"In the gloomy world"
The story centers around TYL characters about the time when Vongola was assaulted by Millefiore.
With paring (2795).
**To prevent misunderstanding, I would like to explain that according tothe theory of parallel world, the future will change with the change of your past action. The world I am about to recount is the one where Tsuna has not fought Byakuran
and changed his future yet. And thus Shimon ring, discovered as a result of the earthquake caused by Tsuna's return to the present, was not discovered. And the inheritance ceremony has not been organized until Vongola was in dilemma.**
*This is my first normal drama fiction! Therefore, comments are always welcome!*
Chapter 1
Turning Point
Since Reborn stepped into the stage of his life as his tutor, Sawada Tsunayoshi has gradually developed after several battles and crises.
In the first few years, he learnt how to work as a team, trusting his friends and powering up. Still, he was reluctant to take a position as the 10th boss of Vongola, Vongola Decimo. He would face a crisis, overcome it and still refuse the position of boss. Things continued to be so until a critical incident, a turning point of his life.
Around the time he was about to graduate from Namimori Middle School, he had gone through many kinds of difficulties and grown up a lot. He learned to trust himself and started to be more decisive. Though his life had improved in many ways, academic ability is still his weakness .
As a result, he has no choice but to further his study in a lowly public high school while Sasagawa Kyoko, who may not be so smart as to be able to enter a private prep-school, was able to get a place in a more prestigious public high school. Yamamoto, who is also not good at academic stuff, ended up with the same high school. Gokudera, despite his intelligence, decided to follow his boss no matter where or how. Kurokawa Hana went to an average high school which is reputable for its sports team, where Sasagawa Ryohei had also entered a year before.
Tsuna was deeply saddened by the fact. He would not be able to see Kyoko every day again. Kyoko used to be the only reason he came to school for before getting his friends after meeting , Kyoko's high school is very faraway, in another town adjacent to Namimori. Worse than that, he had never confessed his love to Kyoko
before, and what if she happened to find a boyfriend in her new school? So, what should he do then?
Still, Tsuna is afraid of being rejected or being taken lightly by Kyoko just like the first and the second time he confessed. But this time he had matured a lot, and the time was running out. He knew he had not much choice and decided to make a confession soon. Yet, he couldn't say it because he would get nervous just seeing her face.
But then an incident occurred . One day in the last few months of his middle school year.
That morning Tsuna came to school as usual. His third year class was 3/3 where luckily Kyoko and Yamamoto was also in while Gokudera , to his huge dissatisfaction, was classed in 3/2.
Still, the three best friends commuted to Namimori High school together.
"Tenth! May I excuse myself now! Please take care of yourself! If anything happens, just send me a telepathy!" Gokudera uttered to Tsuna, crying and then he turned to face Yamamoto Takeshi in a completely different manner, shouting " If you dare let anyone lay a finger on the tenth, I won't forgive you! You baseball freak!"
Yamamoto response in his usual light-hearted manner " well, well, don't be so serious! He will be safe in the hand of the right-hand-to-be like me!"
With those joking words, Gokudera was greatly pissed off, " Damn you! What ya've just said? Wanna fight?!"
So a long and noisy altercation between them resulted, and poor Tsuna had to try hard to mediate it.
In the middle of confusion, the homeroom teacher came in time to
settle the fight. " Hey, you guys! Get back to your own room now! The homeroom is starting" ,he scolded.
Gokudera cursed and made a turn to his room , at the same time Tsuna and Yamamoto entered the room. Tsuna expected a refreshing morning greeting as usual from Sasagawa Kyoko and was surprised to see her seat vacant. Tsuna was a bit concerned but then just thought that she was just sick and planned to visit her after school.
As soon as the bell rang, Tsuna put things in his bag and headed to Sasagawa's house.
Just as he was about to leave the room, his face was unluckily knocked by the suddenly opened door.
"Ouch!" Tsuna cried.
" Oh, Tsuna!? Sorry, sorry! Are you alright?," said the familiar, light-hearted voice, which the shorter lad could immediately recognize: Yamamoto Takeshi.
"Um, yeah! I'm alright! I gotta go now! See ya!" He quickly said and rushed .
" Hey! Tsuna! ..wait! Why are you in such a hurry?" Yamamoto jokingly and seriously asked.
At the moment, Tsuna was running as fast as he could to Kyoko's house since he was getting more and more worried. It is true that he did try to comfort himself that Kyoko just fell ill but something just felt wrong to him. He did not know why but things were just strange for him.
When finally he could set his foot in front of the house, he anxiously rang the bell.
" Who's that?" said the older man's voice as loud as a lion roars.
"I-it is S-Sawada !" the scared visitor said.
"Oh, Sawada? Wait a minuit..."
Soon, Sasagawa Ryohei, Kyoko's only brother, came out to let the younger boy in.
Tsuna was more anxious when he saw Ryohei's pale and worried face.
"Tsuna, I'm glad to the extreme that you've come! There is an extremely urgent issue to discuss!"He said in his unusually subdued manner.
There is no one else home so Ryohei couldn't serve other thing more than a glass of water.
Ryohei sat down and started talking seriously.
"Well, as you know, I am the kind who prefers to get to the point... Sawada, do you know where Kyoko has gone?," he said all of sudden.
"No, in fact I came here because I was worried that she didn't go to school!," Tsuna said, " I thought she was ill."
Ryohei was silent for a few seconds then said " So she is really missing, then."
"Th..Then, what should I do? If anything terrible happens to Kyoko, if anything...!," Tsuna thought to himself, panicking. But years of experience taught him not to let others see his anxiety so as not to cause them to worry even more.
"Oniisan, maybe we should ask everyone! And I'm going to ask Reborn for advice. Kyoko-chan will be alright, I swear, he said to relieve Ryohei's stress.
Ryohei agreed. The search was fruitless, and Tsuna went back home, fatique and feeling like to cry but in the past few years he had learned to grow up enough to abstrain from such an immature and pitiful action. Tsuna hurriedly tried to find Reborn. But he was away in the middle of urgent business. Instead, Tsuna found a letter written to him in a post box.
The letter does not have even an envelop or a sender's name , revealing that it was put directly in his post box. In the letter, the message was typed in a black ink, saying,
" Dear my lovely Vongola tenth, Tsunayoshi-kun,
You must have been looking inside out for Sasagawa Kyoko. But please take my piece of advice : stop your aimless search! Why? She was kidnapped by me ! Now, she was held hostage at the old factory ruins in Namimori. Come and rescue her!"
Tsuna tore away the letter as soon as he finished. Without hesitation, he took his pill and flew to the factory ruins. Still, he wondered the sender's real intention. He could not have put all these efforts just to enjoy a mere drama of a boy saving a girl's life. There must have been an ulterior motive, he thought.
As he reached the old factory ruins, he found Kyoko tied onto one of the building, badly scarred and partially conscious. Before Tsuna could fly to rescue her, he was suddenly attacked by something he had never seen before. It was a ball of red flame. But to his surprise, as he looked closer, it turned out to be an animal, a serpent. Then, its user showed up, dressing in a white suit with other similar suit-clad men.
"Just what the heck is that thing? Who are these guys?," Tsuna thought to himself. And finally he noticed the box in that man's hand.
"Box?" he said, seemingly confused.
"Yes, well call this thing a box weapon," the said man told him.
"Box weapon?"
"Hey kid! We don't have time to chit-chat with you! ," another man said and put a ring, burning in green flame, in a box and a saw emerge.
" a dying will flame?," he thought. No sooner had he finished thinking, the saw with a slicing fiery blade darted towards him. He managed to dodge it at first, but the slicing blade soon caught up with him. He was dazed by the innovation and ended up asking his opponent again "Tell me, what is this thing!?."
Indifferently, his opponent gave him a scornful answer, " As I told you, this is called "a box weapon," the world's latest weapon ever invented. If ya wanna know more, ask yr mom in yr next life!" Then, things became even more difficult. The blade was able to slice through his side by the skin of teeth. Tsuna use his x-stream technique but the blade seemed to be faster after absorbing his flame. Suddenly, five other men opened their boxes, some with similar saw-like weapons and others with, to Tsuna's great surprise, animals' features. With threats surrounding him, he is attacked relentlessly and badly injured. After a long struggle, he fell to the ground, almost running out of energy to fly. But just before he was done, Sasagawa Kyoko gained her consciousness and witnessed all of the violence, crying aloud "Tsuna-kun! Take a hold of yourself!." The word sparked his dying will, providing him with enough energy to go all-out. He looked at Sasagawa Kyoko, saying " It's alright, Kyoko-chan. I'll protect you." After that, he turned to face his enemies, deciding to resort to his last trump card, X-burner. He released a soft flame in one direction and targeting the other hand at his opponents. Finally, he shouted "X-Burner AIR." And the whole fleet of his enemies were turned into ash. Exhausted, Sawada Tsunayoshi returned to his normal mode and collapsed on spot.
"Tsuna-kun!," cried out Kyoko.
"Tsuna-kun!,"
"Tsuna-kun!,"
"Tsuna-kun!,"
...
...
...
"Tsuna-kun!,"
Tsuna opened his eye and slowly browsed a rather unfamiliar surroundings with his rather blur vision. He noticed that it was a girl's room and Sasagawa Kyoko was praying for him by his bedside, holding his left hand .
"Kyoko-chan..?"
Kyoko became aware of his consciousness and was obviously glad.
"What a relief! You're fine after a—"
"Kyoko-chan, I'm so sorry!"
"Tsuna-ku—"
"I'm so sorry! This's all my fault! I mean— I mean— I shouldn't involve you in all these things!"
"…"
"I'm just tangling you into these scary mafia world…"
"…"
"I'm terribly sorry, Kyoko-chan. I won't bother you any longer… Maybe we should stay away from each other from now on…"
"What did you just say!?"
"…"
Silence lasted for a few minutes afterward… and then...
Kyoko burst into tears.
"K—Kyoko-chan?"
"I don't understand! I just…"
"Someday, you will get it. This's for your own safety."
" Don't blame yourself! You know, I have always admired you, wanting to thank you for all the kindness and protection… I didn't regret a moment being you in my life! I consider myself so lucky to meet a kind man like you! So don't leave me, ok?"
"I have no choice but to—"
"How could you be such an idiot! Listen, I believe in you... and well, we will overcome all difficulties together as we always do."
"I MEAN What I said!," he started to speak in a harsher tone.
"I don't understand you at all! All you men are so selfish!"
"The selfish ones are all you girls!"
"You re so SELF—"
Suddenly, Tsuna placed his lip on Kyoko's as if to shut her went on like this for a moment and finally Kyoko withdrew from him.
"I do all of these just because... because...," Tsuna sttuttered.
"..."
"I.. I.."
"..."
"I love you..."
So stunned was Kyoko that she could not utter any words. She could sense that he is serious this time, unlike the first time he had confessed her in his dying-will mode. Her heart was beating fast and it was that moment she started to realise her true feeling for Tsuna. He has always loved his warmth and kindness but didn't know that it was "love".
As Tsuna was about to run from her, she hugged him around his waist, begging "Please don't go! "
Tsuna turned to look at her.
"Please... Tsuna-kun... because... because..."
"..."
"I love you too."
Tsuna was hurt by those words but still felt obliged to not involve her to the dangerous world of mafia more. He untied the embrace .
Upset by this stubbornness, she slapped him back as a reaction.
Angered by this, he kissed her to shut her up. For as long as their breath allow they kissed. As they withdrew, Kyoko looked into his eye and asked him to never leave her alone and to promise to always be by her side. Tsuna, although hesitating to entangle Kyoko into his world of mafia, could not refuse that eye, full of determination and confidence.
Quietly nodding, the brown-haired boy said "I won't let anyone hurt you again. I will protect you even it costs my life."
Kyoko also nodded in affirmative and cried with tears of joy.
From that day on, Tsuna and Kyoko became lovers. Everyone in their class was in disbelief by the news that they started dating. The girls would question her if she was sure it was a right decision whereas the boys would growl at Tsuna with envy. But strangely, for Haru, whose is very jealous of Tsuna, agreed with their relationship and realized that in fact what she thought was love was in fact just a gratitude and admiration to Tsuna. She learnt that before this realization, she was too young to understand such subliminal feelings and trust mistook it as affection.
After Tsuna and Kyoko graduated, they still met and date with each other every weekends. Many thought their relation would not last long; yet, it was proved wrong as it developed into a serious relationship later.
However, things do not end there. There is another turning point in his life...
Chapter 1 — END
Thanks for reading! How was it? Hope you like it! This is my first normal fiction (as aforementioned!) Quite a drama (,and as I suck at describing, the fighting scene must have been a huge let-down!)
Remember reviews are always welcome (and probably necessary!)
What's more, I intend to update the story every Monday but since I am an undisciplined type,
I may update when feeling like to!