A/N: This was written to a certain song which was Cable Car by A Day to Remember.
I am in desperate need of a beta reader so if you enjoyed this and see mistakes I'm more than happy to take on criticism of any form even in reviews. Volunteer betas for future chapters are so welcome it's not even funny. I tried to revise it, please review!
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Chapter 1.
"Tonight you are playing at Dark Side."
"Isn't that the club where weird people go?"
"Weird people like you baseball freak." Yamamoto the bassist of The Guardians just laughed it off.
"That's not the kind of place we usually play Reborn. Only boy bands that dance play in Dark Side." Tsuna looked at Reborn hesitantly who chose to ignore the stare and use his long legs to walk to the other side of the room. Once there he lit his cigarette and blew the smoke out the window. His long and elegant fingers took hold of his fedora. He then leaned out the too short window to avoid getting smoke in the small room.
"That's exactly why idiot, we have to see how you measure up to a main stream audience." Ryohei nodded sagely next to him.
"Even though these extreme boy bands cannot fight, or play instruments they have extremely good looking face! However we are also extremely violent which puts us on the same level!"
"That's correct and being new to Vongola Records means you need to start building a main stream audience."
"kufufufufu, finally the recognition we need. I'm surprised Reborn playing at Dark Side is on a whole new level it seems you are putting too much of your faith in us."
Reborn choose to ignore his comment. "Come Tsuna you need to practice that song. The vocals you demonstrated during rehearsal where less than satisfactory. If you do well I have a surprise for you."
"A surprise?" Tsuna more than curious asked "what is it?"
"I will let you survive another day." he then smirked and walked to his car expecting Tsuna to follow.
"Hiiiiiii" Tsuna ran after him grabbing his jacket on the way and waving to his band mates a farewell.
Once in the car Reborn turned to Tsuna. "Tonight is a big night the head of Vongola records will be watching. He mentioned if you succeed a lifetime supply of tomatoes will be on your door step by morning." Tsuna suddenly felt like vomiting.
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Upon entrance to Dark Side The Guardians felt out of place and inadequate. They were opening for a band called Angels Fly lead by the gorgeous Mochita. Mochita was said to be the next best thing. Mokuro insisted that he was gay.
"I mean look at him such a feminine face and supple features a body meant to be molested by the tender hands of a man. I am telling you it's only a matter of time." He was leaning towards Hibari who was eyeing Mochita with undisguised disgust.
Gokudera sensing Tsuna's unease was fidgeting around with the gear adjusting a speaker or tuning his guitar. They had to unload everything from their van about an hour ago. The boys had just finished setting up when the Dark Side manager came out.
"Hello I'm Miura Haru, I'm the manager of Dark Side. We're very excited to have you playing on our stage." she was dressed as a cloud Tsuna assumed it had to do with Angels Fly and their stage name.
"It's a pleasure to make you're acquaintance and we really appreciate you letting us play in your noble establishment."
"Well of course after hearing the demo you sent me Mr. Reborn I was willing to do anything to encourage you. Especially after seeing a picture of your band, the only reason I did not insist you open was because you are so little known."
"I'm sure thanks to you that won't last long." the manager held her cheeks in an attempt to hide her blush. She turned from him and looked over at the band that had stopped their angry Mochida mutterings to listen to the conversation Reborn was holding. Her eyes caught Tsuna's and it was like a volcano erupting. Her face flashed an intense red before she let out a low noise and ran into what they could only assume to be her office.
"Will you be wearing shoes Tsuna? If you don't I need to clear the stage of dangerous things you could step on,"
"No I won't. It feels better when I can feel the vibrations of the instruments. I find that it helps me" Gokudera nodded and went to work. He then motioned Yamamoto to help.
"Once you finish that you should warm up. Doors open in an hour, people have begun to line up outside." Reborn then turned and made his way to the bar.
Inside their dressing room Hibari sipped some tea. Mean while Gokudera smoked his third cigarette in the past hour and found the cat shaped ash tray uninspiring.
"Does this look fine?" Tsuna fidgeted in his simple outfit.
"Calm down Tsuna you look beautiful, after the show we should go out for sushi."
"That sounds great,"
"I want ramen!" Proclaimed Ryohei, strangely enough he had been mysteriously missing up to that point.
"Where have you been lawn head we had to set up your kit you mother fucker."
"I was bringing Kyoko and her weird friend Hana to come see us play." Tsuna blushed at the mention of her name.
"Kk-Kyokos here?" Tsuna pointed at the ground as if emphasizing his point.
"That is extremely correct Tsuna that is why you need to join my drum line!" he draped an arm over Tsuna's shoulders and grinned at the people in the room. Somehow succeeding in making everyone more irritated than nervous seemed to lighten the atmosphere, being nervous was a bad look for them but irritated fit them like a second skin.
Today was the day when they would find out if they were good enough. Tsunayoshi Sawada had been working at becoming a star since the ripe age of fourteen. It was then that a talent scout by the name of Reborn heard him singing on the street corner for money. Incidentally the money was going to be used to break Gokudera out of jail. Making it the same night he became lifelong friends with Gokudera.
Reborn and Gokudera only make up a part of Tsuna's love map. His map also includes his mom who makes sandwiches for them when they go on gigs and Takeshi Yamamoto a local baseball and bass enthusiast. He joined the band after Tsuna saved him from a botched suicide attempt. Yamamoto had jumped at a flock of Canadian geese pleading for release from the world and offering bird feed as payment for spiritual freedom. As you can imagine it didn't exactly turn out that way.
Ryohei came to Tsuna after seeing him play drums at a local music store. He declared him extreme at playing drums and he urged him to join the local drum line. Sadly he was the sole member of; if you don't count Lambo Tsuna's adoptive brother and Ryouhei's partner in crime.
Hibari Kyouya is the manager at the local music shop Yami-chuu. He rules the shop with an iron fist and a painful tonfa. Hibari eventually became the lead guitarist after he declared Tsuna unsuitable. He managed to glimpse Tsuna during practice where he was failing at playing guitar, keyboard and vocals. The keyboard was eventually taken over by Mokuro Rokudo. Mokuro happened to pick up their demo. From that point he decided to molest Tsuna and buy him cake to eat after shows…….. No matter what.
Tsuna was considering telling Gokudera. But then Reborn caught Mokuro playing the keyboard and the rest is history.
His band, his family his love map ruled by crazy people who keep Tsuna on edge at all times of the day. They choose to use death threats, drop kicks or "accidental" inappropriate touches to make Tsuna's life anything but normal.
Tsuna stepped on the stage and looked down at his bare feet, a pale contrast with the dark floor. His 'X' tattoos on each foot looked back at him. He adjusted his blue cord pants, and blue v- neck shirt. Tsuna then looked over at his band, who was smiling encouragingly; quite the group of people. He stepped up to the microphone.
"Hello I'm Tsuna and we are the guardians, it is pleasure to make you acquaintance and I'm happy to meet you." he grinned and caught the eye of a couple of the spectators. He recognized a few of the girls from previous shows, to think they had groupies. After that the song was a flurry of limbs sweat and music.
Tsuna gripped the collar of his white shirt. He then let out a loud wail of excitement before jumping up. Thrusting his torso to the floor he smeared beads of sweat with his overly excited hands. His body filled with an adrenaline rush that transformed him into some kind of beast. Apparently his feelings were infectious. Yamamoto was in a wide stance and when Tsuna wailed found him looking up at the sky of the stage as if trying to catch a fallen fail drop. Gokudera was thrashing around wildly more of a blur than a human. Hibari was pretty much the same except instead of looking at his instrument he was fixing Tsuna with his strong gaze. Ryohei on the other hand was practically glowing. Mokuro was almost radiating power from his excitement. If he didn't know any better Tsuna would have thought he was ready to jump over his keyboard and join Tsuna.
Tsuna held the microphone to his lips and held out his arm. It was then caught by overly zealous girls before he shuffled back and grinned as if saying 'don't be too hasty you'll all get a taste'. Tsuna proceeded to arch his back and let Gokudera's guitar solo over take his ears and drown out his lyrics. The lyrics were about to start up again when an orange flew towards them. Tsuna was in such an adrenaline rush he found himself catching the orange with his left hand. He somehow burst it open. A moment later Gokudera snatched it from his grasp and threw it back in the attacker's general direction. Tsuna swayed his hips to the now silent auditorium before licking his finger tips and turning around. He made a motion for the guardians to ignore it and continue.
"The Varia was here, Tsuna. Xaxnus was the one who threw that orange." Reborn had come to meet them at the foot of the stage and was whispering into Tsuna's ear. "This means they think you're a threat." Tsuna turned to Reborn and flashed him a grin; Tsuna's usually amber eyes now burning a slow orange.
"Good" he then walked into the hallway and out the door of the club where he proceeded to vomit the contents of his stomach.
The Varia the most influential music group of his generation had come to throw an orange at The Guardians.
Omake:
"Tsunayoshi you were glorious, I felt the urge to just jump over my keyboard and make you all mine." a lot more creepy than what he had in mind.
"What is the point in being this amazing if I cannot molest my Tsuna?" Mokuro pouted and looked at Reborn who was holding Tsuna possessively.
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