Lilyflower991028: Sup...
Tsuna: Ah, back to writing again, I see.
Lily: Yeah, but all my other fanfics are currently on hiatus.
Tsuna: But why?
Lily: You know why!
Tsuna: Well, care sharing it with the world?
Lily: *sigh* It's because I had an epiphany.
Tsuna: ...what?
Lily: *sigh* I realised that, really, none of my fanfics are all that original or creative. They're always based on something else, whether it be another fanfic or a book or something. My creativity has left me.
Tsuna: ...
Lily: But! I think it has come back. Here's a summary:
Sawada Tsunayoshi had always lived a peaceful life in his small home village, Namimori. But that peace was broken when a mysterious man came along and killed almost all the civilians living there. Now, Tsuna is out for answers and sweet, cold revenge. After all, revenge is a dish best served cold.
Tsuna: Uwah...
Lily: So I guess it's KINDA based on Sunday Without God, but is actually very different. Also, definite OOCness in some of the characters.
Tsuna: Sou... Well, Lily does not own Katekyo Hitman Reborn nor does she own Sunday Without God. If she did, she would rent an apartment in Japan with all that money and (try to) live a peaceful life.
Lily: Ii ne... Anyway, this is an AU, but I'm not sure whether I'll keep the mafia in here...
Tsuna: Maybe you should...
Lily: I dunno... I'll figure it out later.
Tsuna: You procrastinator.
Lily: Yep. Well, hope you guys enjoy! I'll probably beta my own story. XD Oh, and Tsuna is already friends with everyone; Gokudera, Yamamoto, Ryohei, Hibari, Mukuro, ADULT Lambo (yes, 25 years old), but Reborn is not there. Sorry. Kyoko, Haru and Chrome (in other words, the girls) will be introduced later.
Tsuna: -_-; Well, please enjoy, guys.
"Oi, Tsuna!"
Tsuna whipped around at the voice and saw Yamamoto Takeshi waving at him.
"You're on field duty with us!" the raven-haired teen said. Tsuna furrowed his brows, jogging over to the other.
'Us?'
As if on cue, Gokudera Hayato emerged out of the shadows.
"Good morning, Sawada-san!" the silver-haired teen said, eyes gleaming with respect and admiration. Tsuna sweat-dropped.
"Gokudera, I keep telling you to call me Tsuna, or at the very least Tsunayoshi," the brunet said, almost as if he was scolding the other.
"Haha, yeah! Stop being so formal, Hayato," Yamamoto said. Gokudera glared at Yamamoto.
"And I told you to stop calling me that! It's Gokudera to you," he said. Then he turned to Tsuna. "Sawada-san, I want to keep calling you Sawada-san. Calling you by your first name is so informal! I could never do that!"
Tsuna, once again, sweat-dropped.
"Maa, I guess it's alright," he said. Gokudera smiled in relief. "BUT! Only for a bit. Next week, you WILL call me Tsuna. Or Tsunayoshi."
"OI! You kids, get to work!" One of the men in the fields said. They cringed.
"Hai!" They called back. Tsuna smiled as he walked with his two best friends towards the crop field.
Sawada Tsunayoshi was a 14 year old boy living in the village of Namimori. Namimori was a very small village located in the country, and less than 40 people lived there. Tsuna himself lived in a fairly large and comfortable house with his mother and father. He'd lived here ever since he was born, and he had never left-not for anything. And everyone always told him not to go outside the village.
Why? He did not know. But he wanted to know. He wanted to know what was out there. He wanted to know if there were other people he could talk to, other places he could see. He always read about things called 'mountains' and 'volcanoes' and something called the 'ocean', which was just tonnes of water! He wanted to see these things for himself. Reading about them in books wasn't enough.
But he knew that curiosity killed the cat.
He looked up just as Yamamoto pulled out a weed of corn, falling on his bottom at the force.
"Haha, that hurt!" Yamamoto said, cradling his bottom.
"Ah, you idiot! Be more careful!" Gokudera said. He looked away from Yamamoto's gaze. "A-are you alright?"
He cursed himself for stuttering.
Yamamoto blinked at the silver-haired teen, then smiled.
"Yeah, I'm great!" he said, standing up. He grinned and slung an arm around Gokudera's shoulder, who blushed like mad.
"W-w-what are you doing?!" he shouted.
"Maa, maa, it's alright!" Yamamoto said.
"'It's alright'?! This ain't alright!" Gokudera fumed.
"Well, I don't see you pushing me away," Yamamoto pointed out. Gokudera blushed in realization.
"SHUT UP!" he shouted, pushing Yamamoto away, who laughed happily.
"Come on, guys. We better get back to work before we get scolded," Tsuna said before Gokudera could punch Yamamoto.
"Hai!"
After Work-Tsuna's House
Tsuna closed his bedroom door after he had finished eating lunch and plopped onto his bed, a book in his hand. But this was not just any book.
It was Tsuna's favourite.
The brunet opened to the page he was on before. He smiled softly.
"Now, I wonder what other things I'm missing out on," he said, turning the page. His eyes gleamed with excitement as he read over these landscapes.
"Tsu-kun!"
Tsuna looked up from his book. That was his mother...
"Yes?" He called back.
"Your uncle is here to visit!" Nana said. Tsuna blinked.
'Which one...?' he silently asked her. Nevertheless, he stood up and jogged downstairs towards the front entrance.
There were two figures standing there-his mother and his uncle. Tsuna grinned.
"Lambo!"
He ran over to the two and hugged the older man.
"Why are you here?" the brunet asked once he separated from his uncle.
"My, young brunet, do I need a reason to visit?" he asked.
"I guess not," Tsuna said. "But that doesn't seem right. What are you really here for?"
"My, you see right through me, young brunet. I am here to give a gift to your mother," he said, gesturing to Nana who smiled. She held up the plastic bag she was holding; a box inside.
"He gave us some sweets! Those are hard to get," Nana said. She then turned to Lambo. "Thank you so much. Are you sure this wasn't any trouble?"
"My, don't worry about it. It was nothing, really. The old lady at the bakery shop made too much, so she gave them to me. I don't really like sweet things, and I remembered that you guys did, so that's that," Lambo said, smiling gently.
"Well, thank you so much! I'm sorry you couldn't have seen Iemitsu. He's out in the fields right now," Nana said. "Why don't you come in and have some tea?"
"No, that's alright-" Lambo started.
"Come on, Lambo! Come in and have some tea with us! I want to tell you some stuff," Tsuna said, grinning. Lambo raised an eyebrow, then nodded his head.
"Fine, very well. Since you insist, young brunet," Lambo said. Tsuna tried to glare at the older man, but it came out as more of a pout and furrowed brows. Lambo tried hard not to laugh.
"I told you to call me Tsuna!" the brunet said.
"My, it's not like it matters, young brunet," Lambo said, purposely stretching 'young brunet'.
"UGH! Why do all the people close to me not call me by my first name? Even Gokudera!" Tsuna exclaimed in frustration. Lambo chuckled.
"My, don't worry about it. You should let them call you what they want," he said.
"Whatever," Tsuna said, grabbing Lambo's arm and dragging him towards the living room. He pointed to the couch. "Sit."
Lambo obeyed with a slight smile on his face.
"So, what did you want to tell me?" Lambo asked once Nana exited the room to make some tea. "Is it about mountains this time? Or maybe the ocean? Or those things that spout out fire and lava?"
"No, nothing old like that! That was sooo yesterday," Tsuna said. "I found something weird, though."
Lambo raised an eyebrow.
"Something called sand. Actually, the whole thing's called a 'beach' and it's right next to the ocean! It's just made up of sand. It's like really thin dirt, but yellow!"
Nana entered the room, holding a tray of sweets and tea. She placed a cup in front of Tsuna and Lambo and herself as she sat down. She then took the sweets off the tray, placing them onto the coffee table.
"Here, Tsu-kun. Choose which one you want," Nana said. Tsuna put his finger to his chin, thinking.
"Ichigo Tart!" he exclaimed, grabbing the plate with the strawberry tartk. "My favourite! I didn't know the old lady at the bakery could make these!"
"She used to be a patisserie when she was younger. Of course, that was before you were born. She used to have a husband, but...unfortunately, he's gone now. After that, she decided to run a bakery instead," Lambo said.
"Oh...I see," Tsuna said, nodding understandably. Lambo stared at the brunet for a few moments, holding his tea in two hands. He then looked back in front of him and sipped his tea.
"But...she's happy," Lambo said without looking at the brunet. Tsuna glanced at Lambo.
"How could she be? The love of her life...is gone," the brunet said. Lambo smiled gently.
"Not exactly," he said. Tsuna looked up questioningly.
"What do you mean by that?" he asked.
"Well...you'll understand once you grow up. There are many more wonders out in the world other than landscapes," Lambo said mysteriously, almost in a ghostly whisper. He saw Nana frown disapprovingly from the corner of his eye.
"What wonders?" Tsuna asked. Lambo chuckled.
"My... I can't tell you yet, young brunet," he said. "But maybe you shall find out yourself."
Tsuna furrowed his brows.
"I don't get it," he said, slightly pouting. Lambo smiled.
"You will soon enough," he said. He then turned to face Nana, putting down his tea. "Could I speak with you alone, Nana?"
"Yes, of course," the woman said, standing up at the same time as Lambo. She turned to her son and smiled. "We won't be a while."
Tsuna nodded, watching the two adults leave.
Lambo and Nana entered the kitchen, sitting down at the dining room table.
"What is it, Lambo?" Nana asked, though she already knew what the man was probably going to ask her. Lambo sighed, tousling his hair.
"When are you going to let him out of the village, Nana?" he asked. Nana let a glare cross her features, a rare sight indeed. She intertwined her fingers together, propping her elbows up onto the table and leaning her chin on her hands.
"I thought we discussed this, Lambo," Nana said sternly. She was too protective of her son to let him go out in a world as dangerous as that.
"But you gave me no definite answer. Nana, you can't keep him locked up like this," Lambo said.
"I'm not!" Nana exclaimed, letting her hands slam into the table.
"I think you are. Can't you see how much he wants to see the world?"
"I don't think this kind of a world is safe for him! All those things that could taint him...don't you understand?"
"I do. But you can't stop a boy's curiosity."
"Well we all know curiosity killed the cat!"
"But a cat has nine lives. And he will always land on his feet."
"In a rocky world like this, it's feet will be broken even before it knows it has hit the ground."
Lambo and Nana sent each other glares. If looks could kill...well, let's not go there.
"Nana-" Lambo started.
"No. I am not letting my son go out of those gates and get himself killed! End of discussion," Nana said, standing up and walking back to the living room where Tsuna was waiting patiently for them. Lambo sighed and followed her.
The young brunet smiled as they walked back to the room, but it slowly vanished as he saw the melancholy looks on their faces.
"What's wrong?" he asked worriedly. Nana smiled at her son.
"It's nothing, sweetie," she said.
"Well, I guess I should take my leave," Lambo said, ruffling Tsuna's hair. "Bye, young brunet. I shall see you later."
"Leaving so soon?" Tsuna said, pouting. Lambo chuckled.
"Sorry, young brunet. I'll visit again," he said. 'If his mother allows me,' he added silently, glancing at Nana from the corner of his eye. "By the way..." the older man leaned down and whispered into Tsuna's ear. "Don't be afraid to tell people what you want."
Lambo moved away and smiled at the brunet, then took his leave. Tsuna tilted his head in question as his uncle left.
'What did Lambo mean...?' he wondered.
What did he really want?
Lily: OH MY GOD! That was so awesome! This was like, the best first chapter of any of my fanfics! I think this is gonna be a pretty good fanfic.
Tsuna: Wow, never seen you so hyped about writing a fanfic. Obviously, you're always hyped about writing fanfics, but this is over-the-top.
Lily: Well yeah, this chapter was pretty good, if I do say so myself! *smug grin*
Tsuna: ...kay... Well, hope you guys enjoyed, and please leave a review on your way out. And if you enjoyed, please follow or favourite. Thank you.
Lily: Thanks for reading! Reviews help me write more, so they will be appreciated! I will also try to reply to them! And I will be forever grateful to anyone who follows or favourites this story. Thanks, and bye!
Tsuna: Bye!
