A sky within the night -KHR

74. Idiot, Confusion

1029 Words excluding (A/N)~ I no own KHR~

Written October 17 2019
Posted October 18 2019
NEXT UPDATE on or before November 1 2019

A week had passed since Basil's death, and nothing too odd had happened since then. Sure things were always a little strange when Tsuna was involved, by by now that level of oddness had come to be expected. It was a nice and peaceful week, unfortunately, that peace couldn't have lasted forever.

Orange eyes glared darkly at the scruffy looking blond in the doorway "Tsu-chan!" Iemitsu leaped happily towards the fluffy teen. Tsuna, wanting absolutely no contact with the deadbeat, swiftly sidestepped the blond's attempt at affection.

'Why is my little tuna fishy so cold to me?...'

"...." Tsuna clucked his tongue in annoyance as he grabbed a nearby broom and used it to shove the idiot back out the door. Iemitsu wasn't worthy enough for the fluffy teen to actually speak to him.

Iemitsu quickly recovered and attempted to get back into the house "Tuna fi-ack!" Tsuna had carefully timed closing the door so that it would slam right into the blond's face "Why are you being mean to Papa?!" Iemitsu complained, clutching his newly broken nose tenderly. He hadn't expected his little tuna fish to be so mean.

"Baka-Iemitsu" The CEDEF boss froze at the threatening tone, his blood chilling right in his veins as it registered to him that it was Reborn who had spoken. He frantically tried to recall how he could have pissed off said hitman but nothing easily came to mind.

'Why is Reborn angry with me?!'

*

It took almost all of Reborn's willpower to not shoot the man then and there. Even the short display on the blond's part had further angered the hitman. His sky deserved a lot more respect than what the idiot had shown the fluffy teen "Do not refer to my sky by such a degrading name" Reborn stated, voice eerily calm "Tsuna is a capable adolescent" He grit out "Not a five year old child" He finished, a dark gleam in his eyes. He could tell that even Leon wanted to hurt the idiot as well.

'It's disturbing that this is the fool leading the CEDEF...'

Iemitsu blinked dumbly, taking a few moments to allow the other's words to register. He couldn't believe it, Reborn had to be screwing with him. There was no way that his sweet little tuna fishy could have managed to tame Reborn "But Tuna-" He stuttered when Reborn cocked his Leon gun "I mean Tsuna doesn't have sky flames..." He'd been there when the Ninth had checked his sons, there was no way it could be true.

'Such a fool... How could Tsuna have possibly been created from him?'

"Listen well Baka-Iemitsu" Reborn hissed, allowing a bit of his hatred for the other show "You know absolutely nothing about your family" He breathed "Tsuna's harmony factor is outstanding and your so called 'better son'" He spat the last bit out "Has nothing but a weak little flame" He stated, not wanting to deal with any more of the idiot's foolishness. At least Baka-Ie somewhat acknowledged Tsuna's abilities, even if the stupid teen did it in a negative way.

'It's pathetic...'

"I-I" Iemitsu stuttered, not really knowing what to say in response to that. Sure he's been away a lot, but surely he wasn't that wrong. He swallowed, meeting Reborn's gaze "I've been away for too long haven't I?" He murmured, lowering his head in defeat. Reborn wasn't one to make mistakes when judging one's flames.

*

"Of course you have!" Reborn scoffed "Tsuna has been aware of the mafia for years, if it wasn't for him and his friends, your wife and Baka-Ie would have died years ago"

'Reborn obviously favours Tsuna, I can easily tell that by how he'd addressed my sons...'

Iemitsu nodded numbly, a little shocked "So you think that Tsuna should be the Vongola Decimo?" He inquired, though he already had a feeling on what the other's answer would be.

"Yes, but I believe that it would be best to keep up the front of Baka-Ie being chosen" It both protected Tsuna, and made the idiotic student a target. Though since Tsuna was bound to protect Bake-Ie, he wasn't so sure. At least his chosen student wouldn't be the initial target.

The blond frowned, not really understanding "But why?" He gave the hitman a confused glance "Wouldn't that cause more problems later on?"

'Wouldn't Ie not want to give up the title of Vongola Decimo?'

"There's something wrong with Baka-Ie's mental state" The teen was too chaotic. Sometimes he was bearable to be around, sometimes he was raving to murder Tsuna, sometimes he'd even acknowledged the fluffy teen. He was also pretty sure that he'd even caught glimpses of concern from Ie directed towards Tsuna if that wasn't crazy enough "His reactions towards Tsuna are too varied" He informed at Iemitsu's confused expression "His world seems to revolve around him whenever he's near Tsuna" He allowed his words to trail off to allow Iemitsu to digest the information "It's more often than not it a bad way however"

"But..." Iemitsu trailed off in thought "But they were so close when they were kids..." At Reborn's curious glance he explained "Ie would always protect Tsuna, he'd even pretend to bully him so that Tsuna didn't get a lot of the attention..." He paused "Tsuna didn't really like attention that much so we just played along with the ruse..." Though the acting did get pretty realistic, he was pretty sure it had been acting back then.

Reborn lowered his fedora to hide his frown as he took in the information. Iemitsu's words were backed up by the happy photo of Tsuna and Ie that he'd seen. Just what happened to make Ie act how he does? Something had to have happened, he just knew it. Was that why Tsuna still loves his idiotic brother? "I'm going to ask Tsuna a few things" His gaze narrowed "Get away from this house before I kill you" He'd gotten some information and had laid down some facts. There was no reason to accept his presence anymore "Cheaters are pathetic" He'd make the man pay properly later.

Me: And the most commonly hated character in KHR has finally arrived~

Don't worry Reborn isn't done with him XP

Hope you enjoyed~ this was interesting to write~