This was posted on tumblr first, actually. It is on my tumblr under the same name, too.
Summary: Tsuna dies and gets reborn in another world in order to fulfill certain conditions so that he will properly pass away the next time he dies. And he is not the only one.
WARNINGS: UNBETAED, OOC, MAY ADD MORE WARNINGS AS THE STORY PROGRESSES.
Disclaimer: I do not own KHR.
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When Sawada Tsunayoshi died, it happened peacefully in his sleep. At age seventy-two, he was considered one of the most long-lived Mafia bosses. When he opened his eyes afterwards, floating in a foggy, smokey-grey space and feeling more youthful than he remembered, he wanted to horribly maim someone; preferably his many times great ancestor. Tsuna knew this had to do with Primo. It always did.
"Decimo!" came a cry from a black and yellow blur that soared towards him; Tsuna casually sidestepped it due to years of experience. The spirit of Vongola Primo fell face first into the smokey space after his attempt at glomping Tsuna failed.
Tsuna ignored him and turned to face the other spirit there; he nodded, "Secondo."
"Decimo." Was the reply from Vongola Secondo's spirit, his face set into a serious expression. "You can probably guess that something is going to happen after you died."
"Yes, I figured as much." Tsuna silently exhaled, waiting for Secondo to continue what he wanted to say; Tsuna always preferred dealing with Secondo's spirit over Primo's as Secondo was more efficient and practical when it came down to business.
"You're not to die yet, Decimo. At least not fully. You, among others, are scheduled to be reborn into another world, with your memories intact." Secondo gave him a look of understanding as he silently plotted Primo's demise, yet again, because when in doubt, blame Primo.
"You can also guess that it's because of the Trinisette and Giotto's part in it. You are correct."
That motto of Tsuna hadn't failed him yet.
"As a true wielder of the Vongola Sky ring and the only Sky in the Trinisette of your time, you can't pass away before the Trinisette chooses someone else in your place."
"You mean I have to make sure in my next life that someone else takes my role as a true wielder of the Vongola Sky ring," here, Tsuna paused; it couldn't be that easy. "And let me guess, that person must be the only Sky, as in 'no Mare Sky and no Arcobaleno Sky' only Sky."
"Exactly. And you're not the only person in this."
With those words, Secondo disappeared taking with him the foggy expanse of grey and leaving Tsuna floating in a sea of white alongside eight other people.
"Looks like we have our last member. I am Ricardo di Vongola."
The person who introduced himself was the actual Vongola Secondo, not the spirit in the ring. Next to him stood the person Tsuna wanted to see, "Ciao~! I'm Giotto di Vongola!"
The other six introduced themselves as G., Asari, Knuckle, Lampo, Alaude and Elena.
"Deamon is not here." Tsuna noted.
Elena shook her head, "No, he isn't. According to the ring's spirits, his soul is too exhausted to join us, at the moment."
Tsuna nodded his understanding and floated towards the group, curiosity clear on his face. The Vongola rings did have imprints of these people, but the rings had imprints of the them who held the rings; and some of these people lived after leaving Vongola, and Elena didn't even have an imprint. So, how different were they from the imprints? Were they even different?
Tsuna reached Giotto and smiled, taking advantage of his own sudden youth and introducing himself, "Tsunayoshi Sawada, you can call me Tsuna."
The smile worked the way Tsuna intended for it to do; Giotto started to blush, his eyes were a bit glazed as he responded, "It… it's nice to meet you, Tsuna!"
Tsuna took advantage of Giotto's momentary stunned state and the rest's exasperated looks to punch Giotto in the face.
"I've always wanted to do this." Tsuna beamed in the face of the first generation's stunned looks; Secondo clapped slowly, "You and I are going to get along splendidly, Tsuna."
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The process of being born was very blurry and all Tsuna could remember from it were vague shapes and distant sounds punctuated with shrill screams. The year that followed was remembered in bits and pieces as he faded in and out of consciousness; the most prominent of these memories was the one of when he first became aware of the other two babies with him and was coherent enough to comprehend that he had siblings whom his mother called 'Ie' and 'Natsu'.
He was nearing two years when he regained full awareness.
His name was Sawada Tsunayoshi (again), born to Sawada Iemitsu and Sawada Nana (again), on October 14th of the year 20XX (again).
Only this time, he had blood siblings, and they were twins. The eldest was named Sawada Ieyasu (three guesses on his namesake) with blond hair, blue eyes and a cheery personality; the middle child was named Sawada Natsuyoshi with brown hair, amber eyes and a calm personality; which left Tsuna as the youngest. They all had the same messy hair, but Tsuna and Natsu were the most similar in appearance; in fact, the two of them looked nearly identical and only their facial expressions helped tell them apart.
And there was something about his brothers.
With Tsuna's trained eyes, it wasn't difficult to catch where his brothers slipped: how quickly they took to walking, how quickly they learned to talk, the intelligence that was far greater than that of a child and the occasional italian words and phrases. Even Ieyasu's freaked out expression whenever he was confronted with electronic devices like the TV, washing machine, microwave and mobile phones, among others.
He also caught on to the fact that his 'nii-sans' thought that he was a kid; a smart, well-behaved kid but still a kid.
Tsuna hid a smile; unlike him, the other two had no experience in handling adults stuck in bodies that were far younger than they should be. For Tsuna, it was like living with an Arcobaleno trying their best to make other people believe that they were a normal kid.
It was somewhat nostalgic, and reminded Tsuna of the Arcobaleno of his past when they started growing like normal kids would.
Giotto and Ricardo di Vongola as Sawada Ieyasu and Natsuyoshi.
Heh.
Tsuna decided to do what he would have done and would have made Reborn proud: go along with the charade, make the two sweat bullets with 'innocent' observations and drop the bomb at the moment with the best shock and embarrassing-in-hindsight potential.
He giggled cutely; Ieyasu immediately began babbling about adorable little Tuna-fishies (must have picked it up from Otou-san) while Natsu stared warily at the aforementioned 'Tuna-fishie'.
That's one smart cookie.
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