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Tsuna

“Umm…Sorry, I think you made a mistake.”

“Oh? Wasthere something about your meal you weren’t happy with?” the blushing cashierasked you as you blinked in worry at your tray.

“Oh… it’sreally nothing but… you see… I don’t think I ordered these cookies.” You repliedwith a sheepish smile.

“Oh that!”the cashier answered shyly scratching the back of his head nervously. “I just…well it’s just not that often I see someone as pretty as you so I just thought…uh… maybe you’d enjoy it. It’s on the house.”

Your jawdropped at the revelation and the realization even as a blush began to rush upfrom your neck. “Ehhhh?!!!!”

“D-didn’tyou like it?”

“O-oh! Ofcourse I did!” you took a cookie from the box and bit on it, suspending theother half on your lips awkwardly as you smiled back at him. “See? Thanks!”

Tsuna cameover just in time to hear the sweet little admission and a tick made the cornerof his eye twitch in irritation. He came up and smiled as he slung an arm overyour shoulder making you look up at him.

“What’sthis?” he asked as he stared at the cookie on your lips.

“Tsuna!Look! I got free cookies!” you happily told him, the treat muffling your words.

“Ohreally?” he shot the cashier a smirk before leaning down and taking the otherhalf of the cookie on your lips in his mouth resulting in a possessive kissmaking sure he kept eye contact with the cashier who was growing ever paler bythe second as he watched the golden warning in those sharp, deadly eyes. Whenhe was done Tsuna straightened and licked the crumbs from his lips as he staredat your still blushing face. “Nice. Come on. The movie’s about to start.”

Tsunadrags you away before you could say anything else acting as though the cashierdidn’t even exist.

A few days later that cashier received a transfer to another store. A truck depot in the middle of nowhere mostly occupied by big muscled truck drivers and bikers.

Enma

Enma wasbusy talking to a new business contact and you decided to walk away a littleand look at the flowers decorating the hotel lobby where his meeting had beenset. You were just about to lean down and inspect a beautiful white orchid whena pen rolled over to you and hit your feet.

“Oh!Sorry!”

You pickedup the pen, looked up and saw the man who had been approaching you look atyou with an expression that could only be called awestruck.

“Is thisyours?” you asked politely as you started to hand over the pen.

“Uh, yeah!”his smile was wide and happy and you blinked up at him in confusion.

“Issomething on my face?” you asked when he won’t stop staring at you.

“Uh no! Imean…” he coughed into his fist and tried to act more mature before talkingagain. “I thought you were cute when I saw you from across the lobby; that’show I dropped my pen. I didn’t know you were this pretty up close.”

“Huh?” youcocked your head to the side in confusion wondering what he meant by that.

But beforeyou could fully comprehend what just happened Enma came up from behind you andlifted you up to your feet, his glowing red eyes making the stranger pale andstep back in fear.

“I knowright?” he smirked as he grabbed you possessively close, took the pen from your hand and gave you such a tender gaze it made you blush. “That’s what I try tokeep telling this one everyday but I guess I need to work harder.”

He threw thepen back at the stranger and flashed him a scowl again. “Try not to lose yourthings again. And try not to pick up other people’s property. Next time, it won’tjust be your pen you’ll be losing.

Dino

Dino blinkedas you came waltzing through the door carrying a bouquet of flowers.

“Hey,babe. Bought yourself flowers?” he asked as you gave him a peck on the cheekbefore looking for an empty vase to put them in.

“Aren’tthey pretty?” You asked a bit breathlessly as you poured water in it from thebathroom. “Apparently I have a secret admirer at work!”

Dino frozein his seat stunned for a bit. Wait up… Haven’t you been showing up with thoseflowers for the past three days now? And then slowly angry jealousy startedcreeping in but he kept smiling knowing you hated seeing him scowling.

“Reallynow?” he asked with deceptive casualness as he stepped towards you. “Secretadmirer huh?”

“Uh huh. Ifind them on my desk every morning at work. And every time there’s a note leftbehind.”

“Oh? Whatdoes it say?”

You handhim over a small piece of pink stationary and Dino unfolded it to read. Therewas only one question on it.

‘Did you know you’re very beautiful…?’

He couldn’thelp it. He crushed the note in his hand purely on reflex.

“This isso dumb!” he exclaimed, eyetwitching.

You turnedto him, irritated. “What? Why?!”

Hecasually threw the note away and all of a sudden you found yourself on top ofhis desk.

“Because,”he whispered as he began nibbling at the sensitive part of your neck. “If hewas trying to flatter you he should at least say you were gorgeous… Precious…irreplaceable…”

“Dino…”you gasped out his name as you forgot to breathe.

He’d nevercomplimented you this much. Not even when he had first taken an interest inyou. What was wrong with―

“Amazing…Incredible…” he kept on whispering as he took off your shirt. “The love of mylife…”

A few dayslater the flowers on your desk stopped coming.