Oh, it's easy enough to get them — all she had to do was find an apple orchard and write some human into collecting them all for her in a nice big bucket — but she just doesn't get the appeal. The hype. Seriously, what's the point of it all? There's so much mess involved: the weird liquid that runs down her chin, the hard crunch-crunch-crunch that bears on her teeth, the skin doesn't even taste good…

Well, at least they get her in good favor with everyone else up here. She leaves the Shinigami king's waiting room with a much lighter bucket and a new notebook tucked under her elbow.

Mm. Well. Ryuk's not the only one who can drum up some entertainment.

Featuring still not fully healed spiritually from the mafia bullhit and toxic harmony Tsuna

Starts at around Tsuna 15th birthday after having dealt with all of the khr storyline

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It starts like any other day to Tsuna . That being shot at or hit by a gigantic hammer or even town explosives at by Reborn to wake him up . It wakes him up that for sure . And like always it leaves it's scars even if not seen by the eye .

So Tsuna comes down for breakfast to his mother and the rest of the household . Hopping to eat food , food with which he has a truly a complicated relationship with , similarly to his mother .

Then suddenly something happens . Maybe it was the 10 year bazooka malfunctioning, a new experimenting gadget or something else entirely . What it was doesn't matter .

What matters is the next thing he saw was an entirely different world . Not a different timeline or anything of that sort , no it was undeably a completely different world . One that while has flames underlaying it was not as drenched not as chained to them as his own is , instead what controls this world is good food (and maybe strength on the side)

At first Tsuna takes it as a chance to relax as much as he can , thinking it's only a matter of time before Vongola comes to drag him back to it's bloody puppet king throne . So he might as well take as much pleasure and calm he can for the possibly last time in his life for all he knows .

Except ...

They never come .

Not minutes , not hours , not days , not weeks , not even months later do they come . And then it comes to Tsuna .

He is free . Free from the useless false gold coated wings and crown Vongola insist be put on his head . Tsuna cries that night , not from sadness but from the happiness of finally being free .

A new world that doesn't know him as anything else than what he shows . No Dame-Tsuna , no Vongola Decomo , not Neo Primo , not Vongola's young lion's son and not as Reborn's student . He doesn't even need to be Sawada Tsunayoshi , he can be just Tsuna .

So he chooses a new surname for himself . That being Komatsu simbolising his new try at life . And no longer burdened by Lemitsu and Reborn's and Vongola's insistence to carry a legacy means he can finally wear the name Tsunayoshi as his own . So he does , as Komatsu Tsunayoshi .

He still mourns some small parts of his previous life . Like Lambo and Ippin that despite the massive amount of trouble they cause he still loves , like Luna that despite everything too did warm his way in his heart , even his mother a little in a somewhat twisted type of love and mourning like in life . But the ones he mourned the hardest were his Mists , his Mists who were still in that prison . But they have each other , and he trusts Mukuro to use any and all connections Tsuna had to his advantage . If there was a corpse even better , then he better show the mafia hell on earth for everything they did . For all of them .

So Tsuna moves with his life as best he can . While traveling he even heals his relationship with food . And while not proud he does use some of what Reborn had thought him to make money in a pinch and also forge himself a identify to use at the moment with the legal age for the world (that's also funnyly enough also 18 here and the drinking law at 21 just like his home country of Japan . It definitely helped that the dominate language of the new word is a slightly bastardizes version of Japanese he can freight just having an accent at when he doesn't know something)

So he travels for a while searching for a passion to follow . And he found one , one that had been quite literally been below his nose . That passion is cooking . And he turned out to be rather good at it to his surprise . Then again without having what are essentially damaged nerves on his whole body it makes sense for his coordination to be better . So now that he isn't a walking tripping hazard his (at least moderate) athletics talent is showing .

So what does Tsuna do ? Inroll himself in a culinary high school of course (afther making himself a more permanent identity and even getting citizenship in one of the GIO countries to make traveling easier) . And sure it's the middle of the school year but whatever social problems were happening were going to happen either way . So he mainly stays a loner in highschool (or so he thinks . In reallity it's closer to the situation of Handa-kun aka everyone thinks he is the coolest most amazing person around while he thinks he is disliked by the entire school again)

Anyways time flies and he continues his studies in college , he too was surprised to end up there . Younger him dreamed finishing high school to hopefully get a somewhat stable job and now he is collage in one of the most respected professions in the world . How the table can turn so much isn't lost on him , especially with the mafia fiasco from before .

The biggest change however comes in the form of 2 friends . That being Otake and Nakaume (they remind him just enough of Chrome and Mukuro to be comfortable but are different enough to be new ) , the 3 of them hit it off rather well despite the stark differences in upbringing . They were also the main people he talked to during collage , as his trust issues were at it again making his social life harder (but at least those trust issues kept him alive)

But time flies and soon they graduate , all going their own paths (troth they still keep in contact) . Otake creating his own restaurant , Naraume taking over his family business and Tsuna takes the job offer from Hotel Gourmet . And considering Tsuna's culinary skills and chaos management skills it's no surprise he rose to the position of head chef in only 2-3 years .

Yet his employers can see the frankly ridiculous amount of raw talent in that little body . So what did they do ? Start throwing him on missions with any relatively good bishokuya . Toriko just so happened to be the first on the list , the list that just so happened to contain bishokuya with GIO alligance as the first choices (directly after Toriko is Sunny) . Honestly the Hotel staff didn't tink Komatsu would catch either of them because it's a known fact that with the somewhat of an exception Coco they are all brats . And yet Tsuna did it , he practically got Toriko on his little finger .

Not that the situation with Toriko is rainbows and sunshine . The man is still an enormous brat . And that's without mentioning Tsuna's own problems . One of them being the man doesn't know how to both properly court and be properly courted in flame ways (his and Mukuro's flame courting was made fully subconscious on both of their part) . And having had his most secure guardian bond be what for literally any other Harmony a walking hazzard . So having Toriko whose way of flame courting is very very similar to a cat doesn't really help the situation (even with him having the advantage of Tsuna not having as much trauma from Mists like literally every other Element)

So that are essencaly dancing around each other , probing to see who would take the initiative and take it to the next level . The initiative ends up being given to Toriko after Tsuna had met around half the family and deciding he isn't giving him up to anyone else . Wich is wise on his part because:

Just after meetting him Coco and his Rain flames decided that Tsuna is his to protect and sooth

Less than a day after meeting him Sunny changed from torelating to actively adoring Tsuna and putting his safety above pretty much everything else

Then we have Rin who despite not wanting to form a Combo with Tsuna makes Toriko weirdly territorial and protective , which is strange considering Rin is his sister not concurrency like his brother

Of course we also have to mention Mansam who is rather chummy with Tsuna and looks to be one step away from offering to become Combo or to change jobs and become inner IGO chef

So to keep the home like chef close Toriko accept going for the ozone herb and when they succeeded he asked the question , and he got a strong yes

And it was good he asked the question at last , if he didn't Zebra might have actually succeeded in stealing Tsuna all for himself

And of course there is also everyone else who just continues to throw themselves at Tsuna , even Brunch a fellow chef is not immune to his charms

Tsuna on the other hand is very confused as to why he suddenly has so many strong elements throwing themselves at him . Because there is :

Toriko who wormed his way into the position of Main Mist Guardian on his own . And also might or might not be trying to worm his way into marriage...

Then Coco , Coco who deserves better than what he was handed . The same Coco who also wormed his way into the position of a Guardian , this time Rain . And sure Coco is a little feral but in comparison to Takeshi everyone would look calmer . He also rather likes the fact that rather than putting him in trouble Coco tries to keep him out of it

Then we have Sunny who despite his name isn't a Sun (Which is probably for everyone's peace of mind as sane Suns seem to hate Tsuna) , instead he is a Storm with a maybe could secondary . Still despite everything he does so much less collateral damage that Gokudera Tsuna can only tank the gods , and even Sunny's personality of giving backhanded compliments is preferable to Gokudera's lies of loyalty to him and not Vongola (he has always known better) . Still Sunny is a Strom and like a hurricane he took the place of Main Storm in Tsuna's flames like it was always his , and Tsuna couldn't find it in himself to regret it

Rin , Rin who might look like Chrome but is Mukuro's sharpness , cunning and ambitiousness in a different package . A part of Tsuna mellows when she is close , and like the clever woman she is Rin takes her rightfully place in his harmony for all to see

Then there is Teppei . Teppei who despite combitability and even Tsuna earlier irratetion of the mafia that and didn't dare take the place of Main Cloud . Tsuna can only guess his flames know he couldn't stay still to be a permanent part of a Harmony , still Tsuna doesn't mind housing such a polite Cloud

Then he met Zebra . Who is unaronically the second most polite and most pacifistic Cloud (The first being of course Skull DeMort himself) . Tsuna doesn't care what anyone else says Zebra is a delight to what he had to deal on the day before . And he would know what a pacifistic Cloud is like , he has been raised in the Hibari Kyoya's territory since toddler hood . So yeah he has no complaints on Zebra taking the role of Main Cloud

Later on he met Brunch and finally understood ... What having a Lightning is really like . Because Lambo ? He was an element of his sure , but a Guardian ? No , he was far too young for Tsuna to be able to trust him in such a way . With Brunch however he can finally understand what being grounded is like , and it freeing in its own way . To know the way back home . With Brunch taking the role of Main Lightning Tsuna had never felt so right in his life

And then he finally officially met Startjun(and down the line harmonized) . And he can only curse his luck with Suns , because of course he had to deal with another psychotic inverted Sun . The main difrence however is the lack of most of the phycological and physical torture he was expecting from Star after being in Reborn's "mercies" . So Starjun isn't as bad as Reborn , that's not to say he is a good human being (Tsuna doesn't have enough good luck for that to happen) . His and Otake's Combo and small harmonization (with neither being a sky) only made Star's position of Main Sun more stable with Otake's Sun&Mist mix who had long since been in Tsuna's Harmony

And then when Tsuna met Midora he found something he didn't tink was even possible . That being a home for the Could flames that have been slowly but steadily growing and strengthening ever since he escaped Vongola's cage . And the home he found were in Midora's sky flames , the small and malnourished flames that cradled his own so gently like they were priceless pieces of art . And Midora's own Cloud to tried to soth and cradle Tsuna's Sky ones . While his face and body might not say it his flames sung of his sorrow , of his loss , of his loneliness , of each and every little ting that had broken Midora from a great and warm Sky&Cloud to a broken Cloud and an even more broken Sky . So he chose to keep his new element and Sky company , at least until his Mist and Combo comes . By then however he was Midora's first and foremost . So he took care of him .

Then came Toriko to finally take him home . As both a welcome back and goodbye Tsuna cooked for a few of the insatiable gluttons who have wormed their way into his heart .

Time continue to move and more ting happen .

Until Tsuna and a group of chefs come into the Word Of Souls . Where he finally learns what Flames are called , that being "Flames Of Hunger For Life" . He learned that from King Slime and/or Ichiryu . A rarely seen Gourmet Energy phenomenon in whish said Gourmet energy takes the form of a colored flame each with their own strength . However because just causing it is rare and having someone even somewhat trained is even rarer , there are maybe 2 or 3 such masters at maximum alive at the same time . So imagine their surprise on Tsuna being one such master . Because despite or more accurately exactly because of everything the mafia did to him Tsuna has been waiting for the other shoe to drop even a decade and a half later because of all the fear and terror Reborn installed into him , like he is a dog they trained to fight . He escaped but the scars never really left , for good or bad .

So when he , Otake and Naraume finally were done he might have also thrown a punch or a hundred with pure unadulterated rage , like Neo was a pinching bag to trow his frustration on (the irony of the so called "Neo Primo Vongola" punching a creature of pure nigh unsutiated hunger like it owed him a debt it had failed to replay isn't lost on him) . In either case canon ending happens (and everyone is very very terrified if Tsuna decides he wants to spar , other than the idiots trying to score a date with him they are even deeper in love . Because a kind chef ? Who can also absolutely beat their asses ? Sing them in !

Then comes the banquet (that rather than being Toriko and Rin's wedding is instead in honor of Rin becoming the CEO of GIO after tings stoped being so chaotic and with Manson as the only one experienced enough to know what to do , and also so GIO can boast of sucsidinh in creating lab grown GOD) that is over all a happy time . Tsuna even was able to finally say his final goodbye to his Sky . He had known Midora had been dead for months , he felt the connection break . Still seeing him one final time allowed for Tsuna's Cloud to stop blaming itself for their Sky's death and allowing him to mourn properly at last . The two of them even exchanged smiles as a last bye .

Welp. I ended up going WAY more into this than I thought while looking for image references for this so I'll give ya the TLDR of my original headcanon and if you (or anyone reading this) wants to crawl down the rabbit hole with me, feel free!

TLDR; I (originally) thought Starjun's hair was similar to Midora's out of respect/admiration/possible sucking-up. (Because Midora's self-centered, Starjun could've been copying to win brownie points like how Setsuno makes Toriko wear his hair like Jirou, or Starjun did it unconsciously because he wanted to be more like Midora). And you could attribute that to a father-son sort of thing (y'know, 'child see, child do'). If that's what you mean?

If you think it's more of a familial thing, I would say there's definitely some foreshadowing hidden in the hair symbolism. (Details/spoilers below the cut because while I was responding to this I dug myself down a helluva rabbit hole).

ALRIGHT BUCKLE UP BECAUSE MOD CHEF HAS REALISED SOMETHING TRULY AWFUL ONCE AGAIN

I'm gonna start by pointing out that in the Toriko universe, although genetics is kinda played with loosely, it's established that people will copy the hairstyles of their relatives more than their mentors/role models.

I decided to write an SFW Alphabet for Midora as a celebration of reaching 400 followers! And also a little bit as a thanks for the patience while I'm figuring out coding.

I looked around some and can't for the life of me find where the trend is from but the content is under the cut.

Aw gracias ^^

Si hablamos hablamos del Shinigami más abrazable ... Yo estaría entre Gelus, Rem, Gook tal vez incluso Ryuk y Midora pero estos tres últimos lo veo difícil..

El más besable ... Probablemente sean solo Gelus y Rem son los únicos que veo que aceptarían eso... dependiendo de quien eres pero si descartamos eso incluiría a Midora y a Gook ( el ultimo por ser lo suficientemente perezoso como para no hacer nada al respecto) y Ryuk te anotaría en su nota junto a Midora si hicieras eso supongo, así que no los incluyo abiertamente c:

Eso sería todo ^^

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Aw thanks ^^

If we talk about the most huggable Shinigami... I would be between Gelus, Rem, Gook maybe even Ryuk and Midora but I find these last three difficult.

The most kissable... It's probably just Gelus and Rem who are the only ones I see who would accept that... depending on who you are but if we rule that out it would include Midora and Gook (the last one for being lazy enough to do nothing about it) and Ryuk would write you down in his note along with Midora if you did that I guess, so I'm not including them openly c:

Today’s long haired anime guy of the day is:

TORIKO: slightly sexist. No I have not forgotten how he treated Melk the second.

SUNNY: mean. Regina George but buff and with rainbow hair. Probably runs a version of gossip girl.

COCO: this man is so very good and nice. Probably should remember to take his meds though.

ZEBRA: absolute hell towards hospitality and retail workers.

STARJUN: thinks a measure of violence solves everything

KOMATSU: cries when you make him order his own pizza on the phone

RIN: some pick-me tendencies. Girl, stand up.

TEPPEI: thinks being aware of his red flags makes them better instead of fixing them.

ICHIRYUU: professional gaslighter but in a fun way

JIROU: drunk. Obviously.