"Tsuna" Whose voice is that? It sounded familiar, but that couldn't be true everyone was dead.
"That is true, at least in your world." Uh? Did they just read my thoughts?
"Yes I am, it's not as though you're trying to hide them." Tsuna sat up, only to find that he had been laying in a grass hill covered with wild flowers, he looked down and saw waves crashing against the beach. Where did that voice come from there is no one... wait...he quickly stood up turning around in a defense stance. But lost his composure when he saw the man in front of him.
"Primo..." he gasped in utter disbelief, the man just smiled. Then the past events came crashing into his head. "I'm dead."
"Yes you are, at this moment your soul resides within the ring." the blond replied a-matter-of-factly.
"Why am I hear? Only the first generation souls are placed within the vongola rings?"
"Wow, is this how you greet you grandfather? Not even a hello?" The older one asked with a hurt look on his face and a pout.
"S-sorry," He blushed looking down at the ground. It wasn't every day you see your grandfather pouting? "It's been a long time hasn't it? I really have missed you." He said as he looked back up to his predecessor, his voice sincere.
"Now that's more like it Tsuna! I'm so glad you missed me, I love to see my family." His eyes suddenly become sorrowful and serous.
"Although I wish I could have seen you under different circumstances." Tsuna nodded in agreement, even though he didn't understand what was going on.
"What is my reason for coming here grandfather?"
"Would you like another chance?"
"What?" Tsuna asked dumbly.
"To save the vongola, to save the ones you love."
Tsuna could do nothing but gap at the question. "What? How is that possible there are no such thing as second chances." Was there?
"Yes, there are."
"How?" Was all that he replied determination in his eyes.
"It will not be as you expect though, they will not know you, they will not consider u a friend" What does that mean? How will they not know me?
"You would be sent to a parallel universe, where you are not the Vongola Decimo, or have any other connections to the mafia. There will be another vongola decimo candidate with the same guardians as you." Answering Tsuna's unspoken questions.
"But I will be able to save them?"
"Yes."
"Then I accepted this offer." He said without hesitation. "What must I do in return."
Vongola primo smiled a small remorseful small. His grandson always took it upon himself to save everyone, never allowing the same for himself. It was a great quality, but it was also sad how it had consumed him. "There is nothing you must do in return, I'm doing this as a favor."
Tsuna narrowed his eyes in disbelief. He is definitely related to me, Primo sighed. He knows a favor must always be repaid.
"Fine, its a gift then." Tsuna did not believe him. "You are not obliged to do anything, the reason you are doing this is to protect others, to protected the Vongola, so in doing so you are repaying your debt."
"So... will they be different from my friends? The ones in the other world." He said trying to not look his grandfather in the eye, he didn't want to show how desperate he was to see them again. This did not escape Primo.
"The world you are to be sent to is almost identical to the one you have just left." He looked at his grandson how looked relieved.
"However," the brunet tensed. "They are not as powerful as the ones for your world, they have not been through all the challenges and hardships yours have gone through. You will have to train them." The younger one looked up at the other in disbelief.
"W-w-what...? Me train them?"
"Yes, you will not be able to fight all their battles for them, the best way to help them, is to make them stronger." Tsuna thought about it for a moment, processing the information, before he finally nodded.
"How will I be able to get to this other world?"
"The "you" in the parallel universe, was very depressed, and choose to take his own life." There was some shock on Tsuna's face, but he quickly removed it. "Tsuna, he did not leave his world for a no reason, he was plagued with many hardships in his life, he was alone, utterly alone." Tsuna's face immediately softened with understanding knowing what that pain felt like. He would have probably taken his own life as well if he had not been charged with the task of saving his world.
"Tsuna," he now had a gentle voice, one a grandfather uses to comfort his grandchildren. "one last thing." The vongola decimo nodded. Primos voice suddenly got serious "No one can know. No one." Tsuna stared at him in the eyes with resolution burning in his own. Primo sighed, changing his voice back again once more."I wish you good luck then, goodbye my grandson."
And with that Tsuna saw his grandfather slowly fade away along with all of his surroundings.
