QAQ! KORE!

hi! im kore! i like a lot of stuffs :3 nice to meet you!

[uwu-kore]

Came back to tumblr after like 3 years and i already lost my old acc blehhh

Why is thiss so different what have they done to the old tumblr theme???

I need to reblog again IM SORRY FOR THE SUDDEN LIKES/FOLLOWS/REBLOGS I NEED TO TOUCH GRASS AGAIN

[hopeswriting]

I think about that writing prompt about a hero ending up in the villains' group chat i reblogged back then sometimes. How i immediately felt like having tsuna in the hero's role, and then very predictably paired him up with the arcos as the villains lol. I'm not sorry about it. <3

So there's tsuna who isn't actually a hero but a nobody civilian, who first thinks this is someone playing a prank on him because no way he just got added to the actual group chat of one of the most notorious group of villains in the world. Tsuna who goes from "um, hi? Can i help you?" But then never actually gets to "i think there was some kind of mistake here" because the arcos are a bunch of yappers.

And at some point between "who the fuck is that?" "Is he one of you guys' underlings?" "Since when are we adding underlings to this group chat?" "Why don't you just hold a press conference to reveal all of our most sensitive information on live tv while you're at it, skull?", skull goes "i added him on purpose!!!" You know, like a liar. He IS the one who added tsuna, and judging by the others' reactions, he clearly wasn't meant to, but he doesn't remember why the hell it was on his to-do-list to do then?? Also the guy's profile picture and name don't even ring any fucking bell. Wait, was he supposed to add him to his underlings' group chat instead?? Ugh, whatever!!!

(Did tsuna... apply to become a group of villains' underling? He doesn't remember that.)

"What purpose?" The arcos continue to yap. "Aren't we always bitching about how nobody ever reads what the others have to say on here??" Skull says. "Well, there you have it! He can keep track of it and let us know of the important things!"

(Did tsuna... apply for this specific position as an underling?? He doesn't remember that either.)

"Why the fuck are you deciding that on your own?" Tsuna reads with a steadily increasing ominous feeling, because these guys sure seem to take this prank very seriously. "Is he even trustworthy?" "Haven't you guys ever heard of a trial period?" Skull defends. "And WHERE is he gonna let us know of those important things again??" They ignore him. "In the same group chat we never read???" "YOU'RE READING IT RIGHT NOW AREN'T YOU???? FUCK YOU--"

"I actually already have a job, so..." Tsuna says, to which the arcos instantly go off on him because "why the fuck did you apply then???" And also "so???" Skull says, because his reputation is on the line here. "Just quit???"

(Did Tsuna really apply to this job, though? He guesses he must have, right? But did he really, though?

For the life of him, he really just can't remember.)

"Well, i kind of need the money, so..." He tries again, and feels himself lose 3 years of his life when they all go silent for a bit.

"You think we make our underlings work for free??" They start talking again all at the same time. "YOU THINK I DON'T PAY MY UNDERLINGS THE JUST SALARY FOR THEIR WORK????" Skull says, outraged. "PLUS ALL THE BENEFITS MIND YOU," he adds, because the FUCK does tsuna take him for???? "Well, i guess he at least won't have any problems saying the things he wants to say to us," reborn says.

"Well," tsuna keeps typing in a momentary lapse of sanity, "how much are we talking about...?"

"What do you mean how much?" The arcos keep yapping. "Didn't you read the contract?" "Didn't skull make you one?" "YES I DID," skull lies. ("THERE MUST HAVE BEEN AN ISSUE WHEN I SENT IT THE FIRST TIME," he keeps lying in tsuna's dms. "I'LL SEND IT AGAIN SOON.") "Do you just commit to things you don't know about?" "Are you stupid?", meanwhile skull sends in the group chat ten times the amount he usually offers, just to make sure to get one over the other arcos about how he's the one paying his underlings the most.

And, well. It sure IS more than what tsuna's current job pays him. Plus all the benefits?

"Am i really talking to the real arcobaleno?" He finally brings himself to ask before the offered money can make him lose all sense of self-preservation.

"Is your current job being a comedian?" Is the first answer he gets. "LMAO" "Whose dumbfuck wannabe villains out there would dare to use our names, let alone pretend to be us?" "Do we have to go on a purge again and remind everyone why they shouldn't do that?"

"Please don't," tsuna quickly types and sends in dawning and horrifying realization.

Is this really happening? Are they really the arcobaleno? 

They sure act like it.

"Don't tell us what to do." "Who the fuck asked for your opinion?"

"I won't kill anyone," tsuna takes the opportunity to say while they're on the subject. "And would like to be the least involved possible in any of your killings. Or crimes in general," he adds as an afterthought.

To which the arcos instantly go off on him again because "But YOU applied to work with US????" "Why the fuck keeping track of a group chat would involve you killing anyone??" "Who is it you're saying you'd have to kill? One of us?"

Tsuna feels himself lose 5 years of his life as he looks at the last message in horror, and then another 10 years when they all go dead silent again.

Oh god. He didn't fucking say that???? Oh fuck.

Is he dead? Are they gonna track him down and kill him?

Are they gonna kill him without even granting him his trial period even when he's apparently crazy enough to actually consider accepting the job?

"Where the hell do you even find these people, skull?" They eventually start yapping again, and tsuna starts breathing again. "You let your underlings talk to you like that?" "At least MY underlings actually TALK to me like the fellow human being i am" "debatable" "and you're proud of it?" "It's because even them can tell you're a fucking pushover lmao" "all of you shut the hell up. Does anyone actually have something important to say? Otherwise i'm out of here" "good fucking riddance," skull says. "Tsunayoshi, is it?"

"Yes, but you can just call me tsuna," he says, because what else is even there to say?

"As long as i don't have to hear directly from these guys ever again, i'll even pay you a million dollars a month"

"Haha," he says, because it feels like the correct thing to say.

"Oh, was that funny to you?" Reborn says, because of fucking course he does lmao.

And already, tsuna can see his shortened lifespan (in spirit) flash before his eyes.

[hopeswriting]

i was hesitating whether to share this because it doesn't really advance the story or anything, plus this turned out to be less of a chat fic and more of a proper narrative story, but i figured the interactions in and of themselves would be fun to see haha. @mistingrain @otaku-reborn have a little addition to this verse!

Skull sends him the contract. Tsuna reads it through. Signs it and sends it back before he can think better of it.

He receives a package the very next day with a phone in it. It's the exact same one as the one he has, except it's immediately apparent when he turns it on that this one is at the height of technology. It comes with a second screen where the group chat app is and that can only be accessed when he's the one holding the phone, among other features.

Otherwise it appears to be a normal phone, and Tsuna clones all the data of his phone to the new one before he sends the old one back to the sender as instructed.

As soon as he turns the phone on and logs onto the group chat app, he gets jump scared by the arco all sending him private messages.

They range from "I'm sure you know what'll happen to you if you get any funny ideas with the information you'll be privy to" to "better get a will ready now you're in this line of work" and "hello. Let us hope you last long enough to at least make it past your trial period :)" but also "don't bother me with needless information. All i need to know are the information needed to help me make a profit or avoid a loss"

Which. Okay. Not unexpected from a group of villains, but also very much not needed. He has no intention of getting any "funny ideas" whatsoever, thank you very much. Because he'd very much like to stay alive, so he won't be writing a will either actually. Wouldn't want to jinx it and all that. Especially when, again, he very much plans to stay alive for another long while, thank you very much.

Reborn sends "i know everything there is to know about you" which. Yeah. His contact information on the contract skull sent him made that much clear, plus the fact they sent him the exact same phone model as the one he was using wasn't exactly subtle either. Not to mention they even knew somehow he apparently applied to this job before even he himself did. But even without any of that, he was expecting the background check.

"Look out the window," reborn sends as soon as tsuna reads his first message.

Tsuna's heart picks up its pace as he hurries to his window. What does he mean? Are they watching him?? Will they be watching him??? Did they send someone to get rid of him? But he didn't even have the time to do anything yet!!!

Should he have negotiated a clause about not invading his privacy without cause too?

"You're not actually looking out the window, are you?" Reborn has sent when tsuna checks his phone again. "The first thing you should have done is duck out of its line of sight. Second is to secure all access to you. And third to grab a weapon in case it's more than just a bluff" "Do you even really want this job?" "Tsk, tsk"

Tsuna looks at the messages with his jaw on the fucking floor. Really?? Is that what this guy plans to be all about? Making him fear for his life and taking years off it while he's at it for shits and giggles?

And at once, he completely understands why someone would be willing to pay someone else a million dollars a month just to not have to deal with him lmao.

"Why would you choose skull to be the boss of you??" Nello asks, to which tsuna just goes "???" because what are they even talking about now? "I mean, you wanted to work for skull out of all of us???" Nello continues to yap, and tsuna goes even more "????" because, well. What else choice was even there when skull was the one offering the job?? Or were they all listing the job and he chose to apply with skull? Or something--whatever??? But it didn't seem like they were aware it was something skull was up to, did it?

(Tsuna still does not remember how he ended up with this job.

He doesn't plan to mention it either now he's made it this far regardless.)

"Um, well, i mean," he awkwardly fumbles, "i'm sure you're all very nice—" a pause so he can cringe at himself "—and you're definitely all super impressive!!" More cringing even if it's not untrue zbdksjsk. "But—" another pause because he doesn't know what to fucking say??? What if he says the wrong thing and nello holds it against him and stops him from keeping the job??? "—i like the way skull looks?" He settles on, which is also not untrue, but also not an opinion he can say he's been actively having lol. "He looks cool ^^"

"Lmao," nello sends before he immediately switches to the group chat and sends "rate skull's fit on a scale of 0 to 10. Negative numbers allowed" to tsuna's fucking HORROR AJEKSKS. 😭😂 "UNPROVOKED????" Skull says. "i'll start," nello ignores him, "-10" and then of course, the other arcos waste no time pitching in too. "6" "3" "1, for sparing us from the sight of his face" "5" "2"

"Wow," skull says. "Fuck you guys first of all, like i asked or give a shit second of all, and WHO's talking again????" "Mister i can't move on from my military days himself??? Mister camo clothes is the peak of fashion himself???" "Green AND blond, really??????? You're ugly enough as it is"

The chat, of course, goes fucking crazy zheksjs. And tsuna would be highkey laughing too if he wasn't too horrified at this being his doing lmao.

"Reborn laughed too btw," viper makes sure to let everyone know as nello and skull keep going at each other. "None of your business," is all reborn can say because it'd be useless to deny it when they're all aware of viper's power. "OH YEAH???" Nello turns right on him. "That's not what you were fucking saying last night, bitch" "wouldn't that be because you were naked then?" Fon muses. "Oh?" Lal says at the same time. "Do share with the class" "yeah??" Skull says, also at the same time, because they're all yappers lest we forget. "I don't need confirmation to know i'm the funniest guy you guys know"

"You see our issue," verde sends tsuna as the others continue to yap in the group chat. "Even if we did read the group chat, we'd still end up dead before we could get to the point."

Tsuna breathes out a laugh, half nervous, half disbelieving, and half genuinely amused. And yes, the math is wrong. Well, you won't believe this, but tsuna's never been all that good at math.

Anyway. He DOES very much see the issue. So that's why they all sent him private messages so he could contact them privately. That's where he's supposed to let them know of the "important things", huh?

You'd think the convenience of a group chat instead of sending the same message to everyone multiple times would make them get over... whatever they have going on between them, but who's tsuna to tell them how they should behave, right?

What ARE those "important things" tho?? Especially if they're going to each have their own meaning of it if viper's message is anything to go by. Should he ask everyone the question and see what they say?

"Skull-san," he decides to ask skull first. He can call him skull-san, right? Or should he call him boss instead? Would that be more underling-like?? Well, he wouldn't fucking know that. "I was wondering--" he's in the middle of typing when skull sends him a message too that only says, "TSUNA" "Yes?" Tsuna quickly deletes and sends instead. Shit. Did nello tattle on him??? But he complimented him so he should be fine, right??? Or has something "important" been shared in the group chat and he missed it?

Oh wait. Does skull want him to answer to what he first sent him? What was it again?

"Yo tsuna" "don't ever listen to anything the others have to say about me, 'kay?" "I'm the one paying you anyway, so you can just ignore them" "actually i'll even give you a bonus for every time you withhold information from them and it gets them in trouble lol" "plus a promotion if it ends up killing them LOL"

Right, that.

Haha. Lol. Yeah, right.

Tsuna will NOT fucking do that, thank you very much. He's not a big fan of actively trying to get himself killed, you see.

"You see the bullshit i've had to deal with???" Is what skull says. "Why would anyone care about anything these guys have to say when they're always like this, right???"

"Actually, i've been meaning to ask, skull-san," tsuna strategically avoids answering, "but what are the 'important things' i should make sure you're all aware of?"

"Beats me," is the helpful answer he gets. "I can survive anything so i don't really care. Just make sure to remind me you're still alive every now and then so i can keep you on payroll" can they please STOP manifesting his death he swears to god-- "i don't give a shit about the others either," skull continues to be oh so very helpful. "Oh wait, DO let me know if it looks like they're about to lose against supers or something!!" "So i can show up and make sure they DO lose" "LOLLLL"

"haha," tsuna says, because it feels lile the correct thing to say.

Maybe it was a mistake to accept this job.

"Leaving me on read, are you?" Reborn asks as tsuna's rethinking his life choices, because of fucking course he does ZHKSKS. 😭😂 (I love reborn so much.)

///

"You're quitting?" Yams repeats back at him with nothing short of the grief of a wife who just learned she lost her husband at war.

(IDK I REALLY LIKE YAMSTUSNA OKAY--)

"I mean, possibly?" Tsuna tries to soften the blow. "It's in the plans, but nothing's confirmed yet," he lies a little, because he very much did sign the contract already.

But he can always quit, right? So he'd rather wait for that first pay check if he even lasts that long before quitting his job. He can't just quit it cold turkey like that anyway, so it all works out.

"You found another job?" Gokudera asks, trying to not look as unaffected by the news as yams, and looking like the most abandoned and kicked puppy of all puppies anyway.

"Yeah. It kind of just happened." 

The restaurant's busy and he should move on from their table now he gave them their orders, but he's not the type to slack off and their regulars like him, so he's allowed to have these little chats as long as things aren't too busy.

"But i don't even have your number yet," yams says, in that particular tone of voice that always makes tsuna's cheeks grow warm.

"Well, it's against policy..."

"Just until your last day, right?" Gokudera says.

Tsuna scratches his cheek, feeling bad for denying them when he really likes them too, but... "Yeah, but you won't know which day it'll be, right?" It's also against policy for them to share their schedules with their customers.

"What about meeting at your house?" Yams tries. "I know where you live--" Gokudera kicks him under the table and shuts him up lol.

"Hello, welcome," tsuna greets some new customers before he turns their attention back to them. "Sorry, you were saying?"

"He said, what kind of job is it?" Gokudera says.

"Sorry, but i'm not allowed to say."

"That's okay. Where is it then? Which company?"

"Hm. I'm not allowed to say either..."

"You're going to work in the supers sector?" They immediately put 2 and 2 together, at which point the other regulars in the restaurant stop badly pretending they aren't eavesdropping on their conversation.

"With supers?" "Our tsuna?" "What if he ends up in danger?" "No way--"

"But i thought you just happened to end up with this job too and weren't interested in working with supers?" Yams asks, and the look of betrayal on his face stabs tsuna right through his heart.

"Right--"

"If i knew it was on the table and you were looking for another job, i would've--"

"At which company?" Gokudera scoffs.

"How hard can it be to make one?" Yams fires back. "Like you're not thinking the same too"

"Guys!" Tsuna cuts in. "Look, it just really happened out of the blue, i swear. The offer was just too good to refuse"

"But we all agreed to a pact of non-action--" gokudera kicks him under the table again zhzkskkd.

"What?"

"He meant, whose backstabbing b--" this time, it's yams who stomps on his foot under the table "--i mean, whose super are you going to work for?"

"Hm--i can't... say either, sorry..."

Gokudera narrows his eyes. "It's not going to be dangerous, is it?"

And tsuna, as always, feels warmth spread through him. "Not at all." It shouldn't be anyway, right? "But thank you for worrying. And i'm really sorry for dropping this on you so suddenly."

Yams immediately smiles at him with the force of a thousand suns, the smile reaching his eyes too, to tsuna's relief. "Don't worry about it! It's not like we can only see each other here, right?"

"Right!" tsuna perks up, because he'd really like it too if they could keep in touch somehow.

"But, you know, tsuna. If this is really all so sudden... Does kyoya know?"

Tsuna snorts. "What?" He laughs. "You're saying that like he's my dad or my boyfriend or something."

Yams laughs too. "Right?" He exchanges a glance with gokudera who is not laughing, and is still not laughing when he looks at him like he might as well keep laughing while he still can. "You totally don't need his permission for anything."

"Right? Hahahaha."

"Hahaha, yeah. Right, so..." He grins, trying to soften the blow as much as he can. "He doesn't know yet, does he?"

"Hahaha," tsuna keeps laughing. "Haha... Ha..."

Fuck.

He's doomed.

[hopeswriting]

Back again lol @mistingrain @otaku-reborn (btw this might be the last addition for all i know lol, but let me know whenever you want me to stop tagging you!)

The group chat stays completely inactive for a week and some, and tsuna's not sure what to make of it. He doesn't know if it's normal for them because the messages automatically deletes themselves every 12 hours, so he can't back read to see how often or not so often they use the group chat. He makes sure to check it every 4 hours at the very least too, so he knows it's not that he just so happens to miss them when they do use the group chat.

Well, even easier for him, right? He's going to get paid handsomely for literally doing nothing. They will still pay him even on months they don't use the group chat at all, right??

But tsuna being tsuna, it just gives him more anxiety over it lol. He'd like to feel like he's earned at least some of his salary, you see. Plus, what if this means bad news??

And okay, yes, maybe it's unlikely seeing as they're one of the strongest group of villains in the world and all, plus the news would definitely say something about it, but still. He'd like to know if he has to look for another job, especially if he ends up quitting the one at the restaurant to fully focus on this one.

(Plus, like. Spare some compassionate thoughts about their unlikely deaths, he guesses?? Or something. Whatever.)

(Oh, wait. Is this just their way of firing him by ghosting him???

Um, rude if true.)

Anyway. "Hello," he types to test the waters, and doesn't send it because it feels awkward somehow. "How's everyone doing today?" He adds to see if it makes it better and immediately deletes the whole thing lmao. "Hi," he tries again. "Is everyone all right?" And then makes a face at his message because who even is he to ask that lol. Also why wouldn't they be being who they are?? There's been no indication they aren't either.

(Because, see, tsuna's been doing his homework. He's been following the news about supers activities, especially supervillains, as well as following relevant pages, websites, blogs, hashtags and all that, and goggling stuff too every now and then, hoping none of that will put him on some kind of list lol. He also subscribed to the big superhero agencies' more likely to take on threats like the arco newsletters.

He figured it'd help him recognize the "important things" they'd share in the group chat, but then, very little about them is actually revealed to the general public or made accessible to them.

Well, no news is good news, right?)

"So," he settles on, not letting himself overthink it so he actually sends the message. "What do you guys do for work?"

And, of course, the arco immediately come online to dunk on him ZJDKSKS. "Well, who's asking? 🧐🤨" "Wait, no--" "Hunting innocents people for sports" "killing the weak and the oppressed" "LMAO you undercover dude??" "NO--!!!" "adding to the numbers of widows and orphans" "i already said that" "that's good to hear. They meet unfortunate ends when they are :)" "I'M NOT--" "overthrowing governments for fun" "blowing up places and such" "giving heroes a career" "LOLLL" "nice one lmao"

They keep making fun of him like tsuna isn't about to have a heart attack over it lmao. Turns out they're alive and well, though. They can even get along! Well, fucking good for them. 🙄🤬🙄🤬🙄

(HE'S ALREADY SO TIRED OF THEIR ASSES ZJEKZKDK--😭😭😭

I love tsuna so much. I love them all so much.)

"I just thought we could try to know each other better!!!" He manages to get a word in. "AND NOW YOU'RE FLIRTING WITH US???" Is what the arco say just to fuck with him more lmao. "Wait, but you don't even know what we look like" "Who do you think is the hottest between us?? There's only one right answer btw" "What else could i be but devastatingly handsome? Be serious"

Tsuna's face is beet red, and he'd be grateful if he could just explode right about now actually.

"I was just making sure i still had a job i'd get paid for by the end of the month," he sends. "Feel free to just leave me on read next time if you're going to be like this" "have a nice day"

And then he dips for the next 4 hours without waiting for an answer lol.

///

Meanwhile, on the 10th gen's group chat. Yes, they also have a group chat. And yes, i guess they're part of this verse too now.

(It's because i love them too, that's why.)

"You didn't hear it from me because i'm sure tsuna wants to tell you himself," yams says, "but he's planning to quit his job at the restaurant." And it's basically him dropping a bomb in front of their nice salads zjdksk. "WHAT" "what." "WHY???" "Did someone give him a hard time at work?" "What happened?" "Coworkers or customers? Their names?" "We'll see," is what hibari says lmao. "The fuck you mean???" Is what gokudera says in response. (😭😂) "He can do whatever the hell he wants"

"So suddenly?" the others ignore them. "He said the offer he got was too good to refuse," yams explains. "I can make him a good offer too--" "how GOOD could it have been--" "from whom?" Mukuro's the one to ask, which makes it obviously concerning lol. "A super," gokudera's the one to say.

"WHAT" "is this a joke? Tsuna's always said he'd rather not work in that field" "RIGHT???" "Wait because why can't i think of whose super it could be?" "He did end up as a district worker anyway tho" "he said the offer just kind of happened too" "IS IT A SUPER WHO DOESN'T EVEN BOTHER BEING A REGULAR AT HIS RESTAURANT???" "I KNOW RIGHT???" Yams says. "They don't even know him like we do or care about him as much as we do. The audacity--" "whose. Super is it?" Hibari asks. "And if you knew?????" Gokudera's the one to answer again, because he's never not on that 'clock hibari's bullshit' duty zjdkskdks. 😭 "Like tsuna will thank you for it" "tsuna said he's not allowed to say," yams offers helpfully.

"Wait wait wait. How are we gonna keep seeing him if he quits his job?? We didn't even get his number yet :(" "i know :(" yams says, because is he even yams if he doesn't take every opportunity to be hopelessly and pathetically lovesick about tsuna? "But you know, if the offer was from a super and he still accepted it..." Chrome starts. "WE are supers too" "what a funny thing to say," mukuro immediately clowns on that statement, that bitch LMAO. "That's fucking news to me," gokudera reluctantly agrees. "I doubt tsuna will care much about an offer from unknown, unaffiliated, part time, neighborhood supers. Who do it FOR FREE too in case you idiots forgot" "don't forget unregistered," mukuro adds, because god forbid you mistake him as the type to comply with governments. "I have money," hibari corrects, because god forbid you think him the type to be poor lmao.

"THAT'S ONLY BECAUSE WE EXTREMELY NEED TO BE TSUNA'S TYPE" ryohei defends. "Yeah yeah yeah!!!" Yams backs him up. "It's not like we couldn't compete with all the great supers out there if we wanted to" "we just need to get our names out there" "then should we stage some kind of big, national incident and be the ones to resolve it?" Chrome asks, to which nobody actually goes 'what about no????' Because they're all insane in the heads. Also nothing is ever too much if it's for tsuna, you see. 😌☺️ Anyway, as they're all trying to work out the logistics of that, yams remember the most important thing.

"OH WAIT GUYS!!!" "Holy shit i can't believe i almost forgot" "yes?" "???" "So as we were talking, tsuna mentioned the idea of him having a BOYfriend and..." "AND????" "go on." "hurry up and spit it out" "he seemed totally A-OKAY WITH THAT CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT GUYS" "Good for you guys," chrome says supportively as the chat goes crazy in joy. They've already figured out he's attracted to girls too, you see haha

[hopeswriting]

And again

CW: suicide mention

@mistingrain @otaku-reborn

"your boyfriend's here," one of tsuna's coworkers tells him.

"Which one?" He says, because they're busy and don't have time for the usual 'not my boyfriend/whatever you say' back and forth.

"The weirdo one." Now of course they're ALL weirdos, but the last one who acted the weirdest gets to wear that badge of honor until one of the others ones-up them lol. Plus tsuna's learned to guess whose not-boyfriends his coworkers are talking about going by their tone of voices and stuff.

(OR his not-girlfriend too. ☝🏽 but there's only one so that immediately makes it easier lol. UNLESS ✋🏽 kyoko and haru have something to say about that, but they haven't let me know yet if it's the case.)

"Kyoya?" He asks anyway, hoping against all hope.

"Yep, that one. He's waiting for you in the boss' office."

Shit.

"Hi?" He says after he walks in without knocking, because hibari isn't actually the boss of them or anything. He doesn't even have anything to do with the restaurant OR their actual boss as far as tsuna knows and can tell. Would that have ever stopped him to make himself at home in the boss' office like he owns the place whenever he comes by? Lol. Of course not. "Is this urgent? Because we're kind of busy right now--"

"Spit it out," is what hibari says, sitting behind the desk and looking none-too threatening lmao, so of course tsuna's happy to stay right by the door.

"No can do."

"Or i can beat it out of you."

"No thanks. I still wouldn't even if you did--"

"That's what they all say."

"--because i legally agreed not to," he finishes before he rolls his eyes. Jeez. And so what if he still backs up further against the door? He's been bitten to death and has seen other people be bitten to death by hibari before, thank you very much. "So like, it's not that i don't want to tell you or would mind telling you, which I think should make you at least 5% less angry about it."

"I will find out regardless."

"Um, yeah?" he says just as obviously. Tsuna doesn't doubt one of the greatest group of villains in the world isn't so easily found out against their will, but he isn't about to doubt hibari's skills and sheer will either. "And i would have had nothing to do with it, which we'd all be able to agree on." Which also means they'll leave tsuna out of it as they duke it out or whatever until they figure things out.

"You don't work with supers," hibari says, and his accusing tone pricks at tsuna's heart a little in guilt.

"I mean... I kind of have been anyway for the last couple of years, right?"

"Around supers," he corrects.

Which. Yeah, he's not wrong. Only on their days off too. But it doesn't change the fact it's common for villains to take a shot at targeting the district or for supers' disagreement to turn into fights that get out of hands.

So like. The job with the arcos is technically safer than the one at the restaurant.

"Really? Because if you want to play it like that, then i'm only going to work for supers now. Far away from any actual supers activities too."

"This is a government job."

Tsuna blinks, his mouth hanging open silently, needing a moment to get what hibari's getting at. Hibari can only say so many words at once and only so many sentences successively after all. He gotta keep that cool, mysterious and unbothered air about him at all time, you see.

Tsuna swallows back his laugh and purses his lips to hide his smile. He's so silly.

"I know." So maybe this really doesn't come across as a sound decision to make overnight without knowing all the facts, huh? (< he says, like he wouldn't come across as even crazier if people DID know all the facts about his new job and how he ended up getting it. 😭 if they'd even believe him to begin with lmao. but actually, the people who know him WOULD, in fact, believe him, because tsuna's just as crazy as the rest of them esgxcvd, let us never forget. ☝🏽) Landing a job as a district worker is basically the dream job for civilians with awakened powers who aren't interested in a super career, but also whose power is just that little too much suited for it for them to not make a living out of it. "but they're going to pay me more for doing an easier job that will take less of my time than this one. It'd have been stupid of me to refuse, right?"

Hibari narrows his eyes at him for a long moment before he scoffs and stands. Tsuna lets his shoulders drop, the matter settled for now, grinning despite himself.

It's always nice to be reminded he now has people who trust him to make his own decisions, and who trust he put thoughts behind them no matter how sudden they might be. Even nicer and warmer when they still worry about it anyway for no other reason than they care about him.

Tsuna still moves along the wall to keep the distance between him and hibari as he walks closer, because he knows his silly and weirdos not-boyfriends and not-girlfriend, okay? 😂

"It'd be more believable if you were being stupid about it."

"It's a real job! You know it's hard to fool me about these kinds of things."

"There's no need to fool you to coerce or threaten you."

"Well, no one's doing that, so let's not manifest it."

"Here I thought you wanted a peaceful and long life--"

"I do, stop!" he shouts, making hibari laugh. Tsuna holds back his own laugh as best as he can so he can keep acting upset. "I swear, you're always so--"

Hibari stops in front of the door, crossing his arms on his chest, an unrepentant smirk on his face. "It's hard to believe when these things just keep 'kind of happening' to you."

Tsuna huffs, crossing his arms on his chest too right back. "You say that like I chose to have it be this way. And it never led me wrong anyway." Which doesn't mean it's always pleasant to go through, at best, but they both already know that. "Besides," he adds, both his tone and his grin cheeky, "if things come to that and i can't figure it out myself, you'll just have to come to rescue me, won't you?"

"It'll cost you," hibari shoots right back with a blank face. "I'll add it to your tab. A real one i've been keeping track of. One i expect you--"

Tsuna throws his hands up in the air. "Fine, i get it! Oh my god--don't you have to go? aren't you busy? i'm not keeping you." Hibari spares him from outright laughing at his face, but he's grinning at him, his eyes full of unapologetic mischievousness that totally does not make tsuna sulk in response. "Whatever. How do you even know about this anyway?"

"How do you think? I haven't heard it from takeshi because you want to tell us yourself."

That makes him huff a laugh, forgetting all about how he's supposed to be sulking. "You're just gonna tattle on him like that?"

"You don't look like you care."

"I mean, it's not like i asked them to keep quiet about it so i don't mind. I was planning to tell you guys about it too." Hibari doesn't look convinced. "I was! Andmaybeiwasplanningtotellyoulasttoo," he adds quickly, muttering and averting his eyes. Hibari just dismissively turns to the door and reaches for the doorknob lol. "oh, wait! i've always wanted to ask, but what happens to our boss when you take over her office like this?"

"Do you need to know?"

"Do you know? or you don't care as long as she lets you kick her out of her own office without a fuss?" Hibari dismissively opens the door, and tsuna doesn't even bother rolling his eyes about it. Typical. "Oh, wait, wait!!!" he shouts again. "Is that all?" That gets a reaction out of hibari, making him frown. "I mean, i plan to quit this job and you don't have my number either--"

"You think i can't have it even if you don't give it to me?"

"I'll ignore that and you better not," tsuna says casually with the expertise of habit. "Also you don't have to say these kinds of things out loud." hibari looks unimpressed, but tsuna still sees how the corners of his lips twitch. "Anyway, hayato and takeshi were so sad to hear it, but you're not going to give me anything? That hurts my feelings--" Hibari slams the door behind him ZFSDFDS. "Say hi to the others for me!" Tsuna shouts after him and then just laughs about it.

Jeez. He didn't even stay long enough for tsuna to ask him how he's been doing lately.

God forbid tsuna tries to be the one to initiate the flirting with his not-boyfriends and not-girlfriend for once. 🙄

(he loves his silly weirdos so much.)

///

"oh," fon sends him privately not long after. "it's been quite busy lately, so i just got around to do my own proper background check on you," he lets him know entirely unprompted and unneeded and also unwelcomed if tsuna's honest about it lmao. like, okay??? he already figured out that much and they've already made it clear too. why the sudden, threatening reminder of it?? "you know quite the interesting people :)" tsuna squints at his message, trying to make sense of it. does... he? (he's talking about hibari.) he guesses he's... familiar with a lot of supers due to the nature of his job, but... wait. is he insinuating something? (he's not. he's just talking about him knowing hibari.) "the world really is small, isn't it?" well. that's definitely a threat. right? isn't it?? right??? (it's not. he's just talking about hibari zjdksfsd. 😭😂)

"is that so? ^^" is the least incriminating thing tsuna can think of sending after thinking about it hard. "^^" fon sends back as if he doesn't know (he doesn't 😭) it just adds to tsuna's self-inflicted psychological warfare lmao.

(this isn't necessarily meant to go anywhere btw. i just thought if i ever get around to the scene where tsuna realizes hibari and fon both know each other and also are related, it'd be fun to set up the opportunity for fon to go "yes, we do know each other. i already told you about it, remember?" only for tsuna to go "THAT's what you meant??? i thought you were just threatening me for no reason!!! how was i supposed to figure out that's what you meant???" 😂)

///

tsuna keeps sending messages in the group chat every now and then to make sure the arcos are still alive and well. or still alive at the very least. they're one of the strongest groups of villains in the world and all that, sure, sure, but things move fast in the supers world, okay? you never know.

at first he still feels awkward about it, so he only sticks to safe and polite messages like "good morning" "the weather doesn't look too good today" "have a nice day" and such, cringing about it the whole time. 😂 and by now, he also totally expects the arcos clowning on him for it when they don't just leave him on read like he asked, because of course they do lol. anything from "dude, you're such a weirdo" "shall we hold hands and thank the lord for allowing us another day as well?" "HAHAHA" to "what about wishing us good night too?? :(" and such. so tsuna sends "good night" that day as his last message for the day, and of course, they all leave him on read ZAKEDKDF.

(it's fine tho, he was totally expecting something like that haha!! he just rolled his eyes about it and moved on, but also makes it a point to tell them good morning and wish them good night every day anyway from then on. 😂)

as he gets a feel of what they'll allow and what they're comfortable with, he becomes more natural and spontaneous with his messages. "i almost missed my bus" and "went on break just in time to avoid an annoying customer! lucky" and "i should probably try to cook and not just order takeout for dinner again, right?" basically just sharing random thoughts and keeping them updated on small stuff about his life. he doesn't expect them to answer him either. again, it's just so he can see who reads his messages (or who has yet to) so he's sure they're still alive and, more importantly ☝🏽, will pay him for his work zdffds. (listen, living costs money, all right?)

they DO answer him more and more tho. and make fun of him more often than not too lmao, but he's starting to suspect that's just them being friendly towards him and warming up to him. (it is. <3) "are you still in the process of quitting your job at the restaurant?" is what he gets today. "or do you plan to work two jobs?" "wait, did skull reduce your salary on the actual contract??" "EXCUSE ME--" "damn, dude. you poor or something?" "I DIDNT--" "as he should," viper says. "who pays mere underlings so much money?" which, hmmm. granted, tsuna doesn't know the average pay of an underling depending on the job they're doing, but he's been under the impression he's meant to handle very sensitive information about them, so like. well, you know. he's just saying. 🙄😤 "what a shocker to hear you say that, viper," reborn says. "lmao" "IM PAYING HIM EXACTLY AS MUCH AS I SAID I WOULD SHUT UP!!!!!" "TELL THEM TSUNA" "well, maybe you should reconsider if you really have financial issues?" fon helpfully and genuinely advises. "ZJDSKFSK"

"yo tsuna, are you writing a novel over there??" nello's the one to eventually ask, to which tsuna scoffs disbelievingly. he's been TRYING to get a word in, but how is he supposed to keep up with them when they're all a bunch of professional yappers-- "maybe if you'd all shut the fuck up for a bit," lal says. "ladies first," verde shoots back. "bitch," she says. "guess that makes two ladies among us now" "LOLLLL" "damn. she fucking killed you verde" damn, tsuna agrees. He hasn’t been able to talk yet, but maybe he should shut the fuck up too just in case. 😭😂

"it makes them slack off and greedy at the same time when you pay them too much," reborn says like they never digressed from that conversation. and, like. unwarranted much??? "MY money??????" skull says. "that’s mean," tsuna finally manages to get a word in at the same time. is it HIS fault they have yet to share anything work-related so he can do the job they hired him for?? "and MY underlings too so mind your own fucking business" "'that’s mean' he said LMAO" "next thing you know he'll call us bad people too" "this is a grown-up conversation," reborn says, making tsuna almost scoff out a lung. "i'm a grown-up too" "why are you even listening in on our conversation?" "you're the ones who added me to your group chat???" in response to which reborn immediately kicks him out of the group chat EZKFLDSLD. 😭😭😭

(i love reborn so much.)

///

when they add him back in the following day, tsuna decides to stand up for himself and stops sending them messages. he DOES, in fact, have a backbone of his own, okay?

To his surprise (and maybe he's a little happy about it too), the arcos waste no time being the first ones to reach out, tho of course, they're childish and tease him about it lol. "man, there's just something missing about this morning today" "right? it's like it could have been good, but for some reason it can't manage to" "my day didn't go so well today. i wonder why" "does anyone else's nights suck all of a sudden??" "i just can't seem to wake up well-rested these days"

tsuna holds on strong and totally doesn't smile and giggle to himself as he leaves them on read.

"i feel like someone used to care about these type of things before" "but did they really ever care if they can stop giving a shit about it so easily?" "well, maybe it says something about us. should we just go and die in a ditch somewhere?" "right. should we go and kill ourselves about it?" "should we go and kill other people about it?" is what reborn says. "it might simply be a matter of releasing some stress" and as much as tsuna sees right through him, he still can't help but give in and send "don't"

"COME ONNN TSUNA!!!!!" the other arcos immediately go off on him haha. "watch and learn, peasants," reborn says, somehow managing to convey just how smug he is about it through the screen. "you could have answered to ANYONE else!!!" "well, maybe someone else should have thought about it first then!!!" he defends. he's ALSO annoyed about it, okay???

///

meanwhile, on the other 10th gen's group chat with lambo in it too. who they're just as close to, don't get them wrong (and lambo knows they have another group chat without him). but they can't freely simp about tsuna when he's there too, that's all lol.

"hey, lambo!" "is this about tsuna-nii?" lambo instantly calls them out. "you only remember i exist when it has to do with tsuna-nii" "come on kiddo, not true!!!" yams says. "so make yourself useful and tells us about him, idiot-cow," gokudera says at the same time lmao. "we already know you've been doing extremely well!!!!" ryohei tries to salvage it. "hearing it from haru-nee and kyoko-nee doesn't count," lambo keeps sulking. "you've been doing well," hibari repeats ominously. "but i can help you make it otherwise if you want to keep whining about it, little animal" "that's so mean kyoya-nii-san 😢🥺😢" "not helping, guys" "and scary... 😢😢" "and i'm not even wrong!!! 😢😢😢😢" wait idiot-cow DONT--" lambo logs off, which is one of his favorite card to play against them zfesfgh.

"what if it was something urgent???" gokudera immediately gets on his ass when he finally deigns logging in again. "humph. as if i wouldn't know anything that has to do with tsuna-nii" "did you hear about his new job then?" chrome asks. "we just want to make sure there's nothing weird about it!" ryohei adds.

lambo types and deletes it and types again. and types and deletes it again.

"wait, you didn't know??" yams says. "I DID", he lies. "He didn't tell even you?" "well, well. what did tsunayoshi get himself into this time?" "HE TOLD ME ABOUT IT TOO" "HA! stop lying idiot-cow" "isn't this extremely weird??" "so much for knowing everything about him when he actually told me and the baseball-idiot first," gokudera keeps boasting to a 15yo lmao. "ITS NOT AS IF IM REALLY HIS BROTHER" lambo snaps, and the group chat goes dead silent in shock.

"THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT" he quickly sends when he realizes just what he said. "the fuck???" "I DIDNT MEAN IT" "THATS EXTREMELY WRONG OF YOU TO SAY LAMBO" "lambo-kun" "did you have a fight with tsuna, lambo?" "NO--" "BUT BAKADERA KEPT TEASING ME--" "tsuna-kun would be heartbroken to hear you say that," chrome casually says, making sure lambo will feel the absolute worst about it. 😭😭😭

"thank you for this very useful screenshot," mukuro pipes up. "...you don't mean that, right?" "oh, it's not for any immediate use, don't worry." "but i'm sure it'll prove useful one of these days" "mukuro-nii--" lambo tries, but mukuro pulls a uno reverse on him and logs off zfefsds. "...isn't anyone gonna say something about this?" he asks. "DO something about it????" "your problem," gokudera says. "you should be more careful with what you say, lambo, okay?" yams isn't any more helpful. and neither is ryohei's "i'm sure he was just joking, you know how he is!!!" "😢😢😢😢😢" "fine" "i have screenshots of my own too" "okay now," yams quickly sends. "let's all--" lambo logs off again lmao.

"first of all," he says when he logs back in a while later. "tsuna-nii said the only reason he had yet to tell me is because he didn't want to distract me from my EXAMS" "oh right!!!" "did it go well??" "when will you get the results?" "HUMPH" "too late" "i will only CONSIDER forgiving you if you buy me a thousand grapes juice boxes and a million candy" "so did you hear anything about his new job or not???" gokudera asks. "what about it?" "whose super is he working for?" "i don't know" "he said he isn't allowed to say" "but aren't you usually able to at least say which agency your work for?" yams muses. "i mean, if the offer was really that good, it can't have come from a freelance super, right?" "But what about kyoya? Some freelance supers get by just fine" "wait, why do we care?" lambo asks. "is he doing something dangerous??" "that's what we're trying to figure out, idiot-cow" "tsuna already said it isn't dangerous tho," ryohei reminds them. "And he extremely wouldn't lie to us about it!" "maybe it's just that sensitive and confidential a job," chrome says, making them all sit a bit on it.

"soooo...." yams eventually starts. "do we stop looking into it?" "Should we?" "but how are we supposed to give him an even better offer if we don't know anything about how good theirs is? :(" "are we still going with the plan then?" gokudera asks.

"what plan??" lambo immediately grows concerned. "oh my god" "what plan???" "something to say, little animal?" "Oh my god--" "hahaha, don't worry! It's nothing bad," yams says, about their plan to stage a big, national incident for their debut as proper supers. because that's the plan btw. the plan lambo totally doesn't have to worry about. yeah, that plan. "oh my GOD--" lambo totally worries about it, because they've done this before. 😭 "at least make sure you won't have to use plans B to Z all right???" "your plan As are already always the worst and suck enough as it is" and then he logs off again before they can tell him off for saying the truth✌🏽✨😌😂

[uwu-kore]

Yes ofc this isnt a fic, Hope, this isnt a fic. Just a very long, 20k words, with worldbuilding and carefully written 'tumblr post' that is updated every week. Nice try in denial, Hope, you are almost as good as tsuna now :P keep trying and maybe this post will take a spot in your khr fic collections on ao3 :)

[hopeswriting]

Is this already at 20k words. 😭 THE WORLDBUILDING'S HAPPENING AGAINST MY WILL. ✋🏽 Like all worldbuilding i end up having to do for any of my stories actually lmao. Somehow i never see it coming that writing aus also means figuring out how those alternate universes work. 😂

Anyway. I might have some more scenes left for this story WHO SAID THAT???

[uwu-kore]

Thee pheathers' khr collection/works that is about to go from 96 to 97 🎉🙌

[hopeswriting]

[ID: Screenshot of my works on ao3 for the fandom Katekyo Hitman Reborn. /End ID]

OH RIGHT HAHA. You know, i've actually been thinking if i should make a series on ao3 for my tumblr exclusive stories. Which'd stop being tumblr exclusive once i'd have cross-posted them over on ao3 lol, but you know. I kind of like the idea of having tumblr exclusive stories tho. But at the same time, the idea has also kind of always been to post them over on ao3 too once i'd consider them "proper, finished stories" (idk what that means either 😭), but who knows when that'll ever happen lmao.

On another note, i feel like i've been stuck at 96 works for forever now zbdksks. Like, every time i post a new work, somehow it's still and always my 96 work haha

[uwu-kore]

I HOPE I DID NOT PRESSURE YOU TO POST IT ON AO3 AGHCHFCHT PLS HAVE A TUMBLR EXCLUSIVE FICS CUZ THIS PLACE IS LIKE A SECRET UNDERGROUND BASEMENT FOR THE FANDOM AND I NEED A REASON TO COME BACK HERE

Anddd for the fics on ao3, 96 is Chromes number so i was hoping that you would keep it like that for a while hehehe

[hopeswriting]

I think about that writing prompt about a hero ending up in the villains' group chat i reblogged back then sometimes. How i immediately felt like having tsuna in the hero's role, and then very predictably paired him up with the arcos as the villains lol. I'm not sorry about it. <3

So there's tsuna who isn't actually a hero but a nobody civilian, who first thinks this is someone playing a prank on him because no way he just got added to the actual group chat of one of the most notorious group of villains in the world. Tsuna who goes from "um, hi? Can i help you?" But then never actually gets to "i think there was some kind of mistake here" because the arcos are a bunch of yappers.

And at some point between "who the fuck is that?" "Is he one of you guys' underlings?" "Since when are we adding underlings to this group chat?" "Why don't you just hold a press conference to reveal all of our most sensitive information on live tv while you're at it, skull?", skull goes "i added him on purpose!!!" You know, like a liar. He IS the one who added tsuna, and judging by the others' reactions, he clearly wasn't meant to, but he doesn't remember why the hell it was on his to-do-list to do then?? Also the guy's profile picture and name don't even ring any fucking bell. Wait, was he supposed to add him to his underlings' group chat instead?? Ugh, whatever!!!

(Did tsuna... apply to become a group of villains' underling? He doesn't remember that.)

"What purpose?" The arcos continue to yap. "Aren't we always bitching about how nobody ever reads what the others have to say on here??" Skull says. "Well, there you have it! He can keep track of it and let us know of the important things!"

(Did tsuna... apply for this specific position as an underling?? He doesn't remember that either.)

"Why the fuck are you deciding that on your own?" Tsuna reads with a steadily increasing ominous feeling, because these guys sure seem to take this prank very seriously. "Is he even trustworthy?" "Haven't you guys ever heard of a trial period?" Skull defends. "And WHERE is he gonna let us know of those important things again??" They ignore him. "In the same group chat we never read???" "YOU'RE READING IT RIGHT NOW AREN'T YOU???? FUCK YOU--"

"I actually already have a job, so..." Tsuna says, to which the arcos instantly go off on him because "why the fuck did you apply then???" And also "so???" Skull says, because his reputation is on the line here. "Just quit???"

(Did Tsuna really apply to this job, though? He guesses he must have, right? But did he really, though?

For the life of him, he really just can't remember.)

"Well, i kind of need the money, so..." He tries again, and feels himself lose 3 years of his life when they all go silent for a bit.

"You think we make our underlings work for free??" They start talking again all at the same time. "YOU THINK I DON'T PAY MY UNDERLINGS THE JUST SALARY FOR THEIR WORK????" Skull says, outraged. "PLUS ALL THE BENEFITS MIND YOU," he adds, because the FUCK does tsuna take him for???? "Well, i guess he at least won't have any problems saying the things he wants to say to us," reborn says.

"Well," tsuna keeps typing in a momentary lapse of sanity, "how much are we talking about...?"

"What do you mean how much?" The arcos keep yapping. "Didn't you read the contract?" "Didn't skull make you one?" "YES I DID," skull lies. ("THERE MUST HAVE BEEN AN ISSUE WHEN I SENT IT THE FIRST TIME," he keeps lying in tsuna's dms. "I'LL SEND IT AGAIN SOON.") "Do you just commit to things you don't know about?" "Are you stupid?", meanwhile skull sends in the group chat ten times the amount he usually offers, just to make sure to get one over the other arcos about how he's the one paying his underlings the most.

And, well. It sure IS more than what tsuna's current job pays him. Plus all the benefits?

"Am i really talking to the real arcobaleno?" He finally brings himself to ask before the offered money can make him lose all sense of self-preservation.

"Is your current job being a comedian?" Is the first answer he gets. "LMAO" "Whose dumbfuck wannabe villains out there would dare to use our names, let alone pretend to be us?" "Do we have to go on a purge again and remind everyone why they shouldn't do that?"

"Please don't," tsuna quickly types and sends in dawning and horrifying realization.

Is this really happening? Are they really the arcobaleno? 

They sure act like it.

"Don't tell us what to do." "Who the fuck asked for your opinion?"

"I won't kill anyone," tsuna takes the opportunity to say while they're on the subject. "And would like to be the least involved possible in any of your killings. Or crimes in general," he adds as an afterthought.

To which the arcos instantly go off on him again because "But YOU applied to work with US????" "Why the fuck keeping track of a group chat would involve you killing anyone??" "Who is it you're saying you'd have to kill? One of us?"

Tsuna feels himself lose 5 years of his life as he looks at the last message in horror, and then another 10 years when they all go dead silent again.

Oh god. He didn't fucking say that???? Oh fuck.

Is he dead? Are they gonna track him down and kill him?

Are they gonna kill him without even granting him his trial period even when he's apparently crazy enough to actually consider accepting the job?

"Where the hell do you even find these people, skull?" They eventually start yapping again, and tsuna starts breathing again. "You let your underlings talk to you like that?" "At least MY underlings actually TALK to me like the fellow human being i am" "debatable" "and you're proud of it?" "It's because even them can tell you're a fucking pushover lmao" "all of you shut the hell up. Does anyone actually have something important to say? Otherwise i'm out of here" "good fucking riddance," skull says. "Tsunayoshi, is it?"

"Yes, but you can just call me tsuna," he says, because what else is even there to say?

"As long as i don't have to hear directly from these guys ever again, i'll even pay you a million dollars a month"

"Haha," he says, because it feels like the correct thing to say.

"Oh, was that funny to you?" Reborn says, because of fucking course he does lmao.

And already, tsuna can see his shortened lifespan (in spirit) flash before his eyes.

[hopeswriting]

i was hesitating whether to share this because it doesn't really advance the story or anything, plus this turned out to be less of a chat fic and more of a proper narrative story, but i figured the interactions in and of themselves would be fun to see haha. @mistingrain @otaku-reborn have a little addition to this verse!

Skull sends him the contract. Tsuna reads it through. Signs it and sends it back before he can think better of it.

He receives a package the very next day with a phone in it. It's the exact same one as the one he has, except it's immediately apparent when he turns it on that this one is at the height of technology. It comes with a second screen where the group chat app is and that can only be accessed when he's the one holding the phone, among other features.

Otherwise it appears to be a normal phone, and Tsuna clones all the data of his phone to the new one before he sends the old one back to the sender as instructed.

As soon as he turns the phone on and logs onto the group chat app, he gets jump scared by the arco all sending him private messages.

They range from "I'm sure you know what'll happen to you if you get any funny ideas with the information you'll be privy to" to "better get a will ready now you're in this line of work" and "hello. Let us hope you last long enough to at least make it past your trial period :)" but also "don't bother me with needless information. All i need to know are the information needed to help me make a profit or avoid a loss"

Which. Okay. Not unexpected from a group of villains, but also very much not needed. He has no intention of getting any "funny ideas" whatsoever, thank you very much. Because he'd very much like to stay alive, so he won't be writing a will either actually. Wouldn't want to jinx it and all that. Especially when, again, he very much plans to stay alive for another long while, thank you very much.

Reborn sends "i know everything there is to know about you" which. Yeah. His contact information on the contract skull sent him made that much clear, plus the fact they sent him the exact same phone model as the one he was using wasn't exactly subtle either. Not to mention they even knew somehow he apparently applied to this job before even he himself did. But even without any of that, he was expecting the background check.

"Look out the window," reborn sends as soon as tsuna reads his first message.

Tsuna's heart picks up its pace as he hurries to his window. What does he mean? Are they watching him?? Will they be watching him??? Did they send someone to get rid of him? But he didn't even have the time to do anything yet!!!

Should he have negotiated a clause about not invading his privacy without cause too?

"You're not actually looking out the window, are you?" Reborn has sent when tsuna checks his phone again. "The first thing you should have done is duck out of its line of sight. Second is to secure all access to you. And third to grab a weapon in case it's more than just a bluff" "Do you even really want this job?" "Tsk, tsk"

Tsuna looks at the messages with his jaw on the fucking floor. Really?? Is that what this guy plans to be all about? Making him fear for his life and taking years off it while he's at it for shits and giggles?

And at once, he completely understands why someone would be willing to pay someone else a million dollars a month just to not have to deal with him lmao.

"Why would you choose skull to be the boss of you??" Nello asks, to which tsuna just goes "???" because what are they even talking about now? "I mean, you wanted to work for skull out of all of us???" Nello continues to yap, and tsuna goes even more "????" because, well. What else choice was even there when skull was the one offering the job?? Or were they all listing the job and he chose to apply with skull? Or something--whatever??? But it didn't seem like they were aware it was something skull was up to, did it?

(Tsuna still does not remember how he ended up with this job.

He doesn't plan to mention it either now he's made it this far regardless.)

"Um, well, i mean," he awkwardly fumbles, "i'm sure you're all very nice—" a pause so he can cringe at himself "—and you're definitely all super impressive!!" More cringing even if it's not untrue zbdksjsk. "But—" another pause because he doesn't know what to fucking say??? What if he says the wrong thing and nello holds it against him and stops him from keeping the job??? "—i like the way skull looks?" He settles on, which is also not untrue, but also not an opinion he can say he's been actively having lol. "He looks cool ^^"

"Lmao," nello sends before he immediately switches to the group chat and sends "rate skull's fit on a scale of 0 to 10. Negative numbers allowed" to tsuna's fucking HORROR AJEKSKS. 😭😂 "UNPROVOKED????" Skull says. "i'll start," nello ignores him, "-10" and then of course, the other arcos waste no time pitching in too. "6" "3" "1, for sparing us from the sight of his face" "5" "2"

"Wow," skull says. "Fuck you guys first of all, like i asked or give a shit second of all, and WHO's talking again????" "Mister i can't move on from my military days himself??? Mister camo clothes is the peak of fashion himself???" "Green AND blond, really??????? You're ugly enough as it is"

The chat, of course, goes fucking crazy zheksjs. And tsuna would be highkey laughing too if he wasn't too horrified at this being his doing lmao.

"Reborn laughed too btw," viper makes sure to let everyone know as nello and skull keep going at each other. "None of your business," is all reborn can say because it'd be useless to deny it when they're all aware of viper's power. "OH YEAH???" Nello turns right on him. "That's not what you were fucking saying last night, bitch" "wouldn't that be because you were naked then?" Fon muses. "Oh?" Lal says at the same time. "Do share with the class" "yeah??" Skull says, also at the same time, because they're all yappers lest we forget. "I don't need confirmation to know i'm the funniest guy you guys know"

"You see our issue," verde sends tsuna as the others continue to yap in the group chat. "Even if we did read the group chat, we'd still end up dead before we could get to the point."

Tsuna breathes out a laugh, half nervous, half disbelieving, and half genuinely amused. And yes, the math is wrong. Well, you won't believe this, but tsuna's never been all that good at math.

Anyway. He DOES very much see the issue. So that's why they all sent him private messages so he could contact them privately. That's where he's supposed to let them know of the "important things", huh?

You'd think the convenience of a group chat instead of sending the same message to everyone multiple times would make them get over... whatever they have going on between them, but who's tsuna to tell them how they should behave, right?

What ARE those "important things" tho?? Especially if they're going to each have their own meaning of it if viper's message is anything to go by. Should he ask everyone the question and see what they say?

"Skull-san," he decides to ask skull first. He can call him skull-san, right? Or should he call him boss instead? Would that be more underling-like?? Well, he wouldn't fucking know that. "I was wondering--" he's in the middle of typing when skull sends him a message too that only says, "TSUNA" "Yes?" Tsuna quickly deletes and sends instead. Shit. Did nello tattle on him??? But he complimented him so he should be fine, right??? Or has something "important" been shared in the group chat and he missed it?

Oh wait. Does skull want him to answer to what he first sent him? What was it again?

"Yo tsuna" "don't ever listen to anything the others have to say about me, 'kay?" "I'm the one paying you anyway, so you can just ignore them" "actually i'll even give you a bonus for every time you withhold information from them and it gets them in trouble lol" "plus a promotion if it ends up killing them LOL"

Right, that.

Haha. Lol. Yeah, right.

Tsuna will NOT fucking do that, thank you very much. He's not a big fan of actively trying to get himself killed, you see.

"You see the bullshit i've had to deal with???" Is what skull says. "Why would anyone care about anything these guys have to say when they're always like this, right???"

"Actually, i've been meaning to ask, skull-san," tsuna strategically avoids answering, "but what are the 'important things' i should make sure you're all aware of?"

"Beats me," is the helpful answer he gets. "I can survive anything so i don't really care. Just make sure to remind me you're still alive every now and then so i can keep you on payroll" can they please STOP manifesting his death he swears to god-- "i don't give a shit about the others either," skull continues to be oh so very helpful. "Oh wait, DO let me know if it looks like they're about to lose against supers or something!!" "So i can show up and make sure they DO lose" "LOLLLL"

"haha," tsuna says, because it feels lile the correct thing to say.

Maybe it was a mistake to accept this job.

"Leaving me on read, are you?" Reborn asks as tsuna's rethinking his life choices, because of fucking course he does ZHKSKS. 😭😂 (I love reborn so much.)

///

"You're quitting?" Yams repeats back at him with nothing short of the grief of a wife who just learned she lost her husband at war.

(IDK I REALLY LIKE YAMSTUSNA OKAY--)

"I mean, possibly?" Tsuna tries to soften the blow. "It's in the plans, but nothing's confirmed yet," he lies a little, because he very much did sign the contract already.

But he can always quit, right? So he'd rather wait for that first pay check if he even lasts that long before quitting his job. He can't just quit it cold turkey like that anyway, so it all works out.

"You found another job?" Gokudera asks, trying to not look as unaffected by the news as yams, and looking like the most abandoned and kicked puppy of all puppies anyway.

"Yeah. It kind of just happened." 

The restaurant's busy and he should move on from their table now he gave them their orders, but he's not the type to slack off and their regulars like him, so he's allowed to have these little chats as long as things aren't too busy.

"But i don't even have your number yet," yams says, in that particular tone of voice that always makes tsuna's cheeks grow warm.

"Well, it's against policy..."

"Just until your last day, right?" Gokudera says.

Tsuna scratches his cheek, feeling bad for denying them when he really likes them too, but... "Yeah, but you won't know which day it'll be, right?" It's also against policy for them to share their schedules with their customers.

"What about meeting at your house?" Yams tries. "I know where you live--" Gokudera kicks him under the table and shuts him up lol.

"Hello, welcome," tsuna greets some new customers before he turns their attention back to them. "Sorry, you were saying?"

"He said, what kind of job is it?" Gokudera says.

"Sorry, but i'm not allowed to say."

"That's okay. Where is it then? Which company?"

"Hm. I'm not allowed to say either..."

"You're going to work in the supers sector?" They immediately put 2 and 2 together, at which point the other regulars in the restaurant stop badly pretending they aren't eavesdropping on their conversation.

"With supers?" "Our tsuna?" "What if he ends up in danger?" "No way--"

"But i thought you just happened to end up with this job too and weren't interested in working with supers?" Yams asks, and the look of betrayal on his face stabs tsuna right through his heart.

"Right--"

"If i knew it was on the table and you were looking for another job, i would've--"

"At which company?" Gokudera scoffs.

"How hard can it be to make one?" Yams fires back. "Like you're not thinking the same too"

"Guys!" Tsuna cuts in. "Look, it just really happened out of the blue, i swear. The offer was just too good to refuse"

"But we all agreed to a pact of non-action--" gokudera kicks him under the table again zhzkskkd.

"What?"

"He meant, whose backstabbing b--" this time, it's yams who stomps on his foot under the table "--i mean, whose super are you going to work for?"

"Hm--i can't... say either, sorry..."

Gokudera narrows his eyes. "It's not going to be dangerous, is it?"

And tsuna, as always, feels warmth spread through him. "Not at all." It shouldn't be anyway, right? "But thank you for worrying. And i'm really sorry for dropping this on you so suddenly."

Yams immediately smiles at him with the force of a thousand suns, the smile reaching his eyes too, to tsuna's relief. "Don't worry about it! It's not like we can only see each other here, right?"

"Right!" tsuna perks up, because he'd really like it too if they could keep in touch somehow.

"But, you know, tsuna. If this is really all so sudden... Does kyoya know?"

Tsuna snorts. "What?" He laughs. "You're saying that like he's my dad or my boyfriend or something."

Yams laughs too. "Right?" He exchanges a glance with gokudera who is not laughing, and is still not laughing when he looks at him like he might as well keep laughing while he still can. "You totally don't need his permission for anything."

"Right? Hahahaha."

"Hahaha, yeah. Right, so..." He grins, trying to soften the blow as much as he can. "He doesn't know yet, does he?"

"Hahaha," tsuna keeps laughing. "Haha... Ha..."

Fuck.

He's doomed.

[hopeswriting]

Back again lol @mistingrain @otaku-reborn (btw this might be the last addition for all i know lol, but let me know whenever you want me to stop tagging you!)

The group chat stays completely inactive for a week and some, and tsuna's not sure what to make of it. He doesn't know if it's normal for them because the messages automatically deletes themselves every 12 hours, so he can't back read to see how often or not so often they use the group chat. He makes sure to check it every 4 hours at the very least too, so he knows it's not that he just so happens to miss them when they do use the group chat.

Well, even easier for him, right? He's going to get paid handsomely for literally doing nothing. They will still pay him even on months they don't use the group chat at all, right??

But tsuna being tsuna, it just gives him more anxiety over it lol. He'd like to feel like he's earned at least some of his salary, you see. Plus, what if this means bad news??

And okay, yes, maybe it's unlikely seeing as they're one of the strongest group of villains in the world and all, plus the news would definitely say something about it, but still. He'd like to know if he has to look for another job, especially if he ends up quitting the one at the restaurant to fully focus on this one.

(Plus, like. Spare some compassionate thoughts about their unlikely deaths, he guesses?? Or something. Whatever.)

(Oh, wait. Is this just their way of firing him by ghosting him???

Um, rude if true.)

Anyway. "Hello," he types to test the waters, and doesn't send it because it feels awkward somehow. "How's everyone doing today?" He adds to see if it makes it better and immediately deletes the whole thing lmao. "Hi," he tries again. "Is everyone all right?" And then makes a face at his message because who even is he to ask that lol. Also why wouldn't they be being who they are?? There's been no indication they aren't either.

(Because, see, tsuna's been doing his homework. He's been following the news about supers activities, especially supervillains, as well as following relevant pages, websites, blogs, hashtags and all that, and goggling stuff too every now and then, hoping none of that will put him on some kind of list lol. He also subscribed to the big superhero agencies' more likely to take on threats like the arco newsletters.

He figured it'd help him recognize the "important things" they'd share in the group chat, but then, very little about them is actually revealed to the general public or made accessible to them.

Well, no news is good news, right?)

"So," he settles on, not letting himself overthink it so he actually sends the message. "What do you guys do for work?"

And, of course, the arco immediately come online to dunk on him ZJDKSKS. "Well, who's asking? 🧐🤨" "Wait, no--" "Hunting innocents people for sports" "killing the weak and the oppressed" "LMAO you undercover dude??" "NO--!!!" "adding to the numbers of widows and orphans" "i already said that" "that's good to hear. They meet unfortunate ends when they are :)" "I'M NOT--" "overthrowing governments for fun" "blowing up places and such" "giving heroes a career" "LOLLL" "nice one lmao"

They keep making fun of him like tsuna isn't about to have a heart attack over it lmao. Turns out they're alive and well, though. They can even get along! Well, fucking good for them. 🙄🤬🙄🤬🙄

(HE'S ALREADY SO TIRED OF THEIR ASSES ZJEKZKDK--😭😭😭

I love tsuna so much. I love them all so much.)

"I just thought we could try to know each other better!!!" He manages to get a word in. "AND NOW YOU'RE FLIRTING WITH US???" Is what the arco say just to fuck with him more lmao. "Wait, but you don't even know what we look like" "Who do you think is the hottest between us?? There's only one right answer btw" "What else could i be but devastatingly handsome? Be serious"

Tsuna's face is beet red, and he'd be grateful if he could just explode right about now actually.

"I was just making sure i still had a job i'd get paid for by the end of the month," he sends. "Feel free to just leave me on read next time if you're going to be like this" "have a nice day"

And then he dips for the next 4 hours without waiting for an answer lol.

///

Meanwhile, on the 10th gen's group chat. Yes, they also have a group chat. And yes, i guess they're part of this verse too now.

(It's because i love them too, that's why.)

"You didn't hear it from me because i'm sure tsuna wants to tell you himself," yams says, "but he's planning to quit his job at the restaurant." And it's basically him dropping a bomb in front of their nice salads zjdksk. "WHAT" "what." "WHY???" "Did someone give him a hard time at work?" "What happened?" "Coworkers or customers? Their names?" "We'll see," is what hibari says lmao. "The fuck you mean???" Is what gokudera says in response. (😭😂) "He can do whatever the hell he wants"

"So suddenly?" the others ignore them. "He said the offer he got was too good to refuse," yams explains. "I can make him a good offer too--" "how GOOD could it have been--" "from whom?" Mukuro's the one to ask, which makes it obviously concerning lol. "A super," gokudera's the one to say.

"WHAT" "is this a joke? Tsuna's always said he'd rather not work in that field" "RIGHT???" "Wait because why can't i think of whose super it could be?" "He did end up as a district worker anyway tho" "he said the offer just kind of happened too" "IS IT A SUPER WHO DOESN'T EVEN BOTHER BEING A REGULAR AT HIS RESTAURANT???" "I KNOW RIGHT???" Yams says. "They don't even know him like we do or care about him as much as we do. The audacity--" "whose. Super is it?" Hibari asks. "And if you knew?????" Gokudera's the one to answer again, because he's never not on that 'clock hibari's bullshit' duty zjdkskdks. 😭 "Like tsuna will thank you for it" "tsuna said he's not allowed to say," yams offers helpfully.

"Wait wait wait. How are we gonna keep seeing him if he quits his job?? We didn't even get his number yet :(" "i know :(" yams says, because is he even yams if he doesn't take every opportunity to be hopelessly and pathetically lovesick about tsuna? "But you know, if the offer was from a super and he still accepted it..." Chrome starts. "WE are supers too" "what a funny thing to say," mukuro immediately clowns on that statement, that bitch LMAO. "That's fucking news to me," gokudera reluctantly agrees. "I doubt tsuna will care much about an offer from unknown, unaffiliated, part time, neighborhood supers. Who do it FOR FREE too in case you idiots forgot" "don't forget unregistered," mukuro adds, because god forbid you mistake him as the type to comply with governments. "I have money," hibari corrects, because god forbid you think him the type to be poor lmao.

"THAT'S ONLY BECAUSE WE EXTREMELY NEED TO BE TSUNA'S TYPE" ryohei defends. "Yeah yeah yeah!!!" Yams backs him up. "It's not like we couldn't compete with all the great supers out there if we wanted to" "we just need to get our names out there" "then should we stage some kind of big, national incident and be the ones to resolve it?" Chrome asks, to which nobody actually goes 'what about no????' Because they're all insane in the heads. Also nothing is ever too much if it's for tsuna, you see. 😌☺️ Anyway, as they're all trying to work out the logistics of that, yams remember the most important thing.

"OH WAIT GUYS!!!" "Holy shit i can't believe i almost forgot" "yes?" "???" "So as we were talking, tsuna mentioned the idea of him having a BOYfriend and..." "AND????" "go on." "hurry up and spit it out" "he seemed totally A-OKAY WITH THAT CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT GUYS" "Good for you guys," chrome says supportively as the chat goes crazy in joy. They've already figured out he's attracted to girls too, you see haha

[hopeswriting]

And again

CW: suicide mention

@mistingrain @otaku-reborn

"your boyfriend's here," one of tsuna's coworkers tells him.

"Which one?" He says, because they're busy and don't have time for the usual 'not my boyfriend/whatever you say' back and forth.

"The weirdo one." Now of course they're ALL weirdos, but the last one who acted the weirdest gets to wear that badge of honor until one of the others ones-up them lol. Plus tsuna's learned to guess whose not-boyfriends his coworkers are talking about going by their tone of voices and stuff.

(OR his not-girlfriend too. ☝🏽 but there's only one so that immediately makes it easier lol. UNLESS ✋🏽 kyoko and haru have something to say about that, but they haven't let me know yet if it's the case.)

"Kyoya?" He asks anyway, hoping against all hope.

"Yep, that one. He's waiting for you in the boss' office."

Shit.

"Hi?" He says after he walks in without knocking, because hibari isn't actually the boss of them or anything. He doesn't even have anything to do with the restaurant OR their actual boss as far as tsuna knows and can tell. Would that have ever stopped him to make himself at home in the boss' office like he owns the place whenever he comes by? Lol. Of course not. "Is this urgent? Because we're kind of busy right now--"

"Spit it out," is what hibari says, sitting behind the desk and looking none-too threatening lmao, so of course tsuna's happy to stay right by the door.

"No can do."

"Or i can beat it out of you."

"No thanks. I still wouldn't even if you did--"

"That's what they all say."

"--because i legally agreed not to," he finishes before he rolls his eyes. Jeez. And so what if he still backs up further against the door? He's been bitten to death and has seen other people be bitten to death by hibari before, thank you very much. "So like, it's not that i don't want to tell you or would mind telling you, which I think should make you at least 5% less angry about it."

"I will find out regardless."

"Um, yeah?" he says just as obviously. Tsuna doesn't doubt one of the greatest group of villains in the world isn't so easily found out against their will, but he isn't about to doubt hibari's skills and sheer will either. "And i would have had nothing to do with it, which we'd all be able to agree on." Which also means they'll leave tsuna out of it as they duke it out or whatever until they figure things out.

"You don't work with supers," hibari says, and his accusing tone pricks at tsuna's heart a little in guilt.

"I mean... I kind of have been anyway for the last couple of years, right?"

"Around supers," he corrects.

Which. Yeah, he's not wrong. Only on their days off too. But it doesn't change the fact it's common for villains to take a shot at targeting the district or for supers' disagreement to turn into fights that get out of hands.

So like. The job with the arcos is technically safer than the one at the restaurant.

"Really? Because if you want to play it like that, then i'm only going to work for supers now. Far away from any actual supers activities too."

"This is a government job."

Tsuna blinks, his mouth hanging open silently, needing a moment to get what hibari's getting at. Hibari can only say so many words at once and only so many sentences successively after all. He gotta keep that cool, mysterious and unbothered air about him at all time, you see.

Tsuna swallows back his laugh and purses his lips to hide his smile. He's so silly.

"I know." So maybe this really doesn't come across as a sound decision to make overnight without knowing all the facts, huh? (< he says, like he wouldn't come across as even crazier if people DID know all the facts about his new job and how he ended up getting it. 😭 if they'd even believe him to begin with lmao. but actually, the people who know him WOULD, in fact, believe him, because tsuna's just as crazy as the rest of them esgxcvd, let us never forget. ☝🏽) Landing a job as a district worker is basically the dream job for civilians with awakened powers who aren't interested in a super career, but also whose power is just that little too much suited for it for them to not make a living out of it. "but they're going to pay me more for doing an easier job that will take less of my time than this one. It'd have been stupid of me to refuse, right?"

Hibari narrows his eyes at him for a long moment before he scoffs and stands. Tsuna lets his shoulders drop, the matter settled for now, grinning despite himself.

It's always nice to be reminded he now has people who trust him to make his own decisions, and who trust he put thoughts behind them no matter how sudden they might be. Even nicer and warmer when they still worry about it anyway for no other reason than they care about him.

Tsuna still moves along the wall to keep the distance between him and hibari as he walks closer, because he knows his silly and weirdos not-boyfriends and not-girlfriend, okay? 😂

"It'd be more believable if you were being stupid about it."

"It's a real job! You know it's hard to fool me about these kinds of things."

"There's no need to fool you to coerce or threaten you."

"Well, no one's doing that, so let's not manifest it."

"Here I thought you wanted a peaceful and long life--"

"I do, stop!" he shouts, making hibari laugh. Tsuna holds back his own laugh as best as he can so he can keep acting upset. "I swear, you're always so--"

Hibari stops in front of the door, crossing his arms on his chest, an unrepentant smirk on his face. "It's hard to believe when these things just keep 'kind of happening' to you."

Tsuna huffs, crossing his arms on his chest too right back. "You say that like I chose to have it be this way. And it never led me wrong anyway." Which doesn't mean it's always pleasant to go through, at best, but they both already know that. "Besides," he adds, both his tone and his grin cheeky, "if things come to that and i can't figure it out myself, you'll just have to come to rescue me, won't you?"

"It'll cost you," hibari shoots right back with a blank face. "I'll add it to your tab. A real one i've been keeping track of. One i expect you--"

Tsuna throws his hands up in the air. "Fine, i get it! Oh my god--don't you have to go? aren't you busy? i'm not keeping you." Hibari spares him from outright laughing at his face, but he's grinning at him, his eyes full of unapologetic mischievousness that totally does not make tsuna sulk in response. "Whatever. How do you even know about this anyway?"

"How do you think? I haven't heard it from takeshi because you want to tell us yourself."

That makes him huff a laugh, forgetting all about how he's supposed to be sulking. "You're just gonna tattle on him like that?"

"You don't look like you care."

"I mean, it's not like i asked them to keep quiet about it so i don't mind. I was planning to tell you guys about it too." Hibari doesn't look convinced. "I was! Andmaybeiwasplanningtotellyoulasttoo," he adds quickly, muttering and averting his eyes. Hibari just dismissively turns to the door and reaches for the doorknob lol. "oh, wait! i've always wanted to ask, but what happens to our boss when you take over her office like this?"

"Do you need to know?"

"Do you know? or you don't care as long as she lets you kick her out of her own office without a fuss?" Hibari dismissively opens the door, and tsuna doesn't even bother rolling his eyes about it. Typical. "Oh, wait, wait!!!" he shouts again. "Is that all?" That gets a reaction out of hibari, making him frown. "I mean, i plan to quit this job and you don't have my number either--"

"You think i can't have it even if you don't give it to me?"

"I'll ignore that and you better not," tsuna says casually with the expertise of habit. "Also you don't have to say these kinds of things out loud." hibari looks unimpressed, but tsuna still sees how the corners of his lips twitch. "Anyway, hayato and takeshi were so sad to hear it, but you're not going to give me anything? That hurts my feelings--" Hibari slams the door behind him ZFSDFDS. "Say hi to the others for me!" Tsuna shouts after him and then just laughs about it.

Jeez. He didn't even stay long enough for tsuna to ask him how he's been doing lately.

God forbid tsuna tries to be the one to initiate the flirting with his not-boyfriends and not-girlfriend for once. 🙄

(he loves his silly weirdos so much.)

///

"oh," fon sends him privately not long after. "it's been quite busy lately, so i just got around to do my own proper background check on you," he lets him know entirely unprompted and unneeded and also unwelcomed if tsuna's honest about it lmao. like, okay??? he already figured out that much and they've already made it clear too. why the sudden, threatening reminder of it?? "you know quite the interesting people :)" tsuna squints at his message, trying to make sense of it. does... he? (he's talking about hibari.) he guesses he's... familiar with a lot of supers due to the nature of his job, but... wait. is he insinuating something? (he's not. he's just talking about him knowing hibari.) "the world really is small, isn't it?" well. that's definitely a threat. right? isn't it?? right??? (it's not. he's just talking about hibari zjdksfsd. 😭😂)

"is that so? ^^" is the least incriminating thing tsuna can think of sending after thinking about it hard. "^^" fon sends back as if he doesn't know (he doesn't 😭) it just adds to tsuna's self-inflicted psychological warfare lmao.

(this isn't necessarily meant to go anywhere btw. i just thought if i ever get around to the scene where tsuna realizes hibari and fon both know each other and also are related, it'd be fun to set up the opportunity for fon to go "yes, we do know each other. i already told you about it, remember?" only for tsuna to go "THAT's what you meant??? i thought you were just threatening me for no reason!!! how was i supposed to figure out that's what you meant???" 😂)

///

tsuna keeps sending messages in the group chat every now and then to make sure the arcos are still alive and well. or still alive at the very least. they're one of the strongest groups of villains in the world and all that, sure, sure, but things move fast in the supers world, okay? you never know.

at first he still feels awkward about it, so he only sticks to safe and polite messages like "good morning" "the weather doesn't look too good today" "have a nice day" and such, cringing about it the whole time. 😂 and by now, he also totally expects the arcos clowning on him for it when they don't just leave him on read like he asked, because of course they do lol. anything from "dude, you're such a weirdo" "shall we hold hands and thank the lord for allowing us another day as well?" "HAHAHA" to "what about wishing us good night too?? :(" and such. so tsuna sends "good night" that day as his last message for the day, and of course, they all leave him on read ZAKEDKDF.

(it's fine tho, he was totally expecting something like that haha!! he just rolled his eyes about it and moved on, but also makes it a point to tell them good morning and wish them good night every day anyway from then on. 😂)

as he gets a feel of what they'll allow and what they're comfortable with, he becomes more natural and spontaneous with his messages. "i almost missed my bus" and "went on break just in time to avoid an annoying customer! lucky" and "i should probably try to cook and not just order takeout for dinner again, right?" basically just sharing random thoughts and keeping them updated on small stuff about his life. he doesn't expect them to answer him either. again, it's just so he can see who reads his messages (or who has yet to) so he's sure they're still alive and, more importantly ☝🏽, will pay him for his work zdffds. (listen, living costs money, all right?)

they DO answer him more and more tho. and make fun of him more often than not too lmao, but he's starting to suspect that's just them being friendly towards him and warming up to him. (it is. <3) "are you still in the process of quitting your job at the restaurant?" is what he gets today. "or do you plan to work two jobs?" "wait, did skull reduce your salary on the actual contract??" "EXCUSE ME--" "damn, dude. you poor or something?" "I DIDNT--" "as he should," viper says. "who pays mere underlings so much money?" which, hmmm. granted, tsuna doesn't know the average pay of an underling depending on the job they're doing, but he's been under the impression he's meant to handle very sensitive information about them, so like. well, you know. he's just saying. 🙄😤 "what a shocker to hear you say that, viper," reborn says. "lmao" "IM PAYING HIM EXACTLY AS MUCH AS I SAID I WOULD SHUT UP!!!!!" "TELL THEM TSUNA" "well, maybe you should reconsider if you really have financial issues?" fon helpfully and genuinely advises. "ZJDSKFSK"

"yo tsuna, are you writing a novel over there??" nello's the one to eventually ask, to which tsuna scoffs disbelievingly. he's been TRYING to get a word in, but how is he supposed to keep up with them when they're all a bunch of professional yappers-- "maybe if you'd all shut the fuck up for a bit," lal says. "ladies first," verde shoots back. "bitch," she says. "guess that makes two ladies among us now" "LOLLLL" "damn. she fucking killed you verde" damn, tsuna agrees. He hasn’t been able to talk yet, but maybe he should shut the fuck up too just in case. 😭😂

"it makes them slack off and greedy at the same time when you pay them too much," reborn says like they never digressed from that conversation. and, like. unwarranted much??? "MY money??????" skull says. "that’s mean," tsuna finally manages to get a word in at the same time. is it HIS fault they have yet to share anything work-related so he can do the job they hired him for?? "and MY underlings too so mind your own fucking business" "'that’s mean' he said LMAO" "next thing you know he'll call us bad people too" "this is a grown-up conversation," reborn says, making tsuna almost scoff out a lung. "i'm a grown-up too" "why are you even listening in on our conversation?" "you're the ones who added me to your group chat???" in response to which reborn immediately kicks him out of the group chat EZKFLDSLD. 😭😭😭

(i love reborn so much.)

///

when they add him back in the following day, tsuna decides to stand up for himself and stops sending them messages. he DOES, in fact, have a backbone of his own, okay?

To his surprise (and maybe he's a little happy about it too), the arcos waste no time being the first ones to reach out, tho of course, they're childish and tease him about it lol. "man, there's just something missing about this morning today" "right? it's like it could have been good, but for some reason it can't manage to" "my day didn't go so well today. i wonder why" "does anyone else's nights suck all of a sudden??" "i just can't seem to wake up well-rested these days"

tsuna holds on strong and totally doesn't smile and giggle to himself as he leaves them on read.

"i feel like someone used to care about these type of things before" "but did they really ever care if they can stop giving a shit about it so easily?" "well, maybe it says something about us. should we just go and die in a ditch somewhere?" "right. should we go and kill ourselves about it?" "should we go and kill other people about it?" is what reborn says. "it might simply be a matter of releasing some stress" and as much as tsuna sees right through him, he still can't help but give in and send "don't"

"COME ONNN TSUNA!!!!!" the other arcos immediately go off on him haha. "watch and learn, peasants," reborn says, somehow managing to convey just how smug he is about it through the screen. "you could have answered to ANYONE else!!!" "well, maybe someone else should have thought about it first then!!!" he defends. he's ALSO annoyed about it, okay???

///

meanwhile, on the other 10th gen's group chat with lambo in it too. who they're just as close to, don't get them wrong (and lambo knows they have another group chat without him). but they can't freely simp about tsuna when he's there too, that's all lol.

"hey, lambo!" "is this about tsuna-nii?" lambo instantly calls them out. "you only remember i exist when it has to do with tsuna-nii" "come on kiddo, not true!!!" yams says. "so make yourself useful and tells us about him, idiot-cow," gokudera says at the same time lmao. "we already know you've been doing extremely well!!!!" ryohei tries to salvage it. "hearing it from haru-nee and kyoko-nee doesn't count," lambo keeps sulking. "you've been doing well," hibari repeats ominously. "but i can help you make it otherwise if you want to keep whining about it, little animal" "that's so mean kyoya-nii-san 😢🥺😢" "not helping, guys" "and scary... 😢😢" "and i'm not even wrong!!! 😢😢😢😢" wait idiot-cow DONT--" lambo logs off, which is one of his favorite card to play against them zfesfgh.

"what if it was something urgent???" gokudera immediately gets on his ass when he finally deigns logging in again. "humph. as if i wouldn't know anything that has to do with tsuna-nii" "did you hear about his new job then?" chrome asks. "we just want to make sure there's nothing weird about it!" ryohei adds.

lambo types and deletes it and types again. and types and deletes it again.

"wait, you didn't know??" yams says. "I DID", he lies. "He didn't tell even you?" "well, well. what did tsunayoshi get himself into this time?" "HE TOLD ME ABOUT IT TOO" "HA! stop lying idiot-cow" "isn't this extremely weird??" "so much for knowing everything about him when he actually told me and the baseball-idiot first," gokudera keeps boasting to a 15yo lmao. "ITS NOT AS IF IM REALLY HIS BROTHER" lambo snaps, and the group chat goes dead silent in shock.

"THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT" he quickly sends when he realizes just what he said. "the fuck???" "I DIDNT MEAN IT" "THATS EXTREMELY WRONG OF YOU TO SAY LAMBO" "lambo-kun" "did you have a fight with tsuna, lambo?" "NO--" "BUT BAKADERA KEPT TEASING ME--" "tsuna-kun would be heartbroken to hear you say that," chrome casually says, making sure lambo will feel the absolute worst about it. 😭😭😭

"thank you for this very useful screenshot," mukuro pipes up. "...you don't mean that, right?" "oh, it's not for any immediate use, don't worry." "but i'm sure it'll prove useful one of these days" "mukuro-nii--" lambo tries, but mukuro pulls a uno reverse on him and logs off zfefsds. "...isn't anyone gonna say something about this?" he asks. "DO something about it????" "your problem," gokudera says. "you should be more careful with what you say, lambo, okay?" yams isn't any more helpful. and neither is ryohei's "i'm sure he was just joking, you know how he is!!!" "😢😢😢😢😢" "fine" "i have screenshots of my own too" "okay now," yams quickly sends. "let's all--" lambo logs off again lmao.

"first of all," he says when he logs back in a while later. "tsuna-nii said the only reason he had yet to tell me is because he didn't want to distract me from my EXAMS" "oh right!!!" "did it go well??" "when will you get the results?" "HUMPH" "too late" "i will only CONSIDER forgiving you if you buy me a thousand grapes juice boxes and a million candy" "so did you hear anything about his new job or not???" gokudera asks. "what about it?" "whose super is he working for?" "i don't know" "he said he isn't allowed to say" "but aren't you usually able to at least say which agency your work for?" yams muses. "i mean, if the offer was really that good, it can't have come from a freelance super, right?" "But what about kyoya? Some freelance supers get by just fine" "wait, why do we care?" lambo asks. "is he doing something dangerous??" "that's what we're trying to figure out, idiot-cow" "tsuna already said it isn't dangerous tho," ryohei reminds them. "And he extremely wouldn't lie to us about it!" "maybe it's just that sensitive and confidential a job," chrome says, making them all sit a bit on it.

"soooo...." yams eventually starts. "do we stop looking into it?" "Should we?" "but how are we supposed to give him an even better offer if we don't know anything about how good theirs is? :(" "are we still going with the plan then?" gokudera asks.

"what plan??" lambo immediately grows concerned. "oh my god" "what plan???" "something to say, little animal?" "Oh my god--" "hahaha, don't worry! It's nothing bad," yams says, about their plan to stage a big, national incident for their debut as proper supers. because that's the plan btw. the plan lambo totally doesn't have to worry about. yeah, that plan. "oh my GOD--" lambo totally worries about it, because they've done this before. 😭 "at least make sure you won't have to use plans B to Z all right???" "your plan As are already always the worst and suck enough as it is" and then he logs off again before they can tell him off for saying the truth✌🏽✨😌😂

[uwu-kore]

Yes ofc this isnt a fic, Hope, this isnt a fic. Just a very long, 20k words, with worldbuilding and carefully written 'tumblr post' that is updated every week. Nice try in denial, Hope, you are almost as good as tsuna now :P keep trying and maybe this post will take a spot in your khr fic collections on ao3 :)

[hopeswriting]

Is this already at 20k words. 😭 THE WORLDBUILDING'S HAPPENING AGAINST MY WILL. ✋🏽 Like all worldbuilding i end up having to do for any of my stories actually lmao. Somehow i never see it coming that writing aus also means figuring out how those alternate universes work. 😂

Anyway. I might have some more scenes left for this story WHO SAID THAT???

[uwu-kore]

Thee pheathers' khr collection/works that is about to go from 96 to 97 🎉🙌

[hopeswriting]

I think about that writing prompt about a hero ending up in the villains' group chat i reblogged back then sometimes. How i immediately felt like having tsuna in the hero's role, and then very predictably paired him up with the arcos as the villains lol. I'm not sorry about it. <3

So there's tsuna who isn't actually a hero but a nobody civilian, who first thinks this is someone playing a prank on him because no way he just got added to the actual group chat of one of the most notorious group of villains in the world. Tsuna who goes from "um, hi? Can i help you?" But then never actually gets to "i think there was some kind of mistake here" because the arcos are a bunch of yappers.

And at some point between "who the fuck is that?" "Is he one of you guys' underlings?" "Since when are we adding underlings to this group chat?" "Why don't you just hold a press conference to reveal all of our most sensitive information on live tv while you're at it, skull?", skull goes "i added him on purpose!!!" You know, like a liar. He IS the one who added tsuna, and judging by the others' reactions, he clearly wasn't meant to, but he doesn't remember why the hell it was on his to-do-list to do then?? Also the guy's profile picture and name don't even ring any fucking bell. Wait, was he supposed to add him to his underlings' group chat instead?? Ugh, whatever!!!

(Did tsuna... apply to become a group of villains' underling? He doesn't remember that.)

"What purpose?" The arcos continue to yap. "Aren't we always bitching about how nobody ever reads what the others have to say on here??" Skull says. "Well, there you have it! He can keep track of it and let us know of the important things!"

(Did tsuna... apply for this specific position as an underling?? He doesn't remember that either.)

"Why the fuck are you deciding that on your own?" Tsuna reads with a steadily increasing ominous feeling, because these guys sure seem to take this prank very seriously. "Is he even trustworthy?" "Haven't you guys ever heard of a trial period?" Skull defends. "And WHERE is he gonna let us know of those important things again??" They ignore him. "In the same group chat we never read???" "YOU'RE READING IT RIGHT NOW AREN'T YOU???? FUCK YOU--"

"I actually already have a job, so..." Tsuna says, to which the arcos instantly go off on him because "why the fuck did you apply then???" And also "so???" Skull says, because his reputation is on the line here. "Just quit???"

(Did Tsuna really apply to this job, though? He guesses he must have, right? But did he really, though?

For the life of him, he really just can't remember.)

"Well, i kind of need the money, so..." He tries again, and feels himself lose 3 years of his life when they all go silent for a bit.

"You think we make our underlings work for free??" They start talking again all at the same time. "YOU THINK I DON'T PAY MY UNDERLINGS THE JUST SALARY FOR THEIR WORK????" Skull says, outraged. "PLUS ALL THE BENEFITS MIND YOU," he adds, because the FUCK does tsuna take him for???? "Well, i guess he at least won't have any problems saying the things he wants to say to us," reborn says.

"Well," tsuna keeps typing in a momentary lapse of sanity, "how much are we talking about...?"

"What do you mean how much?" The arcos keep yapping. "Didn't you read the contract?" "Didn't skull make you one?" "YES I DID," skull lies. ("THERE MUST HAVE BEEN AN ISSUE WHEN I SENT IT THE FIRST TIME," he keeps lying in tsuna's dms. "I'LL SEND IT AGAIN SOON.") "Do you just commit to things you don't know about?" "Are you stupid?", meanwhile skull sends in the group chat ten times the amount he usually offers, just to make sure to get one over the other arcos about how he's the one paying his underlings the most.

And, well. It sure IS more than what tsuna's current job pays him. Plus all the benefits?

"Am i really talking to the real arcobaleno?" He finally brings himself to ask before the offered money can make him lose all sense of self-preservation.

"Is your current job being a comedian?" Is the first answer he gets. "LMAO" "Whose dumbfuck wannabe villains out there would dare to use our names, let alone pretend to be us?" "Do we have to go on a purge again and remind everyone why they shouldn't do that?"

"Please don't," tsuna quickly types and sends in dawning and horrifying realization.

Is this really happening? Are they really the arcobaleno? 

They sure act like it.

"Don't tell us what to do." "Who the fuck asked for your opinion?"

"I won't kill anyone," tsuna takes the opportunity to say while they're on the subject. "And would like to be the least involved possible in any of your killings. Or crimes in general," he adds as an afterthought.

To which the arcos instantly go off on him again because "But YOU applied to work with US????" "Why the fuck keeping track of a group chat would involve you killing anyone??" "Who is it you're saying you'd have to kill? One of us?"

Tsuna feels himself lose 5 years of his life as he looks at the last message in horror, and then another 10 years when they all go dead silent again.

Oh god. He didn't fucking say that???? Oh fuck.

Is he dead? Are they gonna track him down and kill him?

Are they gonna kill him without even granting him his trial period even when he's apparently crazy enough to actually consider accepting the job?

"Where the hell do you even find these people, skull?" They eventually start yapping again, and tsuna starts breathing again. "You let your underlings talk to you like that?" "At least MY underlings actually TALK to me like the fellow human being i am" "debatable" "and you're proud of it?" "It's because even them can tell you're a fucking pushover lmao" "all of you shut the hell up. Does anyone actually have something important to say? Otherwise i'm out of here" "good fucking riddance," skull says. "Tsunayoshi, is it?"

"Yes, but you can just call me tsuna," he says, because what else is even there to say?

"As long as i don't have to hear directly from these guys ever again, i'll even pay you a million dollars a month"

"Haha," he says, because it feels like the correct thing to say.

"Oh, was that funny to you?" Reborn says, because of fucking course he does lmao.

And already, tsuna can see his shortened lifespan (in spirit) flash before his eyes.

[hopeswriting]

i was hesitating whether to share this because it doesn't really advance the story or anything, plus this turned out to be less of a chat fic and more of a proper narrative story, but i figured the interactions in and of themselves would be fun to see haha. @mistingrain @otaku-reborn have a little addition to this verse!

Skull sends him the contract. Tsuna reads it through. Signs it and sends it back before he can think better of it.

He receives a package the very next day with a phone in it. It's the exact same one as the one he has, except it's immediately apparent when he turns it on that this one is at the height of technology. It comes with a second screen where the group chat app is and that can only be accessed when he's the one holding the phone, among other features.

Otherwise it appears to be a normal phone, and Tsuna clones all the data of his phone to the new one before he sends the old one back to the sender as instructed.

As soon as he turns the phone on and logs onto the group chat app, he gets jump scared by the arco all sending him private messages.

They range from "I'm sure you know what'll happen to you if you get any funny ideas with the information you'll be privy to" to "better get a will ready now you're in this line of work" and "hello. Let us hope you last long enough to at least make it past your trial period :)" but also "don't bother me with needless information. All i need to know are the information needed to help me make a profit or avoid a loss"

Which. Okay. Not unexpected from a group of villains, but also very much not needed. He has no intention of getting any "funny ideas" whatsoever, thank you very much. Because he'd very much like to stay alive, so he won't be writing a will either actually. Wouldn't want to jinx it and all that. Especially when, again, he very much plans to stay alive for another long while, thank you very much.

Reborn sends "i know everything there is to know about you" which. Yeah. His contact information on the contract skull sent him made that much clear, plus the fact they sent him the exact same phone model as the one he was using wasn't exactly subtle either. Not to mention they even knew somehow he apparently applied to this job before even he himself did. But even without any of that, he was expecting the background check.

"Look out the window," reborn sends as soon as tsuna reads his first message.

Tsuna's heart picks up its pace as he hurries to his window. What does he mean? Are they watching him?? Will they be watching him??? Did they send someone to get rid of him? But he didn't even have the time to do anything yet!!!

Should he have negotiated a clause about not invading his privacy without cause too?

"You're not actually looking out the window, are you?" Reborn has sent when tsuna checks his phone again. "The first thing you should have done is duck out of its line of sight. Second is to secure all access to you. And third to grab a weapon in case it's more than just a bluff" "Do you even really want this job?" "Tsk, tsk"

Tsuna looks at the messages with his jaw on the fucking floor. Really?? Is that what this guy plans to be all about? Making him fear for his life and taking years off it while he's at it for shits and giggles?

And at once, he completely understands why someone would be willing to pay someone else a million dollars a month just to not have to deal with him lmao.

"Why would you choose skull to be the boss of you??" Nello asks, to which tsuna just goes "???" because what are they even talking about now? "I mean, you wanted to work for skull out of all of us???" Nello continues to yap, and tsuna goes even more "????" because, well. What else choice was even there when skull was the one offering the job?? Or were they all listing the job and he chose to apply with skull? Or something--whatever??? But it didn't seem like they were aware it was something skull was up to, did it?

(Tsuna still does not remember how he ended up with this job.

He doesn't plan to mention it either now he's made it this far regardless.)

"Um, well, i mean," he awkwardly fumbles, "i'm sure you're all very nice—" a pause so he can cringe at himself "—and you're definitely all super impressive!!" More cringing even if it's not untrue zbdksjsk. "But—" another pause because he doesn't know what to fucking say??? What if he says the wrong thing and nello holds it against him and stops him from keeping the job??? "—i like the way skull looks?" He settles on, which is also not untrue, but also not an opinion he can say he's been actively having lol. "He looks cool ^^"

"Lmao," nello sends before he immediately switches to the group chat and sends "rate skull's fit on a scale of 0 to 10. Negative numbers allowed" to tsuna's fucking HORROR AJEKSKS. 😭😂 "UNPROVOKED????" Skull says. "i'll start," nello ignores him, "-10" and then of course, the other arcos waste no time pitching in too. "6" "3" "1, for sparing us from the sight of his face" "5" "2"

"Wow," skull says. "Fuck you guys first of all, like i asked or give a shit second of all, and WHO's talking again????" "Mister i can't move on from my military days himself??? Mister camo clothes is the peak of fashion himself???" "Green AND blond, really??????? You're ugly enough as it is"

The chat, of course, goes fucking crazy zheksjs. And tsuna would be highkey laughing too if he wasn't too horrified at this being his doing lmao.

"Reborn laughed too btw," viper makes sure to let everyone know as nello and skull keep going at each other. "None of your business," is all reborn can say because it'd be useless to deny it when they're all aware of viper's power. "OH YEAH???" Nello turns right on him. "That's not what you were fucking saying last night, bitch" "wouldn't that be because you were naked then?" Fon muses. "Oh?" Lal says at the same time. "Do share with the class" "yeah??" Skull says, also at the same time, because they're all yappers lest we forget. "I don't need confirmation to know i'm the funniest guy you guys know"

"You see our issue," verde sends tsuna as the others continue to yap in the group chat. "Even if we did read the group chat, we'd still end up dead before we could get to the point."

Tsuna breathes out a laugh, half nervous, half disbelieving, and half genuinely amused. And yes, the math is wrong. Well, you won't believe this, but tsuna's never been all that good at math.

Anyway. He DOES very much see the issue. So that's why they all sent him private messages so he could contact them privately. That's where he's supposed to let them know of the "important things", huh?

You'd think the convenience of a group chat instead of sending the same message to everyone multiple times would make them get over... whatever they have going on between them, but who's tsuna to tell them how they should behave, right?

What ARE those "important things" tho?? Especially if they're going to each have their own meaning of it if viper's message is anything to go by. Should he ask everyone the question and see what they say?

"Skull-san," he decides to ask skull first. He can call him skull-san, right? Or should he call him boss instead? Would that be more underling-like?? Well, he wouldn't fucking know that. "I was wondering--" he's in the middle of typing when skull sends him a message too that only says, "TSUNA" "Yes?" Tsuna quickly deletes and sends instead. Shit. Did nello tattle on him??? But he complimented him so he should be fine, right??? Or has something "important" been shared in the group chat and he missed it?

Oh wait. Does skull want him to answer to what he first sent him? What was it again?

"Yo tsuna" "don't ever listen to anything the others have to say about me, 'kay?" "I'm the one paying you anyway, so you can just ignore them" "actually i'll even give you a bonus for every time you withhold information from them and it gets them in trouble lol" "plus a promotion if it ends up killing them LOL"

Right, that.

Haha. Lol. Yeah, right.

Tsuna will NOT fucking do that, thank you very much. He's not a big fan of actively trying to get himself killed, you see.

"You see the bullshit i've had to deal with???" Is what skull says. "Why would anyone care about anything these guys have to say when they're always like this, right???"

"Actually, i've been meaning to ask, skull-san," tsuna strategically avoids answering, "but what are the 'important things' i should make sure you're all aware of?"

"Beats me," is the helpful answer he gets. "I can survive anything so i don't really care. Just make sure to remind me you're still alive every now and then so i can keep you on payroll" can they please STOP manifesting his death he swears to god-- "i don't give a shit about the others either," skull continues to be oh so very helpful. "Oh wait, DO let me know if it looks like they're about to lose against supers or something!!" "So i can show up and make sure they DO lose" "LOLLLL"

"haha," tsuna says, because it feels lile the correct thing to say.

Maybe it was a mistake to accept this job.

"Leaving me on read, are you?" Reborn asks as tsuna's rethinking his life choices, because of fucking course he does ZHKSKS. 😭😂 (I love reborn so much.)

///

"You're quitting?" Yams repeats back at him with nothing short of the grief of a wife who just learned she lost her husband at war.

(IDK I REALLY LIKE YAMSTUSNA OKAY--)

"I mean, possibly?" Tsuna tries to soften the blow. "It's in the plans, but nothing's confirmed yet," he lies a little, because he very much did sign the contract already.

But he can always quit, right? So he'd rather wait for that first pay check if he even lasts that long before quitting his job. He can't just quit it cold turkey like that anyway, so it all works out.

"You found another job?" Gokudera asks, trying to not look as unaffected by the news as yams, and looking like the most abandoned and kicked puppy of all puppies anyway.

"Yeah. It kind of just happened." 

The restaurant's busy and he should move on from their table now he gave them their orders, but he's not the type to slack off and their regulars like him, so he's allowed to have these little chats as long as things aren't too busy.

"But i don't even have your number yet," yams says, in that particular tone of voice that always makes tsuna's cheeks grow warm.

"Well, it's against policy..."

"Just until your last day, right?" Gokudera says.

Tsuna scratches his cheek, feeling bad for denying them when he really likes them too, but... "Yeah, but you won't know which day it'll be, right?" It's also against policy for them to share their schedules with their customers.

"What about meeting at your house?" Yams tries. "I know where you live--" Gokudera kicks him under the table and shuts him up lol.

"Hello, welcome," tsuna greets some new customers before he turns their attention back to them. "Sorry, you were saying?"

"He said, what kind of job is it?" Gokudera says.

"Sorry, but i'm not allowed to say."

"That's okay. Where is it then? Which company?"

"Hm. I'm not allowed to say either..."

"You're going to work in the supers sector?" They immediately put 2 and 2 together, at which point the other regulars in the restaurant stop badly pretending they aren't eavesdropping on their conversation.

"With supers?" "Our tsuna?" "What if he ends up in danger?" "No way--"

"But i thought you just happened to end up with this job too and weren't interested in working with supers?" Yams asks, and the look of betrayal on his face stabs tsuna right through his heart.

"Right--"

"If i knew it was on the table and you were looking for another job, i would've--"

"At which company?" Gokudera scoffs.

"How hard can it be to make one?" Yams fires back. "Like you're not thinking the same too"

"Guys!" Tsuna cuts in. "Look, it just really happened out of the blue, i swear. The offer was just too good to refuse"

"But we all agreed to a pact of non-action--" gokudera kicks him under the table again zhzkskkd.

"What?"

"He meant, whose backstabbing b--" this time, it's yams who stomps on his foot under the table "--i mean, whose super are you going to work for?"

"Hm--i can't... say either, sorry..."

Gokudera narrows his eyes. "It's not going to be dangerous, is it?"

And tsuna, as always, feels warmth spread through him. "Not at all." It shouldn't be anyway, right? "But thank you for worrying. And i'm really sorry for dropping this on you so suddenly."

Yams immediately smiles at him with the force of a thousand suns, the smile reaching his eyes too, to tsuna's relief. "Don't worry about it! It's not like we can only see each other here, right?"

"Right!" tsuna perks up, because he'd really like it too if they could keep in touch somehow.

"But, you know, tsuna. If this is really all so sudden... Does kyoya know?"

Tsuna snorts. "What?" He laughs. "You're saying that like he's my dad or my boyfriend or something."

Yams laughs too. "Right?" He exchanges a glance with gokudera who is not laughing, and is still not laughing when he looks at him like he might as well keep laughing while he still can. "You totally don't need his permission for anything."

"Right? Hahahaha."

"Hahaha, yeah. Right, so..." He grins, trying to soften the blow as much as he can. "He doesn't know yet, does he?"

"Hahaha," tsuna keeps laughing. "Haha... Ha..."

Fuck.

He's doomed.

[hopeswriting]

Back again lol @mistingrain @otaku-reborn (btw this might be the last addition for all i know lol, but let me know whenever you want me to stop tagging you!)

The group chat stays completely inactive for a week and some, and tsuna's not sure what to make of it. He doesn't know if it's normal for them because the messages automatically deletes themselves every 12 hours, so he can't back read to see how often or not so often they use the group chat. He makes sure to check it every 4 hours at the very least too, so he knows it's not that he just so happens to miss them when they do use the group chat.

Well, even easier for him, right? He's going to get paid handsomely for literally doing nothing. They will still pay him even on months they don't use the group chat at all, right??

But tsuna being tsuna, it just gives him more anxiety over it lol. He'd like to feel like he's earned at least some of his salary, you see. Plus, what if this means bad news??

And okay, yes, maybe it's unlikely seeing as they're one of the strongest group of villains in the world and all, plus the news would definitely say something about it, but still. He'd like to know if he has to look for another job, especially if he ends up quitting the one at the restaurant to fully focus on this one.

(Plus, like. Spare some compassionate thoughts about their unlikely deaths, he guesses?? Or something. Whatever.)

(Oh, wait. Is this just their way of firing him by ghosting him???

Um, rude if true.)

Anyway. "Hello," he types to test the waters, and doesn't send it because it feels awkward somehow. "How's everyone doing today?" He adds to see if it makes it better and immediately deletes the whole thing lmao. "Hi," he tries again. "Is everyone all right?" And then makes a face at his message because who even is he to ask that lol. Also why wouldn't they be being who they are?? There's been no indication they aren't either.

(Because, see, tsuna's been doing his homework. He's been following the news about supers activities, especially supervillains, as well as following relevant pages, websites, blogs, hashtags and all that, and goggling stuff too every now and then, hoping none of that will put him on some kind of list lol. He also subscribed to the big superhero agencies' more likely to take on threats like the arco newsletters.

He figured it'd help him recognize the "important things" they'd share in the group chat, but then, very little about them is actually revealed to the general public or made accessible to them.

Well, no news is good news, right?)

"So," he settles on, not letting himself overthink it so he actually sends the message. "What do you guys do for work?"

And, of course, the arco immediately come online to dunk on him ZJDKSKS. "Well, who's asking? 🧐🤨" "Wait, no--" "Hunting innocents people for sports" "killing the weak and the oppressed" "LMAO you undercover dude??" "NO--!!!" "adding to the numbers of widows and orphans" "i already said that" "that's good to hear. They meet unfortunate ends when they are :)" "I'M NOT--" "overthrowing governments for fun" "blowing up places and such" "giving heroes a career" "LOLLL" "nice one lmao"

They keep making fun of him like tsuna isn't about to have a heart attack over it lmao. Turns out they're alive and well, though. They can even get along! Well, fucking good for them. 🙄🤬🙄🤬🙄

(HE'S ALREADY SO TIRED OF THEIR ASSES ZJEKZKDK--😭😭😭

I love tsuna so much. I love them all so much.)

"I just thought we could try to know each other better!!!" He manages to get a word in. "AND NOW YOU'RE FLIRTING WITH US???" Is what the arco say just to fuck with him more lmao. "Wait, but you don't even know what we look like" "Who do you think is the hottest between us?? There's only one right answer btw" "What else could i be but devastatingly handsome? Be serious"

Tsuna's face is beet red, and he'd be grateful if he could just explode right about now actually.

"I was just making sure i still had a job i'd get paid for by the end of the month," he sends. "Feel free to just leave me on read next time if you're going to be like this" "have a nice day"

And then he dips for the next 4 hours without waiting for an answer lol.

///

Meanwhile, on the 10th gen's group chat. Yes, they also have a group chat. And yes, i guess they're part of this verse too now.

(It's because i love them too, that's why.)

"You didn't hear it from me because i'm sure tsuna wants to tell you himself," yams says, "but he's planning to quit his job at the restaurant." And it's basically him dropping a bomb in front of their nice salads zjdksk. "WHAT" "what." "WHY???" "Did someone give him a hard time at work?" "What happened?" "Coworkers or customers? Their names?" "We'll see," is what hibari says lmao. "The fuck you mean???" Is what gokudera says in response. (😭😂) "He can do whatever the hell he wants"

"So suddenly?" the others ignore them. "He said the offer he got was too good to refuse," yams explains. "I can make him a good offer too--" "how GOOD could it have been--" "from whom?" Mukuro's the one to ask, which makes it obviously concerning lol. "A super," gokudera's the one to say.

"WHAT" "is this a joke? Tsuna's always said he'd rather not work in that field" "RIGHT???" "Wait because why can't i think of whose super it could be?" "He did end up as a district worker anyway tho" "he said the offer just kind of happened too" "IS IT A SUPER WHO DOESN'T EVEN BOTHER BEING A REGULAR AT HIS RESTAURANT???" "I KNOW RIGHT???" Yams says. "They don't even know him like we do or care about him as much as we do. The audacity--" "whose. Super is it?" Hibari asks. "And if you knew?????" Gokudera's the one to answer again, because he's never not on that 'clock hibari's bullshit' duty zjdkskdks. 😭 "Like tsuna will thank you for it" "tsuna said he's not allowed to say," yams offers helpfully.

"Wait wait wait. How are we gonna keep seeing him if he quits his job?? We didn't even get his number yet :(" "i know :(" yams says, because is he even yams if he doesn't take every opportunity to be hopelessly and pathetically lovesick about tsuna? "But you know, if the offer was from a super and he still accepted it..." Chrome starts. "WE are supers too" "what a funny thing to say," mukuro immediately clowns on that statement, that bitch LMAO. "That's fucking news to me," gokudera reluctantly agrees. "I doubt tsuna will care much about an offer from unknown, unaffiliated, part time, neighborhood supers. Who do it FOR FREE too in case you idiots forgot" "don't forget unregistered," mukuro adds, because god forbid you mistake him as the type to comply with governments. "I have money," hibari corrects, because god forbid you think him the type to be poor lmao.

"THAT'S ONLY BECAUSE WE EXTREMELY NEED TO BE TSUNA'S TYPE" ryohei defends. "Yeah yeah yeah!!!" Yams backs him up. "It's not like we couldn't compete with all the great supers out there if we wanted to" "we just need to get our names out there" "then should we stage some kind of big, national incident and be the ones to resolve it?" Chrome asks, to which nobody actually goes 'what about no????' Because they're all insane in the heads. Also nothing is ever too much if it's for tsuna, you see. 😌☺️ Anyway, as they're all trying to work out the logistics of that, yams remember the most important thing.

"OH WAIT GUYS!!!" "Holy shit i can't believe i almost forgot" "yes?" "???" "So as we were talking, tsuna mentioned the idea of him having a BOYfriend and..." "AND????" "go on." "hurry up and spit it out" "he seemed totally A-OKAY WITH THAT CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT GUYS" "Good for you guys," chrome says supportively as the chat goes crazy in joy. They've already figured out he's attracted to girls too, you see haha

[hopeswriting]

And again

CW: suicide mention

@mistingrain @otaku-reborn

"your boyfriend's here," one of tsuna's coworkers tells him.

"Which one?" He says, because they're busy and don't have time for the usual 'not my boyfriend/whatever you say' back and forth.

"The weirdo one." Now of course they're ALL weirdos, but the last one who acted the weirdest gets to wear that badge of honor until one of the others ones-up them lol. Plus tsuna's learned to guess whose not-boyfriends his coworkers are talking about going by their tone of voices and stuff.

(OR his not-girlfriend too. ☝🏽 but there's only one so that immediately makes it easier lol. UNLESS ✋🏽 kyoko and haru have something to say about that, but they haven't let me know yet if it's the case.)

"Kyoya?" He asks anyway, hoping against all hope.

"Yep, that one. He's waiting for you in the boss' office."

Shit.

"Hi?" He says after he walks in without knocking, because hibari isn't actually the boss of them or anything. He doesn't even have anything to do with the restaurant OR their actual boss as far as tsuna knows and can tell. Would that have ever stopped him to make himself at home in the boss' office like he owns the place whenever he comes by? Lol. Of course not. "Is this urgent? Because we're kind of busy right now--"

"Spit it out," is what hibari says, sitting behind the desk and looking none-too threatening lmao, so of course tsuna's happy to stay right by the door.

"No can do."

"Or i can beat it out of you."

"No thanks. I still wouldn't even if you did--"

"That's what they all say."

"--because i legally agreed not to," he finishes before he rolls his eyes. Jeez. And so what if he still backs up further against the door? He's been bitten to death and has seen other people be bitten to death by hibari before, thank you very much. "So like, it's not that i don't want to tell you or would mind telling you, which I think should make you at least 5% less angry about it."

"I will find out regardless."

"Um, yeah?" he says just as obviously. Tsuna doesn't doubt one of the greatest group of villains in the world isn't so easily found out against their will, but he isn't about to doubt hibari's skills and sheer will either. "And i would have had nothing to do with it, which we'd all be able to agree on." Which also means they'll leave tsuna out of it as they duke it out or whatever until they figure things out.

"You don't work with supers," hibari says, and his accusing tone pricks at tsuna's heart a little in guilt.

"I mean... I kind of have been anyway for the last couple of years, right?"

"Around supers," he corrects.

Which. Yeah, he's not wrong. Only on their days off too. But it doesn't change the fact it's common for villains to take a shot at targeting the district or for supers' disagreement to turn into fights that get out of hands.

So like. The job with the arcos is technically safer than the one at the restaurant.

"Really? Because if you want to play it like that, then i'm only going to work for supers now. Far away from any actual supers activities too."

"This is a government job."

Tsuna blinks, his mouth hanging open silently, needing a moment to get what hibari's getting at. Hibari can only say so many words at once and only so many sentences successively after all. He gotta keep that cool, mysterious and unbothered air about him at all time, you see.

Tsuna swallows back his laugh and purses his lips to hide his smile. He's so silly.

"I know." So maybe this really doesn't come across as a sound decision to make overnight without knowing all the facts, huh? (< he says, like he wouldn't come across as even crazier if people DID know all the facts about his new job and how he ended up getting it. 😭 if they'd even believe him to begin with lmao. but actually, the people who know him WOULD, in fact, believe him, because tsuna's just as crazy as the rest of them esgxcvd, let us never forget. ☝🏽) Landing a job as a district worker is basically the dream job for civilians with awakened powers who aren't interested in a super career, but also whose power is just that little too much suited for it for them to not make a living out of it. "but they're going to pay me more for doing an easier job that will take less of my time than this one. It'd have been stupid of me to refuse, right?"

Hibari narrows his eyes at him for a long moment before he scoffs and stands. Tsuna lets his shoulders drop, the matter settled for now, grinning despite himself.

It's always nice to be reminded he now has people who trust him to make his own decisions, and who trust he put thoughts behind them no matter how sudden they might be. Even nicer and warmer when they still worry about it anyway for no other reason than they care about him.

Tsuna still moves along the wall to keep the distance between him and hibari as he walks closer, because he knows his silly and weirdos not-boyfriends and not-girlfriend, okay? 😂

"It'd be more believable if you were being stupid about it."

"It's a real job! You know it's hard to fool me about these kinds of things."

"There's no need to fool you to coerce or threaten you."

"Well, no one's doing that, so let's not manifest it."

"Here I thought you wanted a peaceful and long life--"

"I do, stop!" he shouts, making hibari laugh. Tsuna holds back his own laugh as best as he can so he can keep acting upset. "I swear, you're always so--"

Hibari stops in front of the door, crossing his arms on his chest, an unrepentant smirk on his face. "It's hard to believe when these things just keep 'kind of happening' to you."

Tsuna huffs, crossing his arms on his chest too right back. "You say that like I chose to have it be this way. And it never led me wrong anyway." Which doesn't mean it's always pleasant to go through, at best, but they both already know that. "Besides," he adds, both his tone and his grin cheeky, "if things come to that and i can't figure it out myself, you'll just have to come to rescue me, won't you?"

"It'll cost you," hibari shoots right back with a blank face. "I'll add it to your tab. A real one i've been keeping track of. One i expect you--"

Tsuna throws his hands up in the air. "Fine, i get it! Oh my god--don't you have to go? aren't you busy? i'm not keeping you." Hibari spares him from outright laughing at his face, but he's grinning at him, his eyes full of unapologetic mischievousness that totally does not make tsuna sulk in response. "Whatever. How do you even know about this anyway?"

"How do you think? I haven't heard it from takeshi because you want to tell us yourself."

That makes him huff a laugh, forgetting all about how he's supposed to be sulking. "You're just gonna tattle on him like that?"

"You don't look like you care."

"I mean, it's not like i asked them to keep quiet about it so i don't mind. I was planning to tell you guys about it too." Hibari doesn't look convinced. "I was! Andmaybeiwasplanningtotellyoulasttoo," he adds quickly, muttering and averting his eyes. Hibari just dismissively turns to the door and reaches for the doorknob lol. "oh, wait! i've always wanted to ask, but what happens to our boss when you take over her office like this?"

"Do you need to know?"

"Do you know? or you don't care as long as she lets you kick her out of her own office without a fuss?" Hibari dismissively opens the door, and tsuna doesn't even bother rolling his eyes about it. Typical. "Oh, wait, wait!!!" he shouts again. "Is that all?" That gets a reaction out of hibari, making him frown. "I mean, i plan to quit this job and you don't have my number either--"

"You think i can't have it even if you don't give it to me?"

"I'll ignore that and you better not," tsuna says casually with the expertise of habit. "Also you don't have to say these kinds of things out loud." hibari looks unimpressed, but tsuna still sees how the corners of his lips twitch. "Anyway, hayato and takeshi were so sad to hear it, but you're not going to give me anything? That hurts my feelings--" Hibari slams the door behind him ZFSDFDS. "Say hi to the others for me!" Tsuna shouts after him and then just laughs about it.

Jeez. He didn't even stay long enough for tsuna to ask him how he's been doing lately.

God forbid tsuna tries to be the one to initiate the flirting with his not-boyfriends and not-girlfriend for once. 🙄

(he loves his silly weirdos so much.)

///

"oh," fon sends him privately not long after. "it's been quite busy lately, so i just got around to do my own proper background check on you," he lets him know entirely unprompted and unneeded and also unwelcomed if tsuna's honest about it lmao. like, okay??? he already figured out that much and they've already made it clear too. why the sudden, threatening reminder of it?? "you know quite the interesting people :)" tsuna squints at his message, trying to make sense of it. does... he? (he's talking about hibari.) he guesses he's... familiar with a lot of supers due to the nature of his job, but... wait. is he insinuating something? (he's not. he's just talking about him knowing hibari.) "the world really is small, isn't it?" well. that's definitely a threat. right? isn't it?? right??? (it's not. he's just talking about hibari zjdksfsd. 😭😂)

"is that so? ^^" is the least incriminating thing tsuna can think of sending after thinking about it hard. "^^" fon sends back as if he doesn't know (he doesn't 😭) it just adds to tsuna's self-inflicted psychological warfare lmao.

(this isn't necessarily meant to go anywhere btw. i just thought if i ever get around to the scene where tsuna realizes hibari and fon both know each other and also are related, it'd be fun to set up the opportunity for fon to go "yes, we do know each other. i already told you about it, remember?" only for tsuna to go "THAT's what you meant??? i thought you were just threatening me for no reason!!! how was i supposed to figure out that's what you meant???" 😂)

///

tsuna keeps sending messages in the group chat every now and then to make sure the arcos are still alive and well. or still alive at the very least. they're one of the strongest groups of villains in the world and all that, sure, sure, but things move fast in the supers world, okay? you never know.

at first he still feels awkward about it, so he only sticks to safe and polite messages like "good morning" "the weather doesn't look too good today" "have a nice day" and such, cringing about it the whole time. 😂 and by now, he also totally expects the arcos clowning on him for it when they don't just leave him on read like he asked, because of course they do lol. anything from "dude, you're such a weirdo" "shall we hold hands and thank the lord for allowing us another day as well?" "HAHAHA" to "what about wishing us good night too?? :(" and such. so tsuna sends "good night" that day as his last message for the day, and of course, they all leave him on read ZAKEDKDF.

(it's fine tho, he was totally expecting something like that haha!! he just rolled his eyes about it and moved on, but also makes it a point to tell them good morning and wish them good night every day anyway from then on. 😂)

as he gets a feel of what they'll allow and what they're comfortable with, he becomes more natural and spontaneous with his messages. "i almost missed my bus" and "went on break just in time to avoid an annoying customer! lucky" and "i should probably try to cook and not just order takeout for dinner again, right?" basically just sharing random thoughts and keeping them updated on small stuff about his life. he doesn't expect them to answer him either. again, it's just so he can see who reads his messages (or who has yet to) so he's sure they're still alive and, more importantly ☝🏽, will pay him for his work zdffds. (listen, living costs money, all right?)

they DO answer him more and more tho. and make fun of him more often than not too lmao, but he's starting to suspect that's just them being friendly towards him and warming up to him. (it is. <3) "are you still in the process of quitting your job at the restaurant?" is what he gets today. "or do you plan to work two jobs?" "wait, did skull reduce your salary on the actual contract??" "EXCUSE ME--" "damn, dude. you poor or something?" "I DIDNT--" "as he should," viper says. "who pays mere underlings so much money?" which, hmmm. granted, tsuna doesn't know the average pay of an underling depending on the job they're doing, but he's been under the impression he's meant to handle very sensitive information about them, so like. well, you know. he's just saying. 🙄😤 "what a shocker to hear you say that, viper," reborn says. "lmao" "IM PAYING HIM EXACTLY AS MUCH AS I SAID I WOULD SHUT UP!!!!!" "TELL THEM TSUNA" "well, maybe you should reconsider if you really have financial issues?" fon helpfully and genuinely advises. "ZJDSKFSK"

"yo tsuna, are you writing a novel over there??" nello's the one to eventually ask, to which tsuna scoffs disbelievingly. he's been TRYING to get a word in, but how is he supposed to keep up with them when they're all a bunch of professional yappers-- "maybe if you'd all shut the fuck up for a bit," lal says. "ladies first," verde shoots back. "bitch," she says. "guess that makes two ladies among us now" "LOLLLL" "damn. she fucking killed you verde" damn, tsuna agrees. He hasn’t been able to talk yet, but maybe he should shut the fuck up too just in case. 😭😂

"it makes them slack off and greedy at the same time when you pay them too much," reborn says like they never digressed from that conversation. and, like. unwarranted much??? "MY money??????" skull says. "that’s mean," tsuna finally manages to get a word in at the same time. is it HIS fault they have yet to share anything work-related so he can do the job they hired him for?? "and MY underlings too so mind your own fucking business" "'that’s mean' he said LMAO" "next thing you know he'll call us bad people too" "this is a grown-up conversation," reborn says, making tsuna almost scoff out a lung. "i'm a grown-up too" "why are you even listening in on our conversation?" "you're the ones who added me to your group chat???" in response to which reborn immediately kicks him out of the group chat EZKFLDSLD. 😭😭😭

(i love reborn so much.)

///

when they add him back in the following day, tsuna decides to stand up for himself and stops sending them messages. he DOES, in fact, have a backbone of his own, okay?

To his surprise (and maybe he's a little happy about it too), the arcos waste no time being the first ones to reach out, tho of course, they're childish and tease him about it lol. "man, there's just something missing about this morning today" "right? it's like it could have been good, but for some reason it can't manage to" "my day didn't go so well today. i wonder why" "does anyone else's nights suck all of a sudden??" "i just can't seem to wake up well-rested these days"

tsuna holds on strong and totally doesn't smile and giggle to himself as he leaves them on read.

"i feel like someone used to care about these type of things before" "but did they really ever care if they can stop giving a shit about it so easily?" "well, maybe it says something about us. should we just go and die in a ditch somewhere?" "right. should we go and kill ourselves about it?" "should we go and kill other people about it?" is what reborn says. "it might simply be a matter of releasing some stress" and as much as tsuna sees right through him, he still can't help but give in and send "don't"

"COME ONNN TSUNA!!!!!" the other arcos immediately go off on him haha. "watch and learn, peasants," reborn says, somehow managing to convey just how smug he is about it through the screen. "you could have answered to ANYONE else!!!" "well, maybe someone else should have thought about it first then!!!" he defends. he's ALSO annoyed about it, okay???

///

meanwhile, on the other 10th gen's group chat with lambo in it too. who they're just as close to, don't get them wrong (and lambo knows they have another group chat without him). but they can't freely simp about tsuna when he's there too, that's all lol.

"hey, lambo!" "is this about tsuna-nii?" lambo instantly calls them out. "you only remember i exist when it has to do with tsuna-nii" "come on kiddo, not true!!!" yams says. "so make yourself useful and tells us about him, idiot-cow," gokudera says at the same time lmao. "we already know you've been doing extremely well!!!!" ryohei tries to salvage it. "hearing it from haru-nee and kyoko-nee doesn't count," lambo keeps sulking. "you've been doing well," hibari repeats ominously. "but i can help you make it otherwise if you want to keep whining about it, little animal" "that's so mean kyoya-nii-san 😢🥺😢" "not helping, guys" "and scary... 😢😢" "and i'm not even wrong!!! 😢😢😢😢" wait idiot-cow DONT--" lambo logs off, which is one of his favorite card to play against them zfesfgh.

"what if it was something urgent???" gokudera immediately gets on his ass when he finally deigns logging in again. "humph. as if i wouldn't know anything that has to do with tsuna-nii" "did you hear about his new job then?" chrome asks. "we just want to make sure there's nothing weird about it!" ryohei adds.

lambo types and deletes it and types again. and types and deletes it again.

"wait, you didn't know??" yams says. "I DID", he lies. "He didn't tell even you?" "well, well. what did tsunayoshi get himself into this time?" "HE TOLD ME ABOUT IT TOO" "HA! stop lying idiot-cow" "isn't this extremely weird??" "so much for knowing everything about him when he actually told me and the baseball-idiot first," gokudera keeps boasting to a 15yo lmao. "ITS NOT AS IF IM REALLY HIS BROTHER" lambo snaps, and the group chat goes dead silent in shock.

"THATS NOT WHAT I MEANT" he quickly sends when he realizes just what he said. "the fuck???" "I DIDNT MEAN IT" "THATS EXTREMELY WRONG OF YOU TO SAY LAMBO" "lambo-kun" "did you have a fight with tsuna, lambo?" "NO--" "BUT BAKADERA KEPT TEASING ME--" "tsuna-kun would be heartbroken to hear you say that," chrome casually says, making sure lambo will feel the absolute worst about it. 😭😭😭

"thank you for this very useful screenshot," mukuro pipes up. "...you don't mean that, right?" "oh, it's not for any immediate use, don't worry." "but i'm sure it'll prove useful one of these days" "mukuro-nii--" lambo tries, but mukuro pulls a uno reverse on him and logs off zfefsds. "...isn't anyone gonna say something about this?" he asks. "DO something about it????" "your problem," gokudera says. "you should be more careful with what you say, lambo, okay?" yams isn't any more helpful. and neither is ryohei's "i'm sure he was just joking, you know how he is!!!" "😢😢😢😢😢" "fine" "i have screenshots of my own too" "okay now," yams quickly sends. "let's all--" lambo logs off again lmao.

"first of all," he says when he logs back in a while later. "tsuna-nii said the only reason he had yet to tell me is because he didn't want to distract me from my EXAMS" "oh right!!!" "did it go well??" "when will you get the results?" "HUMPH" "too late" "i will only CONSIDER forgiving you if you buy me a thousand grapes juice boxes and a million candy" "so did you hear anything about his new job or not???" gokudera asks. "what about it?" "whose super is he working for?" "i don't know" "he said he isn't allowed to say" "but aren't you usually able to at least say which agency your work for?" yams muses. "i mean, if the offer was really that good, it can't have come from a freelance super, right?" "But what about kyoya? Some freelance supers get by just fine" "wait, why do we care?" lambo asks. "is he doing something dangerous??" "that's what we're trying to figure out, idiot-cow" "tsuna already said it isn't dangerous tho," ryohei reminds them. "And he extremely wouldn't lie to us about it!" "maybe it's just that sensitive and confidential a job," chrome says, making them all sit a bit on it.

"soooo...." yams eventually starts. "do we stop looking into it?" "Should we?" "but how are we supposed to give him an even better offer if we don't know anything about how good theirs is? :(" "are we still going with the plan then?" gokudera asks.

"what plan??" lambo immediately grows concerned. "oh my god" "what plan???" "something to say, little animal?" "Oh my god--" "hahaha, don't worry! It's nothing bad," yams says, about their plan to stage a big, national incident for their debut as proper supers. because that's the plan btw. the plan lambo totally doesn't have to worry about. yeah, that plan. "oh my GOD--" lambo totally worries about it, because they've done this before. 😭 "at least make sure you won't have to use plans B to Z all right???" "your plan As are already always the worst and suck enough as it is" and then he logs off again before they can tell him off for saying the truth✌🏽✨😌😂

[uwu-kore]

Yes ofc this isnt a fic, Hope, this isnt a fic. Just a very long, 20k words, with worldbuilding and carefully written 'tumblr post' that is updated every week. Nice try in denial, Hope, you are almost as good as tsuna now :P keep trying and maybe this post will take a spot in your khr fic collections on ao3 :)

[azaablue]

the best fanfiction you've ever read was written by a woman in her 40s before she made dinner for her kids. it was written by a teenager after school when they should've been studying for a history test. and a barista came up with the idea while they cleaned the espresso machine and busser fact-checked it on their break and the post-doc edited between writing grant proposals and the nurse apologized for typos in the notes after a long shift and behind every drabble and one-shot and multi-chapter fic there is a person with a wonderful and interesting and chaotic life and it is such a privilege that we get to be a part of it because they decided to do this thing we all share, for fun.

[hopeswriting]

I think about that writing prompt about a hero ending up in the villains' group chat i reblogged back then sometimes. How i immediately felt like having tsuna in the hero's role, and then very predictably paired him up with the arcos as the villains lol. I'm not sorry about it. <3

So there's tsuna who isn't actually a hero but a nobody civilian, who first thinks this is someone playing a prank on him because no way he just got added to the actual group chat of one of the most notorious group of villains in the world. Tsuna who goes from "um, hi? Can i help you?" But then never actually gets to "i think there was some kind of mistake here" because the arcos are a bunch of yappers.

And at some point between "who the fuck is that?" "Is he one of you guys' underlings?" "Since when are we adding underlings to this group chat?" "Why don't you just hold a press conference to reveal all of our most sensitive information on live tv while you're at it, skull?", skull goes "i added him on purpose!!!" You know, like a liar. He IS the one who added tsuna, and judging by the others' reactions, he clearly wasn't meant to, but he doesn't remember why the hell it was on his to-do-list to do then?? Also the guy's profile picture and name don't even ring any fucking bell. Wait, was he supposed to add him to his underlings' group chat instead?? Ugh, whatever!!!

(Did tsuna... apply to become a group of villains' underling? He doesn't remember that.)

"What purpose?" The arcos continue to yap. "Aren't we always bitching about how nobody ever reads what the others have to say on here??" Skull says. "Well, there you have it! He can keep track of it and let us know of the important things!"

(Did tsuna... apply for this specific position as an underling?? He doesn't remember that either.)

"Why the fuck are you deciding that on your own?" Tsuna reads with a steadily increasing ominous feeling, because these guys sure seem to take this prank very seriously. "Is he even trustworthy?" "Haven't you guys ever heard of a trial period?" Skull defends. "And WHERE is he gonna let us know of those important things again??" They ignore him. "In the same group chat we never read???" "YOU'RE READING IT RIGHT NOW AREN'T YOU???? FUCK YOU--"

"I actually already have a job, so..." Tsuna says, to which the arcos instantly go off on him because "why the fuck did you apply then???" And also "so???" Skull says, because his reputation is on the line here. "Just quit???"

(Did Tsuna really apply to this job, though? He guesses he must have, right? But did he really, though?

For the life of him, he really just can't remember.)

"Well, i kind of need the money, so..." He tries again, and feels himself lose 3 years of his life when they all go silent for a bit.

"You think we make our underlings work for free??" They start talking again all at the same time. "YOU THINK I DON'T PAY MY UNDERLINGS THE JUST SALARY FOR THEIR WORK????" Skull says, outraged. "PLUS ALL THE BENEFITS MIND YOU," he adds, because the FUCK does tsuna take him for???? "Well, i guess he at least won't have any problems saying the things he wants to say to us," reborn says.

"Well," tsuna keeps typing in a momentary lapse of sanity, "how much are we talking about...?"

"What do you mean how much?" The arcos keep yapping. "Didn't you read the contract?" "Didn't skull make you one?" "YES I DID," skull lies. ("THERE MUST HAVE BEEN AN ISSUE WHEN I SENT IT THE FIRST TIME," he keeps lying in tsuna's dms. "I'LL SEND IT AGAIN SOON.") "Do you just commit to things you don't know about?" "Are you stupid?", meanwhile skull sends in the group chat ten times the amount he usually offers, just to make sure to get one over the other arcos about how he's the one paying his underlings the most.

And, well. It sure IS more than what tsuna's current job pays him. Plus all the benefits?

"Am i really talking to the real arcobaleno?" He finally brings himself to ask before the offered money can make him lose all sense of self-preservation.

"Is your current job being a comedian?" Is the first answer he gets. "LMAO" "Whose dumbfuck wannabe villains out there would dare to use our names, let alone pretend to be us?" "Do we have to go on a purge again and remind everyone why they shouldn't do that?"

"Please don't," tsuna quickly types and sends in dawning and horrifying realization.

Is this really happening? Are they really the arcobaleno? 

They sure act like it.

"Don't tell us what to do." "Who the fuck asked for your opinion?"

"I won't kill anyone," tsuna takes the opportunity to say while they're on the subject. "And would like to be the least involved possible in any of your killings. Or crimes in general," he adds as an afterthought.

To which the arcos instantly go off on him again because "But YOU applied to work with US????" "Why the fuck keeping track of a group chat would involve you killing anyone??" "Who is it you're saying you'd have to kill? One of us?"

Tsuna feels himself lose 5 years of his life as he looks at the last message in horror, and then another 10 years when they all go dead silent again.

Oh god. He didn't fucking say that???? Oh fuck.

Is he dead? Are they gonna track him down and kill him?

Are they gonna kill him without even granting him his trial period even when he's apparently crazy enough to actually consider accepting the job?

"Where the hell do you even find these people, skull?" They eventually start yapping again, and tsuna starts breathing again. "You let your underlings talk to you like that?" "At least MY underlings actually TALK to me like the fellow human being i am" "debatable" "and you're proud of it?" "It's because even them can tell you're a fucking pushover lmao" "all of you shut the hell up. Does anyone actually have something important to say? Otherwise i'm out of here" "good fucking riddance," skull says. "Tsunayoshi, is it?"

"Yes, but you can just call me tsuna," he says, because what else is even there to say?

"As long as i don't have to hear directly from these guys ever again, i'll even pay you a million dollars a month"

"Haha," he says, because it feels like the correct thing to say.

"Oh, was that funny to you?" Reborn says, because of fucking course he does lmao.

And already, tsuna can see his shortened lifespan (in spirit) flash before his eyes.

[hopeswriting]

i was hesitating whether to share this because it doesn't really advance the story or anything, plus this turned out to be less of a chat fic and more of a proper narrative story, but i figured the interactions in and of themselves would be fun to see haha. @mistingrain @otaku-reborn have a little addition to this verse!

Skull sends him the contract. Tsuna reads it through. Signs it and sends it back before he can think better of it.

He receives a package the very next day with a phone in it. It's the exact same one as the one he has, except it's immediately apparent when he turns it on that this one is at the height of technology. It comes with a second screen where the group chat app is and that can only be accessed when he's the one holding the phone, among other features.

Otherwise it appears to be a normal phone, and Tsuna clones all the data of his phone to the new one before he sends the old one back to the sender as instructed.

As soon as he turns the phone on and logs onto the group chat app, he gets jump scared by the arco all sending him private messages.

They range from "I'm sure you know what'll happen to you if you get any funny ideas with the information you'll be privy to" to "better get a will ready now you're in this line of work" and "hello. Let us hope you last long enough to at least make it past your trial period :)" but also "don't bother me with needless information. All i need to know are the information needed to help me make a profit or avoid a loss"

Which. Okay. Not unexpected from a group of villains, but also very much not needed. He has no intention of getting any "funny ideas" whatsoever, thank you very much. Because he'd very much like to stay alive, so he won't be writing a will either actually. Wouldn't want to jinx it and all that. Especially when, again, he very much plans to stay alive for another long while, thank you very much.

Reborn sends "i know everything there is to know about you" which. Yeah. His contact information on the contract skull sent him made that much clear, plus the fact they sent him the exact same phone model as the one he was using wasn't exactly subtle either. Not to mention they even knew somehow he apparently applied to this job before even he himself did. But even without any of that, he was expecting the background check.

"Look out the window," reborn sends as soon as tsuna reads his first message.

Tsuna's heart picks up its pace as he hurries to his window. What does he mean? Are they watching him?? Will they be watching him??? Did they send someone to get rid of him? But he didn't even have the time to do anything yet!!!

Should he have negotiated a clause about not invading his privacy without cause too?

"You're not actually looking out the window, are you?" Reborn has sent when tsuna checks his phone again. "The first thing you should have done is duck out of its line of sight. Second is to secure all access to you. And third to grab a weapon in case it's more than just a bluff" "Do you even really want this job?" "Tsk, tsk"

Tsuna looks at the messages with his jaw on the fucking floor. Really?? Is that what this guy plans to be all about? Making him fear for his life and taking years off it while he's at it for shits and giggles?

And at once, he completely understands why someone would be willing to pay someone else a million dollars a month just to not have to deal with him lmao.

"Why would you choose skull to be the boss of you??" Nello asks, to which tsuna just goes "???" because what are they even talking about now? "I mean, you wanted to work for skull out of all of us???" Nello continues to yap, and tsuna goes even more "????" because, well. What else choice was even there when skull was the one offering the job?? Or were they all listing the job and he chose to apply with skull? Or something--whatever??? But it didn't seem like they were aware it was something skull was up to, did it?

(Tsuna still does not remember how he ended up with this job.

He doesn't plan to mention it either now he's made it this far regardless.)

"Um, well, i mean," he awkwardly fumbles, "i'm sure you're all very nice—" a pause so he can cringe at himself "—and you're definitely all super impressive!!" More cringing even if it's not untrue zbdksjsk. "But—" another pause because he doesn't know what to fucking say??? What if he says the wrong thing and nello holds it against him and stops him from keeping the job??? "—i like the way skull looks?" He settles on, which is also not untrue, but also not an opinion he can say he's been actively having lol. "He looks cool ^^"

"Lmao," nello sends before he immediately switches to the group chat and sends "rate skull's fit on a scale of 0 to 10. Negative numbers allowed" to tsuna's fucking HORROR AJEKSKS. 😭😂 "UNPROVOKED????" Skull says. "i'll start," nello ignores him, "-10" and then of course, the other arcos waste no time pitching in too. "6" "3" "1, for sparing us from the sight of his face" "5" "2"

"Wow," skull says. "Fuck you guys first of all, like i asked or give a shit second of all, and WHO's talking again????" "Mister i can't move on from my military days himself??? Mister camo clothes is the peak of fashion himself???" "Green AND blond, really??????? You're ugly enough as it is"

The chat, of course, goes fucking crazy zheksjs. And tsuna would be highkey laughing too if he wasn't too horrified at this being his doing lmao.

"Reborn laughed too btw," viper makes sure to let everyone know as nello and skull keep going at each other. "None of your business," is all reborn can say because it'd be useless to deny it when they're all aware of viper's power. "OH YEAH???" Nello turns right on him. "That's not what you were fucking saying last night, bitch" "wouldn't that be because you were naked then?" Fon muses. "Oh?" Lal says at the same time. "Do share with the class" "yeah??" Skull says, also at the same time, because they're all yappers lest we forget. "I don't need confirmation to know i'm the funniest guy you guys know"

"You see our issue," verde sends tsuna as the others continue to yap in the group chat. "Even if we did read the group chat, we'd still end up dead before we could get to the point."

Tsuna breathes out a laugh, half nervous, half disbelieving, and half genuinely amused. And yes, the math is wrong. Well, you won't believe this, but tsuna's never been all that good at math.

Anyway. He DOES very much see the issue. So that's why they all sent him private messages so he could contact them privately. That's where he's supposed to let them know of the "important things", huh?

You'd think the convenience of a group chat instead of sending the same message to everyone multiple times would make them get over... whatever they have going on between them, but who's tsuna to tell them how they should behave, right?

What ARE those "important things" tho?? Especially if they're going to each have their own meaning of it if viper's message is anything to go by. Should he ask everyone the question and see what they say?

"Skull-san," he decides to ask skull first. He can call him skull-san, right? Or should he call him boss instead? Would that be more underling-like?? Well, he wouldn't fucking know that. "I was wondering--" he's in the middle of typing when skull sends him a message too that only says, "TSUNA" "Yes?" Tsuna quickly deletes and sends instead. Shit. Did nello tattle on him??? But he complimented him so he should be fine, right??? Or has something "important" been shared in the group chat and he missed it?

Oh wait. Does skull want him to answer to what he first sent him? What was it again?

"Yo tsuna" "don't ever listen to anything the others have to say about me, 'kay?" "I'm the one paying you anyway, so you can just ignore them" "actually i'll even give you a bonus for every time you withhold information from them and it gets them in trouble lol" "plus a promotion if it ends up killing them LOL"

Right, that.

Haha. Lol. Yeah, right.

Tsuna will NOT fucking do that, thank you very much. He's not a big fan of actively trying to get himself killed, you see.

"You see the bullshit i've had to deal with???" Is what skull says. "Why would anyone care about anything these guys have to say when they're always like this, right???"

"Actually, i've been meaning to ask, skull-san," tsuna strategically avoids answering, "but what are the 'important things' i should make sure you're all aware of?"

"Beats me," is the helpful answer he gets. "I can survive anything so i don't really care. Just make sure to remind me you're still alive every now and then so i can keep you on payroll" can they please STOP manifesting his death he swears to god-- "i don't give a shit about the others either," skull continues to be oh so very helpful. "Oh wait, DO let me know if it looks like they're about to lose against supers or something!!" "So i can show up and make sure they DO lose" "LOLLLL"

"haha," tsuna says, because it feels lile the correct thing to say.

Maybe it was a mistake to accept this job.

"Leaving me on read, are you?" Reborn asks as tsuna's rethinking his life choices, because of fucking course he does ZHKSKS. 😭😂 (I love reborn so much.)

///

"You're quitting?" Yams repeats back at him with nothing short of the grief of a wife who just learned she lost her husband at war.

(IDK I REALLY LIKE YAMSTUSNA OKAY--)

"I mean, possibly?" Tsuna tries to soften the blow. "It's in the plans, but nothing's confirmed yet," he lies a little, because he very much did sign the contract already.

But he can always quit, right? So he'd rather wait for that first pay check if he even lasts that long before quitting his job. He can't just quit it cold turkey like that anyway, so it all works out.

"You found another job?" Gokudera asks, trying to not look as unaffected by the news as yams, and looking like the most abandoned and kicked puppy of all puppies anyway.

"Yeah. It kind of just happened." 

The restaurant's busy and he should move on from their table now he gave them their orders, but he's not the type to slack off and their regulars like him, so he's allowed to have these little chats as long as things aren't too busy.

"But i don't even have your number yet," yams says, in that particular tone of voice that always makes tsuna's cheeks grow warm.

"Well, it's against policy..."

"Just until your last day, right?" Gokudera says.

Tsuna scratches his cheek, feeling bad for denying them when he really likes them too, but... "Yeah, but you won't know which day it'll be, right?" It's also against policy for them to share their schedules with their customers.

"What about meeting at your house?" Yams tries. "I know where you live--" Gokudera kicks him under the table and shuts him up lol.

"Hello, welcome," tsuna greets some new customers before he turns their attention back to them. "Sorry, you were saying?"

"He said, what kind of job is it?" Gokudera says.

"Sorry, but i'm not allowed to say."

"That's okay. Where is it then? Which company?"

"Hm. I'm not allowed to say either..."

"You're going to work in the supers sector?" They immediately put 2 and 2 together, at which point the other regulars in the restaurant stop badly pretending they aren't eavesdropping on their conversation.

"With supers?" "Our tsuna?" "What if he ends up in danger?" "No way--"

"But i thought you just happened to end up with this job too and weren't interested in working with supers?" Yams asks, and the look of betrayal on his face stabs tsuna right through his heart.

"Right--"

"If i knew it was on the table and you were looking for another job, i would've--"

"At which company?" Gokudera scoffs.

"How hard can it be to make one?" Yams fires back. "Like you're not thinking the same too"

"Guys!" Tsuna cuts in. "Look, it just really happened out of the blue, i swear. The offer was just too good to refuse"

"But we all agreed to a pact of non-action--" gokudera kicks him under the table again zhzkskkd.

"What?"

"He meant, whose backstabbing b--" this time, it's yams who stomps on his foot under the table "--i mean, whose super are you going to work for?"

"Hm--i can't... say either, sorry..."

Gokudera narrows his eyes. "It's not going to be dangerous, is it?"

And tsuna, as always, feels warmth spread through him. "Not at all." It shouldn't be anyway, right? "But thank you for worrying. And i'm really sorry for dropping this on you so suddenly."

Yams immediately smiles at him with the force of a thousand suns, the smile reaching his eyes too, to tsuna's relief. "Don't worry about it! It's not like we can only see each other here, right?"

"Right!" tsuna perks up, because he'd really like it too if they could keep in touch somehow.

"But, you know, tsuna. If this is really all so sudden... Does kyoya know?"

Tsuna snorts. "What?" He laughs. "You're saying that like he's my dad or my boyfriend or something."

Yams laughs too. "Right?" He exchanges a glance with gokudera who is not laughing, and is still not laughing when he looks at him like he might as well keep laughing while he still can. "You totally don't need his permission for anything."

"Right? Hahahaha."

"Hahaha, yeah. Right, so..." He grins, trying to soften the blow as much as he can. "He doesn't know yet, does he?"

"Hahaha," tsuna keeps laughing. "Haha... Ha..."

Fuck.

He's doomed.

[hopeswriting]

Back again lol

@mistingrain @otaku-reborn (btw this might be the last addition for all i know lol, but let me know whenever you want me to stop tagging you!)

The group chat stays completely inactive for a week and some, and tsuna's not sure what to make of it. He doesn't know if it's normal for them because the messages automatically deletes themselves every 12 hours, so he can't back read to see how often or not so often they use the group chat. He makes sure to check it every 4 hours at the very least too, so he knows it's not that he just so happens to miss them when they do use the group chat.

Well, even easier for him, right? He's going to get paid handsomely for literally doing nothing. They will still pay him even on months they don't use the group chat at all, right??

But tsuna being tsuna, it just gives him more anxiety over it lol. He'd like to feel like he's earned at least some of his salary, you see. Plus, what if this means bad news??

And okay, yes, maybe it's unlikely seeing as they're one of the strongest group of villains in the world and all, plus the news would definitely say something about it, but still. He'd like to know if he has to look for another job, especially if he ends up quitting the one at the restaurant to fully focus on this one.

(Plus, like. Spare some compassionate thoughts about their unlikely deaths, he guesses?? Or something. Whatever.)

(Oh, wait. Is this just their way of firing him by ghosting him???

Um, rude if true.)

Anyway. "Hello," he types to test the waters, and doesn't send it because it feels awkward somehow. "How's everyone doing today?" He adds to see if it makes it better and immediately deletes the whole thing lmao. "Hi," he tries again. "Is everyone all right?" And then makes a face at his message because who even is he to ask that lol. Also why wouldn't they be being who they are?? There's been no indication they aren't either.

(Because, see, tsuna's been doing his homework. He's been following the news about supers activities, especially supervillains, as well as following relevant pages, websites, blogs, hashtags and all that, and goggling stuff too every now and then, hoping none of that will put him on some kind of list lol. He also subscribed to the big superhero agencies' more likely to take on threats like the arco newsletters.

He figured it'd help him recognize the "important things" they'd share in the group chat, but then, very little is actually revealed to the general public or is accessible to them.

Well, no news is good news, right?)

"So," he settles on, not letting himself overthink it so he actually sends the message. "What do you guys do for work?"

And, of course, the arco immediately come online to dunk on him ZJDKSKS. "Well, who's asking? 🧐" "Wait, no--" "Hunting innocents people for sports" "killing the weak and the oppressed" "LMAO you a cop dude??" "NO--!!!" "adding to the numbers of widows and orphans" "same thing" "that's good to hear. They meet unfortunate ends when they are :)" "I'M NOT--" "overthrowing governments for fun" "blowing up places and such" "giving heroes a career" "LOLLL" "nice one lmao"

They keep making fun of him like tsuna isn't about to have a heart attack over it lmao. Turns out they're alive and well, though. They can even get along! Well, fucking good for them. 🙄🤬🙄🤬🙄

(ZJEKZKDK HE'S ALREADY SO TIRED OF THEIR ASSES--😭😭😭

I love tsuna so much. I love them all so much.)

"I just thought we could try to know each other better!!!" He manages to get a word in. "AND NOW YOU'RE FLIRTING WITH US???" Is what the arco say just to fuck with him more lmao. "Wait, but you don't even know what we look like" "Who do you think is the hottest between us?? There's only one right answer btw" "What else could i be but devastatingly handsome? Be serious"

Tsuna's face is beet red, and he'd be grateful if he could just explode right about now actually.

"I was just making sure i still had a job i'd get paid for by the end of the month," he sends. "Feel free to just leave me on read next time if you're going to be like this" "have a nice day"

And then he dips for the next 4 hours without waiting for an answer lol.

///

Meanwhile, on the 10th gen's group chat. Yes, they also have a group chat. And yes, i guess they're part of this verse too now.

(It's because i love them too, that's why.)

"You didn't hear it from me because i'm sure tsuna wants to tell you himself," yams says, "but he's planning to quit his job at the restaurant." And it's basically him dropping a bomb in front of their nice salads zjdksk. "WHAT" "what." "WHY???" "Did someone give him a hard time at work?" "What happened?" "Coworkers or customers? Their names?" "We'll see," is what hibari says lmao. "The fuck you mean???" Is what gokudera says in response. (😭😂) "He can do whatever the hell he wants"

"So suddenly?" the others ignore them. "He said the offer he got was too good to refuse," yams explains. "I can make him a good offer too--" "how GOOD could it have been--" "from whom?" Mukuro's the one to ask, which makes it obviously concerning lol. "A super," gokudera's the one to say.

"Wait wait wait. How are we gonna keep seeing him if he quits his job?? We didn't even get his number yet :(" "i know :(" yams says, because is he even yams if he doesn't take every opportunity to be hopelessly and pathetically lovesick about tsuna? "But you know, if the offer was from a super and he still accepted it..." Chrome starts. "WE are supers too" "what a funny thing to say," mukuro immediately clowns on that statement, that bitch LMAO. "That's fucking news to me," gokudera reluctantly agrees. "I doubt tsuna will care much about an offer from unknown, unaffiliated, part time, neighborhood supers. AT BEST" "don't forget unregistered," mukuro adds, because god forbid you mistake him as the type to comply with governments. "I have money," hibari corrects, because god forbid you think him the type to be poor lmao.

"WHAT" "is this a joke? Tsuna's always said he'd rather not work in that field" "RIGHT???" "Wait because why can't i think of whose super it could be?" "He did end up as a district worker anyway tho" "he said the offer just kind of happened too" "IS IT A SUPER WHO DOESN'T EVEN BOTHER BEING A REGULAR AT HIS RESTAURANT???" "I KNOW RIGHT???" Yams says. "They don't even know him like we do or care about him as much as we do. The audacity--" "whose. Super is it?" Hibari asks. "And if we tell you?????" Gokudera's the one to answer again, because he's never not on that 'clock hibari's bullshit' duty zjdkskdks. 😭 "Like tsuna will thank you for it"

"THAT'S ONLY BECAUSE WE EXTREMELY NEED TO BE TSUNA'S TYPE" ryohei defends. "Yeah yeah yeah!!!" Yams backs him up. "It's not like we couldn't compete with all the great supers out there if we wanted to" "we just need to get our names out there" "then should we stage some kind of big, national incident and be the ones to resolve it?" Chrome asks, to which nobody actually goes 'what about no????' Because they're all insane in the heads. Also nothing is ever too much if it's for tsuna, you see. 😌☺️ Anyway, as they're all trying to work out the logistics of that, yams remember the most important thing.

"OH WAIT GUYS!!!" "Holy shit i can't believe i almost forgot" "yes?" "???" "So as we were talking, tsuna mentioned the idea of him having a BOYfriend and..." "AND????" "go on." "hurry up and spit it out" "he seemed totally A-OKAY WITH THAT CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT GUYS" "Good for you guys," chrome says supportively as the chat goes crazy in joy. They've already figured out he's attracted to girls too, you see haha

[uwu-kore]

Hope, at this point, i think the post has possessed you and forced you to write an entire fic already.

[boycritter]

maybe i like my tech a little bit inconvenient

[boycritter]

maybe i like pulling out my debit card instead of using apple pay. maybe i like untangling my wired headphones. maybe i like typing something into the search bar instead of using siri or whatever. maybe i like curating my own social media feeds over an algorithm. i just don’t think everything has to be perfectly streamlined and efficient i like it when things feel tethered to the real world.

[jimmydankovskoye]

cabana archive

My backup collection (Includes David Lynch and Michael Mann Filmography) 200+ films https://www.1024tera.com/sharing/link?surl=oKZ-Tk485-Uj8w721PUYUQ

Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair - https://gofile.io/d/xomZR5

Marty Supreme - https://gofile.io/d/EBTOzA

Sinners IMAX 4K https://gofile.io/d/2X8hWg

Collateral (2004) 1080P Open Matte https://gofile.io/d/ec83CJ

28 Days/Weeks/Years Later (All Films) https://gofile.io/d/8aS7Ax

Resurrection - gofile.io/d/6cmX5Z

Bugonia - https://gofile.io/d/E9oiuz

The Park Chan-wook Collection - gofile.io/d/QBq4dK gofile.io/d/cDTHAt password: @cabanadrives4

The Silent Hill Collection - gofile.io/d/byhU2d https://gofile.io/d/V3R9pS https://gofile.io/d/IGpdfo password: @cabanadrives4 & @cabanadrives5

fuji_jukai.mov - gofile.io/d/ROwO8q

The Batman Ultimate Collection: 1: https://terabox.app/sharing/link?s url=52y6LdcJMcsKi4v070ohdw 2: https://gofile.io/d/sTENCz 3: https://transfer.it/t/8OAxEV9jDTQY

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) 4K Blu-Ray & Strange Journey: The Story of Rocky Horror - Documentary (2025) - gofile.io/d/b8pk7w

Cristopher Nolan IMAX Collection - https://gofile.io/d/sTENCz

Primate (2026) - gofile.io/d/WRyJS0

SAI Complete Mini-Series https://gofile.io/d/P6sn7p

Fallout Seasons 1 & 2 gofile.io/d/pyaB0l

A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms - Complete Season https://gofile.io/d/1QCNYo

We Bury The Dead (2026) https://gofile.io/d/qCLT5m

The Housemaid (2026) https://gofile.io/d/JkqP7i

Zootopia 2 https://gofile.io/d/cXuGm3

Lake Mungo - New Blu-ray Edition https://gofile.io/d/iouTkZ

Angel's Egg - New 4K Blu-ray https://gofile.io/d/NmHWne

Eternity (2025) https://gofile.io/d/m208Zp

Frankenstein (2025) https://gofile.io/d/AQeaUp

Dead Man's Wire - https://gofile.io/d/Ss6qtr

Silent Hill 1 PS1 PC Emulated https://gofile.io/d/V3R9pS password: @cabanadrives5

[valtsv]

i can't vibe with anyone who thinks icarus was an ignorant idiot for flying too close to the sun. "oh i'd never do that i would have remembered my father's warning and been fine". do you seriously think that after years of imprisonment, feeling the sun on your face and the open air beneath your wings, you would be able to focus on anything but the joy of being alive and free? do you actually think that if you were given the opportunity to go where nobody has never been before, you wouldn't want to push it to the limit? to dare to be the first to try what no one else has ever even thought possible? do you honestly think you're too good for your own human nature? look me in the eyes and tell me if i strapped a pair of wings to your back that could take you wherever you wanted to go whenever you pleased that you'd be careful and sensible about it. you are not better than icarus just because you have the benefit of his example.

[valtsv]

[rohirric-hunter]

“You are not better than Icarus just because you have the benefit of his example” go off

[flyingpurplepizzaeater]

Sometimes people use “respect” to mean “treating someone like a person” and sometimes they use “respect” to mean “treating someone like an authority”

and sometimes people who are used to being treated like an authority say “if you won’t respect me I won’t respect you” and they mean “if you won’t treat me like an authority I won’t treat you like a person”

and they think they’re being fair but they aren’t, and it’s not okay.

[kurzler]

a quick psa to anyone recently getting into greek mythology and is a victim of tumblr and/or tiktok misconceptions:

-there is no shame in being introduced to mytholgy from something like percy jackson, epic the musical or anything like that, but keep in mind that actual myths are going to be VERY different from modern retellings

-the myth of medusa you probably know (her being a victim of poseidon and being cursed by athena) isn't 100% accurate to GREEK mythology (look up ovid)

-there is no version of persephone's abduction in which persephone willingly stays with hades, that's a tumblr invention (look up homeric hymn to demeter)

-as much as i would like it, no, cerberus' name does not mean "spot" (probably a misunderstanding from this wikipedia article)

-zeus isn't the only god who does terrible things to women, your fav male god probably has done the same

-on that note, your fav greek hero has probably done some heinous shit as well

-gods are more complicated than simply being "god of [insert thing]", many titles overlap between gods and some may even change depending on where they were worshipped

-also, apollo and artemis being the gods of the sun and the moon isn't 100% accurate, their main aspects as deities originally were music and the hunt

-titans and gods aren't two wholly different concepts, titan is just the word used to decribe the generation of gods before the olympians

-hector isn't the villain some people make him out to be

-hephaestus WAS married to aphrodite. they divorced. yes, divorce was a thing in ancient greece. hephaestus' wife is aglaia

-ancient greek society didn't have the same concepts of sexuality that we have now, it's incorrect to describe virgin goddesses like artemis and athena as lesbians, BUT it's also not wholly accurate to describe them as aromantic/asexual, it's more complex than that

-you can never fully understand certain myths if you don't understand the societal context in which they were told

-myths have lots and lots of retellings, there isn't one singular "canon", but we can try to distinguish between older and newer versions and bewteen greek and roman versions

-most of what you know about sparta is probably incorrect

-reading/waching retellings is not a substitute to reading the original myths, read the iliad! read the odyssey! i know they may seem intimidating, but they're much more entertaining than you may think

greek mythology is so complex and interesting, don't go into it with preconcieved notions! try to be open to learn!

[mioxenoblade]

When I say “free water, free food, free shelter, free healthcare, free education for everyone” in that “everyone” I even include the people I hate. Too many people get surprised at the idea that I do wish for the people I hate to have better lives.

When I say EVERYONE, I mean EVERYONE. These are things ALL people should have. If you reblog this saying “except THIS group” then you’ve missed the point entirely.

[generaljinjur]

[salmonandsoup]

i want to remove the boots from necks altogether, not just be the one to put on the boot.

[nentuaby]

Don’t know about OP, but when I say it, this is not selflessness! It’s not selflessness at all. There are still people I would prefer get fucked over! There are really awful shitty people in the world!

But I understand that the tables always turn. ALWAYS. There is no final glorious revolution where The Right People will be in charge forever. The only way to ensure the boot will never be on your neck again is to throw away the fucking boot. Set the table so you eat well no matter which way it turns!

[thatonebirdwrites]

ALL OF THIS. Leave no one behind. We all deserve food, clean water, clean air, healthcare, housing, electricity, internet, and so forth. No matter who you are, you deserve to be able to access and have what you need to survive.

So yes, yes, yes to “throw away the fucking boot.”

[greenbergsays]

I want the people I hate to step on Legos for the rest of their life, not have that life ended prematurely because of something totally preventable

[princesscolumbia]

The absolute best revenge you can get on someone you hate is to never, ever give them what they want. And in a lot of the cases of the worst people in the world, what they want is for you to ‘break’ and 'fall’ and all that other BS that they think separates them from you.

“You’re not going to die a martyr. You’re not going to be killed in the name of wiping out evil. You’re going to be given every…single…thing a human being deserves. You’re going to get the rights you stripped from other people. You’re going to get the care and treatment you denied other people. You’re going to get the simple, basic, easy to provide things that every human being deserves that you tried to turn into controlled commodities so you could lord over others. You’re going to be treated the way you hate to see in the world.”

“…and there’s not a goddamn thing you can do about it.”

[vahshu]

✧ ° ✩ Katekyo Hitman Reborn ! : S h o r t h a n d s ✩ ° ✧

[hopeswriting]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

FF.NET LINK

— WIP INTRODUCTION

PAIRINGS: Sawada Tsunayoshi & Vongola Tenth Generation, Ten Years Later Sawada Tsunayoshi & Ten Years Later Vongola Tenth Generation, Sawada Tsunayoshi & Reborn

SUMMARY:

In which Tsuna loves and mourns and fails and tries again and tries to salvage anything he can.

There’s not much left for him to salvage.

[Plain text:

FF.NET LINK

— WIP INTRODUCTION

PAIRINGS: Sawada Tsunayoshi & Vongola Tenth Generation, Ten Years Later Sawada Tsunayoshi & Ten Years Later Vongola Tenth Generation, Sawada Tsunayoshi & Reborn

SUMMARY:

In which Tsuna loves and mourns and fails and tries again and tries to salvage anything he can.

There’s not much left for him to salvage. /End PT]

Afficher davantage

[guerrillatech]

[silly-slacker-person]

There are political newspaper comics that aren't this succinct

[my-hyperfixation-hell]

The KHR system is such a good fictional power system to plug other universe's characters into for a lot of reasons and it's a genuine hobby of mine to sit down and make lists of which characters go where, but I wanted to actually talk about why that is. So here's my random list of what makes the KHR Flames system so easily applicable to any character.

The first thing that makes it work so well is how it actually works. Most systems like this in media are based upon just aspects of a character's personality. The KHR system has that to an extent, but if you actually examine it closely, it's also about characters' roles within the story itself. Yes, Skies tend to have magnetic/charismatic personalities (whether deliberately or not), but being a Sky is moreso about you having that impact on other people, not any specific personality traits. If your faction's leader has some aspect of personality that draws people to them, be it something like the Vongola kids' bonds with Tsuna and trust in him, the Varia's respect for Xanxus's might, or whatever codepedency stuff Byakuran and his Funeral Wreaths had going on, you've got youself a Sky. These are all very different forms of leadership, but they're all equally valid for a Sky. This remains consistent for each characterization. Clouds are characters who are almost part of a group but maintain some level of distance (think "lone wolf" types), Storms are similar but not 1 to 1 of the Lancer archetype, so on and so forth. For the sake of brevity, I'm going to move on here instead of listing out all seven.

I already touched upon my second point in the first, but KHR's system is incredibly flexible. It says nothing about moral alignment, for instance. Skies do not have to be morally good leaders or heroic, they just have to be good at attracting people. That can be through manipulation or force just as much as it can be through genuinity. Rains are typically meant to be tranquil and represent the end of conflict, but that can be through violent means- hell, our main Rains in the series are specifically hitmen, and while characters like Romario, Yamamoto and Basil are generally calm, steady Rains, we've also got Squalo. Kikyo, despite being Byakuran's right hand and heavily involved, is still a Cloud. This lets you focus on what a character does for the story, rather than who they are as a person. Any (decently written) character will do something for a story besides just exist within it, so any character can fit into at least one of those roles.

"At least one" is very important phrasing and leads me into my third point: the dominant vs non-dominant Flame system means you don't have to pick one. You can have a dominant flame and nothing else or a dominant flame and any combination of the others as non-dominant Flames. On the fence? Pick which aspect is the most defining for your character, and make that their dominant. Include the rest as non-dominant traits. There is so much room for nuance and complexity, this is not a "one size fits all" type of system!

Fourth, a lot of kinassignable categorizations in media are specifically faction systems. KHR's Flames system on the other hand describes someone's role within a faction. Thus when making a KHR AU, you can decide which characters to put into which factions based off which characters you want them to be alongside while still picking the best Flame for them. You can even have sub-factions like the Varia!

And lastly, while the Flames were designed for mafia families, there's nothing specific about the system that makes it vital your Flames-assigned characters are in a mafia specifically. They can be in any sort of faction, from a fantasy AU kingdom to a modern AU friend group, so long as they are grouped up together. You could totally do a KHR-style mafia AU, but you could also do "everything is the same except the characters have Flames AU" or literally anything else. The Flames system can be lifted from its original setting without any actual alteration to what the classifications themselves are like, which is in my opinion the most important quality if we're talking about ease of adaptation.

[yuzuuu4]

i miss namimori trio