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After the beatdown that he'd rather not discuss or dare think about, Tsuna learned his lesson and didn't dare touch Hibari Kei's topic again.

Kami knew that his life wasn't worth more than juicy gossip - even if it was gossip from the ever mysterious Hibari-san - and well-

Gokudera was right.

A step-back policy seemed to be for the best if Tsuna wanted to live long enough to marry Kyoko and have his limbs all intact while he was at it.

Besides, it wasn't like he saw Hibari-san's valiant loli aneki after that.

He almost forgot about her, actually.

Once the Varia came and the fight for the Vongola Rings began, Tsuna became busy once more as his training doubled. It was a struggle to trudge on these past few days as he had to juggle his school work and take care of his minions along with it.

Not to mention that his bastard of a father came home last week to con his mother again, so Tsuna was pretty occupied, all in all.

If not for Dino-san walking in his home with flushed cheeks and beaten-up one day, he would have thought the masked loli was an illusion made up by his fevered mind.

Which she wasn't, apparently, when Dino gushed on and on sorrowfully in front of him about-

"I got flirted by a grade-schooler Tsuna and I-" He stammered, curled up into a ball as he rocked back and forth. "I kind of liked it."

"Who?"

Dino buried his face on his knees in shame.

"Hibari's sister."

What.

Did Tsuna hear it, right?

"Hibari's sister?" Tsuna parrotted, after a moment of heavy silence. "Loli? As tall as Ranking Fuuta? With the mask?"

Dino nodded seriously.

"..Ahh." Tsuna patted his back in sympathy - now understanding why the usually dignified Cavallone boss looked like he got rolled on by a truck.

He didn't bother commenting more lest he got implicated along with the poor man beside him, but Tsuna lit up a candle in his heart for his self-proclaimed older brother instead, because he wasn't that heartless.

"You have to go back there tomorrow, right?"

"...Yeah." Dino's already red face flushed up even more as he curled in on itself. "I'm kind of excited." He whispered in a low voice.

...Idiot.

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