57. Heart (1/2)

i'm really ill right now wow i need fluff to make myself feel better

also shushshs this is exactly how it should go i have no idea what you mean by this being ridiculous...

-heart-

"do you think i could survive if i jumped from here?"

"kahiro, for the love of all things good, don't." tsuna places his hand on the girl's elbow and gently pulls her away from the window as if to emphasise his point. orange light is filtering through the glass and the school day has long since been over. however, tsuna had been made his english teacher's lackey as a result of not turning in his homework (it wasn't his fault, lambo had blown it up) and kahiro had been dragged into it too after having ran into the boy quite literally after finishing her club of the week, so it's only now that they're leaving the school premises.

"yes, but would i survive?" she asks with a hint of a smile to her lips and mischief in her coffee-

own eyes.

"i think i would die of shock for sure…" he trails off with a sigh as they make their way down a stairwell, slowly and deliberately with their shoulders

ushing against each other. he's gotten taller again and kahiro despairs over this quite vocally-almost embarrassingly if they're were public.

her phone goes off with a loud kazoo noise and the two of them automatically burst into peals of laughter, tsuna clutching onto kahiro and kahiro clutching onto the banister as they giggle uncontrollably. once they finally reach the safety of the bottom of the stairs, she flicks her mobile out, tsuna still close enough to see the message.

nana: could you tell me where that cafe place you and tsu go to all of the time? my friend and i are craving caffeine!

"why did she message you…?" he asks, peering at her screen closer in surprise.

"nosy." kahiro chides him, flicking his shoulder lightly. "and it's because she loves me. we talk all of the time, y'know."

tsuna gapes at her. "you're friends with my mother?"

"i'm her informant." she waggles her eye

ows with a grin before beginning to type a reply. halfway through, she stops and looks tsuna dead in the eyes. he can practically see the idea forming in her mind and oh no, this can't be good. "tsunayoshi, can you give me the directions?"

he narrows his eyes suspiciously. "to the cafe we go to all of the time…?"

"no..." kahiro clicks her fingers and points at him with a wink. "to your heart!"

it's almost impossible not to laugh but somehow tsuna reigns it in and stares at her, not in just disbelief at her awful, awful pick up line, but in complete awe because kahiro's utterly ridiculous. the people of their school think she's wonderful, incredible, the social queen of their world, but she's ridiculous and makes the stupidest jokes and has the best smile and laugh and he's absolutely smitten with her.

"i love you."

the words roll off his tongue by accident-she's always been good at that, making him say things he hasn't meant to say-however, they're easy to say despite the weight they have. the confession to love isn't many steps above the confession to liking a person for him because he loves all his friends and he's loved kahiro as a friend for longer than he's loved her romantically. perhaps he doesn't even love her romantically really, at least not yet; maybe it's just him liking her a hell of a lot. saying he loves her isn't far from the truth though and he's okay with thinking about her in that way.

tsuna doesn't think about this though. tsuna thinks about crawling into a hole and dying.

kahiro stares at him with her lips parted and her pleased smile lost in the surprise of his sudden confession. he covers his mouth and looks down at the floor, flush creeping up his cheekbones. it's too late now to cover up his mistake, to laugh and say 'as a friend, i mean' or just act as though it were a casual thing to say for him. he knows she knows his words were sincere and this is the worst possible thing he could have ever said. their precious friendship he clung to is going to be ruined all because he couldn't keep his mouth shut.

the idea that he's confessed his feelings to her with such ease compared to the times he's been forced to act upon those he had towards kyoko completely passes him by as he waits for the horrid silence to end.

"...i didn't know my pick up lines were that good."

his eyes glance up to meet her's

iefly and all of a sudden it seems stupid to hide his thoughts from the girl who he's shared so many thoughts with, secrets he hasn't entrusted with anyone else. "i'm an idiot." tsuna declares hotly and looks away from her again. "it's going to be awkward from now on, isn't it?" his voice become quieter as he goes on and he steadies himself, ready for the blow of rejection.