28. Star (1/2)

realised i missed a couple of prompts by accident whoops

(also 'kyoko' readers, updating will recommence soon-final exam two days from now and then i'm free. and it's physics by the way :d)

-star-

kahiro stops going to sport practice for a couple of weeks after tsuna's realization on the kyoko matter.

instead of doing what she clearly loves so dearly, she spends her new free time in the cafe with tsuna practically every day after school, making it her business to make him smile and laugh.

tsuna voices his displeasure at his friend's decision to spend time with him instead of doing what she loved multiple times, desperately trying to crush his secret feelings of joy that she was serving as a distraction from the numb feeling in his chest that still hadn't gone away.

kahiro always waves off his comments with an easy laugh, prodding him in the shoulder and saying it was good to have a

eak from sports once in a while.

(he always sees her shooting a

ief wistful look at the sports field when they leave school together though, replaced with guilt when she looks back at him).

in these couple of weeks, they're usually accompanied by yamamoto and gokudera too (who he sees casting looks of worry at him because of how down he looks sometimes), but often kahiro and tsuna stay in the cafe longer than them, spending these moments alone to talk about kyoko and what has happened.

tsuna suspects they know kahiro knows what's up with him, which is why they usually leave before them so that they can talk. their reaction is surprising though since he'd thought they'd be the ones trying to extract the information most-reborn most likely had something to do with it, he decided.

"i thought her smile was like the sun." tsuna tells kahiro as they sit without gokudera and yamamoto again. he's sure he's told her this a thousand times before but kahiro never seems to mind or ever lessen in attention to his words. "if i look at it now though it just seems...normal. dim." he elaborates.

"well, the sun isn't that

ight a star you know." kahiro responds, taking another sip of her coffee. they're both practically drunk on the stuff now, which is perhaps why tsuna's tongue is so loose and he's saying things he's said before so many times.

he blinks. "it isn't?"

"come on tsunayoshi, we've got a physics test soon!" she laughs and pushes herself off of her chair, opening up her bag and grabbing a book out of it. the girl then positions herself on the arm of tsuna's armchair, leaning over so that she can show him the contents of the book. "the sun is a typical star, see?"

he can smell the coffee on her