One day in early May, the sun shines softly on Hibari's small courtyard, on chest-high stone towers, the small fish pond dormant under the summer heat. Everything moves silently. No matter how peaceful this is, it still feels like something is going to happen, something that will upset all the orders in this small town namely Namimori.

The appearance of the Tenth Boss Cavallone is an omen of that.

"What's this?"

"Guess what?"

*Click*

"Ah alright, calm down. It's from Tsuna!"

Hibari narrows his eyes. Dino laughs while breaking out in cold sweat. He shouldn't have risked making jokes.... Kusakabe Tetsuya could only stand beside him, gulping.

He lets out a small hn, and then puts away his tonfa, returns to his unoccupied posture. Hibari had received many letters and greeting cards from the brunet before. He does wonder why it was brought by that guy personally this time, but there's no reason for him to act differently.

Kusakabe Tetsuya reaches out with his hands to take the letter. "Dino-san, please let me."

Suddenly, the Italian guy's eyes darkened, his face unusually serious. "No, Kyoya. Tsuna wants you to read it immediately."

Oh, what's this?

The prefect raises his eyebrows, smiling coldly. After all those distant years, now you suddenly want to hold on?

Don't even dream about it.

He took the letter from the Italian man, and slowly opened it to Dino's surprise. The golden thin paper is now revealed, his handwriting seems to be dancing in fire under the summer heat.

Hibari almost freezes.

"K— Kyoya?!" Dino carefully asks, only to see that said letter is now crumbled under Hibari's hand. Even Kusakabe's eyes widened in wonder.

With a growl filled with indignation, Hibari sprang to his feet, disappearing behind the sliding door.

The other two can only look at each other.
"Wh— What happened?"

Kusakabe only shakes his head. Even he can't understand the prefect's behavior.

"Dino-san, what did Sawada-san write in that letter?" He asks, and Dino can only shake his head innocently at that.

"How can I know? Tsuna suddenly asked me to personally hand it to Kyoya..."

...

Inside the dark room, Hibari crumpled the said letter, which have the symbol of the strongest mafia fagmilia in the world.

The darkness and hot air pour into his head, disturbing all the emotions that were supposed to be lying still from 2 years ago. Cloud Flame blazed up fiercely, setting the thin paper on fire under the fury of a bloodthirsty beast. The room was filled with a purple color that somehow was slowly darkening, silently oozing out from the only person in this room.

Hibari thought that his figure was right in front of him. The flame rose and everything turned to smoke.

He laughs. Bitter. Fury. Resentment. Scornful. Disrelish. All those emotions were enough to make his brain cells explode.

The letter was burned to ashes. There was only a single line.

"That ring, do you want to return it?"

It's time to give up.

Still the same words, to anyone who might read this, I'd really appreciate it if anyone of you can point out my flaws cuz like I said, I'm still an amateur ʕ'• ᴥ•̥'ʔ. I'm still trying, but I need to know where I'm wrong so that I can at least fix it...