Naruto's talk
Tsuna's thoughts
Disclaimer: Part of the passage of ANBU is copied from Narutopedia.
Updated: Mar. 18, 2014. 6:22 AM (yes, I stayed up all night)
Chapter 2 Enters a Ninja and The Fallen Rain
The screen showed a brown haired boy sleeping peacefully on a bed, while a blond haired boy crept up to his bed with a gigantic steel hammer. (Think of Reborn's.) Naruto, surprised yet curious, watched the scene in third person's view...
KABOOM!
"WAKE UP, DAME-TSUNA!"
Something landed heavily next to Tsuna's head followed by a shout, which caused repetitive ringings in his ears. Tsuna snapped open his eyes and sat up quickly, waving his hands around in an attempt to protect himself from some invisible weapons as he shouted, "I'm awake! I'm awake!" Hearing a snort from beside his bed, Tsuna focused his eyes on the gigantic steel hammer, that had created a small pit on his bed, then on the person next to him. As soon as he saw the person, Tsuna widened his eyes in fear and began stuttering immediately, "N-Natsu! I'm a-awake now! You d-don't have to do t-that everyday!"
"Hn!" Natsu snorted as he swung the hammer over his shoulder. Tsuna cowered, afraid that Natsu might try to hit him. "Whatever I do is not your business." He then stared intensively into Tsuna's eyes, frowned, and walked out of the room.
Tsuna couldn't help but gawk at Natsu's retreating figure.
Was that disappointment he saw on Natsu's face?
Shaking his head, Tsuna convinced himself that it must have been a trick of light. There's no way Natsu would be disappointed, right? Besides, what is he disappointed about? Not hearing Tsuna's girly shriek? As he began dressing, Tsuna thought about all the different methods Natsu had used to wake him up. Some of them were useful, some of them were just downright scary! He remembered waking up once feeling hard to breath, only to find a hairy tarantula covering his nose and mouth! (He's sure Natsu only did it for entertainment, not to actually wake him up)
Natsu was always the early riser because he needed to go to school early to for his basketball club morning practice (he's the Captain). Before he left for school, he always wake Tsuna up using his scary methods. Tsuna doesn't understand why he bothered. Seeing how Natsu even went as far as trying to kill him, he must've hated Tsuna a lot. So why does he bother to wake him up everyday? If he truly hated Tsuna, shouldn't he left him to be late for school? Besides, mama had never requested Natsu to wake Tsuna up, so why does he bother? Is he doing it for an act or does he have other reasons?
Adding some water to flatten his spiky hair (not that it worked), Tsuna had a feeling that something is going to happen today. Something not exactly good, but...just different. Tsuna trusted his intuition a lot. After all, it had never failed before. His intuition had saved him many times from Natsu's past murder attempts.
Walking down to the kitchen, Tsuna caught sight of his mom preparing bento on the counter, and greeted, "good morning, mom."
Looking up at the voice, Nana forced a smile on her face and replied, "good morning, Tsu-kun! Your breakfast is on the table. Ah! Here's your bento!" She handed him the nicely wrapped bento box then turned to wash the dishes. Tsuna sighed as he sat down on the table and started eating his breakfast.
He knew mama wasn't the type to hold a grudge, therefore, her reaction to him isn't because she is still angry at him for 'lying' and 'blaming Natsu', which happened about five years ago.
During that incident, Nana had been especially mad at Tsuna. She hated people who blames innocents, and to know that own son was one! Nana couldn't believe that her innocent and clumsy little Tsuna actually tried to blame Natsu, who had been protecting him for his whole life! After Nana had gotten over her anger at Tsuna, she tried to act normal but she doesn't trust Tsuna as much as before. She still believed that Tsuna was trying to ruin Natsu's reputation by blaming him for the car accident, but she tried not to let it affect her relationship to Tsuna.
However, after hearing many rumors of Tsuna (that Natsu told his 'friends' to spread) which all sounded very believable and real, she couldn't help but believe those nasty rumors. Some said that after Natsu came to save Tsuna from the bullies, Tsuna had ran away, leaving Natsu to be beat up by the bullies. Some said that Tsuna had blamed Natsu for his missing homeworks, which seemed very likely, since Nana had personally saw Tsuna blaming Natsu for something he didn't do. Because Nana's trust for Tsuna wasn't as great as before, after hearing all those 'likely' rumors, Nana's relationship with Tsuna became more and more distanced. They don't talk to each other as much as before (only necessary greetings and such) and both tried to avoid any interaction with each other as much as possible. However, Natsu seemed to be oblivious of their weird behavior.
Tsuna knew mama believed those rumors and that's why she's been distancing herself to him, but there's nothing he could do about it (not that he could tell her the truth and have Natsu try to murder him again). Mama was very stubborn when she got her mind fixed on something. No matter who tries to persuade her, she would only believe in what she sees. And after the incident five years ago and seeing Tsuna blaming Natsu for something he 'didn't' do, mama doesn't trust Tsuna anymore, and Tsuna knew it. That's why Tsuna followed mama's lead and distanced himself from her too.
Finishing his breakfast quietly, Tsuna placed the dishes in the sink. He then took the bento box and his bag and exited the house, replying to his mother's "be good and don't cause trouble" with a simple and quiet "okay, I'm leaving."
Naruto watched the scene in the screen, remembering the time when he was taking Menma's spot, eating dinner with his family. The happiness of the memory almost brought tears to his eyes. He couldn't leave them like this. Mother and son should not act like this. But how should he fix it?
Walking on the road to school, Tsuna was too busy thinking of his lonely life to notice three scary looking teens walking up to him with gleeful look on their face.
"Oof!" Tsuna yelped in surprise as he bumped into the middle of the three guys. "S-sorry!" He muttered as soon as he took in their appearance.
The middle teen sneered, "yo! Isn't this dame-Tsuna? Seems like we're lucky!" He laughed then asked, "I don't think we have enough money to spent today. Do you mind borrowing us some?"
"B-but I-"
"Aww c'mon!" He swung an arm around Tsuna's shoulder and cut of his useless stuttering. Sneering at Tsuna's shaking figure, he continued. "Be nice! We promise we'll return it! Right?" He asked the other two guys as they nodded eagerly. But Tsuna could tell they were lying. After all those years of seeing Natsu's act, Tsuna was especially good with telling someone's true emotions.
"I-I'm sorry, but I c-can't-" Tsuna mumbled as he tried to squirm out of the guy's grasp, but it was no use.
"We asked nicely but you refused. Seems like you're asking for some punishments, huh?" The guy then put Tsuna in a headlock as he motioned the other two to attack.
Tsuna closed his eyes, bracing himself for the upcoming pain, but...
Elbow him in the gut!
A voice said in his mind. Tsuna snapped open his eyes just as a fist dug into his stomach. He gasped out in pain and mentally asked. What?
I said, elbow him in the gut! Or pinch his balls! Both can get you out of this headlock-ttebayo!
A-alright.
Seemingly confused but left with no choice, Tsuna chose the first option and struck the headlocker's stomach with his elbow, earning a sharp intake of breath from the guy as he let go of Tsuna.
N-now what?
Tsuna asked mentally, feeling somewhat stupid for asking himself (or not?) for advice, but he has no choice. The mysterious voice's advice does help after all.
Now RUN you idiot!
O-okay!
Following the advice, Tsuna ran as if his life was depending on it (it actually was) and stopped only until he reached an isolated alley. He then thought back to what had just happened. First, he was attacked by bullies. Then...there's a voice in his mind that helped him escape?
Tsuna let out a small chuckle as he thought of the ridiculous idea. There's no way there's a voice in his mind that doesn't belong to his...
Actually, it does.
"Hieee!" Tsuna let out a girly shriek and quickly looked around to see who's talking.
I'm in your mind, you idiot.
"Hieee!" Tsuna shrieked again, only this time it was quieter. "W-who are you? Why are y-you in my head?"
You don't have to talk out loud you know. If other's hear you, they would think you are crazy!
"O-okay, alright." Tsuna coughed and closed his eyes to make him concentrate better. So..um...who are you and what are you doing in my head?
I don't know why I'm here.
Tsuna sweatdropped.
Well, before I'm fighting Madara, my worst enemy, then he did some weird tricks, and the next second I knew, I'm in someone else's mind.
S-so you mean, you can see everything I'm doing right now? And read my thoughts?
Yup! Sorry for entering you privacy...
S-so are you h-human?
Human?! No, I'm a snake pedophile. (Tsuna trembled with fear) Of course I'm a human you moron! What makes you think I'm not?
W-well, you can enter my mind...
I told you! Madara was the one who forced me into your mind-ttebayo!
B-but you were f-fighting him, a-and you don't seemed a-all that surprised at b-being in my m-mind...
Well, I was surprised at first. But after a while, I got used to it. It's not like I haven't seen anything more surprising than this in my life.
W-wait! How long have you b-being in my mind?!
Uhhghh...before you woke up today morning?
Hieee! So w-what did you see?! Did you do anything to my mind?!
Uhh...not really, just a little memories...
A little?
Okay, maybe not a little. Some?
SOME!?
Okay fine. All of it ever since you were seven.
HIEEEE! Y-you i-intruder! You entered m-my mind and looked t-through my memories without my p-permission! I'll t-tell the police!
Sure. Go ahead. Oh, please tell them, "someone named Naruto entered my mind without my permission and now he won't get out." Yeah, as if they would believe you. They might even sent you to a mental hospital! Ha!
B-but you can't just see my privacy...it's not fair!
(Sigh) Fine. Since I know about your privacy, how about I let you know mine?
T-that sounds fair. So h-how do we do this?
I let you ask me ten questions. You can ask anything you want, and I'll answer them truthfully. How's that?
B-but how d-do I know if you lie o-or not?
UZUMAKI NARUTO NEVER LIES! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
O-okay! Okay! No need to yell! Ouch my ears...no..my mind...
Haha! Now, on with the game-ttebayo!
Okay. Question one…ughh…well…how do you look like?
Seriously? That's what you wanted to know?
Well, I can't think of anything else to ask!
Fine. I have blond hair, blue eyes, three whisker marks on each cheek…
Hiee!? Are you s-sure you are human!?
Of course I'm human! I'm just born like that! Got a problem with it!?
N-no! No problem at all!
Good. Now let's see..where am I? Oh right. Whisker marks, and average height for my age, oh, I'm 16 by the way, which is like 5 foot 5. I wore an orange and black jumpsuit and blue ninja sandals. And a weapon pouch was attached to my back pocket. Yeah, that's about it.
N-ninja?!
Yeah, I'm a ninja. That's counts as question two by the way.
H-how did you b-become a ninja?
Well, where I lived, there's a ninja academy that childrens go to if they wanted to become a ninja. Childrens usually started academy at age 5 and the age they graduate depends on their skills. Some kids take 3 years, some, like me, took six years. I graduated at age 12.
T-this….I never heard of this n-ninja academy before. Where do you live? Tsuna was becoming more and more relaxed as he chatted with Naruto, so his stuttering began to stop.
I live in a village called Konoha.
Can you describe it?
Okay, that's question five by the way. Konoha is a part of the elemental countries…(minus 500 words of description), yeah, so we basically form alliances between villages to become stronger. Each village is led by someone called a 'kage'. Konoha's 'kage' is called 'Hokage', just like Suna's 'kage' is called 'kazekage'. Hokage is the strongest person in the entire village. To be a 'Kage', you need to be a ninja. In our village, ninjas live to protect the village and the civilians. To die for their village is a honor to them. In fact, those who died protecting their village would get their names marked on a stone called the 'Memorial Stone'.
We would receive missions from civilians in our village and or other villages and rank them according to their difficulty. The lowest, D ranked, are for Genins, who were ninjas who had just graduated from the academy. D ranked are like…painting the fence, finding a cat…easy but annoying stuff like that. C ranked are for Genins and Chunins, and would require one to go outside the village, but wouldn't face many danger. The first C ranked I got with my team ended up being an A ranked mission, and we were only a Genins, who just graduated from the academy! Anyway…B ranked are for Chunins and Jonins. A ranked are for Jonins, ANBU, Hokage, and other higher ranked ninjas. Most of A ranked requires assassinating S-ranked criminals... Oh, if you are a ninja and you left the village, you would become a rogue ninja, which was also called a 'missing-nin'. You would get ranked as D, C, B, A, or S and would get on the Bingo Book. Everyone who's on the Bingo Book is a target of assassination and people who killed them successfully would get rewards based on the missing-nin's rank. PS: Most S ranked missing-nins are Hokage level, super freaking hell-ish strong.
Anyway, every village also have something called ANBU, which was short for "Ansatsu Senjutsu Tokushu Butai". Literally meaning "Special Assassination and Tactical Squad". They take orders directly from the 'Kage', perform special high-level missions, such as assassinations and torture. They were all hand picked by the 'Kage' him/herself, chosen for their individual capabilities and special skills. Age, gender, background, or previous rank bear no weight in this decision.
Uhh, I think that's about it, huh? Sorry, it's so much. Are you confused?
Um..yeah a little. But I think I understood most of them. It's just like those in movies and comics, very similar. Especially the mission ranking and stuff. They were easy to understand. I have another question though. You said you got an A ranked mission when you were just a Genin? How did you pass it alive? And who's in your team?
That counts as question six and seven. I'll introduce my team first. When you graduate the ninja academy, you'll be placed on a team of three graduates and one Jonin. We then did missions together as a team. Always as a team. And our team...trust me...it's the weirdest team ever. Our team consists of a Jonin, Hatake Kakashi, a very perverted Jonin, Uchiha Sasuke, the most popular boy in our year, who was also the top of the class and most of the girls, and some boys, in our class were his fan, Haruno Sakura, smartest in the class, the girl I had a crush on ever since I was six, who hated my guts and loved Sasuke with all her hearts, and me, Uzumaki Naruto, the deadlast of the class, who failed all the subjects and was a laughing stock of everyone. Weird huh? Handsome and cool, beautiful and smart, and me, stupid and weak. Weirdest team ever.
S-so you mean, you were like me? The one who failed in everything?
Well, not exactly in everything...I'm awesome in pulling pranks and I have awesome stamina! I'm able to pull pranks all around the village and outrun ALL ANBU chasing after me for HOURS ever since I was six! But other than that, I'm pretty weak in the academy. I'm the deadlast of the class. I even failed the graduation exam, but luckily, I got a second chance.
Our team was a joke, really. Our Jonin sensei was a pervert. When he fights us, he always had a porn book in hand and giggles pervertedly and never paid us any attention. But still, he managed to defeat us every time. We only got past him once because I tricked him into believing I knew the ending of his porn book and is going to spoil it out loud for him. Sasuke bastard always calls me 'dobe' and 'usuratonkachi' while I responded with 'teme'. But whenever we fought, I lost most of the times since no one really bothered to teach me anything at the academy, except Iruka-sensei, since they all hated me.. Anyway, we fight almost all the time, but we still established some sort of brother-rival bond. Anyhow, Sakura always stayed on the side and fawn over her dear 'Sasuke-kun' and yell at me whenever I landed a hit on Sasuke. Every time I greeted her or even talked to her, she would punch me hard in the face and yell, "SHUT UP NARUTO-BAKA! YOU'RE ANNOYING SASUKE-KUN!" Yeah, basically, she was a crazy fangirl back then.
What do you mean back then? Did she changed?
Well...yeah, she did...after some...incidents... Anyway! C-ranked! Okay, my first C-ranked goes like this...
Tsuna knew Naruto was hiding something, but his intuition told him not to ask. He had a feeling it's something that's very important to Naruto... As he half-heartedly listened to Naruto rambling about Zabuza and A-ranked missing-nin, he thought about all the information he had just heard. Ninjas... Does ninjas really exist? It seemed like Naruto was too focused on bragging about him defeating Zabuza to notice Tsuna's thoughts, so Tsuna continued thinking. When Naruto managed to get out of his head, what should he do? He's actually very curious about this Konohagakure place. He wanted to see what the ninjas can do. After all, he had only heard of ninjas from TV and comics. He can't wait to actually see them! And that ninja academy...he wondered if they would except older students like him or not. Maybe he can join the academy and learn self-defense?
It was then Tsuna suddenly thought of something...
Hey Naruto.
...then I used my Shadow Clone Jutsu and...
Hey!
...beat him into a bloody pulp and..
UZUMAKI NARUTO!
Huh wait what? Who's attacking? What?
Naruto. I was wondering...
Yeah?
What do you mean that...they all hated you?
...
You know, when you said you never learned anything at the academy because no one bothered to teach you, you said they hated you. Why is that?
...
Naruto?
...Well...I...
"Ding Ding!"
A bell ringing sound caught their attention. As soon as he realized what the sound means, Tsuna almost cursed, "oh my god! I'm late! Ahh Hibari-sempai's so gonna kill me!"
Hibari?
"He's a prefect in Namimori-chuu. You'll see him soon, I'm sure of it!" Tsuna quickly collected himself and ran towards Namimori-chuu. As expected, Hibari was leaning beside the entrance gate, smirking maliciously at him.
"For being late to school, I'll bite you to death." He launched and began swinging his tonfas at Tsuna. Tsuna tried his best to dodge, which was hard with Naruto's constantly yelling "left! No, right! Damn you move too slow! Watch your back!" At the end, he still got beaten up badly and had to limp to class.
Tsuna entered the classroom, limping, and tried to ignore the mocking laughter and whispers as he stumbled to his seat. He hoped he can get through this period unharmed, but unfortunately, Lady Luck wasn't on his side.
"Sawada Tsunayoshi!" A familiar voice called out. Tsuna snapped his head towards that direction and answered his homeroom teacher, Nezu-sensei, with a timid "Hai!" Nezu sneered as he continued, "late again huh Tsunayoshi? Ignoring your brother's wake up call as usual hmm?" Everyone snickered. Tsuna looked down with a red face and in the corner of his eyes, he could see Natsu scanning his wounds with interest and...concern? What's up with his brother these days?
"Sawada Tsunayoshi." Tsuna was snapped out of his thoughts as a familiar piece of paper was thrust in front of his face. He took it and examined it. On top, it says... "Congratulation on being the last of the class and for scoring 26%, bringing the class's average down again!" Everyone laughed at Nezu's announcement. Tsuna tried to hide his red face behind the paper as he limped towards his seat. But unfortunately, Naruto's warning came too late "watch your feet!" for he tripped over someone's feet. Everyone laughed once again while Tsuna blushed furiously and got up as quickly as he could and stumbled to his seat.
"Yamamoto Takeshi." Nezu called out again once everyone's quiet. Yamamoto stood up and, with his usual carefree smile, went up to Nezu for his testing paper. "32%." With sarcasm, Nezu announced, "congratulation on being the second last of the class, Yamamoto. Maybe you should just quit baseball and join Sawada on competing for the 'number 1' seat of the class, hmm? After all, baseball is pulling you down." Many remained quiet (mostly fans of Yamamoto's) but some snickered quietly.
Yamamoto still had his carefree smile on but Tsuna could tell it was a bit strained. "Thanks for the suggestion, but I think I'll turn down the offer. I really like baseball."
"Hmm? Sure, your choice. But don't regret it when you won't be able to graduate middle school because of your horrible grade." Nezu handed the test to Yamamoto then began calling for the next student.
Tsuna spend the rest of the class period staring at Yamamoto. He's knew the power of words, and he's worried of the effect it would have on Yamamoto. He hoped he can help Yamamoto when he needed help.
It was PE and they were playing baseball. As usual, no one wanted to choose dame-Tsuna to be on their team. Therefore, Tsuna is the only one left.
"You take him!"
"No way! We don't want to lose!"
"We don't want to either!"
"You can have him!"
"Ma, ma!" A soft voice called out, turning everyone's attention to said person. Tsuna looked up with hopeful eyes at Yamamoto. "Don't fight about little things like that! We'll take him, sensei!"
"W-wait! Yamamoto! Why do you do that? We'll lose for sure!" One student protested, but Yamamoto merely chuckled. "Aw com'on, don't be too competitive! It's just a game!"
And so, the game began. And as expected, Tsuna's team lost. Even though Yamamoto had hit three homeruns for their team, they still lost because of the unbelievable numbers of 'fouls' Tsuna had made.
"You are cleaning, dame-Tsuna! After all, it's all your fault!" The student who protested at the beginning forced the broom into Tsuna's hand as they left.
"W-wait! Where are you going!?" A surprised voice called out, turning Tsuna's attention to them. He then saw Yamamoto and Natsu walking towards him.
"I'm sorry, but I can't leave my brother here to do the tiring work all by himself. I'll help him." Natsu replied with a charming smile, but Tsuna knew it was only an act. Natsu only did it to keep up his big brother's act.
"W-what about you, Yamamoto?" The surprised voice asked again. Yamamoto waved at them and laughed.
"Well, we were on the same team, so it's fair for me to help Tsuna right?"
The rest of the students soon left, leaving Tsuna, Natsu, and Yamamoto cleaning the field all by themselves. Tsuna, who was working at a far corner of the field and was pestering Naruto to tell him why the others hated him while Naruto kept on changing the subject, didn't notice the conversation that was taking place at the other end of the field.
"Ne, Natsu." Yamamoto came up to Natsu and asked. "You mind helping me out with something?"
Natsu blinked in surprise but quickly recovered as he smiled charmingly and replied, "sure, anything."
"Well...I'm not doing so well in baseball these days, and my grades had been dropping. What should I do? I know you are an excellent basketball player and an ace student. How do you be both good at sports and at studying?" Yamamoto asked, voicing the problem that was in his mind.
Natsu frowned as he tried to remember how he kept up with both sports and studying. "Well...I mostly did it with confidence and determination. I had help, and would ask for help if I needed to. Try to focus on one thing at a time. If you're studying, then don't think about baseball. If you're in a game, then don't think about homeworks or tests. That's how I do it. If you try hard, I'm sure you can do well."
"Thanks! That's a great idea! Thank you so much, Natsu!" Yamamoto beamed as he started chatting with Natsu about good testing strategies.
It all went unnoticed by Tsuna, who were listening to Naruto, as he changed the subject again, this time to Ramen...
That day after school, Tsuna was unfortunately found by the three guys in the morning. He had just been walking home, doing his thing, minding his own business, when someone pulled him into a dark alley and tackled him onto the ground.
"Oof!" Tsuna yelped as he made contact with the ground, adding more bruises to his already bruised-from-Hibari's-beating body. He quickly turned over and looked at the three scary-looking teens closing in on him.
"Yo dame-Tsuna. Miss us?" One guy said, Tsuna recognized him as the middle guy who put him in the headlock.
"Y-you!"
"Yeah me." He said and kicked Tsuna's leg, causing a numbness began to spread. Tsuna groaned.
"I-I don't have money! I r-really don't!"
"Oh?" The middle guy smirked. "But we don't want your money." Seeing Tsuna's pained but surprised face, he explained. "We just wanted to get back at you for elbowing me in the gut this morning."
And so, the beating began.
Naruto kept on yelling at Tsuna to kick them in the balls and run away, but Tsuna couldn't find the chance. It's three against one for god sake! One held his arms down. One held his legs down. And the last was the one doing all the punching and kicking. There's no opportunity to escape!
After the three guys were finally satisfied, they left the alley with misleading smirks drawn on their face, leaving a bloodied Tsuna to fend for himself.
ARGHHH! I've had enough! You know what!?
What?
Tsuna lay on the ground, too hurt and tired to move. He felt as if his limbs were made of steel...he just couldn't pick them up...
Starting today, I'm going to teach you how to protect yourself-ttebayo! You are WAY too weak for my liking!
Ah great thxxxx but not today plzzzzz m tooooo tired...
With that last thought in mind, Tsuna drifted into unconsciousness...
I was tempted to just leave off here, but I decided to keep on writing :D So ON WITH THE STORY!
The next day, a heavily bandaged Tsuna was found walking to school. It seemed that the three guys from yesterday were satisfied with their 'work', so they decided to leave Tsuna along for today. As soon as Tsuna entered the classroom, he sensed something wrong. First, there are too many empty seats. Second...where is Natsu? He's usually the first one to get here.
BAAM!
Someone slammed open the door and pushed past Tsuna, shouting, "did you hear?! Yamamoto is going to jump off the roof!"
Tsuna could hear a faint ringing in his ears as everyone rushed past him to get to the roof. Yamamoto is going to jump off the roof? Yamamoto? The one who accepted him into their team with open arms when everyone else rejected him? That Yamamoto?!
Without thinking, Tsuna ran out of the empty classroom and raced up the roof. He had to save Yamamoto. Yamamoto is the only one, besides the weird ninja in his mind (Naruto: Oi!), who had accepted him, despite him being 'dame-Tsuna'. He hadn't even thanked Yamamoto yet. He couldn't let him die! He just couldn't!
Throwing the door open, Tsuna was greeted with the sight of a gathering of students crowding around Yamamoto, who was at the other side of the fence, and Natsu, who was talking to him on the safer side. Tsuna squirmed closer into the crowd to hear their conversation.
"...you can't honestly think that, Yamamoto-kun!" He heard Natsu yell, looking panicked. "I thought you took my advices to heart!"
"Yeah, but I'm done for. Now that even the baseball god left me, I'm left with nothing." Tsuna then noticed the white cast that was on Yamamoto's arm. "I broke my arm while practicing baseball today morning. Now that I can't play baseball anymore, my school grades sucked, there's nothing left for me to live for anymore. I'm done for."
"W-wait!" Natsu stuttered out, trying to find the right words to say. Tsuna was surprised to hear his stutter. After all, he had never seen his confident older brother so panicked before. "But what about your father? He's the owner of 'Takesushi' right? You can't leave him to open a shop all by himself! He already lost your mother, do you think he would be happy to lost his only son too? Do you want to see his smile to falter?"
Yamamoto looked like he was pondering over Natsu's words, but at last, he only shook his head with a tired smile on his face. "No. I know my dad doesn't want a son like me. I'm always disappointing him. Failing at school, failing at winning the baseball game for our school, unlike you, Natsu. And now I broke my arm, I can't play baseball anymore. He would be even more disappointed when he found out my only future was ruined. I'm just a disgrace to my family. He would hate to have a son like me. It's better off with out me," with that said, Yamamoto made a move to jump, only to stop as he heard a muffled shout from the crowd.
"Wait!"
Yamamoto and Natsu both turned their head, and were shocked to find dame-Tsuna standing in front of them, clothes slightly wrinkled after squirming through the crowd.
"P-please wait!" Tsuna said timidly, afraid that a wrong word being said would sent Yamamoto to his death. "I-I...p-please don't j-jump!"
"Tsuna," Yamamoto said with a tired smile. He then laughed mockingly at himself. "So this is how far I've fallen. Even dame-Tsuna pities me."
"I don't pity you!" Tsuna shouted, then blushed slightly as he realized what he had just said. "I m-mean n-no o-offense, b-but..." Tsuna took a deep breath to calm himself, before saying in a more collected voice. "I wanted t-to thank you, for accepting me into your t-team when everyone else doesn't want me. You made me very happy!"
"Ma, ma! We are classmates, right? It's only fair to treat everyone the same!" Yamamoto said carefreely and smiled at Tsuna, but Tsuna could see through his forced smile.
"Y-yamamoto-kun, you don't have to force yourself to smile."
That caught Yamamoto off guard. He never expected anyone to see through his fake smile. And yet, Tsuna, dame-Tsuna, saw through it right away. "I d-don't know what you mean."
"I can see it! The sadness and loneliness you hid behind your mask! I could tell you were acting throughout your life!" Tsuna shouted as he peered into Yamamoto's eyes. He failed to notice Natsu stiffened behind him. "W-why? Why do you hide it all behind a smile? Why can't you let it all out!? Why do you keep on acting to cover it all up?!"
"H-how do you-"
"I know. Because I understand acting. I know what acting is like. I know how to tell an actor from a real person. They were different. Their smile, their movement, the occasional flash of truth in their eyes...I could tell it all, because...I knew someone who had been acting throughout their entire life." Tsuna finished and diverted his eyes to the ground, giving Yamamoto space to ponder it all.
"You're right Tsuna." Tsuna lifted his head and stared at Yamamoto's back with hope. Had he done it? "I'm always acting. I'm always showing a fake smile. After all, that's what people wanted, what they were looking for, right? They only wanted a baseball star-Yamamoto, not the real Yamamoto, a student who's struggling on baseball and schoolwork. They only liked me because I won many baseball games. But without baseball, I'm only a dame-student who can't pass a test. I'm just like you. But," Yamamoto let out a breath and continued. "If you can endure it and face it all while showing the real you, why can't I?"
"Y-yamamoto-kun..." Tsuna muttered, too shocked and happy to notice that his stuttering had came back. He walked closer to Yamamoto as he tried to climb back over the fence and was about to congratulate him, when the fence suddenly broke and Yamamoto fell down the roof like a sack of potatoes. (AN: Sorry I can't help it =w= I'm hungry...) Tsuna, who had gotten over his shock almost immediately, jumped after Yamamoto, ignoring Natsu who tried to grab on to him and the gasps and murmurs from the crowd as he attempted to catch Yamamoto, not thinking of the consequences. But...
Yamamoto had fallen unharmed onto the soft High Jump mat Hibari had set up below. Tsuna was about to sigh in relief when he heard Naruto shout in his mind.
Fix your fall! You're about to land on your head! Even if the mat is bouncy it would still break your neck! Turn yourself so that you land on your back dattebayo!
Oh shi- but I can't! Tsuna twist and turned, but no matter what he does, his head is still pointing downward! It's hard to turn in midair! H-help!
Damn it!
And the next second he knew...
Tsuna opened his eyes only to find himself sitting on the floor with a table and a microphone attached on top, and facing a gigantic screen that showed himself falling off the roof in third person.
What. The. HECK?!
Naruto tried desperately to want to get out and help Tsuna. He wanted to. He needed to. He GODDAMN HAS TO!
And when he opened his eyes again, he found himself falling down the roof! He couldn't believe it worked! He only tried what he usually does when he wanted to get out of his mindscape, and it actually worked in this body too!
Deciding to think about that later, Naruto quickly measured the distance between him and the mat and pushed chakra into the soles of his feet. As soon as he reached for the chakra inside Tsuna's body, he could feel a strong burst of energy locked inside, forcing and wanting to come out.
"Nice, he has a lot of chakra. That makes everything easier then!" Pushing chakra into his feet, Naruto fell onto the mat on his feet and bounced off, did three front flips in the air, and landed on his feet safely on the ground about 5 meters away from the mat.
Everyone who had been watching the scene (including a certain brunet) dropped their jaws in surprise, except a certain prefect of course. Did DAME-Tsuna just did THREE, FRONT FLIPS, in the AIR, and landed on the ground FIVE METERS AWAY FROM THE MAT!?
Naruto stood up, turned, and took a step towards the surprised Yamamoto...only to fell flat on his face.
Everyone sweatdropped. They must have been seeing things. There's no way DAME-Tsuna had just did a series of excellent acrobatic moves perfectly right? Of course not, he had just fallen on his face after all. It must have been a trick of the light. Yeah, it must have been!
Damn. Naruto cursed mentally. This body is too short for me. I'm damn not use to it!
Well...sorry for being short...WAIT! I CAN HEAR YOUR THOUGHTS!
Good so nicely job for stating the obvious dattebayo.
At that moment, Yamamoto decided to interrupt.
"Hey, Tsuna, are you alright?" He knelt in front of Naruto, who quickly straightened up and smiled.
"Of course I'm alright-ttebayo!"
"Huh?" Yamamoto blinked.
"Hah?" Naruto asked.
"What 'ttebayo'?" Yamamoto asked confusedly.
"What 'ttebayo' are you talking about-ttebayo?" Naruto asked.
"The 'ttebayo' you just said!" Yamamoto replied.
Naruto thought back to what he had just said, and widened his eyes. "Oh! Right! That 'ttebayo'!"
"Yeah, I never heard you say that before. Where'd you learn it?"
"Ah well..." Naruto scratched the back of his head and thought, well, I'll leave it to you! See yah!
W-what? W-wai- "-wait!" Tsuna yelled as he returned to his body again, and was now facing a very confused Yamamoto.
"Tsuna are you alright? You seemed a bit weird."
Before Tsuna could answer that, a growl was heard from behind them. They both turned their head nervously, only to find Namimori's demon prefect looming down at them with two tonfas in hands. They gulped.
"For disturbing the peace of Namimori, I'll bite you both to death."
And so, the game called 'Tag' began.
AN: I was thinking of adding the visit to Yamamoto's dad in, but I think it'll be too long, so I'll leave it here. Besides, I'm very tired. See my update time and you'll understand why. (I deserve some reviews, don't I? *puppy dog eyes*)
For those of you who were DREADING Reborn's appearance, if you're lucky and if everything went according to plan, he'll probably show up in the next chapter, after the training with Naruto. If not, oh well, he'll DEFINITELY show up in Chapter 4.
I'm sorry for Naruto's super OOCness... Also, in this fic, Sasuke is on Konoha's side. After finding out the truth, he decided to hunt down Madara. Oh and just to clear everything up, Tsuna and Natsu are twins. Tsuna had brown spiky hair and Natsu had blond spiky hair. Tsuna's hair is more fluffy while Natsu's hair is more shaggy.
Also, this is a strong!Tsuna fic. Some of you might doubt it since Tsuna appears weak and clumsy, but I just want you to know that I want him to be strong yet stayed in character. I don't like fics in which characters' personality had a 180° change just because they became more powerful. I want Tsuna to appear weak, but is actually super strong. Wolf in sheep skin! :D Or maybe I should say 扮猪吃老虎 in Chinese^^
Wow! Over 14K words in two days? That's a new record!
Wait. Why does it sound so familiar? Oh right, Turbo's "Seventeen minutes! That's a new record!" = = Anyway love Turbo here? Turbo's awesome~
Anyway, once again, please review, everyone. I understand you might not find this story interesting since the first chapter is basically all memories, nothing fun going on huh? So in this chapter, I added a few twists, and Yamamoto makes a presence! I hope I can get more reviews for this chapter. Last chapter I got six, how many would this chapter gain me, hmm?
Next Chapter: Yamamoto's Dad, Training and Chakra, and REBORN!
