a/n: Hello there! I'm Pocki, and this is my first fanfiction! Yay! I'm quite happy with it, but please be nice cx
disclaimer: I do not own Katekyo Hitman Reborn
Sometimes, Tsuna wonders what might've happened if he never met Reborn.
He wonders if he would just continue being Dame-Tsuna, with no friends. He wonders what Gokudera, Yamamoto, Ryohei, Chrome, Lambo, and Hibari would've done.
He thinks that maybe it would have been better if he had never met Reborn. Gokudera might have become the 10th and formed his own family, had Tsuna not been there.
Yamamoto could have been a famous baseball star, if he hadn't needed to put down his bat for a sword.
Ryohei and Kyoko could have led fun, peaceful lives, had they not been dragged into the mafia.
Chrome wouldn't have had to be tortured by Daemon Spade, Mukuro not thrown into Vindice Prison, had Tsuna not been there.
Lambo and I-Pin could have grown up safely without the dangers of the Mafia, had Lambo not been recruited to be the Lightning Guardian.
Instead of studying box weapons and fighting with Funeral Wreaths, Hibari might've been had a calm, successful future, had he not been made the Cloud Guardian.
Tsuna wonders and he thinks of these things, and feels a bit ashamed for ruining what might have been.
But then he looks at all his Guardians, looks at Gokudera and Yamamoto playfully bickering, looks at Ryohei yelling his extreme thoughts, looks at Chrome and Haru and Kyoko as they bond and talk, looks at Lambo and I-Pin playing together on the swings, looks at Hibari sitting a ways off from them, muttering about crowding herbivores.
And then his Guardians (minus Hibari) all turn and smile at him, and he can see that they're happy and don't mind what he's done, but most of all, he can see that they are proud. They are proud of him, they are proud of themselves, they are proud of each other, and they are proud to be the Guardians of Tsunayoshi Sawada's family.
And Tsuna knows that he's proud of them too.