Hello again, it's been a very long time since I have written, i'm sorry for such a long hiatus, but I am back and ready to write again. This is my rewrite of my previous story 'Upheval', I felt the last one was a bit too close to 'A Murder of Crows' for my liking and I wanted to try something different.
I hope the prologue isn't too wordy.
Katekyo Hitman Reborn does not belong to me but to Akira Amano.
Have you ever heard of the butterfly effect?
It's a scientific theory that believes that a single occurance, no matter how small, can change the course of the universe forever.
For example, let's say a child was out with his mother and they walk straight to the store and back home. Let's say that in a different universe, the child saw a bird and decided to chase after it, leading to his mother running after him for a few minutes. This might seem insignificant, but what if those few minutes wasted running around, meant that they were unlucky enough to run into some thugs, who they would have missed in the original timeline?
The thugs try to steal the mother's necklace, she struggles which causes them to lash out and accidently kill her. Freaked out, the thugs run away and eventually get caught by the police.
In the original timeline the boy goes on to become a photogrother and eventually gets married to a sweet girl he meets in a cafe and they start a family together. The thugs were never caught and eventually died in a car chase with the police when they took a wrong turn.
In this universe however, the boy was so traumatised by the event that he cut himself away from society and began to act out. He would fail school and struggle to find work, because who wanted a school drop out who started fights. He turns to alcohol to deal with his problems and his girlfriend can no longer put up with him. He eventually dies alone, having choked on his own vomit after one too many drinks.
So you see, even the smallest change, can make the biggest difference.
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In one universe, Sawada Nana was an absent minded mother who loved her son very much but was oblivious to his struggles and what her husband really did for a living.
In one universe Sawada Iemitsu would come home from work, bringing his boss and subordinates to meet his family, laughing obnoxiously while spinning his terrified son around.
In one universe, Sawada Tsunayoshi, four years old, would be scared by a Chihuahua and beautiful orange flames would burst from his tiny body.
In one universe, Iemitsu would stand by as his boss sealed his only child's flames for the sake of his safety and then leave for work, only coming back every few years while his wife remained as blindingly loyal to him and her suburban lifestyle.
Tsunayoshi would wake up in the morning, feeling cold and sluggish, he would trip and stumble everywhere he went, he couldn't concnetrate in class and most things seemed to come difficult to him. Classmates took to calling him 'stupid' or 'idiot Tsuna' and would bully him relentlessly for years. He would have no friends and he only went to school to because his mother told him to and a pretty girl named Sasagawa Kyoko would smile and wave at him every morning, unlike his classmates who mocked and jeered at him.
Eventually, a hitman named Reborn would invade his life in order to train him to be a mafia boss of the most powerful familgia in the whole mafia world; Vongola. He would protest all the way but would eventually make friends and grow more powerful and competant, finding himself going along with this unwanted destiny, because it was better that going back to his old life, it was better than going back to feeling cold and clumsy and stupid.
In this universe however, all of this would change, and all because one woman wasn't about to let the world crush her son and shove him into an undesirable role.
In this universe, Sawada Nana, the absent minded housewife of Namimori, was just a facade her husband foolishly believed, and this would change the universe forever.
I always struggle with the prologue of my stories, sometimes I worry I am being too wordy or not explaining enough. Critisism would be appretiated.