When the Corner Ends : Part One, The Beginning

This is light 5927, written in Tsuna's POV. My second story, and I hop you'll like it. I have issues with grammer and monologues. Tsuna is very OOC here, sorry if it offended any fans out there!

I do not own any of the characters. They are from Reborn!

I never noticed how far Gokudera seems to be. Although he's standing right beside, his eyes are very far away and lonely. When did I notice this? I think it all started when we were walking home from school. Walking home from school may seem like a perfectly normal thing. That's how I use to think. When I walk out of my street, I see Gokudera. When I walk back home, Gokudera would leave me on my street. It was like this every day, and every day it was okay; until one day. It was a gloomy week; the weather outside looks like it can rain anytime. Gokudera left me with his usual saying,

"Good work today, Tenth! See you tomorrow!"

I nodded and waved good bye. 2 seconds later a remembered that I had something to ask him, I turn around to see if he was still there. He wasn't. At first I was a bit worried, and then I thought that 'maybe he was in a rush to go home' or perhaps 'maybe we turned in the others streets'. It didn't really bother me that much, until tomorrow. The next morning Gokudera didn't meet me by my street, he didn't greet me this morning. I didn't get to see his lonely eyes, his bright smile; I didn't get to see him. What made it worse was he didn't come to school that day. I was wondering if he was skipping or not, but Gokudera won't skip for no reason. The bell that signals the end of the day has rung and I was about to leave when my homeroom teacher called me.

"Sawada, can you come over here for a second?"

He asked me if Gokudera was ok, and that if I can give him today notes. I gave my teacher a confused looked, and he returned one back to me.

"Do you know where Gokudera is?"

I shook my head, and my teacher looked surprised.

"He's in the hospital. Something happened last night, and Gokudera ended up in a hospital. I thought you knew already, you two seemed quite close."

I was dumbstruck. Something happened to Gokudera and now he's in the hospital? I got the notes and address from my teacher, and dashed to the hospital.

Namimori Hospital

Gokudera was in room 509; you could hear him yelling from down the hallway. Yelling something like,

"I'm okay! Just let me leave this damned place! I have to see the Tenth! Let me go or I'll bomb you all up!"

I swear, Gokudera should stop talking about bombs in public, they might suspect him as a terrorist. I quickly ran into his room to see him bandaged on several places, a nurse pointing a needle at him, and him hissing like cat.

"Go-Gokudera-kun?" I asked, with nervousness. Inside I was hoping this wasn't him, I didn't want to see him injured.

"Tenth, I'm so glad to see you!" Gokudera said, practically bouncing up and down. The nurse sighed and gave up trying to give Gokudera his ammunition, and left the room.

"She finally left that crazy old hag. She's been telling me all day that I can't leave and that I'm sick. Who does she think she is? Trying to stop from seeing the Tenth? Right, Tenth...tenth?" Gokudera looked at me and his face immediately turns from happy to nervous. I was about to ask him what wrong, when I felt a tear drop down my cheek. I'm crying, and I don't know why. Gokudera tried get up and, but I saw him cringe from the pain and found myself running to him. My face burrowed into in shoulder, I could feel the tears rush out, but no words were found. I can feel Gokudera's hand on my head; I could feel his gentle touch. There was a moment of silence, when I finally stopped crying I looked up at Gokudera. There was a bandage on his right cheek. On its own, my hand moved towards the wound, and brushed crossed it. I could see Gokudera flinch when I touched it. My hand, not moving from its spot, I heard myself ask,

"Does it hurt?" I felt my eyes gaze in Gokudera's; I can sense the loneliness in him. He shook his head, trying to avoid my gaze. My hand returned to its original position, and I looked down at them; they were small. Once again I looked up at Gokudera.

"When did this happen and where?" I asked him. Gokudera looked down and stayed silent. I asked again,

"Gokudera-kun, when and where did this happen?" Again no answer, I tried again.

"Who did this to you? I'm sure this wasn't just any accident."He remains silent and was still looking down; I was getting impatient.

"This happened because of me, didn't it? It's because I am supposed to be Vongola Decimo! It's another mafia battle isn't it?" I screamed, but I finally got a reaction.

"N-n-no, of course it's not a mafia battle. There were just some goons after you, and I thought I'll take care of them for you. I was careless and I fell into a trap...if the baseball idiot wasn't jogging nearby; my injuries would be much worse." Gokudera confessed.

"Yamamato... Yamamato knew about this? Am I the only one who doesn't know that you got attacked? Why didn't anyone tell me?" I felt clueless, betrayed and more importantly useless. I was supposed to be the boss of the family so why I am the last to know?

"Don't get mad, I made them all keep it a secret from you...I didn't want you to worry." Gokudera whispered; his face was glowing pink. I didn't say anything, and left. I think I could hear him calling for me, but the words didn't reach me. I was stunned, Gokudera doesn't want me to worry, but him thinking that, makes me worry the most. Are we that incompatible? I could feel myself say something like,

"I'm going out, I need to think. You don't get and move until you're healed." Yes, I need to do some thinking.

...to be countied. Will Tsuna throw a Diva-Tantrum, or will he be his ultra-cool Mafia boss self? Or, maybe even go into his squeeshy sparkling uke mode? Who knows. "orz