Summary: Reborn watched his new student and couldn't feel but be infatuated by his student's action. It was time to burn those useless documents about his student. Sawada Tsunayoshi is more than he seems. And he's going to find out all of the mystery of his student!
Black-chan: Well, here it is, Father-Figure's sequel but can still stand alone~ Hope you like it~ And R&R please~ And a fair warning... This is unbeta'd and I'm more of a Little!Tsuna than Dark!Tsuna and also my grammar may not be that good... So please bear with my mistakes and OOC, okay? Oh yeah... I don't know if there's going to be a pairing since I'm going to work on my writing skill in mystery and dark theme... But this will have crack or humor 'cause well I though it'll be interesting with one... (And also I love cracks and humor...) Finally, there will be occasions where I'll cross-dress Tsuna but it's only for humor and not to be taken seriously~
Note: The very first scene which is italic that you read will be very important in some parts of this story. Why don't you guess who the person in it is?
Disclaimer: I don't own anything except the plot and maybe some OC! If I did, it'll probably be soooo bad...
Rating: T for curses and 'cause I'm paranoid.
Beginning: Goodbye, Normal Life And Hello, Mafia World!
A small brunette about seven to nine years old sighed in annoyance and boredom as students around him laughed, teased and made fun of his actions. He just faked trip on air again and the others just found pleasure in it.
The boy shook his head in dismay. He couldn't understand why others found happiness in someone else's pain or embarrassment but he felt disgusted with it. He was someone who would rather help that person even if said person was mean to him.
Reason why some elders called him a "Saint", "An Angel", "The God's Child", "Pure", "Kindhearted" and just about anything being nice.
People would think he loved being called as such but they were wrong. He demised it because even with those words sent to him, he knew it was false. He wasn't pure. He wasn't kindhearted. He wasn't a saint. He wasn't a God's child.
He had blood stained through his body, especially his hands. He looked down on his preys without mercury nor warmth. He was only a pawn to be used.
He was the Devil's Puppet.
A brunette was sleeping in a simple yet peaceful looking room. The figure looked like a cute elementary boy but the clothes, that were neatly placed near his bed, showed he was a first year middle school student from Nami-chuu. His face reflected a child in great pain. Sweats were all over his body and painful soft sounds came from his mouth.
"Tsu-chan, wake up or you'll be late for school!" a loud voice, probably his mother, woke the boy in an instant but didn't manage to wake his brain.
The so-called 'Tsu-chan' stared at his hands with wide eyes in horror and guilt. Horror from what he saw and guilt for what he had done. He also seemed shocked to dream of something like that. Like it was a long time since he had a dream- no, nightmare like that.
His thoughts were loud, guilty, angry, surprised and most importantly, afraid.
'Stop thinking! It's over!' he screamed in his mind like a mantra but his heart thought otherwise, same went with his mind. Though he knew it as well, he didn't want the truth. He was in denial.
Images of the nightmare flashed through his eyes. Blood, black flames, chains, shouts, violet flames, a pineapple, a baby with eyes darkened, and...orange flames surrounding all then nothing.
"Tsunayoshi!" the voice called out in little desperation and in full of worry which snapped the other from his trance.
"Eh?" the brunette looked like he's finally fully awake but the beating of his heart didn't stop. It was loud, clear and in need of help.
There was also black flame coming from his head before it disappeared completely.
Though, he didn't notice them and just came to life.
"HIEEEEEEEE!" he shouted with wide alive eyes as he saw the time, fifteen minutes before school. "I'm really going to be late!"
He quickly took a bath and dressed up for school in the nick of time of ten minutes. He went down stairs in a hurry, making fall with a thud.
"I-itai," he rubbed his head that had a bump and mumbled for his ears only, "I forgot how painful it was when I wasn't faking it."
"Tsu-chan?" a beautiful simple maiden with almost same face as the boy came out of the kitchen and stared at him in surprise, worry and caution. "Are you okay?"
'Tsu-chan' looked as if he wanted to say something before in a split second, he blushed and ducked his head in embarrassment.
"Kaa-san, please I don't want to talk about it," he said with emphasis and looked up to his mother with an appointed glance. His mother, in return, shared a mental conversation with him.
"And I'm going to be late! Bye!" the brunette stepped a foot outside and looked a bit hesitant for a minute before he ran with the speed of light, leaving only the dust and his mother waving.
"A~re~ Take care, Tsu-chan~" the mother smiled brightly. No one not even the greatest hitman knowing it's fake or not.
"Mm? What's this? Home tutor?"
Reborn stared at his records of his new student.
Sawada Tsunayoshi, his student, was a normal, a bit of a dame but still normal, middle school student who had no relationship with mafia and knew no such things of it and the mother, Sawada Nana, was the typical housewife who had been waiting for the return of the stupid bastard named Iemitsu patiently and took care of her son alone.
What was said on it continued on but it pretty much just went to one topic.
The Sawada Family, except for Iemitsu, knew nothing of mafia and was living peacefully and normally.
The hitman sighed at this. He couldn't get why his gut feeling wasn't agreeing to what he read. There wasn't even something suspicious out of it. There wasn't a single record of anything involving mafia in Namimori except local yakuzas.
He stood at a post near a simple house with a plate name of "Sawada" and watched a certain brunette sleep.
'Those,' the baby thought grimly and suspiciously. 'Aren't dreams of a child with a peaceful and normal childhood.'
Reborn knew his student might be dreaming of the hardship of being bullied but it could mean more and his gut told him it's more than it seemed.
The hitman heard the some of the mother trying to wake the sleeping brunette.
'Cheerful, naive and carefree,' he listed down some traits of the woman that he read in the records. 'Seems right enough.'
He stared hard as the brunette finally woke up.
But then, he frowned.
He could see it. Shadowed and dark eyes with so much emotions in one stare, two emotions being in front, guilt and horror. It couldn't be the stare of a child with peaceful and normal childhood.
It was a child with early relationship to mafia, the dark side world, experimentation or death.
Then, with another look at his student, Reborn saw look of fear in brunette. Like he was being targeted. That he had done something wrong. He also didn't dismissed tha small black flame that came and went.
He heard the shout from the mother but this time, he frowned harder at the hint of desperation and full of worry in the woman's sound.
That was wrong. The woman should be carefree and oblivious to her surrounding. This was getting more and more suspicious.
Reborn sighed heavily as he heard a shout coming from the brunette but didn't miss the word 'really' in the sentence.
'I guess I'm still going to keep that record after all,' the hitman thought as he watched grimly how his student seemed to mumble something after falling and the silent conversation of the mother and her son. 'There may be stuff that is true in it.'
He also didn't missed the short hesitation of the other, how fast the other was or the fact, the simple woman was giving very small hints of recognition and caution. 'Or not,' he thought as he tilted his fedora and sighed which he might be doing often if his student or the mother kept doing suspicious actions.
Sawada Tsunayoshi or Tsuna for short was down-right nervous. Whoever was watching was either not that good at hiding it or his intuition's acting up which didn't matter much since that wasn't his problem.
His problem involved into figuring out whoever was watching him and what the other wanted. He was also really tempted to just turn around and ask why that person was following him. But he wasn't that stupid or at least, he knew the conscience of such a stupid act.
Tsuna suddenly wished he didn't have his intuition. Yes, it did him good but mostly, it jinxed him badly.
He was well aware that his intuition warned him about embarrassing greetings and hugs. Not that his body was fast enough to avoid it anyway.
"Tsu-chan!" he heard a girlish and loud shriek from his behind and in split second, a long wig with car ears was on top of his head, making him look at lot like a girl.
"Hahi~ Haru-chan knows it~" a brunette girl exclaimed happily taking pictures of him in his state. "Tsu-chan's sooooooo cute with long hair and cat ears~!"
"Haru-chan...," Tsuna could feel his face burning into an unhealthy blush. He couldn't believe it and really, he was sure he heard a chuckle somewhere in the background.
Of all the days, his friend, yes he still thought the girl who embarrassed him in front of his stalker was his friend, just had to have the thought of cross-dressing him it just had to be today when someone was trailing him and possibly wanting to assassinate him.
THIS WAS JUST NOT HIS DAY!
And the day wasn't even half. He sighed and really stopped himself from turning around and screaming at his stalker to stop chuckling.
"Awww~ Tsu-chan's so cute~!" Haru, the still shrieking girl, glomped the small boy in a friendly and not-so-friendly way, much to said boy's dismay and embarrassment.
"Haru-chan, I hate you," the boy quietly cried out and mumbled out of his breath.
If Tsuna was to say what he hated most in life, people be shocked it's not being bullied or being a dame.
He hated being categorized as a GIRL, being CUTE or being SHORT!
Tsuna then watched as students passed by in a hurry like they were late...
'Wait!' he widened his eyes in horror. 'I'm also LATE!'
He quickly pulled himself away from the girl who pouted and sprinted hurriedly, waving a goodbye to the still pouting girl.
"HIEEEEEEE! I'M LATE! HIBARI-SAN WILL KILL ME!"
In truth, the boy never met this so called "Hibari-san" but from the stories he gathered, that person was a boy two years older than him who, in his horror, liked to fight and used his strength in punishing 'herbivores' who broke his iron wall.
Again, he would like to curse his mysterious stalker and his energetic friend for making his day bad.
Tsuna once again ignored that little intuition of his that told him it's only getting worse.
A scream that sounded like "Tsu-chan, the wig!" was left and unnoticed by the running brunette.
See? His intuition was totally jinxing him.
"Herbivore," a black-haired boy with piercing gray eyes stared at Tsuna's fearful honey-brown orbs. "You're late."
Tsuna felt his heart beat so fast and loud. He knew the Hibari guy should be scary but not this scary! Yes, he had seen many terrifying things due to a certain pervert and sly illusionist and much scary guys like a certain red-eyes but at least he knew they wouldn't hurt them and he knew them well.
This guy however would hurt him in a much painful way the bruinette could imagine and look at those eyes 'cause Tsuna was sure he saw the thrill and anticipation of battling in the perfect's eyes.
"I'll bite you to death," the boy continued his hands with tonfas that he threw to Tsuna.
Well, that's it.
"HIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! He's going to kill meeeee!" Tsuna screamed like a girl and sprinted, dodging the tonfa effortlessly. He did a back flip and landed gracefully to the ground behind the perfect. He then ran away from the perfect, not wanting to turn his back again.
Oh, did I mention the wig fall off? Well, he did forget so just ignore that. But some devils clearly didn't ignore it.
It also didn't occur to him that what he just did made two bloodthirsty devils after him.
Told you, his intuition's jinxing him.
Hibari Kyoya knew all the students from Nami-chuu. He also memorized every single data he had in school. So when he saw an unfamiliar long-haired 'girl' with car ears wearing a boy's uniform, he narrowed his eyes.
He immediately said his signature phrase and noticed how the herbivore looked pale as a ghost in seeing but paid no attention to it. Almost everyone in the town know him and his reputation of countless fights. But he did find it intriguing how fast the other was and how 'she' effortlessly avoided his attacks like it was nothing.
He watched as the 'girl' did a back flip and found it interesting that the strong and fast but nonetheless the coward 'girl' was none other than the most apathetic and weak student, Sawada Tsunayoshi or formally known as Dame-Tsuna.
He continued to watch the other hurriedly ran to class and found his mouth curved up slightly. He didn't mind if there was another who saw the interesting herbivore since he found it to be nothing threatening.
'So the herbivore's not actually a herbivore, huh?'
Sasagawa Kyoko and Kurokawa Hana were best friends and were famous in Nami-chuu. Though, it did make other students wondered why they were friends with Dame-Tsuna. They were not fitted to the small and useless brunette. They were in the second of the food chains (Hibari being first) and didn't seem right to be friends with the lowest in the food chains.
Yet no one said their thoughts now since the first time they find out about the so called relationship of the three, there were many openly complaining and insulting the dame and for some odd reasons, those people were either sent to the hospital from broken bones or transferred to another school due to embarrassing pictures.
And that was how they grew to just watch in envy as the two most popular girls crowded around the infamous "No Good".
"Tsu-chan, you shouldn't write stuffs like that!" the kind and pretty girl that couldn't get angry at anyone just glared with intensity to kill at someone who in turned shrugged it off as daily basis.
"Kyoko's right, Tsuna," a taller and much mature looking than the first girl agreed, picking up the notes the previous girl read and flipping to the next page. "It feels as if you didn't want to be friends and you insulted yourself, you know?"
The only boy in the middle who was also apparently the smallest among the three chuckled nervously, seemingly having fears of girls due to certain reasons and found himself answering a bit nervously, "I-it's not like that... I'm just stating facts."
Twitch.
"Oh, look at what I found~" Hana, the tallest girl, sing-sang in a mocking tone with a tick on her head. "Dear Shi-chan, today is the worst. I just have a stalker and I seem to have caught Hibari-san's attention... Aww, isn't having a diary a bit girly, Tsu-chan~?"
Tsuna, the only boy, blushed beep red and thanked the heavens that his stalker wasn't here and no other student saw this while the other girl who was seemingly harmless and innocent and was named Kyoko smirked devilishly at his embarrassment.
"But isn't Tsu-chan already a girl?" she asked innocently while at the background there's a devil tail on her back.
The unlucky boy just blushed and sighed at his misery and deeply wondered why he was friends with them.
The walk home was quiet and tense. Tsuna really didn't know how to tell his mother about the new information he found out and about those nightmares, too. It did help that his stalker was gone now and didn't seem to be following him for a while.
The brunette stared at his cellphone which was showing one message with only one sentence.
"An arcobaleno's in town, huh?" he slightly turned grim and his eyes changed from honey doe-like color to piercing orange. "This is bad and scary. They might, no they will get the news of this and..."
"Tsu-chan?" the voice of Nana, his mother, snapped him from his daze. The small boy blinked. He never thought he was at home now.
But then, he quickly made illusions so no one would know what happens inside. Though, it was weak. It would fool some other people like their neighboors. They also went inside the already.
His mother though was not impressed and made the illusion's stronger using her mist flames. "Really, why is your illusions weak when I trained you already?"
"I'm sorry, 'Kaa-san," Tsuna laughed a little but then quiet down. "How should I say this..."
His mother's facade, the happy-go-lucky and oblivious wife, was gone and replaced by her true character, blunt and ever so knowing illusionist.
"Talk."
"Mukuro-sama, is it true that we can't visit Otouto-chan?" a blonde boy with a large scar crossing from cheek to cheek, which crawls over the bridge of his nose that wore a grayish blue hooded jacket with yellow shirt beneath and brown pants asked, his tone baring curiosity and sadness.
A tall boy with a strange hairstyle that seemed to be a shape of pineapple chuckled slightly, his heterochromic eyes glowing in the dark. "Yes, but only for now that a certain arcobaleno's in town."
A dark-haired boy with glasses that wore a white beanie with a barcode on his left cheek and a bandage on his right silently watched in the corner but with one look in his eyes, people could tell he was also sad about the order.
A silver-haired teen stepped out of the plane and stared at the sky. His eyes shown dullness and grim yet determination countered them all.
"Sorry, Reborn-san. I'm coming early."
A tall black-haired figure practiced with a bat in the rain. Sweats all over his boby yet he paid no heed to them.
"No, not good enough."
The calm before the storm. Those chosen people will have to choice. They will have to make a decision. They will need to get out of their past and look at the future. They will need to fight to protect their most important people. They will need to stop running and just take everything with determination.
They will need to be prepared for the greatest test they'll receive.
Next time on The Prophecy...
"Tsu-chan, I think we can no longer keep running... But what about you?"
"Hello, I'm Reborn, the tutor."
"HIIEE! Gomen! Please don't hurt me!"
"Who are you?"
"Damn... That guy will totally be the death of me."
"Herbivore, fight me."
TBC
Black-chan: The very first scene which is italic that you read will be very important in some parts of this story. Why don't you guess who the person in it is?