Little Clams
Summary: Eight kids, a shared-destiny. What happens when an incident leads to the awakening of their flames? It's the revelation of the past they shared and the future that is in their hands.
Chapter 1
Tsuna glanced at the door to his new classroom. The 9-year old boy is a transferee to Namimori Elementary starting today, when his family moved to Namimori from next town.
Tsuna sighed. New school means a new environment to get adapted to, new teachers, and new friends to make. Not that Tsuna was looking forward to any of it. Tsuna knew, he is an awkward and shy boy. Hardly any qualities helpful enough to land him with a friend or two. He sighed again.
At his last school, he wasn't able to make any friend at all. He was left to be a loner, for he was far too weak and too clumsy for any kids to appreciate. Tsuna does try. But after years worth of trying he has now resigned to the idea that he is not the type to attract any kid to be his friend. Tsuna does not mind though, he is perfectly fine to be alone. Less pressure from peers means he could just enjoy himself the way he want to. Still, deep within his heart Tsuna knew he can only say as much because he hasn't, for the life of him, experienced the company of other people except his mom, and sometimes his dad when he comes home from work to visit.
The door to the classroom opened and a kind-faced lady, who slid open the door, motioned for Tsuna to come inside. Tsuna nodded, and entered the room with his head looking down at his shoes.
"Good morning class!" greeted the teacher.
"Good morning Keino-sensei!" chorused the students.
"Today, a new friend would be joining us! Aren't you excited to meet him?" Keino-sensei said. A few mumbles of 'yes', claps, whistles, and cheers followed.
"That's right, today, we have our new transfer student joining us." Keino-sensei motioned for Tsuna to introduce himself nd because Tsuna was looking down, he didn't see Keino-sensei's gesture.
Keino-sensei tapped lightly on Tsuna's shoulder. "Introduce yourself to the class, ne, Tsuna-chan?" she asked kindly.
Tsuna nodded, still keeping his head down. He inhaled deeply, braced himself, and lifted his head to introduce himself. Twenty or more pair of eyes stared back at him in anticipation, eyes glittering curiously at the new student infront of them.
"He-hello, I'm Sawada Tsunayoshi, your new classmate and uhm.." Tsuna hesitated for a moment before he spoke again "I hope I could be your friend!" he exclaimed, face flushed with embarrassment, he stared down at his trembling fingers. 'What was that? That was so uncool.' He thought. 'I sounded so desperate and lame didn't I? So much for first impressions.' He closed his eyes, hands curled at his sides, his head bowed, then he heard a cheerful laughter from across the room.
"I want to be Tsuna-kun's friend!" said a cheery voice.
Tsuna, curious, looked up to search for the source of the voice. He scanned the room until he locked eyes with a certain brown-eyed boy at the back of the room. Tsuna met his gae with his large chocolate-brown orbs.
"Hi! I'm Takeshi, Yamamoto Takeshi!" the raven haired boy smiled.
ooOoo
Takeshi is a friendly kid. He can easily go along with almost anybody. He has friends from his Elementary School, and within the neighborhood. His father's frequent customers at their Sushi Restaurant are all fond of the 9-year old boy. The women would squeal in delight whenever the child would visit his father in his work, they would approach him to give a peck on his chubby cheeks or throw some warm hug. The men would laugh with delight as they listen interestedly to Takeshi's story of baseball and school. They would cheer him on on his declarations to be a baseball star someday. Surely, Takeshi is a well-loved child and he love everyone around him too.
That particular day, his teacher Keino-sensei told the class of a transfer student in their school. He would be in the same class as Takeshi. Takeshi was excitedly looking forward to it. A new student means a new friend to make, a new playmate. It'll be great if he likes baseball too, Takeshi thought. But if he does not, he'll make sure they'll go along quite as well.
When Keino-sensei opened the classroom door to reveal a certain brunet with gravity defying hair, Takeshi looked puzzled. Here is a kid same age as him, who keeps on looking down. He does not look up, even when Keino-sensei motioned for him to speak. Instead, he keeps his face looking down. Keino-sensei tapped the boy on the shoulder. The boy's eyes was still on the ground, but he looked alerted.
"What a weird transfer student." Mochida-kun, on Takeshi's left side, said.
"Maybe he can't talk?" Mozou in front of Mochida added.
"Eeek! A mute kid? Don't want him as a friend, what abother." Jun expressed.
Just then the boy lifted his head to look at the class. His eyes looking at them nervously, and introduced himself.
"He can talk!" Jun noticed.
But the boy stopped midway in his speech. He looked as if he was hesitating, then with a determined and flushed expression, he exclaimed what sounded to Takeshi was a heartfelt desire.
"I hope I could be your friend!" He said then looked down again, he appeared to be fighting with something inside of him.
Several kids near Takeshi looked curiously at the boy who was called Tsunayoshi.
"What a weird dude."
"He looks desperate." Sniggered one girl.
"Is he shy?" inquired another.
Takeshi looked intently at the boy. There was something about the bot that intrigued him. Takeshi gave a cheerful augh.
"I want to be Tsuna-kun's friend!"
The boy slowly turned his head to look at him, chocolate-brown eyes met his, Takeshi smiled.
"Hi! I'm Takeshi, Yamamoto Takeshi!" and Takeshi saw a glint of joy appeared in the boy's eyes.
After the introduction, Keino-sensei directed Tsuna to his seat which was at the back of the room, at the right side a desk away from Takeshi. Takeshi grinned, pleased to have Tsuna seated near him.
Tsuna made his way to his seat, head still bowed. When he was just a desk away, a leg suddenly appeared in front of him and because Tsuna wasn't looking down, he tripped himself.
Steadying himself on the floor, Tsuna turned to look at what tripped him. He saw red shoes and when he looked to see its owner, saw green eyes staring down at him.
"Huh so clumsy." The silver-haired boy sneered.
"Hayato! What do you think you're doing?" exclaimed the teacher, helping Tsuna stand up and into his seat.
Hayato merely shrugged. "Nothing, it was his fault sensei, he was not looking where he was going." He answered innocently.
Keino-sensei just sighed and gave him a stern look. 'Just don't do that kind of thing again, okay? And apologize to Tsuna-chan." She added.
"Yeah, sorry." Hayato said not at all apologetic.
Keino-sensei just shook her head, it was the best the silver-haired boy could offer. She walked back to her place in front of the class to continue what was interrupted of her lesson.
Takeshi took the chance while Keino-sensei was writing something on the board to turn around and face Tsuna.
"Hello!" he beamed at him. Tsuna gave a weak smile.
Takeshi lowered his voice a little. "That's Gokudera Hayato." He gestured at the boy sitting at a desk in front of Tsuna.
"Don't worry about it, his temper is just bad but he's a good kid." Takeshi assured Tsuna which made the brunet nod in acknowledgement.
Apparently, Hayato heard Takeshi for he spun to stare at the raven-haired kid, eyes narrowed. "Who's bad-tempred baseball freak?" he asked dangerously.
Takeshi waved off a laugh as if to say 'told you so' to Tsuna. "Ahaha look at that Tsuna, didn't I just tell you?" he added.
Tsuna gulped. From his seat at the back he peered at both boys. He was scared of Hayato, that was agiven. The boy just exudes so much bad boy aura in him that Tsuna trembled slightly. 'He is not someone I should cross with.' He thought.
But at the same time, Tsuna was scared of Takeshi. This boy is just obliviously smiling at the death glares Hayato was sending him. Tsuna knows he should be afraid of Hayato, but if Takeshi can act careless in the presence of someone who looks ill-tempered enough to bury him alive, then Tsuna decided Takeshi should be feared as well.
Tsuna sighed. It's the first day of his school in Namimori and he already landed himself in some sort of trouble. So uch for hoping he'll at least have some peace to himself.
ooOoo
Outside Namimori Elementary, a certain cow-child was pacing back and forth in front of the school gate. He stopped, faced the school and walked in. The standing security officer noticed the kid and immediately stopped the young child.
"You are too young to be studying here. Who are you? Are you lost?" he asked politely but not without imposing a little authority.
The child, a four-year old with messy curly black hair and electric green eyes stared up at him.
"I'm here to see him." He said.
The guard looked at him with a puzzled expression.
"Who?"
The child grinned and looked at him with bright eyes.
"Gokudera Hayato."
END.
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