Jigsaw | KHR

Chapter 26: Birthdays

Ahem, I tend to use lots of Japanese words you may see in Japanese web novels translated. I can't help using them, so please ask if you donut understand =D

Oh, I also forgot to say this:

The triplets are fraternal, if that's actually possible? So the don't look exactly the same. Plus everyone knows Tsuna is not related to the Sawadas so when the three stand next to each other no one actually links their faces together as twins, so only Kyo-san kind of figures out these stuff.

"Oi! Baseball freak!" Hayato yelled, pulling on Takeshi's collar.

"What are you guys doing?!" Ieyoshi hurriedly stepped forward to stop the impending fight.

"Tenth! Ie-sama! Tsunayoshi-sama!"

"Ah, Yoshi, Ie, Tsuna, yo!"

Hayato immediately let go of the collar, bowing down 90°, while Takeshi grinned, slinging an arm around Tsuna.

"What happened?" Ieyoshi asked, separating from his brothers, walking to the bowing Hayato.

"Ah... um... Nothing at all, Tenth!!" He bowed again, before pulling Takeshi away.

"Strange... Now that I think of it, why is everyone acting so strangely today?" Ieyoshi gripped his chin, asking nobody in particular.

"Mm?" Tsuna took the melon pan out of his mouth, asking, "Faaaht vru wyu muin?"

Ietsuna drooled at the sight of his adorable Tsuna-nii having his morning fix of sugar, eating like a hamster, before swallowing the accumulated pool of saliva he wanted to peropero his Tsuna-nii with.

"Tsuna-nii please let me lic-- I mean, today, we ran into many people didn't we? All of them were acting weird..." you could always count on the youngest brother to accidentally reveal his hidden inner desires which were as a matter of fact, not very well hidden.

"Did we?" Tsuna asked, wondering if he relaxed his senses too much after coming back home.

"Well, Haru was really flustered meeting us just now..." Ieyoshi started,

"Lambo was playing hide-and-seek with himself..." Ietsuna continued,

"And Bianchi stopped moving the moment we greeted her." Ieyoshi ended, before commenting, "Tsuna-nii, you didn't realise?"

"Eh? N-no..." He embarrassedly looked down, scratching his head at his own denseness.

"Hah! Expected of dame-tsuna!" Ietsuna mocked.

As expected, old habits die hard www

"But why would they act like this?" Ieyoshi cut in.

"Something they are hiding from us..."

"Now that I think of it..." Ietsuna mumbled.

"Of what?" Ieyoshi asked.

"Our birthdays are tomorrow, aren't they?" Ietsuna said.

"Oh, yeah..." Tsuna murmured. "I forgot"

Ever since he moved to Italy 2 years ago, he hadn't celebrated his birthday.

"Everyone's preparing for a birthday party!"

Reborn popped out of nowhere, sharing some fresh-from-the-oven gossip.

Leaving immediately after igniting a flame which wouldn't be extinguished easily in the curious hearts of the brothers.

"Hey, he said they're preparing for a birthday celebration... could it possible be for us?" Ieyoshi asked, for he was the least smart out of the three.

"I'm not sure..." the more logical twin Ietsuna muttered.

"It's definitely not for me. I barely know them, after all." with the exception of his family, the only one that knew of his birthday was only Kyoya. There was no way strangers would possibly celebrate his birthday.

Tsuna would rather not spend too much time thinking about trivial matters, so brushing off this discussion, he headed off to find his dear prefect friend.

~

The twins reached home, greeted with a startling "pop" the moment they entered.

"Happy birthday!" voices chorused.

"EHHH?!" Ieyoshi, who had been practising his reactions towards the surprise birthday party, gave an over exaggerated reaction.

'But our birthday's...' The twins thought to themselves, before hearing a squeaky voice saying "Thank you"

A series of confused "eh"s escaped the mouth of the twins.

"I appreciate all of you gathering here for me today." Reborn said, slight happiness evident in his voice. "I am 1 year old now."

"Could it be...?" Ieyoshi asked.

"The birthday party was for me." Reborn shattered the dreams of many young children.

"I thought this birthdays party was for us... is that why Tsuna-nii decided to stay late in school today?" Ieyoshi muttered softly, unfortunately heard by his mother.

"Oh yeah, your birthdays are tomorrow! I forgot!" Nana, who did not think about her child's feelings, carelessly broke his heart.

"Really?" "Then maybe we can celebrate together!"

"I'm going to my room" Although he refused to admit, Ietsuna was embarrassed to think that the party was for them, and wanted to hide in his room till the embarrassment subsided.

~

Regardless of how the twins complained, a sushi feast was held in their room, and Tsuna was called back by Reborn, with a Kyoya in tow.

"Hibari-senpai... wanted to congratulate you?" Tsuna came up with a lame excuse to hide the relationship he had with Kyoya although it wasn't particularly believable.

~

"Tsuna. Do you have a gift for me?" Reborn shamelessly asked the boy he got acquainted to not long ago.

"Eh? Uhm..." Tsuna flustered, before finally pushing Kyoya to Reborn.

"I present to you... The strongest man in Namimori?" Tsuna played with his fingers, nervously laughing at the prefect who was growling at him.

"I like it. Tsuna and Hibari gets 1000 points."

"Phew..." Tsuna breathed out a huge sigh of relief, ignoring the death stare sent by his aloof friend.

~

"Tsu-kun's birthdays is tomorrow too, right?" Nana spoke.

"Ah? ... Un." Tsuna nodded his head.

"Then let's have another celebration for the three of you tomorrow!"

"Please don't let it be a Vongola style celebration..." The twins sighed for the day known as tomorrow, whereas Reborn's eyes glinted, calculations running through his mind for why would Tsuna have such a coincidental birthday date.

I'm a tad bid confused about their ages lol

and considering the fact that I'm a sucker for good stories, for some odd reason, I don't seem to write as well as I read...