Title: The Strangest Kind of Love

Rating: T, soon to change in later chapters.

Pairing: 1827

Chapter: 10/50, Chapter 10: A Very Happy Get Together?

Disclaimer: We don't own! All characters belong to Amano Akira

Chapter Summary: Tsuna's eleventh birthday is today! His mother wants to throw him a party but Tsuna's rather reluctant, something about 'no crowds or he won't show up'. Whatever that means.

A/N: Lateness is every fanfiction authoress nemesis.

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Nana was in quite a fix at the moment. Tomorrow was Tsunayoshi's eleventh birthday and the overly-affectionate mother wanted to throw her son one of the biggest parties in the world but there was a slight problem that was preventing the hyper active women from fulfilling her duty. A problem that she didn't think would ever arise in her life.

Her Tsunayoshi, the little bundle of joy that brightened her day, did not want to have a party.

When she first approached the boy with the idea he quickly shook his head in rejection and walked off with no further explanation. It tore the women up inside that her son was already reaching that 'rebellious stage', and it was heartbreaking for her. She tried talking to Reborn about Tsuna's reluctant behaviour but the raven has no idea what was wrong with the brunette either.

"Maybe he's just tired?"

"Not my little Tsuna! He's too young to be tired for a party." Nana exclaimed. "Weren't you always excited for your birthday Reborn-san?" At this the raven shrugged his shoulder and looked back at the newspaper in his hand. ''I've never really celebrated my birthday. It was always just another day for me.'' Nana was completely flabbergasted, she's never heard of anyone NOT liking their birthdays. She yanked the newspaper from the ravens hand and Reborn was met with her the ferocious and determined eyes. ''Reborn when is your birthday?''

The young male gulped in fear and contemplated not telling her that his birthday so happens to be today but judging by the look Nana was giving him he had no choice in the matter. ''T-today...'' He replied timidly, waiting for the inevitable explosion to happen.

And an explosion was just an understatement for what happened. The young mother yelled 'Excuse me!' to the high heavens and the usually stoic and serious raven honestly feared for his life at this moment. She grabbed Reborns tie and yanked him up to her face, her brunette eyes showing a blazing fierceness. "How dare you! You were just going to let your birthday walk on by without letting me know?! Well, we will have none of that mister!" Nana switched her grip from the ravens tie to his ear and started dragging him out of the kitchen just as Lambo came walking in, still disoriented from just waking up from his sleep, but instantly perking up once he saw Nana practically manhandling Reborn. ''Baka-Reborn-Ojisan is in trouble!? I wanna watch!''

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''Oka-san...'' Mizu looked up at her son who was picking at his food with his fork with a forlorn look etched on his face and she raised an eyebrow in concern. it wasn't like her son to pick with his food, he was always picky about proper table manners, even getting on her whenever she happened to have her elbow on the table, so she was a little nervous as to what could be bothering her son so much. "Yes Kyoya dear?"

"How does one celebrate another birthday?"

Mizu blinked. Her son, worrying about others? Especially fun festivities!? Its like all the female ravens dreams came true! She snapped up from her seat, the silverware clattering against the hardwood table. "Kyoya this is such great news, you're finally making friends!"

"Oka-san..."

"And a birthday party no less? Ohh by the end of the party you're going to have PLENTY of friends!"

"Oka-san please..."

"And when in the world are you going to let me meet this mysterious friend of yours? He sounds so sweet and for someone to actually break down that hard shell of yours-"

"OKA-SAN STOP YOUR RIDICULOUS SCHOOLGIRL RANTINGS FOR A MINUTE." Mizu immediately quieted down once she saw that her son was severely upset, a small blush creeping upon the bridge of his nose. The mothers ecstatic facade quickly diminished to a sincere half smile and she sat back down in her seat, smoothed out her skirt and folded her hands, ready to give Kyoya her utmost attention. ''Go ahead Kyoya dear, no more outburst, I swear.'' The younger raven gave his mom a slight glare before clearing his throat and looking away, clearly embarrassed about the topic he was going to approach to his mother.

''So I have this friend...he's unbelievably clumsy, completely no-good, and he seems to make the weirdest friends whenever I'm not around. I don't understand why I, a carnivore, is so enraptured by this herbivore but I can't seem to turn away no matter how much I try to convince myself otherwise.'' Mizu looked just about ready to bawl her eyes out at her son's admittance of having a new and first friend. It was rare for Kyoya to socialize with others that were, supposedly, beneath him, (Mizu would never understand where her son got this mentality from), so for him to even bother to get a hello from another student was a blessing from the God's themselves.

''I guess you can say this herbivore is somewhat important to me so I would like to do something for him. He's always hanging out with me so I would like to show him that I don't mind doing things that he would like to do. So if you will Oka-san...'' The raven, in a rare show of nervousness, raised his shirt collar to hide the full blown blush now blooming upon his face and muffle his words. ''Do you mind...helping me...throw a small get together...'' The raven tried to stress the word small to his hyperactive mother but the damage was already done. Mizu's excitement skyrocketed, from squealing schoolgirl to an over exuberant women getting proposed to, in an instant. ''O-oh my gosh! Kyoya I thought I'd never hear those words leave your mouth!''

''Yes, well you understand what I need you to do. Let's just try to keep things a little subtle-''

''Kyoya there's no such thing as a subtle birthday party! You must stop acting like a hermit and get with the program.'' Mizu said as she sat up and made her way to the hallway where the house phone was. An, obviously irked, Kyoya followed his mother into the hall watching as she flipped through the phonebook with a goofy smile set upon her lips. ''Oka-san I don't think you heard me correctly. I said get together not a par-'' He was cut off by the sound of her snapping the phone book shut with a false look of surprise her face. ''Why Kyoya I don't have any numbers of the kids in your homeroom. Why don't you run along and get some invites for your little friends party and I'll handle the rest, mmkay?'' The housewife was quick to grab her son's coat and push him along towards the front door wanting to hurriedly get the boy out of the house so she can continue her secret plan. A plan that wasn't so secret since Hibari found his mother to be just as easy to read as Tsuna. The young prefect was about ready to protest but Mizu had already pushed him past the threshold with a huge grin spread across her face. ''Now you don't have to worry about the decorations and whatnot, just let me handle all that stuff. You go find some nice people to bring along to the party, alright!''

''It's a get together!''

''Right, a get together. Now run along dear~!'' And with that Mizu slammed the door right in her son's disbelieving face to continue on her mission of getting Kyoya some new friends whilst Kyoya was on a mission to make Tsuna happy without too many herbivores crowding around to take all his credit.

Now where to start to look for invites? School was already out and the only one's left at the school were club members and stragglers. How can the raven possibly find good candidates for the herbivores birthday with such a miniscule group? More importantly how can Hibari, the most feared student at Namimori elementary, just go up to random kids and ask if they wanted to go to a birthday party? This was going to be harder than the young prefect thought.

After some brief walking the young Hibari made his way to the school only to be stopped just before he reached the doors by something, or rather someone, moving around on the roof. Now on normal days Hibari would be around the building making sure whoever was here was only here for club activities and not goofing off around his precious Namimori but since it being Tsuna's birthday and whatnot he rushed home in search for his mothers help which meant the disciplinary committee should have been keeping an eye out for the disobeying students. Now Namimori students knew that the roof was off limits and the raven had no idea if he should bite the disobeying troublemakers first or his disciplinary squad for even letting them get past in the first place.

Upon closer inspection the raven was able to make out two figures up above, one in front of the chain link fence and the other behind it, looking severely frantic. And Hibari, who saw this particular person everyday, was able to immediately make out that frantic person being none other than the prime reason for all the trouble he's going through, Tsunayoshi Sawada.

Just his luck.

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A/N: It is seriously about time I update this story. Feels like I'm progressing very slowly too...but were getting somewhere since I pretty much have the plot planned out...until chapter 15.

But don't worry things will get very interesting by then..but not in a good way.

Yes, something bad is going to happen by chapter 15. Why am I telling you this? Because I like leaving you in suspense.

On that note I shall take my leave. Drop a review, fav/alert, tickle your toes, GO WILD.

See you next chapter lovelies, stay golden!