Chapter 2

When Everything Start


Tsuna realized a little to late that he is a magnet trouble.

This realization was like an epiphany in the middle of chaos happening around him. He didn't know whether to cry or wailed on despair.

(Again, where is his very common, natural, and normal life had gone?)


His first trouble, he realized was when he heard the story of Tri-ni-sette.

For a child like him who was dreaming of becoming a robot, a story about three different subject that hold the power of the world was like a treasury that need to be found. However, the sacrifice to hold one of the said object, was something to pouted upon (he still a child, so pouted, not scowled). As a child who was still innocent and very much honest, Tsuna said his disagreement very bluntly.

"Why it need to sacrified people?" He asked childishly while pouting. Kawahira stared at the admitedly cute child and nodded solemnly.

"Because they need a particular power to hold this thing. And this particular thing need to be filled continuously with this power. If this power is exhausted, then the world will be destroyed. These people have the task to keep supplying the power." Kawahira explained patiently. Tsuna furrowed his brows. His mind didn't understand the big words, but he get the big meaning of it.

"Then why a person?" He asked. "Why not a... thing? Then you could s-supply the power to the thing."

"If you supply it to a container, then the power will gone because there is nothing that keep it regulated, something a human body could do. The power will not renew and it will gone eventually." Kawahira said again. Tsuna pouted. He didn't like it at all.

"Then you just need to fuel it again. I mean like, like a magic power!" Tsuna said excidtedly. Kawahira stared at the child with raised brows.

"A magic power will become full again if the magician rested. Then why not just do the same with the thing?" Kawahira stared at Tsuna in moment of silence. He then smiled sweetly as his mind whirled in the many possibilities that could be presented from this simple mind (Why the hell did he did not think about it before? He is the administrator of Tri-ni-sette for heaven sake).

So, that's how little Tsuna indirectly found the alternative of Arcobaleno Curse.


"Are you sure, Hayato?" Tsuna asked seriously.

"Si," Hayato answered. "I just got the news from my brother. Apparently they'll take their time to come to Japan. He didn't say where they would staying though. But from the way he said, they would at least staying for some time."

Tsuna rubbed his head tiredly as he stepped out from the shop. With Kawahira gone, the shop will likely be hard to be found. Anyone except him, for he already familiar with Kawahira's flame, will likely never found the shop.

"This is so messed up." He grumbled.

"Tsuna-sama?" he could heard Hayato worried tone. He sighed as he stared at his back where mist flame started to covering the shop.

"Listen to me Hayato, could you still find a way to go to Japan?" he asked seriously. "There's some thing that I need to talk to you. This is very important and dangerous. And of course your brother couldn't know about this."

He could heard the gasp of breath from the other side as the seriousness finally seep in.

"Si, I understand Tsuna-sama. I'll come immediately."

He smiled. "Thank you, Hayato. Until we meet again." He closed his phone and turned around. Brown hazel eyes clashed with soft caramel.

"Yo, Tsuna! You didn't come back even after the bell rang. I bring your bag with me!" The teen said cheerfully. Underlying steel on his face as eyes, sharp like a hitman, watched him carefully. Shoulder tense and he could see the hard glint passed those usual warm eyes. Tsuna sighed, he knew this will come sooner than later.

"Takeshi, we need to talk." Tsuna said. Takeshis stared at his friend and squared his shoulder.

"Of course Tsuna, let's talk."


His second trouble unsurprisingly was also coming from the very same man.

One day, when he was visiting the older man, Kawahira stared at him with that strange smile on his face. Since their second meeting, Tsuna would always come to play with Kawahira or merely listening to his story (even if his flame was no sealed, Tsuna was still a clumsy child, thus, somehow he also regained his Dame name and ignored for the most part).

"Nee, Tsunayoshi-kun?" He said. Tsuna stared at him confusingly.

"Yes, Kawahira-san?"

"Do you want to learn how to use magic power?" He asked. Tsuna stared at him with big brown eyes that sparkling at the thought of magic power. He ignored the slight buzzing that warned him inside his head.

"Sure!"

That's how he unknowingly get in second trouble.

(He will never ignored his Hyper Intuition ever again.)


"I also call Nii-san and Kyoya." Tsuna said as he closed his phone. He stared at the surprisingly silent teen. Takeshi nodded. His smile absent from his face. Both of them were on Tsuna's room. Tsuna decided that, if should he told them everything, he would tell them in the most comfortable place for him (thank god his mother had choose that day to go on shopping sphere). Takeshi had agreed.

Both of them stared silently at each other. Tsuna could hear the question that was spoken from the teen without even looked at him. He sighed.

"It's not that I don't trust you, Takeshi." He said softly as he took a seat in front of him. He stared back. "But the secret that I keep, is something that I should not know. Even if I'm not participating in the activity, by indirectly having a connection to this... this secret will make your life in great danger."

Takeshi still staring at him.

"And Hayato?" he asked silently.

"Hayato is directly related to this secret." Tsuna replied. He stared back at Takeshi. "Not because I told him, but he live... he found it by himself. We have this Code of Silence that prevent us to blurted out something about... this. And Hayato already know the... you could say general information about this secret."

Takeshi listened intently at what his friend say. He... their friendship started rather in awkward steps, you could say. The thing that Tsuna had done for him though, would make him forever be thankful. Tsuna is his first friend, the one who had save him, and accepted him for whoever he is. For that, he would not exchange his friendship for anything. However, despite their trust with each other, it was very clear from the very beginning that Tsuna would always have this some secret that he keep hiding from everyone, including him. And somehow, despite everything, Hayato know about this so called secret. It would be a lie if he said he didn't jealous of him because of that.

Tsuna sighed. He could hear the silent footsteps from the usually loud white haired teen. It didn't need long for the door to his room opened and the strangely serious boxing captain took a seat in front of him, just beside Takeshi. Tsuna turned his attention to his window as he silently watched Kyoya stepped inside and choose to leaned to the wall beside the window.

He stared at his friends, the same friends that he trusts and would forever under his protection (whatever they said about that). He trusts his life to them, and always make sure that they are happy, protecting them from the danger that always following him.

"I just want to make sure. If you want to bail out now, you can. Once you hear this, you can not get out from this mess. You are my friends. I trust you with my life. Since the start, I always keep a secret from you. This secret is dangerous, and thus the reason I keep silent. If you choose to listen, then you and your family could be in danger." He stared seriously at three pair eyes that still-silently-defiant and stay despite his warning. When no one budge from their seat, Tsuna sighed, half in relief (because still they stay, for him) and dread. before tiredly stared at each of them.

"Then let's start from the beginning of all this, all right. How much do you know about mafia?"


Takeshi would never expected this. Not in million years. Oh, he always thought that Tsuna is amazing, great and wonderful. He has this some kind of charisma and aura that make people want to follow him, to protect him and listen to him. To always coming back to him. This kind of aura is also one of the many reason why Takeshi choose to follow him and befriend him, despite everything his baseball teammates said (the warn welcoming and feeling like home was an added bonus). This also one reason why the feared Hibari Kyoya choose to only listen to Tsuna, not that Tsuna know about it.

Who ever thought that the sweet, smart, and warm Tsuna has a relation with mafia?

Takeshi stared at his home, TakeSushi, with different emotion swirled through him. Tsuna had explained everything to him, in detail. About the reason why keep his secret, how Hayato know, and how he could be in danger by knowing. It was pretty messed up.

He took a step inside and greeted his father distractedly. He didn't notice the strange expression his father wore as he silently walked to his room. He put his bag down and leaped to his bed. His mind having a flashback to an hour ago, when Tsuna started to explain from the start.

"Mafia?" Takeshi whispered in confusion. Tsuna nodded.

"Mafia is a community that lived in the shadows with one true law of Omerta, or the Code of Silence. Pratically, no one can talk about what ever happening inside the mafia world without triggering the attention of the mafia law enforcers or as many people known the mafia police, Vindice." Kyoya supplied monotonously. He stared at Tsuna intently. "I surprised, for someone like you to have this connection, Omnivore."

Tsuna sighed, though he was not surprised. Kyoya has a grand uncle that has close tie with Triad, and practically one of the Arcobaleno. His mother is assassin, while his father is law enforcer (Tsuna still don't believe that relationship even work), so this mafia world was not a surprise for him.

"True, Kyoya. I was not directly related to this mafia business, different with Hayato who practically raised inside of it. However, one of my parents, my father obliviously, managed to dragged my brother inside of it." Tsuna continued. He stared intently at Kyoya, then move his gaze at Takeshi and Ryohei who took everything seriously.

"My father, is working as the head of Consulenza Esterna Della Famiglia shortened to CEDEF also known as External Advisor of the Vongola Famiglia, one of the biggest and deadliest mafia famiglia in Italia. My father is also the direct descendant of Vongola Primo, the founder of Vongola. In the beginning, Vongola was a vigilante group, however was changed to mafia famiglia when Secondo took reign." He explained. "Nono, who is the current leader didn't have any heir for the throne. His three sons is killed and his last son is adopted, and thus, nullified. And so, he took my brother to Italia when I was fifth to become the heir. I-If something happened to my brother, I would in the next line to become Vongola Decimo. My mother did not know about this. I found out because of some accident few years ago. And because I have some kind of connection to the person who also know about the world, however did not fall under the jurisdiction of Vindice."

Tsuna took a depth breath to calm his nerves.

"So, that's how I indirectly connected to mafia."

He stared at Takeshi and Ryohei, before turned his attention to stared at Kyoya. "Hayato on the other hand, is an illegaltimed son of a don and a pianist mistress. Because some rule in mafia, he was taken from his mother from when he was very little. He grown up without knowing who is his mother. But of course, he did found out about it when he was seven. Hayato was always rejected. That's the reason why he would always so defensive when he met all of you. But, as the time goes, his fear subsided and he opened to me and even to all of us. He told me about his past, and he found out about the rest by himself."

Tsuna stopped.

"I... My father and my brother choose to never tell my mother and I. They keep us in the dark to keep us save. I know my father have bodyguard and spies that always watching my mother and I." Tsuna continued. Takeshi furrowed his brows. He stared at the blank face Tsuna showed.

"Tsuna...you said accident, what kind of accident? you are not in danger right?" Takeshi asked slowly. He watched as Tsuna's shoulder tensed at his words. A familiar dread feeling washed over Takeshi like waves.

"Not really. Well, there were several attempt of kidnapping, one of them did managed to kidnap me-I'm alright! The bodyguards save me before something happened!" Tsuna hurriedly reassured when he felt dark aura coming from his friends."But overall, the spies and bodyguards did a wonderful job for keeping me save." Tsuna explained. Well, he is in danger, but it was not because the same reason as what Takeshi's thought. Tsuna furrowed his brows. The next thing that he would say was... another level of dangerous. More dangerous than the Omerta.

"Omnivore." Kyoya stated. Tsuna stared at him. "Talk. I know you still keeping another secret."

Tsuna stared at Kyoya, then at Takeshi who still staring at him, and Ryohei who also stared at him. He sighed.

"No." He said finally. He stared at three of them, ignoring the hurt that clear on their face. "I mean, not now. Hayato will come in few days. I'll call Mukuro and Chrome and asked them to come back as soon as possible. I will gather all of us. Including Lambo."

Tsuna explained. He took a sip from the tea that already cool in front of him. "In few days, I will explain everything. For now... for now, that is the only thing that I could explain to you."

Yeah, so messed up.

Takeshi sighed. He didn't need Tsuna's intuition to tell that his life will never be the same.


In the age of seven, Tsuna started to understand everything that happened around him. For someone his age, he was considered mature. With the absence of his father and older brother, he didn't have any influence of man in his life. His mother teach him everything about love and family. He also learned cooking from his mother. However, when it come to protection and his responsibility as a man, he need to learned it by himself.

And he did learn it, the hard way.

It was a sunny day, one of the day where his mother would bring him outside to shopping groceries. However, it was not the same for Tsuna. For some strange reason, this something inside his head which always buzz at him if he was in danger was ringing like crazy. He know that something bad will happen, he just didn't know to who or when or even where.

He didn't even remember how it start. What he did remember was when he woke up he was in dark warehouse. He couldn't move his body and there is something that prevent him to talk. There were several men with shady aura that surround him.

Like a start, he realized he was kidnapped.

However, he didn't need to worry. Some other men in black suddenly burst in with gun. They shoot the people that Tsuna dubbed as kidnappers and he was free in no minute. One of the man touch him and just like that, he lose his consciousness.

When he (for the second time) woke up, he was in his room.

Tsuna maybe a seven years old child, but he was not stupid. He could think many possibilities that could be the reason why those men kidnap him. For a start, it could because he was a child, actually that is the most logical thing. However, from the way his mother didn't panicked yesterday when he woke up, he could say that his mother did not know that he was kidnapped. Even if his mother was that oblivious, he know that his mother love him and should realized if he was missing. Second, the men that save him was not police officers, he sure of it. So, there's also another possibilities.

And thus, that's was how he decided to come to the only adult people who would tell the truth to him even if he was a child.

"Ara, you are here, Tsunayoshi-kun." Kawahira greeted with one of his brow raised. Tsuna smiled as he stepped inside. "I thought that you would stay at your home considered what happened yesterday."

Tsuna stopped and snapped his head to Kawahira. He furrowed his brows in contemplation.

"You know what happened yesterday, Kawahira-san?" Tsuna asked hesitantly. He did want to ask some question about yesterday, but he never thought that Kawahira would know about that. He actually want to be subtle about it.

"Of course I know Tsunayoshi-kun." Kawahira said nonchalantly. Tsuna gripped his hand tightly as he stared at Kawahira seriously.

"Do you also know the reason why I was kidnapped?" He asked. Kawahira stopped his motion as he stared back at determinate brown eyes that flickered to amber. Tsuna could see some strange glint passed through the grey eyes before Kawahira nodded.

"I know Tsunayoshi-kun." He said as he put down the magazine that he read before interwited his hand and put them on his lap. Tsuna stared and took a slow steps to where Kawahira was seated in couch.

"Could you please tell me?" Tsuna requested. Kawahira stared again, and nodded.

"Of course Tsunayoshi-kun."


And then, Tsuna learned everything. He learned the mafia, his father and his brother true life, he learned that the magical power as Kawahira had dubbed it, was actually Dying Will Flame that actually what mafia use now days.

Tsuna admitted, it was not a pleasant feeling.


Tsuna stared at the ceiling with wonder. Somehow, he remembered his younger days with Kawahira. Including the first and only kidnapping attempt that managed to kidnap him.

Ah, it was also when he found out about mafia.

Tsuna sighed as he stared at the night that started to painted the sky outside. Tomorrow, what face would he make when he meet with his three friends? Kyoya probably would not care. Ryohei and Takeshi on the other hand...

Ryohei was not as ignorant as many people thought. He actually pretty sharp when the situation needed. The same goes with Takeshi. He pretty much sensitive with what happened around him. His smile and laugh could be an act, because of past event it become a normality. However, after that incident, his smile become more genuine. Tsuna let the grim smile morphed on his face. One other reason that make Takeshi more special, a talent of natural hitman.

"Ah, just let tomorrow be tomorrow! There's no use thinking about that now." Tsuna grumbled. He stared at the night sky before he closed his eyes.


[Seven days before Reborn arrival]