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It took two days before Tsuna could witness the "flirting" that Dino was bemoaning about. He had hit a slump in his training lately, and according to Reborn, seeing his minions would do him good.

He had already visited Ryohei who, under Collonello's watch, seemed to be doing...nothing, so Tsuna had better hopes in getting an inspiration after seeing Hibari-san's training.

And well-

Accompanying Dino to the battlefield, Tsuna discovered that it really was flirting.

It was about a month when Tsuna saw Hibari-san's loli aneki again and considering the fact that she had the guts to mess with her younger brother's hair and clothing, he did have the impression that she was a tad playful the first time he met her.

He had already prepared himself with to see an overreacting Dino and a few teasing from the girl here and there, but-

Tsuna seemed to have miscalculated how...playful she was.

Cough.

Wearing a grade-schooler uniform as she dangled her legs on top of the rooftop's elevated roof (he didn't know what it's called, okay, sue him), Hibari Kei made a strange picture as she, instead of cheering for her brother, flirtatiously cheered for Dino instead - unconsciously (or consciously - who knew what that loli was thinking) showing some skin and that little black pant-

Cough cough.

-that shouldn't have looked as good as it did.

Seeing the whole thing his self-proclaimed older brother had to put up with, Tsuna couldn't blame Dino for being conflicted even if he knew the girl was older than she looked.

He wasn't even a lolicon and he was cough cough - please don't let Hibari-san know Kami, Reborn have mercy - kind of enjoying the show.

If Tsuna hadn't heard loud and clear how the prefect addressed the loli as his older sister, he would have been doubting himself (and the world) along with Dino.

Hibari Kei obviously did the whole performance with a sinister purpose in mind and Tsuna wasn't a fool. He immediately tried to avert his eyes from the spectacle she was putting on after that one brief look.

Two minutes into the fight, it could be seen that it only motivated Hibari-san to pressure the Cavallone boss harder as he improved in a supernaturally fast pace, however-

Dino didn't seem to mind, his face tomato red as he valiantly waved around his whip - trying to show off his best side in the process.

Tsuna hated iron for not being steel and could barely help himself from burying his face in his hands from second-hand embarrassment.

Dino-senpai, this kouhai sincerely thinks that praying for your poor soul wouldn't necessarily save you.

Dino was barely holding on even with his subordinate at the side to keep him in check and by the increasing killing intent that was Tsuna sworn was almost tangible on the demon prefect's side, Tsuna couldn't even bring himself to light a candle to the other boss.

This brand of stupidity-

Tsuna fervently hoped he wouldn't catch it in this lifetime.

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Author's Note: An additional chapter today, because I wanted to answer a guest's question in FFN. So. There's a post in my ko-fi page entitled "Incentives?!En." to give bonuses to people who donate coffees in order to support my writing. One of its offers includes the release of the first three chapters of this fic with a coffee within a given set of time and BloodPrnicess - the awesome person that they were - took it upon themselves to give one. So, in a sense, they "unlocked" this fic. I originally plan to update this sporadically but another amazing reader - Hallowtide - sent a coffee requesting for another chapter and since each chapter was pretty short, I wrote up to chapter 7.

I wouldn't be focusing on this since I had like ten other fics to continue but if there were enough incentives to keep going, then I would bump it up the priority list. No need to buy coffee for each chapter. My face isn't that thick enough to ask for that amount with a fic consisting of chapters with low word-count.

That's basically it.

Sorry if my notes made anyone confused and thanks for reading. Remember, I write for the reviews too, so if one couldn't donate, an exceptional review could also get me going. :)

(Furthermore, this is gen and relatively tame. Kakashi's wearing safety shorts under that skirt and Tsuna's an unreliable narrator.)