Chapter 1

"Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Today we have three very special guests with us. Please give a warm welcome to, Spanner, Irie, and Giannini!"

All three come in and bow to the audience. They all sit down.

"So, as our viewers know, you three are the creators of the most famous, widely known and soon to be popular game, Virtually Mafia. How does it feel to be the ones who have created this success?"

"It's an honor."

"Will you tell us a little about this new game? Everyone wants to hear things as this is the first virtual reality game, isn't it?"

"Yes, it is. As the game suggests, this game is about the mafia. Kids and adults alike are able to create their own virtual character and fight in the mafia world."

"Wow. Were you three to come up with the idea designs?"

"Partially. We had a lot of help from our fellow workers."

"That is true teamwork. Today is the first day that Virtually Mafia goes into sale. As you can see through this clip, people are actually camping there in lines that go for over 4 blocks long at each store. Can you tell us how you can participate in the game?

"Well, for those people standing in line, they'll soon be able to purchase a card. This card holds all the 'credits' that you can use the make your own character and actually be able to play the game."

"Ah, I see."

"You need special tools to take you to the virtual world, so until we can redesign this as well, people will have to go to the special gaming dome to be able to play. There is one located in every big city that had its grand opening today as well."

"You heard it here folks. We'll be right back after this break with a sneak peak at the released game. But before we go, is there anything else you guys would like to say?"

"Ah! Yes, in fact, there is. We'd like to give thanks to those who supported us all though this way, especially the man who allowed all this to happen."

All three say unanimously.

"Thank you… Reborn."

Tsuna rubbed his eyes while coming down the stairs in his pajamas. He was half asleep, having gone to sleep late the last night, but he was only to be woken fully up a second later with the loudest pop ever. In confusion, he looked up to see confetti coming down his head.

"Wa-a?!" he shouted.

Finally looking around, he saw his mom's smiling face, holding the biggest cake he'd ever seen in his life. On the cake, 14-lit candles were poked through. Behind her, the kitchen was decorated with balloons, presents, and any other food that his mom had prepared for him.

"Happy birthday, Tsu-kun!" she said.

Tsuna's eyes got twice their normal size as he finally realized what was going on. It was his birthday.

He had totally forgotten about it, but there was his mom urging him to make a wish. So he did.

Please let me stop being no-good Tsuna this year.

It was the same wish he had made for 10 years straight and he was still waiting for it to occur. Maybe he should have made a different wish… but he had too many to count.

"Tsu-kun, here's your present! Why don't you open it?" his mom asked, getting the camera ready.

He smiled slightly. He didn't want his mom to get the wrong idea – he was thankful for the party, but he wished he had friends who would come and celebrate with him as well. He looked down, pretending to be busy with unwrapping his gift.

The gift was shaped like a box, so Tsuna guessed that the present was something small that his mom had put inside it. He tore through the blue polka-dotted paper, and he then went for the cardboard box.

By this time, Tsuna was getting curious. His mom's gift had always been something good, and he had always enjoyed them. Last year, it had been an ipod and a bunch of games for his wii. Maybe it was a gift card this year, but to where…?

Tsuna fingered something the shape of a gift card, so he was pretty sure by then that his guess was correct. But when he saw the card, he was a little puzzled. This gift card wasn't like any he had seen before. It was green and black, the letters written in a computer software sort of design. There it was printed, clear as water, using a picture of a gun for the letter F, VIRTUALLY MAFIA. There was a bullet going through the V.

What was this? On the right hand corner was his name, Sawada Tsunayoshi, so it couldn't haven been a gift card. The size wasn't right either. This was slightly longer, and the back had a black line across it. This part was normal, but that was all it had.

He looked up with a baffled expression back at his mom. She smiled back.

"Mom, what is this?" Tsuna asked, finally breaking the silence.

"Don't you know? I heard all the kids had it these days so I thought it would be a good idea? Don't tell me you don't like it!" she said, her face turning gloomy.

"N- no! I love it! Thanks, mom!" Tsuna said quickly, relieved to see his mom smiling again. He went over and hugged her.

"After you eat your cake, you can go try it out. I won't make you stay home the whole day," she said.

Tsuna nodded, and before he knew it, he was out the door.

He searched through his head… virtually mafia. Where had he heard it before? It sounded so familiar, but he just couldn't place it. In fact, he was so focused on trying to remember what Virtually Mafia was; he ended up bumping into someone else. He stumbled down hard onto the concrete sidewalk.

"Ow, ow, owww! That hurt!" he mumbled.

"Oh – sorry! Didn't see you there!" a voice said and he stretched his hand down to help him up.

"Sorry!" Tsuna quickly said, but accepted the boy's firm hand who lifted him up easily. Tsuna dusted himself, bowing low and thanking the person for helping him up. He looked downwards, hoping it wasn't someone he knew.

Unfortunately, it was.

"Sawada? Hahaha! It's fine. I should be the one apologizing! Sorry – I wasn't looking this way," he smiled.

Darn! It was someone he knew. He decided to just smile quickly and leave, walking as fast as he could to get out of there, and that was exactly what he did.

"No, it's fine!" he said, and walked away. He hadn't caught his face, but at least he was away. That had been so embarrassing – he had been the only one knocked over.

"Oh well," he sighed. He was no-good Tsuna after all, and nothing would change that.

He looked down at his hand, only to realize the card wasn't in his hand. He looked up in utter shock. Had he lost it? It wasn't possible. He was carrying it tightly in his left hand, then…

He had bumped into someone.

"Oh no!" he cried. He had messed up again. He looked back, only to see that the boy had left. "Maybe it's still on the ground!"

Tsuna ran back to the place where he had last bumped into the boy, and looked everywhere within 10 feet from that point. It was to no avail.

"It's no use. I must have lost it! What am I going to tell mom?" he muttered to himself, only to be replied to a voice behind him.

"Loose what?" It was a friendly voice.

Tsuna answered unconsciously. "My card. I have no idea what it's…. for," he finished, realizing that he was answering someone.

Waiting for someone to laugh at him, he turned around ever so slowly, but what he saw was a smiling face. The smile was also for him and not at him. Tsuna took a chance by smiling at him.

"Ah!" Tsuna said abruptly. "Your Yamamoto-kun!"

"Yeah, and your Sawada-kun" he replied.

"Um… Tsuna," he said, and Yamamoto nodded and replied by "Call me whatever you want – hahaha!"

Tsuna nodded. Then Yamamoto smiled and shoved something close to his face. Tsuna blinked twice before realizing that was his card.

"I picked it up, but you left before I had a chance to give it to you. Are you late for something?"

"No."

"Do you need help with anything else?" he asked.

Tsuna started replying before he realized that this might be his chance to ask just what Virtually Mafia was. So he did.

Yamamoto laughed. "You don't know what it is?"

If anyone else had said this, Tsuna would have been offended, but this was Yamamoto, and he said it in a way that was sincere. He took a closer look at him.

Yamamoto Takeshi, 14 years old, was in the same class as him this year. He was way taller than Tsuna and had spiky black hair and a calm, settling brown eyes. Tsuna couldn't believe he was actually talking to Yamamoto – he was one of the most popular members of his grade. He was nice, smart when he needed to be, and athletic. In another words, he was all what Tsuna wasn't.

"No," he confessed.

"Well, I don't know myself! Hahaha!" he laughed.

Tsuna sweat dropped. This boy had even a less idea of what was going on.

"But, I've heard of it somewhere. Let's go ask that guy over there!" and Tsuna couldn't do a thing as Yamamoto grabbed onto his wrist and pulled him along to a guy standing near a tree whose leaves had almost all fallen out.

He looked to be around their age, maybe a little older. He had short grayish hair and shining gray eyes to match. For some reason that Tsuna couldn't comprehend, he was jogging in place, punching the tree. Was he practicing boxing?

"Hi! Do you know what Virtually Mafia is?" Yamamoto asked straight out.

"EXTREME!!!" he yelled.

"Um… Yamamoto-kun? Maybe we should ask someone else?" he whispered to Yamamoto.

"It's fine!" he said back, waving it off. "So, Onii-san? Do you know?"

"I have no idea to the extreme!!!!" he said, surprising Tsuna.

"Oh well. Let's go ask someone else, Tsuna. Onii-san, do you want to come too?" Yamamoto asked.

Tsuna began to freak out. He was getting dizzy with all the events that were happening. All of a sudden the legendary Yamamoto was helping him with something that he didn't even want help for. He couldn't even refuse, for Yamamoto was still holding tightly to his wrist. Then, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, this guy popped in and now Yamamoto was dragging him to another guy with this weird Onii-san following them.

He sighed. He may as well go along for it for now…

Hi! I hope you guys liked the first chapter. I just quit here because I got tired… I'll update soon as possible, but please REVIEW so I know whether to continue or not!

I also haven't decided on any pairings, so if any of you guys want to suggest any, you can.

P.S. I didn't edit because I was too lazy, so please ignore all the mistakes.