Sunset Hue (KHR Fanfiction)

To Protect One's Own

Tsuna was stuck. Not literally, mind you. But without Mia, he couldn't figure out how to solve this particular problem that Reborn presented to him. She had gone to the market on a shopping trip on the insistence of his Mother. She couldn't say no obviously so Tsuna's study session for the day consisted of Reborn's hellish tutoring. He was thankful at least that Gokudera and Yamamoto had joined him. Turns out Gokudera was a genius and could have answered the problem if Reborn hadn't knocked him out. Right now the bomber was lying down on his bed.

"If you don't answer this problem by the end of the day, we'll be playing Russian Roulette," Reborn told them.

Yamamoto laughed. "Sounds fun kid, why not do it now?"

"Hiiiieeeeee! No, no, no, no! We'll do the problem instead!" Tsuna furiously racked his brain for any formula but his memory was hazy and he couldn't remember every single one.

"Aw Tsuna." Yamamoto pouted. "Playing the game would be easier."

Tsuna glanced at him and took out an orange binder from his drawer. In it contained his notes that Mia had him rewrite for a better understanding of their lessons and a few of her own as well. He handed it to Yamamoto. The baseball jock accepted it and began to flip through his pages. With each page, Yamamoto's smile grew wider and wider till he was bursting with laughter.

"What is this?" he asked.

Tsuna shrugged and began writing down some formulas that might be able to solve this damn problem. "When Mia was tutoring me, she said that learning could be fun if you make it."

"Really? Did you draw this?" Yamamoto pointed at a drawing of a robot in the middle of an equation to solve for height.

Tsuna laughed sheepishly. "Yeah."

"So why are you giving it to me?" Yamamoto wondered, closing the binder.

Tsuna pointed a pencil at him. "Not giving, but lending it. I think you need it more than I do."

Yamamoto laughed, "You're absolutely right. Thanks Tsuna!"

Tsuna hummed in reply. "Just make sure to give it back, Mia likes adding things that she thinks would help out."

"Stupid... baseball... freak..." Gokudera groaned from his side of the bed. The two boys brightened at the sound of the bomber.

"It looks like Gokudera is waking up!" Yamamoto grinned.

"Not if I can help it," Reborn said and yanked a cord that was connected to the shelves that hung on top of Tsuna's bed. A screw came out and the books that were on top came crashing down on Gokudera's head, knocking him out cold once again. "Gotta give Gokudera credit, he should have been out longer than that." Tsuna backed into Yamamoto, eyeing Reborn warily. The tutor from hell pointed a green ruler at them menacingly. They flinched. "Answer that or play the game with a five in a six chance of getting shot."

The door suddenly slammed open and the third-person-referring girl strode into the room like she owned the place. Tsuna stood up; going to say that it was not appropriate to trespass into other people's home without their permission especially in a boy's room but she just rushed passed him before he could say anything.

"Reborn-chan!" she squealed at the hitman. Reborn stared at her.

"Who are you again?" he asked.