Sunset Hue (KHR Fanfiction)

Letter From The Ninth

"Lift?" Mia repeated.

He nodded, pulling out his mittens from his pocket and slipping them on. She watched him shoot himself with the rebuke bullet again to enter hyper mode.

"Did your mittens just...?"

He wriggled his fingers in front of her, smirking. "Yup."

She opened her mouth to probably comment on it but thought better. She chose to examine his gloves instead, fascinated at its transformation properties. He let her touch them for a while until he announced that they should get going. She nodded.

"So what do you mean by lift?" she asked again.

"Hold on to me," he told her.

"Excuse me?"

"Just wrap your arms around my neck. I want to try something."

Dubiously, she did. Tsuna was pleased that she trusted him so much. Without warning, flames shot out from his gloves. Mia yelped and clung tighter to him when they were several feet off the ground. Her arms shook from the strain and it occurred to him that Mia may have left the hospital unauthorized. He wrapped an arm around her waist to keep her secured but it ended up throwing his momentum off and they careened sideways.

"Kya!" Mia screeched when they brushed a tree. Tsuna gritted his teeth as he maneuvered them above the trees with one hand.

A part of his brain registered that Mia 'kya-ed' and it was cute and another part started to notice how dangerous this was becoming. He didn't mean the 'dropping out of the sky part' but the 'oh shit this is getting way too uncomfortable part' as he remembered that yes, his best friend is a girl and was reminded of it for every second that she clung tighter to him. Maybe he should have put some more thought into this instead of diving into it.

Mia wrapped her legs around his waist and his flames flickered, causing them to falter in mid-air. If it was possible, Mia pressed herself even more against him. Holy shit. The flame on his forehead spluttered and he tried very hard not to let his other emotions overwhelm him. Reborn had told him that some emotions could either fuel his flames or extinguished them so he had to be careful.

Easier said than done.

Had Mia always been this soft?

Goddamnit!

He bit his lip and turned his head. They were close to the base of the mountain. Just a little bit more...

His control snapped when Mia hid her face in the crook of his neck, her lips dangerously close to his skin. A mind-blowing number of fifty inappropriate pop-ups appeared in his head. They ended up doing a barrel roll before Tsuna finally had enough and landed. Mia let go immediately and sunk to her knees, relieved she was on land once again.

Tsuna however, was on his hands and knees trying to recollect himself. That was the worst idea he has ever had...

"Never do that again yeah?" Mia said.

Tsuna nodded, wholeheartedly agreeing with her. "Yeah."

They walked down the mountain together in silence instead. Tsuna's head hung low as they crossed the last few yards. His mind was currently spinning from earlier, hardly believing that his mind just jumped off the deep end, his neck still tingling from earlier before.