Indulgence: Follow the chaos
A/N:Thank you everyone for your wonderful reviews for the first chapter, I didn't expect so much! Maybe it's the love for the fantastic pairings -loveheart- Also, I will reply to your reviews here, in the author's note:
Chiri-tan Yes, it's totally G27 and R27 love! There aren't many fics for those two. Epicccccccccc. I can already imagine Verde having his time to shine. Breathless02 Well, you'll find out in this chapter :D It didn't go as planned, but I guess it's better than nothing! phanpymanapy Why, thank you for your praise! Yes, I'm very much aware that the first chapter was 'cliche', but I only did that because I couldn't think of another way to start the story off with, haha. FaerieDemon hehe, I love the pairing choices as well :D I'm going to murd-portray their characterizations so badly... Yes, ADULT REBORN is included, and this is AU so no mafia! I'm glad to be writing this. .Flames Thank you for rooting for me, I'll make sure to live it up to your expectations! I'm still wondering how I'll make the development, but it's all good! TsunaxGiotto4ever yes, Tsuna and Giotto will have their 'happy' time here...muahahaha! Kikyokyoyahibari Thank you, I'm glad to hear that you like it! I tried to update asap! ReaperofDarkness Thank you, I wonder too, haha! OH! I just noticed that now! I meant "Sawada Ieyatsu Giotto!" OH DEAR me, thank you for pointing that out, and your the first to tell me :D -gives u a cookie- ToniChanLovesCookies Everyone loves G27! -Give you a virtual cookie- ENJOY! Mel-Chama You'll just have to read on~I hope you'll like it. doremishine itsuko Yes, I was planning on including Enma in the first place. Everything will be revealed in this chapter, if not the next one or the one after that. I'll describe how everyone looks, so don't worry! I'll make sure you get a good picture inside your head. loveyaoi4ever Why thank you, Glad to know you love it :) aerinkudo You should try reading it, Gakuen Alice is awesome! Thank you, I'm glad you like my fics. Yes, I try updating my stories asap, but sometimes I just don't have the time or idea. Especially this one, I want to make it perfect! Kichou Thank you, I'm glad to present to you, the second chapter. Veldargone I'll try to make it as interesting as possible, though since it's me, I'm not so sure, haha. Please do enjoy though. xxxKimi-chan Yes, Tsuna is honestly too cute for his own good and there's not enough G27 and R27 fics! I'm glad to hear that you're liking it so far, I'll try my best! All your questions should be answered in this chapter and further on in later chapters. Also, I'm 100% sure the rating will go up. animebaka14 Hm, in fact I rather like long chapters myself, so I tend to write a lot! orangesky3 I LOVE 1827 as well, as my personal favourite. Although, I thought that there weren't much G27 fics, so I decided on this. Though, there will be 1827 in this. Lenah-1827 Sorry for the delay, of course you can read more! xXxNothingLeftxXx Thanks, I'll need that 'good luck'! Um, about that question, It'll be revealed later on. Check the author's note at the bottom after reading. Finally, I hope this chapter satisfies everyone, because I spent a whole frigging day trying to think of the best second chapter that exists.
EDIT: 23/01/2011 – Nothing major. I've gotten rid of Giotto's POV and fixed a few mistakes here and there.
AU. "Welcome to the Vongola dorms." Tsuna never thought living with his step-brother, Giotto, would make rabbit-hungry wolves hunt him down. Nor did he think he would fall into complete turmoil or love.
WARNING: YAOI (HARD BOYXBOY). TUNA MOLESTING. COLOURFUL LANGUAGE (CUSSING).
Chapter Two: Lucifer & Giotto
Recap
(1)
Before he knew it, the day passed by like a bullet train and dusk eventually turned into night.
Telling himself it was okay over and over again, the exhausted brunet finally fluttered his eyes down and drifted off into a heavy sleep.
Tomorrow was going to be hectic if not, worse.
(2)
Sawada Ieyatsu Giotto sighed lightly and turned to the grandfather clock next to him, which just struck 11pm. He exited the spacious lounge, shaking his head in frustration as memories seeped through his mind.
Damn everything. Tomorrow was certainly going to be a turning point.
End of Recap
He was mildly surprised. The town of Namimori, was said to be a large town inhabited with flocks of people. However, as he stood outside the local train station, he stared at the nothingness on the road in front of him.
"Namimori is crowded with people all day long, so make sure you stick to Gio-kun or whoever you go out with!" Nana had told him, which was one of the many things she told him that morning before his train departed in the middle of her long talk.
Crowded my ass.
Sighing to himself quietly, he pulled out a neatly folded square piece of paper and opened it, before staring long and hard at it for an entire minute.
"Vongola dorms?" he read out loud, pulling the small piece of paper closer to his face, much like an idiot who couldn't see.
"Kaa-san told me this is his address, but..." he checked the back of the paper but seemed even more confused when he saw it was blank. "Isn't there at least supposed to be the street name or something?"
Sighing to himself for the second time that day as he shoved the note into his jeans pocket, he clutched one hand onto the strap of his small orange backpack and walked down the street, where he could see a few people walking about casually. As he walked down, he noticed lots of similarities to his home town, Shimon.
On the other side of the road, there was a cluster of small grocery stores, outlets and cafes. The side he was walking down was just a brick wall covered in lime green vines that twisted and swirled around each other, and the other half length of the street was the train station. There were various holes and bullet-like cracks in the wall, but he just assumed the wall was growing old.
"Um, Excuse me..." Tsuna said, stopping by next to a parked cab.
The old, shaggy looking man sitting in the drivers seat, looked up from his magazine, "How can I help you youngster?" he grinned, pulling down his cap as a friendly gesture.
"I-I was wondering if you knew where the...Vongola Dorms are?" he smiled hesitantly, bowing slightly in return.
The man looked somewhat surprised, "Say, are you new to this town?" How did he know?
"Y-yes, I arrived a few minutes ago." he rubbed the back of his head and chuckled nervously.
"Ah, I see. What kind of business do you have over there?" he looked back down to his magazine, which seemed quite rude to the brunet.
"M-my brother lives there."
The man looked back up questionably, "It must be nice having relations with someone living there. What's your brother's name?"
"Just tell me where the darn place is." Tsuna thought sourly, getting impatient, "It's Giotto."
If he was drinking something, the man could have sworn he would have done a spit take. He looked shocked and in awe, as he took a good look at the boy. It was true, he did look vaguely similar to the man, namely Giotto.
"S-Sawada Giotto Vongola?"
"Y-yes, that's his name." Tsuna replied, though, he suddenly realised there was an extra word after 'Giotto'. What on earth was 'Vongola'?
"U-um, so could you tell me where it is?"
The man apologised for stalling, much to Tsuna's relief, and offered a ride. Though, wanting to explore the town for a bit, he declined and asked for directions instead. The man pointed towards an extremely large mansion over behind a small forest of trees in the not-so-faraway distance and drew the brunet a rough sketch of the directions instead of wasting his breath.
"Thank you very much!" Tsuna bowed once more and walked off, turning around as he heard the man call out his name.
"See ya' around kid. Oh, and be careful!"
Tsuna smiled and waved goodbye, continuing to walk following the map, until minutes later when his slow mind realised the extra words hanging off the mans' sentence.
"Be careful?" he wondered, looking around, mindful of his step.
As Tsuna walked, he took in the scenery and his surroundings, as well as glancing at the map from time to time. However, as time passed, it didn't seem like the mansion was getting any closer. He sighed to himself again and looked around, recognising a familiar park bench surrounded with flowers. There was only three words that explained this all too familiar predicament. He was lost.
"I can't believe my luck..." he said to himself quietly.
Tsuna slightly scrunched up the piece of paper in his hand and sat down on the bench, careful not to step on the flowers. Losing his count on how times he sighed that morning as he looked to the left, where he saw a group of little boys' playing catch. Suddenly, he felt a little tug on his jacket's sleeve.
"Onii-san..." he turned around to see a little girl with long crimson red hair who looked around seven or eight. She wore something that looked vaguely similar to a females' military uniform.
He gave a look of confusion, but replaced it with a brief smile, "Yes?"
The little girl seemed pale, and her eyes were lifeless. Her expression overall was just...expressionless. After a brief silence, she opened her mouth to speak, but closed it again. From the inside of the long black coat she was wearing, she pulled out a lilac coloured rose wrapped in a clear plastic and stared at it for a moment before stretching it out in front of the brunet.
Tsuna blinked in confusion, "F-for me?" he stared at the uniquely coloured rose.
The girl nodded and drew the flower closer to the brunet. Tsuna hesitantly took it from her hand and took a good long stare at it before looking back to the girl in confusion.
"W-why are you giving this to me?" he asked, glancing back at the flower again.
The girl stayed quiet for a moment or two, but finally decided to talk.
"Its' called the rose of vices or sins. It's a magic rose that blooms in the Northern forests of Italy." with her soft, barely heard voice, she spoke in a poetic manner, her expressionless facade remaining. The way she spoke almost sounded like a melancholic tune.
"A m-magic rose?" Tsuna tried to hold back his look of disbelief. "I've never heard of a magic rose...although, it would be nice to hear what else she says about it." he almost chuckled at the thought, but didn't want to offend the girl in any way, "So...why are you giving such an important thing to me?" he realised she hadn't answered his question.
"A gift." she replied almost instantly, "It will never whither nor will it flourish further. Only in the most desperate of times, will you be able to make a wish, and only then will the flower whither into nothingness."
"I-I see," Tsuna looked unsure, but decided he would keep it anyway, "Since it's a gift...I'll gladly accept it." he smiled dazzlingly, but the girl didn't seem affected in any way. Not that he noticed anyway.
"My name's Tsunayoshi, what's yours?"
The girl hesitated and opened her mouth a couple of times, which made Tsuna raise a brow. "I'm sure her parents told her not to give her name to strangers..."
"Lucifer."
He blinked in further confusion.
"Lu-Lucifer...?" he sounded out the rather unique name, though he liked the way it sounded, "That's a pretty name, Lucifer-chan."
The girl's poker face remained, "Thank you and goodbye, Onii-san." she turned around without another word and strode off into the narrow pathway between the bushes of daisies behind the bench.
"What was that about..." he wondered aloud, standing up from the bench as he gave the rose another long, hard stare.
"A magic rose? That's just absurd."
He opened the small map in his other hand and gave it a long hard stare before realising he was just a few miles from the mansions' entrance. As he continued to walk up the right path, his mind kept changing from his brother and his new life to the girl and the so-called magic rose. It only took him one brief glance after a few minutes, to realise he was finally at his new adobe.
-First page break dedicated to my always oblivious friend, Jin.-
Heck, it looked ridiculously big up close.
"S-so this is where my brother lives..." he gaped at the the entire gigantic-ness of the mansion before his eyes and inhaled a couple of times before pressing the intercom at the side of the gates. There was a slight static buzz before there was a short click.
"Yes, who is it?" a bored and mature voice asked through the other side, as well as loud noises and voices coming from the background.
"U-um...I-I'm Sawada T-Tsunayoshi, G-Giotto's brother." he felt his heart beat against his chest madly, in excitement and nervousness.
"Oi, could you guys shut up for a second? I can't hear the person on the damned intercom." the presumed man was presumably talking to the people in the background who were the source of noise. Almost immediately, it quietened down. "Sorry, could you repeat that?"
"I-I'm Sawada Tsunayoshi, Giotto's brother."
There was a slight pause before he received a reply, "Okay, I'm opening the gates." there was another short click before it disconnected as the gates rattled and moved apart slowly.
"Giotto lives with a few of his friends, so make sure you don't get in their way and be polite around them, okay?" Nana had told him that as well that morning, one of the few which made Tsuna want to go back home the instant he heard it.
"I still can't believe they went to Italy and left me here." he mumbled to himself, taking a look at the different types of carved bushes and stone statues lined up like a pathway. Not long after, he found himself at the doorstep, breathing in and out. Reassuring himself for who knows what.
"It'll be alright. After all, he's my brother. It can't be that-" he couldn't resist flinching when the door literally swung open as if someone was trying to escape. And much to his surprise, someone did.
"YOU DAMNED PINEAPPLE BASTARD, GET YOUR ASS BACK HERE!" a teenager with silver hair and angry green orbs shouted furiously, holding what seemed like sticks of dynamites.
"Kufufu. Now, why would I do that?" the other teased. The teen had blue hair had his long bangs parted in the middle and tied up in a strange style. He also held something that looked very similar to a trident. Wait, what?
The seemingly easily provoked silver-haired teen growled out loud in anger and ran after the other, throwing sticks of dynamite which blew up small craters in various areas of the front garden behind the now-terrified brunet.
"Hey, sorry about those two." the man with the same voice over the intercom approached the boy from behind. Tsuna spun around and couldn't help but slightly staring at the man with awe.
The man had red hair and a style much similar to the silver-haired teen. There was a distinctive red tattoo under his right eye, which would probably never go unnoticed.
"You're Giotto's kid brother, right? I'm G, his best friend." the man gave a curt smiled before turning around and ushering the boy to follow.
"N-nice to meet you, G-san. Y-you can call me Tsuna." the brunet said after a second or two, looking down in embarrassment for a second, before deciding to look around as he followed the red haired man down the large hallway to somewhere.
After a long moment of awkward silence and silent stares of awe at basically everything around him, Tsuna finally stopped as G stopped in front of a room with two large brown oak doors with fancy carvings on it. G opened one door and let Tsuna go in first, since he was the guest. Or so for now he was. Gathering his act together, Tsuna straightened up and looked around, only to find himself gaping yet again.
"Make yourself at home and wait for a moment while I go catch the others." G said calmly, walking back out without closing the door.
"Catch...the others?" Tsuna sweat-dropped at the thought.
The room was incredibly large and spacious. It was a perfect square-shaped room with pure white walls and three large paintings on the two of the walls facing each other.
"Haha, Hayato sure is crazier than normal today." a cheerful and slightly childish voice could be heard from the hallway just outside the door.
"Yeah, I heard he had a slight ordeal with Hibari this morning." another cheerful, but mature voice replied to the other, approaching the room much closer.
"Really? That sure explains a lot!"
Two figures entered the room, laughing simultaneously before realising the brunet was there. Tsuna smiled nervously and absent mindlessly clutched harder onto his bag which he hugged to his chest. The two seemingly older males exchanged confused looks before letting a walking over and sitting opposite of the brunet.
"Hey, are you the guest G opened the gates for?" the taller, and probably older of the two asked, giving a friendly smile.
"Y-Yeah. I-I'm Sawada Tsunayoshi..." the brunet smiled shly in return, feeling a bit eased around the two.
Unbeknownst to the brunet and themselves as well, the two males felt the heat in their cheeks rise. Ignoring the fact, it only took them a moment to realise who exactly this young boy was.
"Sawada? Then that means-" the shorter and presumably younger of the two began, raising a brow, but was interrupted when both doors flew open revealing G with other people behind him. Almost in an instant when the other people saw the brunet, they quietened down and obediently walked over to the sofa's across of Tsuna's. G walked over and stood next to Tsuna.
"Alright everyone, We've got a new addition to the family." G announced, making a few heads perk up in interest, and Tsuna could have sworn he heard a groan. Taking the moment of pause as a sign to introduce himself, he threw his bag aside carefully and stood up.
"I'm S-Sawada Tsunayoshi, but you can call me Tsuna." he managed to say without much stuttering. Again, he noticed people perking their heads up higher in interest as they heard his name. However, before anyone could say anything, G interrupted.
"He's Giotto's youngest brother."
"U-um, half-brother." Tsuna corrected, playing with his fingers.
"Right." he mumbled, suddenly ruffling the brunet's hair, making him blush slightly. "Giotto is his legal guardian from now on, but since you all know he's always busy with his work, he's our charge. So I suggest you take care of him or you'll be facing consequences."
"He's always busy with work?" the brunet thought, realising that Nana never told him what kind of job Giotto had.
"Now for introductions. From the right, it's Yamamoto Takeshi and Yamamoto Asari Ugetsu, you can probably tell those two are brothers." G said, gesturing towards the two that had come in earlier.
"Yo, you can call me Takeshi or whatever you want, Tsuna!" the shorter of the two said. He had short, messy black hair and a wide grin plastered across his face. He was rather handsome, one could say.
"It's nice to meet you, Tsunayoshi-kun." the older one said, smiling rather gently.
"Moving on, that's Sasagawa Ryohei, Knuckle, Alaude, Rokudo Mukuro, Joshima Ken, Kakimoto Chikusa and the one scowling in the corner over there is Gokudera Hayato. There's also two others but they're not here at the moment." G introduced. He waited a moment or two so that most of them could introduce themselves properly like the first two did. Gokudera remained scowling in the corner, Alaude who had a constant poker face on, remained where he was sitting, glaring at the brunet and Ken and Chikusa were loitering behind Mukuro who showed great interest towards Tsuna.
"P-Please take care of me..." Tsuna said timidly, uncomfortable with the sudden attention and slight affection.
"Oh Giotto, you finally came." G's voice was heard, and everyone turned their heads to the door almost immediately, parting from the brunet to the blond.
"Sorry, I was on the phone. What did you need?" a deep, smooth and husky voice replied, sighing as he ran a hand through his messy blond hair.
G raised a brow and gestured towards the brunet standing in front of the sofa. Almost immediately, Giotto saw the shocked and nervous expression his younger brother wore. He felt an immediate pang of guilt as he stepped forward.
"Tsunayoshi..." Giotto said softly, walking towards the brunet. G and the others backed away and out of the room, but spied on the two anyway.
The spectators expected some kind of heart-touching sappy reunion, so they paid great interest towards it. The only reason being, they wanted to see how Giotto would act. Although they knew that Giotto cared about everyone deeply, he never showed it in a direct manner, and he was always much too busy and tired with his 'work' to show any other expressions other than tired or fake smiles, anger and such. The man always had a poker facade on, though in front of family, he should open up, right?
Or so that's what they expected. Heck, even G, his best friend did.
Inside the room, Giotto and Tsuna stood about a meter apart in front of the sofa, neither uttering a single word. In other words, there was a complete awkward silence. Tsuna refused to look up to the blond, whereas the blond was looking down at the messy mop of hazel brown hair.
"Tsunayoshi." Giotto repeated, his voice slightly more stern than before.
Tsuna flinched slightly at the tone and jerked his head up, his large honey brown eyes looking up at the others' sky blue ones with uncertainty, "I-It's been a while...G-Giotto-niisan."
"I guess it has been two years now." the blond replied rather hastily, too fast for his liking, as he ran a hand through his hair, not moving a single inch closer towards the brunet.
Tsuna nodded meekly and averted his gaze back to the floor, staring at the slippers that replaced his shoes as he came in earlier. Giotto couldn't help but smile sadly to himself, that went unseen since his back was towards the door and Tsuna was looking down.
Giotto replaced his expression with a stoic one and regained his usual posture. Tsuna on the other hand, decided he should quickly end their awkward reunion and opened his mouth to speak, but stopped just as he opened it. His eyes widened and his mind went blank for a second or two.
The blond had taken two steps forward and wrapped one arm around the brunet's back and the other arm at the back of the fluffy brown mop of hair before pulling him into a tight embrace. Giotto inhaled the sweet scent of orange from the soft brown hair and shut his eyes, feeling the warmth of the other against his body.
"Giotto-niisan..." Tsuna's muffled voice could be heard barely a whisper.
"Tsunayoshi, I missed you." Giotto said immediately after, tightening his embrace. Tsuna's eyes widened at those words, in both confusion and shock.
His mind was jumbled up much like pieces of a puzzle. Giotto, the older brother who he assumed loathed him, was actually showing slight affection towards him for the first time in his long fourteen years of life? Though he was confused and fumbling over his actions, he couldn't help but feel a bit angry. Almost immediately as he felt his cheeks heat up and heart beat loudly against his chest, he managed to break apart before he stopped breathing in that bone-crushing hug.
"Sorry." Giotto mumbled, straightening his white dress shirt.
"W-why...?" Tsuna asked quietly, his bangs' covering his eyes.
The blond raised a brow and chose not to answer that, since he didn't entirely know what Tsuna was starting to say.
"W-why...are you suddenly acting like this?" Tsuna mustered up all of the courage he had at the moment and looked up, his eyes sternly meeting with sky blue ones that remained expressionless. Though, he knew there was some sort of emotion lingering around.
"What are you talking about?" Giotto asked, wondering what suddenly got into his little brother, "It's been two years. Isn't it natural I miss you?" Or so he wanted to assume.
Tsuna sighed quietly and stiffly, he continued to look at his brother, although his eyes were far from pleased or happy.
"For fourteen years in this pathetic life I've had, you treated me like...a-anything but a younger sibling. I was your lackey, I was your messenger, I was your source of blame and anger. B-But I honestly wondered, why things were like that. What did I do to make my...beloved older brother presumably hate me like that?" The way Tsuna said it was pretty blunt and straightforward. Though he didn't want to speak to his brother in such a manner and state his feelings like that, he didn't want to continued living with such a family member who always confused and irked him to some point.
"...You left the house with the same attitude and not a single word, but now two years later, you're suddenly saying that you...m-missed me?" he honestly couldn't help but feel angry at the truth. Two years later, here the two are, sharing an awkward reunion that was everything but pleasant and heart-warming. Tsuna ripped his gaze away to the floor and tried to hold back unwanted tears.
Giotto on the other hand, couldn't stop his eyes from widening at the brunet's sudden outburst of frustration. Yes, it was true that he knew he didn't treat Tsuna very well...but he didn't know it was to that extent. He had never once considered the others' feelings'.
"Forgive me, Tsunayoshi." his voice was soft, but it seemed loud in the sudden silence that approached them. "It was never my intention to hurt you like that. I'm sorry, I never considered your feelings." he wanted to pull the brunet in for another hug, but refrained from doing so when he saw the younger look up with beads of tears at the corner of his eyes.
"I-I..." Tsuna never found it in himself to hold a grudge for more than a few minutes, moreover reject someone's apology, especially if that person was family. "I-It's okay, Giotto-niisan...I f-forgive you." his wavering voice gave off the impression he was going to spill tears.
"I'm so glad." Without hesitation, Giotto pulled him in for another embrace, which was more to comfort the brunet.
"Let's start anew from here, Tsunayoshi. As your brother and legal guardian, I'll protect you and care for you." he smiled charmingly, which would make an entire population of girls swoon over him, though, again no-one saw.
"I promise." he whispered, closing his eyes and rubbing the boys' back as he heard silent whimpers and warm tears stain his white shirt.
"I'm so glad...Giotto finally accepted me-"
To be continued in the next chapter.
A/N: READ READ READ!
Okay, first things first; Sorry for the very late update again, I promise to update more quicker than that! Second, about the members of the dorms, I've excluded Lampo, Lambo and Fuuta for various reasons. HOWEVER, if you want any of those three back into the story, I'll be more than glad to add them in again. And don't worry about Dino, Reborn and the other Arcobaleno and the Varia, because they'll appear in later chapters.
This second chapter was originally meant to be just character introductions and such, but I changed around a few things so it might seem a bit weird at first. Though, you'll understand later. If you do have any questions or confusions, feel free to ask, I'll reply to your reviews either in the author's note or instant reply.
Also, this story isn't beta'd or anything so there will definitely be mistakes here and there. Please ignore any sentences that don't really make sense, I never intended to make it like that. I always check it twice or three times, but there's always a small mistake I never catch! It's also pretty late here, so please excuse me!
Thanks for reading the second chapter, I hope it satisfied you after a long wait! Ciao ciao~See you in the next chapter!
