46. Grove (1/2)

technically this is a three parter after all with "burn" and "lost"

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-grove-

tsuna explains it all when kahiro gets to his house.

he isn't prompted to do it, not really, but he knows that he can't leave her in the dark like this after she'd almost been killed and he knows she knows that he's set in his decision to tell her because she doesn't question it all the way there. she is mostly silent for the whole journey but there's a smile on her lips every time he glances her way that reassures him more than any words could.

nana gets them tea-it is obvious she has an inkling as to something shocking happening with her soft voice usually reserved for the kids when she speaks to kahiro. but kahiro subtly rejects this act of kindness; she's okay and she doesn't need all this coddling. and it's true that she's fine because kahiro has been through shocking events before as, when someone tends to know everyone, they hear and get involved with many things. she's been there after a friend of a friend of a friend (who technically is her friend too, or at least is trying to be) has been hit by a car and bled almost to death. she's been there when a fight between a couple of gangs

oke out as she just happened to be in good with both of the leaders-a knife was pulled at one point but it got stopped before anyone could get killed.

she's been here, there and everywhere and had to cope with the dizzying aftermath where she had to come to terms with what she'd witnessed and been involved with to an extent.

so, honestly, she's okay.

she's dizzy, confused, a little scared of what tsuna is about to tell her but...okay.

gokudera and yamamoto come in when they've just sat down in his room. they're practically unscathed save gokudera's singed sleeve, which he had been loudly complaining about on the way upstairs, but when they see her there's complete silence for a few painful moments. reborn appears then and sends them away to hibari as so to deal with the apparently unconscious bodies littered around namimori, kahiro then remembering the large group she'd seen tsuna move around in once before and wonder whether they're all in on this secret that had led to them being attacked.

there's only a small pang of injustice that she's the odd one out, the one friend who knows nothing at all about everything. after all, she's been tsuna's friend for the shortest amount of time and what they're involved with seems incredibly dangerous so of course she wouldn't be told-especially with tsuna treasuring his friends and wanting them to stay safe. but, even with this logic, the small pang remains and she despises it for being there.