Read: You might be confused with this story at first but trust me, everything will be explained in due time. Just remember that parallel worlds are involved.
Title: The title is Cuore Oscuro, Italian for the words 'Dark Heart'. This was google translated so it might not be that accurate. As you read on about the story you will understand the meaning of the title. At the end of this fic, it will be described properly.
Warning: Be ready for an Evil!Tsuna. I won't be shocked if you guys don't like him, but with an evil Tsuna we will see the strength of his bonds and the guardians. Eventually everything will be put to light at how this Tsuna became evil and we will see how things go on from there. Rating may also go up in later chapters due to gore (but only 'may' as in maybe 'cause I'm not a fan of gore).
Cuore Oscuro
Chapter I. An Unknown Situation
Evil. He was truly evil.
Called by others as the incarnation of the devil himself, Sawada-no, Vongola Tsunayoshi was the one and only heir to the most powerful, ruthless, and savage family in Italy.
The Vongola.
With blank blood red eyes that signified death once you see them, pale skin, lean but firm body, and an uncaring expression to boot, he was the perfect epitome and incarnation of all the evil deeds the mafia dealt with.
An assassin, a spy, a ruthless killer and torturer, you name it.
He didn't flinch at the sight of blood, he didn't puke at decapitated corpses, he didn't cringe away at heart-wrenching screams, he didn't give mercy, he didn't ask for mercy, he didn't even know what mercy meant, let alone compassion.
He was heartless.
"P-Please! Please! H-Have m-mercy! I-I have a family-!" The man choked.
"-who will never get to see you again." Tsunayoshi stated before his red eyes flashed as he stabbed the man right in his heart.
Black eyes were open and unseeing as they stared at Tsuna's emotionless face with horror. Blood poured out impressively from his chest and some dripped down his lips before he fell into a dead heap on the floor.
"Hn. I guess that ends that." Tsuna stated as he threw away the knife and walked away. His bodyguards shivered, still not used to the ruthlessness the young teen boss displayed. "Tell the others to clean up this mess. I want the living room to be spotless or someone is going to get it, you hear?"
"Y-Yes boss!"
And obedience was the only thing Tsuna needed confirmed.
"Chrome, my dear Chrome, wake up." A familiar voice urged the sleeping eye-patch girl into consciousness.
"M-Mukuro-sama?" Chrome mumbled as she sat up and rubbed her eyes. She looked around and to her confusion, she found herself in their old hideout in Kokuyo. That's strange. Weren't she and Mukuro just fighting the Vendice a while ago?
However, she was distracted from what she was thinking when Mukuro suddenly got up and went to an old looking cabinet to pull out some candles and some matches.
"Mukuro-sama, what's happening? Where are we? Where's boss?" Chrome asked worriedly as she stood up, dusting her skirt.
"I don't know. When I came to, I was lying beside you." Mukuro stated as he let the candle flame illuminate the room. "I can't seem to find Ken and Chikusa as well, I have a bad feeling about this."
Chrome swallowed as she shivered lightly. "The last thing I remember was getting hit by one of the Vendice." She shook her head. "I thought I was going to die."
Mukuro's eyes hardened. "I thought so too. When my head hit the ground, I thought I was done for." He said as he looked around the empty room. "But then here we are, back in Kokuyo without a single scratch on us."
"Without Ken and Chikusa and boss as well." Chrome said in a quiet tone. They collapsed into silence.
"Oya, well if they're not here then we can just go and look for them." Mukuro said as he turned to his fellow mist guardian. "Nagi, are you up for a little excursion?"
"Hai, Mukuro-sama…" Chrome said as the pineapple-haired mist nodded and led the way outside. Chrome was about to follow but then she caught sight of her hand and stopped in astonishment.
"Chrome?" Mukuro said when he noticed the girl not following him. "Is something the matter?"
"Mukuro-sama…" For some reason, Chrome was shaking as she held up her hand. "The rings…"
"What…?"
"The rings boss and the arcobaleno gave us. They're not here…"
Silence.
Mukuro's eyes grew serious as he looked at his own hands while Nagi searched her pockets. No mist ring greeted his sight. "Just as I thought, something very serious is going on."
"EXTREME!" Ryohei shouted as he suddenly sat up, surprising his fellow teammates.
"What the hell Ryohei!" A fellow boxer shouted as he nearly dropped his bento in shock. "Couldn't you have not shouted when you woke up?"
"Huh?" The bleach haired boxer looked around in confusion before stopping at his grumbling companion. "Who are you to the extreme?" He asked.
The guy, who was already chewing on a rice ball choked before he looked at Ryohei in disdain. "We were just sparring ten minutes ago and you already forgot me?" He stated with a frown. "It's me! Makimura, remember?"
Ryohei shook his head. "I'm sorry but the last person I remember sparring with was an extreme Vendi-"
"Sempai!" A voice called out from outside the boxing club room. Ryohei automatically stood up, taking note of how his leg and arms weren't broken anymore. He jogged to the entrance where a panting Yamamoto met his sight. "Oi Yamamoto! You're here too! That's good! Can you extremely tell me what happened with the Vendice?"
"I came to ask you about that." Yamamoto stated as he looked at the boxer in exasperation. "I've been looking for Gokudera and Tsuna everywhere but no one seems to know them." The rain stated with a worried expression. "What's happening? How did we end up back in school? I t-thought… I thought I was d-dead…" The baseball idol said quietly. He vaguely remembered being caught off guard from behind and being stabbed near the heart.
Ryohei shook his head as he lowered his voice. "I thought I was dead too. I remember seeing Sawada looking at us with a horrified expression and then suddenly everything became bright and I passed out."
"Tsuna, I wonder if he's alright." Yamamoto stated as he looked at the people passing by them conversing in normal tones with no worries.
"I'm sure that he's extremely fine! It's Sawada after all!" Ryohei said with a grin but then his and Yamamoto's eyes sharpened and they dodged just as a tonfa came flying their way, denting the door to the boxing room.
"Herbivores." Came a menacing aura and the two athletes gulped as they saw Hibari heading towards them in a bad mood. "What is happening here? Where are those mafia herbivores?" Hibari growled.
"Hibari!" Yamamoto stated with a smile. "Wow, the last time I saw you, you were bleeding pretty heavily on the ground-" But then the idol stopped talking when a tonfa was suddenly pointed threateningly at his throat.
"Shut up." Hibari stated. "I'll make those herbivores pay. Tell me. Where. Are. They?" The skylark demanded.
"We extremely don't know too Hibari! We're still trying to figure out where tako-head and Sawada are!" Ryohei said and at the mention of Tsuna, Hibari put down his weapon.
"Hn." Hibari stated as he crossed his arms. He looked at Ryohei and Yamamoto's hands with a glare. "I see you don't have those herbivorous rings as well."
The statement perked up Yamamoto's ears and somehow he felt ice chill his spine. "What?"
But instead of answering, Hibari just held up his hands to show them. Now to other people, nothing was strange from the fact that Hibari's hands were bare, but the fact that no rings decorated the pale hands sent strange vibes crawling down the two guardians' instincts. They looked down their hands and found them in a similar state. No Vongola rings or Pet rings decorated their fingers.
"What does this extremely mean?" Ryohei asked as he looked at Yamamoto whose eyes had narrowed.
They woke up to find themselves back in school with no apparent injuries.
No one knew Tsuna or Gokudera.
No trace of the Vongola rings.
Yamamoto didn't know what this meant. He knew if Gokudera was here, he would've already figured it out already but still, the bad feeling coursing through his veins gave him enough knowledge that the situation they were in was anything but good.
"Hibari, can we ask you a favor?" Yamamoto asked as he turned to the prefect. "Can we go with you to the Disciplinary Office and look for Gokudera and Tsuna's student files?"
Hiabri's eyes narrowed and Yamamoto knew this was a huge breach in the school rules, but he had to risk it. "What are you getting at herbivore?"
Amber eyes stared back seriously. "I just want to know if Tsuna and Gokudera ever went to this school."
"Urgh." Gokudera sat up as he rubbed his head in annoyance.
"Oh Hayato!" Came a worried voice and suddenly he felt slender arms hugging him. The bomber nearly toppled back in shock but he held steady the person who was hugging him. He sighed when he realized, with a sight of pink, that it was his sister, Bianchi.
"Aneki…" He said in exasperation as he felt the shaking form of his sister in his arms. "Stop that, I'm alright now."
"Oh Hayato, don't do that again!" Bianchi said her tone slightly panicked but calmer when she first called him. "I don't care if you think you can win but if you see them, I want you to run and hide! This is the reason we came to Japan you know."
Gokudera pulled back, eyeing his sister in confusion. Thankfully she was wearing her goggles but he could see that beneath her goggles there were tears in her eyes. "I don't know what you're talking about but as jyuudaime's right-hand man I can never run from battle!"
This time it was Bianchi's turn to be confused. "What do you mean 'jyuudaime's right-hand man'? Who are you talking about?"
Gokudera's eyes narrowed at what his sister said. "Jyuudaime! You know jyuudaime! You practically live in the same house as him!"
Bianchi looked at him, not understanding. "Do you mean our landlord?"
"No! Jyuudaime as in Sawada Tsunayoshi!" Gokudera said in frustration and Bianchi's face paled.
"There is no one named 'Sawada Tsunayoshi', Hayato." Bianchi said and she placed a hand on her brother's forehead. "Are you alright? Did they hit your head too hard?"
Gokudera's patience snapped as he slapped away Bianchi's hand. "What do you mean by that? Jyuudaime is Sawada Tsunayoshi! The tenth heir to the Vongola Family! The Decimo!"
Bianchi's green eyes widened and she paled even more. She stood up and shook her head. "There is no Sawada Tsunayoshi. There is only Vongola Tsunayoshi, the current heir of the Vongola." Her eyes flashed and Gokudera was taken aback. "Hayato, I don't know what's wrong with you, why you even mentioned that monster's name under this-"
SLAP!
Bianchi staggered backward her hand on her cheek as she looked at her brother in astonishment.
"What. Did. You. Call. Jyuudaime?" Gokudera's voice came out in a growl. "How dare you call him a monster? He let you live in the same house as him despite the fact that you tried to kill him before! What's wrong with you, aneki?"
"What are you talking about Hayato?" Bianchi shouted but Gokudera stood his ground. "What do you mean he let me live in the same house as him? Didn't we agree that he only did that to torture me? He killed our father and your mother!"
Silence.
"What?" Gokudera was gapping as he looked at his sister in astonishment. Then his eyes flashed. "Why are you lying? Jyuudaime wasn't even in Italy when my mother was killed! He didn't even know about the mafia back then!"
"Are you crazy Hayato?" There was despair in Bianchi's voice now and she was looking at her little brother with such desperate eyes that Gokudera shut his mouth. "Vongola Tsunayoshi has been in Italy basically his whole life. When he heard our father was meeting your mother, a commoner, he waited until she became pregnant and gave birth to you before embarrassing our father in front of other mafia families and trashing his reputation making him slowly descend to insanity. And to add icing to the cake, he killed your mother just as they were about to elope." She shouted and Gokudera could only absorb the information numbly. "And then father killed himself! Right in front of us! And we were left alone! Then that bastard took us in and made us into slaves! He tortured me and tortured you! We escaped to Japan because we couldn't bear it anymore! Don't you remember?"
Gokudera staggered back. He didn't understand what was going on. What was his sister saying? What did she mean by all the things she said? Didn't his mother die because of an accident? And what did he mean about jyuudaime being in Italy his whole life? Jyuudaime shouldn't have known about Vongola until he was fourteen! So the things Bianchi were telling him made no sense!
"Bakadera!" Came a sudden cry that surprised the bomber. The door to their room opened and a crying Lambo came in running towards the half Italian who opened his arms just as the other jumped towards him.
"Stupid cow, what are you doing here?" Relief entered Gokudera's mind. A normalcy finally. His sister's accusation and emotions were freaking him out.
"Bakadera, where's maman and I-pin? Dame-Tsuna, where is Dame-Tsuna?" The other cried and Gokudera could almost sigh in relief. He and Lambo had the same memories no doubt about it. Bianchi must've hit her head or something, he had proof that all the things she were saying didn't add up.
"Maman? Dame-Tsuna? Who are you talking about, Lambo?" Bianchi wiped her eyes. "Are you alright? Do you want some candy?" She pulled out a sweet from her pocket. However Lambo continued to wail.
"Bakadera, Beef bowl (Gyuudon) is gone!" Lambo cried and Gokudera blinked. He was smart enough to know what Lambo meant.
Beef bowl was the name of Lambo's box animal.
The storm looked at Lambo's afro and saw that no familiar rings decorated it. Feeling panic settle in his stomach, Gokudera placed the lightning guardian down and he looked at his hands. He felt his heart sink to his stomach.
True, rings decorated his fingers but they weren't the precious rings his best friend and boss gave him. They were a bunch of useless gothic rings he once thought looked interesting and cool… but now, he wanted these rings out of his sight.
All he wanted was the familiar sight of the rings he fought for, the rings that helped him protect everything that was important to him.
"The storm ring…" Gokudera choked. "Uri…"
However, Gokudera was distracted from his own horror when a loud sound suddenly came from not so faraway. Bianchi cursed under her breath and it was only then that Gokudera realized that they were hiding in some sort of abandoned building.
"Get behind me Hayato. I'll take care of them." Bianchi said but instead of pulling out her poison cooking, she pulled out a whip. Gokudera shook his head and he stepped up in front of his sister. Bianchi's eyes widened. "Hayato?"
"No. I'll take care of them." Gokudera said as he took out his trusty dynamite. It felt like such a long time ago since he last used his old dynamites.
"But you're still injured-!" Bianchi protested.
"I'll take care of them." Gokudera said firmly. He gave his sister a sideway glance. "Take care of the stupid cow, but once I'm done, I want answers. Tell me everything that has been happening so far okay?"
Nodding her head in confusion as she gathered Lambo in her arms, Bianchi watched as the door to their room opened and a bunch of mafia men came in carrying guns. However, Gokudera was fast and he sent bombs to the men and pulled her away just as they exploded.
Bianchi looked at the stern expression on her brother's face and somehow she felt like this wasn't the same Hayato she knew.
End of Chapter
Author's note: That's the end for the first chapter, I hope everyone likes it. The second chapter will just be around the corner. Reviews are also very much appreciated. Thank you!
