51. Crickets (1/1)

this is really weird and i apologize but the prompt was awkward for me ._.

-crickets-

recently, tsuna had came to see his classmates and other peers in his year that keep an arm's length between themselves and him as being somewhat like...crickets.

before kahiro (because everything in his life now feels like it can be split into sections by who he'd yet to have met: before reborn, before gokudera, before mukuro, before enma), he'd never imagined them as such. it had been a constant noise then, granted a barely audible buzz when he was around yamamoto and gokudera, but ever present in his life.

the badmouthing. the bullying. the looks of disgust.

even when it had ceased to matter to him so much for he had friends, glorious, incredible friends who he'd be willing to protect even at the cost of his own life, it was the thing that

ought him down from every high when he realized it hadn't gone away.

however, now it was different. now the noise was not so constant and would, with a single person's arrival, hush entirely. no whispering, no snide looks, nothing.

kahiro made people act like crickets and fall silent when she graced them with her presence because such constant noise would not be tolerated.

recently, kahiro had also came to see her wide range of acquaintances and hopeful yet-to-be acquaintances as akin crickets but for an entirely different reason.

before tsuna (because her life couldn't be catagorized like tsuna's by a long list of people but he was important enough to be considered a turning point in her existence), she'd never dwelled too much on the idea that it was quite frankly awful that people had banned her from speaking of her own negative thoughts and feelings. she'd known it wasn't right but thinking about it had never made sense as it had simply made her have to deal with more of her own emotions alone. and, anyway, kahiro was naturally a happy person so she tended to throw such things out of her mind in favour of laughing and grinning at everything.

so she'd turned her head away from the fact that whenever she wished to talk about things that troubled her, she'd be met by not those chatty acquaintances but a dead silence.

however, now it was different. now she'd began to properly take in and process the unfair ban because the silence she'd been previously met with was so much more obvious since having become friends with someone who would reply.

tsuna made the people seem identical to crickets and make their deafening silence be something to recognize as wrong.