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"Speech/Dialogue"
'Thought'
Warnings: AUs, Change in Perspectives, Un-betaed
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Starry skies, nascent nights.
A soft breeze hummed against the trees of Namimori on this quiet day as all the diurnal critters retired awaiting the light of the next day. The town was silent with only the chirping of the crickets and the cries of the nocturnal creatures filling the air. Many of the residents in this small town were already asleep... except for one household. The Sawada resistance was filled to the brim with the sounds of the relentless ruckus of a hyperactive child.
"Lambo, get back here!"
"You can't catch Lambo-sama, Dame-Tsuna!"
"L-Lambo!"
Tsuna placed a hand over his stomach and the other firmly grasping the couch for support, gasping for breath. He watched as the cow-print obsessed toddler ran around the house disturbing everyone in their residence from their well-deserved sleep. Jumping from couch to couch, Lambo leapt over the cushions- yelling his name just to spite him all the more.
Getting back up, Tsuna heard the annoyed steps of his family (and a bunch of freeloaders) resonate as an exhausted group of sleep-deprived adults came down the stairs to murder the source of the noise (minus Nana of course).
It was bad enough that he didn't get enough sleep but much worse when Reborn was woken from his beauty rest. Reborn. Awoken. Someone who could be compared to Hibari on the light sleeper to heavy sleeper ratio. While one could sleep through gunfire but woke at the sound of a flower petal dropping from a vase, Tsuna theorized that Reborn just chose when to be woken up for shits and giggles.
'On hindsight, I should've hid the grape candies higher on the shelves,' Tsuna thought tiredly.
Now a hyperactive child in a sugar induced high was jumping around and screaming on top of his lungs that he would kill Reborn and become the best Mafioso. Tsuna tried to calm Lambo down once more, struggling to keep a thrashing toddler in his arms (it was a feat just catching him). Fearing that Reborn would shoot a 'warning shot' like the last time he woke him up, Tsuna ignored the pain of the foot firmly planted inbetween his ribcage- hoping, just hoping that Lambo could calm down soon. Unfortunately for Tsuna, luck was not on his side as Lambo dug his hands into his wormhole of an afro and started to pull out miscellaneous objects at random.
A cold sweat travelled up Tsuna's spine as the footsteps of his impending doom came closer and closer. Rushing towards Lambo, Tsuna dodged the flying objects- candy, grenades, candy grenades…
Seriously who was supplying weapons for a five year old child!?
Thankfully Tsuna managed to get close enough to Lambo to grab his arms and immobilize him. "Lambo!"
Unfortunately, as fate would have it, Lambo was able to pull out his ten year bazooka the very moment before Tsuna grabbed a hold of him, as the weapon plunged straight towards his body.
'Why me?' he thought dejectedly.
Tsuna braced himself for the click of the trigger and the trippy streams of light appear to switch his current self with his ten years older one. If he was completely honest, Tsuna held slight fear in his heart trying to cope with the situation. After all, the last time he travelled to the future, he had been dead inside a coffin fighting for his and his friend's lives in a dystopian world ruled by a psychotic marshmallow-obsessed dictator bent on taking over the all the worlds.
True, he was friends with the so-called dictator now but who was to say the future didn't just create a new villain for him to fight? At least the very least he would have a clear target to defeat.
So what could it be this time? Demons? Aliens trying to take over the world? The dead rising? Honestly at this point, those ridiculous theories actually seemed plausible.
Holding his breath Tsuna closed his eyes shut, clenching his body as the tube engulfed his body and the trigger was pulled.
…
…
…
But nothing happened.
Tsuna coughed, the pink smoke filling his mouth. 'I can feel the smoke, so what happened? Did Lambo break it again or- … -Giannini should be banned coming within ten miles of our weapons!'
Tsuna opened his eyes as he felt a bullet glide right past his cheeks- spinning straight through Lambo's head. The moment the bullet made contact, Lambo was knocked out unconscious as he wobbled and fell off the couch hitting his head in the process without waking up.
Still registering what was happening in his mind, Tsuna's face also met the floor as Reborn drop kicked his useless student into the ground. Flailing uselessly, Tsuna could feel Reborn's silent glare bore a hole into his skull as he stood on top of the mop of messy, but soft, fawn hair.
Tsuna got up holding his head from the pain radiating off his skull. "W-What did you do that for Reborn!? That hurts-!"
"Dame-Tsuna."
He gulped at the intensity of the ex-Arcobaleno's tone. "I just got back from a fourteen hour flight from Italy and I don't want to deal with any whinnying idiots. Act like a boss and calm your family."
Hopping off of his head, Reborn jumped into Bianchi's arms as they both headed back upstairs to catch up on their missed bed rest. Tsuna stared at their retreating forms thanking God that Reborn was too tired to punish him on the spot.
Though he should've expected by now that Reborn was already coordinating a series of intense training for him the next day.
Changing into his pajamas, Tsuna hopped into bed carefully avoiding any mishaps that may incur the wrath of an awoken Reborn. Slipping into the sheets, Tsuna snuggled up to the warmth of the bed as he drifted off to sleep.
Tsuna shifted in his covers as it fell off the bed with his squirming. Feeling an odd breeze, Tsuna shivered as he reached for the covers but grabbed nothing but air.
'I swear if this is Lambo again…' Tsuna thought drowsily.
Groaning, Tsuna opened his eyes but immediately closed it when a flash of light pierced his eyes. Tsuna twitched, trying to fight the brightness as his eyes slowly adjusted to the light. His annoyance turned into one of in surprise when he saw the odd landscape.
He was no longer in his bedroom but floating in temporal space. Panic quickly set into his heart as Tsuna uselessly flailed his arms trying to find the non-existent ground.
The silence and isolation was killing him. The world was a boundless dark space with swirls of stars and milky ways as the force made his heart feel as if it was pumping through his throat.
He did not like this. He did not like this at all. He wanted the ground. He wanted his feet and or other parts of his body firmly situated on a flat surface without having to reject reality for once.
Why do these weird, nonsensical stuff always happen to him?
Tsuna yelled for help as small pearls of tears pricked the edges of his eyes. With his quivering breath, Tsuna closed his eyes hoping this was all a dream despite clearly being able to feel everything.
Denying reality was his best suite after all.
Panic engulfed his heart until he felt a hand grasp his shoulder.
"Are you okay?"
Jumping at the touch, Tsuna yelped and sharply turned his head, as a silent, stiff scream met his voice.
"Excuse me? Please calm down," the person said with a sympathetic voice. "We are not going to hurt you, please believe us-"
"Speak for yourself."
Another figure appeared before Tsuna's eyes- one with a low, venomous voice. "I won't hesitate to hurt you if you're the root cause of all this."
"That's very rude! You can't go around and threaten people!"
The other one rolled his eyes and grunted shoving his hands into his pants. "Fuck off."
He gasped and put his hands to his hips. "Language!"
Dry sounds came out of his mouth as Tsuna saw two figures bickering before him. Both were seemingly around his age except for the very visible height difference. And strangely enough, they looked familiar but Tsuna couldn't quite place his finger on who they reminded him of.
The first one with the gentle voice looked quite well-kept and poise with tawny groomed hair tied into a thin ponytail at the back. His eyes were of similar colour to his own except much larger, and to mean no disrespect, but he looked a tad girly folding his legs; floating in the space with the weird force keeping them up. It was as if be blended in the environment right away; the air around him bubbly and kind. He was bright, metaphorically and literally as he wore bright gradient clothing that was gently floating in the space like little butterflies.
His, for the lack of a better term, flamboyant clothing was a major contrast to the gloomy, heavy looking clothes of the other male with the harsh voice.
Unlike the stylish and visually appealing one, this one had red walnut-coloured unkempt hair that reached shortly past his collar. His bangs were long- a portion of his face covered by them. His sharp eyes were a deep, murky orange- like if pure orange paint was contaminated by black and was forced to mix together. Rebellious silver piercings decorated his face with multiple ear piercings and one eyebrow piercing. Bruises, cuts, and scars littered his whole body- from his hands to his legs and from his neck to his torso. Most noticeably though was a single scorched scar that ran along his cheek up to his eye radiating power and authority as the force around worked its way up to him. The air around him was cold and feared almost as if trembling for a way out but unable to under the smouldering pressure of the sinewy beast.
Tsuna felt at ease with the prior and on guard with the latter but mostly felt confusion. Why was he here with these odd people suspended in this weird ethereal plane?
The 'scary' male glided towards Tsuna with a predatorily glare as he clicked his tongue. "Tsk. I can't believe this," he said grunting. Then pointed at the bubbly one, "You look even weaker than him."
Tsuna followed his finger as it pointed to the kinder gentleman smiling at him. Focusing his attention back to the man dangerously close to him, Tsuna gulped trying to keep his nerves down.
After all a monster could smell fear.
Trying to diffuse the tension between them, Tsuna stuttered out a question. "I-If you don't mind me asking, w-who are you?"
The teen backed off and gave him a dubious stare. "You're kidding right?"
Tsuna was on the verge of tears as the judgmental leer of the other teen bore right into his core. "I-I-"
"Hey!" The kinder male floated in between the two spreading his arms out wide to block the negativity and harsh glare of the menacing teen. "He's very uncomfortable right now, so please back off. I'm sure we could settle this in a peaceful and cordial way."
"Hn." He rolled his eyes in response, backing off. "I have so much shit to deal with and the fucking world gives me more," he grunted under his breath.
"T-Thanks…" Tsuna whispered.
His defender turned his head and gave a wide grin. "No problem! Besides…" He returned his focus onto the scowling boy in front of him. "….I was wondering the same thing as well. Hear me out for a second. Isn't better to at least know each other? We don't know why this is happening, why to us, and who or what brought us here. So… Might as well, right?"
"…"
"…Right?"
The teen let out an exhausted sigh rubbing his temples. "You two really have no idea, do you? By deductive reasoning you should know who the other two are you fucking morons!"
He pouted. "Goodness, you really need to watch your language! I swear you're as bad as Xanny and his friends. But… I have been wondering!" He clasped his hands in a dramatic fashion. "You guys look so familiar but I'm sure we've never met before!"
"I've been wondering the same thing," Tsuna finally piped in, "you guys also look really familiar to me but I'm positive that we've never met."
"Right? Right?" He gasped. "Maybe we're spirit brothers! Oh this is really exciting!"
"I-I don't think that's it…"
"Oh? Then… maybe we're the chosen ones to save the world and vanquish evil!"
'Why am I always stuck with these crazy weird random people all the time?' Tsuna thought. "I don't think that's it either."
"Then maybe-!"
"SHUT UP YOU RETARDED MEATSACKS!"
They both turned their heads to the frustrated teen wallowing in annoyance. "I'll explain so just shut up and listen."
The two nodded despite the other one pouting in reluctance listening to such filthy words.
"First, why the hell do you think we look so familiar? And no, it's not because we're the chosen ones." Getting nothing but silence from the other two bumbling idiots, he face palmed at their level of perceptiveness.
Placing both hands back into his pockets, he sighed and leaned back. "Parallel world theory. Heard of it?"
'Byakuran and Yuni said something about that I think,' Tsuna thought.
"Like a tree, there are multiple worlds- each created or formed from branching decisions and situations anyone can or was forced to make. Basically, we three are all the same person but just from different universes."
"…"
"…"
"What!?"
Tsuna widened his eyes and started to question his identity. There was no way he was meeting with his alternate selves! There was just no way! Tsuna panicked desperately wishing this was some cruel and unusual punishment Reborn had planned for him.
'W-What the hell is going on!?' he erratically thought.
Trying to cope with his existential crisis, the fluttery Tsuna rubbed his back and whispered calming words to him- calming his nerves.
Sure he had heard of parallel universes but meeting your alternate selves!? Tsuna had heard of Byakuran and Yuni speaking or observing their parallel selves (in fact it was a major factor that largely contributed their personalities and powers) but why him? If he had remembered correctly, the Tri-ni-Sette gave the Vongola rings the power of time, not space.
Tsuna cried dry tears as he cursed his luck. 'Why can't my life be normal for once!?'
Unlike him however, the fluttery Tsuna beamed at the revelation. "Really? I see the similarities now! And the differences… but let's not dwell on the negatives! This is so exciting! I'm meeting my alternate selves!"
The glaring Tsuna rubbed his temples trying to block out the noise. "Yeah sure, exciting. Now kindly shut that damn mouth of yours. I swear you voice is even more annoying than his."
"Well then!" he said clapping his hands, "introductions are in order!"
"I refuse-"
"I mean I'm sure you already know but, my name is Sawada Tsunayoshi! But call me Tsu! That's what my friends call me."
Little taken aback at Tsu's enthusiasm, Tsuna continued. "Y-Yeah… same, Sawada Tsunayoshi but call me Tsuna."
"…"
"Don't be a downer! Can't you at least introduce yourself? Please?" Tsu floated towards the unnamed Tsuna and snaked his arms around his. "PLEASE!?"
"Hnnn…" The last Tsuna growled a threatening gleam glossing over his eyes- baring his fangs.
(It was at this point that Tsuna wondered if all his alternate selves were so… suicidal).
He glared contemplating beating the shit out of his alternate self but controlled his anger and rising annoyance. Instead he slipped out of the constricting hold and leapt far away from the other two.
"Tsk… Tsunayoshi."
"C'mon…" Tsu pouted. "Can't you at least give your entire name?"
"That is my entire name." Tsunayoshi gritted his teeth as disgusting, vile memories flashed before his eyes. 'I rather die than hear that name again,' he thought.
Tsuna shook his head. He wasn't the sharpest tool in the shed but it was obvious that Tsunayoshi had some sort of issues with his given name. "T-Tsu-kun, I think it's best if we just left T-Tsunayoshi-kun alone…" 'It's so weird using my name for other people…'
Tsunayoshi's scowl lessened as he closed his eyes. "Hn. Looks like you're not as stupid as I initially thought." Opening them again, he scanned the area and sighed. "I swear it's his entire fucking fault..."
Tsu crossed his arms in annoyance. "Please use a kinder language Tsunayoshi!"
"Whatever. What were you guys doing before you were sent to this realm?"
Tsuna answered first clearing remembering the encounter with Reborn. "Eto… I was chasing Lambo until Reborn threatened me to go to sleep."
Tsu chimed in surprised. "Really? I was cleaning up after dinner when he tucked me in."
Tsuna looked at him as if he grew another head. "…What?"
"He's super nice right? Though I don't why, I really appreciate it!" Tsu beamed remembering the embrace of his kind tutor.
Tsu had been putting one of the dishes away in the high cupboards until he slipped off the step stool and hurt his ankle. It was nothing too serious, just a minor scratch, nothing broken. But once his body made contact with the ground, Reborn had come rushing in- healing him with his Sun flames (even though he said it was okay). Then he proceeded to carry him like a princess up to his bed and even gave him a goodnight kiss on the forehead.
Tsu returned back to reality as he saw the Tsuna's very expressive reaction.
"Again, what?" Tsuna questioned, "Reborn is not kind. He is the spawn of hell. The tutor from hell! There is no way he's nice! Wait… how did he even carry you!? He's an infant!"
This time, Tsu looked at Tsuna if he grew another head. "In…fant? I don't think a forty plus year old man in his twenty year old body is considered an infant. Also, he's a gentleman through and through. Renato would never hurt anyone!"
"Renato? Who are you talking about? I'm talking about Reborn and he wouldn't even hesitate to reverse one ton mallet Lambo into the ground, let alone 'hurt.' He's the demon tutor from hell!"
"No he's not! He's a wonderful man who had many troubles throughout his life! He wouldn't dare hurt anyone! He loves children, flowers, and all that good stuff!"
"ARE WE EVEN TALKING ABOUT THE SAME PERSON!?"
Hearing the two bicker, Tsunayoshi lamented the fact he was still alive. Normally, he wouldn't be exactly against stopping conflict he wasn't involved in but this was getting ridiculous. It was like seeing two toddlers arguing over a toy- boring and repetitive. He didn't know exactly who this 'Reborn' or 'Renato' was (he assumed they were both the same person), but obviously the two didn't know jack about parallel worlds.
"I take back what I said. You are both idiots." Tsunayoshi deadpanned scrutinizing them with his glare. "Did I not say parallel world theory just a moment ago? Use your fucking brains you slow dipshits."
Tsuna raised a brow as a light bulb lit up in above his head. "Oh! The Reborn of my world must be different! But…" '-the difference is too large…'
"Renato is kind and I'm sure he is in both your worlds. Maybe he's just hiding his true feelings!" Tsu argued.
Tsunayoshi yawned, disinterested. "I don't know who you're talking about. I don't have a 'Reborn' or 'Renato' in my world." He rubbed his eyes suddenly feeling exhaustion flowing into him. "Or at least I haven't met him yet."
"WHAT?" the two said at the same time.
"How is that possible!?" Tsuna asked. 'There is no way he didn't come for me! Unless… I'm not- Tsunayoshi's not Vongola or mafia in that world?'
"Well you should really meet him then!" Tsu said yawning, covering his mouth, "he's really…kind… Hey, why do I feel so sleepy...?"
Tsuna also felt a yawn coming as he rubbed his eyes. "Y-yeah… me too."
'It must be… because we're waking up…' Tsunayoshi thought drowsily.
Suddenly the world blurred and darkened for all three Tsunas as their awareness slipped past them- slowly losing all ability to think. Closing their eyes their bodies slowly disappeared from the temporal plane to return back into their respective worlds.
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