Eon: Woo, first chap out!
Tsuna: Shouldn't you be working on your other story?
Eon: …. *looks guilty away* It might be a little cliché, that our little tuna going to the past, but this is with a gao twist~
Tsuna: Wait... what does that mean?
Gio: I donno, but I get to be with my sweet grandson! ~ *bear hugs Tsuna*
Eon: *looks from the two skies to the readers with a cough* I don't own KHR or the characters, and I hope you'll enjoy and please review!
Warnings: … a tiny bit of grammar and a little swearing?
"Speak" – Japanese
"Speak" – Italian
'thing' – thoughts
Tsuna, who had finally after much persuasion (more like Reborn forcing him) had become Vongola Decimo or Neo Vongola Primo whichever was more to your liking, was sitting outside in his garden with the lion cub, Natsu, on his lap, petting the purring lion making Tsuna make a soft chuckle. He had always loved how the sky flame mane felt like, and the red armor helm reminded him of the red color of his gloves. He unconsciously played with the chain that connected the rings on his pinky and middle finger as he made a sigh. "Hey, Natsu? Why do you think that Enma-kun and Reborn have been glaring at each other when they think I wouldn't notice it?"
The lion cub answered with a couple of gao's that Tsuna half blushed, half pouted at. If somebody who didn't know the young don saw him right there, then they would probably think that he was going crazy from answer the gao's with normal human words. For those who knew him, knew that both lion and master could understand each other perfectly fine like they were talking in the same language. The two sky flame wielders were having a conversation when Tsuna's hyper intuition began to warn him that he had to move, and it seemed like Natsu had read his feelings, but both sky flames were too slow to avoid getting hit by a missile from the ten-year bazooka.
-: 400 years in the past :-
Tsuna woke up, to the sight of a forest and looked around to see if he could recognize anything, but got concerned when he didn't could he not resist swallowing a bit, while being more than nervous.
"Gao… GA-RAOW?!" (What happened… WAIT WHAT?!) Tsuna looked around for the lion cub since Natsu was the only one he knew who gao'ed and had been with him when the bazooka had hit him but didn't see anybody. He knew that hearing a 'gao' without his lion being in sight could only mean two things and Tsuna didn't like neither. 'Okay… There can only be two reasons for hearing Natsu's gao without him. One - being hit by the bazooka had made me go so crazy white transporting me to the future and that I hear things. Reason two which is-!' Tsuna was pulled out of his thoughts when he heard something coming his way. He tried to stand up on two legs but loses his balance and makes a yelping noise in surprise.
He finally decided to finally look at his 'hands' which had turned into his paws confirming what he feared, and with what he could feel resting on his head is Natsu's upgraded helmet. Something of which he always found suited the cub and now that he thinks of it, aren't the two parts on the sides, the reason behind the new support along his arms when using his XX burner? Not being used to have a tail or even walking on four legs, for that matter, he unconsciously stepped on his tail which causes him to make a loud yelping noise before he looks for what just hurt him. He was so focused on trying to walk that he didn't notice the red compass eyed male, who had been watching him.
The man was confused as the lion cub's mane, and tail had the same color as his friend's flame. "But that can't be... Giotto never mentioned having a lion, let alone one with a red helmet and sky flame mane..." The red-haired man had only whispered it, but he got a surprised look as the lion froze for a second before looking the way he was with a 'Gao?!' that he couldn't help but think sounded too adorable, to make him blush a little. He smiled as it was almost like the lion, just like Giotto had some crazy intuition that his blond-haired friend had called Hyper Intuition or HI for short, so he walked out where the lion could see him. "Don't worry, I won't harm you..."
Tsuna's HI had warned him, that he was not alone, so he made a "Gao?!" (Who's there?!). He had been meaning to make it sound like a growl but was nowhere near as intimidating as the sky wanted. He forgot about it when he saw who it was that his HI had sensed. "Gao… rauo?" (Shimon… Cozart?) Had he still been in human form would his mouth be wide open, because if the primo of the Shimon famiglia was alive, then he knew that he wasn't in the future but in the flipping past! He snapped himself out of it when he heard the one he now knew was the primo of the Simon famiglia talk to him. He was happy that Reborn had forced him to learn, Italian before moving to his mansion in Sicily and he was glad that the Italian had become like a second language to him. "Gao, GAO raw" (I know, you ARE Enma's ancestor and primo's friend~)
Cozart chuckled at the little lion cub Tsuna, even if the only thing he heard was gao'ing as the little sky tried to run. Tsuna was still not entirely used to be on four legs, so he tripped over his tail half way over to the Simon. The cub fell on his face and made a whimper, which is followed by a sniff before he felt himself getting picked up. He looked up and saw Cozart smiling down at him. "Are you okay, little guy? You should be more careful" Cozart made a soft smile as he looked the way he came from and then at the little lion in his arms, as he scratched the lion making him purr. 'I should probably show this one to Giotto… he does have the same kind of color flames as the lion's mane…' "You know I got a good friend, and I'm sure he'll like to meet someone like you!"
Tsuna wasn't even aware of the fact that he was purring and didn't actually listen too much of what the primo that was holding him was saying since he was too comfortable where he was to notice that Cozart was carrying him away. It was only when he saw where the redhead brought him, that he began to feel nervous because if it really was Cozart Simon who was carrying him, then he had a pretty good idea of who it was that owned the big mansion, that Cozart was knocking on the door. It wasn't long after he knocked that the door opened, but when Tsuna saw who it was, did he relax a bit more when he saw the pinkish red-haired G. "Gao!" (Pinky!) Tsuna had only said the color since he now knew that the right-hand man only heard it as 'gao's, but he was still looking surprised from the fact that Cozart was carrying a lion cub. "Cozart? Why the hell are you carrying a lion?"
Cozart resisted the urge to chuckle. "Hello to you, too G. I'm carrying this little guy because I found him out in the forest all alone and I just couldn't leave him, so I thought that I would show him to Giotto." G looked confused at the Simon like he didn't understand how a lion could be in the neighborhood without any of them knowing, but something about the lion was not what he remembered a lion having as mane and hair on the end of the tail. "Wait a minute… aren't those the same flames as Giotto's?" That made the red-head nod. "I think so too, but don't you think that Giotto would have told us if he had a lion?"
G didn't know what to think, so he just stepped away so Cozart could go in with Tsuna, who was trying to see if he could somehow escape before risking changing the history too much. The 'changing history' thoughts flew out of his mind when he saw a certain melon head that made him think back to the time where he had just met Enma and began to growl with a snarl. As his flames started to increase making his mane get bigger making Cozart so shocked, that he dropped Tsuna who landed on all fours. He wasn't listening to his HI that told him that the mist guardian wouldn't betray the family just yet, while his eyes never left Daemon who looked just as confused as G had seemed while the other guardians and even Giotto came to see where the growling came from. "Rawr…" (You…)
Giotto had been signing paperwork when he felt something that reminded him of his own flames. When he heard loud growling which made his HI tell him that something would go VERY wrong if he didn't stop it, so he hurried out of the room to where he thought that the growling came from. When he reached the room did he not know if he should be surprised, confused or whatever you get when you see a lion with a mane made from what seemed like his own sky flames. He knew that he had to do something when it looked like it was going to hurt someone, so he quickly decided to try to calm the lion down since no one knew what it could do with those sky flames. So before anyone could say Vongola, the blonde was standing between the lion and his guardians while being in HDWM. "One wrong move, and you will have to deal with me…?"
Giotto had expected it to either get scared of him being in HDWM or continue growling. What he hadn't expected was the fact that the lion looked like it not only calmed down by the sight of him, which is odd since he hadn't seen it before. The only thing he could come up with for the lion to stop growling is because, he got the idea that since he had sky flames, then they were family. He didn't know what to do with either the situation or the lion who looked happy up at him.
Tsuna, on the other hand, had shoved his aggression's he had felt into the back of his head when he looked up at the man he recognized as his great, great, great, great grandpa. He moved from being around Cozart to sit in front of Giotto with a happy looking expression. "Gao!" (Primo!) The little sky's tail waved back and forth as Giotto looked at the laughing Cozart.
"I think the little guy thinks you're his mother with that sky flame of yours Giotto!" The primo of the Vongola family, looked like he didn't believe what he had heard his friend say. That is until he heard some of his guardians try to hide their chuckles, at the mere thought of the cub, had made Giotto its mom. The cub looked confused, but little did they know that if Tsuna had his human form, then he would be banging his head against a wall while blushing.
Everyone in the room looked at Tsuna who in turn was making his infamous puppy eyes, which was now strengthened ten times by having Natsu's little lion cub form and made a soft little "Gao?" (Can I stay here?) Just the look of him makes everyone's heart even Alaude and Daemon's heart melt. The dons of the Simon and Vongola family looked at each other with a look saying, 'I'm keeping him' before they narrowed their eyes at each other. "I found him, and you know what they say, finders, keepers Giotto."
That made said blonde cross his arms with a frown. "But he has MY flame PLUS he already thinks that I'm his parent Cozart."
They continued making Tsuna a bit uncomfortable until G decided that it was enough and smacked both in the back of their heads "Okay this is too fucking childish you two. Fighting over a lion that has a helm, did neither of you think about if it was sent by one of our damn enemies to kill you Giotto?!" He had just said that when everyone felt some big amounts of KI coming from the little cub, almost as much if not even more than when Daemon had been on the receiving end.
Giotto knew from the mane that the cub's sky flames were almost, if not just as pure as his own. If the lion attacked with those flames, and they were not controlled, then it would mean some serious damage to both the people and the building, which would mean that he would get more paperwork. When Tsuna was ready to 'tell his opinion' about the right-hand man accusing him of being send to kill his ancestor, had Giotto grabbed the lion and held him in his arms. That of course resulted in him trying not to get freaked out, for what the others were seen as an angry lion who was 'gao'ing and roaring at G.
No Giotto was looking at a brunet, that looked a lot like him with the sky flame, dancing on the forehead, while having orange eyes that was where the lion should be. He wasn't even hearing the gao's but actual human language: "Don't you DARE assume I was sent to kill primo when I would rather die than hurt Vongola, take a look on the helm, you damn pink haired smoker!" Those words made the blond-haired primo drop Tsuna, making Giotto see the lion again, but then looked at the others "D-Did you guys see that?" The guardians and Cozart didn't know exactly what Giotto meant. They assumed that their boss and friend meant that the lion, who was now staring at Giotto, like it was waiting for him to do or say something, and were now paying no attention to G from the moment that the don had dropped the cub.
"Well, if 'see that' meant seeing you somehow calming down a crazy lion, then yes we saw it" Giotto was about to say what he really meant when he felt something on his leg and looked down and saw the… What should he call it? A lion cub? A young male in a VERY convincing disguise? Having a paw touching him like to get his attention. Tsuna might have used a very convincing worried mask with what the other heard as a little 'Ga gao?' The blonde don's HI told him, that both of them knew that the worried look was only half acted and was only confirmed when he heard the words. ("I'll try to explain later, okay?") Giotto was about to ask what the other meant when he heard Cozart's voice, "Well, it seems like the little guy has decided where he wants to be, take good care of him and maybe let him visit me sometimes okay?"
Giotto could only nod since he was confused by the whole situation as Cozart left, which made primo make a deep sigh. "Dio mio, what am I gonna do…"
