Stamina

Tsuna clamps his hands over his mouth but he can only lessen the sobs to an occasional hiccup and lots of sniffles.

The older boy hit Tsuna on the head! With a…a wooden thingy! Who hits people with wood? Mean boys, that's who.

The silver eyed child drops his other stick and steps forwards. Tsuna whimpers and leans away, really hoping that his mum will save him. He'll even use up a birthday wish for it.

Tsuna scrunches his eyes closed and hunches his shoulders, trying to curl into himself. If he can't see the mean boy, the mean boy obviously won't be able to see him. Tsuna gives himself a mental pat on the back for that sound logic.

Tsuna's eyes snap open in horror when arms wrap around him, far smaller than his mum's but still rather warm. How could the boy see Tsuna? Are his silver eyes magical? Tsuna tenses in preparation for more pain but then it occurs to him that the other was trying to apologise.

Tsuna leans into the hug, uncurling from his ball and wrapping his arms around the boy's neck. It's actually a nice hug. Hugs fix everything. Tsuna's head doesn't even hurt anymore.

The arms around Tsuna tighten and lift him off the ground entirely. Tsuna blinks for a moment as the other boy calmly starts walking away. With Tsuna.

"Mum!" Tsuna shrieks in terror, tears springing to his eyes once more as he kicks his little legs. "Mum, help me!"

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Kyouya was not able to steal the herbivore, as the screaming attracted too much attention.

Luckily the mother herbivore waved off the attempted kidnapping as Kyouya playing around, and cooed over the fluffy brunet making a new friend. The small family leave quickly after the short introduction, because the brunet just kept screaming.

No matter. Kyouya will have the herbivore eventually.

If all else fails, Kyouya may be able to go undercover as an herbivore friend and gain their trust, buying time until he has enough information to blackmail the mother herbivore into giving Kyouya custody. Kyouya will be a great father to the fluffy firework.

Kyouya watches with narrowed eyes as the pair walk away from the park, having memorised the last name during the mother's introduction. Sawada. They shouldn't be hard to find, especially with the police records Kyouya has access to.

Or he will have access, as soon as he breaks in again. Really, he has no idea why the herbivores insist on trying to stop Kyouya. He's the carnivore and Namimori is his territory, so if Kyouya wants to ignore a few human rights then he should be allowed too.

Honestly, it's like the police think Kyouya isn't their commissioner.

He frowns lightly and turns to his sandcastle again, but during his short absence the sandbox has filled up with children, and his castle is unrecognisable from enemy tampering. Kyouya scowls because the defences should have kicked in – that's why he added turret guns and a dragon, after all.

Where was the blood of the intruders? Where was the screaming of trespassers as their limbs were ripped off? He lets out a breath and his expression smooths out. He will let this infraction slide, because he has made a wonderful discovery.

Today, someone exploded. Kyouya greatly underestimated just how immensely satisfying it was to hit someone hard enough that they spontaneously combusted.

He is peripherally aware that he is not the cause of the small-scale detonation, but that doesn't matter, because the herbivore caught on fire and it was pretty and Kyouya has never been one for nightlights but he could make an exception.

He picks up his dropped tonfas, tucks them into his backpack and heads home to plan. After all, he still doesn't have an exploding herbivore of his own. That's the first thing that needs to be fixed.

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The next day, he hunts down some herbivores. It takes five children for Kyouya to realise that maybe not all of them will catch on fire. He goes through another three because he just likes hitting things.

Perhaps the brunet was special since the boy was already glowing before Kyouya bopped him on the head. With that hypothesis in mind, he goes searching for another glowing herbivore.

It doesn't take long to find one.

The herbivore is running around a more isolated block of houses, simply lapping the place over and over while shouting about how extreme everything is. The child is loud, and while at first Kyouya thought it was energetic, he soon realises that the herbivore isn't bouncing around without control. The child simply has stamina, which is a good thing for Kyouya because that means more fire for longer.

Kyouya isn't sure how he hasn't noticed the herbivore before now, because the bright yellow glow is practically seeping off the long, white haired child. This herbivore, like the brunet, is simply glowing and not catching on fire instantly.

Perhaps they work like glow sticks and Kyouya needs to break the herbivore first? Not too badly, just crack it a little and then shake.

He'll put it back together later.

Kyouya steps into the herbivore's way and sticks out a foot at the last second, tripping the white haired child who was going at quite a fast speed. The herbivore slams into the road face first and the momentum carries it along, skidding on its chest with its legs in the air until it finally comes to a stop and the rest of the body flops down onto the road.

Kyouya hums in satisfaction and moves to the herbivore, about to pick it up by the ankle and drag it back home with him. Before he reaches the child, the herbivore shifts, and Kyouya stills in confusion. That should have knocked the child unconscious at the very least.

The yellow one pushes up and hauls himself to his feet, blinking dazedly around with his face bloody and scratched from the road. Despite the amount of red, Kyouya sees no open wounds. The herbivore catches sight of Kyouya and it falls into a wobbly boxing stance.

"Hey, you!" the herbivore bellows. Not angry, simply loud. "That was an extreme move you just did! Let's have a boxing match!"

Kyouya blinks and then frowns in annoyance, pulling his backpack off and taking out his tonfas. The first hit makes the herbivore stumble but it comes back for more. Annoyingly enough, there's not even a hint of fire despite the yellow glow getting brighter.

No matter how many times Kyouya hits the child, it doesn't go down. This is a problem, because he can't hit harder since he might damage the herbivore permanently - or worse, break his tonfas.

Kyouya gives up after half an hour, because it's nap time.

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Omake – Sleeping Habits

"No, Kyouya went back already," Tsuna replies over the gunfire.

Dino pointedly looks around the battlefield, at the large mass of enemies that definitely haven't been taken care of yet.

Tsuna shrugs. "He said he was sleepy."