DISCLAIMER : Katekyo Hitman Reborn and the characters are belong to Amano Akira respectively. I own nothing but the storyline. Though, I'm not getting any profit from this and I'm not sure if this thing can make me a fortune. I know for sure the inspirations that I got while I'm here would make me one.
Chapter 1 – He's the caring one.
"Yuu…! Wake up! Your bus is going to be here!" manly voice screamed from the kitchen early morning while preparing breakfast hectically; unknown to his son that he's overslept too.
The said child still rolling on futon, not willing to leave the warmth and the coziness; he hides under the blanket to avoid being wake up.
"Yuu!" the manly voice now became closer and louder; means he heading towards his only son's room. Upon arrive at the room; the 5 year old child was hidden under the blanket; evidently from the bulging blanket. He pulls the blanket away and shakes his son to wake. "Yuu, come on, you'll be late…" said the father in soft yet stern tone. "…hurry up, go eat your breakfast and then wear your uniform…"
The child rubs his eyes while reluctantly standing up from the futon and walks to the table to eat. He was still fuzzy when he picks up the chopstick, and his eyes beginning to get clear when he sees the menu of the breakfast. White rice, dried vegetables and miso soup; he's lost his appetite. "Tou-chan, the breakfast seems to be lack of something today…" he complained.
"Ahahaha… sorry, sorry… I wake up late and in rush today, this is the only thing that I can prepare…" the fathers sheepishly explained while preparing Yuu's uniform.
The child sighed and then continues to eat; he's going to need all the calories for his energy for today. While eating, he heard the doorbell ring and like always, he's the one approached the door because he knew who would that be.
"Good morning Yuu!" said the twins simultaneously. Takuma and Takumi.
"Ah, Morning guys…" he greet lazily. "Good morning Uncle Takeshi…" he greets the twins' father with a warm smile.
"Maa… morning Yuu-kun, where's your father…?" Yamamoto asked while putting a hat on his twins' head which they take it off after that.
"He's…." before he could say that his father was preparing his uniform, a loud heavy footsteps coming towards them. "…coming" he says while he gestured for the twins to come inside the house.
"Yamamoto, you came!" the father said with a big smile.
"Yo, Tsuna! Hectic as always…" Yamamoto said when he sees how much disheveled his friend became.
"Well, that kid's habit of overslept really didn't help me much…" Tsuna sighed while taking a glance at the table. The table had been clean up; means Yuu is wash up now and then wears his uniform. "Overseas again…?" he asked when he notices Yamamoto carrying a big bag behind his back.
"Yea, I thought of asking you if you could look over my kids while I'm gone for a while…" Yamamoto blushed at this request but hopingly that his request didn't bother Tsuna much.
"You ask about it as if I've never help you before! It's okay, beside the house livelier when they're here…!" Tsuna says as he takes off his apron.
"You're a great help Tsuna! I promised I'll buy you something while I'm at the oversea…!" he hugs Tsuna tightly. "Boys! Let me see you for a while!" he shouted. He and Tsuna could hear the multiple footsteps running from Yuu's room.
"Papa!" both of them shouted when they arrives. Yuu walks calmly from his room and then goes straight to his father to use his father's leg as a stand pillow.
Yamamoto bends on his knees so that he could see his dear twins closely. "You guys need to be good to Uncle Tsuna… I'll be away for a while…." he said with a sad tone. It breaks his heart every time he had to be away from his twins.
"Don't worry papa!" Takuma says with a pink blush on his cheeks.
"Yea, just do your best to do home run! We'll be watching you!" Takumi says this time while doing an air fist.
He feels so touched that he hugs them tightly. "I'll miss you guys…" after said it, he parted with his boys with heavy heart but smiles to cover it. He could see his boys along with Tsuna and his son waving at him from afar, enough to strengthen his will to bring victory so that his twins won't be disappointed with him.
"Ha… it's hard, ne… being the professional baseball player as your career…" Tsuna doesn't know whether he should feel pity or proud for his friend. He decided to support his friend all the way he can or while he can.
Yamamoto Takeshi has won several games during his university years making big company support him financially and his achievement makes him easy to be in the national league. He got married after he graduated but his marriage doesn't last long when his dearest wife died right after she labored the twins. Loving his wife and the twins, he decided to take care of the twins even though he knew that he'll take care of them by himself. Even though he got the looks and wealth, he said he's not ready for another marriage, and said he still loves his dear late wife. Well, being happy-go-lucky himself, he managed it just fine; his twins grown up healthily and happily. By the way, Takuma is the oldest since he came out 2 minutes early than Takumi.
"That being said, your bus has arrived…" Tsuna push Yuu's heavy body to walk while Takuma and Takumi already run towards the bus. Tsuna smiles upon seeing their kindergarten teacher fetch the kids, the bright smiles that have always the same since high school.
"Good Morning Tsuna-kun..." Kyoko greeted him, then she bend to greet the kids. "Morning Yuu-kun, Takuma-kun and Takumi-kun, how are you today…?" she asked with a smiles.
"Morning!" all of them greet simultaneously.
"We're ready for today's class, but Yuu seems demotivated a little…" Takuma said while looking at his sleepy friend.
"Well, he probably become lively once we get to our kindergarten…"said Kyoko. "We'll be going Tsuna-kun…"
Sasagawa Kyoko, a kindergarten teacher and a classroom teacher for Sunflower class, which is the twins and Yuu's classroom. She's of the same age with Tsuna and his ex-classmate, so they can be casual with no problem. Unlike Tsuna, she still single but she's happy with her life giving an early education to children. But she always hopes that one day that one person in shining armor would take her hand soon.
"Alright… Take care of yourself, you guys…" Tsuna waves at the kids.
"Yes…" the kids happily replied.
Sawada Tsunayoshi has been a single father for about 3 years and a divorcé. His ex-wife left him for other men that she said she felt so deeply in love and her feelings towards Tsuna has died by the time she fall in love with the other man. Although he still loves his wife, he felt the need to let her go when the two of them doesn't share what they had before, so they settle their divorcement in a good way. Sawada Yuu, choose to live with his father and although reluctant to let his mother go, he asked for her to come and visit him from time to time. Tsuna has his own company, a bookstore to precise. His partner is Cavallone Dino and Reborn from Italy has taught him many ways in business, making him success and understand in every curve in business. Long forgotten the days where he's being called dame every day.
For today, he relieves that one of the morning task is done, and now it's his turn to get ready to go to work. A good boss would never leave his office without supervision, that's what Reborn always taught him. After done checking the house, he locked the door and walks to the nearest train station; he hates driving a car to his work due to traffic jam.
Upon arriving at his company, his employees greeted him like usual except his co-partner, Gokudera. He looks like he's under the weather and not to mention the dark circle around his eyes. "Go—Gokudera, are you okay…?" Tsuna ask by the time he steps into his office.
"I'm…fine…Tsuna…" Gokudera answered as if he lost his soul.
"Yea, sure… you don't want to talk about it…?" Tsuna really concerns about his friend well-being, mostly because Gokudera is a single father too.
"Tsuna… help me…" he says with teary eyes, he looks like he's going to collapse anytime too.
With pity wrapping his heart, he answered. "Yes, yes…"
After taking vitamins and drink one bottle of plain water, Gokudera seems a bit alive than a few minutes ago. Both of them sit in Tsuna's sofa in the office. A couple more minutes past as Gokudera seems to think the right way to start telling Tsuna his overall condition. After he decided it's the right time to tell, he shifted into his serious gesture. "Actually…" he suddenly says, making Tsuna twitched. "… My daughter had her first menstruation…" he said with a despair look on his face.
Silence fall into the room, Tsuna that still sitting his leg crossed frozen on his sit, blushing hard. This is the first time he had heard about this, telling him about someone's daughter had her menstruation for the first time directly to his face.
Gokudera Hayato, he's in his late 20's. He has 2 kids, one girl and one boy. The girl named Ran and the boy named Shun. He became Tsuna's support in the company with Tsuna after he's being force by Shamal, his uncle, to learn one or two things from Reborn. After knowing each other's personality, Gokudera began attached with Tsuna along with Yamamoto. He is very smart, talented and good looking and he has so many fans that he hoped that he could bomb them with his own hand. He married after the company's economy stable and has kids, but the cruel reality took his wife away when she was diagnosed of having cervical cancer stage 4. After went through countless pain and chemotherapy, she leave her family with a smiles and tears, forever.
"… what do I do….? I can't be much of help while I'm being a male myself…" he shook his head while his hand grabbing it.
'Is that the big problem here…?' Tsuna thought; no longer felt pity for the poor friend. "Relax Gokudera…" he says with blush still on his cheeks. "…is she worried about it…? Your daughter, I mean…"
"Uh… she seems relax about it…" he tries to remember back. "…but she's going to school looking like she's going to kill someone…" said Gokudera with terrified face.
Tsuna scratch his earlobe, then a question pop up in his mind. "How did you know that she had her first menstruation? Did you ask her…?"
Gokudera rest his chin on one hand as if he's in deep thought. "I woke up last night after I had my nightmare, but I couldn't sleep back, that's when I decided to warm a milk…" he paused to change his posture on the sit so that he feels comfortable. "…when I'm getting the milk out from the fridge, I heard the water running in the washroom. Thinking that my son might have forgotten to close the pipe after using, I went to see…" he frowns. "…only to discover my daughter wash her panties with hot water… there's a blood on them too…"
"So, what did you do next…?" Tsuna asked.
"I said to her that it's hard to wash the stain if you're washing it with hot water…"
Tsuna look at him in disbelief.
"…but she just looks at me shyly… I guest since I'm a male, despite being her father and all, I can't understand the pain that she gone through…and the process that she's going to get through…" Gokudera managed to continue. "…after teach her how to wash the stain with body wash, we drink the warm milk together but she still looks like she's in pain judging from her displease face…"
'Well, at least he comforted her in some way…'. Tsuna look deeply into his friend's face, he look so troubled. "… I don't think you need to worry about it too much, besides its just mean that she's going to be a woman soon…" said Tsuna while smiles.
"Tsuna…" Gokudera feels lighter after hearing Tsuna comfort words.
"She'll come to you if something came up right? This thing, probably too shy for her to tell you… she's make quite a lot of friends as far as I remember, I'm sure that her friends could help her. You just need to be by her side to support her… that's what a father should do…" Tsuna continues.
"Yea, I guess so…" he murmurs while smiling, he felt so relief after talking with Tsuna. After the talk session, he continues doing his work at ease while Tsuna doing his work with a throbbing head. There's too much paper work on his table, and it keeps increasing by an hour.
How about it? This idea came to me after I read a manga and a television show, very inspirational to me since my mom is a single mother and I'm her eldest daughter since I'm 4. After went through some researches of single father, it seems there's a lot of reason for them being a single father but live their life happily with their child regardless of their age. At one the experiences that caught my eyes are when the single father asks what to do since their daughter had her first period and since he's man, he don't really know what he should do. For my case, I asked my mom and she just nonchalantly said, 'that's good for you!' (-_-); What about you guys? What was your first reaction when you had your first period? Hahaha… I know, I know… my imagination had taken me too far…*sighs*
That being said, I hope you enjoy reading this 1st chapter.