Me: Welcome to For A Life! After many title changes and chapter edits the story is finally ready to be read. Other than Nana I tried to keep everyone as in character as possible. Make sure to read the warnings, sit back, and enjoy!

Rating: MA

Categories: Romance/Drama

Warning(s): Yaoi (Boy x Boy)! Don't like don't read! Attempts at selling children, bad parenting, underage sex

Chapter 1

From Home to Safe

Tsuna let out a yawn as he walked down the dark hallway. The sound of his steps against the cold floor were the only noise in the early hour. A chill raced up his spine as the cold set in passing right through his flannel blue pajamas adding to the eerie silence. At roughly three A.M. shadows covered the walls, some darker than others, but most light enough to allow the teen to navigate the hall. Even though it was early morning the teen found himself still unable to sleep properly with his internal clock offset by the seven hour time difference.

On one of the rare occasions that his father had come home, after a very excited conversation between two very ditzy parents, Tsuna found himself, his baby brother Giotto, and his mother Nana, in a flat in Italy an hour's drive away from his father's job. They had been here a week and Tsuna had not seen either hide nor hare of his father. He had expected it though, the man had proven himself to be completely unreliable.

As he was almost to the kitchen where he was going to fetch a glass of water the brunet got the familiar feeling that meant Giotto was awake. Small, almost unnoticeable sounds and the vague sense that there was someone else up and moving.

Turning back down the hall Tsuna silently opened the door to the toddler's room. Because of the darkness the once bright blue walls now seemed white and the hard oak floor looked black. Most of the baby furniture was white blending in with the walls. Looking over to the crib Tsuna spotted the blond haired, blue eyed toddler standing up using the wall of the crib for support. The child had been dressed in a light green coverall with a printed lion pattern. "Una!" The toddler squealed upon seeing the brunet. Having been talking for only a few months Giotto wasn't able to say the harder sounds like 's' meaning Tsuna gained a new nickname.

Smiling Tsuna walked over and picked the toddler up and balanced him on his hip. "You're supposed to be asleep. You won't grow up big if you're awake all night, Giotto."

Giotto frowned and shook his head defiantly as he gripped Tsuna's blue sleep shirt. "No 'weep! Nana tawk ta bad men!"

Tsuna blinked down at the toddler on his hip thinking about what the other had said. 'Bad men'? What was Giotto talking about. Sure their mother didn't spend a lot of time with them, mostly because she was trying to find some way to get her husband to come back home, but she was hardly going to talk to dangerous men. He hadn't inherited the Sawada Hyper Intuition had he?

Then Tsuna heard it, the sounds of hushed whispers coming from the direction of their mother's room. Frowning the teen placed Giotto back into his crib and gave a soft smile. "I'll be right back, okay?" Getting a hesitant nod from the toddler Tsuna stepped out into the hall. Making sure the bedroom door wasn't open the brunet began to creep down the hallway to his mother's room stopping right outside and pressed his ear to the door.

"...you can come get him anytime. Yes, he's one and a half…No, no one else knows what's going on not that I would care if they did. Getting rid of that brat though should bring my husband home." Tsuna rolled his eyes and withheld a sigh, it was always about their father. Which one of her hairbrained schemes was she using now? "His name is Giotto…No, I doubt he'll miss me his brother takes more care of him than I do. Anyway, I give you the brat and you give me the money. Four million, like we agreed on. Eight tomorrow night? Yes, I can have him ready by then. I'll see you soon."

He couldn't believe it, the woman had to be sick in the head. Selling her child just to get their useless father back home was taking it too far. Having heard enough and feeling sick to his stomach Tsuna crept back to Giotto's room thoroughly disgusted with his mother. He knew that his mother and Giotto didn't spend much time together but he didn't think she would try to sell him. It wasn't like she was giving him to a loving family she was selling her youngest son and didn't care what happened to him! Tsuna locked the door behind him as he reentered Giotto's room. Giotto smiled and reached out to him as soon as he saw the teen.

"Just a minute, Giotto." Handing the baby his pacifier the child sat down and watched his brother as he sucked on the yellow pacifier.

Knowing that it would be stupid to stay Tsuna quickly packed Giotto's diaper bag with clothes, toys, bottles, and anything the baby might need. After helping the toddler into a jacket he scooped the child up from his crib and quietly made his way to his room.

Again locking the door behind him Tsuna laid Giotto on his back on the bed before quickly packing a bag for himself. He made sure to grab his phone and charger knowing he would need it should his mother come after them. Things like his laptop were also packed incase he needed to drop out of school to hide. If that happened he'd need a job for income if he couldn't get to his dad.

Slinging his bag onto his back the brunet turned to the toddler who hadn't moved and was just smiling at him. "You ready, Giotto? Let's go see if we can't find Iemitsu." Putting a hat on the toddler Tsuna picked him up and wrapped him inside his jacket to keep him warm knowing it was going to be cold tonight.

Quiet as he could, which it was a miracle he was quiet at all with how clumsy he is, the teen snuck to the front door. Checking the side of the hallway his mother's bedroom was on for any signs she had heard them, the brunet left the house when he was certain she wasn't coming. Walking quickly, Tsuna kept moving to put distance between them and the house while trying to come up with a plan. He didn't have anyway to contact his father and he didn't even know what his dad did for a living. The only thing he knew was that he was stationed somewhere near this city. He didn't know how to speak Italian so he couldn't ask anyone for help and he wasn't sure what would happen if he went to the police.

Sighing Tsuna stuffed one of his hands into his jacket pocket while the other supported Giotto. The brunet frowned when he felt his hand come into contact with a piece of paper, not having remembered putting it there. Pulling it out he held it up and tried to make out what it said. Barely, the teen could make out a phone number and a word.

Suddenly he remembered that his father had given him the paper saying it was the cellphone number of someone he worked with that would be able to help him if anything went wrong or might come to get them to go see their grandfather. Spotting a street light a few feet away Tsuna made his way over and pulled out his cellphone. Dialing in the number Tsuna looked at the name on the paper. 'Reborn…wonder if their even reachable with it being so late.'

Tsuna heard the line pick up and heard a man say something but assumed it was Italian since he didn't understand it. The deep, rich voice gave away any questions Tsuna might have had to his father's contact being female. "Ah…hello is this Reborn?" The brunet asked hesitantly not sure if the man would understand him.

"Who wants to know?" The man asked back in Japanese startling the teen.

"M-my name's S-Sawada Tsunayoshi. My dad, Iemitsu, said to call you if anything happened." Tsuna explained.

"Damn, Iemitsu!" The man growled and Tsuna got the feeling Reborn and his dad weren't on good terms. Not that he could blame him. "So I take it that something happened?"

"My mom's gone off the deep end. Her plans to get my dad to come home have hit an all time low, I took Giotto and left. She can't be trusted to take care of him. I don't think she knows we're gone yet." The brunet explained as he began bouncing Giotto lightly as the toddler began to fuss.

"Iemitsu forgot to give you any way to contact him, didn't he?" Reborn stated, not even a question just a statement of his father's personality. The man definitely knew his idiot of a father. "Pick somewhere and I'll come get you. I'll take you to your father in the morning."

Tsuna sighed in relief. "Thank you. There's a park about two blocks from the house we'll be there." After confirming what color and type of car Reborn would be driving (a black Ferrari) and stuttering out the unfamiliar park's name Tsuna made his way to the park. Picking a bench that he could see three of the roads that bordered the park Tsuna settled down and started giving Giotto the attention he had been asking for.

A half hour had passed before Tsuna could hear the sounds of a car approaching. Looking around the brunet spotted a black Ferrari making its way through the darkness. Tsuna prepared himself to have to run at any moment as the car parked. It was the type and color of Reborn's but he couldn't be sure till he knew who it was.

A tall man stepped out of the car looking way too smartly dressed for this time of night. Like he had just gotten off of work or come from an upclass party. The man wore a black fedora with a large yellow stripe wrapping around it, a black finely pressed suit, yellow dress shirt, black tie, and shiny black shoes. Spikey black hair was pushed down by the fedora while curly sideburns bounced with each step the man took and obsidian eyes never left the teen. A few feet away from the teen the man stopped. "Chaos, I take it your Sawada Tsunayoshi."

Tsuna nodded suspecting who the man was especially since all the facts added up and his intuition told him he was still safe. As Giotto began to squirm the brunet shifted the baby well aware that the man was watching everything they did. The man obviously didn't trust people. "Nice to meet you."

All the teen got was a nod before Reborn grabbed their bags and headed to the car. "Hurry up or we'll all freeze out here."

Not going to complain about getting himself and Giotto somewhere warm Tsuna followed the raven to the car and climbed into the passenger seat while Reborn threw their bags in the back. Once he had his seatbelt on Tsuna pulled back his jacket to see how Giotto was doing and found the toddler to have fallen asleep. Smiling softly down at the blond the teen gently ran a hand up and down his baby brother's back which made the toddler give out a sigh and snuggle closer to his older sibling's warmth.

"He asleep?" Reborn asked startling the brunet out of his thoughts making him notice they had started driving. When had that happened?

"Yeah." Tsuna responded quietly.

Coming to a stop at a red light Reborn looked at the teen from the corner of his eye. "Why don't you fill me in on what happened so I can be better prepared if anyone comes looking for you two."

Finding the reason valid Tsuna began to fill the raven in. "I had woken up because I'm still not used to the time switch from Japan. I was going to go get a glass of water when I heard Giotto, not because he's loud but because I'm usually the one to take care of him. I went to check on him and he seemed fine till I told him he was supposed to be asleep and he told me he didn't want to because our mother was talking to bad men." Reborn raised an eyebrow while Tsuna noticed they were heading towards the edge of town. "I'm sure since you work with my father that you know that most of the Sawada males can have a type of hyper intuition. I knew I had inherited it and tonight Giotto started showing signs that he has it as well. Right after that I heard whispers coming from my mother's room so I put Giotto back in his crib and went to check it out. That was when I heard her talking to someone who was going to pay her four million for him. I knew she wasn't fond of Giotto but I didn't think she'd use him as a part of her crazy plans. I didn't wait, I grabbed Giotto and some of our stuff and left."

Reborn looked like he was having a hard time believing that Nana would do such a thing and Tsuna could understand that because his mother was always happy and cheerful person around everyone else. "The fact that my dad is never home has greatly upset my mom so she tends to be a little crazy. On more than one occasion I've heard her mumbling that he might be cheating."

"Iemitsu said he and Nana had a great relationship." The raven pointed out to the teen. Maybe it was just a case of seeing things that weren't there and this could be solved quickly.

"My Dad hasn't been home in years. The most recent time we heard from him is when he called to tell us that he had somewhere set up in Italy for us so we could be closer. The man shows up one day to greet us and help us unpack and then he's gone again." The teen growled lowly trying to keep calm so he didn't wake Giotto.

"Your father has a very important job Tsunayoshi, he can't always be there." Reborn patiently explained even though he planned to give the blond idiot a thorough talking to. Family always came before the job.

"That's no excuse. Did you know that since I was born he's only visited six times? No one works that much, not even a politician. Not only that but he only called maybe once a year if that." Pulling his baby brother closer Tsuna thought about all the times his father had come home and how he'd acted. The blond always came at random times of the year with almost little to no warning. He never brought gifts to make up for missed anniversaries, birthdays, or holidays. Most of the time he just lazed around and got drunk.

Reborn watched the teen, saw how his eyes blazed with hatred towards his father and knew he'd need to get some answers from Iemitsu the next time he saw him. Acquired violently.

Pulling into the underground complex Reborn parked close to the elevator noticing how tired the teen was after his third yawn since he picked him up. Grabbing the bags from the backseat Reborn came around and led the brunet to the elevator with a hand on his shoulder to keep him steady.

Riding to the top floor, Reborn guided Tsuna inside. Locking the door behind him, the raven guided the teen to a spare bedroom. The room was clean with little furnishings since it was almost never used. Helping the brunet in to bed Reborn rid the teen of his jacket and shoes and the sleeping toddler of his hat. As he placed the items at a table in the corner Reborn noticed how neither brother had let go of the other. He was finally able to get a good look at the younger brother noticing how alike the two siblings were. Same wild hair and baby faces, probably look so alike they could be twins. Covering the two with a blanket the raven left the room as quietly as a cat and closed the door behind him planning to have a very long conversation with a certain blond idiot tomorrow.

TBC…

Me: I know the first chapter is short but for some reason I just can't seem to add enough to make it longer. Worry not though the other chapters will be longer!

Rough draft: 7/27/2013

Final edit: 3/21/2016

Word Count: 2852