Dead-Eyed Tsuna (KHR!)

Chapter 8: The Introduction Of A Fantasy

Tsuna is in the hospital for an extra two days, on account of him experiencing some sort of heavy, bone-deep fatigue that is spooking the doctors, which gives Kyouko plenty of time to Plot.

People don't think she's capable of Plotting, which is patently ridiculous. She Plots all the time. How could she be in Leadership without getting into Plots? Do they realize how impossible elementary-schoolers are to organize? Middle-schoolers are even worse. Sure, she has a very hard time getting angry, and she's terrified of hurting people's feelings, but Plots, they're easy. She's good at them. She's gotten really popular thanks to her Plots, which was...actually very unintentional, admittedly, but that just means she's got a talent.

So her Plot for now is this; Tsuna is clearly not getting anything out of the Disciplinary Committee besides those dodge-match things. She's seen Ryouhei. If she just leaves Tsuna with Hibari, Tsuna is going to base all his happiness on those matches, which entirely defeats the point of setting their friendship up to begin with. Tsuna will just be reinforcing Hibari's terrible behaviour and getting himself hurt. He needs a support network of people who care about him! So far, if she counts, that's her, his mom, hopefully Hana, theoretically Ryouhei, definitely that Gokudera boy...apparently Yamamoto? And then Mochida, who doesn't get along with him at all, and Hibari, who is ruining everything with his...shenanigans.

Anyway, that's more people than she started with, so it works. Hana is really warming up to him, though she's still very wary and distrustful of him; while Hana is very good at reading personalities, she's not very good at reading people's feelings, so really solid poker faces scare her. That's okay. Tsuna is getting a little more relaxed lately, and he's always happy to engage her, so Hana will figure him out eventually. Then they can be the kind of friends who elbow and shove each other good-naturedly! Kyouko knows it.

So the main idea is that she needs to expose Tsuna to all these friends at length. That, regrettably, means she can't come, because whenever Tsuna gets nervous or sulky he hovers around her, waiting for her to scoop him back up again. She can't be his crutch. He needs to be more independent.

It also, regrettably, means that they're going to have to skip school.

Hibari isn't going to like it, but Tsuna is going to be out of the hospital on Monday, and an entire school week is more than enough time for the opportunity of friendship to pass. She'll...she'll think of something. Hibari really isn't going to like it though. If she told him her Plot, he'd be so angry. He likes Tsuna a lot! Well, as much as he can like someone who isn't Kusakabe, anyway (and boy golly does he like Kusakabe a lot), but he has a positive impression of Tsuna, and if Tsuna were to be taken away, he'd be really mad! So she can't tell him.

Clearly, they have to kidnap Tsuna.

For this, she needs assistance. Non-suspicious targets. Ryouhei, for example, hasn't talked to Tsuna since he punched him in the face in fourth year because he is wracked with guilt, and he can't bring it up, seeing as Tsuna doesn't actually remember the event occurring. If he went missing, it would not be suspicious. Then there's Hana. That would be suspicious, but Kyouko needs her to get used to Tsuna anyway, so she's going. Then Tsuna's new friend, Yamamoto, who was conveniently absent during practice yesterday, meaning he can be conveniently absent for a few more days, and Gokudera, who doesn't even go to Namimiddle and may actually attempt to fight her if she tries to ship Tsuna off without him.

She starts out with the person most likely to respond to her plan; Yamamoto.

They're both people who have the inherent ability to get along with just about anyone, so their paths cross pretty often. They're also the kind of people who are more used to having an orbiting system of positive acquaintances than actual close friends, so they don't actually interact on an intimate level. Unlike Kyouko, though, he doesn't have anyone he really holds close, so she thinks he would appreciate an excuse to stalk Tsuna for two days or more.