1. Mafia Honesty (1/2)

disclaimer: i don't own any of akira-sensei's characters. though this plot is mine.

tsuna can't lie with a straight face even if his life depends on it.

it's something that makes his guardians give him amused smiles as they watched how he fumbled with his words, desperate to make them believe.

"i swear! i didn't use your hair products, reborn!" tsuna waved his arms in panic as he his eyes darted to where he wedged the stupid shampoo in his haste.

"oh-hoh." the glint in reborn's eyes suggests that he didn't believe a shit of what his student said. a click of his gun made the

unet shiver in fear. "try again, idiot student."

"i-i-i really didn't get your vanilla-scented shampoo, reborn. i mean, there's no way i'd even like vanilla." tsuna's face darted around as red slowly rose to his face. "it's not like i'm allergic to my shampoo, you know." he added with a pout.

reborn heaved as sigh, pinching the

idge of his nose as he finally remembered that someone did give tsuna a chamomile-scented shampoo. tsuna is allergic to that but since the

at's too kind, he still decided to use it.

"fine. i'll let you get away this time." tsuna's face beamed at that as reborn went out of the

unet's office.

"now to hunt an idiot." the dark tendrils of malice surrounding reborn made the unknowing, sad recruit to shiver in his desk.

tsuna's clumsy navigation between the truth and the lies, is like watching a novice copying an experienced dancer's most difficult moves.

utterly devastating.

thus, most of the time, tsuna's honesty leaves a majority of the mafia to wallow in their frustration on how to handle such innocence in their midst.

"trash, you can't tell anyone, and i mean anyone, of what you just saw. you hear me?" the blush on xanxus' cheeks almost overpowered the snarl that the other threatened with.

tsuna, the honest and oblivious child that he is, only gave a confused blink and a tilt of his head to the side. "but why?"

the innocence that xanxus faced infuriated the wrath sky even more than having to forego eating steak for a week. of all the damning times! why aren't his guardians here to sidetrack the kid!?