Gokudera and Hibari don't exactly get along. It's a good point to imagine that they should not be together. However, there is a certain balance to their relationship, always a give and take with neither wanting to owe the other anything. Hibari's currency is violence, and Gokudera knows how to take advantage of that by steering him in when support is needed. He'd outright told the mongrel that no one else could kill him, because he wanted to be the one to do it. In that oath, not even the cruel system of Amoi could keep Gokudera down, because Hibari would pick him back up in order to fight him.

Being with Hibari was never complicated. During sex, it was just a battle for dominance, again more give and take. Outside of sex was just violence, and it never got too bad. It was always enough to leave them aching and banged up.

"Yeah, but there were places we could fight, and technically he could hit me without touching me or getting his hands dirty. The slums by the wastelands was the only place no one would report me fighting back. It was full of other mongrels, and most of them were criminals, anyways."