A/N: sorry for taking so long to update! i bought vongola rings on ebay and they finally came in the mail today! i'm so happy! they look so cool! gahhhhhh!

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"Love is horrible. It makes one feel so insecure."

It is horrible, isn't it? It can make, or break a person. And I guess that's what I was trying to subtly convey in this story. That was the point of third person omniscience, so you get both point of views of how both people like each other (i'm pretty sure i can tell you this. i mean, c'mon it's kind of obvious.) but they have no idea, and they start to look at their own flaws and think that there's something wrong with them, when in reality, nothing's wrong. That's what I was portraying in this story- especially in the last chapter. Love can either make or break a person. It makes people look at their flaws and make them think "I'm not good enough."

On the other side, love can make you feel ecstatic. And all the other bubbly feelings that come with love, so I guess that's why people keep chasing it because of that & because of the fact that humans crave relationships with other humans. So despite the fact that love can make you so insecure, it's the fact that we can't live without it that makes us keep coming back.

... I guess.

& it's sad to say, that I think next chapter is the very last chapter for this multishot. I enjoyed writing this, really! I think I'll make another series (either with a fem27 or an OC) with Hibari and make it third person omniscience again. :) lemme know whatcha think & check out my Dangerous story! *shameless advertisement*

And I'll reply to all reviews in the last chapter :)

Tsuna couldn't concentrate on her studies at all. It was bad enough that she couldn't understand anything when the teacher taught her things, but now she couldn't even have the decency to listen. Technically, it wasn't her fault. It was- dare she say it- Hibari's fault. He's the one making her feel like this.

Yamamoto and Gokudera were sending Tsuna worried glances out of the corner of their eyes. They, too, weren't able to concentrate on school. Gokudera was already too smart, and probably already learned this, so Tsuna didn't have to worry about him. Yamamoto, however, does poorly in academics like Tsuna. The fact that Yamamoto was busy spending time worrying about her, and not concentrating on his studies made Tsuna even guiltier than she already was. She didn't even knew what she did to make Hibari hate her (not that she knew officially that he hated her, but it was a strong hunch)!

The second reason why she couldn't concentrate was the face that Hibari's bird (she was sure of it and she was sure she wasn't hallucinating) was outside of her window, pecking the glass, trying to get her attention. She had a feeling that Hibird was going to carefully examine her and report back to Hibari the second she did something wrong.

Not that she knew how Hibird was going to do that, but still. If it could sing Namimori's anthem, she was sure he could tell Hibari all the things that she did wrong.

Not that she did anything wrong.

Even if she didn't do anything, Hibird would probably make something up to get her in trouble. But the bird probably wouldn't have to, since she always attracted trouble. Especially around Reborn.

So, she ignored the bird's pecking and the bird's pecking seem to have faded away, and it probably left to do whatever it is that birds do.

Soon, the pecking got louder and more frequent, attracting unwanted attention from her nearby classmates that glanced at the window and paled at the sight of Hibari's bird.

Well, maybe not.

The new chemistry teacher, after Reborn was escorted out by Tetsuya, was busy droning on about formulas, and how math was greatly entwined with science, and how you needed to be good at math to get science. He was a rather large man with a round belly overflowing from his belt. His hair was thinning out at the top of his head, and small glasses perched upon his nose. He held the book close to his face as if he couldn't read the words even with the glasses. Or perhaps he was scared of this class who looked uninterested, and was afraid that they would cause ruckus at any given moment.

She sighed, and ran a hand through her messy, gravity defying hair. She took a peek out of the corner of her eye to see what the bird was so anxious about and she noticed that he had a stationary note tied around his neck. She strained her eyes to see what name was elegantly on the note.

It was her name: Sawada Tsunayoshi. The loops were large and intricate, the letters were carefully written to their upmost fanciness. She was so flabbergastered that Hibird had a note tied around his neck addressed to her that she didn't hear the teacher call her name, until Gokudera had whispered her name fervertnantly.

"Hime!" he whispered. "The answer is seventeen!"

Oh, so that was it. The teacher had called on her to answer a problem, and Gokudera, thinking she was stuck (which probably would have happened even if she was paying attention), had whispered the answer to her, trying to help his beloved Hime.

"S-Seventeen?" she stuttered, not quite sure what problem they were on in the first place.

The teacher stared back with an incredulous look. Of course the teacher didn't expect her to get the answer. One, because the teacher was extremely sure that Tsuna wasn't paying attention at all, two, because she was Dame-Tsuna. She wasn't suppose to get the answer right!

The answer dawned on the teacher as his eyes narrowed, and glared at a certain Italian exchange student directly behind Tsuna. Yes, even the teachers knew that Gokudera sucked up to her twenty four/seven and glared at anybody else who even dared to breath the same air as Tsuna. Of course he would give her the answer.

He decided to be nice, however, and let it slide. It was bad enough she was called Dame Tsuna; she didn't need any more attention directed to her- especially with the prefect's bird pecking at the window. "Ah, yes, that is correct," he replied.

"Good job, Hime!" Gokudera praised.

She flushed. He was the one who had given the answer to her, and yet he praised her as if she had solved it on her own. The teacher continued to ramble on about science, and she dinally gained the courage to look out the window.

She saw Hibird chirp happily- or what she assumed to be a happy chirp- and the bird fluttered its wings. It seemed as if it was trying to tell Tsuna to open the window so that it may deliver the message to her. She hesitated, taking a glance at the teacher. He was still holding the book close to his face, and she sighed in relief.

She proceeded to open the window a tiny crack, enough so that the bird could get through without any troubles. Hibird flew through and landed on her desk with a ruffle of his feathers. Carefully, she stroked the bird with two fingers, and it nuzzled into her hand. She untied the small pink, almost white, thing that was a ribbon upon closer inspection.

The note fell onto her desk, and she carefully pocketed the ribbon into her breast pocket. She watched Hibird tilt his head, as if saying, "Well? Aren't you going to read it?" She pursed her lips together, and twiddled with her fingers before deciding to open the note after all.

Hibird chirped loudly and Tsuna looked around wildly to see if anybody had heard the bird. Thankfully, no one heard, and she sighed internally with relief. She unfolded the note, smoothing out the creases. The note was elegantly written in cursive, and she cursed inwardly. Tsuna couldn't read cursive, and her mind would struggle with reading it.

She noticed the large Disciplinary Committee logo at the top of the paper. It was the letters DC in loopy, fancy cursive- the kind you might see a king or queen use when sending out royal invitations. The letters were red and gold, similar to the colors on their armbands. There was an oval surrounding the letters and had stems protruding the oval that were curled at the end.

Tsuna felt her heart drop to her stomach. What did she do? Seeing the letter almost made her want to crumble the paper up, and toss it at the teacher who was putting everyone to sleep. Almost. She forced herself to continue reading and she suddenly remembered a factoid.

Reborn had made her snoop through Hibari's desk- she didn't have a single inkling why- and she remebered the exact paper in her hands was inside his desk. From what she knew, Hibari was the only one who had that paper, and her palms started sweating at the thought of him. And if you're wondering, yes, she did get bitten to death by the prefect afterwards.

Her eyes lowered to the cursive, and her eyes struggled to read the words. Perhaps she could ask her storm guardian to read it for her; surely he has been taught to read cursive? But she didn't want her guardians to know what the prefect had wrote to her. They could get a tad overprotective.

So she forced herself to read, but she could only make out a few words. Something about coming to the reception room- she thinks it's the reception room- afterschool to help with something because someone- she didn't know who because she couldn't read it- had volunteered her. She frowned. Someone had volunteered her without her permission! She could have sworn there was a threat in the note, but she couldn't be so sure.

At the end of the note, there were two boxes. One for "no", and one for "yes". She checked the "yes" box because she was certain that Hibari would bite her to death if she refused his offer. Once done, she took out the ribbon from her pocket, a tiny bit depressed because she couldn't keep it. On the note, she wrote down that she would like to keep the ribbon. She tied the note to Hibird's neck, and it hopped off her desk, out the window, and flew away.

No doubt to Hibari.

The familiar sound of the Namimori anthem woke up Hibari on the roof. He yawned, and figured Hibird must be back with her reply. He held out his finger for Hibird to land on, and he untied the pale pink ribbon from the bird's neck. Hibird flew off his finger and nestled in his hair, waiting for Hibari to open the note and see what she picked.

He unfolded the note, and automatically looked at the bottom. He smirked; so she was smart enough to know to check "yes" after all. His eyes flew down to the note below the boxes, and he raised an eyebrow. This herbivore had some weird requests. Nonetheless, he pocketed the ribbon to give to her later.

The wind blew in his hair, as he shut his eyes and basked in the sun. Nothing could ruin this moment.

"Ciaossu."

Except that.

Of course.

Hibari inwardly groaned, and waited several moments before he opened his eyes. "Infant," he greeted. He turned his head to the left to stare at the baby with the black and orange fedora with a green... lizard? Chameleon? He had his hands behind his back, and the mischievous glint in his eyes made Hibari suspicious. The baby had a smirk across his face like he knew something that Hibari didn't. He frowned.

"What's with the note?" he asked in a teasing tone. "Is it your declared love for Tsuna?"

Hibari felt his eye twitch. "I am not in love with Tsunayoshi, nor I am going to tell you what the note contains. Leave, or I'll bite you to death." The threat was halfhearted because he was already in this comfortable position where the sun hit him just right and to move would be extremely aggravating.

Reborn raised an eyebrow. "Really? That's not what your face was saying earlier."

Oh, that. That one moment where he let his feelings show through.

...

...

Hibari Kyoya blamed hormones.

He does not, nor will he ever like Sawada Tsunayoshi.

Love is for herbivores.

"If that feeling you feel isn't love that you feel whenever you see Tsuna, then what is it?"

Is that baby reading his thoughts again? He narrowed his eyes at Reborn and he held his hands up like he didn't just read his mind.

He closed his eyes, and turned his head to face the sky.

It's true that whenever he sees her, he gets weird feelings in his stomach, but that was probably hormones. Definitely not infatuation with Tsunayoshi. Hibari felt his heart clench whenever she talks to those herbivores- what were their names? Lamoto? Mokudera? But it was probably because they would always crowd. Usually he would get a thrill out of scaring people because that meant discipline, but lately, when Tsunayoshi cowers, he has this feeling in his stomach... Was it called guilt?

He wanted to tear his hair out.

Nobody- Nobody made him feel like this.

So why would Sawada Tsunayoshi make him feel like this?

Reborn snorted.

Tsuna sneezed as she grabbed her books when class had ended. "Are you okay Hime?" her storm guardian asked, placing his hand on her forehead to see if she had a fever. "Are you sick?"

She chuckled, and pushed his hand gently away. "No, I don't feel sick at all."

"It's okay! Just drink milk if you ever feel sick!" Yamamoto chimed. Gokudera turned around and glared at him. He stalked up to him and stabbed a finger at his chest.

"Baseball freak! What's milk gonna do for her health?"

Yamamoto just laughed as he placed his hands behind his back. Gokudera felt offended that Yamamoto just brushed off his comment, and glared at him even more. Tsunayoshi sensed a fight coming on and intervened.

"Haha," she said, stepping in between her guardians, "let's go home, ne?"

"Oh yeah!" Gokudera said, slamming his fist down on his hand. "What did that bastard's bird want with you anyway?" Gokudera felt irked that Hibari had the nerve to send his bird to do his dirty work. He was also a tiny bit curious to see what he had wanted her for as well. It was kind of hard to know what both his Hime and that Hibari was feeling because of that epidemic earlier in class.

"Oh, something about staying after school to help him," she replied nonchalantly. She didn't want her friends to make such a big deal out of it, so she figured if she stayed calm for it (although that was a very difficult task, since she was freaking out on the inside) then her guardians wouldn't think much of it.

"Oh really?" Yamamoto asked, chuckling merrily. "That Hibari seems to have taken a liken to you." Yamamoto had noticed the way that Hibari had looked at Tsuna lately, and even though he was clueless about a *lot* of other things, he knew love when he saw it. He had noticed that Tsuna also became more flustered than normal when she was around him.

He thought it was rather adorable for his Hime.

But he would kill Hibari in a second if he did anything to hurt her.

On the other hand, however, Gokudera was flustered. "W-WHAT? HOW- I MEAN, WHAT DO YOU MEAN HIBARI'S TAKEN A LIKEN TO HER?" Gokudea was completely oblivious when it came to love. He never noticed that Hibari liked his Hime- if that devil spawn could even love in the first place. His pride was a bit damaged when the baseball freak knew it before him.

But he knew one thing.

If Hibari dared to hurt Hime, he would kill him without any hesitation.

Now, Tsuna here, blushed a deep shade of red and tried to cover her face with her hands when she heard Gokudera's loud outburst. "Yeah. Haven't you seen the look on his face whenever he sees her?" Yamamoto replies. She couldn't believe her guardians thought that the Hibari Kyoya liked her. Dame Tsuna.

"No, of course not," he grumbles. The class couldn't believe their ears. Hibari freaking Kyoya? He liked Dame Tsuna? Could Namimori's Demon even feel love? They looked at Tsuna who was turning redder by the second. Were they already going out? That would explain- a little bit- about what had happened earlier.

Tsuna peeked out from between her hands. She saw her classmates staring at her and her friends with their jaws dropped wide open. She whimpered, and tugged on both of their sleeves. "Guys," she said, "everyone's looking at us."

Gokudera stopped his bickering with the baseball freak, turned around, and gave them the harshest glare he could muster, finally glad to be of some use. "What're you looking at?" he snarled. The class closed their jaws, and looked down at their desks, gathering their books.

"We'd better leave," she says in a small voice, "before Hibari bites us to death for crowding." Gokudera looks at his Hime before nodding his head. Yamamoto grins, and shows her the thumbs up sign. "You two go on, I have to meet up with Hibari-san."

"Okay Tsuna!" Yamamoto said. "Have fun!" He wondered what Hibari was going to say to her once she walked into the room.

"Goodbye Hime! I will see you tomorrow!" Gokudera said, saluting. "Tell me if that bastard does anything to you, okay? If he does, I'll blow his brains out."

"N-No need to use violence, Gokudera-kun," she said, laughing nervously. She grabbed her books and waved. "Well, I'll be off now." They waved back and she walked out of the classroom; she could feel the intimidating eyes of her classmates. Her stomach churned in nervousness.

What exactly did Hibari want with her?

She stood outside of the reception room, her head down. She was deciding whether she should knock, or just barge in. She licked her dry lips, and peered into the door window, hoping that Hibari wasn't there. It seemed that he wasn't, so she turned around and was about to walk off happily.

"Stop fooling around outside and come in," a smooth baritone voice interrupted her happiness.

She paled, and gulped inaudibly. She wiped her sweaty palms on her skirt before gripping the gold doorknob. Tsuna poked her head inside the room and saw Hibari at his desk, his long elegant fingers holding a black, slim pen that was gliding over papers. She stepped inside, and closed the door quietly.

Hibari made no attempt to acknowledge the girl beside him. He wanted to stall as long as he could before he had to talk to her. He signed his name, again and again, through stacks and stacks of paper. Honestly, he could sign every paper in his sleep. He imagined her standing awkwardly near the door, shifting from one feet to the other.

Tsuna didn't know whether to just stand there or not. Hibari didn't say anything when she walked in, and it made her nervous. She twiddled with her fingers, and watched him sign his name in elegant cursive out of the corner of her eye. She licked her lips again, and eyed the couch across from his desk.

"Sit."

She blinked, before moving nervously to the couch, and sat down gingerly. She crossed her ankles as Reborn had taught her to do (and nearly blasted her head off when she couldn't do it correctly) when they had went to a formal dinner with her proclaimed older brother, Dino and his family. Her family had attended as well, and they had a nice time together.

Hibari heard her shuffle to the couch, and the plush couch didn't make a sound as she sat down. He allowed himself a quick glance, and saw that she was busy fiddling around with her fingers. Her eyes flitted around from one object to another, occasionally her eyes landing on him.

She was clearly nervous about being here.

"I-If it's too much of a bother, Hi-Hibari-san, I-I could l-leave," she stuttered, flinching when Hibari looked at her.

"It's fine," he replied, "I'll be done in a minute or two."

She blinked. He was being rather polite, wasn't he? He didn't say that with malice, like he usually would, but instead just answered like a normal person would. She grabbed a lock of her shoulder length hair (it used to be below her waist, until the hair interfered with her spartan training and thus, Reborn made her cut it to shoulder length. When she complained, Reborn said that she should be lucky he didn't shave her head bald) and twirled it around her finger absentmindedly.

He took another quick glance at her, and she was occupied with twirling her hair. He noticed a lot of girls twirled their hair around their finger, but he never knew why, and he didn't care enough to know. As he signed the last paper, he took the stack of paper and placed it next to the door for Tetsuya to pick up and deliver.

He stepped towards her, and she looked at him before looking down at her shoes. "So you decided to help?" he asked, as casually as he could, trying not to scare her. He didn't know why he was making such an effort not to scare her- he would have to ask Tetsuya about this.

"H-Huh? O-Oh yeah," she muttered.

"It's tomorrow," he stated, "and you need to come early."

"W-Why?" she asked, wide eyed.

Hibari mentally facepalmed. Did she even read the note he had given her?

Tsuna started to freak out internally (and partially externally). She didn't know what Hibari was talking about, and now he probably thought that she was an imbecile (even though he probably already thought that of her).

"Did you even read the note?"

"A-Ah, I did... Kind of," she replied, "I mean... A little bit of it... I-I ca-can't read c-cursive... actually."

Wonderful. Hibari made a note next time to write all future notes to her in print. Wait. Who said he was actually going to make more notes for her? He pinched the bridge of his nose, and sat down in the seat next to her, putting a respectable distance between them.

Tsuna saw him pinch the bridge of his nose, and she sobbed inwardly. She was really living up to her no-good reputation, huh?

"You are aware that tomorrow is the Cherry Blossom festival, right?" he asked, annoyance lacing his tone. She nodded her head in response. "We are having a shortage of Disciplinary Committee members tomorrow and I asked to you to patrol with me during the festival."

That was a lie, obviously, she realized. Hibari never has a shortage of Disciplinary Committee members. And even if he did, he would do everything by himself, anyway. Then, realization dawned on her. Was this his way of asking her to go to the festival with him?

"Y-You want me to go with you?" she squeaked in disbelief.

Hibari felt his heart drop into the pit of his stomach. Was she rejecting him? "Of course, Tsunayoshi. If you'd rather not, I can always ask someone else," he replied, trying to hide his disappointment. He didn't even know why he had even bothered.

"Oh-! N-No!" she yells, flustered. She blushes lightly, before calming herself down. "No, ah, I'll go with you." Her heart was beating erratically and she could feel her face getting red. She wondered if Reborn was somewhere near, listening into their conversation. She furrows her eyebrows; did Reborn put Hibari up to it?

"Good," Hibari says, his heart beating loudly for some reason. He couldn't help but feel this strange feeling. It made him feel anxious on the inside. "I'll pick you up at six so we can go patrol." Part of him told him that it wasn't a patrol and that it was a date.

"O-Okay," she replied, "I'll see you then...?" She started to stand up, but hesitated. "R-Reborn didn't p-put you up to t-this, right?"

Hibari was surprised- for a split second- before he put back his impassive demeanor. Why would she think that? Is this the infamous Women's Intuition? Or is it just her hyper intuition? Whatever the case may be, she was wrong. In fact, he didn't even know why he asked her. It was just a whim of the heart, he supposed.

"No," he replied, "I make my own choices. No one else."

She let out a small laugh, relieved. Of course Hibari would make his own choices and not listen to anyone else. He's the cloud guardian who cannot be bind and goes his own way. "Thank you," she said. She brushed off invisible dirt off her skirt, and waved good bye to Hibari. "W-Well, I'll see you tomorrow..."

"Don't forget. Six."

Hibari felt his heart beat loudly. He could have sworn that Tsunayoshi had heard it as well. Or maybe, her's was beating just as loud. He frowned. No, she couldn't feel that way about him. Only classmates- if they could be called that- nothing more, nothing less. Wait. Does he like Tsunayoshi?

"O-Oh! Okay, Hibari-san. S-Six it is." She bowed, and walked out of the reception room, leaving Hibari longing for more.

Tsuna was ecstatic, and felt her heart beat erratically. She practically skipped down the hallway as she was heading out the door, but stopped herself because Hibari would have gotten mad. She couldn't believe that she was going to festival with Hibari! Maybe he did like her... Now, the only question is, does she like him?

Reborn grinned, and placed his binoculars back around his neck. The cool shade of the tree that he was sitting in was relaxing. Things were going according to plan, and now he could just sit back, relax, and watch the show. He was so happy- internally- that his student was finally getting to realize her feelings for the young skylark.

He couldn't be more proud.