Mafia X Vampire

Chapter 6: Love is in the air

Hello everyone, Naintarlow checking in.

Thank you, everyone, for all the reviews and support, it's nice to be appreciated.

In retrospect, I'm glad I stopped the previous chapter where I did because if I tried to write this whole chapter as a whole it would be around 20k, which a little scary, thinking aloud that I almost wrote a chapter that long.

Still, things are starting to heat up and I can't wait to see where we end up. And in the background more players began to move.

Enjoy.

"I'm so sorry." said Moka, looking up at Tsuna with teary eyes. The two of them were standing in an empty corridor, just after homeroom ended. Kurumu dragged Tsukune away for somewhere, leaving the two of them alone when the pink-haired girl meekly asked to speak with him.

"For what?" he asked, feeling completely lost. It was not a new feeling, most of his life he felt lost around girls, especially Kyoko during middle school, but that was not the usual around Moka.

The vampire was very nervous, constantly fidgeting with the hem of her skirt, not meeting his eyes. She was like this since around the middle of homeroom, where she almost jumped out of her desk from shock as she noticed something.

"Moka-" he tried to say something to the girl to comfort her, but was cut off by the vampire.

"I lost your ring, I mean I lost Natsu." she began to ramble, not even stopping to breathe, as if she even stopped for one second she wouldn't be able to say anymore."He was with me in the morning, and I wore it on a chain around my neck, so I could keep it safe. But when class started, I noticed him missing and I looked at everyone and I don't know where he could be and I didn't mean to, it meant a lot to me that you trusted me with your ring, but I lost it and I'm sorry." she closed her eyes as if excepting to be hit. Her eyes opened wide when she felt a hand on her head, gently patting her. Looking at her friend, she found Tsuna smiling softly at her.

"Is that all? I already knew about that" he asked her with an amused look on his face. At her disbelieving expression, he elaborated."You have to remember, though he stays in his ring most of the time, Natsu is a living being. You couldn't have lost him if he didn't want to. Even though he is a shy, big scaredy-cat most of the time, he could be very stubborn if he decided on something and little else could dissuade him from it. People told me, Natsu and I are very similar." he told her with a fond smile."I already sensed when he let himself be 'lost' and I do know who has him, so don't worry about it."

"Than you are not angry?" asked Moka with a hopeful tone, already looking like she lost a great weight from her shoulders.

"Of course not. Natsu is just being his usual self." Tsuna said cryptically, before the vampire embraced him, picking him off the ground and twirling him around in happiness.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you!" she chanted, either not noticing or not caring about the very close proximity of their bodies.

"Moka...strength..." wheezed out Tsuna, gulping in precious air as he was released. Sometimes that girl seriously forgot about her strength.

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"Thank you so much, you really saved me." gushed Yukari as she thanked Moka with stars in her eyes.

It was lunch break and the gang was sitting at their usual table, eating lunch where Yukari found and joined them. Kurumu was missing, according to Tsukune, she was held back by her homeroom teacher, because of her low exam scores.