Tsuna Has Been Kidnapped by a Yokai Again!

Irue Yui thought that moving far away would let her escape both her master's homework and the harassment of yokai, so she could live a normal human life.

But on her first day at Namimori Junior High:

The boy sitting in front of her tripped on flat ground after being chased by a Chihuahua. He accidentally picked up a yokai's curse and was unfortunately identified by the yokai as a substitute for "her."

Yui: ...Uh.

To keep him from being kidnapped by yokai, Yui watched him every single moment of every day.

She went to and from school with him, ate lunch with him, dodged the Disciplinary Committee's bite-to-kill together with him, did classroom chores with him, went shopping with him on weekends, and even secretly followed him...

Why is this starting to look more and more like stalking?!

"Irue-san, actually, I..."

"Actually! I'm the righteous wing protecting you from the invasion of evil forces!"

Faced with her front-row neighbor seeming to want to say something, Yui finally realized how inappropriate her behavior had been. In a panic, she used her chuunibyou powers to make an excuse.

But later...

"Master, this is bad! Tsuna-kun was kidnapped by a snail, uh, a winged snail yokai!"

"Master, this is bad! Tsuna-kun's been cornered by a kappa!"

"Master, this time it's really bad..."

"What has your Tsuna-kun been kidnapped by this time?"

Natori was helpless. Was there anything he hadn't seen before?

"He... he was kidnapped so they could force him to get married!"

Well... he'd seen that before, too.

"If all else fails, seal his memories. That should work for a while."

But Yui looked more lost than he had ever seen her.

"I don't want to lose my memories with Tsuna-kun."

Even if Tsuna-kun was an ordinary person who couldn't even hurt a fly, and even if Yui had to call her master, who was busy exorcising yokai all over the place, every few days to ask what to do, she still didn't want to forget him just like that.

Until one day, orange flames shot into the sky.

In the instant they blazed, all the darkness vanished.

Yui saw a side of Tsuna-kun she had never seen before.

Calm and resolute, yet familiar, his golden eyes flowed with light as they gently and intently enveloped her.

"Irue-san, the curse is gone. Would you still like to have lunch with me?"

Note: One-on-one romance with the male lead from Katekyo Hitman Reborn.

Natsume's Book of Friends x Katekyo Hitman Reborn. The story is set mostly in Namimori.

Check out my next upcoming novel, The Proud Shark's Foolproof Capture Plan.

Check out my second upcoming novel, The Love-Brain Battle with Echizen Ryoga.

And check out my completed story about Nibi and Dazai at an Italian mafia academy, When a Philosophical Cat Picks Up a Dazai.

Theme: Protecting someone is the strongest form of love.