1Helloooooooooooooooo there! Inspiration hit me so I decided to create this oneshot collection! Hope you like it!
Constructive Criticism would be appreciated. Also, feel free to ask for prompts or for me to write a specific situation. My muse hasn't been very productive lately!
Full Summary: Ringo Tsukimia had a very lacking definition of family. So, she returned to Namimori to reconnect with the person responsible for her happier memories: Tsunayoshi Sawada, her friend from elementary school days. And boy, was it worth it! Because she finally got the family she wanted so much… and maybe her first love.
Target 1: Caught in the heat
Chapter Summary: Tsuna really should've bought two fans. He could have avoided all this mess - as well as one hell of a headache.
Timeline: After the Varia Arc, but not yet into the Future Arc.
Summer in Namimori was hot. And not just any kind of hot: it was scorching hot.
No fridge could keep ice-creams from melting, and the pavement could easily be used as a makeshift frying pan (as one homeless guy found out when he succeeded in frying a egg on the sidewalk). In order to survive this predicament, fans were on high demand. High demand as in store clerks being ran over by massive walls of angry, sweaty people fighting for the last fan in the store.
Thankfully, the Sawada household was prepared as they kept their fan from last year. However, that very fan had attracted two people to that house (not that those people weren't there on a daily basis, anyway.). Namely, Ringo Tsukimia and Hayato Gokudera sat on the floor of the Sawada's living room, moving their bodies as the fan turned left and right to enjoy that wonderful breeze to the fullest.
"If it's hell's fault it's so hot today…then that thing" Ringo gestured lazily to the fan "came from heaven". Tsuna snorted, trying not to laugh at Ringo's drowsy expression and slightly out-of-character behavior. He gave both a glass of freshly-made lemonade, courtesy from his mom.
Gokudera thanked Tsuna, practically sparkling (Ringo wondered for a moment if he was one of those vampires from Twilight. Some of them were Italian right?), and grunted as he turned to face the pinkette. "Don't think too hard stupid woman. The smoke from your brain will raise the temperature." Classy Gokudera.
"Gokudera-kun!" Tsuna began reprimanding, but was cut off. "Nah, it's alright. Nothing I'm not used. Isn't that right, Bakadera?" Ringo smirked teasingly. Gokudera grunted again, whipping his head in the opposite direction.
"That's more like Ringo." Tsuna mused. However, as he turned to face his right-hand man, Tsuna froze. "Is that a blush?" The young Decimo shook his head. "Must be the heat. Why would he be blushing anyway? Unless… "
"Is something wrong, Tenth?"
Tsuna jerked and blinked as he was snapped out of his thoughts. Ringo and Gokudera looked at him expectantly. "Don't tell me you were daydreaming about Kyoko again?" Ringo mimicked a lovesick expression making the brunette blush.
"It's not like that-" Tsuna began, and was cut off. Again. "The Tenth's love life doesn't concern you!" Gokudera barked in response. Ringo frowned "It doesn't concern you concern either!"
Tsuna facepalmed. Trust Ringo and Gokudera to start an argument out of something so trivial. "But… there isn't any real animosity, like when they first met…no, it's almost like…" Tsuna's mouth dropped in realization "…a lovers' quarrel?"
"Mom called me, I have to go!" Tsuna pratically yelled, his eyes wide like saucers. He needed time to digest that. Ringo and Gokudera stopped fighting to look at him curiously, and followed him with their eyes as he left the room in a robot-like pace.
"What bit him?" Ringo asked noboby in particular.
"I don't know…" Gokudera mumbled, confused.
And then both realized: they were alone in the living room.
The Guardians slowly turned back to their original positions, facing the fan. However, their bodies were rigid now, instead of slumped over. Ringo wasn't drowsy anymore: her face could be compared to ones expression after waking up from a nightmare. Gokudera was seriously trying not to light up a cigarette to ease his nerves (he would't dare dirty the Tenth's floor!).
Now, why were they so nervous? None of them knew actually. Only one person of the house had made that discovery: and he was currently banging his head against the wall trying to process that new piece of information.
"God, how much hotter can it get?" Ringo complained inwardly and moved the fan closer to her-
-Which resulted in Gokudera pulling it back.
"What do you think you're doing, woman?" Gokudera snapped.
"Huh, refreshing myself?" Ringo grabbed the fan, pulling it and the silverette reacted accordingly - with another pull. "I need it too, so leave it alone!"
Ringo frowned. "It was closer to you."
Another pull.
"It wasn't." The bomber snarled.
Another pull.
"Was too!" The pinkette insisted – with another pull.
"Was not!" Gokudera yelled – and pulled again.
And thus, the fan tug-o-war began.
Gokudera and Ringo viciously pulled on the fan, eventually jumping to their feet and running around in the living room, bumping into nearly every piece of furniture and knocking down plenty of objects.
Ringo smirked, she almost had it,she knew it! Pulling the fan rather strongly, surprising her opponent, Ringo mentally began chanting victory – and tripped on a nearby pillow.
The pinkette closed her eyes, bracing herself for impact and Gokudera did the same - the pull and Ringo's fall had knocked him off balance. And then –
THUD!
Gokudera realized two things when he opened his eyes.
One, he wasn't injured.
Two, that was probably because another body had softened his fall. And there was only one person the living room besides him.
Gokudera bolted to his knees to find two large, chestnut-colored eyes staring right back at his olive-green ones. He was, as he had suspected, on top of Ringo. Neither said anything and simply stared wide-eyed at each other.
Slowly, Gokudera began to lean down.
He could feel her hot breath on his face, not the horrible heat of that summer day, but the heat of her body, and it was driving him crazy. She was driving him crazy. A million thoughts flashed through his mind:
Why am I doing this?
"I have no idea."
Didn't I hate her?
"No, not since that day before the Mukuro Rokudo incident."
But I don't like her!
"Do I?"
He felt Ringo's arms wrap around his neck and he closed his eyes. Their lips were inches apart-
"Hey guys, I'm back!"
-And that distance became meters as they jumped as further away from each other as humanly possible.
The Vongola heir stared at his two friends, he had the distinct feeling he had interrupted something.
…Plus, the living room was a mess, (furniture turned upside down, pillows scattered everywhere) and both his friends were dishevelled and red-faced.
"It's nice to see you Tenth!" Gokudera said in a forced, squeaky voice.
"Y-Yeah …" Ringo squeaked identically.
"Huh, guys…" Tsuna made a gesture to the living room.
"We'll clean it!" and before the brunette could say a word, both his friends were cleaning their improvised battlefield with eerie dedication.
Tsuna sighed. "Life is just so weird, sometimes…."
This was inspired by the crazy fan hunt when a heat wave struck us here in good ol' Portugal. I was at friends house and it was so hot her room had to have it's blinds closed all day! 43 ºC is killer XP
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