While me and Gokudera here set up. Can you do that?" the child puffed up his chest, a grin on his face.
"Of-course! Lambo-san is amazing! Gwuahahahaha~!" and off he went to gather the people.
Gokudera turned on her. "You idiot! I'm not telling a story to the snot-nosed brat!" He thought about strangling her, but decided a homicide charge wouldn't help his Boss in the least. Miyoko rolled her eyes. "And especially not with you!"
"Think, idiot. If we tell the kid a story or two, he won't bother us 'cause then he'll be out reenacting it outside. See how this all works out? Then you can finish the school play in peace. I'm doing you a favor, but you're gonna owe me. Got it?"
"I refuse."
"Fine. I'll get Tsuna and Yamamoto to act it out with me. Yamamoto will be the Handsome Prince, Tsuna will be his Squire, and I'll be the Beautiful Princess. The Prince and Princess kiss at the end and then we go off into the sun-"
"YOU CAN'T DO THAT TO THE TENTH!" He grabbed her by the front of her shirt, shaking her. "HOW DARE YOU DEMOTE JUUDAIME TO A SQUIRE! AND MAKE THE BASEBALL IDIOT THE PRINCE! I WON'T STAND FOR IT!" she was smiling. He dropped her, turning away. "Idiot."
"Kay, so we're agreed. Sir Gokudera, the Knight in Shining Armor, Sir Yamamoto, the Prince's cousin, and Sir Tuna, the master of the-"
"TSU-NA, NOT TU-NA, GET IT RIGHT, YOSHIOKA! He grabbed her again, glaring down at her.
"A-ah, a-are we interrupting?" a high-pitched squeak and both looked over at the doorway where a red faced Tsuna stood, eyes wide. Yamamoto was behind him, blinking owlishly at them.
"Oh? Are we missing something, Miyoko, Gokudera?" Miyoko gave a smirk, wiggling her brows and wrapping her arms around Gokudera's neck, clinging to him tightly.
"Gokudera's agreed to become my Prince~!" she fluttered her lashes, effectively sending Tsuna spiraling to the floor in a faint as Yamamoto clapped, congratulating the two of them.
"Oh, good job, Gokudera! Miyoko's a great gal!"
"SHUT UP BASEBALL FREAK! JUUDAIME! SPEAK TO ME!"
Gokudera currently had a bucket on his head, as Lambo insisted that a knight has a helmet. His arms were crossed tightly over his chest and he was glaring at the child from his spot in the middle of the Sawada living room. I-Pin, Fuuta, Lambo, Kyoko, and Haru sat on the couch. Kyoko and Haru had stopped by and decided to stay and watch the play. Reborn was sitting on the top of the couch. He had originally thought that some training was in order for his student, but figured some public humiliation would do.
He even set up a camera to record the whole thing.
Nana was upstairs, helping Miyoko into costume. Tsuna had an old sheet draped around him, as did Yamamoto, while Gokudera was given one of Iemitsu's suit jackets.
Getting into character, Nana had said.
Tsuna fiddled with the fraying edges of his 'robe', looking at Kyoko from the corner of his eye. Why today of all days did she stop by? Why? "Mama? You ready yet?" he called.
When he heard footsteps, he turned, looking at the entry way to see a girl he had never seen before. Long brown hair and pale brown eyes, she was pretty. She was in a dress, one of his mother's old dresses if he remembered correctly. It fit her nicely and suited her. She was almost as pretty as Kyoko, he thought. Kyoko's was an innocent beauty. This girl… she was a more mature beauty.
…If that was even the way to describe it. He had no idea.
"Woah…" He saw Gokudera's eyes were wide too. Yamamoto was smiling at the newcomer. Being the friendly sort of person he was, he walked over to her.
"Hi! I'm Yamamoto Takeshi! Nice to meet you!" he shook her hand. She smiled a sort of confused smile.
"Yea, uh, I'm Yoshioka Miyoko. Nice to see you again. I've only been up there for ten minutes, jeez." She braced her arms out, reaching for the doorway and stepped through it, shifting her feet forward, feeling for her surroundings. "Yea yea, I know. I'm as blind as a bat, okay? I can't see without my glasses, or, in this case, my contacts. Nana made me take them out." Nana was grinning brightly while she settled herself onto the couch.
"I have never heard of a Princess with red eyes, Miyoko!"
"Tell ya what: I would have been the first!" Yamamoto took her hand, guiding her safely to the center of the room, to stand next to Gokudera. "Aw, thanks, handsome." Gokudera made a rather disgusted face as the girls and the Rain Guardian laughed. She turned to look at her partner, squinting. "Is that a bucket on yo-"
"No."
"Oh. Okay." She couldn't tell if it was a bucket or a top hat. Based on what she saw upstairs in Nana's spare room, she was guessing a top hat.
"Yoko! Lambo-san wants to see a play!" the child called from the couch. She squinted toward him, making out a black and white blob she presumed was the boy. But then again… "Yoko!"
"Alright, alright! Hold up, okay?" she grabbed Gokudera, pulling him toward the other two boys and huddling them all together. "So. What fairytale are we doing?" she looked at all of them in turn.
"W-which one? But, I don't know any fairy tales…"Tsuna murmured. True. When he was a child, he was read books about robots and trucks. Princesses were for girls.
"Hmm, you got me there, Miyoko." Yamamoto was trying to come up with something but came to a blank. "Ah, Kyoko, Haru!" he poked his head up, beckoning the two girls over. They got up from the couch, confusion clouding their eyes. "Could you help?"
"With what, Yamamoto-kun?" Tsuna watched his crush with dreamy eyes.
"Fairy tales! We don't know which one to do, so, could you help?" the baseball player confided in them. The two smiled.
"That's it? Hmm… Well, we could do… Beauty and the Beast or Sleeping Beauty or Cinderella or Rapun-"
"Oh, Kyoko-chan, let's do Beauty and the Beast! That was Haru's favorite when Haru was a girl!" Haru clasped her hands to her chest, eyes looking back to her childhood.
"Mhmm! Alright, Haru-chan! Nana-san, could we get some different costumes for Yamamoto-kun and Tsuna-kun? They need to be girls."
"EEHHHH? B-but, Kyoko-chan! C-can't you two be the g-girls?" The Sasagawa female blinked, as if the thought hadn't occurred to her.
"Hm? Well, yes, we could, but… What would you two be then?" Yamamoto wrapped an arm around Tsuna, grinning brightly.
"I can be the Papa and Tsuna can be that guy! Gokudera's the Beast!" he decided.
"Wha? What guy, Yamamoto?" Tsuna wasn't so sure about this whole play thing anymore…
"The guy from Beauty's village that really likes her! That one!"
"WHAT? THAT ONE THAT DIES IN THE END?" Tsuna began to panic. He didn't wanna die!
"No no no, he doesn't die in the original story, just that movie." Miyoko reprimanded him, rolling her eyes. "In the original, Beauty just leaves him behind and he goes off and marries some other chick. I think one of her sisters." Tsuna looked hopefully over at Kyoko. She was a sister. And he was the guy. Could it be? That he would end up happily ever after with her?
"Really? Is that so… Huh…" Gokudera frowned at the girl that was to be his Princess. He didn't want to do this. He really didn't wanna do this. But his Juudaime seemed excited about it.
He just couldn't say no…
"Gokudera-kun, are you okay with this?"
"YES OF-COURSE, TENTH!" the silverette smiled brightly. Tsuna smiled back.
"Okay. So, Mama? Maybe we could…?" he trailed off as he already saw his mother pushing the two girls out of the room and up the stairs. He looked back at their audience of four. The cow boy didn't look happy.
"Stupid Tsuna, Lambo-san wants to hear a story NOW!"
"J-just hold on, okay?"
Miyoko tapped her chin in thought as the boy started yelling. "Just a thought, but wouldn't it be better if Hibari-san was the Beast? I mean, what with his whole 'bite you to death' and that extremely cold heart, he'd be a perfect Beast!" Yamamoto patted her head.
"But then we would be waiting forever for you two to fall in-love, Miyoko."
"I can be very a persuasive person. He'd fall in-love with me quickly enough." She flipped her hair back over her shoulder, smiling at the baseball player. He blinked, head tilted slightly to the side.
"Yea? That so? Huh." He brightened, clapping Gokudera on the back. "Good thing you already got her though! That'd be some competition, Gokudera! Hibari doesn't back down from a fight!"
"I'M NOT DATING HER!"
"Oh? Then you better start quick! Hibari doesn't waste time!"
"Why you…!"
Oh deary my, Yamamoto~ You're so cute~!
Well, this is only gonna be a few chapters since Goku-kun doesn't seem all that excited about the whole mess. So… yeah. Like 6 at the most or whatever. I'll be doing Beauty and the Beast for the next chapter, but any other fairytales ya'll wanna see?
Until next time, ciao.