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Yamamoto made sure to keep a good distance from Gokudera, who was in a worse mood than usual. That smell though, how could he stand it being around him? The boy's nose wrinkled, and he held his breath to the best of his capabilities.

"Who's house do we go to first?"

Tsuna sighed and walked to a cabinet upstairs, pulling out some spare futons and dragging them to his room. They were heavier than he thought, and there was a moment where he wished they had stayed behind to help him, but he could do it! The sky guardian set the futons around the room, smoothing them out before heading back for blankets.

Yamamoto narrowed his eyes and grabbed one of Gokudera's shoulders. That cough was terrible, and if it got to the point where he was having trouble breathing, it was time for him to get a little intervention. The boy held a hand out, open palm up, and squeezed the smoker's shoulder a little.

"Give me your cigarettes, you're in bad shape and you need to stop."

"Gokudera!" Yamamoto yelled, running after the boy. He grit his teeth together, and clenched his hands into fists. Okay, seriously, that was a decent excuse, but not one that was worth Gokudera's depleting health. There had to be something else he could do, what about Tsuna?! Takeshi's eyes lit up. That's right! Tsuna could talk him out of it no doubt!

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Gokudera and Ryohei walked back up the stairs to Tsuna's room. Gokudera looked at his boss and smiled, "We are all back in one piece." He set his stuff down and looked at his beloved Juudaime, "Do you need help with anything at all?"

Gokudera picked up his bag and nodded. "Well im going to change." He muttered under his breath and went in the bathroom to strip down and wash his face and brush his teeth as well as change into his night cloths. He was dead tired.

Ryohei sat down on one of the beds and put his stuff off to the side and waited for the angry silver haired man to get out of the bathroom.

Gokudera started coughing and hacking while he was brushing his teeth vigorously to get rid of some of the yellow that was tainting his normally perfectly white teeth from his smoking habits. He sighed and rinsed his mouth with water and changed into a pair of shorts and a t-shirt. He put his stuff away and walked back into the room.

Gokudera raised an eyebrow and took the seat across from his beloved Juudaime. He glared at Yamamoto who was sitting NEXT to his boss. He bristled a bit but otherwise stayed quite about his observation. "Yes Juudaime? Is something wrong? Did you come up with a plan?"

Gokudera stared at his boss for a few minutes. His body completely stiff...then his expression turned into one not of shock or understanding, but into one of rage and anger. He glared daggers at Tsuna and suddenly he felt an emotion that he never had towards his boss before, loathing.

He fumed quietly for a while. He worked his a** off for his boss and did everything he said. He kept him safe and practically worshiped him and did everything in his power to make him feel like he was not useless...

He was up all night EVERY night working on new techniques and ways to protect him and the Vongola name, and worked on new ways to help Tsuna learn better in school. He barely got one hour of sleep every night if not even less. And if there was one thing that helped him through all this it was smoking. It made him feel better, and relaxed and it kept him awake. It wasn't like he was unhealthy. Sure he lost quite a bit of weight but that was because he had been working so hard. It's normal for stress to do that to you. And sure he was coughing a lot but he was getting over a cold...that he has had...for a few months.

He stood up abruptly and went to his bag and grabbed a pack of what Tsuna just asked him to quite and a lighter and climbed out the window and onto the roof so he could smoke. He needed a reason to get out of there before he snapped at his boss.